| #9087, aired 2024-04-23 | I'LL REMEMBER LATE APRIL $800: Centuries after Europeans named it, then with no "I" in "Serra", this country became independent April 27, 1961 Sierra Leone |
| #9086, aired 2024-04-22 | BOOKED IN BOOKS $200: In an 1862 work he is chained by the neck & taken to a prison in Toulon after stealing some bread Jean Valjean |
| #9086, aired 2024-04-22 | AND THE ROLE ALMOST GOES TO... $1600: After a phone call with Peter Jackson, Russell Crowe turned down this role (& a ton of money) that went to Viggo Mortensen Aragorn |
| #9086, aired 2024-04-22 | ZIMBABWE $1600: He served as Zimbabwe's prime minister & president for 37 years, resigning in 2017 after political & military pressure Mugabe |
| #9086, aired 2024-04-22 | HISTORICAL FIGURES $2000: Former radical left Greek prime minister Alexis Tsipras gave his son the middle name Ernesto, after this man (Che) Guevara |
| #9085, aired 2024-04-19 | AFRICAN HISTORY $1600: After a pilgrimage in 1324, Mali emperor Mansa Musa built the Great Mosque in this trading post Timbuktu |
| #9084, aired 2024-04-18 | PATIENTS $400: Barney Clark lived 112 days after becoming the first recipient of a permanent artificial this in 1982 an artificial heart |
| #9084, aired 2024-04-18 | ACTING UP AT JUILLIARD $400: Not long after graduating with Group 19 in 1990, this woman hit Broadway in "Six Degrees of Separation" Laura Linney |
| #9084, aired 2024-04-18 | ALL UP IN YOUR BUSINESS $800: After the investment bank of these brothers went Chapter 11 in 2008, retirement plans & investment funds took a $700 bil. hit the Lehman Brothers |
| #9084, aired 2024-04-18 | 9-LETTER WORDS $3,600 (Daily Double): This verb can mean to create through skill, or to construct a lie or forgery fabricate |
| #9083, aired 2024-04-17 | CHANNEL ORANGE $600: Frank Ocean's album "Channel Orange" ranges from "Sierra Leone" to a song titled after this Tom Hanks guy--"Run, 44!" Forrest Gump |
| #9083, aired 2024-04-17 | INVENTORS & INVENTIONS $800: Hiram Maxim wrote that inventing a killing machine gets you more credit than easing suffering after this type of gun made him rich a machine gun |
| #9083, aired 2024-04-17 | WORDS FROM MYTHOLOGY $2000: A woman of stately beauty is sometimes described by this 9-letter adjective, after the Roman queen of the gods Junoesque |
| #9083, aired 2024-04-17 | THINGS TO DO IN THE CITY $4,800 (Daily Double): In June, take in the "white nights" of this city; after 19 hours of daylight, bridges across the Neva are raised at night so boats pass St. Petersburg |
| #9082, aired 2024-04-16 | THE MOVIES $200: The title of this Billy Crystal-Meg Ryan film refers to 1977, driving from Chicago to New York together after college When Harry Met Sally... |
| #9082, aired 2024-04-16 | JUST FOR FUN "Z"s $800: This rum cocktail was created in the 1930s for a tiki bar called Don the Beachcomber; it might be less fun after too many the Zombie |
| #9082, aired 2024-04-16 | THE MOVIES $1000: Elvis hangs loose in Honolulu after a stint in the Army in this 1961 film Blue Hawaii |
| #9081, aired 2024-04-15 | THAT BAND'S AN INSTITUTION $400: The "Celebration" continues with Robert Bell, better known as this; he & The Gang still tour after 26 studio albums Kool |
| #9081, aired 2024-04-15 | THE VOICE OF TELEVISION $400: After Cheryl, voiced by Judy Greer on this spy cartoon series, is reminded she hates babies, she replies, "Just baby people" archer |
| #9081, aired 2024-04-15 | 3-LETTER SPELLING BEE $1000: It's placed in parentheses after a misspelled word to show it was meant to be printed that way (but spell this word correctly!) S-I-C |
| #9080, aired 2024-04-12 | NEW YORK GOVERNORS $1000: This governor resigned from politics 2 months after losing the 1876 presidential election to Rutherford B. Hayes Samuel Tilden |
| #9080, aired 2024-04-12 | THE BLACK ARTS MOVEMENT $1200: After a famous memoir, this poet found success with her collection "Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'Fore I Diiie" Maya Angelou |
| #9080, aired 2024-04-12 | AMERICAN BIRDS $2000: John Cassin, from a Quaker family in Delaware County, became a famed ornithologist in this city & named a vireo after it the Philadelphia vireo |
| #9079, aired 2024-04-11 | THE MANHATTAN PROJECT $200: Nearly 5 million cubic yards of earth, stone & topsoil would be moved after construction of this began in 1858 Central Park |
| #9079, aired 2024-04-11 | DOUBLE LETTERS IN THE MIDDLE $800: Poetic word for the day after today morrow |
| #9079, aired 2024-04-11 | A YEAR ENDING IN 4 $1000: Shakespeare turned 50 & the Globe Theatre reopened after it burned down a year earlier 1614 |
| #9078, aired 2024-04-10 | ASK FORGIVENESS $400: An older Elwin Wilson, once part of this notorious white-klad group, asked John Lewis to forgive him for a 1961 assault in S.C. the Ku Klux Klan |
| #9077, aired 2024-04-09 | REBOOTS & REMAKES $400: "Aloha" was the final episode of this rebooted TV series that said aloha after a 10-year run Hawaii Five-0 |
| #9077, aired 2024-04-09 | MUSICAL GENRE MASTERS $400: After WWII a new country music style was named for this kind of roadside joint & Hank Williams was its biggest star honky-tonk |
| #9077, aired 2024-04-09 | MUSICAL GENRE MASTERS $1000: After leaving Roxy Music, he basically created ambient music with pieces like "Heavenly Music Corporation 1" Brian Eno |
| #9077, aired 2024-04-09 | THE MEASURE OF A MAN $2000: Radioactivity amounts in a sample have been measured in units called the curie & this, after a different French physicist becquerel |
| #9076, aired 2024-04-08 | DAVID PLAYED $800: This 40-year-old slugger retired after a 2016 season in which he hit .315, with 38 home runs & 127 RBIs Ortiz |
| #9076, aired 2024-04-08 | NOVEL TITLE CHARACTERS $1200: Wole Soyinka's "The Interpreters" follows 5 young men who return home to this country after studying abroad Nigeria |
| #9075, aired 2024-04-05 | SPORTS $200: Hail, yes! After turning roses blue in Pasadena, Jim Harbaugh led this U. to a national title with a win over Washington in 2024 Michigan |
| #9075, aired 2024-04-05 | 20th CENTURY LASTS $800: The 1998 Lada Niva was the last model started using this; U.S. carmakers abandoned it after a 1908 injury led to a fatality a hand crank |
| #9073, aired 2024-04-03 | BABY TALK $600: This Jewish circumcision rite is typically performed 8 days after birth by a specialist called a mohel a bris |
| #9071, aired 2024-04-01 | AUTHORS AT WAR $1000: This author of "Going After Cacciato" was wounded by shrapnel from a grenade in Vietnam & received a Purple Heart Tim O'Brien |
| #9071, aired 2024-04-01 | ART & CRIME $2000: After he caught a body in 1606, this artist fled Rome & took his chiaroscuro skills to Malta Caravaggio |
| #9070, aired 2024-03-29 | PENALTIES & BONUSES $200: A "quicker picker upper", or a bonus given at some poker tournaments after knocking out specific players a bounty |
| #9070, aired 2024-03-29 | MR. OR MRS. SONG $400: (It was only a hit) it was only a hit over a year after its release; now this song by the Killers is called a "millennial anthem" "Mr. Brightside" |
| #9070, aired 2024-03-29 | A WARMING TREND $800: After deep torpor, a Rivoli's this, known for wing speed, can see its body temperature rise 50 degrees up to 100-plus a hummingbird |
| #9070, aired 2024-03-29 | PENALTIES & BONUSES $1000: Mark Twain loved this Louisiana French word for something extra given after a transaction is completed a lagniappe |
| #9070, aired 2024-03-29 | A WARMING TREND $1200: This "official blanket with sleeves" sold 4 million in the 2008 holiday season after its fall introduction a Snuggie |
| #9069, aired 2024-03-28 | HOP ON THE INTERSTATE $200: After visiting Michael Jackson's family home in Gary, Ind., enjoy views of this Great Lake off I-94 East as you enter Benton Harbor Lake Michigan |
| #9067, aired 2024-03-26 | PICK A CARD, ANY CARD $400: On your special day, know that this company got away from selling postcards & into greeting cards after a 1915 office fire Hallmark |
| #9066, aired 2024-03-25 | THE THEATER $600: Barbara Loden, seen here, played a character based on Marilyn Monroe when this playwright's "After the Fall" premiered Arthur Miller |
| #9066, aired 2024-03-25 | LET'S GET A DRINK $1,600 (Daily Double): One origin story of this cocktail involves the early morning hours after a long night in Sausalito a Tequila Sunrise |
| #9065, aired 2024-03-22 | "HOUSE" OF ENTERTAINMENT $800: After dozens of movies, this TV series took Robin Wright to a new level of stardom House of Cards |
| #9064, aired 2024-03-21 | HISTORIC FIRSTS $800: This man banned the traditional fez hat after becoming the first president of the Republic of Turkey Ataturk |
| #9063, aired 2024-03-20 | VIOLENT ART $1600: Napoleon's go-to guy, he also sort of directed a horror pic, an oil of Marat in the bath in 1793 done soon after the killing David |
| #9062, aired 2024-03-19 | UNDERGROUND $1200: Seen here is an old elevated highway in Boston & the same area after the road was buried as part of the huge project called this the Big Dig |
| #9061, aired 2024-03-18 | BUSINESS PARTNERS $800: After meeting Rick Rubin at a party, Russell Simmons became his partner in this record label that soon took off Def Jam |
| #9060, aired 2024-03-15 | FOOD & DRINK $600: With spinach as a star ingredient, the dish seen here goes by this 2-word name, partly after a city quiche Florentine |
| #9060, aired 2024-03-15 | MOVIE SONGS $1200: This song shot to No. 1, 2, 3 o'clock after being featured in the 1955 film "Blackboard Jungle" "Rock Around The Clock" |
| #9059, aired 2024-03-14 | ANCIENT HISTORY $400: It's thought Chinese emperor Qin Shi Huang died after ingesting this liquid element that he believed would make him immortal mercury |
| #9059, aired 2024-03-14 | IT'S A FACT! $2000: Stepping down in 2024 after 52 years on the throne, she had the longest reign of any Danish monarch Margrethe (II) |
| #9058, aired 2024-03-13 | REAL NAMES OF UNREAL PEOPLE $600: Robert Underdunk Terwilliger is the real name of this vengeful "Simpsons" character Sideshow Bob |
| #9057, aired 2024-03-12 | UNMANNED SPACE EXPLORATION $2000: The Dawn spacecraft found a peak over 12 miles high when it reached this second-largest object in the asteroid belt (after Ceres) Vesta |
| #9056, aired 2024-03-11 | DEALING WITH TV REALITY $400: Oh, the Scandoval! Let's say Ariana did not wish Tom well after he cheated on her with Raquel on this show that debuted in 2013 Vanderpump Rules |
| #9056, aired 2024-03-11 | RESISTANCE IS FUTILE $1000: Readers again could not resist Stephenie Meyer, working hours after twilight with this 2020 best-seller told from the vampire's POV Midnight Sun |
| #9056, aired 2024-03-11 | BEHIND THE MUSIC $2000: The Beatles were just one of many artists with whom this legendary English producer crafted hit after hit George Martin |
| #9055, aired 2024-03-08 | LEFTOVERS $400: In 1861, 3 years after the publication of this classic medical textbook, its author died of smallpox at age 34 Gray's Anatomy |
| #9055, aired 2024-03-08 | LITERARY AWARDS $1000: The Hugo Award isn't named after Victor Hugo, but this Hugo who founded the sci-fi magazine Amazing Stories Hugo Gernsback |
| #9055, aired 2024-03-08 | FILM BROS $1200: After 2 brothers are killed in Normandy & one brother in New Guinea, a rescue mission goes to save the 4th brother in this film Saving Private Ryan |
| #9054, aired 2024-03-07 | BEFORE & AFTER $200: A venue for volleys & lobs where violators of military law are prosecuted a tennis court-martial |
| #9054, aired 2024-03-07 | BEFORE & AFTER $400: Actor lookalike who does the dangerous action scenes as an iconic red London vehicle a stunt double decker (bus) |
| #9054, aired 2024-03-07 | BEFORE & AFTER $600: A Knoxville color that's also a hit country song is served as a high grade tea from Sri Lanka & India Tennessee Orange Pekoe |
| #9054, aired 2024-03-07 | BEFORE & AFTER $800: Nation's capital newspaper-caused psychological pain following an event of actual or threatened bodily harm the Washington Post traumatic stress disorder |
| #9054, aired 2024-03-07 | BEFORE & AFTER $1000: Siam-set musical adaptation of Asimov's book about machines that follow 3 laws The King and I, Robot |
| #9053, aired 2024-03-06 | ISLANDS $200: Monuriki, an uninhabited island of Fiji, became a tourist attraction after the release of this Tom Hanks film Cast Away |
| #9053, aired 2024-03-06 | OLYMPIC HISTORY $600: In 1912 Martin Klein pinned Alfred Asikainen after an epic 11-hour, 40-minute bout in this hyphenated wrestling style Greco-Roman wrestling |
| #9052, aired 2024-03-05 | POETS & POETRY $1600: Published after his 1850 death, "The Prelude" is an epic poetic memoir by this Romantic Wordsworth |
| #9052, aired 2024-03-05 | HAVE FAITH $4,400 (Daily Double): After writing the name of a prophet, English-speaking Muslims write this, "PBUH" for short peace be upon him |
| #9051, aired 2024-03-04 | COCKTAILS $200: Perhaps you will be fresh as a daisy after imbibing this tequila cocktail whose name is Spanish for "daisy" a margarita |
| #9051, aired 2024-03-04 | NONFICTION $200: After taking on salt & cod, Mark Kurlansky peeled the many layers of this in a 2023 book an onion |
| #9051, aired 2024-03-04 | HAPPY HOUR $600: It became the unofficial anthem of the Democratic Party after FDR used it in 1932 as his campaign song "Happy Days Are Here Again" |
| #9051, aired 2024-03-04 | HOBBIES & PASTIMES $600: "RC" on a baseball card is used to stand for this & often makes it more sought after by collectors a rookie card |
| #9051, aired 2024-03-04 | NUMERIC MOVIE TITLES $1600: After his character gets cancer in this 2011 film, Joseph Gordon-Levitt gets by with a little help from his friends 50/50 |
| #9050, aired 2024-03-01 | THAT'S A LONG STORY $800: Ralph Ellison's posthumous second novel was culled from more than 1,500 pages of writing & titled after this now-federal holiday Juneteenth |
| #9049, aired 2024-02-29 | LIVE, LAUGH, LOVE $1000: Love:
After his death in 1142, he would be buried next to his beloved Héloïse in Père Lachaise Abelard |
| #9048, aired 2024-02-28 | THAT'S IN ASIA $800: The Krishna River is one of many that flow into this 839,000-square-mile bay, as it is, after all, an 839,000-square-mile bay the Bay of Bengal |
| #9047, aired 2024-02-27 | A NICE SHORT STORY SPOILED $400: After a long, unplanned but very restful nap away from the fam in an 1819 tale, he finds he just likes being single again Rip Van Winkle |
| #9047, aired 2024-02-27 | CLASSICAL MYTHOLOGY $1000: After her daughter Persephone was abducted, she roamed the Earth for 9 days without eating, drinking or bathing Demeter |
| #9046, aired 2024-02-26 | THE '70s TOTALLY ROCKED $400: Only months after releasing 1979's "Highway To Hell", this group lost lead singer Bon Scott to acute alcohol poisoning AC/DC |
| #9046, aired 2024-02-26 | ITALIAN AMERICANS $400: After 19 nominations, she won her first daytime acting Emmy & in '23, she was honored with a lifetime achievement award Susan Lucci |
| #9046, aired 2024-02-26 | LET'S AUDIT A COLLEGE COURSE $800: Is anyone here a marine biologist?! Here, being this Jesuit university in Spokane, & you could be after learning about it in bio 403 Gonzaga |
| #9046, aired 2024-02-26 | THE '70s TOTALLY ROCKED $1200: "Fire in the sky"! After Montreux Casino burned during a Zappa gig, Deep Purple wrote this Top 5 hit with a killer lick "Smoke On The Water" |
| #9046, aired 2024-02-26 | LITERARY GROUPS $1600: It's thought this famous name stuck after Edmund Duffy of the Brooklyn Eagle drew a caricature of the members as knights Knights of the Algonquin Round Table |
| #9045, aired 2024-02-23 | TRIPLE RHYME TIME $800: A loud, sad cry after fisticuffs involving the gangster's gal a moll bawl brawl (a bawl moll brawl accepted) |
| #9045, aired 2024-02-23 | POP CULTURE DRAGONS $800: After killing the ender dragon in this "blockbuster" video game, players receive a dragon egg as a trophy Minecraft |
| #9043, aired 2024-02-21 | EXTREMELY RANDOM CALCULATIONS $1600: Number of U.S. states in 1958 divided by the number of our solar system's planets after Pluto's demotion 6 |
| #9043, aired 2024-02-21 | MR. STEVE MARTIN $2000: After Steve asks Lily Tomlin why she thinks she'll come back from the dead in this 1984 film, Lily replies, "Because I'm rich" All of Me |
| #9042, aired 2024-02-20 | THE 13 COLONIES $800: Originally a single province, they became 2 distinct southern colonies after separating beginning in 1712 North & South Carolina |
| #9041, aired 2024-02-19 | THE QUESTION? $400: After a horse walks into a bar in a classic joke, it's the inevitable question asked of it by the bartender Why the long face? |
| #9040, aired 2024-02-16 | MYTHOLOGY $400: The guys who sailed with Jason were called these, after the name of their ship Argonauts |
| #9039, aired 2024-02-15 | WHERE DID THAT COME FROM? $1600: In 1978 Julio Palmaz heard a talk about the problem of arteries re-closing after surgery & invented this tube to hold them open a stent |
| #9039, aired 2024-02-15 | POP CULTURE $1600: The leg warmers may be gone but 50 years after Judi Sheppard Missett founded this dance & fitness franchise, it's still going strong Jazzercise |
| #9039, aired 2024-02-15 | DEALING WITH THINGS DIPLOMATICALLY $1600: In 2023 Saudi Arabia resumed diplomatic work in this other Arab country a decade after ending it due to the long Civil War Syria |
| #9038, aired 2024-02-14 | I RAN $200: Stop, thief! Though we think of him just trotting around the bases after his home runs, Mike Trout led the A.L. in these in 2012 with 49 steals |
| #9037, aired 2024-02-13 | 50 GREATEST RAPPERS OF ALL TIME $800: Some numbers: 3 years after taking 9 bullets, he had a Billboard 200 No. 1 debut with "Get Rich Or Die Tryin"' in 2003 50 Cent |
| #9037, aired 2024-02-13 | IT HAPPENED IN CONGRESS $1000: After the close Nixon-Humphrey race, the House passed a resolution to abolish this system, 338-70, but the Senate didn't the electoral college |
| #9036, aired 2024-02-12 | GENIUS: MLK/X $400: (Kelvin Harrison Jr. presents the clue.) A 1964 speech delivered by Malcolm X after he left the Nation of Islam, stated his Black nationalist philosophy, & he spoke of the ballot or this deadly word bullet |
| #9036, aired 2024-02-12 | RHYMING SYNONYMS $1200: Gizmo of "Gremlins" fame frightfully screamed these 2 words after seeing a camera flash bright light |
| #9036, aired 2024-02-12 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS $5,000 (Daily Double): Michael Connelly named this LAPD detective after a 15th century Dutch painter Harry Bosch |
| #9035, aired 2024-02-09 | 21st CENTURY SCIENCE $400: In 2015 gravitational waves were first directly observed after this man predicted them a century earlier Einstein |
| #9035, aired 2024-02-09 | ENDS IN "X" $800: The little hat worn by French words like hôtel & hôpital is called this a circumflex |
| #9035, aired 2024-02-09 | ADD A LETTER: GEOGRAPHY EDITION $2000: The Midwest's 29th state & a Colorado county, both named after Native American peoples the Iowa & Kiowa |
| #9034, aired 2024-02-08 | END OF STORY $400: By Steinbeck: "Curley and Carlson looked after them. And Carlson said, 'Now what the hell ya suppose is eatin' them two guys?"' Of Mice and Men |
| #9034, aired 2024-02-08 | THINKING ABOUT THE ROMAN EMPIRE $400: Researchers have found that these Colosseum fighters likely drank a Gatorade-like drink made of ash after a long day of killing gladiators |
| #9034, aired 2024-02-08 | THE MOURNING NEWS $600: This grief-stricken actor kept a vigil until rescue teams recovered his wife Carole Lombard's remains after a 1942 plane crash Clark Gable |
| #9034, aired 2024-02-08 | SUPER BOWL STARS $800: (J.J. Watt here speaking for the defensive linemen.) After leading the NFL in sacks a few times, I love to see 'em in the big games; in 1986, this team had a record-tying seven, including ones by Richard Dent & Dan "The Danimal" Hampton Da Bears |
| #9034, aired 2024-02-08 | THE MOURNING NEWS $800: After this 19th c. royal was widowed, the "nightly longing to die... for the first 3 years never left"; nearly 47 remained Queen Victoria |
| #9034, aired 2024-02-08 | THINKING ABOUT THE ROMAN EMPIRE $2,500 (Daily Double): After the great fire of 64 A.D., this emperor built himself a palace with an artificial lake & revolving dining room Nero |
| #9033, aired 2024-02-07 | AHHH, THE FRENCH $200: This national heroine of France was canonized on May 16, 1920, nearly 500 years after her death Joan of Arc |
| #9033, aired 2024-02-07 | AHHH, THE FRENCH $400: After Pierre's death, Marie Curie was appointed to his professorship in 1906 & became the first woman to teach at this U. in Paris the Sorbonne |
| #9033, aired 2024-02-07 | AHHH, THE FRENCH $600: We fell for Audrey Tautou after seeing her in the title role of this 2001 film about a lonely waitress who falls in love Amélie |
| #9033, aired 2024-02-07 | LITERATURE BINGO $600: "O" (No!), 1898: William S. Porter was convicted of embezzlement; after prison, he put out short stories under this name O. Henry |
| #9033, aired 2024-02-07 | AHHH, THE FRENCH $800: After her mom died in the 1890s, her dad put her in an orphanage where nuns taught her to sew, leading to an iconic career in fashion Coco Chanel |
| #9032, aired 2024-02-06 | IT'S A BIRD! IT'S A PLANE! $1600: 70 years after Louis Blériot first did it, the human-powered Gossamer Albatross flew across this body of water in 1979 the English Channel |
| #9031, aired 2024-02-05 | FINAL RESTING PLACES $400: After an attempted grave robbery soon after his death, Elvis Presley's body was moved from Forest Hill Cemetery to this estate Graceland |
| #9031, aired 2024-02-05 | TOOLS $400: With steel shot or sand inside, a dead blow type of this won't bounce back after striking a hammer |
| #9031, aired 2024-02-05 | IT'S GIVING... $400: A New York Times headline read this oil man's "gifts total $530,853,632", remarkably specific on the day after his death in 1937 (John D.) Rockefeller |
| #9031, aired 2024-02-05 | LAKES & RIVERS $400: Herodotus believed geometry began when farmland had to be remeasured after this river's annual floods the Nile |
| #9030, aired 2024-02-02 | DELICIOUS BEFORE & AFTER $400: Hollandaise-laden breakfast entree known as a traitor in the United States eggs Benedict Arnold |
| #9030, aired 2024-02-02 | DELICIOUS BEFORE & AFTER $800: "Amphibian" British sausage dish cooked in batter that's an ace on the golf course toad in the hole in one |
| #9030, aired 2024-02-02 | DELICIOUS BEFORE & AFTER $1200: "Vernal" tubular Chinese appetizer that is also a casual bit of canoodling in the barn a spring roll in the hay |
| #9030, aired 2024-02-02 | DELICIOUS BEFORE & AFTER $1600: "Pastoral" lamb & mashed potato casserole that's a fanciful dream not likely to be attained shepherd's pie in the sky |
| #9030, aired 2024-02-02 | DELICIOUS BEFORE & AFTER $2000: Blue cheese-accompanied poultry products that are on the marquee as a Wim Wenders film Buffalo Wings of Desire |
| #9029, aired 2024-02-01 | FOLLOW THE WORLD LEADER $1600: Eyebrows were raised in 1964 after Khrushchev gave way to this man Brezhnev |
| #9029, aired 2024-02-01 | FOLLOW THE WORLD LEADER $2000: This minister of propaganda led Germany after Hitler... for a day (Joseph) Goebbels |
| #9028, aired 2024-01-31 | THE ENGLISH PAST $600: This man became Lord Protector after leading a Roundhead army in the 17th century English Civil War Cromwell |
| #9028, aired 2024-01-31 | MOUNTAINS OF LITERATURE $800: After accepting a drink of liquor in a Washington Irving tale, Rip Van Winkle falls asleep for 20 years in these mountains the Catskills |
| #9027, aired 2024-01-30 | HARLEM HELLFIGHTERS $600: (Robin Roberts presents the clue.) After facing racial discrimination near their training facility in South Carolina in 1917, the Harlem Hellfighters were among the first U.S. units to ship to France as they joined this vast body of troops--AEF for short the American Expeditionary Force |
| #9026, aired 2024-01-29 | MYTH AROUND & FIND OUT $800: This bull-headed creature of Crete came to be after Pasiphaë fell in love with a bovine the Minotaur |
| #9026, aired 2024-01-29 | GOING TO THE DOGS $1000: A sidecar the morning after too many sidecars the hair of the dog |
| #9026, aired 2024-01-29 | MYTH AROUND & FIND OUT $1200: One myth says this king of Corinth got an eternity of rock pushing after angering Zeus by snitching on some of Z's philandering Sisyphus |
| #9025, aired 2024-01-26 | FULL-COURT PRESS $200: In 2000 the New York Daily News printed "Bush wins" after the Supremes rejected a recount in this state Florida |
| #9025, aired 2024-01-26 | THAT'S JUST TEARABLE! $800: After tearing this, aka the calcaneal tendon: 3 or 4 weeks of immobilization, then high-heeled shoes should be a no-no for a while the Achilles |
| #9025, aired 2024-01-26 | WHAT'S IN A NAME $1200: After Romeo y Julieta cigars made a splash, in 1935 a competing brand was named this, after a Dumas character Monte Cristo |
| #9023, aired 2024-01-24 | THE ERRORS TOUR $1000: "Howbeit the hair of" Samson's "head began to grow again after he was shaven"--these biblical people didn't think of that the Philistines |
| #26, aired 2024-01-23 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $300: Georges Bizet died three months after the 1875 premiere of this scandalous opera so he never knew of its enduring success Carmen |
| #26, aired 2024-01-23 | LISA, ANN OR WALTER? $400: Arizona State University's Cronkite School is named after this legendary news anchor Walter (Cronkite) |
| #26, aired 2024-01-23 | WACKY FAD OBITUARIES $600: Funeral services for this line dance will be held on the nearest cruise ship, featuring a special performance by Los del Rio the "Macarena" |
| #9021, aired 2024-01-22 | THIS CATEGORY IS "MID" $400: Australian women's health advocate Caroline Homer is an expert in this skill of aiding in pregnancy, childbirth & after midwifery |
| #9021, aired 2024-01-22 | THE JOB IS THE MOVIE TITLE $800: Mickey Rourke threw his hat in the Oscar ring after his performance as Randy "The Ram" Robinson in this 2008 drama The Wrestler |
| #9021, aired 2024-01-22 | WHAT A "DAY" $1000: 14 people were killed after British troops fired on Derry protesters on Jan. 30, 1972, known as this Bloody Sunday |
| #9021, aired 2024-01-22 | JUKEBOX MUSICALS $2000: "A Beautiful Noise":
this icon Neil Diamond |
| #9019, aired 2024-01-18 | THE PAST, PRESENTLY $1000: Numerical nickname for Mao's wife & her allies arrested after Mao's death for actions during the Cultural Revolution the Gang of Four |
| #9019, aired 2024-01-18 | CLASSICAL MUSIC $1000: His 7th Symphony premiered in 1813 at a benefit after a battle & its second movement is seen as a funeral march Beethoven |
| #9019, aired 2024-01-18 | A WOMAN'S PLACE $1200: On Chartres Street in this U.S. city stands the Old Ursuline Convent, spared by a 1794 fire after ferocious prayer from the nuns New Orleans |
| #9018, aired 2024-01-17 | FRAILTY, THY NAME IS MAN $800: Billy Halleck is literally wasting away after being cursed in this tale by Richard Bachman, aka Stephen King Thinner |
| #9018, aired 2024-01-17 | POLITICS AS UNUSUAL $800: The 1974 Senate race in N.H., with 220,000 votes cast, was won by 355, then after the first of these, by 10, then after another, by 2 recounts |
| #9018, aired 2024-01-17 | THE FIST & THE FURIOUS MOVIES $800: Just after showing a fake I.D. that says "McLovin", Fogell gets sucker punched in a liquor store in this 2007 comedy Superbad |
| #9018, aired 2024-01-17 | SUMMER OF OUR DISCONTENT $1600: After some summer troubles in 1917, Lenin fled to Finland & this Bolshevik leader was in jail in August Trotsky |
| #9018, aired 2024-01-17 | FIND THE FISH $2000: After that seventh round of Stoli, the bouncer threw Piotr out of the tavern trout (Piotr out) |
| #9017, aired 2024-01-16 | 20th CENTURY AMERICANS $400: On May 21, 1932, 5 years to the day after Lindbergh, she became the second to fly solo & nonstop across the Atlantic (Amelia) Earhart |
| #25, aired 2024-01-16 | THE FRENCH HORN $800: After the 2014 finale, the iconic blue French horn from the set of this TV comedy went home with actor Josh Radnor How I Met Your Mother |
| #2, aired 2024-01-12 | SPRECHEN SIE DEUTSCH? $400: This interjection used after someone sneezes means "health" in German Gesundheit |
| #1, aired 2024-01-12 | BREAK-UPS $800: These Mexican painters wed in 1929 & divorced after a volatile decade; remarried in 1940, they had a rocky 2nd marriage Frida Kahlo & Diego Rivera |
| #1, aired 2024-01-12 | BREAK-UPS $1000: This couple fell in love while filming "Cleopatra"; they wed in '64, divorced after a decade, remarried in 1975--& split again in 1976 Elizabeth Taylor & Richard Burton |
| #1, aired 2024-01-12 | GRAND MARSHALS OF THE ROSE PARADE $1000: In 1955, shortly after becoming chief justice of the U.S., he served as grand marshal Earl Warren |
| #1, aired 2024-01-12 | HEAR ME ROAR $1200: Written in 1792, this French song asks, "Do you hear in the countryside the roar of those savage soldiers?" "La Marseillaise" |
| #1, aired 2024-01-12 | WIDE WORLD OF WEIRD WORDS $1200: Meaning to throw out of a window, this term gained fame after a 1618 incident in Prague where 2 officials were so thrown defenestration |
| #9014, aired 2024-01-11 | FORMER NAMES OF CAPITAL CITIES $2000: Called Ciudad Trujillo from 1936 to 1961 in honor of its dictator, this city returned to its old name after his assassination Santo Domingo |
| #9013, aired 2024-01-10 | ONE MAN, BANNED $400: A Jacobite was a supporter of this exiled Stuart king who had to lay low after the Glorious Revolution James II |
| #9013, aired 2024-01-10 | YOU GET NOTHING! YOU LOSE! $400: After scheming to turn European postage stamps into $15 million worth of fraud, he was arrested in 1920 & went to prison Charles Ponzi |
| #9013, aired 2024-01-10 | CELEBRITIES' FAVORITE MOVIES & TV SHOWS $1200: Taylor Swift named her cat Olivia Benson, after a character on this drama, one of her favorite TV shows Law & Order: Special Victims Unit |
| #9013, aired 2024-01-10 | ONE MAN, BANNED $2000: Yevgeny was the first name of this late mercenary leader who fled to Belarus after gaining Putin's ire in 2023 Yevgeny Prigozhin |
| #9013, aired 2024-01-10 | TEX & THE CITY $3,600 (Daily Double): This city of over one million is named for a man born in 1195 San Antonio |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | CAN I GET AN "A" MEN! $200: Andre Agassi won the U.S. Open twice in the '90s; this tennis icon won it in 1968 and has a stadium there named after him Arthur Ashe |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | IT'S A DATE, AMIGO! $800: He's the U.S. president whose cumpleaños is celebrated ten days after El Cumpleaños de Lincoln Washington |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | THERE'S AN "APP" FOR THAT $1500: Japan's oldest beer brand is named after this city that hosted the 1972 Winter Olympics Sapporo |
| #9011, aired 2024-01-08 | PRESIDENTIAL DOGS $800: Reagan's spaniel Rex was indeed kingly; his breed contains this name of multiple English monarchs King Charles |
| #9011, aired 2024-01-08 | GET TO THE POINT $800: Further from land than anywhere else on Earth, a South Pacific spot is called Point this, after a fictional captain Nemo |
| #9010, aired 2024-01-05 | WEIGHT, WEIGHT, DON'T TELL ME $400: Bugs Bunny would've lost his mind after learning Guinness certified that one of these in Minnesota grew to be 22-plus pounds carrot |
| #9010, aired 2024-01-05 | BLACK HISTORY YEAR $1000: Just after World War II, Jackie Robinson integrates Major League Baseball 1947 |
| #9010, aired 2024-01-05 | OUR WOMAN IN THE FIELD $1200: In 1965 Cambridge awarded her a Ph.D. in ethology, the study of animal behavior, 5 years after she began a major chimp study Jane Goodall |
| #9009, aired 2024-01-04 | PUT ON YOUR HELMET! $400: This team was the first in the NFL to put an emblem on a football helmet after halfback Fred Gehrke designed one with spiraling horns the Rams |
| #9007, aired 2024-01-02 | THOSE WHO CELEBRATE $2000: Those who follow this religion celebrate Hola Mohalla with pretend fights 1 day after the Hindu festival of Holi Sikhism |
| #23, aired 2024-01-02 | ELEMENTARY POP CULTURE $200: Superman was born on this planet named after one of the noble gases Krypton |
| #23, aired 2024-01-02 | DIFFERENT SONGS, SAME TITLES $800: Elvis Presley,
Cheap Trick
(Mommy's alright, Daddy's alright, they just seem a little weird) "Surrender" |
| #23, aired 2024-01-02 | PERSONAL FINANCE $1500: If you're eligible, sock away some after-tax retirement scratch in one of these accounts, named for a late Delaware senator a Roth IRA |
| #9006, aired 2024-01-01 | HAUNTING LITERATURE $200: Scrooge hears from this man that even after being dead for 7 years, he found "no rest, no peace. incessant torture of remorse" Jacob Marley |
| #9006, aired 2024-01-01 | PEOPLE $400: Gavin Newsom appointed Laphonza Butler to take this woman's seat in the U.S. Senate after her death at age 90 Dianne Feinstein |
| #9006, aired 2024-01-01 | KNOW SEA $2000: Both the cute critter seen here & a sea off Antarctica have this 7-letter name, after a British explorer Weddell |
| #9004, aired 2023-12-28 | AMAZING ARMENIANS $400: Sarkisian is the birth name of this singer who, after her partnership with Sonny, had decades of her own hits Cher |
| #9004, aired 2023-12-28 | WOMEN ON TRIAL $1600: Leslie Van Houten, a follower of this man, was retried in 1977 after her lawyer's mysterious death; she was released at age 73 Manson |
| #9003, aired 2023-12-27 | POP CULTURE BEFORE & AFTER $400: Link's video game franchise links up with the wife of writer F. Scott Legend of Zelda Fitzgerald |
| #9003, aired 2023-12-27 | POP CULTURE BEFORE & AFTER $800: Ken's rhyming dream abode in the film "Barbie" hatches into a prequel of "Game of Thrones" a Mojo Dojo Casa House of the Dragon |
| #9003, aired 2023-12-27 | REPORTING THE NEWS $800: After a bone marrow transplant, she told viewers on Feb. 20, 2013, "I have been waiting 174 days to say this: Good morning, America!" Robin Roberts |
| #9003, aired 2023-12-27 | POP CULTURE BEFORE & AFTER $1200: The Bronx female rapper on "Boy's A Liar, Pt. 2" joins forces with a British girl group featuring Posh & Sporty Ice Spice Girls |
| #9003, aired 2023-12-27 | POP CULTURE BEFORE & AFTER $1600: A certain ancient civilization that men obsess over in a TikTok trend time travels & becomes a Jay-Z song about NYC "The Roman Empire State Of Mind" |
| #9003, aired 2023-12-27 | POP CULTURE BEFORE & AFTER $2000: A "Fresh Off the Boat" actress joins the rap group with members RZA, GZA & Ghostface Killah Constance Wu-Tang Clan |
| #9002, aired 2023-12-26 | TIMES: NEW ROMAN $800: Talk about a circus! In 2023 historians were not happy after fans caused a 1.3 shake at a Travis Scott show at this Rome landmark the Circus Maximus |
| #9002, aired 2023-12-26 | TIMES: NEW ROMAN $1000: In 2023, "P" was for the 2,000-year-old palazzo reopened to the public after 50 years of restoration, as well as this Roman hill it's on the Palatine |
| #9001, aired 2023-12-25 | RIDE INTO... $200: this country after crossing its border with Chile, then we'll head directly east & zip into Uruguay Argentina |
| #9001, aired 2023-12-25 | HOBBIES $400: Originally called Number Place, this puzzle got its more familiar name after appearing in a Japanese magazine Sudoku |
| #9000, aired 2023-12-22 | MOVIE INSPIRATIONS $800: Christopher Nolan said he got inspired to make "Oppenheimer" after this "Twilight" star gifted him a book of Oppie's speeches (Robert) Pattinson |
| #9000, aired 2023-12-22 | MOVIE INSPIRATIONS $1600: James DeMonaco, writer of this film, had the idea after road rage made his wife wish for vengeance, a "free one a year!" The Purge |
| #8999, aired 2023-12-21 | BOOK TOCK $200: Cinderella is warned by her godmother that if she stays at the ball after midnight, her coach will be one of these again a pumpkin |
| #8999, aired 2023-12-21 | LEGEND DAIRY $400: Back in 1936 Louis Meyer drank buttermilk on Victory Lane after winning this auto race & a tradition was born the Indy 500 |
| #8999, aired 2023-12-21 | A VERY HALLMARK CHRISTMAS MOVIE $800: A bit after going on a bender in "The Breakfast Club", this actor met Santa Jr. in 2002; don't you forget about him Judd Nelson |
| #8998, aired 2023-12-20 | A REAL SOB STORY $800: Fern Arable bawls her eyes out after this runty pig is marked for the axe in a 1952 book, but her dad relents & Fern is happy Wilbur |
| #8997, aired 2023-12-19 | KING'S CROSSING $600: Unhorsed! Unhorsed! On Aug. 22, 1485 he lost his kingdom & his life after getting unhorsed Richard III |
| #8997, aired 2023-12-19 | KING'S CROSSING $2,000 (Daily Double): In 1516, 11 years after losing the queen he called the "most excellent wife king ever had", this Castile royal left the castle Ferdinand |
| #8996, aired 2023-12-18 | PANCHO VILLAGE $1200: After 1911, Pancho Villa used this Texas city of 600,000 on the Rio Grande as a supply center El Paso |
| #8996, aired 2023-12-18 | PANCHO VILLAGE $2000: This "Devil's Dictionary" author disappeared after going to Mexico, reportedly to write about Pancho Villa Ambrose Bierce |
| #8996, aired 2023-12-18 | U.S. FIRSTS $7,000 (Daily Double): The first woman mayor of a major U.S. city was Bertha Landes in Seattle; soon after came Dorothy Lee in this city 172 miles south Portland (Oregon) |
| #8994, aired 2023-12-14 | HIGH WATER $400: After floods in 1966, UNESCO made efforts to save this Italian city & its treasures, like the Biblioteca Marciana Venice |
| #8993, aired 2023-12-13 | SLANG FOR LIQUOR $800: It can come before "sander" & after "Bible" belt |
| #8993, aired 2023-12-13 | OSCAR, MEYER, WIENER $1600: This industrialist's son Solomon founded a famous New York City museum Meyer Guggenheim |
| #8992, aired 2023-12-12 | STICKY STUFF $400: After a rugby scrum, you might require what the Brits call a sticking plaster, one of these a Band-Aid |
| #8992, aired 2023-12-12 | SEINFELD BEFORE & AFTER $400: This George Costanza portrayer was the first U.S. Treasury Secretary Jason Alexander Hamilton |
| #8992, aired 2023-12-12 | STICKY STUFF $800: This brand was conceived in the 1940s by a Swiss engineer after he examined sticky burrs on his dog Velcro |
| #8992, aired 2023-12-12 | SEINFELD BEFORE & AFTER $800: Set on controlling the vichyssoise supply, TV hosts Greg Kinnear & John Henson are vying for the role of this fascist Talk Soup Nazi |
| #8992, aired 2023-12-12 | SEINFELD BEFORE & AFTER $1200: This Wham! frontman continually barges into the apartment of the actor who plays Kramer George Michael Richards |
| #8992, aired 2023-12-12 | SEINFELD BEFORE & AFTER $1600: Avuncular Seinfeld relative who kvetched all the way through writing Russian fiction like "The Death of Ivan Ilyich" Uncle Leo Tolstoy |
| #8992, aired 2023-12-12 | SEINFELD BEFORE & AFTER $2000: The Elaine actress was accused of treason against the French in this scandal the Julia Louis-Dreyfus Affair |
| #8991, aired 2023-12-11 | HYDROLOGY $200: This term for the surface flow of excess rainwater sounds like an additional contest after a tie runoff |
| #8991, aired 2023-12-11 | F-STOP $1000: To interrogate a friendly spy after a mission debrief |
| #8989, aired 2023-12-07 | SUPER BOWL STARS $200: After throwing for 286 yards & 2 TDs, he was named the chief reason for Kansas City's victory in Super Bowl 54 Mahomes |
| #8989, aired 2023-12-07 | STAR WARS BEFORE & AFTER $400: 14th century European pandemic that destroyed Alderaan the Black Death Star |
| #8989, aired 2023-12-07 | STAR WARS BEFORE & AFTER $800: Han Solo's son paired with an edgy cartoon Chihuahua & cat Kylo Ren & Stimpy |
| #8989, aired 2023-12-07 | SUPER BOWL STARS $1000: Tom Brady threw 2 interceptions in Super Bowl 49 but ended up MVP after this Seahawk tossed his one interception in the last minute Russell Wilson |
| #8989, aired 2023-12-07 | STAR WARS BEFORE & AFTER $1200: "Wake up" to this 1971 Rod Stewart song that's a perfect greeting for any Jedi "Maggie May" the force be with you |
| #8989, aired 2023-12-07 | STAR WARS BEFORE & AFTER $1600: TV's "Love Boat" who's now reached the rank of general the Pacific Princess Leia |
| #8989, aired 2023-12-07 | STAR WARS BEFORE & AFTER $2000: Sylvia Plath novel about an annoying floppy-eared outcast from Naboo The Bell Jar Jar Binks |
| #22, aired 2023-12-06 | HAIRSTYLES OF THE RICH & FAMOUS $200: After this Canadian pop star cut his signature swoop in 2011, locks of his hair sold on eBay for more than $40,000 Justin Bieber |
| #22, aired 2023-12-06 | CELEBRITY TELL-ALLS $600: "Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing":
He revealed that future editions of his memoir will not include Keanu Reeves Matthew Perry |
| #22, aired 2023-12-06 | PIZZA AT THE MOVIES $800: Julia Roberts' star was on the rise after she played a waitress in this film set at a New England pizza parlor Mystic Pizza |
| #8987, aired 2023-12-05 | ALMOST ASSASSINATED $400: February 15, 1933 after making a speech in Miami FDR |
| #8987, aired 2023-12-05 | PURPLE PROSE & POETRY $400: "After thinking it over for some time", this purple crayon-toting tot went for "a walk in the moonlight" Harold |
| #8986, aired 2023-12-04 | HIS 'DO $400: The clean-cut men's style known as the "Ivy League" is also called this, after a New Jersey school a Princeton |
| #8985, aired 2023-12-01 | EVE 6 $800: In this 1978 film Eve Arden plays the principal who threatens a cocky T-Bird with "banging erasers after school" Grease |
| #8985, aired 2023-12-01 | EROS MYTH $1200: The Romans called Eros Cupid or this, which they also put after "Omnia Vincit" Amor |
| #8984, aired 2023-11-30 | CHECK IT & SEE $1000: Music is the most powerful connector says this Biden administration Secretary of State, seen performing "Hoochie Coochie Man" (Antony) Blinken |
| #8984, aired 2023-11-30 | HATS $1200: The name of this often brimless hat, popular in the 1920s, is French for "bell", after the shape of the hat a cloche |
| #8984, aired 2023-11-30 | IF IT AIN'T BAROQUE… $3,000 (Daily Double): A 1912 work by Marc Chagall is titled after this musician found in the title of a Broadway show The Fiddler |
| #8983, aired 2023-11-29 | FAREWELL TO THE CHIEF $2000: On July 23, 1885 just days after completing his memoirs, he died of cancer at his New York home Ulysses S. Grant |
| #21, aired 2023-11-29 | FAIRY TALE ELEVATOR PITCHES $100: "A naive girl has a bad day after she fails to notice that her grandmother is actually a hungry wolf" "Little Red Riding Hood" ("Red Riding Hood" accepted) |
| #21, aired 2023-11-29 | THIS DAY IN WORLD HISTORY $300: February 22, 1997:
Scientists in Scotland introduce the first clone of an adult mammal, a sheep named after this country singer Dolly Parton |
| #21, aired 2023-11-29 | FILMS TURNING THE BIG FOUR-OH $400: Thanks to the Griswolds' pea-green Family Truckster, sales of these plummeted after the release of "Vacation" a station wagon |
| #21, aired 2023-11-29 | THIS DAY IN WORLD HISTORY $400: November 17, 1869:
After ten years of grueling construction, this country officially opens the Suez Canal Egypt |
| #21, aired 2023-11-29 | FAR OUT $600: From a Greek word meaning "single-horned", the constellation Monoceros is named after this mythical creature a unicorn |
| #21, aired 2023-11-29 | "SESAME STREET" SONG PARODIES $600: Tony Bennett sings "Slimey To The Moon" after this cranky Muppet's pet worm goes to space to "wriggle 'mongst the stars" Oscar the Grouch |
| #21, aired 2023-11-29 | "SESAME STREET" SONG PARODIES $1000: After being stood up by the "letter of the day", she sings "I Don't Know Why 'Y' Didn't Come", a take on her hit "Don't Know Why" Norah Jones |
| #8982, aired 2023-11-28 | SECONDS $1,000 (Daily Double): Henry VIII secretly married this second wife in 1533, after she got pregnant Anne Boleyn |
| #8981, aired 2023-11-27 | I WANT MY "BABY" BACK, "BABY" BACK $400: In 2007 the first of these, born 1 second after midnight January 1, 1946, filed for Social Security a Baby Boomer |
| #8981, aired 2023-11-27 | SUPREME COURTSHIP $1200: In 1929 he wed Vivien Burey, who died in 1955, a year after he argued Brown v. Board of Education Thurgood Marshall |
| #8981, aired 2023-11-27 | SUPREME COURTSHIP $1600: He wed Marion Stearns in 1946, six years after he led the NFL in rushing (Byron "Whizzer") White |
| #8980, aired 2023-11-24 | "A"DJECTIVES $400: It means "easy to approach"; you'll also find it a lot after "wheelchair" accessible |
| #8980, aired 2023-11-24 | IT'S THE COCKATIEL HOUR $800: The difference between males & females becomes apparent after the first of these shedding periods at 6-9 months molting |
| #8980, aired 2023-11-24 | CHESS $1600: Bring your queen out fast against an inexperienced player & you can have this victory after just 2 moves a fool's mate |
| #8979, aired 2023-11-23 | BIBLICAL ZOO $1,000 (Daily Double): After crossing this, Miriam led a chorus of "the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea" the Red Sea |
| #8978, aired 2023-11-22 | "B"OOKS $600: Sylvia Plath died one month after this novel of hers was published The Bell Jar |
| #8978, aired 2023-11-22 | 18th CENTURY TECHNOLOGY $1200: In 1785, 16 years after his patent for an improved steam engine, he developed a fuel-efficient furnace James Watt |
| #8978, aired 2023-11-22 | SORRY ABOUT THAT $2000: After taking power in South Africa, this party apologized for the faulty timing of some bombs as it battled apartheid the ANC (African National Congress) |
| #8975, aired 2023-11-17 | PITHY QUOTES $400: After recanting his belief that the Earth orbits the Sun, he's said to have muttered, "But it does move" Galileo |
| #8975, aired 2023-11-17 | NAME THE JAMES $1200: After this author's death on January 13th, 1941, the wake wasn't for Finnegan, but for him Joyce |
| #8974, aired 2023-11-16 | KAUAI $1200: One look at Waimea Canyon & you'll see why it's called this of the Pacific after a mainland natural wonder the Grand Canyon |
| #20, aired 2023-11-15 | THE SEARCH FOR FOREIGN LANDS $200: After gaining its independence in 1963, Jomo Kenyatta became this African country's first prime minister Kenya |
| #20, aired 2023-11-15 | ADVENTUROUS WOMEN $200: One of many times she saved their butts, Sacagawea rescued valuable supplies for this duo after they fell into a river Lewis & Clark |
| #20, aired 2023-11-15 | MOTHER GOOSE POLICE BLOTTER $600: Veterinary personnel were dispatched when a local woman reported her flock had returned without tails after an unexplained absence "Little Bo Peep" |
| #20, aired 2023-11-15 | SAD SONGS $800: This handsome crooner revealed that after a bad breakup, he wrote "Somebody's Crying" inside a closet at a party Chris Isaak |
| #20, aired 2023-11-15 | MUSICAL INSTRUMENT MAKERS $900: The first grand piano made by this German in 1836 is dubbed "the kitchen piano" after the room where he crafted it (Henry) Steinway |
| #20, aired 2023-11-15 | VETERINARY MEDICINE $1200: It's an infectious disease affecting livestock--or the heavy metal band guitarist Scott Ian named after it Anthrax |
| #8972, aired 2023-11-14 | '90s MUSIC $400: After years as a backup singer, she hit it big in 1994 with "All I Wanna Do" Sheryl Crow |
| #8972, aired 2023-11-14 | ANCIENT TIMES $800: 4 decades after Constantine, Roman emperor Julian sought to revive these types of cults & temples, from Latin for "rustic" pagan |
| #8970, aired 2023-11-10 | DESIGNERS $600: She took over control of her family's design house in 1997, after her brother Gianni's death Donatella Versace |
| #8970, aired 2023-11-10 | DESIGNERS $800: After his suicide in 2010, Vogue paid tribute to him with a portfolio of his pieces called "Alexander the Great" McQueen |
| #8969, aired 2023-11-09 | CHANGING WHITE HOUSE TOWEL MONOGRAMS $1600: From WJC to this GWB |
| #8969, aired 2023-11-09 | CHANGING WHITE HOUSE TOWEL MONOGRAMS $5,500 (Daily Double): From RWR to this GHWB |
| #8968, aired 2023-11-08 | ENCYCLOPEDIA BROWN $2000: The Cortland variety of these brown very slowly after they're cut, making them a good choice for garnishes apples |
| #8967, aired 2023-11-07 | DEATH $200: From Latin, it means "after death", when an autopsy would be done post mortem |
| #8966, aired 2023-11-06 | CALL OUT THE BOB SQUAD $800: After years of yelling at soldiers as a first sergeant in the Air Force, this man vowed to use a more soothing voice painting on TV (Bob) Ross |
| #8966, aired 2023-11-06 | KISS MY GRITS! $1000: This "colorful" southern gravy is made from ham drippings, hot coffee & water red-eye (red gravy) |
| #8966, aired 2023-11-06 | A "LA" CARTE $1200: Stick around after visiting the L.A. County Museum of Art & you can see this gooey attraction right next door the La Brea Tar Pits |
| #8965, aired 2023-11-03 | ONLY PARTLY TRUE $600: The Lone Ranger got his name after suffering from this, from Greek words for "fear" & "stranger" xenophobia |
| #8965, aired 2023-11-03 | HOSPITALS $1000: Known for its mental health facilities, this NYC hospital dates back to 1736, 4 years after George Washington's birth Bellevue |
| #8965, aired 2023-11-03 | ART HEISTS $2000: 14 years after they were stolen, 7 of her paintings, including "The Old Inn", turned up at a Bennington, Vermont museum Grandma Moses |
| #8965, aired 2023-11-03 | ART HEISTS $5,000 (Daily Double): In 2001 his "Study for 'Over Vitebsk"' wandered off after a cocktail reception at the Jewish Museum in New York Marc Chagall |
| #8964, aired 2023-11-02 | MYTHING IN ACTION $600: This woman whose prophecies were disbelieved was one of Agamemnon's spoils after Troy fell Cassandra |
| #8964, aired 2023-11-02 | ALL THE PRESIDENTS' CHILDREN $1000: In 1944, 20 years after his own death, his oldest daughter Margaret died at an ashram in India Woodrow Wilson |
| #8964, aired 2023-11-02 | FUN WITH THE PERIODIC TABLE $1600: After helium, it's the Next noble gas on the table neon |
| #8963, aired 2023-11-01 | BYE, GEORGE! $200: After Dec. 14, 1920 Notre Dame could begin winning one for this man the Gipper (George Gipp) |
| #8963, aired 2023-11-01 | BYE, GEORGE! $800: After this composer met his "Messiah" in 1759, he was buried in Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey Handel |
| #8963, aired 2023-11-01 | GREEK GOD OUT, ROMAN GOD IN $1600: The ancient Romans didn't need this Greek god anymore, not after renaming him Vulcan Hephaestus |
| #19, aired 2023-11-01 | BEST PICTURE WINNERS IN A NUTSHELL $600: 2020:
After losing everything, a van-dwelling woman travels the American West looking for work Nomadland |
| #19, aired 2023-11-01 | RIGHT "U-R" $1,500 (Daily Double): The New York Times called it a "sport in which daredevils race over rooftops, flip over ledges and climb walls without assistance" parkour |
| #8961, aired 2023-10-30 | THE JOKERS $200: His final role was as Tony in "The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus" in 2009 Heath Ledger |
| #8961, aired 2023-10-30 | ACCENTÉ $800: After a legal proceeding, it's the word for Sadie, Sadie, no longer a married lady divorcée |
| #8960, aired 2023-10-27 | STREET SMARTS $5,000 (Daily Double): This capital's Gran Vía was once named Avenida de José Antonio, after the founder of the Fascist Party Madrid |
| #8959, aired 2023-10-26 | THE CAMERA MAN $600: John Filo, an undergrad at this Ohio school, won a 1971 Pulitzer after capturing an iconic photo of a slain classmate Kent State |
| #18, aired 2023-10-25 | FOODS NAMED AFTER PEOPLE $300: The Hass variety of this food traces its lineage back to a single tree planted by postman Rudolph Hass in the 1920s an avocado |
| #18, aired 2023-10-25 | THE NOBEL PRIZE $400: The prize for this newest category was first awarded in 1969 -- roughly 68 fiscal years after all the others Economics |
| #18, aired 2023-10-25 | PRIDE & POTUS $500: This POTUS joined the Republican Unity Coalition, a gay rights organization, roughly 25 years after leaving the White House Gerald Ford |
| #18, aired 2023-10-25 | FOODS NAMED AFTER PEOPLE $600: Less is "S'more"? This cracker was created by a preacher who hoped that eating it would promote abstinence a graham cracker |
| #18, aired 2023-10-25 | FOODS NAMED AFTER PEOPLE $1200: Featuring fried chicken pieces in a sweet sauce, this Chinese takeout favorite is named after a 19th century military leader General Tso's chicken |
| #18, aired 2023-10-25 | FOODS NAMED AFTER PEOPLE $1,500 (Daily Double): Named after a Russian ballerina, this meringue-based dessert is nicknamed "Pav" in Australia Pavlova |
| #18, aired 2023-10-25 | FOODS NAMED AFTER PEOPLE $1500: A famed veal dish including shrimp & crab meat is named after this crooner, who might have asked for it to be made "My Way" Sinatra |
| #8957, aired 2023-10-24 | NOVEL IDEAS $400: One year after 1844's "Les Trois Mousquetaires", he gave us "Vingt ans après", or "Twenty Years After" Dumas |
| #8957, aired 2023-10-24 | "POUND" KEY $600: Where you go to retrieve your car after it gets towed for being parked in front of a fire hydrant the impound lot |
| #8956, aired 2023-10-23 | THE HISTORY CHANNEL $800: After being banished from Iceland, this colorful guy established a colony in Greenland around 985 Erik the Red |
| #8956, aired 2023-10-23 | THE HISTORY CHANNEL $2000: This 6th century Byzantine emperor, lawgiver & Christian expelled pagan teachers from the Athens Academy Justinian (I) |
| #8954, aired 2023-10-19 | PHILOSOPHIES IN A NUTSHELL $400: Nietzsche named the wild, creative impulse for Dionysus & the orderly one for this sun god Apollo |
| #8954, aired 2023-10-19 | IT'S OUR TURN TO SACK ROME!!! $600: 455 A.D.:
These people, whose name is now synonymous with pillage & destruction, sack Rome the Vandals |
| #8953, aired 2023-10-18 | THE 1600s $200: After observing a comet in 1682, he proved it was the same one seen in 1607, 1531, 1456... (Edmund) Halley |
| #8953, aired 2023-10-18 | THE 1600s $1,000 (Daily Double): After hoarding food rations, he & his son were kept at bay, literally, by mutineers who set them adrift in 1611 Henry Hudson |
| #17, aired 2023-10-18 | NONAGENARIANS $300: After turning 90 in 2023, she was still active on social media and retweeted an article about the peace songs of her husband, John Lennon Yoko Ono |
| #17, aired 2023-10-18 | MIDDLE "MAN" $600: The marsupial seen here is called a this devil, named after the Australian island it's native to Tasmanian |
| #17, aired 2023-10-18 | ON ANOTHER PLANET $600: The ancient Romans named this planet after their god of war, perhaps because it resembles a drop of blood in the night sky Mars |
| #8952, aired 2023-10-17 | ANIMALS IN ITALIAN $600: After all the gelato, I feel as big as a balena, one of these a whale |
| #8952, aired 2023-10-17 | WORLD WRITERS $800: Long a bestseller in this native land, Olga Tokarczuk found a world audience after her 2018 Man Booker & Nobel Prizes Poland |
| #8952, aired 2023-10-17 | "B" GIRLS $800: 10 days after her release from rehab following a 1947 narcotics arrest, this "Lady" sold out Carnegie Hall Billie Holiday |
| #8952, aired 2023-10-17 | WORLD WRITERS $1200: Bertolt Brecht fled Germany in 1933 & left the U.S. in 1947 after being required to testify before this committee HUAC (House Un-American Activities Committee) |
| #8950, aired 2023-10-13 | BACK TO SCHOOL, SPORTS STAR $400: After finishing online, this big sis stopped by Indiana University East to pick up her BS on the way to a nearby tennis tournament Venus Williams |
| #8950, aired 2023-10-13 | LET'S GET MEDICAL $600: A yellow or orange coloration to the skin is caused by an excess of this pigment, perhaps after eating too many carrots beta carotene (carotin) |
| #16, aired 2023-10-11 | FRENCH HISTORY $0: Drink up! A famous New Orleans street is named after this dynasty that ruled France for most of the 17th & 18th centuries Bourbon |
| #16, aired 2023-10-11 | AS SEEN ON SHARK TANK $500: Formerly "Doorbot", this smart video doorbell was scooped up by Amazon after the Sharks rejected it--those ding-dongs the Ring |
| #16, aired 2023-10-11 | FASHION FOR ALL $600: Bimla Picot created Reboundwear after seeing a relative get dressed with difficulty before "PT", or this kind of therapy physical therapy |
| #16, aired 2023-10-11 | HI, I'M J.LO $600: Boxing's greatest "J.Lo" of all time, he had a sports arena named after him in Detroit that was known locally as "the Joe" Joe Louis |
| #16, aired 2023-10-11 | "EZ" GEOGRAPHY $600: Seen here, this type of hat is named after one of Morocco's most populous cities fez |
| #16, aired 2023-10-11 | BIG DOGS AS LITTLE PUPPIES $600: Here's the great this, a breed named after the mountain range that separates France & Spain Pyrenees |
| #16, aired 2023-10-11 | BIG DOGS AS LITTLE PUPPIES $800: The puppy seen here is a Bernese Mountain Dog, named after one of this country's cantons Switzerland |
| #16, aired 2023-10-11 | MERRIAM-WEBSTER'S WORDS OF THE YEAR $1000: In 2003, the first Merriam-Webster "Word of the Year" was this form of government by the people democracy |
| #16, aired 2023-10-11 | "EZ" GEOGRAPHY $1500: An infamous Exxon oil tanker was named after this Alaskan city, the terminus of the Trans-Alaska pipeline Valdez |
| #8947, aired 2023-10-10 | NOT SO RECENT SCIENCE $1000: In 1879, after thousands of failures, Edison found a simple scorched cotton thread worked best as one of these a filament |
| #8945, aired 2023-10-06 | LITERARY POP $400: Welsh singer Thomas John Woodward took this name after his manager suggested this Henry Fielding character Tom Jones |
| #8945, aired 2023-10-06 | THE CRIMEAN WAR $1600: Much of the war focused on an 11-month siege of this seaport that finally fell after the Russians retreated Sevastopol |
| #8944, aired 2023-10-05 | I DON'T GIVE A... $800: Wrestling throw that puts an opponent on the canvas back-first a body slam (a powerslam) |
| #8943, aired 2023-10-04 | WAXING PHILOSOPHICAL $400: This philosopher & partner of Engels took up residence in London after being expelled from Prussia in 1849 Marx |
| #8943, aired 2023-10-04 | PLEASE BEAR WITH ME $800: This man as Jackie Moon, after a stunt on the court with a bear goes awry in "Semi-Pro": "If you have a small child, use it as a shield!" Will Ferrell |
| #8943, aired 2023-10-04 | WE TRY TO STAY NEUTRAL $1000: In 1927, he did not go to a neutral corner after knocking down Gene Tunney who may have gotten a 14-second long count Jack Dempsey |
| #8943, aired 2023-10-04 | WE TRY TO STAY NEUTRAL $1,600 (Daily Double): Soon after a beating by France at Marignano in 1515, this country decided expansion was out & neutrality was in Switzerland |
| #15, aired 2023-10-04 | A BUNDLE OF "FUN" $100: Seen here, this fried fairground favorite is named after the device used to drizzle batter into hot oil the funnel cake |
| #15, aired 2023-10-04 | A BUNDLE OF "FUN" $200: After splitting with Paul Simon in the early seventies, he briefly left music and taught math Art Garfunkel |
| #15, aired 2023-10-04 | RISING UP $200: In 2023, people took to the streets in France after a proposal to raise this from 62 to 64 the retirement age |
| #15, aired 2023-10-04 | BIG-SCREEN BALLADS $800: A rare pop song that features an oboe solo, this cryptic ballad by Seal became a smash hit after appearing in "Batman Forever" "Kiss From A Rose" |
| #15, aired 2023-10-04 | ESTATE PLANNING $900: It's the agent who administers a person's estate after their death--not to be confused with an executioner, who causes it an executor |
| #15, aired 2023-10-04 | BIG-SCREEN BALLADS $1000: At a Hollywood Bowl concert in 2012, Peter Gabriel played this song from "Say Anything" after John Cusack took the stage with a boombox "In Your Eyes" |
| #8942, aired 2023-10-03 | 20th CENTURY FOX HISTORY $800: 10 years after Newman & Redford, Tom Berenger & William Katt played this duo in their early days Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid |
| #8942, aired 2023-10-03 | LITERARY BIOGRAPHY $800: Laura Dassow Walls tried to capture this many-sided man in a book published 200 years after his 1817 birth in Concord Thoreau |
| #8941, aired 2023-10-02 | THEY PLAYED WYATT EARP $1600: After he solved crimes in L.A. as Jim Rockford, he played the aging Earp doing the same in "Sunset" James Garner |
| #8940, aired 2023-09-29 | BACK TO SCHOOL $200: English: his "Unfinished Tales", a collection of more Middle-earth material, was published 7 years after his death Tolkien |
| #8939, aired 2023-09-28 | AROUND THE HORN $800: Willem Schouten, who rounded the Horn, named it after his birthplace in this country Holland (the Netherlands) |
| #8938, aired 2023-09-27 | MIXED NUTS $800: Used in baklava & ice cream:
IOTA CHIPS pistachio |
| #8938, aired 2023-09-27 | LAW & ORDER $800: This other "A" word is an accomplice or abettor in a crime but is not there when it is committed an accessory |
| #8938, aired 2023-09-27 | A SOVIET UNION $1000: After the Communists came into power in 1917, this party of theirs ratified a "code of marriage, the family and guardianship" the Bolsheviks (Reds) |
| #14, aired 2023-09-27 | CHICKEN FIVE WAYS $200: Said to have been invented in Glasgow in the 1970s, this spiced Indian curry is often called a national dish of Britain chicken tikka masala |
| #14, aired 2023-09-27 | OUI, OUI, HISTORY $300: Known for her lavish spending sprees, this wife of Louis XVI must've lost her head after being nicknamed "Madame Deficit" Marie Antoinette |
| #14, aired 2023-09-27 | POST-APOCALYPTIC POP CULTURE $400: In his first-ever TV interview, Cormac McCarthy sat down with Oprah Winfrey after she selected this bleak novel for her book club The Road |
| #14, aired 2023-09-27 | OUI, OUI, HISTORY $1,000 (Daily Double): After being given the key to this prison overthrown in 1789, the Marquis de Lafayette re-gifted it to his pal George Washington the Bastille |
| #14, aired 2023-09-27 | AIRPORT STORES $1500: There's a Louisville Slugger store in Louisville Muhammad Ali Intl. Airport; there's also a store named after this racetrack Churchill Downs |
| #8937, aired 2023-09-26 | NEXT STOP, VENUS $200: In 1982 this nation's Venera probe landed on Venusian soil, took some pictures & tapped out after 2 hours Russia |
| #8936, aired 2023-09-25 | INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS $600: What is this place to do? After Brexit it became part of a non-EU country, but shares an island with an EU country Northern Ireland |
| #8936, aired 2023-09-25 | A PLACE IN HISTORY $800: The last major conflict of the War of 1812, the battle of this city took place in January 1815, after the war had ended Battle of New Orleans |
| #8936, aired 2023-09-25 | A PLACE IN HISTORY $3,500 (Daily Double): After taking up on another island, the Knights of Rhodes became the Knights of this place the Knights of Malta |
| #8935, aired 2023-09-22 | DO I WANT THAT NAMED FOR ME? $400: Long ones are a proverbial sign of age, & to bishop, to file them down on a horse, is thought to be named after a practitioner of yore teeth |
| #8934, aired 2023-09-21 | PAST HISTORY $400: As a verb, it means "to pawn"; as a noun, it comes after "ham" hock |
| #8934, aired 2023-09-21 | WELCOME TO FANTASY ISLAND $800: He was left "alone in an un-inhabited island", but after 28 years, 2 months & 19 days, what world will this man return to now? Robinson Crusoe |
| #8934, aired 2023-09-21 | PAST HISTORY $1000: After Richard II was deposed, this king took over, ushering in the House of Lancaster Henry IV |
| #8933, aired 2023-09-20 | MICKEY'S MANTEL $400: 6 years after its U.S. release, this Disney film was the elephant in the room, winning Cannes' Grand Prix--Dessin Animé in 1947 Dumbo |
| #8932, aired 2023-09-19 | WHAT COULD IT "B"? $400: This annual event falls on the feast day of St. Stephen Boxing Day |
| #8932, aired 2023-09-19 | YOU BETTER BELIZE IT $1000: After a hurricane & a tidal wave hit Belize City in 1961, the capital was moved 50 miles inland to this city to avoid flooding Belmopan |
| #8931, aired 2023-09-18 | AMERICAN HISTORY $200: After fleeing Philly in 1776, Congress entrusted newspaper publisher Mary Katharine Goddard with printing this document the Declaration of Independence |
| #8931, aired 2023-09-18 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1000: Native American leaders at the 1876 Battle of the Little Bighorn included Sitting Bull & this Oglala chief, killed the following year Crazy Horse |
| #8931, aired 2023-09-18 | 1990s HITMAKERS $1200: Oasis sang, "Because maybe, you're gonna be the one that saves me, & after all, you're my" this wonderwall |
| #8930, aired 2023-09-15 | CELEB LIT BEFORE & AFTER $400: "Last Week Tonight" host who learns the inside scoop on pickpocketing from Fagin John Oliver Twist |
| #8930, aired 2023-09-15 | CAT LOVERS $600: Not satisfied with your basic kitty, Salvador Dalí owned Babou, one of these wild cats of Central & South America an ocelot |
| #8930, aired 2023-09-15 | CELEB LIT BEFORE & AFTER $800: Ishmael & crew ready their harpoons in preparation to capture a "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" star Moby-Dick Van Dyke |
| #8930, aired 2023-09-15 | CELEB LIT BEFORE & AFTER $1200: Paul Blart portrayer takes a ride on a really big piece of fruit Kevin James and the Giant Peach |
| #8930, aired 2023-09-15 | CELEB LIT BEFORE & AFTER $1600: Tiny Tim says, "God bless us every one" for an iconic comedian & Eunice in "Mama's Family" A Christmas Carol Burnett |
| #8930, aired 2023-09-15 | CELEB LIT BEFORE & AFTER $2000: Rowling's whiz kid has trouble with a certain rock & a "chilly" WWE star Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone Cold Steve Austin |
| #8929, aired 2023-09-14 | THE OHIO UNIVERSITIES $200: After catching 417 passes for the Bengals, Cris Collinsworth grabbed a law degree from the univ. of this city Cincinnati |
| #8929, aired 2023-09-14 | RECONSTRUCTION $1000: In 2023, USS Chancellorsville was renamed after this Black Civil War hero & Reconstruction-era congressman Robert Smalls |
| #8929, aired 2023-09-14 | HIP-HOP LITERARY REFERENCES $1600: This rapper & "Law & Order: SVU" actor titled his spoken word track "Soul on Ice" after Eldridge Cleaver's memoir Ice-T |
| #8929, aired 2023-09-14 | RECONSTRUCTION $2000: People like Loula Williams aided in the reconstruction of the Greenwood area of this Okla. city after a race massacre in 1921 Tulsa |
| #8928, aired 2023-09-13 | I'M JUST A BILL, BILLY OR WILLIAM $800 (Daily Double): William Thomson is a fine name for a physicist, but after developing the absolute temp. scale, Lord this had a nice ring (Lord) Kelvin |
| #8928, aired 2023-09-13 | "C"s THE DAY $2000: Catholics usually celebrate the Thursday after Trinity Sunday as the feast of this, Latin for "Christ's body" Corpus Christi |
| #8927, aired 2023-09-12 | AFTER IN LIVING COLOR $200: After writing for "In Living Color", Larry Wilmore was the "Senior Black Correspondent" on this Jon Stewart show The Daily Show |
| #8927, aired 2023-09-12 | AFTER IN LIVING COLOR $400: This actor-singer starred in the movies "Day Shift" & "Baby Driver" & crooned on "Slow Jamz" & "Gold Digger" (Jamie) Foxx |
| #8927, aired 2023-09-12 | AFTER IN LIVING COLOR $600: Her documentary "Halftime" covers the journey to her performance at the Super Bowl in 2020 Jennifer Lopez |
| #8927, aired 2023-09-12 | AFTER IN LIVING COLOR $800: Jim Carrey said, "Good afternoon, good evening & good night" in this 1998 film The Truman Show |
| #8927, aired 2023-09-12 | AFTER IN LIVING COLOR $1000: Seen here, this actor won his first Tony Award for his performance in "A Soldier's Play" David Alan Grier |
| #8926, aired 2023-09-11 | MISSISSIPPI LEARNING $800: Mississippi is called this state, after the state tree the Magnolia State |
| #8925, aired 2023-07-28 | TALKING ABOUT WOMEN $200: After her death, a newspaper recalled "those stricken hospitals of the Crimea through which the lady with the lamp passed" Florence Nightingale |
| #8925, aired 2023-07-28 | BRITISH LITERATURE $400: Thomas Hardy gave up writing fiction after this gloomy novel about Jude Fawley Jude the Obscure |
| #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 | ON THE MONEY $2000: He died on April 15 Abraham Lincoln |
| #8924, aired 2023-07-27 | THE FORBES 2023 BILLIONAIRES $200: Forbes cited "investor fears about" him "adding yet another CEO job" after a $44 billion purchase; he fell to No. 2 on the list Elon Musk |
| #8924, aired 2023-07-27 | ANATOMICAL ANAGRAMS $1000: Retain all insurance paperwork after getting this checked out at the eye doctor retina (from retain) |
| #8924, aired 2023-07-27 | HISTORIC AMERICANS $1000: After helping women gain the right to vote in her home state of Montana, she became the first woman elected to the U.S. Congress Jeannette Rankin |
| #8924, aired 2023-07-27 | HISTORIC AMERICANS $2,000 (Daily Double): Soon after he lost his Supreme Court case, this enslaved American was emancipated by the son of his first owner Dred Scott |
| #8923, aired 2023-07-26 | BRACE FOR LANDING $1200: You'll be thanking every saint you can think of after hitting the runway of this Caribbean island with ties to Holland & France Saint Martin |
| #8922, aired 2023-07-25 | WRITER-DIRECTORS $800: 7 months after he died in 2009, Molly Ringwald & Anthony Michael Hall were part of a tribute to him at the Oscars (John) Hughes |
| #8922, aired 2023-07-25 | SOMETHING'S ROTTEN $1000: After the Sex Pistols, Johnny Rotten, now John Lydon, fronted this band, PiL for short Public Image Ltd |
| #8922, aired 2023-07-25 | KISS & TELL $1200: As the story goes, after performing for Maria Theresa at age 6 in 1762, this wunderkind jumped into the empress' lap & kissed her Mozart |
| #8921, aired 2023-07-24 | MAKEOVERS $800: In "Encino Man", this actor gets a major makeover after defrosting--he takes a bath Brendan Fraser |
| #8921, aired 2023-07-24 | SPACE MEN & WOMEN $800: After a crewman was exposed to measles, backup Jack Swigert made it onto this 1970 Apollo mission & might have wished he hadn't Apollo 13 |
| #8920, aired 2023-07-21 | HAPPY 75th BIRTHDAY, ISRAEL! $200: Adopted in 1949, 9 months after statehood, the emblem of Israel features this symbol of Hanukkah, but with only 7 branches the menorah |
| #8920, aired 2023-07-21 | TRACK & FIELD $200: In 2021, after becoming the second woman to throw this more than 80 meters--about 262'--we bet Deanna Price was Thor the next day the hammer |
| #8919, aired 2023-07-20 | BEFORE & AFTER $400: The nickname of disease spreader Ms. Mallon gets a big break on Broadway in a show about a nanny for the Banks family Typhoid Mary Poppins |
| #8919, aired 2023-07-20 | COFFEE, NOW $800: Before this process, coffee beans are green; after, they're brown & ready to grind roasting |
| #8919, aired 2023-07-20 | BEFORE & AFTER $800: A phrase about the return of bovines that means to wait a long time gets around to founding a house improvement chain in 1978 wait until the cows come Home Depot |
| #8919, aired 2023-07-20 | YOU'VE GOT SOME BAGGAGE $1000: This bag was named after a Victorian prime minister, & even Oscar Wilde called it fashionable a Gladstone bag |
| #8919, aired 2023-07-20 | BEFORE & AFTER $1200: A standard piece of lumber twice as wide as it is thick is also a day or time meaningful to cannabis users 2 by 4/20 |
| #8919, aired 2023-07-20 | BEFORE & AFTER $1600: A Vegas casino with a Roman theme changes allegiances & becomes a royal residence & private retreat of Louis XIII Caesar's Palace of Versailles |
| #8919, aired 2023-07-20 | BEFORE & AFTER $2000: A nation's military planes get frozen & you have to hit a combination of keys on your Mac or PC to exit them Air Force Quit |
| #8917, aired 2023-07-18 | AFRICAN FILMS $800: Called the first major film of South Africa after apartheid, "Cry, the Beloved Country" stars this American actor seen here James Earl Jones |
| #8917, aired 2023-07-18 | STARS ON THE NATION'S FLAG $1000: China's flag's 4 small stars stood for peasants, the petty bourgeoisie, patriotic capitalists & this manual labor class the proletariat |
| #8915, aired 2023-07-14 | FAMILIES IN U.S. HISTORY $1,000 (Daily Double): A week after this rich guy IV perished on the Titanic, an inquiry into the disaster began in a hotel with his name on it Astor |
| #8915, aired 2023-07-14 | MODERN FANTASY LIT $1000: This "Remains of the Day" author wrote fantasy with "The Buried Giant", set years after the death of King Arthur Ishiguro |
| #8914, aired 2023-07-13 | MOVIE BEFORE & AFTER $400: Darth Vader chops off Luke's hand, so Marty fills in on guitar at the dance The Empire Strikes Back to the Future |
| #8914, aired 2023-07-13 | MOVIE BEFORE & AFTER $800: Gollum plummets into the crack of Doom, causing Sauron to plummet from the top of the Empire State Building The Return of the King Kong |
| #8914, aired 2023-07-13 | MOVIE BEFORE & AFTER $1200: Michael Cera fights his girlfriend's exes as Robin Williams fights to get out of his mother's shadow Scott Pilgrim vs. the World According to Garp |
| #8914, aired 2023-07-13 | MOVIE BEFORE & AFTER $1600: Rex Harrison teaches Audrey Hepburn how to speak proper English & vocalize like Billie Holiday My Fair Lady Day (My Fair Lady Sings the Blues) |
| #8914, aired 2023-07-13 | MOVIE BEFORE & AFTER $2000: Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef & Eli Wallach fight for gold while Marlon Brando gives Yanks a bad name overseas The Good, the Bad and the Ugly American |
| #8913, aired 2023-07-12 | THE ____ OF CANADA $200: McGill University, founded 1821, is sometimes called this, after a university founded in 1636 the Harvard of Canada |
| #8913, aired 2023-07-12 | THE ____ OF CANADA $400: The Gemini Awards, last given in 2011 for excellence in television: these, after awards first given in 1949 (the) Emmys (of Canada) |
| #8913, aired 2023-07-12 | THE ____ OF CANADA $600: Montreal, with a Rue Saint-Jacques & a French heritage: this, after a city with a Rue Saint-Jacques & even Frencher heritage (the) Paris (of Canada) |
| #8913, aired 2023-07-12 | KEVIN SENT $800: Kevin James played Doug Heffernan on "Everybody Loves Raymond" after Doug borough-ed into his own sitcom titled this The King of Queens |
| #8913, aired 2023-07-12 | THE ____ OF CANADA $800: National symbol Johnny Canuck: this after a national symbol he's shown kicking out of the country in an 1869 cartoon the Uncle Sam of Canada |
| #8913, aired 2023-07-12 | THE ____ OF CANADA $1000: CBC news anchor Peter Mansbridge, who stepped down in 2017: this, after a CBS news anchor who stepped down in 1981 the Walter Cronkite of Canada |
| #8912, aired 2023-07-11 | SPACE CUISINE $200: After John Young smuggled a corned beef sandwich onto a Gemini mission, bits of this bread floated around the capsule rye |
| #8912, aired 2023-07-11 | FRIENDS $400: This French general remained friends with George Washington after the Revolutionary War & even named a son after him Lafayette |
| #8911, aired 2023-07-10 | QUOTABLE BOOKS $400: In "Gone with the Wind", these 4 words finish the line "Tomorrow, I'll think of some way to get him back. After all..." tomorrow is another day |
| #8911, aired 2023-07-10 | POP CULTURE-POURRI $2000: Wednesday & Pugsley are sent to summer camp in this 1993 movie sequel whose title is a BEFORE & AFTER Addams Family Values |
| #8910, aired 2023-07-07 | EAGLES $600: Not long after his "Hail Flutie" beat Miami, Doug Flutie of the Boston College Eagles picked up this award on Dec. 1, 1984 the Heisman Trophy |
| #8910, aired 2023-07-07 | A BRIDGE TOO FAR $800: A bridge in Bath crossing the River Avon was named for this prime minister after his death in 1965 Churchill |
| #8909, aired 2023-07-06 | MYTH MISERY $200: She was a beautiful mortal, but after making Athena angry, which you should definitely never do, this Gorgon got a reptile hairdo Medusa |
| #8909, aired 2023-07-06 | 10-LETTER ADJECTIVES $2000: A sportswriter might note that after a titanic struggle, the teams remained this 10-letter word shown here deadlocked |
| #8908, aired 2023-07-05 | RHYMING PHRASES $800: If everyone is pointing the finger at each other after a horrible outcome, they're "playing" this & it's rarely fun the blame game |
| #8907, aired 2023-07-04 | HAPPY JULY 4th! $600: The new 50-star U.S. flag was officially flown for the first time on July 4th in this year, 10 months after Hawaii statehood 1960 |
| #8907, aired 2023-07-04 | A BIBLICAL BURIAL $800: In the King James Bible, when a man said he'd follow Jesus but first had to bury his dad, Jesus said these 6 words let the dead bury their dead |
| #8906, aired 2023-07-03 | "NEG" BAIT $400: This Balkan nation gained full independence after breaking from a union with Serbia in 2006 Montenegro |
| #8906, aired 2023-07-03 | TOUCHED FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME $600: These Missourians touched the Stanley Cup for the first time in 2019 after more than 50 years in the NHL the St. Louis Blues |
| #8905, aired 2023-06-30 | NUMBERS IN THE NEWS $600: 2022 headlines declared Argentina "El Mejor Once del Mundial de Catar", once being Spanish for this number 11 |
| #8905, aired 2023-06-30 | THE SAILOR MAN $800: In "The Thousand & One Nights", this sailor man swears off travel after his seventh voyage Sinbad |
| #8905, aired 2023-06-30 | LET'S GET "DOWN" $1200: After a 2011 quake, the Daiichi plant at Fukushima experienced one of these a meltdown |
| #8904, aired 2023-06-29 | BEFORE & AFTER PEOPLE $400: Gunslinger William Bonney who rapped & rolled his way to hits like "Cowboy" & "Redneck Paradise" Billy the Kid Rock |
| #8904, aired 2023-06-29 | PRIDE OF THE MUSEUM $400: The sex of the big T. rex at Chicago's Field Museum is unknown; it's nicknamed this after the woman who discovered it Sue |
| #8904, aired 2023-06-29 | BEFORE & AFTER PEOPLE $800: Chinese-American female architect who brought Tony-winning hip-hop history to Broadway Maya Lin-Manuel Miranda |
| #8904, aired 2023-06-29 | BEFORE & AFTER PEOPLE $1200: This songbird came in on a "Wrecking Ball" after inventing the mechanical reaper in the 19th century Miley Cyrus McCormick |
| #8904, aired 2023-06-29 | BEFORE & AFTER PEOPLE $1600: Director Ron's actress daughter who took the Spruce Goose on a little jaunt in 1947 Bryce (Dallas) Howard Hughes |
| #8904, aired 2023-06-29 | WRITING: MUSIC $1600: Published a year after his death in 1984, "Divided Soul" looks at this singer's spiritual & sexual sides Marvin Gaye |
| #8904, aired 2023-06-29 | BEFORE & AFTER PEOPLE $2000: Gritty "Get Shorty" novelist who asked folks to "Live long and prosper" on film Elmore Leonard Nimoy |
| #8903, aired 2023-06-28 | GOOGLE EASTER EGGS $200: Click on a balloon after searching for this K-pop band & get messages from Jungkook & its other members BTS |
| #8903, aired 2023-06-28 | OPEN DOOR $1000: Gandalf initially struggles to open the door to this place, but after speaking the Elvish word for "friend", he gets it right the Mines of Moria |
| #8901, aired 2023-06-26 | TV $400: Mel Brooks' 1981 film was really "Part I" after all; a 2023 Hulu series is called this: "Part II" History of the World |
| #8900, aired 2023-06-23 | MUSICAL ACT ETYMOLOGY $400: Curtis Jackson shares this nickname with a NYC stickup man who allegedly made bank in a dice game after starting with half a dollar 50 Cent |
| #8900, aired 2023-06-23 | ON BROADWAY $1600: Born Tomas Straussler, he titled his play "Leopoldstadt" after Vienna's Jewish Quarter Tom Stoppard |
| #8900, aired 2023-06-23 | WHO REIGNED IN ENGLAND WHEN... $2,800 (Daily Double): Michelangelo finished painting the Sistine Chapel after 4 years... contractors, am I right? Henry VIII |
| #8899, aired 2023-06-22 | MED. ABBREV. $800: FBS stands for this type of test that measures one's glucose level at least 8 hours after eating fasting blood sugar |
| #8899, aired 2023-06-22 | TRUMPET TOOTIN' $2000: His doctors made him quit the trumpet after an aneurysm; he went on to produce songs like "We Are The World" Quincy Jones |
| #8897, aired 2023-06-20 | NONPROFITS $200: Helping minority kids go to college, the foundation named for this Brooklyn Dodger was begun in 1973, a year after his death Jackie Robinson |
| #8897, aired 2023-06-20 | ARCHITECTS $600: After World War II, these evolved Moorish to Modernists as in architect Percival Goodman's Shaarey Zedek in suburban Detroit temples (synagogues) |
| #8897, aired 2023-06-20 | LET'S STICK TOGETHER $600: After 27 years together with Erwin Bach, this singer must have found out what love had to do with it & the 2 tied the knot in 2013 Tina Turner |
| #8896, aired 2023-06-19 | TV $200: After her daytime talk show ended, she spent some time on "The View", & in 2022 she made a cameo on the reboot of "A League of Their Own" (Rosie) O'Donnell |
| #8896, aired 2023-06-19 | GENERAL ASSEMBLY $400: After his victory at Waterloo, he said, "I hope to God that I have fought my last battle. It is a bad thing to always be fighting" the Duke of Wellington |
| #8896, aired 2023-06-19 | GENERAL ASSEMBLY $500 (Daily Double): In absentia he was sentenced to death in 1940, weeks after a London radio speech in which he asked the French to keep fighting Charles de Gaulle |
| #8895, aired 2023-06-16 | CUFFING SEASON $400: It was SZA szn on TikTok after she sang about "cuffing" a large man for the cold months on this NBC show Saturday Night Live |
| #8895, aired 2023-06-16 | FINISH LAST $800: After a 10-72 last-place finish in the 2015-16 season, this team got the first overall draft pick & chose Ben Simmons the Philadelphia 76ers |
| #8895, aired 2023-06-16 | GREASE & ROAM $1000: Used in cars with stick shifts, gear oil protects meshing moving parts after a driver releases this pedal the clutch |
| #8895, aired 2023-06-16 | CUFFING SEASON $2000: It was lit when this Titan hung with mankind but it got real dark after Zeus cuffed him to that mountain Prometheus |
| #8893, aired 2023-06-14 | GO, CANADA $600: A man-made lake on Mount Royal has a good Canadian name, after this rodent that workmen found traces of Beaver Lake |
| #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 |
| #8892, aired 2023-06-13 | AFTER THE FACT $200: Oslo hosted the 1952 Winter Olympics... with demonstration sports like bandy, kind of like hockey speeded up as this replaces the puck a ball |
| #8892, aired 2023-06-13 | AFTER THE FACT $400: Chancellorsville was an 1863 battle... where the grandson of this midnight rider withdrew his troops, getting him court martialed (Paul) Revere |
| #8892, aired 2023-06-13 | AFTER THE FACT $600: Magnesium has the atomic number 12... & is found in this digestive aid that Phillips' claims to be the No. 1 brand of Milk of Magnesia |
| #8892, aired 2023-06-13 | AFTER THE FACT $800: Cows eat grass... but can't digest it until it's been softened into cud, making cows this type of animal ruminant |
| #8892, aired 2023-06-13 | AFTER THE FACT $1000: John Keats described himself as "five feet high"... that's 6 inches taller than this "Rape of the Lock" poet (Alexander) Pope |
| #8892, aired 2023-06-13 | DEEP BOOKS $1600: Ken Jennings' "100 Places to See After You Die" includes this hall of the slain that has the Valkyries as barmaids Valhalla |
| #8891, aired 2023-06-12 | TROPIC OF CAPRICORN NATIONS $1000: After this landlocked nation won independence in 1811, its leader, "El Supremo", locked it off from the world for 26 years Paraguay |
| #8891, aired 2023-06-12 | HANG UP YOUR TV REBOOTS $1600: "New Blood" was a fitting title for the Showtime reboot of the antics of this serial killer, but it was cut short after one season Dexter |
| #8891, aired 2023-06-12 | HANG UP YOUR TV REBOOTS $2000: This sitcom won a ton of Emmys during its first run, 1998-2006, but ended in 2020 after a brief reboot & a few more trophies Will & Grace |
| #8889, aired 2023-06-08 | ROMANCING THE STONES $400: This ruler gave his second wife Marie-Louise a necklace with 234 diamonds after the birth of their son in 1811 Napoleon |
| #8889, aired 2023-06-08 | HAIRY STYLES $1000: Popular in the 1900s & 1910s, a bun on top of a pompadour was known as cottage this, after bread that looked similar loaf |
| #8889, aired 2023-06-08 | IMPOSTORS $1600: After the French Revolution, people all around the world claimed to be the "Lost" this, the son of Marie-Antoinette the (Lost) Dauphin |
| #8888, aired 2023-06-07 | INTO THE WOODS $600: Old tree cutting practices are being used in Lower Woods Reserve in the UK to bring back its population of these after-dark songbirds nightingales |
| #8887, aired 2023-06-06 | NONFICTION TV $800: The final leg of this show had Derek & Claire get their Jack Daniel's on (at the distillery) before winning big after 16 cities The Amazing Race |
| #8887, aired 2023-06-06 | NONFICTION TV $1200: (I'm Cari Champion.) After being the moderator between Stephen A. Smith & Skip Bayless on "First Take", which, trust me, is as easy as that sounds, I became an anchor on this ESPN flagship show--"This is..." SportsCenter |
| #8886, aired 2023-06-05 | MYTHOLOGY $3,000 (Daily Double): As the fish-hook of this demigod was used to help form Hawaii's islands, the least folks could do was name one after him Maui |
| #8885, aired 2023-06-02 | WORDS ENDING IN "Y" $400: Hopefully, your golf ball ends up here after your tee shot the fairway |
| #8885, aired 2023-06-02 | SPORTS STARS CALLING IT QUITS $800: In 2019, after numerous injuries, this Alpine racer with over 80 World Cup wins announced she was leaving the slopes Lindsey Vonn |
| #8885, aired 2023-06-02 | WOMEN AUTHORS $1,500 (Daily Double): After the success of this classic about Francie Nolan & her impoverished New York family, Betty Smith co-wrote a musical based on it A Tree Grows in Brooklyn |
| #8884, aired 2023-06-01 | "B" NICE $200: Effusive & lively, perhaps after a glass of champagne bubbly |
| #8883, aired 2023-05-31 | PRESIDENTIAL DOIN'S $400: Made Henry Clay Secretary of State; 2 years after the White House, settled into a new House (of Representatives) John Quincy Adams |
| #8883, aired 2023-05-31 | ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER $800: (Andrew Lloyd Webber presents the clue.) I am proud to have created this longest-running musical on Broadway; it opened in 1988 & after almost 14,000 performances, the chandelier dropped for the last time in 2023 The Phantom of the Opera |
| #8882, aired 2023-05-30 | AUTHORS' FIRST NOVELS $800: He was accused of obscenity after the release of "Madame Bovary", his first full-length novel Flaubert |
| #8881, aired 2023-05-29 | MONTHLY PEOPLE, REAL & IMAGINED $3,800 (Daily Double): The first woman to chair the U.K. Conservative Party, she led even more after becoming prime minister in 2016 Theresa May |
| #8880, aired 2023-05-26 | CURSES! BASEBALL! $200: The Curse of William Penn hit this city's teams after Liberty Place Tower exceeded the height of Penn's statue on city hall Philadelphia |
| #8880, aired 2023-05-26 | CURSES! BASEBALL! $400: The Curse of the Bambino loomed over this team from 1920, after it traded Babe Ruth, until 2004, when it finally won a World Series the Red Sox |
| #8880, aired 2023-05-26 | CURSES! BASEBALL! $800: The Curse of Coogan's Bluff, site of the Polo Grounds, hit this team after it left New York & lingered until the 2010 World Series the San Francisco Giants |
| #8879, aired 2023-05-25 | OUR RETURNING CHAMPION $200: After defeating Pompey's army, this leader returned to Rome & became dictator for life in the 40s B.C. Julius Caesar |
| #8879, aired 2023-05-25 | OUR RETURNING CHAMPION $400: After the Battle of Trafalgar, this officer was shipped home for a hero's funeral in a cask of hooch (Horatio) Nelson |
| #8879, aired 2023-05-25 | OUR RETURNING CHAMPION $600: After defeating the Spanish at Boyacá in 1819, this man returned to Angostura a champion & helped create Gran Colombia Bolivar |
| #8879, aired 2023-05-25 | OUR RETURNING CHAMPION $800: After the Battle of Kadesh, this pharaoh returned home a hero with many scribes writing the play-by-play of his derring-do Ramses |
| #8879, aired 2023-05-25 | POLITICIANS $1600: After serving on the state supreme court, he succeeded Rick Perry as governor in 2015 Abbott |
| #20, aired 2023-05-24 | MICHAEL J. FOX $200: (Michael J. Fox presents the clue.) The song "At This Moment" became a hit after it was the backdrop on this show to show the romance of my character Alex P. Keaton & Ellen, played by Tracy Pollan, who, at this moment, has been my wife for almost 35 years Family Ties |
| #19, aired 2023-05-24 | COMPOSERS $200: Scott Joplin published the haunting "Bethena, a Concert" this kind of dance music soon after the 1904 death of his wife waltz |
| #19, aired 2023-05-24 | RECENT EVENTS $400: In Feb. 2023 a young girl was rescued after 147 hours in rubble from the devastating 7.8 earthquake in Syria & this country Turkey |
| #8877, aired 2023-05-23 | THE JUDGMENT OF PARIS $400: In 1455, 24 years after her execution, her retrial opened in Paris; she was found not guilty on all counts Joan of Arc |
| #18, aired 2023-05-23 | CENTURY NOTES $1200: 12th century: construction of it begins in 1176; the British nursery rhyme & game, a bit after London Bridge |
| #17, aired 2023-05-23 | BEFORE, DURING & AFTER $400: "International" cocoa concoction for the unmarried Clue character portrayed by Colin Jost's wife Swiss Miss Scarlet Johansson |
| #17, aired 2023-05-23 | BEFORE, DURING & AFTER $800: Kermit's colorful theme song about the group that nominated Ralph Nader & always spoiled the fun at festivities "It's Not Easy Being Green" Party pooper |
| #17, aired 2023-05-23 | BEFORE, DURING & AFTER $1200: Last 4 words of our national anthem, as sung by an animated kitchen appliance & his german-style Pillsbury product home of the brave little toaster strudel |
| #17, aired 2023-05-23 | BEFORE, DURING & AFTER $1600: "Stacy's Mom" warblers put an actor in the band; once a TV postman, he wandered seeking chivalry & adventure Fountains of Wayne Knight errant |
| #17, aired 2023-05-23 | BEFORE, DURING & AFTER $2000: Numeric sci-fi book about a metaverse, a singular evening of passion & the controversial right to use deadly force as self-defense Ready Player One-night stand your ground |
| #8876, aired 2023-05-22 | RICE PUDDING $1200: Tenley Albright, who used the sport to train her muscles after this disease, was the heroine of young figure skater Condoleezza Rice polio |
| #8876, aired 2023-05-22 | RICE PUDDING $1600: "A lot of shoes, a lot of rice" in this old song about a wedding that doesn't end in happily ever after "Makin' Whoopee" |
| #8876, aired 2023-05-22 | A LOSS FOR WORDS $1600: This 11-letter word for a period of mourning after a loss comes from an old word for "steal" bereavement |
| #8876, aired 2023-05-22 | WALKING IN A REDWOOD FOREST $2,000 (Daily Double): A national monument in Marin County known for old growth redwoods is named after this conservationist Muir |
| #16, aired 2023-05-22 | THE REST IS HISTORY $800: He died in his sleep after getting married in 453; his sons Ellac, Dengizich & Ernak would soldier on Attila the Hun |
| #16, aired 2023-05-22 | PORTMANTEAUS $800: This hybrid utensil was trademarked in 1970, some 60 years after the word for it was coined a spork |
| #15, aired 2023-05-22 | AMERICANS IN PROTEST $1000: After silver was demonetized, the return of this coinage -ism became a populist cause of the late 1800s, even with protest songs bimetallism |
| #8875, aired 2023-05-19 | THOSE BALLS HAVE "I"s $800: After a century with its original supplier, in 1976 MLB said "Goodbye, Mr." this & made Rawlings its new official ball Spalding |
| #8874, aired 2023-05-18 | REPEATS ITSELF $800 (Daily Double): In an Ian Fleming tale, the title vehicle makes these 4 sounds after it is started for the first time chitty chitty bang bang |
| #8874, aired 2023-05-18 | HISTORY $2000: After ceding João Franco immense power, in 1908 King Carlos I was assassinated in this capital along with son Luís Filipe Lisbon |
| #8873, aired 2023-05-17 | JEOPARDY! AFTER DARK $400: Throwing unlikely people together, various situations including adversity & politics have been said to "make strange" these bedfellows |
| #8873, aired 2023-05-17 | JEOPARDY! AFTER DARK $800: You wouldn't let your kids see a movie rated this nickname of 1930s baseball star Jimmie Foxx double X |
| #8873, aired 2023-05-17 | JEOPARDY! AFTER DARK $1200: Meaning made impure by additions, it's in the full name of the 1906 Pure Food & Drug Act adulterated |
| #8873, aired 2023-05-17 | JEOPARDY! AFTER DARK $1600: Nuta was the given first name of the creator of the dazzling country & Western style worn here, but he was better known as this Nudie |
| #8873, aired 2023-05-17 | JEOPARDY! AFTER DARK $2000: This name for a Beethoven symphony is the sexy section of the bookstore with one letter removed Eroica |
| #14, aired 2023-05-17 | THE 20th CENTURY $200: Resigning in 2007 after 10 years in office, he was the last British prime minister of the 20th century Tony Blair |
| #14, aired 2023-05-17 | NOT-SO-PLAIN JANES $400: 12 days after giving birth to the future King Edward VI, she died of post-natal complications Jane Seymour |
| #14, aired 2023-05-17 | NOT-SO-PLAIN JANES $800: She claimed in her 1896 autobiography that she captured Jack McCall with a meat cleaver after he killed Wild Bill Hickok; not true Calamity Jane |
| #13, aired 2023-05-17 | ORCHESTRAS $400: After extensive renovations, Geffen Hall at Lincoln Center, home to this orchestra, reopened for the 2022-23 season the New York Philharmonic |
| #13, aired 2023-05-17 | FAMOUS PAIRS $800: Some of the greatest love letters were written between this medieval pair, a theologian & his student, after their separation Abelard & Héloïse |
| #8872, aired 2023-05-16 | "B" IS THE FIRST LETTER $600: A charming painting of circa 1660 shows a mother lacing up this garment after breastfeeding a bodice |
| #8872, aired 2023-05-16 | COLLEGE: THE DROP/ADD PERIOD $600: Add this name after "Washington and" but before "University" Lee |
| #8872, aired 2023-05-16 | CHILLIN' IN THE R.I.P. LOUNGE $600: It would have been quite appropriate to have draped a flag over her coffin after she passed in Philadelphia on Jan. 30, 1836 Betsy Ross |
| #8872, aired 2023-05-16 | CHILLIN' IN THE R.I.P. LOUNGE $1000: There was no more scrubbing in for this pioneer of antiseptic surgery after Feb. 10, 1912 Lister |
| #12, aired 2023-05-16 | A NEW HOPE $400: Setting up a soup kitchen in Golden Gate Park, Anna Holshouser gave people hope & food after this 1906 event the San Francisco earthquake |
| #12, aired 2023-05-16 | 12-LETTER WORDS $600: It's now pretty much lights out for this once-standard type of light bulb, as its filament is less efficient incandescent |
| #12, aired 2023-05-16 | NEW WORLD EXPLORATION $1200: After failing to establish a permanent colony in North Carolina, he led an expedition to Venezuela & wrote a 1595 book about it Raleigh |
| #11, aired 2023-05-16 | KEN JENNINGS: INTERNATIONAL NERD OF MYSTERY $400: After hobnobbing with world leaders in May 2023 at this alphanumeric gathering in Hiroshima, it's off to Comic-Con in July G7 |
| #11, aired 2023-05-16 | GERMAN WORDS & PHRASES $800: In English slang this German word is added after a skill or a topic to indicate someone with expertise Meister |
| #11, aired 2023-05-16 | THE GEODYSSEY $3,600 (Daily Double): After getting blown off course rounding Cape Malea, Odysseus & crew arrive at the land of these very happy vegans the Lotus Eaters |
| #8871, aired 2023-05-15 | ORDINAL NOVELS $800: Vienna waits for you in Graham Greene's novella titled this "Man", which came out after the 1949 movie co-starring a creepy Orson Welles "The Third Man" |
| #8871, aired 2023-05-15 | CLOSE ELECTIONS $1600: This future pres. won a tight 1948 Texas primary after uncounted votes were "discovered" 6 days after the election Lyndon Johnson |
| #8871, aired 2023-05-15 | IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD $3,000 (Daily Double): Acorn Street is one of the most historic in the Boston neighborhood called this Hill, after a warning light that once stood there Beacon Hill |
| #10, aired 2023-05-15 | GREAT SPORTS CALLS $200: Andrés Cantor said he almost fainted while making this call after a thrilling Landon Donovan score GOOOAAAL! |
| #10, aired 2023-05-15 | TV THERAPISTS $2000: This onetime shrink played by David Cross on "Arrested Development" suffers from never-nude syndrome Tobias (Fünke) |
| #9, aired 2023-05-15 | NICKNAMES $800: Lady Jane Grey became known by this nickname, after the brief length of her reign "Nine-Day Queen" |
| #9, aired 2023-05-15 | AND THE OSCAR WENT TO... $1200: Roy Pomeroy won an engineering effects Oscar for his work on this 1927 war film, 2 years after its release Wings |
| #9, aired 2023-05-15 | CHESS, MASTERS $2000: (Jennifer Shahade delivers the clue.) My book "Chess Queens" tells the story of the game's female pioneers, like this trio of stereotype-shattering sisters whose youngest, Judit, became both the world's youngest grandmaster & the first woman to be ranked among the world's top 10 players the Polgárs (the Polgár sisters) |
| #8870, aired 2023-05-12 | TRIPLE RHYME TIME $400: An elevation lower than a mountain named after Uma Thurman's revenge film series a Kill Bill Hill |
| #8870, aired 2023-05-12 | LIFE IS PICARESQUE $1200: The picaresque "Adventures of Peregrine Pickle" features a character modeled after this "Tom Jones" author Henry Fielding |
| #8, aired 2023-05-12 | AUTHORS' PRETTY DECENT REVIEWS $800: The New York Times said she created "an indelible portrait of loss & grief" after the passing of her husband John Gregory Dunne Didion |
| #7, aired 2023-05-12 | REVOLT-ING HISTORY $200: Not long after British taxes led to U.S. independence, Congress passed a tax on liquor that led to this rebellion the Whiskey Rebellion |
| #7, aired 2023-05-12 | REVOLT-ING HISTORY $400: After being part of a failed wave of revolt in Europe in 1848, this political writer began a lifelong exile in England in 1849 Marx |
| #7, aired 2023-05-12 | PRESENT COMPANY ACCEPTED $800: After 8 years as CEO of this tech company following its split from eBay, Dan Schulman is stepping down, but no need to send Dan any $$$ PayPal |
| #7, aired 2023-05-12 | REVOLT-ING HISTORY $800: After 4 years of negotiations, in 2016 the government of this South American country made a peace deal with FARC rebels Colombia |
| #8869, aired 2023-05-11 | COUNTRY MUSIC $200: After moving to Nashville, he joined a band called The Ranch, but soon had a solo No. 1 country hit with "But For The Grace Of God" Keith Urban |
| #8869, aired 2023-05-11 | DIFFERS BY A LETTER $400: To wait patiently & your humble home abode & abide (bode & abode) |
| #8869, aired 2023-05-11 | WATCHING MY STORIES $2000: A boy steals a painting of a bird after a museum bombing in this Donna Tartt novel & its film adaptation The Goldfinch |
| #8868, aired 2023-05-10 | AFTER SCHOOL $200: One of the 2 main traditional components of the "Jolly Roger" symbol a skull |
| #8868, aired 2023-05-10 | AFTER SCHOOL $400: Ingredient in a classic two-part cocktail favored by Princess Margaret tonic |
| #8868, aired 2023-05-10 | AFTER SCHOOL $600: Disney canine character who shares on-screen pasta the Tramp |
| #8868, aired 2023-05-10 | AFTER SCHOOL $800: Inevitable certainty, according to Ben Franklin taxes |
| #8868, aired 2023-05-10 | WELCOME TO THE U.S. HOUSE! $800: Representatives introduce bills by placing them in a wooden box called this, after the bin in which grain goes in a mill a hopper |
| #8868, aired 2023-05-10 | AFTER SCHOOL $1000: Item needed for the classic kids' running race that combines speed & balancing a spoon |
| #8868, aired 2023-05-10 | BETTER TOMES & GARDENS $1600: After finding a key, Mary in this Frances Hodgson Burnett tale says, "Perhaps it has been buried for ten years" The Secret Garden |
| #6, aired 2023-05-10 | HISTORIC SHIPS $1600: After attacking & sinking the Housatonic, this Confederate submarine also went down, killing its 8 crewmen Hunley |
| #5, aired 2023-05-10 | YOU BUG ME $800: The males of this insect better be doing a word in their name, as females often bite their heads off after mating praying mantis |
| #5, aired 2023-05-10 | GOOD NAME FOR A BREAKFAST CEREAL? $1200: "Thank your" these, an expression used after narrow escapes, was the title of a 1943 movie musical with Dinah Shore lucky stars |
| #5, aired 2023-05-10 | NATIONAL FOUNDERS $2000: Last name of Józef, the leader of newly independent Poland after World War I Piłsudski |
| #4, aired 2023-05-09 | ETHIOPIA $200: 30 years after organizing this huge concert for famine aid in Ethiopia, Bob Geldof led a fund for private equity investing there Live Aid |
| #4, aired 2023-05-09 | LIBRARIES $200: Harvard's Widener Library honors Harry Elkins Widener, whose rare works were donated after his death in this maritime disaster the Titanic |
| #4, aired 2023-05-09 | THE OTHER MASTERS $600: Here's this golf great; after sinking his putt in 1986, he would win the tournament for the sixth time Jack Nicklaus |
| #4, aired 2023-05-09 | THE OTHER MASTERS $1000: The annual champions dinner began in 1952 when he hosted, a year after his first Masters win & 3 years after a near-fatal car wreck Ben Hogan |
| #3, aired 2023-05-09 | TIME TO LAWYER UP $200: For not complying with a court order in 1995, a Philly lawyer was jailed for this; he kept not complying & was in jail for 14 years contempt (of court) |
| #3, aired 2023-05-09 | ____ OF THE ____ $400: It's the idea that having a little whiskey the morning after you've had a lot of whiskey will somehow make you feel better hair of the dog |
| #3, aired 2023-05-09 | DIANE WARREN $800: (Diane Warren gives the clue.) My song "Blame It On The Rain" was the last No. 1 hit for this Europop duo before it was revealed that they didn't actually do their own singing
"Blame it on the rain" Milli Vanilli |
| #3, aired 2023-05-09 | ____ OF THE ____ $800: Almost 20 years after an earlier one, Navratilova faced Connors in a match called this Battle of the Sexes |
| #3, aired 2023-05-09 | PLAY: THE GAME $800: Advance to Harry Hope's bar; lose turn waiting for Hickey; play your pipe dream card; chill at bar after Hickey is arrested The Iceman Cometh (by Eugene O'Neill) |
| #8866, aired 2023-05-08 | SCANDAL! $800: This Italian P.M. said there was no scandal in 2009 after photos surfaced of scantily clad women at his villa Berlusconi |
| #8866, aired 2023-05-08 | THE SOUTH PACIFIC $800: Including Palmerston & Pukapuka, this vast expanse of islands was named after a British captain who visited in 1773 (the) Cook (Islands) |
| #8866, aired 2023-05-08 | YEET! $1000: In Greek myth, after he was born lame, his mom yeeted him out of heaven, but he returned & made Hermes' winged helmet Hephaestus |
| #2, aired 2023-05-08 | SAME FIRST & LAST LETTER $400: After "launch", it's the precise period of time in which a spacecraft can be launched for it to be successful window |
| #2, aired 2023-05-08 | A LITTLE READING MATERIAL $600: After 81 years as a Sunday newspaper supplement, it ceased publication on Nov. 13, 2022; it's now digital only Parade |
| #2, aired 2023-05-08 | COMIN' TO YOUR CITY $1,000 (Daily Double): Take in the earthquake-resistant "Cardboard Cathedral", built after a 2011 event in this New Zealand city Christchurch |
| #1, aired 2023-05-08 | LITERARY DEMISES $200: He's killed in chapter 135 when Moby Dick drags him into the ocean after he gets caught in the rope of a harpoon Ahab |
| #8865, aired 2023-05-05 | SLANG EN ESPAÑOL $200: This Spanish word for father can also mean "cool!" when it comes after "que" in a phrase padre |
| #8865, aired 2023-05-05 | REVOLUTION $400: A peaceful 1905 worker's march turned into what was later called "Bloody" this after Grand Duke Vladimir ordered an attack Bloody Sunday |
| #8865, aired 2023-05-05 | SLANG EN ESPAÑOL $400: In Venezuela enratonado, "moused", means you're in this condition after a night of too much rum & cocuy hungover |
| #8865, aired 2023-05-05 | EVERYTHING'S COMING UP ROSE $600: After appearing in the "Ziegfeld Follies", she starred in "Star and Garter" Gypsy Rose Lee |
| #8865, aired 2023-05-05 | REVOLUTION $800: After ordering the deaths of hundreds, Sadegh Khalkhali was much feared after this country's 1979 revolution Iran |
| #8865, aired 2023-05-05 | REVOLUTION $1200: Casimir Pulaski died after attacking this key Georgia port, occupied by loyalists during much of the Revolutionary War Savannah |
| #8865, aired 2023-05-05 | REVOLUTION $1600: After a speech by Khrushchev in 1956, this country revolted, but the Soviets intervened before year's end Hungary |
| #8864, aired 2023-05-04 | ATHLETES NAMED FOR $400: Middle name used by first baseman Willie Aikens; he was born just after another Willie's heroics in the 1954 World Series Mays |
| #8864, aired 2023-05-04 | ATHLETES NAMED FOR $800: Born in 1958, baseball legend Rickey Henderson was named after this teen idol pop singer of the day Ricky Nelson |
| #8863, aired 2023-05-03 | THEATER BEFORE & AFTER $400: While evading Scar, Simba happens upon 2 other devious foes: Goneril & Regan Lion King Lear |
| #8863, aired 2023-05-03 | THEATER BEFORE & AFTER $800: "76 trombones led the big parade" celebrating "The Impossible Dream" Music Man of La Mancha |
| #8863, aired 2023-05-03 | MIX -OLOGY $800: It's about time:
OOH GLORY horology |
| #8863, aired 2023-05-03 | JOHN C. REILLY $1000: John in "Talladega Nights": "If you smell a delicious crispy smell after the race, it's not your tailpipe, it's" this catchphrase (a little bit of) Shake 'n Bake |
| #8863, aired 2023-05-03 | THEATER BEFORE & AFTER $1200: Wannabe music star Dewey Finn gets his prep students in tune at the Sunset Strip's Bourbon Room, so "Don't Stop Believin'" School of Rock of Ages |
| #8863, aired 2023-05-03 | THEATER BEFORE & AFTER $1600: Stella & Stanley forego the magnolias & head on over to Eugene O'Neill's play for some "arboreal" passion A Streetcar Named Desire Under the Elms |
| #8863, aired 2023-05-03 | THEATER BEFORE & AFTER $2000: Sam Shepard's play about 2 brothers who get caught up in a turf war with the Jets & Sharks True West Side Story |
| #8862, aired 2023-05-02 | NONFICTION $400: Natalie Portman began this 5-letter lifestyle after reading "Eating Animals" & narrated the documentary version of the book vegan |
| #8862, aired 2023-05-02 | MIND YOUR GRAMMAR $1000: Parataxis is where you place clauses, you insert phrases, you add thoughts one after the other without using these conjunctions |
| #8862, aired 2023-05-02 | MYTHOLOGY $1200: She used her magic to help Jason, but after 10 years of marriage, he wed another; she killed her own children & the second wife Medea |
| #8862, aired 2023-05-02 | TV & MOVIE COMEDIES $1600: "Happily never after" is a tagline for this 2022 Disney musical sequel with Amy Adams as Giselle Disenchanted |
| #8861, aired 2023-05-01 | DOCTOR: WHO? $400: He made it out of the O.K. Corral, but after Nov. 8, 1887, he could no longer be anybody's huckleberry Doc Holliday |
| #8860, aired 2023-04-28 | THE 3-DIGIT YEARS $400: After this prophet's death in 632, armies spreading his word conquered large parts of the Middle East & North Africa Mohammed |
| #8860, aired 2023-04-28 | THE 3-DIGIT YEARS $2000: After the fall of Rome, this eastern branch of the Goths founded a kingdom in Italy led by Theodoric the Great in 493 the Ostrogoths |
| #8859, aired 2023-04-27 | 4-LETTER BEFORE & AFTER $400: Oddly, the Colonel's recipes are overseen by this agency along with Americans' TVs & cell phones the KFCC |
| #8859, aired 2023-04-27 | 4-LETTER BEFORE & AFTER $800: A January 1 texting abbreviation for students at an institution around Manhattan's Washington Square Park HNYU |
| #8859, aired 2023-04-27 | 4-LETTER BEFORE & AFTER $1200: An American truck & SUV maker becomes a world of entertainment that got started with "Iron Man" GMCU |
| #8859, aired 2023-04-27 | 4-LETTER BEFORE & AFTER $1600: Look--they took a plastic for making pipes & built a device to record TV shows in the 1980s PVCR |
| #8859, aired 2023-04-27 | 4-LETTER BEFORE & AFTER $2000: This report, very important to boss Bill Lumbergh in "Office Space", is also a commercial broadcast for the audience's benefit TPSA |
| #8858, aired 2023-04-26 | CONFIDENCE $200: This synonym for confidence can be found before "healer" & after "defender of the" faith |
| #8858, aired 2023-04-26 | HISTORICAL POTPOURRI $200: The battle of this elevated spot took place in June 1775 after the Yanks fortified it, threatening the British position Bunker Hill |
| #8858, aired 2023-04-26 | COMEDIANS $2000: In 2023 he hosted the Golden Globe Awards, which returned to broadcast TV after a time-out Jerrod Carmichael |
| #8857, aired 2023-04-25 | SEPARATION $400: It was the type of separate confinement that Albert Woodfox was freed from in 2016 after 43 years solitary |
| #8857, aired 2023-04-25 | LET'S SEE A MO-"V" $800: Like, oh my god, Deborah Foreman & Nicolas Cage are totally star-crossed lovers in this iconic '80s flick Valley Girl |
| #8857, aired 2023-04-25 | STATESMEN & WOMEN $1600: Her ups & downs in Myanmar include winning a seat in parliament in 2012 after years of house arrest (Aung San) Suu Kyi |
| #8856, aired 2023-04-24 | BEATLES "S"ONGS $800: "I don't want to leave her now, you know I believe and how" "Something" |
| #8854, aired 2023-04-20 | HISTORY $800: After losing power, this dictator fled in the Alfa Romeo seen here; at least he bought local Mussolini |
| #8854, aired 2023-04-20 | REMEMBERING BARBARA WALTERS $800: Barbara said one of her most moving interviews was with this actor after he was paralyzed in a riding accident Christopher Reeve |
| #8854, aired 2023-04-20 | REMEMBERING BARBARA WALTERS $1200: Barbara shared that after interviewing this world leader in Cuba in 1977, he "took us into his kitchen and made us grilled cheese" Castro |
| #8853, aired 2023-04-19 | I'M SO PROUD $1000: The U.S. Tennis Association's sportsmanship tips say, "avoid" this verb "after a win", so no "ha ha, love & love, I'm the best" gloating |
| #8853, aired 2023-04-19 | MOVIE COMEDIES $1200: Movie in which Alicia Silverstone as Cher says she was named after a great singer of the past who now does infomercials Clueless |
| #8853, aired 2023-04-19 | JUSTINIAN TIME $7,000 (Daily Double): Justinian didn't "want to thank" this 900-year-old Athenian school, which closed after pagan teachers were banned the Academy |
| #8852, aired 2023-04-18 | LET'S GUESS YOUR WAIT $600: After an 86-year drought without winning a World Series, this A.L. team has now won 4 of them in the last 19 years the Boston Red Sox |
| #8851, aired 2023-04-17 | TV BEFORE & AFTER $400: A Time Lord from Gallifrey might want to phone a friend on the way to winning a huge sum of money Doctor Who Wants to Be a Millionaire |
| #8851, aired 2023-04-17 | TV BEFORE & AFTER $800: Brenda Walsh & Donna Martin join Dorit, Kyle & the other wealthy women on a Bravo reality show The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, 90210 |
| #8851, aired 2023-04-17 | TV BEFORE & AFTER $1200: Harry Hamlin & Susan Dey leave the courtroom to investigate sex crimes in New York with Mariska Hargitay L.A. Law & Order: SVU |
| #8851, aired 2023-04-17 | TV BEFORE & AFTER $1600: The Tanners move to Washington, D.C., where they become ruthless & vengeful politicians Full House of Cards |
| #8851, aired 2023-04-17 | TV BEFORE & AFTER $2000: Annalise Keating & Jessica Fletcher solve crimes or possibly cover them up & then tell about them in books How to Get Away with Murder, She Wrote |
| #8850, aired 2023-04-14 | YOU LOSE $600: In 1987 "Great White Shark" Greg Norman got eaten alive after Augusta native Larry Mize holed a 140-foot chip to win this major event the Masters |
| #8850, aired 2023-04-14 | 20th CENTURY WOMEN $1200: She took up painting in her 70s after arthritis made it difficult to do her needlework & at 80 she had her first one-woman show Grandma Moses |
| #8850, aired 2023-04-14 | "B"ANDS $2000: After meeting with Tom DeLonge, Mark Hoppus was "open to whatever" about a reunion of this band Blink-182 |
| #8849, aired 2023-04-13 | SECRETARIES OF STATE $400: Passionately pro-British, 1790s Sec. Timothy Pickering was fired after opposing efforts to end the "quasi-war" with this nation France |
| #8849, aired 2023-04-13 | FISH OUT OF WATER ON TV $1200: On "Futurama" he's the former pizza boy who has to adjust to things once he's unfrozen after a thousand years Fry |
| #8849, aired 2023-04-13 | HERE'S A BIT OF EVERYTHING $1200: A CBS headline: "Every monk in Thai temple" got this clothing-related consequence "after testing positive for meth"; well... yeah defrocked |
| #8849, aired 2023-04-13 | GERMAN LITERATURE $1600: After a boat trip in 1775, this Johann-of-all-trades--so many trades!--wrote the lovely poem "On the Lake" Goethe |
| #8849, aired 2023-04-13 | FISH OUT OF WATER ON TV $2000: After getting rich off of some "bubblin' crude", he is told by his kinfolk, "Californy is the place you oughta be" Jed Clampett |
| #8847, aired 2023-04-11 | WHALES $600: After about a year in its mother's womb, a baby of this whale species is born weighing up to 3 tons & as long as 25 feet a blue whale |
| #8847, aired 2023-04-11 | NO, PRIME MINISTER $800: In 1975 Malcolm Fraser, after 2 hours as Australia's PM, received a vote in Parliament of "no" this confidence |
| #8845, aired 2023-04-07 | DE-COMPOSING $400: After taking aim at "William Tell" & then quitting theater entirely at age 37, he quit more than that on Nov. 13, 1868 (Gioachino) Rossini |
| #8844, aired 2023-04-06 | BE ARTHUR $3,000 (Daily Double): Marilyn Monroe was the basis for the character of Maggie in his play "After the Fall" Arthur Miller |
| #8843, aired 2023-04-05 | THE LAST BATTLE $800: The Chalmette Plantation was the site of this 1815 battle that took place a few weeks after the signing of a peace treaty the Battle of New Orleans |
| #8840, aired 2023-03-31 | TO THE TOWER! $1200: Soon after the Norman conquest, the Tower of London's White Tower was built of this stone from Normandy limestone |
| #8839, aired 2023-03-30 | THE GREATEST SNOWMAN $800: After Elsa creates him in "Once Upon A Snowman": "I can talk! I can think! I can juggle...! No! I cannot. I got too confident there" Olaf |
| #8839, aired 2023-03-30 | WORLD PLACE NAMES $800: He named the Bounty Islands of the South Pacific after his ship Bligh |
| #8839, aired 2023-03-30 | 5 CONSONANTS IN A ROW $1000: A type of earthworm that emerges after dark, or a movie with Jake Gyllenhaal as the memorably vile Louis Bloom nightcrawler |
| #8838, aired 2023-03-29 | A DISASTER ARIA $400: "Lensky's Aria" from "Eugene Onegin" finds Lensky lamenting his fate after having agreed to this type of challenge a duel |
| #8838, aired 2023-03-29 | WRITERS & POETS $800: The many travails of the title hero of this Dumas novel include an involuntary swim after being tossed into the sea The Count of Monte Cristo |
| #8838, aired 2023-03-29 | AUTOCRATS $1200: After his troops opened fire on demonstrators in 1989, this country's Nicolae Ceausescu was chased from power & executed Romania |
| #8837, aired 2023-03-28 | BEFORE & AFTER FEMALE DUOS $400: Prolific British mystery author & supermodel who's mom to Alexa Agatha Christie Brinkley |
| #8837, aired 2023-03-28 | WORLD HISTORY $800: This good guy of Christmas carol fame was actually a duke of Bohemia; he was only declared a king (& a saint) after his death Wenceslas |
| #8837, aired 2023-03-28 | BEFORE & AFTER FEMALE DUOS $800: Historical early 20th century disease carrier & our 16th president's spouse Typhoid Mary Todd Lincoln |
| #8837, aired 2023-03-28 | BEFORE & AFTER FEMALE DUOS $1200: "GLOW" wrestler & Captain Marvel portrayer Alison Brie Larson |
| #8837, aired 2023-03-28 | BEFORE & AFTER FEMALE DUOS $1600: "Queen's Gambit" star & co-host of "The View" Anya Taylor-Joy Behar |
| #8837, aired 2023-03-28 | BEFORE & AFTER FEMALE DUOS $2000: Charlie Brown's "spicy" gal pal & newly chosen President Pro Tempore of the Senate from Washington Peppermint Patty Murray |
| #8836, aired 2023-03-27 | FIGURES OF SPEECH $1200: Saying "That went well" after a disaster is an example of the verbal type of this irony |
| #8836, aired 2023-03-27 | THE BIBLE $1600: After the Last Supper, Jesus traveled to this garden to pray & was arrested there Gethsemane |
| #8835, aired 2023-03-24 | THE WWE $200: (Kofi Kingston presents the clue.) "Awesome" doesn't even begin to describe this WWE legend; billed at 7'4" & 500 pounds he loved practical jokes & would move his friends' small cars at night--yes, move, & not drive André the Giant |
| #8835, aired 2023-03-24 | THE FOG OF WAR $1600: "I had no real idea of what was going on", wrote Britain's Admiral Jellicoe after the Battle of Jutland, fought in the fogs of this sea the North Sea |
| #8834, aired 2023-03-23 | 5-LETTER LITERARY CHARACTERS $400: Shakespeare's Goneril kills herself after poisoning this sister Regan |
| #8834, aired 2023-03-23 | TV SHOW LINGO $800: This Roy family epic taught us "prekend", starting Thursday after lunch Succession |
| #8834, aired 2023-03-23 | HISTORIC NAMES $1600: After his troops captured the Alamo, this Mexican general was captured after the Battle of San Jacinto Santa Anna |
| #8833, aired 2023-03-22 | RESILIENCE $400: For this material brought from South Amer. in the 1700s, resilience is the quality of returning to its former shape after deformation rubber |
| #8833, aired 2023-03-22 | HANS, SOLO $1600: Even after his wife Cosima left him for Richard Wagner, he continued to champion Wagner's works Hans von Bulow |
| #8831, aired 2023-03-20 | SHORT STORY, SHORTER $400: Roderick, Madeline & their place itself don't make it to the end; after all, it is "The Fall of" this the House of Usher |
| #8831, aired 2023-03-20 | SHORT STORY, SHORTER $800: After a bad Hessian session, this schoolmaster is never seen in Sleepy Hollow again (Ichabod) Crane |
| #8830, aired 2023-03-17 | SHAPE UP $400: Legend says it became a symbol of the Byzantine Empire after the moon suddenly appeared, exposing a sneak attack a crescent |
| #8830, aired 2023-03-17 | OUT & ABOUT THE UNIVERSE $1000: In 2018 the Kepler space telescope was retired after finding about 2,600 of these--no life on any yet exoplanets |
| #8829, aired 2023-03-16 | THE LEADER BEFORE THE LEADER $200: What can (Gordon) Brown do for you? In 2007 the U.K. began to find out after this Labour leader's run as prime minister ended Blair |
| #8829, aired 2023-03-16 | WORLD UNIVERSITIES $600: Notable University of Toronto alumni include this actor, seen about a decade after his college days Donald Sutherland |
| #8829, aired 2023-03-16 | A HEAVENLY BODY IN MUSIC $800: On a warm day after a long winter, in Eric Clapton's garden, George Harrison came up with this song (& I say it's alright) "Here Comes The Sun" |
| #8829, aired 2023-03-16 | LETTER PERFECT $800: Members of Generation this were born after 1996 Z |
| #8829, aired 2023-03-16 | COMIC INFLUENCES $1000: (I'm Aisha Tyler.) In college I decided to make comedy my career after seeing this deadpan comic who once noted, "It's a small world, but I wouldn't want to paint it." (Steven) Wright |
| #8828, aired 2023-03-15 | THE MORNING AFTER $200: April 16, 1912 morning editions of some newspapers reported that this had been saved; later editions had worse news the Titanic |
| #8828, aired 2023-03-15 | ALPHABETICALLY NEXT $200: Disney dwarf after Grumpy Happy |
| #8828, aired 2023-03-15 | THOSE DARN NEBRASKANS $400: Nebraska senator & governor Bob Kerrey received the Medal of Honor after being wounded in Vietnam as part of this Navy special ops force the SEALs |
| #8828, aired 2023-03-15 | THE MORNING AFTER $400: On this date, John Adams wrote to a friend, "A declaration passed Congress yesterday, and this morning will be printed" July 5, 1776 |
| #8828, aired 2023-03-15 | ALPHABETICALLY NEXT $400: Zodiac sign after Scorpio Taurus |
| #8828, aired 2023-03-15 | HANGOVER CURES $600: Aussies swear by Berocca for hangovers, maybe after too many of their beloved espresso these cocktails a martini |
| #8828, aired 2023-03-15 | THE MORNING AFTER $600: The sign here was put up in California on this date in 1941 December 8th |
| #8828, aired 2023-03-15 | ALPHABETICALLY NEXT $600: NFL team name (not the city) after the Rams the Ravens |
| #8828, aired 2023-03-15 | ALPHABETICALLY NEXT $800: U.S. vice president after Fillmore Gerald Ford |
| #8828, aired 2023-03-15 | THE MORNING AFTER $1000: She was arrested the evening of Dec. 1, 1955; next morning, fliers calling for a boycott were all over town Rosa Parks |
| #8828, aired 2023-03-15 | ALPHABETICALLY NEXT $1000: Chemical element after magnesium manganese |
| #8828, aired 2023-03-15 | THE MORNING AFTER $1,500 (Daily Double): An October 9, 1871 headline declared this city was "utterly destroyed... both North and South Sides smoking ruins" Chicago |
| #8825, aired 2023-03-10 | LITERARY BEFORE & AFTER $400: "The Tommyknockers" author who's a deadly venomous snake Stephen King cobra |
| #8825, aired 2023-03-10 | LITERARY BEFORE & AFTER $800: Century-plus conflict between England & France involving a sci-fi invasion of Martians in towering tripods The Hundred Years' War of the Worlds |
| #8825, aired 2023-03-10 | FUTURE OSCAR WINNERS $1200: She knew acting was her calling after playing Lady Macbeth in a high school production Frances McDormand |
| #8825, aired 2023-03-10 | LITERARY BEFORE & AFTER $1600: "The Lost Symbol" author who can often be quite grizzly a Dan Brown bear |
| #8825, aired 2023-03-10 | LITERARY BEFORE & AFTER $2000: James Joyce's last book becomes a WHAM! song whose first word is "Jitterbug" Finnegans Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go |
| #8825, aired 2023-03-10 | LITERARY BEFORE & AFTER $3,000 (Daily Double): Prussian monarch military genius whose Jazz Age story plays out on Long Island Frederick the Great Gatsby |
| #8823, aired 2023-03-08 | TV REALITY & COMPETITION SHOWS $800: An episode of "Love After Lockup" had the alliterative title "From" this type of offender "to Fiance" Felon |
| #8823, aired 2023-03-08 | LIABLE IN THE BIBLE $1,800 (Daily Double): These paired cities, "going after strange flesh, are... suffering the vengeance of eternal fire" Sodom & Gomorrah |
| #8822, aired 2023-03-07 | THIS IS HOW I WIN $400: Employ the Benko Gambit... wait, maybe the Grünfeld Defense.... ooh, the Nimzowitsch-Larsen Attack! Let's go with that! chess |
| #8822, aired 2023-03-07 | "Y" ON THE MAP $400: If you know "owt" about England, you know this historic county with its own accent & vocabulary (Yorkshire) York |
| #8822, aired 2023-03-07 | THE ROYAL PAST $800: It's believed that the nephews of this usurper were murdered soon after their disappearance in 1483 Richard III |
| #8822, aired 2023-03-07 | RECENT COMMERCIALS $1200: After playing Scrooge for Verizon ads, this Oscar nominee returned in the guise of Einstein for the company Paul Giamatti |
| #8822, aired 2023-03-07 | THE ROYAL PAST $1200: Grand Duchess Anastasia was killed after being captured by Bolsheviks in the revolution named for this month October |
| #8821, aired 2023-03-06 | PIVOTAL WOMEN $400: (Melinda French Gates presents the clue.) After her historic victory in 2020, she acknowledged women who fought & sacrificed so much for equality & liberty & justice for all Kamala Harris |
| #8821, aired 2023-03-06 | THE TECH BEAT $400: A relational one of these systems presents the information to be stored & retrieved in rows & columns a database (a matrix) |
| #8821, aired 2023-03-06 | PIVOTAL WOMEN $800: (Melinda French Gates presents the clue.) After surviving attempted murder at just 15, two years later, this courageous Pakistani activist for girls' education became the youngest Nobel laureate Malala |
| #8821, aired 2023-03-06 | PIVOTAL WOMEN $1600: (Melinda French Gates presents the clue.) After inspiring millions to join a global climate strike in 2019, this Swedish activist was named "Time" magazine's Person of the Year Greta Thunberg |
| #8820, aired 2023-03-03 | HISTORIC NAMES $600: After posting his 95 Theses on the door of a castle church, this Reformation leader was branded a heretic Martin Luther |
| #8820, aired 2023-03-03 | YOU'RE SUCH AN IDIOM! $800: When you sever a connection, like with your cable company, you do this, something that's also done just after birth cut the cord |
| #8819, aired 2023-03-02 | TRANSPORT OVER THE AGES $1600: As part of reparations after World War I, Germany provided to the U.S. one of these, the LZ-126 a zeppelin |
| #8816, aired 2023-02-27 | BEFORE & AFTER $400: Snickers that must be passed to practice law candy bar exam |
| #8816, aired 2023-02-27 | BEFORE & AFTER $800: Peter Pan's enemy is the way you were fooled into completely believing a story Captain Hook, line & sinker |
| #8816, aired 2023-02-27 | BEFORE & AFTER $1200: A period of need to save up for that falls on the Mexican holiday just after Halloween the rainy Day of the Dead |
| #8816, aired 2023-02-27 | BEFORE & AFTER $1600: A hidden feature in a video game becomes evidence of public embarrassment Easter egg on your face |
| #8816, aired 2023-02-27 | BEFORE & AFTER $2000: 3 of a kind plus a pair for the family that lost England's Wars of the Roses full House of York |
| #8815, aired 2023-02-24 | LITERARY REUNIONS $3,600 (Daily Double): This title woman finally returns to Rochester, blinded after a fire; but fear not! He regains some sight after they marry Jane Eyre |
| #8814, aired 2023-02-23 | AUTHORS' ALMA MATERS $1600: He modeled Gravesend Academy in "A Prayer for Owen Meany" after his alma mater, Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire John Irving |
| #8813, aired 2023-02-22 | TV SWITCHEROO $400: In 2006 "Monday Night Football" began airing on this network after decades as a mainstay on ABC ESPN |
| #8813, aired 2023-02-22 | WELCOME BACK! $1000: Still in quarantine after splashing down, the Apollo 11 astronauts were welcomed back by this president Nixon |
| #8813, aired 2023-02-22 | TV SWITCHEROO $2000: After a big time jump in season 9 of this show, we find a new actress playing young Judith Grimes & she's there to help the survivors The Walking Dead |
| #8812, aired 2023-02-21 | SO, WHAT HAVE YOU BEEN UP TO? $400: On coach Lionel Scaloni's staff for this team at the 2022 World Cup? I thought I saw you celebrating after the final Argentina |
| #8812, aired 2023-02-21 | POP CULTURE HIGH SCHOOL REUNIONS $800: It's a gathering following the main blowout; the title one on Apple TV+ follows a high school reunion & is marred by murder after party |
| #8811, aired 2023-02-20 | AN "F" IN HISTORY $800: One month after this royal was killed in 1914, Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia Archduke Franz Ferdinand |
| #8810, aired 2023-02-17 | STAY COOL $600: In the Holocene Epoch, we've had a "medieval cool period" from 1250 to 1500 & a "little" one of these just after an ice age |
| #8809, aired 2023-02-16 | THE LETTER AFTER C $200: ...in a title for a Russian hereditary ruler Z |
| #8809, aired 2023-02-16 | ALL WAYS $400: Roads can be all kinds of ways; a scenic one in Utah has the alliterative name Patchwork this, after quilts the pioneers used the Patchwork Parkway |
| #8809, aired 2023-02-16 | THE LETTER AFTER C $400: ...in a goat-bodied, flame-spewing monster of Greek myth H |
| #8809, aired 2023-02-16 | THE LETTER AFTER C $600: ...in the Roman numeral for 400 D |
| #8809, aired 2023-02-16 | THE LETTER AFTER C $800: ...in the 8-letter "arts" relating to cooking or the kitchen U (for culinary) |
| #8809, aired 2023-02-16 | THE LETTER AFTER C $1000: ...in the poison whose rapid, fatal effects can be countered with sodium nitrite Y (for cyanide) |
| #8808, aired 2023-02-15 | CONQUERS $400: After being in Frankish control for over 80 years, this city fell to Saladin on Oct. 2, 1187 Jerusalem |
| #8806, aired 2023-02-13 | PARTY ON! $200: This verb can mean to attend a party uninvited, or to fall asleep from exhaustion after one crash |
| #8806, aired 2023-02-13 | PARTY ON! $400: The type of club that operates past the normal closing time, or a movie with Griffin Dunne out past his bedtime after hours |
| #8805, aired 2023-02-10 | SUPER BOWL HEROES $200: (Mike Pereira of Fox NFL Sunday presents the clue.) Cheeseheads ate it up after this quarterback threw for 304 yards & three touchdowns to lead Green Bay to a win in Super Bowl XLV (Aaron) Rodgers |
| #8805, aired 2023-02-10 | THE MIAMI VICE SQUAD $800: I will look for you, & I will find you after you ring in & name this man who guested as Sean on the "When Irish Eyes are Crying" episode Liam Neeson |
| #8804, aired 2023-02-09 | AUTOBIOGRAPHIES $1600: In this first lady's autobiography, she tells of the time after her husband's death when she became a U.N. delegate Eleanor Roosevelt |
| #8803, aired 2023-02-08 | ACTS OF CONGRESS $600: Love & marriage changed in Utah after the Edmunds Act of 1882 said anyone "guilty of" this could go to jail for 5 years polygamy |
| #8803, aired 2023-02-08 | SQUIRRELS JUST WANT TO HAVE FUN $1000: In 1994 trading on this first electronic stock exchange ceased for 34 minutes after a squirrel chewed through a power line NASDAQ |
| #8802, aired 2023-02-07 | LITERARY TITLE CHARACTERS $400: Lord Henry tells him, "to get back my youth (I'd) do anything... except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable"; Wilde! Dorian Gray |
| #8802, aired 2023-02-07 | NUTS TO YOU! $400: In the early 1900s not many had them roasting on an open fire after a blight nearly took out these trees in eastern N. America chestnuts |
| #8802, aired 2023-02-07 | WHICH WAR? $600: In 431 B.C., Spartan ally Thebes goes after Plataea, an Athenian pal, & it's on the Peloponnesian War |
| #8801, aired 2023-02-06 | MONTHS THAT START WITH FEB $200: February 1946:
After losing a vote for General Assembly president, Trygve Lie becomes the first man in this United Nations job Secretary-General |
| #8801, aired 2023-02-06 | WINE TASTING 101 $400: The droplets that form on the side of a glass & slowly move down after a wine is swirled are known as these body parts legs |
| #8800, aired 2023-02-03 | THE PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS ARE THE THING $400: Just after his death in 2005, the Virginia Theatre on New York's 52nd Street was renamed for this man who wrote "Fences" August Wilson |
| #8800, aired 2023-02-03 | THAT'S A CRIME! $400: It's knowingly lying after taking the oath to tell the truth in court, but it also applies to lying on a driver's license application perjury |
| #8800, aired 2023-02-03 | NOW, WE DUEL $800: In 1791 he built a coalition against Alexander Hamilton's father-in-law to win a Senate seat; blood came after Aaron Burr |
| #8800, aired 2023-02-03 | THE PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS ARE THE THING $1200: After taking Rosencrantz & his pal to unexpected places in the '60s, this playwright visited "The Coast of Utopia" in 2002 Tom Stoppard |
| #8799, aired 2023-02-02 | DWIGHT EISENHOWER $600: In 1950, after retiring from active duty, Eisenhower was tapped to be supreme commander of this new military alliance NATO |
| #13, aired 2023-02-02 | WIL(L), WILLEM OR WILLIAM $200: After landing in a cloaked Klingon ship in Golden Gate Park in "Star Trek IV", this actor says, "Everybody remember where we parked" William Shatner |
| #13, aired 2023-02-02 | THERE WILL BE BLOOD $300: After you donate blood, this org. says no heavy exercising & "enjoy the feeling of knowing you have helped save lives!" the (American) Red Cross |
| #13, aired 2023-02-02 | HOP ON THE HOMOPHONE $500: To enhance an outfit by adding something nice &
the expression of admiration you receive after you do that complement/compliment |
| #13, aired 2023-02-02 | FROM A "D" TO AN "F" $800: To get information by asking a series of questions of someone after a completed mission or undertaking debrief |
| #8798, aired 2023-02-01 | IRAQ $600: Iraq once produced most of the world's supply of this fruit & is replanting after millions of palm trees were destroyed date |
| #8798, aired 2023-02-01 | YOU "BREAK" $800: Acts 20:7 describes Paul preaching to new disciples after they gather to do this, a synonym for dining together breaking the bread |
| #8798, aired 2023-02-01 | HODGEPODGE $1000: After the queen's death, the names of Prince William's children now end with "of" this place instead of Cambridge Wales |
| #8798, aired 2023-02-01 | PARDON ME $1600: This pirate & his men received a pardon from James Madison after aiding in the Battle of New Orleans Lafitte |
| #8797, aired 2023-01-31 | JASON CONCEPCION $800: (Jason Concepcion presents the clue.) A 2021 episode of "Takeline" examined Major League Baseball's decision to move its All-Star Game out of this state after it passed a law that reduced the number of ballot drop boxes in Fulton County and elsewhere Georgia |
| #8797, aired 2023-01-31 | SCI-FI & FANTASY $1000: After Robert Jordan's passing, the prolific Brandon Sanderson took on the task of completing this epic fantasy series The Wheel of Time |
| #8797, aired 2023-01-31 | A CAPITAL OFFENSIVE $1200: Napoleon put a guard of honor around the home of Joseph Haydn after capturing this capital in 1809 Vienna |
| #8797, aired 2023-01-31 | A CAPITAL OFFENSIVE $2000: After a rapid offensive, this capital was captured April 30, 1975, leading to a name change Ho Chi Minh City |
| #8796, aired 2023-01-30 | GEOLOGY $1000: Rocks formed by heat at great depths within the earth can be called abyssal or this, after the Roman god of the underworld plutonic |
| #8795, aired 2023-01-27 | 19th CENTURY SCIENCE $1200: Once thought to be a planet, the first asteroid was discovered in 1801 & named this after a Roman goddess Ceres |
| #8795, aired 2023-01-27 | PLACE YOUR BETS $1600: Small & big, these 2 forced bets are placed after the ante & before players have seen their cards in hold 'em poker blinds |
| #8794, aired 2023-01-26 | THE "END"s OF THE EARTH $600: An Australian river got this name in 1770 after then-lieutenant James Cook repaired the same-named ship there Endeavour |
| #8794, aired 2023-01-26 | FINANCE & INVESTING $1600: Released in 2015, it became the No. 2 cryptocurrency in market capitalization, after bitcoin Ethereum |
| #12, aired 2023-01-26 | THE GOLDEN STATE WARRIORS $1200: (Amy Schneider presents the clue.) After winning an NBA-record 73 games in 2015-2016, the Warriors got even more formidable with the addition of this former MVP as a free agent Kevin Durant |
| #12, aired 2023-01-26 | U.S. GOVERNMENT $1500: It's the process of changing voting areas in states after each census; the job Alabama did went to the Supreme Court in 2022 redistricting |
| #8792, aired 2023-01-24 | LAST BUT NOT LEAST $400: This type of "kid" spends part of the day after school unsupervised because the parents aren't home a latchkey |
| #8792, aired 2023-01-24 | JANUARY IN RECENT HISTORY $400: After decades as a member, in January 2020 the U.K. ceased its membership in this organization the EU |
| #8792, aired 2023-01-24 | JANUARY IN RECENT HISTORY $2000: In 2009 Prime Minister Geir Haarde resigned after the collapse of this European island nation's banking system Iceland |
| #8791, aired 2023-01-23 | BOATING AFTER MEALS $200: After a meal of legumes with friends it might be best to strategically position yourself alee, meaning away from this the wind |
| #8791, aired 2023-01-23 | BOATING AFTER MEALS $400: After a lovely meal, time for drinks on this place where the controls are; the captain calls it the cockpit the bridge |
| #8791, aired 2023-01-23 | CHESS PAINS $400: Alexandru Crisan was stripped of the coveted title international this after allegations he'd attained it by fixing games grandmaster |
| #8791, aired 2023-01-23 | BOATING AFTER MEALS $600: To slow things down after dinner, find this type of place to stop the boat, also the name of a big Alaskan city anchorage |
| #8791, aired 2023-01-23 | BOATING AFTER MEALS $800: Everyone had a cocktail with dinner, so while up top on deck, it's a good idea to wear one of these, PFD for short personal flotation device |
| #8791, aired 2023-01-23 | BOATING AFTER MEALS $1000: Once a word for a sailing boat off India's coast, this little vessel will shuttle you to shore after breakfast a dinghy |
| #8791, aired 2023-01-23 | CHESS PAINS $1000: His name signifies "newcomer", & this relative newcomer sparked accusations of cheating after a 2022 upset of champ Magnus Carlsen (Hans) Niemann |
| #8791, aired 2023-01-23 | POTENT "P"OTABLES $1600: Bourbon fans go crazy for the sought-after whiskey named not for Rip but for Julian, better known by this fatherly nickname Pappy Van Winkle |
| #8791, aired 2023-01-23 | NOW THAT'S NOVEL $1600: In 1962, one month after publishing a novel about a trip from Mississippi to Memphis, he was dead of a heart attack William Faulkner |
| #8791, aired 2023-01-23 | HEY... WHERE'D YA GO? $2000: On Nov. 24, 1971 this hijacker bought a $20 ticket on Northwest Orient flight 305 but after parachuting out, was never seen again D.B. Cooper |
| #8791, aired 2023-01-23 | HEY... WHERE'D YA GO? $5,000 (Daily Double): A shelter possibly built by this alliterative capt. was found in the 1630s but he was never seen again after a 1611 mutiny Henry Hudson |
| #8790, aired 2023-01-20 | "D" ADJECTIVES $200: It describes your ego after you've been taken down a peg or literally, a balloon that's lost its air deflated |
| #11, aired 2023-01-19 | I AM A CHAMPION! $100: It's the last name of boxer Laila, who outdid even her dad by retiring undefeated after winning world titles in 2 weight classes Ali |
| #11, aired 2023-01-19 | SHOE BIZ $400: After moving to Southern California in 1978, Aussie surfer Brian Smith launched this brand of sheepskin boots Uggs |
| #11, aired 2023-01-19 | COACH: BEARD $400: Guys, you may be able to spur beard growth with exercise & more sleep, possibly aiding in production of this 12-letter hormone testosterone |
| #11, aired 2023-01-19 | SHOE BIZ $600: Like Elvis sang, "don't you step on" these shoes that you can get from Brooks Brothers (blue) suede shoes |
| #11, aired 2023-01-19 | SOME SERIOUS SCIENCE $900 (Daily Double): Alexander Fleming became Sir Alexander Fleming after his 1928 discovery of this antibiotic "wonder drug" penicillin |
| #11, aired 2023-01-19 | WHAT'S NEW IN HISTORY $1000: To get back in sync with the solar year, this new calendar named for a pope made Oct. 15, 1582 the day after Oct. 4 (the) Gregorian (calendar) |
| #8788, aired 2023-01-18 | WOMEN OF SCIENCE $200: After a 1929 earthquake, Inge Lehmann measured seismic waves & discovered the Earth had an "inner" one of these a core |
| #8788, aired 2023-01-18 | MOVIES THAT MATTER $800: This theme park announced an end to its orca programs after the release of "Blackfish", about Tilikum, who killed one of the trainers SeaWorld |
| #8788, aired 2023-01-18 | LONG-SERVING POLITICIANS $800: Kay Granger has been a House-sitter since 1997 after serving as mayor of this city, part of the metroplex with Dallas Fort Worth |
| #8788, aired 2023-01-18 | SIX PACK $800: The "Six Flags" over Texas refer to the entities that have controlled it; sixth is the USA, this was fifth the Confederacy |
| #8788, aired 2023-01-18 | KNOW YOUR BOUNDARIES $1600: After World War I, the Curzon Line was proposed as the boundary between Russia & this newly reconstituted nation Poland |
| #8788, aired 2023-01-18 | THE 1890s $3,600 (Daily Double): Returning after a 1,500-year break, these opened April 6, 1896 the (Modern) Olympic Games |
| #8787, aired 2023-01-17 | DURING THE LIZ TRUSS WEEKS $200: A N.Y. Times headline on Sept. 6, the day Truss became PM, read this nation's "nuclear plant... off line after shelling kindles blaze" Ukraine |
| #8787, aired 2023-01-17 | ALL ABOUT HAIR $800: Hair is mostly keratin, which like collagen & elastin is classified as a structural one of these a protein (a polymer) |
| #8787, aired 2023-01-17 | 1980s BESTSELLERS $1200: After dishing the dirt on "Hollywood Wives", she took on "Hollywood Husbands" (Jackie) Collins |
| #8785, aired 2023-01-13 | LET'S TALK GALAXIES $400: One look at M64 & you'll see why it's called this galaxy, like a shiner after a punch in the face the Black Eye Galaxy |
| #8785, aired 2023-01-13 | I THANK YOU ALL $600: After winning an Oscar for this title role, Julia Roberts didn't leave anyone out & thanked "everyone I've ever met in my life" Erin Brockovich |
| #8784, aired 2023-01-12 | SPORTS COMPETITIONS $200: In 2022, a year after a bad car crash, Tiger Woods returned to the greens in Augusta to play in this tournament the Masters |
| #8784, aired 2023-01-12 | CLASSIC ALBUMS $1200: "Life After Death" by this East Coast rapper was released in 1997, 2 weeks after he was murdered on the West Coast the Notorious B.I.G. (Biggie) |
| #10, aired 2023-01-12 | I LOVE MY DAD $200: He came to dadhood later in life, after his boy Luke grew up... & after cutting off Luke's hand... & blowing up his daughter's planet Darth Vader |
| #10, aired 2023-01-12 | THEY CAME TO AMERICA $300: The U.S. welcomed 75,000 refugees from this country in the 6 months after the Taliban re-took it over in 2021 Afghanistan |
| #10, aired 2023-01-12 | OTHER FAMOUS VOLUNTEERS $300: Here is the logo of the Cajun Navy Ground Force, whose volunteers sprang into action after 2016 floods in this "Bayou State" Louisiana |
| #8783, aired 2023-01-11 | HORSES ON WHEELS $1000: Subaru's utility vehicle the Brat got its warmest welcome in this country, where it was renamed the Brumby after a wild horse Australia |
| #8782, aired 2023-01-10 | THE ATTORNEY GENERAL $1200: In 2002, shortly after her time as Attorney General had come to an end, she ran for governor of Florida Janet Reno |
| #8781, aired 2023-01-09 | LAUNDRY DAY $400: Thousands of home fires a year could be prevented by cleaning out this mesh item after each dryer load a lint catcher (the lint trap) |
| #8781, aired 2023-01-09 | RANDOM FACTS $1200: Just like magic, Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker & Kathy Najimy were back for this movie "2", 3 decades after the original Hocus Pocus |
| #8780, aired 2023-01-06 | WE'RE ON THE CASE $600: In French, a clever remark you only think of after you've left is esprit de l'escalier, "wit of" this structure a staircase |
| #8780, aired 2023-01-06 | NATIVE AMERICAN SELF-NAMES $1600: Ca.'s Gabrielinos got that name after the San Gabriel Arcángel one of these, which their labor built; their self-name is Tongva a mission |
| #8779, aired 2023-01-05 | COLLEGES NAMED AFTER PEOPLE $200: When this Houston U. opened in 1912, its founder was dead via chloroform (his killers having failed with mercury pills) Rice University |
| #8779, aired 2023-01-05 | COLLEGES NAMED AFTER PEOPLE $400: This university was chartered in 1821 after a bequest from Montreal merchant James, not "Slippin' Jimmy" of "Better Call Saul" fame McGill (University) |
| #8779, aired 2023-01-05 | COLLEGES NAMED AFTER PEOPLE $800: "Hairy" last name of Medford, Massachusetts' Charles, benefactor of a university there Tufts |
| #8779, aired 2023-01-05 | COLLEGES NAMED AFTER PEOPLE $1000: In 1927, the year after the woman it's named for had died, this college became officially affiliated with Vassar Sarah Lawrence |
| #8779, aired 2023-01-05 | MODERN EGYPT $2000: After the tumultuous Arab Spring & an election win by the Muslim Brotherhood, this former general became president in 2014 & still is President El-Sisi |
| #8779, aired 2023-01-05 | COLLEGES NAMED AFTER PEOPLE $4,000 (Daily Double): This D.C. university is named for the educator who opened a school for deaf students in 1817 Gallaudet |
| #9, aired 2023-01-05 | ARRESTED DEVELOPMENTS $100: Muhammad Ali was arrested in 1967 after being drafted & refusing to fight in this conflict the Vietnam War |
| #9, aired 2023-01-05 | NATURE $600 (Daily Double): Research suggests that despite its reputation, this flightless bird that went extinct in the 1600s wasn't so dumb after all the dodo |
| #9, aired 2023-01-05 | INTERNATIONAL MAN OF MYTH STORY $600 (Daily Double): After being part of a rebellion with his fellow Titans, he seemed to have the whole world on his shoulders Atlas |
| #9, aired 2023-01-05 | WE MEAN BUSINESS $1500: In 2015 he announced the launch of a cruise line called Virgin Voyages but only after making some space(ship) in his life (Richard) Branson |
| #8778, aired 2023-01-04 | WRITE FOOT $600: After landing in Oz, Dorothy is dismayed to see this woman's lifeless feet "shod in silver shoes with pointed toes" the Wicked Witch of the East |
| #8778, aired 2023-01-04 | JUST A LITTLE NUCLEAR PHYSICS $1600: He was knighted after his 1911 discovery of the nucleus; that's Sir Ernest to you Rutherford |
| #8778, aired 2023-01-04 | THE NATIONAL PAST TIME $4,000 (Daily Double): After World War I, Iraq was controlled by Great Britain as a mandate of this international organization the League of Nations |
| #8777, aired 2023-01-03 | POP MUSIC-POURRI $800: Her song "You've Got A Friend" came out the year after her pal James Taylor sang of "lonely times when I could not find a friend" Carole King |
| #8777, aired 2023-01-03 | ROMANTIC MOVIE LINES $1000: In "Moonstruck", after Nicolas Cage says, "I'm in love with you", Cher slaps him twice & says these 4 words Snap out of it |
| #8777, aired 2023-01-03 | L'HISTOIRE DE FRANCE $3,095 (Daily Double): After WWI, Germany lost this hyphenated border region to France, got it back in WWII, then lost it to France again Alsace-Lorraine |
| #8776, aired 2023-01-02 | FRIENDS 'TIL THE ENDS $1600: This type of friend comes after "Food Lover's" & "Pokemon Visual", 2 books that offer guidance Companion |
| #8775, aired 2022-12-30 | I GOT A "B" IN HISTORY $1600: After continually losing elections for Israeli prime minister since 1948, he won the office in 1977 in what's known as "the upset" (Menachem) Begin |
| #8774, aired 2022-12-29 | CLASSIC FLUTE ROCK $1000: After his exodus from Genesis, this singer planted his flute on "Solsbury Hill" Peter Gabriel |
| #8771, aired 2022-12-26 | THE 18th CENTURY $400: The original this singing "club" began with some English guys who sang madrigals after dinner in the 1780s glee club |
| #8769, aired 2022-12-22 | A BIT OF EVERYTHING $200: Genesis 9:28 says he "lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years" Noah |
| #8768, aired 2022-12-21 | SUPERLATIVES $800: A book of records came about after a Guinness executive wondered if among game birds, the one he had just missed shooting was this the fastest |
| #8768, aired 2022-12-21 | PUTTING ON HEIRS $4,000 (Daily Double): The 1889 death of Archduke Rudolf, the heir apparent to the Austro-Hungarian throne, put this man next in line after Rudy's uncle; oops Franz Ferdinand |
| #8767, aired 2022-12-20 | MYTHOLOGY $400: After Medusa was beheaded, this winged horse sprang from her blood--weird & gross Pegasus |
| #8767, aired 2022-12-20 | WHAT A STEAL! $400: After his 1955 death this physicist could not have sung "If I Only Had A Brain", as some of it went to a pathologist's home in Wichita Albert Einstein |
| #8767, aired 2022-12-20 | WORDS WITH GREEK LETTERS $1200: To mock or insult someone, especially after beating them in a game taunt (tau) |
| #8766, aired 2022-12-19 | AMERICANA $800: Due to an oversight, the law admitting this "Buckeye State" into the Union wasn't signed until 1953, 150 years after the fact Ohio |
| #8766, aired 2022-12-19 | "IN THE" $2000: The title of this book, published after Hemingway's death, alludes to Bimini & Cuba & inspired a song of the same name Islands in the Stream |
| #8765, aired 2022-12-16 | ALASKAN GEOGRAPHY $400: In 2015 "The Daily Show" reported on the fight to rename this huge mountain "after a popular sport utility vehicle" Mount McKinley (Denali) |
| #8765, aired 2022-12-16 | INVASIONS $1200: On May 1, 2003, 6 weeks after the invasion of Iraq, George W. Bush stood under a banner bearing these 2 words Mission accomplished |
| #8764, aired 2022-12-15 | ASIAN AMERICANS $400: After seeing how the Wii got people to move, James Park took it a step further & co-developed this activity tracker a Fitbit |
| #8764, aired 2022-12-15 | THE NAME AS A PAST TENSE VERB $1200: After a swim, the dog's fur was all TV creator Stone-d matted |
| #8763, aired 2022-12-14 | LIGHTS, CAMERA, AUCTION! $800: I'd pay $1.5 million to know the time, said someone after taking home a Daytona John Player Special 6264 watch by this luxury brand Rolex |
| #8763, aired 2022-12-14 | 1982: A YEAR IN FILM $2000: In "Poltergeist", after watching TV in a room that gets shaky, Heather O'Rourke makes this 2-word declaration to her parents "they're here" |
| #8762, aired 2022-12-13 | PLAYING SANTA $200: People magazine called Edmund Gwenn "the gold standard for cinematic Santa Clauses" after he worked up a "Miracle on" this 34th Street |
| #8762, aired 2022-12-13 | OIL THINGS CONSIDERED $400: After Jed Clampett discovered oil on his Appalachian property, he loaded up his family & moved to this more affluent locale Beverly Hills |
| #8762, aired 2022-12-13 | PLAYING SANTA $400: After committing what some might deem accidental homicide in a 1994 film, this actor re-suited up in 2022 in "The Santa Clauses" on TV Tim Allen |
| #8762, aired 2022-12-13 | 4 FUNERALS & ANOTHER FUNERAL $600: 47 years after the OK Corral, his pallbearers in L.A. included silent movie Western star Tom Mix & a former mayor of Tombstone (Wyatt) Earp |
| #8762, aired 2022-12-13 | THAT'S SOME OF WHAT SHE WROTE $1600: "To Be Young, Gifted and Black" by this playwright was performed Off-Broadway after cancer took her far too young at 34 (Lorraine) Hansberry |
| #8760, aired 2022-12-09 | SHE BLINDED ME $400: One myth says the seer Tiresias was blinded by this Greek goddess of wisdom after seeing her nude Athena |
| #8760, aired 2022-12-09 | PLACES NAMED FOR PEOPLE $800: In 1954 a New Jersey township voted to reject "Nixon" & renamed itself after this inventor Edison |
| #8760, aired 2022-12-09 | PLACES NAMED FOR PEOPLE $1000: Shahr means "city" & after 1979's Iranian revolution, a place was redubbed this last name "Shahr" to honor the new leader Khomeini |
| #8760, aired 2022-12-09 | STATE POSTAL ABBREVIATION WORDS $1200: A mark left on the skin after a wound has healed South Carolina & Arkansas |
| #8760, aired 2022-12-09 | HISTORY $1200: After Robert E. Lee told him to reorganize his men after an attack at Gettysburg, he replied, "General, I have no division" (George) Pickett |
| #8758, aired 2022-12-07 | I WILL LEAVE $800: To relinquish certain rights, & how you can say goodbye to those rights after the I leaves waive & wave |
| #8758, aired 2022-12-07 | SEQUELS $1600: It's the fitting 2-word title of Jojo Moyes' sequel to "Me Before You", about Louisa Clark following the death of Will Traynor After You |
| #8757, aired 2022-12-06 | BIG BOOK ROYALTY $2000: The American author of this 1889 book wrote it after reading Malory's "Le Morte d'Arthur" but Malory didn't include time travel A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court |
| #8756, aired 2022-12-05 | HISTORY ON THE DOUBLE $400: Just months after their 1862 battle ended in a draw, these 2 ironclad ships were underwater the Monitor & the Merrimack |
| #8756, aired 2022-12-05 | ANIMALS IN BOOKS $800: Mole says this "Wind in the Willows" guy has been in the hospital 3 times after car crashes; maybe amphibians shouldn't drive (Mr.) Toad |
| #8756, aired 2022-12-05 | TREE TIME $1600: Couroupita guianensis is known as this tree, after the type of old-time artillery projectile its fruits resemble cannonball |
| #8755, aired 2022-12-02 | FIZZ-ICS $600: In 1982 this 3-letter soda began losing a lot of weight in sales after the debut of a fellow Coca-Cola item, Diet Coke Tab |
| #8755, aired 2022-12-02 | MICRO FISH $1600: The plumage of its caudal fin got the fish seen here, from Papua New Guinea, named after this male bird a peacock |
| #8755, aired 2022-12-02 | WORD HISTORY $1600: It sounds odd now that in "Dracula" the count says, "You will need, after your journey, to refresh yourself by making your" this toilet |
| #8754, aired 2022-12-01 | REMEMBERING OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN $200: Sadly, in 2022, Olivia lost her battle with this disease after advocating for research & early detection since her 1992 diagnosis breast cancer |
| #8754, aired 2022-12-01 | CONTRACTIONS $1200: This double contraction is often uttered after someone brings something to a party after being told not to you shouldn't've |
| #8754, aired 2022-12-01 | EVERY MAN A KING $2000: Constantine I returned to the throne of this country in 1920 after King Alexander was bitten by a pet monkey & died Greece |
| #8753, aired 2022-11-30 | SOMETHING TO READ $2000: Her "Year of Magical Thinking" chronicles the time after the loss of her husband John Gregory Dunne, 31 days before their 40th anniversary (Joan) Didion |
| #8753, aired 2022-11-30 | DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE SIGNERS $2000: A year after being one of 3 signers from this state, Button Gwinnett had 2 big losses: an invasion of Florida & a duel Georgia |
| #8753, aired 2022-11-30 | YOU CAN QUOTE "ME" $4,000 (Daily Double): After hearing an orator speak in a foreign language, a Shakespeare character admits, "It was" these 3 words Greek to me |
| #8753, aired 2022-11-30 | DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE SIGNERS $7,600 (Daily Double): After losing 4 times running for governor of Massachusetts, he finally won, then got seriously into redistricting issues (Elbridge) Gerry |
| #8752, aired 2022-11-29 | POLITICIANS BACK IN THE DAY $800: After high school it was off to Harvard for this man, but he'd interrupt his education to serve in the Navy after World War II Bobby Kennedy |
| #8751, aired 2022-11-28 | AROUND THE GLOBE $400: In 1712, the capital of Russia was moved from Moscow to this port city; in 1918 after the Bolsheviks took power, it was moved back St. Petersburg |
| #8751, aired 2022-11-28 | THAT'S MAJOR $800: In 1780 Major John André was hanged as a spy after scheming with this traitor Benedict Arnold |
| #8749, aired 2022-11-24 | HISTORICAL FICTION $400: About 60 years after the event, this "Robinson Crusoe" author wrote "a Journal of the Plague Year" based on real accounts Defoe |
| #8749, aired 2022-11-24 | IT'S A THANKSGIVING MIRACLE! $600: Grandma made it in time even after missing her connecting flight at George Bush Intercontinental in this city Houston |
| #8748, aired 2022-11-23 | A 20th CENTURY FACTS PRODUCTION $600: In 1985, 6 years after an accident at this nuclear facility in Pennsylvania, Unit 1 re-opened but Unit 2 was a no-go Three Mile Island |
| #8747, aired 2022-11-22 | SOCCER'S WORLD CUP IN THE 21st CENTURY $400: Italy won its fourth title in 2006 but only after a full time tie & the use of a "shootout" of these kicks to decide the game penalty kicks |
| #8747, aired 2022-11-22 | STORIES OF THE SOUTH $1200: After graduating from Ole Miss in this Kathryn Stockett novel, Skeeter can't find her former maid & nanny The Help |
| #8746, aired 2022-11-21 | WRITERS & THEIR WORKS $1000: In "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri, a couple names their baby after this author of "Dead Souls" Gogol |
| #8746, aired 2022-11-21 | "P.J."s $1200: One legend says she reigned between Leo IV & Benedict III & was ousted from Rome after giving birth Pope Joan |
| #8745, aired 2022-11-18 | BEFORE, DURING & AFTER $400: Dyed object hunted for on resurrection Sunday, with fried Chinese appetizers becoming an Alabama football rally cry Easter egg roll Tide |
| #8745, aired 2022-11-18 | BEFORE, DURING & AFTER $800: Ping-Pong a.k.a. that gives you an arm joint ache treatable with a curved pasta table tennis elbow macaroni |
| #8745, aired 2022-11-18 | BEFORE, DURING & AFTER $1200: Telepathic Patrick Stewart character shows you the exact place he hid the treasure, a bit of Earl Grey Professor X marks the spot of tea |
| #8745, aired 2022-11-18 | BEFORE, DURING & AFTER $1600: Tart "tot" candy for a sketch comedy group in charge of making sure those in school don't run in the corridors Sour Patch Kids in the Hall monitor |
| #8745, aired 2022-11-18 | BEFORE, DURING & AFTER $2000: Cincinnati Red with 4,256 hits who sits in the White House flower beds, admiring a Hieronymus Bosch painting Pete Rose Garden of Earthly Delights |
| #8744, aired 2022-11-17 | WE'LL ALL NEED A DRINK AFTER THIS $200: Traditional "white" beer is always brewed with this grain in addition to barley wheat |
| #8744, aired 2022-11-17 | WE'LL ALL NEED A DRINK AFTER THIS $400: Vodka, rum, tequila, gin & triple sec go in this cocktail, & you must be from a certain part of New York if you think that's a good idea Long Island Iced Tea |
| #8744, aired 2022-11-17 | WE'LL ALL NEED A DRINK AFTER THIS $600: February 22 is national this day, but you don't have to wait--salt on the rim? a margarita |
| #8744, aired 2022-11-17 | WE'LL ALL NEED A DRINK AFTER THIS $800: The name of this Spanish version of champagne literally means a wine cellar cava |
| #8744, aired 2022-11-17 | WE'LL ALL NEED A DRINK AFTER THIS $1000: An Italian count is likely the namesake of this gin, vermouth & Campari cocktail Negroni |
| #8743, aired 2022-11-16 | OPERA CHARACTERS $400: Even after she dumps him for a matador, a soldier still loves this character & begs her to start a new life with him Carmen |
| #8742, aired 2022-11-15 | PLAYING THE HITS OF 2022 $200: After wishing his coffee "had a little shot of Jack", Walker Hayes sang he was just trying to "stay out of" this 2-letter group AA |
| #8742, aired 2022-11-15 | PLAYING THE HITS OF 2022 $800: After being on soundtrack hits from the "Descendants" franchise, she had a hit with "Boyfriend" Dove Cameron |
| #8, aired 2022-11-13 | SEE WHAT I DID THERE? $100: Alexander Gardner here: during this war, I took photos 2 days after Antietam, the first battlefield to be photographed so soon the Civil War |
| #8, aired 2022-11-13 | THE "A" LIST $200: In 2021 fugitive Brian Laundrie ended his days in Fla.'s Myakkahatchee Creek area, home to these long & toothy critters alligators |
| #8, aired 2022-11-13 | SPORTS STARS $1200: After retiring from the Houston Rockets, this 7'6" center became president of the Chinese Basketball Association Yao Ming |
| #8740, aired 2022-11-11 | LOGOS $600: This extinct animal became the logo of the NHL's Nashville Predators after its bones were discovered in the area a saber-toothed tiger |
| #8740, aired 2022-11-11 | WORLD LEADERS $7,000 (Daily Double): After helping to establish this as an independent country, Eduard Shevardnadze became its president in 1995 Georgia |
| #8740, aired 2022-11-11 | ELEGIES $16,800 (Daily Double): 1855's "Haworth Churchyard" was Matthew Arnold's tribute to these literary sisters, written soon after the last one passed the Brontë sisters |
| #8739, aired 2022-11-10 | ALL OVER THE MAP $400: Here are shots of this Washington peak before & after a 1980 event Mount St. Helens |
| #8739, aired 2022-11-10 | WE SPY $1200: Somehow, after having tea with fellow ex-Russian agents in 2006, Alexander Litvinenko died of poisoning by this polonium |
| #8738, aired 2022-11-09 | TRAVEL $400: Some business road warriors bring an electronics version of this handy toiletries carrier named after Charles Doppelt a Dopp kit |
| #8738, aired 2022-11-09 | SHAKESPEARE JUST KILLS ME $1000: This title guy kills Lavinia, stabs Tamora, gets killed by Saturninus, who in turn is whacked by Lucius, the said title guy's son Titus Andronicus |
| #8737, aired 2022-11-08 | NUMBER, PLEASE $200: Matthew 4 says Jesus fasted for this many days & nights in the wilderness, & he was hungry after; well, yeah! 40 |
| #8737, aired 2022-11-08 | REMEMBERING ALEX TREBEK $200: Alex' breakfast of choice was a Diet Coke & a Snickers; after a doctor's lecture, Diet Pepsi & this "gimme a break" candy bar Kit Kat |
| #8737, aired 2022-11-08 | HITS OF 2002 $400: Give us the title of this Nelly song that heated up all the way to No. 1 but please, don't take off all your clothes "Hot In Herre" |
| #8736, aired 2022-11-07 | DANCE $400: New York drag competitions called balls were the birthplace of this stylized dance that Madonna brought to the mainstream vogue |
| #8736, aired 2022-11-07 | A CRASH OF SYMBOLS $800: In chess notation, put this punctuation mark after a really good move exclamation point |
| #8736, aired 2022-11-07 | VICE PRESIDENTS $800: In 1973, just days after declaring, "I will not resign if indicted", he resigned Spiro Agnew |
| #7, aired 2022-11-06 | STARTS WITH 2 VOWELS $200: Coming about 40 days after Lent begins, it's one of the few days when it's relatively safe to put all your eggs in one basket Easter |
| #7, aired 2022-11-06 | STARTS WITH 2 VOWELS $1000: Astronomers use this 3-letter word to refer to a period of time equaling one billion years; to others, it means a really long time an eon |
| #7, aired 2022-11-06 | FUN WITH FLAGS $1000: After the Soviet Union broke apart, so did its flag with a gold star & these 2 symbols representing workers & peasants a hammer & sickle |
| #7, aired 2022-11-06 | HUMAN ANATOMY & PHYSIOLOGY $1,500 (Daily Double): No butts about it--it's the 2-word name for the most massive muscle in the human body gluteus maximus |
| #8735, aired 2022-11-04 | ON BROADWAY $1200: This play, originally staged in 2 parts, takes place 19 years after the Battle of Hogwarts Harry Potter and the Cursed Child |
| #8734, aired 2022-11-03 | A YEAR ENDING IN 2 $600: After capturing New Orleans, David Farragut is given the new rank of rear admiral 1862 |
| #8734, aired 2022-11-03 | GET DOWN TO BUSINESS $800: In 2018, Indra Nooyi, the first woman CEO of this soft drink co. stepped down from the role after 24 years with the company PepsiCo |
| #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 |
| #8732, aired 2022-11-01 | EUROPEAN HAPPENINGS $800: Created Jan. 28, 1918 after the Bolshevik Revolution, this fighting force suffered a purge some 20 years later the Red Army |
| #8732, aired 2022-11-01 | EUROPEAN HAPPENINGS $1,000 (Daily Double): Switzerland was formed in the 13th century after an alliance of these political divisions formed to combat the Habsburgs cantons |
| #8731, aired 2022-10-31 | TELEVISION $400: After 8 seasons, Dre & Bow opted for a new beginning as this sitcom came to a close black-ish |
| #8731, aired 2022-10-31 | HEAVENLY BODIES $1200: After some debate, the International Astronomical Union created this term for objects like Makemake, Eris & others in 2006 a dwarf planet |
| #8731, aired 2022-10-31 | TELEVISION $1200: "Like sands through the hourglass, so are the" this TV soap title, the show now on Peacock after 57 years on NBC Days of Our Lives |
| #8731, aired 2022-10-31 | TELEVISION $2000: After she was sprung from "Orange is the New Black", she went on to co-create & star in "Russian Doll" Natasha Lyonne |
| #6, aired 2022-10-30 | PATRIOT ACT $100: Daniel O'Connell, a patriot of this country, got the British to pass the Catholic Emancipation Act of 1829 Ireland |
| #6, aired 2022-10-30 | PRETTY LITTLE LIES $200: Tell the story about how this pop icon seen here invited you onstage to sing "Baby" & was blown away by your pipes Justin Bieber |
| #6, aired 2022-10-30 | MEMOIRS $800: "I Am" this first name tells of life under the Taliban in Pakistan Malala |
| #6, aired 2022-10-30 | DIRECTIONAL GEOGRAPHY IN AMERICA $1,000 (Daily Double): In 1802 Congress passed the act establishing the U.S. Military Academy at this site on the banks of the Hudson West Point |
| #6, aired 2022-10-30 | PICK A "CARD" $1500: Known for its scarlet plumage & whistled songs, it's the official bird of seven U.S. states cardinal |
| #8730, aired 2022-10-28 | TV LAW $800: On this show Julianna Margulies played Alicia, who returns to her life as an attorney after her hubby goes to jail The Good Wife |
| #8730, aired 2022-10-28 | THE STRONGEST LINK $1000: In the "Skyward Sword" edition of this video game, Link searches for the title character after she's knocked out of the sky Zelda |
| #8730, aired 2022-10-28 | MYTH-POURRI $2000: Balder will be back from the dead after this event, "doom of the gods" in Old Norse Ragnarok |
| #8729, aired 2022-10-27 | 3 CONSONANTS IN A ROW $400: Job of the person hired to renovate your house, perhaps after you find an architect contractor |
| #8729, aired 2022-10-27 | ANOTHER SHOT AT THE TITLE $400: After losing to the Warriors in the 2015 NBA Finals, in 2016 LeBron & co. beat them to bring this city its first NBA title Cleveland |
| #8729, aired 2022-10-27 | ANOTHER SHOT AT THE TITLE $600: After 5 previous World Series losses to these crosstown rivals, in 1955 the Brooklyn Dodgers finally beat them for the title the New York Yankees |
| #8729, aired 2022-10-27 | ANOTHER SHOT AT THE TITLE $1000: After losing to Toronto in 1918, this team won its first NHL title the next year & has now won more than any other team the Montreal Canadiens |
| #8728, aired 2022-10-26 | SCULPTURE $1600: After its discovery & purchase by a French ambassador, it was presented to Louis XVIII who donated it to the Louvre the Venus de Milo |
| #8728, aired 2022-10-26 | HISTORIC SECONDS $1600: In 1862 the second of these Virginia battles took place 13 months after the first & ended the same way, with a Confederate victory Bull Run |
| #8727, aired 2022-10-25 | TV CARTOONS $400: After nearly dying in a car wreck in 1961, Mel Blanc, in a body cast at home, voiced this guy, Fred Flintstone's best pal Barney Rubble |
| #8727, aired 2022-10-25 | A GREEN PARTY $800: After fighting for the U.S. in the American Revolution, this leader of the Green Mountain Boys tried to get Canada to annex Vermont Ethan Allen |
| #5, aired 2022-10-23 | CLASSIC KIDS' BOOKS $200: "The Story of Ferdinand" tells of one of these animals who loves to sit quietly & smell the flowers a bull |
| #5, aired 2022-10-23 | CLASSIC KIDS' BOOKS $300: After a journey from Peru to England, this character was discovered on a railway platform in London, sitting on his suitcase Paddington Bear |
| #5, aired 2022-10-23 | HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES $800: This Jewish day of atonement comes 10 days after Rosh Hashanah, the new year Yom Kippur |
| #5, aired 2022-10-23 | CATS THROUGH TIME $800: A feline named Trim kept explorer Matthew Flinders company after his boat got stuck on a big mass of this near Australia coral |
| #5, aired 2022-10-23 | HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES $1000: This holiday is a symbol of summer's end in the U.S. but in Europe, its equivalent is celebrated on May 1 Labor Day |
| #5, aired 2022-10-23 | BIOLOGY $12,000 (Daily Double): Animals like frogs that can live on land or water are known as these, from the Greek for "both" & "life" an amphibian |
| #8725, aired 2022-10-21 | BEFORE & AFTER $400: A parent who supervises a Cub Scout group & is also a Nobel Prize-winning nun a den Mother Teresa |
| #8725, aired 2022-10-21 | BEFORE & AFTER $800: Lewis Carroll feline once used to flog sailors onboard a ship a Cheshire Cat of nine tails |
| #8725, aired 2022-10-21 | BEFORE & AFTER $1200: To prepare to do something unpleasant by chomping down on a 200-mph rail transport bite the bullet train |
| #8725, aired 2022-10-21 | BEFORE & AFTER $1600: The seafood seasoning from the abortive 1961 invasion of Cuba Old Bay of Pigs |
| #8725, aired 2022-10-21 | BEFORE & AFTER $2000: Police booking photo that becomes a historic moment as in Ralph Waldo Emerson's line a mug shot heard around the world |
| #8725, aired 2022-10-21 | SO YOU BLEW IT THE FIRST TIME $2000: After getting KO'd by Max Schmeling in 1936, this African-American heavyweight took just 2 minutes & 4 seconds to win the rematch Joe Louis |
| #8724, aired 2022-10-20 | THERE'S A SEQUEL $400: After doing America in 1996, this pair of probably-not-"Jeopardy!" fans returned in 2022 to "Do the Universe" Beavis and Butt-Head |
| #8724, aired 2022-10-20 | A MATTER OF WIFE & DEATH $600: After this sharpshooter wife passed away in 1926, Frank Butler reportedly stopped eating & died 18 days later Annie Oakley |
| #8724, aired 2022-10-20 | MEDICAL DRAMA $800: After racing a rival to a cure, Dr. Albert Sabin got an oral vaccine for this approved in the U.S. in 1961 polio |
| #8724, aired 2022-10-20 | MEDICAL DRAMA $800: After 17 seasons on "Law & Order", S. Epatha Merkerson got into a new line of work, running Gaffney Medical on this NBC show Chicago Med |
| #8724, aired 2022-10-20 | MEDICAL DRAMA $1000: After serving in "The West Wing", Richard Schiff became president... of St. Bonaventure Hospital on this ABC drama in 2017 The Good Doctor |
| #8724, aired 2022-10-20 | POETS & POETRY $2,569 (Daily Double): It begins, "Of man's first disobedience, and the fruit of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste brought death into the world..." Paradise Lost |
| #8723, aired 2022-10-19 | HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES $200: Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania celebrates this on February 2, year after year after year Groundhog Day |
| #8723, aired 2022-10-19 | SECOND CHANCE SONGS $400: In an Adele hit, this one-word title precedes, "It's me, I was wondering if after all these years you'd like to meet" "Hello" |
| #8722, aired 2022-10-18 | 5-LETTER PLACES $800: This 2,000-mile-long river swells in flood season after receiving waters from the rivers of the Punjab region the Indus |
| #8722, aired 2022-10-18 | FRENCH LITERATURE $2000: Meursault, the narrator of this Camus work, says he doesn't believe in God after being arrested for murder The Stranger |
| #4, aired 2022-10-16 | SHAKESPEARE $1000: After killing the King & the Prince of Wales in "Henry VI, Part 3", this king with body image issues gets his own play King Richard III |
| #8720, aired 2022-10-14 | 9-LETTER WORDS $400: One of these "after the fact" helps commit a crime & subsequently may be charged with obstruction of justice accessory |
| #8719, aired 2022-10-13 | AFTER SCHOOL $400: A reporter's exclusive scoop |
| #8719, aired 2022-10-13 | THE REST, AS THEY SAY... $400: An old saying goes, "Guests, like fish begin to" do this; how you waited 72 hours is beyond us smell after three days |
| #8719, aired 2022-10-13 | AFTER SCHOOL $800: Sail the 7 seas of suds in one of these big beer glasses a schooner |
| #8719, aired 2022-10-13 | AFTER SCHOOL $1200: The OED includes this alliterative cartoon-derived term for a bite of food given as a reward Scooby snacks |
| #8719, aired 2022-10-13 | I GOT THE PART! $1200: After a groundbreaking choice to cast her on "Doctor Who", she said "The gender question is now going away" Jodie Whittaker |
| #8719, aired 2022-10-13 | AFTER SCHOOL $1600: An upside-down lowercase E is used to represent this vowel sound schwa |
| #8719, aired 2022-10-13 | AFTER SCHOOL $2000: This word for a tiny trace, perhaps of doubt or evidence, is Latin for "spark" scintilla |
| #8718, aired 2022-10-12 | THE 17th CENTURY $600: Dutch optician Hans Lippershey invented this in 1608, supposedly after seeing one lens held in front of another the telescope |
| #8718, aired 2022-10-12 | MOVIE STUFF $800: 2 days after Sly Stallone left "Beverly Hills Cop", this man got the starring role (Eddie) Murphy |
| #8718, aired 2022-10-12 | THE 17th CENTURY $1000: In 1673 this one-named dramatist collapsed onstage while performing in his play "The Imaginary Invalid" & died soon after Molière |
| #8717, aired 2022-10-11 | THE WAIT OF THE WORLD $400: Folks have awaited the next book by him after 2011's "A Dance with Dragons" but it takes as long as it takes George R.R. Martin |
| #8717, aired 2022-10-11 | IT'S A "BIG" PLACE $800: Though this nickname for a large American city dates to the 1920s, it really took hold after a '70s tourism campaign Big Apple |
| #8717, aired 2022-10-11 | SCIENCE GRAB BAG $800: Igneous rocks are formed after this 5-letter type of molten rock cools magma |
| #8717, aired 2022-10-11 | IT'S A "BIG" PLACE $2000: Actually a complex of hills, this Utah formation was named after a song about a hobo living the sweet life Big Rock Candy Mountain |
| #8716, aired 2022-10-10 | PEN NAMES $1200: After retiring the name, Stephen King claimed this writing alter ego had died from "cancer of the pseudonym" (Richard) Bachman |
| #8716, aired 2022-10-10 | PEN NAMES $5,000 (Daily Double): After moving from Russia to the U.S. in the 1920s, Alissa Rosenbaum adopted this pen name with the same initials Ayn Rand |
| #8716, aired 2022-10-10 | REMEMBERING PAST LIVES $6,200 (Daily Double): After a life as a political wife, she co-founded an addiction treatment center & chaired the board of directors until 2005 Betty Ford |
| #3, aired 2022-10-09 | THE AFTER PARTY $100: Okay, how about this highly seasoned smoked beef on rye, with cole slaw & fries on the side pastrami |
| #3, aired 2022-10-09 | 21 OR UNDER $200: Including the pole vault & hurdles, the athletic contest known as the decathlon comprises this many track & field events 10 |
| #3, aired 2022-10-09 | THE AFTER PARTY $200: You are... not the father! Or maybe you are! Time to take this "test" that determines biological dad-ness paternity |
| #3, aired 2022-10-09 | A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN $200: "We got next" was the slogan of this league when it debuted in 1997 with stars like Lisa Leslie & Rebecca Lobo the WNBA |
| #3, aired 2022-10-09 | THE AFTER PARTY $300: Mongo only this least valuable chess piece in game of life a pawn |
| #3, aired 2022-10-09 | GO BLUE! $300: These turn blue & become munchable for arcade hero Pac-Man after he eats a power pellet; scary! a ghost |
| #3, aired 2022-10-09 | THE AFTER PARTY $400: Black's Law Dictionary says a "crime of" this is "committed in the heat of an emotionally charged moment" passion |
| #3, aired 2022-10-09 | THE AFTER PARTY $500: Idiomatically, when you "put someone out to" this, you're making them retire but not forcing them to graze there for food pasture |
| #8715, aired 2022-10-07 | THE ANCIENT WORLD $800: After a bloody war in this country, Emperor Ashoka renounced force & adopted "conquest by dharma", or righteous conduct India |
| #8713, aired 2022-10-05 | FIRST EPISODES $600: Dr. Jack Shephard had a bit of a rough landing after catching a flight out of Sydney in the premiere of this show in 2004 Lost |
| #8713, aired 2022-10-05 | FIRST EPISODES $800: After breaking extremely bad, a onetime lawyer is an Omaha Cinnabon employee as this show commences Better Call Saul |
| #8713, aired 2022-10-05 | HELPFUL HISTORIC FIGURES $1000: After World War II he was a sirdar, in charge of porters on treks up Everest; he would eventually reach the summit with Edmund Hillary (Tenzing) Norgay |
| #8712, aired 2022-10-04 | SHIPS & BOATS $200: After decades of pushing other boats, the W.O. Decker, New York City's last wooden this, now hauls tourists around the harbor a tugboat |
| #8712, aired 2022-10-04 | CENTRAL AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: "Beautiful port!" said Columbus, giving this Panama town its name, later applied to a London "Road" after the British captured it Portobelo |
| #8712, aired 2022-10-04 | WAIT JUST A MINERAL! $3,000 (Daily Double): Mais oui, calcium sulfate hemihydrate is a mouthful, so a fast-setting-after-drying gypsum product goes by these 3 words plaster of Paris |
| #8711, aired 2022-10-03 | WHAT'S IN THE BOX? $800: This, all that was left after Pandora opened her box, releasing all the evils into the world hope |
| #2, aired 2022-10-02 | WHAT HAPPENS IN VEGAS $400: In 1970 Binion's Horseshoe Casino hosted the first-ever World Series of this poker |
| #8710, aired 2022-09-30 | BORROW $800: The Lord tells him to have his people borrow jewels from their neighbors (good luck getting them back after the Exodus, Egyptians) Moses |
| #8710, aired 2022-09-30 | BEG $4,000 (Daily Double): After fleeing to London, this general pleaded for the French to fight on in a 1940 broadcast de Gaulle |
| #8709, aired 2022-09-29 | THE EX-COUNTRY $200: On October 3, 1990 this Communist country in Europe lost its direction after reunification East Germany |
| #8709, aired 2022-09-29 | PIRATES! $400: It's why the British didn't hang notorious Caribbean pirates Anne Bonny & Mary Read after capturing them in 1720 they were pregnant |
| #8709, aired 2022-09-29 | RELIGION $1000: It's the ascension heavenward by true Christians, both living & dead, at Christ's second coming the rapture |
| #8709, aired 2022-09-29 | U.S. COUNTIES $2000: Singer Jayne County was previously known as this county, after the place where Detroit is located Wayne County |
| #8708, aired 2022-09-28 | THE RIGHT BROTHERS $1600: After the death of 5 brothers of this last name in WWII, the U.S. instituted the sole survivor policy to prevent a repeat Sullivan |
| #9083, aired 2024-04-17 | ORGANIZATIONS: The press called the donations received after this org.'s 1938 founding "a silver tide which actually swamped the White House" the March of Dimes |
| #9080, aired 2024-04-12 | AUTHORS' AFTERLIVES: After his death his son Michel reworked & published manuscripts like one about a meteor made of gold heading for Earth Jules Verne |
| #9074, aired 2024-04-04 | STATE CAPITALS: It was named for a nearby river that explorer Gabriel Moraga named for one of a religious grouping of 7 Sacramento |
| #9073, aired 2024-04-03 | PHYSICISTS: This man with a force named after him published an 1835 scientific treatise on the physics of billiard balls (Gaspard-Gustave de) Coriolis |
| #9043, aired 2024-02-21 | 19th CENTURY AMERICANS: In 1896, 15 years after a famous showdown, this man was accused of fixing a championship boxing match Wyatt Earp |
| #9037, aired 2024-02-13 | SOUTHERN POLITICIANS: An article written after his 1935 death asked, "Will some crown prince arise to take his place?" Huey Long |
| #9019, aired 2024-01-18 | 20th CENTURY HISTORY: After the Vietnam War, Vietnam got bogged down in a campaign against this leader whom it managed to overthrow in 1979 Pol Pot |
| #1, aired 2024-01-12 | TOURIST SPOTS: Originally known as Longacre, it got its name after a newspaper moved its offices there in 1904 Times Square |
| #9005, aired 2023-12-29 | FAMOUS NAMES: In 2023, shortly after his death, his name was added to a Brazilian dictionary to describe one who's superior or out of the ordinary Pelé |
| #9004, aired 2023-12-28 | THOSE ZANY ANCIENT ROMANS: In the 20s B.C. the emperor's sister Octavia had a sitcom-worthy home including the boy & girl twin children of this man & woman Antony & Cleopatra |
| #9003, aired 2023-12-27 | AMERICANA: After "Black Monday" in 1987, sculptor Arturo Di Modica put a statue of one of these in Manhattan to symbolize strength & power a bull |
| #9001, aired 2023-12-25 | FAMOUS NAMES IN AMERICA: The name of this animal that died in 1885 after being struck by a train that subsequently derailed lives on as an adjective Jumbo |
| #8970, aired 2023-11-10 | THE CATHOLIC CHURCH: The 1456 posthumous annulment of this woman's sentence by the Church was witnessed by her mother Isabelle Joan of Arc (Joan, Jeanne) |
| #8958, aired 2023-10-25 | HISTORIC LETTERS: A letter from him begins, "On the thirty-third day after I had left Cadiz, I reached the Indian Ocean" (Christopher) Columbus |
| #8941, aired 2023-10-02 | PRESIDENTIAL PROCLAMATIONS: Both issued in April, 80 years apart, the first proclamations by these 2 presidents each declared national days of mourning Andrew Johnson & Harry Truman |
| #8940, aired 2023-09-29 | U.S. SENATE HISTORY: In 1805, after 4 years presiding over the Senate, he left the chamber, calling it "a sanctuary; a citadel of law, of order" Aaron Burr |
| #8938, aired 2023-09-27 | MYTHOLOGY: Chrysomallus was the name of the creature that was the source of this sought-after item, vellus aureum in Latin the Golden Fleece |
| #8911, aired 2023-07-10 | ART HISTORY: At the 1865 Paris Art Salon, the elder of these 2 men said if the younger were successful, it would be "because his name sounds like mine" Manet & Monet |
| #8902, aired 2023-06-27 | 19th CENTURY LITERATURE: In 1896 new spider species were named for a wolf, a panther & a snake from a work published 2 years earlier by this man (Rudyard) Kipling |
| #8901, aired 2023-06-26 | 20th CENTURY EVENTS: It was immediately reported, "The flames are still leaping maybe 30, 40 feet from the ground the entire 811 feet length of" this the Hindenburg |
| #8883, aired 2023-05-31 | SPORTS & THE MOVIES: A Geena Davis Institute study found shortly after a 2012 franchise film's release, women's participation in this sport rose 105% archery |
| #10, aired 2023-05-15 | 19th CENTURY FIRST LADIES: After her husband left office, a minister wrote the White House was "purer because" this first lady "has been its mistress" Lucy Hayes ("Lemonade Lucy") |
| #9, aired 2023-05-15 | THE U.S. GOVERNMENT: Not a department head but of Cabinet rank, the person in this post has had an official residence in a 42nd floor Park Avenue penthouse ambassador to the United Nations |
| #8865, aired 2023-05-05 | TEAM NAMES: An MLB team got this name in 1902 after some of its players defected to a new crosstown rival, leaving young replacements the (Chicago) Cubs |
| #8851, aired 2023-04-17 | ENGLISH LITERATURE: It says, "The mind is its own place, & in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven. What matter where, if I be still the same" Paradise Lost |
| #8840, aired 2023-03-31 | CITY HISTORY: Over 700 years after its traditional 1252 founding date, this port city became associated with a psychological response Stockholm |
| #8830, aired 2023-03-17 | STATEHOOD: Congress relented in 1890 after this prospective state said it would wait 100 years rather than come in without the women Wyoming |
| #8824, aired 2023-03-09 | LANDMARKS: After its completion in the late 19th c., it was called a "truly tragic street lamp" & a "high & skinny pyramid of iron ladders" the Eiffel Tower |
| #8817, aired 2023-02-28 | NAMES OF MYTH: Her brothers, Castor & Pollux, saved her after Theseus stole her away as a kid; a larger force would seek her later in life Helen of Troy |
| #8790, aired 2023-01-20 | TELEVISION: Mike Post combined the sound of a slamming jail door, an anvil & 100 men stomping on a floor for this series that debuted in 1990 Law & Order |
| #8783, aired 2023-01-11 | POP STARS: In 2022 she became the first woman to have a Billboard Top 10 album in 5 decades starting with the 1980s Madonna |
| #8780, aired 2023-01-06 | HISTORIC PEOPLE: After a 1789 event, he wrote, "My first determination was to seek a supply of... water at Tofoa, & afterwards to sail for Tongataboo" (Captain) Bligh |
| #8773, aired 2022-12-28 | AMERICA AT WAR: Until the Civil War, the January 8 date of this battle of dubious military importance but big morale value was a national holiday the Battle of New Orleans |
| #8746, aired 2022-11-21 | PLAYS: The January 12, 1864 Washington Evening Star reported on a performance of this "dashing comedy" to "a full and delighted house" Our American Cousin |
| #7, aired 2022-11-06 | BRANDS: With wood becoming more difficult to source, this company turned to plastic for its automatic binding bricks, introduced in 1949 Lego |
| #8720, aired 2022-10-14 | AUTHORS: Featuring a statue of a man escaping his grave, his tomb in Amiens contrasts with the title of his 1864 adventure novel (Jules) Verne |
| #8717, aired 2022-10-11 | FAMOUS SHIPS: Its wreck was discovered in 1989, 48 years after it had been sunk & 91 years after the man it was named for had died the Bismarck |
| #3, aired 2022-10-09 | NEWSPAPER HEADLINES: A New York Times headline about this disaster included "866 rescued" & "noted names missing" the Titanic |
| #8711, aired 2022-10-03 | 20th CENTURY POEM ENDINGS: These 5 words that end a poem are also a proverb; one citation across the centuries includes a reminder not to make the wall too high Good fences make good neighbors |
| #8705, aired 2022-09-23 | LITERARY CHARACTERS: In a later part of the epic named for him, this character becomes king after his cousin Heardred dies in battle Beowulf |
| #8701, aired 2022-09-19 | HISTORIC DOCUMENTS: The governor of Massachusetts wrote, it "is a poor document, but a mighty act... wrong in its delay till January, but grand & sublime after all" the Emancipation Proclamation |
| #8696, aired 2022-09-12 | 19th CENTURY NOVELS: "This bell was named Marie... alone in the southern tower, with her sister Jacqueline, a bell of lesser size", says this novel The Hunchback of Notre Dame |
| #8695, aired 2022-07-29 | TECH HISTORY: For about 20 years after its invention, it had few practical uses; then suddenly it revolutionized grocery checkouts & home audio the laser |
| #8683, aired 2022-07-13 | STATE MOTTOS: This motto is the name of a city in that state & is a famous quote by an ancient Greek from the 3rd century B.C. Eureka |
| #8666, aired 2022-06-20 | BRITISH HISTORY: From the Greek for "alone", it was nixed by Parliament in 1649 after being deemed "unnecessary, burdensome & dangerous" the monarchy |
| #8633, aired 2022-05-04 | THE CIVIL WAR: A Union soldiers' song said General McClellan, who let a Confederate Army escape after this battle, "was too slow to beat 'em" Antietam |
| #8626, aired 2022-04-25 | NAMES IN AMERICAN HISTORY: Capable of freighting about 180 tons of cargo, in 1624 it was in disrepair & appraised at a total value of 128 pounds the Mayflower |
| #8624, aired 2022-04-21 | FILMS OF THE 1950s: The title character of this film has the same name as the Roman goddess of the dawn Sleeping Beauty |
| #8621, aired 2022-04-18 | WORLD LITERATURE: Befitting the title, Antoine Galland, the first Western translator of this collection, worked on it only "after dinner" Arabian Nights (the One Thousand and One Nights) |
| #8620, aired 2022-04-15 | ACADEMY AWARD WINNERS: In 2019 he won his first competitive Oscar, 36 years after a Student Academy Award for a film about a Brooklyn barbershop Spike Lee |
| #8595, aired 2022-03-11 | SYMBOLS: This U.S. politician asked for a multicolored pennant for a parade; demand increased after his death in 1978 Harvey Milk |
| #15, aired 2022-02-18 | HISTORIC STRUCTURES: In 1100 the Bishop of Durham became the first prisoner here &, after plying his guards with wine, became the first to escape the Tower of London |
| #8562, aired 2022-01-25 | SEA LIFE: In 2018 National Geographic reported that half of this was dead, "akin to a forest after a devastating fire" the Great Barrier Reef |
| #8558, aired 2022-01-19 | FILMS OF THE 2000s: One of the screenwriters of this 2001 film described it as "'Clueless' meets 'The Paper Chase"' Legally Blonde |
| #8553, aired 2022-01-12 | HISTORIC AMERICANS: In 1838 he took a new last name, of a family in Walter Scott's "The Lady of the Lake"; for distinction he added a 2nd "S" to the end (Frederick) Douglass |
| #8524, aired 2021-12-02 | JOURNALISTS IN HISTORY: Bismarck Tribune correspondent Mark Kellogg died June 25, 1876 while on a field assignment covering this man (General George) Custer |
| #8514, aired 2021-11-18 | HISTORY: In 1985 the mayor of Rome went to a suburb of Tunis to sign a treaty ending this after more than 2,100 years the (Third) Punic War(s) (Carthaginian Wars) |
| #8501, aired 2021-11-01 | 1960s HISTORY: After around 8 PM EDT on July 21, 1969 a major part of a transport known by this 1-word name was never seen again Eagle |
| #8470, aired 2021-09-17 | 19th CENTURY U.S. POLITICS: Named after a U.K. political party that helped depose a king, the U.S. Whig Party was formed to oppose this man (Andrew) Jackson |
| #8467, aired 2021-09-14 | SCIENTIFIC ETYMOLOGY: 2 of the 3 men for whom armalcolite, a dark gray mineral discovered in 1969, is named (2 of) (Neil) Armstrong, (Buzz) Aldrin or (Michael) Collins |
| #8460, aired 2021-08-06 | LITERATURE & THE ANIMAL KINGDOM: In 2020 scientists named Trimeresurus salazar, a new species of this, after a character in a book series a snake |
| #8452, aired 2021-07-27 | MYTHOLOGICAL ANIMALS: After being born this creature would bring the remains of its forebear to Heliopolis & put them on the altar of the sun god the phoenix |
| #8447, aired 2021-07-20 | THE 20th CENTURY: The code name for a historic meeting at this city was Argonaut, after the heroes who searched for the Golden Fleece on the Black Sea Yalta |
| #8445, aired 2021-07-16 | HISTORY: Completed around 1455, it sometimes gets another name because a famous copy was found in the library of Cardinal Mazarin the Gutenberg Bible |
| #8428, aired 2021-06-23 | FAMOUS WOMEN: In 1983, 20 years after her famous first, she was honored on a one-ruble coin Valentina Tereshkova |
| #8423, aired 2021-06-16 | MOVIE CHARACTERS: A character who was going to be called Lunar Larry became him, inspired by the name of a real person Buzz Lightyear |
| #8418, aired 2021-06-09 | 1960s SINGERS: In 2002 Macon, Georgia, where he grew up, unveiled a statue of this man who sits overlooking the water, a nod to his posthumous No. 1 hit Otis Redding |
| #8399, aired 2021-05-13 | CHILDREN'S BOOKS: The last book Dr. Seuss published in his lifetime, it climbs bestseller lists every spring Oh, the Places You'll Go! |
| #8396, aired 2021-05-10 | U.S. HISTORY: On April 7, 1789 Charles Thomson & Sylvanus Bourne left New York City to tell these 2 men the results of a vote taken the day before George Washington & John Adams |
| #8383, aired 2021-04-21 | AMERICAN BUSINESS: In 2004, after a century as a household name, its last model rolled off the assembly line in Lansing, Michigan Oldsmobile |
| #8372, aired 2021-04-06 | 20th CENTURY AMERICAN HISTORY: A biography of him: "In a sweltering, dimly lit cabin, its window shades closed... his first presidential decisions were made" Lyndon Johnson |
| #8368, aired 2021-03-31 | LOGOS: After 9/11, designer Milton Glaser modified this iconic logo of his, adding a bruise & the words "More Than Ever" I Heart New York (I Love New York) |
| #8362, aired 2021-03-23 | THE OLYMPICS: The "City of Angels" hosted the Olympics twice, the second time this many years after the first 52 |
| #8351, aired 2021-03-08 | RADIO HISTORY: A 1949 broadcast in Spanish of this drama from 11 years before caused mass panic in Ecuador & the destruction of the radio station "The War of the Worlds" |
| #8338, aired 2021-02-17 | WINTER SPORTS: The specific skill that gave this sport its name was eliminated from international competition after the 1990 World Championships figure skating |
| #8322, aired 2021-01-26 | POP MUSIC: First released as a single in 1982, this song was re-released & charted again 17 years later & 17 years after that "1999" |
| #8280, aired 2020-11-13 | U.S. MONUMENTS: More than 100 years after it was first proposed, this monument was dedicated by President Chester Arthur the Washington Monument |
| #8272, aired 2020-11-03 | AFRICA: After the removal of the dictator, in 2011 3 broad colored stripes & 2 white symbols were restored to this country's flag Libya |
| #8257, aired 2020-10-13 | LITERARY PRONOUNS: Thanks to a horror film, this novel returned to the bestseller lists in 2017, some 30 years after reaching No. 1 It |
| #8248, aired 2020-09-30 | HISTORIC FIGURES: In a 1912 telegram to his wife, he said, "Am feeling fine. Have bullet in chest, but...talked for hour and half after being shot" Teddy Roosevelt |
| #8232, aired 2020-06-09 | PRE-CIVIL WAR PRESIDENTS: Encyclopedia Britannica says of him: "After an extended tour of Europe he retired to Concord...& he died in obscurity" Franklin Pierce |
| #8206, aired 2020-04-20 | RECENT MOVIE SONGS: In October 2019 this song, a duet, was still in the Top 10 on Billboard's Adult Contemporary chart after spending a year on the chart "Shallow" |
| #8187, aired 2020-03-24 | AMERICAN POETS: This New York woman died in 1887, the year after the subject of her most famous poem was unveiled Emma Lazarus |
| #8182, aired 2020-03-17 | U.N. MEMBERS: It incorporated the "one country, two systems" principle in its constitution in 1982 & put it into practice after a 1997 reunification China |
| #8175, aired 2020-03-06 | 21st CENTURY MOVIES: After its initial release in 2016, it became the first major motion picture to be dubbed in Tahitian Moana |
| #8160, aired 2020-02-14 | FAMOUS FIRST LINES: These 7 words precede, "The rain fell in torrents, except at occasional intervals" "It was a dark and stormy night" |
| #8157, aired 2020-02-11 | AMERICAN HISTORY: After statesman & banker Robert Morris turned down a job offer from George Washington, this man took the job Alexander Hamilton |
| #8149, aired 2020-01-30 | ADVERTISING & MUSIC: In 2008, 34 years after it made Billboard’s Top 10, this song title was used by a southern state in a tourism campaign "Sweet Home Alabama" |
| #6, aired 2020-01-09 | 21st CENTURY OSCAR WINNERS: These 2 foreign-born directors have each won 2 Best Director Oscars, but none of their films has won Best Picture Ang Lee & Alfonso Cuarón |
| #8133, aired 2020-01-08 | EUROPEAN HISTORY: It took the French army until 1995 to declare him innocent, 101 years after he was convicted of treason (Alfred) Dreyfus |
| #8123, aired 2019-12-25 | ORGANIZATIONS: Founded by students at William & Mary in 1776; its members include 17 U.S. Presidents, 41 Supreme Court Justices & more than 140 Nobel laureates Phi Beta Kappa |
| #8116, aired 2019-12-16 | TV THEME MUSIC: A short piece for 2 guitars called "Strange No. 3" was the first part of the theme music for this drama series that debuted in 1959 The Twilight Zone |
| #8110, aired 2019-12-06 | EUROPE: A tourism website for this country noted its colorful history "filled with barbarians", royalty, "& even a movie star" Monaco |
| #8085, aired 2019-11-01 | RELIGION: This denomination takes its name from the day, as told in the New Testament, when the Holy Spirit descended on the Apostles Pentecostalism |
| #8071, aired 2019-10-14 | CHEMICAL SYMBOL WORDPLAY: Fittingly, the symbols for the 4 elements in sodium citrate, which can make cheese melt easier, spell this 5-letter food nacho |
| #8068, aired 2019-10-09 | HIT 1980s ALBUMS: This American singer-songwriter briefly landed on the U.N.'s apartheid blacklist for his 1986 multi-platinum album Paul Simon |
| #8029, aired 2019-07-04 | ON BROADWAY: This play opens in Vienna in 1823, 32 years after the death of its title character Amadeus |
| #8022, aired 2019-06-25 | OTHER NATIONS' PRESIDENTS: This nation's 1st 8 presidents were all born in the U.S.; the 1st local-born president came in 1884, 37 years after independence Liberia |
| #8021, aired 2019-06-24 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES: Starting a university after his only son died in 1884, this man said, "The children of California shall be our children" Leland Stanford |
| #8013, aired 2019-06-12 | POPULAR PRODUCTS: This product that brought virtual tourism into homes in 1939 introduced its first virtual reality device in 2015 View-Master |
| #7993, aired 2019-05-15 | RUSSIAN COMPOSERS: A 1913 piece by him was conceived of as the symphonic equivalent of a pagan ritual, to be titled "Great Sacrifice" Igor Stravinsky |
| #7990, aired 2019-05-10 | U.S. STATES: This state entered the Union in 1820 after separating from another state that began with the same 2 letters Maine |
| #7989, aired 2019-05-09 | THE COLD WAR: The Cold War became entrenched in the mid-1950s after the formation of these 2 rival military alliances NATO and the Warsaw Pact |
| #7988, aired 2019-05-08 | WORDS FROM THE COMICS: Used to describe secrecy during WWII, this 2-word term had its psychological meaning popularized by Charles Schulz security blanket |
| #7977, aired 2019-04-23 | AMERICAN HISTORY: On May 1, 1869 these 2 men met at the White House, 4 years & 3 weeks after a more historic meeting between them Ulysses S. Grant & Robert E. Lee |
| #7976, aired 2019-04-22 | 19th CENTURY BRITS: In a poem Lord Byron, a lover of Greece, calls this diplomat & fellow lord a "plunderer" (Lord) Elgin |
| #7968, aired 2019-04-10 | EUROPEAN HISTORY: In 2000 the Russian Orthodox church canonized 7 members of this family, 82 years after their deaths the Romanovs |
| #7967, aired 2019-04-09 | PHYSICS TERMS: Ironically, it's a metaphor meaning a huge step forward, but this 2-word process only occurs on a subatomic scale a quantum leap |
| #7942, aired 2019-03-05 | CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT MATH: Total of the numbers of the amendments banning state-sponsored official religion, ending slavery & repealing Prohibition 35 |
| #7923, aired 2019-02-06 | INTERNATIONAL BORDERS: Germany has land borders with 9 countries & only maritime boundaries with 2 countries, the U.K. & this one across the Baltic Sweden |
| #7917, aired 2019-01-29 | 20th CENTURY DISASTERS: On the radio in 1937 this 3-word exclamation came after "the smoke and the flames now...not quite to the mooring mast" "Oh, the humanity!" |
| #7914, aired 2019-01-24 | U.K. PRIME MINISTERS: He was the first U.K. prime minister born after Elizabeth II became queen Tony Blair |
| #7909, aired 2019-01-17 | CONTEMPORARY ART: After it was auctioned in 2018, a work by this artist was renamed "Love is in the Bin" Banksy |
| #7895, aired 2018-12-28 | AUTHORS: The first novelist on Forbes' list of billionaires, this author fell off in 2012 after giving an estimated $160 mil. to charity J.K. Rowling |
| #7886, aired 2018-12-17 | NORSE MYTHOLOGY: After turning himself into a mare, he gave birth to an 8-legged horse that was later the prized steed of Odin Loki |
| #7885, aired 2018-12-14 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY: After it stopped U.S. operations in 2018, its website said, "Promise us just this one thing: don't ever grow up" Toys"R"Us |
| #7873, aired 2018-11-28 | HISTORICAL FIRSTS: In a tribute with no precedent, the band played this at the Buckingham Palace changing of the guard on September 13, 2001 "The Star-Spangled Banner" (or the U.S. national anthem) |
| #7864, aired 2018-11-15 | THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION ERA: She was disowned by the Quakers after marrying an Episcopalian upholsterer in 1773 & later took over his business Betsy Ross |
| #7856, aired 2018-11-05 | CHARACTERS IN CHILDREN'S LIT: Memories of refugees in British train stations before & after WWII helped inspire the creation of this character Paddington Bear |
| #7828, aired 2018-09-26 | AUTHORS: After this woman's death, her daughter wrote, "As far as we in the family are concerned, the alphabet now ends at Y" Sue Grafton |
| #7798, aired 2018-07-04 | CLASSIC ROCK: 25 years after these 3 men played a huge festival, they went to play again & ended the set with a tune about the 1st show Crosby, Stills and Nash |
| #7791, aired 2018-06-25 | STATE NAME ORIGINS: Though it doesn't have "island" in its name, it's named after a European island New Jersey |
| #7785, aired 2018-06-15 | ISLAND NAMES: A Portuguese explorer gave this name to an island he sighted off Africa's coast 40 days after Easter Ascension Island |
| #7777, aired 2018-06-05 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS: He got a real N.Y. Times obit in 1975; it said he wore "false mustaches to mask signs of age that offended his vanity" Hercule Poirot |
| #7760, aired 2018-05-11 | U.S. POLITICAL HISTORY: President Madison is credited with the 1st of these 2-word actions; he didn't sign an 1812 bill after Congress had adjourned a pocket veto |
| #7754, aired 2018-05-03 | FILM & WAR: The New York premiere of this film was on Thanksgiving, 15 days after the liberation of its title place Casablanca |
| #7749, aired 2018-04-26 | SPORTS IN COURT: This athlete lost a 1931 lawsuit against the Curtiss Candy Company Babe Ruth |
| #7736, aired 2018-04-09 | 20th CENTURY PRESIDENTS: He took the Oath of Office twice 14 months apart Lyndon B. Johnson |
| #7696, aired 2018-02-12 | AMERICAN BUSINESS: A 2007 headline said after being ridiculed since the 1950s, it "takes its victory lap" & noted the auction of one for $184,000 the Edsel |
| #7695, aired 2018-02-09 | 20th CENTURY BOOKS: An "ineffable quality", this 3-word title represents "the ability to go up in a hurtling piece of machinery" day after day The Right Stuff |
| #7674, aired 2018-01-11 | THE MOVIES: It's the first Oscar nominee for Best Picture to be produced by an internet streaming service Manchester by the Sea |
| #7647, aired 2017-12-05 | 19th CENTURY EUROPE: This 1814-1815 gathering of leaders prompted Beethoven to compose the cantata "The Glorious Moment" the Congress of Vienna |
| #7637, aired 2017-11-21 | CLASSIC ALBUMS: Hailed as the "greatest album of all time", in 2017 it returned to the top of the charts 50 years after its first release Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band |
| #7633, aired 2017-11-15 | HISTORIC NAMES: In 2013 the village of Belrain renamed the last street in France that bore the name of this hero who became a traitor Maréchal Philippe Petain |
| #7626, aired 2017-11-06 | MUSIC & HISTORY: This 1880 piece was written more than 6 decades after the Battle of Borodino, the conflict it commemorates the 1812 Overture |
| #7560, aired 2017-06-23 | BOOKS OF THE 1960s: "Wherever I sat...I would be sitting under the same glass" this, the title of the author's only novel The Bell Jar |
| #7558, aired 2017-06-21 | SPORTS & POLITICS: After moving to Johannesburg in 1903, he formed the Passive Resisters Soccer Club Mohandas 'Mahatma' Gandhi |
| #7535, aired 2017-05-19 | U.S. CITIES: In 2015 it returned to the list of the 50 most populous U.S. cities, 10 years after dropping off New Orleans |
| #7531, aired 2017-05-15 | THE PULITZER PRIZES: In 1947 a journalist from the Washington Post became the last to win a Pulitzer for national reporting by this means telegraph (or telegram) |
| #7525, aired 2017-05-05 | MONARCHS: In 2016 Elizabeth II became the world's longest-reigning living monarch when this country's king died after a 70-year reign Thailand |
| #7508, aired 2017-04-12 | SCARY MOVIES: A remake of this scary movie was released on 6/6/2006, 30 years to the day after the release of the original The Omen |
| #7505, aired 2017-04-07 | BRITISH NOVELS: The title of this 1908 novel is an allusion to the hotel in Florence where the novel starts & ends the next year A Room with a View |
| #7475, aired 2017-02-24 | 17th CENTURY GERMANS: Astronomer who began his epitaph, "I used to measure the heavens, now I shall measure the shadows of Earth" Johannes Kepler |
| #7446, aired 2017-01-16 | 20th CENTURY HISTORY: Villages like Zalesye, Kopachi & Lubyanka remain abandoned 3 decades after this event nuclear disaster at Chernobyl |
| #7428, aired 2016-12-21 | LITTLE COUNTRIES: It's the closest nation to the mainland U.S. where cars customarily drive on the left the Bahamas |
| #7401, aired 2016-11-14 | HISTORY REPEATS: This practice officially began in Pakistan in 1977, 44 years after an amendment ended it in the United States Prohibition |
| #7397, aired 2016-11-08 | COMMONWEALTH COUNTRIES: The constitution of this country came into effect on Feb. 4, 1997 & by 2016, 13 parties were represented in its parliament South Africa |
| #7362, aired 2016-09-20 | POP CULTURE CHARACTERS: In 2015 this character was made an honorary citizen of Japan after over 60 years of residence there Godzilla |
| #7357, aired 2016-09-13 | 19th CENTURY MILITARY MEN: In 1895 he wrote to his family that with "superhuman strength" he would "discover the truth... on the tragic affair" Alfred Dreyfus |
| #7356, aired 2016-09-12 | ASIAN ISLANDS: Phuket, the largest island of this country, has regained its tourism industry after a natural disaster in 2004 Thailand |
| #7337, aired 2016-07-05 | FAMOUS AMERICANS: In 1902, 25 years after his death, a New York Times article about a family reunion listed his direct descendants at more than 1,000 Brigham Young |
| #7307, aired 2016-05-24 | 19th CENTURY NOTABLES: He died in New Orleans on December 6, 1889, a little over 20 years after his treason case had been dropped Jefferson Davis |
| #7304, aired 2016-05-19 | THE PRESIDENTIAL OATH OF OFFICE: In 2013 President Obama was sworn in on 2 Bibles--one was Lincoln’s & one belonged to this man who died 103 years after Lincoln Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| #7299, aired 2016-05-12 | AFRICAN GEOGRAPHY: After the secession of South Sudan from Sudan in 2011, this became the largest country in Africa by area Algeria |
| #7293, aired 2016-05-04 | THE SOLAR SYSTEM: Its surface features include ones named for Margaret Mead, Josephine Baker & Cleopatra Venus |
| #7269, aired 2016-03-31 | THE OSCARS: Since 1998 this actress has received 7 Oscar nominations, the most earned after age 60 by any performer Dame Judi Dench |
| #7267, aired 2016-03-29 | STATE CAPITAL GEOGRAPHY: Of the 5 U.S. state capitals that begin with the letter "A", the one that is farthest north Augusta |
| #7264, aired 2016-03-24 | 19th CENTURY AMERICANS: In 1872 he wrote his thesis "Diseases of the Teeth" & soon after moved west to a drier climate for his health Doc Holliday |
| #7252, aired 2016-03-08 | THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE: 2 U.S. state capitals & 2 major Panamanian ports are named after this European Christopher Columbus |
| #7242, aired 2016-02-23 | SHAKESPEARE: After a royal passing in January 1820, this tragedy that had been little performed got 2 new London productions in April King Lear |
| #7220, aired 2016-01-22 | ANCIENT HISTORY: Pantites, sent to recruit troops, & Aristodemus, sent off to treat his eye disease, were the only known Greeks to survive this event the Battle of Thermopylae |
| #7205, aired 2016-01-01 | THE 18th CENTURY: In 1765 Britain's PM said, after all we've done for the colonies, if they whine about this law, they'll whine about anything the Stamp Act |
| #7202, aired 2015-12-29 | FAMOUS LAST NAMES: The first woman space shuttle pilot shares this surname with a man on the 1st manned lunar landing 26 years earlier Collins |
| #7194, aired 2015-12-17 | LANDMARKS: Jacques-Germain Soufflot, who designed this Paris landmark, was interred there 49 years after dying the Panthéon |
| #7189, aired 2015-12-10 | LITERARY BRITAIN: After her death in 1943, the farmland & cottages of this author & animal lover were bequeathed to the National Trust Beatrix Potter |
| #7151, aired 2015-10-19 | TODAY'S INTERNATIONAL FILM STARS: The first 2 Spanish actors to win acting Academy Awards, they got married soon after they both had won Penélope Cruz & Javier Bardem |
| #7143, aired 2015-10-07 | MOVIE CHARACTERS: Charlton Heston's wardrobe in 1954's "Secret of the Incas" inspired the clothes worn by this adventurous character 27 years later Indiana Jones |
| #7137, aired 2015-09-29 | EUROPEAN MUSEUMS: In one of her last official acts before abdicating, Queen Beatrix reopened this museum after a 10-year renovation the Rijksmuseum (in Amsterdam) |
| #7095, aired 2015-06-19 | 20th CENTURY SCIENTISTS: Everything changed in 1924 after he observed, "I have found a Cepheid variable in the Andromeda Nebula" Edwin Hubble |
| #7090, aired 2015-06-12 | SHIPS IN THE NEWS: In 2012 Nature magazine ran an obituary for this ship, which "died after a long struggle with bad publicity" the Exxon Valdez |
| #7089, aired 2015-06-11 | MEDITERRANEAN ISLANDS: A statue of St. Paul is located on this island where he took refuge after a shipwreck Malta |
| #7088, aired 2015-06-10 | HISTORIC QUOTES: During the 1976 presidential campaign, Ronald Reagan said of this, "We built it, we paid for it, it's ours & we are going to keep it" the Panama Canal |
| #7082, aired 2015-06-02 | INFAMOUS: Born in Illinois of Huguenot ancestry, he was executed in June 1882, a year after his heinous act Charles Guiteau |
| #7039, aired 2015-04-02 | NATIONAL HISTORIC LANDMARKS: 50 years after San Francisco's cable cars became a National Historic Landmark, this city's street railway got the designation in 2014 New Orleans |
| #7025, aired 2015-03-13 | HISTORICAL U.S. GEOGRAPHY: It became a border territory in 1864 after being part of the Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Nebraska & Dakota territories Montana |
| #7024, aired 2015-03-12 | THE U.S. GOVERNMENT: On August 15, 1994, 59 years & 1 day after FDR signed the original act, Bill Clinton made this an independent agency the Social Security Administration |
| #7019, aired 2015-03-05 | PRESIDENTIAL MEDAL OF FREEDOM WINNERS: She was called a "Trailblazer for America's daughters" when she won in 2012, a century after founding an organization Juliette Gordon Low |
| #7009, aired 2015-02-19 | POETS: On completing the "Deathbed" edition of his great work, he wrote, "L. of G. at last complete--after 33 y'rs of hackling at it" Walt Whitman |
| #7005, aired 2015-02-13 | HISTORIC NAMES ON THE MAP: Nothing is known of his early life in England before 1600 or of the end of his life in North America after June 22, 1611 Henry Hudson |
| #7001, aired 2015-02-09 | 19th CENTURY WRITERS: After his death, he was given full military honors in Greece before his body was returned home for burial at his baronial seat Lord Byron |
| #7000, aired 2015-02-06 | SHAKESPEARE: After England, more Shakespeare plays are set in this present-day country than in any other Italy |
| #6980, aired 2015-01-09 | FAMOUS AMERICANS: In 1982, 72 years after his death, he became the first person inducted into the Hall of Famous Missourians Mark Twain |
| #6967, aired 2014-12-23 | WORD ORIGINS: In the mid-1960s, a decade after it first appeared in a holiday tale, this word came to be used for any mean killjoy grinch |
| #6949, aired 2014-11-27 | BODIES OF WATER: First encountered in 1648 by a man born in Russia, it was eventually named after a man born in Denmark the Bering Strait |
| #6932, aired 2014-11-04 | THE SUPREME COURT: After Washington & FDR, he is, perhaps fittingly, the president who appointed the most Supreme Court justices (William Howard) Taft |
| #6923, aired 2014-10-22 | EPONYMOUS GEOGRAPHY: Named around 1616, it's the world's fifth-largest island & the largest named after a person Baffin Island |
| #6910, aired 2014-10-03 | TV IN THE 2000s: A key scene of this sitcom's 2014 finale after 9 seasons was actually filmed in Season 2 How I Met Your Mother |
| #6907, aired 2014-09-30 | WORLD LEADERS: He came to power 34 days before FDR & left it 19 days after him Adolf Hitler |
| #6872, aired 2014-07-01 | THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE: The first official use of this 4-word term is at The Declaration's beginning, immediately after "The thirteen" "United States of America" |
| #6864, aired 2014-06-19 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY: Founded in 1908, this big company was removed from the S&P 500 in 2009 after filing for bankruptcy but returned in 2013 General Motors |
| #6843, aired 2014-05-21 | ORGANIZATIONS: The full name of this scholarly group founded after a lecture in 1660 includes "of London for Improving Natural Knowledge" the Royal Society |
| #6810, aired 2014-04-04 | 20th CENTURY NOVEL QUOTES: "It was one of those pictures... so contrived that the eyes follow you... beneath" the picture was this 5-word quote Big Brother is watching you |
| #6809, aired 2014-04-03 | 19th CENTURY POLITICS: In 1884 George Pillsbury became mayor of this city Minneapolis |
| #6808, aired 2014-04-02 | MONARCHS: In 2005 the Kul Sharif Mosque of Tatarstan was reopened 453 years after it was destroyed by this man Ivan the Terrible |
| #6789, aired 2014-03-06 | PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHORS: He's the most recent winner of 2 Pulitzer Prizes for Fiction, winning in 1982 & 1991 for books in the same series John Updike |
| #6781, aired 2014-02-24 | 19th CENTURY PEOPLE: Frederick Douglass said this man's "zeal in the cause of my race was far greater than mine" John Brown |
| #6778, aired 2014-02-19 | SHAKESPEARE CHARACTERS: He has the most speeches of any character with 471 in 3 plays, of which 2 are histories & 1 is a comedy Falstaff |
| #6773, aired 2014-02-12 | BIBLE CHARACTERS: "Take care of him", says the man called this in Luke 10 after giving money to an innkeeper the Good Samaritan |
| #6767, aired 2014-02-04 | 20th CENTURY WOMEN AUTHORS: Readers' letters to this author about her 1948 short story asked where the title event was held & if they could go & watch Shirley Jackson |
| #6759, aired 2014-01-23 | NOTABLE NAMES: During a jubilee celebration in 2003, he became the first foreigner to be made an honorary citizen of Nepal (Edmund) Hillary |
| #6728, aired 2013-12-11 | SPORTS TERM HISTORY: After throwing a long, last-second touchdown in 1975, Roger Staubach said, "I closed my eyes & said" this Hail Mary |
| #6721, aired 2013-12-02 | POP GROUPS: In 2012, 22 years after their first album, they released a new one that includes "Good Vibrations" & "Monday Monday" Wilson Phillips |
| #6709, aired 2013-11-14 | SYMBOLS: One legend says Clovis, king of the Franks, adopted this symbol after flowers revealed a safe river crossing for his army the fleur-de-lis |
| #6707, aired 2013-11-12 | HISTORIC OBJECTS: In 1802, 3 years after it was discovered, it was moved to London under the terms of the surrender of Alexandria the Rosetta Stone |
| #6688, aired 2013-10-16 | FEMALE SINGERS: In 2013 she became only the third female singer after Aretha Franklin & Madonna to chart over 40 Top 40 hits Taylor Swift |
| #6686, aired 2013-10-14 | BIG COUNTRIES: In area, it's the largest former Soviet republic after Russia & the largest nation that doesn't border an ocean Kazakhstan |
| #6659, aired 2013-07-25 | FRENCH HISTORY: Starting in 1349, this marine animal was on the coat of arms of the heir apparent to the French throne a dolphin |
| #6645, aired 2013-07-05 | U.S. PRESIDENTS: The only 2 men who were U.S. president 10 years to the day after their first inauguration Grover Cleveland & Franklin Roosevelt |
| #6623, aired 2013-06-05 | SPORTING EVENTS: An old name for this Olympic sporting event is the quinquertium the pentathlon |
| #6608, aired 2013-05-15 | FAMOUS EUROPEANS: After moving to Argentina in 1949, this industrialist was named a righteous gentile by Yad Vashem Oskar Schindler |
| #6605, aired 2013-05-10 | FAMOUS NAMES IN TRANSPORTATION: In 1928, a year after making international headlines, it reached its final destination, the Smithsonian the Spirit of St. Louis |
| #6557, aired 2013-03-05 | CLASSIC NOVELS: In this novel the title character says, "It is a bad omen" after a guard does not hear a train & is crushed Anna Karenina |
| #6552, aired 2013-02-26 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA: One of the 2 years in which 3 men served as president of the United States 1841 or 1881 |
| #6550, aired 2013-02-22 | ITALY: The Italian word for "shadow" is used as a local variation on the name of this region midway between Rome & Florence Umbria |
| #6540, aired 2013-02-08 | U.S. GOVERNMENT: Recently in the news, this agency traces its origins to an 1803 act helping Portsmouth, N.H. after a fire FEMA |
| #6524, aired 2013-01-17 | 19th CENTURY LITERARY INTRODUCTIONS: Title character who's "clad in black from head to foot, without a single speck of colour about him anywhere" Dracula |
| #6517, aired 2013-01-08 | PRESIDENTIAL DISTINCTIONS: Record holder for the longest time lived after leaving office Jimmy Carter |
| #6516, aired 2013-01-07 | AMERICAN SPORTS LEGENDS: A bio from 1974, 26 years after his death, quotes him: "I swing big... I hit big or I miss big. I like to live as big as I can" Babe Ruth |
| #6464, aired 2012-10-25 | WORLD LANGUAGES: Of the Romance languages, it has the greatest number of native speakers in a single country Portuguese |
| #6401, aired 2012-06-18 | FICTIONAL PAIRS: These 2 men first meet after one of them tells a friend, Stamford, of needing new lodgings in London Sherlock Holmes & Dr. Watson |
| #6396, aired 2012-06-11 | EVENTS IN THE BIBLE: Acts 1:13 says this event occurred in "an upper room" the Last Supper |
| #6387, aired 2012-05-29 | CLASSIC MYSTERY NOVELS: A letter in this mystery says, "We are going... to Luxor and Assuan by steamer, and perhaps on to Khartoum" Death on the Nile |
| #6332, aired 2012-03-13 | FICTIONAL WOMEN: After dying, she's described as having "too much of water", & her brother says, "therefore I forbid my tears" Ophelia |
| #6304, aired 2012-02-02 | 19th CENTURY AUTHORS: One of this author's greatest successes came after remarking, "I want to write about a fellow who was two fellows" Robert Louis Stevenson |
| #6300, aired 2012-01-27 | WORD & PHRASE ORIGINS: After living in Honduras, O. Henry coined this term for a small country dependent on a single export a banana republic |
| #6277, aired 2011-12-27 | PRESIDENTIAL INAUGURATIONS: His second inauguration marked the first time that women officially participated in the inaugural parade Woodrow Wilson |
| #6256, aired 2011-11-28 | 16th CENTURY NAMES: In 2010, 467 years after his death, this man at odds with the church was reburied with honors at a Polish cathedral Nicolaus Copernicus |
| #6244, aired 2011-11-10 | HOLLYWOOD HISTORY: They were the first 2 sisters ever nominated for the same acting Oscar in the same year Joan Fontaine & Olivia de Havilland |
| #6217, aired 2011-10-04 | EUROPEAN TRAVEL & TOURISM: Visited by 15 million people a year, this spot in Britain honors an 1805 battle fought elsewhere Trafalgar Square |
| #6204, aired 2011-07-28 | WORLD HISTORY: Surus was the last known one of these to survive a mountain crossing in the 3rd century B.C. an elephant |
| #6174, aired 2011-06-16 | 20th CENTURY NOVELS: Penned by a British author, it became a No. 1 bestseller in the U.S. in 1959, 31 years after it was initially banned Lady Chatterley's Lover |
| #6144, aired 2011-05-05 | WORLD LEADERS: Shortly after he received the 1990 Nobel Peace Prize, his country ceased to exist Mikhail Gorbachev |
| #6131, aired 2011-04-18 | BASEBALL GEOGRAPHY: After Alaska, it's the largest state in area without a Major League Baseball team Montana |
| #6127, aired 2011-04-12 | BASEBALL & THE PRESIDENCY: As both vice president & president, he threw out a season's 1st pitch, each time for a different Senators franchise Richard Nixon |
| #6103, aired 2011-03-09 | BRITISH ROYALTY: After the death in combat of the previous king, he became the last one to win the crown while on the battlefield Henry VII |
| #6100, aired 2011-03-04 | SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERIES: In 1919, barely 20 years after its discovery, it was the world's most expensive substance at $3 million an ounce radium |
| #6088, aired 2011-02-16 | 19th CENTURY NOVELISTS: William Wilkinson's "An Account of the Principalities of Wallachia and Moldavia" inspired this author's most famous novel Bram Stoker |
| #6077, aired 2011-02-01 | 20th CENTURY LEADERS: In 1950, 2 years after his murder, some of his ashes were enshrined at the Self-Realization Fellowship in Los Angeles Gandhi |
| #6071, aired 2011-01-24 | 19th CENTURY PEOPLE: After meeting him, Hawthorne said he had a "sallow, queer, sagacious visage" warmed by "homely human sympathies" Abraham Lincoln |
| #6048, aired 2010-12-22 | U.S. HISTORY: The day after the 15th Amendment took effect, Thomas Peterson became the 1st Afr. American to do this under its provisions vote |
| #6046, aired 2010-12-20 | 20th CENTURY NOVELISTS: A critic said that a character of his, "yearning for the moon... never saw the sixpence at his feet"; he made that into a title Somerset Maugham |
| #6044, aired 2010-12-16 | SKYSCRAPERS: After a construction boom fueled by oil & gas money, this capital city now has Europe's tallest building Moscow |
| #6042, aired 2010-12-14 | OLYMPICS HISTORY: In 1988 this country boycotted the Summer Olympics after its demand to co-host the games was refused North Korea |
| #6041, aired 2010-12-13 | COUNTRIES: In only 2 cases can you add 2 letters to one country & get another country: Austria/Australia & this pair Niger/Nigeria |
| #6038, aired 2010-12-08 | WORLD HISTORY: After the Royal Family fled to this country in 1807, it became the only one in South America from which a European country was ruled Brazil |
| #6014, aired 2010-11-04 | BURIED AT ARLINGTON: His grave notes his 1842 West Point graduation, his time at Ft. Sumter, Gettysburg & 2nd Bull Run, but does not mention sports Abner Doubleday |
| #5985, aired 2010-09-24 | PRESIDENTS: He served the shortest amount of time as president before running for & winning reelection to the job LBJ |
| #5982, aired 2010-09-21 | SPORTS & THE MEDIA: On February 8, 2010 the headline in a major newspaper in this city read, "Amen! After 43 Years, Our Prayers Are Answered" New Orleans |
| #5977, aired 2010-09-14 | LITERARY & MOVIE TITLE OBJECTS: The inspiration for this title object in a novel & a 1957 movie actually spanned the Mae Khlung River "The Bridge on the River Kwai" |
| #5963, aired 2010-07-14 | HISTORIC LASTS: In the "thanks a lot, fellas" department, Mongolia was the last country to join this group--August 9, 1945 the Allies |
| #5948, aired 2010-06-23 | HISTORIC DATES: The signing of the Treaty of Versailles on June 28, 1919 took place exactly 5 years after the related death of this man Archduke Franz Ferdinand |
| #5946, aired 2010-06-21 | AFTER THE PRESIDENCY: One of the 2 presidents to return to elected jobs in U.S. federal government after their final terms (1 of) John Quincy Adams or Andrew Johnson |
| #5929, aired 2010-05-27 | COLONIAL AFRICA: In 1945 Africa had only 4 independent countries; these 2 started with the same first letter Egypt & Ethiopia |
| #5912, aired 2010-05-04 | OFFICIAL STATE SONGS: In 1953 it became the only state whose official song was written for a Broadway musical Oklahoma |
| #5906, aired 2010-04-26 | U.S. PRESIDENTS: He's the only president sworn in on a Catholic missal; it wasn't his Lyndon Baines Johnson |
| #5883, aired 2010-03-24 | ANIMATED MOVIES: The answer to the title of this Oscar winner is Judge Doom Who Framed Roger Rabbit |
| #5865, aired 2010-02-26 | LANDMARKS: Begun in 1174, it was finally stabilized in May 2008, after more than 700 years of slow movement the Leaning Tower of Pisa |
| #5844, aired 2010-01-28 | 19th CENTURY ARTISTS: This Frenchman once said, "I will astonish Paris with an apple"--here are a few of them Paul Cézanne |
| #5833, aired 2010-01-13 | RECORD OF THE YEAR GRAMMY WINNERS: This song's recording session occurred right after the 1985 American Music Awards & lasted all night long "We Are The World" |
| #5788, aired 2009-11-11 | THE WORLD AFTER WWII: This peninsula was divided when Japan surrendered to the U.S. below the 38th parallel & to the Soviet Union north of it the Korean Peninsula |
| #5756, aired 2009-09-28 | OLD NAMES IN THE NEWS: After running pyramid schemes & spending time in federal prison, he was deported back to Italy in 1934 Carlo Ponzi |
| #5741, aired 2009-07-20 | POETS ON POETS: Longfellow began a poem about this earlier poet, "Tuscan, that wanderest through the realms of gloom" Dante Alighieri |
| #5738, aired 2009-07-15 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY: Other than Antarctica, the 2 continents without a landlocked country Australia & North America |
| #5735, aired 2009-07-10 | THE CALENDAR: This U.S. event was set after the harvest, on a day when rural folk could get there without having to travel on Sunday Election Day |
| #5709, aired 2009-06-04 | EUROPEAN LANDMARKS: Completed in 1791, it was reopened in 1989 after being closed for 28 years the Brandenburg Gate |
| #5707, aired 2009-06-02 | GEOGRAPHICAL LITERATURE: The first 2 sections of this Hemingway novel, published 9 years after his death, are titled "Bimini" & "Cuba" Islands in the Stream |
| #5673, aired 2009-04-15 | EXPLORERS: In 1611 Henry Greene led a successful mutiny against this captain, but soon after was killed by Eskimos Henry Hudson |
| #5665, aired 2009-04-03 | AUTHORS' LESSER-KNOWN NOVELS: A manipulative widow goes husband-hunting in "Lady Susan", finally published in 1871, 54 years after her death Jane Austen |
| #5656, aired 2009-03-23 | U.S. PRESIDENTS: You have to go back over a century to find him, the last president who never had a vice president Chester Arthur |
| #5644, aired 2009-03-05 | FRANCO-AMERICAN HISTORY: After a large French army was wiped out by yellow fever on this island in 1802, Napoleon decided to sell Louisiana Hispaniola (or Haiti) |
| #5637, aired 2009-02-24 | AMERICAN NOVELISTS: "What is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after", he wrote in 1932 Ernest Hemingway |
| #5635, aired 2009-02-20 | ANCIENT WORKS: Astronomers used clues in the text of this epic to figure out the date of its archery contest: April 16, 1178 B.C. The Odyssey |
| #5632, aired 2009-02-17 | AMERICAN BUSINESS: In 1945 Mr. & Mrs. Shoen founded it after no one locally would rent them a trailer for their move from L.A. to Portland U-Haul |
| #5606, aired 2009-01-12 | ENGLISH SPELLING: There are at least 50 common exceptions to the rule expressed by this popular rhyming mnemonic couplet I before E, except after C |
| #5578, aired 2008-12-03 | FAMOUS SCIENTISTS: Alexander Pope wrote the epitaph "Nature and nature's laws lay hid in night, God said, let" him "be and all was light" Isaac Newton |
| #5572, aired 2008-11-25 | IN THE NEWS 1952: Her final testament, read in public after her death, asked for protection of the poor workers she called grasitas Eva Peron |
| #5547, aired 2008-10-21 | PRESIDENTIAL FIRSTS: The first president to cross the Atlantic Ocean while in office, he did so to meet with other world leaders Wilson |
| #5516, aired 2008-09-08 | THE VATICAN: A statue of this man is being erected inside the Vatican's walls near where he was locked up in 1633 Galileo |
| #5507, aired 2008-07-15 | OLYMPIC CITIES: This city's Olympics were exactly 200 years after the death of the British cabinet secretary it was named for Sydney |
| #5503, aired 2008-07-09 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE: Her illustrations for 1890's "A Happy Pair" included elegantly dressed rabbits Beatrix Potter |
| #5498, aired 2008-07-02 | AFI's TOP 100 MOVIE QUOTES: This quote, No. 31 on the list, comes 2 minutes after the No. 1 quote, & is the last line of its movie After all, tomorrow is another day! |
| #5492, aired 2008-06-24 | WORLD ORGANIZATIONS: It was founded after Portuguese students were jailed for toasting freedom during Salazar's dictatorship Amnesty International |
| #5475, aired 2008-05-30 | WWII: FDR liked to rest near water, but because of fears after Pearl Harbor, this inland place was created for him Camp David |
| #5442, aired 2008-04-15 | WORLD LEADERS: Unable to say this future leader's tribal name, a teacher gave him a new name, perhaps after a British naval hero Nelson Mandela |
| #5439, aired 2008-04-10 | U.S. AGRICULTURE: In the 50 states, the highlighted area seen here is by far the most important for producing this coffee |
| #5423, aired 2008-03-19 | BEATLES TUNES: It's the Beatles' only U.S. No. 1 hit single whose title is the name of an actual place "Penny Lane" |
| #5404, aired 2008-02-21 | FAMOUS AMERICANS: In 1733 he wrote, "The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart" Benjamin Franklin |
| #5393, aired 2008-02-06 | WORLD AUTHORS: In 1898 he wrote, "As for the persons I have accused... they are... embodiments of social malfeasance" Émile Zola |
| #5368, aired 2008-01-02 | THE BOX OFFICE: Rated "R" for violence, this 2004 film set in ancient times is the highest-grossing "R" movie ever in the U.S. The Passion of the Christ |
| #5351, aired 2007-12-10 | LANDMARKS: The landmark site known to the Lakota as "6 Grandfathers" was renamed this after a prominent lawyer Mt. Rushmore |
| #5342, aired 2007-11-27 | CURRENT AMERICAN BUSINESS: This co.'s name is a variation on a word coined by Milton Sirotta & used in the book "Mathematics and the Imagination" Google, Inc. |
| #5332, aired 2007-11-13 | THE MOVIES: The title of this award-winning 1963 film refers to the number of films its director felt he had made to that point 8½ |
| #5299, aired 2007-09-27 | MEN OF MEDICINE: After giving birth in Paris, American Marjorie Karmel wrote "Thank You" him & co-founded an organization now named for him Dr. Fernand Lamaze |
| #5293, aired 2007-09-19 | 19th CENTURY INVENTIONS: One description of it said its "spokes look like cobwebs; they are after the fashion of those on the newest... bicycles" the Ferris Wheel |
| #5290, aired 2007-09-14 | BREAD: Larousse spread the tale that after a 17th Century triumph, the victors ate this as a symbol of the beaten Muslims croissants (crescent rolls) |
| #5289, aired 2007-09-13 | GREAT MOMENTS IN THE 20th CENTURY: On 9/20/1904, about 9 months after making a great advance, these 2 made another advance by going in a circle Orville and Wilbur Wright |
| #5282, aired 2007-07-24 | ANIMALS: The genus of this Asian animal is Ailuropoda, & its species name, appropriately, is melanoleuca the giant panda |
| #5257, aired 2007-06-19 | HISTORIC NAMES: This man's return to the U.S. in 1824, 47 years after his first trip here, added splendor to James Monroe's presidential term Marquis de Lafayette |
| #5240, aired 2007-05-25 | INAUGURAL ADDRESSES: This president said, "We remain accountable... for the reconstruction of Cuba as a free commonwealth" William McKinley |
| #5234, aired 2007-05-17 | CRIME TIME: The largest art theft in U.S. history was at 1:24 a.m. on this date in 1990, while Boston slumbered after partying March 18 |
| #5226, aired 2007-05-07 | U.S. STATES: Of all the U.S. states named after European monarchs, it's the one that reaches the farthest west Louisiana |
| #5224, aired 2007-05-03 | PRESIDENTIAL SUCCESSION: It's the name of the person next in the line of presidential succession after Robert Byrd Condoleezza Rice |
| #5198, aired 2007-03-28 | LITERARY FIGURES: Bono, Jim Sheridan & Liam Neeson were featured in a 2004 documentary honoring the 150th anniversary of the birth of this man Oscar Wilde |
| #5178, aired 2007-02-28 | PLAY & FILM TITLES: Erasmus called an English friend of his "omnium horarum homo", which became this title of a play & film A Man for All Seasons |
| #5177, aired 2007-02-27 | PHRASE ORIGINS: Meaning "not working properly", it may date back to a character in the comic strip "The Katzenjammer Kids" on the fritz |
| #5173, aired 2007-02-21 | EXPLORERS: In 1616, after Hudson died, this man became the 1st European to reach Ellesmere Island; an island & bay are named for him (William) Baffin |
| #5157, aired 2007-01-30 | IT HAPPENED IN NEW YORK CITY: On August 10, 2004, 2 days after her death at the age of 96, the Empire State Building dimmed its lights for 15 minutes in her memory Fay Wray |
| #5152, aired 2007-01-23 | BUSINESS INNOVATIONS: In 1709 an Italian settled at this German city & made a new product using oil of bergamot Cologne |
| #5144, aired 2007-01-11 | AMERICAN THEATRE HISTORY: This 1943 musical is based on a 1931 play that featured Tex Ritter as a cowboy & Lee Strasberg as a peddler Oklahoma! |
| #5143, aired 2007-01-10 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY: Just for grins, in 1986 this industrialist acquired a stake in Church & Dwight, maker of a baking soda Armand Hammer |
| #5138, aired 2007-01-03 | NOVEL INSPIRATIONS: Novel inspired by a vision of a "pale student of unhallowed arts kneeling beside the thing he had put together" Frankenstein |
| #5137, aired 2007-01-02 | HOLIDAY STUFF: In an 1850 essay Charles Dickens called it "that pretty German toy" a Christmas tree |
| #5133, aired 2006-12-27 | 19th CENTURY PRESIDENTS: Against bitterly divided Democrats, he won with the second-lowest percentage of the popular vote in history, 39.8% Abraham Lincoln |
| #5131, aired 2006-12-25 | HOLY PLACES: The elevated area where the Dome of the Rock sits is commonly called this, after a different religious building the Temple Mount (in Jerusalem) |
| #5122, aired 2006-12-12 | CHIEF JUSTICES: He wrote that if a person in custody "cannot afford an attorney, one will be appointed for him... if he so desires" Earl Warren |
| #5102, aired 2006-11-14 | THE UNITED NATIONS: Of the 5 permanent members of the U.N. Security Council, the one that's the smallest in area the United Kingdom |
| #5058, aired 2006-09-13 | VICE PRESIDENTS: The 2 GOP vice presidents who succeeded to the presidency & were later elected president in their own right Theodore Roosevelt & Calvin Coolidge |
| #5033, aired 2006-06-28 | WORLD EVENTS: In 2003, 120 years after it made headlines, a book on this was subtitled "The Day the World Exploded" the eruption of Krakatoa |
| #5021, aired 2006-06-12 | U.S. NEWSPAPERS: During the American Revolution, this New England newspaper had the USA's highest circulation; it's still in the top 50 the Hartford Courant |
| #4986, aired 2006-04-24 | ROCKS & MINERALS: Mines near Ticonderoga, New York were once the USA's principal source for this 8-letter mineral graphite |
| #4968, aired 2006-03-29 | 20th CENTURY THEATER: This play ends with 1 character asking, "Well? Shall we go?"; the other replies, "Yes, let's go", but they do not move Waiting for Godot |
| #4966, aired 2006-03-27 | MILITARY HISTORY: In 2005 a single sapling was planted at an army barracks in Australia to mark the 90th anniversary of this battle Gallipoli |
| #4965, aired 2006-03-24 | HISTORIC NAMES: When Alexander Hamilton & James Monroe nearly met in a duel, this man interceded & defused the situation Aaron Burr |
| #4959, aired 2006-03-16 | FOOD LORE: In food lore, the design of this treat symbolizes arms folded in prayer & the 3 holes stand for the Trinity the pretzel |
| #4956, aired 2006-03-13 | AMERICAN HISTORY: Henry Laurens, Thomas Mifflin & Richard Henry Lee were presidents of this body that only lasted for about 15 years the Continental Congress |
| #4933, aired 2006-02-08 | MILESTONES: In 1994, 25 years after this event, 1 participant said, "For one crowning moment, we were creatures of the cosmic ocean" the Apollo 11 landing on the Moon |
| #4931, aired 2006-02-06 | FAMOUS SHIPS: On December 27, 1831 it departed Plymouth, England to map the coastline of South America the HMS Beagle |
| #4930, aired 2006-02-03 | NOTABLE WOMEN: In 1967 Dame Cicely Saunders founded St. Christopher's, the first modern one of these; in 2005 she died there a hospice |
| #4929, aired 2006-02-02 | CHARACTERS IN 18th CENTURY PLAYS: This Englishwoman's name comes from the French for "badly suited to the purpose" Mrs. Malaprop |
| #4911, aired 2006-01-09 | BODIES OF WATER: This sea's south boundary is a line from the southern tip of India to the eastern tip of Africa the Arabian Sea |
| #4898, aired 2005-12-21 | LINES FROM LINCOLN: Though it's not accurate, this meaning of the word "Mississippi" appears in one of Lincoln's most famous lines father of waters |
| #4890, aired 2005-12-09 | 20th CENTURY INNOVATIONS: After watching smoke emitted by WWI airplanes, Major J.C. Savage developed the technique for this skywriting |
| #4878, aired 2005-11-23 | THE UNITED NATIONS: In 1994, after a 20-year absence, this country's delegation was allowed to be seated in the U.N. General Assembly South Africa |
| #4863, aired 2005-11-02 | FAMOUS EXPRESSIONS: This cliche about superfluousness is derived from criticism of a 2nd coronation in Shakespeare's "King John" gilding the lily |
| #4862, aired 2005-11-01 | THE OLD WEST: This outlaw's father, a minister, gave him his first & middle names after an 18th century English clergyman John Wesley Hardin |
| #4838, aired 2005-09-28 | THE 1980s: On May 18, 1980 its height was reduced from 9,677 feet to 8,364 feet Mount Saint Helens |
| #4826, aired 2005-09-12 | BROADWAY MUSICALS: "No matter how hopeless, no matter how far, to fight for the right without question" is from this show Man of La Mancha |
| #4792, aired 2005-06-07 | NOTORIOUS: In 1934 in Chicago, soon before his death, he had painful plastic surgery that left him looking pretty much the same John Dillinger |
| #4777, aired 2005-05-17 | FAMILIAR PHRASES: This 5-word rule or maxim has been attributed to both H. Gordon Selfridge & John Wanamaker The customer is always right |
| #4769, aired 2005-05-05 | FEMALE FIRSTS: After 285 years, in 1945 this British organization inducted its first women, including Kathleen Lonsdale, seen here the Royal Society |
| #4748, aired 2005-04-06 | FAMOUS PLACES: The appearance of this famous site gave England its old name of Albion the White Cliffs of Dover |
| #4741, aired 2005-03-28 | U.S. PRESIDENTS: He's the only U.S. president to serve in the Senate after leaving the White House Andrew Johnson |
| #4740, aired 2005-03-25 | 12-LETTER WORDS: A chemist in the 1920s coined this term after finding lavender oil not only hid the odor of his burnt hand but also healed it aromatherapy |
| #4721, aired 2005-02-28 | COLLEGE LIBRARIES: Built in memory of a victim of this tragedy, Harvard's Widener Library was opened in 1915 the sinking of the Titanic |
| #4710, aired 2005-02-11 | 1930s MOVIES: This film that originally hit the big screen in 1930 was re-released soon after the German invasion of Poland All Quiet on the Western Front |
| #4697, aired 2005-01-25 | 18th CENTURY POETRY: 18th c. poem that says, "Forever cursed be this detested day, Which snatched my best, my favorite curl away!" "The Rape of the Lock" |
| #4692, aired 2005-01-18 | BRANDS: This brand's airtight seal, introduced in 1946, was patterned after the inverted rim of a paint can Tupperware |
| #4684, aired 2005-01-06 | EUROPE: After being subdued by the Franks in the 700s, this people formed a kingdom at Pamplona in the 800s the Basques |
| #4681, aired 2005-01-03 | MILITARY MATTERS: According to the CIA, this foreign country has the highest military expenditures per capita Israel |
| #4679, aired 2004-12-30 | VICE PRESIDENTS: He was the first vice president to cast zero tiebreaking votes in his capacity as president of the Senate John Tyler |
| #4678, aired 2004-12-29 | ISLANDS: Just days after the attack on Pearl Harbor, it became the first U.S. possession occupied by the Japanese Guam |
| #4668, aired 2004-12-15 | HISTORIC MESSAGES: In 1943 he sent the famous message "Eleven alive native knows posit and reefs Nauru Island" John Fitzgerald Kennedy |
| #4632, aired 2004-10-26 | AUTHORS: After several decades off it, works by this man seen here returned to the New York Times Bestseller List in 2003 J.R.R. Tolkien |
| #4624, aired 2004-10-14 | FAMOUS AMERICANS: After his public comments were criticized by FDR, he resigned his Air Corps Reserve commission in April 1941 Charles Lindbergh |
| #4618, aired 2004-10-06 | 2004: On Monday, December 13, 3 people designated these will meet in Cheyenne, Wyoming to help decide the world's future electors |
| #4616, aired 2004-10-04 | POETS: Called the 2 most innovative 19th century American poets, one didn't read the other after being "told that he was disgraceful" Emily Dickinson & Walt Whitman |
| #4610, aired 2004-09-24 | CHILDREN'S AUTHORS: After WWI he wrote, "To develop a horse-surgery… would necessitate a knowledge of horse language" Hugh Lofting (author of the Doctor Dolittle books) |
| #4595, aired 2004-07-23 | SHAKESPEARE: 2 of the 4 Shakespeare plays in which ghosts appear on stage (2 of) Hamlet, Julius Caesar, Macbeth & Richard III |
| #4586, aired 2004-07-12 | NAMES IN THE BIBLE: Daniel means "God is my judge", Ezekiel, "God strengthens"; & this name in Genesis 32, "he strives with God" Israel |
| #4584, aired 2004-07-08 | FICTIONAL PEOPLE: After a 58-year flirtation, this woman called it off temporarily in issue No. 720 Lois Lane |
| #4570, aired 2004-06-18 | THE 16th CENTURY: In 1582 the man born Ugo Buoncompagni proclaimed this solar dating system still used today the Gregorian calendar |
| #4550, aired 2004-05-21 | EXPLORATION: He wrote in his diary, "The loss of pony transport in March 1911 obliged me to start later than I had intended" Robert Falcon Scott |
| #4545, aired 2004-05-14 | THE U.S. SENATE: In the year 1958, the U.S. Senate was made up of this many members 96 |
| #4539, aired 2004-05-06 | INVENTIONS: 11-year-old Frank Epperson invented this by accident when his fruit drink froze after being left outside overnight the popsicle |
| #4525, aired 2004-04-16 | AMERICAN ENTERTAINERS: "Evita"'s "Don't Cry for Me Argentina" was inspired by a 1969 concert of hers in London; she left the stage after 15 minutes Judy Garland |
| #4481, aired 2004-02-16 | JOBS: In this job, after the Senate confirms you, you sign your name at least 5 times, then pick one to be engraved U.S. Treasurer or U.S. Treasury Secretary |
| #4475, aired 2004-02-06 | 19th CENTURY PHILOSOPHY: This 3-word quote, originally in German, comes soon after "We have killed him--you and I, all of us are his murderers" "God is dead" |
| #4424, aired 2003-11-27 | LONG-RUNNING TV SHOWS: The final words uttered on this TV show after 11 seasons on the air were "Sorry, we're closed" Cheers |
| #4415, aired 2003-11-14 | STATE CAPITALS: 2 of the 3 state capitals with 5-letter names (2 of) Boise, Salem & Dover |
| #4406, aired 2003-11-03 | CANDY: This person after whom a candy bar may have been named was part of a family on an 1892 Election Day souvenir medal Ruth Cleveland |
| #4368, aired 2003-09-10 | CHARLES LINDBERGH: After landing in Paris in 1927 Lindbergh filed an exclusive report to newspapers in 2 cities, New York & this St. Louis |
| #4313, aired 2003-05-07 | FAMOUS ESTATES: After the U.S. government declined to buy this estate & tomb, a ladies association bought it for $200,000 in 1858 Mount Vernon |
| #4312, aired 2003-05-06 | LEGAL HISTORY: After killing his wife's lover in Washington, D.C. in 1859, Rep. Daniel Sickles was the 1st to claim this, a 2-word term temporary insanity |
| #4304, aired 2003-04-24 | POLITICAL JARGON: This 2-word term was first used to describe advisors who spoke to the press after a 1984 Reagan-Mondale debate spin doctors |
| #4276, aired 2003-03-17 | SCIENCE: As it has no mass, this particle travels at about 186,000 miles per second photon |
| #4275, aired 2003-03-14 | THE MOVIES: The DVD of this 1961 film includes "picture-in-picture commentary on how to make the trick shots" The Hustler |
| #4239, aired 2003-01-23 | HISTORIC NAMES: In 2002 Christie's auctioned off his own account of his 48-day journey & his coconut cup with the date April 1789 on it Captain William Bligh (after he got bounced off the Bounty) |
| #4198, aired 2002-11-27 | U.S. PRESIDENTS: 1 of the 3 U.S. Presidents to run on a third-party ticket after having already served as president (1 of) Teddy Roosevelt, Martin Van Buren & Millard Fillmore |
| #4165, aired 2002-10-11 | FAMOUS AMERICANS: In 1785 he wrote that "After fifty years' service in public affairs", he wanted to "make plenty of experiments" Benjamin Franklin |
| #4139, aired 2002-09-05 | TECHNOLOGY: After a demonstration of this, the April 8, 1927 New York Times said, "Commercial use in doubt" television |
| #4128, aired 2002-07-10 | HISTORIC PEOPLE: He once said, "If I can make a deaf-mute talk, I can make metal talk" Alexander Graham Bell |
| #4122, aired 2002-07-02 | 1980s BUSINESS: In his job since 1984, this man has been called "the Prince who awakened Sleeping Beauty" Michael Eisner |
| #4121, aired 2002-07-01 | FILMS OF THE 1930s: Parts of "I Pagliacci" & "Il trovatore" are performed in this 1935 comedy A Night at the Opera |
| #4119, aired 2002-06-27 | LITERARY HEROINES: This literary character was inspired by Delphine Delamare, whose adultery led to her 1848 suicide Madame Bovary |
| #4109, aired 2002-06-13 | MEDICAL WORDS: After ether's first use in surgery, O.W. Holmes coined this word from the Greek for the condition it produced anesthesia |
| #4098, aired 2002-05-29 | LITERATURE & GEOGRAPHY: Zhongdian County in Southwest China has renamed itself after this fabled land from a 1933 book Shangri-La |
| #4092, aired 2002-05-21 | NEWSMAKERS: In May 2001 he said, "Vermont has always been known for its independence" Jim Jeffords |
| #4085, aired 2002-05-10 | KNOWLEDGE BY THE NUMBERS: Number of males who served as British PM in the 1990s plus Oscars won by Tom Hanks plus protons in a helium nucleus 6 (2 + 2 + 2) |
| #4060, aired 2002-04-05 | AUTHORS: Like one of his most famous heroines, he died at a train station in 1910 Tolstoy |
| #4053, aired 2002-03-27 | IN THE BOOKSTORE: Editor Otto Penzler dubbed his 2001 lineup of baseball mysteries this after a nickname given a 1927 lineup Murderers' Row |
| #4023, aired 2002-02-13 | STATE CAPITALS: This least populous state capital falls alphabetically immediately after Alabama's Montpelier, Vermont |
| #4015, aired 2002-02-01 | AMERICAN COMPOSERS: Rachmaninoff & Heifetz watched Paul Whiteman conduct the 1924 premiere of a milestone work by this composer Gershwin |
| #3994, aired 2002-01-03 | FAMILIAR PHARASES: This 2-word term entered the English language after a pilot reported seeing 9 of them near Mt. Rainier in June 1947 flying saucers |
| #3992, aired 2002-01-01 | CLASSIC TV CHARACTERS: In a real ceremony in 2001, the Marines promoted this character to Lance Cpl. after he was a private for over 30 years Gomer Pyle |
| #3941, aired 2001-10-22 | INTERNATIONAL COASTLINES: It's the only country bordering the Caspian Sea that was not a member of the Soviet Union Iran |
| #3940, aired 2001-10-19 | MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL TEAM NAMES: This team received its name after an 1890 incident in which it "stole" away an important player from another team Pittsburgh Pirates |
| #3909, aired 2001-09-06 | HISTORIC NAMES: In 1978, Congress restored U.S. citizenship to this man seen here Jefferson Davis |
| #3894, aired 2001-07-05 | CELEBRITIES: On August 28, 2000 a statue of this late actor was unveiled at the Port Authority Bus Terminal in New York Jackie Gleason |
| #3880, aired 2001-06-15 | NAMES IN THE NEWS: On December 16, 2000, the day after his graduation, LSU retired his No. 33 jersey Shaquille O'Neal |
| #3873, aired 2001-06-06 | AFTER THE PRESIDENCY: This 20th century U.S. president lived the longest amount of time after his term as president: 31 years, 231 days Herbert Hoover (lived to age 90 in 1964) |
| #3866, aired 2001-05-28 | NATIONAL HISTORIC SITES: This National Historic Site was reopened as a theater in 1968 after 103 years Ford's Theater |
| #3786, aired 2001-02-05 | FAMOUS SHIPS: In December 1620 this vessel came ashore at a secondary destination because of a shortage of beer the Mayflower |
| #3777, aired 2001-01-23 | FAMOUS AMERICANS: After his death in 1994 at age 81, Time magazine put him on its cover for a record 55th time Richard M. Nixon |
| #3717, aired 2000-10-31 | MEDICAL CONDITIONS: Named for the outline it commonly produces, it affects about 40 million U.S. men male pattern baldness |
| #3716, aired 2000-10-30 | IN THE NEWS 2000: 40 years after a famous incident, he was awarded a DFC, POW Medal & Natl. Defense Service Medal posthumously Francis Gary Powers |
| #3688, aired 2000-09-20 | NEWSPAPERS: Sime Silverman founded it in 1905 after he was fired from another paper for panning a show Variety |
| #3685, aired 2000-09-15 | EXPLORERS: He joined the London Missionary Society in 1838; after graduating medical school in 1840 he hoped to be sent to China David Livingstone |
| #3678, aired 2000-09-06 | XYZ AFFAIR: As part of the U.S. Treaty Negotiation Team, this future VP under Madison knew where to "draw the lines" Elbridge Gerry |
| #3607, aired 2000-04-18 | WORLD WAR II BATTLES: In 1998 Bill Surgi helped locate the sunken aircraft carrier Yorktown, a ship he last saw during this WWII battle Midway |
| #3591, aired 2000-03-27 | FAMOUS WOMEN: This woman who made death masks of guillotine victims took the Bastille gate key after the 1789 storming Marie Tussaud |
| #3588, aired 2000-03-22 | HISTORIC PEOPLE: After his 1955 death, his papers were given to Jerusalem's Hebrew Univ. & his violin was left to his grandson Albert Einstein |
| #3582, aired 2000-03-14 | ORGANIZATIONS: After the decline of cathedral building in the 1600s, this organization began to accept non-stoneworkers the Masons |
| #3561, aired 2000-02-14 | HISTORIC QUOTATIONS: According to Suetonius it was inscribed on a parade wagon after the 5-day Pontic campaign of 47 B.C. "Veni, Vidi, Vici" ("I came, I saw, I conquered") |
| #3534, aired 2000-01-06 | NONFICTION AUTHORS: First published in 1946, a book written by this man became the bestselling book in the U.S. after the Bible Dr. Benjamin Spock ("Baby and Child Care") |
| #3530, aired 1999-12-31 | TODAY'S SPORTS STARS: He was named after Japanese beef Kobe Bryant |
| #3505, aired 1999-11-26 | HIGHWAYS & BYWAYS: 2 of the 4 20th century U.S. presidents after whom streets in Paris are named (2 of) Eisenhower, Kennedy, Franklin Roosevelt & Wilson |
| #3486, aired 1999-11-01 | 20th CENTURY AUTHORS: His "Fictional Memoir" about his last African safari was published in 1999, 38 years after his death Ernest Hemingway |
| #3480, aired 1999-10-22 | SISTER CITIES: San Francisco, California is a sister city to this one in Italy Assisi (named after St. Francis of Assisi) |
| #3459, aired 1999-09-23 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA: This politician died on June 3, 1861, 39 days after giving a speech in Springfield, Illinois supporting the Union Stephen Douglas |
| #3451, aired 1999-09-13 | HISTORIC ARTIFACTS: In 1996 it came home to Scotland after 700 years Stone of Scone |
| #3446, aired 1999-09-06 | FAMOUS AMERICANS: On July 20, 1999 it was 30 years since this man said, "Houston... the Eagle has landed" Neil Armstrong |
| #3414, aired 1999-06-10 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY: In 1903 Morris Michtom of New York began marketing these with presidential permission Teddy Bears (named after Theodore Roosevelt) |
| #3365, aired 1999-04-02 | STATUES: Its face was modeled after the features of Auguste-Charlotte Bartholdi Statue of Liberty |
| #3324, aired 1999-02-04 | FAMOUS NICKNAMES: This famous 20th century nickname is the Argentinian equivalent of "Y'know?" or "Hey, you!" Che (for Che Guevara, who was born in Argentina) |
| #3294, aired 1998-12-24 | CLASSIC MOVIES & TELEVISION: Bert & Ernie of "Sesame Street" are named after characters in this classic Christmas film It's a Wonderful Life |
| #3266, aired 1998-11-16 | THESE UNITED STATES: This body meets on the first Monday after the second Wednesday in December, but only once every 4 years The Electoral College |
| #3257, aired 1998-11-03 | 20th CENTURY WOMEN: At this woman's April 1998 funeral, Gloria Steinem called her "The woman we want to be after the revolution" Bella Abzug |
| #3237, aired 1998-10-06 | AMERICAN SYMBOLS: In 1944 Smokey Bear replaced this Disney character as the symbol of the U.S. Forest Service Bambi |
| #3184, aired 1998-06-04 | 1998 BESTSELLERS: 35 years after her death, she's the subject of a new collection of poems by her husband Sylvia Plath (husband is Ted Hughes) |
| #3161, aired 1998-05-04 | GREEK MYTHOLOGY: Pytho, the site of Apollo's oracle, was renamed this after Apollo appeared disguised as a sea creature Delphi |
| #3158, aired 1998-04-29 | AWARDS: This international organization won the first Nobel Peace Prize given after the start of World War II the (International) Red Cross |
| #3138, aired 1998-04-01 | APRIL 1 IN HISTORY: April 1 is the anniversary of the Battle of Five Forks, the last decisive battle of this war the Civil War |
| #3100, aired 1998-02-06 | U.S. CITIES: This historic city was named for the Bishop of Hippo on whose feast day the area was first sighted St. Augustine, Florida |
| #3075, aired 1998-01-02 | IN THE NEWS 1997: 50 years after a famous incident, this city got a new flag, seen here, featuring a mysterious dot in the sky: Roswell, New Mexico |
| #3018, aired 1997-10-15 | 20th CENTURY NOVELISTS: After success writing in English, he & his son Dmitri translated some of his earlier Russian novels Vladimir Nabokov |
| #3001, aired 1997-09-22 | FOOD & DRINK HISTORY: Its original name meant "bitter water" & it was made palatable to Europeans after the Spaniards added sugar chocolate |
| #2989, aired 1997-09-04 | REPUBLICANS: He died in Topeka October 12, 1987, a month after his 100th birthday Alf Landon |
| #2954, aired 1997-06-05 | AUTOBIOGRAPHIES: In 1791, one year after his death, part of this American's autobiography was published in Paris as "Memoires" Benjamin Franklin |
| #2925, aired 1997-04-25 | U.S. PRESIDENTS: 2 of the 5 presidents in the 20th century who were former U.S. senators (2 of) Warren Harding, Harry Truman, John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson & Richard Nixon |
| #2901, aired 1997-03-24 | SCIENCE: Not long after its development, Robert Boyle renamed the Torricellian Tube this Barometer |
| #2868, aired 1997-02-05 | RULERS: In 44 B.C. he was made dictator for life, a post abolished after he died the same year Julius Caesar |
| #2843, aired 1997-01-01 | AUTHORS: In 1996, 7 years after giving up law, he returned to a Mississippi courtroom & won a case for an old client John Grisham |
| #2780, aired 1996-10-04 | 15th CENTURY MEN: In 1482 he told the Duke of Milan that he could "make armored wagons to carry artillery" Leonardo da Vinci |
| #2724, aired 1996-06-06 | INVENTORS: In 1856 he addressed a British scientific association on "the manufacture of iron without fuel" Henry Bessemer |
| #2714, aired 1996-05-23 | INVENTIONS: Swiss inventor George de Mestral created this after closely examining burrs stuck to his pants velcro |
| #2704, aired 1996-05-09 | U.S. CITIES: This North Carolina city was the 1st in the U.S. to name itself after the Marquis de Lafayette Fayetteville |
| #2700, aired 1996-05-03 | MYTHOLOGY: King Agamemnon was killed on his return to Greece after ignoring the warnings of this woman, his slave Cassandra |
| #2685, aired 1996-04-12 | ARTISTS: At a May 1995 auction, a painting by her sold for $3.2 million, barely topping one by her husband Frida Kahlo |
| #2678, aired 1996-04-03 | FAMOUS WOMEN: At the first U.N. meeting, held in 1946 in London, she was the only woman in the U.S. delegation Eleanor Roosevelt |
| #2643, aired 1996-02-14 | LAKES: After Lake Michigan, it's the largest natural lake entirely within the U.S. Great Salt Lake |
| #2642, aired 1996-02-13 | EXPLORERS: For many years after his death in 1324, he was considered Europe's greatest liar Marco Polo |
| #2617, aired 1996-01-09 | ENGLISH POETS: "Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind" precedes a famous line from his works (John) Donne |
| #2608, aired 1995-12-27 | ADVERTISING SYMBOLS: In a 1945 poll she ranked as the best-known woman in America after Eleanor Roosevelt Betty Crocker |
| #2577, aired 1995-11-14 | NOTABLE WOMEN: She said she healed from a near-fatal fall after reading a passage from the Bible in 1866 Mary Baker Eddy |
| #2557, aired 1995-10-17 | U.S. STATES: After Alaska, this state has the greatest difference between its highest & lowest points California |
| #2537, aired 1995-09-19 | NOTABLE WOMEN: In 1995, 61 years after her death, she became the 1st woman entombed in France's Pantheon in her own right Marie Curie |
| #2528, aired 1995-09-06 | FAMOUS WOMEN: Of a famous 1955 event she said, "My only concern was to get home after a hard day's work" Rosa Parks |
| #2522, aired 1995-07-18 | 20th CENTURY MONARCHS: This king fathered 6 children, 2 of whom reigned after him as British monarchs George V |
| #2462, aired 1995-04-25 | PRESIDENTS: Emily Tennessee Donelson served as his hostess because his wife died 7 weeks after the election Andrew Jackson |
| #2408, aired 1995-02-08 | BODIES OF WATER: When Jim Bridger discovered this body of water in 1824, he mistook it for an arm of the Pacific the Great Salt Lake |
| #2383, aired 1995-01-04 | UNIVERSITIES: The golden spike removed after the May 10, 1869 ceremony is now at this university Stanford |
| #2341, aired 1994-11-07 | U.S. LANDMARKS: James Hoban, who designed & built this, had to rebuild it after a fire in 1814 the White House |
| #2281, aired 1994-07-04 | SPACE EXPLORATION 1994: The USA's 1st lunar probe in 21 years is named this because after the mission it'll be "lost and gone forever" Clementine |
| #2279, aired 1994-06-30 | IN THE NEWS: In 1994 the Navy named a new class of cargo ships after this entertainer Bob Hope |
| #2276, aired 1994-06-27 | WORLD CITIES: Now a national capital, Gurkha kings made it their capital after capturing it in 1768 Katmandu |
| #2261, aired 1994-06-06 | BRITISH HISTORY: Over 300 years after his 1658 death, his head was laid to rest by his alma mater, a college at Cambridge Oliver Cromwell |
| #2198, aired 1994-03-09 | U.S. PRESIDENTS: 1 of only 2 men elected to Congress after serving as president John Quincy Adams or Andrew Johnson |
| #2167, aired 1994-01-25 | AMERICAN NOVELS: The first sentence of this 1957 novel is "I first met Dean not long after my wife and I split up" On the Road |
| #2162, aired 1994-01-18 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES: A Massachusetts city & college are named after this British commander at the 1759 capture of Ticonderoga Amherst |
| #2144, aired 1993-12-23 | MAGAZINES: After the TV show premiered in 1964, The New Yorker wouldn't allow this family in its cartoons the Addams family |
| #2143, aired 1993-12-22 | ORGANIZATIONS: This organization was dissolved in 1956 after its last member, Albert Woolson, died at age 109 the Grand Army of the Republic |
| #2137, aired 1993-12-14 | THE OSCARS: His 1991 Supporting Actor Oscar came nearly 40 years after his 1st nomination for "Sudden Fear" Jack Palance |
| #2135, aired 1993-12-10 | WORD ORIGINS: This word for mass destruction once referred to the killing of every 10th Roman soldier after a mutiny decimation |
| #2107, aired 1993-11-02 | PULITZER PRIZE WINNERS: Since 1952 he's hosted a weekday talk & interview show on Chicago's fine arts radio station WFMT Studs Terkel |
| #2078, aired 1993-09-22 | THE U.S. CONGRESS: This state lost the most seats in the House of Representatives, 3, after the 1990 census New York |
| #2071, aired 1993-09-13 | LAKES: 2 of this large lake's biggest gulfs are Emin Pasha in the southwest & Speke in the southeast Lake Victoria |
| #2052, aired 1993-07-06 | PRESIDENTIAL INAUGURATIONS: He used more words in his one inaugural address than FDR used in all four of his William Henry Harrison |
| #2049, aired 1993-07-01 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY: The Brooklyn Flint Glass Works changed its name to this after moving to a N.Y. town of the same name Corning |
| #2028, aired 1993-06-02 | AFRICA: Blantyre, the largest city in Malawi, is named after this missionary's birthplace David Livingstone |
| #2025, aired 1993-05-28 | WORLD AIRLINES: This airline's business class is named for Marco Polo Cathay Pacific |
| #2019, aired 1993-05-20 | HISTORIC NAMES: In 1529 this Spaniard was made Marques del Valle de Oaxaca Hernán Cortés |
| #1979, aired 1993-03-25 | ISLANDS: After its ruler left February 26, 1815, this island was restored to Tuscany Elba |
| #1978, aired 1993-03-24 | GOVERNORS: The first President after Franklin Roosevelt who had also been a state governor Jimmy Carter |
| #1966, aired 1993-03-08 | U.S. CITIES: Abraham Lincoln's first home in Illinois was near this city named after a naval hero Decatur |
| #1942, aired 1993-02-02 | HISTORIC NAMES: A U.S. naval squadron brought back his remains from France in 1905, 113 years after his death John Paul Jones |
| #1919, aired 1992-12-31 | GOVERNORS: This governor sent in the militia after the 1919 Boston police strike was under control (Calvin) Coolidge |
| #1891, aired 1992-11-23 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS: He retired after the only woman he ever loved, opera singer Irene Adler, passed away Sherlock Holmes |
| #1890, aired 1992-11-20 | PRESIDENTS' HOMES: The exterior of the governor's mansion in Florida is modeled after the home of this president Andrew Jackson |
| #1879, aired 1992-11-05 | EXPLORERS: He died after his ship the St. Peter was wrecked in the Komandorskiye Islands in 1741 Vitus Bering |
| #1877, aired 1992-11-03 | AMERICAN HISTORY: His left arm is buried at Ellwood Farm near Fredericksburg, Virginia Stonewall Jackson |
| #1867, aired 1992-10-20 | MEN OF SCIENCE: In 1927, a year after his death, his autobiography "Harvest of the Years" was published Luther Burbank |
| #1847, aired 1992-09-22 | THE SOVIET UNION: After this hero's death in 1968, the town of Gzhatsk was renamed in his honor Yuri Gagarin |
| #1839, aired 1992-09-10 | SHIPS: This British navy ship left Devenport Dec. 27, 1831 & went around the world on a 5-year survey mission the HMS Beagle |
| #1830, aired 1992-07-10 | 20th CENTURY WOMEN: This legendary 71-year-old performer, the widow of a diplomat, died in Panama in 1991 Margot Fonteyn |
| #1828, aired 1992-07-08 | NATIONS OF THE WORLD: In one of its official languages, this country is called Repiblik Dayti Haiti |
| #1771, aired 1992-04-20 | MONARCHS: After more than 40 years in exile, King Michael returned to this country in 1990 only to be expelled again Romania |
| #1754, aired 1992-03-26 | WORLD BUSINESS: After a heraldic lion was placed over its entrance in 1522, a German brewery took this name Lowenbrau |
| #1740, aired 1992-03-06 | 20th CENTURY VICE PRESIDENTS: The only VP to become president not immediately after his vice presidential term Richard Nixon |
| #1707, aired 1992-01-21 | U.S.A.: This community outside Washington, D.C. is named after a Presbyterian church built there in 1820 Bethesda, Maryland |
| #1698, aired 1992-01-08 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY: These 2 brothers-in-law merged their soap- & candle-making businesses in 1837 Procter & Gamble |
| #1687, aired 1991-12-24 | HISTORIC ROUTES: Also called the "Regina Viarum", Queen of Roads, it was named after the censor who started it the Appian Way |
| #1632, aired 1991-10-08 | SPACE EXPLORATION: After his Mercury flight, he named his Gemini capsule "Molly Brown" Gus Grissom |
| #1608, aired 1991-09-04 | U.S. PRESIDENTS: He was the 1st Democrat elected president after the Civil War (Grover) Cleveland |
| #1603, aired 1991-07-17 | MUSICIANS: This famed musician disappeared on December 16, 1944 & was never found Glenn Miller |
| #1595, aired 1991-07-05 | SHAKESPEARE: In "Hamlet", this character says, "The apparel oft proclaims the man" Polonius |
| #1575, aired 1991-06-07 | U.S. CITIES: Marietta, Ohio, made capital of the Northwest Territory in 1788, was named after this person Marie Antoinette |
| #1569, aired 1991-05-30 | FINAL RESTING PLACES: More than 100 years after his death, he was reburied with honors at the U.S. Naval Academy in 1913 John Paul Jones |
| #1564, aired 1991-05-23 | ACTRESSES: In NYC in 1955 she said, "An actress's life is so transitory--suddenly you're a building" Helen Hayes |
| #1556, aired 1991-05-13 | BRITISH HISTORY: In 1661, 2 1/2 years after his death, his body was exhumed & hanged at Tyburn Oliver Cromwell |
| #1548, aired 1991-05-01 | SHAKESPEARE: Character who says, "The evil that men do lives after them" Marc Antony |
| #1543, aired 1991-04-24 | ROYALTY: He was sixth in line to the Greek throne when he renounced his claim in 1947 Prince Philip |
| #1532, aired 1991-04-09 | WORLD LEADERS: This woman, elected president of Ireland in 1990, used a 1968 Simon & Garfunkel hit in her campaign Mary Robinson |
| #1459, aired 1990-12-27 | ANCIENT HISTORY: The group who fought over his empire after his death was called the "Diadochi", successors Alexander the Great |
| #1452, aired 1990-12-18 | MONARCHS: After Elizabeth II, this queen is the world's wealthiest woman Queen Beatrix (of the Netherlands) |
| #1438, aired 1990-11-28 | AMERICAN HISTORY: He was elected Governor of New York in 1817, right after the state agreed to finance his pet project Dewitt Clinton |
| #1430, aired 1990-11-16 | ISLANDS: It's the only inhabited U.S. territory south of the equator American Samoa |
| #1428, aired 1990-11-14 | U.S. HISTORY: After Virginia, more Civil War battles were fought in this state than in any other Tennessee |
| #1427, aired 1990-11-13 | WORLD HISTORY: The 2 countries that became independent on Aug. 14 & 15, 1947 Pakistan & India |
| #1416, aired 1990-10-29 | SAINTS: Founder of the Friars Minor in the 13th c., he was made patron saint of ecologists in 1979 St. Francis of Assisi |
| #8, aired 1990-08-04 | SHAKESPEAREAN QUOTES: The famous line "Out, out, brief candle!" is spoken after the announcement of this woman's death Lady Macbeth |
| #5, aired 1990-07-14 | SCIENCE: Martin Klaproth named uranium after Uranus & this element after Uranus' children titanium |
| #1, aired 1990-06-16 | THE 50 STATES: Of all the states named after Indian tribes, this one is the farthest west Utah |
| #1345, aired 1990-06-08 | THE CALENDAR: The 3 days named after a mythological father & 2 of his sons Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday |
| #1341, aired 1990-06-04 | HISTORIC NAMES: When the city of Podgorica became capital of Montenegro after WWII, it was renamed in his honor Tito |
| #1301, aired 1990-04-09 | AMERICAN HISTORY: Virginia's motto since 1776; it was shouted in another context on April 14, 1865 "Sic Semper Tyrannis" |
| #1290, aired 1990-03-23 | AUTHORS: After his death in 1745, he was buried in St. Patrick's cathedral in Dublin Jonathan Swift |
| #1279, aired 1990-03-08 | FAMOUS NAMES: He published a history of Virginia & New England in 1624, after escaping from Turks, Indians & pirates Captain John Smith |
| #1271, aired 1990-02-26 | U.S. STATES: After Rhode Island & Delaware, it's the next smallest state in area Connecticut |
| #1250, aired 1990-01-26 | AMERICAN AUTHORS: He died at age 28, just 5 years after his Civil War novel was published Stephen Crane (The Red Badge of Courage) |
| #1237, aired 1990-01-09 | GEOGRAPHY: The 2 independent South American countries named after famous men Bolivia and Colombia |
| #1229, aired 1989-12-28 | HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES: Surprisingly, it was not made a legal U.S. holiday until 1941, over 150 yrs. after it was 1st celebrated July 4th (Independence Day) |
| #1217, aired 1989-12-12 | WOMEN: In 1976 she became the 1st woman to serve as Chief of Protocol of the United States Shirley Temple Black |
| #1181, aired 1989-10-23 | COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD: After Haiti, it's the oldest independent black republic in the world Liberia |
| #1152, aired 1989-09-12 | LITERATURE: The next-to-last chapter of this novel is entitled "The Knitting Done" A Tale of Two Cities |
| #1144, aired 1989-07-20 | MONARCHS: Berengaria, who never set foot in England, was its queen for 8 yrs. after marrying this king on Cyprus Richard the Lionhearted |
| #1117, aired 1989-06-13 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY: This national chain of 1,248 stores was named after a pond Waldenbooks |
| #1078, aired 1989-04-19 | THE PULITZER PRIZE: 3 years after this William Kennedy novel won a Pulitzer Prize, it came out as a film starring Meryl Streep Ironweed |
| #1052, aired 1989-03-14 | THE PLANETS: This planet is named for the original god of the sky in Greek mythology Uranus |
| #1015, aired 1989-01-20 | U.S. STATES: This state's current license plate has a biplane pictured on it North Carolina |
| #1008, aired 1989-01-11 | COLONIAL AMERICA: This colony was named for the 1st governor of the colony of Virginia Delaware |
| #1002, aired 1989-01-03 | LEADING LADIES: The 2 blonde sex symbols who made their last films with Gable, 1 released in 1937, 1 in 1961 Jean Harlow & Marilyn Monroe |
| #988, aired 1988-12-14 | PUBLISHING: The World Almanac is published either 48 hrs. after a presidential election or this October event World Series |
| #984, aired 1988-12-08 | INVENTORS: A unit used to measure the intensity of sound is named after this inventor Alexander Graham Bell |
| #980, aired 1988-12-02 | MONARCHS: This Queen of England was the granddaughter of Ferdinand & Isabella of Spain Mary I (Bloody Mary) |
| #973, aired 1988-11-23 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS: Alice in Wonderland character named after the county in which Lewis Carroll was born Cheshire Cat |
| #968, aired 1988-11-16 | MAN IN SPACE: 3 months after John Glenn, he became the second American to orbit the Earth (Malcolm) Scott Carpenter |
| #953, aired 1988-10-26 | RELIGION: Almost struck by lightning in 1505, this young man vowed to become a monk & did soon after Martin Luther |
| #942, aired 1988-10-11 | 1988: In April the late Dr. Paul D. White became familiar to many people who saw his portrait on this A stamp |
| #940, aired 1988-10-07 | SPORTS & GAMES: Invented in 1895 in Massachusetts, it became an Olympic sport at the 1964 Tokyo games volleyball |
| #926, aired 1988-09-19 | MYTHOLOGY: 2 of the 3 goddesses who were contestants in the famous beauty contest judged by Paris (2 of) Aphrodite, Athena or Hera |
| #916, aired 1988-09-05 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY: Longest boundary between any 2 U.S. states is the one between these 2 Texas & Oklahoma |
| #900, aired 1988-07-01 | POLITICAL NICKNAMES: 40 years after "Happy Warrior" Al Smith lost a pres. election, this other "Happy Warrior" also lost Hubert Humphrey |
| #895, aired 1988-06-24 | 20th CENTURY PERSONALITIES: Johnny Carson became permanent host of "The Tonight Show" when this man was U.S. president John Kennedy |
| #871, aired 1988-05-23 | POP SINGERS: Only artist to hit Top 10 with a remake of his own #1 hit, the original in '62, the remake in '76 Neil Sedaka |
| #822, aired 1988-03-15 | COLONIAL AMERICA: 1 of 3 colonies which as late as 1775 was still controlled by a proprietary family (1 of) Pennsylvania, Delaware or Maryland |
| #820, aired 1988-03-11 | WORLD POLITICS: After a 9/25/87 coup, this South Pacific island severed its 113-year link with the British Crown Fiji |
| #801, aired 1988-02-15 | 1987: British Labor Party leader Neil Kinnock became well known in the U.S. after this man "quoted" him Joseph Biden |
| #778, aired 1988-01-13 | HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES: As the Constitutional bicentennial reminded us, the Constitution was signed on this date in 1787 September 17th |
| #777, aired 1988-01-12 | DRAMA: This play is divided into "parts", not acts, with the 2nd titled "The Gentleman Calls" The Glass Menagerie |
| #737, aired 1987-11-17 | STATE CAPITALS: Of the 4 U.S. state capitals named after presidents, this is farthest north and east Madison, Wisconsin |
| #725, aired 1987-10-30 | THEATER: After finding a new way to make this sound in 1709, John Dennis accused another play of stealing it thunder |
| #712, aired 1987-10-13 | HISTORIC NAMES: This man was killed in a duel in Weehawken, New Jersey 2 1/2 years after his son died in a duel there Alexander Hamilton |
| #700, aired 1987-09-25 | PRESIDENTS: President in office the longest under the 50-star U.S. flag Ronald Reagan |
| #668, aired 1987-07-01 | WORD PLAY: "Cruciverbalist" is a 14-letter word for one who constructs these crossword puzzles |
| #661, aired 1987-06-22 | RELIGION: After being a hostage in Lebanon, he became head of the Presbyterian Church (USA) Rev. Benjamin Weir |
| #616, aired 1987-04-20 | 1978: 1978 was 1st time since 1447 that this many men have been pope of the Roman Church in 1 year three |
| #592, aired 1987-03-17 | FAMOUS MEN: Howard Hughes, Edwin Link & Glen Curtiss are enshrined in the National Hall of Fame honoring this aviation |
| #583, aired 1987-03-04 | LETTER PERFECT: All the letters that appear on the top row across on a standard touch-tone phone ABC, DEF |
| #542, aired 1987-01-06 | ASTROLOGY: While Gemini is represented by 2 humans, this sign is represented by a pair of animals Pisces |
| #527, aired 1986-12-16 | THE MONTHS: It's only month that can start on the same day of the week as the month before it March |
| #525, aired 1986-12-12 | MEDICINE: Condition whose name is Latin for "waterfall", because it's like looking through one a cataract |
| #466, aired 1986-09-22 | POP MUSIC: "Singers" named in 1958 after Liberty Records engineer Ted Keep & execs Al Bennett & Simon Waronker the Chipmunks |
| #434, aired 1986-05-08 | CARTOONS: After debuting in opening credits of a 1963 film, this character got his own theatrical cartoon series the Pink Panther |
| #429, aired 1986-05-01 | HOLIDAYS: Ranked #2 after Christmas, about 850 million greeting cards are sold yearly for this holiday Valentine's Day |
| #407, aired 1986-04-01 | NAMES: The most popular papal name after "John", it's associated with music & chronology Gregory |
| #406, aired 1986-03-31 | THE PLANETS: Its only known moon is appropriately named after the boatman Charon Pluto |
| #403, aired 1986-03-26 | THE OLYMPICS: The games held in this city were the only ever staged in the Southern Hemisphere Melbourne |
| #397, aired 1986-03-18 | FAMOUS AMERICANS: 1 year after winning an Oscar, she was honored on a postage stamp, but not for her acting Grace Kelly |
| #387, aired 1986-03-04 | DEMOCRATS: No. of times the Democratic Party has lost the presidential election since WWII 6 |
| #371, aired 1986-02-10 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS: Mother of Bonnie Blue, she ran a sawmill after the Civil War Scarlett O'Hara |
| #327, aired 1985-12-10 | LANGUAGES: Per 1980 census, after English & Spanish, the 3rd most popular language spoken at home in the U.S. Italian |
| #298, aired 1985-10-30 | FAMOUS AMERICANS: Famous American after whom B.F. Goodrich was named Benjamin Franklin |
| #275, aired 1985-09-27 | THE FLAG: After a former president's death, the flag is flown at half-mast for this many days 30 |
| #267, aired 1985-09-17 | HOLIDAYS: Then called Decoration Day, Memorial Day was 1st observed after this war the Civil War |
| #165, aired 1985-04-26 | FAIRY TALES: Worldwide, this fairy tale has been subject of 58 films, more than any other story Cinderella |
| #157, aired 1985-04-16 | BOOKS & AUTHORS: Upon completion of his "Answered Prayers", this late author would have received $1 million Truman Capote |
| #155, aired 1985-04-12 | MEDICINE: In 1806, France was 1st major Eur. country to forbid this profession from practicing surgery barbers |
| #152, aired 1985-04-09 | THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE: In the Websters 3rd International Dictionary, it's the letter with the most entries S |
| #124, aired 1985-02-28 | TELEVISION: Number of children originally in the Howard & Marion Cunningham family of Milwaukee, WI 3 |
| #93, aired 1985-01-16 | DANCE: After its appearance in the Black musical "Runnin' Wild" in 1923, it became a national craze the Charleston |
| #62, aired 1984-12-04 | U.S. PRESIDENTS: President elected to 2nd term with 523 electoral votes, the greatest number in any election Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| #45, aired 1984-11-09 | ROYALTY: This king became the Duke of Windsor after he abdicated Edward VIII |
| #37, aired 1984-10-30 | FAMOUS FAMILIES: Members of this acting family starred in "Grand Hotel", the Dr. Kildare films & "E.T." the Barrymores |
| #30, aired 1984-10-19 | ASTRONOMY: After the Sun & the Moon, the brightest astronomical object regularly seen in our sky the planet Venus |
| #6, aired 1984-09-17 | EUROPE: Country where the current king succeeded his grandfather after a 44-year gap Spain |
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Eric Betts, a senior from Emory University
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Greg Lichtenstein, a freshman from Vassar College
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Lindsay Eanet, a senior from the University of Missouri
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Dan D'Addario, a senior from Columbia University
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Lea Tottle, a junior from Florida State University from Oldsmar, Florida
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Stephen Weingarten, a paraeducator from Portland, Oregon
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Kimberly Jantz, an attorney from Tulsa, Oklahoma
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Tom Walsh, a writer from Washington, D.C.
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Nifty Nine (players with byes into...
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James Brown, a physics teacher from El Paso, Texas
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"He teaches at a high school where most of the students...
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Darren Millam, a customer service representative originally from Kansas City, Missouri
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Season 17 player (2001-02-27). Season 16 1-time champion: $7,500. Darren returned...
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Darren Millam, a customer service representative from Kansas City, Missouri
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Season 17 player (2001-02-27). Season 16 1-time champion: $7,500. Darren returned...
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Nate Austin, a student from Hutchinson Community College
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"His original plan was to own a chain of international hotels...
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Cliff Galiher, a sophomore from UCLA
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2007 Tournament of Champions 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $50,000 +...
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Al Franken, an author and radio talk show host from New York City
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"One of the original writers on Saturday Night Live, he's done...
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Mark Born, a musician, writer and teacher from Bangkok, Thailand
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\"He was the top winner of the 1990-91 season. He\'s a...
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Jonathan Hawley, a sophomore from Harvard University
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2008 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 19 and from Oceanside, CA at...
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Tara Franey, a senior from Michigan State University
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2008 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: tarafraney
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Than Hedman, a freshman from University of Colorado-Boulder
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2008 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 19 and from Denver, CO at...
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Vera Swain, a junior from the University of South Carolina
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2008 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 21 and from Charleston, SC...
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Paul Thomas, a theater technician from Hollywood, Florida
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Season 24 1-time champion: $32,001 + $2,000. Paul won his first...
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Bob Mesko, an arts administrator from Denver, Colorado
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2006 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 22 5-time champion:...
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Matt Sojot, a firefighter from Mililani, Hawaii
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Season 23 player (2007-04-13). Season 22 player (2006-05-24). Last name pronounced...
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Karla Sortland, a teacher from Las Vegas, Nevada
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Season 23 player (2007-06-11). Season 22 player (2006-05-24). Karla was brought...
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Brian Lamb, a middle school teacher from Bakersfield, California
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Season 23 player (2007-06-26). Season 22 2-time champion: $39,201 + $1,000....
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Eddie Timanus, a sports reporter from Arlington, Virginia
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"A 5-time champion, he went on to become a semifinalist in...
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Larry Cloud, a bookkeeper and computer consultant from Inglewood, California
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"He won five times in 2001, allowing him to make a...
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John Ryan, a corporate controller from Richmond, California
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"As a college student, he was the top winner of the...
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Laura Hughes, a mom from New Market, Maryland
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Season 26 1-time champion: $27,500 + $2,000. Wife of Season 16...
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Lan Djang, a health policy analyst from Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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"He was a 5-time champion in 2001. Today he's a health...
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Eugene Finerman, a writer from Northbrook, Illinois
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"A finalist in the 1987 Tournament of Champions, he's a writer....
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Bob Fleenor, a newspaper copy editor from Martinsburg, West Virginia
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"Legislative work in his home state was suspended so that lawmakers...
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Matt Drury, a government analyst from New York, New York
|
Season 26 1-time champion: $18,799 + $2,000. Matthew Drury - A...
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Robert Slaven, a technical products specialist originally from Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada
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"He won 5 times in 1992. Today, he's a technical products...
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Stacy Braverman, a public interest lawyer from Washington, D.C.
|
Season 26 1-time champion: $14,984 + $2,000. As detailed in a...
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Alan Bailey, a playwright and director from North Hills, California
|
"This playwright and director became a 5-time winner in 2001. Today,...
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Janet Wong, a development officer for a museum from Hoboken, New Jersey
|
"As a senior at Drew University, she won the February 2000...
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Billy Baxter, an attorney from Richmond, Virginia
|
"Representing the College of William & Mary, he won the 1992...
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Matt DeTura, a recent law school graduate from Washington, D.C.
|
Season 27 3-time champion: $61,601 + $2,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: MDT
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Lance Johnson, a model aircraft engine technician from Champaign, Illinois
|
"He was the first to get to the 5-win mark in...
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Janet Bradlow, an insurance agent from New York, New York
|
Season 26 3-time champion: $58,000 + $2,000. Janet Bradlow New York,...
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Frank Amanat, an attorney from South Orange, New Jersey
|
Season 20 3-time champion: $55,900 + $1,000. Season 20 player (2003-11-03)....
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Rachael Schwartz, a lawyer from Washington, D.C.
|
"In 1994, she was the first female winner of a Tournament...
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Katie Orphan, a freshman at Whitworth College from Reno, Nevada
|
2002 College Championship semifinalist: $5,000.
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Soledad O'Brien, an anchor and special correspondent from CNN's Special Investigations Unit
|
"Currently the host of CNN's Special Investigations Unit, she's received critical...
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Vijay Balse, a chemical engineer from Chatham, New Jersey
|
2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2010 Tournament of Champions...
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John Zhang, a junior from Lexington, Kentucky
|
2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 2003 Teen...
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Wolf Blitzer, a journalist from The Situation Room
|
"Since 1990, he's covered every major story for CNN, including the...
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Samira Missaghi, a junior from the University of Minnesota
|
2010-A College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Hometown: Eden Prarie, Minnesota. Samira...
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Jason Pratt, a middle school history teacher from Woodbridge, Virginia
|
Season 25 2-time champion: $32,701 + $1,000. Jason Pratt - A...
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Andy Srinivasan, a high school science teacher from Garner, North Carolina
|
2010 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $69,600...
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Justin Waters, a resident physician from Royal Oak, Michigan
|
Season 25 1-time champion: $7,199 + $2,000. Justin Waters Royal Oak,...
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Christine Carrino Gorowara, a teacher educator from Wilmington, Delaware
|
Season 25 2-time champion: $43,202 + $1,000. Wife of Season 26...
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Tom Nissley, an online books editor from Seattle, Washington
|
2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2011 Tournament of Champions...
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|
Donna Vogel, a scientist from Bethesda, Maryland
|
2009 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 24 4-time champion:...
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Karla Sortland, a teacher from Las Vegas, Nevada
|
Season 23 player (2007-06-11). Season 22 player (2006-05-24). Karla was brought...
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Katie Singh, a sophomore from Northwestern University from Austin, Texas
|
2010-B College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
|
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Matt Sojot, a firefighter from Mililani, Hawaii
|
Season 23 player (2007-04-13). Season 22 player (2006-05-24). Last name pronounced...
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Neil Patrick Harris, an actor from How I Met Your Mother
|
"He's appeared on Broadway in Proof, Assassins, and Cabaret. He's now...
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Carol Tierney, an administrative assistant originally from Cambridge, Massachusetts
|
Season 14 player (1998-03-20). Season 14 player (1997-12-05). Jeopardy! returned Carol...
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Brian Lamb, a teacher from Bakersfield, California
|
Season 23 player (2007-06-26). Season 22 2-time champion: $39,201 + $1,000....
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Alan Bailey, a playwright and director from Sherman Oaks, California
|
2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 2003 Tournament...
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Loren Loiacono, a senior from Setauket, New York
|
2006 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
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Bob Mesko, an arts administrator from Denver, Colorado
|
2006 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 22 5-time champion:...
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John Kelly, a retired Air Force officer from Austin, Texas
|
"In 1992, he was one of the top five money winners...
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Erik Larsen, a librarian and a licensed amateur boxing official from Jacksonville, Florida
|
"A 5-time champion from 1990, he's a librarian and a licensed...
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Phil Yellman, a legal assistant from Seattle, Washington
|
"He was an office worker from Albuquerque when he won his...
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Scott Gillispie, a project manager and expectant father from Atlanta, Georgia
|
"While attending Georgia Tech, he won the 1991 College Championship. Now...
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Andrew Garen, an associate director of consumer marketing from Austin, Texas
|
"He was a project manager when he won his 5 shows...
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Paul Boymel, a civil rights attorney from Potomac, Maryland
|
"He was the top winner of the 1984-85 season. Now he's...
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Vanamali Compton, a junior from Clarkdale, Arizona
|
2005 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500. 16 at the time of the...
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Jimmy Li, a senior from Chesterfield, Missouri
|
2005 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $5,000. 17 at the time of...
|
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Carol Tierney, a program manager originally from Cambridge, Massachusetts
|
Season 14 player (1998-03-20). Season 14 player (1997-12-05). Jeopardy! returned Carol...
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Rich Coble, an attorney from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
|
Season 34 player (2017-10-09). Richard appeared on The Chase on 2022-05-24...
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Burns Cameron, a realtor from Standish, Maine
|
1990 Super Jeopardy! quarterfinalist: $5,000. Burns appeared on the original version...
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Bob Winthrop, a technical writer originally from Hannibal, Missouri
|
1988 Senior Tournament quarterfinalist: $1,000. Bob and Tom Wickham each had...
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Lou Pryor, an attorney from New Canaan, Connecticut
|
1991 Tournament of Champions 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $9,700. 1991...
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|
Lou Pryor, a lawyer and Seniors Tournament winner from New Canaan, Connecticut
|
1991 Tournament of Champions 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $9,700. 1991...
|
|
Armand Sanchez, a high school teacher from San Jose, California
|
Season 38 player (2022-06-27). Armand won $1,000 on Master Minds on...
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Ken Jennings, the winner of 74 consecutive games from Seattle, Washington
|
2020 Jeopardy!: The Greatest of All Time winner: $1,000,000 + a...
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|
Irwin Moskowitz, a marketing manager originally from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
|
Season 3 player (1987-01-30). Irwin appeared on Sale of the Century...
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David Madden, a student originally from Ridgewood, New Jersey
|
2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament semifinalist: $10,000. 2019 All-Star Games member of...
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|
Catherine Ramen, a database developer and writer from New York, New York
|
2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 winner: $44,000. 1998 Tournament...
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|
David Madden, an academic competition director from Ridgewood, New Jersey
|
2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament semifinalist: $10,000. 2019 All-Star Games member of...
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David Madden, a student originally from Ridgewood, New Jersey
|
2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament semifinalist: $10,000. 2019 All-Star Games member of...
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|
David Madden, an academic competition director from Ridgewood, New Jersey
|
• 19-game champion • 3rd longest winning streak 2024 Jeopardy! Invitational...
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|
Ryan Fenster, a banker from SeaTac, Washington
|
2019 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 34 7-time champion: $156,497...
|
|
Pete Brunner, a computer specialist from Ellicott City, Maryland
|
Season 12 player (1996-06-24). Season 11 1-time champion: $7,201. Pete was...
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Brian Benson, a stagehand from Hyattsville, Maryland
|
Season 14 player (1997-09-09). Brian died 2011-06-30 at the age of...
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Pete Brunner, a computer specialist from Ellicott City, Maryland
|
Season 12 player (1996-06-24). Season 11 1-time champion: $7,201. Pete was...
|
|
Linda Shaver-Gleason, a musicologist from Lompoc, California
|
Season 34 player (2017-09-11). Linda died 2020-01-14 after a battle with...
|
|
Brendan Hunt, an actor from Chicago, Illinois
|
\"An actor from Chicago, Illinois, he began his career as a...
|
|
Mark Thompson, a real estate investor from Lexington, Massachusetts
|
Season 8 player (1991-12-30). Season 7 player (1990-10-01). Mark returned to...
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Ken Jennings, a writer from Seattle, Washington
|
• 74-game champion with longest winning streak • Total earnings over...
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Mark Thompson, a Realtor from Lexington, Massachusetts
|
Season 8 player (1991-12-28). Season 7 player (1990-10-01). Mark returned to...
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Daniel Cohen, an interactive developer originally from Liverpool, New York
|
Season 27 player (2011-04-12). Daniel died 2023-09-24 at the age of...
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Tommy Maranges, a junior from Fort Lauderdale, Florida
|
2007 Teen Tournament Summer Games quarterfinalist: $5,000. 17 at the time...
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Rebecca Zoshak, a language specialist from State College, Pennsylvania
|
Season 34 1-time champion: $14,407 + $2,000. Rebecca returned to the...
|
|
Alan Friedenthal, a loan officer from Tarzana, California
|
Season 1 player (1984-09-18). Alan died 2020-08-18 after suffering from heart...
|
|
Shawn Moore, a regional human resources manager from Miami, Florida
|
Season 35 player (2018-09-13). Shawn won $20,000 of a $60,000 jackpot...
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|
Arthur Chu, a writer originally from Cleveland, Ohio
|
2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2014 Tournament of Champions 1st...
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|
Arthur Chu, a compliance analyst and voiceover artist from Broadview Heights, Ohio
|
2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2014 Tournament of Champions 1st...
|
|
Arthur Chu, a compliance analyst, voiceover artist, and blogger from Broadview Heights, Ohio
|
2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2014 Tournament of Champions 1st...
|
|
Ryan Fenster, a graduate student from SeaTac, Washington
|
2019 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 34 7-time champion: $156,497...
|
|
Teresa O'Neill, a contract administrator from Santa Clara, California
|
Season 2 1-time champion: $16,799. A political candidate profile of Teresa...
|
|
Anthony Chiu, a sophomore from Louisville, Kentucky
|
1996 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $5,000. Anthony tied for the 4th wildcard...
|
|
Pam Mueller, a graduate student in psychology from Princeton, New Jersey
|
\"She was a student at Loyola University when she won the...
|
|
Talisha Burton, a senior from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
|
1996 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $1,000. Talisha tied Anthony Chiu at $9,000...
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|
Pam Mueller, an entering law student originally from Chicago, Illinois
|
\"Representing Loyola University, she won the College Championship in November, 2000....
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|
Pam Mueller, a think tank researcher from Culver City, California
|
• 2000 College Championship winner • Semifinalist in all other tournaments...
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|
Leonard Cooper, a graduate student at Brown University from Little Rock, Arkansas
|
• 2013 Teen Tournament winner • Graduated from Brown University 2024...
|
|
Leonard Cooper, a doctoral student from Little Rock, Arkansas
|
2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2019 All-Star Games member of...
|
|
Celeste DiNucci, a recent graduate student from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
|
2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2014 Battle of the Decades...
|
|
India Cooper, an actor and copy editor originally from Denver, New York
|
2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2005 Ultimate Tournament of...
|
|
Bill Pitassy, a lawyer from Roselle Park, New Jersey
|
\"After winning 5 games in 1994, he took his family on...
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|
Tom Wickham, an airline pilot from Torrington, Connecticut
|
1988 Senior Tournament semifinalist: $5,000. Tom only became eligible for the...
|
|
India Cooper, an actor and copy editor from New York, New York
|
\"She became a 5-time champion in 1991. An actor and copy...
|
|
India Cooper, an actor and copy editor originally from Denver, Colorado
|
2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2005 Ultimate Tournament of...
|
|
India Cooper, an actor and copy editor originally from Denver, Colorado
|
2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2005 Ultimate Tournament of...
|
|
Jessica Babbitt, a personal stylist from Austin, Texas
|
Season 36 3-time champion: $71,598 + $2,000. Jessica won $10,600 in...
|
|
Graig Zethner, a computer engineer from East Meadow, New York
|
Season 27 player (2011-07-26). \"Graig\" rhymes with \"Craig\". Graig won $1,000...
|
|
Denise Littlejohn, a project manager from West Hollywood, California
|
Season 34 1-time champion: $21,601 + $2,000. Denise won $0 on...
|
|
Pam Mueller, a junior at Loyola University, Chicago from Wilmette, Illinois
|
2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2019 All-Star Games member of...
|
|
Davina Rubin, a teacher originally from New York City
|
Season 2 player (1986-03-13). Davina was a contestant on The $25,000...
|
|
Leonard Cooper, a senior from Little Rock, Arkansas
|
2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2019 All-Star Games member of...
|
|
Vaughn West, a merchandising specialist from New York City
|
Season 3 player (1987-07-06). Vaughn's full-time job was portraying Garfield the...
|
|
Pam Mueller, a justice researcher originally from Chicago, Illinois
|
2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2019 All-Star Games member of...
|
|
Bill Blose, a clergyman originally from Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
|
Season 7 1-time champion: $10,201. Bill died 2014-07-01 after a struggle...
|
|
Terry Kent, a real estate attorney originally from Eau Claire, Wisconsin
|
Season 28 player (2012-06-04). Terry won $16,000 on Sports Jeopardy! on...
|
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Leonard Schmidt, an optometrist from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
|
1992 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $5,000. 1992 Seniors Tournament winner:...
|
|
Meredith Moore, a server from Knightdale, North Carolina
|
Season 36 player (2020-02-28). Meredith died 2021-05-08 at the age of...
|
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Avie Hern, a student originally from Peekskill, New York
|
Season 1 player (1985-03-05). Avie won $5,000 on Win Ben Stein's...
|
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Michael Rankins, a minister and writer from Rohnert Park, California
|
\"A 5-show winner from 1988, he has been a minister with...
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|
Leslie Frates, a Spanish teacher from Hayward, California
|
\"A Jeopardy! champion in 1991, she\'s now a Spanish teacher listed...
|
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Sharon Miyasato, an attorney from Oakland, California
|
Season 3 2-time champion: $16,998. Sharon was returned to the show...
|
|
Tom Smolich, a Catholic priest originally from Sacramento, California
|
Season 5 player (1989-04-11). Season 6 3-time champion: $39,802. Last name...
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Kim Smith, a ticket counter originally from Sedalia, Missouri
|
Season 11 player (1994-09-06). Season 10 1-time champion: $7,400. Kim was...
|
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Tom Smolich, a Catholic priest originally from Sacramento, California
|
Season 5 player (1989-04-11). Season 6 3-time champion: $39,802. Last name...
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Kim Smith, a ticket counter originally from Sedalia, Missouri
|
Season 11 player (1994-09-06). Season 10 1-time champion: $7,400. Kim was...
|
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Tom Nichols, a professor originally from Chicopee, Massachusetts
|
\"A five-time champion in 1994, he used his winnings for a...
|
|
Paige Hermansen, an English professor from Amherst, Massachusetts
|
Season 36 player (2020-02-05). Wyatt appeared on The Chase on 2022-05-24...
|
|
Claudia Perry, a pop music critic from San Jose California
|
Season 13 player (1996-09-11). 2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000....
|
|
Vincent Valenzuela, an internal customer service manager from Wheaton, Illinois
|
Season 35 player (2018-09-25). Season 34 player (2018-07-13). Vincent returned to...
|
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Rosalie Hill, a bookkeeper from Arroyo Grande, California
|
Season 3 player (1986-10-10): a Vitamaster Monitor 500M Luxury exercise cycle...
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Rosalie Hill, a bookkeeper from Arroyo Grande, California
|
Season 3 player (1986-10-10): a Vitamaster Monitor 500M Luxury exercise cycle...
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|
James Weldon, an emerging markets investor from Cambridge, Massachusetts
|
Season 37 player (2021-08-05). After being defeated by Matt Amodio, James...
|
|
Kathy DeLozier, an elementary school principal from Louisville, Kentucky
|
Season 29 player (2013-04-29).
|
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Elisabeth Raab, a high school English teacher from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
|
"She teaches at a High School of the Future, where all...
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Rick Rosner, a bar bouncer originally from Boulder, Colorado
|
Season 7 player (1991-01-16). Appearing as \"Richard Rosner\" from Los Angeles,...
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Wil Wheaton, an actor from Burbank, California
|
"An actor from Burbank, California, he burst on to the scene...
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Jesse Tow, an after-school program coach from Austin, Texas
|
Season 28 player (2012-04-04). Last name pronounced to rhyme with "OW"...
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Brenton Montie, a sixth grade social studies teacher from South Lyon, Michigan
|
"He teaches at a school ranked in the top 5% in...
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Dave Simpson, a pastor from Belcamp, Maryland
|
2009 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 24 4-time champion:...
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Alexandra Grochol, a homemaker originally from Buffalo, New York
|
Season 12 1-time champion: $6,900. Alexandra was returned to the show...
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Sharon Miyasato, an attorney originally from Hawaii
|
Season 3 player (1986-10-03). Sharon was returned to the show after...
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Alexandra Grochol, a homemaker from McLean, Virginia
|
Season 12 1-time champion: $6,900. Alexandra was returned to the show...
|
|
Tom Vanderloo, a law librarian from Chattanooga, Tennessee
|
Season 20 player (2004-07-15).
KJL game 32.
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Nathaniel Barnes, a composer and bartender from Toronto, Ontario, Canada
|
Season 25 3-time champion: $57,300 + $2,000. In his first game,...
|
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Skyler Hornback, a 12-year-old seventh grader from Sonora, Kentucky
|
"Honestly, this Abe Lincoln lover wants to go into politics. From...
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Matt Napolitano, a sports update anchor from Franklin Square, New York
|
Season 36 player (2020-06-12). Matt won $25,203 in cash + a...
|
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Heather Timberlake, a new mom from Miami, Florida
|
Season 27 player (2011-04-11).
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Raymond Goslow, a senior at Kennesaw State University in Kennesaw, Georgia
|
2022 National College Championship 1st runner-up: $100,000. Raymond was majoring in...
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Greg Lyon, a project manager from St. Louis, Missouri
|
Season 26 player (2010-06-03). Partner of Season 29 player Patrick Mooney....
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Sara Leiber McKinney, a teacher originally from Yonkers, New York
|
Season 5 player (1989-03-27). Sara was returned to the show in...
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Emma Couture, a twelve-year-old from St. Petersburg, Florida
|
"Here's a portrait of a smart young girl who sees her...
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Elaine Moise, a business systems manager from Mountain View, California
|
Season 28 player (2012-06-11).
Last name pronounced to rhyme with "noise".
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Charlie Carbery, a senior from Oak Park, Illinois
|
2008-B Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
|
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Liz Feltner, a senior at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts
|
2022 National College Championship 2nd runner-up: $50,000. Liz was majoring in...
|
|
Shelby Malone, a senior from Grayson, Kentucky
|
2008-B Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: sleeping_stars
|
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Ron Karr, a software engineer from Mountain View, California
|
Season 4 2-time champion: $13,401. Ron died 2023-04-18 at the age...
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Drew Scheeler, a senior from Sandusky, Ohio
|
2008-B Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. Drew won $25,000 on Who Wants...
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Matt Andelman, a family law attorney from Silver Spring, Maryland
|
Season 28 player (2011-11-17).
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Buddy Wright, an operations engineer from Fort Worth, Texas
|
2011 Tournament of Champions 2nd runner-up: $50,000. Season 26 4-time champion:...
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John Krizel, a writer originally from Oceanside, New York
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2011 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $105,204...
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Tom Kunzen, a geotechnical engineer from Orlando, Florida
|
2011 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 27 5-time champion: $133,402...
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Lucinda Sabino, a housewife and writer from Rochester, Michigan
|
Season 20 player (2004-07-05).
KJL game 24.
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Brooks Humphreys, a high school social studies teacher from Omaha, Nebraska
|
"He teaches at an all-girls Catholic school operated by the Sisters...
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Roger Craig, a computer scientist from Newark, Delaware
|
2019 All-Star Games member of wildcard-match 2nd-place Team Austin: a share...
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Brian Meacham, a film preservationist originally from Anchorage, Alaska
|
2011 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 27 4-time champion: $90,500...
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Catherine Whitten, a high school history teacher from Plano, Texas
|
"This gifted teacher primarily teaches gifted students. From Plano, Texas, this...
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Elissa Hoffman, a high school biology and anatomy & physiology teacher from Appleton, Wisconsin
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"She is in her lucky 13th year of teaching. From Appleton,...
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Judi Greenberg, a housewife from Northbrook, Illinois
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Season 4 1-time champion: $3,500. Season 3 player (1987-01-08). Judi was...
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Judi Greenberg, a housewife from Northbrook, Illinois
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Season 4 1-time champion: $3,500. Season 3 player (1987-01-08). Judi was...
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Lewis Black, a stand-up comedian from Lewis Black's Root of All Evil
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"With success in films, plays, books, and TV specials, he tours...
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Tom Kunzen, a geotechnical engineer from Orlando, Florida
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2011 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 27 5-time champion: $133,402...
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Steve Cartwright, a physicist from Dayton, Ohio
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Season 10 player (1993-10-19). Originally from St. Louis, Steve was, at...
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Anderson Cooper, a news anchor and correspondent from CNN
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"He anchors his own prime-time news show, a syndicated daytime talk...
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Connie Shi, a junior at the University of Michigan from Okemos, Michigan
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2012 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000.
19 at the time of the College Championship.
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Michael Reilly, a maitre d\' from Fullerton, California
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Season 6 player (1989-11-27). Michael was selected to be the host...
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Mike Lewis, a systems engineer from Bloomington, Minnesota
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Season 29 4-time champion: $102,800 + $2,000. Mike was the alternate...
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Zach Safford, a senior from Williams College
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"His early interest in cryptozoology has been replaced by a history...
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Barbara Schnell, a writer and homemaker from Los Angeles, California
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Season 11 player (1995-02-28). Barbara\'s \"homemaker\" occupation was literal after rebuilding...
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LuEllen Buhrman, a marketing communications specialist from Richmond, Virginia
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Season 27 player (2011-06-14).
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Lizzie O'Leary, an aviation and regulation correspondent from CNN
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"She broke the news that Chrysler would file for Chapter 11...
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Elliot Shteir, an attorney from Somerville, New Jersey
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1995-A Seniors Tournament 1st runner-up: $10,000. Dr. Elliot Shteir won $8,230...
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Dorian Ellis, a chef from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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Season 1 1-day champion: $8,999. Dorian was returned to the show...
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Bruce Ikawa, a college professor from Hillsdale, Michigan
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\"He says his 5 wins in 1990 increases his credibility with...
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Caleb Olson, a senior from Chariton, Iowa
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2012 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $10,000.
17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Curtis Joseph, a sophomore from Scottsdale Community College
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"In 1999, his nickname was 'Curtles the Troll', and he wanted...
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Melanie Bruchet, a senior from Bryn Mawr
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"Everyone wants to be an astronaut when they're a kid, but...
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Andrew Haringer, a college instructor from Squamish, British Columbia, Canada
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2015 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 31 5-time champion:...
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Marc Spraragen, a graduate student from Los Angeles, California
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Season 23 2-time champion: $30,000 + $2,000. The official Jeopardy! web...
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Max Johansen, a senior from the University of Miami
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"As a seventh grader, he was planning on a career in...
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Clint Swett, a newspaper copy editor from Sacramento, California
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Season 2 3-time champion: $17,200. Clint was the first champion after...
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Steven Ho, a junior from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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2011 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 17 at the time of the...
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Kate Wadman, a junior from Tucson, Arizona
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2011 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: jeopartygirl
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Ken Jennings, a 74-game champion from Seattle, Washington
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"In 2004, his record-breaking 74-game win streak set a standard for...
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Kathy Fuller, a graduate student from Baltimore, Maryland
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Season 6 player (1990-04-05). Season 5 player (1989-04-17). Kathy was brought...
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John Anneken, a postdoctoral researcher from Cincinnati, Ohio
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Season 29 3-time champion: $60,112 + $1,000. John appeared on The...
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Katie Walker, a biomedical science teacher from Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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Season 32 1-time champion: $5,000 + $2,000. Katie appeared on the...
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Tom Kelso, a credit analyst from Chicago, Illinois
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Season 19 3-time champion: $83,402 + $2,000. Namesake of the backronym...
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Mike Day, a finance and marketing MBA student from Columbus, Ohio
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 1985 Tournament...
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Arianna Kelly, a law student from Somerville, Massachusetts
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Season 24 player (2008-01-30). Season 24 player (2008-07-08). Sister of Season...
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Richard Mason, a roboticist from Pasadena, California
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Season 18 2-time champion: $50,600 + $2,000. Husband of Season 14...
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Markie Post, an actress from Night Court and Hearts Afire
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1994 Celebrity Jeopardy! player (1994-11-11). Playing for Stop Cancer. Markie died...
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David Walter, a senior from Wilmington, Delaware
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2007 Teen Tournament winner (semifinalist by wildcard): $75,000. 17 at the...
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Ben Schenkel, a junior from Allentown, Pennsylvania
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2007 Teen Tournament 1st runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $42,800. 17 at...
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Jeffrey Gerlomes, a freshman from Napa, California
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2007 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
14 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Ari Fleischer, a former White House Press Secretary from the current Bush administration
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"For the first two years of the current Bush administration, he...
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Susan Sweet, a former basketball coach originally from Toledo, Ohio
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Season 1 player (1984-11-09). Johnny Gilbert stumbled over Susan\'s introduction, calling...
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Bonnie Cao, a senior from Arcadia, California
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2008-A Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 17 at the time of the...
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Anderson Cooper, a host from CNN's Anderson Cooper 360°
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2004 Power Players Week player (2004-05-11).
Charity: American Heart Association.
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Aaron Brown, an Emmy Award-winning newsman from CNN's popular primetime newscast
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"A journalist for over 25 years, he now anchors CNN's popular...
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Maria Bartiromo, a business anchor from CNBC
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2004 Power Players Week player (2004-05-11). Charities: National Italian American Foundation...
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Butch Malec, a freshman at Reed College from Edinboro, Pennsylvania
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1999 College Championship quarterfinalist: $2,500. In Butch's game, the entire Double...
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Hunter Brown, a senior from Wheaton, Illinois
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2008-A Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 17 at the time of...
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Kweisi Mfume, a president from the NAACP
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2004 Power Players Week player (2004-05-11). Name pronounced like "kwah-EE-see oom-FOO-may"....
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Becky Kralle, a senior from Runnemede, New Jersey
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2008-A Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Anne Boyd, a freelance writer from Los Angeles, California
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2004 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 20 4-time champion: $84,600...
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Allen Goodman, an economics professor from Huntington Woods, Michigan
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Season 24 player (2008-06-13). Web site at www.econ.wayne.edu/agoodman. Allen detailed his...
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Tucker Dunn, an ESL teacher from Tucson, Arizona
|
Season 33 3-time champion: $39,999 + $1,000. In his first appearance,...
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Senator Al Franken, a U.S. senator from Minnesota
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"After a successful career as a comedy writer, author, and radio...
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Dara Lind, a junior from Yale University
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2008 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 20 and from Cincinnati, OH at...
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Giulio Ongaro, a college professor originally from Venice, Italy
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Season 10 player (1993-09-16). At the time of his appearance, Giulio...
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Arianna Kelly, a law student from Somerville, Massachusetts
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Season 24 player (2008-01-30). Season 24 player (2008-07-08). Sister of Season...
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Julia Collins, a 20-time Jeopardy! champion from Kenilworth, Illinois
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2019 All-Star Games captain of first-eliminated Team Julia: a share of...
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Tom Morris, a retailer and student from Irvine, California
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2009 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 24 4-time champion: $100,801...
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Gwynne Ash, a university professor from Austin, Texas
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Season 24 1-time champion: $22,400 + $2,000. Gwynne unintentionally tied with...
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Andrew Nerlinger, a senior at the University of Notre Dame from Wilmington, Delaware
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2001 College Championship quarterfinalist: $2,500. Andrew was 21 at the time...
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Dileep Rao, an actor from Santa Monica, California
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Season 18 1-time champion: $34,400 + $1,000. Dileep's IMDb page. After...
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Julia Collins, a supply chain professional from Kenilworth, Illinois
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2019 All-Star Games captain of first-eliminated Team Julia: a share of...
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Graham Gilmer, a senior from Lynchburg, Virginia
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 2001 Teen...
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Colleen Mahoney, a sophomore from East Hampton, Connecticut
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2001 Teen Tournament 2nd runner-up: $10,000. 15 at the time of...
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Misti Coronel, a senior from Pottstown, Pennsylvania
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2001 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $5,000.
17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Paige Feldman, a sophomore from St. Louis, Missouri
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2001 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500. 16 at the time of the...
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Caley Anderson, a junior from Santee, California
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2001 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500. 16 at the time of the...
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Sue Wulfestieg, a homemaker from Tacoma, Washington
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Season 4 player (1988-02-02). Sue's daughter, Stefanie Wulfestieg, was a semifinalist...
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Ken Jennings, a writer from Seattle, Washington
|
"He was a software engineer living in Salt Lake City, Utah,...
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Lan Djang, a business analyst from Toronto, Canada
|
2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Elite Eighteen (Round 2 winners) member:...
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Tony Burrell, an attorney from Ashburn, Virginia
|
Season 18 player (2002-06-28). Tony returned about 2 years after his...
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Bob Blake, an actuary from Vancouver, British Columbia
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"An actuary from Vancouver, British Columbia, Bob Blake, who has won...
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Emily Herndon, a bakery owner from Knoxville, Tennessee
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Season 31 1-time champion: $8,100 + $2,000. Emily won $5,000 on...
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McKinnie Lee Sizemore, a DJ and music journalist from Orlando, Florida
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Season 32 player (2016-04-15). McKinnie won $5,000 on Who Wants to...
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Claudia Perry, a pop music critic from San Jose, California
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2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2002 Million Dollar Masters...
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Holly Owens, a student originally from Tulsa, Oklahoma
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Season 23 2-time champion: $31,902 + $1,000. Season 22 player (2006-04-17)....
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Vik Vaz, a medical student from Austin, Texas
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2006 Tournament of Champions 1st runner-up: $100,000. Season 22 3-time champion:...
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Kevin Marshall, a student from Metairie, Louisiana
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2006 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 22 6-time champion: $98,201...
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Jerry Frankel, a musician originally from Buffalo, New York
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1985 Tournament of Champions winner (semifinalist by wildcard): $100,000. Season 1...
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Kathy Fuller, a graduate student from Baltimore, Maryland
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Season 6 player (1990-04-05). Season 5 player (1989-04-17). Kathy was brought...
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Jerry Frankel, a musician and a composer originally from Buffalo, New York
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1985 Tournament of Champions winner (semifinalist by wildcard): $100,000. Season 1...
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John Krizel, a green community program coordinator from Beckley, West Virginia
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2011 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $105,204...
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Claudia Perry, a worker for an e-learning company from Evanston, Illinois
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"She was a pop music critic living in San Jose, California...
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Leslie Shannon, a manager of a research lab from Sydney, Australia
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"A recent art history graduate when she became Jeopardy! champion in...
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Jeff Magee, a registered nurse from Ridgefield Park, New Jersey
|
Season 21 player (2005-06-17). According to the official Jeopardy! web site,...
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Bob Verini, a film journalist and test prep teacher from Los Angeles, California
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"A resident of New York City when he won the 1987...
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Larry King, a talk show host from Larry King Live
|
1994 Celebrity Jeopardy! player: $10,000 to the Larry King Cardiac Foundation....
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Leslie Burns-Dell'Acqua, a creative marketing consultant from San Diego, California
|
Season 22 player (2005-11-02), Season 21 player (2005-01-12). Leslie was asked...
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Vito Cortese, a software engineer and Italian translator from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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Season 27 3-time champion: $68,485 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Matt Tick, from Escondido, California
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"Will take violin lessons and loves science, but he really wants...
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Scott Wells, a medievalist from Los Angeles, California
|
Season 27 player (2010-09-13). Season 26 player (2009-11-16). Scott was returned...
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Claire O'Brien, an administrative assistant from Seattle, Washington
|
Season 22 player (2005-10-24).
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Andrea Salt, a twelve-year-old from Gilbert, Arizona
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"This animal lover plans on becoming a veterinarian. From Gilbert, Arizona,...
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Bruce Naegeli, a retired law librarian from Phoenix, Arizona
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"He finished second in the 1988 Tournament of Champions. A retired...
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Dave Abbott, a musician and licensing executive from Fort Thomas, Kentucky
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"He won the 1999 Tournament of Champions. A musician and licensing...
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Jeff Stewart, an executive from Los Alamos, New Mexico
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"After winning the 1994 College Championship, he went on to finish...
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Brandon Hathaway, a mechanical engineer from Augusta, Georgia
|
Season 26 2-time champion: $25,400 + $2,000.
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Michael Daunt, an accountant from Oakville, Ontario, Canada
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"In 1996, he was a finalist in the Tournament of Champions....
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Tom Halpern, a lawyer originally from New York, New York
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"A writer and researcher when he won 5 times in 1991,...
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Bob Blake, an actuary from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
|
"In 1990, he won the Tournament of Champions. An actuary from...
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Andrew Hutchings, a graduate student from Ithaca, New York
|
"A senior when he won the 1998 College Championship, he's now...
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Fraser Woodford, an investment banker from New York, New York
|
"In 1993, winner of the Teen Tournament, he's now an investment...
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Dane Garrett, a lawyer from Collinsville, Illinois
|
Season 2 3-time champion: $17,900. Defeated by Chuck Forrest. Dane was...
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Bill Sloan, a realtor from Mission Viejo, California
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"Since winning five shows in 1996, he has gone on to...
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Chacko George, a senior at the University of Texas at Austin from Austin, Texas
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"He won the November 1999 Teen Tournament. Now he's a senior...
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Emily Cloyd, a climate scientist originally from Troy, Michigan
|
Season 26 player (2010-03-30). As detailed in a 2012-06-29 article in...
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Steve Berman, a teacher from Santa Monica, California
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"He was a film executive when he won five shows in...
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Paul Thompson, a human resources manager from Cheverly, Maryland
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"He was the first 5-time champion in the 1995-96 season. A...
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Amy Fine, a part-time teacher from Bethesda, Maryland
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"She was the last 5-time winner in the 1993-94 season. A...
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Brad Plovan, an attorney from Baltimore, Maryland
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"With the money from his five wins in 1995, he bought...
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Michelle Clum, an executive assistant originally from Wichita, Kansas
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"With her 5-time winnings from 2000, she traveled for a year,...
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Eddie Timanus, a sportswriter from Oak Hill, Virginia
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"His 5 wins in 1999 made him one of the most...
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Mark Eckard, an entrepreneur from Bedford, Massachusetts
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"A 2001 5-time champion as a software designer, he has now...
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Brian Wangsgard, from Salt Lake City, Utah
|
"He was the biggest winner in the 1988-1989 season, and a...
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Dan Melia, a college professor from Berkeley, California
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"He was a 1998 Tournament of Champions winner. Today he's a...
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Leszek Pawlowicz, a computer consultant from Flagstaff, Arizona
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"He was the winner of the 1992 Tournament of Champions. Today...
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Jeremy Bate, an emergency medical technician and writer from Tujunga, California
|
"A second-place finisher in the 2000 Tournament of Champions, he's now...
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Leah Greenwald, an architect from Cambridge, Massachusetts
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"A winner of 5 games in 1988, she has since become...
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Arthur Phillips, an author from Brooklyn, New York
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"He was a speechwriter from Boston when he won five shows...
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Michael Galvin, a consultant from Penn Wynne, Pennsylvania
|
"He was the first winner of the Teen Tournament back in...
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Leslie Burns-Dell'Acqua, a marketing consultant from San Diego, California
|
Season 22 player (2005-11-02), Season 21 player (2005-01-12). Leslie was asked...
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Bonny Jain, a senior from Moline, Illinois
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2009 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
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William English, an overnight grocery stocker from Mobile, Alabama
|
Season 26 player (2009-10-28).
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Josh Charnin-Aker, a twelve-year-old from Lighthouse Point, Florida
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"And, whether in neonatology or as a Navy SEAL, he plans...
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Rachel Pildis, a software developer from Oak Park, Illinois
|
Season 26 1-time champion: $12,000 + $2,000. Rachel Pildis - A...
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Carl Brandt, an investor originally from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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2009 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Season 25 4-time champion: $70,799 + $2,000.
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Valerie Vicroy, a caterer from Pismo Beach, California
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Season 26 player (2009-10-19).
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Scott Wells, a medievalist from Los Angeles, California
|
Season 27 player (2010-09-13). Season 26 player (2009-11-16). Scott was returned...
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Kori Tyler, a high school history teacher from Cordova, Tennessee
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Season 26 player (2010-02-26). Season 25 1-time champion: $20,000 + $2,000....
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Paul Wampler, a web programmer from Knoxville, Tennessee
|
Season 27 4-time champion: $72,001 + $2,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: paul5562
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Michael Day, a financial analyst from Columbus, Ohio
|
2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 1985 Tournament...
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Richard Prince, a production manager from Studio City, California
|
Season 12 player (1995-12-08): Muirfield china + the Jeopardy! home game....
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Justin Bernbach, a lobbyist from Brooklyn, New York
|
2010 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 25 7-time champion: $155,001...
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Andrew Ceppos, a senior from Tufts University
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2009 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 21 and from Verona, New...
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Terry Linwood, a bookseller from North Texas
|
2010 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 26 5-time champion: $122,705...
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Kori Tyler, a high school teacher from Cordova, Tennessee
|
Season 26 player (2010-02-26). Season 25 1-time champion: $20,000 + $2,000....
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Jeff Kirby, a math and science teacher from Santa Maria, California
|
Season 26 player (2009-10-12). Season 16 player (1999-12-08). Jeff returned to...
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Dave Belote, a recently retired base commander from Woodbridge, Virginia
|
2010 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 26 5-time champion:...
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Lisa Dvorak, a grocery store chain administrative assistant from Millersville, Maryland
|
Season 27 1-time champion: $31,201 + $2,000.
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Andrew Haringer, a college instructor from Squamish, British Columbia, Canada
|
2015 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 31 5-time champion:...
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Kadeem Cooper, a junior from the University of Virginia
|
2009 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 20 and from Brooklyn, New York...
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Elizabeth Galoozis, a reference librarian from Cambridge, Massachusetts
|
Season 26 2-time champion: $38,801 + $2,000. Elizabeth Galoozis - A...
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Ashley Wilson, an organization development consultant from Alexandria, Virginia
|
Season 32 2-time champion: $52,402 + $1,000. Ashley returned to the...
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Dana Delany, an actress from Desperate Housewives
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"She won two Emmys for her work on China Beach. This...
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Anthony Fox, an account executive from Arlington Heights, Illinois
|
Season 27 4-time champion: $51,998 + $1,000. Playing as "Tony", Anthony...
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Jenifer Thomas, a teacher assistant from Jacksonville, North Carolina
|
Season 26 1-time champion: $13,400 + $2,000. Jenifer Thomas October 5,...
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Robbie Berg, a freshman from the University of Pennsylvania
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2010-A College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. Hometown: Davie, Florida. Robbie Berg Blog...
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Ben Parker, a student from Northbrook, Illinois
|
Season 32 player (2015-12-16). Ben won a $1,000 consolation prize after...
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Isaac Mizrahi, a fashion designer and TV personality from the QVC Network
|
"His fashion designs are a favorite among celebrities on the red...
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Christian Haines, a college student originally from Newport News, Virginia
|
2007 Tournament of champions semifinalist: $10,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD Home...
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Marissa Goldsmith, a web developer from Springfield, Virginia
|
Season 27 3-time champion: $44,100 + $2,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: marteena
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Ken Basin, a junior at the University of Southern California from Huntington Beach, California
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2003 College Championship semifinalist: $5,000. Blog at kbasin.blogspot.org. Appearing as a...
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Mike Farrell, an actor from Providence
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"16 years after M*A*S*H, he returns to series television as Dr....
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Doug Savant, an actor from Desperate Housewives
|
"He met and then married his wife while both were costarring...
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Greg Gumbel, a sportscaster from NBC Sports
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"He covers baseball, basketball and football for NBC; he hosted the...
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Dot Richardson, a physician and Olympic softball player from Orlando, Florida
|
"After winning a gold medal as a slugging shortstop on the...
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Aaron Schroeder, a grad student from San Diego, California
|
2009 Tournament of Champions second runner-up: $50,000. Season 24 5-time champion:...
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Mark Wales, a substitute teacher from Amherst, New York
|
2009 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 24 5-time champion: $141,804...
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Doug Meyer, an editor from Newton, Massachusetts
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Season 21 player (2005-06-09). Season 20 player (2004-03-11). Doug later returned...
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Tom Zamojcin, a digital marketing manager from Phoenixville, Pennsylvania
|
Season 27 1-time champion: $22,800 + $2,000.
Last name pronounced like "zam-MOH-chin".
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Charlie Penrod, an assistant professor of law from Natchitoches, Louisiana
|
Season 27 1-time champion: $17,000 + $2,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: CharlieP
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Holly Owens, a physician originally from Tulsa, Oklahoma
|
Season 23 2-time champion: $31,902 + $1,000. Season 22 player (2006-04-17)....
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Matt Kohlstedt, a grad student originally from La Grange, Illinois
|
2009 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
Season 25 5-time champion: $77,803 + $2,000.
|
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Tom Bergeron, an Emmy Award-winning host from Dancing with the Stars
|
2009 Celebrity Jeopardy! player: $25,000 to the Muscular Dystrophy Association. "He's...
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Lysette Tidwell, a dog rescuer from Escondido, California
|
Season 26 1-time champion: $24,001 + $1,000.
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Marshall Flores, a senior from Arizona State University from Avondale, Arizona
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2010-B College Championship semifinalist: $10,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
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Sam Spaulding, a sophomore from Yale University from Wilmington, North Carolina
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2010-B College Championship 1st runner-up: $50,000 + a Nintendo Wii +...
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Jeff Kirby, an elementary school teacher from Santa Maria, California
|
Season 26 player (2009-10-12). Season 16 player (1999-12-08). Jeff returned to...
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Andrea Ozment, a nurse and freelance writer from New Haven, Connecticut
|
Season 23 player (2007-04-19).
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Andrew Rostan, a writer and script reader originally from Boardman, Ohio
|
2007 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD Home...
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Bebe Neuwirth, an actress from Frasier and the Broadway revival of Chicago
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"She won two Emmys for playing Dr. Frasier Crane's acerbic wife...
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Gin Peck, a computer consultant from Phelps, New York
|
Season 23 1-time champion: $28,800 + $2,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: brandy13
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Robin Cheney, a middle school teacher from Rancho Santa Margarita, California
|
"All the students at her school go on a camping trip...
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P.D. Wadler, a psychotherapist from Chicago, Illinois
|
Season 14 1-time champion: $9,200. P.D. stands for Paul David, named...
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Kaitlin Welborn, a sophomore from the University of Pennsylvania
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2007 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 20 at the time of the...
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Melissa Gaul, a quality assurance manager from Shoreview, Minnesota
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Season 17 player (2000-09-21). Melissa returned about 6 months after her...
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Regis Philbin, a TV host from Live with Regis and Kelly
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"In 2004 he entered the Guinness Book of Records as having...
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Harry Shearer, a humorist, Spinal Tap bassist, and voice from The Simpsons
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"He recently celebrated the 25th anniversary of This Is Spinal Tap...
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Christopher Meloni, a star from Law & Order: SVU and HBO's Oz
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"On TV, he's worked both sides of the law. Once a...
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Hayley Clatterbuck, a junior from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln
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2007 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 21 at the time of...
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Jill Bunzendahl Chimka, a speech and language pathologist from Washington, D.C.
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2003 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 18 4-time champion: $85,099...
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Trevor Norris, a management analyst from Washington, D.C.
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 2003 Tournament...
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Kathy Cassity, a closed captioner from Honolulu, Hawaii
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2003 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 18 4-time champion: $59,200....
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Jill Bunzendahl Chimka, a speech and language pathologist from Washington, D.C.
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2003 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 18 4-time champion: $85,099...
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Bob Blake, an actuary from Vancouver, British Columbia
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 1990 Tournament...
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Ann Rupel, a medical research assistant from New York, New York
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Season 22 player (2006-07-18).
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Mike Marmesh, a veterinarian from Miami, Florida
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Season 26 1-time champion: $4,700 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Emily Kamm, a 12-year-old from Arlington, Virginia
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"This member of Model United Nations has been on the principal's...
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Tiffany Wen, a 12-year-old from Exton, Pennsylvania
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"This figure skater is also on the distinguished honor roll. From...
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Suzie Lisky, a 12-year-old from Mendham, New Jersey
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"She's not sure what she wants to be when she grows...
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Dennis DiNucci, an engineer originally from Portland, Oregon
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Season 8 player (1992-05-19). 14 years after Dennis's appearance, his sister...
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Brad Rutter, a network administrator from Lancaster, Pennsylvania
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"The reigning Tournament of Champions winner, he attended Johns Hopkins University...
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Kate Waits, a law professor at the University of Tulsa from Tulsa, Oklahoma
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"A Harvard Law graduate when she competed in the 1988 Tournament...
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Joel Goldberg, a CPA and financial officer from Fort Lee, New Jersey
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Season 6 4-time champion: $33,001. Was first on the show 1988...
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Andrew Westney, a singer and actor from Atlanta, Georgia
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"In 1991, he won the Teen Tournament. Today, he's a singer...
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Robbi Rogers, a respiratory therapist from Corsicana, Texas
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Season 22 1-time champion: $20,800 + $1,000. Robbi won her first...
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Richard Kaplan, a retired attorney from Los Angeles, California
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1992 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $5,000. Season 8 5-time champion:...
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Steve Chernicoff, a technical writer from Berkeley, California
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Elite Eighteen (Round 2 winners) member:...
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Michael Day, an attorney from Mill Valley, California
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"As an MBA Student, he won 5 games in 1985. Today...
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Frank Spangenberg, a police lieutenant from Douglaston, New York
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2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2005 Ultimate Tournament of...
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Bob Verini, a director of academics for a national test preparation company from Los Angeles, California
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2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2005 Ultimate Tournament of...
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Megan Bygness, a Ph.D. student and literature instructor from Iowa City, Iowa
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Season 24 player (2007-09-11).
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Joely Fisher, an actress from 'Til Death
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"She made her Broadway debut in Grease, and earned rave reviews...
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Ken Jennings, a software engineer from Salt Lake City, Utah
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2020 Jeopardy!: The Greatest of All Time winner: $1,000,000 + a...
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Harry Smith, a broadcast journalist from The Early Show
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"This hard-working host of CBS's The Early Show has interviewed five...
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James Denton, an actor from Desperate Housewives
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"He plays Mike Delfino, Wisteria Lane's sexy plumber on the hit...
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Melissa Gaul, a quality manager from Shoreview, Minnesota
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Season 16 player (2000-03-20). Melissa returned in Season 17, about 6...
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Neha Gokhale, a 10-year-old from Houston, Texas
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"Because she liked 4th and 5th grade so much, she wants...
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Leonard Schmidt, an optometrist and 1992 Seniors Tournament champion from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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1992 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $5,000. 1992 Seniors Tournament winner:...
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Eric Webb, a 12-year-old from Austin, Texas
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"He wants to be a cartoonist so he can make people...
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Claudia Perry, a pop music critic from Jersey City, New Jersey
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2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2002 Million Dollar Masters...
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Eric Newhouse, a director of technical assistance from Sioux City, Iowa
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Nifty Nine (players with byes into...
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Michael Dupee, an attorney from Cleveland, Ohio
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 winner: $32,500. Lost his...
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Keith Williams, a sophomore at Middlebury College from Middlebury, Vermont
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"As a freshman from Middlebury College, he won the 2003 College...
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John LeDonne, a bookstore manager from Concord, New Hampshire
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"He was the last person to win 5 shows in 1990....
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Steven Popper, an economist from Topanga, California
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"A winner of 5 shows in 1988, he has since founded...
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Roy Holliday, a radiologist from Nyack, New York
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"He was the first to win five games in the 1987-88...
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David Hoffelmeyer, a senior from St. Joseph, Missouri
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2006 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000.
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Lara Robillard, a policy analyst from Arlington, Virginia
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"She used the winnings from her 5 shows in 1998 to...
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David Venderbush, a lawyer from New York, New York
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"His 5 wins in 1993 came just in time to pay...
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Andrew Watkins, a junior from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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2006 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: everyday847
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Allison Peña, a junior from Sunrise, Florida
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2006 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
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Jerome Vered, a writer from Los Angeles, California
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"The 1-day record of $34,000 he set in 1992 stood for...
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Joseph Graumann, a junior from Mays Landing, New Jersey
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2006 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
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Mike Dupée, an attorney from Gainesville, Florida
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 winner: $32,500. Lost his...
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Doug Lach, a marketing manager from Columbus, Ohio
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"He was the biggest winner of the 1999-2000 season. A marketing...
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Mike Thayer, a mathematics teacher from North Plainfield, New Jersey
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"He was a junior at Rutgers University when he won the...
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Bob Blake, an actuary from Vancouver, British Columbia
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 1990 Tournament...
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Rachel McCool, a sophomore at Dickinson College from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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2004 College Championship 2nd runner-up: $25,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: rachel_pi
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Ken Jennings, a software engineer from Salt Lake City, Utah
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2020 Jeopardy!: The Greatest of All Time winner: $1,000,000 + a...
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Ryan Holznagel, a writer originally from Forest Grove, Oregon
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"He was the winner of the 1995 Tournament of Champions. Now,...
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Sean Ryan, a cab driver from State College, Pennsylvania
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Nifty Nine (players with byes into...
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Mark Dawson, a business manager from Chamblee, Georgia
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"In 2003, he became the first to win a quarter of...
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Elaine Zollner, a physician from Glendale, California
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"A winner of 5 shows in 1990, she used her Jeopardy!...
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Orlando Zambrano, a junior from Tampa, Florida
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2005 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $5,000.
16 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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