| #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 |
| #8879, aired 2023-05-25 | POLITICIANS $1600: After serving on the state supreme court, he succeeded Rick Perry as governor in 2015 Abbott |
| #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 |
| #9, aired 2022-02-15 | ISLAND FOLK $800: She visited her ancestral home Puerto Rico soon after joining the Supreme Court Sonia Sotomayor |
| #8335, aired 2021-02-12 | AFTER THE SUPREME COURT $400: Not long after her 2006 retirement, this justice founded the iCivics website that teaches about government Sandra Day O'Connor |
| #8335, aired 2021-02-12 | AFTER THE SUPREME COURT $800: Georgian John Archibald Campbell quit in 1861 & this man named him the Confederacy's Assistant Secretary of War Jefferson Davis |
| #8335, aired 2021-02-12 | AFTER THE SUPREME COURT $1200: John Jay left the bench to become governor of this state New York |
| #8335, aired 2021-02-12 | AFTER THE SUPREME COURT $1600: Benjamin Curtis quit the court over the Dred Scott decision & later defended this president in his impeachment trial Andrew Johnson |
| #8335, aired 2021-02-12 | AFTER THE SUPREME COURT $2000: In the 1870s David Davis left the court for the Senate, where he even had this job running things when the VP is away president pro tempore |
| #8237, aired 2020-09-15 | KEN JENNINGS ON WINNING STREAKS $200: (Ken Jennings presents the clue.) After going 7 and 3 arguing before the Supreme Court, he reeled off an amazing 22 straight wins, including the unanimously decided Brown vs. the Board of Education and would join the court himself in 1967 (Thurgood) Marshall |
| #8019, aired 2019-06-20 | A GAP YEAR $600: In 1979 the Supreme Court narrowed the gender gap, nixing laws that exempted wives from paying this after a divorce alimony |
| #7934, aired 2019-02-21 | POLITICIANS $10,000 (Daily Double): Before going to the Supreme Court, he made history by winning 3 straight California gubernatorial elections (Earl) Warren |
| #7922, aired 2019-02-05 | SUCCESSION $1200: He was next up after Anthony Kennedy sent himself to the bench from the Supreme Court bench (Brett) Kavanaugh |
| #7845, aired 2018-10-19 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $400: Heman Sweatt integrated the University of Texas Law after the Supreme Court ruled the Negro Law School was separate but not this equal |
| #7612, aired 2017-10-17 | SUPREME COURT JUSTICE BEFORE & AFTER $800: He replaced Thurgood Marshall & chugged his way around the island of Sodor Clarence Thomas the Tank Engine |
| #7612, aired 2017-10-17 | SUPREME COURT JUSTICE BEFORE & AFTER $1200: This Heisman runner-up jurist, now the home of "The Original Slider" Byron White Castle |
| #7612, aired 2017-10-17 | SUPREME COURT JUSTICE BEFORE & AFTER $1600: HBO's "Last Week Tonight" host who went on to become "The Great Dissenter" John Oliver Wendell Holmes |
| #7508, aired 2017-04-12 | DAVE'S NOT HERE, MAN $1600: He left the Supreme Court in 2009, 19 years after filling the seat of William Brennan (David) Souter |
| #7268, aired 2016-03-30 | 2 FIRST NAMES? $400: After dramatic hearings & a close Senate vote, in 1991 he replaced Thurgood Marshall on the Supreme Court Clarence Thomas |
| #7137, aired 2015-09-29 | LITERARY BEFORE & AFTER $2000: The Supreme Court justice known for not speaking becomes the reclusive "Lot 49" novelist known for not speaking Clarence Thomas Pynchon |
| #7005, aired 2015-02-13 | 19th CENTURY STATE GOVERNORS $400: What a name! Epaphroditus Ransom quit this Wolverine State's supreme court in 1848 after getting the guv gig Michigan |
| #6863, aired 2014-06-18 | HISTORY, ON THE MOVE $1200: After its futile appeal to the Supreme Court, this tribe lost 4,000 members along the 1830s "Trail of Tears" the Cherokee |
| #6843, aired 2014-05-21 | THE SECRETARY OF WAR $2000: Secretary during the Civil War, he died 4 days after Grant appointed him to the Supreme Court Edwin Stanton |
| #6814, aired 2014-04-10 | SUPREME COURT JUSTICES $1200: This man, who helped found the ACLU in 1920, must have said, "Hot dog!" after taking the bench 19 years later (Felix) Frankfurter |
| #6813, aired 2014-04-09 | SITTING IN JUDGMENT $800: Robert Jackson took a leave as a Supreme Court justice to be the main U.S. lawyer at these trials the Nuremberg Trials |
| #6810, aired 2014-04-04 | THE AGE OF THE ROBBER BARONS $1600: 5 years after this act was passed, the Supreme Court gutted it in 1895's United States v. E.C. Knight the Sherman Antitrust Act |
| #6765, aired 2014-01-31 | AFTER THE WHITE HOUSE $800: In 1841 he successfully argued for the freedom of the slave mutineers of the Amistad before the Supreme Court John Quincy Adams |
| #6613, aired 2013-05-22 | SUPREME COURT CASES $1200: Expanding press freedom, the court rejected a charge of this in 1964 after a newspaper ad criticized Alabama officials libel |
| #5942, aired 2010-06-15 | THE CURRENT SUPREME COURT JUSTICE WHO $800: ...has a presidential surname & made it to the court after Robert Bork was rejected Anthony Kennedy |
| #5484, aired 2008-06-12 | BEFORE & AFTER $800: He wrote "Bennie and the Jets" & the 2005 Supreme Court decision Martin v. Franklin Capital Corp. Elton John Roberts |
| #5185, aired 2007-03-09 | TRY, TRY AGAIN $1000: In the 1930s, after the Supreme Court ruled in favor of these "Boys", Alabama went ahead and retried them, one by one the Scottsboro Boys |
| #5109, aired 2006-11-23 | GREAT SCOTT! $800: 2 days after James Buchanan's Inauguration, the Supreme Court announced its decision regarding this man Dred Scott |
| #5032, aired 2006-06-27 | SUPREME COURT BEFORE & AFTER $400: Rootin' tootin' Old West nemesis of Bugs Bunny who was nominated to the Supreme Court by George W. Bush Yosemite Sam Alito |
| #5032, aired 2006-06-27 | SUPREME COURT BEFORE & AFTER $800: Have it your way with this former Chief Justice who's the Home of the Whopper Warren Burger King |
| #4815, aired 2005-07-08 | DEATH OF A PRESIDENT $800: His March 8, 1930 death occured a month after he resigned as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court due to heart trouble (William) Taft |
| #4314, aired 2003-05-08 | BEFORE & AFTER $2000: Supreme Court's "Separate but Equal" decision who's a Hall of Fame pitcher for the Cubs & Rangers Plessy v. Ferguson Jenkins |
| #4087, aired 2002-05-14 | THEY'VE BEEN BENCHED $400: Of Nixon's appointees to the Supreme Court, he's the only one still there as of 2002 Rehnquist |
| #3993, aired 2002-01-02 | BEFORE, AFTER $400: The principle of "One person, one" this was established after the Supreme Court case Gray v. Sanders a vote |
| #3968, aired 2001-11-28 | BEFORE & AFTER $800: A judge like Stephen Breyer or David Souter fights crime in this group with Superman & Wonder Woman the Supreme Court Justice League of America |
| #3876, aired 2001-06-11 | BEFORE & AFTER $200: Supreme Court chief justice lucky enough to marry Annette Bening Earl Warren Beatty |
| #3848, aired 2001-05-02 | '76ers $800: Samuel "Bacon Face" Chase became a justice of this 20 years after signing the Declaration of Independence the Supreme Court |
| #3802, aired 2001-02-27 | PRESIDENTIAL DEMISES $400: In March 1930, a month after he retired from the Supreme Court, his funeral was one of the first heard on radio William Howard Taft |
| #3776, aired 2001-01-22 | AFTER THE WHITE HOUSE $500: He went on to preside over the American Bar Association & over the Supreme Court of the U.S. William Howard Taft |
| #3767, aired 2001-01-09 | LEGAL BEFORE & AFTER $1000: Landmark 1803 Supreme Court decision establishing a Manhattan venue for the Knicks Marbury v. Madison Square Garden |
| #3360, aired 1999-03-26 | AFTER THE WHITE HOUSE $200: In 1841 he represented the Amistad mutineers before the Supreme Court John Quincy Adams |
| #3098, aired 1998-02-04 | BEFORE & AFTER $300: The Sultan of Swat makes it to the Supreme Court Babe Ruth Bader Ginsburg |
| #2945, aired 1997-05-23 | HISTORIC AMERICANS $1,900 (Daily Double): In May 1857, 2 months after the Supreme Court ruled against him, this slave & his family were freed Dred Scott |
| #2818, aired 1996-11-27 | THE SUPREME COURT $1,500 (Daily Double): After the 1987 rejection of this man's nomination to the court, Anthony Kennedy filled Powell's seat Robert Bork |
| #2731, aired 1996-06-17 | GOVERNMENT & POLITICS $600: Of the 9 current members of the U.S. Supreme Court, this chief justice has served the longest, 24 years William Rehnquist |
| #2590, aired 1995-12-01 | SUPREME COURT JUSTICES $600: 11 years after this first Chief Justice resigned, his brother-in-law was named to the court John Jay |
| #2590, aired 1995-12-01 | SUPREME COURT JUSTICES $6,000 (Daily Double): The Waltham, Massachusetts university named for him was founded in 1948, 7 years after is death Brandeis |
| #2469, aired 1995-05-04 | THE SUPREME COURT $300: After earning her law degree in 1952, she began work as a deputy county attorney in California Sandra Day O'Connor |
| #2452, aired 1995-04-11 | THE SUPREME COURT $1000: This author of Roe v. Wade was appointed after the failed nominations of Carswell & Haynsworth Harry Blackmun |
| #2364, aired 1994-12-08 | THE 1970s $2,100 (Daily Double): In 1975 John Paul Stevens took over the Supreme Court seat of this man, who retired after 36 1/2 years William O. Douglas |
| #2288, aired 1994-07-13 | BLACK AMERICA $400: He was freed in 1857, 2 months after the Supreme Court made its famous decision Dred Scott |
| #2282, aired 1994-07-05 | SUPREME COURT JUSTICES $400: Bushrod Washington lived in this famous home after the deaths of his uncle George & Aunt Martha Mount Vernon |
| #2041, aired 1993-06-21 | NOTABLE NAMES $400: He quit his appeals court job in 1988, after being rejected for the Supreme Court the year before (Robert) Bork |
| #1579, aired 1991-06-13 | FAMOUS COURT CASES $1000: Controversy flared after the Supreme Court's '89 ruling that G. Johnson's doing this wasn't illegal burning the flag |
| #1388, aired 1990-09-19 | HISTORIC NAMES $300: In July 1990, he resigned after 34 years on the U.S. Supreme Court (William) Brennan |
| #1312, aired 1990-04-24 | THE SUPREME COURT $300: He handed down the famous Brown v. Board of Education ruling 7 months after becoming chief justice Earl Warren |
| #1312, aired 1990-04-24 | THE SUPREME COURT $500: First Republican president after Taft, he appointed Taft chief justice Warren G. Harding |
| #903, aired 1988-07-06 | IN THE NEWS $200: After admitting past marijuana use, he withdrew as a Supreme Court nominee Douglas Ginsburg |
| #698, aired 1987-09-23 | THE LAW $400: There are 11 of these federal courts whose authority falls between district courts & the Supreme Court the Court of Appeals (Circuit Court) |
| #261, aired 1985-09-09 | LAW $1,200 (Daily Double): The Supreme Court said electrocuting someone again after the chair failed once wasn't this cruel & unusual punishment |
| #129, aired 1985-03-07 | THE '30S $1000: In 1932, at age 90, he retired after almost 30 years on the Supreme Court Oliver Wendell Holmes |
