| #9085, aired 2024-04-19 | POETS OF LOVE $400: "Love Song" by this Algonquin Round Table member goes full vicious circle: "He is all my heart, & I wish somebody'd shoot him" (Dorothy) Parker |
| #9085, aired 2024-04-19 | ON GUITAR $1200: Prince could do it all, including the jaw-dropping outro guitar solo on this tune about looking for the purple banana (huh?) "Let's Go Crazy" |
| #9085, aired 2024-04-19 | POETS OF LOVE $1600: This Roman poet got sappy with it in "Eclogues"; "Love conquers all: let us too yield to love" Virgil |
| #9085, aired 2024-04-19 | POETS OF LOVE $4,500 (Daily Double): Percy Shelley wrote, "Nothing in the world is single; / All things by a law divine / In one spirit meet &" this, like at a mixer mingle |
| #9084, aired 2024-04-18 | ALL UP IN YOUR BUSINESS $200: It's the company that made the 717 for mass passengers as well as the F-22 Raptor for very, very specific passengers Boeing |
| #9084, aired 2024-04-18 | ALL UP IN YOUR BUSINESS $400: Told, "Take it to the house" in an ad for this co. that "knows home improvement", Christian McCaffrey says, "I will, that's where I live" Lowe's |
| #9084, aired 2024-04-18 | ALL UP IN YOUR BUSINESS $600: The split-adjusted share price of the 1986 IPO of this graphics software co. was 17 cents but here's an update; in 2023 it hit $634 Adobe |
| #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 | ALL UP IN YOUR BUSINESS $1000: This massive holding co. was not named for a single crowbar but from the 1929 merger of a Dutch co. with one run by British brothers Unilever |
| #9083, aired 2024-04-17 | TV MUSIC $2000: That's TLC doing the theme for this '90s Nickelodeon sketch show that starred Kenan Thompson All That |
| #9082, aired 2024-04-16 | LIVED PAST 100 $600: Dying at 101, this iconic producer of TV shows like "All in the Family" credited his longevity to work, lox & bagels (Norman) Lear |
| #9080, aired 2024-04-12 | NEW YORK GOVERNORS $200: Elected governor in 1868, John T. Hoffman was the last to go from this job to higher office; Rudy, Bloomberg & de Blasio all tried mayor of New York |
| #9080, aired 2024-04-12 | FADS $800: Focus now, a few years back, these gizmos were all the rage a fidget spinner |
| #9079, aired 2024-04-11 | DOUBLE LETTERS IN THE MIDDLE $200: Misquoting Shakespeare, a wise proverb tells us, "All that" does this "is not gold" glitters |
| #9079, aired 2024-04-11 | ABBREVIATED TELEVISION $800: Don't space out (or do) with "FAM" For All Mankind |
| #9077, aired 2024-04-09 | WORDS THAT GO UP TO 11 $200: In this type of triangle, all the sides are of the same length equilateral |
| #9077, aired 2024-04-09 | OPERA SETTINGS $800: Long before the play & film, an 1898 opera about Mozart & this composer takes place in a room in Vienna & lasts all of 40 minutes Salieri |
| #9077, aired 2024-04-09 | LITERARY LINES $2,800 (Daily Double): From "Hamlet", "This above all:" this phrase to thine own self be true |
| #9077, aired 2024-04-09 | OPERA SETTINGS $6,200 (Daily Double): Verdi's "Falstaff" is set in this town during the reign of Henry IV Windsor |
| #9076, aired 2024-04-08 | POP CULTURE IS SPRINGING OUT ALL OVER $200: "I love Paris in the spring time", says one of the classic songs by this American composer Cole Porter |
| #9076, aired 2024-04-08 | POP CULTURE IS SPRINGING OUT ALL OVER $400: The only movie to pair Fred Astaire & Judy Garland is this holiday classic Easter Parade |
| #9076, aired 2024-04-08 | POP CULTURE IS SPRINGING OUT ALL OVER $600: Charles Melton represents the first month in the title of this 2023 film that also stars Natalie Portman & Julianne Moore May December |
| #9076, aired 2024-04-08 | POP CULTURE IS SPRINGING OUT ALL OVER $800: Asked to describe a perfect date, a pageant contestant in this film says, "April 25 because it's not too hot, not too cold" Miss Congeniality |
| #9076, aired 2024-04-08 | POP CULTURE IS SPRINGING OUT ALL OVER $1000: Duncan Sheik & Steven Sater won Tonys for the score of this musical about 19th century students Spring Awakening |
| #9075, aired 2024-04-05 | IN THE PAST $200: All your favorite medieval travel influencers went through South India, like Ibn Battuta, Zheng He & this Venetian guy Marco Polo |
| #9075, aired 2024-04-05 | SPORTS $400: In 2024 this Iowa athlete sunk one of her trademark logo 3-pointers & set the all-time NCAA women's scoring record (Caitlin) Clark |
| #9074, aired 2024-04-04 | TRAIN TALES $5,400 (Daily Double): This title train was filled with children "all in their pajamas and nightgowns" as it "raced northward" The Polar Express |
| #9073, aired 2024-04-03 | STARS & CONSTELLATIONS $200: An asterism within the Bootes constellation appears to form this object, tail & all a kite |
| #9073, aired 2024-04-03 | STARS & CONSTELLATIONS $3,600 (Daily Double): If you're really smart, you should know that this constellation was named for South Africa's Table Mountain Mensa |
| #9071, aired 2024-04-01 | LONG WORDS $400: 14 letters:
Christian doctrine laid out by Paul in Romans 8:29-30, so god doesn't just know all but foreknows all predestination |
| #9069, aired 2024-03-28 | FREE FOR ALL $200: Monopoly once added a few house rules, including all fees & taxes stashed in the middle of the board are yours when you land on this spot Free Parking |
| #9069, aired 2024-03-28 | ALPHANUMERICS $400: The U.S. spent $100 billion to defend against this glitch that threatened to doom us all as 1999 ended Y2K |
| #9069, aired 2024-03-28 | FREE FOR ALL $400: The nonprofit Free Software Foundation promotes this hyphenated type of software that, by definition, can be modified & shared open source |
| #9069, aired 2024-03-28 | FREE FOR ALL $600: R.E.M. titled a 1981 song for this broadcasting service that aimed to inform people under the grasp of the Soviets Radio Free Europe |
| #9069, aired 2024-03-28 | ALPHANUMERICS $800: This technology introduced in 2019 brought faster connectivity all over an area 5G |
| #9069, aired 2024-03-28 | FREE FOR ALL $800: The Wilmot Proviso, which wanted no slavery in newly acquired Mexican lands, was a precursor to this political party the Free Soil Party |
| #9069, aired 2024-03-28 | FREE FOR ALL $1000: The "free" type of this refers to an atom or molecule with a loose electron that can destabilize other molecules a free radical |
| #9068, aired 2024-03-27 | CRUISE LINES $200: As this character, Tom Cruise radioed the tower, "This is Ghost Rider requesting a flyby" but was told the pattern was full Maverick |
| #9067, aired 2024-03-26 | FEELING JITTERY $2000: Italian gives us this word for upset or jitters; Junior Soprano tells Livia, "I'm all" this "all the time" agita |
| #9066, aired 2024-03-25 | THE THEATER $400: Inspired by the drama of "The Winner Takes It All", this musical premiered in London in 1999 & played its 9,000th show there in 2022 Mamma Mia! |
| #9065, aired 2024-03-22 | ITALIAN WORDS & PHRASES $800: This masculine plural form of the word for "all" means all the instruments playing together tutti |
| #9065, aired 2024-03-22 | IN THE NATIONAL WOMEN'S HALL OF FAME $2000: Among the class of 2024, this civil rights icon, who at age 6 made history when she integrated one of New Orleans' all white schools (Ruby) Bridges |
| #9064, aired 2024-03-21 | CLASSIC TV $400: Oh, Rob... Petrie & Sally Rogers & Alan Brady were all characters on this classic sitcom The Dick Van Dyke Show |
| #9064, aired 2024-03-21 | IDIOMS & EXPRESSIONS $2000: JFK said it's a Cape Cod saying & added, "and a partnership, by definition, serves both partners" a rising tide lifts all boats |
| #9063, aired 2024-03-20 | MISSION: PLAUSIBLE $1000: Climb all 2,909 stairs to level 160 of this building that opened in 2010; you probably should get permission & remember... hydrate! the Burj Khalifa |
| #9061, aired 2024-03-18 | MUSICAL FILMS $400: Norman Jewison directed the 1973 film version of this musical about the most famous Jew & son of all Jesus Christ Superstar |
| #9061, aired 2024-03-18 | ANNUAL EVENTS $800: Each June Nebraskaland Days in North Platte features a golf classic & a rodeo named for this Wild West showman Buffalo Bill |
| #9061, aired 2024-03-18 | HORRORS! $15,200 (Daily Double): The title of this 1962 Ray Bradbury novel is a Shakespeare line that rhymes with "by the pricking of my thumbs" Something Wicked This Way Comes |
| #9060, aired 2024-03-15 | FAMOUS WOMEN $400: In 2023 all living first ladies gathered in Atlanta to pay tribute to this first lady who passed away at 96 Rosalynn Carter |
| #9060, aired 2024-03-15 | MOVIE SONGS $1600: "All Is Love", "Rumpus" & "Food Is Still Hot" are numbers by Karen O & the Kids for this kids' book adaptation Where the Wild Things Are |
| #9059, aired 2024-03-14 | CROSSWORD CLUES "R" $200: What's all this noise?
(6 letters) racket |
| #9059, aired 2024-03-14 | MEMORIALS & MONUMENTS $800: This national monument & natural wonder attracts people from all over to Utah; the one for our dearly departed pets is different Rainbow Bridge |
| #9059, aired 2024-03-14 | SONGS OF YOUTH $800: Nate Ruess & this band implored, "We are young so let's set the world on fire" fun. |
| #9057, aired 2024-03-12 | WHO'S THE BIOPIC SUBJECT? $2000: "A Man for All Seasons" Thomas More |
| #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 |
| #9053, aired 2024-03-06 | MIDDLE X $600: Multiple blaring horns or warning hooters (that means put an S at the end of this high-score Scrabble word, y'all) claxons |
| #9050, aired 2024-03-01 | COVER ME $400: Aretha Franklin's version of this Otis Redding tune topped Rolling Stone's 2021 list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time "Respect" |
| #9048, aired 2024-02-28 | NEW U.S. STAMPS FOR 2024 $800: A guitar, fiddle, banjo & mandolin are all featured on the 2024 stamp celebrating this uniquely American genre of music bluegrass |
| #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 | ANTONYMIC PAIRS $200: This area at a train station has all kinds of items left behind, as seen here lost & found |
| #9047, aired 2024-02-27 | ANTONYMIC PAIRS $800: On the front of a dollar bill, it says it is legal tender for all debts owed in these 2 ways public & private |
| #9046, aired 2024-02-26 | ALL THINGS DISNEY $200: Naturally, he was the first animated character to get a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame Mickey |
| #9046, aired 2024-02-26 | ALL THINGS DISNEY $600: Inspired by "The Princess and the Frog", Disneyland has a new eatery featuring southern dishes & named for this character Tiana |
| #9046, aired 2024-02-26 | ALL THINGS DISNEY $800: This song from "Three Little Pigs" became a rallying cry against the Great Depression & the rise of Hitler "Who's Afraid Of The Big Bad Wolf?" |
| #9046, aired 2024-02-26 | ALL THINGS DISNEY $1000: "A Spoonful Of Sugar" & "It's A Small World" are among the more than 200 songs these siblings wrote for Disney the Shermans |
| #9046, aired 2024-02-26 | ALL THINGS DISNEY $4,200 (Daily Double): At Walt Disney World in 1975, Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper & Jim Irwin attended the grand opening of this ride Space Mountain |
| #9045, aired 2024-02-23 | TV COMEDY $1000: Jack & Chrissy are gone, but "Three's Company" lives as the nation's partygoers dress up like this character Mrs. Roper |
| #9043, aired 2024-02-21 | 1990s MUSIC $200: "Shakedown" is the first word of this Smashing Pumpkins song named for a year 1979 |
| #9043, aired 2024-02-21 | 1990s MUSIC $1000: This Red Hot Chili Peppers tune implores, "Take me to the place I love, take me all the way" "Under The Bridge" |
| #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 $200: With its oldest settlement at Jamestown, it was the first of the 13 colonies to be founded Virginia |
| #9042, aired 2024-02-20 | JEWELRY $800: This synonym for "forever" is used for a ring with diamonds all the way around the band to symbolize everlasting love eternity |
| #9042, aired 2024-02-20 | LITERARY HELPERS $1200: In this Cormac McCarthy novel John Grady Cole & his pal Rawlins are hired to tame some equines All the Pretty Horses |
| #9041, aired 2024-02-19 | IT'S ALL "SMALL" STUFF $200: Despite the name, it can be 25 feet long in the abdominal cavity the small intestine |
| #9041, aired 2024-02-19 | IT'S ALL "SMALL" STUFF $400: This type of special tribunal is set up for simplified litigation of damages below a certain amount of money small claims court |
| #9041, aired 2024-02-19 | POTENT QUOTABLES $400: Cole Porter wrote, "I get no kick from" this, "mere alcohol doesn't thrill me at all" champagne |
| #9041, aired 2024-02-19 | IT'S ALL "SMALL" STUFF $600: A group of young fish, or a dismissive term for the young or insignificant small fry |
| #9041, aired 2024-02-19 | THE QUESTION? $800: Used for 2 decades on Monday nights, a reworked version of "All My Rowdy Friends Are Coming Over Tonight" asked this question Are you ready for some football? |
| #9041, aired 2024-02-19 | IT'S ALL "SMALL" STUFF $800: In July 2004 in Thailand, Angelina Jolie had a tiger tattooed here the small of her back |
| #9041, aired 2024-02-19 | IT'S ALL "SMALL" STUFF $1000: Established in 1953, this government agency provides support to start-ups & existing companies with programs & loans the Small Business Administration |
| #9040, aired 2024-02-16 | DESCRIBING THE SONG $800: Drake remembers an ex who used to call him all the time but now is living her best life "running out of pages" in her passport "Hotline Bling" |
| #9040, aired 2024-02-16 | THAT'S GOT 2 HYPHENS $800: It's a brawl with no rules & for our purposes, no cost a free-for-all |
| #9040, aired 2024-02-16 | MYTHOLOGY $1200: This nymph's unrequited love for Narcissus made her fade away until all that was left of her was her voice Echo |
| #9040, aired 2024-02-16 | NOTABLE NAMES $5,000 (Daily Double): In 1919 this American scientist published "A Method of Reaching Extreme Altitudes" Goddard |
| #9039, aired 2024-02-15 | MISCELLANEOUS KNOWLEDGE $400: According to the U.S. Geological Survey, of all the continents, this one has the fewest earthquakes Antarctica |
| #9039, aired 2024-02-15 | DEALING WITH THINGS DIPLOMATICALLY $400: Jefferson sent James Monroe to France to buy this port city & West Florida for $10 mil, max; Napoleon said how about all of Louisiana for 15? New Orleans |
| #9039, aired 2024-02-15 | ONE-WORD PLAY TITLES $1200: It ends with Malcolm saying, "So thanks to all at once and to each one, whom we invite to see us crowned at Scone" Macbeth |
| #9038, aired 2024-02-14 | 1970s MOVIES $800: 2 things about this 1971 guy--he's "the cat that won't cop out when there's danger all about" & "no one understands him but his woman" Shaft |
| #9038, aired 2024-02-14 | "AMERICAN" ORGANIZATIONS $1200: This organization, the AOS for short, is literally for the birds the American Ornithological Society |
| #9038, aired 2024-02-14 | 1970s MOVIES $5,000 (Daily Double): This 1976 drama ends with the typed out words "Gerald Ford to become 38th president at noon today" All the President's Men |
| #9037, aired 2024-02-13 | 50 GREATEST RAPPERS OF ALL TIME $200: She invited us to "Come Into My House" & also deal with the "Wrath Of My Madness"; we bow down before this Queen Queen Latifah |
| #9037, aired 2024-02-13 | WISTFUL THINKING $400: John Greenleaf Whittier noted, "For of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these" 4 words it might have been |
| #9037, aired 2024-02-13 | 50 GREATEST RAPPERS OF ALL TIME $400: In 1986 it was "6 'N The Mornin"' for him in the studio but in 2000 it was "SVU" for him on TV Ice-T |
| #9037, aired 2024-02-13 | IT HAPPENED IN CONGRESS $400: In 1789 Congress hotly debated "a day of public" this for the new Constitution; a November day was eventually chosen Thanksgiving |
| #9037, aired 2024-02-13 | 50 GREATEST RAPPERS OF ALL TIME $600: Billboard said he is "often cited as hip-hop's goat behind the boards... a lead rapper on... 1988's 'Straight Outta Compton"' Dr. Dre |
| #9037, aired 2024-02-13 | WISTFUL THINKING $800: In "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage", this nobleman sadly wrote of Cadiz, "Here all were noble, save nobility" Byron |
| #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 | 50 GREATEST RAPPERS OF ALL TIME $1000: "Backed by rap's archetypal hype man in Flavor Flav", this Public Enemy leader was a "Rebel Without A Pause" in 1987 Chuck D |
| #9036, aired 2024-02-12 | INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS $1200: We do "declare" that members of the Brussels-based WCO, or World this Organization, deal with 98% of all trade the World Customs Organization |
| #9034, aired 2024-02-08 | END OF STORY $1600: A dystopian first-person tale: "But you, O my brothers, remember sometimes thy little Alex that was. Amen. And all that cal" A Clockwork Orange |
| #9033, aired 2024-02-07 | QUOTING THE OLD TESTAMENT $1,200 (Daily Double): The second verse of this book begins, "Take ye the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel..." Numbers |
| #9032, aired 2024-02-06 | AT THE TINY DESK CONCERT $800: Juvenile, Mannie Fresh, Jon Batiste & Trombone Shorty all hail from this "Crescent City" & showcased bounce hits New Orleans |
| #9032, aired 2024-02-06 | IT'S A BIRD! IT'S A PLANE! $1200: In a Shrike Commander, Bob Hoover perfected a routine of aerobatics, landing & taxiing all deadstick, i.e. this he had no engine power at all |
| #9031, aired 2024-02-05 | TRICKS OF THE SHOW BIZ TRADE $400: For an acting scene where you find out your grandma, dog & dreams are all dead, menthol applied under the eye will help you do this cry |
| #3, aired 2024-02-02 | WHEN I'M 64 $400: In all 64 minutes of this 1941 Disney classic, the high-flying title character never speaks Dumbo |
| #9029, aired 2024-02-01 | BRAINY QUOTES $400: In a book from 1900, this character says, "I don't know anything. You see, I am stuffed, so I have no brains at all" the Scarecrow |
| #9029, aired 2024-02-01 | NONFICTION $400: It says, "The opulent Watergate... was as Republican as the Union League Club" All the President's Men |
| #9029, aired 2024-02-01 | I LIKE THE CUT OF YOUR JOB $1000: Cutting fabric for hats is all part of the job for this worker whose name derives from an Italian city a milliner |
| #9029, aired 2024-02-01 | BRAINY QUOTES $1200: In a song by Jimi Hendrix, this title phrase is followed by "all in my brain" purple haze |
| #9029, aired 2024-02-01 | RAP WORDS & PHRASES $1,800 (Daily Double): Thug Passion, a cocktail that's one part Alizé & one part Cristal, is referenced on this rapper's 1996 album "All Eyez On Me" Tupac Shakur |
| #9028, aired 2024-01-31 | OPERA $400: In act IV of "La bohème", Musetta finds this woman half-dead; spoiler alert--by the end of the act, she's all dead Mimi |
| #9028, aired 2024-01-31 | BUSINESS & FINANCE HISTORY $800: In 2021 El Salvador's govt. made all businesses accept this as payment & introduced the digital "Chivo Wallet" bitcoin |
| #9026, aired 2024-01-29 | GOING TO THE DOGS $600: Idiom used of someone who appears fierce but is actually gentle all bark, no bite (bark is worse than their bite) |
| #9026, aired 2024-01-29 | TV THEME SONGS $800: "Love Is All Around" performed by Sonny Curtis The Mary Tyler Moore Show |
| #9026, aired 2024-01-29 | WOMEN IN SPORTS $1000: In 2001 it was love all when Andre Agassi married this German tennis star Graf |
| #9026, aired 2024-01-29 | MYTH AROUND & FIND OUT $2000: In Egyptian myth Seth went all Edgar Allan Poe on this bro of his & put him in a coffin while he was still alive Osiris |
| #9025, aired 2024-01-26 | THE TV SPIN-OFF SOURCE $800: "The Jeffersons", moving on up from Queens All in the Family |
| #9024, aired 2024-01-25 | PEOPLE WHO ARE PLACES $1200: He is the NBA's all-time leader in games played & an area often covered by one church & one priest a (Robert) Parish |
| #9023, aired 2024-01-24 | SHAKE IT OFF $400: Shake "it" off a fundamental force & it's all this, sauce for turkey & mashed potatoes gravy (from gravity) |
| #9023, aired 2024-01-24 | OUR SONG $400: His song "All Of Me" is about Chrissy Teigen; the video used footage from their wedding John Legend |
| #9023, aired 2024-01-24 | BALD IS BEAUTIFUL $800: She captioned a 2022 Instagram post, "Happy Bald is Beautiful Day to all my brothers & sisters with no hair" Jada Pinkett Smith |
| #9023, aired 2024-01-24 | FROM THE LATIN $2000: From Latin for "to die", this fifth plague in the Bible killed "all the cattle of Egypt" murrain |
| #9022, aired 2024-01-23 | A "FAST" CATEGORY $800: This nonfiction work by Eric Schlosser is subtitled "The Dark Side of the All-American Meal" Fast Food Nation |
| #9022, aired 2024-01-23 | POETS & POETRY $1600: The "sea-fever" in John Masefield's poem is curable: "All I ask is" this "and a star to steer her by" a tall ship |
| #26, aired 2024-01-23 | PEAK TV $200: Due to a mix-up, the giant robot doll from this South Korean series was briefly displayed in front of a museum Squid Game |
| #26, aired 2024-01-23 | OZZY OSBOURNE'S FAVORITE SONGS $300: Said to be inspired by Judy Garland, this Elton John hit is actually about giving up the fast lane for a quieter life "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" |
| #26, aired 2024-01-23 | ORGANIC CHEMISTRY $500: Chemically speaking, they're molecules with at least one unpaired electron; true to their name, they can be, like, totally reactive radicals |
| #26, aired 2024-01-23 | OZZY OSBOURNE'S FAVORITE SONGS $1500: Called "the cowbell jam to end all cowbell jams", this song by Mountain is not about a river boat, you know what I mean "Mississippi Queen" |
| #26, aired 2024-01-23 | I'M JUST KEN $10,400 (Daily Double): In 2023 this documentarian released his latest film, a four-hour series examining the rich history of the American buffalo Ken Burns |
| #9021, aired 2024-01-22 | SO PUT ON ALL YOUR CLOTHES $200: Play it close to this piece of apparel, be it potholder or newmarket the vest |
| #9021, aired 2024-01-22 | WHOSE WHAT $400: In mythology all of the world's troubles escaped from this object, but hope remained Pandora's box |
| #9021, aired 2024-01-22 | SO PUT ON ALL YOUR CLOTHES $400: The 1920s were a time of popularity for this feather scarf with a serpentine name boa |
| #9021, aired 2024-01-22 | SO PUT ON ALL YOUR CLOTHES $600: This luxurious velvet jacket is named for an activity you probably shouldn't do whether you wear one or not smoking |
| #9021, aired 2024-01-22 | SO PUT ON ALL YOUR CLOTHES $800: Sea if you can name this open-mesh weave, used for undershirts by the Norwegian army; it's better for stockings fishnet |
| #9021, aired 2024-01-22 | SO PUT ON ALL YOUR CLOTHES $1000: This Scottish article of headwear bears the name of a castle a Balmoral |
| #9019, aired 2024-01-18 | VEGETABLE STEW $400: Slice king, long maraicher & gherkin are all varieties of this gourd vegetable a cucumber |
| #9019, aired 2024-01-18 | AN "H" & "R" BLOCK $1600: I say without fear of this, an extravagant exaggeration, Butterbean is the greatest boxer of all time hyperbole |
| #9018, aired 2024-01-17 | FRAILTY, THY NAME IS MAN $1200: Lying about in bed all day, this 96-year-old was "delicate & weak", but spry enough to glom on to a Wonka tour Grandpa Joe |
| #9017, aired 2024-01-16 | TV CLIFFHANGERS $1600: This Apple TV+ show employed a time jump to 2003 & the reveal that a NASA director was now in... Russia For All Mankind |
| #25, aired 2024-01-16 | WORDS THAT MAKE DOGS GO NUTS $200: It goes hand in hand with "trick" on All Hallows' Eve treat |
| #25, aired 2024-01-16 | TRAIN STATIONS $300: The signs of the zodiac grace the iconic ceiling
of this New York City landmark, one of the world's first all-electric buildings Grand Central |
| #25, aired 2024-01-16 | NAME THAT '90s HIT $300: Alanis Morissette: "It's like ten thousand spoons when all you need is a knife" "Ironic" |
| #25, aired 2024-01-16 | SISTERHOODS $1000: Fans of this 1996 bestseller have formed dozens of female bonding clubs worldwide; not all require campfire initiation rituals Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood |
| #25, aired 2024-01-16 | NAME THAT '90s HIT $1200: Red Hot Chili Peppers: "I don't ever wanna feel like I did that day, but take me to the place I love, take me all the way" "Under The Bridge" |
| #25, aired 2024-01-16 | NAME THAT '90s HIT $1500: Biggie Smalls: "It was all a dream, I used to read Word Up! Magazine, Salt-n-Pepa and Heavy D up in the limousine" "Juicy" |
| #25, aired 2024-01-16 | THE FRENCH HORN $2,000 (Daily Double): In one of the least alluring rituals of horn maintenance, players must invert their instruments routinely to drain them of this spit |
| #9015, aired 2024-01-12 | UFOs $200: A 1947 headline read that a rancher from this state was "surprised at all the excitement created by his 'disc'overy" New Mexico |
| #9015, aired 2024-01-12 | PODCASTS $400: In his "All There Is" podcast, he tackled the topics of loss & grief while packing up mom Gloria Vanderbilt's apartment (Anderson) Cooper |
| #2, aired 2024-01-12 | MINING FOR "ORE" $400: Come one, come all to ye olde inn & enjoy our bill of fare & flagons of ale as in days of this yore |
| #2, aired 2024-01-12 | NBA HISTORY $400: In June 2002 this Lakers coach became the all-time leader in playoff victories by winning his 156th game Phil Jackson |
| #2, aired 2024-01-12 | MARINE LIFE $800: The most intelligent of all invertebrates is thought to be O. vulgaris, the common type of this cephalopod octopus |
| #1, aired 2024-01-12 | GAME SHOWS IN THE MOVIES $400: The all-too-simple premise of the game show in this 2012 film--kids murder each other The Hunger Games |
| #1, aired 2024-01-12 | GAME SHOWS IN THE MOVIES $800: The all-too-simple premise of the game show hosted by Richard Dawson in this 1987 film--criminals are murdered The Running Man |
| #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 | GAME SHOWS IN THE MOVIES $1600: In "Quiz Show" this Brit had all the answers on "Twenty One" as Charles Van Doren; do you have the question? Ralph Fiennes |
| #1, aired 2024-01-12 | IAMB WOMAN $2000: Her 1883 "1492" celebrates "A virgin world where doors of sunset part, / Saying, 'Ho, all who weary, enter here!'" Emma Lazarus |
| #9014, aired 2024-01-11 | NOVELS $800: The book that started it all, 1993's "Along Came a Spider", was this author's first novel to feature detective Alex Cross (James) Patterson |
| #9014, aired 2024-01-11 | THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION $5,800 (Daily Double): This state's plan where all states would have equal representation regardless of size was proposed by William Paterson New Jersey |
| #9013, aired 2024-01-10 | U.S. MONEY $200: The $1 bill features one of these structures topped by an all-seeing eye a pyramid |
| #9012, aired 2024-01-09 | WOMEN OF COUNTRY MUSIC $1200: Selling more than 10 million copies each, her "Up!", "The Woman In Me" & "Come on Over" albums have all been certified diamond Shania Twain |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | "DIS"CONTINUED $400: In law, it's "a justice's nonconcurrence with a decision of the majority"; it's also the nickname of the collar worn by RBG dissent |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | CAN I GET AN "A" MEN! $500: They're all A's on the Hollywood Walk of Fame: actor Alan Arkin, singer Antonio Aguilar and this "Black-ish" star Anthony Anderson |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | ANIMAL IDIOM BRAINTEASERS $800: Make all the necessary preparations before you start:
G.Y.D.I.A.R. get your ducks in a row |
| #9011, aired 2024-01-08 | PRESIDENTIAL DOGS $600: George W. Bush is seen here with his pal Barney, this national type of terrier a Scottie |
| #9011, aired 2024-01-08 | THE ANNALS OF HISTORY $13,200 (Daily Double): Around 1,000 years ago, this island's parliament, the Althing, said everyone is getting baptized Iceland |
| #9010, aired 2024-01-05 | WEIGHT, WEIGHT, DON'T TELL ME $200: All hail the king! In 1991 Saskatchewan discovered it was home to Scotty, a 42-foot-long, 20,000-pound type of this dinosaur a T. rex |
| #9010, aired 2024-01-05 | WEIGHT, WEIGHT, DON'T TELL ME $800: These clouds are associated with blue skies, especially the humilis type; they look all fluffy but weigh over a million pounds cumulus |
| #9010, aired 2024-01-05 | OUR MAN ON THE FIELD $1000: New Zealand's Jonah Lomu topped ruck.co.uk's list of this sport's 25 best players of all time rugby |
| #9009, aired 2024-01-04 | ALL ABOUT AUTHORS $200: In 1836 she married theologian Calvin Stowe, who encouraged her writing, saying she "must be a literary woman" Harriet Beecher Stowe |
| #9009, aired 2024-01-04 | ALL ABOUT AUTHORS $400: Childhood pal Harper Lee served as his researcher when he was working on "In Cold Blood" Truman Capote |
| #9009, aired 2024-01-04 | ALL ABOUT AUTHORS $600: Before writing "The Hunger Games", she wrote for children's TV shows, including "Clarissa Explains It All" (Suzanne) Collins |
| #9009, aired 2024-01-04 | ALL ABOUT AUTHORS $1000: Some say the phrase, "Keeping up with the Joneses" refers to the family of this upper-class author of "The House of Mirth" (Edith) Wharton (born Edith Jones) |
| #9009, aired 2024-01-04 | ALL ABOUT AUTHORS $1,200 (Daily Double): This 19th century author of adventure novels suffered from tuberculosis & moved to the South Seas for his health, dying in Samoa Robert Louis Stevenson |
| #9007, aired 2024-01-02 | ALL THE WORLD'S A SHAKESPEARE STAGE $400: This city of "Hamlet" is on the northeast tip of a Danish island just a few miles across the water from Sweden Elsinore |
| #9007, aired 2024-01-02 | ALL THE WORLD'S A SHAKESPEARE STAGE $800: In Act I of this ordinal play, a ship captain informs Viola, "This is Illyria", which is in the Balkans Twelfth Night |
| #9007, aired 2024-01-02 | ALL THE WORLD'S A SHAKESPEARE STAGE $1200: "Pericles" is partly set in a palace in this ancient Phoenician seaport, now a World Heritage Site in Lebanon Tyre |
| #9007, aired 2024-01-02 | ALL THE WORLD'S A SHAKESPEARE STAGE $1,400 (Daily Double): "The Winter's Tale" alternates between Sicily & this Czech region that gave us a word for an unorthodox, often arty person Bohemia |
| #9007, aired 2024-01-02 | ALL THE WORLD'S A SHAKESPEARE STAGE $2000: This wood in eastern Scotland is about 12 miles from the peak of Dunsinane, to which it "comes" in "Macbeth" Birnam Wood |
| #9007, aired 2024-01-02 | THE CHARLES III KIND $2,600 (Daily Double): Charles' coronation on May 6, 2023 at this location was the first British coronation in 7 decades Westminster Abbey |
| #23, aired 2024-01-02 | AFRICAN HISTORY $1,000 (Daily Double): The Agojie, an all-female army corps in the Kingdom of Dahomey, is at the center of this Viola Davis film The Woman King |
| #9006, aired 2024-01-01 | TOUGH 7-LETTER WORDS $1200: Going all the way from A to C, this scientific term means not associated with living organisms abiotic |
| #9005, aired 2023-12-29 | A MASTER-FUL CATEGORY $400: A playing card begins this idiom that ends "master of none" jack of all trades |
| #9005, aired 2023-12-29 | MOVIE SCORES $2000: (Hans Zimmer presents the clue.) An all-time great for me was Giorgio Moroder's haunting score for this 1978 Alan Parker drama about a prisoner in a hopeless situation in a Turkish jail the Midnight Express |
| #9004, aired 2023-12-28 | MEASUREMENT $400: In France they fondly remember Andre le Geant, all 2.2 meters & 235 of these of him kilograms |
| #9003, aired 2023-12-27 | BIBLE QUOTES $800: 1 Peter 4: "And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of" these sins |
| #9003, aired 2023-12-27 | BIBLE QUOTES $2000: Genesis 37: "Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children... and he made him" this showy item a coat of many colors |
| #9001, aired 2023-12-25 | THE MANGER ZONE $1000: This king "gathered all the chief priests and scribes of the people" & "demanded of them where Christ should be born" King Herod |
| #9000, aired 2023-12-22 | BIOLOGY $1200: It's the collective word for all the DNA, RNA, whateverna in an organism its genome |
| #9000, aired 2023-12-22 | BIOLOGY $10,000 (Daily Double): This adjective for the organ that gives nutrients to the fetus describes all mammals except marsupials & a few even weirder ones placental |
| #8999, aired 2023-12-21 | BOOK TOCK $1000: In "Great Expectations", all the clocks in her house stopped at 20 minutes to 9, when she learned of her fiancé's betrayal Miss Havisham |
| #8999, aired 2023-12-21 | EUR"O"s $1200: What's that smell? Must be all the industrial pollution in this big river that forms part of the Poland-Germany border the Oder |
| #8999, aired 2023-12-21 | PHILOSOPHY $2000: Attributed to this mathematician & philosopher of ancient Greece is the observation that "all things are numbers" Pythagoras |
| #8998, aired 2023-12-20 | A REAL SOB STORY $1600: As they left Lórien, all the members of this title Tolkien group were "filled with tears. Gimli wept openly" The Fellowship of the Ring |
| #8997, aired 2023-12-19 | CAUTIONARY RHYMES $600: Do this "in white, you will have chosen all right" but do it "in green, ashamed to be seen" & worse, "in red, you'll wish yourself dead" marry |
| #8994, aired 2023-12-14 | IT'S ALL RELATIVE $200: It's a pendular timepiece with a case as tall as or taller than a person a grandfather clock |
| #8994, aired 2023-12-14 | IT'S ALL RELATIVE $400: In 1917 he founded Boys Town in Omaha, open to boys of all races & religions Father Flanagan |
| #8994, aired 2023-12-14 | IT'S ALL RELATIVE $600: Seen riding a flying gander, this character is usually traced back to a 1697 book by Charles Perrault Mother Goose |
| #8994, aired 2023-12-14 | IT'S ALL RELATIVE $800: Covered in hair from head to foot, this member of "The Addams Family" spoke in a language all his own Cousin Itt |
| #8994, aired 2023-12-14 | IT'S ALL RELATIVE $1000: This first novel by Theodore Dreiser tells of a young woman's rise to become a successful Broadway actress Sister Carrie |
| #8993, aired 2023-12-13 | NAME THAT CARMAKER $200: You can truck in its Tacoma all the way to Yakima Toyota |
| #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 |
| #8991, aired 2023-12-11 | HOME ON THE RANGE $400: Let's give thanks to Kraft for making the Stove Top brand of this all year long stuffing |
| #8991, aired 2023-12-11 | CIRCLE TIME $600: All official distances from New York City are measured from this point at the intersection of 59th Street, 8th Avenue & Broadway Columbus Circle |
| #8991, aired 2023-12-11 | THE MUSIC OF CANADA $600: It was all about "Love" as this crooner from British Columbia was on top of the jazz albums chart in 2019 Michael Bublé |
| #8990, aired 2023-12-08 | WE'RE TALKING BASEBALL $600: In 1982, he set a modern record by stealing 130 bases; Hugh Nicol has the all-time record with 138 set in 1887 (Rickey) Henderson |
| #8989, aired 2023-12-07 | GREEK ALPHABET PUZZLERS $400: It's a symbol of the all-American way of life apple pi |
| #8989, aired 2023-12-07 | SUPER BOWL STARS $800: Franco Harris holds the career Super Bowl record for these yards, 354 in 4 games, all Steelers' victories rushing |
| #8988, aired 2023-12-06 | OUT OF CON TEXT $200: A memoir:
"On Feb. 4, 2004... Larry drove me to the women's prison in Danbury, Connecticut" Orange Is the New Black |
| #8988, aired 2023-12-06 | DECIMALS $1200: Though not required, "trailing" these to the right of a decimal point are often used to show levels of accuracy zeros |
| #8988, aired 2023-12-06 | HODGEPODGE $1200: A flexible spine allows this fastest dog breed to have all 4 feet off the ground at the same time when galloping a greyhound |
| #22, aired 2023-12-06 | SHAKESPEARE PLAYS BY INITIALS $100: The title character utters the famous line, "Et tu, Brute?":
J.C. Julius Caesar |
| #22, aired 2023-12-06 | THREESOMES $300: According to the carol, it's what "my true love gave to me" on the third day of Christmas; I just hope he wasn't regifting 3 French hens |
| #22, aired 2023-12-06 | "OO"! "OO"! I KNOW! $600: Kevin Bacon once said that when he attends a wedding, he bribes the DJ to not play this song from a 1984 movie he starred in "Footloose" |
| #22, aired 2023-12-06 | THE MOON $800: Why all the craters? Blame it on the Moon's thin one of these, a gassy layer offering scant protection against meteorites atmosphere |
| #22, aired 2023-12-06 | CELEBRITY TELL-ALLS $1200: "Greenlights":
His father brought a dead cockatiel back to life by giving it mouth-to-mouth Matthew McConaughey |
| #22, aired 2023-12-06 | CELEBRITY TELL-ALLS $1500: "The Last Black Unicorn":
She estimates that she worked over 500 bar mitzvahs in her younger years Tiffany Haddish |
| #8987, aired 2023-12-05 | THEY COME IN THREES $800: Through WWII, this candy bar had 3 pieces in one package, flavored chocolate, vanilla & strawberry; now it's all chocolate 3 Musketeers |
| #8987, aired 2023-12-05 | FROM DAWN 'TIL DUSK $2000: This name for a free-for-all fight comes from an Irish fair known for its rioting donnybrook |
| #8986, aired 2023-12-04 | A GREEN THUMB $200: For cutting tall grass, "one" of these curved blades on a long, bent handle "fits all" a scythe |
| #8985, aired 2023-12-01 | NURSERY RHYME PHOBIAS $400: If Mary's lamb had didaskaleinophobia, it would have been too scared to follow her here school |
| #8985, aired 2023-12-01 | NURSERY RHYME PHOBIAS $1000: As he may have had peniaphobia, a fear of poverty, he was in the counting-house counting all his money the king |
| #8985, aired 2023-12-01 | EVE 6 $1600: Anne Baxter played Evelyn Heath in "Guest in the House" & Eve Harrington in this 1950 film All About Eve |
| #8984, aired 2023-11-30 | WELL, I'M WARM-BLOODED $200: In 2007 this bird was removed from the U.S. threatened & endangered species list; nice, with it being a natl. symbol & all bald eagle |
| #8984, aired 2023-11-30 | CHECK IT & SEE $600: This San Francisco street gets all the press, but technically, Vermont St. is more crooked Lombard St. |
| #8984, aired 2023-11-30 | QUOTABLE QUOTES $800: Following the 1992 L.A. riots, he asked, "Can we all get along?" Rodney King |
| #8983, aired 2023-11-29 | BARRE TENDERS $1600: Audiences fauned all over this Kyiv-born dancer when he came to Paris with Diaghilev in 1909 Nijinsky |
| #8983, aired 2023-11-29 | FAREWELL TO THE CHIEF $1,800 (Daily Double): August 2, 1923 in San Francisco, California Harding |
| #21, aired 2023-11-29 | RULES OF THE GAME $300: Blocks may be tapped or knocked in order to find a loose one that is safe to move Jenga |
| #21, aired 2023-11-29 | RULES OF THE GAME $500: Be the first player to go from "onesies" to "tensies" & you win the game jacks |
| #21, aired 2023-11-29 | SLOVENIA, BABY, SLOVENIA! $1500: Can't find Slovenia on a map? Look for the shape of this animal, which it's widely said to resemble a chicken |
| #21, aired 2023-11-29 | WHISTLING HALL OF FAME $2,000 (Daily Double): Along with "wastin' time", add whistling to the list of things Otis Redding was doing in a 1968 hit about "Sittin"' here "On The Dock Of The Bay" |
| #8981, aired 2023-11-27 | CAT'S A RISING STAR $1000: Jennifer Hudson sang of being "all alone in the moonlight" in this role in 2019's "Cats" Grizabella |
| #8981, aired 2023-11-27 | THE 23rd PSALM $1000: "Surely" these 2 qualities "shall follow me all the days of my life" goodness & mercy |
| #8980, aired 2023-11-24 | AN AMERICAN IN PARIS $1600: Nadia Boulanger's American students included this one who came home to compose all-American works like "Lincoln Portrait" & "Rodeo" Aaron Copland |
| #8977, aired 2023-11-21 | ALL ABOUT ACTING $200: An old superstition says, "bad" this last full run-through in costume, "good show" dress rehearsal |
| #8977, aired 2023-11-21 | ALL ABOUT ACTING $400: Stage backdrops are part of this; don't crash through it & don't, by overacting, "chew" it scenery |
| #8977, aired 2023-11-21 | ALL ABOUT ACTING $600: A purse is an example of a personal one of these onstage items a prop |
| #8977, aired 2023-11-21 | ALL ABOUT ACTING $800: Your line "Amanda, I'm leaving you!" is part of dialogue; your action of crossing the stage & exiting is part of this blocking |
| #8977, aired 2023-11-21 | SPEAK OF THE DEVIL $800: The Book of Common Prayer: "From all the deceits of the world," this "and the devil, good Lord, deliver us" the flesh |
| #8977, aired 2023-11-21 | ALL ABOUT ACTING $1000: Any follow-up interview or audition for a role you've already tried out for is called this a callback |
| #8977, aired 2023-11-21 | CHICKEN SOUP $1000: During the 16th c. Wojna Kokosza, or "Chicken War" in this country, rebels ate nearly all of the region's poultry Poland |
| #8976, aired 2023-11-20 | ALL GOD'S CREATURES $200: An owl cannot move these from side to side, so it must move its head eyes |
| #8976, aired 2023-11-20 | ALL GOD'S CREATURES $400: Grévy's, the biggest species of this striped mammal, is named for former French president Jules Grévy a zebra |
| #8976, aired 2023-11-20 | ALL GOD'S CREATURES $600: Called a "bamboo chicken" by locals in Belize, a male one of these lizards can reach over 6 feet an iguana |
| #8976, aired 2023-11-20 | ALL GOD'S CREATURES $800: This 2-humped camel is probably named for the ancient country in Central Asia where it originated Bactrian |
| #8976, aired 2023-11-20 | ALL GOD'S CREATURES $1000: Extinction may have befallen the Baiji dolphin, known as "the Goddess" of this longest Chinese river, its only habitat the Yangtze |
| #8975, aired 2023-11-17 | MORE TRICKY QUESTIONS $600: It's the 11-letter word all Canadians pronounce incorrectly incorrectly |
| #8975, aired 2023-11-17 | SPRINGSTEEN LYRICS $600: "Hey little girl, is your daddy home? Did he go and leave you all alone? Mhmm I got a bad desire" "I'm On Fire" |
| #8975, aired 2023-11-17 | MORE TRICKY QUESTIONS $800: If a British farmer has 22 sheep & all but 9 die in a tragic shearing incident, this is how many he has left 9 |
| #8975, aired 2023-11-17 | CURLS GONE WILD $1000: This cartoonist created Frieda, the girl with the naturally curly hair Charles Schulz |
| #20, aired 2023-11-15 | COMPETITIVE CHEERLEADING $1000: It's the term for cheer squads whose sole purpose is to compete; they're not affiliated with any school... or with Smash Mouth All-Star |
| #20, aired 2023-11-15 | ROGET'S BUTT $2,000 (Daily Double): Merci! This synonym for "butt" is derived from French, meaning "behind" derrière |
| #8972, aired 2023-11-14 | CANNES PALME D'OR WINNERS $200: 1994:
"____ Fiction" Pulp |
| #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 |
| #8970, aired 2023-11-10 | WHERE'S THAT? $200: We all should remember this U.S. landmark the Alamo |
| #8969, aired 2023-11-09 | OSCAR-WINNING SCREENPLAYS $1200: 1950:
Joseph Mankiewicz, from the short story "The Wisdom of Eve" All About Eve |
| #8969, aired 2023-11-09 | OSCAR-WINNING SCREENPLAYS $5,400 (Daily Double): 1976:
William Goldman, from the book by Carl Bernstein & Bob Woodward All the President's Men |
| #8968, aired 2023-11-08 | AT A LOSS FOR WORLDS $800: At the end of Arthur C. Clarke's "Childhood's End" this world is destroyed the Earth |
| #8966, aired 2023-11-06 | HAIKU ABOUT THE POET $600: American guy / "The Wreck of the Hesperus" / That's all you should need Longfellow |
| #8964, aired 2023-11-02 | ALL THE PRESIDENTS' CHILDREN $200: In 2014, she & husband Marc Mezvinsky welcomed their first child, Charlotte Chelsea Clinton |
| #8964, aired 2023-11-02 | ALL THE PRESIDENTS' CHILDREN $400: That's Abraham Lincoln looking at a book with son Thomas, who was better known by this 3-letter nickname Tad |
| #8964, aired 2023-11-02 | ALL THE PRESIDENTS' CHILDREN $600: While in the White House, Malia Obama had the code name Radiance & Sasha had this name, like a famous movie sled Rosebud |
| #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 | ALL THE PRESIDENTS' CHILDREN $3,200 (Daily Double): Last name of John who, before his death in 2013 at 91, was the oldest living child of a president Eisenhower |
| #8963, aired 2023-11-01 | NAME THAT TUNESTER $200: "I came in like a wrecking ball, I never hit so hard in love, all I wanted was to break your walls" Miley Cyrus |
| #8963, aired 2023-11-01 | NAME THAT TUNESTER $1000: "She's up all night to the sun, I'm up all night to get some, she's up all night for good fun, I'm up all night to get lucky" Pharrell (Daft Punk) |
| #19, aired 2023-11-01 | CONSTITUTIONAL MATTERS $500: In 1790, this smallest of the 13 original colonies became the last to ratify the Constitution Rhode Island |
| #19, aired 2023-11-01 | "BROWN" OUT $1000: Typing this sentence, containing all 26 letters of the alphabet, is a tried and true method of testing out your keyboard The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. |
| #19, aired 2023-11-01 | HAIL TO THE CHEF $1,100 (Daily Double): A distillery at this historic Virginia estate makes whiskey based on George Washington's own recipe Mount Vernon |
| #8962, aired 2023-10-31 | THE WORLD SERIES $1600: In the 1919 World Series, this "Black Sox" player hit .375 & did not commit an error, footwear & all Shoeless Joe Jackson |
| #8962, aired 2023-10-31 | THE WORLD SERIES $2000: In 1981 there were 3 World Series MVPs: Ron Cey, Steve Yeager & Pedro Guerrero, all of this team the Los Angeles Dodgers |
| #8961, aired 2023-10-30 | NON-NAUGHTY WORDS $600: This non-naughty 5-letter "B" word means to bungle a task to botch |
| #8959, aired 2023-10-26 | MOB HITS $200: Adriana La Cerva,
Jimmy Altieri &
Ralph Cifaretto all got whacked on this TV drama The Sopranos |
| #8959, aired 2023-10-26 | JACQUES OF ALL TRADES $400: In 1973 he founded a nonprofit society dedicated to marine conservation Cousteau |
| #8959, aired 2023-10-26 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: "I, Claudius" author Robert Graves expressed the disillusion of many in "Goodbye to All That", his memoir of this war World War I |
| #8959, aired 2023-10-26 | JACQUES OF ALL TRADES $800: He was president of France from 1995 to 2007 Jacques Chirac |
| #8959, aired 2023-10-26 | JACQUES OF ALL TRADES $1200: A statue of this French missionary who hooked up with Jolliet represents Wisconsin in the U.S. Capitol Jacques Marquette |
| #8959, aired 2023-10-26 | JACQUES OF ALL TRADES $1600: Last name of French papermaking brothers Jacques & Joseph, who pioneered the hot air balloon Montgolfier |
| #8959, aired 2023-10-26 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $2000: Her novels "Show Boat", "Cimarron" & "Giant" were all turned into memorable Hollywood movies Edna Ferber |
| #8959, aired 2023-10-26 | JACQUES OF ALL TRADES $2000: A musical review of this singer-songwriter's works is called this man "is Alive and Well and Living in Paris" Jacques Brel |
| #8958, aired 2023-10-25 | WASN'T THAT AN '80s THING? $400: A man... a woman in distress... ladder climbing... a giant ape... this video game that debuted in 1981 had it all! Donkey Kong |
| #18, aired 2023-10-25 | SNEAKER BRANDS $200: Chuck Taylor All Star Classic Converse |
| #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 | FUNGUS AMONG US $1500: Scientists use this internet-inspired pun name for the vast network of fungi swapping nutrients beneath the forest floor the wood wide web |
| #8957, aired 2023-10-24 | COUNTRIES THAT BORDER INDIA $400: The border between India & this nation includes the village of Wagah with its rival army parades performed there daily Pakistan |
| #8957, aired 2023-10-24 | THE USTA $800: Alice Marble, a mentor to Billie Jean King, won the USTA's mixed doubles title in 1940, playing with, of all people, him Bobby Riggs |
| #8957, aired 2023-10-24 | CONTRONYMS $1600: This adjective describes both something that moves quickly & something that doesn't move at all fast |
| #8955, aired 2023-10-20 | FAMILY DRAMA $400: His "All My Sons" centers on Joe Keller, whose shoddy plane parts led to the death of his son & other pilots in WWII Arthur Miller |
| #8954, aired 2023-10-19 | CULINARY QUOTES $1000: Thackeray's "Ballad of" this dish calls it "a sort of soup or broth... or hotchpotch of all sorts of fishes" bouillabaisse |
| #8953, aired 2023-10-18 | "SMOKE" $400: In song, the 5 words that precede "all covered with snow" On top of Old Smokey |
| #8953, aired 2023-10-18 | A FABRIC-ATED CATEGORY $800: Fabric made from this tall grass is all the rage in part due to its antibacterial properties bamboo |
| #17, aired 2023-10-18 | RESPOND LIKE A PIRATE $100: In 2022, this fast food chain launched a line of dog toys shaped like roast beef sandwiches and curly fries Arby's |
| #17, aired 2023-10-18 | DENZEL WASHINGTON $200: "Mo' Better Blues", "Malcolm X", "Inside Man": all Denzel Washington films & all directed by this man Spike Lee |
| #17, aired 2023-10-18 | THE QURAN $900: TGI this day of the week on which the book says to drop all business and respond to the call to prayer Friday |
| #17, aired 2023-10-18 | NONAGENARIANS $11,400 (Daily Double): Making comedy fans wait over 40 years for a sequel, this 97-year-old released "History of the World, Part II" in 2023 Mel Brooks |
| #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 | DUST TO DUST $600: In Genesis "God said unto" this creature "dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life" the serpent |
| #8951, aired 2023-10-16 | O BROTHER, WHERE ART THOU? $800: What? You drove all the way from Duncansby Head to Land's End in this country? No wonder you're tired! the UK |
| #8950, aired 2023-10-13 | WE WHISTLE WHILE YOU WORK $400: All rise & name this national anthem heard here "O Canada" |
| #8950, aired 2023-10-13 | BACK TO SCHOOL, SPORTS STAR $600: MLB All-Star J.J. Putz, who shared a dorm at this school with Tom Brady, went back to finish his degree in 2010 Michigan |
| #8950, aired 2023-10-13 | WE WHISTLE WHILE YOU WORK $1000: We provide you the best in classical whistling with this piece heard here Four Seasons |
| #8950, aired 2023-10-13 | VOCABULARY $2,500 (Daily Double): Having all 5 vowels in alphabetical order, it means cleverly amusing, but it can also be snarky in tone facetious |
| #8948, aired 2023-10-11 | SURELY YOU JOUST $200: King Arthur set up the diamond jousts, a series of 9 annual tournaments all won by this knight Lancelot |
| #16, aired 2023-10-11 | ALL YOU NEED IS "L-O-V-E" $100: A company called "London" this "tours" provides "a whirlwind tour of the history of the British public toilet" loo |
| #16, aired 2023-10-11 | ALL YOU NEED IS "L-O-V-E" $200: Bert Lahr, who played the Cowardly Lion in "The Wizard of Oz", was fittingly born under this zodiac sign symbolized by a lion a Leo |
| #16, aired 2023-10-11 | PEW! PEW! PEW! $300: Gross! Barf, hurl, vomit, upchuck: they're all synonyms of this word puke |
| #16, aired 2023-10-11 | FASHION FOR ALL $300: Stating the need that "every woman felt included in this brand", Fenty Beauty was launched in 2017 by this singer Rihanna |
| #16, aired 2023-10-11 | "EZ" GEOGRAPHY $300: Of all the countries in South America, this one comes alphabetically last Venezuela |
| #16, aired 2023-10-11 | ALL YOU NEED IS "L-O-V-E" $300: Led Zeppelin warned that this type of wall is "going to break", while Don McLean lamented that it was dry a levee |
| #16, aired 2023-10-11 | ALL YOU NEED IS "L-O-V-E" $400: This Swedish automaker's museum features a full-sized XC90 SUV made from Legos Volvo |
| #16, aired 2023-10-11 | ALL YOU NEED IS "L-O-V-E" $500: As Charles Darwin could tell you, to do this is to gradually change or develop over time evolve |
| #16, aired 2023-10-11 | PEW! PEW! PEW! $600: Paul Rudd once joked this stage of life "hit me pretty hard. all of a sudden I woke up and I had really curly hair" puberty |
| #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 | FASHION FOR ALL $900: Because clasps in the back can be painful to reach, Liberare is a brand that sells front-opening types of this undergarment a bra (brassiere) |
| #16, aired 2023-10-11 | YOU'RE A HOMOPHONE, DIANE $1,000 (Daily Double): In her 1983 book's acknowledgements, primatologist Dian Fossey thanks mostly humans but also these animals mountain gorillas |
| #16, aired 2023-10-11 | FOR SWEATER OR WORSE $1,000 (Daily Double): Sweaters that button in front are named for British officer James Thomas Brudenell, the 7th Earl of this Cardigan |
| #16, aired 2023-10-11 | FASHION FOR ALL $1200: A clothing company for the visually impaired, Aille Design stitches this reading system into its shirts and dresses Braille |
| #16, aired 2023-10-11 | FASHION FOR ALL $1500: A T-shirt made by the apparel brand Queerest Gear depicts this amphibian duo of kid lit (they're holding hands) Frog & Toad |
| #16, aired 2023-10-11 | HI, I'M J.LO $2,100 (Daily Double): You can buy a copy of "The Call of the Wild" at the gift shop in the California state park dedicated to this "J.Lo" Jack London |
| #16, aired 2023-10-11 | PEW! PEW! PEW! $3,000 (Daily Double): Derived from the French word for "flea", it's a dark shade of red similar to burnt sienna puce |
| #8947, aired 2023-10-10 | I WROTE THAT LINE $2000: "In the actions of all men... where there is no impartial arbiter, one must consider the final result" Machiavelli |
| #8946, aired 2023-10-09 | ELTON JOHN SONGS $2000: "I can't light no more of your darkness, all my pictures seem to fade to black and white" "Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me" |
| #8945, aired 2023-10-06 | TRY "TRI" AGAIN $800: Swimming, cycling & running all in one event a triathlon |
| #8944, aired 2023-10-05 | ALPHABET POP $1600: Their Texas boogie rock hits include "Gimme All Your Lovin" & "Sharp Dressed Man" ZZ Top |
| #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 | BLUNT BIOS OF BRAND MASCOTS $400: A mustachioed cartoon man, currently lacking a mouth to eat the potato crisps he sells (the) Pringles (guy) (Julius Pringle) |
| #15, aired 2023-10-04 | FAMOUS TV SPOILERS $400: Were they all dead the whole time? Nope! And the island wasn't limbo--just an island! Lost |
| #15, aired 2023-10-04 | EUROPEAN COUNTRY NICKNAMES $1000: "The Playground of Europe"
(St. Moritz is so over. All the best parties are in Gstaad) Switzerland |
| #15, aired 2023-10-04 | ESTATE PLANNING $1,200 (Daily Double): In law, it's one party managing another's property for the benefit of a third; in life, some say it's the key to a good relationship trust |
| #8942, aired 2023-10-03 | HEY, LAD-"E" $200: Flying "may not be all plain sailing... but the fun of it is worth the price", said this woman, who would know Earhart |
| #8942, aired 2023-10-03 | LITERARY BIOGRAPHY $2000: "Super-Infinite" is a bio of this man of Shakespeare's time known for sexy poems & later, strongly moral sermons John Donne |
| #8941, aired 2023-10-02 | ARE YOU SHAKESPEARIENCED? $200: "O mighty Caesar! Dost thou lie so low? Are all thy conquests, glories, triumphs, spoils, shrunk..." Julius Caesar |
| #8941, aired 2023-10-02 | ARE YOU SHAKESPEARIENCED? $1000: "All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players" As You Like It |
| #8941, aired 2023-10-02 | SOUTH AFRICA $2,000 (Daily Double): The majestic Victorian City Hall in East London, South Africa held the first hearing of the post-apartheid TRC, this commission Truth and Reconciliation Commission |
| #8940, aired 2023-09-29 | WORDS THAT END WITH "E" $200: It's zero in tennis, the last name of a Beach Boy & all you need love |
| #8940, aired 2023-09-29 | BACK TO SCHOOL $400: Econ: GDP, this, is the market value of all goods made within a nation's boundaries during a given period gross domestic product |
| #8940, aired 2023-09-29 | CHEMICAL FORMULAS $400: It's sweet,
it's simple,
it's C6H12O6 glucose |
| #8940, aired 2023-09-29 | COW COUNTRY $400: With California & this as the top 2 states, the U.S. leads all other countries in producing cow's milk Wisconsin |
| #8939, aired 2023-09-28 | SEOUL FOOD $600: Chimaek is all the rage, a dish that pairs fried chicken with this potent potable, perhaps a Busan lager beer |
| #8938, aired 2023-09-27 | TRICKY QUESTIONS $200: Total cubic feet of earth in a hole 1 yard wide, 1 yard long & 1 yard deep there is no earth in that hole (no dirt at all in a hole) |
| #8938, aired 2023-09-27 | THE PIPE ORGAN $400: A common expression refers to pulling out all of these knobs seen here the stops |
| #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 | ALASKA $600: The 4 largest cities in the U.S. by area are all in Alaska: Sitka, Juneau, Wrangell, and this city, also the most populous Anchorage |
| #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 | MEDITATION $1000: A state of attention often cited as the goal of meditation practice; it's loosely defined as "being present in the moment" mindfulness |
| #14, aired 2023-09-27 | OUT OF BREATH $2,500 (Daily Double): As Taylor Swift knows all too well, this type of person has an intense dislike of something hater |
| #8936, aired 2023-09-25 | FRENCH LITERATURE $800: This adventure writer known as père had his own famous dad, who served in the all-Black military unit "La Legion Americaine" Dumas |
| #8936, aired 2023-09-25 | FIX THE MALAPROP $1000: I read an essay comparing the ideas in "Everything Everywhere All at Once" to those in Camus' "The Myth of Syphilis" Sisyphus |
| #8936, aired 2023-09-25 | INDIANA WANTS YOU $2000: The 1920s study of an All-American place dubbed "Middletown" was based on this "M" city in eastern Indiana Muncie |
| #8935, aired 2023-09-22 | ALL'S WHALE THAT ENDS WHALE $200: This state's official marine mammal is the bowhead whale, which inhabits Arctic waters Alaska |
| #8935, aired 2023-09-22 | ALL'S WHALE THAT ENDS WHALE $400: Whoa! Reaching 80 feet or more in length, the finback whale is second in size only to this one the blue whale |
| #8935, aired 2023-09-22 | ALL'S WHALE THAT ENDS WHALE $600: One of the 2 3-letter terms for a group of whales a pod (a gam) |
| #8935, aired 2023-09-22 | ALL'S WHALE THAT ENDS WHALE $800: Gray whales are an example of this toothless class of whales that also have 2 blowholes baleen |
| #8935, aired 2023-09-22 | SCHOOL RHYME TIME $1000: A comparative chart of all the school's employees a staff graph |
| #8935, aired 2023-09-22 | ALL'S WHALE THAT ENDS WHALE $1000: This solid waxy substance that originates in the intestines of sperm whales is used in perfume making ambergris |
| #8934, aired 2023-09-21 | CHINESE FOOD $400: These "nutty" cookies for dessert are known as the Chinese national cookie & even have their own day in April almond cookies |
| #8934, aired 2023-09-21 | 21st CENTURY BARTLETT'S QUOTATIONS $800: This astrophysicist has shared the observation "The only shame is to pretend we have all the answers" (Neil deGrasse) Tyson |
| #8934, aired 2023-09-21 | JOHNNY GILBERT GOES COUNTRY $1600: "Just two good ol' boys, never meanin' no harm, beats all you never saw, been in trouble with the law since the day they was born" Waylon Jennings |
| #8934, aired 2023-09-21 | JOHNNY GILBERT GOES COUNTRY $2000: "Take this job & shove it, I ain't workin' here no more, my woman done left & took all the reason I was workin' for" (Johnny) Paycheck |
| #8933, aired 2023-09-20 | THE SPORTING NEWS $600: Like Manchester, Newcastle in the north of England has a Premier League soccer club with this all-for-one name United |
| #8933, aired 2023-09-20 | B MINUS $1000: When a cetacean fatty layer sweats out its B, this unskilled seaman is all that's left a lubber (from blubber) |
| #8933, aired 2023-09-20 | THE SPORTING NEWS $1000: Named for the color of their uniforms, the All Blacks are New Zealand's national team in this, the national sport rugby |
| #8933, aired 2023-09-20 | "HIGH" NOTES $2000: Fittingly, Swoosie Kurtz, Joel McCrea & Tuesday Weld are alumni of it Hollywood High |
| #8932, aired 2023-09-19 | PHRASES & IDIOMS $1200: Jane Austen wrote in a letter, "It was 12 before we reached home. We were all" this hyphenated canine phrase dog-tired |
| #8931, aired 2023-09-18 | ACTIVISTS $800: "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men & women are created equal", said this 3-named woman in 1848 Elizabeth Cady Stanton |
| #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 | AGATHA ALL ALONG $200: At one point in this Agatha Christie book, the Karnak is anchored at Abu Simbel Death on the Nile |
| #8930, aired 2023-09-15 | AGATHA ALL ALONG $400: Agatha Christie brought this brilliant Belgian to life in "The Mysterious Affair at Styles", her debut novel Hercule Poirot |
| #8930, aired 2023-09-15 | AGATHA ALL ALONG $600: Though her first name is Jane, the Agatha Christie detective is usually just called this Miss Marple |
| #8930, aired 2023-09-15 | AGATHA ALL ALONG $800: A young woman named Victoria Jones gets embroiled in a mystery in Agatha's novel "They Came to" this Iraqi city Baghdad |
| #8930, aired 2023-09-15 | CAT LOVERS $1000: This gorilla famous for learning sign language once adopted a kitten that she cared for & named "All Ball" Koko |
| #8930, aired 2023-09-15 | AGATHA ALL ALONG $1000: More than 460 actors & actresses have appeared in this play that originated as a request of the BBC for Queen Mary The Mousetrap |
| #8929, aired 2023-09-14 | RECONSTRUCTION $1600: "All the gods" were welcome when this Roman building was rebuilt by Hadrian between 118 & 125 A.D. the Pantheon |
| #8928, aired 2023-09-13 | & WE HAVE A NOVEL TITLE $800: "'Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin"' to do this To Kill a Mockingbird |
| #8928, aired 2023-09-13 | ALSO A CANDY $800: It's when you get your peanuts for all your hard work payday |
| #8927, aired 2023-09-12 | THAT'S T-B-D $800: All added up, it means arranged in a systematic form tabulated |
| #8926, aired 2023-09-11 | A LATIN BESTIARY $400: That Bubo, this avian, was making noise all night & I couldn't sleep an owl |
| #8924, aired 2023-07-27 | BOOKS OF THE OLD TESTAMENT $400: One of the 2 middle verses of the King James Bible is this book 103:2, "Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits" Psalms |
| #8924, aired 2023-07-27 | ANATOMICAL ANAGRAMS $600: All of us here on Earth owe our continued living to this heart (from Earth) |
| #8924, aired 2023-07-27 | THAT SONG SLAYS $800: "Mama, just killed a man... life had just begun, but now I've gone & thrown it all away" is part of this tune, & no, we will not let you go "Bohemian Rhapsody" |
| #8924, aired 2023-07-27 | ANATOMICAL ANAGRAMS $1000: Retain all insurance paperwork after getting this checked out at the eye doctor retina (from retain) |
| #8923, aired 2023-07-26 | I'M BLUE $200: This Oscar-winning actress has a certain mystique playing Mystique, who, deep down, is all blue Jennifer Lawrence |
| #8923, aired 2023-07-26 | ALL KINDS OF LITERATURE $200: The fairy tale about this brother & sister inspired an 1893 opera by the German composer Engelbert Humperdinck Hansel & Gretel |
| #8923, aired 2023-07-26 | ALL KINDS OF LITERATURE $400: Seaside police chief Martin Brody fights a corrupt politician & a ferocious predator in this Peter Benchley bestseller Jaws |
| #8923, aired 2023-07-26 | ALL KINDS OF LITERATURE $600: "Bowman could bear no more. He jerked out the last unit, & Hal was silent forever" is a line from this sci-fi work 2001: A Space Odyssey |
| #8923, aired 2023-07-26 | ALL KINDS OF LITERATURE $800: It's him, last name Spier, "vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda" in a young adult favorite Simon |
| #8923, aired 2023-07-26 | ALL KINDS OF LITERATURE $1000: Dylan Thomas' poem about these "Boys" who "in their ruin lay the gold tithings barren" has inspired book & song titles "The Boys of Summer" |
| #8922, aired 2023-07-25 | SOMETHING'S ROTTEN $400: Valentine in "Army of the Dead" was rotten all over, as a zombie one of these that would make Joe Exotic squeal a tiger |
| #8922, aired 2023-07-25 | JUST GOOGLY IT $1000: All eyes were on him when he gave his first presidential inaugural address in 1885 Grover Cleveland |
| #8922, aired 2023-07-25 | STATE THE 19th CENTURY SENATOR $1600: John C. Calhoun & John E. Colhoun, but what's in a name, Y'all? South Carolina |
| #8921, aired 2023-07-24 | UNIFORM NUMBERS $800: You won't see any players from this MLB team wearing a single digit number; they've all been retired, & No. 8, twice the Yankees |
| #8921, aired 2023-07-24 | MAKEOVERS $1200: Rachael Leigh Cook gets a major glow up in this 1999 film with Freddie Prinze Jr.--her glasses are removed She's All That |
| #8919, aired 2023-07-20 | A DEEP DIVE INTO... $800: Movie history:
In 1939 Hollywood released 365 films, including all-time classics & this jungle hero "Finds a Son!" Tarzan |
| #8919, aired 2023-07-20 | B.C.-ING YOU $2,000 (Daily Double): 3 times was not the charm for Carthage which lost all 3 of these wars against Rome between 264 & 146 B.C. the Punic Wars |
| #8918, aired 2023-07-19 | JULIE & JULIA $200: All in character at the Emmys, as Tony Hale stood nearby holding her clutch, she thanked all her "Veep" co-stars... except Tony Hale Julia Louis-Dreyfus |
| #8918, aired 2023-07-19 | GEOLOGY $2000: Millions of years ago, all of the continents were combined in a "super" one called this, meaning "all earth" Pangaea |
| #8917, aired 2023-07-18 | THE SONGS OF MAX MARTIN $800: The first musical number in "& Juliet" has William Shakespeare performing this Backstreet Boys song
"All you people can't you see, can't you see /
How your love's affecting our reality" "Larger Than Life" |
| #8917, aired 2023-07-18 | THE SONGS OF MAX MARTIN $1000: The finale of "& Juliet" features the cast performing this Justin Timberlake hit
"Come on /
All those things I shouldn't do /
But you dance, dance, dance /
And ain't nobody leavin' soon, so keep dancin'" "Can't Stop The Feeling!" |
| #8916, aired 2023-07-17 | WHO'S THAT POET? $400: Nearing 40, had no poetry books out; took "The Road Not Taken" anyway, made all the difference; a New England patriot Frost |
| #8916, aired 2023-07-17 | THE NATIONAL RECORDING REGISTRY $400: The bestselling holiday song recorded by a female artist is this 1994 hit by Mariah Carey "All I Want For Christmas Is You" |
| #8916, aired 2023-07-17 | THE NATIONAL RECORDING REGISTRY $1200: It's not all music in the Registry--this astronomer's recording of "Pale Blue Dot" made the cut too Sagan |
| #8915, aired 2023-07-14 | GOOD AFTERNOON! $1000: Really covering all the bases, this painter gave us "Morning Sun", "Cape Cod Afternoon" & "Nighthawks" Hopper |
| #8914, aired 2023-07-13 | FLIGHTSEEING ACROSS AMERICA $800: It's a chilly day in Chi-Town; look at all the ice on this body of water Lake Michigan |
| #8914, aired 2023-07-13 | "R" SONG $800: In a 2010 No. 1, P!nk instructed do this "if you are wrong in all the right ways" raise your glass |
| #8914, aired 2023-07-13 | FLOWERY POETRY & PROSE $2000: Robert Frost's poem "Design" features this flower known for its curative powers the heal-all |
| #8913, aired 2023-07-12 | READING WITH JENNA BUSH HAGER $800: (Jenna Bush Hager presents the clue.) One book that I have read multiple times & chose for my book club is "The Bluest Eye" by this woman, my all-time favorite author Toni Morrison |
| #8912, aired 2023-07-11 | FRIENDS $200: Bonding over their love of golf, this entertainer said that of all the presidents Gerald Ford was "the one I can call a pal" Bob Hope |
| #8912, aired 2023-07-11 | CARTOON CRITTERS $600: Gabriel Iglesias voiced this "fastest mouse in all of Mexico" in "Space Jam: A New Legacy" Speedy Gonzales |
| #8912, aired 2023-07-11 | 2 BOOKS IN ONE $1600: "All the Pretty Old Men" All the Pretty Horses & No Country for Old Men |
| #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 | QUOTABLE BOOKS $2000: "What you need is a gramme of soma. All the advantages of Christianity & alcohol; none of their defects" is from this 1932 novel Brave New World |
| #8911, aired 2023-07-10 | QUOTABLE BOOKS $3,000 (Daily Double): In 1958's "The Dharma Bums", he wrote, "It was all completely serious, all completely hallucinated, all completely happy" Kerouac |
| #8909, aired 2023-07-06 | SO I'M READING THIS BOOK $200: A mystery: "Langdon said... 'Well, folks, as you all know, I'm here tonight to talk about the power of symbols"' The Da Vinci Code |
| #8909, aired 2023-07-06 | ANTIQUES $400: Bergère, fauteuil & ribbon-back are all antique styles of these chairs |
| #8909, aired 2023-07-06 | SOME "HARD" SONGS $800: In a reggae classic by Jimmy Cliff, this title precedes "the harder they fall, one and all" "The Harder They Come" |
| #8909, aired 2023-07-06 | SO I'M READING THIS BOOK $800: 1950s self-help, opening strong: "BELIEVE IN YOURSELF!" (in all caps) "Have faith in your abilities!" The Power of Positive Thinking |
| #8908, aired 2023-07-05 | ALL SHAPES & SIZES $200: Snowflakes come in all types, but they initially form in prisms based on this shape, from the Greek for "six" a hexagon |
| #8908, aired 2023-07-05 | ALL SHAPES & SIZES $400: On a 16/34 dress shirt, the 16 refers to this neck size |
| #8908, aired 2023-07-05 | ALL SHAPES & SIZES $600: This fencing is heavy steel wire woven into a pattern of 1 & 2-inch diamonds chain link |
| #8908, aired 2023-07-05 | ALL SHAPES & SIZES $800: These 2 sizes for coffee at Starbucks are from the Italian for "twenty" & "big" grande & venti |
| #8908, aired 2023-07-05 | ALL SHAPES & SIZES $1000: The Bolex camera shooting in this size format was introduced in 1928 & used by many home movie enthusiasts 16-millimeter |
| #8907, aired 2023-07-04 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $2000: It's Spanish for "everybody", but it literally translates to "all the world" todo el mundo |
| #8905, aired 2023-06-30 | SPORTS ROOKIES $200: Last name of 2021 NBA Rookie of the Year LaMelo; brother Lonzo was named to a 2018 All-Rookie Team Ball |
| #8905, aired 2023-06-30 | POP EYE $400: To promote "Everything Everywhere All at Once", A24 Films sells pet these, complete with googly eyes & nest a pet rock |
| #8903, aired 2023-06-28 | POLICY $200: Washington's farewell address espoused what became known as this -ism, avoiding all foreign alliances or entanglements isolationism |
| #8902, aired 2023-06-27 | SOME THOUGHTS ON THE BOOK $800: The title is cribbed from the best--Billy Shakespeare; y'all live in a hard-to-say county; Benjy the hunted The Sound and the Fury |
| #8901, aired 2023-06-26 | HERE COMES THE SUMMER $200: MLB's All-Star Week includes this "Derby"; Juan Soto belted 53 to win the 2022 event the Home Run Derby |
| #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 |
| #8901, aired 2023-06-26 | UNITED KINGDOM ELECTION CONSTITUENCIES $800: Covering all its directional bases, this capital of Northern Ireland has constituencies North, South, East & West Belfast |
| #8900, aired 2023-06-23 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $200: In this novel, Holden Caulfield observes, "All morons hate it when you call them a moron" The Catcher in the Rye |
| #8900, aired 2023-06-23 | REMEMBER BASEBALL? $800: We all recall 1884, when Kentuckian Pete Browning used the first bat nicknamed this a Louisville Slugger |
| #8900, aired 2023-06-23 | ON BROADWAY $1200: In 2023 this choreographer's show "Dancin"' returned to Broadway in all its finger- & hip-wiggling glory (Bob) Fosse |
| #8898, aired 2023-06-21 | COLLECT 'EM ALL! $200: In a significant markup, an 1856 British Guiana one-cent magenta this went for $8.3 million in 2021 a stamp |
| #8898, aired 2023-06-21 | COLLECT 'EM ALL! $400: Seen as folk art, these items are prized by collectors decoys |
| #8898, aired 2023-06-21 | MISHEARD LYRICS $600: In "We Will Rock You", this group did not sing, "You got mud on your face, you big disgrace, kicking your cat all over the place" Queen |
| #8898, aired 2023-06-21 | COLLECT 'EM ALL! $600: In 2011 CNET said, "UK man exterminates record for most" these "Doctor Who" villains--571; the man's wife, noted as "long-suffering" Daleks |
| #8898, aired 2023-06-21 | COLLECT 'EM ALL! $800: Danny Fleming amassed 100-plus of these British isles musical instruments & reportedly, "understanding neighbours" bagpipes |
| #8898, aired 2023-06-21 | COLLECT 'EM ALL! $1000: To get Tom Hanks, a noted collector of these, on a podcast, Chris Hardwick offered a 1934 Smith Corona one; success! a (manual) typewriter |
| #8896, aired 2023-06-19 | IT'S A SPECIAL DAY $200: Made a U.S. federal holiday in 2021, it's also known as Black Independence Day Juneteenth |
| #8895, aired 2023-06-16 | THIS IS ALL A BIT MUCH $400: This word refers to the great flood endured by Noah, or torrential rain of non-biblical proportions diluvial (deluge) |
| #8895, aired 2023-06-16 | GREASE & ROAM $600: Automotive grease is heavily used in this system that provides steering stability & keeps passengers from bouncing all over the place the suspension |
| #8895, aired 2023-06-16 | THIS IS ALL A BIT MUCH $800: You've "gone" this, like Goldie Hawn in a movie title & Anna Faris in the remake overboard |
| #8895, aired 2023-06-16 | THIS IS ALL A BIT MUCH $1200: There may be a bit of chagrin involved when this long word comes before "of riches" in an idiom embarrassment |
| #8895, aired 2023-06-16 | THIS IS ALL A BIT MUCH $2000: From the Greek for "fullness", this 8-letter word can mean an overabundance a plethora |
| #8895, aired 2023-06-16 | THIS IS ALL A BIT MUCH $4,000 (Daily Double): It means wastefully extravagant, like an offspring in Luke 15 prodigal |
| #8894, aired 2023-06-15 | ROLLING STONES LYRICS $200: "But it's all right now, in fact, it's a gas" "Jumpin' Jack Flash" |
| #8894, aired 2023-06-15 | THE CZAR $400: A true great, in 1721 he dumped "czar" for "emperor of all Russia" to help with primacy over the church but the old title stuck Peter the Great |
| #8893, aired 2023-06-14 | A CHORUS LINE $200: "It's fun to stay at the YMCA... you can hang out with all the boys" the Village People |
| #8893, aired 2023-06-14 | J NOT SOUNDING LIKE JUH $800: Here's this sizzling dish; now all we need are the tortillas fajitas |
| #8893, aired 2023-06-14 | "M"PIRES $800: Tikal, Coba & Uxmal were all cities of this Mesoamerican empire (the) Maya(n) (Empire) |
| #8891, aired 2023-06-12 | THE WAR OF 1812 $8,400 (Daily Double): In 1814 U.S. forces under Gen. Jacob Brown invaded Canada by crossing this river between Lake Erie & Lake Ontario the Niagara |
| #8890, aired 2023-06-09 | CLASSIC TOYS & GAMES $1000: Time to play this Hasbro game: write down a river, a bird, a flower & a body part all starting with the letter R Scattergories |
| #8889, aired 2023-06-08 | A "MID" CATEGORY $1,600 (Daily Double): Karl Marx wrote, "Force is the" this "of every old society pregnant with a new one" midwife |
| #8889, aired 2023-06-08 | BIG & LIL POP CULTURE $1600: Before "Everything Everywhere All at Once", Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert directed "Turn Down for What" by DJ Snake & this rapper Lil Jon |
| #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 | A '90s KID $400: Many a '90s mom thought all these alliterative stuffed animals would increase in value & pay for her kid's college education Beanie Babies |
| #8888, aired 2023-06-07 | A NOVEL CHARACTER BREAKDOWN $1600: An (Oliver) twisted old man; manager of the Artful Dodger; it's all in the execution Fagin |
| #8887, aired 2023-06-06 | RIAA TOP-SELLING ARTISTS $200: This rock band tops the list with more than 183 million album sales, & that's all the clue you get The Beatles |
| #8887, aired 2023-06-06 | THIS & THAT $800: This Planters mascot is all class, with a monocle, spats & a top hat Mr. Peanut |
| #8886, aired 2023-06-05 | FIRST & LAST NAME'S THE SAME $800: All 3 names the same: U.S. naval hero awarded a Congressional Gold Medal & Led Zeppelin bassist/Kennedy Center honoree John Paul Jones |
| #8886, aired 2023-06-05 | THE SCIENCE OF POETRY $1200: Tracy K. Smith's "My God, It's Full of Stars" says, "We saw to the edge of all there is" with this, which her dad helped build in the 1980s the Hubble Space Telescope |
| #8885, aired 2023-06-02 | SPORTS STARS CALLING IT QUITS $400: Formerly the all-time leading goal scorer in women's soccer, she retired as a player in 2004 Mia Hamm |
| #8883, aired 2023-05-31 | ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER $400: (Andrew Lloyd Webber presents the clue.) One of the twists in "Bad Cinderella" is that this prince is missing in action when the show opens, so I didn't write any songs for him in Act 1
"I am Bad Cinderella / Got a style all my own / And I will not change it for you..." Prince Charming |
| #8883, aired 2023-05-31 | THE NATURAL ORDER $400: All these flightless birds are in an order whose name means "wedge shaped", describing their wings penguins |
| #8882, aired 2023-05-30 | THE BAND'S SONGS TELL A STORY $600: "One Of These Nights", I'll tell you this band did "Pretty Maids All In A Row", but "I Can't Tell You Why" the Eagles |
| #8880, aired 2023-05-26 | THAT BOOK CHARACTER DOES THINGS $400: Obeys instruction "Eat me"; sees a cat that's all smiles; lets the cards fall where they may Alice |
| #8879, aired 2023-05-25 | EURO COINS $400: A Celtic harp adorns all the euro coins from this nation Ireland |
| #8878, aired 2023-05-24 | OVERLAPS $1200: All those unsolicited emails you receive are quickly forgotten with this mental condition spamnesia |
| #20, aired 2023-05-24 | "P" IS FOR POETRY $400: Of this figure, Byron wrote, "titan...the rock, the vulture, and the chain, all that the proud can feel of pain" Prometheus |
| #20, aired 2023-05-24 | THE 1960s $600: On June 16, 1966 activist Stokely Carmichael rallied a crowd with "we want" these 2 words Black power |
| #20, aired 2023-05-24 | COMMON BONDS $800: Bridges,
a slow cornerback,
rubber things you burn (they all get burned) |
| #20, aired 2023-05-24 | IT'S JUST US $2000: Paul Williams, Helen Reddy & Johnny Mathis have all recorded the song that says, "Sometimes it feels like" this mismatch "You And Me Against The World" |
| #19, aired 2023-05-24 | WHAT'S ALL THIS? $400: 4 movements, including the "Ode To Joy" Beethoven's 9th |
| #19, aired 2023-05-24 | HORROR MOVIES $400: This character drowning at Camp Crystal Lake leads to all kinds of murderous fallout in "Friday the 13th" Jason |
| #19, aired 2023-05-24 | WHAT'S ALL THIS? $800: 3 oxygen atoms, one single coordinate covalent bond, one double covalent bond an ozone molecule |
| #19, aired 2023-05-24 | WHAT'S ALL THIS? $1200: An asterism in Cygnus made up of Deneb, Sadr, Albireo, Fawaris & Aljanah the Northern Cross |
| #19, aired 2023-05-24 | WHAT'S ALL THIS? $1600: 21 provinces, including Govi-Altay & Suhbaatar Mongolia |
| #19, aired 2023-05-24 | WHAT'S ALL THIS? $2000: 5 sections: "The Burial of the Dead", "A Game of Chess", "The Fire Sermon", "Death by Water" & "What the Thunder Said" "The Waste Land" |
| #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 |
| #17, aired 2023-05-23 | IN THE NATIONAL INVENTORS HALL OF FAME $600: This "father of board games", whose company produced some of the all-time classics Milton Bradley |
| #17, aired 2023-05-23 | BLACK HISTORY & CULTURE $1,000 (Daily Double): In 1924 the Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary became this historically black college for women Spelman |
| #17, aired 2023-05-23 | FROM "H" TO "Y" $1000: Sectioning tissue, staining it & looking at cells under a microscope are all integral to this scientific study histology |
| #8876, aired 2023-05-22 | "YO", I'LL SOLVE IT $600: This type of carnivorous canine is found in all states but Hawaii a coyote |
| #16, aired 2023-05-22 | LOVE LETTERS $400: In 1919 she wrote to F. Scott Fitzgerald, "there's nothing in all the world I want but you--and your precious love" Zelda Fitzgerald |
| #16, aired 2023-05-22 | POP GOES THE MUSIC $800: Pop goes Christmas as this Canadian crooner's yuletide songs play all season long Bublé |
| #16, aired 2023-05-22 | FAMOUS FOLKS $1200: This TikToker seen here starred in the gender-swapped movie remake "He's All That" Addison Rae |
| #15, aired 2023-05-22 | ALL AROUND THE WORLD $200: A national park in Australia gets its name from basalt columns called these, components of a musical instrument organ pipes |
| #15, aired 2023-05-22 | ALL AROUND THE WORLD $400: Be wary around Mont St. Michel of this substance, sables mouvants in French, which is perhaps not as deadly as films portray quicksand |
| #15, aired 2023-05-22 | ALL AROUND THE WORLD $600: A ship found off Madagascar may be the vessel of this British pirate whose riches Poe wrote of in "The Gold Bug" Kidd |
| #15, aired 2023-05-22 | ALL AROUND THE WORLD $1,000 (Daily Double): A gigantic 3/4 dome, Montreal's biosphere was designed by this American for the city's 1967 Expo (Buckminster) Fuller |
| #15, aired 2023-05-22 | ALL AROUND THE WORLD $1000: The Majolikahaus is one of one of many Vienna buildings decorated in this style whose name is partly from German for "youth" Jugendstil |
| #15, aired 2023-05-22 | TOUGH SCIENCE $2000: Before oxygen was discovered, it was thought that all combustible matter contained a burnable substance called this phlogiston |
| #15, aired 2023-05-22 | KING OF THE MOUNTAIN $2,800 (Daily Double): Mont Ventoux in Provence, during the Seven Years' War Louis XV |
| #8875, aired 2023-05-19 | GAITS $800: This supermodel's strut has been deemed one of the fiercest runway walks of all time (Naomi) Campbell |
| #8874, aired 2023-05-18 | REPEATS ITSELF $400: In a Grimm Brothers' tale, an evil queen looks at her wall & says these 2 words, asking, "Who in this land is fairest of all?" Mirror, mirror |
| #8874, aired 2023-05-18 | IT ALL STARTS WITH "U" $400: Your sunscreen should provide protection from UVA & UVB rays, with UV short for this type of light ultraviolet |
| #8874, aired 2023-05-18 | THE ARTS $600: Britannica noted "the eerie light of an all-night coffee stand" in this 1942 Edward Hopper painting Nighthawks |
| #8874, aired 2023-05-18 | RESTAURANTS $600: At Montreal's Onoir, all the dining takes place in this unique situation in the dark |
| #8874, aired 2023-05-18 | IT ALL STARTS WITH "U" $800: Even-toed these include camels ungulates |
| #8874, aired 2023-05-18 | IT ALL STARTS WITH "U" $1200: This Japanese word for a savory flavor is sometimes defined as a fifth taste umami |
| #8874, aired 2023-05-18 | IT ALL STARTS WITH "U" $1600: To howl like a wolf or a widow ululate |
| #8874, aired 2023-05-18 | IT ALL STARTS WITH "U" $2000: In economics, it's a period during which business is at a high point; to be green, it means to use goods to make a better product upcycle |
| #8873, aired 2023-05-17 | RECENT POP MUSIC $800: This Drake song asks, "Kiki, do you love me? Are you riding?" "In My Feelings" |
| #8873, aired 2023-05-17 | RECENT POP MUSIC $1200: "This Is A Life" is on the soundtrack of this 2022 film set in an IRS office & in the multiverse Everything Everywhere All at Once |
| #14, aired 2023-05-17 | MYTHOLOGICAL WORDS & PHRASES $1000: One can be between a rock & a hard place or similarly, between this pair of foes faced by Odysseus Charybdis & Scylla |
| #14, aired 2023-05-17 | BODIES OF WATER $1200: Henry Rowe Schoolcraft is said to have coined the name of this American lake from Latin for "truth" & "head" Lake Itasca (in Minnesota) |
| #14, aired 2023-05-17 | ROCK"ER"S $25,600 (Daily Double): At the Rolling Stones' Rock HoF induction, Keith Richards thanked this guitar maker, himself inducted 3 years later (Leo) Fender |
| #13, aired 2023-05-17 | 3 "O"s $800: When you're offered one option or nothing at all, it's this 2-word term Hobson's choice |
| #13, aired 2023-05-17 | PAGE TO SCREEN WITH A DIFFERENT TITLE $1000: A sort of sci-fi "Groundhog Day", Hiroshi Sakurazaka's novel "All You Need Is Kill" became this Tom Cruise movie Edge of Tomorrow |
| #13, aired 2023-05-17 | 1990s EMMY AWARDS $1600: A college football player, he scored an Emmy for coaching the game as Wood Newton on "Evening Shade" Burt Reynolds |
| #13, aired 2023-05-17 | ORCHESTRAS $2000: Musicians in this capital city's Hibernian Orchestra are all volunteers under the capable baton of John Finucane Dublin |
| #8872, aired 2023-05-16 | "B" IS THE FIRST LETTER $200: This irregular past tense is also what you "go for" when you risk it all broke |
| #12, aired 2023-05-16 | A NEW HOPE $600: Similar to the men's group, it's the "timely" nickname of Prudence Wright's inspiring all-female Revolutionary War militia Minutewomen |
| #12, aired 2023-05-16 | HOBBIES & PASTIMES $800: When one team in bridge takes all 13 tricks, the feat is known by this 2-word term grand slam |
| #11, aired 2023-05-16 | ALL THE WAY FROM "K" TO "K" $200: Meaning a strange or crazy person, it dates back to around 1960 kook |
| #11, aired 2023-05-16 | ALL THE WAY FROM "K" TO "K" $400: Since 2004 this travel website has been helping vacationers find the best prices for their trips Kayak |
| #11, aired 2023-05-16 | ALL THE WAY FROM "K" TO "K" $600: They told Jed Clampett, "Jed, move away from there"--he listened & found himself in Beverly--Hills, that is kinfolk |
| #11, aired 2023-05-16 | ALL THE WAY FROM "K" TO "K" $800: The recoil of a firearm, or an illegal payment made to someone as a reward for helping in an activity kickback |
| #11, aired 2023-05-16 | MOVIE MUSIC WITH HANS ZIMMER $1000: (Hans Zimmer reads.) I'm a big fan of this jack-of-all-trades musician who scored films like "The Master" & "There Will Be Blood"; you may have also heard of his little band called Radiohead (Jonny) Greenwood |
| #11, aired 2023-05-16 | ALL THE WAY FROM "K" TO "K" $1000: The cotton-like fiber from the fruit of this tropical tree is often used for stuffing life preservers & mattresses kapok |
| #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 | WHAT A LITERARY CHARACTER! $2,000 (Daily Double): At the end of a Thomas Pynchon book, Oedipa Maas awaits the bidding on a stamp collection with this auction number lot 49 |
| #10, aired 2023-05-15 | 3-WORD PLACE NAMES $9,200 (Daily Double): A South American cidade & estado both go by this name Rio de Janeiro |
| #9, aired 2023-05-15 | CHESS, MASTERS $800: (Jennifer Shahade delivers the clue.) Famed for works like "Nude Descending a Staircase No. 2", in the 1920s this great Dadaist all but abandoned art for chess, becoming a master & going on to play for France in four Chess Olympiads Duchamp |
| #9, aired 2023-05-15 | TECH TALK $1000: This "problem" stems from Nick Bostrom's thought experiment where A.I. is told to make this product & uses up all resources to do so paperclips |
| #8870, aired 2023-05-12 | A BIRTHDAY TO REMEMBER $200: Her 1962 rendition of "Happy Birthday" included "Thanks, Mr. Pres., for all the things you've done, the battles that you've won" Marilyn Monroe |
| #8870, aired 2023-05-12 | COMPANY HEADQUARTERS $800: This all-inclusive resort company is based in Paris, not on its namesake sea Club Med |
| #8870, aired 2023-05-12 | LIFE IS PICARESQUE $2,000 (Daily Double): Allen Ginsberg said all the "running around in an automobile" in this work by his pal was "a great picaresque literary device" On the Road |
| #8, aired 2023-05-12 | CLASSIC MOVIES $800: This 1979 film about a small group of friends who cycle to victory was ranked by AFI as one of the most inspiring of all time Breaking Away |
| #8, aired 2023-05-12 | MASTERPIECES $1200: Ernest Pontifex in "The Way of All Flesh" is a stand-in for this author of the posthumously published masterpiece Butler |
| #7, aired 2023-05-12 | THE SUFFERING OF JESUS $200: "All" these people, from the Latin for "student", left Jesus "and fled" before he was taken to the high priest the Disciples |
| #7, aired 2023-05-12 | JOHNNY GILBERT'S MUSICAL THEATER AUDITION $600: "We call those three the Plastics, they're shiny, fake & hard/ They play their little mind games all around the schoolyard" Mean Girls |
| #7, aired 2023-05-12 | JOHNNY GILBERT'S MUSICAL THEATER AUDITION $1000: "Stop all the rivers, push, strike & kill/ I'm not gonna leave ya, there's no way I will/ and I am telling you I'm not going" Dreamgirls |
| #7, aired 2023-05-12 | MNEMONIC POSSESSION $1600: "Dear King Philip claps often for good science" begins with this--all life can be divided into 3, including bacteria domain |
| #8868, aired 2023-05-10 | HERE, THERE & EVERYWHERE $800: This Siberian lake contains about 20% of all the world's unfrozen fresh water Lake Baikal |
| #5, aired 2023-05-10 | CLASSICAL MUSIC CLASSICS $400: Ferde Grofé's account of his first time at this place, about which he wrote a suite, includes "All of a sudden, bingo! There it was" the Grand Canyon |
| #5, aired 2023-05-10 | EPONYMOUS TELEVISION $800: The title of this show, a continuation of "All in the Family", refers to a bar Archie Bunker's Place |
| #5, aired 2023-05-10 | WIVES OF THE NOT YET PRESIDENTS $1000: Although this president's wife, Martha (nee Wayles), served as first lady of Virginia, she never served as U.S. first lady Jefferson |
| #5, aired 2023-05-10 | TOUGH MOVIE STUFF $1200: Rudy Ray Moore made his film debut as this character in 1975, along with his "all-girl army of kung fu killers" Dolomite |
| #4, aired 2023-05-09 | LITERATURE $400: "All hope abandon, ye who enter here" appears in this medieval poem the Divine Comedy |
| #3, aired 2023-05-09 | ALL "IN" $200: Not a record to boast about, Jim Hardy threw 8 of these against the Eagles in a 1950 NFL game interceptions |
| #3, aired 2023-05-09 | ALL "IN" $400: We sometimes use this Latin word for "in the meantime" when someone takes a job on a temporary basis interim |
| #3, aired 2023-05-09 | ALL "IN" $600: It's a court order requiring a person to do or to cease doing a particular act injunction |
| #3, aired 2023-05-09 | ALL "IN" $800: This type of verb doesn't take a direct object intransitive |
| #3, aired 2023-05-09 | ALL "IN" $1000: From the Italian for "engrave" or "cut", it was the process used to engrave the gemstone seen here intaglio |
| #3, aired 2023-05-09 | COLONIAL AMERICA $7,200 (Daily Double): This evangelical revival of the 1730s & 1740s was led by such theologians as George Whitefield & Jonathan Edwards the Great Awakening |
| #8866, aired 2023-05-08 | THE QUOTABLE ALEX $1200: An author:
"All for one, one for all--that is our motto, is it not?" Dumas |
| #2, aired 2023-05-08 | A LITTLE READING MATERIAL $400: In 2021 Rolling Stone updated its Greatest Songs of All Time list; this Aretha Franklin hit, previously No. 5, now tops the list "Respect" |
| #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 |
| #2, aired 2023-05-08 | BACK IN THE 12th CENTURY $1600: This Welsh abbey on the River Wye was founded for Cistercian monks in 1131 Tintern |
| #2, aired 2023-05-08 | POP CULTURE IN BLACK & WHITE $2000: Nicknamed for something sweet, he joined the all-white New Orleans Rhythm Kings on an early integrated jazz recording session Jelly Roll Morton |
| #2, aired 2023-05-08 | WOMEN WRITERS $8,000 (Daily Double): Min Jin Lee's novel "Pachinko" follows generations of a Korean immigrant family overcoming bias in this other Asian nation Japan |
| #1, aired 2023-05-08 | 20/23 $200: In the human body most cells normally contain 23 pairs of these chromosomes |
| #1, aired 2023-05-08 | DESCRIBING THE NO. 1 ALBUM $800: A first from 2022: all 10 top spots in the Billboard Hot 100 at the same time Midnights (by Taylor Swift) |
| #1, aired 2023-05-08 | ART TERMS $800: Seen here, John Vanderlyn's "Palace and Gardens of Versailles" is this type of piece, from the Greek for "all" & "sight" panorama |
| #8864, aired 2023-05-04 | 21st CENTURY FILMS $400: The 2022 film version of this antiwar novel by Erich Maria Remarque received 9 Oscar nominations All Quiet on the Western Front |
| #8864, aired 2023-05-04 | PHRASING $600: All aboard this, an expression for an easy & lucrative job that begins with a turkey topper the gravy train |
| #8864, aired 2023-05-04 | U.S. FACTS & FIGURES $800: These organs accounted for nearly 60% of all U.S. transplants in 2022 kidneys |
| #8863, aired 2023-05-03 | ABOARD THE AIRCRAFT CARRIER $200: Using this type of power, the engines of all 10 U.S. Nimitz-class carriers can go decades without refueling nuclear |
| #8863, aired 2023-05-03 | THERE'S GOLD IN THEM THAR HILLS $1600: In this 1948 film set in Mexico, Walter Huston says he's mined all over the world & warns, "I know what gold does to men's souls" The Treasure of the Sierra Madre |
| #8862, aired 2023-05-02 | JEOPAIR! BOARDING PROCESS $1000: We welcome all active duty military to board, & we do this common 5-word phrase said to our folks in uniform thank you for your service |
| #8861, aired 2023-05-01 | 3-LETTER WORDS WITH 2 VOWELS $400: Perhaps you learned to type with the phrase "Now is the time for all good men to come to the" this "of the party" aid |
| #8861, aired 2023-05-01 | WORLD OF WORDS $1,400 (Daily Double): French for "work", this vowel-heavy word is often used for all of the works by an artist or composer oeuvre |
| #8860, aired 2023-04-28 | IT'S A COOKBOOK! $400: "Over 300 recipes for plant-based eating all through the year" are found in the bestselling "Forks Over" these Knives |
| #8860, aired 2023-04-28 | WE DISCONTINUED THE CAR $1000: The Fit from this Japanese automaker wasn't fit to survive in the U.S. past 2020 Honda |
| #8856, aired 2023-04-24 | BEATLES "S"ONGS $200: "So may I introduce to you the act you've known for all these years?" "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" |
| #8856, aired 2023-04-24 | SYNONYMS & ANTONYMS $1000: Harm, damage or pain are on the flip side for this, from the Greek for "all-healing"; do you have the universal remedy? panacea |
| #8856, aired 2023-04-24 | MADE GOOD $1200: An ad with an ape abusing very durable luggage wasn't for Samsonite as some recall but for this all-"American" competitor American Tourister |
| #8855, aired 2023-04-21 | SCIENTIFIC NUMBERS $1600: Sure, you all know pi approximated to 3.14, but it's also approximated by this fraction 22/7 |
| #8853, aired 2023-04-19 | MY KID GOT INTO AN IVY LEAGUE MUSEUM $600: My daughter saw David Rockefeller's personal collection of these insects, scarabs & all, at Harvard's Museum of Natural History beetles |
| #8853, aired 2023-04-19 | TV $600: Aubrey Plaza, Michael Imperioli & Jennifer Coolidge as Tanya all checked in for season 2 of this limited series; one did not check out White Lotus |
| #8852, aired 2023-04-18 | OK MILLENNIAL $800: To win this contest during the 2011 NBA All-Star Weekend, Oklahoma City-born Blake Griffin jumped over a car the slam dunk contest |
| #8851, aired 2023-04-17 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY $400: The Sundarbans is the swampy delta where the Ganges, Meghna & Brahmaputra rivers all flow into this bay the Bay of Bengal |
| #8851, aired 2023-04-17 | 3-SYLLABLE VERBS $800: It can mean to think or focus really, really hard, or to rally all forces towards one specific goal concentrate |
| #8849, aired 2023-04-13 | FOODSTOCK $400: The third guy in the "Our House" quartet converted to Judaism & it was Yiddish snacking for all Crosby, Stills, Nosh & Young |
| #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 |
| #8848, aired 2023-04-12 | ONE-WORD PLAY TITLES $800: This play ends with Salieri saying, "Mediocrities everywhere--now & to come--I absolve you all. Amen!" Amadeus |
| #8847, aired 2023-04-11 | TIME FOR A "LITTLE" MUSIC $800: "I'll keep you my" this, sang the All-American Rejects, though having a No. 1 hit might not be the best way to do that "Dirty Little Secret" |
| #8847, aired 2023-04-11 | ONE HOT MoMA $1200: Gordon Parks' "Excerpt from" this film about a "Black private dick that's a sex machine to all the chicks" is at MoMA & we can dig it Shaft |
| #8846, aired 2023-04-10 | QUANTUM SCIENCE $2000: (Spiros Michalakis presents the clue.) Classical mechanics says that all physical quantities can be known at the same time; this principle, from Werner Heisenberg, sets quantum science apart by saying that the more sure you are of a particle's position, the less sure you are of its momentum the uncertainty principle |
| #8845, aired 2023-04-07 | SCIENCE $800: Some confused 19th century guy named all the mammals in an order these shrews even though relatively few of them are arboreal tree shrews |
| #8845, aired 2023-04-07 | SCIENCE $4,000 (Daily Double): Fireworks went off July 4, 2012 with the announcement of a boson consistent with the predictions of this British particle physicist Higgs |
| #8844, aired 2023-04-06 | WORD PUZZLES $400: Workwear with straps
DENIM
_____
ALL ALL denim overalls |
| #8844, aired 2023-04-06 | AT THREES & FOURS $1000: The sole-horned one gets all the press, but this describes an animal having four horns, like the antelope seen here a quadricorn |
| #8843, aired 2023-04-05 | SCHOOL OF MUSIC $400: All hail Dana Owens, better known by this moniker, who was voted Most Popular at her New Jersey high school Queen Latifah |
| #8843, aired 2023-04-05 | SCRAMBLED STATE CAPITALS $1000: Down south:
ASHES ATE ALL Tallahassee |
| #8843, aired 2023-04-05 | SCHOOL OF MUSIC $1200: All this singer-songwriter wanted to do was have some fun her senior year, which included drum majorette & prom princess Sheryl Crow |
| #8842, aired 2023-04-04 | ALL THE DAYS OF MY LIFE $200: He racked up a number of wedding days: June 11, 1509; Jan, 25, 1533; May 30, 1536; Jan, 6, 1540; July 28, 1540; & July 12, 1543 Henry VIII |
| #8842, aired 2023-04-04 | SHALL FOLLOW ME $200: All the kids in the line must do what the one in front does in this children's game with a 3-word name follow the leader |
| #8842, aired 2023-04-04 | ALL THE DAYS OF MY LIFE $400: Jawaharlal Nehru's only child, she worked in government before becoming India's first female prime minister Indira Gandhi |
| #8842, aired 2023-04-04 | TURTLES ALL THE WAY DOWN $400: "Turtles all the way down" is an apt description for how the turtle king rules Sala-ma-Sond for a time in this Dr. Seuss story Yertle the Turtle |
| #8842, aired 2023-04-04 | TURTLES ALL THE WAY DOWN $800: This group of comic book superheroes got their powers from radioactive ooze the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles |
| #8842, aired 2023-04-04 | ALL THE DAYS OF MY LIFE $800: His P-51 Mustang took out 5 German planes in a single dogfight in World War II; being first to break the sound barrier came later Chuck Yeager |
| #8842, aired 2023-04-04 | ALL THE DAYS OF MY LIFE $1,000 (Daily Double): He worked to develop a flu vaccine before coming up with one for polio, declared safe on April 12, 1955 Jonas Salk |
| #8842, aired 2023-04-04 | ALL THE DAYS OF MY LIFE $1000: Born into slavery, she wrote under the name Iola, became a newspaper owner & campaigned against lynching Ida B. Wells |
| #8842, aired 2023-04-04 | TURTLES ALL THE WAY DOWN $1200: Built in 1775 by David Bushnell, the Turtle was a one-man hand-cranked one of these vessels used by the military a submarine |
| #8842, aired 2023-04-04 | TURTLES ALL THE WAY DOWN $1600: In 1967 The Turtles had a No. 1 hit with this song that begins, "Imagine me & you, I do" "Happy Together" |
| #8842, aired 2023-04-04 | TURTLES ALL THE WAY DOWN $2000: Greek myth says Hermes invented this harp-like instrument using a turtle shell a lyre |
| #8841, aired 2023-04-03 | HORRORS! $200: Relax, all you need to make this "undead creature" cocktail is 3 different kinds of rum a Zombie |
| #8841, aired 2023-04-03 | YOU'RE GONNA SING $400: This Black Eyed Peas song asks the tough question "Whatcha gonna do with all that junk? All that junk inside your trunk?" "My Humps" |
| #8841, aired 2023-04-03 | YOU'RE GONNA SING $600: She got her driver's license in 2021, & the song motored all the way to the top of the Hot 100 Rodrigo |
| #8841, aired 2023-04-03 | THEIR LESSER-KNOWN BOOKS $800: In addition to her poetry & prose, Maya Angelou wrote 2 of these, including "Great Food, All Day Long" cookbooks |
| #8841, aired 2023-04-03 | YOU'RE GONNA SING $800: Pat Benatar was "running with" these in an iconic song from the 1980s; baby, take her hand, "it'll be all right" the shadows of the night |
| #8840, aired 2023-03-31 | HEY, BIG SPENDER $200: If you've really got all that dough, why don't you buy Action Comics #1 from 1938, which saw the debut of this otherworldly hero Superman |
| #8839, aired 2023-03-30 | THE HISTORIC 1950s $2000: On the day of this British king's death in 1952, cinemas & theaters closed & the BBC suspended all programs except for the news George VI |
| #8838, aired 2023-03-29 | WRITERS & POETS $200: You want tales? Oh, we got some tales to tell! "The Clerk's", "The Manciple's", "The Reeve's"... all part of this The Canterbury Tales |
| #8838, aired 2023-03-29 | Ps OUT! $600: Cut all 3 Ps from a flower of remembrance to get this Yiddish interjection oy (from poppy) |
| #8836, aired 2023-03-27 | FIGURES OF SPEECH $2000: When a part is used to represent a whole, it's this figure of speech, as in "all hands on deck" synecdoche |
| #8835, aired 2023-03-24 | FINNISH HIM! $400: Saku Koivu, Tuukka Rask & Teemu Selänne all made their Finnish names in this team sport hockey |
| #8835, aired 2023-03-24 | REJECTED AUTHORS $2000: One of this author's Navajo mysteries was rejected by an agent who said, "Get rid of all that Indian stuff" Tony Hillerman |
| #8833, aired 2023-03-22 | APPLY THE RAINBOW COLOR $200: In song, "Look at the stars, look how they shine for you, & everything you do, yeah, they were all" this yellow |
| #8833, aired 2023-03-22 | AROUND THE HOUSE $400: From the Latin word for "bread" comes this area near a kitchen for storing all kinds of things, like canned goods & condiments a pantry |
| #8833, aired 2023-03-22 | MAKING MUSIC $2000: This jack-of-all-trades was part of the band fun. as well as being a super-producer known for work with Taylor Swift Antonoff |
| #8832, aired 2023-03-21 | IT'S A JOKE $600: Hosting those very awards, this cheeky Brit said the Golden Globes are "like the Oscars, but without all that esteem" Ricky Gervais |
| #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 | PRESIDENTIAL INAUGURATIONS $2000: He, his wife & 9-year-old daughter were the first first family to walk all the way from the Capitol to the White House the Carters |
| #8830, aired 2023-03-17 | IRISH AUTHORS $400: Showing the Irish warts & all, J.M. Synge's play "The Playboy of the Western World" caused riots in this capital in 1907 Dublin |
| #8829, aired 2023-03-16 | COMIC INFLUENCES $200: (I'm Patton Oswalt.) In high school I couldn't get enough of this comedy troupe who had it all--SPAM, the Spanish Inquisition, a dead parrot, the dirty fork--nudge, nudge, wink, wink; know what I mean, say no more Monty Python |
| #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 | POP CULTURE $2000: In 2022 he returned as Ralphie, all grown up with a family of his own, in "A Christmas Story Christmas" Peter Billingsley |
| #8827, aired 2023-03-14 | A PLEASURE TO HAVE IN CLASS $800: A laborer in the feudal system; "Our American Cousin" author Tom Taylor titled a play about one, subtitled "Love Levels All" a serf |
| #8826, aired 2023-03-13 | CALL ME "CAT" $600: This No. 1 hit has haunted fathers since 1974 as they watch time pass all too quickly as their sons grow up "Cat's In The Cradle" |
| #8826, aired 2023-03-13 | BLOSSOM $600: A Gerbera this, give me your answer do; I'm half crazy, all for the love of seeing you grow in sand & bloom spring through fall a daisy |
| #8826, aired 2023-03-13 | CALL ME "CAT" $800: Someone full of big talk without being able to back it up is said to be "all hat, no" this cattle |
| #8825, aired 2023-03-10 | TV SHOWS IN OTHER WORDS $800: "Dread All Ambulatory Inanimate" Fear the Walking Dead |
| #8822, aired 2023-03-07 | "Y" ON THE MAP $1,600 (Daily Double): Site of a historic 1945 conference, this city on the Crimean Peninsula is known for its many health resorts Yalta |
| #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 | STUDY: GUIDES $400: In 1836 Edward Davy had all the elements to put out an "Experimental Guide to" this field chemistry |
| #8820, aired 2023-03-03 | THE LANTHANIDES OF MARCH $400: Lanthanides are all rare earth elements, with promethium the rarest--not found in nature & all its isotopes have this unstable property radioactivity |
| #8820, aired 2023-03-03 | ART MOVEMENTS $1200: In the 18th century British architects began a revival of this medieval style, pointed arches & all Gothic |
| #8820, aired 2023-03-03 | AROUND THE WORLD $4,000 (Daily Double): The book "Noah's Flood" proposed that the event happened when the Mediterranean burst into this sea 7,600 years ago the Black Sea |
| #8819, aired 2023-03-02 | IN THE SPORT $200: Inherited runners,
appeal play,
pickoff baseball |
| #8818, aired 2023-03-01 | RECENT MOVIES $800: (Hi, I'm Constance Wu.) In this 2018 film, I played Rachel Chu, who discovers all of a sudden that her boyfriend is super wealthy & one of Singapore's most eligible bachelors Crazy Rich Asians |
| #8817, aired 2023-02-28 | STAY CLASSY, CLASSICAL MUSIC $1600: Truly a man for all seasons, this Italian composed the serenata called "La Gloria e Imeneo" for King Louis XV's wedding Vivaldi |
| #8816, aired 2023-02-27 | WHAT'S THAT SCI. ABBREV.? $1000: Pa:
This unit of pressure named for a 17th century Frenchman pascal |
| #8816, aired 2023-02-27 | PURE POETRY $1200: "Poems" by her came out in 1844; months later, a poet named Robert wrote to say, "I love your verses with all my heart" (& yeah, you too) Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
| #8815, aired 2023-02-24 | HITS OF THEN & NOW $400: On "Black Panther: The Album" in 2018, this rapper gazed at "All The Stars" with SZA Kendrick Lamar |
| #8814, aired 2023-02-23 | YOU SEEM UPSET $400: The future's not so dark; no need to rhymingly be all doom & this gloom |
| #8814, aired 2023-02-23 | ASTRONOMY & SPACE $8,600 (Daily Double): With perihelion on July 28, it will be seen again from Earth in 2061, when all of you are looking back on your youthful hopes Halley's Comet |
| #8813, aired 2023-02-22 | A JOLLY RHYME $1600: 1621's "Anatomy of" this sad mood rhymes, "All my griefs to this are jolly" melancholy |
| #8812, aired 2023-02-21 | THE ELEMENTS $1200: Also used in medicine, this lightest of all metallic elements can float on water lithium |
| #8811, aired 2023-02-20 | A CRASH COURSE IN JOHN GREEN $400: (John Green presents the clue.) The title of my novel about Aza & how her OCD affects her life comes from a philosophical joke in which the Earth is flat & resting on the shell of a reptile, & what is that reptile standing on? It's these all the way down turtles |
| #8810, aired 2023-02-17 | COOK, THE BOOKS $200: No surprise, the King Arthur brand of this put out an "All-Purpose Baking Cookbook" flour |
| #8809, aired 2023-02-16 | ALL WAYS $200: The name of this galaxy, & we do mean this galaxy, comes from the classical Latin via lactea the Milky Way |
| #8809, aired 2023-02-16 | SAME FIRST & LAST LETTER GEOGRAPHY $400: Y'all, Rusty Wallace wanted to go fast at Talladega in 2004 in this state, & sure did; "We hit 228 at the end of the straightaway" Alabama |
| #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 | ALL WAYS $600: The kings of Queens, this team plays its home games at 41 Seaver Way in Flushing the Mets |
| #8809, aired 2023-02-16 | ALL WAYS $800: We "doubt" you'd forget that in John 14, Jesus says to him, "I am the way" Thomas |
| #8809, aired 2023-02-16 | ALL WAYS $1000: Yes sir! This Brit shared some secrets for success in his book "The Virgin Way: Everything I Know about Leadership" (Sir Richard) Branson |
| #8809, aired 2023-02-16 | DISNEY MOVIE TAGLINES $1200: 1963:
"Merlin uses all his magic powers to change a scrawny boy into a legendary hero" The Sword in the Stone |
| #8808, aired 2023-02-15 | ALL $400: A direction-finding device is in this 12-letter word that follows "all" encompassing |
| #8808, aired 2023-02-15 | ALL $800: A bet on a horse to place either first, second or third is called "across" this, a phrase also meaning "all" across the board |
| #8808, aired 2023-02-15 | ALL $1200: A Mexican entree ends this idiom that means the entirety the whole enchilada |
| #8808, aired 2023-02-15 | ALL $1600: Wrestling gave us this 3-word phrase meaning everything & anything is legal no holds barred |
| #8808, aired 2023-02-15 | ACC SCHOOL HISTORY $2,000 (Daily Double): In 1926 this southern school enrolled about 650 full-time students, but of all things, a hurricane nearly put it out of business the University of Miami |
| #8808, aired 2023-02-15 | ALL $2000: 2 extremities of a boat are in this nautical idiom for including everything from stem to stern |
| #8807, aired 2023-02-14 | BORN TO RUN $1200: This newspaperman didn't raise much Kane in losing runs for NYC mayor, state governor & then mayor again, all in a 4-year span Hearst |
| #8807, aired 2023-02-14 | THE GHOST OF TOM JOAD $1600: Don't forget Tom & all those who fled the Dust Bowl on this highway Steinbeck called "The Great Western Road" Route 66 |
| #8806, aired 2023-02-13 | BOB DYLAN LYRICS $2000: "We never did too much talkin' anyway, but don't" do this, "it's all right" think twice |
| #8805, aired 2023-02-10 | ALL KINDS OF BOOKS $200: "Between a Heart and a Rock Place" is the memoir of this singer, with 40-plus years in the music business Pat Benatar |
| #8805, aired 2023-02-10 | SUPER BOWL HEROES $400: (Greg Olsen of Fox NFL Sunday presents the clue.) Before joking around with Howie, Jimmy & the gang on "Fox NFL Sunday"'s pregame show, this man was all business while winning back-to-back Super Bowl MVPs in 1979 & 1980 as quarterback for the Steelers Terry Bradshaw |
| #8805, aired 2023-02-10 | ALL KINDS OF BOOKS $400: The big one of these from National Geographic for kids to pore over first came out in 1963 & is now in its 11th edition an atlas |
| #8805, aired 2023-02-10 | ALL KINDS OF BOOKS $600: Tracy McCubbin's "Make Space for Happiness" is about "How to Stop Attracting" this--it's in the way & dragging you down Clutter |
| #8805, aired 2023-02-10 | 5-LETTER DOUBLE Z WORDS $600: The place was all this, filled with anticipation & nervous talk abuzz |
| #8805, aired 2023-02-10 | ALL KINDS OF BOOKS $800: Her many cookbooks include one on feeding the one you love, titled "Cooking for Jeffrey" Ina Garten |
| #8805, aired 2023-02-10 | SUPER BOWL HEROES $1000: (Tom Rinaldi of Fox NFL Sunday presents the clue.) In Super Bowl LVI here at SoFi Stadium it was this A.D. all day, & very specifically ending the day with his 4th down pressure on quarterback Joe Burrow to seal the game for the Rams (Aaron) Donald |
| #8805, aired 2023-02-10 | ALL KINDS OF BOOKS $1000: Subtitled "The First War-Path", 1841's "The Deerslayer" was James Fenimore Cooper's last published book of these "Tales" Leatherstocking |
| #8805, aired 2023-02-10 | AN ENDLESS CATEGORY $5,800 (Daily Double): Continuing indefinitely, or flowers such as daylilies & peonies perennials |
| #8804, aired 2023-02-09 | PUT IN YOUR ORDINAL $200: It means those arriving before all others will be waited upon before anyone else first come, first served |
| #8804, aired 2023-02-09 | "WORLD" $1,000 (Daily Double): These 5 words complete the Robert Browning "God's in his heaven--" all's right with the world |
| #8804, aired 2023-02-09 | OSCAR-WINNING WOMEN $1600: In 2022, all eyes were on this actress as she picked up the prize for "The Eyes of Tammy Faye" Jessica Chastain |
| #8803, aired 2023-02-08 | ALSO A BASEBALL TERM $200: Completes the name of an exhibit about sailor life at the U.S.S. Constitution Museum, "all hands..." on deck |
| #8803, aired 2023-02-08 | ACTS OF CONGRESS $400: Months before the Emancipation Proclamation, which applied to states, came the April 1862 act freeing all those enslaved here the District of Columbia |
| #8803, aired 2023-02-08 | SHOW ME MISSOURI SHOW BIZ PEOPLE $400: Before doing it all backwards & in high heels with Fred Astaire, this dancing legend kicked things off in Independence Ginger Rogers |
| #8803, aired 2023-02-08 | THAT'S DEDICATION $800: in 1935 this poet dedicated a self-published work to the 14 publishers who rejected it & called it "no thanks" E. E. Cummings |
| #8803, aired 2023-02-08 | SHOW ME MISSOURI SHOW BIZ PEOPLE $1000: This director from St. Louis wrote all three "Guardians of the Galaxy" volumes, so he's likely typed "I am Groot" more than once (James) Gunn |
| #8803, aired 2023-02-08 | I BEFORE E $1200: Encompassing on all sides, like air temperature or some music ambient (ambience) |
| #8802, aired 2023-02-07 | WHOA, "O"! $1000: Sounding like an all-carrying mode of transport, it describes a legislative bill with a whole bunch of provisions omnibus |
| #8801, aired 2023-02-06 | HOT TUNES $800: He noted, "It's getting hot in herre" & followed with the helpful "so take off all your clothes" Nelly |
| #8801, aired 2023-02-06 | HOT TUNES $2000: Moving forward using all my breath, Modern English sang, "I'll stop the world &" do this melt with you |
| #8800, aired 2023-02-03 | 19th CENTURY NAMES $800: During the Civil War he recruited for the all-Black Massachusetts 54th Infantry, in which 2 of his sons served Frederick Douglass |
| #8799, aired 2023-02-02 | PLAY THAT GAME $200: It's gotta be hard to catch 'em all when new video games keep coming out, but in 2022 folks gave it a shot with this "Legends: Arceus" Pokémon |
| #13, aired 2023-02-02 | ALL ABOUT DISNEY $200: In 1994, Disney invited theatergoers to "Be Our Guest" at this musical, Disney's first show to play on Broadway Beauty and the Beast |
| #13, aired 2023-02-02 | WIL(L), WILLEM OR WILLIAM $300: In 2018 Willem Dafoe was all wet as Vulko, the trident-wielding trainer of this title superhero Aquaman |
| #13, aired 2023-02-02 | ALL ABOUT DISNEY $400: One of the more recent additions to Disneyland is Galaxy's Edge, with rides & attractions inspired by this film franchise Star Wars |
| #13, aired 2023-02-02 | ALL ABOUT DISNEY $600: Walt Disney coined this acronym for the experimental prototype community he planned to build in Florida; it would open in 1982 EPCOT |
| #13, aired 2023-02-02 | ALL ABOUT DISNEY $800: In 2006 Disney acquired this computer animation leader that it had first collaborated with on "Toy Story" Pixar |
| #13, aired 2023-02-02 | ALL ABOUT DISNEY $1000: November 18, 1928 is considered Mickey Mouse's birthday; it's the date he debuted onscreen in this cartoon as a mischievous deckhand Steamboat Willie |
| #13, aired 2023-02-02 | TAKING A GAMBLE WITH JAMES HOLZHAUER $1200: (James Holzhauer presents the clue.) If you want a chance at big cash, try a slot machine with one of these 11-letter jackpots that builds over time until someone wins it all a progressive |
| #8798, aired 2023-02-01 | HODGEPODGE $400: In 2022, fettuccine lovers gasped as a truck crashed, spilling this heavy cream sauce all over I-55 Alfredo |
| #8798, aired 2023-02-01 | MOUNTAINS $800: This country is home to the penguins of Patagonia & Hornocal, the 14-colors mountain seen here in all its glory Argentina |
| #8797, aired 2023-01-31 | JASON CONCEPCION $600: (Jason Concepcion presents the clue.) On the 2022 finale of "ALL CAPS NBA", I sang "We Are The Champions" to introduce clips of this team's victory parade the Warriors |
| #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 | THEY WROTE THE MOVIE $1200: She co-wrote the screenplay for "Sleepless in Seattle"; "When Harry Met Sally" was all hers Nora Ephron |
| #8796, aired 2023-01-30 | CHANNELING THE TV SHOWS $800: "Below Deck Mediterranean" & "The Real Housewives of Dallas" are all over its map Bravo |
| #8796, aired 2023-01-30 | NURSERY RHYMES $800: Contrarian Mary gets her garden growing with these 2 things & some pretty maids all in a row silver bells & cockle shells |
| #8796, aired 2023-01-30 | OUT ON A BOOK TOUR $1200: In "A Cook's Tour" this late chef & lover of travel went all over the world "In Search of the Perfect Meal" Bourdain |
| #8796, aired 2023-01-30 | MUSHROOM STEW $1200: White button, cremini, & this beautiful harbor mushroom are all the same variety, just at different stages of life a portobello |
| #8796, aired 2023-01-30 | EXPLORATION $1600: At the age of 67 Emma Gatewood became the first woman to solo hike all 2,000+ miles of this trail, from Georgia to Maine the Appalachian Trail |
| #12, aired 2023-01-26 | ALL THINGS IRISH $100: A disease of this tuber in the 1840s led to famine, death & a large emigration away from Ireland a potato |
| #12, aired 2023-01-26 | POP MUSIC $200: Though the title mentions a different car part, Nicky Youre is in a convertible in the video for this hit song heard here
"You got me stuck on the thought of you /
You're making me feel brand new /
You're more than the sunshine in my eyes /
La da la da da, la da dai /
La da la da di dai..." "Sunroof" |
| #12, aired 2023-01-26 | ALL THINGS IRISH $300 (Daily Double): It's a county bordered by the river Shannon as well as a comical 5-line poem Limerick |
| #12, aired 2023-01-26 | ALL THINGS IRISH $300: Born in Drogheda, this actor has played James Bond in film & Remington Steele on TV Pierce Brosnan |
| #12, aired 2023-01-26 | POP MUSIC $300: In the '80s we were "Head Over Heels" for this all-female group; they did, in fact, have the beat The Go-Go's |
| #12, aired 2023-01-26 | ALL THINGS IRISH $400: The name of these mischievous little people of folklore may have come from Old Irish words for "small" & "body" leprechaun |
| #12, aired 2023-01-26 | ALL THINGS IRISH $500: Kissing this stone at the Irish castle of the same name is said to give the kisser the gift of persuasive speaking (the) Blarney (Stone) |
| #12, aired 2023-01-26 | UNDER STUDY $900: Its name means "earth study" & it studies all that makes up the Earth, including its rocks & minerals geology |
| #12, aired 2023-01-26 | U.S. GOVERNMENT $1200: A 2018 USA Today headline: "Rex Tillerson was on the toilet when he was told he'd be fired" from this diplomatic Cabinet job secretary of state |
| #12, aired 2023-01-26 | A SIGN OF SHAME $3,000 (Daily Double): In this Nathaniel Hawthorne novel, single mom Hester Prynne must wear a red "A" on her dress The Scarlet Letter |
| #12, aired 2023-01-26 | WORLD HISTORY $9,800 (Daily Double): This dynasty that ruled China from 1368 to 1644 was noted for its arts & culture including, of course, ceramics & porcelain vases Ming |
| #8793, aired 2023-01-25 | GARDEN VARIETY STORIES $200: Deborah Moggach's "Tulip Fever" is set in this European city in the 17th century, when lust for the bulbs was all too real Amsterdam |
| #8793, aired 2023-01-25 | WE'RE ALL COUNTING ON YOU $400: 18th century composer Luigi Boccherini numbered his works using this Latin word but Yves Gérard's numbered list is much better opus |
| #8793, aired 2023-01-25 | WE'RE ALL COUNTING ON YOU $800: This Russian divided the elements into columns & rows in an early version of the periodic table Mendeleev |
| #8793, aired 2023-01-25 | WE'RE ALL COUNTING ON YOU $1200: Social sciences range from 300-399 in the library classification system named for this man Dewey |
| #8793, aired 2023-01-25 | WE'RE ALL COUNTING ON YOU $1600: Entropy is the crux of the third law of this, devised by German chemist Walther Nernst thermodynamics |
| #8793, aired 2023-01-25 | WE'RE ALL COUNTING ON YOU $2000: The sequence named for this Italian mathematician begins 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13 Fibonacci |
| #8791, aired 2023-01-23 | "SIDE" EFFECTS $1000: In 1957 athlete & future actor Bruce Dern left the Penn track team rather than shave these his sideburns |
| #8790, aired 2023-01-20 | THIS PIECE OF PAPER WILL TELL YOU WHAT TO DO $800: Part of this job was issuing ukases, like the one from 1821 claiming all fishing rights off what's now Alaska plus most of British Columbia czar |
| #8790, aired 2023-01-20 | REPETITIVE MUSIC $800: In an incredible moment of branding in 1982, this Mark Hollis band band found "All you do to me is" this this Talk Talk |
| #8790, aired 2023-01-20 | THIS PIECE OF PAPER WILL TELL YOU WHAT TO DO $2000: In the gospel of Luke, "There went out a decree" from this ruler "that all the world should be taxed" Caesar Augustus |
| #8789, aired 2023-01-19 | ALL IN THE FAMILY $400: This aviation pioneer outlived his brother Wilbur by more than 35 years Orville Wright |
| #8789, aired 2023-01-19 | SELF-REFERENTIAL BEATLES $1200: "There's nothing you can know that isn't known", like adding "She loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah" to the end of this song "All You Need Is Love" |
| #8789, aired 2023-01-19 | ALL IN THE FAMILY $1200: The daughter of Boston Mayor John "Honey Fitz" Fitzgerald, she became the matriarch of a political dynasty Rose Kennedy |
| #8789, aired 2023-01-19 | ALL IN THE FAMILY $1600: Last name of the first prime minister of India; a child & grandchild also held the job Nehru |
| #8789, aired 2023-01-19 | ALL IN THE FAMILY $2000: Following their birth in 1934, these Canadian quintuplets became a media sensation Dionne |
| #8789, aired 2023-01-19 | ALL IN THE FAMILY $4,800 (Daily Double): "Good Brother, Bad Brother" is a dual biography of this assassin & his actor/brother Edwin John Wilkes Booth |
| #11, aired 2023-01-19 | I AM A CHAMPION! $200: Rod Laver is the only 2-time winner of all 4 major tennis singles titles in one year, a feat called this, like a big home run a grand slam |
| #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 | THE BOOK WITH NO PICTURES $500: From bad to worse in this novel: escaping nuclear war, a plane crashes, killing all the adults; the boys form their own society on an island Lord of the Flies |
| #8788, aired 2023-01-18 | SONGS OF THE 2010s $200: In 2014 Meghan Trainor was "all about that bass, 'bout that bass, no" this treble |
| #8787, aired 2023-01-17 | ALL ABOUT HAIR $200: The outer covering of a hair shaft is called this, like the area at the base of a fingernail a cuticle |
| #8787, aired 2023-01-17 | ALL ABOUT HAIR $400: Many shampoos target this annoyance, a form of dermatitis in which a yeast causes your scalp to shed bits of skin dandruff |
| #8787, aired 2023-01-17 | ALL ABOUT HAIR $600: Tiny muscles called arrector pili in our follicles make our hair literally do this, as a ghost in Shakespeare promises to do stand on end |
| #8787, aired 2023-01-17 | EMMY WINNERS $800: Jean Stapleton won 3 Emmys for playing Edith Bunker, Archie's wife on this '70s sitcom All in the Family |
| #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 | ALL ABOUT HAIR $1000: From the Greek for "fox", it's a medical term for hair loss alopecia |
| #8786, aired 2023-01-16 | THE COLORS OF SCIENCE $200: In physics, this type of "body" is a surface that absorbs all the radiation that falls on it a blackbody |
| #8786, aired 2023-01-16 | PURE BREAD $800: This palindromic bread is all the rage when served with vindaloo or tikka masala naan |
| #8785, aired 2023-01-13 | I THANK YOU ALL $200: Winning a Golden Globe for this 2006 film role, Sacha Baron Cohen said, "Thank you to every American who has not sued me so far" Borat |
| #8785, aired 2023-01-13 | I THANK YOU ALL $400: Kristin Chenoweth's 2009 Emmy thank you included a plea for a role on "The Office", as this had already happened to "Pushing Daisies" cancellation |
| #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 |
| #8785, aired 2023-01-13 | I THANK YOU ALL $800: Winning as the queen for "The Favourite", she said, "If... I forget anybody, I'm gonna find you later & I'm gonna give you all a massive snog" (Olivia) Colman |
| #8785, aired 2023-01-13 | I THANK YOU ALL $1000: Merritt Wever's Emmy speech for this Edie Falco medical show: "Thanks so much. Um, thank you so much! Um, I gotta go. Bye" Nurse Jackie |
| #8785, aired 2023-01-13 | A LINEAR CATEGORY $2000: A ship's course touching all meridians at the same angle is this line that sounds like sailors' favorite liquor a rhumb line |
| #8784, aired 2023-01-12 | WHAT'S ALL THIS, THEN? $400: It's raining & dashed if I didn't leave the club without this object from James Smith & Sons, making them since 1830 an umbrella |
| #8784, aired 2023-01-12 | CLASSIC ALBUMS $400: Released in 1982 & spawning 7 Top 10 singles, this Michael Jackson album became one of the bestselling albums of all time Thriller |
| #8784, aired 2023-01-12 | YOU'RE MY INSPIRATION $600: The Altair 8800 & its creator, Dr. Ed Roberts, inspired these two teenage pals from Seattle who became famous Bill Gates & Paul Allen |
| #8784, aired 2023-01-12 | WHAT'S ALL THIS, THEN? $800: The woman who ran over my foot with a pram & put me in hospital will most decidedly hear from my solicitor, this person my attorney |
| #8784, aired 2023-01-12 | ANATOMICAL ETYMOLOGY $1200: The name of this organ that produces digestive juices comes from words meaning "all flesh" the pancreas |
| #8784, aired 2023-01-12 | WHAT'S ALL THIS, THEN? $1200: The cheek of the lad who wore a Tottenham jumper to a home match of this team, the Gunners! Arsenal |
| #8784, aired 2023-01-12 | WHAT'S ALL THIS, THEN? $1600: I was miffed when the National Trust refused to list my gran's cottage in this district known for water & poets the Lake District |
| #8784, aired 2023-01-12 | WHAT'S ALL THIS, THEN? $2000: My chart of the PM's cabinet was knocked cock-a-hoop when Mr. Kwarteng served only 38 days as this chief financial minister chancellor of the Exchequer |
| #8784, aired 2023-01-12 | CLASSIC ALBUMS $2000: The title of this Beck album is a corruption of a Mexican-Spanish slang term for "cool!", or "all right!" Odelay |
| #8783, aired 2023-01-11 | ALL ABOUT MEXICO $200: In 2016 the D.F., or Distrito this, officially became known as Ciudad de Mexico, CDMX Federal |
| #8783, aired 2023-01-11 | QUESTIONABLE BOOK TITLES $400: Emma Corrigan unloads all her hidden truths on a stranger in Sophie Kinsella's novel "Can You Keep" one of these a secret |
| #8783, aired 2023-01-11 | ALL ABOUT MEXICO $400: In October Mexican people celebrate ethnic identity on this dia, meaning "day of the people" Día de la Raza |
| #8783, aired 2023-01-11 | ALL ABOUT MEXICO $600: The Mexican Plateau is flanked by two mountain ranges known as this Occidental & this Oriental Sierra Madre |
| #8783, aired 2023-01-11 | ALL ABOUT MEXICO $800: This southern state has Mexico's largest indigenous population & a name where the "X" sounds like an "H" Oaxaca |
| #8783, aired 2023-01-11 | ALL ABOUT MEXICO $1000: A Spanish word for "processing fee" gives us this term for low-wage export factories that dot Mexico's border with the United States the maquiladoras |
| #8782, aired 2023-01-10 | THE BOTTOM LINE $200: He ended a poem, "I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference" Frost |
| #8782, aired 2023-01-10 | LEAD VOCALIST OF THE BAND $400: Eddie Vedder, this gem of a band Pearl Jam |
| #8781, aired 2023-01-09 | ALL THE RIGHT MOVIES $400: "All the Right Moves" starred a young Tom Cruise as a Pennsylvania high school kid desperate for a scholarship in this sport football |
| #8781, aired 2023-01-09 | ALL THE RIGHT MOVIES $800: John Lindqvist's novel "Let the Right One In", about Eli, who is one of these creatures, was made into Swedish & American films a vampire |
| #8781, aired 2023-01-09 | ALL THE RIGHT MOVIES $1200: Spike Lee broke into the front ranks of Hollywood directors with this 1989 film about racial tensions in Brooklyn Do the Right Thing |
| #8781, aired 2023-01-09 | ALL THE RIGHT MOVIES $1600: It starred Scott Glenn as Alan Shepard, Sam Shepard as Chuck Yeager & Ed Harris as John Glenn The Right Stuff |
| #8781, aired 2023-01-09 | ALL THE RIGHT MOVIES $2000: Annette Bening, Julianne Moore & Mark Ruffalo starred in this 2010 comedy about 2 children looking for their biological father The Kids Are All Right |
| #8779, aired 2023-01-05 | CLICHES $400: Completes the cliche "All dressed up...", suggested as the epitaph for an atheist and nowhere to go |
| #8779, aired 2023-01-05 | CLICHES $800: This simile compares someone who looks not at all tired to a flower with white rays & a yellow disk fresh as a daisy |
| #8779, aired 2023-01-05 | THE DOOMSDAY BOOK $800: In "Station" this, "of all of them there... that night, the bartender was the one who survived the longest. He died three weeks later" Station Eleven |
| #9, aired 2023-01-05 | INTERNATIONAL MAN OF MYTH STORY $100: Caishen, the Chinese god of this supposed "root of all evil", was in one story killed by an arrow shot into a straw effigy of him money |
| #9, aired 2023-01-05 | BLENDED WORDS $200: Mimosas all around for this late morning meal, especially on Sundays brunch |
| #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 |
| #8776, aired 2023-01-02 | 3 LETTERS, STARTS WITH "A" $800: "No Exit" has but one act |
| #8775, aired 2022-12-30 | I GOT A "B" IN HISTORY $400: In World War I the soldiers of the USA's all-Black 92nd infantry division put this animal on their patch buffalo |
| #8775, aired 2022-12-30 | U.S. TERRITORIES $1,000 (Daily Double): In 1927 the U.S. granted citizenship to residents of this territory in the West Indies whose 3 main islands all bear saintly names the U.S. Virgin Islands |
| #8775, aired 2022-12-30 | TREE ANATOMY $1000: The terminal type of this structure at the end of a twig is all about growth, not leafing or flowering a bud |
| #8775, aired 2022-12-30 | THERE'S A CENSUS EXCITEMENT IN THE AIR $1600: 1850:
All free people listed, not just this alliterative paterfamilias head of household |
| #8774, aired 2022-12-29 | BREAK THE "CODE" $400: It's 808 for all of Hawaii the area code |
| #8774, aired 2022-12-29 | CLASSIC FLUTE ROCK $600: Cool jazz' Bud Shank improv-ed the solo on this song by The Mamas & The Papas that begins, "All the leaves are brown" "California Dreamin'" |
| #8773, aired 2022-12-28 | ALL DRESSED IN WHITE $200: In test match play, the 11 members of a team on the pitch in this sport wear white uniforms cricket |
| #8773, aired 2022-12-28 | ALL DRESSED IN WHITE $400: First-year Spelman students must wear all white to the convocation & induction events during this 2-week introductory period orientation |
| #8773, aired 2022-12-28 | ALL DRESSED IN WHITE $600: It's white, it keeps you alive, it's an extravehicular mobility unit better known by this alliterative name space suit |
| #8773, aired 2022-12-28 | ALL DRESSED IN WHITE $800: An 1889 painting of David Hayes Agnew, professor of this medical skill, is an early depiction of doctors in white surgery |
| #8773, aired 2022-12-28 | ALL DRESSED IN WHITE $1000: Initiates in this religion that developed in Cuba in the 1800s wear white for their first year Santeria |
| #8770, aired 2022-12-23 | SPORTS EQUIPMENT $200: For tenpin, these are all 8.5 inches in diameter & can weigh up to 16 pounds bowling balls |
| #8770, aired 2022-12-23 | ALL STARS $400: Weighing 563 carats, the Star of India is one of these blue gems a sapphire |
| #8770, aired 2022-12-23 | ALL STARS $800: The music for this came from a festive British song titled "To Anacreon In Heaven" "The Star-Spangled Banner" |
| #8770, aired 2022-12-23 | ALL STARS $1200: A logo for this department store uses a red star before the company name & another star for the apostrophe Macy's |
| #8770, aired 2022-12-23 | ALL STARS $1600: This destructive starfish, named for a relic worn by Jesus, is considered a major threat to Pacific coral reefs a crown-of-thorns |
| #8770, aired 2022-12-23 | ALL STARS $2000: Harry Truman once worked in the mailroom of the Pulitzer-winning Star of this city Kansas City |
| #8769, aired 2022-12-22 | NICOLE KIDMAN SAYS $600: In a remake:
"All of the women are always busy & perfect & smiling, & all of the men are always happy" The Stepford Wives |
| #8767, aired 2022-12-20 | CONTRACTIONS $200: Merriam-Webster notes this "chiefly southern U.S." pronoun is "usually used in addressing two or more persons" y'all |
| #8767, aired 2022-12-20 | FROM THE PRESIDENT'S MEMOIRS $400: "On the first intelligence of Forrest's raid I telegraphed Sherman to send all his cavalry against him" Ulysses S. Grant |
| #8767, aired 2022-12-20 | THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT $600: In the movie version of this World War I novel, Paul Bäumer is shot reaching for a butterfly on the battlefield All Quiet on the Western Front |
| #8767, aired 2022-12-20 | WORDS WITH GREEK LETTERS $800: 3M, B-52 & 401(k) all have this quality, which begins with 2 Greek letters alphanumeric (alpha & nu) |
| #8767, aired 2022-12-20 | CONTRACTIONS $1000: It begins a 5-word Shakespeare title All's |
| #8766, aired 2022-12-19 | ANAGRAMMED OCCUPATIONS $600: (the anagram is its own clue)
MOON STARER astronomer |
| #8766, aired 2022-12-19 | AMERICANA $2000: The ballad of him begins, "Come all you rounders if you want to hear a story about a brave engineer" Casey Jones |
| #8765, aired 2022-12-16 | INVASIONS $1600: Mahmud of Ghazna in Afghanistan, the 1st ruler with this title of a Muslim monarch, liked to invade India yearly, 17 times in all sultan |
| #8764, aired 2022-12-15 | GIVING YOU SOME T-L-C $200: It's the "I" in IQ, & it will be incredibly embarrassing for all of us if no one rings in now intelligence |
| #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 | HISTORIC NAMES $600: Before Little Bighorn, this Sioux leader had a vision that all his enemies would be delivered into his hands Sitting Bull |
| #8763, aired 2022-12-14 | 1982: A YEAR IN FILM $800: The zen of Sean Penn's Jeff Spicoli in this film: "All I need are some tasty waves, cool buzz & I'm fine" Fast Times at Ridgemont High |
| #8762, aired 2022-12-13 | PLACE"O" $1,400 (Daily Double): Only Greenland & New Guinea are larger islands in size than this one in the Pacific Borneo |
| #8760, aired 2022-12-09 | STATE POSTAL ABBREVIATION WORDS $400: A wizard's magic rod Washington & North Dakota |
| #8759, aired 2022-12-08 | 1990s VOCAB TEST $400: That's really great! It's "all that and" this snack offering a bag of chips |
| #8759, aired 2022-12-08 | IN THE ROOM $800: On the floor, this 4-letter deep-pile carpeting that was all the rage in the 1970s shag |
| #8758, aired 2022-12-07 | "U" IS THE ONLY VOWEL $200: In the first chapter of "A Christmas Carol", this word is used 8 times; in the last chapter, not at all humbug |
| #8758, aired 2022-12-07 | COLLEGE FOOTBALL BOWL BIZ $1000: The 2021 TransPerfect Music City Bowl was held in this city, y'all Nashville |
| #8757, aired 2022-12-06 | BIG BOOK ROYALTY $400: This Carroll royal "had only one way of settling all difficulties, great or small. 'Off with his head!"' the Queen of Hearts |
| #8757, aired 2022-12-06 | THEIR TOP 40 DEBUT ALBUM $1200: One of the bestselling debut albums of all time, "Appetite for Destruction" Guns N' Roses |
| #8757, aired 2022-12-06 | BLOOD, SWEAT & TEARS $6,600 (Daily Double): Blood, sweat & tears all contain this metallic element, the 6th-most abundant in the Earth's crust sodium |
| #8756, aired 2022-12-05 | HISTORY ON THE DOUBLE $800: Henri Bertrand stuck by Napoleon all through his 1814-1821 exiles on these 2 islands Elba & St. Helena |
| #8754, aired 2022-12-01 | CONTRACTIONS $2000: This contraction meaning "between" is often paired with the contraction "'tween" for all your between needs 'twixt |
| #8752, aired 2022-11-29 | GERMAN CITIES $1200: The cities of Würzburg, Bayreuth & Munich are all found in this largest German state by area Bavaria |
| #8749, aired 2022-11-24 | IT'S A THANKSGIVING MIRACLE! $200: Cousin Eddie didn't eat all of this turkey day fave, though Bon Appétit's "classic herb & fennel" recipe turned out mwah! stuffing |
| #8749, aired 2022-11-24 | IT'S A THANKSGIVING MIRACLE! $800: Sorry to say it's a miracle, fans of this NFL team, but they won! That's big, what with their 37-43-2 all-time record on the day the Lions |
| #8749, aired 2022-11-24 | TAKE THE FIFTH $1200: A fifth of alcohol, as I'm sure you are all aware, equals 750 of these units milliliter |
| #8748, aired 2022-11-23 | A LOUD CATEGORY $600: A New York Times article was titled "The First Thing We Do, Let's Kill All" these lawn devices that can cause tinnitus leaf blowers |
| #8747, aired 2022-11-22 | SOCCER'S WORLD CUP IN THE 21st CENTURY $1000: This American striker had a 5-goal game to begin the 2019 Women's World Cup, & it was USA all the way Alex Morgan |
| #8746, aired 2022-11-21 | NUMERICAL TERMS $800: A James K. Polk campaign slogan claimed all of Oregon up to this latitude "or Fight" 54-40 |
| #8745, aired 2022-11-18 | THE "ANTI" CATEGORY $600: Patrick Henry was a leader of this group that took issue with the Constitution & an all-too-powerful national government the Anti-Federalists |
| #8745, aired 2022-11-18 | FURNITURE $1,000 (Daily Double): The name of this piece of furniture comes from the French for "to put to bed" a couch |
| #8745, aired 2022-11-18 | THE "ANTI" CATEGORY $1000: Founded in 1913, it has the dual mission of "securing justice not only for Jews but for all people" the Anti-Defamation League |
| #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 | SILENT FILMS WITH JACQUELINE STEWART $400: (Jacqueline Stewart of Turner Classic Movies presents the clue.) Seen without makeup & mostly in closeups, French actress Maria Falconetti's performance in "The Passion of" this peasant girl turned martyr is considered one of the greatest of all time Joan of Arc |
| #8744, aired 2022-11-17 | THE KING JAMES BIBLE SAITH $400: He "exceeded all the kings of the earth for riches and for wisdom" Solomon |
| #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 | THE KING JAMES BIBLE SAITH $600: From Deuteronomy: "Of all that are in the waters: all that have fins and" these "shall ye eat" scales |
| #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 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: The work of this New Deal program, CCC for short, included planting trees--more than 3 billion in all Civilian Conservation Corps |
| #8741, aired 2022-11-14 | STREAKERS $400: From 2014 through 2021, she won the vault at every U.S. Championship in which she competed, 6 in all (Simone) Biles |
| #8741, aired 2022-11-14 | YOUR U.S. HISTORY TEST $1200: The Compromise of 1850 admitted this Western state to the Union, with slavery banned there California |
| #8, aired 2022-11-13 | THAT BOOK YOU'VE BEEN MEANING TO READ $300 (Daily Double): You dug the musical with Cosette, Javert & all the sad songs; now it's time to pry open this Victor Hugo novel from 1862 Les miserables |
| #8, aired 2022-11-13 | COMPUTER SCIENCE WITH MATT AMODIO $300: (Matt Amodio delivers the clue.) Before the hard disk era, the storage of data or programs known as this word took more cumbersome forms, like huge circular drums & reels bearing hundreds of feet of tape memory |
| #8, aired 2022-11-13 | BRUSH UP YOUR HEBREW $1200: Abba is this relative; Jesus says, "Abba... all things are possible unto thee... not what I will, but what thou wilt" father |
| #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 $200: Keep up... Northville is west of downtown this Michigan city; Southfield is north, & "South" this, as sung by Journey, doesn't really exist Detroit |
| #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 | ALL OVER THE MAP $600: When it comes to Iqaluit, headquarters of Baffin Region & the capital of this Canadian territory, we're having... Nunavut |
| #8739, aired 2022-11-10 | ALL OVER THE MAP $800: Discovered in 1767 by a British naval officer, this 2-mile-long island was uninhabited until 1790, but a mutiny changed that Pitcairn |
| #8739, aired 2022-11-10 | ALL OVER THE MAP $1000: This landlocked country highlighted here is pretty flat; the average elevation is less than 600 feet Belarus |
| #8739, aired 2022-11-10 | WE SPY $2000: Guy Burgess, Donald Maclean & this man who defected to the USSR in 1963 all betrayed many secrets working in British intelligence Kim Philby |
| #8737, aired 2022-11-08 | NUMBER, PLEASE $400: Normally, the human body contains this number of chromosomal pairs 23 |
| #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" |
| #8737, aired 2022-11-08 | REMEMBERING ALEX TREBEK $1000: Alex had tons of hardware supplies, including these, also called half-moon keys; he never knew what they were for, though Woodruff keys |
| #8737, aired 2022-11-08 | RHYMES WITH A SNOW WHITE DWARF $1600: Inclined to be tearful, or a sentimental film weepy |
| #7, aired 2022-11-06 | ALL ABOUT ALLITERATIVE BOOK CHARACTERS $100: Severus Snape is the "Defense Against the Dark Arts" teacher at this school that Harry Potter attends Hogwarts |
| #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 | ALL ABOUT ALLITERATIVE BOOK CHARACTERS $200: Peter Pevensie is one of the children who come to reign over this land created by C.S. Lewis Narnia |
| #7, aired 2022-11-06 | ALL ABOUT ALLITERATIVE BOOK CHARACTERS $300: Tiny Tim is a sickly boy in this Dickens classic with an alliterative title A Christmas Carol |
| #7, aired 2022-11-06 | READY FOR MY NUDE SCENE $300: This actor said that he had no nude double for "The Wolf of Wall Street": "All the flopping around... was all me" Leonardo DiCaprio |
| #7, aired 2022-11-06 | BIG ____ $300: Step right up, ladies & gents; from acrobats to clown cars, we've got it all inside this structure the big top |
| #7, aired 2022-11-06 | FIRE ISLAND $300: Playing all the hits of 2020, it's hot 102.7 in Veguitas in this Caribbean country about 90 miles south of Florida Cuba |
| #7, aired 2022-11-06 | ALL ABOUT ALLITERATIVE BOOK CHARACTERS $400: He's the evil dictator who's "watching you" in "1984" Big Brother |
| #7, aired 2022-11-06 | ALL ABOUT ALLITERATIVE BOOK CHARACTERS $500: Billy Bibbit & Charles Cheswick are fellow inmates with Randle McMurphy in this Ken Kesey novel set in a mental hospital One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest |
| #7, aired 2022-11-06 | DOG-GONE WORDS $600: Elvis had a No. 1 hit about this kind of dog, "cryin' all the time" a hound dog |
| #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 | POLITICS $1200: A president traditionally gets applause from all of Congress for this event; here's Eisenhower arriving for his first the State of the Union (address) |
| #7, aired 2022-11-06 | JOHNNY GILBERT SAYS THE NO. 1 HITS $1500: "Chickity China, the Chinese chicken, you have a drumstick & your brain stops tickin', watchin' X-Files with no lights on" "One Week" |
| #8735, aired 2022-11-04 | ON BROADWAY $800: For his Broadway debut in "All the Way", Bryan Cranston's portrayal of this president earned him a Tony Lyndon B. Johnson |
| #8735, aired 2022-11-04 | THE TANGLED WEB $1200: This website named for a family in Faulkner books debunks false claims & checks facts on all sorts of subjects Snopes |
| #8735, aired 2022-11-04 | DINOSAUR NAMES $3,000 (Daily Double): Because of its longer front legs, this tall dinosaur was given a name meaning "arm lizard" Brachiosaurus |
| #8735, aired 2022-11-04 | THE OED QUOTES $5,800 (Daily Double): You'll find this 1719 work quoted under "goatskin", "rescue" & "wreck" Robinson Crusoe |
| #8734, aired 2022-11-03 | GOTTA KNOW YOUR SCIENCE $800: Erbium, terbium, yttrium & ytterbium were all named for Ytterby, a village in this country Sweden |
| #8734, aired 2022-11-03 | NEWSPAPERS & MAGAZINES $1000: This fashion magazine originally focused on movie stars & its title included the words "of Hollywood" Glamour |
| #8731, aired 2022-10-31 | THIS CATEGORY IS CONFUSING $400: Elvis sang that, in a state of amorous confusion, he was "all" this, a state not uncommon to snowglobes shook up |
| #8731, aired 2022-10-31 | YOU'RE THE BEST AROUND $1000: The "best of all possible worlds" was a philosophical tenet of this German who advised Peter the Great Gottfried Leibniz |
| #6, aired 2022-10-30 | CLASSIC TV $600: Here's the cast of this classic show named for one of its stars; sadly, with Betty White's death, they've all passed on The Mary Tyler Moore Show |
| #6, aired 2022-10-30 | TUNING INTO THE '90s $600: Listen all y'all, it's a "Sabotage", performed by this rap trio at the 1994 VMAs (& blowing the roof off of it) a the Beastie Boys |
| #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 |
| #6, aired 2022-10-30 | OUT OF THIS WORLD $3,600 (Daily Double): Neil Armstrong was the first person to set foot on the Moon; a few minutes later, this man became the second Buzz Aldrin |
| #8730, aired 2022-10-28 | YOU MOVE ME $800: Seems like 1960s world's fairs had to have one: Seattle, New York & Montreal, where the first half of the word was "Mini" monorails |
| #8729, aired 2022-10-27 | RADCLIFFE COLLEGE $600: This woman went to all of Helen Keller's Radcliffe classes with Helen but not to exams (Anne) Sullivan |
| #8729, aired 2022-10-27 | THE SECOND CHAPTER $8,000 (Daily Double): Ralph says, "We've been on the mountain top and seen water all around" Lord of the Flies |
| #8727, aired 2022-10-25 | RECENT MOVIES $2000: In 2022 she was "Everything Everywhere All at Once" as Evelyn Wang Michelle Yeoh |
| #8726, aired 2022-10-24 | MATH CLASS $1600: Add up the lengths of all the sides of a polygon to get this measurement perimeter |
| #5, aired 2022-10-23 | PITCH PERFECT $300: With no baserunners at all, a perfect game is this amazing feat, but even better!--MLB has had 317 of these, with just 23 perfectos a no-hitter |
| #5, aired 2022-10-23 | HOLLYWOOD REPORTER $1000: Redford & Hoffman played Woodward & Bernstein in this film about the reporters who uncovered Watergate All the President's Men |
| #8725, aired 2022-10-21 | IT'S ALL ABOUT HER $400: Published in 2021: "The Chancellor: The Remarkable Odyssey of..." (Angela) Merkel |
| #8725, aired 2022-10-21 | IT'S ALL ABOUT HER $800: "The Matriarch", this late mother of six Barbara Bush |
| #8725, aired 2022-10-21 | IT'S ALL ABOUT HER $1200: "Out of the Corner" (because nobody puts Baby there) Jennifer Grey |
| #8725, aired 2022-10-21 | MOVIE & TV DIRECTORS $1200: Gary Merrill, who played a stage director in "All About Eve", married this star before the film came out Bette Davis |
| #8725, aired 2022-10-21 | IT'S ALL ABOUT HER $2000: "I Put a Spell on You": this "High Priestess of Soul" & civil rights activist Nina Simone |
| #8725, aired 2022-10-21 | IT'S ALL ABOUT HER $3,500 (Daily Double): Subtitled "Coming of Age in America": this anthropologist (Margaret) Mead |
| #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 | 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" |
| #8723, aired 2022-10-19 | WHAT A BUTTE! $400: The city of Butte in this state was once known as "the Richest Hill on Earth" Montana |
| #8723, aired 2022-10-19 | DEVOURING EATING IDIOMS $600: You're being "eaten out of" this rather redundant pair of places when someone is scarfing down all your food house & home |
| #8721, aired 2022-10-17 | LYRICALLY YOURS $200: "All the moves like Jagger... I've got the moooooooves like Jagger" Maroon 5 |
| #8721, aired 2022-10-17 | LYRICALLY YOURS $400: "You keep on shoutin', I... wanna rock & roll all night, & party ev-er-y day" Kiss |
| #4, aired 2022-10-16 | IT ALL STARTS WITH "U" $200: So you saw an E.T.? Then it must have been piloting this, also called a flying saucer a UFO |
| #4, aired 2022-10-16 | SHAKESPEARE $400: In "As You Like It", Jaques says, "All the world's a" this, "& all the men & women merely players", so what say thee, players? a stage |
| #4, aired 2022-10-16 | IT ALL STARTS WITH "U" $400: A '90s dance was named for this "Family Matters" character whose catchphrase was "Did I do that?" Urkel |
| #4, aired 2022-10-16 | IT ALL STARTS WITH "U" $600: Everything is perfect in this type of imaginary land Utopia |
| #4, aired 2022-10-16 | THE IN MEMORIAM SEGMENT 1922 $600: William Desmond Taylor, director slain in one of early Hollywood's great scandals, at a site that's now a this Dress for Less Ross |
| #4, aired 2022-10-16 | IT ALL STARTS WITH "U" $800: This 4-stringed guitar has a Hawaiian name that means "jumping flea" the ukulele |
| #4, aired 2022-10-16 | IT ALL STARTS WITH "U" $1000: Soba noodles are made from buckwheat; this other 4-letter type is made from wheat udon |
| #4, aired 2022-10-16 | BRAIN SURGEON'S TERMINOLOGY $1500: Called the "master gland", it sits at the base of the brain & sends hormones into the blood stream the pituitary |
| #4, aired 2022-10-16 | HISTORIC HISTORY OF YESTERDAY: A LOOK BACK $2,000 (Daily Double): Catherine Parr became wife No. 6 to this man on July 12, 1543, & beating the odds, outlived him (but only by a year) Henry VIII |
| #8720, aired 2022-10-14 | THAT MOVIE'S GOT LEGS $200: All 4 of them, the "Million Dollar Legs" in a 1939 film don't belong to co-star Betty Grable but to one of these a race horse |
| #8720, aired 2022-10-14 | ALL EARS $200: It's the cycle where your washing machine makes your clothes dryer the spin |
| #8720, aired 2022-10-14 | ALL EARS $400: Don't celebrate so soon--it's too early to do this, the sound heard here pop a cork on champagne |
| #8720, aired 2022-10-14 | ALL EARS $600: Get your buggy out of the way! It's the 20th century & this vehicle first shipped Oct. 1, 1908 is taking over the roads a Model T |
| #8720, aired 2022-10-14 | ALL EARS $800: S.I.T. stands for special information this; heard here is the all-too-familiar vacant number intercept tone |
| #8720, aired 2022-10-14 | ALL EARS $1000: The sound of this item with a swift name lets you know you're in a boxing gym a speed bag |
| #8718, aired 2022-10-12 | IDINA MENZEL ACTS & SINGS $400: (Idina Menzel presents the clue.) I know all of you parents out there either love me or hate me for it, but I'm thankful this song from "Frozen" has such a lasting, resonating effect on people "Let It Go" |
| #8717, aired 2022-10-11 | SUBTITLED NONFICTION $200: A winner of a Pulitzer Prize, "The Emperor of all Maladies" is "A Biography of" this disease cancer |
| #8717, aired 2022-10-11 | BROADWAY ROCKS $400: The 2005 show "All Shook Up" featured the title song & other hits made famous by this man Elvis Presley |
| #8717, aired 2022-10-11 | CLASSIC SITCOMS BY EPISODE TITLE $400: "Archie & the Bowling Team" All in the Family |
| #8716, aired 2022-10-10 | SPORTY BOOKS $200: Sports Illustrated said the best sports book ever is "The Sweet Science", all about this sport's champions, palookas & cornermen boxing |
| #8716, aired 2022-10-10 | CRITICAL "MASS" $400: From French, it describes an action taken all together en masse |
| #3, aired 2022-10-09 | A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN $100: The Prime Video series "A League of Their Own" recreates the 1940s AAGPBL, the All-American Girls Professional this League Baseball |
| #3, aired 2022-10-09 | A LONG RUN ON TV WITH KEN JENNINGS $300: (Ken delivers the clue.) Sometimes you become part of a show that's well into its history, like me & like this Muppet, who first appeared on "Sesame Street" in 1980 in the song "We Are All Monsters" Elmo |
| #3, aired 2022-10-09 | STARS $1000: Time to use all your heads & hail this huge constellation that includes the Ghost of Jupiter nebula seen here Hydra |
| #8715, aired 2022-10-07 | 2022 SPORTS NEWS $600: At the WNBA All-Star Game both teams wore the uniform of this star, then on trial in Russia (Brittney) Griner |
| #8715, aired 2022-10-07 | BLACK BUSINESS $1000: Asking, "Why should white guys have all the fun?", Reginald Lewis bought Beatrice Foods in a billion-dollar LBO, this type of buyout leveraged |
| #8714, aired 2022-10-06 | ALL HANDS $200: From 1909 to 1961 the wonderfully named Learned Hand served as a federal one of these a judge |
| #8714, aired 2022-10-06 | ALL HANDS $400: It's the ritual being performed here the laying on of hands |
| #8714, aired 2022-10-06 | ALL HANDS $600: A proverb says, "Close only counts in" these 2 things horseshoes & hand grenades |
| #8714, aired 2022-10-06 | ALL HANDS $800: It's the numerical name of the knot seen here a four-in-hand |
| #8714, aired 2022-10-06 | ALL HANDS $1000: In the early 1900s "Lupo the Wolf" Saietta darkened New York's Little Italy as a ringleader of this extortion gang the Black Hand |
| #8713, aired 2022-10-05 | BARTENDING 101 $800: "Burning the ice", melting it all with hot water, happens at closing time or if this, hard to tell apart from ice, gets in the bin glass |
| #8712, aired 2022-10-04 | ALL THAT GLITTERS $400: Glitter rock was another name for this makeup-heavy rock style of early '70s stars like David Bowie & T. Rex glam |
| #8712, aired 2022-10-04 | ALL THAT GLITTERS $800: Most glitter is made from a mix of polyethylene terephthalate & this element, commonly encountered in foil aluminum |
| #8712, aired 2022-10-04 | WAIT JUST A MINERAL! $800: All that glitters may be iron this, once used to produce sparks in muskets, but it won't finance your retirement iron pyrite (fool's gold) |
| #8712, aired 2022-10-04 | ALL THAT GLITTERS $1200: Glittery works by Gustav Klimt include this masterpiece seen here The Kiss |
| #8712, aired 2022-10-04 | ALL THAT GLITTERS $1600: Sisters named Golden & Glitter are among the few twin chimpanzees observed by this pioneering primatologist (Jane) Goodall |
| #8712, aired 2022-10-04 | ALL THAT GLITTERS $2000: One of Portia's disappointed suitors learns that "All that glisters is not gold" in this Shakespeare play The Merchant of Venice |
| #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 |
| #8711, aired 2022-10-03 | THE TITANS $1200: All I ever got was itchy sweaters but per Aeschylus, the titan Phoebe gave grandson Apollo the birthday gift of the Oracle of here Delphi |
| #8711, aired 2022-10-03 | PLANE TALK $3,000 (Daily Double): Great flying weather with no major clouds or haze is CAVU, "ceiling and" this "unlimited" visibility |
| #2, aired 2022-10-02 | "ALL" THINGS ASIDE $100: To purposefully delay, or, a place where a horse is purposefully delayed stall |
| #2, aired 2022-10-02 | "ALL" THINGS ASIDE $200: Some say you can't fight this, a municipal government building city hall |
| #2, aired 2022-10-02 | CREATURES GREAT & SMALL $300 (Daily Double): Oddly, opossums are related to kangaroos, as both belong to this group of pouched mammals a marsupial |
| #2, aired 2022-10-02 | "ALL" THINGS ASIDE $300: Shady Albuquerque, New Mexico criminal lawyer Saul Goodman had his law office in this type of shopping center a mini-mall (or a strip mall) |
| #2, aired 2022-10-02 | "ALL" THINGS ASIDE $400: This 2-word phrase means it's almost closing time at the bar & you'd better order your final round now last call |
| #2, aired 2022-10-02 | "ALL" THINGS ASIDE $500: Proverbial sphere used to bar someone from membership in a group blackball |
| #2, aired 2022-10-02 | WHAT HAPPENS IN VEGAS $800: No surprise, the Paris Las Vegas hotel has a 540-foot-tall replica of this landmark the Eiffel Tower (or tour Eiffel) |
| #8709, aired 2022-09-29 | CHARACTERS ON THE TV SHOW $800: The gang's not all here: Dee Reynolds &
Dennis Reynolds It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia |
| #8709, aired 2022-09-29 | THERE'S A PRICE ON MY HEAD $1200: $30:
A new head from this German company; the story is that founder Max shaved all his male staff before introducing his shaver Braun |
| #8708, aired 2022-09-28 | A LETTER, THEN A WORD $2000: It's the area where a company's top executives all have their offices the C-suite |
| #8707, aired 2022-09-27 | POLITICAL WRITING $400: This book begins on June 17, 1972 as "Woodward fumbled for the receiver and snapped awake" All the President's Men |
| #8707, aired 2022-09-27 | THE 19th CENTURY $1200: Francis II was its final ruler in the early 19th c. when all roads stopped leading to this empire that ended after 1,000 years the Holy Roman Empire |
| #8707, aired 2022-09-27 | ALPHANUMERICS $2000: Modern chess notation doesn't use king's bishop 4 & such; all the squares are numbered from a1 to this h8 |
| #1, aired 2022-09-25 | THE RICHTER SCALE $400: A huge earthquake struck this capital of Portugal on All Saints' Day, 1755, killing many at mass in churches built of stone Lisbon |
| #1, aired 2022-09-25 | THE SKELETAL SYSTEM $1200: Also called the clavicle, it's a popular but, like all bones, a more painful tattoo site the collarbone |
| #1, aired 2022-09-25 | APOLOGIES $1500: Near the end of "A Midsummer Night's Dream", this fairy says, "If we shadows have offended, think but this and all is mended" Puck |
| #8705, aired 2022-09-23 | INFRASTRUCTURE $2000: You can count all 36 arches of Spain's Les Ferreres one of these water-carrying structures an aqueduct |
| #8704, aired 2022-09-22 | OLD FASHIONED $400: A 19th century depiction of this nursery rhyme character is seen here in all her austere predicament Old Mother Hubbard |
| #8704, aired 2022-09-22 | GEOGRAPHY VIA KOKOMO $2000: Get away from it all on this island with everything from A to A that boasts 620-foot Mount Jamanota as its highest point Aruba |
| #8703, aired 2022-09-21 | SHOES! $800: Converse has sold more than a billion pairs of the iconic "All Star" sneakers bearing the name of this basketball player & promoter Chuck Taylor |
| #8703, aired 2022-09-21 | IF IT QUACKS LIKE A DOC $800: All due respect, Dr., I don't have leprosy! Ephelides sounds bad but they're these flat patches of pigment under the skin freckles |
| #8703, aired 2022-09-21 | SHOES! $1000: In a hip-hop classic by Run-DMC, these title things "Walk through concert doors/ And roam all over coliseum floors" "My Adidas" |
| #8703, aired 2022-09-21 | EMPERORS $2000: Despite the 11th c. conquests of Emperor Basil the Bulgar slayer of this empire, his heirs rapidly lost all he had gained the Byzantine Empire |
| #8702, aired 2022-09-20 | LESSER-KNOWN NAMES $400: Queen Nzinga of Ndongo, not offered this when meeting with a Portuguese official, ordered a servant onto all fours & used him a throne (a chair) |
| #8702, aired 2022-09-20 | CURRENT SLANG $800: The name of this Italian fashion house means stylish or all is well Gucci |
| #8702, aired 2022-09-20 | BEFORE & AFTER PEOPLE $1600: Los Angeles Clippers all-star forward who composed the music for "West Side Story" Kawhi Leonard Bernstein |
| #8701, aired 2022-09-19 | TL;DW $200: To be or not to be present for all 242 minutes of this 1996 Kenneth Branagh film, that was the question, & we had dinner plans Hamlet |
| #8701, aired 2022-09-19 | TL;DW $400: I saw all of Sergio Leone's epic called this fairy tale phrase "in the West", but during "in America", I had a little snooze Once Upon a Time |
| #8700, aired 2022-09-16 | TEXTING ABBREV. $400: I've got nothing new to report; it's BAU, this business as usual |
| #8700, aired 2022-09-16 | HELP ME MOVE MY STUFF? $1000: Be careful with my pet this, the weasel family's largest member; he's omnivorous & likely polygamous but most of all, ferocious a wolverine |
| #8698, aired 2022-09-14 | THE LAW $1600: All states have implied consent laws, so applying for a driver's license means agreeing to let police test this your blood alcohol level |
| #8697, aired 2022-09-13 | NFL OPENING WEEKEND $800: (Peter Schrager of the NFL Network presents the clue.) Those clichés about how "it's just one game" are true; in 1981, this team, led by Joe Montana & Bill Walsh, lost its first game to the Lions but ended up winning it all the 49ers |
| #8697, aired 2022-09-13 | 20th CENTURY SONG, 21st CENTURY AD $1200: Carnival Cruise Lines: Todd Rundgren singing about doing this all day bang on the drum |
| #8697, aired 2022-09-13 | A CHEM/ PHYSICS/ BIO SAMPLER $1600: It's the study of fishes, all 30,000 or so species of them ichthyology |
| #8696, aired 2022-09-12 | ALL KINDS OF DOORS $200: It can mean a high rate of personnel turnover, or an entryway like the elegant ones at New York City's Plaza Hotel a revolving door |
| #8696, aired 2022-09-12 | ALL KINDS OF DOORS $400: The entryway at this London address features a Georgian era glossed-black door with lion's head knocker & a 10 10 Downing Street |
| #8696, aired 2022-09-12 | ALL KINDS OF DOORS $600: The 80-mile-long Door Peninsula separates Wisconsin's Green Bay from the rest of this Great Lake Lake Michigan |
| #8696, aired 2022-09-12 | ALL KINDS OF DOORS $800: This type of spider makes a hinged opening through which the unlucky descend to their doom a trapdoor spider |
| #8696, aired 2022-09-12 | ALL KINDS OF DOORS $1000: Initiated in 1899, the Open Door Policy was based on the U.S. & other nations all having equal access to this Asian country China |
| #8696, aired 2022-09-12 | RALPH MACCHIO TALKS COBRA KAI $1000: (Ralph Macchio presents the clue.) We all wish Pat Morita was still with us to do the show; I've often said Pat brought a soulful magic to this "Karate Kid" role for which he earned an Oscar nomination Mr. Miyagi |
| #8696, aired 2022-09-12 | THAT'S SO SIR/REEL! $1600: Ruling in "The Cider House Rules" & (What's it all about?) "Alfie" Sir Michael Caine |
| #8695, aired 2022-07-29 | ISLANDS & PENINSULAS $200: Michigan is all about peninsulas; the Old Mission & the Leelanau are sub-peninsulas of this one that takes up most of the state the Lower Peninsula |
| #8695, aired 2022-07-29 | HOW DO YOU SLEEP AT NIGHT? $600: Better now that I've got these window coverings that sound like they simulate a power outage to stop all light from coming in blackout curtains |
| #8694, aired 2022-07-28 | 40 YEARS OF USA TODAY $400: The New York times ("The Gray Lady") remarked on USA Today's "brazen" use of this, in all 4 sections from July 2, 1984 color |
| #8694, aired 2022-07-28 | PLANT PARTS $1600: The word for a flower's collection of petals, it's also Toyota's all-time bestselling car a corolla |
| #8693, aired 2022-07-27 | THE ANIMAL KINGDOM $1600: Adult insects have 6 legs, all attached to this body section the thorax |
| #8692, aired 2022-07-26 | SIRIUS-LY DEDICATED $800: This icon who can "Prove It All Night" has some "Glory Days" on his dedicated channel "the Boss", Bruce Springsteen |
| #8692, aired 2022-07-26 | FROM FILM TO TV $1600: In the TV version of "The Exorcist", Geena Davis was this character all grown up, but with a possessed daughter of her own Regan |
| #8692, aired 2022-07-26 | WHAT'S IN YOUR GULLET? $2000: Saurophagous is a description for those that eat these, tails & all lizards |
| #8691, aired 2022-07-25 | SLOW $800: We all know it, exercise can boost a slow this, the rate at which the body expends energy & burns calories metabolism |
| #8691, aired 2022-07-25 | EASTERN EUROPEAN HISTORY $1,000 (Daily Double): Now written in the Latin alphabet, Moldova's language used to be written in this alphabet named for a 9th century priest Cyrillic |
| #8690, aired 2022-07-22 | THE TV TITLE CHARACTER SPEAKS $200: "Guilty of being the god of mischief? Yes. guilty of finding all this incredibly tedious? Yes" Loki |
| #8690, aired 2022-07-22 | BRITISH FOLKLORE & LEGENDS $600: Jack, seen at the right in a 19th century illustration, is earning this title the Giant Slayer (a giant killer) |
| #8689, aired 2022-07-21 | CLOSING STATEMENTS $1600: "'Darling,' replied Valentine, 'Has not the Count just told us that all human wisdom is summed up in two words?--'Wait and hope"' The Count of Monte Cristo |
| #8688, aired 2022-07-20 | NOT A FEATURE $200: Not Donald but he is tormented by an all-powerful animator in the classic short "Duck Amuck" Daffy Duck |
| #8688, aired 2022-07-20 | THE TITLE THAT COMPLETES THE RHYME $1600: "Just gonna stand there and hear me cry? Well that's all right because I..." "Love The Way You Lie" |
| #8687, aired 2022-07-19 | THE MOVIE'S DIRECTOR $1200: The all-American tale "Mr. Deeds Goes to Town"--with Gary Cooper, not Adam Sandler Frank Capra |
| #8687, aired 2022-07-19 | POSSESSIVE LIT $3,200 (Daily Double): This Robert Penn Warren novel chronicles the rags-to-riches story of politician Willie Stark All the King's Men |
| #8686, aired 2022-07-18 | GIVING YOU THE BOOT $400: We'll wear these rubberized boots & walk through all kinds of puddles to go home & enjoy the same-named beef dish Wellingtons |
| #8686, aired 2022-07-18 | GIVING YOU THE BOOT $600: Woo-woo! All aboard these boots, known for their stovepipe calf engineer boots |
| #8686, aired 2022-07-18 | THE WOUK MOB $800: In a '50s bestseller Wouk's heroine Marjorie Morgenstern anglicizes her last name to this & seeks fame as an actress Morningstar |
| #8684, aired 2022-07-14 | THE FOUNDING FATHERS $200: Encyclopedia Britannica calls him "The Foundingest Father of them all" (really!) George Washington |
| #8684, aired 2022-07-14 | I KNOW WHAT YOU DID $800: You won the U.S. National All-Around Gymnastics Championships from 2013 to 2016 & in 2018, 2019 & 2021 Simone Biles |
| #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 |
| #9067, aired 2024-03-26 | ELEMENTS: In his "Natural History" Pliny described it as "argentum vivum" mercury |
| #9061, aired 2024-03-18 | EURASIA: Zvartnots International Airport serves this capital & has the code EVN, all letters found in the city's name Yerevan, Armenia |
| #9055, aired 2024-03-08 | LITERATURE & RELIGION: This city now in Turkey is the addressee of one of the New Testament epistles & the setting for "The Comedy of Errors" Ephesus |
| #9017, aired 2024-01-16 | NEW NATIONS: In September 2023 the U.S. recognized 2 new nations in free association with New Zealand: Niue & this archipelago the Cook Islands |
| #8973, aired 2023-11-15 | WASHINGTON, D.C.: It was proposed in Congress in 1926 in honor of a big 150th anniversary; it opened 17 years later the Jefferson Memorial |
| #8972, aired 2023-11-14 | HISTORIC OBJECTS: The inscription on this, made in 1753, concludes, "unto all the inhabitants thereof" the Liberty Bell |
| #8969, aired 2023-11-09 | AMERICAN AUTHORS: In 1950 the Swedish Academy said this Nobel Prize winner "is a regional writer" but called "his regionalism universal" William Faulkner |
| #8964, aired 2023-11-02 | ANCIENT GEOGRAPHY: Britain became an island less than 10,000 years ago, as warming weather & melting ice filled in this sea the North Sea |
| #8950, aired 2023-10-13 | ROYALTY: Before his death in 2005, he said he was "probably the last head of state to be able to recognize all his compatriots in the street" Prince Rainier (III of Monaco) |
| #8943, aired 2023-10-04 | AMERICAN IMMIGRANTS: His 1904 will stipulated that "all the sums hereinbefore specified for prizes shall be used for prizes only" Joseph Pulitzer |
| #8912, aired 2023-07-11 | OLYMPIC TEAMS: A city of about 2.5 million people, since 1984 for political reasons it has been in the name of an Olympic team Taipei |
| #8888, aired 2023-06-07 | EUROPEAN COUNTRIES: Of all the nations that border Italy, the one that didn't exist in 1990 Slovenia |
| #15, aired 2023-05-22 | LITERATURE: In reviewing this novel, Carl Jung said it took place in one single & senseless day "on which, in all truth, nothing happens" Ulysses |
| #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") |
| #2, aired 2023-05-08 | USA: Opened in 1909 & less famous than an older neighbor, it connects Brooklyn & Chinatown the Manhattan Bridge |
| #8843, aired 2023-04-05 | MOVIES OF THE '80s: Based on an off-Broadway play with just 3 characters, it won the Best Picture Oscar & the actors in all 3 roles were nominated Driving Miss Daisy |
| #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 |
| #8802, aired 2023-02-07 | WORD ORIGINS: This Sanskrit word referring to a spoken word or phrase comes from a word for "to think" mantra |
| #8800, aired 2023-02-03 | WORLD WAR II: Mimi Reinhard, who never learned to type using more than 2 fingers, produced this with 1,100 names, including hers Schindler's List |
| #8792, aired 2023-01-24 | FOREIGN-BORN AUTHORS: In the 1950s the New York Times said this author "is writing about all lust" & his lecherous narrator "is all of us" (Vladimir) Nabokov |
| #8789, aired 2023-01-19 | BRITISH LANDMARKS: Like Sir Thomas More, 3 16th century English queens are buried at this location the Tower of London |
| #9, aired 2023-01-05 | 20th CENTURY PEOPLE: Calling him "the embodiment of pure intellect", in December 1999 Time magazine named him Person of the Century Albert Einstein |
| #8766, aired 2022-12-19 | BRAND NAMES: Unable to make these candies perfectly round, the confectioner embraced this flawed name for the product Milk Duds |
| #8759, aired 2022-12-08 | NAME'S THE SAME: A cocktail, an island & a WWII venture originally called "Development of Substitute Materials" all bear this name Manhattan |
| #8744, aired 2022-11-17 | MOVIES & LITERATURE: Ridley Scott's first feature film, "The Duellists", was based on a story by this author to whom Scott's film "Alien" also pays tribute Joseph Conrad |
| #8740, aired 2022-11-11 | LONDON LOCALES: To fight malaria, this former royal estate helped move quinine-producing cinchona plants from South America to India Kew Gardens |
| #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 |
| #8722, aired 2022-10-18 | LANDMARKS OF SCIENCE: Clones of an original one of these grow outside the math faculty at Cambridge University & in the President's Garden at M.I.T. an apple tree |
| #8715, aired 2022-10-07 | COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD: It has the most water area of any country, nearly 350,000 square miles, about 9% of its total area Canada |
| #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 |
| #8698, aired 2022-09-14 | ARTISTS: He said, "The Seine! I have painted it all my life, at all hours, in all seasons, from Paris to the sea" (Claude) Monet |
| #8654, aired 2022-06-02 | UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE SITES: Known as the female Lawrence of Arabia, Gertrude Bell called this place "a fairy tale city, all pink & wonderful" Petra |
| #8635, aired 2022-05-06 | USA: These 2 mayors gave their names to a facility built on the site of an old racetrack owned by Coca-Cola magnate Asa Candler William Hartsfield & Maynard Jackson |
| #8587, aired 2022-03-01 | THE SILVER SCREEN: He was the first actor to star in 3 films that won the Oscar for Best Picture: those of 1934, 1935 & 1939 Clark Gable |
| #18, aired 2022-02-22 | THE 19th CENTURY: An 1873 book title gave us this phrase for the period in the late 1800s of growth & prosperity & also greed & corruption the Gilded Age |
| #8564, aired 2022-01-27 | 18th CENTURY NAMES: In 1793 he left Dublin for the United States, saying, "I expect to make a fortune" off George Washington, & he did Gilbert Stuart |
| #8528, aired 2021-12-08 | 20th CENTURY PEOPLE: Gen. MacArthur said this man's death by "violence is one of those bitter anachronisms that seems to refute all logic" "Mahatma" Gandhi |
| #8521, aired 2021-11-29 | 19th CENTURY LITERATURE: Its first line says, "The good people of Paris were awakened by a grand peal from all the bells in the three districts of the city" The Hunchback of Notre Dame |
| #8495, aired 2021-10-22 | 1970s TOP 40 HITS: Seeing a poster for a production of "Cyrano de Bergerac" in a seedy Paris hotel & ladies of the evening nearby inspired this hit "Roxanne" |
| #8491, aired 2021-10-18 | NAMES ON THE MAP: From 1824 to 1825 this hero toured all 24 states & an Indiana city was named for him (the Marquis de) Lafayette |
| #8477, aired 2021-09-28 | THE CONTINENTS: It's the only continent with its mainland lying in all 4 hemispheres as defined by the equator & the prime meridian Africa |
| #8461, aired 2021-08-09 | BEASTLY EPONYMS: A penguin species found in southern South America is named for this 16th century man whose crew were the first from Europe to see them (Ferdinand) Magellan |
| #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 |
| #8453, aired 2021-07-28 | SHAKESPEARE'S PLAYS: "Let's all sink with the king" is a line from the opening scene of this play The Tempest |
| #8424, aired 2021-06-17 | COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD: On this country's National Day, August 15, all 39,000 residents are invited to Vaduz Castle for festivities & drinks Liechtenstein |
| #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 |
| #8380, aired 2021-04-16 | AMERICAN NAMES: One of the luminaries who drove in the "Golden Spike" in Utah in 1869 was this man who later founded a university (Leland) Stanford |
| #8364, aired 2021-03-25 | LITERARY INSPIRATIONS: The now-debunked theories of Luigi Galvani influenced the science in this 1818 novel Frankenstein |
| #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 |
| #8344, aired 2021-02-25 | LANDLOCKED COUNTRIES: Losing its ocean access in 1993, this African Union member is the most populous landlocked nation, with 110 million people Ethiopia |
| #8332, aired 2021-02-09 | THE 50 STATES: While it has only 31 miles of coastline on the Atlantic, its shoreline is almost 3,200 miles thanks to a large estuary & its tributaries Maryland |
| #8330, aired 2021-02-05 | POPES & HISTORY: Late 16th century Pope Sixtus V regarded this invasion force as a crusade & promised indulgences to all who participated the Spanish Armada |
| #8324, aired 2021-01-28 | 20th CENTURY AUTHORS: In a 1959 article he wrote, "People began to call themselves beatniks, beats... bugniks &... I was called the 'avatar' of all this" Jack Kerouac |
| #8312, aired 2021-01-12 | FAMOUS ANIMALS: When she first came to the world's attention in 1957, she was dubbed "Muttnik" by U.S. journalists Laika |
| #8278, aired 2020-11-11 | HISTORY OF MEDICINE: 2020 marks the 55th birthday of the first piece of equipment dedicated to this process, now used for regular screenings mammogram |
| #8266, aired 2020-10-26 | ANCIENT TEXTS: Developed in the 18th century B.C. & named for a ruler, it aimed to "settle all disputes & heal all injuries" the Code of Hammurabi |
| #8265, aired 2020-10-23 | 19th CENTURY SUPREME COURT CASES: Part of the dissent in this 1896 landmark case read, "In respect of civil rights, all citizens are equal before the law" Plessy v. Ferguson |
| #8228, aired 2020-06-03 | EUROPEAN LANDMARKS: As described in an 1831 book, it has "three recessed and pointed doorways... immense central rose window... two dark and massive towers" Notre-Dame |
| #8214, aired 2020-04-30 | ADVERTISING: Copywriter Keith Goldberg wrote this question in 1999 for a financial services company; they're still using it What's in your wallet? |
| #8212, aired 2020-04-28 | 1950s FILMS: The last line of this epic film was "Go--proclaim liberty throughout all the lands unto all the inhabitants thereof" The Ten Commandments |
| #8205, aired 2020-04-17 | HISTORIC FIGURES: In legend, this real European leader fielded an elite corps called the 12 Peers that included Oliver & Roland Charlemagne |
| #8200, aired 2020-04-10 | WORDS IN THE NEWS: On September 25, 2019, searches on merriam-webster.com for the definition of this 3-word Latin term increased by 5,500% quid pro quo |
| #8186, aired 2020-03-23 | 1970s SITCOMS: A warning on early episodes said this show "seeks to throw a humorous spotlight on our frailties, prejudices and concerns" All in the Family |
| #8161, aired 2020-02-17 | FROM SCREEN TO STAGE: This 2007 movie came to Broadway with an all-female creative team including book & direction and with songs by pop star Sara Bareilles Waitress |
| #8, aired 2020-01-14 | SHAKESPEARE'S TRAGEDIES: He has 272 speeches, the most of any non-title character in a Shakespeare tragedy Iago |
| #7, aired 2020-01-14 | IT'S ALL GREECE TO ME: This area of Greece, home to Pan, is synonymous with a rural paradise; it's a setting for Virgil's shepherd poems the "Eclogues" Arcadia |
| #8136, aired 2020-01-13 | THE BIBLE: This book of the Bible ends with "fire was on it by night, in the sight of all the house of Israel, throughout all their journeys" Exodus |
| #3, aired 2020-01-08 | INFLUENTIAL WRITING: Its second line is "All the powers of old Europe have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this spectre: Pope & Czar, Metternich & Guizot..." The Communist Manifesto |
| #8128, aired 2020-01-01 | SINGLE-NAMED PERFORMERS: The last single-named actress to win an Oscar was this woman who won for her supporting role in "Precious" Mo'Nique |
| #8090, aired 2019-11-08 | LITERARY CHARACTERS: From an 1894 work, his name literally translates to "tiger king" Shere Khan |
| #8088, aired 2019-11-06 | 20th CENTURY AMERICA: In 1939, turned down by 2 local theaters, Howard University was able to get an outdoor venue for this singer's yearly concert Marian Anderson |
| #8084, aired 2019-10-31 | NOVELISTS: In a 1952 novel, he wrote, "But there were dry years too, & they put a terror on the valley. The water came in a thirty-year cycle" John Steinbeck |
| #8078, aired 2019-10-23 | 1930s NOVEL CHARACTERS: Prior to a murder in a 1934 book, he says he hasn't been a detective since 1927 & that his wife inherited a lumber mill Nick Charles |
| #8077, aired 2019-10-22 | FEMALE MUSIC SUPERSTARS: With more than 30 Top 10 albums since 1963, this singer-actress ranks No. 1 among the Billboard 200's Greatest Women Artists of All Time Barbra Streisand |
| #8054, aired 2019-09-19 | TOYS & GAMES: Invented in 1974 as a model to teach 3-D problems, it became one of the bestselling toys of all time Rubik's Cube |
| #8026, aired 2019-07-01 | ON THE MAP: 9-letter name for an area of 10 million square miles--4/5 the size of Africa--but only about 120,000 square miles of it is dry land Polynesia |
| #8024, aired 2019-06-27 | INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS: The first time this organization invoked Article 5 was on September 12, 2001 NATO (the North Atlantic Treaty Organization) |
| #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 |
| #8017, aired 2019-06-18 | KINGS, QUEENS & PRESIDENTS: 17 U.S. presidents served all or part of their terms during the reign of this British monarch Queen Victoria |
| #8016, aired 2019-06-17 | NEW ENGLAND: Neighborhoods in this city include Federal Street, Gallows Hill & Witchcraft Heights Salem, Massachusetts |
| #7994, aired 2019-05-16 | 20th CENTURY BESTSELLING AUTHORS: He once said, "In all of us there is a hunger, marrow-deep, to know our heritage...who we are and where we have come from" Alex Haley |
| #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 |
| #7985, aired 2019-05-03 | WORDS OF THE 2000s: In 2008 Time magazine described this new practice as "one part social networking and one part capital accumulation" crowdfunding |
| #7973, aired 2019-04-17 | 20th CENTURY LITERARY CHARACTERS: His first name refers to the ancient district in which you'd find the Greek capital; his surname is a bird Atticus Finch |
| #7969, aired 2019-04-11 | CELEBRITIES: This inductee into the Video Hall of Fame sold 17 million copies of a videocassette she released in 1982 Jane Fonda |
| #7930, aired 2019-02-15 | 19th CENTURY INVENTORS: He spent his life improving a plant-based substance he described as a "vegetable leather" or "elastic metal" Charles Goodyear |
| #7924, aired 2019-02-07 | PRESIDENTS & THE MOVIES: 3 presidential films, all directed by Oliver Stone, have a total of only 9 letters in their titles--"Nixon" & these 2 W and JFK |
| #7912, aired 2019-01-22 | COMIC STRIP TITLE CHARACTERS: These 2 were named for a European "theologian who believed in predestination" & a "philosopher with a dim view of human nature" Calvin & Hobbes |
| #7889, aired 2018-12-20 | THE WORKS OF MOZART: Composed in 1791, the year he died, & last in the Kochel catalog of all his works, K. 626 is this work Requiem |
| #7831, aired 2018-10-01 | WORLD LITERATURE: In a recent poll of 125 authors, this long 1870s novel about a woman ranked as the greatest work of fiction of all time Anna Karenina |
| #7824, aired 2018-09-20 | FOLKLORE: In legend, he called all the animals together but only 12 came, including a rat & a dragon the Buddha |
| #7783, aired 2018-06-13 | 1990s ANIMATED FILMS: Though it draws elements from "Hamlet", Disney says this was their first all-animated feature based on an original story The Lion King |
| #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 |
| #7720, aired 2018-03-16 | MYTHOLOGICAL BEASTS: Hesiod said it fawns on all who enter "with actions of... tail & both ears", but when people try to exit it "eats them up" the hound of Hades (or Cerberus) |
| #7712, aired 2018-03-06 | CLASSIC BRITISH NOVELS: A preface to this novel calls it "a loud hee-haw at all who yearn for utopia...& a pretty good fable in the Aesop tradition" Animal Farm |
| #7642, aired 2017-11-28 | VIDEO GAMES: The desire in his childhood to catch every insect inspired Satoshi Tajiri to create this 1996 game Pokémon |
| #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 |
| #7632, aired 2017-11-14 | THEATRE: Despite objections from the playwright's estate, a 1991 French production of this 1952 play had a small all-female cast instead of male Waiting for Godot |
| #7606, aired 2017-10-09 | HISTORICAL AREAS: An ancient quote mentions this area & 3 population groups, the Belgae, Aquitani & Celts Gaul |
| #7601, aired 2017-10-02 | AMERICAN ARTISTS: This artist from Iowa once said, "All the really good ideas I'd ever had came to me while I was milking a cow" Grant Wood |
| #7597, aired 2017-09-26 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS: At the Women in I.T. Awards in 2017, the head of MI-6 said today the real version of the character known by this letter is female Q |
| #7556, aired 2017-06-19 | AIRLINES: On June 17, 1929 this airline's first passenger flight left Dallas, making stops at Shreveport, Monroe & Jackson Delta |
| #7534, aired 2017-05-18 | WOMEN AUTHORS: A 1936 New York Times review called the debut novel by this author "in all probability, the biggest book of the year: 1,037 pages" Margaret Mitchell |
| #7520, aired 2017-04-28 | HISTORIC WORKS' FIRST LINES: "The annual labour of every nation is the fund which originally supplies it with all the necessaries and conveniences of life" The Wealth of Nations |
| #7486, aired 2017-03-13 | BIBLICAL WHO'S WHO: Among the places he visited on his second missionary journey were Galatia & Corinth St. Paul (or Saul) |
| #7473, aired 2017-02-22 | PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN YEARS: Year the New York World lamented, "The age of statesmen is gone... The age of rail-splitters and tailors... has succeeded" 1864 |
| #7466, aired 2017-02-13 | BOOKS OF THE BIBLE: It begins with God saying, "Take ye the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel" Numbers |
| #7457, aired 2017-01-31 | ACTRESSES: From 1959 to 1968, she made only 4 films but received Oscar nominations for Best Actress for all 4 Katharine Hepburn |
| #7455, aired 2017-01-27 | AFRICAN CITIES: The coat of arms of this South African city shows 2 cornucopias, pouring out flowers & water Bloemfontein |
| #7433, aired 2016-12-28 | FICTIONAL PLACES: This land is described as "all that lies between the lamp-post and the great castle of Cair Paravel on the Eastern Sea" Narnia |
| #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 |
| #7417, aired 2016-12-06 | AUTHORS: Asked if he read novels, philosopher Gilbert Ryle said, "Yes, all six, every year", referring to this British author Jane Austen |
| #7407, aired 2016-11-22 | EARLY AMERICA: William Bradford wrote that this document was partly inspired by the "mutinous speeches" of some passengers the Mayflower Compact |
| #7405, aired 2016-11-18 | SCIENCE & MATH VOCABULARY: These 2 words are just 1 letter different; one is a whirlpool & the other a geometry term for a meeting point vertex & vortex |
| #7382, aired 2016-10-18 | FUNNYMEN: He's won 4 Emmys, 3 Grammys, an Oscar & 3 Tonys, & 3 of his films rank on AFI's list of funniest movies of all time Mel Brooks |
| #7372, aired 2016-10-04 | IN THE NOVEL: The 1st scene in this book: "With the brass nozzle in his fists, with this great python spitting its venomous kerosene" Fahrenheit 451 |
| #7371, aired 2016-10-03 | CHRISTIANITY: A 4th century traveler gave one of the first descriptions of this day: "All the children... are carried... bearing branches" Palm Sunday |
| #7353, aired 2016-07-27 | 20th CENTURY ENGLISH NOBILITY: In Africa on Nov. 26, 1922, he anxiously asked Howard Carter, “Can you see anything?” Lord Carnarvon |
| #7328, aired 2016-06-22 | EUROPEAN GEOGRAPHY: Excluding Russia, it has the longest mainland coastline of any European country, 15,626 miles Norway |
| #7325, aired 2016-06-17 | GEOGRAPHY IN THE NEWS: Mexico's Programa Frontera Sur aims to secure its 600-mile-long border with this country Guatemala |
| #7324, aired 2016-06-16 | BOOK TITLES: A Pulitzer winner in 1947 & Best Picture Oscar winner in 1949, its title is also a line from Lewis Carroll All the King's Men |
| #7323, aired 2016-06-15 | CLASSIC MOVIE SCENES: The director said it took 70 camera setups & 7 days to shoot the classic murder scene in this film that celebrates its 55th anniversary in 2015 Psycho |
| #7298, aired 2016-05-11 | STATE SONGS: Its state song rhymes "patriotic gore" with the name of its largest city Maryland |
| #7295, aired 2016-05-06 | AUTHORS: She wrote in her journal in 1867 that a publisher "asked me to write a girls book. Said I'd try." Louisa May Alcott |
| #7291, aired 2016-05-02 | WORD ORIGINS: From the Greek for "all views", this word was 1st used to describe a large 1787 painting of Edinburgh by artist Robert Barker panorama |
| #7290, aired 2016-04-29 | LITERARY CHARACTERS: In 1929 London's Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital was given all rights to this character created 27 years earlier Peter Pan |
| #7277, aired 2016-04-12 | THE 1960s: In 1963 he wrote to MLK seeking a united front of "all Negro factions" against "a common problem posed by a common enemy" Malcolm X |
| #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 |
| #7234, aired 2016-02-11 | NAMES IN THE NEWS: When this man joined Twitter in September 2015, his first follow was the National Security Agency's account Edward Snowden |
| #7230, aired 2016-02-05 | U.S. PRESIDENTS: He was the only 20th century president who never delivered an inaugural address President Ford |
| #7224, aired 2016-01-28 | BRITISH MUSICAL THEATRE: A critic said, "I doubt if there is a single joke in" this 1885 work "that fits the Japanese. But all the jokes... fit the English" The Mikado |
| #7211, aired 2016-01-11 | AMERICANA: This poem includes the line “But Flynn let drive a single, to the wonderment of all” "Casey at the Bat" |
| #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 |
| #7204, aired 2015-12-31 | AFRICAN ANIMALS: This antelope has 2 names, one from Afrikaans describing its looks & one imitating its sound; one is all we need a gnu |
| #7170, aired 2015-11-13 | GREEK MYTHOLOGY: Famous mother of Pyrrha, who survived the Great Flood & with her husband repopulated the Earth Pandora |
| #7145, aired 2015-10-09 | VIDEO GAMES: As part of its 30th anniversary celebration in 2014, this video game used the slogan "We all fit together" Tetris |
| #7127, aired 2015-09-15 | GREAT THINKERS: 239 years ago he wrote of "the enormous debts which... will in the long run probably ruin all the great nations of Europe" Adam Smith |
| #7074, aired 2015-05-21 | 19th CENTURY AUTHORS: In an essay, he wrote, "I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than be crowded on a velvet cushion" Thoreau |
| #7033, aired 2015-03-25 | ACTRESSES: For playing a legal assistant in a 2000 film, she became the first actress to crash the $20 million salary barrier Julia Roberts |
| #7028, aired 2015-03-18 | COMPOSERS: 2 of the world's greatest Baroque composers, they were born within a month of each other in Germany in 1685 but never met Johann Sebastian Bach & George Frederic Handel |
| #7022, aired 2015-03-10 | NOBEL LAUREATES: He was the subject of a 2014 New York Times article headlined "A Pioneer as Elusive as His Particle" Peter Higgs |
| #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 |
| #6989, aired 2015-01-22 | CANDY: An early TV ad for this candy bar featured a fleur-de-lis flag & a song with the lyrics "fun for all" 3 Musketeers |
| #6985, aired 2015-01-16 | EPITAPHS: His headstone in Rome reads in part: "This grave contains all that was mortal, of a young English poet" John Keats |
| #6958, aired 2014-12-10 | U.S. PRESIDENTS: The first man in the 20th century to hold all 4 federally elected offices: congressman, senator, vice president & president Lyndon Baines Johnson (LBJ) |
| #6945, aired 2014-11-21 | SHAKESPEAREAN GEOGRAPHY: Of the 5 cities mentioned in Shakespeare play titles, it's the only one not found in Europe Tyre |
| #6943, aired 2014-11-19 | 21st CENTURY BOOKS: Set in the Great Depression, this 2006 novel has an epigraph from "Horton Hatches the Egg" Water for Elephants |
| #6894, aired 2014-07-31 | BESTSELLING BOOKS: This novel is dedicated to Esther Earl, who died of thyroid cancer at 16 & never got to read it The Fault in Our Stars |
| #6867, aired 2014-06-24 | 2004: Watching the Super Bowl halftime show, the head of this government agency kept saying, "My day is going to" be lousy "tomorrow" the FCC |
| #6835, aired 2014-05-09 | FAMOUS BOOKS: It was published March 26, 1830; a very popular work with the same name premiered March 24, 2011 The Book of Mormon |
| #6833, aired 2014-05-07 | SUPREME COURT DECISIONS: On December 20, 1956 the Court's ruling on Browder v. Gayle went into effect, bringing an end to this 381-day event the Montgomery bus boycott |
| #6832, aired 2014-05-06 | U.S. STATES: Between 2006 & 2013 it went from 39th to 6th in per capita income & its unemployment rate dropped to the nation's lowest North Dakota |
| #6818, aired 2014-04-16 | TV MUSIC: "Crystal Blue Persuasion" by Tommy James & the Shondells was heard in this drama's "Gliding Over All" episode Breaking Bad |
| #6805, aired 2014-03-28 | OSCAR NOMINATIONS: Prior to "Silver Linings Playbook", the last film to get Oscar nominations in all 4 acting categories was this film partly set in Russia Reds |
| #6804, aired 2014-03-27 | ADAPTED FROM ANTIQUITY: It begins with a vow to an ancient god & ends with "if I transgress it & swear falsely, may the opposite of all this be my lot" the Hippocratic Oath |
| #6796, aired 2014-03-17 | BODIES OF WATER: More than 1/5 of all the world's people live in countries bordering this, the world's biggest bay the Bay of Bengal |
| #6786, aired 2014-03-03 | PRESIDENTS: He is the only 19th century president to serve 2 complete terms with the same vice president James Monroe |
| #6782, aired 2014-02-25 | BUSINESS: "The Everything Store" is a book about this company that in 2012 was home to 1% of all North American Internet traffic Amazon.com |
| #6772, aired 2014-02-11 | SOCIAL MEDIA: The most retweeted tweet of all time happened on November 6, 2012 & started with "four" & ended with these 2 words more years |
| #6770, aired 2014-02-07 | WORLD POLITICS: When these 2 men swapped jobs in 2012, their country's media described the move as "castling" Putin & Medvedev |
| #6769, aired 2014-02-06 | COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD: Once a poor British protectorate, in 2012 this peninsular country ranked as the world's richest per capita Qatar |
| #6765, aired 2014-01-31 | INVENTORS: In an 1854 demonstration, he said, "Cut the rope"; his invention kicked in, then he said, "All safe, gentlemen" Elisha Otis |
| #6745, aired 2014-01-03 | 20th CENTURY QUOTATIONS: In 1947 Churchill called it "the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried" democracy |
| #6736, aired 2013-12-23 | PRESIDENTS & FILM: Jimmy Carter held 480 screenings at the White House; his first was this film set in 1970s Washington, D.C. All the President's Men |
| #6715, aired 2013-11-22 | COUNTRY NAMES: In England in 1933, Choudhry Rahmat Ali coined this name, a country that wouldn't be formed until 14 years later Pakistan |
| #6710, aired 2013-11-15 | PLAY CHARACTERS: In Peter Roach's phonetics glossary, this alliterative guy is "the best-known fictional phonetician" Henry Higgins |
| #6663, aired 2013-07-31 | THE CIVIL WAR: Abraham Lincoln called this document, which took effect in 1863, "a fit and necessary war measure" the Emancipation Proclamation |
| #6658, aired 2013-07-24 | 3-NAMED PEOPLE: Born in what's now Maine in 1807, he's honored with a bust in a special section of Westminster Abbey Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| #6639, aired 2013-06-27 | TRANSPORTATION: Susan B. Anthony said this new fad had "done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world" the bicycle |
| #6632, aired 2013-06-18 | FOOD & DRINK: A sign of a trend, in 2010 this product passed Pepsi to move into the No. 2 spot in U.S. soft drink popularity Diet Coke |
| #6595, aired 2013-04-26 | GREAT NOVELS: A preface to this novel called it "rustic all through... Moorish, and wild, and knotty as the root of Heath" Wuthering Heights |
| #6585, aired 2013-04-12 | PHYSICISTS: On Oct. 14, 1992 particle detector inventor Georges Charpak became the last man in physics to achieve this honor alone the Nobel Prize |
| #6564, aired 2013-03-14 | BEATLES SONGS: It was one of The Beatles' longest songs & the one to spend the most time at No. 1 on the U.S. charts--9 weeks "Hey Jude" |
| #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 |
| #6542, aired 2013-02-12 | MILITARY MEN: On June 6, 1944 he said, "The eyes of the world are upon you" Dwight David Eisenhower |
| #6535, aired 2013-02-01 | THE PLANETS: To the ancient Greeks & Romans, it was the slowest-moving planet seen from Earth Saturn |
| #6533, aired 2013-01-30 | HISTORIC QUOTES: In April 1865 he said, "Go home, all you boys who fought with me, and help to build up the shattered fortunes of our old state" Robert E. Lee |
| #6521, aired 2013-01-14 | COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD: 2 of the 3 countries that are completely encircled by one other country (2 of) San Marino, Vatican City & Lesotho |
| #6506, aired 2012-12-24 | 1960s ROCK MUSIC: This 1967 No. 1 hit contains snippets of "In The Mood", "Greensleeves" & "She Loves You" "All You Need Is Love" |
| #6502, aired 2012-12-18 | PEOPLE IN BRITISH HISTORY: In 1805 the second in command to this hero said, "I wish (he) would stop signaling. We all know what we have to do" (Horatio) Nelson |
| #6500, aired 2012-12-14 | STATES' HIGHEST POINTS: This state's highest peak is 13,796 feet high & only about 15 miles from the ocean Hawaii |
| #6477, aired 2012-11-13 | BORN & DIED: He was born in 1728 in Yorkshire, England & died in a skirmish February 14, 1779 in Kealakekua Bay, Hawaii Captain James Cook |
| #6469, aired 2012-11-01 | THE 50 STATES: Gambling as a commercial enterprise in some form is legal in all states except Hawaii & this state Utah |
| #6467, aired 2012-10-30 | 20th CENTURY BOOKS: "A Cry of Children" & "Nightmare Island" were proposed titles for this novel Lord of the Flies |
| #6408, aired 2012-06-27 | EARLY FILMS OF OSCAR WINNERS: The 1995, 2003 & 2006 winners for Best Actor all appeared in this 1982 teen comedy Fast Times at Ridgemont High |
| #6399, aired 2012-06-14 | U.S. TOP-SELLING ALBUMS: The bestselling album of all time by a female is a 20 million seller by this woman who started singing at age 8 in Ontario Shania Twain |
| #6365, aired 2012-04-27 | CONSTELLATIONS & MYTH: In Greek myth he became the prey when he was killed by Scorpius; now they're both in the sky Orion |
| #6361, aired 2012-04-23 | AMERICAN HISTORY: This state is known as the "Cockpit of the Revolution" for all the battles there, including a pivotal one in December 1776 New Jersey |
| #6354, aired 2012-04-12 | SHAKESPEARE'S PLAYS: The only 2 plays whose titles repeat a word, excluding articles & prepositions, are "Measure for Measure" & this All's Well that Ends Well |
| #6320, aired 2012-02-24 | LITERARY BIOGRAPHIES: Quoting a famous line of his, a 2011 biography of this man was titled "And So It Goes" Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. |
| #6252, aired 2011-11-22 | U.S. MONEY MATH: Adding up the denominations of circulating bills with U.S. presidents on the front gives you this total $78 |
| #6229, aired 2011-10-20 | TOP OF THE POP CHARTS: In 1978 he replaced his brothers at No. 1, who then replaced him; one of the brothers was a writer on all 3 songs Andy Gibb |
| #6228, aired 2011-10-19 | THE 20th CENTURY: In the 1940s Franklin Roosevelt coined this term in reference to all the countries allied against the Axis powers United Nations |
| #6210, aired 2011-09-23 | AMERICAN BUSINESS: In the 1880s he developed Crystal A Caramels; a product under his own name came out in 1900 Hershey |
| #6205, aired 2011-07-29 | LOS ANGELES LANDMARKS: A James Dean memorial can be found adjacent to this structure, located at one of the high spots in Los Angeles the Griffith Observatory |
| #6202, aired 2011-07-26 | THE NEW TESTAMENT: This miracle that happens in all 4 gospels, including Mark 6 & Luke 9, has elements that symbolically represent Jesus the miracle of the loaves & fishes |
| #6138, aired 2011-04-27 | TV THEME SONGS: A 1984 country hit, "All My Rowdy Friends Are Coming Over Tonight" is the basis for its theme song Monday Night Football |
| #6095, aired 2011-02-25 | GEOGRAPHIC TERMS: This area that includes several countries got its name because the colonizers spoke Spanish, French & Portuguese Latin America |
| #6082, aired 2011-02-08 | ANCIENT QUOTES: He said, "to leave this stream uncrossed will breed manifold distress for me; to cross it, for all mankind" Julius Caesar |
| #6060, aired 2011-01-07 | WORLD LANGUAGES: Of all the countries with Spanish as an official language, this one is last alphabetically Venezuela |
| #6023, aired 2010-11-17 | PHRASES: In ancient Rome it was a post where racers changed direction; since 1836 it's meant a moment change occurs turning point |
| #6020, aired 2010-11-12 | DOCUMENTS: It says, "The history of the present king of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations" the Declaration of Independence |
| #5996, aired 2010-10-11 | PRISONS: Nazi Rudolf Hess in 1941 & the notorious Kray twins in 1952 were among the last people briefly held here the Tower of London |
| #5988, aired 2010-09-29 | GEOGRAPHIC TERMS: As their bordering countries are all this adjective, Liechtenstein & Uzbekistan are considered "double" this landlocked |
| #5966, aired 2010-07-19 | MEN OF PARIS: When the body of this man who died in 1870 was moved in 2002, a cloth with the motto "Un pour tous, tous pour un" was used Alexandre Dumas |
| #5965, aired 2010-07-16 | NO. 1 POP HITS: A 1987 remake of this 1959 hit was the first song with all Spanish lyrics to hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 "La Bamba" |
| #5920, aired 2010-05-14 | THE 50 STATES: It's the only state from which rainwater flows to the Pacific, the Atlantic & Hudson Bay Montana |
| #5909, aired 2010-04-29 | POETS ON POETS: Coleridge said this poet will "not be remembered at all, except as a wicked lord who... pretended to be ten times more wicked than he was" Lord Byron |
| #5849, aired 2010-02-04 | 20th CENTURY PEOPLE: The July 1, 1946 cover of Time magazine depicted him with the caption, "All matter is speed and flame" Albert Einstein |
| #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" |
| #5827, aired 2010-01-05 | ART HISTORY: Unique quality of "First Communion of Anemic Young Girls in the Snow", shown at the 1883 Arts Incoherents exhibit it was all white |
| #5807, aired 2009-12-08 | LITERATURE OF THE 1800s: This character said, "I will live in the past, the present, and the future. The spirits of all three shall strive within me" Ebenezer Scrooge |
| #5801, aired 2009-11-30 | POLITICAL NONFICTION: This book begins, "June 17, 1972. Nine o'clock Saturday morning" All the President's Men |
| #5798, aired 2009-11-25 | POSTAL ABBREVIATIONS: A state since the 1700s but not in the original 13, it ends with its own 2-letter postal abbreviation Kentucky |
| #5785, aired 2009-11-06 | STATE CAPITALS: It's the only 3-word state capital Salt Lake City |
| #5710, aired 2009-06-05 | STATE QUARTERS: Of the U.S. state quarters that feature sail-powered craft, the state depicting the oldest ship Florida |
| #5705, aired 2009-05-29 | THE ACADEMY AWARDS: Peter Finch was the first winner of a posthumous Best Actor Oscar; he was first to get 2 posthumous acting nominations James Dean |
| #5668, aired 2009-04-08 | FILM QUOTES: From a 1942 movie, No. 2 on Guinness' top 10 film quotes is a line that mentions this liquor gin |
| #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 |
| #5648, aired 2009-03-11 | LITERARY CHARACTERS: The name of this character from an 18th century French work is from the Greek for "all tongues" Dr. Pangloss |
| #5631, aired 2009-02-16 | POP CULTURE: Also the title of one of the best-selling albums of all time, it was first seen in Russian photos taken in 1959 the dark side of the Moon |
| #5612, aired 2009-01-20 | GEOGRAPHIC PROCESS OF ELIMINATION: This country borders the most "stan"s:
Afghanistan,
Kazakhstan,
Kyrgyzstan,
Tajikistan &
Turkmenistan Uzbekistan |
| #5589, aired 2008-12-18 | HISTORIC AMERICAN QUOTATIONS: On April 29, 1861 he said, "We seek no conquest… all we ask is to be let alone" Jefferson Davis |
| #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 |
| #5568, aired 2008-11-19 | NONFICTION WRITERS: On July 21, 1944 she wrote, "I'm finally getting optimistic... an assassination attempt has been made on Hitler's life" Anne Frank |
| #5554, aired 2008-10-30 | INVENTORS: A key to Alexander Graham Bell's experiments was one of these, procured by a doctor friend, Clarence Blake an ear |
| #5551, aired 2008-10-27 | INTERNATIONAL MOTORING: It's the largest nation in area where all cars legally drive on the left Australia |
| #5519, aired 2008-09-11 | LINES FROM 19th CENTURY NOVELS: "My two natures had memory in common, but all other faculties were most unequally shared between them" Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde |
| #5515, aired 2008-07-25 | ADJECTIVES: Meaning "painful", it literally refers to the type of pain inflicted on Jesus & on the followers of Spartacus excruciating |
| #5514, aired 2008-07-24 | FAMOUS NAMES: In 1906 he launched Conjurer's Monthly, a magazine that he pretty much wrote & edited himself Harry Houdini |
| #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! |
| #5494, aired 2008-06-26 | THE OSCARS: He holds the record for total acting, directing & writing Oscar nominations--1 acting, 6 directing, 14 writing Woody Allen |
| #5484, aired 2008-06-12 | FUN WITH NUMBERS: It's the only whole number that when spelled out has all its letters in reverse alphabetical order one |
| #5460, aired 2008-05-09 | ANCIENT TIMES: Plutarch's chapter on Romulus quotes this much later man as saying, "I love treason but hate a traitor" Julius Caesar |
| #5455, aired 2008-05-02 | ANCIENT HISTORY: Circled 7 times by the Israelites in Joshua, it's said to be the world's oldest walled city Jericho |
| #5445, aired 2008-04-18 | THE OSCARS: They're the only 2 trilogies in which all 3 of the films were nominated for Best Picture Oscars The Godfather & The Lord of the Rings |
| #5440, aired 2008-04-11 | WORLD HISTORY: Beginning in 1932 all this country's kings have been the country's founder or his sons Saudi Arabia |
| #5437, aired 2008-04-08 | OLYMPIC CITIES: Of all the cities to host the modern Olympic Games, this one lies closest to the equator Mexico City |
| #5411, aired 2008-03-03 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY: Of the USA's 50 tallest peaks, all are in Alaska, Colorado & California except this peak Mt. Rainier (in Washington) |
| #5405, aired 2008-02-22 | U.S. GOVERNMENT HISTORY: This man cast the first tie-breaking vote in U.S. Senate history John Adams |
| #5397, aired 2008-02-12 | CHARACTERS IN BOOKS: This character says, "It's Christmas Day! I haven't missed it. The Spirits have done it all in one night" Ebenezer Scrooge |
| #5384, aired 2008-01-24 | RICH & FAMOUS: At $900 million, his fortune was once 2% of the GNP; by his death in 1937, he was down to about $26 million John Rockefeller |
| #5369, aired 2008-01-03 | AVIATION HISTORY: He was the 118th man to fly across the Atlantic Ocean Charles Lindbergh |
| #5367, aired 2008-01-01 | U.S. TRADE: It's the country from which the U.S. imports the most oil Canada |
| #5353, aired 2007-12-12 | 20th CENTURY PERSONALITIES: In 1921 he got a patent for a diving suit that allowed one to quickly discard the suit & escape to the surface Harry Houdini |
| #5326, aired 2007-11-05 | THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE: Referring to the Great Bear constellation, this area's name is from the Greek meaning "opposite the bear" Antarctica |
| #5294, aired 2007-09-20 | CHAMPIONSHIP SPORTS: In 2007 this university became the 1st to hold national titles in both football & basketball in the same year the University of Florida |
| #5283, aired 2007-07-25 | THEATRE AROUND THE WORLD: This Swahili phrase has been said or sung more than 450,000 times in theatres all over the world hakuna matata |
| #5271, aired 2007-07-09 | U.S. HISTORY: A 1924 law gave citizenship to all these members of what were called "domestic dependent nations" Native Americans |
| #5248, aired 2007-06-06 | BODIES OF WATER: This sea hundreds of miles east of Florida has no land boundaries the Sargasso Sea |
| #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 |
| #5217, aired 2007-04-24 | 19th CENTURY AMERICAN AUTHORS: He wrote, "I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and spartan-like..." Thoreau |
| #5201, aired 2007-04-02 | HISTORIC LOCATIONS: It's where British Admiral Fraser, Canadian Army Col. Cosgrave & Japanese Gen. Umezu all stood on Sept. 2, 1945 the USS battleship Missouri |
| #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 |
| #5190, aired 2007-03-16 | WOMEN OF THE 1930s: 1 of the men who shot her realized when he saw her body that she'd often waited on him at a cafe in Dallas Bonnie Parker |
| #5179, aired 2007-03-01 | WORLD LEADERS: In 1946 she said, "We only want that which is given naturally to all peoples... to be masters of our own fate" Golda Meir |
| #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 |
| #5168, aired 2007-02-14 | ORGANIZATIONS: The emblem seen here is now used in countries where this organization's original emblem was controversial the (International) Red Cross |
| #5165, aired 2007-02-09 | TOURISM: The 2 leading foreign destination countries for U.S. tourists Canada & Mexico |
| #5128, aired 2006-12-20 | TECHNOLOGY: A famous one of these was first sent May 24, 1844 & a famous last one, January 27, 2006 a telegram |
| #5125, aired 2006-12-15 | POEM TITLES: This poem says, "For all averred, I had killed the bird that made the breeze to blow" The Rime of the Ancient Mariner |
| #5119, aired 2006-12-07 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY: The Lusatian Mountains, in the western Sudeten range, form part of the border between these 2 countries Germany & the Czech Republic |
| #5087, aired 2006-10-24 | MOVIE VILLAINS: Introduced in a 1981 novel, this big-screen character tops the AFI's 2003 list of all-time great movie villains Hannibal Lecter |
| #5075, aired 2006-10-06 | LANDMARKS: The quote "With malice toward none" is on the wall of his Washington, D.C. memorial Abraham Lincoln |
| #5043, aired 2006-07-12 | PRO FOOTBALL GEOGRAPHY: Of all the U.S. states with 2 current NFL teams, it’s the only state the Mississippi River touches Missouri |
| #5041, aired 2006-07-10 | ISLANDS: Of the world's 10 largest islands, 3 belong all or in part to Indonesia & 3 belong to this country Canada |
| #5038, aired 2006-07-05 | WESTERN HEMISPHERE GEOGRAPHY: The 2 outlets of the Gulf of Mexico, a strait & a channel, bear the names of these 2 land areas Florida & the Yucatán peninsula |
| #5025, aired 2006-06-16 | TRANSPORTATION NEWS: This city's iconic Routemaster vehicles were just shy of 50 years' service when they were retired in 2005 London |
| #5023, aired 2006-06-14 | POLITICAL QUOTATIONS: It was said that being with these 2 leaders, born 1874 & 1882, "was like sitting between 2 lions roaring at the same time" Winston Churchill & Franklin Delano Roosevelt |
| #5022, aired 2006-06-13 | LITERARY QUOTES: "I would like to take the great DiMaggio fishing" is a line from this 1952 work; like DiMaggio, it's an American classic The Old Man and the Sea (by Ernest Hemingway) |
| #5014, aired 2006-06-01 | PLAYWRIGHTS: In 2005 Broadway's Virginia Theatre was renamed to honor this late author, the first African-American so honored August Wilson |
| #5010, aired 2006-05-26 | 20th CENTURY WOMEN: In 1964, in a rare interview, she said, "All I want to be is the Jane Austen of South Alabama..." Harper Lee |
| #5000, aired 2006-05-12 | ISLANDS: Davis Strait, named for a Northwest Passage seeker, separates these 2 islands that total over 1 million square miles Greenland & Baffin Island |
| #4995, aired 2006-05-05 | U.S. PRESIDENTS: Had he lived in ancient Greece, this president would have been called Odysseus Ulysses S. Grant |
| #4985, aired 2006-04-21 | FAMOUS OBJECTS: Shah Jahan, Ranjit Singh & Queen Victoria all possessed a famous one whose name means "mountain of light" a diamond |
| #4976, aired 2006-04-10 | MEMORIALS: Opened in 2002 in Lower Manhattan, a memorial to this 1845-1849 tragedy used Kilkenny limestone the Great Potato Famine in Ireland |
| #4972, aired 2006-04-04 | GERMAN AMERICANS: He famously remarked, "We are all the President's men", giving Woodward & Bernstein their title Henry Kissinger |
| #4964, aired 2006-03-23 | BRITISH MONARCHS: The last British king not named George, William or Edward was named this James (II) |
| #4962, aired 2006-03-21 | 20th CENTURY LITERATURE: "Annie" Sadilek, an immigrant girl from Bohemia, inspired the title character in this 1918 novel of the Great Plains My Antonia (by Willa Cather) |
| #4958, aired 2006-03-15 | NATURE: Far from the mainland, Hawaii is poor in native mammals: it has 2, a type of seal & a type of this, order Chiroptera a bat |
| #4955, aired 2006-03-10 | HISTORIC DOCUMENTS: Clause 39 of this reads "No freeman shall be taken, or imprisoned... except by the legal judgment of his peers" the Magna Carta |
| #4946, aired 2006-02-27 | AMERICAN WOMEN: She gave herself the third-person name "Phantom", the "no-person" she was from 19 months until she was almost 7 Helen Keller |
| #4944, aired 2006-02-23 | EUROPEAN FICTION: This 1915 story says, "His numerous legs, which were pitifully thin... waved helplessly before his eyes" Metamorphosis (by Franz Kafka) |
| #4942, aired 2006-02-21 | FAMOUS PAINTERS: His twin daughters both married generals, & his portrait of one of his sons-in-law is seen here Jacques-Louis David |
| #4940, aired 2006-02-17 | FORMER WORLD CAPITALS: In 1998 Czar Nicholas II & his wife Alexandra were laid to rest in this city St. Petersburg |
| #4934, aired 2006-02-09 | CONGRESS: The word for this job comes from a fox-hunting term for someone who keeps the hunting dogs from straying the whip |
| #4923, aired 2006-01-25 | WORD ORIGINS: This word that has come to mean "sudden prosperity" means "good weather" in Spanish bonanza |
| #4895, aired 2005-12-16 | 1940s MOVIES: This 1942 film gained greater distinction following a January 1943 meeting of Allied leaders in its title location Casablanca |
| #4888, aired 2005-12-07 | 20th CENTURY NOVELS: This 1955 novel was originally titled "The Kingdom by the Sea", an allusion to Poe's "Annabel Lee" Lolita |
| #4885, aired 2005-12-02 | 1950s MOVIE ENSEMBLES: Name missing from this list: Webber, Begley, Marshall, Warden, Balsam, Fiedler, Klugman, Binns, Sweeney, Voskovec & Cobb Fonda |
| #4876, aired 2005-11-21 | NAME THE POEM: "He is all pine and I am apple orchard. My apple trees will never get across and eat the cones under his pines" "Mending Wall" (by Robert Frost) |
| #4875, aired 2005-11-18 | WORLD CAPITALS: Pizarro founded this city whose present name is from a Quechua word meaning "talker" Lima, Peru |
| #4868, aired 2005-11-09 | STATE CAPITALS: 5 state capitals, all of them on or west of the Mississippi, begin with these 2 letters S-A |
| #4859, aired 2005-10-27 | 18th CENTURY CORRESPONDENCE: In 1776 she wrote, "Whilst you are... emancipating all nations, you insist upon retaining an absolute power over wives" Abigail Adams |
| #4845, aired 2005-10-07 | THE KING JAMES BIBLE: A Gospel & a book of the Old Testament each start with these same 3 words In the beginning |
| #4831, aired 2005-09-19 | RANKS & TITLES: In 1950 Pius XII was Pontifex Maximus; exactly 2,000 years earlier, this man held a title of the same name Julius Caesar |
| #4827, aired 2005-09-13 | THE MAP OF NORTH AMERICA: Number of Canadian provinces that border the Great Lakes 1 |
| #4823, aired 2005-07-20 | CLASSICAL MUSIC: It's the roughly 70-minute work that includes the sung words "Alle menschen werden bruder" Beethoven's 9th Symphony |
| #4819, aired 2005-07-14 | VOLCANOES: In the last 400 years, over 2/3 of all the deaths caused by volcanoes occurred in what is now this nation Indonesia |
| #4811, aired 2005-07-04 | TERMS IN SCIENCE: Sky & Telescope magazine's contest to replace this term for a single event got 13,000 entries, but chose none the Big Bang |
| #4795, aired 2005-06-10 | PRESIDENTS: The last time there were no living ex-presidents was when this man was president Richard Nixon |
| #4783, aired 2005-05-25 | 20th CENTURY AMERICANS: These names of 2 original Mercury astronauts, who orbited Earth in May 1962 & May 1963, are also occupations Scott Carpenter & Gordon Cooper |
| #4781, aired 2005-05-23 | IMAGES OF AMERICA: Citing John Winthrop, who said, "The eyes of all people are on us", Ronald Reagan liked to compare the U.S. to this a shining city on a hill |
| #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 |
| #4774, aired 2005-05-12 | LITERARY MUSICAL THEATRE: Songs in this 1956 show include "Oh, Happy We", "You Were Dead, You Know" & "The Best Of All Possible Worlds" Candide |
| #4770, aired 2005-05-06 | FICTIONAL ANIMALS: The name of this character, introduced in 1894, is from the Hindi for "bear" Baloo |
| #4765, aired 2005-04-29 | 19th CENTURY AMERICAN ART: Some versions of this painting based on a Bible verse show William Penn making a treaty with the Indians in the background Hicks's Peaceable Kingdom |
| #4758, aired 2005-04-20 | LITERARY INSPIRATIONS: This real man inspired a 1719 novel character & a poem that says, "I am monarch of all I survey" Alexander Selkirk |
| #4756, aired 2005-04-18 | INVENTED WORDS: In works by Lewis Carroll, this word means "four in the afternoon; the time when you begin broiling things for dinner" brillig |
| #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 |
| #4747, aired 2005-04-05 | HISTORIC PLACES: The towns of Vierville-sur-Mer & Colleville-sur-Mer entered history with this 2-word area named for a U.S. city Omaha Beach |
| #4735, aired 2005-03-18 | EUROPEAN LANGUAGES: In this language spoken by 120 million worldwide, all of the days of the week but one end with the same 3 letters German |
| #4733, aired 2005-03-16 | THE 2004 U.S. ELECTIONS: This woman received the third-highest vote total of any candidate for all of the November 2004 elections Barbara Boxer |
| #4732, aired 2005-03-15 | ARTISTIC MASTERPIECES: "Shouldn't the shining dots of the sky be as accessible as the black dots on the map of France?" the artist wrote of this work The Starry Night (by Vincent van Gogh) |
| #4718, aired 2005-02-23 | BESTSELLING AUTHORS: In 2000 this writer, with more than 100 million copies of novels in print, had a new species of dinosaur named for him Michael Crichton |
| #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 |
| #4706, aired 2005-02-07 | THE ELEMENTS: By weight, this element makes up more of the human body than all the others combined oxygen |
| #4699, aired 2005-01-27 | MOUNTAINS: To trek through its Khumbu Icefall, Lhotse Face & South Col, your team needs a $70,000 permit from Nepal's government Mount Everest |
| #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" |
| #4694, aired 2005-01-20 | BESTSELLING NOVELS: Today, many who visit Santa Maria delle Grazie Church admit doing so because of this 2003 No. 1 bestseller The Da Vinci Code |
| #4667, aired 2004-12-14 | AWARD-WINNING AUTHORS: The only Oscar winner also to win a Nobel Prize, this European won a 1938 Oscar for adapting his own play George Bernard Shaw |
| #4664, aired 2004-12-09 | RARITIES: All 6 examples of his signature known to exist date from between 1612 & 1616 William Shakespeare |
| #4657, aired 2004-11-30 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY: Most of this firm's 70,000 seasonal white-collar employees work only 4 months a year H&R Block |
| #4649, aired 2004-11-18 | AMERICAN NOVELS: The image seen here is part of Faulkner's original text of this 1930 novel As I Lay Dying |
| #4637, aired 2004-11-03 | ROYALTY: This king was the great-grandfather of France's King Louis XV Louis XIV |
| #4635, aired 2004-10-29 | FILMS OF THE '70s: "The Babysitter Murders" was the working title for this 1978 thriller Halloween |
| #4634, aired 2004-10-28 | HISTORIC AREAS: In 1893, as it was disappearing, F.J. Turner wrote a famous essay on "The Significance of" it "in American History" the Frontier |
| #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 |
| #4611, aired 2004-09-27 | PULITZER PRIZE WINNERS: 1 of the 2 novels, both Southern, that won the Pulitzer for fiction & became Best Picture Oscar winners (1 of) Gone with the Wind or All the King's Men |
| #4592, aired 2004-07-20 | ON THE MAP: In area it's the largest African country through which the Greenwich meridian passes Algeria |
| #4590, aired 2004-07-16 | FOOD: Experts believe that 16th century Dutch growers, through breeding, gave this vegetable its color to honor their ruling house the carrot |
| #4589, aired 2004-07-15 | U.S. PRESIDENTS: With a book about the South, he became the first president--past or present--to publish a novel Jimmy Carter |
| #4587, aired 2004-07-13 | HEADLINES OF THE LAST 40 YEARS: The first 2 New York Times headlines set in 96-point type were in these 2 years, 5 years apart 1969 & 1974 |
| #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 |
| #4566, aired 2004-06-14 | ON EXHIBIT: The Chinese government, which controls all of these in the U.S., won't let a new one be named until it's 100 days old giant pandas |
| #4542, aired 2004-05-11 | METALS: Element No. 79, it's estimated that all of it ever mined would only make a cube about 50 feet across gold |
| #4535, aired 2004-04-30 | 18th CENTURY BRITISH NOVELS: This title person asks a pile of money, "What art thou good for?... one of those knives is worth all this heap" Robinson Crusoe |
| #4479, aired 2004-02-12 | SONGS: One of the first to sing it publicly was Baltimore actor Fredinand Durang at Captain McCauley's tavern in October 1814 "The Star-Spangled Banner" |
| #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" |
| #4468, aired 2004-01-28 | LATIN LINGO: This 3-word phrase familiar in the U.S. originated in an ancient poem & described assembling foods to make salad E pluribus unum |
| #4465, aired 2004-01-23 | LITERARY FEMALES: She's the only female character in all the A.A. Milne "Winnie The Pooh" stories Kanga |
| #4458, aired 2004-01-14 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY: This country's coastline, on the Gulf of Aden & the Indian Ocean, is the longest on the African continent Somalia |
| #4436, aired 2003-12-15 | REFERENCE BOOKS: When it was completed in 1928, Britain's P.M. said, "Our histories, our novels, our poems... are all in this one book" the Oxford English Dictionary |
| #4389, aired 2003-10-09 | MOVIE CHARACTERS: On the AFI's 2003 lists of favorite movie heroes & villains of all time, this character appears on both lists the Terminator |
| #4349, aired 2003-06-26 | WORD ORIGINS: This word that begins with the Greek word for "all" was coined by John Milton & means "tumultuous disorder" pandemonium |
| #4347, aired 2003-06-24 | HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES: This observance began as a day to eat up all the stuff in your home you couldn't eat for the next 40 days Mardi Gras (Fat Tuesday) |
| #4344, aired 2003-06-19 | FRUIT: From Greek for "finger", the Arabs claim it has as many culinary & pharmaceutical uses as days in a year the date |
| #4325, aired 2003-05-23 | FILM ROLES: Dick Powell, Robert Mitchum & Elliott Gould have all played this character on film Philip Marlowe |
| #4310, aired 2003-05-02 | CELEBRITY AUCTIONS: A 1999 sale of her effects included a baseball signed by one husband & a conversion certificate signed by her last Marilyn Monroe |
| #4296, aired 2003-04-14 | MOUNTAINS: All of the mountains in the U.S. over 14,500 feet are in this state Alaska |
| #4292, aired 2003-04-08 | OSCAR-WINNING FILMS: This 1995 double Oscar winner takes its title from a line used by Claude Rains in 1942's "Casablanca" The Usual Suspects |
| #4278, aired 2003-03-19 | ALL GOD'S CREATURES: Edison proposed a flying machine based on the flight of this creature, also the subject of a musical work bumblebee |
| #4271, aired 2003-03-10 | U.S. COINS: These 2 states both have airplanes from the 20th century's first decade on their quarters North Carolina & Ohio (as a tribute to the Wright Brothers) |
| #4266, aired 2003-03-03 | THE NEW WORLD: All that is known about her life is limited to 9 days in August 1587 Virginia Dare (the first child born in America of English parents) |
| #4235, aired 2003-01-17 | BROADWAY MUSICALS: In 1999 this Broadway musical was advertised with the line: "Before the Century Ends, See How It All Began" Ragtime |
| #4148, aired 2002-09-18 | THE 7 ANCIENT WONDERS: The oldest of the 7 Wonders of the Ancient World, they're also the only ones still standing today the Pyramids |
| #4113, aired 2002-06-19 | HISTORIC AMERICANS: On this man's death, FDR said, "All mankind are the beneficiaries of his discoveries in... agricultural chemistry" George Washington Carver |
| #4105, aired 2002-06-07 | ACTORS & ROLE: In a 2001 film Jon Voight played this man; in a 2002 TV movie, so did John Turturro Howard Cosell |
| #4104, aired 2002-06-06 | COMMON BONDS: All the correct responses in the category "THIS'LL KILL YA!" are integral to this, introduced in the 1940s Clue |
| #4093, aired 2002-05-22 | RENAISSANCE AUTHORS: In the 16th century he wrote, "Whoever wishes to found a state…must start with assuming that all men are bad…" Machiavelli |
| #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) |
| #4076, aired 2002-04-29 | SOUTHERN WRITERS: He said, "My own little postage stamp of native soil was worth writing about... I would never... exhaust it" William Faulkner |
| #4073, aired 2002-04-24 | RECENT HISTORY: In 1993 this country of over 35 million people had 2 official languages; now it has 11 South Africa |
| #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 |
| #4032, aired 2002-02-26 | 19th CENTURY INVENTIONS: Peter Roget's new device for performing mechanically the involution & evolution of numbers the slide rule |
| #4004, aired 2002-01-17 | MILITARY MATTERS: Completed by the British in 1906, its name means "fear nothing" & it made all others of its kind obsolete HMS Dreadnought |
| #3993, aired 2002-01-02 | 1970s GAMES: Of this ground-breaking game, its creator said, "We knew a square ball wasn't cool" but "It was all we could do" Pong |
| #3971, aired 2001-12-03 | FICTIONAL PLACES: The creator of this Minnesota town says its name is Ojibwa for "Place where we waited all day for you in the rain" Lake Wobegon |
| #3960, aired 2001-11-16 | SPORTS MARKETING: Tiger Woods' 22-page booklet "The Making of a Champion" came free on one million boxes of this product Wheaties |
| #3911, aired 2001-09-10 | FAMOUS PEOPLE: In 2001, she produced & hosted the Travel Channel's "Secrets of San Simeon" Patty Hearst |
| #3906, aired 2001-09-03 | AUTOMOTIVE HISTORY: This Ford with a name from Native American myth was the first model to be Motor Trend Car of the Year the Thunderbird |
| #3903, aired 2001-07-18 | INTERNATIONAL LANDMARKS: Its roof has been variously described as sails, clam shells & a huddle of nuns in a high wind the Sydney Opera House |
| #3902, aired 2001-07-17 | AT THE LIBRARY: This author & biochemist who died in 1992 has at least one book in all 10 main Dewey Decimal categories Isaac Asimov |
| #3899, aired 2001-07-12 | COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES: The 1939 event we just saw came out of a concert originally to be sponsored at DAR Constitution Hall by this university Howard University |
| #3892, aired 2001-07-03 | THE EMMYS: The star of one of TV's most popular shows ever, he's the only person to win Emmys for acting, writing & directing Alan Alda |
| #3887, aired 2001-06-26 | PEOPLE IN SONG: A statue of her, seated on a bench in Liverpool, is dedicated "to All the lonely people" Eleanor Rigby |
| #3875, aired 2001-06-08 | HEALTH & MEDICINE: The USA's leading chronic illness in children, it causes 10 million missed school days & 1 in 6 of all pediatric emergency visits asthma |
| #3829, aired 2001-04-05 | DOCUMENTARIES: This 1989 film ends with the line "This film cannot be shown within the city of Flint. All the theaters have closed" Roger and Me |
| #3827, aired 2001-04-03 | SATIRE: This then-living man was the main target of the mid-1960s play "MacBird!" Lyndon B. Johnson |
| #3808, aired 2001-03-07 | LITERATURE & FILM: Nicole Kidman, Helena Bonham Carter & Cybill Shepherd have all starred in films based on this man's works Henry James |
| #3790, aired 2001-02-09 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE: First line of the poem thought to be based on Mary Sawyer's experience at a Massachusetts school-house around 1815 "Mary had a little lamb" |
| #3756, aired 2000-12-25 | U.S. CITIES: A city with this name is the most populous city in both Maine & Oregon Portland |
| #3746, aired 2000-12-11 | CIVIL RIGHTS HISTORY: By 1948, all but one of the 9 in this group charged in a 1931 crime had been freed the Scottsboro Boys |
| #3719, aired 2000-11-02 | STATE MOTTOES: The state motto of Ohio, adopted in 1959, was ruled unconstitutional in April 2000 as it included this word God |
| #3706, aired 2000-10-16 | SPORTS STARS: The Warriors, the 76ers, the Lakers & the Harlem Globetrotters all retired his number Wilt Chamberlain |
| #3704, aired 2000-10-12 | BRITISH WORD ORIGINS: These political party names began as negative terms for the 2 factions warring over the 1678 Meal-Tub Plot Tories & Whigs |
| #3662, aired 2000-07-04 | U.S. HISTORY: In 1965 President Johnson flew to this state to sign the Medicare bill with a former president as witness Missouri |
| #3661, aired 2000-07-03 | 1962: On October 28, 1962 this 68-year-old world leader "blinked" Nikita Khrushchev |
| #3618, aired 2000-05-03 | FAMOUS RELATIVES: Around 1780 this grandfather of Charles Darwin invented a pyrometer to measure high heat in his kilns Josiah Wedgwood |
| #3610, aired 2000-04-21 | SPORTS LEGENDS: Retired since 1977, he said, "All I can say is I'm glad I never had to go up against Mia Hamm" Pele |
| #3525, aired 1999-12-24 | RELIGION: A 1999 study concluded that this 13-foot-long, 3-foot-wide holy relic dates back to pre-8th century Jerusalem Shroud of Turin |
| #3448, aired 1999-09-08 | HOLIDAY QUOTES: In the end this Dickens character says, "I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year" Ebenezer Scrooge |
| #3393, aired 1999-05-12 | RENAISSANCE LITERATURE: This book begins, "All states and dominions which hold or have held mankind are either republics or monarchies" "The Prince" (by Machiavelli) |
| #3342, aired 1999-03-02 | CORPORATE AMERICA: This Vermont food company's 1995 CEO search was an essay contest with the topic "Yo! I Want to be Your CEO" Ben & Jerry's |
| #3265, aired 1998-11-13 | PLAYS: Written in 1953 & set in the late 17th c., this play takes place about 16 miles northeast of where we are right now The Crucible (by Arthur Miller) |
| #3216, aired 1998-09-07 | PRIME MINISTERS: 2 of the 4 countries that have had prime ministers who were father & daughter (2 of) India, Pakistan, Bangladesh & Sri Lanka |
| #3205, aired 1998-07-03 | WORLD LEADERS: On Dec. 25, 1991, he ended his farewell speech by saying, "I wish everyone all the best" Mikhail Gorbachev |
| #3190, aired 1998-06-12 | ORGANIZATIONS: This women's organization founded in 1890 was chartered by Congress in 1896 the Daughters of the American Revolution |
| #3149, aired 1998-04-16 | RETAIL: Frustrated by department stores, Donald Fisher founded this chain in 1969 as a record & jeans store The Gap |
| #3122, aired 1998-03-10 | EPITAPHS: They're the 3 words found at the top of Mel Blanc's gravestone "That's All Folks" |
| #3094, aired 1998-01-29 | THE NOBEL PRIZE: All the medals have Alfred Nobel on 1 side; these 2 categories share an identical design on the reverse Chemistry & Physics |
| #3076, aired 1998-01-05 | U.S. PRESIDENTS: 2 of the 5 presidents buried west of the Mississippi River (2 of) Eisenhower, Hoover, Lyndon Johnson, Nixon & Truman |
| #3067, aired 1997-12-23 | FOREIGN AIRLINES: In terms of number of passengers, it's the busiest foreign carrier operating at LAX Mexicana Airlines |
| #3045, aired 1997-11-21 | THE ARMED SERVICES: In September 1997 this branch of the U.S. Armed Services celebrated its 50th anniversary U.S. Air Force |
| #2999, aired 1997-09-18 | FAMOUS NAMES: The Washington Post once described him as "the mother of all embarrassing brothers" Billy Carter |
| #2963, aired 1997-06-18 | THE PLANETS: Most of this planet's moons are named for Shakespearean characters Uranus |
| #2938, aired 1997-05-14 | THE ELEMENTS: More than 95% of all known compounds contain this element hydrogen (or carbon) |
| #2929, aired 1997-05-01 | QUOTATIONS ABOUT LAWYERS: Playwright who penned the famous line, "The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers" William Shakespeare |
| #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 |
| #2907, aired 1997-04-01 | TRINIDADIAN AMATEUR ICHTHYOLOGISTS: This common aquarium fish was named for a Trinidadian clergyman Guppy |
| #2892, aired 1997-03-11 | WORLD LEADERS: Peruvians incorrectly call this man "El Chinito" Alberto Fujimori |
| #2834, aired 1996-12-19 | POLITICAL PHRASES: Ike defined this as "All of the usable surface. The extremes, right and left, are in the gutters." Middle-of-the-road |
| #2817, aired 1996-11-26 | SHORT STORIES: Set on Christmas Eve, it begins "One dollar and 87 cents. That was all. And 60 cents of it was in pennies." "The Gift of the Magi" |
| #2782, aired 1996-10-08 | AMERICAN UNIVERSITIES: French Catholic missionaries led by Father Edward F. Sorin founded this university in 1842 Notre Dame |
| #2774, aired 1996-09-26 | NATIONAL MOTTOES: Country whose motto is "L'Union Fait La Force" or "Eendracht Maakt Macht"—"Union provides strength" Belgium |
| #2722, aired 1996-06-04 | SPELLING: This tree is the only 7-letter English word that contains all 5 vowels sequoia |
| #2719, aired 1996-05-30 | WORLD WAR II NAMES: The 1st U.S. naval ship with a plural name honored their memory; a 2nd ship was christened in 1995 the Sullivans |
| #2715, aired 1996-05-24 | THE ACADEMY AWARDS: Charles Laughton, Robert Shaw & Richard Burton were all nominated for playing this role Henry VIII |
| #2683, aired 1996-04-10 | SAINTS: He wrote, "Praise to thee, my Lord, for all thy creatures, above all brother sun" St. Francis of Assisi |
| #2642, aired 1996-02-13 | EXPLORERS: For many years after his death in 1324, he was considered Europe's greatest liar Marco Polo |
| #2631, aired 1996-01-29 | HISTORIANS: In 1962 she said, "Nineteen-fourteen was the birthday of us all" Barbara Tuchman |
| #2628, aired 1996-01-24 | EXPLORERS: On March 18, 1912 he wrote in his diary, "My right foot has gone, nearly all the toes..." Robert Falcon Scott (in Antarctica) |
| #2621, aired 1996-01-15 | POLITICIANS: In 1961, Lyndon Johnson was sworn in as vice president by this mentor Sam Rayburn |
| #2611, aired 1996-01-01 | DEMOCRATS: In 1995 he cast his 14,000th vote in the Senate, a record for any party Senator (Robert) Byrd |
| #2585, aired 1995-11-24 | U.S. PRESIDENTS: 1 of 3 U.S. presidents in the 20th c. who never had a house of Congress controlled by his party (1 of) Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford & George Bush |
| #2584, aired 1995-11-23 | ETHICS: Aesculapius, Hygeia, Panacea & Apollo are all mentioned in the first line of this The Hippocratic Oath |
| #2571, aired 1995-11-06 | BUSINESS & LITERATURE: On March 24, 1994 this store held a breakfast to announce the new Truman Capote Literary Trust Tiffany's |
| #2554, aired 1995-10-12 | FAMOUS NOVELS: The first of the 7 commandments in this 1945 novel is "Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy" Animal Farm |
| #2533, aired 1995-09-13 | AMERICAN POETRY: In a famous poem, she's "the Arrow-maker's daughter...Handsomest of all the women" Minnehaha |
| #2492, aired 1995-06-06 | POSTAL ABBREVIATIONS: Among the 2-letter abbreviations for U.S. states, this state's is 1st alphabetically Alaska |
| #2476, aired 1995-05-15 | SHAKESPEARE: Ajax, Achilles & Agamemnon are all characters in this play Troilus and Cressida |
| #2437, aired 1995-03-21 | OPERA: Considered the most popular of all Czech operas, it ends with a betrothal The Bartered Bride |
| #2430, aired 1995-03-10 | POETS: His wife Caitlin, who outlived him by 41 years, passed away in 1994 at age 80 Dylan Thomas |
| #2421, aired 1995-02-27 | THE OLD TESTAMENT: The words "Mene, mene, tekel, upharsin" appear in this book the Book of Daniel |
| #2411, aired 1995-02-13 | ORGANIZATIONS: The name of this organization comes from the phrase "philosophia biou kubernetes" Phi Beta Kappa |
| #2342, aired 1994-11-08 | U.S. PRESIDENTS: In his 1913 autobiography, he said "Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly" Teddy Roosevelt |
| #2296, aired 1994-09-05 | THE OLYMPICS: Of all the cities that have hosted the Winter Olympics, this one is the farthest north Lillehammer, Norway |
| #2283, aired 1994-07-06 | THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES: Established in 1795, this committee has jurisdiction over social security, tariffs & all revenue measures Ways & Means |
| #2255, aired 1994-05-27 | STATE CAPITALS: It lies on the east bank of the Missouri River about 150 miles south of the Canadian border Bismarck, North Dakota |
| #2148, aired 1993-12-29 | FOOD & DRINK: This coffee is known by the name of the Nashville hotel where it built its reputation Maxwell House |
| #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 |
| #2124, aired 1993-11-25 | 20th CENTURY LEADERS: At age 13 in 1926, he was accepted as a novice at the abbey of Kykkos; he later taught there Archbishop Makarios |
| #2096, aired 1993-10-18 | U.S. PRESIDENTS: He was the first president to visit all 50 states while in office Richard M. Nixon |
| #2095, aired 1993-10-15 | FAMOUS HOMES: The ticket office at this presidential home hands out dozens of $2 bills as change every day Monticello |
| #2070, aired 1993-09-10 | ACTORS: He called his 1992 autobiography "What's It All About?" Michael Caine |
| #2053, aired 1993-07-07 | WOMEN: Gloria Steinem, Susan Strasberg & Norman Mailer have all written books about her Marilyn Monroe |
| #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 |
| #2036, aired 1993-06-14 | POETS: In 1993 Maya Angelou became the first poet to read at a presidential inauguration since this poet in 1961 Robert Frost |
| #2015, aired 1993-05-14 | ANCIENT ROME: General Publius Scipio won the surname "Africanus" for beating this man at the 202 B.C. Battle of Zama Hannibal |
| #1987, aired 1993-04-06 | FAMOUS HOMES: There's a famous home on a piece of land called Walker's Point in this U.S. town Kennebunkport, Maine |
| #1972, aired 1993-03-16 | WORLD CITIES: The original full name of this Mexican port translates to "Rich Town of the True Cross" Veracruz |
| #1955, aired 1993-02-19 | NEW ENGLAND: In Washington, D.C.'s Statuary Hall, the state of Vermont is represented by this patriot Ethan Allen |
| #1940, aired 1993-01-29 | BRITISH MONARCHS: 1 of 4 British monarchs whose reigns were longer than Elizabeth I's 45 years (1 of) Victoria, Henry III, Edward III, & George III |
| #1918, aired 1992-12-30 | FAMOUS NAMES: Volume 1 of the New Book of Knowledge Ency. has an article on this man written by Danny Kaye Hans Christian Andersen |
| #1917, aired 1992-12-29 | QUOTES: The author who wrote, "Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me." F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| #1916, aired 1992-12-28 | LANGUAGES: Swahili contains many words borrowed from this language, including the word "Swahili" Arabic |
| #1894, aired 1992-11-26 | THE CABINET: This cabinet department is in charge of printing all postage stamps Treasury |
| #1891, aired 1992-11-23 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS: He retired after the only woman he ever loved, opera singer Irene Adler, passed away Sherlock Holmes |
| #1888, aired 1992-11-18 | WORLD DRAMA: Sophocles, Euripides & Eugene O'Neill all wrote plays with this woman's name in their titles Electra |
| #1875, aired 1992-10-30 | THE SUPREME COURT: The 1973 case Doe v. Bolton was decided with this more famous case Roe v. Wade |
| #1871, aired 1992-10-26 | HISTORIC NAMES: For his licentious behavior, monk Grigori Yefimovich Novykh earned this nickname meaning "debauched one" Rasputin |
| #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 |
| #1826, aired 1992-07-06 | SHAKESPEARE: The play in which a fool says, "This cold night will turn us all to fools and madmen" King Lear |
| #1795, aired 1992-05-22 | COMPOSERS: An anthem that he composed for George II's 1727 coronation has been used for British crownings ever since George Frederick Handel |
| #1794, aired 1992-05-21 | AMERICAN STORIES: Story that begins, "Whoever has made a voyage up the Hudson must remember the Kaatskill Mountains" "Rip Van Winkle" |
| #1793, aired 1992-05-20 | TRAVEL & TOURISM: This sparsely populated state has the highest percentage of its workforce in tourism, about a third Nevada |
| #1738, aired 1992-03-04 | U.S. STATES: 2 of only 3 U.S. states which have all straight-line boundaries (2 of) Colorado, Utah, & Wyoming |
| #1730, aired 1992-02-21 | SPORTS: In the 1970s & 1980s over half the Little League World Series champions came from this island Taiwan |
| #1709, aired 1992-01-23 | WOMEN AUTHORS: In 1901 she published what has become the best-selling children's book of all time Beatrix Potter |
| #1696, aired 1992-01-06 | MYTHOLOGY: Jupiter made Chiron, the wisest & most just of all centaurs, this constellation Sagittarius |
| #1689, aired 1991-12-26 | FAMOUS ADDRESSES: His home address is the Admiral's House, 34th Street & Massachusetts Avenue, Washington, DC the Vice President of the U.S. (Dan Quayle) |
| #1674, aired 1991-12-05 | U.S. MONUMENTS: Commissioned in 1916 by the United Daughters of the Confederacy, it was finally completed in 1972 Stone Mountain |
| #1668, aired 1991-11-27 | SHAKESPEARE: In his diary Samuel Pepys described this play as silly, "and not related at all to the name or day" Twelfth Night, or What You Will |
| #1648, aired 1991-10-30 | ACTORS & THEIR ROLES: Ronald Reagan, Errol Flynn, Richard Mulligan & Gary Cole have all played this historical role George Armstrong Custer |
| #1645, aired 1991-10-25 | LITERARY SEQUELS: "Perchance to Dream" is Robert B. Parker's sequel to this 1939 Raymond Chandler novel The Big Sleep |
| #1605, aired 1991-07-19 | POETS: This baron was England's poet laureate from 1850 to 1892, longer than anyone else Alfred Lord Tennyson |
| #1588, aired 1991-06-26 | U.S. GOVERNMENT: Of all the independent agencies of the U.S. government, this one has the most employees the Postal Service (the Post Office) |
| #1579, aired 1991-06-13 | TELEVISION: This spin-off from "All in the Family" ran for more episodes than its parent show The Jeffersons |
| #1567, aired 1991-05-28 | BEST SELLERS: 1 of 2 authors to have 3 books among the Top 10 Fiction Best Sellers of the 1980s (1 of) Stephen King or Tom Clancy |
| #1557, aired 1991-05-14 | WORD ORIGINS: The word "jot" comes from this Greek word, as back then I's & J's were the same iota |
| #1550, aired 1991-05-03 | ACTRESSES & ROLES: Greer Garson, Jane Alexander, & Jean Stapleton have all played this first lady Eleanor Roosevelt |
| #1458, aired 1990-12-26 | THE 50 STATES: 3 of the 5 states which, along with part of Minnesota, were formed from the Northwest Territory (3 of) Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Ohio |
| #1457, aired 1990-12-25 | OPERA: Verdi eliminated all of the Venetian scenes in this opera based on a Shakespearean play Otello |
| #1455, aired 1990-12-21 | OSCAR-WINNING FILMS: This 1950 film was the only "Best Picture" that featured Marilyn Monroe; she played an actress All About Eve |
| #1430, aired 1990-11-16 | ISLANDS: It's the only inhabited U.S. territory south of the equator American Samoa |
| #1426, aired 1990-11-12 | THE COMMON MARKET: Only permanent Common Market member whose official language doesn't use the Latin alphabet Greece |
| #1425, aired 1990-11-09 | U.S. POLITICS: This city has been the site of more major party presidential nominating conventions than any other Chicago |
| #1424, aired 1990-11-08 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY: This country contains South America's highest & lowest points Argentina |
| #1423, aired 1990-11-07 | SHAKESPEARE: The 3-word title of this play begins & ends with the same 7-letter word Measure for Measure |
| #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 |
| #1388, aired 1990-09-19 | SHAKESPEAREAN TITLE CHARACTERS: Before he stabs himself he confesses that he "threw a pearl away richer than all his tribe" Othello |
| #1386, aired 1990-09-17 | THE CIVIL WAR: 1 of 2 states of the Confederacy that do not have a seacoast (1 of) Arkansas or Tennessee |
| #1380, aired 1990-09-07 | FAMOUS WOMEN: Dying in 1903, she said, "It's the 27th anniversary of Bill's death. Bury me next to Bill." Calamity Jane (Martha Jane Canary) |
| #1368, aired 1990-07-11 | HISTORICAL DRAMA: John Dryden's "All for Love: or, the World Well Lost" is based on this play by Shakespeare Antony & Cleopatra |
| #2, aired 1990-06-23 | U.S. PRESIDENTS: The most ex-presidents, 5, were alive when he was inaugurated; all had served 1 term or less Lincoln |
| #1, aired 1990-06-16 | THE 50 STATES: Of all the states named after Indian tribes, this one is the farthest west Utah |
| #1328, aired 1990-05-16 | GEOGRAPHY: It's the only country whose name begins with "A", but doesn't end with "A" Afghanistan |
| #1319, aired 1990-05-03 | ACTORS & THEIR ROLES: Robert Shaw, Richard Burton & Charles Laughton all played this ruler on film Henry VIII |
| #1317, aired 1990-05-01 | U.S. STATES: The only U.S. state that borders 4 Great Lakes Michigan (borders Huron, Michigan, Erie & Superior) |
| #1290, aired 1990-03-23 | AUTHORS: After his death in 1745, he was buried in St. Patrick's cathedral in Dublin Jonathan Swift |
| #1287, aired 1990-03-20 | WORD ORIGINS: Word derived from the act of breaking up a failed Italian moneylender's market bench bankruptcy |
| #1277, aired 1990-03-06 | PRESIDENTS: Black Jack was the riderless horse at the funerals of these 3 presidents JFK, LBJ & Eisenhower |
| #1269, aired 1990-02-22 | MUSIC: The melody for "Hail, Hail, The Gang's All Here" comes from this comic operetta The Pirates of Penzance |
| #1265, aired 1990-02-16 | AMERICAN NOVELS: Chapter 15 of this 1881 novel is entitled "Tom as King" The Prince and the Pauper |
| #1247, aired 1990-01-23 | AMERICAN HISTORY: He was born in Connecticut in 1800 & hanged for treason in Virginia in 1859 John Brown |
| #1246, aired 1990-01-22 | DISNEY: The last full-length cartoon feature Walt Disney supervised personally, it was set in India The Jungle Book |
| #1224, aired 1989-12-21 | AWARDS: More Congressional Medal of Honor winners have come from this war than any other the Civil War |
| #1212, aired 1989-12-05 | FINAL RESTING PLACES: This town was the 1st to serve as the burial place for 2 U.S. presidents Quincy, Massachusetts (Braintree, Massachusetts) |
| #1200, aired 1989-11-17 | U.S. HISTORY: The states admitted to the Union in the 20th century were Alaska, Hawaii & these 3 Arizona, New Mexico & Oklahoma |
| #1193, aired 1989-11-08 | THE OSCARS: Only Pulitzer Prize-winning novels to become Oscar-winning “Best Pictures” are “All The King's Men” & this one Gone with the Wind |
| #1192, aired 1989-11-07 | U.S. POLITICS: He served as Sec'y of H.E.W., Sec'y of Defense & Att'y General, all in the same year--1973 Elliot Richardson |
| #1179, aired 1989-10-19 | MONARCHS: Between 1700 & the present all the kings of England have been named George, Edward or this William |
| #1178, aired 1989-10-18 | PUBLISHING: For its 1990 edition Guinness is dropping all records of this 1 of the 7 deadly sins gluttony |
| #1176, aired 1989-10-16 | DISNEY FEATURE FILMS: This 1940 Disney title character wore a Tyrolean hat Pinocchio |
| #1168, aired 1989-10-04 | TELEVISION: This NBC special was performed live in 1955 & 1956; videotaped in 1960; & re-run in '63, '66, '78 & '89 Peter Pan |
| #1166, aired 1989-10-02 | VOCABULARY: From the Latin for "at the same time", this 12-letter adjective contains all 5 vowels simultaneous |
| #1139, aired 1989-07-13 | IN THE NEWS: The European Community's target year for lifting all economic barriers among its 12 members 1992 |
| #1120, aired 1989-06-16 | AMERICAN PLAYWRIGHTS: M. Stapleton,
Eli Wallach,
Jessica Tandy &
M. Leighton all won Tonys for performances in his plays Tennessee Williams |
| #1116, aired 1989-06-12 | VOCABULARY: This 7-letter synonym for dictionary is from a Greek word for "word" lexicon |
| #1065, aired 1989-03-31 | PLAYWRIGHTS: The son of an actor, he won 4 Pulitzer Prizes for Drama, more than any other playwright Eugene O'Neill |
| #1052, aired 1989-03-14 | THE PLANETS: This planet is named for the original god of the sky in Greek mythology Uranus |
| #990, aired 1988-12-16 | ADVERTISING: 1 of the top 5 advertisers on network TV sports shows in 1987 was this Cabinet department the Department of Defense |
| #960, aired 1988-11-04 | LETTER PERFECT: Vowel found in the names of 7 of the 9 planets U |
| #932, aired 1988-09-27 | THE BIBLE: The only 3 men to reign as king over all 12 tribes of Israel Saul, David & Solomon |
| #928, aired 1988-09-21 | THE MOVIES: Charles Laughton, Trevor Howard & Anthony Hopkins all played this historic figure William Bligh |
| #903, aired 1988-07-06 | MEDIEVAL MONARCHS: Richard the Lion-Hearted & his parents are buried at an abbey in this country France |
| #838, aired 1988-04-06 | WORLD TRADE: Of all fresh fruits, the U.S. imports more of this one than any other bananas |
| #810, aired 1988-02-26 | THE OSCARS: 1 of 2 consecutive "Best Pictures"--1949 & 1950--whose titles begin with "All" (1 of) All the King's Men or All About Eve |
| #803, aired 1988-02-17 | WORLD CAPITALS: More European national capitals begin with this letter than any other, 7 in all B |
| #792, aired 1988-02-02 | THE 50 STATES: 5-digit number found on all current Minnesota auto license plates 10,000 (for Minnesota, "The Land of 10,000 Lakes") |
| #791, aired 1988-02-01 | POP MUSIC: Solo or in a duet or group, this artist has had more Billboard #1 hits than any other, 29 in all Paul McCartney |
| #790, aired 1988-01-29 | AFRICA: This African country has been an independent nation for all but 5 of its 3000 years Ethiopia |
| #784, aired 1988-01-21 | WOMEN'S RIGHTS: U.S. women finally won the right to vote in nat'l elections during this president's administration (Woodrow) Wilson |
| #771, aired 1988-01-04 | TELEVISION HISTORY: This variety show that replaced the Smothers Brothers on CBS 20 years ago is still in production Hee Haw |
| #715, aired 1987-10-16 | ACADEMY AWARDS: 1 of the 2 "Best Picture" Oscar winners to contain North, South, East or West in its title (1 of) All Quiet on the Western Front or West Side Story |
| #676, aired 1987-07-13 | U.S. CITIES: Of the 10 largest cities in population in the U.S., only these 2 are less than 100 miles apart New York City & Philadelphia |
| #670, aired 1987-07-03 | MONARCHS: Last 3 reigning monarchs of this European country have all been women the Netherlands |
| #656, aired 1987-06-15 | YOUNG WOOD: Monthly, over 3 boxcars of ponderosa pine become this toy invented in 1916 by F.L. Wright's son John Lincoln Logs |
| #645, aired 1987-05-29 | THE CABINET: 1st Attorney General under LBJ Robert Kennedy |
| #642, aired 1987-05-26 | THE CALENDAR: When spelling all 7 days of the week, the 2 letters which appear most often D & A |
| #625, aired 1987-05-01 | TRANSPORTATION: In its ads it claims to be the first airline to fly to all 50 states United |
| #621, aired 1987-04-27 | CODES OF HONOR: As bushido was to 16th century samurai, this was to 12th century knights chivalry |
| #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 |
| #572, aired 1987-02-17 | THE MOVIES: He has starred in 5 of the top 10 grossing films of all time Harrison Ford |
| #569, aired 1987-02-12 | MYTHOLOGY: Her name indicates she received "gifts from all" the gods Pandora |
| #561, aired 1987-02-02 | ANIMALS: It's believed elephants rarely lived beyond 60, about the age the last of these wear out teeth |
| #558, aired 1987-01-28 | FAMOUS WOMEN: When she died on Jan. 22, 1901, Henry James wrote, "We all feel a bit motherless today" Queen Victoria |
| #529, aired 1986-12-18 | THE MOVIES: "Wuthering Heights", "Of Mice and Men", & "Stagecoach" all came out in this "Best year ever for Amer. films" 1939 |
| #484, aired 1986-10-16 | ACTORS AND ROLES: 2 stars who have portrayed author/reporter Carl Bernstein or a character directly based on him in film Jack Nicholson & Dustin Hoffman |
| #465, aired 1986-09-19 | FIRST LADIES: Of all the First Ladies past & present still living, she is the youngest Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis |
| #444, aired 1986-05-22 | THE OLYMPICS: Sex tests for women, protests by Blacks, & the altitude were controversies of the Olympics in this year 1968 |
| #396, aired 1986-03-17 | MAN IN SPACE: This Space Shuttle, the only 1 named for a spaceship, is the only 1 not to have flown in space the Enterprise |
| #372, aired 1986-02-11 | EUROPE: All of Denmark is surrounded by water except for its 42 mile boundary with this country Germany |
| #363, aired 1986-01-29 | U.S. CURRENCY: Besides "In God We Trust", the other word found on the face of all current U.S. coins Liberty |
| #358, aired 1986-01-22 | SPORTS: Only U.S. Major League Baseball team in which both city & team names are in a foreign language San Diego Padres |
| #357, aired 1986-01-21 | THE '40s: Mussolini, Hitler, & FDR all died during this month in 1945 April |
| #356, aired 1986-01-20 | WEATHER: All states have recorded temperatures below zero (F.), except this one Hawaii |
| #355, aired 1986-01-17 | DEMOCRATS: Nichols & May; Peter, Paul & Mary; and Simon & Garfunkel all reunited at a 1972 benefit for this Democrat George McGovern |
| #348, aired 1986-01-08 | THE MILITARY: Foreign country in which the most American soldiers are stationed Germany |
| #333, aired 1985-12-18 | RECENT HISTORY: Total number of men who have been U.S. President during the current British monarch's rule 8 |
| #331, aired 1985-12-16 | U.S. CURRENCY: Up to & including the $100 bill, the sum total of all U.S. paper currency denominations in current use $188 |
| #300, aired 1985-11-01 | WORLD HISTORY: In 1794, 1830, 1846, 1848, 1861, & 1863 this neighbor unsuccessfully revolted against Russia Poland |
| #286, aired 1985-10-14 | THE BIBLE: Only 1 of the 4 Horsemen of the Apocalypse specifically named in text of King James or Douay Bible Death |
| #280, aired 1985-10-04 | BUSINESS AND INDUSTRY: Over 1/2 of Fortune 500 and 42% of all N.Y. Stock Exchange companies are incorporated in this state Delaware |
| #264, aired 1985-09-12 | MISS AMERICA: He replaced Bert Parks as host of Miss America pageant for 1980 Ron Ely |
| #189, aired 1985-05-30 | LANGUAGES: It was the 1st human language Tarzan spoke French |
| #183, aired 1985-05-22 | THE OSCARS: From 1978-81, all Oscar winners for Best Supporting Actress had these same initials M.S. |
| #177, aired 1985-05-14 | ACTORS & ROLES: Sean Connery, Richard Todd & Dick Gautier have all played this legendary fugitive hero Robin Hood |
| #175, aired 1985-05-10 | TOYS AND GAMES: Of the six different chess pieces, the only two which can make the opening move pawn & knight |
| #152, aired 1985-04-09 | THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE: In the Websters 3rd International Dictionary, it's the letter with the most entries S |
| #151, aired 1985-04-08 | THE CALENDAR: In 1984, the Cotton, Fiesta, Orange, Rose & Sugar Bowls were all played on this date January 2 |
| #142, aired 1985-03-26 | PUBLIC HEALTH: Since vaccinations are not yet available, it’s most widespread of communicable childhood diseases chicken pox |
| #123, aired 1985-02-27 | WORLD CAPITALS: In less than 40 years, Karachi, Rawalpindi & Islamabad have all been its capital Pakistan |
| #113, aired 1985-02-13 | THE CALENDAR: The 1930s were this decade of the 20th century the 4th decade |
| #112, aired 1985-02-12 | FAIRY TALES: Number of characters who sang the song "Heigh Ho" in '37 Disney film 6 |
| #107, aired 1985-02-05 | SHOW BUSINESS: Only actress to win an Oscar, a Tony, a Grammy & an Emmy Rita Moreno |
| #104, aired 1985-01-31 | FAMOUS QUOTES: In '60s speech to Congress he said, "All I have I would have gladly given not to be standing here today" Lyndon Johnson |
| #103, aired 1985-01-30 | TELEVISION: Mt. Vernon, NY native who now hosts shows on all three major networks Dick Clark |
| #99, aired 1985-01-24 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY: Each one of these 2 letters begins the names of 8 states M & N |
| #97, aired 1985-01-22 | THE THEATER: The musical "Hello Dolly!" was based on this Thornton Wilder play The Matchmaker |
| #89, aired 1985-01-10 | FAMOUS FAMILIES: Illinois family that included a vice-president, governor & U.N. ambassador, & a U.S. senator the Stevensons |
| #64, aired 1984-12-06 | WORLD HISTORY: In 1804 this Caribbean country became 1st black nation to gain freedom from European colonial rule Haiti |
| #63, aired 1984-12-05 | SHOW BUSINESS: Barrymore, Rathbone, Roger Moore & Larry Hagman are among 61 actors to play this character Sherlock Holmes |
| #44, aired 1984-11-08 | AMERICAN GOVERNMENT: Along with president, these 2 must sign a bill for it to become law the speaker of the House & the vice president |
| #20, aired 1984-10-05 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY: It has more people than all the other South American countries combined Brazil |
| #4, aired 1984-09-13 | AMERICAN GOVERNMENT: Since 1970, the only cabinet department not headed by a secretary the Attorney General's Department |
| #2, aired 1984-09-11 | THE CALENDAR: Calendar date with which the 20th century began January 1, 1901 |
| #2, aired 1984-01-01 | LITERATURE: Classic American novel which begins "Call me Ishmael" Moby-Dick |
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• Highest all-time winnings (over $4.3 million) • Has never lost...
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Rose Schaefer, a junior from Portland, Oregon
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2012 Teen Tournament 1st runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $36,000. 16 at...
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Sarah Marx, a junior from Chevy Chase, Maryland
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2008-B Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user name:...
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Cassie Hill, a recent graduate from the University of Mary Washington
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\"Her dad is a lawyer, and by the seventh grade, she...
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David Skaar, a research scientist from Raleigh, North Carolina
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Season 25 3-time champion: $102,000 + $2,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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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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Dmitry Spivak, a junior from Northwestern University
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"The 11-year-old wasn't really kidding when he said he wanted to...
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Brad Rutter, a $3.2-million winner from Los Angeles, California
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"In 2000, he became a 5-time champion and went on to...
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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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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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Ken Jennings, a writer from Seattle, Washington
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"He was a software engineer living in Salt Lake City, Utah,...
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Brad Rutter, an actor and producer from Hollywood, California
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"He was a college student from Lancaster, Pennsylvania, when he won...
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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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Matt DeTura, a recent law school graduate from Washington, D.C.
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Season 27 3-time champion: $61,601 + $2,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: MDT
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Steven Milton, a legal case assistant from San Diego, California
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Season 26 2-time champion: $30,299 + $1,000. Steve Milton San Diego,...
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Emily Heaney, a freelance costume designer from White Bear Lake, Minnesota
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Season 25 1-time champion: $2,200 + $1,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Marty Scott, an assistant district attorney from Forney, Texas
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Season 26 3-time champion: $64,002 + $2,000. Marty won $250,000 on...
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Dan Smith, a student from Chicago, Illinois
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Season 25 3-time champion: $69,200 + $1,000. Dan Smith - a...
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Alison Stone Roberg, an administrative assistant from Kansas City, Missouri
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Season 26 3-time champion: $85,102 + $2,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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Jenifer Thomas, a teacher assistant from Jacksonville, North Carolina
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Season 26 1-time champion: $13,400 + $2,000. Jenifer Thomas October 5,...
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Jason Pratt, a middle school history teacher from Woodbridge, Virginia
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Season 25 2-time champion: $32,701 + $1,000. Jason Pratt - A...
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Harris Cohen, a family physician from Lower Gwynedd, Pennsylvania
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Season 25 2-time champion: $17,800 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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Tim Relihan, a senior from the University of Nebraska from Stromsburg, Nebraska
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2010-B College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
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Neil Patrick Harris, an actor from How I Met Your Mother
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"He's appeared on Broadway in Proof, Assassins, and Cabaret. He's now...
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Lea Tottle, a junior from Florida State University from Oldsmar, Florida
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2010-B College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000 + a Nintendo Wii +...
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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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Miguel Ferrer, an actor from Crossing Jordan
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"He began his career as a studio drummer and played on...
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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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Brad Rutter, the biggest money winner from Los Angeles, California
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2020 Jeopardy!: The Greatest of All Time 2nd runner-up: $250,000. 2019...
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Matt Polazzo, a high school U.S. government teacher from Brooklyn, New York
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"He teaches at one of the most selective high schools in...
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Brad Brown, a theater teacher from Nashville, Tennessee
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"And he is a theater teacher at an international baccalaureate certified...
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Joon Pahk, a college physics teacher from Somerville, Massachusetts
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2011 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000.
Season 28 7-time champion: $199,000 + $2,000.
JBoard user name: jpahk
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Tom Nissley, a writer from Seattle, Washington
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2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2011 Tournament of Champions...
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Chris Matthews, a TV host from Hardball and The Chris Matthews Show
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"He served as a speechwriter for Jimmy Carter, and later as...
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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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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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Mehrun Etebari, a graduate student of international relations from Durham, New Hampshire
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2007 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD Home...
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Adam Pinson, a senior at the University of Alabama at Birmingham from Pinson, Alabama
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2005 College Championship 1st runner-up: $50,000. Won $100,000 on Who Wants...
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Robin Carroll, an instructional designer from Marietta, Georgia
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"Winner of both the 2000 Tournament of Champions and the 2001...
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Matt Drury, a government analyst from New York, New York
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Season 26 1-time champion: $18,799 + $2,000. Matthew Drury - A...
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Kara Spak, a newspaper reporter from Chicago, Illinois
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2011 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 27 5-time champion:...
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Anthony Dedousis, a sophomore from Harvard University
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2009 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 19 and from Manhasset, New York...
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Anthony Fox, an account executive from Arlington Heights, Illinois
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Season 27 4-time champion: $51,998 + $1,000. Playing as "Tony", Anthony...
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Jane Curtin, an actress from Kate & Allie and 3rd Rock from the Sun
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"One of Saturday Night Live's original Not Ready for Primetime Players,...
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Michael Farabaugh, a high school chemistry teacher from Charlottesville, Virginia
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"This chemistry teacher has been making things fizz, smoke, and explode...
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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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Kristiana Henderson, a junior from Kent, Washington
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2007 Teen Tournament Summer Games quarterfinalist: $5,000. 17 at the time...
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Andrew Kreitz, a senior from Huntington Beach, California
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2006 Teen Tournament 1st runner-up: $25,000.
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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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Steve Newman, a partner in a small computer company from Rockville, Maryland
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"He was the first player to win 5 games in the...
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Christina Maes, a senior at the University of Wisconsin - Green Bay from Green Bay, Wisconsin
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2004 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000.
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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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Brad Rutter, a college student from Lancaster, Pennsylvania
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2020 Jeopardy!: The Greatest of All Time 2nd runner-up: $250,000. 2019...
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Brad Rutter, a network administrator from Lancaster, Pennsylvania
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2020 Jeopardy!: The Greatest of All Time 2nd runner-up: $250,000. 2019...
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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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Celeste DiNucci, a recent graduate student from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2014 Battle of the Decades...
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Leslie Frates, a Spanish teacher from Hayward, California
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\"A Jeopardy! champion in 1991, she\'s now a Spanish teacher listed...
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Charles Temple, a high school English teacher from Ocracoke, North Carolina
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"He teaches at the smallest public school in North Carolina, and...
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Brenton Montie, a sixth grade social studies teacher from South Lyon, Michigan
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"He teaches at a school ranked in the top 5% in...
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Jay Schrader, a junior from Lexington, Kentucky
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2008-B Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000. Older brother of 2012 Teen Tournament...
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Ellen Lewis, a retired high school math teacher from Mount Vernon, New York
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Season 28 1-time champion: $10,000 + $1,000.
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Anurag Kashyap, a senior from Poway, California
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2008-B Teen Tournament winner: $75,000. Anurag was also the winner of...
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Matt Olson, a sophomore at Stanford University from Berkeley, California
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2012 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. 20 at the time of the...
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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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Catherine Briley, a senior from Grand Prairie, Louisiana
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2012 Teen Tournament 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $31,000. 17 at...
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Eliza Scruton, a junior from Louisville, Kentucky
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2012 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000.
16 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Carlee Jensen, a senior from Santa Monica, California
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2011 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
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Christie Whitman, a former governor from New Jersey
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"She was New Jersey's first woman governor, and later became administrator...
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Allison Dziuba, a junior from Ridgefield, Connecticut
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2007 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 17 at the time of the...
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Myles Jeffrey, a senior from Seal Beach, California
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2007 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
16 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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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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James Grant, a junior from Georgetown University
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2008 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 21 and from Manhattan Beach,...
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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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Vito Cortese, a software engineer and Italian translator from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
|
Season 27 3-time champion: $68,485 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
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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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Hema Karunakaram, a senior from Saline, Michigan
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2009 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000. Name pronounced like "HAY-ma kah-ROO-nuh-KAH-ram". Jeopardy!...
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Ari Stern, a mathematician from San Diego, California
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Season 27 1-time champion: $17,201 + $1,000.
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Paul Kursky, a copywriter from San Francisco, California
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2011 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 26 5-time champion: $109,411...
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Rachel Pildis, a software developer from Oak Park, Illinois
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Season 26 1-time champion: $12,000 + $2,000. Rachel Pildis - A...
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James Erwin, a writer from Des Moines, Iowa
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Season 25 2-time champion: $22,598 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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Jen McFann, a Peace Corps recruiter from Astoria, New York
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Season 26 1-time champion: $19,410 + $2,000. Jen McFann Astoria, New...
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Vijay Balse, a chemical engineer from Chatham, New Jersey
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2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2010 Tournament of Champions...
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Elizabeth Galoozis, a reference librarian from Cambridge, Massachusetts
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Season 26 2-time champion: $38,801 + $2,000. Elizabeth Galoozis - A...
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Scott Harris, a videographer and elementary school librarian from Las Vegas, Nevada
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Season 27 1-time champion: $19,201 + $2,000. Scott won $30,000 on...
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Jeff Gorham, an accountant from Richmond, Virginia
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Season 27 1-time champion: $14,001 + $1,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: SpacemanSpiff
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Dan Jensen, a restaurant manager from Reston, Virginia
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Season 27 3-time champion: $58,203 + $1,000.
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Samira Missaghi, a junior from the University of Minnesota
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2010-A College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Hometown: Eden Prarie, Minnesota. Samira...
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Steve Gratz, a freelance artist from Washington, D.C.
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Season 27 2-time champion: $30,999 + $1,000.
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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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Ben Bishop, a college student originally from Seattle, Washington
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2009 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 25 4-time champion: $114,800...
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Tom Zamojcin, a digital marketing manager from Phoenixville, Pennsylvania
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Season 27 1-time champion: $22,800 + $2,000.
Last name pronounced like "zam-MOH-chin".
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Aisha Tyler, a comedienne, host and actress from Talk Soup, Friends, The 5th Wheel and Ghost Whisperer
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2009 Celebrity Jeopardy! winner: $50,000 split between the International Rescue Committee/Congo...
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Kyle Kahan, a senior from Texas A&M University from Houston, Texas
|
2010-B College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000 + a Nintendo Wii +...
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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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Ben Tritle, an apartment manager from Los Angeles, California
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2003 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 18 5-time champion: $78,600...
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Julie Bowen, a TV and film actress from Boston Legal, Lost and Modern Family
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"For two seasons, she played attorney Denise Bauer in Boston Legal....
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Loren Loiacono, a senior from Setauket, New York
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2006 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
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Scott Gillispie, a project manager and expectant father from Atlanta, Georgia
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"While attending Georgia Tech, he won the 1991 College Championship. Now...
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Diane Siegel, an educational consultant and writer from Northridge, California
|
"A full-time mom when she won five games in 1993, now...
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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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Ryan Holznagel, a writer originally from Forest Grove, Oregon
|
"He was the winner of the 1995 Tournament of Champions. Now,...
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India Cooper, an actor and copy editor from New York, New York
|
\"She became a 5-time champion in 1991. An actor and copy...
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Alex Damisch, a data scientist from Chicago, Illinois
|
Season 36 3-time champion: $33,549 + $2,000. Alex rendered her name...
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Chuck Forrest, a lawyer and CEO from London, United Kingdom
|
\"He became a winner of the second-ever Tournament of Champions in...
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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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Bill Pitassy, a lawyer from Roselle Park, New Jersey
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\"After winning 5 games in 1994, he took his family on...
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Amanda Walker, a junior at Gonzaga University from East Wenatchee, Washington
|
2005 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user name:...
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Kate Wilson, a high school AP English teacher from Montgomery, Alabama
|
"She is a top-10 AP English language teacher at Alabama's number-one...
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Ann Thurlow, an aspiring novelist and retired salesperson from Mendham, New Jersey
|
Season 28 1-time champion: $26,805 + $1,000.
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Emma Johnson, an eleven-year-old from St. Petersburg, Florida
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"She'll hit a high note in her future musical career as...
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Rahul Francis, a twelve-year-old from Flushing, New York
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"This electronic wizard's current plans are to run a technology company....
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Leslie Decker, a high school German and ESL teacher from Austin, Texas
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"She taught English to Europeans. Now she teaches German to Americans....
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Mark Runsvold, a student and waiter from Moscow, Idaho
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2011 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000.
Season 27 4-time champion: $153,800 + $1,000.
JBoard user name: markrunsvold
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Justin Sausville, a urologist from Baltimore, Maryland
|
2011 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 27/28 6-time champion:...
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Jessica Dell'Era, a third grade Spanish bilingual teacher from Oakland, California
|
"She has wanted to be a teacher since she was 7...
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Lisa Johnston, a fourth and fifth grade reading and religion teacher from East Boston, Massachusetts
|
"She teaches at a parish that's focus is to dream big....
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Elissa Hoffman, a high school biology and anatomy & physiology teacher from Appleton, Wisconsin
|
"She is in her lucky 13th year of teaching. From Appleton,...
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Iliza Shlesinger, a comedian from New York City
|
"A comedian from New York City, she has six Netflix specials...
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Greer Mackebee, a senior at Duke University from Knoxville, Tennessee
|
2012 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. 22 at the time of the...
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Zack Terrill, a senior at Vanderbilt University from Winter Springs, Florida
|
2012 College Championship 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $25,000. 21 at...
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Mandy Berry, an 11-year-old from Baltimore, Maryland
|
"She wants to dedicate her life to helping animals by becoming...
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Chris Wallace, a TV host from Fox News Sunday
|
"In March, this Fox News anchor was honored by the National...
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Evan Eschliman, a sophomore from Olathe, Kansas
|
2012 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000.
16 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
|
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Kevin Yang, a junior from Birmingham, Alabama
|
2012 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000.
16 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
|
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Caleb Olson, a senior from Chariton, Iowa
|
2012 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $10,000.
17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
|
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Cosi Audi, a junior from North Canton, Ohio
|
2011 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
16 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Raya Elias-Pushett, a junior from Aventura, Florida
|
2011 Teen Tournament 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $20,851. First name...
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Raphie Cantor, a sophomore from San Diego, California
|
2011 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
15 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Keith Olbermann, a news anchor from MSNBC
|
"In 2004, this veteran reporter will provide extensive coverage of the...
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Eliza Urban, a sophomore from Richmond, Virginia
|
2007 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 15 at the time of the...
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Naren Tallapragada, a junior from Burke, Virginia
|
2008-A Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000. 16 at the time of the...
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Rachel Horn, a sophomore from Cincinnati, Ohio
|
2008-A Teen Tournament winner: $75,000. 15 at the time of the...
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Jonathan Franzen, a best-selling author from Purity and The Corrections
|
"His best-selling novels are critically acclaimed and have won numerous honors,...
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Paula Frome, a lawyer from Glen Cove, New York
|
Season 23 1-time champion: $25,601 + $2,000.
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Andy Siegler, a senior from Cinnaminson, New Jersey
|
2001 Teen Tournament 1st runner-up: $15,000.
17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Sherri Schottlaender, an editor from San Diego, California
|
Season 23 player (2006-12-20).
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Michelle Clum, an executive assistant from Wichita, Kansas
|
2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 2001 Tournament...
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Susan Haarman, a sophomore at Marquette University from Louisville, Kentucky
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2001 College Championship quarterfinalist: $2,500. Susan was 19 at the time...
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Cathy Lanctot, a law professor from Wilmington, Delaware
|
2007 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD Home...
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Jason Richards, a pharmacy technician from Old Town, Maine
|
2006 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
Season 22 4-time champion: $99,200 + $2,000.
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Kathy Daum, a retired registrar and volunteer from Montevallo, Alabama
|
Season 22 player (2006-06-01).
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Kermin Fleming, a student from Lexington, Kentucky
|
2006 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions...
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Madeline Suchard, from Placentia, California
|
"She has her sights set on becoming the Supreme Court Justice,...
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Andrew Vogl, from Yonkers, New York
|
"He can ski the slopes with ease, but navigating his own...
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Steve Greene, a senior from UCLA from Elk Grove, California
|
2010-B College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000 + a Nintendo Wii +...
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Bob Verini, a film journalist and test prep teacher from Los Angeles, California
|
"A resident of New York City when he won the 1987...
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Dave Ellis, a singer-songwriter from Los Angeles, California
|
Season 27 1-time champion: $16,000 + $2,000. Not to be confused...
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Rachael Schwartz, a lawyer with an international law firm from Washington, D.C.
|
"In 1994, she became the first woman ever to win the...
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Frank Spangenberg, a lieutenant in the New York Police Department from Douglaston, New York
|
"He still holds the record for the most money won in...
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Jesse Cuevas, a corporate lawyer originally from Leawood, Kansas
|
Season 27 3-time champion: $65,981 + $2,000. Brother of Season 30...
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John Ryan, a corporate controller from Richmond, California
|
"As a college student, he was the top winner of the...
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Lan Djang, a health policy analyst from Toronto, Ontario, Canada
|
"He was a 5-time champion in 2001. Today he's a health...
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|
Kyle Hale, a college senior from Katy, Texas
|
"Representing Texas A&M, he won the 2002 College Championship. Now he's...
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Eugene Finerman, a writer from Northbrook, Illinois
|
"A finalist in the 1987 Tournament of Champions, he's a writer....
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Chacko George, a senior at the University of Texas at Austin from Austin, Texas
|
"He won the November 1999 Teen Tournament. Now he's a senior...
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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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Bob Harris, a writer from Los Angeles, California
|
"This 5-time champ was a finalist in the 1998 Tournament of...
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Leszek Pawlowicz, a computer consultant from Flagstaff, Arizona
|
"He was the winner of the 1992 Tournament of Champions. Today...
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Bernard Holloway, a sophomore at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from Chapel Hill, North Carolina
|
"He was a 2002 Teen Champion. He's now a sophomore at...
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Zach Blumenfeld, a junior from Lincolnshire, Illinois
|
2009 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000.
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Kennedy Stomps, a junior from St. Louis, Missouri
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2009 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
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Val Nieman, a college professor and writer from Greensboro, North Carolina
|
Season 21 player (2005-01-05).
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Suzanne Rorick, a stay-at-home mom from Stevenson Ranch, California
|
Season 27 1-time champion: $12,900 + $2,000.
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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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Leszek Pawlowicz, a shovel bum from Flagstaff, Arizona
|
"He was a material scientist living in Phoenix when he won...
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Emily Jusino, a Ph.D. candidate in Greek literature originally from Fredericksburg, Virginia
|
Season 27 1-time champion: $18,801 + $1,000.
Last name pronouned like "hoo-SEE-no".
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Don Meals, an environmental scientist from Burlington, Vermont
|
Season 27 3-time champion: $42,599 + $2,000.
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Crystal Durham, a 12-year-old from Fort Pierce, Florida
|
"She would like to be an Irish stepdancing teacher, because dancing...
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Katie Orphan, a freshman at Whitworth College from Reno, Nevada
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2002 College Championship semifinalist: $5,000.
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Ingrid Nelson, a judicial assistant from Lake Mills, Wisconsin
|
Season 25 2-time champion: $27,802 + $2,000. Ingrid Nelson - A...
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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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Nick Yozamp, a biology student from St. Cloud, Minnesota
|
2010 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 2010-A College Championship winner:...
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Lizz Mullowney, a senior from Crystal Lake, Illinois
|
2003 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500. 17 at the time of the...
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Dana Delany, an actress from Desperate Housewives
|
"She won two Emmys for her work on China Beach. This...
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|
James Hill III, a freshman from Santa Clara University
|
2010-A College championship semifinalist: $10,000. Hometown: San Jose, California. [No contestant...
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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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Sara Terrell, a veterinary technician from Windsor, Connecticut
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2007 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD Home...
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Christian Haines, a college student originally from Newport News, Virginia
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2007 Tournament of champions semifinalist: $10,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD Home...
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Marissa Goldsmith, a web developer from Springfield, Virginia
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Season 27 3-time champion: $44,100 + $2,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: marteena
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Robby Schrum, a junior at Yale University from Crown Point, Indiana
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2003 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $5,000. According to the official Jeopardy!...
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Craig Westphal, a paramedic from Tucson, Arizona
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2007 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD Home...
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Paul Glaser, a research scientist from Albany, New York
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2007 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD Home...
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Ann Dickie, a director of human resources from Cheverly, Maryland
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Season 20 player (2004-03-17).
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Diane Wilshere, an actor and playwright from Manassas, Virginia
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Season 25 1-time champion: $18,801 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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Daniel Stauss, a federal claims examiner from Seattle, Washington
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Season 25 1-time champion: $25,500 + $2,000. Daniel Stauss - A...
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Christine Carrino Gorowara, a teacher educator from Wilmington, Delaware
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Season 25 2-time champion: $43,202 + $1,000. Wife of Season 26...
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Elizabeth Perkins, an actress from Weeds
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"For the past five seasons, she's played the calculating and manipulative...
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Fred Beukema, a structural engineer from Minneapolis, Minnesota
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Season 25 3-time champion: $69,401 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Josh Powell, a phone-based health coach from San Diego, California
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Season 27 3-time champion: $26,900 + $1,000.
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Mark Wales, a substitute teacher from Amherst, New York
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2009 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 24 5-time champion: $141,804...
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Ariel Schneider, a biology student from West Lafayette, Indiana
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Season 27 2-time champion: $46,300 + $2,000.
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Tom Morris, a substitute teacher and grad 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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Jason Zollinger, an engine assembler from South Dayton, New York
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2010 Tournament of Champions 1st runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $100,000. Season...
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Laura Button, an editor and proofreader from Alpharetta, Georgia
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Season 27 1-time champion: $28,800 + $1,000.
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Thulasi Seshan, a 12-year-old from Draper, Utah
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"The sky is the limit for this future astronomer. From Draper,...
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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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Andrew Rostan, a writer and script reader originally from Boardman, Ohio
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2007 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD Home...
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Sarah Nothnagel, a sophomore from the University of Southern California
|
2007 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 19 at the time of the...
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Will Schultz, a freshman from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
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2007 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. 19 at the time of the...
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Pete Troyan, a senior from the University of Michigan
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2007 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. 22 at the time of the...
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Doug Savant, an actor from Desperate Housewives
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"He plays Tom Scavo, the sometimes-befuddled husband of Felicity Huffman on...
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Dean Malec, a junior from Northwestern University
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2007 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. 21 at the time of the...
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Jeffrey Baer, a senior from Thornhill, Ontario, Canada
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2007 Teen Tournament Summer Games semifinalist: $10,000. 17 at the time...
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Kriti Gandhi, a senior from Ellicott City, Maryland
|
2007 Teen Tournament Summer Games semifinalist: $10,000. 18 at the time...
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Amy Varallo, a senior from Aiken, South Carolina
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2007 Teen Tournament Summer Games quarterfinalist: $5,000. 17 at the time...
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Amy Levine, a freshman from North Potomac, Maryland
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2007 Teen Tournament Summer Games quarterfinalist: $5,000. 15 at the time...
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Meryl Federman, a senior from Livingston, New Jersey
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2007 Teen Tournament Summer Games champion (semifinalist by wildcard): $75,000. 18...
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Mike Marmesh, a veterinarian from Miami, Florida
|
Season 26 1-time champion: $4,700 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Nick Dnistrian, an 11-year-old from Webster, New York
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"With a nickname like Elvis, this future chemist is already the...
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Claudia Perry, a sports copy editor from Jersey City, New Jersey
|
"A pop music critic when she first appeared on Jeopardy!, she's...
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Kate Waits, a law professor at the University of Tulsa from Tulsa, Oklahoma
|
"A Harvard Law graduate when she competed in the 1988 Tournament...
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Andrew Schwartz, an independent filmmaker from Miami, Florida
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Season 25 2-time champion: $31,988 + $1,000. Andrew played all of...
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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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Brad Selvig, a sophomore at Florida State from Jacksonville, Florida
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2004 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000.
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Scott Turow, a bestselling novelist and practicing attorney from Chicago, Illinois
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"He's sold more than 25 million copies of his novels worldwide...
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Bob Verini, a director of academics for a national test preparation company from Los Angeles, California
|
2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2005 Ultimate Tournament of...
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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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Dana Delany, an actress from Kidnapped
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"She won two Emmys for playing Army nurse Colleen McMurphy on...
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Edward Lee, a 12-year-old seventh grader from Sacramento, California
|
"Of the numerous projects he has completed, making gliders and bottle...
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Amy Fletcher, a junior from Cincinnati, Ohio
|
2005 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500.
16 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Robin Carroll, an instructional designer from Marietta, Georgia
|
2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Nifty Nine (players with byes into...
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Sean Ryan, a graduate student from Whitehall, Pennsylvania
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Nifty Nine (players with byes into...
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Steve Golden, a junior from Brookeville, Maryland
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2005 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $5,000. 16 at the time of the...
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Steve Chernicoff, a technical writer from Berkeley, California
|
"He was one of the top 1-day winners in the 1994-95...
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Laura Ansley, a senior from Twinsburg, Ohio
|
2006 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
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Andrew Garen, an associate director of consumer marketing from Austin, Texas
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"He was a project manager when he won his 5 shows...
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Bruce Borchardt, a metrologist from Washington, D.C.
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"A winner of five shows in 1995, he spent most of...
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Camille Bullock, a senior from New Orleans, Louisiana
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2006 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: Camille88
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Matt Klein, a senior from Pittsford, New York
|
2006 Teen Tournament 2nd runner-up: $15,000. Won $1,000 on Who Wants...
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Bobby Millison, from Clifton Heights, Pennsylvania
|
"He's an award-winning diver, and would like to serve his country...
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Brian Weikle, a consultant from Minneapolis, Minnesota
|
2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Nifty Nine (players with byes into...
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Whitney Prince, a sophomore from Maryville, Tennessee
|
2005 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500.
15 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Elaine Zollner, a physician from Glendale, California
|
"A winner of 5 shows in 1990, she used her Jeopardy!...
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Orlando Zambrano, a junior from Tampa, Florida
|
2005 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $5,000.
16 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Chloé White, a senior from Mission Hills, Kansas
|
2005 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500.
17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Andrew He, a stay-at-home dad from Concord, California
|
2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament 2nd runner up: $25,000. 2023 Jeopardy! Masters...
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Andrew He, a software developer from San Francisco, California
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2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament 2nd runner up: $25,000. 2023 Jeopardy! Masters...
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Matt Jackson, a paralegal from Washington, D.C.
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2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament semifinalist: $10,000. 2019 All-Star Games member of...
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Burns Cameron, a realtor from Standish, Maine
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1990 Super Jeopardy! quarterfinalist: $5,000. Burns appeared on the original version...
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Andrew He, a software developer from San Francisco, California
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2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament 2nd runner up: $25,000. 2023 Jeopardy! Masters...
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Matt Jackson, a paralegal from Washington, D.C.
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2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament semifinalist: $10,000. 2019 All-Star Games member of...
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Frank Epstein, a police officer from Los Angeles, California
|
\"He was a 5-time champion in 1992, and is still serving...
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Matt Jackson, a grad student in computer science and public policy originally from Washington, D.C.
|
2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament semifinalist: $10,000. 2019 All-Star Games member of...
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Andrew He, a software developer from San Francisco, California
|
2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament 2nd runner up: $25,000. 2023 Jeopardy! Masters...
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Matt Jackson, a digital fundraising professional from Washington, D.C.
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• 4th highest earning player • 4th most regular season wins...
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Larissa Kelly, a grad student from El Cerrito, California
|
2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament semifinalist: $10,000. 2019 All-Star Games member of...
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Larissa Kelly, a grad student from El Cerrito, California
|
2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament semifinalist: $10,000. 2019 All-Star Games member of...
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Larissa Kelly, an editor for academic competitions from Richmond, California
|
\"She was a graduate student at U.C. Berkeley in Season 24...
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Larissa Kelly, an editor from Richmond, California
|
2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament semifinalist: $10,000. 2019 All-Star Games member of...
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Larissa Kelly, an editor for academic competitions from Richmond, California
|
• Top 10 regular season winnings • Co-founder of National Academic...
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Mary Ellen LaRubbio, a legal secretary originally from Brooklyn, New York
|
Season 8 player (1992-06-12): a collection of Armitron All-Sport water-resistant sport...
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Tom Walsh, a writer from Washington, D.C.
|
2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Nifty Nine (players with byes into...
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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
|
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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Andy Richter, an actor/comedian from The Tonight Show
|
\"This multitalented actor/comedian is now back on the couch with Conan...
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Lilly Chin, a robotics Ph.D. student at MIT from Decatur, Georgia
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2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2017 Tournament of Champions wildcard...
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Lilly Chin, a senior at MIT from Decatur, Georgia
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2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2017 Tournament of Champions wildcard...
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Lilly Chin, a robotics professor from Decatur, Georgia
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2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2017 Tournament of Champions wildcard...
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Jay Rosenberg, a college professor from Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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\"After winning 5 times in 1985, he became the moderator for...
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Colby Burnett, a high school world history teacher from Chicago, Illinois
|
2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2019 All-Star Games captain of...
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Colby Burnett, a college counselor from Chicago, Illinois
|
• 2012 Teachers Tournament winner • 2013 Tournament of Champions winner...
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Colby Burnett, an AP world history teacher from Chicago, Illinois
|
\"He won the Teacher\'s Tournament and the Tournament of Champions last...
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Colby Burnett, a high school college counselor from Chicago, Illinois
|
2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2019 All-Star Games captain of...
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Victoria Groce, a musician originally from Decatur, Georgia
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2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament winner: $100,000 + advance to Jeopardy! Masters....
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Ben Ingram, an IT consultant originally from Florence, South Carolina
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2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2019 All-Star Games member of...
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Ben Ingram, an IT consultant originally from Florence, South Carolina
|
2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2019 All-Star Games member of...
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Ben Ingram, a business technology integration consultant from Lake Wylie, South Carolina
|
• 8-game champion • 2014 Tournament of Champions winner 2024 Jeopardy!...
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Ben Ingram, a business control specialist originally from Florence, South Carolina
|
2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2019 All-Star Games member of...
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Seth Wilson, a private events manager from Chicago, Illinois
|
• 12-game champion • Top 5 regular season wins 2019 All-Star...
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India Cooper, a copy editor from Madison, Indiana
|
\"She was an actor and copy editor in New York City...
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Roger Craig, a machine learning consultant from Newark, Delaware
|
• 3rd highest earning player • Highest single-day winnings 2019 All-Star...
|
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India Cooper, an actor and copy editor from New York City, New York
|
\"A semifinalist in the Tournament of Champions in 1992, now an...
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Jennifer Giles, a third grade teacher from Longmont, Colorado
|
• 2015 Teachers Tournament winner • 2015 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist...
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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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Chuck Forrest, a lawyer from Bosnia and Herzegovina
|
2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2014 Battle of the Decades...
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Chuck Forrest, an attorney for the UN IFAD from Marino, Italy
|
\"In 1986, he was a law student living in Grand Blanc,...
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Julia Collins, an administrator of a female-centric website from Wilmette, Illinois
|
• 20-game champion • 2nd longest winning streak The official Jeopardy!...
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Buzzy Cohen, a music executive from Los Angeles, California
|
• 9-game champion • 2017 Tournament of Champions winner 2019 All-Star...
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Monica Thieu, a postdoctoral scientist from Atlanta, Georgia
|
2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2019 All-Star Games member of...
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Monica Thieu, a psychology student from Dallas, Texas
|
2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2019 All-Star Games member of...
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Monica Thieu, a Ph.D. student in psychology from New York, New York
|
• 2012 College Championship winner • 2013 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist...
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Alex Jacob, a currency trader from Chicago, Illinois
|
2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2019 All-Star Games member of...
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Alex Jacob, a currency trader from Chicago, Illinois
|
2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2019 All-Star Games member of...
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Alex Jacob, an online trivia league host from Tulsa, Oklahoma
|
2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2019 All-Star Games member of...
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|
Alex Jacob, a freelance trivia writer from Greensboro, North Carolina
|
• 6-game champion • 2015 Tournament of Champions winner 2024 Jeopardy!...
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Jessica Stephens, a statistical research specialist from Nashville, Tennessee
|
2022 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2022 Second Chance competition winner:...
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Gene Visich, a homemaker from Washington Township, New Jersey
|
Season 1 player (1984-09-18). Gene played baseball for the Rockford Peaches...
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Jessica Stephens, a statistical research specialist from Nashville, Tennessee
|
2022 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2022 Second Chance competition winner:...
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James Holzhauer, a professional sports gambler from Las Vegas, Nevada
|
2023 Jeopardy! Masters winner: $500,000 + $100,000 to Project 150 +...
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|
Austin Rogers, a bar owner and author from New York, New York
|
2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2019 All-Star Games captain of...
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John Gose, a caterer from Los Angeles, California
|
Season 4 player (1987-10-09). Last name pronounced like "Gaws". John won...
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Teresa O'Neill, a contract administrator from Santa Clara, California
|
Season 2 1-time champion: $16,799. A political candidate profile of Teresa...
|
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James Holzhauer, the setter of 20 Jeopardy! records from Las Vegas, Nevada
|
2023 Jeopardy! Masters winner: $500,000 + $100,000 to Project 150 +...
|
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James Holzhauer, a self-described game show villain from Las Vegas, Nevada
|
2023 Jeopardy! Masters winner: $500,000 + $100,000 to Project 150 +...
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Pam Mueller, a graduate student in psychology from Princeton, New Jersey
|
\"She was a student at Loyola University when she won the...
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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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Leonard Cooper, a graduate student at Brown University from Little Rock, Arkansas
|
• 2013 Teen Tournament winner • Graduated from Brown University 2024...
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Leonard Cooper, a doctoral student from Little Rock, Arkansas
|
2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2019 All-Star Games member of...
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Austin Rogers, a bartender from New York, New York
|
2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2019 All-Star Games captain of...
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Austin Rogers, a bartender from New York, New York
|
2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2019 All-Star Games captain of...
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|
Austin Rogers, a bartender from New York, New York
|
•12-game champion • 5th highest regular season winnings 2014 Jeopardy! Invitational...
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Alan Lin, a software engineer from Santa Barbara, California
|
2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2019 All-Star Games member of...
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Alan Lin, a software engineer from Riverside, California
|
2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2019 All-Star Games member of...
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Alan Lin, a software engineer from Riverside, California
|
• 6-game champion • 2017 Tournament of Champions runner-up 2024 Jeopardy!...
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Alan Lin, a software engineer from Los Angeles, California
|
2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2019 All-Star Games member of...
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John Pearson, a 4th grade math teacher from Richardson, Texas
|
"His school's theme this year is superheroes. It's a bird! It's...
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Pam Mueller, a junior at Loyola University, Chicago from Wilmette, Illinois
|
2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2019 All-Star Games member of...
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Pam Mueller, a college student from Wilmette, Illinois
|
2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2019 All-Star Games member of...
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Leonard Cooper, a senior from Little Rock, Arkansas
|
2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2019 All-Star Games member of...
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Pam Mueller, a justice researcher originally from Chicago, Illinois
|
2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2019 All-Star Games member of...
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Cora Peck, a high school teacher and grad student from Aliso Viejo, California
|
2009 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 24 5-time champion:...
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Max Zarou, a fifth-grade teacher originally from Culver City, California
|
Season 24 1-time champion: $7,201 + $2,000.
Max appeared on Master Minds on 2023-08-10.
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Dulé Hill, an actor and tap dancer originally from Sayreville, New Jersey
|
2023 Primetime Celebrity Jeopardy! ?: $X for All Rise.
|
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Bill Tolany, a marketing executive from Austin, Texas
|
Season 30 3-time champion: $44,200 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
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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...
|
|
Sharon Warner, a retired teacher and writer from Chicago, Illinois
|
Season 30 player (2013-10-21).
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Jonathan Dinerstein, a composer from Los Angeles, California
|
Season 35 4-time champion: $93,301 + $1,000. Jonathan shared a $600,000...
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James Holzhauer, a professional sports gambler from Las Vegas, Nevada
|
2023 Jeopardy! Masters player: $X. 2020 Jeopardy!: The Greatest of All...
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Seth Wilson, a Ph.D. candidate and adjunct professor from Nacogdoches, Texas
|
2019 All-Star Games member of first-eliminated Team Julia: a share of...
|
|
Buzzy Cohen, a music executive from Los Angeles, California
|
2019 All-Star Games captain of wildcard-match 3rd-place Team Buzzy: a share...
|
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Tom Nichols, a professor originally from Chicopee, Massachusetts
|
\"A five-time champion in 1994, he used his winnings for a...
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Fran Altomare, a tutor and adjunct professor originally from Quakertown, Pennsylvania
|
Season 30 player (2013-09-26).
Last name pronounced like "all-toe-MAR-ay".
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Gregory Proops, a retail sales clerk from San Francisco, California
|
Season 1 player (1984-11-08). Gregory played Alex Trebek during the Improv...
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Adam Levin, a sports information director from Ashland, Massachusetts
|
Season 35 player (2019-04-29). Adam’s final total of $53,999 in his...
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Jeff Richmond, a city planner from West Hollywood, California
|
2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 winner: $33,300. 1990 Super...
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Grafton Brown, a high school Spanish teacher from Chicago, Illinois
|
"He teaches at a school whose buildings are named in honor...
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Sally Umbach, a third grade special education teacher from Cincinnati, Ohio
|
"She teaches at a school district that has been in operation...
|
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Kathy DeLozier, an elementary school principal from Louisville, Kentucky
|
Season 29 player (2013-04-29).
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Larry DeMoss, a high school English teacher from Ellettsville, Indiana
|
"He went from short orders to short stories when he switched...
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Lori Kissell, a high school Latin teacher from Fredericksburg, Virginia
|
"She loves everything about Latin and shares that love with her...
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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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Anne Raybon, a teacher's assistant and school bus driver from Asheville, North Carolina
|
Season 28 player (2012-04-09).
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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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Caitlin Millat, a kindergarten teacher from Brooklyn, New York
|
"She receives support from Teach for America and works for Achievement...
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Lisa Lyons, a social media consultant from Van Nuys, California
|
Season 28 player (2012-04-06).
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Susan Cohen, an arts administrator from Belmont, Massachusetts
|
Season 28 player (2012-07-06).
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George McAleese, a political researcher from Washington, D.C.
|
Season 29 2-time champion: $56,402 + $2,000.
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Whitney Collins, a third grade teacher from New York, New York
|
"She teaches at an all-boys school where every student learns chess...
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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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Drew Joanides, a high school history teacher from Miami, Florida
|
"He is one of our four teachers competing in our tournament...
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Karen Gasperino, an administrative assistant from Las Vegas, Nevada
|
Season 20 player (2004-06-15).
KJL game 10.
First name pronounced like \"KAHR-en\".
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Xan Vessels, a 12-year-old seventh grader from Mechanicsville, Virginia
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"This phenomenal phenom wants to be a phenomenologist. From Mechanicsville, Virginia,...
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Haley Batz, a senior from Charlotte, North Carolina
|
2008-B Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. Last name pronounced like "BOTS". Jeopardy!...
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Max Corrick, an attorney from Las Vegas, Nevada
|
Season 20 player (2004-07-13).
KJL game 30.
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Drew Bayers, a music supervisor originally from Milford, Connecticut
|
Season 28 1-time champion: $19,200 + $2,000.
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John Michael Higgins, an actor from Boston, Massachusetts
|
"An actor from Boston, Massachusetts, since 2018, he's hosted the popular...
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Nicole Willson, a web designer from Centerville, Virginia
|
Season 28 player (2011-12-09).
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Paula Massengale, a bookkeeper from San Antonio, Texas
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Season 6 4-time champion: $50,901. In all of Paula\'s games, the...
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Tony Hightower, an event planner from Astoria, New York
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Season 28 1-time champion: $21,300 + $2,000. Tony won $250,000 on...
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Paul Barbour, an aspiring producer from Baldwinsville, New York
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Season 27 1-time champion: $29,800 + $2,000.
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Tony Harkin, an eleven-year-old from New Milford, Connecticut
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"Dig this--he wants to be an archaeologist when he grows up....
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Christopher Stephens, an administrative law judge from New York, New York
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Season 27 player (2011-07-11).
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Maddie Harrington, a twelve-year-old from Palm Beach Gardens, Florida
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"She wants to be a theater critic and she gets rave...
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Candace Parker, a basketball player from Naperville, Illinois
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"A basketball player from Naperville, Illinois, she was the number one...
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Emma Couture, a twelve-year-old from St. Petersburg, Florida
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"Here's a portrait of a smart young girl who sees her...
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Brooke Martin, an eleven-year-old from Galway, New York
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"It looks like smooth sailing for this marine biologist. From Galway,...
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Ben Chuchla, a senior from Calabasas, California
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2008-B Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Last name pronounced like "HOO-kla"....
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Nina Stanton, a specialist for the national center on tribal childcare from Louisville, Kentucky
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Season 28 player (2012-03-05).
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B.D. Schwarz, a twelve-year-old from Oakland, California
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"He wants to make others happy by opening a little game...
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Allison Swanberg, a pet store operations manager from Falls Church, Virginia
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Season 29 player (2013-01-29).
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Salvo Candela, a university administrator from New York, New York
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Season 29 3-time champion: $66,195 + $2,000.
JBoard user name: svocan
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Sarah Edwards, an attorney from Oakland, California
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Season 28 player (2012-02-29). Not to be confused with Season 32...
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Katie Houghton, a senior from Ewing, New Jersey
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2008-B Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Last name pronounced like "HOW-ton".
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Justin Hofstetter, a sixth and seventh grade language arts and social studies teacher from Kansas City, Missouri
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"This sixth and seventh grade teacher is in his first year...
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Chris Clayton, an agribusiness finance attorney from Denver, Colorado
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Season 27 player (2011-06-28).
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Steven Evenhouse, a junior high school social studies teacher from Orland Hills, Illinois
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"He likes teaching because it gives him a captive audience for...
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Brian Meacham, a film preservationist originally from Anchorage, Alaska
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2011 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 27 4-time champion: $90,500...
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Alex Johnson, an 11-year-old from Indianapolis, Indiana
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"He wants to be a chemist in the future. From Indianapolis,...
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Sue Richman, a certified public accountant from Oak Park, California
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Season 20 player (2004-06-30).
KJL game 21.
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Clarence Page, a journalist from The Chicago Tribune
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"His nationally syndicated column began as a local column for the...
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Evan Sandman, a hotel front desk manager from Los Angeles, California
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Season 28 1-time champion $28,801 + $2,000.
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Mary Linnenbringer, a floral designer from St. Louis, Missouri
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Season 27 player (2011-03-17).
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Sarah Bart, a senior at Goucher College from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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2012 College Championship 1st runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $50,000. 22 at...
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Tyson Schindler, an airline pilot from Austin, Texas
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Season 29 player (2013-03-25).
JBoard user name: You'reOnMyList
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Rebecca Rogers, an economic development attorney from Carrboro, North Carolina
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Season 27 player (2011-03-16).
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Kristi Myers, a graduate student and English teacher originally from Altamont, Illinois
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Season 27 player (2011-03-15).
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Tyler Benedict, a junior at Columbia University from Dayton, Ohio
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2012 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000.
21 at the time of the College Championship.
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Steve Money, an international education specialist from Washington, D.C.
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Season 29 player (2013-01-07).
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Kelly O'Donnell, a political reporter from NBC News
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"An Emmy-winning political reporter, she has covered Capitol Hill and the...
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John Mingey, a physician from Erie, Pennsylvania
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Season 27 player (2011-06-15).
Last name pronounced like "MIN-jee".
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Matthew Cline, a 12-year-old from Maumelle, Arkansas
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"John Grisham's books have inspired him. He's firm. He wants to...
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Heather Anstaett, an auditor from West Palm Beach, Florida
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Season 28 player (2011-10-21).
Last name pronounced like "AN-stett".
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David Faber, an anchor and reporter from CNBC's Squawk on the Street and The Faber Report
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"The winner of Emmy, Peabody, DuPont, and Loeb awards, he's a...
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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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Mike Nelson, a mechanical engineer from Geneva, Illinois
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Season 27 2-time champion: $20,800 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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Jeff Weber, an online book sales director from Ridgewood, New Jersey
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Season 29 player (2013-03-20).
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Lauren Girard, a museum guest relations manager from Los Angeles, California
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Season 29 2-time champion: $51,000 + $2,000.
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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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Kathleen Meyer, a journalist and community volunteer from Brookfield, Wisconsin
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Season 29 player (2013-03-15).
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Erin Hart, a junior from Benton Harbor, Michigan
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2011 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000. 16 at the time of the...
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Tom Stetina, a high school math teacher from Millsboro, Delaware
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Season 25 1-time champion: $29,353 + $1,000.
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Anne Olson, an accountant from Venice, California
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Season 29 player (2013-03-14).
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Idrees Kahloon, a junior from Lexington, Kentucky
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2011 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000.
15 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Jennifer Giles, a third grade teacher from Longmont, Colorado
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2019 All-Star Games member of wildcard-match 3rd-place Team Buzzy: a share...
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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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Brandon Welch, a senior from Grayson, Georgia
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2011 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000.
17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Kate Rowland, a family doctor from Chicago, Illinois
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Season 27 1-time champion: $16,401 + $2,000.
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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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Cliff Galiher, a student from Half Moon Bay, California
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2007 Tournament of Champions 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $50,000 +...
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Matt Collins, a graduate student in economic policy from Cambridge, Massachusetts
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Season 28 player (2012-07-16).
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Vince Balzano, a production company associate originally from Summit, New Jersey
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Season 30 player (2014-06-06).
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Andrew Sprouse, a historic preservationist from Durham, North Carolina
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Season 24 player (2008-01-29). Andrew wore a bow tie in his...
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Jeff Richmond, a law student from West Hollywood, California
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 winner: $33,300. 1990 Super...
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Ethan Brosowsky, an actor from Los Angeles, California
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Season 24 1-time champion: $21,600 + $2,000. Ethan and his "pub...
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Rosie O'Donnell, from The Rosie O'Donnell Show
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"Her love of Broadway led this talk show host to emceeing...
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Stephen Cooper, a math teacher from Sandy Springs, Georgia
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Season 23 player (2007-01-26).
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Tavis Smiley, a talk show host from PBS's The Tavis Smiley Show
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"He's interviewed such diverse personalities as Fidel Castro, Pope John Paul...
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Seth Wilson, a Ph.D. candidate from Chicago, Illinois
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2019 All-Star Games member of first-eliminated Team Julia: a share of...
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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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Frank Firke, a junior from Chicago, Illinois
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2007 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 16 at the time of...
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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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Naomi Hinchen, a senior from Brooklyn, New York
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2007 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000.
17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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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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Stephen Fritz, a sophomore from Lexington, Kentucky
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2007 Teen Tournament 2nd runner-up: $25,460.
15 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Bob Woodward, an assistant managing editor from The Washington Post
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2004 Power Players Week player (2004-05-10).
Charity: Sidwell Friends School.
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Peggy Noonan, a contributing editor from The Wall Street Journal
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2004 Power Players Week player (2004-05-10).
Charity: The Sisters of Life.
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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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Grace Acton, from Harvard, Massachusetts
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"This competitive gymnast is hoping to score a perfect 10 for...
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Jake McCrory, an 11-year-old from Pueblo, Colorado
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"He wants to make a positive change in our nation's future...
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Adam Barrow, an 11-year-old from Greensboro, North Carolina
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"And he wants to be a sportswriter, so he can combine...
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Katie Gill, a sophomore from Jackson, Mississippi
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2008-A Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000.
15 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Will Harter, a 12-year-old from Park Ridge, Illinois
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"He would like to be a professional athlete. If that doesn't...
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Tom Clancy, a bestselling author from The Hunt for Red October
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"His bestsellers include The Hunt for Red October, Patriot Games, and...
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Melissa Luttmann, a freshman from Memphis, Tennessee
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2008-A Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 14 at the time of...
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Cerulean Ozarow, an 11-year-old from Brooklyn, New York
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"His future is full of options. He wants to become either...
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Kristin Briggs, a senior from Parkland, Florida
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2007 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Suzanne LaVere, a graduate student from Evanston, Illinois
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Season 20 player (2004-05-18).
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Jack Ford, a trial attorney and Emmy Award-winning journalist from the Today show
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"A successful trial attorney and Emmy Award-winning journalist; he's now the...
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Robin Kutner, from Newtown, Pennsylvania
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"This member of jazz band has a cat that is the...
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Marshall Tan, from Gaithersburg, Maryland
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"His favorite subject is social studies, and he knows a lot...
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Liz Basile, a client services manager from Englewood, New Jersey
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Season 24 player (2008-07-09).
Last name pronounced like "buh-SEAL".
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Erica Eaton, a social worker and grad student from New York, New York
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Season 23 player (2007-02-02).
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Anderson Cooper, a host from AC360°
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"He covers major news stories from around the world and plays...
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Laura Lorson, a newscaster and editor from Perry, Kansas
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Season 31 2-time champion: $33,400 + $2,000. At the time of...
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Michael Steele, a political analyst and host from MSNBC and Steele & Ungar
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"He was elected lieutenant governor of Maryland in 2003, and later...
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Julia Collins, a 20-time Jeopardy! champion from Kenilworth, Illinois
|
2019 All-Star Games captain of first-eliminated Team Julia: a share of...
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Mai Kulkarni, an operations manager from Macon, Georgia
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Season 32 player (2015-09-22).
First name pronounced like "MAY".
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Carol Ruggiero, a teacher from Lynn Massachusetts
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Season 6 player (1989-10-20): Lloyd Flanders All-Weather wicker patio furniture +...
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John Pearson, a fifth grade math teacher from Richardson, Texas
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2014 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2013 Teachers Tournament winner: $100,000....
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Donna Innes, a criminal defense attorney from Kalamazoo, Michigan
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Season 30 player (2014-04-22).
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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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Lindsey Bartlett, a junior from Winter Haven, Florida
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2002 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $5,000. Lindsey was 16 at the time...
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Margaret Monroe, a junior from South Plainfield, New Jersey
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2002 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500. Margaret was 16 at the time...
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Leigh Hall, an executive assistant from Los Angeles, California
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Season 22 player (2006-06-19).
First name pronounced like "LEE".
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Tom Hartmann, a junior from San Antonio, Texas
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2001 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500.
17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Blake Hernandez, a senior from Burke, Virginia
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2002 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500. Blake was 16 at the time...
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Amanda Trujillo, a junior from Carson, California
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2001 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500.
17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Ronnie O'Rourke, a homemaker from Marietta, Georgia
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Season 18 1-time champion: $2,000 + $2,000. Ronnie describes her experience...
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Bernard Holloway, a junior from Mitchellville, Maryland
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 2002 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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Jonathan Reinstein, a junior from Dix Hills, New York
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2001 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $5,000. 17 at the time of the...
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Heidi Greimann, a junior from Columbia, Missouri
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2002 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $5,000. Heidi was 15 at the...
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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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Deirdre Basile, a stay-at-home mom from Ridgefield, Connecticut
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Season 20 player (2004-06-17). KJL game 12. Last name pronounced like...
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Perry Gentry, a high school religion teacher from Atlanta, Georgia
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Season 23 player (2006-12-12).
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Lan Djang, a business analyst from Toronto, Canada
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Elite Eighteen (Round 2 winners) member:...
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Michael Arnone, a reporter from Arlington, Virginia
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 2001 Tournament...
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Ryan Moore, a partner in a start-up company from Venice, California
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2001 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $5,000.
Season 17 5-time champion: $39,800 + a Corvette.
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Roger Craig, a data scientist from Brooklyn, New York
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"He was a graduate student in computer science living in Newark,...
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Buzzy Cohen, a music executive from Los Angeles, California
|
2019 All-Star Games captain of wildcard-match 3rd-place Team Buzzy: a share...
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Thomas Zamora, a junior at the University of Southern California from Cypress, California
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2001 College Championship 2nd runner-up: $14,100. Thomas was 20 at the...
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Corey Halgren, a supplier quality engineer from Noblesville, Indiana
|
Season 20 player (2004-06-08).
KJL game 5.
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Brittany Rogers, a sophomore at Saddleback College from Lake Forest, California
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2001 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $5,000. Brittany was 18 at the...
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Jeremy Rasmussen, a computer security consultant from Lutz, Florida
|
Season 23 1-time champion: $28,001 + $2,000.
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Sara Dean, a junior at Syracuse University from Olney, Maryland
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2001 College Championship semifinalist: $5,000. Sara was 19 at the time...
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Jennifer Giles, a third grade teacher from Longmont, Colorado
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2019 All-Star Games member of wildcard-match 3rd-place Team Buzzy: a share...
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Jaime Green, a sophomore at Brown University from Nanuet, New York
|
2001 College Championship quarterfinalist: $2,500. Jaime was 18 at the time...
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Michael Falk, a meteorologist from Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2006 Tournament of Champions...
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Jeff Lawrence, a limousine driver from Las Vegas, Nevada
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Season 22 2-time champion: $26,200 + $1,000.
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Rob Klepadlo, a chemist originally from Weirton, West Virginia
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Season 22 player (2005-12-20).
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Debbie Chuba, a high school guidance counselor from Johnstown, Pennsylvania
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Season 22 player (2005-12-20).
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Jamie Hodari, a law student originally from Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
|
Season 22 player (2006-01-02).
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: Jhodari
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Aaron Thompson, a special assistant from Washington, D.C.
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2006 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 21 3-time champion:...
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Josh Hager, an archivist from Raleigh, North Carolina
|
Season 31 1-time champion: $26,100 + $1,000.
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Doug Dorst, a writer and professor from Austin, Texas
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2006 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 22 3-time champion: $66,802...
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Maria Wenglinsky, a teacher from Brooklyn, New York
|
2006 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 22 5-time champion: $122,300...
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Tom Kavanaugh, a writer from St. Louis, Missouri
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2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2006 Tournament of Champions...
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Kristen Meinhold, a graphic designer originally from Monument, Colorado
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Season 22 player (2006-05-30).
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Ben Davis, an investment specialist from Fort Mitchell, Kentucky
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Season 22 player (2005-11-24). Not to be confused with Season 26...
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Anna Allie, a junior at the University of Michigan at Dearborn from Dearborn, Michigan
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2005 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000.
|
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Amy Cash, a geology student originally from Elmont, New York
|
Season 22 player (2006-05-29). The official Jeopardy! web site lists Amy...
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Nico Martinez, a college junior from Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
|
2006 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2005 College Champion: $100,000 +...
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Alaric Smith, a songwriter, vocalist, and graduate student from Sacramento, California
|
Season 22 player (2005-10-28).
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: LastVisigoth
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Chris Breen, a sophomore at Princeton University from Springfield, Massachusetts
|
2005 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. According to the official Jeopardy! web...
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Veronica Fazio, from Roselle, Illinois
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"She dances, plays softball, and hangs with her friends, but wants...
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Dylan Smith, from the Bronx, New York
|
"This honor roll student wants to invent a teleporting system. From...
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Aman Birk, from Irvine, California
|
"He may not be the fastest swimmer on the team, but...
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Kingslea Bueltel, a student and freelance bartender from Denton, Texas
|
Season 22 player (2005-11-03). Won $16,000 on Who Wants to be...
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Emily Zhang, from Indianapolis, Indiana
|
"A National Science Merit Award recipient, she plans on becoming a...
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Maire Kennedy, an adventure specialist from Santa Rosa, California
|
Season 30 player (2014-07-08).
First name pronounced like "MARE-uh".
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Jim O'Malley, a retired police sergeant from the Bronx, New York
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Season 21 player (2005-07-07).
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Al Lusher, a high school teacher from North Hollywood, California
|
Season 2 player (1985-10-25). Al was the all-time winning contestant on...
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Hope Landsem, from Tualatin, Oregon
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"She likes to win arguments, and that's why she's going to...
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Ben Goldman, a sophomore at New York University from Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania
|
2005 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
Son of Season 17 1-time champion Marjorie Goldman.
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Catherine Hardee, a hotel front desk clerk and recent college graduate from Kinston, North Carolina
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2015 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 31 4-time champion: $95,201...
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Joseph Henares, from Avon, Connecticut
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"Along with group science projects, history club, writing club, and chess...
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Elaine Thacker, a writer and consultant from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
|
Season 21 player (2005-06-21).
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Claire Tuley, a paralegal from Chattanooga, Tennessee
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Season 30 player (2014-02-27).
Last name pronounced like "TOO-lee".
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Eric Newhouse, a director of technical assistance from Vermillion, South Dakota
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"He won both the 1989 Teen Tournament and the 1998 Teen...
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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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Jayanth Iyengar, a junior at Washington University in St. Louis from Madison, Wisconsin
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2005 College Championship 2nd runner-up: $25,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: Jiyen1213
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Charlotte Darby, from West Chester, Pennsylvania
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"Her crafts include crochet, origami, and friendship bracelets. From West Chester,...
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Sita Yerramsetti, an eleven-year-old from Houston, Texas
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"Her heart is set on becoming a cardiac surgeon. From Houston,...
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Christopher Chilton, a sophomore at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from Holly Springs, North Carolina
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2005 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. Christopher won $5,000 on Who Wants...
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Alison Jenik, a junior at the University of Maryland from New York, New York
|
2005 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
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Jon Er, from Williamsville, New York
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"This musician always argues for his fairness, so he wants to...
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Silvio Menzano, a psychologist and university counseling center director from Washington, D.C.
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Season 27 1-time champion: $10,300 + $1,000.
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Bill Dickenson, a college instructor from Richardson, Texas
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"This 5-time champ from 1996 has taught students from over 100...
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Bryce Piotrowski, a twelve-year-old from Madison, Wisconsin
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"He has no idea what he wants to do later in...
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Michael Sieja, a sophomore at Mississippi State University from Huntsville, Alabama
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2016 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. Michael tied with Hannah Norem and...
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Graham Gilmer, a senior at Stanford University from Stanford, California
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"He was the Teen Tournament champion in 2001. Now he's a...
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John Cuthbertson, an investment analyst from San Diego, California
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"He was the highest money winner of the 1993-94 season. An...
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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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Paul Gutowski, an alcohol and drug counselor from Rockford, Illinois
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"He was the first 5-time winner in 1997. An alcohol and...
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Susie Sisson, a high school English teacher from Omaha, Nebraska
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Season 21 player (2005-06-08).
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Bernie Cullen, a biologist from Santa Barbara, California
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"He was the first 5-time champion of the 1996-97 season. A...
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Jamie Weiss, a law student from St. Louis, Missouri
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"He won the 1990 Teen Tournament. Today he's a law student....
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Jessica Trudeau, a graduate student and swim coach from Barrington, Illinois
|
Season 26 1-time champion: $34,401 + $2,000.
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Stephanie Radke, a senior from McLean, Virginia
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2009 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. As an accommodation for a disability,...
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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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Brice Sunderland, a teacher and athletic director from San Bernardino, California
|
Season 21 1-time champion: $14,200 + $1,000.
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Gabe Orlet, a senior from Belleville, Illinois
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2009 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
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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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Russ Schumacher, a graduate student and newlywed from Fort Collins, Colorado
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"He won the most recent Tournament of Champions. A graduate student...
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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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Kathleen Mikulis, a stay-at-home mom from Mountain View, California
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Season 27 1-time champion: $25,201 + $2,000. Kathleen's contestant experience blog....
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Craig Barker, an Advanced Placement history teacher from Livonia, Michigan
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"In 1997 he won the College Championship. Today he's an Advanced...
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Tommy Jordan, a pastor from Sylvania, Arkansas
|
Season 27 player (2010-10-20).
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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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Carolyn Cracraft, a grad student at the University of California-Berkeley from Berkeley, California
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"She was a junior at the University of Chicago when she...
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Billy Baxter, an attorney from Richmond, Virginia
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"Representing the College of William & Mary, he won the 1992...
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Forrest Sturgill, a senior from Kingsport, Tennessee
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2009 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Last name pronounced like "STIR-jill".
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Jeremy Bate, an emergency medical technician and writer from Tujunga, California
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"A second-place finisher in the 2000 Tournament of Champions, he's now...
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Lance Johnson, a model aircraft engine technician from Champaign, Illinois
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"He was the first to get to the 5-win mark in...
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Steve Robin, a writer and producer from Miami, Florida
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"He finished second place in the 1991 Tournament of Champions. He's...
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Jeff Richmond, an attorney from Los Angeles, California
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"He used his 1988 5-game winnings to pay for law school....
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Michael Dupée, an attorney from Gainesville, Florida
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"He was the winner of the 1996 Tournament of Champions. Today...
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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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Scott Johnson, a radio announcer from Lexington, Kentucky
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Season 21 player (2005-01-18).
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Bill Cossen, a Ph.D. candidate in history originally from Lexington, South Carolina
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Season 31 3-time champion: $50,602 + $1,000.
JBoard user name: JeopardyBill
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Will Dantzler, a senior from Mount Pleasant, South Carolina
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2009 Teen Tournament first runner-up: $31,600.
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Rick Pernod, a teacher from the Bronx, New York
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Season 21 player (2005-01-10).
Last name pronounced with a silent "D".
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Joel Kahn, a physician from Irvine, California
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Season 21 2-time champion: $34,200 + $1,000.
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Carol Denny, a writer for a non-profit environmental foundation from Arnold, Maryland
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Season 27 1-time champion: $13,199 + $1,000.
Identical twin sister of Season 29 player Chris O'Toole.
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Aisha Tyler, an actress, comedian, author and reality-show host from Archer
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"In addition to film and TV roles, she performs comedy at...
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Andrew Westney, a sports business writer from Charlotte, North Carolina
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"He was a high-school student from Atlanta when he won the...
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Joanna Stromberg, an attorney from Bethesda, Maryland
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Season 22 1-time champion: $11,200 + $1,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: banana
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Ross Gardiner, an 11-year-old sixth grader from La Plata, Maryland
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"And this self-proclaimed sports fanatic likes all the teams in the...
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Lori Ann Tennant, a homemaker from Fairmont, West Virginia
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Season 21 player (2004-10-28). KJL game 62. Lori's name appeared on...
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Steve Reynolds, a loan accounting clerk from Norman, Oklahoma
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2004 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 20 4-time champion:...
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Keith Williams, a college student from Manchester, Vermont
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 2004 Tournament...
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Michelle Chang, an 11-year-old from Suwanee, Georgia
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"This sixth grader picks the most unusual places to lose her...
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Mark McDonnell, a triathlon coach and entrepreneur from Miami, Florida
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Season 27 1-time champion: $27,601 + $1,000.
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Sara Harold, a mother and homemaker from San Diego, California
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Season 25 1-time champion: $11,500 + $1,000.
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Naomi Senbet, an 11-year-old from Washington, D.C.
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"This sixth grader doesn't like to be late for anything; maybe...
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Fayaz Kabani, a grad student from Columbia, South Carolina
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Season 25 player (2009-01-16).
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Kirby Nelson, a foreign service officer originally from Eatonville, Washington
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Season 26 player (2010-03-08). Kirby flew all the way from Lima,...
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Don Kraft, an emergency physician from Huntington, West Virginia
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Season 20 1-time champion: $28,800 + $1,000.
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Zane Li, a ten-year-old from Provo, Utah
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"He's a chess champion and a two-time Geography Bee winner..." 2002...
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Jelisa Castrodale, a sportswriter from Winston-Salem, North Carolina
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Season 27 1-time champion: $39,399 + $1,000.
Name pronounced like "jell-EES-ah KASS-tro-dale".
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Suzanne Tetreault, a lawyer from Vienna, Virginia
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Season 26 player (2010-03-03).
Last name pronounced like "TAY-tro".
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Ted Skotnicki, a college professor from Niagara Falls, New York
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Season 25 player (2009-03-03).
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Patrick Derocher, a twelve-year-old from Oak Hill, Virginia
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"This future architect likes designing large buildings and admires the designs...
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Michael McKean, a Grammy winner, Oscar nominee and multi-talented performer from Hairspray and The Pajama Game
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"This multi-talented performer is a Grammy winner and Oscar nominee and...
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Soledad O'Brien, an anchor and special correspondent from CNN's Special Investigations Unit
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"Currently the host of CNN's Special Investigations Unit, she's received critical...
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Susan Durham, a gift shop manager from Louisville, Kentucky
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Season 20 player (2004-04-22).
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Carl Lewis, a retired track and field athlete from Los Angeles, California
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"And he's been called the greatest track and field athlete of...
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Richard Prince, a production manager from Studio City, California
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Season 12 player (1995-12-08): Muirfield china + the Jeopardy! home game....
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Joey Beachum, an Air Force intelligence officer from Conway, Arkansas
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2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2008 College Championship winner: $100,000...
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Marianne Fichtel, an investor relations manager from Brooklyn, New York
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Season 25 2-time champion: $24,888 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Roger Mueller-Kim, a high school social studies teacher from Dublin, California
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Season 27 1-time champion: $17,401 + $1,000.
Last name pronounced like "MULL-er KIM".
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Fred Cofone, a copy editor from Old Greenwich, Connecticut
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Season 27 2-time champion: $24,400 + $2,000.
Last name pronounced like "kuh-FONE".
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Andy Srinivasan, a high school science teacher from Clayton, North Carolina
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2010 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $69,600...
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Regina Robbins, an arts teacher from New York, New York
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2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $90,700...
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Liz Murphy, a foreign service officer originally from Scranton, Pennsylvania
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2010 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 25 5-time champion: $121,302...
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Elyssa Browning, a junior from St. John's College
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2009 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 21 and from Austin, Texas at...
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Doug Payne, a guitar instructor from Murfreesboro, Tennessee
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Season 27 player (2011-01-28).
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Rebecca Drinnon, an English teacher from Morristown, Tennessee
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Season 25 player (2009-01-02).
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Tom Jennings, a maintenance mechanic from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
|
Season 27 1-time champion: $24,000 + $2,000.
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Jonathan Gillerman, a senior from Staten Island, New York
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2003 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500.
17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Anthony Valente, a senior from Staten Island, New York
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2003 Teen Tournament second runner-up: $24,799.
17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Gitta Neufeld, a Judaic teacher trainer from Far Rockaway, New York
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Season 27 1-time champion: $18,300 + $2,000. Name pronounced like "GEE-ta...
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Yevgeny Shrago, a research assistant originally from Rochester, New York
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Season 26 1-time champion: $24,600 + $2,000. Name pronounced like "yev-GHEN-ee...
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Nirav Shah, an attorney from Brooklyn, New York
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Season 26 1-time champion: $20,500 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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Amanda Sonmor, a virtual assistant originally from Denver, Colorado
|
Season 27 2-time champion: $21,501 + $1,000.
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Charles Barkley, a former pro basketball player from Turner Network Television
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"He won 2 Olympic gold medals while playing for America's "Dream...
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Gabe Hernandez, a content coordinator from North Hollywood, California
|
Season 26 player (2010-04-26). Gabe was present in the studio as...
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Kristine Beck, a receptionist and editor from Madison, Wisconsin
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Season 20 player (2004-04-13).
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John Matthews, a senior from Escondido, California
|
2003 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $5,000.
17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Diane Trap, a librarian and graphics specialist from Athens, Georgia
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Season 25 1-time champion: $21,400 + $1,000. Diane Trap - a...
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A.J. Monaco, a law student originally from Newark, New Jersey
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Season 20 player (2004-01-09).
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Matt McQueary, a governmental auditor from Cold Spring, Kentucky
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Season 27 player (2011-01-14).
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Claudia Corriere, a church musician and homemaker from Kennesaw, Georgia
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Season 32 2-time champion: $29,000 + $2,000. Claudia won show #7195,...
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Tom Toal, an orthopedic surgeon from Lake Oswego, Oregon
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Season 27 1-time champion: $12,200 + $1,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Bob Costas, a commentator and anchorman from NBC Sports
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"He's covered all the major sports for NBC, most recently providing...
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Debra Dondrea Galant, a homemaker from Grayslake, Illinois
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Season 20 player (2004-03-23).
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Rebecca Maxfield, a freshman from Brown University
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2010-A College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. Hometown: New Rochelle, New York. Rebecca...
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Sally O'Rourke, a freelance copywriter originally from Baton Rouge, Louisiana
|
Season 27 1-time champion: $33,601 + $1,000.
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Tony Terry, an IT professional from Seminole, Florida
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Season 25 player (2009-06-09).
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Hill Harper, an author and actor from CSI: NY
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"As an award-winning author, he's written three New York Times best...
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Jennifer Quinn, an assistant to the principal from Riverdale, New York
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Season 20 player (2004-02-02).
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Mary Gabe, a legal assistant from Riverside, California
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Season 20 player (2004-03-19).
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Jim Fitzpatrick, a senior at Wake Forest University from Colts Neck, New Jersey
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2003 College Championship semifinalist: $5,000. According the the official Jeopardy! web...
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Keith Williams, a freshman at Middlebury College from Manchester, Vermont
|
2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 2004 Tournament...
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Steve Unite, a writer from Studio City, California
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2007 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD Home...
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William Garrett, a 12-year-old from Greenfield, Indiana
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"Serving his country as an officer in the military is his...
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Shay Collins, an 11-year-old from Averill Park, New York
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"His passion for music helps this future rock star to play...
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Ana Catalina Posada, a graduate student from Hanover, New Hampshire
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Season 25 player (2009-06-02).
First name pronounced like "AH-nah".
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Eric LaForest, a high school history teacher originally from Jacksonville, Florida
|
Season 25 1-time champion: $9,762 + $2,000.
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Danni Steiner, a sales marketing consultant from Washington Borough, New Jersey
|
Season 27 player (2010-12-21).
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Elijah Granet, a 12-year-old from San Diego, California
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"Because he loves animals, biology, and helping others, he's thinking of...
|
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Andrew Sullivan, a corporate attorney from Brooklyn, New York
|
Season 27 player (2010-12-21).
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Nina Kiekhaefer, a family medicine physician from Jefferson City, Missouri
|
Season 27 player (2010-12-17).
Name pronounced like "NINE-ah KEE-kay-fer".
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Jeannie Leoutsakos, a postdoctoral fellow from Ellicott City, Maryland
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Season 25 player (2008-12-16).
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Bob Fulmer, an eco-tour guide from Fort Pierce, Florida
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Season 27 player (2010-12-20).
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Lisa Klink, a TV writer from Los Angeles, California
|
2009 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 24 5-time champion: $70,150...
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Tim Klein, a public school technology specialist from Flemington, New Jersey
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Season 27 player (2010-12-16).
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Darryl Konter, a public relations executive from Dunwoody, Georgia
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Season 26 player (2010-01-22).
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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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Sandra McClellan, a granny nanny from Arlington, Texas
|
Season 27 1-time champion: $4,199 + $2,000.
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Mike Piazza, a catcher from the Los Angeles Dodgers
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"From the Los Angeles Dodgers, he was named Rookie of the...
|
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Adam Bibler, an economist originally from Lancaster, Ohio
|
Season 27 1-time champion: $12,000 + $2,000.
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Martha Blakeslee, a floral designer and stay-at-home mom from Alexandria, Virginia
|
Season 20 player (2004-04-08).
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Deborah Fitzgerald, a retired government employee from McLean, Virginia
|
2009 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Season 24 4-time champion: $55,901 + $1,000.
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Erik Nelson, a grad student originally from Boston, Massachusetts
|
2009 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Season 25 4-time champion: $94,404 + $2,000.
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Nicole Yoon, a 12-year-old from Asbury, New Jersey
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"She has set her sights on becoming a medical doctor or...
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Jim Stevens, a high school math teacher from Fairview Park, Ohio
|
2009 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Season 25 6-time champion: $140,600 + $2,000.
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Peter Pinnow, a high school English teacher from Oxford, Mississippi
|
Season 25 2-time champion: $39,200 + $1,000.
|
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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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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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Kizzle Cote, a 12-year-old from Ludlow, Massachusetts
|
"This future ichthyologist has a 30-gallon aquarium in his bedroom..." 2007...
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Elizabeth Perkins, an actress from Big and Weeds
|
2009 Celebrity Jeopardy! player: $25,000 to the New England Learning Center...
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Judy Shewmake, a retired middle school history teacher from Murfreesboro, Tennessee
|
Season 27 1-time champion: $20,801 + $2,000.
Last name pronounced like "SHOO-make".
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Sandra Thomas, a 12-year-old from Hartsdale, New York
|
"This young woman is very sure about what she'll do with...
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Megan Cornell, a stay-at-home mom from Grand Rapids, Michigan
|
Season 27 player (2010-11-23).
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Beth Graham, a library public relations manager from San Antonio, Texas
|
Season 20 2-time champion: $36,401 + $1,000.
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Akshai Raj, a 10-year-old from Harleysville, Pennsylvania
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"And his favorite subjects: all of them; least favorite, none of...
|
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Megan Langhoff, a graduate student from New Orleans, Louisiana
|
Season 26 player (2010-01-01).
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Doug Hicton, a composer originally from Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
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2007 Tournament of Champions 1st runner-up: $100,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD...
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Tayonna Jones, a 12-year-old from Indianapolis, Indiana
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"She hopes to have her law degree by her 18th birthday...
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Michael Boisson, an artist from New York, New York
|
Season 24 player (2007-10-18).
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Francesca Leibowitz, a fifth grade English teacher from Brooklyn, New York
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"She teaches at a school that opened in 1854. From Brooklyn...
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Robin Cheney, a middle school teacher from Rancho Santa Margarita, California
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"All the students at her school go on a camping trip...
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Terry Parker, a high school history teacher from Cutler Bay, Florida
|
"Don't try to pin down this wrestling coach, history teacher, and...
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Elise Burton, a freshman from the University of California-Berkeley
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2007 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 18 at the time of the...
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Christine Kennedy, a freshman from the University of Notre Dame
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2007 College Championship 2nd runner-up: $25,000. 19 at the time of...
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Ssezi Mukasa, a software engineer from Salem, Massachusetts
|
Season 23 player (2007-06-05).
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Dianisbeth Acquie, from Brooklyn, New York
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"This ballet, jazz, and tap dancing Girl Scout would like to...
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Kirk Jordan, a third grade teacher from Long Beach, California
|
Season 24 1-time champion: $10,000 + $1,000.
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Sam Waterston, an actor from Law & Order
|
"A Best Actor Oscar nominee for The Killing Fields, he's now...
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Arlynda Boyer, a grant writer from Staunton, Virginia
|
Season 23 player (2007-03-29).
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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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Brady Cassis, a junior from Yale University
|
2007 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 20 at the time of the...
|
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Gay Hammond, a college instructor from Gainesville, Georgia
|
Season 20 player (2004-02-27).
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Joan Nelson, a youth minister from Richmond, Virginia
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Season 23 player (2006-10-27).
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Mark Brown, an administrative assistant and father from Peoria, Arizona
|
2003 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 19 5-time champion: $68,094...
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Damon DiPietro, a carpenter from Marietta, Georgia
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Season 20 player (2004-02-25).
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Rachel Gottesman, a junior from Cortlandt Manor, New York
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2007 Teen Tournament Summer Games wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 17 at the...
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Mark Lee, a sales manager from Chicago, Illinois
|
2003 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 18 4-time champion: $67,500...
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Brenda Buchanan, a traffic director from Columbia Station, Ohio
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Season 23 player (2006-09-26).
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Jeff Richmond, a law student from West Hollywood, California
|
2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 winner: $33,300. 1990 Super...
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Paul Lavrakas, a playwright from Annandale, Virginia
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Season 26 player (2009-12-08).
|
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Brian Weikle, a project manager from Minneapolis, Minnesota
|
2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Nifty Nine (players with byes into...
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Kyle Neblett, a senior from Beaverton, Oregon
|
2007 Teen Tournament Summer Games 2nd runner-up: $36,400. 18 at the...
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Sheryl Page, a sales representative from Lansing, Michigan
|
Season 23 player (2007-03-14).
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Pat Cantor, a professor of education from Concord, New Hampshire
|
Season 23 player (2007-03-13).
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Albert Chi, an Internet engineer from Los Angeles, California
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Season 23 player (2007-03-09).
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Rachel Campbell, a graduate student from Bison, Kansas
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Season 23 player (2007-03-09).
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Aiden Pink, a freshman from St. Louis Park, Minnesota
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2007 Teen Tournament Summer Games semifinalist: $10,000. 15 at the time...
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Greg Peterson, a senior from Park Ridge, Illinois
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2007 Teen Tournament Summer Games 1st runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $38,600....
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Inie Park, a research associate from Los Angeles, California
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Season 22 1-time champion: $10,800 + $1,000.
First name pronounced like "EE-nee".
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Mike Donilon, a finance manager from Orlando, Florida
|
Season 24 player (2007-12-11).
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Mary LoSardo, a retired executive, now web site designer from Bayonne, New Jersey
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Season 22 1-time champion: $20,800 + $1,000. Mary won $60 +...
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Robin Quivers, a radio and television personality from The Howard Stern Show
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"Howard Stern's news anchor and sidekick for the past 28 years,...
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Jane Kaczmarek, a TV, film and Broadway actress from Malcolm in the Middle and Raising the Bar
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"She went from playing a hard-nosed mom in Malcolm in the...
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Jason Richards, a pharmacy technician from Old Town, Maine
|
2006 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
Season 22 4-time champion: $99,200 + $2,000.
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Meredith Dedopoulos, a 12-year-old from Durham, New Hampshire
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"This spelling bee champion has also won many sports awards. From...
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Matthew Mitchell, a literacy tutor from Richland, Washington
|
Season 22 player (2006-07-26).
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Jared Rothenberg, an 11-year-old from Houston, Texas
|
"When he's not on the mound, he's warming up in the...
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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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Caleb Whitaker, an executive recruiter from Asheville, North Carolina
|
Season 22 player (2005-09-27).
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JT Nuckolls, a customer service representative from Red Oak, Iowa
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Season 24 player (2007-09-18).
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Jennifer Gossett, a band director from North Charleston, South Carolina
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Season 23 player (2007-07-06).
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David Siegel, a paralegal from Los Angeles, California
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"He was a finalist in the 1995 Tournament of Champions. A...
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Sarah Altier, a teacher from DeLand, Florida
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Season 22 player (2006-01-30). Last name pronounced like "all-TEER". Won $64,000...
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Wendy Kautz, a stay-at-home mom and online college professor from Helena, Alabama
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Season 22 player (2006-01-24).
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Lorna Johnson, a 12-year-old seventh grader from Willowbrook, Illinois
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"She loves all animals, especially her dogs Duke and Rudy, but...
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Al Lindke, a pastor from Montrose, Michigan
|
Season 21 player (2004-10-08).
KJL game 53.
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Mark Eckard, a software designer from Bedford, Massachusetts
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 winner: $35,600. 2001 Tournament...
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Martin Short, a multitalented man from Fame Becomes Me
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"Jiminy Glick and Ed Grimley are among his many memorable characters....
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Larry Cloud, a computer consultant from Inglewood, California
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 2001 Tournament...
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Drew Lachey, a singer and actor from Dancing with the Stars
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"He was working as an emergency medical technician when brother Nick...
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Steve Schirripa, an actor from The Sopranos
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"Once the entertainment director at the Riviera Hotel in Las Vegas,...
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Soledad O'Brien, a broadcast journalist from CNN's American Morning
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"This broadcast journalist has covered stories all over the world. Since...
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Harry Shearer, an actor/writer/producer from The Simpsons and Le Show
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"His many credits include providing voices for The Simpsons, and he's...
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Dana Venator, a Ph.D. candidate from Chicago, Illinois
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"She was a beginning bagpipe player and Teen Tournament finalist; now,...
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Michelle Hickman, a stay-at-home mom from Shoreline, Washington
|
Season 22 player (2006-01-13).
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David Grant, a freelance communications business consultant from the Bronx, New York
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Season 22 player (2006-01-13).
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Craig Smith, a musician from Maylene, Alabama
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Season 22 player (2006-01-05).
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Megan Lynch, a book editor from Brooklyn, New York
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Season 24 player (2007-09-26).
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Alex Stambaugh, a 12-year-old from Paris, Kentucky
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"He feels he can use his talents in math and science...
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Sara Jansson, a 10-year-old from Monmouth Junction, New Jersey
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"She wants to become a singer because she loves music so...
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Larry Marshall, a junior at the University of Missouri from Kansas City, Missouri
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2004 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000.
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Lindsey Hargrove, a senior at the University of Texas from Bellaire, Texas
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2004 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
Mother's Jeopardy! Message Board user name: collegemom
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Ivan Kleinfeld, an 11-year-old from Arlington, Virginia
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"He would like to be a doctor so that he can...
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Aaron Schnier, a restaurant manager from Lincoln, Nebraska
|
Season 21 player (2005-07-21).
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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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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, a former pro basketball player and actor originally from Brooklyn, New York
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"Three decades in the NBA netted him six championship rings and...
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Margaret Rhodes, a horseback riding instructor from Marietta, Georgia
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Season 21 player (2005-07-19).
Wife of Season 18 1-time champion Jeff Rhodes.
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Kerri Regan, a senior from Bethpage, New York
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2005 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500. 17 at the time of the...
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Josh DenHartog, an actuarial technician from Thousand Oaks, California
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"He was the Teen Tournament champion in 1997. Now he's an...
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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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Jennifer Wu, a high school junior from Arkadelphia, Arkansas
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"She won the 2004 Teen Tournament at age 15. Now 17,...
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Jimmy Li, a senior from Chesterfield, Missouri
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2005 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $5,000. 17 at the time of...
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Iddoshe Hirpa, a junior from Louisville, Kentucky
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2006 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000.
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Emily Riippa, a 12-year-old seventh grader from Grand Rapids, Michigan
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"She is a fast reader, and her mother says she was...
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Megan Fraedrich, a 12-year-old seventh grader from Springfield, Virginia
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"And she was recently an evil stepsister in a performance of...
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Tom Baker, a writer from Tokyo, Japan
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2004 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000.
Season 20 3-time champion: $102,300 + $2,000.
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John Beck, an associate creative director from Torrance, California
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 winner: $29,000. 2004 Tournament...
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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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Regina Merrill, from Lincoln, Nebraska
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"She's very good at writing stories and poetry, but her love...
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Mallory Banks, from Summerville, South Carolina
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"And this future physicist loves figuring out the underlying components of...
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Allan Long, a freshman from Tallahassee, Florida
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2005 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500. 14 at the time of the...
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Tamika Turner, an 11-year-old eighth grader from Sylvania, Ohio
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"She wants to be a journalist, because it’s important for the...
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Peter Severson, a senior from Sioux Falls, South Dakota
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2005 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $5,000. 17 at the time of the...
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Matt Bushell, a junior at Georgetown University from Fairfield, Connecticut
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2004 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000.
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Kelley Burd, a junior at West Virginia University from Bristol, West Virginia
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2004 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000.
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