#8814, aired 2023-02-23 | AUTHORS' ALMA MATERS $400: A Buckeye by birth, R.L. Stine also attended this university where he edited the Sundial Ohio State |
#8814, aired 2023-02-23 | AUTHORS' ALMA MATERS $800: Growing up in an LDS family, it's not surprising that Stephenie Meyer attended this university in Provo BYU (Brigham Young) |
#8814, aired 2023-02-23 | AUTHORS' ALMA MATERS $1200: Nicholas Sparks provides scholarships to & internships at his alma mater, this school, home of the Fighting Irish Notre Dame |
#8814, aired 2023-02-23 | AUTHORS' ALMA MATERS $1600: He modeled Gravesend Academy in "A Prayer for Owen Meany" after his alma mater, Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire John Irving |
#8814, aired 2023-02-23 | AUTHORS' ALMA MATERS $2000: This Pulitzer winner for "The Underground Railroad" has a degree from Harvard & received the 2018 Harvard Arts medal Colson Whitehead |
#8297, aired 2020-12-08 | AUTHORS' ALMA MATERS $400: Studying French & classics, she graduated from England's University of Exeter, not Hogwarts, in 1987 J.K. Rowling |
#8297, aired 2020-12-08 | AUTHORS' ALMA MATERS $800: Before becoming an author, Sue Monk Kidd worked as a nurse, getting her degree from this school, TCU for short Texas Christian University |
#8297, aired 2020-12-08 | AUTHORS' ALMA MATERS $1600: It's no science fiction that in 1948 this prolific Russian-born author received a Ph.D in chemistry from Columbia University Isaac Asimov |
#8297, aired 2020-12-08 | AUTHORS' ALMA MATERS $2000: He was a theatre major at Wesleyan University in Connecticut before giving birth to the Jason Bourne novels Robert Ludlum |
#8297, aired 2020-12-08 | AUTHORS' ALMA MATERS $4,000 (Daily Double): One of his professors at Cornell was William Strunk Jr. whose "Elements of Style" he would later revise (E.B.) White |
#7530, aired 2017-05-12 | ALMA MATERS $200: In the Ivy:
Anderson Cooper,
Jodie Foster Yale |
#7530, aired 2017-05-12 | ALMA MATERS $400: On the Charles River:
Buzz Aldrin,
Bill Hewlett MIT |
#7530, aired 2017-05-12 | ALMA MATERS $600: Across the pond:
John Cleese,
John Milton Cambridge |
#7530, aired 2017-05-12 | ALMA MATERS $800: In the heartland:
Joe Montana,
Nicholas Sparks Notre Dame |
#7530, aired 2017-05-12 | ALMA MATERS $1000: Out west:
Chelsea Clinton,
Peter Thiel Stanford |
#7515, aired 2017-04-21 | ALMA MATERS $200: (I'm political commentator S.E. Cupp.) I wasn't a politics or history major but graduated from this upstate New York Ivy League school with a degree in art history & wrote art reviews for the Sun Cornell |
#7515, aired 2017-04-21 | ALMA MATERS $400: He was a shock jock in training at Boston University where a radio show he created was canceled after one broadcast Howard Stern |
#7515, aired 2017-04-21 | ALMA MATERS $600: (I'm ABC News senior legal correspondent Sunny Hostin.) I received my law degree from this Indiana university that houses the oldest Roman Catholic law school in the nation Notre Dame |
#7515, aired 2017-04-21 | ALMA MATERS $800: Rashida Jones studied religion & philosophy at this school & was also involved in its Hasty Pudding theatricals Harvard |
#7515, aired 2017-04-21 | ALMA MATERS $1000: Dan Brown, Harlan Coben & David O. Russell all attended this college in Emily Dickinson's home town Amherst |
#7187, aired 2015-12-08 | CELEBRITY ALMA MATERS $400: (Hi, I'm John Berman of CNN.) I graduated from this university, where, like William Randolph Hearst, FDR & many others before me, I performed in the famous--some might say infamous--theatricals of the Hasty Pudding Club Harvard |
#7187, aired 2015-12-08 | CELEBRITY ALMA MATERS $800: Jon Stewart & Glenn Close both attended this oldest college in Virginia William and Mary |
#7187, aired 2015-12-08 | CELEBRITY ALMA MATERS $1200: She's the actress seen here on graduation day from Princeton in 1987 Brooke Shields |
#7187, aired 2015-12-08 | CELEBRITY ALMA MATERS $1600: This TV personality earned a master's degree & a Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of North Texas Dr. Phil |
#7187, aired 2015-12-08 | CELEBRITY ALMA MATERS $2000: (I'm Debra Messing.) I graduated summa cum laude from this Massachusetts university that's named for the first Jewish Supreme Court justice Brandeis |
#6570, aired 2013-03-22 | IVY LEAGUE ALMA MATERS $200: John F. Kennedy & brother Ted Harvard |
#6570, aired 2013-03-22 | IVY LEAGUE ALMA MATERS $400: Queen Noor of Jordan & Brooke Shields Princeton |
#6570, aired 2013-03-22 | IVY LEAGUE ALMA MATERS $600: Arlen Specter, for his B.A., & Donald Trump, for business school University of Pennsylvania |
#6570, aired 2013-03-22 | IVY LEAGUE ALMA MATERS $800: Jodie Foster & Garry Trudeau Yale |
#6570, aired 2013-03-22 | IVY LEAGUE ALMA MATERS $1000: Maggie Gyllenhaal & Anna Paquin Columbia |
#6250, aired 2011-11-18 | ALMA MATERS $200: Brad Pitt & Sheryl Crow were classmates at this school, Mizzou for short the University of Missouri |
#6250, aired 2011-11-18 | ALMA MATERS $400: Coworkers Samuel Alito, Elena Kagan & Sonia Sotomayor are all graduates of this New Jersey school Princeton |
#6250, aired 2011-11-18 | ALMA MATERS $600: Walter Cronkite was a Longhorn in the 1930s, studying poli sci at this college the University of Texas |
#6250, aired 2011-11-18 | ALMA MATERS $800: Larry Page & Sergey Brin started Google in their dorm room while working on Ph.D.s at this California college Stanford |
#6250, aired 2011-11-18 | ALMA MATERS $1000: Later a cabinet member, Frances Perkins attended this Penn business school Wharton |
#5848, aired 2010-02-03 | PRESIDENTIAL ALMA MATERS $400: United States Military Academy (class of 1843) (Ulysses) Grant |
#5848, aired 2010-02-03 | PRESIDENTIAL ALMA MATERS $800: William & Mary College (class of 1762) Jefferson |
#5848, aired 2010-02-03 | PRESIDENTIAL ALMA MATERS $1200: University of Michigan (class of 1935) Ford |
#5848, aired 2010-02-03 | PRESIDENTIAL ALMA MATERS $1600: Yale University (class of 1948) George H.W. Bush |
#5848, aired 2010-02-03 | PRESIDENTIAL ALMA MATERS $2000: Whittier College (class of 1934) Nixon |
#5694, aired 2009-05-14 | ALMA MATERS $400: William J. Mayo (of clinic founding fame) was a Wolverine, getting his medical degree from this school the University of Michigan |
#5694, aired 2009-05-14 | ALMA MATERS $800: Lady Bird Johnson & John B. Connally went to the University of this state Texas |
#5694, aired 2009-05-14 | ALMA MATERS $1,500 (Daily Double): This private college in Northern California boasts astronauts Sally Ride & Eileen Collins as alums Stanford University |
#5694, aired 2009-05-14 | ALMA MATERS $1600: Presidential kids are welcome at this New Orleans university: both Neil Bush & Amy Carter hold degrees from it Tulane |
#5694, aired 2009-05-14 | ALMA MATERS $2000: Quincy Jones, Kevin Eubanks & Branford Marsalis are alumni of this college of music in Boston Berklee |
#5300, aired 2007-09-28 | PRESIDENTIAL ALMA MATERS $200: U.S. Military Academy
(class of 1915) (Dwight) Eisenhower |
#5300, aired 2007-09-28 | PRESIDENTIAL ALMA MATERS $400: U.S. Naval Academy
(class of 1946) Jimmy Carter |
#5300, aired 2007-09-28 | PRESIDENTIAL ALMA MATERS $600: Georgetown
(class of 1968) (Bill) Clinton |
#5300, aired 2007-09-28 | PRESIDENTIAL ALMA MATERS $800: Harvard University
(class of 1904) Franklin Roosevelt |
#5300, aired 2007-09-28 | PRESIDENTIAL ALMA MATERS $1000: Eureka College
(class of 1932) Ronald Reagan |
#4891, aired 2005-12-12 | ACTORS' ALMA MATERS $400: A 1928 graduate of Bryn Mawr, she won her first acting Oscar in 1934 Katharine Hepburn |
#4891, aired 2005-12-12 | ACTORS' ALMA MATERS $800: An Oscar winner for 1940, he's seen here playing his accordion on stage at Princeton in the 1930s Jimmy Stewart |
#4891, aired 2005-12-12 | ACTORS' ALMA MATERS $1200: In the 1950s Jane Fonda attended this New York women's college Vassar |
#4891, aired 2005-12-12 | ACTORS' ALMA MATERS $1600: Jennifer Jones, Charlton Heston & Patricia Neal all studied at this Illinois university founded in 1851 Northwestern |
#4891, aired 2005-12-12 | ACTORS' ALMA MATERS $2000: 20 years after attending Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington, he won an Oscar in 1945 Bing Crosby |
#4837, aired 2005-09-27 | PRESIDENTIAL ALMA MATERS $200: Southwest Texas State
(class of 1930) Lyndon Johnson |
#4837, aired 2005-09-27 | PRESIDENTIAL ALMA MATERS $400: U.S. Military Academy
(class of 1843) U.S. Grant |
#4837, aired 2005-09-27 | PRESIDENTIAL ALMA MATERS $600: Harvard
(class of 1940) John Kennedy |
#4837, aired 2005-09-27 | PRESIDENTIAL ALMA MATERS $800: Harvard
(class of 1755) John Adams |
#4837, aired 2005-09-27 | PRESIDENTIAL ALMA MATERS $1000: Princeton
(class of 1879) Woodrow Wilson |
#4644, aired 2004-11-11 | THEIR ALMA MATERS $400: Sir Isaac Newton Cambridge |
#4644, aired 2004-11-11 | THEIR ALMA MATERS $800: JFK (John Fitzgerald Kennedy) Harvard |
#4644, aired 2004-11-11 | THEIR ALMA MATERS $1600: Radio's Garrison Keillor The University of Minnesota |
#4644, aired 2004-11-11 | THEIR ALMA MATERS $1,800 (Daily Double): JFK (John Forbes Kerry) Yale |
#4644, aired 2004-11-11 | THEIR ALMA MATERS $2000: Author Ralph Ellison Tuskegee |
#3858, aired 2001-05-16 | PRESIDENTIAL ALMA MATERS $100: U.S. Military Academy,
1843 Ulysses S. Grant |
#3858, aired 2001-05-16 | PRESIDENTIAL ALMA MATERS $200: Whittier,
1934;
Duke Law School,
1937 Richard Nixon |
#3858, aired 2001-05-16 | PRESIDENTIAL ALMA MATERS $300: Georgetown,
1968;
Yale Law School,
1973 Bill Clinton |
#3858, aired 2001-05-16 | PRESIDENTIAL ALMA MATERS $400: Michigan,
1935;
Yale Law School,
1941 Gerald Ford |
#3858, aired 2001-05-16 | PRESIDENTIAL ALMA MATERS $500: William and Mary,
1762 Thomas Jefferson |
#3350, aired 1999-03-12 | FAMOUS ALMA MATERS $100: Steve Young
(B.S. '83,
J.D. '94) Brigham Young University |
#3350, aired 1999-03-12 | FAMOUS ALMA MATERS $200: James Meredith &
Trent Lott Ole Miss (the University of Mississippi) |
#3350, aired 1999-03-12 | FAMOUS ALMA MATERS $300: Woody Allen
(did not graduate) New York University |
#3350, aired 1999-03-12 | FAMOUS ALMA MATERS $500: Stephen Hawking
(Ph.D., 1966) Cambridge |
#3350, aired 1999-03-12 | FAMOUS ALMA MATERS $800 (Daily Double): Chester W. Nimitz
(Class of '05) U.S. Naval Academy |
#2157, aired 1994-01-11 | PRESIDENTIAL ALMA MATERS $100: Whittier College Richard Nixon |
#2157, aired 1994-01-11 | PRESIDENTIAL ALMA MATERS $200: Eureka College Ronald Reagan |
#2157, aired 1994-01-11 | PRESIDENTIAL ALMA MATERS $300: Georgetown University Clinton |
#2157, aired 1994-01-11 | PRESIDENTIAL ALMA MATERS $400: The University of Michigan Gerald Ford |
#2157, aired 1994-01-11 | PRESIDENTIAL ALMA MATERS $500: Southwest Texas state Lyndon Johnson |
#1170, aired 1989-10-06 | CELEBRITY ALMA MATERS $100: She dropped out of Sarah Lawrence College in 1957 & married John Lennon in 1969 Yoko Ono |
#1170, aired 1989-10-06 | CELEBRITY ALMA MATERS $200: This "ramblin' kind of guy" pulled straight A's in philosophy at Long Beach State Steve Martin |
#1170, aired 1989-10-06 | CELEBRITY ALMA MATERS $300: His wife Jane, who he met at the U. of MD., was his 1st partner in puppetry, or shall we say muppetry Jim Henson |
#1170, aired 1989-10-06 | CELEBRITY ALMA MATERS $400: Child star who appeared in her 1st film in 1972 & graduated magna cum laude from Yale in 1985 Jodie Foster |
#1170, aired 1989-10-06 | CELEBRITY ALMA MATERS $500: In 1903 future president F. Roosevelt was elected editor of this school paper at Harvard The Crimson |