| #9377, aired 2025-07-15 | KING ME $800: In Shakespeare this title character says, "Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks" King Lear |
| #9377, aired 2025-07-15 | THAT SHIP HAS SAILED $2000: Alphabetically first of a famous trio of White Star ocean liners, it sank in 1916 after striking a mine Brittanic |
| #9375, aired 2025-07-11 | BOOK EXCERPTS $400: "'So they fought a duel and Mr. Butler shot the girl's brother and he died, and Mr. Butler had to leave Charleston'" Gone with the Wind |
| #9375, aired 2025-07-11 | BOOK EXCERPTS $600: "'We, the party, control all records, and we control all memories. Then we control the past, do we not?'" 1984 |
| #9375, aired 2025-07-11 | OSCAR WINNERS ON TV $800: You've liked her, you've really liked her on shows like "Brothers and Sisters" & recently as Jerry Buss's mom on "Winning Time" Field |
| #9375, aired 2025-07-11 | BOOK EXCERPTS $1000: A 5-word title (the last line): "And they will find ten dead bodies and an unsolved problem on Soldier Island" And Then There Were None |
| #9373, aired 2025-07-09 | WE ARE LITERARY FAMILY $200: George R.R. Martin wrote, one in this family "always pays his debts... I think I will try and sleep. Wake me if we're about to die" Lannister |
| #9373, aired 2025-07-09 | "STRAIGHT" TALK $200: Hope you're walking this slim 3-word path of honesty & virtue straight and narrow |
| #9373, aired 2025-07-09 | WE ARE LITERARY FAMILY $400: In 1846 "Poems by Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell" were actually the poems by 3 sisters in this family Brontë |
| #9373, aired 2025-07-09 | WE ARE LITERARY FAMILY $800: This author opened a book with "A long time ago... Pa and Ma and Mary and Laura and baby Carrie left their little house in the Big Woods" Ingalls Wilder |
| #9372, aired 2025-07-08 | MARX $400: Born in modern day Germany, Karl Marx passed away in this city in 1883 London |
| #9372, aired 2025-07-08 | THE SPOT $3,000 (Daily Double): Back in 1878 American astronomer Carr Pritchett noted the color of this storm, the largest in our solar system the Great Red Spot |
| #9371, aired 2025-07-07 | YES, AND? $200: It's Latin for "and the rest"; we often use it as a single word etcetera |
| #9371, aired 2025-07-07 | 20th CENTURY LIT $400: John Steinbeck was originally going to call this novella "Something That Happened" Of Mice and Men |
| #9371, aired 2025-07-07 | YES, AND? $400: 3-syllable "and"s include "furthermore" & this word with the "more" at the start moreover |
| #9371, aired 2025-07-07 | YES, AND? $600: A way to say "and" is "in" this, an operation so simple that kids learn to do it addition |
| #9371, aired 2025-07-07 | YES, AND? $800: In French this word signifies "and more"; it's found before "ça change..." plus |
| #9371, aired 2025-07-07 | THE DC UNIVERSE WITH JAMES GUNN $1000: (James Gunn presents the clue.) I had a blast writing "Creature Commandos", a series that features a Frankenstein character & launched a DC project with the same name as this 1998 movie about the director of "Frankenstein" Gods and Monsters |
| #9371, aired 2025-07-07 | YES, AND? $1000: Add an "S" to a word meaning "next to" to get this word that can mean "and" in starting a sentence besides |
| #9371, aired 2025-07-07 | WHAT IS THAT IN THE ARTWORK? $1000: In Frida Kahlo's self-portrait "Fulang-Chang and I":
This pet, sporting a ribbon a monkey |
| #9370, aired 2025-07-04 | DURING THE LAST 20 YEARS $400: Montenegro became an independent nation on June 3, 2006, ending a years-long federation with this country Serbia |
| #9369, aired 2025-07-03 | FUN WITH HETERONYMS $1000: Very evil
&
moved moisture such as perspiration to the surface of a garment wicked & wicked |
| #9369, aired 2025-07-03 | INTERNATIONAL PLAYERS ANTHEM $1000: "O Canada! Our home and native land!", sang Martin Brodeur, but his home for 21 seasons was this New Jersey team where he played goalie the Devils |
| #9368, aired 2025-07-02 | DON'T YOU THINK? $200: Confucius said an "honorable and upright man... allows no" these utensils on his table knives |
| #9368, aired 2025-07-02 | CELEBRITIES $200: He was Fred Friendly in the film of "Good Night, and Good Luck.", but made his Broadway debut as Edward R. Murrow in the stage adaptation George Clooney |
| #9368, aired 2025-07-02 | NATIONAL MEMORIALS $800: Sculptor Gutzon Borglum hoped this memorial would last "until the wind and the rain alone shall wear them away" Mount Rushmore |
| #9368, aired 2025-07-02 | ISN'T IT ICONIC? $1,000 (Daily Double): Britannica noted the image of this man who died in Bolivia in 1967 "became an icon of leftist radicalism and anti-imperialism" "Che" Guevara |
| #9367, aired 2025-07-01 | I LOVE LAMP $200: It truly was a whole New World in a 2012 TV movie called this title guy "and the Death Lamp" Aladdin |
| #9367, aired 2025-07-01 | PLACES NAMED FOR PLACES $800: In 1845 this Western city was given its name by Maine-born Francis Pettygrove Portland, Oregon |
| #9367, aired 2025-07-01 | TOUGH TV $2000: In 2018 this foreign-born sitcom star continued her reign as the highest-paid TV actress Sofia Vergara |
| #9366, aired 2025-06-30 | EMOTING FOR MY EMMY $800: "Alas, poor" this guy! "I knew him, Horatio--a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy" Yorick |
| #9365, aired 2025-06-27 | PALINDROMIC NAMES $200: In a rather noted book, she is referred to as "bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh" Eve |
| #9365, aired 2025-06-27 | GEOGRAPHY QUIZ $200: Monte Perdido, also known as Mont Perdu, lies along an international border in these mountains the Pyrenees |
| #9365, aired 2025-06-27 | FILM FRANCHISES $200: (Corbin Bleu presents the clue.) I've gone on to other films and theater, but my career got a big boost from my role of Chad Danforth in this Disney film franchise that also launched the careers of Zac Efron & Vanessa Hudgens High School Musical |
| #9365, aired 2025-06-27 | SOUP! $600: Vinegar adds the signature tanginess to suan la tang, a Chinese soup better known by this pair of adjectives hot & sour |
| #9364, aired 2025-06-26 | MUSICAL THEATER $400: In this musical, Sky Masterson, "the highest player of them all", falls for the devout Sarah Grown Guys and Dolls |
| #9364, aired 2025-06-26 | A COUPLE OF THINGS $1000: This phrase meaning related to spy business is thought to have come from the French "de cape et d'épée" cloak and dagger |
| #9364, aired 2025-06-26 | A COUPLE OF THINGS $1,800 (Daily Double): "First Impressions" was an early title of this 1813 novel but that got taken, so the author went with a couple of attitudes instead Pride and Prejudice |
| #9363, aired 2025-06-25 | A DOG OF A STORY $200: A classic book ends with "'And here is"' this dog "'too. and oh, Aunt Em! I'm so glad to be at home again!"' Toto |
| #9363, aired 2025-06-25 | I LOVE YOU, MAN $400: Royals,
secret agents,
Elizabeth's Darcy,
Bridget's Darcy--
Is there anything you can't do? Colin Firth |
| #9363, aired 2025-06-25 | Xs & Os $800: A former member of the State Cattle Sanitary Board, William C. McDonald became the first governor of this state in 1912 New Mexico |
| #9362, aired 2025-06-24 | ALL KINDS OF SPORTS $600: The full name of the famed tennis venue in Wimbledon contains the name of this other game played on grass croquet |
| #9362, aired 2025-06-24 | CHAPTER & NON-VERSE $600: "The Black Bird":
"Yes, with ten thousand insurance, no children, and a wife who didn't like him" The Maltese Falcon |
| #9362, aired 2025-06-24 | CHAPTER & NON-VERSE $800: "Mr. Micawber's Gauntlet":
"Traddles and I both murmured 'no'" David Copperfield |
| #9362, aired 2025-06-24 | CHAPTER & NON-VERSE $1000: Chapter I of Book I, "Miss Brooke":
"And how should Dorothea not marry? --a girl so handsome and with such prospects?" Middlemarch |
| #9361, aired 2025-06-23 | BEFORE & AFTER $1200: Norman Mailer's first novel that leads nowhere, like a cul-de-sac The Naked and the Dead end |
| #9360, aired 2025-06-20 | BRIT BITS $400: Originally appearing on posters in 1939, this 5-word slogan intended to boost morale became a viral meme some 60 years later keep calm and carry on |
| #9360, aired 2025-06-20 | FAMOUS NAMES $600: In 1929, this defense lawyer wrote that doubts leads to investigation, and investigation is the beginning of wisdom (Clarence) Darrow |
| #9360, aired 2025-06-20 | ZOMBIE A-GO-GO $1600: This 2013 flick with Nicholas Hoult was actually sort of a zombie "Romeo and Juliet" Warm Bodies |
| #9359, aired 2025-06-19 | SUBTITLES IN THE BOOKSTORE $1200: We curse her Oxford comma subtitles "Women, Work, and the Will to Lead" & "Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy" Sandberg |
| #9358, aired 2025-06-18 | GETTING INVENTIVE WITH PHINEAS & FERB $200: (Phineas & Ferb present the clue.) Used in 1922, Thomas Edison's improved cement was so strong that it went untouched in this venue in a 1973 renovation--New Yorkers call it "The House that Ruth Built", but I think Edison cement kept it standing Yankee Stadium |
| #9358, aired 2025-06-18 | TIGER BY THE TALE $3,000 (Daily Double): This villain's name in an 1894 book suggests he is chief among tigers Shere Khan |
| #9356, aired 2025-06-16 | NOVEL PLOT POINTS $400: Raskolnikov performs the first half of the title; doesn't handle it well; gets the second half of the title Crime and Punishment |
| #9355, aired 2025-06-13 | DESCRIBING THE OLYMPIC EVENT $200: Perform for 9.58 seconds; tie world record set in 2009; point to sky the 100-meters |
| #9355, aired 2025-06-13 | BOOK TOURS $400: The narrator of this '50s book was "filled with dreams of what I'd do in Chicago, in Denver, and then finally in San Fran" On the Road |
| #9355, aired 2025-06-13 | COMPLETE THE QUOTE $2000: Hamlet wondered about taking "arms against" these metaphoric waters "and by opposing end them" a sea of troubles |
| #9354, aired 2025-06-12 | PROSPERO $200: Prospero says, "We are such stuff as" these "are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep" dreams |
| #9354, aired 2025-06-12 | YOUR FRIENDS & NEIGHBORS $400: (Jon Hamm presents the clue.) One sign your neighbor might be a mole working against the U.S. is if he lives way better than his job would suggest; like two guys in the Virginia suburbs; the CIA's Aldrich Ames & Robert Hanssen of this agency the FBI |
| #9354, aired 2025-06-12 | TV SHOW MASHUPS $400: Prohibition comes to Colorado: "Boardwalk Park" Boardwalk Empire & South Park |
| #9354, aired 2025-06-12 | THE DEVIL, YOU SEE! $400: When going to "Hell and Back" in 2015, it was s'all good, man, as this actor voiced the man downstairs Bob Odenkirk |
| #9354, aired 2025-06-12 | TV SHOW MASHUPS $1600: Freedom for a new musical star:
"Prison Idol" Prison Break & American Idol |
| #9354, aired 2025-06-12 | YOUR FRIENDS & NEIGHBORS $2000: (Olivia Munn presents the clue..) Near the end of this classic '40s movie Fred MacMurray says, "The guy you were looking for was too close, right across the desk from you" And Edward G. Robinson responds, "Closer than that" Double Indemnity |
| #9353, aired 2025-06-11 | SAME LAST NAME $400: "360" CNN journalist &
a parachuting hijacker Cooper |
| #9353, aired 2025-06-11 | "OLD" SONGS $400: In this tune Bob Seger sang, "Today's music ain't got the same soul" "Old Time Rock And Roll" |
| #9353, aired 2025-06-11 | SAME LAST NAME $800: A British scientist
&
the quarterback for the Carolina Panthers during their 2016 Super Bowl appearance Newton |
| #9353, aired 2025-06-11 | LITERATURE $800: In the title of a novel by Jonathan Safran Foer, these 2 words precede "and Incredibly Close" Extremely Loud |
| #9353, aired 2025-06-11 | SOMETIMES YOU JUST GOTTA KNOW STUFF $800: Boasting 14 times the luck, a record-setting clover with this many leaves was found in Japan in 2009 56 |
| #9353, aired 2025-06-11 | SAME LAST NAME $1200: "The World Is Flat" New York Times columnist
&
an economist who wrote "Capitalism & Freedom" Friedman |
| #9353, aired 2025-06-11 | SAME LAST NAME $1600: A World War II U.S. general
&
a Knick turned U.S. senator from New Jersey Bradley |
| #9353, aired 2025-06-11 | SAME LAST NAME $2000: Writer of "Prince Caspian"
&
a former congressman & SNCC leader Lewis |
| #9352, aired 2025-06-10 | WOULD HAVE BROKEN THE INTERNET $400: This composer's surprise drop of "Für Elise", an unreleased piano track, almost 40 years after his death Beethoven |
| #9352, aired 2025-06-10 | HERE'S YOUR INVITATION $1,000 (Daily Double): Invitations for the "laying the first stone of" this went out in 1825 &, 146 years later, for its opening in Lake Havasu City London Bridge |
| #9351, aired 2025-06-09 | SAY GOODBYE TO A GOOD BOOK $1200: This title of a "Hitchhiker's Guide" book was the last message given to humans by dolphins before leaving Earth So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish |
| #9351, aired 2025-06-09 | THE RENAISSANCE $2,000 (Daily Double): Francis Bacon wrote, "We are much beholden to" this Italian "and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do" Machiavelli |
| #9350, aired 2025-06-06 | LONDON LITERARY LANDMARKS $1,000 (Daily Double): In this Twain tale Tom Canty is welcomed to the splendor of the Guildhall while the real royal is mocked trying to get in The Prince and the Pauper |
| #9349, aired 2025-06-05 | DEEP-SEA DIVING $200: This 15th century genius sketched a face mask, cane tubes & cork float to enable soldiers to attack enemy ships from below Leonardo da Vinci |
| #9349, aired 2025-06-05 | ONIONS $400: The melodic name of fegato alla veneziana, a traditional dish of this organ meat & onions, may fail to lure your 9-year-old liver |
| #9349, aired 2025-06-05 | RHYMING EXPRESSIONS IN OTHER WORDS $600: Enormous with total authority to be large and in charge |
| #9348, aired 2025-06-04 | BEASTLY TELEVISION $400: On this show Charlotte York had a King Charles Spaniel named Elizabeth Taylor Sex and the City |
| #9348, aired 2025-06-04 | THE SAME LETTER 3 TIMES $1600: Matthew 6:24 warns, "Ye cannot serve God and" this personification of wealth Mammon |
| #54, aired 2025-06-04 | READ IT $800: Norman Mailer was 25 when this novel about a platoon of American soldiers on Anopopei island was published The Naked and the Dead |
| #54, aired 2025-06-04 | AROUND INDIA $1,000 (Daily Double): Before a 2020 visit from Pres. Trump, the replica tombs of these 2 lovers were cleaned for the first time in 300+ years Shah Jahan & Mumtaz |
| #54, aired 2025-06-04 | FASHION IN SONG $1200: In a Taylor Swift song, "She wears short skirts, I wear T-shirts, she's cheer captain and I'm" here in the bleachers |
| #54, aired 2025-06-04 | & YOU QUOTE $1200: Of these "I sing", arma virumque cano in the original arms and the man |
| #54, aired 2025-06-04 | FEMALE ACTIVISTS $2000: Seen here at the keyboard, she wrote passionately about neighborhoods in "The Death and Life of Great American Cities" (Jane) Jacobs |
| #53, aired 2025-06-04 | BROADWAY MUSICAL CHANGE A LETTER $2000: It's rock & roll time for a German victim of a botched operation & a clearly upset Andean of yore Hedwig and the Angry Inca |
| #9347, aired 2025-06-03 | ME & JEFF DANIELS GOT A HISTORY $200: I laugh every time I think about Jeff Daniels showing class & sophistication in this 1994 comedy Dumb and Dumber |
| #9345, aired 2025-05-30 | IN THE WORDS OF THE POET $400: "And that is the name that you never will guess... but the cat himself knows, and will never confess" (T.S.) Eliot |
| #9345, aired 2025-05-30 | IN THE WORDS OF THE POET $1,000 (Daily Double): "All our woe, with loss of Eden, till one greater man restore us, and regain the blissful seat, sing heav'nly muse" Milton |
| #9345, aired 2025-05-30 | IN THE WORDS OF THE POET $1000: "On the pedestal, these words appear:
My name is Ozymandias, king of kings; look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!" Shelley |
| #9344, aired 2025-05-29 | WORDS FOUND IN JUICY BY BIGGIE $200: Last name of wine merchant Claude; his family later went into business with the Chandons Moët |
| #9344, aired 2025-05-29 | CELEBRITY WOMEN $400: Accepting a SAG Lifetime Achievement Award at 87, she said she's "had a really weird career, and I'm not done" Jane Fonda |
| #9344, aired 2025-05-29 | ON THE MAP $2000: North of Australia, the second-largest island in the world is split politically between these 2 nations Indonesia & Papua New Guinea |
| #9343, aired 2025-05-28 | FIRSTS $1000: The 2024 film "Young Woman and the Sea" is the story of this American, the first woman to swim across the English Channel Gertrude Ederle |
| #52, aired 2025-05-28 | TRUTH BE TOLD $400: He's asking "What is truth?" in the painting seen here Pilate |
| #52, aired 2025-05-28 | COUNTRY PARTS $400: Belgium has 3 self-governing regions, the Brussels-capital region & these 2, one north, one south Wallonia & Flanders |
| #51, aired 2025-05-28 | BOOKS & BOOK SERIES $1000: (Here's Rebecca Yarros.) I majored in history & grew up in a 2nd-generation military family, so I can appreciate how this author's series "Master and Commander" combines history & military valor (Patrick) O'Brian |
| #50, aired 2025-05-27 | VICTORIAN WRITING $400: The limericks in his "Book of Nonsense" rhyme the last line with the first, a bit of a letdown if you're waiting for a big punch rhyme Lear |
| #50, aired 2025-05-27 | OVERHEARD ON TIKTOK $600: Sounding a bit like a "Batman" villain, it's a seducer, or the nickname of the eyebrow-raising, chin-stroking kid Christian Joseph the Rizzler |
| #50, aired 2025-05-27 | VICTORIAN WRITING $8,000 (Daily Double): Sergeant Cuff of London solves the mysterious disappearance of this item stolen under the influence of opium the Moonstone |
| #49, aired 2025-05-27 | OPERA $10,400 (Daily Double): In a Wagner opera Woglinde, Wellgunde & Flosshilde are 3 of these magical water nymphs the Rhinemaidens |
| #9340, aired 2025-05-23 | DEFINITIONS OF LEGAL TERMS $1000: "Latin, meaning in a judge's chambers. Often means outside the presence of a jury and the public" in camera |
| #9339, aired 2025-05-22 | LAST LINES OF THE CHILDREN'S BOOK $600: "Then he nibbled a hole in the cocoon, pushed his way out and... he was a beautiful butterfly!" The Very Hungry Caterpillar |
| #9338, aired 2025-05-21 | PEOPLES OF THE WORLD $800: In the 1920s what became Yugoslavia had the unwieldy name "Kingdom of" them, "Croats & Slovenes" Serbs |
| #9338, aired 2025-05-21 | THE HIGHEST POPULATION IN THE STATE $1,000 (Daily Double): A city with this name has the highest population in 2 coastal states Portland |
| #48, aired 2025-05-21 | JAMIE LEE CURTIS & HER MOVIES $200: (Here's the final clue, coming your way from Jamie Lee Curtis.) Here we go again! This summer Lindsay Lohan & I reprise our roles in the sequel to this 2003 film with a new multigenerational twist, since Lindsay's character is now a mom & I'm a grandmother Freaky Friday |
| #48, aired 2025-05-21 | AROUND THE BIG WATER JUST SOUTH & WEST OF FLORIDA $400: Defeating Spanish forces at Tampico in 1829 was a big win for this general who was up & down in Mexican politics for decades Santa Anna |
| #48, aired 2025-05-21 | THE VINTAGE COCKTAIL HOUR $600: This cocktail named for a Valentino bullfighting movie used scotch & OJ, not the 2 things in the name, luckily blood and sand |
| #47, aired 2025-05-21 | MUSIC, CLASSICALLY $200: Grandpa is represented by a bassoon & the hunters' guns, timpani, in this work that premiered in 1936 in Moscow Peter and the Wolf |
| #47, aired 2025-05-21 | A NEW CAR $600: You brought a spare million, right? Let's check out the 1907 Rolls Royce model known by this colorful & spooky name the Silver Ghost |
| #47, aired 2025-05-21 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $11,800 (Daily Double): The first word in this 3-word cardiac condition refers to the buildup of fluid in the body; the last means the pump isn't keeping up congestive heart failure |
| #9337, aired 2025-05-20 | 18th CENTURY AVIATION $800: Flying with both these types of balloon seemed smart, but alas led to flammability risk & the 1st balloonist deaths in 1785 a hot air balloon with a hydrogen balloon |
| #9337, aired 2025-05-20 | PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $800: Tom Stoppard first gained fame for this play named for 2 minor characters from Shakespeare Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead |
| #9337, aired 2025-05-20 | TV SHOWS BY EPISODE TITLES $1000: "Miranda",
"Sleepover" &
"Vendy Wiccany" Pen15 |
| #46, aired 2025-05-20 | THE BOOKER PRIZE $1200: Peter Carey won for this novel that was made into a 1997 film with Ralph Fiennes & Cate Blanchett as the title first names Oscar and Lucinda |
| #46, aired 2025-05-20 | WHAT DO YOU CALL THAT? $8,400 (Daily Double): Eponymously named, it usually has 11 rows of capital letters & you read it from 20 feet away Snellen chart |
| #45, aired 2025-05-20 | ANAGRAMS OF EACH OTHER $800: To earn &
headgear for a bishop miter & merit |
| #45, aired 2025-05-20 | JACQUES ON THE BOX $1000: You can rent an adaptation of this musical revue; the title is no longer true, but it has the title guy singing "Ne me quitte pas" Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris |
| #9336, aired 2025-05-19 | GRAMMAR POLICE $5,000 (Daily Double): In the sentence "I fought the law and the law won", the word "and" is this type of conjunction a coordinating conjunction (additive) |
| #9333, aired 2025-05-14 | THAT IS THE QUESTION $1000: "'I,' said the sparrow, 'with my bow and arrow"' is the answer to this question Who killed Cock Robin? |
| #9333, aired 2025-05-14 | 2 E OR NOT 2 E $1000: A ruminant forest-dwelling mammal /
a German word meaning the deer & der |
| #9333, aired 2025-05-14 | WE ARE REALLY GOING TO STUMP YOU $1000: In the 19th century William McDonald set up a post office in the stump of a cedar on this mythic-sounding peninsula of Washington State the Olympic Peninsula |
| #9333, aired 2025-05-14 | BIG BOX OFFICE ENERGY $1200: To lighten the mood a bit, filmmakers cut the Schadenfreude character from this top-grossing film of 2024 Inside Out 2 |
| #44, aired 2025-05-14 | SHOP TALK $800: To a London cabbie, a long shift is a this, the composer of "Night And Day" a Cole Porter |
| #44, aired 2025-05-14 | DROP A LETTER $1000: To intimidate &
a certain female family member daunt & aunt |
| #44, aired 2025-05-14 | BIOLOGIST BIO $7,600 (Daily Double): In 1929, way before she wrote a few bestsellers, she did post-grad work at the marine biological lab. in Woods Hole, Mass. (Rachel) Carson |
| #43, aired 2025-05-14 | THE 2 & THE 4 $400: Rastafarian term for oneness with Jah; antonym of military civilian |
| #9332, aired 2025-05-13 | THE CHILDREN'S AUTHOR WHO WROTE... $600: In one translation, "The most ghastly sight of all was a little mermaid whom they had caught and strangled" (Hans Christian) Andersen |
| #9332, aired 2025-05-13 | THE CHILDREN'S AUTHOR WHO WROTE... $800: '"Augustus Gloop! Augustus Gloop! The great big greedy nincompoop!... so unutterably vile, so greedy, foul, and infantile"' Roald Dahl |
| #9332, aired 2025-05-13 | SITCOMS $1000: And there's this actress who played the sitcom roles of Maude Findlay & Dorothy Zbornak Bea Arthur |
| #9332, aired 2025-05-13 | THE CHILDREN'S AUTHOR WHO WROTE... $1000: "Soon Fudge would be a famous television star and I would be plain old Peter Hatcher--fourth grade nothing" (Judy) Blume |
| #9332, aired 2025-05-13 | CHANGE A LETTER $5,200 (Daily Double): To conclude by reasoning switches a letter & now means to bury infer & inter |
| #9331, aired 2025-05-12 | MOVIE & SONG, SAME TITLE $2000: Matthew McConaughey &
Led Zeppelin Dazed and Confused |
| #9330, aired 2025-05-09 | QUEEN STORY HOUR $2000: Upon the death of King William III in 1890, she became queen of the Netherlands, though her mom ruled as regent Wilhelmina |
| #9328, aired 2025-05-07 | IYKYK $1000: In 1866, this American artist conducted, or rather painted, a "Symphony in Grey and Green: The Ocean" Whistler |
| #9328, aired 2025-05-07 | 21st CENTURY FICTION $2000: This repetitively titled Gabrielle Zevin book follows the lives of Sam & Sadie, whose video game Ichigo becomes a big hit Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow |
| #42, aired 2025-05-07 | HYMNS & SPIRITUALS $1,600 (Daily Double): With music by Sir Arthur Sullivan & a favorite of the Salvation Army, this title precedes "marching as to war" "Onward Christian Soldiers" |
| #42, aired 2025-05-07 | HYMNS & SPIRITUALS $1600: "On a hill far away stood" this "cross, the emblem of suffering and shame" an old rugged cross |
| #9326, aired 2025-05-05 | "BIG" NICKNAMES $400: Arnold Rothstein, who allegedly fixed the 1919 World Series, roamed New York City as this long before "Sex and the City" used the moniker Mr. Big |
| #9325, aired 2025-05-02 | GOVERNORS $400: In 2003 the Californian newspaper asked, "Will the Terminator become" this portmanteau? the Governator |
| #40, aired 2025-04-30 | THUNDERBOLTS $400: (One more time, David Harbour.) Sometimes, thunder & lightning do strike twice; this song that mentions "thunderbolt and lightning" peaked at No. 9 in the U.S. in 1976, but thanks to its use in a film 16 years later, it reached No. 2 in 1992 "Bohemian Rhapsody" |
| #40, aired 2025-04-30 | THE STUDIO SYSTEM $400: After pioneering sound films, this studio launched the gangster movie craze with movies like "Little Caesar" Warner Brothers |
| #40, aired 2025-04-30 | THUNDERBOLTS $800: (Once again, Florence Pugh.) Unusual for the time, this 1725 quartet of violin concerti was accompanied by poems, including one that says, "The sky is caped in black, and / Thunder and lightning herald a storm" The Four Seasons |
| #39, aired 2025-04-30 | FEAT. $800: Time to give you (almost) everything; "Give Me Everything" featured Ne-Yo, Afrojack & Nayer, but "Mr. 305", this guy, was up front Pitbull |
| #39, aired 2025-04-30 | WAS THAT ON YOUR FLASHCARDS? $2000: Spanish for "nail", in prison slang it's contraband or a place to stash it clavo |
| #9322, aired 2025-04-29 | SUFFIXES $800: Early in the 20th century, the rare suffix -and was used to create the word analysand, a person undergoing this psychotherapy |
| #9321, aired 2025-04-28 | QUOTABLE FICTIONAL CHARACTERS $200: "I meant what I said and I said what I meant... an elephant's faithful one hundred per cent!" declares this Seussian creation Horton |
| #9321, aired 2025-04-28 | QUOTABLE FICTIONAL CHARACTERS $2,000 (Daily Double): "Just think lovely wonderful thoughts... and they lift you up in the air", explains this eternal youth Peter Pan |
| #9320, aired 2025-04-25 | THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE "HOME" $800: This type of burglary means you are in your dwelling when the break-in occurs a home invasion |
| #9320, aired 2025-04-25 | ABSOLUTE POWER $1000: A list of Barack Obama's favorite books includes this "power"-ful 1940 Graham Greene novel The Power and the Glory |
| #9319, aired 2025-04-24 | TV TITLE REFERENCES $200: Department that Ron Swanson was the director of when the series started Parks and Recreation |
| #9319, aired 2025-04-24 | TV TITLE REFERENCES $600: The clientele of veterinarians James Herriot & Siegfried Farnon All Creatures Great and Small |
| #9319, aired 2025-04-24 | BLANK VERSE $800: "Once upon a ____ ____ , while I pondered, weak and weary" midnight dreary |
| #9319, aired 2025-04-24 | BLANK VERSE $1200: "The fog comes on little ____ ____ .
It sits looking over harbor and city" cat feet |
| #9319, aired 2025-04-24 | OBJECTION, YOUR HONOR! $1600: This alliterative 3-word objection means "the witness has responded & now you're just repeating yourself--let's move on" asked and answered |
| #9318, aired 2025-04-23 | 2024 IN THE REARVIEW MIRROR $400: On December 7 the word "Merci" was projected above the portal of the Last Judgment along the west facade of this Notre Dame |
| #9318, aired 2025-04-23 | DIFFICULT BUT FUNNY TV CHARACTERS $600: (Susie Essman presents the clue.) As Susie Greene, I screamed horrible and I do mean horrible things that popped into my head for 24 years on this show, including at its creator, and I got paid to do it Curb Your Enthusiasm |
| #9318, aired 2025-04-23 | 19th CENTURY LIT $1200: In "The Brothers Karamazov", he wrote, "Love all God's creation, the whole and every grain of sand in it" Dostoevsky |
| #9316, aired 2025-04-21 | DEAR DIARY $1,200 (Daily Double): In 1922 Virginia Woolf recorded being bored by this new novel her friend "Tom" Eliot thought was "on a par with 'War and Peace"' Ulysses |
| #9315, aired 2025-04-18 | THE LIVER $600: Many of this band's concerts featured Phil Lesh urging the audience to be organ donors, like the man whose liver gave Phil 26 years the Grateful Dead |
| #9315, aired 2025-04-18 | THE ARTS $800: In this opera based on a fairy tale, the witch sings, "Nibble, nibble, little mouse, who's nibbling at my little house?" Hansel and Gretel |
| #9315, aired 2025-04-18 | MOVIE LOCALES $1600: The Café des Deux Moulins is where this winsome Parisienne waits tables while awaiting her fabulous destiny Amélie |
| #9315, aired 2025-04-18 | THE ARTS $6,000 (Daily Double): Grand Rapids, Michigan has a public sculpture by this man--a 42-ton stabile (Alexander) Calder |
| #9312, aired 2025-04-15 | FROM PAGE TO SCREEN $400: (Margaret Cho presents the clue.) I played Erin, the den mother to a group of queer men in the 2022 rom-com "Fire Island", which was loosely based on this Jane Austen novel Pride and Prejudice |
| #9312, aired 2025-04-15 | AUTHORS' REAL HOUSEWIVES TAGLINES $1200: I worked "Night and Day" on that 1919 novel, so my husband Leonard & my friend E.M. Forster can think what they want Virginia Woolf |
| #9311, aired 2025-04-14 | ELEMENTAL PHRASES $400: This idiom that mentions 2 coins can mean to make petty financial demands in a negotiation nickel and dime |
| #9309, aired 2025-04-10 | MYSTERY LOVES COMPANY $1000: 8 paragraphs in on "The Thin Man", he narrates, "My glass was empty. I asked ... what she (wanted) to drink, she said scotch and soda" Nick Charles |
| #9309, aired 2025-04-10 | THE SINGLE LIFE $1600: The decline & fall of this historian's engagement to Suzanne Curchod came at the urging of his father; he never did marry Edward Gibbon |
| #9308, aired 2025-04-09 | LONG SONG TITLES $1200: This alt-rock classic by R.E.M. gets even longer with the subtitle "(And I Feel Fine)" "It's The End Of The World As We Know It" |
| #9308, aired 2025-04-09 | STATE FACTS $4,400 (Daily Double): During the Civil War more battles were fought in these 2 neighboring states than in any other Virginia & Tennessee |
| #9307, aired 2025-04-08 | TALK O' TUESDAY $600: This redundantly titled Taylor Swift breakup song begins, "Once upon a time, I believe it was a Tuesday when I caught your eye" "Forever And Always" |
| #9307, aired 2025-04-08 | CHAPTER $1,000 (Daily Double): In this novel Chapter 10 is "The Shell and the Glasses"
& 12,
"Cry of the Hunters" Lord of the Flies |
| #9305, aired 2025-04-04 | POTPOURRI $200: The "Star Trek" gestured called the Vulcan salute is accompanied by this four-word phrase Live long and prosper |
| #9305, aired 2025-04-04 | LITERATURE $2000: The prologue of this Colson Whitehead novel mentions a secret graveyard on the north side of the campus The Nickel Boys |
| #9303, aired 2025-04-02 | PLACING THE SONG $200: Bienvenidos a this Will Smith song, which sampled "And The Beat Goes On" by The Whispers Miami |
| #9303, aired 2025-04-02 | THE DEAD NEVER SLEEP $800: (Kevin Bacon presents the clue.) In "The Song of Ice and Fire" series, Catelyn Stark is murdered at this colorful ceremony but is reborn as Lady Stoneheart & there will be hell to pay Red Wedding |
| #9303, aired 2025-04-02 | PLACING THE SONG $1000: "Got a wife & kids in" this city, Jack, "I went out for a ride & I never went back"; a "Hungry Heart" wants what a "Hungry Heart" wants Baltimore |
| #9301, aired 2025-03-31 | NEPO PARENTS $1200: In 2023 Anne Twist published her first kids' book, "Betty and the Mysterious Visitor", while this singer, Anne's son, had "Love on Tour" Harry Styles |
| #9300, aired 2025-03-28 | BOOK TITLE ADJECTIVES $200: Kids got a whiff of "The ____ Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales" Stinky |
| #9300, aired 2025-03-28 | BOOK TITLE ADJECTIVES $600: We're detecting some "____ Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch" Good |
| #9300, aired 2025-03-28 | ON THE SIDE OF THE ANGELS $600: In the 1960s Hunter S. Thompson detailed "A Strange and Terrible Saga" in his adventures with this group the Hells Angels |
| #9299, aired 2025-03-27 | GOOD READS $1600: This John Berendt "Savannah Story" features the Lady Chablis & murder victim Danny Hansford Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil |
| #9299, aired 2025-03-27 | GOOD READS $2000: This Friedrich Nietzsche work published in 1886 was meant to further define his idea of the Superman Beyond Good and Evil |
| #9298, aired 2025-03-26 | FROM THEIR NEW YORK TIMES OBITUARY $200: 1968:
"Overcame blindness and deafness to become a symbol of the indomitable human spirit" Helen Keller |
| #9298, aired 2025-03-26 | KID LIT $600: Last name Trotter, the title kid of this Roald Dahl favorite is orphaned when his parents are eaten by a rhino James and the Giant Peach |
| #9298, aired 2025-03-26 | FROM THEIR NEW YORK TIMES OBITUARY $800: 1926:
"Began her career at 16 years and performed wonderful shooting feat at 62" Annie Oakley |
| #9298, aired 2025-03-26 | LION AROUND $2,500 (Daily Double): Stage directions in this Shaw play based on a Roman story mention a huge thorn in a paw Androcles and the Lion |
| #9297, aired 2025-03-25 | MOUNTAINS $800: South America's highest peak, Mount Aconcagua is found near the border of these 2 countries Chile & Argentina |
| #9297, aired 2025-03-25 | WOMEN ON TV $1200: Conchata Ferrell is perhaps best remembered for her roles on "L.A. Law" & as sarcastic housekeeper Berta on this sitcom Two and a Half Men |
| #9296, aired 2025-03-24 | TWIN "C"s $400: Calcium carbonate mixed with marble & glue can make this plaster-like substance that gives buildings that durable finish stucco |
| #9296, aired 2025-03-24 | AMERICAN POETRY $400: Walt Whitman's line "Where on the deck my captain lies, fallen cold and dead" referred to this man Lincoln |
| #9296, aired 2025-03-24 | BILLS OF MORTALITY FOR 17th C. LONDON $400: In 1682 a total of 71 didn't get their vitamin C & fell to this disease scurvy |
| #9296, aired 2025-03-24 | JOHNNY ON THE AXE $800: In 1957, this future country legend released an album called him "with... His Hot and Blue Guitar!" Johnny Cash |
| #9296, aired 2025-03-24 | AMERICAN POETRY $2000: A classic poem says, "Two roads" did this "in a wood, and I--I took the one less traveled by" diverged |
| #9295, aired 2025-03-21 | A SONG FOR ALL SEASONS $400: "I'm drunk in the back of the car, and I cried like a baby" while doing this, reported Taylor Swift of her "Cruel Summer" coming home from the bar |
| #9295, aired 2025-03-21 | COME ON, 22! $600: "The knife came down, missing him by inches, and he took off" is the last line of this novel Catch-22 |
| #9294, aired 2025-03-20 | POETS & POETRY $400: Edgar Allan Poe had these title objects "tinkle, tinkle, tinkle", "clang, and clash, and roar!" the bells |
| #9293, aired 2025-03-19 | THE WHO? $200: Who indeed! He wrote, "My town is called Who-ville, for I am a who and we Whos are all thankful and grateful to you" Dr. Seuss |
| #9292, aired 2025-03-18 | ORGANIZATIONS $200: Founded during the Great Depression by Black mothers, this leadership organization bears the name of 2 kids in a nursery rhyme Jack and Jill |
| #9292, aired 2025-03-18 | THE DISNEY VILLAIN WHO SAID... $400: "All that's left now is to kill Elsa... and bring back summer" Hans |
| #9291, aired 2025-03-17 | FROM A TEEN'S BOOK REPORT $800: Edgar Linton reps Thrushcross Grange, has got some serious ducats & is fittin' to rizz up Cathy Wuthering Heights |
| #9291, aired 2025-03-17 | DANCING IN NON-MUSICAL MOVIES $1200: As part of his "Big Adventure", Pee-wee hops on a bar & has a memorable dance to this classic song "Tequila" |
| #9291, aired 2025-03-17 | YVES DROPPING $2000: From his bio, he worked with Edith Piaf, had an affair with Marilyn Monroe, starred in "Z" & was talked about for French president in 1988 Yves Montand |
| #9291, aired 2025-03-17 | AROUND THE WORLD $2000: Founded by Columbus' brother in 1496, this island capital is the oldest permanent city in the Americas begun by Europeans Santo Domingo |
| #9289, aired 2025-03-13 | A BIT OF LIT $2000: In 1935 his semi-autobiographical "Of Time and the River" was published as a sequel to "Look Homeward, Angel" Thomas Wolfe |
| #9287, aired 2025-03-11 | ALLITERATIVE BOOKS $10,000 (Daily Double): "That illustrious man mounted into the Windsor chair... and addressed the club" is a line from this Dickens work The Pickwick Papers |
| #9286, aired 2025-03-10 | BASEBALL HALL OF FAME PLAQUES $200: "Holder of more than a score of Major and American League records, including that of playing 2,130 consecutive games" Lou Gehrig |
| #9286, aired 2025-03-10 | BASEBALL HALL OF FAME PLAQUES $600: "Lifetime benchmarks include 5,714 strikeouts, seven no-hitters and 12 one-hitters in 27 seasons pitched" (Nolan) Ryan |
| #9286, aired 2025-03-10 | CELEBRITY MENTORS $800: Saoirse Ronan said of this mentor who directed her in 2 films, "She's everything I want to be as an actor & a filmmaker" Greta Gerwig |
| #9286, aired 2025-03-10 | PARTS OF THE BOOK $1000: Dover Books' "Medieval and Renaissance Fashion" has "90 full-color" these illuminating illustrations on special paper plates |
| #9286, aired 2025-03-10 | CELEBRITY MENTORS $1600: Can we talk? She may have come off as harsh & mean, but to Margaret Cho, this funny lady was "gentle and loving and warm" Joan Rivers |
| #9285, aired 2025-03-07 | STAR WARS $400: Kim Cattrall said she's "never been friends" with the other stars of this show & we can't help wondering, can co-workers be pals? Sex and the City |
| #9285, aired 2025-03-07 | EUROPEAN CAPITALS $2,800 (Daily Double): These 2 rhyming "B" capitals, each with close to 2 million people, are located about 500 miles apart Budapest & Bucharest |
| #9284, aired 2025-03-06 | SPEECH! $400: In a 2005 commencement speech, he talked about his $2 billion company... "I had just turned 30. And then I got fired" Jobs |
| #9284, aired 2025-03-06 | THE NAME OF THE PLAY $1200: The title mom in Bertolt Brecht's her "and Her Children" is a not always brave 17th century war profiteer Mother Courage |
| #9284, aired 2025-03-06 | THE NAME OF THE PLAY $1600: Athol Fugard's him "...and the Boys" is a coming-of-age story set in apartheid-era South Africa Master Harold |
| #9284, aired 2025-03-06 | 5-LETTER GEOGRAPHY $7,800 (Daily Double): Site of an art show with outposts in Hong Kong & Miami Beach, this city sits near where France, Germany & Switzerland meet Basel |
| #9283, aired 2025-03-05 | RECENT MOVIES $200: "Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom" ends with our hero revealing the existence of this kingdom of his Atlantis |
| #9283, aired 2025-03-05 | SPITTING FIRE $200: In Exodus the angel of the Lord appeared & this "burned with fire, and" it "was not consumed" the (burning) bush |
| #9283, aired 2025-03-05 | THE DESIRED OPERA CATEGORY $400: Figaro! Figaro Figaro Fiii-gaaa-ro! is who I'm talking about & he sings the aria "Largo al factotum" in this 1816 comic opera The Barber of Seville |
| #9283, aired 2025-03-05 | RECENT MOVIES $400: This beloved bear gets a terrifying makeover in the 2023 horror film subtitled "Blood and Honey" (Winnie the) Pooh |
| #9283, aired 2025-03-05 | ADD A LETTER $600: A 4 on the pH scale & a description of a nasty smell acid & acrid |
| #9283, aired 2025-03-05 | RECENT MOVIES $800: As this character in "Dune: Part Two", Timothée Chalamet unites with the Fremen to help seek his revenge on his enemies Paul |
| #9283, aired 2025-03-05 | ALL THE NON-HUMAN BOOK CHARACTERS $1000: In a book by Robert C. O'Brien, this widowed mouse meets up with some rats from the National Institute of Mental Health Mrs. Frisby |
| #34, aired 2025-03-05 | FLOWER GIRLS $100: This fictional resident of TV's Hazzard County looked so good in shorts they literally named shorts after her Daisy Duke |
| #34, aired 2025-03-05 | 10-LETTER WORDS $200 (Daily Double): It's how "U" might describe everything that's everywhere all at once ubiquitous |
| #34, aired 2025-03-05 | COSTUME CHANGE $200: Take "bra", change one of its letters & it becomes this type of long, fluffy scarf boa |
| #34, aired 2025-03-05 | COSTUME CHANGE $400: Take "shoe", rearrange its letters & it becomes this synonym for stockings hose |
| #34, aired 2025-03-05 | WHAT THE HE'LL, AUTOCORRECT! $600: If autocorrect existed in 1929, his novel detailing the fall of the Compson family might have been "The Soup and the Furnace" Faulkner |
| #34, aired 2025-03-05 | HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS $1000: Supervise a home birth! A CNM is a "certified nurse" this midwife |
| #34, aired 2025-03-05 | JEOPARDY! IS EVERYWHERE $1,500 (Daily Double): On a 1998 episode of this show, Alex Trebek gets rescued by lifeguards; once he's ashore, he has a scene with David Hasselhoff Baywatch |
| #34, aired 2025-03-05 | GULFS $2,100 (Daily Double): Along with Mexico & the United States, this island nation is 1 of 3 countries bordering the Gulf of Mexico Cuba |
| #9282, aired 2025-03-04 | THE HERO'S JOURNEY $1000: IMDb, on this film:
A "journalist and his psychopathic lawyer travel... for a series of psychedelic escapades" Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas |
| #9282, aired 2025-03-04 | OLD MAN (OR WOMAN) RIVER $3,200 (Daily Double): Quinobequin to the natives, it was called the Massachusetts by explorers, then renamed in 1614 for a then-prince the Charles River |
| #9282, aired 2025-03-04 | 5-LETTER ANTONYMS $4,000 (Daily Double): Harmless:
Relating to a trio of destiny-based goddesses? fatal |
| #9281, aired 2025-03-03 | IN YE OLDE 18th CENTURY BOOKSHOPPE $1200: This Jean-Jacques Rousseau work of "Social" science says, "Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains" The Social Contract |
| #9281, aired 2025-03-03 | IN YE OLDE 18th CENTURY BOOKSHOPPE $2,200 (Daily Double): "Of the division of labour" kicks off Chapter One in "An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of" the rest of this 1776 title The Wealth of Nations |
| #9281, aired 2025-03-03 | CURRENCIES $8,000 (Daily Double): Dinar is served in many countries including this small oil-rich one; in the '90s the Iraqi dinar briefly replaced its own dinar Kuwait |
| #9280, aired 2025-02-28 | NOT TODAY, SATIN! $200: Lycra & this other 1950s proprietary brand name both refer to synthetic elastic polyurethane fabrics spandex |
| #9280, aired 2025-02-28 | USE YOUR WORD WORDS $400: This verb means to articulate & pronounce one's words clearly & correctly enunciate |
| #9280, aired 2025-02-28 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $800: His "Sons and Lovers", about relationships in a British working-class family, was semi-autobiographical D.H. Lawrence |
| #9279, aired 2025-02-27 | OF (GREEK) MYTHICAL PROPORTIONS $400: In book XI of Ovid's "Metamorphoses", this man "touched a clod of earth, and by the power of touch, the clod became a nugget" Midas |
| #9278, aired 2025-02-26 | CONTEMPORARIES $400: Queen Victoria gave birth to her son Leopold in 1853, when this man (& sons) opened a piano shop in Manhattan Steinway |
| #9278, aired 2025-02-26 | SECOND LETTER "Y" $1000: To the Greeks it was 10,000 specifically, but we think of it as being innumerable or an abundance of something myriad |
| #33, aired 2025-02-26 | SPELLING "B"s $100: This French-named hat follows "green" as worn by some U.S. Army special forces B-E-R-E-T |
| #33, aired 2025-02-26 | LITERARY LOVE TRIANGLES $500: Booktok was obsessed with the triangle between Feyre, Rhysand & Tamlin in this Y.A. romantasy series, "Acotar" to its fans A Court of Thorns and Roses |
| #33, aired 2025-02-26 | ON-SCREEN ASS-KICKERS $600: Voiced by Eddie Murphy, Mushu the dragon says of this animated Disney warrior, "My baby's all grown up and saving China!" Mulan |
| #33, aired 2025-02-26 | CHEEKY T-SHIRTS: GEOGRAPHY EDITION $1500: It's the panhandle state on T-shirts that brazenly offer this accusation: "looks and smells like a sweaty foam finger" Oklahoma |
| #33, aired 2025-02-26 | NEW YORK TIMES $2,000 (Daily Double): 1:00 A.M.--in 2006, Patti Smith winds down a 3 1/2 hour set; the final one at this Lower East Side club CBGB |
| #9277, aired 2025-02-25 | TRANSPORTATION INFORMATION $600: vox.com noted "The Rise and Fall of" this, "America's Most Needlessly Masculine Vehicle" & its near-6,000-pound footprint a Hummer |
| #9276, aired 2025-02-24 | SEVERANCE $200: (Britt Lower presents the clue.) In this 1886 story that's become synonymous with leading a double life, one change is a pair of hands going from firm & white to knuckle-y & hairy Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde |
| #9276, aired 2025-02-24 | FORESTS $4,600 (Daily Double): The Bohemian Forest is mainly along Germany's border with this country to the east Czechia (the Czech Republic) |
| #9275, aired 2025-02-21 | SAYETH THE BIBLE BOOK $200: "And the frogs shall depart from thee, and from thy houses, and from thy servants, and from thy people" Exodus |
| #9275, aired 2025-02-21 | IDIOMS $400: This phrase meaning to do everything possible to ensure success specifically invokes a baseball diamond to cover all bases |
| #9275, aired 2025-02-21 | SAYETH THE BIBLE BOOK $400: "Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall" Proverbs |
| #9275, aired 2025-02-21 | SAYETH THE BIBLE BOOK $600: In chapter 20 "and death and hell were cast into the lake of fire" Revelation |
| #9275, aired 2025-02-21 | THEIR OSCAR-WINNING ROLE $800: Louis Gossett Jr., a gunnery sgt. & tough drill instructor in this 1982 film An Officer and a Gentleman |
| #9275, aired 2025-02-21 | SAYETH THE BIBLE BOOK $1000: "Out of the belly of hell cried I, and thou heardest my voice" Jonah |
| #9275, aired 2025-02-21 | MOVING WORDS $2000: More foreign travel than any previous sec def got William Perry this punning adjective, from his name & a word for moving a lot Perrypatetic |
| #9274, aired 2025-02-20 | SEEMS LIKE OLD TIMES $200: Jazz Age icon Josephine Baker came to stardom during the exuberant decade known by this nickname the Roaring Twenties |
| #9274, aired 2025-02-20 | SURPRISE! SHAKESPEARE! $400: This title guy said, "Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look... such men are dangerous"; he should have listened to his instincts Julius Caesar |
| #9274, aired 2025-02-20 | MOVIES WITH CHAMPIONS $600: In a 1979 sequel this "Master of Disaster" & "Count of Monte Fisto" goes down, & Rocky Balboa wins the crown Apollo Creed |
| #9274, aired 2025-02-20 | SURPRISE! SHAKESPEARE! $2000: Shakespeare didn't print his plays but did shepherd some of his poems through printing, including this one about 2 mythical beauties Venus and Adonis |
| #9272, aired 2025-02-18 | THE '80s: WHO SAID IT? $1200: On her nomination to the Supreme Court: "This is a momentous day in my life and the life of my family" Sandra Day O'Connor |
| #9272, aired 2025-02-18 | BORDERLINE $1,500 (Daily Double): Now a tourist attraction, the demilitarized zone separating these 2 countries was officially abolished in 1976 North & South Vietnam |
| #9271, aired 2025-02-17 | PHILOSOPHY $1600: P.I. is philosophy shorthand for this issue, with questions like how do I know I am the same Ken I was 25 years ago? personal identity |
| #9270, aired 2025-02-14 | CONVERSATIONAL ESPERANTO $400: Relatively speaking, these 2 are frato & fratino brother & sister |
| #9270, aired 2025-02-14 | CONVERSATIONAL ESPERANTO $1200: Saluton & adiau are these 2 words that take people in different directions hello & goodbye |
| #9270, aired 2025-02-14 | BIRD "E"s $1600: Often nesting in cactus, the world's tiniest owl is not a dwarf owl or fairy owl, but this diminutive species elf |
| #9270, aired 2025-02-14 | BIRD "E"s $8,400 (Daily Double): In the 1930s Australia declared a war of sorts on these large flightless birds emus |
| #9269, aired 2025-02-13 | ART FOR ART'S SAKE $800: Also called "Vampire", "Love and Pain" is an 1893 work by this Scandinavian artist Munch |
| #9268, aired 2025-02-12 | DIFFERS BY A LETTER $200: To fly high & to box soar, spar |
| #9268, aired 2025-02-12 | ON THE RUN $2000: Billy Joe & Bobby Sue were the young lovers on the lam after a hassle in El Paso in this Steve Miller Band tune "Take The Money And Run" |
| #32, aired 2025-02-12 | THE SONG TITLE COMPLETES THE LYRIC (BILLY JOEL EDITION) $100: "And it seems such a waste of time, if that's what it's all about, mama if that's movin' up then I'm..." "Movin' Out" |
| #32, aired 2025-02-12 | 2-PART RESPONSES $200: These are the 2 continents elephants are native to Africa & Asia |
| #32, aired 2025-02-12 | THE SONG TITLE COMPLETES THE LYRIC (BILLY JOEL EDITION) $300: "Next phase,
New Wave,
dance craze,
anyways..." "It's Still Rock And Roll To Me" |
| #32, aired 2025-02-12 | SCI-"FI" $500: This technology transmits information as tiny pulses of light through thin transparent wires fiber optics |
| #32, aired 2025-02-12 | 2-PART RESPONSES $600: These are the 2 parts of the legislative branch; you know... U.S. Congress the Senate & the House of Representatives |
| #32, aired 2025-02-12 | PLAYING THE POLITICIAN $600: Years before playing fictional president Jed Bartlet on "The West Wing", he played John F. Kennedy in a 1983 miniseries Martin Sheen |
| #32, aired 2025-02-12 | TELL US HOW YOU REALLY FEEL $800: In a 1964 hit, The Beatles sing, "She's in love with me and I feel" this fine |
| #32, aired 2025-02-12 | 2-PART RESPONSES $1,000 (Daily Double): These are the 2 bands inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame that have had Dave Grohl as a band member Nirvana & the Foo Fighters |
| #32, aired 2025-02-12 | PLAYING THE POLITICIAN $1000: In the miniseries "Mrs. America", Uzo Aduba plays this "Unbought and Unbossed" pioneer Shirley Chisholm |
| #32, aired 2025-02-12 | WHAT THE $%*@#&?! $1500: It's the $%*@#&?! symbol seen here that stands for the word spelled out by the last 3 letters in its name an ampersand |
| #32, aired 2025-02-12 | MAKE IT HAPPEN, CAPTAIN $12,000 (Daily Double): Son of Erik the Red, this Norse explorer is believed to have been one of the first Europeans to reach the shores of North America Leif Erikson |
| #9267, aired 2025-02-11 | UNDER THE MICROSCOPE $400: Grain, cheese & dust are types of these tiny (really, really tiny!) arthropods mite |
| #9267, aired 2025-02-11 | AMERICAN GOVERNMENT $1200: The mission statement of this Cabinet department begins, "With honor and integrity, we will safeguard the American people" Homeland Security |
| #9267, aired 2025-02-11 | AMERICAN GOVERNMENT $6,400 (Daily Double): The oldest committee in the House, it's been charting revenue policy since 1789 Ways and Means |
| #9266, aired 2025-02-10 | LITERARY QUOTATIONS $800: "Her hair was long, her foot was light, and her eyes were wild" is Keats on this belle dame who is without pity, not without thanks sans merci |
| #9266, aired 2025-02-10 | THE NOT-A-COMMA DESERT $1600: "It was red & yellow & green & brown & scarlet & black & ochre" is a lyric in this long-titled biblical musical by Lloyd Webber & Rice Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat |
| #9265, aired 2025-02-07 | ANAGRAMS OF EACH OTHER $800: A real test of character, perhaps by fire, &
to put in more ammo ordeal & reload |
| #9264, aired 2025-02-06 | ENGLISH LIT $400: This book begins, "Once there were four children whose names were Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy" The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe |
| #9264, aired 2025-02-06 | ENGLISH LIT $800: "Catriona", a sequel to this novel, recounts "The Further Adventures of David Balfour at Home and Abroad" Kidnapped |
| #9264, aired 2025-02-06 | LEGENDARY TWEETS $1000: "And of course, the film 'Gravity' (2013) should instead have been named 'Zero Gravity"' deGrasse Tyson |
| #9263, aired 2025-02-05 | ENGLISH CLASS $800: (Brian Jordan Alvarez presents the clue.) Want to write a good term paper? You need to nail this introductory statement that sets forth your argument & provides a road map for the rest of your essay; it's from Greek for "proposition" thesis |
| #31, aired 2025-02-05 | PODCASTS ABOUT TV SHOWS $300: "That Was Us", a podcast about "This Is Us", is co-hosted by this actor who played Randall Pearson Sterling K. Brown |
| #31, aired 2025-02-05 | THE COW GOES MU $600: In the Netherlands, when this animal says "waf waf" it might be begging for a trip to a losloopgebied to play off-leash a dog |
| #31, aired 2025-02-05 | THANKSGIVING $2,700 (Daily Double): In Puerto Rico, a Thanksgiving turkey might be stuffed with mofongo, a mashed dish made from this cousin of the banana the plantain |
| #9261, aired 2025-02-03 | THE MAN, THE MYTH, THE LEGEND $400: Caught napping, this character finds "it's twenty years since he went away from home... and never has been heard of since" Rip Van Winkle |
| #9261, aired 2025-02-03 | SUBTITLES OF BOOKS $2000: With a title from an 1890s song, this 1980s book is subtitled "Politics, People, & the AIDS Epidemic" And the Band Played On |
| #9260, aired 2025-01-31 | ON THE MOVIE SOUNDTRACK $1200: Animated in 2009:
"Down In New Orleans",
"When We're Human" The Princess and the Frog |
| #9260, aired 2025-01-31 | ON THE MOVIE SOUNDTRACK $1600: A 2014 mix tape:
"Hooked On A Feeling",
"Come And Get Your Love" Guardians of the Galaxy |
| #9259, aired 2025-01-30 | LET'S PUT 2 THINGS TOGETHER $400: 1st name of the guy "who lives in a pineapple under the sea" + activity with "star promenade" & "arm turns" = this dude with new moves SpongeBob SquareDance |
| #9259, aired 2025-01-30 | COMMUNICATION $800: In a 2017 movie one of these title objects in Missouri reads, "And Still No Arrests?" a billboard (three billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri accepted) |
| #9259, aired 2025-01-30 | STARTS & ENDS WITH THE SAME VOWEL $1600: In "War and Peace" Pierre is criticized for preaching the doctrines of this secret group the Illuminati |
| #9258, aired 2025-01-29 | THE REST IS HISTORY $600: (Tom Holland & Dominic Sandbrook present the clue.)
(Dominic: The French went their own way with the passengers on their early rockets, including the first catstronaut.)
(Tom: She was dubbed Félicette in honor of this star of early cartoons & had the distinction of actually surviving her sub-orbital flight) Felix the Cat |
| #9258, aired 2025-01-29 | PIANO LESSON $2,000 (Daily Double): Of the 4 main instrument families in an orchestra, the piano actually belongs to both of these percussion & strings |
| #30, aired 2025-01-29 | OVER, UNDER, OR EXACTLY 100 $200: Members of the U.S. Senate, at full capacity exactly 100 |
| #30, aired 2025-01-29 | THE GREATEST YEAR IN MOVIE HISTORY? $200: 1994?
"Pulp Fiction", "The Shawshank Redemption" & this comedy about 2 numbskulls who drive a mini-bike to Aspen Dumb and Dumber |
| #30, aired 2025-01-29 | WE DON'T DESERVE DOGS $300: Put an all-beef wienie on a poppy seed bun & "drag it through the garden" to make a hot dog in the style of this Midwestern city Chicago |
| #30, aired 2025-01-29 | RECENT TV $400: Kathryn Hahn acts like a total witch as the star of "Agatha All Along", a 2024 spin-off of this TV marvel WandaVision |
| #30, aired 2025-01-29 | THE SAME WORD TWICE $1,500 (Daily Double): Tired of all those large, tall birds wading in your local marsh? Invest in this large, tall machine for lifting them out a crane crane |
| #30, aired 2025-01-29 | LONGER VERSIONS OF HIT SONG TITLES $1500: Migos, 2016:
"Materially Successful As Well As Refreshingly Down To Earth" "Bad And Boujee" |
| #30, aired 2025-01-29 | 5 SLICES OF PI $1500: By definition, pi denotes "the ratio of" this boundary line of a circle "to its diameter" circumference |
| #9257, aired 2025-01-28 | POP MUSIC'S MISSING LINKS $1000: Shut up And ____
The Night Away Dance |
| #9257, aired 2025-01-28 | FROM TV SHOW TO FILM $1600: A clumsy Rowan Atkinson took a "Holiday" in a 2007 film based on this Britcom Mr. Bean |
| #9256, aired 2025-01-27 | BROKEN $200: In a nursery rhyme his broken crown was patched "with vinegar and brown paper" Jack |
| #9256, aired 2025-01-27 | HELL'S KITCHEN, THE MUSICAL $600: (Alicia Keys presents the clue.) "Kaleido-leido-leido-leido-leidoscope, everyone looking high and low"
A new song about opening up the world, "Kaleidoscope" was the theme song of this sporting event in 2024, & in late August, Shoshana Bean made the trip from Hell's Kitchen to Queens to sing at the opening night U.S. Open of tennis |
| #9256, aired 2025-01-27 | LITERARY CHARACTERS $800: This 19th century classic follows the romantic relationships of sisters Elinor & Marianne Dashwood Sense and Sensibility |
| #9256, aired 2025-01-27 | A WEAK RESPONSE $2000: Mao wrote that "Imperialism and Reactionaries are Paper" these animals that only appear to have power a tiger |
| #9255, aired 2025-01-24 | THERE WILL BE MOVIE VENGEANCE $600: In his quest for vengeance against Francis, this hero learns a laundry lesson--"seltzer water & lemon for blood... or wear red" Deadpool |
| #9254, aired 2025-01-23 | HISTORY OF BRITAIN $400: Signed by Alexander II & Henry III, 1237's Treaty of York set the border between these 2 kingdoms England & Scotland |
| #9253, aired 2025-01-22 | PREFIXED PAIRS $400: Outside the normal range of perception & originating from beyond the Earth extraterrestrial & extrasensory |
| #9253, aired 2025-01-22 | SCHOOL OF MUSIC $800: She was about to graduate when "Foolish Beat" hit No. 1, making her the youngest artist to write, produce & perform a No. 1 hit Debbie Gibson |
| #9253, aired 2025-01-22 | PREFIXED PAIRS $800: The movement of a soul from one body to another & a flight from, say, New York to Dublin transatlantic & transmigration |
| #9253, aired 2025-01-22 | SCHOOL OF MUSIC $1000: Here's this country legend, clean-shaven some 70 years ago as a student in Texas, back when they still wore leather football helmets Willie Nelson |
| #9253, aired 2025-01-22 | PREFIXED PAIRS $2000: Music with multiple melodic parts sounded together & having more than the usual number of digits like bluesman Hound Dog Taylor polydactyl & polyphony (polyphonic) (**polyharmonic) |
| #29, aired 2025-01-22 | THIS LITTLE PIGGY $300: The extra-long fourth toe of this marsupial acts as a powerful lever; it's why some can clear more than 30 feet per bound a kangaroo |
| #29, aired 2025-01-22 | DURING HIS PRESIDENCY $800: Spanish Civil War;
end of Prohibition;
launch of the New Deal Franklin Delano Roosevelt |
| #29, aired 2025-01-22 | WHAT'S THE DEAL WITH THE PERIODIC TABLE? $1500: This metal has a 3-letter name, yet they gave it a 2-letter symbol, Sn--why not just "T"?! "T" was available! What's the deal?! tin |
| #29, aired 2025-01-22 | SCIENCE, TECH & TV $2,500 (Daily Double): A mad scientist & his grandson use a portal gun to travel to different dimensions on this long-running animated series Rick and Morty |
| #29, aired 2025-01-22 | ART CLASS $2,600 (Daily Double): The woman in this 1871 masterpiece is sitting down because she got tired of standing while posing for her son Whistler's Mother |
| #29, aired 2025-01-22 | CHARACTER, ACTOR $18,600 (Daily Double): Annie Wilkes, 1990:
Homicidal superfan of the Misery Chastain novels; surgical with a sledgehammer Kathy Bates |
| #9252, aired 2025-01-21 | 1925 $2000: She traveled to American Samoa, where she would spend 9 months observing & interviewing female adolescents Margaret Mead |
| #9252, aired 2025-01-21 | THE BIBLE $10,800 (Daily Double): In the NT we learn Peter's brother Andrew, who also became an apostle, had previously been a disciple of this religious figure John the Baptist |
| #9252, aired 2025-01-21 | "B" ON THE SEA $13,400 (Daily Double): The name of this small Middle Eastern kingdom means "the 2 seas" in Arabic Bahrain |
| #9251, aired 2025-01-20 | BACK WORDS & FORWARD $800: Met in competition
&
a less jittery morning beverage choice faced & decaf |
| #9251, aired 2025-01-20 | 18th CENTURY WRITING $800: Visionary artist & poet William Blake wrote collections titled "Songs of" these 2 opposites Innocence & Experience |
| #9251, aired 2025-01-20 | MUSEUMS $1,600 (Daily Double): Sir Aston Webb designed this London museum of decorative arts the V&A (the Victoria and Albert Museum) |
| #9251, aired 2025-01-20 | 18th CENTURY WRITING $2000: In 1774 this once-enslaved woman wrote, "Then fix the humble Afric muse's seat at British Homer's and sir Isaac's feet" (Phillis) Wheatley |
| #9248, aired 2025-01-15 | DIRECTION TO PERFECTION $200: This plural word can mean something is tops, like 4 certain cards in a standard playing deck aces |
| #9248, aired 2025-01-15 | TEARJERKERS $800: We'll spare you the full ending of this 1957 Disney film, but yes, the title dog does have rabies Old Yeller |
| #9248, aired 2025-01-15 | FIDDLIN' AROUND $1,800 (Daily Double): You need violins to represent this human part of a 1936 Prokofiev title duo Peter |
| #28, aired 2025-01-15 | NOT-SO-SURREALISM $300: It's not like Frida Kahlo is in a kayak or on Mars; in her 1940 painting "The Dream", she's literally lying on this furniture a bed |
| #28, aired 2025-01-15 | SURVIVING THE MOVIE $300: "Avengers: Endgame":
Iron Man,
Captain America,
Thanos Captain America |
| #28, aired 2025-01-15 | TRAVEL GUIDES $500: They're the 2 cities examined in Time Out's "Essential Guide to Russia's Twin Capital Cities" Moscow & Saint Petersburg |
| #28, aired 2025-01-15 | NOT-SO-SURREALISM $600: Joan Miró's 1922 painting "The Farm" ain't so surreal; it literally depicts chickens, a barn & this covered vehicle a wagon |
| #28, aired 2025-01-15 | GRUMPY PHILOSOPHERS $1,800 (Daily Double): He warned that life could be "nasty, brutish, & short"; the comic strip tiger named after him was less of a bummer Hobbes |
| #28, aired 2025-01-15 | NOT-SO-SURREALISM $2,800 (Daily Double): Its French text says it's "not" this but Popeye & Frosty would disagree; a 1929 René Magritte painting literally depicts this object a pipe |
| #9247, aired 2025-01-14 | 1980s MONSTER TRUCKS $800: A Camaro body? Why not? Also, why not give it the name of this Roy Scheider helicopter film? Boy, that was some heavy '80s goin' on! Blue Thunder |
| #9246, aired 2025-01-13 | SCIENCE $200: Newton's third law of motion states that "for every action there is" one of these an equal & opposite reaction |
| #9246, aired 2025-01-13 | THAT PHRASE IS MONEY $600: A 2014 TV movie had this title that describes both tardiness & having not quite enough cash to cover a cost A Day Late and a Dollar Short |
| #9246, aired 2025-01-13 | 2015: 10 YEARS AGO $600: Leaving many stunned, in August these 2 Muppets announced the end of their romantic relationship on Twitter Kermit the Frog & Miss Piggy |
| #9245, aired 2025-01-10 | MOVIES BY TAGLINE $400: "For Harry and Lloyd, every day is a no-brainer" Dumb and Dumber |
| #9245, aired 2025-01-10 | PLAY $600: "Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812" takes a thrilling tour through elements of this Tolstoy epic War and Peace |
| #9245, aired 2025-01-10 | MOVIES BY TAGLINE $7,600 (Daily Double): 2010:
"You don't get to 500 million friends without making 'a few enemies" The Social Network |
| #9244, aired 2025-01-09 | CLASSIC TV $400: "And Just Like That", in 2021 this series began a new chapter Sex and the City |
| #9243, aired 2025-01-08 | AROUND THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE $400: Melbourne lies about 200 miles north of this devilish island Tasmania |
| #9243, aired 2025-01-08 | GOOD ENOUGH $2000: Robert Frost ended the poem "Fire & Ice" by rhyming "Ice" with this verb meaning "be enough" suffice |
| #27, aired 2025-01-08 | HARD NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD CLUES $5 (Daily Double): 61-across, 4 letters:
Hard-boiled film genre noir |
| #27, aired 2025-01-08 | THERE'S AN ANIMAL IN MY BOOK TITLE! $500 (Daily Double): "Something That Happened" was John Steinbeck's working title for this 1937 novella about farm workers George & Lennie Of Mice and Men |
| #27, aired 2025-01-08 | THERE'S AN ANIMAL IN MY BOOK TITLE! $600: The title of this C.S. Lewis classic mentions a feline named Aslan, an evil woman & a piece of furniture The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe |
| #27, aired 2025-01-08 | THE CONCH REPUBLIC $1000: In 2016, this longtime resident & writer of "Freckle Juice" founded a bookstore on the island with her husband George Judy Blume |
| #9242, aired 2025-01-07 | THAT'S SHOWBIZ $400: Minor studios like Republic specialized in the low-budget productions familiarly graded as these B-movies |
| #9242, aired 2025-01-07 | POTENT QUOTABLES $400: In 1958, referring to a vodka martini, this author wrote the immortal words "shaken and not stirred" Fleming |
| #9241, aired 2025-01-06 | ALBUMS $200: In 2014 Taylor Swift gave us this album named for a different year 1989 |
| #9241, aired 2025-01-06 | STARS OF STAGE & SCREEN $400: His N.Y. Times obituary said "he gave life to characters like Darth Vader... and Mufasa" & won numerous awards James Earl Jones |
| #9241, aired 2025-01-06 | A LITTLE LOVE POETRY $2000: This Shakespeare contemporary worked fast; "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" begins, "Come live with me and be my love" Marlowe |
| #9240, aired 2025-01-03 | YOUR 19th CENTURY BEARD TICKLES! $800: You've seen his beard, but have you seen his penmanship? His wife Jenny got to share his socialist ideals & copy his manuscripts Karl Marx |
| #9239, aired 2025-01-02 | SO SAYETH THE KING JAMES BIBLE $200: In Genesis, "God blessed" humanity, saying "Make thee be fruitful, and" do this multiply |
| #9239, aired 2025-01-02 | SO SAYETH THE KING JAMES BIBLE $400: "I am" these 2 letters, "the first and the last: and, what thou seest, write in a book" Alpha & Omega |
| #9239, aired 2025-01-02 | SO SAYETH THE KING JAMES BIBLE $600: "These are also the generations of Aaron and Moses in the day that the Lord spake with Moses" at this place Mount Sinai |
| #9239, aired 2025-01-02 | SO SAYETH THE KING JAMES BIBLE $1,000 (Daily Double): "And there was war again: and David went out, and fought with" this group, "and slew them with a great slaughter" the Philistines |
| #9239, aired 2025-01-02 | SO SAYETH THE KING JAMES BIBLE $1000: "And Joshua the son of Nun sent out of Shittim two men to spy secretly, saying, go view the land, even" this city Jericho |
| #9238, aired 2025-01-01 | 4-LETTER WORDS WITH AN "X" $1000: Casually mentioning to the deli meat guy at Costco that you made it on "Jeopardy!" might be this, slang for bragging a flex |
| #9237, aired 2024-12-31 | MYTHOLOGY $2,000 (Daily Double): It's said of these twins of myth that one of their pops was Zeus & the other was Tyndareus Castor & Pollux |
| #9237, aired 2024-12-31 | NONFICTION $3,600 (Daily Double): "King of the Osage Hills" & "For the Betterment of the Bureau" are chapters in this 2017 bestseller Killers of the Flower Moon |
| #9236, aired 2024-12-30 | TRANSPORTATION $200: And let's get right into it; that's inventor Dean Kamen demonstrating his human transporter, better known by this name a Segway |
| #9235, aired 2024-12-27 | STARTS & ENDS WITH "O" $800: Shopping for ingredients in the marinade for souvlaki? Don't forget this essential herb oregano |
| #9233, aired 2024-12-25 | THE NOVEL CHAPTER $1000: "Wickfield and Heep" David Copperfield |
| #9231, aired 2024-12-23 | TELEVISION CITY $400: TV shows set in San Diego over the years include "Simon & Simon", "Drake & Josh" & this comedy starring Jane & Lily Grace and Frankie |
| #9231, aired 2024-12-23 | WORLD WAR I WORDS $800: In 1917 the London Times wrote of "the unity of the fighting front and" this civilian parallel the home front |
| #9231, aired 2024-12-23 | THE CINEMATIC VAMPIRE $2000: (Nicholas Hoult presents the clue.) Max Schreck starred as the dastardly Count Orlock, whose fingernails & fangs set the template for the future in the grandfather of vampire films, 1922's "Nosferatu", directed by this man F.W. Murnau |
| #9230, aired 2024-12-20 | MR. & MRS. LIT $400: "Mr. Darcy soon drew the attention of the room" at his first appearance in this novel Pride and Prejudice |
| #9230, aired 2024-12-20 | SCIENCE BOOKSHELF $400: Buzz Lightyear's catchphrase, it's also a Neil deGrasse Tyson book that takes readers to the farthest reaches of space to infinity and beyond |
| #9228, aired 2024-12-18 | THAT'S WEIRD $400: In cognitive science, the acronym "WEIRD" stands for "Western, Educated, Industrialized", this financial state "and Democratic" Rich |
| #9227, aired 2024-12-17 | SWAP A VOWEL $600: Squander away
&
a small pool of rainwater piddle & puddle |
| #9227, aired 2024-12-17 | FROM THE AFI CATALOG $800: From 1993, the banned advertisements included, "Finally, a movie for everyone who did inhale" Dazed and Confused |
| #9227, aired 2024-12-17 | FROM THE AFI CATALOG $2000: "Based on the real-life unavailability of Coors Banquet beer outside the 11 western... U.S. states where it was sanctioned" Smokey and the Bandit |
| #9226, aired 2024-12-16 | STARTS WITH "H" $2000: Drinks made from this plant include sorrel in Jamaica & agua de Jamaica in Latin America hibiscus |
| #9224, aired 2024-12-12 | ABBREVIATED MAGAZINES $800: "Where food and culture meet":
BA Bon Appétit |
| #9224, aired 2024-12-12 | POETRY FILL IN THE BLANK $800: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow:
"Ready to ride and spread the ____, through every Middlesex village and farm" alarm |
| #9224, aired 2024-12-12 | AMERICA BEFORE 1800 $1,000 (Daily Double): In 1763 the Penns & Calverts brought in these 2 English astronomers to settle a boundary dispute Mason & Dixon |
| #9224, aired 2024-12-12 | DODGEPODGE $1000: In 1865 Mary Mapes Dodge opened a literary can of Dutch boy & gave Hans Brinker this title footwear the silver skates |
| #9224, aired 2024-12-12 | POETRY FILL IN THE BLANK $1200: Emily Dickinson: "Because I could not stop for death/ He kindly stopped for me/ The carriage held but just ourselves/ And ____" immortality |
| #9223, aired 2024-12-11 | TV SHOW TAGLINES $800: "Science makes sense, family doesn't" is a truth shared by this animated comedy Rick and Morty |
| #9223, aired 2024-12-11 | THE OLD TESTAMENT $4,000 (Daily Double): It's twins for Rebekah: "the first came out red, all over like an hairy garment; and they called his name" this Esau |
| #9222, aired 2024-12-10 | WHO WANTS HISTORY? $400: It preceded "of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen" in the title of a document adopted in August 1789 Declaration |
| #9222, aired 2024-12-10 | ISLANDS $2000: These two neighboring islands are Indonesia's most populous Sumatra & Java |
| #9221, aired 2024-12-09 | MAIN CHARACTER $400: In "The Master and Margarita", the main character is Woland, actually this evil entity in disguise the devil (satan) |
| #9220, aired 2024-12-06 | "A" FOR ART $800: 3-word title of a Titian in the Prado: she's reaching for the forbidden fruit, he's reaching for her boob Adam and Eve |
| #9219, aired 2024-12-05 | PLAY THINGS $600: In 1967 this play based around a classic one debuted on Broadway & pretty much promised the 2 title guys wouldn't make it out alive Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead |
| #9219, aired 2024-12-05 | ON THE MOVIE MAP $800: A 2006 sequel:
"The Fast and the Furious: ____ Drift" Tokyo |
| #9219, aired 2024-12-05 | 4-WORD PHRASES $800: Do this, improve on an existing invention, "and the world will beat a path to your door" build a better mousetrap |
| #9218, aired 2024-12-04 | A REAL SOB STORY $800: (Jason Kelce presents the clue.) Crying is no biggie to me & check it out in some classic lit--Alexei Alexandrovich was weeping, "kissing her hands and saying", "How happy we are now", & Alexei Vronsky was there too, in this novel Anna Karenina |
| #9218, aired 2024-12-04 | A REAL SOB STORY $4,000 (Daily Double): She sobs a lot, but imprisoned unjustly & sexually harassed by Frollo, she has just cause Esmeralda |
| #9217, aired 2024-12-03 | OCCUPATIONAL TV $200: On "Sex and the City", this character was a newspaper columnist writing about her experiences Carrie Bradshaw |
| #9217, aired 2024-12-03 | OCCUPATIONAL TV $600: Alan Harper, Charlie's brother on this sitcom, was a chiropractor Two and a Half Men |
| #9217, aired 2024-12-03 | SECTS $2,200 (Daily Double): In the 19th century the Namdhari sect of this religion began wearing turbans straight across the forehead--no more jaunty angles Sikhism |
| #9217, aired 2024-12-03 | ITALIAN EXPLORERS $5,900 (Daily Double): Last name of Niccolò & Maffeo, who in 1271 were given papal letters to present to Kublai Khan Polo |
| #9216, aired 2024-12-02 | THAT CHAPTER'S NAMED FOR ME! $400: "Live and Let Die", chapter 2, is an "Interview with" this letter-perfect head honcho M |
| #9216, aired 2024-12-02 | THAT CHAPTER'S NAMED FOR ME! $800: A charming Chapter 4 is entitled "In Which" this animal "Loses a Tail and Pooh Finds One" Eeyore |
| #9215, aired 2024-11-29 | SHEIK $800: This collection of stories featuring Sinbad & Aladdin also has one in which sheiks are rudely strapped to camels One Thousand and One Nights |
| #9215, aired 2024-11-29 | A COUPLE OF THINGS ABOUT THEM $2000: spelled her name in lower case; wrote the 1981 book "Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism" bell hooks |
| #9214, aired 2024-11-28 | ASIAN LITERATURE $2000: In "The Temple of the Golden Pavilion" by Yukio Mishima, a Buddhist monk burns down the title temple in this old capital Kyoto |
| #9213, aired 2024-11-27 | QUOTING THE KING JAMES BIBLE $400: "And the light shineth in" this, which "comprehended it not" the darkness |
| #9213, aired 2024-11-27 | ONE GOOD "TURN" $600: As in the song "Closing Time", it's what bars do "over every boy and every girl" around last call they turn the lights on |
| #9213, aired 2024-11-27 | QUOTING THE KING JAMES BIBLE $1000: "And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils" this phrase the breath of life |
| #9213, aired 2024-11-27 | "E" BOOKS $3,000 (Daily Double): This nonfiction Pulitzer winner is subtitled "Poverty and Profit in the American City"; the title happened to many families Evicted |
| #9211, aired 2024-11-25 | HERE'S MY WRITING SAMPLE $200: "'Don't be afraid. He hasn't come for you.' And to Javert he said: 'I know what you're here for"' Hugo |
| #9211, aired 2024-11-25 | HERE'S MY WRITING SAMPLE $400: "My biggest problem is my brother, Farley Drexel Hatcher. He's two-and-a-half years old. Everybody calls him Fudge" Judy Blume |
| #9211, aired 2024-11-25 | HERE'S MY WRITING SAMPLE $600: "The self-same moment I could pray; and from my neck so free / The albatross fell off, and sank like lead into the sea" Coleridge |
| #9211, aired 2024-11-25 | HERE'S MY WRITING SAMPLE $1000: "Yeager was standing erect with his parachute rolled up... and staring at them quite levelly out of what was left of his face" Tom Wolfe |
| #9211, aired 2024-11-25 | ANIMAL QUOTES $1200: The Bible says it's "easier for" this "to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God" a camel |
| #9211, aired 2024-11-25 | ANIMAL QUOTES $3,000 (Daily Double): Huey Newton wrote this "is a fierce animal, but he will not attack until he is backed into a corner; then he will strike out" a (black) panther |
| #9210, aired 2024-11-22 | TV TITLE TWOSOMES BY ACTORS $1200: Gless &
Daly Cagney & Lacey |
| #9210, aired 2024-11-22 | TV TITLE TWOSOMES BY ACTORS $1600: Foxx &
Wilson Sanford and Son |
| #9210, aired 2024-11-22 | TV TITLE TWOSOMES BY ACTORS $2000: Based on literary characters:
Fry & Laurie Jeeves and Wooster |
| #9209, aired 2024-11-21 | CLASSIC TV THEME SONGS $800: "In your satin tights, fighting for your rights and the ol' Red White and Blue" Wonder Woman |
| #9209, aired 2024-11-21 | ECONOMICS $1000: In 1913, this British economist published "Indian Currency and Finance", then got into government work, which is so him-sian Keynes |
| #9208, aired 2024-11-20 | AUTHORS' EPITAPHS $800 (Daily Double): Her East Sussex grave says, "Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O death! The waves broke on the shore" Virginia Woolf |
| #9208, aired 2024-11-20 | 21st CENTURY MOVIE MOMENTS $800: "Another Day Of Sun" was a song-and-dance number on a ramp from the 105 to 110 freeway in this 2016 film La La Land |
| #9208, aired 2024-11-20 | AUTHORS' EPITAPHS $1200: This author of "Goodnight Moon" is described on her tombstone as "writer of songs and nonsense" Brown |
| #9207, aired 2024-11-19 | LANDLOCKED & LOADED $400: Kid, the next time I say let's go someplace like this country on Brazil's west border & above Paraguay... Bolivia |
| #9207, aired 2024-11-19 | BILLBOARD MUSIC AWARDS $400: We're a "Sucker" for this trio who performed together in 2019, their first awards show in a decade; they'd win 3 awards in 2020:
"I'm a sucker for you / You say the word and I'll go anywhere blindly / I'm a sucker for you, yeah / Any road you take, you know that you'll find me" The Jonas Brothers |
| #9207, aired 2024-11-19 | SITCOM NEIGHBORS $400: My name is Cleveland Brown and I am proud to be a neighbor of the Griffins on Fox TV, on this show except when I moved for a bit Family Guy |
| #9207, aired 2024-11-19 | IT'S RUINED $800: "A lying tongue hateth those that are afflicted by it; and a flattering mouth worketh ruin" is in this Bible book Proverbs |
| #9207, aired 2024-11-19 | IT'S RUINED $2000: This historian pinpointed sunset on Oct. 15, 1764, amid the ruins of the Capitol, as the moment he decided on his life's work Edward Gibbon |
| #9206, aired 2024-11-18 | WICKED $200: (Cynthina Erivo & Ariana Grande present the clue.) (Cynthia: When Glinda first sees Elphaba, naturally she's startled.)
(Ariana: Stating the obvious, she says these two words) you're green |
| #9206, aired 2024-11-18 | WICKED $600: (Cynthia Erivo & Ariana Grande present the clue.) (Ariana: As roommates at Shiz University, who better than Galinda to teach Elphaba how to be this?) (Cynthia: She says, "Grin and bear it. You'll be" this, just not quite as much as her) popular |
| #9205, aired 2024-11-15 | LAST LINES OF BOOKS $200: "'Thank goodness!' said Bilbo laughing, and handed him the tobacco-jar" The Hobbit |
| #9205, aired 2024-11-15 | THIS AMERICAN WIFE $200: Her, writing hubby John in 1776: "If perticuliar care and attention is not paid to the laidies we are determined to foment a rebelion" Abigail Adams |
| #9205, aired 2024-11-15 | LAST LINES OF BOOKS $400: "And so, as Tiny Tim observed, God bless us, every one!" A Christmas Carol |
| #9205, aired 2024-11-15 | POKE AN I OUT $600: A Latin word for a decree drops its I & becomes a synonym for plump fiat & fat |
| #9205, aired 2024-11-15 | THIS AMERICAN WIFE $600: After marrying Elliot in 1938, this inventor had 2 kids, Barbara & Ken, who were not thrilled being mom's inspiration Ruth Handler |
| #9205, aired 2024-11-15 | LAST LINES OF BOOKS $800: "He would be there all night, and he would be there when Jem waked up in the morning" To Kill a Mockingbird |
| #9205, aired 2024-11-15 | LAST LINES OF BOOKS $1000: A 5-word title: "In that enchanted place on the top of the forest, a little boy and his bear will always be playing" The House at Pooh Corner |
| #9205, aired 2024-11-15 | LAST LINES OF BOOKS $3,400 (Daily Double): "Very few castaways can claim to have survived so long at sea as Mr. Patel, and none in the company of an adult Bengal tiger" Life of Pi |
| #9204, aired 2024-11-14 | 20th CENTURY FICTION $400: "Le's do it now. Le's get that place now" were Lennie's last words to George in this Steinbeck novella Of Mice and Men |
| #9204, aired 2024-11-14 | & THE HOME OF THE RAVE $600: This 2023 film was a "Minus" in title only: IndieWire said, "The king of monsters is back--and better than ever" Godzilla Minus One |
| #9204, aired 2024-11-14 | O'ER THE LAND OF THE FREE $800 (Daily Double): If you fly west out of Columbia, Missouri to Denver, basically above I-70, you'll cross this state in its entirety Kansas |
| #9204, aired 2024-11-14 | WHAT'S "UP"? $800: In the Bible the first line of Job explains that he was from Uz, & that he was "perfect and" this upright |
| #9203, aired 2024-11-13 | NOTHING TO SEE HERE $1600: In federal court, witnesses are asked to "solemnly swear" their testimony "will be" these 10 words the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth |
| #9202, aired 2024-11-12 | U.S. HISTORY $4,000 (Daily Double): A December 2, 1954 resolution said the conduct of this man "is contrary to senatorial traditions and is hereby condemned" (Joseph) McCarthy |
| #9200, aired 2024-11-08 | SHOE BIZ $200: Yee-haw! In the 1940s Frye introduced its first pair of these, the Rancher cowboy boots |
| #9200, aired 2024-11-08 | 4-SYLLABLE WORDS $1200: We imagine that if the performer seen here hands out a business card, it lists this profession a funambulist (aerialist) |
| #9200, aired 2024-11-08 | BALLET & OPERA $1600: Called the first great American opera, it premiered in 1935 with Todd Duncan & Anne Wiggins Brown in the lead roles Porgy and Bess |
| #9199, aired 2024-11-07 | THINGS HAVE GONE OFF THE RAILS $1200: After a bus & train collide, Sam Gerard wants a search of every "warehouse, farmhouse... outhouse and dog-house" in this film The Fugitive |
| #9198, aired 2024-11-06 | MY CHERRY AMOUR $400: Ben & Jerry's says it's the "first ice cream named for a rock legend and the most famous of our fan-suggested flavors" Cherry Garcia |
| #9197, aired 2024-11-05 | MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS $1600: It was customary for this person to ask forgiveness before doing his job; Mary forgave hers Feb. 8, 1587 an executioner |
| #9197, aired 2024-11-05 | SCIENCE $3,000 (Daily Double): The 2 chemical elements bearing the names of U.S. states are tennessine & this one californium |
| #9196, aired 2024-11-04 | THE QUOTABLE OSCAR WILDE $400: In this novel Lord Henry says, "I like men who have a future and women who have a past" The Picture of Dorian Gray |
| #9195, aired 2024-11-01 | THAT'S SO 19th CENTURY $400: In 1859 she provided "Notes on Nursing: What It Is and What It Is Not", & here's what the book is--still available today Florence Nightingale |
| #9195, aired 2024-11-01 | ONLY MURDERS IN BUILDINGS $800: The mean pawnbroker Alyona Ivanovna & her timid half-sister are murdered in their apartment in this 1866 work Crime and Punishment |
| #9194, aired 2024-10-31 | HATE-FUL QUOTES $800: In his preface to this 1855 work, Walt Whitman urged us to "stand up for the stupid and crazy" & "hate tyrants" Leaves of Grass |
| #9193, aired 2024-10-30 | SPEAKING REVERSIBLY $400: A pilsner
&
relating to royalty lager & regal |
| #9193, aired 2024-10-30 | SONGS $800: "1979" & "Bullet With Butterfly Wings" are songs from their double album called "Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness" The Smashing Pumpkins |
| #9192, aired 2024-10-29 | THE MACHINE'S BROKEN $400: In 2024 in Capalaba, Australia, this type of machine was out of order as a toddler crawled in for direct access to the Hello Kittys a claw machine |
| #9192, aired 2024-10-29 | MOVIE OUTLAWS $2000: Flat-Nose Curry & News Carver are part of the gang in this 1969 film named for two outlaws Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid |
| #9191, aired 2024-10-28 | COMPLETE THE RHYMING PHRASE $200: "30 days hath September..." April, June & November |
| #9190, aired 2024-10-25 | ART & ARTISTS $800: Somerset Maugham's "The Moon and Sixpence", about a stockbroker who heads to Tahiti to be a painter, is loosely based on him Gauguin |
| #9190, aired 2024-10-25 | RETRONYMS $800: Before the IBM Selectric was a hit commercially, you probably had to hunt & peck on this kind of machine a manual typewriter |
| #9189, aired 2024-10-24 | RANDOM BOOKS IN FICTION SERIES $200: "A Storm of Swords" is the third book in a series by him George R.R. Martin |
| #9189, aired 2024-10-24 | BALLAD $1600: In "The Ballad of" this place, Oscar Wilde wrote, "Something was dead in each of us, and what was dead was hope" Reading Gaol |
| #9188, aired 2024-10-23 | LITERARY TITLES EN ESPAÑOL $800: "El ruido y la furia" The Sound and the Fury |
| #9188, aired 2024-10-23 | QUOTH THE PRESIDENT $1600: He wrote, "A grove of giant redwoods or sequoias should be kept just as we keep a great and beautiful cathedral" Teddy Roosevelt |
| #9188, aired 2024-10-23 | BROADWAY LEADING LADIES $2000: These two Broadway legends seen here have rhyming first names Chita Rivera & Rita Moreno |
| #9188, aired 2024-10-23 | QUOTH THE PRESIDENT $2000: Truman, on criticism from this general: "When an egotist is punctured, a lot of noise and whistling always accompanies the escaping air" MacArthur |
| #9187, aired 2024-10-22 | THAT'S JUST PART OF THE STORY $200: On the question of "Life, the Universe and Everything" in this book series, the answer is 42, "which is a little aggravating" The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy |
| #9187, aired 2024-10-22 | THE DUTCH COLONIAL EMPIRE $400: The Netherlands' colonial empire was mainly split between these 2 directional trading companies the (Dutch) East India Trading Company & West India Trading Company |
| #9187, aired 2024-10-22 | THAT'S JUST PART OF THE STORY $600: The hero of this tale thinks, "Do you believe the great DiMaggio would stay with a fish as long as I will stay with this one?" The Old Man and the Sea |
| #9187, aired 2024-10-22 | THE DUTCH COLONIAL EMPIRE $800: Batavia, founded in 1619 on Java, resembled a dutch town with canals; 3 centuries later, it was renamed this Jakarta |
| #9187, aired 2024-10-22 | THE CULTURAL 19th CENTURY $1200: This "Deerslayer" author came up with the Bread and Cheese Club, a meeting of early 19th century minds James Fenimore Cooper |
| #9186, aired 2024-10-21 | GREAT MOVIE ROM-DRAMS $200: (Andrew Garfield presents the clue.) It's still the same old story, but this 1942 film about Rick & Ilsa remains not just one of the great love stories but one of the greatest films of all time Casablanca |
| #9186, aired 2024-10-21 | LOSE A LETTER $200: A product's cost loses a letter & becomes a starchy staple price & rice |
| #9186, aired 2024-10-21 | GREAT MOVIE ROM-DRAMS $800: (Florence Pugh presents the clue.) Debra Winger gets her guy as a uniformed Richard Gere carries her off at the end of this film to the tune of "Up Where We Belong" An Officer and a Gentleman |
| #9186, aired 2024-10-21 | NONFICTION $2,500 (Daily Double): The epigraph to this classic 1962 book quotes Keats: "The sedge is wither'd from the lake, and no birds sing" Silent Spring |
| #9185, aired 2024-10-18 | LIGHTER VERSE $800: "We'll go where the chalk-white arrows go, for the children, they mark, and the children, they know, the place where" this "Ends" the sidewalk |
| #9184, aired 2024-10-17 | THAT BLOWS! $200: In a chapter called "The Cyclone", "In spite of the swaying of the house and the wailing of the wind", this girl "fell fast asleep" Dorothy |
| #9183, aired 2024-10-16 | THE ____ OF THE ____ $2,600 (Daily Double): "Jesus falls the first time" & "Jesus is laid in the tomb" are parts of this reflective rite the Stations of the Cross |
| #9182, aired 2024-10-15 | AGRICULTURAL HISTORY $400: Ash provides fertilizer in this hyphenated cultivation technique involving torching forestland slash-and-burn farming |
| #9182, aired 2024-10-15 | TALKING HEADS $1600: (Tina Weymouth presents the clue.) Talking Heads was still a trio in 1975 when we played our first show, opening for the Ramones at the legendary New York punk club known by this 4-letter name CBGB |
| #9180, aired 2024-10-11 | WOMEN AUTHORS $800: Called "zippy, zesty, and zotty", this debut novel cooked up by Bonnie Garmus became a streaming series starring Brie Larson Lessons in Chemistry |
| #9179, aired 2024-10-10 | STORIES WITHIN STORIES $800: In this collection, "The Porter & the 3 Ladies of Baghdad" leads to "The First Kalandar's Tale", which leads to even more stories A Thousand and One Nights (The Arabian Nights) |
| #9178, aired 2024-10-09 | ALLITERATION $400: You can, in a socially approved way, take out your frustration on helpless phones and glassware in these alliterative spaces a rage room |
| #9178, aired 2024-10-09 | MEDIEVAL NOTABLES $1000: A popular translation of a work by this Persian astronomer-poet has lines like "take the cash, and let the credit go" Omar Khayyam |
| #9178, aired 2024-10-09 | MISCELLANY $2000: When this magazine was launched in 1922, it promised "thirty-one articles each month... in condensed and compact form" Reader's Digest |
| #9178, aired 2024-10-09 | COLOR FILMS $4,000 (Daily Double): Kristen Stewart & Chris Hemsworth had the two title roles in this 2012 fantasy Snow White and the Huntsman |
| #9177, aired 2024-10-08 | WHAT'S MY MOTIVATION? $800: In Genesis
God warns Adam that he may eat of every tree except for this one; you'd think that would have been enough motivation, but no the tree of knowledge (of good and evil) |
| #9177, aired 2024-10-08 | SONNETS & SONNETEERS $1000: In a John Donne sonnet, this title precedes, "though some have called thee mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so" Death Be Not Proud |
| #9177, aired 2024-10-08 | PEOPLE OF THE BIBLE $1600: This prophet whose name became a word for an angry rant: "They proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith the Lord" Jeremiah |
| #9176, aired 2024-10-07 | YOU'RE GONNA HAVE TO SHARE $1000: The shared liver of these conjoined twins born in what's now Thailand in 1811 is on exhibit at Philadelphia's Mutter Museum Chang & Eng |
| #9174, aired 2024-10-03 | PEOPLE'S SEXIEST MAN ALIVE $200: 2016's cover duly reported this part-time pro wrestler was "sweet, smart--and sculpted!", if you smelllll... what the Ken... is cookin' Johnson |
| #9174, aired 2024-10-03 | PEOPLE'S SEXIEST MAN ALIVE $600: Great Scot! In 1989 this actor was "older, balder... and better!"; we only wish he'd really played "Celebrity Jeopardy!" Sean Connery |
| #9174, aired 2024-10-03 | FILM FROM FICTION $2000: This Mexican auteur, who won an Oscar for "Gravity", directed "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban" Alfonso Cuarón |
| #9173, aired 2024-10-02 | FOREIGN FILM TITLES $800: The U.S. version runs over 6 1/2 hours:
"Voyna i mir" War and Peace |
| #9173, aired 2024-10-02 | 20th CENTURY PLAYWRIGHTS $2000: (Henry Winkler presents the clue.) Drama was a means for political change for this playwright who created a technique called gestus to mean a character's gesture that's also a social comment, like Courage's silent scream over her dead son Bertolt Brecht |
| #9172, aired 2024-10-01 | AVIAN POETRY $400: Paul Laurence Dunbar wrote, "I know why" this "sings, ah me, when his wing is bruised and his bosom sore" the caged bird |
| #9172, aired 2024-10-01 | FAMILIAR PHRASES $600: The Bible tells us, "For wisdom is better than" these gems "and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared to it" rubies |
| #9171, aired 2024-09-30 | HOT CROSS BUNNIES $5,000 (Daily Double): Lepus symbolizes a hare, likely angry as he's seen by some as the prey of these 2 Latin-named constellations, Orion's hounds Canis Major & Canis Minor |
| #9170, aired 2024-09-27 | WILD LINES $400: Buffalo Bill met the Queen of England "at the door of the box, with my sombrero in my hand and welcomed her to" this place the Wild West |
| #9169, aired 2024-09-26 | ALBUM COLLECTION $800: "Master of Puppets",
"...And Justice for All" Metallica |
| #9168, aired 2024-09-25 | OLD-FASHIONED $600: This cold dessert salad with oranges, coconut & marshmallows doesn't seem so divine to palates today ambrosia |
| #9168, aired 2024-09-25 | AMERICAN HISTORY $10,000 (Daily Double): Punning on a general's name & a Hugo title, glum Civil War soldiers in the Army of Northern Virginia called themselves these Lee's Miserables |
| #9167, aired 2024-09-24 | BRIT LIT SITS $600: As Elizabeth Bennet sat, this character "had been standing near enough for her to overhear a conversation between him and Mr. Bingley" Mr. Darcy |
| #9167, aired 2024-09-24 | PEOPLE IN POEMS $6,000 (Daily Double): Moved by an exhibit about his life & work, Linda Bierds wrote, "He was halfway between the war's last enigmas & the cyanide apple" Alan Turing |
| #9166, aired 2024-09-23 | OSCAR, MEET TONY $400: A 1952 Tony & 1956 Oscar went to Yul Brynner for playing the monarch in this beloved musical The King and I |
| #9166, aired 2024-09-23 | KEY OR PEELE $400: Keegan-Michael Key narrated this series based on a Seuss story that included episodes titled "Here", "There" & Anywhere" Green Eggs and Ham |
| #9166, aired 2024-09-23 | KEY OR PEELE $800: In 2017 Keegan made his Broadway debut opposite Amy Schumer in "Meteor Shower", a comedy by this man, a "wild & crazy guy" himself once Steve Martin |
| #9165, aired 2024-09-20 | MUSIC $800: Music played as King Charles & Camilla left the coronation included this March No. 4 by Elgar Pomp and Circumstance |
| #9165, aired 2024-09-20 | SPOKE $800: In a 1947 speech this secretary of state said, "Our policy is... against hunger, poverty, desperation and chaos" Marshall |
| #9165, aired 2024-09-20 | MISSING MOVIE TITLE ADJECTIVES $1000: "Alright, alright, alright", a cult favorite set in 1976: "____ and ____" Dazed & Confused |
| #9165, aired 2024-09-20 | LITERARY TITLE MATH $1,500 (Daily Double): Dodie Smith's spotted pooches plus Bradbury's pyrometric threshold 552 |
| #9164, aired 2024-09-19 | FIX THE PROVERB $600: "And soon a fool are his parted money" a fool and his money are soon parted |
| #9164, aired 2024-09-19 | ART & ARTISTS $800: This artist's panic after seeing "fire and blood" over a "bluish black fjord" led to his most famous painting Munch |
| #9162, aired 2024-09-17 | ABOUT THE AUTHOR $1000: Him: "Once I found myself on the other side of the ocean, I see where I came from; I am the grandson of a slave and I am a writer" Baldwin |
| #9162, aired 2024-09-17 | MYTHOLOGICAL BROMANCE $3,000 (Daily Double): Our time has Damon & Affleck; Greek legend had Damon & him, whose bond led the tyrant of Syracuse to spare them Pythias |
| #9162, aired 2024-09-17 | PLACING SOME GEOGRAPHY $3,600 (Daily Double): "Walking the Length of" this country "in a Weekend" took a journalist along the Rhine to its southern border with Switzerland Liechtenstein |
| #9161, aired 2024-09-16 | 3-LETTER VERBS $400: To increase gradually in size like Earth's natural satellite to wax |
| #9161, aired 2024-09-16 | STAGE DIRECTIONS IN SHAKESPEARE $800: Spoiler! "Goneril and" this woman's "bodies brought out" Regan |
| #9161, aired 2024-09-16 | ALL LIES ON ME $800: Truth to tell, "Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them" was a No. 1 bestseller by this ex-Minnesota senator Franken |
| #9161, aired 2024-09-16 | STAGE DIRECTIONS IN SHAKESPEARE $1200: "Enter Puck, and" this character "with an ass's head" Bottom |
| #9159, aired 2024-09-12 | A SELF-HELPING OF BOOKS $200: Now imagine me with a mustache, less hair & Oprah-adjacent; I'm this psychologist who wrote "We've Got Issues" Dr. Phil |
| #9158, aired 2024-09-11 | BOOKS FOR KIDS $800: One review said this provocative 1993 novel by Lois Lowry "is sure to keep older children reading. and thinking" The Giver |
| #9158, aired 2024-09-11 | HOLY SOMETHING! $800: In "Monty Python and the Holy Grail", this "holy" weapon "of Antioch" gets explosive results after a count of "1, 2, 5!" a hand grenade |
| #9158, aired 2024-09-11 | PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION LOSERS $3,000 (Daily Double): Twice to one William & once to another William, this William ran & lost 3 times William Jennings Bryan |
| #9157, aired 2024-09-10 | UNCUT JAMS $1200: There is a lot more "colorful" & "flowery" guitar in the longer album version of this No. 1 hit by Tommy James & the Shondells "Crimson And Clover" |
| #9156, aired 2024-09-09 | SONGS FOR THE YOUNG & OLD $1600: This 2024 Coachella headliner's "Young And Beautiful" appeared on the soundtrack for "The Great Gatsby" Lana Del Rey |
| #9155, aired 2024-07-26 | IDIOMS & EXPRESSIONS $1000: This 2-part phrase meaning "completely settled" has a variation that's been used as a hair salon name cut and dried |
| #9153, aired 2024-07-24 | NOVEL CHANGE A LETTER $400: Ranch hands George & Lennie embrace a Buddhist state of calm Of Mice and Zen |
| #9152, aired 2024-07-23 | IT'S ALL GREEK MYTH TO ME $3,000 (Daily Double): This name applied to a sea monster with 12 feet & 6 heads, each head containing 3 rows of sharklike teeth, or just a rock Scylla |
| #9151, aired 2024-07-22 | THAT'S AN EXECUTIVE ORDER $400: President Biden's Oct. 30, 2023 order on the development & use of this noted its "extraordinary potential for both promise and peril" artificial intelligence |
| #9151, aired 2024-07-22 | CLASSIC POEMS' ENDINGS $400: "I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference" "The Road Not Taken" |
| #9151, aired 2024-07-22 | CLASSIC POEMS' ENDINGS $800: "All mimsy were the borogoves, and the mome raths outgrabe" the "Jabberwocky" |
| #9150, aired 2024-07-19 | OLD HOLLYWOOD POWER COUPLES $1200: Jamie Lee Curtis called this power couple mom & dad Tony Curtis & Janet Leigh |
| #9148, aired 2024-07-17 | THE FOLKIE ERA $800: This biblical-sounding trio had 12 Top 40 hits, including "If I Had A Hammer", subtitled "(The Hammer Song)" if you didn't get it Peter, Paul and Mary |
| #9146, aired 2024-07-15 | EXTREME WEATHER $200: (Glen Powell presents the clue.) Haboob is an alternate & more fun to say word for this; in 524 B.C. a haboob is said to have buried 50,000 Persian soldiers in the Egyptian desert without leaving a trace a sandstorm |
| #9145, aired 2024-07-12 | PASSIONATE ABOUT NEUTRAL WORDS $1600: "Black's Law Dictionary" said it's a "term used for... fair and unprejudiced"; a good juror should be that way impartial |
| #9144, aired 2024-07-11 | NO. 1 ALBUMS BY PEOPLE WHO AREN'T TAYLOR SWIFT $400: "The Joker And The Queen", one of several Taylor collaborations with this pal, appeared on his 2021 No. 1 "=" Ed Sheeran |
| #9143, aired 2024-07-10 | AMERICAN LIT $800: This novel begins, "I first met Dean not long after my wife and I split up" On the Road |
| #9142, aired 2024-07-09 | A NOVEL INTRODUCTION $400: Going full Hunter S. Thompson: "We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold" Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas |
| #9142, aired 2024-07-09 | BIG BANDS $1000: The "Mothership Connection" between Parliament-Funkadelic & the P-Funk All Stars is this man, Doctor Funkenstein himself George Clinton |
| #9142, aired 2024-07-09 | TSA YEA OR NAY $1000: Warning! While you may check firearms & ammo, certain places, like these islands, TCI for short, prohibit them from coming in Turks and Caicos |
| #9141, aired 2024-07-08 | FLY ME TO THE MOON $400: (Scarlett Johansson presents the clue.) In "Airplane II", Moon base commander Buck Murdock was played by this actor; at one point, he sees the Starship Enterprise on a periscope Shatner |
| #9141, aired 2024-07-08 | BOOKS $400: 9-year-old Oskar's dad died in the World Trade Center on September 11 in the novel "Extremely Loud and" this Incredibly Close |
| #9140, aired 2024-07-05 | POP MUSIC $400: This duo's albums include "Sounds of Silence" & "The Concert in Central Park" Simon and Garfunkel |
| #9140, aired 2024-07-05 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $400: Nuts, whole grains, fruits & veggies, & maybe a serving of Metamucil are all ways to get to the recommended 25-30 grams of this a day fiber |
| #9139, aired 2024-07-04 | WELL, WE'VE NEVER HAD THAT RESPONSE $400: The 3 words in Genesis 1:3 that follow "and God said" + the go-to handheld Jedi weapon = this updated phrase Let there be lightsaber |
| #9139, aired 2024-07-04 | KNOWN BY THEIR INITIALS $400: As a boy, he read a story about a magic wardrobe; he later created his own in "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" C.S. Lewis |
| #9139, aired 2024-07-04 | WELL, WE'VE NEVER HAD THAT RESPONSE $1600: "The" + Swiss psychologist Carl + "the" + 8-letter adjective for deprived of sleep = a slightly altered soap opera title The Jung and the Restless |
| #9139, aired 2024-07-04 | KNOWN BY THEIR INITIALS $2000: "Sky and Water I" from 1938 by this graphic artist is typical of his optical illusionary style (M.C.) Escher |
| #9139, aired 2024-07-04 | PACIFIC ISLANDS $2000: In October 1790 Thursday October Christian was born on this island Pitcairn Island |
| #9138, aired 2024-07-03 | DON'T GO, JASON $400: In a memorable "SNL" digital short, Fred Armisen shoots this cast member to the strains of Imogen Heap's "Hide And Seek" Sudeikis |
| #9138, aired 2024-07-03 | "GR"8 WORDS $2000: In "To Helen", Edgar Allan Poe wrote, "To the glory that was Greece, and the" this "that was Rome" grandeur |
| #9137, aired 2024-07-02 | THE LITERARY CHARACTER WHO SAID... $400: "You shall have your justice. Some day, and that day may never come, I will call upon you to do me a service in return" Vito Corleone |
| #9137, aired 2024-07-02 | SCRAMBLED FLAGS $600: It now includes a total of 63 of them:
TRAPS SNIDE TSARS the Stars and Stripes |
| #9137, aired 2024-07-02 | BIBLICAL PROPORTIONS $800: In a whale of a tale, he "arose, and went unto Nineveh... an exceeding great city of three days' journey" Jonah |
| #9137, aired 2024-07-02 | BIBLICAL PROPORTIONS $1200: "Now the weight of gold that came to" this wise king "in one year was six hundred threescore and six talents of gold" Solomon |
| #9137, aired 2024-07-02 | BIBLICAL PROPORTIONS $3,000 (Daily Double): In Acts, "the shipmen deemed that they drew near to some country; and sounded, and found it twenty" of this measurement fathoms |
| #9136, aired 2024-07-01 | NOVELLAS $800: At the end of this Hemingway tale, the title character's former helper Manolin agrees to go fishing with him again The Old Man and the Sea |
| #9136, aired 2024-07-01 | WE STAND ON GUARD $1600: This 1888 Gilbert & Sullivan opera set in the Tower of London is subtitled "The Merryman and his Maid" The Yeomen of the Guard |
| #9135, aired 2024-06-28 | LITERARY GEOGRAPHY $400: "Spade paid his fare and left the taxicab"; this city's "night-fog, thin, clammy, and penetrant, blurred the street" San Francisco |
| #9135, aired 2024-06-28 | LITERARY GEOGRAPHY $800: 2024 is the 50th anniversary of this book about bike engines & much more that follows a trip from Minneapolis to the West Coast Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance |
| #9135, aired 2024-06-28 | ANCIENT NAMES $3,000 (Daily Double): His "Sayings" begin: "The master said, to learn and then do, is not that a pleasure?" Confucius |
| #9134, aired 2024-06-27 | WE ALL WANT TO CHANGE THE WORLD $200: This ex-U.S. pres. won the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize "for his decades of untiring effort... to advance democracy and human rights" Carter |
| #9134, aired 2024-06-27 | INSPIRED BY SHAKESPEARE $1,000 (Daily Double): The 2023 romcom "Anyone But You", with squabbling would-be lovers named Bea & Ben, was inspired by this comedy Much Ado About Nothing |
| #9134, aired 2024-06-27 | GETTING ARTY $1200: Not confined to politics, it can be a written statement of an art movement's intent; Wayne Kramer rhymed it with "chips and pesto" manifesto |
| #9132, aired 2024-06-25 | BRITISH TELEVISION $1200: Well known to U.S. TV audiences for a different role, this actor is seen here when he was half of the Britcom "Jeeves and Wooster" Hugh Laurie |
| #9132, aired 2024-06-25 | LITERARY BADDIES $1600: In an 1886 work a doctor worries that this villainous alter ego will destroy his written confession Mr. Hyde |
| #9131, aired 2024-06-24 | PREHISTORIC ANIMALS $200: Though it had a 10-foot bite diameter, megalodon, the biggest ever of these, died out in the Pliocene, and I'm not especially sorry a shark |
| #9131, aired 2024-06-24 | POETRY TEST $200: Maya Angelou rhymed this title word with "eyes" & "lies" Rise |
| #9131, aired 2024-06-24 | A ONE E & A 2 E $400: French for "very" (has an accent over the E), & a bunch of saplings (no accent over either E) très & trees |
| #9130, aired 2024-06-21 | ICONS ON STAMPS $200: The menu for the Celebrity Chefs stamps included Joyce Chen & this woman who taught us to master the art of French cooking Julia Child |
| #9130, aired 2024-06-21 | DID YOU GET MY LETTER? $800: Mario Puzo, to him: "I wrote a book called 'The Godfather'... and I think you're the only actor who can play the part" Marlon Brando |
| #9129, aired 2024-06-20 | LET'S RUN THE NUMBERS $800: General Sherman's special field orders, No. 15 reserved land for freed families in tracts of up to this many acres 40 |
| #9129, aired 2024-06-20 | BROADWAY'S OPENING NIGHT CASTS $1200: These two actresses were wickedly good when their show opened in October of 2003 Kristin Chenoweth & Idina Menzel |
| #9128, aired 2024-06-19 | POETIC OBJECTS $400: Jean Toomer wrote of the flower of this crop, "Boll-weevil's coming, and the winter's cold" cotton |
| #9127, aired 2024-06-18 | BY LINES $800: "My name is Marius. And yours?" "Cosette" Victor Hugo |
| #9126, aired 2024-06-17 | BON JOVI $200: (Jon Bon Jovi presents the clue.) In 2000, "It's My Life" took us back to the top of the charts; in the song, I refer to this man, born 30 miles from where I was, a role model as a singer who later got into acting, and like he said, "I did it my way" Frank Sinatra |
| #9126, aired 2024-06-17 | THE HUMAN RACE $400: They're the 2 main human language modalities; one might have begun 2 million years ago, the other 5,000 speech & writing |
| #9126, aired 2024-06-17 | STATE SONGS $1,000 (Daily Double): "The shot heard 'round the world" goes off " in the third line of this state's official song Massachusetts |
| #9126, aired 2024-06-17 | THE HUMAN RACE $1000: Using animal fat & sticks, a team of Spanish researchers tried to solve this kind of obvious question about cave paintings how did they paint in a dark cave |
| #9125, aired 2024-06-14 | 1824 $1000: Florida's capital was moved to Tallahassee, midway between these two cities that had been alternating in the role Pensacola & St. Augustine |
| #9124, aired 2024-06-13 | RECITING POETRY $200: Pt. II of this ends, "What evil looks had I from old and young! Instead of the cross, the albatross about my neck was hung" The Rime of the Ancient Mariner |
| #9124, aired 2024-06-13 | RECITING POETRY $400: One of her 19th century sonnets says, "Behold and see what a great heap of grief lay hid in me" Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
| #9124, aired 2024-06-13 | RECITING POETRY $600: This 19th century lord & European traveler: "And all that's best of dark and bright meet in her aspect and her eyes" Byron |
| #9124, aired 2024-06-13 | RECITING POETRY $800: Longfellow:
"Impatient to mount and ride, booted and spurred, with a heavy stride, on the opposite shore walked" him Paul Revere |
| #9124, aired 2024-06-13 | SECRETARIES OF DEFENSE $1600: Nuclear physicist Harold Brown served as president of this Pasadena, California school just prior to becoming Carter's Defense Secretary Caltech |
| #9123, aired 2024-06-12 | NAME THE DISNEY PRINCESS $800: She's friends with a trumpet-playing alligator named Louise Tiana |
| #9123, aired 2024-06-12 | DREAMY SHAKESPEARE QUOTES $4,000 (Daily Double): The ghost of the Duke of Buckingham, one of this man's many victims, tells him to "Dream on, of bloody deeds and death" Richard III |
| #9121, aired 2024-06-10 | BUNNY LIT $200: In "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", this bunny's first words were "Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be late!" the White Rabbit |
| #9121, aired 2024-06-10 | BUNNY LIT $400: When this character gets stuck in a rabbit hole, Rabbit says, "I shall go and fetch Christopher Robin" Winnie-the-Pooh |
| #9121, aired 2024-06-10 | DUETS WITH DADS $600: In the "Hannah Montana" movie, they sang "Butterfly Fly Away" Billy Ray Cyrus & Miley Cyrus |
| #9120, aired 2024-06-07 | TV COUPLING $200: Carrie & Big,
in the Big Apple Sex and the City |
| #9120, aired 2024-06-07 | I GOT RHYTHM $400: What was called "race" or "sepia" music after World War II was fortunately renamed this 2-part genre rhythm & blues |
| #9120, aired 2024-06-07 | BIBLICAL GEOGRAPHY $800: Joseph died at age 110 "and he was put in a coffin in" this country where he had held high power Egypt |
| #9119, aired 2024-06-06 | HISTORIC TELEGRAMS $200: A telegram to Washington in 1898 announced this "blown up in Havana Harbor at nine forty tonight and destroyed" the Maine |
| #9119, aired 2024-06-06 | HISTORIC TELEGRAMS $600 (Daily Double): Him to president Truman in 1950: "The State Department harbors a nest of Communists and Communist sympathizers" Joseph McCarthy |
| #9119, aired 2024-06-06 | ONE LETTER SAYS IT ALL $800: 50 degrees F. equals 283.15 degrees this K |
| #9119, aired 2024-06-06 | HISTORIC TELEGRAMS $1000: In 1909 he sent the message "Stars and stripes nailed to North Pole" Robert Peary |
| #9119, aired 2024-06-06 | MUSIC OF THE '60s $2000: This folk trio had a 1969 Top 10 hit with "Leaving On A Jet Plane" Peter, Paul and Mary |
| #9118, aired 2024-06-05 | THE REAL RED TAILS $1000: (Sheryl Lee Ralph presents the clue.) The creation of the Red Tails was owed in part to civil rights activists who lobbied Congress to put non-discrimination provisions into this peacetime conscription act of 1940 the Selective Service Act |
| #9117, aired 2024-06-04 | FEELING A LITTLE ART "C" $1600: This 1948 painting depicts a young woman trying to crawl up a hill to her farmhouse Christina's World |
| #9116, aired 2024-06-03 | HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS $400: The 1928 act creating this project said it was for the "protection and development of the Colorado River basin" Hoover Dam |
| #9116, aired 2024-06-03 | HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS $1000: This 1890 legislation called itself "an act to protect trade and commerce against unlawful restraints and monopolies" the Sherman Antitrust Act |
| #9116, aired 2024-06-03 | HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS $2,500 (Daily Double): The signers of this document pledged to "covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil body politick" the Mayflower Compact |
| #9114, aired 2024-05-30 | CANON EVENTS $600: An enchantress' curse in this 1991 Disney film forced a life of reclusiveness for one of the title pair Beauty and the Beast |
| #9113, aired 2024-05-29 | NOVELS $400: His fourth novel, "The Sound and the Fury", is often seen as his breakthrough into genius William Faulkner |
| #9113, aired 2024-05-29 | THIS & THAT $600: This George Gershwin opera that premiered in 1935 features the song "I Got Plenty O' Nuttin"' Porgy and Bess |
| #9112, aired 2024-05-28 | NONFICTION BOOKS BY SUBTITLE $2000: "A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis" (helped make J.D. Vance a U.S. senator) Hillbilly Elegy |
| #9112, aired 2024-05-28 | DOING A NUMBER ON YOU $3,000 (Daily Double): In the presidential election of 1956, Eisenhower carried 41 states & Stevenson, this many 7 |
| #9111, aired 2024-05-27 | THE 17th CENTURY $800: James I wasn't thrilled that the Jamestown colony was preoccupied by this "noisome and running weed" tobacco |
| #9111, aired 2024-05-27 | HEY BABY, WHAT'S YOUR SCIENCE? $2,000 (Daily Double): The scientific paper "Soil Animals and Pedogenesis" focuses on the role of this creature in transforming organic matter earthworms |
| #9110, aired 2024-05-24 | LITERARY SIMILES $200: In this novella John Steinbeck wrote that "Curley was flopping like a fish on a line" Of Mice and Men |
| #9110, aired 2024-05-24 | YOUR FIRST CONCERT $1000: I didn't sleep after I saw the "Rust Never Sleeps" tour by this man and Crazy Horse in 1978 Neil Young |
| #9108, aired 2024-05-22 | PUERTO RICANS $800: On "Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives" chef Benny Ojeda used a baseball bat to mash plantains & pork to create this Puerto Rican dish mofongo |
| #9108, aired 2024-05-22 | BOOKS FROM THE LAST FEW YEARS $2000: Good times for this author: his Emmett-Till-haunted "The Trees" won praise & "Erasure" became the film "American Fiction" Percival Everett |
| #9108, aired 2024-05-22 | IT'S ALREADY IN THE FORM OF A QUESTION! $6,000 (Daily Double): In a relatively famous play, this 4-word question precedes "Deny thy father & refuse thy name" Wherefore art thou Romeo |
| #38, aired 2024-05-22 | IT'S ALL GREEK MYTH TO ME $400: A 2018 medical paper was titled "Prometheus and" this body organ "Regeneration: the Dissection of a Myth" liver |
| #38, aired 2024-05-22 | NEW MATERIAL ABOUT OLD MATERIAL $800 (Daily Double): Taken to England in 1296, this 26x16x11 block of pale yellow sandstone has but one decoration--a Latin cross the Stone of Scone |
| #37, aired 2024-05-22 | THE WORLD REVOLVES AROUND JASON KELCE $400: (Jason Kelce delivers the clue.) I was a key part of our quarterback sneak known as the "Tush Push", so I always smile knowingly when I hear their song, "Ah, push it, push good / Ah, push it, push it real good" Salt-N-Pepa |
| #37, aired 2024-05-22 | THE WORLD REVOLVES AROUND JASON KELCE $600: (Jason Kelce delivers the clue.) "Here we stand before your door / As we stood the year before / Give us whiskey, give us gin / Open the door and let us in" is a poem from this group, a Philly tradition; I dressed as one at our Super Bowl victory parade Mummers |
| #37, aired 2024-05-22 | WAY BACK IN '23 $800: For signing a treaty with the rebellious Scots, in 1323 the earl of Carlisle met with this grisly 3-part (or un-part) punishment hanging, drawing & quartering |
| #9107, aired 2024-05-21 | DOUBLE-LETTER BROADWAY SUMMARIES $600: Albus Potter teams up with Scorpius Malfoy in a spellbinding journey through time & space Harry Potter and the Cursed Child |
| #9107, aired 2024-05-21 | BAND BOOKS $1600: Members of the title band in this Taylor Jenkins Reid bestseller include Karen Karen on keyboards & Pete Loving on bass Daisy Jones and The Six |
| #9106, aired 2024-05-20 | KIDS' LIT $200: For this Seussian pachyderm, the situation's intense! As "your egg is so small, ma'am, and I'm so immense" Horton |
| #36, aired 2024-05-20 | RECTANGLED $600: Using rectangles in works like "Composition No. 1 with Red and Black", this artist espoused what he called "Neoplasticism" Mondrian |
| #36, aired 2024-05-20 | PEOPLE IN AMERICAN HISTORY $1200: In 1883 she added the words "With Key to the Scriptures" to the title of her book "Science and Health" Eddy |
| #36, aired 2024-05-20 | PEOPLE IN AMERICAN HISTORY $14,000 (Daily Double): In 1805 a tributary of Montana's Musselshell River was named in her honor Sacagawea |
| #35, aired 2024-05-20 | MOVIE CHANGE A LETTER $800: In this cult classic, young Bud Cort falls in love with a purplish hue Harold and Mauve |
| #35, aired 2024-05-20 | PSYCH $1200: This person's "fallacy" is the belief that after 5 straight heads, the next flip has a more than .5 probability of being tails a gambler |
| #9105, aired 2024-05-17 | ENTER THE LITERARY CHARACTER $400: We meet her "seated with Stuart and Brent Tarleton in the cool shade of the porch of Tara, her father's plantation " Scarlett O'Hara |
| #9105, aired 2024-05-17 | "GN"OWLEDGE $1200: In Matthew 23 Jesus scolds "blind guides, which strain at" this pest "and swallow a camel" a gnat |
| #9105, aired 2024-05-17 | STATE NAME STUFF $1600: They're the 2 states whose names contain the exact name of another state West Virginia & Arkansas |
| #9105, aired 2024-05-17 | CHAPTERS IN BIOGRAPHIES $1600: "The Life and Times" of this author--"The South Side of Chicago", "Grappling with Bigger" Richard Wright |
| #34, aired 2024-05-17 | ETERNAL SUNSHINE $400: A state song says, "The cattle crop the clover, / And its breath is in the air, / While the sun is shining over / Our beloved" this Delaware |
| #34, aired 2024-05-17 | THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT $800: "One calm summer night", the title figure of this Edwin Arlington Robinson poem "went home and put a bullet through his head" Richard Corey |
| #34, aired 2024-05-17 | I'LL BE BACH $5,000 (Daily Double): In 1721 Bach dipped into the masterpiece bin & dedicated a series of works to the Margrave of this Brandenburg |
| #34, aired 2024-05-17 | ONE-WORD MOVIE TITLES $7,600 (Daily Double): This Sidney Lumet drama is set at the Union Broadcasting Systems Network |
| #33, aired 2024-05-17 | AN INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING $200: In 2023 IBM introduced a platform called this name "X", "to train, tune and distribute models with generative AI" Watson |
| #33, aired 2024-05-17 | BEFORE, DURING & AFTER $400: Battle of Little Bighorn aka gets some cinematic schooling from Edward James Olmos to give us a line in the Lord's Prayer Custer's Last Stand and Deliver Us from Evil |
| #33, aired 2024-05-17 | BROADWAY $1600: The musical "Mack and Mabel" looked at the romantic & work partnerships of Mack Sennett & this silent screen star (Mabel) Normand |
| #33, aired 2024-05-17 | BEFORE, DURING & AFTER $2000: WWII B-29 piloted by Paul Tibbets that gets a multicolored June holiday feting Elizabeth Bennet's victory over the walking dead Enola Gay Pride and Prejudice and Zombies |
| #9104, aired 2024-05-16 | APPROXIMATE WEIGHTS & MEASURES $2000: In "Paradise Lost", Milton wrote, "Behold!" this throng "of fair women", not doves, "richly gay in gems and wanton dress" a bevy of women |
| #9103, aired 2024-05-15 | FOODIE BOOK TITLES $200: "Not in a box. Not with a mouse. Not with a fox. I will not eat them here or there. I do not like them anywhere!" in this kids' story Green Eggs and Ham |
| #9103, aired 2024-05-15 | IN THE PERIOD FILM $400: It's the role Nicole Kidman played in "Being the Ricardos" Lucille Ball (Lucy Arnaz) |
| #9103, aired 2024-05-15 | ANTONYMIC PERRYS $600: They're the opposites seen in one-letter form on the Kohler Castia collection hot & cold |
| #9103, aired 2024-05-15 | ANTONYMIC PERRYS $1000: A plastic collar stiffener & an ancient Asia board game stay & Go |
| #9103, aired 2024-05-15 | FOODIE BOOK TITLES $1000: A grasshopper, earthworm & centipede appear in this book by Roald Dahl James and the Giant Peach |
| #32, aired 2024-05-15 | BUSINESS & PLEASURE $200: This 3-letter company boasts it operates "approximately 900 theatres and 10,000 screens across the globe" AMC |
| #32, aired 2024-05-15 | A STANDING ORATION $600: This gospel singer gets the credit for getting MLK to go off-script and "tell them about the dream" in 1963 (Mahalia) Jackson |
| #32, aired 2024-05-15 | A TOTAL BANGER $800: After "a long blast with the ram's horn, and when ye hear the sound of the trumpet... the wall of the city shall fall" in this Bible book Joshua |
| #32, aired 2024-05-15 | KILLER RIFFS $1200: This Eminem & Cee-Lo song on the "Elvis" soundtrack borrows a "Jailhouse Rock" riff & a Rodgers & Hammerstein show title "The King And I" |
| #31, aired 2024-05-15 | MOVIE MEMES: WHO SAID IT $400: 1993:
"Life finds a way" Dr. Ian Malcolm |
| #31, aired 2024-05-15 | HISTORICAL CRISES $800: (George Stephanopoulos delivers the clue.) My new book "The Situation Room" recounts some tense moments in that White House room, like during the Bosnian War, when this woman asked Colin Powell, "What's the point of having this superb military if we can't use it?" Albright |
| #31, aired 2024-05-15 | LET'S APARTMENT-SIT FOR ANNA $1000: What's on the fridge? A photo of her & her girls at this Vermont ski resort, "the Beast of the East" Killington |
| #31, aired 2024-05-15 | MOVIE MEMES: WHO SAID IT $1600: 1994:
"So, you're telling me there's a chance" Lloyd Christmas |
| #9102, aired 2024-05-14 | HIS WIDOW LIVED ON: NOTORIOUS EDITION $400: Last name of Blanche, who did some time but outlived her husband Buck & his brother Clyde by 5 decades Barrow |
| #9102, aired 2024-05-14 | DANCE MUSIC $2000: A scientific study suggested mosquitoes bite people less when this artist's EDM song "Scary Monsters And Nice Sprites" is playing Skrillex |
| #9101, aired 2024-05-13 | HELLO, WALLS $400: Home Depot says, "Dig a trench and if you get heavy rains, install a drainage pipe behind this type of wall seen here a retaining wall |
| #9101, aired 2024-05-13 | MEN OF MEDICINE $1,000 (Daily Double): In 1853 this British anatomist wrote "On the Structure and Use of the Spleen"; his more famous work came 5 years later Gray |
| #30, aired 2024-05-13 | I'M CHRIS PRATT $400: (Chris Pratt delivers the clue.) My character Andy Dwyer was only supposed to be in a few episodes of this sitcom, but the level of goofball was so enjoyable that he became a series regular Parks and Recreation |
| #30, aired 2024-05-13 | 3-WORD PHRASES $400: The opposite of dead & buried, this 3-word phrase was the title of a 1985 hit by Simple Minds alive and kicking |
| #30, aired 2024-05-13 | GETTING TOUGH ON THE BORDERS $1200: They're the 2 countries that border El Salvador Honduras & Guatemala |
| #28, aired 2024-05-10 | WORDS TAKEN OUT OF CONTEXT $400: From the Hail Mary to the cast lists of "High Noon" (a first name) & the last 2 "Ghostbusters" movies (a last name) grace |
| #28, aired 2024-05-10 | A LITERARY TIPPLE $400: Perhaps Edward Bulwer-Lytton was sipping this rum, ginger beer & lime juice cocktail when he wrote it was that kind of night dark and stormy |
| #28, aired 2024-05-10 | THE ARTS $7,800 (Daily Double): Saint Bavo Cathedral in Belgium is home to Hubert and Jan van Eyck's "The Adoration of the Mystic Lamb", better known by this two-word name the Ghent Altarpiece |
| #27, aired 2024-05-10 | PLANE TALK $200: Tower, requesting this, permission to proceed within a controlled airspace clearance |
| #27, aired 2024-05-10 | LIKE THERE WOULDN'T BE SHAKESPEARE $400: She tells her 2 sisters, "I know what you are; and like a sister am most loath to call your faults as they are named" Cordelia |
| #27, aired 2024-05-10 | PLANE TALK $1000: Ideal flying conditions with no cloud layer below 10,000 feet & pilots able to see for at least 10 miles are CAVU, this a ceiling and visibility unlimited |
| #9099, aired 2024-05-09 | POP CULTURE LICENSE PLATES $800: In a TV theme song, Will Smith raps that he "whistled for a cab &, when it came near, the license plate said" this Fresh |
| #9099, aired 2024-05-09 | FROM RIDICULOUS TO SUBLIME $1000: A Beatitude says, "Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after" this quality righteousness |
| #9099, aired 2024-05-09 | SHAKESPEARE BEFORE & AFTER $1200: A 1994 royal Disney film with serious uncle/nephew issues becomes a royal tragedy with serious daddy/ daughter issues The Lion King Lear |
| #9098, aired 2024-05-08 | TV & MOVIE MOMS $800: This sitcom character was mom to Becky, Darlene & D.J. Roseanne Conner |
| #9098, aired 2024-05-08 | A LITTLE WORLD LIT $1200: The devil in disguise exposes Soviet hypocrisy in Mikhail Bulgakov's "The Master and" her Margarita |
| #26, aired 2024-05-08 | CHEESING IN PUBLIC $200: Conrad Veidt, cheesing in "The Man Who Laughs", has been called an inspiration for this comic book character the Joker |
| #26, aired 2024-05-08 | THE COLD WAR $200: It was the 3-word phrase for drills in which schoolkids crawled under desks to somehow protect themselves from a nuclear blast duck and cover |
| #26, aired 2024-05-08 | CHANGING IT UP $400: Here I was thinking the 2nd epilogue of this Tolstoy tome would have more Pierre & Natasha, not a critique of the great man theory War and Peace |
| #26, aired 2024-05-08 | FIND THE GREEK LETTER IN... $800: ...the species of mushrooms that produce a hallucinogenic experience psi (in psilocybin) |
| #26, aired 2024-05-08 | ON THE DIRECTOR'S RÉSUMÉ $800: She starred in 2008's "Nights and Weekends", her directorial debut; she's had some bigger hits since Gerwig |
| #25, aired 2024-05-08 | HOLLYWOOD LEGACIES $600: (Michael Douglas delivers the clue.) In a 2018 interview Mariska Hargitay said her late mother, this actress, "was this amazing, beautiful, glamorous sex symbol--but people didn’t know that she played the violin, and had a 160 IQ" Jayne Mansfield |
| #25, aired 2024-05-08 | LITERATURE: WHO SAID IT? $2000: "I freewheel a lot... I reckon I'll become president of the galaxy, and it just happens, it's easy" Beeblebrox |
| #9097, aired 2024-05-07 | POP MUSIC $2000: (Legendary songwriter Diane Warren presents the clue.) You might not remember the film "Mannequin", but I hope you remember my song from it that says, "And we can build this dream together standing strong forever", this 5-word title "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now" |
| #9096, aired 2024-05-06 | EMBRACE THE DARK SIDE $200: These 2 adjectives describe the night in the much-parodied opening line of the 1830 novel "Paul Clifford" dark & stormy |
| #24, aired 2024-05-06 | WE OUT HERE TRYNA MINE $13,000 (Daily Double): In a 1909 book on mining, this man who got more famous 20 years later noted that overproduction of mined metal can "depress prices" Hoover |
| #23, aired 2024-05-06 | TOO MUCH $1200: Lines 2 & 3 of this Shakespeare play are "Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die" Twelfth Night |
| #9095, aired 2024-05-03 | BIG SIR $200: In the Bible his "height was six cubits and a span", which some estimates peg at 9 or 10 feet tall, but the bigger they come... Goliath |
| #9095, aired 2024-05-03 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY $400: Thousands of pilgrims each year visit Drirapuk Monastery, found near a sacred peak more than 16,000' up in these mountains the Himalayas |
| #9095, aired 2024-05-03 | WORLD SERIES MVPs $1000: Tossing a perfect game in the 1956 World Series, as this guy did, might have tipped the MVP scales a bit Don Larsen |
| #9094, aired 2024-05-02 | FAST &/OR FURIOUS $1600: This amendment to the Constitution promises "a speedy and public trial" the 6th (Amendment) |
| #9094, aired 2024-05-02 | THE GIRL IN THE SONG $2000: "Pretty In Pink"--she "laughs and it's raining all day" Caroline |
| #9093, aired 2024-05-01 | "ALL" THE WAY $400: In "The Shining" Jack Nicholson's writer's block doesn't seem to apply to this 10-word phrase, repeatedly typed all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy |
| #9093, aired 2024-05-01 | "ALL" THE WAY $600: A lyric from "Chicago" goes, "Oh, she's gonna shimmy till her garters break, and" this phrase meaning et cetera and all that jazz |
| #9093, aired 2024-05-01 | BATMAN'S ALTER EGOS $1000: Fred Friendly George Clooney |
| #9093, aired 2024-05-01 | -OLOGIES $4,200 (Daily Double): Remove 2 letters from the study of weather to get this, the study of weights & measures metrology |
| #22, aired 2024-05-01 | SPELL IT! $800: In "Shishkabugs" Bugs Bunny was in some danger of becoming an ingredient in this German stew H-A-S-E-N-P-F-E-F-F-E-R |
| #21, aired 2024-05-01 | DREAMT OF IN YOUR PHILOSOPHY $400: Edmund Burke took on aesthetics with an aptly titled "Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and" this Beautiful |
| #21, aired 2024-05-01 | NOT YOUR EVERYDAY WORDS $1200: It means (really) fertile, but with only 6 letters, plus sounds smarter & is more fun to say fecund |
| #9092, aired 2024-04-30 | QUESTIONABLE SONG TITLES $800: Ariana Grande addressed her critics in the video for this No. 1 song whose title is a response to the gossip about her "Yes, And?" |
| #9092, aired 2024-04-30 | QUESTIONABLE SONG TITLES $1000: This Smiths song whose title is an existential question mentions "a shyness that is criminally vulgar" (maybe Morrissey's?) "How Soon Is Now?" |
| #9091, aired 2024-04-29 | DISNEY MOVIE BY LYRICS $200: "Be our guest, be our guest, put our service to the test" Beauty and the Beast |
| #9091, aired 2024-04-29 | TELEVISION $1200: Linda Cardellini & John Francis Daley attended William McKinley High School on this short-lived series Freaks and Geeks |
| #9091, aired 2024-04-29 | PUT IT IN THE LOUVRE! $1200: 16th century tastemaker Isabella d'Este commissioned "The Combat of Love and" this restrained virtue; but which did Isabella favor Chastity |
| #9090, aired 2024-04-26 | THE LIGHTNING ROUND $400: A French courtier wrote that this American "snatched the lightning shaft from heaven and the scepter from tyrants" Benjamin Franklin |
| #9090, aired 2024-04-26 | LAWFUL QUOTATIONS $600: Kipling called "the laws of" this place "many and mighty" the jungle |
| #9089, aired 2024-04-25 | TOP 10 BABY NAMES $600: It was No. 2 for males, or should we say, "there went in two and two unto" this name "as God had commanded" Noah |
| #9089, aired 2024-04-25 | ASSAULTS & BATTERIES $1000: A 2019 book recounts "Pickett's Charge and" this: "The History & Legacy of the 19th Century's Most Famous Doomed Assaults" the Charge of the Light Brigade |
| #9089, aired 2024-04-25 | LET'S ROCK & ROLL! $1600: These guys led by Booker T. Jones backed Stax Records stars like Otis Redding & had hits of their own like "Time Is Tight" the M.G.'s |
| #9089, aired 2024-04-25 | BRO-POURRI $1,800 (Daily Double): These brothers bought James A. Bailey's business in 1907 the Ringling brothers |
| #9089, aired 2024-04-25 | BELOW DECK: SAILING NOVEL $2000: Lots of drama as His Majesty's sloop Sophie is getting a new captain in this first Jack Aubrey novel Master and Commander |
| #9089, aired 2024-04-25 | D.C. $2000: Opened in 1932, one of its missions is "to advance understanding and appreciation of Shakespeare's writings" the Folger Shakespeare Library |
| #9088, aired 2024-04-24 | CELEBRITY MEMOIRS $1000: Chapters in his "All About Me!" include "Carl Reiner and the 2000 Year Old Man" & "Kismet--Meeting Anne Bancroft" Mel Brooks |
| #9088, aired 2024-04-24 | NEAR THE EQUATOR $1200: Paintings by postcolonial artist Moké that depict this country include "Kinshasa at Noon" & "Mitterrand and Mobutu" the Democratic Republic of Congo |
| #9087, aired 2024-04-23 | I'LL REMEMBER LATE APRIL $400: Soviet victims of radiation accidents are remembered every April 26, the day of the meltdown at this site Chernobyl |
| #9087, aired 2024-04-23 | NAME THAT AUTHOR $400: "Early in the spring of 1750... a man-child was born to Omoro and Binta Kinte" Haley |
| #9087, aired 2024-04-23 | NAME THAT AUTHOR $800: "Oh, how he loved that smell! And oh, how he wished he could go inside the factory and see what it was like!" Roald Dahl |
| #9087, aired 2024-04-23 | NAME THAT AUTHOR $2000: "'I got in a couple of hassles at the work farm, to tell the pure truth, and the court ruled that I'm a psychopath"' Ken Kesey |
| #9086, aired 2024-04-22 | AND THE ROLE ALMOST GOES TO... $400: If not for his "Magnum P.I." contract, Tom Selleck, not Harrison Ford, might've played this iconic character Indiana Jones |
| #9086, aired 2024-04-22 | AND THE ROLE ALMOST GOES TO... $800: Either Sharon Stone or Sarah Jessica Parker, not Jennifer Grey, might've been "Baby" Houseman in this 1987 film Dirty Dancing |
| #9086, aired 2024-04-22 | BOOKED IN BOOKS $1000: His confession to 2 murders & his good deeds help limit this 19th century Russian character's prison term to just 8 years Raskolnikov |
| #9086, aired 2024-04-22 | AND THE ROLE ALMOST GOES TO... $1200: "Keanu was perfect", said Will Smith of this 1999 film, which he passed on for "Wild Wild West"; "I would've ruined it" The Matrix |
| #9086, aired 2024-04-22 | AND THE ROLE ALMOST GOES TO... $1600: After a phone call with Peter Jackson, Russell Crowe turned down this role (& a ton of money) that went to Viggo Mortensen Aragorn |
| #9086, aired 2024-04-22 | AND THE ROLE ALMOST GOES TO... $2000: Akira Kurosawa's "The Hidden Fortress" helped inspire "Star Wars", & the role of Obi Wan was reportedly offered to this star Toshiro Mifune |
| #9085, aired 2024-04-19 | BOWLING $1000: In 1895 the son-in-law of this "Br"and's founder organized the first American Bowling Congress Brunswick |
| #9084, aired 2024-04-18 | BIBLICAL GARB $800: "Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that was upon him, and gave it to" this friend & future king of Israel David |
| #9084, aired 2024-04-18 | BIBLICAL GARB $1600: John the Baptist wore a garment made of the hair of this animal while in the wilderness & eating "locusts and wild honey" camel hair |
| #9083, aired 2024-04-17 | OUR FLOUNDERING FATHERS $1600: Taking on 700 men with but 350 on July 3, 1754, colonel George Washington surrendered at Fort Necessity during this war the French and Indian War |
| #9081, aired 2024-04-15 | HISTORIC AMERICANS $1000: In 1776, she wrote to her husband, John, "Remember the ladies and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors" Abigail Adams |
| #9080, aired 2024-04-12 | DROP IN... $400: From a word for a bug to get this often small but enthusiastic type of religious group sect |
| #9080, aired 2024-04-12 | DROP IN... $800: From a word meaning certainly to get this legal contract "of trust" or "of sale" a deed |
| #9080, aired 2024-04-12 | DROP IN... $2,000 (Daily Double): From a word involving respiration to get this word meaning healthy hale |
| #9080, aired 2024-04-12 | DROP IN... $2000: From a legal word compelling one to cease activities to get this word where choo-choos meet junction |
| #9079, aired 2024-04-11 | UNREAL ESTATE $400: On his third voyage, this man travels to the flying island of Laputa, where the people are so lost in thought they notice little else Gulliver |
| #9078, aired 2024-04-10 | MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL $200: In 1957 New York City had 3 MLB teams, these 3 the Giants, the Dodgers & the Yankees |
| #9078, aired 2024-04-10 | SLANGIN' WITH MR. JENNINGS $1000: This 3-word phrase can refer to both something excellent & being free from getting blamed for something off the hook |
| #9078, aired 2024-04-10 | DOES THAT RING A "BELL"? $1600: In a Longfellow poem, the children "love to see the flaming forge, and hear" these "roar" the bellows |
| #9077, aired 2024-04-09 | OPERA SETTINGS $400: This 1893 classic cooked up by Engelbert Humperdinck is largely set in a dark German forest Hansel and Gretel |
| #9077, aired 2024-04-09 | LITERARY LINES $1000: He wrote the little ditty, "God in his wisdom made the fly and then forgot to tell us why" (Ogden) Nash |
| #9075, aired 2024-04-05 | SCULPTURE $400: The shining surface of Anish Kapoor's "Cloud Gate", affectionately called "The Bean", reflects the skyline of this city's loop Chicago |
| #9075, aired 2024-04-05 | ON THE MAP $400: This city is home to Norbulingka, the former summer palace of the Dalai Lama Lhasa (Tibet) |
| #9075, aired 2024-04-05 | THINGS PEOPLE SAY $2000: This phrase meaning "completely" includes 2 key parts of a tree; Sojourner Truth spoke of wanting slavery destroyed that way root and branch |
| #9074, aired 2024-04-04 | QUASI-RELATED PAIRS $200: A layer of paint
&
a score of 7-7 coat & tie |
| #9074, aired 2024-04-04 | QUASI-RELATED PAIRS $800: A master teacher of the lotus position
&
a double talk term for a toddler injury a yogi & boo-boo |
| #9074, aired 2024-04-04 | QUASI-RELATED PAIRS $1000: An umpire's call
&
an inlet of a sea safe & sound |
| #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 | CLASSICAL LITERATURE $800: Menander, known for his comedic plays, wrote that "Marriage, if one will face the truth, is" this, "but a necessary" this an evil |
| #9072, aired 2024-04-02 | BUS. ABBREV. $200: EOD:
5:00 PM, say, not December 31st end of day |
| #9071, aired 2024-04-01 | SAME LAST 3/ FIRST 3 LETTERS $200: Animal you "play" when feigning death
&
a brief & succinct explanation of an event possum & summary |
| #9071, aired 2024-04-01 | IN MY FEELINGS $400: 4-letter delight; in the 17th century it was first used for a sung musical work glee |
| #9070, aired 2024-03-29 | PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $800: In the preface to "Major Barbara" he wrote, "The greatest of evils and the worst of crimes is poverty" Shaw |
| #9070, aired 2024-03-29 | PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $1600: Teleplaywright J.P. Miller first gave us these "Days" of an alcoholic couple, later a movie & then a Broadway musical in 2024 the Days of Wine and Roses |
| #9070, aired 2024-03-29 | A WARMING TREND $2000: In this Bible book once alluded to by Samuel L. Jackson, "Another fire shall devour them; and ye shall know that I am the Lord" Ezekiel |
| #9069, aired 2024-03-28 | DEFINITIONS FROM THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY $200: Under C:
"A familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head" a cabbage |
| #9069, aired 2024-03-28 | LGBTQ+ WRITERS & THEIR WORKS $200: "Tomorrow Will Be Different" is by Sarah McBride, the first openly trans state senator from this state, known for being first Delaware |
| #9069, aired 2024-03-28 | ROUND HERE $400: Since 1908, the roundel has been a symbol of this system that also contains "round" the Underground |
| #9069, aired 2024-03-28 | HOP ON THE INTERSTATE $1,000 (Daily Double): Columbia is about midway between these 2 same-state Midwest cities that squared off in the I-70 World Series in 1985 Kansas City & St. Louis |
| #9069, aired 2024-03-28 | DEFINITIONS FROM THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY $1000: Under Q:
"A sufficient number of members of a deliberative body to have their own way and their own way of having it" a quorum |
| #9067, aired 2024-03-26 | WORLD STAR $800: This actress starred in the Chaplinesque Indian film "Barfi!" before landing in "Quantico" in 2015 Priyanka Chopra Jonas |
| #9066, aired 2024-03-25 | NAME THAT TOON $600: This character who debuted in 1967 was sort of a clueless Tarzan George of the Jungle |
| #9066, aired 2024-03-25 | THE THEATER $800: New Yorkers see plays in Central Park; Londoners, at the Open Air Theatre in this park Regent's Park |
| #9066, aired 2024-03-25 | IAMB A POET $1600: I, William Wordsworth, wrote this iambic line that precedes "that floats on high o'er vales and hills" I wandered lonely as a cloud |
| #9065, aired 2024-03-22 | NONFICTION $200: His dedication for his memoir "Spare" reads: "For Meg and Archie and Lili... and, of course, my Mother" Prince Harry |
| #9065, aired 2024-03-22 | THE LYRICAL STYLINGS OF JOHNNY GILBERT $400: "When I'm out walking, I strut my stuff, and I'm so strung out, I'm high as a kite, I just might stop to check you out" Violent Femmes |
| #9065, aired 2024-03-22 | "HOUSE" OF ENTERTAINMENT $2000: Ben Kingsley got an Oscar nomination for playing an Iranian immigrant with dreams of home ownership in this drama House of Sand and Fog |
| #9064, aired 2024-03-21 | CHARACTERS IN BOOK SERIES $400: Ian Fleming introduced James Bond in "Casino Royale", then had him "Live" on in Jamaica in this next book Live and Let Die |
| #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 | THE DIRECTING BROTHERS $800: 20 years later, Jim Carrey & Jeff Daniels were back for more Farrelly-directed fun in a sequel titled this "To" Dumb and Dumber |
| #9063, aired 2024-03-20 | MISSION: PLAUSIBLE $800: Solve the this TV host problem: 3 shut doors, new car-junk-junk. You pick A. He shows you B is junk. Do you switch to C? Monty Hall |
| #9062, aired 2024-03-19 | ORGANIZATIONS $1000: 2024 marks 100 years of this group with a mission "to build healthier lives, free of cardiovascular diseases and stroke" the American Heart Association |
| #9061, aired 2024-03-18 | MUSICAL FILMS $1000: In this 1963 musical a teen idol's fans sing, "We love you, Conrad, oh yes, we do, we love you Conrad, and we'll be true" Bye Bye Birdie |
| #9060, aired 2024-03-15 | TV DRAMA $600: In the daytime drama world, Shemar Moore rose to fame in the '90s as Malcolm Winters on this soap opera set in Genoa City The Young and the Restless |
| #9060, aired 2024-03-15 | EXTINCT ANIMALS $1200: In 2021 the FWS declared extinct the stirrupshell & 7 other species of these mollusks that form serious attachments mussels |
| #9060, aired 2024-03-15 | LOST WORKS $5,000 (Daily Double): In the lost ancient epic "Aethiopis", the Ethiopian king Memnon fights for Troy & is killed by this Greek hero Achilles |
| #9059, aired 2024-03-14 | KHAN YOU DIG IT? $800: According to a 13th century "Secret History", this leader was born clutching "a clot of blood the size of a knucklebone" Genghis Khan |
| #9058, aired 2024-03-13 | VIRTUO-SO GOOD $1000: This composer and violin virtuoso revolutionized playing technique, including new methods of fingering & tuning Paganini |
| #9057, aired 2024-03-12 | UNMANNED SPACE EXPLORATION $400: In 1997, Pathfinder parachuted onto Mars, and cushioned its land with these, also a safety feature in your Buick airbags |
| #9057, aired 2024-03-12 | THE KNIGHTLY NEWS $1200: This "colorful" poem dates to the 14th century & includes the main character being tempted by a lord's wife Sir Gawain and the Green Knight |
| #9056, aired 2024-03-11 | THE CIVIL WAR $400: 3-letter last name of Johnny, a symbol of the typical southern soldier; in a 1905 book by a war veteran, he's paired with Billy Yank Reb |
| #9056, aired 2024-03-11 | WORLD OF LIT $800: He served several years of hard labor in Siberia before writing about someone else's "Crime and Punishment" Dostoevsky |
| #9054, aired 2024-03-07 | BEFORE & AFTER $1000: Siam-set musical adaptation of Asimov's book about machines that follow 3 laws The King and I, Robot |
| #9051, aired 2024-03-04 | A LI'L BALLET, A LI'L OPERA $400: Premiering in Russia in 1890 & also known as "La belle au bois dormant", this ballet features Princess Aurora Sleeping Beauty |
| #9050, aired 2024-03-01 | COVER ME $1600: The Beatles recorded this dance classic at the end of their first album session; good idea, as it blew out John's voice "Twist And Shout" |
| #9049, aired 2024-02-29 | "LIKE"NESS $400: This series that premiered in 2021 is billed as "a new chapter of 'Sex & the City"' And Just Like That |
| #9049, aired 2024-02-29 | LIVE, LAUGH, LOVE $600: Live:
You'll be squatting and/or thrusting doing this exercise a burpee |
| #9046, aired 2024-02-26 | ALLOYS $400: Magnalium is a strong, lightweight alloy of these 2 elements magnesium & aluminum |
| #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 | MEMORY $1000: In comparing computer memory info, think before you give us this, the number of megabytes in a gigabyte 1,024 |
| #9046, aired 2024-02-26 | THE NEW TESTAMENT $1000: This apostle drew his sword & "smote the high priest's servant and cut off his right ear" Peter |
| #9044, aired 2024-02-22 | 40 YEARS AGO: 1984 $400: Bob Woodward's "Wired: The Short Life & Fast Times of" this comic offended some of its subject's friends & family John Belushi |
| #9044, aired 2024-02-22 | 40 YEARS AGO: 1984 $800: At the Winter Olympics, this American won gold with a four-and-a-half minute program that featured multiple triple jumps Scott Hamilton |
| #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 | MR. STEVE MARTIN $400: Waking up in "Planes, Trains and Automobiles", Steve realizes the hand of this late, great actor is not between 2 pillows (John) Candy |
| #9043, aired 2024-02-21 | EXTREMELY RANDOM CALCULATIONS $1200: ML in Roman numerals minus Douglas Adams' answer to "life, the universe and everything" 1,008 |
| #9042, aired 2024-02-20 | HANSEL CULTURE $1000: A line from this musical says, "Herr Hansel Schmidt becomes Mrs. Hedwig Robinson" Hedwig and the Angry Inch |
| #9042, aired 2024-02-20 | ARTISTS & THEIR SUBJECTS $2000: Oh, her, the tale of this woman "and the Elders" is a common subject & Lorenzo Lotto's from 1517 is one of those with minimal boobage Susanna |
| #9041, aired 2024-02-19 | NATIONAL STATUARY HALL $400: In 2003 Kansas became the first state to replace a statue, swapping out Gov. George Washington Glick for this president Eisenhower |
| #9041, aired 2024-02-19 | POTENT QUOTABLES $800: In "Anna Christie" Greta Garbo requested this, "ginger ale on the side. And don't be stingy, baby" whiskey |
| #9041, aired 2024-02-19 | POTENT QUOTABLES $1000: It's the line in "Treasure Island" that precedes & follows "drink and the devil had done for the rest" yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum |
| #9041, aired 2024-02-19 | THE QUESTION? $2,600 (Daily Double): The answer to this question includes "to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach" How do I love thee? |
| #9040, aired 2024-02-16 | FICTION & NONFICTION $200: "Oath and Honor" is a 2023 memoir & warning by this politician Liz Cheney |
| #9040, aired 2024-02-16 | NOTABLE NAMES $1600: "Unbought and Unbossed" was a campaign slogan & an autobiography by this first African-American congresswoman Shirley Chisholm |
| #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 | SO FAR AWAY $400: Hardanger, Bokna & And (yes, And!) are these long narrow sea arms in Norway fjords |
| #9038, aired 2024-02-14 | SO FAR AWAY $1000: This wedge-shaped country seems small next to its 2 giant S. Amer. neighbors, but it has 5x more land than Holland & 5x fewer people Uruguay |
| #9037, aired 2024-02-13 | IT HAPPENED IN CONGRESS $800: Congress first did this March 3, 1845 in the waning hours of John Tyler's presidency, by votes of 41-1 & 127-30 to override a veto |
| #9037, aired 2024-02-13 | WISTFUL THINKING $2000: One benefit of reading this Stephen Chbosky book: "Things change. And friends leave. And life doesn't stop for anybody" The Perks of Being a Wallflower |
| #9037, aired 2024-02-13 | SIBLINGS OF NOTE $11,000 (Daily Double): Marcel's kid sister Suzanne Duchamp caught the bug for this movement with artworks like "Accordion Masterpiece" Dada |
| #9036, aired 2024-02-12 | GENIUS: MLK/X $200: (Kelvin Harrison Jr. presents the clue.) My character, MLK, felt a moral obligation to speak out regarding this conflict in Asia, although it would end up alienating him from Lyndon B. Johnson & his allies the Vietnam War |
| #9036, aired 2024-02-12 | RHYMING SYNONYMS $2000: You'll find this pair of 4-letter synonyms between 2 hills or mountains a dale or a vale |
| #9035, aired 2024-02-09 | NUMERICAL TELEVISION $1000: Would you believe these were the 2 code numbers used by the 2 main CONTROL agents fighting KAOS on "Get Smart!" 86 & 99 |
| #9035, aired 2024-02-09 | ADD A LETTER: GEOGRAPHY EDITION $2000: The Midwest's 29th state & a Colorado county, both named after Native American peoples the Iowa & Kiowa |
| #9034, aired 2024-02-08 | END OF STORY $400: By Steinbeck: "Curley and Carlson looked after them. And Carlson said, 'Now what the hell ya suppose is eatin' them two guys?"' Of Mice and Men |
| #9034, aired 2024-02-08 | THE MOURNING NEWS $800: After this 19th c. royal was widowed, the "nightly longing to die... for the first 3 years never left"; nearly 47 remained Queen Victoria |
| #9034, aired 2024-02-08 | END OF STORY $800: A monster hit from 1818: "He was soon borne away by the waves and lost in darkness and distance" Frankenstein |
| #9034, aired 2024-02-08 | END OF STORY $1200: "'It isn't fair, it isn't right', Mrs. Hutchinson screamed, and then they were upon her" is the scary end of this Shirley Jackson tale "The Lottery" |
| #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 |
| #9034, aired 2024-02-08 | END OF STORY $2000: "I'll pray, and then I'll sleep" is the balm at the end of this Pulitzer-winning Marilynne Robinson novel Gilead |
| #9033, aired 2024-02-07 | QUOTING THE OLD TESTAMENT $400: He proclaimed, "Joseph my son is yet alive: I will go and see him before I die" Jacob |
| #9033, aired 2024-02-07 | ANTHROPOLOGISTS $400: Ruth Benedict's interest in the culture of this country led to the 1946 book "The Chrysanthemum and the Sword" Japan |
| #9033, aired 2024-02-07 | QUOTING THE OLD TESTAMENT $800: The lines "A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace" come from this book Ecclesiastes |
| #9033, aired 2024-02-07 | THE "ICK" $1000: In "Oil!", Upton Sinclair writes, "Water and oil would spout up over the top of" this framework, "staining it... black" derrick |
| #9033, aired 2024-02-07 | NUMERICALLY PREFIXED $2000: On their fourth day of confinement, the tale tellers recount stories of tragic love in this 14th century work The Decameron |
| #9033, aired 2024-02-07 | QUOTING THE OLD TESTAMENT $2000: From Judges 6, "The spirit of the Lord came upon" this man, "and he blew a trumpet" Gideon |
| #9032, aired 2024-02-06 | 2 BOOKS IN 1 $800: "A Farewell to the Sea" A Farewell to Arms & The Old Man and the Sea |
| #9031, aired 2024-02-05 | NOTHING BUT MAMMALS $2,000 (Daily Double): These Pacific pinnipeds get their name from the roars they emit while defending their harems sea lions |
| #9031, aired 2024-02-05 | THE "ARE" YOU BREATHE $3,000 (Daily Double): "Ruffles And Flourishes" is one of these short pieces of music played prior to "Hail To The Chief" for the president fanfare |
| #3, aired 2024-02-02 | LITERATURE $1200: Ayn Rand influenced many with this novel about architect Howard Roark and his uncompromising individualism The Fountainhead |
| #9029, aired 2024-02-01 | BRAINY QUOTES $800: This character is "a bear of very little brain, and long words bother" him Winnie-the-Pooh |
| #9027, aired 2024-01-30 | CHAINS $1000: In 1775 this Virginian asked, "Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery?" Patrick Henry |
| #9027, aired 2024-01-30 | POPE FICTION $1200: "I am Carlo Ventresca... the late pope's camerlengo" is an introduction in this Dan Brown novel with title opposites Angels and Demons |
| #9026, aired 2024-01-29 | WHERE THERE'S A WILL $400: Snack container inventor Fredric Baur requested that some of his ashes be buried in a can from this brand of potato crisps Pringles |
| #9025, aired 2024-01-26 | SILENT-CONSONANT WORDS $7,000 (Daily Double): Relevant or suitable, it comes from a French phrase meaning "to the purpose" àpropos |
| #9024, aired 2024-01-25 | START TALKING, SHAKESPEARE CHARACTER $600: Her first speech is "What, jealous Oberon? Fairies, skip hence. I have forsworn his bed and company" Titania |
| #9024, aired 2024-01-25 | BACKWORDS & FOREWORDS $800: A division of a hospital & to pull back a bow string draw & ward (ward & draw) |
| #9023, aired 2024-01-24 | LOVE STORY $400: William Goldman "abridged" this, "S. Morgenstern's classic tale of true love and high adventure"--ah, wuv... twue wuv The Princess Bride |
| #9023, aired 2024-01-24 | ISLAND COUNTRIES $5,000 (Daily Double): The national anthem of this small island nation says, "peacefully be, the kingdom and sultan" Brunei |
| #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 | OBSCURE NOVELS $200: Wow! Edith Wharton wrote a novel titled "Fast and Loose"?! That sounds a bit racier than her 1920 novel "The Age of" this Innocence |
| #26, aired 2024-01-23 | ____ & ____ $300: This pair of words refers to rules, and the enforcement of those rules, in an organized society... dun dun law & order |
| #26, aired 2024-01-23 | COLLEGE-LEVEL HISTORY COURSES $300: Rice boasts that its "20th Century American Presidents" course covers the span of Theodore Roosevelt to this 42nd president (Bill) Clinton |
| #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 | SCIENCE IS COOL $600: The recipe for this type of winter storm: snow, winds over 35 mph, and low visibility for at least 3 hours a blizzard |
| #26, aired 2024-01-23 | WACKY FAD OBITUARIES $800: In lieu of flowers, mourners of this trend are asked to lie face down, rigid with their arms at their sides and be photographed planking |
| #26, aired 2024-01-23 | MO ROCCA DRINKING VODKA WITH CHEWBACCA $800: If Mo Rocca and Neil Sedaka were shouting "Wocka! Wocka! Wocka!", they would be crying out this Muppet's catchphrase Fozzie (Bear) |
| #26, aired 2024-01-23 | OZZY OSBOURNE'S FAVORITE SONGS $900: Ozzy said his world stood still the first time he heard this Led Zeppelin tune that lends its title to a film by Richard Linklater "Dazed And Confused" |
| #26, aired 2024-01-23 | PEAK TV $2,000 (Daily Double): Mike White, the creator of this series, said that the first season is about money and the second season is about sex White Lotus |
| #26, aired 2024-01-23 | ____ & ____ $3,000 (Daily Double): Used together, these words are synonymous with intrigue & secrecy, and they sound much cooler than "poncho & knife" cloak & dagger |
| #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 |
| #9020, aired 2024-01-19 | FAMOUS FORGERIES $400: Performed in London in 1796, "Vortigern and Rowena" was a newly discovered play supposedly by him Shakespeare |
| #9020, aired 2024-01-19 | MUSICAL THEATER $1,400 (Daily Double): Of course it features the title song that says, "Come and meet those dancing feet on the avenue I'm taking you to..." 42nd Street |
| #9018, aired 2024-01-17 | IF FOOD BE THE LOVE OF MUSIC $400: Rihanna sang of this title treat, "can't wait to blow my candles out" birthday cake |
| #9017, aired 2024-01-16 | HATS IN OTHER WORDS $800: The country with Volcán Barú as its highest point Panama |
| #9017, aired 2024-01-16 | HALF A CATEGORY $800: Eng was half of the conjoined twosome who in the 19th century were billed as this pair Siamese Twins |
| #9017, aired 2024-01-16 | AUTHORS AS BOOK CHARACTERS $1,500 (Daily Double): "Vanessa and Her Sister" by Priya Parmar refers to Vanessa Bell & this literary sibling Virginia Woolf |
| #25, aired 2024-01-16 | DR. SEUSS EN ESPAÑOL $100: "Huevos Verdes con Jamón" Green Eggs and Ham |
| #25, aired 2024-01-16 | THE ONE AND ONLY... $300: U.S. President born in Hawaii Barack Obama |
| #25, aired 2024-01-16 | SPELLING BIZ $500: In 1972, this brand debuted Red Zinger and Sleepy Time; you can't spell it without spelling...
_ _ _ _ _ T _ _ _
_ E A _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Celestial Seasonings |
| #25, aired 2024-01-16 | 50% "OFF" $600: In the 1995 comedy "Dracula: Dead and Loving It", Leslie Nielsen sleeps in one of these a coffin |
| #25, aired 2024-01-16 | THE ONE AND ONLY... $600: Oscar winner named Oscar: this lyricist of "Oklahoma!" & "South Pacific" Oscar Hammerstein |
| #25, aired 2024-01-16 | THE ONE AND ONLY... $900: Element on the periodic table whose name is 3 letters long: this silvery metal tin |
| #25, aired 2024-01-16 | 50% "OFF" $1200: The EPA says it's "from rain and snowmelt that flows over land or impervious surfaces" runoff |
| #25, aired 2024-01-16 | THE ONE AND ONLY... $1200: Chess piece that can jump over other pieces knight |
| #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 ONE AND ONLY... $2,000 (Daily Double): UN member state whose name starts with "Y", this country on the Arabian Peninsula Yemen |
| #9016, aired 2024-01-15 | DISNEY FILM TITLES VISUALIZED $1000: Conquer your emotions and tell us what's going on with the soccer ball Inside Out |
| #9016, aired 2024-01-15 | POP MUSIC-POURRI $1600: "You cut me open, and I" keep doing this, sang Leona Lewis in a 2008 hit bleeding love |
| #9015, aired 2024-01-12 | BOOK TITLES $1600: This 1997 history bestseller postulates that the 3 things in its title enabled the European conquest of the Americas Guns, Germs and Steel |
| #2, aired 2024-01-12 | JUST DESERTS $200: In this Bible book, the children of Israel "were departed from Rephidim, and were come to the Desert of Sinai" Exodus |
| #2, aired 2024-01-12 | OPERA, LIKE IT OR NOT $2000: The full title of this Wagner opera includes the words "and the Singer's Contest on the Wartburg" Tannhäuser |
| #1, aired 2024-01-12 | IAMB WOMAN $800: Lady Mary Chudleigh's "To the Ladies" warns fiancees that this "and servant are the same / But only differ in the name" wives |
| #9014, aired 2024-01-11 | THE BIBLE BOOK SAITH... $200: "And the evening and the morning were the fifth day" Genesis |
| #9014, aired 2024-01-11 | EPISODES OF THE SITCOM $400: "Pawnee Rangers" & "Swing Vote" Parks and Rec |
| #9014, aired 2024-01-11 | THE BIBLE BOOK SAITH... $400: Living up to its name: "A wise man will hear, and will increase learning" Proverbs |
| #9014, aired 2024-01-11 | THE BIBLE BOOK SAITH... $600: "And I saw in the right hand of him... a book written within and on the backside, sealed with seven seals" (Book of) Revelation |
| #9014, aired 2024-01-11 | IT'S UP 2 U $1000: Time to drink in this hearty reddish color... ohhhh yes... bold, with a hint of je ne sais quoi burgundy |
| #9014, aired 2024-01-11 | EPISODES OF THE SITCOM $2000: "Blanche and the Younger Man" & "Dateline: Miami" The Golden Girls |
| #9013, aired 2024-01-10 | YOU GET NOTHING! YOU LOSE! $200: In the Bible, this person "looked back... and she became a pillar of salt" Lot's wife |
| #9013, aired 2024-01-10 | ONE-MAN BAND $600: In 1989, he "Let Love Rule" as basically a one-man band on that debut album, and he's been "Sittin' On Top Of The World" ever since Lenny Kravitz |
| #9013, aired 2024-01-10 | INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS $2000: In 2023, China gathered friendly world leaders for the 10th anniversary of BRI, this initiative of projects in the developing world the Belt and Road Initiative |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | NUMERICAL PLACE NAMES $100: This road that serves as a border between Detroit and its northern suburbs was made somewhat famous by Eminem 8 Mile |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | "DIS"CONTINUED $200: A 2012 readers' poll in Rolling Stone magazine listed "I Will Survive" and "Stayin' Alive" among the best songs in this genre disco |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | KITTY LIT $200: A stray cat is taken in and then set loose by Holly Golightly in this iconic novella Breakfast at Tiffany's |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | CAN I GET AN "A" MEN! $200: Andre Agassi won the U.S. Open twice in the '90s; this tennis icon won it in 1968 and has a stadium there named after him Arthur Ashe |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | THERE'S AN "APP" FOR THAT $300: Nescafé says this drink is "the perfect balance of espresso, steamed milk, and foam" cappuccino |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | CYBERSECURITY $300: In real life, it can slow the spread of flames and smoke; in your digital life, it blocks unauthorized access to your private data a firewall |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | "DIS"CONTINUED $300: According to regulations, this Olympic sport's equipment should be 22 cm in diameter for men and 18 cm for women the discus |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | "DIS"CONTINUED $500: Setting sail in 1610, it's the ship Henry Hudson used to navigate what we now know as the Hudson strait and Hudson Bay the Discovery |
| #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 | OPPOSITES OF NOVEL TITLES $600: Hunter S. Thompson's "Courage and Fondness in Las Vegas" Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | FAIRY TALE ADAPTATIONS $600: "Me and You" tells the story of a family of these animals who go for a walk and is narrated by the littlest one bears |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | NON-MUSICAL THEATER $800: Vladimir & Estragon wait and wait, but (spoiler alert!) the title character of this Samuel Beckett play never shows up Waiting for Godot |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | NEW YORK TIMES OBITUARIES $800: His 2018 obit described him as a physicist and author "who roamed the cosmos from a wheelchair" Hawking |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | ON THE PERIODIC TABLE $900: Among elements named for people is röentgenium, in honor of Wilhelm Röntgen who discovered these imaging rays X-rays |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | OPPOSITES OF NOVEL TITLES $1500: Jane Austen's "Shame and Impartiality" Pride and Prejudice |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | FAIRY TALE ADAPTATIONS $1500: In Sarah Pinborough's "Poison" this fairy tale group suffers from work-related lung damage and missing limbs the Seven Dwarfs |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | CYBERSECURITY $1500: Those inscrutable letter combos and pesky login puzzles? Two examples of these tools, which discern real users from bots a CAPTCHA |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | ON THE PERIODIC TABLE $5,000 (Daily Double): Going in order on the periodic table, uranium and neptunium are followed by this element named for a dwarf planet plutonium |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | FAIRY TALE ADAPTATIONS $5,000 (Daily Double): "Ash," based on this fairy-tale character, falls for a huntress & not a prince so she'll need more practical footwear Cinderella |
| #9011, aired 2024-01-08 | COLORS $400: Nebraska fight song lyricists took advantage of the school colors being scarlet & this, which rhymes with team cream |
| #9011, aired 2024-01-08 | ITALIAN LITERATURE $400: Matteo Bandello's short stories inspired a number of Shakespeare's plays, including this Verona-set tragedy Romeo and Juliet |
| #9011, aired 2024-01-08 | PRESIDENTIAL DOGS $800: Reagan's spaniel Rex was indeed kingly; his breed contains this name of multiple English monarchs King Charles |
| #9011, aired 2024-01-08 | RECENT MOVIES $800: She played Indy's goddaughter Helena in "Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny" Phoebe Waller-Bridge |
| #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 | LINES IN CLASSIC NOVELS $200: In this book you'll find "I shall cut off her head and fill her mouth with garlic, and I shall drive a stake through her body" Dracula |
| #9010, aired 2024-01-05 | THE OCEAN $1200: If you don't want to miss "Krill and Grace", better set your VPR or video "this organism" recorder plankton |
| #9010, aired 2024-01-05 | LINES IN CLASSIC NOVELS $1,600 (Daily Double): The very long opening line of this novel includes the phrase "It was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair" A Tale of Two Cities |
| #9008, aired 2024-01-03 | HISTORY OF THE AMERICAS $3,600 (Daily Double): In 1899 an intl. ruling gave the oil-rich Essequibo region to Britain; now it's part of this country & some Venezuelans covet it Guyana |
| #9007, aired 2024-01-02 | AT THE MUSEUM $1000: The Chiswick Table & the Chichester Grille are at this decorative arts museum in London Victoria and Albert |
| #23, aired 2024-01-02 | MAINE ATTRACTIONS $200: For wildlife lovers, Maine offers safaris to spot this large mammal featured on its flag moose |
| #23, aired 2024-01-02 | CELEBRITY JEOPARDY AIN'T THE ONLY "CJ" $300: Written in 1908, "Take Me Out To The Ballgame" features the lyric "Buy me some peanuts and" this ballpark treat Cracker Jacks |
| #23, aired 2024-01-02 | BOOKS IN THE SERIES $300: C.S. Lewis:
"The Magician's Nephew";
"Prince Caspian";
"The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" The Chronicles of Narnia |
| #23, aired 2024-01-02 | KNOW YOUR -OLOGIES $300: This field in which Mariah Carey was a student includes hairstyling and nail care cosmetology |
| #23, aired 2024-01-02 | BOOKS IN THE SERIES $400: George R.R. Martin:
"A Dance with Dragons";
"A Storm of Swords";
"A Game of Thrones" A Song of Ice and Fire |
| #23, aired 2024-01-02 | "LADY"S FIRST $400: A famous scene from this 1955 Disney film is nicknamed the "spaghetti kiss" Lady and the Tramp |
| #23, aired 2024-01-02 | DIFFERENT SONGS, SAME TITLES $400: Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch,
the Beach Boys
(she's giving me excitations) "Good Vibrations" |
| #23, aired 2024-01-02 | ELEMENTARY POP CULTURE $400: In Disney's "The Fox and the Hound", the fox is named Tod, while the hound shares his name with this reddish metal copper |
| #23, aired 2024-01-02 | AUTO BIOGRAPHIES $400: I'm a traveling wiener and I was conceived in 1936 by the nephew of this company's founder Oscar Mayer |
| #23, aired 2024-01-02 | TINY DESK CONCERTS $600: It's the network that has broadcast Tiny Desk Concerts (1,000 and counting) since folk singer Laura Gibson did the first in 2008 NPR |
| #23, aired 2024-01-02 | AFRICAN HISTORY $600: In 1975, both Angola and Mozambique gained their independence from this Iberian country Portugal |
| #23, aired 2024-01-02 | KNOW YOUR -OLOGIES $1500: If your PhD is in the similarities of folk songs from Bhutan and Cameroon, you're an expert in "ethno" this ethnomusicology |
| #9006, aired 2024-01-01 | RETIRED $1600: 2 of the 3 Space Shuttles that were retired in 2011, ending the 30-year Space Shuttle program (2 of) Endeavour, Discovery or Atlantis |
| #9004, aired 2023-12-28 | HEY, WHERE'S THAT? $200: In this Bible book: "And the Lord said unto Cain, why art thou wroth?" Genesis |
| #9004, aired 2023-12-28 | TOUCH TYPE $1,800 (Daily Double): This word means a limited search of your person & the cop is supposed to be looking only for weapons a frisk |
| #9003, aired 2023-12-27 | RHYMING TREE PAIRS $600: A placard made from evergreen a pine sign |
| #9003, aired 2023-12-27 | POETRY ABOUT PROSE $800: Doubles! they're doubles! / But they're thought quite insane / A royal mistake / Time to catch an old Twain The Prince and the Pauper |
| #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 |
| #9002, aired 2023-12-26 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $400: A Newbery Medal winner, "The One and Only" him tells the story from the perspective of a captive gorilla Ivan |
| #9002, aired 2023-12-26 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $600: A beloved 1964 book by him begins, "Once there was a tree... and she loved a little boy" Shel Silverstein |
| #9002, aired 2023-12-26 | BEST ACTRESS OSCAR WINNERS $4,800 (Daily Double): In 1997, picking up her first of 3 Oscars for Best Actress, she thanked her son Pedro & her husband Joel Frances McDormand |
| #9001, aired 2023-12-25 | THE MANGER ZONE $400: "She brought forth her firstborn son... and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them" at this place the inn |
| #9001, aired 2023-12-25 | THE MANGER ZONE $800: "And when they were departed... the angel of the Lord" said take the child & his mom & "flee into" this present-day nation Egypt |
| #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 | CAROLS $1000: One carol says he "looked out on the Feast of Stephen, when the snow lay round about, deep and crisp and even" Good King Wenceslas |
| #8999, aired 2023-12-21 | A VERY HALLMARK CHRISTMAS MOVIE $1000: It's not the Magi--nor Selleck, Danson & Guttenberg--but a trio of brothers who find themselves caring for a tot in this 2022 film Three Wise Men and a Baby |
| #8996, aired 2023-12-18 | WELL, THEY SOUND THE SAME... $800: A group of young ladies, or one married one misses & Mrs. |
| #8996, aired 2023-12-18 | PLAY SETTINGS $800: "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead": Within & around the action of this other play Hamlet |
| #8996, aired 2023-12-18 | POSTAL ABBREVIATION COMBOS $1000: "The Pelican State" + "The Pine Tree State" = this word for someone with an injured leg lame |
| #8995, aired 2023-12-15 | TRAILER PARK $400: A "Mansfield Park" trailer noted that this author valued the story above "Emma" & "Sense and Sensibility" Jane Austen |
| #8995, aired 2023-12-15 | NOT REALLY MARRIED $600: This film legend asks this TV Batman to come up & see her sometime Mae West & Adam West |
| #8994, aired 2023-12-14 | HELL $7,600 (Daily Double): Milton used this word for the capital of Hell; now it means wild confusion Pandemonium |
| #8993, aired 2023-12-13 | WHO'S THE MRS.? $800: Garth Brooks Trisha Yearwood |
| #8992, aired 2023-12-12 | SOUNDS KINDA "IFF"-Y $800: The first "T" in GATT, they're taxes one nation puts on goods imported from another Tariffs |
| #8992, aired 2023-12-12 | ANIMALS $800: The Chinese zodiac's 12-year cycle begins & ends with these 2 3-letter animals rat & pig |
| #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 | ARTS $1200: As in Louis Comfort Tiffany's work, an undulating line, often in the form of vine tendrils, is characteristic of this style Art Nouveau |
| #8990, aired 2023-12-08 | WE'RE TALKING BASEBALL $1000: He said, "Nice guys finish last", and proved it; he took over the Cubs in 1966 & managed them to last place Leo Durocher |
| #8988, aired 2023-12-06 | DOUBLE TALK $400: In a nursery rhyme it precedes "pumpkin eater, had a wife and couldn't keep her" Peter, Peter |
| #8988, aired 2023-12-06 | OUT OF CON TEXT $800: "Dantes crossed the awful threshold and the door closed noisily behind him... he was in prison" The Count of Monte Cristo |
| #8988, aired 2023-12-06 | OUT OF CON TEXT $1000: "At last news arrived... that Raskolnikov shunned everybody and that in prison he was unpopular with the convicts" Crime and Punishment |
| #8988, aired 2023-12-06 | WATERY SONGS $1000: The 2 title items in this Carpenters tune, No. 2 in '71, "always get me down" "Rainy Days And Mondays" |
| #8988, aired 2023-12-06 | CLASSIC COMIC STRIPS $1200: It followed the imaginative adventures of a 6-year-old boy & his trusty toy tiger Calvin and Hobbes |
| #22, aired 2023-12-06 | ALSO A TAYLOR SWIFT SONG $200: Careful! This washing machine cycle using cold water and low spin speed is suggested for lingerie & silk neckties delicate |
| #22, aired 2023-12-06 | LITERARY TOURISM $200: Road trip down the Laura Ingalls Wilder highway with Ma & Pa and see the places that inspired this beloved children's series Little House on the Prairie |
| #22, aired 2023-12-06 | I WANT MY "M" TV $200: This show's 1983 finale "Goodbye, Farewell and Amen" is still the most watched episode of scripted TV ever M*A*S*H |
| #22, aired 2023-12-06 | PIZZA AT THE MOVIES $400: Burnout surfer Jeff Spicoli orders a pizza to history class but Mr. Hand is having none of it in this 1982 teen comedy Fast Times at Ridgemont High |
| #22, aired 2023-12-06 | CELEBRITY TELL-ALLS $600: "Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing":
He revealed that future editions of his memoir will not include Keanu Reeves Matthew Perry |
| #22, aired 2023-12-06 | CHORUS LINES $900: "I dreamed a dream in time gone by, when hope was high and life worth living" Les Misérables |
| #22, aired 2023-12-06 | THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE $1,000 (Daily Double): Historians cite this event that began in 1929 as one of the main reasons for the demise of the Harlem renaissance the Great Depression |
| #22, aired 2023-12-06 | CHORUS LINES $1200: "It's time to try defying gravity, I think I'll try defying gravity, and you can't pull me down" Wicked |
| #8987, aired 2023-12-05 | ALSO A SUPERHERO $200: A 1903 George Bernard Shaw play is called "Man and" him Superman |
| #8987, aired 2023-12-05 | PURPLE PROSE & POETRY $600: Author who wrote that it angers God "if you walk by the color purple in a field... and don't notice it" (Alice) Walker |
| #8986, aired 2023-12-04 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $200: A publisher bet him that he couldn't write a book using 50 or fewer words; the result was "Green Eggs and Ham" Dr. Seuss |
| #8986, aired 2023-12-04 | GIVE THE "DEVIL" $1000: Jabez Stone enlists the aid of a statesman to help save his soul in this story by Stephen Vincent Benet "The Devil and Daniel Webster" |
| #8986, aired 2023-12-04 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $1,600 (Daily Double): An out-of-control dog meets his match in John Grogan's him "and the Kittens" Marley |
| #8985, aired 2023-12-01 | OK, CORRAL ME $2000: Don't worry, I show no signs of this, FMD for short--the U.S. hasn't had an outbreak since 1929 & let's keep it that way foot-and-mouth disease |
| #8984, aired 2023-11-30 | THAT'S "CORN"Y $600: In a nursery rhyme, "the lion and" this mythical equine "were fighting for the crown" unicorn |
| #8983, aired 2023-11-29 | BARRE TENDERS $400: In 1990, he & choreographer Mark Morris founded a touring company called the White Oak Dance Project Baryshnikov |
| #8983, aired 2023-11-29 | READING RAINBOW $1000: Julien Sorel is the amoral hero of this novel by French author Stendhal The Red and the Black |
| #21, aired 2023-11-29 | FAIRY TALE ELEVATOR PITCHES $200: "A kid trades his cow for some magic beans & before you know it, a huge vine grows up to the clouds where an angry giant lives" "Jack and the Beanstalk" |
| #21, aired 2023-11-29 | FAIRY TALE ELEVATOR PITCHES $300: "Lost & hungry, two siblings stumble upon a house made of gingerbread but the owner is a lunatic who wants to eat them" "Hansel and Gretel" |
| #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" |
| #8982, aired 2023-11-28 | SLINGING ARROWS $800: Sam Claflin said the bow & arrow was the toughest part of his role as a duke enchanted by Kristen Stewart in this fairy tale Snow White and the Huntsman |
| #8982, aired 2023-11-28 | PEACE, LOVE & UNDERSTANDING $1200: A mountain pass is home to the "Christ the Redeemer of the Andes" statue, symbolizing peace between these 2 countries Argentina & Chile |
| #8981, aired 2023-11-27 | PICK A SIDE $800: A summer side is elote, Mexican-style this veggie, rolled in butter & mayo & sprinkled with Cotija cheese & lime corn |
| #8981, aired 2023-11-27 | THE 23rd PSALM $1000: "Surely" these 2 qualities "shall follow me all the days of my life" goodness & mercy |
| #8981, aired 2023-11-27 | CULTURE CLUB $1200: The witch of this biblical place pops up in Carl Nielsen's opera "Saul and David" Endor |
| #8981, aired 2023-11-27 | CULTURE CLUB $1600: This composer's 1869 waltz "Wine, Women and Song" was far from junior league Johann Strauss Jr. |
| #8979, aired 2023-11-23 | BIBLICAL ZOO $1,000 (Daily Double): After crossing this, Miriam led a chorus of "the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea" the Red Sea |
| #8979, aired 2023-11-23 | CARTOON THEME SONGS $1600: "Long tails and ears for hats" Josie and the Pussycats |
| #8978, aired 2023-11-22 | "B"OOKS $1000: The French title of this existential work is "L'Être et le Néant" Being and Nothingness |
| #8978, aired 2023-11-22 | COMPANY NAME ORIGINS $2000: The "Aerial Services" of this state & this territory of Australia gave Qantas its name Queensland & Northern Territory |
| #8977, aired 2023-11-21 | CAR TUNES $400: She's from Barbados & knows what she wants--"Shut Up And Drive" Rihanna |
| #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 | SPEAK OF THE DEVIL $1000: John Donne:
"In best understandings, sin began, / angels sinn'd first, then devils, and then" him man |
| #8977, aired 2023-11-21 | 2B OR NOT 2B $1000: A British slang term meaning "swindle" / a British aristocrat such as a duke nobble & noble |
| #8977, aired 2023-11-21 | SPEAK OF THE DEVIL $2,600 (Daily Double): This 17th c. work says, "Abashed the devil stood, and felt how awful goodness is... saw, and pined his loss" Paradise Lost |
| #8976, aired 2023-11-20 | PEOPLE IN THEIR ELEMENT $1600: This physicist born in Ulm, Bavaria just made it into the top 100 elements by a hair; he's No. 99 Einstein |
| #8975, aired 2023-11-17 | SPRINGSTEEN LYRICS $400: "Got a wife and kids in Baltimore, Jack, I went out for a ride and I never went back" "Hungry Heart" |
| #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" |
| #9372, aired 2025-07-08 | 1950s LITERATURE: At the start of this tale, the title character is reminded he went turtling off the Mosquito Coast The Old Man and the Sea |
| #9371, aired 2025-07-07 | MOVIE MUSIC: The last 2 Best Song Oscar winners whose titles were the same name as the movie they were in had this man in the leading role Daniel Craig |
| #9369, aired 2025-07-03 | TV: "Lord of the Flies" inspired this series as did the 1994 film "Heavenly Creatures", which starred one of the show's actresses Yellowjackets |
| #9366, aired 2025-06-30 | THE SUPREME COURT: In this case, "our consideration is limited to the present circumstances" about "equal protection in election processes" Bush v. Gore |
| #9364, aired 2025-06-26 | 20th CENTURY FIGURES: Ironic in light of her name, she was remembered in a eulogy as "the most hunted person of the modern age" Diana, Princess of Wales |
| #9363, aired 2025-06-25 | LITERARY ALLUSIONS: One of the first chatbots was named for this language-learning character from a 1913 play & 1956 musical Eliza Doolittle |
| #9361, aired 2025-06-23 | COLLECTIONS: In 1896 the Vassar-educated wife of this man wrote, "Thousands of dollars may be paid for a copy of Shakespeare" (Henry Clay) Folger |
| #9359, aired 2025-06-19 | U.S. NATIONAL PARKS: Much of this 73-square-mile National Park is located beneath the Chihuahuan Desert Carlsbad Caverns |
| #9353, aired 2025-06-11 | U.S. BUSINESS: The "stencil" logo released in 1979 for this chain used only 2 colors, one of which emphasized "energy" & "value" The Home Depot |
| #51, aired 2025-05-28 | WORLD CAPITALS: With a metro area of more than 9 million, this port city founded in 1576 is the world's most populous Portuguese-speaking capital Luanda (Angola) |
| #9343, aired 2025-05-28 | CARS & THE MOVIES: A fake speedometer was used in this make of car from a 1980s movie since the actual car's speedometer didn't go high enough a DeLorean |
| #50, aired 2025-05-27 | BRITISH HISTORY: When New Amsterdam was taken by the British, he was on the throne of England, but the city was renamed for his brother Charles II |
| #9340, aired 2025-05-23 | TIME: Eponymously named & in use for more than 1,600 years, it was based in part on concepts from the Greek mathematician Sosigenes the Julian calendar |
| #47, aired 2025-05-21 | PORTMANTEAU WORDS: A play on a portmanteau coined in 2012, this 7-letter word is now used to describe a similar U.K. headline from 1973 Brentry |
| #9338, aired 2025-05-21 | WORLD NEWS 2024: Headlines read of the fall of Hama on December 5, Homs on December 7 & this city on December 8 Damascus |
| #9334, aired 2025-05-15 | WOMEN OF HISTORY: Regarding the idea of "women first", she queried, "Women demand equal rights on land--why not on sea?" Molly Brown |
| #9332, aired 2025-05-13 | BROADWAY PREMIERES: To avoid licensing fees, this play used bits of "Here We Go Round The Mulberry Bush" in place of the Disney tune that inspired its title Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? |
| #9329, aired 2025-05-08 | MOVIE DIRECTORS: As of 2025 this director has made just 4 feature films; 3 were Oscar nominated for Best Picture Greta Gerwig |
| #42, aired 2025-05-07 | ART HISTORY: "Hide & Seek" & "The Cradle" by this French artist were among the 200 or so works shown at a gallery on blvd. des Capucines in 1874 Berthe Morisot |
| #41, aired 2025-05-07 | SAINTS: This saint who helped convert Scotland to Christianity shares his name with the Latin word for an animal sent out 3 times by Noah St. Columba |
| #9326, aired 2025-05-05 | OFFICIAL LANGUAGES: Of the 4 independent nations of the Americas without English or Spanish as an official language, it's the smallest in area Haiti |
| #39, aired 2025-04-30 | EUROPE: Words meaning "water's edge" are one suggested etymology of this city, once capital of the province of Aquitania Bordeaux |
| #40, aired 2025-04-30 | WORLD LITERATURE: A follow-up to an earlier work, this 1671 effort references eventual triumphs written of in the book of Job & the gospels Paradise Regained |
| #9322, aired 2025-04-29 | 20th CENTURY FIGURES: After studying business in Chicago in the 1920s, this man obsessed with Sherlock Holmes was an investigator for a credit company Eliot Ness |
| #9320, aired 2025-04-25 | 1990s BESTSELLERS: In this 1995 book, Pilgrim is taken to Tom, whose job it is to utter secrets "softly into pricked and troubled ears" The Horse Whisperer |
| #9319, aired 2025-04-24 | HISTORIC NAMES: He was riding back from the conquest of Granada when he was summoned to a royal meeting that would change history (Christopher) Columbus |
| #9318, aired 2025-04-23 | 20th CENTURY HISTORY: A 1919 Punch cartoon titled "The Gap in the Bridge" showed Uncle Sam sleeping on the missing keystone of this the League of Nations |
| #9317, aired 2025-04-22 | IMAGES OF 2024: Item in common to a January 1889 self-portrait & several of those attending the 2024 Republican National Convention an ear bandage (ear bandages) |
| #9316, aired 2025-04-21 | THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE: This country has 2 capitals, is bounded by 5 other countries & has 37 official languages Bolivia |
| #9315, aired 2025-04-18 | PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEES: The year the Democratic nominee gave his "Cross of Gold" speech, the GOP nominee was this man who backed the gold standard (William) McKinley |
| #9314, aired 2025-04-17 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS: This character's efforts in Africa to end an epidemic killing monkeys inspired Jane Goodall to do something similar Doctor Dolittle |
| #9313, aired 2025-04-16 | PLACES IN THE AMERICAN PAST: It's the building where the Stax Records classic "Knock On Wood" was written but it's remembered for other reasons the Lorraine Motel |
| #9309, aired 2025-04-10 | WORLD MUSEUMS: Located on Cromwell Road & home to more than 2.8 million objects, it bears in part the name of a cousin of a British queen the Victoria and Albert Museum (the V & A) |
| #9306, aired 2025-04-07 | AMERICAN LITERATURE: His 1821 novel was inspired by stories told to him by John Jay of Jay's experiences with spies during the Revolution James Fenimore Cooper |
| #9305, aired 2025-04-04 | THE NOBEL PRIZES: Only one man & one woman have won Nobel Prizes in 2 different categories, with this category in common Chemistry |
| #9301, aired 2025-03-31 | COMMUNICATION: Invented by a student in 1824, this system has a total of 64 combinations Braille |
| #9300, aired 2025-03-28 | GEOGRAPHIC NEIGHBORS: The "Hermit Nation" & the "Land of the Morning Calm" are nicknames for these 2 neighbors North Korea & South Korea |
| #9289, aired 2025-03-13 | GAMES: This game inaugurated a craze that "scandalized the puritanical and drove chiropractors wild with delight" Twister |
| #9286, aired 2025-03-10 | WORLD FLAGS: A dark blue square in the upper left corner of the flag of this country represents the continent of Africa Liberia |
| #9285, aired 2025-03-07 | SCIENCE FICTION: Name shared by a groundbreaking magazine launched in April 1926 & a TV anthology series that premiered in September 1985 Amazing Stories |
| #9284, aired 2025-03-06 | BRITISH ROYALTY: In the 12th c. after walking barefoot, this man stripped down & allowed himself to be flogged by dozens of monks Henry II |
| #9283, aired 2025-03-05 | MEDIEVAL EUROPEANS: This mathematician of Pisa studied in Algeria & later wrote a book introducing Arabic numerals to a larger audience Fibonacci (Leonardo of Pisa) |
| #9282, aired 2025-03-04 | HISTORIC SCIENTISTS: A pair of discoveries by him in 1787 are named for stage characters, a new practice in his field (William) Herschel |
| #33, aired 2025-02-26 | CHILDREN'S BOOKS: The idea for this book, originally titled "A Week with Willi the Worm", came to the author as he punched holes in a stack of paper The Very Hungry Caterpillar (by Eric Carle) |
| #9277, aired 2025-02-25 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY: Located on an island, in 2016 this world capital began following 2 different time zones Nicosia |
| #9275, aired 2025-02-21 | COMPOSERS: Yale takes credit for starting a commencement tradition when it gave this composer an honorary doctorate in 1905 (Edward) Elgar |
| #9274, aired 2025-02-20 | THE SOUTHWEST: The 4-syllable name of this city is almost identical to its namesake town in Spain, except that the Spanish one has an extra "R" Albuquerque |
| #9273, aired 2025-02-19 | THE ANCIENTS SPEAK: He wrote, "I must make the founder of lovely & famous Athens the counterpart... to the father of... glorious Rome" Plutarch |
| #9269, aired 2025-02-13 | GREEK MYTH: Panoptes, meaning all-seeing, was the byname of this legendary figure, slain by Hermes while standing guard over Io Argus (Argos) |
| #9268, aired 2025-02-12 | EUROPEAN ARTWORK: A rope around their leader's neck, the men depicted in this late 19th c. piece seem resigned to death, but in the end they survived The Burghers of Calais |
| #9267, aired 2025-02-11 | CONTEMPORARY AUTHORS: Asked by a student about the Loch Ness Monster, she said a time portal below could allow a prehistoric creature to pass through (Diana) Gabaldon |
| #9264, aired 2025-02-06 | ANCIENT GEOGRAPHY: Wadi al-Malekat in Arabic, this site near a similar & better known location was the burial place of Nefertari & others the Valley of the Queens |
| #9261, aired 2025-02-03 | PLACES OF DISASTER: In 1883 an old sailor didn't know what its name meant but believed the natives "named it from the sound" Krakatoa |
| #9259, aired 2025-01-30 | LATIN PHRASES: After Camillagate, a fire at Windsor Castle & marriage problems in her family, Queen Elizabeth II dubbed 1992 this annus horribilis |
| #9256, aired 2025-01-27 | WORLD CAPITALS: Home to more than 400,000, it's the only world capital in the "Roaring Forties" latitudes Wellington, New Zealand |
| #9255, aired 2025-01-24 | COMPOSERS: "Troll Hill" is the name of his country home, the grounds of which include a concert hall & a lakeside cabin where he worked Edvard Grieg |
| #9254, aired 2025-01-23 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY: In the Orenburg Oblast, a bridge over this 1,500-mile river has monuments labeled "Asia" & "Europe" the Ural River |
| #9250, aired 2025-01-17 | HISTORIC STATEMENTS: He wrote of his intent "to reserve & throw away my first fire, & I have thoughts even of reserving my second fire" (Alexander) Hamilton |
| #28, aired 2025-01-15 | THE MUPPETS: 3 crates are shipped abroad in 1981's "The Great Muppet Caper": "Frog" holds Kermit, "Bear" holds Fozzie & "Whatever" holds this Muppet Gonzo the Great |
| #9248, aired 2025-01-15 | BOOKS OF THE 1960s: In 1962 the New York Times said the release of this controversial book "presages a noisy fall" Silent Spring |
| #9242, aired 2025-01-07 | FACTS ABOUT COUNTRIES: It has 40,000 people & a workforce of 42,000, more than half commuting from nearby, including Vorarlberg state in a neighbor country Liechtenstein |
| #9239, aired 2025-01-02 | SCIENCE: THE ____ OF ____: 4 of these discovered in the early 1600s were given the names of lovers of a mythological deity the moons of Jupiter |
| #9237, aired 2024-12-31 | THEATER ETYMOLOGY: A centuries-old type of performance, this word includes Greek roots meaning "imitator of all" pantomime |
| #9230, aired 2024-12-20 | MOVIES & THE LAW: "Drafters... have to have a little fun sometimes", said the author of this law when asked if he was inspired by 1931's "Little Caesar" the RICO Act |
| #9229, aired 2024-12-19 | SUPER BOWL HISTORY: It's the only team to play in the Super Bowl before Neil Armstrong's Moon walk that has not been back to the Big Game since the Jets |
| #9227, aired 2024-12-17 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS: Dressed in white in her first scene, this play character says her name means "white woods" Blanche DuBois |
| #9226, aired 2024-12-16 | GEOGRAPHY: Jebel Musa in Morocco & Mount Hacho near Ceuta are candidates for the southern half of this pair the Pillars of Hercules |
| #9224, aired 2024-12-12 | TV PROPS: A prop central to the title character on this '60s sitcom began as a special Christmas edition whiskey decanter I Dream of Jeannie |
| #9223, aired 2024-12-11 | THE WORLD OF SCIENCE: nobelprize.org says some papers of this scientist "are stored in lead boxes", a "legacy that is literally untouchable" Marie Curie |
| #9220, aired 2024-12-06 | TV CHARACTERS: On TV in the 1960s & the 2020s, this character has a first name that's partly from Latin for "death" Morticia Addams |
| #9217, aired 2024-12-03 | 19th CENTURY EUROPEAN LITERATURE: An early version of this novel was first published as a serial under the title "The Year 1805" War and Peace |
| #9215, aired 2024-11-29 | WORLD AIRPORTS: This city's international airport opened in 1942, just in time to be the destination of a flight at the end of a movie Lisbon |
| #9213, aired 2024-11-27 | STATE SONGS: Its 15 official state songs include 2 that mention moonshine & 3 played in 3/4 time Tennessee |
| #9207, aired 2024-11-19 | SPORTS & THE CITY: At 800 West Main & 700 Central in this city are a company & a venue both involved in Triple Crowns Louisville, Kentucky |
| #9198, aired 2024-11-06 | COUNTRIES: This country has the most time zones in the world, including its territories in South America & off the coast of Africa France |
| #9195, aired 2024-11-01 | HISTORY & THE MOVIES: This 1935 Best Picture Oscar winner tells of a 1789 event near the isolated Pacific volcano of Tofua Mutiny on the Bounty |
| #9191, aired 2024-10-28 | STAGE MUSICAL SETTINGS: Turned into a Nazi headquarters in 1933, the nightspot Eldorado is said to have inspired this fictional place the Kit Kat Club |
| #9185, aired 2024-10-18 | LITERARY GEOGRAPHY: A N.Y. Times article recognized Sands Point & Kings Point as the real "old-money" & "nouveau riche" settings in this novel The Great Gatsby |
| #9183, aired 2024-10-16 | COLLEGE TOWNS: 2 schools in the Southeastern Conference are located in cities with this same name but in different states Columbia |
| #9182, aired 2024-10-15 | PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATION ACCEPTANCE SPEECHES: He talked of a "new Attorney General" 4 times, the end of a "long dark night for America" & "a gentle, Quaker mother" Richard Nixon |
| #9179, aired 2024-10-10 | MOVIES: More than 25 cast members from this 1990 film drama would later appear on an HBO series with a similar theme Goodfellas |
| #9174, aired 2024-10-03 | 19th CENTURY NAMES: Shrunken auditory nerves were seen in his autopsy after his 1827 death in Vienna (Ludwig van) Beethoven |
| #9170, aired 2024-09-27 | LANDMARKS: At its dedication, Senator John Sherman said, "Simple in form... it rises into the skies higher than any other work of human art" the Washington Monument |
| #9169, aired 2024-09-26 | STARS OF THE 20th CENTURY: A 1927 N.Y. Times headline: "Witness testifies" this woman "rewrote play and insisted on the spicy scenes because city liked them" Mae West |
| #9163, aired 2024-09-18 | THE MOVIES: Hewlett-Packard's first big customer was Walt Disney, who purchased special sound equipment for the making & showing of this film Fantasia |
| #9158, aired 2024-09-11 | WORLD BORDERS: After Canada & the U.S., these 2 countries share the longest land border at more than 4,700 miles Russia & Kazakhstan |
| #9157, aired 2024-09-10 | SIGNS & SYMBOLS: Via a diplomatic conference in 2005, a diamond was added to supplement these 2 symbols, thought by some to have religious meaning a (red) cross & a (red) crescent |
| #9156, aired 2024-09-09 | FAMOUS WOMEN: Before her death in 2022, she pledged her collection of more than 200 pins to the National Museum of American Diplomacy (Madeleine) Albright |
| #9154, aired 2024-07-25 | FAMOUS WOMEN: Adding to her nickname, one legend claimed that earlier in life, she was saved from drowning by family friend Mark Twain Molly Brown |
| #9152, aired 2024-07-23 | HISTORIC SPOTS: Known for a fabled event of 1881, it housed an auto repair shop after the disappearance of the horse & buggy the O.K. Corral |
| #9151, aired 2024-07-22 | AUTHORS: "Love" is within the titles of 3 of his most famous books; a fourth, "The Rainbow", calls love "the flower of life" (D.H.) Lawrence |
| #9150, aired 2024-07-19 | 19th CENTURY WOMEN: The National Park Service says there are more statues of her, often with her infant son, than any other American woman Sacagawea |
| #9149, aired 2024-07-18 | SHOW BIZ MARRIAGES: Married since 1977, the year of this band's 1st album, 2 members referenced another album with their 2023 "Remain in Love" tour Talking Heads |
| #9142, aired 2024-07-09 | LITERATURE: In one story he is enslaved by the Old Man of the Sea & uses apes to pick fruit so he can afford his fare back to Baghdad Sinbad (the Sailor) |
| #9140, aired 2024-07-05 | WORLD LANGUAGES: The flag of Aruba features a 4-pointed star symbolizing its 4 major languages: the local Papiamento & these 3 imported ones Dutch, English & Spanish |
| #9137, aired 2024-07-02 | STAGE & MOVIE CHARACTERS: Acquitted of shooting her lover in 1924, Beulah Annan was the inspiration for this character in a play, film & musical Roxie Hart |
| #9131, aired 2024-06-24 | NAMES IN THE HEAVENS: When this body was discovered in 1978, Persephone was suggested as its name Charon |
| #9130, aired 2024-06-21 | SPORTS: 50 years ago Vin Scully announced he got "a standing ovation in the Deep South" for breaking a longtime record Hank Aaron |
| #9127, aired 2024-06-18 | GEOGRAPHIC NAME'S ALMOST THE SAME: Legend says in 1876 a dragon built for the first "Ring" cycle had its neck sent to this Mideast capital, not the right German city Beirut |
| #9124, aired 2024-06-13 | 1960s BRITISH NOVELS: The author of this novel said of the last chapter left off U.S. editions, "My young thuggish protagonist grows up" A Clockwork Orange |
| #9120, aired 2024-06-07 | WORLD LEADERS: During a 1972 presidential visit, Richard Nixon discussed a poem by this leader called "Ode to the Plum Blossom" Chairman Mao Zedong |
| #9116, aired 2024-06-03 | COLLEGES: Of the Seven Sisters colleges, this one located in a place of the same name is the farthest south Bryn Mawr |
| #9110, aired 2024-05-24 | LITERATURE: Preserved in a single manuscript called Cotton MS Vitellius A XV, this epic begins with the word "Hwæt", often translated as listen Beowulf |
| #38, aired 2024-05-22 | AMERICAN WOMEN: The New York Times wrote of this woman who had died in 1951, "Though she was forgotten at the time, part of her remained alive" Henrietta Lacks |
| #9107, aired 2024-05-21 | THE MOVIES: Louise & Lisa Burns, twins featured in this 1980 film, told a magazine, "We're naturally spooky!" The Shining |
| #36, aired 2024-05-20 | 21st CENTURY LITERARY CHARACTERS: The last name adopted by Damon Fields, the title character of this novel, refers to his red hair Demon Copperhead |
| #9106, aired 2024-05-20 | THE THEATER: Of the 14 roles in a production of this play that opened on Broadway on October 28, 2004, none were played by females 12 Angry Men |
| #34, aired 2024-05-17 | ALSO SEEN AT THE CIRCUS: FDR gets credit for implementing this as a concept in the U.S. & the metaphor was used by FDR Jr., running for office in 1966 safety net |
| #32, aired 2024-05-15 | SHORT STORIES: "Down--steadily down it crept... downward with its lateral velocity. To the right--to the left" is in this 1842 tale "The Pit and the Pendulum" |
| #30, aired 2024-05-13 | ANAGRAMS: One is a procedure foundational to computer science; the other was made in large part obsolete by computers algorithm & logarithm |
| #24, aired 2024-05-06 | 20th CENTURY WRITERS: Becoming a British subject in 1927, he described himself as a classicist in literature, royalist in politics & Anglo-Catholic in religion T.S. Eliot |
| #9088, aired 2024-04-24 | HISTORIC TRANSPORTS: Decorated with an illustration of the Montgolfiers' craft, the smoking room aboard this could be accessed only via an airlock the Hindenburg |
| #9085, aired 2024-04-19 | COMIC BOOK CHARACTERS: Featured in a 2020 film, she gets her name from a 16th c. Italian stock character who often wore diamond-patterned outfits Harley Quinn |
| #9081, aired 2024-04-15 | GREAT BRITS: From 1689 to 1690 & 1701 to 1702, he served as a Member of Parliament representing the constituency of Cambridge University (Isaac) Newton |
| #9079, aired 2024-04-11 | SPACE SHUTTLES: 2 space shuttles were named for craft commanded by this man who died far from home in 1779 (Captain) Cook |
| #9077, aired 2024-04-09 | BODIES OF WATER: The smallest inland sea in the world, it's completely within the territory of a single country & connects 2 other larger seas the Sea of Marmara |
| #9071, aired 2024-04-01 | NOVEL TITLE OBJECTS: A girl in a 1950 novel walks into this & "got in among the coats and rubbed her face against them" a wardrobe |
| #9070, aired 2024-03-29 | U.S.S.R.I.P.: Of the 15 countries formed by the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, this one is alphabetically last Uzbekistan |
| #9064, aired 2024-03-21 | 20th CENTURY NOVELS: Virginia Woolf disliked this book that was "cutting out the explanations and putting in the thoughts between dashes" Ulysses |
| #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 |
| #9060, aired 2024-03-15 | HISTORIC AMERICANS: Near Kirkbean on Solway Firth, U.S. Vice Admiral Jerauld Wright presented a memorial plaque honoring this man John Paul Jones |
| #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 |
| #9050, aired 2024-03-01 | COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD: Fearful of independence in 1975, around 120,000 of this country's people, a third of the population, fled to the Netherlands Suriname |
| #9048, aired 2024-02-28 | 1950s POLITICS: In 1959 Bob Bartlett & Hiram Fong each won a coin flip to gain this alliterative title senior senator |
| #9042, aired 2024-02-20 | PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS: He's the most recent presidential candidate to have officially declared his opponent in that campaign the victor Al Gore |
| #9041, aired 2024-02-19 | CANADIAN MEDICINE: Nova Scotian William Knapp Buckley devised a widely used antitussive, meaning a drug used against this cough(ing) |
| #9040, aired 2024-02-16 | THEATER: A 1955 play review noted "restless Delta folk" & "lives as uncomfortable & insecure as the proverbial" this title Cat on a Hot Tin Roof |
| #9038, aired 2024-02-14 | BROADWAY PLAYS: Rita Moreno & Sally Struthers were the first to star in the female version of this comedy, their characters becoming Olive & Florence The Odd Couple |
| #9031, aired 2024-02-05 | WORLD FLAGS: The flag of this Asian nation features part of a World Heritage Site built in the 12th century Cambodia |
| #3, aired 2024-02-02 | LANDMARKS: Then 71, a reluctant Michelangelo took on the design of this building "only for the love of God and in honor of the Apostle" St. Peter's Basilica |
| #9026, aired 2024-01-29 | HISTORICAL FICTION: Stan Lee said the alias-using title character of this novel set during the French Revolution "was the 1st superhero I... read about" The Scarlet Pimpernel |
| #9024, aired 2024-01-25 | CLASSIC LITERATURE: An intended sequel to this 1869 work centered on the Decembrists, a group of veterans who largely served in the Napoleonic Wars War and Peace |
| #9022, aired 2024-01-23 | U.S. BUSINESS FOUNDERS: A 1934 note to him: "Received hunting clothes... and thank you for those wonderful shoes they fit perfect... your friend, Babe Ruth" L.L. Bean |
| #25, aired 2024-01-16 | ICONIC DESIGNERS: Once married to a publishing heir who owned citrus groves, her brightly printed dresses were originally designed to hide juice stains Lilly Pulitzer |
| #9016, aired 2024-01-15 | ON THE STAGE: Paul Robeson said that even as this character "kills, his honor is at stake... the honor of his whole culture is involved" Othello |
| #1, aired 2024-01-12 | TOURIST SPOTS: Originally known as Longacre, it got its name after a newspaper moved its offices there in 1904 Times Square |
| #9013, aired 2024-01-10 | SPACE: Since it has caused spacecraft to malfunction, a region called the South Atlantic Anomaly is known as this area "of space" Bermuda Triangle |
| #9011, aired 2024-01-08 | STATE CAPITALS: The 2 closest state capitals, at about 40 miles apart, one was founded by someone no longer allowed in the other Providence & Boston |
| #9009, aired 2024-01-04 | HISTORIC AMERICANS: They went their separate ways in 1806 & both became territorial governors: one of Upper Louisiana, the other of Missouri Lewis & Clark |
| #9008, aired 2024-01-03 | FROM THE FRENCH: With murder, shadows, a nosy reporter & Peter Lorre, 1940's "Stranger on the Third Floor" is the first example of this, some say film noir |
| #23, aired 2024-01-02 | AWARD-WINNING ACTRESSES: Her 2019 Oscar win & 2021 Emmy win were both for portraying a British queen Olivia Colman |
| #9000, aired 2023-12-22 | THE 20th CENTURY: On July 19, 1940 Hitler called this man a warmonger & wrongly predicted he would flee to Canada Winston Churchill |
| #8997, aired 2023-12-19 | INVENTIONS: Invented in 1816, it takes its name from Greek for "chest" & "observe" a stethoscope |
| #8996, aired 2023-12-18 | NATIONAL MONUMENTS: Designated in 2016, a New York City monument named for this place of business includes nearby Christopher Park (the) Stonewall (Inn) |
| #8994, aired 2023-12-14 | BUSINESS: Of the Big 4 U.S. airlines, the 4 that each have over 15% of the domestic market, it's the youngest Southwest |
| #8984, aired 2023-11-30 | AMERICAN HISTORY: Established in 1963, this group had its conclusions questioned in books, reports & a special 1970s congressional committee the Warren Commission |
| #8983, aired 2023-11-29 | A BIT OF BRITAIN: In disarray, it was sold at auction in 1915 to a local Wiltshire man, who would donate it to the British government 3 years later Stonehenge |
| #8977, aired 2023-11-21 | TELEVISION: This series grew out of a screenplay titled "Murdoch" Succession |
| #8976, aired 2023-11-20 | U.S. PRESIDENTS: 7 U.S. presidents were born in the state of Ohio, beginning with this man who entered West Point in 1839 Ulysses Grant |
| #8975, aired 2023-11-17 | LITERARY CHARACTERS: In his first appearance in 1902, he was described as "betwixt-and-between" a boy & a bird Peter Pan |
| #20, aired 2023-11-15 | ARTISTS: Exhumed in 2017 to settle a paternity suit, his mustache had "preserved its classic 10-past-10 position" according to the Spanish press Salvador Dalí |
| #8965, aired 2023-11-03 | BRITISH HISTORY: At Leicester Cathedral in March 2015, the Archbishop of Canterbury led a religious ceremony for this deceased English monarch Richard III |
| #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 |
| #8962, aired 2023-10-31 | NAME'S THE SAME: This first name is shared by a character introduced in 1941 & a member of royalty who is sixth in line to the British throne Archie |
| #8961, aired 2023-10-30 | DRIVING THE USA: It's the state with the most miles of Interstate Highway, more than 3,200; one Interstate accounts for 1/4 of that mileage Texas |
| #8960, aired 2023-10-27 | FAMOUS AMERICANS: On March 23, 1779 he became the first U.S. diplomat to serve overseas by presenting his credentials to a foreign government Benjamin Franklin |
| #18, aired 2023-10-25 | TWEEN LIT: Referring to the lengthy title of her much-discussed novel, this author lamented that she didn't just call the book "Margaret" Judy Blume |
| #8954, aired 2023-10-19 | NAMES: The name Jennifer is an alteration of this name that in early Welsh literature belonged to the "first lady of the island" Guinevere |
| #8952, aired 2023-10-17 | MILITARY HISTORY: A 1918 article titled "Do Not Shoot at" these said hunters were interfering with the U.S. Signal Corps' training of them (carrier or homing) pigeons |
| #16, aired 2023-10-11 | RALLYING CRIES: Don't mess with Texas: Sam Houston's troops shouted this 3-word battle cry while attacking Santa Anna's army at San Jacinto Remember the Alamo! |
| #8948, aired 2023-10-11 | FINE ART: An early owner of this 1889 painting full of blue & green noted how well the artist "understood the exquisite nature of flowers!" Irises |
| #8942, aired 2023-10-03 | THE 1500s: In the early 1500s he produced a codex in words & pictures on the flight of birds, one of many subjects that interested him Leonardo da Vinci |
| #8941, aired 2023-10-02 | PRESIDENTIAL PROCLAMATIONS: Both issued in April, 80 years apart, the first proclamations by these 2 presidents each declared national days of mourning Andrew Johnson & Harry Truman |
| #8940, aired 2023-09-29 | U.S. SENATE HISTORY: In 1805, after 4 years presiding over the Senate, he left the chamber, calling it "a sanctuary; a citadel of law, of order" Aaron Burr |
| #14, aired 2023-09-27 | ASTRONOMY: Discovered in the '60s and '70s, Cygnus X-1 was the first of these light-trapping gravitational bodies to be identified black holes |
| #8931, aired 2023-09-18 | AUTHORS: He dedicated books to each of his 4 wives, including Hadley Richardson & Martha Gellhorn Ernest (Papa) Hemingway |
| #8929, aired 2023-09-14 | WORLD CAPITALS: In English, name of 1 of the 2 4-letter capitals with the same first & last letter, one in the N. & one in the S. Hemisphere Apia or Oslo |
| #8928, aired 2023-09-13 | ARTISTS: On October 26, 1886 he said, "The dream of my life is accomplished... I see the symbol of unity & friendship between 2 nations" Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi |
| #8926, aired 2023-09-11 | BRITISH MONARCHS: The most recent British monarch not to succeed a parent or a sibling was this ruler who succeeded an uncle Queen Victoria |
| #8922, aired 2023-07-25 | COMPOUND WORD ORIGINS: This compound word meant an astronomical object of exceptional brightness in 1910; it was soon applied to actors & athletes superstar |
| #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 |
| #8911, aired 2023-07-10 | ART HISTORY: At the 1865 Paris Art Salon, the elder of these 2 men said if the younger were successful, it would be "because his name sounds like mine" Manet & Monet |
| #8909, aired 2023-07-06 | 20th CENTURY LIT: Squashing the allegory theory, the daughters of the author of this novel say it's "just a story about rabbits" Watership Down |
| #8903, aired 2023-06-28 | THE MEDICAL WORLD: He created a chest drain valve that aided breathing in wounded soldiers in Vietnam but is better known for a lifesaving measure (Henry) Heimlich |
| #8902, aired 2023-06-27 | 19th CENTURY LITERATURE: In 1896 new spider species were named for a wolf, a panther & a snake from a work published 2 years earlier by this man (Rudyard) Kipling |
| #8901, aired 2023-06-26 | 20th CENTURY EVENTS: It was immediately reported, "The flames are still leaping maybe 30, 40 feet from the ground the entire 811 feet length of" this the Hindenburg |
| #8899, aired 2023-06-22 | THE 19th CENTURY: In 1823 he wrote, "In the war between those new governments and Spain we declared our neutrality" (James) Monroe |
| #8896, aired 2023-06-19 | ENTERTAINERS: In 2022 Jeff Bezos awarded her $100 million to give to charitable causes because "she gives with her heart" Dolly Parton |
| #8893, aired 2023-06-14 | TV & FILM CHARACTERS: He debuted on TV in 1967; the show's creator wanted someone from behind the Iron Curtain to be on "our side" Chekov |
| #8892, aired 2023-06-13 | ACTORS: He starred in the 2 films whose soundtracks were the top 2 bestselling albums of 1978 John Travolta |
| #8890, aired 2023-06-09 | BRITISH NOVELS: Midway through this 1928 novel, the title character briefly takes "their" instead of his or her Orlando |
| #8882, aired 2023-05-30 | LITERARY GROUPS: Windermere, Thirlmere & Grasmere are 3 of the sites that helped give a 19th century literary group this name the Lake Poets |
| #8880, aired 2023-05-26 | GROUPS IN HISTORY: The third-most famous group that invaded Britain in the 5th century, they gave their name to the continental part of Denmark the Jutes |
| #20, aired 2023-05-24 | LATIN IN LITERATURE: A work by this 15th century English writer quotes the phrase "rex quondam rexque futurus" Thomas Malory |
| #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 |
| #8874, aired 2023-05-18 | BILLBOARD NO. 1 HITS: Billy Joel said, "I think the one time I didn't write the music" before the lyrics was for this 1989 hit, "and I think it shows" "We Didn't Start The Fire" |
| #9, aired 2023-05-15 | THE U.S. GOVERNMENT: Not a department head but of Cabinet rank, the person in this post has had an official residence in a 42nd floor Park Avenue penthouse ambassador to the United Nations |
| #8, aired 2023-05-12 | FICTIONAL PLACES: The dominions of this land "extend five thousand blustrugs (about twelve miles in circumference)" Lilliput |
| #6, aired 2023-05-10 | HISTORIC HOMES: This residence is part of an estate that includes Ballochbuie Forest, a remnant of the ancient Caledonian pine forest Balmoral |
| #2, aired 2023-05-08 | USA: Opened in 1909 & less famous than an older neighbor, it connects Brooklyn & Chinatown the Manhattan Bridge |
| #8863, aired 2023-05-03 | BUSINESS & SOCIAL MEDIA: On Twitter in 2023, this food franchise followed an exact total of 11 accounts that included Victoria Beckham, Mel B & Herb Alpert KFC |
| #8860, aired 2023-04-28 | U.S. LANDMARKS: In April 1975, to symbolize the start of America's Bicentennial, President Ford lit a third lantern at this landmark the Old North Church |
| #8858, aired 2023-04-26 | HOLLYWOOD HISTORY: Last name of 3 men who missed the 1927 premiere of "The Jazz Singer" because a 4th of that name had died hours before Warner |
| #8857, aired 2023-04-25 | TV HISTORY: The 1980s "Magnum, P.I." used a soundstage of this long-running drama that had just ended, & even referred to its lead character Hawaii Five-O |
| #8856, aired 2023-04-24 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY: Interstate 25 connects these 2 state capitals, 1st & 2nd in elevation, & in between runs through No. 3, Denver Cheyenne & Santa Fe |
| #8854, aired 2023-04-20 | MODERN WORDS: Neal Stephenson coined this word in his 1992 novel "Snow Crash"; it was later shortened by a company to become its new name metaverse |
| #8849, aired 2023-04-13 | EXPLORATION: James Cook's account of a 1774 visit here records an object "near 27 feet long, and upwards of 8 feet over the breast or shoulders" Easter Island |
| #8848, aired 2023-04-12 | THE BILL OF RIGHTS: England's "Bloody Assizes" & a 1685 life sentence for perjury were 2 main origins of this amendment to the U.S. Constitution the 8th Amendment |
| #8845, aired 2023-04-07 | GEOGRAPHY: Of the 13 nations through which the equator passes, it's the only one whose coastline borders the Caribbean Sea Colombia |
| #8844, aired 2023-04-06 | FASHION HISTORY: These decorative items get their name from their origin in the port city of Strasbourg, on the border of France & Germany rhinestones |
| #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 |
| #8842, aired 2023-04-04 | NOVELISTS: A 2012 book review noted subjects that "sparked his ire": capital punishment, big tobacco & "the plight of the unjustly convicted" John Grisham |
| #8840, aired 2023-03-31 | CITY HISTORY: Over 700 years after its traditional 1252 founding date, this port city became associated with a psychological response Stockholm |
| #8837, aired 2023-03-28 | TRANSPORTATION USA: This public agency runs the USA's busiest bus terminal, opened in 1950 for commuters awed by its polished steel & stone the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey |
| #8834, aired 2023-03-23 | MOVIE THEME SONGS: Monty Norman, the composer of this character's theme, said the staccato riff conveyed sexiness, mystery & ruthlessness (James) Bond |
| #8829, aired 2023-03-16 | 1980s MOVIES: A writer & producer of this movie said he wanted it to be like a Western or James Bond film, "only it takes place in the '30s" Raiders of the Lost Ark |
| #8827, aired 2023-03-14 | COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD: Part of the largest contiguous land empire during the 1200s & 1300s, today it's the world's second-largest landlocked country Mongolia |
| #8826, aired 2023-03-13 | LITERATURE: A 2006 book was titled "The Poem That Changed America:" this "Fifty Years Later" "Howl" |
| #8825, aired 2023-03-10 | INVASIONS: Backed by 14,000 troops, he invaded England to restore, in his words, its "religion, laws, and liberties" William of Orange |
| #8824, aired 2023-03-09 | LANDMARKS: After its completion in the late 19th c., it was called a "truly tragic street lamp" & a "high & skinny pyramid of iron ladders" the Eiffel Tower |
| #8823, aired 2023-03-08 | GEOGRAPHIC NAME'S THE SAME: The busiest passenger port in the U.K., it shares its name with a capital of one of the original 13 states Dover |
| #8822, aired 2023-03-07 | NAMES IN THE BOOKSTORE: This man made lists, perhaps to cope with depression; a set of lists he published in 1852 made his name synonymous with a type of book (Peter Mark) Roget |
| #8817, aired 2023-02-28 | NAMES OF MYTH: Her brothers, Castor & Pollux, saved her after Theseus stole her away as a kid; a larger force would seek her later in life Helen of Troy |
| #8816, aired 2023-02-27 | AFRICAN COUNTRIES: Once Africa's largest country in area, it dropped to third in 2011 when a portion of it declared independence Sudan |
| #8807, aired 2023-02-14 | ART & SCIENCE: A craft that visited it was named for Giotto, based on the story that 680 years earlier, the painter depicted it as the Star of Bethlehem Halley's Comet |
| #13, aired 2023-02-02 | ARTISTS: Despite how he's known, he was probably actually born in Anchiano, near Florence Leonardo da Vinci |
| #8798, aired 2023-02-01 | LITERATURE: Published in 2011, P.D. James' final novel, "Death Comes to Pemberley", was a sequel to this novel from 200 years earlier Pride and Prejudice |
| #12, aired 2023-01-26 | NOVELS: "Breeders, Wives and Unwomen" was the headline of the New York Times' 1986 review of this novel The Handmaid's Tale |
| #11, aired 2023-01-19 | NOTORIOUS PLACES: Al Capone played banjo in a band called the Rock Islanders at this notorious spot Alcatraz |
| #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 |
| #8787, aired 2023-01-17 | GEOGRAPHY MNEMONICS: MIMAL, sometimes said to be the silhouette of a chef or elf, stands for Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, these 2 states Arkansas & Louisiana |
| #8782, aired 2023-01-10 | CLASSIC TALE CHARACTERS: In one 19th century translation, she "perceived the dawn of day and ceased" speaking nearly 1,000 times Scheherazade |
| #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 |
| #8779, aired 2023-01-05 | THE MOVIES: Laurence Olivier & Ernest Borgnine were considered for the lead role & Sergio Leone to direct for this film that turned 50 in 2022 The Godfather |
| #8778, aired 2023-01-04 | CONTINENTAL GEOGRAPHY: Until a 1903 secession, this country's contiguous territory spanned 2 continents Colombia |
| #8777, aired 2023-01-03 | FOREIGN-BORN AUTHORS: Early in her career she translated romance novels into Spanish, often changing the dialogue to make the heroines smarter (Isabel) Allende |
| #8773, aired 2022-12-28 | AMERICA AT WAR: Until the Civil War, the January 8 date of this battle of dubious military importance but big morale value was a national holiday the Battle of New Orleans |
| #8771, aired 2022-12-26 | TV FINALES: In a reunion over 40 years in the making, Dolly Parton appeared as an angel named Agnes in the final episode of this comedy in 2022 Grace and Frankie |
| #8767, aired 2022-12-20 | CLASSIC SONGS: The shouts of excited children at a 1946 holiday parade are said to have inspired this perennial favorite "Here Comes Santa Claus" |
| #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 |
| #8765, aired 2022-12-16 | COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD: It's home to 58 UNESCO World Heritage Sites, more than any other country; the sites include a volcano & a lagoon Italy |
| #8763, aired 2022-12-14 | PRESIDENTIAL FACTS: Only 3 presidents have married while in office--John Tyler was the first & he was the last (Woodrow) Wilson |
| #8762, aired 2022-12-13 | 19th CENTURY AMERICANS: Demonstrating the dignity & humanity of Black Americans, he sat for 160 known photographs, the most of any American in the 19th century Frederick Douglass |
| #8760, aired 2022-12-09 | 1970s MOVIES: A 1975 premiere of this comedy advertised free coconuts for the first thousand in the audience Monty Python and the Holy Grail |
| #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 |
| #8758, aired 2022-12-07 | U.S. PRESIDENTS: He was sworn in twice as president within 2 years, first by his father & then later by a former U.S. President (Calvin) Coolidge |
| #8757, aired 2022-12-06 | PLAYS: A 1609 story in which an exiled king of Bulgaria creates a sea palace with his magic may have inspired the plot of this play The Tempest |
| #8751, aired 2022-11-28 | CHILDREN'S AUTHORS: Reversing the story of this heroine she created, Patricia MacLachlan was born on the prairie but spent much of her life in New England Sarah (Wheaton) |
| #8748, aired 2022-11-23 | SECONDS IN HISTORY: The Fortune, the 2nd ship to land at this harbor, disappointed those already there, carrying 35 new residents & "not so much as bisket-cake" Plymouth |
| #8747, aired 2022-11-22 | MUSICAL THEATER: The pair at the center of tumult in this long-running show were originally to be a Jewish girl & a Catholic boy West Side Story |
| #8746, aired 2022-11-21 | PLAYS: The January 12, 1864 Washington Evening Star reported on a performance of this "dashing comedy" to "a full and delighted house" Our American Cousin |
| #8745, aired 2022-11-18 | ENGLISH CITIES: William the Conqueror's son built a fortress on a key northern river in 1080, giving this city its name Newcastle (upon Tyne) |
| #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 |
| #8742, aired 2022-11-15 | NAME'S THE SAME: Name shared by a Victorian novelist & an 1805 flagship captain whose name is heard in a famous phrase (Thomas) Hardy |
| #8738, aired 2022-11-09 | CONTEMPORARY AUTHORS: A trip to El Paso with his young son & wondering what the city might look like years in the future inspired a novel by this author Cormac McCarthy |
| #8737, aired 2022-11-08 | CHEMICAL ELEMENT NAMES: The 3 elements whose names begin with 2 vowels are iodine & these 2, one synthetic & one natural einsteinium & europium |
| #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 |
| #8735, aired 2022-11-04 | WORLD CITIES: The name of this city may come from "dur", meaning water, a reference to the Helvetian people's settlement on a lake Zurich |
| #8733, aired 2022-11-02 | PHRASES IN AMERICAN HISTORY: Andrew Johnson vetoed a bill that gave reparations to formerly enslaved people, hence this phrase for an unfulfilled promise forty acres and a mule |
| #8730, aired 2022-10-28 | ARTISTS: Sabena Airlines commissioned a painting by this artist, "L'Oiseau de Ciel", a bird whose body is filled with clouds in a blue sky René Magritte |
| #8729, aired 2022-10-27 | AMERICAN COMPOSERS: He turned to opera with the 1903 work "Guest of Honor", likely inspired by Booker T. Washington's dinner at the White House (Scott) Joplin |
| #8728, aired 2022-10-26 | CHARITY: A Catholic charity called Caritas Rome is the beneficiary of money collected from here, over the years averaging about $3,500 daily the Trevi Fountain |
| #8727, aired 2022-10-25 | BODIES OF WATER: The Kattegat & Skagerrak Straits separate these 2 seas the Baltic & North Seas |
| #8721, aired 2022-10-17 | FAMOUS ANIMALS: In September 1964 the New York Times announced the passing of this pet, a gift, "used as symbol of honesty in 1952" Checkers |
| #4, aired 2022-10-16 | ANNUAL EVENTS: In 1986 Larry Harvey called a friend & said, let's do this, no one knows exactly why; it evolved into an annual festival in the desert Burning Man |
| #8714, aired 2022-10-06 | NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNERS: He served as Bishop of Lesotho from 1976 to 1978 (Archbishop Desmond) Tutu |
| #8712, aired 2022-10-04 | ASIAN COUNTRY NAMES: Like the T-U-V in Tuvalu, this landlocked country has 3 consecutive letters in its English name in alphabetic sequence Afghanistan |
| #8711, aired 2022-10-03 | 20th CENTURY POEM ENDINGS: These 5 words that end a poem are also a proverb; one citation across the centuries includes a reminder not to make the wall too high Good fences make good neighbors |
| #2, aired 2022-10-02 | 19th CENTURY LITERATURE: William Brodie, an upstanding Scottish tradesman by day & leader of a gang of burglars by night, helped inspire these 2 title characters Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde |
| #8707, aired 2022-09-27 | WORLD AIRPORTS: Africa's 2 busiest passenger airports are in these 2 countries; it's an 8-hour flight between them Egypt & South Africa |
| #1, aired 2022-09-25 | LANDLOCKED COUNTRIES: It's the world's smallest landlocked country in both area & population Vatican City |
| #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 |
| #8700, aired 2022-09-16 | DISNEY SONGS: "We Don't Talk About Bruno" from "Encanto" is the first song from an animated Disney film to hit No. 1 since this duet in 1993 "A Whole New World" |
| #8696, aired 2022-09-12 | 19th CENTURY NOVELS: "This bell was named Marie... alone in the southern tower, with her sister Jacqueline, a bell of lesser size", says this novel The Hunchback of Notre Dame |
| #8695, aired 2022-07-29 | TECH HISTORY: For about 20 years after its invention, it had few practical uses; then suddenly it revolutionized grocery checkouts & home audio the laser |
| #8694, aired 2022-07-28 | COUNTRIES OF EUROPE: It's the only independent survivor of the Spanish March, buffer states created to protect Christian Europe from the Moors Andorra |
| #8693, aired 2022-07-27 | REAL PEOPLE IN POETRY: Milton wrote of this contemporary: "When by night the glass of" him "observes imagined lands and regions in the Moon" Galileo |
| #8690, aired 2022-07-22 | INAUGURAL BALLS: At the 1993 Tennessee Inaugural Ball, Paul Simon performed this song, his most recent Top 40 hit "You Can Call Me Al" |
| #8689, aired 2022-07-21 | CONSTELLATIONS: The brightest star of this constellation is Deneb Algedi, or "Kid's Tail" Capricorn |
| #8686, aired 2022-07-18 | ART & THEATRE: Asked to design a new set for a restaging of this 1952 play, Alberto Giacometti came up with one scraggly plaster tree Waiting for Godot |
| #8683, aired 2022-07-13 | STATE MOTTOS: This motto is the name of a city in that state & is a famous quote by an ancient Greek from the 3rd century B.C. Eureka |
| #8681, aired 2022-07-11 | MUSICAL THEATER: It's one of the most revived shows in Broadway history & in 2001 it was designated the state opera of South Carolina Porgy and Bess |
| #8680, aired 2022-07-08 | SCIENCE & THE BIBLE: A 2021 study suggested that an asteroid that struck the Jordan Valley c. 1650 B.C. gave rise to the story of this city in Genesis 19 Sodom |
| #8678, aired 2022-07-06 | AGRICULTURE: Being brought to the U.S. by a ship docking at San Francisco in 1851 helped lead to it now being a major crop in the Midwest soybeans |
| #8670, aired 2022-06-24 | OSCAR-WINNING ACTORS: Each of the 3 films for which he won an Oscar, from 1975, 1983 & 1997, also garnered a Best Lead Actress Oscar Jack Nicholson |
| #8669, aired 2022-06-23 | CLASSIC ALBUMS: This classic album by a Southern rocker gets its title from a Civil War quote by a Union admiral Damn the Torpedoes |
| #8666, aired 2022-06-20 | BRITISH HISTORY: From the Greek for "alone", it was nixed by Parliament in 1649 after being deemed "unnecessary, burdensome & dangerous" the monarchy |
| #8664, aired 2022-06-16 | DEBUT NOVELS: Published in 1991, this novel, the first in a series, has been described as "historical fiction with a Moebius twist" Outlander |
| #8659, aired 2022-06-09 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE: First published in French in 1943, this book has been called the most translated non-religious work, rendered into more than 300 languages The Little Prince |
| #8658, aired 2022-06-08 | AMERICAN HISTORY: A participant in this 1773 event recalled, "Some of our numbers jumped into the hold... I never labored harder in my life" the Boston Tea Party |
| #8656, aired 2022-06-06 | GREEK MYTHOLOGY: Of the Argonauts seeking the Golden Fleece, these 2 from the same family were from Sparta according to Homer Castor & Pollux |
| #8647, aired 2022-05-24 | THE MIDDLE AGES: It was the surname of the 2 Scottish brothers who claimed monarchies of 2 different countries in the 13-teens Bruce |
| #8638, aired 2022-05-11 | SAY IT IN ITALIAN: It's an Italian word for "mercy", but also the name of a movie character who kills Stracci & Carlo clemenza |
| #8636, aired 2022-05-09 | NOVEL TITLES: A 1590 poem written for the retirement of Queen Elizabeth's champion knight shares its title with this 1929 novel by an American A Farewell to Arms |
| #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 |
| #8632, aired 2022-05-03 | NATIONAL ANTHEMS: "Terre de nos aïeux" follows the title in the French version of this anthem "O Canada" |
| #8627, aired 2022-04-26 | AFRICAN SURNAMES: Adetokunbo, "the crown has returned from overseas", is fitting for the Adetokunbo family who left Nigeria for this country in 1991 Greece |
| #8626, aired 2022-04-25 | NAMES IN AMERICAN HISTORY: Capable of freighting about 180 tons of cargo, in 1624 it was in disrepair & appraised at a total value of 128 pounds the Mayflower |
| #8621, aired 2022-04-18 | WORLD LITERATURE: Befitting the title, Antoine Galland, the first Western translator of this collection, worked on it only "after dinner" Arabian Nights (the One Thousand and One Nights) |
| #8619, aired 2022-04-14 | WOMEN IN BRITISH HISTORY: The orphaned future Queen Elizabeth I was devoted to this stepmother who died 2 days before Elizabeth's 15th birthday Catherine Parr |
| #8618, aired 2022-04-13 | HISTORY: Intimately familiar with World War I, Churchill considered this war from some 150 years before the "first world war" the Seven Years' War |
| #8617, aired 2022-04-12 | GEOGRAPHIC TERMS: The 1964 article that gave this term its current use noted the "menace that haunts the Atlantic off our southeastern coast" the Bermuda Triangle |
| #8614, aired 2022-04-07 | INVENTIONS: Patented in 1955, it did not go over well in the high-end fashion world but the then-new aerospace industry found it very useful Velcro |
| #8613, aired 2022-04-06 | SMALL COUNTRIES: French, Italian & Swiss nationals make up about half of its population of 38,000 Monaco |
| #8612, aired 2022-04-05 | CLASSIC GAMES: Reuben Klamer, who passed away in 2021 at age 99, developed this game relatable to "literally everyone on Earth" The Game of Life |
| #8611, aired 2022-04-04 | CURRENT TELEVISION: Fittingly, the last name of the family at the center of this drama is from French for "king" Succession |
| #8609, aired 2022-03-31 | HISTORIC PLACES: Following a raid at this establishment in 1969, protesters confronted police by forming a Rockette-style kickline the Stonewall Inn |
| #8606, aired 2022-03-28 | SPORTS HISTORY: Taking the mound for Cleveland in 1948, he was the first African American to pitch in a World Series Satchel Paige |
| #8605, aired 2022-03-25 | U.S. CITY NAMES: Adopted in 1845, the name of this state capital is a feminized form of a big body of water Atlanta, Georgia |
| #8598, aired 2022-03-16 | MOVIE STARS: Matthew McConaughey said, "'Dazed & Confused', the first words I ever said on film were" these "Alright, alright, alright" |
| #8594, aired 2022-03-10 | FAMOUS TRIALS: On her acquittal in 1893, a reporter cited nearby events 2 centuries earlier, saying the days of witch trials are over Lizzie Borden |
| #8593, aired 2022-03-09 | EPITAPHS: Her epitaph, from a 1925 poem by her, ends, "She knows that her dust is very pretty"; "dust" was in another she wrote for herself Dorothy Parker |
| #8591, aired 2022-03-07 | CENTRAL AMERICA: A small river connects these 2 lakes that combined form close to 10% of their country's area Lake Nicaragua & Lake Managua |
| #8588, aired 2022-03-02 | ART MUSEUMS: Before its 1959 opening, 21 artists protested its design, saying it would make paintings look tilted & askew the Guggenheim |
| #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 |
| #8585, aired 2022-02-25 | AWARDS: These awards have a retro version & winners include the novel "The Sword in the Stone" & "The War of the Worlds" radio broadcast the Hugo Awards |
| #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 |
| #16, aired 2022-02-18 | CHARACTERS IN BANNED BOOKS: Introduced in 1928, this character has a disappointing affair with a writer before she begins a more satisfying relationship Lady Chatterley |
| #8580, aired 2022-02-18 | PLAYS: First published in 1602, its title characters are Margaret & Alice The Merry Wives of Windsor |
| #15, aired 2022-02-18 | HISTORIC STRUCTURES: In 1100 the Bishop of Durham became the first prisoner here &, after plying his guards with wine, became the first to escape the Tower of London |
| #8579, aired 2022-02-17 | LONG-RUNNING TV SHOW CHARACTERS: This character who has been on the air for more than 50 years is only 6 1/2 years old Big Bird |
| #12, aired 2022-02-16 | COMPOUND WORDS: The OED says this 9-letter word is literary & poetic, & it appears 11 times in an 1845 American poem, including as the last word nevermore |
| #9, aired 2022-02-15 | PHYSICISTS: A 1927 principle by this Nobel Prize winner says that some knowledge is inaccessible Werner Heisenberg |
| #6, aired 2022-02-10 | POETRY: It contains the line "whereat In either hand the hastening Angel caught Our lingering parents, & to the eastern gate Led them direct" Paradise Lost |
| #8574, aired 2022-02-10 | 20th CENTURY PEOPLE: In 1946 she was aboard a train to Darjeeling when she heard what she later described as "the call within a call" Mother Teresa |
| #3, aired 2022-02-09 | USA: In 2012 these 2 neighboring states celebrated the centennial of their admission to the Union Arizona & New Mexico |
| #1, aired 2022-02-08 | AMERICAN HISTORY: One theory says Charles T. Torrey, a worker on this, coined its name, which appeared in The Liberator on October 14, 1842 the Underground Railroad |
| #8570, aired 2022-02-04 | BEHIND THE DISNEY ATTRACTION: The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror utilizes technology developed by this company founded in 1853 the Otis (Company) |
| #8569, aired 2022-02-03 | FAMOUS AMERICANS: He was buried in 1969 in one of the World War II uniform jackets named for him Dwight Eisenhower |
| #8565, aired 2022-01-28 | 1970s SINGER-SONGWRITERS: While speaking to Congress in 1985, he explained that his 1973 hit, now a state song, wasn't about drugs John Denver |
| #8558, aired 2022-01-19 | FILMS OF THE 2000s: One of the screenwriters of this 2001 film described it as "'Clueless' meets 'The Paper Chase"' Legally Blonde |
| #8557, aired 2022-01-18 | AWARDS AROUND THE WORLD: France's national theater award, it's named for a man who died in Paris in 1673 the Molière Award |
| #8552, aired 2022-01-11 | BROADWAY MUSICALS: Each in a show that ran more than 2 years, Ethel Merman & Sarah Jessica Parker played 2 different characters with this first name Annie |
| #8550, aired 2022-01-07 | 20th CENTURY NONFICTION: "Norwegian Independence Day" & "a vast blue sea" are mentioned in Chapter 1 of a 1948 book by this man (Thor) Heyerdahl |
| #8549, aired 2022-01-06 | HISTORIC BUILDINGS: Begun in the 1070s with stone from Caen, it was meant to dominate both a skyline & the hearts & minds of a conquered populace the Tower of London |
| #8548, aired 2022-01-05 | THE 1950s: The first TV debate between presidential candidates of the same party involved him & future running mate Estes Kefauver Adlai Stevenson |
| #8547, aired 2022-01-04 | WORD ORIGINS: From the Greek for "ring", the first ones were built by the Romans, including one that could hold 250,000 circus |
| #8545, aired 2021-12-31 | MUSIC LEGENDS: Of their July 1957 first meeting at a church fair, one of this pair recalled: "I was a fat schoolboy and… he was drunk" John Lennon & Paul McCartney |
| #8544, aired 2021-12-30 | EXPLORERS: Confirming a theory, fossils found with this explorer in 1912 included a plant from more than 250 million years ago (Robert Falcon) Scott |
| #8540, aired 2021-12-24 | INTERNATIONAL LANDMARKS: In December 2020 an international agreement added nearly 3 feet to this; one surveyor lost half a toe in the effort Mount Everest |
| #8533, aired 2021-12-15 | AWARDS: The Theodore Roosevelt Rough Rider Award honors influential people from this state, including Western author Louis L'Amour North Dakota |
| #8530, aired 2021-12-10 | 19th CENTURY BRITISH AUTHORS: She called herself "the daughter of two persons of distinguished literary celebrity" in an introduction to one of her novels (Mary) Shelley |
| #8529, aired 2021-12-09 | 1950s PUBLIC WORKS: Dubbed "The Greatest Construction Show on Earth", when completed it connected Minnesota to Montreal the St. Lawrence Seaway |
| #8524, aired 2021-12-02 | JOURNALISTS IN HISTORY: Bismarck Tribune correspondent Mark Kellogg died June 25, 1876 while on a field assignment covering this man (General George) Custer |
| #8523, aired 2021-12-01 | PLANNED CITIES: A recent immigrant, Lady Denman, wife of the governor-general, announced the name of this new national capital at a 1913 ceremony Canberra, Australia |
| #8522, aired 2021-11-30 | INTERNATIONAL FRIENDSHIP: The organization these International was founded in 1956; they’re Partnerstädte in Germany & villes jumelées in France Sister Cities |
| #8520, aired 2021-11-26 | FICTIONAL LANGUAGES: Lapine is the name of the language created for this 1972 book beloved by children Watership Down |
| #8515, aired 2021-11-19 | 20th CENTURY AMERICAN AUTHORS: The Old Courthouse Museum in Monroeville, Alabama has exhibits devoted to these 2 authors & childhood friends (Harper) Lee & (Truman) Capote |
| #8514, aired 2021-11-18 | HISTORY: In 1985 the mayor of Rome went to a suburb of Tunis to sign a treaty ending this after more than 2,100 years the (Third) Punic War(s) (Carthaginian Wars) |
| #8513, aired 2021-11-17 | FINAL RESTING PLACES: A cemetery on this island has the graves of Robert Fulton & 2 of the first 4 Treasury Secretaries Manhattan |
| #8512, aired 2021-11-16 | MOVIE QUOTES: This 3-word phrase was the protagonist's second line of dialogue in a 1962 movie, the first in a 25-film series "Bond, James Bond" |
| #8510, aired 2021-11-12 | CONTEMPORARY PLAYWRIGHTS: "The Murder of Gonzago" is used as a play within a 1966 play by this man who was inspired by Shakespeare (Tom) Stoppard |
| #8509, aired 2021-11-11 | PRICELESS OBJECTS: It dates back to the "French Blue", which was set in gold & suspended from a neck ribbon when Louis XIV wore it on ceremonial occasions the Hope Diamond |
| #8507, aired 2021-11-09 | 1970s SONGS: In 1976 "Bohemian Rhapsody" was replaced at No. 1 on the U.K. charts by this Europop song whose title is heard in Queen's lyrics "Mamma Mia" |
| #8497, aired 2021-10-26 | AUTHORS: These 2 men who both died in Boston in the mid-20th century each won 4 Pulitzers, one man for Poetry & the other for Drama (Robert) Frost & (Eugene) O'Neill |
| #8496, aired 2021-10-25 | NOTABLE WOMEN: Of the 3 pioneering women in their field to be dubbed the "Trimates", this one got her PhD from Cambridge in 1966 (Jane) Goodall |
| #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" |
| #8494, aired 2021-10-21 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY: This country of 16,600 square miles has a possession that's more than 50 times as large Denmark |
| #8493, aired 2021-10-20 | 19th CENTURY SUPREME COURT DECISIONS: The first "self-evident" truth in the Declaration of Independence was quoted & found not to apply to this plaintiff (Dred) Scott |
| #8486, aired 2021-10-11 | COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD: Nazi Germany annexed this nation & divided it into regions of the Alps & the Danube; the Allies later divided it into 4 sectors Austria |
| #8485, aired 2021-10-08 | THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE: British zoologist George Shaw looked for stitches when he first saw this mammal in 1799, thinking he was being tricked (the) duck-bill(ed) platypus |
| #8484, aired 2021-10-07 | WINTER OLYMPIC SPORTS: The official Olympic website says this event "has its roots in survival skills" practiced in the snowy forests of Scandinavia biathlon |
| #8483, aired 2021-10-06 | HISTORIC CALENDARS: Following Messidor, this summer month in the 18th century French Revolutionary calendar had a name meaning "heat gift" Thermidor |
| #8480, aired 2021-10-01 | AMERICAN HISTORY: The April 26, 1906 edition of The Call, a newspaper in this city, reported on the heroic death of hoseman James O'Neil San Francisco |
| #8479, aired 2021-09-30 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE: A 2000 Library of Congress exhibit called this 1900 work "America's greatest and best-loved homegrown fairytale" The Wizard of Oz |
| #8478, aired 2021-09-29 | MYTHOLOGY: The Hippocrene Spring, sacred to the Muses, was so named because this offspring of Medusa brought it into being Pegasus |
| #8475, aired 2021-09-24 | HISTORY OF THE 19-TEENS: Saying he ignored warnings of enemy vessels, the British admiralty sought to blame William Turner, this ship's last captain in 1915 the Lusitania |
| #8473, aired 2021-09-22 | LANDMARKS: 96 miles in total during its 3-decade existence, the most well-known part of this was about the same length as an Olympic marathon the Berlin Wall |
| #8472, aired 2021-09-21 | CHILDREN'S BOOKS: A book by her says, "It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is 'soporific'... but then I am not a rabbit" (Beatrix) Potter |
| #8471, aired 2021-09-20 | 1980s MOVIES: The Dip used to kill characters in this 1988 film consisted of acetone, benzene & turpentine, ingredients of paint thinner Who Framed Roger Rabbit |
| #8470, aired 2021-09-17 | 19th CENTURY U.S. POLITICS: Named after a U.K. political party that helped depose a king, the U.S. Whig Party was formed to oppose this man (Andrew) Jackson |
| #8469, aired 2021-09-16 | THE 21st CENTURY: In 2009 this 11-year-old started posting on BBC's Urdu language website under the screen name Gul Makai Malala (Yousafzai) |
| #8464, aired 2021-08-12 | BLOCKBUSTER MOVIES: Based on a 1974 novel, this film has been described as combining "An Enemy of the People" & "Moby Dick" Jaws |
| #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 |
| #8458, aired 2021-08-04 | THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE: The first published announcement of the Declaration was by a Philadelphia paper that reported it in this foreign language German |
| #8456, aired 2021-08-02 | HISTORIC BUSINESSMEN: Born in the village of Waldorf, Germany in 1763, he arrived in the U.S. in 1784 (John Jacob) Astor |
| #8450, aired 2021-07-23 | LITERARY CHARACTERS: This owner of a large estate in Derbyshire is described as "proud" at least half a dozen times (Mr. Fitzwilliam) Darcy |
| #8449, aired 2021-07-22 | 1970s MOVIE SCENES: Writer Dan O'Bannon based a scene in this film on his own Crohn's disease, which felt like things inside him fighting to get out Alien |
| #8448, aired 2021-07-21 | AFRICAN MONARCHS: Some devotees of this emperor who died in 1975 trace his lineage to King Solomon & the Queen of Sheba Haile Selassie |
| #8447, aired 2021-07-20 | THE 20th CENTURY: The code name for a historic meeting at this city was Argonaut, after the heroes who searched for the Golden Fleece on the Black Sea Yalta |
| #8442, aired 2021-07-13 | INVENTORS & INVENTIONS: In 1899 James Atkinson patented his new & improved one of these, including its spring-powered snapping action a mousetrap |
| #8440, aired 2021-07-09 | 1980s BESTSELLERS: The title of this 1985 novel by a Canadian author partly alludes to the similarly named stories in a 14th century work The Handmaid's Tale |
| #8438, aired 2021-07-07 | ROCK BANDS: In 2017 this band whose singer goes by a nickname became the first to have No. 1 albums in the U.S. in the 1980s, 1990s, 2000s & 2010s U2 |
| #8433, aired 2021-06-30 | 20th CENTURY NOVELS: British biochemist J.B.S. Haldane's essay on ectogenesis, birth outside the womb, helped inspire this 1932 novel Brave New World |
| #8431, aired 2021-06-28 | MONARCHIES: The future Charles I suddenly became next in line to the throne of Austria in this year 1914 |
| #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 |
| #8422, aired 2021-06-15 | AMERICAN WOMEN: During her second marriage, she split her time among homes in New York, New Jersey, Paris & Greece & a yacht Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis |
| #8421, aired 2021-06-14 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA: 2-word term for the statement saying U.S. policy is "to leave the parties to themselves, in the hope... other powers will (do) the same" the Monroe Doctrine |
| #8419, aired 2021-06-10 | THE SUPREME COURT: The 1st justice directly succeeded by his former clerk was Rehnquist by Roberts; the 2nd time was this other alliterative pair (Anthony) Kennedy & (Brett) Kavanaugh |
| #8416, aired 2021-06-07 | GOLDEN AGE ACTRESSES: In 2013 the Victoria & Albert Museum acquired her archives, including letters from Laurence Olivier & Tennessee Williams Vivien Leigh |
| #8415, aired 2021-06-04 | 17th CENTURY WRITING: This 17th century work quotes the Book of Job, "Behold the giants groan under water, and they that dwell with them" Leviathan |
| #8414, aired 2021-06-03 | 17th CENTURY FRENCHMEN: Pope Urban VIII once said, "if there is a God," this French minister "will have much to answer for. If not, he had a successful life" (Cardinal) Richelieu |
| #8411, aired 2021-05-31 | THE BUSINESS OF TELEVISION: The day it debuted in 1980, this network with an Italian name aired a Carnegie Hall celebration of Aaron Copland's 80th birthday Bravo |
| #8410, aired 2021-05-28 | EUROPEAN BORDERS: It's still there, but none of the countries that bordered this country at the beginning of 1990 exist anymore Poland |
| #8409, aired 2021-05-27 | MUSIC & GEOGRAPHY: In a British folk tune, the title lass Maggie May is sentenced to go way down south to this penal colony that rhymes with her name Botany Bay |
| #8408, aired 2021-05-26 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS: Monsieur Crescendo & Signor Vaccarmini ("Mr. Racket") were derisive nicknames for this composer whose last opera dates from 1829 (Gioachino) Rossini |
| #8407, aired 2021-05-25 | NOBEL-WINNING NOVELISTS: Falsely accused of murder, a character in his 1948 novel becomes "tyrant over the whole county's white conscience" (William) Faulkner |
| #8405, aired 2021-05-21 | AMERICAN AUTHORS: The year before his 1809 birth, his parents acted in "King Lear", leading scholars to believe he was named for a "Lear" character Edgar Allan Poe |
| #8404, aired 2021-05-20 | COLONIAL AMERICA: Milestones along the eastern end of the Mason-Dixon line were marked on either side with the crests of these 2 men Lord Baltimore & William Penn |
| #8403, aired 2021-05-19 | MIDDLE EASTERN GEOGRAPHY: Of the 6 countries that border the Red Sea, it's last alphabetically Yemen |
| #8401, aired 2021-05-17 | ANCIENT GREEKS: Plutarch quotes this man who sentenced many to death: "Small ones deserve that, and I have no higher for the greater crimes" Draco |
| #8396, aired 2021-05-10 | U.S. HISTORY: On April 7, 1789 Charles Thomson & Sylvanus Bourne left New York City to tell these 2 men the results of a vote taken the day before George Washington & John Adams |
| #8394, aired 2021-05-06 | COUNTRIES' NATIONAL ANTHEMS: With words written by a Bishop of Urgell, its anthem praises Charlemagne & says it "was born a princess... between two nations" Andorra |
| #8388, aired 2021-04-28 | HOLLYWOOD LEGENDS: This director was quoted as saying, "I believe I can take any 60 pages of the Bible and make a great picture" Cecil B. DeMille |
| #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 |
| #8379, aired 2021-04-15 | PHYSICS: Modern formulations of Newton's 2 most famous equations both begin with this quantity that's measured in newtons force |
| #8378, aired 2021-04-14 | SHAKESPEARE: With 4,042 lines, it's Shakespeare's longest play & it's also the one that's been filmed the most Hamlet |
| #8376, aired 2021-04-12 | OLYMPIC HOSTS: Aside from the United States, one of the 2 countries with 2 different cities that have hosted the Summer Olympics (1 of) Australia or Germany |
| #8375, aired 2021-04-09 | AMERICAN LITERATURE: One edition of this 1930s novella shows a farm within the silhouette of a rabbit Of Mice and Men |
| #8373, aired 2021-04-07 | NOTORIOUS: In 1897 she was accused of a much lesser crime, shoplifting in Rhode Island Lizzie Borden |
| #8371, aired 2021-04-05 | DAYTIME TV PERSONALITIES: Accepting a Lifetime Achievement Emmy, he said, "Just take... 10 seconds to think of the people who have helped you become who you are" Mr. (Fred) Rogers |
| #8370, aired 2021-04-02 | EPONYMOUS LANDMARKS: In 1960 the ashes of this aviator were spread over the Venezuela natural wonder he famously sighted decades earlier (James) Angel |
| #8369, aired 2021-04-01 | ANTIDISESTABLISHMENTARIANISM: A real-life antidisestablishmentarian, William Bridgeman opposed the 1920 disestablishment of this in Wales church |
| #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 |
| #8361, aired 2021-03-22 | SHAKESPEAREAN REFERENCES: This name given to U.K. labor strife in December 1978 & January 1979 was taken from the first line of a Shakespeare history play the Winter of (our) Discontent |
| #8358, aired 2021-03-17 | PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS: In the 1912 election these 2 parties on the left of the political spectrum finished 2nd & 4th, totaling 1/3 of the votes Bull Moose Progressive & Socialist |
| #8355, aired 2021-03-12 | HISTORIC PLACES: 8 presidents have visited this battle site with an Algonquian name about 50 miles from Washington; for McKinley, it was a return visit Antietam |
| #8351, aired 2021-03-08 | RADIO HISTORY: A 1949 broadcast in Spanish of this drama from 11 years before caused mass panic in Ecuador & the destruction of the radio station "The War of the Worlds" |
| #8345, aired 2021-02-26 | EARLY U.S. HISTORY: Elbridge Gerry, Charles Pinckney & John Marshall were the diplomats in this 1797 incident that led to a quasi-war with France the XYZ Affair |
| #8342, aired 2021-02-23 | MOVIE DIRECTORS: Along with his writing partner, this director is the only person to win screenwriting Oscars for both a film & its sequel Francis Ford Coppola |
| #8340, aired 2021-02-19 | WORLD SURNAMES: In 2019, for the first time, this nation allowed for non-gendered last names with the suffix -bur Iceland |
| #8338, aired 2021-02-17 | WINTER SPORTS: The specific skill that gave this sport its name was eliminated from international competition after the 1990 World Championships figure skating |
| #8336, aired 2021-02-15 | PLAYWRIGHTS: This late writer has had 10 plays on Broadway, most of them set in Pittsburgh like "Jitney", which premiered in 2017 August Wilson |
| #8331, aired 2021-02-08 | WORLD LITERATURE: In a classic novel from 1866, the murders of 2 women take place in this city St. Petersburg |
| #8322, aired 2021-01-26 | POP MUSIC: First released as a single in 1982, this song was re-released & charted again 17 years later & 17 years after that "1999" |
| #8321, aired 2021-01-25 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY: Of the countries bordering the Mediterranean Sea, these 2 on opposite sides of it are the smallest & largest in area Algeria & Monaco |
| #8318, aired 2021-01-20 | THE WESTERN U.S.: About 100 miles apart, they were made state capitals 10 years apart in 1854 & 1864 & both grew rapidly due to precious metals Sacramento & Carson City |
| #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 |
| #8310, aired 2021-01-08 | WOMEN & SCIENCE: Dr. Margaret Todd gave science this word for different forms of one basic substance; it's from the Greek for "equal" & "place" isotope |
| #8307, aired 2021-01-05 | STATE NAME ORIGINS: The names of these 2 states honor a king & his father, who was executed in 1649 North & South Carolina |
| #8306, aired 2021-01-04 | LITERARY CHARACTERS OF THE 1600s: When the title character tells him that a great adventure may win him an island he can govern, he leaves his family Sancho Panza |
| #8298, aired 2020-12-09 | AMERICAN LIT: A book by him says, "From the forest came the call…distinct and definite as never before--a long-drawn howl" Jack London |
| #8293, aired 2020-12-02 | NOVEL CHARACTERS: This character from an 1851 novel "was intent on an audacious, immitigable, and supernatural revenge" Captain Ahab |
| #8291, aired 2020-11-30 | COMEDY MOVIES: In the original script for this 1975 film, the title object was finally found in London's Harrods department store Monty Python and the Holy Grail |
| #8282, aired 2020-11-17 | FRENCH LITERATURE: An 1862 novel says this character "would have arrested his own father... and would have denounced his mother" Javert |
| #8264, aired 2020-10-22 | 20th CENTURY ART: In occupied Paris, a German officer asked Picasso if he had done this masterpiece; he replied, "No, you did" Guernica |
| #8256, aired 2020-10-12 | WORLD LICENSE PLATES: Around 2010 the state license plate for Michoacan, Mexico featured these insects (monarch) butterflies |
| #8248, aired 2020-09-30 | HISTORIC FIGURES: In a 1912 telegram to his wife, he said, "Am feeling fine. Have bullet in chest, but...talked for hour and half after being shot" Teddy Roosevelt |
| #8240, aired 2020-09-18 | ENGLISH POETS: An 1816 poem by him says, "That with music loud and long, I would build that dome in air, That sunny dome!" Coleridge |
| #8237, aired 2020-09-15 | THE MUSIC BIZ: In 2019, at a 60th anniversary event in Detroit, this producer announced his retirement saying he had "come full circle" Berry Gordy |
| #8236, aired 2020-09-14 | FAMOUS BUILDINGS: This Rome building with a name from the Greek was described by Michelangelo as coming from "angelic and not human design" the Pantheon |
| #8230, aired 2020-06-05 | 18th CENTURY NOVELS: The title character of this 1726 novel reaches 4 different lands as a result of a shipwreck, a storm at sea, pirates & a mutiny Gulliver's Travels |
| #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 |
| #8225, aired 2020-05-29 | PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARIES & MUSEUMS: Of the 15 U.S. presidential libraries or museums, 3 are in this state, more than any other Texas |
| #8223, aired 2020-05-27 | FAIRY TALES: A familiar chant in this fairy tale continues, "Be he alive or be he dead, I'll grind his bones to make my bread" "Jack and the Beanstalk" |
| #8220, aired 2020-05-22 | IVY LEAGUE GEOGRAPHY: This state borders 3 other states with Ivy League schools, but doesn't have one itself Vermont |
| #8216, aired 2020-05-18 | AMERICA IN THE 1700s: "Every state shall always keep up a well regulated and disciplined militia, sufficiently armed and accoutred" is in No. 6 of these the Articles of Confederation |
| #8211, aired 2020-04-27 | CIVIL WAR PEOPLE: Before they were photographed together in 1862, Lincoln wryly noted this general "should have no problem" sitting still for it George McClellan |
| #8210, aired 2020-04-24 | MEN & MACHINES: John Moore-Brabazon, the first pilot licensed by England, had learned about engines working for this man, first half of a famous pair (Charles) Rolls |
| #8204, aired 2020-04-16 | SHAKESPEARE'S PLAYS: An account of a deposed Duke of Genoa in a 1549 "History of Italy" is a presumed source for this play The Tempest |
| #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 |
| #8195, aired 2020-04-03 | HISTORIC AMERICANS: In 1904 this Hungarian-born newspaper publisher wrote, "Our republic and its press will rise or fall together" Joseph Pulitzer |
| #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 |
| #8183, aired 2020-03-18 | FAIRS & EXPOSITIONS: To celebrate the 500th anniversary of a major event, Seville, Spain & Genoa, Italy both had expositions in this year 1992 |
| #8172, aired 2020-03-03 | CHILDREN'S BOOKS: This book was published in Latin as "Virent Ova! Viret Perna!!" Green Eggs and Ham |
| #8171, aired 2020-03-02 | FROM THE DESK OF THE POPE: A 1919 letter quotes Jesus, "Go into the whole world and preach the gospel" & notes the vigilance, energy & hardships of these workers missionaries |
| #8169, aired 2020-02-27 | 18th CENTURY AMERICA: The first Census, in 1790, listed 24 urban places; this port was the most populous one in the South Charleston |
| #8168, aired 2020-02-26 | SCIENCE WORDS: In 1611 Kepler used this word from the Latin for "attendant" to describe the discoveries of Galileo satellite |
| #8165, aired 2020-02-21 | INTERNATIONAL AWARD TROPHIES: La Maison Chopard crafts this annual award’s crystal base & 118-gram, 18-carat frond Palme d'Or |
| #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 |
| #8160, aired 2020-02-14 | FAMOUS FIRST LINES: These 7 words precede, "The rain fell in torrents, except at occasional intervals" "It was a dark and stormy night" |
| #8, aired 2020-01-14 | SHAKESPEARE'S TRAGEDIES: He has 272 speeches, the most of any non-title character in a Shakespeare tragedy Iago |
| #5, aired 2020-01-09 | U.S. POLITICAL HISTORY: These 2 now-defunct parties each gave the U.S. 4 presidents in the 19th century Democratic-Republican & Whig |
| #6, aired 2020-01-09 | 21st CENTURY OSCAR WINNERS: These 2 foreign-born directors have each won 2 Best Director Oscars, but none of their films has won Best Picture Ang Lee & Alfonso Cuarón |
| #4, aired 2020-01-08 | 19th CENTURY LEADERS: Tall, lanky Joel Barlow was an ambassador carrying messages between these 2 world leaders, both mocked for being short Napoleon & Madison |
| #2, aired 2020-01-07 | ASTRONOMERS: This man's name was given to a comet that crashed into Jupiter in 1994; he's the only human whose remains lie on the Moon Shoemaker |
| #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 |
| #8127, aired 2019-12-31 | BUSINESS & INNOVATION: Stuck with 260 tons of unused turkey in late 1953, this company ordered aluminum trays & sold 10 million units of a new item in 1954 Swanson |
| #8121, aired 2019-12-23 | BRITISH AUTHORS: In 2016 the OED celebrated his 100th birthday by adding words connected to his writings, including scrumdiddlyumptious Roald Dahl |
| #8120, aired 2019-12-20 | CLASSIC FICTION: A 1902 work says of a riverboat journey, "We penetrated deeper and deeper into" this, the work's title Heart of Darkness |
| #8116, aired 2019-12-16 | TV THEME MUSIC: A short piece for 2 guitars called "Strange No. 3" was the first part of the theme music for this drama series that debuted in 1959 The Twilight Zone |
| #8114, aired 2019-12-12 | WOMEN AUTHORS: In 1947 she testified before the House Un-American Activities Committee on how the film "Song of Russia" was Communist propaganda Ayn Rand |
| #8109, aired 2019-12-05 | HOLIDAY SONGS: This song had its beginnings as a book handed out to children at Christmas at Montgomery Ward "Rudolph, The Red-Nosed Reindeer" |
| #8105, aired 2019-11-29 | CLASSIC BRITISH NOVELS: The title character of this novel says of his home, "The wind breathes cold through the broken battlements and casements" Dracula |
| #8103, aired 2019-11-27 | MOVIE QUOTES: The 2 single-word quotes on AFI's list of the top 100 movie quotes; 1 is from 1941, the other from 1967 "Rosebud" and "Plastics" |
| #8093, aired 2019-11-13 | ITALIAN INVENTORS: In a 1644 letter he wrote, "We live submerged at the bottom of an ocean of air", which is what his invention measures Torricelli |
| #8091, aired 2019-11-11 | FAMOUS PHRASES: In the title of a groundbreaking 1890 expose of poverty in New York City slums, these 3 words follow "How the" Other Half Lives |
| #8090, aired 2019-11-08 | LITERARY CHARACTERS: From an 1894 work, his name literally translates to "tiger king" Shere Khan |
| #8089, aired 2019-11-07 | 20th CENTURY ART: A derisive description of the shape of the houses in the 1908 painting "Houses at l'Estaque" gave this art style its name Cubism |
| #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 |
| #8085, aired 2019-11-01 | RELIGION: This denomination takes its name from the day, as told in the New Testament, when the Holy Spirit descended on the Apostles Pentecostalism |
| #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 |
| #8075, aired 2019-10-18 | THE POSTCOLONIAL WORLD: This African nation left the British Commonwealth in 2003 over sanctions on its undemocratic government; in 2018 it applied to rejoin Zimbabwe |
| #8073, aired 2019-10-16 | WORLD LEADERS: This man who ruled from 1949 to 1976 was sometimes called "the Red Sun" Mao Zedong (Mao) |
| #8069, aired 2019-10-10 | ENGLISH HISTORY: In 1600 a royal charter authorized it to set forth to "parts of Asia and Africa" in search of "trade and traffic" British East India Company |
| #8065, aired 2019-10-04 | WORLD LITERATURE: Some parts were translated from a 15th century Syrian manuscript when this work was introduced to Europe around 1700 One Thousand and One Nights |
| #8059, aired 2019-09-26 | WORLD LANDMARKS: "The Eighth Wonder", by composer Alan John & librettist Dennis Watkins, is about this building that opened in 1973 the Sydney Opera House |
| #8050, aired 2019-09-13 | PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES: This is the most recent presidential election year when both major presidential candidates were residents of the same state 2016 |
| #8049, aired 2019-09-12 | AMERICAN MUSEUMS: President Johnson signed a law that added 2 words to the name of this museum established in 1946, D.C.'s most popular the Air & Space Museum |
| #8048, aired 2019-09-11 | CHILDREN'S BOOKS: The original title of this 1900 classic included a gem; another working title mentioned a Plains state The Wonderful Wizard of Oz |
| #8047, aired 2019-09-10 | 1960s TV HISTORY: The 1967 finale of "The Fugitive" drew in 78 million viewers, surpassing the 73 million who tuned into this show Sunday, February 9, 1964 The Ed Sullivan Show |
| #8044, aired 2019-07-25 | 1970s ALBUM REVIEWS: Rolling Stone said this 1976 album had "the best & worst tendencies of L.A.-situated rock" & was an "unflattering portrait of the milieu" Hotel California |
| #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 |
| #8023, aired 2019-06-26 | 19th CENTURY LITERARY CHARACTERS: "Hard and sharp as flint... he iced his office in the dog-days; and didn't thaw it one degree at Christmas" Ebenezer Scrooge |
| #8020, aired 2019-06-21 | COMPOUND WORDS: This 8-letter word can follow nuclear to refer to a dangerous accident, or mean a total loss of emotional control meltdown |
| #8016, aired 2019-06-17 | NEW ENGLAND: Neighborhoods in this city include Federal Street, Gallows Hill & Witchcraft Heights Salem, Massachusetts |
| #8015, aired 2019-06-14 | MEDICAL NEWS 2018: For the first time, the FDA approved a drug for the treatment of this, though there hadn't been a new case in 40 years smallpox |
| #8013, aired 2019-06-12 | POPULAR PRODUCTS: This product that brought virtual tourism into homes in 1939 introduced its first virtual reality device in 2015 View-Master |
| #8010, aired 2019-06-07 | CANADIAN CITIES: City Hall in this Western provincial capital is on Victoria Avenue near the corner of Albert Street Regina |
| #8009, aired 2019-06-06 | AMERICAN MUSIC LEGENDS: Steinbeck called him "just a voice and a guitar" but said his songs embodied "the will of a people to endure and fight against oppression" Woody Guthrie |
| #8008, aired 2019-06-05 | THE NATO PHONETIC ALPHABET: This discovery of November 8, 1895 by a German physicist represents a letter in the NATO phonetic alphabet X rays |
| #8007, aired 2019-06-04 | WORLD TIME ZONES: This European country is still an hour ahead of GMT, a move made in 1940 to be on the same time as Nazi Germany Spain |
| #8006, aired 2019-06-03 | SHAKESPEARE'S TIME: The line "a great reckoning in a little room" in "As You Like It" is usually taken to refer to this author's premature death Christopher Marlowe |
| #8005, aired 2019-05-31 | OSCAR-NOMINATED FAMILIES: It's the last name of Alfred, Lionel, David, Emil, Thomas & Randy, who with 90 nominations, are the most Oscar-nominated family Newman |
| #8003, aired 2019-05-29 | 19th CENTURY NOVELS: The author of this tale dedicated the novel to British philosopher William Godwin, her father Frankenstein |
| #8002, aired 2019-05-28 | ANIMATED CHARACTERS: This cartoon character was based on a character in the educational comic "The Intertidal Zone" SpongeBob SquarePants |
| #8001, aired 2019-05-27 | GAMES: When this game was introduced in 1860, it had squares like Intemperance & Poverty & if you hit the Suicide square your game was over The Game of Life |
| #8000, aired 2019-05-24 | AROUND THE USA: Astronomy buffs visit Idaho for the USA's first dark sky reserve; oddly, part of it is this resort area with a bright name Sun Valley |
| #7999, aired 2019-05-23 | JAZZ CLASSICS: In one account, this song began as directions written out for composer Billy Strayhorn to Duke Ellington's home in Harlem "Take The 'A' Train" |
| #7998, aired 2019-05-22 | 19th CENTURY AMERICAN HISTORY: In 1832, by a narrow margin, this state's legislature rejected considering abolition; a split was completed in 1863 Virginia |
| #7997, aired 2019-05-21 | POETRY & THE MOVIES: Robert Lowell's "For the Union Dead" honored the 54th Massachusetts, the infantry unit in this 1989 film that won 3 Oscars Glory |
| #7996, aired 2019-05-20 | NAME THE FRENCH AUTHOR: "I am making myself liable to Articles 30 & 31 of the law of 29 July 1881 regarding the press, which make libel a punishable offense" Émile Zola |
| #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 |
| #7989, aired 2019-05-09 | THE COLD WAR: The Cold War became entrenched in the mid-1950s after the formation of these 2 rival military alliances NATO and the Warsaw Pact |
| #7987, aired 2019-05-07 | TEACHERS: As a teenager this woman regained her sight thanks to 2 surgeries in 1881 & 1882 Annie Sullivan |
| #7986, aired 2019-05-06 | POETS: A poem by him includes, "It was grassy and wanted wear;/
though...the passing there/
had worn them really about the same" Robert Frost |
| #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 |
| #7979, aired 2019-04-25 | THE ELEMENTS: Oddly, mining of this rare earth element with a geographic name, atomic no. 63, is mostly in Asia & with some in South America & Australia europium |
| #7975, aired 2019-04-19 | BRITISH MONARCHS: A "VI" has followed these 3 royal names of English kings George, Edward & Henry |
| #7974, aired 2019-04-18 | COMIC BOOK SUPERHEROES: During his years with the Justice League of America, this superhero sometimes used the secret identity "C. King" Aquaman |
| #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 |
| #7967, aired 2019-04-09 | PHYSICS TERMS: Ironically, it's a metaphor meaning a huge step forward, but this 2-word process only occurs on a subatomic scale a quantum leap |
| #7965, aired 2019-04-05 | EUROPEAN CAPITALS: Remove 2 letters from within the 6-letter name of this capital & you get the name of a capital from a neighboring country Berlin |
| #7962, aired 2019-04-02 | MUSIC LEGENDS: These 2 “monarchs” of popular culture both passed away on August 16, one in 2018, the other 41 years earlier Elvis Presley and Aretha Franklin |
| #7960, aired 2019-03-29 | CHILDREN'S BOOKS: This 1883 classic ends with the words "A well-behaved little boy!" Pinocchio |
| #7942, aired 2019-03-05 | CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT MATH: Total of the numbers of the amendments banning state-sponsored official religion, ending slavery & repealing Prohibition 35 |
| #7941, aired 2019-03-04 | ANCIENT WRITINGS: Its principles still used today, this treatise has chapters called "Weak Points & Strong" & "Tactical Dispositions" The Art of War |
| #7939, aired 2019-02-28 | BRITISH LITERATURE: A chapter of "The Jungle Book" has this double-talk title, echoing the opening line of a Brit's poem some 100 years prior "Tiger! Tiger!" |
| #7932, aired 2019-02-19 | BROADWAY MUSICALS: The title of this musical that opened in 1956 came from the last line of a nursery rhyme about a structure that spanned the Thames My Fair Lady |
| #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 |
| #7923, aired 2019-02-06 | INTERNATIONAL BORDERS: Germany has land borders with 9 countries & only maritime boundaries with 2 countries, the U.K. & this one across the Baltic Sweden |
| #7917, aired 2019-01-29 | 20th CENTURY DISASTERS: On the radio in 1937 this 3-word exclamation came after "the smoke and the flames now...not quite to the mooring mast" "Oh, the humanity!" |
| #7911, aired 2019-01-21 | BROADWAY MUSICALS: Premiering in 2005, its story is divided into spring, summer, fall & winter, each narrated by one of the 4 male leads Jersey Boys |
| #7910, aired 2019-01-18 | TV PERSONALITIES: In 2000 this man was the host of a No. 1 rated network show & a No. 2 rated syndicated talk show Regis Philbin |
| #7909, aired 2019-01-17 | CONTEMPORARY ART: After it was auctioned in 2018, a work by this artist was renamed "Love is in the Bin" Banksy |
| #7905, aired 2019-01-11 | FAMOUS DOCTORS: Not an artist himself, he inspired the Surrealists but thought them "absolute cranks" until he met Dali in London in 1938 Sigmund Freud |
| #7894, aired 2018-12-27 | COASTLINES: At 3,700 miles, the longest ocean trench is named for these 2 nations that share most of South America's Pacific coast Chile and Peru |
| #7893, aired 2018-12-26 | HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY: Most of the land fighting in the first Punic war between Rome & Carthage was on this island Sicily |
| #7888, aired 2018-12-19 | POETS' BIRTHPLACES: 5 Cwmdonkin Drive was the address of the family home where he was born in 1914 Dylan Thomas |
| #7879, aired 2018-12-06 | WORLD AFFAIRS 2018: An Arab League summit final statement rejected "interference" by this country often mistakenly called an Arab land itself Iran |
| #7874, aired 2018-11-29 | CATHOLICISM: A liturgical year begins on the first Sunday of Advent, which is the Sunday closest to the feast day of this "first apostle" St. Andrew |
| #7870, aired 2018-11-23 | OLYMPIC CITIES: Of the 4 "M" cities that consecutively hosted Summer Olympics in the 20th century, these 2 aren't national capitals Munich and Montreal |
| #7867, aired 2018-11-20 | AMERICANA: It's the official fruit of the District of Columbia cherry |
| #7854, aired 2018-11-01 | HISTORIC GEOGRAPHY: A northern limit of the Roman Empire was a fortified road in Germany stretching 350 miles between these 2 rivers the Danube and the Rhine |
| #7847, aired 2018-10-23 | OLD ENGLISH LITERATURE: This "creature of evil, grim and fierce, was quickly ready, savage and cruel, and seized from their rest thirty thanes" Grendel |
| #7846, aired 2018-10-22 | PLACES IN THE NEWS: In a hint of the future, in 1973 Marjorie Post gave it to the U.S. govt. as a warm-weather presidential retreat, but it was returned Mar-a-Lago |
| #7844, aired 2018-10-18 | CHARACTERS IN CHILDREN'S LIT: This winged character from an early 20th century work is so named "because she mends the pots and kettles" Tinker Bell |
| #7832, aired 2018-10-02 | OSCAR HYPHENATES: This actor has never been nominated for acting--he won, though, as a writer for 1997 & as a producer for 2012 Ben Affleck |
| #7828, aired 2018-09-26 | AUTHORS: After this woman's death, her daughter wrote, "As far as we in the family are concerned, the alphabet now ends at Y" Sue Grafton |
| #7825, aired 2018-09-21 | COLOR ETYMOLOGY: This word for a gem & a shade of blue derives from the name of a Eurasian country from which gems came to Western Europe turquoise |
| #7816, aired 2018-09-10 | THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE: To set a record for longest solo journey by kayak, 2,010 miles, Helen Skelton traveled through this nation for a month Brazil |
| #7813, aired 2018-07-25 | BRIDGES: In 1990 the Yalu River Bridge was renamed the "Friendship Bridge" between these 2 nations; one is the other's best friend North Korea and China |
| #7812, aired 2018-07-24 | FASHION: Debuting in 1946, it was deemed "four triangles of nothing"; some critics even found it sinful a bikini |
| #7810, aired 2018-07-20 | FUTURISTIC FICTION: Fear of the social reorganization represented by an auto tycoon's innovations inspired this 1932 novel Brave New World |
| #7807, aired 2018-07-17 | WORLD CAPITAL SIGHTSEEING: The unfinished Victory over America Palace & the rundown Victory over Iran Palace are in this city Baghdad |
| #7806, aired 2018-07-16 | EXPLORERS: In 1513 the son of a local chief told this man, when you cross the mountains, "You shall see another sea" Vasco Núñez de Balboa |
| #7805, aired 2018-07-13 | MODERN LANGUAGE: This slang term for an environmentalist is literally true of groups that used passive resistance vs. deforestation, as in India in 1973 a tree hugger |
| #7804, aired 2018-07-12 | 1970s BESTSELLERS: The author of this novel thought of calling it "Silence in the Water" Jaws |
| #7801, aired 2018-07-09 | PRESIDENTS: Of the presidents who served more than 4 years, but less than 2 full terms, he served the longest:
7 years, 9 months, 8 days Harry Truman |
| #7800, aired 2018-07-06 | BUSINESS: Promising "value", which partly gives it its name, this Pennsylvania-based retailer did $7,400 in sales on its opening day in 1986 QVC |
| #7798, aired 2018-07-04 | CLASSIC ROCK: 25 years after these 3 men played a huge festival, they went to play again & ended the set with a tune about the 1st show Crosby, Stills and Nash |
| #7794, aired 2018-06-28 | SHAKESPEARE: The prologue of this tragedy is a sonnet whose rhymes include dignity & mutiny; scene & unclean; & life & strife Romeo and Juliet |
| #7770, aired 2018-05-25 | OSCAR-NOMINATED ACTORS: He was nominated twice for playing Oscar winners--a real one in a 1992 biopic & a fictional one in a 2008 combat comedy Robert Downey Jr. |
| #7768, aired 2018-05-23 | GREEK MYTHOLOGY: This pair who accompanied their father into battle were called Timor & Formido, "Fear" & "Terror", by the Romans Phobos & Deimos |
| #7766, aired 2018-05-21 | U.S. GEOGRAPHIC HISTORY: In 1794 George Washington selected this spot, where today 3 states meet, for the site of a new armory Harpers Ferry |
| #7764, aired 2018-05-17 | SCHOOL SUPPLY WORDS: Adding "P" to a word for a chronic back condition gets you this synonym for graphite or pencil lead plumbago |
| #7759, aired 2018-05-10 | WOMEN WRITERS: On her 2012 passing this Oscar nominee was described as "an essayist and humorist in the Dorothy Parker mold" (but funnier) Nora Ephron |
| #7753, aired 2018-05-02 | 19th CENTURY AMERICANS: On July 10, 1804 he wrote a letter of goodbye, just in case, to "my dearest Theodosia"; he lived until 1836 Aaron Burr |
| #7749, aired 2018-04-26 | SPORTS IN COURT: This athlete lost a 1931 lawsuit against the Curtiss Candy Company Babe Ruth |
| #7740, aired 2018-04-13 | U.S. PLACE NAMES: It's the only state named for a woman & whose capital is also named for a woman Maryland |
| #7736, aired 2018-04-09 | 20th CENTURY PRESIDENTS: He took the Oath of Office twice 14 months apart Lyndon B. Johnson |
| #7729, aired 2018-03-29 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN ACHIEVEMENTS: In 2017 this govt. agency dedicated a new computational facility named in honor of 99-year-old ex-employee Katherine Johnson NASA |
| #7727, aired 2018-03-27 | 1960s NO. 1 SONGS: Complaints about heavy workloads inspired the titles of 2 songs by this group, No. 1 hits 7 months apart The Beatles |
| #7722, aired 2018-03-20 | ROMAN HISTORY: Of this battle in 31 B.C., Virgil wrote, "Neptune's fields grow red with fresh slaughter" the Battle of Actium |
| #7716, aired 2018-03-12 | FIRST LADY FACTS: In 1982, when Bess Truman died, she had been enrolled in this government program for about 17 years, longer than anyone else Medicare |
| #7713, aired 2018-03-07 | COUNTRIES OF THE U.N.: The 3 U.N. member states that begin with the letter "J"; 2 are island nations & one is nearly landlocked Jamaica, Japan, and Jordan |
| #7711, aired 2018-03-05 | OSCAR HISTORY: In the 1940s he became the first person to receive nominations as actor, director & writer for the same film Orson Welles |
| #7709, aired 2018-03-01 | EUROPEAN ISLANDS: Once known as the Norman Isles, per the British government this group is "not part of the U.K." & has "never been colonies" the Channel Islands |
| #7707, aired 2018-02-27 | AMERICANA: A 1931 story in the New Yorker said this "weighs 600,000,000 pounds (&)... contains 37,000,000 cubic feet" the Empire State Building |
| #7705, aired 2018-02-23 | MODERN WORDS: In 1994 Wired magazine described this 4-letter word as an idea leaping "from mind to mind... as viruses leap from body to body" a meme |
| #7695, aired 2018-02-09 | 20th CENTURY BOOKS: An "ineffable quality", this 3-word title represents "the ability to go up in a hurtling piece of machinery" day after day The Right Stuff |
| #7688, aired 2018-01-31 | FOOD BRANDS: Seen here is the location of the first plant of this company Ore-Ida |
| #7679, aired 2018-01-18 | SNACK FOODS: The name of this cracker that's been around since 1903 suggests that it was baked 3 times Triscuit |
| #7676, aired 2018-01-15 | THE THEATER: In 1915 this play opened for the last time on Broadway, ironically at the Booth Theatre Our American Cousin |
| #7675, aired 2018-01-12 | AFRICAN COUNTRIES: With more than 90 million people it's Africa's third most populous country, though it's more than 90% desert Egypt |
| #7674, aired 2018-01-11 | THE MOVIES: It's the first Oscar nominee for Best Picture to be produced by an internet streaming service Manchester by the Sea |
| #7670, aired 2018-01-05 | COMIC BOOK PUBLISHERS: In 1946, MLJ Mags. changed its name to this "Comics", incorporating the first name of its popular teenage hero Archie Comics |
| #7669, aired 2018-01-04 | CARS: When it was introduced in 1953, this car model's emblem had a checkered flag & a red flag with a fleur-de-lis a Chevrolet Corvette |
| #7663, aired 2017-12-27 | PRESIDENTIAL HOMES: Originally called Rural Retreat, this 19th century presidential home has a name that's a synonym for "retreat" Hermitage |
| #7661, aired 2017-12-25 | AUTHORS: A prefatory poem he wrote to one of his novels tells of "the dream-child moving through a land of wonders wild and new" Lewis Carroll |
| #7660, aired 2017-12-22 | RECORD LABELS: This label, home to U2 & Bob Marley, was created, fittingly, in Jamaica with an investment of 1,000 pounds sterling Island Records |
| #7650, aired 2017-12-08 | PRIMETIME TV ACTRESSES: On the beat since 1999, she plays the longest-running female character currently on TV in a primetime non-animated series Mariska Hargitay |
| #7635, aired 2017-11-17 | STATE CAPITALS: A state capital since 1805, its name begins with the last 4 letters of the state's name Montpelier |
| #7633, aired 2017-11-15 | HISTORIC NAMES: In 2013 the village of Belrain renamed the last street in France that bore the name of this hero who became a traitor Maréchal Philippe Petain |
| #7627, aired 2017-11-07 | LANDLOCKED COUNTRIES: South of the Tropic of Capricorn, this kingdom is the world's southernmost landlocked country Lesotho |
| #7625, aired 2017-11-03 | WORLD CAPITALS: The world's highest international airport, at an elevation of over 13,000', serves this South American capital city La Paz, Bolivia |
| #7624, aired 2017-11-02 | U.S. HISTORY: Only 4 men have been both VP & president & served in both houses of Congress; 2 of them shared this last name Johnson |
| #7623, aired 2017-11-01 | THE OSCARS: For 1992, this New Yorker was the first man with 2 acting Oscar nominations in the same year for different films Al Pacino |
| #7617, aired 2017-10-24 | ETYMOLOGY: This 8-letter word meaning "cultured" or "intellectual" originated with a phrenology concept highbrow |
| #7614, aired 2017-10-19 | OSCAR WINNERS: He's the only actor to win 3 Best Actor Oscars, the most recent for his portrayal of a U.S. president Daniel Day-Lewis |
| #7612, aired 2017-10-17 | ASIAN GEOGRAPHY: It's the only country that borders both the Caspian Sea & the Persian Gulf Iran |
| #7609, aired 2017-10-12 | MOVIE HISTORY: A 1947 FBI study chided this holiday film's "attempt to discredit bankers ...a common trick used by Communists" It's A Wonderful Life |
| #7607, aired 2017-10-10 | 20th CENTURY NOVELS: The protagonist of this novel "was fairly sure that his age was 39, and he believed that he had been born in 1944 or 1945" Nineteen Eighty-Four |
| #7606, aired 2017-10-09 | HISTORICAL AREAS: An ancient quote mentions this area & 3 population groups, the Belgae, Aquitani & Celts Gaul |
| #7605, aired 2017-10-06 | COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD: They begin with the same 3 letters: the most densely populated country in Europe & the least densely populated in Asia Monaco and Mongolia |
| #7604, aired 2017-10-05 | ACTORS & THEIR MOVIE ROLES: He played Shakespearean title characters 4 times, receiving Best Actor Oscar nominations each time Laurence Olivier |
| #7603, aired 2017-10-04 | AMERICAN PLAYS: The latitude & longitude given by the narrator of this 1938 play would set it in Massachusetts, not New Hampshire Our Town |
| #7599, aired 2017-09-28 | THE NORTHEASTERN U.S.: Once its own city, it joined with a neighbor in 1898; today on its own it would be the 4th most populous city in the U.S. Brooklyn, New York |
| #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 |
| #7588, aired 2017-09-13 | ANCIENT HISTORY: Battles at Trebbia & Trasimene were among the victories of this man who was born in Africa & died near the Black Sea Hannibal |
| #7587, aired 2017-09-12 | 21st CENTURY GRAMMYS: This singer has won Album, Record & Song of the Year twice, the only artist to do so Adele |
| #7586, aired 2017-09-11 | ARTISTS & AUTHORS: In 1929 Georgia O'Keeffe painted the tree in New Mexico under which this British-born author used to write D.H. Lawrence |
| #7584, aired 2017-07-27 | THE OSCARS: This Brit is the only actor to get Oscar nominations for playing 2 real-life U.S. presidents, both for 1990s films Anthony Hopkins |
| #7583, aired 2017-07-26 | NOVELS: "A man can be destroyed but not defeated" is a line from this 1952 book, later a Spencer Tracy film The Old Man and the Sea |
| #7581, aired 2017-07-24 | COLLEGES: When this school opened in 1845, the curriculum for the class of 50 had math & navigation, chemistry & gunnery & steam the U.S. Naval Academy |
| #7578, aired 2017-07-19 | HISTORIC EVENTS: In June 1986 a bakers union expressed regret for a disaster in this European city 320 years before London |
| #7572, aired 2017-07-11 | LANDLOCKED COUNTRY NAMES: One in Europe & one in Africa, these 2 landlocked countries start with the same 2 letters & end with the same 4 Switzerland and Swaziland |
| #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 |
| #7552, aired 2017-06-13 | 16th CENTURY NAMES: In his 1557 almanac this French doctor predicted, "Immortal I shall be in life, and in death even more so" Nostradamus |
| #7551, aired 2017-06-12 | GEOGRAPHY: Cross the Strait of Bonifacio & you go between the 2nd- & 4th-largest Mediterranean islands & between these 2 countries Italy & France |
| #7550, aired 2017-06-09 | CONSTELLATIONS: The brightest star in Scorpius is named this, meaning "rival" of the god equivalent to Mars Antares |
| #7542, aired 2017-05-30 | THE CIVIL WAR ERA: The USA's largest state school in 1861, by 1862 its enrollment had dropped by 90% the University of Virginia |
| #7541, aired 2017-05-29 | 19th CENTURY BRITISH AUTHORS: Cliffs Notes says a book by this man "was the work of a mathematician and logician who wrote as both a humorist and as a limerist" Lewis Carroll |
| #7539, aired 2017-05-25 | ART & POP CULTURE: The Brooklyn mural seen here is an homage to this fictional group whose first appearance came in 1984 the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles |
| #7533, aired 2017-05-17 | ERAS IN U.S. HISTORY: On April 11, 1865 Abraham Lincoln spoke of "the mode, manner, and means of" this, which he would not live to see Reconstruction |
| #7530, aired 2017-05-12 | PLACE NAMES: A town named for its location where a river in Devon meets the English Channel, it's also the name of a college in New Hampshire Dartmouth |
| #7527, aired 2017-05-09 | FAMOUS TEACHERS: W.J. Bryan gave the keynote speech at this man's high school graduation in 1919; 6 years later their paths would cross again John Scopes |
| #7522, aired 2017-05-02 | MYTHOLOGY: This woman was created & given to Epimetheus as punishment for his brother's actions Pandora |
| #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 |
| #7510, aired 2017-04-14 | COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD: A 2010 study of this country is subtitled "Inside the Land of Milk and Money" Switzerland |
| #7508, aired 2017-04-12 | SCARY MOVIES: A remake of this scary movie was released on 6/6/2006, 30 years to the day after the release of the original The Omen |
| #7507, aired 2017-04-11 | AMERICANA: There are rest stops named for Edison, Lombardi & Woodrow Wilson on this road mentioned in the 1968 song "America" the New Jersey Turnpike |
| #7505, aired 2017-04-07 | BRITISH NOVELS: The title of this 1908 novel is an allusion to the hotel in Florence where the novel starts & ends the next year A Room with a View |
| #7504, aired 2017-04-06 | FAMILIAR PHRASES: Old circuses like "Gentry's Equine & Canine Paradox" gave rise to this idiom referring to any elaborate presentation a dog and pony show |
| #7501, aired 2017-04-03 | COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD: In 1947 these 2 nations became the first new members of the British Commonwealth since the original group in 1931 India and Pakistan |
| #7494, aired 2017-03-23 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS: The word that gave us "picaresque" may also have inspired the name of this clever valet featured in a 1786 opera Figaro |
| #7491, aired 2017-03-20 | PAPAL NAMES: From the mid-20th century, it's the most recent papal name that's the same in Latin & in English Pius |
| #7490, aired 2017-03-17 | 20th CENTURY BOOKS: William Goldman asked his daughters what he should write about; they said these 2 things, which he combined The Princess Bride |
| #7481, aired 2017-03-06 | EUROPE: These 2 countries whose names start with the same 4 letters were part of different countries until the 1990s Slovakia and Slovenia |
| #7475, aired 2017-02-24 | 17th CENTURY GERMANS: Astronomer who began his epitaph, "I used to measure the heavens, now I shall measure the shadows of Earth" Johannes Kepler |
| #7474, aired 2017-02-23 | SHAKESPEARE CHARACTERS: About himself he says, "Since the heavens have shap'd my body so, let hell make crook'd my mind to answer it" Richard III |
| #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 |
| #7470, aired 2017-02-17 | WORLD LANDMARKS: Completed in 1884, the Washington Monument became the tallest manmade structure but 4 years later was surpassed by this the Eiffel Tower |
| #7469, aired 2017-02-16 | SOUTH AMERICA: This capital's name is a Latinized form of the name of its country Brasilia |
| #7460, aired 2017-02-03 | CONTEMPORARY AUTHORS: His official website says, "It is forty years since I hung up my cloak and dagger" John le Carré |
| #7459, aired 2017-02-02 | THE U.S.A.: The Empire State Building says that on a clear day you can see 5 states from the top: New York, New Jersey, Connecticut & these 2 Pennsylvania & Massachusetts |
| #7456, aired 2017-01-30 | NAMES IN AMERICAN HISTORY: He headed a British committee on prison reform, which gave him the idea for founding a colony in America in 1732 James Oglethorpe |
| #7451, aired 2017-01-23 | ANIMAL SONGS: The title of this hit from a 1933 Disney "Silly Symphony" inspired a Tony-winning 1962 drama & an Oscar-nominated 1966 film "Who's Afraid Of The Big Bad Wolf?" |
| #7448, aired 2017-01-18 | U.S. HISTORY: On Dec. 7, 1787 30 delegates at Battell's Tavern gathered & made history in what's now this state capital Dover |
| #7443, aired 2017-01-11 | SHAKESPEARE: With a backdrop of war, the 1609 play titled "The History of" this pair takes place earlier than any Shakespeare history play Troilus and Cressida |
| #7439, aired 2017-01-05 | MEN OF SCIENCE: Him vs. him: "The Life-Long Feud That Electrified the World" is a book about these 2 men Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison |
| #7438, aired 2017-01-04 | CLASSIC MOVIE ROLES: A letter to the director that said, "Dear sir, I am fat & wear spectacles" got a young actor a role in this 1963 film Lord of the Flies |
| #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 |
| #7432, aired 2016-12-27 | THE CIVIL WAR: Made from a boiler at a Mobile, Alabama machine shop, it was deemed a success though it went down off Charleston 3 times the Hunley |
| #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 |
| #7427, aired 2016-12-20 | 2016 U.S. OLYMPIANS: If this U.S. state was a country, it would have been in the top 10 in gold medals with 14--9 of them by 1 man & 1 woman Maryland |
| #7423, aired 2016-12-14 | AMERICAN AUTHORS: Nominated 8 previous times, he finally won a Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962, 6 years before his death John Steinbeck |
| #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 |
| #7402, aired 2016-11-15 | MEN OF SCIENCE: The symbols for 6 chemical elements spell out his name, beginning with cobalt, phosphorus & erbium Copernicus |
| #7395, aired 2016-11-04 | HISTORIC DOCUMENTS: William Seward objected to its timing, saying "it may be viewed as the last measure of an exhausted government" the Emancipation Proclamation |
| #7394, aired 2016-11-03 | LITERARY ANIMALS: In a 1926 book, he "is in a very sad condition, because it's his birthday, & nobody has taken any notice of it, & he's very gloomy" Eeyore |
| #7393, aired 2016-11-02 | EW's 50 GREATEST MOVIE DIRECTORS: He "inaugurated a new depth--both visually... and emotionally... and (had) a voice that paid the bills until he died" Orson Welles |
| #7390, aired 2016-10-28 | SHAKESPEARE: These 2 title characters who have the same pair of initials both die by stabbing Juliet Capulet & Julius Caesar |
| #7383, aired 2016-10-19 | 1960s SCIENCE BOOKS: Keats' line "The sedge is withered from the lake, and no birds sing" inspired the title of this groundbreaking book Silent Spring (by Rachel Carson) |
| #7378, aired 2016-10-12 | STATE SONGS: The first line of its state song, "Eight stars of gold on a field of blue", refers to the star group on its flag Alaska |
| #7376, aired 2016-10-10 | INAUGURAL ADDRESSES: One of his addresses used the term "security shield" about international affairs as well as "golden years" President Ronald Reagan |
| #7369, aired 2016-09-29 | MYTHOLOGY: Banished from Athens, this inventor found trouble on Crete too, but escaped Daedalus |
| #7365, aired 2016-09-23 | AFRICAN GEOGRAPHY: The Zambezi River reaches the ocean in this country that lends its name to the body of water where it happens Mozambique |
| #7364, aired 2016-09-22 | OPERA: The heroine of this opera sings, “If you come to give me, so cruel, your last goodbye, the dark vortex of the Nile will be my grave” Aida |
| #7356, aired 2016-09-12 | ASIAN ISLANDS: Phuket, the largest island of this country, has regained its tourism industry after a natural disaster in 2004 Thailand |
| #7355, aired 2016-07-29 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES: This Catholic university gets its name from the Latin for “new” & “house” & was in the news in Spring 2016 Villanova |
| #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 |
| #7348, aired 2016-07-20 | COMMUNICATION: A 1978 presidential statement recognized October 4 as a day celebrating this communication system CB radio |
| #7345, aired 2016-07-15 | THE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME: A quartet inducted in 2010 & a trio inducted in 2004, they’re the first & last inductees alphabetically ABBA & ZZ Top |
| #7341, aired 2016-07-11 | SHAKESPEARE: This comedy whose title aims to please says, "I charge you, o men... that between you and the women the play may please" As You Like It |
| #7333, aired 2016-06-29 | U.S. STATE GEOGRAPHY: Of the contiguous states, these 2 coastal states have elevation changes within them of more than 14,000 feet California & Washington |
| #7312, aired 2016-05-31 | WORLD FAUNA: Platypuses are to this Pacific island what alligators are to Florida Tasmania |
| #7310, aired 2016-05-27 | 19th CENTURY NOVELS: "The Gold Bug", Edgar Allan Poe's story about the search for Captain Kidd's buried loot, helped inspire this 1883 novel Treasure Island |
| #7305, aired 2016-05-20 | U.S. HISTORY: In 1790 a deal made Washington the nation's capital; the room where it happened was at Jefferson's house & negotiators included Madison & this Cabinet member Alexander Hamilton |
| #7300, aired 2016-05-13 | 20th CENTURY PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES: He was awarded a DFC in WWII for a combat mission as pilot of the B-24 bomber he named the "Dakota Queen" George McGovern |
| #7298, aired 2016-05-11 | STATE SONGS: Its state song rhymes "patriotic gore" with the name of its largest city Maryland |
| #7296, aired 2016-05-09 | LEGISLATION: The original law called this was passed in 1944; today, there's a "Post-9/11" version that also pays for 36 months of university education the G.I. Bill |
| #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 |
| #7292, aired 2016-05-03 | U.S. MEMORIALS: Symbolic bookends, these 2 neighboring memorials mark the beginning & end of U.S. involvement in World War II the Arizona & the Missouri |
| #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 |
| #7282, aired 2016-04-19 | 18th CENTURY BRITISH SCIENTISTS: In 1705 he wrote, "And, if it should then return, we shall have no reason to doubt but the rest must return too" (Edmond) Halley |
| #7278, aired 2016-04-13 | FAMOUS HOTELS: The painting seen here, "A Vicious Circle", hangs in this hotel in the room that's portrayed in the painting the Algonquin Hotel |
| #7272, aired 2016-04-05 | FOOD & DRINK: This cereal brand that's been with us since the 1920s teamed up with a brewer in 2015 to create a Hefeweizen Wheaties |
| #7268, aired 2016-03-30 | OBITUARIES: On his death in 2015, his New York Times obit said he "built his stardom 90 percent on skill and half on wit" Yogi Berra |
| #7267, aired 2016-03-29 | STATE CAPITAL GEOGRAPHY: Of the 5 U.S. state capitals that begin with the letter "A", the one that is farthest north Augusta |
| #7263, aired 2016-03-23 | 21st CENTURY NEWS: Russia took out $200 million in insurance, anticipating any damage that might be caused by this in 2001 the crash of the Mir space platform |
| #7251, aired 2016-03-07 | SPORTS NICKNAMES: Collective nickname for the group who "formed the crest of the South Bend Cyclone" the Four Horsemen |
| #7249, aired 2016-03-03 | AMERICAN HISTORY: In the 1690s its legislature referred to this place as "his Majesty's ancient colony and dominion" Virginia |
| #7245, aired 2016-02-26 | CLASSICAL MUSIC: This title of a British ceremonial march comes from a line in Shakespeare that continues "of glorious war!" "Pomp and Circumstance" |
| #7242, aired 2016-02-23 | SHAKESPEARE: After a royal passing in January 1820, this tragedy that had been little performed got 2 new London productions in April King Lear |
| #7241, aired 2016-02-22 | PHRASE ORIGINS: Widely parodied today, this 5-word phrase originally appeared on motivational posters in England during WWII Keep calm and carry on |
| #7238, aired 2016-02-17 | THE AFI's 100 YEARS... 100 MOVIES: This man who was in "The Godfather" & "Apocalypse Now" is the only living actor in 6 or more films on the list Robert Duvall |
| #7236, aired 2016-02-15 | FAMOUS PHRASES: In one version of a 19th century quote, "There is room and health... away from the crowds" so you're urged to do these 2 words Go West |
| #7235, aired 2016-02-12 | THE U.S. SENATE: During his Senate service, which lasted from 1973 to January 2009, this man cast 12,810 votes Joe Biden |
| #7230, aired 2016-02-05 | U.S. PRESIDENTS: He was the only 20th century president who never delivered an inaugural address President Ford |
| #7225, aired 2016-01-29 | THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION: He wrote, "As life and fortune are risked by serving his majesty, it is necessary that the latter shall be secured" Benedict Arnold |
| #7219, aired 2016-01-21 | FAMOUS BRITS: Growing up, her favorite literary heroine was Jo March; they shared a name & a hot temper & they both wanted to write J.K. Rowling (Joanne Rowling) |
| #7217, aired 2016-01-19 | U.S. STATES: In 1721 explorer Charlevoix called a point at the border of these 2 states "the finest confluence in the world" Missouri & Illinois |
| #7216, aired 2016-01-18 | STATE CAPITALS: A 1957 event led to the creation of a National Historic Site in this city, signed into law by a president whose library is now there too Little Rock, Arkansas |
| #7213, aired 2016-01-13 | 20th CENTURY LITERATURE: For factual details, the author of this 1972 tale drew on a book called "The Private Life of the Rabbit" Watership Down |
| #7212, aired 2016-01-12 | HYMNS: Slave trader turned minister John Newton wrote this hymn that 1st appeared in 1779 as "Faith's Review And Expectation" "Amazing Grace" |
| #7208, aired 2016-01-06 | SITCOMS: When it premiered in 1974, this TV show used a 1955 No. 1 hit as its opening song Happy Days |
| #7202, aired 2015-12-29 | FAMOUS LAST NAMES: The first woman space shuttle pilot shares this surname with a man on the 1st manned lunar landing 26 years earlier Collins |
| #7196, aired 2015-12-21 | PUBLISHING: In 1927 the publishers of the Modern Library widened its scope and took this name, meant as a joke about how it would select titles Random House |
| #7193, aired 2015-12-16 | 19th CENTURY AMERICAN LITERATURE: The theft alluded to in the title of this 1844 Poe story is committed by a government minister "The Purloined Letter" |
| #7187, aired 2015-12-08 | STATE CAPITALS: It's the only capital named for a signer of the Constitution Madison |
| #7178, aired 2015-11-25 | DAYS OF THE WEEK: To the ancient Greeks, this day of the week was Hemera Aphrodites Friday |
| #7177, aired 2015-11-24 | THE OSCARS: For films of 2005 through 2012, he received nominations for Best Picture, Director, Writing & Acting George Clooney |
| #7175, aired 2015-11-20 | PHILOSOPHERS: His last name means a type of burial place & in 1855 that's where he went Søren Kierkegaard |
| #7174, aired 2015-11-19 | FRENCH NOVEL TITLE HEROES: He "looked as if he had been shut up for a long time in a tomb and... been unable to recover the... complexion of the living" the Count of Monte Cristo |
| #7173, aired 2015-11-18 | SPACE EXPLORATION: The first man to travel into space began his journey on that fateful day in what is today this country Kazakhstan |
| #7170, aired 2015-11-13 | GREEK MYTHOLOGY: Famous mother of Pyrrha, who survived the Great Flood & with her husband repopulated the Earth Pandora |
| #7169, aired 2015-11-12 | ARTISTS' SUBJECTS: The woman seen here, who was born in North Carolina & died in England in 1881, was the subject of this painting Whistler's Mother (Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 1) |
| #7168, aired 2015-11-11 | ABBREVIATIONS: Its meaning as an individual product dates to 1977; its meaning as conforming to orthodox opinion dates to 1986 PC |
| #7165, aired 2015-11-06 | CHILDREN'S LIT: As she arrived at the house of her new employer, "the wind seemed to catch her up into the air and fling her" at the door Mary Poppins |
| #7162, aired 2015-11-03 | 20th CENTURY BUSINESSMEN: In 1915 he dropped bomb-shaped cardboard leaflets on Seattle to promote military aviation Boeing |
| #7159, aired 2015-10-29 | AFRICA: On the Horn of Africa, it's the only country whose name in English begins with a silent letter Djibouti |
| #7155, aired 2015-10-23 | FLOWERS: The flower pictured here is called this, also a disparaging term for people on the political left a bleeding heart |
| #7148, aired 2015-10-14 | U.S. LANDMARKS: For its 50th anniversary in 2012, the roof of this landmark was temporarily repainted its original color, Galaxy Gold the Space Needle (in Seattle) |
| #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 |
| #7143, aired 2015-10-07 | MOVIE CHARACTERS: Charlton Heston's wardrobe in 1954's "Secret of the Incas" inspired the clothes worn by this adventurous character 27 years later Indiana Jones |
| #7142, aired 2015-10-06 | EUROPEAN AUTHORS: "To explain... Harry by the artless division into wolf and man is a hopelessly childish attempt", he wrote in 1927 Hermann Hesse |
| #7132, aired 2015-09-22 | PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS: The only election year since 1952 in which neither major-party candidate had been president or vice president 2008 |
| #7123, aired 2015-07-29 | WOMEN AUTHORS: This woman who passed away in 2015 wrote what is billed as Australia's "Gone with the Wind" Colleen McCullough |
| #7121, aired 2015-07-27 | CLASSICAL MUSIC: The first movement of the 1888 suite named for her is titled "The Sea and Sindbad's Ship" Scheherazade |
| #7119, aired 2015-07-23 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES: The mission of this Western university founded in 1875 is "to assist individuals in their quest for perfection and eternal life" Brigham Young University |
| #7116, aired 2015-07-20 | POETRY: Wagner's line "Oed' und leer das Meer", meaning "Waste and empty the sea", is quoted in a poem by this American-born man T.S. Eliot |
| #7100, aired 2015-06-26 | NOVEL CHARACTERS: This lawyer from a famed 1960 novel shares a name with an ancient Roman renowned for his wisdom Atticus Finch (from To Kill a Mockingbird) |
| #7091, aired 2015-06-15 | 19th CENTURY POETRY: He rhymed the title character of one of his best-known poems with "drew on", "threw on" & "ruin" Lord Byron |
| #7088, aired 2015-06-10 | HISTORIC QUOTES: During the 1976 presidential campaign, Ronald Reagan said of this, "We built it, we paid for it, it's ours & we are going to keep it" the Panama Canal |
| #7087, aired 2015-06-09 | HUMANITIES & HISTORY: Echoing the Morse code for V, in WWII the BBC's "V for Victory" campaign used this classical work as a theme Beethoven's Fifth Symphony |
| #7082, aired 2015-06-02 | INFAMOUS: Born in Illinois of Huguenot ancestry, he was executed in June 1882, a year after his heinous act Charles Guiteau |
| #7080, aired 2015-05-29 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES: Mens et manus, "mind and hand", is the motto of this university whose alumni include I.M. Pei, Amar Bose & Richard Feynman MIT |
| #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 |
| #7066, aired 2015-05-11 | THE OSCARS: Last name of the only family to have a father & daughter receive Academy Award nominations for Best Director Coppola |
| #7059, aired 2015-04-30 | WORLD CITIES: According to U.N. statistics, it's the most populous city in the Americas not attached to the mainland Havana, Cuba |
| #7053, aired 2015-04-22 | AMERICAN POETRY: This 1883 poem says, "Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand a mighty woman..." "The New Colossus" |
| #7050, aired 2015-04-17 | BOOK REVIEWS: A 2008 review of this novel, later filmed, compared it to "Battle Royale" & said it's "a future we can fear" The Hunger Games |
| #7046, aired 2015-04-13 | GEOGRAPHY: The Caucasian Isthmus lies between these 2 large inland bodies of water the Caspian Sea & the Black Sea |
| #7042, aired 2015-04-07 | CELEBRITY FATHERS & DAUGHTERS: He won a Grammy in 1959, she won 3 in the 1970s & a song by both was 1991's Song & Record of the Year Nat King Cole & Natalie Cole |
| #7041, aired 2015-04-06 | NYC LANDMARKS: The lobby of this landmark has an art deco ceiling fresco by Edward Trumbull called "Transport and Human Endeavor" the Chrysler Building |
| #7040, aired 2015-04-03 | EUROPEAN HISTORY: A 3-letter 9th century tribe is in the names of 2 21st century countries: the world's most vast, & this one Belarus |
| #7038, aired 2015-04-01 | ETYMOLOGY: From the Latin for "to walk before", a famous example of this 8-letter word was written in 1787 preamble |
| #7037, aired 2015-03-31 | COMEDY INSPIRATIONS: Rodney Dangerfield credited this 1972 Best Picture Oscar winner for inspiring his most famous line The Godfather |
| #7035, aired 2015-03-27 | TRANSPORTATION: Incorporated in 1948, this company chose its name from the book of the Hebrew prophet Hosea El Al Airlines |
| #7034, aired 2015-03-26 | NAVY SHIPS: First designated as Armored Cruiser No. 1, this ship was commissioned in 1895 & operated on our East Coast & in the Caribbean the Maine |
| #7030, aired 2015-03-20 | UNWANTED FIRSTS: Jean Valliere, burned in 1523, is considered the first martyr of this religious group the Huguenots |
| #7024, aired 2015-03-12 | THE U.S. GOVERNMENT: On August 15, 1994, 59 years & 1 day after FDR signed the original act, Bill Clinton made this an independent agency the Social Security Administration |
| #7023, aired 2015-03-11 | 2014 ALBUMS: With a new release & 8 viral videos to go with it, he had the first comedy album in 50 years to top the Billboard 200 "Weird Al" Yankovic |
| #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 |
| #7021, aired 2015-03-09 | LITERARY CHARACTERS: The first story in which he appeared began, "The scent and smoke and sweat of a casino are nauseating at 3 in the morning" James Bond |
| #7020, aired 2015-03-06 | ROCK & ROLL HALL OF FAME INDUCTION SPEECHES: Springsteen said David Sancious was "the only member of the group who ever actually lived" there E Street |
| #7019, aired 2015-03-05 | PRESIDENTIAL MEDAL OF FREEDOM WINNERS: She was called a "trailblazer for America's daughters" when she won in 2012, a century after founding an organization Juliette Gordon Low |
| #7016, aired 2015-03-02 | LITERARY FIRST LINES: He wrote the 1971 opener "We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold" Hunter S. Thompson (from Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas) |
| #7015, aired 2015-02-27 | AUTHORS & FILMMAKERS: This author had a bitter feud with Michael Moore over the title of a 2004 documentary Ray Bradbury |
| #7014, aired 2015-02-26 | FOREIGN LEADERS: On February 25, 1956, he gave a speech "On the Personality Cult and Its Consequences", seen as an attack on his predecessor Khrushchev |
| #7004, aired 2015-02-12 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY: Not in the 10 longest, this 1,560-mile river in a fertile basin flows by 29 cities of over 100,000 people the Ganges |
| #7003, aired 2015-02-11 | REFERENCE BOOK MAKERS: In 1863 he used the epigraph "I have gathered... other men's flowers, & nothing but the thread that binds them is mine own" John Bartlett |
| #7001, aired 2015-02-09 | 19th CENTURY WRITERS: After his death, he was given full military honors in Greece before his body was returned home for burial at his baronial seat Lord Byron |
| #7000, aired 2015-02-06 | SHAKESPEARE: After England, more Shakespeare plays are set in this present-day country than in any other Italy |
| #6999, aired 2015-02-05 | LISTS: Efforts to save historic treasures threatened by the creation of the Aswan High Dam led UNESCO to create this list the World Heritage (Sites) list |
| #6995, aired 2015-01-30 | INVENTORS: In 1702 Thomas Savery wrote of one of his designs, "Such an engine will do the work or labour of ten or twelve" these horses |
| #6990, aired 2015-01-23 | RIVERS: This North American river first sailed by Europeans in 1534 is named for a man who was martyred in Rome in the 3rd century the St. Lawrence River |
| #6987, aired 2015-01-20 | LAST WORDS: In 1170 he said, "I am ready to die for my Lord, that in my blood the Church may obtain liberty and peace" St. Thomas Becket |
| #6983, aired 2015-01-14 | U.S. STATES: The difference of this Southern state's highest & lowest points is only 345 feet, the smallest disparity among the states Florida |
| #6972, aired 2014-12-30 | ROYALTY: He was the last English monarch to die in battle Richard III |
| #6964, aired 2014-12-18 | 20th CENTURY SCULPTURE: Its sculptor asked for prayer that this work would "endure until the wind and the rain alone shall wear them away" Mount Rushmore |
| #6961, aired 2014-12-15 | POETRY: The narrator mistakes the presence of this title creature for the wind & later calls it prophet the raven |
| #6960, aired 2014-12-12 | LITERARY TRAVEL: The romantic balcony seen here is one of the most popular tourist attractions in this Italian city Verona |
| #6959, aired 2014-12-11 | THE BIBLE: The first birthday celebration mentioned in the Bible takes place in Genesis 40 & is in honor of this ruler the Pharaoh in Egypt |
| #6955, aired 2014-12-05 | HEALTH & MEDICINE: In 1985 the Surgeon General called this "the best rescue technique in any choking situation" the Heimlich maneuver |
| #6952, aired 2014-12-02 | KINGS & QUEENS: Technically this monarch is the head of state of 16 countries including Jamaica & New Zealand Elizabeth II |
| #6951, aired 2014-12-01 | TV CHARACTERS: This 8'2" character who made his debut in 1969 is still going strong Big Bird |
| #6946, aired 2014-11-24 | BRITISH MUSICMAKERS OF THE '90s: One critic called them "a social phenomenon", "the most widely recognised group... since John, Paul, George & Ringo" the Spice Girls |
| #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 |
| #6944, aired 2014-11-20 | 20th CENTURY PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS: In this year, there were no pres's or VPs running, but 3 of the 4 men on the 2 major party ballots would become president 1920 |
| #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 |
| #6941, aired 2014-11-17 | THE OTHER SIDE OF THE GLOBE: This capital city, which at 12,330 miles is farthest from Madrid, is named for a soldier who spent time in Madrid Wellington |
| #6939, aired 2014-11-13 | TUNNELS: These 2 islands that begin with the same letter are linked by the 33.5-mile Seikan rail tunnel, the world's longest in operation Honshu and Hokkaido |
| #6936, aired 2014-11-10 | STATE HOLIDAYS: This is the only state that honors a former U.S. Secretary of State with his own legal holiday Alaska |
| #6932, aired 2014-11-04 | THE SUPREME COURT: After Washington & FDR, he is, perhaps fittingly, the president who appointed the most Supreme Court justices (William Howard) Taft |
| #6928, aired 2014-10-29 | AMERICAN-BORN AUTHORS: In 1915 his reasons for naturalization included "having lived and worked in England for the best part of forty years" Henry James |
| #6926, aired 2014-10-27 | ROCK & ROLL: A restaurant chain took its name from a British band's fourth chart-topper, this 1967 song "Ruby Tuesday" |
| #6925, aired 2014-10-24 | TONY NOMINATIONS: Although she has appeared in only 2 Broadway musicals, she got Tony nominations for both, for 1962 & 1964 Barbra Streisand |
| #6924, aired 2014-10-23 | FRENCH FOOD HISTORY: A popular product was born when Jean Naigeon of this city substituted the juice of unripe grapes for vinegar Dijon |
| #6920, aired 2014-10-17 | COATS OF ARMS: This country's coat of arms features a palm tree & a 19th century American sailing ship Liberia |
| #6919, aired 2014-10-16 | LITERATURE: This title 1864 adventure is embarked upon by a descent into Iceland's Mount Sneffels Journey to the Center of the Earth |
| #6916, aired 2014-10-13 | SPORTS FIGURES: He was featured on the September 22, 1947 cover of Time with the caption "He and the boss took a chance" Jackie Robinson |
| #6914, aired 2014-10-09 | HISTORICAL FIGURES: A 2012 poll by Britain's National Army Museum voted this man, born in 1732, as the nation's greatest military enemy George Washington |
| #6911, aired 2014-10-06 | MUSIC: John Williams said his music for this event, not a film, tried to capture "the spirit of cooperation, of heroic achievement" the (1984 Summer) Olympics (in Los Angeles) |
| #6906, aired 2014-09-29 | AGATHA CHRISTIE: In the 400-page book "Agatha Christie A to Z", entries beginning with this 6-letter word start on page 224 & end on 238 "Murder" |
| #6905, aired 2014-09-26 | FAMOUS AMERICANS: In 1936 at age 79, he published an article in Esquire magazine in which he described how to pick a jury Clarence Darrow |
| #6902, aired 2014-09-23 | ENGLISH MONARCHS: She was born near London; her mother, near Madrid "Bloody" Mary Tudor |
| #6901, aired 2014-09-22 | THE BILLBOARD ALBUM CHARTS: 11 movie soundtrack albums by this performer hit the Billboard Top 10, with 4 hitting No. 1 Elvis Presley |
| #6899, aired 2014-09-18 | FOREIGN WORDS: The Holy Roman Empire from 800 to 1806 was the first; the German empire from 1871 to 1918 was the second reich |
| #6898, aired 2014-09-17 | MUSICAL THEATER: In "Godspell" this character leads the company in singing, "Prepare Ye The Way Of The Lord" John the Baptist (or Judas Iscariot) |
| #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 |
| #6893, aired 2014-07-30 | GREAT MOMENTS IN 19th CENTURY SCIENCE: Matthias Schleiden found plants are made up of these; at dinner he told Theodor Schwann who said, hey, so are animals cells |
| #6890, aired 2014-07-25 | WEBSITES: A slang term for Harvard's freshman register gave this website its name Facebook |
| #6884, aired 2014-07-17 | 16th CENTURY SCIENTISTS: It is often said of this man that he "stopped the Sun and moved the Earth" Copernicus |
| #6882, aired 2014-07-15 | U.S. GOVERNMENT PEOPLE: A committee chaired by the official in this job released the influential 1964 report "Smoking and Health" the Surgeon General |
| #6880, aired 2014-07-11 | AMERICAN LITERATURE: Published in 1925, it still sells 500,000 copies a year & was on the bestseller lists in 2013 The Great Gatsby |
| #6869, aired 2014-06-26 | SCIENCE & INDUSTRY: In 1891 this European said, "Perhaps my factories will put an end to war sooner than your congresses" Alfred Nobel |
| #6862, aired 2014-06-17 | 19th CENTURY NOVEL CHARACTERS: His "spinal column was curved"... the "head was between the shoulder-blades and... one leg was shorter than the other" Quasimodo (the Hunchback of Notre Dame) |
| #6857, aired 2014-06-10 | SCIENTISTS: As a humorous tribute, an astronomical term equivalent to at least 4 billion has been named for him Carl Sagan |
| #6855, aired 2014-06-06 | 20th CENTURY AMERICANS: In 1911 Glenn Curtiss received this document Number 1 a pilot's license |
| #6854, aired 2014-06-05 | 19th CENTURY U.S. HISTORY: A dignitary at the dedication of this said it was "keeping watch and ward before the open gates of America" The Statue of Liberty |
| #6851, aired 2014-06-02 | OSCAR-WINNING WRITERS: Winning for 1999, this New England writer is the last person to win an Oscar for adapting his own novel John Irving |
| #6850, aired 2014-05-30 | 19th CENTURY POLITICS: A Senate seat from this Southern state sat vacant for 4 years; when it was filled, its ex-occupant had become U.S. president Tennessee |
| #6847, aired 2014-05-27 | 20th CENTURY PLAY TITLES: This play's title comes from the name of a Greek king said to have carved a statue of a woman & fallen in love with it Pygmalion |
| #6845, aired 2014-05-23 | THE 1960s: In his last speech, he mentioned local newsmakers of the day, including his friend Cesar Chavez & Don Drysdale Robert F. Kennedy |
| #6844, aired 2014-05-22 | TECHNOLOGY: When Apple sued for iPad patent infringement, Samsung cited this 1968 movie as the originator of the design 2001: A Space Odyssey |
| #6842, aired 2014-05-20 | BRITISH NOVELS: Stephen King borrowed the name of his fictional town Castle Rock from this 1950s novel that greatly influenced him Lord of the Flies |
| #6840, aired 2014-05-16 | SECRETARIES OF STATE: Serving 160 years apart, these 2 Secretaries of State are the only ones who never married Condoleezza Rice & James Buchanan |
| #6839, aired 2014-05-15 | THE ACADEMY AWARDS: 1 of the 2 movies in the last 30 years, one a drama & one a comedy, to win Oscars for Best Actor & Best Actress The Silence of the Lambs or As Good as It Gets |
| #6838, aired 2014-05-14 | NAMES ON THE MAP: Visited by Jacques Cartier in 1534, it was later renamed for Queen Victoria's father, the Duke of Kent Prince Edward Island |
| #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 |
| #6831, aired 2014-05-05 | WORD ORIGINS: This word for a timid person comes from the last name of a character in a 1920s newspaper comic called "The Timid Soul" milquetoast |
| #6827, aired 2014-04-29 | U.S. HISTORY: Messrs. Gusenberg, Gusenberg, May, Weinshank, Clark, Heyer & Schwimmer famously died on this day in 1929 February 14 (or Valentine's Day) |
| #6826, aired 2014-04-28 | NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING AUTHORS: Due to injuries suffered in 2 plane crashes in Africa, he was unable to accept his 1954 Nobel Prize in person Ernest Hemingway |
| #6814, aired 2014-04-10 | FOREIGN LEADERS: In 1964 he was convicted of sabotage & conspiracy & served over 20 years in prison Nelson Mandela |
| #6813, aired 2014-04-09 | AROUND THE USA: The Mayo Clinic Mile is a walking path that features 1 mile, 5K & 10K routes within this structure the Mall of America |
| #6810, aired 2014-04-04 | 20th CENTURY NOVEL QUOTES: "It was one of those pictures... so contrived that the eyes follow you... beneath" the picture was this 5-word quote Big Brother is watching you |
| #6809, aired 2014-04-03 | 19th CENTURY POLITICS: In 1884 George Pillsbury became mayor of this city Minneapolis |
| #6794, aired 2014-03-13 | WORLD CAPITALS: At 4,000 miles, the farthest-apart capitals of bordering countries are these 2 cities, one on a peninsula Moscow & Pyongyang |
| #6793, aired 2014-03-12 | BRITISH ROYALTY: He was the last male monarch who had not previously been Prince of Wales George VI |
| #6792, aired 2014-03-11 | NOVEL TITLES: The title of this 1951 novel comes from the hero's fantasy of rescuing children falling from a cliff The Catcher in the Rye |
| #6788, aired 2014-03-05 | 4-LETTER WORDS: New research says this word that has become ubiquitous dates back to young men also called "macaronis" dude |
| #6785, aired 2014-02-28 | MODERN DAY SUFFIXES: Dating from 1973, this 4-letter suffix indicates a person or thing that has become associated with public scandal -gate |
| #6784, aired 2014-02-27 | LANDMARKS: From 1936 to 1987, the Los Angeles Department of Water & Power helped operate this facility in another state Hoover Dam |
| #6780, aired 2014-02-21 | THE BRITISH EMPIRE: 1713's Treaty of Utrecht concluding the War of the Spanish Succession granted this small 2.3-square-mile area to Great Britain Gibraltar |
| #6779, aired 2014-02-20 | AUTHORS: On his death in 1862 a Massachusetts paper said, "No man ever lived closer to nature, and reported her secrets more eloquently" Thoreau |
| #6778, aired 2014-02-19 | SHAKESPEARE CHARACTERS: He has the most speeches of any character with 471 in 3 plays, of which 2 are histories & 1 is a comedy Falstaff |
| #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 |
| #6771, aired 2014-02-10 | ISLANDS: In a satellite photo, volcanic activity can be seen on this 10,000-square-mile island Sicily |
| #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 |
| #6768, aired 2014-02-05 | THE PERIODIC TABLE: Of the element symbols that don't match the element's English name, this element's symbol is alphabetically 1st silver |
| #6766, aired 2014-02-03 | PRESIDENTS & FIRST LADIES: The only foreign-born First Lady was the wife of this man who served in the diplomatic corps from age 14 John Quincy Adams |
| #6764, aired 2014-01-30 | COMEDIC ACTRESSES: She's won Emmys for 3 different TV shows & in 2013 she broke Lucille Ball's record for most nominations by a comedic actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus |
| #6760, aired 2014-01-24 | GROUNDBREAKING NONFICTION: Chapters in this 1962 classic include "Earth's Green Mantle", "Needless Havoc", "Rivers of Death" & "And No Birds Sing" Silent Spring |
| #6759, aired 2014-01-23 | NOTABLE NAMES: During a jubilee celebration in 2003, he became the first foreigner to be made an honorary citizen of Nepal (Edmund) Hillary |
| #6747, aired 2014-01-07 | THE TITANIC: A member of Parliament said, "Those who have been saved have been saved through one man", this Italian Marconi |
| #6746, aired 2014-01-06 | BROADWAY ACTRESSES: She originated 2 famous Broadway roles: one later played on film by Marilyn Monroe, another by Barbra Streisand Carol Channing |
| #6743, aired 2014-01-01 | NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS: This intellectual forum started in 1984, bringing together people from 3 different industries, hence its 3-letter name TED |
| #6738, aired 2013-12-25 | AUTHORS: "The American Tolkien" was what Time magazine called this author with the same 2 middle initials as Tolkien George R.R. Martin |
| #6731, aired 2013-12-16 | COUNTRIES FOR SHORT: North Korea is the DPRK; this country is the LPDR Laos |
| #6729, aired 2013-12-12 | 21st CENTURY NOVELS: In a letter to the author, President Obama called this "a lovely book--an elegant proof of God, and the power of storytelling" Life of Pi (by Yann Martel) |
| #6727, aired 2013-12-10 | STATE CAPITALS: It's the Southern city in which the building seen here is located; counting the panels may help Austin |
| #6725, aired 2013-12-06 | HISTORIC LETTERS: In April 1865 she wrote to Mary Lincoln, "I cannot remain silent... brokenhearted by the loss of my own beloved husband" Queen Victoria |
| #6721, aired 2013-12-02 | POP GROUPS: In 2012, 22 years after their first album, they released a new one that includes "Good Vibrations" & "Monday Monday" Wilson Phillips |
| #6720, aired 2013-11-29 | COLLEGE SPORTS MASCOTS: In 1947 Walt Disney made a handshake deal to let this university use one of his major characters as its mascot, still in use today the University of Oregon |
| #6710, aired 2013-11-15 | PLAY CHARACTERS: In Peter Roach's phonetics glossary, this alliterative guy is "the best-known fictional phonetician" Henry Higgins |
| #6707, aired 2013-11-12 | HISTORIC OBJECTS: In 1802, 3 years after it was discovered, it was moved to London under the terms of the surrender of Alexandria the Rosetta Stone |
| #6701, aired 2013-11-04 | FOOD & DRINK: This soft drink was named for a digestive enzyme & a native African plant Pepsi-Cola |
| #6700, aired 2013-11-01 | NATIONS OF THE WORLD: The only 2 countries in the Americas that border each other & begin with the same letter Brazil & Bolivia |
| #6695, aired 2013-10-25 | EUROPEAN LITERATURE: This 1922 novel's first chapter is titled "The Son of the Brahman" Siddhartha |
| #6686, aired 2013-10-14 | BIG COUNTRIES: In area, it's the largest former Soviet republic after Russia & the largest nation that doesn't border an ocean Kazakhstan |
| #6685, aired 2013-10-11 | WORLD CAPITALS: It's the capital city of the only country that borders both the Mediterranean Sea & the Black Sea Ankara |
| #6680, aired 2013-10-04 | COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD: By population, it's the largest country in the world without nuclear weapons Indonesia |
| #6672, aired 2013-09-24 | NEWSPAPERS: On July 23, 2013 this bestselling British tabloid re-spelled its name on its masthead to honor big British news The Sun |
| #6669, aired 2013-09-19 | CLASSIC ALBUMS: This 1960s album ends with the line "I'd love to turn you on" Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band |
| #6668, aired 2013-09-18 | WORLD WAR II: Because time was short, only this ship's starboard side, used for boarding, was repainted September 1, 1945 the USS Missouri |
| #6665, aired 2013-08-02 | BODIES OF WATER: This body of water bearing the name of a country borders 5 U.S. states the Gulf of Mexico |
| #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 |
| #6660, aired 2013-07-26 | CLASSICAL MUSICIANS: The cover of the May 19, 1958 Time magazine called him "The Texan who conquered Russia" Van Cliburn |
| #6659, aired 2013-07-25 | FRENCH HISTORY: Starting in 1349, this marine animal was on the coat of arms of the heir apparent to the French throne a dolphin |
| #6657, aired 2013-07-23 | OSCAR-WINNING ACTORS: They're the only 2 Best Actor winners with the same last name; one was a winner for 1979 & 1988, the other for 2005 Dustin Hoffman & Philip Seymour Hoffman |
| #6654, aired 2013-07-18 | HISTORIC TELEGRAMS: In May 1945 Churchill cabled Truman that this "is drawn down upon their front. We do not know what is going on behind" the Iron Curtain |
| #6653, aired 2013-07-17 | INTERNATIONAL SPORTS: 2013 marks the 100th running of this event, first won by Maurice Garin with a time of 94 hours, 33 minutes, 14 seconds the Tour de France |
| #6649, aired 2013-07-11 | CLASSICAL MUSIC: This piece that premiered in Moscow in 1882 includes strains from "God Save the Czar" & "La Marseillaise" the 1812 Overture |
| #6646, aired 2013-07-08 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN FIRSTS: Tracing her family to William Hood of 18th century Pennsylvania, Karen Batchelor made news as this organization's first African-American member the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) |
| #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 |
| #6637, aired 2013-06-25 | PLANTS: Economically speaking, this plant family with about 10,000 species is by far the most important the grass family |
| #6627, aired 2013-06-11 | AMERICAN LITERATURE: This 1884 novel begins in the fictional town of St. Petersburg & ends in Pikesville, 1,100 miles down the Mississippi Adventures of Huckleberry Finn |
| #6626, aired 2013-06-10 | 19th CENTURY NAMES: This French engineer once asked, "Why should we disguise the industrial nature of iron, even in the city?" Gustave Eiffel |
| #6625, aired 2013-06-07 | AMERICAN WRITERS: Contemporary reviews called this writer "A Yankee Diogenes" & the "Concord Diogenes" Henry David Thoreau |
| #6623, aired 2013-06-05 | SPORTING EVENTS: An old name for this Olympic sporting event is the quinquertium the pentathlon |
| #6619, aired 2013-05-30 | AMERICAN SCIENTISTS: In 1920, the New York Times said he lacks the “knowledge ladled out daily in high schools”; on July 17, 1969, the paper apologized Robert Goddard |
| #6617, aired 2013-05-28 | AMERICAN ACTORS: Reflecting a long friendship dating to a 1962 film they did together, Brock Peters gave the eulogy at this star's 2003 funeral Gregory Peck |
| #6613, aired 2013-05-22 | AMERICAN WOMEN: Referring to a 1955 incident, she said, "Our mistreatment was just not right, and I was tired of it" Rosa Parks |
| #6608, aired 2013-05-15 | FAMOUS EUROPEANS: After moving to Argentina in 1949, this industrialist was named a righteous gentile by Yad Vashem Oskar Schindler |
| #6605, aired 2013-05-10 | FAMOUS NAMES IN TRANSPORTATION: In 1928, a year after making international headlines, it reached its final destination, the Smithsonian the Spirit of St. Louis |
| #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 |
| #6592, aired 2013-04-23 | GEOGRAPHIC MATH: North America's 3 mainland countries have a total of 91 states & provinces; Mexico has this many states 31 |
| #6583, aired 2013-04-10 | 19th CENTURY AUTHORS: His works include "Sylvie and Bruno", "Phantasmagoria and Other Poems" & "Algebraic Formulae and Rules" Lewis Carroll |
| #6579, aired 2013-04-04 | AT THE GROCERY STORE: The national promotion board for this food, Citrullus lanatus, lists hydration as a primary health benefit watermelon |
| #6577, aired 2013-04-02 | AUTHORS: This author who passed away in 2012 quipped, "For those who haven't read the books, I am known best for my hair preparations" Gore Vidal |
| #6575, aired 2013-03-29 | PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS: Since 1850, 1 of the 2 Republicans to appear on the ticket as president or vice president 3 elections in a row Richard Nixon or George H.W. Bush |
| #6556, aired 2013-03-04 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES: One of its mascots is a restored 1930 Sport Coupe that's been in use at the school since 1961 Georgia Tech |
| #6555, aired 2013-03-01 | BUSINESS HISTORY: In 1938 his company began installing instruments in U.S. homes to record the frequencies to which a radio was tuned A.C. Nielsen |
| #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 |
| #6551, aired 2013-02-25 | AMERICAN AUTHORS: In 1925 she visited a floating theater docked in North Carolina to research her next novel (Edna) Ferber |
| #6550, aired 2013-02-22 | ITALY: The Italian word for "shadow" is used as a local variation on the name of this region midway between Rome & Florence Umbria |
| #6548, aired 2013-02-20 | CLASSIC JAZZ SONGS: The title of this 1959 instrumental is a synonym for "Time Out", the album on which it first appeared "Take Five" |
| #6542, aired 2013-02-12 | MILITARY MEN: On June 6, 1944 he said, "The eyes of the world are upon you" Dwight David Eisenhower |
| #6540, aired 2013-02-08 | U.S. GOVERNMENT: Recently in the news, this agency traces its origins to an 1803 act helping Portsmouth, N.H. after a fire FEMA |
| #6539, aired 2013-02-07 | CAPITAL CITIES: It's criss-crossed by dozens of "peace walls" that separate its Catholic & Protestant neighborhoods Belfast |
| #6538, aired 2013-02-06 | FAMOUS ASIANS: When this diplomat met the singer Psy in 2012, he said, "Until 2 days ago... I was the most famous Korean in the world" Ban Ki-moon |
| #6537, aired 2013-02-05 | SHORT STORIES: It says, "The body of the trooper having been buried in the church yard, the ghost rides forth... in nightly quest of his head" "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" |
| #6536, aired 2013-02-04 | MOUNT RUSHMORE: It's the only U.S. state that has more than one native-born son honored on Mount Rushmore Virginia |
| #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 |
| #6532, aired 2013-01-29 | METEOROLOGICAL TERMS: In the 1940s an anemometer aided Antarctic experiments that 1st determined this measurement heard in weather reports wind chill |
| #6528, aired 2013-01-23 | WOMEN AUTHORS: The first of Jane Austen's 6 novels to be published in her lifetime, its title is last alphabetically Sense and Sensibility |
| #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 |
| #6520, aired 2013-01-11 | RIVERS: It's the world's longest river whose outflow is into an entirely inland body of water the Volga River |
| #6519, aired 2013-01-10 | LEGAL TERMS: This term for a type of decision is from Old French for "to speak the truth" verdict |
| #6517, aired 2013-01-08 | PRESIDENTIAL DISTINCTIONS: Record holder for the longest time lived after leaving office Jimmy Carter |
| #6516, aired 2013-01-07 | AMERICAN SPORTS LEGENDS: A bio from 1974, 26 years after his death, quotes him: "I swing big... I hit big or I miss big. I like to live as big as I can" Babe Ruth |
| #6514, aired 2013-01-03 | SEX & THE CONSTITUTION: Of the 27 amendments to the Constitution, it's the number of the only one to contain the word "sex" the 19th Amendment |
| #6512, aired 2013-01-01 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA: Held in 1857, America's first national landscape design contest was for the creation of this place Central Park |
| #6503, aired 2012-12-19 | SHAKESPEARE: The last speech in this play says, "No grave upon the earth shall clip in it a pair so famous" Antony and Cleopatra |
| #6495, aired 2012-12-07 | 20th CENTURY PLAYS: This 1962 play takes place beginning at 2 A.M. in the living room of a house on a New England college campus Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf |
| #6488, aired 2012-11-28 | COUNTRIES: It was created in the early 1700s from 2 counties purchased by an Austrian prince; he named the nation for his family Liechtenstein |
| #6487, aired 2012-11-27 | BILLBOARD NO. 1 ALBUMS: The soundtrack for this film based on a play holds the record for the most weeks at No. 1, 54 weeks in 1962 & '63 West Side Story |
| #6485, aired 2012-11-23 | BIOGRAPHIES ABOUT AUTHORS: Chapters in a biography on this author include "Declaring His Genius" and "A Late Victorian Love Affair" Oscar Wilde |
| #6484, aired 2012-11-22 | NUTRITION: The word coined for these substances in 1912 was meant to suggest they were essential to life & contained nitrogen vitamins |
| #6480, aired 2012-11-16 | CLASSICAL MUSIC: This 1890 piece was named for a Verlaine poem that begins, "Your soul is as a moonlit landscape fair" "Clair de Lune" |
| #6479, aired 2012-11-15 | MATH MEN: In 1880 he wrote, "We draw two circles, and make them include or exclude or intersect one another" (John) Venn |
| #6478, aired 2012-11-14 | U.S. PRESIDENTS: The only 2 presidents never to present a State of the Union address are William Henry Harrison & this man James Garfield |
| #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 |
| #6473, aired 2012-11-07 | PLAYS: Referring to its 2 acts, an Irish critic described it as "a play in which nothing happens, twice" Waiting for Godot |
| #6471, aired 2012-11-05 | BROADWAY MUSICALS: Based on a 1926 play & real-life events, it's now the longest-running American musical in Broadway history Chicago |
| #6467, aired 2012-10-30 | 20th CENTURY BOOKS: "A Cry of Children" & "Nightmare Island" were proposed titles for this novel Lord of the Flies |
| #6464, aired 2012-10-25 | WORLD LANGUAGES: Of the Romance languages, it has the greatest number of native speakers in a single country Portuguese |
| #6460, aired 2012-10-19 | CABLE TV FIRSTS: When Turner Classic Movies began broadcasting on April 14, 1994, the first movie shown was this one Gone with the Wind |
| #6453, aired 2012-10-10 | HISTORIC RULERS: This ruler of a New World country was born in Vienna's Schonbrunn Palace in 1832 & executed far from home in 1867 Maximilian I |
| #6449, aired 2012-10-04 | AUTHORS: In 1890 he captained the stern-wheeler Roi des Belges on a voyage down the Congo River Joseph Conrad |
| #6440, aired 2012-09-21 | THE OSCARS: The only remake of a U.S. film to win Best Picture; the original was made in the 1920s, the Oscar-winning remake in the 1950s Ben-Hur |
| #6436, aired 2012-09-17 | ISLANDS: Of the world's 5 largest islands by area, the 2 with territory of more than 1 country are Borneo & this one New Guinea |
| #6433, aired 2012-08-01 | BRITISH SCIENTISTS: In 1859 a theory was born when he wrote, "from so simple a beginning endless forms... have been, and are being, evolved" Charles Darwin |
| #6430, aired 2012-07-27 | ANTARCTICA: This country that explored the Antarctic interior is the most northerly nation to claim territory on the continent Norway |
| #6418, aired 2012-07-11 | INAUGURAL ADDRESSES: He said, "It is 72 years since the first inauguration of a president under our national Constitution" Abraham Lincoln |
| #6412, aired 2012-07-03 | 1950s MOVIES: "The Man on Lincoln's Nose" was a working title for this 1959 film North by Northwest |
| #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 |
| #6396, aired 2012-06-11 | EVENTS IN THE BIBLE: Acts 1:13 says this event occurred in "an upper room" the Last Supper |
| #6393, aired 2012-06-06 | THE PRESIDENCY: Between January 1, 1841 & December 31, 1850 the U.S. had this many presidents, the most in a 10-year period 6 |
| #6392, aired 2012-06-05 | WOMEN IN ENTERTAINMENT: 1 of the first 2 women in Hollywood to own a studio (according to the official bio of No. 3, Oprah) (1 of) Mary Pickford or Lucille Ball |
| #6389, aired 2012-05-31 | AIRLINE HISTORY: Clipper Goodwill, a Boeing 727, took this airline's last passengers from Barbados to Miami December 4, 1991 Pan Am |
| #6388, aired 2012-05-30 | PRESIDENTIAL RESTING PLACES: Only 3 sites have the remains of 2 presidents: 1 at Quincy, Massachusetts, 1 at Arlington & 1 in this state capital Richmond, Virginia |
| #6387, aired 2012-05-29 | CLASSIC MYSTERY NOVELS: A letter in this mystery says, "We are going... to Luxor and Assuan by steamer, and perhaps on to Khartoum" Death on the Nile |
| #6381, aired 2012-05-21 | DRAMA: This play that came to Broadway in 2005 is set in the autumn of 1964 at St. Nicholas Church School in the Bronx Doubt |
| #6375, aired 2012-05-11 | AMERICAN HISTORY: When the future state of Iowa became part of the United States, this man was President Thomas Jefferson |
| #6370, aired 2012-05-04 | THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION: In 1777 an opponent wrote of him "Money is this man's God, and to get enough of it he would sacrifice his country" Benedict Arnold |
| #6363, aired 2012-04-25 | WEBSITES: It launched its first offer on October 22, 2008: a two-for-one pizza deal in Chicago Groupon |
| #6351, aired 2012-04-09 | THE HOLLYWOOD WALK OF FAME: His widow Maria Elena & actor Gary Busey were on hand when his star was dedicated outside Capitol Records in 2011 Buddy Holly |
| #6342, aired 2012-03-27 | 20th CENTURY NOVELS: "Books leapt and danced like roasted birds, their wings ablaze with red and yellow feathers" is a line from this novel Fahrenheit 451 (by Ray Bradbury) |
| #6332, aired 2012-03-13 | FICTIONAL WOMEN: After dying, she's described as having "too much of water", & her brother says, "therefore I forbid my tears" Ophelia |
| #6330, aired 2012-03-09 | MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS: An entertainer born in 1888 whose original first name was Adolph was one of the best-known players of this instrument the harp |
| #6324, aired 2012-03-01 | SCIENTISTS: In 1711 Newton led the Royal Society in London & his greatest rival led the Academy of Sciences in this capital city Berlin |
| #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. |
| #6316, aired 2012-02-20 | FRENCH PAINTERS: This French painter wrote, "I am good for nothing except painting and gardening" Monet |
| #6313, aired 2012-02-15 | U.S. STATES: This third-smallest state in area is home to the USA's third-oldest college Connecticut |
| #6312, aired 2012-02-14 | COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD: The 14 countries that border China run alphabetically from this to Vietnam Afghanistan |
| #6307, aired 2012-02-07 | MEDICAL DISCOVERIES: Nicolas Paulescu isolated a substance he called pancrein, now known as this insulin |
| #6304, aired 2012-02-02 | 19th CENTURY AUTHORS: One of this author's greatest successes came after remarking, "I want to write about a fellow who was two fellows" Robert Louis Stevenson |
| #6302, aired 2012-01-31 | 1870s PEOPLE: Preserved in the West Point library, his last message reads, "Benteen. Come on. Big village. Be quick. Bring packs" General Custer |
| #6301, aired 2012-01-30 | 1960s TV CHARACTERS: One of her first spoken lines is translated as "You have the face of a wise and fearless caliph" Jeannie |
| #6293, aired 2012-01-18 | FATHERS & SONS: The island where this man's son washed ashore was later named Ikaria Daedalus |
| #6292, aired 2012-01-17 | U.S. POPULATION: Between 2000 & 2010 these 2 states that border each other led the nation in highest percentage of population increase, 35% & 25% Arizona and Nevada |
| #6288, aired 2012-01-11 | FOOD ETYMOLOGY: Keith Downey developed rapeseed into this cooking product, now a huge cash crop for farmers in Saskatchewan canola |
| #6283, aired 2012-01-04 | 1930s NOVELS: An audio version of this anti-war novel by a once blacklisted author has introductions from Cindy Sheehan & Ron Kovic Johnny Got His Gun |
| #6282, aired 2012-01-03 | ASTRONOMY: In July 2011 it completed its first orbit around the Sun since its discovery in 1846 Neptune |
| #6279, aired 2011-12-29 | CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN WRITERS: Concluding a 4-book series, his 2004 novel "Folly and Glory" features Kit Carson, William Clark & Jim Bowie Larry McMurtry |
| #6264, aired 2011-12-08 | DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE SIGNERS: The only Roman Catholic signer represented this state Maryland |
| #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 |
| #6250, aired 2011-11-18 | ACTOR-DIRECTORS: It's rare to get Oscar nominations for Best Director & Best Actor for the same film; he is 1 of the 2 who did it twice (1 of) Clint Eastwood & Warren Beatty |
| #6247, aired 2011-11-15 | 19th CENTURY POETRY: He wrote, "He looked upon the garish day With such a wistful eye; The man had killed the thing he loved, & so he had to die" Oscar Wilde |
| #6245, aired 2011-11-11 | BUSINESS: A 2005 sale of 14,159,265 shares prompted the headline "Google offers shares, seeks global piece of" this pi |
| #6244, aired 2011-11-10 | HOLLYWOOD HISTORY: They were the first 2 sisters ever nominated for the same acting Oscar in the same year Joan Fontaine & Olivia de Havilland |
| #6242, aired 2011-11-08 | 18th CENTURY AUTHORS: In a poem he named himself Cadenus, an anagram of Decanus, or "Dean" Jonathan Swift |
| #6241, aired 2011-11-07 | FROM THE GREEK: The word for a song element you won't find in instrumentals comes from the name of this instrument a lyre |
| #6236, aired 2011-10-31 | 19th CENTURY QUOTATIONS: "In this sense, the theory of" this group "may be summed up in the single sentence: abolition of private property" communists |
| #6235, aired 2011-10-28 | INVENTORS: In 1823 this Scot obtained a patent for a process that made silk, paper & "other substances impervious to water and air" Charles Macintosh |
| #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 |
| #6227, aired 2011-10-18 | FOREIGN-BORN INVENTORS: His 1922 New York Times obituary mentions that his patent No. 174,465 "has been called the most valuable patent ever issued" Alexander Graham Bell |
| #6225, aired 2011-10-14 | THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE: This nation lost its direct access to the Pacific around 1880 but retains a navy that patrols its rivers & a large lake Bolivia |
| #6223, aired 2011-10-12 | ART & STATE CAPITALS: The Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, home to the largest permanent collection of her works, is in this state capital Santa Fe |
| #6222, aired 2011-10-11 | 19th CENTURY LITERATURE: "'How are you getting on?' said" this animal character, "as soon as there was mouth enough for it to speak with" the Cheshire Cat |
| #6219, aired 2011-10-06 | OSCAR NOMINATIONS: The only time 3 actors from the same movie were nominated for Best Actor was for this high seas film Mutiny on the Bounty |
| #6217, aired 2011-10-04 | EUROPEAN TRAVEL & TOURISM: Visited by 15 million people a year, this spot in Britain honors an 1805 battle fought elsewhere Trafalgar Square |
| #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 |
| #6204, aired 2011-07-28 | WORLD HISTORY: Surus was the last known one of these to survive a mountain crossing in the 3rd century B.C. an elephant |
| #6200, aired 2011-07-22 | FAMOUS AMERICANS: In 1909 he sent the message "Stars and Stripes nailed to the pole" Robert Peary |
| #6197, aired 2011-07-19 | 19th CENTURY NOVELS: This novel's first epilogue says, "The activity of Alexander or of Napoleon cannot be called useful or harmful" War and Peace |
| #6195, aired 2011-07-15 | TRADEMARKS: In 1987 a maker of fiberglass insulation became the first company to trademark a color--this color pink |
| #6193, aired 2011-07-13 | NAME THE POET: "The spirit who bideth by himself / In the land of mist and snow / He loved the bird that loved the man / Who shot him with his bow" Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
| #6185, aired 2011-07-01 | BRITISH AUTHORS: She described her work as "human nature in the Midland Counties" & involving "three or four families in a country village" Jane Austen |
| #6178, aired 2011-06-22 | LITERARY CHARACTERS: His "remarks about the Confederacy... made Atlanta look at him first in bewilderment, then coolly and then with hot rage" Rhett Butler |
| #6168, aired 2011-06-08 | THE MOVIES: Lt. Col. A.P. Clark played a key role in the elaborate breakout from Stalag Luft III that inspired this 1963 movie The Great Escape |
| #6167, aired 2011-06-07 | BESTSELLERS: In the beginning this 2005 novel was simply titled "Forks" Twilight |
| #6133, aired 2011-04-20 | HISTORIC AMERICANS: Sharing his first name with the man who took this 1850s photo, he's the diplomat & officer seen here Matthew Perry |
| #6130, aired 2011-04-15 | ANCIENT ARTIFACTS: Some of its text says, "The decree should be written on a stela of hard stone, in sacred writing, document writing & Greek writing" the Rosetta Stone |
| #6127, aired 2011-04-12 | BASEBALL & THE PRESIDENCY: As both vice president & president, he threw out a season's 1st pitch, each time for a different Senators franchise Richard Nixon |
| #6113, aired 2011-03-23 | BRITISH NOVELISTS: In his journals he described how he once set 2 groups of boys against each other, likely inspiring his 1954 novel William Golding |
| #6112, aired 2011-03-22 | GARMENTS OF THE WORLD: The custom of hijab, Arabic for "veiling", can include this garment, mentioned by Kipling the burqa |
| #6110, aired 2011-03-18 | THE PRESIDENCY: With a combined age of just 90 years, this president & vice president were the youngest team ever inaugurated Bill Clinton & Al Gore |
| #6104, aired 2011-03-10 | 20th CENTURY PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS: The last time the Democratic & Republican nominees had once been governor of the same state, this was the state New York |
| #6100, aired 2011-03-04 | SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERIES: In 1919, barely 20 years after its discovery, it was the world's most expensive substance at $3 million an ounce radium |
| #6099, aired 2011-03-03 | BIOGRAPHIES: Michael Foldy examined "The Trials of" this author: "Deviance, Morality, and Late-Victorian Society" Oscar Wilde |
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Andrew Chung, a sophomore from Harvey Mudd College
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Brandon Hensley, a sophomore from Caltech
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Danielle Zsenak, a senior from Marquette University
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Anthony Dedousis, a sophomore from Harvard University
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Eric Betts, a senior from Emory University
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Greg Lichtenstein, a freshman from Vassar College
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Scott Menke, a senior from Johns Hopkins University
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Jennifer Duann, a senior from the Ohio State University
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Mark Petterson, a senior from the University of Kansas
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Laura Myers, a senior from the University of Missouri
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Marty Scott, an assistant district attorney from Forney, Texas
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Lindsay Eanet, a senior from the University of Missouri
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Dan D'Addario, a senior from Columbia University
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Nick Yozamp, a junior from Washington University in St. Louis
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Robbie Berg, a freshman from the University of Pennsylvania
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Ryan Stoffers, a sophomore from UCLA
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Ben Bishop, a student originally from Seattle, Washington
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Amanda J. Ray, a sophomore at the University of Virginia from Harrisonburg, Virginia
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2010-B College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
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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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Neil Patrick Harris, an actor from How I Met Your Mother
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"He's received critical acclaim on Broadway and on TV, and his...
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Steph Gagelin, a sophomore from the University of North Dakota from Grand Forks, North Dakota
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2010-B College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
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Ellen Eichner, a junior from the Ohio State University from Northbrook, Illinois
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2010-B College Championship semifinalist: $10,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
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Erin McLean, a sophomore from Boston University from Danvers, Massachusetts
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2011 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 2010-B College Championship winner:...
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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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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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Roger Craig, a computer scientist from Newark, Delaware
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2025 Jeopardy! Masters 2025 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament 1st runner-up: $50,000. 2019...
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Roger Craig, a graduate student of computer science from Newark, Delaware
|
2025 Jeopardy! Masters 2025 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament 1st runner-up: $50,000. 2019...
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Chris Wallace, a TV host from Fox News Sunday
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"In March, this Fox News anchor was honored by the National...
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Robert Gibbs, a former press secretary from the Obama White House
|
"In 2004, he joined Barack Obama's senatorial campaign as communications director,...
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Lisa Makar, a senior from University of Maryland
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"As a seventh grader, she was planning a career as a...
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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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Tim Russert, a moderator from Meet the Press
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"He's the Washington Bureau Chief of NBC News and the longtime...
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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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Gabrielle McMahan, a junior from Florida A&M University
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2008 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. 20 and from Springfield, VA at...
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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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Pat Sajak, a game show host from Wheel of Fortune
|
"A former TV weatherman, he's gone on to become the world's...
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Elizabeth Perkins, an actress from Weeds
|
"For the past five seasons, she's played the calculating and manipulative...
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Wolf Blitzer, a journalist from The Situation Room
|
"Since 1990, he's covered every major story for CNN, including the...
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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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Enrique Machado, an oil filtration business developer from Orlando, Florida
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Season 26 1-time champion: $30,799 + $2,000. Enrique Machado September 16,...
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Anderson Cooper, an anchor from CNN's Anderson Cooper 360°
|
"As a baby, he was photographed by Diane Arbus of Harper's...
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Andrew Ceppos, a senior from Tufts University
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2009 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 21 and from Verona, New...
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Patrick Tucker, a senior from the University of Notre Dame
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2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2009 College Championship winner: $100,000...
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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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Courtney Trezise, a senior from Michigan State University
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2009 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 21 and from Okemos, Michigan at...
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Charles Shaughnessy, an actor from Mad Men
|
"As Shane Donovan on Days of Our Lives, he won three...
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Leah Anthony Libresco, a junior from Yale University
|
2010-A College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Hometown: Mineola, New York. Jeopardy!...
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Prashant Raghavendran, a sophomore from the University of Texas, Dallas
|
2010-A College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. Hometown: Austin, Texas. Prashant Raghavendran Blog...
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Surya Sabhapathy, a senior from the University of Michigan
|
2010-A College Championship 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $26,600. Hometown: Northville,...
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Lyndsey Romick, a sophomore from Lewis & Clark College
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2010-A College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. Hometown: Grants Pass, Oregon. Lyndsey Romick...
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Amy Wilson, a creative writing and women's studies student originally from Portland, Oregon
|
Season 26 1-time champion: $19,999 + $2,000. Not to be confused...
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Judy Mermelstein, a Census field representative from Queens, New York
|
Season 25 1-time champion: $38,401 + $1,000. Judy also appeared on...
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Tim Relihan, a senior from the University of Nebraska from Stromsburg, Nebraska
|
2010-B College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
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Dan Pawson, a legislative aide from Boston, Massachusetts
|
2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2014 Battle of the Decades...
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|
Neil Patrick Harris, an actor from How I Met Your Mother
|
"He's appeared on Broadway in Proof, Assassins, and Cabaret. He's now...
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Charles Temple, a high school English teacher from Ocracoke, North Carolina
|
"He teaches at the smallest public school in North Carolina, and...
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Brad Brown, a theater teacher from Nashville, Tennessee
|
"And he is a theater teacher at an international baccalaureate certified...
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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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Clarence Page, a journalist from The Chicago Tribune
|
"His nationally syndicated column began as a local column for the...
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Dana Perino, a TV host from Fox News Channel's The Five
|
"White House press secretary under George W. Bush, she now appears...
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Nate Austin, a student from Hutchinson Community College
|
"His original plan was to own a chain of international hotels...
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Christie Whitman, a former governor from New Jersey
|
"She was New Jersey's first woman governor, and later became administrator...
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Dara Lind, a junior from Yale University
|
2008 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 20 and from Cincinnati, OH at...
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Vera Swain, a junior from the University of South Carolina
|
2008 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 21 and from Charleston, SC...
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Mitchell Vogel, from Madison, Wisconsin
|
"This future governor of Wisconsin enjoys rollerblading, reading, and playing saxophone....
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Bruce Naegeli, a retired law librarian from Phoenix, Arizona
|
"He finished second in the 1988 Tournament of Champions. A retired...
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Michael Dupée, an attorney from Gainesville, Florida
|
"He was the winner of the 1996 Tournament of Champions. Today...
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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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Dana Delany, an actress from Desperate Housewives
|
"She won two Emmys for her work on China Beach. This...
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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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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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Yevgeny Shrago, a research assistant originally from Rochester, New York
|
Season 26 1-time champion: $24,600 + $2,000. Name pronounced like "yev-GHEN-ee...
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Jenifer Thomas, a teacher assistant from Jacksonville, North Carolina
|
Season 26 1-time champion: $13,400 + $2,000. Jenifer Thomas October 5,...
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Samira Missaghi, a junior from the University of Minnesota
|
2010-A College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Hometown: Eden Prarie, Minnesota. Samira...
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Will Warren, a senior from the University of Alabama
|
2010-A College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. Hometown: Madison, Alabama. Will Warren Blog...
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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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Katie Singh, a sophomore from Northwestern University from Austin, Texas
|
2010-B College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
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Sam Spaulding, a sophomore from Yale University from Wilmington, North Carolina
|
2010-B College Championship 1st runner-up: $50,000 + a Nintendo Wii +...
|
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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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Colby Burnett, a high school world history teacher from Chicago, Illinois
|
"He teaches at a school started by the Dominicans of St....
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Michael Farabaugh, a high school chemistry teacher from Charlottesville, Virginia
|
"This chemistry teacher has been making things fizz, smoke, and explode...
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Miguel Ferrer, an actor from Crossing Jordan
|
"He began his career as a studio drummer and played on...
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Alex Stambaugh, a 12-year-old from Paris, Kentucky
|
"He feels he can use his talents in math and science...
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Mark Dawson, a business manager from Chamblee, Georgia
|
"In 2003, he became the first to win a quarter of...
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John Shoe, a third and fourth grade teacher from Lakewood, Colorado
|
"He teaches at a school for gifted children who choose their...
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Anurag Kashyap, a senior from Poway, California
|
2008-B Teen Tournament winner: $75,000. Anurag was also the winner of...
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Kelly O'Donnell, a political reporter from NBC News
|
"An Emmy-winning political reporter, she has covered Capitol Hill and the...
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Katty Kay, a Washington, D.C. anchor from BBC World News America
|
"She's the Washington, D.C. anchor for BBC World News America, as...
|
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Rachel "Steve" Cooke, a senior from Fishers, Indiana
|
2008-A Teen Tournament 1st runner-up: $25,000. 17 at the time of...
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Matthew Weiner, a series creator and executive producer from Mad Men
|
"He is the creator and executive producer of one of the...
|
|
Veronica Fazio, from Roselle, Illinois
|
"She dances, plays softball, and hangs with her friends, but wants...
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Joseph Henares, from Avon, Connecticut
|
"Along with group science projects, history club, writing club, and chess...
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Ken Basin, a junior at the University of Southern California from Huntington Beach, California
|
2003 College Championship semifinalist: $5,000. Blog at kbasin.blogspot.org. Appearing as a...
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Kadeem Cooper, a junior from the University of Virginia
|
2009 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 20 and from Brooklyn, New York...
|
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Naomi Senbet, an 11-year-old from Washington, D.C.
|
"This sixth grader doesn't like to be late for anything; maybe...
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David Duchovny, an actor from Californication
|
"He's won two Golden Globes and stars as troubled novelist Hank...
|
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Daniel Stauss, a federal claims examiner from Seattle, Washington
|
Season 25 1-time champion: $25,500 + $2,000. Daniel Stauss - A...
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Rebecca Maxfield, a freshman from Brown University
|
2010-A College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. Hometown: New Rochelle, New York. Rebecca...
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Andrew Goldfein, a 12-year-old from Lincolnwood, Illinois
|
"He likes to argue and help people, so it's off to...
|
|
Martin Short, a multitalented man from Fame Becomes Me
|
"Jiminy Glick and Ed Grimley are among his many memorable characters....
|
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Jerome Vered, a writer from Los Angeles, California
|
"The 1-day record of $34,000 he set in 1992 stood for...
|
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Grace Thomas, an 11-year-old sixth grader from Raleigh, North Carolina
|
"This captain of the Brain-Bowl team can name all the countries...
|
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Monica Thieu, a sophomore at the University of North Texas from Dallas, Texas
|
2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2019 All-Star Games member of...
|
|
David Madden, a student originally from Ridgewood, New Jersey
|
2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament semifinalist: $10,000. 2019 All-Star Games member of...
|
|
Rose Schaefer, a junior from Portland, Oregon
|
2012 Teen Tournament 1st runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $36,000. 16 at...
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Curtis Joseph, a sophomore from Scottsdale Community College
|
"In 1999, his nickname was 'Curtles the Troll', and he wanted...
|
|
Raynell Cooper, a senior from Rockville, Maryland
|
2011 Teen Tournament winner (semifinalist by wildcard): $75,000. 16 at the...
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Ashleigh Banfield, a TV correspondent originally from Canada
|
"She's covered such various stories as the Clinton/Yeltsin summit, the War...
|
|
Melissa Harris-Perry, a professor and editor-at-large from Elle.com
|
"She is the Maya Angelou Presidential Chair at Wake Forest University,...
|
|
Sunny Hostin, a senior legal correspondent and analyst from ABC News
|
"She recently joined ABC News as their senior legal correspondent and...
|
|
Jonathan Franzen, a best-selling author from Purity and The Corrections
|
"His best-selling novels are critically acclaimed and have won numerous honors,...
|
|
Pranita Ramakrishnan, from Centreville, Virginia
|
"Not only does this future neurologist enjoy swimming, drawing and spelling,...
|
|
Robin Carroll, an instructional designer from Marietta, Georgia
|
"Winner of both the 2000 Tournament of Champions and the 2001...
|
|
Tom Halpern, a lawyer originally from New York, New York
|
"A writer and researcher when he won 5 times in 1991,...
|
|
Bob Harris, a writer from Los Angeles, California
|
"This 5-time champ was a finalist in the 1998 Tournament of...
|
|
Sandra Gore, a corporate researcher from Berkeley, California
|
"After five wins in 1987, she fulfilled her dream of moving...
|
|
Steve Greene, a senior from UCLA from Elk Grove, California
|
2010-B College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000 + a Nintendo Wii +...
|
|
Erica Greil, a junior from Princeton University
|
2009 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. 22 and from Hastings, Minnesota at...
|
|
Diane Trap, a librarian and graphics specialist from Athens, Georgia
|
Season 25 1-time champion: $21,400 + $1,000. Diane Trap - a...
|
|
Terry Linwood, a bookseller from North Texas
|
2010 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 26 5-time champion: $122,705...
|
|
Lisa Klink, a TV writer from Los Angeles, California
|
2009 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 24 5-time champion: $70,150...
|
|
Rowan Spake, from Portland, Oregon
|
"He's interested in nanotechnology and robotics to improve surgery. But getting...
|
|
Brian Weikle, a project manager from Minneapolis, Minnesota
|
2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Nifty Nine (players with byes into...
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|
Joely Fisher, an actress from 'Til Death
|
"She made her Broadway debut in Grease, and earned rave reviews...
|
|
Dana Delany, an actress from Kidnapped
|
"She won two Emmys for playing Army nurse Colleen McMurphy on...
|
|
Drew Lachey, a singer and actor from Dancing with the Stars
|
"He was working as an emergency medical technician when brother Nick...
|
|
Frank Spangenberg, a police lieutenant from Douglaston, New York
|
2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2005 Ultimate Tournament of...
|
|
Pam Mueller, an entering law student originally from Chicago, Illinois
|
"Representing Loyola University, she won the College Championship in November, 2000....
|
|
Jimmy Li, a senior from Chesterfield, Missouri
|
2005 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $5,000. 17 at the time of...
|
|
Ken Jennings, a software engineer from Salt Lake City, Utah
|
2020 Jeopardy!: The Greatest of All Time winner: $1,000,000 + a...
|
|
Brad Rutter, a network administrator from Lancaster, Pennsylvania
|
"The reigning Tournament of Champions winner, he attended Johns Hopkins University...
|
|
Catherine Carson, a fourth grade language arts, math, and social studies teacher from Washington, D.C.
|
"She is new to teaching--she's in her second year. From Washington,...
|
|
Zane Ice, a 12-year-old from West Palm Beach, Florida
|
"He wants to build a business in emerging technologies to help...
|
|
Amanda Hall, from Farmington, Maine
|
"Whether it's writing a biography of Yo-Yo Ma or working on...
|
|
Ana Navarro, a Republican commentator from CNN, ABC News, and Telemundo
|
"Born in Nicaragua, she is one of the leading Hispanic Republican...
|
|
S.E. Cupp, a political commentator from CNN, New York Daily News, and Glamour
|
"She writes for the New York Daily News, is a contributor...
|
|
Brady Newell, from Derwood, Maryland
|
"She loves diving and gymnastics, but is headed toward being either...
|
|
Leslie Shannon, a manager of a research lab from Sydney, Australia
|
"A recent art history graduate when she became Jeopardy! champion in...
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|
Charlotte Darby, from West Chester, Pennsylvania
|
"Her crafts include crochet, origami, and friendship bracelets. From West Chester,...
|
|
Doug Savant, an actor from Desperate Housewives
|
"He met and then married his wife while both were costarring...
|
|
Marie Braden, a customer service representative from Tempe, Arizona
|
Season 27 1-time champion: $24,800 + $1,000. Marie's boyfriend Kirk's Rock...
|
|
Neal Freyman, a ten-year-old from Longmeadow, Massachusetts
|
"He's not sure recess counts as a subject, but if it...
|
|
Scott Harris, a videographer and elementary school librarian from Las Vegas, Nevada
|
Season 27 1-time champion: $19,201 + $2,000. Scott won $30,000 on...
|
|
Ryan Chaffee, a tutor from Los Angeles, California
|
2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $91,900...
|
|
Liz Murphy, a foreign service officer originally from Scranton, Pennsylvania
|
2010 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 25 5-time champion: $121,302...
|
|
Laura Button, an editor and proofreader from Alpharetta, Georgia
|
Season 27 1-time champion: $28,800 + $1,000.
|
|
Elijah Granet, a 12-year-old from San Diego, California
|
"Because he loves animals, biology, and helping others, he's thinking of...
|
|
Diana North, a first grade teacher from Rock Hill, South Carolina
|
"She recently celebrated her silver anniversary of teaching. From Rock Hill,...
|
|
Andrew Rostan, a writer and script reader originally from Boardman, Ohio
|
2007 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD Home...
|
|
Regis Philbin, a TV host from Live with Regis and Kelly
|
"In 2004 he entered the Guinness Book of Records as having...
|
|
Jill Bunzendahl Chimka, a speech and language pathologist from Washington, D.C.
|
2003 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 18 4-time champion: $85,099...
|
|
Scottie Szewczyk, from Belleville, Illinois
|
"He enjoys science and sports, and would like to work as...
|
|
Michela Rodriguez, from Poway, California
|
"This future author created a board game and had to compete...
|
|
Brian Weikle, a consultant from Minneapolis, Minnesota
|
2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Nifty Nine (players with byes into...
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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...
|
|
Tom Walsh, a writer from Washington, D.C.
|
2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Nifty Nine (players with byes into...
|
|
Brendan Barnwell, a grad student and tutor from Santa Barbara, California
|
Season 28 player (2011-12-05). Although Brendan played the Jeopardy! and Double...
|
|
Ann Thurlow, an aspiring novelist and retired salesperson from Mendham, New Jersey
|
Season 28 1-time champion: $26,805 + $1,000.
|
|
Patton Oswalt, a Grammy and Emmy Award-winning comedian from Portsmouth, Virginia
|
"A Grammy and Emmy Award-winning comedian from Portsmouth, Virginia, he rose...
|
|
Taylor Gailliot, from Woodbridge, Virginia
|
"When asked what she wanted us to know about her, she...
|
|
Marshall Tan, from Gaithersburg, Maryland
|
"His favorite subject is social studies, and he knows a lot...
|
|
Doug Dorst, a writer and professor from Austin, Texas
|
2006 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 22 3-time champion: $66,802...
|
|
Mehrun Etebari, a graduate student of international relations from Durham, New Hampshire
|
2007 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD Home...
|
|
Hope Landsem, from Tualatin, Oregon
|
"She likes to win arguments, and that's why she's going to...
|
|
Larissa Kelly, a grad student from El Cerrito, California
|
2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament semifinalist: $10,000. 2019 All-Star Games member of...
|
|
Nicole Yoon, a 12-year-old from Asbury, New Jersey
|
"She has set her sights on becoming a medical doctor or...
|
|
Nicole Karrow, an 11-year-old from Lewes, Delaware
|
"Her goals are to be a horse breeder and trainer..." 2007...
|
|
Kathryn Erbe, an actress from Law & Order: Criminal Intent
|
"On stage, she earned a 1991 Tony nomination for Speed of...
|
|
Mark Brown, an administrative assistant and father from Peoria, Arizona
|
2003 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 19 5-time champion: $68,094...
|
|
Claire Winkler, from Fredericksburg, Virginia
|
"This honor roll student participates on both the year-round and summer...
|
|
Bobby Millison, from Clifton Heights, Pennsylvania
|
"He's an award-winning diver, and would like to serve his country...
|
|
Brian Stokes Mitchell, an actor from the Broadway musical Ragtime
|
"His Broadway credits include Ragtime and Kiss Me, Kate, for which...
|
|
Harry Smith, a broadcast journalist from The Early Show
|
"This hard-working host of CBS's The Early Show has interviewed five...
|
|
Steve Chernicoff, a technical writer from Berkeley, California
|
"He was one of the top 1-day winners in the 1994-95...
|
|
Brad Rutter, an actor and producer from Hollywood, California
|
"He was a college student from Lancaster, Pennsylvania, when he won...
|
|
Lori Kissell, a high school Latin teacher from Fredericksburg, Virginia
|
"She loves everything about Latin and shares that love with her...
|
|
Dan Crosby, a middle school history teacher from Santa Monica, California
|
"He teaches at a school named for a renowned scholar, doctor,...
|
|
Maddie Harrington, a twelve-year-old from Palm Beach Gardens, Florida
|
"She wants to be a theater critic and she gets rave...
|
|
Leonard Koss, an entrepreneur from Santa Monica, California
|
Season 20 player (2004-07-08). KJL game 27. Leonard was a writer...
|
|
Mark Runsvold, a student and waiter from Moscow, Idaho
|
2011 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000.
Season 27 4-time champion: $153,800 + $1,000.
JBoard user name: markrunsvold
|
|
Leslie Decker, a high school German and ESL teacher from Austin, Texas
|
"She taught English to Europeans. Now she teaches German to Americans....
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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,...
|
|
Ryan Elkins, a 12-year-old from Bensalem, Pennsylvania
|
"He wants to study physics and unlock the mysteries of the...
|
|
Leatrice Potter, from Olney, Illinois
|
"This published poet likes to read at any free moment and...
|
|
Pam Mueller, a college student from Wilmette, Illinois
|
2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2019 All-Star Games member of...
|
|
Chuck Forrest, a lawyer and CEO from London, United Kingdom
|
"He became a winner of the second-ever Tournament of Champions in...
|
|
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...
|
|
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:...
|
|
Jack Weisman, a twelve-year-old from Beachwood, Ohio
|
"He's considering becoming a lawyer, just like Mom and Dad. From...
|
|
John Farley, an eleven-year-old from Marietta, Georgia
|
"This young man has a plan--Notre Dame, professional lacrosse player and...
|
|
Jason Zollinger, an engine assembler from South Dayton, New York
|
2010 Tournament of Champions 1st runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $100,000. Season...
|
|
Zachary Baumgartner, a 10-year-old from Deer Park, New York
|
"He'll hit all the right notes in the future as a...
|
|
Emily Love, from Overland Park, Kansas
|
"This future chef wants to run her own restaurant and have...
|
|
Regina Merrill, from Lincoln, Nebraska
|
"She's very good at writing stories and poetry, but her love...
|
|
Cary Williams, from Milton, Massachusetts
|
"She won an award in math, and a letter of commendation...
|
|
Mark Dawson, a business manager from Chamblee, Georgia
|
2014 Battle of the Decades quarterfinalist: $10,000. 2005 Ultimate Tournament of...
|
|
Paul Shaffer, a composer and musical director from The Late Show with David Letterman
|
"David Letterman's musical director for 24 years, he's also musical producer...
|
|
Whitney Dearden, an 11-year-old from Washington Crossing, Pennsylvania
|
"She enjoys working with animals and would like to become a...
|
|
Kate Dzurilla, a 12-year-old from Syosset, New York
|
"It's a slam dunk for this basketball lover and future WNBA...
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Jeff Love, a sophomore at Stanford University from Burlingame, California
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2004 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. Jeff won $1,000 on Who Wants...
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Emily Riippa, a 12-year-old seventh grader from Grand Rapids, Michigan
|
"She is a fast reader, and her mother says she was...
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Brad Rutter, a network administrator from Lancaster, Pennsylvania
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2025 Jeopardy! Masters 7th place player (eliminated in knockout round): $15,000....
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Brad Rutter, a TV quiz show host from Lancaster, Pennsylvania
|
2025 Jeopardy! Masters 7th place player (eliminated in knockout round): $15,000....
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Brad Rutter, an actor and producer from Los Angeles, California
|
• Highest all-time winnings (over $4.3 million) • Has never lost...
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Brad Rutter, an actor and producer from Los Angeles, California
|
2025 Jeopardy! Masters 7th place player (eliminated in knockout round): $15,000....
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Judd Hess, a high school English teacher from Huntington Beach, California
|
"In college, he volunteered to help in a classroom and was...
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Nate Rice, a high school ACT prep teacher from Catlettsburg, Kentucky
|
"This is his first year in the family business. His mother's...
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Krissy Brzycki, an 11-year-old from Indianapolis, Indiana
|
"Her love of helping her community and her interest in politics...
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Tom Clancy, a bestselling author from The Hunt for Red October
|
"His bestsellers include The Hunt for Red October, Patriot Games, and...
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Arthur Chu, a compliance analyst, voiceover artist, and blogger from Broadview Heights, Ohio
|
2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2014 Tournament of Champions 1st...
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John Beck, a creative director from Torrance, California
|
"He played in 2003, and was the last retired 5-time champ...
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David Traini, a high school administrator from Moorestown, New Jersey
|
"This 5-time champ finished second in the 1987 Tournament of Champions....
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Ross Gardiner, an 11-year-old sixth grader from La Plata, Maryland
|
"And this self-proclaimed sports fanatic likes all the teams in the...
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Tim Koch, a 12-year-old sixth grader from Cliffwood, New Jersey
|
"He would like to be a teacher because you get to...
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Silvio Menzano, a psychologist and university counseling center director from Washington, D.C.
|
Season 27 1-time champion: $10,300 + $1,000.
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Elyssa Browning, a junior from St. John's College
|
2009 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 21 and from Austin, Texas at...
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Greg Gumbel, a sportscaster from NBC Sports
|
"He covers baseball, basketball and football for NBC; he hosted the...
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Mark McDonnell, a triathlon coach and entrepreneur from Miami, Florida
|
Season 27 1-time champion: $27,601 + $1,000.
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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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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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Eddie Kwiatkowski, a 10-year-old from Cumberland, Rhode Island
|
"His interests in presidents and their history could lead to a...
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Isaac Mizrahi, a fashion designer from the Style Network
|
"Known for bringing high fashion to American women everywhere, and now...
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Mary LoSardo, a retired executive, now web site designer from Bayonne, New Jersey
|
Season 22 1-time champion: $20,800 + $1,000. Mary won $60 +...
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Nicole Tantoco, a 12-year-old from San Ramon, California
|
"She has two simple dreams: to attend Stanford and then become...
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Kristin Frankhouser, a 12-year-old from Baton Rouge, Louisiana
|
"Her future plans include becoming a physical therapist, a wife, and...
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Catherine Ramen, a database developer and writer from New York, New York
|
2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 winner: $44,000. 1998 Tournament...
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Michael Rooney, a college professor from Pasadena, California
|
"He was a winner of 5 games in 1999, and is...
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Jake Houser, a 12-year-old seventh grader from Aptos, California
|
"And this straight-A student would like to become a geneticist so...
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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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Viki Radden, a high school English and literacy teacher from Bakersfield, California
|
"She teaches at the largest high school district in California. From...
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Neil Patel, a twelve-year-old from Plano, Texas
|
"He wants to become an environmental scientist and help protect our...
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Eddie Huang, a chef and restaurateur from Washington, D.C.
|
"A chef and restaurateur from Washington, D.C., his 2013 memoir was...
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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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Zach McDonnell, a freshman at the College of William and Mary from Harrisonburg, Virginia
|
2012 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000.
18 at the time of the College Championship.
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Margaret Cho, a comedian and actor originally from San Francisco, California
|
"She's a five-time Grammy- and Emmy-nominated comedian and actor who continues...
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Kendra Pettis, a junior from Oberlin College
|
"She hadn't settled on a career goal at age 11. Now...
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W. Kamau Bell, a comedian, author, and filmmaker originally from Chicago, Illinois
|
"He's a comedian, best-selling author, and an Emmy Award-winning producer for...
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Emma Miller, from San Mateo, California
|
"She loves the idea of creating art that people can live...
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Tyler Van Patten, from Burlington, Wisconsin
|
"He's focusing on becoming a corporate attorney, because of his fascination...
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Neha Rao, from Johns Creek, Georgia
|
"She's hoping to become a teacher and inspire her students in...
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Tucker Carlson, an author and co-host from Crossfire
|
2004 Power Players Week player (2004-05-10). Charities: American Camping Association &...
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Adam Barrow, an 11-year-old from Greensboro, North Carolina
|
"And he wants to be a sportswriter, so he can combine...
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Andrea Mitchell, a foreign affairs correspondent from NBC News
|
"She's traveled to Hong Kong and Bosnia to report for NBC...
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Tom Morris, a retailer and student from Irvine, California
|
2009 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 24 4-time champion: $100,801...
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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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|
Tom Cubbage, an attorney from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
|
"He was the very first College Champion, and the only one...
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|
Anissa Chitour, a ten-year-old from Princeton, New Jersey
|
"Her extracurricular activities include playing violin, playing field hockey and shopping...
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Maxwell Baldi, a ten-year-old from Los Angeles, California
|
"This future U.S. attorney general has always been interested in the...
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Liz Maziarz, an English professor and mom from Seattle, Washington
|
Season 27 1-time champion: $18,400 + $2,000.
Last name pronounced like "MAY-zee-ar".
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Justin Otor, a 12-year-old from Texarkana, Texas
|
"His chosen profession will be something in the field of science...
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Charlie Blatt, an 11-year-old from Scarsdale, New York
|
"Besides cooking, working on the computer, and tap dancing, she likes...
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Rachel Millena, a 10-year-old from Concord, California
|
"Her sights are set on becoming a writer, journalist, photographer, or...
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Nancy Grace, a TV legal expert from Headline News/Court TV
|
"She hosts her own legal analysis program on Headline News and...
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Mallory Banks, from Summerville, South Carolina
|
"And this future physicist loves figuring out the underlying components of...
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Aki Terasaki, an 11-year-old from Newark, Delaware
|
"This future millionaire would like to be a professional writer and...
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Sean Ryan, a graduate student from Whitehall, Pennsylvania
|
2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Nifty Nine (players with byes into...
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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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John Kelly, a retired Air Force officer from Austin, Texas
|
"In 1992, he was one of the top five money winners...
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Chris Miller, a retail specialist from Louisville, Kentucky
|
"In 2004, he became a 5-time champion, and for Halloween, dressed...
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Josh Klein, a 12-year-old seventh grader from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
|
"And, his favorite subjects in school are math, social studies, and...
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Chris Miller, a retail specialist from Louisville, Kentucky
|
2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Elite Eighteen (Round 2 winners) and...
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Barbara-Anne Eddy, a civil servant from Vancouver, Canada
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"Her 5-time winnings from 1988 allowed her to go for nearly...
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India Cooper, an actor and copy editor originally from Denver, New York
|
2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2005 Ultimate Tournament of...
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Christy Gibson, a family medicine physician from Issaquah, Washington
|
Season 28 player (2012-07-09). Christy's ending score of -$6,400 was the...
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Charley Tinkham, an eighth grade history and technology teacher from San Bruno, California
|
"He teaches at a school that has been named a California...
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Kathy Casavant, a high school English teacher from Oxford, Massachusetts
|
"Originally she wanted to do anything but teach. Well, she's been...
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Melissa Peterman, an actor and game show host originally from Minneapolis, Minnesota
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"She's an actor and game show host with starring roles on...
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India Cooper, an actor and copy editor originally from Denver, Colorado
|
2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2005 Ultimate Tournament of...
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Courtney Jones, a 12-year-old from Largo, Maryland
|
"She wants to dedicate her life to building things that benefit...
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Olivia Woods, a 12-year-old from Cincinnati, Ohio
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"She loves working with little kids and would like to become...
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Hunter Brown, a senior from Wheaton, Illinois
|
2008-A Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 17 at the time of...
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Dominic Clust, from Metairie, Louisiana
|
"This future lawyer likes to argue and he's good at it....
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Oliver North, a radio talk show host from the Oliver North radio show
|
"A combat-decorated Marine who now hosts a nationally syndicated radio talk...
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Wolf Blitzer, a reporter from CNN
|
"An Emmy Award-winning reporter for CNN and host of Inside Politics...
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Eric Newhouse, a director of technical assistance from Vermillion, South Dakota
|
"He won both the 1989 Teen Tournament and the 1998 Teen...
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Matt Tick, from Escondido, California
|
"Will take violin lessons and loves science, but he really wants...
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Madison Ball, from Montgomery, Texas
|
"He loves to design and build things, and that's why becoming...
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Richard Cordray, the head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau from Grove City, Ohio and Washington, D.C.
|
"He had just graduated from law school and was clerking for...
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Theodora Messalas, an 11-year-old sixth grader from Brooklyn, New York
|
"This future author and illustrator placed second in a regional story-telling...
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Adam Villani, an engineer from Long Beach, California
|
Season 21 player (2004-10-27). KJL game 61. Adam won $80,000 on...
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Thomas Horn, a twelve-year-old from Piedmont, California
|
"He plans on making the world a better place as an...
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Laura DiSilverio, a retired Air Force officer and writer from Colorado Springs, Colorado
|
Season 25 player (2009-05-20).
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Zane Li, a ten-year-old from Provo, Utah
|
"He's a chess champion and a two-time Geography Bee winner..." 2002...
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Michelle Chang, an 11-year-old from Suwanee, Georgia
|
"This sixth grader picks the most unusual places to lose her...
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Holly Flynn, an 11-year-old from Holmes, Pennsylvania
|
"She started performing in community theatre when she was just 4...
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|
Mehrun Etebari, a grad student from Durham, New Hampshire
|
2007 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD Home...
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|
Tommy Hoyt, from Winnetka, Illinois
|
"Journalism may very well be in his future as he feels...
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|
Joe Kohake, from Florence, Kentucky
|
"Golf, piano, and euphonium lessons are just a few of his...
|
|
Wendy Kautz, a stay-at-home mom and online college professor from Helena, Alabama
|
Season 22 player (2006-01-24).
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Kim Worth, a waiter and writer from Venice, California
|
1998 Tournament of Champions 1st runner-up: $15,000. Season 13 4-time champion:...
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Neha Gokhale, a 10-year-old from Houston, Texas
|
"Because she liked 4th and 5th grade so much, she wants...
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Brad Williams, a reporter and writer from La Crosse, Wisconsin
|
Season 6 player (1990-06-01). Brad is well-known as one of the...
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India Cooper, an actor and copy editor originally from Denver, Colorado
|
2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2005 Ultimate Tournament of...
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|
Kim Worth, a freelance writer and stand-up comedian from Venice, California
|
1998 Tournament of Champions 1st runner-up: $15,000. Season 13 4-time champion:...
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Michael Day, an attorney from Mill Valley, California
|
"As an MBA Student, he won 5 games in 1985. Today...
|
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Megan Fraedrich, a 12-year-old seventh grader from Springfield, Virginia
|
"And she was recently an evil stepsister in a performance of...
|
|
Edward Lee, a 12-year-old seventh grader from Sacramento, California
|
"Of the numerous projects he has completed, making gliders and bottle...
|
|
Sean Ryan, a cab driver from State College, Pennsylvania
|
2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Nifty Nine (players with byes into...
|
|
Sharon Warner, a retired teacher and writer from Chicago, Illinois
|
Season 30 player (2013-10-21).
|
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Victoria Groce, a writer and television personality from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
|
"...winner of the invitational tournament against Jeopardy! best, past and present."...
|
|
Nathan Berger, a restaurateur and sommelier from South Portland, Maine
|
Season 36 1-time champion: $11,999 + $1,000. Last name pronounced like...
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|
Fortune Feimster, a writer, comedian, and actress originally from Belmont, North Carolina
|
"She's a comedian whose third stand-up special Crushing It is streaming...
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Sherry Cola, an actor and writer originally from Shanghai, China
|
"She's an actor and comedian. You know her from the film...
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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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Bonnie Schiffer, a writer and actress from New York City, New York
|
Season 3 player (1986-12-29). Bonnie won 3 games and over $12,100...
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Matt Harriss, a tire and lube technician from Clemson, South Carolina
|
Season 28 player (2011-12-14).
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Judy Arginteanu, a freelance writer and editor from Minneapolis, Minnesota
|
Season 29 2-time champion: $28,300 + $1,000.
Last name pronounced like "ar-jin-tee-AH-noo".
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Maria Boyland, a social studies and English teacher from Rockaway Park, New York
|
Season 27 player (2011-07-20).
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Dave Friedberg, a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and co-host of the All-In podcast originally from Cape Town, South Africa
|
"He's an entrepreneur and co-host of the All-In podcast, covering all...
|
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B.D. Schwarz, a twelve-year-old from Oakland, California
|
"He wants to make others happy by opening a little game...
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Drew Scheeler, a senior from Sandusky, Ohio
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2008-B Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. Drew won $25,000 on Who Wants...
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Mark Singer, an attorney and Sunday school teacher from Los Angeles, California
|
Season 1 2-time champion: $7,350. Mark was introduced as "an attorney...
|
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Susie Essman, an actor and comedian from New York, New York
|
"She's an actor and comedian best known for her role of...
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Robin Thede, a comedian and writer originally from Davenport, Iowa
|
"She's an actor and comedian who created, wrote, and starred in...
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Tom Kunzen, a geotechnical engineer from Orlando, Florida
|
2011 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 27 5-time champion: $133,402...
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Roy Wood Jr., a comedian and actor originally from Birmingham, Alabama
|
"He's an actor and comedian currently hosting CNN's Have I Got...
|
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Phoebe Robinson, a comedian, writer, and actor originally from Cleveland, Ohio
|
"She's an actor, comedian, and author who co-created and co-starred in...
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Brian Jordan Alvarez, an actor, comedian, and filmmaker originally from Winchester, Tennessee
|
"He's an actor and comedian best known for creating and starring...
|
|
Rachel Brosnahan, a television and film actor originally from Milwaukee, Wisconsin
|
"She's an Emmy-, Golden Globe-, Critics Choice-, and SAG Award-winning actor,...
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Neil deGrasse Tyson, an astrophysicist, author, and host from New York, New York
|
"He's an astrophysicist, bestselling author, and host who currently serves as...
|
|
Dawn Owens-Nicholson, a data and statistics consultant from Champaign, Illinois
|
Season 29 player (2013-07-11).
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Bryan Givens, a history lecturer originally from Dallas, Texas
|
Season 20 player (2004-06-24). KJL game 17. At the time of...
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Debra McGuire, a homemaker and micro farmer from Princeton, Texas
|
Season 28 player (2012-01-18).
JBoard user name: debramc
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Max Greenfield, an actor and best-selling author from Los Angeles, California
|
"He'a an actor and best-selling author you may know as Schmidt...
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Amy Ruberg, a college and career consultant from Batesville, Indiana
|
Season 27 player (2011-05-25).
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Mike Day, a finance and marketing MBA student from Columbus, Ohio
|
2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 1985 Tournament...
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LeVar Burton, a distinguished actor and TV host from the Emmy-winning children's program Reading Rainbow
|
1995 Celebrity Jeopardy! winner: $14,500 for the Somalia Foundation. "A distinguished...
|
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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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Dave Simpson, a pastor from Belcamp, Maryland
|
2009 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 24 4-time champion:...
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Pat Schroeder, a former congresswoman from the Association of American Publishers
|
"Former congresswoman, member of the Women's Hall of Fame and current...
|
|
Robin Kutner, from Newtown, Pennsylvania
|
"This member of jazz band has a cat that is the...
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Al Franken, an author and comedian from Lateline
|
"His latest book hit the New York Times bestseller list in...
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Che Smith, a consultant and Ph.D. candidate from Washington, D.C.
|
Season 31 player (2014-11-06). ché wrote her name as such on...
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Eileen Dreyer, an author from St. Louis, Missouri
|
Season 31 player (2014-10-30). Eileen mentioned also being a trauma nurse....
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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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Chris Renz, a realtor and substitute teacher from Ligonier, Pennsylvania
|
Season 23 1-time champion: $24,700 + $1,000. According to the official...
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Chris Matthews, a TV host from Hardball and The Chris Matthews Show
|
[As Chris is introduced, a clip of The Chris Matthews Show...
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Gigi Gilman, a homemaker and attorney from Seattle, Washington
|
Season 22 1-time champion: $13,000 + $1,000. Gigi's actual first name...
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Bob Mesko, an arts administrator from Denver, Colorado
|
2006 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 22 5-time champion:...
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Beth Klein, a mom and assistant editor from Boynton Beach, Florida
|
Season 22 player (2005-12-09).
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Devin Landin, a student from Yorktown, New York
|
Season 22 player (2006-05-23). Devin won $197,973 and third place on...
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Pat Pauken, an attorney and educator from Columbus, Ohio
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Season 14 1-time champion: $7,200. Season 13 player (1997-01-21). Pat appeared...
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Dave Abbott, a musician and licensing executive from Fort Thomas, Kentucky
|
"He was a musician and transactions lawyer when he won the...
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Pat Pauken, an attorney and doctoral candidate from Columbus, Ohio
|
Season 14 1-time champion: $7,200. Season 13 player (1997-01-21). Pat appeared...
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Mark Dawson, a writer and editor for the Honda Campus All-Star Challenge from Chamblee, Georgia
|
"He was a business manager when he won the Tournament of...
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Stephanie Smith, a retired quality engineer and manager from Scarborough, Maine
|
Season 22 player (2006-05-04). Not to be confused with Season 1...
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Robin Carroll, an instructional designer and curriculum developer from Atlanta, Georgia
|
"She was a research assistant when she won the Tournament of...
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Heather Jarvis, an editor at the United Nations from Trinidad and Tobago and now in New York
|
Season 31 1-time champion: $11,800 + $2,000.
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|
Alan Bailey, a playwright and director from Sherman Oaks, California
|
2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 2003 Tournament...
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Maria Wenglinsky, a teacher originally from Salt Lake City, Utah
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2006 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 22 5-time champion: $122,300...
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Zachary Quinto, an actor from 24, Heroes, American Horror Story, Star Trek, and The Glass Menagerie
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"He has won acclaim for roles on TV's 24, Heroes, and...
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Penn Jillette, a magician and illusionist from Las Vegas
|
"Known for his outrageous blend of magic and comedy, his act...
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Cynthia Rowley, a designer from Project Runway and Design Star
|
"Seen by TV viewers on shows such as Project Runway and...
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Suzanne Reeve, a graduate student and research assistant from Redmond, Washington
|
Season 21 player (2005-01-14).
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Leslie Frates, a retired Spanish teacher from Hayward, California
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"She was a Spanish teacher at Cal State-Hayward when she became...
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Laurie Genevro Cole, an adjunct professor and town council member from Vienna, Virginia
|
Season 21 1-time champion: $19,000 + $2,000.
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Vivian Lappenbusch, a twelve-year-old from Seattle, Washington
|
"She finds other people's stories and cultures fascinating, so anthropology is...
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Josh Charnin-Aker, a twelve-year-old from Lighthouse Point, Florida
|
"And, whether in neonatology or as a Navy SEAL, he plans...
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Will Walters, a twelve-year-old from Lexington, Kentucky
|
"He wants to follow in the footsteps of his idols, Albert...
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Sean Ryan, a taxi driver, bartender, and student from State College, Pennsylvania
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Nifty Nine (players with byes into...
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Solomon Howard, a freshman from St. Petersburg, Florida
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2009 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 14 at the time of...
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Kyle Ziemnick, an eleven-year-old from Purcellville, Virginia
|
"He likes logical arguments and debates, so would like to be...
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Nicole Savin, an eleven-year-old from Lindenhurst, New York
|
"This little 4'4" New York Yankees fan and her friends started...
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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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Dylan Payne, a psychiatrist from New York, New York
|
Season 27 player (2010-10-11). Husband of Season 25 4-time champion and...
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Jodie Foster, an actress, director and producer from The Silence of the Lambs
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"A Yale graduate, she's won critical acclaim as an actress, director...
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Monica Butler, a costumer and mom from Madison, Wisconsin
|
Season 25 player (2009-04-16).
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Kevin Yokum, a 12-year-old from New Orleans, Louisiana
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"He plans on becoming an engineer just like both his mom...
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Kim Taylor, a professor and scientist from Falls Church, Virginia
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Season 26 player (2009-10-07). Not to be confused with Season 18...
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Sophia Marianiello, an 11-year-old from Newark, Delaware
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"She plans on putting her love of building with cardboard and...
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Jimmy Miotto, an 11-year-old from Northborough, Massachusetts
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"He wants to be a Disney Imagineer and the president of...
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Jackson Ruzzo, a 12-year-old from Waccabuc, New York
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"He wants to be a Broadway actor, because he likes to...
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Jackie Wollner, an actress and comedienne from Van Nuys, California
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Season 15 2-time champion: $13,100. In her Season 15 games, Jackie...
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Harry Stessel, a college teacher and potter from Westfield, Massachusetts
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Season 23 player (2007-03-07).
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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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Jennifer Seiger, a singer and voice teacher from Cary, North Carolina
|
Season 25 player (2009-02-11).
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Julie Seitter, a voice talent from Littleton, Massachusetts
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Season 22 player (2006-02-28). Julie's voice can be heard in the...
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Laurie Parker, a writer and editor from Franklin, Tennessee
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Season 21 player (2005-07-18).
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Joel Goldberg, a CPA and financial officer from Fort Lee, New Jersey
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Season 6 4-time champion: $33,001. Was first on the show 1988...
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Ellyn Ritterskamp, a prepress technician and ethics instructor from Charlotte, North Carolina
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Season 21 player (2005-07-20). Won $32,000 on Who Wants To Be...
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Alex Nutman, a 12-year-old seventh grader from Chevy Chase, Maryland
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"This future investment banker won 'best in grade' in a state...
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Scott Renzoni, a bartender and actor from Burlington, Vermont
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2004 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 20 4-time champion: $112,998...
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Bill Hammon, a video editor and freelance writer from Bristol, Connecticut
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Season 30 player (2014-01-27).
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Brandon Blackwell, a writer and TV personality originally from Jamaica, New York
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2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2008-B Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist:...
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Scott Bateman, a filmmaker and author from Beacon, New York
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Season 33 1-time champion: $28,001 + $2,000. Husband of Season 28...
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Austin Rogers, a bar owner and author from New York, New York
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2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2019 All-Star Games captain of...
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Matt Jackson, a grad student in computer science and public policy originally 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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Ike Barinholtz, a producer, writer, and actor from Chicago, Illinois
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2024 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. 2022 Primetime Celebrity Jeopardy! winner:...
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Deirdre Thomas, an attorney and editor from Seattle, Washington
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Season 34 2-time champion: $33,200 + $1,000. Deirdre's father Dr. Nicholas...
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Dinu Nesan, a postdoctoral fellow and university lecturer from Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Season 30 1-time champion: $18,001 + $1,000. Name pronounced like "DIH-noo...
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Alexis Browsh, a teacher and tutor from Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania
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Season 30 player (2013-12-30). Alexis appeared on The Chase on 2022-01-19...
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Geneviève LeClerc, a graduate student and sales manager from Lake Forest Park, Washington
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Season 30 player (2013-12-26).
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Charli Winking, an attorney and law professor originally from Quincy, Illinois
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Season 9 player (1993-06-02). At the time of her appearance, Charli...
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David Hillinck, a teacher and administrator from Pasadena, California
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1994 Tournament of Champions 2nd runner-up: $7,500. Season 10 4-time champion:...
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Lisa Ann Walter, an actor and stand-up comedian originally from Washington, D.C.
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2023 Primetime Celebrity Jeopardy! winner: $1,000,000 for the Entertainment Community Fund....
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Brian Finander, a businessman and attorney from Long Beach, California
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Season 6 player (1990-04-27). The recording used to archive the game...
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Jake Allen, a K-12 gifted and talented teacher from Eureka Springs, Arkansas
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2018 Teachers Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000 + a $2,500 grant. At...
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Barbara Lowe, a writer and a researcher from Anaheim, California
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Season 2 5-time champion: $35,192. Barbara did not participate in the...
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Katherine Saxby, a high school English and French teacher from Alameda, California
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2018 Teachers Tournament semifinalist: $10,000 + a $2,500 grant. At the...
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Cathy Bloedorn, a chemistry and forsenics teacher from Ellicott City, Maryland
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"She teaches at a green school, where the environment is part...
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Michael Townes, an English and language arts teacher from Greenville, South Carolina
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"He's a third-generation teacher. From Greenville, South Carolina, say hello to...
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Scott Montanaro, a high school history and psychology teacher from Portland, Oregon
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2018 Teachers Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000 + a $2,500 grant. At...
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Lee DiGeorge, a middle school English and technology teacher from Bayside, New York
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2018 Teachers Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000 + a $2,500 grant. At the...
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Samantha Nataro, a student and writer from Laurel, Maryland
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Season 30 player (2013-10-18).
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Seth Wilson, a Ph.D. candidate and adjunct professor from Nacogdoches, Texas
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2025 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2019 All-Star Games member of...
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Victoria Groce, a musician originally from Decatur, Georgia
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2025 Jeopardy! Masters 2024 Jeopardy! Masters winner: $500,000 + $100,000 to...
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Victoria Groce, a writer and television personality from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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2025 Jeopardy! Masters 2024 Jeopardy! Masters winner: $500,000 + $100,000 to...
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Ellie Walsh, a high school world history and U.S. government teacher from Nashville, Tennessee
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2019 Teachers Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. At the time of the Teachers...
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Sarah Zucker, an Internet entrepreneur and screenwriter from Los Angeles, California
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Season 30 1-time champion: $1,799 + $1,000.
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Matthew Bunch, a middle school civics and world history teacher from Miami, Florida
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2019 Teachers Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. At the time of the...
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Mattea Roach, a writer and podcaster from Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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2024 Jeopardy! Masters 5th place player: $75,000. 2023 Jeopardy! Masters 2nd...
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Kate Jay Zweifler, a Realtor and stay-at-home mom from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Season 35 player (2019-05-01). Daughter of Season 7 player Roz Jay....
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Mary Grace Buckley, a writer and retail sales associate from St. Louis, Missouri
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Season 34 player (2017-10-25). Cousin of Season 28 player Jim Virtel...
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Sally Kurtzman, a writer and English teacher from Denver, Colorado
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Season 2 player (1986-04-16). The introduction was missing from the recording...
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Dave Widmayer, a trivia host and chemist from Portland, Oregon
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Season 41 player (2025-04-10). Son of Season 8 player Hank Widmayer...
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Kinu Panda, a test prep teacher and tutor from San Antonio, Texas
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Season 29 player (2013-04-30). Name pronounced like "KEE-noo PAHN-da". JBoard user...
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Erin Schmidt, a freelance writer and editor from Mishawaka, Indiana
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Season 29 player (2013-03-04).
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Kevin Finn, a university lecturer from Miami, Florida
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Season 25 player (2008-10-15). As an accommodation for a disability, Kevin...
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Todd Federman, a professor and education consultant from Livingston, New Jersey
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Season 29 player (2012-11-28). Father of 2007 Teen Tournament Summer Games...
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Andrew Robinson, a graduate student of international science and technology policy from Washington, D.C.
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Season 28 player (2011-12-27).
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Megan Davenport, an administrative coordinator and graduate student from Ruston, Louisiana
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Season 28 player (2012-04-12).
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Dylan Wint, a neurologist and psychiatrist from Las Vegas, Nevada
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Season 29 1-time champion: $7,199 + $1,000.
First name pronounced like "DY-lan".
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Christina Dudley, a homemaker, writer, and editor from Bellevue, Washington
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Season 25 player (2008-10-14).
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Britta Waller, a magazine and website editor from Greensboro, North Carolina
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Season 29 player (2013-06-24). Britta's full name was listed on the...
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Sarah Curtis, a mechanical and electrical drafter from Oceanside, California
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Season 28 1-time champion: $14,000 + $1,000.
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Leslie Hamilton, a teacher and swim coach from Erlanger, Kentucky
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Season 28 player (2011-12-16).
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Graig Zethner, a computer engineer from East Meadow, New York
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Season 27 player (2011-07-26). "Graig" rhymes with "Craig". Graig won $1,000...
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Mo Rocca, a journalist and podcast host originally from Bethesda, Maryland
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2023 Primetime Celebrity Jeopardy! 1st runner-up: $250,000 for the Inner-City Scholarship...
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Lindsay Shields, a grants and contracts coordinator from Sunnyside, New York
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Season 28 player (2012-06-28).
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Nancy Nakayama, a lawyer and aspiring grant writer from Seattle, Washington
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Season 28 player (2012-03-22).
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Nick Bulum, a newspaper insert writer and designer from Long Beach, California
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Season 28 player (2012-03-22).
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Jamey Wiglesworth, a DJ and bar trivia host from Versailles, Kentucky
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Season 29 player (2013-04-16).
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Christine Janson, a freelance writer and editor from Frederick, Maryland
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Season 27 player (2011-07-19).
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Deniz Cordell, a freelance writer and musical director from West Chesterfield, New Hampshire
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Season 28 player (2012-06-25).
First name pronounced like "Dennis".
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Marjorie Parker, a stay-at-home mom and freelance designer from Austin, Texas
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Season 28 player (2012-06-20).
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Mona Miller, a lawyer and writer from Los Angeles, California
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Season 29 player (2013-04-12).
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Seth Wilson, an editor and adjunct professor from Oak Park, Illinois
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2025 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2019 All-Star Games member of...
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Mattea Roach, a writer and podcast host from Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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"...last year's second-place winner and youngest Masters competitor." 2024 Jeopardy! Masters...
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Ana Navarro, a co-host of The View and CNN commentator from Chinandega, Nicaragua
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"She's a CNN commentator and co-host of ABC's The View. It's..."...
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Claire Sattler, a comedian and research scientist from New York, New York
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2025 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2023 High School Reunion Tournament...
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Mickey McLaurin, a research and grants administrator from Oxford, Mississippi
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Season 27 player (2011-04-07).
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Ryan McLaughlin, a study hall supervisor and retail manager from Chicago, Illinois
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Season 29 player (2013-04-09).
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Graham Doskoch, a twelve-year-old from Berkeley Heights, New Jersey
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"He wants to put his love of design and building to...
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Liz Belthoff, a homemaker and mom from Oradell, New Jersey
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Season 29 player (2013-06-10).
Last name pronounced like "BELT-hoff".
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David Schuman, a communications and economics student originally from Ardsley, New York
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Season 29 1-time champion: $4,300 + $1,000.
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Eric Nelson, a teacher and small business owner from Minneapolis, Minnesota
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Season 29 player (2013-04-05). Not to be confused with Season 25...
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Matt Tobin, a violinist and dueling pianist from Glastonbury, Connecticut
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Season 29 player (2012-09-24). Matt's mother appeared on Jeopardy! in 1974...
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Jay Sklar, an attorney and college professor originally from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Season 8 player (1991-09-18): bedroom furniture and bedding.
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Ted Sitting Crow Garner, a sculptor and writer from Chicago, Illinois
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Season 27 1-time champion: $2,500 + $1,000.
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Erin Zwiener, a conservation journalist and pet-sitter from Abiquiu, New Mexico
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Season 29 3-time champion: $53,399 + $1,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Eric Sebert, a pig and chicken farmer from Hominy Falls, West Virginia
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Season 27 player (2011-03-25).
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Dan Elg, a graduate student of nuclear and plasma engineering originally from Wheaton, Illinois
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Season 29 player (2012-09-19).
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Natalie Morales, an actor, writer, and director originally from Miami, Florida
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"She's an actor and director currently starring in the new film...
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Andrew Dobbs, a community organizer and writer from Austin, Texas
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Season 27 player (2011-06-23).
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Corbin Bleu, an actor and singer from Brooklyn, New York
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"He's an actor best known for playing the role of Chad...
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Erin Maxwell, a high school English and drama teacher from Chicago, Illinois
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Season 27 player (2011-03-21).
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John Botti, a high school history and English teacher from Bethesda, Maryland
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"He says he keeps his spirit young by spending time with...
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Lucinda Sabino, a housewife and writer from Rochester, Michigan
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Season 20 player (2004-07-05).
KJL game 24.
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Larkin Breitner, an 11-year-old from Fleming Island, Florida
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"She wants to be an actress, and she's ready for her...
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Joan Blinn, a retired proofreader and editor from Chicago, Illinois
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Season 29 1-time champion: $17,000 + $2,000.
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Scott Goldstein, a director and writer of a sketch comedy theater from Chicago, Illinois
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Season 27 player (2011-06-21).
Last name pronounced like "GOLD-steen".
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Natalie Hudson, an attorney and taiko drummer from Houston, Texas
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Season 29 player (2013-01-10).
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Frances Way, a math and drama teacher from Fort Collins, Colorado
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Season 29 player (2013-01-11).
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Lanny Springs, a retiree and high school coach from Ruxton, Maryland
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Season 25 player (2008-11-07).
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Laura Bulkin, a pianist and music teacher from Taos, New Mexico
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Season 28 player (2011-10-24).
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Deborah Stowell, a library shelver and pet sitter from St. Charles, Illinois
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Season 29 player (2013-07-15).
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Bradley King, a theater and opera lighting designer from New York, New York
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Season 29 player (2013-07-15).
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Brendan Graham, a soldier and a physician from San Antonio, Texas
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Season 28 2-time champion: $46,602 + $1,000. Brendan appeared in uniform....
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Meg Khavari, a high school biology and religion teacher from Silver Spring, Maryland
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Season 27 player (2011-03-08).
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Randy Gold, a systems analyst and volunteer from Sherman Oaks, California
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Season 25 player (2008-10-27).
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: Randy G
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Tom McGrath, an actor and photographer from Chicago, Illinois
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Season 29 player (2012-12-25).
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Franny Howes, a graduate student in rhetoric and writing from Blacksburg, Virginia
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Season 28 player (2011-10-06).
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Erika Myers, a therapist and academic coach from Asheville, North Carolina
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Season 28 player (2012-04-25).
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Carlos Hernandez Fisher, a graphic designer and computer salesperson from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Season 29 player (2013-07-05).
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Matt Johnson, a baker and philosophy instructor from Lancaster, Pennsylvania
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Season 28 player (2012-04-24).
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Matt Ottinger, a telecommunications coordinator from Okemos, Michigan
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Season 20 player (2004-06-21). KJL game 14. Last name pronounced like...
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Matt Steinpreis, a graduate student and research assistant originally from Plymouth, Wisconsin
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Season 29 player (2012-12-14).
List name pronounced like "STYNE-price".
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Ben Dwertman, a writer and library services assistant from Cincinnati, Ohio
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Season 29 player (2013-03-11).
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Eileen McQuiggan, a former teacher and stay-at-home mom from Orlando, Florida
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Season 28 player (2012-04-18).
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Jaldhar Vyas, a software developer and Hindu priest from Jersey City, New Jersey
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Season 28 player (2012-01-04). Last name pronounced like "VYAS" (in 1...
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Aleisa Farrington, a mother and cook from Dover, New Hampshire
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Season 28 player (2011-10-03).
First name pronounced like "ah-LEE-sah".
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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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Elizabeth Pearce, a freelance editor and writer from New York City, New York
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Season 8 1-time champion: $13,300. Elizabeth appeared on the original Jeopardy!...
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Christie O'Shaughnessy, a math and science educator from Princeton, New Jersey
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Season 32 1-time champion: $14,401 + $2,000.
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Marc Spraragen, a graduate student from Los Angeles, California
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Season 23 2-time champion: $30,000 + $2,000. The official Jeopardy! web...
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Guy Wilson, a football coach and tutor from Leesburg, Florida
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Season 30 player (2014-06-04).
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Laura Paquet, a romance novelist and travel writer from Ottawa, Canada
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Season 20 player (2004-05-17). Laura's website. An interview concerning her Jeopardy!...
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Melody Thomas Scott, an actress from the top-rated series The Young and the Restless
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1995 Celebrity Jeopardy! player: $10,000 for the Save the Earth Foundation....
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Dan Jansen, a world record holder and gold medal winner in speed skating from the 1994 Olympics
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1995 Celebrity Jeopardy! player: $10,000 for the Dan Jansen Foundation. "World...
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Sinbad, an actor and comedian from film and television
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1998 Celebrity Invitational winner: $15,000 to the Children's Defense Fund.
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Kazim Ali, a poet and college professor from the Bronx, New York
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Season 23 player (2007-01-25).
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Margie Eulner Ott, a consultant and rideshare driver from Bethesda, Maryland
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Season 33 1-time champion: $34,000 + $1,000. At the time of...
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Camille Calman, a researcher and writer from New York City, New York
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Season 9 2-time champion: $30,701 + Towle silversmiths beaded antique stainless...
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Anne Boyd, a freelance writer from Los Angeles, California
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2004 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 20 4-time champion: $84,600...
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Kristina Alexander, a writer and editor from Brooklyn, New York
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Season 20 1-time champion: $18,800 + $1,000.
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Andrea McArdle, from the Broadway musical Beauty and the Beast
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"Her portrayal of Belle puts the beauty into the Broadway production...
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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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Meredith Johnson, a senior from University of Minnesota
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2008 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. Attended the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities...
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Nate Metcalf, an actor and playwright from Cokato, Minnesota
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Season 23 1-time champion: $22,438 + $2,000. According to the official...
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Cindi Winstead, a homemaker and student from Villa Rica, Georgia
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Season 23 1-time champion: $14,999 + $1,000.
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JC Honeycutt, a fraud investigator and singer-songwriter from Charlotte, North Carolina
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Season 23 player (2007-01-15).
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E.A. Srere, an attorney and municipal judge from Dallas, Texas
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Season 30 player (2014-04-18). Last name pronounced like "SRER-ee". E.A. wore...
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Allison Solomon, a management consultant originally from Brooksville, Florida
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Season 31 1-time co-champion: $20,200 + $1,000. Allison and Ryan Alley...
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Mary Parker, a high school French and English teacher from Rogers, Arkansas
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2017 Teachers Tournament 2nd runner-up: $25,000. At the time of the...
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Glenn Woertz, a home inspector and minister from Alpine, New Jersey
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Season 23 1-time champion: $27,800 + $1,000.
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Ellen Cook, a freelance writer and editor from Las Vegas, Nevada
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Season 20 player (2004-06-18).
KJL game 13.
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Marcia Jensen, a stagehand and receptionist originally from Mount Vernon, Illinois
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Season 22 player (2006-06-06).
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Patricia Davis, a writer and editor from Encinitas, California
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Season 20 player (2004-06-16).
KJL game 11.
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Tom Kavanaugh, a personal trainer, filmmaker, and singer from St. Louis, Missouri
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"He was a writer when he won eight games in Season...
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Celeste DiNucci, a manager of corporate and foundation relations at a music school from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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"She was a graduate student when she won the 2007 Tournament...
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Willie Chriesman, a media consultant and independent producer from Birmingham, Alabama
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Season 23 player (2007-01-08).
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Roger Christensen, a registered nurse and pre-med student from Los Angeles, California
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Season 18 2-time champion: $42,300. In his first two games, Roger...
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Josiah Takang, a junior from Douglasville, Georgia
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2014 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 16 at the time of the...
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Kevin Stanley, a writer and poet from Decatur, Georgia
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Season 20 player (2004-06-09).
KJL game 6.
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Brendan Getzell, a tutor and musician from San Francisco, California
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Season 30 player (2014-03-20).
Last name pronounced like "get-SELL".
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Jay Singleton, a high school government and social studies teacher from Waynesboro, Virginia
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2015 Teachers Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. Jay taught social studies and government...
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Lisa Loiselle, an investigator and lawyer from Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Season 22 player (2005-12-22). Last name pronounced like "loy-ZELL" (Johnny Gilbert's...
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Kate La Rivière-Gagner, a fifth and sixth grade teacher from Starksboro, Vermont
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2015 Teachers Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Kate taught 5th and 6th...
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Chris Grinvalds, a high school history teacher and coach from Bennington, Nebraska
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2015 Teachers Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. Chris taught world history and computer...
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Jessica Rebel, a contract attorney and stay-at-home mom from Lenexa, Kansas
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Season 30 player (2014-03-13).
Last name pronounced like "REE-bul".
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Lauren Dean, a marketing manager and grad student from Chevy Chase, Maryland
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Season 22 player (2005-12-30). Lauren won $1,000 on Master Minds on...
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Pete Gittens, a stay-at-home dad and bartender from Brownsville, Minnesota
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Season 30 player (2014-07-10).
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Kristine O'Connell-McCoy, a former probation officer and mom from Santa Barbara, California
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Season 20 player (2004-07-23).
KJL game 38.
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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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Jonpaul Guinn, a quiz host and writer from Providence, Rhode Island
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Season 32 player (2016-04-21). Jonpaul writes and hosts for Geeks Who...
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Bob Verini, a playwright, actor, and director from New York City, New York
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2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2005 Ultimate Tournament of...
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Kathleen Larkey, an ESL teacher and program coordinator from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Season 22 1-time champion: $13,200 + $1,000.
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Laura Dziorny, a lawyer and school district administrator from Charlestown, Massachusetts
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Season 31 player (2014-09-25).
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Kingslea Bueltel, a student and freelance bartender from Denton, Texas
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Season 22 player (2005-11-03). Won $16,000 on Who Wants to be...
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Kem Herding, a homemaker and freelance editor from Highlands, North Carolina
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Season 21 player (2005-07-12).
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Joey Bland, an actor and improviser from Chicago, Illinois
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Season 22 2-time champion: $48,200 + $2,000. Joey appeared as a...
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McKinnie Lee Sizemore, a DJ and music journalist from Orlando, Florida
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Season 32 player (2016-04-15). McKinnie won $5,000 on Who Wants to...
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Kammy McCleery, a coordinator of experiential education and student employment from Lexington, Kentucky
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Season 21 1-time champion: $12,400 + $2,000.
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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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Myfanwy Davies, a retired china shop manager and volunteer from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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Season 30 player (2014-02-25). First name pronounced like "muh-VAN-wee" (Johnny announced...
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David Sampugnaro, a writer and consultant from Elmsford, New York
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 1996 Tournament...
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Matthew Harney, a research assistant and student originally from Springfield, Illinois
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Season 30 player (2014-07-02).
|
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Ben Zimmer, a linguist and language columnist from Jersey City, New Jersey
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Season 30 player (2014-06-30).
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Ben Hom, a defense consultant and Navy Reserve officer from Arlington, Virginia
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Season 31 player (2015-05-20). Ben held the rank of Commander and...
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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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Michael Daunt, an accountant from Oakville, Ontario, Canada
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"In 1996, he was a finalist in the Tournament of Champions....
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Josh Gad, a comedian from The Book of Mormon, Frozen, The Comedians, and Pixels
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"Nominated for a Tony for The Book of Mormon, he was...
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Ginger Zee, a chief meteorologist from ABC News and Good Morning America
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"She is the chief meteorologist for ABC News and brightens our...
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Wendi McLendon-Covey, an actress from The Goldbergs and Repeat After Me
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"On the hit TV series The Goldbergs, she's the world's most...
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John Berman, a veteran newsman from CNN's Early Start and At This Hour
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"This veteran newsman has covered stories ranging from the war in...
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Brian Wangsgard, from Salt Lake City, Utah
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"He was the biggest winner in the 1988-1989 season, and a...
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Frank Epstein, a police officer from Los Angeles, California
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"He was a 5-time champion in 1992, and is still serving...
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Michael Rankins, a minister and writer from Rohnert Park, California
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 winner: $41,601. Lost to...
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Mark Kelly, a retired U.S. Navy captain and astronaut from Houston, Texas
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"He's a retired U.S. Navy captain who flew combat missions in...
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David Sampugnaro, a writer and consultant originally from Elmsford, New York
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 1996 Tournament...
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Andrew Winner, a learning and development consultant originally from Spokane, Washington
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Season 30 player (2014-06-16).
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Louis Virtel, a journalist and comic originally from Lemont, Illinois
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Season 31 player (2015-05-08). Last name pronounced like "vur-TELL". Louis gave...
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Mia Hasouris, an apheresis recruiter and graduate student from St. Paul, Minnesota
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Season 21 player (2005-01-03).
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David Gibbs, an editor and graduate student from Los Angeles, California
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Season 21 player (2004-12-27).
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Vincent Soatikee, a musician and actor from Los Angeles, California
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Season 8 player (1991-10-11). Johnny Gilbert introduced Vince as "Vince Soatikee",...
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Vaughn Winchell, a stay-at-home dad and graduate student from Columbia, Maryland
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2015 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 31 5-time champion:...
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Elizabeth Costello, an attorney and media sales rep originally from Mahopac, New York
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Season 21 player (2004-11-05). KJL game 67. Not to be confused...
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Bob Joseph, a businessman and attorney from McLean, Virginia
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Season 21 player (2004-10-28).
KJL game 62.
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Robert Quinn, a real estate manager and actor from Hoboken, New Jersey
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Season 21 player (2004-09-14).
KJL game 45.
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Betsey Casman, an appeal and grievance analyst from Las Vegas, Nevada
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Season 21 player (2004-09-06).
KJL game 39.
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Steve Hall, a nurse and "Mr. Mom" from Hamden, Connecticut
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Season 20 1-time champion: $24,800 + $1,000.
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Jillian Hinchliffe, a librarian and mechanical puzzles curator from Bloomington, Indiana
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Season 26 player (2009-09-18).
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Conor Collins, a student and volunteer from Portsmouth, Rhode Island
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Season 26 player (2010-04-07).
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: TrebeksUpperLip
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Marcus Jackson, an Air Force officer and helicopter pilot from Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland
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Season 26 player (2009-09-16). Not to be confused with Season 22...
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Jessica Trudeau, a graduate student and swim coach from Barrington, Illinois
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Season 26 1-time champion: $34,401 + $2,000.
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Melanie Leon, an Army wife from Peachtree City, Georgia
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Season 20 player (2004-01-07). Melanie forgot to complete the word "Ironman"...
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Cynthia Reedy, a science and French teacher from Norway, Maine
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Season 25 player (2009-05-19).
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Tui Sutherland, a children's book author from Watertown, Massachusetts
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Season 25 2-time champion: $44,200 + $2,000. First name pronounced like...
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Joe Wolke, a vice president of IT communications and information from Northbrook, Illinois
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Season 20 1-time champion: $14,800 + $2,000.
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Renee Taylor, a writer and actress from The Nanny
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"She acts, she directs, she's an Emmy Award-winning writer, and she's...
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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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Eartha Kitt, an actress and singer from New York City
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"An acclaimed international star of stage, screen, television and cabaret, the...
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Buzz Aldrin, a retired astronaut and author from the book Encounter with Tiber
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"He's an entry in every encyclopedia, author of the book Encounter...
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Leland Graham III, a research specialist and project coordinator from Rock Hill, South Carolina
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Season 25 2-time champion: $48,400 + $1,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: Leland Graham
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Frank Amanat, an attorney from South Orange, New Jersey
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Season 20 3-time champion: $55,900 + $1,000. Season 20 player (2003-11-03)....
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Brian Chang, a pathologist from Oak Park, Illinois
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Season 26 player (2010-01-07). Not to be confused with Season 37...
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Roopa Kalyanaraman Marcello, a public health professional from Brooklyn, New York
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Season 26 player (2009-10-30). Middle and last names pronounced like "KAL-ya-na-RA-man...
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Grant Colvin, a bookseller and trivia host from Arnold, Maryland
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Season 26 player (2010-06-24).
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Mike Bartlett, a financial aid officer and student from Tallahassee, Florida
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Season 25 player (2009-06-22).
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Jon Golbe, an actor and TV writer from Brooklyn, New York
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Season 27 player (2010-10-19).
Last name pronounced like "GOAL-bee".
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Rick Meneskie, a coal miner and outreach worker from Coal Center, Pennsylvania
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Season 25 player (2009-01-07).
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Matt Cavanaugh, a law school professor and CPA originally from Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania
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Season 26 player (2010-06-17).
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Marianthe Colakis, a Latin and Greek teacher from Forest Hills, New York
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Season 26 player (2010-06-14).
First name pronounced like "mare-ee-ANN-thee".
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Shyra Latiolais, a legal secretary from New Orleans, Louisiana
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Season 25 1-time champion: $20,000 + $1,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Maureen Abell, a family law and immigration lawyer from New York, New York
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Season 27 player (2011-01-06).
Last name pronounced like "A-bul".
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Martha Blakeslee, a floral designer and stay-at-home mom from Alexandria, Virginia
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Season 20 player (2004-04-08).
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Bob Verini, a playwright and actor from New York City, New York
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2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2005 Ultimate Tournament of...
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Cheech Marin, a comedian and actor from The Golden Palace
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"And from the comedy duo Cheech & Chong, now playing Chuy...
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Richard Sautter, an actor and writer from Radnor, Pennsylvania
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Season 20 player (2004-04-26).
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Summer Sanders, a TV personality and former Olympic swimmer from Figure It Out
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"She swam her way to 4 medals in Barcelona and now...
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Jeff Probst, a TV personality from Rock & Roll Jeopardy! and Survivor
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"He hosts both Rock & Roll Jeopardy! on VH1 and Survivor...
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Molly Zeigler, a mom and graduate student from Buffalo, New York
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Season 27 player (2010-09-29).
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Graham Norris, an actor and writer originally from Berkeley, California
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Season 26 player (2010-02-24).
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Elizabeth Schmitt, a high school English and drama teacher from Dallas, Texas
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Season 26 player (2010-05-28).
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Sue Romberg, a homemaker and volunteer from Grapevine, Texas
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Season 25 player (2009-04-21). Jeopardy! Message Board user name: Sue in...
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Harry Connick, Jr., a musician and actor from Hope Floats
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"A Grammy Award-winning musician, he's also starred in such films as...
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Cate Heine, a 12-year-old from Louisville, Kentucky
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"She's leaving her career path open, but wants to use the...
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Noam Osband, a Ph.D. student in anthropology from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Season 26 1-time champion: $25,799 + $2,000. First name pronounced like...
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Star Jones, an attorney, correspondent and co-host from The View
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"She's an accomplished attorney, legal correspondent and co-host of ABC's The...
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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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Lynn Stanton, a reporter and editor from Silver Spring, Maryland
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Season 20 player (2004-04-12).
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Mark Lock, an attorney and privacy consultant from Detroit, Michigan
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Season 25 player (2009-03-26).
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Michael McKean, an actor and comic from Uncomfortably Close with Michael McKean
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"He's the film and television comic who hosts Comedy Central's Uncomfortably...
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Diana Wynne, a writer and producer from San Francisco, California
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Season 20 player (2004-04-07).
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Jody Allen, a bookstore manager and actor from New York, New York
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Season 26 2-time champion: $41,500 + $2,000.
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Pamela Nelson, a newspaper copy editor and blogger from Clayton, North Carolina
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Season 26 player (2010-07-26).
Pamela blogged about her Jeopardy! experience here.
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Rebecca Wilkinson, a director of finance and administration from Alexandria, Virginia
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Season 25 player (2009-01-20).
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Reggie White, a minister and defensive end from the Green Bay Packers
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"From the Green Bay Packers, nobody in the history of the...
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Wayne Brady, an actor, comedian and singer from The Wayne Brady Show
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"An improv comedian and musical talent, he's now an Emmy-nominated talk...
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Gene Beed, a pediatrician and professional moderator from Irvine, California
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Season 26 player (2010-07-20).
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Donna D'Errico, a model and actress from Baywatch
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"She's starring in 2 hit TV series at the same time,...
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Paige Davis, a host and actress from Trading Spaces
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"From the hit TLC series Trading Spaces, here is its star...
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Linda Lipkin, a high school teacher and administrator from Cambridge, Massachusetts
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Season 24 player (2007-09-21).
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Andrea Ozment, a nurse and freelance writer from New Haven, Connecticut
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Season 23 player (2007-04-19).
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Adam Blau, a composer and musician from Los Angeles, California
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Season 24 player (2007-09-19).
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Michael Rankins, a minister and sales representative from Rohnert Park, California
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 winner: $41,601. Lost to...
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Lucy Prentiss, a technical writer and aerobics instructor from Albuquerque, New Mexico
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Season 24 player (2007-09-12).
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Phil Cunneff, a musician and teacher from Baltimore, Maryland
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Season 23 player (2007-05-30).
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Brendan Pimper, an engineer and student from La Habra, California
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Season 23 player (2007-03-28). Won $12,100 + a trip to Phoenix,...
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Megan Bygness, a Ph.D. student and literature instructor from Iowa City, Iowa
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Season 24 player (2007-09-11).
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Julián Altschul, a math and science tutor from Jackson Heights, New York
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Season 24 1-time champion: $19,200 + $2,000. First name pronounced like...
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Jen Maloney, an in-house security and web designer from Millersville, Maryland
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Season 24 player (2007-10-02).
Husband's Jeopardy! Message Board user name: mefailenglish
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Vic Sawyer, a snowcoach driver and hotel manager from Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming and Montana
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Season 23 1-time champion: $28,001 + $1,000.
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Emma Samms, an actress from Dynasty and General Hospital
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"Fallon on Dynasty and Holly Sutton on General Hospital…" Charity: The...
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Barbara Frascelli, a housewife and mother from Staten Island, New York
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Season 24 player (2007-10-19).
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Jason Scull, a teacher and brewer originally from Vestal, New York
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Season 23 player (2006-09-29).
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Cynthia Patterson, a database specialist and artist originally from New Orleans, Louisiana
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Season 24 player (2007-12-05).
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Connie Toohey, a financial secretary and bartender from Solomons, Maryland
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Season 23 player (2006-10-31).
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Lisa Llanes-Simpson, a social worker and notary public from Poughkeepsie, New York
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Season 22 player (2006-07-14).
Last name pronounced like "LANES-SIMP-son".
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Regis Philbin, a TV host from Live with Regis and Kathie Lee
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"The co-host of television's Live with Regis and Kathie Lee..." Charity:...
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Tom Cilla, from Kings Park, New York
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"He wants to join the Coast Guard or the Navy, but...
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Shane McCune, an editor and journalist from Pender Harbour, British Columbia, Canada
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Season 23 player (2006-11-06).
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Hank Widmayer, a theater technician and actor from Maple Shade, New Jersey
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Season 8 player (1992-05-21). Husband of Season 18 player Kathy Widmayer...
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Jamie Weiss, a high school senior and winner of last year's Teen Tournament from Fairfax, Virginia
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"A high school senior and winner of last year's teen tournament,...
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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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Alison Beightol, a labor and delivery registered nurse from Lake City, Florida
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Season 22 player (2005-09-29).
Last name pronounced like "BECK-tall".
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Jennifer Burrus, a homemaker and substitute teacher from Leawood, Kansas
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Season 21 player (2005-07-14).
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Chris Hartley, an adjunct professor and writer from the Bronx, New York
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Season 22 player (2005-09-22).
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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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Russ Schumacher, a graduate student from Fort Collins, Colorado
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2014 Battle of the Decades semifinalist: $25,000. 2005 Ultimate Tournament of...
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Chris Rodrigues, a personal banking representative from New Bedford, Massachusetts
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Season 26 3-time champion: $41,498 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Alyssa McRae, a gift card production designer from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Season 25 3-time champion: $50,402 + $2,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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Laura Hughes, a mom from New Market, Maryland
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Season 26 1-time champion: $27,500 + $2,000. Wife of Season 16...
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Gary Bechtold, a garage door company owner from St. Cloud, Minnesota
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Season 26 3-time champion: $42,001 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Justin Bernbach, a lobbyist from Brooklyn, New York
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2010 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 25 7-time champion: $155,001...
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Andy Davis, a Chyron operator from South Boston, Massachusetts
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Season 25 2-time champion: $49,799 + $1,000. Andy Davis - A...
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Inta Antler, a retired computer programmer from Scarborough, Ontario, Canada
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Season 25 1-time champion: $12,700 + $2,000. Inta Antler - A...
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Sanders Kleinfeld, a publishing technology specialist from Cambridge, Massachusetts
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Season 25 1-time champion: $26,597 + $2,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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Janet Bradlow, an insurance agent from New York, New York
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Season 26 3-time champion: $58,000 + $2,000. Janet Bradlow New York,...
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Kori Tyler, a high school teacher from Cordova, Tennessee
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Season 26 player (2010-02-26). Season 25 1-time champion: $20,000 + $2,000....
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Robert Knecht Schmidt, a patent agent from Cleveland, Ohio
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Season 26 1-time champion: $12,799 + $1,000. Middle name pronounced like...
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Jennifer Broders, a junior high school social studies teacher from Stockton, Iowa
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Season 26 2-time champion: $59,801 + $1,000. Jennifer Broders - a...
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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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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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Jordan Brand, an anesthesiologist from Westchester, New York
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Season 26 1-time champion: $24,405 + $2,000. The Sesame Street character...
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Jean Cui, a student originally from Garden City, New York
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Season 25 2-time champion: $14,200 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Stephen Weingarten, a paraeducator from Portland, Oregon
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2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $96,690...
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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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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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Melanie Baker-Streevy, a United Methodist pastor from Parma, Michigan
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Season 25 1-time champion: $26,900 + $1,000. Melanie Baker-Streevy - A...
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A.J. Schumacher, a radio show production intern from St. Paul, Minnesota
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Season 25 1-time champion: $10,800 + $2,000. AJ Schumacher Saint Paul,...
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Gail Flemmons, a history teacher from Clinton, Mississippi
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Season 25 2-time champion: $46,399 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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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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Tom Nissley, an online books editor from Seattle, Washington
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2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2011 Tournament of Champions...
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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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Carolyn Young, a homemaker from Marietta, Georgia
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Season 25 1-time champion: $30,000 + $2,000. Mother of Season 32...
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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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Kimberly Jantz, an attorney from Tulsa, Oklahoma
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Season 26 1-time champion: $22,200 + $2,000. Kimberly Jantz - an...
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Andy Srinivasan, a high school science teacher from Garner, North Carolina
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2010 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $69,600...
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Buddy Wright, an operations engineer from Fort Worth, Texas
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2011 Tournament of Champions 2nd runner-up: $50,000. Season 26 4-time champion:...
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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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Elyse Mancuso, a junior from Omaha, Nebraska
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2012 Teen Tournament winner: $79,600. 16 at the time of the...
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Paul Wampler, a web programmer from Knoxville, Tennessee
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Season 27 4-time champion: $72,001 + $2,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: paul5562
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Kweisi Mfume, a president from the NAACP
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2004 Power Players Week player (2004-05-11). Name pronounced like "kwah-EE-see oom-FOO-may"....
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Saad Hasan, a nanotechnology scientist from Nashville, Tennessee
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Season 26 1-time champion: $22,700 + $2,000. Saad Hasan Nashville, TN...
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Stacy Braverman, a public interest lawyer from Washington, D.C.
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Season 26 1-time champion: $14,984 + $2,000. As detailed in a...
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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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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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Sara Wilkinson, a country club concierge from Athens, Georgia
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Season 27 3-time champion: $72,701 + $2,000.
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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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Stefan Goodreau, a video game tester from Los Angeles, California
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2010 Tournament of Champions 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $50,000. Season...
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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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Matt Jacobs, a science teacher originally from Stratford, Connecticut
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Season 25 1-time champion: $10,323 + $1,000. Matt resided in Silver...
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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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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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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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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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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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Carl Bradshaw, a financial manager from St. Louis, Missouri
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Season 27 2-time champion: $17,899 + $2,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: Titmouse
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Maria Bartiromo, a business anchor from CNBC
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2004 Power Players Week player (2004-05-11). Charities: National Italian American Foundation...
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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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Rachel Horn, a sophomore from Cincinnati, Ohio
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2008-A Teen Tournament winner: $75,000. 15 at the time of the...
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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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Chuck Forrest, an attorney for the UN IFAD from Marino, Italy
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"In 1986, he was a law student living in Grand Blanc,...
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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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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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Jesse Cuevas, a corporate lawyer originally from Leawood, Kansas
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Season 27 3-time champion: $65,981 + $2,000. Brother of Season 30...
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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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Justin Waters, a resident physician from Royal Oak, Michigan
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Season 25 1-time champion: $7,199 + $2,000. Justin Waters Royal Oak,...
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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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John Krizel, a green community program coordinator from Beckley, West Virginia
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2011 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $105,204...
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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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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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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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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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Joseph Graumann, a junior from Mays Landing, New Jersey
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2006 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
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Kate Waits, a law professor at the University of Tulsa from Tulsa, Oklahoma
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"A Harvard Law graduate when she competed in the 1988 Tournament...
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Vanamali Compton, a junior from Clarkdale, Arizona
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2005 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500. 16 at the time of the...
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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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Amy Fletcher, a junior from Cincinnati, Ohio
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2005 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500.
16 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Ruvani Fonseka, a junior from Grosse Pointe, Michigan
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2005 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $5,000. 15 at the time of...
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Anne Shivers, a senior from Peotone, Illinois
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2005 Teen Tournament 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $18,000. 17 at...
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Brooks Humphreys, a high school social studies teacher from Omaha, Nebraska
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"He teaches at an all-girls Catholic school operated by the Sisters...
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Patrick Quinn, a high school German teacher from Chesterfield, Missouri
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"He teaches at a school whose history goes back to a...
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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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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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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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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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Gretchen Carlson, a journalist from the CBS Saturday Early Show
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"Since winning the 1989 Miss America crown, she's built an extensive...
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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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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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Aaron Brown, an Emmy Award-winning newsman from CNN's popular primetime newscast
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"A journalist for over 25 years, he now anchors CNN's popular...
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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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Jonathan Capehart, a journalist from The Washington Post
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"This Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist is a member of the Washington Post...
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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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Tony Nagatani, a junior at Ithaca College from Honolulu, Hawaii
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2001 College Championship quarterfinalist: $2,500. Tony was 20 at the time...
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Jaime Green, a sophomore at Brown University from Nanuet, New York
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2001 College Championship quarterfinalist: $2,500. Jaime was 18 at the time...
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Jason Richards, a pharmacy technician from Old Town, Maine
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2006 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
Season 22 4-time champion: $99,200 + $2,000.
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Emily Zhang, from Indianapolis, Indiana
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"A National Science Merit Award recipient, she plans on becoming a...
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Madeline Suchard, from Placentia, California
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"She has her sights set on becoming the Supreme Court Justice,...
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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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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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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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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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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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Matt Kohlstedt, a grad student originally from La Grange, Illinois
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2009 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
Season 25 5-time champion: $77,803 + $2,000.
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Tommy Maranges, a junior from Fort Lauderdale, Florida
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2007 Teen Tournament Summer Games quarterfinalist: $5,000. 17 at the time...
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Jeff Spoeri, a university administrator from Boynton Beach, Florida
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2007 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD...
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Lindsey Nicolai, a junior from Hampton, Virginia
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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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Andrew Watkins, a junior from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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2006 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: everyday847
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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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Iddoshe Hirpa, a junior from Louisville, Kentucky
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2006 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000.
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Claudia Perry, a sports copy editor from Jersey City, New Jersey
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"A pop music critic when she first appeared on Jeopardy!, she's...
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Elaine Zollner, a physician from Glendale, California
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"A winner of 5 shows in 1990, she used her Jeopardy!...
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Caitlin Cook, a sophomore from Arden, North Carolina
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2005 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $5,000.
16 at the time of the Teen 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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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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Ken Jennings, a writer from Seattle, Washington
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• 74-game champion with longest winning streak • Total earnings over...
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Ken Jennings, the winner of 74 consecutive games from Seattle, Washington
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2020 Jeopardy!: The Greatest of All Time winner: $1,000,000 + a...
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Aria Gerson, an eleven-year-old from Orem, Utah
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"Shine an apple for our future teacher. From Orem, Utah, class,...
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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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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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Kevin Yang, a junior from Birmingham, Alabama
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2012 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000.
16 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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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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Tavis Smiley, a talk show host from PBS's The Tavis Smiley Show
|
"He's interviewed such diverse personalities as Fidel Castro, Pope John Paul...
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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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Anderson Cooper, a host from CNN's Anderson Cooper 360°
|
2004 Power Players Week player (2004-05-11).
Charity: American Heart Association.
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Bob Woodward, an assistant managing editor from The Washington Post
|
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
|
2004 Power Players Week player (2004-05-10).
Charity: The Sisters of Life.
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Andrew Nerlinger, a senior at the University of Notre Dame from Wilmington, Delaware
|
2001 College Championship quarterfinalist: $2,500. Andrew was 21 at the time...
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Bernard Holloway, a junior from Mitchellville, Maryland
|
2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 2002 Teen...
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Allie Pape, a sophomore from Ponte Vedra, Florida
|
2002 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500. Allie was 14 at the time...
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Kate Bolduan, a co-host from CNN's At This Hour
|
"As a CNN congressional correspondent, she covered the U.S. House and...
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Lara Logan, a correspondent from 60 Minutes on CBS
|
"Her bold, award-winning reporting has earned her a prominent spot among...
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Ken Jennings, a writer from Seattle, Washington
|
"He was a software engineer living in Salt Lake City, Utah,...
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Seth Disner, a senior from Los Angeles, California
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2002 Teen Tournament 2nd runner-up: $28,900. Seth was 17 at the...
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Mysti Kofford, a junior at Boston University from New Orleans, Louisiana
|
2001 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $5,000. Mysti was 19 at the...
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Brittany Rogers, a sophomore at Saddleback College from Lake Forest, California
|
2001 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $5,000. Brittany was 18 at the...
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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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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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Craig Barker, an Advanced Placement history teacher from Livonia, Michigan
|
"In 1997 he won the College Championship. Today he's an Advanced...
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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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Elliot Shteir, an attorney from Somerville, New Jersey
|
1995-A Seniors Tournament 1st runner-up: $10,000. Dr. Elliot Shteir won $8,230...
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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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Rachel Rothenberg, a senior from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
|
2009 Teen Tournament winner (semifinalist by wildcard): $75,000. Jeopardy! Message Board...
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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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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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Sally O'Rourke, a freelance copywriter originally from Baton Rouge, Louisiana
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Season 27 1-time champion: $33,601 + $1,000.
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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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Ellen Kimmel, a school nurse from Nanuet, New York
|
Season 27 2-time champion: $37,000 + $1,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: SkoolRN
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Stephen Weingarten, a stay-at-home dad from Portland, Oregon
|
2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $96,690...
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Andy Srinivasan, a high school science teacher from Clayton, North Carolina
|
2010 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $69,600...
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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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Mark Wales, a substitute teacher from Amherst, New York
|
2009 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 24 5-time champion: $141,804...
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Aaron Schroeder, a grad student from San Diego, California
|
2009 Tournament of Champions second runner-up: $50,000. Season 24 5-time champion:...
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Folake Dosu, a senior from Stanford University from Bellwood, Illinois
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2010-B College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
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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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Christian Haines, a college student originally from Newport News, Virginia
|
2007 Tournament of champions semifinalist: $10,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD Home...
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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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Kaitlin Welborn, a sophomore from the University of Pennsylvania
|
2007 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 20 at the time of the...
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Christopher Meloni, an Emmy-nominated actor from Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
|
"He's played challenging roles on both sides of the law, including...
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Loren Loiacono, a senior from Setauket, New York
|
2006 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
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Katie James, a sophomore from Winchester, Virginia
|
2006 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
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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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Lauren Romero, a senior from Denver, Colorado
|
2006 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. According to the official Jeopardy! web...
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Ben Lyon, an industrial scaleman from Dallas, Texas
|
"Representing the University of Oklahoma, he won the 1995 College Championship....
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Ken Jennings, a software engineer from Salt Lake City, Utah
|
2020 Jeopardy!: The Greatest of All Time winner: $1,000,000 + a...
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Eric Newhouse, a director of technical assistance from Sioux City, Iowa
|
2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Nifty Nine (players with byes into...
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Ryan Holznagel, a writer originally from Forest Grove, Oregon
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"He was the winner of the 1995 Tournament of Champions. Now,...
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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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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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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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Christina Maes, a senior at the University of Wisconsin - Green Bay from Green Bay, Wisconsin
|
2004 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000.
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Mike Thayer, a mathematics teacher from North Plainfield, New Jersey
|
"He was a junior at Rutgers University when he won the...
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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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Brad Selvig, a sophomore at Florida State from Jacksonville, Florida
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2004 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000.
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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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Matt Polazzo, a high school U.S. government teacher from Brooklyn, New York
|
"He teaches at one of the most selective high schools in...
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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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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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Jay Schrader, a junior from Lexington, Kentucky
|
2008-B Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000. Older brother of 2012 Teen Tournament...
|
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Catherine Whitten, a high school history teacher from Plano, Texas
|
"This gifted teacher primarily teaches gifted students. From Plano, Texas, this...
|
|
Kara Spak, a newspaper reporter from Chicago, Illinois
|
2011 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
Season 27 5-time champion: $83,401 + $2,000.
|
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Sarah Bart, a senior at Goucher College from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
|
2012 College Championship 1st runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $50,000. 22 at...
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Connie Shi, a junior at the University of Michigan from Okemos, Michigan
|
2012 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000.
19 at the time of the College Championship.
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Melanie Bruchet, a senior from Bryn Mawr
|
"Everyone wants to be an astronaut when they're a kid, but...
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Kate Rowland, a family doctor from Chicago, Illinois
|
Season 27 1-time champion: $16,401 + $2,000.
|
|
Eliza Urban, a sophomore from Richmond, Virginia
|
2007 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 15 at the time of the...
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Vinita Kailasanath, a sophomore at Stanford University from Laurel, Maryland
|
2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2005 Ultimate Tournament of...
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Andy Kravis, a freshman from Farmington Hills, Michigan
|
2002 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $5,000. Andy was 13 at the...
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George Nelson, a senior from Montgomery, Alabama
|
2002 Teen Tournament 1st runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $29,497. George was...
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Kevin Keach, an operations manager from St. Ann, Missouri
|
2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 2001 Tournament...
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Babu Srinivasan, a history professor from Houston, Texas
|
2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2005 Ultimate Tournament of...
|
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Thomas Zamora, a junior at the University of Southern California from Cypress, California
|
2001 College Championship 2nd runner-up: $14,100. Thomas was 20 at the...
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Brett Dvorak, a junior at Indiana University from Granger, Indiana
|
2001 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $5,000. Brett was 20 at the...
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Susan Haarman, a sophomore at Marquette University from Louisville, Kentucky
|
2001 College Championship quarterfinalist: $2,500. Susan was 19 at the time...
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Erin Bogart, a junior at Miami University of Ohio from Cincinnati, Ohio
|
2001 College Championship quarterfinalist: $2,500. Erin was 20 at the time...
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Tom Kavanaugh, a kickball team captain from St. Louis, Missouri
|
2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2006 Tournament of Champions...
|
|
Leslie Frates, a Spanish teacher from Hayward, California
|
"A Jeopardy! champion in 1991, she's now a Spanish teacher listed...
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Bob Fleenor, a newspaper copy editor from Martinsburg, West Virginia
|
"Legislative work in his home state was suspended so that lawmakers...
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Robert Slaven, a technical products specialist originally from Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada
|
"He won 5 times in 1992. Today, he's a technical products...
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Arthur Phillips, an author from Brooklyn, New York
|
"He was a speechwriter from Boston when he won five shows...
|
|
Leslie Frates, a Spanish teacher from Hayward, California
|
"A Jeopardy! tournament veteran, her best-known Jeopardy! appearance may be in...
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Carl Brandt, an investor originally from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
|
2009 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Season 25 4-time champion: $70,799 + $2,000.
|
|
Hema Karunakaram, a senior from Saline, Michigan
|
2009 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000. Name pronounced like "HAY-ma kah-ROO-nuh-KAH-ram". Jeopardy!...
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Kennedy Stomps, a junior from St. Louis, Missouri
|
2009 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
|
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Joel Knight, a freshman from Farmington, Michigan
|
2003 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500.
14 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
|
|
Steve Gratz, a freelance artist from Washington, D.C.
|
Season 27 2-time champion: $30,999 + $1,000.
|
|
Genaro Lopez, a contract administrator from Portland, Oregon
|
Season 27 1-time champion: $29,001 + $2,000.
First name pronounced like "heh-NAR-o".
|
|
Russ Porter, a water systems engineer from Seattle, Washington
|
Season 27 1-time champion: $20,001 + $2,000.
|
|
Jonathan Corbblah, a chess teacher from Harlem, New York
|
Season 27 1-time champion: $13,000 + $1,000. Jonathan appeared as a...
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Sandra McClellan, a granny nanny from Arlington, Texas
|
Season 27 1-time champion: $4,199 + $2,000.
|
|
Andrea Michaels, a freelance writer from Los Angeles, California
|
Season 4 player (1988-07-05): Gibson's Keytek professional keyboard + a Krayco...
|
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Marshall Flores, a senior from Arizona State University from Avondale, Arizona
|
2010-B College Championship semifinalist: $10,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
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Francesca Leibowitz, a fifth grade English teacher from Brooklyn, New York
|
"She teaches at a school that opened in 1854. From Brooklyn...
|
|
Sara Terrell, a veterinary technician from Windsor, Connecticut
|
2007 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD Home...
|
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Amy Varallo, a senior from Aiken, South Carolina
|
2007 Teen Tournament Summer Games quarterfinalist: $5,000. 17 at the time...
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Amy Levine, a freshman from North Potomac, Maryland
|
2007 Teen Tournament Summer Games quarterfinalist: $5,000. 15 at the time...
|
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Greg Peterson, a senior from Park Ridge, Illinois
|
2007 Teen Tournament Summer Games 1st runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $38,600....
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Andy Hutchins, a senior from Rockledge, Florida
|
2007 Teen Tournament Summer Games semifinalist: $10,000. 17 at the time...
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Thomas McIntyre, a 12-year-old from Marino Valley, California
|
"This self-proclaimed Star Wars freak, who has earned star rank in...
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Michael Glick, a 12-year-old from Smithtown, New York
|
"He's in math honors this year, even though math is one...
|
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Sam Waterston, an actor from Law & Order
|
"A Best Actor Oscar nominee for The Killing Fields, he's now...
|
|
Josh Lacey, a 10-year-old from Ellicott City, Maryland
|
"The International Olympic Committee does such good work, he would like...
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Curt Schilling, a pitcher from the Boston Red Sox
|
"In helping the Red Sox to win the 2004 World Series,...
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|
Allyson Lieberman, a 12-year-old from Whitmore Lake, Michigan
|
"Since she was little, she has truly loved to act. Broadway,...
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Carson Kressley, a fashion maven from Queer Eye for the Straight Guy
|
"This star of TV's Queer Eye for the Straight Guy says...
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Sebastian Johnson, a senior from Takoma Park, Maryland
|
2006 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Listed as "Sebi" on the...
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|
Laura Ansley, a senior from Twinsburg, Ohio
|
2006 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
|
|
Allison Peña, a junior from Sunrise, Florida
|
2006 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
|
|
Kenny Schlax, a junior from Deerfield, Illinois
|
2006 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Listed as "Kenneth" on the official web site.
|
|
Bob Fleenor, a newspaper copy editor from Martinsburg, West Virginia
|
2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 2001 Tournament...
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|
Andrew Garen, an associate director of consumer marketing from Austin, Texas
|
"He was a project manager when he won his 5 shows...
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|
Steve Newman, a partner in a small computer company from Rockville, Maryland
|
"He was the first player to win 5 games in the...
|
|
Lee Lassiter, a data modeler from Topeka, Kansas
|
"A 5-time winner from 2000, he used his winnings to take...
|
|
Allan Long, a freshman from Tallahassee, Florida
|
2005 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500. 14 at the time of the...
|
|
Casey Retterer, a sophomore at the University of Maryland from Olney, Maryland
|
2004 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
|
|
Lily Wang, a junior at Columbia University from Plano, Texas
|
2004 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000.
|
|
Brad Rutter, a $3.2-million winner from Los Angeles, California
|
"In 2000, he became a 5-time champion and went on to...
|
|
Christopher Weis, a sophomore from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
|
2008-B Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. Last name pronounced like "WISE". Jeopardy!...
|
|
Matt Olson, a sophomore at Stanford University from Berkeley, California
|
2012 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. 20 at the time of the...
|
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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.
|
|
Morgan Flood, a junior from Pequea, Pennsylvania
|
2012 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
|
|
Ben Greenho, a junior from Plano, Texas
|
2012 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000.
17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
|
|
Raphie Cantor, a sophomore from San Diego, California
|
2011 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
15 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
|
|
Frank Firke, a junior from Chicago, Illinois
|
2007 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 16 at the time of...
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