| #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 | 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 | KNOW YOUR -OLOGIES $300: This field in which Mariah Carey was a student includes hairstyling and nail care cometology |
| #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 | 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" |
| #8975, aired 2023-11-17 | SPRINGSTEEN LYRICS $1000: "I walked the avenue, til my legs felt like stone, I heard voices of friends vanished and gone" "Streets Of Philadelphia" |
| #8975, aired 2023-11-17 | BROADWAY MUSICAL SETTINGS $3,200 (Daily Double): This musical opens with Anna's arrival in Bangkok The King and I |
| #8973, aired 2023-11-15 | STAGE NAME'S THE SAME $400: Funnyman director Melvin Kaminsky & funnyman director Albert Einstein Brooks |
| #8973, aired 2023-11-15 | CANADIAN ARTISTES $800: Alberta BaIlet's "The Fiddle and the Drum" is set to the songs of this singer born in Alberta Joni Mitchell |
| #8973, aired 2023-11-15 | STAGE NAME'S THE SAME $800: '70s TV star John Sanford & "Beat Shazam" host Eric Bishop Foxx |
| #8973, aired 2023-11-15 | STAGE NAME'S THE SAME $1200: "Mrs. Soffel" Diane Hall & "Mr. Mom" Michael Douglas Keaton |
| #20, aired 2023-11-15 | TV DRAMAS IN A NUTSHELL $300 (Daily Double): Tommy Shelby and his sharp-hatted gang carve out a crime empire in post-WWI England Peaky Blinders |
| #20, aired 2023-11-15 | MOTHER GOOSE POLICE BLOTTER $400: Medics were dispatched to a local hillside where a man sustained head injuries fetching water with a female companion "Jack and Jill" |
| #20, aired 2023-11-15 | COMPETITIVE CHEERLEADING $800: It's no picnic being a flyer in this flashy stunt where teammates lock hands, fling you into the air, and hopefully catch you a basket toss |
| #20, aired 2023-11-15 | MOTHER GOOSE POLICE BLOTTER $1000: Officers responded to anonymous reports that a local man was sequestering his wife inside a large gourd "Peter, Peter, Pumpkin Eater" |
| #20, aired 2023-11-15 | U.S. "WORLD CAPITALS" $1200: If you like brats & getting barreled, head to Sheboygan in this state, the "world capital" of bratwurst & freshwater surfing Wisconsin |
| #8972, aired 2023-11-14 | CANNES PALME D'OR WINNERS $400: 1989:
"____, ____ and videotape" sex, lies |
| #8972, aired 2023-11-14 | A WORLD OF CRAFTS, NO WAR $600: A simple method of printing and duplicating uses these cutouts; paint is sprayed through the removed areas a stencil |
| #8972, aired 2023-11-14 | OF "STAR"s $2000: It's estimated that during WWII, the European edition of this U.S. military newspaper topped a million in circulation Stars and Stripes |
| #8971, aired 2023-11-13 | WHOSE LINE IS IT ANYWAY? $800: 1939:
"That's what's wrong with you. You should be kissed, and often and by someone who knows how" Clark Gable |
| #8971, aired 2023-11-13 | SONGS IN MUSICALS $1000: "The Music And The Mirror" &
"One" A Chorus Line |
| #8970, aired 2023-11-10 | LITERARY E-MAIL ADDRESSES $400: fake_leg@moby-dick.net Ahab |
| #8970, aired 2023-11-10 | SHIPS $2000: A space shuttle was named for this ship seen here, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution's first research vessel the Atlantis |
| #8969, aired 2023-11-09 | A LITTLE LEGALESE $800: Personal property is sometimes called "goods and" these, from a word referring to bovines chattels |
| #8968, aired 2023-11-08 | THE "A" TEAM $1000: Sing a little song & tell us this nickname of Montreal's Canadian Football League team the Alouettes |
| #8967, aired 2023-11-07 | YOU'RE GETTING VERY SLEEPY $1200: Robert Frost wrote, "The woods are lovely, dark and deep, but I have" this obligation "and miles to go before I sleep" promises to keep |
| #8967, aired 2023-11-07 | MYTHOLOGICAL PAINTINGS $1200: A painting by Paul Cezanne shows "Leda and" this bird a swan |
| #8966, aired 2023-11-06 | ODD 4-LETTER WORDS $400: It means sad or listless; when tripled, it means "and so on" blah |
| #8966, aired 2023-11-06 | CALL OUT THE BOB SQUAD $1000: This was Janis Joplin's only No. 1 hit as a solo performer "Me And Bobby McGee" |
| #8965, aired 2023-11-03 | IT JUST SOUNDS QUESTIONABLE $400: This 4-letter word can mean "stop"; while pouring you a drink someone might ask you to "say" it when |
| #8965, aired 2023-11-03 | THE THIRD WORD $400: ...of the Gettysburg Address and (seven) |
| #8965, aired 2023-11-03 | BIG-SCREEN ELVIS $400: An ad for this film said, "It's that 'go-go' guy (Elvis) and that 'bye-bye' gal (Ann-Margret) in the fun capital of the world!" Viva Las Vegas |
| #8965, aired 2023-11-03 | IT JUST SOUNDS QUESTIONABLE $1200: This letter means "and" in Spanish Y |
| #19, aired 2023-11-01 | G-I TRACT $100: It's written in the stars! It's the zodiac sign of twins Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen Gemini |
| #19, aired 2023-11-01 | "BROWN" OUT $200: Looking to save some cash? Try packing your own lunch and bringing it to work, also known as this brownbagging |
| #19, aired 2023-11-01 | PENINSULAS $200: Home to the Iberian and Balkan peninsulas among others, it's the continent often called a peninsula of peninsulas Europe |
| #19, aired 2023-11-01 | ENGLISH DIALECTS AND ACCENTS $300: The Canadian Encyclopedia says that this two-letter interjection distinguishes Canadian English from other dialects eh |
| #19, aired 2023-11-01 | MARRIAGE STORY $300: 1932:
"Rosa McCauley! Any activism today?"
"I just got married"
"Do I know him?"
"His last name is" this Parks |
| #19, aired 2023-11-01 | COMPOSER PLAYLISTS $400: "The Flying Dutchman";
"The Mastersingers of Nuremberg";
"Tristan and Isolde";
"Ring Cycle" Wagner |
| #19, aired 2023-11-01 | G-I TRACT $400: Celeb chef Giada De Laurentiis has a recipe for this dish that calls for salt, pepper, flour, an egg and 1 1/2 pounds of Russet potatoes gnocchi |
| #19, aired 2023-11-01 | ICONIC MAN-PERMS $500: Every day, it took 3 hours and 110 pink curlers to create Bradley Cooper's tight 'do for this Oscar-nominated film American Hustle |
| #19, aired 2023-11-01 | CONSTITUTIONAL MATTERS $500: In 1790, this smallest of the 13 original colonies became the last to ratify the Constitution Rhode Island |
| #19, aired 2023-11-01 | ENGLISH DIALECTS AND ACCENTS $600: These Louisianans with a distinct way of speaking & their own ethnic group are descendants of migrants from Nova Scotia Cajun |
| #19, aired 2023-11-01 | PENINSULAS $800: Close but no cigar: "peninsula" derives from the Latin roots "paene" & "insula", meaning "almost" and this an island |
| #19, aired 2023-11-01 | ENGLISH DIALECTS AND ACCENTS $900: According to a standard imitation of the Boston accent, this grassy plot seen here is where people "pahk" their "cahs" Hahvahd Yahd |
| #19, aired 2023-11-01 | "BROWN" OUT $1000: Typing this sentence, containing all 26 letters of the alphabet, is a tried and true method of testing out your keyboard The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. |
| #19, aired 2023-11-01 | COMPOSER PLAYLISTS $1000: "Living Room Music";
"Instances of Silence";
"Telephones and Birds";
"4'33"" John Cage |
| #19, aired 2023-11-01 | HAIL TO THE CHEF $1,100 (Daily Double): A distillery at this historic Virginia estate makes whiskey based on George Washington's own recipe Mount Vernon |
| #19, aired 2023-11-01 | ENGLISH DIALECTS AND ACCENTS $1200: The name of this East London dialect and accent comes from a Middle English word for a defective egg Cockney |
| #19, aired 2023-11-01 | RIGHT "U-R" $1,500 (Daily Double): The New York Times called it a "sport in which daredevils race over rooftops, flip over ledges and climb walls without assistance" parkour |
| #19, aired 2023-11-01 | ENGLISH DIALECTS AND ACCENTS $1500: "Mi irie" is a proper response to the greeting "How yuh stay" in the patois of this island nation Jamaica |
| #8962, aired 2023-10-31 | MONSTER MANUAL $4,000 (Daily Double): In "The Once and Future King" this beast is described as "falco leonis serpentis" a griffin |
| #8961, aired 2023-10-30 | THE JOKERS $200: His final role was as Tony in "The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus" in 2009 Heath Ledger |
| #8961, aired 2023-10-30 | 5 RHYMES $1000: In Tennyson it precedes "...to seek, to find, and not to yield" to strive |
| #8961, aired 2023-10-30 | CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND $4,600 (Daily Double): Waged from 149 to 146 B.C., the Third Punic War resulted in the final destruction of this city & its people's enslavement Carthage |
| #8960, aired 2023-10-27 | QUOTABLE CINEMA $200: 1939:
"I'll get you, my pretty, and your little dog, too!" The Wizard of Oz |
| #8960, aired 2023-10-27 | QUOTABLE CINEMA $600: 1976:
"I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!" Network |
| #8960, aired 2023-10-27 | "A"UTHORS $1200: Her novels include "The House of the Spirits" & "Of Love and Shadows" Isabel Allende |
| #8959, aired 2023-10-26 | HALL OF FAMER BY POSITION $2000: Gump Worsley,
Shrimp Worters,
Rat Westwick (ice) hockey goalies |
| #8959, aired 2023-10-26 | JACQUES OF ALL TRADES $2000: A musical review of this singer-songwriter's works is called this man "is Alive and Well and Living in Paris" Jacques Brel |
| #18, aired 2023-10-25 | FAILING HISTORY $100: On a trip to Asia in 1492, he ended up thousands of miles away and still got a U.S. federal holiday in his honor Christopher Columbus |
| #18, aired 2023-10-25 | PRIDE & POTUS $100: In front of his wife Jill and other LGBT supporters, this POTUS signed 2022's Respect for Marriage Act into law Joe Biden |
| #18, aired 2023-10-25 | NAME DROPPERS $200: France caught a sick burn in 2003, when D.C. cafeterias dropped the name "French fries" and started serving these Freedom fries |
| #18, aired 2023-10-25 | OH, BROTHER! $200: Adam and Eve's first two sons; you may have heard they had a falling out Cain & Abel |
| #18, aired 2023-10-25 | FAILING HISTORY $300 (Daily Double): A poll of historical writers named this Tudor king the worst monarch in history and his six wives would probably agree Henry VIII |
| #18, aired 2023-10-25 | FIX THE MOVIE QUOTE $400: Judy Garland:
"Lions and tigers and Labradoodles, oh my!" bears |
| #18, aired 2023-10-25 | MIXED GREENS $400: She's been staring at Brooklyn since 1886, and man, her right arm must be tired!:
I FLOUT TERABYTES Statue of Liberty |
| #18, aired 2023-10-25 | OH, BROTHER! $400: Famously feuding brothers Noel and Liam Gallagher don't look back in anger at 1991, the year they formed this band Oasis |
| #18, aired 2023-10-25 | SIGMUND FREUD $600: Freud's personality theory divides the human psyche into 3 parts: the ego, the superego, and this, the seat of our most primitive instincts the id |
| #18, aired 2023-10-25 | THE NOBEL PRIZE $1000: Each Nobel Prize winner receives a medal, a cash award, and this official title--leafy head wreath not included laureate |
| #18, aired 2023-10-25 | LIBRARIES $2,000 (Daily Double): On display at the Newark Public Librarv is the copy of "Portnoy's Complaint" this author inscribed to his parents Philip Roth |
| #8957, aired 2023-10-24 | THE METROPOLITAN OPERA $400: The Met's home in this complex opened in 1966 with Samuel Barber's "Antony and Cleopatra" Lincoln Center |
| #8957, aired 2023-10-24 | THE METROPOLITAN OPERA $4,000 (Daily Double): Emma Calvé might have tired of the habanera when she set a Met record singing this role 138 times Carmen |
| #8956, aired 2023-10-23 | ALWAYS SAY NEVER $200: Created by Bill Watterson, this comic strip kid says of class bully Moe, "Never argue with a 6-year-old who shaves" Calvin |
| #8956, aired 2023-10-23 | ALWAYS SAY NEVER $600: "He that fights and runs away may" these 5 words "but he that is in battle slain will never rise to fight again" live to fight another day |
| #8956, aired 2023-10-23 | STUPID PROVERBS $600: You'll find things are in order with "a place for" this "and everything in its place" place for everything |
| #8956, aired 2023-10-23 | ALWAYS SAY NEVER $800: In his "Ballad of East and West", this Brit wrote, "East is east, and west is west, and never the twain shall meet" Rudyard Kipling |
| #8955, aired 2023-10-20 | NOT YOUR AVERAGE OPERA $200: X marks the spot where the New York City Opera premiered "X: The Life and Times of" this activist Malcolm X |
| #8955, aired 2023-10-20 | AMY POEHLER IS AWESOME $800: As Leslie on this show: "Hey, honey! Good morning! How did you sleep? I adopted 32 cats & dogs. Do you want pancakes?" Parks and Recreation |
| #8954, aired 2023-10-19 | IT'S OUR TURN TO SACK ROME!!! $400: 410 A.D.:
Under Alaric, these "Westerners" sack Rome Visigoths |
| #8953, aired 2023-10-18 | A FABRIC-ATED CATEGORY $1200: This lace named for a town in France was paired in song with "a pretty face and a ponytail hanging down" Chantilly lace |
| #17, aired 2023-10-18 | RESPOND LIKE A PIRATE $100: In 2022, this fast food chain launched a line of dog toys shaped like roast beef sandwiches and curly fries Arby's |
| #17, aired 2023-10-18 | REPETITIVE SONG TITLES $100: It ain't no lie--*NSYNC had a top 10 hit in 2000 with this song (and we'd love for you to do the "talking puppet hand" motion) "Bye Bye Bye" |
| #17, aired 2023-10-18 | RESPOND LIKE A PIRATE $200: It's the world's smallest and shallowest ocean the Arctic |
| #17, aired 2023-10-18 | MEDICAL MNENOMICS $300: This is gonna feel a little cold; treat an ankle sprain with "RICE": "rest", this "I" word, "compression" and "elevation" ice |
| #17, aired 2023-10-18 | NONAGENARIANS $300: After turning 90 in 2023, she was still active on social media and retweeted an article about the peace songs of her husband, John Lennon Yoko Ono |
| #17, aired 2023-10-18 | ARTISTIC CHILDREN'S BOOKS $300: "Lumpito and the Painter from Spain" tells the story of a dachshund featured in several of this cubist's works Picasso |
| #17, aired 2023-10-18 | REPETITIVE SONG TITLES $300: Say the name of Buffalo's NFL team three times, and you'll say the title of this Destiny's Child song "Bills, Bills, Bills" |
| #17, aired 2023-10-18 | HISTORICAL MARKERS $300: William Faulkner and Eudora Welty are featured on markers along a writers trail in this U.S. state Mississippi |
| #17, aired 2023-10-18 | HISTORIC QUOTES REPHRASED $400: Teddy Roosevelt, 1901: "Treat others with respect, but make sure they know your military could still kick their ass" speak softly, and carry a big stick |
| #17, aired 2023-10-18 | HISTORICAL MARKERS $400: A marker in Martinez, CA hails the town as the "birthplace of the martini"; it recommends 2/3 gin and 1/3 this vermouth |
| #17, aired 2023-10-18 | "I" CAN GO EITHER WAY $600: Take a long skirt or dress, move its "I" from the back to the front, and you get this supersized movie format IMAX |
| #17, aired 2023-10-18 | MEDICAL MNENOMICS $600: In optometry, "flashes" and "floaters" are 2 of the "4 F's" doctors often see in patients with a detached this retina |
| #17, aired 2023-10-18 | "I" CAN GO EITHER WAY $900: Take a southwestern Native American tribe, move its "I" from the back to the front, and you get this breakfast chain IHOP |
| #17, aired 2023-10-18 | THE QURAN $900: TGI this day of the week on which the book says to drop all business and respond to the call to prayer Friday |
| #17, aired 2023-10-18 | "I" CAN GO EITHER WAY $1200: Take this first name (he loved Lucy), move its "I" from the back to the front, and you get this ominous day for Caesar ides |
| #17, aired 2023-10-18 | MEDICAL MNENOMICS $1500: Pediatricians look for "The 3 S's"--stridor, subglottic swelling and a seal-like cough--before diagnosing this infant ailment croup |
| #17, aired 2023-10-18 | "I" CAN GO EITHER WAY $1500: Take the ending to a "San Francisco treat", move its "I" from the back to the front, and you get this element #26 on the periodic table iron |
| #17, aired 2023-10-18 | THE QURAN $1500: One passage says that paradise flows with rivers of water, milk, honey, and this fermented libation, forbidden on earth wine |
| #17, aired 2023-10-18 | ARTISTIC CHILDREN'S BOOKS $10,000 (Daily Double): "Sunflowers and Swirly Stars" is the subtitle of a book about this artist van Gogh |
| #8951, aired 2023-10-16 | I DIDN'T COME HERE TO MAKE FRIENDS $800: Wilde said this "Man and Superman" author didn't have "an enemy in the world and none of his friends like him" George Bernard Shaw |
| #8950, aired 2023-10-13 | AWARDS & HONORS $800: He won Pulitzers for his plays in 1948 & 1955 Tennessee Williams |
| #8949, aired 2023-10-12 | GOT MILK? $600: Commercial cow's milk is commonly enriched with these 2 vitamins A & D |
| #8949, aired 2023-10-12 | PRESIDENTS' EXECUTIVE ORDERS $800: "I hereby appoint a commission to ascertain, evaluate and report upon the facts relating to the assassination of the late president" Lyndon B. Johnson |
| #16, aired 2023-10-11 | WOULDA, COULDA, SHOULDA $100: She urged us to get out and vote in 2020, cautioning firsthand against "another woulda, coulda, shoulda election" Hillary Clinton |
| #16, aired 2023-10-11 | LESSER-KNOWN SIBLINGS $200: Like her father and Atticus Finch, Alice Lee, sister of author Harper Lee, was one of these professionals lawyer |
| #16, aired 2023-10-11 | WOULDA, COULDA, SHOULDA $200: The credo "Shoulda, coulda, and woulda won't get it done" led Pat Riley to 4 NBA titles coaching this team the L.A. Lakers |
| #16, aired 2023-10-11 | MERRIAM-WEBSTER'S WORDS OF THE YEAR $200: While "pandemic" was the word for 2020, 2021 was more optimistic with this entry, thanks to Pfizer, Moderna, and others vaccine |
| #16, aired 2023-10-11 | FICTIONAL TV TOWNS $200: Dillon, Texas (home of the Panthers, and Tim Riggins) Friday Night Lights |
| #16, aired 2023-10-11 | AS SEEN ON SHARK TANK $200: Shark Lori Greiner won the bidding war for this smiley-faced cleaning implement, and the rest is sponge history Scrub Daddy |
| #16, aired 2023-10-11 | YOU'RE A HOMOPHONE, DIANE $300: Dianne who, to date, has had 9 Grammy nominations and 5 wins; her 56% success rate is pretty jazzy Dianne Reeves |
| #16, aired 2023-10-11 | MERRIAM-WEBSTER'S WORDS OF THE YEAR $400: In 2015, the word was the suffix "-ism" and 2 years later it was this "-ism" associated with Betty Friedan feminism |
| #16, aired 2023-10-11 | OH, THAT'S RICH $400: To make a Black Forest cake you'll need chocolate, whipped cream and these fruits pitted cherries |
| #16, aired 2023-10-11 | LESSER-KNOWN SIBLINGS $500 (Daily Double): Berenice IV who was dethroned and executed by her father was the sister of this queen who committed suicide in 30 BC Cleopatra |
| #16, aired 2023-10-11 | PEW! PEW! PEW! $600: Paul Rudd once joked this stage of life "hit me pretty hard. all of a sudden I woke up and I had really curly hair" puberty |
| #16, aired 2023-10-11 | WINE BIZ $600: This meringue ingredient is sometimes used in winemaking to balance and clarify the end product egg whites |
| #16, aired 2023-10-11 | YOU'RE A HOMOPHONE, DIANE $1,000 (Daily Double): In her 1983 book's acknowledgements, primatologist Dian Fossey thanks mostly humans but also these animals mountain gorillas |
| #16, aired 2023-10-11 | FOR SWEATER OR WORSE $1,000 (Daily Double): Sweaters that button in front are named for British officer James Thomas Brudenell, the 7th Earl of this Cardigan |
| #16, aired 2023-10-11 | FASHION FOR ALL $1200: A clothing company for the visually impaired, Aille Design stitches this reading system into its shirts and dresses Braille |
| #16, aired 2023-10-11 | HI, I'M J.LO $1200: A 17th century philosopher who defended "life, liberty and property", this "J.Lo" influenced the founding fathers John Locke |
| #16, aired 2023-10-11 | HI, I'M J.LO $2,100 (Daily Double): You can buy a copy of "The Call of the Wild" at the gift shop in the California state park dedicated to this "J.Lo" Jack London |
| #16, aired 2023-10-11 | PEW! PEW! PEW! $3,000 (Daily Double): Derived from the French word for "flea", it's a dark shade of red similar to burnt sienna puce |
| #8947, aired 2023-10-10 | I WROTE THAT LINE $400: "Of neither Darcy nor Wickham could she think, without feeling that she had been blind, partial, prejudiced, absurd" Austen |
| #8946, aired 2023-10-09 | A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME $800: In 1687 this Brit differentiated "absolute, true, and mathematical time" & "relative, apparent, and common time" Newton |
| #8946, aired 2023-10-09 | ELTON JOHN SONGS $1200: "I remember when rock was young, me and Suzie had so much fun" "Crocodile Rock" |
| #8946, aired 2023-10-09 | ELTON JOHN SONGS $2000: "I can't light no more of your darkness, all my pictures seem to fade to black and white" "Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me" |
| #8945, aired 2023-10-06 | LITERARY POP $800: The band Veruca Salt took its name from the spoiled rich girl in this Roald Dahl children's book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory |
| #8944, aired 2023-10-05 | FRANKLY $1000: This composer got a Pulitzer for "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying" Frank Loesser |
| #8943, aired 2023-10-04 | LOONEY TUNES $1600: I say, he got above-the-title billing in the punningly named "Of Rice and Hen" Foghorn Leghorn |
| #15, aired 2023-10-04 | BLUNT BIOS OF BRAND MASCOTS $100: A bald housekeeper with a hoop earring and the biceps of a Greek god Mr. Clean |
| #15, aired 2023-10-04 | AND THE STATE CAPITAL IS... $100: Ohio:
Cleveland,
Columbus,
Cincinnati Columbus |
| #15, aired 2023-10-04 | A BUNDLE OF "FUN" $200: After splitting with Paul Simon in the early seventies, he briefly left music and taught math Art Garfunkel |
| #15, aired 2023-10-04 | AND THE STATE CAPITAL IS... $200: Arizona:
Tucson,
Scottsdale,
Phoenix Phoenix |
| #15, aired 2023-10-04 | AND THE STATE CAPITAL IS... $300: Pennsylvania:
Scranton,
Harrisburg,
Pittsburgh Harrisburg |
| #15, aired 2023-10-04 | THE MEDI-VERSE $400: A blood pressure reading has two parts: the systolic or top number and this, the bottom number the diastolic |
| #15, aired 2023-10-04 | JOYCE, CARROLL, OATES $400: "Wonderland" Joyce Carol Oates |
| #15, aired 2023-10-04 | FAMOUS TV SPOILERS $400: Were they all dead the whole time? Nope! And the island wasn't limbo--just an island! Lost |
| #15, aired 2023-10-04 | AND THE STATE CAPITAL IS... $400: Tennessee:
Chattanooga,
Memphis,
Nashville Nashville |
| #15, aired 2023-10-04 | WHAT A LOAD OF B.S. $400: Sticky Fingers and Bone Suckin' are two brands that make this type of condiment barbecue sauce |
| #15, aired 2023-10-04 | BIG-SCREEN BALLADS $400: Richard Gere sweeps Debra Winger off her feet to the tune of "Up Where We Belong" in the final scene of this '80s tearjerker An Officer and a Gentleman |
| #15, aired 2023-10-04 | RISING UP $400: Mahsa Amini's death inspired protests against headscarves and the government in this Middle Eastern country Iran |
| #15, aired 2023-10-04 | JOYCE, CARROLL, OATES $500: "Sylvie and Bruno" Lewis Carroll |
| #15, aired 2023-10-04 | AND THE STATE CAPITAL IS... $500: Florida:
Jacksonville,
Orlando,
Tallahassee Tallahassee |
| #15, aired 2023-10-04 | ESTATE PLANNING $1,200 (Daily Double): In law, it's one party managing another's property for the benefit of a third; in life, some say it's the key to a good relationship trust |
| #15, aired 2023-10-04 | BYGONE TECH $1200: Give a hand to this product from Joseph Enterprises that turned your lights on and off before Alexa did it for you the Clapper |
| #15, aired 2023-10-04 | SCIENTISTS' RHYME TIME $1500: Astronomer & gigantic telescope namesake Edwin's soapy bath suds (one soak and your cares will be light years away) Hubble's bubbles |
| #8941, aired 2023-10-02 | ARE YOU SHAKESPEARIENCED? $1000: "All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players" As You Like It |
| #8941, aired 2023-10-02 | ARE YOU SHAKESPEARIENCED? $1,200 (Daily Double): "The isle is full of noises, sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not" The Tempest |
| #8941, aired 2023-10-02 | SOUTH AFRICA $2,000 (Daily Double): The majestic Victorian City Hall in East London, South Africa held the first hearing of the post-apartheid TRC, this commission Truth and Reconciliation Commission |
| #8940, aired 2023-09-29 | FACTS ABOUT THE BEST PICTURE WINNER $7,200 (Daily Double): Doug Jones said the latex rubber suit he wore in this film acted "as a sponge" The Shape of Water |
| #8939, aired 2023-09-28 | WE'VE GOT TO STOP MEETING LIKE THIS $2,000 (Daily Double): In February, 1945, FDR, Churchill & Stalin met at the Livadia Palace near this Black Sea resort Yalta |
| #8939, aired 2023-09-28 | GAMES PEOPLE PLAY $2000: In chess there are this many possible opening first moves for white 20 |
| #8938, aired 2023-09-27 | TITLE WOMEN $400: Coming from Maine to the prairie:
her "Plain and Tall" Sarah |
| #8938, aired 2023-09-27 | A SOVIET UNION $1000: After the Communists came into power in 1917, this party of theirs ratified a "code of marriage, the family and guardianship" the Bolsheviks (Reds) |
| #14, aired 2023-09-27 | CHICKEN FIVE WAYS $100: You can get royally full on this dish that calls for cubed chicken, mushrooms, a sherry cream sauce and a few slices of toast chicken à la king |
| #14, aired 2023-09-27 | ALASKA $300: Alaska has more of these birds than any other U.S. state --and that's not even counting the ones on the backs of quarters bald eagles |
| #14, aired 2023-09-27 | ALSO AN ANIMAL SOUND $400: This word follows Chesapeake, Hudson and Guantanamo in the names of bodies of water bay |
| #14, aired 2023-09-27 | ALSO AN ANIMAL SOUND $500: Players of this instrument "are just belligerent, and cocky, and you know just hard-headed" according to Wynton Marsalis the trumpet |
| #14, aired 2023-09-27 | ALASKA $600: The 4 largest cities in the U.S. by area are all in Alaska: Sitka, Juneau, Wrangell, and this city, also the most populous Anchorage |
| #14, aired 2023-09-27 | RANDOM U.S. STATE FACTS $800: Massachusetts and Virginia are two of four states that have this word in their official names Commonwealth |
| #14, aired 2023-09-27 | AIRPORT STORES $900: Pacific Coast News and Thinking Canada are two stores at YVR, the 3-letter code for an airport serving this major city Vancouver |
| #14, aired 2023-09-27 | ALASKA $900: Part of a 24-year quest to circle the globe on foot, Karl Bushby hiked and swam from Alaska to this country in 2006 Russia |
| #14, aired 2023-09-27 | BOOK DEDICATIONS $1000: Toni Morrison dedicated this masterpiece to "sixty million and more"--the number of African victims claimed by slavery Beloved |
| #14, aired 2023-09-27 | POST-APOCALYPTIC POP CULTURE $1000: Kevin Costner starred in two post-apocalyptic films in the 1990s: "Waterworld" and this misfire about a nameless drifter The Postman |
| #14, aired 2023-09-27 | OH, THE IRONY! $1200: Dimes and quarters are 91.67% copper and, ironically, 8.33% this nickel |
| #14, aired 2023-09-27 | AIRPORT STORES $1200: African Origins and MadeInSA are two craft stores in O.R. Tambo airport, a hub located in this city Johannesburg |
| #14, aired 2023-09-27 | THE DNA OF MUSIC $1200: For their hit song "DNA", this K-pop band released a video in which they dance and form a double helix BTS |
| #14, aired 2023-09-27 | BOOK DEDICATIONS $2,000 (Daily Double): This author of "The Fountainhead" dedicated 1957's "Atlas Shrugged" to 2 different men: her husband and her lover Ayn Rand |
| #8936, aired 2023-09-25 | SHAKESPEARE -LOGUES ON $200: "My only love sprung from my only hate! Too early seen unknown, and known too late!" Juliet |
| #8936, aired 2023-09-25 | FRENCH LITERATURE $400: "Be our guest" & know French novelist Madame Leprince de Beaumont wrote a version of this often adapted fairy tale Beauty and the Beast |
| #8935, aired 2023-09-22 | "C" IN LITERATURE $400: Right before the epilogue to this novel, Raskolnikov confesses, "It was I killed the old pawnbroker woman and her sister" Crime and Punishment |
| #8935, aired 2023-09-22 | TV $1000: Sandy Dvore designed the animated title sequence of a mother bird & 5 chicks for this 1970s series The Partridge Family |
| #8934, aired 2023-09-21 | 21st CENTURY BARTLETT'S QUOTATIONS $400: Of his performance at the Beijing Olympics, this Jamaican said, "I just blew my mind and I blew the world's mind" Usain Bolt |
| #8934, aired 2023-09-21 | THE AKC DESCRIBES THE DOG $400: "Famously long, low silhouette, ever-alert expression, and bold, vivacious personality" Dachshund |
| #8934, aired 2023-09-21 | FROM "S" TO "Y" $800: In an 1811 novel Marianne Dashwood personifies this title word because she's full of emotion sensibility |
| #8934, aired 2023-09-21 | THE AKC DESCRIBES THE DOG $800: "These alert and amusing 'purse dogs' stand among the oldest breeds of the Americas" a Chihuahua |
| #8934, aired 2023-09-21 | THE AKC DESCRIBES THE DOG $1200: "Muscular, double-coated dog of ancient Japanese lineage famous for... dignity, courage, and loyalty" the Akita |
| #8934, aired 2023-09-21 | THE AKC DESCRIBES THE DOG $2000: "Served as sentinels at palaces and monasteries isolated high in the Himalayas" a Lhasa Apso |
| #8933, aired 2023-09-20 | THE NEW YORK KNOCKS $200: Anyone from Boston will tell you the New England type of this, with milk, tops Manhattan's, with tomatoes chowder |
| #8933, aired 2023-09-20 | THE REAL (WHITE HOUSE) WIVES OF D.C. $800: At Wellesley's 1990 commencement, this Texan said, "Someone in the crowd could also become a presidential spouse and I wish him well" Barbara Bush |
| #8933, aired 2023-09-20 | NAME THAT PLAY $1000: "Begin thine incantations, and try if devils will obey thy hest, seeing thou hast pray'd and sacrific'd to them" Doctor Faustus |
| #8933, aired 2023-09-20 | MICKEY'S MANTEL $2000: Angela Lansbury used her witching powers to thwart Nazis in this classic that won an Oscar for special effects in 1971 Bedknobs and Broomsticks |
| #8932, aired 2023-09-19 | SOUNDS LIKE BIG BUSINESS $600: Something belonging jointly to actors Bautista & Keaton Dave & Buster's |
| #8931, aired 2023-09-18 | TALK LIKE A PIRATE $200: "And you can buy an eye what actually fits & is made of glass" is spoken in this movie franchise Pirates of the Caribbean |
| #8930, aired 2023-09-15 | AGATHA ALL ALONG $200: At one point in this Agatha Christie book, the Karnak is anchored at Abu Simbel Death on the Nile |
| #8930, aired 2023-09-15 | CELEB LIT BEFORE & AFTER $1200: Paul Blart portrayer takes a ride on a really big piece of fruit Kevin James and the Giant Peach |
| #8930, aired 2023-09-15 | SONG BIRDS $2,000 (Daily Double): In the 1960s Fleetwood Mac had an international hit with their song about one of these seabirds; Coleridge put one in a poem an albatross |
| #8930, aired 2023-09-15 | CELEB LIT BEFORE & AFTER $2000: Rowling's whiz kid has trouble with a certain rock & a "chilly" WWE star Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone Cold Steve Austin |
| #8929, aired 2023-09-14 | LET'S SEE HOW YOU DO WITH AMERICAN FOOTBALL $400: Hall of Famer Lawrence Taylor, of this NFC East team: "Let's go out there like a bunch of crazed dogs & have some fun" the New York Giants |
| #8929, aired 2023-09-14 | SPEECHIFY"ING" $400: MLK, 1963: "Those who hope that the Negro needed to blow off steam and will now be content will have a rude ____" an awakening |
| #8929, aired 2023-09-14 | SPEECHIFY"ING" $800: Barack Obama, 2004: "I believe that we can give our middle class relief and provide ____ families with a road to opportunity" working |
| #8929, aired 2023-09-14 | SPEECHIFY"ING" $1200: Abe Lincoln, 1863: "It is altogether ____ and proper that we should do this" fitting |
| #8928, aired 2023-09-13 | & WE HAVE A NOVEL TITLE $400: This title is "the temperature at which book-paper catches fire and burns" Fahrenheit 451 |
| #8925, aired 2023-07-28 | REAL FAST $400: Sifan Hassan holds the women's world record in this track event: 4 minutes, 12.33 seconds a mile |
| #8925, aired 2023-07-28 | ON THE MONEY $800: He was the first to breed mules in America on his farm George Washington |
| #8925, aired 2023-07-28 | NATIONAL ANTHEMS $1200: Rabindranath Tagore wrote the anthems of these 2 countries, one independent since 1947, one since 1971 India & Bangladesh |
| #8924, aired 2023-07-27 | BOOKS OF THE OLD TESTAMENT $400: One of the 2 middle verses of the King James Bible is this book 103:2, "Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits" Psalms |
| #8924, aired 2023-07-27 | TRIPLE TIME $1000: The 1805 Battle of Austerlitz is also called the Battle of the 3 Emperors, who led these 3 current countries Austria, France & Russia |
| #8923, aired 2023-07-26 | BRACE FOR LANDING $400: A flight path takes you between mountains and leads to a short runway at India's Leh Airport in this 1,500-mile-long range the Himalayas |
| #8923, aired 2023-07-26 | DUAL BIOGRAPHIES $4,000 (Daily Double): In this book with the same title as a Shakespeare play, Adrian Goldsworthy says the 2nd person was "not really that important"--ourch! Antony and Cleopatra |
| #8922, aired 2023-07-25 | THE OED DESCRIBES THE ANIMAL $200: "A large hornless ruminant quadruped, distinguished by its humped back, long neck, and cushioned feet" a camel |
| #8922, aired 2023-07-25 | KISS & TELL $1600: In Genesis 29, on first meeting his beloved Rachel, he kissed her "and lifted up his voice, and wept" Jacob |
| #8921, aired 2023-07-24 | UNIFORM NUMBERS $800: You won't see any players from this MLB team wearing a single digit number; they've all been retired, & No. 8, twice the Yankees |
| #8919, aired 2023-07-20 | A BY-THE-BOOK HOW TO $800: Wanna play God like him? "Make the being of a gigantic stature... eight feet in height, and proportionably large", or... don't (Dr. Victor) Frankenstein |
| #8918, aired 2023-07-19 | ADD AN E AT THE END $400: A small rounded lump of something soft & a model of the Earth glob & globe |
| #8918, aired 2023-07-19 | TITLES WITH PUNCTUATION $400: (!) In this book "He took every present! Pop guns... bicycles! Roller skates! Drums! Checker-boards! Tricycles! Popcorn! and Plums!" How the Grinch Stole Christmas! |
| #8918, aired 2023-07-19 | SAME 2 LETTERS, DIFFERENT PLACE $800: DE & .de Delaware & Germany |
| #8918, aired 2023-07-19 | 5 ABOUT 4 $800: Of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse in the Bible, the one representing war rides this color horse red |
| #8918, aired 2023-07-19 | JULIE & JULIA $1000: This French actress has played Céline in a trilogy of films Julie Delpy |
| #8918, aired 2023-07-19 | SAME 2 LETTERS, DIFFERENT PLACE $1000: AL & .al Alabama & Albania |
| #8917, aired 2023-07-18 | THE SONGS OF MAX MARTIN $1000: The finale of "& Juliet" features the cast performing this Justin Timberlake hit
"Come on /
All those things I shouldn't do /
But you dance, dance, dance /
And ain't nobody leavin' soon, so keep dancin'" "Can't Stop The Feeling!" |
| #8916, aired 2023-07-17 | OPPENHEIMER $400: (Emily Blunt presents the clue.) My character Kitty Oppenheimer's marriage to Robert was tempestuous, & in the 1950s controversy over her one-time involvement with this political party helped bring an end to her husband's career in government communism (Communist Party) |
| #8916, aired 2023-07-17 | TOM SWIFT TALES $600: In his first tale back in 1910, Tom was riding high on his Hog in "Tom Swift and His" this a motorcycle |
| #8916, aired 2023-07-17 | TOM SWIFT TALES $1000: I'm both attracted & repulsed by 1932's "Tom Swift and His Giant..." Magnet |
| #8914, aired 2023-07-13 | "R" SONG $200: In a 2017 smash, Post Malone sang, "I feel just like a" this, which he is--he didn't mean he wanted an energy drink a rock star |
| #8914, aired 2023-07-13 | FROM THE HEADLINES $200: The Washington Post, November 10, 1989: "East Germany opens" this "and borders" the Berlin Wall |
| #8914, aired 2023-07-13 | MOVIE BEFORE & AFTER $2000: Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef & Eli Wallach fight for gold while Marlon Brando gives Yanks a bad name overseas The Good, the Bad and the Ugly American |
| #8913, aired 2023-07-12 | READING WITH JENNA BUSH HAGER $200: (Jenna Bush Hager presents the clue.) I developed my love of books as a child; my parents always made sure we were surrounded by plenty, & a favorite they used to read to me aloud was this author's "James and the Giant Peach" Roald Dahl |
| #8912, aired 2023-07-11 | 2 BOOKS IN ONE $800: "The Hunt for Present Danger" The Hunt for Red October & Clear and Present Danger |
| #8911, aired 2023-07-10 | WORD PUZZLES $400: A call to action:
D B1
N B2
A B3
T B4
S B5 stand up and be counted |
| #8911, aired 2023-07-10 | POP CULTURE-POURRI $1600: This "CHiPs" star teamed up with Tostitos in 2015 to promote National Chip & Dip Day Estrada |
| #8910, aired 2023-07-07 | BEHIND THE BOND $400: Fleming went diving with this Frenchman in 1953 & mentioned him in "Live and Let Die" Cousteau |
| #8910, aired 2023-07-07 | WE LIVE IN A SOCIETY $1200: Barbara Ehrenreich gave her 15 cents on the effects of welfare reform on the working class in this 2001 book with 2 coins in the title Nickel and Dimed |
| #8909, aired 2023-07-06 | SOME "HARD" SONGS $800: In a reggae classic by Jimmy Cliff, this title precedes "the harder they fall, one and all" "The Harder They Come" |
| #8909, aired 2023-07-06 | SO I'M READING THIS BOOK $800: 1950s self-help, opening strong: "BELIEVE IN YOURSELF!" (in all caps) "Have faith in your abilities!" The Power of Positive Thinking |
| #8908, aired 2023-07-05 | U.S. CITY OF THE BOOK $201 (Daily Double): "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil":
Go South! Savannah, Georgia |
| #8908, aired 2023-07-05 | OPPOSITES $800: In an idiom regarding the handling of money, these 2 opposites are paired with penny & pound wise & foolish |
| #8908, aired 2023-07-05 | MATH ABBREVIATIONS & SYMBOLS $1600: In logic, IFF stands for this phrase that begins & ends with the same word if and only if |
| #8906, aired 2023-07-03 | A JOB IN TELEVISION $1000: On "Two and a Half Men", Charlie Harper was this specific type of ad writer a jingle writer |
| #8906, aired 2023-07-03 | TOUCHED FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME $5,000 (Daily Double): Finally touched with goodness, this literary character says, "I will live in the past, the present, and the future!" Ebenezer Scrooge |
| #8904, aired 2023-06-29 | PRIDE OF THE MUSEUM $800: This London museum with 2 first names is renowned for its collection of decorative arts the Victoria and Albert Museum |
| #8904, aired 2023-06-29 | THE LAW $2,000 (Daily Double): The 1970 law that ties different crimes into a pattern that can be prosecuted ties 4 words into this acronym RICO |
| #8904, aired 2023-06-29 | BEFORE & AFTER PEOPLE $2000: Gritty "Get Shorty" novelist who asked folks to "Live long and prosper" on film Elmore Leonard Nimoy |
| #8902, aired 2023-06-27 | SOME THOUGHTS ON THE BOOK $800: The title is cribbed from the best--Billy Shakespeare; y'all live in a hard-to-say county; Benjy the hunted The Sound and the Fury |
| #8896, aired 2023-06-19 | IT'S A SPECIAL DAY $200: Made a U.S. federal holiday in 2021, it's also known as Black Independence Day Juneteenth |
| #8896, aired 2023-06-19 | LET'S MAKE A MOVIE CROSSOVER! $400: A natural pair! A character who fought Ivan Drago & Clubber Lang "&" a moose who took on Jason Alexander's Boris Badenov Rocky and Bullwinkle |
| #8896, aired 2023-06-19 | FIRST SPEECHES IN SHAKESPEARE $400: "From ancient grudge break to new mutiny, where civil blood makes civil hands unclean" Romeo and Juliet |
| #8896, aired 2023-06-19 | LET'S MAKE A MOVIE CROSSOVER! $800: Disney meets Kurosawa: An animated 1937 title woman "& the" title septet led by Takashi Shimura Snow White and the Seven Samurai |
| #8896, aired 2023-06-19 | FIRST SPEECHES IN SHAKESPEARE $800: "Then should the warlike Harry, like himself, assume the port of Mars" Henry V |
| #8896, aired 2023-06-19 | FIRST SPEECHES IN SHAKESPEARE $1,000 (Daily Double): "Take but good note & you shall see in him the triple pillar of the world transformed into a strumpet's fool" Antony and Cleopatra |
| #8896, aired 2023-06-19 | LET'S MAKE A MOVIE CROSSOVER! $1600: An Alan Rickman "Die Hard" villain "wants those detonators" from a title Great Dane of 2002! Hans Gruber and Scooby-Doo |
| #8892, aired 2023-06-13 | DEEP BOOKS $1600: Ken Jennings' "100 Places to See After You Die" includes this hall of the slain that has the Valkyries as barmaids Valhalla |
| #8891, aired 2023-06-12 | THE WAR OF 1812 $400: Backing the slogan "Free trade and sailors' rights", this president signed the declaration of war against Britain Madison |
| #8891, aired 2023-06-12 | THE WAR OF 1812 $8,400 (Daily Double): In 1814 U.S. forces under Gen. Jacob Brown invaded Canada by crossing this river between Lake Erie & Lake Ontario the Niagara |
| #8887, aired 2023-06-06 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: At the start of this Hemingway book, Santiago hasn't caught a fish in a long time; it ends with his fish being eaten by sharks The Old Man and the Sea |
| #8887, aired 2023-06-06 | S-LESS, CHAPS $400: To gulp down devours an S & decides to sprawl in a luxurious way swallow & wallow |
| #8887, aired 2023-06-06 | RIAA TOP-SELLING ARTISTS $1000: "Straight Outta Lynwood" & "Alapalooza" are 2 of his 10 RIAA-certified gold albums "Weird Al" Yankovic |
| #8886, aired 2023-06-05 | 4, 4 $800: It came before "and carry on" in motivational posters created by Britain's Ministry of Information in 1939 Keep calm |
| #8886, aired 2023-06-05 | CLASSIC CHILDREN'S BOOKS $1,000 (Daily Double): A line in this book says, "Take my apples, boy, and sell them in the city. Then you will have money and you will be happy" The Giving Tree |
| #8886, aired 2023-06-05 | THE CHAMPIONSHIP TEAM $1000: In 1985, the teammates seen here the Edmonton Oilers |
| #8886, aired 2023-06-05 | 4, 4 $1600: The style of tap dancing that doesn't employ the taps is referred to as this soft shoe |
| #8885, aired 2023-06-02 | ANIMAL ROCK $2000: Boy George sang, "You come and go, you come and go" in this hit "Karma Chameleon" |
| #8884, aired 2023-06-01 | SECOND BOOK IN THE SERIES $400: "A Clash of Kings" A Song of Ice and Fire |
| #8883, aired 2023-05-31 | ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER $400: (Andrew Lloyd Webber presents the clue.) One of the twists in "Bad Cinderella" is that this prince is missing in action when the show opens, so I didn't write any songs for him in Act 1
"I am Bad Cinderella / Got a style all my own / And I will not change it for you..." Prince Charming |
| #8883, aired 2023-05-31 | PRESIDENTIAL DOIN'S $1600: Had a cold, went out to buy veggies anyway; got pneumonia, died before 31st full day on the job (William) Henry Harrison |
| #8882, aired 2023-05-30 | AUTHORS' FIRST NOVELS $200: Before "Pride and Prejudice", Jane Austen's first novel paired these 2 title qualities sense & sensibility |
| #8881, aired 2023-05-29 | WHO WAS THAT MASKED MAN? $800: (I'm Shameik Moore.) In "Spider-Man Across the Spider-Verse" I once again don the spider-mask as this Brooklyn teenager who follows in Peter Parker's webbed footsteps Miles Morales |
| #8880, aired 2023-05-26 | AMERICA IN THE 1700s $200: In 1751 his "Experiments and Observations on Electricity" was published Franklin |
| #8880, aired 2023-05-26 | THAT'S ADORABLE $600: Seen here is a cub of this rarely glimpsed feline species that lives in the mountains of Central Asia a snow leopard |
| #20, aired 2023-05-24 | "P" IS FOR POETRY $400: Of this figure, Byron wrote, "titan...the rock, the vulture, and the chain, all that the proud can feel of pain" Prometheus |
| #20, aired 2023-05-24 | MICHAEL J. FOX $800: (Michael J. Fox presents the clue.) When I began acting, someone had the name Michael Fox, so I added the J to my name to honor this Michael J. whose work I loved in "Bonnie and Clyde" Michael J. Pollard |
| #20, aired 2023-05-24 | IT'S JUST US $1600: This late singer and songwriter gave us the classic songs of friendship "Lean On Me" & "Just the Two of Us" (Bill) Withers |
| #20, aired 2023-05-24 | IT'S JUST US $2000: Paul Williams, Helen Reddy & Johnny Mathis have all recorded the song that says, "Sometimes it feels like" this mismatch "You And Me Against The World" |
| #19, aired 2023-05-24 | SO YOU THINK YOU'RE PRETTY GOOD AT THIS $200: Called invincible, it was sent from Spain in 1588 by King Philip II to invade England; it proved... vincible Spanish Armada |
| #19, aired 2023-05-24 | COPS & ROBBERS TV $200: Christine & Mary Beth were the first names of this title police twosome played by Sharon & Tyne Cagney and Lacey |
| #19, aired 2023-05-24 | BRITISH AUTHORS $400: In his youth he was a chocolate tester for Cadbury, which no doubt inspired his "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" Dahl |
| #19, aired 2023-05-24 | RECENT EVENTS $800: Subheads in a piece on this N.Y. rep.: "lied about where he went to... college"; "allegedly swindled a disabled vet whose dog was dying" George Santos |
| #19, aired 2023-05-24 | SO YOU THINK YOU'RE PRETTY GOOD AT THIS $800: He fought the chimera and was on top of the world riding Pegasus, but rode him too high and fell to Earth Bellerophon |
| #18, aired 2023-05-23 | BARONS & BARONESSES $400: This Shakespearean actor was knighted in 1947 and became Baron of Brighton in 1970 for his theater work Laurence Olivier |
| #18, aired 2023-05-23 | CLASSIC CAR TV $800: Huggy Bear says word on the street is these 2 title cops were drivin' a red Ford Gran Torino, also called the Striped Tomato Starsky and Hutch |
| #17, aired 2023-05-23 | BEFORE, DURING & AFTER $400: "International" cocoa concoction for the unmarried Clue character portrayed by Colin Jost's wife Swiss Miss Scarlet Johansson |
| #17, aired 2023-05-23 | OH, WE HAVE '80s POP CULTURE REFERENCES $400: On "SNL", it was too hot in the hot tub for this performer as James Brown; he also let us know, "I'm Gumby, dammit!" Eddie Murphy |
| #17, aired 2023-05-23 | PLANTS & TREES $2000: No soil needed for air plants, like the tillandsia seen here, which are also called this type, from Greek for "upon" and "plant" epiphyte |
| #16, aired 2023-05-22 | LOVE LETTERS $400: In 1919 she wrote to F. Scott Fitzgerald, "there's nothing in all the world I want but you--and your precious love" Zelda Fitzgerald |
| #15, aired 2023-05-22 | TRIPLE RHYME TIME $600: A more attractive semi-aquatic weasel relative whose job is to make sure your bench press doesn't crush you a hotter otter spotter |
| #15, aired 2023-05-22 | KING OF THE MOUNTAIN $2,800 (Daily Double): Mont Ventoux in Provence, during the Seven Years' War Louis XV |
| #8875, aired 2023-05-19 | MULTIPLE MEANINGS $1000: Each of the items seen here is this, with a different preceding word tender |
| #8875, aired 2023-05-19 | HIP-HOP NAMES $2000: Hip-hop's 50th bday in 2023 is based on the Aug. 11, 1973 party DJed by Clive Campbell, who used this name from a mythical strongman DJ Kool Herc |
| #8873, aired 2023-05-17 | Y'KNOW, THE MOVIE WHERE... $200: A farmer plays baseball with a dead guy, time-travels & ends up owning a tourist trap Field of Dreams |
| #8873, aired 2023-05-17 | POE"M"S $800: Paul Laurence Dunbar wrote, "We wear the" this "that grins and lies, it hides our cheeks and shades our eyes" mask |
| #8873, aired 2023-05-17 | PODCASTS $1200: (I'm Matt Rogers.) And, yes, I do have a podcast--thank you for asking--it's "Las Culturistas", & rule of culture number one, this co-host of mine is a national treasure & was Emmy-nominated for "Saturday Night Live" in 2022 Bowen Yang |
| #14, aired 2023-05-17 | COMIC STRIPS $400: Bill Watterson received 2 Reuben Awards for best cartoonist for this beloved strip Calvin and Hobbes |
| #14, aired 2023-05-17 | MASTERS OF LIT $1000: Suppressed during his life, Mikhail Bulgakov's "The Master and" this woman is a comic yet searing satire of Stalinist Russia Margarita |
| #14, aired 2023-05-17 | BODIES OF WATER $1200: Henry Rowe Schoolcraft is said to have coined the name of this American lake from Latin for "truth" & "head" Lake Itasca (in Minnesota) |
| #13, aired 2023-05-17 | PAGE TO SCREEN WITH A DIFFERENT TITLE $1000: A sort of sci-fi "Groundhog Day", Hiroshi Sakurazaka's novel "All You Need Is Kill" became this Tom Cruise movie Edge of Tomorrow |
| #13, aired 2023-05-17 | ORCHESTRAS $2,000 (Daily Double): Comedian-pianist Victor Borge was an honorary member of this country's Royal Orchestra, which goes back 575 years Denmark |
| #8872, aired 2023-05-16 | POE PLACES $200: In "To Helen", her "naiad airs have brought me home/ to the glory that was Greece, and the grandeur that was" this Rome |
| #8872, aired 2023-05-16 | COLLEGE: THE DROP/ADD PERIOD $600: Add this name after "Washington and" but before "University" Lee |
| #12, aired 2023-05-16 | INTERNATIONAL LIT $1600: Made into a tasty 1992 film, it's Laura Esquivel's "Novel in Monthly Installments, with Recipes, Romances, and Home Remedies" Like Water for Chocolate |
| #11, aired 2023-05-16 | MOVIE MUSIC WITH HANS ZIMMER $200: (Hans Zimmer reads and plays.) Contrasting with the music from the big action scenes, my theme "Tennessee" refers to the state Ben Affleck & Josh Hartnett come from in this war film Pearl Harbor |
| #11, aired 2023-05-16 | MOVIE MUSIC WITH HANS ZIMMER $400: (Hans Zimmer reads and plays.) For this epic I tried to use some international influences, as it opens in Germany, takes place partly in Morocco & the hero is known as "the Spaniard" Gladiator |
| #11, aired 2023-05-16 | NONFICTION $800: This alliterative phrase for authority over a mission is the title of an Eric Schlosser book that tells of nuclear weapons debacles Command and Control |
| #11, aired 2023-05-16 | TO THE NINES $1000: In "God of War" there are 9 of these warrior women of Norse myth & you may have to fight Rota or Sigrun Valkyries |
| #11, aired 2023-05-16 | SCIENCE $1600: A theoretical construction with no inside is called his "bottle"; cut it in half & you have 2 Mobius strips Klein |
| #11, aired 2023-05-16 | THE GEODYSSEY $3,600 (Daily Double): After getting blown off course rounding Cape Malea, Odysseus & crew arrive at the land of these very happy vegans the Lotus Eaters |
| #10, aired 2023-05-15 | WHAT A LITERARY CHARACTER! $600: Walter Scott wrote of him, "conspicuous by his long gun, waving tartans, and the single plume" of "the Highland gentleman" Rob Roy |
| #10, aired 2023-05-15 | 3-WORD PLACE NAMES $1600: This spot northwest of Philly got its name from a tavern named for Frederick II King of Prussia |
| #10, aired 2023-05-15 | WHAT A LITERARY CHARACTER! $2,000 (Daily Double): At the end of a Thomas Pynchon book, Oedipa Maas awaits the bidding on a stamp collection with this auction number lot 49 |
| #9, aired 2023-05-15 | MUSICAL THEATER $200: In the "Guns and Ships" number in this musical, Daveed Diggs as Marquis de Lafayette hit an amazing 6.3 words per second Hamilton |
| #9, aired 2023-05-15 | AND THE OSCAR WENT TO... $400: In 1954 "Shane" got the award for Color this; "From Here to Eternity", for Black & White Cinematography |
| #9, aired 2023-05-15 | AND THE OSCAR WENT TO... $800: Best Song of 1964 went to this one about someone "as lucky as lucky can be" "Chim Chim Cher-ee" (from Mary Poppins) |
| #9, aired 2023-05-15 | SUBTITLED LITERATURE $800: "The Hobbit" has this 4-word subtitle There and Back Again |
| #9, aired 2023-05-15 | AND THE OSCAR WENT TO... $1200: Roy Pomeroy won an engineering effects Oscar for his work on this 1927 war film, 2 years after its release Wings |
| #9, aired 2023-05-15 | AND THE OSCAR WENT TO... $1600: In 1937 an honorary Oscar was named for this MGM "boy wonder" who died young, & oh--the building named for him is not far (Irving G.) Thalberg |
| #9, aired 2023-05-15 | AND THE OSCAR WENT TO... $2000: In 1975 John Wayne presented an honorary Oscar to this alliterative man who had directed him in "Red River" & "Rio Bravo" Hawks |
| #9, aired 2023-05-15 | LET'S GO ON A SAFARI $11,800 (Daily Double): A unique way to see wildlife in the Mosi-oa-Tunya National Park is to take a sunset cruise on this river above Victoria Falls Zambezi |
| #8870, aired 2023-05-12 | HYMNS & SPIRITUALS $1200: A hymn & anthem, "Lift" this "and sing, till earth and heaven ring" every voice |
| #8, aired 2023-05-12 | 2-LETTER RESPONSES $800: A 1979 paper by Sandra Schecter argued that this interjection is a central part of Canadian identity eh |
| #8, aired 2023-05-12 | I'M LATE, I'M GREAT, I WAS SECRETARY OF STATE $2000: My brother said "war is hell" & I quit as Secretary of State 4 days into the Spanish-American War, which I had opposed John Sherman |
| #7, aired 2023-05-12 | THE SUFFERING OF JESUS $200: "All" these people, from the Latin for "student", left Jesus "and fled" before he was taken to the high priest the Disciples |
| #7, aired 2023-05-12 | JOHNNY GILBERT'S MUSICAL THEATER AUDITION $1000: "Stop all the rivers, push, strike & kill/ I'm not gonna leave ya, there's no way I will/ and I am telling you I'm not going" Dreamgirls |
| #7, aired 2023-05-12 | MNEMONIC POSSESSION $1600: "Dear King Philip claps often for good science" begins with this--all life can be divided into 3, including bacteria domain |
| #7, aired 2023-05-12 | CHRISTIAN-ITY $1600: Christian Jacobs, lead singer of the Aquabats, co-created this kids' show featuring monsters & DJ Lance Rock Yo Gabba Gabba |
| #8869, aired 2023-05-11 | WATCHING MY STORIES $800: The novel "A Man Called Ove" became a 2023 movie starring Tom Hanks as "A Man Called" this palindromic name Otto |
| #8868, aired 2023-05-10 | MISSION: IMPASSABLE $400: In Exodus 15, "The horse of" this man "went in with his chariots... into the sea, and the Lord brought again the waters... upon them" Pharaoh |
| #6, aired 2023-05-10 | CAR STUFF $400: Honda said this model name reflected the company's desire for "harmony between people, society and the automobile" Accord |
| #6, aired 2023-05-10 | NOLAD SON OF AFRAL, BIBLICAL OB/GYN $1000: I submitted to JAMA about my case in Isaiah--"Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name" this Emmanuel |
| #5, aired 2023-05-10 | WIVES OF THE NOT YET PRESIDENTS $200: When Dwight Eisenhower first met her in 1915, he thought she had a saucy "look about her face and in her whole attitude" Mamie |
| #5, aired 2023-05-10 | DON'T CONFUSE THE TWO $1200: Language or jargon used by lawyers & a language or people of Sri Lanka legalese & Sinhalese |
| #5, aired 2023-05-10 | A SHAKESPEARE PLAY IN A FEW WORDS $2,800 (Daily Double): Octavia,
Octavius,
battle,
snake,
figs,
finis Antony and Cleopatra |
| #8867, aired 2023-05-09 | BURT BACHARACH $400: This 1969 Western about a pair of Old West outlaws won Burt 2 Oscars Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid |
| #4, aired 2023-05-09 | NEED! COFFEE! NOW! $1000: Company legend says Teddy Roosevelt praised Maxwell House coffee with these 5 words, a slogan they still use today good to the last drop |
| #4, aired 2023-05-09 | LITERATURE $1200: Lewis Carroll was the pen name of this mathematician turned children's author Charles Dodgson |
| #4, aired 2023-05-09 | "OF" PAINT $13,200 (Daily Double): This 1793 painting seen here depicts an event from July of that year Death of Marat |
| #3, aired 2023-05-09 | DIANE WARREN $400: (Diane Warren gives the clue.) One of the top films of the '90s was "Armageddon", which features my song "I Don't Want To Miss A Thing", the first No. 1 hit for this group
"And I don't wanna miss a thing" Aerosmith |
| #3, aired 2023-05-09 | BIBLICAL PLACES $400: Brothers Peter & Andrew were casting a net into this body of water when Jesus said, "Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men" the Sea of Galilee |
| #3, aired 2023-05-09 | PLAY: THE GAME $400: Travel to Elsinore; glean what afflicts old pal Hamlet; try to find where he put Polonius; get betrayed; win 1968 Tony Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead |
| #3, aired 2023-05-09 | ____ OF THE ____ $1200: In the Bible, Pharaoh says Joseph's family may come & eat of this, what Lennie longs for in "Of Mice & Men" the fat of the land |
| #3, aired 2023-05-09 | COLONIAL AMERICA $1200: Published in 1767, "On Messrs. Hussey and Coffin" was the first printed poem by this Black woman (Phillis) Wheatley |
| #3, aired 2023-05-09 | BIBLICAL PLACES $1600: The lord told Jonah to "Arise" & go to this Assyrian city "and cry against it"; Jonah did not want to Nineveh |
| #3, aired 2023-05-09 | THE MAP OF EUROPE $1600: It's the largest & southernmost of Ireland's counties Cork |
| #3, aired 2023-05-09 | THE MAP OF EUROPE $4,400 (Daily Double): Walk straight from Narbonne to Zaragoza & you'll pass in & out of this country Andorra |
| #2, aired 2023-05-08 | BUILD YOUR OWN SPY NOVEL TITLES $800: The + a legendary king of the Geats + either of the 2 main divisions of the Christian Bible The Beowulf Testament |
| #2, aired 2023-05-08 | COMIN' TO YOUR CITY $1,000 (Daily Double): Take in the earthquake-resistant "Cardboard Cathedral", built after a 2011 event in this New Zealand city Christchurch |
| #2, aired 2023-05-08 | SAME FIRST & LAST LETTER $1600: This verb can mean to weaken or disembowel, figuratively & literally eviscerate (or gutting) |
| #1, aired 2023-05-08 | SPOONERISM PAIRS $200: A grand overall scheme & a stucco guy a master plan & a plaster man |
| #1, aired 2023-05-08 | 20/23 $200: In the human body most cells normally contain 23 pairs of these chromosomes |
| #1, aired 2023-05-08 | SPOONERISM PAIRS $400: A flexible entryway for a tabby & a thin hat a cat flap & a flat cap |
| #1, aired 2023-05-08 | ART TERMS $800: Seen here, John Vanderlyn's "Palace and Gardens of Versailles" is this type of piece, from the Greek for "all" & "sight" panorama |
| #1, aired 2023-05-08 | JASON ALEXANDER: MASTER OF MY DOMAIN $1000: (Jason Alexander gives the clue.) Long before winning the first Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, Richard Pryor wrote for this '70s sitcom; the star next to Richard is a big hint & man, its theme song was fantastic Sanford and Son |
| #1, aired 2023-05-08 | ALLITERATIVE HISTORY $2,000 (Daily Double): Thaddeus Stevens & Charles Sumner were members of this "extreme" group in Lincoln's party advocating emancipation Radical Republicans |
| #1, aired 2023-05-08 | A REAL FONT OF KNOWLEDGE $2000: Last name of 18th century Italian printer Giambattista, who designed an eponymous font that has a distinct Q Bodoni |
| #8865, aired 2023-05-05 | EVERYTHING'S COMING UP ROSE $600: After appearing in the "Ziegfeld Follies", she starred in "Star and Garter" Gypsy Rose Lee |
| #8865, aired 2023-05-05 | THE GREAT AMERICAN BAKING SHOW WITH ELLIE KEMPER $1000: (Ellie Kemper presents the clue.) Our bakers made this sweet yeast bread that's braided & baked in a loaf pan &, as my cohost Zach explained, takes its name from the Polish word for "grandmother" babka |
| #8865, aired 2023-05-05 | IT'S A TV MYSTERY $1000: On the BBC's "Sherlock", this acting pair are the modern day Holmes & Watson Cumberbatch & Freeman |
| #8865, aired 2023-05-05 | DUNCE, DUNCE $2000: Thersites in this Shakespeare play says Agamemnon "has not so much brain as earwax" Troilus and Cressida |
| #8864, aired 2023-05-04 | A BIBLE THUMPIN' $200: "When they were in the field", this guy "rose up against" this guy "his brother, and slew him"; ye shall name them both Cain & Abel |
| #8864, aired 2023-05-04 | A BIBLE THUMPIN' $400: This stone-slinging man also "smote the land, and left neither man nor woman alive" David |
| #8864, aired 2023-05-04 | FLORIDA PLACES $400: Time to make some space and don this cape seen here Canaveral |
| #8864, aired 2023-05-04 | A BIBLE THUMPIN' $600: "Then the Lord rained upon" these 2 sinful cities "brimstone and fire" Sodom & Gomorrah |
| #8861, aired 2023-05-01 | DOCTOR: WHO? $800: His "Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care" came out in 1946; "Common Sense" left the title in later editions Dr. Spock |
| #8861, aired 2023-05-01 | BETTER ANGELS $1600: He's told, "Good night, sweet prince, and flights of angels sing thee to thy rest!" Hamlet |
| #8860, aired 2023-04-28 | INSIDE JOB $200: The Lord tells Job, "Gird up thy" these "now like a man: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me" loins |
| #8860, aired 2023-04-28 | LITERARY LIONS $1600: The Colosseum is the setting for the climax of George Bernard Shaw's play called him "and the Lion" Androcles |
| #8860, aired 2023-04-28 | LITERARY LIONS $2000: In this poet's "The Second Coming", "a shape with lion body and the head of a man... slouches towards Bethlehem to be born" Yeats |
| #8859, aired 2023-04-27 | "A_B_C_D" $1000: If you "go" this 7-word phrase, you've exceeded what your obligations require above and beyond the call of duty |
| #8858, aired 2023-04-26 | COMEDIANS $800: April 26, 2023 is the 90th bday of this funny lady whose Saturday night skits included "Rancid Harvest" & "Went with the Wind" Carol Burnett |
| #8858, aired 2023-04-26 | CONFIDENCE $800: A Shakespeare character asks, "Does he not hold up his head, as it were, and" this 5-letter confident walk "in his gait?" strut |
| #8856, aired 2023-04-24 | BEATLES "S"ONGS $400: "Nothing is real and nothing to get hung about" "Strawberry Fields Forever" |
| #8856, aired 2023-04-24 | BEATLES "S"ONGS $800: "I don't want to leave her now, you know I believe and how" "Something" |
| #8855, aired 2023-04-21 | SPEAK OF THE DICKENS $2000: "The Life and Adventures of" this alliterative character inspired an 8 1/2 hour long drama that premiered on Broadway in 1981 Nicholas Nickleby |
| #8854, aired 2023-04-20 | TRIPLE HOMOPHONES $400: Hairless,
sobbed,
played some hoops bald/bawled/balled |
| #8854, aired 2023-04-20 | '80s & '90s R&B SONGS $400: Yes, yes, yes, "No, No, No Part 2" was a No. 1 R&B hit for this "youthful" Houston girl group Destiny's Child |
| #8854, aired 2023-04-20 | REMEMBERING BARBARA WALTERS $1200: Barbara shared that after interviewing this world leader in Cuba in 1977, he "took us into his kitchen and made us grilled cheese" Castro |
| #8853, aired 2023-04-19 | MOVIE COMEDIES $400: A famous line from this classic: "We are the knights who say 'ni!"' Monty Python and the Holy Grail |
| #8853, aired 2023-04-19 | OLIVE YOU $400: In Genesis, "The dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf pluckt off" Noah |
| #8853, aired 2023-04-19 | MOVIE COMEDIES $800: (I'm John Michael Higgins, and) being a part of an a cappella group in college called the Zumbyes helped me in my role as a singing competition announcer in the three films (so far) with this alliterative title Pitch Perfect |
| #8852, aired 2023-04-18 | SECRETS OF THE ELEPHANTS $200: A desert bull may walk 50 miles a day to find food & water; he's guided by this, an elephant's proverbial strength memory |
| #8852, aired 2023-04-18 | ____ & ____ $1000: Per a Tin Pan Alley song, love & marriage go together like this other pair horse & carriage |
| #8851, aired 2023-04-17 | IN THE BOOKSTORE $1000: The title of Gabrielle Zevin's novel about young game designers is this repetitive line from "Macbeth" expressing weariness Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow |
| #8850, aired 2023-04-14 | TALES $800: One poem in Longfellow's "Tales of a Wayside Inn" begins, "Listen, my children, and you shall hear of" this the midnight ride of Paul Revere |
| #8849, aired 2023-04-13 | THE BOOK OF ROMANS $400: Stephen Dando-Collins examined "The Great Fire of Rome: The Fall of the Emperor" him "and His City" Nero |
| #8849, aired 2023-04-13 | FOODSTOCK $1000: "Everyday People" clan now fronted by a plate of mini-cheeseburgers Sliders and the Family Stone |
| #8848, aired 2023-04-12 | ONE-WORD PLAY TITLES $400: "Double, double toil and trouble" is a famous line from this tragedy Macbeth |
| #8848, aired 2023-04-12 | ACTING THE OSCAR-WINNING PART $2000: Karen Crowder, trying to fix the fixer in "Michael Clayton" Tilda Swinton |
| #8848, aired 2023-04-12 | DOGGIE BAG $7,000 (Daily Double): Queen Elizabeth II's beloved dogs included a Dorgi named Candy, a mix of these 2 breeds a Corgi & a Dachshund |
| #8847, aired 2023-04-11 | ADAPTERS $400: (I'm Joel Kim Booster.) In 2022, I wrote & starred in "Fire Island", a modern retelling of this Jane Austen novel in which I find myself in the shoes of Elizabeth Bennet Pride and Prejudice |
| #8846, aired 2023-04-10 | NOVELS BY QUOTE $1200: "So Tyler and I are on top of the Parker-Morris Building with the gun stuck in my mouth, and we hear glass breaking" Fight Club |
| #8845, aired 2023-04-07 | TWO SHOES $1000: This maker of the Skyline cowboy hat also makes cowboy boots Stetson |
| #8844, aired 2023-04-06 | AT THREES & FOURS $600: This youth group promises, "I pledge my head to clearer thinking, my heart to greater loyalty" & 2 other things the 4-H Club |
| #8844, aired 2023-04-06 | LIT-POURRI $1000: 2023 marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of this novelist & 75 years since his breakthrough, "The Naked and the Dead" Norman Mailer |
| #8843, aired 2023-04-05 | BIBLE BOOKS BY QUOTES $200: "And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth" Genesis |
| #8843, aired 2023-04-05 | BIBLE BOOKS BY QUOTES $400: "Pharaoh's daughter said unto her, take this child away, and nurse it for me" Exodus |
| #8843, aired 2023-04-05 | BIBLE BOOKS BY QUOTES $800: "Paul also and Barnabas continued in Antioch, teaching and preaching the word of the Lord" Acts (of the Apostles) |
| #8843, aired 2023-04-05 | BIBLE BOOKS BY QUOTES $1000: "Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand" the Book of Daniel |
| #8842, aired 2023-04-04 | ALL THE DAYS OF MY LIFE $200: He racked up a number of wedding days: June 11, 1509; Jan, 25, 1533; May 30, 1536; Jan, 6, 1540; July 28, 1540; & July 12, 1543 Henry VIII |
| #8841, aired 2023-04-03 | THE SUPERLATIVE EARTH $800: Oddly, the highest point on this continent is a mount named for a Polish patriot who fought in the American Revolution Australia |
| #8841, aired 2023-04-03 | ADJECTIVE THEN NOUN $1200: It's a common bar name, a cocktail, and something you don't want to step on a rusty nail |
| #8841, aired 2023-04-03 | ADJECTIVE THEN NOUN $2,500 (Daily Double): The path to quick success, as in "Jones is on" it "to the top"; make the combo a verb & it means to speed up a process a fast track |
| #8840, aired 2023-03-31 | SONGS FROM '60s MUSICALS $1,000 (Daily Double): With a 10-word title, "Comedy Tonight" & "The House Of Marcus Lycus" A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum |
| #8839, aired 2023-03-30 | CELEBRITY MEMOIRS $400: He speaks candidly about his addiction in "Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing", with a foreword by Lisa Kudrow Matthew Perry |
| #8839, aired 2023-03-30 | THE GREATEST SNOWMAN $2000: Timothy Hutton & Sean Penn took on the CIA--& lost, big time--as the nicknamed title characters in this 1985 movie The Falcon and the Snowman |
| #8839, aired 2023-03-30 | QUOTH THE TITLE $2000: Aldous Huxley took "The Doors of Perception" from "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell" by this English poet & mystic William Blake |
| #8839, aired 2023-03-30 | SPOUSAL SUPPORT $3,800 (Daily Double): Though Ring Lardner called this duo the prince & princess of their generation, their lives weren't exactly "This Side of Paradise" Scott & Zelda Fitzgerald |
| #8838, aired 2023-03-29 | PLANES, TRAINS $400: The British Harrier "Jump Jet" was the first operational airplane with VTOL capability, this "takeoff and landing" vertical |
| #8836, aired 2023-03-27 | NUMBER "ONE" MOVIE $400: This animated Disney "tail" was first released in 1961 One Hundred and One Dalmatians |
| #8836, aired 2023-03-27 | NUMBER "ONE" MOVIE $600: "Get off my plane", says an irate Harrison Ford to a soon-to-be-ejected hijacker in this 1997 thriller Air Force One |
| #8836, aired 2023-03-27 | I LIKE AMERICAN MUSIC $800: Chronicled in the miniseries "George and Tammy" the complex relationship of him & Tammy Wynette produced some country classics George Jones |
| #8836, aired 2023-03-27 | FANTASY SPORTS $800: The only rule in the game of Calvinball, seen in a comic strip by him, is that it can't be played the same way twice (Bill) Watterson |
| #8835, aired 2023-03-24 | CHANGE A LETTER $200: A close buddy changes a letter to become a labyrinth mate & maze |
| #8835, aired 2023-03-24 | CHANGE A LETTER $400: A track athlete who runs 1,760 yards transforms into a friendly meeting to get to know people a miler & a mixer |
| #8835, aired 2023-03-24 | CHANGE A LETTER $600: The edge of a garment modifies itself into a magical spell hem & hex |
| #8834, aired 2023-03-23 | HISTORIC NAMES $2000: Before he got the boot for good in 41 A.D., this emperor wanted a statue of himself placed in the Temple in Jerusalem Caligula |
| #8832, aired 2023-03-21 | TV & MOVIE CITIES $1200: "Upstairs, Downstairs", "Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels" London |
| #8831, aired 2023-03-20 | MYSELF $200: Her autobiography's dedication included "Malia and Sasha" & a man "who always promised me an interesting journey" Michelle Obama |
| #8831, aired 2023-03-20 | WALK, THE LINE $400: Walk the Moon recounts a night at the disco: "I said, 'you're holding back', she said" this title "Shut Up And Dance" with me |
| #8831, aired 2023-03-20 | PRESIDENTIAL INAUGURATIONS $400: Read at Clinton's inauguration, her poem "On the Pulse of Morning" contains the line "lost in the gloom of dust and ages" Angelou |
| #8831, aired 2023-03-20 | MYSELF $600: Part of the "Life" of this Rolling Stones guitarist: "I am pulled over by police officers in Arkansas... and a standoff ensues" Keith Richards |
| #8831, aired 2023-03-20 | CRY UNCLE $800: It was the last name of dancer & choreographer Agnes & her famous uncle Cecil B. de Mille (DeMille) |
| #8831, aired 2023-03-20 | CRY UNCLE $5,000 (Daily Double): In a letter to Tacitus, this man wrote of his elder uncle's death at Vesuvius from "some gross and noxious vapor" Pliny |
| #8829, aired 2023-03-16 | LOVE, IN SO MANY WORDS $200: "Whatever our souls are made of, (Heathcliff's) and mine are the same" in this novel; with Linton, not so much Wuthering Heights |
| #8829, aired 2023-03-16 | COMIC INFLUENCES $600: (I'm Iliza Shlesinger.) I remember begging for "Wayne's World" on VHS and have said that this performer is an American comedy staple despite being Canadian Mike Myers |
| #8829, aired 2023-03-16 | SCIENTIFIC LAWS & THEOREMS $800: The first law of thermodynamics, per Flanders & Swann: this 4-letter word "is work and work is" this 4-letter word heat |
| #8829, aired 2023-03-16 | LOVE, IN SO MANY WORDS $1000: You can detect this novelist wrote, "Nora said: 'I love you, Nicky, because you smell nice and know such fascinating people"' Dashiell Hammett |
| #8828, aired 2023-03-15 | THE MORNING AFTER $400: On this date, John Adams wrote to a friend, "A declaration passed Congress yesterday, and this morning will be printed" July 5, 1776 |
| #8828, aired 2023-03-15 | POP CULTURE $800: Prior to being the silent half of a magic duo, he taught high school Teller |
| #8828, aired 2023-03-15 | THE MORNING AFTER $1,500 (Daily Double): An October 9, 1871 headline declared this city was "utterly destroyed... both North and South Sides smoking ruins" Chicago |
| #8827, aired 2023-03-14 | HERE'S YOUR REPORT CARD $200: Page 1 of this commission's eagerly awaited 2004 report says, "Atta and Omari boarded a 6:00 a.m. flight..." the 9/11 Commission |
| #8827, aired 2023-03-14 | LITERARY LONDON $3,400 (Daily Double): This 1881 Mark Twain novel takes place in London's poorer areas as well as in some of its ritzier locales The Prince and the Pauper |
| #8825, aired 2023-03-10 | 20th CENTURY NAMES $1,000 (Daily Double): His brother Ted eulogized him in 1968 as "a good & decent man who saw wrong and tried to right it" Bobby Kennedy |
| #8825, aired 2023-03-10 | TOOL TALK $2000: A laborious task is this kind of work involving 2 tools, one with a point for splitting rock & one with a blade for digging pick-and-shovel work |
| #8824, aired 2023-03-09 | THERE'S A NAME IN THE TITLE $1200: The names of 2 lovers are in the title of this Shakespeare tragedy set during the Trojan War Troilus and Cressida |
| #8823, aired 2023-03-08 | NATIVE AMERICANA $600: Armaments-wise, Plains Indians had a gull-wing style of these, which they could use on horseback--it takes 2 hands. You try it a bow and arrow |
| #8822, aired 2023-03-07 | ANAGRAMS OF EACH OTHER $1000: Overall instruction received at school & sold to the highest bidder education & auctioned |
| #8821, aired 2023-03-06 | STUDY: GUIDES $800: Want guide to write good? "The Elements of Style", your go-to, by these 2 men (currently rolling in graves they in) Strunk & White |
| #8821, aired 2023-03-06 | QUOTABLE TV SHOWS $800: "Advertising is based on one thing:
Happiness. And do you know what happiness is? Happiness is the smell of a new car" Mad Men |
| #8821, aired 2023-03-06 | MORE THAN ONE MEANING $2,000 (Daily Double): A list of passengers on a ship, or to become visible or obvious manifest |
| #8820, aired 2023-03-03 | YOU'RE SUCH AN IDIOM! $200 (Daily Double): If something is relatively easy to do or understand, then "It's not" this, Robert Goddard's field rocket science |
| #8820, aired 2023-03-03 | COLORS OF THE RAINBOW $600: She's a golden ticket holder & champion gum-chomper in "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" Violet |
| #8820, aired 2023-03-03 | A LOVELY ACCENT $800: The first name you see on the screen has an Irish long accent, or fada, and is pronounced like this
[Sinéad] “shin-AID” |
| #8820, aired 2023-03-03 | QUOTATIONS $1200: Thomas Edison gave us, "Genius is one percent inspiration and 99 percent" this perspiration |
| #8819, aired 2023-03-02 | THAT'S D-MINUS WORK $800: Crushed up paper into a ball loses a D & means walked through water up to the knees wadded & waded |
| #8819, aired 2023-03-02 | ODD WORDS $800: This symbol found on your keyboard gets its name from "and per se and" an ampersand |
| #8818, aired 2023-03-01 | BRIDGES $3,500 (Daily Double): Tradition says that a couple who kisses while passing beneath this Venetian bridge in a gondola will enjoy eternal love the Bridge of Sighs |
| #8817, aired 2023-02-28 | THAT'S A LAUGH! $400: (I'm Brendan Hunt.) While doing improv together in Amsterdam, Jason Sudeikis and I became friends & fell in love with soccer; we put our affection for that sport into this Emmy-winning comedy that we co-created Ted Lasso |
| #8817, aired 2023-02-28 | MEDIEVAL TIMES $800: No camel riding per the Pact of Umar, limiting the rights of these 2 non-Muslim groups in newly Muslim-controlled areas Christians & Jews |
| #8816, aired 2023-02-27 | DANIEL RADCLIFFE ON HARRY POTTER $200: (Daniel Radcliffe presents the clue.) I starred on the London stage & on Broadway in a revival of "Equus" opposite Richard Griffiths, who played this awful relative of Harry Potter Vernon Dursley |
| #8816, aired 2023-02-27 | DANIEL RADCLIFFE ON HARRY POTTER $800: (Daniel Radcliffe presents the clue.) My favorite Harry Potter film to watch is "Deathly Hallows: Part 2", but my favorite to act in was this 5th film whose title refers to a group formed to fight Voldemort Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix |
| #8812, aired 2023-02-21 | POP CULTURE HIGH SCHOOL REUNIONS $400: This actress from an iconic TV show played the latter airhead in "Romy and Michele's High School Reunion" Lisa Kudrow |
| #8812, aired 2023-02-21 | COLLEGE TOWNS $800: Boulder, Colorado is a mecca for atmospheric research & this 4-letter cyclone-tracking agency has a lab there NOAA (the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) |
| #8811, aired 2023-02-20 | REUNION SHOWS $600: Online during the pandemic, this NBC show's Ron Swanson told Leslie, "I've been practicing social distancing since I was 4" Parks and Recreation |
| #8810, aired 2023-02-17 | MEMOIRS OF GOVERNMENT & POLITICS $400: Head of this agency from 1973 to 1977, Russell Train wrote "Politics, Pollution, and Pandas" the EPA |
| #8810, aired 2023-02-17 | IN THE NATION'S CONSTITUTION $400: "On its land, Moses grew up, the light of God appeared, and the message descended on Mount Sinai" Egypt |
| #8810, aired 2023-02-17 | MEMOIRS OF GOVERNMENT & POLITICS $800: "Known and Unknown" is by Donald Rumsfeld, who served Gerald Ford & George W. Bush in this job Secretary of Defense |
| #8810, aired 2023-02-17 | WORD & WORDPLUS $800: An object used by an actor during a performance & a verb meaning to grow "the species" by breeding prop & propagate |
| #8810, aired 2023-02-17 | IN THE NATION'S CONSTITUTION $800: "The capital of" this country "shall be Sarajevo" & judges have to retire at age 70 Bosnia and Herzegovina |
| #8810, aired 2023-02-17 | ACTORS PLAYING PLAYWRIGHTS $1200: Jim Broadbent & Allan Corduner play this theatrical pair in "Topsy-Turvy", at work on "The Mikado" Gilbert & Sullivan |
| #8809, aired 2023-02-16 | DISNEY MOVIE TAGLINES $400: 1937:
"The happiest, dopiest, grumpiest, sneeziest movie of the year" Snow White (and the Seven Dwarfs) |
| #8808, aired 2023-02-15 | CONQUERS $1200: He styled himself "Conqueror of the British Empire in Africa in General and Uganda in Particular" Idi Amin |
| #8807, aired 2023-02-14 | TV SHOW TITLES IN SPANISH $800: "Belleza y poder", or "Beauty & Power", was what became of this fashion-set daytime soap The Bold and the Beautiful |
| #8807, aired 2023-02-14 | STATE TREES $800: Wisconsin & New York are both represented by the sugar species of this tree maple |
| #8806, aired 2023-02-13 | BOB DYLAN LYRICS $400: "Hey", this guy, "play a song for me, I'm not sleepy and there is no place I'm going to" Mr. Tambourine Man |
| #8806, aired 2023-02-13 | BOB DYLAN LYRICS $800: "May your heart always be joyful, may your song always be sung, and may you stay" this forever young |
| #8806, aired 2023-02-13 | AIRPORTS NAMED FOR PEOPLE $800: Mother Teresa Airport doesn't serve Calcutta but Tirana, the capital of this nation Albania |
| #8806, aired 2023-02-13 | TV CATCHPHRASES $1000: Mork:
This double-talk Orkan signoff nanu nanu |
| #8805, aired 2023-02-10 | ALL KINDS OF BOOKS $200: "Between a Heart and a Rock Place" is the memoir of this singer, with 40-plus years in the music business Pat Benatar |
| #8804, aired 2023-02-09 | LIFE LINES $600: Writer Christopher Morley said "There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning, and" this rhyming word yearning |
| #8804, aired 2023-02-09 | OSCAR-WINNING WOMEN $1200: In the '90s she won for her lead role in "Howards End" & also for Adapted Screenplay for "Sense and Sensibility" Emma Thompson |
| #8803, aired 2023-02-08 | COMEDY TIME $2000: 1940s:
Cary Grant learns that his aunts are homicidal maniacs Arsenic and Old Lace |
| #8802, aired 2023-02-07 | WE'RE HALFWAY THERE $600: He's the biblical king who says, "Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one, and half to the other"; it works out Solomon |
| #8802, aired 2023-02-07 | HOLIDAYS AROUND THE GLOBE $2000: One and a half billion Muslims mark the end of the fasting month of Ramadan with this holiday; fittingly it rhymes with "feed" Eid |
| #8801, aired 2023-02-06 | ADD A LETTER AT THE START $1000: Of a word meaning ready to eat to get this word meaning to complain gripe |
| #8801, aired 2023-02-06 | PRISONERS OF WAR $2000: This Frenchman who wrote "Being and Nothingness" was a prisoner of war from 1940 to 1941 Jean-Paul Sartre |
| #8800, aired 2023-02-03 | THE NATIONAL PARK SYSTEM $1200: An Alabama historic site invites you to journey back to the 1940s & learn about this group of Black military aviators the Tuskegee Airmen (or Red Tails) |
| #8800, aired 2023-02-03 | THE PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS ARE THE THING $1600: The "son" never actually existed in this Albee play before dad commits a virtual "filicide" Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? |
| #13, aired 2023-02-02 | ALL ABOUT DISNEY $200: In 1994, Disney invited theatergoers to "Be Our Guest" at this musical, Disney's first show to play on Broadway Beauty and the Beast |
| #13, aired 2023-02-02 | WIL(L), WILLEM OR WILLIAM $200: After landing in a cloaked Klingon ship in Golden Gate Park in "Star Trek IV", this actor says, "Everybody remember where we parked" William Shatner |
| #13, aired 2023-02-02 | LAKES & RIVERS $1200: Johann Strauss II wrote a famous waltz about this "Beautiful Blue" river that flows through Europe the Danube |
| #8798, aired 2023-02-01 | PARDON ME $800: In 1868 he granted Confederate veterans a "full pardon and amnesty for... treason against the United States" Andrew Johnson |
| #8798, aired 2023-02-01 | MOUNTAINS $5,000 (Daily Double): Though it's near the equator, this highest African peak has glaciers above the 15,000-foot level Kilimanjaro |
| #8797, aired 2023-01-31 | HISTORICAL FICTION $400: He wrote "War and Peace" over 6 years, visiting battlefields & reading books on the Napoleonic Wars for research Tolstoy |
| #8797, aired 2023-01-31 | JASON CONCEPCION $800: (Jason Concepcion presents the clue.) A 2021 episode of "Takeline" examined Major League Baseball's decision to move its All-Star Game out of this state after it passed a law that reduced the number of ballot drop boxes in Fulton County and elsewhere Georgia |
| #8797, aired 2023-01-31 | AD VERBS & TAGLINES $800: Instagram:
"____ and share the world's moments" Capture |
| #8796, aired 2023-01-30 | 4, 4 $1000: Here's what this mountaineering setup looked like in 1909 on an expedition by an Italian duke and a more recent one base camp |
| #8796, aired 2023-01-30 | EXPLORATION $5,000 (Daily Double): "These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale", this British explorer wrote in 1912 in one of his final diary entries Robert Falcon Scott |
| #8795, aired 2023-01-27 | HISTORIC NICKNAMES $10,000 (Daily Double): Born 1910:
"Saint of the Gutters" Mother Teresa |
| #8794, aired 2023-01-26 | A LINE IN THE SAND $2000: Shelley dubbed a statue of this king a "colossal wreck" around which "the lone and level sands stretch far away" Ozymandias |
| #12, aired 2023-01-26 | ____ & ____ $200: Former lovers beware! This sort of interview may betray your past intimacies kiss & tell |
| #12, aired 2023-01-26 | THE GOLDEN STATE WARRIORS $1500: (Amy Schneider presents the clue.) The Warriors came to San Francisco from Philadelphia in 1962, bringing this superstar 7-footer who averaged an incredible 44.8 points per game in his 1st season by the Bay Wilt Chamberlain |
| #8791, aired 2023-01-23 | NOW THAT'S NOVEL $400: The title of this 1950 children's fantasy book concerns an animal, a person & a piece of furniture The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe |
| #8791, aired 2023-01-23 | TV CONNECTORS $2000: JoJo's Bizarre
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Time Adventure |
| #8791, aired 2023-01-23 | AFGHANISTAN & PAKISTAN $2000: The 2,000-mile Indus River flows from the Himalayas through Pakistan and pours into this sea, a water flow twice that of the Nile the Arabian Sea |
| #8790, aired 2023-01-20 | AMERICAN LIT $800: This narrator in a 19th century classic says, "Tom and me found the money that the robbers hid in the cave" Huck Finn |
| #8789, aired 2023-01-19 | IT'S ABOUT TIME $600: "Time is a measure of motion and of being moved", said this student of Plato Aristotle |
| #8789, aired 2023-01-19 | SELF-REFERENTIAL BEATLES $2000: "I'm The Greatest" had Ringo sing, "Yes, my name is" him, "the one and only" singer in Sgt. Pepper's band Billy Shears |
| #11, aired 2023-01-19 | THE BOOK WITH NO PICTURES $200: The title of this Dostoyevsky novel refers to murder & 8 years of hard labor in Siberia Crime and Punishment |
| #11, aired 2023-01-19 | JOHNNY GILBERT IS THE TV CHARACTER $300: "You clearly don't know who you're talking to, so let me clue you in. I am not in danger, Skyler. I am the danger" Walter White |
| #11, aired 2023-01-19 | SOME SERIOUS SCIENCE $300: Newton's third law of motion is often stated as "For every action, there is an equal and opposite" this a reaction |
| #11, aired 2023-01-19 | COACH: BEARD $400: Guys, you may be able to spur beard growth with exercise & more sleep, possibly aiding in production of this 12-letter hormone testosterone |
| #11, aired 2023-01-19 | "NN"YTIME $500: "Astrophel and Stella" is a 16th century sequence of more than 100 of these 14-line poems sonnets |
| #8788, aired 2023-01-18 | SIX PACK $800: The "Six Flags" over Texas refer to the entities that have controlled it; sixth is the USA, this was fifth the Confederacy |
| #8788, aired 2023-01-18 | BLANK VERSE $2000: "In the room the women come and go talking of ____" Michelangelo |
| #8786, aired 2023-01-16 | ROYAL HISTORY $1600: Under the Kalmar Union, these 3 Scandinavian countries were under the rule of a single monarch from 1397 to 1523 Denmark, Norway & Sweden |
| #8785, aired 2023-01-13 | YOU BROUGHT ME FAME & FORTUNE $800: An enthusiastic expression of approval, this 7-letter word is a synonym of "fame" & rhymes with it acclaim |
| #8785, aired 2023-01-13 | LET'S TALK GALAXIES $1000: These 2 "clouds" are satellite galaxies of the Milky Way Large Magellanic & Small Magellanic |
| #10, aired 2023-01-12 | I LOVE MY DAD $300: Loving dad Liam Neeson, in this 2008 pic: let my daughter go, cool. If not, "I will look for you. I will find you. & I will kill you" Taken |
| #10, aired 2023-01-12 | THE MOVIES $600: His powerful performance as the Joker in "The Dark Knight" won him a posthumous Supporting Actor Oscar (Heath) Ledger |
| #10, aired 2023-01-12 | EXPLOSIVE MUSIC $900: His singing career really burst into the stratosphere with "Rocket Man", which says, "burning out his fuse up here alone" Elton John |
| #10, aired 2023-01-12 | GLOOMY AUTHORS $1000: His plays like "Waiting for Godot" explore the meaninglessness of life & even a Nobel Prize didn't make him happy Samuel Beckett |
| #8782, aired 2023-01-10 | THE BOTTOM LINE $200: He ended a poem, "I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference" Frost |
| #8782, aired 2023-01-10 | THE BOTTOM LINE $600: Sandburg finished a poem titled for this city, "player with railroads and freight handler to the nation" Chicago |
| #8782, aired 2023-01-10 | POTPOURRI $1000: Rudyard Kipling described him as "a mongoose, rather like a little cat in his fur and his tail" Rikki-Tikki-Tavi |
| #8780, aired 2023-01-06 | RECORD OF THE YEAR GRAMMYS $800: For 1968:
This duo's "Mrs. Robinson" Simon and Garfunkel |
| #8780, aired 2023-01-06 | YOU, KNIGHT $1600: When a green-skinned party crasher on a green horse ruins Christmas at Camelot, this nephew of Arthur isn't having it Gawain |
| #8780, aired 2023-01-06 | WORKERS OF THE WORLD $1600: Labor organizer & presidential nominee Eugene V. Debs was known for his pamphlet "Unionism and" this other "-ism" Socialism |
| #8779, aired 2023-01-05 | CLICHES $400: Completes the cliche "All dressed up...", suggested as the epitaph for an atheist and nowhere to go |
| #8779, aired 2023-01-05 | THE DOOMSDAY BOOK $2000: This Canadian tells of Snowman, possibly the last human, in her novel "Oryx and Crake" Atwood |
| #9, aired 2023-01-05 | INTERNATIONAL MAN OF MYTH STORY $400: Zeus's lack of wisdom had him swallow his wife Metis when she was pregnant with this daughter born unusually, as seen here Athena |
| #9, aired 2023-01-05 | PHILOSOPHY $600: Nietzsche's "The Gay Science" includes the parable of a madman crying out, he "is dead... and we have killed him" God |
| #9, aired 2023-01-05 | SEEMS LIKE ANCIENT TIMES $1000: By 2500 B.C. the Chinese were breeding a special "worm" in order to make thread & garments from this material silk |
| #9, aired 2023-01-05 | THEY WERE TEACHERS $1200: (Colby Burnett delivers the clue.) Oscar-nominated for films like "BlacKkKlansman" & the documentary "4 Little Girls", this acclaimed filmmaker is a tenured professor of film & artistic director at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts Spike Lee |
| #9, aired 2023-01-05 | BOOZY PHRASES $1,500 (Daily Double): This phrase became a meme as the words spoken just before doing a reckless stunt hold my beer and watch this |
| #8776, aired 2023-01-02 | HISTORY COMES ALIVE WITH ERIK LARSON $600: (Erik Larson presents the clue.) My book "The Splendid and the Vile", set during the early days of World War II, takes readers inside Chequers, this prime minister's country home where he figured out how to keep his family & his nation together Churchill |
| #8776, aired 2023-01-02 | LET THERE BE FROGS $600: This cartoon character was likely inspired by a reptile found alive inside a time capsule that was opened in 1928 Michigan J. Frog |
| #8775, aired 2022-12-30 | ALLITERATION $400: DJ Alan Freed's claim to have coined this term in Cleveland helped it beat out New York City & Memphis as home to a museum rock and roll |
| #8775, aired 2022-12-30 | A MEMORABLE NEW YEAR'S EVE $1200: (Ryan Seacrest presents the clue.) Before a 2011 NASA mission mapping the Moon's gravity, Montana 4th graders named the two spacecraft, & this one entered lunar orbit on New Year's Eve; Flow took a bit longer Ebb |
| #8774, aired 2022-12-29 | CLASSIC FLUTE ROCK $200: Greg Ham rocked the flute as Men at Work topped the charts singing "I come from a land" here Down Under |
| #8774, aired 2022-12-29 | 3-NAMED WRITERS $400: His short story collection "Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque" was published in 1839 (Edgar Allan) Poe |
| #8773, aired 2022-12-28 | 6-LETTER VERBS $1000: As a means of making amends, it's sometimes done to "the beef" to squash the beef |
| #8772, aired 2022-12-27 | FICTION $600: From chapter 1 of this classic: "On a bright may morning in 1888, John, Lord Greystoke, and Lady Alice sailed from Dover..." Tarzan (of the Apes) |
| #8770, aired 2022-12-23 | ALL STARS $800: The music for this came from a festive British song titled "To Anacreon In Heaven" "The Star-Spangled Banner" |
| #8770, aired 2022-12-23 | LITERATURE: BLANK IT & BANK IT $800: "The deep and dank tarn at my feet closed sullenly and silently over the fragments of the 'House of ____!'" Usher |
| #8770, aired 2022-12-23 | LITERATURE: BLANK IT & BANK IT $1000: "When ____ last in the dooryard bloom'd, and the great star early droop'd in the western sky" lilacs |
| #8770, aired 2022-12-23 | NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY $1600: This chief befriended Washington Territory settlers, who named a city for him & paid him for the use of his name Chief Seattle |
| #8769, aired 2022-12-22 | A BIT OF EVERYTHING $200: Genesis 9:28 says he "lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years" Noah |
| #8769, aired 2022-12-22 | THERE'S A BOOK IN THAT BOOK $800: In this novel, Winston is inspired by a copy of "The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism" 1984 |
| #8768, aired 2022-12-21 | QUOTABLE SHAKESPEARE PLAYS $400: "She hangs upon the cheek of night like a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear" Romeo and Juliet |
| #8768, aired 2022-12-21 | THE CLASSIC SONG IN QUESTION $1200: His album "Armed Forces" has Nick Lowe's song "(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love And Understanding" Elvis Costello |
| #8767, aired 2022-12-20 | DR. SEUSS BAKING CHALLENGE $200: (Tamera Mowry presents the clue.) Creations that hopefully taste better than they sound were natural for this book with an edible title & a hyphenated main character Green Eggs and Ham |
| #8766, aired 2022-12-19 | LINE OF FIRE $800: In "The Hobbit", this dragon appeared "as a spark of fire rushing towards them and growing ever huger and more bright" Smaug |
| #8766, aired 2022-12-19 | LINE OF FIRE $1600: In 1667 he penned, "Incens'd with indignation Satan stood, unterrify'd, and like a comet burned" Milton |
| #8766, aired 2022-12-19 | TELEVISION THEN & NOW $1,800 (Daily Double): The main characters of "Back to the Future" helped inspire this animated series that debuted in 2013 Rick and Morty |
| #8765, aired 2022-12-16 | CHRISTMAS & HANUKKAH $400: Christmas commemorates Jesus' birth in a stable in this town, to which his parents came from Nazareth Bethlehem |
| #8765, aired 2022-12-16 | MUSIC ICONS $1000: Her recording career lasted less than 4 years; her final studio album was 1971's "Pearl", featuring "Me And Bobby McGee" Janis Joplin |
| #8764, aired 2022-12-15 | BRIEF LIVES $1,600 (Daily Double): Stole into existence in 1910; she was the first half of a noted couple; got lead poisoning via police in 1934 Bonnie Parker |
| #8764, aired 2022-12-15 | HISTORY IN ART $1600: Benjamin West took artistic license in depicting "The Death of General Wolfe", an event from this 18th century war the French and Indian War |
| #8763, aired 2022-12-14 | THE "J.C"s $1600: He founded a society that strives to "uncover the secrets held within our water planet" & "work to keep it alive and healthy" Jacques Cousteau |
| #8762, aired 2022-12-13 | THAT'S SOME OF WHAT SHE WROTE $1600: "To Be Young, Gifted and Black" by this playwright was performed Off-Broadway after cancer took her far too young at 34 (Lorraine) Hansberry |
| #8762, aired 2022-12-13 | YOU GET LETTERS $1600: Many Brits put an "intrusive" one between words that end with a vowel sound & words that start with one an "R" |
| #8761, aired 2022-12-12 | THE MOVIE'S TITLE IN OTHER COUNTRIES $1000: Japan got right down to it for a Nevada-set film: "I'm Drunk & You're a Prostitute" Leaving Las Vegas |
| #8759, aired 2022-12-08 | 1990s VOCAB TEST $400: That's really great! It's "all that and" this snack offering a bag of chips |
| #8759, aired 2022-12-08 | LET'S GET DOWN TO CASES $400: Davis v. Beason ruled that a Mormon couldn't use this amendment as a defense for polygamy the First Amendment |
| #8758, aired 2022-12-07 | TV SIDEKICKS $800: Now a bestselling author with "I'm Glad My Mom Died", Jennette McCurdy was sidekick Sam to Miranda Cosgrove on this show iCarly |
| #8757, aired 2022-12-06 | KIDS' BOOK TITLES IN LATIN $200: Keep it on the down low: "Harrius Potter et Camera Secretorum" Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets |
| #8757, aired 2022-12-06 | BLOOD, SWEAT & TEARS $400: In 1940 he told the House of Commons, "I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat" Churchill |
| #8757, aired 2022-12-06 | KIDS' BOOK TITLES IN LATIN $800: I do like it:
"Virent Ova! Viret Perna!!" Green Eggs and Ham |
| #8757, aired 2022-12-06 | BLOOD, SWEAT & TEARS $6,600 (Daily Double): Blood, sweat & tears all contain this metallic element, the 6th-most abundant in the Earth's crust sodium |
| #8756, aired 2022-12-05 | ANIMALS IN BOOKS $200: In the last line of the book, Dorothy says, "and here is" this pup, "too. And oh, Aunt Em! I'm so glad to be at home again!" Toto |
| #8756, aired 2022-12-05 | "OO", BOOZE! $1000: This brand of British gin says every batch is made with "labour and patience" Boodles Gin |
| #8756, aired 2022-12-05 | HISTORY ON THE DOUBLE $2,000 (Daily Double): Prophetically, around 30 B.C., these 2 lovers founded a club called Those Who Will Die Together Antony & Cleopatra |
| #8755, aired 2022-12-02 | THEIR '80s NO. 1 ALBUM $1200: His "Don't Be Cruel"
(& it's not Elvis) Bobby Brown |
| #8750, aired 2022-11-25 | OUR FLAG MEANS... $400: The white band on Nicaragua's flag represents the land; the 2 blue bands represent these bodies of water it borders the Caribbean & Pacific |
| #8750, aired 2022-11-25 | A GARDEN PARTY $400: Launched in 1922, Fruit, Garden & Home Magazine got this new name, BHG for short, in 1924 Better Homes and Gardens |
| #8750, aired 2022-11-25 | UNFRIEND $3,000 (Daily Double): One who used the same stream as another led to this word for a competitor rival |
| #8748, aired 2022-11-23 | A 20th CENTURY FACTS PRODUCTION $800: Shocking Americans and beginning the Space Race when it was launched October 4, 1957, it weighed about as much as Mickey Mantle Sputnik |
| #8748, aired 2022-11-23 | SPEECH OF THE DICKENS $1200: "Barnaby Rudge" gave us this clothing & weapon term meaning related to espionage cloak and dagger |
| #8747, aired 2022-11-22 | A PINEAPPLE $200: A BBC article headlined "Pineapple on" this said, "it's the food choice that seems to divide the world" pizza |
| #8747, aired 2022-11-22 | SOCCER'S WORLD CUP IN THE 21st CENTURY $200: Now the reigning champion, France took the Cup in 2018 by defeating Croatia 4-2 at Luzhniki Stadium in this world capital Moscow |
| #8746, aired 2022-11-21 | WRITERS & THEIR WORKS $400: More than a decade before "A Wrinkle in Time", she wrote her first book for kids, "And Both Were Young" L'Engle |
| #8745, aired 2022-11-18 | PAINT SAMPLES $2000: In 2010 you could get a Rothko for 44 cents: "Orange and Yellow", in a stamp series honoring this 2-word movement in American painting abstract expressionism |
| #8745, aired 2022-11-18 | HISTORIC CASTLES $2000: Built by the Knights of Saint John in the 1100 & 1200s, the crusader castle Krak des Chevaliers is in this Middle Eastern country Syria |
| #8744, aired 2022-11-17 | THE KING JAMES BIBLE SAITH $200: "Out of the mouth of" these "and sucklings hast thou ordained strength" babes |
| #8744, aired 2022-11-17 | THE KING JAMES BIBLE SAITH $400: He "exceeded all the kings of the earth for riches and for wisdom" Solomon |
| #8744, aired 2022-11-17 | THE KING JAMES BIBLE SAITH $600: From Deuteronomy: "Of all that are in the waters: all that have fins and" these "shall ye eat" scales |
| #8744, aired 2022-11-17 | A WORD OF WARNING $800: In a famous poem, Paul Revere was "ready to ride and spread" this "through every Middlesex village and farm" the alarm |
| #8744, aired 2022-11-17 | THE KING JAMES BIBLE SAITH $800: "Jesus saith unto him, I am the way," the this "and the life" the truth |
| #8744, aired 2022-11-17 | MEMOIRS & PERSONAL ACCOUNTS $1200: Paralyzed & speech-less from a stroke, Jean-Dominique Bauby used his left eyelid to dictate "The Diving Bell and the" this butterfly |
| #8744, aired 2022-11-17 | SILENT FILMS WITH JACQUELINE STEWART $1600: (Jacqueline Stewart of Turner Classic Movies presents the clue.) Pioneering Black filmmaker Oscar Micheaux dealt with racism in films like "Within Our Gates"; & in 1925's "Body and Soul", he introduced this actor & bass baritone later famous for his rendition of "Ol' Man River" (Paul) Robeson |
| #8742, aired 2022-11-15 | LATE 20th CENTURY BOOKS $1200: Robert Pirsig's 1974 tale of a trip involving father & son bonding is titled "Zen and the Art of" this Motorcycle Maintenance |
| #8741, aired 2022-11-14 | POETRY $1200: "And God said: that's good!" is a refrain in James Weldon Johnson's 1927 poem titled this biblical event "The Creation" |
| #8, aired 2022-11-13 | MUSICAL THEATER $200: In "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown", this character sings "My Blanket and Me" Linus |
| #8, aired 2022-11-13 | THE BIBLE $200: In "the six hundred and first year", second month, 27th day, the earth was dried & this vessel's occupants could leave it the ark (Noah's ark) |
| #8, aired 2022-11-13 | THE EDWARDIAN ERA $400: Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine called this late guitarist "the Mozart of our generation" Eddie Van Halen |
| #8, aired 2022-11-13 | THE BIBLE $600: There was some serious sibling rivalry with these first 2 sons of Adam & Eve Cain & Abel |
| #8, aired 2022-11-13 | BRUSH UP YOUR HEBREW $900: Unlike if you're at Trader Joe's, if you're speaking Hebrew, this dip has a guttural first letter & 2 long vowels hummus |
| #8740, aired 2022-11-11 | SENIOR MOMENTS $800: When this Old Testament king is "old & stricken in years", even the fair maiden Abishag does not rouse his interest David |
| #8740, aired 2022-11-11 | WORLD LEADERS $7,000 (Daily Double): After helping to establish this as an independent country, Eduard Shevardnadze became its president in 1995 Georgia |
| #8740, aired 2022-11-11 | ELEGIES $16,800 (Daily Double): 1855's "Haworth Churchyard" was Matthew Arnold's tribute to these literary sisters, written soon after the last one passed the Brontë sisters |
| #8739, aired 2022-11-10 | CELEBS $200: She co-starred in "Green Lantern" with Ryan Reynolds before the pair married (Blake) Lively |
| #8739, aired 2022-11-10 | WE SPY $400: In 1944 MLB player/spy Moe Berg was ready to kill Werner Heisenberg if it sounded like the Germans were near making this weapon the atomic bomb |
| #8739, aired 2022-11-10 | SOMETHING THAT IS... $2000: Grey & Black:
To be specific, 1871's "Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 1", an artwork much better known by this 2-word name Whistler's Mother |
| #8738, aired 2022-11-09 | CHESS FOR CHAMPS $1000: In 1997 the chess world was shocked when world champ Garry Kasparov lost a match to this IBM computer program Deep Blue |
| #8738, aired 2022-11-09 | RIVER RUN $3,000 (Daily Double): Rivers that border Manhattan include the East River & these 2 "H" rivers the Hudson and the Harlem |
| #8737, aired 2022-11-08 | NUMBER, PLEASE $200: Matthew 4 says Jesus fasted for this many days & nights in the wilderness, & he was hungry after; well, yeah! 40 |
| #8737, aired 2022-11-08 | REMEMBERING ALEX TREBEK $200: Alex' breakfast of choice was a Diet Coke & a Snickers; after a doctor's lecture, Diet Pepsi & this "gimme a break" candy bar Kit Kat |
| #8737, aired 2022-11-08 | NUMBER, PLEASE $400: Normally, the human body contains this number of chromosomal pairs 23 |
| #8737, aired 2022-11-08 | HITS OF 2002 $1000: "Lose Yourself" has the meta lyrics "And there's no movie, there's no" this actor, "This is my life" Mekhi Phifer |
| #8737, aired 2022-11-08 | NUMBER, PLEASE $1000: Buzz Lightyear announces feats of derring-do by exclaiming this 4-word phrase, & that's saying a lot To infinity and beyond |
| #8737, aired 2022-11-08 | ELECTION DAY $1,200 (Daily Double): One reporter wrote, "tranquility forsook Springfield" on Election Day of this year 1860 |
| #8736, aired 2022-11-07 | HERBAL & SPICY NAMES $400: In a 1967 tune we hear his band has "been going in and out of style, but they're guaranteed to raise a smile" Sgt. Pepper |
| #8736, aired 2022-11-07 | VICE PRESIDENTS $1200: A campaign slogan from 1840 was "Tippecanoe and" this vice presidential running mate too Tyler |
| #8736, aired 2022-11-07 | 13-LETTER WORDS $1600: It's the fear of old people gerontophobia |
| #7, aired 2022-11-06 | EVERYBODY LOVES RAIN, MAN $500: In the King James Bible, "the Lord rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah" these 2 things fire & brimstone |
| #7, aired 2022-11-06 | BIG ____ $500: In a 1901 speech regarding U.S. foreign policy, Teddy Roosevelt advised, "Speak softly and carry" this a big stick |
| #7, aired 2022-11-06 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $600: In the novel of the same name, Alice Walker wrote, "I think it pisses God off if you walk by" this "in a field... and don't notice it" the color purple |
| #7, aired 2022-11-06 | JOHNNY GILBERT SAYS THE NO. 1 HITS $900: "She's got eyes of the bluest skies, as if they thought of rain, I'd hate to look into those eyes and see an ounce of pain" "Sweet Child O' Mine" |
| #7, aired 2022-11-06 | STARTS WITH 2 VOWELS $1000: Astronomers use this 3-letter word to refer to a period of time equaling one billion years; to others, it means a really long time an eon |
| #7, aired 2022-11-06 | FUN WITH FLAGS $1000: After the Soviet Union broke apart, so did its flag with a gold star & these 2 symbols representing workers & peasants a hammer & sickle |
| #7, aired 2022-11-06 | HUMAN ANATOMY & PHYSIOLOGY $1000: This other name for the voice box also ends with the letter "X" the larynx |
| #7, aired 2022-11-06 | HUMAN ANATOMY & PHYSIOLOGY $1,500 (Daily Double): No butts about it--it's the 2-word name for the most massive muscle in the human body gluteus maximus |
| #8735, aired 2022-11-04 | ON BROADWAY $1200: This play, originally staged in 2 parts, takes place 19 years after the Battle of Hogwarts Harry Potter and the Cursed Child |
| #8735, aired 2022-11-04 | ON BROADWAY $2000: One of August Wilson's plays to explore the Black experience in America is called this man's "Come and Gone" Joe Turner |
| #8735, aired 2022-11-04 | HISTORY $11,600 (Daily Double): Post-WWII British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin said this Secretary of State threw "a lifeline to sinking men" Marshall |
| #8734, aired 2022-11-03 | A MUSICAL JOURNEY WITH QUESTLOVE $400: (Questlove presents the clue.) For the soundtrack album of my documentary, "Summer of Soul", I chose artists that are as relevant to our time as to 1969 when the concerts took place, including 2 songs by this singer and the Family Stone Sly |
| #8734, aired 2022-11-03 | A YEAR ENDING IN 2 $1000: More than a quarter of English colonists in Virginia are killed in a massacre; John Rolfe also dies 1622 |
| #8734, aired 2022-11-03 | GET DOWN TO BUSINESS $3,000 (Daily Double): A New York Times article headlined "When Mac & Cheese and Ketchup Don't Mix" concerned the 2015 merger of these 2 companies Kraft & Heinz |
| #8733, aired 2022-11-02 | NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 100 CITIES, 5,000 IDEAS $400: Dating from before the city was built up, just a short drive outside this Kenyan capital is a national park bearing its name Nairobi |
| #8733, aired 2022-11-02 | NOVEL NURSES $400: Several nurses figure in his novel "A Farewell to Arms", including Miss Van Campen Hemingway |
| #8733, aired 2022-11-02 | TEAM OF THE MLB HALL OF FAMERS $400: Ozzie Smith,
Lou Brock the Cardinals |
| #8733, aired 2022-11-02 | ANAGRAMS OF EACH OTHER $800: The alpine homes seen on the left & the bag seen on the right chalets & satchel |
| #8733, aired 2022-11-02 | YOU LEFT ME $800: "With four hungry children and a crop in the field... you picked a fine time to leave me", this woman Lucille |
| #8732, aired 2022-11-01 | CROCODILE POP $800: Crocubot is a half-crocodile, half-robot character on this cartoon about a mad scientist & his grandson Rick and Morty |
| #8732, aired 2022-11-01 | ART & ARTISTS $1600: Here's a portrait of this provocative photographer who was also a great art subject (Robert) Mapplethorpe |
| #8732, aired 2022-11-01 | CROSSWORD CLUES "Q" $2000: Adjective meaning the most typical
(14 letters) quintessential |
| #8731, aired 2022-10-31 | BOOK SEQUELS $400: Mark Twain began a sequel called "Huck Finn and" this boyhood pal "Among the Indians"; Lee Nelson finished it in 2003 Tom Sawyer |
| #6, aired 2022-10-30 | PATRIOT ACT $100: Daniel O'Connell, a patriot of this country, got the British to pass the Catholic Emancipation Act of 1829 Ireland |
| #6, aired 2022-10-30 | ANSWER IN THE FORM OF AN ABBREVIATION $200: In 2022 Congress gave this agency an additional $45 billion for enforcement, so double-check those deductions the IRS |
| #6, aired 2022-10-30 | DIRECTIONAL GEOGRAPHY IN AMERICA $300: Visit Pineapple Fountain & Fort Sumter when you go to Charleston, which, no, is not the capital of this "Original 13" state South Carolina |
| #6, aired 2022-10-30 | PRETTY LITTLE LIES $500: How's this for a flex? You just got back from the gym, & get this, you dead-lifted a ton & a half, this many pounds 3,000 |
| #6, aired 2022-10-30 | DIRECTIONAL GEOGRAPHY IN AMERICA $1,000 (Daily Double): In 1802 Congress passed the act establishing the U.S. Military Academy at this site on the banks of the Hudson West Point |
| #6, aired 2022-10-30 | HI, FINANCE $1000: Time to get an "A" in finance; leveraged by hedge funds, this investment strategy has many types, like retail & merger arbitrage |
| #8730, aired 2022-10-28 | PICTURE THE NO. 1 HIT $600: It was No. 1 in the U.S. and, of course, in Sweden "Dancing Queen" |
| #8729, aired 2022-10-27 | DANIEL RADCLIFFE COLLAGE $800: (Daniel Radcliffe presents the clue.) I played one of the two title characters who were just bit players in Shakespeare in a 50th anniversary West End production of this Tom Stoppard play that’s set against the backdrop of "Hamlet" Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead |
| #8729, aired 2022-10-27 | DANIEL RADCLIFFE COLLAGE $1200: (Daniel Radcliffe presents the clue.) In the 2013 film “Kill Your Darlings”, I played this poet just starting at Columbia University and meeting Jack Kerouac & William S. Burroughs Ginsberg |
| #8729, aired 2022-10-27 | THE SECOND CHAPTER $8,000 (Daily Double): Ralph says, "We've been on the mountain top and seen water all around" Lord of the Flies |
| #8728, aired 2022-10-26 | HIDDEN BRAIN PODCAST $400: (Shankar Vedantam presents the clue.) I talked with psychologist and "Generation Me" author, Jean Twenge, about the rise of this -ism in society, an inflated view of one's self, named for a mythological youth narcissism |
| #5, aired 2022-10-23 | CLASSIC KIDS' BOOKS $100: In "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory", he's the eccentric owner of the factory Willy Wonka |
| #5, aired 2022-10-23 | CLASSIC KIDS' BOOKS $200: "The Story of Ferdinand" tells of one of these animals who loves to sit quietly & smell the flowers a bull |
| #5, aired 2022-10-23 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $900: Lincoln's 1863 declaration making "persons held as slaves... thenceforward, and forever free" is known as this the Emancipation Proclamation |
| #5, aired 2022-10-23 | OF COURSE I'M NOT BREAKING UP WITH YOU $1200: Sweetie, nuh-uh. You know how at your trial the judge said, "Court is in" this until Monday? It's like that recess |
| #5, aired 2022-10-23 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $4,700 (Daily Double): Before taking the road to the White House, he hit the "Santa Fe Trail" in the movie role of George Armstrong Custer Ronald Reagan |
| #5, aired 2022-10-23 | BIOLOGY $12,000 (Daily Double): Animals like frogs that can live on land or water are known as these, from the Greek for "both" & "life" an amphibian |
| #8725, aired 2022-10-21 | IN THE BIBLE BOOK $800: "I am... the beginning and the ending"; there is serious omega Revelation |
| #8724, aired 2022-10-20 | PHOBIAS $200: Apiphobia bees |
| #8724, aired 2022-10-20 | THERE'S A SEQUEL $400: After doing America in 1996, this pair of probably-not-"Jeopardy!" fans returned in 2022 to "Do the Universe" Beavis and Butt-Head |
| #8724, aired 2022-10-20 | 4-LETTER FOOD & DRINK $1000: In "Treasure Island" Captain Smollett tells the men they'll have this rum drink "served out for you to drink our health and luck" grog |
| #8724, aired 2022-10-20 | POETS & POETRY $1200: The kids' book "The Sweet and Sour Animal Book" used 26 unpublished poems of this Harlem Renaissance figure Langston Hughes |
| #8724, aired 2022-10-20 | POETS & POETRY $1600: He wrote, "O my luve's like a red, red rose that's newly sprung in June" Rabbie Burns |
| #8724, aired 2022-10-20 | THERE'S A SEQUEL $1600: This 2011 "Part 2" was the 8th film in a series Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 |
| #8724, aired 2022-10-20 | POETS & POETRY $2,569 (Daily Double): It begins, "Of man's first disobedience, and the fruit of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste brought death into the world..." Paradise Lost |
| #8723, aired 2022-10-19 | HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES $1,000 (Daily Double): Alaska celebrates the last Monday in March as this onetime U.S. Secretary of State's day William Seward |
| #8723, aired 2022-10-19 | TV $1000: Paul Feig created this beloved but short-lived series about high school burnouts & nerds Freaks and Geeks |
| #8723, aired 2022-10-19 | WHAT A BUTTE! $3,699 (Daily Double): Grizzly Bear Lodge is another name for this butte that rises 1,267 feet above Wyoming Devils Tower |
| #8722, aired 2022-10-18 | BROADWAY $800: It's the musical seen here in its original Broadway production The King and I |
| #8722, aired 2022-10-18 | PRESIDENTIAL SPEECHES $1200: "Ask of us here the same high standards of strength and sacrifice which we ask of you" Kennedy |
| #8721, aired 2022-10-17 | ACTORS GET THEIR ROLES MIXED UP $400: Once a desperate shaved-head Frenchwoman, things began to look up once I found out I was the heir to Genovia's throne Anne Hathaway |
| #8721, aired 2022-10-17 | LITERARY FIRST LINES $400: "1984" begins, "It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking" this very odd number thirteen |
| #8721, aired 2022-10-17 | HERE'S YOUR SCIENCE PRIZE $800: Frederick Sanger is the only 2-time winner of the Nobel Prize in this, for work on proteins in 1958 & nucleic acids in 1980 the Chemistry Prize |
| #8721, aired 2022-10-17 | ACTORS GET THEIR ROLES MIXED UP $800: Here I am, just a lowly Hobbit from the Shire who finally took the field for Notre Dame; hey! I got a sack Sean Astin |
| #8721, aired 2022-10-17 | ACTORS GET THEIR ROLES MIXED UP $1200: Despite being brittle-boned Elijah Prince, I'm still firmly in charge of S.H.I.E.L.D. Samuel L. Jackson |
| #8721, aired 2022-10-17 | ACTORS GET THEIR ROLES MIXED UP $1600: Formerly an assassin & the boss of the Crazy 88, I've also branched out to practice law in Boston Lucy Liu |
| #8721, aired 2022-10-17 | ACTORS GET THEIR ROLES MIXED UP $2000: Being half of a legendary Wild West outlaw duo gave me the courage to take the ice for the Charlestown Chiefs Paul Newman |
| #4, aired 2022-10-16 | CURRENT EVENTS $100: On Aug. 8, 2022 FBI agents executed a search warrant here, which Donald Trump calls "my beautiful home" Mar-a-Lago |
| #4, aired 2022-10-16 | MASCOTS $300: This battery mascot that's been going & going since the late 1980s has entered the OED to mean something or someone persistent the Energizer Bunny |
| #4, aired 2022-10-16 | COLORFUL RESPONSES $400 (Daily Double): This 2-word fishy term refers to a piece of information that is a distraction from the main issue a red herring |
| #4, aired 2022-10-16 | POP MUSIC $500: A hit from 2012, "I Will Wait" is by this band who, despite the "Sons" in their name, are unrelated Mumford and Sons |
| #4, aired 2022-10-16 | SHAKESPEARE $800: In a history play a woman complains that this chubby knight "hath eaten me out of house and home" Falstaff |
| #4, aired 2022-10-16 | JOHNNY GILBERT SPEAKS THE MOVIE LINE $1200: "You read the Bible, Brett?... Ezekiel 25:17... and you will know my name is the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon thee!" Pulp Fiction |
| #4, aired 2022-10-16 | BUT WE REPEAT OURSELVES $1500: Did you study up on your calculus? Because that's another word for this hard yellowish substance that can cause tooth decay tartar |
| #4, aired 2022-10-16 | HISTORIC HISTORY OF YESTERDAY: A LOOK BACK $2,000 (Daily Double): Catherine Parr became wife No. 6 to this man on July 12, 1543, & beating the odds, outlived him (but only by a year) Henry VIII |
| #8720, aired 2022-10-14 | STORIES WITH HEART $200: Mitch Albom subtitled this book about his former college professor "An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson" Tuesdays with Morrie |
| #8719, aired 2022-10-13 | THE AUTOMOTIVE WORLD $400: The tail lights of recent MINI Coopers look like this flag the Union Jack |
| #8719, aired 2022-10-13 | PONY TALES $1600: Growing up on a Wyoming horse ranch, Kevin is tasked with making a good pony out of "My Friend" her Flicka |
| #8718, aired 2022-10-12 | WORDS THAT SHOULD RHYME $200: A fictional book-length narrative & a digging tool novel & shovel |
| #8718, aired 2022-10-12 | IDINA MENZEL ACTS & SINGS $600: (Idina Menzel presents the clue.) In 2022, I released my first children's book, called "Loud Mouse", about a mouse who finds her big voice; and in 2021, I co-starred with some mice playing Camila Cabello's stepmother in this movie Cinderella |
| #8718, aired 2022-10-12 | MOVIE STUFF $2000: In a 2019 film this actor bet big on basketball; in a 2022 film, he played a pro basketball scout; he likes basketball Adam Sandler |
| #8716, aired 2022-10-10 | PEN NAMES $1600: They were the pseudonyms of the two contemporaries seen here who both adopted the same atypical first name George Eliot & George Sand |
| #8716, aired 2022-10-10 | PLACES IN MOVIE TITLES $2000: The drug adrenochrome gives Johnny Depp's character Raoul Duke a hard time in this film Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas |
| #3, aired 2022-10-09 | 21 OR UNDER $200: Including the pole vault & hurdles, the athletic contest known as the decathlon comprises this many track & field events 10 |
| #3, aired 2022-10-09 | THE TERMINAL LIST $300: "I was on a Paris train, I emerged in London rain /
And you were waiting there," at St. Pancras, from 1876, in the age of this queen Victoria |
| #3, aired 2022-10-09 | 21 OR UNDER $600: A bar mitzvah is traditionally celebrated when a Jewish boy has reached this age 13 |
| #3, aired 2022-10-09 | WORDS OF LOVE $1200: A traditional wedding vow says, "For richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to" do this cherish |
| #3, aired 2022-10-09 | A LONG RUN ON TV WITH KEN JENNINGS $1500: (Ken delivers the clue.) 2 jobs with security are police officer & soap opera actor; Doug Davidson was both, playing Paul Williams of the Genoa City PD on this show on which he was a regular for 42 years The Young and the Restless |
| #8715, aired 2022-10-07 | GIBSON GIRLS & GUYS $800: Tyrese Gibson has appeared as Roman Pearce, known for his banter & his driving, in this action film franchise The Fast and the Furious |
| #8714, aired 2022-10-06 | MUSICAL ALTER EGOS $200: For a 2008 album this singer declared "I am... Sasha Fierce", a more outgoing stage personality Beyoncé Knowles |
| #8714, aired 2022-10-06 | HISTORICAL TV ROLES $400: Gillian Anderson as this prime minister on "The Crown" (Margaret) Thatcher |
| #8712, aired 2022-10-04 | WAIT JUST A MINERAL! $400: This mineral that is used in kitchen countertops could get a minimum of 24 points in Scrabble quartz |
| #8712, aired 2022-10-04 | A "C" IN LITERATURE $800: From the works of Charles Dickens, it's the last name of the father & son seen here Cratchit |
| #8712, aired 2022-10-04 | CENTRAL AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: "Beautiful port!" said Columbus, giving this Panama town its name, later applied to a London "Road" after the British captured it Portobelo |
| #8711, aired 2022-10-03 | CHAPTER $600: Chapter 2:
"The Law of Club and Fang" The Call of the Wild |
| #8711, aired 2022-10-03 | PLANE TALK $3,000 (Daily Double): Great flying weather with no major clouds or haze is CAVU, "ceiling and" this "unlimited" visibility |
| #2, aired 2022-10-02 | FRENCH WORDS & PHRASES $200: At a restaurant you may want the steak but not the side dishes, so you order this 3-word way a la carte |
| #2, aired 2022-10-02 | CELEBRITY CAMEOS $300: As Leslie Knope, Amy Poehler was stunned to meet Michelle Obama on this sitcom & timidly asked for a high five Parks and Rec |
| #2, aired 2022-10-02 | 19th CENTURY NOVELS $400: This Mark Twain hero says, "Now, Old Jim, you're a free man again, and I bet you won't ever be a slave no more" Huckleberry Finn |
| #2, aired 2022-10-02 | WHAT HAPPENS IN VEGAS $400: In 1970 Binion's Horseshoe Casino hosted the first-ever World Series of this poker |
| #2, aired 2022-10-02 | 19th CENTURY NOVELS $600: In this Jane Austen novel, Elizabeth is the favorite daughter of Mr. Bennet, but airheaded Lydia is her mom's choice Pride and Prejudice |
| #2, aired 2022-10-02 | 19th CENTURY NOVELS $1000: France's 1812 invasion of Russia is the subject of this sprawling Tolstoy novel War and Peace |
| #2, aired 2022-10-02 | THAT PAINTS A PICTURE $1000: Is this surreal life? / Is this just fantasy? / Watching watches melt / In this man's "Persistence of Memory" Salvador Dalí |
| #2, aired 2022-10-02 | AUSTIN TENDS BAR $1200: (Austin has a clear drink in a glass at his bar.) I'm a bartender, not a fancy-schmancy mixologist; I like pouring beer, whiskey & drinks with their ingredients in their names, like this classic combo juniper-berry liquor & carbonated water infused with quinine a gin and tonic |
| #8710, aired 2022-09-30 | BEG $2000: In 1924 Clarence Darrow gave a long speech against capital punishment, asking for leniency for this pair Leopold & Loeb |
| #8709, aired 2022-09-29 | CHARACTERS ON THE TV SHOW $1000: Fezco, Lexi & Ashtray, not always happy Euphoria |
| #8708, aired 2022-09-28 | AND THE STATE GOES TO... $400: Oregon, 2020 Joe Biden |
| #8708, aired 2022-09-28 | AND THE STATE GOES TO... $800: Utah, 2008 McCain |
| #8708, aired 2022-09-28 | AND THE STATE GOES TO... $1200: Minnesota, 1984 Mondale |
| #8708, aired 2022-09-28 | AND THE STATE GOES TO... $1600: Mississippi & South Carolina, 1952 Adlai Stevenson |
| #8708, aired 2022-09-28 | AND THE STATE GOES TO... $2000: Alabama, 1968:
This American Independent Party candidate (George) Wallace |
| #8707, aired 2022-09-27 | ALPHANUMERICS $400: One letter and two numbers give you this medical care-grade item; the number refers to the percentage of particles it stops N95 |
| #8707, aired 2022-09-27 | POLITICAL WRITING $400: This book begins on June 17, 1972 as "Woodward fumbled for the receiver and snapped awake" All the President's Men |
| #8707, aired 2022-09-27 | NON-NYE SCIENCE GUYS $4,000 (Daily Double): This American found variable stars in the Andromeda Nebula, helping him figure its distance from Earth & getting it renamed a galaxy Hubble |
| #8706, aired 2022-09-26 | FRIENDS $200: Matthew Perry has said he got this character's "Could it be?" catchphrase from 2 brothers he knew as a kid Chandler |
| #8706, aired 2022-09-26 | FRIENDS $600: On the 2021 reunion show the six stars were joined by actors like Christina Pickles and him, who played Ross & Monica's parents Elliott Gould |
| #1, aired 2022-09-25 | THE WILD WEST $100: The autobiography of former slave Nat Love tells of his days of "riding, roping, and shooting" as a famous one of these cowboy |
| #1, aired 2022-09-25 | YOU'RE PROBABLY GOING TO HATE THIS $300: Ben Franklin assured us that "Nothing is certain but death and" these taxes |
| #1, aired 2022-09-25 | CATS & DOGS $400: From Britain's Isle of Man, the Manx cat is distinctive for its lack of this a tail |
| #1, aired 2022-09-25 | BOOKS BY FUNNY PEOPLE $600: Her book projects include "Why Not Me?" & "Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)" Mindy Kaling |
| #1, aired 2022-09-25 | APOLOGIES $600: "Sorry, Dave... when the crew are dead or incapacitated, the onboard computer must assume control" is a line in this sci-fi novel 2001: A Space Odyssey |
| #1, aired 2022-09-25 | APOLOGIES $1500: Near the end of "A Midsummer Night's Dream", this fairy says, "If we shadows have offended, think but this and all is mended" Puck |
| #8705, aired 2022-09-23 | SONG SNIPPETS $400: "Take a sad song and make it better" "Hey Jude" |
| #8705, aired 2022-09-23 | BIBLE STUDY $400: The second patriarch, Isaac was the only son from this father & mother Abraham & Sarah |
| #8705, aired 2022-09-23 | NEW HARLEQUIN ROMANCES IN 2022 $800: "Penniless and Pregnant in" this synonym for heaven Paradise |
| #8705, aired 2022-09-23 | TINY 3-LETTER WORDS $1000: This quick dance move using your arms was popularized by Migos & Cam Newton a dab |
| #8705, aired 2022-09-23 | BIBLE STUDY $1600: This queen told Solomon, "It was a true report that I heard in mine own land of thy acts and of thy wisdom" the Queen of Sheba |
| #8705, aired 2022-09-23 | SONG SNIPPETS $2000: "Thawed out what was scared and cold" "Like A Virgin" |
| #8704, aired 2022-09-22 | CHILDREN'S BOOKS $200: In "And Tango Makes Three", based on a true story, 2 of these male flightless birds are given a chick to raise at a zoo a penguin |
| #8704, aired 2022-09-22 | IN MY AUTOBIOGRAPHY $800: "In the small town of Hannibal... everybody was poor, but didn't know it: and everybody was comfortable, and did know it" Mark Twain |
| #8704, aired 2022-09-22 | IN MY AUTOBIOGRAPHY $1200: "The year before I was born a group called the Taliban... had taken over the country and was burning girls' schools" Malala |
| #8704, aired 2022-09-22 | GEOGRAPHY VIA KOKOMO $1600: Baby, why don't we go to this bay? Usain Bolt has a restaurant there and check out Doctor's Cave Beach on the North Shore Montego Bay |
| #8703, aired 2022-09-21 | GREAT AMERICAN PAIRS $600: A bestseller of 1814 was the "History of the Expedition Under the Command of" these 2 men Lewis and Clark |
| #8703, aired 2022-09-21 | 2 BOOKS IN 1 $800: "The Silence of the Dragon" The Silence of the Lambs & Red Dragon |
| #8703, aired 2022-09-21 | SHOES! $1000: In a hip-hop classic by Run-DMC, these title things "Walk through concert doors/ And roam all over coliseum floors" "My Adidas" |
| #8703, aired 2022-09-21 | 2 BOOKS IN 1 $1600: "The Golden Spyglass" The Golden Compass & The Amber Spyglass |
| #8703, aired 2022-09-21 | EMPERORS $10,000 (Daily Double): 14th century African Emperor Musa I is best remembered for the splendor & wealth exhibited during his 1324 pilgrimage to here Mecca |
| #8702, aired 2022-09-20 | HETERONYMS $1000: A burrowing insectivore
&
a Mexican cooking sauce a mole [mōl] & mole [MOH-lay] |
| #8701, aired 2022-09-19 | A HUNGER FOR READING $200: Roald Dahl wrote this book on East 81st Street in New York City, not far from where the journey of the big fruit ends James and the Giant Peach |
| #8700, aired 2022-09-16 | TELEVISION $400: A 3-part documentary from Ken Burns titled "The U.S. &" this dispels the myth that Americans were unaware of Nazi atrocities the Holocaust |
| #8699, aired 2022-09-15 | SINGERS WHO ACT $800: This late rapper played Lucky, a single father & love interest of Janet Jackson in "Poetic Justice" Tupac |
| #8699, aired 2022-09-15 | ISLE, 5 $1000: In Ireland, if you're on the shores of Lough Gill, you can arise and go to this isle Innisfree |
| #8699, aired 2022-09-15 | SINGERS WHO ACT $2000: This rocker played Jareth, the Goblin King in the 1986 cult classic fantasy "Labyrinth" David Bowie |
| #8699, aired 2022-09-15 | SCIENCE PROJECTS $6,000 (Daily Double): In 1996 scientists of the Rediscovery project at this Virginia site announced the finding of its long-lost fort Jamestown |
| #8698, aired 2022-09-14 | LITERARY CHARACTERS $1600: These 2 migrant workers dream of owning a farm with rabbits in Steinbeck's "Of Mice and Men", but things don't go as planned George & Lennie |
| #8698, aired 2022-09-14 | THE LAW $2000: The 2022 Dobbs Supreme Court decision mentions these 9th Amendment rights, a term for those protected but not specified unenumerated rights |
| #8697, aired 2022-09-13 | ALPHABETICALLY NEXT $600: As president:
Carter,
Cleveland... Bill Clinton |
| #8697, aired 2022-09-13 | NFL OPENING WEEKEND $1000: (Jamie Erdahl of the NFL Network presents the clue.) The Panthers' opening game in 2011 showed off the arm of this flashy dresser, as he passed for 422 yards, an NFL record for a player's first game Cam Newton |
| #8697, aired 2022-09-13 | SYNONYMS $1200: Words for a comic entertainer at a royal court include fool, buffoon, merry-andrew & this 6-letter word jester |
| #8696, aired 2022-09-12 | CHUMP CHANGE $800: Drop 2 letters to get this sports authority an ump |
| #8696, aired 2022-09-12 | HERE COMES 39 $800: This Opus No. 39 by Edward Elgar has a theme often heard at school graduations Pomp and Circumstance |
| #8696, aired 2022-09-12 | HERE COMES 39 $1000: In the King James Bible, the Old Testament has 39 books, with Kings, Chronicles & this prophet each having a 1 & 2 book Samuel |
| #8696, aired 2022-09-12 | THAT'S SO SIR/REEL! $1600: Ruling in "The Cider House Rules" & (What's it all about?) "Alfie" Sir Michael Caine |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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" |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #6096, aired 2011-02-28 | BRANDS: Jack Odell gave his child a tiny vehicle to bring to school inside one of these items, & a toy brand name was born a matchbox |
| #6093, aired 2011-02-23 | AMERICAN LIT: He wrote, "The hellish tattoo of the heart increased. It grew quicker & quicker, & louder & louder every instant" Edgar Allan Poe |
| #6089, aired 2011-02-17 | EVENTS OF 2010: A piece of custom-made equipment called the Phoenix played a key role in an October event in this country Chile |
| #6088, aired 2011-02-16 | 19th CENTURY NOVELISTS: William Wilkinson's "An Account of the Principalities of Wallachia and Moldavia" inspired this author's most famous novel Bram Stoker |
| #6081, aired 2011-02-07 | 20th CENTURY NOVELS: Chapters in this 1953 thriller include "Dossier for M", "Pink Lights and Champagne" & "The Game is Baccarat" Casino Royale |
| #6078, aired 2011-02-02 | U.S. PRESIDENTS: Of the 20 presidents elected to a second term, 2 of the 3 who failed to complete that term (2 of) Lincoln, Nixon & McKinley |
| #6070, aired 2011-01-21 | MOVIE SEQUELS: Golf carts used by the crew in the production of this 2009 movie bore signs reading "Galileo" & "Bernini" Angels & Demons |
| #6069, aired 2011-01-20 | WORLD LEADERS: At his 1994 inaugural, he called for "a rainbow nation at peace with itself and the world" Nelson Mandela |
| #6067, aired 2011-01-18 | STATE NAMES: These are the 2 U.S. states with only one consonant in their names Iowa & Ohio |
| #6063, aired 2011-01-12 | COMPUTER SCIENCE: John Tukey coined this compound word in 1958 saying it was as important as "tubes, transistors, wires, tapes..." software |
| #6052, aired 2010-12-28 | CABINET OFFICERS: He was the last Secretary of State to serve in the post under 2 presidents Henry Kissinger |
| #6051, aired 2010-12-27 | LANGUAGES OF EUROPE: A mixture of English & Spanish, Llanito is the language of this territory's 30,000 residents Gibraltar |
| #6049, aired 2010-12-23 | SPORTS: In 1744 the first mention of this now popular sport said, "Away flies the boy To the next... post And then home with joy" baseball |
| #6046, aired 2010-12-20 | 20th CENTURY NOVELISTS: A critic said that a character of his, "yearning for the moon... never saw the sixpence at his feet"; he made that into a title Somerset Maugham |
| #6041, aired 2010-12-13 | COUNTRIES: In only 2 cases can you add 2 letters to one country & get another country: Austria/Australia & this pair Niger/Nigeria |
| #6038, aired 2010-12-08 | WORLD HISTORY: After the Royal Family fled to this country in 1807, it became the only one in South America from which a European country was ruled Brazil |
| #6037, aired 2010-12-07 | FLAGS OF THE WORLD: In use from 1844 to 1905, a flag representing the union of these 2 countries was nicknamed the "herring salad" Norway and Sweden |
| #6023, aired 2010-11-17 | PHRASES: In ancient Rome it was a post where racers changed direction; since 1836 it's meant a moment change occurs turning point |
| #6021, aired 2010-11-15 | SPORTS IN AMERICA: Seen with a piece of equipment, Bryn Mawr's 1st physical education director brought this sport to the U.S.; it shares part of its name with another sport field hockey |
| #6020, aired 2010-11-12 | DOCUMENTS: It says, "The history of the present king of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations" the Declaration of Independence |
| #6010, aired 2010-10-29 | NO. 1 HITS: Topping the charts on Oct. 20, 1962, this novelty song is the only No. 1 hit to have the word "electrodes" in the lyrics "The Monster Mash" |
| #6006, aired 2010-10-25 | FAMOUS AMERICANS: In 1886 he published his first book, "The Trumpet and Drum", an instructional handbook with 8 compositions (John Philip) Sousa |
| #6000, aired 2010-10-15 | U.S. PRESIDENTS: He was the first U.S. president to be elected in an Olympic year McKinley |
| #5999, aired 2010-10-14 | COUNTRY NAMES: The only 2 countries in the world with an "X" in their names, one is found in Europe & one in the Americas Luxembourg and Mexico |
| #5997, aired 2010-10-12 | SHAKESPEARE: These 2 "King Lear" characters, 1 male, 1 female, both represent truthfulness; one disappears when the other returns Cordelia and the Fool |
| #5996, aired 2010-10-11 | PRISONS: Nazi Rudolf Hess in 1941 & the notorious Kray twins in 1952 were among the last people briefly held here the Tower of London |
| #5993, aired 2010-10-06 | 2010 SCIENCE NEWS: The IUPAC named an element for this man born in 1473 to "highlight the link between astronomy and... nuclear chemistry" Copernicus |
| #5989, aired 2010-09-30 | ALLITERATIVE ATHLETES: In 1998 these 2 baseball rivals shared top honors as Sports Illustrated's Sportsmen of the Year Sammy Sosa and Mark McGwire |
| #5979, aired 2010-09-16 | WORD AND PHRASE ORIGINS: Meaning "rapidly", this term began in England, referring to the speed with which the mail was delivered post haste |
| #5977, aired 2010-09-14 | LITERARY & MOVIE TITLE OBJECTS: The inspiration for this title object in a novel & a 1957 movie actually spanned the Mae Khlung River "The Bridge on the River Kwai" |
| #5972, aired 2010-07-27 | MONARCHIES: 1 of the 2 largely German-speaking monarchies in the world; they're about 250 miles apart (1 of) Liechtenstein & Luxembourg |
| #5971, aired 2010-07-26 | LITERARY BRAWLS: At Key West in 1936, Wallace Stevens broke his hand punching this man, who responded by knocking Stevens down Ernest Hemingway |
| #5968, aired 2010-07-21 | U.S. PRESIDENTS: Excluding honorary degrees, he's the only president to have degrees from both Harvard & Yale George W. Bush |
| #5965, aired 2010-07-16 | NO. 1 POP HITS: A 1987 remake of this 1959 hit was the first song with all Spanish lyrics to hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 "La Bamba" |
| #5948, aired 2010-06-23 | HISTORIC DATES: The signing of the Treaty of Versailles on June 28, 1919 took place exactly 5 years after the related death of this man Archduke Franz Ferdinand |
| #5947, aired 2010-06-22 | BILLBOARD HOT 100 HISTORY: Besides Frank & Nancy Sinatra, they're the only other father & daughter who each had No. 1 solo hits Pat & Debby Boone |
| #5945, aired 2010-06-18 | SPORTS VENUES: Built in 1914 & named for the club's owner in 1926, it's the oldest National League ballpark still in use Wrigley Field |
| #5941, aired 2010-06-14 | MOONS & MYTHOLOGY: This planet is named for a Roman god; its only moons are named for the sons of his Greek counterpart Mars |
| #5939, aired 2010-06-10 | SHORT STORIES: In an 1842 tale he wrote, "Down--still unceasingly--still inevitably down!... I shrunk convulsively at its every sweep" Edgar Allan Poe |
| #5938, aired 2010-06-09 | ARTISTS: She's seen wearing a rebozo in her 1937 "Self-Portrait Dedicated to Leon Trotsky" Frida Kahlo |
| #5936, aired 2010-06-07 | METEOROLOGY: Low- & high-pressure systems & tropical moisture set the stage for a 1991 nor'easter nicknamed these 2 words "Perfect Storm" |
| #5935, aired 2010-06-04 | AMERICAN POLITICIANS: Frank Sinatra came out of retirement to sing their praises: "They're both unique... the Quaker & the Greek" Richard Nixon & Spiro Agnew |
| #5930, aired 2010-05-28 | AWARDS & HONORS: A trophy named for this author is awarded to anyone who breaks the record for sailing a yacht around the world Jules Verne |
| #5926, aired 2010-05-24 | AMERICAN CITIES: 6 of the top 10 U.S. cities in population are found in these 2 states California & Texas |
| #5920, aired 2010-05-14 | THE 50 STATES: It's the only state from which rainwater flows to the Pacific, the Atlantic & Hudson Bay Montana |
| #5915, aired 2010-05-07 | MIDDLE EAST COUNTRIES: In 1949 this kingdom dropped the word "Trans" from the beginning of its name Jordan |
| #5914, aired 2010-05-06 | AMERICAN LITERATURE: A contemporary review of this 1851 novel said, "Who would have looked for... poetry in blubber?" Moby-Dick |
| #5913, aired 2010-05-05 | MOVIE HISTORY: During the making of this classic, sets from "King Kong" & "The Garden of Allah" were intentionally burned down Gone with the Wind |
| #5911, aired 2010-05-03 | U.S.A.: Chocolate Avenue & Cocoa Avenue are 2 of the main thoroughfares in this town that was established in 1903 Hershey, Pennsylvania |
| #5908, aired 2010-04-28 | SCIENCE HISTORY: In August 1971 on the Moon's surface, an astronaut repeated a famous experiment & declared that this man "was correct" Galileo |
| #5903, aired 2010-04-21 | SAINTHOOD: In 2009 this man who died on Molokai in 1889 became Hawaii's first saint Father Damien |
| #5901, aired 2010-04-19 | WORLD WAR II: On June 5, 1944 FDR said of the capture of this city, "One up and two to go" Rome |
| #5898, aired 2010-04-14 | POLITICALLY CORRECT POP CULTURE: The violence goes on, but in 2006 Time Warner TV removed depictions of this activity from old "Tom and Jerry" cartoons smoking |
| #5895, aired 2010-04-09 | 19th CENTURY BRITISH LITERATURE: In chapter 10, "The whole mystery of the handkerchiefs, and the watches, and the jewels... rushed upon" this title boy's "mind" Oliver Twist |
| #5890, aired 2010-04-02 | THE MIDDLE AGES: Some say the Dark Ages began when Byzantine Emperor Justinian closed this city's school of philosophy in 529 A.D. Athens |
| #5886, aired 2010-03-29 | 19th CENTURY LITERATURE: In an 1877 novel Mrs. Gordon initially suggests the name Ebony for this title character Black Beauty |
| #5885, aired 2010-03-26 | PHRASE ORIGINS: In 1945 George Orwell coined this 2-word phrase for "an epoch as horribly stable as the slave empires of antiquity" cold war |
| #5883, aired 2010-03-24 | ANIMATED MOVIES: The answer to the title of this Oscar winner is Judge Doom Who Framed Roger Rabbit |
| #5879, aired 2010-03-18 | AUTHORS: In 1890 he witnessed a mild cyclone in Aberdeen, South Dakota, fodder for his most famous novel L. Frank Baum |
| #5877, aired 2010-03-16 | FAMOUS AMERICANS: About him F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote, "In the spring of '27, something bright and alien flashed across the sky..." Charles Lindbergh |
| #5870, aired 2010-03-05 | PLAYS: Dialogue from this play: "He didn't say for sure he'd come." "And if he doesn't come?" "We'll come back tomorrow" Waiting for Godot |
| #5863, aired 2010-02-24 | THE ACADEMY AWARDS: He was nominated for 8 Best Actor Oscars, including one for a 1961 film; his only win came for its 1986 sequel Paul Newman |
| #5861, aired 2010-02-22 | KINGS & LITERATURE: Though called "the most hapless of monarchs", this king is in the title of Shakespeare's only trilogy Henry VI |
| #5860, aired 2010-02-19 | ARTISTS: In 1882 he wrote, "Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony, and music inside me" Vincent van Gogh |
| #5856, aired 2010-02-15 | WASHINGTON, D.C.: Some of the sculptures outside the entrance of this building depict Moses, Confucius, Solon & William Howard Taft the Supreme Court building |
| #5851, aired 2010-02-08 | RANKS & TITLES: Owain Glyndwr, who died circa 1416, was the last native of his country to claim this title Prince of Wales |
| #5850, aired 2010-02-05 | RECENT BOOKS: In a lecture called "Storia Senza Storia" (Story Without History), an Italian cardinal rebutted claims in this 2003 novel The Da Vinci Code |
| #5849, aired 2010-02-04 | 20th CENTURY PEOPLE: The July 1, 1946 cover of Time magazine depicted him with the caption, "All matter is speed and flame" Albert Einstein |
| #5844, aired 2010-01-28 | 19th CENTURY ARTISTS: This Frenchman once said, "I will astonish Paris with an apple"--here are a few of them Paul Cézanne |
| #5843, aired 2010-01-27 | THE 1960s: In 1962 the people of Perth, Australia saluted this American by turning their lights on & off at the same time John Glenn |
| #5842, aired 2010-01-26 | 19th CENTURY LITERATURE: Chapter II of this novel says, "My eyes were not to be deceived. I was indeed awake and among the Carpathians" Dracula |
| #5841, aired 2010-01-25 | SPORTS CITIES: It's the only city whose teams won the Super Bowl & the Stanley Cup in the same calendar year Pittsburgh |
| #5831, aired 2010-01-11 | THE PARTS OF SPEECH: Of the traditional 8 parts of speech, it's the only one that doesn't end in the same 4 letters as 1 of the other parts of speech adjective |
| #5827, aired 2010-01-05 | ART HISTORY: Unique quality of "First Communion of Anemic Young Girls in the Snow", shown at the 1883 Arts Incoherents exhibit it was all white |
| #5820, aired 2009-12-25 | CLASSICAL MUSIC: A chorus in this 1741 work says, "King of kings and Lord of lords and He shall reign forever and ever" Handel's Messiah |
| #5813, aired 2009-12-16 | 1970s BESTSELLERS: The preface to this novel says its title is a trademark phrase of General Mills, used on a cereal product Breakfast of Champions |
| #5812, aired 2009-12-15 | NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS: This bird is known for its size (5 feet tall), its call (carries 2 miles) & its rarity; in 1941 there were only 21 in the wild the whooping crane |
| #5809, aired 2009-12-10 | 1989 NO. 1 HITS: The Billboard Book of No. 1 Hits says this song brought mail from history teachers who hailed it as an educational aid "We Didn't Start The Fire" (by Billy Joel) |
| #5808, aired 2009-12-09 | HISTORIC AMERICANS: His collection of books suffered disastrous fires at the home called Shadwell in 1770 & at the Library of Congress in 1851 Thomas Jefferson |
| #5807, aired 2009-12-08 | LITERATURE OF THE 1800s: This character said, "I will live in the past, the present, and the future. The spirits of all three shall strive within me" Ebenezer Scrooge |
| #5798, aired 2009-11-25 | POSTAL ABBREVIATIONS: A state since the 1700s but not in the original 13, it ends with its own 2-letter postal abbreviation Kentucky |
| #5797, aired 2009-11-24 | COMPOSERS: In 1928, the 100th anniversary of his death, a $10,000 prize was offered for the completion of his 8th Symphony (Franz) Schubert |
| #5792, aired 2009-11-17 | MOVIES & DANCE: Derived from other traditional dances & still popular today, the syrtaki was created for this 1964 movie Zorba the Greek |
| #5788, aired 2009-11-11 | THE WORLD AFTER WWII: This peninsula was divided when Japan surrendered to the U.S. below the 38th parallel & to the Soviet Union north of it the Korean Peninsula |
| #5785, aired 2009-11-06 | STATE CAPITALS: It's the only 3-word state capital Salt Lake City |
| #5781, aired 2009-11-02 | HISTORIC AMERICANS: On July 11, 1804 he gasped to his doctor, "This is a mortal wound"; he died the next day Alexander Hamilton |
| #5779, aired 2009-10-29 | THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR DRAMA: 1 of the 2 1-word plays, winners in 2001 & 2005, which both became movies; if you have one, you want the other (1 of) Proof & Doubt |
| #5770, aired 2009-10-16 | SCIENTIFIC FIRSTS: The first object in our solar system discovered by telescope was not a planet but one of these a moon |
| #5763, aired 2009-10-07 | AMERICAN HISTORY: He was the only member of the Warren Commission who would later face would-be assassins himself Gerald Ford |
| #5761, aired 2009-10-05 | LANDMARKS: Its creator said its parts represent our nation's founding, expansion, development & preservation Mount Rushmore |
| #5758, aired 2009-09-30 | HISTORIC HEADLINES: On Sept. 30, 2008 Daily Variety reprised this 5-word headline from Oct. 30, 1929 Wall Street Lays An Egg |
| #5746, aired 2009-09-14 | WORD ORIGINS: This skilled army job may have been named for a bird because soldiers tested their rifle accuracy by shooting them a sniper |
| #5742, aired 2009-07-21 | BOOKS INSPIRED BY HISTORY: "Follow the Drinking Gourd" tells how slaves escaped to freedom guided by a song about this star group the Big Dipper |
| #5741, aired 2009-07-20 | POETS ON POETS: Longfellow began a poem about this earlier poet, "Tuscan, that wanderest through the realms of gloom" Dante Alighieri |
| #5738, aired 2009-07-15 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY: Other than Antarctica, the 2 continents without a landlocked country Australia & North America |
| #5725, aired 2009-06-26 | 19th CENTURY AMERICAN LITERATURE: At the end of this novel, the title object "ceased to be a stigma which attracted the world's scorn and bitterness" The Scarlet Letter |
| #5723, aired 2009-06-24 | EXPLORERS: On March 29, 1912 he wrote, "We are getting weaker, of course, and the end cannot be far... I do not think I can write more" Robert Scott |
| #5722, aired 2009-06-23 | LEADING MEN: Up for producing, directing, acting & writing for 1978 & 1981, he's the only man to twice get 4 Oscar nominations for one film Warren Beatty |
| #5717, aired 2009-06-16 | HISTORICAL POEMS: Poem that tells us: "Cossack and Russian reel'd from the sabre-stroke shatter'd and sunder'd" "The Charge of the Light Brigade" |
| #5714, aired 2009-06-11 | HISTORIC AMERICANS: A 2007 book about these 2 men is subtitled "Victorious American and Vanquished Virginian" Ulysses S. Grant & Robert E. Lee |
| #5711, aired 2009-06-08 | ACTING FAMILIES: Last name of the father & son actors who have played 2 different real U.S. presidents, one on film & one on TV Brolin |
| #5708, aired 2009-06-03 | 20th CENTURY AMERICANS: Rhyming last names of the 2 men pictured here, who had two very different professions Barrow & Darrow |
| #5707, aired 2009-06-02 | GEOGRAPHICAL LITERATURE: The first 2 sections of this Hemingway novel, published 9 years after his death, are titled "Bimini" & "Cuba" Islands in the Stream |
| #5706, aired 2009-06-01 | CARTOON SCIENCE: According to Chuck Jones, whenever possible, this force of nature was to be Wile E. Coyote's greatest enemy gravity |
| #5705, aired 2009-05-29 | THE ACADEMY AWARDS: Peter Finch was the first winner of a posthumous Best Actor Oscar; he was first to get 2 posthumous acting nominations James Dean |
| #5701, aired 2009-05-25 | THE ELEMENTS: Once called radium F, this element was named for the homeland of one of its discoverers polonium |
| #5700, aired 2009-05-22 | 20th CENTURY POLITICS: On September 23, 1952 some 60 million people, the largest TV audience to that time, tuned in for this live address the Checkers Speech |
| #5698, aired 2009-05-20 | ENGLISH HISTORY: It was the "they" in the medal issued by Elizabeth I reading, "God breathed and they were scattered" the Spanish Armada |
| #5693, aired 2009-05-13 | THE HISTORY OF FLIGHT: In 1784 these 2 future presidents saw an early manned balloon flight in Paris &, in 1793, America's 1st, in Philadelphia John Adams & Thomas Jefferson |
| #5688, aired 2009-05-06 | WASHINGTON, D.C.: Since 1974, the official residence of this public servant has been at the corner of Massachusetts Avenue & 34th Street the vice president |
| #5685, aired 2009-05-01 | GLAND FINALE: This human gland important in the immune system takes its name in part from its resemblance to an herb the thymus gland |
| #5675, aired 2009-04-17 | BROADWAY HISTORY: On Oct. 30, 2008 Playbill changed its logo color to green for a special edition marking this show's 5th anniversary on Broadway Wicked |
| #5673, aired 2009-04-15 | EXPLORERS: In 1611 Henry Greene led a successful mutiny against this captain, but soon after was killed by Eskimos Henry Hudson |
| #5655, aired 2009-03-20 | CIVIL WAR SITES: Of the 6 Civil War-related national military parks, the northernmost & southernmost are in these 2 states Pennsylvania & Mississippi |
| #5652, aired 2009-03-17 | RIVERS: The name of this river whose lower reaches run through Ghana is from Portuguese for "turn" or "bend" the Volta |
| #5646, aired 2009-03-09 | HISTORIC PEOPLE: The life story of this man who died in 1801 was chronicled in an A&E biography DVD titled "Triumph and Treason" Benedict Arnold |
| #5641, aired 2009-03-02 | FIRST NAMES: This first name of a patron saint of a country comes from a Roman word referring to a social class Patrick |
| #5637, aired 2009-02-24 | AMERICAN NOVELISTS: "What is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after", he wrote in 1932 Ernest Hemingway |
| #5635, aired 2009-02-20 | ANCIENT WORKS: Astronomers used clues in the text of this epic to figure out the date of its archery contest: April 16, 1178 B.C. The Odyssey |
| #5634, aired 2009-02-19 | EXPLORERS: In 1871 he answered, "Yes, and I feel thankful that I am here to welcome you" Dr. Livingstone |
| #5631, aired 2009-02-16 | POP CULTURE: Also the title of one of the best-selling albums of all time, it was first seen in Russian photos taken in 1959 the dark side of the Moon |
| #5629, aired 2009-02-12 | INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS: The Air Force's C-130 "Hurricane Hunters" are the only U.S. military aircraft allowed to enter this country's airspace Cuba |
| #5624, aired 2009-02-05 | AMERICAN FICTION WRITERS: He was also the U.S.'s best-paid sportswriter, with stories of people like Chicago O'Brien & Jack the Bookie Damon Runyon |
| #5616, aired 2009-01-26 | 19th CENTURY POETS: He wrote, "The mason singing... the boatman... the hatter... singing what belongs to him or her and to none else" Walt Whitman |
| #5615, aired 2009-01-23 | MYTHOLOGICAL WORDS & PHRASES: This prized object was the coat of the winged ram that flew Phrixus to safety the Golden Fleece |
| #5614, aired 2009-01-22 | CELEBRITY MARRIAGES: Her 3rd husband won a Best Actor Oscar in the '90s; her 2nd husband, like her dad, is a Rock & Roll Hall of Famer Lisa Marie Presley |
| #5612, aired 2009-01-20 | GEOGRAPHIC PROCESS OF ELIMINATION: This country borders the most "stan"s:
Afghanistan,
Kazakhstan,
Kyrgyzstan,
Tajikistan &
Turkmenistan Uzbekistan |
| #5610, aired 2009-01-16 | CULINARY HISTORY: This fruit dessert was created to celebrate Queen Victoria's decades on the British throne cherries jubilee |
| #5604, aired 2009-01-08 | MUSICAL THEATRE: It opens with a widow & her son arriving by boat from Singapore to accept a job that pays 20 pounds a month The King and I |
| #5599, aired 2009-01-01 | GAMES: In German, this chess piece is "der Springer" the knight |
| #5597, aired 2008-12-30 | POLITICAL ROCK & ROLL: In 2008 John McCain used this 1958 Top 10 hit by Chuck Berry as an anthem for his presidential bid "Johnny B. Goode" |
| #5594, aired 2008-12-25 | THE GRAMMYS: In 1959 the first Grammy for Album of the Year went to the soundtrack composed by Henry Mancini for this TV show Peter Gunn |
| #5592, aired 2008-12-23 | PEOPLES OF THE WORLD: Numbering about 25 million, they're the largest ethnic group in the world with no home nation the Kurds |
| #5590, aired 2008-12-19 | THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE: This country's largest lake shares its name with the country; its second-largest lake has the same name as its capital Nicaragua |
| #5580, aired 2008-12-05 | HISTORIC PROPERTY TRANSACTIONS: On May 15, 1768 France bought this island from Genoa for 2 million livres Corsica |
| #5579, aired 2008-12-04 | COUNTRY NAMES: Some people in this Asian country named for a European king now want to call it by an indigenous name, Maharlika the Philippines |
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David Faber, an anchor and reporter from CNBC's Squawk on the Street and The Faber Report
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"The winner of Emmy, Peabody, DuPont, and Loeb awards, he's a...
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Julie Bowen, a TV and film actress from Boston Legal, Lost and Modern Family
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"For two seasons, she played attorney Denise Bauer in Boston Legal....
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Michael McKean, an actor, writer, and director from This is Spinal Tap, A Mighty Wind, and The Pajama Game
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"His movies have included This is Spinal Tap and A Mighty...
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Mario Cantone, an actor and comedian from Sex and the City
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\"He played Anthony Marentino, the wedding planner with an attitude, on...
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Jim Davis, a college music and humanities instructor from Freeport, Illinois
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Season 25 2-time champion: $62,802 + $2,000. Not be to confused...
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Thomas L. Friedman, an author and foreign affairs columnist from The New York Times
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"He has won three Pulitzer Prizes and authored six best sellers,...
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Aaron Wicks, a planning and evaluation manager from Rochester, New York
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Season 26 1-time champion: $18,001 + 1,000. Aaron Wicks Rochester, NY...
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Cheech Marin, an actor, comedian, director, writer and musician from Lost
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"He's played a cop on Nash Bridges, voiced a 1959 Chevy...
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Francois Dominic Laramée, a writer and TV personality from Verdun, Quebec, Canada
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Season 25 2-time champion: $46,300 + $1,000. Francois's name was printed...
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Rebecca Dixon, a graduate student and musician from Vancouver, Washington
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Season 26 2-time champion: $53,002 + $1,000. Rebecca and her partner...
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Nathaniel Barnes, a composer and bartender from Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Season 25 3-time champion: $57,300 + $2,000. In his first game,...
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Anderson Cooper, a news anchor and correspondent from CNN
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"He anchors his own prime-time news show, a syndicated daytime talk...
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Dr. Mehmet Oz, a cardiac surgeon and TV host from The Dr. Oz Show
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"He is a renowned cardiac surgeon who has written seven New...
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Al Franken, an author and radio talk show host from New York City
|
"One of the original writers on Saturday Night Live, he's done...
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Aisha Tyler, an actress, comedian, author and reality-show host from Archer
|
"In addition to film and TV roles, she performs comedy at...
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Soledad O'Brien, an anchor and special correspondent from CNN's Special Investigations Unit
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"Currently the host of CNN's Special Investigations Unit, she's received critical...
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Hill Harper, an author and actor from CSI: NY
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"As an award-winning author, he's written three New York Times best...
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Diane Wilshere, an actor and playwright from Manassas, Virginia
|
Season 25 1-time champion: $18,801 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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Elizabeth Perkins, an actress from Big and Weeds
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2009 Celebrity Jeopardy! player: $25,000 to the New England Learning Center...
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Christopher Meloni, a star from Law & Order: SVU and HBO's Oz
|
"On TV, he's worked both sides of the law. Once a...
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Diane Siegel, an educational consultant and writer from Northridge, California
|
"A full-time mom when she won five games in 1993, now...
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Justin Hofstetter, a sixth and seventh grade language arts and social studies teacher from Kansas City, Missouri
|
"This sixth and seventh grade teacher is in his first year...
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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, a Basketball Hall of Famer and all-time leading scorer from the NBA
|
"In January, the State Department named this NBA Hall of Famer...
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Chris Matthews, a TV host from Hardball and The Chris Matthews Show
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"He served as a speechwriter for Jimmy Carter, and later as...
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Bob Verini, a film journalist and test prep teacher from Los Angeles, California
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"A resident of New York City when he won the 1987...
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Isaac Mizrahi, a fashion designer and TV personality from the QVC Network
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"His fashion designs are a favorite among celebrities on the red...
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Jane Curtin, an actress from Kate & Allie and 3rd Rock from the Sun
|
"One of Saturday Night Live's original Not Ready for Primetime Players,...
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Harry Shearer, a humorist, Spinal Tap bassist, and voice from The Simpsons
|
"He recently celebrated the 25th anniversary of This Is Spinal Tap...
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Joshua Malina, a TV actor and creator/producer from Celebrity Poker Showdown
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"He created and produced Celebrity Poker Showdown for the Bravo Channel,...
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Scott Turow, a bestselling novelist and practicing attorney from Chicago, Illinois
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"He's sold more than 25 million copies of his novels worldwide...
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Rebecca Lobo, a future Women\'s Basketball Hall of Famer and ESPN analyst originally from the WNBA
|
\"Later this year, she\'ll be inducted into the Women\'s Basketball Hall...
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India Cooper, an actor and copy editor from New York City, New York
|
\"A semifinalist in the Tournament of Champions in 1992, now an...
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Mary Ann Stanley, a high school chemistry and physical science teacher from Statesboro, Georgia
|
"She's been teaching for 22 years and is now teaching the...
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Lizzie O'Leary, an aviation and regulation correspondent from CNN
|
"She broke the news that Chrysler would file for Chapter 11...
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Mark Born, a musician, writer and teacher from Bangkok, Thailand
|
\"He was the top winner of the 1990-91 season. He\'s a...
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Bob Harris, an author, comedian, and radio commentator from Los Angeles, California
|
"A 5-time champion and a finalist in the Tournament of Champions,...
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Paul Gutowski, an alcohol and drug counselor from Rockford, Illinois
|
"He was the first 5-time winner in 1997. An alcohol and...
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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, a Basketball Hall of Famer and all-time leading scorer from the NBA
|
"He's one of the greatest NBA players in history. Here's Hall...
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Chris Matthews, a TV host from Hardball and The Chris Matthews Show
|
"Once a presidential speechwriter, he's had his own political talk show...
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Tom Morris, a substitute teacher and grad student from Irvine, California
|
2009 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 24 4-time champion: $100,801...
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Alan Bailey, a playwright and director from Sherman Oaks, California
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 2003 Tournament...
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Robin Quivers, a radio and television personality from The Howard Stern Show
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"Howard Stern's news anchor and sidekick for the past 28 years,...
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David Gregory, a political analyst and author from CNN and How's Your Faith?
|
"An NBC correspondent and anchor for nearly 20 years, he recently...
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Louie C.K., a comedian, actor, director, writer, and producer from Louie and Horace and Pete
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"This multitalented actor, writer, producer, and director is also the star...
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Larry Cloud, a bookkeeper and computer consultant from Inglewood, California
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"He won five times in 2001, allowing him to make a...
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Russ Schumacher, a graduate student and newlywed from Fort Collins, Colorado
|
"He won the most recent Tournament of Champions. A graduate student...
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Alan Bailey, a playwright and director from North Hills, California
|
"This playwright and director became a 5-time winner in 2001. Today,...
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Harry Shearer, an actor/writer/producer from The Simpsons and Le Show
|
"His many credits include providing voices for The Simpsons, and he's...
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India Cooper, an actor and copy editor from New York, New York
|
\"She became a 5-time champion in 1991. An actor and copy...
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Michael Steele, a political analyst and host from MSNBC and Steele & Ungar
|
"He was elected lieutenant governor of Maryland in 2003, and later...
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Chuck Todd, a political director and host from NBC News and NBC's Meet the Press
|
"He is the political director of NBC News, the host of...
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Rick Knutsen, a musician and stay-at-home dad from Brooklyn, New York
|
"A finalist in the 2001 Tournament of Champions, he's a musician...
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Dave Abbott, a musician and licensing executive from Fort Thomas, Kentucky
|
"He won the 1999 Tournament of Champions. A musician and licensing...
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Steve Robin, a writer and producer from Miami, Florida
|
"He finished second place in the 1991 Tournament of Champions. He's...
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CCH Pounder, an actress from Avatar and Brothers
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"She earned an Emmy nomination for her role as Claudette Wyms...
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Marion Penning, a high school science and history teacher from Baltimore, Maryland
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"She teaches at a Maryland 'green' school that has a solar...
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Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., an attorney and professor from Pace University School of Law
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"A crusading attorney for the environment and a professor at Pace...
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Christine Valada, a photographer and attorney originally from Walton, New York
|
2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $68,703...
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Arthur Chu, a compliance analyst and voiceover artist from Broadview Heights, Ohio
|
2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2014 Tournament of Champions 1st...
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Bill Maher, a comedian and author from Politically Incorrect
|
"A comedian and author, he hosts the lively discussion group called...
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David Sampugnaro, a writer and internet specialist from North White Plains, New York
|
"A 5-time winner from 1996, he's now a writer and internet...
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Anne Boyd, a freelance writer and student from Los Angeles, California
|
2004 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 20 4-time champion: $84,600...
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Jonathan Groff, a writer and producer for television from Los Angeles, California
|
\"A 5-show winner in 1995, he\'s now a writer and producer...
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Jack Archey, an actor and writer from Los Angeles, California
|
"He was a CPA and comedian when he won his 5th...
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Jeremy Bate, an emergency medical technician and writer from Tujunga, California
|
"A second-place finisher in the 2000 Tournament of Champions, he's now...
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Chuck Forrest, a lawyer from Bosnia and Herzegovina
|
2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2014 Battle of the Decades...
|
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Michael Rankins, a minister and writer from Rohnert Park, California
|
\"A 5-show winner from 1988, he has been a minister with...
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Arianna Huffington, a columnist and author from Greetings from the Lincoln Bedroom
|
"In addition to her nationally syndicated column, she's written bestselling biographies...
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Jack Ford, a trial attorney and Emmy Award-winning journalist from the Today show
|
"A successful trial attorney and Emmy Award-winning journalist; he's now the...
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Oliver Stone, a screenwriter and director from A Child's Night Dream
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"The winner of three Academy Awards for his work as a...
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Andrew Westney, a singer and actor from Atlanta, Georgia
|
"In 1991, he won the Teen Tournament. Today, he's a singer...
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Scott Gillispie, a project manager and expectant father from Atlanta, Georgia
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"While attending Georgia Tech, he won the 1991 College Championship. Now...
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Julianna Suchard, a mom and volunteer from Placentia, California
|
Season 27 player (2011-06-21). Wife of Season 21 player and KJL...
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Michael Arnone, a writer and editor from Alexandria, Virginia
|
"He was the largest 1-day winner in the 2000-2001 season. Today...
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Mo Rocca, a correspondent and host from CBS Sunday Morning and My Grandmother's Ravioli
|
"He's a correspondent on CBS Sunday Morning and also the host...
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Vince Gilligan, an executive producer, director, and writer from Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul
|
"This award-winning executive producer, director, and writer created one of the...
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Jeff Kirby, a math and science teacher from Santa Maria, California
|
Season 26 player (2009-10-12). Season 16 player (1999-12-08). Jeff returned to...
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Carol Burnett, an actress, comedienne, and star from stage, screen and television
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"Actress, comedienne, star of stage, screen and television..." Charity: amfAR (American...
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Lisa Peabody, a coffee shop manager and trainer from Las Vegas, Nevada
|
Season 22 player (2006-01-20). In her contestant interview, Lisa said that...
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Erik Larsen, a librarian and a licensed amateur boxing official from Jacksonville, Florida
|
"A 5-time champion from 1990, he's a librarian and a licensed...
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Martina Navratilova, a former tennis pro and novelist originally from Prague, Czechoslovakia
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"With 9, she's won more singles titles at Wimbledon than any...
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Beau Henson, a test prep teacher and actor originally from Mt. Carmel, Illinois
|
Season 28 3-time champion: $51,203 + $2,000. Beau won $250,000 on...
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Fran Frederick, a school counselor and member of the Air National Guard from West Springfield, Massachusetts
|
Season 28 player (2012-06-05). Fran was a sergeant in the Air...
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Bebe Neuwirth, an actress from Frasier and the Broadway revival of Chicago
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"She won two Emmys for playing Dr. Frasier Crane's acerbic wife...
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Ryan Chaffee, a tutor from Los Angeles, California
|
2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $91,900...
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Hans von Walter, a junior from Southern Adventist University from Avon Park, Florida
|
2010-B College Championship 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $25,000 + a...
|
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Lewis Black, a stand-up comedian from Lewis Black's Root of All Evil
|
"With success in films, plays, books, and TV specials, he tours...
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Elza Reeves, a bank teller from Louisville, Kentucky
|
Season 25 1-time champion: $16,400 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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Brian Muth, a headmaster from Napa, California
|
Season 25 2-time champion: $43,800 + $1,000. Last name pronounced like...
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David Skaar, a research scientist from Raleigh, North Carolina
|
Season 25 3-time champion: $102,000 + $2,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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David Hudson, a junior from the University of Virginia
|
"His musical taste has changed since he won $10,000 on Kids...
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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...
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Anjali Tripathi, a senior from MIT
|
"Math and science were her favorite subjects in seventh grade. We're...
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|
Yoni Freund, a Ph.D. student from Columbia University
|
"He has always wanted to be a writer, and now that...
|
|
Mike Maheu, a high school teacher from San Diego, California
|
Season 25 2-time champion: $46,242 + $1,000. Last name pronounced like...
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|
Erin McLean, a sophomore from Boston University from Danvers, Massachusetts
|
2011 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 2010-B College Championship winner:...
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|
Danny Devries, a junior from the University of Michigan
|
2008 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. 21 and from West Bloomfield, MI...
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Suchita Shah, a senior from the University of Wisconsin-Madison
|
2008 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 20 and from Holmen, WI...
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Katie Winter, a senior from Tufts University
|
2008 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 22 and from Hershey, PA at...
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Andrew Chung, a sophomore from Harvey Mudd College
|
2008 College Championship 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $25,000. 20 and...
|
|
Joey Beachum, a senior from Mississippi State University
|
2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2008 College Championship winner: $100,000...
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Brandon Hensley, a sophomore from Caltech
|
2008 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 19 and from Huntington, WV at...
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Danielle Zsenak, a senior from Marquette University
|
2008 College Championship 1st runner-up: $50,000. Last name pronounced like "zshen-NOCK"....
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Olivia Colangelo, a junior from the University of Notre Dame from Murrysville, Pennsylvania
|
2010-B College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
|
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Sid Chandrasekhar, a senior from the University of Pennsylvania from Saratoga, California
|
2010-B College Championship semifinalist: $10,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
|
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Christine Valada, a photographer and attorney originally from Walton, New York
|
2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $68,703...
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Marty Scott, an assistant district attorney from Forney, Texas
|
Season 26 3-time champion: $64,002 + $2,000. Marty won $250,000 on...
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Emily Heaney, a freelance costume designer from White Bear Lake, Minnesota
|
Season 25 1-time champion: $2,200 + $1,000. Last name pronounced like...
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|
Kevin Wilson, a communications specialist from Toronto, Ontario, Canada
|
Season 26 3-time champion: $76,998 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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Ingrid Nelson, a judicial assistant from Lake Mills, Wisconsin
|
Season 25 2-time champion: $27,802 + $2,000. Ingrid Nelson - A...
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Tom Toce, an actuary from New York, New York
|
Season 26 2-time champion: $39,200 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Ariella Goldstein, a junior from Muhlenberg College
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2009 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 20 and from Cortlandt Manor,...
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Larissa Charnsangavej, a senior from Rice University
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2009 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 21 and from Houston, Texas at...
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Greg Lichtenstein, a freshman from Vassar College
|
2009 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. 18 and from Plainview, New York...
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Scott Menke, a senior from Johns Hopkins University
|
2009 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. 21 and from Flemington, New Jersey...
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Laura Myers, a senior from the University of Missouri
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2009 College Championship second runner-up: $29,900. 22 and from Richmond, Virginia...
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Jennifer Duann, a senior from the Ohio State University
|
2009 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 21 and from Worthington, Ohio at...
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Mark Petterson, a senior from the University of Kansas
|
2009 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 21 and from Prairie Village,...
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Lindsay Eanet, a senior from the University of Missouri
|
2010-A College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. Hometown: Deerfield, Illinois. Last name pronounced...
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Alison Stone Roberg, an administrative assistant from Kansas City, Missouri
|
Season 26 3-time champion: $85,102 + $2,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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Dan D'Addario, a senior from Columbia University
|
2010-A College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Hometown: Farmington, Connecticut. Daniel D'Addario...
|
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Nick Yozamp, a junior from Washington University in St. Louis
|
2010 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 2010-A College Championship winner:...
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Robbie Berg, a freshman from the University of Pennsylvania
|
2010-A College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. Hometown: Davie, Florida. Robbie Berg Blog...
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Ryan Stoffers, a sophomore from UCLA
|
2010-A College Championship 1st runner-up: $50,000. Hometown: Saratoga, California. Ryan Stoffers...
|
|
Becky Anderson, a retired software specialist originally from Morganton, North Carolina
|
Season 25 1-time champion: $16,401 + $2,000. Becky Anderson - A...
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Ben Bishop, a student originally from Seattle, Washington
|
2009 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 25 4-time champion: $114,800...
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Stefan Goodreau, a video game tester and camp counselor from Los Angeles, California
|
2010 Tournament of Champions 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $50,000. Season...
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Amanda J. Ray, a sophomore at the University of Virginia from Harrisonburg, Virginia
|
2010-B College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
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|
Steph Gagelin, a sophomore from the University of North Dakota from Grand Forks, North Dakota
|
2010-B College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
|
|
Ellen Eichner, a junior from the Ohio State University from Northbrook, Illinois
|
2010-B College Championship semifinalist: $10,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
|
|
Lea Tottle, a junior from Florida State University from Oldsmar, Florida
|
2010-B College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000 + a Nintendo Wii +...
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|
Jove Graham, a biomedical engineer from Lewisburg, Pennsylvania
|
Season 26 1-time champion: $34,401 + $1,000. Jove's second contestant interview...
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Dave Belote, the base commander from Nellis Air Force Base, Las Vegas
|
2010 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 26 5-time champion:...
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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...
|
|
Dan Pawson, a legislative aide from Boston, Massachusetts
|
2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2014 Battle of the Decades...
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|
Roger Craig, a computer scientist from Newark, Delaware
|
2019 All-Star Games member of wildcard-match 2nd-place Team Austin: a share...
|
|
Cassie Hill, a recent graduate from the University of Mary Washington
|
\"Her dad is a lawyer, and by the seventh grade, she...
|
|
Chris Wallace, a TV host from Fox News Sunday
|
"In March, this Fox News anchor was honored by the National...
|
|
Zach Safford, a senior from Williams College
|
"His early interest in cryptozoology has been replaced by a history...
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|
Lisa Makar, a senior from University of Maryland
|
"As a seventh grader, she was planning a career as a...
|
|
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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|
Max Johansen, a senior from the University of Miami
|
"As a seventh grader, he was planning on a career in...
|
|
Tim Russert, a moderator from Meet the Press
|
"He's the Washington Bureau Chief of NBC News and the longtime...
|
|
Jonathan Hawley, a sophomore from Harvard University
|
2008 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 19 and from Oceanside, CA at...
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Than Hedman, a freshman from University of Colorado-Boulder
|
2008 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 19 and from Denver, CO at...
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James Grant, a junior from Georgetown University
|
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
|
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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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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Paul Kursky, a copywriter from San Francisco, California
|
2011 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 26 5-time champion: $109,411...
|
|
Roger Craig, a graduate student of computer science from Newark, Delaware
|
2019 All-Star Games member of wildcard-match 2nd-place Team Austin: a share...
|
|
Andrew Ceppos, a senior from Tufts University
|
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
|
2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2009 College Championship winner: $100,000...
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Anthony Dedousis, a sophomore from Harvard University
|
2009 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 19 and from Manhasset, New York...
|
|
Eric Betts, a senior from Emory University
|
2009 College Championship first runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $50,000. 21 and...
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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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|
Courtney Trezise, a senior from Michigan State University
|
2009 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 21 and from Okemos, Michigan at...
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Wolf Blitzer, a journalist from The Situation Room
|
"Since 1990, he's covered every major story for CNN, including the...
|
|
Leah Anthony Libresco, a junior from Yale University
|
2010-A College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Hometown: Mineola, New York. Jeopardy!...
|
|
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,...
|
|
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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Enrique Machado, an oil filtration business developer from Orlando, Florida
|
Season 26 1-time champion: $30,799 + $2,000. Enrique Machado September 16,...
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Neil Patrick Harris, an actor from How I Met Your Mother
|
"He's received critical acclaim on Broadway and on TV, and his...
|
|
Lyndsey Romick, a sophomore from Lewis & Clark College
|
2010-A College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. Hometown: Grants Pass, Oregon. Lyndsey Romick...
|
|
Elizabeth Perkins, an actress from Weeds
|
"For the past five seasons, she's played the calculating and manipulative...
|
|
Pat Sajak, a game show host from Wheel of Fortune
|
"A former TV weatherman, he's gone on to become the world's...
|
|
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...
|
|
Kyle Kahan, a senior from Texas A&M University from Houston, Texas
|
2010-B College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000 + a Nintendo Wii +...
|
|
Neil Patrick Harris, an actor from How I Met Your Mother
|
"He's appeared on Broadway in Proof, Assassins, and Cabaret. He's now...
|
|
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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|
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
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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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Vito Cortese, a software engineer and Italian translator from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
|
Season 27 3-time champion: $68,485 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Bruce Naegeli, a retired law librarian from Phoenix, Arizona
|
"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...
|
|
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...
|
|
Dana Delany, an actress from Desperate Housewives
|
"She won two Emmys for her work on China Beach. This...
|
|
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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Will Warren, a senior from the University of Alabama
|
2010-A College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. Hometown: Madison, Alabama. Will Warren Blog...
|
|
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...
|
|
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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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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Mike Marmesh, a veterinarian from Miami, Florida
|
Season 26 1-time champion: $4,700 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
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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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|
Mark Dawson, a business manager from Chamblee, Georgia
|
"In 2003, he became the first to win a quarter of...
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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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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...
|
|
Kelly O'Donnell, a political reporter from NBC News
|
"An Emmy-winning political reporter, she has covered Capitol Hill and the...
|
|
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...
|
|
Rachel "Steve" Cooke, a senior from Fishers, Indiana
|
2008-A Teen Tournament 1st runner-up: $25,000. 17 at the time of...
|
|
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...
|
|
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...
|
|
Kadeem Cooper, a junior from the University of Virginia
|
2009 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 20 and from Brooklyn, New York...
|
|
Rebecca Maxfield, a freshman from Brown University
|
2010-A College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. Hometown: New Rochelle, New York. Rebecca...
|
|
Samira Missaghi, a junior from the University of Minnesota
|
2010-A College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Hometown: Eden Prarie, Minnesota. Samira...
|
|
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...
|
|
Daniel Stauss, a federal claims examiner from Seattle, Washington
|
Season 25 1-time champion: $25,500 + $2,000. Daniel Stauss - A...
|
|
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....
|
|
Grace Thomas, an 11-year-old sixth grader from Raleigh, North Carolina
|
"This captain of the Brain-Bowl team can name all the countries...
|
|
Alex Stambaugh, a 12-year-old from Paris, Kentucky
|
"He feels he can use his talents in math and science...
|
|
Jerome Vered, a writer from Los Angeles, California
|
"The 1-day record of $34,000 he set in 1992 stood for...
|
|
Pam Mueller, an entering law student originally from Chicago, Illinois
|
\"Representing Loyola University, she won the College Championship in November, 2000....
|
|
Rose Schaefer, a junior from Portland, Oregon
|
2012 Teen Tournament 1st runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $36,000. 16 at...
|
|
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...
|
|
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,...
|
|
Steve Greene, a senior from UCLA from Elk Grove, California
|
2010-B College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000 + a Nintendo Wii +...
|
|
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...
|
|
Terry Linwood, a bookseller from North Texas
|
2010 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 26 5-time champion: $122,705...
|
|
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...
|
|
Lisa Klink, a TV writer from Los Angeles, California
|
2009 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 24 5-time champion: $70,150...
|
|
Brian Weikle, a project manager from Minneapolis, Minnesota
|
2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Nifty Nine (players with byes into...
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|
Frank Spangenberg, a police lieutenant from Douglaston, New York
|
2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2005 Ultimate Tournament of...
|
|
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...
|
|
Jimmy Li, a senior from Chesterfield, Missouri
|
2005 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $5,000. 17 at the time of...
|
|
Rowan Spake, from Portland, Oregon
|
"He's interested in nanotechnology and robotics to improve surgery. But getting...
|
|
Ken Jennings, a software engineer from Salt Lake City, Utah
|
2020 Jeopardy!: The Greatest of All Time winner: $1,000,000 + a...
|
|
Ryan Chaffee, a tutor from Los Angeles, California
|
2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $91,900...
|
|
Tom Walsh, a writer from Washington, D.C.
|
2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Nifty Nine (players with byes into...
|
|
David Madden, a student originally from Ridgewood, New Jersey
|
2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament semifinalist: $10,000. 2019 All-Star Games member of...
|
|
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...
|
|
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,...
|
|
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...
|
|
Liz Murphy, a foreign service officer originally from Scranton, Pennsylvania
|
2010 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 25 5-time champion: $121,302...
|
|
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...
|
|
Elijah Granet, a 12-year-old from San Diego, California
|
"Because he loves animals, biology, and helping others, he's thinking of...
|
|
Doug Savant, an actor from Desperate Housewives
|
"He met and then married his wife while both were costarring...
|
|
Laura Button, an editor and proofreader from Alpharetta, Georgia
|
Season 27 1-time champion: $28,800 + $1,000.
|
|
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...
|
|
Brad Rutter, a network administrator from Lancaster, Pennsylvania
|
"The reigning Tournament of Champions winner, he attended Johns Hopkins University...
|
|
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...
|
|
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...
|
|
Larissa Kelly, a grad student from El Cerrito, California
|
2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament semifinalist: $10,000. 2019 All-Star Games member of...
|
|
Patton Oswalt, a Grammy- and Emmy-award-winning comedian from Portsmouth, Virginia
|
\"A Grammy- and Emmy-award-winning comedian from Portsmouth, Virginia, he rose to...
|
|
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.
|
|
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...
|
|
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...
|
|
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...
|
|
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...
|
|
Chuck Forrest, a lawyer and CEO from London, United Kingdom
|
\"He became a winner of the second-ever Tournament of Champions in...
|
|
Pam Mueller, a college student from Wilmette, Illinois
|
2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2019 All-Star Games member of...
|
|
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:...
|
|
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...
|
|
Leslie Decker, a high school German and ESL teacher from Austin, Texas
|
"She taught English to Europeans. Now she teaches German to Americans....
|
|
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
|
|
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...
|
|
Brad Rutter, an actor and producer from Hollywood, California
|
"He was a college student from Lancaster, Pennsylvania, when he won...
|
|
Jack Weisman, a twelve-year-old from Beachwood, Ohio
|
"He's considering becoming a lawyer, just like Mom and Dad. From...
|
|
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...
|
|
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...
|
|
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...
|
|
Jeff Love, a sophomore at Stanford University from Burlingame, California
|
2004 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. Jeff won $1,000 on Who Wants...
|
|
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...
|
|
Emily Riippa, a 12-year-old seventh grader from Grand Rapids, Michigan
|
"She is a fast reader, and her mother says she was...
|
|
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...
|
|
Catherine Ramen, a database developer and writer from New York, New York
|
2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 winner: $44,000. 1998 Tournament...
|
|
Brad Rutter, an actor and producer from Los Angeles, California
|
• Highest all-time winnings (over $4.3 million) • Has never lost...
|
|
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...
|
|
Judd Hess, a high school English teacher from Huntington Beach, California
|
"In college, he volunteered to help in a classroom and was...
|
|
Dave Simpson, a pastor from Belcamp, Maryland
|
2009 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 24 4-time champion:...
|
|
Nate Rice, a high school ACT prep teacher from Catlettsburg, Kentucky
|
"This is his first year in the family business. His mother's...
|
|
Krissy Brzycki, an 11-year-old from Indianapolis, Indiana
|
"Her love of helping her community and her interest in politics...
|
|
Tom Clancy, a bestselling author from The Hunt for Red October
|
"His bestsellers include The Hunt for Red October, Patriot Games, and...
|
|
Silvio Menzano, a psychologist and university counseling center director from Washington, D.C.
|
Season 27 1-time champion: $10,300 + $1,000.
|
|
John Beck, a creative director from Torrance, California
|
"He played in 2003, and was the last retired 5-time champ...
|
|
David Traini, a high school administrator from Moorestown, New Jersey
|
"This 5-time champ finished second in the 1987 Tournament of Champions....
|
|
Ross Gardiner, an 11-year-old sixth grader from La Plata, Maryland
|
"And this self-proclaimed sports fanatic likes all the teams in the...
|
|
Tim Koch, a 12-year-old sixth grader from Cliffwood, New Jersey
|
"He would like to be a teacher because you get to...
|
|
Mark McDonnell, a triathlon coach and entrepreneur from Miami, Florida
|
Season 27 1-time champion: $27,601 + $1,000.
|
|
Elyssa Browning, a junior from St. John's College
|
2009 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 21 and from Austin, Texas at...
|
|
Greg Gumbel, a sportscaster from NBC Sports
|
"He covers baseball, basketball and football for NBC; he hosted the...
|
|
Eddie Kwiatkowski, a 10-year-old from Cumberland, Rhode Island
|
"His interests in presidents and their history could lead to a...
|
|
Terry Parker, a high school history teacher from Cutler Bay, Florida
|
"Don't try to pin down this wrestling coach, history teacher, and...
|
|
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 +...
|
|
Isaac Mizrahi, a fashion designer from the Style Network
|
"Known for bringing high fashion to American women everywhere, and now...
|
|
Michael Rooney, a college professor from Pasadena, California
|
"He was a winner of 5 games in 1999, and is...
|
|
Nicole Tantoco, a 12-year-old from San Ramon, California
|
"She has two simple dreams: to attend Stanford and then become...
|
|
Kristin Frankhouser, a 12-year-old from Baton Rouge, Louisiana
|
"Her future plans include becoming a physical therapist, a wife, and...
|
|
Jake Houser, a 12-year-old seventh grader from Aptos, California
|
"And this straight-A student would like to become a geneticist so...
|
|
Brad Rutter, a network administrator from Lancaster, Pennsylvania
|
2020 Jeopardy!: The Greatest of All Time 2nd runner-up: $250,000. 2019...
|
|
Brad Rutter, a TV quiz show host from Lancaster, Pennsylvania
|
2020 Jeopardy!: The Greatest of All Time 2nd runner-up: $250,000. 2019...
|
|
Tom Walsh, a writer from Washington, D.C.
|
2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Nifty Nine (players with byes into...
|
|
Caitlin Millat, a kindergarten teacher from Brooklyn, New York
|
"She receives support from Teach for America and works for Achievement...
|
|
Viki Radden, a high school English and literacy teacher from Bakersfield, California
|
"She teaches at the largest high school district in California. From...
|
|
Neil Patel, a twelve-year-old from Plano, Texas
|
"He wants to become an environmental scientist and help protect our...
|
|
Jessica Dell'Era, a third grade Spanish bilingual teacher from Oakland, California
|
"She has wanted to be a teacher since she was 7...
|
|
Eddie Huang, a chef and restaurateur from Washington, D.C.
|
"A chef and restaurateur from Washington, D.C., his 2013 memoir was...
|
|
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.
|
|
Kendra Pettis, a junior from Oberlin College
|
\"She hadn\'t settled on a career goal at age 11. Now...
|
|
Emma Miller, from San Mateo, California
|
"She loves the idea of creating art that people can live...
|
|
Neha Rao, from Johns Creek, Georgia
|
"She's hoping to become a teacher and inspire her students in...
|
|
Tyler Van Patten, from Burlington, Wisconsin
|
"He's focusing on becoming a corporate attorney, because of his fascination...
|
|
Tucker Carlson, an author and co-host from Crossfire
|
2004 Power Players Week player (2004-05-10). Charities: American Camping Association &...
|
|
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
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"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
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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
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"He was the winner of the 1992 Tournament of Champions. Today...
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Tom Cubbage, an attorney from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
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"He was the very first College Champion, and the only one...
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Maxwell Baldi, a ten-year-old from Los Angeles, California
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"This future U.S. attorney general has always been interested in the...
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Anissa Chitour, a ten-year-old from Princeton, New Jersey
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"Her extracurricular activities include playing violin, playing field hockey and shopping...
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Liz Maziarz, an English professor and mom from Seattle, Washington
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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
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"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
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"Besides cooking, working on the computer, and tap dancing, she likes...
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Rachel Millena, a 10-year-old from Concord, California
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"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
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"She hosts her own legal analysis program on Headline News and...
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John Kelly, a retired Air Force officer from Austin, Texas
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"In 1992, he was one of the top five money winners...
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Aki Terasaki, an 11-year-old from Newark, Delaware
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"This future millionaire would like to be a professional writer and...
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Sean Ryan, a graduate student from Whitehall, Pennsylvania
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Nifty Nine (players with byes into...
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Chris Miller, a retail specialist from Louisville, Kentucky
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Elite Eighteen (Round 2 winners) and...
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Chris Miller, a retail specialist from Louisville, Kentucky
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"In 2004, he became a 5-time champion, and for Halloween, dressed...
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Mallory Banks, from Summerville, South Carolina
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"And this future physicist loves figuring out the underlying components of...
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Josh Klein, a 12-year-old seventh grader from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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"And, his favorite subjects in school are math, social studies, and...
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Richard Cordray, the head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau from Grove City, Ohio and Washington, D.C.
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\"He had just graduated from law school and was clerking for...
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India Cooper, an actor and copy editor originally from Denver, New York
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2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2005 Ultimate Tournament of...
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India Cooper, an actor and copy editor originally from Denver, Colorado
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2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2005 Ultimate Tournament of...
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India Cooper, an actor and copy editor originally from Denver, Colorado
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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
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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
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"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
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"Originally she wanted to do anything but teach. Well, she's been...
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Hunter Brown, a senior from Wheaton, Illinois
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2008-A Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 17 at the time of...
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Courtney Jones, a 12-year-old from Largo, Maryland
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"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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Oliver North, a radio talk show host from the Oliver North radio show
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"A combat-decorated Marine who now hosts a nationally syndicated radio talk...
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Dominic Clust, from Metairie, Louisiana
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"This future lawyer likes to argue and he's good at it....
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Wolf Blitzer, a reporter from CNN
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"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
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"He won both the 1989 Teen Tournament and the 1998 Teen...
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Matt Tick, from Escondido, California
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"Will take violin lessons and loves science, but he really wants...
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Thomas Horn, a twelve-year-old from Piedmont, California
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"He plans on making the world a better place as an...
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Madison Ball, from Montgomery, Texas
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"He loves to design and build things, and that's why becoming...
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Theodora Messalas, an 11-year-old sixth grader from Brooklyn, New York
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"This future author and illustrator placed second in a regional story-telling...
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Adam Villani, an engineer from Long Beach, California
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Season 21 player (2004-10-27). KJL game 61. Adam won $80,000 on...
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Michelle Chang, an 11-year-old from Suwanee, Georgia
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"This sixth grader picks the most unusual places to lose her...
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Holly Flynn, an 11-year-old from Holmes, Pennsylvania
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"She started performing in community theatre when she was just 4...
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Zane Li, a ten-year-old from Provo, Utah
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"He's a chess champion and a two-time Geography Bee winner..." 2002...
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Laura DiSilverio, a retired Air Force officer and writer from Colorado Springs, Colorado
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Season 25 player (2009-05-20).
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Tommy Hoyt, from Winnetka, Illinois
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"Journalism may very well be in his future as he feels...
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Mehrun Etebari, a grad student from Durham, New Hampshire
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2007 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD Home...
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Kim Worth, a waiter and writer from Venice, California
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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
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"As an MBA Student, he won 5 games in 1985. Today...
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Wendy Kautz, a stay-at-home mom and online college professor from Helena, Alabama
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Season 22 player (2006-01-24).
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Edward Lee, a 12-year-old seventh grader from Sacramento, California
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"Of the numerous projects he has completed, making gliders and bottle...
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Neha Gokhale, a 10-year-old from Houston, Texas
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"Because she liked 4th and 5th grade so much, she wants...
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Kim Worth, a freelance writer and stand-up comedian from Venice, California
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1998 Tournament of Champions 1st runner-up: $15,000. Season 13 4-time champion:...
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Brad Williams, a reporter and writer from La Crosse, Wisconsin
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Season 6 player (1990-06-01). Brad is well-known as one of the...
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Megan Fraedrich, a 12-year-old seventh grader from Springfield, Virginia
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"And she was recently an evil stepsister in a performance of...
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Joe Kohake, from Florence, Kentucky
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"Golf, piano, and euphonium lessons are just a few of his...
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Sean Ryan, a cab driver from State College, Pennsylvania
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Nifty Nine (players with byes into...
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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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Sharon Warner, a retired teacher and writer from Chicago, Illinois
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Season 30 player (2013-10-21).
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Nathan Berger, a restaurateur and sommelier from South Portland, Maine
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Season 36 1-time champion: $11,999 + $1,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Grafton Brown, a high school Spanish teacher from Chicago, Illinois
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"He teaches at a school whose buildings are named in honor...
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Dave Simpson, a pastor from Belcamp, Maryland
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2009 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 24 4-time champion:...
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Matt Harriss, a tire and lube technician from Clemson, South Carolina
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Season 28 player (2011-12-14).
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Judy Arginteanu, a freelance writer and editor from Minneapolis, Minnesota
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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
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Season 27 player (2011-07-20).
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B.D. Schwarz, a twelve-year-old from Oakland, California
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"He wants to make others happy by opening a little game...
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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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Penn Jillette, a magician and illusionist from Las Vegas
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\"Known for his outrageous blend of magic and comedy, his act...
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Bonnie Schiffer, a writer and actress from New York City, New York
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Season 3 player (1986-12-29). Bonnie won 3 games and over $12,100...
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Tom Kunzen, a geotechnical engineer from Orlando, Florida
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2011 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 27 5-time champion: $133,402...
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Stephanie Smith, a retired quality engineer and manager from Scarborough, Maine
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Season 22 player (2006-05-04). Not to be confused with Season 1...
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Dawn Owens-Nicholson, a data and statistics consultant from Champaign, Illinois
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Season 29 player (2013-07-11).
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Bryan Givens, a history lecturer originally from Dallas, Texas
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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
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Season 28 player (2012-01-18).
JBoard user name: debramc
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Amy Ruberg, a college and career consultant from Batesville, Indiana
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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
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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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Mark Singer, an attorney and Sunday school teacher from Los Angeles, California
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Season 1 2-time champion: $7,350. Mark was introduced as \"an attorney...
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Pat Schroeder, a former congresswoman from the Association of American Publishers
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"Former congresswoman, member of the Women's Hall of Fame and current...
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Robin Kutner, from Newtown, Pennsylvania
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"This member of jazz band has a cat that is the...
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Al Franken, an author and comedian from Lateline
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"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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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[As Chris is introduced, a clip of The Chris Matthews Show...
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Gigi Gilman, a homemaker and attorney from Seattle, Washington
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Season 22 1-time champion: $13,000 + $1,000. Gigi's actual first name...
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Beth Klein, a mom and assistant editor from Boynton Beach, Florida
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Season 22 player (2005-12-09).
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Bob Mesko, an arts administrator from Denver, Colorado
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2006 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 22 5-time champion:...
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Devin Landin, a student from Yorktown, New York
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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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Pat Pauken, an attorney and doctoral candidate 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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Mark Dawson, a writer and editor for the Honda Campus All-Star Challenge from Chamblee, Georgia
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"He was a business manager when he won the Tournament of...
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Dave Abbott, a musician and licensing executive from Fort Thomas, Kentucky
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"He was a musician and transactions lawyer when he won the...
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Robin Carroll, an instructional designer and curriculum developer from Atlanta, Georgia
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"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
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Season 31 1-time champion: $11,800 + $2,000.
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Vivian Lappenbusch, a twelve-year-old from Seattle, Washington
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"She finds other people's stories and cultures fascinating, so anthropology is...
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Alan Bailey, a playwright and director from Sherman Oaks, California
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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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Will Walters, a twelve-year-old from Lexington, Kentucky
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"He wants to follow in the footsteps of his idols, Albert...
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Kyle Ziemnick, an eleven-year-old from Purcellville, Virginia
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"He likes logical arguments and debates, so would like to be...
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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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Suzanne Reeve, a graduate student and research assistant from Redmond, Washington
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Season 21 player (2005-01-14).
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Laurie Genevro Cole, an adjunct professor and town council member from Vienna, Virginia
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Season 21 1-time champion: $19,000 + $2,000.
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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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Dylan Payne, a psychiatrist from New York, New York
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Season 27 player (2010-10-11). Husband of Season 25 4-time champion and...
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Josh Charnin-Aker, a twelve-year-old from Lighthouse Point, Florida
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"And, whether in neonatology or as a Navy SEAL, he plans...
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Nicole Savin, an eleven-year-old from Lindenhurst, New York
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"This little 4'4" New York Yankees fan and her friends started...
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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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Cynthia Rowley, a designer from Project Runway and Design Star
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"Seen by TV viewers on shows such as Project Runway and...
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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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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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Monica Butler, a costumer and mom from Madison, Wisconsin
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Season 25 player (2009-04-16).
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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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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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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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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
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Season 25 player (2009-02-11).
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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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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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Laurie Parker, a writer and editor from Franklin, Tennessee
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Season 21 player (2005-07-18).
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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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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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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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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 + $2,000.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Mattea Roach, a writer and podcaster from Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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2023 Jeopardy! Masters 2nd place player: $250,000. 2022 Tournament of Champions...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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2019 All-Star Games member of first-eliminated Team Julia: a share of...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Erin Schmidt, a freelance writer and editor from Mishawaka, Indiana
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Season 29 player (2013-03-04).
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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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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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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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Leslie Hamilton, a teacher and swim coach from Erlanger, Kentucky
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Season 28 player (2011-12-16).
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Christine Janson, a freelance writer and editor from Frederick, Maryland
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Season 27 player (2011-07-19).
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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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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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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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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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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).
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Andrew Dobbs, a community organizer and writer from Austin, Texas
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Season 27 player (2011-06-23).
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Matt Johnson, a baker and philosophy instructor from Lancaster, Pennsylvania
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Season 28 player (2012-04-24).
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Guy Wilson, a football coach and tutor from Leesburg, Florida
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Season 30 player (2014-06-04).
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Chris Grinvalds, a high school history teacher and coach from Bennington, Nebraska
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2014 Teachers Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. Chris taught world history and computer...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Grant Colvin, a bookseller and trivia host from Arnold, Maryland
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Season 26 player (2010-06-24).
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Richard Sautter, an actor and writer from Radnor, Pennsylvania
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Season 20 player (2004-04-26).
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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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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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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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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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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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Graham Norris, an actor and writer originally from Berkeley, California
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Season 26 player (2010-02-24).
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Kristine Beck, a receptionist and editor from Madison, Wisconsin
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Season 20 player (2004-04-13).
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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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Lynn Stanton, a reporter and editor from Silver Spring, Maryland
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Season 20 player (2004-04-12).
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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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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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Gene Beed, a pediatrician and professional moderator from Irvine, California
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Season 26 player (2010-07-20).
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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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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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Diana Wynne, a writer and producer from San Francisco, California
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Season 20 player (2004-04-07).
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Mark Lock, an attorney and privacy consultant from Detroit, Michigan
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Season 25 player (2009-03-26).
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Phil Cunneff, a musician and teacher from Baltimore, Maryland
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Season 23 player (2007-05-30).
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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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Connie Toohey, a financial secretary and bartender from Solomons, Maryland
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Season 23 player (2006-10-31).
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Adam Blau, a composer and musician from Los Angeles, California
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Season 24 player (2007-09-19).
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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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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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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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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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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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Jennifer Burrus, a homemaker and substitute teacher from Leawood, Kansas
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Season 21 player (2005-07-14).
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Joseph Graumann, a junior from Mays Landing, New Jersey
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2006 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Roger Mueller-Kim, a high school social studies teacher from Dublin, California
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Season 27 1-time champion: $17,401 + $1,000.
Last name pronounced like "MULL-er KIM".
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Fred Cofone, a copy editor from Old Greenwich, Connecticut
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Season 27 2-time champion: $24,400 + $2,000.
Last name pronounced like "kuh-FONE".
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Amanda Walker, a junior at Gonzaga University from East Wenatchee, Washington
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2005 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user name:...
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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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Elliot Shteir, an attorney from Somerville, New Jersey
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1995-A Seniors Tournament 1st runner-up: $10,000. Dr. Elliot Shteir won $8,230...
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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
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"He's interviewed such diverse personalities as Fidel Castro, Pope John Paul...
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Keith Olbermann, a news anchor from MSNBC
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"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°
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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
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2004 Power Players Week player (2004-05-10).
Charity: Sidwell Friends School.
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Peggy Noonan, a contributing editor from The Wall Street Journal
|
2004 Power Players Week player (2004-05-10).
Charity: The Sisters of Life.
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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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Andrew Nerlinger, a senior at the University of Notre Dame from Wilmington, Delaware
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2001 College Championship quarterfinalist: $2,500. Andrew was 21 at the time...
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Bernard Holloway, a junior from Mitchellville, Maryland
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 2002 Teen...
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Allie Pape, a sophomore from Ponte Vedra, Florida
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2002 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500. Allie was 14 at the time...
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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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Ken Jennings, a writer from Seattle, Washington
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"He was a software engineer living in Salt Lake City, Utah,...
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Mysti Kofford, a junior at Boston University from New Orleans, Louisiana
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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
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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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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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Rachel Rothenberg, a senior from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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2009 Teen Tournament winner (semifinalist by wildcard): $75,000. Jeopardy! Message Board...
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Craig Barker, an Advanced Placement history teacher from Livonia, Michigan
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"In 1997 he won the College Championship. Today he's an Advanced...
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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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Emily Jusino, a Ph.D. candidate in Greek literature originally from Fredericksburg, Virginia
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Season 27 1-time champion: $18,801 + $1,000.
Last name pronouned like "hoo-SEE-no".
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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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Stephen Weingarten, a stay-at-home dad 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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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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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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James Hill III, a freshman from Santa Clara University
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2010-A College championship semifinalist: $10,000. Hometown: San Jose, California. [No contestant...
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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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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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Christian Haines, a college student originally from Newport News, Virginia
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2007 Tournament of champions semifinalist: $10,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD Home...
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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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Aaron Schroeder, a grad student from San Diego, California
|
2009 Tournament of Champions second runner-up: $50,000. Season 24 5-time champion:...
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Mark Wales, a substitute teacher from Amherst, New York
|
2009 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 24 5-time champion: $141,804...
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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
|
"All the students at her school go on a camping trip...
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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
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2006 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
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Christina Maes, a senior at the University of Wisconsin - Green Bay from Green Bay, Wisconsin
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2004 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000.
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Brad Selvig, a sophomore at Florida State from Jacksonville, Florida
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2004 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000.
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Ken Jennings, a software engineer from Salt Lake City, Utah
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2020 Jeopardy!: The Greatest of All Time winner: $1,000,000 + a...
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Eric Newhouse, a director of technical assistance from Sioux City, Iowa
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Nifty Nine (players with byes into...
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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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Ben Lyon, an industrial scaleman from Dallas, Texas
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"Representing the University of Oklahoma, he won the 1995 College Championship....
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Katie James, a sophomore from Winchester, Virginia
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2006 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
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Matt Klein, a senior from Pittsford, New York
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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
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2006 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. According to the official Jeopardy! web...
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Mike Thayer, a mathematics teacher from North Plainfield, New Jersey
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"He was a junior at Rutgers University when he won the...
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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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Whitney Prince, a sophomore from Maryville, Tennessee
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2005 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500.
15 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Orlando Zambrano, a junior from Tampa, Florida
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2005 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $5,000.
16 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Chloé White, a senior from Mission Hills, Kansas
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2005 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500.
17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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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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Leslie Frates, a Spanish teacher from Hayward, California
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\"A Jeopardy! champion in 1991, she\'s now a Spanish teacher listed...
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Sally Umbach, a third grade special education teacher from Cincinnati, Ohio
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"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
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"He teaches at one of the most selective high schools in...
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Drew Joanides, a high school history teacher from Miami, Florida
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"He is one of our four teachers competing in our tournament...
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Kate Wilson, a high school AP English teacher from Montgomery, Alabama
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"She is a top-10 AP English language teacher at Alabama's number-one...
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Jay Schrader, a junior from Lexington, Kentucky
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2008-B Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000. Older brother of 2012 Teen Tournament...
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Catherine Whitten, a high school history teacher from Plano, Texas
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"This gifted teacher primarily teaches gifted students. From Plano, Texas, this...
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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: $83,401 + $2,000.
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Sarah Bart, a senior at Goucher College from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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2012 College Championship 1st runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $50,000. 22 at...
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Connie Shi, a junior at the University of Michigan from Okemos, Michigan
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2012 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000.
19 at the time of the College Championship.
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Melanie Bruchet, a senior from Bryn Mawr
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"Everyone wants to be an astronaut when they're a kid, but...
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Kate Rowland, a family doctor from Chicago, Illinois
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Season 27 1-time champion: $16,401 + $2,000.
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Eliza Urban, a sophomore from Richmond, Virginia
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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
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2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2005 Ultimate Tournament of...
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Andy Kravis, a freshman from Farmington Hills, Michigan
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2002 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $5,000. Andy was 13 at the...
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George Nelson, a senior from Montgomery, Alabama
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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
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 2001 Tournament...
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Babu Srinivasan, a history professor from Houston, Texas
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2006 Tournament of Champions...
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Hema Karunakaram, a senior from Saline, Michigan
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2009 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000. Name pronounced like "HAY-ma kah-ROO-nuh-KAH-ram". Jeopardy!...
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Bob Fleenor, a newspaper copy editor from Martinsburg, West Virginia
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"Legislative work in his home state was suspended so that lawmakers...
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Robert Slaven, a technical products specialist originally from Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada
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"He won 5 times in 1992. Today, he's a technical products...
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Kennedy Stomps, a junior from St. Louis, Missouri
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2009 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
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Arthur Phillips, an author from Brooklyn, New York
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"He was a speechwriter from Boston when he won five shows...
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Leslie Frates, a Spanish teacher from Hayward, California
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"A Jeopardy! tournament veteran, her best-known Jeopardy! appearance may be in...
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Carl Brandt, an investor originally from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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2009 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Season 25 4-time champion: $70,799 + $2,000.
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Russ Porter, a water systems engineer from Seattle, Washington
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Season 27 1-time champion: $20,001 + $2,000.
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Andrea Michaels, a freelance writer from Los Angeles, California
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Season 4 player (1988-07-05): Gibson's Keytek professional keyboard + a Krayco...
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Joel Knight, a freshman from Farmington, Michigan
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2003 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500.
14 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Steve Gratz, a freelance artist from Washington, D.C.
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Season 27 2-time champion: $30,999 + $1,000.
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Genaro Lopez, a contract administrator from Portland, Oregon
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Season 27 1-time champion: $29,001 + $2,000.
First name pronounced like "heh-NAR-o".
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Sara Terrell, a veterinary technician from Windsor, Connecticut
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2007 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD Home...
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Jonathan Corbblah, a chess teacher from Harlem, New York
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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
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Season 27 1-time champion: $4,199 + $2,000.
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Marshall Flores, a senior from Arizona State University from Avondale, Arizona
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2010-B College Championship semifinalist: $10,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
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Francesca Leibowitz, a fifth grade English teacher from Brooklyn, New York
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"She teaches at a school that opened in 1854. From Brooklyn...
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Sam Waterston, an actor from Law & Order
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"A Best Actor Oscar nominee for The Killing Fields, he's now...
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Curt Schilling, a pitcher from the Boston Red Sox
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"In helping the Red Sox to win the 2004 World Series,...
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Carson Kressley, a fashion maven from Queer Eye for the Straight Guy
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"This star of TV's Queer Eye for the Straight Guy says...
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Amy Varallo, a senior from Aiken, South Carolina
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2007 Teen Tournament Summer Games quarterfinalist: $5,000. 17 at the time...
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Amy Levine, a freshman from North Potomac, Maryland
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2007 Teen Tournament Summer Games quarterfinalist: $5,000. 15 at the time...
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Greg Peterson, a senior from Park Ridge, Illinois
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2007 Teen Tournament Summer Games 1st runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $38,600....
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Andy Hutchins, a senior from Rockledge, Florida
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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
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"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
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"He's in math honors this year, even though math is one...
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Josh Lacey, a 10-year-old from Ellicott City, Maryland
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"The International Olympic Committee does such good work, he would like...
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Allyson Lieberman, a 12-year-old from Whitmore Lake, Michigan
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"Since she was little, she has truly loved to act. Broadway,...
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Sebastian Johnson, a senior from Takoma Park, Maryland
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2006 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Listed as "Sebi" on the...
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Steve Newman, a partner in a small computer company from Rockville, Maryland
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"He was the first player to win 5 games in the...
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Lily Wang, a junior at Columbia University from Plano, Texas
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2004 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000.
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Casey Retterer, a sophomore at the University of Maryland from Olney, Maryland
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2004 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
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Laura Ansley, a senior from Twinsburg, Ohio
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2006 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
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Andrew Garen, an associate director of consumer marketing from Austin, Texas
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"He was a project manager when he won his 5 shows...
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Allison Peña, a junior from Sunrise, Florida
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2006 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
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Lee Lassiter, a data modeler from Topeka, Kansas
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"A 5-time winner from 2000, he used his winnings to take...
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Kenny Schlax, a junior from Deerfield, Illinois
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2006 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Listed as "Kenneth" on the official web site.
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Bob Fleenor, a newspaper copy editor from Martinsburg, West Virginia
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 2001 Tournament...
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Allan Long, a freshman from Tallahassee, Florida
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2005 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500. 14 at the time of the...
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Christopher Weis, a sophomore from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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2008-B Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. Last name pronounced like "WISE". Jeopardy!...
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Matt Olson, a sophomore at Stanford University from Berkeley, California
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2012 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. 20 at the time of the...
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Evan Eschliman, a sophomore from Olathe, Kansas
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2012 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000.
16 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Morgan Flood, a junior from Pequea, Pennsylvania
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2012 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Ben Greenho, a junior from Plano, Texas
|
2012 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000.
17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Raphie Cantor, a sophomore from San Diego, California
|
2011 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
15 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Brad Rutter, a $3.2-million winner from Los Angeles, California
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"In 2000, he became a 5-time champion and went on to...
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Cliff Galiher, a sophomore from UCLA
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2007 Tournament of Champions 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $50,000 +...
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Frank Firke, a junior from Chicago, Illinois
|
2007 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 16 at the time of...
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Jeffrey Gerlomes, a freshman from Napa, California
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2007 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
14 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Ari Fleischer, a former White House Press Secretary from the current Bush administration
|
"For the first two years of the current Bush administration, he...
|
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Kristin Briggs, a senior from Parkland, Florida
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2007 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Matt Schnippert, a sophomore at Florida State University from Jacksonville, Florida
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2001 College Championship 1st runner-up: $19,801. Matt was 19 at the...
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Cathy Lanctot, a law professor from Wilmington, Delaware
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2007 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD Home...
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Aaron Thompson, a special assistant from Washington, D.C.
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2006 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 21 3-time champion:...
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Aman Birk, from Irvine, California
|
"He may not be the fastest swimmer on the team, but...
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Bill Dickenson, a college instructor from Richardson, Texas
|
"This 5-time champ from 1996 has taught students from over 100...
|
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Lan Djang, a health policy analyst from Toronto, Ontario, Canada
|
"He was a 5-time champion in 2001. Today he's a health...
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Billy Baxter, an attorney from Richmond, Virginia
|
"Representing the College of William & Mary, he won the 1992...
|
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Steven Milton, a legal case assistant from San Diego, California
|
Season 26 2-time champion: $30,299 + $1,000. Steve Milton San Diego,...
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Jim Scott, an attorney from Arlington, Virginia
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"He was a legal assistant living near D.C. when he won...
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Dave Belote, a recently retired base commander from Woodbridge, Virginia
|
2010 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 26 5-time champion:...
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Lisa Dvorak, a grocery store chain administrative assistant from Millersville, Maryland
|
Season 27 1-time champion: $31,201 + $2,000.
|
|
Tom Jennings, a maintenance mechanic from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
|
Season 27 1-time champion: $24,000 + $2,000.
|
|
Tara Karr, a senior from Laclede, Idaho
|
2003 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $5,000.
17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
|
|
Amanda Sonmor, a virtual assistant originally from Denver, Colorado
|
Season 27 2-time champion: $21,501 + $1,000.
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Ashley Walker, a senior from Dartmouth College
|
2010-A College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. Hometown: Fort Pierce, Florida. [No contestant...
|
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Christine Kennedy, a freshman from the University of Notre Dame
|
2007 College Championship 2nd runner-up: $25,000. 19 at the time of...
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Diana North, a first grade teacher from Rock Hill, South Carolina
|
"She recently celebrated her silver anniversary of teaching. From Rock Hill,...
|
|
Kriti Gandhi, a senior from Ellicott City, Maryland
|
2007 Teen Tournament Summer Games semifinalist: $10,000. 18 at the time...
|
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Steve Schirripa, an actor from The Sopranos
|
"Once the entertainment director at the Riviera Hotel in Las Vegas,...
|
|
Dan Amboy, a 12-year-old from Lapeer, Michigan
|
"He hopes to get into the best college that he can....
|
|
David Hoffelmeyer, a senior from St. Joseph, Missouri
|
2006 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000.
|
|
Papa Chakravarthy, a sophomore from Lexington, Kentucky
|
2006 Teen Tournament champion: $75,000.
|
|
Michael Braun, a junior from Silver Spring, Maryland
|
2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 2005 Teen...
|
|
John Beck, an associate creative director from Torrance, California
|
2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 winner: $29,000. 2004 Tournament...
|
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Dan Ford, an editor from Arlington, Virginia
|
Season 21 player (2004-11-24). KJL game 71. Dan resides in Tysons...
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Jay Rosenberg, a college professor from Chapel Hill, North Carolina
|
\"After winning 5 times in 1985, he became the moderator for...
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Larry DeMoss, a high school English teacher from Ellettsville, Indiana
|
"He went from short orders to short stories when he switched...
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