| #9089, aired 2024-04-25 | ASSAULTS & BATTERIES $1000: A 2019 book recounts "Pickett's Charge and" this: "The History & Legacy of the 19th Century's Most Famous Doomed Assaults" the Charge of the Light Brigade |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #8884, aired 2023-06-01 | SECOND BOOK IN THE SERIES $400: "A Clash of Kings" A Song of Ice and Fire |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #8647, aired 2022-05-24 | WE DO TALK ABOUT BRUNO $1600: "Sylvie and Bruno" was a dreamy 1889 children's book by this Brit who was comfortable with fantasy worlds Lewis Carroll |
| #8627, aired 2022-04-26 | ____, ____ & ____ $4,000 (Daily Double): These items were tolled, closed & extinguished in an old Catholic ceremony bell, book & candle |
| #8625, aired 2022-04-22 | WHINE $2000: Of the "dunces" in a 1980 book, this hero says, "I mingle with my peers or no one, and since I have no peers, I mingle with no one" Ignatius J. Reilly |
| #8620, aired 2022-04-15 | IN THE ZOOM ROOM $1000: A Bible study group will have a lively discussion of this book that says, "I am Alpha and Omega" twice in its first chapter the Book of Revelation |
| #8601, aired 2022-03-21 | PICTURE/BOOK $1000: A first novel dealing with the Second World War The Naked and the Dead |
| #8591, aired 2022-03-07 | FROM BOOK TO TV $1,000 (Daily Double): A nonfiction book subtitled "The Birth, High Times, and Corruption of Atlantic City" inspired this HBO series Boardwalk Empire |
| #8569, aired 2022-02-03 | MASHED-UP BOOK TITLES $200: "Horton Hears a Ham" Horton Hears a Who! & Green Eggs and Ham |
| #8567, aired 2022-02-01 | 5 RANDOM THINGS $800: This book after Exodus: "All that have not fins and scales in the seas... be an abomination unto you", so eating lobster? A no-go Leviticus |
| #8567, aired 2022-02-01 | READ IT OR EAT IT? $2000: Just after World War II, a woman learns of a group of book lovers on one of the Channel Islands The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society |
| #8555, aired 2022-01-14 | CENTENARIANS $1200: This children's author (1916-2021) won a National Book Award for "Ramona and Her Mother" Beverly Cleary |
| #8547, aired 2022-01-04 | WATERLOGGED READING $1000: Overmatched Capt. Jack Aubrey & Dr. Stephen Maturin take on a Spanish frigate in this 1st Patrick O'Brian book in a series Master and Commander |
| #8540, aired 2021-12-24 | NOVELS & NOVELISTS $1600: Janie, the 40ish heroine of this book by Zora Neale Hurston, sees her life as a tree with "dawn and doom" in the branches Their Eyes Were Watching God |
| #8522, aired 2021-11-30 | A SWEET READ $200: A Rupi Kaur book of poetry is titled "Milk and" this, often paired in the Bible Honey |
| #8512, aired 2021-11-16 | BOOK TITLES EN FRANCAIS $400: A classic: "Le vieil homme et la mer" The Old Man and the Sea |
| #8512, aired 2021-11-16 | BOOK TITLES EN FRANCAIS $1000: A book for the entire galaxy: "Salut, et encore merci pour le poisson" So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish |
| #8481, aired 2021-10-04 | 4-LETTER BOOK TITLES $400: In Chapter One of this book, "a great fish" severs a woman's femoral artery, the blood now "a beacon... clear and true" Jaws |
| #8480, aired 2021-10-01 | THAT'S A BIG BOOK $6,000 (Daily Double): "Of man's first disobedience, and the fruit" is the first of this poem's more than 10,000 lines Paradise Lost |
| #8462, aired 2021-08-10 | BOOKS FOR KIDS $200: This book asks, "Would you eat them in a box? Would you eat them with a fox?" Green Eggs and Ham |
| #8424, aired 2021-06-17 | DID YOU READ... $800: ... About Daphne working with the Duke of Hastings in "The Duke and I", the first in this book series, now a Netflix fave the Bridgerton series |
| #8424, aired 2021-06-17 | DID YOU READ... $3,000 (Daily Double): ... This book by Mark Bowden chronicling a savage firefight in Somalia in 1993 Black Hawk Down |
| #8421, aired 2021-06-14 | TIME LINES $1,500 (Daily Double): This book of the Bible mentions "a time to weep, a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance" Ecclesiastes |
| #8419, aired 2021-06-10 | 15 LOVE $200: In a 2003 book this 15-year-old could have "counted the freckles on" Cho Chang's nose as she steals a kiss from him Harry Potter |
| #8392, aired 2021-05-04 | THE WITCH IS DEAD $400: In a Roald Dahl book, the title witches get "smashed and bashed and chopped up" after being turned into these creatures mice |
| #8392, aired 2021-05-04 | THE WITCH IS DEAD $1000: A death eater & dark witch, Bellatrix Lestrange killed Dobby before being killed herself by Molly Weasley in this book Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows |
| #8390, aired 2021-04-30 | AFRICAN AMERICAN MEMOIRS $1000: Framed as a letter to his son, "Between" these 2 things won Ta-Nehisi Coates a National Book Award the World and Me |
| #8388, aired 2021-04-28 | AUTHORS NOT GOING PLACES $2,000 (Daily Double): Bram Stoker consulted the 1865 book this region: "Its Products and Its People" to write about a place he never went Transylvania |
| #8380, aired 2021-04-16 | DIETARY MATTERS $800: Miami M.D. Arthur Agatston wrote this book with a "plan for fast and healthy weight loss" The South Beach Diet |
| #8346, aired 2021-03-01 | AUTHORS' ROAD TRIPS $800: A bestseller ensued when Robert M. Pirsig used this transport for a 1968 journey with his son, doing his own maintenance a motorcycle |
| #8341, aired 2021-02-22 | THERE'S A BOOK IN MY MOVIE $600: In this film that's near & dear to us, Rosie Perez reads the World Almanac to study for "Jeopardy!" White Men Can't Jump |
| #8332, aired 2021-02-09 | NONFICTION $400: A surprise 2020 bestseller, "The Book of" these fish admits, "they're slimy and slithery, look like snakes..." eels |
| #8327, aired 2021-02-02 | AMERICAN NAMES $400: Linus Pauling wrote a bestselling book called this vitamin "and the Common Cold" vitamin C |
| #8277, aired 2020-11-10 | MARIAH CAREY $400: (Mariah Carey presents the clue.) In 2019, I made a festive new video for this holiday song--the "Make My Wish Come True" edition "All I Want For Christmas Is You' |
| #8267, aired 2020-10-27 | THE BOOK OF JOB $400: Louise Fitzhugh:
"Harriet the ____" Spy |
| #8251, aired 2020-10-05 | LETTERS FROM AUTHORS $400: Describing a book he was writing in 1881: "it's all about a map, and a treasure, and a mutiny, and a derelict ship" Robert Louis Stevenson |
| #8250, aired 2020-10-02 | SELF-HELP BOOKS $1600: Buying a $50 item marked down to $10 isn't saving 40; it's spending 10, points out a book punningly titled "Dollars and" this Sense |
| #8245, aired 2020-09-25 | FLICK OF SEAGULLS $800: Seagulls eat a lot of Paul Rudd's flying transports in this 2018 comic book sequel Ant-Man and the Wasp |
| #8242, aired 2020-09-22 | 3 Ns $800: In 2019, for her book "Amity and Prosperity", Eliza Griswold won a Pulitzer Prize for general this nonfiction |
| #8230, aired 2020-06-05 | PUBLISHERS $3,400 (Daily Double): The name of this publisher known for its book fairs is a word meaning "related to education" Scholastic |
| #8221, aired 2020-05-25 | SAYETH THE BIBLE $600: "Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy... for the time is at hand" is in this Bible book Revelation |
| #8200, aired 2020-04-10 | LITERARY GENRES $400: "The Book and the Sword" is a Wuxia novel, a Chinese story about these "arts" martial arts |
| #8164, aired 2020-02-20 | THE BIBLE BOOK TELLS ME SO $400: "And it was told the king of Egypt that the people fled" Exodus |
| #8164, aired 2020-02-20 | THE BIBLE BOOK TELLS ME SO $600: "To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven" Ecclesiastes |
| #8105, aired 2019-11-29 | BEFORE & AFTER $400: Golf short game practice area served up in the title of a Dr. Seuss book a putting Green Eggs and Ham |
| #8074, aired 2019-10-17 | THE NONFICTION BOOK'S SUBTITLE $600: About Louis Zamperini: "A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption" Unbroken |
| #8074, aired 2019-10-17 | 4-WORD EXCHANGE $1000: 4-word phrase that's the title of a 2002 book about Ronco & Popeil products like the Veg-O-matic but wait, there's more |
| #8073, aired 2019-10-16 | HER STORY $600: She wrote, "Why is this book called 'Bossypants'? One, because the name 'Two and a Half Men' was already taken" (Tina) Fey |
| #8071, aired 2019-10-14 | I READ IT IN THE WORLD BOOK $400: Including whoopers, this is "a family of large birds with long legs and a long neck" cranes |
| #8071, aired 2019-10-14 | I READ IT IN THE WORLD BOOK $800: This "is a rough sport because the players kick and wrestle or sometimes hold an opponent's head underwater" water polo |
| #8056, aired 2019-09-23 | FRUITFUL BOOK TITLES $1600: It's Roald Dahl's 1961 book about a boy crossing an ocean on a very unusual vessel James and the Giant Peach |
| #8055, aired 2019-09-20 | THE BOOK NOOK $4,000 (Daily Double): The first book in a series, it opens in Inverness in 1945 & begins. "It wasn't a very likely place for disappearances" Outlander |
| #8048, aired 2019-09-11 | NUMERIC LIT $200: This kid lit classic has a chapter called "The Puppies Arrive" One Hundred and One Dalmatians |
| #8024, aired 2019-06-27 | BUSINESS PAIRS $800: This bookstore chain traces its roots to 1873 & a book business in Wheaton, Illinois Barnes and Noble |
| #8018, aired 2019-06-19 | BOOK CHAPTERS $3,000 (Daily Double): This first book in a series has the chapters "What Lucy Found There" & "Back on This Side of the Door" The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe |
| #8012, aired 2019-06-11 | LITERARY GREEN THUMB $800: "Once there was a tree...and she loved a little boy", begins this book by Shel Silverstein The Giving Tree |
| #8011, aired 2019-06-10 | BOOKS $800: Hunter S. Thompson heads into the desert in this book subtitled "A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream" Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas |
| #8004, aired 2019-05-30 | BOOK TITLES $400: In a classic kids' book by Judith Viorst, it follows "Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible..." no good, very bad day |
| #8000, aired 2019-05-24 | "GREEN" BOOK $200: The 2 characters in this book are Sam-I-Am & a nameless finicky eater Green Eggs and Ham |
| #7995, aired 2019-05-17 | AND A BOOK $200: This author introduced the Pevensie children in "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" C.S. Lewis |
| #7995, aired 2019-05-17 | AND A BOOK $400: Edward Gibbon's "The Decline and Fall of" this entity covers more than 1,000 years of history the Roman Empire |
| #7995, aired 2019-05-17 | AND A BOOK $600: Somerset Maugham's "The Moon and Sixpence", about a man who heads to Tahiti to paint, is based on the life of this man Paul Gauguin |
| #7995, aired 2019-05-17 | AND A BOOK $800: Dale Carnegie's 1936 self-help book teaches you "How to" do these 2 title things win friends and influence people |
| #7995, aired 2019-05-17 | AND A BOOK $1,000 (Daily Double): His 1913 novel "Sons and Lovers" was daring but not banned like a later work D.H. Lawrence |
| #7994, aired 2019-05-16 | BOOKS $1000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a book and its ISBN.) On the back of every book there's a code; on the one here, the 0 denotes the book is from an English-language country, & the number here stands for the publisher; the whole series is called an ISBN, this type of book number International Standard |
| #7939, aired 2019-02-28 | GET YOUR GAME ON $1000: This title of Stephen Potter's book on "Winning Games Without Actually Cheating" entered the English language Gamesmanship |
| #7911, aired 2019-01-21 | POET IDENTIFICATION, PLEASE $1200: "A book of verses underneath the bough, a jug of wine, a loaf of bread--and thou" Omar Khayyam |
| #7904, aired 2019-01-10 | NONFICTION $1000: A Hulu miniseries of the same name was based on this Lawrence Wright book subtitled "Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11" The Looming Tower |
| #7835, aired 2018-10-05 | THE "BEST" WORDS $2000: It's the title of a 1972 David Halberstam book on the U.S. military failure in Vietnam The Best and the Brightest |
| #7832, aired 2018-10-02 | A LITTLE DRY $400: In the book "Dr. No", James Bond asks for a dry one of these "with a slice of lemon peel. Shaken and not stirred" a martini |
| #7819, aired 2018-09-13 | CONTRACTIONS $4,000 (Daily Double): A 2015 book says that for over 200 years, this word "has been knocking at the door of standard English" but is still shunned ain't |
| #7813, aired 2018-07-25 | NONFICTION $1000: Randy Shilts wrote a Harvey Milk bio "And" this book whose title implies lack of response to the AIDS crisis And the Band Played On |
| #7798, aired 2018-07-04 | "FIRE" WORKS $200: "The Triwizard Tournament" is a chapter in this book Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire |
| #7796, aired 2018-07-02 | COMMUNICATION $400: America's first multi-page one (well, 4 pages) was called "Publick Occurrences Both Forreign and Domestick" a newspaper |
| #7792, aired 2018-06-26 | BROADWAY MUSICALS $1600: Based on a book & film, its opening song is "The Candy Man" Charlie and the Chocolate Factory |
| #7726, aired 2018-03-26 | HIDE AWAY IN A BOOK $200: In this Steinbeck work, Lennie remembers what to do if anything goes wrong: "Hide in the brush an' wait for George" Of Mice and Men |
| #7715, aired 2018-03-09 | SNAKES ON A BOOK $400: This Milton poem has the lines "so talked the spirited sly snake; and Eve, yet more amazed, unwary thus replied" Paradise Lost |
| #7702, aired 2018-02-20 | A WRINKLE IN TIME $400: (Oprah Winfrey gives the clue.) "Love may be stronger than all fears" is how the book is summed up by the American Library Association, which awarded this author the prestigious Newbery Medal Madeleine L'Engle |
| #7691, aired 2018-02-05 | MEMOIRS ON AUDIBLE $1000: (She has cooked up a career based on a love of food.) I had a second book coming out, was hosting Top Chef and had addressed the U.N. in support of the organization then called UNIFEM Padma Lakshmi |
| #7681, aired 2018-01-22 | A GOOD BOOK $200: In a Stendhal novel, Julien must choose between joining the army or the church, symbolized by these 2 colors the red and the black |
| #7669, aired 2018-01-04 | FOE PA $2000: In this Roald Dahl book, Mr. Wormwood calls his daughter "a cheat and a liar" Matilda |
| #7662, aired 2017-12-26 | THE BOOK OF PALMS $400: Boys in this William Golding novel create a "rude shelter" of "palm trunks and leaves" Lord of the Flies |
| #7636, aired 2017-11-20 | COLORING BOOKS $2000: A chapter of "Hans Brinker, or" these is "What the Boys Saw and Did in Amsterdam"... OK, slow down, it's a kids' book! the silver skates |
| #7615, aired 2017-10-20 | NEVER HAVE I EVER $600: ...sung "You And Me (But Mostly Me)" or "Tomorrow Is A Latter Day" in this show on a Broadway stage but at home... sure! The Book of Mormon |
| #7613, aired 2017-10-18 | INTERNATIONAL INSTRUMENTS $400: A book about "Greek Music... in Antiquity and the Middle Ages" is titled "Apollo's" this stringed instrument lyre |
| #7613, aired 2017-10-18 | BOOK-POURRI $800 (Daily Double): The subtitle of this numerical book by Eliot Asinof is "The Black Sox and the 1919 World Series" Eight Men Out |
| #7604, aired 2017-10-05 | BOOKS' FIRST LINES $2000: A '70s book: "I can see by my watch, without taking my hand from the left grip of the cycle, that it is 8:30 in the morning" Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance |
| #7583, aired 2017-07-26 | LYRICS FROM BROADWAY $1,400 (Daily Double): "And God said, 'Joe, people really need to know that the Bible isn't two parts, there's a part three'" The Book of Mormon |
| #7577, aired 2017-07-18 | THE WISE MAN'S FEAR $400: This book of the Bible says, "A wise man feareth and departeth from evil: but the fool rageth and is confident" Proverbs |
| #7573, aired 2017-07-12 | THOREAU-ING A 200th BIRTHDAY! $600: In a travel book about this peninsula, Thoreau called it "the bared and bended arm of Massachusetts" Cape Cod |
| #7553, aired 2017-06-14 | CLASSIC CHILDREN'S BOOKS $800: In this "colorful" book, Harold draws the moon so he can go for a walk in the moonlight Harold and the Purple Crayon |
| #7543, aired 2017-05-31 | HETERONYMS $800: A book for a beginning reader & a treatment layer applied before painting primer [PRIM-er] and primer [PRY-mer] |
| #7540, aired 2017-05-26 | BOOK BINDINGS $600: Arms and ____ ____ Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat the man |
| #7531, aired 2017-05-15 | LESSEN PLAN $1000: The "Big Book" of this now-trendy fermented tea with a Japanese name tells how to brew it and extols its health benefits kombucha |
| #7498, aired 2017-03-29 | OF THOUSANDS $400: In the Book of Revelation, an angel "laid hold on the dragon... which is" him "and bound him a thousand years" the devil |
| #7491, aired 2017-03-20 | CURRENT BIOGRAPHIES $2,000 (Daily Double): Ashlee Vance subtitled her book about this entrepreneur "Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future" Elon Musk |
| #7488, aired 2017-03-15 | MOVIE TITLE PLACES $2000: Benicio Del Toro played Dr. Gonzo & Tobey Maguire a hitchhiker in this 1998 film based on a Hunter S. Thompson book Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas |
| #7461, aired 2017-02-06 | A FICTIONAL DEATH $400: This author said, "I killed Ned in the first book and it shocked a lot of people"; he was far from finished with the shocking George R.R. Martin |
| #7454, aired 2017-01-26 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $800: A book by Virginia Lee Burton is titled "Mike Mulligan and" this large construction tool a steam shovel |
| #7436, aired 2017-01-02 | COMPLETE THE BOOK TITLE $2000: About microbes & quoting Whitman:
"I Contain ____" Multitudes |
| #7431, aired 2016-12-26 | NONFICTION $2000: This recent presidential candidate wrote a book called "God, Guns, Grits and Gravy" Huckabee |
| #7428, aired 2016-12-21 | ____ THE ____ $2000: The title of this "touch and feel" board book by Dorothy Kunhardt is a command to babies, not the name of a hare Pat the Bunny |
| #7393, aired 2016-11-02 | TV SHOWS BASED ON BOOKS $1200: A nonfiction book subtitled "The Birth, High Times, and Corruption of Atlantic City" was source material for this HBO series Boardwalk Empire |
| #7347, aired 2016-07-19 | DUDE-ERONOMY $600: This Oscar winner released a 2012 book of meditations entitled "The Dude and the Zen Master" Jeff Bridges |
| #7345, aired 2016-07-15 | BOOK TO MOVIE $2000: Starring Montgomery Clift & Elizabeth Taylor: "An American Tragedy" by Theodore Dreiser A Place in the Sun |
| #7344, aired 2016-07-14 | BIBLICAL EQUINES $1200: Joel in the Old Testament & this author of a New Testament book both mention locusts that look like horses John |
| #7263, aired 2016-03-23 | FELINE LIBRARY $2000: Joy Adamson wrote "Pippa: The Cheetah and Her Cubs" but is more famous for this 1960 book about raising a lion Born Free |
| #7262, aired 2016-03-22 | ADJECTIVES OF THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS $400: (Peter Bergman gives the clue as Jack from The Young and the Restless.) Being a business mogul, patriarch & all around good guy isn't as easy as it seems, with rivals like Victor Newman, sometimes I want to be angry, bloodthirsty, amoral & this adjective, kind of like a Bible missing the book named for a wife of Boaz ruthless |
| #7253, aired 2016-03-09 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1,000 (Daily Double): This book begins, "Early in the spring of 1750, in the village of Juffure... a man-child was born to Omoro and Binta Kinte" Roots |
| #7251, aired 2016-03-07 | LITERATURE IS FOR THE BIRDS $400: This book that won a Pulitzer in 1961 depicts racial injustice in a small Southern town To Kill a Mockingbird |
| #7196, aired 2015-12-21 | NOVELISTS $200: Once in hiding, he began a book tour in 2015 for his novel "Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights" (Salman) Rushdie |
| #7189, aired 2015-12-10 | BESTSELLERS $800: Mackinlay Kantor had a spot on the bestseller list locked up in the '50s with this book about a notorious 19th century prison Andersonville |
| #7183, aired 2015-12-02 | WORKING BOOK TITLES $200: Tolstoy focused more on a major part of Russian history & changed "All's Well That Ends Well" to this title War and Peace |
| #7183, aired 2015-12-02 | WORKING BOOK TITLES $1,000 (Daily Double): John Steinbeck changed "Something That Happened" to this title, a reference to a Robert Burns poem Of Mice and Men |
| #7151, aired 2015-10-19 | BRUTE, EH? $600: In this book, Lisbeth gets back at her tormentor Nils by tattooing "I'm a sadistic pig... and a rapist" on his stomach The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo |
| #7102, aired 2015-06-30 | DOCTOR WHO $600: ...wrote a book on the Vietnam War as well as the definitive book on "Baby and Child Care" Spock |
| #7054, aired 2015-04-23 | NONFICTION $2,000 (Daily Double): This critically acclaimed 2001 book begins with a look at "The Founding Fathers", starting with Carl Karcher Fast Food Nation |
| #6979, aired 2015-01-08 | KIDDY LIT $200: "Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator" was a follow-up to this 1964 book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory |
| #6961, aired 2014-12-15 | THE END OF THE BOOK $400: Imprisoned, Raskolnikov has a long wait until he can again be with his beloved Sonia Crime and Punishment |
| #6927, aired 2014-10-28 | ANTISOCIAL SCIENCE $800: A book in the "Law, Justice and Power" series is called "Showing" this synonym for "regret", as judges like you to do remorse |
| #6921, aired 2014-10-20 | LETTERS FROM WRITERS $800: To Marlon Brando: "I wrote a book called 'The Godfather'... and I think you're the only actor who can play the part" Mario Puzo |
| #6915, aired 2014-10-10 | RELIGIOUS & SECULAR HOMOPHONES $2000: A Bible book, or renowned orthopedic surgeon Frank Job / Jobe |
| #6912, aired 2014-10-07 | MAKE ROOM $2,000 (Daily Double): This French room completes the title of a book by the Marquis de Sade, "La Philopsophie dans le..." boudoir |
| #6908, aired 2014-10-01 | BOOKS FOR BARTENDERS $400: A book of "drinks and bites" themed to this TV show includes the Bon Temps Sazerac & Arti-Choked-to-Death Dip True Blood |
| #6890, aired 2014-07-25 | NONFICTION $1200: This book about high school football, "a town, a team, and a dream" inspired a movie & a TV series; go Panthers! Friday Night Lights |
| #6890, aired 2014-07-25 | NONFICTION $2000: Jared Diamond won a Pulitzer Prize for this book with a 3-part title dealing with "The Fates of Human Societies" Guns, Germs, and Steel |
| #6889, aired 2014-07-24 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS $1,000 (Daily Double): As this book begins, Santiago had "gone eighty-four days... without taking a fish" The Old Man and the Sea |
| #6885, aired 2014-07-18 | MADONNA VIDEOS $1200: (Alex Trebek reads the clue from the Norton Simon Museum.) This Renaissance artist displayed a mastery far beyond his years when he painted "Madonna and Child with Book"; he was only 19 at the time, which may explain why his Madonnas came to be in such high demand Rafael |
| #6844, aired 2014-05-22 | THE PART OF SPEECH IN THE BOOK TITLE $1,500 (Daily Double): A 1937 short novel by Steinbeck:
Preposition Of |
| #6815, aired 2014-04-11 | CHECK YOUR "OIL" $400: Hard work; it precedes "and trouble" in the title of a book about witches toil |
| #6795, aired 2014-03-14 | PONY EXPRESSIONS $1200: "Behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death" comes from this New Testament book Revelation |
| #6766, aired 2014-02-03 | NAME THE BIBLE BOOK $200: "And he gathered them together into a place called... Armageddon" Revelation |
| #6766, aired 2014-02-03 | NAME THE BIBLE BOOK $1,500 (Daily Double): "But the Lord sent out a great wind into the sea, and there was a mighty tempest" Jonah |
| #6717, aired 2013-11-26 | CINDERELLA ON BROADWAY $1000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew strolls through the set of Cinderella in the Broadway Theatre in New York.) While Broadway's "Cinderella" has a clever & witty new book by Douglas Carter Beane, he drew on the original story by this French fairy tale author Charles Perrault |
| #6714, aired 2013-11-21 | NONFICTION $1,000 (Daily Double): This bestseller by Lynne Truss has been described as "a book for people who love punctuation" Eats, Shoots & Leaves |
| #6713, aired 2013-11-20 | BEFORE & AFTER $2000: C.S. Lewis' Narnia book that showed off a little too much skin at the 2004 Super Bowl halftime show The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe Malfunction |
| #6697, aired 2013-10-29 | THE NEW YORK TIMES ALL THE NEWS THAT'S FIT TO CLICK $2000: (I'm legal columnist Linda Greenhouse.) In a multimedia feature, I gave a tour of the papers of this Supreme Court Justice who wrote the majority opinion in Roe v. Wade & about whom I've also written a book Harry Blackmun |
| #6693, aired 2013-10-23 | SPORTS BOOK $200: "Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream" high school football |
| #6671, aired 2013-09-23 | BROADWAY $1000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew presents the clue from Broadway, New York.) A treat for all ages, "Matilda" is based on a book by this beloved author of "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" Roald Dahl |
| #6667, aired 2013-09-17 | JUST CURIOUS $200: He first appeared in a kids' book called "Raffy and the Nine Monkeys" before headlining his own series Curious George |
| #6647, aired 2013-07-09 | JIMMY WORKS OUT $600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew lays on his belly with arms and legs extended at the Sony gym as a trainer gives the clue.) Jimmy's strengthening his lower back muscles with an exercise named for this comic book hero Superman |
| #6631, aired 2013-06-17 | CHILDREN'S BOOKS $1000: This picture book begins, "In a warm and sultry forest, far, far away there once lived a mother fruit bat and her new baby" Stellaluna |
| #6620, aired 2013-05-31 | BERRIES $2000: In the book "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory", Violet Beauregarde turns into one of these berries a blueberry |
| #6597, aired 2013-04-30 | ONE FOR THE HISTORY BOOKS $1200: The subtitle to this book, a 2012 movie, is "How the CIA and Hollywood pulled off the most audacious rescue in history" Argo |
| #6590, aired 2013-04-19 | CELEBRITIES' FAVORITE BOOKS $400: (I'm Dr. Jane Goodall.) As a child, I dreamed of living among wild animals, influenced by my favorite book characters, Dr. Dolittle & this "Lord of the Jungle" (I knew I'd be a better jungle companion for him than that other wimpy Jane) Tarzan |
| #6570, aired 2013-03-22 | COMPASS POINT MOVIES $1600: Nick Nolte has the best hands in football but a "bad attitude" in this satire on the business of football North Dallas Forty |
| #6553, aired 2013-02-27 | OH, A WISE GUY! $200: World Book says this barefoot Greek was "the first philosopher to make a clear distinction between body and soul" Socrates |
| #6529, aired 2013-01-24 | AUTHOR! AUTHOR! $600: In 1994 Candace Bushnell created a column called this; in '95, it was sold as a book; then in '96, to HBO Sex and the City |
| #6431, aired 2012-07-30 | BOOK REPORT $2000: In "Skylark", a sequel to this novel, Anna & Caleb leave the prairie for a visit to Maine with their stepmom Sarah, Plain and Tall |
| #6422, aired 2012-07-17 | ARTHUR $2000: A decade after his JFK book "A Thousand Days", this historian wrote "Robert Kennedy and his times" (Arthur) Schlesinger(, Jr.) |
| #6412, aired 2012-07-03 | WORDS WITH FRIENDS $1000: "If you're wrong, admit it" is a chapter title in this advice book by Dale Carnegie How to Win Friends and Influence People |
| #6367, aired 2012-05-01 | HISTORICAL QUOTES $2000: A 1532 book by him says, "A prince should...have no other aim or thought...but war & its organization and discipline" Machiavelli |
| #6313, aired 2012-02-15 | THE BENJAMINS $400: In 2011 a newly updated 65th anniversary edition of his "Baby and Child Care" book was published Benjamin Spock |
| #6298, aired 2012-01-25 | BIRD BOOKS $200: This book says, "I thought Jem and I would get grown but there wasn't much else left for us to learn, except possibly algebra" To Kill a Mockingbird |
| #6283, aired 2012-01-04 | NAMETH THE BIBLE BOOK $400: "And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake" Revelation |
| #6283, aired 2012-01-04 | NAMETH THE BIBLE BOOK $2,600 (Daily Double): "They bemoaned him, and comforted him over all the evil that the Lord had brought upon him" Job |
| #6240, aired 2011-11-04 | LITERARY TITLE OCCUPATIONS $1,000 (Daily Double): It's the occupation mentioned in a 1916 James Joyce book title artist |
| #6238, aired 2011-11-02 | LITTLE PEOPLE IN LIT $400: These factory workers in a 1964 book love cacao beans Oompa Loompas |
| #6236, aired 2011-10-31 | BOOK DEDICATIONS $3,000 (Daily Double): E.M. Forster dedicated this 1924 novel to Syed Ross Mahood, who showed him "new horizons and a new civilization" A Passage to India |
| #6232, aired 2011-10-25 | LIBROS EN ESPAÑOL $1,400 (Daily Double): A bestselling memoir:
"Come, Reza, Ama" Eat, Pray, Love |
| #6227, aired 2011-10-18 | FICTION $1600: The first book in George R.R. Martin's epic series "A Song of Ice and Fire" became this HBO series in 2011 Game of Thrones |
| #6205, aired 2011-07-29 | BOOK TITLES $800: A bestseller by Jamie Ford is "Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and" this Sweet |
| #6203, aired 2011-07-27 | FACE BOOK $200: Making him a revolutionary martyr, the Bolivian Army tracked down this man and killed him in 1967 (Che) Guevara |
| #6200, aired 2011-07-22 | STORY WITHIN A STORY $800: Carroll: "the time has come... to talk of many things: of shoes--& ships--& sealing-wax--of" these, an O. Henry book Cabbages and Kings |
| #6179, aired 2011-06-23 | CHILDREN'S BOOK NAMES $600: Roald Dahl:
"____ and the Great Glass Elevator" (a sequel) Charlie |
| #6172, aired 2011-06-14 | HISTORICAL QUOTATIONS $200: In his 1834 autobiography, this frontiersman stated, "I never wrote (a book) before, and never read very many" Davy Crockett |
| #6172, aired 2011-06-14 | COOKBOOKS $800: A book by this chef & restaurateur features "recipes from Spago, Chinois, and Points East and West" Wolfgang Puck |
| #6158, aired 2011-05-25 | SHADES OF ZANE GREY $800: Zane Grey's first book, "Betty Zane", was a fictionalized account of his ancestors fighting the British during this war the Revolutionary |
| #6132, aired 2011-04-19 | BIBLICAL BOOK TITLES $200: In Ecclesiastes this 1989 book title precedes "and a time to heal" A Time to Kill |
| #6079, aired 2011-02-03 | DOWN IN THE "VALLEY" $2000: Spencer Johnson of "Who Moved My Cheese?" fame wrote a book about life's ups & downs titled these opposites Peaks and Valleys |
| #6077, aired 2011-02-01 | CHILDREN'S BOOK TITLES $2000: A classic by Crockett Johnson:
"Harold and the ____ Crayon" Purple |
| #6074, aired 2011-01-27 | GET INTO THE RING $1000: This poet finished "The Ring and the Book", a story of a Roman murder case of the 1600s, 28 years after "Pippa Passes" Robert Browning |
| #6066, aired 2011-01-17 | 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 |
| #6058, aired 2011-01-05 | TAKE A LETTER $1000: An old book says it's pronounced "by closing the lips... and letting the voice issue by the nose" M |
| #6042, aired 2010-12-14 | CELEBRITY BOOKS $400: In a book for kids, he tells "How to Train with a T. Rex and Win 8 Gold Medals" Michael Phelps |
| #6037, aired 2010-12-07 | WORLD BOOK DESCRIBES THE "G" MAN $1000: "One of the most original and provocative American architects working today" (Frank) Gehry |
| #5988, aired 2010-09-29 | LITERARY LINES $800: This 1852 book says, "I would rather not sell him ...I'm a humane man, and I hate to take the boy from his mother" Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| #5958, aired 2010-07-07 | BOOK WORMS $2,000 (Daily Double): It's really a snake, but this Shakespeare queen asks for "the pretty worm of Nilus, that kills and pains not" Cleopatra |
| #5951, aired 2010-06-28 | IS THERE A DOCTOR IN THE BOOK? $400: You wouldn't want to be operated on by Dr. Gonzo in Hunter S. Thompson's "Fear and Loathing" here Las Vegas |
| #5877, aired 2010-03-16 | PICTURE BOOK TITLE ANIMALS $800: "If You Give a ____ a Cookie" Mouse |
| #5844, aired 2010-01-28 | FROM PAGE TO SCREEN $400: This 2009 film was based on a book subtitled "America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933–34" Public Enemies |
| #5841, aired 2010-01-25 | MATHLETES $1200: To simplify multiplication and division, Scotsman John Napier published a book outlining these in 1614 logarithms |
| #5840, aired 2010-01-22 | THE WORLD ALMANAC AND BOOK OF FACTS $400: If you're in the South Pacific on July 11, you can get a good look at a total one of these an eclipse |
| #5840, aired 2010-01-22 | THE WORLD ALMANAC AND BOOK OF FACTS $800: The July 2009 sit-down among President Obama, a Harvard prof & a Cambridge cop was dubbed this sudsy summit the Beer Summit |
| #5840, aired 2010-01-22 | THE WORLD ALMANAC AND BOOK OF FACTS $2000: With over 30 million tons, China leads the world in this, a 1-word equivalent of fish farming aquaculture |
| #5826, aired 2010-01-04 | U.S. CITIES $1600: "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil" is a nonfiction book about events in this Georgia city Savannah |
| #5816, aired 2009-12-21 | "BB" BOOKS $800: O. Henry's first book was called these "and Kings", a reference to a Lewis Carroll poem Cabbages |
| #5806, aired 2009-12-07 | DEDICATED $4,000 (Daily Double): His "Cat's Cradle" is "For Kenneith Littauer, a man of gallantry and taste" (Kurt) Vonnegut |
| #5805, aired 2009-12-04 | "FACE" BOOK $1000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew turns around roughly in place.) This marching maneuver used by military formation can also mean a complete change of opinion an about-face |
| #5802, aired 2009-12-01 | POLAR OBSESSION $1600: (Paul Nicklen presents the clue.) It's easy to see why these mammals are called unicorns of the sea; that's not a horn, though--it's actually a grooved tooth a narwhal |
| #5790, aired 2009-11-13 | LET'S GO FOR A SWIM $600: World Book says it's "a restful stroke because your face is always out of the water and breathing is easy" the backstroke |
| #5785, aired 2009-11-06 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1200: Shortly after "The House of the Seven Gables", he wrote a book of classical myths, "A Wonder Book for Girls and Boys" Hawthorne |
| #5781, aired 2009-11-02 | BOOK ENDS $600: In his "The House at Pooh Corner", "A little boy and his bear will always be playing" (A.A.) Milne |
| #5781, aired 2009-11-02 | BOOK ENDS $800: He wrote, "It is not often... someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer. Charlotte was both" (E.B.) White |
| #5768, aired 2009-10-14 | CHILDREN'S LIT $400: Louisa May Alcott wrote a book titled this boy-girl duo & sure enough, they go up a hill in Chapter 1 Jack and Jill |
| #5759, aired 2009-10-01 | I READ IT IN A BOOK ONCE $200: "'Some pig!' whispered Mr. Zuckerman. They stared and stared for a long time at Wilbur" Charlotte's Web |
| #5759, aired 2009-10-01 | I READ IT IN A BOOK ONCE $600: "His lips parted into a timid smile, and our neighbor's image blurred with my sudden tears. 'Hey, Boo,' I said" To Kill a Mockingbird |
| #5759, aired 2009-10-01 | I READ IT IN A BOOK ONCE $800: "'Is it safe to get my diamonds?'… Szell opened the black leather case. And took out a portable hand drill" Marathon Man |
| #5676, aired 2009-04-20 | BEHIND THE SEUSS-IC $400: An editor bet that Seuss (would not) could not write a book using 50 words or less; the result was this story Green Eggs and Ham |
| #5675, aired 2009-04-17 | BORROWED BOOK TITLES $2000: This Southern saga published in 1936 gets its title from a line in a poem called "Cynara" Gone With the Wind |
| #5600, aired 2009-01-02 | IN THE BOOKSTORE $400: This book by Arthur Golden says, "I wasn't born and raised to be a Kyoto geisha" Memoirs of a Geisha |
| #5594, aired 2008-12-25 | FRENCH LITERATURE $2000: Except for a brief section, book V of his "Gargantua and Pantagruel" was most likely written by someone else Francois Rabelais |
| #5588, aired 2008-12-17 | LEFTOVERS $200: Chapter 33 of this book begins, "Dear Marmee and Beth: I'm going to write you a regular volume, for I've got lots to tell" Little Women |
| #5563, aired 2008-11-12 | THE WORLD ALMANAC AND BOOK OF FACTS $200: The eruption of this volcano in 79 A.D. caused an estimated 16,000 deaths Vesuvius |
| #5563, aired 2008-11-12 | THE WORLD ALMANAC AND BOOK OF FACTS $800 (Daily Double): It's the only country listed that starts with a "Q" Qatar |
| #5550, aired 2008-10-24 | FILL IN THE BOOK TITLE $800: "S.A.L."
by D.H. Lawrence Sons and Lovers |
| #5530, aired 2008-09-26 | NONFICTION PULITZER WINNERS $800: Herbert P. Bix won in 2001 with a book on this emperor "and the Making of Modern Japan" Hirohito |
| #5517, aired 2008-09-09 | FOOD & DRINK PHRASES $800: "A book of verses underneath the bough," these 2 things--"and thou" a loaf of bread & a jug of wine |
| #5516, aired 2008-09-08 | 25 $600: Chapter 25 of this biblical book begins, "Then again Abraham took a wife, and her name was Keturah" Genesis |
| #5515, aired 2008-07-25 | FILL IN THE BOOK TITLE $800: "J.A.T.G.P."
by Roald Dahl James and the Giant Peach |
| #5487, aired 2008-06-17 | FROM BOOK TO BIG SCREEN $600: This novel and its 2006 film version both start with a museum curator staggering through the Louvre The Da Vinci Code |
| #5486, aired 2008-06-16 | CELEBRITY BOOKS $400: This diet spokesperson tells all in her new book "Losing It: And Gaining My Life Back One Pound At A Time" Valerie Bertinelli |
| #5483, aired 2008-06-11 | WOMEN AUTHORS $800: She called her book "Vittorio the Vampire" a vampire version of "Romeo and Juliet" Anne Rice |
| #5481, aired 2008-06-09 | BOOKS OF THE '70s $600 (Daily Double): In a 1972 book, Hunter S. Thompson sent Raoul Duke & Dr. Gonzo to this city to cover the Mint 400 race Las Vegas |
| #5477, aired 2008-06-03 | HISTORIC WOMEN $1000: "Democracy and Social Ethics" is a 1902 book by this founder of Hull House (Jane) Addams |
| #5459, aired 2008-05-08 | BY, THE BOOK $800: The second part of his "The Sound and the Fury" is told by a neurotic on the day of his suicide Faulkner |
| #5406, aired 2008-02-25 | THROWING THE BOOK AT YOU $1600: A marlin's skeletal remains play a pivotal role in this 1952 literary work The Old Man and the Sea |
| #5374, aired 2008-01-10 | THE FABULOUS FIFTIES $800: A series of nightmares that C.S. Lewis had about lions inspired him to write this first Narnia book The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe |
| #5362, aired 2007-12-25 | BOOK DEDICATIONS $2000: This Willa Cather novel about a Bohemian girl was dedicated "in memory of affections old and true" My Antonia |
| #5343, aired 2007-11-28 | THE LBJ LIBRARY & MUSEUM $400: (Jon of the Clue Crew stands in front of a photograph of LBJ and Jackie Kennedy.) I'm at the LBJ Library with the prayer book on which Lyndon Johnson placed his hand to be sworn in on this date aboard Air Force One November 22, 1963 |
| #5309, aired 2007-10-11 | BOOK REPORT $400: J.K. Rowling ends a magical series with lucky number 7, "Harry Potter and" this the Deathly Hallows |
| #5300, aired 2007-09-28 | FILL IN THE BOOK TITLE $2,200 (Daily Double): "T.B.A.D."
by F. Scott Fitzgerald The Beautiful And Damned |
| #5288, aired 2007-09-12 | AMERICAN PLAYWRIGHTS $200: "True and False", David Mamet's no-nonsense book on this craft, includes a chapter called "Find Your Mark" acting |
| #5282, aired 2007-07-24 | LITERATURE $1200: People from the past appear to a brother & sister in "Rewards and Fairies" by this author of "The Jungle Book" Kipling |
| #5273, aired 2007-07-11 | CELEBRITY PAINTERS $200: Perhaps he made his old blue eyes a touch bluer in works found in his book "A Man and His Art" Frank Sinatra |
| #5242, aired 2007-05-29 | BUTTER BATTLE BOOKS $1200: This NBC show which overweight people compete is also a book "To Transform Your Body, Health, and Life" The Biggest Loser |
| #5236, aired 2007-05-21 | GIVE WAR AND PEACE A CHANCE $200: In Book 3 of "War and Peace", this city is famously abandoned & burned Moscow |
| #5216, aired 2007-04-23 | THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW $1,200 (Daily Double): In "State of Denial", this Wash. Post scribe "takes a mulligan and attempts to correct for past obsequiousness" Bob Woodward |
| #5160, aired 2007-02-02 | THE GOOD BOOK $400: In Exodus 2:10 a woman "called his name" this: "and she said, because I drew him out of the water" Moses |
| #5160, aired 2007-02-02 | A GOOD BOOK $800: "If it were I who was to be always young, and the picture that was to grow old", this title guy "would give my soul" Dorian Gray |
| #5160, aired 2007-02-02 | A GOOD BOOK $1200: A line from this book says, "She killed Miles. And I've got... a black statuette that all that hell was about" The Maltese Falcon |
| #5137, aired 2007-01-02 | WHAT A CHARACTER! $1200: Diminutive factory workers known as the Oompa Loompas show up in this fantasy book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory |
| #5098, aired 2006-11-08 | WE LOVE BROADWAY $400 (Daily Double): (Before the clue is given, Kate Reinders from the Broadway play Wicked helps with the clue.)
"Popular /
You're gonna be pop-u-lar /
I'll teach you the proper ploys /
When you talk to boys /
Little ways to flirt and flounce--woww! /
I'll show you what shoes to wear /
How to fix your hair /
Everything that really counts to be /
Popular /
I'll help you be pop-u-lar /
You'll hang with the right cohorts /
You'll be good at sports /
Know the slang you gotta know /
So let's start /
'Cause you've got an awfully long way to go"
"Wicked" is based on a modern novel inspired by this classic L. Frank Baum book that took us "over the rainbow" The Wizard of Oz |
| #5001, aired 2006-05-15 | NONFICTION $600: Hunter S. Thompson found fear and loathing "in Las Vegas" & "on" this "Trail" in the title of a 1973 book the Campaign Trail |
| #5000, aired 2006-05-12 | THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW $1000: His "A Man in Full" "contains passages as powerful and as beautiful as anything written... by any American novelist" Tom Wolfe |
| #4983, aired 2006-04-19 | GREAT BOOKS IN HAIKU $400: 1860s book/
Bolkonsky & Rostova/
Read in a day, not! War and Peace |
| #4955, aired 2006-03-10 | LITERATURE $1600: This 1952 Pulitzer-winning book grew out of Herman Wouk's experiences on a WWII destroyer-minesweeper The Caine Mutiny |
| #4916, aired 2006-01-16 | TWAIN TWIP $600: Twain once defined this type of book (& he wrote several) as one "which people praise and don't read" a classic |
| #4908, aired 2006-01-04 | ERNEST HEMINGWAY $2000: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the JFK Library & Museum holding a composition book.) I'm holding Ernest Hemingway's first draft of this novel; you can see that his working title for it was "Fiesta" The Sun Also Rises |
| #4895, aired 2005-12-16 | MR. AND MRS. SMITH $1200: A book called "In Sacred Loneliness" documents 33 of the Mrs. Smiths in his life Joseph Smith |
| #4888, aired 2005-12-07 | GO TO JAIL, GO DIRECTLY TO JAIL $800: MacKinlay Kantor won a 1956 Pulitzer Prize for his book about this notorious Civil War prison Andersonville |
| #4881, aired 2005-11-28 | AWARDS & HONORS $1000: This winner of the National Book Award became a film starring Glenn as Shepard, Shepard as Yeager & Harris as Glenn The Right Stuff |
| #4863, aired 2005-11-02 | BEFORE & AFTER $2000: Old West outlaw who takes a trip to the Big Apple in a fuzzy fruit in a Roald Dahl book Jesse James and the Giant Peach |
| #4852, aired 2005-10-18 | ROMANCE NOVELIST HISTORY BOOK $800: June 20, 1791. She and Louis fled in the night. But a man recognized Louis, whose face was literally on the money Marie Antoinette |
| #4825, aired 2005-07-22 | LITERARY BUNNIES $2000: Howard R. Garis wrote a book about this avuncular rabbit "and the Runaway Cheese" Uncle Wiggily |
| #4814, aired 2005-07-07 | READ THE BOOK $2000: According to the title of a book by George Eliot, the Dorlcote Mill is on this river the Floss |
| #4804, aired 2005-06-23 | "B" BOYS $1200: "Penguin Dreams and Stranger Things (A Bloom County Book)" is a collection of cartoons by this man Berke Breathed |
| #4801, aired 2005-06-20 | BOOK ENDS $1000: This classic ends with the narrator on a river pier in New Jersey, with thoughts of God, Pooh Bear, & Old Dean Moriarty On the Road |
| #4801, aired 2005-06-20 | BOOK ENDS $1,500 (Daily Double): "They found... a splendid portrait of their master", him, "in all the wonder of his exquisite youth and beauty" The Picture of Dorian Gray |
| #4791, aired 2005-06-06 | POLLY "ANNA"s $1600: Margaret Landon's book about a real Anna who rang a king's chimes Anna and the King of Siam |
| #4759, aired 2005-04-21 | THE RURAL SCENE $400: In a classic book, "its head was a small sack stuffed with straw, with eyes, nose and mouth painted on it" a scarecrow |
| #4747, aired 2005-04-05 | I REMEMBER... $2000: ...the book by this author that ends, "And the music of the pearl drifted to a whisper and disappeared" John Steinbeck |
| #4725, aired 2005-03-04 | NOVELS BEFORE & AFTER $1600: Hemingway's book about an elderly guy trying to catch an echinoderm that looks like a giant pickle The Old Man and the Sea Cucumber |
| #4668, aired 2004-12-15 | THROWING A GOOD BOOK AT YOU $1200: In Genesis 29:11 "Jacob kissed" this formerly infertile mother of Joseph "and wept" Rachel |
| #4650, aired 2004-11-19 | THE BODY HUMAN $400: World Book describes this organ as a "grayish-pink jellylike ball with many ridges and grooves" brain |
| #4650, aired 2004-11-19 | BEWITCHED $600: As a witch's familiar, Pywacket is one of these animals in the play "Bell, Book and Candle" cat |
| #4626, aired 2004-10-18 | BOOK SERIES $800: "Two of a Kind" is a book series featuring these real-life siblings Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen |
| #4623, aired 2004-10-13 | ____ AND ____ $1600: In 1956 Audrey Hepburn played Natasha Rostov in a nearly 3 1/2 hour film version of this book War and Peace |
| #4603, aired 2004-09-15 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1,500 (Daily Double): "Sons", the second book in a trilogy begun with this work, traces the destinies of the 3 sons of Wang Lung The Good Earth (by Pearl Buck) |
| #4521, aired 2004-04-12 | BROADWAY LYRICS $400: Its second verse commands, "Put down the knitting, the book and the broom, time for a holiday" Cabaret |
| #4517, aired 2004-04-06 | BOOK TITLES $1600: It's the appropriate 3-word title of a 1993 biography of Hunter S. Thompson Fear and Loathing |
| #4507, aired 2004-03-23 | SUDDENLY, LAST SUMMER $1000: Fox News tried to sue Al Franken for using this 3-word phrase in the subtitle of a book fair and balanced |
| #4504, aired 2004-03-18 | NOVELS $1200: James Trotter escapes his 2 horrible aunts & becomes a hero to his new insect family in this book by Roald Dahl James and the Giant Peach |
| #4499, aired 2004-03-11 | ALSO A BOOK OF THE BIBLE $600: "A bad workman blames his tools" & "All is fair in love and war" Proverbs |
| #4493, aired 2004-03-03 | A FEW GOOD MEN $400: Thomas Mallon's book "Henry and Clara" concerns Henry Rathbone, wounded by this man at Ford's Theater John Wilkes Booth |
| #4488, aired 2004-02-25 | A GREEN CATEGORY $400: Seen here is the cover illustration from this classic children's book Green Eggs and Ham |
| #4471, aired 2004-02-02 | ANIMAL QUOTES $600: The Book of Judges reports Samson's riddle concerning "A swarm of bees and honey in a carcase of" this a lion |
| #4440, aired 2003-12-19 | QUOTES ABOUT 3 THINGS $1200: They're the 3 things poet Edward Fitzgerald put with "a book of verses underneath the bough" a jug of wine, a loaf of bread and thou |
| #4429, aired 2003-12-04 | BEFORE & AFTER $2000: Kentucky city that's the setting of a children's book in which Sam-I-Am pushes an unusual dish Bowling Green Eggs and Ham |
| #4348, aired 2003-06-25 | THE WIZARDS $800: T.A. Barron wrote a 5-book epic on this wizard who's a big part of T.H. White's "The Once and Future King" Merlin |
| #4329, aired 2003-05-29 | NONFICTION $1,000 (Daily Double): "On Sunset Boulevard" is a book about "The Life and Times of" this famous film director Billy Wilder |
| #4313, aired 2003-05-07 | BESTSELLERS $1000: His "Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay" won a Pulitzer & "Summerland", his first kids' book, is a bestseller Michael Chabon |
| #4273, aired 2003-03-12 | COLOR MY WORLD $1600: The title of a 1912 Zane Grey favorite about seclusion in an Edenic enclave contains this color purple |
| #4215, aired 2002-12-20 | 20th CENTURY BOOKS $800: In 1929 William Faulkner made a lot of "noise" in the literary world with this book "The Sound and the Fury" |
| #4212, aired 2002-12-17 | SHORT STORIES $2000: His first book, "Cabbages and Kings", is a series of loosely-linked short stories about adventures in Central America O. Henry |
| #4179, aired 2002-10-31 | "D.C." $2000: He wrote "Public Speaking and Influencing Men in Business" several years before his more famous book Dale Carnegie |
| #4175, aired 2002-10-25 | DOGS $2000: Dave was one of Buck's sled-dog companions in this book The Call of the Wild |
| #4143, aired 2002-09-11 | HOUND DOG $200 (Daily Double): "War and Peace", Book II, includes an account of a hunt using these dogs Borzois |
| #4143, aired 2002-09-11 | BOOK OF LOVE $800: "Bridget Jones's Diary" is a reworking of this Jane Austen classic "Pride and Prejudice" |
| #4083, aired 2002-05-08 | BEFORE, DURING & AFTER $2000: The first to score in overtime wins the game between Hemingway's bull book & Debussy's hoofed deity at midday Sudden Death in the Afternoon of a Faun |
| #4081, aired 2002-05-06 | WRY $200: Twain said this type of book is one "which people praise and don't read" a classic |
| #4068, aired 2002-04-17 | DON'T JUDGE A BOOK BY ITS MOVIE $400: "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory |
| #4068, aired 2002-04-17 | DON'T JUDGE A BOOK BY ITS MOVIE $2000: "The Death and Life of Dith Pran" The Killing Fields |
| #3978, aired 2001-12-12 | BRIT LIT $400: "Sea and Sardinia" is a travel book by this "Sons and Lovers" author D.H. Lawrence |
| #3975, aired 2001-12-07 | BOOKS OF THE BIBLE $1200: This book talks about "A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace" Ecclesiastes |
| #3973, aired 2001-12-05 | OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB $1600: A bruised & battered wife escapes an abusive marriage in this "colorful" novel by Anna Quindlen "Black and Blue" |
| #3947, aired 2001-10-30 | THE NEW TESTAMENT $1000: In the book of Revelation it is written, "Behold a pale horse and his name that sat on him was" this Death |
| #3945, aired 2001-10-26 | THROWING THE BOOK AT YOU $200: "Dean was having his kicks; he put on a jazz record, grabbed Marylou... and bounced against her with the beat" On the Road |
| #3945, aired 2001-10-26 | THROWING THE BOOK AT YOU $400: "40 years ago, certain persons went up to Laputa... and... came back with a very little smattering in mathematics" Gulliver's Travels |
| #3919, aired 2001-09-20 | THE GOOD BOOK $1000: David told Solomon, "Be strong and of good" this; "dread not, nor be dismayed" courage |
| #3900, aired 2001-07-13 | THE WORDS OF BEN FRANKLIN $400: Ben's epitaph for himself compared him to the cover of one of these, "stript of its lettering and gilding" a book |
| #3893, aired 2001-07-04 | READ $600: Completes the title of the Terry McMillan book "A Day Late and..." A Dollar Short |
| #3890, aired 2001-06-29 | FEATURED CREATURES $200: In a book by Michael Bond, "Mr. and Mrs. Brown first met" this bear "on a railway platform" Paddington |
| #3878, aired 2001-06-13 | BOOK REVIEWS $200: "Dr. Seuss took 220 words, rhymed them, and turned out" this "volume of absurdity that worked like a karate chop" The Cat in the Hat |
| #3870, aired 2001-06-01 | PEOPLE IN HISTORY $800: "Democracy and Social Ethics" is a 1902 book by this founder of Hull House Jane Addams |
| #3854, aired 2001-05-10 | TEENS IN LITERATURE $200: Sonya is a kittenish 15-year-old introduced in book 1 of this long Tolstoy novel "War and Peace" |
| #3850, aired 2001-05-04 | BOOK 'EM $500: This oldest-ever heavyweight champ knocked out a "Knock-Out-the-Fat Barbeque and Grilling Cookbook" George Foreman |
| #3844, aired 2001-04-26 | TAKE A LETTER $400: Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote Walt Whitman that this book was a "most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom" "Leaves of Grass" |
| #3812, aired 2001-03-13 | "AND" READ $400: Nursery-rhyme pair who are the title of a book by Louisa May Alcott & a less innocent book by James Patterson Jack And Jill |
| #3793, aired 2001-02-14 | "ING"LISH $1000: Novelist Maxim Gorky apporopriately co-authored a book on "The Art and Craft" of this Writing |
| #3781, aired 2001-01-29 | THE MARSHALL PLAN $1000: In 1968 this Canadian's message "War and Peace in the Global Village" was in the book medium Marshall McLuhan |
| #3776, aired 2001-01-22 | IN THE BOOKSTORE $200: She called her book "Vittorio the Vampire" a vampire version of "Romeo and Juliet" Anne Rice |
| #3773, aired 2001-01-17 | COMICS' BOOKS $500: The comic & actor seen here, he wrote a conspiracy book called "UFOs, JFK and Elvis" Richard Belzer |
| #3698, aired 2000-10-04 | DR. SEUSS $300: Book which contains the lines "Would you? Could you? In a car? Eat them! Eat them! Here they are." "Green Eggs and Ham" |
| #3670, aired 2000-07-14 | A "WAR AND PEACE" QUIZ $100: When it comes to "War And Peace", he wrote the book Leo Tolstoy |
| #3670, aired 2000-07-14 | A "WAR AND PEACE" QUIZ $300: First name of Ms. Pavlovna, at whose party the book opens; the author also used it for Ms. Karenina Anna |
| #3607, aired 2000-04-18 | ASSUME THE POSITION $1,000 (Daily Double): Insert 1 letter into the name of a comic book hero to get this cricket player batsman |
| #3578, aired 2000-03-08 | WOMEN WRITERS $600: A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, her "Black and Blue" was selected for Oprah's Book Club in 1998 Anna Quindlen |
| #3531, aired 2000-01-03 | I WROTE A BOOK! $100: Familiar TV voice & now author heard here
"When Pearl Harbor made it irrefutably clear that America was not a fortress, this generation was summoned to the parade ground and told to train for war." Tom Brokaw |
| #3531, aired 2000-01-03 | I WROTE A BOOK! $500: This low-budget legend wrote "How I Made a Hundred Movies in Hollywood and Never Lost a Dime" Roger Corman |
| #3525, aired 1999-12-24 | "RED" & "GREEN" $200: On St. Patrick's Day, many restaurants serve up this dish, straight out of a Dr. Seuss book Green eggs and ham |
| #3385, aired 1999-04-30 | RHYMES WITH RAIN $600: World Book describes it as a "grayish-pink, jellylike ball with many ridges and grooves" brain |
| #3368, aired 1999-04-07 | QUOTABLE DEFINITIONS $400: Author who defined a classic as "A book which people praise and don't read" Mark Twain |
| #3321, aired 1999-02-01 | MAKING A LIST $100: In 1995 he published a "Book Of Top Ten Lists And Zesty Lo-Cal Chicken Recipes" David Letterman |
| #3310, aired 1999-01-15 | FROM BOOK TO SCREEN $2,000 (Daily Double): (Hi, I'm Jane Leeves.) I provided the voice of a ladybug in the movie "James and the Giant Peach", based on a book by this author Roald Dahl |
| #3299, aired 1998-12-31 | KIDDIE LIT $1000: The 1986 Newbery Medal went to this book about a mail-order bride who joins a family on the prairie Sarah, Plain and Tall |
| #3274, aired 1998-11-26 | A WHITMAN SAMPLER $200: Emerson called this book "The most extra-ordinary piece of wit and wisdom" America has yet contributed Leaves of Grass |
| #3233, aired 1998-09-30 | BEWITCHING CINEMA $600: It's the bewitching 1958 film seen here:
"I've been either too busy or too careful to get married, well now, all of a sudden, I just can't wait... just can't wait..." Bell, Book & Candle |
| #3197, aired 1998-06-23 | THE BOOK OF REVELATION $800: Satan is cast into a lake of these 2 things, & "shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever" Fire & brimstone |
| #3151, aired 1998-04-20 | JOHN CUSACK MOVIES $600: Cusack plays a journalist who's sent to Savannah, Georgia in this 1997 film based on a book of the same name Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil |
| #3106, aired 1998-02-16 | 7-LETTER WORDS $600: Book bag for baseball pitcher Paige Satchel |
| #3091, aired 1998-01-26 | MOVIES: BEEN THERE, DONE THAT $200: A 1925 dinosaur film based on a Conan Doyle tale or a 1997 dinosaur film based on a Crichton book The Lost World |
| #3068, aired 1997-12-24 | RAISE YOUR GLASSES $1000: The book "Toasts" advises that this 2-word one is inappropriate at a boat race "Bottoms up!" |
| #3057, aired 1997-12-09 | A BOOK OF VERSES $500: In 1924 "Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair" established this Chilean poet's reputation Pablo Neruda |
| #3054, aired 1997-12-04 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: He wrote "A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys" to capitalize on the success of "The Scarlet Letter" Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| #3015, aired 1997-10-10 | BOOKS ABOUT TV SHOWS $900 (Daily Double): Colin Dexter & Dick Francis contributed to a book about this PBS anthology series Mystery! |
| #2982, aired 1997-07-15 | POP MUSIC $200: In June 1995 he released "HIStory: Past, Present And Future, Book One", a solo double-CD set Michael Jackson |
| #2955, aired 1997-06-06 | ____ AND ____ $300: Term for a book with embarrassing information based on intimate knowledge kiss and tell |
| #2941, aired 1997-05-19 | BESTSELLERS $400: With his 10th anniversary book a bestseller, this comic strip's artist Bill Watterson quit the strip Calvin and Hobbes |
| #2930, aired 1997-05-02 | NONFICTION $400: You can read all about the way it was with this former CBS anchor in his recent book "A Reporter's Life" Walter Cronkite |
| #2914, aired 1997-04-10 | REDHEADS $800: She had her say in a 1922 book, "Women, Morality And Birth Control" Margaret Sanger |
| #2905, aired 1997-03-28 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $600: James Patterson's novels include "Kiss The Girls" & this 1996 book named for a nursery rhyme pair Jack And Jill |
| #2832, aired 1996-12-17 | 19TH CENTURY AUTHORS $800: "Little Mr. Thimblefinger and His Queer Country" is a children's book by this creator of Uncle Remus Joel Chandler Harris |
| #2823, aired 1996-12-04 | SUSAN SARANDON CINEMA $200: Sarandon provided the voice of a spider in this 1996 animated film based on a Roald Dahl book "James And The Giant Peach" |
| #2791, aired 1996-10-21 | FAREWELLS $800: The last section of this fifth book of the Old Testament contains the farewell song of Moses Deuteronomy |
| #2783, aired 1996-10-09 | FAMILIAR PHRASES $200: The old saying about having this and eating it, too appeared in a 1546 book of proverbs your cake |
| #2766, aired 1996-09-16 | ETIQUETTE $500: "Colorful" designation of the most formal men's evening wear white tie |
| #2751, aired 1996-07-15 | COMPANY SYMBOLS $100: This black-and-white flightless bird is the symbol of a British-American book company a penguin |
| #2746, aired 1996-07-08 | THE WIZARD OF OZ $200: In 1995 Gregory Maguire published a book on "The Life and Times of" this Oz villainess the Wicked Witch of the West |
| #2719, aired 1996-05-30 | THE BIBLE $500 (Daily Double): The name of this heroine of a Biblical book is derived from a Persian word for a star Esther |
| #2718, aired 1996-05-29 | QUOTATIONS $600: In this book Nikos Kazantzakis wrote, "How simple and frugal a thing is happiness" Zorba the Greek |
| #2652, aired 1996-02-27 | CONTAINERS $200: "A book of verses underneath the bough," this container "of wine, a loaf of bread—and thou" a jug |
| #2647, aired 1996-02-20 | TV PERSONALITIES $100: In 1995 this "Late Show" host published a new "Book of Top Ten Lists and Zesty Local Chicken Recipes" David Letterman |
| #2597, aired 1995-12-12 | BRITISH AUTHORS $800: One of the last works by this "Pilgrim's Progress" author was a verse "Book for Boys and Girls" Bunyan |
| #2565, aired 1995-10-27 | HISTORIC AMERICANS $200: In 1902 this Hull House founder wrote a book called "Democracy and Social Ethics" (Jane) Addams |
| #2539, aired 1995-09-21 | QUOTATIONS $100: Isabella Mary Beeton's "Book of Household Management" advised "A place for everything and..." this everything in its place |
| #2539, aired 1995-09-21 | GEOGRAPHY $100: A National Geographic book calls it "the world's longest and skinniest country" Chile |
| #2481, aired 1995-05-22 | THE BIBLE $800: This last Old Testament book concludes with a prophecy of the "great and dreadful day of the Lord" Malachi |
| #2427, aired 1995-03-07 | POETS $1000: His first book-length poem, "Montage of a Dream Deferred", describes the variety of Harlem life Langston Hughes |
| #2413, aired 1995-02-15 | NONFICTION $600: This first American woman in space shared her experiences in a children's book, "To Space and Back" Sally Ride |
| #2393, aired 1995-01-18 | NONFICTION $400: A famous book by Dale Carnegie tells "How to Win Friends and" do this Influence People |
| #2352, aired 1994-11-22 | BACK OF THE BOOK $1,000 (Daily Double): From the Latin for "difficult word", it's a list of words and their definitions Glossary |
| #2352, aired 1994-11-22 | BACK OF THE BOOK $1000: It's the supplementary information put into the book after the initial publication Addendum |
| #2281, aired 1994-07-04 | PLAYWRIGHTS $800: "Eight Mortal Ladies Possessed" is a book of short stories by this "Summer and Smoke" author Tennessee Williams |
| #2275, aired 1994-06-24 | ABBREVIATIONS $400: This Latin abbreviation is commonly used in footnotes to refer to a book or article cited just before Ibid. |
| #2259, aired 1994-06-02 | NONFICTION $200: "Official and Confidential" is a controversial book about "The Secret Life of" this FBI director J. Edgar Hoover |
| #2259, aired 1994-06-02 | NONFICTION $1,000 (Daily Double): The No. 1 bestseller "Healing and the Mind" is a companion book to his 1993 PBS series Bill Moyers |
| #2233, aired 1994-04-27 | NONFICTION $1000: In a 1993 book this physicist shed some new light on "Black Holes and Baby Universes" Stephen Hawking |
| #2092, aired 1993-10-12 | PREDICTIONS $500: She may have predicted her 1969 book "My Life and Prophecies" would be a bestseller Jeane Dixon |
| #2089, aired 1993-10-07 | NOVEL CHARACTERS $800: Jack London appears as a character in this "North and South" author's book "California Gold" (John) Jakes |
| #2076, aired 1993-09-20 | "B" MOVIES $1000: A bewitching Kim Novak puts a love spell on James Stewart in this 1958 film Bell, Book and Candle |
| #1994, aired 1993-04-15 | GREAT COMMUNICATORS $800: A 1983 book of this feminist's essays was called "Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions" Gloria Steinem |
| #1976, aired 1993-03-22 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $400: 1911's "Peter and Wendy" was a retelling of this play in book form Peter Pan |
| #1907, aired 1992-12-15 | QUOTES $1000: Mark Twain defined a classic as "A book which people praise and don't" do this read |
| #1877, aired 1992-11-03 | THE COMICS $300: This Walt Kelly strip began as a comic book feature, "Bumbazine and Albert the Alligator" Pogo |
| #1872, aired 1992-10-27 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $400: Prokofiev turned this Tolstoy book into a very long 5-act opera War and Peace |
| #1842, aired 1992-09-15 | WRITERS $200: This "Firing Line" host aroused a storm of controversy with his 1951 book "God and Man at Yale" William F. Buckley (Jr.) |
| #1819, aired 1992-06-25 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: This William Shirer book is subtitled "A History of Nazi Germany" The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich |
| #1815, aired 1992-06-19 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS $1000: Father Latour is the archbishop in the title of this Willa Cather work Death Comes for the Archbishop |
| #1784, aired 1992-05-07 | KIDDIE LIT $400: In 1970 this Russian count's story "How Varinka Grew Up in a Single Night" was published as a children's book Leo Tolstoy |
| #1770, aired 1992-04-17 | LITERATURE $4,300 (Daily Double): "Tanglewood Tales" was his 1853 sequel to "A Wonder Book for Girls and Boys" Hawthorne |
| #1715, aired 1992-01-31 | WOMEN $600: One book called her costume "lipstick, rouge, slippers; two fluffy fans... and a dim lavender light" Sally Rand |
| #1702, aired 1992-01-14 | NOVELS $600: His book "North and South" ends with a 1787 antislavery quote by George Mason of Virginia (John) Jakes |
| #1631, aired 1991-10-07 | MERRIE OLDE ENGLAND $1,400 (Daily Double): A 1597 book by T. Morley described how dinner guests would sing one of these together:
"Though Amaryllis daunce in green / Like Fayrie Queene / And sing full cleere / Corina can with smiling cheer..." a madrigal |
| #1615, aired 1991-09-13 | THE CIVIL WAR $200: It broke away from Virginia over the issue of secession in 1861 & became the 35th state in 1863 West Virginia |
| #1579, aired 1991-06-13 | BROADWAY LYRICS $500: "If they asked me, I could" do this "about the way you walk and whisper and look" I could write a book |
| #1542, aired 1991-04-23 | FOR THE KIDS $500: This Lucy Maud Montgomery book was first published as a serial for a Sunday school paper Anne of Green Gables |
| #1534, aired 1991-04-11 | "ALL" OR "NOTHING" $200: 1 of 3 James Herriot book titles taken from a poem by Cecil F. Alexander (1 of) All Creatures Great And Small, All Things Wise And Wonderful, or All Things Bright And Beautiful |
| #1454, aired 1990-12-20 | POTENT QUOTABLES $800 (Daily Double): 2 items that accompany Omar Khayyam's "Jug of Wine" a loaf of bread & thou (a book of verse) |
| #1377, aired 1990-09-04 | ANIMALS IN LITERATURE $600: Pyewacket is a cat & witch's familiar in this John van Druten play Bell, Book and Candle |
| #1302, aired 1990-04-10 | AUTHORS $200: He wrote a non-baby book called "Decent And Indecent: Our Personal And Political Behavior" Dr. Benjamin Spock |
| #1283, aired 1990-03-14 | CELEBRITY AUTHORS $100: His book, simply titled "A Book", is dedicated to "Lucie And Desi IV" Desi Arnaz |
| #1269, aired 1990-02-22 | BELLS $100: "Bell, book and candle shall not drive me back" is a line from his play "King John" Shakespeare |
| #1217, aired 1989-12-12 | FAMOUS QUOTES $600: "I have laid aside business and gone a-fishing," wrote Izaak Walton in this book The Compleat Angler |
| #1187, aired 1989-10-31 | "BELL"s $1000: This 1950 John Van Druten play told the tale of a witch who fell in love with a man & lost her powers Bell, Book and Candle |
| #1127, aired 1989-06-27 | QUOTES $400: "an optimist is a guy that has never had much experience," wrote Don Marquis in this book Archy and Mehitabel |
| #1122, aired 1989-06-20 | QUOTES $100: In "The Book of Household Management", Isabella Beeton wrote, "A place for everything and..." everything in its place |
| #1107, aired 1989-05-30 | DR. SEUSS $200: "And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street", which was rejected 28 times Dr. Seuss's first book |
| #1016, aired 1989-01-23 | SHOW BIZ BIOGRAPHIES $2,100 (Daily Double): Referring to one of his most famous lines, a book about him is subtitled "The Only Contender" Marlon Brando |
| #924, aired 1988-09-15 | SINGERS' AUTOBIOGRAPHIES $1,000 (Daily Double): Sisters singing here, who titled their book "Same Song - Separate Voices":
"Girls in white dresses with blue satin sashes / Snowflakes that stay on my nose and eyelashes / Silver-white winters that melt into springs..." the Lennon Sisters |
| #599, aired 1987-03-26 | BIBLICAL TRIVIA $1,000 (Daily Double): 1 of the 2 books in the Old Testament whose titles are women's names the Book of Ruth or Esther |
| #423, aired 1986-04-23 | THE OLD TESTAMENT $200: While Encyclopedia Americana says this Old Testament book should be read as a parable, we say it’s a big fish story Jonah |
| #392, aired 1986-03-11 | BOOK TRIVIA $1000: Ulysses S. Grant was encouraged to write autobiography by this author, who also published it Mark Twain |
| #263, aired 1985-09-11 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1000: 1965 book Alex Haley co-authored with the former Malcolm Little The Autobiography of Malcolm X |
| #189, aired 1985-05-30 | OLD TESTAMENT $800 (Daily Double): Book of the Old Testament from which lines of this song are taken
"To everything turn, turn, turn /
There is a season turn, turn, turn /
And a time to every purpose under heaven /
A time to be born, a time to die /
A time to plant, a time to reap..." Ecclesiastes |
| #142, aired 1985-03-26 | COMIC BOOK HEROES $100: Today they’re Bruce Wayne & Jason Todd Batman & Robin |
| #142, aired 1985-03-26 | COMIC BOOK HEROES $500: Where Superboy lived with Ma & Pa Kent Smallville |
| #97, aired 1985-01-22 | COLORS $200: A bachelor's might contain names and addresses of available women a little black book |
| #61, aired 1984-12-03 | SPORTS $300: According to rules, the strike zone in baseball extends from the batter's knees to here his armpits |
| #60, aired 1984-11-30 | FOR THE KIDS $400: You meet Chuggs, Gussets & Gherkins in his book "If I Ran the Zoo" Dr. Seuss |
| #5, aired 1984-09-14 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: Lincoln called it "the book that caused the big war" Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| #1, aired 1983-09-18 | LISTS $100: For them, "The Book of Lists" is a family affair the Wallaces (or the Wallechinskys) |
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"A five-time champion in 2001, he's now a history professor at...
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Bill Maher, a comedian and author from Politically Incorrect
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"A comedian and author, he hosts the lively discussion group called...
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Christine Valada, a photographer and attorney originally from Walton, New York
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2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $68,703...
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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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Ryan Chaffee, a tutor from Los Angeles, California
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2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $91,900...
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Jove Graham, a biomedical engineer from Lewisburg, Pennsylvania
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Season 26 1-time champion: $34,401 + $1,000. Jove's second contestant interview...
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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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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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Mike Maheu, a high school teacher from San Diego, California
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Season 25 2-time champion: $46,242 + $1,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Eric Betts, a senior from Emory University
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2009 College Championship first runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $50,000. 21 and...
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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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Neil Patrick Harris, an actor from How I Met Your Mother
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"He's received critical acclaim on Broadway and on TV, and his...
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Prashant Raghavendran, a sophomore from the University of Texas, Dallas
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2010-A College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. Hometown: Austin, Texas. Prashant Raghavendran Blog...
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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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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, a Basketball Hall of Famer and all-time leading scorer from the NBA
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"In January, the State Department named this NBA Hall of Famer...
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Regis Philbin, a TV host from Live with Regis and Kelly
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"In 2004 he entered the Guinness Book of Records as having...
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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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Emily Riippa, a 12-year-old seventh grader from Grand Rapids, Michigan
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"She is a fast reader, and her mother says she was...
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Mark Lowenthal, an assistant director for the Central Intelligence Agency from Reston, Virginia
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"The winner of the 1988 Tournament of Champions, he's an assistant...
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Scott Menke, a senior from Johns Hopkins University
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2009 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. 21 and from Flemington, New Jersey...
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Erin McLean, a sophomore from Boston University from Danvers, Massachusetts
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2011 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 2010-B College Championship winner:...
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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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Kevin Wilson, a communications specialist from Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Season 26 3-time champion: $76,998 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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Nick Yozamp, a junior from Washington University in St. Louis
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2010 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 2010-A College Championship winner:...
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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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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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Emily Heaney, a freelance costume designer from White Bear Lake, Minnesota
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Season 25 1-time champion: $2,200 + $1,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Lyndsey Romick, a sophomore from Lewis & Clark College
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2010-A College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. Hometown: Grants Pass, Oregon. Lyndsey Romick...
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Pat Sajak, a game show host from Wheel of Fortune
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"A former TV weatherman, he's gone on to become the world's...
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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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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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Wolf Blitzer, a journalist from The Situation Room
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"Since 1990, he's covered every major story for CNN, including the...
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Leah Anthony Libresco, a junior from Yale University
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2010-A College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Hometown: Mineola, New York. Jeopardy!...
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Diane Wilshere, an actor and playwright from Manassas, Virginia
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Season 25 1-time champion: $18,801 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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Harry Shearer, a humorist, Spinal Tap bassist, and voice from The Simpsons
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"He recently celebrated the 25th anniversary of This Is Spinal Tap...
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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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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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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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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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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...
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Arthur Phillips, an author from Brooklyn, New York
|
"He was a speechwriter from Boston when he won five shows...
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Michela Rodriguez, from Poway, California
|
"This future author created a board game and had to compete...
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Chuck Forrest, a lawyer and CEO from London, United Kingdom
|
\"He became a winner of the second-ever Tournament of Champions in...
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Gordon Purcell, a comic book artist from Plymouth, Minnesota
|
Season 26 player (2010-05-24). Won $50,000 on Who Wants to Be...
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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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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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Regina Merrill, from Lincoln, Nebraska
|
"She's very good at writing stories and poetry, but her love...
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Tim Koch, a 12-year-old sixth grader from Cliffwood, New Jersey
|
"He would like to be a teacher because you get to...
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Ethan Waldman, a twelve-year-old from West Hills, California
|
"This wizard of words wants to be a fantasy author when...
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Chris Breen, a sophomore at Princeton University from Springfield, Massachusetts
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2005 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. According to the official Jeopardy! web...
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Tui Sutherland, a children's book author from Watertown, Massachusetts
|
Season 25 2-time champion: $44,200 + $2,000. First name pronounced like...
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Andy Srinivasan, a high school science teacher from Garner, North Carolina
|
2010 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $69,600...
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Jean Cui, a student originally from Garden City, New York
|
Season 25 2-time champion: $14,200 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Jeff Love, a sophomore at Stanford University from Burlingame, California
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2004 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. Jeff won $1,000 on Who Wants...
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Liz Murphy, a foreign service officer originally from Scranton, Pennsylvania
|
2010 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 25 5-time champion: $121,302...
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Fred Beukema, a structural engineer from Minneapolis, Minnesota
|
Season 25 3-time champion: $69,401 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Tom Nissley, an online books editor from Seattle, Washington
|
2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2011 Tournament of Champions...
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Peggy Noonan, a contributing editor from The Wall Street Journal
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2004 Power Players Week player (2004-05-10).
Charity: The Sisters of Life.
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Amanda Hall, from Farmington, Maine
|
"Whether it's writing a biography of Yo-Yo Ma or working on...
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Marshall Tan, from Gaithersburg, Maryland
|
"His favorite subject is social studies, and he knows a lot...
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Michael Day, an attorney from Mill Valley, California
|
"As an MBA Student, he won 5 games in 1985. Today...
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Megan Fraedrich, a 12-year-old seventh grader from Springfield, Virginia
|
"And she was recently an evil stepsister in a performance of...
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Dave Simpson, a pastor from Belcamp, Maryland
|
2009 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 24 4-time champion:...
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Theodora Messalas, an 11-year-old sixth grader from Brooklyn, New York
|
"This future author and illustrator placed second in a regional story-telling...
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Patrick Zakem, an 11-year-old sixth grader from Louisville, Kentucky
|
"He would like to become an architect because he enjoys visualizing...
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Alex Nutman, a 12-year-old seventh grader from Chevy Chase, Maryland
|
"This future investment banker won 'best in grade' in a state...
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Tamika Turner, an 11-year-old eighth grader from Sylvania, Ohio
|
"She wants to be a journalist, because it’s important for the...
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Inta Antler, a retired computer programmer from Scarborough, Ontario, Canada
|
Season 25 1-time champion: $12,700 + $2,000. Inta Antler - A...
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Carolyn Young, a homemaker from Marietta, Georgia
|
Season 25 1-time champion: $30,000 + $2,000. Mother of Season 32...
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Melanie Baker-Streevy, a United Methodist pastor from Parma, Michigan
|
Season 25 1-time champion: $26,900 + $1,000. Melanie Baker-Streevy - A...
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Harris Cohen, a family physician from Lower Gwynedd, Pennsylvania
|
Season 25 2-time champion: $17,800 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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Jennifer Broders, a junior high school social studies teacher from Stockton, Iowa
|
Season 26 2-time champion: $59,801 + $1,000. Jennifer Broders - a...
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Michael Dupée, an attorney from Gainesville, Florida
|
"He was the winner of the 1996 Tournament of Champions. Today...
|
|
Tom Bergeron, an Emmy Award-winning host from Dancing with the Stars
|
2009 Celebrity Jeopardy! player: $25,000 to the Muscular Dystrophy Association. "He's...
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Chuck Forrest, an attorney for the UN IFAD from Marino, Italy
|
\"In 1986, he was a law student living in Grand Blanc,...
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Matthew Cline, a 12-year-old from Maumelle, Arkansas
|
"John Grisham's books have inspired him. He's firm. He wants to...
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Sandra Gore, a corporate researcher from Berkeley, California
|
"After five wins in 1987, she fulfilled her dream of moving...
|
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Andrew Kreitz, a senior from Huntington Beach, California
|
2006 Teen Tournament 1st runner-up: $25,000.
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Ryan Holznagel, a writer originally from Forest Grove, Oregon
|
"He was the winner of the 1995 Tournament of Champions. Now,...
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Susan Haarman, a sophomore at Marquette University from Louisville, Kentucky
|
2001 College Championship quarterfinalist: $2,500. Susan was 19 at the time...
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Emily Zhang, from Indianapolis, Indiana
|
"A National Science Merit Award recipient, she plans on becoming a...
|
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Crystal Durham, a 12-year-old from Fort Pierce, Florida
|
"She would like to be an Irish stepdancing teacher, because dancing...
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Dana Delany, an actress from Desperate Housewives
|
"She won two Emmys for her work on China Beach. This...
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Grace Thomas, an 11-year-old sixth grader from Raleigh, North Carolina
|
"This captain of the Brain-Bowl team can name all the countries...
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Taylor Gailliot, from Woodbridge, Virginia
|
"When asked what she wanted us to know about her, she...
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Leatrice Potter, from Olney, Illinois
|
"This published poet likes to read at any free moment and...
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Lance Johnson, a model aircraft engine technician from Champaign, Illinois
|
"He was the first to get to the 5-win mark in...
|
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Josh Gad, a comedian from The Book of Mormon, Frozen, The Comedians, and Pixels
|
"Nominated for a Tony for The Book of Mormon, he was...
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Michael Braun, a junior from Silver Spring, Maryland
|
2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 2005 Teen...
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Bob Fleenor, a newspaper copy editor from Martinsburg, West Virginia
|
2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 2001 Tournament...
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Jake Houser, a 12-year-old seventh grader from Aptos, California
|
"And this straight-A student would like to become a geneticist so...
|
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Jonathan Franzen, a best-selling author from Purity and The Corrections
|
"His best-selling novels are critically acclaimed and have won numerous honors,...
|
|
Nithya Kubendran, an 11-year-old seventh grader from Quartz Hill, California
|
"When asked about her future plans, she said, 'World domination sounds...
|
|
Guy Tabachnick, from New York, New York
|
"He wants to be a baseball announcer for the New York...
|
|
Kelly Scurry, an 11-year-old seventh grader from Lauderhill, Florida
|
"It's very convenient that Washington, D.C. is his favorite city, because...
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Holly Flynn, an 11-year-old from Holmes, Pennsylvania
|
"She started performing in community theatre when she was just 4...
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|
Hill Harper, an actor from CSI: NY
|
"He graduated magna cum laude from Brown University. He has a...
|
|
Josh Klein, a 12-year-old seventh grader from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
|
"And, his favorite subjects in school are math, social studies, and...
|
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Ross Gardiner, an 11-year-old sixth grader from La Plata, Maryland
|
"And this self-proclaimed sports fanatic likes all the teams in the...
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Michelle Chang, an 11-year-old from Suwanee, Georgia
|
"This sixth grader picks the most unusual places to lose her...
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Edward Lee, a 12-year-old seventh grader from Sacramento, California
|
"Of the numerous projects he has completed, making gliders and bottle...
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Dominic Clust, from Metairie, Louisiana
|
"This future lawyer likes to argue and he's good at it....
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Robin Kutner, from Newtown, Pennsylvania
|
"This member of jazz band has a cat that is the...
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Misti Coronel, a senior from Pottstown, Pennsylvania
|
2001 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $5,000.
17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Charlotte Darby, from West Chester, Pennsylvania
|
"Her crafts include crochet, origami, and friendship bracelets. From West Chester,...
|
|
Lorna Johnson, a 12-year-old seventh grader from Willowbrook, Illinois
|
"She loves all animals, especially her dogs Duke and Rudy, but...
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Wil Curiel, an 11-year-old from Costa Mesa, California
|
"His favorite subject is science, so it's not surprising that this...
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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...
|
|
Naomi Senbet, an 11-year-old from Washington, D.C.
|
"This sixth grader doesn't like to be late for anything; maybe...
|
|
Katie O'Meara, an 11-year-old from Plano, Texas
|
"This future kindergarten teacher is straight-A's in our book. From Plano,...
|
|
Will Casper, a senior from Basin City, Washington
|
2008-A Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 17 at the time of...
|
|
Alex Silady, an 11-year-old from Edison, New Jersey
|
"He hopes to be an entrepreneur, because he likes doing things...
|
|
Steven Engelfried, a children's librarian from Hillsboro, Oregon
|
Season 25 player (2009-06-01).
Last name pronounced like "ENG-el-freed".
|
|
Kate Horowitz, a science writer from Washington, D.C.
|
Season 31 player (2014-10-02). Kate is published co-author of the coffee-table...
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Sanders Kleinfeld, a publishing technology specialist from Cambridge, Massachusetts
|
Season 25 1-time champion: $26,597 + $2,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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Maria Bartiromo, a business anchor from CNBC
|
2004 Power Players Week player (2004-05-11). Charities: National Italian American Foundation...
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Sarah Marx, a junior from Chevy Chase, Maryland
|
2008-B Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user name:...
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|
Steve Schirripa, an actor from The Sopranos
|
"Once the entertainment director at the Riviera Hotel in Las Vegas,...
|
|
Keith Olbermann, a news anchor from MSNBC
|
"In 2004, this veteran reporter will provide extensive coverage of the...
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|
Iliza Shlesinger, a comedian from New York City
|
"A comedian from New York City, she has six Netflix specials...
|
|
Saad Hasan, a nanotechnology scientist from Nashville, Tennessee
|
Season 26 1-time champion: $22,700 + $2,000. Saad Hasan Nashville, TN...
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Janet Bradlow, an insurance agent from New York, New York
|
Season 26 3-time champion: $58,000 + $2,000. Janet Bradlow New York,...
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Jesse Cuevas, a corporate lawyer originally from Leawood, Kansas
|
Season 27 3-time champion: $65,981 + $2,000. Brother of Season 30...
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Allan Long, a freshman from Tallahassee, Florida
|
2005 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500. 14 at the time of the...
|
|
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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Steve Golden, a junior from Brookeville, Maryland
|
2005 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $5,000. 16 at the time of the...
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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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|
Matt Schnippert, a sophomore at Florida State University from Jacksonville, Florida
|
2001 College Championship 1st runner-up: $19,801. Matt was 19 at the...
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Lindsey Nicolai, a junior from Hampton, Virginia
|
2007 Teen Tournament Summer Games quarterfinalist: $5,000. 17 at the time...
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Greer Mackebee, a senior at Duke University from Knoxville, Tennessee
|
2012 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. 22 at the time of the...
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|
Dan Ford, an editor from Arlington, Virginia
|
Season 21 player (2004-11-24). KJL game 71. Dan resides in Tysons...
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Lyn Thomas, a library assistant from Redmond, Washington
|
Season 27 1-time champion: $13,100 + $1,000.
|
|
Wes Kovarik, a senior from Antioch, California
|
2005 Teen Tournament 1st runner-up: $30,000.
17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
|
|
Lindsay Oxx, a senior from Longmeadow, Massachusetts
|
2009 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
|
|
Tucker Warner, from Fredericksburg, Virginia
|
"At the beginning of the school year, he worked on a...
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Michael Day, a financial analyst from Columbus, Ohio
|
2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 1985 Tournament...
|
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Heather Chapman, a news assistant from Lexington, Kentucky
|
Season 24 player (2008-01-04). Heather appeared on Master Minds on 2020-05-07....
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Morty Goldman, an investment consultant from New Rochelle, New York
|
1992 Seniors Tournament quarterfinalist: $1,000. Morty appeared on Jeopardy! in 1966...
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Mark Lowenthal, an intelligence educator from Reston, Virginia
|
"He won the 1988 Tournament of Champions while working for the...
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|
Carol Hager, a high school librarian from Peoria, Arizona
|
Season 22 player (2005-09-21).
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Michael Dupee, an attorney from Cleveland, Ohio
|
2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 winner: $32,500. Lost his...
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Mike Dupée, an attorney from Gainesville, Florida
|
2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 winner: $32,500. Lost his...
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