| #9082, aired 2024-04-16 | PAGING THE FICTIONAL DRIVER $400: Paging Denny in "The Art of Racing in" this condition; just letting you know your dog is in your BMW 3.0 CSi the rain |
| #9080, aired 2024-04-12 | THE BLACK ARTS MOVEMENT $400: In response to this Black nationalist's death in 1965, Amiri Baraka wrote "Black Art", an early poem of the Black Arts Movement Malcolm X |
| #9074, aired 2024-04-04 | PHOTOGRAPHERS $400: This famed Western landscape photographer wrote a 1947 essay for the Encyclopedia Britannica on "Photographic Art" Adams |
| #9073, aired 2024-04-03 | BABY TALK $800: TV host & author Art Linkletter was one of these, a baby abandoned by its parents & adopted & raised by others a foundling |
| #9071, aired 2024-04-01 | ART & CRIME $400: "Vanished Smile", a true crime book by R.A. Scotti, is subtitled "The Mysterious Theft of" this artwork the Mona Lisa |
| #9071, aired 2024-04-01 | ART & CRIME $800: These twins & notorious London gangsters painted portraits & landscape paintings while in the clink the Krays |
| #9071, aired 2024-04-01 | ART & CRIME $1200: Art forger Elmyr de Hory is included as a subject in "F for Fake", a rare documentary by this film auteur Orson Welles |
| #9071, aired 2024-04-01 | ART & CRIME $1600: A painting by Vermeer was one of the works stolen from this Boston museum in 1990 the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum |
| #9071, aired 2024-04-01 | ART & CRIME $2000: After he caught a body in 1606, this artist fled Rome & took his chiaroscuro skills to Malta Caravaggio |
| #9070, aired 2024-03-29 | THE ANCIENTS SPEAK $2,000 (Daily Double): In "The Lives of the Twelve Caesars", it's said that his last words were "What an artist dies with me!" Nero |
| #9069, aired 2024-03-28 | ART TERMS $400: A painting on 2 panels, often hinged together; London's National Gallery of Art has the Wilton one a diptych |
| #9069, aired 2024-03-28 | ART TERMS $800: It means a picture made of inlaid tile, or pertaining to the guy to whom the 10 Commandments were revealed mosaic |
| #9069, aired 2024-03-28 | ART TERMS $1200: Sculptors sometimes use heat & chemicals to produce this green surface film on their bronzes a patina |
| #9069, aired 2024-03-28 | ART TERMS $2,000 (Daily Double): Jean Arp coined this term for Alexander Calder's inert sculptures, often made from sheet metal stabiles |
| #9069, aired 2024-03-28 | ART TERMS $2000: Marcel Duchamp used mass-produced items for objects called these, like a bicycle wheel on a stool readymade |
| #9067, aired 2024-03-26 | FEELING JITTERY $800: This 4-letter word can mean tense or provocative, like a daring work of art edgy |
| #9067, aired 2024-03-26 | MAGAZINES $1000: Melville & Emerson were among those who endorsed this magazine covering literature, art & politics when it launched in 1857 The Atlantic |
| #9067, aired 2024-03-26 | MUSEUMS SPREAD THEIR WINGS $1200: The complex called these museums, with crossed keys as its symbol, has a 19th century "new wing" full of Roman art the Vatican Museum |
| #9067, aired 2024-03-26 | MUSEUMS SPREAD THEIR WINGS $2000: The Rasmuson Wing contains the art of the North Galleries in the museum named for this U.S. city a 2,200-mile drive from Seattle Anchorage |
| #9066, aired 2024-03-25 | SO NICE, WE NEED THE ANSWER TWICE $1000: In art history, it preceded Surrealism Dada |
| #9063, aired 2024-03-20 | VIOLENT ART $400: A 17th century work depicts David with the rather giant head of this man, bearing the wound on his forehead that killed him Goliath |
| #9063, aired 2024-03-20 | VIOLENT ART $800: Sanguine, a blood-red chalk, is apt for the category; in the 1790s this Spaniard used it to sketch Saturn eating his son Goya |
| #9063, aired 2024-03-20 | VIOLENT ART $1200: Seen here is Rembrandt's 1636 blinding of this biblical figure, bereft of hair Samson |
| #9063, aired 2024-03-20 | VIOLENT ART $1600: Napoleon's go-to guy, he also sort of directed a horror pic, an oil of Marat in the bath in 1793 done soon after the killing David |
| #9063, aired 2024-03-20 | VIOLENT ART $2000: In 1637 Jusepe de Ribera painted this god, an art patron, tearing the skin off the leg of Marsyas the satyr Apollo |
| #9059, aired 2024-03-14 | FESTIVALS $600: An art studio called Poetic Kinetics created the ginormous floating astronaut for the 2014 edition of this SoCal music festival Coachella |
| #9058, aired 2024-03-13 | WORLD CAPITAL ATTRACTIONS $600: Noryangjin Fish Market & Samsung's Leeum Museum of Art Seoul |
| #9054, aired 2024-03-07 | GITALONG, OLD PAINT $400: Her interest in Mexican folk art can be seen in a 1931 portrait of herself with her new husband, a fellow artist Frida Kahlo |
| #9053, aired 2024-03-06 | OCCUPATIONS $400: At the L.A. County Museum of Art, Stephanie Barron is a senior one of these in the Department of Modern Art curator |
| #9053, aired 2024-03-06 | THE ARTS $1600: A 2024 show at the National Gallery of Art called "The Anxious Eye" focuses on this moody style, a nationality plus an -ism German Expressionism |
| #9052, aired 2024-03-05 | POETS & POETRY $400: Elizabeth Bishop rhymed "disaster", "faster" & "vaster" with "the art of losing isn't hard to" this master |
| #9052, aired 2024-03-05 | WORDS IN COLONEL JESSUP'S BIG SPEECH $1000: Hideous, or the style of art seen here grotesque |
| #9052, aired 2024-03-05 | JAZZ' GREAT DAY IN HARLEM $2000: A Jazz Messenger, but with a touch of "Flash Dance", this Pittsburgh drummer once worked in steel mills by day, jazz clubs by night Art Blakey |
| #9048, aired 2024-02-28 | LESSER-KNOWN SCIENCES $1200: Casting & tuning are parts of campanology, the art & science of these bells |
| #9048, aired 2024-02-28 | LESSER-KNOWN SCIENCES $1600: Silvics is the study of these, & silviculture, the art of their propagation trees |
| #9043, aired 2024-02-21 | ART & ARTISTS $400: A Brussels museum has a "Landscape with the Fall of" him, later than the famous one, this time with Daedalus still up in the air Icarus |
| #9043, aired 2024-02-21 | ART & ARTISTS $1,000 (Daily Double): Picasso liked to draw this bird, also his daughter's name translated from Spanish dove |
| #9043, aired 2024-02-21 | ART & ARTISTS $1200: Van Gogh is among those who painted the parable of this "Good" guy who helped someone in need the Good Samaritan |
| #9043, aired 2024-02-21 | ART & ARTISTS $1600: 17th century Dutch people you can see at the Rijksmuseum include 34 in "The Night Watch" by Rembrandt & one in the work seen here by him Vermeer |
| #9043, aired 2024-02-21 | ART & ARTISTS $2000: The violence of the works in this early 20th century art style made critic Louis Vauxcelles call the painters "wild beasts" Fauvism |
| #9035, aired 2024-02-09 | ADD A LETTER: GEOGRAPHY EDITION $400: Italian city with some history, about 15 miles inland from the Tyrrhenian Sea & wherefore art thou, village? Near Pontiac, Michigan Rome & Romeo |
| #9030, aired 2024-02-02 | BUILDING IN LAGOS $200: With collections of art & archaeology, the Nigerian National this was founded by Kenneth Murray, grandson of the OED's 1st editor a museum |
| #9030, aired 2024-02-02 | EXPLORING U.S. CITIES $2,000 (Daily Double): Area 15 in Las Vegas houses art installations originally built for this annual festival held in the Black Rock Desert Burning Man |
| #9028, aired 2024-01-31 | QUESTIONABLE MOVIES $1000: The title of this Coen Bros. film comes from a movie Joel McCrea wanted to make in Preston Sturges' "Sullivan's Travels" O Brother, Where Art Thou? |
| #9027, aired 2024-01-30 | AROUND THE WORLD $400: The Geneva Free Port, a giant warehouse complex in this nation, houses an estimated 1.2 million works of art Switzerland |
| #9023, aired 2024-01-24 | ART & ARTISTS $400: An estimated 80% of the visitors to the Louvre come just to see this portrait by Leonardo da Vinci the Mona Lisa |
| #9023, aired 2024-01-24 | ART & ARTISTS $800: Here's a self-portrait of this Baroque master who didn't make himself look too full-figured Rubens |
| #9023, aired 2024-01-24 | ART & ARTISTS $1200: This artist also directed films, like "Lupe", which featured Edie Sedgwick Andy Warhol |
| #9023, aired 2024-01-24 | ART & ARTISTS $1600: His painting of "Olympia" traveled to the U.S. for the first time for a 2023 exhibit on this French painter & his frenemy Degas Édouard Manet |
| #9023, aired 2024-01-24 | ART & ARTISTS $2000: Teddy Roosevelt compared this artist's "Nude Descending a Staircase (No. 2)" to the pattern on his bathroom rug Duchamp |
| #26, aired 2024-01-23 | BEST TIME TO VISIT $800: Serious collectors take a June getaway to Basel in this country to attend its renowned art fair & stroll its cobblestone alleys Switzerland |
| #9021, aired 2024-01-22 | TEMPERA-MENTAL ARTISTS $800: Before tempera art, John Schoenherr did book covers; Frank Herbert called him the only man to visit this title place Dune |
| #9019, aired 2024-01-18 | THE PAST, PRESENTLY $600: The 15th century Church of Santa María in this city endured through the 1937 attack that inspired a classic work of art Guernica |
| #9018, aired 2024-01-17 | U.S. STAMPS $600: A series dedicated to this art form shows men dressed in traje de charro playing the trumpet, guitarrón & other instruments mariachi |
| #25, aired 2024-01-16 | WHERE ART THOU? $200: You're snapping a selfie at this museum's main entrance, a glass pyramid designed by architect I.M. Pei the Louvre |
| #25, aired 2024-01-16 | WHERE ART THOU? $400: You're taking a dip in one of the world's most photographed swimming pools, Bondi Icebergs, in this city Down Under Sydney |
| #25, aired 2024-01-16 | WHERE ART THOU? $800: You're geeking out on a "Game of Thrones" tour of Dubrovnik, an ancient port city in this country Croatia |
| #25, aired 2024-01-16 | WHERE ART THOU? $1000: You're paddling through the heart of Budapest on a kayaking trip down this river the Danube |
| #25, aired 2024-01-16 | WHERE ART THOU? $3,000 (Daily Double): You're hiking up the Yoshida Trail, the most popular route to the summit of this sacred peak in Japan Mount Fuji |
| #9012, aired 2024-01-09 | IN MY ART DECO ERA $400: The Petersen Automotive Museum has a Phantom from this car company that "epitomizes the prewar Art Deco school of design" a Rolls-Royce |
| #9012, aired 2024-01-09 | IN MY ART DECO ERA $800: Before this music hall opened in 1932, a N.Y. newspaper glowed, "The whole theatre interior lends itself to effect of sunrise" Radio City Music Hall |
| #9012, aired 2024-01-09 | IN MY ART DECO ERA $1200: Union Terminal is a great example of Art Deco architecture in this Ohio city, as is the Taft Theater Cincinnati |
| #9012, aired 2024-01-09 | IN MY ART DECO ERA $1600: Atop Telegraph Hill in San Francisco stands this 210-foot Art Deco tower Coit Tower |
| #9012, aired 2024-01-09 | IN MY ART DECO ERA $2000: The top of Los Angeles City Hall was inspired by the look of this ancient wonder of Halicarnassus a mausoleum |
| #9011, aired 2024-01-08 | MUSIC $1000: In 1814 this Viennese composer put music to a Goethe poem & innovated the German lied, or art song Schubert |
| #9010, aired 2024-01-05 | OUR WOMAN IN THE FIELD $400: The first woman to win this prize for criticism, Emily Genauer took it (& $1,000!) in 1974 for her writing on art a Pulitzer |
| #9004, aired 2023-12-28 | HEY, WHERE'S THAT? $200: In this Bible book: "And the Lord said unto Cain, why art thou wroth?" Genesis |
| #9001, aired 2023-12-25 | HOBBIES $200: Scripts to master in this art of beautiful handwriting include copperplate & Spencerian calligraphy |
| #9000, aired 2023-12-22 | FOLLOW THE "MONEY" $200: This Michael Lewis bestseller is subtitled "The Art of Winning an Unfair Game" Moneyball |
| #8992, aired 2023-12-12 | I'M ABSOLUTELY SURE $200: He was the host of "Jeopardy!" back in 1964 Art Fleming |
| #8992, aired 2023-12-12 | ANIMALS $1000: Russian circuses have often featured these animals, a national symbol, trained in the art of juggling with their feet! bears |
| #8991, aired 2023-12-11 | ARTS $1200: As in Louis Comfort Tiffany's work, an undulating line, often in the form of vine tendrils, is characteristic of this style Art Nouveau |
| #8989, aired 2023-12-07 | GREEK ALPHABET PUZZLERS $1200: Around 1960, it was a state-of-the-art music system a hi-phi |
| #8987, aired 2023-12-05 | ROME IS WHERE THE ART IS $400: Most visitors to the Capitoline Museums don't turn to stone when they see Bernini's bust of this slithery gal Medusa |
| #8987, aired 2023-12-05 | ROME IS WHERE THE ART IS $800: Legend says that if you toss a coin into this Baroque masterpiece, you'll return to Rome Trevi Fountain |
| #8987, aired 2023-12-05 | ROME IS WHERE THE ART IS $1200: The Pinacoteca, a collection of religious paintings begun by Pius VI, is one of many museums in this enclave Vatican City |
| #8987, aired 2023-12-05 | ROME IS WHERE THE ART IS $1600: Roman ceilings, walls & floors display this type of art made of bits of material; you can walk on fine examples in Ostia mosaic |
| #8987, aired 2023-12-05 | ROME IS WHERE THE ART IS $5,000 (Daily Double): In the Gallery of Borghese, Caravaggio's portrait of this saint shows him with his head still on his shoulders John the Baptist |
| #8986, aired 2023-12-04 | MOVIE DIRECTORS $1200: You'll find illustrations from "Ed Wood" & "Sweeney Todd" among the 1000+ in the book "The Art of" this director Tim Burton |
| #8983, aired 2023-11-29 | LUCK OF THE DRAW $400: A prehistoric drawing on stone can be called a petroglyph or this, like art sometimes seen as an urban nuisance graffiti |
| #8981, aired 2023-11-27 | CULTURE CLUB $400: Jasper Johns' "Sketch for 'Good Time Charley"' can be found at this museum, 1000 5th Ave. at 82nd the Met (Metropolitan Museum of Art) |
| #8974, aired 2023-11-16 | THAT'S MISLEADING $3,200 (Daily Double): Paintings seen along the sloping path for wheelchairs ramp art |
| #8972, aired 2023-11-14 | A WORLD OF CRAFTS, NO WAR $200: The name of this art form means folding paper, which is how the crane seen here was made origami |
| #8971, aired 2023-11-13 | CITY MUSEUMS $400: The National Gallery of Art (in the United States) Washington, D.C. |
| #8971, aired 2023-11-13 | THE AUTO MAN EMPIRE $400: He had a good year in 1928; construction began on the New York City Art Deco building named for him & he acquired Dodge Chrysler |
| #8970, aired 2023-11-10 | SOUND THE TRUMPET $1200: In 1981, he & his brother Branford both played in Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers Wynton Marsalis |
| #8966, aired 2023-11-06 | A "LA" CARTE $1200: Stick around after visiting the L.A. County Museum of Art & you can see this gooey attraction right next door the La Brea Tar Pits |
| #8965, aired 2023-11-03 | ART HEISTS $400: Even the "Mona Lisa" has been stolen, pinched from this museum in 1911 & hidden for 2 years until the thief tried to sell the Louvre |
| #8965, aired 2023-11-03 | ART HEISTS $800: An early version of "The Potato Eaters" was among three of his paintings taken from a museum in Holland in 1988 van Gogh |
| #8965, aired 2023-11-03 | ART HEISTS $1600: Seen here, this Dutch painter's "Lady Writing a Letter with Her Maid" was stolen in 1974 & again in 1986 Vermeer |
| #8965, aired 2023-11-03 | ART HEISTS $2000: 14 years after they were stolen, 7 of her paintings, including "The Old Inn", turned up at a Bennington, Vermont museum Grandma Moses |
| #8965, aired 2023-11-03 | ART HEISTS $5,000 (Daily Double): In 2001 his "Study for 'Over Vitebsk"' wandered off after a cocktail reception at the Jewish Museum in New York Marc Chagall |
| #19, aired 2023-11-01 | COMPOSER PLAYLISTS $800: "Goldberg Variations ";
"Mass in B Minor";
"Brandenburg Concertos";
"The Art of Fugue" Bach |
| #19, aired 2023-11-01 | UNDER THE HAMMER $1200: Sales topped a record $1.5 billion in 2022 when the gavel dropped on art owned by Paul Allen, the late co-founder of this tech giant Microsoft |
| #18, aired 2023-10-25 | SCULPTURES $1500: In the '60s, this pop art icon recreated cartons of Brillo pads, stacking them to evoke a cramped warehouse Andy Warhol |
| #8957, aired 2023-10-24 | NOVEL IDEAS $1000: A 13-year-old boy is drawn into the underworld of art in "The Goldfinch" by this author Donna Tartt |
| #8957, aired 2023-10-24 | GARDENS $1200: As well as offering gambling & a gallery of fine art, this Las Vegas hotel also boasts a conservatory & botanical gardens the Bellagio |
| #8956, aired 2023-10-23 | THE NAME OF THE GAME $1000: The art of negotiation between nations diplomacy |
| #8955, aired 2023-10-20 | SPORTS AROUND THE WORLD $4,000 (Daily Double): A combination of sport, dance & martial art, capoeira is popular in this country where it was created Brazil |
| #8954, aired 2023-10-19 | MUSIC TERMS $1600: German for "song", it's a German folk or art song a lied |
| #8951, aired 2023-10-16 | O BROTHER, WHERE ART THOU? $400: Thou wishest to party in this South American city & climb its 1,300-foot Sugarloaf Mountain, verily Rio |
| #8951, aired 2023-10-16 | O BROTHER, WHERE ART THOU? $800: What? You drove all the way from Duncansby Head to Land's End in this country? No wonder you're tired! the UK |
| #8951, aired 2023-10-16 | O BROTHER, WHERE ART THOU? $1200: Huzzah! Thou hast undertaken a tour of Iqaluit & Yellowknife, territorial capitals in this country Canada |
| #8951, aired 2023-10-16 | O BROTHER, WHERE ART THOU? $1600: Thy travels have taken thee to Wels, Graz & Innsbruck in this country Austria |
| #8951, aired 2023-10-16 | O BROTHER, WHERE ART THOU? $2,000 (Daily Double): Zoinks! Thou findest thyself at this South American country's border with Panama Colombia |
| #8944, aired 2023-10-05 | ARCHITECTURE TERMS $800: The Philadelphia Museum of Art was designed as a vast temple in this style inspired by antiquity neoclassicism |
| #8943, aired 2023-10-04 | ART, FOR ART'S SAKE $200: Joseph Karl Stieler's early 19th century portrait of this man captures his energy & ferocity Beethoven |
| #8943, aired 2023-10-04 | ART, FOR ART'S SAKE $400: He's the former stockbroker who painted women of Tahiti seen here Gauguin |
| #8943, aired 2023-10-04 | ART, FOR ART'S SAKE $600: Dali's "Persistence of Memory" features 3 of these objects appearing to wilt watches (clocks) |
| #8943, aired 2023-10-04 | ART, FOR ART'S SAKE $800: She's the American-born expatriate whose work is seen here (Mary) Cassatt |
| #8943, aired 2023-10-04 | ART, FOR ART'S SAKE $1000: The unique modern stylings of this abstract Dutchman are seen in his "Broadway Boogie Woogie" Mondrian |
| #15, aired 2023-10-04 | A BUNDLE OF "FUN" $200: After splitting with Paul Simon in the early seventies, he briefly left music and taught math Art Garfunkel |
| #8935, aired 2023-09-22 | STARS & STRIPES IN ART $400: In 1940 & 1941, turning his gaze from war, Joan Miró produced 23 works in a series titled these groups of stars Constellations |
| #8935, aired 2023-09-22 | STARS & STRIPES IN ART $800: Frank Stella made a splash in 1959 with paintings of this kind of stripe, better known on men's suits pinstripes |
| #8935, aired 2023-09-22 | STARS & STRIPES IN ART $1200: The town in his "Starry Night" is Saint-Rémy, where he was a patient in its mental hospital van Gogh |
| #8935, aired 2023-09-22 | STARS & STRIPES IN ART $1600: Late in life this French artist got into cutouts, like the yellow stars in his 1947 work "Icarus" Henri Matisse |
| #8935, aired 2023-09-22 | STARS & STRIPES IN ART $2000: "Self-Portrait with Striped Shirt" is by this Viennese modernist who died aged just 28 in 1918 Egon Schiele |
| #8933, aired 2023-09-20 | EUROPEAN VACATION $400: 59 Rivoli in Paris is a squat turned art gallery a few blocks from this large museum with a pyramid thingy in front of it the Louvre |
| #8933, aired 2023-09-20 | EUROPEAN VACATION $1000: Go face to face with some Art Nouveau architecture in this world capital in Latvia Riga |
| #8931, aired 2023-09-18 | IT BELONGS IN THIS MUSEUM $200: The painting "Watson & the Shark" swims around in this Washington, D.C. museum the National Gallery of Art |
| #8931, aired 2023-09-18 | IT BELONGS IN THIS MUSEUM $800: It is where Ferris Bueller's friend Cameron stood in front of "A Sunday on La Grande Jatte" the Art Institute of Chicago |
| #8930, aired 2023-09-15 | MONET MONET $400: This art movement got its name from an 1872 Monet masterpiece detailing an early morning Le Havre landscape Impressionism |
| #8925, aired 2023-07-28 | TALKING ABOUT WOMEN $400: In 1938 André Breton said the art of this Mexican painter "is a ribbon around a bomb" Frida Kahlo |
| #8924, aired 2023-07-27 | RETITLED MOVIE ADAPTATIONS $1000: "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" was loosely based on this epic written about 2,800 years before The Odyssey |
| #8924, aired 2023-07-27 | WORLD CITIES $1,800 (Daily Double): Today an art school stands at the place in this huge metropolis where Rudyard Kipling was born in 1865 Mumbai |
| #8923, aired 2023-07-26 | RECENT TV SHOWS BY EPISODE TITLE $800: "Art of the Swoon", "Capital R Rake",
"The Viscount Who Loved Me" Bridgerton |
| #8921, aired 2023-07-24 | MUSICAL WORKS $2000: Each of the 10 movements of this Mussorgsky work represents a piece of art on display, created by a late friend Pictures at an Exhibition |
| #8920, aired 2023-07-21 | THAT HOLLOW FEELING $200: Outstanding examples of prehistoric art can be found in Altamira, this type of hollow feature a cave |
| #8914, aired 2023-07-13 | NONFICTION $800: From his "Art of War": "The best victory is when the opponent surrenders of its own accord before there are any actual hostilities" Sun Tzu |
| #8913, aired 2023-07-12 | READING WITH JENNA BUSH HAGER $1000: (Jenna Bush Hager presents the clue.) I recommended a 2022 novel that's as Gothic & mysterious as you can get; it's named for & set at this branch of the Met that's dedicated to the art of the Middle Ages the Cloisters |
| #8909, aired 2023-07-06 | GEOGRAPHIC ANAGRAMS $400: I would hasten to add that much of the classical world's art & ideas sprang from this city near Mount Pentelicus Athens (from hasten) |
| #8908, aired 2023-07-05 | ART & ARTISTS $200: This type of wall hanging, popular in the Middle Ages, takes its name from a word meaning "carpet" a tapestry |
| #8908, aired 2023-07-05 | ART & ARTISTS $400: One of the few women mentioned by art biographer Vasari is Properzia de' Rossi, praised for a scene carved on this fruit item a peach pit |
| #8908, aired 2023-07-05 | ART & ARTISTS $600: He was a committed revolutionary, but this Frenchman's paintings of Napoleon are among his best known works David |
| #8908, aired 2023-07-05 | ART & ARTISTS $800: Let's have a discussion about this term for a solid surface, such as wood, for an oil painting a panel |
| #8908, aired 2023-07-05 | ART & ARTISTS $1000: This "Birth of Venus" painter also did illustrations for written works like the "Map of Hell" for Dante's "Divine Comedy" Botticelli |
| #8907, aired 2023-07-04 | ART"S" $400: Like Cézanne's "Apples on a Cloth", it's a painting of inanimate objects for their own sake, or for symbolic significance a still life |
| #8907, aired 2023-07-04 | ART"S" $800: Melting clocks, yeah, yeah, we get it, but this art movement included poetry by Pierre Reverdy & was influenced by Bosch surrealism |
| #8907, aired 2023-07-04 | ART"S" $1200: Seen here is an example of this graphic printing process that utilizes a perforated material a stencil |
| #8907, aired 2023-07-04 | ART"S" $1,500 (Daily Double): One of his portraits of George Washington is part of the Andrew W. Mellon collection at the National Gallery of Art Gilbert Stuart |
| #8907, aired 2023-07-04 | ART"S" $2000: Teddy Roosevelt said of his official White House portrait by this 3-named painter: "I like his picture immensely" John Singer Sargent |
| #8905, aired 2023-06-30 | COMPOUND WORDS $600: "The Tall Building Artistically Reconsidered" by Ada Louise Huxtable calls this type of structure "where art & the city meet" a skyscraper |
| #8904, aired 2023-06-29 | PRIDE OF THE MUSEUM $600: Cairo's Museum of Islamic Art holds Sultan Jaqmaq's gilded copy of this book, with explanations of the verses the Quran |
| #8899, aired 2023-06-22 | 12-LETTER WORDS $400: An 1899 Saturday Evening Post article bemoaned the "lost art of" this, with everyone reading instead of talking to each other conversation |
| #8898, aired 2023-06-21 | COLLECT 'EM ALL! $400: Seen as folk art, these items are prized by collectors decoys |
| #8894, aired 2023-06-15 | AMERICAN CAVES $2000: Sadly, vandalism has destroyed much of the prehistoric art in Samuel's Cave in this state's La Crosse County Wisconsin |
| #8892, aired 2023-06-13 | DADJECTIVES $200: Matthew 6:9 says, "Our Father which art in heaven", this "be Thy name" hallowed |
| #8887, aired 2023-06-06 | THIS & THAT $1200: This producer of "The Crazy Heart" & "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" soundtracks has a steak--er, star--on the St. Louis Walk of Fame T Bone Burnett |
| #8884, aired 2023-06-01 | 3 THINGS ABOUT THE CITY $600: Inhale the scents of the Fragrance Museum; 25 miles from Dusseldorf; see the 15th c. art of Stefan Lochner Cologne |
| #8882, aired 2023-05-30 | MOUNTAINS $1200: These inspirational goddesses of art & science resided on Mount Parnassus the Muses |
| #8881, aired 2023-05-29 | THE ROCKEFELLERS $600: Abby Aldrich Rockefeller was a founder of this NYC museum in 1929 & her son David was a longtime donor & trustee the MoMA (the Museum of Modern Art) |
| #20, aired 2023-05-24 | 3-NAMED PEOPLE $2000: Besides painting many portraits of George Washington, he founded a museum in Philadelphia as much for science as for art Charles Wilson Peale |
| #17, aired 2023-05-23 | POWER OCCUPANTS $600: Being Andrew Carnegie's right hand helped him build a mansion with a staggering art collection at 5th Ave. & 70th St. Frick |
| #17, aired 2023-05-23 | SCULPTORS $1600: A 1928 court case determined that this Romanian's "Bird in Space" was a work of art, not a manufactured object Brancusi |
| #8876, aired 2023-05-22 | ART IMITATING LIFE $200: German artist Max Beckmann produced a contemporary painting of this tragedy the sinking of the Titanic |
| #8876, aired 2023-05-22 | ART IMITATING LIFE $400: This historical work depicts the December 25, 1776 prelude to an attack on some Hessians in Trenton Washington Crossing the Delaware |
| #8876, aired 2023-05-22 | ART IMITATING LIFE $800: A patron himself, Toulouse-Lautrec often painted this bawdy establishment, "red windmill" in French Moulin Rouge |
| #8876, aired 2023-05-22 | ART IMITATING LIFE $1000: This sculptor & painter of Western life took on Yankee football with the 1890 painting "Touchdown Yale vs. Princeton" Frederic Remington |
| #8876, aired 2023-05-22 | ART IMITATING LIFE $2,800 (Daily Double): Jan Willem Pieneman's painting of this 1815 event was to go to the Duke of Wellington, but stayed in Holland the Battle of Waterloo |
| #8874, aired 2023-05-18 | THE ARTS $800: This bas-relief horizontal panel common in ancient art didn't always depict heroic deeds; here's one showing a census a frieze |
| #8873, aired 2023-05-17 | PANTOMIME HORSE $1000: Duchamp & Man Ray were part of this art movement whose name is a French word meaning "hobby horse" Dada |
| #12, aired 2023-05-16 | 16th & 17th CENTURY ART $400: Vermeer was obviously a fan of this gem, featuring it in an earring & in a necklace, both around 1665 a pearl |
| #12, aired 2023-05-16 | 16th & 17th CENTURY ART $800: The Duke of Ferrara commissioned Titian to spend the early 1520s on this boozy title Roman god "& Ariadne" Bacchus |
| #12, aired 2023-05-16 | 16th & 17th CENTURY ART $1200: In 1519 this German painter the elder dipped into the "Fountain of Life", which depicts the Virgin & child Holbein |
| #12, aired 2023-05-16 | 16th & 17th CENTURY ART $1600: Where have you gone, this man born Michelangelo Merisi who did "Martyrdom of St. Matthew", a nation turns its lonely eyes to you Caravaggio |
| #12, aired 2023-05-16 | 16th & 17th CENTURY ART $2000: It takes a genius like this German painter & printmaker to get people excited about a work called "The Large Piece of Turf" Dürer |
| #12, aired 2023-05-16 | GO TO YOUR ROOM $4,200 (Daily Double): This room gave its name to an official art exhibition sponsored by the French government & once held at the Louvre salon |
| #11, aired 2023-05-16 | KEN JENNINGS: INTERNATIONAL NERD OF MYSTERY $1600: This Paris-trained artist's painting of the marketplace back home in Vitebsk is okay, but John Byrne's "X-Men" art? Perfection Chagall |
| #10, aired 2023-05-15 | FROM THE GREEK $400: From a Greek word for "moving", it's a type of energy as well as a type of art kinetic |
| #9, aired 2023-05-15 | ART & ARTISTS $200: From the 16th century, Sofonisba Anguissola here records herself painting this classic subject of Western art Madonna & child |
| #9, aired 2023-05-15 | ART & ARTISTS $400: 1867's "Forever Free" by Edmonia Lewis quotes this presidential edict on its base & in its title the Emancipation Proclamation |
| #9, aired 2023-05-15 | ART & ARTISTS $600: Her accomplished use of this technique of light & shadow made Artemisia Gentileschi a masterful talent of the Baroque era chiaroscuro |
| #9, aired 2023-05-15 | CHESS, MASTERS $800: (Jennifer Shahade delivers the clue.) Famed for works like "Nude Descending a Staircase No. 2", in the 1920s this great Dadaist all but abandoned art for chess, becoming a master & going on to play for France in four Chess Olympiads Duchamp |
| #9, aired 2023-05-15 | ART & ARTISTS $800: "The Swing" is one of this 18th century Frenchman's works showing billowy dresses & frolics in gardens Fragonard |
| #9, aired 2023-05-15 | ART & ARTISTS $1000: 19th century artists like Ingres & Renoir liked this subject, a French word for a woman who's part of a harem an odalisque |
| #8869, aired 2023-05-11 | MET-IEVAL ART $400: The Met's Cloisters branch had a recreated medieval cloister; the garden was a symbol of this place monks hoped to enter paradise |
| #8869, aired 2023-05-11 | MET-IEVAL ART $800: Cribs of the infant Jesus were often given to women entering these institutions who wouldn't have babies of their own convents |
| #8869, aired 2023-05-11 | HISTORIC ERAS & AGES $1000: New York City's Frick Collection is a monument to the art collecting of this materialistic era, also a Twain title the Gilded Age |
| #8869, aired 2023-05-11 | MET-IEVAL ART $1200: The Annunciation Triptych shows Mary quietly reading & Joseph working on his carpentry when this angel shows up to change everything Gabriel |
| #8869, aired 2023-05-11 | MET-IEVAL ART $1600: A set of tapestries with some threads gilded depict a unicorn; its hunt & capture symbolized this, a word for a god-made flesh incarnation |
| #8869, aired 2023-05-11 | MET-IEVAL ART $2000: With details like the cornucopia, mosaic was a major art form in this era of art made in the Eastern Roman Empire, 400 to 1400 A.D. Byzantine |
| #8866, aired 2023-05-08 | THE QUOTABLE ALEX $2000: An artist:
"Why must art be static?... the next step in sculpture is motion" Calder |
| #1, aired 2023-05-08 | ART TERMS $200: Artists like Joan Miró used drawing sticks called these, also a term for any soft shade of color pastels |
| #1, aired 2023-05-08 | ART TERMS $400: Add chalk or clay to this basic type of liquid pigment & you get an opaque, matte type of paint called gouache watercolor |
| #1, aired 2023-05-08 | ART TERMS $600: Though some Dutch vanitas paintings of the 17th century contain people, most involve inanimate objects & are called these still life |
| #1, aired 2023-05-08 | ART TERMS $800: Seen here, John Vanderlyn's "Palace and Gardens of Versailles" is this type of piece, from the Greek for "all" & "sight" panorama |
| #1, aired 2023-05-08 | ART TERMS $1000: Nothing to do with noodles, it's the 7-letter Italian technique of laying on paint thickly impasto |
| #8860, aired 2023-04-28 | IT'S A COOKBOOK! $200: We hope this Cordon Bleu alum didn't cut the Dickens out of her finger as she was "Mastering the Art of French Cooking" in 1961 Julia Child |
| #8859, aired 2023-04-27 | TAKE A TOUR $600: From the comfort of your home, you can virtually tour some of the art exhibits of this museum in both New York & Bilbao, Spain the Guggenheim |
| #8856, aired 2023-04-24 | WHEREFORE ART, THOU $400: Pop went the art--for a big pop--when "Eight Elvises" by this artist went for $100 million in 2008 Warhol |
| #8856, aired 2023-04-24 | WHEREFORE ART, THOU $800: Cast in bronze in 1904, this 6-foot naked dude is seriously going over stuff in his head in the gardens of a Paris museum The Thinker |
| #8856, aired 2023-04-24 | WHEREFORE ART, THOU $1600: Odilon Redon made an 1882 series of prints inspired by the imagery of this American author Poe |
| #8856, aired 2023-04-24 | WHEREFORE ART, THOU $2,000 (Daily Double): The installation of 7,503 gates, each 16 feet tall & financed by Christo & Jeanne-Claude for this NYC area, was completed in 2005 Central Park |
| #8856, aired 2023-04-24 | WHEREFORE ART, THOU $2000: Though called a post-impressionist, he had work like "House of the Hanged Man" in the first Impressionist show in 1874 Paul Cézanne |
| #8853, aired 2023-04-19 | MY KID GOT INTO AN IVY LEAGUE MUSEUM $800: Dartmouth's Hood Museum blew the kid's mind with art of this nearby range of mountains with the northeast's highest peaks the White Mountains |
| #8852, aired 2023-04-18 | THE OTTO CLUB $2000: In the late 1800s, Austrian architect Otto Wagner was a leader in this new-sounding style with works on the Vienna Railway Art Nouveau |
| #8848, aired 2023-04-12 | LOST WITH THE TITANIC $1200: "La Circassienne au Bain", an oil painting exhibited at the 1814 edition of this prestigious Paris art show the Salon |
| #8844, aired 2023-04-06 | STATE OF THE ART MUSEUM $800: The Andy Warhol Museum,
Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art Pennsylvania |
| #8844, aired 2023-04-06 | STATE OF THE ART MUSEUM $1200: Whitney Museum of American Art,
Corning Museum of Glass New York |
| #8844, aired 2023-04-06 | STATE OF THE ART MUSEUM $1600: DePaul Art Museum, Rockford Art Museum Illinois |
| #8844, aired 2023-04-06 | STATE OF THE ART MUSEUM $2000: The Parthenon,
Frist Art Museum Tennessee |
| #8839, aired 2023-03-30 | SPOUSAL SUPPORT $400: A 1931 family portrait influenced by Mexican folk art depicts these 2 painters & spouses (but she did the piece) Kahlo & Rivera |
| #8837, aired 2023-03-28 | FANCIFIED BEASTLY IDIOMS $200: It's impossible to instruct the elder canine with state-of-the-art maneuvers you can't teach an old dog new tricks |
| #8832, aired 2023-03-21 | BOOKS: THE FUTURE IS NOW $800: This 1925 novel about a futuristic city in 2026 became an art deco sci-fi silent movie by Fritz Lang Metropolis |
| #8825, aired 2023-03-10 | 20th CENTURY NAMES $400: Tennessee Williams is seen here with this pop art icon who's just being cool in his shades Andy Warhol |
| #8820, aired 2023-03-03 | ART MOVEMENTS $400: Renoir & Monet were part of the 1874 exhibition of this artistic movement Impressionism |
| #8820, aired 2023-03-03 | ART MOVEMENTS $800: An affiliation with Marcel Duchamp earned American ceramicist Beatrice Wood the nickname the "Mama of" this art movement Dada |
| #8820, aired 2023-03-03 | ART MOVEMENTS $1200: In the 18th century British architects began a revival of this medieval style, pointed arches & all Gothic |
| #8820, aired 2023-03-03 | ART MOVEMENTS $1600: An outgrowth of the Baroque style, this frothy style that embraced natural elements originated in 18th century Paris rococo |
| #8820, aired 2023-03-03 | ART MOVEMENTS $2000: As the name of this 18th century movement suggested, it tried to recreate the art of Greece & Rome neoclassical |
| #8818, aired 2023-03-01 | ART SUPPLIES $200: It's the item on which an artist mixes paint colors, or the spectrum of colors used in an artwork a palette |
| #8818, aired 2023-03-01 | RECENT MOVIES $400: (I'm Simu Liu.) In a 2021 Marvel film, I play Shang-Chi, who helps his family as a master of this Chinese martial art, whose name translates as "skill" kung fu |
| #8818, aired 2023-03-01 | ART SUPPLIES $400: Looking to throw clay with an evenly rounded shape? You may want to invest in one of these, like the Brent Model B Power one a potter's wheel |
| #8818, aired 2023-03-01 | ART SUPPLIES $600: This kind of paint is a synthetic resin that is dense like oil paint & bright yet translucent like watercolors acrylic |
| #8818, aired 2023-03-01 | ART SUPPLIES $800: These days, Banksy doesn't draw freehand out on the street but uses this type of template & spray paint a stencil |
| #8818, aired 2023-03-01 | ART SUPPLIES $1000: Seen here, this type of decorative tape with a Japanese name is made from rice paper washi tape |
| #8817, aired 2023-02-28 | MEDIEVAL TIMES $400: These tusk-y pigs were feared, hunted, roasted up & often depicted in art (wild) boars |
| #8816, aired 2023-02-27 | DANIEL RADCLIFFE ON HARRY POTTER $600: (Daniel Radcliffe presents the clue.) Life imitates art--my relationship on set with Gary Oldman very much paralleled Harry's relationship with this character, portrayed by Oldman, Harry's godfather & the titular "Prisoner of Azkaban" Sirius Black |
| #8805, aired 2023-02-10 | THE MIAMI VICE SQUAD $400: In 1988 she played an art gallery manager whose "vice" was being a drug dealer's assistant; "Pretty Woman" was 2 years away Julia Roberts |
| #8799, aired 2023-02-02 | ART-POURRI $200: The Munch Museum says this painting's motif was probably inspired by a stroll the artist took in 1891 as the sun set over Oslo Fjord The Scream |
| #8799, aired 2023-02-02 | ART-POURRI $400: In 1930 she did a series of 6 paintings of an oversized jack-in-the-pulpit flower O'Keeffe |
| #8799, aired 2023-02-02 | ART-POURRI $600: This 5-letter word follows "wood" in the printing technique used by Japanese masters like Hiroshige block |
| #8799, aired 2023-02-02 | ART-POURRI $1,000 (Daily Double): In 1786 this artist was appointed court painter to Spain's King Charles III Goya |
| #8799, aired 2023-02-02 | ART-POURRI $1000: For a sculpture called "La France", he used the features of Camille Claudel, a sculptor who was also his assistant & lover Rodin |
| #8794, aired 2023-01-26 | WHAT'S IN THE BOTTLE? $1000: Bottled sand art available for purchase in this Middle East kingdom; the city of Aqaba is famous for it Jordan |
| #8787, aired 2023-01-17 | "I" ON ART $200: For centuries, the most widely used type of this used for drawings was made from growths on oak trees called gall nuts ink |
| #8787, aired 2023-01-17 | "I" ON ART $400: William Merritt Chase whose 1880s art is seen here, has been called the first major one of these working in the United States an impressionist |
| #8787, aired 2023-01-17 | "I" ON ART $600: Clinton, Massachusetts is home to the museum of Russian these, holy images in the tradition of the Orthodox Church icons |
| #8787, aired 2023-01-17 | "I" ON ART $800: 19th century artist William West dramatized the book of Exodus in these people "Passing Through the Wilderness" the Israelites |
| #8787, aired 2023-01-17 | "I" ON ART $1000: Using this -ism that sounds like a magician's skill, Andrea Mantegna painted a ceiling fresco that seems to be open to the sky illusionism |
| #8787, aired 2023-01-17 | THE REAL REAL HOUSEWIVES OF... $1,200 (Daily Double): ...New York enjoy this 1,046-foot Art Deco skyscraper designed by William Van Alen & built between 1928 & 1930 the Chrysler Building |
| #9, aired 2023-01-05 | IMPERSONATORS $1200: Later Ed Norton on TV's "The Honeymooners", Art Carney got his start in radio, often impersonating this 1930s president Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| #8777, aired 2023-01-03 | AMERICAN ART & ARTISTS $200: Here's this silversmith, a teapot in hand, in a portrait by John Singleton Copley Paul Revere |
| #8777, aired 2023-01-03 | AMERICAN ART & ARTISTS $400: In 1929 she painted "The Lawrence Tree", which she enjoyed gazing upon at D.H. Lawrence's New Mexico ranch Georgia O'Keeffe |
| #8777, aired 2023-01-03 | AMERICAN ART & ARTISTS $600: One of Albert Pinkham Ryder's best known works is the macabre-toned painting "The Race Track", or this "On a Pale Horse" Death |
| #8777, aired 2023-01-03 | AMERICAN ART & ARTISTS $800: In the 1930s this Iowa native designed a mural called "Breaking the Prairie Sod" for Iowa State University (Grant) Wood |
| #8777, aired 2023-01-03 | AMERICAN ART & ARTISTS $1000: Roy Lichtenstein's comic book style paintings include "Blam" & this! of 2 planes in combat, a title reminiscent of a pop music duo Whaam! |
| #8777, aired 2023-01-03 | L'HISTOIRE DE FRANCE $2000: The first examples of art by prehistoric people are Cro-Magnon, like at this French cave discovered by 4 teens in 1940 Lascaux |
| #8771, aired 2022-12-26 | THE OFFICE $1000: Term for a group meeting to assess a completed project, or for an art exhibit covering a painter's whole career a retrospective |
| #8764, aired 2022-12-15 | HISTORY IN ART $400: Charles Benazech painted 4 scenes in the life of King Louis XVI, the last showing him about to go to this device the guillotine |
| #8764, aired 2022-12-15 | HISTORY IN ART $800: John Trumbull's painting in the Capitol titled this document shows the submission of a draft in June 1776, not the signing the Declaration of Independence |
| #8764, aired 2022-12-15 | HISTORY IN ART $1200: Neoclassical artist Vincenzo Camuccini went big; 13 x 23 feet, to depict this event from 44 B.C. the assassination of Julius Caesar |
| #8764, aired 2022-12-15 | HISTORY IN ART $1600: Benjamin West took artistic license in depicting "The Death of General Wolfe", an event from this 18th century war the French and Indian War |
| #8764, aired 2022-12-15 | HISTORY IN ART $2000: Some depictions show the 1st century A.D. Trung sisters riding elephants to launch a Vietnamese revolt against this 3-letter dynasty the Han Dynasty |
| #8762, aired 2022-12-13 | SPANISH ART & ARTISTS $400: Aged almost 90, Picasso painted himself as one of these before a huge crowd, holding a sword as if it were a paintbrush a bullfighter |
| #8762, aired 2022-12-13 | SPANISH ART & ARTISTS $800: Francisco de Zurbarán liked to paint Francis, his namesake; the patched robe shows Franciscan monks' vow of this poverty |
| #8762, aired 2022-12-13 | SPANISH ART & ARTISTS $1600: It's an old Spanish word for a pretty young woman; Goya painted several, including some "on a Balcony" a maja |
| #8762, aired 2022-12-13 | SPANISH ART & ARTISTS $2000: The title of this 1656 group portrait by Velazquez means "the ladies in waiting" Las Meninas |
| #8762, aired 2022-12-13 | SPANISH ART & ARTISTS $3,000 (Daily Double): In the 1570s this immigrant from Crete painted "The Disrobing of Christ" for the cathedral of Toledo, Spain El Greco |
| #8761, aired 2022-12-12 | CHICAGO TV $800: In the HBO version of this novel, Rose Leslie is Art Institute student Clare, involved with a chronologically nonlinear guy The Time Traveler's Wife |
| #8759, aired 2022-12-08 | PREPARING FOR THE ROLE $1600: Ed Harris built an art studio & learned to paint, or drip paint, for his role as this artist in a 2000 film Pollock |
| #8757, aired 2022-12-06 | A LEGO $200: Lego artist Nathan Sawaya has toured with an exhibit called "The Art of" this, what a single Lego is known as the brick |
| #8753, aired 2022-11-30 | A GIANT CATEGORY $2000: This Texas place of 1,600 people where the movie "Giant" was filmed is a center of minimalist art Marfa |
| #8749, aired 2022-11-24 | SIMPLY GORGES $1200: The Carnarvon Gorge northwest of Brisbane in this state right above New South Wales is a great place to see Aboriginal art Queensland |
| #8747, aired 2022-11-22 | BUILDINGS $1200: World's fairs have had great buildings, such as the American one of these at Expo 67 & the China one at Expo 2010, now an art museum pavilions |
| #8743, aired 2022-11-16 | SPELEMENTARY $2000: Arsenic +
tellurium +
radon astern (As Te Rn) |
| #8742, aired 2022-11-15 | JEOPORTMANTEAU! $1000: The art of using language to persuade
+
random bullet bounce rhetoricochet |
| #8742, aired 2022-11-15 | LATE 20th CENTURY BOOKS $1200: Robert Pirsig's 1974 tale of a trip involving father & son bonding is titled "Zen and the Art of" this Motorcycle Maintenance |
| #8741, aired 2022-11-14 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $400: One of these entertainers, Japanese for "art person", worked in an ochaya, a tea house a geisha |
| #8732, aired 2022-11-01 | ART & ARTISTS $400: Vasari stated that this famous portrait was commissioned by the subject's husband, silk merchant Francesco del Giocondo the Mona Lisa |
| #8732, aired 2022-11-01 | ART & ARTISTS $800: A man & a woman hold each other close in Dance in the Country by this French painter Renoir |
| #8732, aired 2022-11-01 | ART & ARTISTS $1200: This artist donated the proceeds from her portrait of Breonna Taylor to fund college scholarships Amy Sherald |
| #8732, aired 2022-11-01 | ART & ARTISTS $1600: Here's a portrait of this provocative photographer who was also a great art subject (Robert) Mapplethorpe |
| #8732, aired 2022-11-01 | ART & ARTISTS $2000: This contemporary Chinese artist & activist made the film "Human Flow", about displaced people & refugees Ai Weiwei |
| #8730, aired 2022-10-28 | STATE CAPITAL ATTRACTIONS $400: Crocker Art Museum & the Leland Stanford Mansion Sacramento |
| #8726, aired 2022-10-24 | PLANTCRAFT $1,000 (Daily Double): Practitioners of this 7-letter bushy art have been called tree masons & leafage sculptors topiary |
| #8726, aired 2022-10-24 | PLANTCRAFT $1600: This art of joining 2 plants to grow as one enabled Axel Erlandson to create the "Circus Trees" at Gilroy Gardens in California grafting |
| #8726, aired 2022-10-24 | PLANTCRAFT $2000: This art, the dwarfing of trees, finds its smallest entries called keishi & shito bonsai |
| #5, aired 2022-10-23 | AROUND PHILLY WITH RYAN LONG $300: (Ryan Long presents the clue.) I'll take a video & hum "Gonna Fly Now" while you run up the 72 stairs that lead to the east entrance of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, recreating an iconic scene from this 1976 movie Rocky |
| #8724, aired 2022-10-20 | CROSSWORD CLUES "M" $800: The art of making cocktails
(8 letters) mixology |
| #8720, aired 2022-10-14 | AVANT-GARDE ART $400: Curators deal with the fragile tubing of Bruce Nauman's work in this medium of nighttime signs, like "Double Poke in the Eye II" neons |
| #8720, aired 2022-10-14 | AVANT-GARDE ART $800: Eduardo Kac's "Rara Avis" included a cage filled with these; a robotic one had a camera inside of it birds |
| #8720, aired 2022-10-14 | AVANT-GARDE ART $1200: Choreographer Martha Clarke's 1982 performance piece "A Metamorphosis in Miniature" adapted a 1915 work by this writer Kafka |
| #8720, aired 2022-10-14 | AVANT-GARDE ART $1600: In 1985 this one-named man & his wife Jeanne-Claude wrapped Paris' Pont Neuf in beige fabric Christo |
| #8720, aired 2022-10-14 | AVANT-GARDE ART $2000: This Frenchman coined the term "ready-made" for works like his 1913 "Bicycle Wheel" (Marcel) Duchamp |
| #3, aired 2022-10-09 | FOOD & DRINK $1200: "Mastering the Art of French Cooking" is the 1961 book that launched this chef's career Julia Child |
| #8714, aired 2022-10-06 | WOMEN IN THE ARTS $1200: In the 1960s, she created a work of art consisting of an apple on a plexiglass stand (Yoko) Ono |
| #8712, aired 2022-10-04 | WAIT JUST A MINERAL! $1600: As an art supply, pixie dust is often flakes of this shiny 4-letter type of mineral mica |
| #8712, aired 2022-10-04 | SEE 'EM AT THE MUSEUM $4,900 (Daily Double): Picasso's "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon" & van Gogh's "The Starry Night":
this Manhattan museum MoMA (the Museum of Modern Art) |
| #2, aired 2022-10-02 | THAT PAINTS A PICTURE $400: At New York's Museum of Modern Art, you can lap up the 32 canvases of Campbell's soup cans this artist painted in the early 1960s (Andy) Warhol |
| #8703, aired 2022-09-21 | CROSSWORD CLUES "J" $1000: "Soft art"
martial art
(7 letters) jujitsu |
| #8701, aired 2022-09-19 | HISTORIC HAPPENINGS $200: Known for its art & architecture, the Gupta Dynasty ruled much of this 5-letter country from the 4th to 6th century India |
| #8701, aired 2022-09-19 | TAKE THE BROADWAY HOME $800: This actor with "Red" in his name won a Tony in his Broadway debut in the art play "Red" Eddie Redmayne |
| #8701, aired 2022-09-19 | HISTORIC HAPPENINGS $800: Once as famous as George Washington, Joseph Warren died in this 1775 Boston battle, an event immortalized in art by John Trumbull the Battle of Bunker Hill |
| #8700, aired 2022-09-16 | MAGAZINE COVERS $1000: This magazine's black-on-black 9/11 cover was a joint effort by its art editor Françoise Mouly & her husband Art Spiegelman The New Yorker |
| #8697, aired 2022-09-13 | EUROPEAN PLACES $400: The Dada art movement began in this most populous Swiss city around 1916 Zurich |
| #8685, aired 2022-07-15 | OVID $400: Ovid's "Ars Amatoria", translated as "Art of" this, led to charges of immorality Love |
| #8677, aired 2022-07-05 | THE ARTS $2000: Black sculptor Edmonia Lewis depicted exclusion in her art like this mother of Ishmael cast out into the wilderness Hagar |
| #8672, aired 2022-06-28 | OTHELLO, MACBETH OR HAMLET SAYETH... $600: Macbeth's line "Or art thou but" this sharp object "of the mind" gave a "Star Trek" episode its title dagger |
| #8671, aired 2022-06-27 | FEMALE FOUNDERS $400: Once guardian to niece Gloria, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney founded one of these in New York, now located on Gansevoort Street an art museum |
| #8671, aired 2022-06-27 | ART LOVERS $400: In a work by Corot this hero leads Eurydice from the Underworld Orpheus |
| #8671, aired 2022-06-27 | ART LOVERS $800: "Undergrowth with Two Figures" from 1890 is one of the last works by this artist van Gogh |
| #8671, aired 2022-06-27 | ART LOVERS $1600: Edmund Blair Leighton's painting evokes this doomed Celtic pair who were reunited by a love potion meant for another Tristan & Isolde |
| #8671, aired 2022-06-27 | ART LOVERS $2000: "Love Among the Ruins" by Edward Coley Burne-Jones is an example of the works of this 19th century artistic brotherhood the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood |
| #8671, aired 2022-06-27 | ART LOVERS $3,000 (Daily Double): Jean-Antoine Watteau's "The Perfect Accord" has also been translated as "Perfect" this musical term Harmony |
| #8666, aired 2022-06-20 | BELGIANS $2000: Victor Horta's 1890s Hôtel Tassel in Brussels has been called the first major building in this French-named style Art Nouveau |
| #8663, aired 2022-06-15 | MILWAUKEE: NEWS CLUES $1000: (Natalie Shepherd of the CBS58 news team presents the clue.) The Milwaukee Art Museum now has wings designed by geniuses from both ends of Europe; in 2001, a new pavilion with a removable sunscreen, designed by Spain's Santiago Calatrava, joined the original building by this modernist from Finland (Eero) Saarinen |
| #8655, aired 2022-06-03 | RENAISSANCE ART & ARTISTS $200: The largest dome since antiquity was constructed in the 1430s by the architect Brunelleschi in this city Florence |
| #8655, aired 2022-06-03 | RENAISSANCE ART & ARTISTS $400: In 2016 Leonardo's painting of this preacher in Mark 1 got its first cleaning since 1802 John the Baptist |
| #8655, aired 2022-06-03 | RENAISSANCE ART & ARTISTS $600: A master of print making, Albrecht Dürer used this grainy technique to great effect as seen here woodcuts |
| #8655, aired 2022-06-03 | RENAISSANCE ART & ARTISTS $800: Born Jacopo Robusti, this painter of biblical subjects like "Susanna & the Elders" had a name meaning "little dyer" Tintoretto |
| #8655, aired 2022-06-03 | RENAISSANCE ART & ARTISTS $1000: One of the most famous works of this Venetian master is simply known as "La Bella", "The Beautiful Woman" Titian |
| #8646, aired 2022-05-23 | U.S. BUILDINGS $1,000 (Daily Double): A radiator cap design was fittingly incorporated into the corners of this Art Deco skyscraper in New York City the Chrysler Building |
| #8638, aired 2022-05-11 | FROM QUEENS $200: Paul Simon moved from New Jersey to Queens, where he teamed up with this classmate to form a folk-pop duo (Art) Garfunkel |
| #8638, aired 2022-05-11 | BEASTLY ART $400: Not many of the great Claude Monet's works can be called these, but that's the title of the one seen here Turkeys |
| #8638, aired 2022-05-11 | BEASTLY ART $800: A 1613 painting by Jan Brueghel the Elder, depicts animals preparing for entry into this conveyance Noah's Ark |
| #8638, aired 2022-05-11 | BEASTLY ART $1200: Jacques-Louis David painted Napoleon astride his horse crossing these mountains the Alps |
| #8638, aired 2022-05-11 | BEASTLY ART $1600: The job of watching sheep is more famous, but this guy who watches cattle gets title billing in the Dutch work seen here a cow herder |
| #8638, aired 2022-05-11 | BEASTLY ART $2000: Destroyed during World War II, "Garden Path with Hens" was by this Austrian artist who died during World War I Klimt |
| #8634, aired 2022-05-05 | ART $200: "Gray Weather, Grand Jatte" tried to show nature's vivid outdoor clarity in all its nuances, according to this painter Georges Seurat |
| #8634, aired 2022-05-05 | ART $400: Born in Crete, he worked in Spain but that country's king did not care for his 1580s "Martyrdom of St. Maurice" El Greco |
| #8634, aired 2022-05-05 | ART $600: Moving from Europe to New York in 1940, Piet Mondrian cut loose & painted 2 major works whose titles contain this rhyming music style boogie-woogie |
| #8634, aired 2022-05-05 | ART $800: It was for the USA's centennial that Archibald Willard painted this work showing 3 marching musicians Spirit of '76 |
| #8634, aired 2022-05-05 | ART $1000: In the "Education of Achilles" by this Flemish master, a highly cultivated man, the lyre represents music education Rubens |
| #8629, aired 2022-04-28 | PHILOSOPHY $2,000 (Daily Double): It's the philosophical study of art & of the judgments of art & beauty aesthetics |
| #8626, aired 2022-04-25 | MULTIPLE HYPHENS $2000: There are multiple hyphens in up-to-the-minute & this similar term that sounds fancy enough to be in a museum state-of-the-art |
| #8625, aired 2022-04-22 | MEMORABLE MOVIE MELODIES $400: "I Am A Man Of Constant Sorrow"
(2000) O Brother, Where Art Thou? |
| #8622, aired 2022-04-19 | "ICU" THERE! $1600: Latin for "garden" gives us this word for the art & science of growing fruits & vegetables horticulture |
| #8621, aired 2022-04-18 | ART ON COMMISSION $400: Better known for her paintings of the Southwest, in the 1930s she was commissioned by Dole to paint a pineapple for its ads Georgia O'Keeffe |
| #8621, aired 2022-04-18 | FANTASY FICTION $400: Set in ancient China, "A Hero Born" by Jin Yong takes place in a world where this martial art is practiced magically kung fu |
| #8621, aired 2022-04-18 | ART ON COMMISSION $1200: Here's this Rembrandt work, temporarily restored to how it looked before pieces were cut off to fit into the town hall The Night Watch |
| #8621, aired 2022-04-18 | ART ON COMMISSION $1600: After he snuck in an image of Lenin for a mural at Rockefeller Center, this Mexican artist's offending work was demolished Rivera |
| #8621, aired 2022-04-18 | ART ON COMMISSION $2000: There's quite a bit of red in the painting he did of Pope Paul III with his grandsons during a visit to Rome in the 1540s Titian |
| #8621, aired 2022-04-18 | ART ON COMMISSION $3,000 (Daily Double): It was Leonardo da Vinci's patron Ludovico Sforza who commissioned this work painted on the wall of a monastery in Milan The Last Supper |
| #8620, aired 2022-04-15 | IN THE ZOOM ROOM $200: Yes, you can Zoom this comedy art form whose rules include "establish the location" & "be specific" & "say yes, and..." improv |
| #8620, aired 2022-04-15 | TRIOS $2000: A tradition in Northern European art was to show the virgin & child not with Joseph, but with this saint, the virgin's mother St. Anne |
| #8619, aired 2022-04-14 | ART, OF WAR $200: In "Exodus of Confederates from Atlanta", Kara Walker adds silhouettes to illustrations of this war the Civil War |
| #8619, aired 2022-04-14 | ART, OF WAR $400: One of his greatest & largest paintings was inspired by a newspaper article on the bombing of Guernica Picasso |
| #8619, aired 2022-04-14 | ART, OF WAR $600: The artwork here depicts this famous venture at the Battle of Balaclava the Charge of the Light Brigade |
| #8619, aired 2022-04-14 | ART, OF WAR $800: Miyamoto Saburo's painting of generals Yamashita & Percival & the British WWII surrender of this island was used as Japanese propaganda Singapore |
| #8619, aired 2022-04-14 | ART, OF WAR $1000: 2 black granite walls & a sculpture called "The Three Servicemen" are part of this Washington, D.C. memorial the Vietnam War Memorial |
| #8617, aired 2022-04-12 | ROCK ART $200: "Help" is a 2005 print by this man who played drums on "Help!" 40 years earlier Ringo Starr |
| #8617, aired 2022-04-12 | ROCK ART $400: A mysterious animal in France's famed Lascaux Cave is known as this, even though it has two horns, not one unicorn |
| #8617, aired 2022-04-12 | ROCK ART $400: Andy Warhol's cover for The Velvet Underground's 1967 debut album featured one of these fruits with a peelable sticker a banana |
| #8617, aired 2022-04-12 | ROCK ART $600: Lithographs by this late disco queen include "Jazzman" & "Hard for the Money" Donna Summer |
| #8617, aired 2022-04-12 | ROCK ART $800: The black paint used in figures on the ceiling of Spain's Altamira Cave is mostly this stuff, radiocarbon-dated to 14,000 years ago charcoal |
| #8617, aired 2022-04-12 | ROCK ART $800: For the cover of a 2019 album, this "Truth Hurts" singer posed nude against a simple black backdrop Lizzo |
| #8617, aired 2022-04-12 | ROCK ART $1000: She's painted the covers for many of her own albums, including "Ladies of the Canyon" & "Both Sides Now" Joni Mitchell |
| #8617, aired 2022-04-12 | ROCK ART $1200: Rock art depicting an animal's skeleton & internal organs is said to be in this electromagnetic-named style X-ray |
| #8617, aired 2022-04-12 | ROCK ART $1600: Though arid today, Libya's Messak plateau in this desert has prehistoric images of hippos & crocodiles the Sahara |
| #8617, aired 2022-04-12 | ROCK ART $2,000 (Daily Double): A national monument in New Mexico is named for its many these, from Greek for "rock" & "carvings" petroglyphs |
| #8606, aired 2022-03-28 | DOESN'T MEAN WHAT IT SOUNDS LIKE $1600: "A spot on a kitchen surface"? No, it's the art of combining melodies in music counterpoint |
| #8593, aired 2022-03-09 | DYNASTIES OF CHINA $500 (Daily Double): Living during a time of conflict in the Zhou dynasty gave Sun Tzu plenty of material to write this treatise The Art of War |
| #8589, aired 2022-03-03 | ARTS NEWS $400: This city's art museum unveiled a $150 mil. renovation including a new gallery devoted to Colorado peoples like the Arapaho Denver |
| #8589, aired 2022-03-03 | ARTS NEWS $2000: In France's largest gift of art back to a former colony, the doors of Abomey went back to this country, formerly Dahomey Benin |
| #15, aired 2022-02-18 | RELIGION $1200: In the King James version of the Lord's Prayer, they're the 4 words that follow "Our father which art in heaven" hallowed be thy name |
| #13, aired 2022-02-17 | VIRTUE SIGNALING $1000: This insect known for song & for returning after long periods symbolizes purity in Chinese art; it was supposed to live on dew cicada |
| #9, aired 2022-02-15 | COURSE SYLLABLES $400: 4 syllables:
This course on the art & technique of building & design architecture |
| #9, aired 2022-02-15 | COURSE SYLLABLES $800: 2 syllables:
This double-talk art history course on the style of Duchamp & Man Ray Dada |
| #7, aired 2022-02-11 | DOUBLE LETTERS WITHIN $2000: The art of training a horse in precise movements, perhaps to prepare for a competition dressage |
| #6, aired 2022-02-10 | MEDIEVAL LIFE $800: A major part of medieval Japanese art was portraits of these men, hung in temples--the portraits were--& venerated Buddhist monks |
| #4, aired 2022-02-09 | ART APPRECIATION $400: Michelangelo got 400 ducats for the 1501 assignment of this huge marble masterpiece David |
| #4, aired 2022-02-09 | ART APPRECIATION $800: Marcel Duchamp came up with this word describing the abstract sculpture created by Alexander Calder at a 1932 exhibition mobile |
| #4, aired 2022-02-09 | ART APPRECIATION $1200: Some thought Thomas Eakins took realism too far in "The" this "Clinic", "this" not as in "ew", but as in the last name of the surgeon Gross |
| #4, aired 2022-02-09 | ART APPRECIATION $2000: The website for this artist says, "He is most famous for his so-called impossible drawings, such as Ascending and Descending" Escher |
| #4, aired 2022-02-09 | ART APPRECIATION $3,000 (Daily Double): No surprise, there's an unusual clock in "Premature Ossification of a Railway Station" by this Spaniard (Salvador) Dalí |
| #8572, aired 2022-02-08 | THE LAST THOUSAND YEARS $200: In the 14th century painting seen here, it's the innovation depicted for the first time in European art glasses |
| #8572, aired 2022-02-08 | JUST "Z" MOVIE FOR YOU $1200: Art imitates life as sloths work at the DMV in this animated movie Zootopia |
| #8563, aired 2022-01-26 | BOOK BINDINGS $400: The Art of
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and Peace War |
| #8562, aired 2022-01-25 | FRENCH ART & ARTISTS $400: Pierre La mure's 1950 novel "Moulin Rouge" was based on the life of this artist Toulouse-Lautrec |
| #8562, aired 2022-01-25 | FRENCH ART & ARTISTS $1200: This onetime stockbroker abandoned business for art, traveled widely & died in the South Pacific in 1903 Gauguin |
| #8562, aired 2022-01-25 | FRENCH ART & ARTISTS $1600: The most celebrated French artist of his day, he painted works like "The Oath of the Horatii" in a Neoclassical style David |
| #8562, aired 2022-01-25 | FRENCH ART & ARTISTS $2000: Granddaughter of the Rococo artist Fragonard, she aligned with the Impressionists & her "Dressmaking Lesson" is seen here Berthe Morisot |
| #8562, aired 2022-01-25 | FRENCH ART & ARTISTS $5,000 (Daily Double): Rodin's sculpture "The Thinker" was originally conceived as a representation of this poet gazing at the gates of hell Dante |
| #8557, aired 2022-01-18 | 7-LETTER ANAGRAMS $1600: Something that can cause itchy eyes & a place to view art gallery & allergy |
| #8554, aired 2022-01-13 | MODERN ART $400: Artist Vanessa Beecroft has collaborated with this superstar on projects like the fashion line Yeezy Season 2 Kanye West |
| #8554, aired 2022-01-13 | MODERN ART $800: In the early '80s Keith Haring began drawing graffiti on blank black advertising panels inside these places around New York City subway stations |
| #8554, aired 2022-01-13 | MODERN ART $1200: Yayoi Kusama is known for immersive exhibits called this math term "Mirror Rooms"; they seem to go on & on infinity |
| #8554, aired 2022-01-13 | MODERN ART $1600: In 1995 conceptual artist Damien Hirst won the Turner Prize awarded by this British group of "Galleries" the Tate |
| #8554, aired 2022-01-13 | MODERN ART $2000: This Russian-born artist's color field painting "White Center" sold for more than $70 million in 2007 Rothko |
| #8551, aired 2022-01-10 | CELEBRITY HOBBIES $600: Though not noted for action movies, Forest Whitaker has a black belt in the kenpo type of this martial art karate |
| #8550, aired 2022-01-07 | WORDS THAT START WITH 2 VOWELS $1600: This Japanese martial art aims to turn an attacker's strength & momentum against him aikido |
| #8545, aired 2021-12-31 | MODERN FOLK HEROES $800: Famous around the world, this man who died in 1973 created his own martial art, jeet kune do Bruce Lee |
| #8537, aired 2021-12-21 | SHAKESPEARE, YOU'RE DRUNK $1000: In this comedy Sir Toby Belch asks, "Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes & ale?" Twelfth Night |
| #8535, aired 2021-12-17 | MISCELLANY $400: Ikebana is the Japanese art of arranging these flowers |
| #8532, aired 2021-12-14 | A LECTURER $800: In 1939 this man whose fantasy trilogy was still unpublished lectured "On Fairy Stories" & said fantasy is a higher form of art Tolkien |
| #8531, aired 2021-12-13 | 19th CENTURY LIT $600: Title of the Emma Lazarus sonnet read at the Bartholdi Pedestal Fund Art Loan Exhibition in 1883 The New Colossus |
| #8529, aired 2021-12-09 | DESCRIBING THE TV DRAMA $1200: Simon & Daphne, streaming steamily; episodes included "The Duke & I" & "Art of the Swoon" Bridgerton |
| #8528, aired 2021-12-08 | "ENNIAL" RESPONSE WILL DO $1200: From how often it takes place, it's the Whitney Museum's regular survey of American art biennial |
| #8524, aired 2021-12-02 | LET THERE BE ART & MUSIC $400: Pavarotti took this Neapolitan song whose title means "my own sun" to new heights "'O Sole Mio" |
| #8524, aired 2021-12-02 | LET THERE BE ART & MUSIC $800: Nearly 2,200 years old & carved from marble, she's from Melos but resides in Paris; she now has a tough time shaking hands Venus de Milo |
| #8524, aired 2021-12-02 | LET THERE BE ART & MUSIC $1200: The song with this Latin title was one of the few pieces Schubert got published in his lifetime & has been popular since "Ave Maria" |
| #8524, aired 2021-12-02 | WORDS IN ELEMENTS $1600: Mn:
this Asian art form manga |
| #8524, aired 2021-12-02 | LET THERE BE ART & MUSIC $1600: The title characters of this 1936 Prokofiev work are represented by strings & French horns, respectively Peter and the Wolf |
| #8524, aired 2021-12-02 | LET THERE BE ART & MUSIC $2000: This New Yorker incorporated graffiti into his work, & was a celebrity in the art world when he died at age 27 in 1988 Basquiat |
| #8520, aired 2021-11-26 | YOU CAN QUOTE ME $800: "Supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting", says this ancient text on strategy The Art of War |
| #8519, aired 2021-11-25 | TALKING OF MICHELANGELO $400: This "Magnificent" Medici took teenage Michelangelo under his wing & gave him access to the family's art collection Lorenzo |
| #8513, aired 2021-11-17 | THE PITTSBURGH ADDRESS $800: 100 Art Rooney Avenue: this sports venue Heinz Field |
| #8512, aired 2021-11-16 | AIRPORTS $3,000 (Daily Double): At Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport, art lovers can enjoy a sampling of paintings from this nearby national museum the Rijksmuseum |
| #8507, aired 2021-11-09 | ART CRITICS $400: In a 1435 essay Leon Battista Alberti declared that an art renaissance was occurring in this city of Leonardo Florence |
| #8507, aired 2021-11-09 | ART CRITICS $800: After seeing a painting by Monet, critic Louis Leroy derisively gave this movement its name Impressionism |
| #8507, aired 2021-11-09 | ART CRITICS $1600: Christopher Knight criticizes museums as shortsighted for funding operations by selling art--in museum-speak, this "de"-verb deaccessioning |
| #8507, aired 2021-11-09 | ART CRITICS $2000: Clement Greenberg said the 1943 work "Mural" showed this man was the greatest painter the U.S. had produced Pollock |
| #8507, aired 2021-11-09 | ART CRITICS $3,000 (Daily Double): Lawrence Alloway is credited with this 2-word term for work that uses comic strips, soup cans & the like as subject matter pop art |
| #8498, aired 2021-10-27 | ARTISTIC 19th CENTURY WOMEN $400: Camille Claudel is quoted as saying, "Excuse the dust on my blouse; I" practice this art form in marble "myself" sculpting |
| #8498, aired 2021-10-27 | ARTISTIC 19th CENTURY WOMEN $4,000 (Daily Double): Married last name of opera art director Cosima; two of her children were named Siegfried & Isolde Wagner |
| #8496, aired 2021-10-25 | WRITTEN IN THE DUST $400: In the Bible God tells this person "For dust thou art & unto dust shalt thou return" Adam |
| #8493, aired 2021-10-20 | STAIRING AT MOVIES $1200: This actor wanted to carry 120-lb. Butkus the dog up Philly's Museum of Art steps in 1976 but fearing "a terminal case of a hernia", did not Stallone |
| #8488, aired 2021-10-13 | SHAKESPEARE'S INSULTS $1600: King Lear tells this treacherous eldest daughter, "Thou art a boil, a plague-sore" Goneril |
| #8487, aired 2021-10-12 | OUR LEAD SINGER $1000: In 1984 Chris Cornell co-founded this band named after an art installation in Seattle Soundgarden |
| #8479, aired 2021-09-30 | JACK $1600: This titan of comic book art collaborated with Stan Lee to create the Fantastic Four & many more (Jack) Kirby |
| #8473, aired 2021-09-22 | ART & DESIGN $400: In the 1930s Isamu Noguchi designed an early one of these for parents; the receiver was called "radio nurse" a baby monitor |
| #8473, aired 2021-09-22 | ART & DESIGN $800: In 1894 this American known for his Art Nouveau lamps created an iridescent glass he called Favril Tiffany |
| #8473, aired 2021-09-22 | ART & DESIGN $1200: The National Company made the instruments he sings about in "Graceland"--"The Mississippi Delta was shining like National guitar" (Paul) Simon |
| #8473, aired 2021-09-22 | ART & DESIGN $1600: The opening sequence for "Mystery!" on PBS was based on the work of this American illustrator of the appalling fates of children (Edward) Gorey |
| #8473, aired 2021-09-22 | ART & DESIGN $2000: Two-word phrase for the color & the resinous material seen here; both words contain the same 3-letter sequence black lacquer |
| #8472, aired 2021-09-21 | AWARDS & PRIZES $400: Chief art director at MGM, Cedric Gibbons not only designed this award, but also won 11 of them Oscar |
| #8471, aired 2021-09-20 | OH MY GODS! $400: This leader of the Norse gods stole a potion containing the art of poetry from Suttung the giant & gave it to human wordsmiths Odin |
| #8469, aired 2021-09-16 | "C" FLAT $400: Heavy fabric is stretched tight & tacked into place on a frame to make one of these art surfaces canvas |
| #8468, aired 2021-09-15 | THE 2020 OLYMPICS IN 2021 $1600: This martial art, born on Okinawa, made its Olympic debut & Ryo Kiyuna, born on Okinawa, won gold karate |
| #8466, aired 2021-09-13 | SOMEBODY WROTE THAT $600: "How Great" is this beloved hymn that began as a Swedish poem by Carl Boberg & has been recorded by Carrie Underwood & Elvis "How Great Thou Art" |
| #8465, aired 2021-08-13 | LOST $1200: Art Fleming & Don Pardo were in the video for this Weird Al parody song "I Lost On Jeopardy" |
| #8461, aired 2021-08-09 | "A" MOVIE $400: This 2009 movie won Oscars for art direction, cinematography & visual effects Avatar |
| #8458, aired 2021-08-04 | 5, MOUNTAIN TIME $200: Notable in Japanese art, a series of woodblock prints called "Thirty-Six Views of" this mountain were made in the 1800s Mount Fuji |
| #8458, aired 2021-08-04 | ANTON CHEKHOV $2000: Several Chekhov plays were staged in the Moscow Art Theatre, founded by this man known for his acting "method" (Konstantin) Stanislavski |
| #8455, aired 2021-07-30 | OLDE MUSIC $600: Compositions by Bach include "Toccata &" this "in D minor" as well as "The Art of the" this Fugue |
| #8454, aired 2021-07-29 | HELLO, GOODBYE $400: Originally formed in 1761, was an art tutor at Versailles & was as alive as a wax figure in 1850 (Madame) Tussaud |
| #8450, aired 2021-07-23 | ANIMALS IN ART $400: Originally used as an advertisement, "Chat Noir' in the iconic poster translates to this "Black Cat" |
| #8450, aired 2021-07-23 | ANIMALS IN ART $800: On a subway car in 2020, Banksy depicted images of these "r"odents with masks & hand sanitizer rats |
| #8450, aired 2021-07-23 | ANIMALS IN ART $1200: A painting by Leonardo da Vinci shows a favorite mistress of Ludovico Sforza with this short-tailed weasel ermine |
| #8450, aired 2021-07-23 | ANIMALS IN ART $2000: In this French artist's primitive painting of "The Sleeping Gypsy", a lion lurks nearby Rousseau |
| #8450, aired 2021-07-23 | ANIMALS IN ART $4,000 (Daily Double): A highlight at the Musee d'Orsay is "Ours Blanc", a sculpture of this predator of the north polar bear |
| #8447, aired 2021-07-20 | COMPOSERS, PAINTERS & SCIENTISTS $1600: Dan Flavin was a pioneer of this art style whose name says it tries to do more with less minimalism |
| #8446, aired 2021-07-19 | WHAT'S IN THE CAVE? $600: It wasn't just mammoths--these fur-covered rhinos are depicted in 30,000-year-old art in France's Chauvet Cave woolly |
| #8444, aired 2021-07-15 | ARCHITECTS $1600: Oscar Niemeyer's Museum of Contemporary Art in this, his native country, is a landmark of modern architecture Brazil |
| #8439, aired 2021-07-08 | FIRST NOVELS $800: These "Papers" started out as captions for another's art, but ended up being Charles Dickens' first novel The Pickwick Papers |
| #8438, aired 2021-07-07 | NOT TO BE CONFUSED $400: Origami is the art of folding paper; gourami is one of these creatures a fish |
| #8437, aired 2021-07-06 | STREET ART $200: The Ecuador-born artist known as Lady Pink became famous for painting on these transports in New York City, 1979-1985 subway cars |
| #8437, aired 2021-07-06 | STREET ART $400: Shepard Fairey got in a protracted lawsuit with the A.P. over a poster he created from a photo they took of this man Barack Obama |
| #8437, aired 2021-07-06 | STREET ART $600: The foundation started by street artist Keith Haring seeks to promote awareness of this illness that Keith died of in 1990 AIDS |
| #8437, aired 2021-07-06 | STREET ART $800: Cities around the globe have pixel-style street art by Invader, whose name is inspired by this 1970s arcade game Space Invaders |
| #8437, aired 2021-07-06 | STREET ART $1000: This hip-hop artist got his 3-word name from his association with the Brooklyn street art crew the Fabulous 5 Fab 5 Freddy |
| #8435, aired 2021-07-02 | THE ART OF THE LIMERICK $400: This nursery rhyme about a rodent & a timepiece has been called an ancestor of the limerick "Hickory Dickory Dock" |
| #8435, aired 2021-07-02 | THE ART OF THE LIMERICK $800: In Ranjit Bolt's book "A Lion Was Learning to" do this, the title Limerick continues, "in the Alps just outside Chamonix" Ski |
| #8435, aired 2021-07-02 | THE SHAPE OF THINGS $800: It's the art of growing & trimming trees & shrubs into different shapes, often animals topiary |
| #8435, aired 2021-07-02 | THE ART OF THE LIMERICK $1200: A Lewis Carroll girl "grew...thinner & thinner / The reason was plain / She slept out in the rain / & was never allowed any" this dinner |
| #8435, aired 2021-07-02 | THE ART OF THE LIMERICK $1600: This prolific sci-fi & sci writer also produced "Lecherous Limericks" & a "Grossery" of limericks--we'll quote neither Isaac Asimov |
| #8435, aired 2021-07-02 | THE ART OF THE LIMERICK $2000: 19th century first & last lines often ended with the same word, as in this nonsense master's "There was an old man with a beard" Lear |
| #8434, aired 2021-07-01 | NONFICTION $800: "The Monk of Mokha" tells of a man hoping to revive this country's art of coffee making Yemen |
| #8431, aired 2021-06-28 | SOUND GARDEN $800: I use wind chimes in my garden as part of this 2-word Chinese art that aspires to harmonious balance feng shui |
| #8428, aired 2021-06-23 | ART & ARTISTS $400: A Barcelona museum added glass to block toxic fumes from an Alexander Calder fountain that pumps not water but this liquid metal mercury |
| #8428, aired 2021-06-23 | ART & ARTISTS $800: "Ferret in a Brothel" & "Elvis Descending a Staircase" are 2 of the terrible paintings in MOBA, the Museum of this Bad Art |
| #8428, aired 2021-06-23 | ART & ARTISTS $1600: The Reichstag was draped in fabric by the husband & wife team of this man & Jeanne-Claude, who were born on the same day Christo |
| #8428, aired 2021-06-23 | ART & ARTISTS $2,000 (Daily Double): Lesser-known works by this American painter included a "Nocturne in Black & Gold" & a work of "Harmony in Blue & Brown" James Abbott McNeil Whistler |
| #8428, aired 2021-06-23 | ART & ARTISTS $2000: An annual floating parade in the Netherlands is named for this artist & seeks to emulate his "Earthly Delights" Hieronymus Bosch |
| #8425, aired 2021-06-18 | BIBLICAL ART $400: For the Sistine Chapel, Michelangelo painted "The Fall of Man" & "The Expulsion from" this place the Garden of Eden |
| #8425, aired 2021-06-18 | BIBLICAL ART $800: Seen here on a 14th century German panel is Jesus, raising him from the dead Lazarus |
| #8425, aired 2021-06-18 | BIBLICAL ART $1200: Tintoretto painted "The Conversion of Saint Paul" on his way to this city Damascus |
| #8425, aired 2021-06-18 | BIBLICAL ART $2000: Van Dyck depicted Jesus crowned with thorns in this painting whose name means "behold the man" Ecce Homo |
| #8425, aired 2021-06-18 | BIBLICAL ART $5,000 (Daily Double): Stolen in Israel in 1996, this Russian-born artist's "Jacob's Ladder" was recovered in 2015 & sold at auction in 2020 Marc Chagall |
| #8417, aired 2021-06-08 | FREDERICK LAW OLMSTED $200: Olmsted & Calvert Vaux designed this 840-acre green space, which now has a zoo, a reservoir & the Metropolitan Museum of Art Central Park |
| #8417, aired 2021-06-08 | LATE $800: In Italy the late Gothic period of art was centered in Siena & this big city just to the north Florence |
| #8413, aired 2021-06-02 | ART MOVEMENTS $400: The Incoherents had fun with art: Eugène Bataille depicted this Leonardo da Vinci gal enjoying a pipe the Mona Lisa |
| #8413, aired 2021-06-02 | ART MOVEMENTS $1200: Named for Orpheus, Orphism was an offshoot of this other "-ism" of Georges Braque Cubism |
| #8413, aired 2021-06-02 | ART MOVEMENTS $1600: Henri Matisse was the leader of this "wild beast" art movement that flourished in the early 1900s Fauvism |
| #8413, aired 2021-06-02 | ART MOVEMENTS $2000: Led by Robert Henri, "The Eight" were a group of artists who tried to show a grittier side of city life in this "rubbish" movement the Ashcan School |
| #8413, aired 2021-06-02 | ART MOVEMENTS $3,000 (Daily Double): With work like "Indefinite Divisibility", Yves Tanguy helped import this European movement to the United States Surrealism |
| #8411, aired 2021-05-31 | SOUVENIRS $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents from New York City.) A hippopotamus nicknamed William is the mascot of the 5th Avenue outpost of this venerable New York City museum; a replica of him makes a good souvenir the Met (the Metropolitan Museum of Art) |
| #8410, aired 2021-05-28 | KEEPING UP WITH THE JOANS $1200: Like Willem de Kooning & Jackson Pollock, Joan Mitchell was a leading figure in this 2-word art movement abstract expressionism |
| #8407, aired 2021-05-25 | A PALACE IN HISTORY $1600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna, Austria.) Bergl's wall art in the ground floor suite furnished for this Hapsburg queen in the 1770s was meant to merge with the real landscape outside Maria Theresa |
| #8407, aired 2021-05-25 | THE FINEST OF FINE ARTS $1600: In physics it's a type of energy; in art it's a type of sculpture involving movement, like the works of Takis, which use magnetism kinetic |
| #8405, aired 2021-05-21 | PAINTING, NOT THE ART KIND $200: Earl Scheib started making money painting these in the 1930s at the corner of Whitworth & Fairfax in Los Angeles cars |
| #8405, aired 2021-05-21 | PAINTING, NOT THE ART KIND $400: Matte, satin & eggshell are types of this, one vowel sound different from "shine" sheen |
| #8405, aired 2021-05-21 | PAINTING, NOT THE ART KIND $600: This brand founded in 1907 says it's the legacy of a paint-making process devised in 16th century Holland Dutch Boy |
| #8405, aired 2021-05-21 | PAINTING, NOT THE ART KIND $800: You can make good money if you're up for climbing 600-foot towers of this bridge over the Hudson to keep it looking good the George Washington Bridge |
| #8405, aired 2021-05-21 | PAINTING, NOT THE ART KIND $1000: Antifouling paint for boat bottoms helps repel these sticky organisms known as "crusty foulers" barnacles |
| #8403, aired 2021-05-19 | -OLA $2000: In the 1490s, this religious reformer led a puritanical regime in Florence that burned books & art Savonarola |
| #8400, aired 2021-05-14 | THE ART OF LEADERSHIP $200: In the 1840s this British queen got a court injunction to prevent family sketches she had made from being published Queen Victoria |
| #8400, aired 2021-05-14 | THE ART OF LEADERSHIP $400: A painting by this Russian leader sold for more than $1 million in a charity auction--no word on if he was shirtless when he painted it Putin |
| #8400, aired 2021-05-14 | THE ART OF LEADERSHIP $600: An exhibit of his "Portraits of Courage" paintings was held at his Presidential Center in Texas George W. Bush |
| #8400, aired 2021-05-14 | THE ART OF LEADERSHIP $800: A portrait of the 16th president was painted by this 34th president in 1953 Eisenhower |
| #8400, aired 2021-05-14 | THE ART OF LEADERSHIP $1000: In 2003 Jimmy Carter painted himself holding the hands of these 2 men at the 1978 Camp David Accords Menachem Begin & Anwar Sadat |
| #8397, aired 2021-05-11 | THAT'S FIT TO PRINT $200: A famous sonnet asks, "Shall I compare thee to" this? "Thou art more lovely and more temperate" a summer's day |
| #8396, aired 2021-05-10 | JACQUES $2000: Seen here is a self-portrait by him in 1794, when he was a dominating figure in the French art world Jacques-Louis David |
| #8394, aired 2021-05-06 | ON SPEAKING $800: There's a silent "H" in this art form that served the Greeks & Romans well in speaking & writing rhetoric |
| #8393, aired 2021-05-05 | MOVIE RULES $800: Mr. Miyagi teaches Daniel-san the first rule of this martial art: "For defense only" karate |
| #8391, aired 2021-05-03 | A WORD FROM THE GREEK FOR... $1600: For "hidden" & "writing": the art & study of secure communication cryptology (or cryptography) |
| #8385, aired 2021-04-23 | 3 O's $2000: This ornate style of art & architecture originated in France in the early 1700s Rococo |
| #8382, aired 2021-04-20 | 17-LETTER WORDS $2,000 (Daily Double): Critic Roger Fry coined this term for the late 19th century art style of Seurat & Gauguin Postimpressionism |
| #8376, aired 2021-04-12 | ART & ARTISTS $200: Jasper Johns completed the first of his paintings of this in 1955, so he only had to do 48 stars the U.S. flag |
| #8376, aired 2021-04-12 | ART & ARTISTS $400: In 1924 Andre Breton left this art -ism to help begin the equally wacky Surrealism Dadaism |
| #8376, aired 2021-04-12 | ART & ARTISTS $600: The subject of a 2014 film, Margaret Keane was noted for her paintings of waifs with this distinction, the film's title big eyes |
| #8376, aired 2021-04-12 | ART & ARTISTS $800: "Apples and Oranges" is by this influential post-impressionist whom Henri Matisse called "The Father of Us All" (Paul) Cézanne |
| #8376, aired 2021-04-12 | ART & ARTISTS $1000: Historically impossible, this Raphael painting put Pythagoras, Epicurus, Socrates & Diogenes all in one "School" the Athens School |
| #8376, aired 2021-04-12 | BILL OF WRITES $2000: Known for art as well as poetry, this Londoner was apprenticed to the engraver James Basire for 50 guineas William Blake |
| #8367, aired 2021-03-30 | HISTORY $600: Days after crossing the Delaware, Washington won the battle of this place but the painting is in rival Yale's art gallery Princeton |
| #8362, aired 2021-03-23 | SOLD AT AUCTION $2000: Christie's recently offered art, objects &, of course, photos from this late former husband of Princess Margaret Lord Snowdon |
| #8361, aired 2021-03-22 | 20th CENTURY ART & ARTISTS $400: Julian Schnabel's portrait of this pop artist depicts him wearing a girdle made necessary when he was shot in 1968 Andy Warhol |
| #8361, aired 2021-03-22 | 20th CENTURY ART & ARTISTS $800: This city's Millennium Park is home to Anish Kapoor's "Cloud Gate", also known as the Bean Chicago |
| #8361, aired 2021-03-22 | 20th CENTURY ART & ARTISTS $1200: A pioneer of the multimedia events called Happenings, Al Hansen was also the grandfather of this innovative alt-rock musician Beck Hansen |
| #8361, aired 2021-03-22 | 20th CENTURY ART & ARTISTS $1600: A book called "The Magic Mirror of" this Dutch artist gives insight into how he created those optical effects M.C. Escher |
| #8361, aired 2021-03-22 | 20th CENTURY ART & ARTISTS $2000: This 20th century American artist depicted loneliness in his isolated urban figures, as in "Automat" Hopper |
| #8359, aired 2021-03-18 | BOYS $2000: The Soggy Bottom Boys was a fictional band formed by the chain gang escapees in this film O Brother, Where Art Thou? |
| #8357, aired 2021-03-16 | THAILAND $1200: Thailand's most popular sport is this martial art with a 2-word name Muay Thai |
| #8356, aired 2021-03-15 | ART $400: In 2017 this former first lady chose Amy Sherald to paint her portrait for the National Portrait Gallery Michelle Obama |
| #8356, aired 2021-03-15 | ART $800: In the 1940s & '50s this artist's drip technique opened the way to what was referred to as "action painting" Jackson Pollock |
| #8356, aired 2021-03-15 | ART $1200: This sleek style is better known in architecture, but was used in painting, as in Tamara de Lempicka's 1929 self portrait art deco |
| #8356, aired 2021-03-15 | ART $1600: Alessandro Filipepi, Sandro for short, was the real name of this man who painted "La Primavera" around 1480 Botticelli |
| #8356, aired 2021-03-15 | ART $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from Hauptmarkt Square in Nuremberg, Germany.) Many great artists have called Nuremberg home, including this Renaissance master renown for both paintings like his self-portrait & woodcuts like the series "The Revelation of St. John" Albrecht Durer |
| #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 |
| #8342, aired 2021-02-23 | MUSEUM MUST-SEES $2000: At this art museum in Florence: Raphael's "Madonna of the Goldfinch" the Uffizi |
| #8341, aired 2021-02-22 | THERE'S A BOOK IN MY MOVIE $1000: Naturally, "Mastering the Art of French Cooking" is at the heart of this film with Amy Adams & Meryl Streep Julie & Julia |
| #8339, aired 2021-02-18 | A DEFINING MOMENT $1200: "Decorative fringe", or "the art of tying knots in patterns" macrame |
| #8339, aired 2021-02-18 | A "GRAPHY" DESCRIPTION $1200: The art of producing formal lettering with a brush or a pen calligraphy |
| #8332, aired 2021-02-09 | SQUID PRO QUO $800: As seen in cover art, the crew in this Jules Verne tale had to fight off the deadly tentacles of a nasty beast Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea |
| #8323, aired 2021-01-27 | OCCUPATIONS $600: The Metropolitan Museum of Art has a sauceboat made by noted equestrian Paul Revere as part of this, his day job silversmith |
| #8321, aired 2021-01-25 | TAEKWONDO $200: (Zee James presents the clue.) Taekwondo means the art of kicking & punching, & it's renowned for powerful kicks like this turning one with the circular structure in its name roundhouse |
| #8311, aired 2021-01-11 | NEW YORK SOCIETY $600: Head to the Hispanic Society of America for a dazzling art collection, like Martín Gómez's 16th century retablo, also known as this type of piece an altarpiece |
| #8311, aired 2021-01-11 | AMERICAN ARTISTS $2000: The painting seen here shows the influence of Jackson Pollock on the art of this woman, his wife (Lee) Krasner |
| #8310, aired 2021-01-08 | IT'S THE LITTLE THINGS $400: Originating in Asia, it's the art of growing miniature trees, like the one seen here bonsai |
| #8301, aired 2020-12-14 | OLYMPIC SPORTS YOU CAN DO BAREFOOT $1000: Prince Albert of Monaco was awarded a black belt in this martial art that's done barefoot at the Olympics judo |
| #8300, aired 2020-12-11 | THE NOT-SO-WILD WEST $1000: An army post & then a cowtown, this Texas city got some culture in 1892 when 25 ladies founded its art gallery Fort Worth |
| #8296, aired 2020-12-07 | MUSEUMS $1200: Vent Haven Museum in Fort Mitchell, Kentucky is dedicated to the art of using these puppets, like Charlie McCarthy ventriloquism |
| #8296, aired 2020-12-07 | MUSEUMS $1600: Grant Wood's "American Gothic" resides at the Art Institute of this city, built for the Columbian Exposition of 1893 Chicago |
| #8292, aired 2020-12-01 | OOOH...FIREWORKS! $2,000 (Daily Double): From Greek words meaning "fire" & "art", this is the craft of making & shooting off fireworks pyrotechnics |
| #8289, aired 2020-11-26 | ART & ARTISTS $200: Robert Delaunay introduced vibrant color into Cubism & is known for his series of paintings of this French structure the Eiffel Tower |
| #8289, aired 2020-11-26 | ART & ARTISTS $400: Some scholars suggest that Leonardo da Vinci disguised himself as a woman for this portrait aka "La Gioconda" Mona Lisa |
| #8289, aired 2020-11-26 | ART & ARTISTS $600: Mauritshuis, a museum in this seat of Dutch government, is home to "Girl with a Pearl Earring" & "The Goldfinch" The Hague |
| #8289, aired 2020-11-26 | ART & ARTISTS $800: Berthe Morisot's brother-in-law, he influenced the Impressionists with works like "Luncheon on the Grass" Édouard Manet |
| #8289, aired 2020-11-26 | ART & ARTISTS $1,800 (Daily Double): This artist called his New York studio "The Factory" Andy Warhol |
| #8284, aired 2020-11-19 | PATRIOTIC ART? $200: Lots of stars in Lieve Verschuier's painting of Dutch folk watching one of these in the sky in 1680 a comet |
| #8284, aired 2020-11-19 | PATRIOTIC ART? $600: Abstract artist Sean Scully has been painting stripes for decades, inspired by the traditional djellaba of this continent Africa |
| #8284, aired 2020-11-19 | PATRIOTIC ART? $800: Before moving southwest, she loved the Adirondacks & painted a starlit night over Lake George Georgia O'Keeffe |
| #8284, aired 2020-11-19 | PATRIOTIC ART? $1000: Gene Davis liked painting stripes; here's the 400-foot work titled "Franklin's Footpath" he put in front of this city's Museum of Art Philadelphia |
| #8284, aired 2020-11-19 | PATRIOTIC ART? $5,000 (Daily Double): Asked for a nativity scene, British artist Edward Burne-Jones produced an 8 x 12 foot watercolor "Star of" this city Bethlehem |
| #8282, aired 2020-11-17 | AROUND THE GARDEN $2000: The diamond-shaped red & green leaves of this plant, named for tiled art, made it a popular choice to float in your pond mosaic |
| #8273, aired 2020-11-04 | SEEING RED $2000: As seen in Titian's "Assumption of the Virgin" from the year 1518, this wormy, vivid red was widely used in medieval and Renaissance art vermillion |
| #8271, aired 2020-11-02 | ART APPRECIATION $400: In 1877 2 Rembrandts were part of a 1 mil.-franc buy; in 2015 the Rijksmuseum & this French museum bought them for 160 million euros the Louvre |
| #8271, aired 2020-11-02 | ART APPRECIATION $800: In 1958 "Salvator Mundi" sold at Sotheby's for 45 pounds; in 2017 it fetched $450 mil. after attribution to this Italian Leonardo |
| #8271, aired 2020-11-02 | ART APPRECIATION $1200: A New York couple paid $212,500 for 15 paintings by this Spaniard in 1956; in 2015 a single one of them sold for $179 million Picasso |
| #8271, aired 2020-11-02 | ART APPRECIATION $1600: A collector inherited this artist's Tahiti-set painting "When Will You Marry"; in 2015 he sold it for $300 million Gauguin |
| #8271, aired 2020-11-02 | ART APPRECIATION $2000: In 2014 a dealer paid $80 million for an abstract painting by this Russian American, then sold it for $189 million Mark Rothko |
| #8268, aired 2020-10-28 | AROUND THE USA $600: The Hood Art Museum is an attraction in Hanover, a college town in this state New Hampshire |
| #8265, aired 2020-10-23 | THAT IS SO SOCAL $400: Many Southern California kids got turned on to Renaissance art by Mona Lisa in bricks at this theme park Legoland |
| #8263, aired 2020-10-21 | ARCHITECTS & ARCHITECTURE $1200: Travertine stone reflecting the Los Angeles sunlight is a feature of this art "Center" named for an oil tycoon the Getty |
| #8262, aired 2020-10-20 | YOU GOTTA HAVE "ART" $400: Eggs Sardou uses the hearts of these veggies artichokes |
| #8262, aired 2020-10-20 | YOU GOTTA HAVE "ART" $800: To. Say. Clearly. In. Distinct. Syllables. 10. Letters. articulate |
| #8262, aired 2020-10-20 | YOU GOTTA HAVE "ART" $1200: Adjective referring to vessels that carry blood away from the heart arterial |
| #8262, aired 2020-10-20 | YOU GOTTA HAVE "ART" $1600: Named for an old province in France, these "wells" don't require pumps, as they flow under natural pressure artesian |
| #8262, aired 2020-10-20 | YOU GOTTA HAVE "ART" $2000: General term for a weapon like a missile launcher artillery |
| #8260, aired 2020-10-16 | 2-LETTER WORDS $200: This abbreviated word is sometimes found before art & after photo op |
| #8259, aired 2020-10-15 | WHERE HAVE I SEEN THOSE STAIRS? $400: The stairs leading up to this city's Museum of Art were famously climbed in a training montage from "Rocky" Philadelphia |
| #8256, aired 2020-10-12 | THEIR BAR OR BAT MITZVAH $400: At his 1954 bar mitzvah he sang for 4 hours; Paul Simon was there & must have been impressed Art Garfunkel |
| #8255, aired 2020-10-09 | SNAP, CRACKLE OR POP $1000: Roy Lichtenstein was known as a creator of this type of art pop art |
| #8255, aired 2020-10-09 | WHERE AM I? $1000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents the clue.) I’m at this premier U.S. art and design college in New England, a leader in attracting extraordinary creative people since its founding in 1877 RISD (the Rhode Island School of Design) |
| #8249, aired 2020-10-01 | EVERY DAY'S A HOLIDAY $400: In Japan, November the 11th is a holiday celebrating this art form origami |
| #8244, aired 2020-09-24 | SCULPTURE $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents by a display monitor.) Evolving from cave art, examples of this type of sculpture includes sunken, low or bas, and high or alto relief |
| #8242, aired 2020-09-22 | YOU GOTTA FIGHT! $200: Before becoming a UFC champ, Ronda Rousey was the 1st U.S. woman to win an Olympic medal in this martial art judo |
| #8238, aired 2020-09-16 | THE NAVAJO $400: Legend says the Spider Man invented the loom & the Spider Woman this art for which the Navajo are renowned weaving |
| #8238, aired 2020-09-16 | THE NAVAJO $800: The Navajo are renowned for the "smithing" of this precious metal, an art likely brought from Mexico in the mid-1800s silver |
| #8232, aired 2020-06-09 | WOMEN ARTISTS $1200: In the '60s British painter Bridget Riley was a leader of this movement that played tricks on your eyes Op art |
| #8230, aired 2020-06-05 | ALL ABOUT ART $400: Rembrandt painted many biblical scenes, including "The Blinding of" this strong man Samson |
| #8230, aired 2020-06-05 | ALL ABOUT ART $800: This Impressionist's series paintings, done under different light & weather conditions, included haystacks & the Houses of Parliament Monet |
| #8230, aired 2020-06-05 | ALL ABOUT ART $1200: Sinners are headed down, down, down in a detail from this part of the Sistine Chapel with a final-sounding name The Last Judgment |
| #8230, aired 2020-06-05 | ALL ABOUT ART $1600: This artist is seen here in New Mexico, holding one of her own canvasses (Georgia) O'Keeffe |
| #8224, aired 2020-05-28 | MYTHOLOGY $1000: In art from the 400s B.C., Odysseus is offered a drink by this sorceress who had already turned his men into swine Circe |
| #8218, aired 2020-05-20 | LITERARY LANDMARKS $1200: Visit the art deco building in NYC where Erich Maria Remarque, author of this antiwar novel about WWI, lived until his death All Quiet on the Western Front |
| #8217, aired 2020-05-19 | "A" BEFORE "E" $400: The world federation for this Olympic martial art is headquartered in Seoul taekwondo |
| #8215, aired 2020-05-01 | EUROPEAN MUSEUMS $2000: This Portuguese city is famous for wine but its Serralves Museum specializes in non-aged art, from the 1960s & later Porto |
| #8210, aired 2020-04-24 | GET YOUR KICKS $200: The grand battement is a high-kicking movement in this art form ballet |
| #8209, aired 2020-04-23 | DRAW ME $1600: Here's a portrait of this guy who was known for his "Art of War" Sun-tzu |
| #8203, aired 2020-04-15 | POETRY $1600: Prophetically, she wrote in "Lady Lazarus", "Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well" (Sylvia) Plath |
| #8201, aired 2020-04-13 | ARTS & CULTURE $1000: This longtime exhibit of officially sanctioned French art crammed paintings onto walls the Salon |
| #8198, aired 2020-04-08 | ARCHITECTURE $2000: We'll be frank--this architect designed Paris' Louis Vuitton Foundation art Museum; as it turns out, he'll be Frank Frank Gehry |
| #8196, aired 2020-04-06 | ART HISTORY $400: Not quite 5 inches tall, a statuette found in Austria is known as this love goddess of Willendorf Venus |
| #8196, aired 2020-04-06 | ART HISTORY $800: Georges Braque & this Spaniard are considered the founders of Cubism Picasso |
| #8196, aired 2020-04-06 | ART HISTORY $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents by a display monitor.) In 1654, the city of Delft was devastated by a gunpowder explosion depicted here; Rembrandt's student Carel Fabritius didn't survive, but this now-famous painting of his did, and went on to inspire a best-selling novel of the same name The Goldfinch |
| #8196, aired 2020-04-06 | ART HISTORY $1600: Michelangelo was 33 in 1508 when he began painting this Vatican chapel the Sistine Chapel |
| #8196, aired 2020-04-06 | ART HISTORY $2000: One of the tours at the Belgian museum dedicated to this surrealist is titled "Hats Off" Rene Magritte |
| #8193, aired 2020-04-01 | GIFTS FOR ANIMAL LOVERS $800: You'll need some Kleenex when you read Garth Stein's touching bestseller narrated by Enzo the dog & called "The Art of" this Racing in the Rain |
| #8191, aired 2020-03-30 | THE MASTERS (OF ART) $200: An anonymous painter is known as "The Master of the Prado Adoration of" this trio the Magi |
| #8191, aired 2020-03-30 | THE MASTERS (OF ART) $400: The first great engraver was the 1440s "Master of the Playing Cards", which had 5 of these (flowers, wild men, birds, beasts, deer) suits |
| #8191, aired 2020-03-30 | THE MASTERS (OF ART) $600: One painter of this mother & child combo was dubbed "Master of the Embroidered Foliage" the Madonna and Child |
| #8191, aired 2020-03-30 | THE MASTERS (OF ART) $800: The painter now known as Robert Campin was once called "The Master of the Mérode" this 3-piece work a triptych |
| #8191, aired 2020-03-30 | THE MASTERS (OF ART) $1000: To see the "Seven works of Mercy", the masterpiece of the "Master of Alkmaar", visit this museum 20 miles from Alkmaar Rijksmuseum |
| #8189, aired 2020-03-26 | CHICAGO $600: Stroll past the Art Institute of Chicago & the sculpture nicknamed "The Bean" on this avenue Michigan Avenue |
| #8185, aired 2020-03-20 | RUNNING GAGS $800: Art Vandelay comes up often as a fake name on this show Seinfeld |
| #8184, aired 2020-03-19 | TERMS OF ART $200: It can refer to a crayon made with powdered pigment, or a finished work of art created with them a pastel |
| #8184, aired 2020-03-19 | TERMS OF ART $400: It's the term for the board on which an artist puts the colors as well as the range of colors used the palette |
| #8184, aired 2020-03-19 | TERMS OF ART $600: Term for a 3-dimensional artwork hung from a stand or the ceiling & moved freely by air currents a mobile |
| #8184, aired 2020-03-19 | TERMS OF ART $800: This two-word term describes the place on the horizon where parallel lines appear to meet the vanishing point |
| #8184, aired 2020-03-19 | TERMS OF ART $1000: This French term refers to paintings done outdoors en plein air |
| #8182, aired 2020-03-17 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $600: Here's this California island and its famous Art Deco casino, used not for gambling but as an event venue (Santa) Catalina |
| #8176, aired 2020-03-09 | BE STILL MY ART $400: "Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness", said this Rose Period painter Picasso |
| #8176, aired 2020-03-09 | BE STILL MY ART $800: Made up of state license plates, a portion of the piece with this one-word title is seen here Preamble |
| #8176, aired 2020-03-09 | BE STILL MY ART $1200: In the 1890s this painter gave us "The Kiss"; isn't that a scream? (No, but he gave us that too) (Edvard) Munch |
| #8176, aired 2020-03-09 | BE STILL MY ART $1600: This folk painter created "Making Apple Butter" in 1958, the year she turned 98 Grandma Moses |
| #8176, aired 2020-03-09 | BE STILL MY ART $2000: In 2017 a mollusk expert said it was a scallop shell & not a clam shell in this Botticelli "Birth" scene The Birth of Venus |
| #8174, aired 2020-03-05 | GET SCHOOLED $800: The CIA for short (not that CIA), it was founded in 1946 to train returning WWII veterans in the art of cooking the Culinary Institute of America |
| #8173, aired 2020-03-04 | ANCIENT GREEK & ROMAN ARCHITECTURE $800: In ancient Greece, an agalma was a work of art dedicated to one of these a god |
| #8172, aired 2020-03-03 | LUKE $400: In Luke 1 this angel makes a surprise visit to Mary & says, "The Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among women" Gabriel |
| #8170, aired 2020-02-28 | ART, FLEMING $200: Full-figured women were celebrated by this painter, born June 28, 1577 of Flemish parents Rubens |
| #8170, aired 2020-02-28 | ART, FLEMING $400: In 1649 Frans Hals got philosophical painting this "cogito, ergo sum" thinker Descartes |
| #8170, aired 2020-02-28 | ART, FLEMING $600: In 1450 Haarlem's Dieric Bouts depicted "The Fall into" this place of suffering Hell |
| #8170, aired 2020-02-28 | ART, FLEMING $800: In 1563 Pieter Bruegel the Elder spoke the language of art with a rendering of this structure mentioned in Genesis 11 the Tower of Babel |
| #8170, aired 2020-02-28 | ART, FLEMING $1000: Last name of the real guy who gave us "The Garden of Earthly Delights" & of the fictional guy who solves murders in Los Angeles (Hieronymus) Bosch |
| #8169, aired 2020-02-27 | SHAKESPEAREAN JEOPARDY! $400: "O Jeopardy!, Jeopardy!, wherefore art thou Jeopardy!?" Romeo |
| #8169, aired 2020-02-27 | I QUIT $1200: Thomas Campbell went from a curator AKA "Tapestry Tom" to head of this 2,500-employee NYC institution but resigned in 2017 the Metropolitan Museum of Art |
| #8167, aired 2020-02-25 | PLAYING REAL PEOPLE $2000: (Ryan Reynolds presents the clue.) In the 2015 film "Woman in Gold", I played Randy Schoenberg, the lawyer who finally got the Austrian government to return Nazi-looted art to the relatives of Adele Bloch-Bauer whose portrait was painted by this Austrian known for his use of gold leaf (Gustav) Klimt |
| #8165, aired 2020-02-21 | IN THE ARTS WORLD $400: A traditional feature of African art, these items were the focus of a 2016 exhibition titled "Disguise" masks |
| #8164, aired 2020-02-20 | LESSER-KNOWN NAMES $2,800 (Daily Double): Philippe Curtius taught her the art of wax modeling & in 1794 left her his 2 museums Madame Tussaud |
| #8163, aired 2020-02-19 | 4-LETTER WORDS ENDING IN "O" $800: This martial art takes its name from the Japanese for "gentle way" judo |
| #8161, aired 2020-02-17 | ART SUBJECTS $400: This Dutch artist often painted his beloved wife Saskia, who died in 1642 at age 29 Rembrandt |
| #8161, aired 2020-02-17 | SURVIVOR $1000: (Jeff Probst, the host of Survivor, presents the clue.) The castaways on "Survivor: China" visited the Great Wall & the Shaolin Temple, home of kung fu; for help with strategy the tribes were given this book that Sun Tzu wrote more than 2,500 years ago, though its tactics apply to "Survivor" as if it had been written today The Art of War |
| #8161, aired 2020-02-17 | ART SUBJECTS $1200: Teenaged ballerina Marie van Goethem was the model for his sculpture of the "Little Dancer" Degas |
| #8161, aired 2020-02-17 | ART SUBJECTS $1600: Between 1971 & 1985 this artist painted Helga Testorf, his neighbor in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania Andrew Wyeth |
| #8161, aired 2020-02-17 | ART SUBJECTS $2000: Jeanne Hébuterne had a slightly shorter neck than depicted in the works of her beau, this Italian painter Modigliani |
| #8161, aired 2020-02-17 | ART SUBJECTS $13,000 (Daily Double): Anna McNeill was arranged in grey & black for a work by this artist, her son Whistler |
| #8159, aired 2020-02-13 | OPERA ZINGERS $800: "Vile intruder who thou art" are the first words directed to this Mozart seducer Don Giovanni |
| #8156, aired 2020-02-10 | BEFORE & AFTER AT THE MOVIES $2000: George Clooney & Will Smith team up & hunt Nazi art thieves & alien bugs The Monuments Men in Black |
| #8154, aired 2020-02-06 | & THEN THERE WERE NUNS $1600: This art nun, who became an unlikely BBC and PBS star with TV series like her "Story of Painting", passed away in 2018 at the age of 88 Sister Wendy |
| #8147, aired 2020-01-28 | RUSSIAN ART & CULTURE $400: Frommer's says some of the best souvenirs you can bring home from Russia are nesting dolls & bottles of this--cheers! vodka |
| #8147, aired 2020-01-28 | RUSSIAN ART & CULTURE $800: In 1909, painter Boris Kustodiev captured a promenade and some merrymaking along this river the Volga |
| #8147, aired 2020-01-28 | OFF TO THE LANDMARK $800: UNESCO described this landmark, built in memory of a man's wife, as "the jewel of Muslim art in India" the Taj Mahal |
| #8147, aired 2020-01-28 | RUSSIAN ART & CULTURE $1200: Before leaving Russia in 1922, he designed some decorative panels for the Jewish Chamber Theatre in Moscow Chagall |
| #8147, aired 2020-01-28 | RUSSIAN ART & CULTURE $1600: Russian for "self-boiler", these urns were traditionally used to heat water for tea & in 1989 were showcased on a series of stamps a samovar |
| #8147, aired 2020-01-28 | RUSSIAN ART & CULTURE $2000: In this Stravinsky ballet, the title character gives Prince Ivan a magical feather after he captures & releases her The Firebird |
| #8146, aired 2020-01-27 | WRAP IT UP! $2000: One of Christo's temporary works of art was the wrapping in fabric of this oldest Paris bridge the Pont Neuf |
| #8143, aired 2020-01-22 | POUND! SAND! $1200: Readers got Ezra Pound's views on art, poetry & philosophy in his "Guide to" this, oddly spelled starting "K-U-L-C-H" Culture |
| #8141, aired 2020-01-20 | LITERATURE: THE SUBTITLE $1000: Robert Pirsig's 2-wheeled traveling tale: "An Inquiry into Values" Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance |
| #8137, aired 2020-01-14 | MUSEUMS $2000: The freeform titanium-sheathed Guggenheim Museum in this Spanish city is a work of art in itself Bilbao |
| #8137, aired 2020-01-14 | MUSEUMS $3,000 (Daily Double): Originally serving as a private gallery of art, the Hermitage Museum was founded by her in 1764 Catherine the Great |
| #7, aired 2020-01-14 | THE ARTS $800: Ceramicist Beatrice Wood was nicknamed "The Mama" of this art movement Dada |
| #8136, aired 2020-01-13 | STARCHITECTS $800: Richard Rogers & Renzo Piano played with traditional notions of design with this Paris art "Centre" named for a French president the Pompidou Centre |
| #3, aired 2020-01-08 | ART & ARTISTS $400: This American pop artist used a comic book style in paintings like "Whaam!" & "Drowning Girl" Lichtenstein |
| #3, aired 2020-01-08 | ART & ARTISTS $800: This 1863 Manet masterpiece caused a scandal, as one of the women picnicking in what may be the Bois de Boulogne is nude Luncheon on the Grass |
| #3, aired 2020-01-08 | ART & ARTISTS $1200: Born in Rotterdam in 1904, he entered the U.S. as a stowaway & painted houses before becoming an abstract expressionist (Willem) de Kooning |
| #3, aired 2020-01-08 | ART & ARTISTS $1600: This English engraver is known for his 1730s series called "The Rake's Progress" (William) Hogarth |
| #3, aired 2020-01-08 | ART & ARTISTS $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew show a painting on the monitor.) Van Gogh drew a famous portrait of this homeopathic physician, whom he called "sicker than I am"; Cezanne, also a friend, chose to paint a scene of his house at Auvers Dr. Gachet |
| #8130, aired 2020-01-03 | ARMCHAIR EXPERT $1000: That Aeron desk chair is so sleek it should be in a museum; in fact, one became part of the collection of this NYC museum in 1994 the Museum of Modern Art |
| #8127, aired 2019-12-31 | WE WUZ ROBBED! $800: In 1990 works by Rembrandt & Degas were among the half-billion dollars worth of art stolen from the Gardner Museum in this city Boston |
| #8124, aired 2019-12-26 | ART IN THE VATICAN $400: A famous scene on the Sistine Chapel ceiling shows "The Creation of" him Adam |
| #8124, aired 2019-12-26 | ART IN THE VATICAN $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents by a display monitor.) Commissioned in 1711 as a gift to encourage the pope's support for the building of an observatory, a series of astronomical paintings show the then-known planets, including Mars, Saturn, and this giant, with its bands of color Jupiter |
| #8124, aired 2019-12-26 | ART IN THE VATICAN $1200: Among the Sistine Chapel tapestries is "The Miraculous Draught of Fishes" depicting the calling of him, AKA Simon Peter |
| #8124, aired 2019-12-26 | ART IN THE VATICAN $1600: A museum founded by Pope Gregory XVI is dedicated to the antiquities & art of these darn ancient Italian people the Etruscans |
| #8124, aired 2019-12-26 | ART IN THE VATICAN $2000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents by a display monitor.) A statue at the Chiaramonti Museum features the torso of an unknown tragic poet. The head--believed to be from a different source, because it's a little small for the body--is that of this Greek playwright who wrote "Medea" Euripides |
| #8123, aired 2019-12-25 | MAMA & DADA $2000: The Dada art movement started at Cabaret Voltaire in this central European country Switzerland |
| #8116, aired 2019-12-16 | A EUROPEAN RIVER TOUR $600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew at the State Opera House in Vienna, Austria.) The Vienna State Opera House was built in Neo this style to reflect that 16th century period of artistic rediscovery when the art form of opera was born Renaissance |
| #8112, aired 2019-12-10 | AWARDS & HONORS $2000: A French art prize is named for this "Nude Descending A Staircase" painter; nominees get to exhibit at the Pompidou Centre (Marcel) Duchamp |
| #8107, aired 2019-12-03 | DOPPELHANGERS $800: John Myatt was jailed for his forgeries but today legally sells copies of famous art dubbed with this other "F" word fake |
| #8106, aired 2019-12-02 | TV PEOPLE $1000: The alla prima art technique allowed this man who passed away in 1995 to complete a painting in 30 minutes on PBS Bob Ross |
| #8105, aired 2019-11-29 | WHEN TV WAS FREE $1600: On a '70s drama Caine wanders the West, using this title martial art as needed Kung Fu |
| #8103, aired 2019-11-27 | ON THE GROUND FLOOR $600: The NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission has given historic designation to this skyscraper's 5th Avenue Art Deco lobby the Empire State Building |
| #8102, aired 2019-11-26 | MUSICAL QUOTES $2000: Nietzsche said of this opera composer, his former friend, "His art presses with the weight of a hundred atmospheres" Wagner |
| #8096, aired 2019-11-18 | HOME IS WHERE THE ART IS $400: This London residence of the queen is home to Fabergé eggs & to drawings by Leonardo da Vinci Buckingham Palace |
| #8096, aired 2019-11-18 | HOME IS WHERE THE ART IS $800: Jan Six Xi of this country grew up with Rembrandts in his home--heck, the old master even painted his ancestor Jan Six I the Netherlands |
| #8096, aired 2019-11-18 | HOME IS WHERE THE ART IS $1200: Open to the public, this man's castle features a fountain with ancient sculptures of the Egyptian goddess Sekhmet (William Randolph) Hearst |
| #8096, aired 2019-11-18 | HOME IS WHERE THE ART IS $2000: Frescoes by Raphael & Pinturicchio adorn the walls of the Vatican in what's usually known as the "papal" these living spaces papal apartments |
| #8096, aired 2019-11-18 | HOME IS WHERE THE ART IS $3,000 (Daily Double): A full-length portrait of George Washington from this 18th c. artist is often admired by tourists at the White House Gilbert Stuart |
| #8084, aired 2019-10-31 | HOBBIES $400: Assemblage art is sort of the 3-D version of this art of gluing paper or other materials to a background collage |
| #8081, aired 2019-10-28 | EXERCISE $1200: This Chinese martial art has been called "meditation in motion"; balance is important in its series of fluid movements tai chi |
| #8081, aired 2019-10-28 | THE 20th CENTURY $1200: Made when she was 23, Meret Oppenheim's 1936 furry teacup is a landmark of this art movement Surrealism |
| #8078, aired 2019-10-23 | ODD WORDS $800: Equitation is the art of riding this a horse |
| #8074, aired 2019-10-17 | "OB"SCURE WORDS $1600: French phrase for something of aesthetic value objet d'art |
| #8071, aired 2019-10-14 | THE MANY BUILDINGS OF I.M. PEI $2000: Pei was in his 90s when the Museum of Islamic Art on Doha Bay opened in this country in 2008 Qatar |
| #8066, aired 2019-10-07 | ESSAYS $1200: "Lost Art" & "The Future of Faith" are 2 of the many essays John Updike wrote for this magazine The New Yorker |
| #8060, aired 2019-09-27 | MUSEUM-PODGE $1000: Giorgio Vasari designed it as an office building; later it housed the Medici art collection & then became a museum Uffizi Gallery |
| #8054, aired 2019-09-19 | THE HINTING OF HULL HOUSE $800: Hull House was a center of the Arts & Crafts movement & in 1901 this architect spoke there on "the art & craft of the machine" (Frank Lloyd) Wright |
| #8051, aired 2019-09-16 | ART & ARTISTS $200: This popular name for Rembrandt's 1642 portrait of a militia group is a result of its old darkened varnish, now cleaned off The Night Watch |
| #8051, aired 2019-09-16 | ART & ARTISTS $400: The pensive pose of the figure in a Rodin sculpture originally called "The Poet" earned it this name The Thinker |
| #8051, aired 2019-09-16 | ART & ARTISTS $600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a painting on the monitor.) For "The Judgment of Paris", a collaboration with the engraver Raimondi, Raphael depicted one reclining figure by reversing the posture of this title character in a famous work by Michelangelo Adam |
| #8051, aired 2019-09-16 | ART & ARTISTS $1000: Here's "Symphony in White, No. 2" by this American who often gave musical titles to his paintings (James Abbott McNeill) Whistler |
| #8051, aired 2019-09-16 | ART & ARTISTS $2,600 (Daily Double): Pastel colors & asymmetry are features of this style of Antoine Watteau, a reaction against Baroque art Rococo |
| #8046, aired 2019-09-09 | THE 1820s $400: Better known to us as an inventor, Samuel F.B. Morse pursued art in the 1820s & painted portraits, like of this lexicographer Webster |
| #8042, aired 2019-07-23 | STATE OF THE ART $400: Lucy the Elephant in Margate, formerly known as South Atlantic City New Jersey |
| #8042, aired 2019-07-23 | STATE OF THE ART $800: The 50-foot Picasso sculpture in Daley Plaza Illinois |
| #8042, aired 2019-07-23 | LIFE IN ANCIENT TIMES $800: The Roman valued this art of persuasive speech, a necessary skill for great oratory rhetoric |
| #8042, aired 2019-07-23 | STATE OF THE ART $1200: Band name inspiration "A Sound Garden" Washington |
| #8042, aired 2019-07-23 | STATE OF THE ART $1600: "The Hacienda Horse & Rider" in neon Nevada |
| #8042, aired 2019-07-23 | STATE OF THE ART $2,000 (Daily Double): The Crazy Horse memorial South Dakota |
| #8039, aired 2019-07-18 | "OY", THE PLACES YOU'LL GO! $1200: Go to the north bank of the Thames to stay at this London hotel, a blend of art deco & Edwardian elegance the Savoy |
| #8038, aired 2019-07-17 | ART & ARTISTS $400: 14th century artist Giotto was a master of this technique, painting directly on freshly plastered walls fresco |
| #8038, aired 2019-07-17 | ART & ARTISTS $800: Theodore Gericault's "Raft of the Medusa" from 1819 depicted the survivors of one of these a shipwreck |
| #8038, aired 2019-07-17 | ART & ARTISTS $1200: A whole movement took its name from his painting "Impression: Sunrise" (Claude) Monet |
| #8038, aired 2019-07-17 | ART & ARTISTS $1600: Before he hit the big time, El Greco was a painter of these small works often contained in a locket or "portrait box" a miniature |
| #8038, aired 2019-07-17 | ART & ARTISTS $2000: Seen here is one in a series with this 3-word avian title by abstract sculptor Constantin Brancusi Bird in Space |
| #8037, aired 2019-07-16 | ENDS WITH "ART" $400: A defensive embankment with a parapet on top a rampart |
| #8037, aired 2019-07-16 | ENDS WITH "ART" $800: This brand that popularized food processors in the '70s became a trademark of the Conair Corporation Cuisinart |
| #8037, aired 2019-07-16 | ENDS WITH "ART" $1200: To disrupt a plan is to "upset" this item used to display fruit the apple cart |
| #8037, aired 2019-07-16 | ENDS WITH "ART" $1600: Someone who talks so much of this own achievements that it annoys other people a braggart |
| #8037, aired 2019-07-16 | ENDS WITH "ART" $2000: A very loyal friend or supporter a stalwart |
| #8030, aired 2019-07-05 | GRAPHIC $2000: A golden age of poster art was in 1890s France, the era called this, French for "beautiful age" the Belle Epoque |
| #8025, aired 2019-06-28 | ART SUPPLIES... $200: Art supplies humor, as in this type of drawing that exaggerates certain features a caricature |
| #8025, aired 2019-06-28 | ART SUPPLIES... $400: ...inspiration, as in "Prince of Peace", a vision of him by then 8-year-old Akiane Kramarik Jesus |
| #8025, aired 2019-06-28 | ART SUPPLIES... $600: Art supplies fashion ideas--here's what 18th-century women wore for this outdoor activity (sidesaddle, of course) riding |
| #8025, aired 2019-06-28 | ART SUPPLIES... $800: ...a new perspective, as in "Ma Jolie", his 1911 portrait of his girlfriend as a heap of triangles Picasso |
| #8025, aired 2019-06-28 | ART SUPPLIES... $1000: ...history lessons, as in Benjamin West's depiction of a 1755 battle in this North American war the French and Indian War |
| #8025, aired 2019-06-28 | INTERNATIONAL SPORTS $1200: The IJF is the International Federation for this martial art that gives belts of rank from white to black judo |
| #8023, aired 2019-06-26 | INSTA-GRAHAM $400: The Martha Graham School of Contemporary this 5-letter art form is found in New York City dance |
| #8020, aired 2019-06-21 | AWARDS & HONORS $1000: This fashion designer & "Project Runway" judge won a Scholastic Art & Writing Award in 1999 Zac Posen |
| #8011, aired 2019-06-10 | AMERICAN INGENUITY $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from the Mercer Museum.) Seen on roofs since ancient Athens, these went beyond the traditional rooster & are prized as folk art, as well as letting people know which way the wind is blowing weathervanes |
| #8006, aired 2019-06-03 | PLAYING A 3-4 $1200: This style of design marked by geometric motifs & streamlined forms was all the rage in the 1920s & 1930s Art Deco |
| #8004, aired 2019-05-30 | REPLICAS $800: Nashville's art museum is housed in a full-scale replica of this Athenian temple the Parthenon |
| #8003, aired 2019-05-29 | AWARDS & PRIZES $400: Named for an owner in this league, the Art Rooney Award honors sportsmanship on the field the NFL |
| #8003, aired 2019-05-29 | ROBOTS $400: The company Ozobot makes robots that introduce kids to this activity, the art of writing instructions that direct computers coding |
| #8001, aired 2019-05-27 | FEELING ART "C" $400: This French-named technique involves sticking photos, papers or really anything onto a canvas or backing a collage |
| #8001, aired 2019-05-27 | FEELING ART "C" $800: MoMA has a series of 32 Andy Warhol paintings of these cans, including clam chowder & chicken noodle Campbell's soups |
| #8001, aired 2019-05-27 | FEELING ART "C" $1200: Botticelli painted Athena with this type of mythic creature a centaur |
| #8001, aired 2019-05-27 | FEELING ART "C" $1600: Though her dad said he'd rather see her dead, she moved to Paris in 1866 & later exhibited with the Impressionists (Mary) Cassatt |
| #8001, aired 2019-05-27 | FEELING ART "C" $2000: He was a master of chiaroscuro, the use of light & shadows to add drama to his canvases, as in "The Denial of Saint Peter" Caravaggio |
| #7996, aired 2019-05-20 | ART SCHOOL OF FISH $400: The title subject of Henri Matisse's 1914 work, these popular pets were introduced to Europe in the 1600s goldfish |
| #7996, aired 2019-05-20 | ART SCHOOL OF FISH $800: E.S. Hardy's 19th-century depiction of this Hans Christian Andersen character is seen here the Little Mermaid |
| #7996, aired 2019-05-20 | ART SCHOOL OF FISH $1200: Shades of Spielberg--John Singleton Copley's scary 1782 painting is titled "Watson and" this beast a shark |
| #7996, aired 2019-05-20 | ART SCHOOL OF FISH $1600: A Winslow Homer has this weather condition in the title--the fisherman & his halibut catch are threatened by a bank of it fog |
| #7996, aired 2019-05-20 | ART SCHOOL OF FISH $2000: This Frenchman, who inspired the Impressionists, painted some controversial works, & his fish were unorthodox too Édouard Manet |
| #7995, aired 2019-05-17 | ART: THE LAST 150 YEARS $400: Berthe Morisot, whose work is seen here, was part of this group that in 1876 was called "five or six lunatics, one of whom is a woman" the Impressionists |
| #7995, aired 2019-05-17 | ART: THE LAST 150 YEARS $800: With works like "Bicycle Wheel", Marcel Duchamp was a leader of this 4-letter art movement Dada |
| #7995, aired 2019-05-17 | ART: THE LAST 150 YEARS $1200: Mexican muralist José Orozco depicted this feathered snake god in monumental human form Quetzalcoatl |
| #7995, aired 2019-05-17 | ART: THE LAST 150 YEARS $1600: The 1913 portrait of Eugenia Primavesi is by this Austrian artist Klimt |
| #7995, aired 2019-05-17 | ART: THE LAST 150 YEARS $2000: Neo-plastic is one description of the works of this Dutchman (Piet) Mondrian |
| #7987, aired 2019-05-07 | ACTORS NOT ACTING $1600: The first time Steve Martin publicly showed his art collection was in 2001 at this Las Vegas hotel the Bellagio |
| #7979, aired 2019-04-25 | CHINESE $400: This art of beautiful writing has long been revered in China as a supreme visual art form calligraphy |
| #7979, aired 2019-04-25 | TAKE "OUT" $1000: The term this type of "art" by self-taught non-mainstream artists was coined by Roger Cardinal in 1972 outsider art |
| #7977, aired 2019-04-23 | SOLID BLACK $800: The cover art of "Smell the Glove" by this mockumentary band was changed to solid black Spinal Tap |
| #7972, aired 2019-04-16 | 5 JEFFS $1000: Balloons & basketballs are part of the art of this Jeff whose sculptures have sold for over $50 million Jeff Koons |
| #7969, aired 2019-04-11 | "EX" $1200: It's the title of Alexander Decamps' 1837 work, which used monkeys to satirize those who opine on art The Experts |
| #7964, aired 2019-04-04 | MUSEUMS $2000: The Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art is in this Walmart company town Bentonville |
| #7963, aired 2019-04-03 | MAY THE SCHWARTZ BE WITH YOU $1600: Tony Schwartz was Donald Trump's co-author on this 1987 book about negotiation The Art of the Deal |
| #7946, aired 2019-03-11 | ART & ARTISTS $400: Edvard Munch was out with 2 friends when "the sky became blood... over the deep blue fjord", inspiring this 1893 work The Scream |
| #7946, aired 2019-03-11 | ART & ARTISTS $800: This Mexican woman taught herself to paint while recovering from a 1925 bus accident; 30+ operations followed (Frida) Kahlo |
| #7946, aired 2019-03-11 | ART & ARTISTS $1200: In 1897 he entered the Royal Academy of San Fernando in Madrid but found the classes stupid; he did okay on his own Picasso |
| #7946, aired 2019-03-11 | ART & ARTISTS $2,000 (Daily Double): Born on Crete, Domenikos Theotokopolous moved to Spain, where he became better known by this name El Greco |
| #7946, aired 2019-03-11 | ART & ARTISTS $2000: Manet painted the bar at this Paris music hall in part by setting up a fake one in his studio but with a real barmaid the Folies-Bergère |
| #7943, aired 2019-03-06 | HISTORIC STRUCTURES $600: Later famous as a rock concert venue, Tokyo's Nippon Budokan Hall was built to host this martial art at the 1964 Olympics judo |
| #7938, aired 2019-02-27 | ART & ARTISTS $400: A first century B.C. writer said of sculptor Praxiteles that he imbued this material with the passions of the soul marble |
| #7938, aired 2019-02-27 | ART & ARTISTS $800: Last name of the family that includes 3 generations of artists--illustrator N.C., Andrew & Jamie Wyeth |
| #7938, aired 2019-02-27 | ART & ARTISTS $1200: He worked with Giorgione on frescos in 1508, then took over as Venice's greatest 1-named painter Titian |
| #7938, aired 2019-02-27 | ART & ARTISTS $1600: Picasso saw himself & this painter as the Wright Brothers of Cubism & even called him "Wilbur" Braque |
| #7938, aired 2019-02-27 | ART & ARTISTS $3,600 (Daily Double): In 1504 Durer tried to show perfect human forms in this pair, each holding a tree branch Adam and Eve |
| #7924, aired 2019-02-07 | SORROW $400: George Clooney recorded a version of "I Am A Man Of Constant Sorrow" for this Coen Bros. film, but his voice was replaced O Brother, Where Art Thou? |
| #7924, aired 2019-02-07 | MUSEUM MISCELLANY $800: The world's first museum of narrative art is coming to Los Angeles; this founder was at the 2018 groundbreaking ceremony George Lucas |
| #7924, aired 2019-02-07 | MUSEUM MISCELLANY $1000: Bringing art to the Ozarks, an heiress of this family has bankrolled the new Crystal Bridges Museum in Arkansas Walton |
| #7917, aired 2019-01-29 | ART & ARTISTS $400: Diego Rivera was best known for creating these large wall paintings that depicted Mexican life murals |
| #7917, aired 2019-01-29 | ART & ARTISTS $800: The woman in his "American Gothic" painting was modeled after his sister Nan (Grant) Wood |
| #7917, aired 2019-01-29 | ART & ARTISTS $1600: Partly done with spray paint, a skull by this late graffiti artist of Haitian descent sold for over $100 million in 2017 (Jean-Michel) Basquiat |
| #7917, aired 2019-01-29 | ART & ARTISTS $2000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a painting on the monitor.) Long identified as St. Catherine of Alexandria holding a spiked wheel, a 1930s restoration revealed that underneath was a lady holding a unicorn by this Renaissance master from Urbino Raphael |
| #7917, aired 2019-01-29 | ART & ARTISTS $3,000 (Daily Double): It was the married name of sculptor Gertrude Vanderbilt, who founded a museum of American art in New York City Gertrude Whitney |
| #7916, aired 2019-01-28 | OXYMORONS $2000: It was an art style in the 1920s before it was the literary genre of Latin American writers like Jorge Luis Borges magical realism |
| #7911, aired 2019-01-21 | POET IDENTIFICATION, PLEASE $400 (Daily Double): "Death, be not proud, though some have called thee / Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so" (John) Donne |
| #7909, aired 2019-01-17 | ITALIAN ON VACATION $1000: There's no shortage of chiese, these--they're beautiful, rich in art & cool in the summer churches |
| #7906, aired 2019-01-14 | FOUND IN TRANSLATION $600: Ovid's "Ars Amatoria" The Art of Love |
| #7902, aired 2019-01-08 | ART & MYTHOLOGY $400: On Mussolini's orders, Rome, Italy presented to Rome, Georgia a sculpture of a she-wolf suckling these twins Romulus and Remus |
| #7902, aired 2019-01-08 | ART & MYTHOLOGY $800: Seen here on an ancient water jug is a depiction of Hercules leading this three-headed dog Cerberus |
| #7902, aired 2019-01-08 | ART & MYTHOLOGY $1200: Rubens painted several versions of "The Judgment of" him Judgment of Paris |
| #7902, aired 2019-01-08 | ART & MYTHOLOGY $1600: (Sarah of the Clue crew shows a painting on the monitor.) In mythology, many tales deal with transformation; here, having fled from an amorous Apollo, this nymph begs her father to transform her & destroy her beauty--he turns her into a laurel tree, the change just beginning Daphne |
| #7902, aired 2019-01-08 | ART & MYTHOLOGY $2000: Anne of Austria reputedly took offense at a Michelangelo painting of this woman & the swan & ordered it burnt Leda |
| #7898, aired 2019-01-02 | ART $400: The Great Courses will educated you on these "Masters", not only Rembrandt but Frans Hals & Pieter de Hooch the Dutch Masters |
| #7898, aired 2019-01-02 | ART $800: She completed "Rainbow", her final work of art, in 1961 at the ripe old age of 101 Grandma Moses |
| #7898, aired 2019-01-02 | ART $1200: A masterpiece of this type of painting is Francisco de Zurbaran's "With Lemons, Oranges and a Rose" a still life |
| #7898, aired 2019-01-02 | ART $1600: A young Bill Murray turned from thoughts of suicide on seeing "The Song of the Lark", a painting in this U.S. museum the Art Institute of Chicago |
| #7898, aired 2019-01-02 | ART $2000: It was no picnic for Manet when critics saw his "Le Dejeuner sur l'Herbe", known in English as this meal "on the Grass" lunch |
| #7897, aired 2019-01-01 | WORLD HISTORY $1,000 (Daily Double): Paris' Museum of Jewish Art & History has the stripes that were unjustly pulled off the uniform of this capt. in 1895 Alfred Dreyfus |
| #7893, aired 2018-12-26 | AROUND THE WORLD AT THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.) Intricate tile mosaics decorate the 14th century Iranian Mihrab, a niche in the wall in the mosque that indicates the direction of this city, which Muslims face when praying Mecca |
| #7893, aired 2018-12-26 | AROUND THE WORLD AT THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.) A building, its setting, and its furnishings were inextricably related for this architect, who designed the prairie-style room and all of its furniture, which is placed exactly as he intended it Frank Lloyd Wright |
| #7893, aired 2018-12-26 | FAMILY TIES $800: In "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" George Clooney insists he's this, a Latin word for the father of a family paterfamilias |
| #7893, aired 2018-12-26 | AROUND THE WORLD AT THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART $1200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.) Likely designed by Hans Holbein the Younger, a suit of armor from 1527 is thought to be this king's; in contrast is the suit of armor he wore when he was overweight and crippled with gout King Henry VIII |
| #7893, aired 2018-12-26 | AROUND THE WORLD AT THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART $2000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.) Spiritual forces can be contained or released by nkisi n'kondi, or a power figure carved by these Bantu-speaking people whose name is on an African river and two African republics the Congolese (people of the Congo) |
| #7893, aired 2018-12-26 | AROUND THE WORLD AT THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART $4,000 (Daily Double): (Jimmy of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.) Italian artist Antonio Canova created a model of neoclassical beauty with this sculpture of this Greek hero, sword in one hand, and in the other, Medusa's just-severed head Perseus |
| #7891, aired 2018-12-24 | "POT"POURRI $1200: A cheap book written for profit, not art potboiler |
| #7891, aired 2018-12-24 | VERY DEFINITELY FOR PROFIT $1600: In 1880 he wrote "The Art of Money-Getting or Golden Rules for Making Money"; his way was to show "human curiosities" (P.T.) Barnum |
| #7889, aired 2018-12-20 | CLUES ACROSS AMERICA $800: (Hi, I'm Ashley Afonso from 22 News.) I'm in Amherst, Massachusetts at the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art with this famous character who as of 2019 has enchanted generations of children for 50 years the Very Hungry Caterpillar |
| #7888, aired 2018-12-19 | ARCHITECTURE $1600: Introduced in 1925, this simplified style is also known as jazz moderne Art Deco |
| #7886, aired 2018-12-17 | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA ART-ICLES $200: "Visual arts style of the 20th century that was created principally by... Picasso and Georges Braque" Cubism |
| #7886, aired 2018-12-17 | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA ART-ICLES $400: He "felt and heard a 'scream throughout nature'" (Edvard) Munch |
| #7886, aired 2018-12-17 | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA ART-ICLES $600: "Though it was reconstructed to a standing posture, the statue's arms were never found" the Venus de Milo |
| #7886, aired 2018-12-17 | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA ART-ICLES $800: "In 1894 he conceived a plan to publish a book of his impressions of Tahiti, illustrated with his own woodcuts" Gauguin |
| #7886, aired 2018-12-17 | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA ART-ICLES $1000: "He created works that cantilevered off bases that allowed the mobile element to rotate 360 degrees" (Alexander) Calder |
| #7883, aired 2018-12-12 | THE ARTS $1600: Here's a poster by Czech artist Alphonse Mucha in this style that flourished from about 1880 to 1910 Art Nouveau |
| #7881, aired 2018-12-10 | ALL KINDS OF BOOKS $400: Louisette Bertholle & Simone Beck shared credit with her on "Mastering the Art of French Cooking" Julia Child |
| #7880, aired 2018-12-07 | DAY ONE $800: A New York City art show that opened October 31, 1962 is credited with introducing the world to this style shown here pop art |
| #7879, aired 2018-12-06 | AROUND LOS ANGELES $1000: The L.A. area has the Getty Center & the Getty this, a 5-letter word for a fancy residence & home to ancient Greek & Roman art the Getty Villa |
| #7879, aired 2018-12-06 | RELIGIOUS MATTERS $1600: Kyudo is an archery-based martial art that uses this form of Buddhism for concentration Zen |
| #7878, aired 2018-12-05 | MY ROLE ON TV $2000: Jimmy Tatro's Dylan Maxwell is accused of drawing some very unappreciated art on this 2017 true crime satire American Vandal |
| #7876, aired 2018-12-03 | ART BOOKS $400: "A Life Discovered" is the subtitle of a book about this enigmatic woman, the most famous portrait sitter of all time the Mona Lisa |
| #7876, aired 2018-12-03 | ART BOOKS $1200: The origins of this pre-surrealist movement in 1916 Zurich play out in "Destruction Was My Beatrice" Dadaism |
| #7876, aired 2018-12-03 | ART BOOKS $1600: "The Art of Rivalry" tells of Picasso owning a portrait by this Fauvist & having friends throw darts at it Henri Matisse |
| #7876, aired 2018-12-03 | ART BOOKS $2000: "Portrait of an Unknown Man" is a book about this "Younger" 16th century German artist (Hans) Holbein |
| #7876, aired 2018-12-03 | ART BOOKS $4,000 (Daily Double): The diary of young Julie Manet has been published as "Growing Up With" this group of painters the Impressionists |
| #7875, aired 2018-11-30 | BOOKS WITH ANIMAL POVs $1600: Enzo in "The Art of Racing in the Rain" is this type of pet longing to communicate with his master the dog |
| #7874, aired 2018-11-29 | LET'S PUT RUTHERFORD B. HAYES IN THE PICTURE! $600: Let's put him in the picture & make the man almost as tall as this Art Deco building completed in 1930 the Chrysler Building |
| #7866, aired 2018-11-19 | ART SUBJECTS $400: Arthur Rackham's work depicting this young heroine was one of his many illustrations for children's tales Little Red Riding Hood |
| #7866, aired 2018-11-19 | ART SUBJECTS $1200: Here's Bernini's sculpture of this monstrous mythological personality Medusa |
| #7866, aired 2018-11-19 | ART SUBJECTS $1600: German master Lucas Cranach the Elder painted this Biblical dancer with John the Baptist's severed head Salome |
| #7866, aired 2018-11-19 | ART SUBJECTS $2,000 (Daily Double): 1-word term for the Virgin Mary; there are paintings of her "and Child with Saints" & "...with Angels" Madonna |
| #7866, aired 2018-11-19 | ART SUBJECTS $2000: Crayon, charcoal & watercolors were all used to paint 1939's "Head of an Old Peasant" by this Mexican muralist Diego Rivera |
| #7863, aired 2018-11-14 | ON VINYL $1200: A poll named the best vinyl cover art of 2017 as RTJ3, the third full-length release from this group Run the Jewels |
| #7856, aired 2018-11-05 | CAVES $2000: Stunning examples of Paleolithic art, like the ones seen here, can be found in this cave in France's Vézère Valley Lascaux Cave |
| #7852, aired 2018-10-30 | '60s MUSIC POTPOURRI $200: This late '60s music & art fair in Bethel, New York lent its name to a Charles Schulz character Woodstock |
| #7852, aired 2018-10-30 | ART FOR ART'S SAKE $400: Rembrandt's "The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp" shows a procedure taking place in this world capital Amsterdam |
| #7852, aired 2018-10-30 | ART FOR ART'S SAKE $800: A high school's painting from his "Willie Gillis" WWII series became a $1.9 million windfall for students in 2014 (Norman) Rockwell |
| #7852, aired 2018-10-30 | ART FOR ART'S SAKE $1200: This giant of Flemish art was a mentor to Anthony Van Dyck, who did a 1621 portrait of the older master's wife Peter Paul Rubens |
| #7852, aired 2018-10-30 | ART FOR ART'S SAKE $2,000 (Daily Double): Max Klinger (a German Symbolist, not a "M*A*S*H" character) is among painters of this 5-letter theme of a grieving Mary the pietà |
| #7852, aired 2018-10-30 | ART FOR ART'S SAKE $2000: One of Goya's most famous pieces features this Roman mythological figure eating his son Saturn |
| #7843, aired 2018-10-17 | WHOSE WHAT? $400: It begins, "Our Father which art in heaven, hallowed be thy name" the Lord's Prayer |
| #7842, aired 2018-10-16 | IN THE DICTIONARY $1200: Once noted for art galleries & now for boutiques, this 4-letter NYC area is south of Greenwich Village Soho |
| #7837, aired 2018-10-09 | CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR $600: (Christiane Amanpour gives the clue.) In a case of art imitating life, my journalism career was an inspiration to the character Rory & we got to meet in person in the finale of this TV series Gilmore Girls |
| #7833, aired 2018-10-03 | ENDS IN "O" $2000: It's a Japanese martial art & form of fencing using bamboo swords kendo |
| #7829, aired 2018-09-27 | CLUES ACROSS PHILADELPHIA $1000: (Hi, I'm Karen Rogers from 6ABC.) The Philadelphia Barnes Foundation is known for its extraordinary collection of Impressionist art--here is one of the Barnes' 181 paintings by this man alone Renoir |
| #7824, aired 2018-09-20 | ONLY AT THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.) Still playable, the oldest piano in existence was made in the workshop of Bartolomeo Cristofori, who invented the instrument around 1700 at the court of this ruling family of Florence the Medici |
| #7824, aired 2018-09-20 | ONLY AT THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART $800: (Kelly of the Clue Crew presents from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.) Of the only 35 or so known paintings by this Dutch master, the Met has 5, including "Young Woman with a Water Pitcher", which was the first of his canvases to enter a public American collection Vermeer |
| #7824, aired 2018-09-20 | ONLY AT THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART $1200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.) Excavated in 1900, the frescoes from an Italian villa were buried by this 79 A.D. event & beautifully preserved Vesuvius |
| #7824, aired 2018-09-20 | ONLY AT THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART $1600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew presents from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.) Saved from flooding when the Aswan Dam was built, the Temple of Dendur was commissioned by Augustus, who was portrayed as a pharaoh making offerings to Osiris and this goddess, to whom the temple was primarily dedicated Isis |
| #7824, aired 2018-09-20 | ONLY AT THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART $2000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew presents from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.) Viewers in 1884 were shocked by that dress & ridiculed her deathly pallor; when this 3-named American artist sold the painting to the Met, he asked that the woman not be named, hence the title "Madame X" John Singer Sargent |
| #7814, aired 2018-07-26 | THIS CATEGORY IS "P.G." $2000: Now a museum, the Palazzo Venier Dei Leoni in Venice houses the art collection of this American heiress Peggy Guggenheim |
| #7807, aired 2018-07-17 | COMPOSERS $1600: Gounod, who came up with some good tunes, called this 6-letter word "the unique secret of" the composer's art melody |
| #7806, aired 2018-07-16 | DESIGN ACROSS AMERICA $800: (Hi, I'm Betty Davis from Local 10.) Built in 1939, the Carlyle Hotel in Miami Beach is a classic example of this 2-word architectural style characterized by clean, simple shapes with a streamlined look Art Deco |
| #7800, aired 2018-07-06 | SCENE OF THE RHYME $200: Lord Byron rhymed, "Sanctuary and home / Of art and piety--Pantheon!--pride of" this city Rome |
| #7795, aired 2018-06-29 | TV SHOW ENCYCLOPEDIAS & COMPANIONS $800: Check out "The Art of Ooo", a look behind the scenes of this animated series Adventure Time |
| #7787, aired 2018-06-19 | POKE OUT AN I $400: Whether acrylic or watercolor, an art supply without its "I" becomes this--breathe hard a pant |
| #7787, aired 2018-06-19 | ARCHITECTURE $1600: In the early 1950s Louis Kahn designed his first important work: this Ivy League university's art gallery Yale |
| #7787, aired 2018-06-19 | KNOWN BY ONE NAME $2000: The Venus in his "Venus of Urbino" painting has hair of the red-gold color for which his art was known Titian |
| #7785, aired 2018-06-15 | 1-WORD PLAY TITLES $2000: In this "colorful" play, abstract expressionist Mark Rothko struggles with art & fame Red |
| #7780, aired 2018-06-08 | THIS CATEGORY WILL BLOW YOU AWAY $200: Don't try it at home, but it's the art form being practiced here glassblowing |
| #7780, aired 2018-06-08 | ITALY BEFORE THE ROMANS $200: Prehistoric Villanovans in the 700s B.C. cremated their dead, created geometric art & made use of this alloy bronze |
| #7767, aired 2018-05-22 | ART & ARTISTS $5 (Daily Double): A category in the World Beard & Moustache Championships honors this 20th century artist's 'stache Salvador Dali |
| #7767, aired 2018-05-22 | ART & ARTISTS $400: This word for an artwork made of 3 panels comes from the Greek for "three tablets" a triptych |
| #7767, aired 2018-05-22 | ART & ARTISTS $800: Whistler gave musical titles to his paintings; twilight & night scenes were called this, from the French for "night" a Nocturne |
| #7767, aired 2018-05-22 | ART & ARTISTS $1200: An 1876 review in Le Figaro called an exhibit of this movement "an appalling spectacle" & the artists "lunatics" Impressionism |
| #7767, aired 2018-05-22 | ART & ARTISTS $2000: Jean-Francois Millet gave dignity to the peasantry in works like the one seen here, called this, a person who strews seed The Sower |
| #7763, aired 2018-05-16 | EUROPEAN PAINTINGS $400: In 1902 Camille Pissarro painted this art museum "Under Snow" the Louvre |
| #7763, aired 2018-05-16 | CITY OF THE NOVEL $2,000 (Daily Double): "Fifty Shades of Grey" & "The Art of Racing in the Rain" Seattle |
| #7751, aired 2018-04-30 | THINKING ABOUT THE ENLIGHTENMENT $800: Denis Diderot's work on the multi-volume opus simply called this sought to unite knowledge of every art & science Encyclopedie |
| #7751, aired 2018-04-30 | JAPAN-POURRI $2000: These pieces made to attach a purse or box to a man's sash became prized works of art netsukes |
| #7742, aired 2018-04-17 | ART $400: This Rodin sculpture was originally meant to be a seated portrait of Dante for the top of "The Gates of Hell" The Thinker |
| #7742, aired 2018-04-17 | ART $800: "At the Piano" is a double portrait not of this artist's mother, but of his niece and his half-sister (James Abbott McNeill) Whistler |
| #7742, aired 2018-04-17 | ART $1200: Marcel Duchamp coined this term for Alexander Calder's kinetic sculptures mobiles |
| #7742, aired 2018-04-17 | ART $2,000 (Daily Double): He painted the yellow house that he had rented in Arles, hoping to establish a studio of the south with fellow artists van Gogh |
| #7742, aired 2018-04-17 | ART $2000: Hieronymus Bosch depicted Eden in the first panel of the work called this "Garden"; the third panel is hell The Garden of Earthly Delights |
| #7739, aired 2018-04-12 | PAPER TERMS $400: "Build" the art of your dreams with this type of heavy colored paper construction paper |
| #7738, aired 2018-04-11 | TIME FOR CLASS $600: Art history:
The soup cans by this artist were huge in 1962 but his wooden replicas of Brillo soap pad boxes got ink, too Andy Warhol |
| #7734, aired 2018-04-05 | KING JAMES BIBLE QUOTES $800: "I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy ____ and thy ____ they comfort me" rod and staff |
| #7733, aired 2018-04-04 | STOLEN ART RECOVERED $400: In 2012 more than 1,200 artworks looted by the Nazis were discovered in an apartment in this capital of Bavaria Munich |
| #7733, aired 2018-04-04 | STOLEN ART RECOVERED $800: In 2006, three years after a theft, a Vienna museum got back its famous Benvenuto Cellini saliera, this item a salt cellar |
| #7733, aired 2018-04-04 | STOLEN ART RECOVERED $1200: The Munch Museum in this city had both "The Scream" & "Madonna" stolen in 2004 but recovered 2 years later Oslo |
| #7733, aired 2018-04-04 | STOLEN ART RECOVERED $1600: He's giving one of the most famous kisses ever in a $100 million-plus Caravaggio, recovered in 2010 Judas |
| #7733, aired 2018-04-04 | STOLEN ART RECOVERED $2000: Stolen in 1985, a work by this Dutch-born abstract expressionist was found in 2017 in a New Mexico home Willem de Kooning |
| #7726, aired 2018-03-26 | HIDE AWAY IN A BOOK $400: Claudia & her brother run away from home & hide in this NYC museum in "From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler" the Metropolitan Museum of Art |
| #7722, aired 2018-03-20 | THE START OF AN "ART" $200: A new person in an organization who behaves as if he's more important than those already there an upstart |
| #7722, aired 2018-03-20 | THE START OF AN "ART" $400: It's a diagram like this one that shows a sequence of movements involved in a complex activity a flowchart |
| #7721, aired 2018-03-19 | ART & ARTISTS $400: Otto Dix did several of this type of portrait, including one "As a Soldier" & one as the war god Mars self-portrait |
| #7721, aired 2018-03-19 | ART & ARTISTS $600: "Girl Arranging Her Hair" from 1886 is by this female American impressionist (Mary) Cassatt |
| #7721, aired 2018-03-19 | ART & ARTISTS $800: In the 1930s an exiled Leon Trotsky & his wife came to stay with these 2 married artists in Mexico Kahlo and Rivera |
| #7721, aired 2018-03-19 | ART & ARTISTS $1000: This English landscape painter's 1816-1817 work "Flatford Mill" demonstrates his distinctive use of clouds & sky John Constable |
| #7720, aired 2018-03-16 | THE FABERGÉ MUSEUM $1000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from the Fabergé Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia.) Fabergé used pearls & diamonds to evoke the empress' favorite flowers, lilies of the valley, in an 1898 Easter egg in this ornamental style that was popular at the time Art Nouveau |
| #7720, aired 2018-03-16 | IN A STORM $1200: Quemado, N.M., known for electrical storms, is home to the art piece of 400 steel poles called this weather event field a lightning field |
| #7714, aired 2018-03-08 | NOTEWORTHY NONFICTION $200: Starting with cave paintings, E.H. Gombrich's "The Story of" this has sold millions of copies art |
| #7711, aired 2018-03-05 | YOU GET A "C" $2000: This Brazilian martial art incorporates elements of dance & music capoeira |
| #7710, aired 2018-03-02 | CHARITABLE FOLKS $1000: L.A. has a contemporary art museum & a playhouse named for this music & movie mogul David Geffen |
| #7709, aired 2018-03-01 | GETTING THE BAND BACK TOGETHER $2000: This band's Black Francis said of reunions, "This ain't about the art anymore...now it's time to talk about the money" the Pixies |
| #7706, aired 2018-02-26 | A LONG ELEVATOR RIDE $4,000 (Daily Double): Even the elevator doors are Art Deco in this skyscraper, whose name honors an automobile builder the Chrysler Building |
| #7704, aired 2018-02-22 | COLLUSION $1,400 (Daily Double): In 2000 these 2 art auction houses agreed to pay $500 million in restitution for engaging in price-fixing Christie's and Sotheby's |
| #7702, aired 2018-02-20 | OF DIMES $800: Yip Harburg suffered bankruptcy before he wrote this "Brother"ly Depression anthem "Brother, Can You Spare A Dime?" |
| #7700, aired 2018-02-16 | ART & RELIGION $400: Albrecht Dürer's "Praying Hands" is actually called "Hands of" one of these disciples of Jesus apostle |
| #7700, aired 2018-02-16 | ART & RELIGION $800: This art of beautiful handwriting is seen in the Book of Kells as well as much Islamic art calligraphy |
| #7700, aired 2018-02-16 | ART & RELIGION $1200: Here's a sculpture of this Hindu deity breaking his tusk to throw at the moon Ganesh |
| #7700, aired 2018-02-16 | ART & RELIGION $1600: Guido di Pietro took his name Giovanni da Fiesole when he became a friar in 1423, but as an artist he's known by this name Fra Angelico |
| #7700, aired 2018-02-16 | ART & RELIGION $2000: Here's the writing on the wall--Rembrandt painted Belshazzar's feast from chapter 5 of this Biblical book Daniel |
| #7688, aired 2018-01-31 | EUROPEAN ART $400: Deemed indecent, his "Naked Maja" painting caused him to be called before the Inquisition (Francisco) Goya |
| #7688, aired 2018-01-31 | EUROPEAN ART $800: This painting depicting a militia company had to be cut down to a mere 12 by 14 feet to fit in Amsterdam's Town Hall The Night Watch |
| #7688, aired 2018-01-31 | EUROPEAN ART $1200: At St. Peter's Basilica, you can see this Michelangelo masterpiece carved from a single block of marble the Pietà |
| #7688, aired 2018-01-31 | EUROPEAN ART $1600: This medieval embroidery that depicts the Norman Conquest was hung in a French cathedral on special occasions Bayeux Tapestry |
| #7688, aired 2018-01-31 | EUROPEAN ART $2000: Like Toulouse-Lautrec, Maurice Utrillo was fond of painting this district of Paris famous for its windmills Montmartre |
| #7682, aired 2018-01-23 | QUESTIONABLE MOVIE TITLES $1600: Escaped convict George Clooney forms a bluegrass band O Brother, Where Art Thou? |
| #7679, aired 2018-01-18 | BIBLICAL ART $400: They're the father & son in the 1908 work seen here Abraham and Isaac |
| #7679, aired 2018-01-18 | BIBLICAL ART $800: Tintoretto depicted the moment in the book of Exodus when this man struck the rock Moses |
| #7679, aired 2018-01-18 | BIBLICAL ART $1600: Here's Lot fleeing his former home as the Lord destroys these two wicked cities Sodom and Gomorrah |
| #7679, aired 2018-01-18 | BIBLICAL ART $2000: In the lithograph seen here, the priest Eli teaches this Biblical prophet as a boy Samuel |
| #7679, aired 2018-01-18 | BIBLICAL ART $3,000 (Daily Double): This Italian had a birth of religiosity late in life and painted works like "Mystic Nativity" in 1500 Botticelli |
| #7669, aired 2018-01-04 | PAINT MISS, BEHAVING $1000: Just after Botticelli in art dictionaries comes this French Rococo master who also painted goddesses Francois Boucher |
| #7662, aired 2017-12-26 | HIS OWN MUSEUM $800: His museum in Santa Rosa, California includes a re-creation of his studio & original "Peanuts" comic strip art Charles Schulz |
| #7660, aired 2017-12-22 | SCULPTURE $800: Doctors' offices can have nice art & this organization put a 10-ton Louise Nevelson sculpture outside its D.C. building American Medical Association |
| #7660, aired 2017-12-22 | SCULPTURE $2000: Paul Cezanne's art such as "Large Bathers" featuring reclining nudes was a major influence on this British sculptor Henry Moore |
| #7652, aired 2017-12-12 | EUROPEAN HISTORY $400: This post-medieval rebirth of classical learning revolutionized art & science Renaissance |
| #7651, aired 2017-12-11 | 20th CENTURY ART $400: After his marriage to fellow painter Lee Krasner, he began his large canvases onto which he poured or dripped paint Jackson Pollock |
| #7651, aired 2017-12-11 | 20th CENTURY ART $800: A statement against war, this giant painting was commissioned for the Spanish Pavilion at the 1937 World's Fair Guernica |
| #7651, aired 2017-12-11 | 20th CENTURY ART $1200: Here's "Red Hills with White Shell", a 1938 painting by her (Georgia) O'Keeffe |
| #7651, aired 2017-12-11 | 20th CENTURY ART $1600: The basic style of the color field paintings by this Russian-born man is 2 or 3 soft-edged rectangles of color (Mark) Rothko |
| #7651, aired 2017-12-11 | 20th CENTURY ART $2000: The 2015 movie "Woman in Gold" is about a legal fight over portraits, including the one seen here, by this Austrian (Gustav) Klimt |
| #7650, aired 2017-12-08 | 14-LETTER WORDS $800: You can win an Oscar for this specialty, the art & science of filming a motion picture cinematography |
| #7646, aired 2017-12-04 | OTHERWISE FAMOUS PAINTERS $1600: The art of this former talk show host who did 2 stints on "The View" often benefits desmoid tumor research Rosie O'Donnell |
| #7632, aired 2017-11-14 | ART $400: This 1889 van Gogh work depicts a crescent moon in a swirling sky, a church spire & a cypress tree The Starry Night |
| #7632, aired 2017-11-14 | ART $800: His childhood in Vitebsk influenced his work, which often includes fiddlers on roofs (Marc) Chagall |
| #7632, aired 2017-11-14 | HIDDEN FIGURES $1200: Pluperfect is one a tense |
| #7632, aired 2017-11-14 | ART $1600: He coined the term ready-made for everyday objects he designated as art, like the one he titled "Fountain" (actually a urinal) (Marcel) Duchamp |
| #7632, aired 2017-11-14 | ART $2000: Edward Hicks' Quaker faith is evident in this painting, a favorite theme of his The Peaceable Kingdom |
| #7632, aired 2017-11-14 | ART $4,000 (Daily Double): Edgar Degas did many works using this medium whose name is also used for subdued shades of color pastel |
| #7626, aired 2017-11-06 | RECYCLOPEDIA $400: Newspaper can be recycled via this art technique, whose name means "chewed paper" papier-mâché |
| #7625, aired 2017-11-03 | THE HANDMADE TALE $400: The Academy of Handmade Artists & Supporters Awards include Best Artist in this pottery-making art ceramics |
| #7622, aired 2017-10-31 | ART $400: Ponder this--"Le Penseur" is the French name for this famous sculpture The Thinker |
| #7622, aired 2017-10-31 | ART $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a painting on the monitor.) In one of his Vatican palace frescoes, called "Parnassus", Raphael celebrated poets both ancient and more recent, with Apollo and the Muses in the center, and in the group here, Dante and Virgil, behind the back of this blind bard Homer |
| #7622, aired 2017-10-31 | ART $1600: Though he appears more to be smiling, the man in the Franz Hals painting is portrayed as this cavalier The Laughing Cavalier |
| #7622, aired 2017-10-31 | ART $2000: One of this British sculptor's large reclining figures can be seen in a reflecting pool at Lincoln Center Henry Moore |
| #7622, aired 2017-10-31 | ART $3,200 (Daily Double): In 2013 one of his black-&-white paintings of a Coca-Cola bottle sold at auction for over $57 million Andy Warhol |
| #7620, aired 2017-10-27 | LA LA LAND $1000: (Los Angeles mayor Eric Garcetti presents the clue.) In downtown LA & named for philanthropists Edythe & Eli this $140 million art museum uses a "veil-&-vault" concept; the fiber-reinforced concrete facade is the veil, with the vault within the Broad Museum |
| #7617, aired 2017-10-24 | ART & MYTHOLOGY $200: Commissioned during Louis XIV's reign, the sculpture seen here shows Mercury riding this horse Pegasus |
| #7617, aired 2017-10-24 | ART & MYTHOLOGY $400: A 16th century painting by Joachim Patinir shows "Charon Crossing This" mythical river Styx |
| #7617, aired 2017-10-24 | ART & MYTHOLOGY $600: On the vase dating from the 5th century B.C., this hero is tied to the mast of his ship to resist the singing of the sirens Ulysses (or Odysseus) |
| #7617, aired 2017-10-24 | ART & MYTHOLOGY $800: In a painting by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Persephone holds this fruit that would seal her fate a pomegranate |
| #7617, aired 2017-10-24 | ART & MYTHOLOGY $1000: Cheers to you if you know he's the young Roman god depicted in this Caravaggio painting Bacchus |
| #7616, aired 2017-10-23 | PLAY THE JOKER $200: Christopher Nolan suggested that this actor prep for the role by looking at the disturbing art of Francis Bacon Heath Ledger |
| #7613, aired 2017-10-18 | ALSO AN APPLE VARIETY $600: Officially, it's the Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute Benefit, but most people know it as the Met this gala |
| #7612, aired 2017-10-17 | ANCIENT WISDOM $1200: In this classic tome, Sun Tzu claimed that "a military operation involves deception" The Art of War |
| #7608, aired 2017-10-11 | CARVE OUT $600: It can be the art of carving on whalebone or the finished works themselves scrimshaw |
| #7607, aired 2017-10-10 | FIRST NAMES IN THE DICTIONARY $200: Drawing, sculpture or painting, for example art |
| #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 |
| #7594, aired 2017-09-21 | ONE-NAMED AUTHORS $1200: This Roman poet's "Art of Love" from around 1 B.C. is a hedonistic seduction manual still useful today Ovid |
| #7593, aired 2017-09-20 | ART SUPPLIES $200: "Une toile vierge" is the French equivalent of the English expression "a blank" this canvas |
| #7593, aired 2017-09-20 | ART SUPPLIES $400: Pavonazzo & carrara are both popular types of this material for sculpting marble |
| #7593, aired 2017-09-20 | ART SUPPLIES $600: The Sunnyside Corp. makes methyl ethyl ketone & this faster-drying thinner that also ends in "tone" acetone |
| #7593, aired 2017-09-20 | ART SUPPLIES $800: This fast-drying type of paint made from synthetic resins comes in 2 main types, fluid & heavy body acrylic paints |
| #7593, aired 2017-09-20 | ART SUPPLIES $1000: I went to Java & bought you a gift of this, made by applying wax to cloth a batik |
| #7592, aired 2017-09-19 | ORCHESTRA $800: "The Art of" playing this reed instrument says the designation "clown of the orchestra" is an insult the bassoon |
| #7592, aired 2017-09-19 | SONNETS $1000: This 14th century Italian poet mastered the art of the sonnet writing about his love for Laura Petrarch |
| #7587, aired 2017-09-12 | ART & ARTISTS $200: This artist who portrayed the Moulin Rouge in his paintings was a character in the film "Moulin Rouge!" (Toulouse) Lautrec |
| #7587, aired 2017-09-12 | ART & ARTISTS $400: One of her paintings of the 1940s is "Over the River to Grandma's House" (was it her own house?) Grandma Moses |
| #7587, aired 2017-09-12 | ART & ARTISTS $600: Dürer depicted this Roman hero at labor, shooting the man-eating birds of the Stymphalian marshes Hercules |
| #7587, aired 2017-09-12 | ART & ARTISTS $800: Discovered on an Aegean island on April 8, 1820, this marble statue was presented to Louis XVIII, who donated it to the Louvre the Venus de Milo |
| #7587, aired 2017-09-12 | ART & ARTISTS $1000: Though the Spanish court painter, he portrayed the vulgarity of the family of Charles IV Francisco Goya |
| #7577, aired 2017-07-18 | "G", WE LOVE ART $400: Sociologist Gregory Snyder says campaigns against this always "tag" it as vandalism, never art graffiti |
| #7577, aired 2017-07-18 | "G", WE LOVE ART $800: He roomed with van Gogh in Arles, partly as a favor to van Gogh's brother Theo (Paul) Gauguin |
| #7577, aired 2017-07-18 | "G", WE LOVE ART $1200: This 18th century English painter captured his own daughters chasing a butterfly Gainsborough |
| #7577, aired 2017-07-18 | "G", WE LOVE ART $1600: A school of art is named for the Flemish cities of Bruges & this Ghent |
| #7577, aired 2017-07-18 | "G", WE LOVE ART $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a painting on the monitor.) In Christian art, a basket of fruit represents the circle of life, death & resurrection, while this yellow bird symbolizes the Passion of Christ because it fed on thorns & thistles a goldfinch |
| #7574, aired 2017-07-13 | "M"PORTANT PAINTERS $800: He left all his works of art to the city of Oslo, which built a museum to house them Munch |
| #7574, aired 2017-07-13 | WEBBY AWARD WINNERS $1000: Person of the Year, 2014:
this anonymous one-named man for Instagramming some of his outdoor art Banksy |
| #7569, aired 2017-07-06 | VISUAL ART $200: Here's a thinker--in 1864 he submitted his first sculpture to the Paris salon, "Mask of the Man with the Broken Nose" Rodin |
| #7569, aired 2017-07-06 | VISUAL ART $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a painting on the monitor.) Around 1305, Giotto began painting a fresco of the adoration of the Magi; the Star of Bethlehem was believed to modeled after this, which could be seen in 1301 Halley's comet |
| #7569, aired 2017-07-06 | VISUAL ART $600: A New Mexico museum recently hosted "Out of the Box: The Art of" this tobacco product & its colorful labels cigars |
| #7569, aired 2017-07-06 | FROM THE LATIN $800: From the Latin for "ornamental gardening", it's the art form seen here topiary |
| #7569, aired 2017-07-06 | VISUAL ART $800: Divisionism is another name for this painting style that's most closely associated with Georges Seurat pointillism |
| #7569, aired 2017-07-06 | VISUAL ART $1000: With the panels open, his "Garden of Earthly Delights" takes up over 12 feet of wall space at the Prado (Hieronymus) Bosch |
| #7569, aired 2017-07-06 | LET ME ENTERTAIN YOU $2000: I've finally mastered Ian Anderson's flute part on this art rock band's "Thick As A Brick" Jethro Tull |
| #7565, aired 2017-06-30 | CANADA 150 $3,500 (Daily Double): (Alex presents from the Canadian embassy in Washington, D.C.) The embassy's art collection includes a reminder of the warm relations between Canada & this country; during World War II, Canada helped provide refuge for its royal family, including the young Princess Beatrix, & later, Canada helped liberate this country from Nazi rule the Netherlands |
| #7563, aired 2017-06-28 | PAINTINGS $1000: An art magazine once offered $10 to the first reader who could find the lady in his "Nude Descending a Staircase" (Marcel) Duchamp |
| #7561, aired 2017-06-26 | I'VE GOT 3 NAMES $1600: Here he is, perhaps making the 114 offenses against literary art Mark Twain accused him of in two-thirds of a page of "The Deerslayer" James Fenimore Cooper |
| #7560, aired 2017-06-23 | AMERICAN ART $400: Samuel F.B. Morse's "Gallery of" this European museum depicts its best paintings; the lady in the bottom center is a clue the Louvre |
| #7560, aired 2017-06-23 | AMERICAN ART $800: In 1964 his "Convergence", a collage of splattered colors, was made into a popular jigsaw puzzle (Jackson) Pollock |
| #7560, aired 2017-06-23 | AMERICAN ART $1600: Just west of the Hudson Valley, these mountains provided the Hudson River School with great views the Catskills |
| #7560, aired 2017-06-23 | AMERICAN ART $2,000 (Daily Double): Shepard Fairey's iconic 2008 painting of Barack Obama began as a 60"x44" collage in his studio & featured this 4-letter word hope |
| #7560, aired 2017-06-23 | AMERICAN ART $2000: The head & torso of the woman in this most famous Andrew Wyeth painting are those of his wife, not the title subject Christina's World |
| #7554, aired 2017-06-15 | U.S. MUSEUMS $1600: A contemporary art museum in Pittsburgh is housed in & named for this type of factory owned by Stearns & Foster a mattress |
| #7553, aired 2017-06-14 | DESIGN & ARCHITECTURE $1000: This American architect designed the University of Minnesota's Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum seen here Frank Gehry |
| #7553, aired 2017-06-14 | BIBLICAL PAIRS $2,500 (Daily Double): They were told, "Dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return" Adam and Eve |
| #7550, aired 2017-06-09 | TRAVEL & TOURISM $800: The Apsaras on a temple were beings who did this to entertain gods and men; apsara is a traditional type of the art in Cambodia dance |
| #7550, aired 2017-06-09 | TRAVEL & TOURISM $1600: Cosimo de Medici built this "U"-shaped art gallery to house Florence's administrative offices the Uffizi gallery |
| #7542, aired 2017-05-30 | SEOUL MAN & WOMAN $800: Nam June Paik, called the inventor of this type of art, used a thousand-TV-set display at the 1988 Olympics video art |
| #7542, aired 2017-05-30 | SEOUL MAN & WOMAN $3,000 (Daily Double): In 1971 Seoul-born Kyongwon Ahn founded the UTA, the United this Korean martial art Association taekwondo |
| #7539, aired 2017-05-25 | MORTAL MATTERS $1000: This ultimate accounting of souls is a common subject in European art; here's Hans Memling's take the Last Judgment |
| #7536, aired 2017-05-22 | ENDS WITH A DOUBLE VOWEL $800: One piece of dermis art tattoo |
| #7536, aired 2017-05-22 | ASIAN-AMERICAN PERFORMERS $1200: As Tom Haverford on "Parks & Rec", he said, "I have no interest in art. Let me clarify--I have no interest in non-nude images" Aziz Ansari |
| #7536, aired 2017-05-22 | WORLD TOUR $1600: In 1406 the Hall of Supreme Harmony, once China's highest structure, was built by this dynasty known for smaller-scale art the Ming Dynasty |
| #7534, aired 2017-05-18 | THE ART OF WAR $200: The medieval embroidery seen here depicts the events & personalities of this invasion the Norman invasion of England (or Norman Conquest) |
| #7534, aired 2017-05-18 | THE ART OF WAR $400: Frederick Hart's sculpture in D.C. honors the soldiers of this war the Vietnam War |
| #7534, aired 2017-05-18 | THE ART OF WAR $600: Depicting an ambitious nighttime crossing, the 1851 canvas seen here is known by this 4-word title Washington Crossing the Delaware |
| #7534, aired 2017-05-18 | THE ART OF WAR $800: Tom Lea's World War II painting highlighting the problem of shell shock is titled "That 2,000 Yard" one of these a stare |
| #7534, aired 2017-05-18 | THE ART OF WAR $1000: This Spanish artist's "Third of May 1808" depicts the tragic fate of some who resisted Napoleon's occupation Goya |
| #7530, aired 2017-05-12 | TEXTBOOKS $400: Van Eyck's "Man in a Red Turban" is on the cover of the 7th edition of H.W. Janson's textbook on this subject art history |
| #7522, aired 2017-05-02 | ART "C" $400: The picture of Dorian Gray from the 1945 movie hangs at the Art Institute of this U.S. city Chicago |
| #7522, aired 2017-05-02 | ART "C" $800: This substance was used to make "The Locomotive", the Edward Hopper drawing seen here charcoal |
| #7522, aired 2017-05-02 | ART "C" $1200: His relative by marriage James Ives served as a partner of their lithographic firm (Nathaniel) Currier |
| #7522, aired 2017-05-02 | ART "C" $2000: The name of this technique pioneered by Leonardo da Vinci means "light & dark" chiaroscuro |
| #7522, aired 2017-05-02 | ART "C" $6,600 (Daily Double): In his still life paintings, this post-Impressionist sought "to render perspective only through color" (Paul) Cézanne |
| #7519, aired 2017-04-27 | CAKE TALK $200: Here's a work of art: a traditional bûche de Noël cake garnished with mushrooms made of this frothy mixture meringue |
| #7516, aired 2017-04-24 | "O"POURRI $400: Washi paper can be used for everything from paper screens to fans & for this traditional art of folding paper origami |
| #7516, aired 2017-04-24 | BRASIL, BRASIL! $1600: In the 1990s the Gracie family brought the Brazilian form of this martial art to international prominence jujitsu |
| #7515, aired 2017-04-21 | ALMA MATERS $200: (I'm political commentator S.E. Cupp.) I wasn't a politics or history major but graduated from this upstate New York Ivy League school with a degree in art history & wrote art reviews for the Sun Cornell |
| #7508, aired 2017-04-12 | BACK TO SCHOOL WITH POLITICIANS $200: No big surprise, his interests included art, politics & Tennessee Gore |
| #7502, aired 2017-04-04 | TURKISH DELIGHTS $600: Turkey is noted for this art of fine handwriting; a practitioner is called a hatta calligraphy |
| #7502, aired 2017-04-04 | GARDENING $1200: For beginners to this Japanese art of growing dwarf trees, juniper & Chinese elms work particularly well bonsai |
| #7501, aired 2017-04-03 | WHERE ART THOU? $200: In Murphy, N.C., climbing a hillside where these Old Testament injunctions are written in 4'-by-5' letters the Ten Commandments |
| #7501, aired 2017-04-03 | WHERE ART THOU? $400: At the rock with this 5-letter name in Joshua Tree National Park--centuries of rain hollowed out the eye sockets Skull |
| #7501, aired 2017-04-03 | WHERE ART THOU? $600: At Bladensbug, Md.'s "dark and bloody grounds", where dozens of D.C. gents once came to settle scores via this by duel |
| #7501, aired 2017-04-03 | WHERE ART THOU? $1000: At Austin, Minnesota's Museum of this Hormel product, featuring a wall of more than 3,000 cans Spam |
| #7501, aired 2017-04-03 | WHERE ART THOU? $1,400 (Daily Double): In Queenston, Ontario, at the 185-foot monument to Isaac Brock, who repelled a U.S. invasion during this war the War of 1812 |
| #7495, aired 2017-03-24 | ART & THE BIBLE $200: Here, Fra Angelico depicts this happening to Adam & Eve, like students who've misbehaved at school banishment (or being expelled from the garden) |
| #7495, aired 2017-03-24 | ART & THE BIBLE $400: 2 ancient sculptures at the Cleveland Museum of Art show him being "swallowed" & "cast up" Jonah |
| #7495, aired 2017-03-24 | ART & THE BIBLE $600: "The Penitent" this woman is the subject of a painting by van Dyck Mary Magdalene |
| #7495, aired 2017-03-24 | ART & THE BIBLE $800: At the Hermitage in Russia is Rembrandt's painting of David saying goodbye to this friend & son of Saul Jonathan |
| #7495, aired 2017-03-24 | ART & THE BIBLE $1000: The painting seen here depicts this event found in Matthew the Sermon on the Mount |
| #7494, aired 2017-03-23 | BIG SCREEN LITERARY ADAPTATIONS $800: "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" adapted this ancient classic to the American South The Odyssey |
| #7491, aired 2017-03-20 | TRICKY CLUES $1000: You can see many a public hanging at this location at West 53rd & Fifth in New York City MoMA (the Museum of Modern Art) |
| #7489, aired 2017-03-16 | "A" FOR THE WIN $800: A storage place for weapons, it precedes "show" regarding a famous 1913 art exhibition armory |
| #7489, aired 2017-03-16 | ENTERTAINMENT "MORE" OR "LESS" $2000: Dennis Quaid and Kate Bosworth star in this streaming show set in the world of high-stakes auctions The Art of More |
| #7488, aired 2017-03-15 | ART $400: She was already a centenarian in 1961 when she painted "Making Horseshoes", seen here Grandma Moses |
| #7488, aired 2017-03-15 | ART $800: "Der Schrei der Natur" was the original German title that Edvard Munch gave to this painting The Scream |
| #7488, aired 2017-03-15 | ART $1200: Art imitates life in Andy Warhol's boxes of this brand of steel wool pads Brillo |
| #7488, aired 2017-03-15 | ART $7,500 (Daily Double): The name of this nihilistic art style of Marcel Duchamp was picked at random from a French-German dictionary Dadaism |
| #7486, aired 2017-03-13 | BOOKS FOR COOKS $1000: This savory meat jelly is covered in the cold buffet chapter of Julia Child's "Mastering the Art of French Cooking" aspic |
| #7480, aired 2017-03-03 | CULTURAL "LIT"ERACY $400: This printmaking method was invented around 1800 & soon, art stars like Delacroix & Goya were using it lithography |
| #7475, aired 2017-02-24 | OLYMPIANS $600: Opponents flip over Kayla Harrison, winner of 2012 & 2016 golds in the 78kg division of this martial art judo |
| #7471, aired 2017-02-20 | ART & ARTISTS $200: In 2015, after 10 years of study, a French scientist said he found a hidden portrait beneath this Leonardo portrait the Mona Lisa |
| #7471, aired 2017-02-20 | ART & ARTISTS $400: Look, no hands! It's this famed marble sculpture by Alexandros Venus de Milo |
| #7471, aired 2017-02-20 | ART & ARTISTS $600: This 1930 painting by Grant Wood portrays a fictitious farmer & his daughter American Gothic |
| #7471, aired 2017-02-20 | ART & ARTISTS $800: The Henry Moore sundial seen here, "Man Enters the Cosmos", greets visitors to this city's Adler Planetarium Chicago |
| #7471, aired 2017-02-20 | ART & ARTISTS $1000: Paris' Musee de l'Orangerie is home to a set of "Water Lilies" canvases by this Frenchman Monet |
| #7464, aired 2017-02-09 | -OLOGIES $1200: Piscatology is the art or science of this activity fishing |
| #7464, aired 2017-02-09 | LOVE $1600: This Old Testament book, an 8-chapter love poem, has lines like "Behold, thou art fair, my love...thou hast doves' eyes" the Song of Solomon |
| #7464, aired 2017-02-09 | THE OED, FROM POISE TO QUELT $2,500 (Daily Double): "One who practices the art of boxing" a pugilist |
| #7461, aired 2017-02-06 | VENICE $2000: The Museum of Glass Art in the Giustinian Palace chronicles this nearby island's glassmaking history Murano |
| #7460, aired 2017-02-03 | 20th CENTURY ART & ARTISTS $400: A true Fauvist artists often didn't do this usual 3-letter word to his paints, but applied them vividly from the tube mix |
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Art Borgemenke, an adjunct professor from El Paso, Texas
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Season 20 player (2004-07-21). KJL game 36. Last name pronounced like...
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Art Hilliker, a steel mill systems repairman from Irwin, Pennsylvania
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Cheech Marin, an actor, comedian, director, writer and musician from Lost
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"He's played a cop on Nash Bridges, voiced a 1959 Chevy...
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Babs McClellan, an art student from Clearwater, Florida
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1991 Seniors Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $5,000. 1965 Tournament of Champions winner:...
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D\'Art Ferris, a computer technician from Montrose, California
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Season 2 player (1986-05-12).
First name pronounced like \"DAR\".
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Art Waters, a consultant originally from Seattle, Washington
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Season 9 1-time champion: $$10,801.
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Dave Rowswell, a high school art teacher from Cheyenne, Wyoming
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2019 Teachers Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. At the time of the...
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Art Vespignani, a compliance officer from Lake Hiawatha, New Jersey
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Season 11 3-time champion: $38,599.
Last name pronounced like \"ves-pin-YAHN-ee\".
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Kerr Houston, a professor of art history from Baltimore, Maryland
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Season 28 player (2012-04-20).
First name pronounced like "KUR".
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Art Hill, a hotel controller from La Crosse, Wisconsin
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Season 5 player (1988-09-14).
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Art Seaman, a minister from Kittanning, Pennsylvania
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Season 20 player (2003-12-11).
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Art Thompson, an attorney from Billings, Montana
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Season 5 player (1989-01-12).
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Art Burke, an analyst from Lenexa, Kansas
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Season 5 player (1989-03-27).
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Erin Weiss, an art dealer from Los Angeles, California
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Season 22 player (2006-07-07).
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Sarah Thompson, an art history professor from Rochester, New York
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Season 32 1-time champion: $16,999 + $2,000.
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Leslie Shannon, a manager of a research lab from Sydney, Australia
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"A recent art history graduate when she became Jeopardy! champion in...
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Kelly Lathrop, an art historian from Landisville, Pennsylvania
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Season 26 player (2010-01-27).
Last name pronounced like "LAY-throp".
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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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Alison Jenik, a junior at the University of Maryland from New York, New York
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2005 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
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Elza Reeves, a bank teller from Louisville, Kentucky
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Season 25 1-time champion: $16,400 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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Anjali Tripathi, a senior from MIT
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"Math and science were her favorite subjects in seventh grade. We're...
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Danny Devries, a junior from the University of Michigan
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2008 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. 21 and from West Bloomfield, MI...
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Blake Hernandez, a senior from Burke, Virginia
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2002 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500. Blake was 16 at the time...
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Vito Cortese, a software engineer and Italian translator from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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Season 27 3-time champion: $68,485 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Janet Bradlow, an insurance agent from New York, New York
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Season 26 3-time champion: $58,000 + $2,000. Janet Bradlow New York,...
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Robert Knecht Schmidt, a patent agent from Cleveland, Ohio
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Season 26 1-time champion: $12,799 + $1,000. Middle name pronounced like...
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Justin Bernbach, a lobbyist from Brooklyn, New York
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2010 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 25 7-time champion: $155,001...
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Jen McFann, a Peace Corps recruiter from Astoria, New York
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Season 26 1-time champion: $19,410 + $2,000. Jen McFann Astoria, New...
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Becky Anderson, a retired software specialist originally from Morganton, North Carolina
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Season 25 1-time champion: $16,401 + $2,000. Becky Anderson - A...
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Fred Beukema, a structural engineer from Minneapolis, Minnesota
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Season 25 3-time champion: $69,401 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Jennifer Broders, a junior high school social studies teacher from Stockton, Iowa
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Season 26 2-time champion: $59,801 + $1,000. Jennifer Broders - a...
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Elizabeth Pearce, a freelance editor and writer from New York City, New York
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Season 8 1-time champion: $13,300. Elizabeth appeared on the original Jeopardy!...
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Mary Jane Dreyer, a housewife from Ridgewood, New Jersey
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Season 8 player (1991-12-05). Mary Jane won two games (losing her...
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David Ulmer, Jr., an art store assistant manager from Redondo Beach, California
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Season 1 player (1984-10-11): LouverDrape vertical blinds. Dave was the U.S....
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Susan Loring, a telecommunications consultant originally from Charleston, South Carolina
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Season 9 player (1993-06-14). Susan appeared on the Art Fleming version...
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Elliott Kalan, a writer originally from Millburn, New Jersey
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Season 37 player (2021-01-25). Elliott said his grandmother, Barbara Pershell, appeared...
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Arthur Frank, a painter originally from New York City
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Season 1 player (1985-01-21). The recording used to archive the episode...
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Burns Cameron, a realtor from Standish, Maine
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1990 Super Jeopardy! quarterfinalist: $5,000. Burns appeared on the original version...
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Sarah Cascone, an art journalist and critic from New York, New York
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Season 37 player (2021-01-20).
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Maggie Brown, a junior at the University of West Florida from Pensacola, Florida
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\"A sophomore from Pensacola, Florida in the 2018 Teen Tournament, she\'s...
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Dave Goldsmith, a senior from Colgate University
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1994 College Championship 1st runner-up: $19,160. Dave said his mother claims...
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Joanna Rom, a docent from Washington, D.C.
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Season 35 player (2018-10-22). Joanna appeared on the original version of...
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Mary Ellen LaRubbio, a legal secretary originally from Brooklyn, New York
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Season 8 player (1992-06-12): a collection of Armitron All-Sport water-resistant sport...
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Debbie May, a teacher from Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania
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Season 4 player (1988-01-14). Debbie was also a contestant on the...
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Meredith Strang, an art dealer from Los Angeles, California
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Season 11 player (1995-01-04).
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Elizabeth Connor, an art director from Brooklyn, New York
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Season 34 player (2018-01-31). Elizabeth wore a necklace that said "UGH"...
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Jeff Goldstein, a law student originally from Baltimore, Maryland
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Season 2 player (1986-03-26). Jeff fainted during the Final Jeopardy! Round...
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Bill Dingfelder, an art museum fundraiser from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Season 7 player (1991-04-30).
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Martha Bath, a retired CPA from Seattle, Washington
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2024 Champions Wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 39 1-time champion: $30,800 +...
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Deirdre Thomas, an attorney and editor from Seattle, Washington
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Season 34 2-time champion: $33,200 + $1,000. Deirdre\'s father Dr. Nicholas...
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Teresa O'Neill, a contract administrator from Santa Clara, California
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Season 2 1-time champion: $16,799. A political candidate profile of Teresa...
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Martha Bath, a retired CPA from Seattle, Washington
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2024 Champions Wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 39 1-time champion: $30,800 +...
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Gary Palmer, a physician from Palm Springs, California
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1986 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $5,000. Season 2 4-time champion: $18,400....
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Karen Muranaka, from Lomita, California
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Season 3 1-time champion: $8,600. Trebek pilot 1 player. Karen was...
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Denise Rechter, an attorney from Vienna, Virginia
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Season 10 player (1993-10-26). According to her interview, Denise appeared on...
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Karen Muranaka, an administration assistant from Los Angeles, California
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Season 3 1-time champion: $8,600. Trebek pilot 1 player. Karen was...
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Brian Aronson, a public defender from Sacramento, California
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Season 4 player (1988-06-28): Ricardo Beverly Hills Tower Drive luggage collection...
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Bart Thomas, a marine art dealer from Bridgewater, New Jersey
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1994 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $1,000.
1994 Senior Tournament champion: $25,000.
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John Morgan, an elementary school art teacher from Charlotte, North Carolina
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Season 29 player (2013-01-21). John parlayed his $2,000 consolation prize into...
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Robinson-Gissette Cruz, an art assistant from the Bronx, New York
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Season 38 player (2021-10-12).
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Nancy Donehower, a retired college admissions counselor from Portland, Oregon
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2023 Champions Wildcard quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 38 1-time champion: $19,400 +...
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Nancy Donehower, a retired college admission counselor from Portland, Oregon
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2023 Champions Wildcard quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 38 1-time champion: $19,400 +...
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Molly Kossoff, a beauty-industry magazine editor from West Hills, California
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Season 30 1-time champion. $11,100 + $2,000. Molly appeared on the...
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Laurel Schwartz, an art gallery manager originally from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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Season 1 player (1985-03-05).
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Michael Rankins, a minister and writer from Rohnert Park, California
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\"A 5-show winner from 1988, he has been a minister with...
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Alison Whittemore, an art student from San Antonio, Texas
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Season 6 player (1990-03-06).
Last name pronounced like "WHIT-uh-more".
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Lynn Klyde-Allaman, a journalism professor from Lafayette, Colorado
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Season 34 1-time champion: $8,800 + $2,000. Lynn\'s mother appeared on...
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Paula Spence, an art director and designer for TV animation from Altadena, California
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Season 37 player (2020-09-28).
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Herb Metzler, an art handler from Evanston, Illinois
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Season 12 player (1995-09-18).
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Kathy Morrill, an art teacher from Glen Rock, New Jersey
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Season 12 player (1995-11-02).
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John Hawekotte, an attorney and CPA originally from Chicago, Illinois
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Season 5 2-time champion: $20,401. John won three games on Jeopardy!...
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Perry Barber, a baseball umpire from New York City, New York
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Season 5 player (1988-12-29). Perry was a one-time champion on the...
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Dan Crosby, a middle school history teacher from Santa Monica, California
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"He teaches at a school named for a renowned scholar, doctor,...
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Nancy Mednick, an elementary art school teacher from Tenafly, New Jersey
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Season 9 player (1993-02-03).
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Kate Wilson, a high school AP English teacher from Montgomery, Alabama
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"She is a top-10 AP English language teacher at Alabama's number-one...
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Chris Handy, an art dealer from New York City, New York
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Season 7 player (1991-03-12).
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Rick Pisarra, an attorney from Los Angeles, California
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Season 1 player (1985-05-24). Rick may also have appeared on the...
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Jim Davis, a college music and humanities instructor from Freeport, Illinois
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Season 25 2-time champion: $62,802 + $2,000. Not be to confused...
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Eric Oberhand, a computer consultant from Los Angeles, California
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Season 3 player (1987-06-18). Eric appeared on Art Linkletter's House Party...
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Emma Couture, a twelve-year-old from St. Petersburg, Florida
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"Here's a portrait of a smart young girl who sees her...
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Ellen Lewis, a retired high school math teacher from Mount Vernon, New York
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Season 28 1-time champion: $10,000 + $1,000.
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Matt Tobin, a violinist and dueling pianist from Glastonbury, Connecticut
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Season 29 player (2012-09-24). Matt's mother appeared on Jeopardy! in 1974...
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Roger Craig, a computer scientist from Newark, Delaware
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2019 All-Star Games member of wildcard-match 2nd-place Team Austin: a share...
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Gary Palmer, a physician from Palm Springs, California
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1986 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $5,000. Season 2 4-time champion: $18,400....
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Anna Cambron, a 10-year-old from Louisville, Kentucky
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"Her fascination with the human mind leads her to the field...
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Don Marsh, an art director from La Jolla, California
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Season 1 player (1984-09-19).
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Ben Sloat, an artist and art professor from Brookline, Massachusetts
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Season 38 player (2022-02-02).
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Elliot Shteir, an attorney from Somerville, New Jersey
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1995-A Seniors Tournament 1st runner-up: $10,000. Dr. Elliot Shteir won $8,230...
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Lani Gonzalez, a managing director of an art bazaar from Austin, Texas
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Season 33 3-time champion: $50,600 + $2,000.
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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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Sami Siegelbaum, a professor of art history from Chicago, Illinois
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Season 30 player (2014-05-30).
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Sara Orel, a professor of art history from Kirksville, Missouri
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Season 24 player (2008-05-23).
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Stefanie Wulfestieg, a senior from Tacoma, Washington
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1998 Teen Reunion Tournament participant: $5,000. 1988 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $5,000....
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Emma Miller, from San Mateo, California
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"She loves the idea of creating art that people can live...
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Hunter Brown, a senior from Wheaton, Illinois
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2008-A Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 17 at the time of...
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Suchita Shah, a senior from the University of Wisconsin-Madison
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2008 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 20 and from Holmen, WI...
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Linda Schildkraut, an art historian from Bayside, New York
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Season 23 2-time champion: $57,802 + $2,000.
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James Grant, a junior from Georgetown University
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2008 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 21 and from Manhattan Beach,...
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Den Golden, an advertising executive from Vernon, New Jersey
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Season 4 player (1987-09-11). It is unclear whether this is the...
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Sarah Legins, an art librarian from Brooklyn, New York
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Season 19 1-time champion: $15,200 + $1,000.
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Lindsey Bartlett, a junior from Winter Haven, Florida
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2002 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $5,000. Lindsey was 16 at the time...
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Kate Horowitz, a science writer from Washington, D.C.
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Season 31 player (2014-10-02). Kate is published co-author of the coffee-table...
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Greg Greenzweig, a high school art teacher from Pennsville, New Jersey
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2016 Teachers Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000 + a $2,500 education grant to...
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Laura Mogul, an executive director from Port Washington, New York
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Season 32 player (2016-03-31). Laura appeared on the original Jeopardy! with...
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Farah Zolghadr, a sophomore from Springfield, Illinois
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2001 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500.
15 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Kevin Keach, an operations manager from St. Ann, Missouri
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 2001 Tournament...
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Joanne Seran, a teacher from North Hollywood, California
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Season 4 player (1987-12-11): a set of Correla art glass. Joanne's...
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Reagan Upshaw, an art dealer from Brooklyn, New York
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Season 17 player (2001-07-03).
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Thomas Zamora, a junior at the University of Southern California from Cypress, California
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2001 College Championship 2nd runner-up: $14,100. Thomas was 20 at the...
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Beth Dunn, a product demonstrator from Brooklyn, New York
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Season 32 player (2016-04-21). Beth's mother appeared on the original Jeopardy!...
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Marques Redd, a sophomore at Harvard University from Macon, Georgia
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2001 College Championship semifinalist: $5,000. Marques was 18 at the time...
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Pamela Stewart, an art historian and college professor from Ann Arbor, Michigan
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Season 32 player (2016-04-13).
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Stefanie Wulfestieg, an MBA candidate from London, England
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"And from high school in Tacoma, Washington to college at Swarthmore,...
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Tori Lewis, a student of art history from San Diego, California
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Season 29 player (2012-10-26).
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Faye Ringel, a college professor from Norwich, Connecticut
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Season 2 player (1985-10-25). Faye appeared as a contestant on the...
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Robert Galvin, an art student from Hicksville, New York
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Season 12 player (1996-01-24).
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Aidan Mehigan, a sophomore from McLean, Virginia
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2009 Teen Tournament second runner-up: $15,000. Name pronounced like "AY-den MEE-gan"....
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Stacy Braverman, a public interest lawyer from Washington, D.C.
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Season 26 1-time champion: $14,984 + $2,000. As detailed in a...
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Bob Harris, a writer from Los Angeles, California
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"This 5-time champ was a finalist in the 1998 Tournament of...
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Kerry Smith, a baking and pastry art student from Midland, Michigan
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Season 26 player (2010-03-26).
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Arthur Phillips, an author from Brooklyn, New York
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"He was a speechwriter from Boston when he won five shows...
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Josh Charnin-Aker, a twelve-year-old from Lighthouse Point, Florida
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"And, whether in neonatology or as a Navy SEAL, he plans...
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Robin Devereux, an art dealer from Durham, North Carolina
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Season 33 player (2017-03-23).
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Lenny Porges, a retailer from Tucson, Arizona
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Season 31 player (2015-05-26).
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Russ Porter, a water systems engineer from Seattle, Washington
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Season 27 1-time champion: $20,001 + $2,000.
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Liz Lynch, a part-time art history teacher from Manassas, Virginia
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Season 20 player (2004-04-23).
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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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Cynthia Rowley, a designer from Project Runway and Design Star
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"Seen by TV viewers on shows such as Project Runway and...
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Ariella Goldstein, a junior from Muhlenberg College
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2009 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 20 and from Cortlandt Manor,...
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Larissa Charnsangavej, a senior from Rice University
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2009 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 21 and from Houston, Texas at...
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Liz Murphy, a foreign service officer originally from Scranton, Pennsylvania
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2010 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 25 5-time champion: $121,302...
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Dan Smith, a student from Chicago, Illinois
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Season 25 3-time champion: $69,200 + $1,000. Dan Smith - a...
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Alexandra Helprin, an art history graduate student from New York, New York
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Season 26 player (2010-04-28).
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Mark Petterson, a senior from the University of Kansas
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2009 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 21 and from Prairie Village,...
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Dana Delany, an actress from Desperate Housewives
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"She won two Emmys for her work on China Beach. This...
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Dan D'Addario, a senior from Columbia University
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2010-A College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Hometown: Farmington, Connecticut. Daniel D'Addario...
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Jean Cui, a student originally from Garden City, New York
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Season 25 2-time champion: $14,200 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
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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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Samira Missaghi, a junior from the University of Minnesota
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2010-A College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Hometown: Eden Prarie, Minnesota. Samira...
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Melanie Baker-Streevy, a United Methodist pastor from Parma, Michigan
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Season 25 1-time champion: $26,900 + $1,000. Melanie Baker-Streevy - A...
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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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Ryan Stoffers, a sophomore from UCLA
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2010-A College Championship 1st runner-up: $50,000. Hometown: Saratoga, California. Ryan Stoffers...
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Tony Barreto, a deputy district attorney originally from New Bedford, Massachusetts
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Season 3 player (1986-09-11): Ricci's Art Deco Collection heavy silver-plated flatware...
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Gail Flemmons, a history teacher from Clinton, Mississippi
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Season 25 2-time champion: $46,399 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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Rebecca Dixon, a graduate student and musician from Vancouver, Washington
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Season 26 2-time champion: $53,002 + $1,000. Rebecca and her partner...
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Alice Jackson, an adjunct instructor of art history from Birmingham, Alabama
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Season 27 player (2010-12-28).
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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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Judy Mermelstein, a Census field representative from Queens, New York
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Season 25 1-time champion: $38,401 + $1,000. Judy also appeared on...
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Tom Bergeron, an Emmy Award-winning host from Dancing with the Stars
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2009 Celebrity Jeopardy! player: $25,000 to the Muscular Dystrophy Association. "He's...
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Aisha Tyler, a comedienne, host and actress from Talk Soup, Friends, The 5th Wheel and Ghost Whisperer
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2009 Celebrity Jeopardy! winner: $50,000 split between the International Rescue Committee/Congo...
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Rosemary Travis, a retired patient advocate from Palm Coast, Florida
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Season 23 player (2007-06-28). Rosemary was also a 5-time champion on...
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Robin Cheney, a middle school teacher from Rancho Santa Margarita, California
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"All the students at her school go on a camping trip...
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Mary Ann Hilterhaus, an administrative assistant from Glen Ridge, New Jersey
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Season 23 player (2007-06-21). Mary Ann also appeared on the original...
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Jeff Scherer, a senior art director from Brooklyn, New York
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Season 17 player (2000-09-25).
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Ross Brown, a writer from Washington, D.C.
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Season 23 1-time champion: $12,300 + $2,000. Ross appeared as a...
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Christopher Meloni, an Emmy-nominated actor from Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
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"He's played challenging roles on both sides of the law, including...
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Dianne Lindsay, a publisher's representative from Baton Rouge, Louisiana
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Season 23 player (2007-05-30). Diane also appeared on the original Art...
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Betsy Bangs, a retired art teacher from Fraser, Michigan
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Season 23 player (2007-03-27).
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: MagicMarker
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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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Bill Dougherty, an art services provider from Chicago, Illinois
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Season 14 1-time champion: $7,501.
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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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Mary LoSardo, a retired executive, now web site designer from Bayonne, New Jersey
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Season 22 1-time champion: $20,800 + $1,000. Mary won $60 +...
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Mark Fields, an art center director from Collingswood, New Jersey
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Season 14 player (1998-07-10).
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Robert Van Newkirk, an art director from Albuquerque, New Mexico
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Season 14 player (1997-09-18).
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Marie Corfield, an art teacher from Flemington, New Jersey
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Season 18 player (2002-01-23).
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Steven Popper, an economist from Topanga, California
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"A winner of 5 shows in 1988, he has since founded...
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Diane Siegel, an educational consultant and writer from Northridge, California
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"A full-time mom when she won five games in 1993, now...
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Jerome Vered, a writer from Los Angeles, California
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"The 1-day record of $34,000 he set in 1992 stood for...
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Nithya Kubendran, an 11-year-old seventh grader from Quartz Hill, California
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"When asked about her future plans, she said, 'World domination sounds...
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Doug Lach, a marketing manager from Columbus, Ohio
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 2001 Tournament...
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Jessica Holloway, an art education student from The Woodlands, Texas
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Season 35 2-time champion: $54,401 + $2,000.
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Bob Fleenor, a newspaper copy editor from Martinsburg, West Virginia
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 2001 Tournament...
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