| #9081, aired 2024-04-15 | A LOVE FOR BOOKS $800: A shy librarian's quiet passion for a researcher shines through in Sophie Divry's "The Library of" this kind of not reciprocated "Love" unrequited |
| #8992, aired 2023-12-12 | McPEOPLE $2000: Get to know the real Jackie O at a 2023-2024 exhibit at the National First Ladies' Library at this woman's Canton, Ohio home Ida McKinley |
| #8982, aired 2023-11-28 | SECONDS $200: The largest library in the world is the British Library in London; this American library is second, even at 145 million items the Library of Congress |
| #8957, aired 2023-10-24 | GARDENS $1600: The Desert Garden at this San Marino, California library features more than 2,000 species of desert plants the Huntington Library |
| #8880, aired 2023-05-26 | RESEARCH $600: Head down to the local library to look at old documents in this format with a name that sounds like a tiny movie microfilm |
| #8813, aired 2023-02-22 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $1600: The Hawthorne-Longfellow Library is at this private college in Brunswick, Maine Bowdoin |
| #8811, aired 2023-02-20 | TIME TO HIT THE LIBRARY $400: As a young man, D.C.-born J. Edgar Hoover worked at this library as a messenger & in the cataloging department the Library of Congress |
| #8811, aired 2023-02-20 | TIME TO HIT THE LIBRARY $800: Known as "The Bod", the Bodleian Library at this British university contains 4 copies of the Magna Carta & a Gutenberg Bible (the University of) Oxford |
| #8797, aired 2023-01-31 | A CAPITAL OFFENSIVE $400: Burning the U.S Capitol building in 1814, the British fueled the fire with 3,000 books from this institution, small at the time the Library of Congress |
| #8769, aired 2022-12-22 | WE COME TO THIS PLACE FOR... $200: ...books, with more than 25 million of them cataloged at this site founded in 1800 the Library of Congress |
| #8729, aired 2022-10-27 | RADCLIFFE COLLEGE $1000: A center of women's history studies, the Schlesinger Library opened at Radcliffe in 1943 on the anniversary of this amendment the 19th |
| #8639, aired 2022-05-12 | ESTABLISHMENT $800: In 1887 this man systematically created the first U.S. library school, at Columbia (Melvil) Dewey |
| #8596, aired 2022-03-14 | LIBRARIES $2000: The archives of this "Father of Existentialism" are housed at the Royal Library in Copenhagen Søren Kierkegaard |
| #6, aired 2022-02-10 | TIME TO HIT THE LIBRARY $400: This process of registering books to make them findable produced its first electronic record at Ohio University in 1971 cataloging |
| #6, aired 2022-02-10 | TIME TO HIT THE LIBRARY $600: Newspapers, magazines & journals are all these, an information source published at regular intervals periodicals |
| #8573, aired 2022-02-09 | IN AUTHORS' FOOTSTEPS $400: Ray Bradbury's favorite place in his boyhood home of Waukegan, Illinois was this building at 1 Sheridan Road the library |
| #8556, aired 2022-01-17 | 20th CENTURY AMERICA $400: In 1979, Jimmy Carter installed the first of these at the White House; one is now at his presidential library solar panels |
| #8530, aired 2021-12-10 | GOING MEDIEVAL $2000: In medieval times this order of monks translated medical texts in their library at Monte Cassino in Italy the Benedictines |
| #8490, aired 2021-10-15 | LIBRARIES $1200: Barack Obama & Scott Turow have studied at the world's largest academic law library, at this school Harvard |
| #8490, aired 2021-10-15 | LIBRARIES $2000: Seen here, the Long Room at this Irish school's library dates back to the 1700s, while the library itself was founded in 1592 Trinity College |
| #8434, aired 2021-07-01 | BOSTON: NEWS CLUES $1000: (Hi, I'm Steve Burton.) John McCain is among the public officials who've been honored at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library with an award for leadership, named for this Pulitzer Prize-winning book by JFK Profiles in Courage |
| #8266, aired 2020-10-26 | A QUIET PLACE $200: The Valley one at Oregon State & the Ablah one at Wichita State have special quiet zones--shouldn't the whole place be one? a library |
| #8266, aired 2020-10-26 | A 5-MARTINI LIBRARY $800: Near the end of this Hemingway novel, Jake & Brett each have 3 martinis at a bar in Madrid The Sun Also Rises |
| #8266, aired 2020-10-26 | A 5-MARTINI LIBRARY $2,200 (Daily Double): In a Kurt Vonnegut novel, Bonnie, a cocktail waitress at the Holiday Inn, calls martinis this, the book's title breakfast of champions |
| #8265, aired 2020-10-23 | HISTORIC OBJECTS $400: President Reagan urged, "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down" this, & you can see part of it at the Reagan Library the (Berlin) Wall |
| #8246, aired 2020-09-28 | WRITERS ANONYMOUS $400: This anonymous Old English poem about a hero fighting monsters survives in the Nowell Codex at the British Library "Beowulf" |
| #8173, aired 2020-03-04 | ANCIENT GREEK & ROMAN ARCHITECTURE $1200: The Library of Celsus at Ephesus had three big windows to let light into this alliterative space that the British Museum also has a reading room |
| #8141, aired 2020-01-20 | LIBRARIES $1,000 (Daily Double): For her work with libraries & literacy, a promenade outside a library at SMU is named in honor of this first lady Laura Bush |
| #8071, aired 2019-10-14 | THE MANY BUILDINGS OF I.M. PEI $1,000 (Daily Double): 2 of I.M. Pei's early designs to be built were at an airport & a presidential library both honoring this man (John F.) Kennedy |
| #8041, aired 2019-07-22 | HISTORIC TRANSPORTS $800: At the Reagan Library, you can go aboard this plane that served 7 presidents in all Air Force One |
| #8027, aired 2019-07-02 | THE GEORGE W. BUSH PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents from the George W. Bush Presidential Library.) The library has the bullhorn President Bush used at this site in 2001. When workers said they were unable to hear, Bush replied, "I can hear you. The rest of the world hears you." Ground Zero |
| #8025, aired 2019-06-28 | HANGOUTS $200: Let's chill at the New York public one; it has 92 locations & more than 55 million items, including DVDs the library |
| #7945, aired 2019-03-08 | FBI AGENT NON-DISQUALIFIERS $800: Outstanding these; at the New York Public Library, they're 25 cents a day for a book, $3 for a DVD late fees (or fines) |
| #7940, aired 2019-03-01 | REFERENCE WORKS $1200: Library Journal's best reference books of 2017 include these sites: "Walking the Trails of History", like at Chickamauga Civil War Battlefields |
| #7903, aired 2019-01-09 | THE VOYAGE OF A BEAGLE $800: As this ultra-hip persona, Snoopy debates whether he should spend time at the student union or the library Joe Cool |
| #7843, aired 2018-10-17 | THE FOLGER LIBRARY $600: Early music at the library features the strumming of this instrument mentioned in the opening speech of "Richard III" a lute |
| #7825, aired 2018-09-21 | ONE GIANT LEAP $800: Around 150 A.D. while working at this library city, Ptolemy wrote "Guide to Geography", the first of its kind Alexandria |
| #7783, aired 2018-06-13 | U.S. LIBRARIES $400: Check it out--located at 42nd Street & Fifth Avenue, its cornerstone laying was November 10, 1902 the New York Public Library |
| #7783, aired 2018-06-13 | U.S. LIBRARIES $600: The iconic Geisel Library at UC San Diego houses a vast collection of items associated with this author Dr. Seuss |
| #7738, aired 2018-04-11 | ARCHITECTURE & BUILDING $1600: It's a large, circular room with a domed ceiling, like the one at the Lehigh University library a rotunda |
| #7627, aired 2017-11-07 | U.S.A. $200: The public library of this Pennsylvania town is located at 701 Cocoa Avenue Hershey |
| #7614, aired 2017-10-19 | WASHINGTON, D.C. $800: The world's largest collection of Shakespeareana is housed at this library the Folger |
| #7493, aired 2017-03-22 | HIDDEN U.K. CITIES $2000: At the library you'll find love poems & more filed under Byron Derby (in under Byron) |
| #7406, aired 2016-11-21 | LOOKING AT COLLEGES $1000: I've read up on the university's campus in Orono, which boasts the largest library in this state Maine |
| #7385, aired 2016-10-21 | McPEOPLE $2000: Hillary & Jackie O are honored at the National First Ladies' Library at this woman's Canton, Ohio home Ida McKinley |
| #7378, aired 2016-10-12 | HORRIBLE HISTORY $1600: In 48 B.C. Caesar looted scrolls from this Egyptian institution, later destroyed the Library at Alexandria |
| #7353, aired 2016-07-27 | BASEBALL $1000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library.) Check out the incredibly rare 1909-11 T206 card of this "Flying Dutchman"; in 2013, one went at auction for $2.1 million Honus Wagner |
| #7334, aired 2016-06-30 | WHERE AM I? $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports.) I'm at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library & Museum in this city, which Lincoln left in 1861, saying, "To this place and the kindness of these people, I owe everything" Springfield (Illinois) |
| #7333, aired 2016-06-29 | LIBRARIES $800: The French in this Aussie city mark Bastille Day by placing flowers at the Joan of Arc statue at the State Library of Victoria Melbourne |
| #7250, aired 2016-03-04 | U.S. LIBRARIES $2000: At tripadvisor.com her library & museum ranks as the No. 1 thing to do in Montgomery, Alabama Rosa Parks |
| #7105, aired 2015-07-03 | LIBRARIES $2000: The earliest presidential voice recording in the Vincent Voice Library at Mich. State is from this 23rd pres. in 1889 Benjamin Harrison |
| #7011, aired 2015-02-23 | DURING THE REIGN OF QUEEN ELIZABETH I $800: Incorporating earlier collections of books, the Bodleian Library opened at this university in 1602 Oxford |
| #6857, aired 2014-06-10 | POETIC WOMEN $400: In 1949, at just 38, Elizabeth Bishop was named Chair of Poetry at this D.C. library the Library of Congress |
| #6837, aired 2014-05-13 | LIBRARIES $800: The Clapp Library at Wellesley College has the love letters exchanged by these 2 English poets in 1845 & 1846 Barrett and Browning |
| #6837, aired 2014-05-13 | LIBRARIES $2,000 (Daily Double): The George W. Bush Presidential Library is on the campus of this university SMU (Southern Methodist) |
| #6687, aired 2013-10-15 | LIBRARIES $1200: A library at the American Institute of Physics is named for this Great Dane Niels Bohr |
| #6673, aired 2013-09-25 | THE BIBLE $600: Dating from the 300s A.D., one of the oldest bibles is a codex that's been in this library since at least 1481 the Vatican Library |
| #6645, aired 2013-07-05 | THE GREAT LIBRARIES OF EUROPE $1200: Among the exhibits at this Irish college's library is the book of Durrow, a gospel manuscript dating to the 7th century Trinity |
| #6614, aired 2013-05-23 | THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY $200: The library's Manhattan location is at 42nd Street & this famous thoroughfare 5th Avenue |
| #6603, aired 2013-05-08 | THE BOOK BOOK $400: In a Margaret Truman novel, a lost diary of one of Columbus' men is linked to a "Murder at" this D.C. library the Library of Congress |
| #6598, aired 2013-05-01 | TRAVEL & TOURISM $400: If you want to see the Book of Kells, it's on display at the Old Library at Trinity College in this city Dublin |
| #6493, aired 2012-12-05 | TO THE LIBRARY! $1200: His Nobel Peace Prize is on display at his presidential library in Atlanta Jimmy Carter |
| #6368, aired 2012-05-02 | VISITING THE BOSTON AREA $2000: One way to see the world is inside the Mapparium at the library of this woman, the founder of Christian Science Mary Baker Eddy |
| #6355, aired 2012-04-13 | HARVARD ALUMNI $2000: This onetime N.C. senator & wife of a senator worked at the Langdell Library before getting her J.D. (1965) Elizabeth Dole |
| #6347, aired 2012-04-03 | NEW YORK MUSEUMS $2000: This planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History has a 10,000-volume library on astronomy the Hayden Planetarium |
| #6331, aired 2012-03-12 | PRESIDENTIAL ARTIFACTS $400: Truman kept a sign with this 4-word motto on his Oval Office desk; the original sign is at his presidential library "The buck stops here" |
| #6331, aired 2012-03-12 | PRESIDENTIAL ARTIFACTS $1,000 (Daily Double): Documents relating to these agreements, the framework for peace in the Middle East, are at the Carter Library the Camp David Accords |
| #6310, aired 2012-02-10 | SHH! LIBRARIANS $200: This future FBI guy learned all about cards & files while working at the Library of Congress in the 1910s J. Edgar Hoover |
| #6235, aired 2011-10-28 | LIBRARIES $2000: A library at the U.N. serves as a memorial to this Secretary-General who was killed in a 1961 plane crash Dag Hammarskjold |
| #6203, aired 2011-07-27 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $400: The Walter P. Reuther library at Wayne State University in Detroit is devoted to this movement labor |
| #6187, aired 2011-07-05 | HOMOPHONES $1200: Expected at a certain time, like a library book, or moisture condensed from the air due/dew |
| #6156, aired 2011-05-23 | THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY $400: The iconic lions at the entrance were named "Patience" and "Fortitude" by this 1930s mayor after needed qualities during the Depression LaGuardia |
| #6000, aired 2010-10-15 | 6,000 $800: In 1991 a 6,000-pound segment of this was put on display at the Reagan Library the Berlin Wall |
| #5966, aired 2010-07-19 | HERE'S ANDERSON COOPER $400: (Anderson Cooper reads the clue.) In 2008 I moderated a Republican debate appropriately held at the presidential library of this man whose political heir the candidates claimed to be Ronald Reagan |
| #5881, aired 2010-03-22 | OWED ON A GRECIAN URN $400: Though blind, I see that you're still reading my "Iliad" & "Odyssey"; you owe me! Or at least the overdue library fees Homer |
| #5880, aired 2010-03-19 | AVOIDING A DISASTROUS TRIP TO EUROPE $800: Don't sneeze & use one of the 2 extant "originals" of this 1215 document at the British Library to wipe your nose the Magna Carta |
| #5855, aired 2010-02-12 | LET'S VISIT A MUSEUM $200: The biggest attraction at the Ronald Reagan library & museum is this presidential plane that you can walk through Air Force One |
| #5851, aired 2010-02-08 | SPOTT THA MISPELED WURD $200: Meet me in the library for a liaison at your liesure leisure |
| #5849, aired 2010-02-04 | HIT THE LIBRARY $400: Ptolemy I wrote to sovereigns & governors asking for works by all authors to build this library's circulation Library at Alexandria |
| #5777, aired 2009-10-27 | THAT'S RARE $1000: With permission, you can read rare books & manuscripts in the Sistine Hall at this library the Vatican Library |
| #5672, aired 2009-04-14 | IF YOU BUILD IT $800: At its opening, this NYC building was the largest marble structure in the U.S. & contained 75 miles of shelves the public library |
| #5596, aired 2008-12-29 | WHERE AM I? $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Michigan.)
I'm not at Gerald R. Ford's presidential library in Ann Arbor, but at his museum in this city, Michigan's second largest Grand Rapids |
| #5391, aired 2008-02-04 | MODERN CHINESE HISTORY $400: Later to help start the Chinese Communist Party, he once worked as a library assistant at Peking University Mao |
| #5367, aired 2008-01-01 | EGYPT $800: Built in the 3rd century B.C. by Ptolemy I, it contained over 500,000 manuscripts the Library at Alexandria |
| #5343, aired 2007-11-28 | THE LBJ LIBRARY & MUSEUM $400: (Jon of the Clue Crew stands in front of a photograph of LBJ and Jackie Kennedy.) I'm at the LBJ Library with the prayer book on which Lyndon Johnson placed his hand to be sworn in on this date aboard Air Force One November 22, 1963 |
| #5343, aired 2007-11-28 | THE LBJ LIBRARY & MUSEUM $2000: (Jon speaks from the Oval Office.) On March 31, 1968, LBJ spoke from the Oval Office exactly 2 months after this North Vietnamese attack; though he said it was a failure, it changed the view of the war at home the Tet Offensive |
| #5320, aired 2007-10-26 | LIBRARIES $2000: The Radcliffe Camera, Britain's first round library, is the main reading room of this bigger library at Oxford the Bodleian Library |
| #5293, aired 2007-09-19 | THE GEORGE H.W. BUSH PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY $1600: (Jon reports again.) The Bush Library has a replica of the office at Camp David where on Feb. 1, 1992, President Bush & this Russian president pledged to end remnants of Cold War hostility Yeltsin |
| #5288, aired 2007-09-12 | WHERE AM I? $400: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew will stands in front of a building that extends partway over a river.) I'm at the library of this president who says it symbolizes his efforts to build bridges from yesterday to tomorrow Clinton |
| #5282, aired 2007-07-24 | PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARIES $1000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from Austin, Texas.) At the dedication in Austin in 1971, he said that of all the words in his presidential library, the two that best express his philosophy are "man can" L.B.J. |
| #5230, aired 2007-05-11 | LIBRARIES $400: This scientist's collection at the Jewish National & University Library in Jerusalem includes a lot of limericks Einstein |
| #5230, aired 2007-05-11 | LIBRARIES $1200: A Victorian-styled room at the Toronto Public Library is "Holmes" to a collection on this author Arthur Conan Doyle |
| #5230, aired 2007-05-11 | LIBRARIES $1600: Want to see if he really said, "God is dead"? Search his collection of papers at the University of Basel's Library Nietzsche |
| #5228, aired 2007-05-09 | THE GALEN CENTER $800: Galen studied medicine at Pergamum, Smyrna & this Egyptian city famous for a library & a lighthouse Alexandria |
| #5200, aired 2007-03-30 | THE BILL CLINTON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY $600: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Clinton Presidential Library in Little Rock, AR.) Gifts to the President abound at the Library, like a mosaic of the Colosseum, given by this man, complete with his seal Pope John Paul II |
| #5200, aired 2007-03-30 | THE BILL CLINTON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY $1000: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Clinton Presidential Library in Little Rock, AR.) At the Library, you can see a touching tribute to the first cat & first dog of the Clinton family with these names Buddy & Socks |
| #5169, aired 2007-02-15 | LET'S CHECK OUT SOME COLLEGES $400: Check out the LBJ Library and the J.J. Pickle Research Campus at this state university and hook 'em, Horns! University of Texas |
| #5165, aired 2007-02-09 | THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN EXPERIENCE $2000: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Clinton Presidential Library in Little Rock, Arkansas.) At a recreation of a famous march, Bill Clinton said that the Voting Rights Act was signed in ink in Washington, but signed in blood in this Alabama city Selma |
| #5123, aired 2006-12-13 | AMERICAN ARTISTS $2000: This Missouri artist painted the mural at the Truman Library, but President Truman applied some extra touches himself (Thomas Hart) Benton |
| #5116, aired 2006-12-04 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $2000: The library at this Penn. college founded by the Quakers in 1864 has a collection dedicated to the peace movement Swarthmore College |
| #5037, aired 2006-07-04 | AN "F" IN HISTORY $1000: This 13th president's wife Abigail loved books & began a library at the White House around 1850 (Millard) Fillmore |
| #4989, aired 2006-04-27 | TV INSPIRATIONS $1600: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew gives the clue from the JFK Library & Museum.) A famous 1961 photo of President Kennedy at his desk is echoed in the opening credits of this popular television series The West Wing |
| #4948, aired 2006-03-01 | THE KENNEDY YEARS $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reads from the JFK Library & Museum in Boston, MA.) One exhibit at the Kennedy Library recreates the Justice Department office of this man, John F. Kennedy's most trusted advisor Robert Kennedy |
| #4947, aired 2006-02-28 | THINGS IN THE YALE LIBRARY $400: Perhaps this poet could see all the "Leaves of Grass" with his last pair of spectacles, now at Yale (Walt) Whitman |
| #4947, aired 2006-02-28 | THINGS IN THE YALE LIBRARY $800: "Pond"er this: Yale is the proud owner of 2 pieces of wood from his cabin at Walden Thoreau |
| #4887, aired 2005-12-06 | THE UNIVERSITY OF... $1,000 (Daily Double): Library holdings at this university include the Constitution of the C.S.A. & the Margaret Mitchell Papers the University of Georgia |
| #4886, aired 2005-12-05 | LIBRARIES $1,000 (Daily Double): In 1598 Thomas Bodley began to rebuild the library at this university; it reopened in 1602 Oxford |
| #4886, aired 2005-12-05 | LIBRARIES $1000: For aural thrills go to the Vincent Voice Library at Michigan State & hear a recording of this 23rd U.S. president Benjamin Harrison |
| #4853, aired 2005-10-19 | ABBREVIATED $2000: At the library or Barnes & Noble:
ISBN International Standard Book Number |
| #4844, aired 2005-10-06 | MR. JOHNSON $400: You'll find this man's presidential library at the University of Texas in Austin Lyndon Johnson |
| #4821, aired 2005-07-18 | LADY'S NIGHT $1200: In 2001, at the New York Public Library, Oprah & Jessye Norman helped pay tribute to this author on her 70th birthday Toni Morrison |
| #4810, aired 2005-07-01 | U.S. MUSEUMS $1600: At the Rosenbach Museum & Library in Philadelphia, you'll find his handwritten manuscript for "Ulysses" James Joyce |
| #4802, aired 2005-06-21 | LIBRARIES $400: Galleries at his Iowa Pres. Library & Museum include "The Humanitarian Years" & "From Hero to Scapegoat" Herbert Hoover |
| #4802, aired 2005-06-21 | LIBRARIES $800: In 1887 Melvil Dewey founded the USA's first library school at this NYC university Columbia |
| #4778, aired 2005-05-18 | PULITZER-PRIZE WINNING WOMEN $400: A reading room at the Lorain Public Library in Ohio is named for this "Beloved" prize-winner from 1988 (Toni) Morrison |
| #4777, aired 2005-05-17 | THE NIXON LIBRARY $200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Nixon Library & Birthplace in Yorba Linda, CA.) In 1970 this man dropped in at the White House, gave Nixon this gun & bullets, & asked to become a federal drug agent Elvis Presley |
| #4777, aired 2005-05-17 | THE NIXON LIBRARY $1000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew points out the bust of a world leader in the Nixon Library & Birthplace in Yorba Linda, CA.) World leaders at the library include this premier who greeted Nixon on his historic arrival in China Zhou Enlai |
| #4762, aired 2005-04-26 | LIBRARIES $200: Samuel Pepys' famous diary is housed at the Pepysian Library at Magdalene College at this university Cambridge |
| #4762, aired 2005-04-26 | LIBRARIES $800: Indiana University's Lilly Library hath a first edition of this, printed at London in 1611 the King James Bible |
| #4708, aired 2005-02-09 | WHERE AM I? $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Truman's Presidential Library. ) I'm here in the actual office Harry Truman worked in from 1957-1966 at his presidential library in this city Independence |
| #4641, aired 2004-11-08 | THE TRUMAN LIBRARY $200: One exhibit at the library covers the concert career of this Truman relative Margaret Truman |
| #4641, aired 2004-11-08 | THE TRUMAN LIBRARY $1000: The library has the actual guns used by the men who tried to assassinate Pres. Truman at this residence in 1950 Blair House |
| #4583, aired 2004-07-07 | PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARIES $800: The complex of buildings at this library in Abilene, Kansas includes a nondenominational chapel where the president is buried Eisenhower |
| #4543, aired 2004-05-12 | IN THE BOOKSTORE $3,200 (Daily Double): She's written biographies of her parents as well as mysteries like "Murder at the Library of Congress" Margaret Truman |
| #4531, aired 2004-04-26 | LIBRARIES $400: Most of the books in the ancient library at Alexandria in Egypt were in this language Greek |
| #4531, aired 2004-04-26 | LIBRARIES $800: The Morris, this type of library at the University of Virginia, has first editions of Coke & Blackstone law library |
| #4465, aired 2004-01-23 | ART & ARTISTS $800: Seen here, he's the most famous occupant at California's Huntington Library "The Blue Boy" |
| #4459, aired 2004-01-15 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: (Sofia of the Clue Crew at the Ronald Reagan Library) This man awarded the Medal of Freedom to Ronald Reagan on January 13, 1993 George H.W. Bush |
| #4432, aired 2003-12-09 | BETWEEN THE LIONS $400: If you walk between the lions at 42nd Street & Fifth Avenue you're entering or exiting this New York City building the New York Public Library |
| #4413, aired 2003-11-12 | LIBRARIES $800: The Family History Library at 35 N. West Temple St. in this state capital has archival info on more than 3 billion names Salt Lake City, Utah |
| #4412, aired 2003-11-11 | THINGS IN THE YALE LIBRARY $400: Yale has a chamberpot used by this "New Deal" President when he received an honorary degree at Yale Franklin Roosevelt |
| #4369, aired 2003-09-11 | "EE" $1000: (Sofia of the Clue Crew at the Ronald Reagan Library in Simi Valley, California) The shape of the Oval Office may go back to this type of 18th century formal reception, where guests formed a circle levee |
| #4317, aired 2003-05-13 | A TOUR OF THE REAGAN LIBRARY $800: There's a display of this Illinois town which Reagan said was "Heaven" when he moved there from Tampico at age 9 Dixon |
| #4267, aired 2003-03-04 | GET OUT YOUR LIBRARY TABLETS $800: Aristotle's personal library was probably the inspiration for this world-famous library in Egypt Library at Alexandria |
| #4213, aired 2002-12-18 | "T" TIME AT THE LIBRARY $400: In book titles, this adjective precedes Gertrude Stein's "Buttons" & Fitzgerald's "is the Night" Tender |
| #4213, aired 2002-12-18 | "T" TIME AT THE LIBRARY $800: Check out this famous British woman's 2002 book "Statecraft: Strategies for a Changing World" Margaret Thatcher |
| #4213, aired 2002-12-18 | "T" TIME AT THE LIBRARY $1200: Watch out for "personal injuries" if you lift all his legal thrillers, including "Personal Injuries", at once Scott Turow |
| #4213, aired 2002-12-18 | "T" TIME AT THE LIBRARY $1600: It's the third book of the autobiographical trilogy that began with "Tropic of Cancer" "Triopic of Capricorn" (by Henry Miller) |
| #4213, aired 2002-12-18 | "T" TIME AT THE LIBRARY $2000: Hawthorne's college classmate Horatio Bridge paid for the publication of this collection of "Tales" "Twice-Told Tales" |
| #4054, aired 2002-03-28 | TRAVEL THE U.S.A. $800: On Nov. 7, 1997 his presidential library opened at Texas A&M in College Station George Bush the senior one |
| #3949, aired 2001-11-01 | THE BRITISH MUSEUM $1000: Jonathan Harker studies up on Transylvania in the British Museum library at the beginning of this novel Dracula |
| #3923, aired 2001-09-26 | HARRY POTTER $500: A library book at Hogwarts is called this sport "Through the Ages" Quidditch |
| #3818, aired 2001-03-21 | LIBRARIES $200: The Chapin Library of Rare Books at Williams College in this state's Berkshire Hills has a 1787 copy of the Constitution Massachusetts |
| #3818, aired 2001-03-21 | LIBRARIES $500: The library at Cambridge's Magdalene College is named for this diarist who bequeathed it his books & diary Samuel Pepys |
| #3724, aired 2000-11-09 | OXFORD CHITCHAT $500 (Daily Double): 3-letter Yank slang for one's physique; at Oxford it's short for a centuries old library Bod (for the Bodleian Library) |
| #3722, aired 2000-11-07 | THE LIBRARY $1000: "Blue at the Mizzen" is the 20th of his books detailing the naval career of Jack Aubrey Patrick O'Brian |
| #3716, aired 2000-10-30 | MAO, MAO, MAO, MAO $200: In 1918 Mao worked briefly as a library assistant at the state university in this city Peking/Beijing |
| #3691, aired 2000-09-25 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $100: In 1971 the Lyndon Johnson Library at this school became the first presidential library on a college campus University of Texas |
| #3526, aired 1999-12-27 | THE SUNFLOWER STATE $400: One of the state's largest libraries is the Watson Library at the University of Kansas in this city Lawrence |
| #3391, aired 1999-05-10 | THE IVY LEAGUE $100: Perhaps to match rival Harvard, this school has a Gutenberg Bible too, at the Beinecke Rare Book Library Yale |
| #3365, aired 1999-04-02 | ARCHITECTURE $1,000 (Daily Double): 524 firms competed to design a new library at this city to recall the ancient one Alexandria, Egypt |
| #3352, aired 1999-03-16 | LIBRARIES $400: The life & career of this female senator from Maine is on display at a library in Skowhegan Margaret Chase Smith |
| #3352, aired 1999-03-16 | LIBRARIES $500: The Lilly Library at Indiana University has one of this man's 1,453 printings of the New Testament Johannes Gutenberg |
| #3267, aired 1998-11-17 | CAMBRIDGE (THE OTHER ONE) $3,500 (Daily Double): Though he was an Oxford graduate, he was selected to design the library at Trinity College in the 1670s Sir Christopher Wren |
| #3063, aired 1997-12-17 | THE BIG APPLE $400 (Daily Double): "(Hi, I'm Sharon Lawrence) At 42nd Street & Fifth Avenue you'll find this great institution, guarded by 2 lions" NYC Public Library |
| #3023, aired 1997-10-22 | LIBRARIES $300: The Theodore M. Hesburgh Library is located at this university Notre Dame |
| #2958, aired 1997-06-11 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $500 (Daily Double): The Robert Frost Library is at this Massachusetts college co-founded by Emily Dickinson's grandfather Amherst |
| #2932, aired 1997-05-06 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $400: The Radcliffe Camera, a domed building at this British university, is a reading room for the Bodleian Library Oxford |
| #2875, aired 1997-02-14 | AROUND THE LIBRARY $1000: Unlike microfilm, these sheets used on machines let the reader start at any point in a printed record Microfiche |
| #2862, aired 1997-01-28 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $800: The library at this Pasadena school is named for physicist Robert A. Millikan Caltech |
| #2826, aired 1996-12-09 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $600: The library at this Hanover, New Hampshire school has a special collection on Robert Frost Dartmouth |
| #2731, aired 1996-06-17 | FAMOUS NAMES $200: This co-founder of the Chinese Communist Party worked as a library assistant at Beijing University Mao Tse-tung |
| #2717, aired 1996-05-28 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $300: The Mark Twain Project at the Bancroft Library of this school in Berkeley has 600 Twain manuscripts California |
| #2674, aired 1996-03-28 | LIBRARIES $400: Woodruff Library at Atlanta's Emory University houses papers of this Uncle Remus creator Joel Chandler Harris |
| #2669, aired 1996-03-21 | LIBRARIES $1000: The Margaret Clapp Library at Wellesley College has all the love letters sent by this pair of poets Robert & Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
| #2655, aired 1996-03-01 | LIBRARIES $1000: The Family History Library at 35 N. West Temple Street in this state capital is the largest of its kind Salt Lake City |
| #2634, aired 1996-02-01 | PRESIDENTIAL NEWS $200: Japan donated $1.5 million to the building of his presidential library at Texas A&M George Bush |
| #2553, aired 1995-10-11 | THE ARTS $200: In 1993 a purported 1612 work by this playwright was found at the British Museum Library Shakespeare |
| #2485, aired 1995-05-26 | LIBRARIES $500: The Theodore M. Hesburgh Library at this college has a 12-story granite mural on its outer wall Notre Dame |
| #2408, aired 1995-02-08 | LIBRARIES $600: This Canadian province's first subscription library opened in 1800 at Niagara-on-the-Lake Ontario |
| #2404, aired 1995-02-02 | LIBRARIES $300: The library at Eastern Montana College in Billings has a collection on this 1876 battle Little Big Horn |
| #2400, aired 1995-01-27 | AMERICAN MUSEUMS $1000: "Where" this author's "Wild Things Are" is at the Rosenbach Museum & Library in Philadelphia Maurice Sendak |
| #2337, aired 1994-11-01 | LIBRARIES $100: N. Pearlroth, researcher for "Ripley's Believe It Or Not", used this library at 42nd St. & 5th Ave. for 52 years the New York City Public Library |
| #2244, aired 1994-05-12 | LIBRARIES $800: The Bancroft Library at this school's Berkeley campus has a notable collection on the American West the University of California |
| #2239, aired 1994-05-05 | TRAVEL & TOURISM $600: A Vietnam War exhibit is one of the highlights at his presidential library in Austin, Texas Lyndon Baines Johnson |
| #2160, aired 1994-01-14 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $600: The Bodleian Library at this university is England's second largest Oxford |
| #2133, aired 1993-12-08 | MARYLAND $800: The Milton S. Eisenhower Library at this Baltimore school has a special collection on Lord Byron Johns Hopkins |
| #2091, aired 1993-10-11 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $500: The library at this Big Ten school in Evanston, Illinois has a collection of pre-17th century German books Northwestern University |
| #2087, aired 1993-10-05 | TRAVEL & TOURISM $300: The library at Eastern Montana College in Billings has a large collection of material on this Lt. Col. Custer |
| #2059, aired 1993-07-15 | ASIAN CAPITALS $600: Memorabilia from Gandhi's life can be found at the Gandhi National Museum & Library in this capital New Delhi |
| #2031, aired 1993-06-07 | LABOR $600: The Walter P. Reuther Library at this city's Wayne State Univ. has the papers of many local union leaders Detroit |
| #2002, aired 1993-04-27 | IRELAND $1,500 (Daily Double): The library at this college is home to many rare works, including the 8th century Book of Kells Trinity College (the University of Dublin) |
| #1948, aired 1993-02-10 | LIBRARIES $1,300 (Daily Double): Outstanding collections of William Faulkner & Stark Young can be found at the library of this university University of Mississippi |
| #1947, aired 1993-02-09 | BLACK AMERICA $400: The original draft of this 1863 declaration is often displayed at the New York State Library in Albany the Emancipation Proclamation |
| #1923, aired 1993-01-06 | ANCIENT EGYPT $400: Callimachus, a Greek scholar, compiled the bibliography for this great ancient library the Library at Alexandria |
| #1910, aired 1992-12-18 | PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARIES $400: You'll find the Camp David Accords & Copies of the SALT II treaty at his presidential library Carter |
| #1847, aired 1992-09-22 | LIBRARIES $400: The King's Library at this museum was built to house King George III's library the British Museum |
| #1843, aired 1992-09-16 | GIRL SCOUT BADGES $200: For the Books badge, Scouts are encouraged to visit this establishment or volunteer to work at one the library |
| #1780, aired 1992-05-01 | LANGUAGES $400: Most of the 400,000 volumes in the Library at Alexandria circa 250 B.C. were in this language Greek |
| #1766, aired 1992-04-13 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $200: The largest completely open-stack university library in the U.S. is at this school nicknamed Penn the University of Pennsylvania |
| #1734, aired 1992-02-27 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $800: The Lyndon Baines Johnson Library stands on this university's campus the University of Texas (at Austin) |
| #1654, aired 1991-11-07 | NEWS 1991 $300: A 6,000-pound segment of this was put on display at the Reagan Library Berlin Wall |
| #1536, aired 1991-04-15 | LIBRARIES $300: The Harvey S. Firestone Memorial Library at this N.J. school is the state's largest research library Princeton |
| #1480, aired 1991-01-25 | BOTTOMS UP! $500: Often served at a brunch, it's made with equal amounts of champagne & orange juice Mimosa |
| #1319, aired 1990-05-03 | LIBRARIES $800: The Jerome Robbins Archive of the Recorded Moving Image is part of the library at this theater complex Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts |
| #1286, aired 1990-03-19 | LIBRARIES $500: The library at this Waco, Texas school houses the largest collection of works about Robert Browning Baylor |
| #1172, aired 1989-10-10 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $500: 60,000 items pertaining to author Margaret Mitchell are housed at this university's library the University of Georgia |
| #1095, aired 1989-05-12 | LIBRARIES $200: Dedicated in 1981, this presidential library is located at the University Michigan the Gerald Ford Library |
| #985, aired 1988-12-09 | ARCHAEOLOGY $800: In the 1800s, the great library of Ashurbanipal was unearthed at Nineveh, last capital of this empire Assyrian Empire |
| #668, aired 1987-07-01 | WORLD LEADERS $200: Shortly after the Russian Revolution, he became a library assistant at Peking University Mao Tse-tung |
| #571, aired 1987-02-16 | THE LIBRARY $100: Defacing books or shouting or throwing spitballs at the other readers three activities prohibited in the library |
| #288, aired 1985-10-16 | THE LIBRARY $400: Britain's 2nd largest library, the Bodleian, is at this university Oxford |
| #288, aired 1985-10-16 | THE LIBRARY $500: This ancient Egyptian marvel had a copy of every existing scroll known to its librarians the library at Alexandria |
| #261, aired 1985-09-09 | GHOSTS $600: At Windsor Castle, this Tudor queen supposedly haunts the Queen's library Elizabeth I |
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Dave Belote, the base commander from Nellis Air Force Base, Las Vegas
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Jennifer Duann, a senior from the Ohio State University
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Lindsay Eanet, a senior from the University of Missouri
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Cliff Galiher, a sophomore from UCLA
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Elise Burton, a freshman from the University of California-Berkeley
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Christine Valada, a photographer and attorney originally from Walton, New York
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Liz Murphy, a foreign service officer originally from Scranton, Pennsylvania
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Jove Graham, a biomedical engineer from Lewisburg, Pennsylvania
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Scott Menke, a senior from Johns Hopkins University
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2009 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. 21 and from Flemington, New Jersey...
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Andy Srinivasan, a high school science teacher from Garner, North Carolina
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Emily Heaney, a freelance costume designer from White Bear Lake, Minnesota
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Leah Anthony Libresco, a junior from Yale University
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2010-A College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Hometown: Mineola, New York. Jeopardy!...
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Mark Wales, a substitute teacher from Amherst, New York
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2009 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 24 5-time champion: $141,804...
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Anderson Cooper, an anchor from CNN's Anderson Cooper 360°
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Robin Carroll, an instructional designer from Marietta, Georgia
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Nifty Nine (players with byes into...
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Andrew Rostan, a writer and script reader originally from Boardman, Ohio
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2007 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD Home...
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Grace Veach, a librarian from Lakeland, Florida
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Meredith Robbins, a library media specialist from New York, New York
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Season 25 4-time champion: $48,700 + $2,000. Meredith was the alternate...
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Brock Thompson, a librarian at the Library of Congress from Washington, D.C.
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Season 30 player (2013-12-04).
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Elizabeth Galoozis, a reference librarian from Cambridge, Massachusetts
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Season 26 2-time champion: $38,801 + $2,000. Elizabeth Galoozis - A...
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Emily Zhang, from Indianapolis, Indiana
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"A National Science Merit Award recipient, she plans on becoming a...
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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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Stacy Braverman, a public interest lawyer from Washington, D.C.
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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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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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Hill Harper, an author and actor from CSI: NY
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Carol Tilley, a library information science instructor from Terre Haute, Indiana
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Season 23 player (2007-04-17).
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Lyn Thomas, a library assistant from Redmond, Washington
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Season 27 1-time champion: $13,100 + $1,000.
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Charlotte Darby, from West Chester, Pennsylvania
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"Her crafts include crochet, origami, and friendship bracelets. From West Chester,...
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Loren Loiacono, a senior from Setauket, New York
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2006 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
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Chloe Horning, a graduate student in library and information science from Seattle, Washington
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Season 27 1-time champion: $14,000 + $2,000.
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Abbie Micucci, a stay-at-home mom from Westborough, Massachusetts
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Season 31 player (2015-01-13).
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