| #9047, aired 2024-02-27 | AWARDS & HONORS $400: This foundation's fellowships, the so-called "Genius Grants", are no-strings-attached awards of $800,000 MacArthur Foundation |
| #9047, aired 2024-02-27 | AWARDS & HONORS $800: This highest French order was founded in 1802 by Napoleon the Légion d'honneur (Legion of Honor) |
| #9047, aired 2024-02-27 | AWARDS & HONORS $1200: A humanitarian award presented at the Oscars is named for this actor who played the grandfather in the 1937 film "Heidi" Jean Hersholt |
| #9047, aired 2024-02-27 | AWARDS & HONORS $1600: The John Bates Clark Medal is given to an American under age 40 who works in this field; Paul Krugman won in 1991 economics |
| #9047, aired 2024-02-27 | AWARDS & HONORS $2000: "The Man Who Ate Too Much" is a biography of this American whose foundation gives awards to outstanding chefs James Beard |
| #9041, aired 2024-02-19 | AWARDS & HONORS $400: The climax of the Westminster Kennel Club dog show is this award Best in Show |
| #9041, aired 2024-02-19 | AWARDS & HONORS $800: Max Dale Cooper got a Robert Koch Award & 100,000 euros in part for figuring out how leukocytes, also called these cells, work & fail white blood cells |
| #9041, aired 2024-02-19 | AWARDS & HONORS $1600: In 2023 Paul Giamatti, a graduate of this university & son of its 19th president, got an honorary doctorate there Yale |
| #9041, aired 2024-02-19 | AWARDS & HONORS $2,000 (Daily Double): In the early 20th c. these were given out for literature; Baron Pierre de Coubertin won one under a pen name for "Ode to Sport" Olympic medals |
| #9041, aired 2024-02-19 | AWARDS & HONORS $2000: As is often said when a Tony Award is given out, they're from this "American" organization the American Theatre Wing |
| #8950, aired 2023-10-13 | AWARDS & HONORS $200: The Gracie Awards from the Alliance for Women in Media are named for this radio & TV pioneer & wife of George Burns Gracie Allen |
| #8950, aired 2023-10-13 | AWARDS & HONORS $400: Classical music's Wihuri Sibelius Prize is awarded by members of music institutions from this country Finland |
| #8950, aired 2023-10-13 | AWARDS & HONORS $600: Sign language played a big part in this 1980 Tony Award winner for Best Play Children of a Lesser God |
| #8950, aired 2023-10-13 | AWARDS & HONORS $800: He won Pulitzers for his plays in 1948 & 1955 Tennessee Williams |
| #8950, aired 2023-10-13 | AWARDS & HONORS $1000: For supporting health & education globally, Rihanna received a 2017 humanitarian award from this oldest U.S. college Harvard |
| #8586, aired 2022-02-28 | SPORTS BY THEIR HONORS $200: The Naismith Awards (college) basketball |
| #8586, aired 2022-02-28 | SPORTS BY THEIR HONORS $400: The Gold Glove & Silver Slugger Awards (both sound like it could be boxing, but it's not) baseball |
| #8586, aired 2022-02-28 | SPORTS BY THEIR HONORS $600: The Slammy Awards WWE |
| #8550, aired 2022-01-07 | AWARDS & HONORS $400: The Nobel prizes are awarded in 6 categories, including this one for which Louise Gluck won in 2020 literature |
| #8550, aired 2022-01-07 | AWARDS & HONORS $800: Marvin Minsky built the first neural network simulator & won the Turing Award in 1969 for helping create this 2-word field artificial intelligence |
| #8550, aired 2022-01-07 | AWARDS & HONORS $1200: His first two Tonys honored his work in lighter fare; in 2018, his third was for his performance in "Angels in America" Nathan Lane |
| #8550, aired 2022-01-07 | AWARDS & HONORS $1600: John B. Glen began in veterinary science but won a 2018 Lasker Award for developing propofol, one of these for humans an anesthetic |
| #8550, aired 2022-01-07 | AWARDS & HONORS $2000: In 2021, this longtime PBS anchor won a Peabody Award for her journalistic integrity Judy Woodruff |
| #8433, aired 2021-06-30 | AWARDS & HONORS $200: The category "Best Musical" this enabled "Oklahoma!", which premiered in 1943, to win a 2019 Tony a revival |
| #8433, aired 2021-06-30 | AWARDS & HONORS $400: Unlike the other 5 categories, the Nobel Peace Prize is awarded in this city Oslo |
| #8433, aired 2021-06-30 | AWARDS & HONORS $600: In 1978 this Washington, D.C. location bestowed its first honors on Marian Anderson & Arthur Rubinstein the Kennedy Center |
| #8433, aired 2021-06-30 | AWARDS & HONORS $800: The FiFi Awards are bestowed in this industry, with recent winners like Coty & Givaudan the fragrance industry |
| #8433, aired 2021-06-30 | AWARDS & HONORS $2,000 (Daily Double): In 2003 this Auckland-born man was the first foreigner made an honorary citizen of Nepal Hillary |
| #8403, aired 2021-05-19 | AWARDS & HONORS $400: Created in 1930, the Order of him went to "Heroes of the Soviet Union" as the nation's highest civilian award Lenin |
| #8403, aired 2021-05-19 | AWARDS & HONORS $800: An award named for this scientist honors "those who accidentally remove themselves from (the human genome) in a spectacular manner" the Darwin Award |
| #8403, aired 2021-05-19 | AWARDS & HONORS $1200: The player who best shows sportsmanship & gentlemanly conduct while also playing well wins the Lady Byng Trophy in this league the NHL |
| #8403, aired 2021-05-19 | AWARDS & HONORS $1600: India's 2005 Crossword Book Award for Fiction went to this novelist for "Shalimar the Clown" Salman Rushdie |
| #8403, aired 2021-05-19 | AWARDS & HONORS $2000: In France, the Croix de Guerre is automatically awarded to those who receive this 3-word decoration for war services the Legion of Honor |
| #8257, aired 2020-10-13 | AWARDS & HONORS $400: In 1895 he received the Rumford Prize for his work in electric lighting Edison |
| #8257, aired 2020-10-13 | AWARDS & HONORS $800: A prize honoring work that promotes European unity is named for this Holy Roman Emperor Charlemagne |
| #8257, aired 2020-10-13 | AWARDS & HONORS $1200: (Christopher Plummer presents the clue.) I've enjoyed working on projects for children and even won an Emmy for narrating the adventures of this jeune fille Parisienne created by Ludwig Bemelmans Madeline |
| #8257, aired 2020-10-13 | AWARDS & HONORS $1600: This award for sci-fi or fantasy writing is named for Mr. Gernsback, founder of Amazing Stories magazine Hugo |
| #8257, aired 2020-10-13 | AWARDS & HONORS $2000: Grand officer & commander are 2 of the 5 ranks of this French military & civilian order the Legion of Honor |
| #8155, aired 2020-02-07 | AWARDS & HONORS $400: Instituted in 1782, it was the first U.S. military decoration the Purple Heart |
| #8155, aired 2020-02-07 | AWARDS & HONORS $800: After World Champion, the highest title in chess is International this; today there are more than 1,600 of them a Grandmaster |
| #8155, aired 2020-02-07 | AWARDS & HONORS $1200: The 2019 Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show gave this distinction to a fox terrier, with a Havanese taking the reserve title Best in Show |
| #8155, aired 2020-02-07 | AWARDS & HONORS $1600: A silver lantern is given by the JFK Library with "The Profile in" this award to recipients who exemplify the spirit of JFK's book Courage |
| #8155, aired 2020-02-07 | AWARDS & HONORS $2000: Damien Hirst & director Steve McQueen have won the British visual arts prize named for this 19th century British painter J.M.W. Turner |
| #8145, aired 2020-01-24 | THE GRAMMY AWARDS $1200: "Talking for Clapping" by this man took the honors as Best Comedy Album in 2016 Patton Oswalt |
| #8112, aired 2019-12-10 | AWARDS & HONORS $400: The International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences gives out these awards "honoring the best of the Internet" a Webby |
| #8112, aired 2019-12-10 | AWARDS & HONORS $800: This theatrical club founded by Harvard students began naming a woman of the year in 1951 & a man of the year in 1967 the Hasty Pudding |
| #8112, aired 2019-12-10 | AWARDS & HONORS $1200: In 1992 architect Alvaro Siza won this, often called the Nobel Prize of architecture the Pritzker Prize |
| #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 |
| #8112, aired 2019-12-10 | AWARDS & HONORS $6,000 (Daily Double): Defenders of human rights, like Nelson Mandela & Colin Kaepernick, have won this organization's Ambassador of Conscience Award Amnesty International |
| #8052, aired 2019-09-17 | AWARDS & HONORS $800: Cardi B won Best New Artist at these MTV awards in 2018 the VMAs (Video Music Awards) |
| #8052, aired 2019-09-17 | AWARDS & HONORS $1200: The MacArthur Fellows Program gives out what are nicknamed these Grants, though IQs are not measured Genius |
| #8052, aired 2019-09-17 | AWARDS & HONORS $1600: It's the French military award seen here the Croix de Guerre |
| #8052, aired 2019-09-17 | AWARDS & HONORS $2000: Sylvia Plath was awarded one of these scholarships whose name contains a synonym for "smart" a Fulbright Scholarship |
| #8038, aired 2019-07-17 | AWARDS & HONORS $400: The inaugural Templeton Prize, for contributions to life's spiritual aspects, was given to this nun in 1973 Mother Teresa |
| #8038, aired 2019-07-17 | AWARDS & HONORS $800: In 2012 the Draper Prize, an engineering award, went to the developers of LCD, short for this liquid crystal display |
| #8038, aired 2019-07-17 | AWARDS & HONORS $1200: Cherry Jones won a Tony for playing a nun who accuses a priest of wrongdoing in this play with a one-word title Doubt |
| #8038, aired 2019-07-17 | AWARDS & HONORS $2000: Every 4 years this medal is awarded to folks under age 40 by the International Congress of Mathematicians the Fields Medal |
| #8038, aired 2019-07-17 | AWARDS & HONORS $4,000 (Daily Double): The first Millennium Technology Prize went to this Brit for his work on HTTP, HTML & the World Wide Web (Tim) Berners-Lee |
| #8020, aired 2019-06-21 | AWARDS & HONORS $200: A society that honors high school journalism students is called this fancy feather pen "and Scroll" quill |
| #8020, aired 2019-06-21 | AWARDS & HONORS $400: For developing wireless telegraphy, Guglielmo Marconi won a Nobel Prize in this field physics |
| #8020, aired 2019-06-21 | AWARDS & HONORS $600: Regeneron has taken over sponsorship from Intel of the STS, short for this, a competition for high school seniors the Science Talent Search |
| #8020, aired 2019-06-21 | AWARDS & HONORS $800: A prize for American humor is named for this author of "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" Mark Twain |
| #8020, aired 2019-06-21 | AWARDS & HONORS $1000: This fashion designer & "Project Runway" judge won a Scholastic Art & Writing Award in 1999 Zac Posen |
| #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 |
| #7823, aired 2018-09-19 | AWARDS & HONORS $400: It wasn't until 1976 that women were also awarded this scholarship to Oxford the Rhodes |
| #7823, aired 2018-09-19 | AWARDS & HONORS $800: Each year the Horror Writers Association presents awards named in honor of this "Dracula" author (Bram) Stoker |
| #7823, aired 2018-09-19 | AWARDS & HONORS $1200: This medal awarded to African Americans for outstanding achievement is named for an early NAACP chairman the Spingarn Medal |
| #7823, aired 2018-09-19 | AWARDS & HONORS $2000: The American Chemical Society's highest award honors this British oxygen discoverer who fled to America in 1794 Joseph Priestley |
| #7823, aired 2018-09-19 | AWARDS & HONORS $3,000 (Daily Double): Established in 1348, this oldest & highest order of British knighthood is named for a fashion accessory the Order of the Garter |
| #7743, aired 2018-04-18 | THE GOLDEN GLOBE AWARDS $1200: A Golden Globe was just one of the honors this Mexican-born director got in 2018 for "The Shape of Water" Guillermo del Toro |
| #7741, aired 2018-04-16 | COLLEGE HONORS $400: The College Television Awards are given out by the same academy as these awards the Emmys |
| #7741, aired 2018-04-16 | COLLEGE HONORS $800: Arizona State's Cronkite School of this -ism & Mass Communication has won several prestigious Hearst Awards journalism |
| #7547, aired 2017-06-06 | AWARDS & HONORS $200: "Dwight's Pot" is a nickname for this cup awarded to the Men's International Tennis Federation championship team the Davis Cup |
| #7547, aired 2017-06-06 | AWARDS & HONORS $400: (Alex presents the clue from the National Museum of African American History & Culture.) In World War I, because of racial tensions within the Army, a black combat unit nicknamed the Harlem Hellfighters was assigned to fight with the French, and because of their valor, the regiment was awarded this cross of war, one of France's highest honors the Croix de guerre |
| #7547, aired 2017-06-06 | AWARDS & HONORS $600: The Nebula Awards honor this genre science fiction |
| #7547, aired 2017-06-06 | AWARDS & HONORS $800: Recipients of the Draper Prize, an engineering award, include this Brit, inventor of the World Wide Web Tim Berners-Lee |
| #7547, aired 2017-06-06 | AWARDS & HONORS $1000: Canada's equivalent of the Grammy Awards, they're named after the chief Roman goddess Juno |
| #7504, aired 2017-04-06 | AWARDS & HONORS $400: The New York Tribune won the first of these prizes in the category of Editorial Writing Pulitzers |
| #7504, aired 2017-04-06 | AWARDS & HONORS $800: Paul Cohen's work on set theory earned him a Fields Medal, AKA the Nobel of this area of study mathematics |
| #7504, aired 2017-04-06 | AWARDS & HONORS $1600: (I'm Senator Al Franken.) The 2003 audio version of my bestseller "Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right" won the Grammy in the category Best this type of album spoken word |
| #7504, aired 2017-04-06 | AWARDS & HONORS $2000: These theater awards were created in 1955 at the suggestion of Jerry Tallmer, an editor at the Village Voice the Obie Awards |
| #7504, aired 2017-04-06 | AWARDS & HONORS $3,000 (Daily Double): Japan's highest order is the order of this flower the chrysanthemum |
| #7369, aired 2016-09-29 | HONORS & AWARDS $400: The award in these sciences is technically not a Nobel Prize but the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Memory of Alfred Nobel economics |
| #7369, aired 2016-09-29 | HONORS & AWARDS $800: An Academy Award is named for this boy wonder movie producer who died at 37 Irving Thalberg |
| #7369, aired 2016-09-29 | HONORS & AWARDS $1200: A social media account called Goats of Anarchy was a 2016 winner of one of these, honoring Internet excellence a Webby |
| #7369, aired 2016-09-29 | HONORS & AWARDS $1,500 (Daily Double): Napoleon created it in 1802 as a general military & civil order of merit the Legion of Honor (la Légion d'Honneur) |
| #7369, aired 2016-09-29 | HONORS & AWARDS $1600: The Natl. Assoc. of Broadcasters came up with these radio awards in 1938 as the equivalent of a Pulitzer the Peabody Awards |
| #7231, aired 2016-02-08 | AWARDS & HONORS $200: It's the common name for both an international yacht race & that race's trophy, formerly the Hundred Guinea Cup the America's Cup |
| #7231, aired 2016-02-08 | AWARDS & HONORS $400: His 1861 textbook on organic chemistry won the Demidov Prize from the Russian Academy of Sciences Mendeleev |
| #7231, aired 2016-02-08 | AWARDS & HONORS $600: This military medal is given to those wounded or killed in service to the United States a Purple Heart |
| #7231, aired 2016-02-08 | AWARDS & HONORS $800: This creator of many comic book characters is seen here at his National Medal of Arts ceremony Stan Lee |
| #7231, aired 2016-02-08 | AWARDS & HONORS $1,000 (Daily Double): Computer science's equivalent to the Nobel Prize is named for this 20th century British mathematician (Alan) Turing |
| #7139, aired 2015-10-01 | 20th CENTURY COMPOSERS $400: Yes, Sir! Among this British composer's awards & honors are 7 Tonys, 7 Oliviers & a life peerage Andrew Lloyd Webber |
| #7013, aired 2015-02-25 | GOVERNMENT AWARDS & HONORS $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew holds a plaque.) If a company has buildings with low carbon emissions, it can get a plaque representing energy stars from this agency the EPA |
| #7013, aired 2015-02-25 | GOVERNMENT AWARDS & HONORS $800: Raoul Wallenberg & the Marquis de Lafayette are among the few to be made honorary these honorary citizens of the United States |
| #7013, aired 2015-02-25 | GOVERNMENT AWARDS & HONORS $1200: The Presidents Call to Service Award honors people who do this, & you must spend 4,000 hours over a lifetime to get one volunteer |
| #7013, aired 2015-02-25 | GOVERNMENT AWARDS & HONORS $1600: Senators who preside over the floor for 100 hours in a year get the alliterative "golden" this gavel |
| #7013, aired 2015-02-25 | GOVERNMENT AWARDS & HONORS $2000: The Department of Commerce is behind the president's "E" Awards, which salute those who increase the country's these exports |
| #6968, aired 2014-12-24 | AWARDS & HONORS $400: In 1998 the Kennedy Center created this prize for American humor the Mark Twain Prize |
| #6968, aired 2014-12-24 | AWARDS & HONORS $800: This award honoring the best pitchers in Major League Baseball was the idea of Commissioner Ford Frick the Cy Young Award |
| #6968, aired 2014-12-24 | AWARDS & HONORS $1200: (I'm George Stephanopoulos.) Like Senator Cory Booker & Governor Bobby Jindal, I earned this kind of scholarship to Oxford University, where I got my masters in theology a Rhodes Scholar |
| #6968, aired 2014-12-24 | AWARDS & HONORS $2000: In 2008 NPR's "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" was among the winners of this award administered by the University of Georgia the Peabody |
| #6968, aired 2014-12-24 | AWARDS & HONORS $2,200 (Daily Double): The media coined the name "Genius Grant" for the fellowships from this foundation named for John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur |
| #6706, aired 2013-11-11 | AWARDS & HONORS $200: These awards from the American Theatre Wing bear the nickname of a stage actress-turned-producer the Tonys |
| #6706, aired 2013-11-11 | AWARDS & HONORS $400: Since 1922 this medal has been awarded for excellence in American writing for children the Newbery |
| #6706, aired 2013-11-11 | AWARDS & HONORS $600: This Brit shared the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics for proposing the boson that bears his name (Peter) Higgs |
| #6706, aired 2013-11-11 | AWARDS & HONORS $800: This Academy Award for Excellence in Producing Films is named for the "Boy Wonder" of Hollywood Irving Thalberg |
| #6706, aired 2013-11-11 | AWARDS & HONORS $1000: A violin competition for those 30 & under is held every 5 years in Helsinki & named for this composer Sibelius |
| #6584, aired 2013-04-11 | ON THE GREEK DEITY'S RESUMÉ $5,000 (Daily Double): Awards & Honors:
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The Parthenon dedicated to me, wisely Athena |
| #6496, aired 2012-12-10 | AWARDS & HONORS $400: The government of India instituted a peace prize named for him on Oct. 2, 1994, the 125th anniversary of his birth Gandhi |
| #6496, aired 2012-12-10 | AWARDS & HONORS $800: Presented by the International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences, it's the leading award for Internet sites a Webby |
| #6496, aired 2012-12-10 | AWARDS & HONORS $1600: Oddly, this award for excellence in advertising is named for the muse of history the Clio |
| #6496, aired 2012-12-10 | AWARDS & HONORS $2000: Spain's version of the Oscar is called this, after artist Francisco (winners get a bust of him) a Goya |
| #6496, aired 2012-12-10 | AWARDS & HONORS $3,500 (Daily Double): This highest decoration for valor in the British armed forces was instituted at the request of Prince Albert the Victoria Cross |
| #6219, aired 2011-10-06 | AWARDS & HONORS $400: The only woman to receive this foremost military decoration is Dr. Mary Walker, for her actions at Bull Run the Congressional Medal of Honor |
| #6219, aired 2011-10-06 | AWARDS & HONORS $800: (I'm Chevy Chase.) In 1993 I was honored as Man of the Year by this Harvard theatrical society the Hasty Pudding |
| #6219, aired 2011-10-06 | AWARDS & HONORS $1200: This medal goes to the artist of the most distinguished American picture book for children; Chris Van Allsburg won for "Jumanji" the Caldecott |
| #6219, aired 2011-10-06 | AWARDS & HONORS $2000: This medal given by the NAACP is named for a former chairman of its board of directors the Spingarn Medal |
| #6219, aired 2011-10-06 | AWARDS & HONORS $2,200 (Daily Double): Seems odd, but in 1947 Columbia University received a special one of these prizes for its administration of those prizes the Pulitzers |
| #5705, aired 2009-05-29 | AWARDS & HONORS $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the Normandy American Cemetery in France.) At the Normandy American Cemetery, the engraving above the chapel door is a replica of this award for valor; three recipients are buried at the cemetery the Congressional Medal of Honor |
| #5705, aired 2009-05-29 | AWARDS & HONORS $1200: Illustrator David MacAulay won this medal for his kids' book "Black and White" the Caldecott Medal |
| #5705, aired 2009-05-29 | AWARDS & HONORS $1600: Killed in a car accident in 2007, this journalist won a 1964 Pulitzer for his coverage of Vietnam (David) Halberstam |
| #5705, aired 2009-05-29 | AWARDS & HONORS $2000: This American Glass House architect won the first Pritzker Prize in 1979 Philip Johnson |
| #5705, aired 2009-05-29 | AWARDS & HONORS $5,000 (Daily Double): In 1997 the Nobel Peace Prize was shared by Jody Williams & the ICBL, the Intl. Campaign to Ban these Landmines |
| #5414, aired 2008-03-06 | AWARDS & HONORS $200: Tammy Blanchard & Judy Davis both won Emmys for playing this star in a TV movie based on Lorna Luft's book Judy Garland |
| #5414, aired 2008-03-06 | AWARDS & HONORS $400: (Hi, I'm Sean Hayes.) I'm a proud member of this union that gave me awards for Outstanding Performance in a Comedy Series in 2002, 2003 & 2006 the Screen Actors Guild (or SAG) |
| #5414, aired 2008-03-06 | AWARDS & HONORS $600: Following in the footsteps of his TV dad John Mahoney (a 1986 Tony winner), he won a 2007 Tony for "Curtains" David Hyde Pierce |
| #5414, aired 2008-03-06 | AWARDS & HONORS $800: Yes, he does make "House" calls: he showed up to accept his 2007 Golden Globe for best actor in a TV drama series Hugh Laurie |
| #5414, aired 2008-03-06 | AWARDS & HONORS $1,000 (Daily Double): The "Eddie" award presented to Edward Albee wasn't named for Mr. Albee but for this 19th century actor Edwin Booth |
| #5390, aired 2008-02-01 | AWARDS & HONORS $200: In 2007 this online auction site won a lifetime achievement Webby Award eBay |
| #5390, aired 2008-02-01 | AWARDS & HONORS $400: Anna Ginsberg won this competition in 2006 with her baked chicken & spinach stuffing the Pillsbury Bake-Off |
| #5390, aired 2008-02-01 | AWARDS & HONORS $600: Surrey Spice Girl, this miniature breed, won Best in Show at the 2002 Westminster Kennel Club Show a poodle |
| #5390, aired 2008-02-01 | AWARDS & HONORS $800: This horse whose name can be a synonym for "award" won the Triple Crown back in 1948 Citation |
| #5390, aired 2008-02-01 | AWARDS & HONORS $1,600 (Daily Double): In 1980 this Norman Mailer book won a Pulitzer, not a pardon The Executioner's Song |
| #5358, aired 2007-12-19 | AWARDS & HONORS $400: "People, people who need" Peabodys envy her for the Peabody Award she won for her 1994 HBO concert Streisand |
| #5358, aired 2007-12-19 | AWARDS & HONORS $800: This actor dedicated his "American Beauty" Oscar to his friend Jack Lemmon, who had inspired him Kevin Spacey |
| #5358, aired 2007-12-19 | AWARDS & HONORS $1200: For the musical "Sunset Blvd.", Hugh Jackman won two Mo Awards (equivalent to the Tonys) in this, his native country Australia |
| #5358, aired 2007-12-19 | AWARDS & HONORS $1600: The JFK Profile in Courage Award is modeled after a lantern from this frigate built in 1790s Boston the U.S.S. Constitution |
| #5358, aired 2007-12-19 | AWARDS & HONORS $2000: Washington, D.C.'s theatre awards are named for a first lady--this first lady of the American theatre Helen Hayes |
| #4980, aired 2006-04-14 | AWARDS & HONORS $400: In the 1986 Newbery Medal winner by Patricia MacLachlan, this title character was "Plain and Tall" Sarah |
| #4980, aired 2006-04-14 | AWARDS & HONORS $800: Daisy Bates won the NAACP Spingarn Medal in 1958 for her fight for desegregation in this Arkansas city Little Rock |
| #4980, aired 2006-04-14 | AWARDS & HONORS $1200: He won Pulitzers for his plays in 1948 & 1955 Tennessee Williams |
| #4980, aired 2006-04-14 | AWARDS & HONORS $1600: This play, the 1982-83 New York Drama Critics Circle Best Musical winner, was based on a Roger Corman film Little Shop of Horrors |
| #4980, aired 2006-04-14 | AWARDS & HONORS $2000: Sign language played a big part in this 1980 Tony Award winner for best play Children of a Lesser God |
| #4881, aired 2005-11-28 | AWARDS & HONORS $200: On June 3, 2001 "The Producers" won 12 of these awards, setting a new record a Tony |
| #4881, aired 2005-11-28 | AWARDS & HONORS $400: The Barrymore Awards are presented in this Pennsylvania city, birthplace of John, Ethel & Lionel Barrymore Philadelphia |
| #4881, aired 2005-11-28 | AWARDS & HONORS $800: His close pal (& "Reds" co-star) Jack Nicholson presented him with the Irving Thalberg Award in 2000 (Warren) Beatty |
| #4881, aired 2005-11-28 | AWARDS & HONORS $900 (Daily Double): (Cheryl of the Clue Crew stands behind a statuette, the inscription blurred, and in front of the presidential seal.) This is the Emmy Award that this famous woman won in 1962 for giving a memorable tour of her home Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis |
| #4881, aired 2005-11-28 | AWARDS & HONORS $1000: This winner of the National Book Award became a film starring Glenn as Shepard, Shepard as Yeager & Harris as Glenn The Right Stuff |
| #4639, aired 2004-11-05 | AWARDS & HONORS $400: This "Arthur" star must have been a perfect "10"--the Queen made him a Commander of the British Empire in 2001 Dudley Moore |
| #4639, aired 2004-11-05 | AWARDS & HONORS $800: (Hi. I'm Gretchen Carlson of the CBS Saturday Early Show.) As a journalist I've been honored with 3 of these awards named for this TV legend, George Burns' famous partner Gracie Allen |
| #4639, aired 2004-11-05 | AWARDS & HONORS $1600: In 1953 the Lenin Peace Prize went to this Chilean poet and diplomat Pablo Neruda |
| #4639, aired 2004-11-05 | AWARDS & HONORS $2000: In 2004, Zaha Hadid became the first woman to receive this prize, often called architecture's highest honor the Pritzker |
| #4639, aired 2004-11-05 | AWARDS & HONORS $5,200 (Daily Double): When this man won the Peace Prize, the Nobel chairman didn't expect "gratitude from the Polish authorities" Lech Walesa |
| #4569, aired 2004-06-17 | THE 76th ACADEMY AWARDS $600: She had a "Monster" night, taking home Best Actress Honors Charlize Theron |
| #4225, aired 2003-01-03 | NAPOLEON'S RESUME $800: Awards & Honors:
Consecrated emperor December 2, 1804 by the man in this post pope |
| #4186, aired 2002-11-11 | AWARDS & HONORS $200: The Palme d'Or is presented at this French film festival Cannes Film Festival |
| #4186, aired 2002-11-11 | AWARDS & HONORS $400: Past winners of the Pritzker Prize for this include I.M. Pei & Frank Gehry architecture |
| #4186, aired 2002-11-11 | AWARDS & HONORS $600: This organization awards the Spingarn Medal, its highest honor for achievement among African-Americans NAACP |
| #4186, aired 2002-11-11 | AWARDS & HONORS $1,000 (Daily Double): The Mystery Writers of America named an award for this American, the creator of the detective story Edgar Allan Poe |
| #4186, aired 2002-11-11 | AWARDS & HONORS $1000: This foundation, the AFB, gives an award for the narration of talking books American Foundation for the Blind |
| #3996, aired 2002-01-07 | AWARDS & HONORS $200: Lorraine Adams of the Dallas Morning News won this prize for Investigative Reporting in 1992 the Pulitzer Prize |
| #3996, aired 2002-01-07 | AWARDS & HONORS $400: (Here's Cheryl at the Plaza Hotel with this clue.) At the Plaza on February 10, 1964, this group was presented with two gold records from their latest album the Beatles |
| #3996, aired 2002-01-07 | AWARDS & HONORS $600: In 1998 this "Dilbert" creator received the Reuben Award from the National Cartoonists Society Scott Adams |
| #3996, aired 2002-01-07 | AWARDS & HONORS $800: This man won the 1982 Best Actor Oscar for playing a 1948 assassination victim Ben Kingsley |
| #3996, aired 2002-01-07 | AWARDS & HONORS $1000: A 1985 Peabody Award was presented to Bob Geldof for organizing these performance events Live Aid |
| #3979, aired 2001-12-13 | AWARDS & HONORS $400: The Pen/Faulkner Award honors this category of American writing fiction |
| #3979, aired 2001-12-13 | AWARDS & HONORS $800: After campaigning against the nukes he developed, Andrei Sakharov didn't win the Nobel Physics Prize, but this one Nobel Peace Prize |
| #3979, aired 2001-12-13 | AWARDS & HONORS $1200: Symbolized here, it's the oldest U.S. collegiate honor society Phi Kappa Phi |
| #3979, aired 2001-12-13 | AWARDS & HONORS $1600: Each year 5 Asian achievers are honored by the Ramon Magsaysay Foundation, based in this country the Philippines |
| #3979, aired 2001-12-13 | AWARDS & HONORS $2000: In 1985 people from IBM, Apple & Boeing won the first National Medals of this Technology |
| #3814, aired 2001-03-15 | AWARDS $500 (Daily Double): The Ron Brown Award for Corporate Leadership honors the late secretary of this cabinet department Commerce |
| #3047, aired 1997-11-25 | AWARDS $600: The Hugo Award for this type of literature honors Hugo Gernsback, who coined the term Science fiction |
| #2979, aired 1997-07-10 | AWARDS $600: The Sierra Club's highest award honors this naturalist who served as the organization's first president John Muir |
| #2617, aired 1996-01-09 | AWARDS & HONORS $200: In 1992 this ex-Mouseketeer received a Disney Legend Award & 2 cakes, 1 day before her 50th birthday Annette Funicello |
| #2617, aired 1996-01-09 | AWARDS & HONORS $400: "Basic Instinct" won 4 of the 1st Rembrandts—not paintings, but film video awards in this country the Netherlands |
| #2617, aired 1996-01-09 | AWARDS & HONORS $600: As a "designated acceptor" in 1988, this "Who's the Boss?" star picked up 9 Emmys but didn't win any himself Tony Danza |
| #2617, aired 1996-01-09 | AWARDS & HONORS $800: In 1993 Ethel Kennedy received the first Legacy Award named for this founder of the United Farm Workers Union (Cesar) Chavez |
| #2617, aired 1996-01-09 | AWARDS & HONORS $1000: The Helen Hayes Award for Best New Play is named for this playwright & husband of Helen Hayes (Charles) MacArthur |
| #2223, aired 1994-04-13 | AWARDS $200: Established in 1976, the Rocky Marciano Award honors outstanding achievement in this sport boxing |
| #1609, aired 1991-09-05 | AWARDS $100: The Lincoln Medal honors those who have been of significant benefit to this D.C. theater Ford's Theater |
| #1526, aired 1991-04-01 | AWARDS $400: Named for magazine publisher Hugo Gernsback, the Hugo Award honors this literary genre science fiction |
