| #9079, aired 2024-04-11 | WOMEN IN ANCIENT TIMES $2,000 (Daily Double): Of this lyric poet's works, almost none have been found complete, one being the 28-line "Ode to Aphrodite" Sappho |
| #9078, aired 2024-04-10 | ASK FORGIVENESS $1000: The offender asking forgiveness is part of this more healing type of justice that has been contrasted with retributive & rehabilitative restorative justice |
| #9070, aired 2024-03-29 | SOUTH AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: This Venezuelan president said in 2019 that protesters would not go unpunished & accused the U.S. of plotting against him Nicolás Maduro |
| #9069, aired 2024-03-28 | ROUND HERE $400: Since 1908, the roundel has been a symbol of this system that also contains "round" the Underground |
| #9060, aired 2024-03-15 | THAT'S SO 18th CENTURY $400: This 12,000-foot volcano in Japan erupted in 1707 but thankfully has been dormant for the ensuing 300+ years Fujiyama |
| #9056, aired 2024-03-11 | DEALING WITH TV REALITY $400: Oh, the Scandoval! Let's say Ariana did not wish Tom well after he cheated on her with Raquel on this show that debuted in 2013 Vanderpump Rules |
| #9054, aired 2024-03-07 | THE MATERIAL WORLD $200: This material that went with feathers in public humiliation from times past might not have been as hot as you'd assume tar |
| #9050, aired 2024-03-01 | POP CULTURE PRINCESSES $800: In "The Princess Diaries", Mia Thermopolis finds out that she is the crown princess of this (fictional) country Genovia |
| #9050, aired 2024-03-01 | FOOD, FAST $800: Bottom line--it's a burrito that's been deep fried a chimichanga |
| #9047, aired 2024-02-27 | INAUGURAL ADDRESSES $200: He pointed out that his father might not have been served at a U.S. restaurant less than 60 years earlier Barack Obama |
| #9034, aired 2024-02-08 | SAME FIRST & LAST LETTER $1200: This adjective can refer to feeling ill due to a lack of liquids, or food that's been preserved by having its water removed dehydrated |
| #9032, aired 2024-02-06 | ACTUALLY, THIS IS MY FIRST RODEO $1000: What better way to start off than a trip to this Alberta city's Stampede that's been a-hootin' & a-hollerin' since 1912 Calgary |
| #9027, aired 2024-01-30 | POPE FICTION $4,600 (Daily Double): Andrew Greeley's "Novel of Papal Election" has this colorful title, the signal that a new pope has been chosen the White Smoke |
| #9024, aired 2024-01-25 | MOMENTS OF INSPIRATION $1200: Marvin Gaye realized, "I'd been singing too loud"; hence the groove of his 1971 hit that said, "Talk to me, so you can see" this "What's Going On" |
| #9013, aired 2024-01-10 | ONE-MAN BAND $600: In 1989, he "Let Love Rule" as basically a one-man band on that debut album, and he's been "Sittin' On Top Of The World" ever since Lenny Kravitz |
| #9010, aired 2024-01-05 | THIS & THAT $400: In 1993 the Supreme Court said "claims of actual" this from new evidence aren't grounds for appeal--you must have been shafted at trial innocence |
| #9010, aired 2024-01-05 | THIS & THAT $1000: Romans, Arabs, Normans etc. have overrun this home of resilient Sicilians that's been called the world's most conquered city Palermo |
| #9009, aired 2024-01-04 | OF THRONES $200: Howard Carter wrote, "The throne" of this king "was the most beautiful thing that has yet been found in Egypt" Tutankhamun |
| #9009, aired 2024-01-04 | EARTH SCIENCE $4,400 (Daily Double): This word for a landmass that's large but still part of a larger one has been around since 1845 & is often applied to India a subcontinent |
| #22, aired 2023-12-06 | "OO"! "OO"! I KNOW! $600: Kevin Bacon once said that when he attends a wedding, he bribes the DJ to not play this song from a 1984 movie he starred in "Footloose" |
| #21, aired 2023-11-29 | FILMS TURNING THE BIG FOUR-OH $300: In "A Christmas Story", Ralphie says the "Queen Mother of dirty words" but this other "F" word is swapped in to keep it clean fudge |
| #8981, aired 2023-11-27 | EVERYBODY LOVES RAIMENT $1600: This fur of a weasel that turns white in winter has been seen on royal raiment for centuries ermine |
| #8978, aired 2023-11-22 | SORRY ABOUT THAT $1600: In the 1970s, this ex-Alabama governor said his opposition to integration had been wrong & apologized for his actions George Wallace |
| #8970, aired 2023-11-10 | WHERE'S THAT? $1000: Founded by William the Conqueror, this royal residence in Berkshire has been home to 40 monarchs Windsor (Castle) |
| #8959, aired 2023-10-26 | FASHION STATEMENTS $600: This phrase means a situation has been reversed; in the 19th c. that switch was easier: there weren't right & left ones the shoe is on the other foot |
| #8954, aired 2023-10-19 | PHILOSOPHIES IN A NUTSHELL $2000: Hobbes followed this -ism, not meaning he was greedy but that he reduced every experience to a physical process materialism |
| #17, aired 2023-10-18 | PODCASTS $600 (Daily Double): "5-4" is a podcast that calls itself an "occasionally profane take on the ideological battles" of this federal body the Supreme Court |
| #8951, aired 2023-10-16 | THE LITERARY CHARACTER WHO SAID... $2000: "Mother, if only you knew how cruelly I've been tricked by a conspiracy of sub-humans. Ironically, the book of Fortuna is itself bad luck" Ignatius J. Reilly |
| #8949, aired 2023-10-12 | HAPPIER MOVIE ENDINGS $1600: "Hold the execution. John Coffey's been found innocent. He is a free man." "Phew. That was close" The Green Mile |
| #8948, aired 2023-10-11 | GRAB A "B"ITE $400: It's just side pork that's been cured & smoked bacon |
| #8947, aired 2023-10-10 | I WROTE THAT LINE $400: "Of neither Darcy nor Wickham could she think, without feeling that she had been blind, partial, prejudiced, absurd" Austen |
| #8947, aired 2023-10-10 | FOOD $2000: A story or joke that's been repeated often, maybe too often a chestnut |
| #15, aired 2023-10-04 | BYGONE TECH $600: It may have been so long since you've sent a fax that you forgot that "fax" is short for this word facsimile |
| #8939, aired 2023-09-28 | FROM THE GREEK $1600: From Greek for "color", it means pertaining to color, or to a musical scale that's been modified chromatic |
| #14, aired 2023-09-27 | CHICKEN FIVE WAYS $200: Said to have been invented in Glasgow in the 1970s, this spiced Indian curry is often called a national dish of Britain chicken tikka masala |
| #14, aired 2023-09-27 | CHICKEN FIVE WAYS $400: For a flavorful chicken Marsala, chefs recommend using real Marsala, a fortified wine made on this Italian island Sicily |
| #8936, aired 2023-09-25 | WHAT'S IN THAT CHIP $400: The Chinese have apparently been big fans of chips that combine lemon with the flavor of this ubiquitous beverage tea |
| #8929, aired 2023-09-14 | RECONSTRUCTION $800: This Bronx building has been called "The House that George Built"; it's next to where "The House that Ruth Built" once was Yankee Stadium |
| #8926, aired 2023-09-11 | SOUNDS LIKE FOOD $600: Not so great with peanut butter on a sandwich, Vaseline has been a brand of this since the 1870s petroleum jelly |
| #8921, aired 2023-07-24 | UNIFORM NUMBERS $800: You won't see any players from this MLB team wearing a single digit number; they've all been retired, & No. 8, twice the Yankees |
| #8920, aired 2023-07-21 | HAPPY 75th BIRTHDAY, ISRAEL! $600: In 1992, Israel got what's been called its finest public building to house this body that the government wanted to overhaul in 2023 the Israeli Supreme Court |
| #8904, aired 2023-06-29 | AT THE FARMERS MARKET $600: Let's grab some of these tomatoes whose name reflects that the varieties have been around for at least 50 years heirloom |
| #8902, aired 2023-06-27 | BANKING "A" "B" "C"s $800: "A":
this type of interest that has accumulated but not yet been paid accrued |
| #8901, aired 2023-06-26 | METER MADE $800: stamps.com says its service is better than using this device that Pitney Bowes has been making for a century a postage meter |
| #8890, aired 2023-06-09 | TV: WHO SAID IT $1200: "I've been involved in a number of cults... you have more fun as a follower, but you make more money as a leader" Creed |
| #8890, aired 2023-06-09 | TV: WHO SAID IT $2000: "We've had vicious kings & we've had idiot kings, but I don't know if we've ever been cursed with a vicious idiot boy king" Tyrion Lannister |
| #20, aired 2023-05-24 | THE 1960s $800: Last name of Henry, a 19th century governor; it follows "the" in the name of a San Francisco area where 1967 activities would not have pleased Henry Haight |
| #8875, aired 2023-05-19 | THOSE BALLS HAVE "I"s $4,000 (Daily Double): In addition to its volleyballs, this company has been making the official NFL football since 1941 Wilson |
| #8870, aired 2023-05-12 | TRIPLE RHYME TIME $600: A bird of prey that has been crowned king aboard Darwin's ship a regal Beagle eagle |
| #8, aired 2023-05-12 | GAMES, OLD & NEW $1200: Around 1870 the Tenth Hussars faced the Ninth Lancers in this game that's been around for 2,000 years or so polo |
| #3, aired 2023-05-09 | DIANE WARREN $2000: (Diane Warren gives the clue.) I honored my own dad for believing in me & my music when I wrote "Because You Love Me" for this film in which Robert Redford played a news director who believed in Michelle Pfeiffer Up Close & Personal |
| #8866, aired 2023-05-08 | POP MUSIC-PODGE $600: This lead singer of Hole said, "I tried out for 'the Mickey Mouse Club' when I was 11", & that would've been very interesting casting Courtney Love |
| #8854, aired 2023-04-20 | FLYING COLORS $400: Fittingly, desert gold is one of the colors that has been used on this U.S. airline's planes Southwest |
| #8845, aired 2023-04-07 | POP CULTURE $1200: The TV series about this character that began NPH-mania has been shown in Latin America as "El Doctorcito" Doogie Howser |
| #8842, aired 2023-04-04 | PAINT ME A PICTURE $4,400 (Daily Double): This 17th century masterpiece has been called "The Dutch Mona Lisa" the Girl with a Pearl Earring |
| #8837, aired 2023-03-28 | WORDS FROM GREEK & LATIN $1600: The opposite of an iamb, this word for a pattern of stressed-unstressed as in the word "rabbit" is from Greek for "run" a trochee |
| #8829, aired 2023-03-16 | LOVE, IN SO MANY WORDS $600: "That" she "should receive an offer of marriage from Mr. Darcy! That (Darcy) should have been in love with her for so many months!" Elizabeth Bennet |
| #8829, aired 2023-03-16 | A HEAVENLY BODY IN MUSIC $2000: A Tori Kelly tune rhymes, "I've never been to heaven, but it doesn't seem that far, 'cause you're my" this North Star |
| #8828, aired 2023-03-15 | THE MORNING AFTER $200: April 16, 1912 morning editions of some newspapers reported that this had been saved; later editions had worse news the Titanic |
| #8825, aired 2023-03-10 | FUTURE OSCAR WINNERS $2000: He could have been a contender for class clown & incorrigible, so much so that his father sent him away to military school (Marlon) Brando |
| #8812, aired 2023-02-21 | SO, WHAT HAVE YOU BEEN UP TO? $200: A picture of your new dog? Uh, that's this type of canine that's big in LA canyons. Is it in your house? a coyote |
| #8812, aired 2023-02-21 | SO, WHAT HAVE YOU BEEN UP TO? $600: Wait, you became the leader of this Cabinet department that oversees the Transportation Security Admin.? When was that?! the Department of Homeland Security |
| #8812, aired 2023-02-21 | SO, WHAT HAVE YOU BEEN UP TO? $800: In 2022 you were on the U.S. team that made the first nuclear this reaction resulting in a net energy gain... congrats! fusion |
| #8800, aired 2023-02-03 | JUICE BAR $800: You say tomato, I say this juice brand with a touch of seafood broth that's been around since the '60s Clamato |
| #8795, aired 2023-01-27 | GEOGRAPHY $1200: 2/5 of this nation is made up of areas of land called polders that have been drained & reclaimed from the sea the Netherlands |
| #8794, aired 2023-01-26 | 12 LETTERS OR MORE $8,000 (Daily Double): Søren Kierkegaard has been called the "father of" this philosophy that emphasizes the individual as a free & responsible entity existentialism |
| #12, aired 2023-01-26 | U.S. GOVERNMENT $1200: A 2018 USA Today headline: "Rex Tillerson was on the toilet when he was told he'd be fired" from this diplomatic Cabinet job secretary of state |
| #8791, aired 2023-01-23 | CITY NAME CHANGES $200: This Arizona city might've been named for Stonewall Jackson, but residents decided that was for the mythical birds Phoenix |
| #8790, aired 2023-01-20 | "D" ADJECTIVES $200: It describes your ego after you've been taken down a peg or literally, a balloon that's lost its air deflated |
| #8786, aired 2023-01-16 | SMALL TOWN AMERICA & CANADA $5,000 (Daily Double): This British Columbia town grew up around a mountain that's been home to Olympians & ski bums; the sound made by local marmots led to the name Whistler |
| #8784, aired 2023-01-12 | WHERE DID I LEAVE MY KEYS? $600: Could've been at the Deerfield, Illinois HQ of this co. (before it moved to Texas) that makes the center-pivot 440 backhoe loader Caterpillar |
| #8783, aired 2023-01-11 | THAT'S SO LAST CENTURY $200: In 1991 Clarence Thomas, the second African American on the Supreme Court, replaced this justice who had been the first (Thurgood) Marshall |
| #9, aired 2023-01-05 | WE MEAN BUSINESS $600: This chain of stores opened in 1979 & it seems like since then I've been trying to find an orange-aproned person to help me Home Depot |
| #8749, aired 2022-11-24 | CAR ACCESSORIES $800: A travel road kit is sweet, like the one from this beginning-of-the-phone-book organization that's been around since 1902 AAA |
| #8742, aired 2022-11-15 | FIRST-TIME RESPONSES $2000: An Old French word gives us this term for a cut gem that's rounded & polished but not faceted a cabochon |
| #8, aired 2022-11-13 | THAT BOOK YOU'VE BEEN MEANING TO READ $100: Physicist Stephen Hawking penned 1988's "A Brief History of" this--I'll get to it, briefly Time |
| #8, aired 2022-11-13 | THAT BOOK YOU'VE BEEN MEANING TO READ $300 (Daily Double): You dug the musical with Cosette, Javert & all the sad songs; now it's time to pry open this Victor Hugo novel from 1862 Les miserables |
| #8, aired 2022-11-13 | THAT BOOK YOU'VE BEEN MEANING TO READ $300: Before I can read the "Edge of Reason" sequel about this plucky, single British woman, I've got to read her "Diary" Bridget Jones |
| #8, aired 2022-11-13 | THAT BOOK YOU'VE BEEN MEANING TO READ $400: Over the years, this novel about Holden Caulfield has been frequently challenged for its sex & profanity; I'm in! The Catcher in the Rye |
| #8, aired 2022-11-13 | THAT BOOK YOU'VE BEEN MEANING TO READ $500: David Foster Wallace's weighty tome titled "Infinite" this; we kid you not, it took him 4 years to write it Jest |
| #8736, aired 2022-11-07 | HERBAL & SPICY NAMES $400: In a 1967 tune we hear his band has "been going in and out of style, but they're guaranteed to raise a smile" Sgt. Pepper |
| #8735, aired 2022-11-04 | THE TANGLED WEB $400: Forgotify is a place to hear songs that had never been listened to on this other service Spotify |
| #8733, aired 2022-11-02 | 5, 5 $600: Rick Nielsen & Robin Zander are members of this band that's been around since the 1970s Cheap Trick |
| #6, aired 2022-10-30 | WITH AUTHOR-ITY $500: She showed "Sense & Sensibility" by starting that book with "The family of Dashwood had long been settled in Sussex" Austen |
| #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 |
| #8723, aired 2022-10-19 | TV $600: This actor has been a presence in TV squad rooms, showrooms, & hospital rooms Andre Braugher |
| #4, aired 2022-10-16 | MASCOTS $300: This battery mascot that's been going & going since the late 1980s has entered the OED to mean something or someone persistent the Energizer Bunny |
| #4, aired 2022-10-16 | COLORFUL RESPONSES $400 (Daily Double): This 2-word fishy term refers to a piece of information that is a distraction from the main issue a red herring |
| #3, aired 2022-10-09 | GO BLUE! $400: Known as the little blue pill, it's been suggested audaciously that some men might use it for recreation, not procreation Viagra |
| #8713, aired 2022-10-05 | YOU'RE IN A ROLE $800: Josie Geller, who has "Never Been Kissed" & wants to change that (Drew) Barrymore |
| #2, aired 2022-10-02 | THAT PAINTS A PICTURE $200: Folks hit the Louvre in 1911 to not see this 1500s painting; it had been stolen, & fans took in the empty space where she had smiled-ish Mona Lisa |
| #2, aired 2022-10-02 | HELPFUL INTERNET ACRONYMS $500 (Daily Double): ICYMI:
You clearly have been living under some sort of rock, so let me catch you up on this tantalizing factoid in case you missed it |
| #8710, aired 2022-09-30 | BORROW $1200: That bathroom hasn't been updated since 1932! Let's take out a HELOC, short for this, & bring things into the 21st century a home equity line of credit |
| #8701, aired 2022-09-19 | A HUNGER FOR READING $600: Eric Schlosser's book about this "Nation" estimates that one in 8 workers in the U.S. has been employed by McDonald's Fast Food |
| #8699, aired 2022-09-15 | PHILOSOPHY $800: Antisthenes has been credited with starting this Greek sect, now the -ism that says people are only out for themselves cynicism |
| #8682, aired 2022-07-12 | SOUNDS SMART $400: It's been said that this is "1% inspiration & 99% perspiration" genius |
| #8682, aired 2022-07-12 | WHO'S IN THAT COMMERCIAL? $1000: She's been seen in many big screen comedies & many TV Jergens ads (Leslie) Mann |
| #8678, aired 2022-07-06 | THE STATE OF DENIAL $400: What has happened to an appeal that won't be heard, or to a class that has been allowed to leave a school room dismissed |
| #8669, aired 2022-06-23 | YOU'VE BEEN BOOKED $800: Debits go on the left side in this book that contains the financial records of a business a ledger |
| #8649, aired 2022-05-26 | BIG ANIMALS $2000: In 2021 scientists identified a new species of this based on a 16-foot female that had been washed ashore whale |
| #8640, aired 2022-05-13 | COMMUNICATION $400: Since 2020 Dodger fans have been told that Mookie Betts is coming to bat over a new 62-speaker one of these systems a P.A. (public address) |
| #8639, aired 2022-05-12 | THE BILLBOARD MUSIC AWARDS $800: This genre-defying band that broke in 2014 with "Gooey" performed at the BBMAs in 2021
"Sometimes, all I think about is you /
Late nights in the middle of June /
Heat waves been fakin' me out /
Heat waves been fakin' me out..." Glass Animals |
| #8632, aired 2022-05-03 | HISTORY $1600: It's been estimated that around 480 B.C. close to half of the world's population was in this empire founded by Cyrus the Great the Persian Empire |
| #8631, aired 2022-05-02 | MIAMI NEWS CLUES $400: (I'm Louis Aguirre.) The 1980s TV show "Miami Vice" changed the reputation of the city to one of chicness & glitz & made Florida a more desired film & TV location; these two actors, playing Crockett & Tubbs, added to the scenery Don Johnson & Philip Michael Thomas |
| #8631, aired 2022-05-02 | COLLEGE FOOTBALL HISTORY $600: The 1951 Army football team that lost to Navy 42-7 had been decimated by cadet expulsions for this cheating on exams |
| #8621, aired 2022-04-18 | AIRLINES $3,200 (Daily Double): A shamrock has been the emblem of this airline for over 80 years Aer Lingus |
| #8618, aired 2022-04-13 | BOOK 'EM $1000: This James Redfield bestseller about an ancient manuscript that provides 9 key insights to life has been called "a spiritual classic" The Celestine Prophecy |
| #8617, aired 2022-04-12 | A CHRISTIE MYSTERY $1600: (Will Poulter presents the clue.) This courtroom drama that hinges on the testimony of the mistress of the accused murderer has been adapted for stage & screen, & in 2014 was performed in an actual English courtroom Witness for the Prosecution |
| #8615, aired 2022-04-08 | MULTIPLE MEANINGS $400: To strike down hard with a foot, or something that's affixed to show a fee has been paid stamp |
| #8590, aired 2022-03-04 | TRANSPORTATION $200: The 1886 photo seen here shows that SUP, short for this way of moving around, has been done for a long time stand up paddle |
| #16, aired 2022-02-18 | SALTY $200: With a name going back to Quechuan, it's strips of beef or pork that have been dehydrated or dried in the sun jerky |
| #13, aired 2022-02-17 | AFTER THE WAR $1600: In 1992 the U.N. gave this country that had been occupied in the first Gulf War more land with more oil wells Kuwait |
| #10, aired 2022-02-15 | SPOT-IFY $400: See spots. See lots of spots all over the body in outbreaks of this disease that could have been prevented with an MMR vaccine measles |
| #8570, aired 2022-02-04 | TITLE WORD PUZZLES $2000: A disaster film that could have been called "The Big Chill"
TOMORROW DAY The Day After Tomorrow |
| #8562, aired 2022-01-25 | MOVIES THAT MENTION THEIR TITLES $400: Tyler: "I look around, I see a lot of new faces... which means a lot of you have been breaking the first 2 rules of" this Fight Club |
| #8562, aired 2022-01-25 | A QUICK & DIRTY CATEGORY $1200: "U" know this 7-letter adjective describes hair that hasn't been combed in a while unkempt |
| #8550, aired 2022-01-07 | IT WAS 1970s AMERICA, MAN $600: On May 1, 1971 this service had its 1st run from N.Y. to Philly, just after midnight; really, at that time, it should have been to Georgia Amtrak |
| #8546, aired 2022-01-03 | PHYSICAL SCIENCE $1600: A famous 17th c. experiment used a bell inside a jar in which this had been created to prove that air was needed to transmit sound a vacuum |
| #8545, aired 2021-12-31 | TV TALK $800: The "Simpsons" writers thought they'd invented this word meaning to enlarge, but it had actually been coined in the 1880s embiggens |
| #8544, aired 2021-12-30 | DRAWING $600: "Quick sketches, hilarious guesses", says this board game that's been around since the 1980s Pictionary |
| #8532, aired 2021-12-14 | AN AD JUNKED $400: L'Oréal & Lancôme ads have been junked because of the misleading overuse of this, a verb that is also an Adobe brand Photoshop |
| #8522, aired 2021-11-30 | SCIENCE: ODD BUT TRUE $400: Fossils of 13-foot types of these pouched mammals that include wombats & koalas have been found in Australia marsupials |
| #8518, aired 2021-11-24 | WEATHER $2000: Flooding in Venice has been aggravated by these Italian-named winds that originate in northern Africa scirocco |
| #8507, aired 2021-11-09 | SOME CREATURES GREAT & SMALL $400: Silk from the orb-weaver type of this animal can be packed so densely that it has been used to make violin strings a spider |
| #8500, aired 2021-10-29 | LANDSCAPING $400: A row of trees that have been pleached is sometimes called this type of green boundary on stilts a hedge |
| #8487, aired 2021-10-12 | YOU'VE BEEN A GREAT AUDIENCE $600: Partly to keep the audience awake, he kept the Ed Sullivan Theater at 55 degrees when taping his late-night show that ended in 2015 David Letterman |
| #8487, aired 2021-10-12 | YOU'VE BEEN A GREAT AUDIENCE $800: A Haydn symphony is nicknamed "Miracle" after the tale that one of these fell & smashed in a miraculously empty audience area a chandelier |
| #8482, aired 2021-10-05 | THAT'S GRAND! $400: Since 1925 the showcase of country music known as the Grand Ole Opry has been broadcast from this city Nashville |
| #8477, aired 2021-09-28 | LIFE & WORK IN ANCIENT ROME $800: A slave who had been trained to be one of these was a paedagogus, related to an English word that ends -ogue teacher |
| #8476, aired 2021-09-27 | DAYTIME TV $400: Hoda Kotb & Jenna Bush Hager are part of this morning show that's been on since 1952 Today |
| #8469, aired 2021-09-16 | MUHAMMAD ALI $1000: (Hana Ali presents the clue.) A man of strong beliefs, in 1967, my father was stripped of his title for refusing Army service during the Vietnam War; four years later, the Supreme Court unanimously ruled that he had been wrongfully denied this two-word classification as someone morally opposed to war conscientious objector |
| #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 $800: Something overlooked has been "lost in" this, a term that originated in dealing cards the shuffle |
| #8459, aired 2021-08-05 | LET'S TAKE IT OUTSIDE $400: This term for a pleasant way to take a meal is from the Italian for "in the cool air" al fresco |
| #8454, aired 2021-07-29 | NAME THAT BEATLES TUNE $600: "They've been going in & out of style, but they're guaranteed to raise a smile" "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" |
| #8451, aired 2021-07-26 | POPES $1600: Pope Francis is the first pontiff to have been a member of this religious order that pope Clement XIV abolished in 1773 Jesuits |
| #8447, aired 2021-07-20 | INTERNET BUSINESSES $600: William Shatner has been a longtime advertising pitchman for this site that helps find discounts for travel Priceline |
| #8442, aired 2021-07-13 | 2011: 10 YEARS AGO $400: In May President Obama announced on live TV that this man had been killed in a U.S. military operation Osama bin Laden |
| #8435, aired 2021-07-02 | OTHER STUFF HAPPENED IN 1492 $800: Perkin Warbeck was a pretender acclaimed by many as Richard, duke of this royal house that had recently been ousted in England York |
| #8433, aired 2021-06-30 | STAR-SPANGLED BANTER $800: Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson said that this 2013 film should have been named "Angular Momentum" Gravity |
| #8426, aired 2021-06-21 | FAMILIAR PHRASES $400: Temperature-based phrase for information that's just been printed in a newspaper hot off the presses |
| #8420, aired 2021-06-11 | EDUCATION $800: This 2-word term has been defined as tools that help to make an issue or lesson clearer visual aids |
| #8418, aired 2021-06-09 | LEMME PITCH THAT FOR YOU $400: For decades, Cocoa Puffs cereal has been repped by Sonny, this type of bird a cuckoo |
| #8418, aired 2021-06-09 | LEMME PITCH THAT FOR YOU $1000: Dean Winters has been wrecking people's days as "Mayhem" in ads for this company Allstate |
| #8407, aired 2021-05-25 | ROCK BANDS $1200: Seen here is the core of this band that's been rocking for decades Heart |
| #8405, aired 2021-05-21 | STEPHEN KING TITLE REFERENCES $800: A small area of Johnny Smith's brain that has been damaged the dead zone |
| #8396, aired 2021-05-10 | I'VE BEEN TO THE MOUNTAINTOP $800: From the picture seen here, you'd never guess that Cotopaxi in this chain is an active volcano the Andes |
| #8380, aired 2021-04-16 | HISTORY ON ICE $200: At 9:40 P.M. on April 14, 1912, the Mesaba warned it of an ice field; that message may not have been relayed to the bridge the (RMS) Titanic |
| #8379, aired 2021-04-15 | HEAD FOR THE LIGHT $400: The Brits use this word to mean a flashlight; to us, it's a stick that's been set aflame a torch |
| #8379, aired 2021-04-15 | GEMS & JEWELRY $2000: Since ancient times, onyx & this banded reddish-brown gemstone that ends in "onyx" have been used to make cameos sardonyx |
| #8367, aired 2021-03-30 | PARK THEMES $400: The carousel that's been in this Manhattan park since 1871 plays the song "Sidewalks Of New York" Central Park |
| #8364, aired 2021-03-25 | ICONS OF TECHNOLOGY $400: A 3-letter icon on a piece of technology says that it has been okayed by this government commission the Federal Communications Commission |
| #8337, aired 2021-02-16 | BABY $200: Baby likes this brand of food that's been around since the 1920s; pear zucchini is a favorite Gerber |
| #8334, aired 2021-02-11 | STEM $400: (Dr. Frauke Neuser presents the clue.) Named for the little shelter you draw over the dividend, the "bus stop" is one method in this 2-word exercise that's been called the most difficult basic math process to teach kids long division |
| #8333, aired 2021-02-10 | CROATIA $200: Nicknamed "The City that Flows", Rijeka has also been known as Reka, Fiume & Flumen; all 4 names mean this river |
| #8333, aired 2021-02-10 | CROATIA $600: Many visitors to the island of Krk have been inspired to utter this "Wheel of Fortune" catchphrase Can I buy a vowel? |
| #8331, aired 2021-02-08 | HOW DEEP IS YOUR LOVE? $800: Maybe a love that lasts as long as that of this Beatle & wife Barbara Bach, who have been married almost 40 years Ringo Starr |
| #8326, aired 2021-02-01 | "D_M" $600: To the Aussies, a game that's been played honestly is "fair" this 6-letter slang word dinkum |
| #8324, aired 2021-01-28 | THAT'S SO GORGE! $2000: Yielding the fossil remains of more than 60 hominins, this gorge in Tanzania has been nicknamed "The Cradle of Mankind" Olduvai Gorge |
| #8318, aired 2021-01-20 | SCIENCE GLOSSARY $2,000 (Daily Double): Rocks that have been environmentally altered from other rocks make up this class, from Greek for "change" & "form" metamorphic |
| #8312, aired 2021-01-12 | A CATEGORY FOR FREE $200: This 2-word term is used to describe animals like poultry that have been raised in natural conditions free-range |
| #8311, aired 2021-01-11 | MOVIES BASED ON SHORT STORIES $2,200 (Daily Double): Ward Greene's "Happy Dan, the Whistling Dog" became this 1955 animated Disney film the Lady and the Tramp |
| #8299, aired 2020-12-10 | ENDS IN DOUBLE-"S" $1,000 (Daily Double): It's been said that when you look into this, from the Greek for "bottomless", it also looks into you the abyss |
| #8296, aired 2020-12-07 | MOVIE GOOFS $1600: In 1955 Marty plays a Gibson ES-345 guitar, but that hadn't been made yet--maybe there was an extra trip in this 1985 pic Back to the Future |
| #8295, aired 2020-12-04 | SMART ANSWERS $200: Adjective for a blade that has just been honed sharp |
| #8288, aired 2020-11-25 | THE AMERICAN LEAGUE $3,000 (Daily Double): nul.org is the website for this organization that's been working for African Americans & civil rights since 1910 the National Urban League |
| #8287, aired 2020-11-24 | WE'LL GIVE YOU PAWS $1200: There's no webbing between the toes of these little bandits that've been known to untie knots & unscrew jars a raccoon |
| #8281, aired 2020-11-16 | ALL "IZE" $600: Term for milk that hasn't been heat-treated to kill microorganisms unpasteurized |
| #8280, aired 2020-11-13 | ABANDONED PLACES $1000: A station for hunting these at Grytviken on South Georgia has been abandoned for decades, & that's fine with us whales |
| #8278, aired 2020-11-11 | TRANSPORTATION $1600: A howdah is a seat for one or more people to ride on the back of one of these creatures elephant (camel) |
| #8255, aired 2020-10-09 | WHERE AM I? $600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents the clue.) I’m in this city, south of Los Angeles, that’s been running its prestigious Grand Prix since 1977 Long Beach |
| #8241, aired 2020-09-21 | THE ROOM WHERE IT HAPPENS $800: Highlights for children has been called "that ubiquitous magazine" there a waiting room |
| #8237, aired 2020-09-15 | KEN JENNINGS ON WINNING STREAKS $1000: (Ken Jennings presents the clue.) The Persian Empire fell to him in the 330s B.C., then Western Asia Minor, the Mediterranean coast, Egypt, on into India; not bad for a guy barely over 30 Alexander the Great |
| #8216, aired 2020-05-18 | "W"ORDS WITH DOUBLE LETTERS $800: Here's the current lineup of this group that's been entertaining kids the world over nearly 30 years The Wiggles |
| #8216, aired 2020-05-18 | DA, YOU SPEAK RUSSIAN $2,000 (Daily Double): Also called the great sturgeon, this species lends its name to a type of caviar beluga |
| #8214, aired 2020-04-30 | BROKEN ENGLISH $800: Numbers that have been summed & cars that have been wrecked beyond repair have been this totaled |
| #8193, aired 2020-04-01 | FBI QUANTICO $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from the FBI Laboratory in Quantico, Virginia.) The liquid-handling robot in the FBI crime lab can process 96 DNA samples at a time and has been used to investigate such cases as that of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, nicknamed this, for the article of clothing in which he hid explosives on a 2009 U.S.-bound flight the "Underwear Bomber" |
| #8191, aired 2020-03-30 | ABSTRACT NOUNS $1200: This study of past events taken as a whole has been defined as a set of lies that are mutually agreed upon history |
| #8187, aired 2020-03-24 | GET-TOGETHERS $1600: In 19th century England you might be invited to an unwrapping party for this item that had been brought from Egypt a mummy |
| #8170, aired 2020-02-28 | BODY PARTS $800: This, AKA the thighbone, has been shown to resist compression forces of up to 2,500 lbs. but please don't try that at home the femur |
| #8170, aired 2020-02-28 | HIGHER EDUCATION GEOGRAPHY $1200: The oldest in Kentucky, a university in Lexington bears this name that sounds like Dracula might have been an alumnus Transylvania |
| #8167, aired 2020-02-25 | THAT'S SO 500 YEARS AGO! $2000: The biggest artillery of the period may have been the great cannon that fired at this city during the 1453 siege Constantinople |
| #8163, aired 2020-02-19 | INFLUENTIAL WRITING $200: Rudolf Flesch found that the son of a friend had never been taught to sound out letters; hence the book "Why" he "Can't Read" Johnny |
| #8162, aired 2020-02-18 | RELIGIOUS IDIOMS $3,000 (Daily Double): Something bad that later turns out to be good is one of these at first hidden signs of favor a blessing in disguise |
| #8161, aired 2020-02-17 | SURVIVOR $800: (Jeff Probst, the host of Survivor, presents the clue.) A fan favorite from "Survivor: The Australian Outback", she went on to co-host "The View" & "Fox & Friends" (Elisabeth) Hasselbeck |
| #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 |
| #8156, aired 2020-02-10 | THE ILIAD $1000: This Trojan warrior is saved by Aphrodite, or there might never have been that epic by Virgil Aeneas |
| #8153, aired 2020-02-05 | NEWSPAPERS & MAGAZINES $800: In 2010 this mayoral name began appearing above "Businessweek" on a magazine that's been around since 1929 Bloomberg |
| #8145, aired 2020-01-24 | THIS & THAT $600: O. vulgaris, a species of this mollusk, has been called the most intelligent of all invertebrate animals an octopus |
| #6, aired 2020-01-09 | PLANE SCIENCE $1200: Light waves with electric fields that vibrate in only a single plane have been this polarized |
| #8131, aired 2020-01-06 | SHUT UP $800: Dumbfounded is a synonym for this other "dumb" word that means you've been surprised to the point of speechlessness dumbstruck |
| #8128, aired 2020-01-01 | PHARAOHS $600: Pharaohs were known to wear headdresses with a uraeus, a symbol of power in the form of this snake an asp |
| #8121, aired 2019-12-23 | LITERATURE $600: This beloved novel whose first word is "Christmas" has been adapted for a Christmas 2019 movie, with Meryl Streep as Aunt March Little Women |
| #8109, aired 2019-12-05 | CHEESE FOR THE MOUSE $400: Despereaux, we give you this French cheese that's been called "the default choice for holiday cheese platters" Brie |
| #8102, aired 2019-11-26 | DEEP STUFF $400: The Internet that has not been indexed by these is the deep web search engines |
| #8093, aired 2019-11-13 | SOCIOLOGY $800: It's the term for the conversion of a society from an agricultural economy to one based on manufacturing industrialization (an industrial revolution accepted) |
| #8076, aired 2019-10-21 | BAN THAT BOOK! $2000: The 1722 novel "Moll Flanders" by this author has been taken off shelves for lewdness Daniel Defoe |
| #8054, aired 2019-09-19 | A "DROP" $600: In 2006 Doug Flutie made one of these for an extra point, the first time that had been done in the NFL since 1941 drop kick |
| #8053, aired 2019-09-18 | REAL-LIFE METAPHORS $2000: Really, really old expression meaning that an irreversible step has been taken the die is cast |
| #8052, aired 2019-09-17 | HALLEY'S COMET IN HISTORY $400: It's been speculated that Halley's Comet in 12 B.C. was this star from Matthew 2:2 the Star of Bethlehem (the star that the Magi followed accepted) |
| #8049, aired 2019-09-12 | BEEN AROUND AWHILE $400: History's longest papacy, that of Pius IX, included the 1854 affirmation of this doctrine that Mary was born without original sin the Immaculate Conception |
| #8049, aired 2019-09-12 | COUNTRY MUSIC $6,000 (Daily Double): (Ken Burns delivers the clue.) Before her untimely death, she saw her career take off beginning with her first No. 1 hit that she had been reluctant to record
"I fall to pieces /
Each time..." Patsy Cline |
| #8048, aired 2019-09-11 | IT IS ROCKET SCIENCE $2000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from SpaceX in Hawthorne, California.) Landing Falcon 9's first stage has been compared to launching a pencil over a skyscraper in a windstorm & catching it on a shoebox; key to the landing are the steerable fins that control yaw, pitch, & this rotation along the nose-to-tail axis roll |
| #8025, aired 2019-06-28 | IT'S TIME FOR TIME $1200: The days-in-each-month mnemonic that starts with these 4 words has been traced back to 1425 30 days hath September |
| #8019, aired 2019-06-20 | METEOROLOGY $1600: The 11-year cycle of these solar areas that are a cool 6,500° has been correlated with temperature changes on Earth sunspots |
| #8017, aired 2019-06-18 | APPROPRIATE FOR MINERS $400: A mining co. can get a Kimberley process certificate showing that these gems have been mined in a conflict-free environment diamonds |
| #7983, aired 2019-05-01 | I COULD LIVE IN THAT FOOD $600: This brand of pancake topping that's been around for 120 years was named for a residence of Abraham Lincoln Log Cabin syrup |
| #7981, aired 2019-04-29 | POTENT PORTABLES $800: The Inspiron line is from this Texas-based company that's been making laptops since 1989 Dell |
| #7979, aired 2019-04-25 | ENERGY $800: LNG stands for this type of natural gas that has been condensed for easier handling liquid |
| #7965, aired 2019-04-05 | WHICH TALL CHIEF? $1200: The National Park Service says that based on this Hawaiian king's feathered cape, he'd have been about 7 feet tall Kamehameha |
| #7962, aired 2019-04-02 | THE OLYMPICS $1200: Olympic sports that have been discontinued include croquet, pigeon shooting & this team sport using a rope tug-of-war |
| #7962, aired 2019-04-02 | BIBLE PASSAGES $2000: This prophet goes from the port of Joppa to Nineveh, with a 3-day detour that must've been quite unpleasant Jonah |
| #7960, aired 2019-03-29 | NOUNS THAT ARE ALSO VERBS $1000: Something you inflate, or to gain weight as if you've been inflated balloon |
| #7959, aired 2019-03-28 | NAME THAT NOVELIST! $400: "'There's not been a direwolf sighted south of the wall in two hundred years" (George R.R.) Martin |
| #7939, aired 2019-02-28 | GET YOUR GAME ON $1000: This title of Stephen Potter's book on "Winning Games Without Actually Cheating" entered the English language Gamesmanship |
| #7932, aired 2019-02-19 | THAT'S A CLOWN CATEGORY $2000: The early 18th century Watteau work seen here has been called the prototypical this-adjective clown sad |
| #7925, aired 2019-02-08 | STARGAZERS $800: In 1705 he published "A Synopsis of the Astronomy of Comets" describing the orbits of 24 comets that had been observed (Edmond) Halley |
| #7925, aired 2019-02-08 | CHURCHES & CATHEDRALS $800: It's the English name of La Sagrada Familia, a church that's been under construction in Barcelona since 1882 The Sacred Family (or Holy Family) |
| #7925, aired 2019-02-08 | WHAT'S IN YOUR BENTO? $1000: For color, my box has shiso leaves around the umeboshi, this fruit that's been pickled plum |
| #7923, aired 2019-02-06 | HISTORIC FAMILIES $600: It's been estimate that one in 200 men are direct descendants of this Mongol ruler & grandfather of Kublai Genghis Khan |
| #7886, aired 2018-12-17 | ON THE SLAB $1000: Sliced this meat has been trimmed, sliced & packaged; slab this comes in one chunk that must be sliced bacon |
| #7879, aired 2018-12-06 | IF YOU'VE GOT THE TIME... $800: The 1582 shift to the Gregorian calendar mothballed this calendar that had been used for more than 1,000 years the Julian calendar |
| #7863, aired 2018-11-14 | ME WANT COOKIE! $400: "Fig" has been added to & dropped from the name of these cookies that were originally only filled with fig jam Newtons |
| #7849, aired 2018-10-25 | GEOGRAPHY OF THE MOON $1600: The Moon even has marshes--there's the Marsh of Epidemics, the Marsh of Decay & this marsh, aka Palus Somnii the Marsh of Sleep |
| #7846, aired 2018-10-22 | HERSTORY $600: Britannica notes that this Russian "would not have become empress if her husband had been at all normal" Catherine the Great |
| #7841, aired 2018-10-15 | WHAT HAD HAPPENED WAS $2,000 (Daily Double): On this mission Pete Conrad said, "Whoopee! Man, that may have been a small one for Neil, but that's a long one for me" Apollo 12 |
| #7834, aired 2018-10-04 | MAKES SCENTS $2000: Hats off to this company that's been making its Stetson colognes since the '80s & its Musk fragrances since the '70s Coty |
| #7819, aired 2018-09-13 | CONTRACTIONS $4,000 (Daily Double): A 2015 book says that for over 200 years, this word "has been knocking at the door of standard English" but is still shunned ain't |
| #7808, aired 2018-07-18 | THAT'S SO RANDOM! $800: A star has been on the label of this Dutch beer since 1884 Heineken |
| #7789, aired 2018-06-21 | THE MALE MAN $1000: This Roman orator should have been quieter--a quip suggesting that Octavian be disposed of led to his demise Cicero |
| #7770, aired 2018-05-25 | SIGNS & GESTURES $200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows an image of the hand of benediction.) The hand of benediction, with the ring and pinky fingers folded in, has been used by the Roman Catholic church since the start; some doctors have suggested that it was actually a sign of nerve damage of this first pope & copied by later popes Peter |
| #7748, aired 2018-04-25 | WHAT'S YOUR SPIRIT ANIMAL? $1000: This alliterative cocktail that gets it "kick" from vodka was said to have been created as part of a 1940s Smirnoff campaign a Moscow mule |
| #7729, aired 2018-03-29 | HIS PANIC $200: Jonathan Knight of this "New" group that's been singing for 30 years now has gone public about his panic attacks New Kids on the Block |
| #7707, aired 2018-02-27 | LITERARY HOMES $1600: This novel kicks off with news that Netherfield Park has been let Pride and Prejudice |
| #7700, aired 2018-02-16 | TAKE A LETTER $600: In the U.S. foods that have been certified kosher are most often marked with a K or this letter in a circle a U |
| #7697, aired 2018-02-13 | PRESIDENTIAL QUOTES $800: In his 2nd inaugural address, he said, "I know that the acquisition of Louisiana has been disapproved by some" Jefferson |
| #7697, aired 2018-02-13 | JAY LENO'S GARAGE $1000: (Jay Leno presents the clue.) With a top speed of more than 240 MPH, a central driving position & touches like an engine bay literally lined with heat-reflective gold, it's no surprise that this British company's F1 has been called the greatest car of the 20th century McLaren |
| #7689, aired 2018-02-01 | LITERARY TERMS $200: Shorter word for "non-poetry"; a Moliere character is amazed that he's been speaking it his whole life prose |
| #7689, aired 2018-02-01 | ADJECTIVES $2000: If you can't pay certain fees, a court may declare you this synonym for needy indigent (destitute accepted) |
| #7679, aired 2018-01-18 | BRITISH CABINETRY $1000: The leader of this chamber has traditionally been a full cabinet member & there were howls in 2014 when that changed the House of Lords |
| #7675, aired 2018-01-12 | SO YOU'VE BEEN INDICTED $1000: So not nice you did it twice! Your bogus signature & also endorsement on that draft is double this forgery |
| #7671, aired 2018-01-08 | BRITISH AUTHORS $1200: "About a Boy" & "Fever Pitch" are among his books that have been made into movies Nick Hornby |
| #7667, aired 2018-01-02 | CANINE COMPANIONS $400: Every dog that has portrayed this female collie created by Eric Knight has actually been male Lassie |
| #7646, aired 2017-12-04 | LITERATURE ACROSS AMERICA $1000: (Hi, I'm Ellen Leyva with ABC7 Eyewitness News.) This southern California author has been especially successful with his Los Angeles-based quartet that includes "L.A. Confidential" & "The Black Dahlia" James Ellroy |
| #7642, aired 2017-11-28 | TIME TO SAY GOODBYE $1000: Granddad, a lungfish that had been at this city's Shedd Aquarium since 1933, passed away in 2017 Chicago |
| #7637, aired 2017-11-21 | THIRSTY $1200: Diddy has been known to shill for Cîroc, a French type of this liquor that's all the rage vodka |
| #7634, aired 2017-11-16 | TRIPLE RHYME TIME $2000: Getting back your unholy cotton pests evil weevil retrieval |
| #7614, aired 2017-10-19 | THE BUTCHER $1200: For Thanksgiving our butcher is offering turkeys that have been "pre-" this, meaning soaked in a salt solution brined |
| #7602, aired 2017-10-03 | MARS $1600: The tininess of Mars' 2 moons suggests that they might have been pulled from this belt between Mars & Jupiter the asteroid belt |
| #7601, aired 2017-10-02 | HISTORY OF MEDICINE WITH DR. OZ $800: (Dr. Oz presents the clue.) Alexander Fleming happened to leave a Petri dish of staphylococci sitting around & found the bacteria had been killed by mold thus leading to the discovery of this antibiotic that has saved millions of lives penicillin |
| #7597, aired 2017-09-26 | FOOD STUFF $800: A classic beverage of Peru is chicha de jora, a brew made from this grain that's been fermented corn |
| #7580, aired 2017-07-21 | WEST VIRGINIA $400: Last name of the Republican governor from 1913 to 1917; to date no McCoys have been elected to that office Hatfield |
| #7579, aired 2017-07-20 | STAMP COLLECTING $800: It's the postmark that indicates a stamp has been used the cancellation |
| #7573, aired 2017-07-12 | TURN ON YOUR HEAVY METAL DEFECTOR $2000: In October 1996 Axl Rose faxed MTV (how '90s is that!) that this guitarist had not been making music with their band since '94 Slash |
| #7565, aired 2017-06-30 | "ECO" FRIENDLY $800: It describes DNA that's been spliced together from different sources recombined |
| #7557, aired 2017-06-20 | THE GAME IS RIGGED $200: A baked potato that comes this way has all the fixins; for dice, it means they've been tampered with loaded |
| #7551, aired 2017-06-12 | "A" IN THE LAW $400: This divine phrase refers to a natural event that couldn't have been prevented or foreseen using reasonable care an act of God |
| #7550, aired 2017-06-09 | HART-FELT LYRICS $800: Hart must have been channeling Dale Carnegie when he wrote, "Get coy, get shy, that's how to win friends" & do this influence people |
| #7549, aired 2017-06-08 | THE TV "A" $800: Billy Bush is no longer allowed past the velvet rope on this show that's been covering the stars since 1996 Access Hollywood |
| #7546, aired 2017-06-05 | BEEN THAT $200: Harrison Ford, Alec Baldwin & Ben Affleck have all been cast as this CIA agent Jack Ryan |
| #7546, aired 2017-06-05 | BEEN THAT $400: Max von Sydow, Willem Dafoe & Claude Heater played him, but in "Ben-Hur", we never see Claude's face Jesus Christ |
| #7546, aired 2017-06-05 | BEEN THAT $600: Steve McQueen & Pierce Brosnan both played this title role that's fit for a king Thomas Crown |
| #7546, aired 2017-06-05 | BEEN THAT $800: Kate Winslet & Gloria Stuart both played this role in "Titanic" Rose |
| #7546, aired 2017-06-05 | BEEN THAT $1000: Terrence Howard started off playing this pal of Iron Man, but Don Cheadle has saved the day in more recent times Rhodey (or War Machine) |
| #7544, aired 2017-06-01 | HOPE-POURRI $200: A quote that's been around since the 1730s says that hope does this "eternal in the human breast" springs |
| #7535, aired 2017-05-19 | LET'S GO DODGERS! $400: In 1958 the Dodgers came to L.A. from this Brooklyn ballpark that had been their home for 4 decades Ebbets Field |
| #7534, aired 2017-05-18 | MOURNING ASSEMBLY $400: In response to Australia's 1938 sesquicentenary, this group held a day of mourning that has since been a yearly event the Aborigines |
| #7521, aired 2017-05-01 | 1940s MOVIE QUOTES $2000: Gregory Peck:
"Anti-Semitism... what can I possibly say that hasn't been said before?" Gentleman's Agreement |
| #7518, aired 2017-04-26 | WAR MOVIES $400: (Hi, I'm Ken Burns.) Sure I direct, but I've also been in front of the camera, like when I acted in the epic named for this Civil War battle that included Pickett's Charge Gettysburg |
| #7514, aired 2017-04-20 | CORPORATE LOGOS $400: I spy this company's iconic logo that's been around in one version or another since 1951 Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) |
| #7514, aired 2017-04-20 | BLACK $800: The Black Death that killed many in Europe in the 1300s is believed to have been caused by this type of organism, Yersinia pestis a bacterium |
| #7505, aired 2017-04-07 | THE EXPLORERS CLUB $600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the explorers club in New York.) Explorers club meetings begin with the ringing of this bell from one of the ships that in 1884 rescued the club's future first president Adolphus Greely & six surviving crew members; all were near death, having been stranded for three years on this large island 16 miles west of Greenland Ellesmere |
| #7503, aired 2017-04-05 | GERMAN SURNAMES $1600: An ancestor of this actress seen here must've been a knight--that's what her last name means Krysten Ritter |
| #7496, aired 2017-03-27 | GHOSTLY ACTORS $2000: Nicole Kidman finds out in this 2001 movie that the ghosts her family has been dealing with are a little closer to home The Others |
| #7493, aired 2017-03-22 | HIDDEN U.K. CITIES $1200: How proud Pa Isley would have been if only he had lived to see "Shout" become a classic song Paisley (in Pa Isley) |
| #7490, aired 2017-03-17 | UNIVERSAL PICTURES $400: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows an image of the Milky Way on the monitor.) In a view of the Milky Way's core, the blue haze is light from gas that has been heated to millions of degrees by the super-massive one of these regions at our galaxy's center a black hole |
| #7479, aired 2017-03-02 | SOUTH AMERICA $1200: Gauchos fear the charge of this flightless bird that's been called the South American ostrich a rhea |
| #7472, aired 2017-02-21 | VIDEO GAMES $800: An 11th-generation countess, she uses archaeological techniques that have been confused with treasure hunting Lara Croft |
| #7460, aired 2017-02-03 | TELEVISION CITY $1000: "Burn Notice" & "Austin & Ally"; what a crossover episode that would've been Miami |
| #7460, aired 2017-02-03 | NUMERICAL PHRASES $1000: It's a long necktie that's been tied in a slipknot & has the ends hanging down a four in hand |
| #7439, aired 2017-01-05 | BEEN THERE, DONE THAT $200: Dined at the rotating SkyCity restaurant atop this Seattle landmark the Space Needle |
| #7439, aired 2017-01-05 | BEEN THERE, DONE THAT $400: Dropped 456 feet on the Kingda Ka, one of these, at Six Flags in Jackson, New Jersey a roller coaster |
| #7439, aired 2017-01-05 | BEEN THERE, DONE THAT $600: Leaned upside down to kiss this tourist attraction in a County Cork castle the Blarney Stone |
| #7439, aired 2017-01-05 | BEEN THERE, DONE THAT $800: Cruised this river from Strasbourg to Cologne the Rhine |
| #7439, aired 2017-01-05 | BEEN THERE, DONE THAT $1000: Hiked on this 2,190 mile eastern U.S. national scenic trail marked by rectangles of white paint called "blazes" the Appalachian Trail |
| #7428, aired 2016-12-21 | BUILT LIKE A GREEK GOD $1600: This blacksmith god must have been hurt by the infidelities of his wife Aphrodite & could have said "You're fired!" Hephaestus |
| #7420, aired 2016-12-09 | BALLET UP TO THE BARRE $2000: It's been said that "Coppelia" is ballet's great comedy & this 1841 tale of a doomed maiden, its great tragedy Giselle |
| #7395, aired 2016-11-04 | THE LIVES OF AUTHORS $2000: Written while she lived in France, "Tender Buttons" is a 1914 collection of poems by this American author & art patron Gertrude Stein |
| #7391, aired 2016-10-31 | PILOT WEAR $400: Since 1937 Ray-Ban has been making these accessories that sound like they were custom made for piloting aviators |
| #7379, aired 2016-10-13 | WORLD HISTORY $3,000 (Daily Double): In an 1815 letter, he declared that the tie that bound South America "to Spain has been severed" Simón Bolívar |
| #7376, aired 2016-10-10 | LATE WORDS $600: It's the usual adjective for a library book that's not been returned on time overdue |
| #7374, aired 2016-10-06 | 125 YEARS OF CARNEGIE HALL $2000: The greatest classical artists have been Hall regulars, including this cellist, who's on the board of trustees Yo-Yo Ma |
| #7370, aired 2016-09-30 | "OOT" & ABOUT $600: Type of "point" that's no longer relevant, as the issue has been decided a moot point |
| #7364, aired 2016-09-22 | INQUISITIVE WRITERS $800: This Poe tale begins, "True!...Nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad?" "The Tell-Tale Heart" |
| #7362, aired 2016-09-20 | FICTIONAL LANGUAGES $1600: Tolkien created these languages whose forms include Quenya before writing his books, not the other way around Elvin (or Elvish) |
| #7354, aired 2016-07-28 | SOUNDS LIKE A STAR WARS CHARACTER $1000: Of the 7 hills of Rome, the one where Romulus & Remus were found the Palatine |
| #7351, aired 2016-07-25 | DUCK DAY AFTERNOON $600: The existence of this creature has been cited as proof that God has a sense of humor the duck-billed platypus |
| #7343, aired 2016-07-13 | "LOG" JAM $600: An accumulation of work or customer orders that should have been dealt with already backlog |
| #7334, aired 2016-06-30 | WHERE AM I? $600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports.) I'm at the clinic named for this Ohio city; there's nothing wrong with me, I just came to see a place that's been providing great care since 1921 Cleveland |
| #7332, aired 2016-06-28 | OH, GOD! $400: This sea god telling his wife Amphitrite that Pegasus was the result of his love affair must have been an adventure Poseidon |
| #7328, aired 2016-06-22 | ENGLISH USAGE $3,000 (Daily Double): Around 2008 this negative word that had been doing fine as a verb was popular as a noun, often preceded by "epic" fail |
| #7310, aired 2016-05-27 | THE SPANISH INQUISITION $1200: It's been estimated that 31,000 accused heretics died this way at the hands of the Inquisition burned at the stake |
| #7306, aired 2016-05-23 | ARE YOU FEELING LUCKY? $200: It's been observed that "there's something slightly creepy" about carrying this animal's foot for luck a rabbit |
| #7306, aired 2016-05-23 | KEY WORDS $600: It's the empty term for a key that hasn't been cut to fit a specific lock a blank |
| #7292, aired 2016-05-03 | THE HAITI FILE $800: In May 2014 it was announced that substantial evidence indicated this flagship of Columbus had been found off Haiti the Santa María |
| #7280, aired 2016-04-15 | COUNTRY MUSIC $800: This man's band has been in perfect harmony since coming on the scene
"You're such beautiful drug /
I can't get enough /
Addicted and I'm dying /
For a hit of your love..." Zac Brown |
| #7280, aired 2016-04-15 | RUSSIAN CITIES $1600: Grozny is the capital of this republic in the Caucasus that's been fighting for independence since 1991 Chechnya |
| #7279, aired 2016-04-14 | RANCHING AS IT WAS $1600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from George Ranch Historical Park in Richmond, TX.) Barbed wire has been called the invention that tamed the west by letting cattlemen keep their livestock in & farmers with crops keep the cows out; it brought an end to the freewheeling era known as "open" this range |
| #7274, aired 2016-04-07 | THE OLD WEST $1200: in 1882 this sheriff wrote the book "An Authentic Life of Billy the Kid" to correct "false statements" that had been published (Pat) Garrett |
| #7272, aired 2016-04-05 | A LITERARY MARY $1200: This author's father William Godwin has been called the father of philosophical anarchism (Mary) Shelley |
| #7269, aired 2016-03-31 | THE WINE CELLAR $1600: This adjective means that wine has been made stronger by the addition of a spirit; sherry is one type fortified |
| #7265, aired 2016-03-25 | AUDRA McDONALD ON BROADWAY $600: (Audra McDonald presents the clue.) My performance in "Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill" was challenging for me because I was portraying not only the unique vocal style, but also the physical deterioration of this legendary jazz singer Billie Holiday |
| #7256, aired 2016-03-14 | 1,000 FOODS TO EAT BEFORE YOU DIE $600: Spoon up some of this French goodness that's been described as a soup, a stew, a "hotchpotch of all sorts of fishes" bouillabaisse |
| #7239, aired 2016-02-18 | AN "IQ" TEST $1000: Adjective for something that's been made obsolete or is just too old-fashioned an antique |
| #7211, aired 2016-01-11 | WHAT'S IN THE FRIDGE? $200: A bag of these root vegetables from Bolthouse Farms that have been baby-cut (usually from a longer crooked one) a carrot |
| #7203, aired 2015-12-30 | A TOUGH FOOD CATEGORY $200: Biltong is a South African version of this tough & salty 5-letter food, thin strips of meat that's been dried jerky |
| #7187, aired 2015-12-08 | SCIENCE $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew demonstrates.) The beads here have been specially treated so that indoors they're white, but when you take them outside and they're exposed to these invisible rays that can give you a sunburn, they change color ultraviolet rays |
| #7184, aired 2015-12-03 | SOUNDS MEDICAL $600: What a nurse may do if you need a test, or a first strike proving that a battle has been joined draw blood |
| #7184, aired 2015-12-03 | MEDALS & DECORATIONS $1200: Contact! Tell us this airplane part that's part of the design of the Distinguished Flying Cross propeller |
| #7183, aired 2015-12-02 | REALITY SHOW SENDOFF LINES $1000: "Sashay away" RuPaul's Drag Race |
| #7177, aired 2015-11-24 | ANCIENT NAMES $1600: DNA analysis suggests that King Tut may have been the son of Akhenaten & this main wife Nefertiti |
| #7160, aired 2015-10-30 | LORD OF THE JUNGLE $600: In the 19th c. Radama I ruled the lemurs of this once jungle-rich island that's now been largely deforested Madagascar |
| #7147, aired 2015-10-13 | MY KIND OF "TOWN" $4,000 (Daily Double): About 2.5 miles northwest of the Capitol, it's at the confluence of the Potomac & Rock Creek Georgetown |
| #7143, aired 2015-10-07 | SPORTS NOBILITY $5 (Daily Double): The last name of 1970s San Francisco Giant John Montefusco helped lead to this classic lit-based nobility nickname the Count |
| #7131, aired 2015-09-21 | THAT SOUNDS FAMILIAL $200: Dakar, Senegal has been designated as this type of city to Ann Arbor, Michigan a sister city |
| #7129, aired 2015-09-17 | LUCKY 7 $800: One of the "Seven Sisters" colleges, this Northampton, Mass. school has been empowering women since the 1870s Smith |
| #7128, aired 2015-09-16 | VERY INVENTIVE $2,000 (Daily Double): In 1807 he wrote that his voyage to Albany & back "has been performed wholly by the power of the steam engine" Fulton |
| #7116, aired 2015-07-20 | SPORTS & SONG $600: "Ever since I was young, it's been my dream / That I might drive" this machine; "I'd get the ice just as slick as could be" a Zamboni |
| #7115, aired 2015-07-17 | THE BISHOP $800: Bishop is port wine that's been this, meaning heated & spiced mulled |
| #7108, aired 2015-07-08 | IT SHOULDA BEEN A CONTENDER $1000: 1956:
Give this classic John Ford/John Wayne western a nomination? That'll be the day! The Searchers |
| #7102, aired 2015-06-30 | SNOW WHITE'S LESSER-KNOWN DWARFS $800: He was named for his mom's favorite brand of peanut butter that's been around since the 1930s Skippy |
| #7101, aired 2015-06-29 | THE APOLLO MISSIONS $2000: Apollo 12's crew collected parts from a lunar probe with this "cartographic" name that had been there for 2 years Surveyor |
| #7096, aired 2015-06-22 | PLAY INTO FILM $800: The nose knows that the play about this man has been filmed several times; here's an early one Cyrano de Bergerac |
| #7090, aired 2015-06-12 | YOU'VE BEEN "HACK"ED! $800: They're the long neck feathers of a rooster that get erect when he's angry hackles |
| #7088, aired 2015-06-10 | STONES $1200: In John 20 she sees that the stone in front of the tomb of Jesus had been rolled away Mary Magdalene |
| #7075, aired 2015-05-22 | THE MUSICAL TYPOGRAPHICAL MARK $1200: ...that's been dropped from the name of the singer of "Tik Tok" the dollar sign |
| #7070, aired 2015-05-15 | THAT'S SWELL $200: With its numbers increasing, the California gray whale has been taken off this federal list the endangered species list |
| #7053, aired 2015-04-22 | VOLCANOES $2000: This Antarctic volcano is known for its 40-year-old lava lake that's been dubbed Ray Lake Mount Erebus |
| #7052, aired 2015-04-21 | 4-LETTER FILMS $800: This 2006 film features the voices of Owen Wilson & Bonnie Hunt Cars |
| #7046, aired 2015-04-13 | EASTER ISLAND $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Easter Island.) The original Rongorongo tablets of Easter Island are now housed in museums around the world; replicas here on the island show this type of pictographic script that was used, though the meanings have been lost to time hieroglyphics |
| #7042, aired 2015-04-07 | PSYCHOLOGY $400: A delusion that your life is scripted & being filmed has been named by doctors after this Jim Carrey film The Truman Show |
| #7042, aired 2015-04-07 | ROYALTY $1600: Let's see if you know that Letsie III has been king of this African country since the 1990s Lesotho |
| #7040, aired 2015-04-03 | 1965 NO. 1 SONGS $1200: "I Can't Help Myself" was a chart topper for this numerically named group that had been around for decades the Four Tops |
| #7039, aired 2015-04-02 | IT BORDERS BOTH COUNTRIES $3,000 (Daily Double): Jordan &
Yemen Saudi Arabia |
| #7037, aired 2015-03-31 | A JOB WITH NO COMMUTE $1600: Best Buy's Geek Squad has been called "the most famous" group doing this 2-word job that you can do from home tech support |
| #7034, aired 2015-03-26 | WARBIRDS $200: (Alex delivers the clue from Ramstein Air Base in Germany.) The C-130 has long been the workhorse of the United States military, carrying soldiers & supplies to hostile areas all around the world & truly earning its name, that of this mythological hero & multitasker Hercules |
| #7020, aired 2015-03-06 | THE TVA $800: A mosquito-eradication program by the TVA eliminated this disease that had been endemic to a regional waterway malaria |
| #7019, aired 2015-03-05 | 1920s SLANG $800: Something that was the best could have been the ant's pants or this other insect rhyme the bee's knees |
| #7017, aired 2015-03-03 | ICE DANCING $600: (Meryl Davis and Charlie White deliver the clue.) The hot ticket at the 1984 Olympics in Sarajevo was the final free dance in ice dancing;
that's when this British pair performed to Ravel's "Bolero", earning a gold medal and 9 perfect scores for artistic impression, a feat that has never been duplicated Torvill and Dean |
| #7006, aired 2015-02-16 | AVIATION $2000: (Sarah wraps up the category from the NASA Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio.) The highly efficient hybrid wing body has been a long-time dream. Today's engineers are working out the control issues that doomed the 1940s flying wing from this company later paired with Grumman Northrop |
| #6996, aired 2015-02-02 | KEEP CALM $1000: This peaceful state is the name of a prayer that's been a major part of AA since the 1940s the serenity prayer |
| #6994, aired 2015-01-29 | THE NATIONAL SEPTEMBER 11 MEMORIAL & MUSEUM $400: (Alex reports from the National 9/11 Memorial & Museum in New York City.) As The New York Times said, imagine if 9/11 had been followed by Super Storm Sandy; well, that's what would've happened if not for the slurry wall, anchored in bedrock in the 1960s to prevent the waters of this river from seeping into the foundation of the towers the Hudson River |
| #6994, aired 2015-01-29 | POETS & POETRY $1600: Whittier wrote, "Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these" 4 of regret that complete the line it might have been |
| #6989, aired 2015-01-22 | THE BIG PICTURE $1000: This 17th century work originally 13x16 feet has been cut down to a much more manageable 12x15 The Night Watch |
| #6987, aired 2015-01-20 | DEAD POETS $1600: "Lenore 'hath gone before', with hope, that flew beside, leaving thee wild for the dear child that should have been thy bride" (Edgar Allan) Poe |
| #6978, aired 2015-01-07 | "BAD" CALL $1600: Timothy Leary wrote that "The Western world has been on" one of these a bad trip |
| #6974, aired 2015-01-01 | SCIENCE $4,000 (Daily Double): Disease-specific genes have been found that could help tell psoriasis from this skin affliction, aiding in treatment eczema |
| #6952, aired 2014-12-02 | U.S. GOVERNMENT $2000: The government's largest mint is in this city that has been minting coins since 1792 Philadelphia |
| #6950, aired 2014-11-28 | SLEEP $1200: The legendary magician Merlin was said to have been fathered by one of these demons that prey on sleeping women incubi (or singular incubus) |
| #6936, aired 2014-11-10 | THE NEW YORK TIMES: POLITICS $400: (I'm Ross Douthat.) I started as a Times op-ed columnist in 2009 with a provocative argument that the 2008 race would have been a clearer choice if this man from Wyoming had been the GOP nominee for president Dick Cheney |
| #6935, aired 2014-11-07 | THE REAGAN LIBRARY $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew gives the clue from the Ronald Reagan Library in Simi Valley, CA..) This briefcase that goes everywhere the president goes, including here on Air Force One, contains the codes needed to order the Pentagon to launch atomic weapons; known as the president's emergency satchel, it's been nicknamed this sports term the nuclear football |
| #6929, aired 2014-10-30 | TV SHOWS' OPENING LYRICS $400: "Come and knock on our door, we've been waiting for you"--Jack & the girls, that is Three's Company |
| #6925, aired 2014-10-24 | CHARACTERS BASED ON REAL PEOPLE $800: (George Stephanopoulos presents the clue.)
It's been said that Sam Seaborn on this TV drama was based on me, but actually, my job was a bit more like Josh Lyman's The West Wing |
| #6907, aired 2014-09-30 | ARMS AND THE MAN $800: All that dunking & dribbling has been good for the muscle tone of this man's arms Blake Griffin |
| #6906, aired 2014-09-29 | HIPPO CAMPUS $1600: Excitement in Bible class as we learn this creature that "drinketh up a river" in Job is thought to have been a hippo Behemoth |
| #6905, aired 2014-09-26 | SLANG $200: This word for an undead person also refers to a computer that's been taken over to send spam a zombie |
| #6904, aired 2014-09-25 | AMERICANA $4,000 (Daily Double): Since 1938, this southern city has been deemed "the city that care forgot" New Orleans |
| #6894, aired 2014-07-31 | MEDICAL HISTORY $400: In 1980 this medical organization, the W.H.O., announced that smallpox had been eradicated worldwide World Health Organization |
| #6893, aired 2014-07-30 | THE LAW $5,000 (Daily Double): Marbury v. Madison marked the first time that a federal law had been ruled this 16-letter term unconstitutional |
| #6877, aired 2014-07-08 | LITERARY CLERGYMEN $2000: Hugo wrote that this Archdeacon of Notre Dame "had been destined from infancy... for the ecclesiastical state" Frollo |
| #6869, aired 2014-06-26 | A VISIT WITH GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS $200: (George Stephanopoulos delivers the clue.) On "This Week", journalist Glenn Greenwald told me about the documents that showed this agency had been tracking trillions of phone calls & not telling us about it the NSA (National Security Agency) |
| #6865, aired 2014-06-20 | COLORFUL WORDS & PHRASES $1200: This No. 1 country hit by Gretchen Wilson begins, "Well, I ain't never been the Barbie doll type" "Redneck Woman" |
| #6850, aired 2014-05-30 | TWO OF A KIND $1600: In this Edgar Allan Poe tale, Roderick confesses that his not-dead-yet twin sister Madeline has been laid in the family tomb "The Fall of the House of Usher" |
| #6844, aired 2014-05-22 | TV THEN & NOW $1600: The desperation may be permanent on this lane now that "Desperate Housewives" has been canceled Wisteria |
| #6836, aired 2014-05-12 | MAKE YOUR OWN SPY NOVEL TITLES $1200: The + our 9th president's last name + a "diplomatic" term for a correct method of medical treatment The Harrison Protocol |
| #6826, aired 2014-04-28 | GERMAN CITIES $2000: The Karlstor, the Sendlinger Tor & Isartor are gates from medieval times that have been preserved in this Bavarian city Munich |
| #6819, aired 2014-04-17 | COMPOSERS $1200: It's been said that the 1831 capture of Warsaw by the Russians led him to write his "revolutionary" etude Chopin |
| #6815, aired 2014-04-11 | BEASTLY RHYME TIME $1200: A crow relative that's been sheared a shaven raven |
| #6812, aired 2014-04-08 | FOOD LABELING $800: 2-word food labeling term applied to poultry that's been allowed access to the outside free range |
| #6808, aired 2014-04-02 | "SELF-E"s $800: Adjective for an autodidact self-educated |
| #6785, aired 2014-02-28 | RIP VAN WINKLE $1200: Washington Irving admitted that when he wrote the story, he'd never been to these mountains, the tale's setting the Catskills |
| #6778, aired 2014-02-19 | THE MOVIE SUPERHERO WHO... $800: is asked, "You've been called the da Vinci of our time. What do you say to that?" "Ridiculous. I don't paint" Tony Stark (Iron Man) |
| #6756, aired 2014-01-20 | RECENT MOVIE QUOTES $2000: "No one's ever been loved so much by the people. Don't waste that power" Lincoln |
| #6747, aired 2014-01-07 | BREAKAWAY NATIONS $2000: In 1990 South Africa reluctantly gave independence to this nation that had once been a German colony Namibia |
| #6732, aired 2013-12-17 | DID YOU GET MY LETTER? $400: "I respectfully remind you, sir, that we have been the most patient of all people", this ballplayer wrote to Ike in 1958 Jackie Robinson |
| #6732, aired 2013-12-17 | 1939 BEST PICTURE OSCAR NOMINEES $1600: Her "Eyes" have been noted in song, but it was the brain of this actress that gave her big problems Bette Davis |
| #6727, aired 2013-12-10 | SCIENTIFIC EUROPEAN $400: In 1705 he published "A Synopsis of the Astronomy of Comets", detailing 24 that had been observed from 1337 to 1698 (Edmond) Halley |
| #6727, aired 2013-12-10 | YOU FLOOR ME! $1000: Famous Filene's floor of bargains that closed in 2011 to the grief of Boston shoppers Basement |
| #6717, aired 2013-11-26 | FOOD WORDS CREATED IN THE AMERICAS $600: 5-letter word for meat in strips that has been preserved by drying jerky |
| #6714, aired 2013-11-21 | NONFICTION $1,000 (Daily Double): This bestseller by Lynne Truss has been described as "a book for people who love punctuation" Eats, Shoots & Leaves |
| #6712, aired 2013-11-19 | INDEPENDENCE NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK $400: (Kelly of the Clue Crew points to the post office at Independence National Historical Park in Philadelphia, PA.) The post office at 316 Market St. is the only one in the U.S. that doesn't fly the American flag, because it hadn't been created yet when this man was Postmaster-General Ben Franklin |
| #6710, aired 2013-11-15 | DISEASES $1200: The disease that kills all these animals in Egypt in Exodus 9:6 is believed to have been anthrax livestock (or cattle) |
| #6706, aired 2013-11-11 | BIBLICAL WHO'S WHO $600: That must have been some exorcism when Jesus cast 7 devils out of her Mary Magdalene |
| #6706, aired 2013-11-11 | CARBONATION NATION $800: I've been billed as "a great tasting soft drink that's strong & bold & refreshing"; they call me Mr. this! Mr. Pibb |
| #6702, aired 2013-11-05 | ENTERTAINING OCCUPATIONS $1000: This activity that omits a key piece of equipment has been called the most physically demanding event in rodeo bareback riding |
| #6701, aired 2013-11-04 | PRECIOUS PHRASES $400: Giving someone something that hasn't been earned is giving it to him on this serving tray a silver platter |
| #6697, aired 2013-10-29 | THE NEW YORK TIMES ALL THE NEWS THAT'S FIT TO CLICK $800: (I'm David Carr.) On the "Media Decoder" blog I've been following this Netflix series that shows Washington officials & yes, even a few journalists, in a harsh light House of Cards |
| #6696, aired 2013-10-28 | IT'S IN THE "CAN" $800: This postal marking or perforation on a stamp indicates that it's been used cancellation |
| #6685, aired 2013-10-11 | THE MAGIC WORD $600: Ironically, this magician says he's never been able to finish the Dickens novel that gave him his stage name David Copperfield |
| #6680, aired 2013-10-04 | SCIENCE $1000: Stomp rockets are powered by what's usually called this type of "air" that's been squished under greater than normal pressure compressed air |
| #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 |
| #6654, aired 2013-07-18 | THE CHARACTER'S NAME HAS BEEN CHANGED $800: "Dorotea saw him and was informed by Sancho that this was Don Cornelius" Don Quixote |
| #6652, aired 2013-07-16 | PLANES, TRAINS $800: It's the number of the Boeing jet that hasn't quite been a Dreamliner since taking to the skies in 2011 the 787 |
| #6649, aired 2013-07-11 | ANNIVERSARY GIFTS $10,000 (Daily Double): 40th:
A "pigeon's blood" one of these ruby |
| #6628, aired 2013-06-12 | AN UNFINISHED CATEG $400: Like an apple pie that's only been in the oven 30 minutes, your plan is half-... baked |
| #6628, aired 2013-06-12 | LEGENDS OF ROCK $400: School's been out a long time, but it wasn't until 2011 that this legend was inducted into the Rock Hall of Fame Alice Cooper |
| #6613, aired 2013-05-22 | BEHIND BARS $2000: The name of this generic type of orange curacao means that it's been distilled 3 times triple sec |
| #6612, aired 2013-05-21 | SILENT P WORDS $800: It's a written acknowledgment that a sum of money or shipment of merchandise has been acquired a receipt |
| #6610, aired 2013-05-17 | YOU GOT AN "F" PLUS! $1000: 8-letter word that's a measure of how faithfully sound has been reproduced fidelity |
| #6603, aired 2013-05-08 | THE J-5 $1200: Worn out by overindulgence; yawn... been there, done that jaded |
| #6595, aired 2013-04-26 | AIRLINES $400: Seen here is the logo of this airline that's been based in Chicago since the 1930s United |
| #6595, aired 2013-04-26 | I HAVE ISSUES $1000: I'm so fanatical, I've been called this, named for a Judean sect that battled Rome a zealot |
| #6593, aired 2013-04-24 | RADIO, RADIO $400: Fayetteville's KXUA boasts that it plays no music that has been on this publication's Top 40 chart "in the last 50 years" Billboard |
| #6580, aired 2013-04-05 | YOU'VE GOT TASTE $200: This fancy brand of mustard says that since 1777 it's "been synonymous with all that is refined, exquisite and delicious" Grey Poupon |
| #6578, aired 2013-04-03 | ENDS WITH DOUBLE E $600: French word for a cooked vegetable that's been put through a blender purée |
| #6573, aired 2013-03-27 | "CC" ME ON THAT $400: This small flute has been in orchestral use since the 1700s the piccolo |
| #6573, aired 2013-03-27 | UNIQUE PLACES $2000: A giant crater in Turkmenistan that's been on fire for 40 years has been dubbed "The Door to" this place Hell |
| #6554, aired 2013-02-28 | CHEW, CHEW $200: This chewy snack is meat that has been cut thin & dried; Native Americans added berries to it to make pemmican jerky |
| #6550, aired 2013-02-22 | GREEN VEGGIES $800: This "Swiss" veggie has been found to contain a chemical that helps to regulate blood sugar chard |
| #6547, aired 2013-02-19 | HOUSEHOLD HINTS $800: To save a cell phone that's been dropped in water, remove the battery & SIM card, pat dry & cover it with the white type of this rice |
| #6540, aired 2013-02-08 | WHAT TO WEAR? $1200: Jeans "washed" in this liquid, a style that was big in the '80s, have been seen on stars like Rihanna acid (bleach accepted) |
| #6506, aired 2012-12-24 | ON CABLE $400: The Time Bandit & the Cornelia Marie are 2 of the fishing vessels that have been featured on this series Deadliest Catch |
| #6505, aired 2012-12-21 | MARCH MADNESS $1000: It's said to have been inspired by a "colonel" who would whistle its distinctive 2-note phrase rather than shout "fore!" "Colonel Bogey March" |
| #6499, aired 2012-12-13 | HODGEPODGE $600: Since 1924 this alliterative item has been used as a daily time signal by the BBC Big Ben |
| #6494, aired 2012-12-06 | AUTHORS ON AUTHORS $400: Charles Dickens wrote that a visit by this "Fairy Tales" scribe had been "five weeks which seemed to the family ages" Hans Christian Andersen |
| #6490, aired 2012-11-30 | IT'S CHILE IN HERE $3,000 (Daily Double): Chile is the world's leading producer of this metal that has been called "the salary of Chile" copper |
| #6476, aired 2012-11-12 | FRY DAY $1600: A classic Passover breakfast is this dish, matzoh that's been soaked in water, dipped in egg & fried like French toast matzo brei |
| #6471, aired 2012-11-05 | D____A $600: Term for any group that has been dispersed outside its traditional homeland diaspora |
| #6468, aired 2012-10-31 | NAME THAT SPEECHMAKER $1,000 (Daily Double): "& you know, the kids, like all kids, love the dog, &...regardless of what they say about it, we're gonna keep him" Richard Nixon |
| #6461, aired 2012-10-22 | HERE'S 2 "U"! $800: This pesky invasive plant has been called the vine that ate the South kudzu |
| #6460, aired 2012-10-19 | THE WORLDWIDE WORLD WIDE WEB $1600: We bet you know .mo is the domain for this Asian gambling haven Macao |
| #6454, aired 2012-10-11 | YOU'VE BEEN SCHOOLED! $600 (Daily Double): From the Greek for "many skills", it's an engineering school that teaches industrial arts & applied sciences a polytechnical school |
| #6450, aired 2012-10-05 | MISSOURI LOVES COMPANIES $400: At dinnertime, Fido & Mittens don't care that since 2001, Ralston this has been Nestle this Purina |
| #6448, aired 2012-10-03 | GRAB A "B"ITE $400: It's just side pork that's been cured & smoked bacon |
| #6433, aired 2012-08-01 | MUSHROOMANIA $800: Though with no skull & cross-bones warning, toadstools have been defined as mushrooms that are this poisonous |
| #6395, aired 2012-06-08 | THE LOVELY BEANS $2000: The fibrous item that ran down the pod's seam, giving this long green bean its name, has been bred out a string bean |
| #6388, aired 2012-05-30 | OED TOP SOURCES $600: The 5th-most frequently quoted source is this compendium of knowledge that's been around since 1768 the Encyclopædia Britannica |
| #6386, aired 2012-05-28 | LEWIS & CLARK EXPEDITION $200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from St. Louis, MO.) Before beginning their expedition, Lewis & Clark waited in & around St. Louis for three months until they got word that this massive land transfer had been completed the Louisiana Purchase |
| #6383, aired 2012-05-23 | ENDS IN "TH" $2000: This holiday celebrates the 1865 date when many Texas slaves learned they'd been emancipated Juneteenth |
| #6379, aired 2012-05-17 | HAUL $1200: In trucking, it's been defined as a run that covers more than 1,000 miles a long haul |
| #6367, aired 2012-05-01 | THE NATIONAL PARK SYSTEM $2,200 (Daily Double): Discovered in 1870, this natural feature of a national park has been called "Eternity's Timepiece" Old Faithful |
| #6365, aired 2012-04-27 | POST-POPE $1200: This color smoke is the signal that a new Pope has been chosen white |
| #6353, aired 2012-04-11 | THE PANAMA CANAL $200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Panama.) Passing through the Panama Canal, we cross this line that marks the separation of water flow into the Atlantic & Pacific oceans, the same line that's been traced up to the Rockies & down to Tierra del Fuego the Great Divide (or Continental Divide) |
| #6336, aired 2012-03-19 | "YOU" ROCK $800: Police hit that says, "Since you've gone I've been lost without a trace; I dream at night, I can only see your face" "Every Breath You Take" |
| #6332, aired 2012-03-13 | SLANG $600: Phobar is an acronym indicating that this Adobe software has been used so that an image is "beyond all recognition" Photoshop |
| #6332, aired 2012-03-13 | RIVER DAMAGE $1000: You may not love the time of this disease that's been called the "archetype of waterborne illnesses" cholera |
| #6312, aired 2012-02-14 | ODD JOBS $600: Someone's got to clean dust & Gummi Bears off these huge movie screens that have been around since 1970 IMAX screens |
| #6302, aired 2012-01-31 | EDITORS $1200: The long of it is that he has been the editor of the crossword puzzles for The New York Times since 1993 (Will) Shortz |
| #6299, aired 2012-01-26 | USS IWO JIMA $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew gives the clue from the deck of USS Iwo Jima in New York.) The Harrier jet, a British-American hybrid that can take off & land vertically, has been used by the Marines all over the world & by the British in this 1982 war in the South Atlantic the Falklands |
| #6291, aired 2012-01-16 | PUNCH $600: Fighting puppets Punch & Judy have been around since this period that began in 1660 with the return of Charles II the Restoration |
| #6289, aired 2012-01-12 | U.S.A. $1600: Though home to the Jack Daniel's distillery, this Tennessee town is in a county that's been dry since prohibition Lynchburg |
| #6287, aired 2012-01-10 | STATE OF THE UNION $400: The westernmost states to stay loyal to the Union were California & this one that had just been admitted in 1859 Oregon |
| #6282, aired 2012-01-03 | APPETIZERS $2000: A popular Louisiana appetizer, crawfish tails that have been shelled, battered & deep-fried are called Cajun this popcorn |
| #6275, aired 2011-12-23 | STOP THAT RACKET! $1000: Hearing that the U.S. assailed prisoners with music by this band of his, Lars Ulrich said Venom would have been better Metallica |
| #6268, aired 2011-12-14 | RELIGIOUS MATTERS $400: In the 200s B.C. Indian emperor Ashoka converted to this religion that had been founded about 300 years earlier Buddhism |
| #6262, aired 2011-12-06 | HATS ENTERTAINMENT $1200: "There must have been some magic in that old silk hat they found", because it made this animated guy "dance around" Frosty the Snowman |
| #6261, aired 2011-12-05 | INDIAN FOOD $200: Ghee is a form of clarified this that's been slowly melted, separating the milk solids butter |
| #6243, aired 2011-11-09 | OPERATIC COSTUMES $1,000 (Daily Double): (Alex reports from the Metropolitan Opera in New York.) The costume worn by this character may not seem to go with his title profession, but in his first scene he sings "Largo al factotum" & explains that he's also the apothecary, gardener & wig maker the Barber of Seville (Figaro) |
| #6210, aired 2011-09-23 | INAUGURAL ADDRESSES $400: "I know that the acquisition of Louisiana had been disapproved by some" (Thomas) Jefferson |
| #6210, aired 2011-09-23 | INAUGURAL ADDRESSES $800: "Let the word go forth from this time and place... that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans" JFK |
| #6199, aired 2011-07-21 | SCOOBY'S RELATIVES? $1600: Term for something that remains after most has been removed a residue |
| #6177, aired 2011-06-21 | CONTROLLED "BURN" $800: The title of this TV show is what informs a spy that he has been let go Burn Notice |
| #6174, aired 2011-06-16 | THAT'S ENTERTAINMENT $1600: This comic strip was the last one approved by William Randolph Hearst; he's been marching along since 1950 Beetle Bailey |
| #6173, aired 2011-06-15 | ICONS OF DAYTIME TELEVISION $600: Now that's stamina! Since 1970, this soap opera character played by Susan Lucci has been married 12 times Erica Kane |
| #6171, aired 2011-06-13 | FOOD "E" $200: Beginning sushi eaters often start out with unagi, this fish that's been cooked & basted with a sweetish sauce eel |
| #6165, aired 2011-06-03 | THE CHICAGO CODE $400: Grab a vine & swing by this 1906 Chicago-based novel that's been called "The Vegetarian Manifesto" The Jungle |
| #6149, aired 2011-05-12 | THE UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME $800: 1 of the 2 feature films released that has ever been allowed to shoot scenes on campus Rudy (or Knute Rockne, All American) |
| #6130, aired 2011-04-15 | SCISSORS $800: Scissors are often included in this versatile Victorinox product that's been around since 1897 a Swiss army knife |
| #6129, aired 2011-04-14 | FORMULA2 $400: Potassium binoxalate, KHC2O4, has been used on stains made by this liquid that once came in wells in schools ink |
| #6128, aired 2011-04-13 | LOST TEXTS FROM BEN FRANKLIN $800: 1758 will b last yr of me writing & pub. this: been at it 4 25 yrs, that's enuf Poor Richard's Almanack |
| #6127, aired 2011-04-12 | WHO'D YOU KILL TO GET THAT JOB? $600: I, this Roman emperor, may have been killed by my wife Agrippina in 54 A.D. so Nero could take over Claudius |
| #6107, aired 2011-03-15 | ACCIDENTAL INVENTIONS $400: You knead to know that this product has been fun for kids since 1955, but only after it failed as a wallpaper cleaner Play-Doh |
| #6102, aired 2011-03-08 | NAME THAT PREZ $1000: Had been president of Columbia University Dwight David Eisenhower |
| #6102, aired 2011-03-08 | SORRY ABOUT THAT $1200: In the '70s this ex-Alabama gov. said his opposition to integration had been wrong & apologized for his actions (George) Wallace |
| #6095, aired 2011-02-25 | A WORLD OF FOOD $200: Steak au poivre is steak that's been covered with coarsely ground this (poivre in French) before cooking pepper |
| #6095, aired 2011-02-25 | THE MIDTERMS (ELECTIONS, THAT IS) $2000: Elected senator from Florida, this son of Cuban exiles has been called a rising conservative political star (Marco) Rubio |
| #6080, aired 2011-02-04 | HAPPIER MOVIE ENDINGS $2000: "Hold the execution. John Coffey's been found innocent. He is a free man."
"Phew. That was close" The Green Mile |
| #6065, aired 2011-01-14 | THEY'RE ON CABLE TV $200: In 2010 he got his own talk show on TBS (though that might not have been his original goal) Conan O'Brien |
| #6065, aired 2011-01-14 | THE BIG "C" $400: A water tower in Stanton, Iowa has been painted like a giant one of these: at over 35,000 gal., that's a lot of java! a cup of coffee |
| #6046, aired 2010-12-20 | SHIP HAPPENINGS $800: In 1861 John Brooke turned this ship that had been burned to the deck into an ironclad called the Virginia the Merrimack |
| #6033, aired 2010-12-01 | 18th CENTURY HISTORY IN ART $2000: The battle here is off South Africa in 1757 during this conflict that's been called the "real first world war" the Seven Years' War |
| #6027, aired 2010-11-23 | TEXT MESSAGES $1200: In 1897, hearing his obituary had been published, he cabled that the report of his death was an exaggeration Mark Twain |
| #6021, aired 2010-11-15 | NOW THAT'S COMEDY $1600: Chris Rock:
"If you haven't contemplated murder, you ain't been in" this love |
| #6017, aired 2010-11-09 | BASKETBALL $200: He's been made an honorary ambassador to the city in Japan that shares his name Kobe Bryant |
| #6016, aired 2010-11-08 | POP CULTURE $1600: "Dear John" & "The Last Song" are among his bestsellers that have been turned into films Nicholas Sparks |
| #6006, aired 2010-10-25 | THINGS ARE SLOW $800: Now that Pluto has been reclassified, this planet has the longest orbit around the sun Neptune |
| #6004, aired 2010-10-21 | THINK TWICE $1000: German term for sweet bread that's been "twice baked" zwieback |
| #5991, aired 2010-10-04 | THE TENTH INNING $200: (Ken Burns reads the clue.) Since Jim Creighton of the Brooklyn Niagaras tried an illegal rising fastball in 1859, players have looked for an edge, like the time Albert Belle got caught in 1994 using a bat that had been doctored this way it was corked |
| #5989, aired 2010-09-30 | OPRAH'S AHA! MOMENTS $600: (Oprah reads the clue from a chair.) Several "aha!" moments on the show have come courtesy of this straight-talking Texan, like when he tells people who've been stepped on that "you teach people how to treat you" Dr. Phil |
| #5988, aired 2010-09-29 | THE DOCTOR IS IN $400: This soft drink has been around since 1885--that makes it 125 Dr Pepper |
| #5982, aired 2010-09-21 | THAT HURTS! $400: Angelina Jolie's lips are sometimes described as this hyphenated term, as if she'd been attacked by a flying insect bee-stung |
| #5967, aired 2010-07-20 | TOP U.S. FRANCHISES $600: "Grill & chill" with this franchise that's been serving up its soft-serve ice cream since 1940 Dairy Queen |
| #5956, aired 2010-07-05 | HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES $1,000 (Daily Double): The Betsy Ross House has long been the official site for Philadelphia's celebration of this June holiday Flag Day |
| #5948, aired 2010-06-23 | THAT FILM'S A DISASTER $400: Instead of curing cancer, a virus has been created, leaving Will Smith to fend for himself in NYC I Am Legend |
| #5947, aired 2010-06-22 | CHINESE HISTORY $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) In October 1934, the Red Army retreated from Jiangxi; a year later, after crossing 18 mountain ranges, they arrived in Shaanxi, in a journey that's been called this the Long March |
| #5930, aired 2010-05-28 | MOVIE TAG LINES $1000: 1982 film that showed "A world inside a computer where man has never been. Never before now" Tron |
| #5928, aired 2010-05-26 | -ISMs $1200: Deadly sounding word for the belief that everything's been decided so we must accept what's going to happen fatalism |
| #5925, aired 2010-05-21 | MISSING PERSONS $1000: With a flick of the pen in 1961, this mystery man summoned Vatican II John XXIII |
| #5924, aired 2010-05-20 | "X" "Q"s ME $400: "Magic" & "Have You Never Been Mellow" are songs from this roller-skating musical that hit Broadway in 2007 Xanadu |
| #5911, aired 2010-05-03 | OUT OF YOUR LEAGUE $1200: It's what the "AD" stands for in the ADL, a league that's been fighting bigotry since 1913 the Anti-Defamation League |
| #5909, aired 2010-04-29 | HEY, THAT'S SHARP! $200: Some of the hatchets she used in her saloon-smashing have been donated to the Kansas historical society Carrie Nation |
| #5904, aired 2010-04-22 | PERKIN' UP $1200: Novartis makes these hyphenated caffeine pills that have been helping college kids study for years No-Doz |
| #5898, aired 2010-04-14 | ISSUE NO. 1 $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Newseum in Washington, D.C.) The Newseum has issue 1 of "The North Star", named for what slaves followed to freedom; in one article, this man said he'd been "shrouded in the midnight ignorance of that infernal system of slavery" Frederick Douglass |
| #5892, aired 2010-04-06 | WHERE'S THAT DARN TRAIN? $600: The original 50-day repair estimate has been exceeded by 50%, so it's been in the repair yard this long now 75 days |
| #5887, aired 2010-03-30 | MEXICAN FOOD $800: This specialty of Sonora is actually a burrito that's been fried a chimichanga |
| #5876, aired 2010-03-15 | STORY PROBLEMS $200: The problem in this 1902 story is for Sherlock to find the beast (or man) that's been killing folks on the Devonshire moors The Hound of the Baskervilles |
| #5875, aired 2010-03-12 | YOU SAY POTATO $2000: More than a million died in the Irish Potato Famine that started in this 19th Century decade 1840s |
| #5872, aired 2010-03-09 | LITERARY LETTER DROP $400: Jules Verne title trip that's undergone a letter drop & been shortened by 90% Around the World in Eight Days |
| #5862, aired 2010-02-23 | INTERNET FAVORITES $400: Our writers visit search.eb.com, which brings you to the website for this reference work that's been around since 1768 Encyclopedia Britannica |
| #5855, aired 2010-02-12 | MICROBIOLOGY MILESTONES $1,000 (Daily Double): By 1980 a global vaccination effort led to the virtual eradication of this, the only time that's been done to a germ smallpox |
| #5850, aired 2010-02-05 | NEW TESTAMENT PLACES $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Israel.) This boat from the early Christian era is the type that Peter & Andrew may have been in when Jesus said, "Follow me and I will make you" these fishers of men |
| #5828, aired 2010-01-06 | THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES $400: (Alex reports from the National Archives in Washington, D.C.) American history might have been very different if this future country had agreed to the offer of statehood contained in Article XI of the Articles of Confederation Canada |
| #5825, aired 2010-01-01 | BEYOND .COM $2000: As of 2010, you can invent your own domain, according to the folks who regulate the Net; they're at www.icann.this .org (.net accepted) |
| #5820, aired 2009-12-25 | LITERARY SEVENS $1,500 (Daily Double): After returning to Denmark, she finished the "Seven Gothic tales" she had been working on in Africa Karen Blixen (or Isak Dinesen) |
| #5819, aired 2009-12-24 | THE WHITE HOUSE $800: The walls of the White House are this "stone", a type of sedimentary rock, that has been painted over sandstone |
| #5816, aired 2009-12-21 | "BB" BOOKS $2000: John Updike was in the money with this 1981 novel, the third in a series, winning a Pulitzer for it Rabbit is Rich |
| #5798, aired 2009-11-25 | MMM... BACON $1600: Bacon rind that's been diced & fried is called this, which lends its name to a bread made from it crackling |
| #5792, aired 2009-11-17 | 40 YEARS OF SESAME STREET $600: Turns out that this googly-eyed character has been gobbling rice cakes: grease, oil & chocolate are bad for Muppet fur Cookie Monster |
| #5773, aired 2009-10-21 | ARE YOU TOYING WITH ME? $400: Now you can make full meals with this toy that's been helping kids make cakes since 1963 an Easy-Bake Oven |
| #5768, aired 2009-10-14 | HELL'S KITCHEN $1600: Paprika is sometimes sprinkled on these appetizers that have been boiled, halved & shelled by Lucifer deviled eggs |
| #5767, aired 2009-10-13 | NAME THAT MOVIE $200: 1954:
"You don't understand. I coulda had class. I coulda been a contender" On the Waterfront |
| #5762, aired 2009-10-06 | FASHION STATEMENTS $800: This phrase means a situation has been reversed; in the 19th c. that switch was easier: there weren't right & left ones the shoe is on the other foot |
| #5754, aired 2009-09-24 | ROAD RELATED $600: "Enthusiasm" for this 4-letter street rim that helps to form the sidewalk has been minimal at best curb |
| #5745, aired 2009-07-24 | TOUGH-POURRI $600: When "Face The Nation" premiered in 1954, this first guest was grilled over comments he had been making about the Army Senator Joe McCarthy |
| #5742, aired 2009-07-21 | THAT'S JUST DUCKY $1000: The title of this controversial Ibsen play refers to a pet that's been tamed & kept in an attic The Wild Duck |
| #5742, aired 2009-07-21 | STUPID ANSWERS $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Grand Central Terminal, New York.) When the 2-year restoration was unveiled in 1998, the chairman of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority said that this has truly been put back into the Grand Central Terminal Grand |
| #5729, aired 2009-07-02 | I'M FUNEMPLOYED $1000: I'm a real-life Lara Croft & I write about my discoveries for this Washington, D.C. magazine founded in 1888 National Geographic |
| #5722, aired 2009-06-23 | SEAFOOD $800: This word for herring & other fish that have been cold-smoked is from the same root as "copper" kippers |
| #5703, aired 2009-05-27 | JAPANESE CULTURE $1600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew holds up a hat in textile shop in Kyoto, Japan.) This fabric has been dyed with sukumo, this dye that was once used only by aristocracy indigo |
| #5689, aired 2009-05-07 | ONLY ONE VOWEL $400: A nickname for a tall guy, or a type of limo that's been extended for greater capacity stretch |
| #5688, aired 2009-05-06 | WOULD YOU LIKE FLIES WITH THAT? $800: edible.com sells ground beans for this hot beverage that have been regurgitated by weasels, cleaned & roasted coffee |
| #5687, aired 2009-05-05 | LOOK WHAT YOU'VE WON! $1600: For your all-around fabness:
One of these scholarships that have been sending U.S. kids to Oxford since 1904 a Rhodes Scholarship |
| #5677, aired 2009-04-21 | MUSIC APPRECIATION $1600: This Romanian has so mastered the pan flute that he's been called "the reincarnation of the god Pan" Zamfir |
| #5663, aired 2009-04-01 | ROME, THE ETERNAL CITY $1,000 (Daily Double): There are 138 of these "National" steps that lead up to the Trinita Dei Monti Church Spanish Steps |
| #5653, aired 2009-03-18 | WHAT'S THAT NUMBER? $2,600 (Daily Double): Millard Fillmore's, as U.S. President 13 |
| #5648, aired 2009-03-11 | A DAMSEL IN THIS DRESS $400: Erica's been working out to fit into this dress that's also the holder for a sword a sheath |
| #5630, aired 2009-02-13 | CABLE CHANNELS $1000: Channel that's been home to gritty shows like "Dirt" & "Rescue Me" FX |
| #5623, aired 2009-02-04 | VETERANS' BENEFITS $400: 20,000 veterans of this war marched on Washington in 1932 demanding a war bonus that had been promised them World War I |
| #5606, aired 2009-01-12 | DAIRY PRODUCTS $600: Milk is tested for these, such as penicillin, which may have been used to treat cows that fell ill antibiotics |
| #5600, aired 2009-01-02 | IT'S A CRIME! $800: It's the fraudulent appropriation of money that's been entrusted to one's care embezzlement |
| #5592, aired 2008-12-23 | POLITICAL PARTIES $200: Of the major U.S. political parties, this one that started around 1830 has been around the longest the Democratic Party |
| #5591, aired 2008-12-22 | PAINT YOUR WAGON $1000: A Ross Macdonald detective novel is titled "The Zebra-Striped" this vehicle that's been called the dead wagon a hearse |
| #5571, aired 2008-11-24 | SERIOUS ABOUT CEREAL $2000: Oats that have been hulled, steamed & roasted en route to the table are called these, rhyming with "oats" groats |
| #5564, aired 2008-11-13 | YOU CAN QUOTE ME ON THAT $1000: This British physicist has been quoted as saying, "My goal is simple, it is a complete understanding of the universe" Stephen Hawking |
| #5537, aired 2008-10-07 | JOHNNY GILBERT RAPS & ROCKS ON $800: "A few times I've been around that track, so it's not just gonna happen like that, because I ain't no hollaback girl" Gwen Stefani |
| #5537, aired 2008-10-07 | HYDRO LOGICAL $1600: The main source of thermal pollution is water that's been used industrially as this a coolant |
| #5536, aired 2008-10-06 | CHANGE ONE LETTER $3,000 (Daily Double): "Begin" with this word; end with this one, meaning harsh or desolate, as a landscape start & stark |
| #5534, aired 2008-10-02 | CNN ON POLITICS $1200: (I'm Bill Schneider.) Add up the Republicans & the Democrats in the U.S. House for the 110th Congress & you get this total that's been standard for almost a century 435 |
| #5531, aired 2008-09-29 | MOUNT VERNON $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reads the clue from the dining room, Mount Vernon, VA.) It was here in the dining room that Charles Thomson, secretary of the Congress, told Washington he had been unanimously elected president in this year 1789 |
| #5523, aired 2008-09-17 | 19, 20, 21 & 22 $600: In John 20 this woman finds that the boulder in front of Jesus' tomb has been rolled away & that he is gone Mary Magdalene |
| #5521, aired 2008-09-15 | WHERE YA BEEN? $1000: Carefully paddling down this Congolese river that lends its name to a deadly virus Ebola |
| #5482, aired 2008-06-10 | BIOLOGY $400: It's been proposed that sulfate aerosols from these geological phenomena killed off the dinosaurs volcanoes |
| #5475, aired 2008-05-30 | HOW TOUCHING! $800: It's been reported that the Elle Macpherson figure in this London museum was attracting gropers Madame Tussauds |
| #5461, aired 2008-05-12 | THE NEW YORK TIMES ENTERTAINMENT $600: In 2008 this Moscow ballet company announced that Yuri Burlakau had been approved its artistic director The Bolshoi Ballet |
| #5461, aired 2008-05-12 | HISTORICAL DIARIES? $1600: 1897: I'm totally bummed--I've been exiled to Siberia! But diary, I swear that in 1917, I'll lead the October Revolution Lenin |
| #5438, aired 2008-04-09 | HAVE SOME WINE $800: A wine lover know"z" this Calif. grape that produces red & white has been traced back to Italy's Primitivo Zinfandel |
| #5436, aired 2008-04-07 | CENTRAL PARK $1600: (Jon of the Clue Crew walks on the grass in Central Park.) The area that's hosted a mass by Pope John Paul II & a concert by Simon & Garfunkel has been called the "Great" this since it was planted with grass in 1937 the Great Lawn |
| #5430, aired 2008-03-28 | MAY I HAVE A WORD WITH "U"? $1000: Word used on the cover of a dictionary to indicate that it hasn't been reduced from a larger work unabridged |
| #5427, aired 2008-03-25 | 6-LETTER WORDS $1600: If that "spring lamb" you bought was really a 3-year-old animal, it should have been labeled this mutton |
| #5427, aired 2008-03-25 | WORLD HISTORY $2000: It's been estimated that this grand inquisitor put to death about 2,000 people during his term of office, 1483-1498 (Tomás de) Torquemada |
| #5419, aired 2008-03-13 | COUNTRIES THAT END IN "O" $400: This nation has been ruled by the Grimaldi royal family since the 14th century Monaco |
| #5417, aired 2008-03-11 | DRINK UP! $800: This liquor that's made from agave has been called "tequila's poor cousin" mescal |
| #5398, aired 2008-02-13 | THE CIVIL WAR $1200: He was clipping roses in his garden when he found out that he'd been elected President of the Confederacy Jefferson Davis |
| #5389, aired 2008-01-31 | NOVELS' FIRST LINES $400: Fitzgerald: "In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind..." The Great Gatsby |
| #5386, aired 2008-01-28 | THAT SOUNDS "GREAT" $400: Sharing its name with a Dickens novel, this dating service has been matching up couples since 1976 Great Expectations |
| #5383, aired 2008-01-23 | "YOU" TUBE $200: Alana & Jacob are 2 of the kids who have been on this show that's hosted by Jeff Foxworthy Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader? |
| #5373, aired 2008-01-09 | ANCIENT TIMES $1200: Darius I of this empire claimed that Bardiya, the king he killed & replaced, had been an impostor Persia |
| #5365, aired 2007-12-28 | MULTIPLE CHOICE $200: Of Constellation, Consternation or Constitution, the one that has never been the name of a U.S. Navy ship Consternation |
| #5363, aired 2007-12-26 | WHAT'S YOUR BEEF? $600: Corned beef is cured in brine; this other deli meat is seasoned brisket that's been cured, smoked & cooked pastrami |
| #5353, aired 2007-12-12 | TONY $200: For the past 8 years, the Tony Awards ceremony has been held at this nearly 6,000-seat hall Radio City Music Hall |
| #5350, aired 2007-12-07 | FOOD $2000: In 1952 Lipton came out with a dehydrated version of this dish that's been used in countless recipes onion soup |
| #5345, aired 2007-11-30 | WESTWARD EXPANSION OF THE U.S. $800: On May 10, 1869 telegraph operators in Utah signaled the nation that this had been completed the Transcontinental Railway |
| #5335, aired 2007-11-16 | RECENT CINEMA $1000: She learned that she had been cast as Tracy Turnblad in "Hairspray" while working at a Cold Stone Creamery store Nikki Blonsky |
| #5317, aired 2007-10-23 | THE OCCIDENTAL TOURIST $400: Lots of history to see in this tiny country that's been independent from Italy since 1929 Vatican City |
| #5316, aired 2007-10-22 | "PRO" NOUNS $600: Popularly served with melon, it's paper-thin slices of ham that have been salt-cured & air-dried prosciutto |
| #5314, aired 2007-10-18 | THINK FAST $1,200 (Daily Double): A has-been knows that this phrase for a short-lived success goes back to the misfiring of flintlocks flash in the pan |
| #5308, aired 2007-10-10 | SHAPELY COUNTRIES $1000: The name of this Asian country means "Land of the Free," so it's not surprising that it's never been colonized Thailand |
| #5305, aired 2007-10-05 | PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGNS $600 (Daily Double): This candidate played on his name with buttons that said Au H2O (Barry) Goldwater |
| #5304, aired 2007-10-04 | AC-CENT-TCHU-ATE $2,000 (Daily Double): (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a poem line on the monitor: "Come live / with me / and be / my love".) In poetry, it's a foot or metrical unit consisting of an unstressed followed by a stressed syllable iamb |
| #5278, aired 2007-07-18 | HOW WAS SCHOOL TODAY? $200: We learned about these caravans of prairie schooners that rolled over Western trails, & I wish I could have been aboard wagon trains |
| #5276, aired 2007-07-16 | AIN'T THAT AMERICA $800: By early 2006, New Orleans had been overtaken in population by this nearby capital city Baton Rouge |
| #5276, aired 2007-07-16 | AIN'T THAT AMERICA $1600: Since 1792 Frankfort has been the capital of this state Kentucky |
| #5273, aired 2007-07-11 | LULLABIES THAT ROCK $200: This lullabye will either "rock" your little ones or make them acrophobic "Rock-a-bye Baby" |
| #5271, aired 2007-07-09 | ENDS IN "EE" $800: From the French, it's a finely mashed food, often fruit, that's been put through a sieve or blender a puree |
| #5266, aired 2007-07-02 | THEY'VE BEEN GOING IN & OUT OF STYLE $1200: This hairstyle that was big--we mean big--in the '70s has recently been seen on stars like Chris Tucker an afro |
| #5264, aired 2007-06-28 | BUILDING A CATEGORY $200: Beavers have been known to build these homes as large as 12 feet high & 20 feet in diameter lodges |
| #5264, aired 2007-06-28 | BUILDING A CATEGORY $600: In 1932 Churchill said, "That's the highest I've ever been up" when he viewed NYC from the top of this building Empire State Building |
| #5261, aired 2007-06-25 | LITERARY HORSIES $2,000 (Daily Double): It has been surmised that this hard-working horse from "Animal Farm" got his name from a Chinese revolt Boxer |
| #5258, aired 2007-06-20 | CROSSWORD HELPER $600: Ria: a narrow inlet of the sea formed by this type of valley that's been partly submerged a river valley |
| #5250, aired 2007-06-08 | DOUBLE LETTERS $1,200 (Daily Double): The name of this dark Chinese tea that has been fermented before drying is from the Mandarin for "black dragon" oolong |
| #5247, aired 2007-06-05 | A RIVER RUNS THROUGH 'EM $1200: Avignon & Valence the Rhône |
| #5244, aired 2007-05-31 | REMEMBER THAT SONG? $1600: This James Blunt farewell song goes, "You have been the one, you have been the one for me" "Goodbye My Lover" |
| #5213, aired 2007-04-18 | '60s MUSIC $2000: This 1961 hit by Dion begins, "Here's my story, sad but true, it's about a girl that I once knew" "Runaround Sue" |
| #5195, aired 2007-03-23 | "D" FACTO $1600: A spirit or soul that's been freed from its human host is said to be this disembodied |
| #5187, aired 2007-03-13 | ____ OF ____ $1,000 (Daily Double): Some scholars believe that this play may have been based on a now-lost play called "The Jew" The Merchant of Venice |
| #5184, aired 2007-03-08 | A SET OF CHINA $1000: It's the item seen here; a game of the same name has been played since 1935 sugar bowl |
| #5180, aired 2007-03-02 | ORDINAL PEOPLE $400: Adding to a list that includes the pyramids, Andre the Giant & King Kong have each been called this the Eighth Wonder of the World |
| #5172, aired 2007-02-20 | QUOTATIONS $800: (Jon of the Clue Crew reports from the Freud Museum in Vienna.) Despite all the research that's been done on Freud, no one can definitely say if, or when, he made the attributed remark "sometimes a" this "is just a" this a cigar |
| #5165, aired 2007-02-09 | THE GOOD EARTH $3,000 (Daily Double): Because it passes through a London borough, the Prime Meridian at 0 degrees longitude has this other name Greenwich (Meridian) |
| #5161, aired 2007-02-05 | MTV $1000: MTV has been a big supporter or RTV, this organization that encourages young people to be active in politics Rock the Vote |
| #5152, aired 2007-01-23 | THE WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS $400: It's been said that this 1950s & '60s Colts QB had "a haircut you could set your watch to" Johnny Unitas |
| #5141, aired 2007-01-08 | PINKY $200: 2-word term for a written notice that you've been fired pink slip |
| #5137, aired 2007-01-02 | MEASURING UP $1200: We're shocked to hear that some car dealerships have been known to "roll back" this device the odometer |
| #5108, aired 2006-11-22 | THE MOOR $200: AKA "Los Reyes Catolicos", these 2 marched into the last Moorish stronghold in Granada in the late 15th century Ferdinand & Isabella |
| #5103, aired 2006-11-15 | SMITH $1600: A New York City Fire Department fireboat is named for this 1928 pres. candidate known as the "Happy Warrior" Al Smith |
| #5101, aired 2006-11-13 | MAGAZINES $2000: This "national" magazine that takes readers all over the world has been around since 1888 National Geographic |
| #5097, aired 2006-11-07 | IRAQ $3,400 (Daily Double): In 1961, this country was granted independence, & Iraq argued it had been separated illegitimately Kuwait |
| #5080, aired 2006-10-13 | ROCKIN' T-SHIRTS $200: Wow, mon, you must have been jammin' at this man's concert to walk away with a T-shirt like that Bob Marley |
| #5062, aired 2006-09-19 | MEAT & POTATOES $1200: This dish is a filet of beef that's been covered with pate de foie gras or duxelles, wrapped in a pastry & baked Beef Wellington |
| #5057, aired 2006-09-12 | AT THE MOZART HOUSE $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew stands in the open second-floor window of the Mozart House in Vienna, Austria.) It was here in this home that Mozart wrote this famous 1786 opera, so the building has long been known as "Figaro House" The Marriage of Figaro |
| #5054, aired 2006-07-27 | MUSIC $2,000 (Daily Double): Liszt was among the customers of Bosendorfer, a firm that's been making these since 1828 pianos |
| #5050, aired 2006-07-21 | SOUNDS LIKE A SNACK CHIP $1600: It's been said that this painter changed her birth year to 1910 to coincide with the Mexican Revolution Frida Kahlo |
| #5044, aired 2006-07-13 | I'M SORRY $800: He was "sorry for... the events that led to my withdrawal from the race... I should not have been with Miss Rice" Gary Hart |
| #5042, aired 2006-07-11 | "PAR" FOR THE COURSE $400: In a 1998 issue of People magazine, Michael J. Fox revealed that he had been diagnosed with this disease Parkinson's disease |
| #5035, aired 2006-06-30 | HERBS & SPICES $200: It's been said that sneezewort, used as this to induce sneezing, "cleanses the head of tough slimy humours" a snuff |
| #5033, aired 2006-06-28 | WHO WANTS TO BE A LEGIONNAIRE? $800: Life in the Legion was portrayed most notably by this 1924 Percival Wren novel that's been made into a film many times Beau Geste |
| #5032, aired 2006-06-27 | BUGS $400: A species of fire ant that reached the U.S. at this Alabama port city around 1918 has been a pest to the Southern U.S. Mobile |
| #5023, aired 2006-06-14 | WHAT THE "H" $2000: The "Odes" of this Roman poet have been called "jewels five-words-long that... sparkle forever" Horace |
| #5013, aired 2006-05-31 | EMBRACE THE "ORB" $800: He's the moody crooner heard here
"You can bet that I've been crying..." (Roy) Orbison |
| #5003, aired 2006-05-17 | MEMORABLE MOVIES $1600: The title female is seen here in this 1948 film
"Gamble? She's done it for a living."
"I'll bet you a dollar I've been to the place where you were born."
"Chifu."
"It's on the China coast. Chifu! It's the second wickedest city in the world!"
"What's the first?" The Lady from Shanghai |
| #5002, aired 2006-05-16 | THAT'S ITALIAN! $2000: This 15th century movement may have first been named in a 1550 book, using the Italian word rinascita the Renaissance |
| #4997, aired 2006-05-09 | LET'S GO TO TALLINN $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from a street in Tallinn, Estonia.) Tallinn has one of these old-fashioned pharmacies that's been in use since 1422; it's said to be Europe's oldest functioning one an apothecary |
| #4994, aired 2006-05-04 | MOST DENSELY POPULATED COUNTRIES $400: The densest is this small country that has been mostly under one family's rule for over 700 years Monaco |
| #4988, aired 2006-04-26 | NAME THAT TUNE $400: Do U remember "U Can't Touch This", "I Would Die 4 U" & this Grammy-winning Kelly Clarkson song "Since U Been Gone" |
| #4984, aired 2006-04-20 | "A" IN SCIENCE $800: Revive yourself & give the name of this compound of nitrogen & hydrogen that has been used for refrigeration ammonia |
| #4972, aired 2006-04-04 | HOORAY FOR CAPTAIN SPAULDING! $1600: At the center of the Captain's antics is a quest for one of these expensive items that has been stolen painting |
| #4969, aired 2006-03-30 | THE PERIODIC TABLE OF ELEMENTS $1200: Of 101, 111, 121 or 201, the highest atomic number of an element fully authenticated by the people who do that 111 |
| #4969, aired 2006-03-30 | THE NON-CATEGORY $5,200 (Daily Double): MLK Jr. said the "Gandhian emphasis on love and" this led him to the method for social reform that he'd been seeking non-violence |
| #4964, aired 2006-03-23 | LAW $800: Creative works not protected by copyright & land that has never been privately owned are in this the public domain |
| #4963, aired 2006-03-22 | "J" WALKING $2000: "EX-GI BECOMES BLONDE BOMBSHELL", read the headlines in 1952 when she returned from Europe Christine Jorgensen |
| #4954, aired 2006-03-09 | IT'S ON "R" MAPS $400: Embankments have been built on this "colorful" 500-mile Vietnamese river to keep rice fields from flooding the Red River |
| #4938, aired 2006-02-15 | WE HELP WITH YOUR COLLEGE APPLICATION $400: Every year since 1965, at least one grad of this private L.A. school has been up for an Oscar; I aim to join that list University of Southern Cal (USC) |
| #4922, aired 2006-01-24 | IT'S NOT T.V. $1200: Postal abbreviation for the state that's been nicknamed "The Sagebrush State" & "Battle Born State" NV |
| #4911, aired 2006-01-09 | THE SPORT OF KINGS $1,500 (Daily Double): It's been said that this grandson of Man O' War had more newspaper coverage in 1938 than any public figure Seabiscuit |
| #4905, aired 2005-12-30 | THE MISSIVES OF OCTOBER $1000: Oct. 24, 1648: Dear Johann, I can't believe this long war is over now that the Peace of Westphalia has been concluded the Thirty Years' War |
| #4901, aired 2005-12-26 | WHAT'S UP, PEDIATRICIAN? $1000: Thimerosal, a preservative that's 50% this element, has been almost eliminated from vaccines for little ones mercury |
| #4897, aired 2005-12-20 | NATIONAL ANTHEMS $100 (Daily Double): "Salut, o terre d'esperance" begins "L'Abidjanaise", the anthem of this nation Ivory Coast |
| #4889, aired 2005-12-08 | BUILDING CHARACTER $1,000 (Daily Double): In this novel, Hugh Conway finds out he's been recruited to replace a very old High Lama Lost Horizon |
| #4880, aired 2005-11-25 | LITERARY QUOTATIONS $2000: This Poe plague "had long devastated the country. No pestilence had ever been so fatal" the Red Death |
| #4876, aired 2005-11-21 | AMERICANA $600: Eli Bridge builds amusement rides like this one that's been making the rounds since 1893 a ferris wheel |
| #4871, aired 2005-11-14 | MC TREBEK IN DA HIZZ-OUSE $2000: "I been here for years, rockin' my peers & puttin' suckas in fear... Mama said knock you out" LL Cool J |
| #4856, aired 2005-10-24 | MARK MY WORDS $800: Tom Lehrer joked, "It is a sobering thought... that when Mozart was my age he had been" this "for two years" dead |
| #4841, aired 2005-10-03 | HARD "WORK" $200: In the old song standard, it's the line that precedes "all the livelong day" "I've been working on the railroad" |
| #4836, aired 2005-09-26 | THE ENVIRONMENT $400: One of the EPA's 6 common air pollutants is this element that at least has been cut in gasoline lead |
| #4836, aired 2005-09-26 | THE ANIMAL KINGDOM $400: Of the hippo, hawk or hammerhead shark, the one that can be described as insessorial the hawk |
| #4834, aired 2005-09-22 | TRANSPORTATION $600: "Flight attendants prepare doors for departure and" do this means make sure your door & the one opposite yours are armed cross-check |
| #4834, aired 2005-09-22 | ANIMAL QUOTATIONS $800: Benjamin Disraeli wrote that this "which had never been thought of... rushed past the grandstand in sweeping triumph" a dark horse |
| #4825, aired 2005-07-22 | "FAN" CLUB $1200: This American grape that makes a fine wine has been traced back to an Italian variety known as primitivo zinfandel |
| #4812, aired 2005-07-05 | 7-LETTER EDIBLES $600: In the same family as the peach, it has been grown in China for over 3,000 years the apricot |
| #4799, aired 2005-06-16 | HEY, THAT'S "GREAT"! $200: Stretching over 4,000 miles, it's been called the largest engineering & building project ever made by man the Great Wall of China |
| #4796, aired 2005-06-13 | THEN WE CAN DIG IT $400: Ironically, an "aquatic civilization" has been unearthed in this area that covers much of North Africa the Sahara Desert |
| #4796, aired 2005-06-13 | SHUT YOUR MOUTH! $400: "Factor" in the idea that this Fox commentator has been known to tell guests in his "No Spin Zone" to "Shut up!" Bill O'Reilly |
| #4793, aired 2005-06-08 | THE SHARKS $200: It's been estimated that a shark may use over 20,000 of these in a lifetime, with many in reserve rows teeth |
| #4786, aired 2005-05-30 | BEFORE & AFTER $2000: Peter Rabbit's mischievous cousin who enters Mr. McGregor's garden & uses it as a beginner's ski run Benjamin Bunny Slope (Benjamin Bunny Hill accepted) |
| #4785, aired 2005-05-27 | PALINDROMIC WORDS $2000: After recovering from paralysis around 1660, Mary Margaret Alacoque became a famous one of these a nun |
| #4780, aired 2005-05-20 | SECRETARIES OF STATE BEFORE & AFTER $1600: Oscar-winning 1982 Bergman film that's been accused of being "Deep Throat" but vigorously denies it Fanny and Alexander Haig |
| #4779, aired 2005-05-19 | 18th CENTURY POTPOURRI $1600: It's been reported that this was the term for the "gangs" that forced men into military service press gangs |
| #4756, aired 2005-04-18 | BEEN THERE... $1000: Formerly a British protectorate, it's the republic outlined here Zambia |
| #4754, aired 2005-04-14 | BUSH $400: ...born in Midland, Texas & earned a masters degree at the University of Texas Laura Bush |
| #4754, aired 2005-04-14 | "W" $400: 56 miles from Hopewell, Virginia is this city that has been restored to the way it was in Colonial times Williamsburg |
| #4751, aired 2005-04-11 | GOVERNMENT $200: Since 1909 every government in Denmark's parliament has been this type that needs to strike deals minority government (a coalition accepted) |
| #4748, aired 2005-04-06 | GARDENS $1,000 (Daily Double): Shakespeare said these conflicts, appropriately, began in the Middle Temple Gardens of the Inns of Court the Wars of the Roses |
| #4746, aired 2005-04-04 | 2 MILLION $400: On January 6, 2004 Apple announced that more than 2 million of these had been sold since their introduction iPod |
| #4728, aired 2005-03-09 | GOD SAVE THE BRITISH KING OR QUEEN $400: It has been reported that he was once seen having a conversation with an oak tree George III |
| #4728, aired 2005-03-09 | 4-LETTER BIRDS $1200: DNA from the remains of this extinct bird at a British museum proved that it had been part of the pigeon family the dodo |
| #4722, aired 2005-03-01 | BRIT LIT $2,000 (Daily Double): The alternate title of "Twelfth Night" means roughly the same as the title of this other Shakespeare play As You Like It |
| #4721, aired 2005-02-28 | OUT OF THE MOUTHS OF BABES $1600: "My teeth had a big gap, and that... hadn't been made acceptable. I had to give it credentials" Lauren Hutton |
| #4706, aired 2005-02-07 | OPPOSITES ATTRACT $2000: Oil that's been processed for use is called refined; unrefined oil right out of the ground is called this crude |
| #4705, aired 2005-02-04 | IF SHAKESPEARE WROTE FOR THE WWE $2000: Cassio! Iago said you've been messing around with my wife! You know how crazy that makes me! Othello |
| #4689, aired 2005-01-13 | SONG STANDARDS $800: It's the title line that follows "Kiss me once, then kiss me twice, then kiss me once again" "It's Been A Long, Long Time" |
| #4686, aired 2005-01-10 | BACK TO THE HOTEL $600: This large ocean liner that's been docked in Long Beach since 1967 is a hotel & tourist attraction Queen Mary |
| #4684, aired 2005-01-06 | EDIBLE RHYME TIME $600: A Toll House treat that's just been recruited a rookie cookie |
| #4669, aired 2004-12-16 | WHERE IS THAT, PIERRE? $1000: A northern member of the Windward Islands, this volcanic isle has been a possession of France since 1635 Martinique |
| #4667, aired 2004-12-14 | HEADQUARTERS $800: The Ford Motor Company has long been headquartered in this city that adjoins Detroit Dearborn |
| #4636, aired 2004-11-01 | THE BIBLE TELLS ME SO $800: A psalm says "happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them"; Bach must have been ecstatic, as he had 20 children |
| #4620, aired 2004-10-08 | FLY ME TO THE MOON $400: Exiting the LM, Pete Conrad said, "Whoopie!... That may have been a small one for" him "but that's a long one for me" Armstrong |
| #4602, aired 2004-09-14 | OPERA $1000: His "Elecktra" in 1908 may have been electric, but it was his "Salome" 3 years earlier that was scandalous Richard Strauss |
| #4601, aired 2004-09-13 | POP CULTURE AMERICA $1000: The Winchester '73 and the Colt .45 have both been referred to as "the gun that" did this won the West |
| #4598, aired 2004-09-08 | SMALL TOWN FOLKS $4,200 (Daily Double): Last name of Cecile, Yvonne, Annette, Emelie, & Marie, born May 28, 1934 in the village of Callendar, Ontario Dionne |
| #4596, aired 2004-09-06 | YOU GET AN "A"! $800: (Jeff Probst, host of Survivor, reads the clue.) This river got its name after a Spanish explorer reported that he had been attacked by female warriors there the Amazon |
| #4594, aired 2004-07-22 | FORMER CAPITALS $800: Opelousas, Donaldsonville & Shreveport are among the places that have been its capital Louisiana |
| #4589, aired 2004-07-15 | STRONG MEN $400: Lifter Alexei Petrov escaped suspension & won gold when he proved that these had been slipped into his food steroids |
| #4589, aired 2004-07-15 | STRONGMEN $2000: This man who shares his name with an antelope & a drum has been president of Gabon for the last 37 years (Omar) Bongo |
| #4589, aired 2004-07-15 | "S" TOUGH $6,400 (Daily Double): The 2 Triple Crown-winning thoroughbreds of the 1970s who fit the category Secretariat & Seattle Slew |
| #4585, aired 2004-07-09 | KENNEDY FAMILY MEMBERS $6,400 (Daily Double): Lost the 1980 Democratic presidential nomination to Jimmy Carter Ted Kennedy |
| #4578, aired 2004-06-30 | MILITARY TV SHOWS BY CHARACTER $2000: Lt. Anderson,
Lt. Pruitt,
Major "Pappy" Boyington Baa Baa Black Sheep |
| #4575, aired 2004-06-25 | BARTENDING $1,100 (Daily Double): A tiny amount of soda or water added to a drink, or a popular mermaid movie a splash |
| #4568, aired 2004-06-16 | THE 60s $1600: Number of years in Queen Victoria's record reign or number of yards in Tom Dempsey's record NFL field goal kick 63 |
| #4567, aired 2004-06-15 | LAST WORDS $800: Book that ends, "...Aunt Sally, she's going to adopt me and sivilize me and I can't stand it. I been there before" The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn |
| #4564, aired 2004-06-10 | "C"OUNTRIES $2,000 (Daily Double): On November 11 it celebrates the independence of Cartagena Colombia |
| #4549, aired 2004-05-20 | "C" IS FOR COOKIE $800: You can frost cookies with this, sugar that's been cooked until it melts & turns golden brown caramel |
| #4536, aired 2004-05-03 | D.C.'IN YOU $800: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew) The White House has been known as this "Mansion", also the branch of our government that works here Executive |
| #4516, aired 2004-04-05 | DISCO IN-FILM-O $400: Tara on "All My Children", Karen Lynn Gorney was a star of this 1977 disco film that could have been Bee-Gee rated Saturday Night Fever |
| #4485, aired 2004-02-20 | HELOISE'S HINTS FOR TEENS $600: Brewed bags of the chamomile type of this can soothe skin that's been irritated by the sun, but cool them first tea |
| #4468, aired 2004-01-28 | WOMEN WRITERS $400: Some skeptics said that her novel "Wuthering Heights" must have been actually written by her brother Branwell Emily Bronte |
| #4465, aired 2004-01-23 | TO A "TEE" $600: It's been said that "A camel is a horse designed by" this committee |
| #4464, aired 2004-01-22 | FROM THE GREEK $1600: From Greek for "color", it means pertaining to color, or to a musical scale that's been modified chromatic |
| #4461, aired 2004-01-19 | A WHALE OF A CATEGORY $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew in Cape Cod, Massachusetts) Long used by whalers, this 3-word phrase lets others know a whale has been spotted Thar she blows! |
| #4458, aired 2004-01-14 | ON THE RADIO $400: The 20th century's top song in U.S. airplay, this one by The Righteous Brothers has been heard over 8 million times "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'" |
| #4456, aired 2004-01-12 | LETTER & LETTER $600: This West Coast company has been refining that pure cane sugar since 1906 C&H |
| #4454, aired 2004-01-08 | QUOTATIONS $400: Will Cuppy wrote that this bird "seems to have been invented for the sole purpose of becoming extinct" the dodo |
| #4446, aired 2003-12-29 | TELEVISION & THE '60s $200: (Sofia of the Clue Crew reports from Kauai, Hawaii.) On November 22, 1963, while making the pilot for this Bob Denver series here on Kauai, the cast learned that JFK had been shot Gilligan's Island |
| #4437, aired 2003-12-16 | "FOR" YOU $1200: An illegal copy of a document that has been made to look genuine forgery |
| #4421, aired 2003-11-24 | TURN AROUND, I'M DRESSING $400: It must have been a favorite in silent westerns; there was that "Meanwhile, back at" this dressing title card the ranch |
| #4399, aired 2003-10-23 | THE '60s MUSIC SCENE $1000: (Hi, I'm Brenda Lee) It's the 2-word title that follows "You tell me mistakes are part of being young but that don't right the wrong that's been done" "I'm Sorry" |
| #4389, aired 2003-10-09 | FOOD $2000: A story or joke that's been repeated often, maybe too often a chestnut |
| #4384, aired 2003-10-02 | FILM SHORTS $400: Classic 1954 film that gave us the "could'a been a contender" speech On the Waterfront |
| #4381, aired 2003-09-29 | CLOCKED $200: Encarta reports that some of these mammals have been clocked flying at 60 mph bats |
| #4345, aired 2003-06-20 | MATHEMATICS $2000: It's been thought but not proved that there's an infinite supply of twin these, parts of them that differ by 2 prime numbers |
| #4316, aired 2003-05-12 | SPORTS SHORTS $600: It's been widely reported that the silhouette in the NBA's logo is this Lakers guard of the '60s Jerry West |
| #4315, aired 2003-05-09 | POTENT POTABLES $400: Mumm is the word & it's also a brand of this that's been around since 1827 champagne |
| #4298, aired 2003-04-16 | INVENTIONS $2,000 (Daily Double): His 1769 patent was for "a new invented method of lessening the consumption of steam and fuel in fire engines" James Watt |
| #4287, aired 2003-04-01 | FOOD & DRINK $800: Rhyming with cod, it's a young fish like cod or haddock that's been split & readied for cooking scrod |
| #4282, aired 2003-03-25 | I LOVE NEW YORK $800: This area precedes "Vanguard" in the name of a NYC jazz club that's been swinging since 1935 Village |
| #4279, aired 2003-03-20 | YOU SAY POTATO $600: In 2001 McDonald's admitted that they had been cooking fries in this, which had been angering some Hindus beef fat |
| #4272, aired 2003-03-11 | FISH $400: These deadly fish have been released into U.S. lakes when owners found that feeding them was expensive piranhas |
| #4267, aired 2003-03-04 | WE CAN'T GET ENOUGH OPERA! $800: Of adapting this Southern play, Andre Previn said it's "always been an opera. It's just that the music was missing" A Streetcar Named Desire |
| #4262, aired 2003-02-25 | COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD $200: It's been said that this country "has but one hero, William Tell, and he is a myth" Switzerland |
| #4262, aired 2003-02-25 | 17th CENTURY DRAMA $3,000 (Daily Double): This playwright's "Bourgeois Gentilhomme" is stunned to find that he's been speaking prose all his life Moliere |
| #4240, aired 2003-01-24 | ARCHAEOLOGY $2,000 (Daily Double): The major evidence that these people visited North America has been found at L'Anse aux Meadows Vikings |
| #4232, aired 2003-01-14 | THE "IGHT" STUFF $1000: Among Whittier's saddest "Words of Tongue or Pen", it's the word that fits the category "(It) might (have been)" |
| #4228, aired 2003-01-08 | HAPPY ENDINGS $400: In 2002 a tugboat crew rescued Forgea, one of these that had been alone at sea for 24 days on an abandoned tanker a dog |
| #4219, aired 2002-12-26 | RE-UP $1600: It's DNA that's been respliced recombinant DNA |
| #4212, aired 2002-12-17 | FROM A TO ALMOST Z $800: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew looks at a picture of Alex on the wall.) Hmmm, that picture is offending my aesthetic sensibilities; it's slightly this, but I'll fix it askew (awry accepted) |
| #4208, aired 2002-12-11 | PEN NAMES $1600: "I have no mouth, and I must scream" that this science fiction writer has been Jay Solo & Paul Merchant Harlan Ellison |
| #4202, aired 2002-12-03 | IRS STUFF $600: If you've been selected for one of these, the IRS cheerfully informs you that many of them result in refunds an audit |
| #4198, aired 2002-11-27 | THANKSGIVING AT ALEX'S HOUSE $400: (Having been banished from the kitchen, Jimmy joins Alex at the TV to deliver the clue.) While dinner is being fixed, Alex & I are watching this NFL team that played more Turkey Day games than any other
Alex: "They really miss Joe Schmidt and Alex Karras." Detroit Lions |
| #4190, aired 2002-11-15 | EVERYBODY LOVES RAIMENT $1200: This fur of a weasel that turns white in winter has been seen on royal raiment for centuries ermine |
| #4180, aired 2002-11-01 | MUSICAL "UP"s & "DOWN"s $800: (Hi, I'm KC of KC and the Sunshine Band.) My band's first No. 1 hit was this song that's been featured in a Budweiser ad & in Eddie Murphy's "Dr. Dolittle" "Get Down Tonight" |
| #4169, aired 2002-10-17 | THE ARABIAN NIGHTS $1000: The genie that the fisherman released had been bottled up by this king, the son of David Solomon |
| #4163, aired 2002-10-09 | THE THIRD CATEGORY $800: The rear third of this human organ is called the root; the rest is the body part that "wags" tongue |
| #4162, aired 2002-10-08 | FILE UNDER "H" $2000: Largely through the efforts of Clive Cussler, this Confederate sub that sank with its crew in 1864 has been recovered C.S.S. Hunley |
| #4151, aired 2002-09-23 | ODD WORDS $1600: This word that rhymes with rough is used for the skin of a snake that's been cast off slough |
| #4141, aired 2002-09-09 | UNREAL ESTATE $2000: In "A Streetcar Named Desire", it's the name of Blanche & Stella's family plantation that, sadly, has been lost Belle Reve |
| #4135, aired 2002-07-19 | IT'S BEEN FUN $400: The Old Absinthe House has been on Bourbon St. in this city for so long that even Oscar Wilde used to drink there New Orleans |
| #4135, aired 2002-07-19 | IT'S BEEN FUN $800: Stars shoot by when you ride this roller coaster-in-the-dark that made its Disney World debut in 1975 Space Mountain |
| #4135, aired 2002-07-19 | IT'S BEEN FUN $1200: Poppy-shaped juglets that may have once held opium await us at this big 5th Ave. art museum's new Cypriot Galleries the Metropolitan Museum of Art |
| #4130, aired 2002-07-12 | NEWER WORDS & PHRASES $200: Yeah, yeah, I'm sure you know they're the two words that complete the phrase "Been there..." "...done that" |
| #4128, aired 2002-07-10 | HAIL TO THE CHIEF $1,200 (Daily Double): His wife's name, Hannah, was also spelled J-A-N-N-E-T-J-E, Dutch for Hannah Martin Van Buren |
| #4124, aired 2002-07-04 | ALCATRAZ-A-MATAZZ $200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew gets put in her place on Alcatraz.) From the Latin for "alone", it's the type of cell I've been put into, either for punishment or for my own protection solitary |
| #4120, aired 2002-06-28 | LITERARY FIRST LINES $2000: 1843: "True!--nervous--very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad?" The Tell-Tale Heart |
| #4117, aired 2002-06-25 | JUST ADD WALTER $800: Add Walter between J. & Thompson to get a name that's been on a major one of these firms since 1878 advertising |
| #4113, aired 2002-06-19 | STONEHENGE $800: In the 17th Century John Aubrey wrongly opined that Stonehenge had been built by these Celtic priests Druids |
| #4112, aired 2002-06-18 | THAT SHOULD BE BULLFROG $400: The fringed-lipped species of this flying mammal eats frogs, & the bullfrog has been known to eat the flying mammals bats |
| #4107, aired 2002-06-11 | SOMETHING'S FISHY $1600: Until one was caught in 1938, it was thought that this fish had been extinct for more than 70 million years the coelacanth |
| #4104, aired 2002-06-06 | YOUR INITIAL RESPONSE IS CORRECT $10,000 (Daily Double): This postal abbreviation of the "Old Line State" has been doctored MD |
| #4102, aired 2002-06-04 | NAME THAT POPE $1000: In 1964 this pope canonized 22 Christian Ugandan martyrs killed in the 19th century Paul VI |
| #4098, aired 2002-05-29 | 5 PEOPLE WHO'VE NEVER BEEN IN MY KITCHEN $400: Regis could tell you that this woman played Kathie Honey on "Hee Haw Honeys" Kathie Lee Gifford |
| #4091, aired 2002-05-20 | ON A PRINCESS CRUISE $400: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew takes her place as captain of the ship.) It's my turn to take over steering the boat or take the, this wheel or helm |
| #4090, aired 2002-05-17 | JUST TO THE RIGHT $1200: At the start of a chess game, it's your piece just to the right of the white king bishop |
| #4087, aired 2002-05-14 | THEY'VE BEEN BENCHED $2000: The only appointment Coolidge made, he was so rock solid that FDR made him chief Justice Stone |
| #4079, aired 2002-05-02 | I'M IN "SEVENTH" HEAVEN $1000: Released in 1957, this film was based on the play "Tramalning" that had also been written by the director The Seventh Seal |
| #4068, aired 2002-04-17 | FRANKS & BEENS $2000: Since the '70s this gold medal-winning runner has been a driving force in the long-distance running boom Frank Shorter |
| #4057, aired 2002-04-02 | BIBLICAL RULERS $400: Deut. 19:15--You need this minimum number of witnesses to establish that a crime has been committed 2 |
| #4038, aired 2002-03-06 | "AZ" I WAS SAYING... $400: It's been said that their capital Tenochtitlan was the largest city at the time of the Spanish conquest the Aztecs |
| #4034, aired 2002-02-28 | THIS IS TAO $2000: Founded by Li Hongzhi, this movement that uses Taoist ideas has been branded "an evil cult" by the Chinese govt. Falun Gong |
| #4018, aired 2002-02-06 | IS SAID $400: Herman Melville has been quoted as saying, "Life's a voyage that's homeward" this bound |
| #3984, aired 2001-12-20 | CHRISTMAS POTPOURRI $400: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew delivers the clue.) The Christmas tune I'm about to sing is based on this song that may have been written by Henry VIII:
"What child is this, who laid to rest on Mary's lap is sleeping?" "Greensleeves" |
| #3946, aired 2001-10-29 | PRO FOOTBALL $600 (Daily Double): 2 of the 3 cities that had been home to the team now called the Titans (2 of 3) Houston, Memphis & Nashville |
| #3946, aired 2001-10-29 | EGGS-ACTLY $800: Chinese cooking has extremes of Egg Foo Yung & this dish of duck eggs that have been buried for a long while thousand/hundred-year-old eggs |
| #3940, aired 2001-10-19 | ACTORS & THEIR FILMS $200: Clint Eastwood directed & starred in this 2000 film that could have been called "Grumpy Old Astronauts" Space Cowboys |
| #3931, aired 2001-10-08 | IN THE DICTIONARY $800: It's the act of shaving one's head, or the part of a monk's head that has been shaved tonsure |
| #3925, aired 2001-09-28 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $100: During his March 4, 1905 inauguration, this "Rough Rider" wore a ring that had been worn by Abraham Lincoln Teddy Roosevelt |
| #3910, aired 2001-09-07 | THE WRITINGS OF WOODY ALLEN $500: In "If the Impressionists Had Been Dentists", this man writes to Theo that Gauguin is disturbed & drinks Lavoris Van Gogh |
| #3899, aired 2001-07-12 | ARCHAEOLOGY $400: The 1978 discovery of footprints in Tanzania showed that hominids may have been doing this 3.6 million years ago walking upright |
| #3882, aired 2001-06-19 | HAIL TO THE CHIEF $300: In his 1805 inaugural, he said, "I know that the acquisition of Louisiana has been disapproved by some" Thomas Jefferson |
| #3870, aired 2001-06-01 | CHARACTER REFERENCE $400: Beatty is the captain of the firemen in this futuristic novel that's been inflaming readers since June 1953 Fahrenheit 451 |
| #3861, aired 2001-05-21 | 01/01/01 $100: On January 1, 2001 Detroit mayor Dennis Archer opened one of these that had been sealed January 1, 1901 Time capsule |
| #3859, aired 2001-05-17 | I SEE TENNESSEE $1000: In 1925 he told a Tennessee court, "I feel that I have been convicted of violating an unjust statute" John Scopes |
| #3846, aired 2001-04-30 | REALLY BAD DATES $400: A few hours after the announcement that this country had been formed, it was attacked by Egypt & Lebanon on May 15, 1948 Israel |
| #3828, aired 2001-04-04 | WHERE THERE'S A WILL $800: This "All That Jazz" director left $25,000 so friends could buy a dinner on him -- must've been some meal Bob Fosse |
| #3804, aired 2001-03-01 | WORD TO THE CHEF $300: This French term refers to food that has been strained & blended to a smooth consistency purée |
| #3804, aired 2001-03-01 | WORD TO THE CHEF $400: 5-letter word for a male chicken that's been "fixed" a capon |
| #3801, aired 2001-02-26 | HAWAII $600: One of the "Big Island"'s biggest thrills is flying in a helicopter over this volcano that's been erupting since 1983 Kilauea |
| #3798, aired 2001-02-21 | PERSHING $200: In 1919 Pershing was made General of the Armies, a rank that had been created for this man George Washington |
| #3785, aired 2001-02-02 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $500: 1 of 2 capes in North Carolina that have been designated national seashores Hatteras & Lookout |
| #3776, aired 2001-01-22 | WE'RE OFF TO SEA $100: To get underway we'll "weigh" this large metal device that's been holding our ship in place Anchor |
| #3771, aired 2001-01-15 | PIG LIT $400: This author wrote about Piglet, a toy that had been a gift to his son from a neighbor A.A. Milne |
| #3763, aired 2001-01-03 | FUN DATES $200: It's been said that birds choose their mates on this holiday Valentine's Day |
| #3746, aired 2000-12-11 | INAUGURAL ADDRESSES $400: "Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed..." John F. Kennedy |
| #3741, aired 2000-12-04 | A VIRGIL VIGIL $100 (Daily Double): Virgil praised the Hellenism of this Italian "New City" that had been founded by the Greeks Naples (Neapolis) |
| #3734, aired 2000-11-23 | THE HISTORY CHANNEL $1000: Patriot discussed in the following clip
"He had been a failure in everything that he did, until the revolution; his father gave him a lot of money..." Samuel Adams |
| #3716, aired 2000-10-30 | TONY BENNETT'S SONGBOOK $800: I sang "Rags To Riches" in this Scorsese picture that could have been called "Bad Guys" Goodfellas |
| #3699, aired 2000-10-05 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: In this novel, Capt. Ahab says his men have been hired to "chase that white whale on both sides of land" "Moby Dick" |
| #3697, aired 2000-10-03 | THE SOLAR SYSTEM $400: It's been estimated that this planet contains about 70% of all the material in the solar system, excluding the sun Jupiter |
| #3682, aired 2000-09-12 | THE GRIDIRON $400 (Daily Double): [Hi, I'm Franco Harris, Hall of Fame running back of the Pittsburgh Steelers] In the 1972 playoff game against the Oakland Raiders, I caught a miraculous, game-winning pass that's been nicknamed this "The Immaculate Reception" |
| #3674, aired 2000-07-20 | HAM $100: This brand has been jokingly called "ham that failed its physical" Spam |
| #3673, aired 2000-07-19 | ALASKA $800 (Daily Double): One of the 3 mottos that have been featured on regular Alaskan license plates "The Last Frontier", "The Great Land", or "North to the Future" |
| #3641, aired 2000-06-05 | HE WAS IN THAT? $400: He hadn't been to "Waterworld" yet when he was seen as the man in the alley in "Frances" with Jessica Lange Kevin Costner |
| #3636, aired 2000-05-29 | MY MAINE MAN $200: A huge baseball fan, this author built a ballpark in Bangor that's been dubbed the "Field of Screams" Stephen King |
| #3634, aired 2000-05-25 | SIMON SAYS $500: In an 1815 letter:
"The bonds that united us to Spain have been severed" Simon Bolivar |
| #3630, aired 2000-05-19 | GEORGIA $1000: Seen here, he was president when Georgia became independent, but was then deposed Zviad Gamsakhurdia |
| #3616, aired 2000-05-01 | "EZ" DOES IT $100: It's the crime of stealing money that has been entrusted to one's care embezzlement |
| #3595, aired 2000-03-31 | DOWN TO EARTH $100: It's the next line north of the Equator that has been named as well as numbered Tropic of Cancer |
| #3584, aired 2000-03-16 | THE SWEET 1600s $100: William Harvey showed that this organ is the center of circulation, not the liver as had been thought Heart |
| #3582, aired 2000-03-14 | "Mc" MOVIE STARS $600: It's been claimed that this actress who played Mammy in "GWTW" was the first black woman to sing on American radio Hattie McDaniel |
| #3577, aired 2000-03-07 | DANCE $1,000 (Daily Double): It's been said that this Tony-winning dancer, born in 1973, is to tap "what Charlie Parker is to jazz" Savion Glover |
| #3574, aired 2000-03-02 | NAME THAT FLICK $100: 1984:
"All my life I've been waiting for someone, and when I find her, she's a fish" Splash |
| #3574, aired 2000-03-02 | NAME THAT FLICK $200: 1946:
"I suppose it'd been better if I'd never been born at all" It's A Wonderful Life |
| #3570, aired 2000-02-25 | IT'S "ALL" $800: It's been the motto of the New York Times since 1896 "All The News That's Fit To Print" |
| #3563, aired 2000-02-16 | STRICTLY BUSINESS $200: It's an itemized list of a firm's goods that have not yet been sold Inventory |
| #3558, aired 2000-02-09 | SCIENCE CLASS $100: This word can mean to weaken a solution by adding water, or can describe a solution that's been weakened Dilute |
| #3545, aired 2000-01-21 | THE SWINGIN' '70s $400: This company that had been making rugged boots since 1863 had a new vogue in the '70s Frye |
| #3528, aired 1999-12-29 | TRAVEL U.S.A. $200: Of the Haunted Mansion, the Jungle Cruise or the monorail, the one that's been at Disneyland since opening day Jungle Cruise |
| #3517, aired 1999-12-14 | 4-LETTER CAPITALS $100: It's been said that "All roads lead to" this "Eternal City" Rome |
| #3494, aired 1999-11-11 | OLD EGYPT $1000: We know from people with this job that Prince Khaemwase, a son of Ramses II, had been one too archaeologist |
| #3493, aired 1999-11-10 | HOLLYWOOD HEARTTHROBS $400: Dad would have been proud of this young actor seen here because "He's All That" & more Freddie Prinze Jr. |
| #3488, aired 1999-11-03 | RAGING HORMONES $400: Also called epinephrine, this hormone that's released in emergencies has been used to treat asthma Adrenaline |
| #3485, aired 1999-10-29 | PALINDROMES $200: Classic 3-word palindrome that could have been the world's first introduction "Madam, I'm Adam" |
| #3457, aired 1999-09-21 | 1998 DISCOVERIES $300: Ken Karsmizki discovered a campsite near Great Falls, Mt., dating back to 1805, that may have been this pair's Lewis and Clark |
| #3445, aired 1999-07-23 | THE WRITTEN WORD $400: It's been said that Thoreau was the "American Scholar" that this transcendentalist called for in "The American Scholar" Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| #3438, aired 1999-07-14 | BIRD WORDS & PHRASES $100: Many a slugabed has been reminded that "The early bird catches" this The worm |
| #3438, aired 1999-07-14 | CONTEMPORARY AUTHORS $200: Among the items that have been sold on her website are a Coven party fan & Lestat cologne & wine Anne Rice |
| #3434, aired 1999-07-08 | SAVE THE PRINCE OF WALES $1,500 (Daily Double): Charles honeymooned on this royal yacht that no longer rules the waves; it's been retired Britannia |
| #3416, aired 1999-06-14 | BIOLOGY $400: It's been proposed that sulfate aerosols from these geological phenomena killed off the dinosaurs volcanoes |
| #3409, aired 1999-06-03 | HISTORIC NAMES $600: It's been said that the 1831 Russian capture of Warsaw inspired him to write his C minor etude Frédéric Chopin |
| #3404, aired 1999-05-27 | NUTRITION $400: For proper colon health, it's been suggested that everyone get 20-35 grams per day of this, both soluble & insoluble forms fiber |
| #3392, aired 1999-05-11 | IT ACTUALLY HAS A NAME $800: A flan can be a dessert or a flat one of these that has not yet been stamped a coin |
| #3387, aired 1999-05-04 | MEDIEVAL TECHNOLOGY $600: 12th C. mathematician Bhaskara had an idea for this type of machine that hasn't been made yet Perpetual motion machine |
| #3381, aired 1999-04-26 | BAN THAT BOOK! $800: AKA the "Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure", this 1749 John Cleland work has been frequently suppressed "Fannie Hill" |
| #3357, aired 1999-03-23 | DON'T LISTEN TO THEM! $500: In 1899 Charles Duell, the head of this U.S. "Office" said, "Everything that can be invented has been invented" the U.S. Patent Office |
| #3349, aired 1999-03-11 | ADMIRALS $200: When told that 15 enemy ships had been captured at Trafalgar, he said, "That is well, but I had bargained for 20" Horatio Nelson |
| #3314, aired 1999-01-21 | SUSHI $500: As an appetizer, you may serve this fish dish that's been called "sushi without the rice" Sashimi |
| #3291, aired 1998-12-21 | OH COME ALL YE FAITHFUL $400: A lifelong diehard fan of this college's football team is seen here the University of Nebraska |
| #3282, aired 1998-12-08 | "LAND"s OF THE WORLD $900 (Daily Double): It's the only U.S. state that fits the category Maryland (or Rhode Island) |
| #3279, aired 1998-12-03 | MEDICINE $1000: In the 2nd century, this Greek showed that arteries carry blood, not air as had been thought Galen |
| #3229, aired 1998-09-24 | AND $200: It's often been said of these dancers that she did everything he did, but backwards and in high heels Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers |
| #3220, aired 1998-09-11 | THE 50th ANNUAL EMMY AWARDS $500 (Daily Double): It was here comes the judge when this actor seen here won for his role on this show in 1995:
"I have 30 seconds to tell you that I've been waiting 60 years to get up on this stage..." Picket Fences |
| #3204, aired 1998-07-02 | A GOOD LAUGH $600: Disrespectful laughter, or a popular candy bar Snickers |
| #3195, aired 1998-06-19 | WHO SAID THAT? $600: This psychiatrist said the great question that's never been answered is “What does a woman want?” Sigmund Freud |
| #3191, aired 1998-06-15 | LITERARY OPENINGS $400: "True!-Nervous-very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad?" "The Tell-Tale Heart" |
| #3190, aired 1998-06-12 | ASSASSINATIONS $400: Executed in 1918, this czar has since been made a saint by the Russian Orthodox Church abroad Nicholas II |
| #3188, aired 1998-06-10 | U.S. HISTORY $600: In March 1974 it was announced that the wreck of this Union ironclad had been found off Cape Hatteras, N.C. Monitor |
| #3172, aired 1998-05-19 | MEN IN GREY $400: This nickname that General Barnard Bee gave Thomas Jackson may have been an insult "Stonewall" |
| #3147, aired 1998-04-14 | WORK TIME $100: Specific term for an investigator of insurance claims a claims adjuster |
| #3140, aired 1998-04-03 | THE ROCK $200: Latin for "dug up"; it's the term for ancient plants & animals that have been preserved in sedimentary rock fossils |
| #3133, aired 1998-03-25 | LET'S TALK ENGLISH GOOD $1000: Using this adverb to mean "it is desirable that" has been much debated by writers on language hopefully |
| #3130, aired 1998-03-20 | AIN'T THAT "GRAND" $400: The Republicans had been around less than 30 years when they were dubbed this the Grand Old Party |
| #3129, aired 1998-03-19 | QUOTATIONS $600: It concludes the Sophie Tucker quote that begins, "I've been rich and I've been poor" but believe me, rich is better |
| #3121, aired 1998-03-09 | THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION $400: It may have been James Clinton's brigade that received the surrendered British colors at this town Yorktown |
| #3113, aired 1998-02-25 | TAKE A GUESS $200: Gwilym is the Welsh form of this name that's been popular in England for centuries William |
| #3111, aired 1998-02-23 | NAME THAT NOVEL $400: "There had been earlier drinking than usual in the wine shop of Monsieur Defarge" A Tale of Two Cities |
| #3105, aired 1998-02-13 | THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION $300: It's been said that about 1/3 of all British troops in the colonies were these German mercenaries Hessians |
| #3098, aired 1998-02-04 | FILM NOIR LINGO $100: When Dana Andrews used this term for women in "Laura", he didn't mean they'd been knighted dame |
| #3095, aired 1998-01-30 | PROVERBS $200: It's been joked that "people who live in" these proverbial structures "should undress in the basement" glass houses |
| #3091, aired 1998-01-26 | MOVIES: BEEN THERE, DONE THAT $200: A 1925 dinosaur film based on a Conan Doyle tale or a 1997 dinosaur film based on a Crichton book The Lost World |
| #3091, aired 1998-01-26 | MOVIES: BEEN THERE, DONE THAT $400: "What's Up, Doc?" & "Bullitt" both featured chase scenes through this city San Francisco |
| #3091, aired 1998-01-26 | MOVIES: BEEN THERE, DONE THAT $600: One of these tumbled down the steps in 1925's "Battleship Potemkin" & in 1987's "The Untouchables" Baby carriage |
| #3091, aired 1998-01-26 | MOVIES: BEEN THERE, DONE THAT $800: Stephen Frears in 1988 & Milos Forman in 1989 used this French novel as a basis for their films Les Liaisons dangereuses |
| #3091, aired 1998-01-26 | MOVIES: BEEN THERE, DONE THAT $1000: Harrison Ford lost his in "Frantic"; Kurt Russell lost his in "Breakdown" Wife |
| #3055, aired 1997-12-05 | "G", THAT'S INTERESTING $1000: Known by the acronym "GUT", physicists have been working on it for decades, but may never be able to prove one Grand Unification Theory (or Grand Unified Theory) |
| #3029, aired 1997-10-30 | MORE REDUNDANCY & REPETITION $800: Using "from" before this word that means "from where" has been called redundant whence |
| #3018, aired 1997-10-15 | AMERICAN HERSTORY $200: It's been said that in 1776 she put 5-pointed stars on the U.S. flag because they were easier to cut Betsy Ross |
| #3014, aired 1997-10-09 | HEY, WHAT'S COOKING $500: Term for whole wheat berries that have been steamed, dried & cracked; they're found in tabbouleh bulgur |
| #3009, aired 1997-10-02 | SAY "WH"? $300: It makes the sound heard here: Whippoorwill |
| #3008, aired 1997-10-01 | FOODS THAT BEGIN WITH THE LETTER "Q" $400: It's a tortilla that's been filled, folded & fried quesadilla |
| #3008, aired 1997-10-01 | FOODS THAT BEGIN WITH THE LETTER "Q" $800: This yellow-skinned fruit has been used for centuries in jams & jellies quince |
| #3006, aired 1997-09-29 | ARTISTS $200: It's been estimated that this Cubist created more than 100,000 works during his 91 years Pablo Picasso |
| #2984, aired 1997-07-17 | HODGEPODGE $300: Some speculate that he may have been poisoned on St. Helena by arsenic in his wallpaper Napoleon |
| #2967, aired 1997-06-24 | INTERNATIONAL CUISINE $300: Cuitlacoche, a Mexican delicacy, comes from the ears of this that have been attacked by Ustilago Maydis fungus corn |
| #2958, aired 1997-06-11 | INTERNATIONAL ACTORS $1000: He must have been "Breathless" when he was elected president of the French Actors Union in 1963 Jean-Paul Belmondo |
| #2955, aired 1997-06-06 | HISTORIC NAMES $1,500 (Daily Double): They were the parents of England's Queen Elizabeth I Henry VIII & Anne Boleyn |
| #2928, aired 1997-04-30 | HODGEPODGE $1000: Nickname of the team that won the 1997 NCAA men's basketball title Wildcats |
| #2922, aired 1997-04-22 | NUTS $300: Most of these "spreading" American trees have been killed by a disease that started near New York City in 1904 Chestnut |
| #2911, aired 1997-04-07 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: In 1990 his "Stranger in a Strange Land" was reissued with 60,000 words that had been cut from the original Robert Heinlein |
| #2907, aired 1997-04-01 | "FOOL"ISH SONGS $600: This question precedes "Who never fell in love, it seems that I'm the only one that I have been thinking of" "What Kind Of Fool Am I?" |
| #2893, aired 1997-03-12 | BIBLICAL FATHERS & SONS $500: When informed that this king & his son Jonathan had been killed, David said, "How are the mighty fallen" Saul |
| #2888, aired 1997-03-05 | ART CLASS $1,000 (Daily Double): Artist material seen here in a form that's been made for over 2,000 years ink |
| #2881, aired 1997-02-24 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1000: In 1975 200 U.S. Marines recaptured this merchant ship that had been seized by Cambodia Mayaguez |
| #2880, aired 1997-02-21 | TRAVEL & TOURISM $200: This Washington D.C. theater has been restored to appear as it did on the night of April 14, 1865 Ford's Theater |
| #2878, aired 1997-02-19 | THE 1980s $200: In 1988 it was revealed that Joan Quigley, one of these, had been advising Nancy Reagan for years astrologer |
| #2863, aired 1997-01-29 | MOST STRESSFUL JOBS $400: No. 7 is this job that's been held by a Cooper, a Shepard & a Schweickart astronaut |
| #2827, aired 1996-12-10 | 19TH CENTURY SCIENCE $1,000 (Daily Double): 1883 saw the debut of alloy steel & 1884 this first synthetic fiber Rayon |
| #2825, aired 1996-12-06 | HOMOPHONIC PAIRS $400: A squash that's been pierced by a bull's horn gored gourd |
| #2777, aired 1996-10-01 | NOTABLE WOMEN $2,500 (Daily Double): Half of the Secretaries of Health & Human Services have been women, including this Clinton appointee Donna Shalala |
| #2755, aired 1996-07-19 | WOMEN OF THE WORLD $1000: After defecting in 1970, this ballerina said that staying in the Soviet Union would have been "artistic death" Natalia Makarova |
| #2752, aired 1996-07-16 | QUOTATIONS $200: In "The Descent of Man", this naturalist wrote, "I would have soon been descended from that heroic little monkey" Charles Darwin |
| #2741, aired 1996-07-01 | JACKS $2,000 (Daily Double): Star whose theme is heard here in an unusual version by Spike Jones: Jack Benny |
| #2714, aired 1996-05-23 | CHILDREN'S LIT $1000: R.L. Stine has been sending chills up children's spines with this series of books that debuted in 1992 Goosebumps |
| #2707, aired 1996-05-14 | SCIENTISTS $400: This naturalist's "On the Origin of Species" has been referred to as "The Book that Shook the World" Darwin |
| #2698, aired 1996-05-01 | SUPERSTITIONS $200: Some say you can cure a toothache by chewing on a piece of wood that's been struck by this lightning |
| #2661, aired 1996-03-11 | THE ELEMENTS $1000: This element that hardens steel has been used to plate auto bumpers & trim chromium |
| #2639, aired 1996-02-08 | "J" FOOD FILE $1000: It's a sweetened & flavored pudding of milk that's been curdled by rennet junket |
| #2621, aired 1996-01-15 | FOOD & DRINK $300: A chimichanga is one of these Mexican food items that's been fried, filling & all a burrito |
| #2571, aired 1995-11-06 | RHYME TIME $500: An all-important bet a major wager |
| #2562, aired 1995-10-24 | SICKNESS & HEALTH $200: The Salk & Sabin vaccines have been so successful that this disease has been eradicated in the Americas polio |
| #2522, aired 1995-07-18 | AMERICAN HODGEPODGE $200: In jest it's been called "a state that has 10,000 lakes and 1,000 fish" Minnesota |
| #2448, aired 1995-04-05 | MONEY MATTERS $400: Estimates say that for 1994 nearly 25% of new vehicles will have been obtained in this way, not purchased leasing |
| #2412, aired 1995-02-14 | TEENS IN HISTORY $400: He was a student in what is now Albania when he learned that his great-uncle Julius Caesar had been killed Octavian (Augustus) |
| #2409, aired 1995-02-09 | ENDS IN "END" $400: Part of a deal that hasn't yet been completed a loose end |
| #2403, aired 1995-02-01 | MAGAZINES $200: "Jeopardy!" is one of the shows that's been cheered in this weekly's "Cheers 'n' Jeers" column TV Guide |
| #2367, aired 1994-12-13 | POP MUSIC $400: Glen Campbell hit that begins, "I've been walkin' these streets so long, singin' the same old song" "Rhinestone Cowboy" |
| #2362, aired 1994-12-06 | EUROPE $600 (Daily Double): Albert II has been king of this country since August 9, 1993 Belgium |
| #2355, aired 1994-11-25 | MOUNTAINS $600: It's been said that more climbers have died on this peak than any other in the Swiss Alps The Matterhorn |
| #2348, aired 1994-11-16 | POLITICAL QUOTATIONS $1000: In 1987 this German chancellor said, "I have been underestimated for decades. I've done very well that way" Helmut Kohl |
| #2346, aired 1994-11-14 | QUOTATIONS $500: Konrad Adenauer defined this subject as "the sum total of things that could have been avoided" History |
| #2344, aired 1994-11-10 | 5-LETTER WORDS $200: It's the sharp sound of a whip or thunder crack |
| #2342, aired 1994-11-08 | THE ALPS $200: This 150-200 lb. dog that's been saving people in the Alps for 300 years got its name in 1880 the St. Bernard |
| #2338, aired 1994-11-02 | THE BIBLE $400: This gospel could have been called Levi, as that was his other name Matthew |
| #2316, aired 1994-10-03 | PHOBIAS $300: Gamophobia is a fear of this institution that's been called "not a word but a sentence" marriage |
| #2295, aired 1994-07-22 | FOOD FACTS $400: It's the usual term for a 6-to 8-lb, rooster that's been gelded & fattened a capon |
| #2290, aired 1994-07-15 | SAINTS $200: Legend said that this woman of Magdala had been betrothed to St. John the Apostle Mary Magdalene |
| #2284, aired 1994-07-07 | ODD WORDS $100: An elflock is a lock of this that looks like it's been tangled by elves hair |
| #2276, aired 1994-06-27 | CASTLE ARCHITECTURE $400: What was once a term for the living quarters became this word for the castle's prison the dungeon |
| #2266, aired 1994-06-13 | ANIMALS $300: Named for its long beak, it's the species of dolphin that's been studied most the bottle-nosed dolphin |
| #2257, aired 1994-05-31 | QUOTATIONS $300: It's been described as "an animal that ruined its shape trying to get through the eye of a needle" a camel |
| #2245, aired 1994-05-13 | LITERARY POTPOURRI $200: Near the end of this novel, Passepartout discovers that the trip could have been made in just 78 days Around the World in Eighty Days |
| #2245, aired 1994-05-13 | COMIC BOOKS $300: "The Witching Hour" is among her novels that have been adapted into comics Anne Rice |
| #2233, aired 1994-04-27 | POTPOURRI $400: This word that describes Uncle Ben's Rice means that it's been parboiled converted |
| #2214, aired 1994-03-31 | FRANKLIN PIERCE $600: At 48, Pierce was the youngest president to that time; he'd been a member of this body at 32 the U.S. Senate |
| #2206, aired 1994-03-21 | INTERNATIONAL CUISINE $200: A Japanese specialty, it's fish and/or vegetables that have been batter-dipped & deep-fried tempura |
| #2201, aired 1994-03-14 | QUOTES $2,000 (Daily Double): "We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves", she wrote in "Adam Bede" George Eliot |
| #2190, aired 1994-02-25 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: In this Melville novelette, a young sailor is hanged for killing a jealous petty officer named Claggart Billy Budd |
| #2159, aired 1994-01-13 | FIRST NAMES $200: Actor-director Welles might have been able to tell you that this name means "little bear" Orson |
| #2153, aired 1994-01-05 | NUMBER, PLEASE $500: Number of sides on home plate 5 |
| #2139, aired 1993-12-16 | RHYME TIME $100: A precious metal that's been around a while old gold |
| #2118, aired 1993-11-17 | THE MIDDLE AGES $200: It lasted so long that it should have been called the "116 Years War" 100 Years War |
| #2104, aired 1993-10-28 | NOTORIOUS $400: President Carter stated that he thought this doctor had been unjustly convicted in the Lincoln assassination Dr. Mudd |
| #2104, aired 1993-10-28 | THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE $1000: Saying that peace had not been achieved, this North Vietnamese negotiator turned down the 1973 prize Le Duc Tho |
| #2093, aired 1993-10-13 | BROADWAY MUSICALS $1,500 (Daily Double): Popular TV star heard here in a 1959 musical:
"I've always been shy / I confess that I'm shy / Can't you guess that this confident air / Is a mask that I wear 'cause I'm shy" Carol Burnett |
| #2070, aired 1993-09-10 | TRAGIC LOVE $800: Incorrectly believing that this love had been killed, Pyramus took his own life Thisbe |
| #2060, aired 1993-07-16 | ZOOLOGY $400 (Daily Double): Fossils indicate that this stinging arthropod may have been the first and animal scorpion |
| #2055, aired 1993-07-09 | MEDICINAL PLANTS $400: Although toxic, lily of the valley & oleander are plants that have been used to regulate this organ the heart |
| #2054, aired 1993-07-08 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $200: This character is "the greatest inventor and maker of chocolates that there has ever been" Willy Wonka |
| #2036, aired 1993-06-14 | THE TEN COMMANDMENTS $400: The tablets & this chest that housed them may have been destroyed with Solomon's temple in 587 B.C. the Ark of the Covenant |
| #2034, aired 1993-06-10 | ANIMALS $100: When these marsupials are babies, they eat eucalyptus leaves that have been predigested by their mothers a koala |
| #2015, aired 1993-05-14 | POP & ROCK MUSIC $2,000 (Daily Double): This group won 3 1992 Billboard Music Awards for the single heard here Boyz II Men |
| #2014, aired 1993-05-13 | GORILLAS $600: Locals called this naturalist a name meaning "The old lady who lives alone in the forest without a man" Dian Fossey |
| #2004, aired 1993-04-29 | '60s FADS & FASHIONS $100: They could have been called Jawaharlal jackets, but that might have been hard to pronounce Nehru jackets |
| #1995, aired 1993-04-16 | AUTHORS $1000: He claimed that he finished "Answered Prayers", but the complete manuscript has never been found Truman Capote |
| #1976, aired 1993-03-22 | PRESIDENTIAL TRIVIA $400: He was returning from Potsdam when he heard that the first A-bomb had been dropped on Japan Truman |
| #1957, aired 1993-02-23 | THE MIDDLE AGES $400: The years 1347 to 1350 may have been the "darkest" days of this disease that devastated Europe the black death |
| #1955, aired 1993-02-19 | SIGNS & SYMBOLS $900 (Daily Double): 2 common office machines that feature both of the following symbols:
* # computers and typewriters |
| #1943, aired 1993-02-03 | "EX" MARKS THE SPOT $500: Prohibited by the Constitution, it's a law that makes an act criminal after it's already been committed ex post facto |
| #1932, aired 1993-01-19 | THE EARTH $500: Triggered by earthquakes, these destructive sea waves have been known to travel at nearly 500 mph tsunami |
| #1929, aired 1993-01-14 | FORMS OF ADDRESS $2,000 (Daily Double): If Walter Mondale had won in 1984, his running mate's form of address would have been this Madam Vice President |
| #1918, aired 1992-12-30 | HAIL TO THE CHIEF $2,700 (Daily Double): He was the last of 3 presidents to serve in 1881 Arthur |
| #1908, aired 1992-12-16 | DANCE $100: Ballerinas under age 11 shouldn't dance in these shoes that have been called "satin thorns" toe shoes |
| #1904, aired 1992-12-10 | SONGS OF THE '60s $200: Question in "Mrs. Robinson" that precedes "a nation turns its lonely eyes to you (woo woo woo)" "Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio?" |
| #1903, aired 1992-12-09 | ANTHROPOLOGY $400: In 1971 it was reported that a primitive people, the Tasaday, had been discovered on Mindanao in this country the Philippines |
| #1897, aired 1992-12-01 | HISTORIC HOMES $1000: A house that belonged to U.S. Sec'y of State James G. Blaine has been home to this state's govs. since 1919 Maine |
| #1896, aired 1992-11-30 | FURNITURE $200: In the 18th cen. these furniture extremities were often carved to look like a rat's claw holding a ball feet (foot) |
| #1886, aired 1992-11-16 | ANAGRAMS $300: Soon after I'd risen, I heard the wailing of this siren (risen) |
| #1880, aired 1992-11-06 | EUROPEAN HISTORY $200: The Congress of Vienna gave this country 3 more cantons that had been under French control Switzerland |
| #1875, aired 1992-10-30 | DON'T "CALL" US $300: It's the appearance of a performer after the play in response to applause a curtain call |
| #1861, aired 1992-10-12 | SCULPTURE $2,000 (Daily Double): It has been suggested that Donatello's bronze statue of this biblical hero is actually of Mercury David |
| #1833, aired 1992-07-15 | ANIMALS $400: It's been speculated that the Aztecs bred ancestors of this small dog breed the Chihuahua |
| #1826, aired 1992-07-06 | ASTRONOMY & SPACE $800: It's long been suggested that Pluto is actually an escaped satellite of this planet Neptune |
| #1806, aired 1992-06-08 | RECYCLING $100: Because a yellow dye has been found that washes out, some of these directories are now recyclable the yellow pages (telephone books) |
| #1794, aired 1992-05-21 | THE BILL OF RIGHTS $5,500 (Daily Double): This state's Declaration of Rights was the model for our first 10 amendments Virginia |
| #1788, aired 1992-05-13 | U.S. HISTORY $400: The War of 1812 ended in this year 1815 (*1814) |
| #1770, aired 1992-04-17 | ODDS & ENDS $500: From the French for "small", in needlepoint a small stitch is this type of point petit |
| #1754, aired 1992-03-26 | NAME THE PLAY $400: Danny Zuko,
Betty Rizzo &
Sandy Dumbrowski Grease |
| #1725, aired 1992-02-14 | POT LUCK $600: It's been said that he who plants this tropical fruit tree "plants food & drink. vessels & clothing" a coconut tree |
| #1713, aired 1992-01-29 | FAMOUS COUPLES $400: In 1989 it was announced that the bones of this czar & czarina had been found in a pit in 1979 Nicholas & Alexandra |
| #1707, aired 1992-01-21 | INTERNATIONAL CUISINE $400: Chines markets sell "hundred-year-old" ones of these that have been preserved with lime & ashes eggs |
| #1700, aired 1992-01-10 | NEWFOUNDLAND $600: This cold, desolate mainland region of Newfoundland has been called "The Land that God Gave Cain" Labrador |
| #1700, aired 1992-01-10 | BIOLOGY $6,000 (Daily Double): The pinna is the external part of this sensory organ ear |
| #1699, aired 1992-01-09 | LOS ANGELES $400: L.A.'s Century City district is built on land once part of this movie studio's back lot 20th Century |
| #1682, aired 1991-12-17 | RECONSTRUCTION $1,800 (Daily Double): His son was compensated for his Arlington estate that had been turned into a cemetery Robert E. Lee |
| #1663, aired 1991-11-20 | LEGAL LINGO $800: Literally "body of the crime", it's the material evidence of the fact that a crime has been committed corpus delicti |
| #1656, aired 1991-11-11 | LAKES & RIVERS $800: It's been estimated that this lake in Siberia contains as much water as the Baltic Sea Baikal |
| #1635, aired 1991-10-11 | LOUISIANA $500: The state's first railroad was begun in 1831 by a company named for this large lake Lake Pontchartrain |
| #1635, aired 1991-10-11 | ARCHAEOLOGY $800: Ruins of Mayan temples & palaces have been found at Tikal in this country that borders Belize Guatemala |
| #1615, aired 1991-09-13 | THE CIVIL WAR $200: It broke away from Virginia over the issue of secession in 1861 & became the 35th state in 1863 West Virginia |
| #1594, aired 1991-07-04 | FAMOUS QUOTES $800: Broadway composer who said, "Many a bum show has been saved by the flag" George M. Cohan |
| #1562, aired 1991-05-21 | THE SUN $800: Another name for the sun or the name of the Roman equivalent of the Greek sun god Helios Sol |
| #1542, aired 1991-04-23 | WORLD CAPITALS $1,700 (Daily Double): While many new cities have been made capitals, this is the only world capital that starts with "New" New Delhi |
| #1507, aired 1991-03-05 | POCAHONTAS $600: A mantle that may have been worn by this man, her father, is at Oxford's Ashmolean Museum Powhatan |
| #1494, aired 1991-02-14 | TEENS IN HISTORY $800: He was a student in Appolonia when he heard that his great-uncle Julius had been assassinated Octavius |
| #1492, aired 1991-02-12 | NO. 1 HITS $500: It "Could've Been" that she had a No. 1 hit in 1988, & it was Tiffany |
| #1491, aired 1991-02-11 | IN THE NEWS $3,000 (Daily Double): 2 of the 5 senators called "The Keating 5" for their alleged links to the Lincoln S&L owner (2 of) *John Glenn, **Alan Cranston, Dennis DeConcini, Donald Riegle & John McCain |
| #1489, aired 1991-02-07 | SOAP $100: This company that merged with Palmolive after WWI has been making soap since 1806 Colgate |
| #1479, aired 1991-01-24 | FAMOUS WOMEN $100: It's been said that she "doles out sexual advice like good hot chicken soup" Dr. Ruth Westheimer |
| #1473, aired 1991-01-16 | THE CONFEDERACY $400: This song that had been written for the minstrel stage became the Confederacy's unofficial anthem "Dixie" |
| #1469, aired 1991-01-10 | FRUIT $100: Because half of its weight is sugar, this palm fruit has been called the candy that grows on trees a date |
| #1461, aired 1990-12-31 | "CAPTAIN"S $300: Captain Bligh wouldn't tell the Tahitians that this English explorer had been killed in Hawaii Captain Cook |
| #1459, aired 1990-12-27 | NATURE $200: Evidence has been found that proves these largest mammals once had hind legs & feet the blue whales |
| #1458, aired 1990-12-26 | NURSERY RHYMES $400: Question that precedes, "I've been to London to look at the queen" "Pussy cat, pussy cat, where have you been?" |
| #1453, aired 1990-12-19 | NAME'S THE SAME $100: A grain of the grass family that's been cultivated for some 5,000 years, or a university in Houston rice |
| #1444, aired 1990-12-06 | HATS $100: Named for a Philadelphia hatter, it's been called the hat that crowned the West the Stetson |
| #1425, aired 1990-11-09 | YEARS $800 (Daily Double): Age in years of the man being interviewed in the following:
"By the way, sir, uh, are you married?"
"I have been married several hundred times."
"I'm afraid to ask the next question. You've had many hundreds of wives."
"Hundreds and hundreds of wives."
"How many children do you have?"
"I have over forty-two thousand children. And not one comes to visit!" 2000 |
| #1413, aired 1990-10-24 | NATIONAL LANDMARKS $300: The only mountain in Colorado that's been designated a national landmark Pikes Peak |
| #1410, aired 1990-10-19 | BIRDS $500 (Daily Double): A chicken bearing this state's name is its official bird Rhode Island |
| #1408, aired 1990-10-17 | SEE THE USA $300: California town with an Indian name that's been popularized as standing for everything from "A to Z" in the USA Azusa |
| #1404, aired 1990-10-11 | GOLF $100: To alert other golfers that a ball has been hit in their direction, shout this traditional warning Fore! |
| #1404, aired 1990-10-11 | YES, NEBUCHADNEZZAR $400: As reported in the Bible, Nebuchadnezzar had Nebuzaradan destroy this city & its temple Jerusalem |
| #1402, aired 1990-10-09 | SCIENCE $100: Term for the sound produced by the expansion of air that's been heated by lightning thunder |
| #1378, aired 1990-09-05 | GARDENING $500: In ads for this product, Stern's shows record-size vegetables that have been grown using it Miracle-Gro |
| #9, aired 1990-08-11 | PRESIDENTS $1000: His sudden death in 1923 led some to believe that he had been poisoned by his wife Harding |
| #3, aired 1990-06-30 | OPERA $500: It's been said of this tenor that "(he) made the gramophone & the gramophone (made him)" Caruso |
| #1353, aired 1990-06-20 | FASHION $200: In ancient times the women of this country wore the peplos, a tunic secured at the waist by a girdle Greece |
| #1343, aired 1990-06-06 | HISTORIC NAMES $1000: This 2nd century Greek anatomist 1st demonstrated that arteries carry blood, not air as had been earlier thought Galen |
| #1308, aired 1990-04-18 | 1962 $100: Rumors surfaced among Cubans in America that this premier had remarried, but they've never been confirmed Fidel Castro |
| #1280, aired 1990-03-09 | WORLD POLITICS $500: The country that in recent years has been called Kampuchea has changed its name back to this Cambodia |
| #1272, aired 1990-02-27 | THE MIDDLE AGES $3,000 (Daily Double): This French dynasty that began in 987 may have been named for the cloak that King Hugh wore as an abbot The Capetian Dynasty |
| #1269, aired 1990-02-22 | VOWELS $400: These 2 vowels have been cast as human blood types; that makes them typecast A & O |
| #1267, aired 1990-02-20 | POETS $1,000 (Daily Double): 20th century American poet heard here, reading one of his own works:
"With a Dutchman, I went once to Rembrandt Square, and down to Zanfra too. I should have stayed & spent my lifetime on that beach. I might have been a sailor, singing songs to myself only, or to a friend in Amsterdam..." Rod McKuen |
| #1266, aired 1990-02-19 | FOOD $400: This deli item is corned beef that's been rubbed with pepper & spices, smoked & then steamed pastrami |
| #1262, aired 1990-02-13 | VOLCANOES $100: Magma that reaches the earth's surface is called this Lava |
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Lisa Johnston, a fourth and fifth grade reading and religion teacher from East Boston, Massachusetts
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"She teaches at a parish that's focus is to dream big....
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Curtis Joseph, a sophomore from Scottsdale Community College
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"In 1999, his nickname was 'Curtles the Troll', and he wanted...
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Robin Quivers, a radio and television personality from The Howard Stern Show
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"Howard Stern's news anchor and sidekick for the past 28 years,...
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Julie Bowen, a TV and film actress from Boston Legal, Lost and Modern Family
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"For two seasons, she played attorney Denise Bauer in Boston Legal....
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Vinita Kailasanath, a recent college graduate originally from Laurel, Maryland
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2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2005 Ultimate Tournament of...
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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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Anderson Cooper, an anchor from CNN's Anderson Cooper 360°
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"As a baby, he was photographed by Diane Arbus of Harper's...
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Nicole Yoon, a 12-year-old from Asbury, New Jersey
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"She has set her sights on becoming a medical doctor or...
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Frank Spangenberg, a police lieutenant from Douglaston, New York
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2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2005 Ultimate Tournament of...
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Ryan Fenster, a banker from SeaTac, Washington
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2019 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 34 7-time champion: $156,497...
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Vincent Valenzuela, an internal customer service manager from Wheaton, Illinois
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Season 35 player (2018-09-25). Season 34 player (2018-07-13). Vincent returned to...
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Lance Johnson, a model aircraft engine technician from Champaign, Illinois
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"He was the first to get to the 5-win mark in...
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Ashley Wilson, an organization development consultant from Alexandria, Virginia
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Season 32 2-time champion: $52,402 + $1,000. Ashley returned to the...
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Tom Morris, a substitute teacher and grad student from Irvine, California
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2009 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 24 4-time champion: $100,801...
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Rebecca Zoshak, a language specialist from State College, Pennsylvania
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Season 34 1-time champion: $14,407 + $2,000. Rebecca returned to the...
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Sally Umbach, a third grade special education teacher from Cincinnati, Ohio
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"She teaches at a school district that has been in operation...
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Christopher Chilton, a sophomore at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from Holly Springs, North Carolina
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2005 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. Christopher won $5,000 on Who Wants...
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Wil Curiel, an 11-year-old from Costa Mesa, California
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"His favorite subject is science, so it's not surprising that this...
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Francesca Leibowitz, a fifth grade English teacher from Brooklyn, New York
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"She teaches at a school that opened in 1854. From Brooklyn...
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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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Stephanie Hull, a graduate student of philosophy from Columbia, Missouri
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Season 31 player (2015-03-12). Stephanie's ending score of -$6,800 was the...
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David McIntyre, a twelve-year-old from Riverside, California
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"When this Boy Scout was young, he thought that running from...
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David Duchovny, an actor from Californication
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"He's won two Golden Globes and stars as troubled novelist Hank...
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Jason Zollinger, an engine assembler from South Dayton, New York
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2010 Tournament of Champions 1st runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $100,000. Season...
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Brian Weikle, a consultant from Minneapolis, Minnesota
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Nifty Nine (players with byes into...
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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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Christine Valada, a photographer and attorney originally from Walton, New York
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2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $68,703...
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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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Stefan Goodreau, a video game tester and camp counselor from Los Angeles, California
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2010 Tournament of Champions 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $50,000. Season...
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Dave Belote, the base commander from Nellis Air Force Base, Las Vegas
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2010 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 26 5-time champion:...
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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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Marty Scott, an assistant district attorney from Forney, Texas
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Season 26 3-time champion: $64,002 + $2,000. Marty won $250,000 on...
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Inta Antler, a retired computer programmer from Scarborough, Ontario, Canada
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Season 25 1-time champion: $12,700 + $2,000. Inta Antler - A...
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Francois Dominic Laramée, a writer and TV personality from Verdun, Quebec, Canada
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Season 25 2-time champion: $46,300 + $1,000. Francois's name was printed...
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Tom Toce, an actuary from New York, New York
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Season 26 2-time champion: $39,200 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
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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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A.J. Schumacher, a radio show production intern from St. Paul, Minnesota
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Season 25 1-time champion: $10,800 + $2,000. AJ Schumacher Saint Paul,...
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Amy Wilson, a creative writing and women's studies student originally from Portland, Oregon
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Season 26 1-time champion: $19,999 + $2,000. Not to be confused...
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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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Alison Stone Roberg, an administrative assistant from Kansas City, Missouri
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Season 26 3-time champion: $85,102 + $2,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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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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Ryan Chaffee, a tutor from Los Angeles, California
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2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $91,900...
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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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Carl Brandt, an investor originally from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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2009 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 25 4-time champion: $70,799...
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Alyssa McRae, a gift card production designer from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Season 25 3-time champion: $50,402 + $2,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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Kara Spak, a newspaper reporter from Chicago, Illinois
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2011 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 27 5-time champion:...
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Andy Davis, a Chyron operator from South Boston, Massachusetts
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Season 25 2-time champion: $49,799 + $1,000. Andy Davis - A...
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Ingrid Nelson, a judicial assistant from Lake Mills, Wisconsin
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Season 25 2-time champion: $27,802 + $2,000. Ingrid Nelson - A...
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Andy Srinivasan, a high school science teacher from Garner, North Carolina
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2010 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $69,600...
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Tom Nissley, an online books editor from Seattle, Washington
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2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2011 Tournament of Champions...
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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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Paul Wampler, a web programmer from Knoxville, Tennessee
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Season 27 4-time champion: $72,001 + $2,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: paul5562
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Dan Jensen, a restaurant manager from Reston, Virginia
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Season 27 3-time champion: $58,203 + $1,000.
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Carolyn Young, a homemaker from Marietta, Georgia
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Season 25 1-time champion: $30,000 + $2,000. Mother of Season 32...
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Buddy Wright, an operations engineer from Fort Worth, Texas
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2011 Tournament of Champions 2nd runner-up: $50,000. Season 26 4-time champion:...
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Celeste DiNucci, a recent graduate student from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2014 Battle of the Decades...
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David Skaar, a research scientist from Raleigh, North Carolina
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Season 25 3-time champion: $102,000 + $2,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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Kori Tyler, a high school teacher from Cordova, Tennessee
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Season 26 player (2010-02-26). Season 25 1-time champion: $20,000 + $2,000....
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Kerri Regan, a senior from Bethpage, New York
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2005 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500. 17 at the time of the...
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Brenton Montie, a sixth grade social studies teacher from South Lyon, Michigan
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"He teaches at a school ranked in the top 5% in...
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Aaron Wicks, a planning and evaluation manager from Rochester, New York
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Season 26 1-time champion: $18,001 + 1,000. Aaron Wicks Rochester, NY...
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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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Eric Betts, a senior from Emory University
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2009 College Championship first runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $50,000. 21 and...
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Lea Tottle, a junior from Florida State University from Oldsmar, Florida
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2010-B College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000 + a Nintendo Wii +...
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Matt DeTura, a recent law school graduate from Washington, D.C.
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Season 27 3-time champion: $61,601 + $2,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: MDT
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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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Jason Richards, a pharmacy technician from Old Town, Maine
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2006 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
Season 22 4-time champion: $99,200 + $2,000.
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Jesse Cuevas, a corporate lawyer originally from Leawood, Kansas
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Season 27 3-time champion: $65,981 + $2,000. Brother of Season 30...
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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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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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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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Emily Heaney, a freelance costume designer from White Bear Lake, Minnesota
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Season 25 1-time champion: $2,200 + $1,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Jennifer Duann, a senior from the Ohio State University
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2009 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 21 and from Worthington, Ohio at...
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Charles Shaughnessy, an actor from Mad Men
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"As Shane Donovan on Days of Our Lives, he won three...
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Anthony Fox, an account executive from Arlington Heights, Illinois
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Season 27 4-time champion: $51,998 + $1,000. Playing as "Tony", Anthony...
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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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Michael Dupée, an attorney from Gainesville, Florida
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"He was the winner of the 1996 Tournament of Champions. Today...
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Enrique Machado, an oil filtration business developer from Orlando, Florida
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Season 26 1-time champion: $30,799 + $2,000. Enrique Machado September 16,...
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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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Brian Muth, a headmaster from Napa, California
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Season 25 2-time champion: $43,800 + $1,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Tara Franey, a senior from Michigan State University
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2008 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: tarafraney
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Susan Haarman, a sophomore at Marquette University from Louisville, Kentucky
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2001 College Championship quarterfinalist: $2,500. Susan was 19 at the time...
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Laura Hughes, a mom from New Market, Maryland
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Season 26 1-time champion: $27,500 + $2,000. Wife of Season 16...
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Sanders Kleinfeld, a publishing technology specialist from Cambridge, Massachusetts
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Season 25 1-time champion: $26,597 + $2,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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Gary Bechtold, a garage door company owner from St. Cloud, Minnesota
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Season 26 3-time champion: $42,001 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Stephen Weingarten, a paraeducator from Portland, Oregon
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2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $96,690...
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Scott Turow, a bestselling novelist and practicing attorney from Chicago, Illinois
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"He's sold more than 25 million copies of his novels worldwide...
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Nathaniel Barnes, a composer and bartender from Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Season 25 3-time champion: $57,300 + $2,000. In his first game,...
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Patrick Quinn, a high school German teacher from Chesterfield, Missouri
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"He teaches at a school whose history goes back to a...
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Elyse Mancuso, a junior from Omaha, Nebraska
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2012 Teen Tournament winner: $79,600. 16 at the time of the...
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Rachel Pildis, a software developer from Oak Park, Illinois
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Season 26 1-time champion: $12,000 + $2,000. Rachel Pildis - A...
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Sandra McClellan, a granny nanny from Arlington, Texas
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Season 27 1-time champion: $4,199 + $2,000.
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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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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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Lindsay Eanet, a senior from the University of Missouri
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2010-A College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. Hometown: Deerfield, Illinois. Last name pronounced...
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Jason Zollinger, an engine assembler from South Dayton, New York
|
2010 Tournament of Champions 1st runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $100,000. Season...
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Cathy Lanctot, a law professor from Wilmington, Delaware
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2007 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD Home...
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Mitchell Vogel, from Madison, Wisconsin
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"This future governor of Wisconsin enjoys rollerblading, reading, and playing saxophone....
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Vito Cortese, a software engineer and Italian translator from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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Season 27 3-time champion: $68,485 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Bruce Naegeli, a retired law librarian from Phoenix, Arizona
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"He finished second in the 1988 Tournament of Champions. A retired...
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Alex Stambaugh, a 12-year-old from Paris, Kentucky
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"He feels he can use his talents in math and science...
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Amanda Sonmor, a virtual assistant originally from Denver, Colorado
|
Season 27 2-time champion: $21,501 + $1,000.
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Tom Nissley, a writer from Seattle, Washington
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2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2011 Tournament of Champions...
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Kerry Breitenbach, a marketing analyst from Cleveland, Ohio
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2006 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 21 5-time champion: $90,400...
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Leslie Shannon, a manager of a research lab from Sydney, Australia
|
"A recent art history graduate when she became Jeopardy! champion in...
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Stephen Weingarten, a stay-at-home dad from Portland, Oregon
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2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $96,690...
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Fred Cofone, a copy editor from Old Greenwich, Connecticut
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Season 27 2-time champion: $24,400 + $2,000.
Last name pronounced like "kuh-FONE".
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Jeff Kirby, a math and science teacher from Santa Maria, California
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Season 26 player (2009-10-12). Season 16 player (1999-12-08). Jeff returned to...
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Jeff Kirby, an elementary school teacher from Santa Maria, California
|
Season 26 player (2009-10-12). Season 16 player (1999-12-08). Jeff returned to...
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Monica Thieu, a sophomore at the University of North Texas from Dallas, Texas
|
2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2019 All-Star Games member of...
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Brooks Humphreys, a high school social studies teacher from Omaha, Nebraska
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"He teaches at an all-girls Catholic school operated by the Sisters...
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Alex Johnson, an 11-year-old from Indianapolis, Indiana
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"He wants to be a chemist in the future. From Indianapolis,...
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Matt Jacobs, a science teacher originally from Stratford, Connecticut
|
Season 25 1-time champion: $10,323 + $1,000. Matt resided in Silver...
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Alan Bailey, a playwright and director from Sherman Oaks, California
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 2003 Tournament...
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Amy Fletcher, a junior from Cincinnati, Ohio
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2005 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500.
16 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Chris Rodrigues, a personal banking representative from New Bedford, Massachusetts
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Season 26 3-time champion: $41,498 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Justin Waters, a resident physician from Royal Oak, Michigan
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Season 25 1-time champion: $7,199 + $2,000. Justin Waters Royal Oak,...
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Mark Dawson, a business manager from Chamblee, Georgia
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"In 2003, he became the first to win a quarter of...
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Dan Pawson, a legislative aide from Boston, Massachusetts
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2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2014 Battle of the Decades...
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Roger Craig, a computer scientist from Newark, Delaware
|
2019 All-Star Games member of wildcard-match 2nd-place Team Austin: a share...
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Joon Pahk, a college physics teacher from Somerville, Massachusetts
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2011 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000.
Season 28 7-time champion: $199,000 + $2,000.
JBoard user name: jpahk
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Andrew Van Duyn, a junior from Wheaton, Illinois
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2011 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 16 at the time of the...
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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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John Krizel, a green community program coordinator from Beckley, West Virginia
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2011 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $105,204...
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Ari Stern, a mathematician from San Diego, California
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Season 27 1-time champion: $17,201 + $1,000.
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Roger Craig, a graduate student of computer science 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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Stefan Goodreau, a video game tester from Los Angeles, California
|
2010 Tournament of Champions 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $50,000. Season...
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Tyler Allard, a senior from Garrett Park, Maryland
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2003 Teen Tournament first runner-up: $28,400.
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Scott Gillispie, a project manager and expectant father from Atlanta, Georgia
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"While attending Georgia Tech, he won the 1991 College Championship. Now...
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Ryan Holznagel, a writer originally from Forest Grove, Oregon
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"He was the winner of the 1995 Tournament of Champions. Now,...
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India Cooper, a copy editor from Madison, Indiana
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\"She was an actor and copy editor in New York City...
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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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Neil Patrick Harris, an actor from How I Met Your Mother
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"He's received critical acclaim on Broadway and on TV, and his...
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Harry Shearer, an actor/writer/producer from The Simpsons and Le Show
|
"His many credits include providing voices for The Simpsons, and he's...
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Peter Severson, a senior from Sioux Falls, South Dakota
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2005 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $5,000. 17 at the time of the...
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Kate Wilson, a high school AP English teacher from Montgomery, Alabama
|
"She is a top-10 AP English language teacher at Alabama's number-one...
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Dave Abbott, a musician and licensing executive from Fort Thomas, Kentucky
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"He won the 1999 Tournament of Champions. A musician and licensing...
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Sandra Gore, a corporate researcher from Berkeley, California
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"After five wins in 1987, she fulfilled her dream of moving...
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Jenifer Thomas, a teacher assistant from Jacksonville, North Carolina
|
Season 26 1-time champion: $13,400 + $2,000. Jenifer Thomas October 5,...
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Paul Glaser, a research scientist from Albany, New York
|
2007 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD Home...
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Michael Blake, a 12-year-old from Hamburg, New York
|
"Our top story tonight is this young man, who wants to...
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Christopher Short, a pub trivia editor from Crawfordsville, Indiana
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2011 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 27 6-time champion: $94,752...
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David Faber, an anchor and reporter from CNBC's Squawk on the Street and The Faber Report
|
"The winner of Emmy, Peabody, DuPont, and Loeb awards, he's a...
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Al Franken, an author and radio talk show host from New York City
|
"One of the original writers on Saturday Night Live, he's done...
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Cerulean Ozarow, an 11-year-old from Brooklyn, New York
|
"His future is full of options. He wants to become either...
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Brittany Rogers, a sophomore at Saddleback College from Lake Forest, California
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2001 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $5,000. Brittany was 18 at the...
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Craig Barker, an Advanced Placement history teacher from Livonia, Michigan
|
"In 1997 he won the College Championship. Today he's an Advanced...
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Don Meals, an environmental scientist from Burlington, Vermont
|
Season 27 3-time champion: $42,599 + $2,000.
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Ellen Kimmel, a school nurse from Nanuet, New York
|
Season 27 2-time champion: $37,000 + $1,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: SkoolRN
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Jeff Spoeri, a university administrator from Boynton Beach, Florida
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2007 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD...
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Donna Vogel, a scientist from Bethesda, Maryland
|
2009 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 24 4-time champion:...
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Dana Delany, an actress from Kidnapped
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"She won two Emmys for playing Army nurse Colleen McMurphy on...
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Caitlin Cook, a sophomore from Arden, North Carolina
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2005 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $5,000.
16 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Whitney Prince, a sophomore from Maryville, Tennessee
|
2005 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500.
15 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
|
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Mike Nelson, a mechanical engineer from Geneva, Illinois
|
Season 27 2-time champion: $20,800 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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Jake Houser, a 12-year-old seventh grader from Aptos, California
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"And this straight-A student would like to become a geneticist so...
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Larry Cloud, a bookkeeper and computer consultant from Inglewood, California
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"He won five times in 2001, allowing him to make a...
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Andrew Goldfein, a 12-year-old from Lincolnwood, Illinois
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"He likes to argue and help people, so it's off to...
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Emma Couture, a twelve-year-old from St. Petersburg, Florida
|
"Here's a portrait of a smart young girl who sees her...
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Lindsey Thiesfeld, a sophomore from Clarendon Hills, Illinois
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2011 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
16 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Tony Nagatani, a junior at Ithaca College from Honolulu, Hawaii
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2001 College Championship quarterfinalist: $2,500. Tony was 20 at the time...
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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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Jelisa Castrodale, a sportswriter from Winston-Salem, North Carolina
|
Season 27 1-time champion: $39,399 + $1,000.
Name pronounced like "jell-EES-ah KASS-tro-dale".
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Tom Jennings, a maintenance mechanic from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
|
Season 27 1-time champion: $24,000 + $2,000.
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Elizabeth Perkins, an actress from Big and Weeds
|
2009 Celebrity Jeopardy! player: $25,000 to the New England Learning Center...
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Christopher Meloni, an Emmy-nominated actor from Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
|
"He's played challenging roles on both sides of the law, including...
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Jared Rothenberg, an 11-year-old from Houston, Texas
|
"When he's not on the mound, he's warming up in the...
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Mark Eckard, a software designer from Bedford, Massachusetts
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 winner: $35,600. 2001 Tournament...
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Neha Gokhale, a 10-year-old from Houston, Texas
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"Because she liked 4th and 5th grade so much, she wants...
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Lindsey Hargrove, a senior at the University of Texas from Bellaire, Texas
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2004 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
Mother's Jeopardy! Message Board user name: collegemom
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Kelley Burd, a junior at West Virginia University from Bristol, West Virginia
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2004 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000.
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Erin Hart, a junior from Benton Harbor, Michigan
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2011 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000. 16 at the time of the...
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Margaret Monroe, a junior from South Plainfield, New Jersey
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2002 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500. Margaret was 16 at the time...
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Tom Hartmann, a junior from San Antonio, Texas
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2001 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500.
17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Lan Djang, a business analyst from Toronto, Canada
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Elite Eighteen (Round 2 winners) member:...
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Jayanth Iyengar, a junior at Washington University in St. Louis from Madison, Wisconsin
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2005 College Championship 2nd runner-up: $25,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: Jiyen1213
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Lynne Wexler, a librarian from Evanston, Illinois
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"She was the first 5-time champion in 1991. A librarian from...
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John Matthews, a senior from Escondido, California
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2003 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $5,000.
17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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James Hill III, a freshman from Santa Clara University
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2010-A College championship semifinalist: $10,000. Hometown: San Jose, California. [No contestant...
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Lindsey Nicolai, a junior from Hampton, Virginia
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2007 Teen Tournament Summer Games quarterfinalist: $5,000. 17 at the time...
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Rachel Beckman, an 11-year-old from Danville, Kentucky
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"As a member of her school's academic team, she has no...
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Meredith Dedopoulos, a 12-year-old from Durham, New Hampshire
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"This spelling bee champion has also won many sports awards. From...
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Josh Lacey, a 10-year-old from Ellicott City, Maryland
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"The International Olympic Committee does such good work, he would like...
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Tiffany Wen, a 12-year-old from Exton, Pennsylvania
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"This figure skater is also on the distinguished honor roll. From...
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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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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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Jason Pratt, a middle school history teacher from Woodbridge, Virginia
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Season 25 2-time champion: $32,701 + $1,000. Jason Pratt - A...
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Nate Austin, a student from Hutchinson Community College
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"His original plan was to own a chain of international hotels...
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Leszek Pawlowicz, a shovel bum from Flagstaff, Arizona
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"He was a material scientist living in Phoenix when he won...
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Ben Bishop, a student originally from Seattle, Washington
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2009 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 25 4-time champion: $114,800...
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Jennifer Broders, a junior high school social studies teacher from Stockton, Iowa
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Season 26 2-time champion: $59,801 + $1,000. Jennifer Broders - a...
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Kimberly Jantz, an attorney from Tulsa, Oklahoma
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Season 26 1-time champion: $22,200 + $2,000. Kimberly Jantz - an...
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Meryl Federman, a senior from Livingston, New Jersey
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2007 Teen Tournament Summer Games champion (semifinalist by wildcard): $75,000. 18...
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Tom Walsh, a writer from Washington, D.C.
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Nifty Nine (players with byes into...
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Colby Burnett, a high school world history teacher from Chicago, Illinois
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\"He teaches at a school started by the Dominicans of St....
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Dmitry Spivak, a junior from Northwestern University
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"The 11-year-old wasn't really kidding when he said he wanted to...
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Mark Born, a musician, writer and teacher from Bangkok, Thailand
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\"He was the top winner of the 1990-91 season. He\'s a...
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Tyler Van Patten, from Burlington, Wisconsin
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"He's focusing on becoming a corporate attorney, because of his fascination...
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Victoria Agrinya, a 12-year-old from Woodbridge, Virginia
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"She would like to be a successful entrepreneur when she grows...
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Emily Karrs, a junior from Gibsonia, Pennsylvania
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2002 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $5,000. Emily was 16 at the time...
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Andy Kravis, a freshman from Farmington Hills, Michigan
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2002 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $5,000. Andy was 13 at the...
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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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Jaime Green, a sophomore at Brown University from Nanuet, New York
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2001 College Championship quarterfinalist: $2,500. Jaime was 18 at the time...
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Saad Hasan, a nanotechnology scientist from Nashville, Tennessee
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Season 26 1-time champion: $22,700 + $2,000. Saad Hasan Nashville, TN...
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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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Carol Denny, a writer for a non-profit environmental foundation from Arnold, Maryland
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Season 27 1-time champion: $13,199 + $1,000.
Identical twin sister of Season 29 player Chris O'Toole.
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Mike Scott, an eleven-year-old from Lake Villa, Illinois
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"He really likes doing challenging projects in school, but hates doing...
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James Erwin, a writer from Des Moines, Iowa
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Season 25 2-time champion: $22,598 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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Michael McKean, a Grammy winner, Oscar nominee and multi-talented performer from Hairspray and The Pajama Game
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"This multi-talented performer is a Grammy winner and Oscar nominee and...
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Vijay Balse, a chemical engineer from Chatham, New Jersey
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2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2010 Tournament of Champions...
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Regina Robbins, an arts teacher from New York, New York
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2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $90,700...
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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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Dean Malec, a junior from Northwestern University
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2007 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. 21 at the time of the...
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Jane Kaczmarek, a TV, film and Broadway actress from Malcolm in the Middle and Raising the Bar
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"She went from playing a hard-nosed mom in Malcolm in the...
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Michael Glick, a 12-year-old from Smithtown, New York
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"He's in math honors this year, even though math is one...
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Soledad O'Brien, a broadcast journalist from CNN's American Morning
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"This broadcast journalist has covered stories all over the world. Since...
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Nicole Tantoco, a 12-year-old from San Ramon, California
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"She has two simple dreams: to attend Stanford and then become...
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Rachel Horn, a sophomore from Cincinnati, Ohio
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2008-A Teen Tournament winner: $75,000. 15 at the time of the...
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Matt Drury, a government analyst from New York, New York
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Season 26 1-time champion: $18,799 + $2,000. Matthew Drury - A...
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Bernard Holloway, a sophomore at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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"He was a 2002 Teen Champion. He's now a sophomore at...
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Rachael Schwartz, a lawyer from Washington, D.C.
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"In 1994, she was the first female winner of a Tournament...
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Yevgeny Shrago, a research assistant originally from Rochester, New York
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Season 26 1-time champion: $24,600 + $2,000. Name pronounced like "yev-GHEN-ee...
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Craig Westphal, a paramedic from Tucson, Arizona
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2007 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD Home...
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Christine Carrino Gorowara, a teacher educator from Wilmington, Delaware
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Season 25 2-time champion: $43,202 + $1,000. Wife of Season 26...
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Lisa Klink, a TV writer from Los Angeles, California
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2009 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 24 5-time champion: $70,150...
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Doug Savant, an actor from Desperate Housewives
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"He plays Tom Scavo, the sometimes-befuddled husband of Felicity Huffman on...
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Allyson Lieberman, a 12-year-old from Whitmore Lake, Michigan
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"Since she was little, she has truly loved to act. Broadway,...
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Brad Selvig, a sophomore at Florida State from Jacksonville, Florida
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2004 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000.
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Kate Dzurilla, a 12-year-old from Syosset, New York
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"It's a slam dunk for this basketball lover and future WNBA...
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Jessica Dell'Era, a third grade Spanish bilingual teacher from Oakland, California
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"She has wanted to be a teacher since she was 7...
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Zack Terrill, a senior at Vanderbilt University from Winter Springs, Florida
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2012 College Championship 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $25,000. 21 at...
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Kevin Marshall, a student from Metairie, Louisiana
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2006 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 22 6-time champion: $98,201...
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Nico Martinez, a college junior from Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
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2006 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2005 College Champion: $100,000 +...
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Sara Wilkinson, a country club concierge from Athens, Georgia
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Season 27 3-time champion: $72,701 + $2,000.
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Joey Beachum, an Air Force intelligence officer from Conway, Arkansas
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2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2008 College Championship winner: $100,000...
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Diane Trap, a librarian and graphics specialist from Athens, Georgia
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Season 25 1-time champion: $21,400 + $1,000. Diane Trap - a...
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Marissa Goldsmith, a web developer from Springfield, Virginia
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Season 27 3-time champion: $44,100 + $2,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: marteena
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Travis Troyer, a software engineer from Hereford, Maryland
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2003 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 19 5-time champion:...
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Andy Hutchins, a senior from Rockledge, Florida
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2007 Teen Tournament Summer Games semifinalist: $10,000. 17 at the time...
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Kate Waits, a law professor at the University of Tulsa from Tulsa, Oklahoma
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"A Harvard Law graduate when she competed in the 1988 Tournament...
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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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Camille Bullock, a senior from New Orleans, Louisiana
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2006 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: Camille88
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Chuck Forrest, an attorney for the UN IFAD from Marino, Italy
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\"In 1986, he was a law student living in Grand Blanc,...
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Carl Bradshaw, a financial manager from St. Louis, Missouri
|
Season 27 2-time champion: $17,899 + $2,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: Titmouse
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Catherine Briley, a senior from Grand Prairie, Louisiana
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2012 Teen Tournament 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $31,000. 17 at...
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Ben Schenkel, a junior from Allentown, Pennsylvania
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2007 Teen Tournament 1st runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $42,800. 17 at...
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Aaron Thompson, a special assistant from Washington, D.C.
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2006 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 21 3-time champion:...
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Neil Patrick Harris, an actor from How I Met Your Mother
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"He's appeared on Broadway in Proof, Assassins, and Cabaret. He's now...
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Claudia Perry, a sports copy editor from Jersey City, New Jersey
|
"A pop music critic when she first appeared on Jeopardy!, she's...
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Bob Harris, an author, comedian, and radio commentator from Los Angeles, California
|
"A 5-time champion and a finalist in the Tournament of Champions,...
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Rachel Rothenberg, a senior from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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2009 Teen Tournament winner (semifinalist by wildcard): $75,000. Jeopardy! Message Board...
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Jim Scott, an attorney from Arlington, Virginia
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"He was a legal assistant living near D.C. when he won...
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Tom Toal, an orthopedic surgeon from Lake Oswego, Oregon
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Season 27 1-time champion: $12,200 + $1,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Ben Lyon, an industrial scaleman from Dallas, Texas
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"Representing the University of Oklahoma, he won the 1995 College Championship....
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Claire Winkler, from Fredericksburg, Virginia
|
"This honor roll student participates on both the year-round and summer...
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Ellen Lewis, a retired high school math teacher from Mount Vernon, New York
|
Season 28 1-time champion: $10,000 + $1,000.
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Elissa Hoffman, a high school biology and anatomy & physiology teacher from Appleton, Wisconsin
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"She is in her lucky 13th year of teaching. From Appleton,...
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Tom Kavanaugh, a kickball team captain from St. Louis, Missouri
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2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2006 Tournament of Champions...
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Adam Pinson, a senior at the University of Alabama at Birmingham from Pinson, Alabama
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2005 College Championship 1st runner-up: $50,000. Won $100,000 on Who Wants...
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Bob Verini, a film journalist and test prep teacher from Los Angeles, California
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"A resident of New York City when he won the 1987...
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Matt Kohlstedt, a grad student originally from La Grange, Illinois
|
2009 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
Season 25 5-time champion: $77,803 + $2,000.
|
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Harry Shearer, a humorist, Spinal Tap bassist, and voice from The Simpsons
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"He recently celebrated the 25th anniversary of This Is Spinal Tap...
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Trevor Norris, a budget analyst from Washington, D.C.
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"He can't walk through the Pentagon without someone mentioning his five...
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Casey Retterer, a sophomore at the University of Maryland from Olney, Maryland
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2004 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
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Ann Thurlow, an aspiring novelist and retired salesperson from Mendham, New Jersey
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Season 28 1-time champion: $26,805 + $1,000.
|
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Mehrun Etebari, a graduate student of international relations from Durham, New Hampshire
|
2007 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD Home...
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Veronica Fazio, from Roselle, Illinois
|
"She dances, plays softball, and hangs with her friends, but wants...
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Madeline Suchard, from Placentia, California
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"She has her sights set on becoming the Supreme Court Justice,...
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Andrew Westney, a sports business writer from Charlotte, North Carolina
|
"He was a high-school student from Atlanta when he won the...
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Dana Delany, an actress from Desperate Housewives
|
"She won two Emmys for her work on China Beach. This...
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Harris Cohen, a family physician from Lower Gwynedd, Pennsylvania
|
Season 25 2-time champion: $17,800 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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Adam Bibler, an economist originally from Lancaster, Ohio
|
Season 27 1-time champion: $12,000 + $2,000.
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Aaron Schroeder, a grad student from San Diego, California
|
2009 Tournament of Champions second runner-up: $50,000. Season 24 5-time champion:...
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Tom Zamojcin, a digital marketing manager from Phoenixville, Pennsylvania
|
Season 27 1-time champion: $22,800 + $2,000.
Last name pronounced like "zam-MOH-chin".
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Loren Loiacono, a senior from Setauket, New York
|
2006 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
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Sean Ryan, a graduate student from Whitehall, Pennsylvania
|
2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Nifty Nine (players with byes into...
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Allison Peña, a junior from Sunrise, Florida
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2006 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
|
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Vanamali Compton, a junior from Clarkdale, Arizona
|
2005 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500. 16 at the time of the...
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Matt Klein, a senior from Pittsford, New York
|
2006 Teen Tournament 2nd runner-up: $15,000. Won $1,000 on Who Wants...
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Allan Long, a freshman from Tallahassee, Florida
|
2005 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500. 14 at the time of the...
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Tina Baybay-Bykov, an AP world history teacher from Orlando, Florida
|
"Ballet used to keep her on her toes. Now it's her...
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Paul Nelson, a Senate staff aide originally from Iowa City, Iowa
|
2013 Tournament of champions semifinalist: $10,000.
Season 29 5-time champion: $54,900 + $2,000.
JBoard user name: PaulNelson2012
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Mark Runsvold, a student and waiter from Moscow, Idaho
|
2011 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000.
Season 27 4-time champion: $153,800 + $1,000.
JBoard user name: markrunsvold
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Matt Olson, a sophomore at Stanford University from Berkeley, California
|
2012 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. 20 at the time of the...
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Sam Leanza, a senior from Laguna Hills, California
|
2012 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 17 at the time of the...
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Jeffrey Gerlomes, a freshman from Napa, California
|
2007 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
14 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
|
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Naren Tallapragada, a junior from Burke, Virginia
|
2008-A Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000. 16 at the time of the...
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Lindsey Bartlett, a junior from Winter Haven, Florida
|
2002 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $5,000. Lindsey was 16 at the time...
|
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Dan Royles, a senior from Chula Vista, California
|
2002 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500. Dan was 17 at the time...
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Graham Gilmer, a senior from Lynchburg, Virginia
|
2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 2001 Teen...
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Logan Bell, a senior from Rock Falls, Illinois
|
2001 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $5,000. 15 at the time of the...
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Jonathan Reinstein, a junior from Dix Hills, New York
|
2001 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $5,000. 17 at the time of the...
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Evan Stewart, a sophomore from Frankfort, Kentucky
|
2002 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $5,000. Evan was 15 at the time...
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Anna Allie, a junior at the University of Michigan at Dearborn from Dearborn, Michigan
|
2005 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000.
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Aman Birk, from Irvine, California
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"He may not be the fastest swimmer on the team, but...
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Lan Djang, a health policy analyst from Toronto, Ontario, Canada
|
"He was a 5-time champion in 2001. Today he's a health...
|
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Dave Willis, a business manager from Ventura, California
|
"He was the first to win five shows in 1992. A...
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John Beck, a creative director from Torrance, California
|
"He played in 2003, and was the last retired 5-time champ...
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Dan Katz, a lawyer from Owings Mills, Maryland
|
"Since his five wins in 1990, he's seen Bruce Springsteen 16...
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Arthur Gandolfi, a commercial real estate executive from Pleasantville, New York
|
2004 Tournament of Champions 2nd runner-up: $25,000. Season 20 4-time champion:...
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Mark McDonnell, a triathlon coach and entrepreneur from Miami, Florida
|
Season 27 1-time champion: $27,601 + $1,000.
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Tory Gilliam, a twelve-year-old from Powhatan, Virginia
|
"As a member of his school's debate team, he likes to...
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Neal Freyman, a ten-year-old from Longmeadow, Massachusetts
|
"He's not sure recess counts as a subject, but if it...
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Anissa Chitour, a ten-year-old from Princeton, New Jersey
|
"Her extracurricular activities include playing violin, playing field hockey and shopping...
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Andy Srinivasan, a high school science teacher from Clayton, North Carolina
|
2010 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $69,600...
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Jonathan Gillerman, a senior from Staten Island, New York
|
2003 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500.
17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
|
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John Zhang, a junior from Lexington, Kentucky
|
2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 2003 Teen...
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Sara Terrell, a veterinary technician from Windsor, Connecticut
|
2007 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD Home...
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Elizabeth Perkins, an actress from Weeds
|
"For the past five seasons, she's played the calculating and manipulative...
|
|
Jonathan Corbblah, a chess teacher from Harlem, New York
|
Season 27 1-time champion: $13,000 + $1,000. Jonathan appeared as a...
|
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Bob Kennedy, a college linguistics instructor from Santa Barbara, California
|
Season 27 2-time champion: $33,800 + $1,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: Bobk
|
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Marshall Flores, a senior from Arizona State University from Avondale, Arizona
|
2010-B College Championship semifinalist: $10,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
|
|
Thulasi Seshan, a 12-year-old from Draper, Utah
|
"The sky is the limit for this future astronomer. From Draper,...
|
|
Folake Dosu, a senior from Stanford University from Bellwood, Illinois
|
2010-B College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
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Sarah Nothnagel, a sophomore from the University of Southern California
|
2007 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 19 at the time of the...
|
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Lisa Ackerman, a senior from Livermore, California
|
2007 Teen Tournament Summer Games wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 17 at the...
|
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Bobby Bretz, an 11-year-old from Bristol, Rhode Island
|
"It's either archaeology or pro baseball for this sports-loving scientist. From...
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Thomas McIntyre, a 12-year-old from Marino Valley, California
|
"This self-proclaimed Star Wars freak, who has earned star rank in...
|
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Suzie Lisky, a 12-year-old from Mendham, New Jersey
|
"She's not sure what she wants to be when she grows...
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John Kelly, a retired Air Force officer from Austin, Texas
|
"In 1992, he was one of the top five money winners...
|
|
Eric Webb, a 12-year-old from Austin, Texas
|
"He wants to be a cartoonist so he can make people...
|
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Grace Veach, a librarian from Lakeland, Florida
|
"After winning 5 games in 1997, she was the grand marshall...
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Regina Merrill, from Lincoln, Nebraska
|
"She's very good at writing stories and poetry, but her love...
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Barbara-Anne Eddy, a civil servant from Vancouver, Canada
|
"Her 5-time winnings from 1988 allowed her to go for nearly...
|
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Rose Schaefer, a junior from Portland, Oregon
|
2012 Teen Tournament 1st runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $36,000. 16 at...
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Larry DeMoss, a high school English teacher from Ellettsville, Indiana
|
"He went from short orders to short stories when he switched...
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Krishna Bharathala, a sophomore from Fremont, California
|
2012 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
15 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
|
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Tavis Smiley, a talk show host from PBS's The Tavis Smiley Show
|
"He's interviewed such diverse personalities as Fidel Castro, Pope John Paul...
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Heidi Fogle, a senior from Overland Park, Kansas
|
2007 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000.
17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Rachel "Steve" Cooke, a senior from Fishers, Indiana
|
2008-A Teen Tournament 1st runner-up: $25,000. 17 at the time of...
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Andy Siegler, a senior from Cinnaminson, New Jersey
|
2001 Teen Tournament 1st runner-up: $15,000.
17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Allie Pape, a sophomore from Ponte Vedra, Florida
|
2002 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500. Allie was 14 at the time...
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Andrew Garen, a project manager from Austin, Texas
|
2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 2001 Tournament...
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Babu Srinivasan, a history professor from Houston, Texas
|
2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2005 Ultimate Tournament of...
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Mysti Kofford, a junior at Boston University from New Orleans, Louisiana
|
2001 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $5,000. Mysti was 19 at the...
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David Rozenson, a lawyer from Newton, Massachusetts
|
2006 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Season 21 3-time champion: $76,000 + $1,000.
|
|
Chris Breen, a sophomore at Princeton University from Springfield, Massachusetts
|
2005 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. According to the official Jeopardy! web...
|
|
Leszek Pawlowicz, a computer consultant from Flagstaff, Arizona
|
"He was the winner of the 1992 Tournament of Champions. Today...
|
|
Billy Baxter, an attorney from Richmond, Virginia
|
"Representing the College of William & Mary, he won the 1992...
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|
Jeremy Bate, an emergency medical technician and writer from Tujunga, California
|
"A second-place finisher in the 2000 Tournament of Champions, he's now...
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Tad Carithers, an attorney from New York City, New York
|
"He finished second in the 2001 Tournament of Champions. Today he...
|
|
Tim Koch, a 12-year-old sixth grader from Cliffwood, New Jersey
|
"He would like to be a teacher because you get to...
|
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Nick Yozamp, a biology student from St. Cloud, Minnesota
|
2010 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 2010-A College Championship winner:...
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Doug Savant, an actor from Desperate Housewives
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"He met and then married his wife while both were costarring...
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Erik Nelson, a grad student originally from Boston, Massachusetts
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2009 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Season 25 4-time champion: $94,404 + $2,000.
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Alice Luo, a junior from Georgia Institute of Technology
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2007 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 20 at the time of...
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Amy Varallo, a senior from Aiken, South Carolina
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2007 Teen Tournament Summer Games quarterfinalist: $5,000. 17 at the time...
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Tad Carithers, an attorney from Atlanta, Georgia
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 winner: $41,300. 2001 Tournament...
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John Beck, an associate creative director from Torrance, California
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 winner: $29,000. 2004 Tournament...
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Rachel McCool, a sophomore at Dickinson College from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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2004 College Championship 2nd runner-up: $25,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: rachel_pi
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Cora Peck, a high school teacher and grad student from Aliso Viejo, California
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2009 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 24 5-time champion:...
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Tom Smolich, a Catholic priest originally from Sacramento, California
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Season 5 player (1989-04-11). Season 6 3-time champion: $39,802. Last name...
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Tom Smolich, a Catholic priest originally from Sacramento, California
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Season 5 player (1989-04-11). Season 6 3-time champion: $39,802. Last name...
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Marcia Edmundson, a high school French teacher from Chesterfield, Virginia
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"In the banking world, she checked credit scores. She's much happier...
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Casey Clough, a junior from Columbia, South Carolina
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2008-B Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Last name pronounced like "CLUE".
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John Krizel, a writer originally from Oceanside, New York
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2011 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $105,204...
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Judi Greenberg, a housewife from Northbrook, Illinois
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Season 4 1-time champion: $3,500. Season 3 player (1987-01-08). Judi was...
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Judi Greenberg, a housewife from Northbrook, Illinois
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Season 4 1-time champion: $3,500. Season 3 player (1987-01-08). Judi was...
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Caleb Olson, a senior from Chariton, Iowa
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2012 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $10,000.
17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Watson, a deep question answering system from IBM
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2011 IBM Challenge winner: $500,000 to World Vision + $500,000 to...
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Ken Jennings, a 74-game champion from Seattle, Washington
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"In 2004, his record-breaking 74-game win streak set a standard for...
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Olivia Woods, a 12-year-old from Cincinnati, Ohio
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"She loves working with little kids and would like to become...
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Tom Morris, a retailer and student from Irvine, California
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2009 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 24 4-time champion: $100,801...
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Nicole Reimer, a junior from Columbus, Ohio
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2001 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500.
17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Paige Feldman, a sophomore from St. Louis, Missouri
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2001 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500. 16 at the time of the...
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Joseph Henares, from Avon, Connecticut
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"Along with group science projects, history club, writing club, and chess...
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Vivian Lappenbusch, a twelve-year-old from Seattle, Washington
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"She finds other people's stories and cultures fascinating, so anthropology is...
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Dave Ellis, a singer-songwriter from Los Angeles, California
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Season 27 1-time champion: $16,000 + $2,000. Not to be confused...
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Jack Weisman, a twelve-year-old from Beachwood, Ohio
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"He's considering becoming a lawyer, just like Mom and Dad. From...
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Bill Dickenson, a college instructor from Richardson, Texas
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"This 5-time champ from 1996 has taught students from over 100...
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Tom Halpern, a lawyer originally from New York, New York
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"A writer and researcher when he won 5 times in 1991,...
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Kyle Hale, a college senior from Katy, Texas
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"Representing Texas A&M, he won the 2002 College Championship. Now he's...
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Robert Slaven, a technical products specialist originally from Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada
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"He won 5 times in 1992. Today, he's a technical products...
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Amy Fine, a part-time teacher from Bethesda, Maryland
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"She was the last 5-time winner in the 1993-94 season. A...
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Samantha Reback, a sophomore from Bethesda, Maryland
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2009 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
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Bonny Jain, a senior from Moline, Illinois
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2009 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
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Keith Williams, a college student from Manchester, Vermont
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 2004 Tournament...
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Sam Daub, an eleven-year-old from Eden Prairie, Minnesota
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"And he finds video games enticing and has made a fantasy...
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Zane Li, a ten-year-old from Provo, Utah
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"He's a chess champion and a two-time Geography Bee winner..." 2002...
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Terry Linwood, a bookseller from North Texas
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2010 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 26 5-time champion: $122,705...
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Roger Mueller-Kim, a high school social studies teacher from Dublin, California
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Season 27 1-time champion: $17,401 + $1,000.
Last name pronounced like "MULL-er KIM".
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Lizz Mullowney, a senior from Crystal Lake, Illinois
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2003 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500. 17 at the time of the...
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Susan Bellenot, a senior from Lakeview Terrace, California
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2003 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500.
17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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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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Daniel Stauss, a federal claims examiner from Seattle, Washington
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Season 25 1-time champion: $25,500 + $2,000. Daniel Stauss - A...
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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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Doug Hicton, a composer originally from Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
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2007 Tournament of Champions 1st runner-up: $100,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD...
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Nick Dnistrian, an 11-year-old from Webster, New York
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"With a nickname like Elvis, this future chemist is already the...
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Deborah Slattery, a homemaker from New Orleans, Louisiana
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Season 22 2-time champion: $28,300 + $2,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: The Bee
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Sara Jansson, a 10-year-old from Monmouth Junction, New Jersey
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"She wants to become a singer because she loves music so...
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Josh DenHartog, an actuarial technician from Thousand Oaks, California
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"He was the Teen Tournament champion in 1997. Now he's an...
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Roy Holliday, a radiologist from Nyack, New York
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"He was the first to win five games in the 1987-88...
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Phil Yellman, a legal assistant from Seattle, Washington
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"He was an office worker from Albuquerque when he won his...
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Kenny Schlax, a junior from Deerfield, Illinois
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2006 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Listed as "Kenneth" on the official web site.
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Mike Thayer, a mathematics teacher from North Plainfield, New Jersey
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"He was a junior at Rutgers University when he won the...
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Ken Jennings, the winner of 74 consecutive games from Seattle, Washington
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2020 Jeopardy!: The Greatest of All Time winner: $1,000,000 + a...
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India Cooper, an actor and copy editor from New York, New York
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\"She became a 5-time champion in 1991. An actor and copy...
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Ken Jennings, a writer from Seattle, Washington
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• 74-game champion with longest winning streak • Total earnings over...
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Ryan Fenster, a graduate student from SeaTac, Washington
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2019 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 34 7-time champion: $156,497...
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Pam Mueller, an entering law student originally from Chicago, Illinois
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\"Representing Loyola University, she won the College Championship in November, 2000....
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Patrick Dillon, an elementary music teacher from Huntington, New York
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"He teaches music at a school that has been nationally recognized...
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Charley Tinkham, an eighth grade history and technology teacher from San Bruno, California
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"He teaches at a school that has been named a California...
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Anthony Trifilio, a construction worker from Brooklyn, New York
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Season 19 1-time champion: $8,000 + $2,000. Season 18 1-time champion:...
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Theo Schiller, a school librarian originally from North Fork, California
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Season 4 player (1988-01-22 & 1988-03-08). Theo was returned to the...
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Dominic Olivera, a twelve-year-old from Bristow, Virginia
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"Oh, good heavens! He wants to be a priest when he's...
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Sara Leiber McKinney, a teacher originally from Yonkers, New York
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Season 5 player (1989-03-27). Sara was returned to the show in...
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Zach McDonnell, a freshman at the College of William and Mary from Harrisonburg, Virginia
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2012 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000.
18 at the time of the College Championship.
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Sarah Bauer, a junior at Indiana University from Carmel, Indiana
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2012 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 21 at the time of the...
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Richard Finch, an attorney from Dearborn Heights, Michigan
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Season 19 player (2003-07-14). Season 18 player (2002-02-26). Richard was returned...
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Kathy Fuller, a graduate student from Baltimore, Maryland
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Season 6 player (1990-04-05). Season 5 player (1989-04-17). Kathy was brought...
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Gretchen Carlson, a journalist from the CBS Saturday Early Show
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"Since winning the 1989 Miss America crown, she's built an extensive...
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Caroline Bartman, a senior from Washington, D.C.
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2007 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000.
17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Bob Woodward, an assistant managing editor from The Washington Post
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2004 Power Players Week player (2004-05-10).
Charity: Sidwell Friends School.
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Lara Logan, a correspondent from 60 Minutes on CBS
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"Her bold, award-winning reporting has earned her a prominent spot among...
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Seveen Kannankara, a junior from Bergenfield, New Jersey
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2002 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500. Seveen was 15 at the time...
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Ken Jennings, a writer from Seattle, Washington
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"He was a software engineer living in Salt Lake City, Utah,...
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Ryan Moore, a partner in a start-up company from Venice, California
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2001 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $5,000.
Season 17 5-time champion: $39,800 + a Corvette.
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Cindy Stowell, a science content developer from Austin, Texas
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Season 33 6-time champion: $103,803 + $2,000. Cindy died 2016-12-05, before...
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Richard Finch, an attorney from Dearborn Heights, Michigan
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Season 19 player (2003-07-14). Season 18 player (2002-02-26). Richard was returned...
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Anthony Trifilio, a construction worker from Brooklyn, New York
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Season 19 1-time champion: $8,000 + $2,000. Season 18 1-time champion:...
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Kathy Fuller, a graduate student from Baltimore, Maryland
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Season 6 player (1990-04-05). Season 5 player (1989-04-17). Kathy was brought...
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Robin Carroll, an instructional designer and curriculum developer from Atlanta, Georgia
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"She was a research assistant when she won the Tournament of...
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Steve Robin, a writer and producer from Miami, Florida
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"He finished second place in the 1991 Tournament of Champions. He's...
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Leslie Frates, a Spanish teacher from Hayward, California
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"A Jeopardy! tournament veteran, her best-known Jeopardy! appearance may be in...
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Eric Terzuolo, a retired diplomat and university professor from Bergen, Noord-Holland, the Netherlands
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"When he first appeared in 1990, he was a foreign service...
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Val Nieman, a college professor and writer from Greensboro, North Carolina
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Season 21 player (2005-01-05).
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Christine Valada, a photographer and attorney originally from Walton, New York
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2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $68,703...
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Eureka Nutt, a paralegal from Canoga Park, California
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Season 27 2-time champion: $38,701 + $1,000.
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Jennifer Quinn, an assistant to the principal from Riverdale, New York
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Season 20 player (2004-02-02).
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Geoff Moore, a screenwriter from Los Angeles, California
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Season 25 2-time champion: $55,201 + $1,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: GHMoore
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Adam Bock, a 13-year-old from St. Louis, Missouri
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"We're pretty sure that he's the only one of our contestants...
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Parker Norton, a 12-year-old from Knoxville, Tennessee
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"As a doctor treating infectious diseases, he hopes to heal others....
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Anna Han, a sophomore from Penn State University
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2007 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 19 at the time of the...
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Diana North, a first grade teacher from Rock Hill, South Carolina
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"She recently celebrated her silver anniversary of teaching. From Rock Hill,...
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Kyle Neblett, a senior from Beaverton, Oregon
|
2007 Teen Tournament Summer Games 2nd runner-up: $36,400. 18 at the...
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Ken Jennings, a software engineer from Salt Lake City, Utah
|
2020 Jeopardy!: The Greatest of All Time winner: $1,000,000 + a...
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Martin Short, a multitalented man from Fame Becomes Me
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"Jiminy Glick and Ed Grimley are among his many memorable characters....
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Steve Schirripa, an actor from The Sopranos
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"Once the entertainment director at the Riviera Hotel in Las Vegas,...
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Whitney Dearden, an 11-year-old from Washington Crossing, Pennsylvania
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"She enjoys working with animals and would like to become a...
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Aki Terasaki, an 11-year-old from Newark, Delaware
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"This future millionaire would like to be a professional writer and...
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William Marengo, an 11-year-old from the Bronx, New York
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"He will be the next Bronx Bomber, maybe--if it's up to...
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Keith Williams, a sophomore at Middlebury College from Middlebury, Vermont
|
"As a freshman from Middlebury College, he won the 2003 College...
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Lara Robillard, a policy analyst from Arlington, Virginia
|
"She used the winnings from her 5 shows in 1998 to...
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Kevin Keach, a project administrator from St. Louis, Missouri
|
"He considered himself a simple Missouri farm boy when he won...
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Bob Shore, an attorney from Los Angeles, California
|
Season 21 2-time champion: $47,602 + $2,000. Proponent of Shore's Conjecture....
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Ken Jennings, a software engineer from Salt Lake City, Utah
|
2020 Jeopardy!: The Greatest of All Time winner: $1,000,000 + a...
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Vicky Manos, a sophomore at St. John’s University from Levittown, New York
|
2004 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000.
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Chloé White, a senior from Mission Hills, Kansas
|
2005 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500.
17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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