| #9085, aired 2024-04-19 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $1,000 (Daily Double): Leapin' lizards! This river flows 630 miles before joining the Colorado River at Yuma, Arizona the Gila River |
| #9082, aired 2024-04-16 | DON'T EAT THAT! $200: It comes before poor, nap, cheap & bag dirt |
| #9081, aired 2024-04-15 | ROAD SCHOLARLY $800: These 3 letters came before Appia, Aurelia & Popilia in the Latin names of Roman roads V-I-A (Via) |
| #9081, aired 2024-04-15 | 3-LETTER SPELLING BEE $800: Before, in palindromic form E-R-E |
| #9081, aired 2024-04-15 | ROAD SCHOLARLY $1200: The walls of Bukhara in Uzbekistan have stood since before the city was part of this famous trade road the Silk Road |
| #9079, aired 2024-04-11 | SOME TIMELY WORDS $400: From Latin, it means "occurring before noon" antemeridian |
| #9079, aired 2024-04-11 | COLORFUL GEOGRAPHY $2000: This river rises in the Lesotho Highlands & crosses the Kalahari & Namib Deserts before emptying into the Atlantic the Orange River |
| #9079, aired 2024-04-11 | FOOD TALK $2000: It's the technique of butterflying a whole bird before cooking: faster roasting, crispier skin spatchcocking |
| #9078, aired 2024-04-10 | '70s TV DRAMA $2000: Before he enjoyed his lollipops as Kojak, this actor got an Oscar nom for playing a prisoner in "Birdman of Alcatraz" Telly Savalas |
| #9077, aired 2024-04-09 | KNEEL BEFORE ZED $400: Equus quagga crawshayi is a Crawshay's this zebra |
| #9077, aired 2024-04-09 | KNEEL BEFORE ZED $800: A fanatic, or a member of an ancient anti-Roman Jewish sect a zealot |
| #9077, aired 2024-04-09 | OPERA SETTINGS $800: Long before the play & film, an 1898 opera about Mozart & this composer takes place in a room in Vienna & lasts all of 40 minutes Salieri |
| #9077, aired 2024-04-09 | KNEEL BEFORE ZED $1200: This Yiddish adjective means plumply voluptuous zaftig |
| #9077, aired 2024-04-09 | KNEEL BEFORE ZED $1600: A large mustache that curves down at the corners of the mouth is named for this early 20th century Guerrilla Zapata |
| #9077, aired 2024-04-09 | KNEEL BEFORE ZED $2000: Compadrazgo, a ritual kinship system involving godparents, plays an important role for this people of Oaxaca the Zapotec |
| #9075, aired 2024-04-05 | IN THE PAST $600: Her son Jean Baptiste served as a military guide in the American West before his 1866 death Sacagawea |
| #9075, aired 2024-04-05 | IN THIS ECONOMY?! $13,400 (Daily Double): Adam Smith called this system of semi-free labor that ended about 500 years before his time "barbarous" feudalism |
| #9073, aired 2024-04-03 | BEFORE THEY WERE CONGRESSWOMEN $400: Before beating Joe Crowley in a primary election, she worked at a restaurant & bar in Manhattan called Coffee Shop AOC (Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez) |
| #9073, aired 2024-04-03 | BEFORE THEY WERE CONGRESSWOMEN $800: She recalled meeting Maine senator Margaret Chase Smith as a senior in high school & now holds her seat Susan Collins |
| #9073, aired 2024-04-03 | BEFORE THEY WERE CONGRESSWOMEN $1200: Before repping Florida, Maria Salazar was an anchor for this "worldly" Spanish network now part of NBCUniversal Telemundo |
| #9073, aired 2024-04-03 | BEFORE THEY WERE CONGRESSWOMEN $2000: Pre-politics, Alabama Rep. Terri Sewell & this current New York senator were colleagues at the same law firm Gillibrand |
| #9073, aired 2024-04-03 | BEFORE THEY WERE CONGRESSWOMEN $6,000 (Daily Double): In the 1990s this future senator from Illinois was the only woman in her helicopter training class (Tammy) Duckworth |
| #9072, aired 2024-04-02 | PHILOSOPHY $1200: Before he was the title guy who spake about teaching of the Superman, he appeared in Nietszche's book "The Gay Science" Zarathustra |
| #9070, aired 2024-03-29 | THE ANCIENTS SPEAK $600: In his "Histories", he quoted Solon as saying, "Before he dies, call no man happy--he is at best but fortunate" Herodotus |
| #9069, aired 2024-03-28 | SCIENCE $400: Eccentricity measures how much this planetary path deviates from a circle its orbit (an ellipse) |
| #9067, aired 2024-03-26 | WORLD STAR $800: This actress starred in the Chaplinesque Indian film "Barfi!" before landing in "Quantico" in 2015 Priyanka Chopra Jonas |
| #9065, aired 2024-03-22 | ITALIAN WORDS & PHRASES $2000: It comes before voce to mean "quietly" & before "il sole della Toscana" to mean the book "Under the Tuscan Sun" Sotto |
| #9065, aired 2024-03-22 | THE OLD TESTAMENT $2000: This man really wanted Jacob to marry his older daughter, Leah, before his younger, Rachel Laban |
| #9065, aired 2024-03-22 | THE OLD TESTAMENT $12,000 (Daily Double): This name of the first minor prophet in book order often comes before "can you see" in punny sermon titles Hosea |
| #9064, aired 2024-03-21 | NOTABLE NAMES $1200: This great Italian tenor was in San Francisco when the big earthquake hit in 1906, having sung in "Carmen" the night before Caruso |
| #9063, aired 2024-03-20 | 19th CENTURY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS $1600: Before he was the big name in New York newspaper publishing, he published "The St. Louis Post-Dispatch" Pulitzer |
| #9062, aired 2024-03-19 | UNDERGROUND $2000: You can go under this square, the heart of Old Seattle, to see bits of what the city looked like before a great fire in 1889 Pioneer Square |
| #9061, aired 2024-03-18 | THE BOOK OF MORMONS $1200: Raised in the LDS Church, Paul Walker gained worldwide fame in this movie series before dying in a car accident in 2013 Fast & Furious (The Fast & the Furious) |
| #9061, aired 2024-03-18 | BUSINESS PARTNERS $1600: Before launching a wellness studio, Elizabeth Cutler & Julie Rice co-founded this fitness company for indoor spinning SoulCycle |
| #9058, aired 2024-03-13 | "H" IS FOR HISTORY $1200: It's the term for the migration of Muhammad & his followers to Medina before Mecca's fall in the year 630 the Hijrah |
| #9057, aired 2024-03-12 | THE KNIGHTLY NEWS $1200: This "colorful" poem dates to the 14th century & includes the main character being tempted by a lord's wife Sir Gawain and the Green Knight |
| #9056, aired 2024-03-11 | WORLD OF LIT $800: He served several years of hard labor in Siberia before writing about someone else's "Crime and Punishment" Dostoevsky |
| #9056, aired 2024-03-11 | BEHIND THE MUSIC $800: Before he was infamous, Phil Spector was famous for this elaborate production style of many '60s hits the Wall of Sound |
| #9056, aired 2024-03-11 | DOWN IN THE VALLEY $2,600 (Daily Double): You'll find this Scots word for a valley before "Eagles", "Mor" & "Coe", among many others Glen |
| #9054, aired 2024-03-07 | BEFORE & AFTER $200: A venue for volleys & lobs where violators of military law are prosecuted a tennis court-martial |
| #9054, aired 2024-03-07 | BEFORE & AFTER $400: Actor lookalike who does the dangerous action scenes as an iconic red London vehicle a stunt double decker (bus) |
| #9054, aired 2024-03-07 | BEFORE & AFTER $600: A Knoxville color that's also a hit country song is served as a high grade tea from Sri Lanka & India Tennessee Orange Pekoe |
| #9054, aired 2024-03-07 | BEFORE & AFTER $800: Nation's capital newspaper-caused psychological pain following an event of actual or threatened bodily harm the Washington Post traumatic stress disorder |
| #9054, aired 2024-03-07 | BEFORE & AFTER $1000: Siam-set musical adaptation of Asimov's book about machines that follow 3 laws The King and I, Robot |
| #9051, aired 2024-03-04 | LANGUAGES $2000: Also called Euskara, it's a remnant of the languages spoken in Western Europe before the region was Romanized Basque |
| #9051, aired 2024-03-04 | NUMERIC MOVIE TITLES $7,600 (Daily Double): Fellini felt he'd directed 7.5 films before making this 1963 gem 8 1/2 |
| #9050, aired 2024-03-01 | DECADES $400: The Philadelphia Daily News used this alliterative term for a decade long before miniskirts took over London the Swinging Sixties |
| #9050, aired 2024-03-01 | DECADES $600: A 1926 editorial in the Oakland Tribune put "rip-" before this timely phrase Roaring Twenties |
| #9050, aired 2024-03-01 | RHYMES WITH RHYME $800: Before "in", it can mean to break into a conversation to express an opinion chime |
| #9049, aired 2024-02-29 | NAME, IMAGE, LIKENESS $400: It's the big-legacy last name of Arch, who signed an NIL deal before throwing his first pass in college football Manning |
| #9047, aired 2024-02-27 | TELEVISION $1000: In the miniseries "Feud: Capote vs. the Swans", a top Swan is Naomi Watts as Babe, wife of this CBS honcho William S. Paley |
| #9046, aired 2024-02-26 | MEMORY $1000: In comparing computer memory info, think before you give us this, the number of megabytes in a gigabyte 1,024 |
| #9045, aired 2024-02-23 | 2020s & 1920s SLANG $800: This shortened word precedes "check" in a term used on social media for reviewing one's attire before hitting the town fit |
| #9044, aired 2024-02-22 | BEFORE THE FIRST WORLD WAR $400: War in Somaliland pitted the dervishes of Sheik Mohammed Abdullah Hassan against British troops mounted on this desert animal camels |
| #9044, aired 2024-02-22 | WORLD CAPITALS $400: It was the capital of Gran Colombia before it was the capital of (regular) Colombia Bogotá |
| #9044, aired 2024-02-22 | BEFORE THE FIRST WORLD WAR $800: The ruler with this title was forced by the Young Turk rebels to recall parliament, which he'd suspended 30 years earlier the Ottoman sultan (emperor) |
| #9044, aired 2024-02-22 | HOW MANY TIMES? $1600: Jimmy Connors & Novak Djokovic just before serving a big point:
As many as 30 times or more bounce the ball |
| #9044, aired 2024-02-22 | BEFORE THE FIRST WORLD WAR $1600: The czar had to sign off in 1906 when this nation, not Russia, became Europe's first to grant women the right to vote Finland |
| #9044, aired 2024-02-22 | BEFORE THE FIRST WORLD WAR $2000: Tough to win a race giving a 60-mile head start as Robert Scott did landing at McMurdo Sound when this man landed at the Bay of Whales Amundsen |
| #9044, aired 2024-02-22 | BEFORE THE FIRST WORLD WAR $7,400 (Daily Double): The history book "The Sleepwalkers" says this event not only stirred war fever in Austria but ended the life of an advocate for peace the assassination of Ferdinand (Archduke Ferdinand's death) |
| #9043, aired 2024-02-21 | HALLELUJAH! $600: dictionary.com has 3 consecutive A's in this slang word, but you can draw it out even more before queen if you want to really show elation yaaas |
| #9042, aired 2024-02-20 | WHAT'S THAT SMELL? $1000: This word for a wine's smell is most appropriate before, for example, "of honeysuckle" or "of geranium" bouquet |
| #9042, aired 2024-02-20 | 4, 4 $1600: When printing photos (yes, people still do that), the intermediate rinse called this comes before fixing & washing stop bath |
| #9041, aired 2024-02-19 | PLANT LORE $2000: The wreath named for this 6-letter religious season has 4 candles that symbolize the 4 Sundays before Christmas Advent |
| #9040, aired 2024-02-16 | A DOG'S LIFE $200: To avoid confusion & possible danger, train your dog on the standard type of this before getting the retractable kind a leash |
| #9040, aired 2024-02-16 | I'M CUBAN $600: Born in Cuba, this "Havana" singer came to the U.S. at age 6 (Camila) Cabello |
| #9040, aired 2024-02-16 | FICTION & NONFICTION $600: She worked as a librarian before writing classic kids' books like "The Mouse & the Motorcycle" Cleary |
| #9040, aired 2024-02-16 | A DOG'S LIFE $1000: If your dog paces & whines before you leave, it may be suffering from this 2-word issue; exercise & crate training can help separation anxiety |
| #9039, aired 2024-02-15 | POP CULTURE $800: He briefly played in the minors in Baltimore before the Red Sox & his 1914 rookie card recently sold for more than $7 million Babe Ruth |
| #9039, aired 2024-02-15 | MISCELLANEOUS KNOWLEDGE $2000: The youngest veep at 36, John Breckinridge served under this president before running against Lincoln for president Buchanan |
| #9037, aired 2024-02-13 | 50 GREATEST RAPPERS OF ALL TIME $200: She invited us to "Come Into My House" & also deal with the "Wrath Of My Madness"; we bow down before this Queen Queen Latifah |
| #9036, aired 2024-02-12 | GENIUS: MLK/X $1000: (Kelvin Harrison Jr. presents the clue.) Since they marched together, went to jail together & even had a pillow fight together right before Martin's death, MLK & this minister are referred to as the civil rights twins on the show Ralph Abernathy |
| #9035, aired 2024-02-09 | NUMERICAL TELEVISION $1000: Would you believe these were the 2 code numbers used by the 2 main CONTROL agents fighting KAOS on "Get Smart!" 86 & 99 |
| #9035, aired 2024-02-09 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1200: A century before she was on a dollar coin, she was convicted & fined for casting a vote in the 1872 pres. election Anthony |
| #9035, aired 2024-02-09 | 21st CENTURY SCIENCE $1200: Before its mission ended in 2017, the spacecraft named for this astronomer gave us a view of Saturn's moon Enceladus Cassini |
| #9034, aired 2024-02-08 | THINKING ABOUT THE ROMAN EMPIRE $2000: Before Rome found Jesus, emperors in the 3rd century evangelized for the god Sol Invictus, meaning this Invincible Sun |
| #9033, aired 2024-02-07 | QUOTING THE OLD TESTAMENT $400: He proclaimed, "Joseph my son is yet alive: I will go and see him before I die" Jacob |
| #9031, aired 2024-02-05 | HISTORICAL AMERICAN CURRENCY $1000: This Treasury Secretary under Lincoln put his own mug on the first $1 dollar bill, seven years before Washington appeared on one Salmon P. Chase |
| #9030, aired 2024-02-02 | DELICIOUS BEFORE & AFTER $400: Hollandaise-laden breakfast entree known as a traitor in the United States eggs Benedict Arnold |
| #9030, aired 2024-02-02 | DELICIOUS BEFORE & AFTER $800: "Amphibian" British sausage dish cooked in batter that's an ace on the golf course toad in the hole in one |
| #9030, aired 2024-02-02 | DELICIOUS BEFORE & AFTER $1200: "Vernal" tubular Chinese appetizer that is also a casual bit of canoodling in the barn a spring roll in the hay |
| #9030, aired 2024-02-02 | DELICIOUS BEFORE & AFTER $1600: "Pastoral" lamb & mashed potato casserole that's a fanciful dream not likely to be attained shepherd's pie in the sky |
| #9030, aired 2024-02-02 | DELICIOUS BEFORE & AFTER $2000: Blue cheese-accompanied poultry products that are on the marquee as a Wim Wenders film Buffalo Wings of Desire |
| #3, aired 2024-02-02 | BROADWAY HIT ALIASES $400: "Instruction for Corporate Advancement Requiring Little Effort" How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying |
| #3, aired 2024-02-02 | OCCUPATIONS $600: Before embarking on a career in this job of installing window glass, note the Department of Labor says it has a high injury rate a glazier |
| #9029, aired 2024-02-01 | I LIKE THE CUT OF YOUR JOB $400: It comes before saw & shears in the name of a gardening tool that cuts off undesired twigs & branches pruning |
| #9028, aired 2024-01-31 | THE ENGLISH PAST TENSE $400: This irregular past tense verb is what I did to start our game of whist dealt (led) |
| #9028, aired 2024-01-31 | THE ENGLISH PAST TENSE $800: This irregular past tense verb can mean completely tired out & exhausted spent (worn) |
| #9028, aired 2024-01-31 | THE ENGLISH PAST TENSE $2000: You don't say "I brod the fish before frying it", nor "I throd the needle", so why this word meaning "stepped"? trod |
| #9027, aired 2024-01-30 | HARLEM HELLFIGHTERS $200: (Robin Roberts presents the clue.) The 369th Infantry Regiment has its origins as the 15th New York Infantry Regiment of this reserve section of the Army; before the U.S. entered World War I, they trained in a second floor dance studio in Harlem the National Guard |
| #9026, aired 2024-01-29 | HISTORIC NAMES $800: Before conquering Mexico, this conquistador participated in the conquest of Cuba Cortés |
| #9026, aired 2024-01-29 | 19th CENTURY AUTHORS $800: "Persuasion", the last book she completed before her death in 1817, was published posthumously Austen |
| #9026, aired 2024-01-29 | LOST IN SPACE $1200: In Nov. 2023 this company's Starship, launched by the most powerful rocket ever, reached the edge of space before exploding SpaceX |
| #9026, aired 2024-01-29 | "D.D." $1600: This 18th century guy was a novelist, journalist & pamphleteer Daniel Defoe |
| #9026, aired 2024-01-29 | HISTORIC NAMES $1600: Gavrilo Princip, whose assassination of this man triggered World War I, died in prison before the war's end Archduke Ferdinand |
| #9025, aired 2024-01-26 | DASHIELL HAMMETT $800: In 1953 Hammett went before a committee chaired by this man & was asked about his association with the Communist Party McCarthy |
| #9024, aired 2024-01-25 | ON MY HISTORIC CV $1000: 1351 B.C.: Egyptian queen 1,300 years before Cleopatra; 1912: portrait bust discovered in ruins of Amarna workshop, big hit at museum Nefertiti |
| #9022, aired 2024-01-23 | GO IVth & RULE $400: This British king served as regent for his father, the III, for nearly a decade before reigning himself 1820 to 1830 King George IV |
| #26, aired 2024-01-23 | ALSO A GOOD STARTER WORD FOR WORDLE $300: Dim the lights before asking this "talking board" questions at a sleepover; Hasbro says it's just a game... or is it? Ouija |
| #26, aired 2024-01-23 | NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM $300: Before flowers & bones, the open skies of Texas were one of her early subjects, like the 1917 work "Starlight Night" Georgia O'Keeffe |
| #26, aired 2024-01-23 | OBSCURE NOVELS $400: "The Edible Woman" doesn't ring a bell? It was Margaret Atwood's debut novel before she wrote this 1985 book The Handmaid's Tale |
| #9021, aired 2024-01-22 | TEMPERA-MENTAL ARTISTS $800: Before tempera art, John Schoenherr did book covers; Frank Herbert called him the only man to visit this title place Dune |
| #9020, aired 2024-01-19 | AMERICA BEFORE 1800 $200: By 1791 the national debt was more than $75 million, most incurred as a result of this the Revolutionary War |
| #9020, aired 2024-01-19 | AMERICA BEFORE 1800 $400: John Winthrop's nephew George Downing, of Downing Street fame, was among the first 9 graduates of this school in 1642 Harvard |
| #9020, aired 2024-01-19 | AMERICA BEFORE 1800 $800: During an outbreak of this disfiguring disease in 1764, Paul Revere & his family quarantined at home: others were sent to pest houses smallpox |
| #9020, aired 2024-01-19 | AMERICA BEFORE 1800 $1000: In 1579, during his circumnavigation of the world, he dropped anchor near San Francisco & claimed the region for England Drake |
| #9020, aired 2024-01-19 | AMERICA BEFORE 1800 $3,200 (Daily Double): Reconstructed in the 1930s, the original Governor's Palace in this colonial capital was built from 1706 to 1722 Williamsburg |
| #9018, aired 2024-01-17 | THE FIST & THE FURIOUS MOVIES $400: Bob Barker throws 8 solid left jabs before putting this title golfer in the water hazard with a big right Happy Gilmore |
| #9018, aired 2024-01-17 | FIND THE FISH $1200: Before the unpleasant incident with Uncle Tad, I had docking privileges at the yacht club a haddock (had docking) |
| #9017, aired 2024-01-16 | OUR FEATHERED FRIENDS $600: For decades, these songbirds were employed in mining to detect toxic gases before miners were overcome canaries |
| #25, aired 2024-01-16 | IMPORTANT DATES IN U.S. HISTORY $1500: November 11, 1620: before going ashore, Pilgrim leaders sign this agreement outlining self-rule in the New World the Mayflower Compact |
| #1, aired 2024-01-12 | LETTER PERFECT $800: This letter stands for the currency of Albania; when it comes before F in English words, it's often silent L (for the lek) |
| #9014, aired 2024-01-11 | NOTORIOUS $400: Beginning in 1932, this couple went on a crime spree that lasted 21 months before both were killed Bonnie & Clyde |
| #9013, aired 2024-01-10 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $2000: He was a newspaperman for the Chicago Daily Globe before penning "An American Tragedy" Dreiser |
| #9012, aired 2024-01-09 | IN MY ART DECO ERA $800: Before this music hall opened in 1932, a N.Y. newspaper glowed, "The whole theatre interior lends itself to effect of sunrise" Radio City Music Hall |
| #9012, aired 2024-01-09 | U.S. NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNERS $1200: Before winning a Peace Prize in 1962, scientist & vitamin C advocate Linus Pauling won one in this category in 1954 chemistry |
| #9012, aired 2024-01-09 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS' OCCUPATIONS $1200: Eliza Doolittle, before she becomes a "lady" flower girl (flower seller) |
| #9012, aired 2024-01-09 | U.S. NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNERS $2000: His name is on a pact with Aristide Briand, but Aristide had won a Nobel Prize a few years before, so he got the 1929 prize alone Frank Kellogg |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | ANIMAL IDIOM BRAINTEASERS $800: Make all the necessary preparations before you start:
G.Y.D.I.A.R. get your ducks in a row |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | FEMALE FIRSTS $900: A few years before playing Rose on "The Golden Girls", she became the first woman to win an Emmy for Outstanding Game Show Host Betty White |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | ON THE PERIODIC TABLE $1200: Right before gold is this other precious metal, which should bring to mind a shade of blonde hair platinum |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | FEMALE FIRSTS $1500: Decades before becoming the first female Supreme Court justice, she refused a marriage proposal from future Chief Justice Rehnquist Sandra Day O'Connor |
| #9010, aired 2024-01-05 | OUR MAN ON THE FIELD $600: In 2021 Ryan Crouser heaved a metal sphere 76 feet, 8 1/4 inches, breaking a world record set in this sport before Ryan was born the shot put |
| #9010, aired 2024-01-05 | 20th CENTURY POP CULTURE $1600: In 1923, more than 30 years before the talking one, Cecil B. DeMille directed a silent version of this biblical epic The Ten Commandments |
| #9009, aired 2024-01-04 | ALL ABOUT AUTHORS $600: Before writing "The Hunger Games", she wrote for children's TV shows, including "Clarissa Explains It All" (Suzanne) Collins |
| #9009, aired 2024-01-04 | 5-SYLLABLE VERBS $1200: For example, to turn the steering wheel too far to the left when your car drifts to the right overcompensate |
| #9007, aired 2024-01-02 | THOSE WHO CELEBRATE $800: Just before a big U.S. holiday, our northern neighbors celebrate Canada Day on this date July 1st |
| #9006, aired 2024-01-01 | MISHEARD LYRICS $2000: This Juice Newton plea to a departing lover does not ask, "Just brush my teeth before you leave me, baby" "Just call me angel of the morning" |
| #9005, aired 2023-12-29 | GLAD-JECTIVES $400: "'Twas the Night Before Christmas" described St. Nicholas as "a right" this "old elf" jolly |
| #9005, aired 2023-12-29 | IT HAPPENED IN DECEMBER $800: The Mayflower spent several weeks at Provincetown before arriving in Plymouth Harbor in December of this year 1620 |
| #9004, aired 2023-12-28 | NBA NICKNAMES $800: Before his first NBA game Nike was pushing "The Extraterrestrial" for Victor Wembanyama, this team's 2023 number one draft choice the Spurs |
| #9003, aired 2023-12-27 | POP CULTURE BEFORE & AFTER $400: Link's video game franchise links up with the wife of writer F. Scott Legend of Zelda Fitzgerald |
| #9003, aired 2023-12-27 | POP CULTURE BEFORE & AFTER $800: Ken's rhyming dream abode in the film "Barbie" hatches into a prequel of "Game of Thrones" a Mojo Dojo Casa House of the Dragon |
| #9003, aired 2023-12-27 | POP CULTURE BEFORE & AFTER $1200: The Bronx female rapper on "Boy's A Liar, Pt. 2" joins forces with a British girl group featuring Posh & Sporty Ice Spice Girls |
| #9003, aired 2023-12-27 | POP CULTURE BEFORE & AFTER $1600: A certain ancient civilization that men obsess over in a TikTok trend time travels & becomes a Jay-Z song about NYC "The Roman Empire State Of Mind" |
| #9003, aired 2023-12-27 | POP CULTURE BEFORE & AFTER $2000: A "Fresh Off the Boat" actress joins the rap group with members RZA, GZA & Ghostface Killah Constance Wu-Tang Clan |
| #9001, aired 2023-12-25 | I'VE SEEN HER TYPE BEFORE $400: In addition to cranking out mystery novels, she wrote "The Mousetrap", which ran nonstop in London for over 60 years Agatha Christie |
| #9001, aired 2023-12-25 | I'VE SEEN HER TYPE BEFORE $800: Awarded the Nobel Prize for her truly epic descriptions of peasant life in China, she kept typing away through a long life Pearl Buck |
| #9001, aired 2023-12-25 | I'VE SEEN HER TYPE BEFORE $1200: "Vicki" Baum is best known for her 1929 novel about a group of people thrown together that became this Greta Garbo film Grand Hotel |
| #9001, aired 2023-12-25 | I'VE SEEN HER TYPE BEFORE $1600: Educated at Smith College & Cambridge, she works on a poem here Sylvia Plath |
| #9001, aired 2023-12-25 | I'VE SEEN HER TYPE BEFORE $2000: Young, gifted & Black, this playwright poses with her typewriter for a Vogue shoot in 1959 Hansberry |
| #8999, aired 2023-12-21 | SAY, "BUSTER" $200: Harry Houdini was called one of these in 1930, half a century before Bill Murray a ghostbuster |
| #8999, aired 2023-12-21 | WORDS & THEIR CHANGING MEANINGS $1200: An Italian word for "baby boy", it meant a man, especially one who was inept or dumb, before it meant an attractive but dumb woman bimbo |
| #8999, aired 2023-12-21 | WORDS & THEIR CHANGING MEANINGS $2,500 (Daily Double): Before it meant any chain of islands, Archipelago was another name for this arm of the Mediterranean Sea the Aegean Sea |
| #8998, aired 2023-12-20 | A LOOK BACK $3,000 (Daily Double): 6 days before Robert E. Lee's surrender, the Confederate government fled this city, & Confederate troops burned much of it down Richmond |
| #8997, aired 2023-12-19 | FAMOUS LAST WORDS $600: Grammatically, this 2-word phrase refers to a period; California drivers are asked to come to one before a crosswalk a full stop |
| #8997, aired 2023-12-19 | KING'S CROSSING $1000: On May 31, 1740, Friedrich Wilhelm I made his royal exit in Potsdam in this German-ruled kingdom founded 39 years before Prussia |
| #8996, aired 2023-12-18 | PANCHO VILLAGE $400: Before heading U.S. forces in France in WWI, this general led a punitive raid into Mexico in pursuit of Pancho Villa Pershing |
| #8995, aired 2023-12-15 | FICTIONAL LANGUAGES $1600: Tolkien created this language whose forms include Quenya before writing his books, not the other way around Elvish |
| #8994, aired 2023-12-14 | SCENES FROM AN ITALIAN RESTAURANT $400: Before she was a pretty woman, this actress mopped the floor of the title joint in "Mystic Pizza" Julia Roberts |
| #8994, aired 2023-12-14 | BROWNIAN NOTIONS $1600: Before he became U.K. prime minister, he said economic & "environmental objectives now... reinforce each other" Gordon Brown |
| #8993, aired 2023-12-13 | SLANG FOR LIQUOR $800: It can come before "sander" & after "Bible" belt |
| #8992, aired 2023-12-12 | SEINFELD BEFORE & AFTER $400: This George Costanza portrayer was the first U.S. Treasury Secretary Jason Alexander Hamilton |
| #8992, aired 2023-12-12 | YES, I'VE ETON $400: He hopefully had a ball at Eton before going on to write "Thunderball" Fleming |
| #8992, aired 2023-12-12 | SEINFELD BEFORE & AFTER $800: Set on controlling the vichyssoise supply, TV hosts Greg Kinnear & John Henson are vying for the role of this fascist Talk Soup Nazi |
| #8992, aired 2023-12-12 | SEINFELD BEFORE & AFTER $1200: This Wham! frontman continually barges into the apartment of the actor who plays Kramer George Michael Richards |
| #8992, aired 2023-12-12 | SEINFELD BEFORE & AFTER $1600: Avuncular Seinfeld relative who kvetched all the way through writing Russian fiction like "The Death of Ivan Ilyich" Uncle Leo Tolstoy |
| #8992, aired 2023-12-12 | SEINFELD BEFORE & AFTER $2000: The Elaine actress was accused of treason against the French in this scandal the Julia Louis-Dreyfus Affair |
| #8991, aired 2023-12-11 | CRAFTS $800: Before powered airplanes, the Wright brothers built a successful type of this 6-letter flying craft in 1902 a glider |
| #8989, aired 2023-12-07 | STAR WARS BEFORE & AFTER $400: 14th century European pandemic that destroyed Alderaan the Black Death Star |
| #8989, aired 2023-12-07 | STAR WARS BEFORE & AFTER $800: Han Solo's son paired with an edgy cartoon Chihuahua & cat Kylo Ren & Stimpy |
| #8989, aired 2023-12-07 | IT'S RAINING MENSA $800: Before he passed away in 2012, this general who led the Persian Gulf War went "stormin'" to a Mensa membership Schwarzkopf |
| #8989, aired 2023-12-07 | STAR WARS BEFORE & AFTER $1200: "Wake up" to this 1971 Rod Stewart song that's a perfect greeting for any Jedi "Maggie May" the force be with you |
| #8989, aired 2023-12-07 | STAR WARS BEFORE & AFTER $1600: TV's "Love Boat" who's now reached the rank of general the Pacific Princess Leia |
| #8989, aired 2023-12-07 | STAR WARS BEFORE & AFTER $2000: Sylvia Plath novel about an annoying floppy-eared outcast from Naboo The Bell Jar Jar Binks |
| #8988, aired 2023-12-06 | DECIMALS $2000: Founded in 1792, it reported prices in 1/8 or 1/16 of a dollar before moving to a decimal system in the 21st century the New York Stock Exchange |
| #22, aired 2023-12-06 | ALSO A TAYLOR SWIFT SONG $800: It's not yours! It's this word that comes before "craft" & "sweeper" in the names of popular video games mine |
| #8987, aired 2023-12-05 | FLAGS $2000: Gilbert Baker created the Rainbow Flag & this man rode in a parade with one shortly before his 1978 assassination (Harvey) Milk |
| #8986, aired 2023-12-04 | BRITISH BANDS $800: Bananarama had a hit with this song, appropriately enough, in the mean, hot days of August 1984 "Cruel Summer" |
| #8986, aired 2023-12-04 | MOVIE DIRECTORS $2000: Long before "Spider-Man", he first made his name with "The Evil Dead" when he was just 22 Sam Raimi |
| #8985, aired 2023-12-01 | PUNNY & NOT-PUNNY DEFINITIONS $400: "The period before a short stroll", or the introductory statement of the U.S. Constitution a preamble |
| #21, aired 2023-11-29 | FAIRY TALE ELEVATOR PITCHES $200: "A kid trades his cow for some magic beans & before you know it, a huge vine grows up to the clouds where an angry giant lives" "Jack and the Beanstalk" |
| #21, aired 2023-11-29 | FAIRY TALE ELEVATOR PITCHES $500: "A talking cat requests proper footwear before playing a deceitful game to get himself & his owner ahead in life" "Puss in Boots" |
| #21, aired 2023-11-29 | WHISTLING HALL OF FAME $1500: "The Fishin' Hole" was written especially for this beloved sitcom, long before Ron Howard met the Fonz The Andy Griffith Show |
| #8981, aired 2023-11-27 | SUPREME COURTSHIP $400: She married John in 1952, 29 years before Reagan appointed her to the Supreme Court Sandra Day O'Connor |
| #8981, aired 2023-11-27 | THE 23rd PSALM $800: "Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of" these mine enemies |
| #8981, aired 2023-11-27 | SUPREME COURTSHIP $800: She married Martin D. in 1954, 39 years before William J. appointed her to the Court Ruth Bader Ginsburg |
| #8980, aired 2023-11-24 | IN EXPLICABLE $200: A proverb says "look before you" do this leap |
| #8980, aired 2023-11-24 | "A"DJECTIVES $800: This cold adjective from the north comes before "Blitz" in a Gatorade flavor Arctic |
| #8979, aired 2023-11-23 | COACH $400: Before moving to the NFL in 1954, he served for 5 years as an assistant coach at Army Vince Lombardi |
| #8979, aired 2023-11-23 | THEY COME IN SEVENS $800: Tolkien should have consulted with the Brothers Grimm before having 13 of these accompany Bilbo in "The Hobbit" Dwarves |
| #8978, aired 2023-11-22 | ONOMATOPOEIA $1000: The sound of eating a chip, it comes before "time" to mean a moment of pressure crunch |
| #8977, aired 2023-11-21 | COMMUNICATION $1600: Before home pay-per-view, if you wanted to see a big fight like Ali-Frazier, you went to a theater to watch it on CCTV, this closed-circuit television |
| #8975, aired 2023-11-17 | MORE TRICKY QUESTIONS $200: Just before Mount Everest was discovered, this was the highest mountain in the world Mount Everest |
| #8974, aired 2023-11-16 | POP MUSIC $200: Before she was an independent woman, Beyoncé was part of this group that hit with "Independent Women, Pt. 1" Destiny's Child |
| #8974, aired 2023-11-16 | POP MUSIC $800: (I'm Hans Zimmer.) Before scoring films I could be seen tickling the ivories on this new wave classic by The Buggles, the first ever video on MTV "Video Killed The Radio Star" |
| #8973, aired 2023-11-15 | CANADIAN ARTISTES $1200: In 1980 this Toronto novelist wrote of "Life Before Man", 5 years before her book of life under man Atwood |
| #20, aired 2023-11-15 | RAIN $300: As YouTube's "Hungrybear9562" can attest, sunlight refracting twice inside raindrops before dispersing may result in this a double rainbow |
| #20, aired 2023-11-15 | COMPETITIVE CHEERLEADING $800: It's no picnic being a flyer in this flashy stunt where teammates lock hands, fling you into the air, and hopefully catch you a basket toss |
| #8970, aired 2023-11-10 | DESIGNERS $1000: Before "Project Runway" & his own fashion line, he was a child actor, born Karl Anderson Jr. Michael Kors |
| #8969, aired 2023-11-09 | FAMOUS FORMER TEACHERS $400: Before "Harry Met Sally", he worked as a substitute teacher on Long Island Billy Crystal |
| #8969, aired 2023-11-09 | FAMOUS FORMER TEACHERS $800: He taught English at his former high school before finding fame with the musicals "In the Heights" & "Hamilton" Lin-Manuel Miranda |
| #8969, aired 2023-11-09 | CLASSICAL MUSIC $800: Johann Pachelbel was considered one of the great masters of this instrument before the generation of J.S. Bach the organ |
| #8969, aired 2023-11-09 | FAMOUS FORMER TEACHERS $1000: Before he was a "Police" man, he was a teacher named Gordon Sumner Sting |
| #8969, aired 2023-11-09 | A LITTLE LEGALESE $2,600 (Daily Double): Libel & slander are both forms of this 10-letter term often found before "of character" defamation |
| #8968, aired 2023-11-08 | A "C" IN ANATOMY $2000: If your left brain hemisphere needs to "cc" your right, it's a good thing they're connected by this "cc" corpus callosum |
| #8967, aired 2023-11-07 | YOU'RE GETTING VERY SLEEPY $1200: Robert Frost wrote, "The woods are lovely, dark and deep, but I have" this obligation "and miles to go before I sleep" promises to keep |
| #8967, aired 2023-11-07 | GOVERNMENT & POLITICS $1200: Before she was U.S. Commerce secretary, Gina Raimondo created this state's Ocean State Investment Pool Rhode Island |
| #8965, aired 2023-11-03 | ESPAÑOL $800: Before you turn in a paper, you should check this, la ortografía the spelling |
| #8964, aired 2023-11-02 | ALL THE PRESIDENTS' CHILDREN $3,200 (Daily Double): Last name of John who, before his death in 2013 at 91, was the oldest living child of a president Eisenhower |
| #19, aired 2023-11-01 | RIGHT "U-R" $1200: Before driving teens to the prom, this professional was originally a person who stoked a steam engine to keep it running chauffeur |
| #19, aired 2023-11-01 | IN BOOKSTORES NOW $1200: It's the year in the title of a 2021 bestseller, when captive Africans arrived in America a year before the Mayflower did 1619 |
| #8962, aired 2023-10-31 | NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM $7,600 (Daily Double): He painted "Night Fishing at Antibes" just before the outbreak of World War II Picasso |
| #8961, aired 2023-10-30 | ACCENTÉ $400: It comes before a married woman's maiden name née |
| #8959, aired 2023-10-26 | JACQUES OF ALL TRADES $1600: Last name of French papermaking brothers Jacques & Joseph, who pioneered the hot air balloon Montgolfier |
| #8959, aired 2023-10-26 | SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY $2,800 (Daily Double): This biologist first gained acclaim for writing in 1937 with her article, "Undersea" in the Atlantic Monthly Rachel Carson |
| #18, aired 2023-10-25 | SCULPTURES $300: Michelangelo's most iconic statue depicts David before a battle with this giant -- whom he apparently fought without pants Goliath |
| #18, aired 2023-10-25 | PLEASE, ANYTHING BUT "MATH" $300: Seen here, the U.S. Constitution says the president must take one of these before entering office an oath |
| #18, aired 2023-10-25 | MIXED GREENS $300: "Before You Leap" is this Muppet's autobiography:
HERMIT KEG FORT Kermit the Frog |
| #8957, aired 2023-10-24 | "POUND" KEY $200: This word can come before microscope or fracture; the first is definitely better compound |
| #8957, aired 2023-10-24 | WHO WANTS TO BE A MILLINER? $400: Have long silk these on hand for a fez or a mortarboard, where one hangs to the right side before graduation a tassel |
| #8956, aired 2023-10-23 | A RIVER RUNS TO IT $1200: The Indus River flows 1,900 miles before emptying into this sea that shares its name with an adjacent peninsula the Arabian Sea |
| #8954, aired 2023-10-19 | IT'S OUR TURN TO SACK ROME!!! $800: 1084 A.D.:
Having successfully invaded England 18 years before, they then sack Rome the Normans |
| #8953, aired 2023-10-18 | MIRRORS $600: Before the advent of this device in the 1911 Indy 500, passengers called riding mechanics watched for cars coming up behind rearview mirror |
| #8953, aired 2023-10-18 | A DAY AT THE RACES $800: The quarter pole is 2 furlongs before this the finish line |
| #8953, aired 2023-10-18 | 3 LITTLE WORDS $1200: In a 1988 political speech, they came before "no new taxes" read my lips |
| #17, aired 2023-10-18 | HISTORICAL MARKERS $100: Located in Kokomo, Indiana, "Haynes' Horseless Carriage" is on the spot where Elwood Haynes first tested one of these in 1894 automobile |
| #17, aired 2023-10-18 | DENZEL WASHINGTON $400: Before Wakanda, Washington covered the cost of this aspiring actor to study at Oxford Boseman |
| #17, aired 2023-10-18 | MEDICAL MNENOMICS $1500: Pediatricians look for "The 3 S's"--stridor, subglottic swelling and a seal-like cough--before diagnosing this infant ailment croup |
| #8952, aired 2023-10-17 | WORLD WRITERS $1200: Bertolt Brecht fled Germany in 1933 & left the U.S. in 1947 after being required to testify before this committee HUAC (House Un-American Activities Committee) |
| #8950, aired 2023-10-13 | PRE-FAME CELEBS IN ADS $400: Before he entered "The Matrix", he helped us choose Kellogg's Corn Flakes Keanu Reeves |
| #8950, aired 2023-10-13 | WHO SAID THIS? $400: Before Congress in 1951, he announced, "I now close my military career..." MacArthur |
| #8950, aired 2023-10-13 | LET'S GET MEDICAL $600: A yellow or orange coloration to the skin is caused by an excess of this pigment, perhaps after eating too many carrots beta carotene (carotin) |
| #8950, aired 2023-10-13 | FELONIOUS MONKS $1200: AKA Saloth Sar, he was a novice monk for a time in Cambodia before becoming infamous for "Killing Fields" Pol Pot |
| #8949, aired 2023-10-12 | YOU NEED TO CLEAR THAT UP $1600: Verbiage from the State Department may leave you in this state; it comes before "Bottom" in the D.C. area where state is located Foggy |
| #8949, aired 2023-10-12 | "L" ON EARTH $2000: It's "jar"ring to note that before sailing to America in 1620, the Pilgrims lived in this Dutch city for more than 10 years Leiden |
| #16, aired 2023-10-11 | FASHION FOR ALL $600: Bimla Picot created Reboundwear after seeing a relative get dressed with difficulty before "PT", or this kind of therapy physical therapy |
| #16, aired 2023-10-11 | HI, I'M J.LO $1500: Before Jennifer Lopez was even born, this "J.Lo" played Timmy's mom on "Lassie" from 1958-'64 June Lockhart |
| #8947, aired 2023-10-10 | NICE SIDE WHISKERS! $400: Before becoming a prolific author, he taught biochemistry Asimov |
| #8946, aired 2023-10-09 | THE HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION OF THE WORLD $1000: Rocky before "Rocky", this 1950s legend retired as the sole undefeated heavyweight champ in history, going 49-0 with 43 KOs Rocky Marciano |
| #15, aired 2023-10-04 | RISING UP $800: Some people may have underestimated this president here before he led his country in resisting an invasion Zelenskyy |
| #15, aired 2023-10-04 | BYGONE TECH $1200: Give a hand to this product from Joseph Enterprises that turned your lights on and off before Alexa did it for you the Clapper |
| #8942, aired 2023-10-03 | THE CONGO RIVER $400: The Congo rises, in part, in the highlands of Zambia before traveling 2,900 miles in a giant arc to this ocean the Atlantic |
| #8942, aired 2023-10-03 | MEN OF MICHIGAN $1600: Long before becoming New York's governor, & not beating Truman, this Owosso-born man graduated from the University of Michigan in 1923 Dewey |
| #8942, aired 2023-10-03 | LITERARY BIOGRAPHY $7,800 (Daily Double): Taken from the title of one of her poems, "Mad Girl's Love Song" is a biography about this 20th-century woman & her "Life Before Ted" Sylvia Plath |
| #8941, aired 2023-10-02 | SIGNS & SYMBOLS $400: Even before it was immortalized by Poe, this bird was a near-universal symbol of ill omen the raven |
| #8941, aired 2023-10-02 | FIGHTERS $600: Before turning to MMA, UFC champ Henry Cejudo won a 2008 Olympic gold medal in freestyle this freestyle wrestling |
| #8941, aired 2023-10-02 | PROVERB VS. PROVERB $800: OK, OK--"He who hesitates is lost"... but aren't I supposed to do this before I leap? look |
| #8941, aired 2023-10-02 | THEY PLAYED WYATT EARP $2000: Long before he was Grandpa Walton, he played Earp in "Winchester '73" Will Geer |
| #8940, aired 2023-09-29 | CHEMICAL FORMULAS $800: To get the formula for ammonia, put this letter before H3 N |
| #8940, aired 2023-09-29 | POEMS ABOUT POETRY $800: If you really think about it / It isn't so ridiculous / Knowing these are the first 5 words / In "A Visit from St. Nicholas" 'Twas the night before Christmas |
| #8939, aired 2023-09-28 | FROM THE GREEK $400: Before you ask for mine, you should know it's from the Greek for "self-written" autograph |
| #8939, aired 2023-09-28 | INVEST $2000: To determine a company's performance before you invest, check out its P/E ratio, this price-to-earnings |
| #8938, aired 2023-09-27 | LAW & ORDER $800: This other "A" word is an accomplice or abettor in a crime but is not there when it is committed an accessory |
| #14, aired 2023-09-27 | CHICKEN FIVE WAYS $500: In Japan, these succulent chicken skewers are grilled over a smokeless type of charcoal called binchotan yakitori |
| #14, aired 2023-09-27 | AIRPORT STORES $600: Hungry? Many restaurants at Incheon airport serve bibimbap as well as this, the national dish of South Korea kimchi |
| #14, aired 2023-09-27 | ALASKA $5,000 (Daily Double): Before its native name Denali was restored in 2015, America's tallest peak was named for this guy who never set foot in Alaska William McKinley |
| #8935, aired 2023-09-22 | "C" IN LITERATURE $400: Right before the epilogue to this novel, Raskolnikov confesses, "It was I killed the old pawnbroker woman and her sister" Crime and Punishment |
| #8935, aired 2023-09-22 | THINKING OF UKRAINE $2000: Ukraine's longest river, it bisects the country before emptying into the Black Sea the Dnieper |
| #8933, aired 2023-09-20 | THE REAL (WHITE HOUSE) WIVES OF D.C. $3,000 (Daily Double): A year before her death in 1962, she began chairing JFK's Commission on the Status of Women Eleanor Roosevelt |
| #8932, aired 2023-09-19 | PHRASES & IDIOMS $1200: Jane Austen wrote in a letter, "It was 12 before we reached home. We were all" this hyphenated canine phrase dog-tired |
| #8930, aired 2023-09-15 | CELEB LIT BEFORE & AFTER $400: "Last Week Tonight" host who learns the inside scoop on pickpocketing from Fagin John Oliver Twist |
| #8930, aired 2023-09-15 | SONG BIRDS $400: John Mayer endured these carrion eaters "hiding right outside my door... They've never gone this long without a kill before" vultures |
| #8930, aired 2023-09-15 | CELEB LIT BEFORE & AFTER $800: Ishmael & crew ready their harpoons in preparation to capture a "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" star Moby-Dick Van Dyke |
| #8930, aired 2023-09-15 | CELEB LIT BEFORE & AFTER $1200: Paul Blart portrayer takes a ride on a really big piece of fruit Kevin James and the Giant Peach |
| #8930, aired 2023-09-15 | CELEB LIT BEFORE & AFTER $1600: Tiny Tim says, "God bless us every one" for an iconic comedian & Eunice in "Mama's Family" A Christmas Carol Burnett |
| #8930, aired 2023-09-15 | CELEB LIT BEFORE & AFTER $2000: Rowling's whiz kid has trouble with a certain rock & a "chilly" WWE star Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone Cold Steve Austin |
| #8928, aired 2023-09-13 | I'M JUST A BILL, BILLY OR WILLIAM $400: In 1887 he began running the San Francisco Examiner, which his dad acquired 7 years before Hearst |
| #8928, aired 2023-09-13 | TO SIR PAUL, WITH LOVE $1200: Deep in the mix & perhaps making a mistake just before the "na na na" part, a Beatle exclaims, "(Bleepin') hell!" on this long classic "Hey Jude" |
| #8926, aired 2023-09-11 | HONORARY HARLEM GLOBETROTTERS $800: Before coaching the Knicks in "Eddie", this comic & "Ghost" star became an honorary member Whoopi Goldberg |
| #8925, aired 2023-07-28 | IF YOU KNOW WHAT'S GOOD FOR YOU $800: Doing this before bed can help you sleep better; try the bridge or legs up the wall poses yoga |
| #8925, aired 2023-07-28 | BREEDS OF SHEEP $800: Sheep like the Dorper that shed & don't need shearing are called not wool, but this type, also a word before "trigger" or "raising" hair |
| #8925, aired 2023-07-28 | "CC" ME $1200: It begins as a hot dry desert wind over northern Africa before picking up moisture as it crosses the Mediterranean a sirocco |
| #8924, aired 2023-07-27 | HISTORIC AMERICANS $600: Before partnering with Henry Wells, he worked as an express messenger for Wells' company Fargo |
| #8924, aired 2023-07-27 | RETITLED MOVIE ADAPTATIONS $1000: "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" was loosely based on this epic written about 2,800 years before The Odyssey |
| #8924, aired 2023-07-27 | THAT SONG SLAYS $1600: In a song that really slays, "In The Pines" is the answer to this question asked by Nirvana & by others long before "Where Did You Sleep Last Night?" |
| #8923, aired 2023-07-26 | LONG MOVIES $400: A year before her role in "Titanic", Kate Winslet played this doomed character in a 4-hour adaptation of "Hamlet" Ophelia |
| #8923, aired 2023-07-26 | CROOKS $400: In 1878 this "childish" gunslinger fought in the Lincoln County War before his date with Pat Garrett in 1881 Billy the Kid |
| #8921, aired 2023-07-24 | STARTS WITH 3 CONSONANTS $800: This-ing "the gnar" means skiing difficult terrain; this-ing on a guitar is what Eddie Van Halen did shredding (thrashing) |
| #8921, aired 2023-07-24 | MY WOULD-BE VP $2000: Earl Warren, 5 years before becoming Chief Justice Thomas Dewey |
| #8919, aired 2023-07-20 | BEFORE & AFTER $400: The nickname of disease spreader Ms. Mallon gets a big break on Broadway in a show about a nanny for the Banks family Typhoid Mary Poppins |
| #8919, aired 2023-07-20 | JOHN LENNON $800: For "Double" this, the last album released before his death, John & Yoko alternated songs Fantasy |
| #8919, aired 2023-07-20 | COFFEE, NOW $800: Before this process, coffee beans are green; after, they're brown & ready to grind roasting |
| #8919, aired 2023-07-20 | BEFORE & AFTER $800: A phrase about the return of bovines that means to wait a long time gets around to founding a house improvement chain in 1978 wait until the cows come Home Depot |
| #8919, aired 2023-07-20 | BEFORE & AFTER $1200: A standard piece of lumber twice as wide as it is thick is also a day or time meaningful to cannabis users 2 by 4/20 |
| #8919, aired 2023-07-20 | BEFORE & AFTER $1600: A Vegas casino with a Roman theme changes allegiances & becomes a royal residence & private retreat of Louis XIII Caesar's Palace of Versailles |
| #8919, aired 2023-07-20 | BEFORE & AFTER $2000: A nation's military planes get frozen & you have to hit a combination of keys on your Mac or PC to exit them Air Force Quit |
| #8918, aired 2023-07-19 | PAINTER SELFIES $400: Before taking off for Tahiti, he painted "The Yellow Christ" & "Portrait of the Artist with the Yellow Christ" Gauguin |
| #8918, aired 2023-07-19 | JULIE & JULIA $1000: This French actress has played Céline in a trilogy of films Julie Delpy |
| #8917, aired 2023-07-18 | PREFIXES & SUFFIXES $200: Appropriately, this prefix comes before
-diluvian &
-cedent ante |
| #8916, aired 2023-07-17 | TOM SWIFT TALES $800: Tom Swift Jr. had "his outpost in space" in 1955, 3 years before his "Race to" this the Moon |
| #8915, aired 2023-07-14 | 3,3 $1000: This Scottish outlaw spent time in Newgate Prison but was pardoned before he was to be sent to Barbados Rob Roy |
| #8915, aired 2023-07-14 | AROUND THE HOUSE $2000: Also a word for mosaics, it refers to a distinctive flooring pattern of teeny squares or tiles tessellated (tesserae) |
| #8914, aired 2023-07-13 | MOVIE BEFORE & AFTER $400: Darth Vader chops off Luke's hand, so Marty fills in on guitar at the dance The Empire Strikes Back to the Future |
| #8914, aired 2023-07-13 | ESPAÑ-O $800: It comes immediately before Junio & Julio Mayo |
| #8914, aired 2023-07-13 | MOVIE BEFORE & AFTER $800: Gollum plummets into the crack of Doom, causing Sauron to plummet from the top of the Empire State Building The Return of the King Kong |
| #8914, aired 2023-07-13 | NONFICTION $800: From his "Art of War": "The best victory is when the opponent surrenders of its own accord before there are any actual hostilities" Sun Tzu |
| #8914, aired 2023-07-13 | MOVIE BEFORE & AFTER $1200: Michael Cera fights his girlfriend's exes as Robin Williams fights to get out of his mother's shadow Scott Pilgrim vs. the World According to Garp |
| #8914, aired 2023-07-13 | MOVIE BEFORE & AFTER $1600: Rex Harrison teaches Audrey Hepburn how to speak proper English & vocalize like Billie Holiday My Fair Lady Day (My Fair Lady Sings the Blues) |
| #8914, aired 2023-07-13 | MOVIE BEFORE & AFTER $2000: Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef & Eli Wallach fight for gold while Marlon Brando gives Yanks a bad name overseas The Good, the Bad and the Ugly American |
| #8912, aired 2023-07-11 | 7-LETTER WORDS $2000: It's the place where horses are saddled before a race, or an enclosed space where they're exercised a paddock |
| #8911, aired 2023-07-10 | THE HIGH "C"s $400: Meaning "city", it comes before Juárez in the name of a lofty city in Mexico Ciudad |
| #8911, aired 2023-07-10 | POP CULTURE-POURRI $2000: Wednesday & Pugsley are sent to summer camp in this 1993 movie sequel whose title is a BEFORE & AFTER Addams Family Values |
| #8908, aired 2023-07-05 | RHYMING PHRASES $2000: This fraudulent investing scheme involves boosting a stock price with fake hype & selling before a drop pumping & dumping |
| #8907, aired 2023-07-04 | WORLD RIVERS $400: The Yukon River flows about 2,000 miles before emptying into this sea named for a Dane the Bering |
| #8907, aired 2023-07-04 | LET'S GO TO THE SPORTS BOOK $2000: "The night before I met Jimmy Connors... at Wimbledon in the summer of 1975, I went to bed & slept soundly", he says in "Days of Grace" Arthur Ashe |
| #8906, aired 2023-07-03 | TOUCHED FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME $200: Before stepping on the Moon, he told Neil Armstrong he'd "partially close the hatch... making sure not to lock it"; Neil: "Good thought" Aldrin |
| #8905, aired 2023-06-30 | SPORTS ROOKIES $1000: In 1959, long before he voiced "The King" in "Cars", this racing legend was NASCAR's Rookie of the Year Richard Petty |
| #8904, aired 2023-06-29 | "I" BEFORE "EE" $200: Happening twice a month, more or less biweekly |
| #8904, aired 2023-06-29 | BEFORE & AFTER PEOPLE $400: Gunslinger William Bonney who rapped & rolled his way to hits like "Cowboy" & "Redneck Paradise" Billy the Kid Rock |
| #8904, aired 2023-06-29 | "I" BEFORE "EE" $400: Adjective denoting pleasure accompanied by regret, or chocolate without a ton of sugar bittersweet |
| #8904, aired 2023-06-29 | "I" BEFORE "EE" $600: This little bird is in the title of a W.C. Fields-Mae West pairing a chickadee |
| #8904, aired 2023-06-29 | "I" BEFORE "EE" $800: It's Britspeak for the glass in front of the driver's face the windscreen |
| #8904, aired 2023-06-29 | BEFORE & AFTER PEOPLE $800: Chinese-American female architect who brought Tony-winning hip-hop history to Broadway Maya Lin-Manuel Miranda |
| #8904, aired 2023-06-29 | THE HYPOCRITIC OAF $800: Before he freely sang a song of himself, Whitman was soused when he wrote a novel for this movement that led to prohibition the temperance movement |
| #8904, aired 2023-06-29 | "I" BEFORE "EE" $1000: In California, this act of campaigning for or against a candidate or measure is prohibited within 100 feet of a polling place electioneering |
| #8904, aired 2023-06-29 | BEFORE & AFTER PEOPLE $1200: This songbird came in on a "Wrecking Ball" after inventing the mechanical reaper in the 19th century Miley Cyrus McCormick |
| #8904, aired 2023-06-29 | BEFORE & AFTER PEOPLE $1600: Director Ron's actress daughter who took the Spruce Goose on a little jaunt in 1947 Bryce (Dallas) Howard Hughes |
| #8904, aired 2023-06-29 | BEFORE & AFTER PEOPLE $2000: Gritty "Get Shorty" novelist who asked folks to "Live long and prosper" on film Elmore Leonard Nimoy |
| #8904, aired 2023-06-29 | THE LAW $2000: From the same root as "eloquent", it's a defendant's speech to the judge before sentencing allocution |
| #8903, aired 2023-06-28 | PREFIXES $400: Before "act", "attack" & "mand", it means opposite or against counter |
| #8903, aired 2023-06-28 | PREFIXES $800: Before "B",
en-
often becomes em-,
as in this mortuary job embalmer |
| #8903, aired 2023-06-28 | ANIMATED MOVIE CHARACTERS $1600: Cera, Littlefoot, Spike, Petrie & Ducky try to reunite with their families in this 1988 film set long, long ago The Land Before Time |
| #8901, aired 2023-06-26 | WAR OF THE WORDS $1200: Years before "À la Recherche du Temps Perdu", he fought a duel with a critic who had angered him; both shots missed Proust |
| #8900, aired 2023-06-23 | QUI"ZZ"ICAL $1600: This word comes before "mast" to mean the mast usually third from the front on a sailing ship mizzen |
| #8899, aired 2023-06-22 | 20th CENTURY HAPPENINGS $400: Before joining it in 1967, this Baltimore-born man argued & won 29 out of 32 cases before the U.S. Supreme Court (Thurgood) Marshall |
| #8898, aired 2023-06-21 | NEVADA $1000: Native groups living in Nevada before the arrival of settlers include this one who lend their name to a vast desert of the Southwest the Mojave |
| #8897, aired 2023-06-20 | LET'S STICK TOGETHER $800: This sticky stuff is found before
-comb,
-dripper &
badger honey |
| #8896, aired 2023-06-19 | TV $600: Before he starred on "Castle" & "The Rookie", he was Captain Mal Reynolds on "Firefly" (Nathan) Fillion |
| #8895, aired 2023-06-16 | CUFFING SEASON $800: In this 1999 film Laurence Fishburne breaks the chains off his handcuffs before jumping out of a building & into Keanu's arms The Matrix |
| #8895, aired 2023-06-16 | THIS IS ALL A BIT MUCH $1200: There may be a bit of chagrin involved when this long word comes before "of riches" in an idiom embarrassment |
| #8893, aired 2023-06-14 | 3-, 4- OR 5-LETTER WORDS $400: Before singing "He's my brother", The Hollies noted that "He ain't" this heavy |
| #8889, aired 2023-06-08 | BIG & LIL POP CULTURE $1600: Before "Everything Everywhere All at Once", Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert directed "Turn Down for What" by DJ Snake & this rapper Lil Jon |
| #8888, aired 2023-06-07 | FOLLIES $600: If he could have found time to name a successor before dying in 323 B.C., it would have saved a lot of war & trouble Alexander the Great |
| #8887, aired 2023-06-06 | NONFICTION TV $800: The final leg of this show had Derek & Claire get their Jack Daniel's on (at the distillery) before winning big after 16 cities The Amazing Race |
| #8886, aired 2023-06-05 | 4, 4 $800: It came before "and carry on" in motivational posters created by Britain's Ministry of Information in 1939 Keep calm |
| #8886, aired 2023-06-05 | THE SCIENCE OF POETRY $2,000 (Daily Double): In a 1920s limerick, "There was a young lady named Bright/ Whose speed was far" these 3 words; she gets back home before she left faster than light |
| #8883, aired 2023-05-31 | 8-LETTER WORDS $600: When a lumbering lineman talks to the referee before a play, he may be making himself this, able to legally catch a pass eligible |
| #8883, aired 2023-05-31 | FAMOUS SIBLINGS $1200: Drew & Jonathan Scott considered naming their TV show "Bros Before Renos" before settling on this name the Property Brothers |
| #8883, aired 2023-05-31 | PRESIDENTIAL DOIN'S $1600: Had a cold, went out to buy veggies anyway; got pneumonia, died before 31st full day on the job (William) Henry Harrison |
| #8882, aired 2023-05-30 | AUTHORS' FIRST NOVELS $200: Before "Pride and Prejudice", Jane Austen's first novel paired these 2 title qualities sense & sensibility |
| #8879, aired 2023-05-25 | POLITICIANS $1200: Before becoming mayor of New York City in 2022, he served as an NYPD officer & as Brooklyn borough president Adams |
| #18, aired 2023-05-23 | IT'S THE SILENT CONSONANT $800: In an old word for a compound produced in food by bacteria; it used to be found before "poisoning" P (ptomaine) |
| #18, aired 2023-05-23 | CLASSIC CAR TV $800: Huggy Bear says word on the street is these 2 title cops were drivin' a red Ford Gran Torino, also called the Striped Tomato Starsky and Hutch |
| #17, aired 2023-05-23 | BEFORE, DURING & AFTER $400: "International" cocoa concoction for the unmarried Clue character portrayed by Colin Jost's wife Swiss Miss Scarlet Johansson |
| #17, aired 2023-05-23 | FOR MASTERS ONLY $400: This word for a small amount is often found before "of applause" smattering |
| #17, aired 2023-05-23 | BEFORE, DURING & AFTER $800: Kermit's colorful theme song about the group that nominated Ralph Nader & always spoiled the fun at festivities "It's Not Easy Being Green" Party pooper |
| #17, aired 2023-05-23 | BEFORE, DURING & AFTER $1200: Last 4 words of our national anthem, as sung by an animated kitchen appliance & his german-style Pillsbury product home of the brave little toaster strudel |
| #17, aired 2023-05-23 | BEFORE, DURING & AFTER $1600: "Stacy's Mom" warblers put an actor in the band; once a TV postman, he wandered seeking chivalry & adventure Fountains of Wayne Knight errant |
| #17, aired 2023-05-23 | BEFORE, DURING & AFTER $2000: Numeric sci-fi book about a metaverse, a singular evening of passion & the controversial right to use deadly force as self-defense Ready Player One-night stand your ground |
| #16, aired 2023-05-22 | THE ARTS $800: One of the inaugural exhibits at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures honored this anime director of "Spirited Away" Miyazaki |
| #16, aired 2023-05-22 | THE REST IS HISTORY $1000: By Georges, this orator & firebrand of the French Revolution said, "I shall go to sleep in glory" before he got the guillotine Georges Danton |
| #15, aired 2023-05-22 | TOUGH SCIENCE $2000: Before oxygen was discovered, it was thought that all combustible matter contained a burnable substance called this phlogiston |
| #8875, aired 2023-05-19 | SOME OF THE 10 COMMANDMENTS $600: These 4 words come 2 verses before "Thou shalt not steal" Thou shalt not kill |
| #8874, aired 2023-05-18 | BEFORE & ACTOR $200: "Minority Report" star that takes you from one Caribbean port to another Tom Cruise ship |
| #8874, aired 2023-05-18 | BEFORE & ACTOR $400: "Basic Instinct" actress from about 2.5 million years ago Sharon Stone Age |
| #8874, aired 2023-05-18 | THE WORLD OF HANNA-BARBERA $400: Before it hit the air in 1960, it went though several title changes, including "The Flagstones" & "The Gladstones" The Flintstones |
| #8874, aired 2023-05-18 | BEFORE & ACTOR $600: "Gidget" TV actress who counts for 3 points in football Sally Field goal |
| #8874, aired 2023-05-18 | BEFORE & ACTOR $800: Desi Arnaz spouse secured to a prisoner to prevent escape Lucille Ball & chain |
| #8874, aired 2023-05-18 | MAGAZINES $800: Launched in 1937, this similar 4-letter magazine gave Life some stiff competition before ending its run in 1971 Look |
| #8874, aired 2023-05-18 | BEFORE & ACTOR $1000: "Who's the Boss?" & "Transparent" actress & oxymoronic pro boxing class going up to 175 pounds Judith Light heavyweight |
| #8873, aired 2023-05-17 | Y'KNOW, THE MOVIE WHERE... $200: A farmer plays baseball with a dead guy, time-travels & ends up owning a tourist trap Field of Dreams |
| #8873, aired 2023-05-17 | U.S. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS $1600: Early contenders for the Democratic nom in 1960 before JFK got the nod included Hubert Humphrey & this man who'd run against Eisenhower Adlai Stevenson |
| #8873, aired 2023-05-17 | U.S. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS $2000: As a candidate for the Democratic nomination in 1972, she won 152 delegates before withdrawing from the race Chisholm |
| #8873, aired 2023-05-17 | U.S. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS $5,000 (Daily Double): In 1852 this political party nominated war hero Gen. Winfield Scott, its last candidate for the top job, before disbanding the Whig Party |
| #14, aired 2023-05-17 | THE 20th CENTURY $1,000 (Daily Double): During World War I Charles de Gaulle was wounded several times before he was captured in 1916 at this bloody battle Verdun |
| #14, aired 2023-05-17 | COMIC STRIPS $1000: Characters in this current strip include an arrogant rat, a humble dimwitted pig & a duck who guards the pig's front lawn Pearls Before Swine |
| #13, aired 2023-05-17 | FAMOUS PAIRS $1000: While they never married, this French existentialist couple did share a lifelong romantic & literary relationship Sartre & de Beauvoir |
| #8872, aired 2023-05-16 | CHILLIN' IN THE R.I.P. LOUNGE $400: On Oct. 14, 1793 things did not go her way before the revolutionary tribunal & 2 days later, she was an instant ex-royal Marie Antoinette |
| #8872, aired 2023-05-16 | COLLEGE: THE DROP/ADD PERIOD $600: Add this name after "Washington and" but before "University" Lee |
| #8872, aired 2023-05-16 | AUTOMOTIVE ALLITERATION $600: Before replacing these, check whether you need the bayonet, J hook or side post type windshield wipers |
| #8872, aired 2023-05-16 | COLLEGE: THE DROP/ADD PERIOD $800: Add the name of this group of California colleges before "McKenna" Claremont |
| #12, aired 2023-05-16 | 12-LETTER WORDS $600: It's now pretty much lights out for this once-standard type of light bulb, as its filament is less efficient incandescent |
| #12, aired 2023-05-16 | GO TO YOUR ROOM $800: Children can go wild in a rec room or this other alliterative one whose name suggests it need not be quiet rumpus room (or romp room) |
| #11, aired 2023-05-16 | WOMEN IN HISTORY $400: She taught school in Milwaukee before moving to what was then Palestine, then eventually becoming prime minister of Israel Golda Meir |
| #11, aired 2023-05-16 | NONFICTION $1000: Before he was part of the Kennedy administration, this tall economist advocated government spending in "The Affluent Society" John Kenneth Galbraith |
| #10, aired 2023-05-15 | WHAT A LITERARY CHARACTER! $2,000 (Daily Double): At the end of a Thomas Pynchon book, Oedipa Maas awaits the bidding on a stamp collection with this auction number lot 49 |
| #8870, aired 2023-05-12 | LESSER-KNOWN FILM TRILOGIES $400: This word precedes "Sunrise", "Sunset" & "Midnight" in the names of a romantic trio of films from Richard Linklater Before |
| #8870, aired 2023-05-12 | GAME SHOW HOSTS $800: He was a regular on "Hogan's Heroes" & "Laugh-In" before getting the hosting gig on "Family Feud" Richard Dawson |
| #8870, aired 2023-05-12 | LESSER-KNOWN FILM TRILOGIES $1200: Before Marvel really started trilogizing, this hero of theirs sunk his teeth into 3 films, the last being 2004's "Trinity" Blade |
| #8, aired 2023-05-12 | MASTERPIECES $1600: Before dying at 51, this Frenchman wrote masterpieces including "Le Père Goriot", part of his series "La Comédie humaine" Balzac |
| #7, aired 2023-05-12 | THE SUFFERING OF JESUS $200: "All" these people, from the Latin for "student", left Jesus "and fled" before he was taken to the high priest the Disciples |
| #7, aired 2023-05-12 | MEDIEVAL LITERATURE $400: Long before Shakespeare, this tale-teller wrote the similar "Troilus & Criseyde" in the 14th century Chaucer |
| #7, aired 2023-05-12 | CHRISTIAN-ITY $800: Before designing his red-soled shoes, Christian Louboutin apprenticed at this Parisian music hall famously seen in a Manet painting Folies-Bergère |
| #7, aired 2023-05-12 | ISLE BE "C"ING YOU $800: Popular tourist highlights on this Italian isle are the Blue Grotto & the Castiglione, a medieval castle Capri |
| #7, aired 2023-05-12 | CHRISTIAN-ITY $1200: This fashion designer studied under Vivienne Westwood & Alexander McQueen before launching his own collection Christian Siriano |
| #7, aired 2023-05-12 | MNEMONIC POSSESSION $1600: "Dear King Philip claps often for good science" begins with this--all life can be divided into 3, including bacteria domain |
| #8869, aired 2023-05-11 | NOTABLE BLACK AMERICANS $1200: Subject of a biopic, this actress began in vaudeville before starring in films like "Carmen Jones" Dorothy Dandridge |
| #8869, aired 2023-05-11 | NOTABLE BLACK AMERICANS $1600: A note from Mary Ellen Pleasant, a millionaire & former slave, was found in the pocket of this abolitionist before his 1859 hanging John Brown |
| #8868, aired 2023-05-10 | BETTER TOMES & GARDENS $400: He published "A Child's Garden of Verses" in 1885, a year before his novel "Kidnapped" (Robert Louis) Stevenson |
| #8868, aired 2023-05-10 | NEW NEW ORLEANS MUSIC $1200: Trumpeter Chief Xian aTunde Adjuah sometimes plays with a tilted bell just like this musician before him Dizzy Gillespie |
| #8868, aired 2023-05-10 | THE ELEMENTS $2000: Before penicillin, salvarsan, a compound of this poisonous element, was used to treat syphilis arsenic |
| #6, aired 2023-05-10 | NOLAD SON OF AFRAL, BIBLICAL OB/GYN $800: Before she bore Ishmael, I sent her & Abraham to genetic counseling, recommended in cases of advanced paternal age Hagar |
| #5, aired 2023-05-10 | DEALING WITH THE GOVERNMENT $600: Appointed by Reagan, he was Chief Justice of the United States immediately before John Roberts Rehnquist |
| #8867, aired 2023-05-09 | PEOPLE $200: In 1952, before Jonas Salk's vaccine for this became available, the number of U.S. cases surged to 57,000; by 1962, it was 910 polio |
| #4, aired 2023-05-09 | THE OTHER MASTERS $400: Many have said a prayer before playing the 11th, 12th & 13th holes, collectively known as this Amen Corner |
| #3, aired 2023-05-09 | DIANE WARREN $800: (Diane Warren gives the clue.) My song "Blame It On The Rain" was the last No. 1 hit for this Europop duo before it was revealed that they didn't actually do their own singing
"Blame it on the rain" Milli Vanilli |
| #8866, aired 2023-05-08 | POP MUSIC-PODGE $400: She earned our respect by singing "Respect" during her "American Idol" days before having her own hit with "Behind These Hazel Eyes" Kelly Clarkson |
| #8866, aired 2023-05-08 | AMERICAN WOMAN $400: Before Elena Kagan was the first woman to be dean of this at Harvard, she was the first bat mitzvah at Lincoln Square Synagogue (Harvard) Law (School) |
| #2, aired 2023-05-08 | SAME FIRST & LAST LETTER $1600: This verb can mean to weaken or disembowel, figuratively & literally eviscerate (or gutting) |
| #1, aired 2023-05-08 | 20/23 $200: In the human body most cells normally contain 23 pairs of these chromosomes |
| #1, aired 2023-05-08 | JASON ALEXANDER: MASTER OF MY DOMAIN $1000: (Jason Alexander gives the clue.) Long before winning the first Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, Richard Pryor wrote for this '70s sitcom; the star next to Richard is a big hint & man, its theme song was fantastic Sanford and Son |
| #1, aired 2023-05-08 | ALLITERATIVE HISTORY $2,000 (Daily Double): Thaddeus Stevens & Charles Sumner were members of this "extreme" group in Lincoln's party advocating emancipation Radical Republicans |
| #8865, aired 2023-05-05 | EVERYTHING'S COMING UP ROSE $1000: D.C. socialite Rose O'Neal Greenhow sent word that Union troops were moving on Manassas, helping the Confederates before this battle the Battle of Bull Run |
| #8865, aired 2023-05-05 | REVOLUTION $1600: After a speech by Khrushchev in 1956, this country revolted, but the Soviets intervened before year's end Hungary |
| #8864, aired 2023-05-04 | PHRASING $400: When this word from tennis comes before "compliment", it's an insult concealed as praise backhand |
| #8863, aired 2023-05-03 | THEATER BEFORE & AFTER $400: While evading Scar, Simba happens upon 2 other devious foes: Goneril & Regan Lion King Lear |
| #8863, aired 2023-05-03 | JOHN C. REILLY $600: John is seen here at a Lakers game years before playing this owner of the team on HBO's "Winning Time" (Jerry) Buss |
| #8863, aired 2023-05-03 | THEATER BEFORE & AFTER $800: "76 trombones led the big parade" celebrating "The Impossible Dream" Music Man of La Mancha |
| #8863, aired 2023-05-03 | THEATER BEFORE & AFTER $1200: Wannabe music star Dewey Finn gets his prep students in tune at the Sunset Strip's Bourbon Room, so "Don't Stop Believin'" School of Rock of Ages |
| #8863, aired 2023-05-03 | THEATER BEFORE & AFTER $1600: Stella & Stanley forego the magnolias & head on over to Eugene O'Neill's play for some "arboreal" passion A Streetcar Named Desire Under the Elms |
| #8863, aired 2023-05-03 | THEATER BEFORE & AFTER $2000: Sam Shepard's play about 2 brothers who get caught up in a turf war with the Jets & Sharks True West Side Story |
| #8862, aired 2023-05-02 | MYTHOLOGY $400: This god of love hid Psyche & visited in secret until she found out who he was Cupid (or Eros) |
| #8862, aired 2023-05-02 | JEOPAIR! BOARDING PROCESS $600: We invite aboard those who've achieved this Jeopair! status, a synonym for highest found before "being" to refer to God supreme |
| #8860, aired 2023-04-28 | KUWAIT FOR ME! $600: Before the dominance of the oil industry, Kuwait was a center of diving offshore for these precious objects, often at depths over 100 feet pearls |
| #8859, aired 2023-04-27 | 4-LETTER BEFORE & AFTER $400: Oddly, the Colonel's recipes are overseen by this agency along with Americans' TVs & cell phones the KFCC |
| #8859, aired 2023-04-27 | 4-LETTER BEFORE & AFTER $800: A January 1 texting abbreviation for students at an institution around Manhattan's Washington Square Park HNYU |
| #8859, aired 2023-04-27 | 4-LETTER BEFORE & AFTER $1200: An American truck & SUV maker becomes a world of entertainment that got started with "Iron Man" GMCU |
| #8859, aired 2023-04-27 | 4-LETTER BEFORE & AFTER $1600: Look--they took a plastic for making pipes & built a device to record TV shows in the 1980s PVCR |
| #8859, aired 2023-04-27 | 4-LETTER BEFORE & AFTER $2000: This report, very important to boss Bill Lumbergh in "Office Space", is also a commercial broadcast for the audience's benefit TPSA |
| #8858, aired 2023-04-26 | CONFIDENCE $200: This synonym for confidence can be found before "healer" & after "defender of the" faith |
| #8857, aired 2023-04-25 | THE CENTAUR OF ATTENTION $600: Before heading to the Vatican this artist sculpted pieces like the "Battle of the Centaurs", seen here Michelangelo |
| #8857, aired 2023-04-25 | STATESMEN & WOMEN $2000: In one of his final posts before his death in 1895, this African American served as U.S. minister to Haiti Frederick Douglass |
| #8854, aired 2023-04-20 | MY PREROGATIVE $200: In 2013 this group was re-authorized to stay with ex-presidents for life, not just 10 years as the law had stated before the Secret Service |
| #8853, aired 2023-04-19 | MUSIC-"O"-LOGY $400: It's the speed of a musical piece; before "primo", it means at the original pace tempo |
| #8853, aired 2023-04-19 | TV $400: On this TLC series couples have 3 months to get married before a visa expires 90-Day Fiancé |
| #8851, aired 2023-04-17 | TV BEFORE & AFTER $400: A Time Lord from Gallifrey might want to phone a friend on the way to winning a huge sum of money Doctor Who Wants to Be a Millionaire |
| #8851, aired 2023-04-17 | TV BEFORE & AFTER $800: Brenda Walsh & Donna Martin join Dorit, Kyle & the other wealthy women on a Bravo reality show The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, 90210 |
| #8851, aired 2023-04-17 | BODY LANGUAGE $800: This word referring to the sole comes before "fasciitis" in an injury of the foot plantar |
| #8851, aired 2023-04-17 | TV BEFORE & AFTER $1200: Harry Hamlin & Susan Dey leave the courtroom to investigate sex crimes in New York with Mariska Hargitay L.A. Law & Order: SVU |
| #8851, aired 2023-04-17 | TV BEFORE & AFTER $1600: The Tanners move to Washington, D.C., where they become ruthless & vengeful politicians Full House of Cards |
| #8851, aired 2023-04-17 | TV BEFORE & AFTER $2000: Annalise Keating & Jessica Fletcher solve crimes or possibly cover them up & then tell about them in books How to Get Away with Murder, She Wrote |
| #8849, aired 2023-04-13 | HERE'S A BIT OF EVERYTHING $800: Here is Winston-Salem's Reynolds Building, finished in 1929, two years before this similar-looking landmark with 80 more floors the Empire State Building |
| #8849, aired 2023-04-13 | TRIPLE "A" $1600: Adjective found before a lavish "estate", even if not a king's or queen's palatial |
| #8847, aired 2023-04-11 | ARCHITECTURALLY SPEAKING $200: To become involved with something lucrative before a larger group of people learns about it is to "get in" here the ground floor |
| #8846, aired 2023-04-10 | A RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT $1200: It's misleading to put this word before "dementia" because dementia is not a necessary part of getting old senile (Nile) |
| #8846, aired 2023-04-10 | QUANTUM SCIENCE $1600: (Spiros Michalakis presents the clue.) In computing, either 1 or 0, on or off, can be represented by this unit, with "Q-U" for quantum before it, & it can be in both states at once, allowing more simultaneous operations a bit |
| #8846, aired 2023-04-10 | NOVELS BY QUOTE $1600: "Mr. Trask is from New England. He plans to settle here. He's been West before though" East of Eden |
| #8845, aired 2023-04-07 | POP CULTURE $400: He gave us the "Produce Pete" segment of "The Daily Show" before becoming "The 40-Year-Old Virgin" Steve Carell |
| #8844, aired 2023-04-06 | LATIN WORDS & PHRASES $400: Meaning "before the war", it commonly refers to the period before the American Civil War Antebellum |
| #8844, aired 2023-04-06 | ANCIENT CITIES $600: Circa 330 A.D. the city once known as this got a new name under new emperor Constantine Byzantium |
| #8843, aired 2023-04-05 | BIBLE BOOKS BY QUOTES $1000: "Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand" the Book of Daniel |
| #8843, aired 2023-04-05 | LITERARY BAD DAY FOR THE PLANET $2000: John Wyndham's novel about "The Day of" these meat-eating plants sees most of humanity blinded before being featured on the menu the Triffids |
| #8842, aired 2023-04-04 | ALL THE DAYS OF MY LIFE $400: Jawaharlal Nehru's only child, she worked in government before becoming India's first female prime minister Indira Gandhi |
| #8842, aired 2023-04-04 | ALL THE DAYS OF MY LIFE $1,000 (Daily Double): He worked to develop a flu vaccine before coming up with one for polio, declared safe on April 12, 1955 Jonas Salk |
| #8839, aired 2023-03-30 | WORLD PLACE NAMES $800: He named the Bounty Islands of the South Pacific after his ship Bligh |
| #8839, aired 2023-03-30 | CELEBRITY MEMOIRS $1000: Before his passing, this former teen idol penned "C'mon, Get Happy" David Cassidy |
| #8838, aired 2023-03-29 | TREE-NAMED PLACES $2000: This tree comes before "Bluff" in the name of a city in Missouri Poplar |
| #8837, aired 2023-03-28 | BEFORE & AFTER FEMALE DUOS $400: Prolific British mystery author & supermodel who's mom to Alexa Agatha Christie Brinkley |
| #8837, aired 2023-03-28 | BEFORE & AFTER FEMALE DUOS $800: Historical early 20th century disease carrier & our 16th president's spouse Typhoid Mary Todd Lincoln |
| #8837, aired 2023-03-28 | A BABY $1000: This yellow discoloration of a newborn's skin & eyes is common in babies born before 38 weeks' gestation jaundice |
| #8837, aired 2023-03-28 | BEFORE & AFTER FEMALE DUOS $1200: "GLOW" wrestler & Captain Marvel portrayer Alison Brie Larson |
| #8837, aired 2023-03-28 | BEFORE & AFTER FEMALE DUOS $1600: "Queen's Gambit" star & co-host of "The View" Anya Taylor-Joy Behar |
| #8837, aired 2023-03-28 | BEFORE & AFTER FEMALE DUOS $2000: Charlie Brown's "spicy" gal pal & newly chosen President Pro Tempore of the Senate from Washington Peppermint Patty Murray |
| #8836, aired 2023-03-27 | THE STATUE OF LIBERTY $1000: At the 1886 dedication, this president spoke of the statue "keeping watch & ward before the open gates of America" Cleveland |
| #8835, aired 2023-03-24 | BEFORE & ACTORS $400: Will Hunting & Jason Bourne on the big screen who is Roger Murtaugh on the small screen Matt Damon Wayans |
| #8835, aired 2023-03-24 | THE WWE $400: (Alexa Bliss presents the clue.) Dave Bautista went 282 days to destroy the record for the longest single reign as world heavyweight champ before suiting up, or really stripping down, to play Drax the Destroyer in this 2014 Marvel film Guardians of the Galaxy |
| #8835, aired 2023-03-24 | THE WWE $600: (Rey Mysterio presents the clue.) Even before I could drive, I masked up & devoted myself to the highflying Mexican freestyle wrestling tradition known by this alliterative 2-word name & I bring it full force to WWE Lucha Libre |
| #8835, aired 2023-03-24 | BEFORE & ACTORS $1200: Portrayer of the baseball bat-wielding Negan on "The Walking Dead" who narrated "March of the Penguins" Jeffrey Dean Morgan Freeman |
| #8835, aired 2023-03-24 | REJECTED AUTHORS $1200: This title auntie of Patrick Dennis' novel was too irrepressible for more than a dozen publishers before it came out in 1955 Mame |
| #8835, aired 2023-03-24 | BEFORE & ACTORS $1600: "Creed" star who got involved with a drug kingpin's kitty in "Keanu" Michael B. Jordan Peele |
| #8834, aired 2023-03-23 | APOCA-LIPSTICK $600: Did aliens cause the fuss? In that case, try this numeric lipstick shade whose name comes before "from Outer Space" in a 1957 film title Plan 9 |
| #8834, aired 2023-03-23 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $2000: It comes before "Ukraini" to mean "glory to Ukraine"; it's also a common nickname Slava |
| #8834, aired 2023-03-23 | HISTORIC NAMES $2000: Before he got the boot for good in 41 A.D., this emperor wanted a statue of himself placed in the Temple in Jerusalem Caligula |
| #8833, aired 2023-03-22 | MAKING MUSIC $800: (Questlove presents the clue.) This use of snippets from other artists' songs is a hip-hop tradition; in 2006 the Roots had a half hour to clear one from Radiohead before our album got shipped, so we got Jay-Z to find Thom Yorke at the gym a sample |
| #8833, aired 2023-03-22 | 1963 $800: "She" made a rare visit to the U.S. from the Louvre & was displayed in Washington, D.C. & New York before her return trip the Mona Lisa |
| #8832, aired 2023-03-21 | A.K.A. $400: Even before hacker Thomas Anderson took a certain pill in a 1999 movie, he was being referred to by this 3-letter name Neo |
| #8830, aired 2023-03-17 | SPEAK YOUR TRUTH $2,400 (Daily Double): Verb meaning to verify an article pre-publication; before .org, it's a nonpartisan project to evaluate what politicians say factcheck |
| #8830, aired 2023-03-17 | SHIP OUT $4,000 (Daily Double): Before its more famous departure from Plymouth, the Mayflower set sail from this "directional" English port Southampton |
| #8829, aired 2023-03-16 | THE LEADER BEFORE THE LEADER $200: What can (Gordon) Brown do for you? In 2007 the U.K. began to find out after this Labour leader's run as prime minister ended Blair |
| #8829, aired 2023-03-16 | THE LEADER BEFORE THE LEADER $400: Mackenzie King took over for Arthur Meighen who took over for King, who took over for Meighen leading this nation in the 1920s Canada |
| #8829, aired 2023-03-16 | THE LEADER BEFORE THE LEADER $600: The man who would be king, Juan Carlos, is seen here with his predecessor, this general & dictator (Francisco) Franco |
| #8829, aired 2023-03-16 | THE LEADER BEFORE THE LEADER $800: A Sept. 11, 1973 coup led to the death of Salvador Allende & General Pinochet taking control of this country Chile |
| #8829, aired 2023-03-16 | THE LEADER BEFORE THE LEADER $1000: On Dec. 31, 1999 he packed it in & named Vladimir Putin acting president Yeltsin |
| #8828, aired 2023-03-15 | HANGOVER CURES $200: The juice of the Asian or Korean one of these, shaped more like an apple, only works if you take it before the drinking pear |
| #8827, aired 2023-03-14 | LORD OF THE DINGS $1200: This NBA team has featured a snake & a bell on one of its logos & before home games a bell is ceremonially rung to root them on the 76ers |
| #8825, aired 2023-03-10 | LITERARY BEFORE & AFTER $400: "The Tommyknockers" author who's a deadly venomous snake Stephen King cobra |
| #8825, aired 2023-03-10 | LITERARY BEFORE & AFTER $800: Century-plus conflict between England & France involving a sci-fi invasion of Martians in towering tripods The Hundred Years' War of the Worlds |
| #8825, aired 2023-03-10 | GETTING SCHOOLED $800: It's the 12-letter term for a college course that a student must pass before taking an advanced class prerequisite |
| #8825, aired 2023-03-10 | LITERARY BEFORE & AFTER $1600: "The Lost Symbol" author who can often be quite grizzly a Dan Brown bear |
| #8825, aired 2023-03-10 | LITERARY BEFORE & AFTER $2000: James Joyce's last book becomes a WHAM! song whose first word is "Jitterbug" Finnegans Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go |
| #8825, aired 2023-03-10 | LITERARY BEFORE & AFTER $3,000 (Daily Double): Prussian monarch military genius whose Jazz Age story plays out on Long Island Frederick the Great Gatsby |
| #8824, aired 2023-03-09 | LET'S GET DIRTY $200: Baseball players call an unhittable pitch this adjective also found before "rich" filthy |
| #8824, aired 2023-03-09 | FIRST WORDS $1200: It's the first of a product before copies are made; KFC used it to describe their "first" recipe original |
| #8824, aired 2023-03-09 | TAKE ME TO YOUR LEADER $1600: As shown in a 17th century painting, Jesus is taken before Caiaphas who is this religious boss, kohen gadol, in Hebrew the high priest |
| #8824, aired 2023-03-09 | INSIDE BALLET & OPERA $3,200 (Daily Double): This 8-letter piece of music comes before an opera & contains themes of the entire piece an overture |
| #8822, aired 2023-03-07 | MARCH MADNESS $200: Before becoming a true Warrior, this sharpshooter was a Wildcat in leading 10th-seeded Davidson to the Elite Eight in 2008 Steph Curry |
| #8821, aired 2023-03-06 | HISTORY $400: In 1617 a British diplomat promised "calm & halcyonian days" just before this decades-long conflict erupted the Thirty Years' War |
| #8818, aired 2023-03-01 | MIDDLE "RTH" $800: A prefix meaning "straight", it comes before "-dox" & "-pedist" ortho- |
| #8818, aired 2023-03-01 | POP MUSICIANS $800: "Before You Go", tell us the name of this singer, a distant relative of "Doctor Who" actor Peter Lewis Capaldi |
| #8818, aired 2023-03-01 | ONOMATOPOEIA $1000: This loud disturbance arose "out on the lawn" in "'Twas the Night Before Christmas" a clatter |
| #8817, aired 2023-02-28 | STAY CLASSY, CLASSICAL MUSIC $1200: He was born in 1756, created more than 600 works of music before his 36th birthday but never got to his 36th birthday Mozart |
| #8816, aired 2023-02-27 | BEFORE & AFTER $400: Snickers that must be passed to practice law candy bar exam |
| #8816, aired 2023-02-27 | WHAT'S THAT SCI. ABBREV.? $400: G:
This prefix meaning "billion"; it comes before "hertz" & "watts" giga |
| #8816, aired 2023-02-27 | BEFORE & AFTER $800: Peter Pan's enemy is the way you were fooled into completely believing a story Captain Hook, line & sinker |
| #8816, aired 2023-02-27 | SOUTHERNERS $800: He passed for more than 57,000 yards for the Giants before joining his big brother in football commentary Eli Manning |
| #8816, aired 2023-02-27 | BEFORE & AFTER $1200: A period of need to save up for that falls on the Mexican holiday just after Halloween the rainy Day of the Dead |
| #8816, aired 2023-02-27 | BEFORE & AFTER $1600: A hidden feature in a video game becomes evidence of public embarrassment Easter egg on your face |
| #8816, aired 2023-02-27 | BEFORE & AFTER $2000: 3 of a kind plus a pair for the family that lost England's Wars of the Roses full House of York |
| #8815, aired 2023-02-24 | I LIKE TO SCIENCE! $2,600 (Daily Double): In 1957, long before she had her own institute, she met Louis Leakey, who guided her to Gombe Stream to study chimps Jane Goodall |
| #8812, aired 2023-02-21 | SHAKESPEARE'S WOMEN $400: Before the start of the action of the play, she elopes with Othello; things don't end well for her Desdemona |
| #8811, aired 2023-02-20 | TECH TALK $200: Before takeoff, turn off your smartphone's wireless capabilities by turning on this setting airplane mode |
| #8811, aired 2023-02-20 | PARDON MY FRENCH $400: I feel like I've been here before; I have a sense of this, French for "already seen" déjà vu |
| #8809, aired 2023-02-16 | RANKS & TITLES $2000: This term for a medieval Scottish lord was the title Shakespeare's Macbeth held twice over before his act of regicide thane |
| #8808, aired 2023-02-15 | TV PARTY TONIGHT! $2000: Blair has a wild bachelorette party before her upcoming wedding to Prince Louis on a 2012 episode of this CW series Gossip Girl |
| #8806, aired 2023-02-13 | PARTY ON! $600: Gotta say I don't remember much from Joe Jonas' one of these on Ibiza right before Joe's big wedding with Sophie Turner a bachelor party |
| #8806, aired 2023-02-13 | BOB DYLAN LYRICS $3,000 (Daily Double): Singing about this comic who died in 1966:
"He didn't commit any crime, he just had the insight to rip off the lid before its time" Lenny Bruce |
| #8805, aired 2023-02-10 | BEFORE THEY WERE SUPREME COURT JUSTICES $200: Went 15 for 18 at the Supreme Court in his first year as Solicitor General; also, became president Taft |
| #8805, aired 2023-02-10 | FASHIONABLE ETYMOLOGY $400: Before it was a colorful cat, it was a cotton cloth from India calico |
| #8805, aired 2023-02-10 | SUPER BOWL HEROES $400: (Greg Olsen of Fox NFL Sunday presents the clue.) Before joking around with Howie, Jimmy & the gang on "Fox NFL Sunday"'s pregame show, this man was all business while winning back-to-back Super Bowl MVPs in 1979 & 1980 as quarterback for the Steelers Terry Bradshaw |
| #8805, aired 2023-02-10 | BEFORE THEY WERE SUPREME COURT JUSTICES $400: Tied for first in her Columbia law class in 1959 Ruth Bader Ginsburg |
| #8805, aired 2023-02-10 | BEFORE THEY WERE SUPREME COURT JUSTICES $600: Hot-dogged it as a Harvard law prof from 1914 to 1939 (Felix) Frankfurter |
| #8805, aired 2023-02-10 | BEFORE THEY WERE SUPREME COURT JUSTICES $800: Brought his alliterative flair to collaborating with Hamilton & Madison for "The Federalist" (John) Jay |
| #8805, aired 2023-02-10 | THE MIAMI VICE SQUAD $1200: Long before her Oscar nom for "The King's Speech", this 3-named British actress was Crockett's drug-addicted girlfriend Helena Bonham Carter |
| #8805, aired 2023-02-10 | BEFORE THEY WERE SUPREME COURT JUSTICES $1,600 (Daily Double): In 1973 became the Arizona Senate Majority Leader Sandra Day O'Connor |
| #8804, aired 2023-02-09 | PUT IN YOUR ORDINAL $200: It means those arriving before all others will be waited upon before anyone else first come, first served |
| #8804, aired 2023-02-09 | CHEMISTRY $800: This word means treated to increase porousness (before "charcoal") or to speed up waste breakdown (before "sludge") activated |
| #8803, aired 2023-02-08 | I BEFORE E $400: Count it--it's equal to about 4.2 joules a calorie |
| #8803, aired 2023-02-08 | ACTS OF CONGRESS $400: Months before the Emancipation Proclamation, which applied to states, came the April 1862 act freeing all those enslaved here the District of Columbia |
| #8803, aired 2023-02-08 | SHOW ME MISSOURI SHOW BIZ PEOPLE $400: Before doing it all backwards & in high heels with Fred Astaire, this dancing legend kicked things off in Independence Ginger Rogers |
| #8803, aired 2023-02-08 | I BEFORE E $800: Pipe up with this 4-letter word that means "mottled" pied |
| #8803, aired 2023-02-08 | I BEFORE E $1200: Encompassing on all sides, like air temperature or some music ambient (ambience) |
| #8803, aired 2023-02-08 | I BEFORE E $1600: This word for a feudal superior often preceded "lord" & means loyal liege |
| #8803, aired 2023-02-08 | I BEFORE E $2000: This old word for a psychiatrist comes from French for "insanity" alienists |
| #8802, aired 2023-02-07 | ROLE: MODEL $2000: Born in Kiev, she began modeling at age 11 before starring in "The Fifth Element" & the "Resident Evil" franchise (Milla) Jovovich |
| #8801, aired 2023-02-06 | DOCTOR WHO $200: Before he was named WHO's director for Europe, Dr. Hans Kluge fought to control this lung disease aka consumption tuberculosis |
| #8801, aired 2023-02-06 | S-SS-ING THE SITUATION $1600: In singular form, for a change, this word comes before "tailed" in the name of Oklahoma's state bird scissor-tailed |
| #8800, aired 2023-02-03 | THE PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS ARE THE THING $1600: The "son" never actually existed in this Albee play before dad commits a virtual "filicide" Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? |
| #8799, aired 2023-02-02 | GETTING CLOSE TO THE END $800: Put 7 letters before "ultimate" to get this word meaning the one before the next to last antepenultimate |
| #13, aired 2023-02-02 | TAKING A GAMBLE WITH JAMES HOLZHAUER $300: (James Holzhauer presents the clue.) Before I school these guys in poker, I have to put down this small bet prior to seeing cards; its name is from the Latin for "before" the ante |
| #13, aired 2023-02-02 | IT'S ALSO A GREEK LETTER $1000: It comes before 3 in a term for healthful fatty acids found in fish (the 6 type is found in meat, the 9 in almonds) omega |
| #8798, aired 2023-02-01 | A FRIENDLY GAME OF BILLIARDS $200: In 8-ball, these are the 2 distinctive types of ball each player is trying to sink before the 8 solids & stripes |
| #8798, aired 2023-02-01 | LITERARY GEMS $800: Aunt Em & Uncle Henry join Dorothy on her travels in this metropolis "of Oz" the Emerald City |
| #8797, aired 2023-01-31 | 3-LETTER PALINDROMES $800: It's found before "squad" in the name of a cheer-y group pep |
| #8796, aired 2023-01-30 | GEOLOGY $200: Before it reaches the surface & goes blooey, lava is known as this magma |
| #8795, aired 2023-01-27 | I "OU" $1600: This French word originally referred to a bride's clothing, linens & accessories that she gathered before her wedding a trousseau |
| #8795, aired 2023-01-27 | PLACE YOUR BETS $1600: Small & big, these 2 forced bets are placed after the ante & before players have seen their cards in hold 'em poker blinds |
| #8794, aired 2023-01-26 | LET'S TALK ABOUT SAX, BABY $600: The classic sax line from this 1984 No. 1 hit by Wham! begins, Wa-wa-wa-wa, wa-wa-wa-wa, wa-wa-wa-wa, wa-wa-wa "Careless Whisper" |
| #12, aired 2023-01-26 | PSYCHOLOGY $500: These 2 psychology superstars & one-time collaborators are seen here at Clark University in 1909 before they quarreled Freud & Jung |
| #8790, aired 2023-01-20 | AMERICAN LIT $400: He published "The Torrents of Spring" just months before "The Sun Also Rises" Ernest Hemingway |
| #8790, aired 2023-01-20 | REPETITIVE MUSIC $1000: A few years before this band had its first Top 10 hit in 1983, it played a gig at a club called Barbarella's Duran Duran |
| #8789, aired 2023-01-19 | THE ACTOR'S MIDDLE INITIAL $1000: Daniel Travanti, singin' the "Hill Street Blues" J. |
| #8789, aired 2023-01-19 | ACRONYMS $1600: NAIRU is the lowest possible rate of this in an economy before it starts to lead to inflation unemployment |
| #8788, aired 2023-01-18 | A COLLEGE / TOWN $600: The University of New Mexico, where classes began in 1892, before statehood Albuquerque |
| #8785, aired 2023-01-13 | & EVERYTHING THAT GOES WITH IT $400: Since the 1950s this family status has gone before apple pie to signify the traditional American values motherhood |
| #8785, aired 2023-01-13 | HISTORICAL MOVEMENTS $2000: A year before the Arab Spring came the Green Movement which protested for democracy in this city's Azadi Square, but was suppressed Tehran |
| #8784, aired 2023-01-12 | SPORTS COMPETITIONS $400: That's Greg LeMond in yellow, the first American to win this race, competing in 1989 before helmets became mandatory the Tour de France |
| #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 |
| #10, aired 2023-01-12 | LETTER, PERFECT $100: Grammar-wise, let's begin with this indefinite article used before a singular noun A |
| #10, aired 2023-01-12 | OTHER FAMOUS VOLUNTEERS $500: Before her son was president, Lilian Carter worked in India 1966-1968 for this government agency begun by John F. Kennedy the Peace Corps |
| #10, aired 2023-01-12 | LETTER, PERFECT $800 (Daily Double): It's the 17th letter of the alphabet, & before you start counting on your fingers, it's also James Bond's gadget man Q |
| #8783, aired 2023-01-11 | SCORE TO SETTLE $400: It can come before bonnet or tape Scotch |
| #8783, aired 2023-01-11 | SEARCH HIGH & LOW $400: Low:
This 10-letter word is great if before mimosas at brunch, not great if before the pit you've fallen into bottomless |
| #8782, aired 2023-01-10 | LEAD VOCALIST OF THE BAND $1600: Before a successful solo career, David Byrne the Talking Heads |
| #8781, aired 2023-01-09 | LAUNDRY DAY $200: The sodium hypochlorite type of this disinfects as well as whitens but needs to be diluted before using bleach |
| #8780, aired 2023-01-06 | THE PRESIDENT IMMEDIATELY BEFORE... $200: Barack Obama George W. Bush |
| #8780, aired 2023-01-06 | THE PRESIDENT IMMEDIATELY BEFORE... $400: Andrew Johnson Abraham Lincoln |
| #8780, aired 2023-01-06 | THE PRESIDENT IMMEDIATELY BEFORE... $600: John F. Kennedy Eisenhower |
| #8780, aired 2023-01-06 | THE PRESIDENT IMMEDIATELY BEFORE... $800: Andrew Jackson John Quincy Adams |
| #8780, aired 2023-01-06 | THE PRESIDENT IMMEDIATELY BEFORE... $1000: Warren Harding (Woodrow) Wilson |
| #9, aired 2023-01-05 | BOOZY PHRASES $300: This booze comes before "up" in a phrase meaning to create interest or enthusiasm gin |
| #9, aired 2023-01-05 | THEY WERE TEACHERS $900: (Colby Burnett delivers the clue.) Before hitting it big writing novels like "The Da Vinci Code", he pursued a music career & also taught at prep schools in New Hampshire & Beverly Hills (Dan) Brown |
| #9, aired 2023-01-05 | BOOZY PHRASES $1,500 (Daily Double): This phrase became a meme as the words spoken just before doing a reckless stunt hold my beer and watch this |
| #8778, aired 2023-01-04 | THE NATIONAL PAST TIME $400: Before wacky wildlife made it famous, this archipelago belonging to Ecuador was largely a pirate hideout the Galápagos |
| #8775, aired 2022-12-30 | A MEMORABLE NEW YEAR'S EVE $1200: (Ryan Seacrest presents the clue.) Before a 2011 NASA mission mapping the Moon's gravity, Montana 4th graders named the two spacecraft, & this one entered lunar orbit on New Year's Eve; Flow took a bit longer Ebb |
| #8774, aired 2022-12-29 | 3-NAMED WRITERS $1000: Shortly before her death in 1924, this author of "The Secret Garden" wrote, "As long as one has a garden, one has a future" (Frances Hodgson) Burnett |
| #8772, aired 2022-12-27 | RHYMING RESPONSES $1000: Arriving before the expected time &
in a rotten, irritable mood early & surly |
| #8771, aired 2022-12-26 | REMEMBER THE ALAMO BOWL $1000: Before he was a 2010 Super Bowl MVP for New Orleans, this QB was a 1998 Alamo Bowl MVP for Purdue Drew Brees |
| #8770, aired 2022-12-23 | ALL STARS $1200: A logo for this department store uses a red star before the company name & another star for the apostrophe Macy's |
| #8768, aired 2022-12-21 | GEOGRAPHY THAT MADE HISTORY $200: On May 29, 1953 2 adventurers finished boldly going where no man had gone before & stood here the top of Mount Everest |
| #8767, aired 2022-12-20 | CONTRACTIONS $600: It precedes "brillig" & "the night before" 'Twas |
| #8767, aired 2022-12-20 | "OO", SORRY $1600: It's a romantic trip taken by parents-to-be shortly before an infant's birth a babymoon |
| #8766, aired 2022-12-19 | TELEVISION THEN & NOW $400: This "Game of Thrones" prequel opens 172 years before the birth of Daenerys Targaryen the House of the Dragon |
| #8765, aired 2022-12-16 | THAT'S A BIG ANIMAL $800: Before the arrival of big cats over a new isthmus, flightless 10-foot terror birds were the apex predators of this continent South America |
| #8765, aired 2022-12-16 | "TIP" $800: A critical time before a big change, like in Gladwell's "The" this: "How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference" Tipping Point |
| #8763, aired 2022-12-14 | WHO LOU? $400: Before making his exit in 2021, he hosted the most watched show on the Fox Business Network Lou Dobbs |
| #8763, aired 2022-12-14 | HISTORIC NAMES $600: Before Little Bighorn, this Sioux leader had a vision that all his enemies would be delivered into his hands Sitting Bull |
| #8763, aired 2022-12-14 | 1982: A YEAR IN FILM $1200: What's best in life, this Arnold guy? "Crush your enemies, see them driven before you & hear the lamentation of their women" Conan the Barbarian |
| #8762, aired 2022-12-13 | SPANISH ART & ARTISTS $400: Aged almost 90, Picasso painted himself as one of these before a huge crowd, holding a sword as if it were a paintbrush a bullfighter |
| #8760, aired 2022-12-09 | RUSSIAN WRITERS $2000: His 1995 autobiography "Invisible Allies" described his last years in the Soviet Union before he got deported Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn |
| #8759, aired 2022-12-08 | WHAT A NOVEL CHARACTER! $800: As first mate on the Pequod, he considers killing Ahab before what happens, happens & never gets to open his own java place Starbuck |
| #8758, aired 2022-12-07 | SEQUELS $1600: It's the fitting 2-word title of Jojo Moyes' sequel to "Me Before You", about Louisa Clark following the death of Will Traynor After You |
| #8757, aired 2022-12-06 | WOULDN'T IT BE RUBBERY $200: Before the floating version was invented & became the subject of a "Sesame Street" song, this toy sank in the tub a rubber duckie |
| #8757, aired 2022-12-06 | BIG BOOK ROYALTY $1600: Look for leaping flames on the cover when you seek out "The Splendor Before the Dark", Margaret George's novel about this Roman emperor Nero |
| #8754, aired 2022-12-01 | CONTRACTIONS $400: It comes before "get this bread" in a forward-thinking money-making meme let's |
| #8754, aired 2022-12-01 | CONTRACTIONS $1,700 (Daily Double): This contraction opens the poem "A Visit from St. Nicholas" 'Twas |
| #8753, aired 2022-11-30 | SOMETHING TO READ $2000: Her "Year of Magical Thinking" chronicles the time after the loss of her husband John Gregory Dunne, 31 days before their 40th anniversary (Joan) Didion |
| #8751, aired 2022-11-28 | PLAY YOUR CARDS RIGHT $800: Before playing your second-to-last card in this 3-letter game, you must say the name of the game; you draw 4 if you get caught Uno |
| #8748, aired 2022-11-23 | NOTABLE AFRICAN AMERICANS $1600: A decade before writing "Their Eyes Were Watching God", she was Barnard's first Black graduate (Zora Neale) Hurston |
| #8747, aired 2022-11-22 | THAT WAS QUITE A YEAR $800: Rhode Island is the first colony to nix its British allegiance; Goethe publishes "Stella" long before Tennessee Williams 1776 |
| #8746, aired 2022-11-21 | WRITERS & THEIR WORKS $400: More than a decade before "A Wrinkle in Time", she wrote her first book for kids, "And Both Were Young" L'Engle |
| #8746, aired 2022-11-21 | NUMERICAL TERMS $600: The idea that everyone is interconnected was proposed in a 1929 story before John Guare used it as this play's title Six Degrees of Separation |
| #8745, aired 2022-11-18 | BEFORE, DURING & AFTER $400: Dyed object hunted for on resurrection Sunday, with fried Chinese appetizers becoming an Alabama football rally cry Easter egg roll Tide |
| #8745, aired 2022-11-18 | BEFORE, DURING & AFTER $800: Ping-Pong a.k.a. that gives you an arm joint ache treatable with a curved pasta table tennis elbow macaroni |
| #8745, aired 2022-11-18 | BEFORE, DURING & AFTER $1200: Telepathic Patrick Stewart character shows you the exact place he hid the treasure, a bit of Earl Grey Professor X marks the spot of tea |
| #8745, aired 2022-11-18 | BEFORE, DURING & AFTER $1600: Tart "tot" candy for a sketch comedy group in charge of making sure those in school don't run in the corridors Sour Patch Kids in the Hall monitor |
| #8745, aired 2022-11-18 | BEFORE, DURING & AFTER $2000: Cincinnati Red with 4,256 hits who sits in the White House flower beds, admiring a Hieronymus Bosch painting Pete Rose Garden of Earthly Delights |
| #8743, aired 2022-11-16 | MAKING AN ASSONANCE OF YOURSELF $800: Gamers know it's replacing letters with similar-looking numbers, like when using 3 instead of "E" leetspeak |
| #8742, aired 2022-11-15 | ZOOM BACKGROUNDS OF HISTORIC PEOPLE $200: Sir Walter Raleigh, nice photo of you with this woman--must be from before you impregnated her lady-in-waiting Bess Throckmorton Queen Elizabeth I |
| #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 |
| #8741, aired 2022-11-14 | STREAKERS $1000: Before he set the major-league record, he had a 61-game hitting streak in the minors DiMaggio |
| #8741, aired 2022-11-14 | YOUR U.S. HISTORY TEST $2000: An eyewitness account of the Boston Massacre said this man hit several soldiers with a club before he was shot Crispus Attucks |
| #8, aired 2022-11-13 | COMPUTER SCIENCE WITH MATT AMODIO $300: (Matt Amodio delivers the clue.) Before the hard disk era, the storage of data or programs known as this word took more cumbersome forms, like huge circular drums & reels bearing hundreds of feet of tape memory |
| #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 |
| #8739, aired 2022-11-10 | CELEBS $200: She co-starred in "Green Lantern" with Ryan Reynolds before the pair married (Blake) Lively |
| #8739, aired 2022-11-10 | ALL OVER THE MAP $400: Here are shots of this Washington peak before & after a 1980 event Mount St. Helens |
| #8738, aired 2022-11-09 | INTERNATIONAL FILM STYLE $1200: Before directing blockbusters like "The Professional" & "The Fifth Element", he influenced France's cinema du look era Luc Besson |
| #8737, aired 2022-11-08 | NUMBER, PLEASE $400: Normally, the human body contains this number of chromosomal pairs 23 |
| #8737, aired 2022-11-08 | NUMBER, PLEASE $600: There's a period before this number that comes before "Special" in the name of Donnie Van Zant's high-caliber 1970s rock band 38 |
| #8737, aired 2022-11-08 | WRONG BUT EXCELLENT $1200: We've never had this "Kid" rapper of "Day 'N' Nite" fame as a response (before), but did hear his name on a clue about Uncle Kracker Kid Cudi |
| #8736, aired 2022-11-07 | BRIT BITS $1200: Here's a ferry actually crossing this river, that flows 70 miles before entering the Irish Sea the Mersey |
| #8736, aired 2022-11-07 | VICE PRESIDENTS $1600: This veep with the monogram HHH worked as a pharmacist before getting a master's in political science Hubert Humphrey |
| #8736, aired 2022-11-07 | VICE PRESIDENTS $2000: Unlucky number 13, this vice president under Pierce died before ever performing his duties William Rufus DeVane King |
| #7, aired 2022-11-06 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1000: This Swedish author of "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" & its sequels died before any of them were published Stieg Larsson |
| #8735, aired 2022-11-04 | GIVE US SOME DIRECTION $600: Sorry, Hitch! A young extra puts his fingers in his ears before a "surprise" gunshot in this 1959 movie thriller North by Northwest |
| #8735, aired 2022-11-04 | TRIPLE RHYME TIME $800: To rent a group of singing Franciscans to hire a friar choir |
| #8735, aired 2022-11-04 | HISTORY $2000: This Zulu warrior & chief used amabutho, or age-based regiments, to unite & control his kingdom before his 1828 death Shaka |
| #8734, aired 2022-11-03 | OBJECTS OF VERSE $200: Before Shakira, American poet Lucille Clifton did an homage to these body parts of hers that "don't like to be held back" hips |
| #8733, aired 2022-11-02 | NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 100 CITIES, 5,000 IDEAS $400: Dating from before the city was built up, just a short drive outside this Kenyan capital is a national park bearing its name Nairobi |
| #8733, aired 2022-11-02 | CHILD ACTORS $1200: Before settling on his final stage surname, he was known as Mickey McGuire (Mickey) Rooney |
| #8731, aired 2022-10-31 | THIS CATEGORY IS CONFUSING $1600: Meteorological words for befuddlement include hazy, cloudy & this superlative that often comes before "notion" foggiest |
| #6, aired 2022-10-30 | PATRIOT ACT $300: Italian patriot Garibaldi captured Palermo in 1860 with colorful troops called these, like a college athlete sitting out a year a redshirt |
| #6, aired 2022-10-30 | PATRIOT ACT $500: Before his "March to the Sea", his hallucinations of confederate forces made him request insane numbers of reinforcements (General) Sherman |
| #8730, aired 2022-10-28 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: Years before "The Color Purple", she published a volume of poetry called "Once", about her time in Africa & her 1960s activism (Alice) Walker |
| #8729, aired 2022-10-27 | THE ANIMAL KINGDOM $200: The name of this insectivore has meant a scolding woman since before Shakespeare used it in a play title shrew |
| #8729, aired 2022-10-27 | THE SECOND CHAPTER $2000: Milkman Dead falls in love with Hagar before seeing her face Song of Solomon |
| #8729, aired 2022-10-27 | LAKES & RIVERS $5,000 (Daily Double): This river that flows 2,300 miles before emptying into the Caspian Sea is Europe's longest the Volga |
| #8728, aired 2022-10-26 | THE NUMBER IN MUSIC $1000: Noted for neckware, he was in Playaz Circle before teaming with Drake to go platinum with "No Lie" 2 Chainz |
| #8727, aired 2022-10-25 | TV CARTOONS $800: A close-up of the clenched fist of this PBS character before he punched D.W. became a giant meme of anger expression Arthur |
| #8726, aired 2022-10-24 | SAY WHAT? $1200: Testifying before Congress in 2019, Robert Mueller asked several lawmakers to do this, including Devin Nunes with a near 100-worder to repeat the question |
| #5, aired 2022-10-23 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $4,700 (Daily Double): Before taking the road to the White House, he hit the "Santa Fe Trail" in the movie role of George Armstrong Custer Ronald Reagan |
| #8725, aired 2022-10-21 | BEFORE & AFTER $400: A parent who supervises a Cub Scout group & is also a Nobel Prize-winning nun a den Mother Teresa |
| #8725, aired 2022-10-21 | BEFORE & AFTER $800: Lewis Carroll feline once used to flog sailors onboard a ship a Cheshire Cat of nine tails |
| #8725, aired 2022-10-21 | BEFORE & AFTER $1200: To prepare to do something unpleasant by chomping down on a 200-mph rail transport bite the bullet train |
| #8725, aired 2022-10-21 | MOVIE & TV DIRECTORS $1200: Gary Merrill, who played a stage director in "All About Eve", married this star before the film came out Bette Davis |
| #8725, aired 2022-10-21 | BEFORE & AFTER $1600: The seafood seasoning from the abortive 1961 invasion of Cuba Old Bay of Pigs |
| #8725, aired 2022-10-21 | BEFORE & AFTER $2000: Police booking photo that becomes a historic moment as in Ralph Waldo Emerson's line a mug shot heard around the world |
| #8724, aired 2022-10-20 | THERE'S A SEQUEL $800: Ethan Hawke & Julie Delpy reprised their roles in this 2004 sequel to "Before Sunrise" Before Sunset |
| #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 | 7-LETTER WORDS $300: In Judaism, observance of this seventh day of the week begins just before sunset on Friday shabbat (or the sabbath) |
| #4, aired 2022-10-16 | 7-LETTER WORDS $500: This pain reliever went on the market in 1899, long before ibuprofen aspirin |
| #8719, aired 2022-10-13 | WEIRD SCIENCE $600: Bananas have a tiny amount of radioactivity due to this element, which can emit .01 millirems of radiation potassium |
| #8717, aired 2022-10-11 | WHERE IN THE HOUSE? $1000: It's the room where Peter Pan visits the Darling children the nursery |
| #8717, aired 2022-10-11 | THE WAIT OF THE WORLD $1000: Peter Sagal started as a panelist before hosting this weekly NPR news quiz Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! |
| #8717, aired 2022-10-11 | OLD WORDS $1600: Chaucer's "Miller's Tale" used this word for part of a roof centuries before a Hawthorne novel title did gable |
| #8717, aired 2022-10-11 | OLD WORDS $11,600 (Daily Double): Meaning to consecrate or make holy, it was around for nearly a millennium before it appeared in the Gettysburg Address hallow |
| #8716, aired 2022-10-10 | PEN NAMES $400: Before it was published in book form, his "Treasure Island" appeared in a magazine under the pseudonym Captain George North Stevenson |
| #8715, aired 2022-10-07 | RECENT LITERARY BIOGRAPHY $5,000 (Daily Double): 2022 brings the 150th b'day of poet Paul Laurence Dunbar & a bio calling him this creature that "sings" in his famous line the caged bird |
| #8714, aired 2022-10-06 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: He did window displays for a toy store before writing & illustrating kids' classics like "Where the Wild Things Are" Sendak |
| #8713, aired 2022-10-05 | WE RECOGNIZE THE SENATOR $800: He played tight end for Stanford before getting a Rhodes Scholarship Cory Booker |
| #2, aired 2022-10-02 | THIS INFORMATION $300: Bill Gates said he & Paul Allen picked this name "even before we had a company" Microsoft |
| #2, aired 2022-10-02 | HISTORY QUIZ $700 (Daily Double): Now a kids' swimming pool game, he was originally an Italian who traveled to China in the 13th century Marco Polo |
| #2, aired 2022-10-02 | FRENCH WORDS & PHRASES $1000: This 4-letter word comes before "d'etat" in a governmental overthrow, or before "de grace" in a finishing blow coup |
| #8710, aired 2022-09-30 | STEEL $800: When it comes to pots & pans, this 4-letter word comes before "iron"; the process is more intensive to do to steel cast |
| #8709, aired 2022-09-29 | RELIGION $200: These 2 main branches of Islam separated before 1000 A.D.; one has about 1.3 billion followers to the other's 200 million Sunni & Shiite Islam |
| #8709, aired 2022-09-29 | THERE'S A PRICE ON MY HEAD $1200: $30:
A new head from this German company; the story is that founder Max shaved all his male staff before introducing his shaver Braun |
| #8708, aired 2022-09-28 | HATCHET MAN $1000: Before Jack chopped down the beanstalk, he stole the golden goose & a talking one of these musical instruments a talking harp |
| #8706, aired 2022-09-26 | SHAKESPEARE'S KINGS & QUEENS $1200: The night before a fateful battle, the ghosts of the murdered Edward V & Henry VI appear to this king & curse him Richard III |
| #1, aired 2022-09-25 | DIONNE WARWICK $400: Dionne had a hit with this classic song that begins, "The moment I wake up, before I put on my makeup" "I Say A Little Prayer" |
| #1, aired 2022-09-25 | ALPHABETICALLY LAST $600: ...of James Dean's 3 major films; he would die a month before its release Rebel Without a Cause |
| #8705, aired 2022-09-23 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: People who entered the Oklahoma District before the designated time were first called this about 6 months after the Land Run of 1889 Sooners |
| #8704, aired 2022-09-22 | IN MY AUTOBIOGRAPHY $1200: "The year before I was born a group called the Taliban... had taken over the country and was burning girls' schools" Malala |
| #8704, aired 2022-09-22 | OLD FASHIONED $2000: This "old style" calendar was dominant for more than 1,000 years before the "new style" Gregorian one came along in 1582 the Julian |
| #8703, aired 2022-09-21 | 4 CONSONANTS IN A ROW $800: Idiomatically, it's a catastrophe when this large receptacle comes before "fire" dumpster |
| #8703, aired 2022-09-21 | EMPERORS $800: Emperor Ahuitzotl brought the Aztec empire to its peak in size before being succeeded by this nephew in 1502 Montezuma |
| #8702, aired 2022-09-20 | BEFORE & AFTER PEOPLE $400: "Hunger Games" actress who helped in a Middle Eastern revolt against the Ottoman Empire Jennifer Lawrence of Arabia |
| #8702, aired 2022-09-20 | LETTUCE $600: Water can come before this 5-letter salad green or it can be by itself cress |
| #8702, aired 2022-09-20 | BEFORE & AFTER PEOPLE $800: Iconic 1950s movie "Rebel" who was a member of the Rat Pack James Dean Martin |
| #8702, aired 2022-09-20 | BEFORE & AFTER PEOPLE $1200: "Karma Chameleon" singer who turned down an Oscar for his performance in "Patton" Boy George C. Scott |
| #8702, aired 2022-09-20 | BEFORE & AFTER PEOPLE $1600: Los Angeles Clippers all-star forward who composed the music for "West Side Story" Kawhi Leonard Bernstein |
| #8702, aired 2022-09-20 | LESSER-KNOWN NAMES $2000: 1900 years before Prince Henry had this nickname, Carthage's Hanno got it for sailing to Morocco & maybe down to Cameroon the Navigator |
| #8702, aired 2022-09-20 | BEFORE & AFTER PEOPLE $2000: "Good Vibrations" songwriter who also had a No. 1 R&B hit with "In The Midnight Hour" Brian Wilson Pickett |
| #8701, aired 2022-09-19 | WORDS BEFORE WORDS $200: Bean,
market,
widow black |
| #8701, aired 2022-09-19 | WORDS BEFORE WORDS $400: Carpet,
saucer,
colors flying |
| #8701, aired 2022-09-19 | WORDS BEFORE WORDS $600: Climbing,
salt,
star rock |
| #8701, aired 2022-09-19 | WORDS BEFORE WORDS $800: Clip,
towel,
money paper |
| #8701, aired 2022-09-19 | WORDS BEFORE WORDS $1000: Winter,
family,
option nuclear |
| #8699, aired 2022-09-15 | A LITTLE HISTORY $400: Salmon P. Chase, before George Washington, was the first person on the face of this the dollar |
| #8699, aired 2022-09-15 | SINGERS WHO ACT $2000: This rocker played Jareth, the Goblin King in the 1986 cult classic fantasy "Labyrinth" David Bowie |
| #8698, aired 2022-09-14 | MUSIC $800: Ms. Rice knows con dolcezza or "with sweetness" is in his 6th symphony, which he conducted in St. Petersburg 9 days before his death Tchaikovsky |
| #8697, aired 2022-09-13 | BROADCASTING HISTORY $200: Long before Netflix, in 1998 a Hong Kong company invested $1.5 billion in video on demand, pioneering this kind of service streaming |
| #8697, aired 2022-09-13 | NEW TO THE OED $600: Term for an official document certifying one's inoculation status, perhaps for travel vaccine passport |
| #8694, aired 2022-07-28 | 40 YEARS OF USA TODAY $1000: USA Today's Leslie Cauley wrote about this agency storing Americans' phone records before Edward Snowden worked there the NSA |
| #8692, aired 2022-07-26 | IDOL TALK $2000: In the 7th century this Middle East city was said to be home to as many as 360 idols, including the moon god Hubal Mecca |
| #8689, aired 2022-07-21 | THE OLD WEST $600: Before becoming sheriff of this South Dakota town, Seth Bullock opened a hardware store there with partner Sol Star Deadwood |
| #8689, aired 2022-07-21 | BUILD A BEAR WORKSHOP $800: Before he was president, Volodymyr Zelensky voiced this marmalade-loving bear in the Ukrainian dub of 2 recent films Paddington |
| #8688, aired 2022-07-20 | HEY, NICE "AB"s! $800: A kidnapper, or a muscle that pulls away from the middle abductor |
| #8687, aired 2022-07-19 | UNDER QUARANTINE $400: To prevent 14th c. epidemics, some ships arriving in Europe had to sit at anchor for quaranta giorni, this many days before landing 40 |
| #8687, aired 2022-07-19 | CARTOON THEME SONG LYRICS $400: He "will sleep till noon but before it's dark, he'll have every picnic basket that's in Jellystone Park" Yogi Bear |
| #8687, aired 2022-07-19 | WORD ORIGINS $1200: Before it meant a record player, it referred to a symbol representing a sound a phonograph |
| #8687, aired 2022-07-19 | LET'S BUILD A HOUSE $1200: If you're renovating, be careful before taking out one of these walls named for the extra weight it supports load-bearing |
| #8685, aired 2022-07-15 | 4,4 $1000: Before it was a London street or a cigarette brand, it was a British game, as seen in the "Bridgerton" books & series pall-mall |
| #8685, aired 2022-07-15 | MODEL BEHAVIOR $1200: Pattie Boyd was a star model of the swinging '60s before she was a musical muse who inspired this man's "Wonderful Tonight" Eric Clapton |
| #8684, aired 2022-07-14 | TERRIBLE SUPERVILLAIN NAMES $600: This insurance duo--the big cost you owe before your insurer kicks in & the money given to your doc as you get services--are just the worst deductible & co-pay |
| #8684, aired 2022-07-14 | RIVER NAMES $800: In Sanskrit, the name of this river comes from "sindhu", which means "river" the Indus River (the Sindh) |
| #8683, aired 2022-07-13 | QUOTING THE KING JAMES BIBLE $400: It "goeth before destruction" pride |
| #8682, aired 2022-07-12 | NATIONAL-SOUNDING ITEMS $200: Before getting stranded in "Cast Away", Tom Hanks gives Helen Hunt one of these helpful gadgets, right off his keychain a Swiss Army knife |
| #8681, aired 2022-07-11 | THE RAVEN-POURRI $1000: "Other friends have flown before", to this northeastern Canadian region, bounded by its self-named sea & more, "Quoth the raven..." Labrador |
| #8681, aired 2022-07-11 | FAMILIAL PHRASES $1200: This rhyming phrase suggests women should prioritize sibling-like relationships with other women over those with men sisters before misters |
| #8680, aired 2022-07-08 | HISTORIC STRUCTURES $400: Charles I was the last monarch to sleep in this castle, the night before he was crowned king of Scotland in 1633 Edinburgh Castle |
| #8679, aired 2022-07-07 | OLD NEWSPAPERS $1200: The Cincinnati this was first published in 1841, more than a century before the "National" tabloid Enquirer |
| #8678, aired 2022-07-06 | THE REPRESENTATIVE FROM... $200: Wyoming:
This woman starting in 2017, taking the seat her dad had won nearly 40 years before Liz Cheney |
| #8678, aired 2022-07-06 | "A" BEFORE "E" $400: A "Best of Bob Marley" album calls him "The King of" this Reggae |
| #8678, aired 2022-07-06 | "A" BEFORE "E" $800: The name of this field of science means "ancient study" archaeology |
| #8678, aired 2022-07-06 | "A" BEFORE "E" $1200: A distinguished musical conductor is often referred to by this title, if you please maestro |
| #8678, aired 2022-07-06 | "A" BEFORE "E" $1600: This spiky piece of equipment is used to perforate your lawn to allow better penetration of water & nutrients an aerator |
| #8678, aired 2022-07-06 | "A" BEFORE "E" $2000: Legend says this ancient dramatist died when a tortoise fell on his head Aeschylus |
| #8677, aired 2022-07-05 | IT HAPPENED IN JULY $600: Escaping from prison days before he was to be hanged, he was tracked down & killed by Sheriff Pat Garrett July 14, 1881 Billy the Kid |
| #8675, aired 2022-07-01 | 20th CENTURY NAMES $1200: He won nine gold medals in four Olympics before retiring from track & field competition in 1997 Carl Lewis |
| #8673, aired 2022-06-29 | WORDS DERIVED FROM BODY PARTS $800: Sometimes found before "knowledge", this sensual 6-letter word is derived from "flesh" carnal |
| #8670, aired 2022-06-24 | CITY PARK-ING PLACES $1200: The name of these gardens in Paris comes from the tile factories that were there before the palace built by Catherine de Medici the Tuileries |
| #8668, aired 2022-06-22 | FACE/PALM $400: In "'Twas the Night Before Christmas", St. Nick's these "were like roses, his nose like a cherry!" cheeks |
| #8668, aired 2022-06-22 | HAIL TO THE CHEF $1200: Before his untimely death, he took TV viewers into "Parts Unknown" to explore food & culture around the world Anthony Bourdain |
| #8666, aired 2022-06-20 | HORSE IDIOMS $400: "You can lead a horse to water, but you can't" do this make him (them) drink |
| #8666, aired 2022-06-20 | HORSE IDIOMS $1000: Oops, we've done this--arranging our 2 necessities, but in the wrong sequence put the cart before the horse |
| #8664, aired 2022-06-16 | HORROR MOVIES $600: Sammy Davis Jr.'s cover of a song from "Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory" plays before the start of this 2021 scarefest the Candyman |
| #8663, aired 2022-06-15 | THE BRADY BUNCH $600: In the late 1890s its territorial gov. John Green Brady called for statehood; he died in Sitka before it happened Alaska |
| #8662, aired 2022-06-14 | SUN UP $400: Also called surya namaskar, this sequence of poses is a way to greet the day or warm up before your daily practice sun salutations |
| #8662, aired 2022-06-14 | THE MORAL OF THE FABLE $400: "Don't" do this was learned when an accident ruined a girl's plans for a poultry empire count your chickens before they're hatched |
| #8662, aired 2022-06-14 | THE MORAL OF THE FABLE $600: A cockfight victor crows to show he's won, attracting a hungry eagle; as the saying has it, this quality goes before a fall pride |
| #8662, aired 2022-06-14 | THE MORAL OF THE FABLE $1000: A fox stuck in a well tricks a goat into joining him; the goat learned this lesson meaning "take care before you act" look before you leap |
| #8660, aired 2022-06-10 | WHERE AM I? $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents the clue.) I’m in this area of San Francisco that served as an Army base for Spain, Mexico & the United States before switching to civilian use in 1994 the Presidio |
| #8658, aired 2022-06-08 | ALLITERATIVE SPORTS NO-NO's $400: Ask the baby with the bib, bub; this basketball no-no can involve touching the ball twice before it hits the ground double dribbling |
| #8658, aired 2022-06-08 | STORIES OF THE SAINTS $800: The story of Martin de Porres, the 1st Black saint in the Americas, includes this skill, letting him hover before the altar levitation |
| #8657, aired 2022-06-07 | 6-LETTER ADJECTIVES $400: Before "response", it describes how your body fends off viruses & bacteria immune |
| #8656, aired 2022-06-06 | NON-MEDICAL DOCTORS $600: She said, "I worked so hard" after a 2020 op-ed suggested she stop using "Dr." before her name Dr. Jill Biden |
| #8655, aired 2022-06-03 | A BIT OF LIT $1200: Shakespeare's "Henry V" takes place before & after this decisive 1415 battle in France Agincourt |
| #8654, aired 2022-06-02 | NUGGETS OF INFORMATION $200: Before it was the Nuggets, this city's basketball team was called the Larks & later, the Rockets Denver |
| #8654, aired 2022-06-02 | THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE $600: Before commanding U.S. forces in the Persian Gulf War, he fought in Vietnam & Grenada (Norman) Schwarzkopf |
| #8654, aired 2022-06-02 | YE OLD "E" CATEGORY $1200: Perhaps you've heard of the one of these from Nantes; before that, the 313 one of Milan established Christian tolerance the edicts |
| #8654, aired 2022-06-02 | YE OLD "E" CATEGORY $1600: Long before Tokyo got its current name, it was known as this Edo |
| #8653, aired 2022-06-01 | COFFEE BREAK $600: It was a fine coffee named for a Yemeni port before it was a chocolatey coffee flavor mocha |
| #8652, aired 2022-05-31 | MAYORS $200: Before becoming New York City mayor in 2002, he founded a financial news & information service (Michael) Bloomberg |
| #8651, aired 2022-05-30 | STICK TO THE SCRIPTURE $800: "And I saw the seven angels which stood before God; and to them were given seven" of these instruments trumpets |
| #8650, aired 2022-05-27 | RELIGION $1600: This name for the day before Lent begins refers to confessing sins & receiving forgiveness on that day Shrove Tuesday |
| #8648, aired 2022-05-25 | THE ONE BEFORE THE FAMOUS ONE $400: Composed in 1806, it doesn't have a famous opening like the next one does, but it's fun anyway Beethoven's Fourth Symphony |
| #8648, aired 2022-05-25 | MOVIE SUPERVILLAINS $600: "Kneel before" this general! In a 1980 film, he finally gets his wish that Superman does so, but things go south real fast (General) Zod |
| #8648, aired 2022-05-25 | THE ONE BEFORE THE FAMOUS ONE $800: This Psalm that comes before the "Lord is my shepherd" one begins, "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" Psalm 22 |
| #8648, aired 2022-05-25 | '80s & '90s NONFICTION $800: Sadly, this funny lady passed away in 1989 shortly before her memoir "It's Always Something" came out Gilda Radner |
| #8648, aired 2022-05-25 | THE ONE BEFORE THE FAMOUS ONE $1600: No one's written a musical about this Manhattan street, but the century-old Nederlander Theatre is on it 41st Street |
| #8648, aired 2022-05-25 | THE ONE BEFORE THE FAMOUS ONE $1,700 (Daily Double): This king got married just once, to Elizabeth of York in 1486 Henry VII |
| #8648, aired 2022-05-25 | THE ONE BEFORE THE FAMOUS ONE $2000: Upper or Lower, you don't hear that much about this ward of New Orleans, home to Our Lady Star of the Sea Church the 8th Ward |
| #8647, aired 2022-05-24 | YES, YES, YES $1600: This word found before "action" in the name of a social remedy can also be used to say "yes" affirmative |
| #8645, aired 2022-05-20 | WHAT COLLEGE $400: Alphabetizing colleges in Boston, it's right before Emmanuel Emerson |
| #8645, aired 2022-05-20 | SOME LEGAL "A"s $1200: The first appearance before a judge of a person charged with a crime is this hearing arraignment |
| #8643, aired 2022-05-18 | HISTORIC AMERICANS $200: Before his raid on Harpers Ferry, this abolitionist consulted with Harriet Tubman (John) Brown |
| #8642, aired 2022-05-17 | MOVIE TITLE BEFORE & AFTER $400: George Clooney travels around firing people while flying with U.S. President Harrison Ford Up in the Air Force One |
| #8642, aired 2022-05-17 | MOVIE TITLE BEFORE & AFTER $800: Drew Barrymore & the rest of her crime-fighting undercover trio win baseball games with some heavenly assistance Charlie's Angels in the Outfield |
| #8642, aired 2022-05-17 | REMEMBERING THE LADIES $800: Chemist Rosalind Franklin's work showed the double helix structure of this, even before Watson & Crick DNA |
| #8642, aired 2022-05-17 | MOVIE TITLE BEFORE & AFTER $1200: George Romero's original zombies from 1968 recruit a wisecracking superhero to add to the mayhem Night of the Living Deadpool |
| #8642, aired 2022-05-17 | MOVIE TITLE BEFORE & AFTER $1600: Steve Martin is alarmed that his daughter has gotten very big hair & is betrothed to Boris Karloff as a monster Father of the Bride of Frankenstein |
| #8642, aired 2022-05-17 | MOVIE TITLE BEFORE & AFTER $2000: Allied prisoners tunnel out of a German P.O.W. camp in a Disney movie about kids with magical powers The Great Escape to Witch Mountain |
| #8641, aired 2022-05-16 | IT'S GETTING WINDY $1000: On April 5, 1936 an F5 tornado hit this Mississippi city; one survivor was very young Elvis Presley, born there the year before Tupelo |
| #8638, aired 2022-05-11 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1000: Before becoming Tennessee's first governor, John Sevier governed this prospective state that existed for all of 4 years Franklin |
| #8638, aired 2022-05-11 | FROM QUEENS $1000: He turned down a "close encounter" with Bernie Madoff before playing the man: "I already had a Queens accent, so he couldn't help me" (Richard) Dreyfuss |
| #8634, aired 2022-05-05 | CROSS THAT BRIDGE $2,000 (Daily Double): You'll have to wait to cross the Forbes Ave. bridge in this city; it collapsed in 2022 just before a presidential visit about infrastructure Pittsburgh |
| #8633, aired 2022-05-04 | NEW YORK STATE HISTORY $1000: He was the governor of New Netherland before surrendering the region to the British in 1664 Peter Stuyvesant |
| #8633, aired 2022-05-04 | IT'S YOUR TOP 40 PRESIDENTIAL COUNTDOWN $1200: He had a big debut with "Back To Normalcy" but now he's singing the blues with "Teapot Dome Got Me Down"; at No. 29, here's... Harding |
| #8631, aired 2022-05-02 | FROM BOOK TO MOVIE WITH A DIFFERENT TITLE $200: Before it was "Schindler's List" on film, the book was "Schindler's" this (meaning the one of the covenant) Ark |
| #8630, aired 2022-04-29 | POLITICIANS IN THEIR SCHOOL DAYS $1200: Take a look at this then-young man from Wyoming, a few years before he was a heartbeat away from the presidency Dick Cheney |
| #8628, aired 2022-04-27 | THE CHICKEN OR THE EGG $400: McDonald's launched these nationally in 1983 chicken nuggets |
| #8628, aired 2022-04-27 | THE LEAGUE MVP's TEAM $400: LeBron in 2009 & 2010, before taking a trip south the Cleveland Cavaliers |
| #8628, aired 2022-04-27 | A NOVEL LOOK AT THE NOVEL $400: A young girl blows into town & kills a woman; does poppies to the point of unconsciousness & later kills a second woman before leaving The Wizard of Oz |
| #8627, aired 2022-04-26 | I LEARNED IT IN THE COMIC BOOKS $200: One of his origin stories states he was raised by a lighthouse keeper before regaining his royal birthright Aquaman |
| #8627, aired 2022-04-26 | I LEARNED IT IN THE COMIC BOOKS $600: Peter Parker has worked as a photographer for this newspaper created long before Spider-Man was The Daily Bugle |
| #8626, aired 2022-04-25 | I'LL FOLLOW YOU $1200: Andy Jassy says before taking over as Amazon CEO he was Jeff Bezos' this, following him closely & watching every move shadow |
| #8626, aired 2022-04-25 | MULTIPLE HYPHENS $4,000 (Daily Double): This 4-word phrase can mean a fabric colored before weaving, or unchanging in opinion dyed-in-the-wool |
| #8624, aired 2022-04-21 | THAT'S NOT CANNON $600: Is that this weapon which I see before me? Indeed it is, specifically a Hindu katar one a dagger |
| #8624, aired 2022-04-21 | ALSO FOUND IN THE KITCHEN $800: Before "away", it means to sweep someone off on a jaunty holiday whisk |
| #8623, aired 2022-04-20 | THE LEAGUE LEADER $400: 6 months before the 19th Amendment was ratified, the Natl. American Woman Suffrage Association got reorganized under this name the League of Women Voters |
| #8623, aired 2022-04-20 | CAPTAIN AMERICA $800: The first of 2 names in exploring, he went from ensign to captain in 5 years before becoming Jefferson's aide-de-camp Meriwether Lewis |
| #8621, aired 2022-04-18 | WORLD LEADERS $1000: Volodymyr Zelensky was a comedian before becoming president of this neighbor of Russia the Ukraine |
| #8621, aired 2022-04-18 | ART ON COMMISSION $1200: Here's this Rembrandt work, temporarily restored to how it looked before pieces were cut off to fit into the town hall The Night Watch |
| #8620, aired 2022-04-15 | HANDLE WITH AIR $600: AAA says check your tire pressure before driving, when tires aren't hot, as this measure normally increases by 2-6 with hot tires PSI |
| #8620, aired 2022-04-15 | YOUR TV HOST WITH THE MOST $800: Before starting her self-titled talk show, she sang for her supper & shared the silver screen with Justin Guarini Kelly Clarkson |
| #8620, aired 2022-04-15 | SAINTLY SPOTS $2000: Back before the jet set could jet there, this Swiss resort hosted the 1928 Winter Olympics St. Moritz |
| #8618, aired 2022-04-13 | WHAT THE LETTER SAYS $400: Thomas Jefferson's last public letter, 10 days before he died, says, sorry, too sick to attend the celebrations of its 50th anniversary U.S. independence |
| #8613, aired 2022-04-06 | IN YOUR PREFACE $1200: Before his 1543 book begins, this man tells Pope Paul III, "I should, on the contrary, assert that the Earth moves" Copernicus |
| #8612, aired 2022-04-05 | HOW ARE YOU FIXED FOR BLADES? $200: Before proclaiming it was "the best a man can get", this razor company asked via cartoon parrot, "How are you fixed for blades?" Gillette |
| #8611, aired 2022-04-04 | BENJAMIN FRANKLIN $800: (Mandy Patinkin presents the clue.) Starting with his stove, which fit inside a hearth to warm a whole room, Franklin insisted that his inventions were for public good & refused this type of protection that was given by the colonies before the first U.S. Congress did so a patent |
| #8610, aired 2022-04-01 | HISTORIC NAMES $1200: Its wealthy newspaperman owner called this estate La Cuesta Encantada, "The Enchanted Hill" Hearst Castle |
| #8609, aired 2022-03-31 | TIME FOR YOUR MEDICINE $400: The Latin for "write before" gives us this type of medicine that requires special permission a prescription |
| #8608, aired 2022-03-30 | A DISH OF SCHUBERT $800: A year before his own death, in 1827 Schubert was a torchbearer at the funeral of this legendary composer Beethoven |
| #8608, aired 2022-03-30 | LET'S PUT ON A SHOW $800: "Show" before this word gets you an ostentatious braggart, or a marine conveyance boat |
| #8608, aired 2022-03-30 | LET'S PUT ON A SHOW $1000: "Show" before this 7-letter word brings about a lot of applause & perhaps a brief pause in musical theater stopper |
| #8606, aired 2022-03-28 | CROSBY $800: Before teaming up with Stills & Nash, David Crosby was a founding member of this high-flying 1960s rock group The Byrds |
| #8604, aired 2022-03-24 | IT'S A RACE $400: This city's marathon runs past the Aloha Tower before finishing in Kapiolani Park Honolulu |
| #8603, aired 2022-03-23 | WOMAN MOVIES $800: She was Gisele in "Fast & Furious" before she was "Wonder Woman" (Gal) Gadot |
| #8601, aired 2022-03-21 | 4-LETTER COUNTRIES $200: It was the home of the Inca civilization for centuries before its conquest by Spain Peru |
| #8601, aired 2022-03-21 | GIVING YOU A PLUM ASSIGNMENT $800: The kids in "'Twas the Night Before Christmas" had "visions of" these--likely not fruit but sweetened seeds sugar plums |
| #8599, aired 2022-03-17 | SPORTS WITH NO BALLS $400: Put on your gauntlet & wire mesh mask fencing |
| #8598, aired 2022-03-16 | SCIENCE & MEDICINE $400: In apheresis, this is removed from the body; specific components are withdrawn from it before it's returned to the body blood |
| #8598, aired 2022-03-16 | CELEBRITY "M.D."s $400: Before trying to make water on Mars in "The Martian", this actor co-created water.org to provide it on Earth Matt Damon |
| #8598, aired 2022-03-16 | BOWL-O-RAMA $600: Before the Rose Bowl, this Ivy League Bowl opened at the world's biggest stadium, pioneering fully circular seating the Yale Bowl |
| #8598, aired 2022-03-16 | AVIATION $2000: He won the National Air Race of 1930, 5 years before he & Will Rogers died tragically in a plane crash Wiley Post |
| #8596, aired 2022-03-14 | A FEW MOMENTS WITH MILLARD FILLMORE $400: In 1848 Fillmore wrote to this man who had chosen him for VP, saying I know you never heard of me before the convention Taylor |
| #8595, aired 2022-03-11 | 17th CENTURY HAPPENINGS $400: William Bradford had quite the task set before him after winning the governorship of this fledgling colony in 1621 Plymouth |
| #8595, aired 2022-03-11 | ARTISTS $400: Before he painted these aquatic plants more than 250 times, Monet planted them himself water lilies |
| #8595, aired 2022-03-11 | ARTISTS $600 (Daily Double): Before executing an 1890s monument to Balzac, this sculptor got the late novelist's measurements from his former tailor Rodin |
| #8592, aired 2022-03-08 | POETRY FILL IN THE BLANK $1200: Silverstein: "There is a place where ____ ____ ____ and before the street begins, and there the grass grows soft and white" the sidewalk ends |
| #8592, aired 2022-03-08 | FIRST & LAST ALPHABETICALLY $2,000 (Daily Double): Argon,
xenon the noble gases |
| #8591, aired 2022-03-07 | THAT'S JUST SCIENCE, MAN $3,500 (Daily Double): Before moving to Gemini & Taurus, the summer solstice used to be in this constellation, hence the name of a geographic line Cancer |
| #8590, aired 2022-03-04 | HISTORY $1000: The USA's worst depression before the Civil War began with what's usually called this event "of 1837" the Panic |
| #8590, aired 2022-03-04 | SAMS CLUB $1000: 3 years before his death in a car crash, he made the cover of Rolling Stone as "Comedy's Wild Thing" Sam Kinison |
| #8589, aired 2022-03-03 | DETROIT: NEWS CLUES $200: (I'm Kimberly Gill.) Detroit was often the last stop before freedom on this network, & the Second Baptist Church, still a vibrant house of worship, was an important station the Underground Railroad |
| #8589, aired 2022-03-03 | 4-SYLLABLE WORDS $800: This verb often used before "last rites" ends with a type of holy man administer |
| #8588, aired 2022-03-02 | "M"EDICINE $800: Required vaccines before entering college may include a menACWY, to protect against this meningitis |
| #8588, aired 2022-03-02 | ONE-SYLLABLE CITIES $1000: Home to the largest religious college in Iran, this city was the base of Ayatollah Khomeini before & after his exile Qom |
| #8587, aired 2022-03-01 | REMEMBERING STEPHEN SONDHEIM $200: Sondheim's first Broadway musical was as lyricist for this show; he passed away in 2021 just days before the premiere of the movie remake West Side Story |
| #8587, aired 2022-03-01 | PAST YOUR PRIME $200: This flower comes before "path" in a phrase describing a hedonistic life primrose |
| #8586, aired 2022-02-28 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1,000 (Daily Double): 5 years before his famous ride, Paul Revere made a print depicting this bloody March 5, 1770 event the Boston Massacre |
| #8585, aired 2022-02-25 | BEFORE SHE WAS FIRST LADY $400: She was the first woman to become a partner at the prestigious Rose Law Firm in Little Rock, Arkansas Hillary Rodham |
| #8585, aired 2022-02-25 | BEFORE SHE WAS FIRST LADY $1200: In Missouri, where she grew up, she was an accomplished athlete, excelling in several sports including tennis Bess Truman |
| #8585, aired 2022-02-25 | BEFORE SHE WAS FIRST LADY $1600: Prior to her marriage she was a teacher & school librarian in Texas Laura Bush |
| #8585, aired 2022-02-25 | BEFORE SHE WAS FIRST LADY $2,000 (Daily Double): She appeared on Broadway in "Lute Song" with Yul Brynner & Mary Martin Nancy Davis (Reagan) |
| #8585, aired 2022-02-25 | BEFORE SHE WAS FIRST LADY $2000: His wife, the former Lou Henry, was one of the first women in the U.S. to earn a geology degree Herbert Hoover |
| #8584, aired 2022-02-24 | RHYMING SYNONYMS $400: Deliberately discourteous & a "raw" grade of oil before refining rude & crude |
| #8584, aired 2022-02-24 | HISTORIC WOMEN $400: Before she died in 1906, she helped pave the way for women to vote & the 19th Amendment is nicknamed in her honor Anthony |
| #8584, aired 2022-02-24 | PARISH FROM THE EARTH $1000: Spanish explorer Hernando spent time in what's now Louisiana before his May 21, 1542 death; this parish is named for him DeSoto |
| #8583, aired 2022-02-23 | BEFORE THE HORSE $200: Good things are in store for you today after you realize it's a forecast of astrology horoscope |
| #8583, aired 2022-02-23 | BEFORE THE HORSE $400: Look far off into the distance & see it's from the Greek for "boundary" horizon |
| #8583, aired 2022-02-23 | BEFORE THE HORSE $600: This Mexican delight is sort of a drinkable rice pudding horchata |
| #8583, aired 2022-02-23 | BEFORE THE HORSE $800: Harold Lloyd & Jay-Z had at least this eyewear in common horn-rimmed glasses |
| #8583, aired 2022-02-23 | BEFORE THE HORSE $1000: It's the fancier term for clockmaker horologists |
| #8583, aired 2022-02-23 | COUNTRY NICKNAMES $1200: Canada's nickname has these 2 words before "North" Great White |
| #8582, aired 2022-02-22 | ____ OF ____ $400: Traditionally, the person with this title is in charge of the bachelorette party maid of honor |
| #18, aired 2022-02-22 | DOCUMENTARY SUBJECTS $5,000 (Daily Double): This festival comes before "The Greatest Party That Never Happened" in a 2019 documentary Fyre Fest |
| #8581, aired 2022-02-21 | BACK ME UP $400: She sang backup for Garth Brooks before her own career took off & in 2005, she married him Trisha Yearwood |
| #8581, aired 2022-02-21 | SPACE: KIND OF HUGE $1600: In 1977 this probe 2 launched 2 weeks before probe 1; it took 12 years to reach Neptune before hitting interstellar space Voyager |
| #8581, aired 2022-02-21 | BACK ME UP $2000: He backed up Steely Dan before fronting the Doobie Brothers, then went solo with songs like "I Keep Forgettin"' Michael McDonald |
| #15, aired 2022-02-18 | ESPN $800: (Richard Jefferson delivers the clue.) As an NBA analyst, I like to see my fellow Wildcats from this school, like Deandre Ayton, Andre Iguodala &, before my time, future congressman Morris Udall; he had a glass eye, but a wicked one-handed shot the University of Arizona |
| #14, aired 2022-02-17 | NIGHTTIME NEWS WITH WORLD NEWS NOW $800: (Andrew Dymburt delivers the clue.) At a little before 2:00 AM on June 17, 1972, sharp-eyed security guard Frank Wills noticed tape across a door latch in this Washington, D.C. office complex, changing the course of American history Watergate |
| #14, aired 2022-02-17 | NIGHTTIME NEWS WITH WORLD NEWS NOW $1200: (Mona Kosar Abdi delivers the clue.) Thousands of people with lights gathered at Le Bourget Aerodrome on the night of May 21, 1927, confusing this man, who expected pitch blackness & circled the field several times before landing at 10:24 PM (Charles) Lindbergh |
| #13, aired 2022-02-17 | FROM "M" TO "Y" $1200: This tree produces a reddish brown wood mahogany |
| #8578, aired 2022-02-16 | 6-LETTER ADVERBS $200: Coming before "departed", this word begins an alliterative idiom referring to the recently deceased dearly |
| #8578, aired 2022-02-16 | LOST $1200: Before he lost his head, this Elizabethan poet & adventurer founded the Lost Colony of Roanoke in North Carolina Sir Walter Raleigh |
| #12, aired 2022-02-16 | THEY'RE MULTI-TALENTED $400: She sang "Lose You To Love Me" before dealing with "Only Murders in the Building" on Hulu Selena Gomez |
| #11, aired 2022-02-16 | LITERATURE: "GOOD" OR "GREAT" $600: The world is ending this coming Saturday, just before dinner, in this book by Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett Good Omens |
| #11, aired 2022-02-16 | POTPOURRI $1200: George Takei cheekily said of a trip this man made in 2021, "He's boldly going where other people have gone before" William Shatner |
| #11, aired 2022-02-16 | "X" MARKS THE CATEGORY $2000: Term for the outermost part of a flower before it opens the calyx |
| #8576, aired 2022-02-14 | PART LATIN BEFORE & AFTER $400: I think, therefore I am. The redundant-sounding result of having counted cogito ergo sum total |
| #8576, aired 2022-02-14 | PART LATIN BEFORE & AFTER $800: Really cheap poker stakes "before noon" penny ante meridiem |
| #8576, aired 2022-02-14 | POP CULTURE STUPID ANSWERS $800: Before co-starring in "Get Out", Allison Williams played one of the girls on this HBO series Girls |
| #8576, aired 2022-02-14 | PART LATIN BEFORE & AFTER $1200: Crockett & Tubbs, or is it Tubbs & Crockett? Either way is fine Miami Vice versa |
| #8576, aired 2022-02-14 | PART LATIN BEFORE & AFTER $1600: "Body of Jesus" & an "Uptown Girl", onetime wife of Billy Joel Corpus Christi Brinkley |
| #8576, aired 2022-02-14 | PART LATIN BEFORE & AFTER $2000: Initial-surnamed female percussionist & protege of Prince on our national currency, "out of many, one" Sheila E pluribus unum |
| #8575, aired 2022-02-11 | MY MOVIE OCCUPATION $1000: Holly Hunter, before saying hi to motherhood in "Raising Arizona" a policeman |
| #5, aired 2022-02-10 | BEFORE & AFTER $200: Macedonian conqueror of Persia who is a large breed of canine like Scooby Doo Alexander the Great Dane |
| #5, aired 2022-02-10 | AFTER & BEFORE $400: It's Latin for "after" but comes before "-mortem" post |
| #5, aired 2022-02-10 | BEFORE & AFTER $400: Doctor's office holding area feature that allows you to order food & drink to be delivered to you waiting room service |
| #5, aired 2022-02-10 | BEFORE & AFTER $600: "Great Bear" constellation with teams like the L.A. Galaxy in it Ursa Major League Soccer |
| #5, aired 2022-02-10 | AFTER & BEFORE $800: It's the adverb in the acronym FKA formerly |
| #5, aired 2022-02-10 | BEFORE & AFTER $800: That bold end-of-a-performance action is still very small compared to all the water it's in a mic drop in the bucket |
| #5, aired 2022-02-10 | BEFORE & AFTER $1000: A regimen of liquefied carrots & grapefruit that's a freeway space where many drive 75 the juice fast lane |
| #5, aired 2022-02-10 | AFTER & BEFORE $1200: The order of who is next on the throne is the line of this 10-letter word succession |
| #5, aired 2022-02-10 | AFTER & BEFORE $1600: This pluralized word means past grievances; we say "let" them "be" them bygones |
| #5, aired 2022-02-10 | AFTER & BEFORE $2000: French suivre, "to follow", is related to this 5-letter word that means the same ensue |
| #8573, aired 2022-02-09 | VICE PRESIDENTS $800: Before Biden he was the last veep to later ascend to the presidency George H.W. Bush |
| #4, aired 2022-02-09 | HISTORIC MEAN TWEETS $400: (Guillermo reads a mean tweet.)
@oceanguy
Magellan, remind me why you're famous as the first person to do this when you barely made it halfway before getting killed? circumnavigate the globe |
| #4, aired 2022-02-09 | HISTORIC MEAN TWEETS $1000: (Guillermo reads a mean tweet.)
@thisman
In your face, Elisha Gray! Got my patent entered before yours! #biginventionof1876 Alexander Graham Bell |
| #4, aired 2022-02-09 | PREFIXES $2000: This prefix forms the first 6 of the 45 letters in the disease name sometimes called the longest word in English pneumo- |
| #3, aired 2022-02-09 | A FEW FINAL WORDS $800: When "pen-" comes before this word it means next to last; without it, it's last ultimate |
| #3, aired 2022-02-09 | A FEW FINAL WORDS $1600: Often found before "of hostilities", this word has a double "S" within it cessation |
| #8572, aired 2022-02-08 | 2-SYLLABLE WORDS $1000: In Sonnet 18, Shakespeare used this word before "thee to a summer's day" compare |
| #8572, aired 2022-02-08 | JUST "Z" MOVIE FOR YOU $1600: The title of this Kathryn Bigelow film is military slang for a period of time before the sun comes up Zero Dark Thirty |
| #2, aired 2022-02-08 | CROSSWORD CLUES, FROM THE LATIN $1200: "Before the war"
(10 letters) antebellum |
| #1, aired 2022-02-08 | THESE WORDS ARE YOUNGER THAN YOU ARE $1000: Folks have been making these catalogs of things to do before they die since 2006 bucket lists |
| #8571, aired 2022-02-07 | THE WORD SERIES $800: Henry Traute of the Diamond Match Co. came up with this 4-word phrase that begins with "close cover", printed billions of times before striking |
| #8571, aired 2022-02-07 | PHOTOGRAPHERS $1200: Walter Iooss took a classic shot of reporters including Brent Musburger around this Jets QB lounging poolside before Super Bowl 3 (Joe) Namath |
| #8570, aired 2022-02-04 | HISTORIC OFFSPRING $400: 3 years before his own fatal duel, his son Philip died in another affair of honor a few miles away, using the same guns Alexander Hamilton |
| #8570, aired 2022-02-04 | UKRAINE DROPS $1600: Viktor Yushchenko, seen before & after dioxin poisoning, came to presidential power during this colorful revolution in 2005 the Orange Revolution |
| #8569, aired 2022-02-03 | DATING THE REALITY SHOW $800: "Will You Marry Me?" was episode 2 of this Lachey-hosted show where couples got engaged before meeting face-to-face Love is Blind |
| #8569, aired 2022-02-03 | THE MUSIC "MAN" $2000: Twice a "man", he had a hit with "Do Wah Diddy Diddy" before hitting the charts again with his Earth Band Manfred Mann |
| #8566, aired 2022-01-31 | ON THE "M"AP $5,600 (Daily Double): Known for coffee before 1917, this Venezuelan port city struck oil & became a big deal Maracaibo |
| #8565, aired 2022-01-28 | ONE-SYLLABLE ADJECTIVES $400: Meaning immense, it can come before cheese or Mac big |
| #8565, aired 2022-01-28 | IT HAPPENED IN EUROPE $800: This event brought joy two days before D-Day the liberation of Rome |
| #8564, aired 2022-01-27 | MOTHERS OF INVENTION $200: Apartment blazes were deadlier before Anna Connelly devised one of these metal structures around 1887 a fire escape |
| #8564, aired 2022-01-27 | TRANSPORTATION $1000: In Venice, before a mandate made them black, these were lavishly decorated by their wealthy owners (the Venetian) gondolas |
| #8563, aired 2022-01-26 | E BEFORE I $400: The massive Madrid maersk, is one of these, a ship used to carry cargo in bulk a freighter |
| #8563, aired 2022-01-26 | CONFERENCE CHAMPIONSHIP HEROES $400: (Phil Simms presents the clue.) The Colts trailed the Patriots 21-3 in the 2006 AFC title game, before this quarterback took over, leading Indianapolis to four second-half touchdowns in a seesaw 38-34 victory (Peyton) Manning |
| #8563, aired 2022-01-26 | E BEFORE I $800: The ancestors of this breed came over the Alps into Central Europe as cattle drivers with the Romans Rottweilers |
| #8563, aired 2022-01-26 | E BEFORE I $1200: In Shakespeare it means fanciful or imaginative; in "con"temporary use, it means vain conceited |
| #8563, aired 2022-01-26 | CELEBS WHO APPEARED ON KIDS' TV $1200: Once upon a time in Hollywood, long before even his role in "The Basketball Diaries", at age 5 he appeared on "Romper Room" Leonardo DiCaprio |
| #8563, aired 2022-01-26 | E BEFORE I $1600: It can be a type of cell division or a figure of speech meiosis |
| #8563, aired 2022-01-26 | CELEBS WHO APPEARED ON KIDS' TV $1600: Before she was whispering to ghosts, she was on "Kids Incorporated" singing at a club for young people Jennifer Love Hewitt |
| #8563, aired 2022-01-26 | E BEFORE I $2000: In many states the death penalty may be imposed if a murder was especially this, "atrocious or cruel" heinous |
| #8561, aired 2022-01-24 | THE YEAR OF BEFORE & AFTER $400: Prince tune that turns into a sudsy song that you sing on a long car ride "1999 Bottles Of Beer On The Wall" |
| #8561, aired 2022-01-24 | THE YEAR OF BEFORE & AFTER $800: The iPhone is introduced & a marital temptation arises 2007 year itch |
| #8561, aired 2022-01-24 | THE YEAR OF BEFORE & AFTER $1200: Fateful year for the Titanic & a movie in which Henry Fonda plays a juror 1912 Angry Men |
| #8561, aired 2022-01-24 | THE YEAR OF BEFORE & AFTER $2000: The year of the Battle of Waterloo leads to Andy Warhol's suggested period of notoriety 1815 minutes of fame |
| #8561, aired 2022-01-24 | THE YEAR OF BEFORE & AFTER $4,000 (Daily Double): William Henry Harrison wins an election; a short nap ensues 1840 winks |
| #8559, aired 2022-01-20 | BEFORE & AFTER TV $400: Survey says: it's the Pritchetts vs. the Dunphys on a Steve Harvey game show Modern Family Feud |
| #8559, aired 2022-01-20 | BEFORE & AFTER TV $800: Fred MacMurray & his trio of kids join an outlaw motorcycle gang My Three Sons of Anarchy |
| #8559, aired 2022-01-20 | 1922 $1000: 20 years before commanding a raid on Tokyo, he made the first U.S. coast-to-coast flight in under a day Doolittle |
| #8559, aired 2022-01-20 | BEFORE & AFTER TV $1200: Women's prison dramedy in which Rowan Atkinson plays a period royal Orange Is the New Blackadder |
| #8559, aired 2022-01-20 | BEFORE & AFTER TV $1600: William & Virginia give bedroom advice to Carrie, Samantha, Charlotte & Miranda Masters of Sex and the City |
| #8559, aired 2022-01-20 | BEFORE & AFTER TV $2000: Spooky HBO show with references to H.P.'s works, with Katharine McPhee along as the singing nanny Lovecraft Country Comfort |
| #8558, aired 2022-01-19 | CORRECT THAT NUMBER $200: Go home, you're drunk: to be very precise, you're 46 "sheets to the wind" three sheets to the wind (or two sheets to the wind) |
| #8558, aired 2022-01-19 | MEXICO BEFORE 1600 $400: Maya tracking their appointments could use the Haab 19-month one of these or the long count one, which covers 5,125 years calendars |
| #8558, aired 2022-01-19 | HOW ARE WE EVEN RELATED? $600: Jason Momoa &
Zoë Kravitz stepdad & stepdaughter |
| #8558, aired 2022-01-19 | MEXICO BEFORE 1600 $800: This crop, Zea mays, was cultivated thousands of years ago in Mexico & farmers learned how to hybridize it to get bigger kernels corn |
| #8558, aired 2022-01-19 | MEXICO BEFORE 1600 $1200: The Toltec fashioned & traded various items out of this black volcanic glass obsidian |
| #8558, aired 2022-01-19 | LOCAL NICKNAMES $1200: In its web address, the University of Mississippi uses this 2-word nickname before .edu Ole Miss |
| #8558, aired 2022-01-19 | MEXICO BEFORE 1600 $1600: This people, the first big civilization in Mexico, left behind figures called werejaguars the Olmecs |
| #8558, aired 2022-01-19 | MEXICO BEFORE 1600 $2000: The biggest court for the ball game pok-ta-pok was in this 2-word city on the Yucatan whose ruins you can visit today Chichen Itza |
| #8557, aired 2022-01-18 | NEW JERSEY, NEW JERSEY $200: Hey, this Ivy League school, what exit? It moved from Elizabeth to Newark before finding its final home in 1756 Princeton |
| #8556, aired 2022-01-17 | "PRE"FIXES $400: Before a contest, or to toss a few back before hitting the bars pre-game |
| #8556, aired 2022-01-17 | 20th CENTURY AMERICA $2000: This naturalist died in California in 1914, shortly before a dam flooded his beloved Hetch Hetchy Valley (John) Muir |
| #8555, aired 2022-01-14 | HOLLAND $200: The Maas & Schelde Rivers both flow into the Netherlands before emptying into this sea the North Sea |
| #8554, aired 2022-01-13 | PEOPLE IN HISTORY $400: Before becoming the first American woman in space, she was a star tennis player at Stanford & Billie Jean King told her to go pro Sally Ride |
| #8554, aired 2022-01-13 | ROM-DRAMS $1000: Before winning an Oscar as a 1960s Black Panther, he played Slim to Jodie Turner-Smith's Queen in a 2019 film Daniel Kaluuya |
| #8553, aired 2022-01-12 | AUTHORS' NONFICTION $1600: Before writing 1905's "The House of Mirth", she collaborated on "The Decoration of Houses", a book of interior designs Edith Wharton |
| #8552, aired 2022-01-11 | JOHN F. KENNEDY $200: On Sept. 12, 1962, JFK said, "We choose to go" here; "It will be done. & It will be done before" the end of the decade the Moon |
| #8552, aired 2022-01-11 | FALLING $1600: Sometimes used of the stock market, it's a plunge by an aircraft with the forward part pointing down a nosedive (tailspin) |
| #8550, aired 2022-01-07 | POP CULTURE MONIKERS $400: This "Avengers" actor was nicknamed "Hammer" before he played Thor Chris Hemsworth |
| #8549, aired 2022-01-06 | LITERARY CHARACTERS $800: The 2021 novel "Nick" by Michael Farris Smith tells of this Nick before his time as the narrator of "The Great Gatsby" Nick Carraway |
| #8549, aired 2022-01-06 | LITERARY CHARACTERS $1200: "God forgive me everything!" are her last words before the train runs her over Anna Karenina |
| #8548, aired 2022-01-05 | ISLANDS $400: One year before Napoleon's birth, this island was transferred from Italian to French ownership Corsica |
| #8548, aired 2022-01-05 | LESSER-KNOWN COMPOSERS $1600: In 1844, before this brass woodwind was even patented, Jean-Georges Kastner used it in his opera "The Last King of Judah" the saxophone |
| #8547, aired 2022-01-04 | THE NEW TESTAMENT $400: Andrew was a disciple of this dunker before following Jesus John the Baptist |
| #8545, aired 2021-12-31 | THIS & THAT $600: This famous German was in the cavalry & also the infantry before his fighter pilot days in 1916 the Red Baron |
| #8544, aired 2021-12-30 | THE FIRST AFRICAN-AMERICAN... $400: Lawyer admitted to practice before this body was John S. Rock on Feb. 1, 1865 the Supreme Court |
| #8543, aired 2021-12-29 | A PREFIX MENU $400: Meaning "against", it goes before -band to describe something against the law contra |
| #8543, aired 2021-12-29 | SHAKE YOUR BOOTY $800: The Wham! song "Wake Me Up Before you Go-Go" begins with a few mentions of this "insectoid" dance of the 1940s the jitterbug |
| #8543, aired 2021-12-29 | A PREFIX MENU $1000: All meaning "half", these 3 rhyming prefixes combine before -quaver to describe a very, very short musical note demi, semi & hemi |
| #8542, aired 2021-12-28 | THAT'S BOGUS $2000: The first part of this fancy 13-letter word for a lie derives from Latin for "before" prevarication |
| #8541, aired 2021-12-27 | BEFORE & AFTER $400: A proverbial phrase regarding a bit of sewing done now to save work later merges with a numerical brand of cat food a stitch in time saves Nine Lives |
| #8541, aired 2021-12-27 | YOU STUBBED YOUR TOE ON LIVE TV $400: Before children, the Pied Piper of Hamelin led these to their doom rats |
| #8541, aired 2021-12-27 | BEFORE & AFTER $800: An "international" phrase used after swearing tunes in as a valved, circular brass instrument pardon my French horn |
| #8541, aired 2021-12-27 | BEFORE & AFTER $1200: An ominous 5-word warning to Caesar looms over an alliterative description of the NCAA basketball tournament beware the Ides of March Madness |
| #8541, aired 2021-12-27 | BEFORE & AFTER $1600: A Tony Bennett song about a California city takes over as a Spanish conquistador I Left My Heart In San Francisco Pizarro |
| #8541, aired 2021-12-27 | BEFORE & AFTER $2000: Paul Revere's lantern signal system (according to Longfellow) gets interpreted by a species of eared seal one if by land, two if by sea lion |
| #8540, aired 2021-12-24 | FIRST RESPONSES $1600: Added to merriam-webster.com in 2020 but done by people long before, it's to hinder a process by doing it at very low speed slow walk |
| #8540, aired 2021-12-24 | NOVELS & NOVELISTS $2,000 (Daily Double): "La Galatea", his first novel, appeared in 1585, 20 years before his most famous one Cervantes |
| #8540, aired 2021-12-24 | SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN $2000: Drawn to the sea before seeing it by a line of poetry, she became a marine biologist & 1941's "Under the Sea-Wind" was her first book (Rachel) Carson |
| #8536, aired 2021-12-20 | A DIFFERENT LOOK AT CHRISTMAS SONGS $400: This title daredevil lives to the max! Though the Sun can kill him, he sings, "Let's run & we'll have some fun now before I melt away" Frosty the Snowman |
| #8535, aired 2021-12-17 | BEFORE & AFTER $200: Angling necessity that's a high-flying track & field event fishing pole vault |
| #8535, aired 2021-12-17 | BEFORE & AFTER $400: Protective glove used to handle hot items on the stove that was the 2012 Republican nominee for president oven Mitt Romney |
| #8535, aired 2021-12-17 | BEFORE & AFTER $600: A frankfurter within Canis Major hot Dog Star |
| #8535, aired 2021-12-17 | BEFORE & AFTER $800: Experimental James Joyce novel requested from the hotel front desk to rouse you from sleep in the morning Finnegans Wake-up call |
| #8535, aired 2021-12-17 | BEFORE & AFTER $1000: Billionaire superhero & inventor of a miniature Arc Reactor/jellyfish relative of the gulf stream Iron Man of war |
| #8535, aired 2021-12-17 | CELEBRITIES $1600: This Houston native was a student at Texas Southern University before her music career took off Megan Thee Stallion |
| #8533, aired 2021-12-15 | CZECHS $800: He had a short term as president of Czechoslovakia before becoming president of the Czech Republic Havel |
| #8532, aired 2021-12-14 | AN AD JUNKED $200: An ad for cold medicine showing a partially bare Mickey Rooney was pulled before it aired during this February 2005 event the Super Bowl |
| #8532, aired 2021-12-14 | TRANSPORTATION $1200: In 1937 the XC-35 was the first plane with a pressurized cabin; before that everyone wore these, now used in emergencies oxygen masks |
| #8531, aired 2021-12-13 | FOSSIL WORDS $200: Meaning reduced in amount or force, this past tense used to have an initial "A" & now shows up only before "breath" bated |
| #8531, aired 2021-12-13 | FOSSIL WORDS $800: Once meaning to go, this 4-letter verb now mostly appears before phrases like "one's way" wend |
| #8531, aired 2021-12-13 | GEMS & JEWELS $1200: An oblong one of these blue gems is in the center of the brooch Prince Albert gave Queen Victoria the day before they wed sapphire |
| #8530, aired 2021-12-10 | GOING MEDIEVAL $1200: Before he became a monk & she became a nun, these medieval lovers had a son named Astrolabe Heloise & Abelard |
| #8527, aired 2021-12-07 | BEFORE HE WAS PRESIDENT $200: He was a member of the Missouri National Guard Truman |
| #8527, aired 2021-12-07 | BEFORE HE WAS PRESIDENT $400: He was a Rhodes Scholar Bill Clinton |
| #8527, aired 2021-12-07 | BEFORE HE WAS PRESIDENT $600: He defeated Santa Anna at the Battle of Buena Vista Zachary Taylor |
| #8527, aired 2021-12-07 | BEFORE HE WAS PRESIDENT $800: He killed lawyer Charles Dickinson in a duel Andrew Jackson |
| #8527, aired 2021-12-07 | BEFORE HE WAS PRESIDENT $1000: He was sheriff of Erie County & mayor of Buffalo Grover Cleveland |
| #8524, aired 2021-12-02 | FUNNY LADIES $400: Long before "Grace and Frankie", she starred opposite Jane Fonda & Dolly Parton in the movie "9 to 5" Tomlin |
| #8523, aired 2021-12-01 | PULITZER PRIZE WINNERS $200: Before Roger Ebert won the 1st Pulitzer for Movie Criticism, his paper-mate Ron Powers won the 1st as a critic of this medium television |
| #8523, aired 2021-12-01 | PUTTING YOU THROUGH SOME HOOPS $400: Before a 2008 move, this NBA team was known as the SuperSonics the Oklahoma City Thunder |
| #8523, aired 2021-12-01 | EUROPEAN HISTORY $5,000 (Daily Double): He fought both the Spanish Christians & the Moors before conquering Muslim Valencia in 1094 El Cid |
| #8519, aired 2021-11-25 | 4-LETTER BEFORE & AFTER $400: Boat's going down? Try a plea to a WWII organization that was a forerunner of the CIA SOSS |
| #8519, aired 2021-11-25 | 4-LETTER BEFORE & AFTER $800: The congresswoman who introduced the Green New Deal--I must say her initials repetitively because I have my condition AOCD |
| #8519, aired 2021-11-25 | 4-LETTER BEFORE & AFTER $1200: Someone who gives urgent lifesaving care on the New York City subway system EMTA |
| #8519, aired 2021-11-25 | 4-LETTER BEFORE & AFTER $1600: Mikhail Baryshnikov was its director & also a member of the Seoul-based singing group ABTS |
| #8519, aired 2021-11-25 | 4-LETTER BEFORE & AFTER $2000: Inscription on the tombstone of a failed attempt to sell a new stock to the mass of investors RIPO |
| #8518, aired 2021-11-24 | PRESIDENTIAL THIS & THAT $1000: Before becoming president, he helped his wife Lou translate "De re metallica", a 1556 text that detailed copper mining Hoover |
| #8515, aired 2021-11-19 | SPEAKING TRUTH TO POWER COMPANIES $200: Consolidated this inventor, your history in New York goes back almost 200 years, to before he was even born Edison |
| #8515, aired 2021-11-19 | ESSAYS $600: A few years before his death from cancer, this film critic reflected on his life in "Go Gentle Into That Good Night" Ebert |
| #8513, aired 2021-11-17 | IT'S A NEW MACHINE $800: Before his partner Eli Whitney even got a patent, Phineas Miller was de-seeding with this machine in Mulberry Grove, Georgia the cotton gin |
| #8511, aired 2021-11-15 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $600: French for "good journey", it's what you wish someone before they set off on a trip bon voyage |
| #8510, aired 2021-11-12 | 200 YEARS AGO $1000: Later to be America's first homegrown saint, she wrote before her 1821 passing, "I'll be wild Betsy to the last" (Elizabeth Ann) Seton |
| #8510, aired 2021-11-12 | THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT $1200: As chief counsel for the NAACP, this future justice argued Brown V. Board of Education before the Supreme Court Marshall |
| #8509, aired 2021-11-11 | SERVING $400: Renee Zellweger & Kelly Clarkson both served drinks as this type of "waitress"; you almost never hear it before "waiter" a cocktail waitress |
| #8508, aired 2021-11-10 | THE SHIRLEY BOOTH $400: Before the closing of the theaters in 1642, James Shirley wrote about 30 plays during the reign of this king Charles I |
| #8508, aired 2021-11-10 | UP ALL NIGHT $400: This energy drink says it "vitalizes body & mind" but having 9 before bedtime may not be the best idea Red Bull |
| #8507, aired 2021-11-09 | THE END $800: "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 |
| #8507, aired 2021-11-09 | THE BEGINNING $1,200 (Daily Double): Around 650 B.C.Greek colonists founded a city on the Bosporus that they called this; it would later be the capital of empires Byzantium |
| #8506, aired 2021-11-08 | RUSSIANS $400: On Dec. 22, 1849 this author of "Crime & Punishment" was led before a firing squad, only to get a last-minute pardon from the czar Dostoevsky |
| #8502, aired 2021-11-02 | ALSO A FACEBOOK REACTION $400: It comes before "Field" in a Dallas airport Love |
| #8502, aired 2021-11-02 | ALSO A FACEBOOK REACTION $600: No joke--this double-talk name comes before Clinton-Dix in the name of an NFL star "Ha Ha" |
| #8500, aired 2021-10-29 | SCARY EVERYDAY HALLOWEEN STORIES $800: ...& the mechanic said, "The planetary gearset in this car part is shot. It's gonna be $1,700... before labor!" transmission |
| #8500, aired 2021-10-29 | PRESIDENTS WHO WEREN'T BORN IN THE UNITED STATES $1000: He was born in the colony of Virginia February 9, 1773, 68 years before his very brief presidency William Harrison |
| #8497, aired 2021-10-26 | TV SHOW OPENING CREDITS $400: A drive down the scenic New Jersey Turnpike passes Satriale's & Pizzaland before ending at a suburban home The Sopranos |
| #8497, aired 2021-10-26 | BIBLE NUMBERS $800: David selected 5 smooth stones out of a stream before his encounter with this person Goliath |
| #8496, aired 2021-10-25 | CARNIVAL TALK $200: Also a first name, it's a local visitor to a carnival ready to be separated from his money; it may have "easy" before it mark |
| #8495, aired 2021-10-22 | PLANETARY SCIENCE $1200: 15 years before its official discovery, it was photographed in 1915 by Lowell Observatory, which didn't know what it was Pluto |
| #8495, aired 2021-10-22 | ACTORS & ACCENTS $2000: Before lending his voice to many Pixar projects, this New Englander did one of the few actual Boston accents on "Cheers" (John) Ratzenberger |
| #8494, aired 2021-10-21 | SPORTS BOOKS $200: Roger Kahn's 1972 bestseller "The Boys of Summer" is a nostalgic look at this team before it headed west the (Brooklyn) Dodgers |
| #8494, aired 2021-10-21 | EPIDEMIOLOGY $1600: Before it described a cancer treatment, this word coined by Paul Ehrlich was used for Salvarsan, a cure for syphilis chemotherapy |
| #8493, aired 2021-10-20 | "E"-MALE $400: Though also working in law enforcement, he was busted for horse stealing & uh, brothel involvement before moving to Tombstone in 1879 (Wyatt) Earp |
| #8493, aired 2021-10-20 | DRAFTS $1000: Lost on an island before "Lost", Simon is a bit of a precog in this 1954 novel, foreseeing his own death in an early draft Lord of the Flies |
| #8491, aired 2021-10-18 | WHAT A BEAUTIFUL NAME $1200: It's a first name & a synonym for "beautiful" often heard before "Scotland" Bonnie |
| #8490, aired 2021-10-15 | STATE YOUR NAME $1000: This state comes before the names of blues musicians John Hurt & Fred McDowell Mississippi |
| #8488, aired 2021-10-13 | PRO WRESTLING TERMINOLOGY $200: In this alliterative type of match, you need to touch your partner before you can be replaced in the ring tag team |
| #8488, aired 2021-10-13 | '80s TV $400: In 1980 fans of this series had to wait 8 long months before they would learn "Who shot J.R." Dallas |
| #8487, aired 2021-10-12 | OUR LEAD SINGER $400: Before Maroon 5, his high school band called Kara's Flowers appeared in an episode of "Beverly Hills 90210" Adam Levine |
| #8487, aired 2021-10-12 | ON BASE $800: In 1968 an air reserve base in Indiana was named for this Hoosier astronaut killed in a fire the year before Gus Grissom |
| #8486, aired 2021-10-11 | THE ICKIEST OF THE "ICKY" $400: Before "wicket" it refers to a muddy part on the cricket pitch, or any awkward problem sticky |
| #8486, aired 2021-10-11 | GEORGE WASHINGTON DID IT $800: Before he was president, George presided over this months-long meeting in the summer of 1787 Constitutional Convention |
| #8485, aired 2021-10-08 | PARDON MY FRENCHMAN $1200: Bernard Boursicot was pardoned in 1987, shortly before the debut of this play inspired by his affair with an opera singer/spy M. Butterfly |
| #8483, aired 2021-10-06 | WE ARE TV FAMILY $600: Before becoming TV's favorite drug kingpin, he played Frankie Muniz' dad on "Malcolm in the Middle" Bryan Cranston |
| #8482, aired 2021-10-05 | IT'S A PROCESS $200: Chester Carlson's photocopying process was rejected by over 20 companies before this one bought it & made him rich Xerox |
| #8482, aired 2021-10-05 | I BEFORE E AFTER C $400: This word meaning really old is in the full name of St. Andrews Golf Club, open for 18-hole play since 1764 Ancient |
| #8482, aired 2021-10-05 | I BEFORE E AFTER C $800: One of the letters in a BSEE degree Science |
| #8482, aired 2021-10-05 | THAT'S A DIFFERENT PREPOSITION $1000: "During" switches to this when it comes before a predicate phrase like "walking the dog" while |
| #8482, aired 2021-10-05 | I BEFORE E AFTER C $1200: It can be a type of small apartment or a measure of results versus costs efficiency |
| #8482, aired 2021-10-05 | I BEFORE E AFTER C $1600: Term for someone like J.P. Morgan who invests in businesses on a large scale a financier |
| #8482, aired 2021-10-05 | I BEFORE E AFTER C $2000: Drop the last letter from a biological term to get this word meaning "coined money" specie |
| #8481, aired 2021-10-04 | BEFORE & AFTER $400: Top equestrian trio of races that are next in line to be the reigning monarch Triple Crown prince |
| #8481, aired 2021-10-04 | BEFORE & AFTER $800: Southern state capital confection that's made of crystallized sugar Little Rock candy |
| #8481, aired 2021-10-04 | BEFORE & AFTER $1200: Geographic latitude separating the 2 Koreas that's a gymnastics apparatus 38th parallel bars |
| #8481, aired 2021-10-04 | BEFORE & AFTER $1600: Artistic Left Bank region of Paris that's a meaty McDonald's burger Latin Quarter Pounder |
| #9035, aired 2024-02-09 | NOVEL CHARACTERS: It's this character who's spoken of in the line "Reader, I forgave him at the moment & on the spot" Mr. Rochester |
| #9005, aired 2023-12-29 | FAMOUS NAMES: In 2023, shortly after his death, his name was added to a Brazilian dictionary to describe one who's superior or out of the ordinary Pelé |
| #8990, aired 2023-12-08 | ANCIENT HISTORY: Before visiting Achilles' tomb, this man threw his spear onto the ground in Asia & declared the continent "spear-won" Alexander the Great |
| #8979, aired 2023-11-23 | SCIENCE ETYMOLOGY: First detected in the Sun's atmosphere in 1868, it got its name from an old word for sun helium |
| #8973, aired 2023-11-15 | WASHINGTON, D.C.: It was proposed in Congress in 1926 in honor of a big 150th anniversary; it opened 17 years later the Jefferson Memorial |
| #8968, aired 2023-11-08 | EXPLORERS: Perhaps inspiring a line 2 centuries later, in 1774 he wrote that he was headed "farther than any other man has been before me" Captain James Cook |
| #8956, aired 2023-10-23 | MUSIC MEN: Before creating this record label in 1959, its founder worked on a Lincoln-Mercury assembly line Motown |
| #8950, aired 2023-10-13 | ROYALTY: Before his death in 2005, he said he was "probably the last head of state to be able to recognize all his compatriots in the street" Prince Rainier (III of Monaco) |
| #8933, aired 2023-09-20 | 20th CENTURY PEOPLE: In 2022 the Dept. of Energy noted "a flawed process" & vacated a 1954 commission's decision "in the matter of" this man (J. Robert) Oppenheimer |
| #8914, aired 2023-07-13 | FAMOUS SHIPS: This first U.S. battleship ever built was launched in 1889 but lasted less than 9 years the Maine |
| #19, aired 2023-05-24 | AFRICA: A major seaport & formerly a world capital, this city has a name from Arabic for "house of peace" Dar es Salaam |
| #18, aired 2023-05-23 | OPERA & HISTORY: Appropriately, the last performance at the Vienna State Opera before it was destroyed in 1945 by Allied bombs was this opera from 1876 Götterdämmerung |
| #8874, aired 2023-05-18 | BILLBOARD NO. 1 HITS: Billy Joel said, "I think the one time I didn't write the music" before the lyrics was for this 1989 hit, "and I think it shows" "We Didn't Start The Fire" |
| #13, aired 2023-05-17 | THE LAKE SHOW: 12 years before meeting Stanley at Lake Tanganyika, David Livingstone reached this national body of water in 1859 Lake Malawi |
| #4, aired 2023-05-09 | WESTERN HEMISPHERE HISTORY: In 1915 the assassination of President Sam brought Uncle Sam to this country, beginning a 19-year military occupation Haiti |
| #8858, aired 2023-04-26 | HOLLYWOOD HISTORY: Last name of 3 men who missed the 1927 premiere of "The Jazz Singer" because a 4th of that name had died hours before Warner |
| #8818, aired 2023-03-01 | LAWS IN U.S. HISTORY: A Radical Republican championed this 1875 act but the Supreme Court struck it down in 1883; a new version was passed 81 years later the Civil Rights Act |
| #8803, aired 2023-02-08 | EUROPEAN CITIES: Alphabetically the first German city in encyclopedias, it was also the first one taken by the Allies in World War II Aachen |
| #9, aired 2023-01-05 | 20th CENTURY PEOPLE: Calling him "the embodiment of pure intellect", in December 1999 Time magazine named him Person of the Century Albert Einstein |
| #8770, aired 2022-12-23 | AMERICAN POEMS: In an 1847 poem this character sees her town of Grand-Pré burned, but finally reunites with her beau for a kiss before his death Evangeline |
| #8733, aired 2022-11-02 | PHRASES IN AMERICAN HISTORY: Andrew Johnson vetoed a bill that gave reparations to formerly enslaved people, hence this phrase for an unfulfilled promise forty acres and a mule |
| #8710, aired 2022-09-30 | BEFORE THEY WERE AUTHORS: While working for British naval intelligence during World War II, he was code-named 17F Ian Fleming |
| #8709, aired 2022-09-29 | INNOVATIONS: Seen by a worldwide audience in 1970, black pentagons were added to these to help viewers follow them better on TV soccer balls |
| #8688, aired 2022-07-20 | HISTORIC AMERICAN ROADS: Originally a Native American trail, the Dutch made it a main road & today it runs 33 miles from State Street to Sleepy Hollow Broadway |
| #8668, aired 2022-06-22 | 19th CENTURY LITERATURE: This author first thought of a parrot before choosing another bird "equally capable of speech" Edgar Allan Poe |
| #8657, aired 2022-06-07 | WRITING OLD & NEW: This 2013 bestseller shares its title with the first section of a poem from 7 centuries before Inferno |
| #8639, aired 2022-05-12 | CONSTITUTIONS OF THE WORLD: Amendments to its 1901 constitution require approval of at least 4 states before receiving royal assent Australia |
| #8635, aired 2022-05-06 | USA: These 2 mayors gave their names to a facility built on the site of an old racetrack owned by Coca-Cola magnate Asa Candler William Hartsfield & Maynard Jackson |
| #8619, aired 2022-04-14 | WOMEN IN BRITISH HISTORY: The orphaned future Queen Elizabeth I was devoted to this stepmother who died 2 days before Elizabeth's 15th birthday Catherine Parr |
| #8618, aired 2022-04-13 | HISTORY: Intimately familiar with World War I, Churchill considered this war from some 150 years before the "first world war" the Seven Years' War |
| #8588, aired 2022-03-02 | ART MUSEUMS: Before its 1959 opening, 21 artists protested its design, saying it would make paintings look tilted & askew the Guggenheim |
| #8585, aired 2022-02-25 | AWARDS: These awards have a retro version & winners include the novel "The Sword in the Stone" & "The War of the Worlds" radio broadcast the Hugo Awards |
| #16, aired 2022-02-18 | CHARACTERS IN BANNED BOOKS: Introduced in 1928, this character has a disappointing affair with a writer before she begins a more satisfying relationship Lady Chatterley |
| #15, aired 2022-02-18 | HISTORIC STRUCTURES: In 1100 the Bishop of Durham became the first prisoner here &, after plying his guards with wine, became the first to escape the Tower of London |
| #8558, aired 2022-01-19 | FILMS OF THE 2000s: One of the screenwriters of this 2001 film described it as "'Clueless' meets 'The Paper Chase"' Legally Blonde |
| #8481, aired 2021-10-04 | RENAISSANCE MEN: 10 years before a more famous work, he wrote in 1503 that the way to deal with rebels is to placate them or eliminate them (Niccolò) Machiavelli |
| #8464, aired 2021-08-12 | BLOCKBUSTER MOVIES: Based on a 1974 novel, this film has been described as combining "An Enemy of the People" & "Moby Dick" Jaws |
| #8424, aired 2021-06-17 | COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD: On this country's National Day, August 15, all 39,000 residents are invited to Vaduz Castle for festivities & drinks Liechtenstein |
| #8405, aired 2021-05-21 | AMERICAN AUTHORS: The year before his 1809 birth, his parents acted in "King Lear", leading scholars to believe he was named for a "Lear" character Edgar Allan Poe |
| #8396, aired 2021-05-10 | U.S. HISTORY: On April 7, 1789 Charles Thomson & Sylvanus Bourne left New York City to tell these 2 men the results of a vote taken the day before George Washington & John Adams |
| #8386, aired 2021-04-26 | CITY ORIGIN STORIES: The mythical founder Byzas consulted the Oracle of Delphi before establishing what's now known as this city Istanbul |
| #8385, aired 2021-04-23 | MOVIE TITLE CHARACTERS: In this 2012 film set just before the Civil War, a German dentist declares that the title character's surname is Freeman Django Unchained |
| #8370, aired 2021-04-02 | EPONYMOUS LANDMARKS: In 1960 the ashes of this aviator were spread over the Venezuela natural wonder he famously sighted decades earlier (James) Angel |
| #8351, aired 2021-03-08 | RADIO HISTORY: A 1949 broadcast in Spanish of this drama from 11 years before caused mass panic in Ecuador & the destruction of the radio station "The War of the Worlds" |
| #8320, aired 2021-01-22 | STATUES: Statues honoring this man who was killed in 1779 can be found in Waimea, Kauai & in Whitby, England (Captain) Cook |
| #8298, aired 2020-12-09 | AMERICAN LIT: A book by him says, "From the forest came the call…distinct and definite as never before--a long-drawn howl" Jack London |
| #8293, aired 2020-12-02 | NOVEL CHARACTERS: This character from an 1851 novel "was intent on an audacious, immitigable, and supernatural revenge" Captain Ahab |
| #8285, aired 2020-11-20 | MUSICAL THEATER: The word "Practical" was dropped from the title of this hit musical not long before it premiered in 1981 on London's West End Cats |
| #8265, aired 2020-10-23 | 19th CENTURY SUPREME COURT CASES: Part of the dissent in this 1896 landmark case read, "In respect of civil rights, all citizens are equal before the law" Plessy v. Ferguson |
| #8260, aired 2020-10-16 | 20th CENTURY AMERICAN MUSIC: The composer of this 1944 ballet piece said it "concerned a pioneer celebration... around a newly built farmhouse in the... hills" Appalachian Spring |
| #8241, aired 2020-09-21 | PIONEERING EDUCATORS: Before going into education, she graduated from the University of Rome in 1896 & was named assistant doctor at its psych clinic (Maria) Montessori |
| #8211, aired 2020-04-27 | CIVIL WAR PEOPLE: Before they were photographed together in 1862, Lincoln wryly noted this general "should have no problem" sitting still for it George McClellan |
| #8166, aired 2020-02-24 | MUSIC STARS: On July 26, 1972 he testified before a Senate subcommittee on national penitentiaries Johnny Cash |
| #6, aired 2020-01-09 | 21st CENTURY OSCAR WINNERS: These 2 foreign-born directors have each won 2 Best Director Oscars, but none of their films has won Best Picture Ang Lee & Alfonso Cuarón |
| #8129, aired 2020-01-02 | SCIENTISTS: About 100 years before Darwin, this naturalist put orangutans & humans in a group with the Latin name "Homo" (Carolus) Linnaeus |
| #8128, aired 2020-01-01 | SINGLE-NAMED PERFORMERS: The last single-named actress to win an Oscar was this woman who won for her supporting role in "Precious" Mo'Nique |
| #8114, aired 2019-12-12 | WOMEN AUTHORS: In 1947 she testified before the House Un-American Activities Committee on how the film "Song of Russia" was Communist propaganda Ayn Rand |
| #8111, aired 2019-12-09 | VICE PRESIDENTS: George H.W. Bush in 1988 was the first sitting vice president to be elected to the top job since this man 152 years before Martin Van Buren |
| #8108, aired 2019-12-04 | OPERA TITLE NAMES: Before being consumed in flames, he flirts with a bride on her wedding day & a list of his amorous conquests is sung Don Giovanni |
| #8086, aired 2019-11-04 | ANCIENT HISTORY: According to Herodotus, a messenger was sent 150 miles from Athens to Sparta, just before this 490 B.C. battle the Battle of Marathon |
| #8082, aired 2019-10-29 | 1950s CINEMA: Objects of attention in this suspenseful film include a digging dog, a scantily clad dancer & a possible murderer Rear Window |
| #8081, aired 2019-10-28 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA: Before its official opening on May 24, 1883 Emily Roebling became the first person to cross it in a carriage the Brooklyn Bridge |
| #8023, aired 2019-06-26 | 19th CENTURY LITERARY CHARACTERS: "Hard and sharp as flint... he iced his office in the dog-days; and didn't thaw it one degree at Christmas" Ebenezer Scrooge |
| #7973, aired 2019-04-17 | 20th CENTURY LITERARY CHARACTERS: His first name refers to the ancient district in which you'd find the Greek capital; his surname is a bird Atticus Finch |
| #7946, aired 2019-03-11 | PLAYWRIGHTS: Before his death in 2018 at age 91, he received 4 Tony Awards, a Pulitzer Prize & was nominated for 4 Oscars Neil Simon |
| #7945, aired 2019-03-08 | 20th CENTURY NEWSMAKERS: In 1982 a probate judge in his home state of Michigan declared him legally dead Jimmy Hoffa |
| #7941, aired 2019-03-04 | ANCIENT WRITINGS: Its principles still used today, this treatise has chapters called "Weak Points & Strong" & "Tactical Dispositions" The Art of War |
| #7898, aired 2019-01-02 | BRITISH MEMOIRS: Before his death in 1996, this famous son wrote the memoirs "The Enchanted Places" & "The Hollow on the Hill" Christopher Robin Milne |
| #7896, aired 2018-12-31 | 21st CENTURY OSCARS: Before she was 25, she became the youngest performer to receive a second Best Actress nomination Jennifer Lawrence |
| #7856, aired 2018-11-05 | CHARACTERS IN CHILDREN'S LIT: Memories of refugees in British train stations before & after WWII helped inspire the creation of this character Paddington Bear |
| #7819, aired 2018-09-13 | BEFORE THEY WERE PRESIDENT: On October 4, 1940, for the premiere of what's been called his most famous movie role, Ronald Reagan was in this city South Bend, Indiana |
| #7721, aired 2018-03-19 | THE U.S. GOVERNMENT: Before signing the bill creating this, President George W. Bush noted its "nearly 170,000 employees" & "a new kind of war" the Department of Homeland Security |
| #7640, aired 2017-11-24 | NOVEL TITLE CHARACTERS: One orphan arriving before him was given the surname Swubble; some arriving later were to be Unwin & Vilkins Oliver Twist |
| #7578, aired 2017-07-19 | HISTORIC EVENTS: In June 1986 a bakers union expressed regret for a disaster in this European city 320 years before London |
| #7549, aired 2017-06-08 | WORLD WAR II HEROES: Credited with saving thousands of lives before his disappearance, in 2016 he was officially declared dead by Sweden Raoul Wallenberg |
| #7480, aired 2017-03-03 | AUTHORS' EPITAPHS: His tombstone in a Hampshire churchyard reads, "Knight, patriot, physician & man of letters" & "22 May 1859-7 July 1930" Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
| #7468, aired 2017-02-15 | U.S. POLITICAL PARTIES: Shortly before its demise, it had split into "Conscience" & "Cotton" factions the Whig Party |
| #7463, aired 2017-02-08 | NATIONAL ANTHEMS: In her memoirs Queen Liliuokalani tells us that before Hawaii had its own national anthem, it used this one "God Save The Queen" |
| #7423, aired 2016-12-14 | AMERICAN AUTHORS: Nominated 8 previous times, he finally won a Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962, 6 years before his death John Steinbeck |
| #7371, aired 2016-10-03 | CHRISTIANITY: A 4th century traveler gave one of the first descriptions of this day: "All the children... are carried... bearing branches" Palm Sunday |
| #7347, aired 2016-07-19 | JUDGES: Before he headed up the Supreme Court, he argued only 1 case before it--a 1796 case he ironically argued on states' rights grounds John Marshall |
| #7332, aired 2016-06-28 | AMERICAN INVENTORS: Before his death in 1932, he donated over $100 million, including $50 million to the University of Rochester George Eastman |
| #7331, aired 2016-06-27 | FRENCH MONARCHS: His reign was interrupted for "100 days" in the 19th century before he was restored & reigned for 9 years more Louis XVIII |
| #7285, aired 2016-04-22 | 19th CENTURY BRITS: In May 1810 during one of his more famous exploits, he employed the breaststroke Byron |
| #7283, aired 2016-04-20 | AT THE OLD BALLGAME: This word dates back to the 19th century & referred to what the Sun did to roofless seating bleachers |
| #7258, aired 2016-03-16 | THE FRENCH REVOLUTION: The last prisoner moved before the Bastille was stormed, this nobleman left behind the manuscript for his most infamous work the Marquis de Sade |
| #7238, aired 2016-02-17 | THE AFI's 100 YEARS... 100 MOVIES: This man who was in "The Godfather" & "Apocalypse Now" is the only living actor in 6 or more films on the list Robert Duvall |
| #7216, aired 2016-01-18 | STATE CAPITALS: A 1957 event led to the creation of a National Historic Site in this city, signed into law by a president whose library is now there too Little Rock, Arkansas |
| #7158, aired 2015-10-28 | POPULAR PSYCHOLOGY TERMS: Anna Freud wrote, "The infantile ego resorts to" this behavior "in order not to become aware of some painful impression" denial |
| #7137, aired 2015-09-29 | EUROPEAN MUSEUMS: In one of her last official acts before abdicating, Queen Beatrix reopened this museum after a 10-year renovation the Rijksmuseum (in Amsterdam) |
| #7119, aired 2015-07-23 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES: The mission of this Western university founded in 1875 is "to assist individuals in their quest for perfection and eternal life" Brigham Young University |
| #7040, aired 2015-04-03 | EUROPEAN HISTORY: A 3-letter 9th century tribe is in the names of 2 21st century countries: the world's most vast, & this one Belarus |
| #7038, aired 2015-04-01 | ETYMOLOGY: From the Latin for "to walk before", a famous example of this 8-letter word was written in 1787 preamble |
| #7008, aired 2015-02-18 | NO. 1 SONGS: A U.S. No. 1 in 1977, it was performed the night before Carl XVI Gustaf's 1976 wedding to Silvia Sommerlath "Dancing Queen" |
| #7005, aired 2015-02-13 | HISTORIC NAMES ON THE MAP: Nothing is known of his early life in England before 1600 or of the end of his life in North America after June 22, 1611 Henry Hudson |
| #7001, aired 2015-02-09 | 19th CENTURY WRITERS: After his death, he was given full military honors in Greece before his body was returned home for burial at his baronial seat Lord Byron |
| #6907, aired 2014-09-30 | WORLD LEADERS: He came to power 34 days before FDR & left it 19 days after him Adolf Hitler |
| #6854, aired 2014-06-05 | 19th CENTURY U.S. HISTORY: A dignitary at the dedication of this said it was "keeping watch and ward before the open gates of America" The Statue of Liberty |
| #6848, aired 2014-05-28 | OPERA: In a bit of foreshadowing, the title character's dad has committed suicide before the action of this 1904 opera Madame Butterfly |
| #6832, aired 2014-05-06 | U.S. STATES: Between 2006 & 2013 it went from 39th to 6th in per capita income & its unemployment rate dropped to the nation's lowest North Dakota |
| #6788, aired 2014-03-05 | 4-LETTER WORDS: New research says this word that has become ubiquitous dates back to young men also called "macaronis" dude |
| #6783, aired 2014-02-26 | SINGERS: The only solo artist to have 5 Billboard No. 1 albums before the age of 19 Justin Bieber |
| #6725, aired 2013-12-06 | HISTORIC LETTERS: In April 1865 she wrote to Mary Lincoln, "I cannot remain silent... brokenhearted by the loss of my own beloved husband" Queen Victoria |
| #6663, aired 2013-07-31 | THE CIVIL WAR: Abraham Lincoln called this document, which took effect in 1863, "a fit and necessary war measure" the Emancipation Proclamation |
| #6639, aired 2013-06-27 | TRANSPORTATION: Susan B. Anthony said this new fad had "done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world" the bicycle |
| #6637, aired 2013-06-25 | PLANTS: Economically speaking, this plant family with about 10,000 species is by far the most important the grass family |
| #6611, aired 2013-05-20 | 20th CENTURY PEOPLE: In a PS to an April 12, 1945 letter, he wrote, "This was dictated before the world fell in on me... what a blow it was, but--I must meet it" Harry Truman |
| #6606, aired 2013-05-13 | AUTHORS IN THE NEWS: When Curiosity touched down on Mars in 2012, its landing site was named in honor of this author who died weeks before Ray Bradbury |
| #6584, aired 2013-04-11 | WORLD CITIES: Founded in 1521, 44 years before St. Augustine, Fla., it's the oldest city est. by Europeans on what is now U.S. territory San Juan, Puerto Rico |
| #6530, aired 2013-01-25 | MUSICAL THEATRE: Before this show hit Broadway in 1964, one of its working titles was "The Luckiest People" Funny Girl |
| #6499, aired 2012-12-13 | OLYMPIC GOLD MEDALISTS: Before Michael Phelps in 2008, he was the last American to win 5 individual golds in one Olympics; he did it at Lake Placid Eric Heiden |
| #6489, aired 2012-11-29 | RELIGIOUS SYMBOLS: The rooster atop many church weather vanes is there to remind us of a story involving this apostle Peter |
| #6478, aired 2012-11-14 | U.S. PRESIDENTS: The only 2 presidents never to present a State of the Union address are William Henry Harrison & this man James Garfield |
| #6434, aired 2012-08-02 | BOOK SERIES: In the 8th book in a series by L. Frank Baum, this character begins to speak; he simply chose not to before Toto |
| #6405, aired 2012-06-22 | 20th CENTURY TECHNOLOGY: The first major use of simultaneous translation, before adoption by the U.N., was in this European city in 1945 & 1946 Nuremberg |
| #6378, aired 2012-05-16 | AMERICAN LITERATURE: In 2011, in the preface to the 75th anniversary edition, Pat Conroy called this novel "the last great... victory of the Confederacy" Gone with the Wind |
| #6359, aired 2012-04-19 | WHO WAS THE PRESIDENT WHEN...: The Jets beat the heavily favored Colts in Super Bowl III Lyndon B. Johnson |
| #6331, aired 2012-03-12 | PEOPLE OF EUROPE: These people who ruled large parts of Spain before Celtic & Roman dominance left their name on the land the Iberians |
| #6272, aired 2011-12-20 | POETS: While north of his homeland he was inspired to write perhaps his greatest work, "Alturas de Macchu Picchu" Pablo Neruda |
| #6191, aired 2011-07-11 | 18th CENTURY QUOTATIONS: 2 yrs. before his 1794 execution, he said, "I am no courtier, nor moderator... nor defender of the people: I am myself the people" Maximilien Robespierre |
| #6173, aired 2011-06-15 | CRUSADING WOMEN: A judge's directed verdict of guilty for her action in Rochester in 1872 was written before her trial began Susan B. Anthony |
| #6139, aired 2011-04-28 | U.S. PRESIDENTS: This president was the first to put solar panels on the White House Jimmy Carter |
| #6132, aired 2011-04-19 | AUTHORS: He died in 1995, the day before the opening of a Glasgow veterinary library named for him James Herriot |
| #6018, aired 2010-11-10 | U.S. PRESIDENTS: During his tenure, he never threw out an opening day first pitch, but before he was president, he did it for the Braves Jimmy Carter |
| #5985, aired 2010-09-24 | PRESIDENTS: He served the shortest amount of time as president before running for & winning reelection to the job LBJ |
| #5933, aired 2010-06-02 | HISTORICAL PHRASES: Before it meant a space between opposing armies, it referred to an execution site outside the walls of London no man's land |
| #5916, aired 2010-05-10 | ENGLISH LITERARY HISTORY: Immediately before the Caroline era came this one, also from the monarch's Latin name Jacobean |
| #5899, aired 2010-04-15 | BEATLES SONGS: The title of this Beatles song is a Yoruba phrase that means "life goes on" "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da" |
| #5875, aired 2010-03-12 | FILM LEGENDS: His only competitive Oscar win was for Best Score in 1973 for a 1952 film in which he had starred as a washed-up comic Charlie Chaplin |
| #5864, aired 2010-02-25 | SCIENTIFIC MNEMONICS: "Kings play chess on finely grained sand" is a mnemonic device used to help remember a system devised by this scientist Carolus Linnaeus |
| #5828, aired 2010-01-06 | COUNTRY MUSIC LEGENDS: Before he was found dead January 1, 1953, the last single he released was "I'll Never Get Out Of This World Alive" Hank Williams |
| #5734, aired 2009-07-09 | MUSIC WORDS: Before it acquired its musical meaning in the early 20th century, it was baseball slang for "pep" or "energy" jazz |
| #5731, aired 2009-07-06 | NAPOLEON: Napoleon died before some of his officers could sneak him to this U.S. state where his death mask now resides Louisiana |
| #5720, aired 2009-06-19 | WORDS IN PHYSICS: Also found before "pack" & "team", it's defined as increase in volume resulting from increase in temperature expansion |
| #5706, aired 2009-06-01 | CARTOON SCIENCE: According to Chuck Jones, whenever possible, this force of nature was to be Wile E. Coyote's greatest enemy gravity |
| #5691, aired 2009-05-11 | WORD ORIGINS: Before its use in journalism, it meant a boundary beyond which straying prisoners would be shot deadline |
| #5675, aired 2009-04-17 | BROADWAY HISTORY: On Oct. 30, 2008 Playbill changed its logo color to green for a special edition marking this show's 5th anniversary on Broadway Wicked |
| #5663, aired 2009-04-01 | BETTING TERMS: This word is from the custom of hiding bets in a hat before odds were announced handicapping |
| #5606, aired 2009-01-12 | ENGLISH SPELLING: There are at least 50 common exceptions to the rule expressed by this popular rhyming mnemonic couplet I before E, except after C |
| #5568, aired 2008-11-19 | NONFICTION WRITERS: On July 21, 1944 she wrote, "I'm finally getting optimistic... an assassination attempt has been made on Hitler's life" Anne Frank |
| #5557, aired 2008-11-04 | INVENTORS & INVENTION: In April 2008, a man successfully completed a jump using a parachute designed by this man 523 years before Leonardo da Vinci |
| #5554, aired 2008-10-30 | INVENTORS: A key to Alexander Graham Bell's experiments was one of these, procured by a doctor friend, Clarence Blake an ear |
| #5542, aired 2008-10-14 | ENGLISH LIT: The line "We had everything before us, we had nothing before us" is found in the 1st paragraph of this 1859 novel A Tale of Two Cities |
| #5529, aired 2008-09-25 | ISLAND CHAINS: Before an 1867 sale, this island group was known as the Catherine Archipelago the Aleutian Islands |
| #5514, aired 2008-07-24 | FAMOUS NAMES: In 1906 he launched Conjurer's Monthly, a magazine that he pretty much wrote & edited himself Harry Houdini |
| #5497, aired 2008-07-01 | PRESIDENTIAL RELATIVES: Before George W. Bush, he was the last president to have both his parents attend his inauguration John F. Kennedy |
| #5454, aired 2008-05-01 | HISTORIC NAMES: Born at Chateau Chavaniac in 1757, he was later hailed as "the hero of two worlds" the Marquis de Lafayette |
| #5435, aired 2008-04-04 | SHOW BUSINESS: The wings on this, created in 1948, represent the "muse of art"; the atom represents the "electron of science" the Emmy Award |
| #5431, aired 2008-03-31 | BEFORE THEY WERE SENATORS: Later a U.S. senator, in 1962 he made a famous 75,000-mile trip John Glenn |
| #5427, aired 2008-03-25 | ANCIENT NAMES: Appropriately, the name of this dramatist comes from Greek words meaning "wise" & "famous" Sophocles |
| #5399, aired 2008-02-14 | AFRICAN AMERICANS: As U.S. Solicitor General in the 1960s, he won 14 of the 19 cases he argued before the Supreme Court Thurgood Marshall |
| #5396, aired 2008-02-11 | THE 50 STATES: It's the only state name that when spelled officially contains a diacritical mark Hawaii |
| #5384, aired 2008-01-24 | RICH & FAMOUS: At $900 million, his fortune was once 2% of the GNP; by his death in 1937, he was down to about $26 million John Rockefeller |
| #5365, aired 2007-12-28 | U.S. STATES: 2 of the 4 states whose names were those of independent republics before they entered the Union (2 of) Hawaii, Texas, California, & Vermont |
| #5273, aired 2007-07-11 | COMMUNICATIONS PIONEERS: He painted the White House portrait of President Monroe before much wider fame as an inventor in the 1840s Samuel Morse |
| #5231, aired 2007-05-14 | 1920s LITERATURE: This character "believed in the green light, the orgiastic future that year by year recedes before us" Jay Gatsby |
| #5225, aired 2007-05-04 | FRENCH ARTISTS: In 1887 this artist tried living in Panama & worked on the canal before the U.S. got involved Paul Gauguin |
| #5211, aired 2007-04-16 | BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS: Following "Gone with the Wind", it would be another 12 years before a color film won again: this foreign-set musical An American in Paris |
| #5151, aired 2007-01-22 | RECENT BOOKS: "American Vertigo" by philosopher Bernard-Henri Levy retraced a trip 175 years before by this man, his countryman Alexis de Tocqueville |
| #5138, aired 2007-01-03 | NOVEL INSPIRATIONS: Novel inspired by a vision of a "pale student of unhallowed arts kneeling beside the thing he had put together" Frankenstein |
| #5080, aired 2006-10-13 | TRANSPORTATION: The name of this airline established in 1948 means "skyward" El Al |
| #5029, aired 2006-06-22 | WASHINGTON, D.C.: Originally housed in a boarding house & then in the Capitol, today it occupies 3 buildings named for presidents the Library of Congress |
| #5014, aired 2006-06-01 | PLAYWRIGHTS: In 2005 Broadway's Virginia Theatre was renamed to honor this late author, the first African-American so honored August Wilson |
| #5009, aired 2006-05-25 | MILITARY HISTORY: Lasting about a month, it's the battle for which the most marines earned the Medal of Honor Iwo Jima |
| #4949, aired 2006-03-02 | THE VICE PRESIDENCY: In the 20th century, 2 of the 3 men who served less than 1 year as VP before becoming president (2 of) Theodore Roosevelt, Harry Truman & Gerald Ford |
| #4944, aired 2006-02-23 | EUROPEAN FICTION: This 1915 story says, "His numerous legs, which were pitifully thin... waved helplessly before his eyes" Metamorphosis (by Franz Kafka) |
| #4941, aired 2006-02-20 | WORLD LEADERS: The first prime minister of his country to be born in that land, he was assassinated in 1995 Yitzhak Rabin |
| #4935, aired 2006-02-10 | AMERICANA: Originally beardless, Uncle Sam got his chin whiskers from images depicting this real-life man Abraham Lincoln |
| #4824, aired 2005-07-21 | LITERARY FIREARMS: The "Polizei Pistole Kurz" model was often used very effectively by this literary character introduced in 1953 James Bond |
| #4792, aired 2005-06-07 | NOTORIOUS: In 1934 in Chicago, soon before his death, he had painful plastic surgery that left him looking pretty much the same John Dillinger |
| #4770, aired 2005-05-06 | FICTIONAL ANIMALS: The name of this character, introduced in 1894, is from the Hindi for "bear" Baloo |
| #4751, aired 2005-04-11 | ARLINGTON'S TOMB OF UNKNOWNS: Sentinels at the tomb walk exactly this many steps at a time before they stop & turn 21 |
| #4747, aired 2005-04-05 | HISTORIC PLACES: The towns of Vierville-sur-Mer & Colleville-sur-Mer entered history with this 2-word area named for a U.S. city Omaha Beach |
| #4687, aired 2005-01-11 | ENGLISH ROYALTY: One of the 3 years in which 3 different kings reigned (1 of) 1936, 1483, or 1066 |
| #4682, aired 2005-01-04 | TECHNOLOGY: In 1913 this alloy was invented by Harry Brearley of Sheffield, England, a city known for its cutlery since before 1400 stainless steel |
| #4604, aired 2004-09-16 | AMERICAN AUTHORS: Ford Madox Ford, in the ‘20s, hadn’t “read more than six words” by this man before vowing to “publish everything he sent me” Ernest Hemingway |
| #4603, aired 2004-09-15 | BRITISH MONARCHS: Before Victoria & Elizabeth II, this was the last British monarch to reign during 2 different centuries George III |
| #4574, aired 2004-06-24 | FILMS OF THE '70s: This 1973 thriller was re-released in 2000 with extra footage, including a scene in which Ritalin is prescribed The Exorcist |
| #4558, aired 2004-06-02 | THE 2000 OLYMPICS: She's the first female track & field athlete to win medals in 5 different events at a single Olympics Marion Jones |
| #4445, aired 2003-12-26 | SEASONAL CHARACTERS: In late 1939 Chicago adman Robert May considered Rollo & Reginald before settling on this name Rudolph |
| #4324, aired 2003-05-22 | ECONOMIC HISTORY: Before the first income tax was levied, the U.S. government got 90% of its revenue in the form of these tariffs |
| #4291, aired 2003-04-07 | AMERICAN LITERATURE: Author of the 1889 novel that opens, "Camelot, Camelot... I don't seem to remember hearing of it before" Mark Twain |
| #4235, aired 2003-01-17 | BROADWAY MUSICALS: In 1999 this Broadway musical was advertised with the line: "Before the Century Ends, See How It All Began" Ragtime |
| #4216, aired 2002-12-23 | OSCAR WINNERS: She's the first woman to win 2 Best Actress Oscars before the age of 30 Luise Rainer |
| #4092, aired 2002-05-21 | NEWSMAKERS: In May 2001 he said, "Vermont has always been known for its independence" Jim Jeffords |
| #4080, aired 2002-05-03 | FAMOUS SHIPS: In 1999 the wreck of this ship known for its historic 1912 rescue effort was discovered 120 miles off England the Carpathia |
| #4063, aired 2002-04-10 | MOVIE DIRECTORS: Appropriately, the last name of this current director means "characterized by abject fear" Wes Craven |
| #4058, aired 2002-04-03 | U.S. PRESIDENTS: One of only 2 U.S. presidents to be outlived by their fathers (1 of) John F Kennedy or Warren G. Harding |
| #4054, aired 2002-03-28 | NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS: Before the 1962 Peace Prize, this chemist won a 1948 Presidential Medal for developing armor-piercing shells Linus Pauling |
| #4006, aired 2002-01-21 | PEOPLE ON THE MAP: Tourist spots in the Asian city named for this man include Notre Dame Cathedral & Reunification Hall Ho Chi Minh |
| #3993, aired 2002-01-02 | 1970s GAMES: Of this ground-breaking game, its creator said, "We knew a square ball wasn't cool" but "It was all we could do" Pong |
| #3992, aired 2002-01-01 | CLASSIC TV CHARACTERS: In a real ceremony in 2001, the Marines promoted this character to Lance Cpl. after he was a private for over 30 years Gomer Pyle |
| #3894, aired 2001-07-05 | CELEBRITIES: On August 28, 2000 a statue of this late actor was unveiled at the Port Authority Bus Terminal in New York Jackie Gleason |
| #3722, aired 2000-11-07 | THE MOVIES: The night before their first mass jump in 1940, paratroopers at Fort Benning saw a Western about this man Geronimo |
| #3675, aired 2000-07-21 | HISTORIC CANADIAN GEOGRAPHY: It includes 3 present Atlantic provinces, & in the 18th C. 4,000 inhabitants of it took a long trip southwest Acadia |
| #3662, aired 2000-07-04 | U.S. HISTORY: In 1965 President Johnson flew to this state to sign the Medicare bill with a former president as witness Missouri |
| #3648, aired 2000-06-14 | AIRPORT CODES: The 3-letter code for this airport came from what was on the site before it -- Orchard Place O'Hare Airport, Chicago - ORD |
| #3642, aired 2000-06-06 | NEW CLASSICAL MUSIC: In 1999 in Norfolk, the Virginia Symphony premiered Steve Heitzeg's "Aqua", an homage to this man Jacques Cousteau |
| #3621, aired 2000-05-08 | U.S. STATES: Before Congress named it for a person, its residents wanted to call it the territory of Columbia Washington |
| #3509, aired 1999-12-02 | NOVELISTS: "Omerta", the title of the last book he completed before his death in 1999, is Sicilian for "code of silence" Mario Puzo |
| #3466, aired 1999-10-04 | THE ANIMAL KINGDOM: John Cleveland defined it as "Nature's Confectioner" Bee |
| #3420, aired 1999-06-18 | FAMOUS FATHERS: He played rhythm & blues guitar before working as a crane operator & raising a family in Gary, Indiana Joe Jackson |
| #3395, aired 1999-05-14 | HISTORIC AMERICANS: This member of William & Mary's Class of 1762 founded a univ. that opened in 1825, one year before his death Thomas Jefferson (University of Virginia) |
| #3389, aired 1999-05-06 | U.S. POLITICS: In 1952 this state became primary in politics by adding candidates' names to its primary ballots New Hampshire |
| #3356, aired 1999-03-22 | THE OLYMPICS: Before the first winter games in 1924, this sport was played in the summer games; Canada won gold in 1920 ice hockey |
| #3325, aired 1999-02-05 | AMERICAN LITERATURE: The book of Jonah is quoted before Chapter One of this 1851 novel Moby-Dick |
| #3300, aired 1999-01-01 | THE CALENDAR: Of the 12 animals that represent years in the Chinese calendar, 2 of the 3 that are not mammals (2 of) dragon, rooster or snake |
| #3262, aired 1998-11-10 | FAMOUS NEW ENGLANDERS: Native New Englander seen here, modeling for his company's catalog sometime before WWI L.L. Bean |
| #3194, aired 1998-06-18 | U.S. STATESMEN: In 1814 & 1815, before he was president, he served simultaneously as Secretary of State & Secretary of War James Monroe (under President Madison) |
| #3173, aired 1998-05-20 | THE NOBEL PRIZE: 1 of the 2 women from the United States who have won the Nobel Prize for Literature Toni Morrison or Pearl Buck |
| #3107, aired 1998-02-17 | NATIVE AMERICANS: Before this great chief died in 1877, he reportedly prophesied, "I will return to you in stone" Crazy Horse |
| #3093, aired 1998-01-28 | GREEK MYTHOLOGY: Ariadne got the ball of twine that she gave to Theseus from this man before his flight from Crete Daedalus |
| #3078, aired 1998-01-07 | ENGLISH LITERATURE: This 1726 satire reported the existence of Mars' 2 moons 151 years before Asaph Hall discovered them Gulliver's Travels |
| #3026, aired 1997-10-27 | FAMOUS BUILDINGS: Richard Burbage & Sam Wanamaker, about 400 years apart, were responsible for its building & rebuilding The Globe Theatre |
| #2998, aired 1997-09-17 | 1997 FILMS: At the end of this 1997 film, the dedication "For Carl" appears onscreen "Contact" |
| #2989, aired 1997-09-04 | REPUBLICANS: He died in Topeka October 12, 1987, a month after his 100th birthday Alf Landon |
| #2979, aired 1997-07-10 | SHAKESPEAREAN CHARACTERS: One of this heroine's last lines is "Poor venomous fool, be angry, and dispatch" Cleopatra |
| #2961, aired 1997-06-16 | COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD: Before its independence, this country was known as the Netherlands East Indies Indonesia |
| #2941, aired 1997-05-19 | 18th CENTURY AMERICANS: A military post & a Tennessee city are both named for this first U.S. Secretary of War Henry Knox |
| #2934, aired 1997-05-08 | ROYAL COUPLES: Princess Sophia of Greece gave up her right of succession to Greece's throne before marrying him in 1962 King Juan Carlos of Spain |
| #2913, aired 1997-04-09 | WORD HISTORY: Before this word came to mean an extraterrestrial, it was used as an adjective meaning "warlike" Martian |
| #2900, aired 1997-03-21 | INVENTORS: Before the Monitor, John Ericsson designed a screw-driven steamboat & named it for this ancient Greek Archimedes |
| #2896, aired 1997-03-17 | JOURNALISTS: Before his death in 1920, he led America's Communist Labor Party, drew up its manifesto & edited its paper John Reed |
| #2889, aired 1997-03-06 | FAMOUS WOMEN: She worked as a model, caterer, cooking columnist & food stylist before starting her own magazine in 1990 Martha Stewart |
| #2874, aired 1997-02-13 | NOVELS: Just before its 1897 publication, its title was changed from "The Un-Dead" to this Dracula (by Bram Stoker) |
| #2853, aired 1997-01-15 | FAMOUS NAMES: Before achieving fame in Hollywood, he was a cosmetician to the Russian royal court Max Factor |
| #2782, aired 1996-10-08 | AMERICAN UNIVERSITIES: French Catholic missionaries led by Father Edward F. Sorin founded this university in 1842 Notre Dame |
| #2778, aired 1996-10-02 | ACTOR-DIRECTORS: This 1990 winner is the most recent to win the Best Director Oscar for his directorial debut Kevin Costner |
| #2740, aired 1996-06-28 | RIVERS: The world's first underwater tunnel was dug beneath this foreign river in the 1840s the Thames |
| #2738, aired 1996-06-26 | ISLANDS: Until August 1883 it had an area of 18 square miles; today it's about 6 Krakatoa |
| #2637, aired 1996-02-06 | SHAKESPEARE: Shakespeare's 2 plays with "King" in the title & no numbers following King Lear & King John |
| #2621, aired 1996-01-15 | POLITICIANS: In 1961, Lyndon Johnson was sworn in as vice president by this mentor Sam Rayburn |
| #2614, aired 1996-01-04 | NAMES IN THE NEWS: He was born Newton Leroy McPherson in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania on June 17, 1943 Newt Gingrich |
| #2583, aired 1995-11-22 | THE OSCARS: 2 of the 5 actors before Tom Hanks to win 2 Best Actor Oscars (2 of) Marlon Brando, Gary Cooper, Dustin Hoffman, Fredric March & Spencer Tracy |
| #2573, aired 1995-11-08 | VOCABULARY: This term for the ludicrous misuse of a word is from the name of a character in an 18th century play malapropism |
| #2553, aired 1995-10-11 | VOCABULARY: A formicarium is an apparatus for raising & observing these creatures ants |
| #2551, aired 1995-10-09 | SUPREME COURT JUSTICES: He served as assistant attorney general of Missouri under John C. Danforth from 1974 to 1977 (Clarence) Thomas |
| #2529, aired 1995-09-07 | NATURALISTS: Before his death in 1914 he studied forests in Russia, India & Australia, as well as the U.S. John Muir |
| #2515, aired 1995-07-07 | NOTORIOUS: Oscar Collazo, serving a life sentence for his assassination attempt on this president, was released in 1979 Harry Truman |
| #2417, aired 1995-02-21 | FAMOUS AMERICANS: On October 18, 1938, Hermann Goering decorated him with a service cross Charles Lindbergh |
| #2389, aired 1995-01-12 | BRITISH MONARCHS: 9-year-old Henry III became king of England when this king, his father, died in 1216 King John |
| #2368, aired 1994-12-14 | AMERICANA: This New York town that was the home of Elizabeth Cady Stanton has a Women's Hall of Fame Seneca Falls |
| #2257, aired 1994-05-31 | AUTHORS: Her last book "A Garland For Girls" was completed shortly before her death in 1888 Louisa May Alcott |
| #2228, aired 1994-04-20 | THE 50 STATES: This Atlantic state's highest point is 442 feet on Ebright Road in New Castle County Delaware |
| #2200, aired 1994-03-11 | THE WINTER OLYMPICS: In some events of this competition, each miss requires a 150-meter penalty lap the biathlon |
| #2149, aired 1993-12-30 | SHAKESPEARE: The 2 female title characters in Shakespearean tragedies who die by their own hand Cleopatra & Juliet |
| #2044, aired 1993-06-24 | U.S. PRESIDENTS: Before Clinton, he was the last U.S. president who was a law school graduate (Gerald) Ford |
| #2034, aired 1993-06-10 | BIOGRAPHIES: He was the subject of Hendrik Willem van Loon's "R. v. R." Rembrandt van Rijn |
| #1990, aired 1993-04-09 | NEWS OF THE '30s: In 1935 Ontario made this group wards of the crown the Dionne quintuplets |
| #1951, aired 1993-02-15 | FLAGS: A flag bearing a white anchor & caduceus on a blue field represents this U.S. government official Surgeon General of the United States |
| #1927, aired 1993-01-12 | NAMES IN THE NEWS: He was born William Jefferson Blythe IV on August 19, 1946 Bill Clinton |
| #1916, aired 1992-12-28 | LANGUAGES: Swahili contains many words borrowed from this language, including the word "Swahili" Arabic |
| #1862, aired 1992-10-13 | PRESIDENTS: Before Eisenhower, he was the last president to preside over the admission of a new state (William Howard) Taft |
| #1799, aired 1992-05-28 | FOOD & DRINK: Before the introduction of Diet Coke, this was the leading diet soft drink in the U.S. Tab |
| #1752, aired 1992-03-24 | OPERETTAS: Hanna Glawari, whose late husband has left her a fortune, is the heroine of this 1905 operetta "The Merry Widow" |
| #1747, aired 1992-03-17 | NOTORIOUS: No one was ever convicted of the double murder committed in this Massachusetts town on August 4, 1892 Fall River, Massachusetts |
| #1729, aired 1992-02-20 | ARTISTS: His 1979-1986 "Retrospectives & Reversals" reversed & juxtaposed images from his earlier work Andy Warhol |
| #1725, aired 1992-02-14 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS: He was listed as the author of 1726's "Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World" (Lemuel) Gulliver |
| #1708, aired 1992-01-22 | ISLAND GROUPS: The last place Columbus stopped for supplies before reaching the New World the Canary Islands |
| #1689, aired 1991-12-26 | FAMOUS ADDRESSES: His home address is the Admiral's House, 34th Street & Massachusetts Avenue, Washington, DC the Vice President of the U.S. (Dan Quayle) |
| #1682, aired 1991-12-17 | PRESIDENTIAL RELATIVES: He's the grandson of one president & the son-in-law of another David Eisenhower |
| #1678, aired 1991-12-11 | THE SOVIET UNION: The head of the Leningrad Communist Party in the 1920s; an opera & ballet theatre is named for him Sergei Kirov |
| #1675, aired 1991-12-06 | SONG STANDARDS: According to Irving Berlin, "They can play a bugle call like you never heard before" Alexander's Ragtime Band |
| #1648, aired 1991-10-30 | ACTORS & THEIR ROLES: Ronald Reagan, Errol Flynn, Richard Mulligan & Gary Cole have all played this historical role George Armstrong Custer |
| #1631, aired 1991-10-07 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE: Howard R. Garis wrote some 12,000 stories about this "Uncle" & his friends between 1910-1947 Uncle Wiggily |
| #1597, aired 1991-07-09 | STATE CAPITALS: 1 of 2 state capitals that formerly served as capital of the U.S. (1 of) Annapolis or Trenton |
| #1596, aired 1991-07-08 | 20th CENTURY EUROPE: As Europe chose sides before WWI, Russia joined these 2 nations in the Triple Entente France and Great Britain |
| #1583, aired 1991-06-19 | FIRST LADIES: The two 20th century women who were "Second Lady" for 8 years before becoming "First" Barbara Bush & Pat Nixon |
| #1578, aired 1991-06-12 | U.S. PRESIDENTS: On Feb. 5, 1924 he became the only president buried in Washington, D.C. Woodrow Wilson |
| #1564, aired 1991-05-23 | ACTRESSES: In NYC in 1955 she said, "An actress's life is so transitory--suddenly you're a building" Helen Hayes |
| #1560, aired 1991-05-17 | SCIENTISTS: In 1879 he showed that gastric juices can be produced without food being put in the stomach Ivan Pavlov |
| #1517, aired 1991-03-19 | AMERICAN REVOLUTION: The bloodiest engagement of the war, it was fought a year before we declared independence the Battle of Bunker Hill (also the Battle of Breed's Hill) |
| #1462, aired 1991-01-01 | THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE: This 1952 winner earned theology & philosophy doctorates at Strasbourg before becoming an M.D. Albert Schweitzer |
| #1411, aired 1990-10-22 | FAMOUS NAMES: The former Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon is now known by this title the Queen Mother (Queen Mum) |
| #1407, aired 1990-10-16 | MOVIE ACTRESSES: She was usually cast in exotic Asian roles before her huge success playing a detective's wife in 1934 Myrna Loy |
| #1400, aired 1990-10-05 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY: This New York company introduced the direct-mail sweepstakes concept in 1962 Reader's Digest |
| #1390, aired 1990-09-21 | DIRECTORS: Born in Turkey, he won 2 Tonys before directing Marlon Brando in his first Oscar-winning performance Elia Kazan |
| #1388, aired 1990-09-19 | SHAKESPEAREAN TITLE CHARACTERS: Before he stabs himself he confesses that he "threw a pearl away richer than all his tribe" Othello |
| #1384, aired 1990-09-13 | POETRY: The last words spoken by this title character were "I 'ope you liked your drink" Gunga Din |
| #1382, aired 1990-09-11 | RELIGION: More popes have taken this name than any other, but only the first one was declared a saint John |
| #13, aired 1990-09-08 | THE 20th CENTURY: He was vice president of the U.S. for just 82 days before becoming president Harry Truman |
| #1380, aired 1990-09-07 | FAMOUS WOMEN: Dying in 1903, she said, "It's the 27th anniversary of Bill's death. Bury me next to Bill." Calamity Jane (Martha Jane Canary) |
| #8, aired 1990-08-04 | SHAKESPEAREAN QUOTES: The famous line "Out, out, brief candle!" is spoken after the announcement of this woman's death Lady Macbeth |
| #1282, aired 1990-03-13 | THE CALENDAR: In 8 B.C., when this month was renamed, a day from Feb. was added so it equaled the month before it August |
| #1272, aired 1990-02-27 | BRITISH ROYALTY: Before Prince Andrew, he was the last Duke of York King George VI |
| #1269, aired 1990-02-22 | MUSIC: The melody for "Hail, Hail, The Gang's All Here" comes from this comic operetta The Pirates of Penzance |
| #1248, aired 1990-01-24 | DIRECTORS: He was an actor for 21 years before he directed his 1st feature film at age 23 in 1977 Ron Howard |
| #1226, aired 1989-12-25 | THE SUPREME COURT: 1 of 4 presidents who left office without having appointed a Supreme Court justice Jimmy Carter, Andrew Johnson, Zachary Taylor or William Henry Harrison |
| #1178, aired 1989-10-18 | PUBLISHING: For its 1990 edition Guinness is dropping all records of this 1 of the 7 deadly sins gluttony |
| #1104, aired 1989-05-25 | MONEY: It was the 1st country to use paper money China |
| #1102, aired 1989-05-23 | LITERATURE: It's where Philip Nolan asked to be buried at sea |
| #1087, aired 1989-05-02 | SLANG: The credit for coining this slang word goes to Alben W. Barkley's grandson veep |
| #1080, aired 1989-04-21 | FAMOUS PAIRS: One was born in Ulverson, England; the other in Harlem, Georgia, & they 1st teamed up in 1926 Laurel & Hardy |
| #1067, aired 1989-04-04 | HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES: Great American Smokeout, urging smokers to quit the habit, is held each year a week before this holiday Thanksgiving |
| #1065, aired 1989-03-31 | PLAYWRIGHTS: The son of an actor, he won 4 Pulitzer Prizes for Drama, more than any other playwright Eugene O'Neill |
| #1013, aired 1989-01-18 | THE OSCARS: This 1951 musical is the only movie with a world capital in the title to win "Best Picture" An American in Paris |
| #1002, aired 1989-01-03 | LEADING LADIES: The 2 blonde sex symbols who made their last films with Gable, 1 released in 1937, 1 in 1961 Jean Harlow & Marilyn Monroe |
| #915, aired 1988-07-22 | ROYALTY: Before his marriage in 1956, he slipped out of Los Angeles using the alias "C. Monte" Prince Rainier |
| #914, aired 1988-07-21 | U.S. CITIES: It was the first spoken word transmitted by radio from the surface of the Moon Houston |
| #890, aired 1988-06-17 | CINEMA: The last film Cecil B. De Mille directed, it was a partial remake of a silent epic he'd directed 33 years before The Ten Commandments |
| #841, aired 1988-04-11 | TIME: The total number of times in a day the 2 hands of a clock pass the number 1 26 |
| #830, aired 1988-03-25 | CENTRAL AMERICA: Some 18 years before starting Panama Canal, the U.S. began a canal in this country but abandoned it Nicaragua |
| #800, aired 1988-02-12 | AMERICAN POETRY: This verb is the last word in Robert Frost's poem "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" sleep |
| #796, aired 1988-02-08 | U.S. CITIES: Before Washington, D.C., this city served longest as capital of the United States Philadelphia |
| #735, aired 1987-11-13 | THE CABINET: 1 of 2 Cabinet dept. heads who have held their position for the entire Reagan administration thus far Caspar Weinberger (Secretary of Defense) or Samuel Pierce of HUD |
| #689, aired 1987-09-10 | THE CENSUS: Last year in the 19th century in which a general census of the United States was taken 1900 |
| #668, aired 1987-07-01 | WORD PLAY: "Cruciverbalist" is a 14-letter word for one who constructs these crossword puzzles |
| #592, aired 1987-03-17 | FAMOUS MEN: Howard Hughes, Edwin Link & Glen Curtiss are enshrined in the National Hall of Fame honoring this aviation |
| #546, aired 1987-01-12 | KINGS & QUEENS: Number of Henry VIII's wives who outlived him 2 |
| #540, aired 1987-01-02 | AMERICAN LITERATURE: Inspirational 19th century song from which John Steinbeck got the title "The Grapes of Wrath" "The Battle Hymn Of The Republic" |
| #527, aired 1986-12-16 | THE MONTHS: It's only month that can start on the same day of the week as the month before it March |
| #525, aired 1986-12-12 | MEDICINE: Condition whose name is Latin for "waterfall", because it's like looking through one a cataract |
| #498, aired 1986-11-05 | POETRY: Colorful common title of the most famous poem written by Gelett Burgess the "Purple Cow" |
| #472, aired 1986-09-30 | TELEVISION: This mini-series & its sequel featured Ed Asner, Lorne Greene, Henry Fonda & Marlon Brando Roots |
| #411, aired 1986-04-07 | ENGINEERING: Country which tried to build a canal across Panama before we did it France |
| #403, aired 1986-03-26 | THE OLYMPICS: The games held in this city were the only ever staged in the Southern Hemisphere Melbourne |
| #392, aired 1986-03-11 | MOVIES: 1951 Best Acting Oscars went to H. Bogart & V. Leigh in films named for these modes of transportation streetcars & steamships |
| #388, aired 1986-03-05 | ART: The 2 geometric shapes containing da Vinci's famous "Vitruvian Man" circle & square |
| #385, aired 1986-02-28 | FAMOUS AMERICANS: 10 years before publishing book subtitled "Life in the Woods", he caused a 300-acre forest fire Henry David Thoreau |
| #304, aired 1985-11-07 | MATHEMATICS: The only positive whole number that is the sum of the two whole numbers before it 3 |
| #268, aired 1985-09-18 | U.S. POPULATION: The Census Bureau estimates this state will not exceed any other in population before year 2000 Alaska |
| #182, aired 1985-05-21 | THE MILITARY: Maintaining the world's largest army, this country has about 3½ million troops on active duty China |
| #139, aired 1985-03-21 | COLLEGES: One of the two "Big Ten" schools without a state name (1 of) Northwestern or Purdue |
| #130, aired 1985-03-08 | ANATOMY: Between leaving right ventricle & entering left atrium, blood passes through this major organ the lungs |
| #97, aired 1985-01-22 | THE THEATER: The musical "Hello Dolly!" was based on this Thornton Wilder play The Matchmaker |
| #67, aired 1984-12-11 | WOMEN IN HISTORY: Arrested for voting in 1872 election, she died 14 years before the 19th Amendment Susan B. Anthony |
| #24, aired 1984-10-11 | THE SUPREME COURT: He successfully argued Brown vs. Board of Education before Supreme Court, then became its 1st black justice Thurgood Marshall |
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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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Tom Cubbage, an attorney from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
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"He was the very first College Champion, and the only one...
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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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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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Emily Jusino, a Ph.D. candidate in Greek literature originally from Fredericksburg, Virginia
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Season 27 1-time champion: $18,801 + $1,000.
Last name pronouned like "hoo-SEE-no".
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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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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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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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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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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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Soledad O'Brien, an anchor and special correspondent from CNN's Special Investigations Unit
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"Currently the host of CNN's Special Investigations Unit, she's received critical...
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Andrew Ceppos, a senior from Tufts University
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2009 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 21 and from Verona, New...
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Anthony Dedousis, a sophomore from Harvard University
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2009 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 19 and from Manhasset, New York...
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Greg Lichtenstein, a freshman from Vassar College
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2009 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. 18 and from Plainview, New York...
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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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Courtney Trezise, a senior from Michigan State University
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2009 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 21 and from Okemos, Michigan at...
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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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Nick Yozamp, a junior from Washington University in St. Louis
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2010 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 2010-A College Championship winner:...
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Jenifer Thomas, a teacher assistant from Jacksonville, North Carolina
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Season 26 1-time champion: $13,400 + $2,000. Jenifer Thomas October 5,...
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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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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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Diane Wilshere, an actor and playwright from Manassas, Virginia
|
Season 25 1-time champion: $18,801 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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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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Josh Powell, a phone-based health coach from San Diego, California
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Season 27 3-time champion: $26,900 + $1,000.
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Matt Kohlstedt, a grad student originally from La Grange, Illinois
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2009 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
Season 25 5-time champion: $77,803 + $2,000.
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Aisha Tyler, a comedienne, host and actress from Talk Soup, Friends, The 5th Wheel and Ghost Whisperer
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2009 Celebrity Jeopardy! winner: $50,000 split between the International Rescue Committee/Congo...
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Amanda J. Ray, a sophomore at the University of Virginia from Harrisonburg, Virginia
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2010-B College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
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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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Sam Spaulding, a sophomore from Yale University from Wilmington, North Carolina
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2010-B College Championship 1st runner-up: $50,000 + a Nintendo Wii +...
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Steph Gagelin, a sophomore from the University of North Dakota from Grand Forks, North Dakota
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2010-B College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
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Brian Weikle, a project manager from Minneapolis, Minnesota
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Nifty Nine (players with byes into...
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Brian Weikle, a project manager from Minneapolis, Minnesota
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Nifty Nine (players with byes into...
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Kevin Keach, a project administrator from St. Louis, Missouri
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"He considered himself a simple Missouri farm boy when he won...
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Matt Klein, a senior from Pittsford, New York
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2006 Teen Tournament 2nd runner-up: $15,000. Won $1,000 on Who Wants...
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Emily Sturtz, from Parsippany, New Jersey
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"Because she would like to help people, she wants to become...
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Brian Weikle, a consultant from Minneapolis, Minnesota
|
2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Nifty Nine (players with byes into...
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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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Ken Jennings, the winner of 74 consecutive games from Seattle, Washington
|
2020 Jeopardy!: The Greatest of All Time winner: $1,000,000 + a...
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Catherine Ramen, a database developer and writer from New York, New York
|
2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 winner: $44,000. 1998 Tournament...
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Jeff Lasky, a journalist from San Diego, California
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Season 35 player (2019-07-15). Jeff's uncle Larry Poster appeared on the...
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Jay Rosenberg, a college professor from Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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\"After winning 5 times in 1985, he became the moderator for...
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Richard Cordray, a judicial clerk from Grove City, Ohio
|
2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000 (prize declined as a...
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Richard Cordray, the head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau from Grove City, Ohio and Washington, D.C.
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\"He had just graduated from law school and was clerking for...
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Richard Cordray, a judicial clerk from Grove City, Ohio
|
2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000 (prize declined as a...
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Armen Terjimanian, a web content producer originally from Troy, Michigan
|
Season 30 player (2013-12-30).
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Brayden Smith, a policy intern from Las Vegas, Nevada
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Season 37 5-time champion: $115,798 + $2,000. Brayden died 2021-02-05, at...
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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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India Cooper, an actor and copy editor from New York City, New York
|
\"A semifinalist in the Tournament of Champions in 1992, now an...
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Pam Mueller, an entering law student originally from Chicago, Illinois
|
\"Representing Loyola University, she won the College Championship in November, 2000....
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Bill Pitassy, a lawyer from Roselle Park, New Jersey
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\"After winning 5 games in 1994, he took his family on...
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Larry Martin, a second grade teacher from Kansas City, Missouri
|
2018 Teachers Tournament winner: $100,000 + a $2,500 grant. At the...
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Meredith Moore, a server from Knightdale, North Carolina
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Season 36 player (2020-02-28). Meredith died 2021-05-08 at the age of...
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Leslie Frates, a Spanish teacher from Hayward, California
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\"A Jeopardy! champion in 1991, she\'s now a Spanish teacher listed...
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Tom Nichols, a professor originally from Chicopee, Massachusetts
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\"A five-time champion in 1994, he used his winnings for a...
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Amanda Walker, a junior at Gonzaga University from East Wenatchee, Washington
|
2005 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user name:...
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Lori Kissell, a high school Latin teacher from Fredericksburg, Virginia
|
"She loves everything about Latin and shares that love with her...
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Kim Carver, an attorney from San Francisco, California
|
Season 29 player (2013-07-25).
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Bob McGreevy, an attorney from South Salem, New York
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Season 3 1-time champion: $11,150. Bob, being from New York, declined...
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Whitney Collins, a third grade teacher from New York, New York
|
"She teaches at an all-boys school where every student learns chess...
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Cari Champion, a journalist from Pasadena, California
|
"A journalist from Pasadena, California, she hosted ESPN First Take before...
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Brendan Barnwell, a grad student and tutor from Santa Barbara, California
|
Season 28 player (2011-12-05). Although Brendan played the Jeopardy! and Double...
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Brooke Martin, an eleven-year-old from Galway, New York
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"It looks like smooth sailing for this marine biologist. From Galway,...
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Howard Wilson, a househusband from Montclair, California
|
Season 1 player (1984-09-14). Not to be confused with Season 4...
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Anurag Kashyap, a senior from Poway, California
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2008-B Teen Tournament winner: $75,000. Anurag was also the winner of...
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Jonathan Groff, a writer and producer for television from Los Angeles, California
|
\"A 5-show winner in 1995, he\'s now a writer and producer...
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Brad Brown, a theater teacher from Nashville, Tennessee
|
"And he is a theater teacher at an international baccalaureate certified...
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Kathryn Wendling, a high school social studies teacher from Farmington, Minnesota
|
"Her high school newspaper predicted she would be on Jeopardy! From...
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Buddy Wright, an operations engineer from Fort Worth, Texas
|
2011 Tournament of Champions 2nd runner-up: $50,000. Season 26 4-time champion:...
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Tom Kunzen, a geotechnical engineer from Orlando, Florida
|
2011 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 27 5-time champion: $133,402...
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Elissa Hoffman, a high school biology and anatomy & physiology teacher from Appleton, Wisconsin
|
"She is in her lucky 13th year of teaching. From Appleton,...
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Alan Wyle, an attorney from New York City, New York
|
Season 6 player (1989-12-07). Alan was an attorney in Manhattan for...
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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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Clarence Page, a journalist from The Chicago Tribune
|
"His nationally syndicated column began as a local column for the...
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Chuck Todd, a journalist and chief White House correspondent from NBC News and Meet the Press
|
"Chief White House correspondent and political director for NBC News, he...
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Steve Cartwright, a physicist from Dayton, Ohio
|
Season 10 player (1993-10-19). Originally from St. Louis, Steve was, at...
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Dr. Mehmet Oz, a cardiac surgeon and TV host from The Dr. Oz Show
|
"He is a renowned cardiac surgeon who has written seven New...
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Mike Lewis, a systems engineer from Bloomington, Minnesota
|
Season 29 4-time champion: $102,800 + $2,000. Mike was the alternate...
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Chris Wallace, a TV host from Fox News Sunday
|
"In March, this Fox News anchor was honored by the National...
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Simu Liu, an actor from Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
|
"An actor from Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, he starred in the Canadian...
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David Hudson, a junior from the University of Virginia
|
"His musical taste has changed since he won $10,000 on Kids...
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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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Elyse Mancuso, a junior from Omaha, Nebraska
|
2012 Teen Tournament winner: $79,600. 16 at the time of the...
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Melanie Bruchet, a senior from Bryn Mawr
|
"Everyone wants to be an astronaut when they're a kid, but...
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Nate Austin, a student from Hutchinson Community College
|
"His original plan was to own a chain of international hotels...
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Idrees Kahloon, a junior from Lexington, Kentucky
|
2011 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000.
15 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Kevin Rowe, a firefighter from Chicago, Illinois
|
Season 28 player (2012-04-27).
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Ken Jennings, a 74-game champion from Seattle, Washington
|
"In 2004, his record-breaking 74-game win streak set a standard for...
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Cliff Galiher, a sophomore from UCLA
|
2007 Tournament of Champions 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $50,000 +...
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Amanda Potter, a museum educator originally from Glens Falls, New York
|
Season 29 player (2013-05-02).
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Cliff Galiher, a student from Half Moon Bay, California
|
2007 Tournament of Champions 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $50,000 +...
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Katie Walker, a biomedical science teacher from Chapel Hill, North Carolina
|
Season 32 1-time champion: $5,000 + $2,000. Katie appeared on the...
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Vince Balzano, a production company associate originally from Summit, New Jersey
|
Season 30 player (2014-06-06).
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Stacy Layton, a business strategist from Boston, Massachusetts
|
Season 30 player (2014-06-05).
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Tim Russert, a moderator from Meet the Press
|
"He's the Washington Bureau Chief of NBC News and the longtime...
|
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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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Ben Schenkel, a junior from Allentown, Pennsylvania
|
2007 Teen Tournament 1st runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $42,800. 17 at...
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Stefanie Wulfestieg, a senior from Tacoma, Washington
|
1998 Teen Reunion Tournament participant: $5,000. 1988 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $5,000....
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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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Ashleigh Banfield, a TV correspondent originally from Canada
|
"She's covered such various stories as the Clinton/Yeltsin summit, the War...
|
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Bonnie Cao, a senior from Arcadia, California
|
2008-A Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 17 at the time of the...
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Peggy Noonan, a contributing editor from The Wall Street Journal
|
2004 Power Players Week player (2004-05-10).
Charity: The Sisters of Life.
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Rachel Horn, a sophomore from Cincinnati, Ohio
|
2008-A Teen Tournament winner: $75,000. 15 at the time of the...
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Tara Franey, a senior from Michigan State University
|
2008 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: tarafraney
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Jesse L. Jackson, Jr., a congressman from the U.S. House of Representatives
|
"And he led a voter registration drive for the national Rainbow...
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James Grant, a junior from Georgetown University
|
2008 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 21 and from Manhattan Beach,...
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Chuck Todd, a political director and host from NBC News and NBC's Meet the Press
|
"He is the political director of NBC News, the host of...
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Aimee Seligstein, a recruiter originally from Memphis, Tennessee
|
Season 30 player (2014-04-25). Last name pronounced like "SEE-lig-stine". Aimee joined...
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Christian Haines, a Congressional special assistant from Newport News, Virginia
|
2007 Tournament of champions semifinalist: $10,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD Home...
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Allison Solomon, a management consultant originally from Brooksville, Florida
|
Season 31 1-time co-champion: $20,200 + $1,000. Allison and Ryan Alley...
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Ryan Alley, a patent attorney from Alexandria, Virginia
|
Season 31 3-time champion: $56,800 + $1,000. Ryan and Allison Solomon...
|
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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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Ken Jennings, a writer from Seattle, Washington
|
"He was a software engineer living in Salt Lake City, Utah,...
|
|
Cindy Stowell, a science content developer from Austin, Texas
|
Season 33 6-time champion: $103,803 + $2,000. Cindy died 2016-12-05, before...
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|
Roger Christensen, a registered nurse and pre-med student from Los Angeles, California
|
Season 18 2-time champion: $42,300. In his first two games, Roger...
|
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Bob Blake, an actuary from Vancouver, British Columbia
|
"An actuary from Vancouver, British Columbia, Bob Blake, who has won...
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|
Chris Mazurek, an assistant professor from Columbia, Missouri
|
2007 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD Home...
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Holly Owens, a student originally from Tulsa, Oklahoma
|
Season 23 2-time champion: $31,902 + $1,000. Season 22 player (2006-04-17)....
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Sara Goodman, a graduate student originally from Huntington Woods, Michigan
|
Season 31 player (2014-10-01). Daughter of Season 24 player Allen Goodman....
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Stefanie Wulfestieg, an MBA candidate from London, England
|
"And from high school in Tacoma, Washington to college at Swarthmore,...
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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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Anna Allie, a junior at the University of Michigan at Dearborn from Dearborn, Michigan
|
2005 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000.
|
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Nico Martinez, a college junior from Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
|
2006 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2005 College Champion: $100,000 +...
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|
Aman Birk, from Irvine, California
|
"He may not be the fastest swimmer on the team, but...
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|
Steve Greene, a senior from UCLA from Elk Grove, California
|
2010-B College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000 + a Nintendo Wii +...
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Mitchell Vogel, from Madison, Wisconsin
|
"This future governor of Wisconsin enjoys rollerblading, reading, and playing saxophone....
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Jayanth Iyengar, a junior at Washington University in St. Louis from Madison, Wisconsin
|
2005 College Championship 2nd runner-up: $25,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: Jiyen1213
|
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Vito Cortese, a software engineer and Italian translator from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
|
Season 27 3-time champion: $68,485 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Jack Weisman, a twelve-year-old from Beachwood, Ohio
|
"He's considering becoming a lawyer, just like Mom and Dad. From...
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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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Babu Srinivasan, a history professor at Prairie View A&M University from Houston, Texas
|
"A five-time champion in 2001, he's now a history professor at...
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Beth Cimini, a junior at Boston University from East Longmeadow, Massachusetts
|
2005 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: BrightStars1212
|
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Marie Braden, a customer service representative from Tempe, Arizona
|
Season 27 1-time champion: $24,800 + $1,000. Marie's boyfriend Kirk's Rock...
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Frank Spangenberg, a lieutenant in the New York Police Department from Douglaston, New York
|
"He still holds the record for the most money won in...
|
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Bruce Naegeli, a retired law librarian from Phoenix, Arizona
|
"He finished second in the 1988 Tournament of Champions. A retired...
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Rick Knutsen, a musician and stay-at-home dad from Brooklyn, New York
|
"A finalist in the 2001 Tournament of Champions, he's a musician...
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Ethan Waldman, a twelve-year-old from West Hills, California
|
"This wizard of words wants to be a fantasy author when...
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Dave Abbott, a musician and licensing executive from Fort Thomas, Kentucky
|
"He won the 1999 Tournament of Champions. A musician and licensing...
|
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Shane Whitlock, a resident physician from Little Rock, Arkansas
|
"As a junior at the University of Arkansas, he won the...
|
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John Ryan, a corporate controller from Richmond, California
|
"As a college student, he was the top winner of the...
|
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Bob Blake, an actuary from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
|
"In 1990, he won the Tournament of Champions. An actuary from...
|
|
Elliot Yates, an opera producer from New York, New York
|
2015 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 31 4-time champion: $65,000...
|
|
Andrew Hutchings, a graduate student from Ithaca, New York
|
"A senior when he won the 1998 College Championship, he's now...
|
|
Chacko George, a senior at the University of Texas at Austin from Austin, Texas
|
"He won the November 1999 Teen Tournament. Now he's a senior...
|
|
Robert Slaven, a technical products specialist originally from Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada
|
"He won 5 times in 1992. Today, he's a technical products...
|
|
Craig Barker, an Advanced Placement history teacher from Livonia, Michigan
|
"In 1997 he won the College Championship. Today he's an Advanced...
|
|
Paul Thompson, a human resources manager from Cheverly, Maryland
|
"He was the first 5-time champion in the 1995-96 season. 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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Eddie Timanus, a sportswriter from Oak Hill, Virginia
|
"His 5 wins in 1999 made him one of the most...
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Kermin Fleming, a junior at Carnegie Mellon University from Lexington, Kentucky
|
"He's the current College Champion. A junior at Carnegie Mellon University...
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Billy Baxter, an attorney from Richmond, Virginia
|
"Representing the College of William & Mary, he won the 1992...
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David Traini, a high school administrator from Moorestown, New Jersey
|
"This 5-time champ finished second in the 1987 Tournament of Champions....
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Will Dantzler, a senior from Mount Pleasant, South Carolina
|
2009 Teen Tournament first runner-up: $31,600.
|
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Mike Hodel, a bartender from Bellingham, Washington
|
Season 27 2-time champion: $20,200 + $2,000.
Last name pronounced like "ho-DELL".
|
|
Tim Koch, a 12-year-old sixth grader from Cliffwood, New Jersey
|
"He would like to be a teacher because you get to...
|
|
Paul Kursky, a copywriter from San Francisco, California
|
2011 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 26 5-time champion: $109,411...
|
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Sam Ott, a graduate student from Los Angeles, California
|
2004 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Season 19/20 4-time champion: $67,102 + $1,000.
|
|
Rachel Pildis, a software developer from Oak Park, Illinois
|
Season 26 1-time champion: $12,000 + $2,000. Rachel Pildis - A...
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Robin Quivers, a radio personality from The Howard Stern Show
|
"From the hit movie Private Parts, she was an Air Force...
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|
Mark McEwen, a weatherman from CBS This Morning
|
"Before he became a mainstay on CBS News This Morning, he...
|
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Bill Menezes, a non-profit director from Denver, Colorado
|
Season 25 player (2009-01-15).
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Katie Orphan, a freshman at Whitworth College from Reno, Nevada
|
2002 College Championship semifinalist: $5,000.
|
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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, a Basketball Hall of Famer and all-time leading scorer from the NBA
|
"He's one of the greatest NBA players in history. Here's Hall...
|
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Justin Bernbach, a lobbyist from Brooklyn, New York
|
2010 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 25 7-time champion: $155,001...
|
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Christine Valada, a photographer and attorney originally from Walton, New York
|
2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $68,703...
|
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Fred Cofone, a copy editor from Old Greenwich, Connecticut
|
Season 27 2-time champion: $24,400 + $2,000.
Last name pronounced like "kuh-FONE".
|
|
Jeff Kirby, a math and science teacher from Santa Maria, California
|
Season 26 player (2009-10-12). Season 16 player (1999-12-08). Jeff returned to...
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Erica Greil, a junior from Princeton University
|
2009 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. 22 and from Hastings, Minnesota at...
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Regina Robbins, an arts teacher from New York, New York
|
2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $90,700...
|
|
Dave Belote, a recently retired base commander from Woodbridge, Virginia
|
2010 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 26 5-time champion:...
|
|
Kadeem Cooper, a junior from the University of Virginia
|
2009 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 20 and from Brooklyn, New York...
|
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Elizabeth Galoozis, a reference librarian from Cambridge, Massachusetts
|
Season 26 2-time champion: $38,801 + $2,000. Elizabeth Galoozis - A...
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Mark Petterson, a senior from the University of Kansas
|
2009 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 21 and from Prairie Village,...
|
|
Amanda Sonmor, a virtual assistant originally from Denver, Colorado
|
Season 27 2-time champion: $21,501 + $1,000.
|
|
John Zhang, a junior from Lexington, Kentucky
|
2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 2003 Teen...
|
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Leah Anthony Libresco, a junior from Yale University
|
2010-A College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Hometown: Mineola, New York. Jeopardy!...
|
|
Anthony Fox, an account executive from Arlington Heights, Illinois
|
Season 27 4-time champion: $51,998 + $1,000. Playing as "Tony", Anthony...
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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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Rebecca Maxfield, a freshman from Brown University
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2010-A College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. Hometown: New Rochelle, New York. Rebecca...
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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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Jane Curtin, an actress from Kate & Allie and 3rd Rock from the Sun
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"One of Saturday Night Live's original Not Ready for Primetime Players,...
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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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CCH Pounder, an actress from Avatar and Brothers
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"She earned an Emmy nomination for her role as Claudette Wyms...
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Hill Harper, an author and actor from CSI: NY
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"As an award-winning author, he's written three New York Times best...
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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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James Poulos, a grad student and writer from Arlington, Virginia
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Season 26 1-time champion: $7,600 + $1,000.
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Garry Marshall, an actor, TV producer and movie director originally from Bronx, New York
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"He was a wildly successful TV producer before his career as...
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Steve Unite, a writer from Studio City, California
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2007 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD Home...
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Susan Mitchell, a chemical engineer from Houston, Texas
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2007 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD...
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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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Elizabeth Perkins, an actress from Weeds
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"For the past five seasons, she's played the calculating and manipulative...
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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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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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Pat Sajak, a game show host from Wheel of Fortune
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"A former TV weatherman, he's gone on to become the world's...
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Greg Gumbel, a sportscaster from NBC Sports
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"He covers baseball, basketball and football for NBC; he hosted the...
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Deborah Fitzgerald, a retired government employee from McLean, Virginia
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2009 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Season 24 4-time champion: $55,901 + $1,000.
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Ariel Schneider, a biology student from West Lafayette, Indiana
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Season 27 2-time champion: $46,300 + $2,000.
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Matthew Cohn, a 12-year-old from Sunrise, Florida
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"If you're already in trouble, you're going to have to do...
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Holly Owens, a physician originally from Tulsa, Oklahoma
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Season 23 2-time champion: $31,902 + $1,000. Season 22 player (2006-04-17)....
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Charlie Penrod, an assistant professor of law from Natchitoches, Louisiana
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Season 27 1-time champion: $17,000 + $2,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: CharlieP
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Elizabeth Perkins, an actress from Big and Weeds
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2009 Celebrity Jeopardy! player: $25,000 to the New England Learning Center...
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Jeff Kirby, an elementary school 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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Folake Dosu, a senior from Stanford University from Bellwood, Illinois
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2010-B College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
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Marion Penning, a high school science and history teacher from Baltimore, Maryland
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"She teaches at a Maryland 'green' school that has a solar...
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Chris Pae, a high school history teacher from Suwanee, Georgia
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"He studied pre-med, then pre-law, but discovered his passion was teaching....
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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 Hale, a college student from Katy, Texas
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 winner: $25,000. 2003 Tournament...
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Mark Brown, an administrative assistant and father from Peoria, Arizona
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2003 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 19 5-time champion: $68,094...
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Rachel Gottesman, a junior from Cortlandt Manor, New York
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2007 Teen Tournament Summer Games wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 17 at the...
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Mark Dawson, a business manager from Chamblee, Georgia
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2014 Battle of the Decades quarterfinalist: $10,000. 2005 Ultimate Tournament of...
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Kathy Cassity, a closed captioner from Honolulu, Hawaii
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2003 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 18 4-time champion: $59,200....
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Jack Campion, from Los Angeles, California
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Trebek pilot 1 player. Jack was introduced without an occupation, but...
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Margaret Kickliter, a catering assistant from Palm Harbor, Florida
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Season 22 player (2006-03-21).
Last name pronounced like "KICK-light-er".
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Bob Blake, an actuary from Vancouver, British Columbia
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 1990 Tournament...
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John Beck, a copywriter from Torrance, California
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 winner: $29,000. 2004 Tournament...
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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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Dave Henek, a window cleaner from Appleton, Wisconsin
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Season 24 player (2007-09-13).
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Hon. Margaret Spellings, a U.S. Secretary of Education from Washington, D.C.
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"As an advisor to President George W. Bush, she helped craft...
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Paul Shaffer, a composer and musical director from The Late Show with David Letterman
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"David Letterman's musical director for 24 years, he's also musical producer...
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Ken Jennings, a software engineer from Salt Lake City, Utah
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2020 Jeopardy!: The Greatest of All Time winner: $1,000,000 + a...
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Michael Rooney, a college professor from Pasadena, California
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"He was a winner of 5 games in 1999, and is...
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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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Jeff Love, a sophomore at Stanford University from Burlingame, California
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2004 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. Jeff won $1,000 on Who Wants...
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Anne Shivers, a senior from Peotone, Illinois
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2005 Teen Tournament 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $18,000. 17 at...
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Eric Webb, a 12-year-old from Austin, Texas
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"He wants to be a cartoonist so he can make people...
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Sean Ryan, a graduate student from Whitehall, Pennsylvania
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Nifty Nine (players with byes into...
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Steve Golden, a junior from Brookeville, Maryland
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2005 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $5,000. 16 at the time of the...
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Steven Popper, an economist from Topanga, California
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"A winner of 5 shows in 1988, he has since founded...
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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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Laura Ansley, a senior from Twinsburg, Ohio
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2006 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
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Andrew Garen, an associate director of consumer marketing from Austin, Texas
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"He was a project manager when he won his 5 shows...
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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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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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Iddoshe Hirpa, a junior from Louisville, Kentucky
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2006 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000.
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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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Claire Winkler, from Fredericksburg, Virginia
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"This honor roll student participates on both the year-round and summer...
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Bob Blake, an actuary from Vancouver, British Columbia
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 1990 Tournament...
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Ken Jennings, a software engineer from Salt Lake City, Utah
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2020 Jeopardy!: The Greatest of All Time winner: $1,000,000 + a...
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Allan Long, a freshman from Tallahassee, Florida
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2005 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500. 14 at the time of the...
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Ruvani Fonseka, a junior from Grosse Pointe, Michigan
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2005 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $5,000. 15 at the time of...
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Sean Ryan, a cab driver from State College, Pennsylvania
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Nifty Nine (players with byes into...
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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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