| #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 |
| #7343, aired 2016-07-13 | BEFORE THEY WERE FIRST LADIES $1000: From 1922 to 1925, while her husband was Commerce secretary, she served as president of the Girl Scouts Lou Henry Hoover |
| #6302, aired 2012-01-31 | BEFORE THEY WERE FAMOUS $400: Before that whole telegraph thing, he helped found the National Academy of Design & was its first president Samuel Morse |
| #5094, aired 2006-11-02 | BEFORE THEY WERE FIRST LADIES $1000: She was president (Natl. Pres. of the Girl Scouts, that is) in the 1920s while her husband was merely Secy. of Commerce (Lou) Hoover |
| #4273, aired 2003-03-12 | BEFORE THEY WERE PRESIDENT $200: During a family vacation in 1921, he fell ill with polio Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| #4273, aired 2003-03-12 | BEFORE THEY WERE PRESIDENT $400: In 1957 he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Biography John F. Kennedy |
| #4273, aired 2003-03-12 | BEFORE THEY WERE PRESIDENT $600: He began his term as president in 1947 (president of the Screen Actors Guild, that is) Ronald Reagan |
| #4273, aired 2003-03-12 | BEFORE THEY WERE PRESIDENT $800: In 1881 he was elected mayor of Buffalo, New York Grover Cleveland |
| #4273, aired 2003-03-12 | BEFORE THEY WERE PRESIDENT $1000: Before the Civil War, he worked in real estate & at a leather store in Galena, Illinois Ulysses S. Grant |
| #3018, aired 1997-10-15 | WHEN THEY WERE IN COLLEGE $500: She was elected Duke's student body president years before her husband lost the '96 presidential election Elizabeth Dole |
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Danny Devries, a junior from the University of Michigan
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2008 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. 21 and from West Bloomfield, MI...
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Ariella Goldstein, a junior from Muhlenberg College
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2009 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 20 and from Cortlandt Manor,...
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Joey Beachum, a senior from Mississippi State University
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2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2008 College Championship winner: $100,000...
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Chris Wallace, a TV host from Fox News Sunday
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"In March, this Fox News anchor was honored by the National...
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Dan D'Addario, a senior from Columbia University
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2010-A College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Hometown: Farmington, Connecticut. Daniel D'Addario...
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Christine Valada, a photographer and attorney originally from Walton, New York
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2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $68,703...
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Jove Graham, a biomedical engineer from Lewisburg, Pennsylvania
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Kimberly Jantz, an attorney from Tulsa, Oklahoma
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Liz Murphy, a foreign service officer originally from Scranton, Pennsylvania
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2010 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 25 5-time champion: $121,302...
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Thomas L. Friedman, an author and foreign affairs columnist from The New York Times
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Inta Antler, a retired computer programmer from Scarborough, Ontario, Canada
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Season 25 1-time champion: $12,700 + $2,000. Inta Antler - A...
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Dan Smith, a student from Chicago, Illinois
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Season 25 3-time champion: $69,200 + $1,000. Dan Smith - a...
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Yoni Freund, a Ph.D. student from Columbia University
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Jonathan Hawley, a sophomore from Harvard University
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2008 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 19 and from Oceanside, CA at...
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Olivia Colangelo, a junior from the University of Notre Dame from Murrysville, Pennsylvania
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2010-B College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
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Mitchell Vogel, from Madison, Wisconsin
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Soledad O'Brien, an anchor and special correspondent from CNN's Special Investigations Unit
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Jeff Spoeri, a university administrator from Boynton Beach, Florida
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Carolyn Young, a homemaker from Marietta, Georgia
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Nate Austin, a student from Hutchinson Community College
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Elyse Mancuso, a junior from Omaha, Nebraska
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2012 Teen Tournament winner: $79,600. 16 at the time of the...
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