| #9051, aired 2024-03-04 | A LI'L BALLET, A LI'L OPERA $1200: It's the 1-letter title of Anthony Davis' bio-opera that made its Metropolitan Opera debut in 2023 X |
| #9046, aired 2024-02-26 | LET'S AUDIT A COLLEGE COURSE $800: Is anyone here a marine biologist?! Here, being this Jesuit university in Spokane, & you could be after learning about it in bio 403 Gonzaga |
| #9043, aired 2024-02-21 | IT'S REIGNING MEN! $1000: In his royal.uk bio: "mentally unfit to rule during the last decade of his reign"; "most attractive of the Hanoverian monarchs" George III |
| #9030, aired 2024-02-02 | TALKING ABOUT TOLKIEN $2000: Humphrey Carpenter's bio of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis & like-minded friends has this title, like their literary circle the Inklings |
| #8942, aired 2023-10-03 | LITERARY BIOGRAPHY $2000: "Super-Infinite" is a bio of this man of Shakespeare's time known for sexy poems & later, strongly moral sermons John Donne |
| #8923, aired 2023-07-26 | DUAL BIOGRAPHIES $2000: A dual bio covers Louis Brandeis, the first Jewish Supreme Court justice & this Vienna-born man who was the third Felix Frankfurter |
| #8884, aired 2023-06-01 | BIO PICS $400: Put on your marine biology hat, don't struggle helplessly & do name this Picasso-esque flatfish a flounder |
| #8884, aired 2023-06-01 | BIO PICS $800: Time to get meta & point out these bones highlighted here metacarpals |
| #8884, aired 2023-06-01 | BIO PICS $1200: It takes two, baby--well, two intertwined sugar phosphate chains anyway to be this landmark 1953 molecular model for DNA a double helix |
| #8884, aired 2023-06-01 | BIO PICS $1600: Look, it's twins, here is this process of one cell duplicating into two genetically identical daughter cells mitosis |
| #8884, aired 2023-06-01 | BIO PICS $2000: Longer than cilia, they're the parts of the bacteria cell providing motility here flagella |
| #12, aired 2023-05-16 | A NEW HOPE $1000: Subject of the bio "Man of Hope", Padre Pio received these holy wounds not once but twice in his life, attracting numerous pilgrims stigmata |
| #10, aired 2023-05-15 | MY MISSED CAREER, SUBSTITUTE TEACHER $800: I love A.P. bio! Let's talk pancreas! An adult one has a million of these, named for the German doctor who noted them in 1869 islets of Langerhans |
| #8859, aired 2023-04-27 | RECENT LITERARY BIOGRAPHY $800: In 2022 John Lahr published a new bio of this American playwright who was Arty from a young age--that's what his mom called him Arthur Miller |
| #8809, aired 2023-02-16 | MILITARY MEN $400: A movie bio subject, this general seen here had to repeat his freshman year at West Point due to bad grades (George) Patton |
| #8782, aired 2023-01-10 | ON THE SCIENTIST'S RÉSUMÉ $800: 1929: Bachelor's in bio from Penn. College for Women; 1962: published "Silent Spring", first serialized in the New Yorker (Rachel) Carson |
| #8715, aired 2022-10-07 | RECENT LITERARY BIOGRAPHY $1600: The unexpurgated transcript of the 1895 libel trial involving this author appeared in 2003 & a 2021 bio makes good use of it (Oscar) Wilde |
| #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 |
| #8697, aired 2022-09-13 | A CHEM/ PHYSICS/ BIO SAMPLER $400: Humans have 22 pairs of nonsex these & one pair of non-nonsex chromosomes |
| #8697, aired 2022-09-13 | A CHEM/ PHYSICS/ BIO SAMPLER $1200: It's the type of ionization chamber heard here, a measuring device that non-physicists never want to hear working hard nearby a Geiger counter |
| #8697, aired 2022-09-13 | A CHEM/ PHYSICS/ BIO SAMPLER $1600: It's the study of fishes, all 30,000 or so species of them ichthyology |
| #8697, aired 2022-09-13 | A CHEM/ PHYSICS/ BIO SAMPLER $2000: With hard work & strong acid, you can get the original metals from alloys, like this partner of zinc out of brass copper |
| #8697, aired 2022-09-13 | A CHEM/ PHYSICS/ BIO SAMPLER $5,000 (Daily Double): The standard model of particle physics accounts for 3 of the 4 fundamental forces, skipping this one, important in daily life gravity |
| #8694, aired 2022-07-28 | PLANT PARTS $2,000 (Daily Double): The business part of this plant, Dionaea muscipula, consists of 2 hinged lobes triggered by hair-like sensors a Venus flytrap |
| #8653, aired 2022-06-01 | POP & ROCK LIFE STORIES $2000: "So Let It Be Written", a bio of this lead singer, gets its title from a lyric in Metallica's "Creeping Death" James Hetfield |
| #8624, aired 2022-04-21 | ANAGRAMMED UNGULATES $800: Both males & females have antlers:
A BIO CUR caribou |
| #8602, aired 2022-03-22 | RECENT BIOS OF WRITERS $400: "The Life She Wished to Live" is a bio of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, who at 32 moved her life to a backwoods citrus grove in this state Florida |
| #8602, aired 2022-03-22 | RECENT BIOS OF WRITERS $1200: Claire Tomalin's bio "The Young" him tells us that in the family of this early sci-fi writer, Herbert was called Bertie H.G. Wells |
| #2, aired 2022-02-08 | MY HERO OF ACADEMIA $1200: Fatima Meer, the first non-white teacher at a white South African university, wrote the first authorized bio of this man Nelson Mandela |
| #1, aired 2022-02-08 | BIO 101 $200: Robert K. Massie drew a "Portrait of" this Russian empress who led 14,000 soldiers in overthrowing her husband Catherine the Great |
| #1, aired 2022-02-08 | BIO 201 $400: In the 1950s Edward O. Wilson studied colonies of these insects & found that they communicate primarily via pheromones ants |
| #1, aired 2022-02-08 | BIO 101 $400: He "peppered Wozniak with questions: could the computer ever be networked? Was it possible to add a disk for memory storage?" Steve Jobs |
| #1, aired 2022-02-08 | BIO 101 $600: A David McCullough presidential bio says on the first page, "He was... of Braintree and he loved to talk" John Adams |
| #1, aired 2022-02-08 | BIO 201 $800: 4 to 5 inches long, this tube is also called the oviduct the fallopian tube |
| #1, aired 2022-02-08 | BIO 101 $800: "The Mayor of Castro Street" examines "The Life & Times of" this politician & activist who was assassinated in 1978 Harvey Milk |
| #1, aired 2022-02-08 | BIO 101 $1000: Les Payne worked for 30 years on "The Dead are Arising", a 2020 bio of this man who joined & broke with the Nation of Islam Malcolm X |
| #1, aired 2022-02-08 | BIO 201 $1600: "There's no place like" this 11-letter word, the steady internal environment that organisms strive towards homeostasis |
| #1, aired 2022-02-08 | BIO 201 $1,800 (Daily Double): The discovery of the receptor for this toxin was announced in fall 2001, around the time it was part of a terrorism scare anthrax |
| #1, aired 2022-02-08 | BIO 201 $2000: PCR, short for this, allows endless copying of tiny bits of DNA, helping identify diseases & catch killers polymerase chain reaction |
| #8516, aired 2021-11-22 | YOU GOT A LOT OF IRV, PAL! $2000: After getting 17 publisher rejections, Irving Stone hit it big in 1934 with this "bio-history" of van Gogh Lust for Life |
| #8475, aired 2021-09-24 | SIGNATURE SONGS $1600: A bio of John Fogerty says this CCR signature song shifts "Northern Californian experiences to a southern setting" "Born On The Bayou" |
| #8373, aired 2021-04-07 | COMPOSERS $1600: Marcus Weeks' bio of this composer is subtitled "The Boy Who Changed the World With His Music" Mozart |
| #8324, aired 2021-01-28 | BIOGRAPHIES $800: "A Fiery Heart" is the subtitle of Claire Harmon's bio of this oldest novel-writing Brontë sister Charlotte Brontë |
| #8223, aired 2020-05-27 | A WRITER'S LIFE $1000: Born 1709 in England, wrote a dictionary, got bio'd, buried in Westminster Abbey in 1784 Samuel Johnson |
| #8192, aired 2020-03-31 | PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $800: A new bio says after the 1866 success of the poetic drama "Brand", this Norwegian trimmed his beard so his mouth was visible Ibsen |
| #8173, aired 2020-03-04 | THE JEFFERSONIAN ERA $2000: In the 1806 edition of his bio of George Washington, this author included the fictional tale of young George & the cherry tree Parson Weems |
| #8058, aired 2019-09-25 | BOOKS ABOUT CHINA $1200: "Empress Dowager Cixi" is a bio of a 19th c. mother of emperors who began as a low-ranking one of these mistresses concubine |
| #8017, aired 2019-06-18 | cabinetdepartment.gov $200: This department's website has a bio of the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff Defense |
| #8005, aired 2019-05-31 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY $200: Jonathan Eig's bio of this champ who passed away in 2016 is one of the "Greatest" sports biographies Ali |
| #8005, aired 2019-05-31 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY $3,800 (Daily Double): "The Road to Freedom" is the subtitle of Catherine Clinton's bio of this 19th century woman Harriet Tubman |
| #7962, aired 2019-04-02 | WHAT KIND OF FUEL? $2000: "Bio" this, made from recycled cooking oil & other fats, can be used in most vehicles built to run on the regular version diesel |
| #7919, aired 2019-01-31 | BIO PICKED $400: The man seen here is depicted in this 2010 film set largely at Harvard The Social Network |
| #7919, aired 2019-01-31 | BIO PICKED $800: This movie bio of the singer shown has a 3-word title & was nominated for 5 Oscars Walk the Line |
| #7919, aired 2019-01-31 | BIO PICKED $1200: This 1962 film, based on a Broadway play, is about the woman seen here The Miracle Worker |
| #7919, aired 2019-01-31 | BIO PICKED $1600: The story of the man you see is told in this 1994 film with a soundtrack including the "Pastoral Symphony" Immortal Beloved |
| #7919, aired 2019-01-31 | BIO PICKED $2000: The woman seen here is the subject of this 1980 film about a rise to musical fame Coal Miner's Daughter |
| #7914, aired 2019-01-24 | "BIO" $400: To remove tissue from a living body for diagnosis biopsy |
| #7914, aired 2019-01-24 | "BIO" $800: This proverbial timepiece can apply to both men & women with regard to sleeping biological clock |
| #7914, aired 2019-01-24 | "BIO" $1200: If you're able to live in both Atlanta & Atlantis, you're this, like a toad amphibious |
| #7914, aired 2019-01-24 | "BIO" $1600: This word for mechanical body parts has been used of Steve Austin (the colonel, not the wrestler) bionic |
| #7914, aired 2019-01-24 | "BIO" $2000: This stratum of Earth's surface is also called the "zone of life" the biosphere |
| #7877, aired 2018-12-04 | BIOGRAPHIES $200: Lyndal Roper's bio of this man born in 1483 presents his rebellion against the pope as a re-do of his anger at his father Luther |
| #7844, aired 2018-10-18 | A.P. BIOGRAPHY $1600: "Swan: The Life and Dance of" this Russian is one bio of her; so is "Twentieth Century Ballerina" Anna Pavlova |
| #7836, aired 2018-10-08 | AT LEAST 20 MILLION TWITTER FOLLOWERS $200: 102 million:
His Twitter bio is just 4 words--"Dad, husband, president, citizen" Barack Obama |
| #7835, aired 2018-10-05 | FRIEND LIKE ME $400: This physicist wrote a foreword to the bio of his German pal Emanuel Lasker, world chess champ from 1896 to 1921 Einstein |
| #7817, aired 2018-09-11 | THAT ENDED "WELL" $800: Samuel Johnson's faithful bio man (James) Boswell |
| #7813, aired 2018-07-25 | NONFICTION $1000: Randy Shilts wrote a Harvey Milk bio "And" this book whose title implies lack of response to the AIDS crisis And the Band Played On |
| #7807, aired 2018-07-17 | FICTIONAL DOCTORS $800: Drs. Stone, Hall, Burton & Leavitt all work to avert bio-disaster in the Michael Crichton thriller about this strain The Andromeda Strain |
| #7718, aired 2018-03-14 | BIOGRAPHIES $2000: This author whose book inspired "Hamilton" had a new bio out in 2017, making some eager for the musical "Grant" Ron Chernow |
| #7649, aired 2017-12-07 | THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY $1600: Samuel Eliot Morison won a 1960 Pulitzer for his bio of this reformed slaver & 18th c. American naval hero John Paul Jones |
| #7611, aired 2017-10-16 | NEWBERY MEDAL WINNERS $800: Cornelia Meigs' 1934 winning bio "Invincible Louisa" is subtitled "The Story of the Author of" this other book Little Women |
| #7583, aired 2017-07-26 | ELECTRICITY $200: The whiskers don't do the shocking on the electric type of this fish; it has specialized bio-electric organs a catfish |
| #7581, aired 2017-07-24 | MUSICAL THEATER $800: "Beautiful", a bio of this songwriter, features her hits "You've Got A Friend" & "Natural Woman" Carole King |
| #7573, aired 2017-07-12 | THOREAU-ING A 200th BIRTHDAY! $200: In his Harvard class bio, Thoreau wrote, "I first saw the light in" this "quiet village" that's not far from Lexington Concord |
| #7552, aired 2017-06-13 | THE NATIONAL WOMEN'S HALL OF FAME $400: The Hall of Fame bio on her says her "first love was the airplane, then captivating the public imagination" Earhart |
| #7511, aired 2017-04-17 | THE MARVEL UNIVERSE $200: His marvel.com bio says he's "highly proficient in hand-to-hand combat, swordsmanship and hammer throwing" Thor |
| #7491, aired 2017-03-20 | CURRENT BIOGRAPHIES $1600: A bio says this Chicagoan added dairying to his bootlegging & was one of the first to put expiration dates on milk Al Capone |
| #7478, aired 2017-03-01 | STANDUP, SITCOM $1000: This "WTF" man was on IFC, whose web bio calls him a "twice divorced compulsive mess for most of his adult life" (Marc) Maron |
| #7448, aired 2017-01-18 | BIOGRAPHIES $400: This G-man got booked & printed in Curt Gentry's bio subtitled "The Man and the Secrets" (J. Edgar) Hoover |
| #7427, aired 2016-12-20 | LOOKS AREN'T EVERYTHING, BUT... $400: Sorry, Hef--a bio of debonair Porfirio Rubirosa, linked to half the starlets of the '50s, is titled "The Last" this Playboy |
| #7405, aired 2016-11-18 | CONTEMPORARY AUTHORS $400: This author's official bio can be found at wimpykid.com (Jeff) Kinney |
| #7367, aired 2016-09-27 | THE 2016 PULITZER PRIZES $2000: "Barbarian Days", William Finnegan's chronicle of his obsession with this activity in Hawaii & elsewhere, won the Bio award surfing |
| #7350, aired 2016-07-22 | THAT GAME OF THRONES GUY WITH THE BEARD $600: Not exactly Westeros' Dad of the Year, Charles dance also played this spy novelist in the 1989 TV bio "GoldenEye" Ian Fleming |
| #7315, aired 2016-06-03 | POLITICAL BOOKS $1000: His criticism of Dick Cheney & Donald Rumsfeld in the 2015 bio "Destiny and Power" made news George H.W. Bush |
| #7312, aired 2016-05-31 | AND THE OBSCURE OSCAR GOES TO... $1200: Makeup, 1988: Ve Neill, Steve La Porte & Robert Short, who made up a great bio-exorcist for him! him! him! Beetlejuice |
| #7262, aired 2016-03-22 | BESTSELLERS BY PARTIAL TITLE $800: An art-sy 1961 bio, "Ecstasy" The Agony and the Ecstasy |
| #7252, aired 2016-03-08 | 2015 CONGRESS FOLK $1000: Her website bio says she led legislation to turn the Presidio into an urban national park Nancy Pelosi |
| #7174, aired 2015-11-19 | RECENT BESTSELLERS $800: Ashlee Vance's bio of this tech titan delves into his experiences with SpaceX & Tesla Motors (Elon) Musk |
| #7121, aired 2015-07-27 | BIOGRAPHIES $800: "The Secret History of" this comics heroine is a bio of her creator William Marston, inventor of the lie detector Wonder Woman |
| #7104, aired 2015-07-02 | SOLE MEN $1,000 (Daily Double): His Basketball HOF bio says in 1921 he "hobbled into a Converse Chicago sales office complaining of sore feet" Chuck Taylor |
| #7098, aired 2015-06-24 | LOVE THOSE ANNELIDS! $600: Sure, they're creepy & crawly, but many annelids are also bio-this, capable of producing light bioluminescent |
| #7085, aired 2015-06-05 | PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING BIOGRAPHIES $400: Maud Howe Elliott & 2 sisters won the 1917 prize with a bio on this "Battle Hymn Of The Republic" writer, their mother Julia (Ward) Howe |
| #7038, aired 2015-04-01 | SOUL $200: This soul showman will never be forgotten, & is the subject of the movie bio "Get On Up" James Brown |
| #7034, aired 2015-03-26 | STATES RHYME TIME $200: Life story of Cleveland Ohio bio |
| #7017, aired 2015-03-03 | DRUNK HISTORY $400: A bio of this president noted, "During the Vicksburg campaign he occasionally fell off the wagon" (Ulysses) Grant |
| #6991, aired 2015-01-26 | THAT WOMAN CAN SING! $200: In 2010 this Detroit legend said she'd prefer Halle Berry to play her in a film bio; R-E-S-P-E-C-T her wishes! Aretha Franklin |
| #6870, aired 2014-06-27 | DUAL BIOGRAPHIES $1200: Maybe the 2012 bio of Emma Goldman, Alexander Berkman & this political movement has randomly numbered pages & no cover Anarchy |
| #6801, aired 2014-03-24 | RECENT NONFICTION $800: "The Black Count" is a bio of Alexandre Dumas pere's pere, a mixed-race French general born on this island Hispaniola (Haiti accepted) |
| #6775, aired 2014-02-14 | ONLINE & TEXT ABBREVIATIONS $400: Someone who types "bio" is likely headed to this room the bathroom |
| #6746, aired 2014-01-06 | TV ANCHORS AWEIGH! $400: From his CBS bio: "In addition to his daily anchor role... (he) continues to provide many stories to '60 Minutes'" Scott Pelley |
| #6733, aired 2013-12-18 | SCIENTISTS $1600: This sex-crazed--or at least interested--Indiana University professor got the big-screen bio treatment in 2004 (Alfred) Kinsey |
| #6697, aired 2013-10-29 | NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNERS $800: "Master of the Senate", volume 3 in Robert Caro's massive bio of this man, covers the 1950s Lyndon Baines Johnson |
| #6676, aired 2013-09-30 | ROCKET MUSIC $800: A movie bio of Andy Kaufman got its title from this R.E.M. song "Man on the Moon" |
| #6532, aired 2013-01-29 | RECENT BOOKS $200: In this man's bio: "The enterprise he started in his parents' garage became the world's most valuable company" Steve Jobs |
| #6520, aired 2013-01-11 | BIO PICKS $200: "Yesterday" & "Linda" are chapters in "Fab: An intimate life" of this man Paul McCartney |
| #6520, aired 2013-01-11 | BIO PICKS $400: "Radioactive", subtitled "A Tale Of Love & Fallout", tells the romantic story of this scientific pair the Curies |
| #6520, aired 2013-01-11 | BIO PICKS $600: A book subtitled "The Richest Man In The World" profiles Carlos Slim of this country Mexico |
| #6520, aired 2013-01-11 | BIO PICKS $1000: "Rebel From Main Street" tells the story of this American author & Nobel Prize winner Sinclair Lewis |
| #6520, aired 2013-01-11 | BIO PICKS $2,600 (Daily Double): "The Man Who Gave His Name To America" is the subtitle of a 2007 bio of this Italian (Amerigo) Vespucci |
| #6518, aired 2013-01-09 | TV NEWS $600: A new bio of this beloved CBS anchor says he bugged a committee room at the 1952 Republican Convention (Walter) Cronkite |
| #6439, aired 2012-09-20 | DUAL BIOGRAPHIES $200: Deep Throat is of course mentioned in "Deep Truth", a bio of these 2 journalists Woodward & Bernstein |
| #6380, aired 2012-05-18 | PREPARE THE PREFIX $1600: -sphere,
-rhythm,
-degradable bio- |
| #6374, aired 2012-05-10 | FAMOUS FRENCH FOLKS $800: Not surprisingly the website for the American Foundation for the Blind features a bio of him (Louis) Braille |
| #6290, aired 2012-01-13 | FLOAT SAM & JET SAM $1,000 (Daily Double): From 1937 to 1940 Samuel Eliot Morison researched a 450th anniversary bio by retracing this man's voyages Christopher Columbus |
| #6269, aired 2011-12-15 | THE ENTERTAINER'S TWITTER BIO $200: This actor's bio reads: "born small...now huge... winning... bring it..! (unemployed winner...)" Charlie Sheen |
| #6269, aired 2011-12-15 | THE ENTERTAINER'S TWITTER BIO $400: For this NBC "Late Night" guy, you'll find "astrophysicist" Jimmy Fallon |
| #6269, aired 2011-12-15 | THE ENTERTAINER'S TWITTER BIO $600: For this ex-NBC "Late Night" guy you'll find "the voice of the people. sorry, people" (Conan) O'Brien |
| #6269, aired 2011-12-15 | THE ENTERTAINER'S TWITTER BIO $800: This woman is a "2-time Emmy award winning comedian & star of Bravo's my life on the d-list" Kathy Griffin |
| #6269, aired 2011-12-15 | THE ENTERTAINER'S TWITTER BIO $1000: "Keep up" with this "business woman, exec producer, fashion designer, perfumista" Kim Kardashian |
| #6126, aired 2011-04-11 | HOMER (SIMPSON)'S ODYSSEY $800: Homer's official bio says he's earned "the distinction of being the longest-term entry-level employee" here the Springfield nuclear plant |
| #6111, aired 2011-03-21 | NEIL, EARTHLING $2000: Before writing dark children's books like "Coraline" & "The Graveyard Book", he penned a bio of Duran Duran Neil Gaiman |
| #6042, aired 2010-12-14 | JACKIE PAPER $400: The subject of the bio "America's Queen", she was an editor at Doubleday until her 1994 death Jackie Onassis |
| #5952, aired 2010-06-29 | OSCAR-NOMINATED SPORTS FLICKS $600: Director Martin Scorsese had a bit part as a stagehand in this bio of Jake La Motta Raging Bull |
| #5890, aired 2010-04-02 | GET THEE TO A RUNNER-Y $4,000 (Daily Double): At his death, this Oregon runner & movie bio subject held every U.S. record from 2,000 to 10,000 meters & 2 to 6 miles Steve Prefontaine |
| #5840, aired 2010-01-22 | BIOGRAPHIES $600: Historian & senator Albert Beveridge wrote a 4-volume Pulitzer-winning bio of this fourth Chief Justice John Marshall |
| #5840, aired 2010-01-22 | BIOGRAPHIES $800: Sadly, in 1997 Andrew Morton had a new ending to add to his commemorative edition tell-all bio of her Princess Diana |
| #5830, aired 2010-01-08 | DUAL BIOGRAPHIES $600: Leonard Baker wrote a joint bio of Louis Brandeis & this other Jewish justice a generation younger Frankfurter |
| #5803, aired 2009-12-02 | CURRENT BIOGRAPHY: 1970 $2000: This publisher & philanthropist's bio mentions his 1969 swearing in as U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain Walter Annenberg |
| #5797, aired 2009-11-24 | SCIENCE & NATURE $400: The ARS, an agency of this U.S. government department, is looking to develop better bio-insecticides the Department of Agriculture |
| #5791, aired 2009-11-16 | IN THE BOOKSTORE $1,600 (Daily Double): A 2009 bio called this Labor Secretary "The Woman Behind the New Deal" Frances Perkins |
| #5763, aired 2009-10-07 | MOVIE BIO DOUBLE $400: Willem Dafoe in 1988,
Jim Caviezel in 2004 Jesus |
| #5763, aired 2009-10-07 | MOVIE BIO DOUBLE $800: Cate Blanchett in 1998,
Judi Dench in 1998 Queen Elizabeth I |
| #5763, aired 2009-10-07 | MOVIE BIO DOUBLE $1200: Henry Fonda in 1939,
Raymond Massey in 1940 Abraham Lincoln |
| #5763, aired 2009-10-07 | MOVIE BIO DOUBLE $1600: Robert Downey Jr. in 1992,
Eddie Izzard in 2001 (Charlie) Chaplin |
| #5763, aired 2009-10-07 | MOVIE BIO DOUBLE $2000: Philip Seymour Hoffman in 2005, Toby Jones in 2006 Truman Capote |
| #5668, aired 2009-04-08 | THERE ONCE WAS THIS MAN FROM... $200: ...Ohio / With a walk on the Moon in his bio / He went to Purdue / Took 1 small step, too / An American hero, no lie-o Neil Armstrong |
| #5584, aired 2008-12-11 | "EX"ACTLY $400: The official website for this TV series has included Sears Moments & Ty's Bio Extreme Makeover: Home Edition |
| #5572, aired 2008-11-25 | WHAT A DELICIOUS DISH $1600: An unauthorized bio of her claims she'd prolong interviews to steal airtime from Matt Lauer Katie Couric |
| #5437, aired 2008-04-08 | A HOST OF GHOSTS $800: London's Cock Lane ghost was so famous that it was investigated by this man, the subject of a Boswell bio (Samuel) Johnson |
| #5420, aired 2008-03-14 | MUSICAL INSTRUMENT MOVIES $2000: Bix Biederbecke's bio:
"Young Man With A ____" Horn |
| #5415, aired 2008-03-07 | MAJOR BARBARAS $2,000 (Daily Double): Her bio says she has "arguably interviewed more statesmen and stars than any other journalist in history" Barbara Walters |
| #5383, aired 2008-01-23 | THE EPA P3 EXPO $1600: (Sarah reporting from the EPA P3 Expo in Washington, D.C.) You might not think of turning manure into a resource, but a team from Western Washington University did; it's powering a hybrid engine using this bio-gas: CH4 methane |
| #5348, aired 2007-12-05 | BIO-SPHERE $200: Samuel Eliot Morison won a Pulitzer for "Admiral of the Ocean Sea", about this man who died in 1506 Christopher Columbus |
| #5348, aired 2007-12-05 | BIO-SPHERE $400: As he is the subject of 1918 & 1939 Pulitzer Prize winners, perhaps the books should be read with bifocals (Benjamin) Franklin |
| #5348, aired 2007-12-05 | BIO-SPHERE $600: "Mockingbird" is a portrait of this Southern writer (Harper) Lee |
| #5348, aired 2007-12-05 | BIO-SPHERE $800: In a bit of table-turning, "Poison Pen" is an unauthorized bio of this woman who wrote a bio of Nancy Reagan Kitty Kelley |
| #5348, aired 2007-12-05 | BIO-SPHERE $1000: "Queen of Fashion" is subtitled "What" she "Wore to the Revolution" Marie Antoinette |
| #5250, aired 2007-06-08 | BIOGRAPHIES $1600: A bio of Rosalind Franklin, whose photos were used by James Watson, is subtitled "The Dark Lady of" this molecule DNA |
| #5140, aired 2007-01-05 | BIG SCREEN BIO SUBJECTS $200: 1980:
She was a "coal miner's daughter" Loretta Lynn |
| #5140, aired 2007-01-05 | BIG SCREEN BIO SUBJECTS $400: 1989:
This comedian was "wired" (John) Belushi |
| #5140, aired 2007-01-05 | BIG SCREEN BIO SUBJECTS $600: 1993:
Enter this "dragon" Bruce Lee |
| #5140, aired 2007-01-05 | BIG SCREEN BIO SUBJECTS $800: 2004:
He sang "Beyond The Sea" Bobby Darin |
| #5140, aired 2007-01-05 | BIG SCREEN BIO SUBJECTS $1000: 1998:
He ran "without limits" Steven Prefontaine |
| #5126, aired 2006-12-18 | PULITZER-WINNING BIOGRAPHIES & AUTOBIOGRAPHIES $400: His wife Vera, not Lolita, was the subject of a 2000 prize-winning bio by Stacy Schiff (Vladimir) Nabokov |
| #5118, aired 2006-12-06 | BOOKS ABOUT AUTHORS $600: Sebastian de Grazia's Pulitzer-winning bio of this Italian "In Hell" mentions "The Prince" in 2 chapter titles Machiavelli |
| #5117, aired 2006-12-05 | JON STEWART'S AMERICA $600: This D.C. building's rotunda "was made famous by the Stephen Baldwin/Pauly Shore vehicle Bio-Rotunda" the Capitol |
| #5058, aired 2006-09-13 | "BIO" SCIENCE $400: The $6 Million Man could tell you that this word lost the "electro" from its middle bionic |
| #5058, aired 2006-09-13 | "BIO" SCIENCE $800: 2 men at the U. of Washington's Department of this won the 1992 Nobel Prize for studying cell protein regulation biochemistry |
| #5058, aired 2006-09-13 | "BIO" SCIENCE $1200: (Jon of the Clue Crew sits by a machine that's playing with a shoe at the Nike Campus in Oregon.) The three main areas studied at the Nike Sport Research Lab are physiology, sensory perception & this, defined as the way forces act on the body biomechanics |
| #5058, aired 2006-09-13 | "BIO" SCIENCE $1600: If you doubt the need for a pink-eared antgrubber & a hollow-tailed antgrubber, you aren't recognizing the value of this biodiversity |
| #5058, aired 2006-09-13 | "BIO" SCIENCE $2000: Biblical-sounding term for the principle that living organisms develop only from other living organisms biogenesis |
| #5041, aired 2006-07-10 | BIO SUBJECTS $400: "Obsessive Genius" explores "the inner world of" this female scientist who died of the effects of radiation Marie Curie |
| #5041, aired 2006-07-10 | BIO SUBJECTS $800: Michael Eric Dyson analyzes this real man, not just his image as mythic minister & leader, in "I May Not Get There with You" Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| #5041, aired 2006-07-10 | BIO SUBJECTS $1200: "Cowboy Princess" describes life as the daughter of this famous film & TV couple Roy Rogers & Dale Evans |
| #5041, aired 2006-07-10 | BIO SUBJECTS $1,500 (Daily Double): "Niccolo's Smile" says that this Italian thinker did not behave in the cunning way now associated with his name (Niccolo) Machiavelli |
| #5041, aired 2006-07-10 | BIO SUBJECTS $1600: Joseph J. Ellis' biography of this 18th century man is called "His Excellency" Washington |
| #5004, aired 2006-05-18 | PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING BIOS $800: The winning book of 1978 was a bio of this man by W. Jackson Bate, not Boswell (Samuel) Johnson |
| #5004, aired 2006-05-18 | PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING BIOS $1200: Still on a high from a 1933 win for a bio of this 22nd & 24th Pres., Allan Nevins won again in 1937 with "Hamilton Fish" (Grover) Cleveland |
| #4987, aired 2006-04-25 | THE ROMANOV DYNASTY $800: One bio of this "Great" czar says he carried dental instruments around with him because he loved to pull teeth Peter the Great |
| #4979, aired 2006-04-13 | BEFORE & AFTER $3,000 (Daily Double): Stephen Hawking's 1988 bio of the universe that was a No. 1 hit for Jim Croce "A Brief History Of Time In A Bottle" |
| #4953, aired 2006-03-08 | "MOON" ME AT THE MOVIES $1600: Judd Hirsch & Marilu Henner played themselves in this movie bio about Andy Kaufman Man on the Moon |
| #4947, aired 2006-02-28 | BIO HAZARD $200: Roy Jenkins, a leader in the UK's Labour Party, wrote a bio of this great wartime Conservative leader Churchill |
| #4947, aired 2006-02-28 | BIO HAZARD $400: Ibn Ishaq scored in the 8th century with his biography of this Muslim leader Mohammed |
| #4947, aired 2006-02-28 | BIO HAZARD $600: "An American Rhapsody" is a biography of this American composer George Gershwin |
| #4947, aired 2006-02-28 | BIO HAZARD $800: It's the 2-word title of Hillary Clinton's bestselling 2003 autobiography Living History |
| #4947, aired 2006-02-28 | BIO HAZARD $1000: A co-biography of these two men tells of "The Battle of Waterloo and the Great Commanders Who Fought It" Napoleon & the Duke of Wellington |
| #4932, aired 2006-02-07 | "BIO" $400: Penicillin & tyrothricin are examples of this bacteria-destroying item an antibiotic |
| #4932, aired 2006-02-07 | "BIO" $800: "My Side" by David Beckham is this type of book, from words meaning "self life write" an autobiography |
| #4932, aired 2006-02-07 | "BIO" $1200: 9-letter term for the health risk posed by the possible release of a pathogen into the environment a biohazard |
| #4932, aired 2006-02-07 | "BIO" $1600: It means capable of decaying through the action of living organisms biodegradable |
| #4932, aired 2006-02-07 | "BIO" $2000: Botanical adjective meaning long-lived, or a certain type of diet of beans & grains macrobiotic |
| #4928, aired 2006-02-01 | ON BROADWAY $600: "Big Girls Don’t Cry" over "Jersey Boys", a musical bio of this '60s group that had its peaks & "Valli"s The Four Seasons |
| #4865, aired 2005-11-04 | BIO SUBJECTS $200: "Empire: The Life, Legend, and Madness of" this aviator billionaire Howard Hughes |
| #4865, aired 2005-11-04 | BIO SUBJECTS $400: "American Sphinx: The Character of" this founding father & president Jefferson |
| #4865, aired 2005-11-04 | BIO SUBJECTS $600: This writer's name precedes "and the Lost Boys" in the title of a biography by Andrew Birkin J.M. Barrie |
| #4865, aired 2005-11-04 | BIO SUBJECTS $800: "Unforgivable Blackness" is subtitled "The Rise and Fall of" this first black heavyweight champion Jack Johnson |
| #4865, aired 2005-11-04 | BIO SUBJECTS $1000: "His Invention So Fertile" is "A Life of" this reshaper of 17th century London (Christopher) Wren |
| #4823, aired 2005-07-20 | BIOGRAPHIES $1200: A bio of him sums up, "It was by dying when he did", in 1863 that he achieved his military fame Stonewall Jackson |
| #4790, aired 2005-06-03 | PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING BIOS $200: A. Scott Berg won in 1999 for a bio on this guy who won in 1954 with "The Spirit of St. Louis" Charles Lindbergh |
| #4755, aired 2005-04-15 | OHIO BIO $200: Born in Cambridge in 1921, he went on to be a senator & an astronaut (John) Glenn |
| #4755, aired 2005-04-15 | OHIO BIO $400: Born in Darke County in 1860, she developed her amazing proficiency with firearms at an early age Annie Oakley |
| #4755, aired 2005-04-15 | OHIO BIO $600: Appropriately enough, this writer of Westerns was born in Zanesville in 1872 Zane Grey |
| #4755, aired 2005-04-15 | OHIO BIO $800: Born in Columbus in 1890, he was a car-racing champion & a WWI flying ace Eddie Rickenbacker |
| #4755, aired 2005-04-15 | OHIO BIO $1000: This late jazz pianist, famous for his trio, was born blind in Toledo, Ohio in 1910 Art Tatum |
| #4633, aired 2004-10-27 | BIG SCREEN BIO SUBJECTS $400: "Lenny" Lenny Bruce |
| #4633, aired 2004-10-27 | BIG SCREEN BIO SUBJECTS $800: "Immortal Beloved" Beethoven |
| #4633, aired 2004-10-27 | BIG SCREEN BIO SUBJECTS $1200: "Born on the Fourth of July" Ron Kovic |
| #4633, aired 2004-10-27 | BIG SCREEN BIO SUBJECTS $1600: "Thirty Seconds over Tokyo" Doolittle |
| #4633, aired 2004-10-27 | BIG SCREEN BIO SUBJECTS $2000: "A Beautiful Mind" (John) Nash |
| #4564, aired 2004-06-10 | THEY ALL PLAYED COUNTRY SINGERS $2000: Best known as "Marcia, Marcia, Marcia" on "The Brady Bunch", she starred in the 1997 TV movie bio of Barbara Mandrell Maureen McCormick |
| #4557, aired 2004-06-01 | SOMEDAY MY PRINCE WILL COME $800: In 2000 Peter Russell wrote the first new bio in over a century of this prince known as "the Navigator" Henry |
| #4546, aired 2004-05-17 | SCHOOL OF ROCK MOVIES $1000: (Hi. I'm Vivica Fox.) I played one of Frankie Lymon's wives in this movie bio, also the title of Frankie's biggest hit Why Do Fools Fall in Love |
| #4492, aired 2004-03-02 | GO WEST $200: In 1784 John Filson wrote an exciting bio of this pioneer to get people interested in buying land out west in Kentucky Daniel Boone |
| #4455, aired 2004-01-09 | AH, SWEET MISTER"E" $600: A 1991 bio on Poe won this award from the Mystery Writers of America for Best Critical/Biographical Work the Edgar |
| #4445, aired 2003-12-26 | ROCK & ROLL BOOKSTORE $1200: The title of Robert Shelton's bio "No Direction Home" about this performer comes from a line in one of his hits Bob Dylan |
| #4444, aired 2003-12-25 | BIOGRAPHIES $200: A new bio of a current couple is entitled "George and" her: "Portrait of an American Marriage" Laura |
| #4443, aired 2003-12-24 | BIO HAZARD $200: 2003:
"Dawn Over Kitty Hawk" the Wright Brothers |
| #4443, aired 2003-12-24 | BIO HAZARD $400: 1922:
"Seven Pillars of Wisdom" T.E. Lawrence (of Arabia) |
| #4443, aired 2003-12-24 | BIO HAZARD $600: 1991:
"Lady Day" Billie Holiday |
| #4443, aired 2003-12-24 | BIO HAZARD $800: 1975:
"Why Not the Best?" Jimmy Carter |
| #4443, aired 2003-12-24 | BIO HAZARD $1000: 2002:
"Zim: A Baseball Life" Don Zimmer |
| #4353, aired 2003-07-02 | EARLY AMERICANS $800: The last work of the creator of Rip Van Winkle was a 5-volume bio of this man, the author's namesake George Washington |
| #4328, aired 2003-05-28 | BIG SCREEN BIO SUBJECTS $400: "Mommie Dearest" Joan Crawford |
| #4328, aired 2003-05-28 | BIG SCREEN BIO SUBJECTS $800: "Amadeus" Wolfgang A. Mozart |
| #4328, aired 2003-05-28 | BIG SCREEN BIO SUBJECTS $1200: "I Dream of Jeannie" & "Swanee River" Stephen Foster |
| #4328, aired 2003-05-28 | BIG SCREEN BIO SUBJECTS $1600: "A Man for All Seasons" Sir Thomas More |
| #4328, aired 2003-05-28 | BIG SCREEN BIO SUBJECTS $2000: "Bound for Glory" Woody Guthrie |
| #4307, aired 2003-04-29 | THE BEVERLY HILLS PUBLIC LIBRARY $1200: Shelved not far from his novel "A Farewell to Arms" is a bio of him subtitled "A Life Without Consequences" Ernest Hemingway |
| #4276, aired 2003-03-17 | JIMMY, CHERYL, SOFIA OR SARAH $400: Born Sofia Scicolone, her A&E bio was subtitled "Actress Italian Style" Sophia Loren |
| #4229, aired 2003-01-09 | BOOK REPORT $600: Boy, I never knew the Civil War's outcome was so close until I read "Unconditional Surrender", a bio of this general Ulysses S. Grant |
| #4215, aired 2002-12-20 | FAMILY FILMS $600: Sissy Spacek did her own singing in this 1980 film bio Coal Miner's Daughter |
| #4185, aired 2002-11-08 | OSCAR! OSCAR! $1200: For a 1936 film bio, Paul Muni won an Oscar for portraying this French scientist Louis Pasteur |
| #4181, aired 2002-11-04 | MAN, OH MAN! $600: In the film bio of this Notre Dame coach, Ronald Reagan uttered his famous line: "Win one for the Gipper" Knute Rockne |
| #4176, aired 2002-10-28 | BIOGRAPHIES $1200: This pioneer was a man, yes, a big man, & his bio won a Newbery Medal for James Daugherty Daniel Boone |
| #4089, aired 2002-05-16 | DOCTORS $400: The earliest known bio of this "father of medicine" was written around 100 A.D. by Soranus, a Greek doctor Hippocrates |
| #4065, aired 2002-04-12 | FAMOUS J.P.'s $400: Her msnbc.com bio calls her "one of the most ubiquitous newswomen in America" Jane Pauley |
| #3977, aired 2001-12-11 | BESTSELLERS $400: David McCullough planned a joint bio of Thomas Jefferson & this man, but dropped Jefferson along the way John Adams |
| #3917, aired 2001-09-18 | THEY WROTE FOR BRITANNICA $300: In a 1929 bio on his brother Wilbur, he wrote that in 1890 Wilbur joined him in publishing a newspaper (Orville) Wright |
| #3886, aired 2001-06-25 | NEW ENGLISH NOBILITY? $400: We were moved by Diana Ross in Billie Holiday's film bio & reaffirm this nickname of Billie's "Lady Day" |
| #3884, aired 2001-06-21 | 4-LETTER FILMS $400: A big jazz fan, Clint Eastwood directed this 1988 film bio of Charlie Parker Bird |
| #3876, aired 2001-06-11 | MEDICAL EDUCATION $200: Long a major branch of philosophy, the medical or "bio" type entered medical curricula in recent decades Ethics |
| #3861, aired 2001-05-21 | 2000 AND WON $1000: A 2000 Pulitzer went to Stacy Schiff for "Vera", a bio of the wife of this "Lolita" author Vladimir Nabokov |
| #3753, aired 2000-12-20 | UNAUTHORIZED BIOGRAPHIES $400: An unauthorized bio of Mark Wahlberg is titled "Don't Call Me" this Marky Mark |
| #3753, aired 2000-12-20 | UNAUTHORIZED BIOGRAPHIES $500: A bio of this producer of Broadway shows like "Hello, Dolly!" calls him "The Abominable Showman" David Merrick |
| #3753, aired 2000-12-20 | UNAUTHORIZED BIOGRAPHIES $700 (Daily Double): A bio of Ms. Hewitt has this title, like an Erich Segal novel "Love Story" |
| #3723, aired 2000-11-08 | HIS STORY $300: "The Last Lion" is William Manchester's bestselling bio of this WWII British prime minister Winston Churchill |
| #3695, aired 2000-09-29 | A GORILLA'S BEST FRIEND $400: This big screen bio recounted the trials & tribulations of gorilla advocate Dian Fossey Gorillas in the Mist |
| #3667, aired 2000-07-11 | MERYL STREEP FILMS $400: Streep suspects unsafe working conditions at the Kerr-McGee nuclear plant in this 1983 film bio Silkwood |
| #3497, aired 1999-11-16 | WISH I'D SEEN THAT MUSICAL! $600: This multi-talented entertainer wrote the songs for "Sophie", a musical bio of Sophie Tucker Steve Allen |
| #3496, aired 1999-11-15 | 3-LETTER WORDS $300: A short written version of your life Bio |
| #3476, aired 1999-10-18 | THEIR FIRST FEATURE FILMS $1000: Jeremy Irons' first film role was as choreographer Michael Fokine in the 1980 bio of this great Russian ballet star Vaslav Nijinsky |
| #3370, aired 1999-04-09 | 20th CENTURY LIT $600: Ian Hamilton wrote a book on having his bio of this reclusive author blocked by the court J.D. Salinger |
| #3197, aired 1998-06-23 | "G" MOVIES $600: Dennis Quaid marries a 13-year-old in the movie bio named for this 1957 song Great Balls of Fire! |
| #3137, aired 1998-03-31 | ARTISTS $1000: "The White Blackbird" is a bio of painter Margarett Sargent, a cousin of this society portraitist (John) Singer Sargent |
| #3072, aired 1997-12-30 | CHIPS $500: It's a microchip integrated circuit that contains organic material bio-chip |
| #2966, aired 1997-06-23 | "BIO"LOGY $100: These 2 types of nonfiction book share a Pulitzer Prize category biography & autobiography |
| #2966, aired 1997-06-23 | "BIO"LOGY $200: TV character Jaime Sommers had one ear of this type; Steve Austin had one such eye bionic |
| #2966, aired 1997-06-23 | "BIO"LOGY $300: Selman A. Waksman, discoverer of streptomycin, coined this term in the 1940s antibiotic |
| #2966, aired 1997-06-23 | "BIO"LOGY $400: Term for a diet, mostly whole grains, designed to prolong life macrobiotic |
| #2966, aired 1997-06-23 | "BIO"LOGY $500 (Daily Double): Depending on who benefits, this relationship can be classified as mutualism or as parasitism symbiotic |
| #2955, aired 1997-06-06 | MARLON BRANDO FILMS $1000: In this 1952 movie bio, Brando was a Mexican revolutionary & Anthony Quinn was his brother Eufemio Viva Zapata! |
| #2918, aired 1997-04-16 | MOVIE DEBUTS $1000: Kathy Baker's career blasted off when she played the wife of Alan Shepard in this 1983 film bio The Right Stuff |
| #2873, aired 1997-02-12 | WOMEN AUTHORS $300: You'll find all you need to know about Anne, Emily & Charlotte in Juliet Barker's 1,000-page bio of this family The Brontes |
| #2834, aired 1996-12-19 | THE 20TH CENTURY $400: He & co-author Richard Suskind served brief prison terms for their forged bio of Howard Hughes Clifford Irving |
| #2742, aired 1996-07-02 | STARS ON CD-ROM $400: You may prefer the Harper Collins interactive CD bio of this "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" star Marilyn Monroe |
| #2651, aired 1996-02-26 | MOVIES $1000: Tommy Lee Jones played Loretta Lynn's husband Mooney in this movie bio that won Sissy Spacek an Oscar Coal Miner's Daughter |
| #2569, aired 1995-11-02 | BIOGRAPHIES $600: William Henry Herndon may have made up the story about Ann Rutledge in his bio of this president Lincoln |
| #2405, aired 1995-02-03 | 1970s TELEVISION $300: A Feb. 11, 1979 bio of this rock legend starring Kurt Russell topped "GWTW" in the ratings that night Elvis Presley |
| #2285, aired 1994-07-08 | STARS $300: A 1993 bio of this star's "First 50 Years" was subtitled "A Dog's Life" Lassie |
| #2282, aired 1994-07-05 | FILM BIOGRAPHIES $300: In 1993 Robert Downey Jr. received an Oscar nomination for his starring role in this bio Chaplin |
| #2057, aired 1993-07-13 | MOVIE NOSTALGIA $100: Bandleader brothers who played themselves in the musical bio "The Fabulous Dorseys" Tommy & Jimmy Dorsey |
| #2016, aired 1993-05-17 | FILM BIOGRAPHIES $1000: Hank Williams Jr. dubbed the singing voice of George Hamilton in this 1964 bio of Hank Williams Sr. Your Cheatin' Heart |
| #1987, aired 1993-04-06 | THE 20th CENTURY $200: Richard Suskind & this co-author received prison terms for the Howard Hughes bio Hoax Clifford Irving |
| #1970, aired 1993-03-12 | LEFTOVERS $600: Clint Eastwood directed this 1988 film bio of jazz saxophonist Charlie Parker Bird |
| #1770, aired 1992-04-17 | PREFIXES $100: From the Greek word for "life", it can precede -logical, -graphical or -degradable bio |
| #1533, aired 1991-04-10 | "L.B." $300: This song went to #1 after Los Lobos recorded it for Richie Valens' film bio "La Bamba" |
| #1507, aired 1991-03-05 | CELEBRITY BIOGRAPHIES $200: Late '40s-early '50s comedy team that's the subject of the bio "Everybody Loves Somebody Sometime" Martin & Lewis |
| #1380, aired 1990-09-07 | LITERARY RELATIVES $800: Prior to his death, this son of Winston Churchill was working on a definitive bio of his father Randolph (Churchill) |
| #7, aired 1990-07-28 | HAIL TO THE CHIEF $600: Nicknamed "Handsome Frank", he had college chum N. Hawthorne write his campaign bio Franklin Pierce |
| #1311, aired 1990-04-23 | HISTORICAL FILMS $400: Gregory Peck played the title role in this 1977 film bio about a U.S. general MacArthur |
| #1175, aired 1989-10-13 | BEST SELLERS $200: It's the title of Charles Higham's bio of the wife of Edward VIII & was her title as well "The Duchess of Windsor" |
| #1117, aired 1989-06-13 | AUTOBIOGRAPHIES $1000: She titled her bio "Life Wish" in contrast to her husband's "Death Wish" movies Jill Ireland |
| #1106, aired 1989-05-29 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: While working at the U.S. embassy in Madrid, this Knickerbocker knocked out a Columbus bio Washington Irving |
| #1068, aired 1989-04-05 | BEST SELLERS $1000: "The Lives of John Lennon" is an unauthorized bio of the musician by this author Albert Goldman |
| #1019, aired 1989-01-26 | BIOGRAPHIES $100: "You Only Live Once" is a bio of this author of "You Only Live Twice" Ian Fleming |
| #1012, aired 1989-01-17 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $200: This author of "The Scarlett Letter" wrote a campaign bio. for his old college buddy Franklin Pierce (Nathaniel) Hawthorne |
| #941, aired 1988-10-10 | MOVIE TRIVIA $500: If you need a bio-exorcist, say this name 3 times, but we can't guarantee the results Beetlejuice |
| #896, aired 1988-06-27 | AUTHORS $300: Ironically, the N.C. home of this poet noted for his Lincoln bio was built by a Confederate official Carl Sandburg |
| #861, aired 1988-05-09 | MOVIE BALLERINAS $1000: French ballet star Zizi Jeanmarie dances her way into Danny Kaye's heart in this 1952 musical bio Hans Christian Andersen |
| #785, aired 1988-01-22 | BASEBALL $500: A film bio says St. Louis English teachers wanted this pitcher-turned-broadcaster off the air Dizzy Dean |
| #746, aired 1987-11-30 | WOMEN $200: President & editor of Ms. magazine who in 1986 published a "feminist" bio of Marilyn Monroe Gloria Steinem |
| #721, aired 1987-10-26 | THE MOVIES $200: 1938 film "bio" of Sir Robin of Locksley (The Adventures of) Robin Hood |
| #537, aired 1986-12-30 | NOTORIOUS $200: One bio entry on him reads "joint king of Huns with brother Bleda, 433 AD, killed Bleda, 455" Attila |
