| #9084, aired 2024-04-18 | BOOKS IN HISTORY $1600: This 5-word phrase about people in a different income bracket from you is the title of an 1890 Jacob Riis expose of NYC's slums how the other half lives |
| #9063, aired 2024-03-20 | BESTSELLING BOOKS $600: Chapter 1 of "The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game" is about the changes caused by this New York Giant who terrified quarterbacks Lawrence Taylor |
| #9059, aired 2024-03-14 | BOOKS BY REPORTERS $400: In 1923 E.B. White was fired by the Seattle Times; he'd later find success with this 1945 tale about a mouselike boy Stuart Little |
| #9059, aired 2024-03-14 | BOOKS BY REPORTERS $1600: This New Journalism leader wrote the novel "I Am Charlotte Simmons", about early 21st century college life (Tom) Wolfe |
| #9052, aired 2024-03-05 | 5 FOR THE HISTORY BOOKS $800: "The Broken Heart of America", about St. Louis & American violence, ends with a 2014 police shooting in this Missouri city Ferguson |
| #8997, aired 2023-12-19 | AUSTRALIAN BOOKS & AUTHORS $800: Patrick White's "The Eye of the Storm", about a matriarch & her children, has been called a Down Under version of this 1608 play King Lear |
| #8997, aired 2023-12-19 | AUSTRALIAN BOOKS & AUTHORS $1200: The title of a novel about settler/indigenous conflict is from a quote about "a secret river of" this in Australian history blood |
| #8953, aired 2023-10-18 | ROCK & ROLL BOOKSTORE $1600: Danny Sugerman wrote a few books about The Doors & one called "Appetite for Destruction" about this group Guns N' Roses |
| #17, aired 2023-10-18 | ARTISTIC CHILDREN'S BOOKS $10,000 (Daily Double): "Sunflowers and Swirly Stars" is the subtitle of a book about this artist van Gogh |
| #8931, aired 2023-09-18 | ACTIVISTS $400: In addition to her successful children's books about animals, this author was a committed conservationist (Beatrix) Potter |
| #8921, aired 2023-07-24 | INTERNATIONAL BOOKS $400: "Notes from Underground", a novella by this Russian, is about a man alienated from the world Dostoevsky |
| #8900, aired 2023-06-23 | MUSICAL ACT ETYMOLOGY $800: Dave Grohl said that he got the name for this band while reading books about UFOs the Foo Fighters |
| #8892, aired 2023-06-13 | DEEP BOOKS $2000: Take a prison term decided by a judge, insert 1 letter & you have this book by Nicholas Humphrey about what it is to be conscious Sentience |
| #8886, aired 2023-06-05 | CLASSIC CHILDREN'S BOOKS $200: This tale about Max & some monsters was later turned into a short opera featuring a libretto by Maurice Sendak Where the Wild Things Are |
| #8886, aired 2023-06-05 | CLASSIC CHILDREN'S BOOKS $400: Eric Carle is perhaps best remembered for this book about a week in the life of a ravenous larva The Very Hungry Caterpillar |
| #6, aired 2023-05-10 | THE LAST BOOKS YOU'LL READ $2000: This French author penned "The Last of Cherie", a novel about a man who was once in a relationship with an older woman Colette |
| #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 |
| #8843, aired 2023-04-05 | BIBLE BOOKS BY QUOTES $400: "Pharaoh's daughter said unto her, take this child away, and nurse it for me" Exodus |
| #8832, aired 2023-03-21 | BOOKS: THE FUTURE IS NOW $400: In Kim Stanley Robinson's trilogy about colonizing this planet, humans first visit there in 2020 Mars |
| #8832, aired 2023-03-21 | BOOKS: THE FUTURE IS NOW $800: This 1925 novel about a futuristic city in 2026 became an art deco sci-fi silent movie by Fritz Lang Metropolis |
| #8805, aired 2023-02-10 | ALL KINDS OF BOOKS $600: Tracy McCubbin's "Make Space for Happiness" is about "How to Stop Attracting" this--it's in the way & dragging you down Clutter |
| #8760, aired 2022-12-09 | RUSSIAN WRITERS $400: Vladimir Nabokov's books never earned more than a few hundred dollars until this 1955 novel about a young girl became a hit Lolita |
| #7, aired 2022-11-06 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $200: P.L. Travers is best remembered for her books about this magical nanny Mary Poppins |
| #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 |
| #8730, aired 2022-10-28 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $600: This Pulitzer Prize winner by Colson Whitehead begins, "The first time Caesar approached Cora about running north, she said no" The Underground Railroad |
| #8730, aired 2022-10-28 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $800: Michelle Zauner writes about losing her Korean mother to cancer in her memoir "Crying in" this Asian grocery chain H Mart |
| #8716, aired 2022-10-10 | SPORTY BOOKS $200: Sports Illustrated said the best sports book ever is "The Sweet Science", all about this sport's champions, palookas & cornermen boxing |
| #8716, aired 2022-10-10 | SPORTY BOOKS $1000: "The Church of Baseball" is Ron Shelton's story of how he made this classic movie about life in the minor leagues Bull Durham |
| #3, aired 2022-10-09 | 1992 IN BOOKS: 30 YEARS AGO $300: In its 625 pages, James Michener's opus about this neighbor nation of the U.S. weaves in bullfighting & the Spanish conquest Mexico |
| #3, aired 2022-10-09 | 1992 IN BOOKS: 30 YEARS AGO $1500: There are men, women & planets in the title of this John Gray bestseller about relationships Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus |
| #1, aired 2022-09-25 | BOOKS BY FUNNY PEOPLE $300: He wrote about growing up in South Africa in "Born a Crime" Trevor Noah |
| #8690, aired 2022-07-22 | BOOKS OF THE CIVIL WAR ERA $1600: His rags-to-riches tales about street urchins, newsboys & the like, included "Frank's Campaign" & "Paul Prescott's Charge" (Horatio) Alger |
| #8690, aired 2022-07-22 | BOOKS OF THE CIVIL WAR ERA $4,000 (Daily Double): In addition to fiction portraying herself & her sisters, she penned "Hospital Sketches" from her time as a Civil War nurse Louisa May Alcott |
| #8671, aired 2022-06-27 | BOOKS & THEIR MOVIES $400: The first line of Winston Groom's novel about this guy mentions a box of chocolates; the Tom Hanks film mentioned them too Forrest Gump |
| #8667, aired 2022-06-21 | KIDS' BOOKS $1000: This 2-word title of Chelsea Clinton's book about determined women was coined by Sen. McConnell about Sen. Warren She Persisted |
| #8650, aired 2022-05-27 | BOOKS ABOUT CELEBS $200: "Ladies Who Punch" takes a look inside this morning show with Whoopi Goldberg & Joy Behar The View |
| #8650, aired 2022-05-27 | BOOKS ABOUT CELEBS $400: "Laughing on the Outside" is a biography of this late, great funnyman John Candy |
| #8650, aired 2022-05-27 | BOOKS ABOUT CELEBS $600: Peter Biskind said of writing "Star", "Anything of a personal nature" after he "& Annette Bening married was off limits" Warren Beatty |
| #8650, aired 2022-05-27 | BOOKS ABOUT CELEBS $800: A book about Elizabeth Taylor is subtitled "Shades of" this purple hue violet |
| #8650, aired 2022-05-27 | BOOKS ABOUT CELEBS $1000: "A Star Is Born" & "Get Happy" are titles of books about this song & dance woman Judy Garland |
| #8636, aired 2022-05-09 | PREPOSITIONAL LITERATURE $1000: "On the Banks of Plum Creek" is the fourth book in this series about a pioneering family The Little House (on the Prairie series) books |
| #8626, aired 2022-04-25 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $2000: Angie Thomas was still in college when she wrote a story that became this novel about a police shooting The Hate U Give |
| #8599, aired 2022-03-17 | BEASTLY LIT $800: Joy Adamson's nonfiction books "Born Free" & "Living Free" are about Elsa, this type of animal a lion |
| #8574, aired 2022-02-10 | RECENT BOOKS $1600: "Just Like You", about a May-December romance, is by this man who also wrote "High Fidelity" (Nick) Hornby |
| #8574, aired 2022-02-10 | RECENT BOOKS $2000: With four Hugo Awards on her mantel, this author wrote about the Big Apple in "The City We Became" N.K. Jemisin |
| #8570, aired 2022-02-04 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $800: This author best remembered for writing about his own "Roots" also co-authored "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" Haley |
| #8499, aired 2021-10-28 | ANNE RICE $800: Rice wrote 4 books about this fairy tale figure who needs a prince to break the spell cast on her Sleeping Beauty |
| #8494, aired 2021-10-21 | SPORTS BOOKS $600: "Levels of the Game" is John McPhee's book about one 1968 tennis match between Clark Graebner & this African-American champion Arthur Ashe |
| #8471, aired 2021-09-20 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: Anthony Bourdain wrote a 2001 book about this New York woman who was very infectious in the kitchen in the early 1900s Typhoid Mary |
| #8448, aired 2021-07-21 | BOOKS OF 1990 $1600: This Maeve Binchy novel is about a group of pals attending a Dublin university Circle of Friends |
| #8442, aired 2021-07-13 | "E" BOOKS $800: A pistol-wielding panda adorns the cover of this bestseller about the importance of proper punctuation Eats, Shoots & Leaves |
| #8426, aired 2021-06-21 | AUTHORS' THIRD BOOKS $2000: Set in 18th century Italy, Anne Rice's "Cry to Heaven" is about 2 of these male sopranos, adored as singers, yet shunned as men castrati |
| #8412, aired 2021-06-01 | AUTHORS WHEN YOUNG $1600: At 16, she was a teacher; by 19 she was married & a mother; she only began publishing books about prairie family life at age 65 Laura Ingalls Wilder |
| #8411, aired 2021-05-31 | HATS IN BOOKS $400: To write his bestseller about this colorfully hatted group, Robin Moore trained with them & accompanied them to Vietnam the Green Berets |
| #8399, aired 2021-05-13 | NUMBERING THE NONFICTION BOOKS $2,800 (Daily Double): Hyeonseo Lee is one of the names of the author of "The Girl with Seven Names", about defecting from this country North Korea |
| #8387, aired 2021-04-27 | RECENT BOOKS $1600: About his "Memoirs and Misinformation", this comic actor said, "None of this is real and all of it is true"--alrighty then! Jim Carrey |
| #8382, aired 2021-04-20 | BOOKS FOR THE WEATHER CHANNEL $400: I was "struck by" the plot twists in Dean Koontz' book about Laura Shane with this 1-word title Lightning |
| #8382, aired 2021-04-20 | BOOKS FOR THE WEATHER CHANNEL $1600: Dennis Lehane's "Prayers for Rain" is about a P.I. based in this East Coast city Boston |
| #8381, aired 2021-04-19 | FICTION $1600: Mega-bestselling author David Baldacci first got the reading bug from books about Freddy, a talking this animal a pig |
| #8380, aired 2021-04-16 | CHAPTERS IN NONFICTION BOOKS $400: "The Third Tuesday: We Talk about Regrets" Tuesdays with Morrie |
| #8374, aired 2021-04-08 | BOOKS BY THE NUMBER $1200: The sequel to Ernest Cline's bestseller about Wade Watts solving a fantastic virtual reality puzzle has this logical name Ready Player Two |
| #8374, aired 2021-04-08 | BOOKS BY THE NUMBER $2000: This Jane Smiley Pulitzer Prize winner about the inheritance of a large Iowa farm is a modern retelling of "King Lear" A Thousand Acres |
| #8368, aired 2021-03-31 | FUNNY BOOKS $400: Randall Munroe's "What If?" answers, what if you hit a baseball pitched near this velocity? (about 671 million miles per hour) the speed of light |
| #8362, aired 2021-03-23 | BOOKS OF THE 1980s $800: The "Earth's Children" series about Stone Age humans begins with "The Clan of" this creature the Cave Bear |
| #8361, aired 2021-03-22 | WORDS IN BOOKS $400: This word for someone with a need to toil all the time was popularized in the title of a 1971 book about addiction workaholic |
| #8341, aired 2021-02-22 | HAMBURGERS $400: Born in Hamburg, H.A. & Margret Rey are best known for a series of kids' books about this monkey Curious George |
| #8335, aired 2021-02-12 | GIRL $800: Beverly Cleary wrote a series of books about this girl, Beezus' troublemaking younger sister Ramona (Quimby) |
| #8312, aired 2021-01-12 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $1200: Books about this title simian include his visit to an aquarium & him making pancakes Curious George |
| #8244, aired 2020-09-24 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $800: Truman Capote said he introduced the nonfiction novel with this bestseller about the brutal murder of a Kansas farm family In Cold Blood |
| #8205, aired 2020-04-17 | NOTE BOOKS $1200: "Death Note", about a Shinigami death god, is a classic of this 5-letter comic genre Manga |
| #8174, aired 2020-03-05 | CHILDREN'S BOOKS $1000: Seen here is the title character of this 2017 book, also the title of a 1954 novel about a very evil little girl The Bad Seed |
| #8154, aired 2020-02-06 | & THEN THERE WERE NUNS $2000: Her books include "Dead Man Walking" & "River of Fire", a 2019 memoir about becoming an activist Sister Helen Prejean |
| #8144, aired 2020-01-23 | BOOKS ABOUT ANCIENT HISTORY $400: "The Fall of Athens" is the 37th & final chapter in Donald Kagan's book named for this war the Peloponnesian |
| #8144, aired 2020-01-23 | BOOKS ABOUT ANCIENT HISTORY $800: This Punic city "Must Be Destroyed" covers its epic battle with Rome Carthage |
| #8144, aired 2020-01-23 | BOOKS ABOUT ANCIENT HISTORY $1200: "The Story of a Sacred Landscape" is the subtitle of a history of this ancient monument on Salisbury Plain Stonehenge |
| #8144, aired 2020-01-23 | BOOKS ABOUT ANCIENT HISTORY $1600: A history of this 2-letter Sumerian city is subtitled "The City of the Moon God" Ur |
| #8137, aired 2020-01-14 | TV SHOWS BASED ON BOOKS $200: Richard Hooker's "Novel About Three Army Doctors" was the basis for a film & a TV show, both with this name M*A*S*H |
| #8137, aired 2020-01-14 | TV SHOWS BASED ON BOOKS $800: Blake Lively & Penn Badgley starred in this CW series based on Cecily von Ziegesar's book series about privileged NYC teens Gossip Girl |
| #8137, aired 2020-01-14 | TV SHOWS BASED ON BOOKS $1000: Jeff Lindsay's books about a very different Miami CSI were the basis for this Showtime series Dexter |
| #8129, aired 2020-01-02 | ON THE BOOKSHELF $1200: "Wolf Hall" is the first in a planned trilogy of books about the rise & fall of this adviser to Henry VIII (Thomas) Cromwell |
| #8117, aired 2019-12-17 | CONTEMPORARY REVIEWS OF CHILDREN'S BOOKS $400: Eudora Welty said this E.B. White book about "friendship on earth, affection and protection" was "just about perfect" Charlotte's Web |
| #8110, aired 2019-12-06 | OLD BOOKS $1600: Snorri Sturluson's "Heimskringla" from around 1220 A.D. is a collection of these epic narratives about the kings of Norway saga (sagas) |
| #8110, aired 2019-12-06 | OLD BOOKS $2000: Chretien de Troyes' 12th c. Arthurian tale about this young knight's search for the grail was the basis for a Wagner opera Parsifal |
| #8080, aired 2019-10-25 | ANCIENT ROME FICTION $2,000 (Daily Double): "The Gladiator" & "Rebellion" are the subtitles of Ben Kane's books about this man who led a slave army against Rome Spartacus |
| #8069, aired 2019-10-10 | BOOKS GOING BACK IN TIME $1600: "I woke to the sound of a mosquito whining in my left ear", begins 2000's "Fever 1793", about an epidemic of this disease yellow fever |
| #8065, aired 2019-10-04 | BOOKS FOR YOUNGER READERS $1000: Milo learns about time from a watchdog named Tock after driving through this mysterious title object The Phantom Tollbooth |
| #8058, aired 2019-09-25 | BOOKS ABOUT CHINA $400: Published soon after he came to power, Robert Payne's 1950 study of this leader is subtitled "Ruler of Red China" Mao |
| #8058, aired 2019-09-25 | BOOKS ABOUT CHINA $800: Not "Hidden Dragon" but this is the title of a study by Peter Navarro of China's growing militarism Crouching Tiger |
| #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 |
| #8058, aired 2019-09-25 | BOOKS ABOUT CHINA $1600: In "The Great Walk of China", Graham Earnshaw describes a journey on foot from this massive seaport to Tibet Shanghai |
| #8058, aired 2019-09-25 | BOOKS ABOUT CHINA $5,000 (Daily Double): Nixon's famed trip is covered in "On China", a look at Sino-U.S. relations by this former Secretary of State Kissinger |
| #8030, aired 2019-07-05 | LITERARY MINNESOTA $1000: Minnesotan Tim O'Brien wrote books like "Going After Cacciato" & "Lake of the Woods" about those who fought in this war the Vietnam War |
| #8016, aired 2019-06-17 | OLD BOOKS $400: The "Arabian Nights" tales include one about Prince Husain, who flies around on a magical one of these carpet |
| #8011, aired 2019-06-10 | BOOKS $400: The first woman to win the Pulitzer for Fiction, Edith Wharton won for this 1920 novel about 1870s New York City The Age of Innocence |
| #7993, aired 2019-05-15 | WOMEN AUTHORS $1600: How about those Gilbert sisters--memoirist Elizabeth & this author of kids' books like "Heaven is Paved with Oreos" Catherine Murdock |
| #7973, aired 2019-04-17 | CHILDREN'S BOOKS $400: "A God Buys Us Cheeseburgers" is a chapter in "The Lightning Thief", book 1 about this kid "& the Olympians" Percy Jackson |
| #7950, aired 2019-03-15 | THE NEW YORK TIMES 100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2018 $800: "The Coddling of the American Mind" is dubious about these "spaces" that make college students feel sheltered safe spaces |
| #7894, aired 2018-12-27 | AMERICAN LITERATURE NOBELISTS $2000: The 2nd & 3rd books in Faulkner's trilogy about this family were published almost 2 decades after the first the Snopes family |
| #7892, aired 2018-12-25 | BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS $400: A novel about a bestseller on UFOs, or a Will Smith movie about policing extraterrestrials Men in Black |
| #7892, aired 2018-12-25 | BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS $800: In "The Name of the Rose", it is revealed that the murders are related to this Greek's "Poetics" Aristotle |
| #7892, aired 2018-12-25 | BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS $1200: Signaling ancient secrets, a book magically appears at this Univ.'s Bodleian Library in "A Discovery of Witches" Oxford |
| #7892, aired 2018-12-25 | BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS $1600: In Azar Nafisi's bestseller, a group of students are secretly "Reading Lolita in" this Middle Eastern capital city Tehran |
| #7892, aired 2018-12-25 | BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS $2000: In a novel, Juliet Ashton finds the subject of her next book: this island's "Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society" Guernsey |
| #7885, aired 2018-12-14 | GREAT BOOKS ON AUDIBLE $1200: Take a listen to Scarlett Johansson if you are curious about this classic
I almost wish I hadn't gone down that rabbit-hole--and yet--and yet--it's rather curious, you know, this sort of life! Alice in Wonderland |
| #7882, aired 2018-12-11 | POSTHUMOUS BOOKS $400: "Hadji Murad", about a Chechen separatist fighter, appeared after this writer's 1910 death in rural Russia Leo Tolstoy |
| #7882, aired 2018-12-11 | POSTHUMOUS BOOKS $3,000 (Daily Double): After death, this horror author still talked about the Necronomicon in his novel "The Case of Charles Dexter Ward" H.P. Lovecraft |
| #7880, aired 2018-12-07 | ALL ABOUT AUTHORS $400: Bill Clinton teamed with this man who's sold 350 mil. books to write the 2018 thriller "The President is Missing" (James) Patterson |
| #7876, aired 2018-12-03 | ART BOOKS $400: "A Life Discovered" is the subtitle of a book about this enigmatic woman, the most famous portrait sitter of all time the Mona Lisa |
| #7876, aired 2018-12-03 | ART BOOKS $2000: "Portrait of an Unknown Man" is a book about this "Younger" 16th century German artist (Hans) Holbein |
| #7863, aired 2018-11-14 | YOUNG PEOPLE IN BOOKS $1600: Georgia Nicolson, the teenage Bridget Jones, has many diary entries about this, British for kissing or making out snogging |
| #7855, aired 2018-11-02 | KIDS' BOOKS $1000: This "harebrained" English author also wrote about a rat in "The Tale of Samuel Whiskers" Beatrix Potter |
| #7843, aired 2018-10-17 | BAND BOOKS $400: "The Heroin Diaries" by Nikki Sixx is about this heavy metal band Mötley Crüe |
| #7843, aired 2018-10-17 | BAND BOOKS $800: "A Bustle in Your Hedgerow" is Chapter 8 of "When Giants Walked the Earth" about this band Led Zeppelin |
| #7836, aired 2018-10-08 | TRAVEL BOOKS $800: He wrote about a bus trip & other kinds of trips in 1968's "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test" (Tom) Wolfe |
| #7836, aired 2018-10-08 | TRAVEL BOOKS $1000: Alfred Lansing wrote "Endurance", about this man's 1915 escape from Antarctica Shackleton |
| #7829, aired 2018-09-27 | RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY BOOKS $1200: "Soul Harvest" is book No. 4 in the "Left Behind" series about those on Earth after this event, from Latin for "seizing" the rapture |
| #7828, aired 2018-09-26 | COLLEGE COURSES $800: Oral Roberts University's "The Pauline" these isn't about some lady's letters but about important Bible books epistles |
| #7820, aired 2018-09-14 | TV GUIDE MAGAZINE 65th ANNIVERSARY $400: In 1974 TV Guide went with a cover from this show about a family beloved from books Little House on the Prairie |
| #7794, aired 2018-06-28 | CHILDREN'S BOOKS $200: "Anne's History" is a chapter in this book, the first in a series about an orphan Anne of Green Gables |
| #7794, aired 2018-06-28 | MENTAL FITNESS BOOKSHELF $400: Books to help with these persistent fears include a workbook about overcoming the commitment type phobias |
| #7777, aired 2018-06-05 | TRUE CRIME BOOKS, SWEETHEART $800: "Black Mass" about the life & capture of this notorious gangster, was made into a film with Johnny Depp Whitey Bulger |
| #7762, aired 2018-05-15 | MYSTERIES & THRILLERS $1600: Anne Hillerman continues dad Tony's series about cops of this Southwest nation in books like "Song of the Lion" Navajo |
| #7743, aired 2018-04-18 | CLASSIC KIDS' BOOKS $1000: Lois Lowry won a 1990 Newbery Medal for this book about helping Jews to escape Denmark & the Nazis during World War II Number the Stars |
| #7738, aired 2018-04-11 | BLUE BOOKS $2000: In "Pale Blue Dot" this late astronomer talks about humans in space Carl Sagan |
| #7734, aired 2018-04-05 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: As Kennilworthy Whisp, J.K. Rowling wrote a book about this sport "Through the Ages" Quidditch |
| #7722, aired 2018-03-20 | BOOKS ABOUT ASIA $400: Spending 7 years in the hermit kingdom as a business executive helped Felix Abt write "A Capitalist in" this nation North Korea |
| #7722, aired 2018-03-20 | BOOKS ABOUT ASIA $1200: "Snow Country" is Yasunari Kawabata's tale of a doomed love between a rich Japanese man & one of these hostesses a geisha |
| #7722, aired 2018-03-20 | BOOKS ABOUT ASIA $1600: Simon Winchester's study of the 19th century eruption of this volcano is subtitled "The Day the World Exploded" Krakatoa |
| #7722, aired 2018-03-20 | BOOKS ABOUT ASIA $2,000 (Daily Double): An early 2000s bestseller was a memoir about a secret book club in this city that discussed works like "Lolita" Tehran |
| #7722, aired 2018-03-20 | BOOKS ABOUT ASIA $2000: "First They Killed My Father" by Loung Ung takes place during the brutal reign of this group in Cambodia Khmer Rouge |
| #7671, aired 2018-01-08 | BRITISH AUTHORS $1200: "About a Boy" & "Fever Pitch" are among his books that have been made into movies Nick Hornby |
| #7651, aired 2017-12-11 | RECENT KIDS' BOOKS $800: In Anna Dewdney's last book about the quadruped with this double name, he visits his gram and grandpa Llama Llama |
| #7651, aired 2017-12-11 | RECENT KIDS' BOOKS $2,400 (Daily Double): This 2-word title of Chelsea Clinton's book about determined women was coined by Sen. McConnell about Sen. Warren She Persisted |
| #7641, aired 2017-11-27 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1200: This business handbook by Spencer Johnson has a question as its title & a parable about mice Who Moved My Cheese? |
| #7633, aired 2017-11-15 | BOOK SMARTS $800: The 8 books recommended by Neil deGrasse Tyson for smart people include the Bible & this book about Yahoos Gulliver's Travels |
| #7626, aired 2017-11-06 | WRITERS WHO SELF-PUBLISHED $400: Before Warner Books picked it up, James Redfield self-published this "Prophecy" about a mysterious manuscript The Celestine Prophecy |
| #7625, aired 2017-11-03 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $800: This blockbuster novel by William P. Young about a spiritual journey was made into a 2017 film The Shack |
| #7625, aired 2017-11-03 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1000: His 1935 novel "It Can't Happen Here" is a cautionary tale about the rise of fascism in the United States Sinclair Lewis |
| #7600, aired 2017-09-29 | SCIENCE FICTION $1000: She wrote "The Mists of Avalon" as well as the "Darkover" books about telepathic humans on another planet Marion Zimmer Bradley |
| #7596, aired 2017-09-25 | LIBRARIANS $400: Librarians use not square but linear these to measure the space books take up; it's about 3 to a standard shelf feet |
| #7564, aired 2017-06-29 | FREQUENTLY BANNED BOOKS $400: This H.G. Bissinger book about a small-town Texas football squad was oft-penalized Friday Night Lights |
| #7564, aired 2017-06-29 | FREQUENTLY BANNED BOOKS $1200: Dav Pilkey made the list with his cheeky series about the character seen here, named Captain this Captain Underpants |
| #7564, aired 2017-06-29 | FREQUENTLY BANNED BOOKS $1600: Profanity was one objection to this Katherine Paterson book about a structure to a fantastic place Bridge to Terabithia |
| #7524, aired 2017-05-04 | CLASSIC CHILDREN'S BOOKS $600: This 1957 classic was written to see if its author "could rediscover something about Christmas" that he'd lost How the Grinch Stole Christmas |
| #7524, aired 2017-05-04 | CLASSIC CHILDREN'S BOOKS $1000: The book about her begins, "In an old house in Paris that was covered with vines lived twelve little girls in two straight lines" Madeline |
| #7500, aired 2017-03-31 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $600: "Deep Down" & "Never Go Back" are 2 of Lee Child's tales about this tough ex-Army guy (Jack) Reacher |
| #7484, aired 2017-03-09 | LITERARY AWARDS $5,600 (Daily Double): Arthur Schlesinger Jr. won 2 National Book Awards for nonfiction for books about each of these 2 brothers John F. Kennedy and R. F. Kennedy |
| #7445, aired 2017-01-13 | BOOKS $3,000 (Daily Double): Oscar-nominated, a 2015 film was based on this bestseller about Eilis, a young Irish immigrant in NYC in the 1950s Brooklyn |
| #7417, aired 2016-12-06 | A BARRAGE OF BOOKS $400: "Before the wedding, she had believed herself in love", wrote Flaubert about this title woman Madame Bovary |
| #7417, aired 2016-12-06 | A BARRAGE OF BOOKS $1000: This Frenchman's novel "Nausea" is about a man coming to terms with the meaning or meaninglessness of existence Jean-Paul Sartre |
| #7412, aired 2016-11-29 | KIDS' BOOKS $800: This 1982 Roald Dahl work about a large fellow became a 2016 film BFG |
| #7406, aired 2016-11-21 | WOMEN AUTHORS $400: Mildred Wirt Benson wrote more than 100 books for young readers including many about this young female detective Nancy Drew |
| #7396, aired 2016-11-07 | FOR YOUR REFERENCE $1600: This man whose books of rules helped standardize card game rules died in 1769 about age 97 (Edmond) Hoyle |
| #7368, aired 2016-09-28 | CITY BOOKS $1200: Andrei Bely's novel about socialist revolt in 1905 is named after this Russian city but the title drops the "St." Petersburg |
| #7363, aired 2016-09-21 | RECENT BESTSELLING BOOKS $400: Tracker Hugh Glass has a bear of a day & is kind of upset about the way things went down in this Michael Punke book The Revenant |
| #7363, aired 2016-09-21 | RECENT BESTSELLING BOOKS $800: Citizens united to buy copies of "Dark Money", about these brothers who used their wealth to change politics the Koch brothers |
| #7347, aired 2016-07-19 | THESE AREN'T BIBLE BOOKS $600: The title of this Jon Krakauer book about a fateful Everest ascent sounds like a good way to disappear Into Thin Air |
| #7345, aired 2016-07-15 | BOOKS FOR THE YOUNG $400: This Margaret Wise Brown children's classic about bedtime begins "In the great green room..." Goodnight Moon |
| #7345, aired 2016-07-15 | BOOKS FOR THE YOUNG $1000: Russell Hoban wrote 6 picture book stories about this little badger & her family Frances |
| #7272, aired 2016-04-05 | A LITERARY MARY $800: Her books about life on the prairie include telling how her sister Mary lost her eyesight at age 14 in 1879 (Laura) Ingalls Wilder |
| #7260, aired 2016-03-18 | BOOKS FOR YOUNG READERS $800: Its apples & its branches are 2 of the offerings provided to the boy in this work about sacrifice The Giving Tree |
| #7235, aired 2016-02-12 | SCI-FI BOOKS $200: Cory Doctorow's "Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom" is a futuristic tale about attempts to make this Orlando park virtual Disney World |
| #7200, aired 2015-12-25 | KIDDY LIT $600: This TV "Fonz" has co-written over 20 books about Hank Zipzer, "The World's Greatest Underachiever" Henry Winkler |
| #7176, aired 2015-11-23 | WELL-SEASONED BOOKS $400: "The Summer Game" by Roger Angell & "The Boys of Summer" by Roger Kahn are classic books about this sport baseball |
| #7176, aired 2015-11-23 | WELL-SEASONED BOOKS $1600: "Drums of Autumn" is the 4th book in this series about a woman traveling through time using an ancient Scottish stone circle Outlander |
| #7169, aired 2015-11-12 | BOOKS ABOUT POLITICS $400: Noam Chomsky took a critical look at JFK in "Rethinking" this mythical place Camelot |
| #7169, aired 2015-11-12 | BOOKS ABOUT POLITICS $800: Lawrence Wright chronicled the "13 Days in September" 1978, when Pres. Carter got these 2 men to sign a peace treaty Sadat & Begin |
| #7169, aired 2015-11-12 | BOOKS ABOUT POLITICS $1200: "All the Truth Is Out" by Matt Bai says politics went tabloid in 1987 with coverage of this Colo. senator's "Monkey Business" (Gary) Hart |
| #7169, aired 2015-11-12 | BOOKS ABOUT POLITICS $1600: "Worthy Fights" is the autobiography of this man, CIA director during the campaign that killed Osama bin Laden Leon Panetta |
| #7169, aired 2015-11-12 | BOOKS ABOUT POLITICS $2000: "Mayor for a New America" is a memoir by this late beloved long-time mayor of Boston Thomas Menino |
| #7143, aired 2015-10-07 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1200: Since Robert B. Parker's death, Ace Atkins has taken over writing the books about this detective for hire Spenser |
| #7135, aired 2015-09-25 | THE BOOK OF NORMAN $2000: Norman Cousins wrote books about this German humanitarian who won the 1952 Nobel Peace Prize Albert Schweitzer |
| #7103, aired 2015-07-01 | THE WRITE STUFF $600: This 19th-century author wrote steamy thrillers like "Behind a Mask", as well as books about young people Louisa May Alcott |
| #7082, aired 2015-06-02 | PHILOSOPHY $1200: In 14 years this 19th century Dane published 30 books, mostly about how to reach God Kierkegaard |
| #7075, aired 2015-05-22 | GREEN BOOKS $1200: In 1935 this novelist delved into nonfiction, writing about a safari he took in "Green Hills of Africa" Hemingway |
| #7018, aired 2015-03-04 | BOOKS ABOUT WRITERS $400: She's "The Mockingbird Next Door" Harper Lee |
| #7018, aired 2015-03-04 | BOOKS ABOUT WRITERS $800: Thomas Beller calls this reclusive man of letters "The Escape Artist" (J.D.) Salinger |
| #7018, aired 2015-03-04 | BOOKS ABOUT WRITERS $1200: Scholar Rosamund Bartlett dissected "Scenes from a Life" of this Russian playwright (Anton) Chekhov |
| #7018, aired 2015-03-04 | BOOKS ABOUT WRITERS $1600: "The Real Life of Mary Ann Evans" paints a portrait of this author George Eliot |
| #7018, aired 2015-03-04 | BOOKS ABOUT WRITERS $3,000 (Daily Double): There's an entire book just about him & the Church of Ireland, 1710-1724 Jonathan Swift |
| #6995, aired 2015-01-30 | BOOKS ABOUT PRESIDENTS $200: "Those Who Love" by Irving Stone is a biographical novel of this president & his wife Abigail John Adams |
| #6995, aired 2015-01-30 | BOOKS ABOUT PRESIDENTS $400: "Theodore Rex" begins with Roosevelt's journey to take the oath after this man's assassination (William) McKinley |
| #6995, aired 2015-01-30 | BOOKS ABOUT PRESIDENTS $600: Bruce Catton's this man "and the American Military Tradition" highlights his years as a soldier & president (Ulysses S.) Grant |
| #6995, aired 2015-01-30 | BOOKS ABOUT PRESIDENTS $1000: A book about this 13th chief executive is subtitled "The Unbelievable Life of a Forgotten President" Millard Fillmore |
| #6995, aired 2015-01-30 | BOOKS ABOUT PRESIDENTS $1,200 (Daily Double): Arthur Schlesinger Jr.'s Pulitzer Prize-winning book about the JFK administration is called this many "Days" A Thousand |
| #6990, aired 2015-01-23 | THE KIDS ARE NOT ALL RIGHT $1200: "The Complete Wreck" is the collection of books 1-13 about the oft-in-distress Baudelaire kids by this author Lemony Snicket |
| #6945, aired 2014-11-21 | McWRITERS $800: Joe McGinniss' controversial books include "Fatal Vision", about this doctor & convicted murderer Dr. Jeffrey MacDonald |
| #6944, aired 2014-11-20 | BOOKS & ARTHURS $1000: His 1973 "Rendezvous with Rama", about an encounter with an alien spaceship, won both nebula & Hugo awards Arthur C. Clarke |
| #6900, aired 2014-09-19 | STRAWBERRY $1000: This redheaded actress has written several kids' books about a redhead named Freckleface Strawberry Julianne Moore |
| #6878, aired 2014-07-09 | NONFICTION BOOKS ON THE BIG SCREEN $400: This 2005 film about Johnny Cash comes from his autobiography "Man in Black" Walk the Line |
| #6878, aired 2014-07-09 | NONFICTION BOOKS ON THE BIG SCREEN $800: "See No Evil", about the CIA in the Middle East, became "Syriana", which won an Oscar for this actor (George) Clooney |
| #6778, aired 2014-02-19 | RECENTLY BANNED OR CHALLENGED BOOKS $800: A beef with his "Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test" on a Penn. reading list: "sexual content &... there is nothing good about it" Tom Wolfe |
| #6778, aired 2014-02-19 | RECENTLY BANNED OR CHALLENGED BOOKS $1000: A Katy, Texas school district didn't have a Jane Smiley face after complaints about this numerically titled book A Thousand Acres |
| #6759, aired 2014-01-23 | READ THE BOOK, SAW IT ON HBO $800: A series of books by Charlaine Harris inspired this show about a group of supernatural misfits True Blood |
| #6746, aired 2014-01-06 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1200: In a bestselling tale about high school, Bel Kaufman took us "Up the Down" this Staircase |
| #6713, aired 2013-11-20 | BOOKS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE $600: "I Am Number" this isn't Brett Favre's memoir but young adult sci fi about the Loric children Four |
| #6713, aired 2013-11-20 | BOOKS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE $1000: Meaning "differing", it's Veronica Roth's first book about Beatrice Prior's rebellious choices Divergent |
| #6700, aired 2013-11-01 | BOOKS' SUBTITLES $2000: Oscar Wilde:
"A Play About a Good Woman" Lady Windermere's Fan |
| #6691, aired 2013-10-21 | BOOKS ABOUT WOMEN $400: "A Remarkable Woman", about this late actress, says she saw Spencer Tracy in "Captains Courageous" 52 times (Katharine) Hepburn |
| #6691, aired 2013-10-21 | BOOKS ABOUT WOMEN $800: Daphne du Maurier remembered her original idea for this book as "A beautiful home... a first wife... jealousy..." Rebecca |
| #6691, aired 2013-10-21 | BOOKS ABOUT WOMEN $1600: She said her "The Handmaid's Tale" is about taking casual attitudes toward women to their logical conclusions (Margaret) Atwood |
| #6691, aired 2013-10-21 | BOOKS ABOUT WOMEN $2,000 (Daily Double): After this book was released in 1997, Mineko Iwasaki, on whom it was based, sued for defamation Memoirs of a Geisha |
| #6691, aired 2013-10-21 | BOOKS ABOUT WOMEN $2000: Marjane Satrapi's heroine in this graphic novel has to deal with the overthrow of the shah Persepolis |
| #6611, aired 2013-05-20 | '60s BOOKS & AUTHORS $1600: In 1960 John Updike published this first novel about Harry Angstrom Rabbit, Run |
| #6600, aired 2013-05-03 | BRITISH LIT $800: The press called Rev. W. Awdry "the Puff Puff Parson" after the success of his children's books about this train car Thomas The Tank Engine |
| #6590, aired 2013-04-19 | CELEBRITIES' FAVORITE BOOKS $1200: (Hi, I'm Kyra Sedgwick.) My favorite story is this author's "The Death Of Ivan Ilyich", about a man who only starts to understand what his life is about as he's dying Tolstoy |
| #6588, aired 2013-04-17 | BOOKS THAT CHANGED AMERICA $400: Bill McKibben got us hot & bothered with "The End of Nature", the first book for general readers about this type of "change" climate change |
| #6588, aired 2013-04-17 | BOOKS THAT CHANGED AMERICA $2000: This Frenchman had good things to say about us in his 1835-40 work "Democracy in America" (de) Tocqueville |
| #6572, aired 2013-03-26 | MUSICAL THEATRE $2000: This 1947 Lerner & Loewe musical was inspired in part by James Barrie's books about his native Scotland Brigadoon |
| #6567, aired 2013-03-19 | AUTHORS $600: Mo Willems is the author of the kids' books about this bird--don't let it drive the bus! the pigeon |
| #6540, aired 2013-02-08 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $2,000 (Daily Double): John Green riffed on a line from "Julius Caesar" for the title of this novel about 2 teens with cancer who fall in love The Fault In Our Stars |
| #6464, aired 2012-10-25 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1200: Margaret Wise Brown, author of this 1947 book about a bunny's bedtime, loved to hunt rabbits Goodnight Moon |
| #6437, aired 2012-09-18 | LITERARY WHITE PAPER $400: Theodore H. White wrote a series of books about "The Making of" this elected official the President |
| #6425, aired 2012-07-20 | 5 ABOUT 5 $1000: The first 5 books of the Old Testament are sometimes known as this, from the Greek for "five" the Pentateuch |
| #6361, aired 2012-04-23 | APRIL 23: BAD DAY FOR WRITERS $1200: David Halberstam, author of books about this event like 1965's "Anatomy of a Quagmire", died April 23, 2007 the Vietnam War |
| #6358, aired 2012-04-18 | BOOKS ABOUT ROCK STARS $400: "Oh Well, Whatever, Nevermind" Kurt Cobain |
| #6358, aired 2012-04-18 | BOOKS ABOUT ROCK STARS $1200: "Tommyland" Tommy Lee |
| #6358, aired 2012-04-18 | BOOKS ABOUT ROCK STARS $1600: "No One Here Gets Out Alive" Jim Morrison |
| #6358, aired 2012-04-18 | BOOKS ABOUT ROCK STARS $2000: From a singer & TV talent judge: "Does the Noise in My Head Bother You?" Steven Tyler |
| #6358, aired 2012-04-18 | BOOKS ABOUT ROCK STARS $5,000 (Daily Double): "The Quiet One" George Harrison |
| #6343, aired 2012-03-28 | COLORFUL BOOKS $200: In "The Same River Twice", Alice Walker wrote about the making of the film based on this novel of hers The Color Purple |
| #6322, aired 2012-02-28 | THE DEWEY DECIMAL SYSTEM $1000: The 370s cover books on education, including LouAnne Johnson's "My Posse Don't Do" this Homework |
| #6320, aired 2012-02-24 | AUDIO BOOKS $2000: Author Michael Lewis reads this sports book of his about "The Art Of Winning An Unfair Game" Moneyball |
| #6303, aired 2012-02-01 | CHILDREN'S BOOKS $800: Chris Van Allsburg won a Caldecott Medal for this modern classic about a Christmas train The Polar Express |
| #6292, aired 2012-01-17 | NORWAY'S CULTURE & HISTORY $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew stands in front of a large house at the Norsk Folkemuseum in Oslo, Norway.) About 30 stave churches from the 12th & 13th century still stand here in Norway; the four corner posts, or staves, may represent these first four books of the New Testament Matthew, Mark, Luke & John |
| #6281, aired 2012-01-02 | RECENT BOOKS $600: "The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest" continues the story about a hacker from this country Sweden |
| #6271, aired 2011-12-19 | FACE BOOKS $400: Everything you need to know about cosmetic surgery:
"The Face-" this "Sourcebook" Lift |
| #6166, aired 2011-06-06 | WE'RE ANIMATED ABOUT BOOKS $200: This novel is all about our Depression The Grapes of Wrath |
| #6166, aired 2011-06-06 | WE'RE ANIMATED ABOUT BOOKS $400: Warning--this Alan Moore novel is extremely graphic Watchmen |
| #6166, aired 2011-06-06 | WE'RE ANIMATED ABOUT BOOKS $600: It's about little kids, but not necessarily for little kids Lord of the Flies |
| #6166, aired 2011-06-06 | WE'RE ANIMATED ABOUT BOOKS $800: I finally caved & read this 1924 British novel A Passage to India |
| #6166, aired 2011-06-06 | WE'RE ANIMATED ABOUT BOOKS $1000: This 1993 Welsh novel is actually about Scotland. Trainspotting |
| #6146, aired 2011-05-09 | THE BOOKS OF DAVID McCULLOUGH $400: History is riveting in "The Great Bridge", about the building of this American span opened in 1883 the Brooklyn Bridge |
| #6146, aired 2011-05-09 | THE BOOKS OF DAVID McCULLOUGH $600: McCullough's book about this title 18th century year was released in 2005 1776 |
| #6067, aired 2011-01-18 | AMERICAN WOMEN NOVELISTS $2000: Highly successful under her real name, as J.D. Robb she's written over 25 books about N.Y. Police Lt. Eve Dallas Nora Roberts |
| #6042, aired 2010-12-14 | CELEBRITY BOOKS $800: In "My Word is My Bond", he talks about some of his memorable roles from The Saint to Beau Maverick to 007 Roger Moore |
| #6039, aired 2010-12-09 | OPRAH'S FAVORITE BOOKS $1,000 (Daily Double): (Oprah gives the clue from a chair) A book I chose for my book club in 2000 was this Toni Morrison novel about a young black girl who prayed for different features The Bluest Eye |
| #6039, aired 2010-12-09 | OPRAH'S FAVORITE BOOKS $2000: (Oprah gives the clue from a chair) One of my favorite books from the last decade is David Wroblewski's debut novel about the bond between a mute boy & his dogs called "The Story of" him Edgar Sawtelle |
| #6016, aired 2010-11-08 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $600: This Khaled Hosseini novel is about Amir, who flees Kabul for America The Kite Runner |
| #5991, aired 2010-10-04 | BOOKS ABOUT PRESIDENTS $400: Carl Sandburg wrote 6 volumes on this president; the first 2 made up "The Prairie Years" Lincoln |
| #5991, aired 2010-10-04 | BOOKS ABOUT PRESIDENTS $800: "The River of Doubt" tells of this president's jungle adventure & trip up the Amazon after he left office Theodore Roosevelt |
| #5991, aired 2010-10-04 | BOOKS ABOUT PRESIDENTS $1600: Books about him include "One Man Alone" & "Arrogance of Power" Richard Nixon |
| #5991, aired 2010-10-04 | BOOKS ABOUT PRESIDENTS $2000: Jon Meacham's 2008 bestseller "American Lion" is a portrait of this president during his White House years Andrew Jackson |
| #5991, aired 2010-10-04 | BOOKS ABOUT PRESIDENTS $2,500 (Daily Double): He's the subject of 2003's "An Unfinished Life" John Fitzgerald Kennedy |
| #5918, aired 2010-05-12 | THE NEW YORK TIMES CONTRIBUTORS $800: (I'm Roger Cohen.) In the 1990s, based in Zagreb, I was the New York Times' chief of the bureau named for this peninsular region; I've written many books & columns about conflict there the Balkan Peninsula |
| #5904, aired 2010-04-22 | LOOK WHO'S TALKING $200: This 19th century American humorist observed, "Be careful about reading health books, you may die of a misprint" Mark Twain |
| #5863, aired 2010-02-24 | CELEBRITIES' FAVORITE BOOKS $400: (I'm Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.) Alexandre Dumas' 1844 novel about this swashbuckling title trio is for adventure lovers of all ages The Three Musketeers |
| #5863, aired 2010-02-24 | CELEBRITIES' FAVORITE BOOKS $1000: (Hi, I'm Christopher Meloni.) The promiscuous Mara is one of many fascinating women in "Sexus", by this author who wrote 2 famous books about the tropics (Henry) Miller |
| #5822, aired 2009-12-29 | BIBLE BOOKS BY QUOTATION $1000: "And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour" Revelation |
| #5786, aired 2009-11-09 | RECENT BOOKS $800 (Daily Double): This restaurant chain is the title of Catherine Gilbert Murdock's novel about D.J. Schwenk, a girl on a Wisconsin farm Dairy Queen |
| #5786, aired 2009-11-09 | RECENT BOOKS $2000: This British author of "About a Boy" turned to young adult fiction with "Slam" Nick Hornby |
| #5769, aired 2009-10-15 | GOOD BOOKS $400: Before "The Lord of the Rings" came this other Tolkien tale about little Bilbo & a big dragon The Hobbit |
| #5627, aired 2009-02-10 | KIDDY LIT $800: Beverly Cleary wrote several books about Beatrice, called Beezus, & this younger sister of hers Ramona |
| #5609, aired 2009-01-15 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1000: She wrote about her early life in' "The Mill On The Floss" (George) Eliot |
| #5600, aired 2009-01-02 | IN THE BOOKSTORE $800: Alexander McCall Smith has written a series of books about the "No. 1 Ladies"' this Detective Agency |
| #5525, aired 2008-09-19 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: "The Lobster Chronicles" is Linda Greenlaw's book about life on a small island off the coast of this state Maine |
| #5497, aired 2008-07-01 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1600: He wrote his stories about Bertie Wooster & his manservant Jeeves over a period of about 50 years P.G. Wodehouse |
| #5464, aired 2008-05-15 | THEY HAIL FROM WISCONSIN $1,000 (Daily Double): Born in Pepin, she headed out on "the prairie" as a young girl & wrote about it in a series of bestselling books Laura Ingalls Wilder |
| #5454, aired 2008-05-01 | ALL ABOUT PRESIDENTS $200: The shop at Monticello sells coffee mugs adorned with his quotation "I cannot live without books" Jefferson |
| #5363, aired 2007-12-26 | FICTIONAL BOOKS $200: This character on "Seinfeld" thought of "a coffee table book about coffee tables" that turned into a coffee table Kramer |
| #5363, aired 2007-12-26 | FICTIONAL BOOKS $1000: Jose Chung speaks to FBI agents before writing "From Outer Space" about an alien abduction on this show The X-Files |
| #5310, aired 2007-10-12 | BOOKS $400: "The Big Honey Hunt", published in 1962, was the first in a series of books about this bear family the Berenstain Bears |
| #5310, aired 2007-10-12 | THOMAS JEFFERSON $3,000 (Daily Double): In 1815 Thomas sold his collection of about 6,700 of these to the government for $23,950 books |
| #5286, aired 2007-09-10 | IN THE BOOKSTORE $2,000 (Daily Double): Appropriately, Part 3 of this 1953 novel is "Burning Bright" Fahrenheit 451 |
| #5281, aired 2007-07-23 | NOW THAT'S EXPENSIVE! $800: In 2000 a set of books about these critters "Of America" by John James Audubon sold at auction for $8.8 million birds |
| #5244, aired 2007-05-31 | AUDIO BOOKS $1600: This book by David Sedaris about attempting to speak French may be best experienced in the author's reading Me Talk Pretty One Day |
| #5226, aired 2007-05-07 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1000: The stories that Kenneth Grahame told his son about a mole & a toad became this 1908 classic The Wind in the Willows |
| #5216, aired 2007-04-23 | THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW $2000: "A Great Unravelling" was the Times' headline when it reviewed 2 books about this theory in physics string theory |
| #5203, aired 2007-04-04 | PAGE BURNERS $800: The Book of Revelation inspired a group to burn R.E.M. CDs & books about this title Wizard of Hogwarts Harry Potter |
| #5168, aired 2007-02-14 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $2000: Death narrates this novel about Liesel Meminger, who steals reading material during WWII The Book Thief |
| #5118, aired 2006-12-06 | BOOKS ABOUT AUTHORS $200: Chapter 20 of a biography of this Connecticut-born woman is entitled "Antislavery Activist: 1853-1854" (Harriet Beecher) Stowe |
| #5118, aired 2006-12-06 | BOOKS ABOUT AUTHORS $400: "Calaveras County" & "Hannibal" are entries in R. Kent Rasmussen's book this man "A to Z" Mark Twain |
| #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 |
| #5118, aired 2006-12-06 | BOOKS ABOUT AUTHORS $1,000 (Daily Double): In 1830 biographer Thomas Moore burned the memoirs of this aristocratic Brit to protect the poet's reputation Lord Byron |
| #5118, aired 2006-12-06 | BOOKS ABOUT AUTHORS $1000: This "Compleat Angler" author wrote a seminal biography of John Donne in 1640 (Izaak) Walton |
| #4974, aired 2006-04-06 | WHO "R" YOU? $1200: "Dutch" & "The Role of a Lifetime" are books about him Reagan |
| #4941, aired 2006-02-20 | CELEBRITIES' FAVORITE BOOKS $800: Asked about his favorite books, Kofi Annan had 2: "All the Pretty Horses" & this author's "Siddhartha" Hermann Hesse |
| #4926, aired 2006-01-30 | WORDS ABOUT WRITING $2000: His wife Nora reportedly once asked him, "Why don't you write books people can read?" James Joyce |
| #4776, aired 2005-05-16 | OF CHAMPIONS $800: The author of about 40 books, he was world bridge champion in 1950 Charles Goren |
| #4767, aired 2005-05-03 | MY FANTASY WRITER TEAM $800: Mom threw out all my Pern--Anne McCaffrey's books about Pern, where people ride these mythical beasts dragons |
| #4704, aired 2005-02-03 | TEENS IN BOOKS $1600: "Blood", "Missing" & "Tears" are titles in this Francine Pascal series about a girl named Gaia Fearless |
| #4637, aired 2004-11-03 | A WORLD OF BOOKS $2000: You can go back to medieval Norway by reading Sigrid Undset's novel about this woman & her father Lavrans Kristin Lavransdatter |
| #4633, aired 2004-10-27 | CHILDREN IN LITERATURE $1600: This author wrote for The New Yorker while penning books about Fern Arable & Stuart Little (E.B.) White |
| #4527, aired 2004-04-20 | CELEBRITY BOOKS $800: This beloved actor wrote about his "Lust for Life" & his frustrations with it in "My Stroke of Luck" Kirk Douglas |
| #4503, aired 2004-03-17 | HISTORICAL NOVELS $1600: Patrick O'Brian wrote 20 books about this British captain played by Russell Crowe in a 2003 film Jack Aubrey |
| #4486, aired 2004-02-23 | NONFICTION $1000: Her books include "Treason" & "Slander: Liberal Lies About the American Right" (Ann) Coulter |
| #4479, aired 2004-02-12 | LITERATURE $2000: Books about this Belgian adolescent seen here have sold millions of copies worldwide Tintin |
| #4463, aired 2004-01-21 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $200: Tom Wolfe's award-winning book about our first astronauts, or what he proved he had by penning it The Right Stuff |
| #4454, aired 2004-01-08 | BOOKS ABOUT PRESIDENTS $400: "Plain Speaking" (Harry S.) Truman |
| #4454, aired 2004-01-08 | BOOKS ABOUT PRESIDENTS $800: "Old Tippecanoe" William Henry Harrison |
| #4454, aired 2004-01-08 | BOOKS ABOUT PRESIDENTS $1200: "The Last Best Hope of Earth" Abraham Lincoln |
| #4454, aired 2004-01-08 | BOOKS ABOUT PRESIDENTS $1600: "One Man Alone" Richard Nixon |
| #4454, aired 2004-01-08 | BOOKS ABOUT PRESIDENTS $2000: "Soldier, Planter, Statesman of the Old Southwest" Zachary Taylor |
| #4442, aired 2003-12-23 | BOOKS ABOUT SCIENCE $400: Alan Lightman meditated on the nature of time in this physicist's "Dreams" Einstein |
| #4442, aired 2003-12-23 | BOOKS ABOUT SCIENCE $800: Watson & Crick found that DNA has this structure, the title of Watson's1968 book The Double Helix |
| #4442, aired 2003-12-23 | BOOKS ABOUT SCIENCE $1200: This field with integral & differential parts is "Made Easy" in a 1910 book recently revised by Martin Gardner calculus |
| #4442, aired 2003-12-23 | BOOKS ABOUT SCIENCE $1,500 (Daily Double): 5-letter title of James Gleick's book on the science of seemingly random patterns Chaos |
| #4442, aired 2003-12-23 | BOOKS ABOUT SCIENCE $2000: "Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood" is by this author of "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat" Oliver Sacks |
| #4352, aired 2003-07-01 | CELEBRITY BOOKS $800: "Ash Wednesday" is a novel about love & marriage by this actor, Uma Thurman's husband Ethan Hawke |
| #4346, aired 2003-06-23 | BOOKS TO LISTEN TO $200: Famous couple heard here reading their recent book
"What does it mean to be a family today?"
"That's what this audio book is all about..." Al & Tipper Gore |
| #4307, aired 2003-04-29 | THE BEVERLY HILLS PUBLIC LIBRARY $800: "Before Taliban" & "Behind the Burqa" are books about this country Afghanistan |
| #4273, aired 2003-03-12 | FUN WITH THE DEWEY DECIMAL SYSTEM $400: In the 200s, devoted to this, you'd find books about the Satmar Hasidim & the Old Order River Brethren religion |
| #4266, aired 2003-03-03 | WE THINK $1600: This 19th century Danish philosopher used about 20 pseudonyms in writing his books Soren Kierkegaard |
| #4255, aired 2003-02-14 | TEEN BOOK SCENE $600: There's now a series of books based on this WB series about Lorelai & Rory Gilmore Girls |
| #4235, aired 2003-01-17 | WORDS ABOUT WORDS $1600: Rich Hall has published several books of these words that don't appear in the dictionary but should sniglets |
| #4201, aired 2002-12-02 | SCARY BOOKS $400: You may notice creaking doors when reading a "Mammoth" 2000 collection of tales about this type of "House" a haunted house |
| #4173, aired 2002-10-23 | COLORFUL BOOKS $2000: Katie Arnoldi writes about the world of female bodybuilding in her novel "Chemical..." this Pink |
| #4146, aired 2002-09-16 | KIDS IN BOOKS $400 (Daily Double): "The Sword in the Stone" is a book about a kid who grows up to be this king King Arthur |
| #4131, aired 2002-07-15 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $2000: (Sofia of the Clue Crew presents from the Witch Dungeon Museum in Salem.) Many think that this preacher fanned the flames of witch hysteria with his 1689 book about demonic possession & witchcraft Cotton Mather |
| #4127, aired 2002-07-09 | GONE WITH THE WIND $400: Ashley & the rest of this family are "kind of queer about music and books and scenery" the Wilkes |
| #4105, aired 2002-06-07 | COLORFUL PEOPLE $2000: "Sagwa", a PBS animated series about a Chinese Siamese cat, is based on one of her children's books Amy Tan |
| #4064, aired 2002-04-11 | BOOKS ABOUT PRESIDENTS $200: "T.R.: The Last Romantic" Teddy Roosevelt |
| #4064, aired 2002-04-11 | BOOKS ABOUT PRESIDENTS $400: "A Thousand Days" JFK |
| #4064, aired 2002-04-11 | BOOKS ABOUT PRESIDENTS $800: "The Final Days" (1976) Richard Nixon |
| #4064, aired 2002-04-11 | BOOKS ABOUT PRESIDENTS $1,000 (Daily Double): "Lone Star Rising" Lyndon Johnson |
| #4064, aired 2002-04-11 | BOOKS ABOUT PRESIDENTS $1000: "The Final Days" (2001) Bill Clinton |
| #3975, aired 2001-12-07 | BOOKS OF THE BIBLE $1200: This book talks about "A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace" Ecclesiastes |
| #3877, aired 2001-06-12 | TWO OF A KIND $200: Laura Lee Hope wrote a series of books about two different sets of these fictional twins The Bobbsey Twins |
| #3858, aired 2001-05-16 | THE DICKENS, YOU SAY $600: "The Haunted Man" was the last of 5 books Dickens wrote about this holiday Christmas |
| #3793, aired 2001-02-14 | INTERNATIONAL BOOKS & AUTHORS $300: Argentina's Manuel Puig gave us the "Kiss of" this "Woman"; I read about it on the "web" "Kiss of the Spider Woman" |
| #3755, aired 2000-12-22 | BOOKS ABOUT PRESIDENTS $100: "Dutch" Ronald Reagan |
| #3755, aired 2000-12-22 | BOOKS ABOUT PRESIDENTS $200: "The Man From Plains" Jimmy Carter |
| #3755, aired 2000-12-22 | BOOKS ABOUT PRESIDENTS $300: "The Prairie Years" & "The War Years" Abraham Lincoln |
| #3755, aired 2000-12-22 | BOOKS ABOUT PRESIDENTS $400: "Breach of Faith" Richard Nixon |
| #3755, aired 2000-12-22 | BOOKS ABOUT PRESIDENTS $500: "The Quiet President" Calvin Coolidge |
| #3750, aired 2000-12-15 | BOOKS FOR YOUR DOG $1000: If your dog is howling sadly, he may just have read this kids' book about a hunting dog with a mighty voice Sounder |
| #3740, aired 2000-12-01 | BOOKS OF THE BIBLE $400: "And when he opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour" Revelation |
| #3628, aired 2000-05-17 | SOUTHERN LIT $1000: She's written about the South in such books as "Delta Wedding" & "The Optimist's Daughter" Eudora Welty |
| #3602, aired 2000-04-11 | BOOKS OF 1970 $600: In 1970 Maya Angelou wrote about a "Caged Bird" & he flew up the charts with "Love Story" Erich Segal |
| #3595, aired 2000-03-31 | BOOKS OF THE MONTHS $200: Thornton Wilder's novel about Julius Caesar's last days, it's named for Caesar's last day "The Ides of March" |
| #3595, aired 2000-03-31 | BOOKS OF THE MONTHS $600: After "From Here to Eternity", he wrote about riots in Paris in "The Merry Month of May" James Jones |
| #3565, aired 2000-02-18 | PEN NAMES $600: Edith Van Dyne, who wrote a series of books about "Aunt Jane's Nieces", was actually this Oz author L. Frank Baum |
| #3519, aired 1999-12-16 | BOOKS FOR YOUR DOG $400: Prepare your dog for the ending of this Fred Gipson classic about a dog who catches rabies "Old Yeller" |
| #3513, aired 1999-12-08 | BEASTLY BOOKS $200: This Richard Bach story is an allegory about a seabird who seeks to attain perfect flight Jonathan Livingston Seagull |
| #3493, aired 1999-11-10 | AUDIO BOOKS $100: This "Mad About You" star reads about his son's "Babyhood" Paul Reiser |
| #3485, aired 1999-10-29 | THE "LAST" BOOKS ON EARTH $200: This unfinished F. Scott Fitzgerald work about an exec was an indictment of Hollywood's film industry "The Last Tycoon" |
| #3443, aired 1999-07-21 | FELINE FOLLIES $200: Dr. Seuss wrote about this famous title feline in 5 books the Cat in the Hat |
| #3416, aired 1999-06-14 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: This John Grisham bestseller about corruption in the insurance business was turned into a 1997 film The Rainmaker |
| #3416, aired 1999-06-14 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $600: His 1950 classic "I, Robot" contains 9 related stories about (what else?) robots Isaac Asimov |
| #3416, aired 1999-06-14 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1,000 (Daily Double): She's written about her father & "Women of Courage" as well as of "Murder in Georgetown" Margaret Truman |
| #3327, aired 1999-02-09 | AUTHORS & THEIR WORKS $100: Best-known for her books about China, she published her "American Triptych" as John Sedges Pearl S. Buck |
| #3326, aired 1999-02-08 | CELEBRITY BOOKS $200: Can we talk about this funny lady's books? -- they include "Enter Talking" & "From Mother To Daughter" Joan Rivers |
| #3326, aired 1999-02-08 | CELEBRITY BOOKS $600: "Holiday in Your Heart", about a young country singer, was co-written by this teen country sensation LeAnn Rimes |
| #3267, aired 1998-11-17 | BOSTON TV $1000: This Robert Urich series about a Boston detective was based on books by Robert B. Parker Spenser: For Hire |
| #3257, aired 1998-11-03 | "GOOD" TIMES $600: One of her popular books about chimps is titled "In The Shadow of Man" Jane Goodall |
| #3228, aired 1998-09-23 | BOOKS BY WOMEN $600: Laurie Garrett's 1994 science book about "The Coming" one of these makes the bubonic one sound mild Plague |
| #3228, aired 1998-09-23 | BOOKS BY WOMEN $1000: S.E. Hinton published this young adult novel about Greasers & Socs when she was only 17 The Outsiders |
| #3228, aired 1998-09-23 | BOOKS BY WOMEN $1,200 (Daily Double): Judith Rossner's book about the month when psychoanalysts go on vacation & patients fend for themselves "August" |
| #3216, aired 1998-09-07 | BIG BOOKS $1,500 (Daily Double): Thomas Pynchon's 1997 novel about these 2 surveyors runs over 700 pages -- that's a lot of "line"s Mason & Dixon |
| #3200, aired 1998-06-26 | CELEBRITY BOOKS $100: A new dad on "Mad About You", he talks about the real joys of fatherhood & infants in "Babyhood" Paul Reiser |
| #3185, aired 1998-06-05 | SCARY BOOKS $200: He wrote "Christine", about a scary car, & "Cujo", about a scary dog Stephen King |
| #3170, aired 1998-05-15 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: Sinclair Lewis dedicated this book about a real estate broker to Edith Wharton "Babbitt" |
| #3092, aired 1998-01-27 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: Title of Kitty Kelley's 1997 bestseller about Britain's House of Windsor "The Royals" |
| #3042, aired 1997-11-18 | READ ANY GOOD BOOKS? $600: A "Swift" read at about 300 pages, this 1726 novel sets sail to Laputa & Lilliput "Gulliver's Travels" |
| #3042, aired 1997-11-18 | READ ANY GOOD BOOKS? $1000: The city Armistead Maupin did "Tales", "More Tales" & "Further Tales" about San Francisco |
| #3017, aired 1997-10-14 | A STUDY IN SCARLET $1000: As an epitaph, poet Hilaire Belloc wrote, "His sins were scarlet, but his books were" this read |
| #3015, aired 1997-10-10 | BOOKS ABOUT TV SHOWS $200: This show's "Official Report on Earth" features Dick's film reviews & Sally's guide to dating 3rd Rock from the Sun |
| #3015, aired 1997-10-10 | BOOKS ABOUT TV SHOWS $400: In "True Blue" David Milch & Bill Clark relate true-life incidents that inspired this cop show NYPD Blue |
| #3015, aired 1997-10-10 | BOOKS ABOUT TV SHOWS $600: "The Official Companion Book" of this sitcom names the stars who've called the title radio host for advice Frasier |
| #3015, aired 1997-10-10 | BOOKS ABOUT TV SHOWS $800: This "Grace Under Fire" actor has written a book about his days on "SCTV" Dave Thomas |
| #3015, aired 1997-10-10 | BOOKS ABOUT TV SHOWS $900 (Daily Double): Colin Dexter & Dick Francis contributed to a book about this PBS anthology series Mystery! |
| #2992, aired 1997-09-09 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $200: Stan & Jan Berenstain have written a series of books about a family of these title animals "The Berenstain Bears" |
| #2987, aired 1997-09-02 | BIG BOOKS $2,000 (Daily Double): The remembered taste of a cake provides a turning point in this Proust work about memory Remembrance of Things Past |
| #2979, aired 1997-07-10 | 1995 BESTSELLERS $200: 4 of the top 10 children's books on the Publishers Weekly list were about this Indian princess Pocahontas |
| #2978, aired 1997-07-09 | HISTORY BOOKS $300: "Faith And Treason" is Antonia Fraser's 1996 book about this 1605 "plot" to blow up Parliament The Gunpowder Plot |
| #2966, aired 1997-06-23 | AUTHORS $1,000 (Daily Double): This master of the espionage thriller has written 3 books about top assassin Jason Bourne Robert Ludlum |
| #2951, aired 1997-06-02 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $2,000 (Daily Double): Novels by Olivia Goldsmith include "Bestseller" & this book about 3 vengeful spouses "The First Wives Club" |
| #2910, aired 1997-04-04 | CHILDREN'S LIT $1000: She's famous for her books about Ramona Quimby, as well as "The Mouse and the Motorcycle" Beverly Cleary |
| #2905, aired 1997-03-28 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $800: "The Silence of the Lambs" author Thomas Harris wrote this novel about a plot to blow up the Super Bowl Black Sunday |
| #2890, aired 1997-03-07 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $200: William Manchester's 1983 book about this president is titled "One Brief Shining Moment" John F. Kennedy |
| #2880, aired 1997-02-21 | BOOKS OF THE '90S $400: This Peter Benchley book about a giant killer squid was turned into a 1996 TV miniseries "The Beast" |
| #2880, aired 1997-02-21 | BOOKS OF THE '90S $1000: Betty J. Eadie touched many lives with this 1992 mega-bestseller about her near-death experience "Embraced By The Light" |
| #2875, aired 1997-02-14 | BOOKS ABOUT TEENS $100: A recent book by Edward Humes covers "A Year in the Life of" this court for young offenders juvenile court |
| #2875, aired 1997-02-14 | BOOKS ABOUT TEENS $200: One of history's most famous diaries was written by this Jewish girl in hiding during WWII Anne Frank |
| #2875, aired 1997-02-14 | BOOKS ABOUT TEENS $300: Mary Pipher's bestseller about troubled teen girls is called "Reviving" this Hamlet heroine Ophelia |
| #2875, aired 1997-02-14 | BOOKS ABOUT TEENS $400: Margaret Mead changed the field of anthropology with 1928's "Coming of Age in" this place Samoa |
| #2875, aired 1997-02-14 | BOOKS ABOUT TEENS $500: "For Real" is "The Uncensored Truth" about teens from Jane Pratt, who edited this "backtalking" magazine Sassy |
| #2854, aired 1997-01-16 | CHILDREN'S BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: 7 years after creating Stuart Little, E.B. White spun this tale about a spider "Charlotte's Web" |
| #2854, aired 1997-01-16 | CHILDREN'S BOOKS & AUTHORS $600: Johnny Gruelle created his stories about this pair of dolls to entertain his sickly daughter Marcella Raggedy Ann & Raggedy Andy |
| #2828, aired 1996-12-11 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $200: To research this 1958 novel, Leon Uris reportedly traveled about 12,000 miles in Israel "Exodus" |
| #2828, aired 1996-12-11 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: In 1993 this author sold the film rights to "Disclosure" for about $3.5 million before it had been published Michael Crichton |
| #2815, aired 1996-11-22 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $200: Irving Wallace wrote 1959's "The Fabulous Showman" about this "Prince of Humbugs" P.T. Barnum |
| #2815, aired 1996-11-22 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $800: Allen Drury won a 1960 Pulitzer Prize for this novel about the seamy underside of Congress Advise and Consent |
| #2809, aired 1996-11-14 | BOOKS BY THE NUMBERS $200: In this George Orwell classic, Big Brother is the dictator of Oceania "1984" |
| #2808, aired 1996-11-13 | CELEBRITY BOOKS $300: This "Mad About You" star offered his witty views on marriage & living together in "Couplehood" Paul Reiser |
| #2739, aired 1996-06-27 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $200: Peter Mayle, author of "A Dog's Life", previously wrote about his "Year in" this part of France Provence |
| #2725, aired 1996-06-07 | SCI-FI TV $400: "Set Piece" by Kate Orman is one of the New Adventures books continuing this British show about a Time Lord Doctor Who |
| #2723, aired 1996-06-05 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $800: "Sour Land" was Wm. Armstrong's sequel to this 1969 book about a sharecropping family & their devoted dog Sounder |
| #2704, aired 1996-05-09 | POETS & POETRY $400: In 1674 Milton redivided this poem about the fall of man into 12 books instead of the original 10 "Paradise Lost" |
| #2621, aired 1996-01-15 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $400: A series of dreams he had about lions helped inspire his Narnia books C.S. Lewis |
| #2599, aired 1995-12-14 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $200: Irving Stone called his biographical novel about this naturalist "The Origin" (Charles) Darwin |
| #2599, aired 1995-12-14 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $600: "Jubal Sackett", his last western novel about the Sackett family, was published in 1985 Louis L'Amour |
| #2599, aired 1995-12-14 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $800: This "Gorky Park" author's novel "Nightwing" is a thriller about plague-carrying vampire bats (Martin) Cruz Smith |
| #2576, aired 1995-11-13 | COLORFUL BOOKS $200: In 1935 Hemingway wrote about these hills of Africa Green Hills |
| #2572, aired 1995-11-07 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: "Cosette", published in 1995, picks up where Victor Hugo left off in this 1862 classic about Jean Valjean Les Miserables |
| #2569, aired 1995-11-02 | BIOGRAPHIES $400: Joseph P. Lash wrote books about this woman "and Franklin" & in "The Years Alone" Eleanor Roosevelt |
| #2514, aired 1995-07-06 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $200: Sheila Burnford wrote about 2 dogs & one of these animals on an "Incredible Journey" a cat |
| #2439, aired 1995-03-23 | BOOKS OF THE BIBLE $600: Chapter 20 of this book contains prophecies about the millennium Revelation |
| #2411, aired 1995-02-13 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $200: "There was something vampiric about rock music" is a quote from her novel "The Vampire Lestat" Anne Rice |
| #2377, aired 1994-12-27 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $200: Ian Fleming devised his story about this evil doctor after visiting a flamingo colony in the Bahamas Doctor No |
| #2308, aired 1994-09-21 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $800: Nathanael West's work as a scriptwriter led to this 1939 novel about Hollywood & the misfits who live there The Day of the Locust |
| #2306, aired 1994-09-19 | WRITERS NAMED JAMES $200: A fact in one of his daughter's school books sparked his interest in writing about a "Shogun" James Clavell |
| #2300, aired 1994-09-09 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: Thor Heyerdahl wrote a 1975 book about "The Art of" this island known for its monolithic statues Easter Island |
| #2300, aired 1994-09-09 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $600: "Dead Cert" wasn't just his first novel but his first novel about a jockey Dick Francis |
| #2283, aired 1994-07-06 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $200: "Those Who Love" is Irving Stone's novel about this first couple to live in the White House John & Abigail Adams |
| #2258, aired 1994-06-01 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $800: He wrote about his people, the Kikuyu, in "facing Mount Kenya" before he became president of Kenya Jomo Kenyatta |
| #2258, aired 1994-06-01 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1000: She wrote about Central America in the novel "A Book of Common Prayer" & the nonfiction book "Salvador" (Joan) Didion |
| #2230, aired 1994-04-22 | BOOKS ON AUDIOTAPE $400: Ken Burns reads excerpts from the companion volume to his PBS miniseries about this war the Civil War |
| #2230, aired 1994-04-22 | BOOKS ON AUDIOTAPE $600: This author taped "The Looking Glass War", one of his books about George Smiley John le Carré |
| #2220, aired 1994-04-08 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1000: By 1960 many of the predictions he made in "Brave New World" had come true (Aldous) Huxley |
| #2202, aired 1994-03-15 | CENSORED BOOKS $800: The Robert Cormier book about a "War" over this sweet has been challenged all over the country chocolate |
| #2181, aired 1994-02-14 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $200: "A Different Kind of Christmas" by this "Roots" author is about a plantation owner's son who rejects slavery Alex Haley |
| #2147, aired 1993-12-28 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $600: "Beds I Have Known" is Martha Smith's book about this outdoor hobby gardening |
| #2145, aired 1993-12-24 | BOOKS ON AUDIOTAPE $600: Burt Reynolds was "For Hire", so he got the job reading "Stardust", a novel about this detective Spenser |
| #2142, aired 1993-12-21 | CHILDREN'S BOOKS $100: Hugh Lofting's book about this doctor "and the Secret Lake" was published posthumously in 1948 Doctor Dolittle |
| #2142, aired 1993-12-21 | CHILDREN'S BOOKS $300: Originally published in French in 1931, the 1st book about him was subtitled "Le Petit Elephant" Babar |
| #2142, aired 1993-12-21 | CHILDREN'S BOOKS $400: R.L. Bacon wrote about these New Zealand natives in such books as "The Boy and the Taniwha" the Maori |
| #2082, aired 1993-09-28 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1000: Completes the title of Gabriel Garcia Marquez' bestseller about Simon Bolivar, "The General in His..." Labyrinth |
| #2068, aired 1993-09-08 | LIBRARIES $200: This country's Princess Grace Irish Lib. contains books about Ireland that she collected in the 1960s Monaco |
| #2066, aired 1993-09-06 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $200: Ford Madox Ford wrote 3 novels about Catherine Howard, this king's fifth wife Henry VIII |
| #2062, aired 1993-07-20 | KIDDIE LIT $600: Tommy Stubbins, a cobbler's son, narrates some of Hugh Lofting's books about this physician Dr. Dolittle |
| #2043, aired 1993-06-23 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: His books "Daisy Miller" & "The Portrait of a Lady" are both about young American ladies in Europe (Henry) James |
| #1987, aired 1993-04-06 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $200: The first sequel to this Astrid Lindgren book about a red-headed girl is "Pippi Goes On Board" Pippi Longstocking |
| #1973, aired 1993-03-17 | BOOKS & ARTHURS $1000: A special assistant to JFK, this historian later wrote "A Thousand Days" about him (Arthur) Schlesinger (Jr.) |
| #1964, aired 1993-03-04 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $800: Charles Lindbergh won a 1954 Pulitzer Prize for this book about his historic solo flight The Spirit of St. Louis |
| #1960, aired 1993-02-26 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: Laura Ingalls Wilder was well into her 60s when she began this series of books about her early life Little House on the Prairie |
| #1942, aired 1993-02-02 | CHILDREN'S BOOKS $800: "Teammates" is a children's book about this man who became the 1st Black Major League Baseball player Jackie Robinson |
| #1900, aired 1992-12-04 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1000: It's Kathleen Winsor's novel about the amorous Amber St. Clare, who becomes a king's mistress Forever Amber |
| #1894, aired 1992-11-26 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $200: "The Hollow Hills" was Mary Stewart's second novel about this Arthurian wizard Merlin |
| #1884, aired 1992-11-12 | PEOPLE $100: In the last week of July 1992, 3 books about this woman were on "The New York Times" best-seller list Princess Di |
| #1878, aired 1992-11-04 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: "I wish I could tell you about the South Pacific", he wrote in a book of "Tales" — then he did Michener |
| #1875, aired 1992-10-30 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $300: An article that he wrote about his riverboat days was eventually expanded into "Life on the Mississippi" Mark Twain |
| #1845, aired 1992-09-18 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $200: This comedian & author of "Fatherhood" talks about "Childhood" in his latest best seller Bill Cosby |
| #1845, aired 1992-09-18 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $800: Norman Mailer called this Pulitzer Prize winner about Gary Gilmore "a true life novel" The Executioner's Song |
| #1753, aired 1992-03-25 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: After about 15 years, he finished "The Divine Comedy" just before his death in 1321 Dante |
| #1713, aired 1992-01-29 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $200: His last book about his most famous character was "The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes" in 1927 Conan Doyle |
| #1710, aired 1992-01-24 | BEST SELLERS $1,000 (Daily Double): Time Magazine called this Anne Tyler novel about a travel writer one of the '80s' best books The Accidental Tourist |
| #1704, aired 1992-01-16 | KIDDIE LIT $500: Books about the search for this elusive spectacled character have become kids' favorites Waldo |
| #1653, aired 1991-11-06 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1000: It's Richard Condon's 1959 suspense novel about Raymond Shaw, an ex-POW programmed to be an assassin The Manchurian Candidate |
| #1644, aired 1991-10-24 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $300: He opened an eye practice in London in 1891; no one came, so he wrote full-time about a private eye Conan Doyle |
| #1606, aired 1991-09-02 | CONTEMPORARY BOOKS $1000: V.S. Naipaul's 1990 travel book about this country is subtitled "A Million Mutinies Now" India |
| #1591, aired 1991-07-01 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $200: This president's son Elliot wrote about his experiences as an aid to his father in 1946's
"As He Saw It" FDR |
| #1569, aired 1991-05-30 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $500: This Belgian-born French novelist wrote over 200 novels, many about Inspector Maigret George Simenon |
| #1559, aired 1991-05-16 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $800: John Gunther took the title of this book about his late son from a poem by John Donne Death Be Not Proud |
| #1550, aired 1991-05-03 | CELEBRITY BOOKS $200: Suzanne Farrell wrote about her rise to fame in this profession in "Holding On to the Air" ballet |
| #1533, aired 1991-04-10 | "L.B." $400: Though this former USC professor has written many books about love, he remains a bachelor Leo Buscaglia |
| #1494, aired 1991-02-14 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: He wrote a total of 14 books about the land of Oz Baum |
| #1480, aired 1991-01-25 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $200: Joel Engle's book about him is subtitled "The Dreams & Nightmares of Life in the "Twilight Zone" " Rod Serling |
| #1474, aired 1991-01-17 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $200: Manuel Puig's novel about the kiss of this woman was banned in his native Argentina "The Kiss of the Spider Woman" |
| #1466, aired 1991-01-07 | CONTEMPORARY BOOKS $200: Chapter 1 of Harold T.P. Hayes' book about this primatologist is titled "A Murder in Rwanda" Dian Fossey |
| #1441, aired 1990-12-03 | FAMOUS LIONS $300: Joy Adamson wrote about this lioness in 2 books, "Born Free" & "Living Free" Elsa |
| #1439, aired 1990-11-29 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $200: "Stardust" is Robert B. Parker's 17th novel about this detective for hire Spenser |
| #1428, aired 1990-11-14 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $800: Robert Rimmer added a new epilogue to the 25th anniversary edition of his novel about this "Experiment" The Herod Experiment |
| #1407, aired 1990-10-16 | WOMEN AUTHORS $400: In 1934 P.L. Travers began a series of books about this magical nanny Mary Poppins |
| #13, aired 1990-09-08 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $2500: If you've read his "A la recherche du temps perdu", then you know about the Madeleines (Marcel) Proust |
| #1328, aired 1990-05-16 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $300: He wrote 14 books about Oz, & some short stories too L. Frank Baum |
| #1316, aired 1990-04-30 | LITERATURE $800: He wrote the "Ragged Dick" series of books about boys battling poverty Horatio Alger |
| #1269, aired 1990-02-22 | BOOKS $200: Prosper Mérimée wrote the 1845 novella about an unfaithful Gypsy girl upon which this opera was based Carmen |
| #1269, aired 1990-02-22 | BOOKS $300: The original title of John Cleland's novel about Fanny Hill is "Memoirs of a Woman of" this Pleasure |
| #1232, aired 1990-01-02 | CELEBRITY BOOKS $800: "Smokey Inside My Life" is about his life, not Smokey the Bear's Smokey Robinson |
| #1228, aired 1989-12-27 | PRESIDENTIAL BOOKS $800: John R. Stiles & this future president wrote "Portrait of the Assassin", a 1965 book about L. Harvey Oswald Gerald Ford |
| #1213, aired 1989-12-06 | BOOKS $400: This first lady's book "To Love a Child" featured stories about the foster grandparent program Nancy Reagan |
| #1199, aired 1989-11-16 | WISCONSINITES $600: He was governor of Wisconsin & author of a series of books about a "bad boy" George Peck |
| #1186, aired 1989-10-30 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: Plato's dialouge "Phaedo" is about the last hours of this man's life Socrates |
| #1090, aired 1989-05-05 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $200: "The Mystery of Marie Roget" is Poe's sequel to this story about "The Murders in" this place the Rue Morgue |
| #1086, aired 1989-05-01 | BOOKS OF THE '80s $800: Sidney Sheldon wrote about the "Windmills of" these, not "The Windmills of Your Mind" the Gods |
| #1074, aired 1989-04-13 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $200: Former president who wrote about his love of fishing & hiking in his 1988 book "An Outdoor Journal" Jimmy Carter |
| #1045, aired 1989-03-03 | BOOKS $800: "Games Mother Never Taught You" is about these games corporate games |
| #1006, aired 1989-01-09 | MODERN LITERATURE $1000: He wrote 3 books about the Prizzis, "Prizzi's Honor", "Prizzi's Family" & "Prizzi's Glory" Richard Condon |
| #985, aired 1988-12-09 | BOOKS $600: "The Bird Era" isn't about "Sesame Street", it's a history of this basketball team from 1978-88 the Boston Celtics |
| #974, aired 1988-11-24 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: Astrid Lindgren writes books about this redhead who pals around with a monkey named Mr. Nilsson Pippi Longstocking |
| #943, aired 1988-10-12 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $500: Completes the title of Barbara Taylor Bradford's 1st novel about Emma Harte, "A Woman of..." Substance |
| #907, aired 1988-07-12 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $600: He told about his job with Western Union in "Tropic of Capricorn" (Henry) Miller |
| #886, aired 1988-06-13 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $100: Bruce Catton is best known for writing books about this event the Civil War |
| #884, aired 1988-06-09 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $200: "Winters' Tales" is not stories about the Calgary games, but anecdotes of this comedian's life Jonathan Winters |
| #816, aired 1988-03-07 | LITERARY TRIVIA $400: As Max Brand, Frederick Faust wrote not only westerns but books & films about this young doctor Dr. Kildare |
| #732, aired 1987-11-10 | ANCIENT VIPs $100: Books about him were written by Plato & Xenophon, both students of his Socrates |
| #696, aired 1987-09-21 | PEN NAMES $400: As "Edith Van Dyne" he wrote books for little girls, but wrote about Dorothy using this name L. Frank Baum |
| #630, aired 1987-05-08 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $600: 1951 novel about Robert E. Lee Prewitt's life in Hawaii in 1941 From Here to Eternity |
| #612, aired 1987-04-14 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $200: In "His Way", author Kitty Kelley told things her way about his life Frank Sinatra |
| #557, aired 1987-01-27 | LANGUAGES $800: Until the 18th c., about half the world's printed books were in this language, the 1st to be printed Chinese |
| #551, aired 1987-01-19 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1000: His 1st successful book, in 1821, was "The Spy", about a double agent, not a noble savage James Fenimore Cooper |
| #532, aired 1986-12-23 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $600: 1983 Umberto Eco best seller about murder in a medieval monastery The Name of the Rose |
| #474, aired 1986-10-02 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $100: Richard Condon novel about a hit man & a hit woman that became a movie hit Prizzi's Honor |
| #436, aired 1986-05-12 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $100: The fiction best seller of 1982 was a storybook about this friendly alien E.T. |
| #297, aired 1985-10-29 | AUTHORS $800: Titles of his many books about different parts of the world began with the word "Inside" (John) Gunther |
| #157, aired 1985-04-16 | U.S. CITIES $600: About 1/3 of all U.S. books are published in this city New York City |
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Jordan Brand, an anesthesiologist from Westchester, New York
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Season 26 1-time champion: $24,405 + $2,000. The Sesame Street character...
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Jove Graham, a biomedical engineer from Lewisburg, Pennsylvania
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Season 26 1-time champion: $34,401 + $1,000. Jove's second contestant interview...
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Yoni Freund, a Ph.D. student from Columbia University
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"He has always wanted to be a writer, and now that...
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Lewis Black, a stand-up comedian from Lewis Black's Root of All Evil
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"With success in films, plays, books, and TV specials, he tours...
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Tom Nissley, an online books editor from Seattle, Washington
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2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2011 Tournament of Champions...
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Ellen Eichner, a junior from the Ohio State University from Northbrook, Illinois
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2010-B College Championship semifinalist: $10,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
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Thomas L. Friedman, an author and foreign affairs columnist from The New York Times
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"He has won three Pulitzer Prizes and authored six best sellers,...
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Cheech Marin, an actor, comedian, director, writer and musician from Lost
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"He's played a cop on Nash Bridges, voiced a 1959 Chevy...
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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, a Basketball Hall of Famer and all-time leading scorer from the NBA
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"In January, the State Department named this NBA Hall of Famer...
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Brandon Hensley, a sophomore from Caltech
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2008 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 19 and from Huntington, WV at...
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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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Nithya Kubendran, an 11-year-old seventh grader from Quartz Hill, California
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"When asked about her future plans, she said, 'World domination sounds...
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Prashant Raghavendran, a sophomore from the University of Texas, Dallas
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2010-A College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. Hometown: Austin, Texas. Prashant Raghavendran Blog...
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Anjali Tripathi, a senior from MIT
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"Math and science were her favorite subjects in seventh grade. We're...
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James Grant, a junior from Georgetown University
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2008 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 21 and from Manhattan Beach,...
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Max Johansen, a senior from the University of Miami
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"As a seventh grader, he was planning on a career in...
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Surya Sabhapathy, a senior from the University of Michigan
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2010-A College Championship 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $26,600. Hometown: Northville,...
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Neil Patrick Harris, an actor from How I Met Your Mother
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"He's received critical acclaim on Broadway and on TV, and his...
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Charles Temple, a high school English teacher from Ocracoke, North Carolina
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"He teaches at the smallest public school in North Carolina, and...
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Matthew Cline, a 12-year-old from Maumelle, Arkansas
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"John Grisham's books have inspired him. He's firm. He wants to...
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Ryan Stoffers, a sophomore from UCLA
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2010-A College Championship 1st runner-up: $50,000. Hometown: Saratoga, California. Ryan Stoffers...
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Alex Stambaugh, a 12-year-old from Paris, Kentucky
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"He feels he can use his talents in math and science...
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Naomi Senbet, an 11-year-old from Washington, D.C.
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"This sixth grader doesn't like to be late for anything; maybe...
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Neal Freyman, a ten-year-old from Longmeadow, Massachusetts
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"He's not sure recess counts as a subject, but if it...
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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, a Basketball Hall of Famer and all-time leading scorer from the NBA
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"He's one of the greatest NBA players in history. Here's Hall...
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Chris Matthews, a TV host from Hardball and The Chris Matthews Show
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"Once a presidential speechwriter, he's had his own political talk show...
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Wolf Blitzer, a journalist from The Situation Room
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"Since 1990, he's covered every major story for CNN, including the...
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Dr. Mehmet Oz, a cardiac surgeon and TV host from The Dr. Oz Show
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"He is a renowned cardiac surgeon who has written seven New...
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Chris Matthews, a TV host from Hardball and The Chris Matthews Show
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"He served as a speechwriter for Jimmy Carter, and later as...
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Marshall Tan, from Gaithersburg, Maryland
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"His favorite subject is social studies, and he knows a lot...
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Isaac Mizrahi, a fashion designer and TV personality from the QVC Network
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"His fashion designs are a favorite among celebrities on the red...
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Grace Thomas, an 11-year-old sixth grader from Raleigh, North Carolina
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"This captain of the Brain-Bowl team can name all the countries...
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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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Mike Maheu, a high school teacher from San Diego, California
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Season 25 2-time champion: $46,242 + $1,000. Last name pronounced like...
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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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Robert Gibbs, a former press secretary from the Obama White House
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"In 2004, he joined Barack Obama's senatorial campaign as communications director,...
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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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Kevin Wilson, a communications specialist from Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Season 26 3-time champion: $76,998 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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Marissa Goldsmith, a web developer from Springfield, Virginia
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Season 27 3-time champion: $44,100 + $2,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: marteena
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Justin Bernbach, a lobbyist from Brooklyn, New York
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2010 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 25 7-time champion: $155,001...
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Mark Petterson, a senior from the University of Kansas
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2009 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 21 and from Prairie Village,...
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Kimberly Jantz, an attorney from Tulsa, Oklahoma
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Season 26 1-time champion: $22,200 + $2,000. Kimberly Jantz - an...
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Rachel Pildis, a software developer from Oak Park, Illinois
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Season 26 1-time champion: $12,000 + $2,000. Rachel Pildis - A...
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Leah Anthony Libresco, a junior from Yale University
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2010-A College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Hometown: Mineola, New York. Jeopardy!...
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Dan Katz, a lawyer from Owings Mills, Maryland
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"Since his five wins in 1990, he's seen Bruce Springsteen 16...
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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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Megan Fraedrich, a 12-year-old seventh grader from Springfield, Virginia
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"And she was recently an evil stepsister in a performance of...
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Robert Knecht Schmidt, a patent agent from Cleveland, Ohio
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Season 26 1-time champion: $12,799 + $1,000. Middle name pronounced like...
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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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Gary Bechtold, a garage door company owner from St. Cloud, Minnesota
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Season 26 3-time champion: $42,001 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Dave Belote, the base commander from Nellis Air Force Base, Las Vegas
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2010 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 26 5-time champion:...
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Ryan Chaffee, a tutor from Los Angeles, California
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2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $91,900...
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Elza Reeves, a bank teller from Louisville, Kentucky
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Season 25 1-time champion: $16,400 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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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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Carolyn Young, a homemaker from Marietta, Georgia
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Season 25 1-time champion: $30,000 + $2,000. Mother of Season 32...
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Jim Davis, a college music and humanities instructor from Freeport, Illinois
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Season 25 2-time champion: $62,802 + $2,000. Not be to confused...
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Lindsay Eanet, a senior from the University of Missouri
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2010-A College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. Hometown: Deerfield, Illinois. Last name pronounced...
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Gail Flemmons, a history teacher from Clinton, Mississippi
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Season 25 2-time champion: $46,399 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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Caroline Jones, a senior from Silver Spring, Maryland
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2007 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Stacy Braverman, a public interest lawyer from Washington, D.C.
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Season 26 1-time champion: $14,984 + $2,000. As detailed in a...
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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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Dmitry Spivak, a junior from Northwestern University
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"The 11-year-old wasn't really kidding when he said he wanted to...
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Kori Tyler, a high school teacher from Cordova, Tennessee
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Season 26 player (2010-02-26). Season 25 1-time champion: $20,000 + $2,000....
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Tavis Smiley, a talk show host from PBS's The Tavis Smiley Show
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"He's interviewed such diverse personalities as Fidel Castro, Pope John Paul...
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Cerulean Ozarow, an 11-year-old from Brooklyn, New York
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"His future is full of options. He wants to become either...
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Caitlin Cook, a sophomore from Arden, North Carolina
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2005 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $5,000.
16 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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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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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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Elizabeth Galoozis, a reference librarian from Cambridge, Massachusetts
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Season 26 2-time champion: $38,801 + $2,000. Elizabeth Galoozis - A...
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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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Emma Miller, from San Mateo, California
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"She loves the idea of creating art that people can live...
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Bruce Naegeli, a retired law librarian from Phoenix, Arizona
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"He finished second in the 1988 Tournament of Champions. A retired...
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Jesse Cuevas, a corporate lawyer originally from Leawood, Kansas
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Season 27 3-time champion: $65,981 + $2,000. Brother of Season 30...
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Alyssa McRae, a gift card production designer from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Season 25 3-time champion: $50,402 + $2,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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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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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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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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Christina Maes, a senior at the University of Wisconsin - Green Bay from Green Bay, Wisconsin
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2004 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000.
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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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Kendra Pettis, a junior from Oberlin College
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\"She hadn\'t settled on a career goal at age 11. Now...
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Eliza Urban, a sophomore from Richmond, Virginia
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2007 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 15 at the time of the...
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Aaron Thompson, a special assistant from Washington, D.C.
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2006 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 21 3-time champion:...
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Emily Zhang, from Indianapolis, Indiana
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"A National Science Merit Award recipient, she plans on becoming a...
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Charlotte Darby, from West Chester, Pennsylvania
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"Her crafts include crochet, origami, and friendship bracelets. From West Chester,...
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Kyle Hale, a college senior from Katy, Texas
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"Representing Texas A&M, he won the 2002 College Championship. Now he's...
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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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Dana Delany, an actress from Kidnapped
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"She won two Emmys for playing Army nurse Colleen McMurphy on...
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Vanamali Compton, a junior from Clarkdale, Arizona
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2005 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500. 16 at the time of the...
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Bobby Millison, from Clifton Heights, Pennsylvania
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"He's an award-winning diver, and would like to serve his country...
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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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Chris Breen, a sophomore at Princeton University from Springfield, Massachusetts
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2005 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. According to the official Jeopardy! web...
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Jessica Anderson, a twelve-year-old from Cranston, Rhode Island
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"She's known she wanted to be a teacher for six years--that's...
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Mike Scott, an eleven-year-old from Lake Villa, Illinois
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"He really likes doing challenging projects in school, but hates doing...
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Maxwell Baldi, a ten-year-old from Los Angeles, California
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"This future U.S. attorney general has always been interested in the...
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Sebastian Johnson, a senior from Takoma Park, Maryland
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2006 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Listed as "Sebi" on the...
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Scott Turow, a bestselling novelist and practicing attorney from Chicago, Illinois
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"He's sold more than 25 million copies of his novels worldwide...
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Pam Mueller, a college student from Wilmette, Illinois
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2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2019 All-Star Games member of...
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Mary Ann Stanley, a high school chemistry and physical science teacher from Statesboro, Georgia
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"She's been teaching for 22 years and is now teaching the...
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Kara Spak, a newspaper reporter from Chicago, Illinois
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2011 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
Season 27 5-time champion: $83,401 + $2,000.
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Lizzie O'Leary, an aviation and regulation correspondent from CNN
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"She broke the news that Chrysler would file for Chapter 11...
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Janelle Lambert, a senior from Brooklyn, New York
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2008-A Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Melissa Luttmann, a freshman from Memphis, Tennessee
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2008-A Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 14 at the time of...
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Nick Philip, a junior from Plainfield, Indiana
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2008-A Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
16 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Guy Tabachnick, from New York, New York
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"He wants to be a baseball announcer for the New York...
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Logan Bell, a senior from Rock Falls, Illinois
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2001 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $5,000. 15 at the time of the...
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Bob Harris, an author, comedian, and radio commentator from Los Angeles, California
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"A 5-time champion and a finalist in the Tournament of Champions,...
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Thomas Horn, a twelve-year-old from Piedmont, California
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"He plans on making the world a better place as an...
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Kathleen Mikulis, a stay-at-home mom from Mountain View, California
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Season 27 1-time champion: $25,201 + $2,000. Kathleen's contestant experience blog....
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Seth Alcorn, a bookstore supervisor from Alexandria, Virginia
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2004 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
Season 19 3-time champion: $106,400 + $1,000.
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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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Emily Love, from Overland Park, Kansas
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"This future chef wants to run her own restaurant and have...
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Regis Philbin, a TV host from Live with Regis and Kelly
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"In 2004 he entered the Guinness Book of Records as having...
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Loren Loiacono, a senior from Setauket, New York
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2006 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
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Whitney Dearden, an 11-year-old from Washington Crossing, Pennsylvania
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"She enjoys working with animals and would like to become a...
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John LeDonne, a bookstore manager from Concord, New Hampshire
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"He was the last person to win 5 shows in 1990....
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Amory Jendrek, a freshman at Davidson College from Knoxville, Tennessee
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2004 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
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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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Rachel McCool, a sophomore at Dickinson College from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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2004 College Championship 2nd runner-up: $25,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: rachel_pi
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