#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 |
#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 |
#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 |
#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 |
#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 |
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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Lewis Black, a stand-up comedian from Lewis Black's Root of All Evil
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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, a Basketball Hall of Famer and all-time leading scorer from the NBA
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Anjali Tripathi, a senior from MIT
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Christine Valada, a photographer and attorney originally from Walton, New York
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Robert Knecht Schmidt, a patent agent from Cleveland, Ohio
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Rachel Pildis, a software developer from Oak Park, Illinois
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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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Dave Belote, the base commander from Nellis Air Force Base, Las Vegas
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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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