| #9088, aired 2024-04-24 | ESSAYS $800: In 1850 Herman Melville wrote an essay on this author's short stories, including "Young Goodman Brown" Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| #9083, aired 2024-04-17 | CHANNEL ORANGE $800: Jim Brown, Joyce Carol Oates & Joe Biden are Orange men & women of renown as alums of this college in New York Syracuse |
| #9079, aired 2024-04-11 | A YEAR ENDING IN 4 $800: In the case of Brown v. Board of Education, racial segregation in public schools was declared unconstitutional 1954 |
| #9068, aired 2024-03-27 | DURING JAMES BUCHANAN'S PRESIDENCY $5,000 (Daily Double): On December 2, 1859 he rode to the gallows on his coffin & remarked, "This is a beautiful country" John Brown |
| #9065, aired 2024-03-22 | TIME FOR DESERT $2000: The brown hyena & the bat-eared fox both make their home in this largest desert of southern Africa the Kalahari |
| #9051, aired 2024-03-04 | LECTURING YOU ON SCIENCE $400: In the 2000s astronomer Mike Brown lectured on "How I Killed" this former planet "& Why It Had It Coming" Pluto |
| #9049, aired 2024-02-29 | DETECTIVE FICTION $400: G.K. Chesterton based this detective on his friend John O'Connor, who was a priest Father Brown |
| #9044, aired 2024-02-22 | TV CHARACTERS $600: This 3-namer turns it up to eleven playing a superpower character of that name on "Stranger Things" Millie Bobby Brown |
| #9044, aired 2024-02-22 | HOW MANY TIMES? $2000: Ohio's Sherrod Brown:
3 times, starting in 2006 be elected to the Senate |
| #9041, aired 2024-02-19 | HEAVY $800: Detroit's big fist honoring this "Brown Bomber" & boxing champ is a heavyweight itself at about 8,000 pounds Joe Louis |
| #9036, aired 2024-02-12 | LIFE IN THE 1920s $800: This "sweet" song was introduced in the '20s & so were the Harlem Globetrotters, who would later make it their theme "Sweet Georgia Brown" |
| #9034, aired 2024-02-08 | PASTOR BROWN'S CHURCH NEWSLETTER CROSSWORD $400: Eucharist bread
(4 letters) host |
| #9034, aired 2024-02-08 | PASTOR BROWN'S CHURCH NEWSLETTER CROSSWORD $800: Don't go to Helvetica! Use a baptismal one
(4 letters) font |
| #9034, aired 2024-02-08 | PASTOR BROWN'S CHURCH NEWSLETTER CROSSWORD $1200: What a "bully" church podium!
(6 letters) pulpit |
| #9034, aired 2024-02-08 | PASTOR BROWN'S CHURCH NEWSLETTER CROSSWORD $1600: Pastor B. wants your money to slide into this plate
(10 letters) collection |
| #9034, aired 2024-02-08 | PASTOR BROWN'S CHURCH NEWSLETTER CROSSWORD $2000: An arm of a cruciform-shaped church
(8 letters) the transept |
| #9031, aired 2024-02-05 | 2 ACTORS, ONE TV SHOW $400: In a group project, Gillian Jacobs & Yvette Nicole Brown schooled you from 2009 to 2015 on this college-set NBC sitcom Community |
| #9031, aired 2024-02-05 | IT'S GIVING... $800: Apparently really into science, Ross Brown, the founder of Cryogenic Industries, pledged $400 million to this Pasadena college Caltech |
| #9027, aired 2024-01-30 | VAN HALEN $800: The purpose of Van Halen's rider saying no to the brown color of this candy was to ensure their complicated contract got read M&M's |
| #9027, aired 2024-01-30 | POPE FICTION $1200: "I am Carlo Ventresca... the late pope's camerlengo" is an introduction in this Dan Brown novel with title opposites Angels and Demons |
| #26, aired 2024-01-23 | COLLEGE-LEVEL HISTORY COURSES $400: At Brown, the history course "Conspiracy?" includes this 1692 event dramatized by Arthur Miller in "The Crucible" the Salem Witch Trials |
| #9020, aired 2024-01-19 | MUSICAL THEATER $400: In 2023 Marty McFly & Doc Brown landed on Broadway in the musical based on this film Back to the Future |
| #9015, aired 2024-01-12 | HISTORIC AMERICAN WOMEN $2000: This actor, philanthropist & Titanic survivor went by "Maggie"; her famous nickname was a posthumous invention (Molly) Brown |
| #1, aired 2024-01-12 | THE COLORS OF MUSIC $200: Van Morrison:
"____ Eyed Girl" Brown |
| #9010, aired 2024-01-05 | OUR MAN ON THE FIELD $400: In addition to being a Hall of Fame running back, Jim Brown could stick it to foes by scoring goals in this sport & Jim's in its Hall, too lacrosse |
| #9006, aired 2024-01-01 | RETIRED $1200: In 1990 Crayola's first group of crayons to be permanently retired included lemon yellow & this "raw" brown umber |
| #9005, aired 2023-12-29 | TV WRITERS $400: FYI, Bill Diamond & Korby Siamis were 2 of the talented writers behind this series with Candice Bergen as the title TV journalist Murphy Brown |
| #9003, aired 2023-12-27 | RHYMING TREE PAIRS $800: Hard, brown valuable wood of Asia polished to an attractive shine a sleek teak |
| #8999, aired 2023-12-21 | SAMPLING $400: When searched by works as an artist, whosampled.com lists 8,840 tracks that sampled this "hardest working man in show business" James Brown |
| #8997, aired 2023-12-19 | CORNERSTONES $800: In the cornerstone for the Thompson Memorial A.M.E. Zion Church in Auburn, N.Y., she placed a coin with a profile of John Brown Harriet Tubman |
| #8994, aired 2023-12-14 | BROWNIAN NOTIONS $400: He soulfully sang it's a "man's world, but it wouldn't be nothing, nothing without a woman or a girl" James Brown |
| #8994, aired 2023-12-14 | BROWNIAN NOTIONS $800: Referring to the nickname "Governor Moonbeam", he says, "I've earned that moniker" Jerry Brown |
| #8994, aired 2023-12-14 | BROWNIAN NOTIONS $1200: He said he knew "slave-holders" would not give up their slaves "till they felt a big stick about their heads" John Brown |
| #8994, aired 2023-12-14 | BROWNIAN NOTIONS $1600: Before he became U.K. prime minister, he said economic & "environmental objectives now... reinforce each other" Gordon Brown |
| #8994, aired 2023-12-14 | BROWNIAN NOTIONS $5,000 (Daily Double): She ran Vanity Fair & the Daily Beast but said, "I didn't see myself as an editor. I wanted to be a playwright" Tina Brown |
| #8991, aired 2023-12-11 | HOME ON THE RANGE $2000: One of the mother sauces, brown sauce also goes by this more sophisticated ethnic name espagnole |
| #8990, aired 2023-12-08 | THE IVY LEAGUE $200: It was founded in 1764 as the College of Rhode Island Brown |
| #8984, aired 2023-11-30 | WELL, I'M WARM-BLOODED $1000: Melospiza melodia is the song type of this small common brown bird a (common) sparrow |
| #21, aired 2023-11-29 | SHE PLAYED YOU $600: Oda Mae Brown:
Bogus medium & confidant to a good-looking ghost Whoopi Goldberg |
| #8981, aired 2023-11-27 | I WANT MY "BABY" BACK, "BABY" BACK $200: Louise Brown's arrival in 1978 made her the first successful one of these in vitro creations a test tube baby |
| #8981, aired 2023-11-27 | COUNTRY MUSIC HITS $1200: In their first No. 1 hit, the Zac Brown Band served up "A Little Bit Of" this, "& cold beer on a Friday night" chicken fried |
| #8981, aired 2023-11-27 | SUPREME COURTSHIP $1200: In 1929 he wed Vivien Burey, who died in 1955, a year after he argued Brown v. Board of Education Thurgood Marshall |
| #20, aired 2023-11-15 | SIX DEGREES OF ACTUAL BACON $400: Mayo is in egg salad with hard-boiled eggs, which are with bacon atop this salad, first served at LA's Brown Derby Cobb salad |
| #8972, aired 2023-11-14 | QUICK CITIES $800: It shares its name with a type of light yellow-brown envelope Manila |
| #8968, aired 2023-11-08 | ENCYCLOPEDIA BROWN $400: Popular with nutritionists, the brown type of this is intentionally left unmilled rice |
| #8968, aired 2023-11-08 | ENCYCLOPEDIA BROWN $800: In 1900 this company introduced the Brownie camera, making photography accessible to the masses Kodak |
| #8968, aired 2023-11-08 | ENCYCLOPEDIA BROWN $1200: John Brown's raid on the federal arsenal in this town made him a martyr to the antislavery cause Harpers Ferry |
| #8968, aired 2023-11-08 | ENCYCLOPEDIA BROWN $1600: The Cobb salad was invented at this Hollywood restaurant named for a hat the Brown Derby |
| #8968, aired 2023-11-08 | ENCYCLOPEDIA BROWN $2000: The Cortland variety of these brown very slowly after they're cut, making them a good choice for garnishes apples |
| #8966, aired 2023-11-06 | KISS MY GRITS! $400: Developed in Louisiana, praline is a sweet traditionally made with brown sugar & these nuts pecans |
| #8966, aired 2023-11-06 | KISS MY GRITS! $1000: This "colorful" southern gravy is made from ham drippings, hot coffee & water red-eye (red gravy) |
| #19, aired 2023-11-01 | "BROWN" OUT $200: Looking to save some cash? Try packing your own lunch and bringing it to work, also known as this brownbagging |
| #19, aired 2023-11-01 | "BROWN" OUT $400: With a knack for hardening into a rock-solid lump, this baking staple gets its signature flavor from molasses brown sugar |
| #19, aired 2023-11-01 | COLORFULLY NAMED PEOPLE $500: Once a clerk for Justice Stephen Breyer, she replaced him in 2022 Justice (Ketanji) Brown (Jackson) |
| #19, aired 2023-11-01 | "BROWN" OUT $600: It's the 1967 hit that asks, "Do you remember when we used to sing, 'Sha la la la la la la la la la la te da"' "Brown Eyed Girl" |
| #19, aired 2023-11-01 | "BROWN" OUT $800: It's a type of sound containing every frequency our ears can detect; listening to it helps some people fall asleep brown noise |
| #19, aired 2023-11-01 | "BROWN" OUT $1000: Typing this sentence, containing all 26 letters of the alphabet, is a tried and true method of testing out your keyboard The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. |
| #8958, aired 2023-10-25 | BOOK 'EM, DAN-O $800: When he made the 2005 "Time" 100 list, his book was described as "the novel that ate the world" Dan Brown |
| #18, aired 2023-10-25 | FUNGUS AMONG US $600: Perhaps due to its reddish-brown color, a fungal plant disease shares its name with this pesky end product of iron oxidation rust |
| #8956, aired 2023-10-23 | JUST KIDDING $600: A. Whitney Brown:
"I'm a" this "not because I love animals, but because I hate plants" a vegetarian |
| #8948, aired 2023-10-11 | THE CALIFORNIANS $400: Shyeah, this Chief Justice known for his commission spoke for the Court in Brown v. Board of Education, you know? Warren |
| #8946, aired 2023-10-09 | THE HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION OF THE WORLD $600: The champ for an amazing 12 years, this "Brown Bomber" joined the Army in 1942 & served in a segregated unit with Jackie Robinson Joe Louis |
| #15, aired 2023-10-04 | NAME GAME $200: First name + R&B singer who married Whitney Houston = this "Stranger Things" actress Millie Bobby Brown |
| #15, aired 2023-10-04 | WHAT A LOAD OF B.S. $800: "I gets high off your love / I don't know how to behave"; it's the title track on D'Angelo's 1995 album "Brown Sugar" |
| #8920, aired 2023-07-21 | THE ROMAINES OF THE DAY $1000: This salad, made with Romaine, is said to be named for its supposed creator, the owner of the Brown Derby a Cobb salad |
| #8919, aired 2023-07-20 | SPIDERS & SNAKES $600: Latrodectus geometricus, the brown this, has venom twice as powerful as that of its notorious black cousin a brown widow (spider) |
| #8919, aired 2023-07-20 | COFFEE, NOW $800: Before this process, coffee beans are green; after, they're brown & ready to grind roasting |
| #8914, aired 2023-07-13 | NONFICTION $600: Dee Brown told how the expansion of the American West caused the slaughter of indigenous people in "Bury My Heart at" this place Wounded Knee |
| #8913, aired 2023-07-12 | READING WITH JENNA BUSH HAGER $400: (Jenna Bush Hager presents the clue.) One of my club picks for 2023 is "Black Candle Women" by Diane Marie Brown, about four generations of women who live under one roof & have a big secret--a love curse relating to a Voodoo sorceress in this Southern city that links the story back to the 1950s New Orleans |
| #8900, aired 2023-06-23 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN FIRSTS $800: Ruth Simmons, the first African-American Ivy League president, led this Rhode Island school from 2001 to 2012 Brown |
| #8898, aired 2023-06-21 | THE "SILVER" STATE $400: U.S. Army medic Monica Lin Brown was awarded one of these in 2008 for heroism under fire during the war in Afghanistan the Silver Star |
| #8895, aired 2023-06-16 | OPPOSITIONAL BOOK TITLES $1600: This Harvard symbologist character first shows up in Dan Brown's "Angels & Demons" Robert Langdon |
| #8891, aired 2023-06-12 | POP SONGS $1000: It's what papa's got in the title of a 1965 James Brown hit a brand new bag |
| #8891, aired 2023-06-12 | THE WAR OF 1812 $8,400 (Daily Double): In 1814 U.S. forces under Gen. Jacob Brown invaded Canada by crossing this river between Lake Erie & Lake Ontario the Niagara |
| #8881, aired 2023-05-29 | CANNERY $800: Seen here is a moody photo of a cannery on this Alaskan island that lends its name to a brown bear Kodiak (Island) |
| #8881, aired 2023-05-29 | TREES COMPANY $1000: "Green is the plane-tree in the square, the other trees are brown / They droop & pine for country air / The plane-tree loves it" here the town |
| #8878, aired 2023-05-24 | I AM "D.B." $1200: Can you crack the "Code"? I wrote the thriller "Deception Point" Dan Brown |
| #19, aired 2023-05-24 | BRITISH AUTHORS $1600: Gilbert Keith were the given names of this author famous for his Father Brown detective stories Chesterton |
| #17, aired 2023-05-23 | OH, WE HAVE '80s POP CULTURE REFERENCES $400: On "SNL", it was too hot in the hot tub for this performer as James Brown; he also let us know, "I'm Gumby, dammit!" Eddie Murphy |
| #8876, aired 2023-05-22 | ASSISTING THE DETECTIVE $400: On a BBC show Mrs. McCarthy is the parish secretary who often helps this priest solve cases Father Brown |
| #8876, aired 2023-05-22 | ASSISTING THE DETECTIVE $800: The prettiest & toughest girl in the 5th grade, Sally Kimball is pal & bodyguard to this brainy boy detective Encyclopedia Brown |
| #14, aired 2023-05-17 | THE 20th CENTURY $200: Resigning in 2007 after 10 years in office, he was the last British prime minister of the 20th century Tony Blair |
| #8869, aired 2023-05-11 | NOTABLE BLACK AMERICANS $1600: A note from Mary Ellen Pleasant, a millionaire & former slave, was found in the pocket of this abolitionist before his 1859 hanging John Brown |
| #8867, aired 2023-05-09 | GRAB BAG $600: In trucker slang "Buster Brown" means this kind of delivery truck UPS |
| #8854, aired 2023-04-20 | '80s & '90s R&B SONGS $600: "My Prerogative" by this singer is noted as a prime example of R&B's new jack swing era Bobby Brown |
| #8853, aired 2023-04-19 | MY KID GOT INTO AN IVY LEAGUE MUSEUM $200: My kid says Brown's Haffenreffer Museum bans smoking, but has items like Native American stems & bowls of these pipes |
| #8849, aired 2023-04-13 | TRADEMARKED SOUNDS $400: This basketball team trademarked the song "Sweet Georgia Brown" the Harlem Globetrotters |
| #8842, aired 2023-04-04 | TARANTINO FILMS $2000: Tarantino said this 1997 Pam Grier film "only cost $12 million. You can't lose... & you don't have to compromise" Jackie Brown |
| #8840, aired 2023-03-31 | SONGS FROM '60s MUSICALS $800: "Snoopy",
"Dr. Lucy",
"The Red Baron" You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown |
| #8839, aired 2023-03-30 | CELEBRITY MEMOIRS $600: In "A Fine Romance", she talked about motherhood, Murphy Brown & her marriage to Louis Malle Candice Bergen |
| #8837, aired 2023-03-28 | BEFORE & AFTER FEMALE DUOS $2000: Charlie Brown's "spicy" gal pal & newly chosen President Pro Tempore of the Senate from Washington Peppermint Patty Murray |
| #8833, aired 2023-03-22 | MOVE THAT T FROM FRONT TO BACK $400: A shade of brown & a picnic pest ant & tan |
| #8833, aired 2023-03-22 | POSSESSIVE LIT $600: Stephen Vincent Benet's Civil War poem this historical man's "Body" John Brown |
| #8829, aired 2023-03-16 | THE LEADER BEFORE THE LEADER $200: What can (Gordon) Brown do for you? In 2007 the U.K. began to find out after this Labour leader's run as prime minister ended Blair |
| #8828, aired 2023-03-15 | HAIR OF THE DOG $400: On Labradors, this sweet coat color ranges from medium brown to dark brown chocolate |
| #8826, aired 2023-03-13 | GOVERNORS $400: In a total recall election in 2003, Gray Davis was out as California governor & he was in Schwarzenegger |
| #8825, aired 2023-03-10 | LITERARY BEFORE & AFTER $1600: "The Lost Symbol" author who can often be quite grizzly a Dan Brown bear |
| #8822, aired 2023-03-07 | ALLITERATIVE AUTHORS $1600: The Harlem Renaissance could "Count" on this poet known for "The Ballad of the Brown Girl" (Countee) Cullen |
| #8820, aired 2023-03-03 | COMPLETE THE PANGRAM $200: The classic pangram:
"The ____ brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" quick |
| #8815, aired 2023-02-24 | STARTS & ENDS WITH THE SAME VOWEL $1200: This secret group of "enlightened" individuals figures prominently in conspiracy theories & in Dan Brown's "Angels & Demons" the Illuminati |
| #8808, aired 2023-02-15 | TV PARTY TONIGHT! $400: Dwight buys brown & gray balloons to match the conference room carpet for Kelly's birthday party on this show The Office |
| #8791, aired 2023-01-23 | POTENT "P"OTABLES $1200: This type of dark brown British beer is said to have gotten its name from the luggage carriers who drank it a porter |
| #8789, aired 2023-01-19 | THE ACTOR'S MIDDLE INITIAL $400: The versatile Sterling Brown K. |
| #8788, aired 2023-01-18 | LONG-SERVING POLITICIANS $1200: Always colorful, he began the first of 2 terms as California governor in 1975 & would be elected to 2 more starting in 2011 Governor Jerry Brown |
| #8781, aired 2023-01-09 | RUNS "HOT" & "COLD" $1000: Named for a hotel, an iconic open-faced turkey sandwich with Mornay sauce & bacon is called a Kentucky or Louisville this a hot brown |
| #9, aired 2023-01-05 | THEY WERE TEACHERS $900: (Colby Burnett delivers the clue.) Before hitting it big writing novels like "The Da Vinci Code", he pursued a music career & also taught at prep schools in New Hampshire & Beverly Hills (Dan) Brown |
| #8778, aired 2023-01-04 | SURNAMES $400: Of surnames that are colors, this one is the most prevalent in the United States Brown |
| #8778, aired 2023-01-04 | WRITE FOOT $1000: Artist Christy Brown wrote in this autobiography that he was "living in chains" battling cerebral palsy My Left Foot |
| #8774, aired 2022-12-29 | CLASSIC FLUTE ROCK $600: Cool jazz' Bud Shank improv-ed the solo on this song by The Mamas & The Papas that begins, "All the leaves are brown" "California Dreamin'" |
| #8771, aired 2022-12-26 | STAGE MUSICALS BY SONG LYRICS $2000: "Little more speed,
little more rope,
little more wind,
little more hope,
gotta get this stupid kite to fly" You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown |
| #8758, aired 2022-12-07 | CLASSIC MOVIE CHARACTERS $1600: Alliterative time traveler also known as Calvin Klein Marty McFly |
| #8755, aired 2022-12-02 | THEIR '80s NO. 1 ALBUM $1200: His "Don't Be Cruel"
(& it's not Elvis) Bobby Brown |
| #8753, aired 2022-11-30 | MY DEAR WATSON $200: A Hogwarts alum on film, Emma Watson graduated from this Rhode Island Ivy for real Brown |
| #8753, aired 2022-11-30 | A COLORFUL SONG TITLE $800: "Do you remember when we used to sing" this Van Morrison classic? "Brown Eyed Girl" |
| #8750, aired 2022-11-25 | 2-WORD BOOK TITLES $400: 2022 marks the 75th anniversary of this Margaret Wise Brown classic about putting a bunny to bed Goodnight Moon |
| #8750, aired 2022-11-25 | SOME OF THAT JAZZ $800: John Coltrane blew minds with his version of this "Sound of Music" song about "brown paper packages tied up with strings" "My Favorite Things" |
| #8748, aired 2022-11-23 | SHARED LAST NAMES $800: Singer James & chef Alton Brown |
| #8, aired 2022-11-13 | MUSICAL THEATER $200: In "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown", this character sings "My Blanket and Me" Linus |
| #8740, aired 2022-11-11 | LOGOS $1000: Yes, they still make this brand of shoes & the basset hound is still the logo Hush Puppies |
| #8738, aired 2022-11-09 | 3-NAMED PEOPLE $1200: She's the first Black woman on the Supreme Court & the first justice to have been a federal public defender Justice (Ketanji Brown) Jackson |
| #8726, aired 2022-10-24 | CAPTAIN $1000: Arthur Rostron captained this ship that rescued 705 Titanic survivors, including "The Unsinkable" Molly Brown the RMS Carpathia |
| #8723, aired 2022-10-19 | WRITERS' MIDDLE NAMES $800: Creator of "The Runaway Bunny" Margaret ____ Brown Wise |
| #8722, aired 2022-10-18 | AMERICANA $1000: This "Hymn" came about when James Clarke told Julia Ward Howe she should rewrite the lyrics to "John Brown's Body" "The Battle Hymn Of The Republic" |
| #8721, aired 2022-10-17 | TRYING TO GET SOME WORKS DONE $1600: This bandleader's classical-influenced 1940s compositions "Black, Brown & Beige" & "Liberian Suite" Duke Ellington |
| #8712, aired 2022-10-04 | THE "IZE" HAVE IT $1200: To brown a food with a high sugar content, such as carrots caramelize |
| #8707, aired 2022-09-27 | THE 19th CENTURY $2,000 (Daily Double): Born almost with the century in 1800, he was executed in 1859 on charges including treason against Virginia, though he wasn't a Virginian John Brown |
| #8703, aired 2022-09-21 | SHOES! $600: These shoes are named for an old comic strip character, Buster Brown's sister Mary Janes |
| #8701, aired 2022-09-19 | HODGEPODGE $600: Pumpernickel can get its color from this thick brown syrup that comes from raw sugar molasses |
| #8685, aired 2022-07-15 | LET'S TALK ABOUT BITE CLUB $1000: This "black" snake of Africa is actually gray or brown & one bite can kill you in 20 minutes a black mamba |
| #8683, aired 2022-07-13 | REEL ESTATE $800: Pasadena, California's historic Gamble House was the exterior of Doc Brown's home in this 1985 smash Back to the Future |
| #8676, aired 2022-07-04 | STARTS WITH "AU" $800: Though from Latin for "whitish", it's actually reddish brown auburn |
| #8668, aired 2022-06-22 | ON PLANET POP CULTURE $1600: It was a bit unusual for Tom Jones, Jim Brown & Danny DeVito to share a scene in this 1996 Tim Burton alien invasion film Mars Attacks! |
| #8661, aired 2022-06-13 | DECIPHER OUR TOP-SECRET CODE PART II $1600: A reddish brown:
21-13-2-5-18 umber |
| #8652, aired 2022-05-31 | WOOD $200: Thomas Chippendale preferred this dark reddish-brown wood from the West Indies; the British had dropped duties on it in 1733 mahogany |
| #8651, aired 2022-05-30 | IN THE SPORT'S HALL OF FAME $1000: James "Cool Papa" Bell & Mordecai "Three Finger" Brown baseball |
| #8643, aired 2022-05-18 | HISTORIC AMERICANS $200: Before his raid on Harpers Ferry, this abolitionist consulted with Harriet Tubman (John) Brown |
| #8643, aired 2022-05-18 | BEASTLY BOOK CHARACTERS $600: Walt Morey wrote about this "Gentle" brown bear befriended by a young boy Gentle Ben |
| #8638, aired 2022-05-11 | SCI-FI TRILOGIES $800: Pierce Brown's original "Red Rising" trilogy tells of an uprising on this planet in our solar system Mars |
| #8637, aired 2022-05-10 | FROM SHE TO SHINING SHE $1000: This 3-named woman's novel "Rubyfruit Jungle" is a landmark in gay & lesbian fiction Rita Mae Brown |
| #8633, aired 2022-05-04 | THE REALITY OF TV $1000: Since 2013 Michael Brown has narrated this "scary" program about people dealing with 21 days of clotheslessness Naked and Afraid |
| #8630, aired 2022-04-29 | NEWSPAPERS & MAGAZINES $400: This magazine's 1888 first issue had a chestnut brown cover & would you believe no pictures? The yellow border came later National Geographic |
| #8630, aired 2022-04-29 | ENTERTAINMENT AWARDS $1600: At the 2019 People's Choice Awards, the Competition Contestant winner was Hannah Brown, the title personage of this TV show The Bachelorette |
| #8626, aired 2022-04-25 | MANE-SPLAINING $400: The brown this dog-like mammal of the African savannah ain't laughin' when its mane is erect--it's frightened a hyena |
| #8612, aired 2022-04-05 | 6 DEGREES OF SIR FRANCIS BACON $2000: Francis' uncle, Lord Burleigh, built a home where you can still see the gardens of this 18th century designer known as "Capability" Lancelot "Capability" Brown |
| #8610, aired 2022-04-01 | HISTORIC NAMES $1600: Now a museum, the Denver house of this famous survivor is built of very sinkable stone Molly Brown |
| #8598, aired 2022-03-16 | CAN I MAKE YOU A DRINK? $1000: Shirley Temple said the drink named for her, made from ginger ale & this pomegranate syrup, was invented by the Brown Derby grenadine |
| #8586, aired 2022-02-28 | BACKING BANDS $400: 2 saxophonists & a trombonist were some of the J.B.'s, who backed up this legend with the same initials (James) Brown |
| #8586, aired 2022-02-28 | LETTERS FROM FAMOUS PEOPLE $800: After introducing rude Charlotte Braun into his comic strip, he let one reader know by letter she wouldn't be around for long Charles Schulz |
| #8585, aired 2022-02-25 | A FEW COLORFUL WORDS $800: Also the name of a big brown potato variety, this 6-letter word refers to a brownish color russet |
| #8583, aired 2022-02-23 | PUTTING THE CARBS $200: Apples, lentils & brown rice provide vitamins & minerals as this complex carb; you use a different form to crisp up shirts starch |
| #18, aired 2022-02-22 | A STATE CAPITOL IDEA $1600: Kansas' Capitol displays the sword of this abolitionist who was executed in 1859 John Brown |
| #8581, aired 2022-02-21 | AROUND THE WORLD IN 50 SECONDS $800: Both the Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site & the Evel Knievel Museum are in this state capital Topeka |
| #8579, aired 2022-02-17 | DESSERT $200: Popular in the South, chess pie is basically this pie without those big brown nuts pecan pie |
| #13, aired 2022-02-17 | FROM "M" TO "Y" $1200: This tree produces a reddish brown wood mahogany |
| #13, aired 2022-02-17 | FROM "M" TO "Y" $1600: The butterfly camouflaging itself to look like a brown leaf is an example of this phenomenon mimicry |
| #12, aired 2022-02-16 | GET YOUR "M_B_A" $400: The black species of this snake is actually dark brown to gray a mamba |
| #10, aired 2022-02-15 | COOKING WITH DAVID CHANG $800: (David Chang delivers the clue.) For convenience, I'm a big fan of the microwave & the most basic thing you can make for dinner or a late-night snack is a baked potato; poke a few holes in this most common brown variety & cook about five minutes on each side a russet potato |
| #10, aired 2022-02-15 | TV CHARACTER ANALYSIS $1000: A Sterling (K. Brown) performance;
NBC, FYI Randall Pearson |
| #8572, aired 2022-02-08 | AROUND THE USA $400: A sign on Commercial Street in Boston commemorates a 1919 flood of this sweet & sticky brown syrup; sounds funny, but lives were lost molasses |
| #8571, aired 2022-02-07 | PROSE $1200: James McBride's "The Good Lord Bird" finds the young enslaved Henry joining this abolitionist at Harpers Ferry John Brown |
| #8563, aired 2022-01-26 | CONFERENCE CHAMPIONSHIP HEROES $800: (James Brown presents the clue.) With time running out in an AFC title game in 1987, the Denver Broncos were trailing the Browns & pinned on their own 2-yard line when this quarterback led them 98 yards for a touchdown on a series of plays known simply as "The Drive" Elway |
| #8556, aired 2022-01-17 | ILLUSTRATORS $800: On YouTube, children's author & illustrator Marc Brown teaches you how to draw this beloved aardvark Arthur |
| #8553, aired 2022-01-12 | CHINESE CALENDAR ANIMALS $800: A Norway (also known as a brown) rat |
| #8550, aired 2022-01-07 | 4-LETTER BIRDS $800: The canyon species of this bird is small, brown & chubby & a sweet whistler wren |
| #8547, aired 2022-01-04 | FAMOUS AMERICANS ON STAGE $1600: A decade after surviving the Titanic, she won awards in France for interpreting Sarah Bernhardt's classic roles (the Unsinkable) Molly Brown |
| #8547, aired 2022-01-04 | GIVING YOU THE THIRD DEGREE $2000: "The Lost Symbol" is Dan Brown's third novel to feature this professor of symbology (Robert) Langdon |
| #8538, aired 2021-12-22 | MAMMALS $200: Seen here is a group of the most common North American bear, called this species even though they're brown a black bear |
| #8534, aired 2021-12-16 | CLASSIC MOVIES $800: In a 1967 film Charles Bronson & Jim Brown are among this title group of 12 who are trained by Lee Marvin for a war mission The Dirty Dozen |
| #8521, aired 2021-11-29 | HE HAD A HAT $200: This fictional archaeologist wears a felt hat with the brim turned down & a brown leather jacket, just like George Lucas wore Indiana Jones |
| #8521, aired 2021-11-29 | 19something $200: In 1954 a 9-0 Supreme Court said racial segregation in public schools violated the 14th Amendment in this landmark case Brown v. the Board of Education |
| #8510, aired 2021-11-12 | THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT $1200: As chief counsel for the NAACP, this future justice argued Brown V. Board of Education before the Supreme Court Marshall |
| #8509, aired 2021-11-11 | DOGGONE CINEMA $800: This scientist has a pooch named Einstein who becomes the first time-traveler in "Back to the Future" Doc Brown |
| #8501, aired 2021-11-01 | MOVIES BY CHARACTERS $1600: 1992:
Nice Guy Eddie,
Mr. Orange,
Mr. Brown Reservoir Dogs |
| #8500, aired 2021-10-29 | NON-MEDICAL FEVERS $1200: During World War I, British women entranced by all the men in yellowish brown uniforms caused this fabric fever khaki |
| #8469, aired 2021-09-16 | MUHAMMAD ALI $600: (Hana Ali presents the clue.) A poet as well as a boxer, my dad loved wordplay, & before fights, he would join longtime cornerman Bundini Brown to chant this famous mantra, reminding him to emulate two different insects float like a butterfly and sting like a bee |
| #8465, aired 2021-08-13 | EVENTS OF THE 1850s $600: After this pal led a raid on Harpers Ferry, Frederick Douglass hightailed it out of the country to avoid questioning John Brown |
| #8465, aired 2021-08-13 | NO EGRETS $800: The brown type of this is Louisiana's state bird pelican |
| #8465, aired 2021-08-13 | THE LATE, GREAT CHADWICK BOSEMAN $800: Chadwick worked up to 8 hours a day with a choreographer to get what he called "the groove" of this "Godfather of Soul" James Brown |
| #8465, aired 2021-08-13 | HELEN, NOT OF TROY $1600: This magazine editor lived a very cosmopolitan life (Helen Gurley) Brown |
| #8457, aired 2021-08-03 | TYPICAL JASON $200: Like more than half the world's people, & like all the world's people until 10,000 years ago, Jason has this color eyes brown |
| #8454, aired 2021-07-29 | OLD MILITARY ABBREV. $2000: To sailors in the Brown Water Navy in Vietnam, PBR wasn't beer, but this 2-word vessel proceeding "river", many on the Mekong patrol boat |
| #8452, aired 2021-07-27 | '80s LADIES $2000: Coming over from England, in 1984 Tina Brown took over as editor of this magazine & turned it into a success Vanity Fair |
| #8451, aired 2021-07-26 | WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE $4,200 (Daily Double): The North Island brown is a variety of this flightless bird kiwi |
| #8447, aired 2021-07-20 | WE NEED NEW YOGI BEARS $1000: Play with the first name of TV's Randall Pearson to get this new cartoon icon, a bird such as a mynah Starling K. Brown |
| #8446, aired 2021-07-19 | HEY, WHERE'S THAT DISH? $200: Eggs & milk are whisked up, bread is dipped & fried until golden brown et voila! Enjoy this dish French toast |
| #8445, aired 2021-07-16 | GRAMMY WINNERS $200: 2020: It was a family affair for her & daughter Blue Ivy Carter, winning for the video "Brown Skin Girl" Beyoncé |
| #8430, aired 2021-06-25 | WEATHER SONGS $1200: The Bangles noted, "Look around, leaves are brown and the sky is" this "shade of winter" hazy |
| #8428, aired 2021-06-23 | ART & ARTISTS $2,000 (Daily Double): Lesser-known works by this American painter included a "Nocturne in Black & Gold" & a work of "Harmony in Blue & Brown" James Abbott McNeil Whistler |
| #8427, aired 2021-06-22 | C.G., I $2000: In the 1970s I had a giant hit with the song "Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue" Crystal Gayle |
| #8425, aired 2021-06-18 | AGE $200: With a pass to Antonio Brown in 2021, this quarterback became the oldest to throw a postseason touchdown Tom Brady |
| #8424, aired 2021-06-17 | THE TERMS OF SERVICE $800: The father & son seen here, they served a total of six terms as California's governor Jerry & Pat Brown |
| #8422, aired 2021-06-15 | POP CULTURE TIDBITS $1200: The French film "Les Traducteurs" was inspired by the real-life efforts to translate this novelist's "Inferno" into many languages Dan Brown |
| #8412, aired 2021-06-01 | QUOTATIONS $1200: In "A Charlie Brown Christmas", Linus quotes this gospel's "Fear not: for behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy" Luke |
| #8404, aired 2021-05-20 | 5-LETTER 3-SYLLABLE WORDS $800: A brown pigment associated with old photos sepia |
| #8391, aired 2021-05-03 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMEN $800: "Torchy Brown" creator Jackie Ormes was the first African-American woman to have one of these published in a major newspaper a comic strip |
| #8389, aired 2021-04-29 | POP CULTURE PRIESTS $2,200 (Daily Double): Ewan McGregor plays the Vatican's Camerlengo in this 2009 film based on a Dan Brown book Angels & Demons |
| #8387, aired 2021-04-27 | PANTONE COLORS OF THE YEAR $1600: The red-brown color for 2015 is the name of this fortified Sicilian wine often used in cooking marsala |
| #8379, aired 2021-04-15 | HISTORIC WEAPONS $1600: Used during the American Revolution, the brown Bess was a type of this weapon, a precursor to the rifle a musket |
| #8379, aired 2021-04-15 | GEMS & JEWELRY $2000: Since ancient times, onyx & this banded reddish-brown gemstone that ends in "onyx" have been used to make cameos sardonyx |
| #8378, aired 2021-04-14 | ONE-SYLLABLE ADJECTIVES $600: As an adjective, this word describes a reddish-brown horse; as a noun, a large body of water bay |
| #8376, aired 2021-04-12 | THE NATIONAL PARK SYSTEM $800: As well as the building where John Brown barricaded himself, this national historical park has peregrine falcons Harpers Ferry |
| #8375, aired 2021-04-09 | MUSICAL GODFATHERS $1200: "The Godfather of Soul" was just one of this music titan's nicknames James Brown |
| #8374, aired 2021-04-08 | THE IVY LEAGUE $800: Chartered as Rhode Island College in 1764, it changed its name to this in 1804 to honor a major benefactor Brown |
| #8368, aired 2021-03-31 | ANIMALS $600: Fish fear the paws of these big brown bears grizzly bears |
| #8363, aired 2021-03-24 | THE PROBLEM IS... $800: In this book, Robert Langdon says, "I've never heard of a cryptex"; no wonder--Dan Brown made it up The Da Vinci Code |
| #8352, aired 2021-03-09 | ____ OF ____ $1200: The Supreme Court ruled unanimously in the 1954 case of Brown v. this body of Topeka, Kansas Board of Education |
| #8350, aired 2021-03-05 | MARINE BIOLOGY $1000: A brown alga, this largest seaweed can grow 200 feet long & forms forests off the California coast (giant) kelp |
| #8346, aired 2021-03-01 | BARTLETT'S FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS $1200: "Stay on the scene like a sex machine" is a lyrical quote from this performer James Brown |
| #8346, aired 2021-03-01 | BARTLETT'S FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS $1600: Under anonymous is listed the helpful typing pangram "The quick brown fox..." these 5 words jumps over the lazy dog |
| #8340, aired 2021-02-19 | REESE'S PIECES OF LITERATURE $2000: The nonfiction "Braving the Wilderness" is by this alliterative woman whose "Call to Courage" special is on Netflix Brené Brown |
| #8339, aired 2021-02-18 | POTPOURRI $800: When talking about bears in Spanish, this color is pardo; about sugar, moreno brown |
| #8336, aired 2021-02-15 | FOOD & DRINK RETRONYMS $600: Before "polishing" began, most of the rice people ate was this color variety; now the term is used for a "whole grain" type brown |
| #8335, aired 2021-02-12 | GIRL $2000: Selina Boyce is the heroine of the Brooklyn-set book called "Brown Girl," these buildings brownstones |
| #8327, aired 2021-02-02 | FASHION $200: This green & brown fabric pattern began with army wear for blending into the scenery camouflage |
| #8324, aired 2021-01-28 | THE SONG TITLE ON MY RADIO DISPLAY $800: James Brown:
"Papa's Got A Bran" "Papa's Got A Brand New Bag" |
| #8322, aired 2021-01-26 | HISTORIC SURVIVORS $1200: (Jeff Probst presents the clue.) Though cold & tired when she reached the "Carpathia" from a Titanic lifeboat, she realized that some women had lost everything, so she rallied first-class passengers & raised $10,000 before the "Carpathia" reached New York; she was unsinkable indeed Molly Brown |
| #8313, aired 2021-01-13 | LYRICAL C.V. $1200: "Badder than old King Kong, meaner than a junkyard dog" Leroy Brown |
| #8308, aired 2021-01-06 | YOUR GOVERNMENT AT WORK $2,800 (Daily Double): In 2020 Charles Q. Brown got this 3-word title for the Air Force & is the 1st African-American general to lead a military branch chief of staff |
| #8300, aired 2020-12-11 | COLORFUL VERBS $1200: Chili recipes say to do this to the ground beef brown |
| #8292, aired 2020-12-01 | SCIENCE-PODGE $200: The white part of an apple slice turns brown because of exposure to this gas oxygen |
| #8288, aired 2020-11-25 | ALL A "BOARD" $1000: The decision in this Supreme Court case was announced May 17, 1954 Brown v. Board of Education |
| #8281, aired 2020-11-16 | IVY LEAGUE SCHOOLS $200: In 1764 this school, then called Rhode Island College, became the 7th college chartered in America Brown |
| #8278, aired 2020-11-11 | JOHN BROWN $400: Zainab Jah plays this woman who tried to recruit supporters for John Brown; he called her "The General"
"I will come with all the bees I can hive, but once that date is set, do not change it, not for anything." (Harriet) Tubman |
| #8278, aired 2020-11-11 | JOHN BROWN $800: Brown was supported by transcendentalist writers like Emerson & this friend who gave a "Plea for Captain John Brown" Thoreau |
| #8278, aired 2020-11-11 | JOHN BROWN $1200: John Brown had respect for & a close friendship with this orator seen in "The Good Lord Bird" & played by Daveed Diggs
"The conscience of the nation... must be roused." Frederick Douglass |
| #8278, aired 2020-11-11 | JOHN BROWN $1600: After an 1858 raid, this pres. put a $250 bounty on Brown, who in turn offered a reward of $2.50 for the capture of the pres. Buchanan |
| #8278, aired 2020-11-11 | JOHN BROWN $2000: Ethan Hawke plays John Brown, who hoped to liberate all enslaved people, & Oct. 16, 1859 raided the arsenal in this town
"I want them to know we just took over the nation's largest armory to free the enslaved people of this nation. That will be big news, I reckon." Harpers Ferry |
| #8276, aired 2020-11-09 | THE BOOK CASE $800: This "colorful" boy detective solved many crimes, like "The Case of the Stolen Diamonds" Encyclopedia Brown |
| #8263, aired 2020-10-21 | 5-LETTER WORDS $400: This yellowish brown is an eye color option on California driver's licenses hazel |
| #8262, aired 2020-10-20 | 3-SYLLABLE WORDS $600: To go dormant through winter; one experiment had a brown bat do it for 344 days in a fridge hibernate |
| #8247, aired 2020-09-29 | NONFICTION $2000: After the success of "Sex & the Single Girl", Helen Gurley Brown became the editor of this women's magazine & transformed it Cosmopolitan |
| #8242, aired 2020-09-22 | FOOD SCIENCE $200: Sodium hydroxide, aka lye, is traditionally used to create the brown coating on these twisted German snacks pretzels |
| #8239, aired 2020-09-17 | U.S. SENATOR RHYME TIME $1000: Sherrod's new teeth Brown's crowns |
| #8238, aired 2020-09-16 | 6-LETTER WORDS $800: The simple habit of the Capuchin Sisters of Nazareth is a brown tunic tied with a cord, from which this string of beads hangs a rosary |
| #8237, aired 2020-09-15 | KEN JENNINGS ON WINNING STREAKS $200: (Ken Jennings presents the clue.) After going 7 and 3 arguing before the Supreme Court, he reeled off an amazing 22 straight wins, including the unanimously decided Brown vs. the Board of Education and would join the court himself in 1967 (Thurgood) Marshall |
| #8231, aired 2020-06-08 | COLORS $600: "To scorch slightly in cooking" is one Random House Dictionary definition to brown |
| #8231, aired 2020-06-08 | COLORS $800: Close to russet, it's also a policeman in old-timey slang a copper |
| #8230, aired 2020-06-05 | LITERARY HODGEPODGE $600: In "The Jungle Book", he's the "sleepy brown bear who teaches the wolf cubs the "law of the jungle" Baloo |
| #8228, aired 2020-06-03 | MYSTERIES & THRILLERS $400: For his novel "Inferno", Dan Brown drew on a poem by this Italian Dante |
| #8223, aired 2020-05-27 | TV PERSONALITIES $1600: In 2019, 20 years after the original premiered, he was back in the kitchen with "Good Eats: The Return" Alton Brown |
| #8221, aired 2020-05-25 | SUGAR, SUGAR $400: Brown sugar gets its color & distinct flavor from this syrup molasses |
| #8213, aired 2020-04-29 | WELL-SEASONED VOCABULARY $600: The brown coloring of the coat of the animal seen here gives it this spicy name a cinnamon bear |
| #8201, aired 2020-04-13 | BEFORE & AFTER $1200: Snoopy's owner who's a large forest-dwelling ursine creature Charlie Brown bear |
| #8200, aired 2020-04-10 | CATS $1000: The breed called this "brown" is not from Cuba but is named for its cigar-brown color the Havana |
| #8185, aired 2020-03-20 | RUNNING GAGS $1000: This title sitcom newswoman famously kept losing assistants--Hillary Clinton applied for the job in the 2018 reboot Murphy Brown |
| #8184, aired 2020-03-19 | CAST IT $1200: "This is Us": Randall Pearson Sterling K. Brown |
| #8176, aired 2020-03-09 | HI, WELCOME TO 5 AUTHORS! $200: In 2006 a British high court ruled this author was not guilty of plagiarism in "The Da Vinci Code" (Dan) Brown |
| #8176, aired 2020-03-09 | PLAYING THE SINGER ON FILM $800: Chadwick Boseman in "Get on Up" James Brown |
| #8175, aired 2020-03-06 | FRENCH WORDS IN ENGLISH $600: This French feminine word is a person with brown hair a brunette |
| #8174, aired 2020-03-05 | GET SCHOOLED $2000: What is now NYU's Brown Building was the site of this tragic 1911 fire that killed 146 workers the Triangle Shirtwaist fire |
| #8168, aired 2020-02-26 | HIT & "RUN" $2000: In 2005 Chris Brown topped the Billboard Hot 100 with this, his debut single "Run It" |
| #8167, aired 2020-02-25 | AFTER ALL THESE YEARS $200: Nearly 30 years passed between the end of Jerry Brown's 2nd term as governor of this state & the beginning of his 3rd one California |
| #8160, aired 2020-02-14 | HEINZ SITE $400: Of course, there are yellow, spicy brown & honey varieties of this to peruse mustard |
| #8159, aired 2020-02-13 | CAST OF THE TV SHOW $200: On NBC... oh man, I'll try to finish but now I'm crying--Sterling K. Brown, Susan Kelechi Watson, Logan Shroyer This Is Us |
| #8145, aired 2020-01-24 | THOSE ARE MY LITERARY CHARACTERS! $600: Robert Langdon & "the hulking albino named Silas" Dan Brown |
| #8145, aired 2020-01-24 | THOSE ARE MY LITERARY CHARACTERS! $800: Arthur Dimmesdale, (Young) Goodman Brown Hawthorne |
| #8142, aired 2020-01-21 | WORDS START WITH "U" $2000: This iron-rich earth is used as a brown pigment umber |
| #8137, aired 2020-01-14 | ALL STARS $1200: One of the closest stars to the Sun, Barnard's Star can't be seen with the naked eye; it's in this colorful class of small, dim stars red dwarfs |
| #8, aired 2020-01-14 | ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD $1600: Tip your hat to this Vine Street restaurant where it's said Clark Gable proposed to Carole Lombard the Brown Derby |
| #8136, aired 2020-01-13 | STARCHITECTS $400: Denise Scott Brown & Robert Venturi pioneered the late 20th century style futuristically called "Post" this Modernism |
| #8135, aired 2020-01-10 | NUMERICAL CHARACTERS $1600: This three-named actress turned her powers to Eleven on "Stranger Things" Millie Bobby Brown |
| #3, aired 2020-01-08 | LITERALLY STUPID ANSWERS $1000: Lucy was quite fond of deriding Charlie Brown with this 9-letter term for a less-than-intelligent person blockhead |
| #1, aired 2020-01-07 | BEFORE, DURING & AFTER $800: Margaret Wise Brown's bunny bids adieu to Ray Charles' "Sunshine State" song & the only NFL team with a perfect season Goodnight Moon "Over Miami" Dolphins |
| #8128, aired 2020-01-01 | ANIMAL NAMES WITH LEWIS & CLARK $800: Though we think of it as grayish-brown, the boys called it a "white bear" & killed quite a few the grizzly bear |
| #8127, aired 2019-12-31 | IT'S CHARLIE! $200: This character first appeared in a comic strip called "Li'l Folks" Charlie Brown |
| #8118, aired 2019-12-18 | GOOD WHEEL TOWARD MEN $1000: Made in 100-pound wheels, this Swiss cheese from Fribourg has a golden-brown rind & a firm, pale yellow interior Gruyère |
| #8115, aired 2019-12-13 | MOVIE EXCHANGES $200: Him: "Back up, we don't have enough road to get up to 88." Doc Brown: "Roads? Where we're going we don't need roads" Marty McFly |
| #8108, aired 2019-12-04 | ENDS WITH 2 VOWELS $400: The name of this brown powder comes before "butter" or "beach" cocoa |
| #8093, aired 2019-11-13 | SOCIOLOGY $1200: In 2017, Jim Brown & Kareem helped launch San Jose State's Institute for the Study of this, Society and Social Change Sport |
| #8088, aired 2019-11-06 | THIS TIME, IT'S PERSONAL $1200: Able to control only one lower extremity, Christy Brown wrote this autobiography in 1954 My Left Foot |
| #8085, aired 2019-11-01 | FEEL THE BERN! $800: Finn, Bjork & Ursina are a family of brown these big animals, fishing & climbing in a park in the heart of Bern since 2009 bears |
| #8084, aired 2019-10-31 | COLOR TELEVISION $1000: Inspired by stories of G.K. Chesterton, this show features a Catholic priest with a knack for solving mysteries in an English village Father Brown |
| #8082, aired 2019-10-29 | GRANT $1200: As a young man, Grant's dad lived with this militant abolitionist & thought he was a man of high morals but a fanatic John Brown |
| #8080, aired 2019-10-25 | THE EASTERN CONFERENCE $200: In 1963 Jim Brown led the Eastern Conference to a 30-20 victory in this NFL all-star game the Pro Bowl |
| #8074, aired 2019-10-17 | LEGAL BRIEFS $1000: 3-word principle established in 1896; overturned in Brown V. Board of Education of Topeka Separate but equal |
| #8063, aired 2019-10-02 | THE 17th CENTURY $1,800 (Daily Double): Around 1612 in Virginia, John Rolfe began growing this "brown gold"; soon the colony started shipping it to England tobacco |
| #8061, aired 2019-09-30 | IT'S ONLY A PAPER MOON $400: Margaret Wise Brown wrote the kids' books "The Runaway Bunny" & this one that features a bunny going to sleep Goodnight Moon |
| #8060, aired 2019-09-27 | BIOGRAPHERS $400: W.E.B. Du Bois wrote a 1909 biography defending this abolitionist who was hanged 50 years earlier (John) Brown |
| #8056, aired 2019-09-23 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $400: In the early 1900s Drs. Black & McKay discovered that this compound stains teeth brown but also helps them resist decay fluoride |
| #8045, aired 2019-07-26 | TURNING TO SPORTS $800: This "Brown Bomber" successfully defended his heavyweight crown 25 times, with 22 knockouts Joe Louis |
| #8017, aired 2019-06-18 | E BEFORE I $200: A pale brown color beige |
| #8011, aired 2019-06-10 | WHAT A COINKYDINK $800: Like Molly Brown, Violet Jessop got this 10-letter nickname after surviving disaster on the Britannic, Titanic & Olympic unsinkable |
| #8005, aired 2019-05-31 | COLORFUL PHRASES $1600: Bringing your lunch to work is called this, named for the paper container that holds the sandwich brown bagging |
| #7999, aired 2019-05-23 | MUSICALS BASED ON LITERATURE $1600: Show your luck & name this musical based on Damon Runyon stories including "The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown" Guys and Dolls |
| #7996, aired 2019-05-20 | MURPHY, BROWN $200: California's 39th governor, from 2011 to 2019, he was also the 34th Jerry Brown |
| #7996, aired 2019-05-20 | MURPHY, BROWN $400: In "Dreamgirls" this funnyman showed off his musical side playing soul singer James "Thunder" Early Eddie Murphy |
| #7996, aired 2019-05-20 | MURPHY, BROWN $600: Abraham Lincoln called this man's efforts at Harpers Ferry "peculiar", ending "in little else than his own execution" John Brown |
| #7996, aired 2019-05-20 | MURPHY, BROWN $800: He's a creator of "Glee" & "American Horror Story" Ryan Murphy |
| #7996, aired 2019-05-20 | MURPHY, BROWN $1,000 (Daily Double): Among the items she lost on the Titanic were crates of ancient artifacts that she had acquired for the Denver Museum Molly Brown |
| #7990, aired 2019-05-10 | 2-WORD ALLITERATION $1000: In 2018 Louise Brown, the first this type of baby, turned 40 test tube |
| #7983, aired 2019-05-01 | I COULD LIVE IN THAT FOOD $800: Nestle suggests using brown & white sugar to make these cookies named for a Massachusetts inn Toll House |
| #7978, aired 2019-04-24 | WOMEN ON TV $400: In 1992 Dan Quayle criticized this reporter played by Candice Bergen for having a baby out of wedlock Murphy Brown |
| #7977, aired 2019-04-23 | RHYMING PHRASES $800: It precedes "brown cow" in a phrase used to teach elocution how now |
| #7966, aired 2019-04-08 | HOTELS $400: Brown's Hotel in London features this type of room ideal for & named for a hot beverage a tearoom |
| #7959, aired 2019-03-28 | NAME THAT NOVELIST! $1,000 (Daily Double): "Tonight's lecture--a slide show about pagan symbolism hidden in the stones of Chartres Cathedral" Dan Brown |
| #7957, aired 2019-03-26 | THE LAST TIME I SAW ENGLAND $1200: In Ford Madox Brown's "The Last of England", 19th century emigrants leave this landmark, receding behind them the cliffs of Dover |
| #7954, aired 2019-03-21 | THE SPORTING "NEW"s $1200: Fans of this "United" English soccer club may enjoy the same-named brown ale after (& before, & during) a game Newcastle |
| #7953, aired 2019-03-20 | NAMES FOR YOUR DOG $400: If you have a small brown dog, try this 4-letter name, the seed of a legume Bean |
| #7950, aired 2019-03-15 | BEWARE! $1000: One of the fastest & deadliest snakes, this African species is actually brown; its name comes from the color of its mouth the black mamba |
| #7947, aired 2019-03-12 | EXIT THROUGH THE GIFT SHOP $1000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Eric Carle Museum in Amherst, MA):
The Eric Carle Museum has temporary tattoos of some of the animals in Carle's first book, the ones who ask this creature, "What do you see?" Brown Bear |
| #7940, aired 2019-03-01 | THEIR IVY LEAGUE ALMA MATER $400: Emma Watson & John F. Kennedy Jr.--this "colorful" school Brown University |
| #7935, aired 2019-02-22 | IN MEMORIAM 2018 $400: Linda Brown, who as a young student was at the center of this landmark 1954 court case, died in Topeka at 75 Brown v. Board of Education |
| #7929, aired 2019-02-14 | TV REBOOTED $800: In a 2018 reboot this Candice Bergen character has Corky & Miles back, plus her grown-up son Avery Murphy Brown |
| #7925, aired 2019-02-08 | THE TITLE PLANET $800: Rita Mae Brown punningly titled a novel this "Envy" Venus |
| #7923, aired 2019-02-06 | APPLE PIE ORDER $800: Gimme this alliterative "feminine" dessert, crustless pie with apples & brown sugar apple brown betty |
| #7919, aired 2019-01-31 | BIO PICKED $1200: This 1962 film, based on a Broadway play, is about the woman seen here The Miracle Worker |
| #7917, aired 2019-01-29 | YOU DO KNOW JACKALOPE $1200: Samuel Smith's Nut Brown is a refreshing one ale |
| #7916, aired 2019-01-28 | OXYMORONS $1200: This alliterative phrase precedes "Charlie Brown" in the title of a collection of "Peanuts" comic strips good grief |
| #7915, aired 2019-01-25 | PEST CONTROL $800: Terminix says vacuuming is a good start in controlling these icky insects like the German & brown-banded types cockroaches |
| #7913, aired 2019-01-23 | THE LAST WORD WITH LAWRENCE O'DONNELL $600: (Lawrence O'Donnell presents the clue): "Some Like It Hot" has one of the great last lines in film: when Jack Lemmon reveals he's a man, Joe E. Brown replies, "Well, nobody's" this perfect |
| #7908, aired 2019-01-16 | ABBREVIATED REALITY SHOWS $600: Featured Kody Brown & his 4 spouses:
"SW" Sister Wives |
| #7907, aired 2019-01-15 | HOME FROM THE HILL $400: Scott Brown replaced Ted Kennedy in 2010 but was sent home from the Senate by her in the 2012 election Elizabeth Warren |
| #7903, aired 2019-01-09 | THE VOYAGE OF A BEAGLE $600: After Snoopy zips past his master on one of these, Charlie Brown simply says, "Rosebud?" a sled |
| #7881, aired 2018-12-10 | I WANNA SAX YOU UP $400: Bobby Keys played the sax solo on "Brown Sugar" with this group that he toured with for more than 45 years The Rolling Stones |
| #7879, aired 2018-12-06 | R-RATED MOVIES $1600: One of the first R-rated movies was 1968's "The Split" starring this former Cleveland Browns running back Jim Brown |
| #7878, aired 2018-12-05 | 3-LETTER BIZ $400: Sending a parcel? You've got some 3-letter choices, including DHL & this shipper with its brown "package cars" UPS |
| #7875, aired 2018-11-30 | OLD SPICE $1600: This light-brown spice from a tree of the laurel family is said to have been more valuable than gold in antiquity cinnamon |
| #7873, aired 2018-11-28 | THE SOUND OF MUSIC $1600: This soul man said he found his signature voice for "What's Going On" after he realized, "I'd been singing too loud" Marvin Gaye |
| #7871, aired 2018-11-26 | SAFE SPACES $1200: Gov. Jerry Brown signed a law making California this type of state protective of immigrants a sanctuary state |
| #7864, aired 2018-11-15 | TITLE NAMES $400: A comic strip was the source of the musical "You're a Good Man," this kid Charlie Brown |
| #7862, aired 2018-11-13 | COLORS $800: A light brown, or a young deer fawn |
| #7861, aired 2018-11-12 | ECOLOGY $800: In Sweden hunting the brown kind of this animal with her cubs is illegal, so she adapted & now cares for her cubs longer a bear |
| #7857, aired 2018-11-06 | WHAT DO YOUR SHOES MEAN? $600: A girl in the Buster Brown comic strip gave her name to these girls' shoes that have a strap over the instep Mary Janes |
| #7853, aired 2018-10-31 | GIVE THEM SOME CANDY $1000: This confection of pecans & brown sugar is named for the French military officer whose cook is credited with inventing it pralines |
| #7849, aired 2018-10-25 | WORDS WITH A "WAY" $2000: "Tales of" this inn begins, "One autumn night, in Sudbury town, across the meadows bare and brown" the Wayside Inn |
| #7846, aired 2018-10-22 | SUPREME COURT CASES $800: Thurgood Marshall argued this 1954 landmark Supreme Court case on school segregation Brown v. Board |
| #7845, aired 2018-10-19 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $800: Ron Brown in 1989 for the Democrats & Michael Steele in 2009 for the G.O.P. were the first black holders of this post chairman of the party |
| #7843, aired 2018-10-17 | WHOSE WHAT? $800: In a Civil War song, this "lies a-mouldering in the grave" John Brown's body |
| #7838, aired 2018-10-10 | "M" & EMMYS $200: Show creator Diane English won an Emmy for writing the pilot of this series that starred Candice Bergen Murphy Brown |
| #7838, aired 2018-10-10 | BIG FARMER $1200: 6'3", 320-lb. Jason Brown made news in 2012 when he quit this lucrative career to farm sweet potatoes football player |
| #7833, aired 2018-10-03 | COBRA KAI $800: A reddish-brown Australian cobra family member is called this, like the American snake AKA the highland moccasin a copperhead |
| #7828, aired 2018-09-26 | MR. & MRS. SONGS $2000: Herman's Hermits told her, "You've got a lovely daughter" Mrs. Brown |
| #7826, aired 2018-09-24 | WORDS FROM THE COMICS $400: This character inspired a suit, a collar & shoe with his name Buster Brown |
| #7824, aired 2018-09-20 | THE T LEAVES $800: The T runs off from a building where horses are kept & becomes this weasellike mammal with dark brown fur sable |
| #7822, aired 2018-09-18 | FILMMAKERS FROM MEXICO $200: Sonora-born Bill Melendez directed "A Boy Named Charlie Brown" & voiced this 4-footed character Snoopy |
| #7821, aired 2018-09-17 | LETTUCE BEGIN $800: The owner of the Brown Derby in Hollywood got his name on this salad with lettuce, bacon, chicken, eggs & blue cheese a Cobb salad |
| #7810, aired 2018-07-20 | "C" YOU IN THE FUNNY PAPERS $400: Schulz alter ego Charlie Brown |
| #7807, aired 2018-07-17 | CITING PRECEDENT $600: Justice Robert Jackson left his hospital bed to be present for the decision of him v. Board of Education of Topeka Brown |
| #7806, aired 2018-07-16 | DESIGN ACROSS AMERICA $400: (Hi, I'm Shannon Hegy from WPRI-12.) Installed on three rivers in Providence, Waterfire was created by artist Barnaby Evans, who graduated from this nearby Ivy League school Brown |
| #7800, aired 2018-07-06 | WRITERS ON SPORTS $800: Jimmy Cannon said this "Brown Bomber" "was a credit to his race--the human race" Joe Louis |
| #7800, aired 2018-07-06 | WRITERS ON SPORTS $1000: In 1960 Shirley Povich noted that this Cleveland runner "integrated the Redskins' goal line with more than deliberate speed" Jim Brown |
| #7800, aired 2018-07-06 | PARENTHETICAL SONG TITLES $1600: I knew that you would know this 3-word parenthetical that follows "I Got You" in a James Brown classic "(I Feel Good)" |
| #7789, aired 2018-06-21 | PIN THE TALE ON THE 19th CENTURY WRITER $800: His 1835 "Young Goodman Brown" shows a dark side of New England Hawthorne |
| #7787, aired 2018-06-19 | ARCHITECTURE $1600: In the early 1950s Louis Kahn designed his first important work: this Ivy League university's art gallery Yale |
| #7784, aired 2018-06-14 | COMPLETE THE RHYMING PHRASE $400: "How now..." brown cow |
| #7783, aired 2018-06-13 | U.S. LIBRARIES $200: AKA "The Rock", the John D. Rockefeller Jr. Library is one of the main libraries of this R.I. Ivy League school Brown |
| #7777, aired 2018-06-05 | YOUR STYLE $600: "Disappearing" 4-letter hairstyle sported by musical artists like Bobby Brown back in the day a fade |
| #7775, aired 2018-06-01 | DAY & NIGHT BOOKSTORE $400: Gray is tired from being used to color elephants & beige hates being called brown in the kids' book "The Day" these "Quit" the crayons |
| #7774, aired 2018-05-31 | ADJECTIVES $400: Tragically, the Titanic didn't live up to this adjective that became Molly Brown's moniker unsinkable |
| #7773, aired 2018-05-30 | MUSIC INDUSTRY TERMS $200: This is taking a snippet of one song & using it in another; "Funky Drummer" by James Brown is often used a sample |
| #7772, aired 2018-05-29 | AWARD-WINNING BOOKS $1600: Sections in this 1999 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel are "Mrs. Woolf", "Mrs. Brown" & "Mrs. Dalloway" The Hours |
| #7768, aired 2018-05-23 | HISTORICAL FICTION $400: In "Cloudsplitter" by Russell Banks, the son of this martyred abolitionist recalls his father John Brown |
| #7749, aired 2018-04-26 | HELLO, "B.B." $400: To bring lunch from home to eat at work to brown bag |
| #7739, aired 2018-04-12 | PAPER TERMS $800: This strong & light yellow-brown paper shares its name with a Philippine city manila |
| #7737, aired 2018-04-10 | COLLEGE VOCABULARY $200: Russet & tan are shades of this Ivy Leaguer Brown |
| #7735, aired 2018-04-06 | SHOT FIRST $600: "Mrs. Brown",
"Mrs. Doubtfire",
"Mrs. Miniver" Mrs. Miniver |
| #7727, aired 2018-03-27 | ON WITH THE SHOW $800: On Oct. 24, 1962 it was showtime at the Apollo for this "Godfather of Soul" when he taped a live album James Brown |
| #7720, aired 2018-03-16 | FRUITS & VEGETABLES $1000: In some countries this long-necked brown pear is known as the Kaiser Alexander a Bosc pear |
| #7719, aired 2018-03-15 | WEBSITES $2,000 (Daily Double): In 2008 this former editor of Vanity Fair & the New Yorker launched the Daily Beast Tina Brown |
| #7718, aired 2018-03-14 | HOLD MY WINE $400: Called "brown bag vino", this brand of wine contains 17.5% alcohol & shares its name with a model of Ford Thunderbird |
| #7711, aired 2018-03-05 | FACTS ABOUT FICTION $1200: "Inferno" is Dan Brown's fourth novel to feature this symbology professor as its hero (Robert) Langdon |
| #7710, aired 2018-03-02 | MY TV DADS $2000: His 2017 Emmy award as dad & son on "This Is Us" was his second in two years--for your information, the "K" is for Kelby (Sterling K.) Brown |
| #7709, aired 2018-03-01 | MAILING IT IN $800: Charlie Brown's in luck if he wants to paint an address on one of these he got over & over on Halloween in a TV special a rock |
| #7696, aired 2018-02-12 | C.C. & ME $1600: This author & Graham Brown team up on the NUMA Files novels about deep-sea divers Clive Cussler |
| #7690, aired 2018-02-02 | 4 TOP MEN $800: This foursome was "Runnin' With The Devil" but runnin' without brown M&Ms, excluded in their concert contracts Van Halen |
| #7684, aired 2018-01-25 | CRAYOLA COLORS $800: The original 1903 box of 8 crayons contained black, brown, blue, red, violet, yellow, green & this fruit orange |
| #7674, aired 2018-01-11 | EUROPEA"N" GEOGRAPHY $1600: This northeastern English town "Upon Tyne" gave its name to a famous brown ale Newcastle |
| #7672, aired 2018-01-09 | THE DONALD $1200: Remember the BUGS MEANIE category? Bugs bullied this supersmart boy detective created by Donald Sobol Encyclopedia Brown |
| #7663, aired 2017-12-27 | RHYME TIME FASHION $400: A fancy coffee-colored full-length dress a brown gown |
| #7662, aired 2017-12-26 | ON BOXING DAY $800: The 1946 rematch of this "Brown Bomber" & Billy Conn was the first world heavyweight title fight available on TV Joe Louis |
| #7661, aired 2017-12-25 | TITANIC $800: Reba McEntire was first offered this unsinkable role; Kathy Bates eventually played her Molly Brown |
| #7659, aired 2017-12-21 | BARBECUE $600: GBD should be the goal every time you BBQ, meaning the meat is this shade "& delicious" golden brown |
| #7646, aired 2017-12-04 | QE II's PMs $2000: So far, nine Conservative Party prime ministers have served Her Majesty; he was the last of the four Labour prime ministers (Gordon) Brown |
| #7637, aired 2017-11-21 | STATE CAPITAL HAIKU $800: South of Pawtucket /
Founded 1636 /
Best-loved color? Brown! Providence |
| #7636, aired 2017-11-20 | STILL PHOTOGRAPHY $1000: Clyfford Still left 2,000 artworks to any city that would give him his own museum; this city put it near the Molly Brown House Denver |
| #7634, aired 2017-11-16 | TRIPLE RHYME TIME $1600: A russet harlequin has collapsed brown clown down |
| #7631, aired 2017-11-13 | THOSE DARN FRANCISCANS $1200: Hey, Bobby--from the habits they once wore, a Franciscan order of Britain & Ireland is known as this color friars grey |
| #7627, aired 2017-11-07 | THAT'S OUR COLOR $200: UPS brown |
| #7620, aired 2017-10-27 | CONTEMPORARIES $400: When John Stuart Mill was publishing "On Liberty", John Brown lost his liberty after raiding this arsenal Harpers Ferry |
| #7616, aired 2017-10-23 | FOOD TALK $800: A simple recipe for this sauce calls for just 4 ingredients: soy sauce, brown sugar, garlic & ginger teriyaki |
| #7616, aired 2017-10-23 | BIRDS OF A FEATHER $2000: The "P" in its name is silent, and its plumage is nearly invisible as it changes from light brown in summer to a winter white a ptarmigan |
| #7611, aired 2017-10-16 | CAUGHT $200: This abolitionist leader & raider was captured by Robert E. Lee & hanged in 1859 John Brown |
| #7598, aired 2017-09-27 | AN IVY LEAGUE EDUCATION $200: Oh yeah, Nietzsche & Freud come up in the "Guilt and Shame" philosophy course at this Rhode Island school Brown |
| #7595, aired 2017-09-22 | 4-SYLLABLE WORDS $600: Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas ended the school type of it segregation |
| #7594, aired 2017-09-21 | THE COLORS OF MUSIC $200: Van Morrison:
"____ Eyed Girl" Brown |
| #7592, aired 2017-09-19 | TRANSYLVANIA $1200: Transylvania is home to wolves, brown bears, and this wild feline, Europe's version of the bobcat the lynx |
| #7589, aired 2017-09-14 | MOVIE QUEENS $2000: This actress received her first of 7 Oscar nominations for playing Queen Victoria in 1997's "Mrs. Brown" Judi Dench |
| #7588, aired 2017-09-13 | PAIRS FAMOUS $1000: The first names of California governor Brown & Nebraska senator Sasse are less than delicious when paired Jerry and Ben |
| #7581, aired 2017-07-24 | FAKE NEWS $200: For 10 seasons she played tough TV journalist Murphy Brown Candice Bergen |
| #7580, aired 2017-07-21 | WEST VIRGINIA $800: The John Brown Wax Museum in this town has 87 life-size figures telling his story from youth to the gallows Harpers Ferry |
| #7577, aired 2017-07-18 | AN OO SOUND $200: A female with dark brown hair a brunette |
| #7576, aired 2017-07-17 | HODGEPODGE $1000: Around the time of the American revolution a "Brown Bess", weighing about 10 pounds, was this type of firearm a musket |
| #7573, aired 2017-07-12 | A PODCAST OF CHARACTERS $400: "I Was There Too" has as guests supporting actors like Clancy Brown, prison guard captain Hadley in this 1994 film The Shawshank Redemption |
| #7568, aired 2017-07-05 | BEAR WITH US $400: This island southwest of Anchorage lends its name to a big ol' subspecies of brown bear a Kodiak bear |
| #7568, aired 2017-07-05 | BEAR WITH US $1200: Some black bears that are actually light brown in color are called this, after a bark-derived spice cinnamon |
| #7567, aired 2017-07-04 | INLANDER $1200: This longtime Cosmo editor was still a single girl when she was born in Green Forest, Arkansas in 1922 Helen Gurley Brown |
| #7565, aired 2017-06-30 | 20th CENTURY NAMES $2000: Crippled by cerebral palsy, this Irish writer learned to write, paint & type with his left foot Christy Brown |
| #7564, aired 2017-06-29 | BRING YOUR "EI" GAME $1600: Very light brown beige |
| #7563, aired 2017-06-28 | BAD-WORLD BOOKSHELF $1600: Only women survive a mysterious plague except for Yorick Brown & his monkey Ampersand Y: The Last Man |
| #7558, aired 2017-06-21 | WE'VE GOT MOMMY ISSUES $1000: Mom to Charlie & Vale, this "Today" anchor told "Fit Pregnancy and Baby" magazine, "Being a mom always comes first" Savannah Guthrie |
| #7557, aired 2017-06-20 | FOREVER "YOUNG" $2000: In a Nathaniel Hawthorne tale, this title Puritan flees a witches' Sabbath Young Goodman Brown |
| #7554, aired 2017-06-15 | CHARLIE BROWN, THIS IS YOUR LIFE $200: In Snoopy you have not only a loyal pet but a flying ace in this war the First World War |
| #7554, aired 2017-06-15 | CHARLIE BROWN, THIS IS YOUR LIFE $400: Like your creator's dad, your father has this profession, perhaps explaining your unusual coif barber |
| #7554, aired 2017-06-15 | CHARLIE BROWN, THIS IS YOUR LIFE $600: Siblings are like built-in pals & this one arrived to ask meaningful questions like "Who cares?" Sally |
| #7554, aired 2017-06-15 | CHARLIE BROWN, THIS IS YOUR LIFE $800: This acquaintance of yours had only a passing acquaintance with soap & water Pig Pen |
| #7554, aired 2017-06-15 | AIN'T NOTHING BUT A SANDWICH $1000: From Kentucky, the hot brown is an open-faced turkey & bacon sandwich topped with this cheesy bechamel sauce Mornay |
| #7554, aired 2017-06-15 | CHARLIE BROWN, THIS IS YOUR LIFE $1000: We do have to ask--why did you choose bossy, crabby Lucy as this professional for help? psychiatrist |
| #7548, aired 2017-06-07 | ORIGINAL "SIN" $600: Capable of going down, unlike Molly Brown sinkable |
| #7546, aired 2017-06-05 | LIFE IS JUST A BOWL OF CHERRIES $400: 1960s radical H. Rap Brown once told the press, violence is as American as this cherry pie |
| #7545, aired 2017-06-02 | THE MANCUNIAN $400: Soccer star Wes Brown was born in Manchester & was a member of this storied local team from 1996 to 2011 Manchester United |
| #7537, aired 2017-05-23 | COOKING TERMS $400: This term refers to making sugar brown by heating in a skillet over low heat until melted & golden caramelizing |
| #7533, aired 2017-05-17 | 'ALLO, CURRENT GOVERNOR $400: He followed in Dad's footsteps as California's guv Jerry Brown |
| #7531, aired 2017-05-15 | GOALS $1000: Football was not the only field Jim Brown hit as a Syracuse senior, with 43 goals in only 10 games in this sport lacrosse |
| #7530, aired 2017-05-12 | MUSIC TO YOUR EARS $1600: This "Godfather of Soul" gave us "I don't Want Nobody To Give Me Nothing (Open Up The Door, I'll Get It Myself) (Part 1)" James Brown |
| #7519, aired 2017-04-27 | FROM PAGE TO SCREEN $200: His bestseller "Angels & Demons" was his second novel to hit the big screen Dan Brown |
| #7515, aired 2017-04-21 | ALMA MATERS $1000: Dan Brown, Harlan Coben & David O. Russell all attended this college in Emily Dickinson's home town Amherst |
| #7513, aired 2017-04-19 | POTLUCK $200: Shades of this color include fawn, russet & burnt umber brown |
| #7492, aired 2017-03-21 | PRETTY COLORS $600: This Ivy League school began as a Baptist institution for men & later adopted the name of its benefactor Brown University |
| #7487, aired 2017-03-14 | SHAKESPEAREAN BABY NAMES $400: Though the king was slain by Macbeth, you still might like this boy's name meaning "brown warrior" Duncan |
| #7475, aired 2017-02-24 | THE 1970s $800: 1978 saw the birth of Louise Brown, the first baby conceived this way abbreviated IVF in vitro fertilization |
| #7470, aired 2017-02-17 | GROUPS $1600: It follows "Zac Brown" Band |
| #7464, aired 2017-02-09 | TV NICKNAMES $1600: British actress Millie Bobby Brown got this numeric nickname on "Stranger Things" Eleven |
| #7453, aired 2017-01-25 | OVER HILL, OVER DALE $1600: Oliver Hill argued in lawsuits against segregated public schools, leading to this landmark 1954 Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education |
| #7451, aired 2017-01-23 | BOOKS BY PROFESSORS $1600: Illinois professor & librarian Dee Brown changed the field of Native American history with "Bury My Heart" here Wounded Knee |
| #7450, aired 2017-01-20 | A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN $400: Brown, Columbia, Cornell, plus 5 other schools the Ivy League |
| #7449, aired 2017-01-19 | ADJECTIVAL DESCRIPTION $400: We'll go to the dogs & say this adjective means given to prying, Charlie Brown! snoopy |
| #7441, aired 2017-01-09 | "G" CITIES $400: It's the football-mad seat of Brown County, Wisconsin Green Bay |
| #7433, aired 2016-12-28 | HISTORIC HOMES $400: A Victorian jewel in Denver is the home of this woman who survived the sinking of the Titanic Molly Brown |
| #7432, aired 2016-12-27 | GIVE A FIG $200: Figs come in a variety of skin colors including black, purple, brown & this one that sounds immature green |
| #7428, aired 2016-12-21 | THE DEL-TONES $1600: This title woman in a 1997 Tarantino film chooses to play the Delfonics during a scene with Robert Forster Jackie Brown |
| #7425, aired 2016-12-16 | THE ABOLITIONIST MOVEMENT $400: Willing to use violence for the abolitionist cause, he went to the gallows on December 2, 1859 John Brown |
| #7422, aired 2016-12-13 | HOLIDAY DUETS $1000: Good grief! Sarah McLachlan & Diana Krall dueted on this song 1st heard in "A Charlie Brown Christmas" "Christmas Time Is Here" |
| #7416, aired 2016-12-05 | GOING TO THE DOG'S BREED $400: Hey blockhead! Snoopy was this, Charlie Brown a beagle |
| #7412, aired 2016-11-29 | CORNERSTONES $4,400 (Daily Double): In 1770 statesman & merchant John Brown laid the cornerstone for this state's oldest university Rhode Island |
| #7408, aired 2016-11-23 | FAMILIAR PHRASES $600: Set Emeril, Wolfgang Puck & Alton Brown all to making vichyssoise & you'll sadly see the truth of this too many cooks spoil the broth |
| #7399, aired 2016-11-10 | GOOEY CENTERS $1000: Stuffed with cheese, these Jewish pancakes have been sautéed to a golden brown blintzes |
| #7396, aired 2016-11-07 | ART & ARTISTS $1600: As a type of ink, this brown pigment secreted by cuttlefish has been around since at least ancient Roman times sepia |
| #7394, aired 2016-11-03 | A NON-COMPOTE CLAUSE $200: Unlike compote, pie has this; the perfect one has been described as "wonderfully flaky, tender" & golden brown crust |
| #7391, aired 2016-10-31 | HALLOWEEN ENTERTAINMENT $800: "I got a rock" was Charlie Brown's lament in the 1966 TV special about this "Great" imaginary being the Great Pumpkin |
| #7389, aired 2016-10-27 | APOCALYPSE NOW $800: A virus could kill half of humanity if Robert Langdon can't remember his Dante in this 2016 film based on Dan Brown's novel Inferno |
| #7383, aired 2016-10-19 | FURNITURE $1600: A favorite material in America's federal period was this reddish-brown hardwood, often the Honduras type mahogany |
| #7379, aired 2016-10-13 | STATE YOUR CASE $400: 1954 saw Brown v. a board of education in this state Kansas |
| #7372, aired 2016-10-04 | LAZARUS $2000: "Lazarus Laughed", a 1928 play by this Pulitzer winner, was preceded by his similar "The Great God Brown" Eugene O'Neill |
| #7370, aired 2016-09-30 | ALLITERATION ALL AROUND $1600: Alton Brown's recipe for Welsh rarebit calls for 11/2 cups of this, shredded Cheddar cheese |
| #7369, aired 2016-09-29 | MICHIGAN HISTORY $1200: In 1925 Gertrude Brown was the first this pie fruit queen & Traverse City's annual festival was born cherry |
| #7366, aired 2016-09-26 | THE PRIOR WORLD LEADER $400: Before Gordon Brown, if you Labour to remember Tony Blair |
| #7355, aired 2016-07-29 | WORD ORIGINS $2000: French for "raw", it's the 4-letter name of a light grayish-yellowish-brown ecru |
| #7349, aired 2016-07-21 | MISCELLANEOUS $400: In "A Charlie Brown Christmas", Linus drops this & says "Fear not..." while explaining what the season is all about his (security) blanket |
| #7347, aired 2016-07-19 | SONG OF SOLOMON $400: Solomon Burke was the "Bishop" of this music style; James Brown was the "Godfather of" it soul |
| #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 $600: He illustrated "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" & "Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?" Eric Carle |
| #7345, aired 2016-07-15 | BOOK TO MOVIE $1600: Earning young Tatum O'Neal an Oscar: "Addie Pray" by Joe David Brown Paper Moon |
| #7340, aired 2016-07-08 | A PETITE DEJEUNER $800: This bite-size cereal from Kellogg's has flavors like frosted strawberry & maple brown sugar Mini-Wheats |
| #7338, aired 2016-07-06 | BOTANY $3,000 (Daily Double): In the early 19th century, Scottish botanist Robert Brown showed how grains of this could be used to classify plants pollen |
| #7337, aired 2016-07-05 | MONUMENTS & MEMORIALS $800: Akron, Ohio erected a monument to this abolitionist for the 50th anniversary of his hanging John Brown |
| #7336, aired 2016-07-04 | SHOW YOUR COLLEGE COLORS $1000: The name of this Alabama school is also a reddish-brown color, but its official colors are orange & blue Auburn |
| #7320, aired 2016-06-10 | LADIES & GENTLEMEN... THE BEETLES! $1600: The male of the American this beetle is a dark brown scarab, about 1 inch long, with a single upright horn a rhinoceros |
| #7315, aired 2016-06-03 | KANSAS CITY BARBEQUE $200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents from Arthur Bryant's Barbeque in Kansas City, MO.) Kansas City barbeque sauce is typically sweet & tangy: sweet from brown sugar &/or molasses, & tangy from this, usually the cider or white type vinegar |
| #7311, aired 2016-05-30 | 5-SYLLABLE WORDS $1600: John Brown, Levi Coffin or Sojourner Truth an abolitionist |
| #7302, aired 2016-05-17 | PEOPLE IN HISTORY $800: Shortly before his execution, this abolitionist wrote in a letter that he was "content to die for God's eternal truth" John Brown |
| #7292, aired 2016-05-03 | LESSER-KNOWN NAMES $1600: Hat's off to Bob Cob, owner of this iconic Hollywood restaurant where he created the Cobb salad the Brown Derby |
| #7290, aired 2016-04-29 | 19th CENTURY LITERATURE $200: Akela the wolf & Baloo the brown bear are 2 of the animals featured in this collection of stories The Jungle Book |
| #7288, aired 2016-04-27 | SWEET AISLE OF MINE $800: C&H or Domino is a good choice for this colorful stuff containing oodles of molasses brown sugar |
| #7280, aired 2016-04-15 | COUNTRY MUSIC $800: This man's band has been in perfect harmony since coming on the scene
"You're such beautiful drug /
I can't get enough /
Addicted and I'm dying /
For a hit of your love..." Zac Brown |
| #7273, aired 2016-04-06 | SHARED INITIALS $400: The No. 2 man in the executive branch & "Soul Brother Number 1" Joe Biden & James Brown |
| #7272, aired 2016-04-05 | OFFICIAL STATE ANIMALS $600: School kids in Montana chose this fierce brown bear to be the state's official animal a grizzly |
| #7266, aired 2016-03-28 | IT'S BROWN $200: Also a type of pants, this brown shade gets its name from the Urdu word for "dusty" khaki |
| #7266, aired 2016-03-28 | IT'S BROWN $400: Heat sugar or syrup until it turns brown & you get this flavoring & color caramel |
| #7266, aired 2016-03-28 | IT'S BROWN $600: Named for its cigar-like color, the Havana Brown is a breed of this animal a cat |
| #7266, aired 2016-03-28 | IT'S BROWN $800: Lending his name to a reddish-brown glaze, 16th century artist Piccolpasso "threw" together the earliest book on this craft pottery |
| #7266, aired 2016-03-28 | IT'S BROWN $1000: The tree & the resulting sideboard seen here give us the name of this reddish brown mahogany |
| #7258, aired 2016-03-16 | THIS IS MY PEOPLE $800: WWII code talker John Brown Jr. the Navajo |
| #7251, aired 2016-03-07 | 5-LETTER WORDS $800: A light brown color, or a type of port wine tawny |
| #7250, aired 2016-03-04 | ART CLASS $1200: In the 1870s Monet introduced the "rainbow" this, banning the colors black & brown from his work palette |
| #7235, aired 2016-02-12 | DORM FOOD $800: This brand's crunchy granola bars come in such flavors as oats 'n honey & maple brown sugar Nature Valley |
| #7226, aired 2016-02-01 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $400: Segregation was ruled unconstitutional in the case Brown v. the Board of Education of this city in Kansas Topeka |
| #7226, aired 2016-02-01 | POP SONGS OF 2015 $800: "Zero" was big for this singer, but domestic violence issues resulted in denial of his visa for a trip to Australia Chris Brown |
| #7224, aired 2016-01-28 | MURPHY! $400: The 93rd & last secretary working for this Candice Bergen sitcom character was played by Bette Midler Murphy Brown |
| #7214, aired 2016-01-14 | DOUBLE ANIMAL NAMES $800: The 3 French hens were a fine gift, as were the 2 of these reddish-brown ground feeders of the pigeon family turtledoves |
| #7206, aired 2016-01-04 | COLORULLY ALLITERATIVE $1200: Joe Louis was aka known as the Sepia Slugger & the Tan Tornado, but you probably know him best by this nickname the Brown Bomber |
| #7204, aired 2015-12-31 | DANIEL DAY-LEWIS ON FILM $800: Disabled artist Christy Brown My Left Foot |
| #7202, aired 2015-12-29 | TV SETTINGS $400: "The Americans" & "Murphy Brown": this city Washington D.C. |
| #7201, aired 2015-12-28 | HISTORICAL TRANSPORTS $800: Good grief! The Command Module & Lunar Module for Apollo 10 were named for these 2 characters Snoopy & Charlie Brown |
| #7199, aired 2015-12-24 | VAN THE MAN $800: Van's first solo single was the 1967 pop classic about this "girl" Brown Eyed Girl |
| #7198, aired 2015-12-23 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $1600: The subject of 52 G.K. Chesterton stories, this cleric had a simple face "as round and dull as a Norfolk dumpling" Father Brown |
| #7195, aired 2015-12-18 | THE ROMANTIC POETS $800: Keats was inspired to write an ode to this bird by the song of one that nested in Charles Brown's garden a nightingale |
| #7185, aired 2015-12-04 | COLORFUL EXPRESSIONS $1600: Dinner is a good time for these pre-prepped rolls named for their brief cook time brown'n serve |
| #7184, aired 2015-12-03 | THEY OWN IT $800: The trademark "Big Brown" UPS |
| #7182, aired 2015-12-01 | THE CALDECOTT MEDAL $200: 1955's medal went to Marcia Brown for the illustrations of this tale subtitled "Or, the Little Glass Slipper" Cinderella |
| #7178, aired 2015-11-25 | REMEMBER NOVEMBER $2000: This Virginia slave revolt leader was tried & convicted on Nov. 5, 1831 & executed on Nov. 11 Nat Turner |
| #7175, aired 2015-11-20 | MOVIE LINES, MADE TV-SAFE $1600: We don't think this "Jackie Brown" director had "Freeze, moldy fingers!" or "my mutual funded money" in his script Tarantino |
| #7170, aired 2015-11-13 | POP CULTURE $1600: 2015 marks 50 years of this TV special in which Linus quotes from the Gospel of Luke to enlighten his friends A Charlie Brown Christmas |
| #7168, aired 2015-11-11 | FASHION $800: This type of shoe is named for a girl in the "Buster Brown" comic strip Mary Jane |
| #7154, aired 2015-10-22 | AMERICAN HISTORY $200: This abolitionist's raid on Harpers Ferry made him a martyr to the antislavery cause John Brown |
| #7147, aired 2015-10-13 | SEUSSICAL TITLES $1000: A rhyming title: "Mr. Brown Can" do this! "Can You?" moo |
| #7141, aired 2015-10-05 | DON'T DRINK THE WATER $4,000 (Daily Double): In 1969 Time said, "Chocolate-brown, oily... it oozes rather than flows" after this Ohio river caught fire the Cuyahoga |
| #7136, aired 2015-09-28 | FROM PAGE TO MUSICAL $1,400 (Daily Double): Damon Runyon's story "The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown" rolled the dice as this musical Guys and Dolls |
| #7134, aired 2015-09-24 | LET'S HAVE EGGS $800: You're on your own, kid: the brown tree type of these reptiles doesn't incubate its eggs or care for its young a snake |
| #7131, aired 2015-09-21 | YIPES, MOTHER GOOSE $800: "Old Dame Dob... patched his nob, with vinegar and brown paper", his nob being his fractured skull Jack |
| #7117, aired 2015-07-21 | THE ART OF THE KISS $400: In the painting seen here, Ford Madox Brown depicted this literary pair on a balcony Romeo & Juliet |
| #7112, aired 2015-07-14 | BROWNIAN NOTIONS $400: He soulfully sang it's a "man's world, but it wouldn't be nothing, nothing without a woman or a girl" James Brown |
| #7112, aired 2015-07-14 | BROWNIAN NOTIONS $800: Referring to the nickname "Governor Moonbeam", he says "I've earned that moniker" Jerry Brown |
| #7112, aired 2015-07-14 | BROWNIAN NOTIONS $1200: He said he knew "slave-holders" would not give up their slaves "till they felt a big stick about their heads" John Brown |
| #7112, aired 2015-07-14 | BROWNIAN NOTIONS $1600: Before becoming U.K. prime minister, he said economic & "environmental objectives now... reinforce each other" Gordon Brown |
| #7112, aired 2015-07-14 | BROWNIAN NOTIONS $2000: She ran Vanity Fair & the Daily Beast but said, "I didn't see myself as an editor. I wanted to be a playwright" Tina Brown |
| #7109, aired 2015-07-09 | THAT'S JUST SAD $800: It's a 5-letter word meaning "keen distress", Charlie Brown! Good...! grief |
| #7109, aired 2015-07-09 | THE ARTFUL ROGER $1200: Imagist painter Roger Brown also did set design for productions like this composer's "Cosi Fan Tutte" Mozart |
| #7103, aired 2015-07-01 | NICE PACKAGE $600: In a song from "The Sound of Music", "Brown paper packages tied up with strings" are a few of these title objects "My Favorite Things" |
| #7091, aired 2015-06-15 | LIVES OF THE SCIENTISTS $1600: It's a chemist, Charlie Brown! In 1931 this American published his classic text "The Nature of the Chemical Bond" Linus Pauling |
| #7090, aired 2015-06-12 | KNOW YOUR PRODUCE $1000: (Kelly puts an avocado in a brown paper bag.) You probably know that placing an avocado in a brown paper bag makes it ripen quicker; that's because the bag traps this gas, C2H4, that helps fruits to ripen ethylene |
| #7085, aired 2015-06-05 | HOME ON THE RANGE $2000: One of the mother sauces, brown sauce also goes by this more sophisticated ethnic name sauce espagnole |
| #7084, aired 2015-06-04 | WRITERS FIRST NAME'S THE SAME $800: Wise Brown &
Atwood Margaret |
| #7083, aired 2015-06-03 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN PERFORMERS $400: In 1962 James Brown recorded a live album in this NYC theater opened in 1914 the Apollo |
| #7077, aired 2015-05-26 | THE MOVIES $400: Ben Whishaw voiced this Peruvian bear, lost in London & taken in by the Brown family Paddington |
| #7067, aired 2015-05-12 | 5 BEARS $800: California governors who are UC Bears: Earl Warren, Pete Wilson & this current one (Jerry) Brown |
| #7056, aired 2015-04-27 | WHIP SMART $2,000 (Daily Double): In 1999 this film character's whip joined his fedora & brown leather jacket in the Smithosonian Indiana Jones |
| #7055, aired 2015-04-24 | LET'S GO OLD SCHOOL! $800: The main campus of this "colorful" university that moved to Providence in 1770 sits on College Hill Brown |
| #7050, aired 2015-04-17 | COLORFUL ENTERTAINMENT $1600: In a Halloween TV special, some kids got candy, but this kid? "I got a rock" Charlie Brown |
| #7048, aired 2015-04-15 | A MIXED BAG OF MIXED BAGS $400: Colorful term for bringing your own lunch to work brown-bagging |
| #7038, aired 2015-04-01 | SOUL $200: This soul showman will never be forgotten, & is the subject of the movie bio "Get On Up" James Brown |
| #7035, aired 2015-03-27 | ASIAN AMERICANS $1200: The son of immigrants from India, this state governor got an Ivy League education at Brown University Bobby Jindal |
| #7025, aired 2015-03-13 | ADVERTISING & MARKETING $800: At Heinz Field in 2009, this ex-NFL star received the Clio Advertising Award for a TV ad that first aired 30 years before "Mean Joe" Greene |
| #7022, aired 2015-03-10 | CALIFORNIA, HERE YOU COME! $200: In 1959 Pat Brown added a pool to the governor's mansion in this city; as governor his son refused to live in the house Sacramento |
| #7018, aired 2015-03-04 | REMEMBERING LAUREN BACALL $1600: In 1964 Lauren played a bickering wife in the film based on this Helen Gurley Brown bestseller Sex and the Single Girl |
| #7010, aired 2015-02-20 | QUEEN VICTORIA $1600: Queen Victoria was buried with a picture of this devoted personal servant & a lock of his hair John Brown |
| #7009, aired 2015-02-19 | JUST KIDDING $600: A. Whitney Brown: "I'm a" this "not because I love animals, but because I hate plants" a vegetarian |
| #7008, aired 2015-02-18 | OCEANOGRAPHY $800: Wakame, an invasive form of this brown seaweed, is threatening native species in the San Francisco Bay kelp |
| #7008, aired 2015-02-18 | TV EATERIES & DRINKERIES $800: Phil's, where Candice Bergen & the gang went before or after "F.Y.I." Murphy Brown |
| #7007, aired 2015-02-17 | BOOK BUILDING $1600: This debut novel from Dan Brown featured brilliant & beautiful mathematician Susan Fletcher Digital Fortress |
| #7003, aired 2015-02-11 | TV TEACHERS $200: We don't see how the unintelligible Miss Othmar taught anything to this "Peanuts" title boy in animated specials Charlie Brown |
| #7000, aired 2015-02-06 | NON-BLONDES HAVE MORE FUN $1200: She's a success as a singer & actress, & we're gonna miss her by her brown hair, gonna miss her everywhere (Anna) Kendrick |
| #6994, aired 2015-01-29 | ITALIAN CITIES & TOWNS $1200: The earth from this Tuscan city lent its name to a yellow-brown pigment & a "burnt" reddish-brown one Siena |
| #6983, aired 2015-01-14 | THE 19th CENTURY $1200: Not a fan of abolitionists, he was a volunteer in the militia at the hanging of John Brown John Wilkes Booth |
| #6980, aired 2015-01-09 | THIS ONE'S FOR THE LADIES $600: After a tragic 1912 boat trip taken to visit an ailing grandson, the woman born Margaret Tobin was known as this Unsinkable Molly Brown |
| #6980, aired 2015-01-09 | ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY $5,000 (Daily Double): This man who argued Brown v. Board of Education before the Supreme Court is buried in section 5 Thurgood Marshall |
| #6979, aired 2015-01-08 | BODY CHECK $400: This reddish-brown gland weighs 3 pounds & sits in the upper right part of the abdomen the liver |
| #6979, aired 2015-01-08 | COLORFUL ANAGRAMS $2000: A yellow-brown color named for a Tuscan city becomes a crazy word sienna & insane |
| #6971, aired 2014-12-29 | ART & HISTORY $1600: Mather Brown's depiction of the Battle of the Nile vividly shows this admiral's victory over the French Nelson |
| #6971, aired 2014-12-29 | ART & HISTORY $4,000 (Daily Double): Thomas Hovenden depicted an 1859 scene from U.S. history in the last moments of this man (John) Brown |
| #6969, aired 2014-12-25 | ____ LAW $400: cornell.edu lists Brown v. Board of Education as a decision in this field of law that's named for a document constitutional |
| #6965, aired 2014-12-19 | @midnight $800: Tony Horwitz' "Midnight Rising" dealt with this man "and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War" John Brown |
| #6962, aired 2014-12-16 | ERNIE $800: In 1961 Ernie Davis of Syracuse won this trophy; no African American had before, not even Ernie's idol Jim Brown the Heisman |
| #6956, aired 2014-12-08 | CLOSE-UP $2000: Here's the mighty left foot of this Irish artist Christy Brown |
| #6955, aired 2014-12-05 | FRUITS, VEGETABLES & CAKES $2000: Looking like a brown egg with a covering of fine downy hair, this fruit is featured in the dessert Pavlova kiwi |
| #6948, aired 2014-11-26 | AMERICANA $1000: This boy & his dog Tige were major cartoon characters before becoming mascots for kids' shoes Buster Brown |
| #6946, aired 2014-11-24 | REALITY SHOW TITLES $1000: Featuring Kody Brown & his 4 spouses:
"____ ____" Sister Wives |
| #6944, aired 2014-11-20 | BOOKS & ARTHURS $600: In kids' books by Marc Brown, Arthur is one of these animals aardvark |
| #6944, aired 2014-11-20 | THE RECKONING $1600: The first words of an article called "John Brown's Day of Reckoning" are this place in the Blue Ridge Mountains Harper's Ferry |
| #6935, aired 2014-11-07 | AGES & ERAS $400: Kodiak bears were isolated from the brown bears of the mainland since the last of these about 12,000 years ago an ice age |
| #6922, aired 2014-10-21 | THE STEAKS $1000: A 19th century doctor invented this oval beef patty "steak" served in brown sauce & prescribed it to ward off gout Salisbury steak (hamburger) |
| #6918, aired 2014-10-15 | THE NATIONAL RECORDING REGISTRY $2000: This pianist's trio introduced jazz to millions of new fans with the soundtrack to "A Charlie Brown Christmas" Vince Guaraldi |
| #6909, aired 2014-10-02 | NFL THURSDAY: THE STARTING LINEUP $600: This Harvard graduate and Emmy winner was also named "Best Studio Host of the Decade" for 2001 to 2010 James Brown |
| #6902, aired 2014-09-23 | LITTLE RHODY $400: In 2011 this Ivy League school sold Jerimoth Hill, the state's highest point at 812 feet, to the state Brown University |
| #6901, aired 2014-09-22 | EDUCATION $800: In 1901 Stanley Brown & William Harper established the first of these 2-year community colleges, in Joliet, Illinois junior colleges |
| #6900, aired 2014-09-19 | THE DOONESBURY GROUP $1200: In 1979, the California institute for the Mellow welcomed this governor of the state, who was back in office 35 years later (Jerry) Brown |
| #6899, aired 2014-09-18 | RUNNING THE MAGAZINE $800: Here's a quiz: Helen Gurley Brown edited this magazine for 32 years, until 1997 Cosmopolitan |
| #6897, aired 2014-09-16 | WORD ORIGINS $800: This light brown candy may take its name from the Arabic kurat al milh, meaning "ball of sweet salt" caramel |
| #6897, aired 2014-09-16 | POP MUSIC $1200: In 1965 we learned from him that Papa had acquired a "Brand New Bag"; in 1974, that he "Don't Take No Mess" James Brown |
| #6896, aired 2014-09-15 | THOSE ARE SOME BIG SHOES $1000: After filling Ted Kennedy's shoes in Mass., this man decided to try out Jeanne Shaheen's senatorial ones in New Hampshire Scott Brown |
| #6890, aired 2014-07-25 | HUE $800: Coffee &
cinnamon brown |
| #6879, aired 2014-07-10 | A THOREAU UNDERSTANDING $600: An 1859 plea for this radical abolitionist asks, "When were the good and the brave ever in a majority?" John Brown |
| #6879, aired 2014-07-10 | MUSICAL MEDICOS $800: The title of this song from "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown" is on Lucy's psychiatry booth sign "The Doctor Is In" |
| #6874, aired 2014-07-03 | MR. SECRETARY $1600: On April 4, 1996 the NYSE closed for a minute in memory of Ron Brown, who was this Cabinet secretary Secretary of Commerce |
| #6870, aired 2014-06-27 | THE BAND THAT MADE ME FAMOUS $800: Bobby Brown New Edition |
| #6867, aired 2014-06-24 | COLORFUL SPORTS $1000: The only coach to win both an NCAA title & an NBA title, he took over the SMU basketball team in 2012 (Larry) Brown |
| #6864, aired 2014-06-19 | LITERARY GEMS $2000: By Rita Mae Brown:
"____fruit Jungle" Ruby |
| #6861, aired 2014-06-16 | BENS & JERRYS $1600: His state's youngest governor of the 20th century, he was elected its oldest in 2010 Jerry Brown |
| #6860, aired 2014-06-13 | THESAURUS WORDS $1600: A spud, or reddish-brown color Russet |
| #6856, aired 2014-06-09 | CARIBBEAN CUISINE $400: Gizzada is a popular Jamaican tart made with a filling of brown sugar, nutmeg, butter & this grated palm fruit coconut |
| #6853, aired 2014-06-04 | I'M A CHANGED MAN! $1000: This Kafka guy awakes to find he has an armor-plated back, a domelike brown belly & numerous legs Gregor Samsa |
| #6848, aired 2014-05-28 | PIN THE TALE ON THE DONKEY $1,200 (Daily Double): Not quite Rocinante, the mount used by this character is a brown donkey Sancho Panza |
| #6837, aired 2014-05-13 | RECENT NOVELS $600: Robert Langdon feels the burn dealing with a riddle involving Dante's "Inferno" in an offering from this author Dan Brown |
| #6831, aired 2014-05-05 | A WORD TO THE "I"s $400: A dull yellowish brown, or the cloth used to make uniforms khaki |
| #6830, aired 2014-05-02 | THE 4 Rs $400: Check out the site of John Brown's fort at this national historic park Harper's Ferry |
| #6825, aired 2014-04-25 | WORDS OF PAIN $200: Painful mourning; how could Charlie Brown ever say it was "good"? grief |
| #6825, aired 2014-04-25 | RECENT HISTORY $400: (Justice Sandra Day O'Connor delivers the clue.) The Court's legacy of civil rights cases includes Brown v. Board of Education & also Grutter v. Bollinger, a decision I wrote for the court allowing this race-conscious practice in law school admissions affirmative action |
| #6804, aired 2014-03-27 | COLLEGE FOOTBALL COACHES $800: The eyes of this university are upon Mack Brown & have seen him win more than 150 games Texas |
| #6804, aired 2014-03-27 | NURSERY RHYMES $800: Jack of Jack & Jill got his head patched with these 2 things vinegar & brown paper |
| #6802, aired 2014-03-25 | "SNOW" JOB $800: This large-footed mammal, Lepus americanus, has white fur in the winter & brown fur in the summer the snowshoe hare |
| #6792, aired 2014-03-11 | GUINNESS RECORDS 2014 $400: Britain's James Brown "cleans up" with his 322-strong collection of these electrical appliances vacuums |
| #6788, aired 2014-03-05 | THAT MOVIE'S GENIUS $400: Doc Brown created the flux capacitor, which is what makes time travel possible, in this film Back to the Future |
| #6784, aired 2014-02-27 | STATE BIRDS $1600: The Eastern brown pelican is this state's bird Louisiana |
| #6781, aired 2014-02-24 | DON'T SONGS $400: A 1956 No. 1 hit for Elvis & a Top 10 hit for Bobby Brown share this title "Don't Be Cruel" |
| #6777, aired 2014-02-18 | CELEBRITIES & THE LAW $1000: In 2013 Chris Brown was sentenced to 1,000 hours of this type of service community service |
| #6774, aired 2014-02-13 | STATE GOVERNORS $800: This Californian has served as governor on 2 occasions, both times succeeding an actor Jerry Brown |
| #6769, aired 2014-02-06 | GRANDSON OF WOOD $600: The AKC's standard says the color of an Irish Setter should be chestnut red or the reddish brown of this wood mahogany |
| #6768, aired 2014-02-05 | WE LOVE PLANET EARTH $600: North Dakota is a leading producer of this low-grade brown coal lignite |
| #6763, aired 2014-01-29 | THE PREVIOUS WORLD LEADER $400: Gordon Brown finally got his turn after this man left Tony Blair |
| #6756, aired 2014-01-20 | BRIT FOOD $2000: A Scotch this is boiled, wrapped in sausage & deep fried until golden brown egg |
| #6753, aired 2014-01-15 | I'D LIKE A SOFT DRINK $1000: A Detroit pharmacist created the Vernors brand of this soft drink in 1866 ginger ale |
| #6749, aired 2014-01-09 | KIDDY LIT $2000: While spending his school days at Rugby, this title student is harassed by Flashman, the school bully Tom Brown |
| #6745, aired 2014-01-03 | NAME THAT FOOD! $1200: Sautéed in a mix of rum, brown sugar & banana liqueur & poured over vanilla ice cream, go Bananas this! Foster |
| #6745, aired 2014-01-03 | PARTS OF SPEECH $1600: Polysyndeton is the repetition of this part of speech for effect, as in "It was red and yellow and green and brown" a conjunction |
| #6741, aired 2013-12-30 | FLYERS & FLYING $200: In 1919 John Alcock & Arthur Brown made the first nonstop one of these flights; Lindbergh's in '27 was the first solo trans-Atlantic |
| #6733, aired 2013-12-18 | D.C. TV $600: Candice Bergen spent a decade playing this title Washington, D.C. reporter Murphy Brown |
| #6730, aired 2013-12-13 | A CASE OF WRITER'S BLOCK $1200: Hanging upside-down in gravity boots helps this "Da Vinci Code" author relax & defeat the block Dan Brown |
| #6728, aired 2013-12-11 | SALAD $800: This salad with chopped turkey, bacon, tomatoes & hard-boiled eggs is named for the owner of the Brown Derby a Cobb salad |
| #6723, aired 2013-12-04 | ON THE ROCKS $200: More than 7 billion tons of this black or brown energy-producing rock are used worldwide every year coal |
| #6719, aired 2013-11-28 | SHOW BIZ STUPID ANSWERS $600: "The Cleveland Show", which follows a guy named Cleveland Brown & his family, was spun off from this series Family Guy |
| #6711, aired 2013-11-18 | SHORT STORIES $800: Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown" of this village leaves his wife, Faith, to a attend a witches' Sabbath Salem |
| #6710, aired 2013-11-15 | NOTED PERSONALITIES IN THE WORLD ALMANAC $1200: "Abolitionist who led murder of 5 proslavery men; hanged" John Brown |
| #6709, aired 2013-11-14 | COLOR TV $400: "Murphy ____" Murphy Brown |
| #6708, aired 2013-11-13 | T.P., YOUR HOUSE $1000: Tony Parker, your house in this state contained an autographed MJ jersey until one of your security men swiped it Texas |
| #6708, aired 2013-11-13 | JOURNALISTS $1200: The former editor of Vanity Fair, she served as editor-in-chief of both Newsweek & The Daily Beast Tina Brown |
| #6703, aired 2013-11-06 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $800: This Rhode Island school's Van Wickle Gates open twice a year -- inward for incoming freshman and outward for commencement Brown |
| #6694, aired 2013-10-24 | WHAT'S ON YOUR iPOD? $800: (Hi, I'm CCH Pounder.) My iPod's got soul--specifically, this "Godfather of Soul", & his 1968 Top 10 hit "Say It Loud--I'm Black And I'm Proud" James Brown |
| #6691, aired 2013-10-21 | WELL, I'M WARM-BLOODED $1000: Melospiza melodia is the song type of this small, common brown bird a sparrow |
| #6684, aired 2013-10-10 | POP CULTURE $800: On her "Unapologetic" CD, she did a duet with Chris Brown called "Nobody's Business" Rihanna |
| #6675, aired 2013-09-27 | THE BEAR ESSENTIALS $1,000 (Daily Double): 3,500 of this subspecies of brown bear live on the Alaska archipelago of the same name the Kodiak |
| #6675, aired 2013-09-27 | THE BEAR ESSENTIALS $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from Alaska.) Black bears prefer to fish for food while remaining as dry as possible, unlike the brown bear that develops superb fishing skills for this migrating fish, a staple in their diet the salmon |
| #6675, aired 2013-09-27 | THE BEAR ESSENTIALS $1600: AKA silvertip for the white hairs on its brown coat, this bear can eat 90 pounds of food a day a grizzly bear |
| #6673, aired 2013-09-25 | POLITICAL BEFORE & AFTER $800: California's governor gets delicious as a "feminine" dessert made with apples & bread crumbs Jerry Brown Betty |
| #6658, aired 2013-07-24 | RECENTLY UNEARTHED CIVIL WAR LETTERS? $800: My taste buds have been amputated, Ida, yet I yearn for your pies with this insect name with brown sugar, molasses & butter shoo-fly |
| #6654, aired 2013-07-18 | BUSINESS HISTORIES $2,000 (Daily Double): In 1916 Pullman Brown was chosen as the color of this company's vehicles UPS |
| #6652, aired 2013-07-16 | AUTOBIOGRAPHIES $800: Inspiring a movie, it's the anatomical title of paralyzed artist Christy Brown's autobiography My Left Foot |
| #6649, aired 2013-07-11 | MORE THAN AN ATHLETE $800: Amer-I-Can, founded by this 1960s Cleveland running back, has been helping inner-city kids for 25 years Jim Brown |
| #6644, aired 2013-07-04 | 4-LETTER FISH $1600: The smallmouth species of this is also called a bronzeback due to its brown hue bass |
| #6634, aired 2013-06-20 | 99 $800: "The Mystery of the 99 Steps" is solved by this young detective Nancy Drew |
| #6631, aired 2013-06-17 | TALK ABOUT THE WEATHER $1,000 (Daily Double): T.S. Eliot wrote, "under the brown" one of these "of a winter dawn, a crowd flowed over London Bridge" "fog" |
| #6629, aired 2013-06-13 | THE NFL $400: The Jungle Zone is open at Paul Brown stadium before this team's home games the Bengals |
| #6629, aired 2013-06-13 | SCOTLAND $1600: He's the most recent U.K. prime minister born in Scotland Brown |
| #6628, aired 2013-06-12 | AMERICAN FOOD & DRINK $600: Paging this soda brand, a deli favorite that comes in flavors like Cream, Black Cherry & the ever-popular Cel-Ray Dr. Brown |
| #6626, aired 2013-06-10 | BETTER FOLLOW ME $200: This leader of the rejuvenated Labour Party followed John Major as British prime minister (Tony) Blair |
| #6623, aired 2013-06-05 | FIRST NAMES IN THE DICTIONARY $800: A shade of brown, like Crayola's burnt & raw crayons sienna |
| #6612, aired 2013-05-21 | URBAN LIT $200: Paule Marshall's 1950s growing-up tale "Brown Girl, Brownstones" is set in this metropolis New York City |
| #6604, aired 2013-05-09 | IT'S MAY $600: On the night of May 24, 1856 5 members of this man's family killed 5 Kansans to promote abolitionism (John) Brown |
| #6600, aired 2013-05-03 | THE BIG "BOARD" $1,400 (Daily Double): In the 1950s the Brown family took on this Topeka organization in the Supreme Court the Board of Education |
| #6598, aired 2013-05-01 | RING MAGAZINE'S GREATEST TITLE FIGHTS $1000: The 1941 bout between Billy Conn & this "Brown Bomber" Joe Louis |
| #6597, aired 2013-04-30 | 3 "T"s $1000: The "Joy of Cooking" recipe for this flavor pudding includes dark brown sugar & heavy cream but not liquor butterscotch |
| #6589, aired 2013-04-18 | THEY RAN FOR PRESIDENT $200: He's a governor now, but here's how he looked running for president in 1976 Jerry Brown |
| #6577, aired 2013-04-02 | GOOD & BAD MUSIC $400: Jim Croce hit No. 1 with a song about this title guy, "the baddest man in the whole damn town" "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown" |
| #6577, aired 2013-04-02 | "AND" BOOKS FOR SHORT $400: Dan Brown:
"A. and D." Angels and Demons |
| #6559, aired 2013-03-07 | A HORSE OF A DIFFERENT COLOR $1200: Tan or brown horses with black points on the mane, tail & ears are this type, like a coastal indentation bay |
| #6558, aired 2013-03-06 | ALASKAN WILDLIFE $200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew observes a bear at Pavlof Harbor in Alaska.) Despite their name, brown bears can have black or brown fur, & the brown bear here has a conspicuous shoulder hump & silver-tinted fur, which gives it this name, meaning "gray," not "gruesome" grizzly |
| #6556, aired 2013-03-04 | EDIBLE BEFORE & AFTER $1600: Charlie Brown's gal pal is a hamburger with Swiss cheese & onions served on grilled rye Peppermint Patty melt |
| #6552, aired 2013-02-26 | ATHLETES' FILM QUOTES $2000: "The Dirty Dozen":
"That's your war, man, not mine. You don't like the krauts, Major? You fight them" (Jim) Brown |
| #6548, aired 2013-02-20 | INSECT EATERS $400: The little brown species of this flying mammal can eat up to 1,000 mosquitoes in an hour a bat |
| #6544, aired 2013-02-14 | PIN THE TALE ON THE WRITER $2000: "Young Goodman Brown"
(1835) Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| #6538, aired 2013-02-06 | MAY "B" $600: A European brown bear (who dreams of going to UCLA?) a bruin |
| #6537, aired 2013-02-05 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $400: He's the abolitionist pictured here a few years before his raid on an arsenal & his hanging John Brown |
| #6537, aired 2013-02-05 | A STUDENT OF HISTORY $1200: After this Brown University history major worked as a college sports commentator, he would. Go. All. The. Way to ESPN Chris Berman |
| #6534, aired 2013-01-31 | BREAKFAST CEREALS $200: This Kellogg's cereal also comes in a gluten-free variety made with brown rice--but still with the same beloved sound Rice Krispies |
| #6532, aired 2013-01-29 | WE'RE PULLING 3 Gs $1000: Alton Brown's recipe for this Christmastime beverage includes Bourbon eggnog |
| #6525, aired 2013-01-18 | HORRIFYINGLY REAL MOTHER GOOSE $800: He "broke his crown", but Old Dame Dob just "patched his nob with vinegar and brown paper" Jack |
| #6504, aired 2012-12-20 | NEWS OF THE 20-TWEENS $400: On May 11, 2010 this "colorful" guy tendered his resignation as British prime minister Gordon Brown |
| #6502, aired 2012-12-18 | "BLOCK" PARTY $400: It was Lucy's usual term of non-endearment directed at Charlie Brown Blockhead |
| #6501, aired 2012-12-17 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $600: Bugs Meany is often the villain in the stories about this young detective who was introduced in 1963 Encyclopedia Brown |
| #6498, aired 2012-12-12 | BREAD $400: This U.S. city precedes "brown" in the name of a sweet, dark steamed bread Boston |
| #6490, aired 2012-11-30 | CLASSIFICATION IS IN $2000: The difference between white & brown rice is that white has had this fibrous & nutritious part removed germ (or the bran) |
| #6488, aired 2012-11-28 | THE OAKLAND "B"s $400: In between stints as California's governor, he served 2 terms as Oakland's mayor Jerry Brown |
| #6486, aired 2012-11-26 | CHICAGO THE BEAUTIFUL $200: (First Lady Michelle Obama presents the clue.) I grew up on this side of Chicago that according to the song "Bad Bad Leroy Brown" is the baddest part of town the south side |
| #6483, aired 2012-11-21 | THAT IS THE QUESTION $1200: In a kids' book by Bill Martin Jr. & Eric Carle, this question follows "Brown Bear, Brown Bear" "What do you see?" |
| #6483, aired 2012-11-21 | "THE" TV SHOW $2000: will.i.am & T-Pain were far from "turrible" as guest voices on this Fox animated show about Mr. Brown The Cleveland Show |
| #6479, aired 2012-11-15 | THE JUNIOR VARSITY $800: Charles Black Jr. helped write the brief for this 10-year-old girl challenging segregation in Topeka (Linda) Brown |
| #6475, aired 2012-11-09 | STARTS WITH A FARM ANIMAL $1200: Reddish-brown dye used in temporary tattoos henna |
| #6473, aired 2012-11-07 | LOVE & MARRIAGE $1200: She wrote "Sex & the Single Girl" early in her 51 years as a married girl, to producer David Brown Helen Gurley Brown |
| #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 |
| #6461, aired 2012-10-22 | HERE'S 2 "U"! $600: The name of this reddish-brown color actually comes from the Latin word for "white" auburn |
| #6458, aired 2012-10-17 | LIVING IN TENTS $800: Showman J. Purdy Brown was the first to use this type of enclosure, in 1825 as he traveled around entertaining a circus tent |
| #6450, aired 2012-10-05 | MISSOURI LOVES COMPANIES $800: The brands of Brown Shoe Company, based in St. Louis, naturally include this little boy Buster Brown |
| #6449, aired 2012-10-04 | WE GOVERNED THAT STATE $200: Pat Brown,
Pete Wilson California |
| #6447, aired 2012-10-02 | THE WALKING DEAD $600: Sam Wheat says, whoopi! Oda Mae Brown can hear me even though I'm the title character in this 1990 film Ghost |
| #6444, aired 2012-09-27 | THE CALIFORNIANS $400: Shyah! This Chief Justice known for his "Commission" spoke for the court in Brown v. Board of Education, y'know? (Earl) Warren |
| #6441, aired 2012-09-24 | NUTRITION FROM COOKING LIGHT $600: Use brown rice instead of white & you add this, aka roughage, making you feel full faster fiber |
| #6438, aired 2012-09-19 | THEIR DEBUT NOVELS $1000: "Digital Fortress"
(1998) Dan Brown |
| #6436, aired 2012-09-17 | "A" IN LITERATURE $1000: Theodore Dreiser based this novel on the case of Chester Gillette, who murdered Grace Brown on Big Moose Lake An American Tragedy |
| #6433, aired 2012-08-01 | CRAYOLA COLORS $1600: Umber's been retired; the 2 "burnt" colors are orange & this sienna |
| #6427, aired 2012-07-24 | ANAGRAMMED 21st CENTURY LEADERS $800: The United Kingdom:
WRONG ORB NOD Gordon Brown |
| #6425, aired 2012-07-20 | BIRDS OF A FEATHER $2,200 (Daily Double): Little spotted,
North Island brown,
South Island brown kiwis |
| #6424, aired 2012-07-19 | 5 NOT ALL DEADLY "CIN"s $800: Reddish brown; it's a spice, girls cinnamon |
| #6415, aired 2012-07-06 | COLOR TV $1600: Even after selling one of his paintings for $1 million, Eldin worked on the house of this '90s sitcom title woman Murphy Brown |
| #6408, aired 2012-06-27 | NATURE $400: Pond scum is composed of green & brown forms of these simple organisms algae |
| #6404, aired 2012-06-21 | LIBROS POR NIÑOS $200: Margaret Wise Brown:
"Buenas Noches, Luna" Goodnight Moon |
| #6394, aired 2012-06-07 | COLORFUL LYRICS FROM COLORFUL SONGS $2000: "Gold coast slave ship bound for cotton fields, sold in a market down in New Orleans" "Brown Sugar" |
| #6381, aired 2012-05-21 | FAMOUS IVY LEAGUERS $800: He graduated from Brown as an honors playwright before getting into acting playing Jim Halpert John Krasinski |
| #6371, aired 2012-05-07 | THEME PARK FUN $200: At Knott's Berry Farm, there's an area full of rides just for kids called Camp this, after Charlie Brown's beagle Snoopy |
| #6366, aired 2012-04-30 | SWEET STUFF $400: It's sugar cooked until it melts & turns brown; butterscotch is similar, but with the addition of butter caramel |
| #6365, aired 2012-04-27 | NOVELTY SONG LYRICS $1600: 1959:
"Fe-fe, fi-fi,
fo-fo, fum,
I smell
smoke in
the auditorium" "Charlie Brown" |
| #6360, aired 2012-04-20 | THE ACLU $1600: In 1952 the ACLU filed a brief supporting the NAACP in this Supreme Court case decided 2 years later Brown v. The Board of Education |
| #6343, aired 2012-03-28 | COLORFUL BOOKS $1000: G.K. Chesterton wrote many stories featuring this priest/sleuth Father Brown |
| #6342, aired 2012-03-27 | ANIMALS IN CHILDREN'S BOOKS $800: Corduroy: a brown one, wearing green overalls a bear |
| #6341, aired 2012-03-26 | FAMOUS MENUS $1200: The August 23, 1941 menu from this Hollywood eatery named for a colored hat offered a 95-cent tenderloin steak the Brown Derby |
| #6338, aired 2012-03-21 | PUBLISHER, PAIR-ISH $800: Louisa May Alcott & James Patterson were published by Little, this Brown |
| #6336, aired 2012-03-19 | "YOU" ROCK $2000: "So I took what I could get, yes I took what I could get, & then she looked at me with those big brown eyes & said" this "You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet" |
| #6333, aired 2012-03-14 | IVY LEAGUE SCHOOLS $400: Founded in Warren, Rhode Island, it moved to Providence in 1770 Brown |
| #6323, aired 2012-02-29 | ABOLITIONISTS $200: On October 16, 1859 he & his followers slashed telegraph wires at Harpers Ferry to cut the town off from the outside world John Brown |
| #6309, aired 2012-02-09 | NONFICTION $1000: Dee Brown's classic "Indian History of the American West" is called "Bury my Heart at" this place Wounded Knee |
| #6307, aired 2012-02-07 | DOG POUNDS $1600: 55-80 pounds:
The English this, not usually red-brown like the breed from a nearby island setter |
| #6302, aired 2012-01-31 | GIANTS $400: In "Jack and the Beanstalk", Jack stole from the giant a little brown hen that laid these golden eggs |
| #6302, aired 2012-01-31 | EDITORS $800: In November 2010 Tina Brown was announced as the editor-in-chief of this current events magazine founded in 1933 Newsweek |
| #6298, aired 2012-01-25 | THE BAND IS REALLY COOKING $1200: In a No. 1 country hit, the Zac Brown Band sings, "You know I like my chicken" cooked this way "Fried" |
| #6293, aired 2012-01-18 | HISTORIC DATES $400: On May 17, 1954 the Supreme Court ruled on this case, unanimously outlawing public school segregation Brown v. the Board of Education |
| #6288, aired 2012-01-11 | CELEBRITIES' MIDDLE NAMES $200: The L. in Samuel L. Jackson stands for this, like a certain bad, bad Mr. Brown of song Leroy |
| #6287, aired 2012-01-10 | COMIC STRIPS $200: Aaugh! This comic strip character was torn between a summer camp flame named Peggy Jean & the little red-haired girl Charlie Brown |
| #6287, aired 2012-01-10 | SOUNDS LIKE A CAPITAL CITY $800: A light yellow-brown; perfect color for an envelope, I say manila |
| #6285, aired 2012-01-06 | I WANT MY "BABY" BACK, "BABY" BACK $400: Louise Brown's arrival in 1978 made her the first successful one of these in vitro creations a test tube baby |
| #6279, aired 2011-12-29 | I THINK I LOVE SHOE $800: Named for a Buster Brown girl, this low-heeled, patent leather slipper has a single strap over the instep a Mary Jane |
| #6278, aired 2011-12-28 | ORANGE YOU HUNGRY? $400: If you separate out these rhyming candies, you'll get about half orange ones, 1/4 brown & 1/4 yellow Reese's Pieces |
| #6275, aired 2011-12-23 | ANIMAL TYPES $600: Hoffmann's two-toed &
brown-throated three-toed a sloth |
| #6273, aired 2011-12-21 | CLASSIC CINEMA $400: For this 1948 film Laurence Olivier dyed his brown hair blond to look more Danish Hamlet |
| #6267, aired 2011-12-13 | PRIME MINISTERS $200: Prior to becoming Britain's prime minister in 2007, he was Chancellor of the Exchequer (Gordon) Brown |
| #6262, aired 2011-12-06 | HATS ENTERTAINMENT $800: In 1989 this movie character's trademark brown fedora was donated to the Smithsonian Indiana Jones |
| #6245, aired 2011-11-11 | TERMS OF ART $400: This golden-brown tint from a marine animal is applied to black & white images to give them an antique look sepia |
| #6218, aired 2011-10-05 | SONGS ABOUT GIRLS $800: Van Morrison wistfully recalled "Makin' love in the green grass, behind the stadium with you, my" this title female brown eyed girl |
| #6217, aired 2011-10-04 | EMMY-WINNING GUEST APPEARANCES $800: FYI, Colleen Dewhurst won 2 Emmys for playing Candice Bergen's mom on this sitcom Murphy Brown |
| #6212, aired 2011-09-27 | NATURE STUDY $600: In North America many spiders harm humans with their bites, including this brown one whose name means "hermit" recluse |
| #6203, aired 2011-07-27 | TRIAL PARTICIPANTS $400: Lawson Botts, who defended this fiery abolitionist at his 1859 trial, died fighting for the Confederacy in 1862 John Brown |
| #6202, aired 2011-07-26 | SANDWICHES $600: The pan bagnat, a Nicoise specialty, is a Provencal version of this American brown bag staple tuna sandwich |
| #6202, aired 2011-07-26 | SANDWICHES $800: Butter, romano & this meat are traditional in a hot brown, a late November favorite from Kentucky's Brown Hotel turkey |
| #6191, aired 2011-07-11 | GET "SET" $1600: A variety of apple is called this, also a shade of reddish brown russet |
| #6183, aired 2011-06-29 | BUMMER WORDS, MAN $400: Good this, Charlie Brown! it's from the Latin for "to burden" grief |
| #6182, aired 2011-06-28 | THE INTERNET $200: To make a purchase on this department store's website, you click the "Add to Brown Bag" button Bloomingdales |
| #6181, aired 2011-06-27 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: His 2009 novel "The Lost Symbol" once again features protagonist Robert Langdon Dan Brown |
| #6180, aired 2011-06-24 | REVOLUTIONARY WAR GENERALS $2000: A statue of this "colorful" general in the U.S. Capitol represents the State of Rhode Island Nathanael Greene |
| #6178, aired 2011-06-22 | COURSE CORRECTION $200: Number theory at this Rhode Island Ivy Leaguer? Nah! POLS 1740, Politics of Food? Delicious! Brown University |
| #6172, aired 2011-06-14 | STATES' MEN $400: Earl Warren &
Jerry Brown California |
| #6170, aired 2011-06-10 | NONFICTION $800: "Against All Odds" is this current Massachusetts senator's tale of overcoming a childhood of beatings & worse Scott Brown |
| #6164, aired 2011-06-02 | MARINE BIOLOGY $3,000 (Daily Double): Off the coast of California, this brown seaweed can grow almost a foot a day kelp |
| #6163, aired 2011-06-01 | SIGHTSEEING $200: An Osawatomie, Kansas park is named for this 19th century abolitionist & includes the cabin where he lived John Brown |
| #6157, aired 2011-05-24 | COLORFUL TV SHOWS $400: (1988-1998)
"Murphy _____" Brown |
| #6157, aired 2011-05-24 | THE WHITE STUFF $800: Get some color in your cheeks & ride a brown cow through the city of Whitehorse, the capital of this Canadian territory the Yukon |
| #6155, aired 2011-05-20 | WORLD OF SOUP $1000: A beef and vegetable soup is called "Brown" this, also the castle where George III is buried (not due to eating the soup) Windsor |
| #6148, aired 2011-05-11 | THE EYES HAVE IT $800: If you have heterochromia, one of these may be blue & the other brown iris |
| #6137, aired 2011-04-26 | BEAR WITH THESE BOOKS $400: This brown bear was Mowgli's teacher in Kipling's "Jungle Book" Baloo |
| #6137, aired 2011-04-26 | BEAR WITH THESE BOOKS $800: Mr. & Mrs. Brown look after this bear after he emigrates from Darkest Peru to London Paddington |
| #6131, aired 2011-04-18 | THE BROWNS $400: Seen here, the brown four-eyed one of these critters is the only large American marsupial that lacks a pouch an opossum |
| #6131, aired 2011-04-18 | THE BROWNS $800: This record-setting athlete is a member of the halls of fame for college football, pro football & lacrosse, too Jim Brown |
| #6131, aired 2011-04-18 | THE BROWNS $1200: The 2 main types of mustard seed are yellow, from the Mediterranean region, & brown, from these lofty Asian mountains the Himalayas |
| #6131, aired 2011-04-18 | THE BROWNS $1600: Before his time at No. 10 Downing Street, he won election in 1983 as the MP for Dunfermline East Gordon Brown |
| #6131, aired 2011-04-18 | THE BROWNS $2000: This American playwright's 1926 work "The Great God Brown" was significant for its symbolic use of masks Eugene O'Neill |
| #6128, aired 2011-04-13 | THAT'S MY DRINK $800: Brandy, heavy cream & brown creme de cacao:
Brandy ____ Alexander |
| #6128, aired 2011-04-13 | YOU'RE SO COLORFUL $1200: To do this is to bring your own lunch to work from home, not necessarily in a paper sack to brown bag |
| #6124, aired 2011-04-07 | THAT'S GOTTA HURT! $2000: A bowling ball to this 3-pound reddish brown filtering organ that consists of 4 lobes the liver |
| #6120, aired 2011-04-01 | SPORTS NICKNAMES $400: "The Brown Bomber" of boxing Louis |
| #6111, aired 2011-03-21 | IT'S "AH" FULL $800: Hard reddish-brown wood of the genus Swietenia mahogany |
| #6104, aired 2011-03-10 | THE SENATOR OF MY WORLD $400: In early 2010 Scott Brown defeated Martha Coakley to win the seat held by this man for 47 years Edward Kennedy |
| #6101, aired 2011-03-07 | THE IVY LEAGUE $200: It was founded in 1764 as the College of Rhode Island Brown |
| #6101, aired 2011-03-07 | HEARTS $800: "The brown current ran swiftly out of" this title place, wrote Joseph Conrad the heart of darkness |
| #6096, aired 2011-02-28 | TV SHOW BY CAST $400: Blair Brown,
Joshua Jackson Fringe |
| #6083, aired 2011-02-09 | TV JUDGES $1600: This "Super Freak" singer appeared on "Judge Joe Brown" about his unreturned guitar Rick James |
| #6077, aired 2011-02-01 | AKA $200: In "Peanuts" Charlie Brown's friend Patricia Reichardt was known by this name Peppermint Patty |
| #6074, aired 2011-01-27 | "I" DOCTOR $1,000 (Daily Double): Robert Edwards won a 2010 Nobel Prize for developing this, which led to the birth of Louise Brown in 1978 in vitro fertilization |
| #6067, aired 2011-01-18 | THE BEAR FACTS $800: This brown bear seen here actually gets its name from the French word for "gray" a grizzly |
| #6066, aired 2011-01-17 | ENCYCLOPEDIA BROWN $200: Popular with nutritionists, the brown type of this is intentionally left unmilled rice |
| #6066, aired 2011-01-17 | ENCYCLOPEDIA BROWN $400: In 1900 this co. introduced the Brownie camera, making photography accessible to the masses Kodak |
| #6066, aired 2011-01-17 | ENCYCLOPEDIA BROWN $600: John Brown's raid on the federal arsenal in this town made him a martyr to the antislavery cause Harpers Ferry |
| #6066, aired 2011-01-17 | ENCYCLOPEDIA BROWN $800: The Cobb salad was invented at this Hollywood restaurant named for a hat the Brown Derby |
| #6066, aired 2011-01-17 | ENCYCLOPEDIA BROWN $1000: The Cortland variety of these brown very slowly after they're cut, making them a good choice for garnishes apples |
| #6064, aired 2011-01-13 | WEB SITES $800: Common in the U.S., this venomous Brown Spider is named for its habit of living in undisturbed locales, like attics the brown recluse |
| #6062, aired 2011-01-11 | A CD CATEGORY $1600: The deluxe edition of his "Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy" includes a bonus disc of a 1975 concert Elton John |
| #6059, aired 2011-01-06 | NO. 1 WITH A BULLET $400: This title character of a Jim Croce No. 1 carried "a 32 gun in his pocket for fun" "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown" |
| #6058, aired 2011-01-05 | SUGAR $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew holds a container of a viscous brown substance near large equipment inside the Domino Sugar Refinery in New Orleans, LA.) In the refining process, seven different boiling sessions will force 100 pounds of sugar to yield 1.5 pounds of this sticky substance molasses |
| #6057, aired 2011-01-04 | WHAT ARE YOU... CHICKEN? $2,000 (Daily Double): Alton Brown recommends pinot noir for the wine in the French name of this dish coq au vin |
| #6048, aired 2010-12-22 | HOLIDAY ALBUMS $200: Vince Guaraldi's LP from a 1965 TV special about this title animated boy featured "Christmas Time Is Here" Charlie Brown |
| #6047, aired 2010-12-21 | HAVE A DRINK $400: Helen Gurley Brown became this magazine's editor in 1965 Cosmopolitan |
| #6038, aired 2010-12-08 | AROUND THE "GLOBE" $1600: "Sweet Georgia Brown" is this team's theme song the Harlem Globetrotters |
| #6016, aired 2010-11-08 | CIVIL WAR QUOTES $400: William Lloyd Garrison said, "In firing his gun", this abolitionist "has merely told what time of day it is. It is High Noon" John Brown |
| #6015, aired 2010-11-05 | COLORFUL QUOTES $800: Stephen Foster dreamed of her, "floating like a vapor on the soft summer air" Jeannie with the light brown hair |
| #6015, aired 2010-11-05 | I WANT MY MTV $1200: Ah, the days of grand debate between these 2 "newlyweds", like whether "chicken of the sea" was actually tuna Jessica Simpson & Nick Lachey |
| #6013, aired 2010-11-03 | CIRCUS HISTORY $200: In 1825 Joshua Purdy Brown erected the first of these portable circus structures in Wilmington, Del. a big-top (or tent) |
| #6009, aired 2010-10-28 | A COLORFUL CATEGORY $1200: Early on, the Nazis employed the braunhemden, meaning this, to enforce their will the brown shirts |
| #6007, aired 2010-10-26 | CHARLIE $200: In the comics he was obsessed with the little red-haired girl Charlie Brown |
| #6006, aired 2010-10-25 | PRO ATHLETES BY NUMBER WORN $400: Magic Johnson, Jim Brown thirty-two |
| #5998, aired 2010-10-13 | GOOD TV $800: This 1985 animated TV special had the Peanuts gang perform the Broadway musical of the same name You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown |
| #5995, aired 2010-10-08 | THE COLOR OF MONEY $800: Ireland's 1999 10-pound note showed this author in green against the brown Wicklow Hills & blue Dublin Bay (James) Joyce |
| #5988, aired 2010-09-29 | COLORFUL CREATURES $400: From its distinctive marking, this poisonous spider is also called a fiddleback (not an hourglass back) the brown recluse |
| #5986, aired 2010-09-27 | "B" IN FASHION $1000: This children's shoe brand dates back to a comic strip character with a dog named Tige & sister named Mary Jane Buster Brown |
| #5980, aired 2010-09-17 | 19th CENTURY QUOTATIONS $800: On Dec. 2, 1859 this abolitionist told his hangman, "I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting" John Brown |
| #5976, aired 2010-09-13 | AN OCEAN OF KNOWLEDGE $1,200 (Daily Double): The Sargasso Sea is named for sargassum, a genus of brown this that is strewn in its water seaweed (or algae) |
| #5976, aired 2010-09-13 | GHOST WRITERS $1200: In addition to "A Study in Scarlet" & "The White Company", his stories include the spooky "The Brown Hand" Arthur Conan Doyle |
| #5974, aired 2010-07-29 | OFF THE ENDANGERED SPECIES LIST $600: The brown one of these pouched birds is being delisted as it has bounced back from DDT devastation the pelican |
| #5972, aired 2010-07-27 | PLEAS & CARATS $400: Henry David Thoreau's 1859 essay "A Plea for" this Harpers Ferry guy didn't work; he was executed John Brown |
| #5960, aired 2010-07-09 | FARMVILLE $1000: Important breeds of this on a farm include the brown Swiss & Holstein cows |
| #5958, aired 2010-07-07 | FANTASTIC MR. FOX $800: The fantastic Arctic fox changes color with the seasons, from gray or brown in summer to this color in winter white |
| #5955, aired 2010-07-02 | ANTEBELLUM ROBERT E. LEE $1000: In 1859 Robert E. Lee commanded the U.S. Marines that assaulted this man's barricaded forces at Harpers Ferry John Brown |
| #5954, aired 2010-07-01 | THE QUOTABLE '60s $600: Referring to these riots in 1965, Governor Pat Brown said, "Why, this is the worst disaster since my election" the Watts Riots |
| #5942, aired 2010-06-15 | THE FOOD CHAIN $1000: Candied
____
Brown Betty apple |
| #5940, aired 2010-06-11 | MILITARY FIRSTS $400: In May 1783 Elijah Churchill & William Brown became the first recipients of this medal established by George Washington the Purple Heart |
| #5940, aired 2010-06-11 | COOKING VERBS $1000: To cook sugar until it forms a brown syrup to caramelize |
| #5938, aired 2010-06-09 | PICTURE THE WORLD LEADER $400: "Good show, old man. Hey, what?" This labor guy took the top spot in 2007 (Gordon) Brown |
| #5937, aired 2010-06-08 | YOU'RE A GRAND OLD FLAG $1,000 (Daily Double): The yellow stripe on Sao Tome & Principe's flag represents this crop; you'd think it would be chocolate brown cocoa (or cacao) |
| #5932, aired 2010-06-01 | FOOD SCIENCE $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a slice of bread toasted to golden brown.) Toasting bread is actually a chemical reaction where this element, from the Latin for "charcoal", is released from the starch & sugar during the heating process carbon |
| #5930, aired 2010-05-28 | GETTING TICKED ON $400: A brown tick named for this pet has the rare ability to complete its life cycle indoors dog |
| #5914, aired 2010-05-06 | SPOILER ALERT! $800: 1959:
Joe E. Brown discovers that "she" is really a guy Some Like It Hot |
| #5899, aired 2010-04-15 | TV: WHO PLAYED 'EM? $200: Shirley Schmidt &
Murphy Brown Candice Bergen |
| #5899, aired 2010-04-15 | I WANT "A_E" $800: Newcastle is a popular brand of brown this ale |
| #5897, aired 2010-04-13 | NATURE $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows some pictures of spiders on the monitor.) Venomous spiders include the brown widow, recognized by an hourglass-shaped mark; a spider with a violin-shaped mark tells you it's this poisonous species a brown recluse |
| #5892, aired 2010-04-06 | JUST BE-CLAUSE $1600: This 2-word clause in the 14th Amendment was cited in Brown v. Board of Education & Bush v. Gore the equal protection clause |
| #5892, aired 2010-04-06 | PICTURE THE ROLLING STONES HIT $1600: How sweet the sound "Brown Sugar" |
| #5889, aired 2010-04-01 | NASCAR SPONSORS $400: What can brown do for David Ragan, No. 6? Be this delivery company & sponsor, that's what UPS |
| #5887, aired 2010-03-30 | WE NEED AN ANSWER $200: Asked how she survived the Titanic disaster, she reportedly replied, "I'm unsinkable" Molly Brown |
| #5878, aired 2010-03-17 | IN THE STATE CAPITAL $1,600 (Daily Double): Sumner Elementary School, known for its part in a 1954 Supreme Court Case Topeka |
| #5875, aired 2010-03-12 | CALIFORNIA $1600: The California poppy is the state's official flower & this tough critter is the official state animal the grizzly bear |
| #5873, aired 2010-03-10 | ARTISTS & THEIR SUBJECTS $400: In 1905, before he took up Cubism, this Spaniard painted his friend Gertrude Stein, who wore her favorite brown velvet coat Picasso |
| #5863, aired 2010-02-24 | THE SAME OLD TUNE $400: "John Brown's Republic" "The Battle Hymn Of The Republic" & "John Brown's Body" |
| #5859, aired 2010-02-18 | AD MEN $1600: A maitre d' named Frank Brown posed for the portrait seen on boxes of this rice Uncle Ben |
| #5856, aired 2010-02-15 | HOUSEHOLD HINTS $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew brushes the cut surface of an apple.) Apples brushed with lemon juice don't brown, because the enzymes that cause the apple's oxidation are rendered inactive by this acid, also known as vitamin C ascorbic acid |
| #5855, aired 2010-02-12 | YOU CAN QUOTE ME ON THAT $1600: Following a Harpers Ferry raid, he said, "I am content to die for God's eternal truth" John Brown |
| #5850, aired 2010-02-05 | CIVIL RIGHTS HEROES $2000: He was the lawyer who won the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court case Thurgood Marshall |
| #5844, aired 2010-01-28 | FROM PAGE TO SCREEN $800: His novel "Angels & Demons" was fodder for the big screen in 2009 Dan Brown |
| #5843, aired 2010-01-27 | IT'S NO WHITE $800: This brown pigment obtained from the secretion of the cuttlefish has a grayish-yellowish tint sepia |
| #5839, aired 2010-01-21 | BACKING BANDS $1200: This "Soul Brother Number One" was backed by the Famous Flames & the JBs James Brown |
| #5839, aired 2010-01-21 | NUTS LANDING $3,200 (Daily Double): The name of this nut can also mean a stale joke or a reddish-brown horse a chestnut |
| #5838, aired 2010-01-20 | THE 20th CENTURY $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew trains with the Navy SEALs of Boat Team 12 in an inflatable boat at the Naval Amphibious Base in Coronado, CA.) Naval special warfare boat teams trace their origins back to the "Brown Water" Navy that patrolled rivers during this war the Vietnam War |
| #5835, aired 2010-01-15 | WANTED BY THE FBI $400: Wanted for bank robbery, brown-eyed Jonathan Davis goes by the last name of this man, "Ol' Blue Eyes" Sinatra |
| #5832, aired 2010-01-12 | MAKE A "DOWN" PAYMENT $400: Street where you'll find Prime Minister Gordon Brown at home Downing |
| #5828, aired 2010-01-06 | WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON $800: Although nominally a pacifist, Garrison supported this man's raid on Harper's Ferry in 1859 John Brown |
| #5823, aired 2009-12-30 | SUPER 8 $800: In 2006 Mike Brown of Caltech declared, "there are finally, officially, 8" of these planets |
| #5819, aired 2009-12-24 | COLORFUL RHYME TIME $800: Earthy dress for a ball a brown gown |
| #5818, aired 2009-12-23 | A RICH STEW $800: In 2009 Gordon Brown created a 50% one of these in Britain; still better than the '70s, when there was an 83% one a tax bracket |
| #5811, aired 2009-12-14 | ALLITERATIVE FOOD & DRINK $800: Boston these were often served with Boston brown bread baked beans |
| #5804, aired 2009-12-03 | COMMON LAST NAME'S THE SAME $1000: James,
Jerry,
Gatemouth Brown |
| #5802, aired 2009-12-01 | POLAR OBSESSION $800: (Paul Nicklen presents the clue.) Called oakum boys because their brown down looks like the frayed rope fiber used to caulk ships, king penguin chicks undergo this shedding process that gives them their waterproof feathers molting |
| #5791, aired 2009-11-16 | THEY SHOT THE SHERIFF $2000: On his 21st birthday, this 3-named gunman shot & killed Deputy Charles Webb in Brown County, Texas John Wesley Hardin |
| #5789, aired 2009-11-12 | DRAMA CLUB $400: Songs in this play include "Suppertime" & "My Blanket And Me" You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown |
| #5788, aired 2009-11-11 | MUSEUMS $800: In Denver, you can visit the home of Molly Brown, who survived the sinking of this in 1912 the Titanic |
| #5783, aired 2009-11-04 | WORLD OF COLORS $800: In Dutch:
Bruin brown |
| #5776, aired 2009-10-26 | WHEN $400: On Sept. 15, 1862 Stonewall Jackson captured this town made famous by John Brown 3 years earlier Harpers Ferry |
| #5765, aired 2009-10-09 | HOW SINGERS GOT THEIR NAMES $200: As a kid, he loved Charlie Brown's dog, adding, "And my mama thought I looked like him" ...the birth of this rap name Snoop Dogg |
| #5762, aired 2009-10-06 | COLORFUL SONGS $1200: "Hey where did we go, days when the rains came Down in the hollow playin' a new game" "Brown Eyed Girl" |
| #5757, aired 2009-09-29 | CUTTING THE MUSTARD $400: Under French law, only brown or black seeds are used to make this type of mustard Dijon |
| #5756, aired 2009-09-28 | COMPLETES THE PAIR $2000: Aviation team:
Alcock & ____ Brown |
| #5751, aired 2009-09-21 | ROCK STARS' BACKSTAGE NEEDS $400: Van Halen's 1982 tour contract called for these candies backstage but specified "absolutely no brown ones" M&M's |
| #5750, aired 2009-09-18 | THE GODFATHER OF SOUL $400: Besides "The Godfather of Soul", another nickname described James Brown as this "in Show Business" "The Hardest Working Man in Show Business" |
| #5750, aired 2009-09-18 | THE GODFATHER OF SOUL $1600: On Oct. 24, 1962 Brown's legendary stage act was taped for a live album at this iconic venue in Harlem the Apollo Theater |
| #5746, aired 2009-09-14 | COLORFUL BOOKS $800: Donald J. Sobol:
"Encyclopedia ____, Boy Detective" Brown |
| #5746, aired 2009-09-14 | TOUCHDOWN! $800: Before he became one of "The Dirty Dozen", this Cleveland running back hit pay dirt 126 times Jim Brown |
| #5740, aired 2009-07-17 | FUN WITH DINOSAURS $400: In 1902 in Montana, paleontologist Barnum Brown unearthed the first specimen of this dinosaur "king" a T. rex |
| #5735, aired 2009-07-10 | FAMOUS TRIALS $800: Stabbed during his capture at Harpers Ferry, this abolitionist spent most of his 1859 trial lying on a cot John Brown |
| #5724, aired 2009-06-25 | WHATEVER! $1000: Not iron but this reddish-brown element catalyzes the formation of hemoglobin in humans copper |
| #5720, aired 2009-06-19 | NAME CALLING $400: Maybe it was all the brandy & brown sugar, but you're "nuttier than" this Christmas treat a fruitcake |
| #5717, aired 2009-06-16 | HE WAS PRESIDENT WHEN... $800: John Brown captured the arsenal at Harpers Ferry Buchanan |
| #5715, aired 2009-06-12 | THE MIRACLE OF VINEGAR $400: A traditional remedy for a chest cold is a compress of brown paper soaked in vinegar of this fermented fruit juice cider |
| #5713, aired 2009-06-10 | THE "OC" $1000: It's a chocolatey brown color, or a flavoring of coffee & chocolate mocha |
| #5710, aired 2009-06-05 | JUNE 5 BABIES $1000: Born 1932:
A left-footed Irish artist & author Christy Brown |
| #5710, aired 2009-06-05 | ALPHABETICALLY FIRST $1200: ...of the 8 Ivy League colleges Brown |
| #5704, aired 2009-05-28 | PRESIDENTS & VICE PRESIDENTS $600: The last Cabinet member to die while in office, Ron Brown, was a member of this president's Cabinet Bill Clinton |
| #5692, aired 2009-05-12 | FUN WITH SCIENCE $600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows some colored-changed objects.) When exposed to air, a cut apple turns brown & copper turns green because of a chemical process called this oxidation |
| #5691, aired 2009-05-11 | THE 21st CENTURY WITH CNN $1000: (I'm Campbell Brown.) The Democrats have adopted a 50-state strategy at the instigation of this DNC chairman & former presidential contender Howard Dean |
| #5688, aired 2009-05-06 | COLLEGES IN OTHER WORDS $800: An Ivy:
To saute until color changes Brown |
| #5685, aired 2009-05-01 | BROWN $400: On Louisiana's flag, an Eastern brown this bird is feeding its young a pelican |
| #5685, aired 2009-05-01 | DA VINCI $800: Dan Brown's "The Da Vinci Code" reveals clues in da Vinci's works including one titled this woman "of the Rocks" The Madonna |
| #5685, aired 2009-05-01 | BROWN $800: Between 1960 & 1986, he racked up 44 Top 40 hits, but no No. 1s James Brown |
| #5685, aired 2009-05-01 | BROWN $1200: A close-up of one of these potentially deadly arachnids is seen here the brown recluse spider |
| #5685, aired 2009-05-01 | BROWN $1600: Though Carter won the 1976 Democratic nomination, this Californian beat him in the Nevada primary Jerry Brown |
| #5685, aired 2009-05-01 | BROWN $4,008 (Daily Double): After coming up with the Yellow Kid comic strip, Richard Outcault created this other colorful boy Buster Brown |
| #5670, aired 2009-04-10 | SCIENTISTS $1200: Astronomer Michael Brown discovered the object classified as UB313 in 2003 & named it for this TV princess Xena |
| #5668, aired 2009-04-08 | THE NEW YORK TIMES: TRAVEL $800: A "36 Hours" column showcased this city, with Molly Brown's Victorian Mansion & the mile high flea market Denver |
| #5663, aired 2009-04-01 | THE ZULU $800: Zulu warriors carried the isihlangu shield, often white with black or brown marks, made of this animal's hide cow (cattle) |
| #5661, aired 2009-03-30 | PERSONAL FOWLS $200: It follows "whip" in the sound that gives a little brown bird its name -poor-will |
| #5661, aired 2009-03-30 | FACE $400: His 1859 hanging inspired a song John Brown |
| #5660, aired 2009-03-27 | BROADWAY MUSICAL ADJECTIVES $400: "The ___ Molly Brown" Unsinkable |
| #5659, aired 2009-03-26 | PUTTING ON THE DOG $600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew is with a cocker spaniel.) In dog shows, some cocker spaniels are ASCOB,
which stands for any solid color other than this black |
| #5650, aired 2009-03-13 | GETTING MEDIEVAL WITH ENGLISH LIT $2,400 (Daily Double): In this circa 1470 work, the Brown Knight Without Pity is as bad as his name until Sir Gareth gets 'im Le Morte d'Arthur |
| #5641, aired 2009-03-02 | CAN YOU AD? $800: (I'm Elisabeth Moss. I play copywriter Peggy Olson on Mad Men.) This woman was a copywriter for an ad agency before being named editor in chief of Cosmopolitan magazine Helen Gurley Brown |
| #5634, aired 2009-02-19 | DO NOT PASS "GO" $400: A reddish-brown antelope, or a drum a bongo |
| #5634, aired 2009-02-19 | PRO FOOTBALL $1200: The Cincinnati Bengals' home stadium is named for this man who built a dynasty with another Ohio team Paul Brown |
| #5634, aired 2009-02-19 | PRO FOOTBALL $1600: In his career he had a record 22,895 yards receiving, about 50% more than runner-up Tim Brown Jerry Rice |
| #5633, aired 2009-02-18 | NATURE CALLS $1600: The bay, pink, brown & white are the most popular commercial varieties of this animal shrimp |
| #5632, aired 2009-02-17 | MEDICAL MILESTONES $200: Louise Brown, the first human conceived by in vitro fertilization, is better known as the 1st this "baby" test tube baby |
| #5625, aired 2009-02-06 | GOOD EATS WITH ALTON BROWN $200: Historically, fruitcakes were preserved with alcohol-soaked cloth; the golden type of this liquid helps to liberate flavor compounds and has a restorative effect on dry fruit rum |
| #5625, aired 2009-02-06 | GOOD EATS WITH ALTON BROWN $400: Add a little brandy or other spirit to the fire, then with a little fire, and you've created this French presentation flambé |
| #5625, aired 2009-02-06 | GOOD EATS WITH ALTON BROWN $600: It's best to store raw chicken on a bottom shelf to prevent it dripping onto other foods, because chicken is less acidic than other meats, making it susceptible to these one-celled organisms bacteria |
| #5625, aired 2009-02-06 | GOOD EATS WITH ALTON BROWN $800: After shaking oil and vinegar, they separate quickly; add mustard, and you have one of these colloidal suspensions that will stay mixed longer an emulsion |
| #5625, aired 2009-02-06 | GOOD EATS WITH ALTON BROWN $1000: So, you wanna freeze some broccoli, but you also wanna make sure that it stays bright green months on down the line? Well, you might want to employ this hot water–cold water process blanching |
| #5621, aired 2009-02-02 | SERENITY NOW! $1000: John Brown's body lies a-moulderin' in his grave south of this "Lake" village, home to the 1980 Winter Olympics Lake Placid |
| #5618, aired 2009-01-28 | CHARACTERS IN MOVIES $400: George McFly,
Dr. Emmett Brown,
Biff Tannen Back to the Future |
| #5618, aired 2009-01-28 | COLORFUL RHYME TIME $1000: A coffee-colored tiara a brown crown |
| #5605, aired 2009-01-09 | MERRY OLD SOUL $800: Say it loud--this Sex Machine had "Soul Power" in 1971 James Brown |
| #5600, aired 2009-01-02 | HISTORIC SUPREME COURT DECISIONS $400: Some said the school integration ruling in 2007's Parents Involved v. Seattle undermined this 1954 case Brown vs. the Board of Education |
| #5595, aired 2008-12-26 | FAMOUS RAYS $400: One of the great jazz trios had Oscar Peterson on piano, Ed Thigpen on drums & Ray Brown plucking this bass |
| #5591, aired 2008-12-22 | MOVIE MUSICALS $400: This song from "The Sound of Music" mentions "brown paper packages tied up with strings" "My Favorite Things" |
| #5577, aired 2008-12-02 | MEET THE BROWNS $200: Debbie Reynolds & Kathy Bates both played this "unsinkable" woman on film Molly Brown |
| #5577, aired 2008-12-02 | MEET THE BROWNS $400: In December 2006 thousands of fans & friends gathered at the Apollo Theater to pay their final respects to him James Brown |
| #5577, aired 2008-12-02 | MEET THE BROWNS $600: His 1998 techno-thriller "Digital Fortress" focuses on NSA cryptographer Susan Fletcher Dan Brown |
| #5572, aired 2008-11-25 | JUNIOR SAMPLES $1600: Edmund Jr. is the real name of this California pol known to some as "Governor Moonbeam" Jerry Brown |
| #5568, aired 2008-11-19 | LET'S HAVE ORDER $600: Universities:
San Diego State,
Purdue,
Brown Brown, Purdue, San Diego State |
| #5566, aired 2008-11-17 | "SUP" $1200: Snoopy hungers for this part of the day, a song title in "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown" suppertime |
| #5562, aired 2008-11-11 | BODY WORKS $800: This reddish-brown organ, the largest inside the body, is believed to perform at least 500 functions the liver |
| #5561, aired 2008-11-10 | BESTSELLERS: 2006 $1600: This Dan Brown book was 2006's top-selling trade paperback The Da Vinci Code |
| #5560, aired 2008-11-07 | ADD A LETTER $1600: Add a letter to ignite & it becomes this brown coal lignite |
| #5559, aired 2008-11-06 | PUMPKIN EATER $200: Alton Brown shreds 3 cups of fresh pumpkin to make one loaf of this pumpkin bread |
| #5559, aired 2008-11-06 | THE CIVIL WAR: A FILM BY KEN BURNS $1200: (Ken Burns reads.) In 1859 Robert E. Lee was called upon to lead a force of Marines to end John Brown's raid on the arsenal at this site Harpers Ferry |
| #5552, aired 2008-10-28 | USES FOR STALE BREAD $400: Make this breakfast dish--bread dipped in an egg-milk mixture & fried until golden brown on both sides French toast |
| #5551, aired 2008-10-27 | POLITICS $1200: (I'm Campbell Brown, CNN.) One of John McCain's weapons in appealing to a younger demographic is this type of Internet diary kept by his daughter Meghan a blog |
| #5549, aired 2008-10-23 | LEADERS & LANDS $400: Prime Minister Gordon Brown the United Kingdom |
| #5548, aired 2008-10-22 | ANIMAL COMMON BONDS $800: Brown,
fruit,
vampire bats |
| #5548, aired 2008-10-22 | ANIMAL COMMON BONDS $1000: Black,
brown,
spectacled bears |
| #5546, aired 2008-10-20 | NEW HOLLYWOOD $400: At this famed intersection, the Brown Derby was succeeded by hip-hop hot spots like Basque Hollywood & Vine |
| #5543, aired 2008-10-15 | CATS & DOGS $1200: A Lilac Point Burmese has lilac markings, while the Siamese, called this point, is named for a tasty shade of brown chocolate |
| #5542, aired 2008-10-14 | FOUND IN TRANSLATION $800: In Czech translation, this Dan Brown bestseller is "Sifra Mistra Leonarda" The Da Vinci Code |
| #5537, aired 2008-10-07 | NAME THE VEEP $1600: James Brown,
George Clinton,
Sylvester Stone George Clinton |
| #5534, aired 2008-10-02 | ALL IN THE "FAMILY" $1000: Dan Quayle implied "Murphy Brown" lacked them family values |
| #5534, aired 2008-10-02 | CNN ON POLITICS $1600: (I'm Campbell Brown.) On March 4, 2008 John McCain clinched the GOP nomination with 4 primary wins including this vast state, where he made his victory remarks Texas |
| #5534, aired 2008-10-02 | ELEANOR ROOSEVELT GOES TO THE THEATRE $1600: Eleanor had not expected this movie star's 1953 performance in "John Brown's Body" to satisfy her as it did Tyrone Power |
| #5533, aired 2008-10-01 | AH-"AH" $1200: Tree that yields hard, reddish-brown wood for furniture-making; do you know where it's going to? mahogany |
| #5521, aired 2008-09-15 | SPORTS $800: In 2008 this horse failed to win the Triple Crown when he finished last in the Belmont Stakes Big Brown |
| #5515, aired 2008-07-25 | COLOR MY WORLD $600: For adults, the U.S. Judo Federation has this rank directly below a black belt brown |
| #5513, aired 2008-07-23 | STORIED HOTELS $800: She often stayed at Brown's Hotel in London, & it's said that it inspired her mystery novel "At Bertram's Hotel" Agatha Christie |
| #5511, aired 2008-07-21 | DAN IN REAL LIFE $7,000 (Daily Double): In 2004 he had 4 novels on the bestseller lists at the same time Dan Brown |
| #5505, aired 2008-07-11 | INSPIRED CHARACTERS $2000: Grace Brown, who was killed at Big Moose Lake, inspired Roberta Alden, who drowns in his "An American Tragedy" Theodore Dreiser |
| #5504, aired 2008-07-10 | BODY LANGUAGE $800: Lentigo senilis is a medical term for these brown signs of age on the skin liver spots |
| #5502, aired 2008-07-08 | LIPSTICK JUNGLE $400: Sephora.com describes its "Sexy Jungle" lipstick as a "cool toffee shade of" this brown |
| #5491, aired 2008-06-23 | RATS $400: The Norway rat, the one typically used in lab experiments, is also known as this "colorful" rat a brown rat |
| #5488, aired 2008-06-18 | EDIBLE COMMON BONDS $600: Brown,
beurre-blanc,
bordelaise sauces |
| #5483, aired 2008-06-11 | WOMEN AUTHORS $2000: 2008's "The Purrfect Murder" is the latest in a series of mysteries by this activist & her cat Sneaky Pie Rita Mae Brown |
| #5480, aired 2008-06-06 | MMM...BEER $200: Samuel Smith's of Yorkshire brews a brown as well as a pale type of this beer relative ale |
| #5473, aired 2008-05-28 | CELEBRITIES' FAVORITE BOOKS $800: Author Sandra Brown says the book that had the most impact on her was this author's "Mila 18" Leon Uris |
| #5472, aired 2008-05-27 | TIME FOR A SNACK $200: I've got to have some penuche candy made the classic way, with this color sugar brown |
| #5471, aired 2008-05-26 | HEAVYWEIGHTS $200: Between 1937 & 1942, he successfully defended his heavyweight title 21 times Joe Louis |
| #5470, aired 2008-05-23 | "B" PLUS $600: It's what Papa had in a 1965 James Brown hit "A Brand New Bag" |
| #5466, aired 2008-05-19 | "B" SHARP $400: Sepia & mahogany are tones of this color brown |
| #5459, aired 2008-05-08 | WOMEN IN HISTORY $1200: After Julia Ward Howe heard Union soldiers singing "John Brown's Body", she wrote this song to the same tune "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" |
| #5458, aired 2008-05-07 | OFF TO COLLEGE $400: This "colorful" Ivy League college was founded in 1764 Brown |
| #5457, aired 2008-05-06 | POP CULTURE $600: "Run It!" was a smash hit R&B single by this teenager Chris Brown |
| #5453, aired 2008-04-30 | BRITISH ROCKERS $800: Born in Belfast, he sang lead for the group Them before scoring hits on his own like "Brown Eyed Girl" Van Morrison |
| #5442, aired 2008-04-15 | ICE CREAM $1000: This meringue-covered dish is put in the oven briefly to brown the meringue Baked Alaska |
| #5440, aired 2008-04-11 | THIS & THAT $1000: The brown hairstreak is one of these insects of the superfamily Papilionoidea a butterfly |
| #5437, aired 2008-04-08 | WHAT'S FOR LUNCH? $800: How about a salad, like this one created at legendary Hollywood restaurant The Brown Derby a Cobb salad |
| #5430, aired 2008-03-28 | MAY I HAVE A WORD WITH "U"? $800: A "raw" yellowish-brown color, or a "burnt" reddish-brown umber |
| #5427, aired 2008-03-25 | WHERE'D YA GO TO SCHOOL? $400: John F. Kennedy Jr.:
this Providence campus Brown |
| #5424, aired 2008-03-20 | THINGS TO DO IN DENVER $600: It's unthinkable to miss this "unsinkable" woman's house on Capitol Hill in Denver Molly Brown |
| #5418, aired 2008-03-12 | THROWDOWN WITH BOBBY FLAY $2000: (Booby Flay sautés some onions.) Right now, the onions are what we call sweated. I'll keep going until they turn brown, meaning they're this caramelized |
| #5416, aired 2008-03-10 | THE CAT $800: This shorthaired "brown" cat is named for its color, which is said to resemble that of a Cuban cigar a havana |
| #5415, aired 2008-03-07 | MARCH! $400: In the comics on March 11, 1960 it was revealed that this round-headed boy's father was a barber Charlie Brown |
| #5413, aired 2008-03-05 | MAMMALS $1000: These monkeys with a religious name have several types of "habit", including brown & white-throated capuchin |
| #5408, aired 2008-02-27 | FAMILY-FRIENDLY MUSICALS $400: In "You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown", this kid famous for his security blanket sings "My Blanket And Me" Linus |
| #5405, aired 2008-02-22 | NERDS RULE! $2000: This current British Prime Minister was the youngest person since WWII to go to the U. of Edinburgh (Gordon) Brown |
| #5397, aired 2008-02-12 | BLACK HISTORY MONTH $400: Melville said this abolitionist who was hanged in Charlestown, Va. in 1859 was "the meteor of the war" John Brown |
| #5396, aired 2008-02-11 | CROSSWORD CLUES "K" $400: Brown seaweed
(4) kelp |
| #5383, aired 2008-01-23 | BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS BY CHARACTERS $3,000 (Daily Double): Molly Brown,
Jack Dawson Titanic |
| #5380, aired 2008-01-18 | TOUGH TUNES $400: The Godfather of Soul, James Brown "Can't dance" because of these "in his pants" ants |
| #5377, aired 2008-01-15 | NOVELS BEFORE & AFTER $400: Crash cart...stat! This Dan Brown thriller is getting colorful & going into cardiac arrest Da Vinci Code blue |
| #5373, aired 2008-01-09 | A CHARLIE IN THE BOX $800: Occasionally called Chuck, this comics character had violent battles with his local "kite-eating tree" Charlie Brown |
| #5368, aired 2008-01-02 | THE NATIONAL RECORDING REGISTRY $2000: His 1963 "Live at the Apollo" album brought his soul to a wider audience James Brown |
| #5362, aired 2007-12-25 | TO THE "LEFT" HAND SIDE $2000: Artist Christy Brown's autobiography about overcoming cerebral palsy to paint My Left Foot |
| #5361, aired 2007-12-24 | HERSHEY'S $200: The company was founded to provide chocolate coating for these chewy yellowish-brown candies caramels |
| #5346, aired 2007-12-03 | YOU ARE SO FOXY! $400: In a practice routine for typists, this critter "jumps over the lazy dog" the quick brown fox |
| #5345, aired 2007-11-30 | PUBLIC DOMAIN JUKEBOX $200: She's the lass in the Stephen Foster ditty heard here Jeannie (with the light brown hair) |
| #5345, aired 2007-11-30 | PUBLIC DOMAIN JUKEBOX $600: You might need to join A.A. if you take this song literally "Little Brown Jug" |
| #5343, aired 2007-11-28 | CHILDREN'S AUTHORS $1000: This author of "Goodnight Moon" was a "colorful" character who kept perishable foods in a well Margaret Wise Brown |
| #5337, aired 2007-11-20 | THE COMICS $400: This "Peanuts" character got a sister named Sally in 1959 Charlie Brown |
| #5328, aired 2007-11-07 | THE "L" YOU SAY $400: It's home to Gregor Erhart's statue of Mary Magdalene (I must remember to tell Dan Brown) the Louvre |
| #5327, aired 2007-11-06 | HISTORIC SUPREME COURT DECISIONS? $2,000 (Daily Double): Colorful recluse spider is found to cure lack of interest in the formal learning process brown v. bored of education |
| #5327, aired 2007-11-06 | SCIENTISTS $2000: This man who figured out the movement of particles in a liquid gave the cell nucleus its name (Robert) Brown |
| #5325, aired 2007-11-02 | MAGAZINES $800: It was primarily a fiction magazine until Helen Gurley Brown became editor in 1965 Cosmopolitan |
| #5323, aired 2007-10-31 | 24--THE NOVEL $400: He said his novels, like "Angels & Demons" deal with a murder, a chase, a ticking clock & a love interest within 24 hours Dan Brown |
| #5319, aired 2007-10-25 | "J" PEG $200: Bad, bad Leroy Brown was meaner than this kind of dog a junkyard dog |
| #5317, aired 2007-10-23 | LADIES' DAY $1600: Smashing Prince of Wales China with a hammer is one scene in "The Diana Chronicles" by this magazine editor Tina Brown |
| #5316, aired 2007-10-22 | CONTROVERSIAL TV $400: In a speech, this real-life V.P. blasted fictional Murphy Brown for her choice to have a child out of wedlock Dan Quayle |
| #5313, aired 2007-10-17 | WHAT CAN BROWN DO FOR YOU? $400: He became Britain's prime minister on June 27, 2007 Gordon Brown |
| #5313, aired 2007-10-17 | JAZZ MUSICIANS $600 (Daily Double): Ray Brown, Percy Heath & Charles Mingus were "stand-up" guys as masters of this instrument the double bass |
| #5313, aired 2007-10-17 | WHAT CAN BROWN DO FOR YOU? $800: On Dec. 2, 1859 this militant abolitionist was hanged for treason John Brown |
| #5313, aired 2007-10-17 | WHAT CAN BROWN DO FOR YOU? $1200: With his 12,313th rushing yard, Walter Payton passed him on the all-time rushing list Jim Brown |
| #5313, aired 2007-10-17 | WHAT CAN BROWN DO FOR YOU? $1600: This crime-solving clerical character was created by G.K. Chesterton Father Brown |
| #5313, aired 2007-10-17 | WHAT CAN BROWN DO FOR YOU? $2000: Harold Brown was this president's Secretary of Defense Jimmy Carter |
| #5308, aired 2007-10-10 | HOW PRECIOUS! $400: San Jose State University's Beethoven Center has brown, grey & white strands of this that once grew on Ludwig hair |
| #5301, aired 2007-10-01 | BIRTH & DEATH $1000: Succeeding with the birth of Louise Brown, 2 British doctors developed this, IVF for short, in the 1970s in vitro fertilization |
| #5290, aired 2007-09-14 | CROSSWORD CLUES "C" $2,000 (Daily Double): A reddish-brown horse
(8) a chestnut |
| #5281, aired 2007-07-23 | ADVENTURES IN THE AIR $1200: Taking 16 hours, in 1919 British aviators Alcock & Brown became the first to cross this large body of water nonstop the Atlantic Ocean |
| #5279, aired 2007-07-19 | RHYME TIME $1000: An engineless aircraft for a brown recluse a spider glider |
| #5275, aired 2007-07-13 | TO INJURY $1000: On Oct. 18, 1859 he was found wounded & his 2 sons dead at a federal armory John Brown |
| #5260, aired 2007-06-22 | MUSICAL SYNOPSES $1,500 (Daily Double): Spunky gal dreams of riches while stuck in Missouri, marries prospector, loses prospector, gets on Titanic The Unsinkable Molly Brown |
| #5259, aired 2007-06-21 | ANIMAL FARM $2000: The ursus californicus variety of this fierce brown bear is featured on California's state seal grizzly |
| #5252, aired 2007-06-12 | LIVING LYRICS $600: James Brown is living here, "super highways, coast to coast" "Living In America" |
| #5252, aired 2007-06-12 | WHAT'S YOUR NAME, LITTLE GIRL? $1000: A dessert:
Apple Brown ____ Betty |
| #5245, aired 2007-06-01 | SIX MILLION-DOLLAR MEN $400: John N., of this R.I. university-endowing family, was known as "The World's Richest Baby" when his uncle died in 1900 the Brown family |
| #5243, aired 2007-05-30 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $1000: William Rose Benet won a Pulitzer for "The Dust Which Is God", & this brother won for "John Brown's Body" Stephen Vincent Benet |
| #5241, aired 2007-05-28 | ANIMALS IN LITERATURE $1000: This ursine character was discovered by Mr. & Mrs. Brown in London Paddington Bear |
| #5227, aired 2007-05-08 | YOU'RE SO SWEET $400: This type of sugar used in making baked beans gets its color from the molasses retained in its refining brown sugar |
| #5226, aired 2007-05-07 | CUTTING-EDGE SCIENCE $1600: Invasion biology studies species like the brown tree this reptile, which wiped out 9 of Guam's 11 native bird species snakes |
| #5206, aired 2007-04-09 | RETURN OF THE FUNGI $1000: The name of this dark brown mushroom whose cap can be up to 10 inches across is Japanese for "oak mushroom" shiitake |
| #5195, aired 2007-03-23 | PEOPLE YOU CAN EAT $600: Robert Cobb, the owner of the Brown Derby restaurant, famously created one of these a salad |
| #5185, aired 2007-03-09 | IF AT FIRST YOU DON'T SUCCEED... $600: He immortalized Donna Johnson, who refused to marry him, as the red-haired girl Charlie Brown adores Charles Schulz |
| #5183, aired 2007-03-07 | STATS FREAK $1000: This Cleveland RB of the '50s & '60s led the NFL in rushing 8 times; the most times for any other back is 4 Jim Brown |
| #5173, aired 2007-02-21 | BROADWAY LYRICS $1000: "All I need is one more try, gotta get that kite to fly" You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown |
| #5169, aired 2007-02-15 | THE BIRDS & THE BEES $2000: It's a small, chunky brown bird with a short bill & a silent initial W wren |
| #5168, aired 2007-02-14 | COLORS IN ITALIAN $1200: This eye color is marrone brown |
| #5157, aired 2007-01-30 | AMERICANA $800: The Kansas Statehouse mural seen here is entitled "The Tragic Prelude" & depicts this pre-Civil War firebrand John Brown |
| #5146, aired 2007-01-15 | MY NAME IS EARL WARREN $2000: I ruled that public school segregation was unconstitutional in this landmark 1954 case Brown v. Board of Education |
| #5144, aired 2007-01-11 | WE ALL WANT TO CHANGE THE WORLD $600: A choice she made on Dec. 1, 1955 would lead to a Supreme Court ruling & Martin Luther King's rise to fame Rosa Parks |
| #5143, aired 2007-01-10 | MARINE BIOLOGY $600: The brown seaweed that gives the North Atlantic "sea" its name floats via small berrylike bladders Sargasso |
| #5136, aired 2007-01-01 | ENDS WITH 2 VOWELS $1600: These primitive plants are usually grouped according to color: brown, red, blue-green, golden... algae |
| #5136, aired 2007-01-01 | SAY CHEESE $2000: This semi-hard cheese from Italy's Aosta Valley is traditionally dressed in a reddish-brown wax coat Fontina |
| #5132, aired 2006-12-26 | JAMES BOND $200: Performers who have played this boss of Bond include Bernard Lee, Robert Brown, & most recently, Judi Dench M |
| #5130, aired 2006-12-22 | ELEMENTAL RHYME TIME $400: Reddish-brown metallic bottle plug a copper stopper |
| #5120, aired 2006-12-08 | PLANT LIFE $400: Brown Bent, a type of this, is a favorite of golf groundskeepers because it can be cut very short grass |
| #5119, aired 2006-12-07 | THE FAST $800: Hope fans didn't arrive late; this "Brown Bomber" had 3 straight first-round knockouts in title fights Joe Louis |
| #5100, aired 2006-11-10 | BESTSELLERS $800: This controversial bestseller by Dan Brown begins with a murder in the Louvre The Da Vinci Code |
| #5086, aired 2006-10-23 | MAIDEN NAMES $200: Helen Gurley Brown |
| #5086, aired 2006-10-23 | BOOK 'EM, DAN-O $400: When he made Time's 2005 Top 100 List, his book was described as "the novel that ate the world" Dan Brown |
| #5086, aired 2006-10-23 | FOOD-O $1200: The large dark brown crimino mushroom became much more popular when its name was changed to this portobello |
| #5083, aired 2006-10-18 | OCTOBERFEST $800: Accompanied by 21 men, he seized a federal arsenal in a famous raid in October 1859 John Brown |
| #5080, aired 2006-10-13 | AUTHORS' RHYME TIME $1600: "Da Vinci" Dan's circus comics Brown's clowns |
| #5077, aired 2006-10-10 | "D"-VIDE $200: Hot dog! In the 1980s the mustard market splintered into 3 types: yellow, spicy brown & this one, like Grey Poupon Dijon |
| #5076, aired 2006-10-09 | SPACE EXPLORATION $400: Gus Grissom's Gemini 3 capsule aptly had this "unsinkable" lady's name (his Mercury 4 capsule had sunk) Molly Brown |
| #5073, aired 2006-10-04 | STARTS WITH "J" $2000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew stands next to a brown cud-chewing cow in Old World, Wisconsin.) You could say this cow is far from home; its breed is named for this island--about 4,000 miles to the east Jersey |
| #5071, aired 2006-10-02 | KID LIT $400: Leroy is the real first name of the boy detective with this bookish nickname Encyclopedia Brown |
| #5069, aired 2006-09-28 | ESTIMATED PROPHET $2000: To his fellow slaves, this 19th century insurrectionist was known as "The Prophet" Nat Turner |
| #5068, aired 2006-09-27 | CIVIL WAR TIMES $200: On May 24, 1856 this abolitionist led a raid that killed 5 pro-slavery men in Pottawatomie John Brown |
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James Brown, a university administrator from Baton Rouge, Louisiana
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Season 27 player (2010-10-05). James won a one-third share of $200,000...
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David Brown, a fundraising intern from Palo Alto, California
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Season 29 2-time champion: $32,600 + $1,000. Son of Season 25...
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Jeff Brown, a grant writer from Broken Arrow, Oklahoma
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Season 33 player (2017-03-03). Not to be confused with Season 4...
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Ed Brown, a lighting designer from Pasadena, California
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Season 32 player (2016-06-02). Not to be confused with Season 6...
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Amanda Brown, a graphic artist from Dallas, Texas
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Season 31 player (2014-10-13). Not to be confused with Season 18...
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Barbara Brown, a retired housewife from Baton Rouge, Louisiana
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Season 27 player (2010-10-28).
Mother of Season 27 player James Brown.
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Ellen Brown, a hospice medical director from Palo Alto, California
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Season 25 player (2009-06-16).
Mother of Season 29 2-time champion David Brown.
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Emily Brown, a fund-raiser from Lincoln, Rhode Island
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Season 26 player (2009-12-03). Not to be confused with Season 35...
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Aaron Brown, an Emmy Award-winning newsman from CNN's popular primetime newscast
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"A journalist for over 25 years, he now anchors CNN's popular...
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Donna Brown, a customer service representative from Seattle, Washington
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Season 34 1-time champion: $45,600 + $2,000. At the introduction of...
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Jaime Green, a sophomore at Brown University from Nanuet, New York
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2001 College Championship quarterfinalist: $2,500. Jaime was 18 at the time...
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Rebecca Maxfield, a freshman from Brown University
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2010-A College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. Hometown: New Rochelle, New York. Rebecca...
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Maggie Brown, a sophomore from Pensacola, Florida
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2023 High School Reunion Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2018 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist:...
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Gord Brown, an editor and writer from Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Season 11 1-time champion: $11,100. Gord\'s full first name is Gordon....
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Maggie Brown, a junior at the University of West Florida from Pensacola, Florida
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\"A sophomore from Pensacola, Florida in the 2018 Teen Tournament, she\'s...
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Jon Brown, a bartender from Los Angeles, California
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Season 34 player (2018-06-15).
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Emily Brown, a pastor from Hastings-on-Hudson, New York
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Season 35 player (2018-09-18). Emily wore a clerical collar for her...
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Leonard Cooper, a graduate student at Brown University from Little Rock, Arkansas
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• 2013 Teen Tournament winner • Graduated from Brown University 2024...
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Kiersten Brown, a writer and retail clerk from Champlain, New York
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Season 34 player (2017-12-15).
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James Brown, a physics teacher from El Paso, Texas
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"He teaches at a high school where most of the students...
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Jan Brown, an air traffic controller from Warwick, Rhode Island
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Season 34 player (2018-05-01).
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Justin Bolsen, a public policy economics student at Brown University from Canton, Georgia
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2024 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. \"He was a high school...
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Justin Bolsen, a first-year student at Brown University from Canton, Georgia
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2024 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. \"He was a high school...
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Susan Brown, a housewife and mother from West Hartford, Connecticut
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Season 4 player (1988-02-23). Not to be confused with Season 9...
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Susan Brown, a doctoral student originally from Portland, Oregon
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Season 9 player (1993-01-13). Not to be confused with Season 4...
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Grafton Brown, a high school Spanish teacher from Chicago, Illinois
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"He teaches at a school whose buildings are named in honor...
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Brad Brown, a theater teacher from Nashville, Tennessee
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"And he is a theater teacher at an international baccalaureate certified...
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Michael Brown, a graduate student from Rochester, New York
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Season 27 player (2011-03-24).
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Darin Brown, a trademark attorney from Louisville, Colorado
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Season 32 player (2015-11-27).
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Allex Fambles, a sophomore from Brown University
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"She knew at age eleven that she wanted to be a...
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Peyton Brown, a laborer from Chicago, Illinois
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Season 32 player (2016-06-24).
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Tom Brown, a program analyst originally from Harleysville, Pennsylvania
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Season 27 2-time champion: $40,402 + $2,000.
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John Brown, a middle school teacher from Tampa, Florida
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Season 24 player (2008-06-05).
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Gordon Brown, a retail executive from Roselle, New Jersey
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Season 4 player (1988-04-08). Not to be confused with Season 11...
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Laura Brown, a psychologist from Seattle, Washington
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Season 22 1-time champion: $17,500 + $1,000.
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Ed Brown, a financial consultant from Los Angeles, California
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Season 6 player (1989-10-27). Not to be confused with Season 32...
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Clay Brown, a Presbyterian pastor from Mooresville, North Carolina
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Season 25 player (2009-03-05).
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Tegan Brown, an MBA student originally from Harvard, Massachusetts
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Season 27 player (2010-09-30).
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Julia Brown, an architect from Hollywood, California
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Season 26 player (2010-03-02).
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Christy Brown, a residence hall director from Austin, Texas
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Season 26 player (2010-02-16).
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Stan Brown, a high school history teacher from Macon, Georgia
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Season 20 2-time champion: $40,600 + $2,000.
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Allison Brown, a law student originally from Louisville, Kentucky
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Season 26 player (2009-12-22).
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Ross Brown, a writer from Washington, D.C.
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Season 23 1-time champion: $12,300 + $2,000. Ross appeared as a...
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Bruce Brown, a substitute teacher originally from Cincinnati, Ohio
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Season 22 1-time champion: $28,906 + $1,000.
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Amanda Brown, a college student from Sherman, Texas
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Season 18 player (2002-01-01). Not to be confused with Season 31...
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Hill Harper, an actor from CSI: NY
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"He graduated magna cum laude from Brown University. He has a...
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Wendy Brown, a shipping manager from Portland, Oregon
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Season 22 player (2006-04-03).
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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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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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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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Julie Bowen, a TV and film actress from Boston Legal, Lost and Modern Family
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"For two seasons, she played attorney Denise Bauer in Boston Legal....
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Caroline Brown, a computer specialist from Elmhurst, New York
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1995-A Seniors Tournament semifinalist: $5,000.
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Dhruv Gaur, a freshman at Brown University from Gainesville, Georgia
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2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2019 Tournament of Champions semifinalist:...
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Dhruv Gaur, a student at Brown University from Gainesville, Georgia
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2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2019 Tournament of Champions semifinalist:...
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Karen Brown, a financial editor originally from Carlsbad, New Mexico
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Season 2 player (1985-11-07).
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Heather Brown, a civil servant from South Berwick, Maine
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Season 38 player (2022-07-07).
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Bonnie Brown, a personnel coordinator from San Diego, California
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Season 3 player (1987-03-25).
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Andi Brown, a director of development from Marshfield, Massachusetts
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Season 4 player (1988-03-09): Avita professional rowing machine w/electronic display.
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Tiffany Gholar, an abstract painter from Chicago, Illinois
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Season 30 1-time champion: $6,399 + $2,000. No returning champion Hometown...
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Alex Jacob, a currency trader from Chicago, Illinois
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2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2019 All-Star Games member of...
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Cherie Brown, a graphic manager from San Jose, California
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Season 9 player (1992-09-18).
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Erika Brown, a junior from Marietta, Georgia
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1995 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $1,000.
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Xanni Brown, a postdoctoral researcher originally from Cincinnati, Ohio
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2024 Champions Wildcard quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2023 Second Chance competition winner: $35,000...
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Xanni Brown, a Ph.D. student from New Haven, Connecticut
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2024 Champions Wildcard quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2023 Second Chance competition winner: $35,000...
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Xanni Brown, a postdoctoral researcher originally from Cincinnati, Ohio
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2024 Champions Wildcard quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2023 Second Chance competition winner: $35,000...
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Casey Brown, a marketing manager from Long Beach, California
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Season 38 player (2021-10-06).
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Madeleine Brown, a foreign service officer from Washington, D.C.
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Season 12 player (1995-10-04).
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Carrie Brown, an administrative assistant from Berkeley, California
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Season 9 player (1992-10-01).
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Rick Brown, a video tape editor and videographer from South Toms River, New Jersey
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Season 11 2-time champion: $26,801.
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Phil Brown, an audio engineer originally from San Francisco, California
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Season 9 1-time champion: $10,200.
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Max Niles, a senior at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island
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2022 National College Championship quarterfinalist: $10,000. Max was majoring in history...
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Debbie Brown, a college administrator from Cleveland, Ohio
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Season 5 player (1988-10-03).
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David Faber, an anchor and reporter from CNBC's Squawk on the Street and The Faber Report
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"The winner of Emmy, Peabody, DuPont, and Loeb awards, he's a...
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Sharon Brown, a strategic planner originally from Fremont, Nebraska
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Season 7 player (1991-03-19).
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Adia Benton, a junior at Brown University from Columbia, South Carolina
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1998 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $5,000.
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Clay Brown, a research scientist from Woodland Hills, California
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Season 15 player (1999-07-06).
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Hunter Brown, a senior from Wheaton, Illinois
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2008-A Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 17 at the time of...
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Eric Brown, an engineering student from Blacksburg, Virginia
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Season 15 player (1999-03-23).
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Mark Brown, an administrative assistant and father from Peoria, Arizona
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2003 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 19 5-time champion: $68,094...
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Steffanie Brown, a junior from West Georgia College
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1996 College Championship semifinalist: $5,000.
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Eryn Brown, a freshman from Harvard College
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1990 College Championship quarterfinalist: $1,000.
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Charlie Brown, an attorney from Utica, New York
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Season 5 1-time champion: $15,601.
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Charles Kimbrough, an actor from Murphy Brown
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1995 Celebrity Jeopardy! winner: $12,000 to Canine Companions for Independence and...
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Steve Brown, a chief petty officer from Twentynine Palms, California
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Season 5 3-time champion: $32,598.
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Harold Brown, a medical clerk from Brooklyn, New York
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Season 16 player (1999-10-11).
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Pam Brown, a graduate student from Stillwater, Oklahoma
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Season 4 player (1988-06-01).
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Terri Pous, a social media editor from New York, New York
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Season 31 2-time champion: $36,801 + $2,000. Terri produced a podcast...
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Jeff Brown, a physician from Los Gatos, California
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Season 4 1-time champion: $200.
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Colin Brown, a senior at the University of Rochester from Milwaukie, Oregon
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2005 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000.
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Noah Cowan, a freshman at Brown University from Bethesda, Maryland
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2016 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000.
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Ted Brown, a teacher originally from Colorado Springs, Colorado
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Season 1 player (1985-02-08).
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Kevin Brown, a senior at Louisiana State University from Boise, Idaho
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2016 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000.
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Eric Rau, an assistant federal public defender from Tucson, Arizona
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Season 26 player (2010-06-21). Eric appeared in the Fastest Finger circle...
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Jim Scott, an attorney from Arlington, Virginia
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"He was a legal assistant living near D.C. when he won...
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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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Larry Brown, a product manager from Newport Beach, California
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Season 3 player (1987-06-24).
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Enrique Machado, an oil filtration business developer from Orlando, Florida
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Season 26 1-time champion: $30,799 + $2,000. Enrique Machado September 16,...
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Lyndsey Romick, a sophomore from Lewis & Clark College
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2010-A College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. Hometown: Grants Pass, Oregon. Lyndsey Romick...
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Hill Harper, an author and actor from CSI: NY
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"As an award-winning author, he's written three New York Times best...
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Brian Brown, a hotel food and beverage manager from Cartaret, New Jersey
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Season 20 player (2003-10-09).
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Roger Brown, a sales representative originally from Piscataway, New Jersey
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Season 14 player (1998-06-08).
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Peter Brown, a musician & actor from Brooklyn, New York
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Season 17 player (2001-01-17).
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Kathryn Erbe, an actress from Law & Order: Criminal Intent
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"On stage, she earned a 1991 Tony nomination for Speed of...
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Mark Brown, an administrative assistant and father from Peoria, Arizona
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2003 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 19 5-time champion: $68,094...
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Lawrence Brown, a customer service representative originally from Pass Christian, Mississippi
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Season 15 player (1998-10-02).
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Pete Brown, a U.S. Coast Guard officer from Mobile, Alabama
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Season 6 player (1990-04-19).
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Joshua Brown, a copywriter from New York City, New York
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Season 14 player (1998-06-29).
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Susan Kornblum, a civil engineering technician from Brown County, Indiana
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Season 8 player (1992-05-19).
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Hon. Margaret Spellings, a U.S. Secretary of Education from Washington, D.C.
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"As an advisor to President George W. Bush, she helped craft...
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Faith Brown, a fundraiser from Washington, D.C.
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Season 15 player (1998-09-24).
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