| #9087, aired 2024-04-23 | SHARED INTERNATIONAL LAKES $1200: This Russian hero named for a victory at the Neva River also won a battle on frozen lake Peipus, now shared by Russia & Estonia Alexander Nevsky |
| #9085, aired 2024-04-19 | FUN FACTS $400: These marshmallow chick candies took 27 hours to make individually by hand in 1953; now 509 are hatched every 8 seconds Peeps |
| #9085, aired 2024-04-19 | THE DEPTHS $1600: This odd name chosen by the McPublic is now borne by a submersible that has gone deep under the Thwaites Glacier to study its ice loss Boaty McBoatface |
| #9080, aired 2024-04-12 | THE BLACK ARTS MOVEMENT $1600: This Back to Africa promoter was an icon depicted on Chicago's now destroyed Wall of Respect, designed by BAM artists (Marcus) Garvey |
| #9070, aired 2024-03-29 | MR. OR MRS. SONG $400: (It was only a hit) it was only a hit over a year after its release; now this song by the Killers is called a "millennial anthem" "Mr. Brightside" |
| #9061, aired 2024-03-18 | 21st CENTURY WORDS $200: To post a message originally posted by someone else on the service now known as X retweet |
| #9039, aired 2024-02-15 | JACKSON $800: Randy Rhoads helped create the Jackson brand of these, now owned by Fender a guitar |
| #9034, aired 2024-02-08 | END OF STORY $400: By Steinbeck: "Curley and Carlson looked after them. And Carlson said, 'Now what the hell ya suppose is eatin' them two guys?"' Of Mice and Men |
| #9030, aired 2024-02-02 | A SUCCESSFUL OPERATION $1,000 (Daily Double): Part of biliary surgery, the operation to remove this, now one of the most common, was first done by Dr. Langenbuch in 1882 the gallbladder |
| #26, aired 2024-01-23 | WACKY FAD OBITUARIES $600: Funeral services for this line dance will be held on the nearest cruise ship, featuring a special performance by Los del Rio the "Macarena" |
| #26, aired 2024-01-23 | I'M JUST KEN $10,400 (Daily Double): In 2023 this documentarian released his latest film, a four-hour series examining the rich history of the American buffalo Ken Burns |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | "DIS"CONTINUED $400: In law, it's "a justice's nonconcurrence with a decision of the majority"; it's also the nickname of the collar worn by RBG dissent |
| #9007, aired 2024-01-02 | THOSE WHO CELEBRATE $1200: In 1772 the British sent HMS Gaspee to patrol this bay; Rhode Islanders burned it & now celebrate by burning it again Narragansett Bay |
| #9001, aired 2023-12-25 | '80s NO. 1 HITMAKERS $2000: Remakes of 2 Tommy James & the Shondells hits became back-to-back No. 1s, this song by Tiffany followed by "Mony Mony" "I Think We're Alone Now" |
| #8990, aired 2023-12-08 | WORKING ON A BUILDING $4,000 (Daily Double): 1902:
Daniel Burnham completes NYC's Fuller Building, now known by this household appliance name the Flatiron Building |
| #22, aired 2023-12-06 | CHORUS LINES $6,000 (Daily Double): "I like to be in America, okay by me in America, everything free in America, for a small fee in America" West Side Story |
| #8985, aired 2023-12-01 | LANDMARKS FOR SALE $200: It cost $1.5 million to build by 1889 but now can be yours! We'll even throw in its antenna! Say oui to this while you can! the Eiffel Tower |
| #20, aired 2023-11-15 | FOR THE LOVE OF PETE $400: Back in South Bend, this former presidential hopeful went by "Mayor Pete"; now he goes by "Secretary of Transportation" Pete Buttigieg |
| #18, aired 2023-10-25 | BY THE NUMBERS $400: From the hours worked at a typical job, this term now refers to the job itself--just ask Sheena or Dolly 9 to 5 |
| #18, aired 2023-10-25 | BY THE NUMBERS $800: As slang, it sounds a lot less serious than "shoplifting" -- though your arresting officer might not agree five-finger discount |
| #8949, aired 2023-10-12 | SPOOKY LITERATURE $600: (Justin Long presents the clue.) "Welcome to Dead House" from 1992 was the first of the books in the "Goosebumps" series by this author that by now has sold a spooky number of copies (R.L.) Stine |
| #8939, aired 2023-09-28 | NEW WORDS IN THE 1600s $1000: My anatomist doth dub it the "hipbone basin" but I must inform him that it is now known by this word of 6 letters the pelvis |
| #14, aired 2023-09-27 | ALSO AN ANIMAL SOUND $100: The very first of these microblogging posts was sent by company cofounder Jack Dorsey on March 21, 2006 a tweet |
| #8919, aired 2023-07-20 | COFFEE, NOW $200: One story says the inventor of this type of coffee was inspired by a shipment of beans accidentally soaked by seawater decaf |
| #8918, aired 2023-07-19 | FASHION OLD & NEW $600: This one-piece garment that is named for its original use by parachuters is now high fashion a jumpsuit |
| #8887, aired 2023-06-06 | IT COMES IN "WAVE"s $1200: This old term for what's now called a tsunami just means fluctuation caused by the gravity of the Sun & Moon a tidal wave |
| #20, aired 2023-05-24 | NATURE $1600: The fragrant flowers of this plant turn toward the sun, hence its name; it's also the name for a shade of purple heliotrope |
| #8877, aired 2023-05-23 | A COUNTRY BY ANY OTHER NAME $2000: The former Ellice Islands are now this country that derives a substantial part of its revenue from leasing the .tv domain name Tuvalu |
| #8875, aired 2023-05-19 | HIP-HOP NAMES $1200: Cameron Thomaz was known by a short form of "Wizard"; a relative added an Arabic word & now Cameron is him Wiz Khalifa |
| #8, aired 2023-05-12 | PHYSICS CHECKUP $1000: According to this cosmologist's law, redshift in light coming from a galaxy is directly proportional to its distance from us Hubble |
| #8, aired 2023-05-12 | WORLD FACTS $1200: It's the only country in Africa that's completely surrounded by another country Lesotho |
| #5, aired 2023-05-10 | DON'T CONFUSE THE TWO $1200: Language or jargon used by lawyers & a language or people of Sri Lanka legalese & Sinhalese |
| #8866, aired 2023-05-08 | AMERICAN WOMAN $1200: First name of the philanthropist who has gone by the last names Tuttle, Bezos & now Scott MacKenzie |
| #8856, aired 2023-04-24 | BEATLES "S"ONGS $800: "I don't want to leave her now, you know I believe and how" "Something" |
| #8854, aired 2023-04-20 | FACE THE POLITICIAN $800: In 1983, the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act was introduced by this then-congressman & now senator Schumer |
| #8853, aired 2023-04-19 | MY KID GOT INTO AN IVY LEAGUE MUSEUM $1000: At a Yale museum, they enjoyed an earl by this 18th century British portraitist & learned that the lad's name is now known--Marcus Sir Joshua Reynolds |
| #8849, aired 2023-04-13 | FOODSTOCK $1000: "Everyday People" clan now fronted by a plate of mini-cheeseburgers Sliders and the Family Stone |
| #8832, aired 2023-03-21 | BOOKS: THE FUTURE IS NOW $800: This 1925 novel about a futuristic city in 2026 became an art deco sci-fi silent movie by Fritz Lang Metropolis |
| #8832, aired 2023-03-21 | BOOKS: THE FUTURE IS NOW $1200: In 2025, game shows are to the death in "The Running Man", written by Stephen King under this pseudonym Richard Bachman |
| #8815, aired 2023-02-24 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY $800: What was called Mount McKinley for nearly 100 years is now officially known by this Native American name Mount Denali |
| #8807, aired 2023-02-14 | PORTRAIT OF A LADY $800: Seized by the Nazis, this artist's "Woman in Gold" portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer now resides at the Neue Galerie in New York Klimt |
| #8801, aired 2023-02-06 | YOU CAN CALL ME HOMER $2000: Now honored by a plaque in a station in Roxbury, Horatio J. Homer was this city's first Black police officer, for 40 years from 1878 Boston |
| #8800, aired 2023-02-03 | FIRST OFF, HOW DARE YOU $1600: I'm hurt & now slighted by your actions; you've done this idiomatically, which involves a mathematical function added insult to injury |
| #8798, aired 2023-02-01 | IF ANCIENT GREEK DEITIES WERE AROUND TODAY $400: He rode a chariot pulled by fiery horses & brought daylight to the world; now he's a superchamp riding trotters in Yonkers Apollo |
| #8793, aired 2023-01-25 | BOOK OF THE YEAR $2000: "1947: Where Now Begins" naturally takes note of an invention that year by this Russian gun designer Kalashnikov |
| #8790, aired 2023-01-20 | SAFE $200: Ships threatened by inclement weather often sought "safe" this, now also a term for a protective legal provision harbor |
| #8785, aired 2023-01-13 | A SIDE OF FABERGÉ EGGS $800: The Blue Serpent Clock Egg of 1895, with the snake's tongue indicating the hour, is owned by this ruler of Monaco Prince Albert II |
| #8777, aired 2023-01-03 | FICTION'S FICTIONAL PLACES $200: Now a term for any dreamy society, this Thomas More land from a 1516 work was Communist & populated by pagans Utopia |
| #8766, aired 2022-12-19 | TELEVISION THEN & NOW $200: Everybody who was anybody appeared on the talk show hosted by this man, near & dear to "Jeopardy!" Merv Griffin |
| #8755, aired 2022-12-02 | WORD HISTORY $1600: It sounds odd now that in "Dracula" the count says, "You will need, after your journey, to refresh yourself by making your" this toilet |
| #8750, aired 2022-11-25 | WHETHER YOU'RE A BROTHER OR WHETHER YOU'RE A MOTHER $800: Billie Eilish & her brother & collaborator have both dropped the last name O'Connell; he just goes by this name now Finneas |
| #8747, aired 2022-11-22 | SOCCER'S WORLD CUP IN THE 21st CENTURY $200: Now the reigning champion, France took the Cup in 2018 by defeating Croatia 4-2 at Luzhniki Stadium in this world capital Moscow |
| #8739, aired 2022-11-10 | 21st CENTURY BESTSELLERS $800: Jon Krakauer reported "A Story of Violent Faith" in this book, detailing 1984 murders by religious extremists in Utah Under the Banner of Heaven |
| #8733, aired 2022-11-02 | SIMON SAYS $800: In a novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe, he says, "I'm your church now! You understand,--you've got to be as I say" (Simon) Legree |
| #6, aired 2022-10-30 | TUNING INTO THE '90s $1000: Exit light, enter night & now, "Enter Sandman" by this band; go ahead & sleep with one eye open, gripping your pillow tight Metallica |
| #8722, aired 2022-10-18 | PRESIDENTIAL SPEECHES $3,000 (Daily Double): "We have now lived almost 50 years under the Constitution framed by the sages & patriots of the Revolution" (Andrew) Jackson |
| #8703, aired 2022-09-21 | PEOPLE & PLACES $1600: As the name is now considered derogatory, the Lapps of northern Europe should be referred to by this 4-letter name Sami |
| #8694, aired 2022-07-28 | PLANT PARTS $2,000 (Daily Double): The business part of this plant, Dionaea muscipula, consists of 2 hinged lobes triggered by hair-like sensors a Venus flytrap |
| #8693, aired 2022-07-27 | NOTABLE WOMEN $1600: Formerly known by this numerical name, the Opportunity in Education Act now bears Hawaii Representative Patsy Mink's name Title IX |
| #8687, aired 2022-07-19 | UNDER QUARANTINE $2000: Plague arrived by ship at this French Mediterranean port in 1720 & despite an immediate quarantine, half the city perished Marseille |
| #8681, aired 2022-07-11 | THE RAVEN-POURRI $200: "Ah, distinctly I remember it", this conflict of legend ignited by Paris & Helen, & in the room that I now dwell in, "Quoth the raven..." the Trojan War |
| #8663, aired 2022-06-15 | MILWAUKEE: NEWS CLUES $1000: (Natalie Shepherd of the CBS58 news team presents the clue.) The Milwaukee Art Museum now has wings designed by geniuses from both ends of Europe; in 2001, a new pavilion with a removable sunscreen, designed by Spain's Santiago Calatrava, joined the original building by this modernist from Finland (Eero) Saarinen |
| #8646, aired 2022-05-23 | RELATIVELY SUCCESSFUL COMPOSERS $2000: Queen Victoria: "Now I'll sing 'Italien', my favorite of your works". this composer: "Uh, that one's actually by my sister Fanny" (Felix) Mendelssohn |
| #8635, aired 2022-05-06 | ETHNIC GROUPS $800: Enjoy a fasnacht baked by this Mid-Atlantic group who, despite their name, largely came from what's now Germany the Pennsylvania Dutch |
| #8627, aired 2022-04-26 | THE MIDDLE AGES $1,000 (Daily Double): Now known to historians as the Migration period, the early Middle Ages were long known by this name implying ignorance the Dark Ages |
| #8625, aired 2022-04-22 | 1980s TV $1000: Little "Cheers" ditty / 'Bout Sam & Diane / Diane, played by this actress / Doing the best she can Shelley Long |
| #8623, aired 2022-04-20 | THE HUNGER NAMES $800: MRE is officially short for this, though soldiers have referred to them as "meals rejected by everyone" Meals-Ready-to-Eat |
| #8609, aired 2022-03-31 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $400: No beans about it, this school now in Chestnut Hill was founded by a Jesuit priest in 1863 Boston College |
| #8596, aired 2022-03-14 | LIBRARIES $4,000 (Daily Double): The National Library of Medicine is maintained by the National Institutes of Health in this unincorporated Maryland community Bethesda |
| #8590, aired 2022-03-04 | TRANSPORTATION $800: California's dream of this high-speed train from L.A. to San Francisco is now a hope to finish the Merced-Bakersfield route by 2030 a bullet train |
| #8585, aired 2022-02-25 | KINDS OF CARE $800: Opened by emergency physicians starting in the 1970s, in the U.S. these clinics now number more than 10,000 urgent care clinics |
| #14, aired 2022-02-17 | NIGHTTIME NEWS WITH WORLD NEWS NOW $2000: (Mona Kosar Abdi delivers the clue.) Vacationing on his family farm on an August night in 1923, this man was awakened with news that Warren Harding had died; by the light of a kerosene lamp, he was sworn in as president by his father, a justice of the peace (Calvin) Coolidge |
| #5, aired 2022-02-10 | HOME ECONOMICS WITH TOPHER GRACE $800: (Topher Grace delivers the clue.) Crypto is a newer investment option; created as a joke in 2013, this coin, favored by shiba inus, is no joke now Dogecoin |
| #8567, aired 2022-02-01 | INTERNATIONAL GET-TOGETHERS $1200: This Austin-based meet-up was focused on music when it launched in 1987, but now includes other media South by Southwest |
| #8560, aired 2022-01-21 | LANDMARK OF THE CITY $1000: The Topkapi Palace, begun by Sultan Mehmed II around 1460 & now a museum Istanbul |
| #8549, aired 2022-01-06 | MOVIES BY QUOTE $400: 2013:
"Look at me. Look at me. I'm the captain now" Captain Phillips |
| #8544, aired 2021-12-30 | THE FIRST AFRICAN-AMERICAN... $800: New York Yankee, Elston Howard was also one of the first to model for this men's magazine now known by just 2 letters GQ |
| #8535, aired 2021-12-17 | THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND $400: A 2017 book by Ian Dunt has a title many are asking--this 6-letter word: "What the Hell Happens Now?" Brexit |
| #8524, aired 2021-12-02 | EXAM TIME $400: In the 1950s half of U.S. hospital deaths were followed by a postmortem exam, also called this; now it's under 10% an autopsy |
| #8495, aired 2021-10-22 | IS IT ME YOU'RE LOOKING FOR? $800: I'm Roger Thornhill, an innocent guy being chased by shadowy forces in this 1959 Hitchcock film; now a plane's after me...! North by Northwest |
| #8490, aired 2021-10-15 | NOW READ THIS! $800: "Golden Girl" & "28 Summers" are Nantucket-set novels by this woman, "The Queen of Beach Reads" Elin Hilderbrand |
| #8490, aired 2021-10-15 | NOW READ THIS! $1,000 (Daily Double): Howard Roark is to "The Fountainhead" as John Galt is to this 1,100-page tome Atlas Shrugged |
| #8468, aired 2021-09-15 | CAN I SELL YOU SOME INSURANCE (ON TV)? $200: Commercials once featured an actual State Farm employee named this, but now he's played by an actor named Kevin Jake (from State Farm) |
| #8451, aired 2021-07-26 | U.S. GOVERNMENT BUILDINGS $2000: What's now a federal center in this Michigan city was once the sanitarium run by John Harvey Kellogg Battle Creek |
| #8446, aired 2021-07-19 | A TIME OF WAR $1600: The Natchez people were nearly wiped out by the French garrison at Fort Rosalie, now the site of Natchez in this state Mississippi |
| #8433, aired 2021-06-30 | SPORTS & SOCIETY $200: Some players are offended by this word for the person who bought a team; Commissioner Silver says the NBA isn't using it anymore owner |
| #8433, aired 2021-06-30 | MAGAZINES $800: Now owned by Bloomberg, this financial magazine debuted 7 weeks before the big stock market crash of 1929 Business Week |
| #8420, aired 2021-06-11 | GROUPS OF 12 $200: Now used by many groups as an aid to rehabilitation, the twelve-step program started with this organization AA (Alcoholics Anonymous) |
| #8381, aired 2021-04-19 | SCI-FI MOVIE BY QUOTE $600: Joaquin Phoenix to Scarlett Johansson: "Are you talking to anyone else right now...? --Yeah. --How many others? --8,316" Her |
| #8381, aired 2021-04-19 | MODERN KITCHEN APPLIANCES $800: Now featuring attachments to make pasta & ground meat, the original stand mixer by this brand turned 100 in 2019 KitchenAid |
| #8381, aired 2021-04-19 | ANCIENT CITIES $2000: Now in this Central American country, the ancient Mayan city of Uaxactun was mysteriously abandoned by the 10th century Guatemala |
| #8359, aired 2021-03-18 | GREEN $2000: Cecil Howard Green helped transform a Dallas geophysics company into the electronics giant now known by this name Texas Instruments |
| #8348, aired 2021-03-03 | GEOGRAPHY $400: This capital of Puerto Rico is the oldest city founded by Europeans that is now under U.S. jurisdiction San Juan |
| #8348, aired 2021-03-03 | HOW NOW, DOW JONES COMPANY? $600: In 1978 its eventual co-founders saw red--make that orange--after getting fired by Handy Dan Home Improvement Centers The Home Depot |
| #8329, aired 2021-02-04 | NOW LISTEN TO ME $600: Stand back! I'm gonna shred on my Telecaster, an electric guitar by this famed instrument maker Fender |
| #8314, aired 2021-01-14 | WEE-POURRI $1000: Now owned by Mattel, they began rolling off the assembly line in the 1950s & were named for their small cardboard containers Matchbox cars |
| #8305, aired 2020-12-18 | STATES BY COUNTY $400: Winnebago,
Champaign,
Fayette Illinois |
| #8303, aired 2020-12-16 | MINCED OATHS $2000: On St. Patrick's Day, you might hear someone exclaim "Faith &" this word meaning "by God" Begorra |
| #8298, aired 2020-12-09 | HISTORIC ENGLISH COUNTIES $600: What is now this city in Somerset was started by the Romans as Aquae Sulis around its hot springs Bath |
| #8291, aired 2020-11-30 | HAVING AN ARGUMENT $2000: This Latin phrase once meant arguing by appealing to someone's personal feelings; now it means an irrelevant personal attack ad hominem |
| #8289, aired 2020-11-26 | ARE YOU SMARTER THAN A 5th CENTURY RAIDER? $800: In what's now this country, Emperor Skanda Gupta battled raids by the Hunas (Huns, but further east) India |
| #8281, aired 2020-11-16 | DAM BUILDING $600: Now in danger of failing, the Kariba Dam on the Zambezi River created the world's largest one of these by volume, 43 cubic miles a reservoir |
| #8280, aired 2020-11-13 | BRITISH ROYAL RESIDENCES $1200: Caernarfon Castle was used by Edward I in the 13th century when subduing this country, now part of the United Kingdom Wales |
| #8277, aired 2020-11-10 | HYMNS $200: This hymn that says, "I once was lost, but now am found" was written by a slave trader turned abolitionist "Amazing Grace" |
| #8267, aired 2020-10-27 | SOUTH AMERICA $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents by a display monitor.) In existence only from 1819 to 1830, Simon Bolivar's Republic spanned the top of South America, incorporating what is now Panama, Venezuela, Ecuador and this nation, whose name echoes that of the republic Colombia |
| #8258, aired 2020-10-14 | SWEDEN LOWS--& HIGHS $400: High: founded by Ingvar Kamprad in Älmhult, Sweden, it's now the world's largest furniture retailer IKEA |
| #8256, aired 2020-10-12 | I'LL TURN IT $800: A novel by David Leavitt is a real this; that's its title, about a job assisting a classical pianist a page turner |
| #8255, aired 2020-10-09 | CHURCHES & CATHEDRALS $1600: If you visit this New Mexico town, stop by the San Francisco de Asis Church, a favorite subject of painters Taos |
| #8254, aired 2020-10-08 | JAMES BOND $400: In "Thunderball" Bond makes an escape wearing one of these personal flying devices we were all supposed to have by now a jet pack |
| #8252, aired 2020-10-06 | KEN JENNINGS KNOWS MOUNTAIN G.O.A.T.s $800: (Ken Jennings presents the clue.) Braving subzero temps on June 7th, 1913, Walter Harper was the first person to stand atop this 20,310-foot peak; Of Athabascan heritage, he was the one Native American member of the expedition, and the mountain itself is now known by its indigenous name Denali (Mount McKinley) |
| #8241, aired 2020-09-21 | NEW TECHNOLOGY $2000: Instead of contaminating a burger, this bacterium can now make indigo in a process invented by a biotech company E. coli |
| #8236, aired 2020-09-14 | CROSS EXAMINATION $1000: Egyptians used the crux ansata, a cross with a loop on top, better known by this 4-letter name an ankh |
| #8232, aired 2020-06-09 | HISTORY OF HUNGARY $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from Budapest, Hungary in Memento Park.) The Republic of Councils monument --now mocked as "Sir, You Forgot Your Scarf!"--was meant to immortalize Hungary's first government by this party, which merged with the Social Democrats in 1919, just before taking power the Communists |
| #8231, aired 2020-06-08 | "ROCK" &/OR "ROLL" SONGS $400: Chuck Berry's impossible 1956 title request of Ludwig van while "rockin' in 2 by 2" "Roll Over Beethoven" |
| #8220, aired 2020-05-22 | THAT WORD IS QUITE A CHARACTER $1200: This character played by Anne Bancroft is now a term for an older woman dating a younger man Mrs. Robinson |
| #8212, aired 2020-04-28 | DJ, JAZZY $1200: Still going strong, the jazz festival of this bay & aquarium city in California was founded in 1958 by DJ Jimmy Lyons Monterey |
| #8207, aired 2020-04-21 | AROUND THE GARDEN $2000: Poplars & irises are examples of plants that propagate & spread by these fleshy, creeping underground stems rhizomes |
| #8196, aired 2020-04-06 | ART HISTORY $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents by a display monitor.) In 1654, the city of Delft was devastated by a gunpowder explosion depicted here; Rembrandt's student Carel Fabritius didn't survive, but this now-famous painting of his did, and went on to inspire a best-selling novel of the same name The Goldfinch |
| #8194, aired 2020-04-02 | THIS & THAT $400: By August 2018 ex-Maryland Rep. & presidential hopeful John Delaney had visited all 99 counties in this early caucus state Iowa |
| #8185, aired 2020-03-20 | GAME "OVER" $1200: Since reclassified, Rogaine & the nicotine patch, formerly sold by prescription only, can now be purchased this way over the counter |
| #8185, aired 2020-03-20 | FOREIGN FLAGS $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents by a display monitor.) The emblem on Mexico's flag is based on a legend that an eagle perched on a cactus was the sign to where the wandering Aztec people should build their capital, named this, now the site of Mexico City Tenochtitlan |
| #8168, aired 2020-02-26 | INTERNATIONAL AIRLINES $800: With help from TWA, Ethiopian Airlines was founded in 1945 by this leader to modernize the country Haile Selassie |
| #8165, aired 2020-02-21 | SOUTH AMERICAN PLACES $2000: This capital of Suriname was ceded by the English to the Dutch by the 1667 Treaty of Breda Paramaribo |
| #8158, aired 2020-02-12 | WALKING $1600: The A.H.A. says walking 150 minutes a week can reduce risk of this silent killer caused by blocked or burst brain arteries a stroke |
| #8155, aired 2020-02-07 | SLANG TERMS $2000: This numerical term for the first person to catch a certain disease now can mean the first person affected by something patient zero |
| #8150, aired 2020-01-31 | > $800: In 2019 the Grammy for Best Country Duo/Group Performance went to "Tequila" by the duo of Dan + him Shay |
| #8148, aired 2020-01-29 | TRAIN OF THOUGHT $2,200 (Daily Double): In 1977, after decades of dwindling ridership, this luxury train was discontinued, or was it... murdered?! the Orient Express |
| #8146, aired 2020-01-27 | NOVELS BY CHAPTER TITLES $1000: From a Verne work: "Boldly Down the Crater" Journey to the Center of the Earth |
| #8139, aired 2020-01-16 | BLUE BY YOU $400: He chose a nice blue hat to cover the bandage over his ear for the 1889 painting seen here van Gogh |
| #8137, aired 2020-01-14 | ALL STARS $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents by a display monitor.) The Earth wobbles as it spins, moving the Polar Axis through the sky, so 12,000 years from now, Vega will replace Polaris as this the North Star |
| #1, aired 2020-01-07 | POP CULTURE BOOKSHELF $1200: (Kevin Hart delivers the clue.) There's desert & snow & now, it's Danny Glover taking over my avatar in "Jumanji: The Next Level", the most recent film inspired by a book written & illustrated by this man Van Allsburg |
| #8125, aired 2019-12-27 | SURROUNDED! $800: This province: by British Columbia, the Northwest Territories, Saskatchewan & Montana Alberta |
| #8125, aired 2019-12-27 | INTERNATIONAL SPORTS $2,600 (Daily Double): The British Empire Games are now known by this name, as the Brits are somewhat less imperial now the Commonwealth Games |
| #8119, aired 2019-12-19 | ABOUT [TYPE]FACE $600: Now considered the standard for screenplays, Courier was used by IBM for the Selectric brand of these a typewriter |
| #8119, aired 2019-12-19 | STUPID ANSWERS $800: Bordering Angola & Botswana, what is now Namibia was administered by this South African country until 1990 South Africa |
| #8117, aired 2019-12-17 | FINAL RESTING PLACES $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew is at Grant's Tomb in New York City.) The tomb of Ulysses S. Grant, once New York City's most popular attraction, was partly inspired by the tomb of this other 19th century man who was both a great general and a head of state Napoleon Bonaparte |
| #8116, aired 2019-12-16 | AN "A" IN MEDICINE $800: Giving oxygen by mask during sleep is one treatment for this sleep disorder apnea |
| #8112, aired 2019-12-10 | SHARK-UTERIE $400: Okay, so now we've given nightmares to half of America by showing this colorful carnivore of the deep a great white |
| #8110, aired 2019-12-06 | IT'S NOT ROCKET SCIENCE $1200: It's investigation into a bone-softening disease caused by vitamin D deficiency rickets science |
| #8099, aired 2019-11-21 | 20th CENTURY HISTORY $800: The 381-day bus boycott in this city was triggered by Rosa Parks' arrest for refusing to give up her seat to a white man Montgomery |
| #8088, aired 2019-11-06 | "ALL" IN $1000: Scientific term for the innermost digit of a vertebrate's hind foot; we call ours a big toe a hallux |
| #8083, aired 2019-10-30 | SOUNDS SPACEY $1200: A song by Train begins, "Now that she's back in the atmosphere, with drops of" this "in her hair" Jupiter |
| #8083, aired 2019-10-30 | AMERICAN THINKERS $1600: William James popularized this -ism that judges ideas by their usefulness, now a synonym for "practicality" pragmaticism |
| #8080, aired 2019-10-25 | LET'S TALK ABOUT FLIGHT CLUB $200: Now on public display in Ohio, an aircraft popularly known by this name was used by JFK starting in 1962 Air Force One |
| #8060, aired 2019-09-27 | BIOGRAPHERS $2000: His fourth volume on Lyndon Johnson appeared in 2012 & was followed by great anticipation of volume 5 (Robert) Caro |
| #8055, aired 2019-09-20 | THAT USED TO HAPPEN? $1200: Once common in schools but now frowned upon, it was not dispensed by an army NCO, despite the name corporal punishment |
| #8054, aired 2019-09-19 | FERDINAND $200: This explorer was joined on his 4th voyage in 1502 by illegitimate son Ferdinand, who later wrote dad's biography Columbus |
| #8047, aired 2019-09-10 | NAME-CALLING IN POLITICS $600: Paintings by George Rodrigue help provide this colorful nickname for conservative Democrats Blue Dog |
| #8031, aired 2019-07-08 | THE POWER OF THREE $1600: Adopted by the U.S. in 1793, it's the 3-word phrase for territorial waters; now most countries claim more the three mile limit |
| #8030, aired 2019-07-05 | WE MEAN BID-NESS $1000: Lance Bass wanted the "Brady Bunch" house but his bid was out of sync & topped by this TV network that's all about houses HGTV |
| #8023, aired 2019-06-26 | BROADWAY MUSICALS BY SONGS $2000: "Mama, I'm A Big Girl Now" & "You Can't Stop The Beat" Hairspray |
| #8001, aired 2019-05-27 | IMPERIAL-ISM $800: "La Bayadere" was premiered in 1877 by the Russian Imperial this, later the Kirov, now the Mariinsky ballet |
| #7997, aired 2019-05-21 | ADAMS NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from Adams National Historical Park.) Here in 1776, this future First Lady wrote to her husband in the Continental Congress to "remember the ladies who will not hold ourselves bound by any law in which we have no voice" Abigail Adams |
| #7981, aired 2019-04-29 | WAIT, SOMETHING'S "OFF" $400: A fashion copy not made by its originator can be a cheap this 8-letter word a knockoff |
| #7969, aired 2019-04-11 | AROUND THE INDIAN OCEAN $1200: At the edge of the Indian Ocean lies this island, whose east part, now independent, was invaded by Indonesia in 1975 Timor |
| #7963, aired 2019-04-03 | QUOTES FROM SHAKESPEARE $800: In "Richard III", "Now is" this 5-word season "made glorious summer by this sun of York" the winter of our discontent |
| #7955, aired 2019-03-22 | NOW YOU'RE COOKING $600: Type of fish dish made by a Cajun method incorporating high heat, resulting in a charred crust blackened |
| #7949, aired 2019-03-14 | THE PLAY'S LAST LINES $2000: By Woody Allen: "Well, you see, the thing about Bogart that most people don't know is that..." Play It Again, Sam |
| #7944, aired 2019-03-07 | READING TALK $400: I get it, I hear you, "I read you" these 2 ways I read you loud and clear (or five by five) |
| #7931, aired 2019-02-18 | TEXTBOOKS $800: This anthology of English lit is now in its 10th edition, supervised by Shakespeare scholar Stephen Greenblatt the Norton anthology |
| #7916, aired 2019-01-28 | THE TV BIZ $2000: A leading mag of the biz, founded in 1931 as Broadcasting, became Broadcasting & this in the '90s & now goes by B&C Broadcasting & Cable |
| #7887, aired 2018-12-18 | 4th CENTURY BOOKSTORE $400: "Hymns on Paradise" by Ephrem the Syrian includes commentary on this book of the Bible in which paradise is lost Genesis |
| #7887, aired 2018-12-18 | AMERICAN HELICOPTER MUSEUM $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from American Helicopter Museum in West Chester, Pennsylvania.) Remote-controlled by radar, the torpedo-carrying Gyrodyne QH-50C was used in the 1960s as an anti-submarine weapon, making it one of the first of these now-ubiquitous unmanned vehicles a drone |
| #7883, aired 2018-12-12 | THINGS ARE GETTING BETTER $800: A bestseller by Steven Pinker about the joys of progress is called this 18th century era of reason "Now" Enlightenment |
| #7881, aired 2018-12-10 | ALL KINDS OF BOOKS $1200: There are now over 250 titles in this series of inspirational books cooked up by Jack Canfield & Mark Victor Hansen Chicken Soup for the Soul |
| #7872, aired 2018-11-27 | THE WRITER SPEAKS $400: "I never imagined that I should be able to live by my writing, but now I am kept by a little girl named Lolita" Nabokov |
| #7871, aired 2018-11-26 | PREDICTIONS BY 2030 $1000: In 2018 this social network site got a few "thumbs up", with a market cap of about $540 billion; by 2030, that number will be...more? Facebook |
| #7865, aired 2018-11-16 | FICTIONAL PLACES $600: Aslan created this well-chronicled land by singing Narnia |
| #7854, aired 2018-11-01 | NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC ALMANAC 2019 $400: (Cara Santa Maria presents the clue.) A photo in the section on the solar system shows a view from Earth of the luminous band of stars & gas clouds in the night sky that gave this spiral galaxy its name the Milky Way |
| #7849, aired 2018-10-25 | HEY JOE $1000: Joe "The Boss" Masseria was a 1930s Mafia kingpin until whacked by a team led by this "charmed" killer Lucky Luciano |
| #7841, aired 2018-10-15 | I'M GONNA PRAY ON THIS $400: The Church of England's state prayer for the royal family mentions Philip & this man by name (Prince) Charles |
| #7831, aired 2018-10-01 | AUTOBIOGRAPHIES $3,000 (Daily Double): "Shoe Dog" is by this footwear company founder & CEO Phil Knight |
| #7825, aired 2018-09-21 | HELP ME WITH THE TITLE $400: Max sails off to this place, the title of a classic by Maurice Sendak, but is home in time for supper Where the Wild Things Are |
| #7823, aired 2018-09-19 | HOT, CROSS NUNS $1200: Being grilled by this Oscar winner in "Doubt", Philip Seymour Hoffman says, "I object to your tone" Meryl Streep |
| #7817, aired 2018-09-11 | I'M ALLEN $1000: This 1960 Pulitzer Prize winner by Allen Drury told about the inner workings of the U.S. Senate Advise and Consent |
| #7786, aired 2018-06-18 | REVOLUTION NOW! $600: "Power to the people!" was a slogan of this African-American revolutionary group co-founded by Huey Newton the Black Panthers |
| #7786, aired 2018-06-18 | REVOLUTION NOW! $1000: A revolution by this "juvenile" group in 1908 restored constitutional rule to the Ottoman Empire the Young Turks |
| #7775, aired 2018-06-01 | DAY & NIGHT BOOKSTORE $2000: Set designer Tod Hackett glimpses firsthand the artificiality of Hollywood in this 1939 work by Nathanael West Day of the Locust |
| #7769, aired 2018-05-24 | PLAY BILL $1200: Jame "Buffalo Bill" Gumb, as played by Ted Levine, has a dog named Precious in this film; now put the lotion in the basket! Silence of the Lambs |
| #7768, aired 2018-05-23 | DIMES $1200: Liberty on the 1796-1807 draped bust dime was based on a sketch by this George Washington portraitist (Gilbert) Stuart |
| #7754, aired 2018-05-03 | THE BRONTES $2000: The character of Huntingdon in "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall" by this Bronte sister is based on their brother Branwell Anne Bronte |
| #7736, aired 2018-04-09 | CORPS CURRICULUM $400: Established by Uncle Sam in 1961, this organization now has volunteers in more than 60 countries the Peace Corps |
| #7724, aired 2018-03-22 | VERY POSSESSIVE $2000: In the 1730s England went to the War of Jenkins' this body part, allegedly cut off by Spaniards Jenkins' Ear |
| #7723, aired 2018-03-21 | NOT-SO-SERIOUS LAWS $200: Betteridge's law states that any headline ending in a question mark can be answered safely by this word no |
| #7722, aired 2018-03-20 | HOME RUN $800: The longest MLB homer of 2016 was a 504-foot shot by this Florida team's Giancarlo Stanton the Marlins |
| #7719, aired 2018-03-15 | REAL "D" LIGHTS $1000: Wizards of the Coast now owns the role-playing game created by Gary Gygax commonly shortened to this D&D |
| #7718, aired 2018-03-14 | POP "STREET" $2000: Popular video game first released by Capcom in 1987 Street Fighter |
| #7714, aired 2018-03-08 | MUSIC TERMS $1600: An accidental is a note that the composer changes by a semitone; a little b-looking thingy indicates this flat |
| #7713, aired 2018-03-07 | HUMANS IN THE GALAPAGOS $1000: (Alex presents the clue from the Galapagos.) I'm at Post Office Bay on the island of Floreana--when sailors' messages to their families back home were intercepted right here by U.S. Navy captain David Porter & his crew, they indicated the positions of their ships, & that information helped destroy the British Pacific whaling fleet during this war the War of 1812 |
| #7707, aired 2018-02-27 | TOLERANCE $800: "Never in our full life could we hope to do such work for tolerance... as now we do by accident," said this partner of Sacco Vanzetti |
| #7678, aired 2018-01-17 | GALAPAGOS ADAPTATION $800: (Alex presents the clue from the Galápagos.) The vice-governor of the Galápagos, Nicholas Lawson, told Charles Darwin that he could tell just by sight which island a tortoise came from; now, that was a fortuitous observation that came in very handy when Darwin released this groundbreaking work in 1859 On the Origin of Species |
| #7667, aired 2018-01-02 | "LIGHT" MUSIC $1000: Turn on this Neil Diamond song inspired by the movie "E.T." "Turn On Your Heartlight" |
| #7666, aired 2018-01-01 | FLAGS $1200: The flag seen here represents the nation-state led by this person Pope Francis |
| #7664, aired 2017-12-28 | NOW GET OUT! $200: "The Lord did bring the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their armies" is in this Bible book Exodus |
| #7660, aired 2017-12-22 | FEARLESS GIRL $11,400 (Daily Double): A young woman from Chile moves to Calif. during the gold rush in "Daughter of Fortune" by this author Isabel Allende |
| #7656, aired 2017-12-18 | GDANSK $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew gives the clue from Gdansk, Poland.) Legend says this Roman god, a symbol of Gdansk's ties to the sea, was angered by coins in his fountain, so he lashed out, & shards from the coins are now part of the local beverage Goldwasser Neptune |
| #7638, aired 2017-11-22 | NOW YOU'RE SPEAKING MY LANGUAGE $2000: This Asian language is official in India & also spoken by about 1/5 of the people of Sri Lanka Tamil |
| #7636, aired 2017-11-20 | THE PERSIAN PAST $2000: Around 550 B.C. this great king founded the Persian empire by overthrowing Astyages, king of the Medes Cyrus the Great |
| #7623, aired 2017-11-01 | OLD NATIONAL ANTHEMS $2000: "The Song Of Girondists", used by France 1848-52, was originally in a historical drama by this writer of the time Alexander Dumas |
| #7615, aired 2017-10-20 | NEVER HAVE I EVER $1000: ...hung out with this Norse god who helped the blind Hoder commit murder by mistletoe Loki |
| #7606, aired 2017-10-09 | THIRD TIME'S A "CHA"RM $400: Those joining a monastic order abide by the 3 evangelical counsels: poverty, obedience & of course this chastity |
| #7606, aired 2017-10-09 | CHECK, PLEASE $800: Invented by American Express, they've declined in use now that there are ATMs everywhere a traveler's check |
| #7601, aired 2017-10-02 | LEAP YEARS $1600: In 1968 the high jump was revolutionized by the new technique alliteratively called the Fosbury this flop |
| #7596, aired 2017-09-25 | NFL TEAMS BY HALL OF FAMER $400: Wide receiver Michael Irvin the Dallas Cowboys |
| #7592, aired 2017-09-19 | IT'S A WIRED WORLD $1600: Olivetti once made these, used by Raymond Chandler & others; now it provides cloud services & identity management typewriters |
| #7591, aired 2017-09-18 | EXPLORERS $2000: This Frenchman, the 1st European to journey down the Mississippi to its mouth, was killed by his own men in what's now Texas La Salle |
| #7584, aired 2017-07-27 | THE "STAR"S & "STRIPE"S $400: Fashion pattern used in certain suits or by a team very familiar with winning pennants pinstripes |
| #7575, aired 2017-07-14 | YOU CAN SET YOUR WATCH BY IT $800: First a gavel, then a gong, now one of these is sounded each day at 4 P.M. to close trading at 11 Wall Street a bell |
| #7553, aired 2017-06-14 | "STAN" BY ME $800: Now an independent "stan", before 1991 it also went by the initials USSR Uzbekistan |
| #7552, aired 2017-06-13 | JOBS TAKEN BY AUTOMATONS $200: In some hospitals, this job by a robot called PillPick pharmacist |
| #7546, aired 2017-06-05 | CLASSICAL MUSIC AT THE BALLPARK $1000: Now stepping up to the plate, No. 94, "Surprise Symphony", by this composer Haydn |
| #7536, aired 2017-05-22 | ASIAN-AMERICAN PERFORMERS $1600: This part-Korean singer who goes by a name & an initial fronts the Yeah Yeah Yeahs Karen O. |
| #7535, aired 2017-05-19 | YOU'RE SUCH A HOMER $800: Careful now, kids--the 1872 painting by this man depicts a game of "snap the whip" Winslow Homer |
| #7507, aired 2017-04-11 | WAIT"ER" $1000: After a pope's death, the period when the faithful wait for a new pope is referred to by this 11-letter term the interregnum |
| #7506, aired 2017-04-10 | THE GILDED AGE $800: By 1892 this former fort in upper New York Bay had become the USA's main immigration reception center Ellis Island |
| #7483, aired 2017-03-08 | EARLY AMERICAN HISTORY $1200: The first Atlantic-crossing ship built in what's now the U.S. took French settlers home from this S.C. island now used by the Marines Parris Island |
| #7478, aired 2017-03-01 | OBJECTS $1000: In 1980 Dustin Hoffman described this object by saying, "It has no genitalia & it's holding a sword" the Oscar |
| #7451, aired 2017-01-23 | PYRAMIDS $800: In 2016 ABC revived "The $100,000 Pyramid", now hosted by this pro football Hall of Famer (Michael) Strahan |
| #7442, aired 2017-01-10 | NEW WORDS IN THE 1600s $600: My anatomist doth dub it the "hipbone basin" but I must inform him that it is now known by this word of 6 letters the pelvis |
| #7442, aired 2017-01-10 | VARIETY PACK $1600: According to Hawaiian legend, anyone who removes a piece of volcanic rock will be cursed by this fire goddess Pele |
| #7438, aired 2017-01-04 | TOP 40 BEFORE & AFTER $800: A Macklemore & Ryan Lewis smash is told what "you better" do by the Miracles "Thrift Shop Around" |
| #7438, aired 2017-01-04 | HISTORIC OBJECTS $1000: This slab of black rock now in the British Museum was used as building material by the Ottomans for Fort Julien, Egypt the Rosetta Stone |
| #7434, aired 2016-12-29 | FILMS WITH SHORT TITLES $2000: This 1931 Fritz Lang classic starred Peter Lorre as a child murderer who's tracked down by the Berlin underworld M |
| #7432, aired 2016-12-27 | SCULPTURE $2000: The Lincoln statue seen here is by this saintly sculptor, also known for his designs of the $10 & $20 gold coins Augustus Saint-Gaudens |
| #7427, aired 2016-12-20 | & NOW FOR SOME GOOD NEWS $400: A boy who survived a tsunami wearing the jersey of this national team was helped by Cristiano Ronaldo & is now a young soccer star Portugal |
| #7425, aired 2016-12-16 | GASOLINE $1000: This Lone Star brand is now owned by Chevron Texaco |
| #7417, aired 2016-12-06 | A BARRAGE OF BOOKS $600: Sir Wilfrid of Ivanhoe is a Saxon knight in a 19th century bestseller by this author (Sir Walter) Scott |
| #7409, aired 2016-11-24 | JAPANESE HISTORY $1200: This modernizing period of "restoration" with rule by the emperor lasted for about 40 years & began in 1868 the Meiji restoration |
| #7406, aired 2016-11-21 | LANGUAGES $800: In Hebrew you use this word for both hello & goodbye shalom |
| #7395, aired 2016-11-04 | "C"s THE DAY $800: Marking the ascension to the throne by King Bhumibol, this Thai national holiday is held on May 5 Coronation Day |
| #7395, aired 2016-11-04 | THE LIVES OF AUTHORS $2000: Written while she lived in France, "Tender Buttons" is a 1914 collection of poems by this American author & art patron Gertrude Stein |
| #7389, aired 2016-10-27 | APOCALYPSE NOW $1600: This Max Brooks novel begins, "It goes by many names: 'The Crisis,' 'The Dark Years,' 'The Walking Plague'" World War Z |
| #7384, aired 2016-10-20 | CITIES & TOWNS OF THE BIBLE $600: Built by King Omri as his capital, Samaria is found in what's now often called this directional region the West Bank |
| #7375, aired 2016-10-07 | AFRICAN LAKES $2000: Crater lakes created by glaciers can be found on this second-highest African peak Mount Kenya |
| #7371, aired 2016-10-03 | THE ____ OF ____ $600 (Daily Double): This one of the Ancient Wonders was toppled by an earthquake around 225 B.C. the Colossus of Rhodes |
| #7365, aired 2016-09-23 | GETTING FROM HERE TO THERE $400: The Mardi Gras was the first ship launched by this cruise line that now carries the most guests in the industry Carnival |
| #7357, aired 2016-09-13 | I'M NOT JUST SAYING $2,000 (Daily Double): This 2,400-year-old text begins, "I swear by Apollo the physician" the Hippocratic oath |
| #7356, aired 2016-09-12 | IT'S A PROCESS $2000: U.S. military meals ready to eat are heated by this process, which is basically rusting oxidation |
| #7346, aired 2016-07-18 | MUSIC FROM THE 2000s $1000: "Stand Up" in 2005 was the 4th No. 1 studio album in a row by the band named for this S. Afr.-born man; they're big live too The Dave Matthews Band |
| #7325, aired 2016-06-17 | RESORTS $2,000 (Daily Double): The house built by Anton Chekhov in this Crimean resort is now a museum containing some of his personal items Yalta |
| #7324, aired 2016-06-16 | WHOSE WHAT? $1600: Led by a former Rev. War officer, this 1786 rebellion was against heavy taxes on debt-ridden farmers in Massachusetts Shays' Rebellion |
| #7313, aired 2016-06-01 | WORLD OF POETRY $800: Written by a Persian poet, "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" is a collection of rubai, these 4-line verses quatrains |
| #7303, aired 2016-05-18 | IT'S NOT ROCKET SCIENCE $800: You dilute a solution by watering it down; you do this to your pupils, 1 letter different, by making them expand dilate |
| #7279, aired 2016-04-14 | THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF SYDNEY $2000: This convict-unloading bay a few miles to the south is now ringed by Sydney's suburbs Botany Bay |
| #7273, aired 2016-04-06 | THE BEST NEW THING IN THE WORLD $600: (Rachel Maddow delivers the clue.) Im 1990 it was this, created by Tim Berners-Lee & now the leading information retrieval system of the Internet the World Wide Web |
| #7268, aired 2016-03-30 | VIDEO GAMES $2,000 (Daily Double): Sharing a name with a type of ship, this game was made for Windows by Windows & was first playable in 1990 Minesweeper |
| #7255, aired 2016-03-11 | FROM "C" TO SHINING "C" $1000: A person skeptical of others' motives, or a member of an ancient Greek sect founded by Antisthenes a cynic |
| #7232, aired 2016-02-09 | THE 2015 NOBEL PRIZES $2000: Works by 2015 Literature winner Svetlana Alexievich include "Voices from" this now-radioactive location Chernobyl |
| #7224, aired 2016-01-28 | WHERE YOU BEEN? $800: On top of old Mt. Godwin Austen, now better known by this alphanumeric moniker K2 |
| #7215, aired 2016-01-15 | HOLY HOUSES $1,800 (Daily Double): This Turkish mosque built by Mehmet Aga in the 17th century is named for its 20,000-plus colored tiles the Blue Mosque |
| #7214, aired 2016-01-14 | WHO READS $800: New York Times bestseller lists now track top sales in fiction & nonfiction by combining print & this type of book an e-book |
| #7201, aired 2015-12-28 | OTHER STAR TREK CHARACTERS $1200: On TV in 1967 & on film in 1982, this villain was played by Ricardo Montalbaaaaaan! Khan |
| #7190, aired 2015-12-11 | A 3-D CATEGORY $2000: This poem by Sylvia Plath says, "You stand at the blackboard... in the picture I have of you" "Daddy" |
| #7188, aired 2015-12-09 | HAMILTON $600: "You cry in your tea which you hurl in the sea when you see me go by why so sad? Remember we made an arrangement when you went away, now you're making me mad", rants this king George III |
| #7187, aired 2015-12-08 | FAMILY FOLIO $1200: Small-town girl moves to the big city & becomes an actress in the 1900 novel "Sister Carrie" by this author Theodore Dreiser |
| #7182, aired 2015-12-01 | COLLECTORS $1600: Steve Martin has an impressive art collection that includes works by Seurat, Picasso & this "Nighthawks" artist (Edward) Hopper |
| #7165, aired 2015-11-06 | THE FIRST 10 BIBLE BOOKS $1200: "Now after the death of Moses", begins this, the first Bible book called by a man's name Joshua |
| #7159, aired 2015-10-29 | ART $1000: This 1642 masterpiece by Rembrandt portrays members of an Amsterdam civic militia company The Night Watch |
| #7153, aired 2015-10-21 | HOPE YOU REMEMBER THAT OLD SONG! $600: In 1990 he got his "Freedom" by singing, "all we have to do now, is take these lies, & make them true somehow" George Michael |
| #7148, aired 2015-10-14 | READING BY THE NUMBERS $800: Pooh on you if you don't know that "Now We Are Six" is a book of light verse by this author A.A. Milne |
| #7127, aired 2015-09-15 | GETTING OFF THE GROUND $1600: (Hi, I'm Mark Kelly.) In 2011 I commanded the final mission of this space shuttle named for the ship commanded by Captain James Cook on his first voyage of discovery in the Pacific the Endeavour |
| #7125, aired 2015-07-31 | GIVE ME A RING $800: Founded in 1922, The Ring magazine is now owned by this boxing "Golden Boy" Oscar de la Hoya |
| #7118, aired 2015-07-22 | POTPOURRI $400: In 1747 Jacques Daviel became the first to treat cataracts by safely removing this clouded eye part the lens |
| #7112, aired 2015-07-14 | TV DADS $400: Played by Jon Cryer, this single father muddles through on "Two and a Half Men" Alan Harper |
| #7108, aired 2015-07-08 | MATERIAL $600: The almost-see-through Asian noodles shown here are called by the name of this material cellophane (or glass) |
| #7101, aired 2015-06-29 | THE KIDS ARE SINGING IT $2000: This title command by Hozier precedes the line "I'll worship like a dog at the shrine of your lies" "Take Me To Church" |
| #7099, aired 2015-06-25 | ETYMOLOGY $800: This word for a movie hall comes from an 1890s term used by the Lumiere Brothers a cinema |
| #7096, aired 2015-06-22 | WORKING ON A BUILDING $1600: 1902: Daniel Burnham completes NYC's Fuller Building, now known by this household appliance name the Flatiron |
| #7086, aired 2015-06-08 | ONLY THE LONELY $1600: Someone abandoned by society; you can also be this "in your duty" derelict (delinquent accepted) |
| #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 |
| #7082, aired 2015-06-02 | HALL OF RECORDS $1000: "A Day In The Life" by the Beatles says, "Now they know how many holes it takes to fill" this London hall Albert Hall |
| #7066, aired 2015-05-11 | HERE BE DRAGONS $10,600 (Daily Double): One dragon defeat was by him, now the patron saint of England Saint George |
| #7064, aired 2015-05-07 | 3 CHEERS FOR THE BLUE, GREEN & YELLOW $800: After a defeat by Uruguay in 1950, this nation's soccer team switched to its now-famous yellow jerseys Brazil |
| #7064, aired 2015-05-07 | "PH" TEST $1600: Old-time soda fountain drink made by blending carbonated water & flavored syrup a phosphate |
| #7060, aired 2015-05-01 | BOOKS BY CELEBS $400: Naturally, TV's Barbara Eden dreamed up a memoir called this name "Out of the Bottle" Jeannie |
| #7059, aired 2015-04-30 | 18th CENTURY AMERICA $1200: It's Philadelphia in the 1750s & what has Ben Franklin foisted on us now? Street lamps powered by this animal product whale oil |
| #7056, aired 2015-04-27 | "O_U"! $800: "And now" this 3-word phrase used by one reporter to hand a broadcast off to another over to you |
| #7049, aired 2015-04-16 | FLOUR POWER $1000: In Corsica, standard cornmeal is replaced by chestnut flour to make this mushy Italian treat polenta |
| #7037, aired 2015-03-31 | INSTRUMENTAL IN SCIENCE $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew, at Harvard University's Historical Scientific Instruments, shows a console.) From 1947 to 2002, this control console was at the Harvard cyclotron lab for pioneering research now used to treat cancer; the surrounding healthy tissue is relatively undamaged, but the cancer cells are destroyed by irradiation with these positive particles protons |
| #7036, aired 2015-03-30 | VACCINES $400: Developed in 1796 by Edward Jenner, the first successful vaccine protected against this deadly disease now eradicated smallpox |
| #7033, aired 2015-03-25 | MOON WALKING $1,000 (Daily Double): The second Moon-landing mission, this Apollo flight got hit by lightning about 36 seconds after launching Apollo 12 |
| #7020, aired 2015-03-06 | NOW THAT'S A SAD STORY $1600: Charlie Gordon is outsmarted by a lab rat at the start of this Daniel Keyes work; Charlie's IQ gets a boost, temporarily Flowers for Algernon |
| #7005, aired 2015-02-13 | U.S. MILITARY BRANCH BY RANK $2000: Technical sergeant the Air Force |
| #6994, aired 2015-01-29 | THE NATIONAL SEPTEMBER 11 MEMORIAL & MUSEUM $200: (Alex reports from the National 9/11 Memorial & Museum in New York City.) The first artifacts museum visitors see are these architectural elements that were the signature of the World Trade Center towers; they are now known by the same name as this symbol of Poseidon tridents |
| #6977, aired 2015-01-06 | NO. 1 BESTSELLERS IN THE ZERO YEARS $1200: 1920: "The Man of the Forest" created by this "Purple Sage" author prefers the company of bears to people Zane Grey |
| #6959, aired 2014-12-11 | OH, THE HUMANITIES! $1000: 1874's "The Moldau" by this composer depicts his beloved Czech landscape Bedrich Smetana |
| #6937, aired 2014-11-11 | LITERARY AWARDS $800: The Man Group administers this prize now open to any novel written in English, not just by Brits Booker Prize |
| #6936, aired 2014-11-10 | THEY TURNED MY BOOK INTO A MOVIE $2,000 (Daily Double): "Apocalypse Now" Joseph Conrad |
| #6931, aired 2014-11-03 | THE PSILENT LETTER $2000: What's now called food poisoning was once named for this stinky substance made by bacteria during putrefaction ptomaine |
| #6927, aired 2014-10-28 | JUST SIT RIGHT BACK $3,000 (Daily Double): The Montgolfier is a Louis XVI chair created by Georges Jacob with a back shaped like one of these a balloon |
| #6926, aired 2014-10-27 | THE CONGRESS OF VIENNA $800: The Congress tried to hem in France by creating one kingdom from what are now these 3 Benelux countries Belgium, the Netherlands & Luxembourg |
| #6912, aired 2014-10-07 | MAKE ROOM $2,000 (Daily Double): This French room completes the title of a book by the Marquis de Sade, "La Philopsophie dans le..." boudoir |
| #6894, aired 2014-07-31 | SWEET CHARITY $1000: At michaeljfox.org, "Our single, urgent goal: eliminate" this neurological disease "in our lifetime" Parkinson's |
| #6885, aired 2014-07-18 | SERIOUS TV $1200: This Sunday morning news show now hosted by Bob Schieffer premiered on CBS on Nov. 7, 1954 Face the Nation |
| #6854, aired 2014-06-05 | MYTHOLOGICAL WORDS & PHRASES $800: The name of this handsome youth loved by Aphrodite is now a synonym for any handsome young man Adonis |
| #6847, aired 2014-05-27 | PLASTIC $1200: The hard plastic now called HDPE was introduced to consumers by this swiveling 1950s fad the Hula Hoop |
| #6843, aired 2014-05-21 | SPY FICTION $800: I spied "A Delicate Truth", a 2013 thriller by this British octogenarian John Le Carré |
| #6840, aired 2014-05-16 | POP GOES THE CULTURE $800: "Now if there's a smile on my face", I'm listening to this "tearful" No. 1 hit by Smokey Robinson & The Miracles "The Tears Of A Clown" |
| #6840, aired 2014-05-16 | ORGANIZATIONS $1,000 (Daily Double): Now one big happy family, this mentoring group was formed by the union of 2 "sibling" organizations in 1977 the Big Brothers Big Sisters |
| #6829, aired 2014-05-01 | ON THE "Q...T" $1600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew presents the clue from Los Alamos, NM.) This prefabricated corrugated steel hut was developed for the U.S. Navy by the George A. Fuller company in 1941 to serve as inexpensive & quickly-assembled offices, barracks & storage facilities a Quonset hut |
| #6817, aired 2014-04-15 | ORGANIZATIONS $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew stands near a sign labeled "Delancey Street Christmas Trees" in San Francisco, California.) Delancey Street, the country's leading residential self-help organization, empowers the poor, substance abusers, and former felons. It's been helped by politicians like this former San Francisco mayor, now a US senator Dianne Feinstein |
| #6791, aired 2014-03-10 | AMERICAN DECORATIVE ARTS $1000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew presents the clue from the Winterthur Museum in Delaware.) Distressed by the discount-store furnishings, this woman reached out to the man who built up Winterthur to redecorate, especially the Green Room; she later wrote to him, "Everything lovely in the White House now is all your contribution" Jackie Kennedy |
| #6780, aired 2014-02-21 | JOHNNY GILBERT PERFORMS TODAY'S HITS $1000: "I'm beginning to feel like a rap god, rap god, all my people from the front to the back nod, back nod" Eminem |
| #6775, aired 2014-02-14 | LANGUAGES $1,200 (Daily Double): This language with a unique syllabary is now spoken by more than 10,000 Native Americans in North Carolina & Oklahoma Cherokee |
| #6738, aired 2013-12-25 | IT'S BEEN A YEAR $800: Last name of the Army private convicted of espionage as Bradley but now going by Chelsea Manning |
| #6737, aired 2013-12-24 | ATHLETIC CUPS $400: First awarded in 1851 by England's Royal Yacht Squadron, it's now named for the winner of that year's race The America's Cup |
| #6736, aired 2013-12-23 | IT'S MAGIC TIME! $2,000 (Daily Double): Leonardo DiCaprio hosted a 1996 "Street Magic" TV special by this man now known for his endurance stunts David Blaine |
| #6730, aired 2013-12-13 | MARSH MADNESS $2000: New England's 20,000-acre Great Marsh is this type of marsh whose name reflects its irrigation by seawater a salt marsh |
| #6726, aired 2013-12-09 | PLEASE, NOT CHAPTER 11 $200: Book 4, Chapter 3:
"Now, by 1482, Quasimodo was grown up" The Hunchback of Notre Dame |
| #6724, aired 2013-12-05 | MIDWESTERN WRITING $1200: Ring Lardner's "You Know Me Al" is written as letters by a player of this sport, starting with one from Terre Haute baseball |
| #6704, aired 2013-11-07 | AROUND THE USA $400: The Mar-a-Lago estate, now a private club owned by Donald Trump, is in this Florida "Beach" town Palm Beach |
| #6677, aired 2013-10-01 | GOLDEN WORDS $3,800 (Daily Double): It once referred to a mock scepter carried by a court jester; now it refers to a small, showy ornament of little value a bauble |
| #6671, aired 2013-09-23 | BROADWAY $200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents the clue from Broadway, New York.) In "Kinky Boots", girls & boys
just want to have fun,
kicking up their heels
to songs by this Grammy & now Tony winner Cyndi Lauper |
| #6666, aired 2013-09-16 | MASTERPIECES FROM THE NORTON SIMON MUSEUM $1200: (Alex gives the clue from the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena, CA.) Modern viewers are really entranced by "Little Dancer, Age Fourteen", but when this artist first exhibited this work in 1881, it was cast in wax, not in bronze as it is now, & the public was a little bit put off by the realism of real clothing & a wig of human hair (Edgar) Degas |
| #6655, aired 2013-07-19 | OLD NAMES ON THE MAP $2000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reads the clue from Hanoi, Vietnam.) Built by August Henri Vildieu, Vietnam's Presidential Palace was originally the headquarters of the governor general of this now-defunct French region Indochina |
| #6649, aired 2013-07-11 | THE LAW $1000: Thanks for not leaving a will, grandpa! Now you're considered this, & your goods are distributed by state law intestate |
| #6632, aired 2013-06-18 | GONE $800: There are newer interstates now, but you can still "get your kicks on" parts of this road sung about by Nat King Cole Route 66 |
| #6603, aired 2013-05-08 | ISLANDS $1600: Founded by Bounty mutineers, it's now encouraging immigration because its small population of about 50 is aging Pitcairn Island |
| #6588, aired 2013-04-17 | SWITZERLAND $2000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Switzerland.) Switzerland is a scientific hub, with the particle physics facility founded in 1954 as Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire but now known by this 4-letter name CERN |
| #6587, aired 2013-04-16 | 19th CENTURY SPORTS $800: What's now this tennis tournament began as an event hosted by a Newport, Rhode Island casino in 1881 the U.S. Open |
| #6585, aired 2013-04-12 | BLANKING ON THE BIBLE $400: Mark:
"Now as he walked by the Sea of ____, he saw Simon and Andrew... casting a net into the sea" Galilee |
| #6582, aired 2013-04-09 | CATTLE CALL $1000: The Hereford breed was introduced to the U.S. in 1817 by this politician, who imported it to his home in Kentucky Henry Clay |
| #6526, aired 2013-01-21 | THE COSSACKS $2000: The city of Kharkiv, founded by cossacks to protect Russia's borders, is now in this former SSR the Ukraine |
| #6523, aired 2013-01-16 | MUSIC ACT BY SIBLINGS $1200: "Sex On Fire"'s Caleb, Nathan & Jared Followill Kings of Leon |
| #6504, aired 2012-12-20 | POSSIBLE MOVIE SEQUELS? $1600: This bear voiced by Seth MacFarlane is back...but now, he's a vampire! in The Avengers! Ted |
| #6490, aired 2012-11-30 | AT THE MOVIES $400: In Men In Black III, now on BluRay, Will Smith's partner, a young Agent K, is played by this actor Josh Brolin |
| #6489, aired 2012-11-29 | RANDOMONIUM $600: "Lomo-fi" & "1977" are filters to customize photos on this app now owned by Facebook Instagram |
| #6488, aired 2012-11-28 | ITALIAN ART $800: Tintoretto's "Miracle of St. Mark" was done for the Scuola di San Marco in this city protected by that saint Venice |
| #6471, aired 2012-11-05 | AFRICA $1200: What's now this country was united from many smaller chieftains by King Moshoeshoe I in the 1830s Lesotho |
| #6470, aired 2012-11-02 | WHO'S THAT GIRL DIRECTOR? $2000: "Clueless" &
"Fast Times at Ridgemont High" Amy Heckerling |
| #6461, aired 2012-10-22 | BREAKING NEWS $2000: (I'm New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman.) In 2002 I broke the story of a peace plan--a return to June 1967 lines & a Palestinian state for a full peace between Israel & the Arab world--proposed by this now-king of Saudi Arabia King Abdullah |
| #6459, aired 2012-10-18 | EARLY AMERICAN CONSTRUCTION $800: Now the governor's mansion, La Fortaleza in this U.S. territory was built by the Spanish in 1533 Puerto Rico |
| #6440, aired 2012-09-21 | NOW A FEW WORDS $600: According to Merriam-Webster, "take" followed by either of these 2 numbers means to take a break five & ten |
| #6433, aired 2012-08-01 | UP NORTH $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Svalbard, Norway.) Sea ice, the main hunting grounds used by polar bears, is shrinking because of the rising temperatures known as this phenomenon global warming |
| #6430, aired 2012-07-27 | CAPITAL STEPS $400: Calcutta was replaced as capital by this city that now has "Old" & "New" sections Delhi |
| #6419, aired 2012-07-12 | NOT SO GAY PAREE $600: In the 3rd century Barbarians wiped out Roman Paris; the people fled to what's now this Seine ile crossed by the Pont Neuf the Île de la Cité |
| #6418, aired 2012-07-11 | THE ILIAD & THE ODYSSEY $2000: Odysseus' now aged former nanny Eurycleia recognizes him by this physical sign a scar |
| #6390, aired 2012-06-01 | PENINSULAS $600: Once an island formed by 2 volcanoes, Banks Peninsula is now part of this country's South Island New Zealand |
| #6387, aired 2012-05-29 | RUBBER $1200: Rubber-soled shoes were first mass-marketed with this now-familiar name by U.S. Rubber around 1916 sneakers |
| #6387, aired 2012-05-29 | 13-LETTER WORDS $1600: A domesticated cat with black & red markings is referred to by this "turtle" name a tortoiseshell |
| #6358, aired 2012-04-18 | NEWSPAPERS $600: Now web only, this paper founded by Mary Baker Eddy features only one religious article per issue The Christian Science Monitor |
| #6354, aired 2012-04-12 | POLAR EXPLORATION $4,800 (Daily Double): Mount Erebus, the southernmost active volcano, was discovered in 1841 by this man for whom an ice shelf is named (James) Ross |
| #6301, aired 2012-01-30 | BRING YOUR OWN BOTTLE $1200: Vintage bottles of products from this company, sold door to door by ladies since the 1880s, are now collectibles Avon Products |
| #6295, aired 2012-01-20 | ALLITERATIVELY YOURS $1,600 (Daily Double): By request of director Roman Polanski, this function was disabled on the DVD of "Knife in the Water" fast forward |
| #6294, aired 2012-01-19 | A SHAKESPEARE PLAY, FOR OPENERS $800: Completes the opening sentence "Now is the winter of our discontent made glorious summer by this sun of..." York |
| #6243, aired 2011-11-09 | QUICK LIT $1600: "The Plague" by Camus is set in what is now this African country Algeria |
| #6235, aired 2011-10-28 | THE 1600s $2,400 (Daily Double): After hoarding food rations, he & his son were kept at bay, literally, by mutineers who set them adrift in 1611 Henry Hudson |
| #6231, aired 2011-10-24 | OLYMPIC GOLD MEDALISTS BY SPORT $1,000 (Daily Double): 1896:
Ellery Clark, 20' 10";
2000:
Ivan Pedroso, 28' 3/4" the long jump |
| #6221, aired 2011-10-10 | "A" IN MATH $1200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange.) The Exchange now allows brokers on the floor to execute trades from handheld devices using programs called "algos", short for this type of step-by-step mathematical process an algorithm |
| #6220, aired 2011-10-07 | AMERICAN ISLANDS $800: Theodore Roosevelt Island, now a memorial, lies in this river & is accessible by footbridge from Virginia the Potomac |
| #6210, aired 2011-09-23 | REINVENTING THE WHEEL $400: What some call the first car was an 1886 motorized one of these, now mainly ridden by little kids a tricycle |
| #6192, aired 2011-07-12 | THE TRAVELS OF MARCO POLO $2000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) Marco Polo was asked by Kublai Khan to make diplomatic trips to the far reaches of Khan's empire, perhaps making it as far as what is now this country Myanmar |
| #6188, aired 2011-07-06 | POP CULTURE $1600: Young singer Bianca Ryan won the first season of this TV show now judged by Sharon Osbourne & others America's Got Talent |
| #6173, aired 2011-06-15 | ICONS OF DAYTIME TELEVISION $600: Now that's stamina! Since 1970, this soap opera character played by Susan Lucci has been married 12 times Erica Kane |
| #6168, aired 2011-06-08 | SONGS OF THE '60s $1600: The opening shots of "Apocalypse Now" have a feeling of finality with this song by The Doors playing over them "The End" |
| #6161, aired 2011-05-30 | LINGUISTICS $2000: Forming statements not about here & now is called this, like the amount of water moved by a floating body displacement |
| #6158, aired 2011-05-25 | WHERE AM I? $200: (Kelly of the Clue Crew stands by a fountain.) I'm on the University of Wisconsin campus in this city, which opened in 1849 with 17 students & now has 40,000 Madison |
| #6136, aired 2011-04-25 | THE 112th CONGRESS $600: In 2000 this Virginian won his primary by 263 votes; now he's house majority leader Eric Cantor |
| #6136, aired 2011-04-25 | THE 112th CONGRESS $800: Now Senate majority leader, he beat John Ensign by 428 votes in 1998 Harry Reid |
| #6131, aired 2011-04-18 | BACKSTAGE AT THE MET $400: (Sarah reports from backstage at the Metropolitan Opera in New York.) Now what opera might feature dancing bears? "The Magic Flute", when staged at the Met by this director, famed for her Broadway version of "The Lion King" Julie Taymor |
| #6125, aired 2011-04-08 | WHEN THE SAINTS $400: The site of this city, now the seat of Saint Johns County, Florida, was visited by Ponce de Leon in 1513 St. Augustine |
| #6122, aired 2011-04-05 | NOVEL "T"s $400: In the title of a favorite by S.E. Hinton, these 3 words precede "This Is Now" That Was Then |
| #6121, aired 2011-04-04 | THE MOGULS & THE MOVIES $1600: Under siege by TV, Darryl F, Zanuck publicly declared every picture he made would now be in this widescreen process CinemaScope |
| #6120, aired 2011-04-01 | ACTUAL FBI FILES $200: This "subject is very vulnerable right now because of her rejection by Arthur Miller and also by Joe DiMaggio" (Marilyn) Monroe |
| #6120, aired 2011-04-01 | MOLECULAR GASTRONOMY $1000: (Jimmy gives the clue from the Moto Restaurant in Chicago, IL.) Miracle berries expand the uses of foods like lemon by blocking the sour types of these specialized cells, which scientists now say are found all over and not in separate parts of the tongue receptors |
| #6117, aired 2011-03-29 | DOC $800: I shouldn't have petted that deer, because now I'm afraid I have this disease caused by a deer tick & named for a city Lyme disease |
| #6104, aired 2011-03-10 | THE SENATOR OF MY WORLD $800: In 1981 Bernie Sanders, now a senator from this state, won the mayorship of Burlington by 10 votes Vermont |
| #6103, aired 2011-03-09 | YAD VASHEM $2000: (Alex walks through the Valley of the Communities at Yad Vashem.) The Valley of the Communities is a labyrinth of great walls with the names of over 5,000 communities, most of which no longer exist; now the architects were inspired by this biblical prophet's vision of the Valley of the Dry Bones Ezekiel |
| #6101, aired 2011-03-07 | ASTRONOMY $1000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows an astronomical diagram on the monitor.) Created by millions of years of eruptions, this now-extinct Martian shield volcano is the tallest mountain in our solar system Olympus Mons |
| #6095, aired 2011-02-25 | CASTLES $1,000 (Daily Double): Now a national monument, the Alhambra in this European country was begun by Moorish rulers around 1238 Spain |
| #6082, aired 2011-02-08 | DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER $800: Acquired by the House of Winston the day before Halloween, a 5.54-carat vivid orange diamond was dubbed this the Pumpkin Diamond |
| #6080, aired 2011-02-04 | HAZARDS $200: Now considered an environmental hazard, this refrigerant gas was discovered in the 1930s by Dr. Thomas Midgley freon |
| #6075, aired 2011-01-28 | START SPREADIN' THE BOOZE $200: Jose Cuervo (the co.) says Jose Cuervo (the man) was the first producer of this Mexican agave liquor, in 1795 tequila |
| #6066, aired 2011-01-17 | NOW WE ARE SIX $200: Enacted in 1791, it guarantees the right to a trial by jury the Sixth Amendment |
| #6053, aired 2010-12-29 | A DAY AT THE HORSE RACES $800: At the far turn, it's my friend this horse now ridden by Alison Lohman, taking over for Roddy McDowall Flicka |
| #6052, aired 2010-12-28 | APOCRYPHA NOW $1600: The "Song of the Three Young Men" finds the trio tossed into a fiery furnace by Nebuchadnezzar, king of this land Babylon |
| #6050, aired 2010-12-24 | ANCIENT HISTORY $2000: The city-states of Sidon & Tyre were located in this Mediterranean region now occupied mostly by Lebanon Phoenicia |
| #6042, aired 2010-12-14 | LIVED BY THE SEA $1200: If you make your home in the capital city of Hobart, you live by this sea Tasman Sea |
| #6034, aired 2010-12-02 | CHRISTIAN DENOMINATIONS IN THE U.S. $800: This group, now 5 million strong, was once saved by seagulls the Mormons |
| #6031, aired 2010-11-29 | THAT'S GREAT, PETER THE GREAT! $1000: Part of the palace begun by Peter is now this Russian museum, one of the largest in the world the Hermitage |
| #6027, aired 2010-11-23 | PAINT NO STOPPING US NOW $400: It's said this Spaniard who painted "Three Musicians" in 1921 paid for some meals by doodling on napkins Picasso |
| #6027, aired 2010-11-23 | PAINT NO STOPPING US NOW $1200: "A Fair Wind", an 1876 work by this U.S. painter, shows a catboat at sea bearing the name Gloucester; d'oh! (Winslow) Homer |
| #6027, aired 2010-11-23 | PAINT NO STOPPING US NOW $5,000 (Daily Double): Paintings by this man include 1913's "Paris Through the Window" & 1914's "Over Vitebsk" Marc Chagall |
| #5995, aired 2010-10-08 | NAME YOUR DISEASE $1200: A virus that causes mono is known by these hyphenated names, but Bert Achong helped isolate it with them in 1964 Epstein-Barr |
| #5974, aired 2010-07-29 | COMMANDERS AT WAR $2,400 (Daily Double): (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows an animated diagram on the monitor.) Pilots still use the World War II weaving tactic by which a pilot lures a pursuing enemy plane into another plane's gun sights; it was invented to combat this highly maneuverable Japanese fighter the Mitsubishi Zero |
| #5949, aired 2010-06-24 | POSSESSIVE ACTORS' POSSESSIONS $2,000 (Daily Double): Rule of conduct by which 2004's "Alfie" lives Jude's law |
| #5939, aired 2010-06-10 | LANDMARKS FOR SALE $200: It cost $1 million to build by 1889 but now can be yours! We'll throw in its 79-foot antenna! Say oui to this while you can! the Eiffel Tower |
| #5935, aired 2010-06-04 | EPONYMS $2,500 (Daily Double): The name of this Trojan prince who was killed by Achilles is now used as a verb meaning to bully Hector |
| #5892, aired 2010-04-06 | WHERE'S THAT DARN TRAIN? $600: The original 50-day repair estimate has been exceeded by 50%, so it's been in the repair yard this long now 75 days |
| #5888, aired 2010-03-31 | MYTHING IN ACTION $1000: Now an emblem of the medical profession, it was the staff carried by Mercury the caduceus |
| #5887, aired 2010-03-30 | ECUADOR OF YORE $1200: Guayaquilenos with sensitive noses were pleased when in 1910 vehicles powered by this replaced quaint horse-drawn trams electricity |
| #5874, aired 2010-03-11 | WOMEN'S GROUPS $600: In 2005 Glynn Birch became the first male president of this women's group founded by Candy Lightner MADD (Mothers Against Drunk Driving) |
| #5868, aired 2010-03-03 | THE '70s $1600: In the 1870s Geronimo enraged the U.S. govt. by going "off" this, an expression now used to mean "out of control" the reservation |
| #5862, aired 2010-02-23 | "YA"HOO! $2000: Worn so that only the eyes are visible, it's a traditional veil worn by some Muslim women a yashmak |
| #5861, aired 2010-02-22 | "NORTH"ERN GEOGRAPHY $1000: In 1876 the people of this Minnesota city, now home to Carleton College, foiled a raid by Jesse James & his cohorts Northfield |
| #5845, aired 2010-01-29 | LET'S GO WITH THE FLOW $2000: Tagus River the Atlantic Ocean |
| #5841, aired 2010-01-25 | 19th CENTURY SENATORS BY STATE $1200: Newton Booth,
Leland Stanford California |
| #5828, aired 2010-01-06 | THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES $1000: (Alex reports from the National Archives.) The Constitution was signed by representatives of each of the 13 Colonies, except for this one, which opposed increasing federal power; because it was the last to ratify, it is now our 13th state Rhode Island |
| #5818, aired 2009-12-23 | MOVIES BY QUOTE $600: Hans Gruber, reading a message:
"Now I have a machine gun. Ho ho ho" Die Hard |
| #5817, aired 2009-12-22 | DOUGH! $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the Bureau of Engraving and Printing in Washington, D.C.) Defacement of currency is a criminal offense, punishable by a fine up to this much, also the largest denomination the U.S. now issues $100 |
| #5815, aired 2009-12-18 | "BY" NOW $200: For the Washington Post's Watergate stories, it listed Woodward & Bernstein bylines |
| #5815, aired 2009-12-18 | "BY" NOW $400: Take a nibble on this 8-part computer unit a byte |
| #5815, aired 2009-12-18 | "BY" NOW $600: A secluded or private road a byway |
| #5815, aired 2009-12-18 | "BY" NOW $800: 2 rhyming items are in this phrase for when you'll use any means necessary to gain your objective by hook or by crook |
| #5815, aired 2009-12-18 | "BY" NOW $1000: Now almost 50, Conrad & his fans were back on Broadway in 2009 in a revival of this musical Bye Bye Birdie |
| #5811, aired 2009-12-14 | MOUNTAIN DO $1000: You'll be surrounded by South Africa if you climb the part of the Maluti Mountains in this country Lesotho |
| #5808, aired 2009-12-09 | ALPHABETIC HOMOPHONES $5,000 (Daily Double): Now prized for cabinetwork, this tree's wood was used by British archers in the Middle Ages for longbows yew |
| #5804, aired 2009-12-03 | WOODSTOCK $1000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from outside the Museum at Bethel Woods, New York.) Woodstock opened with a performance by this African-American folk artist who was called back for so many encores, he ran out of material & had to improvise his now classic "Freedom" Richie Havens |
| #5797, aired 2009-11-24 | "PH"UN WORDS $1600: Now meaning those who are hostile to the arts, in biblical times it was a people subdued by King David a Philistine |
| #5793, aired 2009-11-18 | ART HISTORY $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a painting on the monitor.) To produce the optical effect he wanted, this artist painted a border, now partially obscured by the frame, using the complementary colors that are next to it in the painting (Georges) Seurat |
| #5789, aired 2009-11-12 | HISTORIC TWITS $1000: Vidkun Quisling, now a name synonymous with traitor, was made this country's prime minister by the Nazis Norway |
| #5787, aired 2009-11-10 | OH, WHAT A KNIGHT $800: In the fourth crusade, this Christian capital, now Istanbul, was plundered by Christian knights Constantinople |
| #5779, aired 2009-10-29 | CLASSICAL MUSIC $600 (Daily Double): Halloween concerts often include this, Opus 40 by Saint-Saens, with a xylophone imitating rattling bones the Danse macabre |
| #5769, aired 2009-10-15 | I WENT TO UCLA $8,000 (Daily Double): Kirsten Gillibrand got her law degree from UCLA in 1991 & filled the Senate seat left vacant by this woman in 2009 Hillary Clinton |
| #5741, aired 2009-07-20 | BELIEVE $2000: I saw one of these hare/antelope hybrids in Johnny's dressing room just now & he called it by name! a jackalope |
| #5727, aired 2009-06-30 | ECONOMICS $1200: The cost of a fixed market basket of goods & services purchased by a household is used to calculate this, the CPI the consumer price index |
| #5725, aired 2009-06-26 | HISTORICAL HOME SHOPPING $600: France had 25,000 casualties at this June 1815 battle--don't meet yours by not buying its commemorative coin! Waterloo |
| #5718, aired 2009-06-17 | MOVIES BY SONGS $600: 1976:
"Gonna Fly Now" Rocky |
| #5708, aired 2009-06-03 | MIRO, MIRO ON THE WALL $600: The huge mural that Miro painted for a hotel in this southwest Ohio city in 1947 is now owned by the city's art museum Cincinnati |
| #5707, aired 2009-06-02 | ANGRY MOMS OF FUTURE PRESIDENTS $800: The 1960s president shudders when Mom uses this full name, followed by, "Turn that chair around right now" Lyndon Baines Johnson |
| #5700, aired 2009-05-22 | THE NEW YORK TIMES TECHNOLOGY $800: (David Pogue reads the clue.) I'm holding a Blu-ray DVD player that can also download movies & TV shows from this service that's now living up to its name; its CEO has said, "There's a reason we didn't call the company DVD By Mail" Netflix |
| #5685, aired 2009-05-01 | DA VINCI $400: By 1513 da Vinci's patron was Giuliano, a member of this powerful Florentine family the Medicis |
| #5681, aired 2009-04-27 | THE 19th CENTURY $400: The doctrine of papal this was adopted in 1870 by a vote of 533-2; the 2 promptly declared, "Now I believe" infallibility |
| #5677, aired 2009-04-21 | YABBA DABBA "DOO"! $600: Now go do this polytheistic religion practiced chiefly by West Indians that you do so well! voodoo |
| #5673, aired 2009-04-15 | MUSICALS BY SONGS $2000: "Big Spender",
"If My Friends Could See Me Now" Sweet Charity |
| #5664, aired 2009-04-02 | AMERICAN NO MORE $400: Named for a Bing Crosby movie, this hotel chain is now owned by Britain's Intercontinental Hotels Group Holiday Inn |
| #5664, aired 2009-04-02 | AMERICAN NO MORE $800: Founded by a guy named Harvey, this tire company formerly based in Akron is now owned by Japan's Bridgestone Firestone |
| #5662, aired 2009-03-31 | TRICKY STUPID ANSWERS $600: A line from this book: "Spring now comes unheralded by the return of birds, & the early mornings are strangely silent" Silent Spring |
| #5632, aired 2009-02-17 | NIGHTLY NEWS WORDS $200: I found this "animal" market is characterized by falling prices for securities (now I need to learn what that means) a bear |
| #5627, aired 2009-02-10 | BALLET BASICS $800: French for "feat of strength", this ballet term now refers to a display of technical skill by any artist tour de force |
| #5625, aired 2009-02-06 | IT'S A LOCK $800: The type of lock now standard on U.S. residences was patented in 1865 by a guy with this Ivy League-sounding name a Yale lock |
| #5595, aired 2008-12-26 | THE CONSTITUTION TODAY $800: An influential 1890 article was titled "the right to" this, now seen as covered (though unnamed) by the Bill of Rights privacy |
| #5587, aired 2008-12-16 | PUBLIC DOMAIN SONGS GO HEAVY METAL $600: We now bring you, oh so gently, this song of a man separated from his love by water "My Bonnie Lies Over The Ocean" |
| #5577, aired 2008-12-02 | THE MIDDLE AGES $800: Trial by fire & by water were part of this medieval procedure, now meaning any painful experience to be endured trial by ordeal |
| #5525, aired 2008-09-19 | MOVIES BY QUOTE $600: "How ironic, Tony. Trying to rid the world of weapons you gave it its best one ever... and now I'm gonna kill you with it" Iron Man |
| #5522, aired 2008-09-16 | THE DISAPPOINTING 21st CENTURY $1000: We hoped by now all music would be on this spooky-sounding instrument a theremin |
| #5510, aired 2008-07-18 | SINGLE DADS ON THE TUBE $1000: At 11:59 P.M. of the last episode of season one, this character's wife, Teri, is found dead, shot by Nina Myers Jack Bauer |
| #5504, aired 2008-07-10 | GRAVE MATTERS $2000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from Lima, Peru.) The first stone for Lima's cathedral was laid by this conqueror in 1535; his remains now lie in this very tomb (Francisco) Pizarro |
| #5492, aired 2008-06-24 | ON YOUR INDONESIA $1200: In 1816 the weather in New England was affected by Tambora, one of these in what's now Indonesia volcano |
| #5436, aired 2008-04-07 | EMERIL GOES INTERNATIONAL $800: (Emeril makes a sandwich as he delivers the clue.) Take the ham-&-gruyere sandwich called a croque-monsieur & change its gender by adding a fried egg; now it's called this a croque-madame |
| #5435, aired 2008-04-04 | THE SONGS OF PAUL SIMON $2000: In "Bridge Over Troubled Water", Simon told her to "Sail on... sail on by, your time has come to shine" Silvergirl |
| #5418, aired 2008-03-12 | OPENING LINES OF SHAKESPEARE $600: "Now is the winter of our discontent made glorious summer by this sun of York" Richard III |
| #5417, aired 2008-03-11 | WEB SLINGERS $1600: Use the "organizr" to help make your personal images public at this photo site that's now owned by Yahoo! Flickr |
| #5401, aired 2008-02-18 | FUN WITH BALLET $400: "Circus Polka" was originally choreographed for these huge circus animals; it's now danced by humans elephants |
| #5398, aired 2008-02-13 | A, B, C, D THEN F $800: In Shakespeare's "Richard III" the title character opens the play by saying, "Now is the winter of our" this discontent |
| #5397, aired 2008-02-12 | THE JEFFERSON ADMINISTRATION $800: In 1807, after a trip up the Hudson, he wrote, "The power of propelling boats by steam is now fully proved" (Robert) Fulton |
| #5395, aired 2008-02-08 | APOCALYPSE NOW: THE CATEGORY $1000: Veteran war photographer Tim Page inspired the whacked-out character played by this actor in the film Dennis Hopper |
| #5388, aired 2008-01-30 | HIGH "T" $200: Formerly an independent country, this region of China is known as the "Roof of the World" Tibet |
| #5381, aired 2008-01-21 | WHAT A FAMOUS HORSE RACE! $600: Created by Anna Sewell in 1877, this literary horse shows a full recovery from a broken leg & now leads! Black Beauty |
| #5373, aired 2008-01-09 | WORLD FACTS $1000: Once a slave-trading center established by the Portuguese, Bissau is now the proud capital of this country Guinea-Bissau |
| #5366, aired 2007-12-31 | CELEBRITY AKA $400: Destiny Hope Cyrus, Billy Ray's kid & star of TV's "Hannah Montana", now goes by this first name Miley |
| #5347, aired 2007-12-04 | "EVE"NING $400: In a hit song by the Monkees, "Then I saw her face, now I'm" one of these a believer |
| #5343, aired 2007-11-28 | MOVIE FOLK $400: Rejected by USC Film School, this "S" in DreamWorks SKG now sits on the Film School's Board of Councilors Steven Spielberg |
| #5331, aired 2007-11-12 | 1910s CINEMA $1600: Now home to a theme park & studio, this first "city" dedicated to making movies was built by Carl Laemmle in 1915 Universal City |
| #5312, aired 2007-10-16 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $800: This Tulsa college was founded by & named for an evangelist, now the school's chancellor Oral Roberts |
| #5281, aired 2007-07-23 | NOW THAT'S EXPENSIVE! $800: In 2000 a set of books about these critters "Of America" by John James Audubon sold at auction for $8.8 million birds |
| #5281, aired 2007-07-23 | NOW THAT'S EXPENSIVE! $1000: The world's most valuable one of these instruments is one made by Antonio Stradivari in 1716 worth $18 million a violin |
| #5272, aired 2007-07-10 | THE WAR OF 1812 $1200: During the war, this U.S. frigate was commended by Isaac Hull, William Bainbridge & Charles Stewart U.S.S. Constitution |
| #5261, aired 2007-06-25 | KENYA FEEL THE LOVE $1000: Now the chief port of Kenya, Mombasa was visited by this Portuguese explorer in 1498 (Vasco) da Gama |
| #5253, aired 2007-06-13 | YOU LOOK LIKE A GREEK GOD $400: He was god of woods & pastures & made a pipe now called by his name Pan |
| #5246, aired 2007-06-04 | THE SULTANS $800: Tanzania's capital Dar es Salaam was founded in 1862 by the sultan of this island that's now part of Tanzania Zanzibar |
| #5222, aired 2007-05-01 | ANIMALS $1000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew appears from the USC Wrigley Institute on Catalina Island, CA.) Though thriving now, Catalina Island foxes were threatened in the '90s by the infectious disease marked by fever & catarrh known as canine this distemper |
| #5218, aired 2007-04-25 | THE NEW YORK TIMES BUSINESS $200: Inspired by this "30-Minute" chef, compaines are now using cooking classes as a management team building exercise Rachael Ray |
| #5209, aired 2007-04-12 | YOU'VE GOT COMPANY $1000: Now owned by Hyundai, this company's models include the Optima sedan & the Rio compact Kia |
| #5208, aired 2007-04-11 | WORLD CAPITALS BY AIRPORT $1000: Schiphol Airport Amsterdam |
| #5201, aired 2007-04-02 | SPORTS 2006 $2000: The New York major league soccer team is now called these, after being bought by an energy drink the Red Bulls |
| #5198, aired 2007-03-28 | NOW NAME THE OTHER... $1600: city destroyed by Mount Vesuvius along with Stabiae Herculaneum |
| #5193, aired 2007-03-21 | JEWISH HISTORY $800: Now the USA's largest Jewish movement, it began in the 19th c. to change Judaism by reducing ritual Reform |
| #5192, aired 2007-03-20 | SMALL ISLANDS $1600: Longwood House on this South Atlantic island is now a Napoleon museum owned by the French government St. Helena |
| #5191, aired 2007-03-19 | A ROYAL SUM-UP $800: King of Judah from 873 to 849 B.C.; succeeded by son Jehoram; name now generally found after "jumpin'" Jehoshaphat |
| #5169, aired 2007-02-15 | LET'S CHECK OUT SOME COLLEGES $4,800 (Daily Double): Founded by French missionaries in 1842, this Indiana univ. first admitted women in 1972, so you can now go, girl! University of Notre Dame |
| #5163, aired 2007-02-07 | ISLANDS $5,000 (Daily Double): This third-largest island in the world is shared by Brunei, Malaysia & Indonesia Borneo |
| #5150, aired 2007-01-19 | THAT'S NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS $400: This fish-canning business famous for its mermaid is now owned by a Thai company Chicken of the Sea |
| #5147, aired 2007-01-16 | NOW THAT'S INVENTIVE! $400: Developed by a German physicist, it measures radioactivity by "counting" ionizing particles like protons a Geiger counter |
| #5136, aired 2007-01-01 | YOU'RE THE DOG NOW, MAN! $800: Both Yale's & the Univ. of Georgia's mascot, it's the large-headed Brit dog that's often born by caesarian section a bulldog |
| #5119, aired 2006-12-07 | THOMAS JEFFERSON'S READING LIST $2,500 (Daily Double): In 1771 this man hadn't turned to economics yet, but his "Theory of Moral Sentiments" is recommended Adam Smith |
| #5108, aired 2006-11-22 | "RIGHT" NOW $800: It's the land covered by a public road or over which a power line passes a right-of-way |
| #5108, aired 2006-11-22 | "RIGHT" NOW $1600: It's a claim on property by a person who openly possesses & occupies it without legal authority squatter's rights |
| #5096, aired 2006-11-06 | ACROPOLIS NOW $1600: The Acropolis complex built by the ancient architects Ictinus & Callicrates was in this simple classical order Doric |
| #5096, aired 2006-11-06 | ACROPOLIS NOW $5,000 (Daily Double): Many of the friezes & panels that adorned the Parthenon were sold to the British Museum by this man Lord Elgin |
| #5087, aired 2006-10-24 | "G" FORCE $2,000 (Daily Double): Coined in 1944 by politician Maury Maverick & derived from an animal noise, it means unintelligible nonsense gobbledygook |
| #5084, aired 2006-10-19 | SHIPS $1200: The 1st ship built in the colonies by English settlers was built in 1607 on the Kennebec River in what is now this state Maine |
| #5077, aired 2006-10-10 | FREE SPEECH $4,000 (Daily Double): It can be an adjective meaning "slack" or a verb meaning "set free" loose |
| #5056, aired 2006-09-11 | MUSIC $1200: In 1866 he began teaching at the new Moscow Musical Conservatory, now often called by his name Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky |
| #5052, aired 2006-07-25 | DIAMONDS $200: Now at the Smithsonian, it was called the "Blue Diamond of the Crown" when owned by Louis XIV the Hope Diamond |
| #5038, aired 2006-07-05 | MOVIE-MOBILES $800: Now made by BMW, this originally British car named for its small size is prominently featured in 2003's "The Italian Job" the Mini Cooper |
| #5035, aired 2006-06-30 | PALINDROMIC WORDS $2,000 (Daily Double): An important article of religious faith a tenet |
| #5034, aired 2006-06-29 | MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS $1200: Perfected by Johann Denner, this woodwind now comes in many pitches, including the B-flat soprano the clarinet |
| #5025, aired 2006-06-16 | THE SHIP $1200: Prohibited by law from returning to Prince William Sound, it's now known as the Sea River Mediterranean the Exxon Valdez |
| #5025, aired 2006-06-16 | CITY OF THE DAY: SAVANNAH $2000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from Johnson Square in Savannah, Georgia.) This "colorful" general was given a plantation by the people of Savannah for his Revolutionary War victories in the South; he's now buried here in Savannah General Nathanael Greene |
| #5017, aired 2006-06-06 | TV NOSTALGIA $400: The Smithsonian is now the home of this hat once worn by this TV character whom audiences loved to hate J.R. Ewing |
| #5016, aired 2006-06-05 | LOST ART $800: Overshadowed by flowers, leis crafted with these, from creatures like the apapane, are now rare in Hawaii feathers |
| #5014, aired 2006-06-01 | SHIP SHAPE $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew stands in front of a model ship in the FDR Presidential Library in Hyde Park, NY.) A Navy buff, FDR had a model of this famous War of 1812 ship; it was built by the ship's carpenter the U.S.S. Constitution |
| #5009, aired 2006-05-25 | ON COLONIAL MAPS $400: Occupied by Morocco, the area now called "Western" this was formerly "Spanish" this Sahara |
| #5008, aired 2006-05-24 | PARLIAMENTARY PROCEDURE $1000: (Jon speaks from the podium of the State House in Concord, NH.) As Speaker, it would be one of my jobs to move things toward a vote, by saying, "Shall" this "now be limited?" debate |
| #5006, aired 2006-05-22 | SIBLING REVELRY $1600: The United Business Company, begun by brothers Henry & Richard in 1946, is now filing under this name H&R Block |
| #4998, aired 2006-05-10 | ALTERNATIVE ENERGY $800: Partly from the Greek for "heat", it's the type of energy produced by Iceland's Krafla Plant geothermal |
| #4997, aired 2006-05-09 | AMERICANISMS $2000: This was once a braided cord worn by Boy Scouts; it's now a wasteful project that often involves graft a boondoggle |
| #4971, aired 2006-04-03 | HOLD THE FORT $1200: Fort Orange was established by Dutch settlers in 1624 in what is now this state capital Albany |
| #4970, aired 2006-03-31 | A LITTER OF ALLITERATION $2,000 (Daily Double): From a poem by Robert Browning, it now has come to mean anyone who makes irresponsible promises the Pied Piper |
| #4940, aired 2006-02-17 | LET'S LOOK TO THE STARS $3,500 (Daily Double): In 1862 Alvan Clark discovered the first White Dwarf, a companion of this star also called Alpha Canis Majoris Sirius |
| #4931, aired 2006-02-06 | SCIENCE $1600: 6 elements once known as inert gases are now known by this aristocratic name noble gases |
| #4898, aired 2005-12-21 | BY THE NUMBERS $1000: This section was added to the tax code in 1974; it's now the name (or number) for many political advocacy groups 527 |
| #4897, aired 2005-12-20 | CELL $600: Started by SBC & Bellsouth, it's now a "one of a kind" company with its purchase of AT&T Wireless Cingular |
| #4867, aired 2005-11-08 | THE STARS $800: In about 22,000 years, Thuban in the constellation Draco will hold this distinction now held by Polaris The North Star |
| #4855, aired 2005-10-21 | THE BOYS IN BLUE $800: Police now use speed guns with this technology first constructed by Theodore Maiman using a ruby rod a laser |
| #4851, aired 2005-10-17 | CONSTANTINE $1000: Now Iznik, Turkey, this city hosted an important Christian council called by Constantine in 325 Nicaea |
| #4844, aired 2005-10-06 | PICTURES AT AN EXHIBITION $4,000 (Daily Double): Also the title of a 2003 film, it's the famous work from around 1665 seen here The Girl with a Pearl Earring |
| #4838, aired 2005-09-28 | ELEMENTARY, MY DEAR $1000: 1 of the 3 naturally occurring magnetic elements iron (or nickel or cobalt) |
| #4814, aired 2005-07-07 | ANDREW JACKSON'S HERMITAGE $100 (Daily Double): During his last months of life, Jackson was troubled by the low price of this, the Hermitage's cash crop cotton |
| #4779, aired 2005-05-19 | "W"HO CAN IT BE NOW? $200: The recipes in a cookbook called "True Grits" were inspired by the movies of this man John Wayne |
| #4750, aired 2005-04-08 | FELIX, NOTHING MORE THAN FELIX $400: Felix E. Dzerzhinsky oversaw the system of forced labor camps now known by this Russian name gulag |
| #4748, aired 2005-04-06 | SHAKESPEREAN WORDPLAY $1600: Punning 3-word completion of "Now is the winter of our discontent made glorious summer by this..." sun of York |
| #4722, aired 2005-03-01 | GO JUMP IN A GREAT LAKE! $600: Named for the region's Indians, this second-largest Great Lake was the first one seen by Europeans Huron |
| #4713, aired 2005-02-16 | YOU GOT MY LITERARY NUMBER $2,000 (Daily Double): This 1961 title became a term for illogical bureaucratic rule Catch-22 |
| #4688, aired 2005-01-12 | U.S. CITY-SCAPE $1000: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew stands outside the Cathedral of Learning.) Beginning in 1787, in a frontier log cabin, this university is now symbolized by the 42-story Cathedral of Learning the University of Pittsburgh |
| #4654, aired 2004-11-25 | NOBEL CATEGORIES BY WINNER $2000: Peter Agre & Roderick MacKinnon (C'mon, it was just last year...) Chemistry |
| #4652, aired 2004-11-23 | METALS $2000: Named by British scientist Humphry Davy, it's now pronounced & spelled his way in the U.S.; others add an "I" aluminum |
| #4595, aired 2004-07-23 | NOW YOU'RE TALKING MY LANGUAGE $200: (Sofia of the Clue Crew delivers the clue in a tongue foreign to us but familiar to her.) Spoken by about 9 million people worldwide it's the Scandinavian language I'm speaking Swedish |
| #4595, aired 2004-07-23 | NOW YOU'RE TALKING MY LANGUAGE $400: "Namaste" is a greeting in this official language of India used by over a quarter of a billion speakers Hindi |
| #4590, aired 2004-07-16 | POPULATIONS $3,000 (Daily Double): With more than 10% of the population, they form Turkey's largest minority ethnic group the Kurds |
| #4587, aired 2004-07-13 | HISTORIC GROUPS $5,200 (Daily Double): (Sarah of the Clue Crew displays some artifacts at the Nat'l Constitution Center in Philadelphia, PA.) Now National Archives properties, the Watergate tools were used by members of this committee, known as CREEP the Committee to Re-Elect the President |
| #4585, aired 2004-07-09 | KENNEDY FAMILY MEMBERS $6,400 (Daily Double): Lost the 1980 Democratic presidential nomination to Jimmy Carter Ted Kennedy |
| #4584, aired 2004-07-08 | HISTORIC PEOPLE $1600: In a painting by Ilya Repin, he's the ruler lamenting having just killed his own son Ivan the Terrible |
| #4578, aired 2004-06-30 | BROWN $1000: Brown was founded by members of this religious group, now the largest U.S. Protestant denomination the Baptists |
| #4568, aired 2004-06-16 | FOLK MUSIC $1200: In 1968 she reached the Top 10 for the first & only time with "Both Sides Now", a song written by Joni Mitchell Judy Collins |
| #4566, aired 2004-06-14 | HITHER & YON $400: Both in size & population it's by far the largest city in Iraq Baghdad |
| #4564, aired 2004-06-10 | JUNE BUGGED $4,000 (Daily Double): On June 28, 1914 the Kaiser's yacht race was interrupted by news from this Balkan city Sarajevo |
| #4561, aired 2004-06-07 | GEOGRAPHIC SAINTS $1000: This largest island in the U.S. Virgin Islands was earlier owned by the Dutch, English, Spanish, French & Danes Saint Croix |
| #4544, aired 2004-05-13 | SNL PRESIDENTIAL PLAYERS $1000: In a cartoon by Robert Smigel, Ford & Bush the First are among these title superheroes (now in paperback) the X-Presidents |
| #4542, aired 2004-05-11 | THE CAPITAL $400: In 1989 hundreds of pro-democracy demonstrators were killed by the military at Tiananmen Square in this capital Beijing |
| #4537, aired 2004-05-04 | READING RAINBOW $1000: In "Meanwhile Back at the Ranch", Elna Hicks starts to dig for potatoes & gets rich by striking this liquid oil |
| #4525, aired 2004-04-16 | CARRY ON $2000: The first woman carrier of the bag of nuclear codes known as this was appointed by Ronald Reagan "The Football" |
| #4520, aired 2004-04-09 | RABBI $2,500 (Daily Double): Seen here, the work "Rabbi with the Pinch of Snuff" is by this Russian-Jewish artist Marc Chagall |
| #4516, aired 2004-04-05 | 1954 $600: 5 congressman were shot & wounded in the House by nationalists from this U.S. commonwealth Puerto Rico |
| #4507, aired 2004-03-23 | NANA $1200: At the end of this "Star Trek" series Kira, played by Nana Visitor, was in charge of the station Deep Space Nine |
| #4495, aired 2004-03-05 | INTO AFRICA $2000: (Hi, I'm Chris Matthews) In my youth I worked as a Peace Corps volunteer in this southern African kingdom now ruled by King Mswati III Swaziland |
| #4483, aired 2004-02-18 | 21st CENTURY TRENDS $400: This type of phone now catching on as a cellular was introduced in clunkier form by AT&T in 1964 a picturephone |
| #4482, aired 2004-02-17 | COUNTRIES BY NEWSPAPERS $600: The Medicine Hat News & The Labradorian Canada |
| #4472, aired 2004-02-03 | PUERTO RICO $600: Now a popular tourist attraction, El Morro Fortress was built by the Spaniards to guard this city's bay San Juan |
| #4437, aired 2003-12-16 | BY THE NUMBERS $1000: The first Apollo mission launched at night & the last one to go to the moon had this number 17 |
| #4408, aired 2003-11-05 | RHODE ISLAND $1,000 (Daily Double): (Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from Providence, Rhode Island.) The original deed for the land that became Rhode Island was signed by chiefs of this tribe, with the marks of an arrow & a canoe the Narragansett |
| #4405, aired 2003-10-31 | REMEMBER THE ALAMO? $3,000 (Daily Double): Now a historic monument, the Alamo was once used as a mission by this religious order that built it around 1722 Franciscans |
| #4384, aired 2003-10-02 | WAYNE MAN $200: Now voiced by Wayne Allwine, this character was originally voiced by Walt Disney himself Mickey Mouse |
| #4373, aired 2003-09-17 | "UR" HEAD $800: Since the VIII in 1644, the Popes have let this name lapse; it must be up for "renewal" by now Urban |
| #4366, aired 2003-09-08 | RWANDA $800: Rwanda & this neighboring nation were ruled by Belgium until 1962 Burundi |
| #4350, aired 2003-06-27 | 4-LETTER WORDS $400: Now used for a bright but socially inept person, this term was popularized by Dr. Seuss in "If I Ran the Zoo" nerd |
| #4348, aired 2003-06-25 | THE '76ers $10,800 (Daily Double): The "Babylonian Captivity" of the Roman Catholic popes in this French city was ended by Pope Gregory XI in 1376 Avignon |
| #4330, aired 2003-05-30 | HISTORIC HOMES $600: Beauvoir, his last home in Biloxi, is now operated by the United Sons of Confederate Veterans Jefferson Davis |
| #4328, aired 2003-05-28 | FORMER TECHNOLOGY $4,000 (Daily Double): (Sofia of the Clue Crew stands in front of the ship Santa Maria in Columbus, Ohio.) Columbus used this instrument superseded by the sextant to measure the positions of stars an astrolabe |
| #4323, aired 2003-05-21 | MONEY, MONEY, MONEY $800: The name of this coin issued in the 1100s by Roger II of Sicily, Duke of Apulia, now refers to an admission ticket ducat |
| #4322, aired 2003-05-20 | "GREAT" EXPECTATIONS $1000: Now extinct, we know what these look like from ones mounted in museums & drawings like this by Audubon great auk |
| #4310, aired 2003-05-02 | PCH POUNDER $1200: PCH through Big Sur was dedicated as the state's first scenic route by this first lady in 1966 Lady Bird Johnson |
| #4306, aired 2003-04-28 | SCIENCE $600 (Daily Double): When combined with oxygen, this lightest chemical element makes water hydrogen |
| #4302, aired 2003-04-22 | MANLY MEN KNOW... $200: It's a short, circular blow from the side delivered by a boxer with the elbow bent & rigid hook |
| #4292, aired 2003-04-08 | U.K. COUNTRIES BY REGION $800: Durham, Dorset & Devon England |
| #4278, aired 2003-03-19 | LITERARY BEFORE & AFTER $1600: American ambulance driver Frederic Henry satirizes romantic ideas about war in this work by Hemingway & Shaw A Farewell to Arms and the Man |
| #4276, aired 2003-03-17 | WORLD CAPITALS $400: Now Jamaica's capital, it was founded in 1693 to replace Port Royal, which was destroyed by an earthquake Kingston |
| #4262, aired 2003-02-25 | 1831 $800: This fighting group was created in 1831 by Louis Philippe for service outside France French Foreign Legion |
| #4262, aired 2003-02-25 | "P"EOPLE $800: She made a name for herself during the Revolutionary War by bringing water to thirsty soldiers Molly Pitcher |
| #4256, aired 2003-02-17 | IT'S ALL A BUNCH OF LIES $200: Although written by Parson Weems, the line "I can't tell a lie. I did cut it with my hatchet" is often attributed to him George Washington |
| #4254, aired 2003-02-13 | ALL IN YOUR MIND $5,000 (Daily Double): This measurement was originally measured by dividing mental age by calendar age IQ (intelligence quotient) |
| #4243, aired 2003-01-29 | SUNNY SONGS $1000: So don't delay, act now, you might as well name this song by Smash Mouth heard here "Walking on the Sun" |
| #4212, aired 2002-12-17 | THE SPORTING NEWS $1200: Now officially made by Inglasco for the pros, these were originally made from frozen cow dung in Canada hockey pucks |
| #4210, aired 2002-12-13 | THE MAINE EVENT $400: Vikings led by this man may have visited what's now Maine around 1000 A.D. Leif Ericson |
| #4210, aired 2002-12-13 | PLANTS $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew along the banks of the Monkey River in Belize) The dried leaves of the tres puntos plant are used to treat this food poisoning, often caused by poultry or eggs salmonella |
| #4179, aired 2002-10-31 | DESIGN $2000: Softened by steam, it's the type of wood used to make the 19th century chair seen here bentwood (or rattan) |
| #4173, aired 2002-10-23 | HERE'S TO YOU, MR. ROBINSON $1000: In "The Ten Commandments" this actor famously snarled, "Where's your messiah now?" Edward G. Robinson |
| #4171, aired 2002-10-21 | PULP FICTION $1000: This Olivia Goldsmith bestseller about 3 vengeful divorcees was initially rejected by 27 publishers "The First Wives Club" |
| #4140, aired 2002-09-06 | KJPY CLASSICAL RADIO $800: Now we'll hear a beloved aria by this Italian composer Rossini |
| #4095, aired 2002-05-24 | PHOBIAS $800: Chorophobia is the fear of doing this; sometimes it can be overcome by taking certain lessons dancing |
| #4087, aired 2002-05-14 | 4-SYLLABLE WORDS $10,400 (Daily Double): This adjective referring to a reversal of common sense comes from the Latin for "before behind" preposterous |
| #4085, aired 2002-05-10 | CENTRAL PARK $200: What's now officially called the Central Park Wildlife Center is probably better-known by this name the zoo |
| #4080, aired 2002-05-03 | KING ME! $3,000 (Daily Double): He was deposed by the Bavarian government in 1886; must've made him really "Mad" Ludwig II |
| #4065, aired 2002-04-12 | THE BROWNINGS $600: Casa Guidi, in which the Brownings lived in this Italian city, is now owned by Eton college Florence |
| #4052, aired 2002-03-26 | MY AFRICAN HOME $2000: Once controlled by Germany, this country of southwest Africa is now an independent nation Namibia |
| #4046, aired 2002-03-18 | "ICK"Y WORDS $2000: Settled by the Vikings around 800 A.D., this city is now a main port for Western Ireland Limerick |
| #4040, aired 2002-03-08 | OF RHODES $1200: The southern entrance to this sea is partly blocked by the islands of Crete & Rhodes the Aegean Sea |
| #4039, aired 2002-03-07 | CRANBERRIES $1600: Most harvested cranberries are sold by this company co-founded by Marcus Urann, the Cranberry King Ocean Spray |
| #4018, aired 2002-02-06 | EXPLORERS $200: He was employed by the Dutch East India Co. when he sailed the Half Moon up the N.Y. river now named for him Henry Hudson |
| #4003, aired 2002-01-16 | ROYAL FLUSH $1,600 (Daily Double): At Halicarnassus for her husband Queen Artemisia erected the first large tomb known by this name mausoleum |
| #3994, aired 2002-01-03 | TAKE A GANDER AT UGANDA $2000: Over 100 hostages were freed by Israeli commandos from this Ugandan airport in 1976 Entebbe |
| #3988, aired 2001-12-26 | WHEN YOU'RE AN ADULT $400: As a natural-born citizen, when you're 35 you can run for this cush job now filled by number 43 the President |
| #3974, aired 2001-12-06 | INTERNATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC $800: Now the largest city in Sicily, this metropolis was founded in the 8th C. B.C. by the Phoenicians Palermo |
| #3946, aired 2001-10-29 | FRANCE LOSES THE FIGHT $400: In May 1940 Germany attacked France through this country, now home to NATO HQ; France fell by June Belgium |
| #3945, aired 2001-10-26 | BELOVED SINGERS $100: Now starring on "Touched by an Angel", in the '50s she brought gospel music to Las Vegas Della Reese |
| #3923, aired 2001-09-26 | HARRY THE POTTER $600: Harry makes small pots by squeezing clay between his thumb & fingers, this action pinching |
| #3917, aired 2001-09-18 | HAPPY BIRTHDAY, THE NEW YORK TIMES $400: In 1904, the paper moved to this area now named for it & later cleaned up by Disney & Rudy Times Square |
| #3908, aired 2001-09-05 | I'M 18 & I LIKE IT $400: "(She's) Sexy And Seventeen" by this group is now 18
(who'd-a-thunk?) The Stray Cats |
| #3902, aired 2001-07-17 | AIRPORTS $600: What is now Miami International Airport was built in 1928 by this hemisphere-covering airline Pan American |
| #3895, aired 2001-07-06 | LET'S TAKE A WORLD TOUR $800: Originally settled by the Dutch, this country of NE South America came under British control in the 19th century Guyana |
| #3884, aired 2001-06-21 | TV SHOWS BY CATCHPHRASE $500: On HBO:
"Hey now!" The Larry Sanders Show |
| #3872, aired 2001-06-05 | AMAZON $400: A 1542 attack by female warriors against explorers from this country led to the Amazon receiving its name Spain |
| #3871, aired 2001-06-04 | NO LONGER AN OLYMPIC SPORT $500: Surprisingly, this internationally popular sport similar to football hasn't been played in the Olympics since 1924 rugby |
| #3863, aired 2001-05-23 | THE ROMANOVS $400 (Daily Double): Alexander II added $7,200,000 to Russia's coffers by selling off what's now known as this Alaska |
| #3847, aired 2001-05-01 | CHOICE PARENTS $400: Haunted by an animated dancing baby on "Ally McBeal", this actress now has a real child Calista Flockhart |
| #3801, aired 2001-02-26 | FUN WITH DICK OR JANE $400: (Former Jeopardy! college contestant, Maggie Bandur, who's now a writer on Malcolm in the Middle, delivers the clue.) On an episode of mine, Malcolm's mother, played by this actress, has to go to the funeral of an aunt she hated Jane Kaczmarek |
| #3761, aired 2001-01-01 | LITERATURE $1000: A poem by this 1923 Nobel Prize winner is heard here:
("I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree, And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made") William Butler Yeats |
| #3753, aired 2000-12-20 | OBSOLETE DEFINITIONS $1000: By its old definition of an "amorous dalliance", we now know what "The Little Dog" was laughing at Sport |
| #3747, aired 2000-12-12 | SAINTLY WOMEN $100: St. Barbara's evil father was struck by this, & she now protects people from it Lightning |
| #3741, aired 2000-12-04 | HISTORY OF THE WORLD PART 3 $1,000 (Daily Double): Medieval plagues were caused in part by widespread killing of these now common animals, then considered evil Cats |
| #3728, aired 2000-11-15 | DORM LIFE $600: By now you may have personal names for some of these dorm insects, AKA Periplaneta Americana Cockroaches |
| #3723, aired 2000-11-08 | THE WEST INDIES $1000: Once known as St. Christopher and Nevis, it's now known by this slightly shorter name St. Kitts and Nevis |
| #3719, aired 2000-11-02 | SONGS BY THE NUMBER $200: This Beatles song begins "When I get older, losing my hair many years from now..." "When I'm Sixty-Four" |
| #3692, aired 2000-09-26 | HARRISON FORD $800: Ford's cameo in this 1982 Spielberg film, written by his now-wife Melissa Mathison, got cut E.T. |
| #3610, aired 2000-04-21 | CLOWN SONGS $400: His hit "I'm Still Standing" says, "If our love was just a circus, you'd be a clown by now" Elton John |
| #3584, aired 2000-03-16 | EUPHEMISMS $200: From Greek for "sleeping place", this word is now often replaced by "memorial park" Cemetery |
| #3574, aired 2000-03-02 | ALL THINGS BRITISH $400: Now owned by Mohamed Al-Fayed, it began as a small 19th century grocery shop Harrods |
| #3556, aired 2000-02-07 | ROCK STARS $400: Formerly known as Prince, he's now calling himself by this 2-word name The Artist |
| #3510, aired 1999-12-03 | INVENTORS & INVENTIONS $400: In 1807 he wrote, "The power of propelling boats by steam is now fully proved" Robert Fulton |
| #3509, aired 1999-12-02 | NOW HEAR THIS! $400 (Daily Double): Heard here is the second, also the last, complete movement of a symphony by this composer: Franz Schubert |
| #3509, aired 1999-12-02 | NOW HEAR THIS! $600: The energetic composition heard here was written in 1900 by this Russian:
("Flight of the Bumblebee") Rimsky-Korsakov |
| #3508, aired 1999-12-01 | ALL THE PRESIDENT'S KIDS $600: Both of Hoover's boys attended this university now attended by Chelsea Clinton Stanford |
| #3505, aired 1999-11-26 | BRANDED $600: This luggage-maker, now owned by Samsonite, was founded in the 1930s as American Luggage Works American Tourister |
| #3495, aired 1999-11-12 | THE FUTURE $100: Now at about 30 million, by 2005 they'll be the USA's largest minority group Latinos/Hispanics |
| #3489, aired 1999-11-04 | THE FAMILY CAR $100: Now owned by Ford, this Swedish company is loosening up with its C70 convertible Volvo |
| #3476, aired 1999-10-18 | I BELIEVE I CAN'T FLY $400: Native to Mauritius & now extinct, it's known mainly by early drawings & body fragments in museums Dodo |
| #3469, aired 1999-10-07 | WORLD CAPITALS $400: Now Haiti's capital, this city once known as L'Hopital was nearly destroyed by an earthquake in 1751 Port-au-Prince |
| #3464, aired 1999-09-30 | SOCIOLOGY $1000: Once a variety of Provencal used by crusaders, this "lingua" is now any language used by people without a common tongue Lingua Franca |
| #3463, aired 1999-09-29 | SCIENCE & NATURE $1,000 (Daily Double): Once hunted for its pelt, this Australian monotreme is now protected by law the duck-billed platypus |
| #3456, aired 1999-09-20 | IT'S A WEIRD WORLD $500: Now you know -- borborygmus is the technical term for the noises made by these long organs, not the stomach intestines |
| #3451, aired 1999-09-13 | 17th CENTURY ARTS $1,000 (Daily Double): Now a museum, its Grande Galerie was completed by Henri IV around 1606 the Louvre |
| #3432, aired 1999-07-06 | LET'S GROW SOMETHING! $600: The Declaration of Independence was drafted on paper made from this plant grown by Washington; it's now restricted Hemp |
| #3424, aired 1999-06-24 | THE SUPREME COURT $400: He's the only justice appointed by Nixon now on the court William Rehnquist |
| #3423, aired 1999-06-23 | FAMILY TIES $100: Donatella Versace now heads the fashion house built by this slain brother Gianni Versace |
| #3407, aired 1999-06-01 | ALL THE TEA $1,000 (Daily Double): The world's greatest tea producing country, by far, is this one, not China India |
| #3361, aired 1999-03-29 | LIQUOR BY LABEL $300: Bombay,
Beefeater,
Tanqueray gin |
| #3342, aired 1999-03-02 | STATE CAPITALS $300: Now a museum, the old Governor's Mansion in this capital was constructed by Huey P. Long in 1930 Baton Rouge |
| #3332, aired 1999-02-16 | FAMOUS HOMES $1,500 (Daily Double): Now a memorial to him, his Arlington house was inherited by his wife, Mary Randolph Custis Robert E. Lee |
| #3329, aired 1999-02-11 | THERE GOES THE EMPIRE $500: Administered by the Germans until WWI as South West Africa, this former colony is now an independent nation Namibia |
| #3276, aired 1998-11-30 | SEEING RED AT THE MOVIES $800: An innocent Tom Hanks is targeted by the CIA in this comedy The Man with One Red Shoe |
| #3274, aired 1998-11-26 | A WHITMAN SAMPLER $600: It's the title of the movie that featured the following:
"A poem by Walt Whitman about Mr. Abraham Lincoln; now in this class you can either call me 'Mr. Keating', or if you're slightly more daring, 'O Captain! My Captain!'" Dead Poets Society (Robin Williams) |
| #3247, aired 1998-10-20 | YOU DO THE MATH $100: Number of nursery rhyme blackbirds baked in a pie divided by number of nursery rhyme blind mice 8 (24/3) |
| #3212, aired 1998-07-14 | SUNSET BLVD. $300: Site of the former Filthy McNasty's, the Viper Room is now co-owned by this "Ed Wood" movie star Johnny Depp |
| #3199, aired 1998-06-25 | SOUTH PACIFIC $400: Vailima, this author's mansion in western Samoa, has now been "Kidnapped" by the country's head of state Robert Louis Stevenson |
| #3175, aired 1998-05-22 | THE CHAIN GANG $300: Now owned by the Gap, this clothing store originally sold safari clothing Banana Republic |
| #3165, aired 1998-05-08 | COLLEGE ATHLETICS $500 (Daily Double): (Hi, I'm Summer Sanders.) In 1992 I led this school, now attended by Chelsea Clinton, to a national swimming championship Stanford |
| #1, aired 1998-05-03 | LITERARY LANDMARKS $200: This "Call of the Wild" author had some wild times at Heinold's First & Last Chance Saloon in Oakland Jack London |
| #1, aired 1998-05-03 | SAN FRANCISCO TREATS $200: (Actress Julie Pinson clears her throat before singing the jingle in person.) It promotes itself as "the San Francisco Treat" Rice-A-Roni |
| #3158, aired 1998-04-29 | 20 YEARS FROM NOW $600: In 2018, Tiffany I breaks tradition by becoming the first female one of these "Bishops of Rome" the pope |
| #3144, aired 1998-04-09 | BLOOD TEST $400: Doctors are again using these worms, now to remove blood clots in fingers reattached by microsurgery leeches |
| #3128, aired 1998-03-18 | "M" TV $800: Debuting in 1947 & now hosted by the man seen here, it's network television's oldest program Meet the Press |
| #3127, aired 1998-03-17 | SHAKESPEAREAN MOONS OF URANUS $800: When found by a watchman, she was "Bleeding, warm and newly dead"; now she's found around Uranus Juliet |
| #3125, aired 1998-03-13 | "CAT" GOT YOUR TONGUE? $800: The instruction of a pupil by means of questions & answers, the reverse of what we're doing now catechism |
| #3095, aired 1998-01-30 | TV SPIN-OFFS $800: "American Journal" was spun off from this newsmagazine now hosted by Deborah Norville Inside Edition |
| #3078, aired 1998-01-07 | TRAVEL U.S.A. $400: Open to the public, a St. Louis farm once owned by Ulysses Grant is now operated by this brewery Anheuser-Busch |
| #3064, aired 1997-12-18 | BIG WORDS $600: Brand name of garbage bags now marketed by Tenneco Hefty |
| #3058, aired 1997-12-10 | AROUND THE U.S.A. $800: Now the second largest, Nashua is predicted to become this New England state's largest city by the year 2000 New Hampshire |
| #3057, aired 1997-12-09 | IN THE WILDERNESS $200: Once the sanctuary of the Seminoles, this Florida wilderness is now inhabited by the Miccosukee tribe Everglades |
| #3023, aired 1997-10-22 | ON THE MAP $200: The name of this Belgian resort once visited by royalty is now a generic term for mineral bath Spa |
| #3017, aired 1997-10-14 | WORLD CITIES $500: An old tobacco factory made famous by "Carmen" now houses part of the university of this Spanish city Sevilla |
| #3010, aired 1997-10-03 | EXPLORERS $800 (Daily Double): Louis Antoine de Bougainville arrived at this island in 1768 & natives gave him fowls, fruit & naked women Tahiti |
| #2979, aired 1997-07-10 | ANCIENT RELIGION $400: A girl sacrificed by these people on Peru's Nevado Ampato was found frozen in 1995 the Incas |
| #2969, aired 1997-06-26 | FOOD & DRINK $500: Once the liquid left in a churn, this drink is now made by adding bacteria to nonfat milk Buttermilk |
| #2967, aired 1997-06-24 | LATE-NIGHT TV $300: This network fills the wee hours with "World News Now", for those left uninformed by its "Nightline" ABC |
| #2966, aired 1997-06-23 | EUROPEAN CAPITALS $400: The Scandinavian city now known as this was founded by King Harald Hardraade around 1050 Oslo |
| #2953, aired 1997-06-04 | QUOTABLE WOMEN $500: "If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent", said this "Now, Voyager" star Bette Davis |
| #2948, aired 1997-05-28 | THE FRENCH REVOLUTION $600: Written by Rouget de Lisle as "Chant de guerre pour l'armee du Rhin", it's now known as this anthem La Marseillaise |
| #2945, aired 1997-05-23 | AROUND THE WORLD $700 (Daily Double): Now in ruins, the temple complex of Angkor Thom in this country was built by Khmer ruler Jayavarman VII Cambodia (Kampuchea) |
| #2944, aired 1997-05-22 | EXPLORERS $600: In 1005 this Norseman's brother Thorvald was killed by Indians, perhaps in what is now Labrador Leif Ericson |
| #2938, aired 1997-05-14 | THE DAKOTAS $500: Now a North Dakota city, this junction of 2 rivers was called "Les Grandes Fourches" by French traders Grand Forks |
| #2913, aired 1997-04-09 | HIGH SCHOOLS $100: Led by Lew Alcindor, Power Memorial in NYC won 71 straight games in this sport 1962-65 Basketball |
| #2894, aired 1997-03-13 | WOMEN OF SONG $800: Released in 1995, her "The Woman In Me" is now the all-time best-selling album by a female country artist Shania Twain |
| #2880, aired 1997-02-21 | ANCIENT GREECE $200: In 146 B.C. what's now Greece was conquered by this western Mediterranean power Rome |
| #2866, aired 1997-02-03 | DISNEY WORLD AT 25 $400: The Tower of Terror inspired by this TV series now drops you 13 stories twice; Rod Serling would approve The Twilight Zone |
| #2848, aired 1997-01-08 | PLANTS & TREES $1000: The porous bark of this oak tree is used to make gaskets & a black paint used by artists cork |
| #2776, aired 1996-09-30 | NEWSMAKERS OF THE '70s $500: Elizabeth Hanford was appointed to the FTC in 1973; she's now better known by this name Elizabeth Dole |
| #2684, aired 1996-04-11 | "NET"s $300: Developed by the Dept. of Defense in the 1960s, millions now "surf" this information superhighway the Internet |
| #2655, aired 1996-03-01 | QUEEN VICTORIA $200: The "Imperial State" one created for Victoria is now worn by the monarch for state occasions the crown |
| #2634, aired 1996-02-01 | WORLD CITIES $400: Saigon, once capital of Indochina, is now known by this name Ho Chi Minh City |
| #2628, aired 1996-01-24 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: The British gained Charlestown Peninsula, now in Boston, by winning this June 17, 1775 battle Bunker Hill |
| #2616, aired 1996-01-08 | THE BIBLE $200: 2 of Hiel's sons died when he incurred Joshua's curse by rebuilding this city Jericho |
| #2601, aired 1995-12-18 | NOTABLE NAMES $300: Now retired, world-famous soccer player Edson Arantes do Nascimento is better known by this name Pelé |
| #2594, aired 1995-12-07 | ASIA $1000: In the 19th C. Karachi, now in this country, was developed by the British as a major port city Pakistan |
| #2575, aired 1995-11-10 | THE MOVIES $600: This 1979 Vietnam War epic was inspired by Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness" Apocalypse Now |
| #2545, aired 1995-09-29 | RODENTS $800: This S. American rodent whose pelt is among the most expensive is now protected by law in many countries the chinchilla |
| #2470, aired 1995-05-05 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $500: The stock of this software company headed by William Gates is traded over the counter Microsoft |
| #2439, aired 1995-03-23 | SPORTS $300: The oldest major golf tournament is this one now run by the Royal & Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews the British Open |
| #2405, aired 1995-02-03 | 1776 $400: Now famous for its cliff divers, this Mexican city was destroyed by an earthquake in 1776 Acapulco |
| #2394, aired 1995-01-19 | AFRICAN HISTORY $1000: The first Black African colony to gain independence, the Gold Coast is now known by this name Ghana |
| #2391, aired 1995-01-16 | THE FOUR SEASONS $500: A famous line from "Richard III" says, "Now is" this "made glorious summer by this sun of York" "the winter of our discontent" |
| #2380, aired 1994-12-30 | U.S. HISTORIC SITES $300: The St. Louis Cathedral on this city's Place d'Armes, now Jackson Square, was built by the Spanish New Orleans |
| #2343, aired 1994-11-09 | IS THERE A DOCTOR IN THE HOUSE? $200: In the 1870s John M. Woodworth became the first person to hold this post now held by Dr. Joycelyn Elders Surgeon General |
| #2332, aired 1994-10-25 | HOLLYWOOD HODGEPODGE $100: Though it's now Mann's Chinese Theatre, many people know it by this, its original name Grauman's Chinese Theatre |
| #2301, aired 1994-09-12 | FOUNDERS $200: Now commonly called the Quakers, this group was founded by George Fox the Society of Friends |
| #2296, aired 1994-09-05 | DOLLS $300: Many ancient dolls were made from this substance, but most of them probably have melted by now wax |
| #2272, aired 1994-06-21 | MANMADE STRUCTURES $300: This dam on the Arizona-Nevada border was dedicated by FDR, but is now named for his predecessor Hoover Dam |
| #2272, aired 1994-06-21 | ON THE "HOUSE" $400: Jane Addams carried on much of her work in this dwelling, now a museum run by the Univ. of Ill. at Chicago Hull House |
| #2272, aired 1994-06-21 | MANMADE STRUCTURES $400: Once Seattle's tallest building at 605 feet, it's now exceeded by at least 4 taller structures the Space Needle |
| #2271, aired 1994-06-20 | THE 20th CENTURY $400: In 1938 the Mexican government nationalized foreign holdings in this industry now run by Pemex the oil industry |
| #2262, aired 1994-06-07 | MAMMALS $300: This endangered ape of Borneo & Sumatra is now protected by law in Indonesia & Malaysia the orangutan |
| #2258, aired 1994-06-01 | HISTORIC AMERICA $600: The village of Pleasant Hill, Ky., founded by this celibate sect in 1805, is now a living history museum the Shakers |
| #2237, aired 1994-05-03 | MASSACHUSETTS $100: This landmark where the pilgrims landed in 1620 is now protected by a granite portico Plymouth Rock |
| #2217, aired 1994-04-05 | GAME SHOWS $400: The theme to "Now You See It" was written by this producer of Michael Jackson's "Thriller" album Quincy Jones |
| #2203, aired 1994-03-16 | NEWSPAPERS & MAGAZINES $300: Author William Dean Howells was once an editor of this magazine now edited by Helen Gurley Brown Cosmopolitan |
| #2192, aired 1994-03-01 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: Now in West Virginia, this village was the site of an 1859 raid by abolitionist John Brown Harpers Ferry |
| #2191, aired 1994-02-28 | THE CIVIL WAR $1000: Gen. McClellan was told by this new Secretary of War, "Now we two will save the country" (Edwin) Stanton |
| #2189, aired 1994-02-24 | NEWSPAPERS & MAGAZINES $800: Now edited by Helen Gurley Brown, this magazine began in Rochester, N.Y. in 1886 Cosmopolitan |
| #2188, aired 1994-02-23 | U.S. GOVERNMENT $400: Now Sec'y of State, he was Jimmy Carter's lead negotiator for the release of the hostages held by Iran Warren Christopher |
| #2160, aired 1994-01-14 | NONFICTION $1,000 (Daily Double): In 1993 this self-help book by M. Scott Peck celebrated its 9th year on the New York Times bestsellers list The Road Less Traveled |
| #2146, aired 1993-12-27 | GEOGRAPHIC POTPOURRI $500: A tower outside Dublin visited by this novelist in 1904 now houses a museum dedicated to him James Joyce |
| #2122, aired 1993-11-23 | THE 1480s $200: Organized by King Henry VII in 1485, this unit of royal protectors now performs ceremonial duties Yeomen of the Guard |
| #2117, aired 1993-11-16 | WILLIAM & MARY $200: When Mary was born, her father was the Duke of this, a title now held by Prince Andrew York |
| #2099, aired 1993-10-21 | NONPOTENT POTABLES $500: Originally the liquid left in the churn, this is now made by culturing nonfat or lowfat milk buttermilk |
| #2097, aired 1993-10-19 | COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD $800: The former Soviet state of Byelorussia is now known by this name Belarus |
| #2073, aired 1993-09-15 | CANADA $400: Played by 19th c. soldiers during the long winters, it's now considered the national sport hockey |
| #2065, aired 1993-07-23 | THE SOVIET UNION $2,000 (Daily Double): In the 1920s Felix Dzerzhinsky began the system of forced labor camps now known by this Russian name gulag |
| #2061, aired 1993-07-19 | -NYMS $1000: A word formed by the initial letters of a set group of words, like NOW for National Organization of Women an acronym |
| #2034, aired 1993-06-10 | METALS $400: The tip of the Washington Monument is protected by a cap of this metal now used in drink cans aluminum |
| #2029, aired 1993-06-03 | WORLD CITIES $600: Jaffa, now combined with this Israeli city, was founded by the ancient Phoenicians Tel Aviv |
| #2016, aired 1993-05-17 | SUPERSTITIONS $500: One superstition says a mole on the back of the neck is a sign that the person will die in this manner by hanging |
| #2007, aired 1993-05-04 | CONNECTIONS $300: The land bridge that connected Asia & North America is now covered by this strait the Bering Strait |
| #1986, aired 1993-04-05 | GLOVES $200: This company makes Living gloves; the Living Bras are now made by Sara Lee Playtex |
| #1976, aired 1993-03-22 | CIVIL RIGHTS $1,000 (Daily Double): Gandhi dubbed them the Harijan, children of God, the name they're now known by the untouchables |
| #1974, aired 1993-03-18 | HATS $300: This scarf wrapped around the head is now chiefly worn by Muslims a turban |
| #1970, aired 1993-03-12 | HISTORY $600: This country, taken over by China in 1951, is now called Xizang Autonomous Region Tibet |
| #1963, aired 1993-03-03 | MUSICAL TERMS $200: Anyone can sing a shanty now, but the first shanties were sung by these people sailors |
| #1880, aired 1992-11-06 | CALL ME "MR." $200: He owned the vegetable garden invaded by Peter Rabbit Mr. McGregor |
| #1878, aired 1992-11-04 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $400: The industrial giant originally called Fabbrica Italiana Automobili Torino is now known by this name Fiat |
| #1844, aired 1992-09-17 | LEFTOVERS $400: The National Book Committee started National Library Week in 1958; now it's sponsored by this group the American Library Association |
| #1774, aired 1992-04-23 | WORLD HISTORY $300: The Great Leap Forward refers to the radical policies pursued in this country from 1958-1960 China |
| #1770, aired 1992-04-17 | ODDS & ENDS $500: From the French for "small", in needlepoint a small stitch is this type of point petit |
| #1750, aired 1992-03-20 | ISLANDS $200: The Alexander Archipelago, discovered by Bering & Chirikov, is now a part of this U.S. state Alaska |
| #1743, aired 1992-03-11 | POT LUCK $600: Bought by Elvis in 1957, it's now claimed to be the 2nd most recognized house in the U.S. Graceland |
| #1679, aired 1991-12-12 | CRIME & PUNISHMENT $500 (Daily Double): Title of the following folk song that takes place in prison:
"Well, now, the sheriff, he'll grab you / And the boys will pull you down / And then before you know it / You're penitentiary bound..." "The Midnight Special" |
| #1674, aired 1991-12-05 | POLITICS $1000: 1 of 2 Supreme Court nominees in 1987 for the seat now held by Anthony Kennedy (Douglas) Ginsburg (or Robert Bork) |
| #1672, aired 1991-12-03 | SMUGGLING $500: The fleet now known as this was founded in 1790 by Alexander Hamilton to prevent smuggling the Coast Guard |
| #1644, aired 1991-10-24 | THE FRENCH REVOLUTION $200: In 1789 the royal family was taken to Paris by a mob yelling, "We have the baker... now we shall have" this bread |
| #1642, aired 1991-10-22 | ANTIQUITIES $200: The Phoenicians were famous for carving this tusk material, a practice now opposed by animal lovers ivory |
| #1640, aired 1991-10-18 | ISLANDS $100: Discovered by Ponce de Leon in 1513, this state's Dry Tortugas Islands are now a bird sanctuary Florida |
| #1638, aired 1991-10-16 | ACRONYMS $200: The feminist group founded in 1966 by Betty Friedan is known by this acronym NOW |
| #1634, aired 1991-10-10 | WEIGHTS & MEASURES $1000: A metric ton contains 1 million of these metric units grams |
| #1628, aired 1991-10-02 | TRANSPORTATION $100: Once the term for any 1-man vehicle, now it's pulled by trotters a sulky |
| #1621, aired 1991-09-23 | TECHNOLOGY $500: Now mostly obsolete, these machines record data on cards to be read by computers a keypunch machine |
| #1617, aired 1991-09-17 | CLOTHING $2,400 (Daily Double): A cloth worn under the chin & a piece of lace worn around the neck & shoulders form this phrase bib and tucker |
| #1615, aired 1991-09-13 | THE CIVIL WAR $200: It broke away from Virginia over the issue of secession in 1861 & became the 35th state in 1863 West Virginia |
| #1531, aired 1991-04-08 | ISLANDS $800: Tanzania’s capital was founded by the sultan of this island that’s now part of the country Zanzibar |
| #1528, aired 1991-04-03 | LATIN AMERICAN HISTORY $500: Columbus discovered gold on this island now shared by Haiti & the Dominican Republic Hispaniola |
| #1517, aired 1991-03-19 | SINGERS $500 (Daily Double): Discovered by Burt Bacharach, this singer had her first hit with the following:
"Don't make me over / Now that I'd do anything for you / Don't make me over / Now that you know how I adore you" Dionne Warwick |
| #1510, aired 1991-03-08 | INVENTORS $500: William Oughtred invented this calculating device, now largely replaced by electronic calculators the slide rule |
| #1507, aired 1991-03-05 | ISLANDS $1000: This Egyptian island where a lighthouse stood is now connected to Alexandria by an isthmus Pharos |
| #1487, aired 1991-02-05 | TAXI $400: This cab driver has two kids, Jason & Jennifer Elaine Nardo |
| #1476, aired 1991-01-21 | THE OCCULT $200: Now sold in toy stores, this occult communication device was invented by William Fuld in 1890 the Ouija board |
| #1465, aired 1991-01-04 | ISLANDS $1000: Though founded by men who mutinied against Britain, it's now the only British colony in the Pacific Pitcairn Island |
| #1443, aired 1990-12-05 | THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR $600: These words were usually followed by the now forgotten line, "To hell with Spain" "Remember the Maine" |
| #1414, aired 1990-10-25 | COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD $800: Until 1957 the area that is now Malaysia was ruled by this western power Britain |
| #1409, aired 1990-10-18 | TRADEMARK NAMES $200: Now a generic term, it went originally by its trade name for acetylsalicylic acid aspirin |
| #1389, aired 1990-09-20 | FEMALE SINGERS $400: She was called "Bubbles" by her family but this is now Evelyn King's nickname "Champagne" |
| #1386, aired 1990-09-17 | THE 20th CENTURY $100: Now a museum in Groton, Conn., the USS Nautilus was the first submarine to be powered by this nuclear energy |
| #6, aired 1990-07-21 | USA $1,600 (Daily Double): Now known as this, in the 17th century this island ws owned by a man named Isaac Bedloe Liberty |
| #1370, aired 1990-07-13 | THE WHITE HOUSE $400: The Emancipation Proclamation was signed in the room now known by this name the Lincoln Room |
| #1369, aired 1990-07-12 | EUROPE $500: The area named the "Free Territory of Trieste" by the U.N. in 1946 is now part of these 2 countries Italy & Yugoslavia |
| #1369, aired 1990-07-12 | ASTROLOGY $800: This aggressive passionate sign is symbolized by an animal with 6 to 12 eyes Scorpio |
| #1332, aired 1990-05-22 | U.S. HISTORY $300: The territory acquired by the 1853 Gadsden Purchase is now part of these 2 states Arizona & New Mexico |
| #1331, aired 1990-05-21 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY $800: 75 times the size of Belgium, the former Belgian Congo is now known by this name Zaire |
| #1320, aired 1990-05-04 | IN THE NEWS $600: Leftist guerrillas are in their 10th yr. of trying to overthrow this country's gov't now led by Alfredo Cristiani El Salvador |
| #1303, aired 1990-04-11 | COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD $600: The former German colony of South West Africa is now known by this name Namibia |
| #1294, aired 1990-03-29 | INDIANA $200: Conservationists estimate almost 90% of Indiana was once covered by these, now less than 20% is Forests/Trees |
| #1290, aired 1990-03-23 | ACTORS & THEIR ROLES $700 (Daily Double): "Dallas" actor heard here singing in a 1953 movie musical:
"Where is the light that's lit by land? Where is it now?" Howard Keel |
| #1285, aired 1990-03-16 | ODDS & ENDS $200: Popular during both world wars, this "fortune-telling" board is now made by Parker Brothers Ouija Board |
| #1272, aired 1990-02-27 | ANIMAL TRIVIA $500 (Daily Double): The following song popularized a dance named for this animal:
"Now the dance that the people do, I don't know how it started, all I know..." Monkey ("Monkey Time" by Major Lance) |
| #1271, aired 1990-02-26 | ART $400: Originally full of light & color, his 1642 work was so darkened by grime & smoke it's now called "The Night Watch" Rembrandt |
| #1266, aired 1990-02-19 | CUBA $400: The presidential palace last used by this dictator is now called The Museum of the Revolution Fulgencio Batista |
| #1265, aired 1990-02-16 | SITCOMS $300: Christopher Hewett now plays this character first played in 3 movies by Clifton Webb Mr. Belvedere |
| #1208, aired 1989-11-29 | DRIVING $500 (Daily Double): Type of car taken back by the end of the following:
"Well she got her daddy's car and she cruised through the hamburger stand now..." a T-Bird (Thunderbird) |
| #1190, aired 1989-11-03 | MAGAZINES $1000: It's now published by the Ben Franklin Literary & Medical Society; Curtis sold it in 1982 The Saturday Evening Post |
| #1189, aired 1989-11-02 | MILK $200: The 1st big herd of dairy cattle in what is now the U.S. was imported by this Virginia colony in 1611 Jamestown |
| #1180, aired 1989-10-20 | 1989 $200: This Omaha village founded by Fr. Flanagan now has homes in Tallahassee & Orlando for boys...& girls Boys Town |
| #1147, aired 1989-09-05 | POTPOURRI $100: The leaders of these clubs for young females now wear uniforms designed by Bill Blass The Girl Scouts |
| #1101, aired 1989-05-22 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $300: Former Miss America now selling chicken products under the "By George" label Phyllis George |
| #1069, aired 1989-04-06 | TELEVISION $300: Now a "mom" to ALF, Ann Schedeen played this kindly TV doctor's daughter Sandy Marcus Welby |
| #1059, aired 1989-03-23 | ISLANDS $1000: Now a part of Indonesia, the Moluccas were once known by this zesty name the Spice Islands |
| #1055, aired 1989-03-17 | IRELAND $100: 1st used by St. Patrick to represent the trinity, it's now the national symbol the shamrock |
| #1043, aired 1989-03-01 | ISLANDS $3,000 (Daily Double): The American & Canadian parts of this are separated by Goat Island Niagara Falls |
| #1037, aired 1989-02-21 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $400: Frye boots, popular in the '60s & '70s, are now made by this company that lets U.B.U. Reeboks |
| #1030, aired 1989-02-10 | GEOGRAPHY $400: England now rules this island discovered by Spanish explorer Juan Bermúdez Bermuda |
| #1012, aired 1989-01-17 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1000: The golden spike at Promontory Pt., driven by this Calif. gov., is now owned by the u. named for his son (Leland) Stanford |
| #1011, aired 1989-01-16 | BY THE NUMBERS $100: A long piece of lumber whose width & depth now usually run 1 1/2" x 3 1/2" 2x4 |
| #997, aired 1988-12-27 | COLONIAL AMERICA $800: New Netherland, now New York State, was founded by this company the Dutch West India Company |
| #994, aired 1988-12-22 | OOPS! $400: Postal officials predicted by 1988 90% of 1st class mailers would be using these, but only 20% now do 9-digit zip codes |
| #956, aired 1988-10-31 | MILITARY MELODIES $300: Traditional lyrics of this song say, "You'll never get rich by digging a ditch" "You're In The Army Now" |
| #951, aired 1988-10-24 | GEOGRAPHICAL SONGS $100 (Daily Double): It's where my baby's smile takes me in the following:
"My-oh me-oh / I go wild then I have to do the samba, then la bamba / Now I'm not the kind of person with a passionate persuasion for dancin' or romancin'..." Rio |
| #921, aired 1988-09-12 | PEOPLE $2,100 (Daily Double): Now nationwide, this charity program was begun in L.A. in Dec. 1947 by Marine Major Bill Hendricks Toys for Tots |
| #910, aired 1988-07-15 | ART NEWS $600: Austria is now settling claims to the Mauer Bach collection, art objects confiscated by this group the Nazis |
| #905, aired 1988-07-08 | SHAKESPEAREAN 1st LINES $400: His 1st line is also the 1st line of the play: "Now is the winter of our discontent..." Richard III |
| #901, aired 1988-07-04 | MEXICAN HISTORY $200: Founded by the Aztecs in the 1300s, Tenochtitlan is now called this Mexico City |
| #895, aired 1988-06-24 | FASHION $400: "Time" says that 50% of these luxury garments are now bought by women under 30--for themselves mink coats, fur coats |
| #873, aired 1988-05-25 | MAN IN SPACE $600: If they haven't been towed away by now, there are still 3 of these U.S. 4-wheel vehicles parked on the Moon lunar rovers |
| #871, aired 1988-05-23 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY $600: The land now called Israel was named Palestine in the 2nd century A.D. by this ruling people Romans |
| #870, aired 1988-05-20 | SHAKESPEARE $1000: Line preceding "made glorious summer by this sun of York" Now is the winter of our discontent |
| #867, aired 1988-05-17 | RELIGION $2,000 (Daily Double): The former tank commander nicknamed "Killer Runcie" is now known by this religious title the Archbishop of Canterbury |
| #866, aired 1988-05-16 | SPIES & SPYING $400: It's now thought she was innocent, but shot by the French as a military coverup Mata Hari |
| #848, aired 1988-04-20 | PRESIDENTIAL TRIVIA $800: Some now say this president's supposed affairs w/Sally Hemmings was merely a rumor spread by his enemies Jefferson |
| #840, aired 1988-04-08 | TRANSPORTATION $500 (Daily Double): 1 of 2 cars mentioned in the following 1958 hit by The Playmates:
"Beep beep, beep beep /
His horn went beep beep beep..." Little Nash Rambler (or Cadillac) |
| #838, aired 1988-04-06 | "WATER" $5 (Daily Double): It's reported The Rolling Stones took their name from the following blues song by this singer: Muddy Waters |
| #810, aired 1988-02-26 | ART $4,500 (Daily Double): Painter of the following, his jungles now inspire a series of Jaguar car ads: Henri Rousseau |
| #805, aired 1988-02-19 | INDIANS $600: Home to the Sioux, these hills were taken by force for gold & now have 4 pale faces carved on Mt. Rushmore the Black Hills |
| #802, aired 1988-02-16 | BALLET $1000: Before she was First Lady, Betty Ford danced in a ballet company founded by this modern dancer now in her 90s Martha Graham |
| #797, aired 1988-02-09 | MEDICINE $400: By one estimate, 60 million people died in the 18th century of this disease, now eliminated thru vaccination smallpox |
| #760, aired 1987-12-18 | FASHION $100: Fashion-minded babies can now buy "Weeboks", tennis shoes made by this company Reebok |
| #759, aired 1987-12-17 | MEDICINE $600: Used by primitives for blood letting, surgeons now use this worm to reattach severed body parts a leech |
| #742, aired 1987-11-24 | NEBRASKA $100: Girls as well as boys now live in this village founded by Father Flanagan Boys Town |
| #738, aired 1987-11-18 | THEATRE $3,700 (Daily Double): 1928 play by Bertolt Brecht which featured the following: Three-Penny Opera |
| #725, aired 1987-10-30 | FROM THE LATIN $400: In Latin it originally meant "to drive off the stage by clapping"; now it's what a bomb does explode |
| #678, aired 1987-07-15 | HISTORY $2,900 (Daily Double): John T. Ford was imprisoned for over a month in 1865 because he owned this Ford's Theater |
| #657, aired 1987-06-16 | FOOD & DRINK $100: An old name for a strong ale, now it's usually preceded by "egg" nog |
| #649, aired 1987-06-04 | HOLLYWOOD QUOTES $400: Speaking out of character, she said, "I would have slept with Addison & probably gotten rid of him by now" Cybill Shepherd |
| #648, aired 1987-06-03 | SONGS THAT "DO" $400: Question asked by both The Contours & Dave Clark 5, "now that I can dance" "Do You Love Me" |
| #644, aired 1987-05-28 | BLACK AMERICA $1000: Dr. Joseph Lowery now heads this million-member group founded by Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. the Southern Christian Leadership Conference |
| #642, aired 1987-05-26 | SPORTS STADIUMS $1000: Sites of Brooklyn's Ebbet's Field & New York's Polo Ground are now both occupied by these apartment buildings (housing projects) |
| #620, aired 1987-04-24 | ANIMALS $300: Used in medical research which established Rh factor, their export is now banned by India rhesus monkeys |
| #615, aired 1987-04-17 | MUSEUMS $1000: Commissioned as offices by the Medicis in 1559, this Florence palace now houses Botticellis Uffizi Palace |
| #572, aired 1987-02-17 | BUSINESS IN "GENERAL" $800: NBC, the network organized by General Sarnoff, is now owned by this General General Electric |
| #544, aired 1987-01-08 | LONDON $500: You've visited this London landmark at 13 Portsmouth Street; now read the book, by Dickens The Old Curiosity Shop |
| #517, aired 1986-12-02 | THANKSGIVING $300: While Macy's sponsors a parade in N.Y., this now-defunct rival store used to put one on in Philadelphia Gimbel's |
| #502, aired 1986-11-11 | SHAKESPEAREAN 1ST LINES $400: "Now is the winter of our discontent made glorious summer by this sun of York..." Richard III |
| #501, aired 1986-11-10 | LEAD SINGERS $5 (Daily Double): Called "Buffoons of '60s British Rock Invasion", they were led by an ex-milkman named Garrity: Freddie And The Dreamers |
| #501, aired 1986-11-10 | LEAD SINGERS $200: Formerly backed by the Blue Belles, she now uses her last name for the entire group Patti LaBelle |
| #499, aired 1986-11-06 | SEPTEMBER $1000: Only state admitted to Union in Sept., its largest city was founded by Spanish settlers in Sept. 1781 California |
| #490, aired 1986-10-24 | PEOPLE ON THE MAP $600 (Daily Double): She learned songwriting in a class taught by Paul Simon in New York, not New Hampshire:
"I ain't tellin' tales, anybody else / Could repeat the things that I've heard / She's been talkin' sweet and it's on the street / How the girl's been spreadin' the word / Ahh, you should hurry, / You should let her know how you feel" Melissa Manchester |
| #483, aired 1986-10-15 | MONEY $500: 99% of paper currency now in circulation in the U.S. was issued by this body the Federal Reserve |
| #476, aired 1986-10-06 | TRANSPORTATION $400: Walter O'Malley had this stadium designed so you could park right behind your club-level seats Dodger Stadium |
| #476, aired 1986-10-06 | TRANSPORTATION $600: Anglo-French project, dreamed of by Napoleon, which it now appears will eventually see the light of day the Chunnel (the tunnel underneath the English Channel) |
| #457, aired 1986-09-09 | SHOW BIZ BUSINESS $400: Studio formed by 1916 Famous Players-Lasky merger, merged w/Desilu in 1967, & now owned by Gulf & Western Paramount |
| #435, aired 1986-05-09 | FASHION HISTORY $500: In Iran, this "fashion" custom was forbidden in the 1930s but is now encouraged by the gov't wearing a veil (for the women) |
| #432, aired 1986-05-06 | WORLD HISTORY $400 (Daily Double): Now surrounded by the countries w/largest area & pop., this country once had the largest land empire ever Mongolia |
| #427, aired 1986-04-29 | SWAMP THINGS $1,200 (Daily Double): Singer of the following 1971 song set in a swamp:
"Yeah, here comes Amos / Now Amos Moses was a Cajun / He lived by himself..." Jerry Reed |
| #412, aired 1986-04-08 | SOAP OPERAS $300 (Daily Double): Show responsible for more hit singles than any other daytime soap, including the following:
"Kissing you is not what I had planned / And now I'm not so sure just where I stand / I wasn't looking for true love / But now you're looking at me / You're the only..." General Hospital |
| #386, aired 1986-03-03 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $1000: Standard Oil of Indiana, which pioneered sale of unleaded gas, is now known by this name Amoco |
| #385, aired 1986-02-28 | POTPOURRI $100 (Daily Double): Since his mother invented Liquid Paper, this singer collects royalty on every bottle sold
"Her name was Joanne / And she lived in a meadow by a pond" Mike Nesmith |
| #370, aired 1986-02-07 | WAR STORIES $400: Coppola based his Vietnam war epic, "Apocalypse Now", on "Heart of Darkness" by this Polish-born author Joseph Conrad |
| #363, aired 1986-01-29 | NONPOTENT POTABLES $200: Calistoga, Saratoga, & "a nice glass seltzer" sparkling water (or mineral water) |
| #315, aired 1985-11-22 | HANDICRAFTS $400: Pliny the Elder wrote about & Da Vinci taught this art form now done by 4-year-olds finger painting |
| #296, aired 1985-10-28 | CORPORATE AMERICA $400: Most stores in chain founded by S.S. Kresge have now taken this terse title Kmart |
| #286, aired 1985-10-14 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $600: Company founded in 1906 by door-to-door salesman Alfred C. Fuller, now owned by Sara Lee Corp. the Fuller Brush Company |
| #278, aired 1985-10-02 | STARTS WITH "G" $200: An early warship propelled by oars, it's now just the kitchen on a ship galley |
| #266, aired 1985-09-16 | AUTOMOBILES $200: Yep. He & Clark Gable bought the only 2 SSJ Duesenbergs sold Gary Cooper |
| #263, aired 1985-09-11 | ANTS $500: Unlike termites, these ants don't eat wood, only chew out holes big enough to "build" their nests carpenter ants |
| #262, aired 1985-09-10 | UTILITIES $100: Both the U.S. & Canada draw electricity by harnessing this natural wonder on their border Niagara Falls |
| #162, aired 1985-04-23 | TV TRIVIA $300: Knighted by the queen, this familiar PBS host can't be called "Sir" because he's now a U.S. citizen Alistair Cooke |
| #158, aired 1985-04-17 | TOYS & GAMES $1,900 (Daily Double): Toy title of the following: "I should have known /
You'd bid me farewell / There's a lesson to be learned from this / And I learned it very well /
Now I know you're not the only starfish in the sea /
If I never hear your name again..." a "Red Rubber Ball" |
| #154, aired 1985-04-11 | MYTHOLOGY $600: A youth loved by Aphrodite, this name now refers to any handsome young man Adonis |
| #153, aired 1985-04-10 | KID STUFF $200: Originally ridden by such dignitaties as Queen Victoria, this 3-wheeler is now mostly for kids tricycle |
| #130, aired 1985-03-08 | WEATHER $300: Weather phenomenon studied by Judy Collins from "Both Sides Now" clouds |
| #129, aired 1985-03-07 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $200: Though not founded by Abner, this Garden City, L.I. based publishing co. now owns the New York Mets Doubleday |
| #101, aired 1985-01-28 | GREECE $100: Central hill of ancient Athens, it survived many wars but is now endangered by smog the Acropolis |
| #78, aired 1984-12-26 | LANGUAGES $1000: American Indian language never cracked when used by the U.S. as a WWII code Navajo |
| #67, aired 1984-12-11 | COMEDIANS $200: Master of the pause followed by "Now cut that out!" Jack Benny |
| #52, aired 1984-11-20 | ROAD WORK $400 (Daily Double): Where Eddie Grant "rocked down to" in this hit:
"Now in the street there is violence / And, and a lots of work to be done / No place to hang out our washing / And, and I can't blame all on the sun..." "Electric Avenue" |
| #30, aired 1984-10-19 | BRITISH ROYALTY $100: Title for husband of a reigning queen; Prince Philip is one a consort |
| #11, aired 1984-09-24 | MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS $1000: Plucked instrument brought to U.S. by slaves, now a fixture in bluegrass the banjo |
| #8, aired 1984-09-19 | U.S. MAYORS $1000: Former New York mayor has run for office as Republican, Liberal, independent & is now a Democrat John Lindsay |
| #7, aired 1984-09-18 | BOTANY $400: Longfellow's "spreading" tree, now battling extinction by blight the chestnut tree |
| #6, aired 1984-09-17 | RELATIVES $500 (Daily Double): Your mother's father's son your uncle |
| #4, aired 1984-09-13 | ANATOMY $3,500 (Daily Double): Prominent zygomatic bones, considered an attractive facial feature cheek bones |
| #2, aired 1984-01-01 | MOVIES $750 (Daily Double): Best Picture of '42, it featured the following: Casablanca |
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Tavis Smiley, a talk show host from PBS's The Tavis Smiley Show
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"He's interviewed such diverse personalities as Fidel Castro, Pope John Paul...
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Ben Schenkel, a junior from Allentown, Pennsylvania
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2007 Teen Tournament 1st runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $42,800. 17 at...
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Catherine Crier, a journalist from The Crier Report
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"Once the youngest elected state judge in Texas, she now hosts...
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Babu Srinivasan, a history professor at Prairie View A&M University from Houston, Texas
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"A five-time champion in 2001, he's now a history professor at...
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Russ Schumacher, a graduate student and newlywed from Fort Collins, Colorado
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"He won the most recent Tournament of Champions. A graduate student...
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David Sampugnaro, a writer and internet specialist from North White Plains, New York
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"A 5-time winner from 1996, he's now a writer and internet...
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Steve Robin, a writer and producer from Miami, Florida
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"He finished second place in the 1991 Tournament of Champions. He's...
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David Traini, a high school administrator from Moorestown, New Jersey
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"This 5-time champ finished second in the 1987 Tournament of Champions....
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Sandra Gore, a corporate researcher from Berkeley, California
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"After five wins in 1987, she fulfilled her dream of moving...
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David Abolafia, a writer from Fishkill, New York
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Season 20 2-time champion: $42,000 + $2,000. David appeared on The...
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Doug Savant, an actor from Desperate Housewives
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"He met and then married his wife while both were costarring...
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Charlie Blatt, an 11-year-old from Scarsdale, New York
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"Besides cooking, working on the computer, and tap dancing, she likes...
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Bruce Lin, a research scientist originally from Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
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Season 22 3-time champion: $54,599 + $2,000. On his first appearance,...
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Steve Schirripa, an actor from The Sopranos
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"Once the entertainment director at the Riviera Hotel in Las Vegas,...
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Sean Ryan, a graduate student from Whitehall, Pennsylvania
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Nifty Nine (players with byes into...
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Eric Newhouse, a director of technical assistance from Sioux City, Iowa
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Nifty Nine (players with byes into...
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Ed Schiffer, an attorney from San Francisco, California
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"A champion of five shows, he was the top winner of...
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Steven Popper, an economist from Topanga, California
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"A winner of 5 shows in 1988, he has since founded...
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Emily Riippa, a 12-year-old seventh grader from Grand Rapids, Michigan
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"She is a fast reader, and her mother says she was...
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Chris Miller, a retail specialist from Louisville, Kentucky
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"In 2004, he became a 5-time champion, and for Halloween, dressed...
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Jove Graham, a biomedical engineer from Lewisburg, Pennsylvania
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Season 26 1-time champion: $34,401 + $1,000. Jove's second contestant interview...
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Stefan Goodreau, a video game tester and camp counselor from Los Angeles, California
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2010 Tournament of Champions 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $50,000. Season...
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Becky Anderson, a retired software specialist originally from Morganton, North Carolina
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Season 25 1-time champion: $16,401 + $2,000. Becky Anderson - A...
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Christine Valada, a photographer and attorney originally from Walton, New York
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2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $68,703...
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Ryan Chaffee, a tutor from Los Angeles, California
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2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $91,900...
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Tom Toce, an actuary from New York, New York
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Season 26 2-time champion: $39,200 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Carolyn Young, a homemaker from Marietta, Georgia
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Season 25 1-time champion: $30,000 + $2,000. Mother of Season 32...
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Mike Maheu, a high school teacher from San Diego, California
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Season 25 2-time champion: $46,242 + $1,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Andy Srinivasan, a high school science teacher from Garner, North Carolina
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2010 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $69,600...
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Dave Belote, the base commander from Nellis Air Force Base, Las Vegas
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2010 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 26 5-time champion:...
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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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Erin McLean, a sophomore from Boston University from Danvers, Massachusetts
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2011 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 2010-B College Championship winner:...
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Max Johansen, a senior from the University of Miami
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"As a seventh grader, he was planning on a career in...
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Chris Rodrigues, a personal banking representative from New Bedford, Massachusetts
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Season 26 3-time champion: $41,498 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Amanda J. Ray, a sophomore at the University of Virginia from Harrisonburg, Virginia
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2010-B College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
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Ariella Goldstein, a junior from Muhlenberg College
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2009 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 20 and from Cortlandt Manor,...
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Jim Davis, a college music and humanities instructor from Freeport, Illinois
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Season 25 2-time champion: $62,802 + $2,000. Not be to confused...
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Aaron Wicks, a planning and evaluation manager from Rochester, New York
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Season 26 1-time champion: $18,001 + 1,000. Aaron Wicks Rochester, NY...
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Andy Davis, a Chyron operator from South Boston, Massachusetts
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Season 25 2-time champion: $49,799 + $1,000. Andy Davis - A...
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Alison Stone Roberg, an administrative assistant from Kansas City, Missouri
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Season 26 3-time champion: $85,102 + $2,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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Amy Wilson, a creative writing and women's studies student originally from Portland, Oregon
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Season 26 1-time champion: $19,999 + $2,000. Not to be confused...
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Marty Scott, an assistant district attorney from Forney, Texas
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Season 26 3-time champion: $64,002 + $2,000. Marty won $250,000 on...
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Ingrid Nelson, a judicial assistant from Lake Mills, Wisconsin
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Season 25 2-time champion: $27,802 + $2,000. Ingrid Nelson - A...
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Ellen Eichner, a junior from the Ohio State University from Northbrook, Illinois
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2010-B College Championship semifinalist: $10,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
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Tom Nissley, an online books editor from Seattle, Washington
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2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2011 Tournament of Champions...
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Suchita Shah, a senior from the University of Wisconsin-Madison
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2008 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 20 and from Holmen, WI...
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Laura Hughes, a mom from New Market, Maryland
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Season 26 1-time champion: $27,500 + $2,000. Wife of Season 16...
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Rachel Pildis, a software developer from Oak Park, Illinois
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Season 26 1-time champion: $12,000 + $2,000. Rachel Pildis - A...
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Gary Bechtold, a garage door company owner from St. Cloud, Minnesota
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Season 26 3-time champion: $42,001 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Thomas L. Friedman, an author and foreign affairs columnist from The New York Times
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"He has won three Pulitzer Prizes and authored six best sellers,...
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Judy Mermelstein, a Census field representative from Queens, New York
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Season 25 1-time champion: $38,401 + $1,000. Judy also appeared on...
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Hans von Walter, a junior from Southern Adventist University from Avon Park, Florida
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2010-B College Championship 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $25,000 + a...
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A.J. Schumacher, a radio show production intern from St. Paul, Minnesota
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Season 25 1-time champion: $10,800 + $2,000. AJ Schumacher Saint Paul,...
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Sanders Kleinfeld, a publishing technology specialist from Cambridge, Massachusetts
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Season 25 1-time champion: $26,597 + $2,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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Kevin Wilson, a communications specialist from Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Season 26 3-time champion: $76,998 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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Andrew Chung, a sophomore from Harvey Mudd College
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2008 College Championship 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $25,000. 20 and...
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Inta Antler, a retired computer programmer from Scarborough, Ontario, Canada
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Season 25 1-time champion: $12,700 + $2,000. Inta Antler - A...
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Jennifer Broders, a junior high school social studies teacher from Stockton, Iowa
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Season 26 2-time champion: $59,801 + $1,000. Jennifer Broders - a...
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Justin Bernbach, a lobbyist from Brooklyn, New York
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2010 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 25 7-time champion: $155,001...
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Laura Myers, a senior from the University of Missouri
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2009 College Championship second runner-up: $29,900. 22 and from Richmond, Virginia...
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Francois Dominic Laramée, a writer and TV personality from Verdun, Quebec, Canada
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Season 25 2-time champion: $46,300 + $1,000. Francois's name was printed...
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Christine Carrino Gorowara, a teacher educator from Wilmington, Delaware
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Season 25 2-time champion: $43,202 + $1,000. Wife of Season 26...
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Lea Tottle, a junior from Florida State University from Oldsmar, Florida
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2010-B College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000 + a Nintendo Wii +...
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Paul Kursky, a copywriter from San Francisco, California
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2011 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 26 5-time champion: $109,411...
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Jordan Brand, an anesthesiologist from Westchester, New York
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Season 26 1-time champion: $24,405 + $2,000. The Sesame Street character...
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Mark Petterson, a senior from the University of Kansas
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2009 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 21 and from Prairie Village,...
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Carl Brandt, an investor originally from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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2009 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 25 4-time champion: $70,799...
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Jane Kaczmarek, a TV, film and Broadway actress from Malcolm in the Middle and Raising the Bar
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"She went from playing a hard-nosed mom in Malcolm in the...
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Michael Braun, a junior from Silver Spring, Maryland
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 2005 Teen...
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Janet Bradlow, an insurance agent from New York, New York
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Season 26 3-time champion: $58,000 + $2,000. Janet Bradlow New York,...
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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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Jason Pratt, a middle school history teacher from Woodbridge, Virginia
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Season 25 2-time champion: $32,701 + $1,000. Jason Pratt - A...
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Ryan Stoffers, a sophomore from UCLA
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2010-A College Championship 1st runner-up: $50,000. Hometown: Saratoga, California. Ryan Stoffers...
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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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Matt DeTura, a recent law school graduate from Washington, D.C.
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Season 27 3-time champion: $61,601 + $2,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: MDT
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Eric Betts, a senior from Emory University
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2009 College Championship first runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $50,000. 21 and...
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Nick Yozamp, a junior from Washington University in St. Louis
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2010 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 2010-A College Championship winner:...
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Nathaniel Barnes, a composer and bartender from Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Season 25 3-time champion: $57,300 + $2,000. In his first game,...
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Elizabeth Galoozis, a reference librarian from Cambridge, Massachusetts
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Season 26 2-time champion: $38,801 + $2,000. Elizabeth Galoozis - A...
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Jean Cui, a student originally from Garden City, New York
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Season 25 2-time champion: $14,200 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Lisa Makar, a senior from University of Maryland
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"As a seventh grader, she was planning a career as a...
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Chris Matthews, a TV host from Hardball and The Chris Matthews Show
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"He served as a speechwriter for Jimmy Carter, and later as...
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Antonia Wang, a sophomore at Purdue University from Carmel, Indiana
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2005 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
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Bob Fleenor, a newspaper copy editor from Martinsburg, West Virginia
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"Legislative work in his home state was suspended so that lawmakers...
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Matt Drury, a government analyst from New York, New York
|
Season 26 1-time champion: $18,799 + $2,000. Matthew Drury - A...
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Prashant Raghavendran, a sophomore from the University of Texas, Dallas
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2010-A College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. Hometown: Austin, Texas. Prashant Raghavendran Blog...
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Jane Curtin, an actress from Kate & Allie and 3rd Rock from the Sun
|
"One of Saturday Night Live's original Not Ready for Primetime Players,...
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Craig Westphal, a paramedic from Tucson, Arizona
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2007 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD Home...
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Steph Gagelin, a sophomore from the University of North Dakota from Grand Forks, North Dakota
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2010-B College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
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Joshua Malina, a TV actor and creator/producer from Celebrity Poker Showdown
|
"He created and produced Celebrity Poker Showdown for the Bravo Channel,...
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Mike Marmesh, a veterinarian from Miami, Florida
|
Season 26 1-time champion: $4,700 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Elza Reeves, a bank teller from Louisville, Kentucky
|
Season 25 1-time champion: $16,400 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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David Hudson, a junior from the University of Virginia
|
"His musical taste has changed since he won $10,000 on Kids...
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Alyssa McRae, a gift card production designer from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Season 25 3-time champion: $50,402 + $2,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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Cassie Hill, a recent graduate from the University of Mary Washington
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\"Her dad is a lawyer, and by the seventh grade, she...
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Brian Muth, a headmaster from Napa, California
|
Season 25 2-time champion: $43,800 + $1,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Dmitry Spivak, a junior from Northwestern University
|
"The 11-year-old wasn't really kidding when he said he wanted to...
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Emily Heaney, a freelance costume designer from White Bear Lake, Minnesota
|
Season 25 1-time champion: $2,200 + $1,000. Last name pronounced like...
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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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Kimberly Jantz, an attorney from Tulsa, Oklahoma
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Season 26 1-time champion: $22,200 + $2,000. Kimberly Jantz - an...
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Dave Abbott, a musician and licensing executive from Fort Thomas, Kentucky
|
"He won the 1999 Tournament of Champions. A musician and licensing...
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Paul Wampler, a web programmer from Knoxville, Tennessee
|
Season 27 4-time champion: $72,001 + $2,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: paul5562
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Andrew Ceppos, a senior from Tufts University
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2009 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 21 and from Verona, New...
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David Skaar, a research scientist from Raleigh, North Carolina
|
Season 25 3-time champion: $102,000 + $2,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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John Krizel, a green community program coordinator from Beckley, West Virginia
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2011 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $105,204...
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Dan Melia, a retired professor from Berkeley, California
|
"He was a professor at U.C. Berkeley when he won the...
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Stacy Braverman, a public interest lawyer from Washington, D.C.
|
Season 26 1-time champion: $14,984 + $2,000. As detailed in a...
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Amy Fine, a part-time teacher from Bethesda, Maryland
|
"She was the last 5-time winner in the 1993-94 season. A...
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Vijay Balse, a chemical engineer from Chatham, New Jersey
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2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2010 Tournament of Champions...
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Sam Spaulding, a sophomore from Yale University from Wilmington, North Carolina
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2010-B College Championship 1st runner-up: $50,000 + a Nintendo Wii +...
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Stephen Weingarten, a paraeducator from Portland, Oregon
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2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $96,690...
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Scott Turow, a bestselling novelist and practicing attorney from Chicago, Illinois
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"He's sold more than 25 million copies of his novels worldwide...
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Lindsey Hargrove, a senior at the University of Texas from Bellaire, Texas
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2004 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
Mother's Jeopardy! Message Board user name: collegemom
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Mitchell Vogel, from Madison, Wisconsin
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"This future governor of Wisconsin enjoys rollerblading, reading, and playing saxophone....
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Eugene Finerman, a writer from Northbrook, Illinois
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"A finalist in the 1987 Tournament of Champions, he's a writer....
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Stephen Weingarten, a stay-at-home dad from Portland, Oregon
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2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $96,690...
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Courtney Trezise, a senior from Michigan State University
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2009 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 21 and from Okemos, Michigan at...
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Anthony Fox, an account executive from Arlington Heights, Illinois
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Season 27 4-time champion: $51,998 + $1,000. Playing as "Tony", Anthony...
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Matt Jacobs, a science teacher originally from Stratford, Connecticut
|
Season 25 1-time champion: $10,323 + $1,000. Matt resided in Silver...
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Sandra McClellan, a granny nanny from Arlington, Texas
|
Season 27 1-time champion: $4,199 + $2,000.
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Allison Peña, a junior from Sunrise, Florida
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2006 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
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Whitney Prince, a sophomore from Maryville, Tennessee
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2005 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500.
15 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Ken Jennings, a writer from Seattle, Washington
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• 74-game champion with longest winning streak • Total earnings over...
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Pam Mueller, a graduate student in psychology from Princeton, New Jersey
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\"She was a student at Loyola University when she won the...
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Caroline Jones, a senior from Silver Spring, Maryland
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2007 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Peggy Noonan, a contributing editor from The Wall Street Journal
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2004 Power Players Week player (2004-05-10).
Charity: The Sisters of Life.
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Ken Jennings, a writer from Seattle, Washington
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"He was a software engineer living in Salt Lake City, Utah,...
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Chris Matthews, a TV host from Hardball and The Chris Matthews Show
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[As Chris is introduced, a clip of The Chris Matthews Show...
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Fritz Holznagel, a writer from Somerville, Massachusetts
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"He was a writer living in Oregon when he won the...
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Michelle Clum, an executive assistant originally from Wichita, Kansas
|
"With her 5-time winnings from 2000, she traveled for a year,...
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Sara Wilkinson, a country club concierge from Athens, Georgia
|
Season 27 3-time champion: $72,701 + $2,000.
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Keith Williams, a college student from Manchester, Vermont
|
2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 2004 Tournament...
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James Erwin, a writer from Des Moines, Iowa
|
Season 25 2-time champion: $22,598 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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Chris Matthews, a TV host from Hardball and The Chris Matthews Show
|
"Once a presidential speechwriter, he's had his own political talk show...
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Jennifer Duann, a senior from the Ohio State University
|
2009 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 21 and from Worthington, Ohio at...
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Rebecca Dixon, a graduate student and musician from Vancouver, Washington
|
Season 26 2-time champion: $53,002 + $1,000. Rebecca and her partner...
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Tim Relihan, a senior from the University of Nebraska from Stromsburg, Nebraska
|
2010-B College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
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Steve Newman, a partner in a small computer company from Rockville, Maryland
|
"He was the first player to win 5 games in the...
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Mike Thayer, a mathematics teacher from North Plainfield, New Jersey
|
"He was a junior at Rutgers University when he won the...
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Maggie Brown, a junior at the University of West Florida from Pensacola, Florida
|
\"A sophomore from Pensacola, Florida in the 2018 Teen Tournament, she\'s...
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Larissa Kelly, an editor for academic competitions from Richmond, California
|
\"She was a graduate student at U.C. Berkeley in Season 24...
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Rebecca Lobo, a future Women\'s Basketball Hall of Famer and ESPN analyst originally from the WNBA
|
\"Later this year, she\'ll be inducted into the Women\'s Basketball Hall...
|
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Chuck Forrest, a lawyer from Bosnia and Herzegovina
|
2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2014 Battle of the Decades...
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Celeste DiNucci, a manager of corporate and foundation relations at a music school from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
|
\"She was a graduate student when she won the 2007 Tournament...
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Ryan Presler, a senior at Brandon Valley High School from Sioux Falls, South Dakota
|
"He was only in 8th grade when he became a finalist...
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Ann Thurlow, an aspiring novelist and retired salesperson from Mendham, New Jersey
|
Season 28 1-time champion: $26,805 + $1,000.
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Tom Nissley, a writer from Seattle, Washington
|
2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2011 Tournament of Champions...
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Curtis Joseph, a sophomore from Scottsdale Community College
|
"In 1999, his nickname was 'Curtles the Troll', and he wanted...
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Tim Russert, a moderator from Meet the Press
|
"He's the Washington Bureau Chief of NBC News and the longtime...
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Al Franken, an author and radio talk show host from New York City
|
"One of the original writers on Saturday Night Live, he's done...
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Allison Dziuba, a junior from Ridgefield, Connecticut
|
2007 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 17 at the time of the...
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Ari Fleischer, a former White House Press Secretary from the current Bush administration
|
"For the first two years of the current Bush administration, he...
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Will Casper, a senior from Basin City, Washington
|
2008-A Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 17 at the time of...
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Claire Sattler, a senior at Yale University from Bonita Springs, Florida
|
\"She won the 2018 Teen Tournament as a senior from Bonita...
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Bill Maher, a comedian and author from Politically Incorrect
|
"A comedian and author, he hosts the lively discussion group called...
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Lara Logan, a correspondent from 60 Minutes on CBS
|
"Her bold, award-winning reporting has earned her a prominent spot among...
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Ryan Ballengee, a senior from Pasadena, Maryland
|
2001 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $5,000.
17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Michael Falk, a junior high school math teacher from West Allis, Wisconsin
|
"And he was a meteorologist when he won the Tournament of...
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Kevin Keach, an operations manager from St. Ann, Missouri
|
2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 2001 Tournament...
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Russ Schumacher, a university professor from Fort Collins, Colorado
|
"He was a graduate student when he won the Tournament of...
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Roger Craig, a data scientist from Brooklyn, New York
|
"He was a graduate student in computer science living in Newark,...
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Erin Bogart, a junior at Miami University of Ohio from Cincinnati, Ohio
|
2001 College Championship quarterfinalist: $2,500. Erin was 20 at the time...
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Mark Dawson, a writer and editor for the Honda Campus All-Star Challenge from Chamblee, Georgia
|
"He was a business manager when he won the Tournament of...
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Rachael Schwartz, a bioscience Ph.D. program applicant from Mountain View, California
|
"In 1994, she was an attorney When she became the first...
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Alan Bailey, a playwright and director from North Hills, California
|
"This playwright and director became a 5-time winner in 2001. Today,...
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John Beck, a creative director from Torrance, California
|
"He played in 2003, and was the last retired 5-time champ...
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Jeremy Bate, an emergency medical technician and writer from Tujunga, California
|
"A second-place finisher in the 2000 Tournament of Champions, he's now...
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Tom Cubbage, an attorney from Washington, D.C.
|
"In 1989, he was the first College Champion and remains the...
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Leslie Shannon, a strategic market analyst from Espoo, Finland
|
"She was a recent college graduate when she won five games...
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Kara Spak, a newspaper reporter from Chicago, Illinois
|
2011 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 27 5-time champion:...
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Jelisa Castrodale, a sportswriter from Winston-Salem, North Carolina
|
Season 27 1-time champion: $39,399 + $1,000.
Name pronounced like "jell-EES-ah KASS-tro-dale".
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Marianne Fichtel, an investor relations manager from Brooklyn, New York
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Season 25 2-time champion: $24,888 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Dan Smith, a student from Chicago, Illinois
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Season 25 3-time champion: $69,200 + $1,000. Dan Smith - a...
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Andrea Michaels, a freelance writer from Los Angeles, California
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Season 4 player (1988-07-05): Gibson's Keytek professional keyboard + a Krayco...
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Sally O'Rourke, a freelance copywriter originally from Baton Rouge, Louisiana
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Season 27 1-time champion: $33,601 + $1,000.
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Steve Gratz, a freelance artist from Washington, D.C.
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Season 27 2-time champion: $30,999 + $1,000.
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Bethlehem Lema, a 12-year-old from San Diego, California
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"Either being an astrophysicist or a pediatrician is in her future..."...
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Bob Kennedy, a college linguistics instructor from Santa Barbara, California
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Season 27 2-time champion: $33,800 + $1,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: Bobk
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Sarah Nothnagel, a sophomore from the University of Southern California
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2007 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 19 at the time of the...
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Steve Toffler, a travel marketing executive from Boca Raton, Florida
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Season 22 player (2006-02-22).
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: StevieT
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Andrew Kreitz, a senior from Huntington Beach, California
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2006 Teen Tournament 1st runner-up: $25,000.
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Josh DenHartog, an actuarial technician from Thousand Oaks, California
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"He was the Teen Tournament champion in 1997. Now he's an...
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Papa Chakravarthy, a sophomore from Lexington, Kentucky
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2006 Teen Tournament champion: $75,000.
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Eric Newhouse, a public policy coordinator from Sioux City, Iowa
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"Alex called our next alumnus a 'Powerhouse.' He was the youngest...
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Camille Bullock, a senior from New Orleans, Louisiana
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2006 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: Camille88
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Megan Fraedrich, a 12-year-old seventh grader from Springfield, Virginia
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"And she was recently an evil stepsister in a performance of...
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Allan Long, a freshman from Tallahassee, Florida
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2005 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500. 14 at the time of the...
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