| #9084, aired 2024-04-18 | AT THE START OF THE SPORT $200: Nomi-No-Sukune, considered the founder of this form of wrestling, is said to have won its first bout in 23 B.C. sumo wrestling |
| #9083, aired 2024-04-17 | THE ORIGINAL LANGUAGE $1000: Of
the "Analects", a collection of sayings dating back to around the fifth century B.C. Chinese |
| #9081, aired 2024-04-15 | 3-LETTER SPELLING BEE $1000: It's placed in parentheses after a misspelled word to show it was meant to be printed that way (but spell this word correctly!) S-I-C |
| #9079, aired 2024-04-11 | WOMEN IN ANCIENT TIMES $800: A papyrus dated to 35 B.C. calls her Philopatris, "she who loves her country", the country being Egypt Cleopatra |
| #9079, aired 2024-04-11 | WOMEN IN ANCIENT TIMES $1200: For obvious reasons these Roman priestesses faced dire consequences if found unchaste, like Aemilia, Licinia & Marcia in 114 B.C. the Vestal Virgins |
| #9078, aired 2024-04-10 | ASK FORGIVENESS $400: An older Elwin Wilson, once part of this notorious white-klad group, asked John Lewis to forgive him for a 1961 assault in S.C. the Ku Klux Klan |
| #9077, aired 2024-04-09 | ANCIENT HISTORY $1200: The Israelites' foes in the Book of Judges, these people were brought under Assyrian control by around 800 B.C. the Philistines |
| #9077, aired 2024-04-09 | ANCIENT HISTORY $1600: The Southern or Shan-Yang part of this waterway may date from the 500s B.C.; the adjective-worthy part wasn't dug until much later the Grand Canal |
| #9076, aired 2024-04-08 | IT PLEASED THE LORD $800: It pleased the 18th c. philosopher Lord Monboddo to think that these Asian creatures, the largest apes then known, are human orangutans |
| #9075, aired 2024-04-05 | FARMING HISTORY $200: The 7-spotted type of this beetle was brought to North America in the mid-20th c. to control aphids & other plant-eating pests a ladybug |
| #9075, aired 2024-04-05 | FARMING HISTORY $600: The mold Phytophthora infestans caused this mid-19th c. farming disaster that resulted in a million deaths the Irish Potato Famine |
| #9074, aired 2024-04-04 | "C-U" LATER $400: What we Yanks call a cookie, the Brits call this a biscuit |
| #9074, aired 2024-04-04 | "C-U" LATER $800: In 1882 Robert Koch discovered a germ that ended the debate of whether this disease that claimed the life of Chopin is hereditary tuberculosis |
| #9074, aired 2024-04-04 | "C-U" LATER $1200: In an episode called "The Implant", Teri Hatcher tells Jerry Seinfeld, "By the way, they're real & they're" this spectacular |
| #9074, aired 2024-04-04 | "C-U" LATER $1600: Nov. 25, the date the British cleared out of New York City in 1783, was once a blowout holiday called this day Evacuation Day |
| #9074, aired 2024-04-04 | "C-U" LATER $2000: Fancy word from French meaning a glimpse or an outline aperçu |
| #9073, aired 2024-04-03 | HISTORIC REFUSALS $1000: The refusal by the island of Melos to surrender to Athens in 416 B.C. is chronicled in this historian's "Melian Dialogue" Thucydides |
| #9071, aired 2024-04-01 | INTERNATIONAL SPORTS $400: As of 2021, women also got to compete in the Olympic C1 & C2 races in this type of "C"raft canoe |
| #9070, aired 2024-03-29 | BIOLOGY "A", "B", "C"s $400: "A":
This clear fluid surrounds a baby in its mother's womb amniotic fluid |
| #9070, aired 2024-03-29 | BIOLOGY "A", "B", "C"s $1200: "A":
You get one set of these alternative forms of genes from mom & one from dad alleles |
| #9070, aired 2024-03-29 | BIOLOGY "A", "B", "C"s $1600: "B":
This pigment gives bile its yellowish color & can lead to gallstones bilirubin |
| #9070, aired 2024-03-29 | BIOLOGY "A", "B", "C"s $2000: "C" "C":
2-word term for the multistage process via which the basic unit of life reproduces itself the cell cycle |
| #9070, aired 2024-03-29 | BIOLOGY "A", "B", "C"s $6,400 (Daily Double): "C":
In myth, it's a fire-breathing hybrid monster, in genetics, it's an organism with 2 distinct sets of DNA chimera |
| #9069, aired 2024-03-28 | DEFINITIONS FROM THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY $200: Under C:
"A familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head" a cabbage |
| #9068, aired 2024-03-27 | ARCHITECTS $800: In the 1960s Black architect Paul Williams co-designed the Ira Aldridge Theater at this D.C. university Howard |
| #9065, aired 2024-03-22 | THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE, BY THE NUMBERS $1000: Andrew Jackson "won" the E.C. 99-84-41-37 but having no majority there, lost the election in the House to this man John Quincy Adams |
| #9063, aired 2024-03-20 | MISSION: PLAUSIBLE $800: Solve the this TV host problem: 3 shut doors, new car-junk-junk. You pick A. He shows you B is junk. Do you switch to C? Monty Hall |
| #9063, aired 2024-03-20 | FIRST NAMES $800: Borrowed from Sanskrit & reflecting her Indian heritage, this first name of a D.C. VIP means "lotus flower" Kamala |
| #9062, aired 2024-03-19 | SILENCE, LETTERS! $600: I accuse the only "C" in this word meaning to charge with a crime of being useless indict |
| #9061, aired 2024-03-18 | "K"-TOWN $800: This capital of Malopolskie Province can also be spelled with 2 C's Kraków |
| #9059, aired 2024-03-14 | ANCIENT HISTORY $1600: Praising the defense of democracy, Pericles' funeral oration of 431 B.C. was given for soldiers fallen in this conflict the Peloponnesian War |
| #9058, aired 2024-03-13 | THE CLOCK & THE CALENDAR $1000: The Julian calendar had leap years--Feb. 23 lasted 48 hours--& the first one was this last full year of Julius Caesar's life 45 B.C. |
| #9058, aired 2024-03-13 | DIACRITICAL THINKING $1200: This mark under the C in soupçon (a little bit) softens that sound & makes things much classier than saying "soup-con" a cedilla |
| #9055, aired 2024-03-08 | THE MIDDLE AGES $400: Who knows how long this country would have stayed heathen if not for the Christianizing of its 10th c. King Olaf Tryggvason Norway |
| #9055, aired 2024-03-08 | SUFFIXES $600: As early as 1973 this suffix from a D.C. building was tacked onto "Wine" to describe a scandal involving fake Bordeaux gate |
| #9055, aired 2024-03-08 | FILM BROS $800: John C. Reilly & Will Ferrell bond over their love for John Stamos in this 2008 film Step Brothers |
| #9054, aired 2024-03-07 | GITALONG, OLD PAINT $2000: As it's by this painter, you might call an 1876 view of the Mediterranean at l'Estaque a "C" scape Paul Cezanne |
| #9052, aired 2024-03-05 | TV IN THE AUGHTIES $200: Ben McKenzie played Ryan Atwood, a tough kid from Chino taken in by a wealthy Newport Beach family on this show The O.C. |
| #9049, aired 2024-02-29 | NAME, IMAGE, LIKENESS $1000: Part of the NIL deal of UNC basketball star Armando Bacot Jr. was a part on this Netflix show set on a N.C. island chain Outer Banks |
| #9049, aired 2024-02-29 | SCI. ABBR. $3,200 (Daily Double): C
is short for this unit of electric charge named for a French physicist a coulomb |
| #9048, aired 2024-02-28 | THAT'S IN ASIA $400: Dating back to 4000 B.C. fortified settlements, it's the largest city in Jordan & the residence of the king Amman |
| #9048, aired 2024-02-28 | BRITISH ACTORS & ACTRESSES $1600: He played C.S. Lewis in 1993's "Shadowlands"; in his role in "Freud's Last Session", he debates Lewis on the existence of God Anthony Hopkins |
| #9046, aired 2024-02-26 | LITERARY GROUPS $2000: The early 20th c. Stratford-on-Odéon literary circle hung out at this bookstore run by Sylvia Beach in Paris' Left Bank Shakespeare & Company |
| #9045, aired 2024-02-23 | TV COMEDY $600: Let's bring the Payne! Allen Payne played C.J. Payne on some 300 episodes of this creator's "House of Payne" Tyler Perry |
| #9044, aired 2024-02-22 | WORLD CAPITALS $1000: Climbing up on Medvednica Hill, I could see this end-of-the-alphabet city's light & pictured its 13th c. invasion by Mongols Zagreb |
| #9043, aired 2024-02-21 | IT'S REIGNING MEN! $400: The I didn't even rule Egypt for a year & a half, but this pharaoh II of the 19th dynasty clocked in for 66, 1279-1213 B.C. Ramses |
| #9042, aired 2024-02-20 | PILES $200: H.C. Andersen's way to identify one of these: have her sleep on a pea under a pile of 20 mattresses under 20 feather beds a princess |
| #9041, aired 2024-02-19 | AWARDS & HONORS $2,000 (Daily Double): In the early 20th c. these were given out for literature; Baron Pierre de Coubertin won one under a pen name for "Ode to Sport" Olympic medals |
| #9041, aired 2024-02-19 | NATIONAL STATUARY HALL $2000: Charleston took down a statue of him in 2020, but this pro-slavery VP still stands in the Hall for South Carolina John C. Calhoun |
| #9036, aired 2024-02-12 | INITIALS OF HISTORIC PEOPLE $1000: 5th wife of Henry VIII & possibly Thomas Culpeper's sneaky link: C.H. Catherine Howard |
| #9034, aired 2024-02-08 | THE MOURNING NEWS $400: A 10,000-talent funeral pyre--we can only assume that was expensive--burned in 324 B.C. for Hephaestion, a dear pal of this leader Alexander the Great |
| #9034, aired 2024-02-08 | THE MOURNING NEWS $800: After this 19th c. royal was widowed, the "nightly longing to die... for the first 3 years never left"; nearly 47 remained Queen Victoria |
| #9034, aired 2024-02-08 | THE MOURNING NEWS $1000: This British author kept 2 initials & a 5-letter last name as N.W. Clerk to write "A Grief Observed" about his wife's death C.S. Lewis |
| #9032, aired 2024-02-06 | LAYERS $800: The layers of a company's hierarchy appear in this type of chart, a term popularized in the early 1900s by Willard C. Brinton an org. chart |
| #9030, aired 2024-02-02 | TALKING ABOUT TOLKIEN $2000: Humphrey Carpenter's bio of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis & like-minded friends has this title, like their literary circle the Inklings |
| #3, aired 2024-02-02 | LITERATURE $800: A sea-witch tells this 19th c. title gal that her transformation will make each step feel like "treading upon sharp knives" Little Mermaid |
| #9027, aired 2024-01-30 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $1,000 (Daily Double): The land donated to start this ACC sports powerhouse was home to the estate of John C. Calhoun Clemson University |
| #9025, aired 2024-01-26 | "C" IN THE MIDDLE $200: An advantage kept in reserve is this "up your sleeve" an ace |
| #9025, aired 2024-01-26 | "C" IN THE MIDDLE $400: You want this to work when you exit a Skyvan at 10,000 feet a parachute |
| #9025, aired 2024-01-26 | COACHING BASKETBALL $600: In "I Came As a Shadow", John Thompson diagrammed his life as basketball coach at this D.C. university Georgetown |
| #9025, aired 2024-01-26 | "C" IN THE MIDDLE $600: You get to stick people with 1-inch needles & for their own good too if you become this specialist an acupuncturist |
| #9025, aired 2024-01-26 | HISTORIC BATTLES $800: 490 B.C.'s Battle of Marathon showed the Greeks for the first time that they could defeat a force of this mighty empire the Persian Empire |
| #9025, aired 2024-01-26 | "C" IN THE MIDDLE $800: A peptic one of these is an erosion in the lining of the stomach or intestine an ulcer |
| #9025, aired 2024-01-26 | "C" IN THE MIDDLE $1000: Spanish for a place to board a ship; San Francisco has one on its eastern shore embarcadero |
| #9024, aired 2024-01-25 | ON MY HISTORIC CV $1000: 1351 B.C.: Egyptian queen 1,300 years before Cleopatra; 1912: portrait bust discovered in ruins of Amarna workshop, big hit at museum Nefertiti |
| #9023, aired 2024-01-24 | OUR SONG $200: Tommy, a union man, & Gina, in the food service industry, make a go of it in this 1987 Bon Jovi hit; c'mon, we're halfway there! "Livin' On A Prayer" |
| #9023, aired 2024-01-24 | ONE-TERM PRESIDENTS $1600: This late 19th c. grandson blew a surplus, lost the House, lost his own re-election bid, then wed his dead wife's niece Benjamin Harrison |
| #9022, aired 2024-01-23 | GO IVth & RULE $1200: Yohannes IV, emperor of this African country, spent much of his 19th c. reign repelling military threats from Egypt & Italy Ethiopia |
| #9022, aired 2024-01-23 | GO IVth & RULE $1600: Elector Frederick IV's efforts to unite Protestants against Catholics in Germany helped set the stage for this 17th c. war the Thirty Years' War |
| #9021, aired 2024-01-22 | LETTERS OF THE LAW $1000: C:
A supplementary document that modifies or amends a will a codicil |
| #9019, aired 2024-01-18 | THE MISING LETER $400: Consience C (conscience) |
| #25, aired 2024-01-16 | SPELLING BIZ $300: Toyota debuted this model in the US in 1983; you can't spell it without spelling...
C A _ R _ Camry |
| #9016, aired 2024-01-15 | WORLD HISTORY $1000: This mystical form of Islam began c. 800 in part with a woman from Basra who introduced a new concept of the love of Allah Sufism |
| #9014, aired 2024-01-11 | NOTORIOUS $200: Nicknamed for his facial hair, this 18th c. buccaneer who terrorized the East Coast reputedly amassed a still-hidden treasure Blackbeard |
| #9012, aired 2024-01-09 | U.S. NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNERS $1200: Before winning a Peace Prize in 1962, scientist & vitamin C advocate Linus Pauling won one in this category in 1954 chemistry |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | FEMALE FIRSTS $300: The first female CEO of a Fortune 500 company, Katharine Graham was the longtime publisher of this D.C.-based newspaper The Washington Post |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | ANIMAL IDIOM BRAINTEASERS $400: You are in big trouble:
Y.G.I.C. your goose is cooked |
| #9011, aired 2024-01-08 | FROM C TO D $400: If I may be this with you, it means honest & open candid |
| #9011, aired 2024-01-08 | FROM C TO D $800: Here's a lovely one of these central areas, with a fountain a courtyard |
| #9011, aired 2024-01-08 | FROM C TO D $1200: It means to understand or grasp the nature of; got it? comprehend |
| #9011, aired 2024-01-08 | ITALIAN LITERATURE $1600: In Umberto Eco's "The Name of the Rose", murders at a 14th c. monastery center on a book on laughter by this ancient Greek Aristotle |
| #9011, aired 2024-01-08 | FROM C TO D $2000: In the painting seen here, a young woman is playing this instrument a clavichord |
| #9011, aired 2024-01-08 | FROM C TO D $5,400 (Daily Double): It describes the human heart with 4, as well as a certain type of nautilus chambered |
| #9010, aired 2024-01-05 | BLACK HISTORY YEAR $400: Martin Luther King Jr. gives his immortal "I Have a Dream" speech in D.C. 1963 |
| #9010, aired 2024-01-05 | NYMING -NYMS $1000: Crohn's disease, the Ferris wheel & Parkinson's law (for Burrill, George & C. Northcote, respectively) are these -nyms eponyms |
| #9007, aired 2024-01-02 | HISTORIC LASTS $2000: Rome put Carthage on the mat for the final time with the third of these wars in a campaign that lasted from 149 to 146 B.C. the Punic Wars |
| #23, aired 2024-01-02 | BOOKS IN THE SERIES $300: C.S. Lewis:
"The Magician's Nephew";
"Prince Caspian";
"The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" The Chronicles of Narnia |
| #9006, aired 2024-01-01 | CROSSWORD CLUES "C" $200: A container like the Igloo Party Bar
(6 letters) a cooler |
| #9006, aired 2024-01-01 | CROSSWORD CLUES "C" $600: A merchant of Gouda
(12 letters) a cheesemonger |
| #9006, aired 2024-01-01 | CROSSWORD CLUES "C" $800: An official rebuke in Congress
(7 letters) a censure |
| #9006, aired 2024-01-01 | CROSSWORD CLUES "C" $1000: A squid or nautilus
(10 letters) a cephalopod |
| #9006, aired 2024-01-01 | NATIVE AMERICANS $1000: Thunderbird Park in Victoria, B.C. is renowned for its collection of these monumental carvings, some more than 40 feet high totem poles |
| #9006, aired 2024-01-01 | TOUGH 7-LETTER WORDS $1200: Going all the way from A to C, this scientific term means not associated with living organisms abiotic |
| #9006, aired 2024-01-01 | CROSSWORD CLUES "C" $3,800 (Daily Double): Ohio hoopster or offhand attitude
(8 letters) Cavalier |
| #9002, aired 2023-12-26 | TV COMEDIES BY WORKPLACE $1200: CONTROL, a D.C.-based counter-intelligence agency Get Smart |
| #9001, aired 2023-12-25 | GETTING POSSESSIVE $1000: On January 30, 1968, CBS broadcast the reopening of this D.C. landmark; the stage had been dark for 103 years Ford's Theater |
| #9001, aired 2023-12-25 | AGES, EPOCHS & ERAS $1600: Britannica says this late 19th c. era featured "gross materialism & blatant political corruption" in the United States the Gilded Age |
| #8999, aired 2023-12-21 | PHILOSOPHY $800: Thomism is a school of thought named for this 13th c. theologian who tried to reconcile Aristotle with Christianity Thomas Aquinas |
| #8993, aired 2023-12-13 | YOUR DAY IN "C"OURT $400: An assertion to a legal right to something; you can also make a "counter-" one a claim |
| #8993, aired 2023-12-13 | YOUR DAY IN "C"OURT $800: "Cross-" this is security for one debt that also serves as security for another collateral |
| #8993, aired 2023-12-13 | YOUR DAY IN "C"OURT $1600: A judge other than a chief judge at one of the U.S. courts of appeals a circuit judge |
| #8993, aired 2023-12-13 | YOUR DAY IN "C"OURT $2000: Executive clemency can lead to this, reducing the severity of a punishment commutation |
| #8993, aired 2023-12-13 | YOUR DAY IN "C"OURT $6,000 (Daily Double): This effort to boot a juror can be peremptory or for cause a challenge |
| #8990, aired 2023-12-08 | AS EASY AS A-B-C $200: Horse-riding style without a saddle bareback |
| #8990, aired 2023-12-08 | AS EASY AS A-B-C $400: It describes Shakespeare's pentameter iambic |
| #8990, aired 2023-12-08 | AS EASY AS A-B-C $600: It means to construct, or to fake, as in your excuse for being late fabricate |
| #8990, aired 2023-12-08 | AS EASY AS A-B-C $800: The title of a Lewis Carroll poem, it now means meaningless words or gibberish "Jabberwocky" |
| #8990, aired 2023-12-08 | AS EASY AS A-B-C $1000: This gem of a word can precede rattlesnake, terrapin & moth diamondback |
| #8989, aired 2023-12-07 | FIRE PLACE $1,000 (Daily Double): Circa 50 B.C.:
This city's library is torched (by Julius Caesar, some say) Alexandria |
| #22, aired 2023-12-06 | SHAKESPEARE PLAYS BY INITIALS $100: The title character utters the famous line, "Et tu, Brute?":
J.C. Julius Caesar |
| #8986, aired 2023-12-04 | MATH $1200: Also a type of equation, it describes functions of the form
f(x) = ax2 + bx + c quadratic |
| #8983, aired 2023-11-29 | A, B OR C $200: Alphabetically, it's the first letter that does not begin a state name B |
| #8983, aired 2023-11-29 | A, B OR C $400: Not a blood type C |
| #8983, aired 2023-11-29 | A, B OR C $600: In the name of the outfit that first broadcast the U.S. House in 1979, this precedes "SPAN" C |
| #8983, aired 2023-11-29 | A, B OR C $800: A vitamin found in vegetables & dairy products, it's also called retinol vitamin A |
| #8983, aired 2023-11-29 | A, B OR C $1000: Used as an abbreviation for the standard unit of weight for gems C |
| #8983, aired 2023-11-29 | HERE COMES THE NEIGHBORHOOD $1000: A real Charleston, S.C. neighborhood was the inspiration for this "Row" in the opera "Porgy & Bess" Catfish Row |
| #21, aired 2023-11-29 | COLLEGE PRESS $1200: In 1924, Zora Neale Hurston co-founded The Hilltop, a student newspaper at this D.C. university Howard |
| #21, aired 2023-11-29 | COLLEGE PRESS $1500: Hint: say its name quickly! The Ubyssey is the student newspaper of the university of this Canadian province British Columbia |
| #8982, aired 2023-11-28 | A CAPITAL IDEA? $600: Seen here, this breed originated around 800 B.C. a Lhasa Apso |
| #8981, aired 2023-11-27 | COUNTRY MUSIC HITS $400: In 1968, she had back-to-back No. 1 country hits with "D-I-V-O-R-C-E" & "Stand By Your Man" Tammy Wynette |
| #8981, aired 2023-11-27 | LETTER HISTORIES $2000: Latin mostly abandoned this letter, from the Semitic symbol for an open hand, in favor of the "C" the K |
| #8980, aired 2023-11-24 | CHESS $400: The first "C" in ICCF; it stands for how moves are exchanged between players geographically apart correspondence |
| #8979, aired 2023-11-23 | MODERN ARCHITECTURAL STYLES $1200: Brutalism influenced the design of this D.C. building, named for a long-serving law enforcement official the Hoover Building |
| #8977, aired 2023-11-21 | CHICKEN SOUP $1000: During the 16th c. Wojna Kokosza, or "Chicken War" in this country, rebels ate nearly all of the region's poultry Poland |
| #8977, aired 2023-11-21 | SPEAK OF THE DEVIL $2,600 (Daily Double): This 17th c. work says, "Abashed the devil stood, and felt how awful goodness is... saw, and pined his loss" Paradise Lost |
| #8976, aired 2023-11-20 | ETCHED IN STONE $1600: When the Nabateans ruled Jordan from about 400 B.C. to 106 A.D., their capital was this city, carved from stone Petra |
| #8975, aired 2023-11-17 | LIFE OF PI $400: Dating to circa 1650 B.C., the Rhind Papyrus, a scroll from this civilization, put the value of pi at about 3.16 the Egyptians |
| #8975, aired 2023-11-17 | LIFE OF PI $1200: Eureka! Around 250 B.C., this sage of Syracuse estimated pi at around 22/7 Archimedes |
| #8974, aired 2023-11-16 | SCULPTURE $800: c. 1415 Donatello sculpted a relief of St. George slaying this mythical beast a dragon |
| #8973, aired 2023-11-15 | LET'S TAKE A BATH $1000: The earliest known surviving bathtub dates back to 1700 B.C. & was used in the palace of Knossos on this island Crete |
| #20, aired 2023-11-15 | SCIENCE MUSEUMS $200: At Pittsburgh's Carnegie Science Center, he's inducted in the Robot Hall of Fame; so is his sidekick R2-D2 C-3PO |
| #8972, aired 2023-11-14 | ANCIENT TIMES $600: Horrified by the carnage of war, Asoka, a 3rd century B.C. ruler in India, embraced this peaceful religion Buddhism |
| #8971, aired 2023-11-13 | CITY MUSEUMS $400: The National Gallery of Art (in the United States) Washington, D.C. |
| #8970, aired 2023-11-10 | THOSE DARN ETRUSCANS $2000: In the 400s B.C. this scholar of Halicarnassus opined that the Etruscans originally migrated to Italy from Lydia in Asia Minor Herodotus |
| #8968, aired 2023-11-08 | A "C" IN ANATOMY $400: The collarbone, more technically known as this, is part of the pectoral girdle the clavicle |
| #8968, aired 2023-11-08 | AT A LOSS FOR WORLDS $800: At the end of Arthur C. Clarke's "Childhood's End" this world is destroyed the Earth |
| #8968, aired 2023-11-08 | A "C" IN ANATOMY $800: This part seen here is often transplanted the cornea |
| #8968, aired 2023-11-08 | A "C" IN ANATOMY $1200: These major neck arteries get their name from the Greek for "to stupefy" carotid arteries |
| #8968, aired 2023-11-08 | A "C" IN ANATOMY $1600: It's Latin for "neck" & can mean the neck as well as the outer end of the uterus the cervix |
| #8968, aired 2023-11-08 | A "C" IN ANATOMY $2000: If your left brain hemisphere needs to "cc" your right, it's a good thing they're connected by this "cc" corpus callosum |
| #8966, aired 2023-11-06 | TO THE EXOPLANETS! $1200: The first Earth-size exoplanets were found by the NASA satellite launched in 2009 & named for this 17th c. German astronomer Kepler |
| #8965, aired 2023-11-03 | ONLY PARTLY TRUE $400: The spare key to this D.C. residence once known as the Executive Mansion is kept under the Washington Monument the White House |
| #19, aired 2023-11-01 | CONSTITUTIONAL MATTERS $200: You can grab a cheesesteak at the Delegates' Cafe in the National Constitution Center, one of this city's historic attractions Philadelphia |
| #19, aired 2023-11-01 | VITAMINS & MINERALS $300: Un-poke that straw from your orange: turns out this vitamin won't actually prevent colds, though it may shorten them vitamin C |
| #8962, aired 2023-10-31 | MONSTER MANUAL $1600: It had a woman's head & a bird's body & met up with the Argonauts; c'mon, get... harpies |
| #8962, aired 2023-10-31 | THE TOPIC OF CAPRICORNS $2000: John C. Fremont was glad to have this sure-footed Capricorn guiding him along the Oregon Trail in 1842 Kit Carson |
| #8961, aired 2023-10-30 | CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND $4,600 (Daily Double): Waged from 149 to 146 B.C., the Third Punic War resulted in the final destruction of this city & its people's enslavement Carthage |
| #8960, aired 2023-10-27 | "A"UTHORS $800: According to legend, he was a Phrygian slave who may have lived from 620 to 560 B.C. Aesop |
| #8959, aired 2023-10-26 | FASHION STATEMENTS $600: This phrase means a situation has been reversed; in the 19th c. that switch was easier: there weren't right & left ones the shoe is on the other foot |
| #8958, aired 2023-10-25 | PRODUCE $200: Big on vitamins A & C, this leafy vegetable also has a lot of fiber & acts as a mild laxative; look out, sailor man! spinach |
| #18, aired 2023-10-25 | NAME DROPPERS $200: France caught a sick burn in 2003, when D.C. cafeterias dropped the name "French fries" and started serving these Freedom fries |
| #8954, aired 2023-10-19 | IT'S OUR TURN TO SACK ROME!!! $200: 390 B.C.:
These people usually associated with ancient France sack Rome the Gauls |
| #8954, aired 2023-10-19 | PHILOSOPHIES IN A NUTSHELL $10,000 (Daily Double): This man who died around 347 B.C. said we perceive examples of things, not their ideal forms Plato |
| #8951, aired 2023-10-16 | I DIDN'T COME HERE TO MAKE FRIENDS $400: In the 13th c., mock battles of armed horsemen called mêlées began to give way to this related lance-a-lot sport joust |
| #8951, aired 2023-10-16 | BRITISH SPELLING BEE $400: In England Walt Disney would have had a "Wonderful World of" this C-O-L-O-U-R |
| #8951, aired 2023-10-16 | BRITISH SPELLING BEE $800: With no pence on hand, you might ask the curry restaurant, "Will you take" a personal one of these? C-H-E-Q-U-E |
| #8951, aired 2023-10-16 | CHANGE A LETTER $1200: It's to swindle or trick someone, like George C. Scott does in a 1967 film flim-flam |
| #8950, aired 2023-10-13 | FELONIOUS MONKS $800: John de Roma is one of the brutal monks in the 16th c. Protestant "Book of" these people who died for their faith Martyrs |
| #8949, aired 2023-10-12 | WORDS FROM 2 LETTERS $1000: These 2 letters give you an adjective meaning squalid & unkempt seedy (C-D) |
| #8949, aired 2023-10-12 | YOU NEED TO CLEAR THAT UP $1600: Verbiage from the State Department may leave you in this state; it comes before "Bottom" in the D.C. area where state is located Foggy |
| #8948, aired 2023-10-11 | STATE THE ITEM $600: One outcome of this educational video game that bore the name of this 19th c. historical route? "You have died of dysentery" The Oregon Trail |
| #8948, aired 2023-10-11 | THE CALIFORNIANS $1000: Like, for sure not a native, this father of the H-bomb totally helped create Lawrence Livermore Lab at U.C. Berkeley Teller |
| #8948, aired 2023-10-11 | AN IMMODEST PROPOSAL $1200: Sorry about your hubby Marcellus' death, Octavia! But it's 40 B.C. & I love Y--no, I'm not into Egyptian girls. Why? Mark Antony |
| #8948, aired 2023-10-11 | AN IMMODEST PROPOSAL $2000: 'Cilla Mullins, it's the 17th c., baby, & I'm speaking for myself. Come on, li'l mama! We'll have 10 kids & make Plymouth rock! John Alden |
| #8947, aired 2023-10-10 | NOT SO RECENT SCIENCE $600: Around 335 B.C., this Greek founded the Lyceum, where he taught logic & observation Aristotle |
| #8946, aired 2023-10-09 | CANDLE IN THE WIND $800: Candles have been made of animal fat or this nonglycerine substance used as early as 3000 B.C. beeswax |
| #8944, aired 2023-10-05 | EX-SOVIET REPUBLICS $2000: Following the independence of Belarus in 1991, its capital Minsk became the headquarters of this organization, the C.I.S. the Commonwealth of Independent States |
| #8943, aired 2023-10-04 | WAXING PHILOSOPHICAL $1600: In "Metaphysics of Morals", this 18th c. man wrote that one who makes himself a worm can't complain if he's stepped on Immanuel Kant |
| #8943, aired 2023-10-04 | MERRY MELODIES $6,000 (Daily Double): This 19th c. composer's Mazurka No. 9 (Op. 7 No. 5) is one of the peppier ones Chopin |
| #15, aired 2023-10-04 | RISING UP $1000: Washington, D.C. mayor Muriel Bowser unveiled a 2-block plaza on 16th Street NW named for this social justice group Black Lives Matter |
| #8942, aired 2023-10-03 | THE CONGO RIVER $1,000 (Daily Double): These 2 capital cities, of the R.O.C & the D.R.O.C., lie across from each other on opposite banks of the Congo River Kinshasa & Brazzaville |
| #8940, aired 2023-09-29 | CHEMICAL FORMULAS $800: To get the formula for ammonia, put this letter before H3 N |
| #8939, aired 2023-09-28 | BEASTLY LITERARY CHARACTERS $1,200 (Daily Double): The title character of this 19th c. tale had "a pretty white star on my forehead. I was thought very handsome" Black Beauty |
| #14, aired 2023-09-27 | ANTS $500: Ants crawl on a seemingly infinite loop in this Dutch artist's 1963 work "Möbius Strip II" M.C. Escher |
| #8936, aired 2023-09-25 | A PLACE IN HISTORY $1200: Pericles might have misappropriated some funds from the Delian League to pay for this Acropolis building, begun in 447 B.C. the Parthenon |
| #8935, aired 2023-09-22 | "C" IN LITERATURE $200: It's where "Native Son" & "A Raisin in the Sun" are set Chicago |
| #8935, aired 2023-09-22 | "C" IN LITERATURE $400: Right before the epilogue to this novel, Raskolnikov confesses, "It was I killed the old pawnbroker woman and her sister" Crime and Punishment |
| #8935, aired 2023-09-22 | "C" IN LITERATURE $600: This Jack London classic is considered one of the "books that shaped America" The Call of the Wild |
| #8935, aired 2023-09-22 | "C" IN LITERATURE $800: In "East of Eden" this twin brother of Aron Trask reveals to him that their mother is a madam Caleb |
| #8935, aired 2023-09-22 | "C" IN LITERATURE $1000: This Jonathan Franzen novel about the dysfunctional Lambert family won a National Book Award The Corrections |
| #8933, aired 2023-09-20 | THE REAL (WHITE HOUSE) WIVES OF D.C. $400: In 2020 she topped John Waters & the Beastie Boys to win a Grammy for her spoken word album, an audio book of her memoir Michelle Obama |
| #8933, aired 2023-09-20 | THE REAL (WHITE HOUSE) WIVES OF D.C. $800: At Wellesley's 1990 commencement, this Texan said, "Someone in the crowd could also become a presidential spouse and I wish him well" Barbara Bush |
| #8933, aired 2023-09-20 | THE REAL (WHITE HOUSE) WIVES OF D.C. $1200: She met the future president in 1938 when they both tried out for a local play in Whittier, California Pat Nixon |
| #8933, aired 2023-09-20 | THE REAL (WHITE HOUSE) WIVES OF D.C. $1600: Half-brothers of this southern-born first lady fought for the Confederacy, which could have led to really awkward Thanksgiving dinners Mary Todd Lincoln |
| #8933, aired 2023-09-20 | THE REAL (WHITE HOUSE) WIVES OF D.C. $3,000 (Daily Double): A year before her death in 1962, she began chairing JFK's Commission on the Status of Women Eleanor Roosevelt |
| #8931, aired 2023-09-18 | IT BELONGS IN THIS MUSEUM $200: The painting "Watson & the Shark" swims around in this Washington, D.C. museum the National Gallery of Art |
| #8929, aired 2023-09-14 | RECONSTRUCTION $400: In 1872 the Union general this D.C. HBCU was named for wrote about "the cosmopolitan character of the university" Howard |
| #8929, aired 2023-09-14 | HIP-HOP LITERARY REFERENCES $2000: On "Call Me If You Get Lost", Tyler, the Creator takes on this last name of a 19th c. French poet & also of a Lemony Snicket family Baudelaire |
| #8928, aired 2023-09-13 | "C"s THE DAY $400: August 4 celebrates the birth of this branch of the U.S. military the Coast Guard |
| #8928, aired 2023-09-13 | "C"s THE DAY $800: This holiday that commemorates the victory of Mexico at the Battle of Puebla is also a day to celebrate Mexican culture Cinco de Mayo |
| #8928, aired 2023-09-13 | "C"s THE DAY $1200: "Dedication" in Hebrew, it can be spelled without a "C" & actually spans 8 days, but you still need to know it now Chanukah |
| #8928, aired 2023-09-13 | "C"s THE DAY $1600: September 17 commemorates the signing of this in 1787 the Constitution |
| #8928, aired 2023-09-13 | "C"s THE DAY $2000: Catholics usually celebrate the Thursday after Trinity Sunday as the feast of this, Latin for "Christ's body" Corpus Christi |
| #8927, aired 2023-09-12 | THAT'S T-B-D $1000: This inn is found in "The Canterbury Tales" & today in Washington, D.C., where it's a favorite brunch spot the Tabard Inn |
| #8926, aired 2023-09-11 | HONORARY HARLEM GLOBETROTTERS $400: Playing center is the Holy C, the Bishop of Rome & the Thunderdome, from Argentina to the arena--this pope turned Trotter Pope Francis |
| #8924, aired 2023-07-27 | WORLD CITIES $1200: The Georgian city of Batumi dates from around 1000 B.C. & is an important port on this sea the Black Sea |
| #8922, aired 2023-07-25 | IN DENMARK $400: Danish beermaster J.C. Jacobsen named this brewery for his son Carlsberg |
| #8922, aired 2023-07-25 | STATE THE 19th CENTURY SENATOR $1600: John C. Calhoun & John E. Colhoun, but what's in a name, Y'all? South Carolina |
| #8920, aired 2023-07-21 | INTERNALLY YOURS $2000: Named for a 19th c. French pathologist, this "area" of the left front part of the brain contains neurons involved in speech function Broca's area |
| #8919, aired 2023-07-20 | B.C.-ING YOU $400: Yerevan, the capital of this country, dates back to a settlement of the 700s B.C. Armenia |
| #8919, aired 2023-07-20 | B.C.-ING YOU $800: His last play, "Oedipus at Colonus", was produced posthumously in 401 B.C. Sophocles |
| #8919, aired 2023-07-20 | B.C.-ING YOU $1600: This powerful dynasty that began ruling China in 202 B.C. ushered in a golden age of culture & prosperity the Han Dynasty |
| #8919, aired 2023-07-20 | B.C.-ING YOU $2,000 (Daily Double): 3 times was not the charm for Carthage which lost all 3 of these wars against Rome between 264 & 146 B.C. the Punic Wars |
| #8919, aired 2023-07-20 | B.C.-ING YOU $2000: In 480 B.C. the Battle of Salamis saw Greek navies take on the navies of this Persian ruler, son of Darius Xerxes |
| #8912, aired 2023-07-11 | FRIENDS $800: Conversations about language & myths initially bonded these two titans of fantasy influencing each other & their work C.S. Lewis & J.R.R. Tolkien |
| #8911, aired 2023-07-10 | THE HIGH "C"s $200: At 6,800 feet, it's the state with the highest average altitude Colorado |
| #8911, aired 2023-07-10 | THE HIGH "C"s $400: Meaning "city", it comes before Juárez in the name of a lofty city in Mexico Ciudad |
| #8911, aired 2023-07-10 | THE HIGH "C"s $600: Seen here are some high-flying gargoyles on this Manhattan building the Chrysler Building |
| #8911, aired 2023-07-10 | THE HIGH "C"s $800: The Andean type of this bird raises its young on ledges or in caves, sometimes at over 10,000 feet a condor |
| #8911, aired 2023-07-10 | THE HIGH "C"s $1000: Funded by DARPA & the CIA, some of the earliest spy satellites were part of this program sharing a name with a part of the Sun CORONA |
| #8910, aired 2023-07-07 | ANCIENT ARTIFACTS $400: Appropriately, the Trundholm sun chariot was cast around 1400 B.C. in this alloy bronze |
| #8908, aired 2023-07-05 | U.S. CITY OF THE BOOK $800: "A Confederacy of Dunces":
not so easy for the Big Guy New Orleans |
| #8905, aired 2023-06-30 | THE SAILOR MAN $1,100 (Daily Double): Lord Drinian is captain of this title vessel in a book by C.S. Lewis the Dawn Treader |
| #8904, aired 2023-06-29 | "I" BEFORE "EE" $600: This little bird is in the title of a W.C. Fields-Mae West pairing a chickadee |
| #8902, aired 2023-06-27 | BANKING "A" "B" "C"s $400: "B":
an especially big payment that comes due at the end of a loan a balloon |
| #8902, aired 2023-06-27 | BANKING "A" "B" "C"s $800: "A":
this type of interest that has accumulated but not yet been paid accrued |
| #8902, aired 2023-06-27 | BANKING "A" "B" "C"s $1200: "C.C.":
the expenses incurred in finalizing the transfer of property ownership closing costs |
| #8902, aired 2023-06-27 | BANKING "A" "B" "C"s $2,000 (Daily Double): "A":
this word meaning to pay off a debt in installments comes partly from Latin for "dead" amortize |
| #8902, aired 2023-06-27 | A SPACE ODYSSEY $2000: Named for the Greek goddess of strife, this dwarf planet, a 21st c. discovery, is comparable in size to Pluto Eris |
| #8902, aired 2023-06-27 | BANKING "A" "B" "C"s $2000: "B.B.":
securities with no registered owner payable to whoever holds the certificate bearer bonds |
| #8901, aired 2023-06-26 | SCIENTISTS $800: In 1847, Maria Mitchell, America's first professional female astronomer, discovered one of these, officially known as C/1847 T1 a comet |
| #8900, aired 2023-06-23 | QUI"ZZ"ICAL $2000: Mentioned in the book of Daniel as the son of Nebuchadnezzar, this ruler was killed during the fall of Babylon in 539 B.C. Belshazzar |
| #8897, aired 2023-06-20 | THERE WILL BE MATH $1600: It's the law that says a(b+c) = ab + ac the distributive law |
| #8896, aired 2023-06-19 | GETTING AN EYEFUL $200: A call for an act of retribution, it's No. 196 in the 18th century B.C. code of Hammurabi eye for an eye |
| #8896, aired 2023-06-19 | GENERAL ASSEMBLY $800: At Columbia, S.C.'s state house, bronze stars mark the spots where shells from this general's cannons once hit Sherman |
| #8896, aired 2023-06-19 | GENERAL ASSEMBLY $1600: Subutai, a general of this people, was devastating Europe in the 13th c. when he was called back for an election for a new great khan the Mongols |
| #8895, aired 2023-06-16 | GO TELL IT ON THE FOUNTAIN $1600: Fed by an aqueduct built in 19 B.C., this fountain in Italy got its name from its location at the convergence of 3 roads the Trevi |
| #8892, aired 2023-06-13 | 4-LETTER WORLD CITIES $400: Tradition says this city was founded in 753 B.C., but it wasn't built in a day Rome |
| #8890, aired 2023-06-09 | DIASPORA $600: A 19th c. migration from this land began the community of Y Wladfa in Patagonia, with a Patagonian form of their Celtic language Wales |
| #8889, aired 2023-06-08 | IMPOSTORS $2000: Though insisting it was part of Japan, George Psalmanazar made 18th c. London believe he was from Taiwan, then called this Formosa |
| #8888, aired 2023-06-07 | FOLLIES $200: In 413 B.C. a failed Athenian campaign became a disaster when Nicias saw this astronomical event as a bad omen & put off leaving Sicily a lunar eclipse |
| #8888, aired 2023-06-07 | FOLLIES $600: If he could have found time to name a successor before dying in 323 B.C., it would have saved a lot of war & trouble Alexander the Great |
| #8885, aired 2023-06-02 | YOU HAVE SELECTED REGICIDE $200: 6th c. B.C. assassin Zhuan Zhu spent months learning to prepare & fillet these so he could hide a dagger in one & kill king Liao a fish |
| #8885, aired 2023-06-02 | GARDEN PARTY $1000: George H.W. Bush was famously not a fan of this veggie but it grows fast, is high in vitamins A, C & K, so it gets planted broccoli |
| #8884, aired 2023-06-01 | 3 THINGS ABOUT THE CITY $600: Inhale the scents of the Fragrance Museum; 25 miles from Dusseldorf; see the 15th c. art of Stefan Lochner Cologne |
| #8883, aired 2023-05-31 | LANDMARKS OF GREAT BRITAIN $400: Druids didn't build this stone circle begun around 3000 B.C., but modern-day Druids gather there at solstice time Stonehenge |
| #8882, aired 2023-05-30 | "M.C." $200: The 881-E Scantron form & the California DMV written test are in this format multiple choice |
| #8882, aired 2023-05-30 | "M.C." $400: As the job done by the person seen here M.C. stands for this master of ceremonies |
| #8882, aired 2023-05-30 | THE BAND'S SONGS TELL A STORY $400: "I Gotta Feeling" you know this hip-hop group! They did "Don't Stop The Party"... c'mon, "Don't Phunk With My Heart"! Black Eyed Peas |
| #8882, aired 2023-05-30 | "M.C." $600: This academic medical center has campuses in Rochester, Minnesota & Jacksonville, Florida Mayo Clinic |
| #8882, aired 2023-05-30 | "M.C." $800: This term describes a charming & romantic first encounter between 2 people, like on a train or shopping for the same item a meet cute |
| #8882, aired 2023-05-30 | "M.C." $1000: According to this New York governor, "You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose" Mario Cuomo |
| #8881, aired 2023-05-29 | PLAY "FREE" WORDS $1600: C.S. Lewis wrote that this ability is "the only thing that makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having" free will |
| #8881, aired 2023-05-29 | HISTORY $2000: A 6th c. outbreak of bubonic plague bears the name of this Byzantine Emperor; it nearly killed him & devastated his empire Justinian |
| #8879, aired 2023-05-25 | OUR RETURNING CHAMPION $200: After defeating Pompey's army, this leader returned to Rome & became dictator for life in the 40s B.C. Julius Caesar |
| #8879, aired 2023-05-25 | EURO COINS $1200: The image of an owl on this nation's 1-euro coin was copied from a 4-drachma coin from the 5th century B.C. Greece |
| #8877, aired 2023-05-23 | ANIMALS IN LITERATURE $800: In this Greek comedic play from 405 B.C., the title characters form a chorus whose lines include "Brekekekex, ko-ax, ko-ax" The Frogs |
| #8876, aired 2023-05-22 | AMERICANA $200: In 2010, tens of thousands celebrated Earth Day on this D.C. area, America's front lawn the National Mall |
| #16, aired 2023-05-22 | A LIFE IN SCIENCE $4,600 (Daily Double): His name is associated with work & this 19th C. British physicist had an occasional day job managing his family brewery Joule |
| #15, aired 2023-05-22 | AMERICANS IN PROTEST $800: As Army Chief of Staff, in 1932 this general turned away veterans marching on D.C. for World War I bonuses MacArthur |
| #8873, aired 2023-05-17 | WE'RE FULL OF QUESTIONS $800: If you remember the Talking Heads song "Psycho Killer", you know this is French for "what is it?" qu'est-ce que c'est |
| #14, aired 2023-05-17 | ROCK"ER"S $800: This "Even Flow" & "Better Man" singer has recorded under the pseudonym Wes C. Addle Eddie Vedder |
| #14, aired 2023-05-17 | BRING WHAT? $1000: An inscription at Washington, D.C.'s Union Station says, "He that would bring home" this phrase "must carry" this phrase "with him" the wealth of the Indies |
| #13, aired 2023-05-17 | FAMOUS NAME OVERLAPS $2000: An early 20th c. female modern dance pioneer & a 19th century male master of cabinetmaking & neo-classical furniture Isadora Duncan Phyfe |
| #11, aired 2023-05-16 | CURRENT U.S. GOVERNORS $800: He cheers for MLB's Reds in his own state as well as the Asheville, N.C. Tourists minor league team, which his family owns Mike DeWine |
| #8871, aired 2023-05-15 | IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD $2000: Many an artist has lived in this neighborhood in Manhattan's East Village that runs through avenues A, B, C & D Alphabet City |
| #10, aired 2023-05-15 | ARCHAEOLOGY $400: The Hittite Empire may have collapsed around 1200 B.C. due to a severe drought as indicated in the width of these from juniper trees tree rings |
| #7, aired 2023-05-12 | ISLE BE "C"ING YOU $400: Cape Maisi, this island's easternmost point, lies in the province of Guantanamo Cuba |
| #7, aired 2023-05-12 | ISLE BE "C"ING YOU $800: Popular tourist highlights on this Italian isle are the Blue Grotto & the Castiglione, a medieval castle Capri |
| #7, aired 2023-05-12 | ISLE BE "C"ING YOU $1200: This Dutch isle in the southern Caribbean is famous for its liqueur made from orange peels Curaçao |
| #7, aired 2023-05-12 | ISLE BE "C"ING YOU $1600: With sites like the Palancar Caves, this Mexican isle popular with cruise ships is one of the world's best destinations for scuba divers Cozumel |
| #7, aired 2023-05-12 | ISLE BE "C"ING YOU $6,600 (Daily Double): This rocky isle at the entrance to Manila Bay is home to the Pacific War Memorial Corregidor |
| #8869, aired 2023-05-11 | HISTORIC ERAS & AGES $200: In a totally metal move, this age took over for bronze in southeastern Europe around 1200 B.C. iron |
| #6, aired 2023-05-10 | LET'S GET VERTICAL $600: The C-suite is discussing V.I., or vertical this, where every stage of production of a good is controlled by one company integration |
| #5, aired 2023-05-10 | DEALING WITH THE GOVERNMENT $1000: Sen. Chris Coons & Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester have a relatively short D.C. commute to this, their home state Delaware |
| #5, aired 2023-05-10 | CLASSICAL MUSIC CLASSICS $1200: An audio clue on Robert Schumann's "Träumerei", meaning this activity that interested Freud, has to be long b/c it's played so slow dreaming |
| #8867, aired 2023-05-09 | GRAB BAG $200: When this D.C. landmark opened in 1888, you could climb 898 steps to the top the Washington Monument |
| #4, aired 2023-05-09 | LITERATURE $800: Poe's short story "The Murders" here marked the first appearance of the French detective C. Auguste Dupin in the Rue Morgue |
| #8866, aired 2023-05-08 | CHILDREN'S LIT $600: This nickname for many kings follows "M.C. Higgins" in the title of the first Newbery Medal winner by a Black author the Great |
| #2, aired 2023-05-08 | RELIGION $1600: Being a teen in 1972 is a trip, man--mom won't buy me "Summer Breeze" by Seals & Crofts cuz they practice this 19th c. faith from Iran Baháʼí |
| #8865, aired 2023-05-05 | EVERYTHING'S COMING UP ROSE $1000: D.C. socialite Rose O'Neal Greenhow sent word that Union troops were moving on Manassas, helping the Confederates before this battle the Battle of Bull Run |
| #8865, aired 2023-05-05 | QUICK PLANETS $1000: It's surrounded by phenomena named
A, B, C, D, E, F & G Saturn |
| #8864, aired 2023-05-04 | SCIENCE $2000: Let's "C" if you can name this electrical property measured in farads capacitance |
| #8863, aired 2023-05-03 | JOHN C. REILLY $200: John's hometown, or the movie musical for which he received an Oscar nomination as Amos Hart Chicago |
| #8863, aired 2023-05-03 | JOHN C. REILLY $400: John was obsessed with this duo from an early age & played one of them in "Stan & Ollie" Laurel & Hardy |
| #8863, aired 2023-05-03 | JOHN C. REILLY $600: John is seen here at a Lakers game years before playing this owner of the team on HBO's "Winning Time" (Jerry) Buss |
| #8863, aired 2023-05-03 | JOHN C. REILLY $800: As this singer in the biopic spoof "Walk Hard", John C. Reilly is told by his dad, "The wrong kid died" Dewey Cox |
| #8863, aired 2023-05-03 | JOHN C. REILLY $1000: John in "Talladega Nights": "If you smell a delicious crispy smell after the race, it's not your tailpipe, it's" this catchphrase (a little bit of) Shake 'n Bake |
| #8861, aired 2023-05-01 | WORLD OF BELIEF $400: In the 19th c. this people of New Zealand, not happy with missionaries, formed a native Christian movement called Pai Marire the Maori |
| #8859, aired 2023-04-27 | "A_B_C_D" $800: It's a longer way of saying vitamin C ascorbic acid |
| #8859, aired 2023-04-27 | READY TO WEAR $1000: Let's "C", it's the umbrella term covering bow ties, neckties, scarves & ascots cravats |
| #8858, aired 2023-04-26 | CONFIDENCE $600: Facing a trial in 399 B.C., this philosopher was confident he was a good man & could not be harmed (he could, & he certainly was) Socrates |
| #8857, aired 2023-04-25 | SEPARATION $1200: In this Missouri city known by a 2-letter moniker, Troost Avenue traditionally divides poorer east from richer west Kansas City (K.C.) |
| #8856, aired 2023-04-24 | GREEK HISTORY $1200: The cities of the Achaean League situated on the northern part of this peninsula met defeat in 146 B.C. at the hands of Rome the Peloponnesian Peninsula |
| #8855, aired 2023-04-21 | THE CALIFORNIA MISSIONS $400: Founded in 1791, the mission in this central coast U.C. city is the only one named not for a saint, but for the cross Santa Cruz |
| #8853, aired 2023-04-19 | A EUROPEAN VACATION $2000: Take six pals & be seven against this Greek city where you can check out what's left of the circa 1400 B.C. Palace of Cadmus Thebes |
| #8852, aired 2023-04-18 | OLD WAR $400: Lysander, an admiral of this city-state, starved Athens into surrendering in 404 B.C. during the Peloponnesian War Sparta |
| #8851, aired 2023-04-17 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY $1200: The Attica region of Greece includes this plain, the site of a pivotal 490 B.C. battle the Plains of Marathon |
| #8851, aired 2023-04-17 | TV BEFORE & AFTER $1600: The Tanners move to Washington, D.C., where they become ruthless & vengeful politicians Full House of Cards |
| #8851, aired 2023-04-17 | ALPHABETICALLY FIRST $2000: Of the chemical elements that begin with "C" cadmium |
| #8849, aired 2023-04-13 | SECRETARIES OF STATE $800: This 1950s anticommunist secretary is memorialized in the name of an airport serving Washington, D.C. Dulles |
| #8849, aired 2023-04-13 | IN THE AIR TONIGHT $800: "C" is for this musical insect; one type shows up in the air in 17-year cycles cicadas |
| #8849, aired 2023-04-13 | TRADEMARKED SOUNDS $1000: This fast food chain trademarked a "bong" that is E below middle C Taco Bell |
| #8846, aired 2023-04-10 | THAT'S ANCIENT HISTORY $400: Known for ruling Egypt in the 30s B.C., she was of Macedonian descent but still staked a claim as the new Isis on Earth Cleopatra |
| #8846, aired 2023-04-10 | THAT'S ANCIENT HISTORY $1200: This age began in Britain around 2500 B.C., led by the Beaker people named for vessels like the one here the Bronze Age |
| #8846, aired 2023-04-10 | THAT'S ANCIENT HISTORY $2000: In the 1300s B.C. the empire of this Indo-European people established itself in Syria, making the Egyptians see them as a rival the Hittites |
| #8843, aired 2023-04-05 | THE LAST BATTLE $1200: The Second Punic War ended when this general went down to defeat at the 202 B.C. Battle of Zama Hannibal |
| #8843, aired 2023-04-05 | LITERARY BAD DAY FOR THE PLANET $1200: Arthur C. Clarke's "The Star" is a sun that went supernova, killing a planet, & is this celestial object from the New Testament the Star of Bethlehem |
| #8841, aired 2023-04-03 | THEIR LESSER-KNOWN BOOKS $400: This author went to Venus instead of Narnia in his space novel "Perelandra" C.S. Lewis |
| #8840, aired 2023-03-31 | POLITICS TALK $1600: From the name of a D.C. location where many lobbying firms are concentrated, this "Street" is shorthand for lobbyists K Street |
| #8839, aired 2023-03-30 | CELEBRITY MEMOIRS $1000: Before his passing, this former teen idol penned "C'mon, Get Happy" David Cassidy |
| #8838, aired 2023-03-29 | EUROPEAN NATIONAL NICKNAMES $1,000 (Daily Double): Hungarians know their country not as the land of the Huns, but as the land of this nomadic people who settled there in the 9th c. the Magyars |
| #8837, aired 2023-03-28 | 3 MEN $200: Formed around 60 B.C., the First Roman Triumvirate was made up of Crassus, Pompey & this guy Julius Caesar |
| #8834, aired 2023-03-23 | WITH A SCULPTURE ON TOP $200: A classical statue called "Freedom" sits atop the dome of this Washington, D.C. building the U.S. Capitol |
| #8834, aired 2023-03-23 | PULITZER PRIZES $1600: In 2014 Jason Szep & Andrew R.C. Marshall shared a Pulitzer for reporting on the violent persecution of this Muslim minority in Myanmar the Rohingya |
| #8833, aired 2023-03-22 | 1963 $800: "She" made a rare visit to the U.S. from the Louvre & was displayed in Washington, D.C. & New York before her return trip the Mona Lisa |
| #8832, aired 2023-03-21 | I LOVE A MAN IN CUNEIFORM $400: This ruler's legal decisions were codified in cuneiform in the Old Babylonian language in the 18th century B.C. Hammurabi |
| #8832, aired 2023-03-21 | MADE IN PENNSYLVANIA $600: Fans of these from Pennsylvania's C.F. Martin & Co. have included Muddy Waters, Hank Williams & Willie Nelson guitars |
| #8826, aired 2023-03-13 | CALL ME "CAT" $400: 19th c. consumers liked buying from folks they knew, so Mr. Montgomery Ward might send a personal note if you ordered from this the catalog |
| #8825, aired 2023-03-10 | SHOPPING AT THE MALL $200: I feel like glamming it up, so let's drop by MAC, which sells these, what the "C" stands for cosmetics |
| #8822, aired 2023-03-07 | AMERICAN COMPOSERS $400: In 2016, aged 94, Pulitzer winner George Walker composed a tribute to the dead of the Emanuel AME Church in this S.C. city Charleston |
| #8819, aired 2023-03-02 | ACTION & ADVENTURE NOVELS $2000: In 11 books by C.S. Forester, this intrepid sailor starts as a midshipman & ultimately becomes an admiral Horatio Hornblower |
| #8816, aired 2023-02-27 | THE GOLDEN AGE $800: The 11th c. verse of Ibn Gabirol was part of a renaissance of poetry in this language in the golden age of Spanish Jewry Hebrew |
| #8816, aired 2023-02-27 | THE GOLDEN AGE $1600: Born around 470 B.C., this figure from the golden age of Greek culture went around barefoot asking annoying questions Socrates |
| #8815, aired 2023-02-24 | I LIKE TO SCIENCE! $200: This 20th c. British physicist said, "Because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can & will create itself from nothing" Hawking |
| #8815, aired 2023-02-24 | I LIKE TO SCIENCE! $800: Once a resident of Smiljan, he immigrated to the U.S. with 4 cents & later patented a polyphase system of A.C. dynamos Tesla |
| #8814, aired 2023-02-23 | GREEK LIFE $200: Details are sketchy on him; was he a 9th century B.C. guy? 8th? From Ionia? Did he really create the 2 epic poems he's credited with? Homer |
| #8814, aired 2023-02-23 | GREEK LIFE $400: We have a theorem about this guy who was born in Ionia around 570 B.C.:
a2 + b2 = c2 Pythagoras |
| #8814, aired 2023-02-23 | GREEK LIFE $600: The first great civilization to emerge around Greece flourished circa 2000 B.C. with the Minoans on this island Crete |
| #8814, aired 2023-02-23 | GREEK LIFE $1000: This 400s B.C. physician had a school at Cos where he taught for fees; no word on if he had a loan program Hippocrates |
| #8814, aired 2023-02-23 | OLD HISTORY $1600: Greek cities of the 3rd century B.C. formed the Achaean League to expel invaders from this kingdom of Philip & Alexander Macedonia |
| #8814, aired 2023-02-23 | GREEK LIFE $2,000 (Daily Double): In the long run, you'll know General Miltiades lost only around 200 men & the Persians, 6,400, in the 5th century B.C. Battle of this Marathon |
| #8812, aired 2023-02-21 | FROM "E" TO "Y" $800: This "Row" in Washington, D.C. generally refers to a stretch of Massachusetts Ave. where many foreign diplomats work Embassy Row |
| #8812, aired 2023-02-21 | TRIOS $2000: "The Immortal Trio" of 19th c. politics were Henry Clay, Daniel Webster & this South Carolinian big on states' rights Calhoun |
| #8811, aired 2023-02-20 | TIME TO HIT THE LIBRARY $400: As a young man, D.C.-born J. Edgar Hoover worked at this library as a messenger & in the cataloging department the Library of Congress |
| #8811, aired 2023-02-20 | TIME TO HIT THE LIBRARY $2000: Ashurbanipal, book lover & king of this ancient kingdom ruled from Nineveh, built the world's first known library in the 600s B.C. Assyria |
| #8809, aired 2023-02-16 | THE LETTER AFTER C $200: ...in a title for a Russian hereditary ruler Z |
| #8809, aired 2023-02-16 | THE LETTER AFTER C $400: ...in a goat-bodied, flame-spewing monster of Greek myth H |
| #8809, aired 2023-02-16 | THE LETTER AFTER C $600: ...in the Roman numeral for 400 D |
| #8809, aired 2023-02-16 | THE LETTER AFTER C $800: ...in the 8-letter "arts" relating to cooking or the kitchen U (for culinary) |
| #8809, aired 2023-02-16 | THE LETTER AFTER C $1000: ...in the poison whose rapid, fatal effects can be countered with sodium nitrite Y (for cyanide) |
| #8808, aired 2023-02-15 | I HAVE AN IDEA $2000: The institute named for this 18th c. Scot says his radical insight was that national wealth isn't gold but productive capacity Adam Smith |
| #8806, aired 2023-02-13 | LOGOS $600: The logo of this fashion house named for its founder contains 2 interlocking "C"s, backwards & forwards Chanel |
| #8805, aired 2023-02-10 | HOTELS NAMED FOR PEOPLE $800: The mansion of 19th c. rail tycoon Mark Hopkins was the highest point in this city; the Mark Hopkins Hotel is now on the site San Francisco |
| #8805, aired 2023-02-10 | DON'T FALL IN! $1000: It's 10 feet wide & 260 deep, so don't fall into Australia's Standley this "C" word--a chi word in Greek Chasm |
| #8804, aired 2023-02-09 | EPONYMS $400: A teaching method using questions & answers & provoking discussion bears the name of this 5th century B.C. philosopher Socrates |
| #8803, aired 2023-02-08 | THE "C" SHORE $200: The waters of this vast "sea" touch Iran, Russia, Azerbaijan & a couple of "Stan" countries the Caspian Sea |
| #8803, aired 2023-02-08 | THE "C" SHORE $400: The shores near Astoria, Oregon are where this mighty river empties into the Pacific the Columbia |
| #8803, aired 2023-02-08 | THE "C" SHORE $600: Steep cliffs line the shores of both the N. & S. Islands of New Zealand separated by this strait named for a British captain (the) Cook (Strait) |
| #8803, aired 2023-02-08 | THE "C" SHORE $800: Those basking on this lake's shore 25 miles north of Milan enjoy the Tivano wind from the north & the Breva from the south Lake Como |
| #8803, aired 2023-02-08 | THE "C" SHORE $1000: Salmon, trout & grayling are caught along the edge of this major river of Scotland the Clyde |
| #8802, aired 2023-02-07 | WHICH WAR? $600: In 431 B.C., Spartan ally Thebes goes after Plataea, an Athenian pal, & it's on the Peloponnesian War |
| #8801, aired 2023-02-06 | TRAIN ROUTES $1200: The Rocky Mountaineer offers routes from Vancouver, B.C. to Jasper or Banff in this neighboring province Alberta |
| #8799, aired 2023-02-02 | DWIGHT EISENHOWER $1000: Opened in 2020, the Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial is the first public work in Washington, D.C. by this renowned American architect Frank Gehry |
| #13, aired 2023-02-02 | GOING UNDERGROUND $600: Analysis shows that a 700s B.C. altar excavated in Israel has traces of this psychoactive 3-letter compound found in cannabis THC |
| #8797, aired 2023-01-31 | THE SILENT & NOT-SILENT LETTER $800: In one of the academic STEM subjects a C |
| #8797, aired 2023-01-31 | MEDICAL FOLKS $2000: Pernicious anemia was once called by the name of this 19th c. doctor for whom a disease of the adrenal glands is still named Thomas Addison |
| #8794, aired 2023-01-26 | VENOMOUS CREATURES $1600: Entomologist & pain scale creator Justin Schmidt says a sting by this colorful wasp feels like W.C. Fields putting out a cigar on your tongue a yellowjacket |
| #12, aired 2023-01-26 | REAL ESTATES $200: According to Zillow, this residence at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW in Washington, D.C. is worth about $500 million the White House |
| #8793, aired 2023-01-25 | GARDEN VARIETY STORIES $400: Mysteries abound as plucky Agatha Raisin tries to find a killer in M.C. Beaton's novel "Pushing up" these flowers Daisies |
| #8792, aired 2023-01-24 | FINDING NIMOY $200: Nimoy appeared in other TV series with this "Star Trek" co-star, including "The Man from U.N.C.L.E." & "T.J. Hooker" William Shatner |
| #8790, aired 2023-01-20 | WHIRLED EVENTS $200: 3-word name for an infamous date in 44 B.C.:
SCARED OF HIM Ides of March |
| #8790, aired 2023-01-20 | STREET SMARTS $800: The 1960 Olympic marathon was run along this "Way", a road begun in 312 B.C. the Appian Way |
| #8790, aired 2023-01-20 | THIS PIECE OF PAPER WILL TELL YOU WHAT TO DO $1600: The Edict of Cyrus from the mid-500s B.C. insists on tolerance for those conquered by this, Cyrus' empire Persia |
| #8789, aired 2023-01-19 | WHEN IN ANCIENT ROME $200: As a patrician, you could not do this with a plebeian until 445 B.C.'s Lex Canuleia marry |
| #8789, aired 2023-01-19 | WHEN IN ANCIENT ROME $1000: On Sept. 2, 44 B.C. you could take in the first of his 14 Philippic orations; he sure did love to orate, until it got him executed Cicero |
| #11, aired 2023-01-19 | STARTS WITH A SILENT LETTER $600: Whether it begins with a silent "T" or a silent "C", it's the title for a former ruler of Russia a czar |
| #11, aired 2023-01-19 | LANDMARKS $1,000 (Daily Double): Now that's a construction project! 13,000 miles long & found in part in Gansu province, this dates to the 600s B.C. the Great Wall of China |
| #8787, aired 2023-01-17 | 1980s BESTSELLERS $400: Moving several years into the future, he gave us "2010: Odyssey Two" (Arthur C.) Clarke |
| #8787, aired 2023-01-17 | SCIENCEY STUFF $1600: You'll get an "A", but won't give one by naming this computer programming language with a name 3 characters long C++ |
| #8786, aired 2023-01-16 | PURE BREAD $600: Despite the "C" at the front of the name of this puffy Jewish bread sometimes being silent, its name sounds quite loud challah |
| #8784, aired 2023-01-12 | DICTATORS & TYRANTS $200: Around 546 B.C. Pisistratus took power as tyrant of this city & ruled there for 2 decades Athens |
| #8782, aired 2023-01-10 | ON THE SCIENTIST'S RÉSUMÉ $200: c. 1491-94: Student of astronomy & astrology, U. of Krakow; c. 1515: invited to Fifth Lateran Council to aid calendar reform Copernicus |
| #8782, aired 2023-01-10 | BETWEEN 2 "C"s $400: It describes an opera like "The Maid as Mistress", or can mean any funny performer comic |
| #8782, aired 2023-01-10 | BETWEEN 2 "C"s $800: Adjective meaning having the innocent nature of a childlike angel cherubic |
| #8782, aired 2023-01-10 | NYC SUBWAY STOPS $1000: If you want a day at the museum, take the C train to 81st Street to enjoy this "Night at the Museum" museum the Museum of Natural History |
| #8782, aired 2023-01-10 | BETWEEN 2 "C"s $1200: Distilled from white wine, it bears the name of the region where it's made Cognac |
| #8782, aired 2023-01-10 | BETWEEN 2 "C"s $1600: To reduce harmful emissions in auto exhausts, this type of "converter" removes unburned hydrocarbons catalytic |
| #8782, aired 2023-01-10 | BETWEEN 2 "C"s $2000: Starting & ending with "C", it's the plain yet elegant white fabric worn here cambric |
| #8781, aired 2023-01-09 | RANDOM FACTS $2000: When he was VP of the U.S., a Colorado town bore his name; when he became a Confederate general, it changed its "kin" to "ken" John C. Breckinridge |
| #8779, aired 2023-01-05 | COLLEGES NAMED AFTER PEOPLE $4,000 (Daily Double): This D.C. university is named for the educator who opened a school for deaf students in 1817 Gallaudet |
| #9, aired 2023-01-05 | SEEMS LIKE ANCIENT TIMES $200: These were first recorded in Greece in 776 B.C. & Greece led the medal standings with 1 as Coroebus of Elis won the only event the Olympics |
| #9, aired 2023-01-05 | SEEMS LIKE ANCIENT TIMES $600: Title for Egyptian king Ramses the Great, remembered for his wars & building projects around 1250 B.C. pharaoh |
| #9, aired 2023-01-05 | SEEMS LIKE ANCIENT TIMES $1000: By 2500 B.C. the Chinese were breeding a special "worm" in order to make thread & garments from this material silk |
| #8778, aired 2023-01-04 | TV THEME SONGS $1200: "California here we come, right back where we started from" The O.C. |
| #8777, aired 2023-01-03 | THE GOOD, OLD, U.S. OF A. $400: From c. 1640 & built using dovetailing, the USA's oldest of these 2-word symbols of hardy pioneer life is in western New Jersey a log cabin |
| #8777, aired 2023-01-03 | ORGS. FOR SHORT $800: It owns & operates Washington, D.C.'s Constitution Hall, opened in 1929 the DAR (Daughters of the American Revolution) |
| #8776, aired 2023-01-02 | FRIENDS 'TIL THE ENDS $1,300 (Daily Double): "C" is for this word, once one of the divisions of a Roman legion; it now can mean a colleague or a person born in the same year a cohort |
| #8776, aired 2023-01-02 | WRITERS' MIDDLE NAMES $2000: Of C.S. Lewis; his first name was Clive Staples |
| #8774, aired 2022-12-29 | THE COMEDY OF ERAS $1200: Meaning "comedy of the profession", this 16th-18th c. Italian form used stock characters like the lovers & the captain commedia dell'arte |
| #8772, aired 2022-12-27 | FICTION $200: Written under the V.C. Andrews name, recent prequels to her bestselling series include "Beneath the" this & "Out of the" this Attic |
| #8771, aired 2022-12-26 | AFRICA $800: Head to Tunisia to visit the ruins of this city whose name means "new town", founded around 800 B.C. Carthage |
| #8771, aired 2022-12-26 | WORD PUZZLES $800: New drivers may find it challenging
G
N
I
K
C
A
B backing up |
| #8766, aired 2022-12-19 | 2, 3 OR 4-LETTER GEOGRAPHY $1200: Ancient Mesopotamian city of 3500 B.C., in ruins today & known as Tell el-Muqayyar Ur |
| #8764, aired 2022-12-15 | GIVING YOU SOME T-L-C $200: It's the "I" in IQ, & it will be incredibly embarrassing for all of us if no one rings in now intelligence |
| #8764, aired 2022-12-15 | GIVING YOU SOME T-L-C $400: Reggie's bringing the potato salad & Veronica, the stew to this type of supper a potluck |
| #8764, aired 2022-12-15 | GIVING YOU SOME T-L-C $600: It's slang for voluptuously attractive; Destiny's Child sang, "'cause my body too" this title "for ya, babe" bootylicious |
| #8764, aired 2022-12-15 | GIVING YOU SOME T-L-C $800: It's the birdie you bop in badminton a shuttlecock |
| #8764, aired 2022-12-15 | GIVING YOU SOME T-L-C $1000: It means light can pass through an object but gets diffused so objects on the other side can't be seen clearly translucent |
| #8764, aired 2022-12-15 | HISTORY IN ART $1200: Neoclassical artist Vincenzo Camuccini went big; 13 x 23 feet, to depict this event from 44 B.C. the assassination of Julius Caesar |
| #8763, aired 2022-12-14 | HISTORIC NAMES $200: She once took First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt on a flight over Washington, D.C., both attired in evening gowns Amelia Earhart |
| #8763, aired 2022-12-14 | THE "J.C"s $400: In 2019, at age 94 years & 172 days, he became the longest-living president in U.S. history Jimmy Carter |
| #8763, aired 2022-12-14 | THE "J.C"s $800: In 2022, Hollywood mourned the death of this legendary actor whose career touched 7 decades James Caan |
| #8763, aired 2022-12-14 | THE "J.C"s $1200: Premiering in 2022, an HBO Max drama looks at the life & career of this "French chef" Julia Child |
| #8763, aired 2022-12-14 | THE "J.C"s $1600: He founded a society that strives to "uncover the secrets held within our water planet" & "work to keep it alive and healthy" Jacques Cousteau |
| #8763, aired 2022-12-14 | THE "J.C"s $2000: "The Enormous Radio" is among the 1979 Pulitzer Prize-winning "Stories of" this writer John Cheever |
| #8756, aired 2022-12-05 | POINTING OUT DECIMALS $1000: At Princeton, if you get straight C+es, this is your semester GPA & you might want to do a bit more studying 2.3 |
| #8756, aired 2022-12-05 | HISTORY ON THE DOUBLE $2,000 (Daily Double): Prophetically, around 30 B.C., these 2 lovers founded a club called Those Who Will Die Together Antony & Cleopatra |
| #8753, aired 2022-11-30 | OUR DIVIDED NATION $800: Writer A.C. Greene said West this state begins at the Brazos River Texas |
| #8752, aired 2022-11-29 | MORE THAN ONE SILENT LETTER $800: This synonym for "destroy" has a spare W & either a spare C or a spare K, take your pick wreck |
| #8752, aired 2022-11-29 | GERMAN CITIES $1600: The site of a Roman fortress in the 1st century B.C., this city was the seat of federal government for 50 years until 1999 Bonn |
| #8750, aired 2022-11-25 | ONLY HALF THE BATTLE $1600: The Greeks were holding their own at this pass in 480 B.C.; then Ephialtes showed the Persians the way around Thermopylae |
| #8748, aired 2022-11-23 | TRANSLATORS $2000: In 1922 C.K. Scott Moncrieff wrote a nice letter to the dying Marcel Proust explaining his translation choices, including this title Remembrance of Things Past |
| #8747, aired 2022-11-22 | UNDER THE "C" $200: On the periodic table, silicon is directly under this element carbon |
| #8747, aired 2022-11-22 | UNDER THE "C" $400: The top of your tuxedo pants is hidden from view with style under this pleated accessory cummerbund |
| #8747, aired 2022-11-22 | UNDER THE "C" $600: Per Black's Law, you can file this "conduct that defies the authority... of a court" under "C", & you can be held in it too contempt |
| #8747, aired 2022-11-22 | A PINEAPPLE $600: One cup of pineapple chunks provides 1/3 of your daily value of this scurvy-preventing vitamin C |
| #8747, aired 2022-11-22 | UNDER THE "C" $800: Central African Republic is on the southern border of this landlocked nation Chad |
| #8747, aired 2022-11-22 | UNDER THE "C" $1000: A French peasant had to look up to someone with this noble title that includes the French word for horse a chevalier |
| #8747, aired 2022-11-22 | BUILDINGS $2000: A statue of this angel tops many Mormon temples; the one atop the D.C. temple is 18 feet tall Moroni |
| #8743, aired 2022-11-16 | SPELEMENTARY $1600: Silver +
nobelium +
sulfur +
titanium +
carbon agnostic (Ag No S Ti C) |
| #8743, aired 2022-11-16 | HEARD IN THE MOVIE $2000: "Fred C. Dobbs ain't a guy likes bein' taken advantage of--do the mug in, I say" The Treasure of the Sierra Madre |
| #8741, aired 2022-11-14 | POETRY $1600: A book by Herbert J.C. Grierson about John Donne & other 17th c. poets helped popularize this philosophical adjective for them metaphysical |
| #8741, aired 2022-11-14 | POETRY $2000: The "Terrible Sonnets" of this 3-named 19th c. poet aren't bad but sad, like "No Worst, There is None" & "Carrion Comfort" Gerard Manley Hopkins |
| #8, aired 2022-11-13 | A TRIP TO THE MUSEUM $800: The National Air & Space Museum & the National Museum of the American Indian are part of this Washington, D.C. complex the Smithsonian |
| #8738, aired 2022-11-09 | INTERNATIONAL FILM STYLE $400: Dario Argento & Bernardo Bertolucci worked on "C'era una volta il West", this "tasty" type of Western a Spaghetti Western |
| #8738, aired 2022-11-09 | ONOMATOPOEIA $2000: "The Bells" pairs clamor with this word that also starts with "C-L-A" clangor |
| #7, aired 2022-11-06 | ALL ABOUT ALLITERATIVE BOOK CHARACTERS $200: Peter Pevensie is one of the children who come to reign over this land created by C.S. Lewis Narnia |
| #8734, aired 2022-11-03 | GET DOWN TO BUSINESS $2000: AFLAC is the American Family Life Assurance Company of this Georgia "C"ity where it's headquartered Columbus |
| #6, aired 2022-10-30 | PRETTY LITTLE LIES $300: They'll love the story about how you went to Churchill Downs in 2022 for this big race & put a C-note on 80-1 longshot Rich Strike the Kentucky Derby |
| #6, aired 2022-10-30 | THE CHASE $1500: (Brad Rutter delivers the clue.) Chevy Chase never lived in Chevy Chase, a suburb of Washington, D.C., in this state, but Sandra Day O'Connor did while she was on the Supreme Court Maryland |
| #6, aired 2022-10-30 | HI, FINANCE $7,000 (Daily Double): A chapter no one ever wants to read, this one is often called a "reorganization" bankruptcy, like J.C. Penney in 2020 Chapter 11 |
| #8730, aired 2022-10-28 | DAYS OF YORE $1200: These lyric poets of southern Europe laid out their rules for poetry in the 14th c. work "Leys d'amors" troubadours |
| #8730, aired 2022-10-28 | "SECOND" CHANCES $2000: Formed in 43 B.C., this alliance was made up of Mark Antony, Lepidus & Octavian the Second Triumvirate |
| #8728, aired 2022-10-26 | D.C.-AREA ATTRACTIONS $400: Most open daily, 16 museums & the National Zoo make up the D.C. parts of this complex founded in 1846 the Smithsonian Institution |
| #8728, aired 2022-10-26 | D.C.-AREA ATTRACTIONS $800: 184 steel & granite benches honor those who died here on 9/11 the Pentagon |
| #8728, aired 2022-10-26 | D.C.-AREA ATTRACTIONS $1200: A statue of the Comte de Rochambeau is across from the White House in this square named for a more famous Frenchman Lafayette (Square) |
| #8728, aired 2022-10-26 | D.C.-AREA ATTRACTIONS $1600: This library has been known to host Renaissance music to honor Shakespeare's birthday the Folger |
| #8728, aired 2022-10-26 | HISTORIC SECONDS $2,000 (Daily Double): The second one lasted from 218 to 201 B.C. & at the end, Rome was boss of the Mediterranean the Second Punic War |
| #8728, aired 2022-10-26 | D.C.-AREA ATTRACTIONS $2000: Unlike JFK's, this president's grave at Arlington National Cemetery lacks an eternal flame but does have a 14-foot monument Taft |
| #8726, aired 2022-10-24 | "C" BAND LYRICS $400: 2008:
"I hear Jerusalem bells a-ringing, Roman cavalry choirs are singing" Coldplay |
| #8726, aired 2022-10-24 | "C" BAND LYRICS $800: 1996:
"He's going the distance, he's going for speed" Cake |
| #8726, aired 2022-10-24 | "C" BAND LYRICS $1200: 1992:
"Thursday doesn't even start, it's Friday I'm in love" The Cure |
| #8726, aired 2022-10-24 | "C" BAND LYRICS $1600: 1977:
"That's why I'm easy, easy like Sunday morning" the Commodores |
| #8726, aired 2022-10-24 | "C" BAND LYRICS $2000: 1994:
"With their tanks & their bombs... & their guns, in your head, in your head they are dying" The Cranberries |
| #5, aired 2022-10-23 | BIOLOGY $800: As part of metamorphosis, some caterpillars create this "C" structure similar to a cocoon & live in it until their next phase a chrysalis |
| #8725, aired 2022-10-21 | FROM C TO D $200: In music it's 3 or more notes sounded together a chord |
| #8725, aired 2022-10-21 | FROM C TO D $400: This word for how you want your abs to look contains a sculptor's tool chiseled |
| #8725, aired 2022-10-21 | FROM C TO D $600: It's French for le duck le canard |
| #8725, aired 2022-10-21 | FROM C TO D $800: This large artery that supplies blood to the head & neck also aids in regulating blood pressure carotid |
| #8725, aired 2022-10-21 | FROM C TO D $1000: A man's overcoat & a sofa with rolled arms, as seen here, are named for the Earl of this Chesterfield |
| #8723, aired 2022-10-19 | A PLACE IN HISTORY $800: Excavations showed that this English site begun around 3000 B.C. was connected to the Avon River by a paved avenue Stonehenge |
| #8722, aired 2022-10-18 | NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC TREASURES OF EGYPT $400: Bracelets featuring butterflies inlaid with gems, circa 2500 B.C., are made from this metal, at that time, more precious than gold silver |
| #8722, aired 2022-10-18 | NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC TREASURES OF EGYPT $1200: Looking ready to begin, a statue of a scribe from about 2400 B.C. holds a representation of a scroll of this material in his lap papyrus |
| #8722, aired 2022-10-18 | NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC TREASURES OF EGYPT $1600: A pendant from the tomb of Princess Mereret from around 1800 B.C. features two of these, a fierce hybrid of a raptor & lion a griffin |
| #8721, aired 2022-10-17 | TRYING TO GET SOME WORKS DONE $800: "The Calf Bearer" from the 500s B.C. discovered on this Athens elevation in 1864--sad that parts are missing, but now we can show it the Acropolis |
| #8719, aired 2022-10-13 | LOOKING SHARP! $400: Let's face it, the King C. this brand double edge safety razor can smooth things out Gillette |
| #8719, aired 2022-10-13 | PONY TALES $800: In C.S. Lewis' "The Horse & His Boy", young Shasta & a talking pony named Bree travel to this magical land Narnia |
| #8719, aired 2022-10-13 | I GOT THE PART! $800: Michael C. Hall embraced that "unique" accent when portraying this president on "The Crown" John F. Kennedy |
| #8719, aired 2022-10-13 | IS HISTORY $800: This father of Alexander the Great was assassinated in 336 B.C. Philip of Macedon |
| #8717, aired 2022-10-11 | THE TEMPLES IN JERUSALEM $1200: The First Temple was built around 950 B.C. & was destroyed by an invading army of this empire in 586 B.C. the Babylonians |
| #3, aired 2022-10-09 | ANCIENT ROME $200: This general & statesman became dictator in 46 B.C. but was assassinated on the ides of March by Brutus & others (Julius) Caesar |
| #3, aired 2022-10-09 | ANCIENT ROME $1000: In the 70s B.C. this gladiator led a slave revolt; Kirk Douglas played him on film Spartacus |
| #8715, aired 2022-10-07 | THE ANCIENT WORLD $400: In the 200s B.C., the first Qin emperor ordered existing defensive structures to be linked, helping to create this Great Wall of China |
| #8715, aired 2022-10-07 | 2022 SPORTS NEWS $1000: Washington, D.C.'s NFL team "took charge" of their future, choosing this as their new team name Commanders |
| #8712, aired 2022-10-04 | A "C" IN LITERATURE $200: He calls Winnie-the-Pooh "silly old bear" Christopher Robin |
| #8712, aired 2022-10-04 | A "C" IN LITERATURE $400: One of "The Chronicles of Narnia" is named for this prince & rightful heir to the throne Caspian |
| #8712, aired 2022-10-04 | A "C" IN LITERATURE $600: Anthony Burgess claimed this, his best-known book, was "knocked off for money in 3 weeks" A Clockwork Orange |
| #8712, aired 2022-10-04 | A "C" IN LITERATURE $800: From the works of Charles Dickens, it's the last name of the father & son seen here Cratchit |
| #8712, aired 2022-10-04 | A "C" IN LITERATURE $1000: Chaucer had planned to write more than 100 stories for this work, but only got around to 24 The Canterbury Tales |
| #8709, aired 2022-09-29 | STAY HEALTHY $1000: While it won't help you Wolverine-style, this water-soluble vitamin helps heal wounds & is needed to make collagen vitamin C |
| #8708, aired 2022-09-28 | A LETTER, THEN A WORD $2000: It's the area where a company's top executives all have their offices the C-suite |
| #8707, aired 2022-09-27 | A FRIENDLY WORD $1000: Friends who get political appointments as favors are called these, a word that goes back to 17th c. college slang cronies |
| #8707, aired 2022-09-27 | THE 19th CENTURY $1200: Francis II was its final ruler in the early 19th c. when all roads stopped leading to this empire that ended after 1,000 years the Holy Roman Empire |
| #8706, aired 2022-09-26 | ROMANS $600: From Latin for "of a noble father", it was the exclusive ruling class until the third century B.C. the patricians |
| #1, aired 2022-09-25 | "R"ELIGION $800: The cult of this 2-letter sun god of ancient Egypt reached its peak during the Old Kingdom around 2500 B.C. Ra |
| #8703, aired 2022-09-21 | EMPERORS $2000: Despite the 11th c. conquests of Emperor Basil the Bulgar slayer of this empire, his heirs rapidly lost all he had gained the Byzantine Empire |
| #8702, aired 2022-09-20 | BEFORE & AFTER PEOPLE $1200: "Karma Chameleon" singer who turned down an Oscar for his performance in "Patton" Boy George C. Scott |
| #8700, aired 2022-09-16 | HERSTORY $1,000 (Daily Double): Roxana married this conqueror in 327 B.C. & after his death, killed another wife or wives & consolidated the throne Alexander the Great |
| #8698, aired 2022-09-14 | MUSIC $1000: Piano students often begin with the scale of C major, the key of the first prelude & fugue in this Bach work with an instrumental name The Well-Tempered Clavier |
| #8697, aired 2022-09-13 | EUROPEAN PLACES $1600: After being extended around 244 B.C., this famous ancient road ended in Brindisi in the "heel" of Italy the Appian Way |
| #8695, aired 2022-07-29 | "C"HARACTER STUDY $400: "The Devil in Iron" & "The Slithering Shadow" are stories featuring this barbarian created by Robert E. Howard Conan |
| #8695, aired 2022-07-29 | "C"HARACTER STUDY $800: Dickens based this title character of an 1850 novel on his own life David Copperfield |
| #8695, aired 2022-07-29 | "C"HARACTER STUDY $1600: This beloved educator of a 1934 novel teaches at the fictional Brookfield School Mr. Chips |
| #8695, aired 2022-07-29 | "C"HARACTER STUDY $2000: Members of this family in works by William Faulkner include Benjy, Quentin & Caddy the Compsons |
| #8695, aired 2022-07-29 | "C"HARACTER STUDY $3,000 (Daily Double): She's the heroine of "Wuthering Heights" & Alex Trebek loved to imitate Laurence Olivier repeating her name Catherine (Earnshaw) |
| #8694, aired 2022-07-28 | GO IVth & RULE $1200: 2nd century B.C. efforts by Syrian King Antiochus IV to suppress Judaism led to a revolt by this family, including Judah the Maccabees |
| #8693, aired 2022-07-27 | "B.C." $400: It's slang for basic training of new military recruits boot camp |
| #8693, aired 2022-07-27 | "B.C." $800: In 1921 at age 16 Clara Bow won one of these, winning a part in a Hollywood movie a beauty contest |
| #8693, aired 2022-07-27 | "B.C." $1200: It's one of the few animals commonly called by its genus and species names a Boa constrictor |
| #8693, aired 2022-07-27 | "B.C." $1600: It's the Chinese veggie seen here bok choy |
| #8693, aired 2022-07-27 | "B.C." $2000: Jenny Lind was a master of this operatic singing technique bel canto |
| #8692, aired 2022-07-26 | ACROSS HISTORY $400: Around 630 B.C. this militaristic city-state basically turned Messenia's people into serfs Sparta |
| #8688, aired 2022-07-20 | HISTORY $2000: This 5th century B.C. leader of Athens strengthened its leadership of Greece's city-states & had the Parthenon built Pericles |
| #8687, aired 2022-07-19 | UNDER QUARANTINE $400: To prevent 14th c. epidemics, some ships arriving in Europe had to sit at anchor for quaranta giorni, this many days before landing 40 |
| #8687, aired 2022-07-19 | 20th CENTURY AMERICA $1000: In 1960 4 students in Greensboro, N.C. staged a sit-in at this store's whites-only lunch counter, sparking other sit-ins in the South Woolworth's |
| #8687, aired 2022-07-19 | LET'S BUILD A HOUSE $2000: "C" if you can come up with this term for a projecting beam that's supported at only one end a cantilever |
| #8686, aired 2022-07-18 | GOOD HISTORY $200: Around 400,000 B.C., hominids began to control this; one later use may have been to destroy habitat so as to aid hunting & foraging fire |
| #8682, aired 2022-07-12 | VAMPIRES IN LITERATURE $2000: This 19th c. writer of historical novels, Pere, went goth in "The Pale Lady", a tale of a Polish woman & 2 adoring brothers Alexandre Dumas |
| #8681, aired 2022-07-11 | TRIAL & ERA $2000: This lawyer & statesman used his trademark rhetoric to convict corrupt Sicilian magistrate Gaius Verres in 70 B.C. Cicero |
| #8680, aired 2022-07-08 | CROSSWORD CLUES "C" $400: The online world
(10 letters) cyberspace |
| #8680, aired 2022-07-08 | CROSSWORD CLUES "C" $800: Solid, like a certain building material
(8 letters) concrete |
| #8680, aired 2022-07-08 | CROSSWORD CLUES "C" $1200: Partner of "whole kit"
(8 letters) caboodle |
| #8680, aired 2022-07-08 | WHAT IS LOVE... $1600: His "Symposium" from around 360 B.C. states, "Love is the eldest & noblest & mightiest of the gods" Plato |
| #8680, aired 2022-07-08 | CROSSWORD CLUES "C" $1600: Jesus' crucifixion site
(7 letters) Calvary |
| #8680, aired 2022-07-08 | CROSSWORD CLUES "C" $2000: Flightless ostrich relative (9 letters) cassowary |
| #8679, aired 2022-07-07 | ____ & ____ $400: Control C & Control V are the Windows keyboard shortcut for this pair copy & paste |
| #8677, aired 2022-07-05 | IT HAPPENED IN JULY $800: On July 17, 2020 America lost 2 civil rights icons, Rev. C.T. Vivian & this beloved congressman from Georgia John Lewis |
| #8676, aired 2022-07-04 | THE POWER OF THE DOGE $400: At the end of the 7th c., Paolo Lucio Anafesto became, by tradition, Venice's 1st doge, Venetian Italian for this European noble title a duke |
| #8676, aired 2022-07-04 | ORCHESTRAL INSTRUMENTS $1000: As a visual aid, all the C's are red & the F's are black on the many strings of a standard type of this instrument a harp |
| #8672, aired 2022-06-28 | THE MAP OF EUROPE $800: Founded as far back as the 7th century B.C., Constanta is one of Romania's main ports on this sea the Black Sea |
| #8670, aired 2022-06-24 | PALINDROMIC NUMBERS $800: Washington, D.C.'s longtime area code 202 |
| #8667, aired 2022-06-21 | HISTORY $400: When Pompey took this metropolis in 63 B.C., Judea fell under the heel of the Romans Jerusalem |
| #8662, aired 2022-06-14 | 3 FOR THE SHOW $400: CBS cops (or C.O.P.S.?) Lina Esco, David Lim & Alex Russell S.W.A.T. |
| #8659, aired 2022-06-09 | ANCIENT HISTORY $200: Sparking a revolt, the Roman slave & gladiator Spartacus & many others escaped in 73 B.C. & first took refuge on this volcano (Mount) Vesuvius |
| #8659, aired 2022-06-09 | ABBREVIATED TV $600: This drama premiered in 2003 with a troubled kid from Chino being taken in by a wealthy family in Newport Beach The O.C. |
| #8659, aired 2022-06-09 | ANCIENT HISTORY $600: This festival commemorates a Jewish victory over Seleucid forces around 165 B.C. & the rededication of the temple Hanukkah |
| #8659, aired 2022-06-09 | ANCIENT HISTORY $800: A noted military use of these animals was by Pyrrhus at the Battle of Heraclea in 280 B.C.; they freaked out the Roman horses elephants |
| #8659, aired 2022-06-09 | ABBREVIATED TV $1000: The forces of T.H.R.U.S.H. were enemies of "The Man from" this 1960s title spy organization U.N.C.L.E. |
| #8659, aired 2022-06-09 | ANCIENT HISTORY $1,400 (Daily Double): In the 2nd millennium B.C., these seafarers had cities or colonies from the Eastern Mediterranean to North Africa the Phoenicians |
| #8657, aired 2022-06-07 | ON THE STATE FLAG $400: See this flag? The "C" stands for this Colorado |
| #8657, aired 2022-06-07 | THE CABINET $400: In 1966 Robert C. Weaver became the first African-American cabinet member, heading this department known by a 3-letter acronym the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) |
| #8649, aired 2022-05-26 | THAT'S MY BOY! $1000: He fathered Campbell Scott George C. Scott |
| #8649, aired 2022-05-26 | THE UNITED NATIONS $1000: The "C" in this agency refers to its protection & preservation of cultural & natural heritage sites UNESCO |
| #8647, aired 2022-05-24 | U.S. GEOGRAPHIC HISTORY $2,000 (Daily Double): Reflecting the name of Istanbul's harbor, c. 1846 the strait connecting this U.S. bay to the ocean was dubbed "Chrysopylae" the San Francisco Bay |
| #8644, aired 2022-05-19 | ASIAN MUSEUMS $800: Victoria Memorial Hall in this Indian city is named for a queen who would have spelled the city with a "C", not a "K" Kolkata |
| #8642, aired 2022-05-17 | POETS $400: Poetic insult contests called flyting, basically 15th c. rap battles, are parodied in this Scottish poet's "To a Louse" (Robert) Burns |
| #8640, aired 2022-05-13 | D.C. TOURISM $200: In 2022 the Smithsonian's Zoo celebrated 50 years of its breeding & conservation work for these animals imported from China pandas |
| #8640, aired 2022-05-13 | D.C. TOURISM $400: A small island has a monument honoring the 56 these of the Declaration of Independence & the island is named for them signees (signers) |
| #8640, aired 2022-05-13 | D.C. TOURISM $600: At its completion in 1884, this was the tallest man-made structure in the world the Washington Monument |
| #8640, aired 2022-05-13 | D.C. TOURISM $800: Begun in 1938, his D.C. memorial is in the Roman style, in keeping with his love of classical architecture (Thomas) Jefferson |
| #8640, aired 2022-05-13 | D.C. TOURISM $1000: In the 1880s, General Meigs designed the Pension Bureau building, now a museum; some called it "Meigs' Old Red" this Meigs's Old Red Barn |
| #8636, aired 2022-05-09 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $2,000 (Daily Double): Besides Boston & D.C., they're the 3 largest cities by population in the megalopolis known as the BosWash Corridor New York City, Philadelphia & Baltimore |
| #8632, aired 2022-05-03 | HISTORY $1600: It's been estimated that around 480 B.C. close to half of the world's population was in this empire founded by Cyrus the Great the Persian Empire |
| #8631, aired 2022-05-02 | AROUND THE WORLD $400: Built in what's now this country in the 300s B.C. & still in use today, the theater at Epidaurus seats about 13,000 Greece |
| #8631, aired 2022-05-02 | COUNTRY MUSIC SONG TITLES $1200: In a Grammy-winning hit, Jeannie C. Riley sang about "the day my mama socked it to" this school organization the "Harper Valley P.T.A." |
| #8630, aired 2022-04-29 | THE ATMOSPHERE $400: C.A.T., or "clear air" this, refers to dangerous air currents that can cause problems for aircraft turbulence |
| #8623, aired 2022-04-20 | ACTORS, INITIALLY $200: J.L.C.,
back for more in "Halloween Kills" Jamie Lee Curtis |
| #8622, aired 2022-04-19 | POSSESSIVE THINGS $1000: 9th c. English King Alfred the Great collected this saint's "Pence" for the pope; you can donate to a fund of the same name Peter's Pence |
| #8619, aired 2022-04-14 | ART, OF WAR $1000: 2 black granite walls & a sculpture called "The Three Servicemen" are part of this Washington, D.C. memorial the Vietnam War Memorial |
| #8619, aired 2022-04-14 | CELEBRITIES' FIRSTS $2000: John C. Reilly took his first plane ride to Thailand for his first movie, this 1989 Brian de Palma film about soldiers in Vietnam Casualties of War |
| #8617, aired 2022-04-12 | I HAVE A PLAN $2000: The 1791 plan for Washington, D.C. with diagonal axes over a more conventional grid was named for this Paris-born man (Pierre) L'Enfant |
| #8616, aired 2022-04-11 | THE ORIGIN TRAIL $1600: Legend says this, outside Tokyo, was created in the year 286 B.C. by an earthquake Mount Fuji |
| #8614, aired 2022-04-07 | THE AWFUL SOUND OF MUSIC $2000: "C" is for this unpleasant sound, also a term in poetry for discordant word sequences cacophony |
| #8611, aired 2022-04-04 | ASIAN MONARCHS $400: Emperor Ashoka the Great ruled much of India in the 200s B.C. & converted to this faith after witnessing the destruction of war Buddhism |
| #8611, aired 2022-04-04 | THE HIT OF THE DECADE $800: "Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)", "lyrics to make you shake your pants" the 1990s |
| #8611, aired 2022-04-04 | ASIAN MONARCHS $1200: Darius the Great led this empire at its peak around 500 B.C. & tried to conquer Greece several times Persia |
| #8610, aired 2022-04-01 | THANK YOU, THE INTERNET $600: Shout-out to the man who told a barista at this business his name was Marc with a "C" & posted a pic of his cup... for "Cark" Starbucks |
| #8610, aired 2022-04-01 | HISTORY IS CIRCULAR $1000: Paiute prophets saying the dead would return were part of this 19th c. Native American movement named for a circle dance Ghost Dance |
| #8607, aired 2022-03-29 | IT HAPPENED IN EGYPT $400: In the 330s B.C. a Macedonian tough guy took over in Egypt & founded this city that's named for him Alexandria |
| #8604, aired 2022-03-24 | THEN YOU SHOULD HAVE... $200: ...gone nowhere near this D.C. complex on June 17, 1972, Virgilio Gonzalez; you could have put your locksmith skills to better use the Watergate Hotel |
| #8602, aired 2022-03-22 | 1860s AMERICA $200: One of the first U.S. colleges for the deaf, Gallaudet University in this city was founded in 1864 Washington, D.C. |
| #8602, aired 2022-03-22 | SILENT LETTER STARTERS $400: This title for a European ruler can have a silent "T" or "C" at the front tsar (czar) |
| #8602, aired 2022-03-22 | SCIENTIFIC INITIALS $400: Naturalist
C.R.D.,
1809-1882
(the "R" was for Robert) Darwin |
| #8602, aired 2022-03-22 | SCIENTIFIC INITIALS $800: M.C.
(born M.S.),
a 2-time Nobel winner Marie Curie |
| #8602, aired 2022-03-22 | SCIENTIFIC INITIALS $1600: C.L.
(also just L.),
an 18th century classifier Linnaeus |
| #8602, aired 2022-03-22 | CHARACTERS NAMED ALEX $2000: This James Patterson character is a profiler who is a liaison between the Washington, D.C. police & the FBI Alex Cross |
| #8601, aired 2022-03-21 | GROUPS IN HISTORY $400: Around 300 B.C. this common class of ancient Romans gained equal rights with the patricians the plebeians |
| #8599, aired 2022-03-17 | CHEMICAL PEOPLE $800: Around 600 B.C. Thales of Miletus devised a system in which this one of the 4 classical elements was the basis of all things water |
| #8599, aired 2022-03-17 | CHEMICAL PEOPLE $2000: 19th c. Scottish chemist Thomas Graham is known for his namesake law on the rate of this dissemination of gases diffusion |
| #8595, aired 2022-03-11 | BANK "C" $200: To a banker, a CD is this a certificate of deposit |
| #8595, aired 2022-03-11 | BANK "C" $400: While you don't sign the cashier's one, this double-"C" item that's also guaranteed is signed by you & a bank official a certified check |
| #8595, aired 2022-03-11 | BANK "C" $600: It's payment earned on the sum of an original principal plus the money the principal has already accrued compound interest |
| #8595, aired 2022-03-11 | BANK "C" $800: Also called a cap, it's the upper limit of a variable in a transaction, like the rate of an adjustable-rate mortgage the ceiling |
| #8595, aired 2022-03-11 | BANK "C" $1000: The assets you pledge as security for a loan are your this collateral |
| #8593, aired 2022-03-09 | DYNASTIES OF CHINA $800: The first recorded dynasty, the Shang, emerged 1600 B.C. & produced works like the Tiger vase, seen here, during this metallic age the Bronze Age |
| #8593, aired 2022-03-09 | DYNASTIES OF CHINA $2000: This 3-letter dynasty ruled from around 200 B.C. to 200 A.D. & saw the invention of paper & the introduction of Buddhism the Han dynasty |
| #8588, aired 2022-03-02 | THE MAN IN THE DIRECTOR'S CHAIR $200: In 2009 he shot a documentary of "Kobe Doin' Work"; c'mon, do the right thing & name him Spike Lee |
| #8587, aired 2022-03-01 | MILITARY MEMOIRS $200: He recounted some of his campaigns in the 50s B.C. in "Commentaries on the Gallic Wars" Julius Caesar |
| #8587, aired 2022-03-01 | EDUCATORS $200: 16th c. monk Pedro Ponce de León is said to be the first teacher of these people; his prized pupil had to speak to make confession the deaf |
| #8587, aired 2022-03-01 | EDUCATORS $400: I'd like to thank this school founded in the 380s B.C. that employed Aristotle, who left after not getting a big promotion the Academy |
| #8585, aired 2022-02-25 | AFRICAN EMPIRES $1200: The Punic Wars were punitive to this North African empire, destroyed in 146 B.C. Carthage |
| #8584, aired 2022-02-24 | THE INNER "EAR" $200: In the 15th century B.C. Egyptian queen Hatshepsut was depicted wearing men's attire & a fake one of these a beard |
| #8584, aired 2022-02-24 | BOOK OF THE YEAR $600: This author's novel "3001" is subtitled "The Final Odyssey" (Arthur C.) Clarke |
| #8584, aired 2022-02-24 | LIT-POURRI $1200: The word detective was brand new at the time this author introduced C. Auguste Dupin, the model for the detective in fiction Edgar Allan Poe |
| #8584, aired 2022-02-24 | HISTORIC WOMEN $1200: One of America's first self-made female millionaires, this founder of a beauty empire was the subject of a Netflix series Madam C.J. Walker |
| #18, aired 2022-02-22 | "C" THE ANIMALS $200: The name of this bewhiskered water dweller can also mean a person who uses a fake profile on social media a catfish |
| #18, aired 2022-02-22 | "C" THE ANIMALS $400: Seen here, this hybrid dog breed that dates back at least 50 years is a family favorite a cockapoo |
| #18, aired 2022-02-22 | "C" THE ANIMALS $600: The spitting type of this can spray its venom to a distance of 6 1/2 feet a cobra |
| #18, aired 2022-02-22 | "C" THE ANIMALS $800: Found in South America & seen here, it's the largest rodent a capybara |
| #18, aired 2022-02-22 | "C" THE ANIMALS $1000: This critically endangered bird with an alliterative name is the largest flying land bird of North America a California condor |
| #18, aired 2022-02-22 | HISTORIC POTPOURRI $1000: Commemorating the lifting of a siege on this city, a bronze colossus was built in the harbor in the 3rd century B.C. Rhodes |
| #17, aired 2022-02-22 | & NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT $1000: This 18th c. dictionary maker & subject of James Boswell's great biography liked to empty his pockets & roll down a hill Samuel Johnson |
| #8581, aired 2022-02-21 | TREES $200: Gifted from Japan as a token of friendship in 1912, here are these trees doing their thing in Washington, D.C. as only they can a cherry blossom |
| #15, aired 2022-02-18 | A LOFTY CATEGORY $1000: Around 2500 B.C. Menkaure, a king of the fourth dynasty, began building a 215-foot-tall one of these a pyramid |
| #8579, aired 2022-02-17 | THE MOVIE TITLE ELEMENT $400: It precedes "& Dime" in the title of a 1992 comedy with Wallace Shawn & C. Thomas Howell Nickel |
| #8579, aired 2022-02-17 | ANIMALS OF NOTE $800: In 218 B.C. Hannibal left Spain with at least 37 of these animals; it's said the one-tusked Surus lasted the longest elephants |
| #8579, aired 2022-02-17 | PLUS $800: At Bell Labs Bjarne Stroustrup designed this programming language released in 1985 C++ |
| #14, aired 2022-02-17 | NIGHTTIME NEWS WITH WORLD NEWS NOW $800: (Andrew Dymburt delivers the clue.) At a little before 2:00 AM on June 17, 1972, sharp-eyed security guard Frank Wills noticed tape across a door latch in this Washington, D.C. office complex, changing the course of American history Watergate |
| #13, aired 2022-02-17 | VIRTUE SIGNALING $800: Seen in a tarot card, mixing wine & water symbolized this, also a 19th c. movement away from excess in alcohol temperance |
| #13, aired 2022-02-17 | AFTER THE WAR $2000: The "Long Walls" of Athens were destroyed at this war's end to the accompaniment of flute music, but rebuilt in 393 B.C. the Peloponnesian War |
| #8578, aired 2022-02-16 | NAVAL CONFLICT $200: In 394 B.C. Conon the Athenian found what is best in life, crushing the fleet of this rival city-state Sparta |
| #12, aired 2022-02-16 | THE FUTURE'S NOT SO BRIGHT... $1200: On this Amazon show set in the 24th c., a terrorist faction among the asteroid belt drops a big rock on Earth with devastating effect The Expanse |
| #8577, aired 2022-02-15 | OH, THE THINGS I'VE DONE $1000: Around 342 B.C. I got the call from Philip II of Macedonia to tutor his 13-year-old kid, Al; well, that's just great Aristotle |
| #10, aired 2022-02-15 | OUR GOVERNMENT $400: Set at $28 trillion since August 2021, this "D.C." is a big topic in D.C. & limits the amount the Treasury can borrow the debt ceiling |
| #8, aired 2022-02-11 | ANGLES $1000: Using the difference in the angles of shadows at 2 distant places, Eratosthenes calculated this around 200 B.C. to be 250,000 stadia the circumference of the Earth |
| #7, aired 2022-02-11 | NOTABLE AFRICAN AMERICANS $400: His national memorial in Washington, D.C. was unveiled in 2011 MLK (Martin Luther King, Jr.) |
| #8574, aired 2022-02-10 | WAR $200: In 49 B.C., this Roman led his forces from Gaul into Italy, starting a civil war Julius Caesar |
| #8573, aired 2022-02-09 | IN AUTHORS' FOOTSTEPS $800: This author of fantasy novels & of "Mere Christianity" worshiped at Holy Trinity Church in Oxford & you can too (C.S.) Lewis |
| #4, aired 2022-02-09 | APPROXIMATE WEIGHTS & MEASURES $1000: In many high schools 1 credit equals 120 hours in a classroom--a "unit" named for this 19th c. steel tycoon & philanthropist (Andrew) Carnegie |
| #8572, aired 2022-02-08 | SOUTH AMERICAN CAPITALS $1200: Like our own capital city, this South American capital sometimes has "D.C." after its name Bogotá |
| #2, aired 2022-02-08 | MY HERO OF ACADEMIA $800: Civil engineering professor Marc Edwards has exposed dangerous levels of this element in the drinking water of D.C. & Flint, Mich. lead |
| #8571, aired 2022-02-07 | PHOTOGRAPHERS $1600: Pennsylvania Avenue in D.C. looked a little different in May 1865 in a photo credited to this man Brady |
| #8570, aired 2022-02-04 | TITLE WORD PUZZLES $1600: A V.C. Andrews novel or a Schubert work
SYM an Unfinished Symphony |
| #8569, aired 2022-02-03 | IDIOMS & EXPRESSIONS $3,000 (Daily Double): Tangled wires led to the 19th c. phrase this type of "telegraph"; eventually, this became the way you hear a rumor the grapevine |
| #8566, aired 2022-01-31 | STATE CAPITAL HISTORY $200: A famous speedway was built to test cars for this city's many early 20th c. automakers, like the National Motor Vehicle Company Indianapolis |
| #8566, aired 2022-01-31 | BIG NAMES ON CAMPUS $800: In 2021 this S.E.C. school in Alabama renamed Eagle Hall to honor Dr. Josetta Brittain Matthews, its first African-American graduate Auburn University |
| #8564, aired 2022-01-27 | A LITTLE 5-NOTE MELODY $600: "C" sharp: they have sharp serrations & you can get delicious ones from Phillips Seafood in Baltimore the crab claws |
| #8562, aired 2022-01-25 | "C" LIFE $400: Stole his way into life in 1866 in Beaver, Utah; led a "Wild Bunch"; died in Bolivia in 1909... maybe (Butch) Cassidy |
| #8562, aired 2022-01-25 | "C" LIFE $800: Born in 12 A.D.; executed the Praetorian Guard prefect who helped get him the top job; in 41, executed by Praetorian Guards Caligula |
| #8562, aired 2022-01-25 | "C" LIFE $1200: Fought for his people in Arizona; brought down by a (General George) Crook; died 1874 on a reservation Cochise |
| #8562, aired 2022-01-25 | "C" LIFE $1600: Appeased his parents by showing up in England in 1869; tried to make peace; failed & died soon after in 1940 Neville Chamberlain |
| #8562, aired 2022-01-25 | "C" LIFE $2000: Born in Halifax, 1787; found a "line" of work sending ships across the Atlantic; made the same journey & died in London, 1865 Cunard |
| #8560, aired 2022-01-21 | LANDMARK OF THE CITY $200: The memorial seen here, this city Washington, D.C. |
| #8560, aired 2022-01-21 | WHO "E" $400: If you read the letters of this giant of 19th c. thought, you'll see the sign-off "Your affectionate brother, Waldo" Emerson |
| #8560, aired 2022-01-21 | SYMPHONIES $1200: It's thought that the grand scale & exuberant energy of Mozart's Symphony No. 41 in C major earned it this nickname the "Jupiter" Symphony |
| #8559, aired 2022-01-20 | SOUTH ASIA $2000: Dating from B.C. times, this faith with similarities to Hinduism & Buddhism emphasizes ahimsa, nonviolence to all creatures Jainism |
| #8558, aired 2022-01-19 | CEMETERIES $800: In 2020 Ruth Bader Ginsburg was laid to rest at this cemetery outside Washington, D.C. Arlington |
| #8557, aired 2022-01-18 | MURALS $1200: Relocated to Washington, D.C., Marvin Beerbohm's "Automotive Industry" mural was originally created for a public library in this city Detroit |
| #8556, aired 2022-01-17 | ILLUSTRATORS $400: N.C. Wyeth contributed illustrations to the story about this guy who slept for 20 years Rip Van Winkle |
| #8555, aired 2022-01-14 | FROM "C" TO "Y" $400: This white wine originated in the Burgundy region of France Chardonnay |
| #8555, aired 2022-01-14 | FROM "C" TO "Y" $800: It's the type of seed seen here a caraway seed |
| #8555, aired 2022-01-14 | FROM "C" TO "Y" $1200: Both parts of the name of this classic talking doll fit the category Chatty Cathy |
| #8555, aired 2022-01-14 | FROM "C" TO "Y" $1600: Lighter weight than corduroy, this cotton fabric is often used for button-down shirts chambray |
| #8555, aired 2022-01-14 | FROM "C" TO "Y" $2000: Hell's bells! It's the study of bells campanology |
| #8555, aired 2022-01-14 | WORLD HISTORY $2000: Scholars struggle to decipher the language of the IVC, the civilization of this river valley, a power in south Asia in the 2000s B.C. the Indus River |
| #8554, aired 2022-01-13 | ANCIENT FAITH $1600: A famous ziggurat dedicated to the moon god Nanna was built in this 2-letter city around 2000 B.C. Ur |
| #8553, aired 2022-01-12 | IRON MAN $1000: Called the NBA's Iron Man, A.C. Green played 1,192 consecutive games & also collected 3 championship rings with this team the L.A. Lakers |
| #8553, aired 2022-01-12 | HOW PROVINCIAL $1000: This province in the Iberian Peninsula went down to Pompey in 73 B.C.; the ocean liner of the same name, in 1915 (sans Pompey) Lusitania |
| #8552, aired 2022-01-11 | STARS $800: Around 2700 B.C., Alpha Draconis had the distinction of being the North Star; now this one stakes the claim Polaris |
| #8551, aired 2022-01-10 | NEW CHESS STRATAGEMS? $600: Not the Ruy Lopez, but the him, A.C. Slater on "Saved by the Bell" Mario Lopez |
| #8550, aired 2022-01-07 | MOVE IT! $1000: The Ara Pacis, an altar built to honor this Roman emperor c. 9 B.C., was long forgotten, rescued in the 1930s & moved to a new home Augustus |
| #8548, aired 2022-01-05 | LESSER-KNOWN COMPOSERS $400: Cecilia Bartoli unearths arias by obscure composers Vinci & Steffani on her 2020 album "Queen of" this 17th c. musical era Baroque |
| #8546, aired 2022-01-03 | PHYSICAL SCIENCE $1600: A famous 17th c. experiment used a bell inside a jar in which this had been created to prove that air was needed to transmit sound a vacuum |
| #8545, aired 2021-12-31 | POETRY IN MOTION PICTURES $2000: It's the title of a 19th c. poem that Nelson Mandela loved, & of a movie in which Mandela gives a copy to a Rugby player Invictus |
| #8543, aired 2021-12-29 | TWENTY QUESTIONS $1000: The 20th Century Limited was a luxury, overnight train between New York City & this major city, advertising a smooth, water-level route Chicago |
| #8542, aired 2021-12-28 | THE "C" TEAM $200: This team has won 17 NBA titles the Celtics |
| #8542, aired 2021-12-28 | YOU NEED A VITAMIN BOOST $400: Ghosts of pirates said a collective "Arrr, too late" after vitamin C was identified as a cure for this disease in 1932 scurvy |
| #8542, aired 2021-12-28 | THE "C" TEAM $400: They play their home games in Busch Stadium the Cardinals |
| #8542, aired 2021-12-28 | THE "C" TEAM $600: Because of them you'll be seeing red if you're in Lincoln, Nebraska on a fall Saturday the Cornhuskers |
| #8542, aired 2021-12-28 | THE "C" TEAM $800: They represent D.C. in the NHL the Capitals |
| #8542, aired 2021-12-28 | THE "C" TEAM $1000: The coach of this Columbus MLS team hopes they don't mutiny the Crew |
| #8542, aired 2021-12-28 | MY GOVERNMENT JOB $1600: Celebrity in his own right if only for his facial hair, C. Everett Koop, from 1982 to 1989 U.S. surgeon general |
| #8539, aired 2021-12-23 | SEASONINGS GREETINGS $400: Cilantro & this other "C"-soning both come from the same plant, but at different stages in its life cycle coriander |
| #8538, aired 2021-12-22 | MAMMALS $4,000 (Daily Double): Its milk, a popular Saharan beverage, has 3 times the vitamin C of a cow's a camel |
| #8537, aired 2021-12-21 | SANTASIA $1600: Mr. C. is very busy island hopping in this nation in the Pacific; Leyte is just one of its more than 1,000 inhabited islands the Philippines |
| #8534, aired 2021-12-16 | PLANTS & ANIMALS & FUNGI, OH MY! $400: 360 to 300 million B.C. is sometimes called the "Age of" these nonflowering, spore-producing plants Ferns |
| #8534, aired 2021-12-16 | WHAT DO YOU KNOW? $1000: To have knowledge in a particular field is to know these veggies, though some say the word is a reference to a lexicographer onions |
| #8531, aired 2021-12-13 | MODERN SHORTHAND $800: You might post your C.V. on this website, L.I. for short LinkedIn |
| #8527, aired 2021-12-07 | OFFICE, OURS $800: Amal leads the pool in the Mega Millions lottery; Brad runs the pool for this one that's in D.C. & all but 5 states Powerball |
| #8526, aired 2021-12-06 | WE GET LETTERS $400: One hundred to Cicero C |
| #8526, aired 2021-12-06 | GIRL GROUPS $400: I'll tell you what I want, what I really really want is for you to name this group that included Mel B & Mel C the Spice Girls |
| #8525, aired 2021-12-03 | YOU GET A "C" $200: It's a movable object on a computer screen, not one who swears a lot a cursor |
| #8525, aired 2021-12-03 | YOU GET A "C" $400: This adjective relates to the brain or describes someone with great intellect like you right now, hopefully cerebral |
| #8525, aired 2021-12-03 | YOU GET A "C" $600: It means unbroken & is used to describe the lower 48 U.S. states contiguous |
| #8525, aired 2021-12-03 | YOU GET A "C" $800: As a noun, it's a convent; as a verb, it means to confine cloister |
| #8525, aired 2021-12-03 | YOU GET A "C" $1000: They're 2 alternate ways you can serve multiple prison sentences; one will get you out much sooner than the other concurrent & consecutive |
| #8522, aired 2021-11-30 | THE CIVIL WAR $400: Known as the C.S.S. Virginia when it fought the Monitor, the South's first ironclad was built from the captured U.S.S. this Merrimack |
| #8521, aired 2021-11-29 | WHO'S YOUR "C-O"? $400: In the U.S. Army, it's "the base level of the noncommissioned officer" ranks corporal |
| #8521, aired 2021-11-29 | WHO'S YOUR "C-O"? $800: In the British military, it ranks just below brigadier colonel |
| #8521, aired 2021-11-29 | WHO'S YOUR "C-O"? $1200: This word from the rowing team also means the most important member of a Coast Guard small boat crew a coxswain |
| #8521, aired 2021-11-29 | WHO'S YOUR "C-O"? $1600: The Army has medics; the Navy has these corpsmen |
| #8521, aired 2021-11-29 | WHO'S YOUR "C-O"? $2000: This boss of a squadron once ranked just below a rear admiral a commodore |
| #8518, aired 2021-11-24 | SHORTZ $800: One of Will's favorites from his NPR Sunday puzzle is the fact that this type of pain has the sequence "A-C-H" twice in a row a stomachache |
| #8518, aired 2021-11-24 | NEWS $2000: A 1/16th size "little sister" has been unveiled at the Washington, D.C. residence of this person--in 2021 Philippe Étienne the French ambassador |
| #8515, aired 2021-11-19 | BARRIERS IN LIFE $2,000 (Daily Double): The Lex Cornelia de Maiestate said no general could lead an army out of his province, so the 49 B.C. crossing of this stream... huge the Rubicon |
| #8512, aired 2021-11-16 | THE X FACTOR $200: Xerxes I took the reins of this empire in 486 B.C. the Persian |
| #8512, aired 2021-11-16 | HISTORIC NAMES $1200: Born around 610 B.C. on Lesbos, this poet integrated elements of Aphrodite's rituals like incense-laden altars into her work Sappho |
| #8510, aired 2021-11-12 | AROUND THE HOUSE $800: Similar to crown molding, this architectural ornamentation seen here, also starts with the letter "C" a cornice |
| #8507, aired 2021-11-09 | THE BEGINNING $1,200 (Daily Double): Around 650 B.C.Greek colonists founded a city on the Bosporus that they called this; it would later be the capital of empires Byzantium |
| #8506, aired 2021-11-08 | THE CITY HAS FALLEN $400: This world capital to the British in August 1814 Washington, D.C. |
| #8506, aired 2021-11-08 | THE CITY HAS FALLEN $1200: In 222 B.C. Milan to these southerners the Romans |
| #8505, aired 2021-11-05 | CLUBS $200: AAA in the states & the R.A.C. in England helped promote safety regarding these, the "a" in the middle of their names automobile |
| #8505, aired 2021-11-05 | FLORIST'S READING LIST $800: "Petals on the Wind" & "If There Be Thorns" are sequels to this V.C. Andrews novel Flowers in the Attic |
| #8504, aired 2021-11-04 | EPONYMOUS -ISMs $400: It wasn't until after his 479 B.C. death that the "ism" named for him became China's leading philosophy Confucius |
| #8504, aired 2021-11-04 | INSTITUTIONS $400: A prestigious think tank, the Brookings Institution is headquartered in this city Washington, D.C. |
| #8504, aired 2021-11-04 | CHARTED $600: In the 1840s this Army surveyor & future Republican presidential candidate mapped much of the American West (John C.) Frémont |
| #8504, aired 2021-11-04 | CHARTED $1000: His 16th c. charts made longitude lines straight instead of curving to the poles; easier for navigators, but distorts distances Mercator |
| #8503, aired 2021-11-03 | COLOR, MY WORLD $400: Take a glass bottom boat ride in this Springs in Florida, or a short car ride to D.C. from this Spring in Maryland Silver |
| #8501, aired 2021-11-01 | THE MAN'S PEN NAME $800: N.W. Clerk--a play on Old English for "I know not what scholar"--was a pen name for this creator of Aslan C.S. Lewis |
| #8497, aired 2021-10-26 | BOREDOM $400: A 2010 computer analysis said the most boring 20th c. day was a Sunday in the middle of this, known as a decade of dull conformity the 1950s |
| #8496, aired 2021-10-25 | MEN OF LA MANCHA $800: 14th c. Cardinal Gil Alvarez Carrillo de Albornoz paved the way for this institution to return from Avignon to Rome the papacy |
| #8496, aired 2021-10-25 | DOUBLE INITIAL GUYS $1000: C.C. ____,
a Cy Young winner Sabathia |
| #8496, aired 2021-10-25 | WHAT HAPPENED WHEN $1200: Around 387 B.C. he founded his academy in Athens Plato |
| #8491, aired 2021-10-18 | HISTORY'S MYSTERIES $800: Dead by her own hand in 30 B.C., she was thought to have been buried in Alexandria, but her tomb has never been found Cleopatra |
| #8490, aired 2021-10-15 | LIBRARIES $400: The ancient library in this North African city was founded by the Ptolemaic Dynasty around the 3rd century B.C. Alexandria |
| #8489, aired 2021-10-14 | CONTAINERS $800: In 1954 neuroscientist John C. Lilly designed this tank to explore results of cutting off all external stimuli a sensory deprivation tank |
| #8487, aired 2021-10-12 | & PLAYING TRIANGLE $800: This 6th century B.C. man's theorem about the lengths of the sides of a right triangle is actually far older than even he is Pythagoras |
| #8482, aired 2021-10-05 | I BEFORE E AFTER C $400: This word meaning really old is in the full name of St. Andrews Golf Club, open for 18-hole play since 1764 Ancient |
| #8482, aired 2021-10-05 | I BEFORE E AFTER C $800: One of the letters in a BSEE degree Science |
| #8482, aired 2021-10-05 | I BEFORE E AFTER C $1200: It can be a type of small apartment or a measure of results versus costs efficiency |
| #8482, aired 2021-10-05 | I BEFORE E AFTER C $1600: Term for someone like J.P. Morgan who invests in businesses on a large scale a financier |
| #8482, aired 2021-10-05 | I BEFORE E AFTER C $2000: Drop the last letter from a biological term to get this word meaning "coined money" specie |
| #8481, aired 2021-10-04 | BASEBALL HALL OF FAMERS BY INITIALS $400: Look at numbers like 7,356 innings pitched & you'll:
C.Y. (Cy) Young |
| #8479, aired 2021-09-30 | THAT ANIMAL HAD A NAME $1000: Bucephalus carried this man on many of his 4th century B.C. conquests Alexander the Great |
| #8478, aired 2021-09-29 | SOUTHERN LITERATURE $800: 14-year-old Lily finds her way to Tiburon, S.C. & the Boatwright sisters in Sue Monk Kidd's "The Secret Life of" these Bees |
| #8478, aired 2021-09-29 | I NOMINATE YOU FOR A NOBEL PRIZE! $800: Pearl Buck, W.H. Auden & C.S. Lewis all nominated this "North of Boston" poet for Literature, but he never won (Robert) Frost |
| #8474, aired 2021-09-23 | REVIVAL $10,400 (Daily Double): Search Etsy for the revival of this 19th c. movement of William Morris that itself looked back to the fine work of medieval times Arts & Crafts |
| #8473, aired 2021-09-22 | ACRONYMS & ABBREVIATIONS $1000: When talking about dates, B.C.E. stands for this Before Common Era |
| #8469, aired 2021-09-16 | "C" FLAT $200: Saltines are a type of one cracker |
| #8469, aired 2021-09-16 | "C" FLAT $400: Heavy fabric is stretched tight & tacked into place on a frame to make one of these art surfaces canvas |
| #8469, aired 2021-09-16 | "C" FLAT $600: Divided into 64 squares, it's usually found with royalty on it a chessboard |
| #8469, aired 2021-09-16 | "C" FLAT $800: Splash & ride are types of these on a drum kit cymbal |
| #8469, aired 2021-09-16 | "C" FLAT $1000: The X's give an extra hint to this popular form of embroidery cross-stitch |
| #8465, aired 2021-08-13 | THE LATE, GREAT CHADWICK BOSEMAN $1000: In 2018 at this HBCU, his D.C. alma mater, Chadwick told grads, "Your very existence is wrapped up in the things you are here to fulfill" Howard University |
| #8464, aired 2021-08-12 | TIME FOR SECONDS $800: Around 19 B.C. King Herod expanded the second of these & built a retaining wall that still stands today temple |
| #8463, aired 2021-08-11 | WE'LL GET TOGETHER $1000: Get C, H & O together in the right proportions & you've got this gasoline additive also called ethyl alcohol ethanol |
| #8461, aired 2021-08-09 | THE LETTER AFTER M $400: ...to make the opening moniker of performers Hammer, Lyte & Skat Kat C |
| #8461, aired 2021-08-09 | HISTORIC NAMES $800: Her death & that of son Caesarion in 30 B.C. ended the Ptolemaic dynasty in Egypt Cleopatra |
| #8461, aired 2021-08-09 | HISTORIC NAMES $2000: An astronomer & mathematician, this African-American with an alliterative name helped survey they area that became Washington, D.C. (Benjamin) Banneker |
| #8458, aired 2021-08-04 | "C" IN SCIENCE $400: The Earth's mantle is sandwiched between these two layers core & crust |
| #8458, aired 2021-08-04 | "C" IN SCIENCE $800: This insoluble plant fiber is found in paper pulp & in the fruits & vegetables that we eat cellulose |
| #8458, aired 2021-08-04 | "C" IN SCIENCE $1200: This field concerned with the effects of low temperatures on organisms derives its name from words meaning "icy life study" cryobiology |
| #8458, aired 2021-08-04 | "C" IN SCIENCE $1600: In 1970 these artificial sweeteners were banned for good after they were linked to cancer in rats cyclamates |
| #8458, aired 2021-08-04 | "C" IN SCIENCE $5,000 (Daily Double): Numbers 55 & 58 on the periodic table are these 2 elements that differ by a letter cesium & cerium |
| #8455, aired 2021-07-30 | POETRY IN MOTION PICTURES $800: In "The Outsiders" C. Thomas Howell recites this poet's "Nothing Gold Can Stay" Frost |
| #8454, aired 2021-07-29 | HELLO, GOODBYE $800: Born around 247 B.C. & followed in footsteps of Carthaginian general dad Hamilcar Barca; conquered by death around 183 B.C. Hannibal |
| #8452, aired 2021-07-27 | SCIENCE FICTION $8,400 (Daily Double): Arthur C. Clarke's "Rendezvous with" this isn't about a Hindu god but rather a spooky craft that's entered our galaxy Rama |
| #8451, aired 2021-07-26 | U.S. GOVERNMENT BUILDINGS $1600: Ariel Rios, who died battling the flow of cocaine, is honored with his name on the D.C. headquarters of this bureau named for other substances the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms |
| #8450, aired 2021-07-23 | HISTORICAL NONFICTION $1600: "1177 B.C." marks the decline of this ancient North African empire following invasions by marauding "sea peoples" that year Egypt |
| #8449, aired 2021-07-22 | MARK YOUR CALENDARS $800: Using a biblical chronology, Archbishop James Ussher determined that this event occurred on Oct. 22, 4004 B.C. the creation of the Earth |
| #8449, aired 2021-07-22 | ANCIENT HISTORY $800: Ptolemy & Antigonus were generals of this man whose empire was divided up after his death in 323 B.C. Alexander the Great |
| #8449, aired 2021-07-22 | ANCIENT HISTORY $1200: The philosopher Anaximander was credited with making an early world map & one of these time-telling devices around 560 B.C. a sundial |
| #8446, aired 2021-07-19 | LET'S GET SERIOUS $1600: Hepatitis C can lead to this other serious "C" disease, permanent scarring & hardening of the liver cirrhosis |
| #8445, aired 2021-07-16 | S.E.C.! S.E.C.! $400: University of Mississippi alumni include Shepard Smith, Michael Oher & this bestselling author of "The Street Lawyer" Grisham |
| #8445, aired 2021-07-16 | S.E.C.! S.E.C.! $800: In 1965 scientists at the University of Florida came up with this beverage to help the football team stay better hydrated Gatorade |
| #8445, aired 2021-07-16 | S.E.C.! S.E.C.! $1600: Gov. George Wallace protested the court-ordered end of racial segregation at this school in 1963 the University of Alabama |
| #8445, aired 2021-07-16 | S.E.C.! S.E.C.! $2000: He was the first superintendent of Louisiana State but resigned to "march" off into the Union Army Sherman |
| #8445, aired 2021-07-16 | S.E.C.! S.E.C.! $5,300 (Daily Double): The University of Tennessee is one of 2 S.E.C. schools from the state; this one founded by a shipping magnate in 1873 is the other Vanderbilt |
| #8442, aired 2021-07-13 | YOU CAN'T $200: ...buy more of the golden Kellogg's cereal named for this "Star Wars" droid; it was discontinued years ago C-3PO |
| #8441, aired 2021-07-12 | THE SECRETARY OF STATE, IN BRIEF $400: The first U.S. Secretary of State, he helped arrange for D.C. to be the capital Thomas Jefferson |
| #8439, aired 2021-07-08 | A MOMENT OF SCIENCE $200: The c. 300 B.C. "De Historia Plantarum" helped establish Plato's student Theophrastus as the founder of this 6-letter science botany |
| #8439, aired 2021-07-08 | 21st CENTURY MONARCHIES $400: The monarchy of this Asian nation of 125 million has a legendary history dating back to the 7th century B.C. Japan |
| #8438, aired 2021-07-07 | THE "DR" IS IN $1200: The original value of this Greek coin in the mid-6th century B.C. was equivalent to that of a handful of arrows drachma |
| #8437, aired 2021-07-06 | AFRICAN AMERICANS PRE-1860 $1600: In 1838, 272 slaves were sold to keep this D.C. Jesuit U. going; now a building is named for one of them, Isaac Hawkins Georgetown |
| #8436, aired 2021-07-05 | DOCTORED TELEVISION $800: Dr. Abigail Bartlet, who put in a D.C. residency The West Wing |
| #8435, aired 2021-07-02 | TV IS SO HIGH SCHOOL $800: Zack & A.C. roamed the halls of Bayside High in Palisades, California Saved By the Bell |
| #8434, aired 2021-07-01 | "C" AS IN CAT $200: Sadly, this fast spotted cat hasn't prospered--it's endangered a cheetah |
| #8434, aired 2021-07-01 | "C" AS IN CAT $400: The puma is also known as the catamount & this other "c"at the cougar |
| #8434, aired 2021-07-01 | "C" AS IN CAT $600: Cats with this coat pattern caused by a genetic anomaly are almost always female calico |
| #8434, aired 2021-07-01 | "C" AS IN CAT $800: Naturally, the breed known as this Rex was discovered on a farm in Cornwall, England Cornish |
| #8434, aired 2021-07-01 | "C" AS IN CAT $1000: Neofelis nebulosa is the scientific name of this leopard with a strikingly marked coat the clouded leopard |
| #8434, aired 2021-07-01 | TRYING ON SOME GENES $2000: It's the "T" in the representation G-C-A-T of the 4 nucleic acid building blocks of DNA thymine |
| #8433, aired 2021-06-30 | AWARDS & HONORS $600: In 1978 this Washington, D.C. location bestowed its first honors on Marian Anderson & Arthur Rubinstein the Kennedy Center |
| #8433, aired 2021-06-30 | WORLD OF EMPIRES $800: Around 27 B.C., the Pax Romana began during the reign of this emperor & would last for 200 years Caesar Augustus |
| #8430, aired 2021-06-25 | JOLIE OLD FRANCE $400: In the 50s B.C. this man led Roman military campaigns into France, which was then part of Transalpine Gaul Caesar |
| #8428, aired 2021-06-23 | LIGHTNING $200: The B.C. scientific work "On the Nature of Things" ignores Prometheus & says it was lightning that first brought this to Earth fire |
| #8428, aired 2021-06-23 | A CATEGORY IN 5 ACTS $400: A 1909 act of Congress describes this symbol as "the letter C inclosed within a circle" a copyright |
| #8427, aired 2021-06-22 | C.G., I $400: I can't believe a 1930s MGM casting director said, "My ears made me look like a giant sugar bowl" Clark Gable |
| #8427, aired 2021-06-22 | C.G., I $800: TriStar showed me a reported $600,000 for "Jerry Maguire" Cuba Gooding Jr. |
| #8427, aired 2021-06-22 | C.G., I $1200: You know I fronted Gnarls Barkley & coached on "The Voice", but did you know I sang backup on "Waterfalls"? CeeLo Green |
| #8427, aired 2021-06-22 | C.G., I $1600: I played Count Rugen & yes, I know your name is Inigo Montoya! Christopher Guest |
| #8427, aired 2021-06-22 | C.G., I $2000: In the 1970s I had a giant hit with the song "Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue" Crystal Gayle |
| #8425, aired 2021-06-18 | CINEMAPOURRI $400: C.B. DeMille made 21 huge Sphinxes for a 1923 version of this Bible epic & now they're being dug from the dunes where they were left The Ten Commandments |
| #8424, aired 2021-06-17 | MUSIC "C"LASS $200: It has 4 strings, 5 letters & 6 Bach solo suites written just for it cello |
| #8424, aired 2021-06-17 | MUSIC "C"LASS $400: The Benedictine monks of Santo Domingo de Silos had a surprise 1994 international hit with an album of Gregorian these chants |
| #8424, aired 2021-06-17 | MUSIC "C"LASS $600: Italian for "tail", this 4-letter word is a concluding part of a piece of music coda |
| #8424, aired 2021-06-17 | MUSIC "C"LASS $1000: A male alto voice is also known as this 12-letter word a countertenor |
| #8424, aired 2021-06-17 | THE TERMS OF SERVICE $1600: He served as mayor of D.C. from 1979 to 1991; he served 6 months in prison; he served as mayor of D.C. from 1995 to 1999 Marion Barry |
| #8424, aired 2021-06-17 | MUSIC "C"LASS $2,000 (Daily Double): Joan Sutherland was one of these sopranos who decorated her arias with a "rainbow" of musical hues a coloratura |
| #8423, aired 2021-06-16 | NOT QUITE STUPID ANSWERS $200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from outside the Smithsonian Castle in Washington, D.C.) This scientist's will provided the funds that established the Smithsonian Institution; his crypt is here in the Smithsonian Castle & the institution he endowed has grown around him, exceeding anything he could have envisioned Smithson |
| #8422, aired 2021-06-15 | DEFINITELY DEFINITIONS $800: Like coward, this cowardly adjective is 6 letters & starts with "C" craven |
| #8418, aired 2021-06-09 | TV COMEDY CHARACTER NAMES $400: Julia Louis-Dreyfus, playing D.C. politics really, really dirty Selina Meyer |
| #8418, aired 2021-06-09 | ADDITIVES $400: These additives like Red No. 2 come with FD&C in front of their name dyes (food colorings) |
| #8417, aired 2021-06-08 | KEEP THE FAITH $400: Nearly 80% of the people of India follow this religion that dates back to around 1500 B.C. Hinduism |
| #8415, aired 2021-06-04 | ANCIENT HISTORY $1600: Beginning around 1200 B.C. in what is today Mexico, this people built the 1st major pre-Columbian civilization in Mesoamerica the Olmecs |
| #8415, aired 2021-06-04 | ANCIENT HISTORY $2000: Seen here is a depiction of this great guy, the ruler of the Persian Empire who defeated the Babylonians in 539 B.C. Cyrus (II the Great) |
| #8414, aired 2021-06-03 | NEXT IN LINE $400: The next D.C. avenue: Independence Avenue, Constitution Avenue... Pennsylvania Avenue |
| #8412, aired 2021-06-01 | NOT TO BE CONFUSED: HOUSEHOLD BRANDS $200: For oral hygiene, "C" the offerings from Crest & this brand that offers total SF whitening toothpaste Colgate |
| #8411, aired 2021-05-31 | SOUVENIRS $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from the National Air & Space Museum in Washington, D.C.) The Smithsonian's National Air & Space Museum store sells a Barbie doll of Katherine Johnson, a pioneering NASA mathematician who was portrayed by Taraji P. Henson in this Oscar-nominated 2016 film Hidden Figures |
| #8410, aired 2021-05-28 | IMBIBER'S LEXICON $400: 16th c. Brits would soak a gunpowder pellet in liquor, then try to light it; that test led to this 5-letter term for alcohol content proof |
| #8408, aired 2021-05-26 | TRANSPORTATION $600: This 1,900-mile-long interstate travels by Jacksonville, Florida, Washington, D.C. & Portland, Maine I-95 |
| #8404, aired 2021-05-20 | CROSSWORD CLUES "C" $400: Meat-eater, by definition (9 letters) carnivore |
| #8404, aired 2021-05-20 | CROSSWORD CLUES "C" $800: Knight-time code of conduct
(8 letters) chivalry |
| #8404, aired 2021-05-20 | CROSSWORD CLUES "C" $1200: Styx ferryman
(6 letters) Charon |
| #8404, aired 2021-05-20 | CROSSWORD CLUES "C" $1600: A psychic
(11 letters) clairvoyant |
| #8404, aired 2021-05-20 | CROSSWORD CLUES "C" $2000: Shakespeare king of ancient Britain
(9 letters) Cymbeline |
| #8403, aired 2021-05-19 | HERBS $200: While southern Europe embraced this bulb, a late 17th c. British discourse on salads spoke of its "intolerable rankness" garlic |
| #8403, aired 2021-05-19 | UNDER THE USA $800: Monks in Washington, D.C. created these underground crypts, trying to emulate those found in Rome catacombs |
| #8402, aired 2021-05-18 | I'M ON A BOAT! $800: There's a long & an alternate shortened spelling of this ship area, seen here the forecastle (fo'c'sle) |
| #8400, aired 2021-05-14 | HISTORICAL FICTION $1200: Mary Renault's "The Persian Boy" tells the story of a courtesan in love with this 4th century B.C. warrior king Alexander the Great |
| #8399, aired 2021-05-13 | HISTORY CLASS $1200: In the 300s B.C. Chinese society was divided into 4 classes: scholars, merchants, artisans & these rent collectors landlords |
| #8398, aired 2021-05-12 | I'LL REPEAT MYSELF AGAIN, TOO $1200: We'll string you along & say you can "walk the dog" with this item that dates back to the 400s B.C. a yo-yo |
| #8397, aired 2021-05-11 | NOTABLE WOMEN $800: The daughter of Chinese refugees, architect Maya Lin designed this Washington, D.C. monument the Vietnam War Memorial |
| #8396, aired 2021-05-10 | FROM C TO D $200: It describes a bubbly beverage like tonic water or soda carbonated |
| #8396, aired 2021-05-10 | FROM C TO D $400: In other words, someone who is yellow-bellied a coward |
| #8396, aired 2021-05-10 | FROM C TO D $600: A classic Atari video game of the 1980s was called Missile this Missile Command |
| #8396, aired 2021-05-10 | FROM C TO D $800: As an adjective, it means devoted; as a verb, it means perpetrated committed |
| #8396, aired 2021-05-10 | FROM C TO D $1000: Referring to its crunch, it's another name for iceberg lettuce crisphead |
| #8396, aired 2021-05-10 | HISTORIC HAPPENINGS $1000: In the 600s B.C. Cypselus of Corinth seized power with this title related to a dino name, but was so popular he had no bodyguard tyrant |
| #8395, aired 2021-05-07 | A WHOPP"INGTON" OF A CITY $400: In 1790 Congress set aside land for this city Washington, D.C. |
| #8395, aired 2021-05-07 | MONKS $400: 20th c. monk John Main popularized meditation among Christians, including saying this, a personal sacred word mantra |
| #8394, aired 2021-05-06 | 12-LETTER WORDS $400: In the 19th c., this lung disease caused by a mycobacterium reached near epidemic proportions in industrialized regions tuberculosis |
| #8394, aired 2021-05-06 | POTENT HISTORY $1200: Vodka was involved in 1994 as this white-haired Russian leader was found on a D.C. street in his underwear hailing cabs to go get pizza Yeltsin |
| #8393, aired 2021-05-05 | OH, I'VE OFFENDED YOU? $1200: On September 13, 2020 D.C.'s NFL squad took the field with this less-offensive name the Washington Football Team |
| #8392, aired 2021-05-04 | READING MATERIAL $200: Look, nothing's written in this--well, the tablet of Assyrian King Tukulti-Ninurta from the 1200s B.C. is stone |
| #8391, aired 2021-05-03 | HISTORY $200: Around 1530 B.C. Queen Ahhotep rallied this kingdom's troops to victory against a Hyksos invasion Egypt |
| #8391, aired 2021-05-03 | PROM MUSIC $1200: Vitamin C's "Graduation" rhymes, "As our lives change / Come whatever / We will still be" this alliterative phrase friends forever |
| #8389, aired 2021-04-29 | TO YOUR HEALTH $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from the Hungarian Open Air Museum in Szentendre, Hungary.) Paprika plants are rich in this vitamin, also called ascorbic acid; Hungarian Nobel Prize winner Albert Szent-Györgyi, the first to isolate it, used the plants in his experiments vitamin C |
| #8386, aired 2021-04-26 | THE CABINET $2000: A Nobel Prize winner, this soldier served as Secretary of State from 1947 to 1949 (George C.) Marshall |
| #8383, aired 2021-04-21 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: In 19th c. New York politics, a repeater was a man hired to do this several times in a day, shaving to change his identity vote |
| #8383, aired 2021-04-21 | THEY NAMED A SCHOOL FOR ME $1000: Acknowledging that this Shoshone woman's name can be spelled different ways, a Seattle public school spells it with a C & a J Sacajawea |
| #8382, aired 2021-04-20 | LEADING FEMALE TV $400: This actress was never far from "Scandal" as Washington, D.C. crisis manager Olivia Pope Kerry Washington |
| #8382, aired 2021-04-20 | HISTORY $1600: In 480 B.C. the Persian army found out the hard way this mountain pass was about 50 feet wide at its narrowest Thermopylae |
| #8381, aired 2021-04-19 | "M.C." $200: The reading section of the S.A.T. includes 52 questions of this type multiple choice |
| #8381, aired 2021-04-19 | "M.C." $400: M.C. stands for this when referring to Hells Angels motorcycle club |
| #8381, aired 2021-04-19 | "M.C." $600: In "The Italian Job" Mark Wahlberg drove this little car as part of a crime caper a Mini Cooper |
| #8381, aired 2021-04-19 | "M.C." $800: You need a license to authorize getting hitched; this other document proves that you entered wedded bliss a marriage certificate |
| #8381, aired 2021-04-19 | "M.C." $1000: George V established this decoration for acts of gallantry against the enemy Military Cross |
| #8380, aired 2021-04-16 | LATIN PHRASEBOOK $1600: Famously spoken in 49 B.C. at the crossing of a river, "iacta alea est" means this "is cast" the die |
| #8380, aired 2021-04-16 | BLOW-POURRI $1600: Syrian artisans working in this medium back in the 1st century B.C. are credited with creating blow molding glass (glassmaking) |
| #8379, aired 2021-04-15 | CAPITAL "C" $400: A system of tunnels & bridges connects this capital with Malmo, Sweden Copenhagen |
| #8379, aired 2021-04-15 | HISTORIC WEAPONS $400: The 1275 B.C. Battle of Kadesh saw 5,000 of these battle vehicles rolling around in a melee chariots |
| #8379, aired 2021-04-15 | CAPITAL "C" $800: A promontory of "Good Hope" is near this legislative capital Cape Town |
| #8379, aired 2021-04-15 | CAPITAL "C" $1600: This birthplace of Simon Bolivar has a population of 2 million Caracas |
| #8379, aired 2021-04-15 | CAPITAL "C" $2,000 (Daily Double): This capital lies on the banks of the world's longest river Cairo |
| #8379, aired 2021-04-15 | CAPITAL "C" $2000: The second-southernmost capital in the world, it was affected by wildfires in 2003 Canberra |
| #8378, aired 2021-04-14 | 3-NAMED CELEBRITIES $1200: When he first rocked out to "Pink Houses" & "R.O.C.K. In The U.S.A.", he was using these 3 names John Cougar Mellencamp |
| #8376, aired 2021-04-12 | BRITISH HISTORY $1600: In 55 B.C. an army under this commander invaded Britain near Dover, bringing the island into contact with the Roman world Julius Caesar |
| #8370, aired 2021-04-02 | NEW PHONE, WHO DISCO? $200: "Le Freak, C'est" this band; "Have you heard about the new dance craze?" & also our new ringtone? Chic |
| #8370, aired 2021-04-02 | WOMEN IN CONGRESS $1600: Between her cabinet posts & repping N.C. in the Senate, she served as president of the American Red Cross from 1991 to 1999 Dole |
| #8369, aired 2021-04-01 | SCIENCE & SCIENTISTS $400: C/1847 T1 is the formal name of one of these astronomical objects a comet |
| #8367, aired 2021-03-30 | HISTORY $1000: Around 3000 B.C. the Sumerian settlement of Uruk was the first big city in this historic region, at its southeast end Mesopotamia |
| #8367, aired 2021-03-30 | THE OLD TESTAMENT $5,000 (Daily Double): This book is aptly titled--it consists of 5 chapters of woe over the destruction of Jerusalem in 586 B.C. Lamentations |
| #8366, aired 2021-03-29 | DURING THE JOHN ADAMS PRESIDENCY $200: Adams was sworn in as president at Congress Hall in this city; 3 years later the capital & Adams would move to D.C. Philadelphia |
| #8363, aired 2021-03-24 | KINGS & QUEENS $1600: Son of Olav, King Harald V of this country lived in exile outside of Washington, D.C. during World War II Norway |
| #8361, aired 2021-03-22 | INITIALLY YOURS $1200: He was one of the greatest comic performers, seen in films like "My Little Chickadee" (W.C.) Fields |
| #8361, aired 2021-03-22 | 20th CENTURY ART & ARTISTS $1600: A book called "The Magic Mirror of" this Dutch artist gives insight into how he created those optical effects M.C. Escher |
| #8359, aired 2021-03-18 | AUTHORS WHO SERVED IN THE MILITARY $800: C.S. Lewis fought in this war, arriving at the front lines in the Somme Valley on his 19th birthday World War I |
| #8358, aired 2021-03-17 | HOPEFUL HISTORY $200: Starting in the 19th c., these agreements named for a Swiss city set humane norms for prisoners & noncombatants during wartime the Geneva Convention |
| #8357, aired 2021-03-16 | HISTORIC HENRYS $2,000 (Daily Double): The Senate's "Great Triumvirate" was John C. Calhoun, Daniel Webster & him Henry Clay |
| #8356, aired 2021-03-15 | "T.O.C." $400: At the summer Solstice, the Sun is directly over this line north of the equator the Tropic of Cancer |
| #8356, aired 2021-03-15 | "T.O.C." $800: It's the tarot card seen here the Three of Cups |
| #8356, aired 2021-03-15 | "T.O.C." $1200: Make this "sweet" computer change if you want websites to remember you when you revisit them turn on cookies |
| #8356, aired 2021-03-15 | "T.O.C." $1600: One of Bob Barker's first gigs, it's also the name of a New Mexico City Truth or Consequences |
| #8356, aired 2021-03-15 | "T.O.C." $2000: Beginning with its debut in 2006, this cycling race took riders through the Golden State the Tour of California |
| #8355, aired 2021-03-12 | BUSINESS ABBREV. $600: The C.T.O. is this officer who might deal with data & cloud storage the chief technical officer (chief technology officer) |
| #8355, aired 2021-03-12 | ALLITERATIVE LIT $800: First name of C.S. Forester's creation Captain Hornblower of the Royal Navy Horatio |
| #8354, aired 2021-03-11 | NBA LOGOS $400: This team's logo has 3 stars for D.C., Maryland & Virginia the Washington Wizards |
| #8353, aired 2021-03-10 | NICKNAMES $1000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents from FBI Headquarters in Washington, D.C.) An official of the FBI's New York office said in 1992, "The Don is covered in Velcro" & every charge stuck when the Bureau, at last, succeeded in convicting mafia boss John Gotti, known by this slippery nickname "The Teflon Don" |
| #8352, aired 2021-03-09 | 16-LETTER WORDS $2000: With a name that spans oceans, this global hotel brand includes London's Park Lane & the Willard in Washington, D.C. Intercontinental |
| #8351, aired 2021-03-08 | CURVE YOUR ENTHUSIASM $600: In this curve with a musical instrument in its name, a "C" grade is typically the center of the distribution the bell curve |
| #8351, aired 2021-03-08 | STRANGE BEDFELLOWS $2000: In "Step Brothers", these 2 actors ask their parents for permission to make bunk beds; it doesn't turn out well John C. Reilly & Will Ferrell |
| #8349, aired 2021-03-04 | ALPHABET DOGS $600: C: Toto was one of these Scottish terriers bred to chase vermin in rock piles a cairn terrier |
| #8348, aired 2021-03-03 | B.C.-ING YOU $200: The city of Larsa wasn't up to this Babylonian's code, so he conquered it in the 1760s B.C. Hammurabi |
| #8348, aired 2021-03-03 | B.C.-ING YOU $400: Among the treasures he was buried with around 1325 B.C., was the gold mask seen here King Tut |
| #8348, aired 2021-03-03 | B.C.-ING YOU $600: Shortly after he attained enlightenment, he gave a sermon in which he presented the 4 noble truths Buddha |
| #8348, aired 2021-03-03 | B.C.-ING YOU $800: The Peace of Nicias in 421 B.C. brought a temporary end to the fighting in this Greek war Peloponnesian |
| #8348, aired 2021-03-03 | B.C.-ING YOU $1000: X marks the spot for this king who succeeded his father Darius I as ruler of the Persian Empire Xerxes |
| #8344, aired 2021-02-25 | HISTORY $1200: This writing system arose in Mesopotamia in the 4th millennium B.C. & disappeared early in the 1st millennium A.D. cuneiform |
| #8343, aired 2021-02-24 | SOLDIERING ON $1200: A man who crossed a stream, he was taken by pirates in the 70s B.C., ransomed, then raised a naval force & crucified the pirates Julius Caesar |
| #8342, aired 2021-02-23 | PHYSICS $2000: "C" can stand for this unit of charge named for French physicist Charles coulomb |
| #8340, aired 2021-02-19 | LOADS OF ROADS $400: A ring road encircles a city; the one around Washington, D.C. is known by this name a beltway |
| #8339, aired 2021-02-18 | TYPES OF NARRATIVE LITERATURE $1000: Meaning not proceeding from event A to event B to event C, this "non" word applies to "Tristram Shandy" & "House of Leaves" nonlinear |
| #8337, aired 2021-02-16 | LITERATURE $400: "The Young Giant" & "Little Red-Cap" were 2 of the more than 200 stories collected by these German brothers in a 19th c. anthology the Brothers Grimm |
| #8337, aired 2021-02-16 | LITERATURE $800: Scholars think John Hunter, an 18th c. London surgeon known as "The Knife Man", inspired this R.L. Stevenson guy Dr. Jekyll |
| #8335, aired 2021-02-12 | VALLEY $1600: The Harappan civilization of South Asia began around 2500 B.C. along the valley of this 2,000-mile river the Indus |
| #8330, aired 2021-02-05 | ISLANDS $1600: Ruled by the Al Khalifa family since the 18th c., this island nation has a name from Arabic meaning "two seas" Bahrain |
| #8330, aired 2021-02-05 | ISLANDS $2000: "C" is for Caribbean & for this, Mexico's largest island in that sea Cozumel |
| #8329, aired 2021-02-04 | HISTORY ACROSS THE AGES $800: Around 10,000 B.C. the paleolithic phase of this age ended in Europe the Stone Age |
| #8329, aired 2021-02-04 | HISTORY ACROSS THE AGES $1200: The Iron Age in Britain began around 800 B.C. & ended with the invasion of this empire about 800 years later the Romans |
| #8328, aired 2021-02-03 | TV & MOVIE PAIRS $200: They're the pair referred to in the movie line "These aren't the droids you're looking for" R2-D2 & C-3PO |
| #8328, aired 2021-02-03 | SCIENTISTS $600: Pierre-Gilles de Gennes won a Nobel Prize for explaining the behavior of these "L.C."s whose "D" is used in video screens liquid crystals |
| #8328, aired 2021-02-03 | SCIENTISTS $1,000 (Daily Double): This 19th c. German invented an engine that, unlike gasoline engines, achieves ignition with no external spark (Rudolf) Diesel |
| #8327, aired 2021-02-02 | AMERICAN NAMES $400: Linus Pauling wrote a bestselling book called this vitamin "and the Common Cold" vitamin C |
| #8327, aired 2021-02-02 | FASHION $1000: From the French for horsehair, this 19th c. array of fabric & hoops under a skirt was revived by Jean Paul Gaultier crinoline |
| #8327, aired 2021-02-02 | THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE $4,000 (Daily Double): This "C" in the ABC Islands of the Caribbean has the oldest continuously inhabited Jewish community in the Americas Curaçao |
| #8326, aired 2021-02-01 | ARCHAEOLOGY $1200: Found in 1982, a ship that sank off Turkey c. 1300 B.C. carried 1 ton of tin & 10 tons of copper, the perfect mixture to make this alloy bronze |
| #8326, aired 2021-02-01 | FAMOUS AMERICANS $3,500 (Daily Double): His work on game theory earned him the 1994 Nobel Prize, which he shared with John C. Harsanyi & Reinhard Selten John Nash |
| #8321, aired 2021-01-25 | PHILOSOPHY $2000: Mohism, in 5th century B.C. China, argued for doing "what is beneficial to the world", like this -ism that arose in 19th c. Britain utilitarianism |
| #8320, aired 2021-01-22 | 9-LETTER WORDS $200: B or C, but not A or E a consonant |
| #8319, aired 2021-01-21 | 5 MORE "C"s OF DIAMONDS $800: This other word for "war" is applied by the U.N. to diamonds that finance war conflict |
| #8319, aired 2021-01-21 | 5 MORE "C"s OF DIAMONDS $1200: A diamond is this type of solid, usually with 8 faces a crystal |
| #8319, aired 2021-01-21 | 5 MORE "C"s OF DIAMONDS $1600: "The Panther" is an onyx & diamond bracelet made by this French jeweler; in 2010 it sold for $4.5 million Cartier |
| #8319, aired 2021-01-21 | 5 MORE "C"s OF DIAMONDS $2000: Giant gem seller De Beers has been called "the most successful" this modern commerce cooperative arrangement cartel |
| #8318, aired 2021-01-20 | EVERYBODY WANTS TO RULE THE WORLD $500 (Daily Double): For adding areas such as Valencia to his realm, 13th c. King James I of Aragon was known as "Jaime el" this Spanish word Conquistador |
| #8318, aired 2021-01-20 | EVERYBODY WANTS TO RULE THE WORLD $800: After Crassus died in battle in 53 B.C., this other "Great" triumvirate member allied with senators against Caesar...ooooops Pompey |
| #8317, aired 2021-01-19 | LIBROS EN ESPAÑOL $800: From C.S. Lewis:
"La silla de la plata" The Silver Chair |
| #8315, aired 2021-01-15 | FORTIFY YOURSELF $200: Taking no chances, Pharaoh Nectanebo I fortified all 7 mouths of this river, around 380 B.C. the Nile |
| #8315, aired 2021-01-15 | VOCABULARY $2000: An 18th c. group of lovers of everything from archaeology to opera introduced this word for one who flits from one interest to another a dilettante |
| #8313, aired 2021-01-13 | LYRICAL C.V. $400: "Walked like a woman and talked like a man" Lola |
| #8313, aired 2021-01-13 | LYRICAL C.V. $800: "Not my lover", "just a girl who claims that I am the one" Billie Jean |
| #8313, aired 2021-01-13 | LYRICAL C.V. $1200: "Badder than old King Kong, meaner than a junkyard dog" Leroy Brown |
| #8313, aired 2021-01-13 | LYRICAL C.V. $1600: "Born a pauper to a pawn on a Christmas Day, when the New York Times said God is dead" Levon |
| #8313, aired 2021-01-13 | LYRICAL C.V. $2000: "Spoke in class today" Jeremy |
| #8312, aired 2021-01-12 | SCIENCE CENTER $800: These distinctive carnivores roamed North America for millions of years until about 10,000 B.C. a saber-tooth tiger |
| #8312, aired 2021-01-12 | THESE SONGS COULD KILL YOU $800: Call the FBI! This title madman of a Talking Heads song is on the loose; qu'est-ce que c'est "Psycho Killer" |
| #8311, aired 2021-01-11 | NONFICTION $600: In "A Grief Observed", he left the land of Narnia to grapple with his feelings of loss after his wife's death C.S. Lewis |
| #8310, aired 2021-01-08 | HISTORY OF FLIGHT $2000: As the wind in Ohio was unsuitable for their experiments, the Wright Bros. chose the banks near this village in N.C. to make history Kitty Hawk |
| #8309, aired 2021-01-07 | QUEENS $400: In 30 B.C. her decades of rule were ended, probably via the bite of a cobra Cleopatra |
| #8308, aired 2021-01-06 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $3,000 (Daily Double): In 1857 this monthly magazine with an oceanic name was founded in Boston; it moved to D.C. 150 years later The Atlantic |
| #8303, aired 2020-12-16 | MINCED OATHS $5,000 (Daily Double): This, also the surname of a prolific 19th c. British author, was sometimes substituted for "devil" in oaths dickens |
| #8301, aired 2020-12-14 | WORLD CAPITAL BINGO $800: "G", 1812: not named in honor of a D.C. college, this capital of Guyana, formerly Stabroek, gets its new name Georgetown |
| #8299, aired 2020-12-10 | TO LEAD ROME $200: A funny thing happened in the 2nd c.: Trajan built a 900 X 600-foot one of these public gathering places--OK, not so funny a forum |
| #8298, aired 2020-12-09 | COMPUTER LANGUAGES $200: Developed by Bjarne Stroustrup, this letter "++" is one of the first computer languages that college students learn C |
| #8296, aired 2020-12-07 | OXFORD'S VERY SHORT INTRODUCTIONS $7,800 (Daily Double): "A Very Short Introduction to" him says that like Marx & Freud, this 18th c. economist's work "is more invoked than it is read" (Adam) Smith |
| #8291, aired 2020-11-30 | 3 C's $400: Adjective meaning so small it can't be seen with the naked eye microscopic |
| #8291, aired 2020-11-30 | 3 C's $800: 3-"c" word for the thin red feature on top of a rooster's head cockscomb |
| #8291, aired 2020-11-30 | 3 C's $1200: It's a pastoral letter written by the pope on matters of doctrine encyclical |
| #8291, aired 2020-11-30 | A ROYAL PAIN $1600: In 336 B.C. Pausanias, a young Macedonian, killed this king; no trial--the assassin got killed on the spot Philip (II) |
| #8291, aired 2020-11-30 | 3 C's $1600: In Italian cuisine, this preparation of thinly sliced beef makes for appetizing appetizers carpaccio |
| #8291, aired 2020-11-30 | 3 C's $2000: Adjective for a letdown, like the end of "The Epic of Gilgamesh"--the hero's quest for a magic plant... ends without it anticlimactic |
| #8290, aired 2020-11-27 | C AS IN "CAT" $400: A robber who gains entry by climbing a cat burglar |
| #8290, aired 2020-11-27 | C AS IN "CAT" $800: Avalon is the only incorporated city on this resort island off the coast of Southern California Catalina |
| #8290, aired 2020-11-27 | PAPERBACK WRITER $800: When it comes to "L is for Lawless" & "C is for Corpse", "G" is for this bestselling mystery author (Sue) Grafton |
| #8290, aired 2020-11-27 | C AS IN "CAT" $1200: A subterranean burial chamber a catacomb |
| #8290, aired 2020-11-27 | C AS IN "CAT" $1600: Lepidopteran larva caterpillar |
| #8290, aired 2020-11-27 | C AS IN "CAT" $2000: It's a question & answer method of religious instruction catechism |
| #8290, aired 2020-11-27 | AMERICAN HISTORY TIMELINE $2000: Known as the "Pathfinder", this soldier-explorer mapped most of the Oregon Trail in the 1840s with Kit Carson John C. Frémont |
| #8289, aired 2020-11-26 | ARE YOU SMARTER THAN A 5th CENTURY RAIDER? $2000: Attila raided his way deep into the Balkans & was only stopped at this pass where the Persians were stopped in the 400s B.C. Thermopylae |
| #8288, aired 2020-11-25 | À LA CARTOGRAPHY $1200: "C" is for these lines on a map that join points of equal elevation contour |
| #8287, aired 2020-11-24 | FOREVER HOLD YOUR PEACE $600: The Thirty Years' Peace, beginning in the 440s B.C., was between Sparta & the Delian League, led by this city Athens |
| #8285, aired 2020-11-20 | THE ANCIENT WORLD $400: Kong qiu was the birth name of this Chinese philosopher of the 500s & 400s B.C. Confucius |
| #8285, aired 2020-11-20 | THE ANCIENT WORLD $1600: In the 7th century B.C., Sennacherib of this front-of-the-alphabet empire made Nineveh his capital Assyria |
| #8284, aired 2020-11-19 | IT'S A FACT $400: Spelled with a "C", it's a unit of weight for diamonds; spelled with a "K", it's a measure of the purity of gold carat |
| #8283, aired 2020-11-18 | V.O. INITIALS $400: Ralph in "Wreck-It Ralph":
J.C.R. John C. Reilly |
| #8283, aired 2020-11-18 | V.O. INITIALS $600: Mater in "Cars":
L.T.C.G. Larry the Cable Guy |
| #8281, aired 2020-11-16 | A BUSY BODY $5,000 (Daily Double): Chronic alcohol drinking is a big cause of this disease, but it can also occur due to obesity or hepatitis C cirrhosis |
| #8280, aired 2020-11-13 | FROM B TO C $400: One side in the Cold War was often called the "Eastern" this group the bloc |
| #8280, aired 2020-11-13 | FROM B TO C $800: Pressure measured in millibars barometric |
| #8280, aired 2020-11-13 | 37 IS HEAVEN $1000: According to legend, on his journey of conquest in 218 B.C. this man brought 37 elephants with him Hannibal |
| #8280, aired 2020-11-13 | FROM B TO C $1200: This variety of pear is crisp & in season from September to April Bosc |
| #8280, aired 2020-11-13 | FROM B TO C $1600: Religious territorial jurisdiction aka a diocese a bishopric |
| #8280, aired 2020-11-13 | FROM B TO C $2000: A legal opinion by all the judges of an appeals court, not just a smaller panel, is given "en" this, French for "bench" en banc |
| #8279, aired 2020-11-12 | 20th CENTURY AMERICA $1600: Thanks to the 23rd Amendment, on November 3rd, 1964, residents of this city cast their first votes for president Washington, D.C. |
| #8278, aired 2020-11-11 | GEOLOGY $200: An event around 8,000 B.C. called the Flims rockslide created Ruinaulta, the Grand Canyon of this Alpine country Switzerland |
| #8276, aired 2020-11-09 | A NIGHT AT THE OPERA $200: After his U.S. debut with Joan Sutherland in 1965, this bearded Italian tenor hit the high C's as Tonjo in "La fille du régiment" Pavarotti |
| #8276, aired 2020-11-09 | HISTORIC NAMES $1200: Leading the Spartan forces, Lysander defeated the Athenian navy, ending this war in 405 B.C. the Peloponnesian |
| #8274, aired 2020-11-05 | HISTORICAL FACTS $3,000 (Daily Double): During the Gladiator or Third Servile War in the 70s B.C., this rebel & his forces gained control over most of southern Italy Spartacus |
| #8273, aired 2020-11-04 | CLUES ACROSS THE SMITHSONIAN $200: (Bill Kelly presents from the National Air & Space Museum in Washington, D.C.) I'm Bill Kelly from ABC7: the Air and Space Museum's Pioneers of Flight Gallery include such treasures as the bright red Lockheed Vega in which this woman became the first woman and second person to fly solo across the Atlantic in 1932 Amelia Earhart |
| #8273, aired 2020-11-04 | CLUES ACROSS THE SMITHSONIAN $600: (Bill Kelly presents from the National Air & Space Museum in Washington, D.C.) The Air and Space Museums's Milestones of Flight Hall is filled with historic crafts, like this plane that made headlines around the world in the spring of 1927 the Spirit of St. Louis |
| #8273, aired 2020-11-04 | CLUES ACROSS THE SMITHSONIAN $800: ( Jonathan Elias presents from outside The Castle in Washington, D.C.) Hi, I'm Jonathan Elias from ABC7: the architect of the Smithsonian's Castle said the color of the sandstone he used was close to ashes of roses; it was quarried in Maryland along this nearby river the Potomac |
| #8273, aired 2020-11-04 | CLUES ACROSS THE SMITHSONIAN $1000: (Veronica Johnson presents from the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C.) Hi, I'm Veronica Johnson from ABC7: the atrium of the National Museum of the American Indian displays boats, including a birchbark canoe of this people of Lake Superior, also known as the Ojibwe; many of their customs are depicted in "The Song of Hiawatha" the Anishinaabe (Chippewa) |
| #8273, aired 2020-11-04 | ANTHROPOLOGY $2000: The 1st prehistoric individual IDed with parents of different human groups lived around 90,000 B.C. & was half Denisovan, half this group Neanderthal |
| #8272, aired 2020-11-03 | BOOKS' SUBTITLES $800: This Arthur C. Clarke sequel is subtitled "Odyssey Two" 2010 |
| #8270, aired 2020-10-30 | FICTION $2000: In a WWI-set novel by C.S. Forester, Rose Sayer & uncouth Captain Charlie Allnutt are thrown together on this title boat The African Queen |
| #8267, aired 2020-10-27 | THE BOOK OF JOB $2000: C.S. Lewis:
"The ____'s Nephew" Magician |
| #8266, aired 2020-10-26 | WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS $1000: In the 17th c. the legendary Akashi Shiganosuke became the first wrestler awarded this title that goes to sumo grand champions yokozuna |
| #8263, aired 2020-10-21 | THE "A", "B", "C"s OF GOLF $200: pga.com says a good one of these assistants "can be worth several strokes a round" a caddy |
| #8263, aired 2020-10-21 | THE "A", "B", "C"s OF GOLF $400: 3-letter aka for a hole in one ace |
| #8263, aired 2020-10-21 | THE "A", "B", "C"s OF GOLF $600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew demonstrates a golf grip.) All ten fingers are placed on the club in this type of grip, named for another sport baseball |
| #8263, aired 2020-10-21 | THE "A", "B", "C"s OF GOLF $800: It's the amount of sideways curve or bend to a putt break |
| #8263, aired 2020-10-21 | THE "A", "B", "C"s OF GOLF $1000: Often traveling 100 yards plus, it's a shot hit to get up close to the green on a longer hole an approach |
| #8262, aired 2020-10-20 | DENNIS, ANYONE? $800: Dennis Ritchie of Bell Labs was known for his book about this letter's "Programming Language" C |
| #8262, aired 2020-10-20 | WORLD HERITAGE SITES IN THE U.S. $2000: Occupied c. 700-1400, Cahokia Mounds in Ill. are remnants of the largest settlement n. of Mexico eponymously called pre-this Columbian |
| #8256, aired 2020-10-12 | ANCIENT HISTORY $800: In 279 B.C. the Celts attacked this sacred site in Greece on the slope of Mount Parnassus; should have seen that coming the Oracle at Delphi |
| #8256, aired 2020-10-12 | ANCIENT HISTORY $1200: Ranging from about 2600 to 1000 B.C., its 3 major kingdoms are termed the Old, the Middle & the New Egypt |
| #8255, aired 2020-10-09 | HITTITES $400: The Hittites entered history in the 2nd millennium B.C. in Anatolia, today the Asian portion of this nation Turkey |
| #8255, aired 2020-10-09 | THE DOCTOR WILL "C" YOU NOW $400: Found in the liver, it helps make vitamin D; hope you have a lot more good than bad! cholesterol |
| #8255, aired 2020-10-09 | THE DOCTOR WILL "C" YOU NOW $800: Red blood cells must take things one at a time passing through one of these tiny blood vessels, which can be .008mm capillaries |
| #8255, aired 2020-10-09 | THE DOCTOR WILL "C" YOU NOW $1200: When looking at areas of thickened skin on your feet, these are larger & more shapeless than corns calluses |
| #8255, aired 2020-10-09 | THE DOCTOR WILL "C" YOU NOW $2000: This rubbery tissue at the ends of long bones is also called gristle cartilage |
| #8255, aired 2020-10-09 | THE DOCTOR WILL "C" YOU NOW $4,000 (Daily Double): Hermes' wand, this symbol of the U.S. Army Medical Corps, is a staff with 2 serpents coiled around it the caduceus |
| #8253, aired 2020-10-07 | HISTORY $600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents by a display monitor.) Tradition says here's the roughly 25-mile route Pheidippides ran in 490 B.C., bringing news of victory to Athens from this plain whose name is known beyond ancient history Marathon |
| #8252, aired 2020-10-06 | YES WE "CAN" $800: This once-popular term for a young female hospital volunteer referred to the red & white uniform a candy striper |
| #8251, aired 2020-10-05 | AT THE AIRPORT $1200: An interfaith chapel named for the 40th president Reagan National |
| #8251, aired 2020-10-05 | HEADS UP! & OFF! $2,600 (Daily Double): After his death in 43 B.C., this Roman orator made a final appearance on the speakers' platform at the Forum--well, his head & hands did Cicero |
| #8248, aired 2020-09-30 | MUSICAL STYLES $1000: This composer and musician with the given names William Christopher was known as the Father of the Blues W.C. Handy |
| #8247, aired 2020-09-29 | ELECTION ODDITIES $800: In 19th c. New York the Dead Rabbits Gang used force to make people vote for candidates of this Boss Tweed political machine Tammany Hall |
| #8247, aired 2020-09-29 | AMERICAN NAMES $1200: As he traveled in the early 19th c., he planted medicinal herbs like catnip & wintergreen as well as the seeds that made him famous Johnny Appleseed |
| #8246, aired 2020-09-28 | HISTORY $400: In 1800 the U.S. capital was moved to Washington, D.C. from this city Philadelphia |
| #8246, aired 2020-09-28 | THE JEFFERSONS $400: 19th c. rich guy & Monticello owner Jefferson Levy had one of these devices printing out stock prices in his New York home a ticker tape |
| #8244, aired 2020-09-24 | "A" IS FOR AUTUMN $400: Each fall Alabama & this S.E.C. football archrival meet in "The Iron Bowl" Auburn |
| #8243, aired 2020-09-23 | TV INSPIRATIONS $400: Washington, D.C. fixer Judy Smith inspired Olivia Pope on this drama Scandal |
| #8241, aired 2020-09-21 | THE TEMPLETON PRIZE $1000: 1982's winner was this man from N.C. who "took his message of Christianity into the...world of radio and television" Billy Graham |
| #8241, aired 2020-09-21 | AMERICAN HISTORY $3,000 (Daily Double): This president was said to regret his decision "not to hang John C. Calhoun" as a traitor Andrew Jackson |
| #8238, aired 2020-09-16 | WHAT TO WEAR $800: This long loose Turkish dress that can start with a "C" or a "K" a kaftan |
| #8237, aired 2020-09-15 | KEN JENNINGS ON WINNING STREAKS $1000: (Ken Jennings presents the clue.) The Persian Empire fell to him in the 330s B.C., then Western Asia Minor, the Mediterranean coast, Egypt, on into India; not bad for a guy barely over 30 Alexander the Great |
| #8237, aired 2020-09-15 | THE SULTANS $3,600 (Daily Double): Since the 16th c. Ottoman sultans have claimed this 6-letter religious title, passed down to followers of Muhammad caliph |
| #8235, aired 2020-06-12 | TROOP-POURRI $1200: A C.O.S., short for this operations specialist, protects the army's computer networks from getting hacked cyber |
| #8234, aired 2020-06-11 | THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES $400: Eleanor Holmes Norton has been the non-voting delegate for this district for nearly 30 years Washington, D.C. |
| #8232, aired 2020-06-09 | HISTORICALLY BLACK COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $1600: Future Nobel Peace Prize winner Ralph Bunche set up the political science department at this Washington, D.C. school Howard |
| #8231, aired 2020-06-08 | FONTS OF WISDOM $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents by a display monitor.) California’s 3rd and Texas 3th district make the A; Ohio’s 12th and 7th districts make the B, and Connecticut’s 1st district is the C in a new font called Ugly Gerry in which “Gerry” stands for this partisan process gerrymandering |
| #8228, aired 2020-06-03 | IS IT BIGGER THAN A CHICKEN? $200: Yes, it's this Acropolis temple completed in 438 B.C.; the foundation seems good, but it could probably use a little roof work the Parthenon |
| #8224, aired 2020-05-28 | ANCIENT HISTORY $400: Around 1500 B.C. the kings who ruled from the city of Knossos on this Greek island dominated the Aegean Crete |
| #8224, aired 2020-05-28 | MYTHOLOGY $1000: In art from the 400s B.C., Odysseus is offered a drink by this sorceress who had already turned his men into swine Circe |
| #8224, aired 2020-05-28 | ANCIENT HISTORY $1200: Dating back to the 3rd Millenium B.C., the Iranian city of Rayy was sacked by Mongols in 1220 & the survivors moved to this new capital Tehran |
| #8224, aired 2020-05-28 | A POTPOURRI OF PICTURES $1600: Germany's Stuttgart City Library has been described as having the feel of this Dutch artist's mind-bending works (M.C.) Escher |
| #8223, aired 2020-05-27 | FORM "E" $200: A triangle with sides A, B & C all equal in length is in this form equilateral |
| #8223, aired 2020-05-27 | A WRITER'S LIFE $1,000 (Daily Double): Born 1898, taught at Oxford & Cambridge, chronicled big cats, enchantresses & closets, died 1963 C.S. Lewis |
| #8223, aired 2020-05-27 | SAY IT IN FRENCH $1000: That's life c'est la vie |
| #8221, aired 2020-05-25 | "C" IN SCIENCE $400: The water droplets that sometimes form on the outside of a glass are an example of this process condensation |
| #8221, aired 2020-05-25 | "C" IN SCIENCE $800: In 1742 he developed his centigrade scale Celsius |
| #8221, aired 2020-05-25 | "C" IN SCIENCE $1600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents while sitting on a sofa with a dog.) Petting a cat or dog for 10 minutes has been shown to reduce the levels of this 8-letter stress hormone produced by the adrenal glands cortisol |
| #8221, aired 2020-05-25 | "C" IN SCIENCE $2,000 (Daily Double): This element, atomic number 27, is used to make blue pigment for pottery & glass cobalt |
| #8221, aired 2020-05-25 | "C" IN SCIENCE $2000: Derived from the Latin name for Wales, where rocks of the period were first discovered, it was the first period of the Paleozoic Era the Cambrian |
| #8220, aired 2020-05-22 | ON THE MONEY $1600: A Washington, D.C. structure dedicated in 1922 is on the back of this bill the $5 bill |
| #8217, aired 2020-05-19 | STILL STANDING IN EUROPE $200: The sculptor Phidias supervised this building's construction beginning in the year 447 B.C. the Parthenon |
| #8216, aired 2020-05-18 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $600: In 1960 at a segregated lunch counter in N.C., 4 African-American students staged one of these immobile protests a sit-in |
| #8215, aired 2020-05-01 | MAY DAY! MAY DAY! $600: Until May 1, 2008 Washington, D.C.'s cabs didn't have these; they used a zone system instead meters |
| #8215, aired 2020-05-01 | HISTORIC HAPPENINGS $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents by a display monitor.) Back in the day, those on the island of Tyre felt pretty safe off the mainland, but when this great conqueror showed up in 332 B.C., he built a causeway and ended a siege by marching across the newly created path Alexander |
| #8212, aired 2020-04-28 | SILENT "C" $200: An elephant's trunk contains roughly 40,000 of these, more than you have in your whole body muscles |
| #8212, aired 2020-04-28 | SILENT "C" $400: A song from "Annie Get Your Gun" says, "Got no mansion, got no" this boat, "still I'm happy with what I've got" yacht |
| #8212, aired 2020-04-28 | SILENT "C" $600: Title for a Russian empress, like Nicholas II's Alexandra czarina |
| #8212, aired 2020-04-28 | SILENT "C" $800: A moral compass a conscience |
| #8212, aired 2020-04-28 | SILENT "C" $1000: The Latin for "to declare" is the origin of this legal term for a formal accusation indict(ment) |
| #8209, aired 2020-04-23 | LITERATURE $400: All published in the 1950s, 7 books make up this series by C.S. Lewis The Chronicles of Narnia |
| #8208, aired 2020-04-22 | AT REST IN WASHINGTON, D.C. $400: At Washington National Cathedral: this president & his wife Edith Wilson |
| #8208, aired 2020-04-22 | AT REST IN WASHINGTON, D.C. $800: At St. Paul's Rock Creek Cemetery, writer Gore Vidal and this longtime host of "Meet the Press" Tim Russert |
| #8208, aired 2020-04-22 | AT REST IN WASHINGTON, D.C. $1600: At Oak Hill Cemetery: journalist & Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee & this woman who owned the Post (Katharine) Graham |
| #8208, aired 2020-04-22 | AT REST IN WASHINGTON, D.C. $2000: At Prospect Hill Cemetery: William with this last name who owned the house where Abraham Lincoln died Petersen |
| #8208, aired 2020-04-22 | AT REST IN WASHINGTON, D.C. $3,000 (Daily Double): At the Glenwood Cemetery: Emanuel Leutze, who famously painted "(George) Washington" doing this crossing the Delaware |
| #8204, aired 2020-04-16 | AMERICAN HISTORY $600: In 1832 S.C. passed "an ordinance to" do this, void certain federal laws; Pres. Jackson said it's your ordinance that's void! nullify or nullification |
| #8203, aired 2020-04-15 | A FULL RIDE $2000: In 1975 the last C-130A Hercules to leave Vietnam before the fall of this city flew hundreds of desperate people to Thailand Saigon |
| #8202, aired 2020-04-14 | HISTORY 101 $1600: A pedestal honoring Agrippa, victor in the 31 B.C. naval Battle of Actium, is on this Athenian hilltop the Acropolis |
| #8200, aired 2020-04-10 | PEOPLE NAMED ALEX $400: Alexander the Great was born in the city of Pella in this kingdom in 356 B.C. Macedonia |
| #8200, aired 2020-04-10 | DON'T KNOW MUCH ABOUT HISTORY $1600: In this 19th c. year the USS President fought a battle with HMS Belvidera, which until then didn't know for sure there was a war on 1812 |
| #8198, aired 2020-04-08 | STRAIGHT C'S $400: 17th century pirates who raided Spanish colonies, or a 21st century team that may take on the Raiders buccaneers |
| #8198, aired 2020-04-08 | ARCHITECTURE $400: Around 2650 B.C. in Saqqara, an early one of these, rising in a series of 6 big steps, was made for King Zoser a pyramid |
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K.C. Backer, a graduate student from Bloomington, Indiana
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Season 21 player (2004-10-14). KJL game 57. The "K.C." stands for...
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A.C. Hawley, a graduate student in media studies from Iowa City, Iowa
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Season 30 player (2013-10-04).
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Che Smith, a consultant and Ph.D. candidate from Washington, D.C.
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Season 31 player (2014-11-06). ché wrote her name as such on...
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Kate Horowitz, a science writer from Washington, D.C.
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Season 31 player (2014-10-02). Kate is published co-author of the coffee-table...
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J.C. Turner, a pharmacy student from Amelia, Virginia
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Season 3 2-time champion: $15,800.
The J.C. stands for "James Clay".
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Rachael Schwartz, a lawyer with an international law firm from Washington, D.C.
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"In 1994, she became the first woman ever to win the...
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Naomi Senbet, an 11-year-old from Washington, D.C.
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"This sixth grader doesn't like to be late for anything; maybe...
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Trevor Norris, a budget analyst from Washington, D.C.
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"He can't walk through the Pentagon without someone mentioning his five...
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Louie C.K., a comedian, actor, director, writer, and producer from Louie and Horace and Pete
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"This multitalented actor, writer, producer, and director is also the star...
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Cecilia Boudreau, a lawyer for a nonprofit from Washington, D.C.
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Season 27 player (2011-03-03).
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Tim Russert, a moderator from Meet the Press
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"He's the Washington Bureau Chief of NBC News and the longtime...
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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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Sarah Rabin Spira, a preschool director from Washington, D.C.
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Season 27 player (2010-10-07). Middle and last names pronounced like "RAY-bin...
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Grayson Holmes, a legal assistant from Washington, D.C.
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Season 21 2-time champion: $44,411 + $2,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: Manet_fan
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Carolyn Collins, an education program manager from Washington, D.C.
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Season 30 1-time co-champion: $26,800 + $1,000.
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Curtis Morales, an analytics engineer from Washington, D.C.
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Season 30 player (2013-12-18).
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Meredith Larson, an attorney from Washington, D.C.
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Season 30 2-time champion: $42,701 + $1,000.
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Brock Thompson, a librarian at the Library of Congress from Washington, D.C.
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Season 30 player (2013-12-04).
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Pam Mueller, an entering law student originally from Chicago, Illinois
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\"Representing Loyola University, she won the College Championship in November, 2000....
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K.C. Harris, a senior from South Hill, Virginia
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1992 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $1,000.
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Karen Poole, a graduate student of paleontology from Washington, D.C.
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Season 29 player (2012-11-30).
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Catherine Carson, a fourth grade language arts, math, and social studies teacher from Washington, D.C.
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"She is new to teaching--she's in her second year. From Washington,...
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Andrew Robinson, a graduate student of international science and technology policy from Washington, D.C.
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Season 28 player (2011-12-27).
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Craig Sallinger, a government librarian from Washington, D.C.
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Season 29 player (2013-03-01).
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Tamara Tatum-Broughton, an assistant professor of biology from Washington, D.C.
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Season 28 player (2012-04-03).
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Darren Abernethy, a telecommunications attorney from Washington, D.C.
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Season 29 player (2013-04-18).
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Shaanti Kapila, a climate change specialist from Washington, D.C.
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Season 29 player (2012-10-16).
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Erica Mines, a high school English teacher originally from Washington, D.C.
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Season 29 1-time champion: $18,000 + $2,000.
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Katie Newcomb, a paralegal from Washington, D.C.
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Season 29 player (2013-04-04).
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Charlotte Scott, a twelve-year-old from Washington, D.C.
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"Watch out, Diane Sawyer. This future news anchor is ready for...
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Rachel Gordon, an attorney from Washington, D.C.
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Season 29 1-time champion: $7,400 + $2,000.
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Kartik Venguswamy, a general litigation attorney from Washington, D.C.
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Season 27 player (2011-06-22).
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Eddie Huang, a chef and restaurateur from Washington, D.C.
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"A chef and restaurateur from Washington, D.C., his 2013 memoir was...
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Brian Daner, a Congressional attorney from Washington, D.C.
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Season 29 player (2013-03-28).
Last name pronounced like "DAY-ner".
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Steve Money, an international education specialist from Washington, D.C.
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Season 29 player (2013-01-07).
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Katty Kay, a Washington, D.C. anchor from BBC World News America
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"She's the Washington, D.C. anchor for BBC World News America, as...
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Allen Park, a refugee affairs officer from Washington, D.C.
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Season 29 player (2012-12-27).
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Miriam Bamberger, an executive coach and author from Washington, D.C.
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Season 20 player (2004-06-24).
KJL game 17.
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Jeff Dufour, an online editor from Washington, D.C.
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Season 28 player (2011-10-17).
Last name pronounced like "doo-FOR".
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Andrea Korte, an editorial specialist from Washington, D.C.
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Season 28 player (2012-04-24).
Last name pronounced like "KORE-tee".
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Karen O'Donnell, a website manager from Washington, D.C.
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Season 29 player (2013-07-04).
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Blythe Rodgers, an attorney from Washington, D.C.
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Season 28 1-time champion: $13,999 + $2,000.
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Deborah Smith, a project manager from Washington, D.C.
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Season 29 player (2013-05-01).
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Rob Landolfi, an environmental protection specialist from Washington, D.C.
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Season 28 player (2011-09-30).
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James Therry, a network engineer from Washington, D.C.
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Season 24 player (2008-07-24).
Last name pronounced like "TARE-ree".
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Denise Powers, a writer from Washington, D.C.
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Season 24 player (2008-03-31).
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Sharon Boyd, a public health advisor from Washington, D.C.
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Season 31 player (2015-04-02).
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Noah Kaye, a solar energy lobbyist and grad student from Washington, D.C.
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Season 24 player (2008-01-16).
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James Herman, a research scientist from Washington, D.C.
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Season 30 player (2014-05-19).
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Aaron Schroeder, a graduate student originally from Washington, D.C.
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2009 Tournament of Champions second runner-up: $50,000. Season 24 5-time champion:...
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Kathryn Schoenberger, a communications associate from Washington, D.C.
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Season 30 player (2014-04-16).
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Michael Wille, a delivery driver manager from Washington, D.C.
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Season 31 player (2014-10-28).
Last name pronounced like "WILL-ee".
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Christina McTighe, a library associate from Washington, D.C.
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Season 31 2-time champion: $36,800 + $2,000.
Last name pronounced like "mick-TY".
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Vinita Kailasanath, an attorney from Washington, D.C.
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"She was a sophomore at Stanford University when she won the...
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Emma King, a legislative analyst from Washington, D.C.
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Season 31 player (2014-10-20).
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Keith Whitener, a research chemist from Washington, D.C.
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"He is a research chemist who won seven games during Season...
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Ed Patterson, an attorney from Washington, D.C.
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Season 30 1-time champion: $28,400 + $2,000.
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Jill Bunzendahl Chimka, a director of therapy from Washington, D.C.
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"She was a speech and language pathologist when she first appeared...
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Julie Reynolds, a writer from Washington, D.C.
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Season 22 player (2005-12-26). Not to be confused with Season 29...
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Charles Martin, a lawyer from Washington, D.C.
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Season 21 player (2005-07-12).
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Jennifer Hill, a Korean studies program coordinator from Washington, D.C.
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Season 27 player (2010-11-04).
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Stephen Mellis, a security officer from Washington, D.C.
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Season 30 player (2014-02-26).
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Amanda Lahan, an account manager from Washington, D.C.
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Season 26 player (2010-04-12).
Last name pronounced like "LAY-un".
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Silvio Menzano, a psychologist and university counseling center director from Washington, D.C.
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Season 27 1-time champion: $10,300 + $1,000.
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Stacy Braverman, a public interest lawyer from Washington, D.C.
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Season 26 1-time champion: $14,984 + $2,000. As detailed in a...
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Tom Cubbage, an attorney from Washington, D.C.
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"In 1989, he was the first College Champion and remains the...
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Rachael Schwartz, a lawyer from Washington, D.C.
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"In 1994, she was the first female winner of a Tournament...
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Elizabeth Williams, a business research librarian from Washington, D.C.
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Season 31 1-time champion: $12,800 + $1,000.
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Nathan Brownback, a research assistant from Washington, D.C.
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Season 21 player (2004-12-01).
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Larry Bellinger, a journalist from Washington, D.C.
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Season 21 player (2004-10-13).
KJL game 56.
Last name pronounced like "BEL-lin-jer".
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Kelani Chan, an investment relations associate from Washington, D.C.
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Season 25 player (2009-06-29).
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Claire Bea, a legal assistant from Washington, D.C.
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Season 27 player (2010-09-29).
Last name pronounced like "BEE".
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Johnny Forrest, a patent agent from Washington, D.C.
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Season 26 1-time champion: $20,001 + $2,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: JFoDC
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Naomi Seiler, a health policy lawyer from Washington, D.C.
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Season 25 player (2009-06-18).
Last name pronounced like "SY-ler".
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Shaama Pandya, an economic consultant from Washington, D.C.
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Season 27 player (2010-09-17).
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Jesse Achtenberg, a documentary filmmaker from Washington, D.C.
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Season 26 1-time champion: $25,200 + $1,000.
Last name pronounced like "OCK-ten-berg".
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Maria Borga, an economist from Washington, D.C.
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Season 25 player (2009-02-25).
Last name pronounced like "BORG-ah".
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Leslie Hurd, a preschool teacher from Washington, D.C.
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Season 26 player (2010-02-24).
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Edith Roberts, an attorney and part-time traffic court judge from Washington, D.C.
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Season 25 player (2009-01-01).
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Anne Noble, an appellate lawyer from Washington, D.C.
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Season 20 player (2004-03-30).
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Margaret Metcalf, a research librarian from Washington, D.C.
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Season 27 player (2011-01-19).
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Mike Smith, a litigation technology specialist from Washington, D.C.
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Season 20 1-time champion: $16,100 + $1,000.
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Tom Ogorzalek, a writer and editor from Washington, D.C.
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Season 20 player (2004-03-24).
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Michael Rose, a labor relations journalist from Washington, D.C.
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Season 27 player (2011-01-10).
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Evelyn Chester, a park ranger from Washington, D.C.
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Season 25 player (2009-04-24).
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Jeffrey Niblack, a government accountability office analyst from Washington, D.C.
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Season 26 player (2009-09-28).
Last name pronounced like "NIB-lick".
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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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Marc Sacks, an international development manager from Washington, D.C.
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Season 25 1-time champion: $23,601 + $2,000.
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Todd Kim, a government attorney from Washington, D.C.
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Season 20 player (2004-03-18). Todd won $500,000 on Super Millionaire on...
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Nicole Welch, a tax lawyer from Washington, D.C.
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Season 25 player (2008-12-17).
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Jennifer Thorne, an energy efficiency analyst from Washington, D.C.
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Season 20 player (2004-03-16).
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Anthony Flores, a campaign consultant from Washington, D.C.
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Season 27 player (2010-12-15).
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Will Durbin, a general litigation attorney from Washington, D.C.
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Season 27 player (2010-12-06).
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Zach Goldberg, a Congressional aide from Washington, D.C.
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Season 25 player (2009-07-23).
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Rita Byrd, an IT consultant from Washington, D.C.
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Season 24 player (2007-10-03).
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Nick Swezey, a publisher from Washington, D.C.
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2007 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD Home...
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Susan Kelleher, a stagehand from Washington, D.C.
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Season 24 player (2007-10-16).
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Richard Johnson, a foreign affairs officer from Washington, D.C.
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Season 24 1-time champion: $16,300 + $2,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: rcjohnson01
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C.W. Van Baale, a rentals coordinator from Chicago, Illinois
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Season 17 player (2001-01-16). Won $21,500 on Who Wants to Be...
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Ross Brown, a writer from Washington, D.C.
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Season 23 1-time champion: $12,300 + $2,000. Ross appeared as a...
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Marvene Horwitz, a retired federal employee from Washington, D.C.
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Season 24 player (2007-12-20).
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Ann Gavaghan, a congressional staffer from Washington, D.C.
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Season 24 1-time champion: $12,399 + $1,000. Ann is a current...
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Eric Terzuolo, a foreign service officer from Washington, D.C.
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"A foreign service officer from Washington, D.C., Eric Terzuolo, who has...
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Lou Bayard, a writer from Washington, D.C.
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Season 23 1-time champion: $17,800 + $1,000. Lou later appeared in...
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Marcus Jackson, a software engineer from Washington, D.C.
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Season 22 1-time champion: $13,999 + $1,000. Not to be confused...
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Richard Bernstein, an advertising copywriter from Washington, D.C.
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Season 21 player (2005-07-19).
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Bruce Borchardt, a metrologist from Washington, D.C.
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"A winner of five shows in 1995, he spent most of...
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J.D. Smith, an editor and writer from Washington, D.C.
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Season 21 player (2004-09-06).
KJL game 39.
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Aaron Thompson, an executive assistant from Washington, D.C.
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2006 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 21 3-time champion:...
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Jay Wolman, an attorney and mediator from Washington, D.C.
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Season 21 player (2004-10-05).
KJL game 50.
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Rebecca Dixon, a graduate student and musician from Vancouver, Washington
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Season 26 2-time champion: $53,002 + $1,000. Rebecca and her partner...
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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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Wolf Blitzer, a journalist from The Situation Room
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"Since 1990, he's covered every major story for CNN, including the...
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David Skaar, a research scientist from Raleigh, North Carolina
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Season 25 3-time champion: $102,000 + $2,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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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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Aaron Brown, an Emmy Award-winning newsman from CNN's popular primetime newscast
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"A journalist for over 25 years, he now anchors CNN's popular...
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Lisa Sotir Ozkan, an attorney from Arlington, Virginia
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Season 29 player (2013-04-02).
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Jenny Miller, a legislative assistant from Arlington, Virginia
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Season 20 player (2004-07-06).
KJL game 25.
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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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Lizzie O'Leary, an aviation and regulation correspondent from CNN
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"She broke the news that Chrysler would file for Chapter 11...
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Tucker Carlson, an author and co-host from Crossfire
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2004 Power Players Week player (2004-05-10). Charities: American Camping Association &...
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Tom Cubbage, an attorney from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
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"He was the very first College Champion, and the only one...
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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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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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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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Ken Basin, a junior at the University of Southern California from Huntington Beach, California
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2003 College Championship semifinalist: $5,000. Blog at kbasin.blogspot.org. Appearing as a...
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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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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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Marisa Goldstein, an attorney from Arlington, Virginia
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Season 20 player (2004-03-02).
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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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Becky Parks, a healthcare researcher from Washington, D.C.
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Season 37 player (2021-06-10).
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George Adesanya, a consultant from Washington, D.C.
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Season 38 player (2022-01-04).
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Joe Murphy, an attorney from Indianapolis, Indiana
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Season 8 2-time champion: $30,302 + Orrefors stemware + Michael C....
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Dan Patton, a retired cybersecurity specialist from Washington, D.C.
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Season 38 player (2021-12-31).
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Jim Kitchel, a systems analyst from Washington, D.C.
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Season 10 player (1994-01-17).
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Rebekah Smith, a library associate from Washington, D.C.
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Season 34 player (2017-10-06). Not to be confused with Season 34...
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Patrick Curran, a consultant from Washington, D.C.
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2024 Champions Wildcard quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Season 39 2-time champion: $45,400 + $2,000.
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Patrick Curran, a consultant from Washington, D.C.
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2024 Champions Wildcard quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Season 39 2-time champion: $45,400 + $2,000.
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Matt Jackson, a paralegal from Washington, D.C.
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2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament semifinalist: $10,000. 2019 All-Star Games member of...
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Peggy Robin, a publisher and chief moderator from Washington, D.C.
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Season 35 player (2019-07-23).
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Matt Jackson, a paralegal from Washington, D.C.
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2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament semifinalist: $10,000. 2019 All-Star Games member of...
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Matt Jackson, a grad student in computer science and public policy originally from Washington, D.C.
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2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament semifinalist: $10,000. 2019 All-Star Games member of...
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Matt Jackson, a digital fundraising professional from Washington, D.C.
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• 4th highest earning player • 4th most regular season wins...
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Reid Setzer, a public policy director from Washington, D.C.
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Season 35 player (2019-04-01).
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Anne Swiatek, an attorney from Washington, D.C.
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Season 9 player (1993-01-20).
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Larissa Kelly, an editor for academic competitions from Richmond, California
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\"She was a graduate student at U.C. Berkeley in Season 24...
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Joanna Rom, a docent from Washington, D.C.
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Season 35 player (2018-10-22). Joanna appeared on the original version of...
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Julie Kitchel, an executive assistant from Washington, D.C.
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Season 11 player (1994-09-14).
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Alwin Hui, a consultant from Washington, D.C.
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Season 36 player (2020-04-29).
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Ryan Ermey, a journalist from Washington, D.C.
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Season 35 player (2019-03-25).
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Stacy Meyers, a graduate student of education from Fredericksburg, Virginia
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Season 30 player (2014-01-16).
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Tom Walsh, a writer from Washington, D.C.
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Nifty Nine (players with byes into...
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Sara Helmers, an attorney from Washington, D.C.
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Season 34 player (2018-02-01).
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Tom Walsh, a writer from Washington, D.C.
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Nifty Nine (players with byes into...
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Tilney Wickersham, a teacher from Washington D.C.
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Season 9 player (1993-01-29).
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Tom Walsh, a writer from Washington, D.C.
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Nifty Nine (players with byes into...
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Tosh Sagar, an environmental and public health lawyer from Washington, D.C.
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Season 35 player (2018-10-15).
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Mara Lasko, a fundraiser from Washington, D.C.
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Season 39 player (2023-03-28).
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Matt Ribel, a speechwriter from Washington, D.C.
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Season 36 player (2020-04-27).
Last name pronounced like "RIH-bul".
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Megan McAllen, an attorney from Washington, D.C.
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Season 35 player (2019-03-19).
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John Harkless, an associate professor of chemistry from Howard University in Washington, D.C.
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2021 Professors Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
|
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Hank Chambers, an attorney originally from Washington, D.C.
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Season 9 player (1993-02-08).
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Brooke Sachs, a user experience designer from Washington, D.C.
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Season 38 player (2021-12-03).
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Richard Cordray, the head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau from Grove City, Ohio and Washington, D.C.
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\"He had just graduated from law school and was clerking for...
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Rebecca Heide, an economist from Washington, D.C.
|
Season 34 player (2018-06-12).
Last name pronounced like "HI-dee".
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Pete Chattrabhuti, an attorney from Washington, D.C.
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Season 38 1-time champion: $10,800 + $1,000.
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Andrew Knudsen, an environmental lawyer from Washington, D.C.
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Season 35 1-time champion: $19,601 + $1,000.
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Leslie Goodman-Malamuth, a freelance writer and housewife from Washington, D.C.
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Season 4 1-time champion: $12,801 + a Broyhill Queen Anne style...
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Randy Hill, an attorney originally from Washington, D.C.
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Season 8 player (1991-09-06).
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Gabrielle Merken, a student assessment specialist from Washington, D.C.
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Season 36 player (2019-11-29).
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Julie Zauzmer, a reporter and balloon twister from Washington, D.C.
|
Season 34 player (2018-01-11).
Last name pronounced like "ZAHZ-mer".
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Elaine Filadelfo, a data researcher from Washington, D.C.
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2023 Second Chance competition semifinalist: $3,000.
Season 37 player (2021-06-18).
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Joe Kenary, a business school student originally from Washington, D.C.
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Season 9 player (1993-01-15).
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Elaine Filadelfo, a consumer insights researcher from Washington, D.C.
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2023 Second Chance competition semifinalist: $3,000.
Season 37 player (2021-06-18).
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Steven Bonorris, a lawyer from Washington, D.C.
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Season 7 1-time co-champion: $15,400.
|
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Raymond Quianzon, a retired tax attorney from Washington, D.C.
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Season 35 player (2018-09-18).
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Kim Aagaard, a project manager from Washington, D.C.
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Season 39 player (2022-12-20).
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Ian Booth, a trade specialist from Washington, D.C.
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Season 34 1-time champion: $23,201 + $1,000.
|
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Joyee Dasgupta, an international affairs analyst from Washington, D.C.
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Season 36 player (2019-11-22).
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Alex Miller Murphy, a public relations specialist from Washington, D.C.
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Season 35 player (2019-02-14).
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Kate Kohn, a communications manager from Washington, D.C.
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Season 38 1-time champion: $20,000 + $1,000.
|
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Isaac Loeb, a senior legislative assistant from Washington, D.C.
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Season 35 player (2018-09-10).
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Michael Rebain, a contract specialist from Washington, D.C.
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Season 11 player (1994-09-05).
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Sean McGrath, a middle school teacher from Washington, D.C.
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Season 38 player (2022-06-09).
|
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Vikram Prasad, a congressional aide from Washington, D.C.
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Season 36 player (2020-03-23).
|
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Abhijit Khanna, a software developer from Washington, D.C.
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Season 36 player (2020-03-20).
|
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Charlie Harless, a procurement analyst from Washington, D.C.
|
Season 34 player (2017-12-25).
|
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Rachel Clark, a director of client strategy from Washington, D.C.
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2024 Champions Wildcard play-in quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Season 39 1-time champion: $6,500 + $1,000.
|
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Johnny Leon, a political media analyst from Washington, D.C.
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Season 34 1-time champion: $11,100 + $1,000.
|
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Wyatt Yankus, a policy analyst from Washington, D.C.
|
Season 38 player (2022-06-03).
|
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Keith Fudge, a policy analyst from Washington, D.C.
|
Season 33 player (2017-07-19).
|
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Will Dawson, a tour guide from Washington, D.C.
|
Season 35 3-time champion: $70,601 + $1,000.
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Pam Mueller, a junior at Loyola University, Chicago from Wilmette, Illinois
|
2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2019 All-Star Games member of...
|
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Pam Mueller, a college student from Wilmette, Illinois
|
2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2019 All-Star Games member of...
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Erika Eason, a K-12 technology teacher from Derwood, Maryland
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2018 Teachers Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000 + a $2,500 grant. At...
|
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Risa Lapidow, a technical writer originally from Vermont
|
Season 3 player (1987-07-14). At the time of her appearance, Risa...
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Lisa Ann Walter, an actor and stand-up comedian originally from Washington, D.C.
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2023 Primetime Celebrity Jeopardy! winner: $1,000,000 for the Entertainment Community Fund....
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Steve Hayes, a writer from Washington, D.C.
|
Season 3 player (1986-10-24).
|
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Kirsten Greenwell, a communications associate from Washington, D.C.
|
Season 38 player (2022-01-28).
First name pronounced like \"KEER-sten\".
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Pam Mueller, a justice researcher originally from Chicago, Illinois
|
2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2019 All-Star Games member of...
|
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Humzah Qureshi, an attorney from Washington, D.C.
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Season 35 player (2019-01-21).
|
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Jonathan Heller, an archivist from Washington, D.C.
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Season 7 1-time champion: $13,300.
|
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Heather Gifford, a paralegal from Washington, D.C.
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Season 12 player (1996-03-18).
|
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Rachel Clark, a director of client strategy from Washington, D.C.
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2024 Champions Wildcard quarterfinalist (quarterfinalist by play-in): $5,000.
Season 39 1-time champion: $6,500 + $1,000.
|
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Emily Hogg, a consultant from Washington, D.C.
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Season 37 player (2021-03-11). Last name pronounced to rhyme with "vogue"....
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Jack Hassinger, a naval officer from Montclair, Virginia
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Season 11 1-time champion: $16,800. Jack appeared on the show in...
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Brian Callaghan, a world traveller from Washington, D.C.
|
Season 10 1-time champion: $11,229.
|
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Greg Kihm, a systems engineer from Washington, D.C.
|
Season 36 player (2020-02-26).
|
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Emily Shaw, a museum educator from Washington, D.C.
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Season 36 player (2019-10-09).
|
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Erin Garratt, an education policy analyst from Washington, D.C.
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Season 35 player (2019-06-05).
|
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Julie Bell, a business attorney from Washington, D.C.
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Season 11 1-time champion: $5,999.
|
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Chris Tharrington, a naval officer from Washington, D.C.
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Season 10 player (1994-06-29).
|
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Beryl Coley, a librarian from Washington, D.C.
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Season 11 player (1995-03-28).
|
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Megan Browndorf, a librarian from Washington, D.C.
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Season 35 player (2019-05-30).
|
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Beth Schoenbach, a communications director from Washington, D.C.
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Season 34 player (2018-07-24).
|
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Scott Cooper, an Army lawyer from Washington, D.C.
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Season 3 player (1986-12-23): an Emerson audio rack system.
|
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Julie Triba, a quality assurance analyst from Washington, D.C.
|
Season 36 player (2019-10-02).
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Sam Leon, an international trade specialist from Washington, D.C.
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Season 36 player (2020-02-19).
|
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Dominick Fiorentino, a consultant from Washington, D.C.
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Season 34 player (2018-04-06).
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Emily Horne, a State Department press advisor from Washington, D.C.
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Season 30 player (2013-10-15).
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Kathie Hite, an attorney from Washington, D.C.
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Season 3 player (1987-07-20). Spelling of last name, occupation and hometown...
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David Radulski, an environmental investment banker from Washington, D.C.
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Season 12 player (1996-03-06).
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Jessie Hill, a tour guide originally from Washington, D.C.
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Season 7 player (1991-06-17).
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Peter Bass, a lawyer from Washington, D.C.
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Season 6 player (1990-03-20).
|
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Jacob Farrell, a strategy consultant from Washington, D.C.
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Season 33 player (2017-07-04).
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Christine Ryan, an associate producer from Washington, D.C.
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Season 36 player (2019-09-26).
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Gabe Brison-Trezise, a researcher from Washington, D.C.
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Season 36 1-time champion: $22,400 + $2,000.
|
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Erin Hoesly, a preschool teacher from Fredericksburg, Virginia
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Season 30 player (2013-10-08).
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Tristan Mohabir, a nonprofit associate director from Washington, D.C.
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Season 34 1-time champion: $15,200 + $1,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Lauren Krohn, a medical lab technician originally from Washington, D.C.
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Season 10 player (1994-05-16).
|
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Tim Hagood, a communications consultant from Washington, D.C.
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Season 39 player (2023-06-09).
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John Podhoretz, a writer from Washington, D.C.
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1987 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $1,000. Season 3 5-time champion: $45,600....
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John Podhoretz, a writer from Washington, D.C.
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1987 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $1,000. Season 3 5-time champion: $45,600....
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Monica Ashar, an attorney from Washington, D.C.
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Season 34 1-time champion: $12,801 + $1,000.
|
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Elana Schor, a journalist from Washington, D.C.
|
Season 35 1-time champion: $23,601 + $2,000.
|
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Colin Kennedy, a museum educator from Washington, D.C.
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Season 36 player (2019-09-17).
|
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Rachel Keen, a compliance specialist from Washington, D.C.
|
Season 36 player (2020-05-20).
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Catherine Meschter, a communications consultant from Washington, D.C.
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Season 7 1-time champion: $11,100.
|
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Ryan Wenstrup-Moore, an associate director of social media from Cincinnati, Ohio
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Season 36 player (2020-01-29). Ryan's sign-in included a small "C.E." below...
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Bill Steiger, a grad student originally from Washington, D.C.
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Season 9 player (1992-10-16).
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Bazil Facchina, an attorney from Washington, D.C.
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Season 11 1-time champion: $7,650.
|
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Madeleine Brown, a foreign service officer from Washington, D.C.
|
Season 12 player (1995-10-04).
|
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Eric Harp, a civil engineer from Washington, D.C.
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Season 36 player (2019-09-12).
|
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Erica Irving, a web developer from Washington, D.C.
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Season 34 1-time champion: $18,801 + $2,000.
|
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Christine DeLorme, an attorney from Washington, D.C.
|
Season 36 player (2020-01-23).
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Anand Kandaswamy, an economist from Washington, D.C.
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Season 34 3-time champion: $57,001 + $1,000.
|
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Kristin Hucek, an attorney from Washington, D.C.
|
2023 Champions Wildcard quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Season 37 3-time champion: $24,808 + $1,000.
|
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Victor C. Li, an advanced analytics developer from Jacksonville, Florida
|
Season 36 player (2019-09-09).
|
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Sally Tyler, a communications consultant from Washington, D.C.
|
Season 12 player (1995-12-15).
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McKayle Bruce, an attorney from Washington, D.C.
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Season 34 player (2018-03-13).
|
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Sean Bersell, a congressional relations director from Washington, D.C.
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Season 9 player (1993-04-13).
Last name pronounced: \"Burr-sell\".
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Tim Hall, a data analyst from Washington, D.C.
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Season 35 player (2019-04-25).
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Mark Pestronk, a travel lawyer from Washington, D.C.
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1991 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $5,000.
Season 7 4-time champion: $51,698.
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Rachel Kline, a program associate from Washington, D.C.
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Season 36 player (2020-01-08).
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Jeb Boasberg, a law clerk originally from Washington, D.C.
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Season 7 player (1991-07-04).
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Hannah Pierson-Compeau, an IT product manager from Washington, D.C.
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Season 35 player (2019-04-17).
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Simi Landau, an elementary school teacher from Washington, D.C.
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Season 38 player (2022-03-15).
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Becky Bryan, a merchandise controller from Washington, D.C.
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Season 7 player (1990-12-05).
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Mary Matthews, a writer and editor from Washington, D.C.
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Season 2 player (1985-12-12).
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Brian Lehman, a communications manager from Washington, D.C.
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Season 28 player (2011-09-22).
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Kathy Weber, a student from Washington, D.C.
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Season 5 player (1989-03-06).
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Shelley Vinyard, an environmental advocate from Washington, D.C.
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Season 38 player (2022-03-09).
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George McAleese, a political researcher from Washington, D.C.
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Season 29 2-time champion: $56,402 + $2,000.
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Ivan Plis, a magazine editor from Washington, D.C.
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Season 34 1-time champion: $23,200 + $2,000.
First name pronounced like \"ee-VAHN\".
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Nat Deutsch, an employee relations officer from Washington, D.C.
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Season 9 player (1993-01-28).
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Anne Large, a bar and restaurant owner from Washington, D.C.
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Season 38 player (2022-02-24).
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Christopher Meloni, an actor originally from Washington, D.C.
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2023 Primetime Celebrity Jeopardy! quarterfinalist: $30,000 for the Global Lyme Alliance.
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Duncan Bowling, an ICU nurse manager from Washington, D.C.
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Season 39 player (2023-01-23).
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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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Nicole Willson, a web designer from Centerville, Virginia
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Season 28 player (2011-12-09).
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Robert Won, a math professor from Washington, D.C.
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2023 Champions Wildcard quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Season 38 1-time champion: $32,001 + $2,000.
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Hilary Hultman-Lee, a mom and tutor from Sterling, Virginia
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Season 29 player (2012-10-11).
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Mary Mitchell, a State Department attorney from Washington, D.C.
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Season 27 1-time champion: $24,300 + $2,000.
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Robert Won, a math professor from Washington, D.C.
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2023 Champions Wildcard quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Season 38 1-time champion: $32,001 + $2,000.
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Bridget Gallagher, a fundraising consultant from Arlington, Virginia
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Season 28 player (2012-06-22). Last name pronounced like "GAL-uh-her". Not to...
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Brian Kato, a State Department contractor from Washington, D.C.
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Season 34 player (2017-10-11).
Last name pronounced like \"KAH-toe\".
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June Ailin, an attorney originally from Washington, D.C.
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Season 4 player (1987-12-29).
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Nam Vu, a senior at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.
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2022 National College Championship semifinalist: $20,000. Nam was majoring in environmental...
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Curt Renshaw, a naval officer from Washington, D.C.
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Season 28 player (2012-06-19).
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Tim Gray, a law student originally from Alexandria, Virginia
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Season 28 player (2011-11-30).
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Neil Ashar, an attorney from Washington, D.C.
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Season 28 player (2012-06-18).
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Jimmy Rollins, an international economic development consultant from Washington, D.C.
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Season 38 player (2022-02-15).
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Diane Mezzanotte, an analyst for the federal government from Laurel, Maryland
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Season 29 player (2013-04-11).
Last name pronounced like "mez-zan-NOT-tee".
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Michelle Princi, a government analyst from Silver Spring, Maryland
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Season 29 player (2012-10-03).
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Sally Adams, a project coordinator from Washington, D.C.
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Season 11 player (1994-10-13).
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J.C. Carson, a retired government employee from Honolulu, Hawaii
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Season 9 player (1993-01-27).
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Steve Irish, an amateur athlete from Washington, D.C.
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Season 11 2-time champion: $29,700.
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Max Niles, a senior at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island
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2022 National College Championship quarterfinalist: $10,000. Max was majoring in history...
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Ko Otaka, a realtor from Washington, D.C.
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Season 27 player (2011-04-04).
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Jess Agyepong, a senior from Howard University in Washington, D.C.
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2022 National College Championship quarterfinalist: $10,000. Jess was majoring in biology....
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Susannah Rosenblatt, a writer and communications strategist from Arlington, Virginia
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Season 28 player (2012-03-01).
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Caroline Wilkins, an arts writing university teacher from Silver Spring, Maryland
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Season 28 player (2011-11-21).
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Allison Swanberg, a pet store operations manager from Falls Church, Virginia
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Season 29 player (2013-01-29).
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Matt Andelman, a family law attorney from Silver Spring, Maryland
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Season 28 player (2011-11-17).
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Kyle Daly, a consultant from Washington, D.C.
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Season 39 player (2023-01-12).
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Kirk Childress, a legal assistant from Washington, D.C.
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Season 11
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Peter Hartikka, a proofreader originally from Washington, D.C.
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Season 12 2-time champion: $31,200.
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Henry Willis, a labor lawyer originally from Washington, D.C.
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Season 1 player (1985-03-06).
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Veronica Mance, a policy and research analyst from Chevy Chase, Maryland
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Season 29 player (2012-09-19).
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Tyler Vandenberg, a Marine officer from Washington, D.C.
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2023 Champions Wildcard 1st runner-up: $50,000. Season 37 2-time champion: $41,400...
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Niranjan Murali, an education policy professional from Washington, D.C.
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Season 39 player (2023-05-29).
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Adam Marshall, a student of government originally from Bethesda, Maryland
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Season 27 2-time champion: $51,800 + $2,000.
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Nathan Dennis, a C-17 loadmaster from Charlotte, North Carolina
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Season 39 player (2023-05-30).
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Jay Delehanty, an attorney from Washington, D.C.
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Season 10 player (1994-04-13).
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Mary Ann Eitler, a geologist from Alexandria, Virginia
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Season 20 player (2004-07-02). KJL game 23. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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Clarence Page, a journalist from The Chicago Tribune
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"His nationally syndicated column began as a local column for the...
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Ben Macrory, a law student originally from Washington, D.C.
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Season 11 3-time champion: $40,402.
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Chuck Todd, a journalist and chief White House correspondent from NBC News and Meet the Press
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"Chief White House correspondent and political director for NBC News, he...
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Greer Mackebee, a senior at Duke University from Knoxville, Tennessee
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2012 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. 22 at the time of the...
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Lewis Black, a stand-up comedian from Lewis Black's Root of All Evil
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"With success in films, plays, books, and TV specials, he tours...
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Moira Smith, an accountant from Washington, D.C.
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Season 39 player (2022-09-29).
First name pronounced like "MORE-uh".
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Helaine Greenfeld, a government attorney from Chevy Chase, Maryland
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Season 28 player (2011-10-28).
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Kelly O'Donnell, a political reporter from NBC News
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"An Emmy-winning political reporter, she has covered Capitol Hill and the...
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Abigail Gardner, a library technician from Alexandria, Virginia
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Season 28 player (2011-10-26).
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Jon Frank, a director of marketing and corporate relationships from Washington, D.C.
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Season 33 player (2016-10-31).
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Katie Sowder, a freelance researcher from Kansas City, Missouri
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Season 27 1-time champion: $5,900 + $1,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: hikatie
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Chris Wallace, a TV host from Fox News Sunday
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"In March, this Fox News anchor was honored by the National...
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Jenny Healey, a public interest lawyer from Burke, Virginia
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Season 28 player (2012-07-27).
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Catherine Muldoon, a graduate student from Somerville, Massachusetts
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Season 25 player (2008-11-03).
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Abby Furnish, a government analyst from Washington, D.C.
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Season 37 player (2021-06-30).
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Zach Gozlan, a data analyst from Washington, D.C.
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Season 38 player (2022-02-03).
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David Hudson, a junior from the University of Virginia
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"His musical taste has changed since he won $10,000 on Kids...
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Meg Khavari, a high school biology and religion teacher from Silver Spring, Maryland
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Season 27 player (2011-03-08).
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Sara Lichterman, a web editor from Arlington, Virginia
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Season 27 player (2011-03-04).
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Mark Japinga, a legislative researcher from Washington, D.C.
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2014 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 29 4-time champion:...
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Hunter Manchak, a product director from Washington, D.C.
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Season 33 player (2016-10-20).
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Zach Klitzman, a public historian from Washington, D.C.
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Season 32 1-time champion: $37,601 + $1,000.
Son of Season 19 player Justine Lisser.
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Nate Austin, a student from Hutchinson Community College
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"His original plan was to own a chain of international hotels...
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Peter Perl, a newspaper editor from Washington, D.C.
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Season 5 player (1988-12-26).
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Graham Beard, a retired Army doctor from Washington, D.C.
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1995-B Seniors Tournament semifinalist: $5,000.
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Rick Faulkner, a law student from Orange, California
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Season 20 player (2004-06-22).
KJL game 15.
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Jillian Mueller, an attorney from Washington, D.C.
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Season 29 player (2013-03-13).
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Jeff Gorsky, a lawyer originally from Washington, D.C.
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Season 12 1-time champion: $15,100.
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Renee Huff, a high school English teacher from Olney, Maryland
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Season 27 player (2011-05-27).
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Robert Sale, a government relations liaison from Washington, D.C.
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Season 31 player (2015-04-30).
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Bryan Barnett, a military charter flight attendant from Potomac Falls, Virginia
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Season 28 player (2012-01-10).
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Carol Ann Hilton, a fundraiser from Washington, D.C.
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Season 12 2-time champion: $26,002.
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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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Rachel Shuman, a curriculum coordinator from Silver Spring, Maryland
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Season 29 1-time champion: $19,600 + $2,000.
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Josh Frumkin, a non-profit assistant director of donor relations from Germantown, Maryland
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Season 29 2-time champion: $43,601 + $1,000.
JBoard user name: jfrumkin
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Jim Spellane, a public relations director from Washington, D.C.
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Season 11 2-time champion: $27,800.
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Phil Costopoulos, a senior editor from Washington, D.C.
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Season 12 player (1996-06-14).
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Ciara Donegan, a post-bachelor research associate from Washington, D.C.
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2023 Champions Wildcard quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 38 1-time champion: $27,601 +...
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Heather Townsend, a foreign service officer from Washington, D.C.
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Season 19 player (2002-10-17).
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Ellen Lamb, a regulatory association spokeswoman from Washington, D.C.
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Season 15 player (1999-07-16).
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Ian Buckwalter, an arts administrator from Washington, D.C.
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Season 19 player (2002-11-26).
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Karen Foster, a school administrator from Washington, D.C.
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Season 7 player (1991-03-15).
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Bert Ifill, a semi-retired educator from Silver Spring, Maryland
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Season 31 player (2014-12-22). Bert is the brother of Gwen Ifill,...
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Mike Horner, a music agent originally from Washington, D.C.
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Season 9 player (1992-11-06).
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Elizabeth Mouzon, an e-mail administrator from Washington, D.C.
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Season 18 player (2002-04-29).
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Susan Harrison, a communications consultant from Washington, D.C.
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Season 16 player (1999-09-22).
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Christie Whitman, a former governor from New Jersey
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"She was New Jersey's first woman governor, and later became administrator...
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Sala Levin, a writer and editor from Washington, D.C.
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Season 33 player (2016-09-21).
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Sven Sinclair, an economist and actuary from Burke, Virginia
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Season 24 1-time champion: $28,599 + $2,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user names: GnashEquilibrium, Gneq
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Ellen Alers, an archivist from Washington, D.C.
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Season 16 player (2000-03-09).
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Caroline Bartman, a senior from Washington, D.C.
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2007 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000.
17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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André Hereford, a writer from Washington, D.C.
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Season 33 player (2016-09-13).
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Ari Fleischer, a former White House Press Secretary from the current Bush administration
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"For the first two years of the current Bush administration, he...
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Bruce Borchardt, a metrologist from Washington, D.C.
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 winner: $29,201. 1995 Tournament...
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Neal Racioppo, a marketing manager from Washington, D.C.
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Season 20 player (2003-12-10).
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Anderson Cooper, a host from CNN's Anderson Cooper 360°
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2004 Power Players Week player (2004-05-11).
Charity: American Heart Association.
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Bob Woodward, an assistant managing editor from The Washington Post
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2004 Power Players Week player (2004-05-10).
Charity: Sidwell Friends School.
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Steve Dalzell, an Army officer from Washington, D.C.
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Season 19 player (2002-10-07).
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Louis Mrachek, a business analyst from Washington, D.C.
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Season 17 player (2001-01-30).
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Tim Mercure, a graduate student in mathematics from Washington, D.C.
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Season 32 1-time champion: $20,401 + $1,000.
Husband of Season 32 player Shoshana Gordon Ginsburg.
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Peter Winkler, an editor from Washington, D.C.
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Season 24 player (2008-07-14).
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Jeremy Schanck, a business development coordinator from Washington, D.C.
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Season 20 2-time champion: $42,400 + $2,000.
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Neil Quarterman, a foreign service officer from Washington, D.C.
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Season 11 3-time champion: $40,803.
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Tim Russert, a journalist from Meet the Press
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"The host of the longest-running show in the history of television,...
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Tom Kerr, an environmental policy analyst from Washington, D.C.
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Season 19 player (2002-10-02).
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Celeste Walker, a graduate student from Washington, D.C.
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Season 20 player (2003-11-28).
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Paul Carlson, a transit policy analyst from Washington, D.C.
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Season 12 3-time champion: $47,806.
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Than Hedman, a freshman from University of Colorado-Boulder
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2008 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 19 and from Denver, CO at...
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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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Kirsten Hoffstedt Keefe, a law student from Washington, D.C.
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Season 19 player (2002-11-07).
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Amanda Hall, from Farmington, Maine
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"Whether it's writing a biography of Yo-Yo Ma or working on...
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Miriam Miller, an account manager from Washington, D.C.
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Season 18 player (2002-03-28).
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Jared Hall, a consultant from Washington, D.C.
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2014 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000.
Season 29/30 6-time champion: $181,001 + $1,000.
JBoard user name: JaredHall
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Dara Lind, a junior from Yale University
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2008 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 20 and from Cincinnati, OH at...
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Roy Jacobstein, a physician from Washington, D.C.
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Season 10 player (1993-09-20).
Last name pronounced like \"JAY-cub-stine\".
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Dante Atkins, a Congressional press secretary from Washington, D.C.
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Season 33 player (2017-01-06).
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Jonathan Capehart, a journalist from The Washington Post
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"This Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist is a member of the Washington Post...
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Justine Lisser, a lawyer from Washington, D.C.
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Season 19 player (2002-09-23).
Mother of Season 32 1-time champion Zach Klitzman.
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John Ogden, a communications executive from Silver Spring, Maryland
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Season 30 player (2014-04-30).
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S.E. Cupp, a political commentator from CNN, New York Daily News, and Glamour
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"She writes for the New York Daily News, is a contributor...
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Ted Killory, a lawyer from Washington, D.C.
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Season 4 player (1988-05-31).
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Robin Parry, a federal attorney from Arlington, Virginia
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Season 23 1-time champion: $24,001 + $2,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: periwinkle
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Darryl Scott, an Air Force lieutenant colonel originally from Washington, D.C.
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Season 9 2-time champion: $13,402 + the Jeopardy! '92 home game....
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Jose Garriga, a communications specialist from Washington, D.C.
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Season 31 2-time champion: $38,402 + $2,000.
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Andrew Nerlinger, a senior at the University of Notre Dame from Wilmington, Delaware
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2001 College Championship quarterfinalist: $2,500. Andrew was 21 at the time...
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Trevor Norris, a management analyst from Washington, D.C.
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 2003 Tournament...
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Linda Lewis, a college math instructor from Washington, D.C.
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Season 4 1-time champion: $7,100.
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Liza Taylor, a novelist originally from Washington, D.C.
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Season 6 1-time champion: $2,999.
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Nathan Childs, a reporter from Washington, D.C.
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Season 15 1-time champion: $6,800.
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Kathryn Wildt, a scientist from Washington, D.C.
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Season 17 player (2001-03-20).
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Roberta Ellington, a marketing coordinator from Tustin, California
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Season 22 2-time champion: $41,701 + $2,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: RutgersFan
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Dava-Leigh Brush, a stay-at-home mom from Arnold, Missouri
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Season 31 3-time champion: $31,501 + $2,000.
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Matthew LaMagna, a digital consultant from Arlington, Virginia
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Season 31 2-time champion: $33,800 + $2,000.
Last name pronounced like "la-MAG-nah".
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Ben Rothenberg, a sportswriter from Washington, D.C.
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Season 32 player (2016-04-28).
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Erin Bowers, a patent examiner from Washington, D.C.
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Season 32 1-time champion: $30,001 + $1,000.
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Paul Mathless, an editor from Washington, D.C.
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Season 5 2-time champion: $28,300.
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Carly Minner, a project assistant from Washington, D.C.
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Season 18 player (2001-12-21).
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Kim Vu, an international development project manager from Washington, D.C.
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Season 32 player (2016-03-21). First name pronounced like "KEEM". Older brother...
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Tana Lee, a sales assistant from Washington, D.C.
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Season 18 player (2002-02-22).
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Eric Terzuolo, a foreign service officer from Washington, D.C.
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Season 6 5-time champion: $64,302.
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Christine Dibble, an attorney from Washington, D.C.
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Season 4 player (1988-07-20).
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Jocelyn Beer, an attorney from Washington, D.C.
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Season 23 player (2006-12-26).
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Amy Rosenfeld, an environmental policy specialist from Washington, D.C.
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Season 15 player (1999-01-22).
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Ben Martin, an attorney from Washington, D.C.
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Season 18 player (2001-10-15).
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James Caparas, a volunteer worker from Washington, D.C.
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Season 11 player (1995-06-29).
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Giselle Foss, a broadcast librarian from Washington, D.C.
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Season 15 1-time champion: $14,700.
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Nathan Chadwick, a public librarian from Germantown, Maryland
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Season 30 player (2014-03-25).
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George Evanko, a public relations executive from Washington, D.C.
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Season 18 2-time champion: $17,599.
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Nancy Akerman, a science policy fellow from Arlington, Virginia
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Season 30 2-time champion: $14,000 + $2,000.
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Andy Gefen, a financial consultant from Bethesda, Maryland
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Season 22 player (2006-01-04). Andy used his contestant interview to propose...
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David Becker, an attorney from Washington, D.C.
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Season 15 2-time champion: $27,601. David won $125,000 on Who Wants...
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Jackie Bruno, a loan officer from Washington, D.C.
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Season 14 player (1998-04-16).
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LeeAundra Temescu, a communications coach originally from Troy, Michigan
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Season 22 1-time champion: $20,001 + $2,000.
Web site at thecontrarypublicspeaker.com.
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Aaron Thompson, a special assistant from Washington, D.C.
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2006 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 21 3-time champion:...
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Nilanka Seneviratne, an international development nonprofit professional from Washington, D.C.
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Season 33 1-time champion: $7,601 + $2,000.
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Lauren Dean, a marketing manager and grad student from Chevy Chase, Maryland
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Season 22 player (2005-12-30). Lauren won $1,000 on Master Minds on...
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Damian Kokinda, an analyst for the Secret Service from Washington, D.C.
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Season 18 player (2001-10-01).
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Nina Ostrovitz, a law enforcement analyst from Washington, D.C.
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Season 13 1-time champion: $6,900.
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Elizabeth Pfeifer, an executive assistant from Oakton, Virginia
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Season 29 player (2012-11-01). Elizabeth died at the age of 57...
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Leena Alam, a law student from Washington, D.C.
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Season 15 player (1999-01-11).
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Kate Morrical, a structural engineer from Silver Spring, Maryland
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Season 21 player (2005-07-08).
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Paulette Beete, a writer from Takoma Park, Maryland
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Season 22 player (2005-10-21).
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: mouthflowers
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Emily Zhang, from Indianapolis, Indiana
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"A National Science Merit Award recipient, she plans on becoming a...
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Dan Melia, a retired professor from Berkeley, California
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"He was a professor at U.C. Berkeley when he won the...
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Udit Banerjea, an international relations graduate student from Washington, D.C.
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Season 32 1-time champion: $21,300 + $2,000.
Last name pronounced like "BAN-er-jee".
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Jeff Pandin, a history teacher from Alexandria, Virginia
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Season 22 1-time champion: $18,000 + $2,000.
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Semret Lemma, an MBA student from Arlington, Virginia
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Season 30 player (2014-02-28).
JBoard user name: semlem
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Dave Childs, a government contractor from Washington, D.C.
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Season 31 player (2014-09-22).
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Anne McFadden, an antitrust attorney from Washington, D.C.
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Season 27 player (2010-11-03).
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Betty Fernandez, an attorney from Washington, D.C.
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Season 12 player (1996-03-26).
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Glenn Jessee, an attorney from Washington, D.C.
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Season 12 player (1996-01-11).
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Steve Kohl, an international program administrator from Washington, D.C.
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Season 11 player (1994-11-29).
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Sibel Oyman, a research assistant from Washington, D.C.
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Season 20 player (2003-09-30).
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Janet vanGrasstek, an international trade reporter from Washington, D.C.
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Season 14 player (1997-09-01).
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Paul Gutowski, an alcohol and drug counselor from Rockford, Illinois
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"He was the first 5-time winner in 1997. An alcohol and...
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Regina Fitzsimmons, a homemaker from Springfield, Virginia
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Season 20 player (2004-01-19).
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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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Gabe Orlet, a senior from Belleville, Illinois
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2009 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
|
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Zamir Ahmed, a manager of media relations from Washington, D.C.
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Season 31 player (2015-01-01).
No Hometown Howdy was published for Zamir.
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Sara Mixter, a child health advocate originally from Chevy Chase, Maryland
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Season 21 player (2005-06-03).
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Christopher Scheeren, a stage actor and product specialist from Centreville, Virginia
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Season 26 player (2010-06-29).
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Paula Currall, a stay-at-home mom from Oakton, Virginia
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Season 27 player (2010-10-18).
Last name pronounced like "KUR-al".
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Henok Kebede, a musician from Wheaton, Maryland
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Season 25 player (2009-07-08).
Name pronounced like "HEN-oak kuh-BUD-uh".
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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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Adrien Schless-Meier, a philanthropist from Washington, D.C.
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Season 32 player (2016-01-25).
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Kathryn Perry, a technical consultant from Washington, D.C.
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Season 12 player (1996-04-01). Sister of Claudia Perry, a 4-time champion...
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Michael Starsinic, a mathematical statistician from Bowie, Maryland
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Season 21 player (2004-12-31).
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Ann Marchand, an internet news producer from Washington, D.C.
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Season 17 player (2000-11-01).
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Jesse Hergert, an administrative assistant from Washington, D.C.
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Season 13 player (1996-09-06).
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Megan Susman, an environmental policy specialist from Arlington, Virginia
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Season 21 1-time champion: $19,599 + $1,000.
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Josh Kolchins, a homeland security consultant from Bethesda, Maryland
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Season 21 player (2004-12-02).
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Anderson Cooper, an anchor from CNN's Anderson Cooper 360°
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"As a baby, he was photographed by Diane Arbus of Harper's...
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Jim Scott, an attorney from Arlington, Virginia
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"He was a legal assistant living near D.C. when he won...
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Bob Joseph, a businessman and attorney from McLean, Virginia
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Season 21 player (2004-10-28).
KJL game 62.
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Peggy Enright, a realtor from Chevy Chase, Maryland
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Season 26 player (2010-06-17).
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Ross Gardiner, an 11-year-old sixth grader from La Plata, Maryland
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"And this self-proclaimed sports fanatic likes all the teams in the...
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Kelly Scurry, an 11-year-old seventh grader from Lauderhill, Florida
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"It's very convenient that Washington, D.C. is his favorite city, because...
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José Ruiz Jr., a high school teacher from Silver Spring, Maryland
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Season 21 player (2004-10-15).
KJL game 58.
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Randi Kristensen, a professor from Washington, D.C.
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Season 32 player (2016-01-18).
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Tyrone Rogers, a bank teller from Camp Springs, Maryland
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Season 25 player (2009-06-30).
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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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Jennifer Roberson, a U.S. Fire Administration program manager from Ashburn, Virginia
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Season 26 player (2010-06-11).
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Margaret Tessier, a chemistry graduate student from Washington, D.C.
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Season 11 player (1994-12-21).
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Gadi Ben-Yehuda, a university professor from Washington, D.C.
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Season 19 player (2002-12-12).
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Jaime Mahoney, a magazine editor from Gaithersburg, Maryland
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Season 26 player (2009-10-23).
First name pronounced like "JAY-mee".
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Bryan Porter, a prosecutor from Alexandria, Virginia
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Season 25 player (2009-06-26).
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Teresa McGervey, a technical information specialist from Alexandria, Virginia
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Season 20 player (2004-04-28).
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Matt Martin, a police officer from Arlington, Virginia
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Season 27 player (2010-09-21).
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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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Kara Mohler, a history teacher from Silver Spring, Maryland
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Season 25 1-time champion: $23,199 + $2,000.
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Liz Lynch, a part-time art history teacher from Manassas, Virginia
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Season 20 player (2004-04-23).
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Matt Orlovick, a program analyst from Washington, D.C.
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Season 32 player (2016-01-06).
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Michael McKean, a Grammy winner, Oscar nominee and multi-talented performer from Hairspray and The Pajama Game
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"This multi-talented performer is a Grammy winner and Oscar nominee and...
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James Rogers, a musician and computer programmer from Washington, D.C.
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Season 20 player (2004-04-22).
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Marty Christy, a language arts middle school teacher from Alexandria, Virginia
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Season 27 player (2011-02-03).
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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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Larissa Charnsangavej, a senior from Rice University
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2009 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 21 and from Houston, Texas at...
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Chris Matthews, a TV host from Hardball and The Chris Matthews Show
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"Once a presidential speechwriter, he's had his own political talk show...
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Anthony Dedousis, a sophomore from Harvard University
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2009 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 19 and from Manhasset, New York...
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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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Victoria Harkavy, an AmeriCorps service member from Potomac, Maryland
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Season 25 2-time champion: $40,100 + $1,000.
Last name pronounced like "HARK-uh-vee".
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Cheryl Stein, a criminal defense lawyer from Washington, D.C.
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Season 4 player (1988-03-28).
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Kadeem Cooper, a junior from the University of Virginia
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2009 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 20 and from Brooklyn, New York...
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Bill Gellert, a research associate from Washington, D.C.
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Season 4 2-time champion: $6,998 + the Jeopardy! box game.
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Diane Armstrong, a consultant and retired Navy officer from Alexandria, Virginia
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Season 26 player (2009-09-21).
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Kim Taylor, a professor and scientist from Falls Church, Virginia
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Season 26 player (2009-10-07). Not to be confused with Season 18...
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Jen Fick, a records manager from Bethesda, Maryland
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Season 26 1-time champion: $9,300 + $2,000.
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Ben Flaccus, a political consultant from Washington, D.C.
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Season 26 1-time champion: $20,400 + $1,000.
Last name pronounced like "FLACK-us".
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Shoshana Gordon Ginsburg, a children's librarian from Washington, D.C.
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Season 32 player (2015-12-21).
Wife of Season 32 1-time champion Tim Mercure.
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Jane Curtin, an actress from Kate & Allie and 3rd Rock from the Sun
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"One of Saturday Night Live's original Not Ready for Primetime Players,...
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Neil Patrick Harris, an actor from How I Met Your Mother
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"He's received critical acclaim on Broadway and on TV, and his...
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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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Will Warren, a senior from the University of Alabama
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2010-A College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. Hometown: Madison, Alabama. Will Warren Blog...
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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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Pat Spangler, a Ph.D. student and college instructor from Bethesda, Maryland
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Season 26 player (2009-09-28).
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Doug Parker, a bartender from Washington, D.C.
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Season 17 player (2000-12-01).
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Raghuveer Mukkamalla, an IT analyst from Herndon, Virginia
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Season 27 player (2010-12-29). Raghuveer wrote up his Jeopardy! experience at...
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Nancy Gow, an IT evaluator from Oakton, Virginia
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Season 25 player (2009-04-13).
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James Poulos, a grad student and writer from Arlington, Virginia
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Season 26 1-time champion: $7,600 + $1,000.
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Nick Swezey, a publisher from Washington, D.C.
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2007 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD Home...
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Ann Dickie, a director of human resources from Cheverly, Maryland
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Season 20 player (2004-03-17).
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Diane Wilshere, an actor and playwright from Manassas, Virginia
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Season 25 1-time champion: $18,801 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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Adam Bibler, an economist originally from Lancaster, Ohio
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Season 27 1-time champion: $12,000 + $2,000.
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Dan Emberley, an internet project manager from Washington, D.C.
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Season 14 player (1998-06-04).
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Allie Hagan, an education policy consultant from Washington, D.C.
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Season 27 player (2010-11-30).
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Matt Ginsburg, a government consultant from Washington, D.C.
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Season 17 player (2001-03-12).
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Matt Kohlstedt, a grad student originally from La Grange, Illinois
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2009 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
Season 25 5-time champion: $77,803 + $2,000.
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Nicole Karrow, an 11-year-old from Lewes, Delaware
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"Her goals are to be a horse breeder and trainer..." 2007...
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Maureen Madison, a Ph.D. candidate from Washington, D.C.
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Season 16 2-time champion: $13,200.
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Rob Eingurt, a campaign staffer from Washington, D.C.
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Season 19 player (2003-03-17).
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Phil York, a bus driver from Springfield, Virginia
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Season 20 player (2004-03-05).
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Jack Archey, a C.P.A. and comedian from Los Angeles, California
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 2000 Tournament...
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Jen Maloney, an in-house security and web designer from Millersville, Maryland
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Season 24 player (2007-10-02).
Husband's Jeopardy! Message Board user name: mefailenglish
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Justin Oppmann, a political consultant from Washington, D.C.
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Season 16 player (1999-12-28).
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Tom Ayala, a medical student from Washington, D.C.
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Season 13 player (1997-04-14).
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Michael Noonan, a finance manager from Washington, D.C.
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Season 14 1-time champion: $16,201.
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Mark Pestronk, a travel attorney from Washington, D.C.
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1991 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $5,000.
Season 7 4-time champion: $51,698.
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Kaitlin Welborn, a sophomore from the University of Pennsylvania
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2007 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 20 at the time of the...
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Dawn Frank, a special education teacher from Washington, D.C.
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Season 17 player (2001-01-16).
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Ashley Grand, a freshman from Harvard University
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2007 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 19 at the time of the...
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Charlotte Travieso, a management consultant from Washington, D.C.
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Season 13 player (1997-03-13).
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Vince Valle, a foreign service officer from Arlington, Virginia
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Season 20 player (2004-03-01).
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Jolynn Brooks, a caterer from Washington, D.C.
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Season 17 player (2001-01-10).
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Christopher Meloni, a star from Law & Order: SVU and HBO's Oz
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"On TV, he's worked both sides of the law. Once a...
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Valerie Williamson, a public opinion researcher from Washington, D.C.
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Season 17 player (2001-01-08).
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Connie Toohey, a financial secretary and bartender from Solomons, Maryland
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Season 23 player (2006-10-31).
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Dana Mermelstein, an international trade analyst from Washington, D.C.
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Season 17 player (2000-09-20).
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Jill Bunzendahl Chimka, a speech and language pathologist from Washington, D.C.
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2003 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 18 4-time champion: $85,099...
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Jason James, a legal fellow from Vienna, Virginia
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Season 26 player (2009-12-11).
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Trevor Norris, a management analyst from Washington, D.C.
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 2003 Tournament...
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David Orlin, a lawyer from Washington, D.C.
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Season 16 player (2000-05-01).
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S. R. Sidarth, a law student from Dunn Loring, Virginia
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Season 26 player (2009-12-07). Sidarth was famously the object of a...
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Carole Smith, a regulations writer from Washington, D.C.
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Season 13 player (1997-03-19).
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Allison Otto, a lawyer from Arlington, Virginia
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Season 23 player (2006-09-19).
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Jennifer Seiger, a singer and voice teacher from Cary, North Carolina
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Season 25 player (2009-02-11).
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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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Leigh-Anne Marcellin, a part-time English professor from Ashburn, Virginia
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Season 26 player (2009-11-30).
Name pronounced like "lee-ANN mar-SELL-in".
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Margaret Tennison, a retired paralegal from Vienna, Virginia
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Season 23 1-time champion: $21,601 + $1,000.
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Steve Norton, a reporter from Washington, D.C.
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Season 14 1-time champion: $7,200.
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Laura Hansen, a political consultant from Washington, D.C.
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Season 14 1-time champion: $8,500.
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Jill Bunzendahl Chimka, a speech and language pathologist from Washington, D.C.
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2003 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 18 4-time champion: $85,099...
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Jack Archey, a C.P.A. and comedian from Los Angeles, California
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 2000 Tournament...
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Rick Bunch, a project manager from Washington, D.C.
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Season 15 player (1998-10-29).
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Cathy Sorge, an archivist from Silver Spring, Maryland
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Season 26 player (2009-11-23).
Last name pronounced like "SORJ".
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Mike Janssen, a journalist from Arlington, Virginia
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Season 20 player (2004-01-30).
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John Compton, a graduate student from Washington, D.C.
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Season 18 player (2002-01-16).
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Robin Quivers, a radio and television personality from The Howard Stern Show
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"Howard Stern's news anchor and sidekick for the past 28 years,...
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Brenda Bright, a homemaker originally from Washington, D.C.
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Season 6 player (1990-05-04).
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Sharon Neufeld, a C.P.A. from Vienna, Virginia
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Season 14 player (1998-02-23).
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Lauren Kutner, an 11-year-old from Newtown, Pennsylvania
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"The best part of middle school for this seventh grader is...
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Erika Austin, a sociologist originally from Herndon, Virginia
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Season 22 player (2006-07-24).
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Jim Melberg, a lobbyist from Washington, D.C.
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Season 13 player (1997-06-02).
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Jeremy Cohen, a television producer from Washington, D.C.
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Season 18 1-time champion: $5,500.
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Shweta Kumar, a student from Lorton, Virginia
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Season 24 player (2007-09-18).
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Judy Moss, an administrative assistant from Jersey City, New Jersey
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Season 23 player (2007-07-05).
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Teresa Cahalan, a policy analyst from Washington, D.C.
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Season 23 player (2006-11-24).
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Ray Freson, a retired advertising executive from Arlington, Virginia
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Season 22 1-time champion: $14,200 + $1,000.
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Steven Carpenter, an actor and director from Washington, D.C.
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Season 18 player (2002-05-31).
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Ken Rosenau, an attorney from Washington, D.C.
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Season 13 player (1997-07-03).
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Hon. Margaret Spellings, a U.S. Secretary of Education from Washington, D.C.
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"As an advisor to President George W. Bush, she helped craft...
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Eric Swanson, a data coordinator from Washington, D.C.
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Season 14 player (1998-01-02). Not to be confused with Season 31...
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Peter Scott, an advertising manager from Washington, D.C.
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1998 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $5,000. Season 14 4-time champion: $44,803....
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Scott Kearin, a congressional staff member from Washington, D.C.
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Season 13 player (1997-06-17).
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Amy Fletcher, a junior from Cincinnati, Ohio
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2005 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500.
16 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Robin Black, a legal assistant from Washington, D.C.
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Season 16 player (1999-09-16).
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Peter Scott, an advertising manager from Washington, D.C.
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1998 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $5,000. Season 14 4-time champion: $44,803....
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Kathryn Dorminey, an evaluations analyst from Arlington, Virginia
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Season 21 player (2004-10-06). KJL game 51. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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Kim Marshall, a defense analyst from Washington, D.C.
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Season 17 player (2001-02-02).
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Jennifer Burrus, a homemaker and substitute teacher from Leawood, Kansas
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Season 21 player (2005-07-14).
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Ellen Auerbach, a program analyst from Washington, D.C.
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Season 13 player (1997-06-10).
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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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Paul Boymel, a civil rights attorney from Potomac, Maryland
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"He was the top winner of the 1984-85 season. Now he's...
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Chris Capozzola, a graduate student from Washington, D.C.
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"Ten years ago, he was a junior in Worcester, New York....
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Leo Wolpert, a college student from Fairfax, Virginia
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Season 21 player (2004-11-06).
KJL game 68.
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Faith Brown, a fundraiser from Washington, D.C.
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Season 15 player (1998-09-24).
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Jack Deschauer, a public relations professional from Arlington, Virginia
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Season 22 1-time champion: $9,200 + $1,000.
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