| #9086, aired 2024-04-22 | LIBRARIES $1200: The building of this country's José Martí National Library was funded by a tax on sugar Cuba |
| #9086, aired 2024-04-22 | ZIMBABWE $2000: Named for an African chief, this capital city is home to the National Archives & the University of Zimbabwe Harare |
| #9084, aired 2024-04-18 | SECOND CITIES $200: The Castle of Good Hope dates to the 1660s in this city in South Africa Cape Town |
| #9084, aired 2024-04-18 | MEDALS & DECORATIONS $1200: Cuba's Order of Playa Giron, a beach near this bay, commemorates the 1961 victory over anti-Communist invaders the Bay of Pigs |
| #9082, aired 2024-04-16 | DON'T EAT THAT! $200: It comes before poor, nap, cheap & bag dirt |
| #9081, aired 2024-04-15 | BOATS $600: Now used as a ferry between N.Y. & Connecticut, the Cape Henlopen hit the beach in this French region in June 1944 Normandy |
| #9080, aired 2024-04-12 | NEW YORK GOVERNORS $400: On June 29, 1795 this first chief justice resigned from the Supreme Court to become New York's second governor (John) Jay |
| #9079, aired 2024-04-11 | THE MANHATTAN PROJECT $2000: A program chief & a friend of J. Robert Oppenheimer's from Berkeley days, this Nobel Prize winner was played on screen by Josh Hartnett Ernest Lawrence |
| #9078, aired 2024-04-10 | MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL $400: This fierce competitor from Georgia was the first major leaguer to collect 4,000 hits Ty Cobb |
| #9077, aired 2024-04-09 | THE MEASURE OF A MAN $6,000 (Daily Double): You only need letters on the left side of the keyboard to type this unit of capacitance that's named for an English chap the farad |
| #9074, aired 2024-04-04 | PHOTOGRAPHERS $800: The authenticity of Robert Capa's "Falling Soldier", showing a loyalist in 1936 at the start of this war, has been questioned the Spanish Civil War |
| #9074, aired 2024-04-04 | A BEACON IN THE NIGHT $2000: Old Baldy, protecting the entrance to this river since 1817, is North Carolina's oldest standing lighthouse the Cape Fear River |
| #9073, aired 2024-04-03 | FILM COMPOSERS $1200: This Australian bard is also a cinematic composer with scores for "Blonde" & "Hell or High Water" (Nick) Cave |
| #9067, aired 2024-03-26 | SUPREME COURT JUSTICES $1200: This Chief Justice affirmed Congress' "implied powers" in his decision in McCulloch v. Maryland Marshall |
| #9064, aired 2024-03-21 | IDIOMS & EXPRESSIONS $2000: JFK said it's a Cape Cod saying & added, "and a partnership, by definition, serves both partners" a rising tide lifts all boats |
| #9060, aired 2024-03-15 | FAMOUS WOMEN $1600: Subject of a 2023 film, in 2013, she became the first person to swim from Cuba to Florida without a shark cage for protection Nyad |
| #9058, aired 2024-03-13 | SMASH THAT SUBSCRIBE BUTTON $800: Anna Wintour had the fashion sense to become editor-in-chief of this publication in 1988 Vogue |
| #9056, aired 2024-03-11 | BEHIND THE MUSIC $1200: The many Grammys of this legendary musician & producer include Best R&B Song for "Cuff It" in 2023 Nile Rodgers |
| #9053, aired 2024-03-06 | SHAKESPEARE FOR EVERYONE! $200: To sum things up, this title guy passes over a very vengeful dude for the chief Lt. gig & does not get to live to regret it Othello |
| #9047, aired 2024-02-27 | A NICE SHORT STORY SPOILED $2000: Turns out O. Henry's "Ransom of" him ends up costing the kidnappers $250 just to get the dad to take the kid off their hands "The Ransom of Red Chief" |
| #9046, aired 2024-02-26 | THE '70s TOTALLY ROCKED $2000: I want you to want me to say Cheap Trick's 1978 live album "at" this arena in Japan is a hard rock masterpiece Budokan |
| #9046, aired 2024-02-26 | ALLOYS $2000: Lydia in Asia Minor was the chief source in the ancient world of this naturally occurring alloy made of gold & silver electrum |
| #9045, aired 2024-02-23 | 1960s FICTION $400: The "Dolls" in this Jacqueline Susann novel are the pills taken by 3 young women as they cope with their lives & careers in NYC Valley of the Dolls |
| #9040, aired 2024-02-16 | I'M CUBAN $600: Born in Cuba, this "Havana" singer came to the U.S. at age 6 (Camila) Cabello |
| #9037, aired 2024-02-13 | OH, THE PLACES YOU "CAN" GO! $200: It's a 100-mile-long peninsula on the east coast of Florida, or a cape that's a small part of it Canaveral |
| #9035, aired 2024-02-09 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1600: The first women's club in New York was La Liga de las Hijas de this island where a rebellion against Spain was sending refugees norte-ward Cuba |
| #9034, aired 2024-02-08 | THE MOURNING NEWS $200: This songwriter did not compose "God Bless Cuba", where his 20-year-old wife fell fatally ill on their honeymoon Irving Berlin |
| #9032, aired 2024-02-06 | ACTUALLY, THIS IS MY FIRST RODEO $400: I realized bluffing didn't get you too far in the event called cowboy this, in which a bull helps players know when to fold 'em poker |
| #9031, aired 2024-02-05 | THE "ARE" YOU BREATHE $3,000 (Daily Double): "Ruffles And Flourishes" is one of these short pieces of music played prior to "Hail To The Chief" for the president fanfare |
| #9029, aired 2024-02-01 | FROM THE FRENCH $800: Along with Bulgaria & even Cuba, Hungary was part of the "Soviet" this 4-letter word from the French bloc |
| #9028, aired 2024-01-31 | BUSINESS & FINANCE HISTORY $800: In 2021 El Salvador's govt. made all businesses accept this as payment & introduced the digital "Chivo Wallet" bitcoin |
| #9028, aired 2024-01-31 | QUESTIONABLE MOVIES $800: Ice Cube tries to get out of the friend zone with Nia Long by offering to drive her kids to Vancouver in this 2005 film Are We There Yet? |
| #9027, aired 2024-01-30 | POPE FICTION $400: Vicarius Christi in Latin, this title is also the title of a novel about a Medal of Honor winner turned Chief Justice turned pope Vicar of Christ |
| #9026, aired 2024-01-29 | HISTORIC NAMES $800: Before conquering Mexico, this conquistador participated in the conquest of Cuba Cortés |
| #9024, aired 2024-01-25 | HIGHWAYS & BYWAYS $600: Places to chow down on this Memphis street include B.B. King's Blues Club & Jerry Lee Lewis' Cafe & Honky Tonk Beale Street |
| #9022, aired 2024-01-23 | SQUEAKER OF THE HOUSE $400: The standing chicken & smiley face round ball are squeaky these made by Chiwava--okay, I'll throw it just one more time dog toys |
| #9022, aired 2024-01-23 | YOUNG PEOPLE'S NONFICTION $400: "The Whydah" is the tale of the first authenticated pirate ship recovered; it sank off this New England cape Cape Cod |
| #9017, aired 2024-01-16 | HATS IN OTHER WORDS $200: A vaquero is a type of one a cowboy hat |
| #9016, aired 2024-01-15 | WORLD HISTORY $200: This largest Caribbean island's struggle for independence led to the Spanish-American War Cuba |
| #9016, aired 2024-01-15 | AFRICAN CITIES $800: South Africa has 3 capitals; Pretoria (executive), Bloemfontein (judicial) & this one (legislative) Cape Town |
| #9016, aired 2024-01-15 | AROUND THE UNUSUAL HOUSE $1000: Talk about a man cave! There's a basement modeled on this French cave designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1979 Lascaux |
| #2, aired 2024-01-12 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $800: This university in West Virginia is named for the Supreme Court Chief Justice who raised the court to a position of power Marshall |
| #1, aired 2024-01-12 | GRAND MARSHALS OF THE ROSE PARADE $1000: In 1955, shortly after becoming chief justice of the U.S., he served as grand marshal Earl Warren |
| #9014, aired 2024-01-11 | CLOCKS $1600: The almost 2,000-foot tall Makkah Clock Royal Tower in Mecca overlooks this sacred cube-shaped building the Kaaba |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | FEMALE FIRSTS $1500: Decades before becoming the first female Supreme Court justice, she refused a marriage proposal from future Chief Justice Rehnquist Sandra Day O'Connor |
| #9007, aired 2024-01-02 | STOCKS & INVESTMENTS $400: Also used in a different type of gambling, this colorful term describes a stock with a history of paying out a blue chip stock |
| #9007, aired 2024-01-02 | GEOGRAPHY TEST $1000: Cuba is about 90 miles south of the U.S.; this 4,200-square-mile island is about 90 miles south of Cuba Jamaica |
| #23, aired 2024-01-02 | DIFFERENT SONGS, SAME TITLES $800: Elvis Presley,
Cheap Trick
(Mommy's alright, Daddy's alright, they just seem a little weird) "Surrender" |
| #9006, aired 2024-01-01 | MOVIES BY GOOGLE SEARCH $600: "Vegas flight for bachelorette but cheap"; "stomach hurts trying on dresses, why?"; "'Hold On' by Wilson Phillips lyrics" Bridesmaids |
| #9006, aired 2024-01-01 | PEOPLE $800: CUT is the Beverly Hills steakhouse of this celebrity chef seen here Wolfgang Puck |
| #9004, aired 2023-12-28 | MEASUREMENT $1200: I say, old chap, are you really leaving the fish & chips shop? I hope you gave a fortnight's notice, this long two weeks |
| #9003, aired 2023-12-27 | BAYS $400: This bay on the southern side of Cuba is home to a U.S. naval base Guantanamo Bay |
| #9002, aired 2023-12-26 | LITERAL NATIONAL NAMES $4,400 (Daily Double): Throughout its history, it's been the "island of copper" Cyprus |
| #9001, aired 2023-12-25 | LET ME PHRASE IT THIS WAY $600: This heavily memed phrase of dismissive farewell was uttered by Ice Cube in "Friday" "Bye, Felicia" |
| #9001, aired 2023-12-25 | THE MANGER ZONE $1000: This king "gathered all the chief priests and scribes of the people" & "demanded of them where Christ should be born" King Herod |
| #8997, aired 2023-12-19 | FAMOUS LAST WORDS $800: "Blow of mercy" in French, it's a finishing blow at the end of combat a coup de grâce |
| #8995, aired 2023-12-15 | COUNTRY ADD A LETTER $400: Add a letter to the country highlighted here & you'll get this acronym for a device usable offshore scuba (from Cuba) |
| #8995, aired 2023-12-15 | AN "L" OF A TEAM $1200: They chop down opponents for Cal Poly Humboldt, & they're okay the Lumberjacks |
| #8995, aired 2023-12-15 | SAN FRANCISCO, NOW & FOREVER $1600: 28 S.F. restaurants have received a total of 39 of these coveted awards, including 3 for chef Corey Lee's Benu on Hawthorne Street Michelin stars |
| #8994, aired 2023-12-14 | STATE OF THE COLLEGE $1000: The Campbell Fighting Camels are from near the Cape Fear River in this state North Carolina |
| #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 |
| #8991, aired 2023-12-11 | HOME ON THE RANGE $800: This creamy pasta dish was created in the early 1900s; the Italian chef created it for his wife, but put his own first name on it Alfredo |
| #8991, aired 2023-12-11 | HYDROLOGY $1000: In the Americas this hydrological line stretches from Cape Prince of Wales in Alaska down to southern Patagonia the Great Divide (the Continental Divide) |
| #8989, aired 2023-12-07 | SUPER BOWL STARS $200: After throwing for 286 yards & 2 TDs, he was named the chief reason for Kansas City's victory in Super Bowl 54 Mahomes |
| #8984, aired 2023-11-30 | WHO IS THEON OF SMYRNA? $400: Theon's home of Smyrna is now called Izmir & is one of the chief seaports of this country of Asia Minor Turkey |
| #8983, aired 2023-11-29 | FAREWELL TO THE CHIEF $400: December 14, 1799 at his home in Virginia George Washington |
| #8983, aired 2023-11-29 | HERE COMES THE NEIGHBORHOOD $400: Miami districts include "Little Haiti" & "Little" this city, home to many exiles from Cuba Havana |
| #8983, aired 2023-11-29 | FAREWELL TO THE CHIEF $800: July 4, 1826 Thomas Jefferson (or John Adams) |
| #8983, aired 2023-11-29 | FAREWELL TO THE CHIEF $1200: December 26, 1972 in Kansas City, Missouri Truman |
| #8983, aired 2023-11-29 | FAREWELL TO THE CHIEF $1,800 (Daily Double): August 2, 1923 in San Francisco, California Harding |
| #8983, aired 2023-11-29 | FAREWELL TO THE CHIEF $2000: On July 23, 1885 just days after completing his memoirs, he died of cancer at his New York home Ulysses S. Grant |
| #21, aired 2023-11-29 | POEMS ABOUT POETRY $400: "O Captain! My Captain!", its words full of grief / Whitman's lament to this commander in chief Lincoln |
| #21, aired 2023-11-29 | SHE PLAYED YOU $1,000 (Daily Double): Marge Gunderson:
Pregnant police chief & folksy small-town optimist Frances McDormand |
| #21, aired 2023-11-29 | THIS IS JEO-PURR-DY! $1000: Here's Larry, the Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office, on patrol in front of the Prime Minister's residence on this London Street Downing Street |
| #8980, aired 2023-11-24 | AN AMERICAN IN PARIS $800: This first Chief Justice of the U.S. negotiated the Treaty of Paris in 1782 (John) Jay |
| #8979, aired 2023-11-23 | PUT ME IN $600: Any cowboy knows a Roy Rogers requires me, this pomegranate-flavored syrup grenadine |
| #8979, aired 2023-11-23 | OXYMORONS $800: 1980 Travolta movie about mechanical bulls & bravery Urban Cowboy |
| #8978, aired 2023-11-22 | ONOMATOPOEIA $1000: The sound of eating a chip, it comes before "time" to mean a moment of pressure crunch |
| #8974, aired 2023-11-16 | JAILHOUSE ROCK $400: From 1964 to 1982 this Nobelist was incarcerated on rocky Robben Island off the coast of Cape Town Mandela |
| #8973, aired 2023-11-15 | GOBS OF GODS $1000: This chief defender of Asgard had a big cult following in Uppsala Thor |
| #8973, aired 2023-11-15 | BRIDE'S HEAD REVISITED $1600: The height of Spanish style, it's often worn over a comb & has a name derived from "manta", Spanish for cape mantillas |
| #20, aired 2023-11-15 | THE SEARCH FOR FOREIGN LANDS $300: A popular spot for scuba diving, the bay of pigs is located on this island nation's southern coast Cuba |
| #20, aired 2023-11-15 | SIX DEGREES OF ACTUAL BACON $400: Mayo is in egg salad with hard-boiled eggs, which are with bacon atop this salad, first served at LA's Brown Derby Cobb salad |
| #20, aired 2023-11-15 | ADVENTUROUS WOMEN $500: Pioneering journalist Martha Gellhorn made a brief home in Cuba during the '40s as the third wife of this author Hemingway |
| #8971, aired 2023-11-13 | LETTER & WORD $800: A cheap film shown in addition to the main feature a B picture (B movie) |
| #8969, aired 2023-11-09 | MATH SYMBOLS $2000: This extreme symbol indicates a square root; when used with a raised 3, a cube root a radical |
| #8968, aired 2023-11-08 | I PITY DA FOOD! $400: Slaughterhouses don't have to ask & pay for USDA grades for this meat, be it in chop, loin or rib form pork |
| #8968, aired 2023-11-08 | ENCYCLOPEDIA BROWN $1600: The Cobb salad was invented at this Hollywood restaurant named for a hat the Brown Derby |
| #8967, aired 2023-11-07 | DO YOU KNOW THE WAY TO SAN JOSÉ? $800: If you mean San José de las Lajas, it's in la Habana province in this country Cuba |
| #8963, aired 2023-11-01 | I'M ON THE CASE $400: Go through Marbury v. Madison to see how this Chief Justice established the power of judicial review (John) Marshall |
| #19, aired 2023-11-01 | HAIL TO THE CHEF $100: The website of this president's library includes "Ike's Cookbook", a compilation of his favorite recipes Eisenhower |
| #19, aired 2023-11-01 | HAIL TO THE CHEF $200: This president's recipe for New England fish chowder calls for 2 lbs. of haddock Kennedy |
| #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 | RIGHT "U-R" $300: A purveyor of cowboy equipment, Big Bend Saddlery in Alpine, TX offers many varieties of this cowboy boot accessory spur |
| #19, aired 2023-11-01 | HAIL TO THE CHEF $300: In 2009, Barack Obama was grillin' & chillin' on the South Lawn with this celebrity chef Bobby Flay |
| #19, aired 2023-11-01 | PENINSULAS $400: New England's very own gun show is this Massachusetts peninsula, often said to resemble an arm flexing its bicep Cape Cod |
| #19, aired 2023-11-01 | G-I TRACT $400: Celeb chef Giada De Laurentiis has a recipe for this dish that calls for salt, pepper, flour, an egg and 1 1/2 pounds of Russet potatoes gnocchi |
| #19, aired 2023-11-01 | HAIL TO THE CHEF $500: A lover of European cuisine, this 3rd U.S. president once created a design for his own pasta-making machine Thomas Jefferson |
| #19, aired 2023-11-01 | HAIL TO THE CHEF $1,100 (Daily Double): A distillery at this historic Virginia estate makes whiskey based on George Washington's own recipe Mount Vernon |
| #8961, aired 2023-10-30 | 5 RHYMES $600: Herb with a mild onion flavor chive |
| #8960, aired 2023-10-27 | ANATOMY $1,000 (Daily Double): Familiar to pitchers, the group of muscles called this includes the subscapularis muscle the rotator cuff |
| #8960, aired 2023-10-27 | THE MAORI $1000: In this 2002 movie starring Keisha Castle-Hughes, a 12-year-old girl wants to be chief of her Maori tribe; granddad says no Whale Rider |
| #8958, aired 2023-10-25 | ON THE "ROAD" AGAIN $600: In this hit Lil Nas X mentions his "cowboy hat from Gucci" "Old Town Road" |
| #18, aired 2023-10-25 | FIX THE MOVIE QUOTE $500: Ice Cube, in the 1995 movie "Friday":
"Bye, amnesia" Felicia |
| #8956, aired 2023-10-23 | PEOPLE WITH MUPPET NAMES $2000: Nickname of I. Lewis Libby who grew up to be Vice President Cheney's powerful chief of staff Scooter |
| #8953, aired 2023-10-18 | DINING OUT IN NEW YORK $1000: Per Se is a NYC restaurant where this chef of the French Laundry has augmented his reputation (Thomas) Keller |
| #17, aired 2023-10-18 | BOARD GAMES $100: If you play the latest version of this Hasbro game you can be Chef White or Solicitor Peacock Clue |
| #17, aired 2023-10-18 | "POP" QUIZ, HOTSHOT $300: If you love Dum Dums & Chupa Chups, you're a real sucker for this treat a lollipop |
| #8951, aired 2023-10-16 | WANT TO MAKE SOMETHING OUT OF IT? $800: The prototype of his "Cube" was made of 27 wooden blocks; it took him a month to solve it Rubik |
| #8951, aired 2023-10-16 | IN THE BASEBALL TEAM'S LINEUP $1600: 1906:
Charley O'Leary,
Pinky Lindsay & here's one who might help a bit... Ty Cobb the Detroit Tigers |
| #8950, aired 2023-10-13 | 'ROUND MIDNIGHT $1600: James Leo Herlihy wrote this 1965 novel about Joe Buck, who tries to make it in New York as a stud for hire Midnight Cowboy |
| #8949, aired 2023-10-12 | AARON BURR $1000: The Chief Justice who presided over his treason trial John Marshall |
| #8949, aired 2023-10-12 | HAPPIER MOVIE ENDINGS $1600: "Hold the execution. John Coffey's been found innocent. He is a free man." "Phew. That was close" The Green Mile |
| #8949, aired 2023-10-12 | RANK-LY SPEAKING $2000: Job title of the chief law enforcer of the House of Representatives Sergeant at Arms |
| #8948, aired 2023-10-11 | THE CALIFORNIANS $400: Shyeah, this Chief Justice known for his commission spoke for the Court in Brown v. Board of Education, you know? Warren |
| #16, aired 2023-10-11 | OH, THAT'S RICH $100: Chef Jamie Oliver's website says that if you use lamb instead of beef for cottage pie, it should go by this occupational name shepherd's pie |
| #16, aired 2023-10-11 | FEELING GASSY $800: Unopened potato chip bags are made puffy by filling them with this gas, the most abundant one in our atmosphere nitrogen |
| #16, aired 2023-10-11 | FOR SWEATER OR WORSE $1000: Anne Hathaway's cheap blue sweater sparks the wrath of Meryl Streep, who delivers a withering "cerulean monologue" in this film The Devil Wears Prada |
| #16, aired 2023-10-11 | SHAPES IN NATURE $1200: Baffling scientists for years, wombats excrete their fecal matter in this shape (Erno Rubik would be proud) a cube |
| #8947, aired 2023-10-10 | LODGING $2000: Escoffier was once the chef of this elegant French-named hotel at Fifth Avenue & 61st Street the Pierre |
| #8944, aired 2023-10-05 | WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE $1000: We have good hope you can tell us this alternate name for the African buffalo (it lives in Africa, by the way) a Cape buffalo |
| #8941, aired 2023-10-02 | SOUTH AFRICA $1200: Parts of this coastal city & its suburbs wind up towards & around Table Mountain Cape Town |
| #8939, aired 2023-09-28 | AROUND THE HORN $400: In August 1578 this English navigator sailed around Cape Horn Francis Drake |
| #8939, aired 2023-09-28 | AROUND THE HORN $1600: In 1910 he said he was sailing from Norway to the Arctic Ocean via Cape Horn, but he was really headed to the South Pole Amundsen |
| #8939, aired 2023-09-28 | AROUND THE HORN $5,400 (Daily Double): An around-the-world yacht race that requires sailors to round Cape Horn awards a trophy named for this author Jules Verne |
| #8937, aired 2023-09-26 | CAVES $200: One of the Seven Wonders of Barbados, Harrison's Cave is rich in formations of these hanging objects stalactites |
| #8937, aired 2023-09-26 | CAVES $400: The cave temple of Kailasa in the Himalayas honors this "destroyer" deity Shiva |
| #8937, aired 2023-09-26 | SHATTERING ALLUSIONS $800: The double whammy goes back to Evil-Eye Fleegle, a character in this Al Capp strip Li'l Abner |
| #8937, aired 2023-09-26 | CAVES $800: A New Haven, Conn. cave was the hideout of the judges who had signed this king's death warrant in 1649 Charles I |
| #8937, aired 2023-09-26 | CAVES $1000: The historic entrance to this U.S. national park is seen here Mammoth Cave |
| #8937, aired 2023-09-26 | AMERICAN ISLANDS $1600: Gay Head, on this island off Cape Cod, has been renamed Aquinnah Martha's Vineyard |
| #8936, aired 2023-09-25 | WHAT'S IN THAT CHIP $200: Walkers had a chip that paired hoisin, aka Peking sauce, with this appropriate fowl duck |
| #8936, aired 2023-09-25 | WHAT'S IN THAT CHIP $400: The Chinese have apparently been big fans of chips that combine lemon with the flavor of this ubiquitous beverage tea |
| #8936, aired 2023-09-25 | WHAT'S IN THAT CHIP $600: Paqui, known for their exotic peppers, of course has a haunted flavor featuring this type of pepper a ghost pepper |
| #8936, aired 2023-09-25 | WHAT'S IN THAT CHIP $800: Calbee went nuts with this Ukrainian beetroot soup, putting the flavor in a chip borscht |
| #8936, aired 2023-09-25 | FARMING PHRASES $1200: This stuff that gets separated from the wheat in a familiar idiom is seed coverings & other undesirable debris the chaff |
| #8936, aired 2023-09-25 | WHAT'S IN THAT CHIP $2,600 (Daily Double): Mackie's of Scotland makes chips, err crisps, with hints of this offal dish that Robert Burns once "addressed" haggis |
| #8933, aired 2023-09-20 | THE HAND THAT FEEDS YOU $400: Finely chop raw, lean meat; add salt, pepper & herbs, top with a raw egg yolk & you're on your way to a dish of beef this tartare |
| #8932, aired 2023-09-19 | SUPER TROUPERS $1600: Paul Reubens & Maya Rudolph honed their skills with this group named for those in the cheap non-seats during Elizabethan plays The Groundlings |
| #8932, aired 2023-09-19 | PHYSIOLOGY $2,000 (Daily Double): The superior this brings blood from the head, neck, arms & chest to the heart, specifically to the right atrium the vena cava |
| #8931, aired 2023-09-18 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1000: Native American leaders at the 1876 Battle of the Little Bighorn included Sitting Bull & this Oglala chief, killed the following year Crazy Horse |
| #8929, aired 2023-09-14 | ALLITERATIVE GEOGRAPHY $400: Provincetown & Barnstable are on this Bay State peninsula Cape Cod |
| #8929, aired 2023-09-14 | THE 2023 TIME 100 $1000: She's the only one "to serve as the president's Chief Economic Adviser, the Vice Chair & Chair of the Fed" & Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen |
| #8929, aired 2023-09-14 | POP CULTURE $1200: The last name of this Giants great includes "Cove", & a cove where home run balls splash down is named for him McCovey |
| #8929, aired 2023-09-14 | HIP-HOP LITERARY REFERENCES $1600: This rapper & "Law & Order: SVU" actor titled his spoken word track "Soul on Ice" after Eldridge Cleaver's memoir Ice-T |
| #8924, aired 2023-07-27 | ANATOMICAL ANAGRAMS $400: Especially in a crowded cafe, it would be hard to hide this face (from cafe) |
| #8923, aired 2023-07-26 | ALL KINDS OF LITERATURE $400: Seaside police chief Martin Brody fights a corrupt politician & a ferocious predator in this Peter Benchley bestseller Jaws |
| #8923, aired 2023-07-26 | CROOKS $1000: Meaning "shorty", it's the nickname of the Mexican drug lord who has a habit of escaping from prison El Chapo |
| #8921, aired 2023-07-24 | MY WOULD-BE VP $2000: Earl Warren, 5 years before becoming Chief Justice Thomas Dewey |
| #8920, aired 2023-07-21 | THAT HOLLOW FEELING $200: Outstanding examples of prehistoric art can be found in Altamira, this type of hollow feature a cave |
| #8920, aired 2023-07-21 | THE ROMAINES OF THE DAY $1000: This salad, made with Romaine, is said to be named for its supposed creator, the owner of the Brown Derby a Cobb salad |
| #8918, aired 2023-07-19 | ADD AN E AT THE END $200: A baby bear &
a solid square cub & cube |
| #8917, aired 2023-07-18 | AFRICAN FILMS $1600: "Sankofa" features an American transported back in time at Cape Coast Castle near Accra in this West African country Ghana |
| #8916, aired 2023-07-17 | WHAT'S THE NAME OF THAT TV SHOW? $200: Seattle's Café Nervosa was a hangout for the title psychiatrist on this TV series Frasier |
| #8915, aired 2023-07-14 | GOOD AFTERNOON! $1000: Really covering all the bases, this painter gave us "Morning Sun", "Cape Cod Afternoon" & "Nighthawks" Hopper |
| #8914, aired 2023-07-13 | ESPAÑ-O $400: It's Spanish for "open" & goes with "open" on a bilingual sign in a store or cafe window abierto |
| #8911, aired 2023-07-10 | WALLPAPER $1200: Mount Vernon has a room named for this type of wallpaper that may sound cheap or stingy, but its name reflects its origins in India chintz |
| #8911, aired 2023-07-10 | POP CULTURE-POURRI $1600: This "CHiPs" star teamed up with Tostitos in 2015 to promote National Chip & Dip Day Estrada |
| #8907, aired 2023-07-04 | A BIBLICAL BURIAL $400: Together Isaac & Ishmael bury this man in the cave of Machpelah Abraham |
| #8906, aired 2023-07-03 | "NEG" BAIT $800: Beersheba is the chief town in this region with a name from Hebrew for "dry" Negev |
| #8904, aired 2023-06-29 | BEFORE & AFTER PEOPLE $400: Gunslinger William Bonney who rapped & rolled his way to hits like "Cowboy" & "Redneck Paradise" Billy the Kid Rock |
| #8904, aired 2023-06-29 | WORLD "L" $2000: It's Angola's capital & chief seaport Luanda |
| #8898, aired 2023-06-21 | NEVADA $400: This construction on the Colorado River in the 1930s greatly aided the region's growth by providing cheap electrical power the Hoover Dam |
| #8895, aired 2023-06-16 | CUFFING SEASON $1600: This Bulls & Lakers coach once used the basketball-appropriate malaphor "I'm shooting from the cuff" (Phil) Jackson |
| #8894, aired 2023-06-15 | AMERICAN CAVES $400: The world's longest cave system is Mammoth Cave National Park in this state Kentucky |
| #8894, aired 2023-06-15 | AMERICAN CAVES $800: Located in the Black Hills region of this state, Wind Cave National Park boasts 160 miles of explored cave passageways South Dakota |
| #8894, aired 2023-06-15 | FACT: NONFICTION $2000: These 3 words complete the title of Stephen R. Covey's "The 7 Habits of..."; be one of them now highly effective people |
| #8894, aired 2023-06-15 | AMERICAN CAVES $2000: Sadly, vandalism has destroyed much of the prehistoric art in Samuel's Cave in this state's La Crosse County Wisconsin |
| #8893, aired 2023-06-14 | "M"PIRES $800: Tikal, Coba & Uxmal were all cities of this Mesoamerican empire (the) Maya(n) (Empire) |
| #8890, aired 2023-06-09 | AROUND THE WORLD $2,000 (Daily Double): In 1898 the Rough Riders charged up Kettle Hill as well as this more famous one in Cuba San Juan Hill |
| #8889, aired 2023-06-08 | BIG & LIL POP CULTURE $2000: Al Capp created this comic strip set in good ol' Dogpatch Li'l Abner |
| #8888, aired 2023-06-07 | COMPANY $200: The Dragon spacecraft built by this company launches from Cape Canaveral via a Falcon 9 launch vehicle SpaceX |
| #8887, aired 2023-06-06 | STRAIT UP $2000: Due northwest of the west end of Hispaniola is this passage between that island & Cuba; further S.E. are the same-named islands the Windward |
| #8886, aired 2023-06-05 | MOVIE CONTINENTS $400: Europe:
2005 horror film named for cheap lodgings Hostel |
| #8885, aired 2023-06-02 | THEIR MIDDLE INITIAL $800: Of statesman & Chief Justice Salmon Chase P. |
| #8884, aired 2023-06-01 | "MAN" O' WAR $400: Army general Omar Bradley was the first to hold this position on the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff a chairman |
| #8882, aired 2023-05-30 | MOUNTAINS $1600: A cave at the summit of the mountain Jabal Al Nour is said to be where this prophet received his first revelations Muhammad |
| #8881, aired 2023-05-29 | THE GULF OF MEXICO $800: The western end of this island forms a partial divider between the Gulf & the Caribbean Sea Cuba |
| #20, aired 2023-05-24 | NOM NOM NOMINATIONS $400: From 2001 to 2006, Emmy voters didn't quite get the "essence of" this chef, but in 2017... bam! he got a trophy for "Eat the World" Emeril Lagasse |
| #20, aired 2023-05-24 | NOM NOM NOMINATIONS $800: "Beat" this chef? as a 1991 & '92 nominee for Beard's rising chef of the year, yes, but in '93? Winner winner barbecue dinner! Bobby Flay |
| #8877, aired 2023-05-23 | ENDS WITH A SILENT CONSONANT $1200: This French word means a takeover of the government; the longer phrase it comes from also ends with a silent letter a coup |
| #18, aired 2023-05-23 | LET'S GO GULFING $2000: The Equator & prime meridian intersect in this gulf that stretches from Cape Lopez in Gabon to Cape Palmas in Liberia Gulf of Guinea |
| #17, aired 2023-05-23 | FOR MASTERS ONLY $1200: Bewildered diners in a sushi restaurant may use this Japanese word indicating "chef's choice" omakase |
| #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 |
| #8874, aired 2023-05-18 | MAGAZINES $200: In 2021 this magazine famous for its "500" ranking of companies named Alyson Shontell its first-ever woman editor-in-chief Fortune |
| #8874, aired 2023-05-18 | RESTAURANTS $200: In 2019 a French chef demanded to be taken out of this prestigious guide that had claimed he used Cheddar cheese in a soufflé the Michelin Guide |
| #8874, aired 2023-05-18 | MAGAZINES $400: "Biscuits & Jam" is a podcast hosted by Sid Evans, editor-in-chief of this regional magazine abbreviated S.L. Southern Living |
| #8873, aired 2023-05-17 | PODCASTS $2000: (I'm Wil Wheaton.) I play a chef at a restaurant called Tourniquet on the podcast "Welcome to" this strange town where stranger things happen the Night Vale |
| #14, aired 2023-05-17 | HEADGEAR & HISTORY $1600: The feathers of this species, not the U.S. national symbol, are a symbol of prowess in war, as in the bonnet of an Arapaho chief a golden eagle |
| #12, aired 2023-05-16 | POSSESSIVE GEOGRAPHY $1000: Around 1830 Felix Mendelssohn composed an overture about this Scottish grotto Fingal's Cave |
| #11, aired 2023-05-16 | THE GEODYSSEY $3,600 (Daily Double): After getting blown off course rounding Cape Malea, Odysseus & crew arrive at the land of these very happy vegans the Lotus Eaters |
| #8871, aired 2023-05-15 | IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD $400: The original Café du Monde serves its famed beignets on Decatur Street in this New Orleans neighborhood the French Quarter |
| #8871, aired 2023-05-15 | CLOSE ELECTIONS $800: A 1994 tie vote for a seat in Wyoming's state house was broken by a drawing from one of these hats matching a state nickname a cowboy hat |
| #9, aired 2023-05-15 | NOT YOUR EVERYDAY WORDS $800: A tall white chef's hat has this 5-letter name that can be followed by "blanche", if you want to be fancy toque |
| #9, aired 2023-05-15 | LET'S GO ON A SAFARI $1600: National parks are your best bet for spotting the big 5: lions, leopards, rhinos, elephants &, most dangerous, these bovines Cape buffalo |
| #8, aired 2023-05-12 | I'M LATE, I'M GREAT, I WAS SECRETARY OF STATE $9,400 (Daily Double): I messed up saying I was "in control" in the White House, but earlier I really was as a shaky Richard Nixon's last Chief of Staff (Alexander) Haig |
| #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 | FUNNY LADIES $800: This "SNL" alumna recently had a brief run as M&M spokesperson & chief of fun Rudolph |
| #8868, aired 2023-05-10 | WAY BACK IN THE 1900s $600: On Sept. 4, 1962 JFK warned the world--especially one part of the world--that no offensive weapons should be sent to this nation Cuba |
| #8868, aired 2023-05-10 | NEW NEW ORLEANS MUSIC $1200: Trumpeter Chief Xian aTunde Adjuah sometimes plays with a tilted bell just like this musician before him Dizzy Gillespie |
| #5, aired 2023-05-10 | DEALING WITH THE GOVERNMENT $600: Appointed by Reagan, he was Chief Justice of the United States immediately before John Roberts Rehnquist |
| #5, aired 2023-05-10 | NATIONAL FOUNDERS $800: Mujibur Rahman, who led this country's breakaway from Pakistan, was killed in a 1975 coup Bangladesh |
| #4, aired 2023-05-09 | LIBRARIES $400: When this big-box retailer moved out, McAllen, Texas moved in to create a 123,000-square-foot public library, complete with a cafe Walmart |
| #1, aired 2023-05-08 | LITERARY DEMISES $600: In "The Green Mile", this death row inmate who has healing powers is innocent but is resigned to his fate Coffey |
| #1, aired 2023-05-08 | SPOONERISM PAIRS $800: An unhappy sentimental song & an unpleasant Cobb or Waldorf a sad ballad & a bad salad |
| #8864, aired 2023-05-04 | FLORIDA PLACES $400: Time to make some space and don this cape seen here Canaveral |
| #8863, aired 2023-05-03 | HISTORIC AMERICANS $1600: In 1877 this Nez Perce chief tried to lead his followers into Canada when they were stopped about 40 miles from the border Chief Joseph |
| #8856, aired 2023-04-24 | GREEK HISTORY $800: In 1967 Greece's politicians worried about a coup by generals, but a group of this lower rank took over for 7 years the colonels |
| #8856, aired 2023-04-24 | AFRICAN GEOGRAPHY $1000: 3 of South Africa's 9 provinces, making up more than half the country's area, are called Eastern, Western & Northern this Cape |
| #8854, aired 2023-04-20 | REMEMBERING BARBARA WALTERS $1200: Barbara shared that after interviewing this world leader in Cuba in 1977, he "took us into his kitchen and made us grilled cheese" Castro |
| #8853, aired 2023-04-19 | PEOPLE IN BOOKS $200: Chingachgook is a chief of this native people in James Fenimore Cooper's "Leatherstocking Tales" the Mohicans |
| #8851, aired 2023-04-17 | ENDS IN SILENT "E" $400: Edna from "The Incredibles" is known to advise against wearing one a cape |
| #8850, aired 2023-04-14 | YOU LOSE $600: In 1987 "Great White Shark" Greg Norman got eaten alive after Augusta native Larry Mize holed a 140-foot chip to win this major event the Masters |
| #8849, aired 2023-04-13 | FISH OUT OF WATER $1000: As Chief Justice, he presided over the impeachment trial of Andrew Johnson (Salmon P.) Chase |
| #8848, aired 2023-04-12 | DINING OUT $800: Pull up a seat at Chip & Joanna Gaines' restaurant in Waco, Texas called this, same as Joanna's cooking show Magnolia Table |
| #8845, aired 2023-04-07 | TWO SHOES $1000: This maker of the Skyline cowboy hat also makes cowboy boots Stetson |
| #8843, aired 2023-04-05 | THE LAST BATTLE $400: The last Western Hemisphere action of the Spanish-American War wasn't on Cuba but on this island Puerto Rico |
| #8837, aired 2023-03-28 | TOUGH TOUGH-GUY TV $2000: Tough cowboy Curly in "City Slickers", this Western actor took a turn on TV as Bronk Jack Palance |
| #8836, aired 2023-03-27 | ISLANDS OF THE FAR NORTH $5,000 (Daily Double): Canada's northernmost point, Cape Columbia is on Ellesmere Island, part of this vast territory created in 1999 Nunavut |
| #8834, aired 2023-03-23 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $800: Coup de foudre, literally "stroke of lightning", is the French equivalent of this 4-word phrase for instantaneous romance love at first sight |
| #8831, aired 2023-03-20 | GIFTS FOR THE SPORTS FAN? $400: This word for any cheap trinket sounds perfect for a Big Apple hoops lover a knickknack |
| #8829, aired 2023-03-16 | THE LEADER BEFORE THE LEADER $800: A Sept. 11, 1973 coup led to the death of Salvador Allende & General Pinochet taking control of this country Chile |
| #8827, aired 2023-03-14 | THE TITLE TV CHARACTER'S BUDDIES $600: Cowboy Curtis & Miss Yvonne, playing for laughs in the Playhouse Pee-wee Herman |
| #8823, aired 2023-03-08 | MOUNTAIN HIGH, VALLEY LOW $600: Cape Town's Table Mountain often has its own cloud cover, which has fittingly been dubbed this tablecloth |
| #8822, aired 2023-03-07 | ANAGRAMS OF EACH OTHER $400: Fuzzy fruit & inexpensive peach & cheap |
| #8817, aired 2023-02-28 | SOUTH AMERICANA $1600: A folk hero of Argentina is this nomadic cowboy of the grasslands of the Pampas a gaucho |
| #8815, aired 2023-02-24 | A GOVERNMENT OFFICE $200: Conveniently based in this U.S. city, the Office of Cuba Broadcasting provides uncensored information to the island Miami |
| #8814, aired 2023-02-23 | POST-GRADUATION $600: It can mean to wrestle, or to cope with a difficult problem grapple |
| #8814, aired 2023-02-23 | COLLEGE FOOTBALL $600: Currently a chief part of the NFL, he threw for 5,052 yards & 41 TDs in his last year at Texas Tech in 2016 Mahomes |
| #8811, aired 2023-02-20 | PALINDROMES IN POP CULTURE $1200: Ice Cube wasn't Xander but Darius in this film sequel subtitled "State of the Union" XXX |
| #8810, aired 2023-02-17 | STAY COOL $400: With flavors like Cool Ranch, it's no surprise this chip brand has a cool stylized triangle on its bags Doritos |
| #8801, aired 2023-02-06 | YOU CAN CALL ME HOMER $800: As this chief U.S. law enforcement officer, Homer Cummings announced an arrest in the Lindbergh baby kidnapping the Attorney General |
| #8801, aired 2023-02-06 | THE ILIAD & THE ODYSSEY $2000: This Cyclops traps Odysseus & his men in a cave to eat them, but is blinded when they make their escape Polyphemus |
| #8800, aired 2023-02-03 | JUICE BAR $600: Head to New England for this classic 2-ingredient cocktail made with vodka & cranberry juice a Cape Codder |
| #8800, aired 2023-02-03 | WATER MUSIC $800: Carly Simon wrote "Let The River Run" for this film starring Melanie Griffith & Harrison Ford Working Girl |
| #8798, aired 2023-02-01 | YOU "BREAK" $1000: An 1889 Chekhov story is about this, an inability to cope with life due to stress; it's no longer an accepted medical diagnosis a nervous breakdown |
| #8798, aired 2023-02-01 | TV CHARACTER FIRST NAMES $1600: "Grey's Anatomy":
Dr. Grey, chief of surgery at long, long last Meredith |
| #8796, aired 2023-01-30 | OUT ON A BOOK TOUR $1200: In "A Cook's Tour" this late chef & lover of travel went all over the world "In Search of the Perfect Meal" Bourdain |
| #8793, aired 2023-01-25 | WE GRADE THAT H-PLUS $1000: A restaurant with tables on the sidewalk adds H to the menu for a word meaning to irritate by rubbing café & chafe |
| #8790, aired 2023-01-20 | AMERICAN LIT $800: This narrator in a 19th century classic says, "Tom and me found the money that the robbers hid in the cave" Huck Finn |
| #11, aired 2023-01-19 | WHAT'S NEW IN HISTORY $2,500 (Daily Double): In January 1959 moderate liberal Manuel Urrutia was Cuba's new president, but by July, this man was fully in charge Fidel Castro |
| #8788, aired 2023-01-18 | WOMEN OF SCIENCE $600: Fei-Fei Li took a sabbatical from Stanford to be Google Cloud's chief scientist of AI/ML, artificial intelligence & this machine learning |
| #8788, aired 2023-01-18 | KNOW YOUR BOUNDARIES $1200: Often cited as the southernmost point of South America, this rocky headland marks the northern boundary of the Drake Passage Cape Horn |
| #8788, aired 2023-01-18 | NEWSPAPER NAMES $2000: This Japanese paper shares its name with the chief index on the Tokyo Stock Exchange the Nikkei |
| #8786, aired 2023-01-16 | CLICHÉS REPHRASE $600: Chef's or nicoise Monday & Saturday salad days |
| #8785, aired 2023-01-13 | A LINEAR CATEGORY $1600: With this kind of authority, a chief executive can nullify parts of legislation without rejecting a whole bill a line-item veto |
| #8784, aired 2023-01-12 | WHAT'S ALL THIS, THEN? $2000: My chart of the PM's cabinet was knocked cock-a-hoop when Mr. Kwarteng served only 38 days as this chief financial minister chancellor of the Exchequer |
| #10, aired 2023-01-12 | PENINSULAS $600: Perhaps you've traveled to the southern tip of this peninsula for some resort R&R in Cabo San Lucas Baja (California) |
| #8782, aired 2023-01-10 | THE ATTORNEY GENERAL $400: Former A.G. Roger Taney was Chief Justice for this enslaved man v. Sandford Dred Scott |
| #8777, aired 2023-01-03 | L'HISTOIRE DE FRANCE $2000: The first examples of art by prehistoric people are Cro-Magnon, like at this French cave discovered by 4 teens in 1940 Lascaux |
| #8773, aired 2022-12-28 | A CATEGORY OF CHANCE $800: Tetrodotoxin can make eating this fish a dicey proposition, so make sure your sushi chef is no slouch fugu (blowfish or pufferfish) |
| #8773, aired 2022-12-28 | ALL DRESSED IN WHITE $1000: Initiates in this religion that developed in Cuba in the 1800s wear white for their first year Santeria |
| #8773, aired 2022-12-28 | WORLD CAPITALS $3,000 (Daily Double): Of South Africa's 3 capitals, this judicial one is alphabetically first Bloemfontein |
| #8771, aired 2022-12-26 | THE 18th CENTURY $200: She came to power in Russia in a 1762 coup against her husband, who was soon dead with the official cause as hemorrhoids Catherine the Great |
| #8770, aired 2022-12-23 | AROUND ASIA $800: Mainland Asia's southernmost point is Cape Piai at the tip of this peninsula the Malay Peninsula |
| #8770, aired 2022-12-23 | EVERYDAY ROYALTY & NOBILITY $1000: We commission you to give the first & last names of this Chief Justice of the United States from 1953 to 1969 Earl Warren |
| #8770, aired 2022-12-23 | NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY $1600: This chief befriended Washington Territory settlers, who named a city for him & paid him for the use of his name Chief Seattle |
| #8769, aired 2022-12-22 | WE COME TO THIS PLACE FOR... $1000: ...caves: this Kentucky attraction, the world's longest system of them, with more than 400 miles of explored passages Mammoth Cave |
| #8766, aired 2022-12-19 | "IN THE" $2000: The title of this book, published after Hemingway's death, alludes to Bimini & Cuba & inspired a song of the same name Islands in the Stream |
| #8764, aired 2022-12-15 | DRONING ON ACROSS AMERICA $1000: Here's a spectacular look at the Black Hills Memorial to this Sioux chief, a work still in progress Crazy Horse |
| #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 |
| #8761, aired 2022-12-12 | CHICAGO TV $400: Of surgeon, chef or hit man, it's the profession of Carmy, who returns to his home city to ply his trade in "The Bear" chef |
| #8756, aired 2022-12-05 | MYTH $2000: A chief Aztec deity, this feathered serpent helped create the human race by mingling his blood with the bones of the ancient dead Quetzalcoatl |
| #8753, aired 2022-11-30 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $1000: This word for a coup is used of the unsuccessful Kapp & Beer Hall ones in 1920s Germany a putsch |
| #8751, aired 2022-11-28 | NOVEL NOTES $1000: King kills;
executing executioners; Coffey coda The Green Mile |
| #8750, aired 2022-11-25 | LET'S PLAY SPORTS THERE! $1,000 (Daily Double): Site of a brief 1983 coup, this West Indies isle of spice hosted 2007 World Cup games at its National Cricket Stadium Grenada |
| #8749, aired 2022-11-24 | CHARACTER ACTORS $800: Lance Reddick played a cop on "The Wire" & on this Amazon Prime drama as Chief Irvin Irving Bosch |
| #8748, aired 2022-11-23 | A 20th CENTURY FACTS PRODUCTION $200: On Oct. 14, 1962 a ballistic missile was reported at a launch site in this island nation, triggering an international crisis Cuba |
| #8748, aired 2022-11-23 | SHARED LAST NAMES $800: Singer James & chef Alton Brown |
| #8747, aired 2022-11-22 | STORIES OF THE SOUTH $800: Fannie Flagg wrote of Idgie & Ruth, who ran the Whistle Stop Cafe, known for this "colorful" title fare fried green tomatoes |
| #8744, aired 2022-11-17 | NATIVE AMERICAN PLACE NAMES IN THE U.S. $400: This island seen here is about 30 miles south of Cape Cod Nantucket |
| #8744, aired 2022-11-17 | WE'LL ALL NEED A DRINK AFTER THIS $800: The name of this Spanish version of champagne literally means a wine cellar cava |
| #8743, aired 2022-11-16 | SPELEMENTARY $400: Calcium +
iron café (Ca Fe) |
| #8743, aired 2022-11-16 | BEASTLY BOOK TITLES $1000: An extended family of primitive humans adopts 5-year-old Ayla The Clan of the Cave Bear |
| #8742, aired 2022-11-15 | NOW STREAMING ON DuMONT+ $800: In 1954 DuMont had a sitcom with this title starring Gertrude Berg as Molly, not Wendi McLendon-Covey as Beverly The Goldbergs |
| #8, aired 2022-11-13 | A TRIP ON THE GULF STREAM $6,000 (Daily Double): The Gulf Stream warms Cape Hatteras & adjacent areas of this state North Carolina |
| #8740, aired 2022-11-11 | SPANISH WORDS & PHRASES $400: The boss, the head guy; it's what a Kansas City Chief player becomes in Spanish media jefe |
| #8737, aired 2022-11-08 | RHYMES WITH A SNOW WHITE DWARF $800: A passel of puffins or pigeons a flock |
| #7, aired 2022-11-06 | FIRE ISLAND $300: Playing all the hits of 2020, it's hot 102.7 in Veguitas in this Caribbean country about 90 miles south of Florida Cuba |
| #7, aired 2022-11-06 | FUN WITH FLAGS $400: The flag of this U.S. commonwealth looks like Cuba's flag, but with the red & blue reversed Puerto Rico |
| #8735, aired 2022-11-04 | HISTORY $2000: This Zulu warrior & chief used amabutho, or age-based regiments, to unite & control his kingdom before his 1828 death Shaka |
| #8733, aired 2022-11-02 | 5, 5 $600: Rick Nielsen & Robin Zander are members of this band that's been around since the 1970s Cheap Trick |
| #8731, aired 2022-10-31 | '90s FILMS $600: Ice Cube & Chris Tucker starred in this 1995 comedy that Cube co-wrote with DJ Pooh Friday |
| #6, aired 2022-10-30 | STAR TRACK: THE NEXT GENERATION $300: In the film "Straight Outta Compton", O'Shea Jackson Jr. played this man, his rapper father Ice Cube |
| #8729, aired 2022-10-27 | WORDS & PHRASES: IMMEDIATELY! $800: Give us this double-talk term quickly, as it means quickly & in this case, not to cut using 2 blows chop-chop |
| #8728, aired 2022-10-26 | HIDDEN BRAIN PODCAST $800: (Shankar Vedantam presents the clue.) Resilience researcher Lucy Hone shares techniques that helped her cope with a devastating loss of her daughter, going beyond the five stages of this & how to actively deal with it grief |
| #8728, aired 2022-10-26 | LAW SLAW $1200: In legalese, CC can refer to cepi corpus ("I have taken the body") or this federal venue for appeals circuit court |
| #8727, aired 2022-10-25 | REVOLTS $400: Not even bearded yet, in 1953 he led a failed revolt by storming Cuba's Moncada Barracks Castro |
| #5, aired 2022-10-23 | YES, CHEF! $100: Oh come on! If a Pixar rodent can make this eggplant, tomato, onion, bell pepper, zucchini, garlic & herbs dish, you can too! ratatouille |
| #5, aired 2022-10-23 | YES, CHEF! $200: I told you to nuke this pasta staple from Campbell's that first hit shelves in 1965 for 2 minutes! Why on earth did you say "Uh-oh"?! SpaghettiOs |
| #5, aired 2022-10-23 | YES, CHEF! $300: Whether the second part of its name is "chuck" or "rump", this dish needs to cook an hour per pound & the old folks start ordering it at 5:00 P.M. pot roast |
| #5, aired 2022-10-23 | YES, CHEF! $400: I need this Italian rice specialty alla milanese! Stir hot stock in a mix of onions & rice... when the rice is al dente, you're done! risotto |
| #5, aired 2022-10-23 | YES, CHEF! $500: I said use 1.5 lbs. of white button mushrooms for the duxelles, a 3-pound tenderloin & puff pastry to make "Beef" this! Gogogo! Wellington |
| #5, aired 2022-10-23 | CATS THROUGH TIME $600: 10 Downing Street, London home to the politician with this title, is also home to Larry, who has the cheeky title "chief mouser" the prime minister |
| #8725, aired 2022-10-21 | BEFORE & AFTER $1600: The seafood seasoning from the abortive 1961 invasion of Cuba Old Bay of Pigs |
| #8721, aired 2022-10-17 | ANAGRAMS $1200: A chef's finishing touch:
REPLAYS parsley |
| #4, aired 2022-10-16 | HISTORIC HISTORY OF YESTERDAY: A LOOK BACK $1500: A U.S.-backed invasion of Cuba on April 17, 1961 at the Bahía de Cochinos, or this, ended in failure the Bay of Pigs |
| #8720, aired 2022-10-14 | THE BODY HUMAN $600: A group of 4 muscles forms this, which keeps the arm in the shoulder socket; a tear of it is common for baseball pitchers the rotator cuff |
| #8720, aired 2022-10-14 | TV AS OF LATE $1200: "Sailing Yacht" is an iteration of this Bravo show, & hats off to chef Marcos for that 3-tiered gluten-free wedding cake Below Deck |
| #8718, aired 2022-10-12 | STEP UP TO THE PLATE $1200: This "colorful" phrase referred to cheap diner meals of yore & the item they were served on a blue plate special |
| #8717, aired 2022-10-11 | IT'S JUST A GEOMETRIC FIGURE OF SPEECH $1000: Agrarian term for the office setup seen here a cube farm |
| #8716, aired 2022-10-10 | AROUND THE HORN $800: You'll find Cape Horn at the southern tip of this country Chile |
| #3, aired 2022-10-09 | FOOD & DRINK $1200: "Mastering the Art of French Cooking" is the 1961 book that launched this chef's career Julia Child |
| #8715, aired 2022-10-07 | GIBSON GIRLS & GUYS $400: Cowboy star Edmund Gibson got this nickname as a boy either because he hunted owls or delivered for the Owl Drug Company Hoot |
| #8711, aired 2022-10-03 | PLANE TALK $3,000 (Daily Double): Great flying weather with no major clouds or haze is CAVU, "ceiling and" this "unlimited" visibility |
| #2, aired 2022-10-02 | FRENCH WORDS & PHRASES $1000: This 4-letter word comes before "d'etat" in a governmental overthrow, or before "de grace" in a finishing blow coup |
| #8708, aired 2022-09-28 | I LONG FOR LONG "U" $600: A hexahedron a cube |
| #8707, aired 2022-09-27 | CASH $800: Gilroy Roberts, chief engraver of the U.S. Mint, designed this coin with input from Jackie Kennedy the Kennedy half dollar |
| #8707, aired 2022-09-27 | JAZZ NICKNAMES $1200: Juilliard dropout & bandleader Armando Anthony Corea Chick |
| #8706, aired 2022-09-26 | SMALL MAMMALS $200: It is defined as a rodent mammal, Cavia porcellus, & as a person or thing used in an experiment a guinea pig |
| #8706, aired 2022-09-26 | MOUNTAIN WORLD $1200: 3,500-foot Table Mountain overlooks this South African city of more than 4 million people Cape Town |
| #1, aired 2022-09-25 | THE WILD WEST $100: The autobiography of former slave Nat Love tells of his days of "riding, roping, and shooting" as a famous one of these cowboy |
| #1, aired 2022-09-25 | "R"ELIGION $400: Meaning "my master" , this term refers to the chief religious official of a synagogue a rabbi |
| #8704, aired 2022-09-22 | GEOGRAPHY VIA KOKOMO $1600: Baby, why don't we go to this bay? Usain Bolt has a restaurant there and check out Doctor's Cave Beach on the North Shore Montego Bay |
| #8703, aired 2022-09-21 | SHOES! $200: El Paso-based Tony Lama is a legendary maker of these, like the Jinglebob & the Rowel cowboy boots |
| #8703, aired 2022-09-21 | MODERN WESTERNS $400: Heath Ledger scored his first Oscar nomination for his role as inarticulate cowboy Ennis Del Mar in this film Brokeback Mountain |
| #8703, aired 2022-09-21 | CROSSWORD CLUES "J" $600: Relating to the seventh chief executive
(10 letters) Jacksonian |
| #8699, aired 2022-09-15 | HISPANIC HERITAGE HERE $400: Many in the U.S. from this island celebrate May 20 as its independence day in 1902; the Communist govt. uses a different day Cuba |
| #8697, aired 2022-09-13 | NEW TO THE OED $800: It's the fiery term for a cheap prepaid mobile device that can be discarded to protect the user's anonymity a burner phone |
| #8695, aired 2022-07-29 | FRENCH PHRASES $800: A chef of great skill, or the famed cooking school in Paris where Julia Child trained, the only woman in her class Cordon Bleu |
| #8695, aired 2022-07-29 | HOW DO YOU SLEEP AT NIGHT? $1000: Like millions of other Americans with the mask known by this 4-letter name to combat my sleep apnea a CPAP |
| #8693, aired 2022-07-27 | THE SOUTHERN U.S. $800: North Carolina has 2 national seashores: Cape Lookout & this other cape Hatteras |
| #8690, aired 2022-07-22 | PLACES FROM A TO A $1200: In 1961 4 French generals attempted a coup to prevent it from gaining its independence Algeria |
| #8690, aired 2022-07-22 | PLACES FROM A TO A $1600: Copper mining is a chief source of revenue in this Chilean desert the Atacama |
| #8688, aired 2022-07-20 | PLEASE RISE FOR OUR NATIONAL... $1,000 (Daily Double): March:
This "eternal" Sousa piece got the gig in 1987 "The Stars And Stripes Forever" |
| #8688, aired 2022-07-20 | EATING & DRINKING PLACES $1600: The Internet is on tap at this place with a 1-word name suggesting you can get a cup of joe there as well a cybercafe |
| #8686, aired 2022-07-18 | GIVING YOU THE BOOT $800: A rough New Year's Day in 1959 for Fulgencio Batista, who woke up as president of this country & went to sleep as an exile Cuba |
| #8684, aired 2022-07-14 | I KNOW WHAT YOU DID $3,000 (Daily Double): You served as Archbishop of Cape Town from 1986 to 1996 (Desmond) Tutu |
| #8682, aired 2022-07-12 | NATIONAL-SOUNDING ITEMS $1000: This fancy sleeve end doubles back on itself & uses links instead of buttons a French cuff |
| #8679, aired 2022-07-07 | RHYME ZONE $800: It precedes "the coop" to describe a bird or person who has escaped & vanished flown |
| #8679, aired 2022-07-07 | HEMINGWAY $800: Per the title, a cafe in a famous Hemingway story is not just clean but this well-lighted |
| #8679, aired 2022-07-07 | HEMINGWAY $4,600 (Daily Double): Hemingway bought his longtime home in Cuba from the sale of film rights to this novel set during the Spanish Civil War For Whom the Bell Tolls |
| #8678, aired 2022-07-06 | GEOGRAPHY $600: This largest Caribbean island is known as "The Pearl of the Antilles" Cuba |
| #8678, aired 2022-07-06 | IN THE COURTROOM $800: This tool of judges is ceremonially passed when Florida's Supreme Court changes chief justices the gavel |
| #8677, aired 2022-07-05 | THE III $600: Harry Nilsson, born Harry Edward Nelson III, memorably sang "Everybody's Talkin"' for this 1969 Voight-Hoffman film Midnight Cowboy |
| #8675, aired 2022-07-01 | ON A HOLIDAY $400: On May Day, 1961 this country's prime minister declared it a socialist nation Cuba |
| #8675, aired 2022-07-01 | FILMED IN GEORGIA $1600: The Whistle Stop Café in Juliette became a real eatery after this 1991 movie filmed there, & still serves up the title dish Fried Green Tomatoes |
| #8673, aired 2022-06-29 | SCIENCE-PODGE $2,000 (Daily Double): In 1868 remains of these hyphenated early humans were found in a shallow cave in France's Dordogne region the Cro-Magnons |
| #8670, aired 2022-06-24 | SPIES LIKE THEM $400: Caught spying for this Eastern foe in 1913, Austria's former intelligence chief asked to be left alone with his pistol; the end Russia |
| #8668, aired 2022-06-22 | HAIL TO THE CHEF $400: Though he pasta way in 1985, he is still depicted on cans of his spaghetti, beefaroni & ravioli Chef Boyardee |
| #8668, aired 2022-06-22 | HAIL TO THE CHEF $800: Renowned Southern chef Edna Lewis was an early proponent of this movement--food locally sourced & direct to your plate farm to table |
| #8668, aired 2022-06-22 | HAIL TO THE CHEF $1200: Before his untimely death, he took TV viewers into "Parts Unknown" to explore food & culture around the world Anthony Bourdain |
| #8668, aired 2022-06-22 | HAIL TO THE CHEF $1600: Granddaughter of film producer Dino, she's the Food Network's celebrity chef seen here Giada De Laurentiis |
| #8668, aired 2022-06-22 | HAIL TO THE CHEF $2000: This French creator of Peach Melba & Melba toast was nicknamed the "king of chefs & chef of kings" Escoffier |
| #8666, aired 2022-06-20 | WASHINGTON SLIPPED HERE $1000: Oops! One of the burglars caught at the Watergate in 1972 was security chief of this committee, CREEP for short Committee to Re-elect the President |
| #8664, aired 2022-06-16 | WHO WAS WHERE, WHEN $2000: He was inaugurated as president on Nov. 3, 1970 in Chile but 3 years later, fell in a military coup Allende |
| #8662, aired 2022-06-14 | WELL, IT'S 5 FOR THE MONEY $1,000 (Daily Double): Oklahoma's Wilma Mankiller, the 1st female principal chief of this Native American nation, appeared on a U.S. quarter in 2022 the Cherokee |
| #8661, aired 2022-06-13 | U.S. HISTORY $1600: In 1973 this retired Chief Justice returned to California to swear in Tom Bradley, the first Black mayor of Los Angeles (Earl) Warren |
| #8660, aired 2022-06-10 | KILLER TUNES $2000: Backed up by the Bad Seeds, PJ Harvey & this man sang of the tragic fate of "Henry Lee" Nick Cave |
| #8659, aired 2022-06-09 | WORDS OF COMFORT $2000: Theories on the origin of this word meaning A-OK include African-American slang & Italian cappo sotto copacetic |
| #8658, aired 2022-06-08 | FRENCH KINGS NAMED LOUIS $1000: To build France into a leading European power, Louis XIII worked for 2 decades with this chief minister & clergyman Cardinal Richelieu |
| #8658, aired 2022-06-08 | 5-LETTERS, ENDS IN "O" $1200: "Top Chef" channel Bravo |
| #8657, aired 2022-06-07 | FROM FARM TO TABLE $1000: It can be a low cupboard with shelves or a coop for animals, usually rabbits a hutch |
| #8655, aired 2022-06-03 | ORANGES $400: William of Orange, who became British king in 1689, was stadtholder, or chief executive, of this other nation the Netherlands |
| #8653, aired 2022-06-01 | COFFEE BREAK $400: Order café com leite in Brazil & you'll get coffee with this liquid, hot--or sometimes this liquid with a little coffee milk |
| #8652, aired 2022-05-31 | GOING "PRO" $1200: It's the chief dignitary at some cathedrals, or a chief academic officer at a university provost |
| #8649, aired 2022-05-26 | THE UNITED NATIONS $800: In 2017 Antonio Guterres of Portugal became the 9th person to occupy this post, chief administrative officer of the U.N. the secretary general |
| #8644, aired 2022-05-19 | TV PERSONALITIES $800: Knives up for Padma Lakshmi, who's hosted this Bravo cooking competition since 2006 Top Chef |
| #8644, aired 2022-05-19 | LET'S TAKE A WORLD TOUR $1200: Uganda, Tanzania & Kenya all border this chief reservoir of the Nile River Lake Victoria |
| #8643, aired 2022-05-18 | FROM THE GREEK FOR... $1600: Vault, it's a type of cave or cavern, like Capri's Blue one seen here a grotto |
| #8642, aired 2022-05-17 | INDIGENOUS PEOPLES $1000: Most of the Torres Strait islanders actually reside in this Northern Australia state and its Cape York Peninsula Queensland |
| #8642, aired 2022-05-17 | COUNTRIES IN THE U.S. $1600: No one knows why this village in New York, boyhood home of Charles "Pa" Ingalls, shares the name of a big island near Florida Cuba |
| #8638, aired 2022-05-11 | GEOMETRY CLASS $1000: In cubic inches, it's the volume of a cube with a side length of 5 inches 125 |
| #8634, aired 2022-05-05 | COME TO "IT" $1200: Paul of Thebes, who lived alone in a desert cave, was a famous early one a hermit |
| #8631, aired 2022-05-02 | YOU GOT NEXT $2,200 (Daily Double): As state capital:
Cahaba,
Tuscaloosa... Montgomery |
| #8625, aired 2022-04-22 | OLD JOB NAMES $1000: This nickname today for an unskilled golfer once meant a seller of cheap goods a duffer |
| #8624, aired 2022-04-21 | BIBLICAL DEVOTIONS $800: When Sarah dies at the age of 127, this man weeps for her & buries her in the Cave of Machpelah Abraham |
| #8623, aired 2022-04-20 | BEACH, BAY "B" $1000: The name of this Cape Cod area bay may have come from misidentification of ospreys as vulture relatives Buzzards Bay |
| #8623, aired 2022-04-20 | THE SINGER'S COUNTRY OF BIRTH $1600: Celia Cruz Cuba |
| #8622, aired 2022-04-19 | RHYME TIME $800: A boisterous cowboy hello a rowdy howdy |
| #8618, aired 2022-04-13 | SINCERELY YOURS $400: In "Casablanca" Cuddles Sakall insists that the gambling at Rick's cafe is as this "as the day is long" honest |
| #8618, aired 2022-04-13 | BAT QUIZ $2000: Each year as many as 20 million female Mexican free-tailed bats give birth at sites like Bracken Cave in this U.S. state Texas |
| #8617, aired 2022-04-12 | MEDICINE $200: In 1959 methicillin was one of the first medications introduced to cope with bacteria resistant to these drugs antibiotics |
| #8617, aired 2022-04-12 | ROCK ART $400: A mysterious animal in France's famed Lascaux Cave is known as this, even though it has two horns, not one unicorn |
| #8617, aired 2022-04-12 | ROCK ART $800: The black paint used in figures on the ceiling of Spain's Altamira Cave is mostly this stuff, radiocarbon-dated to 14,000 years ago charcoal |
| #8615, aired 2022-04-08 | POTPOURRI $1000: Sailing from Portugal in July 1497, this explorer rounded the Cape of Good Hope & reached Mombasa in April of the next year Vasco da Gama |
| #8615, aired 2022-04-08 | NORSE MYTHOLOGY $1200: Forged by the dwarfs Brokk & Eitri, this hammer is Thor's chief weapon & symbol of his power Mjölnir |
| #8615, aired 2022-04-08 | WHAT KIND OF PLACE IS THIS? $1600: A larger geographic division + "town" = this town on Cape Cod known for its "players" Provincetown |
| #8613, aired 2022-04-06 | WOMEN IN MUSIC $1600: A chip off the old block, this daughter of Pete Escovedo has led her own "Glamorous Life" as a world famous percussionist Sheila E. |
| #8612, aired 2022-04-05 | MOVIE CRITICS $400: This character tells Agent Starling she has cheap shoes & looks like a rube, & he's just getting started Hannibal Lecter |
| #8612, aired 2022-04-05 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY $800: Located off the southern tip of South America, Cape Horn is found in this "blazing" archipelago Tierra del Fuego |
| #8612, aired 2022-04-05 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY $1200: Papeete is the chief port & city of this Pacific Ocean island Tahiti |
| #8611, aired 2022-04-04 | CHANGES ON THE U.S. MAP $200: From 1963 to 1973 Florida's Cape Canaveral was known as this Cape Kennedy |
| #8611, aired 2022-04-04 | BRANDS $1200: This synonym for "cowboy" is a brand of jeans as well as a make of Jeep wrangler |
| #8610, aired 2022-04-01 | HOOD ORNAMENTS $1200: This GM line with the name of a Native American chief had appropriate hood ornaments as here on a model called the Chieftain Pontiac |
| #8606, aired 2022-03-28 | STEELS $200: Relatively cheap ferritic steel has the added advantage of having this "attractive" & useful quality magnetic |
| #8601, aired 2022-03-21 | 4-LETTER COUNTRIES $600: Columbus landed on this island nation in 1492, but Diego Velazquez began its first permanent settlement in 1511 Cuba |
| #8600, aired 2022-03-18 | MIDDLE E $400: A wild mammal's cave lair... or your dad's den |
| #8600, aired 2022-03-18 | SOUTH AMERICAN HISTORY $2,000 (Daily Double): In 1997, 30 years after his death in Bolivia, the remains of this revolutionary were returned to Cuba "Che" Guevara |
| #8598, aired 2022-03-16 | CALL ME SOMETIME $600: She plays the owner of a cat cafe on the sitcom "Call Me Kat" Mayim Bialik |
| #8591, aired 2022-03-07 | PHRASE FARMING $400: Judging good against bad is "separating" these 2 threshed farm items the wheat from the chaff |
| #8591, aired 2022-03-07 | MOUNTAINS $600: Bring a chair and enjoy the view of this famous mountain that overlooks Cape Town Table Mountain |
| #8591, aired 2022-03-07 | BIOGRAPHIES $1200: Jennet Conant's "A Covert Affair" tells of this female chef's time in the OSS, the forerunner of the CIA Julia Child |
| #8587, aired 2022-03-01 | SUNDAY IN THE PARK $1000: Time to take Mr. Snuffles, who is this sole dog breed native to Cuba, for Sunday park walkies Havanese |
| #8586, aired 2022-02-28 | AROUND THE WORLD $2000: Founded around 636 A.D., Iraq's chief port city is this one at the southeast end of the country Basra |
| #8582, aired 2022-02-22 | THE 1600s $800: As chief minister from 1624 to 1642, this "Red Eminence" helped strengthen royal power in France (Cardinal) Richelieu |
| #8582, aired 2022-02-22 | MARK'S "-ISM" $1000: Former Army Chief of Staff Mark A. Milley has a Bronze Star, which is awarded for this heroism |
| #8581, aired 2022-02-21 | SCRAMBLED HATS $2000: Chefly chapeau:
QUOTE a toque |
| #8580, aired 2022-02-18 | HISTORIC MEN $1600: Multitasking in 1794, he negotiated a treaty with Britain while also serving as the first Chief Justice of the United States (John) Jay |
| #8579, aired 2022-02-17 | ANIMALS OF NOTE $1600: Many British govt. offices have cats called "Chief" this rodent-ridder; Palmerston worked in the foreign office 2016-2020 mouser |
| #13, aired 2022-02-17 | THAT'S SHOW BIZ $1600: This woman hosts 2 different food-related shows: "Top Chef" & "Taste the Nation" Padma Lakshmi |
| #12, aired 2022-02-16 | TOY STORIES $1000: The National Toy Hall of fame calls this, created in 1974, the "most popular puzzle in history" the Rubik's Cube |
| #8577, aired 2022-02-15 | FROM THE OLD TOOL SHED $1600: This 3-letter hole-poking tool can be used on hides or leather; Africa's Blombos Cave has Stone Age ones an awl |
| #10, aired 2022-02-15 | OUR GOVERNMENT $1000: The oldest standing committee in Congress is this chief tax-writing one of the House Ways and Means |
| #8576, aired 2022-02-14 | PART LATIN BEFORE & AFTER $800: Really cheap poker stakes "before noon" penny ante meridiem |
| #8575, aired 2022-02-11 | AMERICAN FOLKLORE $1000: Were you raised by coyotes?! Well, this cowboy was, after being lost by his parents near a certain Texas river Pecos Bill |
| #7, aired 2022-02-11 | W.H.O. $1200: Seen here, Korea's first W.H.O. chief, Lee Jong-wook, was this type of doctor that focuses on diseases affecting many at a time epidemiologist |
| #8574, aired 2022-02-10 | GIN / RUMMY $600: Down Havana way, rum, Coke & lime make up this classic cocktail a Cuba Libre |
| #5, aired 2022-02-10 | GAME SHOW HOSTS $1000: This 3-time NBA champion hosts "The Cube" Dwyane Wade |
| #3, aired 2022-02-09 | A FEW FINAL WORDS $2000: Nothing to do with a military takeover, this 3-word French phrase is a final blow coup de grâce |
| #8572, aired 2022-02-08 | WHAT ACUTE ACCENT $1600: French phrase for a violent military overthrow of a government by a small group a coup d'état |
| #2, aired 2022-02-08 | PIER 5 $1000: A pier in Cayo Guillermo, Cuba is named for this American author who was known to fish in its waters (Ernest) Hemingway |
| #1, aired 2022-02-08 | THAT'S QUITE A DORM ROOM $200: A full chef's kitchen seems a bit of a waste when you keep ordering this chain's specialty pizzas, like Extravaganzza Domino's Pizza |
| #1, aired 2022-02-08 | FLORAL GEOGRAPHY $1600: 2 hyphens are in the name of this flower that's the name of a scenic trail on Canada's Cape Breton Isle the fleur-de-lis |
| #8569, aired 2022-02-03 | THE EXILE FILES $1200: José Martí, national hero of this country, probably should have stayed longer in the U.S.; he returned in 1895 & died in battle Cuba |
| #8562, aired 2022-01-25 | BOOKS WITH HORSEPOWER $1,500 (Daily Double): Tom Booker is this title cowboy whose voice can calm wild stallions & whose touch can heal broken spirits The Horse Whisperer |
| #8561, aired 2022-01-24 | FROM TV TO FILM $1200: In the film version of this TV show, Crockett & Tubbs left the Sunshine State for a bit to go to Cuba & Haiti Miami Vice |
| #8561, aired 2022-01-24 | BODIES OF WATER $1600: In 1903 Cuba gave the U.S. a lease on 45 square miles of land & water on this bay Guantanamo |
| #8553, aired 2022-01-12 | HOW PROVINCIAL $400: Later split into 3 provinces, South Africa's Cape Province was also known officially as the Cape of this Good Hope |
| #8552, aired 2022-01-11 | RUN, 4 "S", RUN $600: ZZ Top recommended you go out & get yourself some black frames, & "they come in 2 classes--rhinestone shades" & "cheap" these sunglasses |
| #8550, aired 2022-01-07 | MOVE IT! $200: Called the "move of the millennium", in 1999 one of these massive beacons was moved inland about 1,000 yards on Cape Hatteras a lighthouse |
| #8549, aired 2022-01-06 | IT'LL BE MY TWEET $600: This TV chef asked, "Am I really that mean????"; he constantly hurls F-bombs & called a kitchen staffer a "French pig", so yes Gordon Ramsay |
| #8544, aired 2021-12-30 | FACTS & FIGURES $1000: Cave-dwelling creatures have slow metabolisms; a troglobite type of this "fish", really a crustacean, can live 175 years a crayfish |
| #8543, aired 2021-12-29 | COUNTRIES BY DIVISIONS $1200: Limpopo,
Eastern Cape South Africa |
| #8541, aired 2021-12-27 | BUSINESS NAMES $600: Computer chip manufacturer Intel takes its name from a shortening of the words "integrated" these electronics |
| #8539, aired 2021-12-23 | THAT'S QUITE A COUP $400: He overthrew the Directory on November 9 (or 18 Brumaire), 1799 Napoleon |
| #8539, aired 2021-12-23 | THAT'S QUITE A COUP $800: Ankara & Istanbul War College students took part in a 1960 coup that put General Cemal Gürsel in charge in this country Turkey |
| #8539, aired 2021-12-23 | THAT'S QUITE A COUP $1200: A 1932 coup forced Prajadhipok, king of this then 4-letter country, to grant a Constitution Siam |
| #8539, aired 2021-12-23 | THAT'S QUITE A COUP $1600: A February 2021 coup deposed this Nobel Peace Prize winner seen here Aung San Suu Kyi |
| #8539, aired 2021-12-23 | THAT'S QUITE A COUP $2000: In 1965 this one-named general put down a coup in Indonesia & then seized power for himself Suharto |
| #8538, aired 2021-12-22 | CRUISIN' FOR A BOOZIN' $800: You can feel the wind in your hair with this cocktail of vodka, cranberry juice & grapefruit juice a Sea Breeze |
| #8538, aired 2021-12-22 | CRUISIN' FOR A BOOZIN' $1000: If you're sailing eternally around the Cape of Good Hope on a certain ghost ship, enjoy this same-named gin & triple sec drink the Flying Dutchman |
| #8538, aired 2021-12-22 | NO DA $1600: Play it again from the beginning but without "da" & you have this rank in organized crime capo (from da capo) |
| #8537, aired 2021-12-21 | TV CHARACTERS' OCCUPATIONS $400: The rather animated Clancy Wiggum police chief |
| #8537, aired 2021-12-21 | NEW ORLEANS: NEWS CLUES $600: (Hi, I'm Liz Reyes.) With a menu that's had minimal changes since 1862, the Cafe du Monde in the French Quarter serves up these fried donuts, unless it's Christmas or if a hurricane passes too close beignets |
| #8536, aired 2021-12-20 | "B" MOVIES $800: Ice Cube inherits this title business & grows into his role as a mainstay of the community in the sequels Barbershop |
| #8531, aired 2021-12-13 | LATIN AMERICAN GEOGRAPHY $5,400 (Daily Double): The 80-mile-wide Mona Passage separates the Dominican Republic from this island Puerto Rico |
| #8529, aired 2021-12-09 | STATE SONGS $800: With words by King David Kalakaua, its state song urges, "Be loyal to your chief" Hawaii |
| #8529, aired 2021-12-09 | ALL ON YOUR HEAD NOW $1000: Let's go one this hat seen here over the line, & chef up something delicious a toque |
| #8525, aired 2021-12-03 | PULLING INTO "TOWN" $400: The South African parliament meets in this city that dates back to 1652 with the construction of a Dutch east India refreshment station Cape Town |
| #8525, aired 2021-12-03 | EPONYMS $800: In 1897 this diva complained of thick bread, so the chef came back with thin, crisp slices of toast now named for her (Nellie) Melba |
| #8524, aired 2021-12-02 | FICTION $1000: Jack Schaefer wrote about the cowboy life in this novel with a 1-name title; come back! Shane |
| #8522, aired 2021-11-30 | AWARD-WINNING WOMEN $1200: Dominique Crenn of Atelier Crenn & Bar Crenn is the first woman chef in the U.S. to earn 3 of these Michelin stars |
| #8519, aired 2021-11-25 | THE STATE THAT... $1600: Was where Diana Nyad completed her historic 53-hour effort in 2013 Florida |
| #8518, aired 2021-11-24 | IN THAT COUNTRY $1000: Here is the Château Frontenac, & Peggy's Cove in all its glory Canada |
| #8518, aired 2021-11-24 | NEWS $1600: A computer chip shortage caused Peugeot to put old-fashioned analog these to tell you your km/h in some models speedometers |
| #8514, aired 2021-11-18 | TV HUSBANDS $1600: In "For All Mankind" Wayne Cobb is the supporting hubby of Molly, who is really going places working for this agency NASA |
| #8513, aired 2021-11-17 | NATIONS BY WORLD HERITAGE SITES $600: The Cave of Altamira & the Old City of Salamanca Spain |
| #8511, aired 2021-11-15 | FAMOUS NAMES $2000: In his first period as Cuba's de facto leader in the 1930s, he was a respected reformer & is seen here on a visit to the United States Batista |
| #8510, aired 2021-11-12 | DISNEY+ $1000: A hidden underground cave below Chichen Itza is a legend of this people; a "National Geographic" documentary digs up the "Buried Truth" the Mayans |
| #8510, aired 2021-11-12 | THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT $1200: As chief counsel for the NAACP, this future justice argued Brown V. Board of Education before the Supreme Court Marshall |
| #8509, aired 2021-11-11 | FERRIES $2,000 (Daily Double): The Green River Ferry can help you get around inside this vast national park in & under Kentucky Mammoth Cave |
| #8502, aired 2021-11-02 | GEOGRAPHIC IDIOMS $600: This grotto is the part of a dwelling where the male of a household might typically isolate the man cave |
| #8500, aired 2021-10-29 | FOUL PLAY $800: Lumberjacks wailed in 2016 when the NFL made this thigh-or-lower block illegal on run plays as well as pass a chop block |
| #8499, aired 2021-10-28 | AT THE BALLET $1200: The ballet "Fancy Free" about sailors on leave inspired the film "On the Town" with Frank Sinatra as Chip & this dancer as Gabey Gene Kelly |
| #8497, aired 2021-10-26 | WHEN BAY IS ON THE MAP $400: Baltimore is shipshape as the chief port on the northern portion of this bay Chesapeake |
| #8497, aired 2021-10-26 | WHEN BAY IS ON THE MAP $1600: This inlet of the Atlantic stretches from Île d'Ouessant to Cape Ortegal in Spain & even rhymes with bay, helping it sound really cool Biscay |
| #8496, aired 2021-10-25 | TELEVISION HISTORY $2000: A 1996 law mandated all TVs have this chip to help parents control kids' viewing, but it was never used much a V-chip |
| #8494, aired 2021-10-21 | 5-LETTER FOODS $1200: A prehistoric cave painting in Spain is perhaps the earliest known evidence of human collection of this honey |
| #8493, aired 2021-10-20 | THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE $1600: Georgetown is the chief port & capital of this South American country Guyana |
| #8491, aired 2021-10-18 | FICTIONAL AFRICA $1200: This character had just 2 hours to deal with a coup in Sangala in the TV movie
"24: Redemption" Jack Bauer |
| #8490, aired 2021-10-15 | THE IMPASSABLE DREAM $800: In October 1962 the U.S. put a naval this, an 8-letter word meaning obstruction, around Cuba blockade |
| #8489, aired 2021-10-14 | THE 16th CENTURY $1000: The day that Henry VIII married Catherine Howard, July 28, 1540, this chief advisor to the king was executed (Thomas) Cromwell |
| #8488, aired 2021-10-13 | DOUBLE-LETTER GEOGRAPHY $1600: Randburg & Midrand are suburbs of this chief commercial city of South Africa Johannesburg |
| #8488, aired 2021-10-13 | FOOD FORWARD $1600: A thick potato & leek soup was created by chef Louis Diat, who named it for this city in central France Vichy |
| #8483, aired 2021-10-06 | PENINSULAS $1600: Located on Cape Verde Peninsula, this capital of Senegal is the westernmost city on the African mainland Dakar |
| #8481, aired 2021-10-04 | BEFORE & AFTER $2000: Late summer arts festival in the desert that's a basement hangout with TV & beer Burning Man cave |
| #8478, aired 2021-09-29 | WEBCAMS $1000: Look out for sharks on an underwater cam 34 miles off the coast of this state's Cape Fear North Carolina |
| #8477, aired 2021-09-28 | HISTORIC SPEECHES $2000: "I will fight no more forever", declared this leader in Montana Territory in 1877 Chief Joseph |
| #8474, aired 2021-09-23 | MY INTEREST $1000: Rest a spell in your cave & tell us of your love for this pastime of exploring them spelunking |
| #8473, aired 2021-09-22 | ACRONYMS & ABBREVIATIONS $600: The CFPB, this Financial Protection Bureau, makes sure you are treated fairly by banks, lenders & financial companies Consumer |
| #8472, aired 2021-09-21 | AWARDS & PRIZES $400: Chief art director at MGM, Cedric Gibbons not only designed this award, but also won 11 of them Oscar |
| #8471, aired 2021-09-20 | ALLITERATIVE PEOPLE $200: In 1937 this future U.S. commander in chief made his film debut in "Love is on the Air" Ronald Reagan |
| #8471, aired 2021-09-20 | VENTRILOQUISM FOR DUMMIES $400: Shari Lewis had her own children's show featuring this "sheepish" puppet Lamb Chop |
| #8471, aired 2021-09-20 | ALLITERATIVE PEOPLE $1000: In 2020 the job of White House Chief of Staff changed M&Ms, from this man to Mark Meadows Mick Mulvaney |
| #8466, aired 2021-09-13 | AUTHORS NOT AUTHORING $1200: During World War II this American was with the 4th Infantry Division in Europe before going home to Cuba Hemingway |
| #8464, aired 2021-08-12 | CITY TRANSPORTATION $400: Named for their resemblance to coconuts, cocotaxis roam the cities of this Communist island nation Cuba |
| #8464, aired 2021-08-12 | HISTORIC GROUPS $400: They had meant to make a brand new start of it near the Hudson River, but in November 1620 decided to stay on Cape Cod Pilgrims |
| #8462, aired 2021-08-10 | NATIONS $400: This country's northernmost point is Cape Soya on Hokkaido Japan |
| #8462, aired 2021-08-10 | A VISIT TO THE ISS $1000: (Dr. Kate Rubins presents the clue.) One of the perks of working on the ISS is the incredible view; here's this cape from 250 miles overhead that's played a key role in the history of space flight (Cape) Canaveral |
| #8461, aired 2021-08-09 | CURRENT TV $400: If you've filled up on Chip, turn to this half of a famous couple & her cooking show "Magnolia Table" Joanna Gaines |
| #8460, aired 2021-08-06 | SONGS THAT GIVE ADVICE $1600: Therapists may chafe at this Melissa Manchester song that advises, "Just keep it inside & learn how to hide your feelings" "Don't Cry Out Loud" |
| #8459, aired 2021-08-05 | COOKING VERBS $200: Similar to mince, it means to chop food into small cubes dice |
| #8454, aired 2021-07-29 | OLD MILITARY ABBREV. $1200: During the occupation of Japan, MacArthur was CINCFE: commander-in-chief for this 2-word directional term for the region the Far East |
| #8450, aired 2021-07-23 | COP SHOWS BY CHARACTERS $1000: Officer Joe Coffey; Captain Frank Furillo Hill Street Blues |
| #8448, aired 2021-07-21 | EUROPEAN PENINSULAS $1600: Cape Apostolos Andreas is the easternmost part of this island nation's Karpaz Peninsula, which stretches towards Turkey Cyprus |
| #8446, aired 2021-07-19 | WHAT'S IN THE CAVE? $200: Austria has the largest cave named for this substance that forms on its walls--dress warm, it's freezing in there ice |
| #8446, aired 2021-07-19 | WHAT'S IN THE CAVE? $400: A cave system in the Philippines has a 5-mile-long underground one of these flowing into the South China Sea river |
| #8446, aired 2021-07-19 | WHAT'S IN THE CAVE? $600: It wasn't just mammoths--these fur-covered rhinos are depicted in 30,000-year-old art in France's Chauvet Cave woolly |
| #8446, aired 2021-07-19 | WHAT'S IN THE CAVE? $800: In 1991 a Vietnamese forager discovered a cave so big that these form within it; he saw them billowing out clouds |
| #8446, aired 2021-07-19 | WHAT'S IN THE CAVE? $1000: Calcite honeycombing, called boxwork, is a feature almost unique to Wind Cave National Park in this state South Dakota |
| #8442, aired 2021-07-13 | LET'S GO TO THE BEACH $2000: Between Fish Hoek & Cape Point, Boulders Beach gets all kinds of tourists in this country South Africa |
| #8439, aired 2021-07-08 | THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION $800: A British gov. of Massachusetts called him the "chief incendiary" but unlike cousin John, his contributions faded after 1776 Sam Adams |
| #8438, aired 2021-07-07 | MARSHALL MATTERS $2000: Before McCulloch v. Maryland, Chief Justice John Marshall dealt with the same M & M initials in this landmark 1803 case Marbury v. Madison |
| #8437, aired 2021-07-06 | A WORLD TO KISS $4,000 (Daily Double): In this French pilgrimage city, many have kissed the stone in the cave where St. Bernadette had her vision Lourdes |
| #8436, aired 2021-07-05 | LITERATURE $400: In 1905 you didn't want to eat a pork chop while reading the paper "appeal to reason", as it serialized this stockyard novel The Jungle |
| #8436, aired 2021-07-05 | STARTS & ENDS WITH "T" $1600: Mentioned in "A Wrinkle in Time", it's a 4-dimensional analogue of a cube, or what Carl Sagan called a hypercube a tesseract |
| #8434, aired 2021-07-01 | LANDFORMS $200: Down in Florida, Canaveral is one of these, from Old French for "head" a cape |
| #8433, aired 2021-06-30 | COLORFUL VOCABULARY $400: Originally used in gambling, this 2-word term can describe a highly rated stock or a highly rated athletic prospect blue chip |
| #8433, aired 2021-06-30 | MAGAZINES $1200: Seen here is this longtime editor-in-chief of "Vogue" magazine Anna Wintour |
| #8431, aired 2021-06-28 | JAMES BEARD CHEF OF THE YEAR $400: In 2013 David Chang won for his noodle restaurant Momofuku, named for the inventor of this instant noodle dish Ramen noodles (ramen) |
| #8431, aired 2021-06-28 | JAMES BEARD CHEF OF THE YEAR $800: In addition to winning in 1997 for the French Laundry, Thomas Keller created the look of the title dish of this 2007 Pixar film Ratatouille |
| #8431, aired 2021-06-28 | JAMES BEARD CHEF OF THE YEAR $1200: Born in Spain, he was the 2011 James Beard Chef of the Year & the 2018 James Beard Humanitarian of the Year (José) Andrés |
| #8431, aired 2021-06-28 | JAMES BEARD CHEF OF THE YEAR $2000: 2010 was good for this man, he won a James Beard award for Craft, his restaurant, & an Emmy, for "Top Chef" on Bravo (Tom) Colicchio |
| #8431, aired 2021-06-28 | JAMES BEARD CHEF OF THE YEAR $3,800 (Daily Double): Alice Waters, the first woman to win the award, won for Chez Panisse in this California college town Berkeley |
| #8428, aired 2021-06-23 | A CATEGORY IN 5 ACTS $200: The Judiciary Act of 1789 said the Supreme Court would have 1 Chief Justice & 5 of these, which seems problematic in close decisions associate justices |
| #8427, aired 2021-06-22 | C.G., I $800: TriStar showed me a reported $600,000 for "Jerry Maguire" Cuba Gooding Jr. |
| #8426, aired 2021-06-21 | MOVIE TITLE MIDDLE WORD $400: O'shea Jackson Jr. plays Ice Cube (his dad)
(2015) "Outta" |
| #8422, aired 2021-06-15 | HOME, SWEET ANIMAL HOME $800: Poultry reside in a coop or pen & walk around in this 3-letter enclosure a chicken run |
| #8420, aired 2021-06-11 | NOTABLE WOMEN $1600: This 3-named woman has been called America's Historian-in-Chief Doris Kearns Goodwin |
| #8418, aired 2021-06-09 | TV COMEDY CHARACTER NAMES $1600: Zach Galifianakis--what a clown or "cloon" Chip Baskets |
| #8417, aired 2021-06-08 | FASHIONABLY $500 (Daily Double): I say, old chap! Wide neckties include the cravat & this one suitable for wear at the British racecourse of the same name an ascot |
| #8415, aired 2021-06-04 | MAGNA CARTOGRAPHY $800: Found in this country's Western Cape Province, the plateau basin known as Great Karoo may be listed as Groot Karoo on a local map South Africa |
| #8415, aired 2021-06-04 | PIECES OF GAMES $1000: 2, 4, 8, 16, 32 & 64 are marked on the die called a doubling cube in this game backgammon (shesh besh) |
| #8413, aired 2021-06-02 | DESCRIBING THE FILM TRILOGY $600: Killings intercut with baptism; killings in Cuba; killings intercut with an opera The Godfather |
| #8412, aired 2021-06-01 | U.S. HISTORY $2000: On October 5, 1877 this Native people's Chief Joseph surrendered to pursuing U.S. soldiers the Nez Perce |
| #8411, aired 2021-05-31 | SAME FIRST & LAST LETTER $800: The chief instigator of a group engaged in an illegal activity a ringleader |
| #8411, aired 2021-05-31 | THAT'S MY PHILOSOPHY $1600: "Now the cave or den is the world of sight, the fire is the sun, the way upward is the way to knowledge"--hey, that's mine! Plato |
| #8409, aired 2021-05-27 | THE COLONIAL WORLD $400: In 2015 a statue of this scholarship founder & British colonialist was removed from the University of Cape Town Cecil Rhodes |
| #8408, aired 2021-05-26 | SEEING RED $800: The title of this work is Spanish for the man wielding the red cape matador |
| #8405, aired 2021-05-21 | 1921 $400: Here's this man being sworn in as Chief Justice of the United States, his greatest ambition Taft |
| #8401, aired 2021-05-17 | TIME MAGAZINE PERSON OF THE YEAR $1200: 1997: Andrew Grove, chairman & CEO of this company, a pioneer in the computer chip industry Intel |
| #8400, aired 2021-05-14 | THICKER THAN WATER $1000: While this substance is the chief source of natural rubber, the kind used in certain paints is synthetic latex |
| #8400, aired 2021-05-14 | CREATURE FROM $1200: This big black buffalo is named for a bit of land in way southern Africa Cape buffalo |
| #8398, aired 2021-05-12 | WORD ORIGINS $800: Cowboy vocabulary from Spanish includes stockade & this other word for an enclosure for horses or cattle a corral |
| #8398, aired 2021-05-12 | COMPOSERS ALL AROUND $1200: Known as "The Bong", the 5-note theme for this chip maker "Inside" a lot of computers was composed in 1994 by Walter Werzowa Intel |
| #8398, aired 2021-05-12 | NAPOLEON THE INNOVATOR $3,600 (Daily Double): Baron Larrey, Napoleon's chief surgeon, is credited with pioneering this type of medical service, from French for "walking" ambulance service |
| #8398, aired 2021-05-12 | AMERICAN HISTORY $4,000 (Daily Double): In the 1850s Chief Oshkosh stopped a U.S. attempt to move the Menominee people westward from this state Wisconsin |
| #8391, aired 2021-05-03 | PROM MUSIC $1600: Teachers, kids, everybody! As Sia sings, "I don't need dollar bills to have fun tonight", you reply, "I love" these cheap thrills |
| #8390, aired 2021-04-30 | RANKS & TITLES $1200: It's the term for the principal or chief administrator of a private school such as the Devon School in "A Separate Peace" headmaster |
| #8390, aired 2021-04-30 | LIGHTHOUSES $2000: The lighthouse at this North Carolina national seashore protects the waters where the gulf stream meets with the Virginia drift (Cape) Hatteras |
| #8389, aired 2021-04-29 | WHAT'S THE DEAL"IO"? $400: A Brit might bid farewell to an "old chap" using this word cheerio |
| #8387, aired 2021-04-27 | LET'S PLAY COWBOYS $400: Cowboy Jake Gyllenhaal wished he knew how to quit cowboy Heath Ledger in this 2005 film Brokeback Mountain |
| #8387, aired 2021-04-27 | LET'S PLAY COWBOYS $1200: He's seen here around the time he played Joe Buck in "Midnight Cowboy" Jon Voight |
| #8383, aired 2021-04-21 | THEY NAMED A SCHOOL FOR ME $800: Fittingly in New York, there's a college of criminal justice named for this first Chief Justice of the U.S. (John) Jay |
| #8383, aired 2021-04-21 | AMERICAN HISTORY $3,000 (Daily Double): The Platt Amendment of 1901 became a treaty between the U.S. & this new country & even became part of its constitution Cuba |
| #8381, aired 2021-04-19 | MIXIN' WITH NIXON $1000: In 1971, Nixon appointed this man to the Supreme Court, 15 years later he was Chief Justice Rehnquist |
| #8380, aired 2021-04-16 | NATIVE AMERICANS $400: The Chippewa originated this nighttime spirit stopper & in their language call it a "spider" a dream catcher |
| #8380, aired 2021-04-16 | NATIVE AMERICANS $800: Sitting Bull was a chief of this people who united under him for survival in the late 19th century the Sioux |
| #8379, aired 2021-04-15 | CAPITAL "C" $800: A promontory of "Good Hope" is near this legislative capital Cape Town |
| #8378, aired 2021-04-14 | CARIBBEAN GEOGRAPHY $600: A rum-producing district in eastern Cuba lends its name to this cocktail of rum, lime juice & sugar a daiquiri |
| #8373, aired 2021-04-07 | UNIFORMITY $2000: A white chef's hat is called this 5-letter word toque |
| #8369, aired 2021-04-01 | EXPLORING AUSTRALIA $400: In 1616 Dutch sailors sighted Australia when they ended up too far east after rounding this cape the Cape of Good Hope |
| #8368, aired 2021-03-31 | INTERNAL RHYME SURNAMES $400: This Cowboy retired in 2017 with the fourth-best career QB rating ever at 97.1 Romo |
| #8368, aired 2021-03-31 | RANCH DRESSING $600: Montana silversmiths makes these fasteners, about 3 by 4 inches, with mottos like "Don't fence me in" & "You ain't no cowboy" belt buckles |
| #8368, aired 2021-03-31 | RANCH DRESSING $800: Ranch folk can try to live up to the name of this brand wearing its cowboy cut original fit jeans Wrangler |
| #8368, aired 2021-03-31 | INTERNAL RHYME SURNAMES $2000: In 1989 after 3 terms as New Hampshire's governor, he became George H.W. Bush's Chief of Staff Sununu |
| #8366, aired 2021-03-29 | DURING THE JOHN ADAMS PRESIDENCY $800: Adams considered the greatest act of his presidency to be the 1801 appointment of this man as chief justice Marshall |
| #8365, aired 2021-03-26 | ENTERTAINMENT ADD A LETTER $400: Add a letter to an "artsy" Salma Hayek film & you get an Ice Cube movie Frida & Friday |
| #8363, aired 2021-03-24 | BEYOND ME $200: From the Yiddish, it's a word for a decent chap a mensch |
| #8362, aired 2021-03-23 | NO. 1 LYRICS $400: In "Old Town Road", Lil Nas X sports this type of headwear "from Gucci", not Stetson a cowboy hat |
| #8362, aired 2021-03-23 | BOOKS OF THE 1980s $800: The "Earth's Children" series about Stone Age humans begins with "The Clan of" this creature the Cave Bear |
| #8361, aired 2021-03-22 | BAY WATCH $800: Close to the Windward Passage between Cuba & Haiti, this bay has an American naval base on its shores Guantanamo Bay |
| #8360, aired 2021-03-19 | LAKES $400: The Chippewa National Forest's Lake Winnibigoshish is one of the 10,000 or so in this state Minnesota |
| #8359, aired 2021-03-18 | PEOPLE IN HISTORY $1000: A chief of the Hunkpapa Lakota, he fled with his people to Canada in 1877 rather than surrender to the U.S. government Sitting Bull |
| #8358, aired 2021-03-17 | POTENT POTABLES $200: Puerto Rico & Cuba are known for light-bodied forms of this liquor; Jamaica goes heavier rum |
| #8356, aired 2021-03-15 | THAT'S TOTALLY LIT $1000: O. Henry told of "The Ransom of" this title kid, so troublesome his kidnappers pay dad to take him back Red Chief |
| #8355, aired 2021-03-12 | THAT'S MY SECRET $200: The executive chef of this chain made its secret-for-decades "special sauce" on YouTube in 2012; mayo was involved McDonald's |
| #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) |
| #8354, aired 2021-03-11 | IT'S ALL ONIONS $1,000 (Daily Double): When you chop them, onions make your eyes water because they contain compounds of this element also found in gunpowder sulfur |
| #8354, aired 2021-03-11 | IT'S ALL ONIONS $1000: This late American chef & food writer said that onion sandwiches were one of the greatest treats he knew James Beard |
| #8347, aired 2021-03-02 | FISH & CHIPS $400: Kettle Brand makes Backyard, Country Style & Korean versions of this classic chip flavor barbecue |
| #8347, aired 2021-03-02 | GUITAR TALK $1000: This type of clamp raises the pitch of a guitar's strings a capo |
| #8345, aired 2021-02-26 | AROUND THE WORLD $1200: What became this South African city started in 1652 as a Dutch East India Company refreshment station Cape Town |
| #8343, aired 2021-02-24 | SOLDIERING ON $800: He was only 61st in the class of 1915 at West Point, but ended up commander in chief Eisenhower |
| #8343, aired 2021-02-24 | SOLDIERING ON $1600: He was Uganda's chief of the army & air force from 1966 to 1970 but promoted himself to president in 1971 Idi Amin |
| #8342, aired 2021-02-23 | TV SHOW QUOTES $1000: An argument vs. naming a tech co. "Pied Piper"--that's "a predatory flautist who murders children in a cave" Silicon Valley |
| #8341, aired 2021-02-22 | THE CELEB CHEF WON'T EAT THAT! $200: Duff Goldman says no to these items seen here & named for its shape, tweeting, "They ruin everything they touch" bell peppers |
| #8341, aired 2021-02-22 | THE CELEB CHEF WON'T EAT THAT! $400: The late Anthony Bourdain reveled in eating just about anything, but never on this type of transport--"I like to arrive hungry" an airplane |
| #8341, aired 2021-02-22 | THE CELEB CHEF WON'T EAT THAT! $600: Katie Lee: "I hate" this sushi condiment. "& I love spicy food, so I'm not sure why I have (an) aversion to" it wasabi |
| #8341, aired 2021-02-22 | THE CELEB CHEF WON'T EAT THAT! $800: Gordon Ramsay spoke for many when he said in typical style, "You don't put (bleepin')" this fruit "on a pizza!" pineapple |
| #8341, aired 2021-02-22 | CROSSWORD CLUES "T" $1000: Old-fashioned "fool"ishness
(10) tomfoolery |
| #8341, aired 2021-02-22 | THE CELEB CHEF WON'T EAT THAT! $1000: Rachael Ray (as well as Jimmy Fallon & Barack Obama) will always say, "hold" this creamy condiment mayo (mayonnaise) |
| #8340, aired 2021-02-19 | REESE'S PIECES OF LITERATURE $800: "From Scratch" is Tembi Locke's memoir of marrying a chef & eating great food on this Italian island Sicily |
| #8339, aired 2021-02-18 | FACTS ABOUT COUNTRIES $800: It remains the only country with a Communist government in the Americas Cuba |
| #8339, aired 2021-02-18 | POTPOURRI $1200: In a classic song, these cowboy boot accessories "Jingle Jangle Jingle" spurs |
| #8336, aired 2021-02-15 | A PLACE LIKE RIVER HILL $400: With hiking & golf, Cave Creek in the Sonoran Desert is a tourist draw just north of this state capital Phoenix, Arizona |
| #8336, aired 2021-02-15 | 21st CENTURY NEWS $800: After being trapped in a cave for more than 2 weeks in 2018, 12 boys & their soccer coach were rescued in this country Thailand |
| #8332, aired 2021-02-09 | POTPOURRI $800: It's a post-coup military governing body; one in Bolivia in 1970 lasted just 1 day before it was overthrown in turn a junta |
| #8328, aired 2021-02-03 | ATLAS ALLITERATION $800: This Massachusetts peninsula has the also alliterative Buzzards Bay to its west Cape Cod |
| #8326, aired 2021-02-01 | A CATEGORY OF 2 CITIES $400 (Daily Double): It's about 800 miles from South Africa's executive capital of Pretoria to this legislative capital on the southwest coast Cape Town |
| #8326, aired 2021-02-01 | NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL $1000: Fittingly, Cueva Ventana in Puerto Rico, with a spectacular view of the valley below, literally means "cave" this window |
| #8325, aired 2021-01-29 | AROUND THE CARIBBEAN $1200: The easternmost of Cuba's 15 provinces is this single-named one near where the U.S. maintains a military base Guantanamo |
| #8322, aired 2021-01-26 | BAD TO THE BONE $200: Often formed in your joints, osteophytes, or bone these, project along the edges of your bones & are definitely not the fun cowboy kind spurs |
| #8321, aired 2021-01-25 | WORLD CAPITAL RIVERS $400: The Chaobai & the Yongding Beijing |
| #8319, aired 2021-01-21 | CANADIAN PLACES $400: Henry Cobb & I.M. Pei designed Place Ville-Marie, a landmark in this city Montreal |
| #8313, aired 2021-01-13 | POSSESSIVE HISTORY $1600: Nine Men's Misery was an incident in the 17th century conflict called this Wampanoag chief or "King"'s war King Philip |
| #8313, aired 2021-01-13 | COMPANY NAME ORIGINS $2000: Here's the enviable headquarters of this 3D graphics chip company that put "nv" in its name to mean "next version" Nvidia |
| #8310, aired 2021-01-08 | ARTISTS IN EUROPE $1000: While visiting van Gogh at Arles, this painter did his own take on "The Night Café" and Madame Ginoux all in one Gauguin |
| #8308, aired 2021-01-06 | YOUR GOVERNMENT AT WORK $2,800 (Daily Double): In 2020 Charles Q. Brown got this 3-word title for the Air Force & is the 1st African-American general to lead a military branch chief of staff |
| #8306, aired 2021-01-04 | ABCDEFG--THAT'S ALL YOU GET $400: One flat side of a cube a face |
| #8303, aired 2020-12-16 | CAVE CAVEATS $400: You've heard of this biblical guy's "ladder", but there's also a dangerous cave system near Austin with his name Jacob |
| #8303, aired 2020-12-16 | CAVE CAVEATS $800: Be careful in Mexico's underwater Cenote Esqueleto; it's nicknamed this, like Indiana Jones' title destination in his second film the Temple of Doom |
| #8303, aired 2020-12-16 | TV COMEDIES $1000: Gavin Belson was the conniving chief innovation officer of tech company Hooli on this show Silicon Valley |
| #8303, aired 2020-12-16 | CAVE CAVEATS $1200: "Always stay with the tour group" is one of the rules at this "really big" cave system in Kentucky Mammoth Cave |
| #8303, aired 2020-12-16 | CAVE CAVEATS $1600: Beware! Divers have perished in the Blue Hole, a dangerous diving site near the Sinai Peninsula on this sea the Red Sea |
| #8303, aired 2020-12-16 | CAVE CAVEATS $2000: Hold on tight descending into Krubera Cave, the world's 2nd deepest, found in these European mountains in Georgia the Caucasus |
| #8300, aired 2020-12-11 | QUOTABLE WOMEN $400: This "French Chef" humorously said, "The only time to eat diet food is while you're waiting for the steak to cook" Julia Child |
| #8300, aired 2020-12-11 | YOU KNOW, I LEARNED SOMETHING TODAY $800: Oliver Ellsworth was the third Chief Justice of the United States; the fourth was this man John Marshall |
| #8300, aired 2020-12-11 | THE MOVIE'S TITLE QUESTION $800: Ice Cube & the kids do arrive in Vancouver by the end of this 2005 movie Are We There Yet? |
| #8300, aired 2020-12-11 | QUOTABLE WOMEN $1000: After one failed Cuba-to-Florida swim, she said, "This journey has always been about reaching your own other shore" Diana Nyad |
| #8296, aired 2020-12-07 | MUSEUMS $800: Cape Town's Zeitz MOCAA was once this type of storage building; the atrium was shaped like a grain of corn in the architect's eye a silo |
| #8296, aired 2020-12-07 | OXFORD'S VERY SHORT INTRODUCTIONS $1600: "Bestsellers" says the paperback revolution of the '60s began with cheap copies of this 1928 D.H. Lawrence novel Lady Chatterley's Lover |
| #8291, aired 2020-11-30 | YIDDISH $1000: This word for cheap & shoddily made goods now usually refers to cheap or shoddily made entertainment schlock |
| #8290, aired 2020-11-27 | ADVENTURE CAPITAL $400: Seal Island just off this South African capital is a good place to swim with sharks--if you have a sturdy enough cage Cape Town |
| #8289, aired 2020-11-26 | IT'S LIKE MAINE $1000: Cape Porpoise & Goose Rocks Beach are part of this town that George Bush's family called (summer) home Kennebunkport |
| #8286, aired 2020-11-23 | LET'S GET HAMMERED $1000: Bob Vila says this hammer with a hemispherical head is "the best hammer to use for metal... less likely to chip on contact" a ball-peen |
| #8285, aired 2020-11-20 | NUMBER, PLEASE $1000: Nate Silver is the editor in chief of this website FiveThirtyEight |
| #8284, aired 2020-11-19 | & A BAG OF CHIPS $800: Hawaiian brand features a type of chip named for this onion of the islands Maui |
| #8279, aired 2020-11-12 | 5-LETTER COUNTRIES $200: It stretches southward to Cape Horn Chile |
| #8277, aired 2020-11-10 | ODD PAIRS $1200: "Straight Outta Compton" rapper & twisty toy named for Hungarian Erno Ice & Rubik Cube |
| #8275, aired 2020-11-06 | U.S. HISTORY $1200: The U.S. severed diplomatic relations with this country January 3, 1961 Cuba |
| #8274, aired 2020-11-05 | MUSIC VENUES $2000: This cafe in a Nashville strip mall is famous for hosting an open mic night on Mondays the Bluebird Café |
| #8273, aired 2020-11-04 | ANIMATED TV $400: Isaac Hayes was the voice of Jerome "Chef" McElroy on this TV show South Park |
| #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) |
| #8272, aired 2020-11-03 | WEIGHT, WHAT'S THAT? $200: In this job, a highway weigh station is called a "chicken coop" as you sit in a line hoping you don't exceed 80,000 pounds truck driving |
| #8272, aired 2020-11-03 | AMERICAN NAMES $600: From 1985 to 1995 Wilma Mankiller was principal chief of this Native American nation based in Oklahoma the Cherokee |
| #8270, aired 2020-10-30 | HISTORIC BELLS $1000: According to lore, the Liberty Bell cracked tolling for John Marshall, who died while holding this office Chief Justice of the United States of America |
| #8270, aired 2020-10-30 | DIFFER BY A LETTER $5,000 (Daily Double): A place to throw back some drinks & a large natural underground chamber a café & a cave (tavern & cavern) |
| #8269, aired 2020-10-29 | NATIONAL PARKS $600: You'll see plenty of stalactites & stalagmites at this site, a national park in Kentucky Mammoth Cave |
| #8269, aired 2020-10-29 | A SERIOUSLY FLUFFY CATEGORY $800: Members of this group whose name stands for head, heart, hands & health help coif fluffy cows like the one seen here 4-H |
| #8268, aired 2020-10-28 | LITERATURE ON THE MAP $800: Owen Wister's "The Virginian" is set in cattle country in this "Cowboy State" Wyoming |
| #8266, aired 2020-10-26 | IT'S HYPHENATED $400: This term can refer to a cheap saloon, the type of music played there or the "Women" in a Rolling Stones song a honky-tonk |
| #8258, aired 2020-10-14 | OK, BOOMERANG $1000: Possibly the world's oldest boomerang was found in 1987 in a 23,000-year-old Polish cave & was made out of the tusk of one of these a woolly mammoth |
| #8257, aired 2020-10-13 | LANGUAGES $600: The Afrikaans language is also known as "Cape" this European language Dutch |
| #8253, aired 2020-10-07 | THE LIBRARIAN INVASIONS $2000: Lucien becomes chief librarian of the Dreaming in this Neil Gaiman comic book series with a one-word title Sandman |
| #8251, aired 2020-10-05 | AT THE AIRPORT $1600: Cafe Eiffel & Galeries Lafayette Royal Quartz Paris (Charles) de Gaulle |
| #8250, aired 2020-10-02 | SELF-HELP BOOKS $1200: Stephen Covey's "The 8th Habit" is a follow-up to this 1989 bestseller of personal change The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People |
| #8249, aired 2020-10-01 | EVERY DAY'S A HOLIDAY $200: On January 12 have a cuppa on National Hot this Day Tea |
| #8249, aired 2020-10-01 | E 1-2-3-4-5 $1600: A small flock of quail covey |
| #8247, aired 2020-09-29 | HASH TAGS $400: This creamy fettucine sauce is named for Signor di Lelio, the Roman chef said to have created it Alfredo |
| #8246, aired 2020-09-28 | TERMS FROM ISLAM $2000: This is the cube-shaped shrine in Mecca that contains the black stone the Ka'bah (Kaaba) |
| #8245, aired 2020-09-25 | COIF SUPPRESSANT $200: This foamy stuff that you put in your hair to hold it in place is a homophone for a large mammal mousse |
| #8245, aired 2020-09-25 | COIF SUPPRESSANT $400: When it comes to hair wands, this 4-letter word can follow straightening or curling an iron |
| #8245, aired 2020-09-25 | COIF SUPPRESSANT $600: From the Hindi for "tie", it's a handkerchief used to tie your hair in place a bandana |
| #8245, aired 2020-09-25 | COIF SUPPRESSANT $800: At the Oscars in 2019, Jason Momoa matched his velvet Fendi tux to the pink one of these on his wrist that ties his hair back a scrunchie |
| #8245, aired 2020-09-25 | COIF SUPPRESSANT $1000: This scented hair oil or ointment gets its name from the Latin for "apple" pomade |
| #8244, aired 2020-09-24 | SCULPTURE $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents by a display monitor.) Evolving from cave art, examples of this type of sculpture includes sunken, low or bas, and high or alto relief |
| #8244, aired 2020-09-24 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1000: In a novel by Jonathan Franzen, Alfred Lambert & his son Chip face their failures to make these, the title of the book corrections |
| #8244, aired 2020-09-24 | BODIES OF WATER $1600: Named for an Englishman, it connects the Atlantic & the Pacific between Cape Horn & the South Shetland Islands Drake's Passage |
| #8241, aired 2020-09-21 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: On Oct. 22, 1962 JFK announced a naval blockade of this country due to Soviet missiles being discovered there Cuba |
| #8241, aired 2020-09-21 | THE TEMPLETON PRIZE $800: The 2013 prize went to this Cape Town man whose teachings combine Anglicanism with the concept of ubuntu, meaning humanity & kindness Archbishop Desmond Tutu |
| #8241, aired 2020-09-21 | AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: This 1620 document mentions "our dread sovereign Lord King James", "a voyage to plant the first colony" & "Cape Cod" the Mayflower Compact |
| #8239, aired 2020-09-17 | WORD WORDS $600: To talk without preparation is to ad-lib or to speak this "sleeve-oriented" way off the cuff |
| #8236, aired 2020-09-14 | PRESIDENT & ACCOUNTED FOR $800: He was Cuba's defense minister from 1959 to 2006; then he became acting president Raúl Castro |
| #8234, aired 2020-06-11 | THE FRENCH REVOLUTION $1200: A coup on 18 Brumaire established the consulate & brought this general to power Napoleon Bonaparte |
| #8227, aired 2020-06-02 | GREATEST HITS FROM THE SUPREMES $2000: Leading to the 11th Amendment, Chisholm v. Georgia was overseen by this first Chief Justice Jay |
| #8224, aired 2020-05-28 | THE LANGUAGE OF DE-FEET $600: A curved part of the foot is a crucial part of this term for your chief rival your archenemy |
| #8223, aired 2020-05-27 | SAY IT IN FRENCH $200: Coffee with milk cafe au lait |
| #8220, aired 2020-05-22 | MAGAZINES $1000: In her book "Save Me the Plums", Ruth Reichl recounts her days as editor in chief of this fancy food magazine that ceased to be in 2009 Gourmet |
| #8219, aired 2020-05-21 | DRINK UP: IT'S THIRST-DAY $200: This frozen rum cocktail that can be banana or strawberry is named for a district in Cuba a daiquiri |
| #8219, aired 2020-05-21 | WORDS THAT RHYME $800 (Daily Double): Adjective for lowly labor & warmly affable or agreeable menial & genial |
| #8218, aired 2020-05-20 | PORT LAND $1000: Colón, founded in 1850 Panama |
| #8218, aired 2020-05-20 | CHARACTERS FROM AMERICAN FOLKLORE $4,600 (Daily Double): This Texan cowboy hero tamed a mountain lion & rode it like a horse, using a rattlesnake as a lasso Pecos Bill |
| #8215, aired 2020-05-01 | MAY DAY! MAY DAY! $800: On May 1, 1961 in the first major one of these in the U.S., a Miami-Key West flight made an unscheduled stop in Cuba a hijacking |
| #8210, aired 2020-04-24 | MOVIE VILLAIN QUOTES $400: Hans Gruber (Alan Rickman): "Do you really think you have a chance against us, Mr. Cowboy?" Die Hard |
| #8210, aired 2020-04-24 | MOVIE VILLAIN QUOTES $2000: Max Cady (Robert De Niro): "Counselor! Come out, come out, wherever you are" Cape Fear |
| #8210, aired 2020-04-24 | SPY TERMS $3,000 (Daily Double): Anything related to espionage can be said to be this 3-word term, a translation of "de cape et d'épée" cloak & dagger |
| #8209, aired 2020-04-23 | FICTIONAL TV TOWNS & CITIES $800: If you write about "Murder, She Wrote", include that it took place in Cabot Cove in this New England state Maine |
| #8207, aired 2020-04-21 | A PITCH FOR A HAPPIER MOVIE ENDING $800: John Coffey doesn't ride the lightning & instead gets a full pardon & is released from death row The Green Mile |
| #8200, aired 2020-04-10 | CATS $1000: The breed called this "brown" is not from Cuba but is named for its cigar-brown color the Havana |
| #8199, aired 2020-04-09 | WHERE YA GOIN' FOR SPRING BREAK? $1000: We're off to Mexico! Check out Lover's Beach at this cape on Baja California's extreme southern tip Cabo San Lucas |
| #8198, aired 2020-04-08 | STATE THE STATE $600: Yellowstone National Park lies mainly in this "Cowboy State" Wyoming |
| #8197, aired 2020-04-07 | DON'T BLANK ON THE MENU $800: Starbucks: Java Chip ___ Blended Beverage a Frappuccino |
| #8195, aired 2020-04-03 | WEAPONS OF THE WAR $1000: The USS Massachusetts & the Cristóbal Colón, which exchanged fire outside Santiago de Cuba the Spanish-American War |
| #8194, aired 2020-04-02 | BOOKS OF THE BIBLE $800: St. John experienced this in a cave on the isle of Patmos & is said to have written the Bible book of the same name there Revelation |
| #8187, aired 2020-03-24 | FOREIGN GEOGRAPHICAL TERMS $600: Before Frio & San Lucas, it means cape Cabo |
| #8179, aired 2020-03-12 | FOOD & DRINK IN THE BIBLE $600: An angel gives Elijah an amazing cake that sustains him on a 40-day journey to this peak where he meets God in a cave Mount Sinai |
| #8177, aired 2020-03-10 | SECONDARY TITLES $200: The U.S. Supreme Court has one Chief Justice & 8 of these other justices associate justices |
| #8177, aired 2020-03-10 | SHE'S A GODDESS! $1200: She's the Hindu goddess of wealth and good fortune but not a top chef, as TV's Padma could tell you Lakshmi |
| #8176, aired 2020-03-09 | CUBA BEFORE FIDEL $400: In 1762 Havana fell to the British, who later returned it to the Spanish & got this nearby future U.S. state in return Florida |
| #8176, aired 2020-03-09 | CUBA BEFORE FIDEL $1200: In 1812, inspired by Haiti's Toussaint L'Ouverture & preceding Nat Turner in Virginia, Jose Antonio Aponte led a revolt by them enslaved people |
| #8176, aired 2020-03-09 | CUBA BEFORE FIDEL $1600: Before Obama, the last sitting U.S. Pres. to visit was Coolidge; he spoke to a precursor org. of the OAS, short for this group the Organization of American States |
| #8176, aired 2020-03-09 | CUBA BEFORE FIDEL $2000: Pre-Castro Cuba was a hopping place; in this last full year before Fidel took over, Havana had more movie theaters than New York City 1958 |
| #8176, aired 2020-03-09 | CUBA BEFORE FIDEL $2,500 (Daily Double): On Jan, 25, 1898 this U.S. Battleship arrived in Havana Harbor for a friendly visit; 3 weeks later, it blew up the Maine |
| #8174, aired 2020-03-05 | SINGERS NOT SINGING $600: A Save the Children ambassador, this singer from Cuba visited storm-ravaged Puerto Rico Camila Cabello |
| #8171, aired 2020-03-02 | THE 20th CENTURY $600: This 1961 invasion was an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow Cuba's government the Bay of Pigs |
| #8170, aired 2020-02-28 | EXPLORERS $600: After conquering Cuba, Panfilo de Narvaez was tasked by Charles V to take this nearby peninsula Florida |
| #8170, aired 2020-02-28 | WE CAN BE HEROES $1000: An outstanding chef and an outstanding human, he and his team served 3.6 million meals to Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria José Andrés |
| #8170, aired 2020-02-28 | MONSTERS INK $2000: H.P. Lovecraft called this chief of his nightmares a blend of octopus, dragon, and other human forms the Cthulhu |
| #8168, aired 2020-02-26 | ISLANDS OF AFRICA $600: Africa's westernmost nation is this island group whose name means "green cape" Cape Verde |
| #8167, aired 2020-02-25 | THE CONSTITUTION SAYS $600: "The President shall be" this "of the Army and Navy of the United States" Commander in Chief |
| #8166, aired 2020-02-24 | AROUND THE WORLD $400: This African cape was thought to be a sign of a sea route to India from Europe, hence its name the Cape of Good Hope |
| #8158, aired 2020-02-12 | A MENU OF RESTAURANTS $600: Open for 2 days in May 2019, Tiffany Cafe in Beverly Hills was this kind of spot that sounds like it sprang from a toaster a pop-up |
| #8155, aired 2020-02-07 | WOMEN'S MEMOIRS $400: "My Life in France" is the story of how this chef found her true calling Julia Child |
| #8153, aired 2020-02-05 | NICKNAMES $400: The grand scale of Mozart's Symphony No. 41 in C Major earned it this nickname, after the chief Roman god Jupiter |
| #8150, aired 2020-01-31 | @ $200: About 1,600 smaller islands surround the main one of this nation that's 90 miles south of Key West Cuba |
| #8150, aired 2020-01-31 | LITERARY FESTIVALS $1200: Each year the Western Folklife Center in Elko, Nevada hosts the national gathering for poetry named for this rustic job cowboy |
| #8150, aired 2020-01-31 | WORLD TRANSPORTATION $2000: In 31 hours South Africa's blue train travels in luxury between these 2 cities, the administrative & legislative capitals Cape Town & Pretoria |
| #8150, aired 2020-01-31 | SPECIES NAMES $2000: The gopher tortoise, Gopherus polyphemus, is named for one of these cave-dwelling creatures in Greek myth a cyclops |
| #8150, aired 2020-01-31 | HISTORIC PLEAS $4,000 (Daily Double): Chief Joseph met Teddy Roosevelt & pleaded with him to allow this tribe to return to its ancestral home Nez Perce |
| #8147, aired 2020-01-28 | MILITARY ABBREVIATIONS $400: CPOs are these officers, but I don't think they are spiteful a chief petty officer |
| #8146, aired 2020-01-27 | PUBLIC TELEVISION $400: I say, old chap, it's time for "A Question of Sport", a quiz show on this network since 1970 BBC |
| #8145, aired 2020-01-24 | NEIL BEFORE ME $400: Before Neil Gorsuch, A.B. Neil similarly believed in the original meaning of the Constitution as Chief Justice of this in Tennessee the state supreme court |
| #8144, aired 2020-01-23 | PLACE-NAME NAMES $1200: The "TODAY" show is anchored by Hoda Kotb & this woman who is also NBC news chief legal correspondent Savannah Guthrie |
| #8140, aired 2020-01-17 | BANDS, CLANS & GANGS $200: The Turtle Creek this establishment in northern Michigan is owned by the Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa & Chippewa Indians a casino |
| #8137, aired 2020-01-14 | MYTHOLOGY $600: Opposite the cave of the sea monster Scylla, you'd find this monstrous personification of a whirlpool Charybdis |
| #8, aired 2020-01-14 | ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD $400: This alliterative name for a hangout of western movie extras made the news in 1940 when one cowboy gunned down another for real Gower Gulch |
| #8133, aired 2020-01-08 | ANOTHER YEAR, ANOTHER DOLLAR $2000: Issued in 1862, the first dollar bill featured the portrait of a real big fish, this Treasury Secretary & future Chief Justice Salmon Chase |
| #3, aired 2020-01-08 | CLASSIC MOVIE QUOTES $800: A cab gets too close in "Midnight Cowboy" & Dustin Hoffman lets loose with this outburst "I'm walking here!" |
| #8132, aired 2020-01-07 | CLASSIC MOVIES & TV $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew is at Profiles in History in Calabasas, CA.) Collectors prize unique props from classic films, such as this table lamp from Rick's Café Americain, used in this 1942 drama Casablanca |
| #2, aired 2020-01-07 | ALL IN THE FAMILY: GOVERNMENT EDITION $400: He took over for his brother Fidel & became acting president of Cuba in 2006; he dropped the "acting" 2 years later Raúl Castro |
| #8131, aired 2020-01-06 | HIP-HOP FEUDS $1600: Very little we can quote from his "No Vaseline"--let's just say this man was feeling "cold" toward his ex-NWA bandmates Ice Cube |
| #8129, aired 2020-01-02 | CREATURES OF THE DEEP? $400: This coif never really goes out of style the mullet |
| #8129, aired 2020-01-02 | WHERE'S THE FLOWER? $1000: Here's Cuba's national flower, the mariposa, the Spanish name of this insect that the petals resemble the butterfly |
| #8126, aired 2019-12-30 | FASHION BRANDS $200: The iconic pony representing this brand appeared on a Ralph Lauren shirt cuff in 1971 Polo |
| #8126, aired 2019-12-30 | EDIBLE POP CULTURE $800: In this 2007 animated film, a rodent named Remy dreams of becoming a French chef Ratatouille |
| #8126, aired 2019-12-30 | EDIBLE POP CULTURE $1200: On "SNL" Dan Aykroyd once portrayed this Emmy-award-winning chef having a little difficulty preparing a chicken Julia Child |
| #8122, aired 2019-12-24 | SANTA ON THE MAP $1000: Santa Cruz is a port & the chief city on the island of Tenerife in these Atlantic islands the Canary Islands |
| #8121, aired 2019-12-23 | RIVERS $1000: Sacred to Hindus, this river begins in a Himalayan ice cave more than 10,000 feet above sea level the Ganges |
| #8120, aired 2019-12-20 | STUFF $200: British composer James Sanderson used a folk tune as the basis for this, now the U.S. president's entrance music "Hail To The Chief" |
| #8120, aired 2019-12-20 | AROUND THE USA $400: If you're having beignets, at Cafe du Monde, you're living the high life in this city New Orleans |
| #8120, aired 2019-12-20 | AROUND THE USA $1600: The USA's tallest all-granite structure is the Pilgrim Monument in Provincetown at the tip of this cape Cape Cod |
| #8119, aired 2019-12-19 | MAMMAL FACTS $800: It's also known as the Cape anteater & it earns that name by eating tens of thousands a night an aardvark |
| #8119, aired 2019-12-19 | AROUND THE WORLD $800: A memorial that depicts an albatross on this Chilean cape is dedicated to the sailors who lost their lives in the Southern Ocean Cape Horn |
| #8119, aired 2019-12-19 | "T" TIME $2000: This word for a prehistoric cave dweller can also mean a brutal, primitive person a troglodyte |
| #8118, aired 2019-12-18 | BASKIN-ROBBINS' 31 ORIGINAL FLAVORS $1000: Alphabetically, it came between Chocolate Almond & Chocolate Fudge Chocolate Chip |
| #8116, aired 2019-12-16 | USING WORLDLY ADJECTIVES $1200: A list of the best ones might include Partagas & Cohiba Siglos Cuban cigars |
| #8114, aired 2019-12-12 | POLYNESIAN WORDS $600: A paniolo, one of these, works on a ranch herding cattle a cowboy |
| #8113, aired 2019-12-11 | TV MOMS $800: Seen here, Wendi McLendon-Covey plays mom Beverly on this sitcom set in 1980-something The Goldbergs |
| #8111, aired 2019-12-09 | NINE TALES $1,500 (Daily Double): In a classic tale General Zaroff explains that Cape buffalo is not "The Most Dangerous Game" to hunt; this is man (us) |
| #8110, aired 2019-12-06 | CLOTHING $800: Made from leather or other durable material & worn over pants, they're a cowboy's protective leggings chaps |
| #8108, aired 2019-12-04 | OSCAR ONE OF A KINDS $800: Starring Dustin Hoffman & Jon Voight, it's the only X-rated movie to win Best Picture Midnight Cowboy |
| #8104, aired 2019-11-28 | PAMPAS $400: What the cowboy is to the American West, this heroic herder is to the Pampas a gaucho |
| #8103, aired 2019-11-27 | PHARMACY KNOWLEDGE $800: An ill-fitting cuff may make this free test at the drugstore less accurate, so the store will sell you a home monitor blood pressure |
| #8103, aired 2019-11-27 | ON THE GROUND FLOOR $1000: Le Cafe sits at the base of this Canadian spot, more than 1,100 feet below its revolving 360 Restaurant the CN Tower |
| #8100, aired 2019-11-22 | RED ALERT $800: When he became the USSR's leader, Mikhail Gorbachev was the youngest member of this chief Communist Party policymaking body the Politburo |
| #8099, aired 2019-11-21 | SOUP TO NUTS $1000: A French chef in New York gets the credit for creating this creamy potato-&-leek soup that's served cold vichyssoise |
| #8097, aired 2019-11-19 | MISLEADING NAMES $400: Howdy, cowboy. This name of the hat seen here exaggerates its capacity 10-gallon |
| #8094, aired 2019-11-14 | HOUSE PAINTING $800: The lithograph of Mount Vernon seen here was from this pair known for their cheap & popular pictures Currier & Ives |
| #8092, aired 2019-11-12 | NOVELS BY CHARACTERS $1600: Nat;
Joseph Travis, his master;
Judge Cobb The Confessions of Nat Turner |
| #8090, aired 2019-11-08 | SETTING THE SCENE IN SHAKESPEARE $600: Act I, scene ii:
"The island. The entrance of a cave" The Tempest |
| #8087, aired 2019-11-05 | GEOGRAPHICA $2000: "Think over" this Scottish term for a cape, like the one "of Kintyre" peninsula a mull |
| #8086, aired 2019-11-04 | I APPOINTED THAT SUPREME COURT JUSTICE $1000: William Rehnquist (as Chief Justice) Reagan |
| #8086, aired 2019-11-04 | ALLITERATION ON THE MAP $4,000 (Daily Double): Before 1910 the area that's home to the southern tip of Africa bore this name Cape Colony |
| #8083, aired 2019-10-30 | CUBA LIBRO $200: The Gulf Stream runs close to Cuba & in this Hemingway novel Santiago fishes in it The Old Man and the Sea |
| #8083, aired 2019-10-30 | CUBA LIBRO $400: In a Graham Greene novel, James Wormold is recruited by British Secret Service to be "Our Man in" this city Havana |
| #8083, aired 2019-10-30 | CUBA LIBRO $600: Reinaldo Arenas' memoir "Before Night Falls" recounts his attempts to flee Communist Cuba, even swimming to this U.S. naval station Guantánamo Bay |
| #8083, aired 2019-10-30 | CUBA LIBRO $800: Oscar Hijuelos wrote a novel about the title "Kings" of this Cuban ballroom dance mambo |
| #8083, aired 2019-10-30 | CUBA LIBRO $1000: Joe falls for a Cuban revolutionary in "Live by Night" by this "Shutter Island" author, who normally does Massachusetts Dennis Lehane |
| #8083, aired 2019-10-30 | BORROWED FROM OTHER LANGUAGES $1600: Literally French for "blow of mercy", it's any finishing stroke, especially to end suffering coup de grâce |
| #8081, aired 2019-10-28 | PEN NAMES $2000: Since 1930, titles credited to this Nancy Drew author have included "The Bungalow Mystery" & more recently "Crime at the Chat Cafe" Carolyn Keene |
| #8080, aired 2019-10-25 | ANIMAL COMMUNITY $2000: Mud baths remove bugs from the Cape buffalo, & if that doesn't get them all, the cattle type of this white wading bird helps the egret |
| #8079, aired 2019-10-24 | WHERE DO YOU STAN? $1200: Mohammad Daud Khan took power in this country in a 1973 coup & lost it in a 1978 one; then the Soviets came Afghanistan |
| #8076, aired 2019-10-21 | MUSICAL LEGENDS $800: This country crossover star's Top 40 hits included "Rhinestone Cowboy" & "Wichita Lineman" Glen Campbell |
| #8070, aired 2019-10-11 | SOUTHERN POLITICIAN/AUTHOR $800: This Floridian's memoir is "An American Son"--of Mario & Oriales from Cuba Marco Rubio |
| #8070, aired 2019-10-11 | MED. ABBREV. $2000: If you sleep with a CPAP device, you know it provides continuous positive this air pressure |
| #8065, aired 2019-10-04 | "CRO"-POURRI $1200: Remains of an early form of man were found in a French cave with this name Cro-Magnon |
| #8064, aired 2019-10-03 | 2 LETTERS, SECOND IS K $1200: "Today I didn't even have to use my" this, so "it was a good day" for Ice Cube my AK |
| #8063, aired 2019-10-02 | PART-TIME WRITERS $800: While running "Top Chef", this Indian-born woman wrote "The Encyclopedia of Spices & Herbs" Padma Lakshmi |
| #8062, aired 2019-10-01 | CHIP & DALE $400: Chip Taylor, who wrote this song that says "you make my heart sing", says his 3 favorite versions are by The Troggs, Hendrix & X "Wild Thing" |
| #8062, aired 2019-10-01 | CLUES ACROSS AMERICA $400: (Hi, I'm Lisa Hughes from WBZ. In 1856 the chef at the Parker House was said to have invented this 3-word dessert; despite the name, it's actually a 2-layer sponge cake Boston cream pie |
| #8062, aired 2019-10-01 | CHIP & DALE $600: On a 1950s TV show, Roy Rogers rode Trigger & this "Queen of the West" rode Buttermilk Dale Evans |
| #8062, aired 2019-10-01 | CHIP & DALE $800: Stephen Fry narrated the audiobooks in this series in the U.K., while Jim Dale (who is also British) read the American versions Harry Potter |
| #8062, aired 2019-10-01 | CHIP & DALE $1000: While coaching the Oregon Ducks, this football coach sent a refund check to a disappointed fan Chip Kelly |
| #8062, aired 2019-10-01 | IND-ICC-TED! $2000: This global police agency has issued a red notice for capture of ex-Libyan Internal Security Chief Al-Tuhamy Mohamed Khaled Interpol |
| #8060, aired 2019-09-27 | SOME STERN WORDS $800: A way an egg is cooked, or an adjective for an unsentimental chap hard-boiled |
| #8056, aired 2019-09-23 | COUP COUP $400: For a time in 1991, this Soviet president was detained in Crimea during a coup by, among others, his chief of staff Gorbachev |
| #8056, aired 2019-09-23 | COUP COUP $600: On Feb. 4, 1992 he led some Venezuelan military officers in a failed coup; 6 years later, he was elected prez Chávez |
| #8056, aired 2019-09-23 | COUP COUP $800: In 1965 General Suharto brutally put down a coup in this country & soon seized power himself Indonesia |
| #8056, aired 2019-09-23 | COUP COUP $1000: He was appointed commander of the Chilean army by Salvador Allende 18 days before he took over in a 1973 coup Pinochet |
| #8055, aired 2019-09-20 | STATE OF CHIEFS $1600: Wampanoag chief Metacom AKA King Philip Massachusetts |
| #8051, aired 2019-09-16 | ACRONYMS & ABBREVS. $600: In business, the CFO is this job title chief financial officer |
| #8051, aired 2019-09-16 | MYTHS & LEGENDS $1200: Makemake is the chief god of a divine race of bird beings in the Rapa Nui mythology of this island Easter Island |
| #8050, aired 2019-09-13 | OFFICIAL LANGUAGES $200: In Cuba Spanish |
| #8049, aired 2019-09-12 | COUNTRY MUSIC $200: (Ken Burns delivers the clue.) A star on Chicago's WLS Radio, "Oklahoma Cowboy" Gene Autry made the rendition of this song that was said to be a favorite of FDR
"Oh, give me a home where the buffalo roam / Where the..." "Home On The Range" |
| #8049, aired 2019-09-12 | BLANK THAT GUY $400: Alliterative SS chief:
Heinrich ____ Himmler |
| #8044, aired 2019-07-25 | FOR ALL IT'S WORTH $600: The org. Jewelers of America says contrary to popular belief, you can easily chip one of these, even washing dishes--insure it a diamond |
| #8043, aired 2019-07-24 | NEW MUSICAL SUPERGROUPS $200: Both Rock & Roll Hall of Famers:
Cheap Jam Cheap Trick and Pearl Jam |
| #8041, aired 2019-07-22 | FOR WEDDINGS $800: It's the canopy under which the bride & groom can stand during a Jewish wedding ceremony a chuppah |
| #8040, aired 2019-07-19 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS $1200: In the "African Immortals" series by Tananarive Due, vampire-like beings from this Horn of Africa country prey on the living Ethiopia |
| #8036, aired 2019-07-15 | KILLED OFF THE TV SHOW $800: After getting impaled on "South Park", this Isaac Hayes character was the meal for a bear & a mountain lion Chef |
| #8034, aired 2019-07-11 | LET'S DANCE! $1000: Introduced to the U.S. from Cuba around 1914, this dance is done quick-quick-slow in 4/4 time; let's get ready to...! rumba |
| #8033, aired 2019-07-10 | MNEMONICS $400: To distinguish these 2 cave formations:
the one containing a "C" hangs from the ceiling, the one with a "G" rises from the ground stalactites and stalagmites |
| #8033, aired 2019-07-10 | HISTORY, OVER ON THE LEFT $600: In April 1965 this international pot stirrer left Cuba to try to bring revolution to Africa Che Guevara |
| #8029, aired 2019-07-04 | GALA $800: There's plenty of caviar to go around at the post-Oscars Governors' Ball catered by this chef & restaurateur Wolfgang Puck |
| #8028, aired 2019-07-03 | DONE IN BY THEIR OWN CREATIONS $400: Thomas Andrews was the chief naval architect for this ship & went down with it on its maiden voyage in 1912 the Titanic |
| #8028, aired 2019-07-03 | THE GOLDEN HOARD $800: In 1922 people in Kanab, Utah were convinced that the gold of this Aztec was in a mountain cave near their city...nope Montezuma |
| #8027, aired 2019-07-02 | SALAD $200: There's a kitchen honcho in the name of this classic salad with egg, cheese & meat a chef salad |
| #8024, aired 2019-06-27 | THE 1600s $1000: European settlement in South Africa began with the wreck of a Dutch ship rounding this cape in 1647 the Cape of Good Hope |
| #8023, aired 2019-06-26 | COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD $400: In 2018 new president Miguel Diaz-Canel became this country's first non-Castro leader in nearly 60 years Cuba |
| #8021, aired 2019-06-24 | SILENT LETTER BUT DEADLY $800: This "d'etat", a sudden forced change in government, can get dangerous fast a coup |
| #8020, aired 2019-06-21 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $1,600 (Daily Double): (Sarah of the Clue Crew gives the clue from Arlington National Cemetery.) The 400,000 men & women buried at Arlington include 2 U.S. presidents, John F. Kennedy & this man, who was also chief justice Taft |
| #8018, aired 2019-06-19 | THE D.C. UNIVERSE $400: A little birdie told me Dick Costolo became CEO of this social media site after a 2010 boardroom coup Twitter |
| #8014, aired 2019-06-13 | HISTORY $800: The 1952 Egyptian coup has succeeded; time for the group photo with these two future presidents in it Nasser and Sadat |
| #8012, aired 2019-06-11 | WHAT HAPPENED? $800: In 1970 Yukio Mishima, one of Japan's greatest authors, staged a failed coup & then died in this ritual way seppuku |
| #8011, aired 2019-06-10 | AMERICAN INGENUITY $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a flail at the Mercer Museum.) A flail, which gave us the expression "to flail around" was used to beat the wheat in threshing, the age-old practice of separating it from this the chaff |
| #8010, aired 2019-06-07 | REALITY & GAME SHOW CATCHPHRASES $800: "Please pack your knives and go" Top Chef |
| #8009, aired 2019-06-06 | PEOPLE IN HISTORY $5,000 (Daily Double): As Chief Justice he presided over the Roe v. Wade & Pentagon Papers cases Warren Burger |
| #8007, aired 2019-06-04 | THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS $600: Found by miners of this, aka bat poop, it's bat poop crazy that the artifacts of Lovelock Cave led to a legend of red-headed giants guano |
| #8005, aired 2019-05-31 | GEOGRAPHIC TERMS $400: Also an article of clothing, it's a projecting part of a coastline a cape |
| #8002, aired 2019-05-28 | IN THE BACKYARD $800: The distaff counterpart to a man cave is this backyard haven with an alliterative name a she shed |
| #8002, aired 2019-05-28 | 1950s PEOPLE $11,381 (Daily Double): In 1954 he ran unoppposed for president of Cuba (Fulgencio) Batista |
| #8000, aired 2019-05-24 | "GREEN" BOOK $400: A novel by Fannie Flagg is called this food "at the Whistlestop Cafe" fried green tomatoes |
| #7995, aired 2019-05-17 | THE 2010s $600: In April 2018 this little bro ended nearly 60 years of his family's rule when he stepped down as Cuba's president Raúl Castro |
| #7989, aired 2019-05-09 | TERMS FROM SPORTS $400: I say, old chap, if you're dealing with a tricky situation, it might be this 2-word term from cricket a sticky wicket |
| #7983, aired 2019-05-01 | GENERAL KNOWLEDGE $800: This leading U.S. general of WWI was Army chief of staff from 1921 to 1924 (John J.) "Black Jack" Pershing |
| #7982, aired 2019-04-30 | THAT'S A NOVEL PLACE $400: A rum drink, or a 1998 Elmore Leonard novel Cuba Libre |
| #7981, aired 2019-04-29 | WAIT, SOMETHING'S "OFF" $400: A fashion copy not made by its originator can be a cheap this 8-letter word a knockoff |
| #7981, aired 2019-04-29 | THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR $1200: As fascist troops neared Madrid, Francisco Franco became commander in chief, or this word, "general" + 6 letters generalissimo |
| #7980, aired 2019-04-26 | INSPECTORS $2000: In 1899 he was appointed chief inspector of antiquities of upper Egypt; his greatest fame came in 1922 Howard Carter |
| #7979, aired 2019-04-25 | CELEBS ON TWITTER $800: This British celeb chef will opine about your food pics, writing about one seafood paella, "Seafood salmonella!" Gordon Ramsay |
| #7978, aired 2019-04-24 | WHERE AM I? $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents.) I'm outside South Africa's oldest building, the Castle of Good Hope in this city, named for its location on a peninsula Cape Town |
| #7974, aired 2019-04-18 | FEATURE FILM DEBUTS $1600: Cuba Gooding Jr. made his debut in this 1988 Eddie Murphy comedy about an African prince looking for a wife in NYC Coming to America |
| #7973, aired 2019-04-17 | IT'S GOOD TO SEE YOU! $2000: Prior to the Battle of the Little Bighorn, this Sioux chief had a vision of soldiers falling like grasshoppers Sitting Bull |
| #7971, aired 2019-04-15 | ONOMATOPOETIC WORDS $400: Pigeon pen a coop |
| #7965, aired 2019-04-05 | WHICH TALL CHIEF? $400: After more than 150 years, he's still the tallest president in U.S. history Lincoln |
| #7965, aired 2019-04-05 | JAMES BOND & FRIENDS $600: Bond bud Bill Tanner is chief of staff at this alphanumeric British foreign intelligence service MI6 |
| #7965, aired 2019-04-05 | BODIES OF WATER $600: Seen here is a marker at Cape Agulhas at the tip of this continent Africa |
| #7965, aired 2019-04-05 | WHICH TALL CHIEF? $800: This "Great" Russian czar was more than 6'6" Peter the Great |
| #7965, aired 2019-04-05 | WHICH TALL CHIEF? $1200: The National Park Service says that based on this Hawaiian king's feathered cape, he'd have been about 7 feet tall Kamehameha |
| #7965, aired 2019-04-05 | WHICH TALL CHIEF? $1600: Milo Đukanović, of this former Yugoslav republic named for its mountainousness, towers over other leaders Montenegro |
| #7965, aired 2019-04-05 | WHICH TALL CHIEF? $2000: This 6'5" French president was nicknamed "The Big Asparagus" Charles de Gaulle |
| #7963, aired 2019-04-03 | DUMPLINGS BY ANY OTHER NAME $400: Chef Boyardee's mini micro beef ones of these cases of pasta are a kid favorite ravioli |
| #7962, aired 2019-04-02 | GAMES WITH DICE $200: This game played on a board with 24 spear-shaped points utilizes dice & often a doubling cube backgammon |
| #7959, aired 2019-03-28 | PUT A "RING" ON IT $1000: On the end of a small bay to get this protective layer covering |
| #7955, aired 2019-03-22 | FOR ME & MIGUEL $200: Miguel Lopez de Legazpi landed on Cebu island in 1565, founded Manila & became the first governor of this archipelago the Philippines |
| #7955, aired 2019-03-22 | U.S. ISLANDS $800: Once a whaling center, this island 30 miles off Cape Cod has been designated a national historic landmark Nantucket |
| #7952, aired 2019-03-19 | HATS INCREDIBLE $200: Numeric name for a wide-brimmed cowboy that's extra tall 10-gallon |
| #7952, aired 2019-03-19 | THEY NAMED THE COLLEGE FOR ME! $800: Located in Huntington, West Virginia, it's named for a chief justice Marshall |
| #7950, aired 2019-03-15 | ON THE PGA TOUR $600: The long chip at the 1978 Jackie Gleason Classic was one of 5 straight birdies to seal the win for this Golden Bear Jack Nicklaus |
| #7946, aired 2019-03-11 | MOVIE PICTURES $600: Best picture Oscar winner for 1969 Midnight Cowboy |
| #7946, aired 2019-03-11 | A COLONEL OF TRUTH $1000: A grad of Libya's military academy in 1965, this colonel was also commander in chief of the nation's armed forces Qaddafi |
| #7943, aired 2019-03-06 | EX-CREATURES $800: Ursus spelaeus is the name for this extinct animal, made famous in a Jean Auel title the cave bear |
| #7942, aired 2019-03-05 | TO THE LIGHTHOUSE $2000: The iconic lighthouse seen here is in the fishing village of Peggy's Cove in this Atlantic province of Canada Nova Scotia |
| #7941, aired 2019-03-04 | THE SEA'S THE LIMIT $2000: The north coast of this island nation lies on the Gulf of Mexico & the Atlantic; the south coast is on the Caribbean Cuba |
| #7938, aired 2019-02-27 | A LONG, LONG TIME AGO $1200: Don't call Ayla in "The Clan of the Cave Bear" a Neanderthal--she's this kind of human that emerged later, around 40,000 B.C. a Cro Magnon |
| #7935, aired 2019-02-22 | STATE FACTS $1,400 (Daily Double): In 1999, in a nod to this facility named for a president, Brevard County, Florida added 321 as an area code Cape Kennedy (or the Kennedy Space Center) |
| #7931, aired 2019-02-18 | VOCABULARY $1000: Add a "Y" to the name of a cotton fabric to get this word meaning cheap or gaudy chintzy |
| #7927, aired 2019-02-12 | COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD $400: Rescinded in 2017, the "Wet Foot, Dry Foot" policy allowed refugees from this country to stay if they reached U.S. soil Cuba |
| #7927, aired 2019-02-12 | COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD $800: In 2018 divers rescued 12 boys & one adult trapped by rising water inside a cave in this country Thailand |
| #7926, aired 2019-02-11 | A CLASSIC SETTING $200: This dystopian novel opens in April in London, "chief city of Airstrip One" 1984 |
| #7924, aired 2019-02-07 | MUSEUM MISCELLANY $600: Cuba's Museo Giron has a film about this battle, calling it the "first defeat of U.S. imperialism in the Americas" Bay of Pigs |
| #7919, aired 2019-01-31 | "M.C." $1200: AKA John-117, he's the main man in the Halo video games Master Chief |
| #7916, aired 2019-01-28 | NONFICTION $600: "The Gatekeepers" examines how the men with this title, like Rahm Emanuel & Dick Cheney, define every presidency chief of staff |
| #7916, aired 2019-01-28 | GODS & GODDESSES $3,000 (Daily Double): One of Rome's oldest temples was the one of this chief god on the Capitoline Hill Jupiter |
| #7914, aired 2019-01-24 | PEOPLE POWER $1600: Iulian Vlad, secret police chief in this country, helped bring about its tyrant's downfall in 1989 Romania |
| #7910, aired 2019-01-18 | FROM THE FRENCH $1600: Now also meaning a nightclub or bar, this type of cafe lends its name to a salad made with salt pork & eggs bistro |
| #7908, aired 2019-01-16 | APPROPRIATE NAMES $400: Igor Judge went into law & in 2013 retired as a high judge of England & Wales called lord this, much like the USA's top judge chief justice |
| #7907, aired 2019-01-15 | CLASSIC ALBUMS $1600: A 2018 50th anniversary reissue of "Cheap Thrills" by Big Brother and the Holding Company showcases this legendary singer Janis Joplin |
| #7905, aired 2019-01-11 | ESSENTIAL EARLS $400: This future chief justice was the 1948 Republican nominee for vice president Earl Warren |
| #7904, aired 2019-01-10 | TECHNOLOGY $800: The Argand burner, which ran on oil, revolutionized the lighting of these, like the one at Cape Hatteras a lighthouse |
| #7904, aired 2019-01-10 | 2018 POP CULTURE $2000: In 2018 this couple said hello to baby No. 5 & goodbye to "Fixer Upper" after season No. 5 Chip and Joanna Gaines |
| #7903, aired 2019-01-09 | ERGONOMIC INJURIES $2000: RSIs, repetitive strain injuries, include one to this 4-muscle cuff in the shoulder; it affects painters as well as pitchers your rotator cuff |
| #7896, aired 2018-12-31 | ABOUT A HORSE $400: Allan "Rocky" Lane was a movie cowboy hero but is perhaps best known for voicing this '60s TV horse Mister Ed |
| #7894, aired 2018-12-27 | ALLITERATIVE PEOPLE $1,000 (Daily Double): In 1778 he was made President of the Continental Congress; in 1789, he was made Chief Justice of the United States John Jay |
| #7893, aired 2018-12-26 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: In November 1620 this document was signed onboard a ship off Cape Cod Mayflower Compact |
| #7891, aired 2018-12-24 | "POT"POURRI $1200: A cheap book written for profit, not art potboiler |
| #7891, aired 2018-12-24 | ASIAN GEOGRAPHY $2000: The Camotes sea is a small sea lying between the islands of Cebu & Leyte in this republic the Philippines |
| #7884, aired 2018-12-13 | THE MOVIE'S CHARACTERS $1600: Ice Cube & Dr. Dre, on their rise to fame in a 2015 film Straight Outta Compton |
| #7882, aired 2018-12-11 | DE-CAP-ITATE 'EM! $400: Chop "cap" off a word meaning to overturn in water & you get this magnitude size |
| #7881, aired 2018-12-10 | WILL & GRACE $800: In the 1920s this cowboy humorist was honorary mayor of Beverly Hills, California Will Rogers |
| #7880, aired 2018-12-07 | WHAT A COUNTR"E" $800: A 1974 military coup deposed the last of this Africa nation's emperors Ethiopia |
| #7878, aired 2018-12-05 | DANCER $1000: In 1948 dancer & choreographer Alicia Alonso founded the national ballet of this island country of her birth Cuba |
| #7877, aired 2018-12-04 | 20th CENTURY LEADERS $1600: In 1993, in what was reported as Moscow's fiercest fighting since 1917, this snowy-haired Russian president fended off a coup Yeltsin |
| #7874, aired 2018-11-29 | GLOBAL MONSTERS $800: South Africa's grootslang is a horrific cave beast that's part serpent, part this giant trumpeter an elephant |
| #7870, aired 2018-11-23 | VISITING ATLANTA $600: The Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre stood in on this TV show as the CDC, which didn't solve the zombie problem The Walking Dead |
| #7867, aired 2018-11-20 | ASIAN GEOGRAPHY $1200: Cebu & Leyte are just two of the more than 7,000 islands that make up this Asian nation the Philippines |
| #7864, aired 2018-11-15 | GOVERNMENT & POLITICS $1200: Carla L. Provost, chief of this patrol, worked in the field in the Tucson & Yuma sectors border patrol |
| #7863, aired 2018-11-14 | BODIES OF WATER $800: The Cayman Trench, near Cuba, is the greatest depth of this sea the Caribbean Sea |
| #7863, aired 2018-11-14 | UNDERSTANDING MONEY $800: Spain no longer uses this unit of currency, but Chile & Cuba still do the peso |
| #7863, aired 2018-11-14 | ME WANT COOKIE! $1000: We like that this No. 1 chocolate chip cookie brand has an exclamation point in its name Chips Ahoy! |
| #7861, aired 2018-11-12 | HODGEPODGE $1200: In the tradition of chocolate chip cookie dough, a Ben & Jerry's ice cream has the alliterative name brownie this stuff batter |
| #7860, aired 2018-11-09 | ON THE MENU $1000: I'll have the "You Pick Two" from this bakery-cafe: make it the black bean soup & the bacon turkey bravo sandwich Panera Bread |
| #7860, aired 2018-11-09 | ALL THINGS DISNEY $1000: The name of this Disney resort that opened in Hawaii in 2011 means "messenger of a chief" Aulani |
| #7857, aired 2018-11-06 | FAMILIAR PHRASES $200: Someone angry about a past event might be balancing a "chip" here their shoulder |
| #7857, aired 2018-11-06 | RAISING CANE $800: Cuba is known as the "Isle of Rum" largely thanks to this explorer who introduced sugarcane to the island in 1493 Christopher Columbus |
| #7856, aired 2018-11-05 | CAVES $400: The longest cave system on Earth reaches 380 feet down & stretches more than 400 miles in this Kentucky national park Mammoth Cave |
| #7856, aired 2018-11-05 | CAVES $1,000 (Daily Double): From the Greek for "cave", it's an old term for a cave dweller or caveman a troglodyte |
| #7856, aired 2018-11-05 | CAVES $1200: Found in Europe & living more than 100 years, an olm is a blind, cave-dwelling one of these amphibians a salamander |
| #7856, aired 2018-11-05 | CAVES $2000: Stunning examples of Paleolithic art, like the ones seen here, can be found in this cave in France's Vézère Valley Lascaux Cave |
| #7855, aired 2018-11-02 | TREASURES OF THE NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY $400: The NPG has the complete gallery of presidential portraits outside the White House--here's this chief executive (Harry) Truman |
| #7852, aired 2018-10-30 | THE 3 F CLUB $800: John Kelly took on this White House job in July 2017 chief of staff |
| #7852, aired 2018-10-30 | AFRICAN GEOGRAPHY $800: Once a site for communicating with ships, Signal Hill overlooks this South African "mother city" Cape Town |
| #7848, aired 2018-10-24 | GLOBE TROTTIN' $600: Careful rounding this South African cape 100 miles northwest of Cape Agulhas Cape Good Hope |
| #7847, aired 2018-10-23 | EN FRANÇAIS $200: Chapeau--do let it go to your head a hat |
| #7846, aired 2018-10-22 | VARIOUS COWBOYS $400: Glen Campbell sang about this sparkly cowboy "riding out on a horse in a star-spangled rodeo" a rhinestone cowboy |
| #7846, aired 2018-10-22 | VARIOUS COWBOYS $800: In 1980 this actor left Barbarino behind for country music at Gilley's in "Urban Cowboy" John Travolta |
| #7846, aired 2018-10-22 | VARIOUS COWBOYS $1200: This is one of the nicknames of Steve Miller's "The Joker", & also another of Steve's songs "Space Cowboy" |
| #7846, aired 2018-10-22 | VARIOUS COWBOYS $1600: In 1989 Matt Dillon starred as this "cowboy", searching for prescription medications the drugstore cowboy |
| #7846, aired 2018-10-22 | VARIOUS COWBOYS $2000: This "singing cowboy" had a huge hit singing "Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer" Gene Autry |
| #7845, aired 2018-10-19 | HANGING WITH FAMOUS PEOPLE $200: Fidel Castro gets an earful from this writer & fellow Cuba resident Ernest Hemingway |
| #7845, aired 2018-10-19 | ENDS IN "U" $800: If you see this puffer fish on a Japanese menu, you should make sure the chef is licensed--your life is at stake fugu |
| #7844, aired 2018-10-18 | ONE-LETTER RESPONSES $400: "The very existence of" this James Bond chief, "let alone his identity, was never admitted" M |
| #7843, aired 2018-10-17 | NUTS ABOUT DOUGHNUTS $1000: Cafe du Monde in New Orleans calls it "a square piece of dough, fried & covered with powdered sugar" a beignet |
| #7841, aired 2018-10-15 | ISLANDS $400: You can't get much more north than tiny Kaffeklubben Island, 20 miles off Cape Morris Jesup on this world's largest island Greenland |
| #7839, aired 2018-10-11 | I NEED A HOBBY! $200: Can you solve this puzzle in speedcubing? Can you solve it in the world record time of 4.22 seconds? a Rubik's cube |
| #7834, aired 2018-10-04 | IF I WERE IN RICHMOND... $800: I can review the house of this chief justice, known for presiding over Marbury v. Madison (John) Marshall |
| #7833, aired 2018-10-03 | KARATE $200: A knife-hand strike to the neck is informally called this, like a slice of meat on the bone chop |
| #7831, aired 2018-10-01 | AROUND THE CARIBBEAN $800: The Windward Passage separates Haiti from this country to the northwest Cuba |
| #7830, aired 2018-09-28 | SpaceX $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents from SpaceX in Hawthorne, California.) In 2015, SpaceX achieved a historic first, when it brought Falcon 9's first stage back from space and landed it safely at this Florida location Cape Canaveral |
| #7828, aired 2018-09-26 | PARDONER $800: In 2018 Donald Trump pardoned this man, Dick Cheney's chief of staff, who was convicted of perjury Scooter Libby |
| #7828, aired 2018-09-26 | PARDONER $1600: Pres. Cleveland, an ex-sheriff, pardoned James Brooks, a cowboy-killin' captain in this Texas law-&-order force a Texas Ranger |
| #7827, aired 2018-09-25 | HATS $400: Type of chapeau in song titles by Prince & by Staff Sgt. Barry Sadler a beret |
| #7827, aired 2018-09-25 | COME UP TO THE LAB $1200: With more than 150 scientists, one of the world's largest DNA crime labs is at NYC's OCME, Office of Chief this the medical examiner |
| #7824, aired 2018-09-20 | HOW CHEAP WERE THEY? $200: Worth $58 billion, Ikea founder Ingvar Kamprad got haircuts when visiting developing countries instead of in this homeland Sweden |
| #7824, aired 2018-09-20 | READING $400: In a Shakespeare adaptation by Jo Nesbø, Duncan is chief of police & this title guy, a devious inspector Macbeth |
| #7824, aired 2018-09-20 | HOW CHEAP WERE THEY? $400: A 1785 letter said that to save ink, the late Duchess of Marlborough never did this; we hope she crossed her t's dot her i's |
| #7824, aired 2018-09-20 | HOW CHEAP WERE THEY? $600: In 1922, as perhaps the world's biggest movie star, this comic had studio carpenters build his new home Charlie Chaplin |
| #7824, aired 2018-09-20 | HOW CHEAP WERE THEY? $800: John Elwes, who despite great wealth wore a wig found in a gutter, may have inspired this most famous miser of fiction Ebenezer Scrooge |
| #7824, aired 2018-09-20 | HOW CHEAP WERE THEY? $1000: This billionaire & husband of Catherine T. didn't buy rubber bands--they were free with the morning paper! John D. MacArthur |
| #7821, aired 2018-09-17 | LETTUCE BEGIN $800: The owner of the Brown Derby in Hollywood got his name on this salad with lettuce, bacon, chicken, eggs & blue cheese a Cobb salad |
| #7818, aired 2018-09-12 | I LEARNED IT FROM MENTAL FLOSS $200: Although Bela Lugosi resented the typecasting, he was buried wearing the signature cape of this character Count Dracula |
| #7818, aired 2018-09-12 | MOVIE ROLE, TV ROLE $1200: Chief Rash in "Drowning Mona"; Frank on "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" Danny DeVito |
| #7817, aired 2018-09-11 | U.S. HISTORY $400: In 1875 this Tammany Hall "Boss" escaped from prison & fled to Cuba & then to Spain Boss Tweed |
| #7817, aired 2018-09-11 | RELIGIOUS LEADERS $1600: In 1996, he formally retired as archbishop of Cape Town (Desmond) Tutu |
| #7815, aired 2018-07-27 | CLASSICAL MUSIC TERMS $2000: Italian for "from the head" da capo |
| #7811, aired 2018-07-23 | HISTORY WILL NOTE $1000: 5 years after a successful 1971 military coup, Idi Amin became life president of this nation Uganda |
| #7809, aired 2018-07-19 | THE ABCs OF THE CIA $2000: Referring to the top CIA official in a foreign country, the COS is the chief of this station |
| #7808, aired 2018-07-18 | WHO "DIS"? $1200: This celebrity chef's Italian last name translates to "of the spirit" Rocco DiSpirito |
| #7808, aired 2018-07-18 | SOCRATES, PLATO & ARISTOTLE $2000: According to "The Republic", we live in this dark place where we only see the shadows of reality the cave |
| #7807, aired 2018-07-17 | THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE $800 (Daily Double): This quiet cove of southwest Cuba came to sudden world attention in the spring of 1961 the Bay of Pigs |
| #7806, aired 2018-07-16 | CELEBRITY POSSESSIVES $1200: A famous L.A. chef's hockey projectile Wolfgang's puck |
| #7803, aired 2018-07-11 | MONKEY, SEE? $1000: The chacma, or Cape, is the largest member of this family of large monkeys the baboon |
| #7801, aired 2018-07-09 | ANCIENT ROME $800: Constructed in 312 B.C., this major Roman road originally ran 132 miles from Rome to Capua in Campania the Appian Way |
| #7798, aired 2018-07-04 | ON TV $800: This actor plays Chip, a dropout from French clown college, & his twin brother Dale on "Baskets" Zach Galifianakis |
| #7792, aired 2018-06-26 | NOM DE MUPPET $400: He may have told us his name, but we didn't understand him, so we know him by his nationality the Swedish Chef |
| #7792, aired 2018-06-26 | NOM DE MUPPET $1000: Rizzo the Rat's name came from Dustin Hoffman's character in this Best Picture Oscar winner Midnight Cowboy |
| #7791, aired 2018-06-25 | DON'T TELL ME $600: Sorry, Farrier old chap, but that Spitfire won't have enough petrol to get you back to Blighty in this 2017 film Dunkirk |
| #7791, aired 2018-06-25 | THAT'S THE GOVERNMENT FOR YOU $1000: 2 people claimed to be the acting director of the CFPB, this, in 2017--turns out, Mick Mulvaney was more correct Consumer Financial Protection Bureau |
| #7790, aired 2018-06-22 | MEMBERS OF THE HIP-HOP GROUP $400: In 3 initials:
Ice Cube,
Eazy-E,
MC Ren NWA |
| #7784, aired 2018-06-14 | MAN CAVES $1200: Warren's Cave in Florida is named for Colonel John Warren, who led troops during the second of these Indian wars the Seminole Wars |
| #7784, aired 2018-06-14 | MAN CAVES $1600: This ancient playwright's cave on Salamis is believed to be where he wrote tragedies like "Trojan Women" Euripides |
| #7784, aired 2018-06-14 | POLAR EXPLORATION $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows the South Pole on the monitor.) Here is Amundsen's route to and from the South Pole, & here is the 1911-1912 route from Cape Evans led by this man--on the return trip, he met his end just 11 miles from shelter (Robert Falcon) Scott |
| #7784, aired 2018-06-14 | MAN CAVES $2000: A cave on Mount Carmel is named for this prophet who may have lived & hid there before whirlwinding up to heaven Elijah |
| #7782, aired 2018-06-12 | THE KISS CAM $400: Burt Lancaster & Deborah Kerr kissed passionately in the surf on Halona Cove on Oahu in this 1953 film From Here to Eternity |
| #7782, aired 2018-06-12 | I NEED A DRINK $800: I'm a little this, so I'll have the classic cocktail of the same name with a sugar cube, bitters & rye or bourbon old-fashioned |
| #7780, aired 2018-06-08 | GOLFER IN CHIEF $400: When this president played, he often invoked "Billigans" after misplayed balls Bill Clinton |
| #7780, aired 2018-06-08 | GOLFER IN CHIEF $800: John F. Kennedy played on the freshman golf team at this university Harvard |
| #7780, aired 2018-06-08 | GOLFER IN CHIEF $1200: This president who on occasion would clumsily wing a spectator joked, "People...should stay behind us" Gerald Ford |
| #7780, aired 2018-06-08 | GOLFER IN CHIEF $1600: The 45th president enjoys time at Trump National in Bedminster in this state, where he watched the 2017 U.S. Women's Open New Jersey |
| #7780, aired 2018-06-08 | GOLFER IN CHIEF $2000: That's avid golfer Ike practicing on this area of the White House grounds called "the president's backyard" the South Lawn |
| #7778, aired 2018-06-06 | AROUND THE HOUSE $200: It's this for you, I tell you! Be they cafe, ruffled or even shower! curtains |
| #7775, aired 2018-06-01 | THE THIRD MAN $1000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a model of space flight on the monitor.) In a 15-minute trip from Cape Canaveral to the Atlantic Ocean on July 21, 1961, Liberty Bell 7 reached a height of 118 miles and traveled 303 miles carrying this alliteratively named astronaut, making him the third man in space Gus Grissom |
| #7771, aired 2018-05-28 | MEMORIAL DAY $1600: On the holiday, the Cowboy Museum in Oklahoma hosts a festival for these vehicles, the food trucks of the Old West chuck wagons |
| #7768, aired 2018-05-23 | PLANET OF THE CAPES $400: This government facility abbreviated KSC is found on Cape Canaveral in Florida the Kennedy Space Center |
| #7768, aired 2018-05-23 | PLANET OF THE CAPES $800: Mexico's resort region of Cabo San Lucas is found at the southern tip of this peninsula Baja California |
| #7768, aired 2018-05-23 | PLANET OF THE CAPES $1200: Found near Calais, Cap Gris-Nez translates as "Cape" these 2 words, for the color of its rocks gray nose |
| #7768, aired 2018-05-23 | PLANET OF THE CAPES $1600: The Gaelic songs & poems of Malcolm Gillis praise the landscape of Cape Breton in this Canadian province Nova Scotia |
| #7766, aired 2018-05-21 | JEFF BRIDGES $800: As a Texas Ranger chasing bank robbers in this 2016 film, Jeff discovers the T-Bone Cafe & its very limited menu Hell or High Water |
| #7765, aired 2018-05-18 | ISLANDS $2,000 (Daily Double): (Sarah shows a map on the monitor.) Between Cuba and Puerto Rico, you'll find this politically divided island that was named by Columbus, who landed there in 1492 Hispaniola |
| #7761, aired 2018-05-14 | GOODBYE MR. CHIP $200: Adieu, ma petite potato chip, as I plunge you into this "national" dip that shares a name with a soup French onion |
| #7761, aired 2018-05-14 | GOODBYE MR. CHIP $400: If I'm down Austin way, I say goodbye to my chips after dunking them in this cheesy dip, like the one at Torchy's queso |
| #7761, aired 2018-05-14 | GOODBYE MR. CHIP $600: Whether you spell it with a "J" or an "SH" at the end, this eggplant dip just stole my pita chip baba ghanoush |
| #7761, aired 2018-05-14 | BLACKBOARD JUMBLE $600: Legend has it that Raleigh gained Queen Elizabeth's favor by spreading this over a mud puddle so that she could walk over it cloak |
| #7761, aired 2018-05-14 | GOODBYE MR. CHIP $800: My chip is lost in this cheese dip, yes, sadly, at the bottom of the "pot" that shares its name with said dip fondue |
| #7761, aired 2018-05-14 | GOODBYE MR. CHIP $1000: Salsa bandera, AKA pico de gallo, is called "the flag" as its ingredients have these 3 colors found on Mexico's flag red, white, and green |
| #7759, aired 2018-05-10 | GREAT AMERICAN NOVELS $600: Chief Bromden, a Native American who feigns muteness, is the narrator of this Ken Kesey novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest |
| #7758, aired 2018-05-09 | LITERATURE IN SPANISH $400: Guillermo Cabrera Infante's "Infante's Inferno" captures this country before the 1959 Communist revolution Cuba |
| #7756, aired 2018-05-07 | SOUNDS CRIMINAL, BUT ISN'T $1200: That bracelet or scarf that totally completes your killer outfit accessory |
| #7752, aired 2018-05-01 | DOUBLE "L" WORDS $1200: Title shared by the heads of government of Austria & Germany & the chief administrator of a university a chancellor |
| #7752, aired 2018-05-01 | SCIENCE FRICTION $2,800 (Daily Double): In a 19th c. spat in this field, O.C. Marsh won a round when it turned out E.D. Cope had put an elasmosaurus skull on the tail paleontology |
| #7750, aired 2018-04-27 | MAGAZINES $800: Succeeding Graydon Carter, Radhika Jones became editor in chief of this magazine in 2017 Vanity Fair |
| #7749, aired 2018-04-26 | SPITTING $600: This Chinese dish is made from the hardened spittle of a cave-dwelling swiftlet bird's nest soup |
| #7749, aired 2018-04-26 | ME, MYSELF & "I" $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows an anatomical diagram on the monitor.) The name of this vein of the lower body means that it's below the superior vena cava, which drains the head the inferior vena cava |
| #7749, aired 2018-04-26 | THE OLD WEST $4,000 (Daily Double): The source of the Old West term "buckaroo", it's Spanish for cowboy vaquero |
| #7748, aired 2018-04-25 | ON THE BIG MONEY $400: In 1918, for his 34 years as chief justice, he was put on the $500 bill John Marshall |
| #7748, aired 2018-04-25 | ON THE BIG MONEY $1000: The $10,000 note features this chief justice appointed in 1864 Salmon P. Chase |
| #7747, aired 2018-04-24 | SUPER HEROIC TERMS $1600: This term for a villain's minion or underling once meant a highland chief's right-hand man a henchman |
| #7743, aired 2018-04-18 | YOU KNEW THERE'D BE MATH $1200: The cube is one of the 5 "platonic solids" or regular these polyhedra |
| #7739, aired 2018-04-12 | TALES FROM THE ARABIAN NIGHTS $1600: These 2 words reveal the entrance to a hidden cave full of riches in "Ali Baba & the Forty Thieves" open sesame |
| #7736, aired 2018-04-09 | LANDMARKS $200: The Cave of the Winds tour provides an up-close view of these falls in upstate New York Niagara Falls |
| #7731, aired 2018-04-02 | WORDS & THEIR MEANINGS $400: It's British for potato chip & American for bracing or invigorating weather crisp |
| #7731, aired 2018-04-02 | BALLET RUSES $1600: In one ballet based on this play, Prospero uses a magical cape while manipulating other characters The Tempest |
| #7730, aired 2018-03-30 | R.C. $200: He was Cuba's Defense minister until 2008 when he became the head of state Raul Castro |
| #7729, aired 2018-03-29 | BATTLES $2000: The 1526 Battle of Panipat saw Chief Babur defeat Sultan Ibrahim & thus begin this 2-century Muslim empire in India the Mughal empire |
| #7727, aired 2018-03-27 | ISLANDS $2000: Portuguese is widely spoken in Praia, the capital city of this island nation off the west coast of Africa Cape Verde |
| #7723, aired 2018-03-21 | PIZARRO WORLD $1600: Before heading north, this Mississippi man served as Pizarro's chief lieutenant Hernando de Soto |
| #7721, aired 2018-03-19 | ON-SCREEN ROMANCES $1600: In this film, Annette Bening is asked out by widower Michael Douglas, who happens to be the commander-in-chief The American President |
| #7720, aired 2018-03-16 | IN A STORM $2000: The film "The Finest Hours" tells of a Coast Guard rescue of 32 men in one of these directional storms off Cape Cod a nor'easter |
| #7718, aired 2018-03-14 | 20th CENTURY REFERENCES $1600: This cowboy-hatted ad guy was first used in 1954 & became a symbol of the strong, silent American male the Marlboro Man |
| #7717, aired 2018-03-13 | LITERARY GEOGRAPHY $200: Reel in Hemingway's "The Old Man and the Sea" to know the land-based parts take place on this island Cuba |
| #7715, aired 2018-03-09 | BRITAIN'S INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION $800: In the 1800s it was an industry of recycling wool for cheap blankets & such; today it's an adjective for poor workmanship shoddy |
| #7714, aired 2018-03-08 | NOTEWORTHY NONFICTION $200: Starting with cave paintings, E.H. Gombrich's "The Story of" this has sold millions of copies art |
| #7705, aired 2018-02-23 | "IN" THE DICTIONARY $400: They're your chief biting teeth--you have 4 on top & 4 on the bottom incisors |
| #7705, aired 2018-02-23 | ROUGH WATERS $400: Many prefer the safety of the Panama Canal to dealing with this S. American cape rounded by a Dutch navigator in 1616 Cape Horn |
| #7705, aired 2018-02-23 | ROUGH WATERS $600: First sighted in 1488, this dangerous South African cape will never quite be rounded by the Flying Dutchman the Cape of Good Hope |
| #7705, aired 2018-02-23 | MASTERCLASS $600: Here's this celebrity chef teaching about knife skills Gordon Ramsay |
| #7702, aired 2018-02-20 | 4 "F" $600: There's a sleeve part in this 3-word phrase for something spontaneous off the cuff |
| #7702, aired 2018-02-20 | OF DIMES $1000: Popular & cheap books of the late 19th century were called dime novels in the United States & by this other coin term in the UK penny dreadfuls |
| #7693, aired 2018-02-07 | THE WASHINGTON POST $400: Donald L. Neiffer is the chief one of these doctors at the National Zoo in Washington, D.C. veterinarian |
| #7693, aired 2018-02-07 | 1968 IN AMERICAN HISTORY $600: In June this Chief Justice tendered his resignation Earl Warren |
| #7693, aired 2018-02-07 | THE WASHINGTON POST $1200: Michelin-starred chef Jean-Louis Palladin is among those who have run the kitchen at this infamous Washington hotel Watergate |
| #7693, aired 2018-02-07 | THE WASHINGTON POST $1600: The White House job called Chief this is a general manager of the building; Angella Reid was the first woman in the post Chief Usher |
| #7691, aired 2018-02-05 | MEMOIRS ON AUDIBLE $1000: (She has cooked up a career based on a love of food.) I had a second book coming out, was hosting Top Chef and had addressed the U.N. in support of the organization then called UNIFEM Padma Lakshmi |
| #7690, aired 2018-02-02 | WORLD CAPITALS ALPHABETICALLY $200: This city Down Under is the filling between Cairo & Capetown Canberra |
| #7690, aired 2018-02-02 | BILLY $1200: In 1948 Billy Mitchell's son received a new medal honoring his dad from this chief of staff of this military branch the Air Force |
| #7688, aired 2018-01-31 | GANGSTERS $1600: Salvatore Maranzano's efforts to make himself "Capo di Tutti Capi", this, did not end well for Sal Boss of All Bosses |
| #7687, aired 2018-01-30 | LOGO A-GOGO $600: This purveyor of roast beef & other sandwiches wanted to be called Big Tex, so the stylized cowboy hat logo makes more sense Arby's |
| #7685, aired 2018-01-26 | DURING THE OBAMA PRESIDENCY $200: March 2016 saw Obama become the first sitting U.S. president in 80 years to visit this nation Cuba |
| #7685, aired 2018-01-26 | CREDITORS & PREY $800: This type of "inflatable" mortgage is cheap at first, but has a harder-to-meet payment down the line a balloon |
| #7683, aired 2018-01-24 | THE GOLD STANDARDS $2000: The New York Times called James Baker, who served Reagan & Bush, the gold standard of this White House job chief of staff |
| #7682, aired 2018-01-23 | QUESTIONABLE MOVIE TITLES $800: Ice Cube road-trips with kids; the title is a perennial back seat question Are We There Yet? |
| #7679, aired 2018-01-18 | SCIENCE VOCABULARY $400: A
cone-
shaped
deposit of
calcium salts
that builds up
from a cave floor stalagmite |
| #7678, aired 2018-01-17 | ORIGINAL LINEUPS $800: Jane Wiedlin, Charlotte Caffey, Belinda Carlisle, Margot Olaverra, Elissa Bello the Go-Go's |
| #7676, aired 2018-01-15 | ENDS IN DOUBLE LETTERS $1600: After metal has been cast, cut or drilled, this ragged edge remains burr |
| #7672, aired 2018-01-09 | THE DONALD $800: Before his first stint as Secretary of Defense, he was White House Chief of Staff Rumsfeld |
| #7669, aired 2018-01-04 | HELP! TV POLICE! $400: This police chief-- "Mrs. Simpson... your husband was found D.O.A....oh wait, I mean D.W.I.! I always get those 2 mixed up!" Chief (Clancy) Wiggum |
| #7668, aired 2018-01-03 | CHIEF JUSTICES $400: Before becoming the 17th chief in 2005, he argued before the Court 39 times, his side winning 25 John Roberts |
| #7668, aired 2018-01-03 | CHIEF JUSTICES $700 (Daily Double): In 2017 Charlie Taney apologized to the family of this slave for the terrible decision made under his ancestor Roger Dred Scott |
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Chip Bell, a telecom engineer from Marysville, Ohio
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Season 30 2-time champion: $29,300 + $2,000. Chip won $5,000 on...
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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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Chub Feeney
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Season 2 player (1986-02-26). Chub was the president of Major League...
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Chip Rowe, a cellular communications specialist from Scottsdale, Arizona
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Season 1 player (1985-02-11).
Chip\'s given name is Prentiss.
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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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Andrea Mitchell, a foreign affairs correspondent from NBC News
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"She's traveled to Hong Kong and Bosnia to report for NBC...
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Chip Ritter, a transfer recordist originally from Sac City, Iowa
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Season 9 player (1992-12-03).
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Seth Cope, a purchasing manager from Savannah, Georgia
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Season 33 player (2017-07-26).
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Chip Hilliard, a U.S. escort officer originally from Galax, Virginia
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Season 8 player (1991-09-10).
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Tom Vaughan, a plastic surgeon from Cape Elizabeth, Maine
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Season 27 player (2011-07-19).
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Ayana Matthews, a geriatric nursing assistent and chef from Baltimore, Maryland
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Season 28 player (2012-06-22).
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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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Taylor Cope, a financial analyst from Chicago, Illinois
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Season 28 1-time champion: $28,000 + $2,000.
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Chip Brookes, a filmmaker and writer originally from Fairbanks, Alaska
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Season 31 player (2015-04-24).
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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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Chip Matejowsky, an exercise physiologist from Atlanta, Georgia
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Season 16 player (2000-02-24).
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Jack Ford, a trial attorney and Emmy Award-winning journalist from the Today show
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"A successful trial attorney and Emmy Award-winning journalist; he's now the...
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Chip Rossetti, an editor from Brooklyn, New York
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Season 17 1-time champion: $12,201.
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Paula Frome, a lawyer from Glen Cove, New York
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Season 23 1-time champion: $25,601 + $2,000.
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Debbie Chuba, a high school guidance counselor from Johnstown, Pennsylvania
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Season 22 player (2005-12-20).
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Brady Newell, from Derwood, Maryland
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"She loves diving and gymnastics, but is headed toward being either...
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Chip Hunter, a professor of management from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Season 12 player (1996-04-02).
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Colin McLain, a law student originally from Cape Girardeau, Missouri
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Season 26 player (2010-03-23).
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Jackie Cipa, a library assistant from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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Season 21 1-time champion: $8,700 + $1,000.
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Ginger Zee, a chief meteorologist from ABC News and Good Morning America
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"She is the chief meteorologist for ABC News and brightens our...
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Lisa Dengate, a chef from Ithaca, New York
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Season 26 player (2010-02-19).
Last name pronounced like "DEN-gate".
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Emily Love, from Overland Park, Kansas
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"This future chef wants to run her own restaurant and have...
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Katy Hardy, an event coordinator from Cuba, Illinois
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Season 23 player (2007-05-29).
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Lisa Cope, a homemaker from Cincinnati, Ohio
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Season 23 player (2007-05-25).
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Meighan Larbi, a publishing data manager from Cape Coral, Florida
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Season 23 2-time champion: $27,999 + $2,000.
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Chip Hicks, a law student from North Augusta, South Carolina
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Season 15 player (1998-11-13).
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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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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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Amanda Walker, a junior at Gonzaga University from East Wenatchee, Washington
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2005 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user name:...
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Chuck Todd, a political director and host from NBC News and NBC's Meet the Press
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"He is the political director of NBC News, the host of...
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Soledad O'Brien, an anchor and special correspondent from CNN's Special Investigations Unit
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"Currently the host of CNN's Special Investigations Unit, she's received critical...
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Dan Alves, an engineering supervisor from Santa Maria, California
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Season 2 3-time champion: $36,100. Last name pronounced as one syllable,...
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Alan Cook, a senior chief petty officer from San Diego, California
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Season 1 1-time champion: $3,599.
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Eliza Cope, an elementary school science teacher originally from Boston, Massachusetts
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Season 37 player (2021-05-31).
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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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Richard Cordray, a judicial clerk from Grove City, Ohio
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2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000 (prize declined as a...
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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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Richard Cordray, a judicial clerk from Grove City, Ohio
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2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000 (prize declined as a...
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Carl Conway, a chef educator from Indianapolis, Indiana
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Season 35 player (2018-10-01).
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Phil Thomas, a chef from Marathon, Texas
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Season 10 player (1994-03-29).
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Josh Vincent, a waiter and a chef from Brigantine, New Jersey
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Season 8 4-time champion: $58,800. The recording used to archive the...
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Monica Couch, a pastry chef from Egg Harbor City, New Jersey
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Season 35 player (2018-09-12).
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Morgan Halvorsen, a chief copy editor from Silver Spring, Maryland
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2023 Second Chance competition semifinalist: $2,000.
Season 37 player (2021-02-09).
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Timothy Shuker-Haines, a high school history teacher from Williamstown, Massachusetts
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"He teaches at a small school where the students chop the...
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Barbara Coffey, a retired teacher from Brewster, New York
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1987 Senior Tournament quarterfinalist: $1,000.
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Srimal Choi, a chief strategy officer from Falls Church, Virginia
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Season 38 player (2022-05-27).
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Brennan Summers, a food truck owner from Grand Rapids, Michigan
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Season 34 player (2017-12-14).
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Charlie Garfink, a cafe owner from San Rafael, California
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Season 11 3-time champion: $25,400.
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Maddie Williams, a Ph.D. candidate originally from Cape Cod, Massachusetts
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Season 38 player (2021-10-07).
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Jordan Skidmore, a chef from Dublin, California
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Season 35 player (2019-01-02).
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Lee Newlight, a chef from Monroe, North Carolina
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Season 2 player (1986-01-27).
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Megan Williams, a chief of operations from Brooklyn, New York
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Season 33 player (2017-06-29).
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Susan Cobb, a Spanish teacher originally from Lubbock, Texas
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Season 7 player (1991-01-18).
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Diane Cope, a railroad telegrapher originally from Palatine, Illinois
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Season 2 1-time co-champion: $4,000
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Gavin Reardon, a Marine Corps officer originally from Cape Cod, Massachusetts
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Season 9 player (1992-10-20).
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Sean Melody, a chief technologist from Raleigh, North Carolina
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Season 36 player (2019-09-10).
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Dennis Coffey, a bartender from Old Orchard Beach, Maine
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Season 36 3-time champion: $51,203 + $1,000.
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Anne Kenney Chaplin, a housing court judge from Truro, Massachusetts
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Season 28 player (2011-09-22).
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Derek Schuld, a chef from Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin
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Season 28 player (2011-12-19).
Last name pronounced like "SHOOLD".
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Alina Lopo, a university professor originally from Havana, Cuba
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Season 5 player (1989-06-19).
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Amy Ballentine, a pastry chef from Memphis, Tennessee
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Season 25 player (2008-10-09).
Last name pronounced to rhyme with "Valentine".
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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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Barbara Simon, a goldsmith from Cape Coral, Florida
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Season 7 1-time champion: $6,000.
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Zoë Assasie, an 11-year-old fifth grader from Urbana, Maryland
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"Bon apétit ! She wants to be a chef and own...
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Jorge Miyares, a college recruiter originally from Havana, Cuba
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Season 3 3-time champion: $19,095.
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Debra Cope, a financial reporter from Brooklyn, New York
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Season 10 player (1993-10-25).
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Ryan Truchelut, a meterologist and graduate student from Tallahassee, Florida
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Season 29 player (2013-03-27). Last name pronounced like "TROOSH-el-ut". JBoard user...
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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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Chris O. Cook, a college English teacher from Brooklyn, New York
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Season 29 player (2013-05-27).
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Tim McCoy, an executive chef from Cleveland Heights, Ohio
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Season 13 3-time champion: $16,201.
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Anderson Cooper, a news anchor and correspondent from CNN
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"He anchors his own prime-time news show, a syndicated daytime talk...
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Dr. Mehmet Oz, a cardiac surgeon and TV host from The Dr. Oz Show
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"He is a renowned cardiac surgeon who has written seven New...
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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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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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Chris Matthews, a TV host from Hardball and The Chris Matthews Show
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"He served as a speechwriter for Jimmy Carter, and later as...
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Dorian Ellis, a chef from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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Season 1 1-day champion: $8,999. Dorian was returned to the show...
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Mike Maheu, a high school teacher from San Diego, California
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Season 25 2-time champion: $46,242 + $1,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Robin Lozano, a technology chief of staff from Shavertown, Pennsylvania
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2023 Champions Wildcard quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Season 37 1-time champion: $12,601 + $1,000.
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David Czapka, a background investigator from Wayne, New Jersey
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Season 29 player (2013-03-13).
Last name pronounced like "CHAHP-ka".
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Linda Kissling, an educational media specialist from Cape May, New Jersey
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Season 9 2-time champion: $13,200.
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Joe Emison, a chief technology officer from Asheville, North Carolina
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Season 29 player (2012-12-18).
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Greg Seroka, a chef originally from Detroit, Michigan
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2015 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Season 31 7-time champion: $180,401 + $1,000.
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Alistair Bell, a computer chip designer from Berlin, Massachusetts
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Season 29 3-time champion: $56,800 + $2,000. JBoard user name: ThreeIfByAir...
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Greg Seroka, a chef from Steamboat Springs, Colorado
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2015 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Season 31 7-time champion: $180,401 + $1,000.
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Sam Varnado, a railroad chef from Riverdale, Illinois
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Season 16 player (1999-09-29).
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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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Ben Schenkel, a junior from Allentown, Pennsylvania
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2007 Teen Tournament 1st runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $42,800. 17 at...
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Nick Coe, a chef from Pasadena, California
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Season 7 player (1990-10-11).
Husband of Season 4 player Kate Coe.
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Jeffrey Gerlomes, a freshman from Napa, California
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2007 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
14 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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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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Kweisi Mfume, a president from the NAACP
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2004 Power Players Week player (2004-05-11). Name pronounced like "kwah-EE-see oom-FOO-may"....
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Peggy Noonan, a contributing editor from The Wall Street Journal
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2004 Power Players Week player (2004-05-10).
Charity: The Sisters of Life.
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Paula Rice, a test chef from Long Beach, California
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Season 16 player (2000-02-29).
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Richard Perez-Pena, a journalist originally from Cuba
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1990 Super Jeopardy! quarterfinalist: $5,000. 1988 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist:...
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Jake McCrory, an 11-year-old from Pueblo, Colorado
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"He wants to make a positive change in our nation's future...
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Richard Perez-Pena, a journalist originally from Cuba
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1990 Super Jeopardy! quarterfinalist: $5,000. 1988 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist:...
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Maria Bennici, a junior from Walkersville, Maryland
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2008-A Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
16 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Carl Cope, a credit agent from Allentown, Pennsylvania
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Season 12 player (1995-12-11). Carl appeared on the 2000-06-01 episode of...
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Shelley Hander, a chef and instructor from San Francisco, California
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Season 11 player (1994-12-07).
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Jesse L. Jackson, Jr., a congressman from the U.S. House of Representatives
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"And he led a voter registration drive for the national Rainbow...
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Ana Navarro, a Republican commentator from CNN, ABC News, and Telemundo
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"Born in Nicaragua, she is one of the leading Hispanic Republican...
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Brigid Callinan, a pastry chef originally from Pocatello, Idaho
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Season 16 player (2000-03-16).
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Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., an attorney and professor from Pace University School of Law
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"A crusading attorney for the environment and a professor at Pace...
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Steve Brown, a chief petty officer from Twentynine Palms, California
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Season 5 3-time champion: $32,598.
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Meaghan Scollins, a human resources manager from Glen Cove, New York
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Season 16 player (1999-10-19).
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Leslie Quickley, a sous chef from New York City, New York
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Season 16 3-time champion: $31,003.
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Bryan Southard, a chief financial officer from Chamblee, Georgia
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Season 17 player (2001-03-06).
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Eric Hack, a high school Latin teacher from Cape Charles, Virginia
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2015 Teachers Tournament semifinalist: $10,000. Eric taught Latin at Broadwater Academy...
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Sally Vaughn, a consultant from Jackson Hole, Wyoming
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Season 22 player (2006-04-21).
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Jaime Thomson, an administrative assistant from Denton, Texas
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Season 22 player (2006-04-27).
First name pronounced like "JAY-mee".
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Nico Martinez, a college junior from Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
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2006 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2005 College Champion: $100,000 +...
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Norm Cobb, a sales manager from Garden Grove, California
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Season 1 player (1984-09-28).
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Bruce Naegeli, a retired law librarian from Phoenix, Arizona
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"He finished second in the 1988 Tournament of Champions. A retired...
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John Beck, a creative director from Torrance, California
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"He played in 2003, and was the last retired 5-time champ...
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Matt Morris, a financial analyst originally from Louisville, Kentucky
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"In 1994, he won the Teen Tournament. Today, he's a financial...
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Magaly Lopez-Lohnes, a teacher originally from Havana, Cuba
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Season 5 player (1989-02-23).
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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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Jack Barry, a chief financial officer from Raleigh, North Carolina
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Season 30 player (2014-06-09). Not related to the late host of...
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Randy Pike, an Army public affairs chief originally from Louisville, Kentucky
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Season 31 player (2015-06-01). Randy appeared on the show in uniform....
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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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Marty Scott, an assistant district attorney from Forney, Texas
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Season 26 3-time champion: $64,002 + $2,000. Marty won $250,000 on...
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Maxwell Baldi, a ten-year-old from Los Angeles, California
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"This future U.S. attorney general has always been interested in the...
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Katie Orphan, a freshman at Whitworth College from Reno, Nevada
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2002 College Championship semifinalist: $5,000.
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Inta Antler, a retired computer programmer from Scarborough, Ontario, Canada
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Season 25 1-time champion: $12,700 + $2,000. Inta Antler - A...
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Kevin Wilson, a communications specialist from Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Season 26 3-time champion: $76,998 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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Wendi McLendon-Covey, an actress from The Goldbergs and Repeat After Me
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"On the hit TV series The Goldbergs, she's the world's most...
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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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Laura Chan, a web development intern from Cape Coral, Florida
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Season 19 player (2003-02-19).
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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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Bill Wellman, a Marine Corps intelligence chief originally from Plattsburgh, New York, now stationed at San Diego, California
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Season 15/Armed Forces Week winner (1999-06-29): $12,800.
Rank: Gunnery Sergeant.
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Judy Nakamura, a stay-at-home wife from Seattle, Washington
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Season 26 1-time champion: $14,400 + $1,000. Judy laughed incredulously during...
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CCH Pounder, an actress from Avatar and Brothers
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"She earned an Emmy nomination for her role as Claudette Wyms...
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Andy Srinivasan, a high school science teacher from Garner, North Carolina
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2010 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $69,600...
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Linda Simplicio, an aspiring chef from Front Royal, Virginia
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Season 20 player (2003-10-09).
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Gail Flemmons, a history teacher from Clinton, Mississippi
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Season 25 2-time champion: $46,399 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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Justin Waters, a resident physician from Royal Oak, Michigan
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Season 25 1-time champion: $7,199 + $2,000. Justin Waters Royal Oak,...
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Sonia Chawla, a grad student from Boston, Massachusetts
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Season 25 player (2009-03-26).
Last name pronounced like "CHAV-la".
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Emily Bruemmer, a history and East Asian studies student from Orleans, Massachusetts
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Season 25 player (2009-07-24).
Last name pronounced like "BREM-mer".
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Terence Caulfield, a chief estimator from Silver Spring, Maryland
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Season 16 1-time champion: $9,600.
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Arrington Widemire, a chef and hotel manager from Flowery Branch, Georgia
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Season 16 player (2000-01-04).
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John Foster, a product manager originally from Cape Cod, Massachusetts
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Season 13 player (1997-04-10).
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Diana North, a first grade teacher from Rock Hill, South Carolina
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"She recently celebrated her silver anniversary of teaching. From Rock Hill,...
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Harry Shearer, a humorist, Spinal Tap bassist, and voice from The Simpsons
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"He recently celebrated the 25th anniversary of This Is Spinal Tap...
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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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Vivica A. Fox, an actress from Boat Trip
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"She stars with Cuba Gooding, Jr. in his latest comedy, Boat...
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Carson Kressley, a fashion maven from Queer Eye for the Straight Guy
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"This star of TV's Queer Eye for the Straight Guy says...
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Joseph Maher, a chef from Dallas, Texas
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Season 24 player (2007-12-20).
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: Joseph-Dallas
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Kimberly Jantz, an attorney from Tulsa, Oklahoma
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Season 26 1-time champion: $22,200 + $2,000. Kimberly Jantz - an...
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John Beck, a copywriter from Torrance, California
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 winner: $29,000. 2004 Tournament...
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Patrick Pence, a GIS coordinator from Tallahassee, Florida
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Season 26 player (2009-11-23).
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: Farsol
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Blaine Faulkner, a chief financial officer from Escondido, California
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Season 14 1-time champion: $11,300.
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Bill Harris, a baker from Cape Porpoise, Maine
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Season 14 player (1998-02-16).
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Hill Harper, an actor from CSI: NY
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"He graduated magna cum laude from Brown University. He has a...
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Barbara Murray, a chief operations officer from Cardiff, California
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Season 6 player (1990-05-23).
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Pat Connor, a management consultant from Cummaquid, Massachusetts
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Season 27 player (2011-06-23).
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John Beck, an associate creative director from Torrance, California
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 winner: $29,000. 2004 Tournament...
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Peter Severson, a senior from Sioux Falls, South Dakota
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2005 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $5,000. 17 at the time of the...
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Josh Klein, a 12-year-old seventh grader from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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"And, his favorite subjects in school are math, social studies, and...
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