#9072, aired 2024-04-02 | "J-I-T" WORDS $800: Once the site of a state prison, this city near Chicago has an economy today based on tourism & casinos Joliet |
#9050, aired 2024-03-01 | PLACE NAME ETYMOLOGIES $1000: This port city at the southeast tip of the Korean Peninsula comes from words for "cauldron" & "mountain" Pusan |
#9049, aired 2024-02-29 | COMPOUND WORDS $800: A giant city edifice stretching toward the heavens, usually with more than 40 or 50 stories a skyscraper |
#9036, aired 2024-02-12 | SOME VERY MOVING WORDS $1000: Let's hurry around the city to find this same-named part of an old-fashioned skirt a bustle |
#3, aired 2024-02-02 | NATO PHONETIC ALPHABET CODE WORDS $400: It's a Peruvian city, old bean Lima |
#9014, aired 2024-01-11 | 7-LETTER WORDS $800: A city in the Czech Republic gives this type of beer its name Pilsner |
#8986, aired 2023-12-04 | WORDS IN U.S. CAPITALS $400: This crime is in Nevada's capital arson (in Carson City) |
#8956, aired 2023-10-23 | SMART ANSWERS $1200: In a Jay McInerney book title, these 2 words precede "Big City" Bright Lights |
#17, aired 2023-10-18 | CAR MODELS IN OTHER WORDS $1500: Hyundai southwestern capital city with a Spanish name Santa Fe |
#8905, aired 2023-06-30 | COMPOUND WORDS $600: "The Tall Building Artistically Reconsidered" by Ada Louise Huxtable calls this type of structure "where art & the city meet" a skyscraper |
#8879, aired 2023-05-25 | NUMERICAL WORDS & PHRASES $600: During the disco era in New York City, for the short time it was open from 1977 to 1980, this was the place to be Studio 54 |
#8819, aired 2023-03-02 | -POL, -POLI, -POLIS CITIES $800: This Italian name of a big city on a bay is from words meaning "new city" Napoli |
#11, aired 2023-01-19 | 2 WORDS, 3 LETTERS EACH $600: Like Fifth & Madison Avenues in New York City, since 1966 one way |
#8763, aired 2022-12-14 | CAPITAL CITY RIVERS $800: This capital lies astride the Molonglo River, whose name is from Aboriginal words meaning "the sound of thunder" Canberra |
#8745, aired 2022-11-18 | 5-SYLLABLE WORDS $1000: Relating to that city in southern Italy famous for pizza Neapolitan |
#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 |
#8706, aired 2022-09-26 | HYPHENATED WORDS $600: In New York City, it's illegal for passenger vehicles to do this; delivery trucks may, but without blocking a bicycle lane double-park |
#8702, aired 2022-09-20 | CAPITAL CITY ETYMOLOGIES $1600: Tashkent, the capital of this "Stan", comes from words meaning "stone village" Uzbekistan |
#8670, aired 2022-06-24 | 5-SYLLABLE WORDS $800: New York City's Hayden, for one planetarium |
#8650, aired 2022-05-27 | WORDS FROM GEOGRAPHY $1,000 (Daily Double): Now a rundown area of any city, it comes from a type of road along which logs were hauled skid row |
#8648, aired 2022-05-25 | FUN WITH U.S. CITY FLAGS $1000: The unofficial flag of this very south Florida city bears the words "Conch Republic", a nation/state of mind set up in the area in 1982 Key West |
#8568, aired 2022-02-02 | IN MY WORDS $600: Ray Nagin, former mayor of this city, released a memoir titled "Katrina's Secrets" New Orleans |
#8512, aired 2021-11-16 | WORDS THAT SHOULD RHYME $1600: A hard-shell tortilla with fillings & a Texas city founded in 1849 on the Brazos River taco & Waco |
#8478, aired 2021-09-29 | CITY WORDS $400: Harmony, the opposite of discord concord |
#8478, aired 2021-09-29 | CITY WORDS $800: A hanging sculpture moved by air currents mobile |
#8478, aired 2021-09-29 | CITY WORDS $1200: A flat-topped landform wider than a butte mesa |
#8478, aired 2021-09-29 | CITY WORDS $1600: A luminous event in the upper atmosphere aurora |
#8478, aired 2021-09-29 | CITY WORDS $2000: A dessert of biscuit or ladyfinger with cream filling a charlotte |
#8450, aired 2021-07-23 | NONSENSE WORDS $200: Spelled differently from the Italian city it is derived from, it's a "meaty" nonsense word baloney |
#8393, aired 2021-05-05 | DOUBLE "OU" WORDS $3,000 (Daily Double): City of southern France on the Garonne River Toulouse |
#8293, aired 2020-12-02 | CITY WORDS $200: A capital Cuban cigar a Havana |
#8293, aired 2020-12-02 | CITY WORDS $400: A version of hold 'em poker where the player is dealt 4 cards Omaha |
#8293, aired 2020-12-02 | CITY WORDS $600: Jovan Musk is a popular brand--you smell good, man Cologne |
#8293, aired 2020-12-02 | CITY WORDS $800: Any gathering place that attracts devotees of a specific topic Mecca |
#8293, aired 2020-12-02 | CITY WORDS $1000: The protective care of God Providence |
#8218, aired 2020-05-20 | PEACE TALK $400: In Jerusalem, the "City of Peace", you might hear these 2 related Hebrew & Arabic words for peace used as a greeting shalom & salaam |
#8210, aired 2020-04-24 | LAND "HO"! $400: The name of this N.J. city across the Hudson from Manhattan comes from Native American words meaning "land of the tobacco pipe" Hoboken |
#8173, aired 2020-03-04 | ANCIENT GREEK & ROMAN ARCHITECTURE $1600: From words meaning "city of the dead", it was a large cemetery in ancient Greece Necropolis |
#8150, aired 2020-01-31 | 14-LETTER WORDS $800: Buildings & roads are part of this, the set of features needed for running a city infrastructure |
#8060, aired 2019-09-27 | SOME STERN WORDS $1200: This word referring to stern discipline comes from a city-state of ancient Greece Spartan |
#8004, aired 2019-05-30 | PLACES THAT BECAME WORDS $1600: The Moroccan city where "The Sheltering Sky" was written gave its name to this citrus fruit tangerine |
#7895, aired 2018-12-28 | ABORIGINAL WORDS $1200: Parliament meets in this city, from Aboriginal words for "meeting place" Canberra |
#7841, aired 2018-10-15 | 10-LETTER WORDS $800: A type of ice cream, or a native of a southern Italian city Neapolitan |
#7838, aired 2018-10-10 | COMPOUND WORDS $200: It's the term for the municipality where you were born & raised hometown |
#7778, aired 2018-06-06 | KING JAMES BIBLE COMMON WORDS $1200: This city gets lots of play, from Joshua 10 through Revelation 21 Jerusalem |
#7755, aired 2018-05-04 | BORROWED WORDS $2000: From the German, it's a vending machine or a restaurant full of them in New York City of yore an automat |
#7724, aired 2018-03-22 | FUN WITH BACKWARDS WORDS $1000: A backwards state name, Ak-Sar-Ben has been on the name of a racetrack & coliseum in this Midwest city Omaha |
#7690, aired 2018-02-02 | WORLD CAPITALS ALPHABETICALLY $200: This city Down Under is the filling between Cairo & Capetown Canberra |
#7686, aired 2018-01-29 | 2-LETTER WORDS $1600: Ancient city where Abraham lived Ur |
#7666, aired 2018-01-01 | SIKH $2000: The Sanskrit words amrta, "nectar of immortality", & saras, "pool", give us this name for Sikhism's holy city Amritsar |
#7665, aired 2017-12-29 | 6-LETTER WORDS $400: It's the Italian word for a city square, like St. Mark's piazza |
#7529, aired 2017-05-11 | 9-LETTER WORDS $1200: A city in Iowa, or a type of sofa a davenport |
#7491, aired 2017-03-20 | AUTO-MATIC WORDS $800: It means "pertaining to a city" & it's not the Honda Urban civic |
#7330, aired 2016-06-24 | PLACES THAT BECAME WORDS $2,000 (Daily Double): A Moroccan seaport on the Strait of Gibraltar lends its name to this citrus fruit tangerine |
#7319, aired 2016-06-09 | 11-LETTER WORDS $1600: One who lives in a residential area on the outskirts of a city, having barbecues & tending the lawn suburbanite |
#7292, aired 2016-05-03 | 4-SYLLABLE WORDS $400: This state of being free from control is also the name of a city in Missouri independence |
#7240, aired 2016-02-19 | AN ACTOR'S LIFE FOR ME $1600: Alexander Chaplin played the speech-writer who put the words in the mayor's mouth on this Michael J. Fox sitcom Spin City |
#7097, aired 2015-06-23 | 3-"SY"LLABLE WORDS $1200: Name shared by a city in central New York & a city in southeast Sicily Syracuse |
#6927, aired 2014-10-28 | OSCAR SONGS IN OTHER WORDS $1000: 1993:
Thoroughfares in the Brotherly Love city "Streets Of Philadelphia" |
#6895, aired 2014-08-01 | A FEW WORDS WITH "MOM" & "DAD" $800: Name of a city in southern Colorado as well as Tobago's partner island Trinidad |
#6895, aired 2014-08-01 | A FEW WORDS WITH "MOM" & "DAD" $2000: Meaning "city", this word comes before "Juarez" & "de Mexico" Ciudad |
#6787, aired 2014-03-04 | PALINDROMIC WORDS $800: An island city near Montreal, or French WWII traitor Pierre Laval |
#6546, aired 2013-02-18 | IN THE DICTIONARY $1600: Just a few words apart: one is a city founded by the Phoenicians, the other a type of connective tissue Carthage & cartilage |
#6518, aired 2013-01-09 | WORDS FOUND BEFORE BEAR $1600: This city name comes from an Illinois Native American word for the wild leek Chicago |
#6515, aired 2013-01-04 | AFRICAN CITIES $400 (Daily Double): The name of this largest Moroccan city combines 2 Spanish words Casablanca |
#6462, aired 2012-10-23 | WORDS IN U.S. CAPITALS $400: This crime is in Nevada's capital arson (in Carson City) |
#6422, aired 2012-07-17 | SMART WORDS $800: Brilliant, like the "lights" in a "big city" title bright |
#6274, aired 2011-12-22 | 2-LETTER WORDS $2000: The second-largest city in Sierra Leone, or an Indian fig tree under which Buddha once sat bo |
#6170, aired 2011-06-10 | A THOUSAND $1,600 (Daily Double): Before the Soviet tanks rolled in, a manifesto called the "Two Thousand Words" urged protest in this country in 1968 Czechoslovakia |
#6157, aired 2011-05-24 | NATIVE AMERICAN PLACE NAMES $800: This capital city of Florida got its name from Creek words meaning "old town" Tallahassee |
#6084, aired 2011-02-10 | INCA HOOTS? $800: The name of this city taken by Pizarro in 1533 is derived from Quechuan words meaning "rock of the owl" Cuzco |
#6079, aired 2011-02-03 | 4-SYLLABLE WORDS $400: Bridgeport is the largest city in this northeastern state Connecticut |
#5925, aired 2010-05-21 | FASHIONABLE WORDS $600: The name of these riding breeches is derived from a city in India jodhpurs |
#5918, aired 2010-05-12 | WORDS THAT SHOULD RHYME $1200: Medieval pestilence & a Central European capital city plague & Prague |
#5821, aired 2009-12-28 | HIT TV SHOWS IN OTHER WORDS $2000: A cop drama: "Those thoroughfares within a West Coast bay city" Streets of San Francisco |
#5694, aired 2009-05-14 | 2-LETTER WORDS $2000: The book of Genesis says this ancient city "of the Chaldees" was the home of Abraham Ur |
#5688, aired 2009-05-06 | COLLEGES IN OTHER WORDS $1600: For cadets:
A fortress or stronghold that commands a city during siege The Citadel |
#5683, aired 2009-04-29 | TV OPENING WORDS $1600: 2007: "...your one and only source into the scandalous lives of Manhattan's elite" Gossip Girl |
#5668, aired 2009-04-08 | WORDS FROM PLACES $400: The paper for this type of envelope was originally made from hemp of a certain Philippine city manila |
#5668, aired 2009-04-08 | WORDS FROM PLACES $1000: This color, a brilliant purplish pink, is named for a northern Italian city magenta |
#5616, aired 2009-01-26 | WORDS FROM PLACES $400: The name of this Saudi Arabian city has come to mean any place to which people of a common interest are drawn Mecca |
#5616, aired 2009-01-26 | WORDS FROM PLACES $1600: The fabric muslin gets its name from this third-largest city in Iraq Mosul |
#5613, aired 2009-01-21 | "IN" WORDS $400: In 1550 Sweden's king Gustavus I founded this city, now the capital of a neighboring country Helsinki |
#5541, aired 2008-10-13 | WORDS FROM GEOGRAPHY $800: This word for a love affair comes from the name of the "eternal city" romance |
#5540, aired 2008-10-10 | 10-LETTER WORDS $3,000 (Daily Double): Greek for "city of the dead", it's the term for a large, ancient cemetery a necropolis |
#5531, aired 2008-09-29 | SMART ANSWERS $1200: In a Jay McInerney book title, these 2 words precede "Big City" Bright Lights |
#5440, aired 2008-04-11 | PRO SPORTS TEAMS IN OTHER WORDS $1000: Baseball in Missouri:
Henry VIII,
Richard III the Kansas City Royals |
#5425, aired 2008-03-21 | WOODY ALLEN FILMS IN OTHER WORDS $400: New York City borough Manhattan |
#5373, aired 2008-01-09 | WORDS IN HARRY POTTER TITLES $600: A southwest city founded in 1870, & remember, "Harry Potter & the Wonders of Yuma" was never written Phoenix |
#5249, aired 2007-06-07 | 10-LETTER WORDS $800: The tent that housed the Ark of the Covenant; today the Mormons have a big one in Salt Lake City tabernacle |
#5197, aired 2007-03-27 | OPERA IN OTHER WORDS $1600: "A Hairstylist in an Andalusian City in Spain" The Barber of Seville |
#4928, aired 2006-02-01 | IT'S ALL GREEK TO ME $800: This elevated Athens area appropriately comes from 2 Greek words meaning "highest city" the Acropolis |
#4846, aired 2005-10-10 | 10-LETTER WORDS $400: Superman knows it's from the Greek for "mother city" Metropolis |
#4846, aired 2005-10-10 | 10-LETTER WORDS $1600: A 1920s dance, or a city in South Carolina the Charleston |
#4758, aired 2005-04-20 | WEATHER WORDS & PHRASES $1000: To have another city as one's birthplace or residence to hail (from) |
#4737, aired 2005-03-22 | 5-LETTER WORDS $1600: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from Park City, UT.) This five-letter word can mean "disposed", or "liable", or "biathlon position" prone |
#4733, aired 2005-03-16 | WORDS "INC" $400: In bowling, it's a split of the 8 & 10 pins; it's also a city in Ohio Cincinnati |
#4652, aired 2004-11-23 | GREECE $1200: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from Athens, Greece.) In Greek cities, orient yourself using this, whose name comes from words meaning "highest" & "city" the Acropolis |
#4548, aired 2004-05-19 | 5-SYLLABLE WORDS $800: It's a buzzword for big-city men who groom carefully & go shopping with their girlfriends metrosexuals |
#4482, aired 2004-02-17 | 4-LETTER X-RATED WORDS $400: Get in a yellow one in New York City & it'll cost you $2 not including tip a taxi |
#4422, aired 2003-11-25 | 2-LETTER WORDS $2000: The home of Abraham, this Sumerian city was rediscovered in the 1850s Ur |
#4325, aired 2003-05-23 | DOUBLE-"L" WORDS $800: In 1865 a Civil War battle took place in this "colorful" Texas city -- a month after the war ended Brownsville |
#4324, aired 2003-05-22 | "CAN"NED WORDS $1600: This city in northeastern Ohio is home to the William McKinley memorial & burial site Canton |
#4216, aired 2002-12-23 | DOUBLE-"Z" WORDS $600: This restaurant chain began as a steak house right here in Culver City in 1958 Sizzler |
#4104, aired 2002-06-06 | "UP" WORDS $1000: This city is home to Sweden's oldest university Uppsala |
#4062, aired 2002-04-09 | CLASSIC FILMS IN OTHER WORDS $800: 1943:
"Moroccan Port City" Casablanca |
#4046, aired 2002-03-18 | "ICK"Y WORDS $2000: Settled by the Vikings around 800 A.D., this city is now a main port for Western Ireland Limerick |
#3938, aired 2001-10-17 | DOUBLE-VOWEL WORDS $1000: In 79 A.D. this city could have used the Imperial Emergency Management Agency Pompeii |
#3541, aired 2000-01-17 | THE WORDS OF MARTIN LUTHER KING $200: Dr. King said it's what we must let ring "from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city" Freedom |
#3541, aired 2000-01-17 | THE WORDS OF MARTIN LUTHER KING $800: From jail King wrote, "We will reach...freedom in" this city 'because the goal of America is freedom" Birmingham |
#3496, aired 1999-11-15 | NEW YORK CITY SONGS $500: They're the first 4 words of the "Theme from 'New York, New York'" "Start spreading the news..." |
#3345, aired 1999-03-05 | "CHAR"MED WORDS & PHRASES $800: This largest city in the 2 Carolinas is one of the nation's leading textile production centers Charlotte |
#3331, aired 1999-02-15 | WORDS WITHIN WORDS $400: This capital city could be the climax of your world tour Lima (cLIMAx) |
#3223, aired 1998-09-16 | MUSICALS IN OTHER WORDS $200: "The Windy City" Chicago |
#3188, aired 1998-06-10 | MOVIES IN OTHER WORDS $300: "Sans Shut Eye While Inhabiting a City on Puget Sound" Sleepless in Seattle |
#3032, aired 1997-11-04 | DIRTY 4-LETTER WORDS $100: It's a polluted haze found over a city smog |
#2852, aired 1997-01-14 | U.S. CITIES $800: If you recall the first words spoken on the moon, you'll know Tranquility Park is in this city Houston |
#2837, aired 1996-12-24 | MOVIES IN OTHER WORDS $500: "Erase The City Of Light From Your Memory" "Forget Paris" |
#2819, aired 1996-11-28 | GEOGRAPHICAL WORDS & PHRASES $400: This tuber with a city in its name is also called a sunchoke Jerusalem Artichoke |
#2771, aired 1996-09-23 | ART & ARTISTS $600: He created a scandal by including the words "God does not exist" in a Mexico City mural Diego Rivera |
#2494, aired 1995-06-08 | "MAN"LY WORDS & PHRASES $300: Myanmar's second-largest city, it served as the country's capital from 1860 to 1885 Mandalay |
#2147, aired 1993-12-28 | WORDS OFF THE MAP $100: This word for perfumed toilet water refers to the city on the Rhine where it was first made Cologne |
#2147, aired 1993-12-28 | WORDS OFF THE MAP $200: A term for a horse's gait is from the pace set by Pilgrims headed to this English city Canterbury |
#2064, aired 1993-07-22 | BRITISH WORDS $500: The ancient name for this city was Mancunium & a person from it is still called a Mancunian Manchester |
#2033, aired 1993-06-09 | 9-LETTER WORDS $200: This broad tree-lined city street is named from a Middle Dutch word for "bulwark" boulevard |
#1794, aired 1992-05-21 | COLORFUL WORDS & PHRASES $1000: This city in Southern Texas lies on the Rio Grande across from Matamoros, Mexico Brownsville |
#1750, aired 1992-03-20 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $500: A type of riding breeches fitted tight below the knee, named for a city in India jodhpurs |
#1640, aired 1991-10-18 | 2—LETTER WORDS $100: Emerald City is the capital of this fictional land Oz |
#1640, aired 1991-10-18 | 2—LETTER WORDS $500: The temple of the moon god Nanna was the largest building in this ancient Sumerian city Ur |
#1473, aired 1991-01-16 | 10-LETTER WORDS $200: It can be any large city or the specific city in which Superman lives metropolis |
#1319, aired 1990-05-03 | HISTORIC CITIES $800: At the Diet held in this city in 1521, Martin Luther refused to eat his words Worms |
#1219, aired 1989-12-14 | "SUMMER" SONGS $300: Title of the Lovin' Spoonful hit that follows the opening words "Hot town..." "Summer In The City" |
#923, aired 1988-09-14 | 3-SYLLABLE WORDS $200: Alaskan city that's bidding for the 1994 Winter Olympics Anchorage |
#865, aired 1988-05-13 | 5-SYLLABLE WORDS $1000: From Greek for "great city", it's a huge conglomeration of cities a megalopolis |
#754, aired 1987-12-10 | 6-LETTER WORDS $100: Originally from the Greek word for "city", "honesty is the best" one policy |
#753, aired 1987-12-09 | 4-LETTER WORDS $400: An ancient city that might be worth its weight in gold, ounce by ounce Troy |
#715, aired 1987-10-16 | "BACK" WORDS $800: L.A.'s Century City stands on what was once this part of 20th Century-Fox backlot |
#564, aired 1987-02-05 | TRAVEL U.S.A. $600: City where you can visit Minnehaha Falls, its name combines Indian & Greek words for water & city MInneapolis |
#474, aired 1986-10-02 | IN OTHER WORDS... $600: Excuse this person, lad, could yonder object be a train to Tennessee's 4th largest city? Pardon me, boy, but is that the Chattanooga Choo Choo |
#394, aired 1986-03-13 | NATIONAL ANTHEMS $1000: 1st 5 words of final stanza of the Star Spangled Banner "O thus be it ever" |
#390, aired 1986-03-07 | "ON" WORDS & "UP" WORDS $400: According to song in "Oklahoma", what everything is in Kansas City up to date |
#172, aired 1985-05-07 | 12-LETTER WORDS $200: In Batman's Gotham City, this was the title of the police force's James Gordon Commissioner |
#143, aired 1985-03-27 | WORLD CAPITALS $1,500 (Daily Double): The only U.S. state capital with 3 words Salt Lake City |
Dan Smith, a student from Chicago, Illinois
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Season 25 3-time champion: $69,200 + $1,000. Dan Smith - a...
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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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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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Suchita Shah, a senior from the University of Wisconsin-Madison
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2008 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 20 and from Holmen, WI...
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Anthony Dedousis, a sophomore from Harvard University
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2009 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 19 and from Manhasset, New York...
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Elza Reeves, a bank teller from Louisville, Kentucky
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Season 25 1-time champion: $16,400 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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Christine Valada, a photographer and attorney originally from Walton, New York
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2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $68,703...
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Lyndsey Romick, a sophomore from Lewis & Clark College
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2010-A College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. Hometown: Grants Pass, Oregon. Lyndsey Romick...
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Carolyn Young, a homemaker from Marietta, Georgia
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Season 25 1-time champion: $30,000 + $2,000. Mother of Season 32...
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Harry Shearer, an actor/writer/producer from The Simpsons and Le Show
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"His many credits include providing voices for The Simpsons, and he's...
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Jonathan Hawley, a sophomore from Harvard University
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2008 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 19 and from Oceanside, CA at...
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Liz Murphy, a foreign service officer originally from Scranton, Pennsylvania
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2010 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 25 5-time champion: $121,302...
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Ariella Goldstein, a junior from Muhlenberg College
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2009 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 20 and from Cortlandt Manor,...
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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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Scott Menke, a senior from Johns Hopkins University
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2009 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. 21 and from Flemington, New Jersey...
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Becky Anderson, a retired software specialist originally from Morganton, North Carolina
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Season 25 1-time champion: $16,401 + $2,000. Becky Anderson - A...
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