| #8950, aired 2023-10-13 | AWARDS & HONORS $1000: For supporting health & education globally, Rihanna received a 2017 humanitarian award from this oldest U.S. college Harvard |
| #8822, aired 2023-03-07 | COLLEGE TALK $400: If you're assigning Joe a task of some distinction, like cutting a ribbon or carving a turkey, you can say, "Joe, will you do" these the honors |
| #8813, aired 2023-02-22 | IT'S GREAT TO "CU" $400: Meaning "with distinction", it follows summa & magna in college honors cum laude |
| #8586, aired 2022-02-28 | SPORTS BY THEIR HONORS $200: The Naismith Awards (college) basketball |
| #8586, aired 2022-02-28 | SPORTS BY THEIR HONORS $800: The Dinah Shore Trophy Award (women's college) golf |
| #7741, aired 2018-04-16 | COLLEGE HONORS $400: The College Television Awards are given out by the same academy as these awards the Emmys |
| #7741, aired 2018-04-16 | COLLEGE HONORS $800: Arizona State's Cronkite School of this -ism & Mass Communication has won several prestigious Hearst Awards journalism |
| #7741, aired 2018-04-16 | COLLEGE HONORS $1200: In 2016 Lamar Jackson claimed the first Heisman trophy for this school's Cardinals Louisville |
| #7741, aired 2018-04-16 | COLLEGE HONORS $1600: This arts center on the Potomac gives out the Irene Ryan scholarships to college actors the Kennedy Center |
| #7741, aired 2018-04-16 | COLLEGE HONORS $2000: This director won a student Oscar for "Joe's Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads" before his 1st feature, "She's Gotta Have It" Spike Lee |
| #5460, aired 2008-05-09 | COLLEGE-PODGE $200: A tree tour at this university's Seattle campus honors the memory of tree-loving Professor C. Frank Brockman the University of Washington |
| #4866, aired 2005-11-07 | OFF TO COLLEGE $400: In 1993 Google co-founder Sergey Brin graduated from Maryland with honors in math & this field computer science |
| #3586, aired 2000-03-20 | HELLO, NEWTON! $100: A student of this university's Trinity College, Newton graduated in 1665 without honors or distinction Cambridge |
| #3414, aired 1999-06-10 | COLLEGE SPORTS NICKNAMES $1000: Ohio State honors each of its All-Americans by planting one of these mascot trees in a grove Buckeye |
| #3235, aired 1998-10-02 | COLLEGES, HITHER & YON $600: Lawrence of Arabia earned first-class honors in history at this university's Jesus College Oxford |
| #2936, aired 1997-05-12 | WHEN THEY WERE IN COLLEGE $500: This secretary of state majored in political science at Wellesley, graduating with honors in 1959 Madeleine Albright |
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Season 32 player (2016-06-16).
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