#8353, aired 2021-03-10 | LEADERS $400: In 1963 he studied at Baghdad Law College; he then spent a few years in prison but was in power soon after Hussein |
#8199, aired 2020-04-09 | COLLEGE LAW $200: It's the P in FERPA, a 1974 law that says your parents need your consent to get your grades from your college privacy |
#8199, aired 2020-04-09 | COLLEGE LAW $400: More than 40 states have laws against this fraternity initiation practice hazing |
#8199, aired 2020-04-09 | COLLEGE LAW $600: Georgia State says it follows state law in banning hard liquor at these pre-game parking lot parties tailgate parties |
#8199, aired 2020-04-09 | COLLEGE LAW $800: A 1940 statement on this status says it gives professors "freedom & economic security", but it doesn't mean they can never be fired tenure |
#8199, aired 2020-04-09 | COLLEGE LAW $1000: The plaintiffs in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard say the school violates this amendment's Equal Protection Clause the 14th Amendment |
#7909, aired 2019-01-17 | A TROPHY CATEGORY $400: This college football trophy is named for a coach who got his law degree from Penn in 1892 the Heisman Trophy |
#7553, aired 2017-06-14 | 1817 $200: This college established the USA's oldest continually operating university-based law school Harvard |
#7470, aired 2017-02-17 | COLLEGE MAJORS IN OTHER WORDS $800: Before the time of actor Jude pre-law |
#7243, aired 2016-02-24 | DISASTER CITY $1000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from Texas A&M Disaster City in College Station, TX.) Law enforcement can secure rooms by stunning suspects with this type of nonlethal grenade; its name is from light that overstimulates the retina & a boom that disorients a flashbang |
#7149, aired 2015-10-15 | REORDERING THE NOTED PAIR $600: In 1779 a certain college became the first in the U.S. to offer pro training in law; in 2015, we led with the queen & renamed it this Mary & William |
#6940, aired 2014-11-14 | COLLEGE KNOWLEDGE $800: An ex-governor of California hired Frederick Law Olmsted to design the physical plan for this university Stanford |
#6610, aired 2013-05-17 | FAMOUS FIRSTS $600: The first U.S. law school at a college was established at this Virginia school in 1779 William & Mary |
#6381, aired 2012-05-21 | FAMOUS IVY LEAGUERS $600: Name this college football coach who got his law degree from Penn in 1892 & we'll give you $600, but no trophy (John) Heisman |
#6229, aired 2011-10-20 | SPORTS & CIVIL RIGHTS $2,000 (Daily Double): This clause in a law signed June 23, 1972 changed women's college athletics forever Title IX |
#6226, aired 2011-10-17 | COLLEGE KNOWLEDGE $2000: A noted Commodore from this university was Al Gore, who studied at both its divinity & law schools Vanderbilt |
#6212, aired 2011-09-27 | BEFORE & AFTER $2000: The higher tract where heartburn originates gets a law helping servicemen go to college the upper G.I. Bill |
#5847, aired 2010-02-02 | COMMENCEMENT SPEECHES $1600: Speaking at the Boston College Law School, this Fed head praised J.K. Rowling & quoted John Lennon Bernanke |
#5684, aired 2009-04-30 | MARY, MARY $400: In 1779 this college became in the U.S. to offer professional training in law William and Mary |
#5229, aired 2007-05-10 | COLLEGE MOVIES $600: In this 2001 film, a sorority queen proves she has what it takes to make it at Harvard Law School Legally Blonde |
#5133, aired 2006-12-27 | NOTABLE WOMEN $600: After earning a law degree from Trinity College, Mary Robinson became the first woman president of this nation Ireland |
#5129, aired 2006-12-21 | COLLEGE SPORTS TEAM LOGOS $200: Catholic and co-ed, this university has a noted law school Notre Dame |
#5005, aired 2006-05-19 | ALMA MATER MATTERS $2,000 (Daily Double): In 1779 the nation's oldest law school was founded at this southern college William & Mary |
#4417, aired 2003-11-18 | BARBER COLLEGE $200: Under Kansas law, this document shall be conspicuously posted in your primary work station your barber's license |
#4360, aired 2003-07-11 | JOE COLLEGE $400: Seen here, Yale Law, 1967 Joseph Lieberman |
#4360, aired 2003-07-11 | JOE COLLEGE $800: Seen here, UCLA Law, 1973 Judge Joe Brown |
#4187, aired 2002-11-12 | WHEN THEY WERE IN COLLEGE $800: (Hi, I'm Bill Clinton) I met my wife Hillary when we were both law students at this university Yale |
#3961, aired 2001-11-19 | COLLEGE MOVIES $600: I would have gone to law school myself if it were anything like this Reese Witherspoon film Legally Blonde |
#3754, aired 2000-12-21 | ATTORNEY AUTHORS $600 (Daily Double): (Former Jeopardy! College Champion Tom Cubbage delivers the clue.) This Harvard law professor wrote the novel "The Advocate's Devil" Alan Dershowitz |
#3236, aired 1998-10-05 | EX-BUNNIES $500: Working her way through college as "Bunny Sue", she's now working as Dharma's mother-in-law Susan Sullivan |
#2942, aired 1997-05-20 | COLLEGE FILMS $200: She played Darby Shaw, a Tulane University law student, in 1993's "The Pelican Brief" Julia Roberts |
#2922, aired 1997-04-22 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $800: America's first chair of law was founded at this Virginia college in 1779 William & Mary |
#2251, aired 1994-05-23 | MINNESOTANS $300: This man, Chief Justice of the U.S. 1969-1986, graduated magna cum laude from St. Paul College of Law in 1931 (Warren) Burger |
#2243, aired 1994-05-11 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $200: The nation's oldest law school was founded in 1779 at this Virginia college William & Mary |
#1984, aired 1993-04-01 | POLITICIANS $400: He taught business law at Huntington College in 1975, before becoming vice president Dan Quayle |
#1790, aired 1992-05-15 | HODGEPODGE $800: In 1779 this Virginia college became the 1st in the U.S. to offer professional training in law The College of William and Mary |
#1685, aired 1991-12-20 | COLLEGE DEGREES $500: The field in which the honorary degree LL.D. is awarded law |
#1556, aired 1991-05-13 | COLLEGE FILMS $300: John Houseman won an Oscar as Prof. Kingsfield in this 1973 film set at Harvard Law School The Paper Chase |
#1296, aired 1990-04-02 | ABBREVIATIONS $100: You take the SAT exam to get into college & the LSAT to get into one of these schools Law School |
#1263, aired 1990-02-14 | COLLEGE TRIVIA $200: Under certain conditions, a Yale law grad making less than $28,000 in a year can have this paid for him student loans |
#964, aired 1988-11-10 | COLLEGES $400: In 1779 this Virginia institution became the first U.S. college to establish a law department William & Mary |
#848, aired 1988-04-20 | PRESIDENTIAL TRIVIA $1000: His uncle Sardis Birchard, financed his education at Kenyon College & Harvard Law School Rutherford B. Hayes |
#734, aired 1987-11-12 | COLLEGES $200: Clemson University, named for John C. Calhoun's son-in-law, is a land-grant college in this state South Carolina |
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Kate Waits, a law professor at the University of Tulsa from Tulsa, Oklahoma
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"A Harvard Law graduate when she competed in the 1988 Tournament...
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Brittany Rogers, a sophomore at Saddleback College from Lake Forest, California
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2001 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $5,000. Brittany was 18 at the...
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Ellen Eichner, a junior from the Ohio State University from Northbrook, Illinois
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2010-B College Championship semifinalist: $10,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
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Tom Cubbage, an attorney from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
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Ken Basin, a junior at the University of Southern California from Huntington Beach, California
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2003 College Championship semifinalist: $5,000. Blog at kbasin.blogspot.org. Appearing as a...
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2005 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000.
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"As an award-winning author, he's written three New York Times best...
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2010-B College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000 + a Nintendo Wii +...
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Chuck Forrest, an attorney for the UN IFAD from Marino, Italy
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Vinita Kailasanath, a sophomore at Stanford University from Laurel, Maryland
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2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2005 Ultimate Tournament of...
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Kaitlin Welborn, a sophomore from the University of Pennsylvania
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2007 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 20 at the time of the...
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Ashley Grand, a freshman from Harvard University
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2007 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 19 at the time of the...
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Rose Schaefer, a junior from Portland, Oregon
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2012 Teen Tournament 1st runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $36,000. 16 at...
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"He used his 1988 5-game winnings to pay for law school....
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Peter Ellis, a senior at North Carolina State University from Cary, North Carolina
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2005 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000.
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Tom Cubbage, a law student and winner of last year's College Tournament from Bartlesville, Oklahoma
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2014 Battle of the Decades semifinalist: $25,000. 2005 Ultimate Tournament of...
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Tyler Van Patten, from Burlington, Wisconsin
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"He's focusing on becoming a corporate attorney, because of his fascination...
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Robby Schrum, a junior at Yale University from Crown Point, Indiana
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2003 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $5,000. According to the official Jeopardy!...
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Kelly Loughead, a college freshman from Mason, Ohio
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Season 26 player (2010-01-05).
Last name pronounced like "LAW-hed".
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Tom Cubbage, a law student from Bartlesville, Oklahoma
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2014 Battle of the Decades semifinalist: $25,000. 2005 Ultimate Tournament of...
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Eric Floyd, a college student from Calhoun, Georgia
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2003 Tournament of Champions 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $25,000.
Season 18 4-time champion: $97,800 + $2,000.
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Amanda Nowotny, a sophomore at the University of Pittsburgh from New Castle, Pennsylvania
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2004 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000.
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Lindsey Hargrove, a senior at the University of Texas from Bellaire, Texas
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2004 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
Mother's Jeopardy! Message Board user name: collegemom
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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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2008-A Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 16 at the time of...
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Pam Mueller, a junior at Loyola University, Chicago from Wilmette, Illinois
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2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2019 All-Star Games member of...
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Pam Mueller, a justice researcher originally from Chicago, Illinois
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2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2019 All-Star Games member of...
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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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Andrew Kreitz, a senior from Huntington Beach, California
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2006 Teen Tournament 1st runner-up: $25,000.
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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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Lea Tottle, a junior from Florida State University from Oldsmar, Florida
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2010-B College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000 + a Nintendo Wii +...
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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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Pam Mueller, a graduate student in psychology from Princeton, New Jersey
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\"She was a student at Loyola University when she won the...
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Pam Mueller, a think tank researcher from Culver City, California
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• 2000 College Championship winner • Semifinalist in all other tournaments...
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Alison Stone Roberg, an administrative assistant from Kansas City, Missouri
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Season 26 3-time champion: $85,102 + $2,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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A.J. Schumacher, a radio show production intern from St. Paul, Minnesota
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Season 25 1-time champion: $10,800 + $2,000. AJ Schumacher Saint Paul,...
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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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Clarence Page, a journalist from The Chicago Tribune
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"His nationally syndicated column began as a local column for the...
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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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Charles Shaughnessy, an actor from Mad Men
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"As Shane Donovan on Days of Our Lives, he won three...
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Judy Mermelstein, a Census field representative from Queens, New York
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Season 25 1-time champion: $38,401 + $1,000. Judy also appeared on...
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Papa Chakravarthy, a sophomore from Lexington, Kentucky
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2006 Teen Tournament champion: $75,000.
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Ben Chuchla, a senior from Calabasas, California
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2008-B Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Last name pronounced like "HOO-kla"....
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Cassie Hill, a recent graduate from the University of Mary Washington
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\"Her dad is a lawyer, and by the seventh grade, she...
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Brian Muth, a headmaster from Napa, California
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Season 25 2-time champion: $43,800 + $1,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Melanie Bruchet, a senior from Bryn Mawr
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"Everyone wants to be an astronaut when they're a kid, but...
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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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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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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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Stacy Braverman, a public interest lawyer from Washington, D.C.
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Season 26 1-time champion: $14,984 + $2,000. As detailed in a...
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Jordan Brand, an anesthesiologist from Westchester, New York
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Season 26 1-time champion: $24,405 + $2,000. The Sesame Street character...
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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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Marissa Goldsmith, a web developer from Springfield, Virginia
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Season 27 3-time champion: $44,100 + $2,000.
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Savannah Morgan, a 12-year-old from Charlotte, North Carolina
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Scott Turow, a bestselling novelist and practicing attorney from Chicago, Illinois
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"He's sold more than 25 million copies of his novels worldwide...
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