| #9082, aired 2024-04-16 | JUST FOR FUN "Z"s $1000: Down South, Cher, this traditional music heard here is also known as chanky-chank zydeco |
| #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 |
| #9073, aired 2024-04-03 | AS HEARD ON TV $400: From our pals down the hall came the puzzle here; instead of an M, this letter got called for, saucy but wrong K |
| #9056, aired 2024-03-11 | RENAISSANCE WOMEN $400: A contemporary described Isabella d'Este as the this "of the World", though she was the wife of a marquess, not a president the First Lady |
| #9055, aired 2024-03-08 | SUFFIXES $600: As early as 1973 this suffix from a D.C. building was tacked onto "Wine" to describe a scandal involving fake Bordeaux gate |
| #9054, aired 2024-03-07 | THE MATERIAL WORLD $200: This material that went with feathers in public humiliation from times past might not have been as hot as you'd assume tar |
| #9049, aired 2024-02-29 | LIVE, LAUGH, LOVE $800: Live:
Vegan? You may need to give this cobalt-containing vitamin a shot, as animal products are the main dietary source of it B12 |
| #9025, aired 2024-01-26 | COACHING BASKETBALL $600: In "I Came As a Shadow", John Thompson diagrammed his life as basketball coach at this D.C. university Georgetown |
| #9012, aired 2024-01-09 | WATERLOGGED WORDS $800: Damp means wet, as does this other 4-letter "D" word that the cool kids use to mean "excellent" dank |
| #9011, aired 2024-01-08 | SCIENCE $1600: Seismic waves suddenly change speed in the D'' layer, the lowest 150 miles of this, just above the core the mantle |
| #9011, aired 2024-01-08 | FROM C TO D $5,400 (Daily Double): It describes the human heart with 4, as well as a certain type of nautilus chambered |
| #9007, aired 2024-01-02 | THE CHARLES III KIND $600: This actor, who was Charles in "The Crown", says he'd like to ask the king about his experience as a fellow sticky-out-eared man Josh O'Connor |
| #23, aired 2024-01-02 | OATHS $500: According to "Le Morte d'Arthur" by Sir Thomas Malory, this group was required to take what we know as the Pentecostal Oath the Knights of the Round Table |
| #9006, aired 2024-01-01 | IT'S AN EX-CAR FOR A REASON $600: J.D. Power: "Even budget buyers have their standards, so as 2021 dawns", this "Grand" Dodge "is finally going to the last roundup" the Grand Caravan |
| #9004, aired 2023-12-28 | SPEED DATING $200: D-Day launches as the Allies invade Normandy in the largest sea & airborne invasion in history 1944 |
| #8995, aired 2023-12-15 | WISH I'D SAID THAT! $3,000 (Daily Double): H.L. Mencken defined Puritanism as "the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be" this word happy |
| #8971, aired 2023-11-13 | LETTER & WORD $1000: Violinist August Wilhelmj's arrangement of the 2nd movement of Bach's "Suite No. 3 in D major" is known as "Air On" this the G String |
| #8965, aired 2023-11-03 | ONLY PARTLY TRUE $400: The spare key to this D.C. residence once known as the Executive Mansion is kept under the Washington Monument the White House |
| #15, aired 2023-10-04 | NO CAP $300: He was one of the founders of the company now known as HP
_ _ _ K _ R D Packard |
| #8908, aired 2023-07-05 | BORN ON THE 5th OF JULY $200: Paul Delvecchio Jr., born July 5, 1980, became a Garden State housemate as Pauly D on this MTV show in 2009 Jersey Shore |
| #8907, aired 2023-07-04 | A BIBLICAL BURIAL $800: In the King James Bible, when a man said he'd follow Jesus but first had to bury his dad, Jesus said these 6 words let the dead bury their dead |
| #8890, aired 2023-06-09 | A EURO LEADER PASS $400: In 2022 Giorgia Meloni became prime minister as the head of Fratelli D’Italia, meaning these "of Italy"--no sorelle? brothers |
| #8881, aired 2023-05-29 | THE ROCKEFELLERS $800: From 1985 to 2015 Jay Rockefeller, also known as John D. Rockefeller IV, was a senator from this state West Virginia |
| #8878, aired 2023-05-24 | I AM "D.B." $400: In 2007 I selected the Los Angeles Galaxy as my team David Beckham |
| #8878, aired 2023-05-24 | I AM "D.B." $1600: I won two gold medals in figure skating & spent decades as a respected commentator on the sport Dick Button |
| #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 |
| #8858, aired 2023-04-26 | BRIT LIT $1000: As the title suggests, this D.H. Lawrence novel recounts the romantic affairs of sisters Gudrun & Ursula Women in Love |
| #8849, aired 2023-04-13 | HERE'S A BIT OF EVERYTHING $1600: San Francisco police detective David Toschi said he interviewed 5,000 people in his search for this letter-writing killer the Zodiac Killer |
| #8844, aired 2023-04-06 | ANCIENT CITIES $600: Circa 330 A.D. the city once known as this got a new name under new emperor Constantine Byzantium |
| #8842, aired 2023-04-04 | TARANTINO FILMS $1200: "The D is silent", says Jamie Foxx as the title character of this 2012 film Django Unchained |
| #8826, aired 2023-03-13 | CALL ME "CAT" $600: This No. 1 hit has haunted fathers since 1974 as they watch time pass all too quickly as their sons grow up "Cat's In The Cradle" |
| #8824, aired 2023-03-09 | TAKE ME TO YOUR LEADER $3,000 (Daily Double): As her son Chlotar II was an infant when he became king in 584 A.D., his mom Fredegund served as this type of queen until he came of age queen regent |
| #8821, aired 2023-03-06 | HISTORY $800: In recent history, he announced in December 2016 that he'd run against Vladimir Putin; as it turned out, a dangerous decision Alexei Navalny |
| #8812, aired 2023-02-21 | ON TIKTOK $1000: Famous for his silent reaction videos & spoofs, he dethroned Charli D'Amelio as the most-followed TikTok star Khaby Lame |
| #8811, aired 2023-02-20 | TIME TO HIT THE LIBRARY $400: As a young man, D.C.-born J. Edgar Hoover worked at this library as a messenger & in the cataloging department the Library of Congress |
| #8805, aired 2023-02-10 | THE MIAMI VICE SQUAD $1600: This superstar of stage, song & screen was seeing Don Johnson when she cameo-d as a pedestrian who caught Sonny's eye Barbra Streisand |
| #8799, aired 2023-02-02 | SEVEN HEAVEN $600: By around 700 A.D. this hyphenated people had formed 7 separate kingdoms in Britain, known as the Heptarchy the Anglo-Saxons |
| #13, aired 2023-02-02 | FROM A "D" TO AN "F" $400: To remove a fedora or Homburg as a sign of respect doff |
| #13, aired 2023-02-02 | THOUGHT YOU'D LIKE TO KNOW $400: Oh, baby! In space, with no gravity to keep solid & liquid food down as gas escapes your mouth, you can't do this 4-letter action burp |
| #8791, aired 2023-01-23 | MEDICATIONS $600: This vitamin may be prescribed in the form of medications such as Replesta for rickets or osteomalacia vitamin D |
| #8783, aired 2023-01-11 | ALL ABOUT MEXICO $200: In 2016 the D.F., or Distrito this, officially became known as Ciudad de Mexico, CDMX Federal |
| #8775, aired 2022-12-30 | A MEMORABLE NEW YEAR'S EVE $2000: (Ryan Seacrest presents the clue.) On December 31, 1959, Paul Westerberg entered the world in Minneapolis as the singer of this band; he'd comment on his birth date with the line, "Income tax deduction, one hell of a function" The Replacements |
| #8773, aired 2022-12-28 | LITERARY CHARACTER NAMES $1600: He's a sensitive member of J.D. Salinger's Glass family; at one point, it's spelled as 2 words like "perceive extra" see more (Seymour Glass) |
| #8770, aired 2022-12-23 | RIAN JOHNSON LOVES A WHODUNIT $400: (Rian Johnson presents the clue.) The 1978 version of "Death on the Nile" is so fantastic, as is Peter Ustinov, who is my favorite actor to play this famous Belgian sleuth Poirot |
| #8768, aired 2022-12-21 | GEOGRAPHY THAT MADE HISTORY $600: We keep it 100s (A.D.) as we talk about this landmark that ran 70+ miles from the River Tyne to the Solway Firth Hadrian's Wall |
| #8764, aired 2022-12-15 | THE NAME AS A PAST TENSE VERB $1200: After a swim, the dog's fur was all TV creator Stone-d matted |
| #8736, aired 2022-11-07 | "D" IN SCIENCE $800: Still mysterious but described as a "repulsive force", it makes up 70% of the universe, way more than the same-named "matter" dark energy |
| #7, aired 2022-11-06 | JOHNNY GILBERT SAYS THE NO. 1 HITS $900: "She's got eyes of the bluest skies, as if they thought of rain, I'd hate to look into those eyes and see an ounce of pain" "Sweet Child O' Mine" |
| #8729, aired 2022-10-27 | DANIEL RADCLIFFE COLLAGE $2000: (Daniel Radcliffe presents the clue.) Um, I'd basically only done one small part in a school play when, at age 10, I played the title character, as a boy, in a BBC adaptation of this Dickens novel, the author’s own favorite child; the part really was magical as it led to me being cast as Harry Potter David Copperfield |
| #8725, aired 2022-10-21 | FROM C TO D $1000: A man's overcoat & a sofa with rolled arms, as seen here, are named for the Earl of this Chesterfield |
| #8715, aired 2022-10-07 | 2022 SPORTS NEWS $1000: Washington, D.C.'s NFL team "took charge" of their future, choosing this as their new team name Commanders |
| #8700, aired 2022-09-16 | HELP ME MOVE MY STUFF? $600: This company says its Model D piano is "the pinnacle of concert grands"; I say let's try not to scratch it as we exit the living room a Steinway |
| #8698, aired 2022-09-14 | CONS $2000: Mythcon 19 in 1988 had as a guest of honor this "Always Coming Home" fantasy author & was held in Berkeley, her birthplace Ursula Le Guin |
| #8696, aired 2022-09-12 | THAT'S SO SIR/REEL! $1200: The maitre d' at L'Idiot in "L.A. Story" & also giving a thoughtful performance in "X-Men" Sir Patrick Stewart |
| #8693, aired 2022-07-27 | A.D. $1200: In 1549 the first Governor-General of this Portuguese colony selected Bahia as its capital Brazil |
| #8684, aired 2022-07-14 | TERRIBLE SUPERVILLAIN NAMES $800: Listerine says bad breath is "also known as oral malodor or" this word; now oral malodor... that'd be a better name halitosis |
| #8673, aired 2022-06-29 | CHUCK D, TIMES 3 $800: Charles Darwin acknowledged Herbert Spencer as the father of this 4-word phrase later used to describe natural selection survival of the fittest |
| #8661, aired 2022-06-13 | ROCK DOCS $2000: 4-time "Jeopardy!" champ Jackie Fuchs has a J.D. from Harvard; as Jackie Fox, she played bass in this all-female Joan Jett band The Runaways |
| #8659, aired 2022-06-09 | ABBREVIATED TV $400: Clark Gregg & Chloe Bennet fought evil as "Agents of" this S.H.I.E.L.D. |
| #8658, aired 2022-06-08 | ELEMENTS & THEIR USES $7,000 (Daily Double): Predynastic Egypt used this element in glassmaking; today, we'd be pretty lost without it as a semiconductor in computers silicon |
| #8655, aired 2022-06-03 | APPLES $600: Oscar Tschirky, the legendary maître d' of a certain hotel, created this salad with apples as the central ingredient Waldorf |
| #8647, aired 2022-05-24 | LITERATURE $800: This Thomas Hardy title character is described as "a fine and picturesque country girl" Tess of the d'Urbervilles |
| #8642, aired 2022-05-17 | SCORING A "T--D" $800: A milquetoast is described as being extremely this timid |
| #8642, aired 2022-05-17 | SCORING A "T--D" $1600: As opposed to a broadsheet, the New York Post has this format a tabloid |
| #8636, aired 2022-05-09 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $2,000 (Daily Double): Besides Boston & D.C., they're the 3 largest cities by population in the megalopolis known as the BosWash Corridor New York City, Philadelphia & Baltimore |
| #8605, aired 2022-03-25 | SCIENTISTS $1600: The Earth-centric theories of this astronomer of the 2nd century A.D. were largely taken as fact until the 1500s Ptolemy |
| #8598, aired 2022-03-16 | CELEBRITY "M.D."s $1600: In recent years this British actress starred on TV in "Speechless" & as Lorraine Finster on the revival of "Will & Grace" Minnie Driver |
| #8593, aired 2022-03-09 | DYNASTIES OF CHINA $1200: Around 1000 A.D. during the Song dynasty, neo-this ancient philosophy was introduced as official doctrine Confucianism |
| #8589, aired 2022-03-03 | DETROIT: NEWS CLUES $1000: (I'm Kimberly Gill.) December 10, 2014 was a bright day in a long saga as Detroit officially exited the largest municipal one of these in the history of the United States, & emergency manager Kevyn Orr's resignation took effect a bankruptcy |
| #17, aired 2022-02-22 | A CAREER IN TECH $200: (Sundar Pichai delivers the clue.) Setting ambitious goals will help you do great things; encouraged by co-founders Larry Page & Sergey Brin, even though I'd missed our goal of 50 million users of this browser 1 year, I surpassed our target of 111 million the next year Google Chrome |
| #8581, aired 2022-02-21 | TREES $200: Gifted from Japan as a token of friendship in 1912, here are these trees doing their thing in Washington, D.C. as only they can a cherry blossom |
| #8578, aired 2022-02-16 | PLANETARY TALK $400: A scarcity of something; we'll spot you the "D" dearth |
| #8573, aired 2022-02-09 | VICE PRESIDENTS $400: In 1832 he missed Senate confirmation to be minister to the U.K. by one vote but he'd soon get Jackson's MVB vote as veep Martin Van Buren |
| #8552, aired 2022-01-11 | "D-D-S" $1600: Here's a representation of this dinosaur Diplodocus |
| #8521, aired 2021-11-29 | JESUS & NERO $800: Nero blamed Rome's Christians for this 64 A.D. disaster & used it as an excuse to persecute them the fire (when Rome burned) |
| #8519, aired 2021-11-25 | "COME" & "GO" $1000: Tess of the d'Urbervilles was described as this, an old-timey word meaning good-looking comely |
| #8510, aired 2021-11-12 | 200 YEARS AGO $600: In 1821 this future president served briefly as Florida's governor; he'd fought there in the War of 1812 Jackson |
| #8484, aired 2021-10-07 | A PRESI-DENTAL CATEGORY $1600: Admiral Ralph Malone served as the dentist for this president known for his smile, cigarette holder & all FDR (Franklin D. Roosevelt) |
| #8458, aired 2021-08-04 | HOWDY, SHERIFF $1200: As a sheriff, this man found Billy the Kid twice & killed him once; he'd later get a sweet new gig thanks to Lew Wallace (Pat) Garrett |
| #8455, aired 2021-07-30 | OLDE MUSIC $600: Compositions by Bach include "Toccata &" this "in D minor" as well as "The Art of the" this Fugue |
| #8448, aired 2021-07-21 | MED SCHOOL $1000: As opposed to M.D.s, some students become D.O.s, doctors of this type of medicine osteopathic doctors |
| #8443, aired 2021-07-14 | MUSIC, IN THE CLASSICAL SENSE $1600: The "Bride's Book of Etiquette" suggests "Canon In D" by this 17th century German as the party heads down the aisle Pachelbel |
| #8441, aired 2021-07-12 | GAMER'S DELIGHT $200: (J.D. Witherspoon presents the clue.) New PS5 owners get introduced to console components via a platform game starring this robot with the same name as "The Jetsons" dog Astro |
| #8439, aired 2021-07-08 | WORDS WITH ALL 5 VOWELS $2000: A filmmaker such as D.A. Pennebaker or Alex Gibney a documentarian |
| #8424, aired 2021-06-17 | THE TERMS OF SERVICE $1600: He served as mayor of D.C. from 1979 to 1991; he served 6 months in prison; he served as mayor of D.C. from 1995 to 1999 Marion Barry |
| #8422, aired 2021-06-15 | FACE THE PERFORMER $200: Ming-Na Wen was marvelous as Melinda May, a one-woman cavalry on this ABC series Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. |
| #8396, aired 2021-05-10 | FROM C TO D $800: As an adjective, it means devoted; as a verb, it means perpetrated committed |
| #8394, aired 2021-05-06 | POTENT HISTORY $1200: Vodka was involved in 1994 as this white-haired Russian leader was found on a D.C. street in his underwear hailing cabs to go get pizza Yeltsin |
| #8383, aired 2021-04-21 | QUICK BIBLE BOOKS $400: The Lord lets Satan afflict an upright man, who ends up twice as rich as he'd been Job |
| #8382, aired 2021-04-20 | LEADING FEMALE TV $400: This actress was never far from "Scandal" as Washington, D.C. crisis manager Olivia Pope Kerry Washington |
| #8378, aired 2021-04-14 | THE LETTER OF THE LAWN $600: "D" is for lawns known as this "resistant"; fescues are good when there's not that much water drought |
| #8366, aired 2021-03-29 | DURING THE JOHN ADAMS PRESIDENCY $200: Adams was sworn in as president at Congress Hall in this city; 3 years later the capital & Adams would move to D.C. Philadelphia |
| #8346, aired 2021-03-01 | LONDON MONOPOLY GEOGRAPHY $1000: This 2-word "royal" train station has been suggested as the spot where Queen Boadicea was buried in 60 A.D. King's Cross |
| #8337, aired 2021-02-16 | BABY $1000: As a newborn, baby "score"d high on this assessment test given 1 minute & 5 minutes after birth Apgar |
| #8330, aired 2021-02-05 | RONALD REAGAN $800: In 1957's "Hellcats of the Navy", Reagan co-starred with the actress billed as this; she'd go on to be more than a co-star Nancy Davis |
| #8329, aired 2021-02-04 | SCIENCE "D"ICTIONARY $1200: Count the crab's limbs, & you'll know why it & many other crustaceans are classified as these decapod |
| #8290, aired 2020-11-27 | LET'S START A SMALL BUSINESS $200: 99.9% of all U.S. businesses, small businesses are defined as having fewer than this many employees, D to the Romans 500 |
| #8273, aired 2020-11-04 | CLUES ACROSS THE SMITHSONIAN $200: (Bill Kelly presents from the National Air & Space Museum in Washington, D.C.) I'm Bill Kelly from ABC7: the Air and Space Museum's Pioneers of Flight Gallery include such treasures as the bright red Lockheed Vega in which this woman became the first woman and second person to fly solo across the Atlantic in 1932 Amelia Earhart |
| #8273, aired 2020-11-04 | CLUES ACROSS THE SMITHSONIAN $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) |
| #8271, aired 2020-11-02 | FAILURE TO LUNCH $200: Sorry, everyone! I'm on the diet known as O.M.A.D., short for this; I only eat at 5 p.m. one meal a day |
| #8270, aired 2020-10-30 | HISTORIC BELLS $800: Dating to 771 A.D. Korea's Divine Bell of King Seongdeok served as a model for other bells used in this same religion Buddhism |
| #8267, aired 2020-10-27 | THE RHYME FACTOR $400: In 1895 D.D. Palmer was in alignment as the first this type of medical professional a chiropractor |
| #8239, aired 2020-09-17 | ONE-LETTER GEOGRAPHY $400: Due west of its capital Salem, this state's D River is billed as the world's shortest at 120 feet Oregon |
| #8213, aired 2020-04-29 | WE'D LIKE TO MAKE A CORRECTION $800: "Karol Wojtyla was referred to in (a) credo column as 'the first non-Catholic pope for 450 years'. This should...have read 'non-"' this Italian |
| #8184, aired 2020-03-19 | "POWER" $600: The company known as this man "& Associates" is a leader in consumer satisfaction research J.D. Power |
| #8180, aired 2020-03-13 | SMITHSONIAN AIR & SPACE MUSEUM $200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from the Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum in Washington, D.C.) In the 1960s, the rocket-powered North American X-15 went higher and faster than any other aircraft in history with eight pilots who flew it to the fringes of space earning designation as these astronauts |
| #8180, aired 2020-03-13 | SMITHSONIAN AIR & SPACE MUSEUM $600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from the Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum in Washington, D.C.) Known as "the couch", the seat inside Friendship 7 was custom-made to fit this Project Mercury pilot and future U.S. Senator John Glenn |
| #8172, aired 2020-03-03 | IMPOSTOR! $1600: Word of this emperor's death in 68 A.D. was slow getting around, as Rome was plagued by 3 impostors known "pseudos" Nero |
| #8169, aired 2020-02-27 | "D" IN AMERICAN HISTORY $200: In the Depression flour companies sold their product in bright print sacks as so many women were reduced to using them as these dresses |
| #8169, aired 2020-02-27 | "D" IN AMERICAN HISTORY $800: About 380,000 Civil War soldiers, or 10% of those who served, ended up as these, choosing to fight another day (or never) deserters |
| #8169, aired 2020-02-27 | "D" IN AMERICAN HISTORY $1000: Kansas Territory had this man as governor in 1858 and what's now a state capital is named for him (James) Denver |
| #8159, aired 2020-02-13 | 3/4 OF AN EGOT $400: This "Divine Miss M" could still really use an "O"--that'd be Oscar--as her 2 nominations did not lead to victory Bette Midler |
| #8155, aired 2020-02-07 | SONGS FOR EVERY MEMBER OF THE FAMILY $800: D.J. Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince:
"____ Just Don't Understand" Parents |
| #8154, aired 2020-02-06 | THE WEIGHT OF THE WORLDS $800: If you could stand on the surface of this giant gas giant, you'd weigh 2.53 times as much as you do on Earth Jupiter |
| #8151, aired 2020-02-03 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN ATHLETES $200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew is at the National Museum of African American History & Culture in Washington, D.C.) The Game Changers Exhibit honors such athletes as this track & field star whose four gold medals at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin upset Hitler's dreams to demonstrate Aryan superiority Jesse Owens |
| #8151, aired 2020-02-03 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN ATHLETES $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew is at the National Museum of African American History & Culture in Washington, D.C.) Dominating women's tennis, Althea Gibson broke the color barrier & became the first African-American to win the French & U.S. Open Singles as well as, in 1957 & 1958, this oldest Grand Slam event Wimbledon |
| #8, aired 2020-01-14 | THE GREATEST CANADIANS OF ALL TIME $600: (Ryan Reynolds delivers the clue.) With a performing style that was, ah, quirky--he'd hum & sway as he played--this pianist leaped into international acclaim with his 1955 recording of Bach's "Goldberg Variations" Glenn Gould |
| #8135, aired 2020-01-10 | SKATING INTO THE NHL $1000: A 1990 Oilers-Kings game saw 356 of these doled out, with Marty McSorley getting 37--that'd be more than half the game! penalty minutes |
| #4, aired 2020-01-08 | AUDIBLE $800: Big oil & gas are the subject of a 2019 nonfiction bestseller by this TV personality
In fact, it could be argued, the oil business as we know it today was the invention of one particular American, John D. Rockefeller Rachel Maddow |
| #8132, aired 2020-01-07 | POLITICS $1,600 (Daily Double): Cities as big as L.A. & Dallas have this kind of mayoral election where there's no "D"' or "R" after the candidates' names nonpartisan |
| #2, aired 2020-01-07 | AMERICAN IDOLS $600: (Ryan Seacrest delivers the clue.) The legendary Dick Clark was an idol of mine growing up; we both started out as D.J.s, me in Los Angeles & Dick in this city where he first hosted "American Bandstand" Philadelphia |
| #8128, aired 2020-01-01 | MAYORS $1600: In between his third & fourth terms as mayor of Washington, D.C., he served 6 months in prison on drug charges Marion Barry |
| #8121, aired 2019-12-23 | FBI HEADQUARTERS $600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from the FBI headquarters in Washington, D.C.) These passports belonged to Cynthia and Richard Murphy, real names Lidiya and Vladimir Guryev, who were among 10 foreign agents arrested in a 2010 operation that inspired this Emmy-winning FX series about Russian spies masquerading as U.S. citizens The Americans |
| #8121, aired 2019-12-23 | LITERATURE $1000: In 2019 his "Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters & Seymour: An Introduction" first came out as an e-book J.D. Salinger |
| #8119, aired 2019-12-19 | NATIVE AMERICANS: THE REALITY $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew is at the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C.) The Americans exhibit highlights Native Americans' role in American identity. One legend is Pocahontas' famous 1607 rescue of this man, a story some doubt, as he didn't tell it until 1624, though he had written about his time in Virginia before then John Smith |
| #8111, aired 2019-12-09 | PSYCHOLOGY JARGON $2000: Most psychologists now refer to multiple personality disorder as D.I.D., or this type of "identity disorder" dissociative (*disassociative) |
| #8108, aired 2019-12-04 | TRIOS $200: An early use of this Christian concept around 170 A.D. defines the 3 as God, His word & His wisdom the Trinity |
| #8100, aired 2019-11-22 | BLACK-&-WHITE FILMS $200: In "The Maltese Falcon", this actor tells Mary Astor, "if you...were as innocent as you pretend to be, we'd never get anywhere" Humphrey Bogart |
| #8095, aired 2019-11-15 | JIM CLASS $1200: He'd assumed Mexican citizenship years before, but his exploits as a colonel in the Texas Army in 1836 made him famous (Jim) Bowie |
| #8018, aired 2019-06-19 | THE D.C. UNIVERSE $2000: Get smart! In 2017 Dan Coats was confirmed by the Senate as the DNI, director of this national intelligence |
| #8016, aired 2019-06-17 | A DAY IN JUNE $1200: The first day of the Allied invasion of Normandy, June 6, 1944 is known as this letter-perfect name D-Day |
| #8007, aired 2019-06-04 | THE PARKER HOUSE: A HOTEL IN HISTORY $1000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Omni Parker House hotel.) Moving to Boston in 1941, he found work here as a busboy; busted for burglary, he'd convert to Islam in prison and emerged with this new name Malcolm X |
| #8004, aired 2019-05-30 | WORLD FACTS $4,000 (Daily Double): This African country is known in German as Elfenbeinküste Cote d'Ivoire (or the Ivory Coast) |
| #7981, aired 2019-04-29 | ALLITERATIVE PHRASES $1600: "La Francais est la langue d'amour" translates as "French is" this the language of love |
| #7970, aired 2019-04-12 | COLOMBIA PICTURES $11,022 (Daily Double): There are great beaches at the walled city founded as this de Indias, meaning "Carthage of the Indies" in English Cartagena |
| #7958, aired 2019-03-27 | SET IN THE CITY $200: As of 2019 its "Med", "Fire" & "P.D." were all serving Chicago |
| #7958, aired 2019-03-27 | ALLONS-Y $2000: Images of "blue" spring to mind as we head to this colorful region that contains the French Riviera Côte d'Azur |
| #7950, aired 2019-03-15 | THE IRISH-AMERICAN HALL OF FAME $800: If you're an Irish-American teacher known the world over as "The Miracle Worker", you'd likely make the hall also Annie Sullivan |
| #7949, aired 2019-03-14 | KINGS LANDING $1000: In 2017 Dutch king Willem-Alexander revealed that he'd spent 21 years as a co-pilot for this airline KLM |
| #7947, aired 2019-03-12 | A HOLE IN THE GROUND $800: Al D'Amato was known as "Senator" this opening in the pavement because he got them fixed for constituents potholes |
| #7904, aired 2019-01-10 | ON THE RADIO $1000: If DJ & war movie subject Adrian Cronauer was late to the studio, he'd drag out "Gooood" in this phrase as he frantically set up "Good morning, Vietnam" |
| #7883, aired 2018-12-12 | FAMOUS WOMEN $1000: After her death, it was revealed that she'd had leukemia for 12 years, including her time as Israel's prime minister Golda Meir |
| #7876, aired 2018-12-03 | ITALY & GERMANY UNIFIED $800: Verdi inspired the unifiers & his name was used as an acronym: Vittorio Emanuele Re d'Italia, "Victor Emmanuel" this king of Italy |
| #7875, aired 2018-11-30 | WATCHING THE TV DETECTIVES $1000: This actor broke many a criminal during interrogations as Det. Bobby Goren on "Law & Order: Criminal Intent" (Vincent) D'Onofrio |
| #7871, aired 2018-11-26 | ENGLISH MAJORS $2000: Promoted to major in 1915, he'd go on to World War II fame as a field marshal Field Marshal Montgomery |
| #7848, aired 2018-10-24 | THE ROLES OF MY LIFETIME $1600: We'd give an "A" to his work as Oscar Grant & Killmonger, but he's going to get a "B." from you (Michael B.) Jordan |
| #7848, aired 2018-10-24 | BYZANTIUM & BEYOND $2,000 (Daily Double): Killing thousands, the Nika revolt of 532 A.D. began as a fight involving different groups of fans of these races chariot races |
| #7839, aired 2018-10-11 | DRIVING ALEXIS $1600: You'd want to drive the czarevich Alexis (born 1904) very carefully as he suffered from this condition hemophilia |
| #7832, aired 2018-10-02 | THE BROADWAY PLAY'S PREMIERE CAST $1600: 1988:
John Lithgow as Rene Gallimard, B.D. Wong as Song Liling M. Butterfly |
| #7827, aired 2018-09-25 | LETTER PERFECT $800: One of the 2 letters that appear as the mint mark on most U.S. coins struck for circulation today a D (or P) |
| #7821, aired 2018-09-17 | SPECIFIC GENERAL HISTORY $1600: In March 2018 this 3-star general advised the nation he'd no longer serve as national security advisor H.R. McMaster |
| #7783, aired 2018-06-13 | U.S. LIBRARIES $200: AKA "The Rock", the John D. Rockefeller Jr. Library is one of the main libraries of this R.I. Ivy League school Brown |
| #7775, aired 2018-06-01 | SPY STUFF $1200: It's not just in movies: D.C.'s International Spy Museum has these disguised as pens, lighters & from around 1950, a watch a camera |
| #7759, aired 2018-05-10 | FAST COMPANY $2000: (Jay Leno presents the clue.) Back around World War I when you wanted to go fast, you put a big aircraft engine in a lightweight car; my 1915 Hispano-Souza uses the same kind of aircraft V8 as the S.P.A.D. flown by this race-car driver & top-scoring U.S. ace of World War I Eddie Rickenbacker |
| #7747, aired 2018-04-24 | MOVIE TITLES IN FOREIGN LANDS $800: Israel re-titled this film "Love in the Skies" but we'd say Goose's experience in said skies was not as fun as Maverick's Top Gun |
| #7743, aired 2018-04-18 | YOU KNEW THERE'D BE MATH $1600: A vector has both magnitude & direction; this type of quantity, such as speed, has magnitude only a scalar |
| #7726, aired 2018-03-26 | LINGUISTICS $1200: Alexandra D'Arcy wrote a book on this word, as in "I'm, ____ totally mad because Kim was all, ____, why can't I date Kevin?" like |
| #7723, aired 2018-03-21 | LAWYER TV $1200: Bridget Moynahan as A.D.A. Erin Reagan, whose dad is NYC's police commissioner Blue Bloods |
| #7720, aired 2018-03-16 | AFTER THE VICE PRESIDENCY $1600: A supporter of westward expansion as vice-president, this big "D" later went east as minister to Great Britain George Dallas |
| #7716, aired 2018-03-12 | "M"TERTAINMENT $800: Simon Baker must have had a vision that he'd be a hit as Patrick Jane on this series The Mentalist |
| #7692, aired 2018-02-06 | ENTERTAINE"D" $1600: A bobcat named Baxter entertains the fans as the mascot of this baseball team the Arizona Diamondbacks |
| #7681, aired 2018-01-22 | FROM "C" TO "D" $800: Ambrose Bierce defined this as "one who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs" a coward |
| #7671, aired 2018-01-08 | BRITISH AUTHORS $2000: Banned upon publication, this author's "The Rainbow" was described by one magistrate as "utter filth" D.H. Lawrence |
| #7643, aired 2017-11-29 | MOTOWN LYRICS $1600: "Before you ask some girl for her hand now, keep your freedom for as long as you can now, my mama told me" this you'd better shop around |
| #7617, aired 2017-10-24 | "R"2 "D"2 $600: Term for a registered user of the website that hosts Q&As called AMAs a Redditor |
| #7614, aired 2017-10-19 | WASHINGTON, D.C. $600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents the clue from the National Mall in Washington, D.C.) Because the ground is firmer, the Washington Monument was placed here, instead of at a spot in the center of the original D.C., as planned by this designer of the city (Pierre) L'Enfant |
| #7594, aired 2017-09-21 | "D" IN AMERICAN HISTORY $1000: Officially known as the States' Rights Democrat Party, it carried 4 Southern states in 1948, winning 39 electoral votes the Dixiecrats |
| #7586, aired 2017-09-11 | "A-C"/"D-C" $200: It means "severe", as in "we have to resort to" these "measures" drastic |
| #7581, aired 2017-07-24 | FAKE NEWS $1600: Arrested as a collaborator, Han Van Meegeren confessed he'd forged a "Vermeer" that he sold to this big fat Nazi Göring |
| #7575, aired 2017-07-14 | YOU GET A "D" $800: The courtship type of this may be a dance or a show of special feathers or crests as done here by a couple of grebes a display |
| #7571, aired 2017-07-10 | MIXED GREENS $1000: Chariot racing fans known as "the Greens" rioted in this city in 532 A.D., leading to a revolt that nearly toppled an empire Byzantium (Constantinople) |
| #7570, aired 2017-07-07 | THEATER $1000: In a Eugene O'Neill play, Paddy says, "Sure, 'twas as if she'd seen a great hairy" one of these "escaped from the zoo" an ape |
| #7565, aired 2017-06-30 | SECOND CITY TV $400: Jason Beghe as Sergeant Hank Voight, who had been seen on "Chicago Fire", stars in this spin-off Chicago P.D. |
| #7563, aired 2017-06-28 | AFRICAN AMERICANS $800: (I'm D.C. mayor Muriel Bowser.) On January 2, 1975 Walter Washington became D.C.'s first elected mayor in a century as he was sworn in by this fellow Howard University alumnus Thurgood Marshall |
| #7545, aired 2017-06-02 | ARCHAEOLOGY $600: Using traditional archaeology & 3D tech, scientists reconstructed a house in Pompeii as it looked before this 79 A.D. event the eruption of Mount Vesuvius |
| #7536, aired 2017-05-22 | THUNDER & LIGHTNING $400: Ar-Ra'd, the 13th Surah or chapter of this holy book, is also known as "The Thunder" the Koran |
| #7530, aired 2017-05-12 | GRADE THAT WORD $400: June 6 just squeaks by as the anniversary of this D-Day |
| #7529, aired 2017-05-11 | THE SILENT MOVIE ERA $400: One of the first film versions of this novel was in 1921 with Douglas Fairbanks as d'Artagnan The Three Musketeers |
| #7517, aired 2017-04-25 | "D" IN GEOGRAPHY $1200: A popular hiking destination, the summit of this crater just beyond Waikiki was used as a military lookout in the 20th century Diamond Head |
| #7505, aired 2017-04-07 | THE EXPLORERS CLUB $200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Explorers Club in New York.) Using the Explorers Club globe, this Norwegian planned an expedition to show that South Americans could've settled Polynesia as early as 500 A.D.; on August 7, 1947, his balsa wood raft reached Raroia Atoll after 101 hazardous days at sea, proving his theory (Thor) Heyerdahl |
| #7499, aired 2017-03-30 | PEN NAMES $1600: This bestselling romance author also writes futuristic crime novels as J.D. Robb Nora Roberts |
| #7498, aired 2017-03-29 | IT'S EPIC $1,400 (Daily Double): This Roman poet wrote his own epic around 19 B.C. & in 1321 A.D. appeared as a character in one Virgil |
| #7476, aired 2017-02-27 | THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY & CULTURE $200: (Alex gives the clue from the Nat'l Museum of African American History & Culture in Washington, D.C.) Dismantled at its original location on Edisto Island, South Carolina, & now restored & a centerpiece of the museum, this cabin dates back to the early days of slavery but was used well into the 20th century, with residents picking as much as 100 pounds a day of this crop cotton |
| #7476, aired 2017-02-27 | THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY & CULTURE $400: (Alex gives the clue from the Nat'l Museum of African American History & Culture in Washington, D.C.) Guests at the opening ceremony for the museum included these men who trained in Alabama as part of this World War II group of aviators who escorted over 200 bombing missions with the loss of just a handful of bombers the Tuskegee Airmen |
| #7465, aired 2017-02-10 | KHAN MEN $400: Pashtun leader & nonviolence advocated Abdul Ghaffar Khan was known as the "frontier" this man whom he'd advised Mahatma Gandhi |
| #7461, aired 2017-02-06 | NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY AND CULTURE $800: (Alex delivers the clue from the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C.) Thomas Jefferson wrote that "all men are created equal", yet, as seen from the names on the bricks, he was a major slaveholder, owning hundreds at this home & plantation in Virginia Monticello |
| #7459, aired 2017-02-02 | M.D.s $200: In 2014, Vice Admiral Vivek Murthy became America's doctor as the holder of this government post Surgeon General |
| #7459, aired 2017-02-02 | OTHER MDs $400: From November 2007 to May 2011, Dominique Strauss-Kahn served the IMF as this, M.D. for short managing director |
| #7459, aired 2017-02-02 | M.D.s $600: Dr. Bennet Omalu discovered chronic traumatic encephalopathy in football players, as depicted in this 2015 film Concussion |
| #7456, aired 2017-01-30 | YES, MR. MOVIE PRESIDENT $1000: This British actor Snape-d into action as Ronald Reagan in "Lee Daniels' The Butler Alan Rickman |
| #7441, aired 2017-01-09 | ONE-"I"d WORDS $600: I like the cut of your triangular sail known as this jib |
| #7434, aired 2016-12-29 | FILMS WITH SHORT TITLES $5,000 (Daily Double): This 2004 Best Picture nominee featured such tunes as "What'd I Say" & "I Got A Woman" Ray |
| #7421, aired 2016-12-12 | ISLAND NATIONS $200: The Ivory Coast is officially Cote d'Ivoire & as of 2013, this island country not far off is Cabo Verde Cape Verde |
| #7415, aired 2016-12-02 | THE TACO BELL CANON IN "D" $400: You can get these chips as a side or in your Locos Tacos Doritos |
| #7415, aired 2016-12-02 | THE PACHEBEL CANON IN D $600: This 1980 film with Timothy Hutton as Mary Tyler Moore's troubled son was one of the first to make the Canon a soundtrack fave Ordinary People |
| #7403, aired 2016-11-16 | ENDANGERED ANIMALS AT THE SMITHSONIAN'S NATIONAL ZOO $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from Smithsonian's National Zoo in Washington, D.C..) The Sumatran tiger is the smallest subspecies & has the narrowest stripes; largely due to habitat loss & the illegal wildlife trade, there are as few as 400 left on their native island in this country Indonesia |
| #7394, aired 2016-11-03 | OUR OFFICE FANTASY FOOTBALL TEAM NAMES $400: Let's be "Fiddling While" this Cowboy QB "Burns"; he was hot when he won the D-1AA version of the Heisman Tony Romo |
| #7393, aired 2016-11-02 | "D" IN SCIENCE $800: A common form of glucose, it's also known as grape sugar or corn sugar dextrose |
| #7385, aired 2016-10-21 | HORROR TV $1600: On "The Twilight Zone" episode "To Serve Man", the aliens' intentions are revealed, as "it's" this kind of book! a cookbook |
| #7369, aired 2016-09-29 | HONORS & AWARDS $1,500 (Daily Double): Napoleon created it in 1802 as a general military & civil order of merit the Legion of Honor (la Légion d'Honneur) |
| #7354, aired 2016-07-28 | CLUES ACROSS AMERICA $800: (I'm Kidd O'Shea from ABC 7 News.) All vice presidents have worked out of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, starting with this man, who in 1961 wanted an office in the White House but was moved next door as part of his sidelining by the administration Lyndon B. Johnson |
| #7347, aired 2016-07-19 | DUDE-ERONOMY $800: The OED says a "dude" has "fastidiousness in dress", then as a synonym, uses this word that also has 2 "D"s a dandy |
| #7344, aired 2016-07-14 | PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $800: Pirandello's "Sei personaggi in cerca d'autore", known as this in English, invented "theater within the theater" Six Characters in Search of an Author |
| #7327, aired 2016-06-21 | AS EASY AS C-D-E $400: Known as a poison, it's also used to extract gold cyanide |
| #7327, aired 2016-06-21 | AS EASY AS C-D-E $800: It describes a witness worthy of belief; that's...! credible |
| #7327, aired 2016-06-21 | AS EASY AS C-D-E $1200: To turn sour or congeal; when you're scared, your blood is said to do this curdle |
| #7327, aired 2016-06-21 | AS EASY AS C-D-E $1600: It can be a small waterfall, an outpouring of objects or events, or the simple juggling pattern seen here a cascade |
| #7327, aired 2016-06-21 | AS EASY AS C-D-E $2000: The rhythmic flow of a sequence of sounds cadence |
| #7324, aired 2016-06-16 | WHOSE WHAT? $400: In 1894 a throng of unemployed men known as "Coxey's Army" marched to this city to demand jobs & public spending Washington, D.C. |
| #7319, aired 2016-06-09 | A JASON $400: If you'll "Walk This Way", you'll find Jason Mizell was known as Jam Master Jay in this '80s rap trio Run-D.M.C. |
| #7305, aired 2016-05-20 | ON CABLE $400: This Guy Fieri show on Food Network is known as "Triple D" for short Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives |
| #7295, aired 2016-05-06 | PRONUNCIATION $400: Shakespeare's First Folio spells this day of the week as it's said, without the first "D" Wednesday |
| #7293, aired 2016-05-04 | ROMAN AROUND $800: I, this man who made Britain a province during my reign as emperor, which ended in 54 A.D. Claudius |
| #7264, aired 2016-03-24 | THE FIRST MILLENNIUM $600: A major battle in 9 A.D. established this river as the boundary between the Roman Empire and Germany the Rhine |
| #7251, aired 2016-03-07 | MONUMENTS & MEMORIALS $800: Here's one of these Depression-era lines as depicted in bronze at the FDR Memorial in Washington, D.C. a bread line |
| #7248, aired 2016-03-02 | THIS IS "D" PLACE $200: This island off the northeastern coast of South America is known as Ile du Diable to the French Devil's Island |
| #7248, aired 2016-03-02 | TED $1200: As supervisor D.B. Russell, this actor has moved over from "CSI" to "CSI: Cyber" to help fight a new breed of criminal Ted Danson |
| #7241, aired 2016-02-22 | TV PETS $1600: A newspaper obit about this animated dog noted his work with the Quahog P.D. as a bomb sniffer Brian Griffin |
| #7229, aired 2016-02-04 | WALL-TO-WALL $1600: Inscribed with more than 58,000 names, this D.C. memorial is sometimes referred to as "The Wall" the Vietnam Veterans Memorial |
| #7221, aired 2016-01-25 | WHAT'D I SAY? $200: Eero Saarinen:
"I think of" this field "as the total of man's man-made physical surroundings" architecture |
| #7206, aired 2016-01-04 | IF THEY MARRIED $400: If British actress Driver married the star of "American Sniper", she'd hit the road as... Minnie Cooper |
| #7206, aired 2016-01-04 | IF THEY MARRIED $600: If a poster girl "Charlie's Angel" had wed the actor who was Sonny Corleone, she could've marched to D.C. as... Farrah Caan |
| #7206, aired 2016-01-04 | IF THEY MARRIED $1000: If an Oscar winner for "Ghost" married the Italian physicist for whom element no. 100 is named, she'd cheer herself as... Whoopi Fermi |
| #7195, aired 2015-12-18 | THE NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD $800: (Will Shortz delivers the clue.) On Thursday we rolled the D-I-C-E, as in these, "racy books named after a Victorian garment" bodice ripper |
| #7188, aired 2015-12-09 | HAMILTON $400: In the show, the Thomas Jefferson character performs "What'd I Miss"
"So, what did I miss? /
What did I miss? /
Virginia, my home, sweet home /
I want to give you a kiss"
What Jefferson missed was America's post-war development while he was away as minister to this country France |
| #7183, aired 2015-12-02 | STATE ANIMAL FIGHT! $800: S.D.'s coyote takes on the white-tailed this 11 times, as 11 states claim it as a state animal or mammal of one kind or another white-tailed deer |
| #7179, aired 2015-11-26 | OUR "FREE"DOM $1200: Robert Frost acknowledged he'd "given offense by saying that I'd as soon write" this "as play tennis with the net down" free verse |
| #7177, aired 2015-11-24 | ANCIENT NAMES $2,000 (Daily Double): Around 60 A.D. this emperor began giving public performances playing the lyre & later appeared on stage as a actor Nero |
| #7173, aired 2015-11-18 | I'D LIKE TO MAKE IT A TRUE "D.D." $600: Ranging from 1.2 to 4.8, this is used as a multiplier in determining a diving score degree of difficulty |
| #7149, aired 2015-10-15 | REORDERING THE NOTED PAIR $1000: We turn the fashion world upside down as D&G becomes G&D, this new brand; sorry, Domenico, Stefano is now No. 1 Gabbana & Dolce |
| #7140, aired 2015-10-02 | WRITING FOR TELEVISION $400: Don Mankiewicz wrote the pilots of "Marcus Welby, M.D." & this show with Raymond Burr as a wheelchair-bound former cop Ironside |
| #7124, aired 2015-07-30 | MEDICAL HISTORY $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Dittrick Medical History Center in Cleveland, OH.) 19th-century doctors thought that the brain shrank & grew with use, leaving corresponding contours on the skull, which were read to determine a person's abilities and traits, using the 3-D bust as a reference guide in this pseudo-science phrenology |
| #7121, aired 2015-07-27 | TECH SAVVY $400: If you'd prefer your buddy's Facebook photos not I.D. you as his wingman, turn off this feature tagging (or auto-tagging) |
| #7120, aired 2015-07-24 | DOUBLE D WITH ANOTHER D $200: Physiologically dependent; might as well face it, you're this addicted |
| #7116, aired 2015-07-20 | SPORTS & SONG $600: "Ever since I was young, it's been my dream / That I might drive" this machine; "I'd get the ice just as slick as could be" a Zamboni |
| #7110, aired 2015-07-10 | PROSPER $800: He quit school at age 11 &, as a teen in 1810, bought his first boat; later, as a "commodore", he'd be worth $100 million (Cornelius) Vanderbilt |
| #7103, aired 2015-07-01 | DANGEROUS $400: It'd be a sin to not know when this precedes "nightshade" it is also known as belladonna deadly |
| #7101, aired 2015-06-29 | THE APOLLO MISSIONS $400: Apollo 17's Harrison Schmitt collected moon rocks as the first scientist on the Moon; his Ph.D. is in this science geology |
| #7093, aired 2015-06-17 | GOVERNMENT AGENCIES $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) Leaving Wall St. & heading to Washington D.C., a lawyer never has to go outside, as D.C.'s Union Station connects directly to this regulatory commission on F Street the SEC |
| #7090, aired 2015-06-12 | DIPLOMA"C" $1000: I get a jolt out of this French term for a diplomat just below the rank of ambassador chargé d'affaires |
| #7070, aired 2015-05-15 | FINE FOOD $800: As you can see, this traditional roast beef accompaniment is not what we'd normally call a pudding Yorkshire pudding |
| #7069, aired 2015-05-14 | THE COMEDIANS $600: As Prof. Wagstaff in the movie "Horse Feathers", he said, "I'd horsewhip you if I had a horse" Groucho |
| #7063, aired 2015-05-06 | TV ODDS & ENDS $800: The Facebook page for the Indiana Office of Tourism said they'd miss this retiring sitcom almost as much as Li'l Sebastian Parks and Recreation |
| #7058, aired 2015-04-29 | INDIANAPOLIS $200: Known as "Circle City", Indianapolis is laid out in a wheel pattern inspired by the pattern of this eastern U.S. city Washington, D.C. |
| #7057, aired 2015-04-28 | NOT AS GREAT AS PUSS IN BOOTS $800: (Puss in Boots delivers the clue.) Claro que si, Dumas must have looked to me to create this expert swordsman of great honesty & integrity, but he had to join forces with Athos, Porthos & Aramis d'Artagnan |
| #7038, aired 2015-04-01 | THE CIVIL WAR YEARS $600: In 1863 the Statue of Freedom designed by Thomas Crawford was placed atop this Washington, D.C. building the Capitol building |
| #7005, aired 2015-02-13 | NON-FAILURE TO COMMUNICATE $200: This D.C. newspaper was established in 1877 &, unlike today, was soon known as a very conservative publication The Washington Post |
| #7005, aired 2015-02-13 | 19th CENTURY STATE GOVERNORS $1000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from the Palace of the Governors in Santa Fe, NM.) His eventful career included preventing the capture of Washington, D.C. as a Civil War general & a stint living here as governor of New Mexico, during which he found time to write "Ben-Hur" Lew Wallace |
| #7000, aired 2015-02-06 | BAD POETRY ABOUT POETS $1,600 (Daily Double): My big number is 600 / Somehow I rhymed it with "blunder'd" / As a rhyme, not very cool / But they teach my stuff in school! Alfred Lord Tennyson |
| #6995, aired 2015-01-30 | "Y.D." DO IT? $2000: She was a movie actress before she gained a new audience as Lily Munster on 1960s television Yvonne De Carlo |
| #6981, aired 2015-01-12 | PUT IT ON MY "BILL" $400: Forbes magazine lists oilman John D. Rockefeller as America's first of these billionaire |
| #6941, aired 2014-11-17 | DOUBLE "D" WORDS $400: As a verb it means to cook on a flat metal surface; as a noun, it is the flat metal surface griddle |
| #6924, aired 2014-10-23 | TV INITIALS $1200: The last episode of "The Andy Griffith Show" served as the pilot for "Mayberry" this R.F.D. |
| #6920, aired 2014-10-17 | BEFORE, DURING OR AFTER $200: The death of the prophet Muhammad,
BDA 1095 A.D. before |
| #6910, aired 2014-10-03 | "D" IN SCIENCE $800: This fin on the backs of dolphins helps them balance as they swim. dorsal fins |
| #6882, aired 2014-07-15 | TO THE STARS & BEYOND $800: If we could peer down on the Milky Way galaxy from above, we'd see why it's classified as one of this shape spiral |
| #6872, aired 2014-07-01 | ANCIENT SCIENCE $2000: Why not take this guy, who around 140 A.D. developed a model of the solar system with earth as its center Ptolemy |
| #6856, aired 2014-06-09 | NOVELS & NOVELISTS $1200: David Herbert were the given names of this author whose 1915 "The Rainbow" was banned as obscene (D.H.) Lawrence |
| #6854, aired 2014-06-05 | IS THERE A TV DOCTOR IN THE HOUSE? $400: Sarah Chalke as Dr. Elliot Reid dealt with J.D., Turk & a bit of insecurity on this NBC... scratch that, ABC comedy Scrubs |
| #6843, aired 2014-05-21 | "E" FOLLOWS "D" $600: This decorative art with needle & thread includes such stitches as flat, knotted & looped embroidery |
| #6843, aired 2014-05-21 | "E" FOLLOWS "D" $800: This term refers to a student at a military school such as West Point who is training to become an officer cadet |
| #6833, aired 2014-05-07 | FROM "D" TO DINING "D" $200: It can precede "oysters" as well as "eggs" to refer to a spiced preparation deviled |
| #6803, aired 2014-03-26 | CHEMICAL ELEMENTS IN POETRY $600: Whitman:
"You convicts in prison cells---you sentenced assassins chain'd and handcuff'd with ____" iron |
| #6799, aired 2014-03-20 | FRUIT & VEGETABLE VENDORS? $600: HQ'd somewhat ominously in Waterloo, Canada, the company now known as this debuted its first smartphone in 2003 BlackBerry |
| #6781, aired 2014-02-24 | THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN HISTORY $800: (Alex delivers the clue from the National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C.) I'm with one of the earliest locomotives of the U.S. railroad system--it looks like it could still run, doesn't it?--& it actually did in 1981 as it celebrated its 150th birthday; it was built in England, & it is named for this symbolic Englishman John Bull |
| #6772, aired 2014-02-11 | RECENT TV $200: Despite the inconvenience of being killed in a movie, Phil Coulson made it to the small screen as an "Agent of" this S.H.I.E.L.D. |
| #6771, aired 2014-02-10 | "D" PLUS $1600: Today something you all aspire to, in ancient Rome it was a document folded double acting as a sort of passport a diploma |
| #6762, aired 2014-01-28 | EMMY M.D.s $400: As Dr. Izzie Stevens on "Grey's Anatomy", she saw dead people along with a 2007 Emmy win (Katherine) Heigl |
| #6762, aired 2014-01-28 | EMMY M.D.s $1000: In 1998 Christine Lahti wasn't in the bathroom when she won as Dr. Austin on this Ill.-set show (unlike the Golden Globes) Chicago Hope |
| #6760, aired 2014-01-24 | ANCIENT ROME $1600: On June 9, 68 A.D. this emperor told the centurion who'd come to arrest him, "this is fidelity" as he died by his own hand Nero |
| #6755, aired 2014-01-17 | GUYS, CAPITALISM WORKS! $400: In July 2012 he said as president, he'd show "the good things that can happen (with) more free enterprise"--he didn't get to (Mitt) Romney |
| #6753, aired 2014-01-15 | I'D LIKE A SOFT DRINK $200: This "medical" soda is advertised as being made from 23 different flavors Dr Pepper |
| #6733, aired 2013-12-18 | D.C. TV $1000: On "The Americans" Matthew Rhys & Keri Russell live in the D.C. suburbs while working as spies for this Russian agency the KGB |
| #6715, aired 2013-11-22 | STAR BUCKS $600: Robert May was inspired by the Ugly Duckling & the way he'd been teased as a kid to create this Christmas misfit Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer |
| #6712, aired 2013-11-19 | TEXTING IN CLASS $400: IANAL, but if I were one I'd be part of this class, the opposite of amateur a professional |
| #6703, aired 2013-11-06 | MYSTERY FOLKS $800: On Nov. 24, 1971 the man known as this hijacked a Northwest Airlines flight, parachuting out with 200 grand D.B. Cooper |
| #6688, aired 2013-10-16 | WASHINGTON, NOT D.C. $2000: General W. passed 3 times through what's now Washington in this state's Litchfield County Connecticut |
| #6676, aired 2013-09-30 | FRAGRANCES $400: Tattoo artist Kat von D has a scent called Saint as well as this alter ego Sinner |
| #6671, aired 2013-09-23 | TV FOR THEE & ME $1200: Twitter has helped boost the ratings of this drama starring Kerry Washington as a D.C. crisis manager Scandal |
| #6652, aired 2013-07-16 | PUSH & PULL $600: The character of Precious Jones in her 1996 novel "Push" was based on girls she'd met as a Harlem teacher Sapphire |
| #6649, aired 2013-07-11 | GET YOUR "J.D." $800: Usually arising before age 25 & now called type I is the disorder that used to be known as this juvenile diabetes |
| #6626, aired 2013-06-10 | BETTER FOLLOW ME $600: This man who followed St. Peter as pope around 67 A.D. shares his name with a "Peanuts" character Linus |
| #6624, aired 2013-06-06 | GEORGE WASHINGTON $400: The city where he was sworn in as president in 1789 (don't say Washington, D.C., it wasn't built yet) New York City |
| #6612, aired 2013-05-21 | National Geographic Bee WINNING QUESTIONS $2000: In 1995 kids had to I.D. this landlocked central Asian country with Pashtu & Dari as official languages Afghanistan |
| #6605, aired 2013-05-10 | INNOVATION $800: This term from movie watching is also used for the "printing" of solid objects, as with the Makerbot Replicator 3-D |
| #6592, aired 2013-04-23 | I'D LIKE TO SOLVE THE PUZZLE... FAST! $2000: As the morning & evening star, this Mesoamerican deity was the symbol of death & resurrection
Q _ _ _ Z _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Quetzalcoatl |
| #6590, aired 2013-04-19 | CELEBRITIES' FAVORITE BOOKS $400: (I'm Dr. Jane Goodall.) As a child, I dreamed of living among wild animals, influenced by my favorite book characters, Dr. Dolittle & this "Lord of the Jungle" (I knew I'd be a better jungle companion for him than that other wimpy Jane) Tarzan |
| #6587, aired 2013-04-16 | "D" LICIOUS $400: 2-word Chinese term for small, often steamed dishes served as light meals or appetizers a dim sum |
| #6577, aired 2013-04-02 | REALITY HITS YOU HARD, BRO $1000: 2008 got heavy for you, bro, when foes in Pakistan's parliament said they'd impeach you--time to quit as president Pervez Musharraf |
| #6565, aired 2013-03-15 | MASON, DIXON, & THEIR LINE $800: M & D used an instrument called a zenith sector for determining degrees of this north of the equator latitude |
| #6559, aired 2013-03-07 | THAT '80s SHOW $1200: This series starred Pernell Roberts as a character also seen on "M*A*S*H" Trapper John, M.D. |
| #6556, aired 2013-03-04 | AMERICAN ARCHITECTS $400: The Senate & house wings as we know them of this D.C. building were added by Thomas Walter in the 1850s the Capitol |
| #6553, aired 2013-02-27 | 3 STRAIGHT VOWELS $2000: A jail in this Seine River City is now known as the Tour Jeanne d'Arc Rouen |
| #6537, aired 2013-02-05 | POP CULTURE $1200: Watch out for night monsters as you build your own 3-D online world using this game Minecraft |
| #6535, aired 2013-02-01 | THE 113th CONGRESS $400: The Senate breaks down as
D-53,
R-45,
I-2,
I for this independent |
| #6521, aired 2013-01-14 | DR. JOHN $2,400 (Daily Double): This Ph.D. in psychology wrote the seminal 1913 article "Psychology as the Behaviorist Views It" Dr. John Watson |
| #6486, aired 2012-11-26 | CONTAINERS $600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew presents the clue from the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C..) This type of ceramic material gets its name from Italian for "baked earth"; its waterproof quality was as valuable to the Native Americans as it was to the Italians terra cotta |
| #6480, aired 2012-11-16 | MOVIE TERMS $2000: D/N stands for this 3-word type of shot in which sunlight masquerades as moonlight day-for-night |
| #6414, aired 2012-07-05 | ONLY PARTLY TRUE $400: The spare key to this D.C. residence once known as the Executive Mansion is kept under the Washington Monument the White House |
| #6391, aired 2012-06-04 | C.D.s $800: After 30 years as a U.S. senator from Connecticut, he now heads the Motion Picture Association of America (Christopher) Dodd |
| #6386, aired 2012-05-28 | LEWIS & CLARK EXPEDITION $600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Idaho along the banks of the Palouse River.) Lewis & Clark knew they'd be meeting tribal elders on their trip, so they took with them special peace medals that looked like this to give as gifts; one of the original medals issued by this president was found here along the Palouse River Jefferson |
| #6383, aired 2012-05-23 | A TOUCH OF ROBERT FROST IN THE AIR $400: Robert Frost said he'd "as soon write free verse as play" this sport "with the net down" tennis |
| #6382, aired 2012-05-22 | FROM THE SANSKRIT $1200: Wise Jawaharlal Nehru was known as "Pandit"; if he'd done more CNN, 1 letter would have changed & he'd have been this pundit |
| #6344, aired 2012-03-29 | PLACES TO EAT $800: On Food Network, Guy Fieri hosts the show known as "Triple D": these, "Drive-ins and Dives" Diners |
| #6337, aired 2012-03-20 | THE 50 STATES $1600: (Alex Trebek walks along a river with grass, a bridge and a building in the background.) I'm in Cumberland, in this state; this city of 20,000 has a long history as a vital transport hub; it was the site of the first national road & also the terminus of the C&O Canal, which goes all the way to Washington, D.C. Maryland |
| #6324, aired 2012-03-01 | FOOD TALK $200: This French name for appetizers literally means "outside of the work", as they're served before the meal hors d'oeuvres |
| #6304, aired 2012-02-02 | BELL CURVES $800: Bell Laboratories began as an R&D arm of this company AT&T |
| #6298, aired 2012-01-25 | PRESIDENTIAL RE-ELECTIONS $400: This man won D.C. & (by 3,700 votes) Minnesota & that's it as Reagan won re-election Mondale |
| #6294, aired 2012-01-19 | ACTING PRESIDENTS ON TV $800: Dennis Haysbert & D.B. Woodside as David & Wayne Palmer, respectively 24 |
| #6289, aired 2012-01-12 | BUSINESS BIGGIES $800: This company, a leading supplier of business information & services, is known as D&B for short Dun & Bradstreet |
| #6285, aired 2012-01-06 | SNAKES... WHY'D IT HAVE TO BE SNAKES? $1000: The prominent horn on the nose shows why Bitis nasicornis is also known as this viper, after another African animal a rhinoceros |
| #6270, aired 2011-12-16 | HISTORIC LEADERS' LETTERS TO SANTA $1200: "...& one last thing. If a Spaniard ever topples my rule as the 9th Aztec emperor, I'd like but one thing...revenge!" Montezuma |
| #6262, aired 2011-12-06 | FINANCE WITH DAVID FABER $1000: (David Faber gives the clue from the set of The Faber Report.) As of 2011 this 2-word tax on profits from the sale of an asset such as a stock generally maxed out at 15%; D.C. loves to fight about it capital gains |
| #6261, aired 2011-12-05 | REMEMBER LAST DECEMBER? $2000: Laurent Gbagbo & Alassane Ouattara both had themselves sworn in as pres. of this African country on December 4 Côte d'Ivoire (the Ivory Coast) |
| #6254, aired 2011-11-24 | HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER $2000: We'd met as kids since we're distant cousins, but it was 1903 when she became "First Lady" of my heart FDR |
| #6242, aired 2011-11-08 | ABBREV. $600: D.O. can stand for doctor of this, using manipulative therapy as well as conventional medicine osteopathy |
| #6239, aired 2011-11-03 | IT CAME FROM THE NEW WORLD $1600: When this member of the nightshade family reached Italy, it was known as pomi d'oro, or gold apple a tomato |
| #6239, aired 2011-11-03 | IT CAME FROM THE NEW WORLD $5,000 (Daily Double): Also known as butter beans, they were, prior to being exported to Europe, a diet staple of the Inca lima beans |
| #6233, aired 2011-10-26 | "TIVITY" & COMPANY $1000: In 1987 this was combined with A.D.D. to create a diagnosis that's now applied to as many as 7% of U.S. schoolkids hyperactivity |
| #6229, aired 2011-10-20 | LITERARY STUPID ANSWERS $200: As a woman's "sons grow up, she selects them as lovers" was D.H. Lawrence's synopsis of this novel Sons and Lovers |
| #6225, aired 2011-10-14 | THE GREATEST IN SPORTS WITH MIKE & MIKE $400: (Mike & Mike deliver the clue.) The most bizarre sports story I know was the Nancy Kerrigan/Tonya Harding kneecapping fracas
Well, I'd say equally twisted was the June 28, 1997 boxing match between these 2 heavyweights that featured teeth as well as fists Tyson & Holyfield |
| #6222, aired 2011-10-11 | GIVING BLOOD $200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew is being prepped to donate blood at an American Red Cross blood donation center in Washington, D.C.) Before giving blood a simple test will ensure that you don't have anemia, & that donating blood won't bring it on, as you'll be giving up about 250 milligrams of this element iron |
| #6222, aired 2011-10-11 | COLLEGE SPORTS $800: Hitting .361 as a sophomore got him a contract with the Yankees, but he'd win Super Bowls as a Bronco quarterback John Elway |
| #6219, aired 2011-10-06 | THE MOTION OF THE OCEAN $1600: As early as 600 A.D., monks recorded these on England's coasts & noted their relationship to the Sun & Moon tides |
| #6213, aired 2011-09-28 | IF THEY MARRIED $200: If "Twilight" actress Fanning married a Marine lt. col. known from Iran-Contra, she'd be known as... Dakota North |
| #6201, aired 2011-07-25 | PULITZER-WINNING NOVELS $600 (Daily Double): We'd sum up this 1952 winner as quew quits Queeg The Caine Mutiny |
| #6198, aired 2011-07-20 | CELEBS WE'D LIKE TO SEE ON REALITY SHOWS $1000: Can Meryl Streep make the Vikings as a defensive tackle? This HBO NFL series will test her famed versatility Hard Knocks |
| #6179, aired 2011-06-23 | GONE "D" $1600: From 1881 to 1888 this Midwest city had a baseball team in the National League known as the Wolverines Detroit |
| #6156, aired 2011-05-23 | SPELL IT RIGHT $1000: A French connection R-E-N-D-E-Z-V-O-U-S |
| #6151, aired 2011-05-16 | ARCHITECTURE $2,400 (Daily Double): This Washington, D.C. landmark was designed by Henry Bacon as a Greek temple with 36 Doric columns the Lincoln Memorial |
| #6143, aired 2011-05-04 | BILLIONS & BILLIONS $600: A PBS "American Experience" film about his family describes him as "history's first billionaire" (John D.) Rockefeller |
| #6135, aired 2011-04-22 | IT'S A COUP D'ETAT $400: After his murder, the conspirators did not gain control, as power was passed on to the Second Triumvirate Julius Caesar |
| #6130, aired 2011-04-15 | ANCIENT HISTORY $600: In 337 A.D. this first Christian Roman emperor abolished crucifixion as a form of execution Constantine |
| #6128, aired 2011-04-13 | PICTURE "D"IS $2,800 (Daily Double): This prominent 19th-century Englishman was an author as well as a politician Disraeli |
| #6122, aired 2011-04-05 | LEGAL ABBREV. $400: If you're using a name other than your own for your company, you should file the D.B.A. certificate, short for this doing business as |
| #6108, aired 2011-03-16 | HERE COMES THE JUDGE $3,000 (Daily Double): In this 1991 film former New Orleans D.A. Jim Garrison appears as Earl Warren JFK |
| #6105, aired 2011-03-11 | WICKED $800: In 1565 he said he'd rule Russia... if he could execute traitors as he wished & take their possessions: Russia said sure! Ivan the Terrible |
| #6085, aired 2011-02-11 | LAST OF THE COMPOSERS $2000: Composed in 1795, his last symphony, No. 104 In D Major, is popularly known as "The London" Franz Joseph Haydn |
| #6083, aired 2011-02-09 | OSCAR-WINNING ROLES $600: 1980:
He TKO'd Oscar as Jake LaMotta Robert De Niro |
| #6073, aired 2011-01-26 | THE CAMERA MAN $200: Life magazine photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt snapped a sailor kissing a nurse on the August 1945 day known as this V-J Day |
| #6067, aired 2011-01-18 | WHERE YOU'D FIND $800: Inky, Binky, Pinky & Clyde--a game Pac-Man |
| #6067, aired 2011-01-18 | AMERICAN WOMEN NOVELISTS $2000: Highly successful under her real name, as J.D. Robb she's written over 25 books about N.Y. Police Lt. Eve Dallas Nora Roberts |
| #6058, aired 2011-01-05 | CONTRARY TO POPULAR BELIEF $200: When Rome burned in 64 A.D., Nero was 35 miles away & couldn't have played this, as it wasn't invented until the 15th c. a fiddle |
| #6057, aired 2011-01-04 | MARXISMS $400: As Professor Wagstaff in "Horse Feathers", Groucho told his son, "I'd horsewhip you if I had" one of these a horse |
| #6048, aired 2010-12-22 | JOYCE TO THE WORLD $400: Familiar to TV viewers as a talk show guest, this psychologist received her Ph.D. from Columbia University Dr. Joyce Brothers |
| #6037, aired 2010-12-07 | MEDICINE $400: As Franklin D. Roosevelt's blood pressure was 300/190, he suffered from this 1-word condition hypertension |
| #6015, aired 2010-11-05 | I WANT MY MTV $400: Frankie Muniz thought his $250,000 car was stolen as Ashton Kutcher's very first victim on this show Punk'd |
| #5982, aired 2010-09-21 | THAT HURTS! $400: Angelina Jolie's lips are sometimes described as this hyphenated term, as if she'd been attacked by a flying insect bee-stung |
| #5975, aired 2010-07-30 | IT'S GOOD TO BE HIM $600: Nice H.S. grad present! Nike signed him to a $90 million contract before he'd even played 1 game as a Cleveland Cavalier LeBron James |
| #5975, aired 2010-07-30 | HERE COMES THE SUN KING $600: As a 10-year-old, Louis' rule was strengthened in 1648 with the end of this numeric religious war the Thirty Years' War |
| #5970, aired 2010-07-23 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $2000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew stands next to a patient undergoing a PET scan at Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island, New York.) Brookhaven studies the human brain using PET scanning; as in CAT scanning, the "T" is for this method of 3-D imaging tomography |
| #5956, aired 2010-07-05 | GEORGE WASHINGTON $2000: It's the large northeastern city where George was first inaugurated, as Washington, D.C. hadn't been built yet New York City |
| #5950, aired 2010-06-25 | SUPER $2000: A scene at the end of "Iron Man" finds Samuel L. Jackson as this one-eyed S.H.I.E.L.D. director Nick Fury |
| #5949, aired 2010-06-24 | LET'S ALL GO TO THE LOBBY $200: As you'd expect, their music plays 'round the clock in the lobby of the Hard Days Night Hotel in Liverpool The Beatles |
| #5946, aired 2010-06-21 | DRIVING SAFETY $1,600 (Daily Double): (Alex reports from Ford Motor Company in Dearborn, MI.) To make the driving as realistic as possible, the simulator includes such features as 3-D sound--with noises of the road, the engine & the tires as well as that apparent change in pitch you just heard, named for this Austrian physicist Doppler |
| #5925, aired 2010-05-21 | YEATS IS GREATS $200: Yeats rhymed, "In courtesy I'd have her chiefly learned; hearts are not had as a gift but hearts are" this earnéd |
| #5920, aired 2010-05-14 | GODS AMONG US $1000: It's a Florida beach town as well as a D-Day landing beach Juno |
| #5900, aired 2010-04-16 | I'D RATHER PAY TAXES $1600: George Calvert, better known as Lord this, died clear across the pond from Maryland April 15, 1632 Lord Baltimore |
| #5886, aired 2010-03-29 | BEVERAGE BRANDS $400: As you'd expect, POM Wonderful makes drinks that are 100% this juice pomegranate |
| #5872, aired 2010-03-09 | SONG STANDARDS $600: Frank Sinatra despised this 1966 hit, calling it the worst song he'd ever heard... "Doo-be-doo-be-doo" "Strangers In The Night" |
| #5841, aired 2010-01-25 | MODERN ARCHITECTURAL STYLES $800: Brutalism influenced the design of this D.C. building, named for a long-serving law-enforcement official the J. Edgar Hoover Building |
| #5834, aired 2010-01-14 | SCIENCE GUYS $1600: In 1943 he chose Los Alamos as the site for the Manhattan project lab; he'd gone to a boarding school nearby Oppenheimer |
| #5788, aired 2009-11-11 | SAME FIRST & LAST LETTER $200: If a woodchuck could chuck wood (it could happen!), it'd still also be known as this, even on February 2 a groundhog |
| #5784, aired 2009-11-05 | ARCHAEOLOGY $600: Archaeologists have found Vespasian's country house--or as he'd have called it in Latin, this 5-letter word a villa |
| #5741, aired 2009-07-20 | RIPLEYS $1600: Ornithologist S. Dillon Ripley served as the head of this D.C. institution from 1964 to 1984 the Smithsonian |
| #5683, aired 2009-04-29 | DARTH VADER, D.D.S. $600: Vader jokes that D.D.S. is "Dictator of the Dark Side" as well as "Doctor of Dental" this Science (or Surgery) |
| #5676, aired 2009-04-20 | FILL IN THE SONG TITLE $400: Madonna as Evita:
"D.C.F.M.A." "Don't Cry For Me Argentina" |
| #5652, aired 2009-03-17 | THE ANSWER LIES WITHIN $1600: I said I'd found this type of cast gold bar, spurring others to look as well ingot (in spurring others) |
| #5650, aired 2009-03-13 | GETTING MEDIEVAL WITH ENGLISH LIT $2,400 (Daily Double): In this circa 1470 work, the Brown Knight Without Pity is as bad as his name until Sir Gareth gets 'im Le Morte d'Arthur |
| #5642, aired 2009-03-03 | LETTERS $1200: He was upset to get a letter from Alfred Wallace about evolution theory, as he'd neglected to publish his own Darwin |
| #5628, aired 2009-02-11 | ODDPODGE $800: In 408 A.D. the Visigoths attacked Rome & demanded 3,000 pounds of this spice, not salt, as part of the city's ransom pepper |
| #5626, aired 2009-02-09 | THE FIRST MILLENNIUM A.D. $400: Around 500 Indian astronomer Aryabhata was one of the first to mark this as the start of a day midnight |
| #5620, aired 2009-01-30 | "D" MEN OF HISTORY $1200: This man who lost the 1948 presidential election was referred to as "the little man on the wedding cake" (Thomas) Dewey |
| #5615, aired 2009-01-23 | NEIL DIAMOND'S GEMS $1600: In a 1979 hit Neil went casual singing, "And long as I can have you here with me I'd much rather be" this "Forever in Blue Jeans" |
| #5597, aired 2008-12-30 | 1450 A.M. (MAKE THAT A.D.) $200: As the year 1450 dawned on the Christian calendar, it was year 5210 on this one the Hebrew |
| #5596, aired 2008-12-29 | WHERE AM I? $600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Washington, D.C.)
I'm at the National Sustainability Design Expo on this great space, known as America's Common the Mall in Washington, D.C. |
| #5570, aired 2008-11-21 | RECENT MOVIES $2000: In "Babylon A.D.", he stars as a mercenary hired to deliver a package, which turns out to be a young woman Vin Diesel |
| #5566, aired 2008-11-17 | WORLD LITERATURE $200: In 1831 he published a book of poems called "Les Feuilles d'automnes", as well as that hunchback novel (Victor) Hugo |
| #5550, aired 2008-10-24 | PROJECT RUNWAY $1200: This Italian duo, partners in life & business, use the initials D&G from their last names as the company logo Dolce & Gabbana |
| #5544, aired 2008-10-16 | POTPOURRI $800: Would Cary with this last name have seemed as suave if he'd gained fame as Archibald Leach? Grant |
| #5540, aired 2008-10-10 | TRASH TALKING AT THE MEDIEVAL JOUST $800: Thou art lucky this my weapon hath a safety tip called a coronal; else thoud'st be unbreath'd as well as unhors'd a lance |
| #5539, aired 2008-10-09 | MAKING MONEY $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reads as he and Sarah hold an oversized bill at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing in Washington, D.C.) One of the last things printed is the seal of this department as it was first used under the Articles of Confederation--the seal is older than the federal government the Treasury Department |
| #5535, aired 2008-10-03 | FORMER NAMES ON THE MAP $1,200 (Daily Double): Europeans once referred to China as this, still seen in the name of an airline Cathay |
| #5515, aired 2008-07-25 | FILL IN THE BOOK TITLE $1200: "A.I.L.D." by
William Faulkner As I Lay Dying |
| #5507, aired 2008-07-15 | THE EMERALD ISLE $1000: In 2008 he announced he'd step down after 11 years as Ireland's prime minister Bertie Ahern |
| #5504, aired 2008-07-10 | PHRASES IN THE KING JAMES BIBLE $1000: Not just for sick M.D.s, this 3-word proverb suggests Jesus should work miracles in his hometown as he did abroad "Physician, heal thyself!" |
| #5501, aired 2008-07-07 | "D" AS... $100 (Daily Double): in this kind of tea, one of India's finest; its leaves are grown at about 7,000 feet Darjeeling |
| #5501, aired 2008-07-07 | "D" AS... $400: in this German dog breed, named after breeder Ludwig Doberman |
| #5501, aired 2008-07-07 | "D" AS... $800: in this trademark of Invista for a type of polyester Dacron |
| #5501, aired 2008-07-07 | "D" AS... $1200: in this title from the Greek for "minister", for a member of the clerical order just below that of a priest deacon |
| #5501, aired 2008-07-07 | "D" AS... $2000: in this adjective for an elegant & gracious gentleman; it comes from the French for "of good family" debonair |
| #5457, aired 2008-05-06 | PEOPLE IN THE NEWS $400: In 2008 he reiterated that if the majority of Tibetans resorted to violence, he'd resign as their spokesperson the Dalai Lama |
| #5455, aired 2008-05-02 | GEOGRAPHY $800: There are first-person accounts of this volcano's eruption in 1767 (as there had been in 79 A.D.) Vesuvius |
| #5445, aired 2008-04-18 | BACON $400: In 1613 Francis Bacon got this office; he'd have trouble with the U.S. Senate today, as he approved of torture Attorney General |
| #5439, aired 2008-04-10 | '60s TV $1200: In 1965 Pernell Roberts left this series & his part as eldest son Adam, saying he'd grown tired of the role Bonanza |
| #5422, aired 2008-03-18 | IN THEM THAR HILLS $800: Better-known name of the Washington, D.C. hill once known as Jenkins' Hill Capitol Hill |
| #5413, aired 2008-03-05 | SPORTS NICKNAMES $400: In 2004 the career of this ex-champ known as "Iron Mike" took a sad turn when he was KO'd in round 4 by Danny Williams Mike Tyson |
| #5408, aired 2008-02-27 | SPELLING "BE" $800: Monk-theologian invariably described as "the Venerable" B-E-D-E |
| #5399, aired 2008-02-14 | A MILITARY CAREER $2000: As a JAG, you'd better know all about the Uniform Code of Military this, part of U.S. Code Title 10 Justice |
| #5395, aired 2008-02-08 | MILITARY AIRCRAFT $1200: McDonnell's F-4 fighter used in the United States in the Vietnam War was known as this... oops... hey, where'd it go? the Phantom |
| #5392, aired 2008-02-05 | "TOO" MUCH $800: As seen here, seaplanes have these, or they'd be at the bottom of the sea pontoons |
| #5376, aired 2008-01-14 | AMPHIBIOUS INVASIONS $400: The 5-beach attack in this momentous operation was known as the Montgomery Plan D-Day (Normandy) |
| #5369, aired 2008-01-03 | WASHINGTON, D.C. $800: World famous as "the president's guesthouse", it's actually 4 interconnected townhouses with 110 rooms Blair House |
| #5361, aired 2007-12-24 | HERSHEY'S $800: (Jon of the Clue Crew holds some chocolate at the Hershey's Museum in Hershey, PA.) As well as the K type, World War II G.I.s got Hershey's D type of this; in 1945 the company was producing 24 million a week rations |
| #5355, aired 2007-12-14 | LET'S LEARN HEBREW $400: (Jon of the Clue Crew shows a Hebrew word on a monitor.) Hebrew is based on 3-letter roots; the equivalent of "S", "D", "R" gives us "sidrah", a Torah reading, "siddur", a prayer book, & this word for a special meal seder |
| #5346, aired 2007-12-03 | SCI. ABBREV. $1200: As opposed to an M.D., a D.O. is a doctor of this holistic practice osteopathy |
| #5343, aired 2007-11-28 | COMPUTER HISTORY $800: 1995 brought us the file format known as VRML, which enables 3-D graphics for the web; "VR" stands for this virtual reality |
| #5327, aired 2007-11-06 | BROADWAY MUSICALS $1600: Donna McKechnie kicked up her heels as Cassie in this show in 1975; Charlotte d'Amboise recently played the part A Chorus Line |
| #5318, aired 2007-10-24 | TV NOSTALGIA $1000: The 1973 TV season gave us Richard Roundtree as this supercool private eye he'd played on film (John) Shaft |
| #5312, aired 2007-10-16 | THE 1930s $1,500 (Daily Double): Melvin Purvis gained fame (more than Hoover liked) as head of the FBI's office in this city Chicago |
| #5285, aired 2007-07-27 | COMING AT YOU IN 3-D $1600: Impelled or prompted, as if by getting poked prodded |
| #5274, aired 2007-07-12 | THE FABULOUS FIFTIES $2000: "Fate"fully, Alexander Borodin won a 1954 Tony as composer of this musical-- even though he'd died in 1887! Kismet |
| #5253, aired 2007-06-13 | OTHER DOCTOR McDREAMYs $600: I'd like to see more of this frontier doc known to her patients as "Dr. Mike" Dr. Quinn |
| #5249, aired 2007-06-07 | YOU GET A "D" $800: 6-letter word meaning to expose as being false or ridiculous, like certain wacky theories debunk |
| #5246, aired 2007-06-04 | HIDDEN CITIES $2,200 (Daily Double): Help a soldier find this Texas city as fast as possible El Paso (Help a soldier) |
| #5242, aired 2007-05-29 | IF I RAN THE ZOO... $2000: I'd have a band of just animals as my mates; singing lead, bonobo, called a pygmy one of these primates a chimpanzee |
| #5241, aired 2007-05-28 | D.C. COMICS $2,200 (Daily Double): A T-shirt promoting these 2 fake news stars as 2008 running mates promised "truthiness and justice for all" Jon Stewart & Stephen Colbert |
| #5230, aired 2007-05-11 | "D" IN SCIENCE $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a micrograph of an organism with radial symmetry on the monitor.) A grungy type of earth used as industrial filler is named for these beautiful symmetrical algae from which it's made diatoms |
| #5212, aired 2007-04-17 | 13-LETTER WORDS $800: If you weighed up to 126 pounds, you'd be as light as this class of boxer featherweight |
| #5199, aired 2007-03-29 | STORIED HOTELS $1200: The Hotel du Cap on Cap d'Antibes was immortalized as the Hotel des Etrangers in his novel "Tender is the Night" (F. Scott) Fitzgerald |
| #5195, aired 2007-03-23 | "D" FACTO $400: It's the cone-shaped hat that a lazy or slow pupil once wore as punishment a dunce cap |
| #5194, aired 2007-03-22 | "EX"ODUS $400: As you'd expect, King Arthur wields this magical weapon in "Spamalot" Excalibur |
| #5181, aired 2007-03-05 | POP GOES THE CULTURE $400: Some wondered if she'd be known as "J.Ant." after a surprise marriage, her third, to singer Marc Anthony Jennifer Lopez |
| #5171, aired 2007-02-19 | AROUND WASHINGTON, D.C. $2,500 (Daily Double): It was once known as "Presidents Park" but perhaps this name for it looks better on a "Marquis" Lafayette Park |
| #5157, aired 2007-01-30 | YOU GET A "D" $600: As determined by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, this "clock" has ranged from 11:43 to 11:58 the Doomsday Clock |
| #5157, aired 2007-01-30 | YOU GET A "D" $800: A line drawing used as an illustration a diagram |
| #5157, aired 2007-01-30 | YOU GET A "D" $1000: (I'm Soledad O'Brien of CNN.) As an African-Cuban-Irish-Australian-American, I've spoken about the importance in our newsrooms & in our society of this, from the Latin for "contrariety" diversity |
| #5125, aired 2006-12-15 | OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE $400: The great-great grandson of Augustus, he started fiddling around as Roman Emperor at age 16 in 54 A.D. Nero |
| #5112, aired 2006-11-28 | GILT COMPLEX $800: This Venetian basilica is known as the "Chiesa d'Oro" St. Mark's |
| #5099, aired 2006-11-09 | SAVANTS $1000: One of you will look like a savant when you I.D. this ancient Greek who used Socrates as a spokesman in his "Republic" Plato |
| #5096, aired 2006-11-06 | MISTER ROBERTs $2000: In 2005, at age 86, he was elected to his ninth term as Manhattan D.A. Robert Morgenthau |
| #5090, aired 2006-10-27 | NEARER MY "COD" TO THEE $3,400 (Daily Double): Rich in vitamins A & D, this notoriously bad-tasting substance is often used as a food supplement cod-liver oil |
| #5078, aired 2006-10-11 | BOGIE & BACALL SPEAK! $1600: When Bogie as Philip Marlowe kisses Bacall in this film, she says, "I like that. I'd like more" The Big Sleep |
| #5075, aired 2006-10-06 | INVENTORS & INVENTIONS $2,000 (Daily Double): In 1938 chemist Roy Plunkett invented polytetrafluorethylene, a nonstick substance better known as this Teflon |
| #5058, aired 2006-09-13 | OFF COURSE, OFF COURSE $400: On Oct. 12, 1492 he thought he'd reached Asia; in fact, the closest he ever got was an Aegean island as a young man Christopher Columbus |
| #5054, aired 2006-07-27 | GRAVEYARD SHIFT $400: The finger of this man (d. 1642) was snipped off as his remains were moved & is now at Museo di Storia della Scienzia Galileo |
| #5051, aired 2006-07-24 | "FREE" ENTERPRISE $800: Robert Frost said, "I'd as soon write" this type of poetry "as play tennis with the net down" free verse |
| #5051, aired 2006-07-24 | "D" IN SCIENCE $1200: The mountain ash & honey locust trees share this quality, as becomes evident in autumn deciduous |
| #5040, aired 2006-07-07 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $200: In a classic book, d'Artagnan hopes to serve as a guard to King Louis XIII & is befriended by this title group The Three Musketeers |
| #5022, aired 2006-06-13 | M.D. TV $1200: The surgeon seen here is as primitive as can be on this ABC show Lost |
| #5022, aired 2006-06-13 | M.D. TV $2000: It was Rob Petrie & Chachi as crime-solving sawbones on this long-running CBS hit Diagnosis Murder |
| #5010, aired 2006-05-26 | "D" MEN $400: This Yankee great was variously known as "Mr. Marilyn Monroe" & "Mr. Coffee" DiMaggio |
| #5010, aired 2006-05-26 | "D" MEN $2000: This South African president who freed Nelson Mandela in 1990 later served as one of his vice presidents De Klerk |
| #5000, aired 2006-05-12 | HISTORICAL TEXT MESSAGING $800: 1981:
am canada's pm. dont no zonker r b.d. u kp txtng me abt. pls stp Pierre Trudeau |
| #4988, aired 2006-04-26 | A "D" IN HISTORY $400: James Oglethorpe founded Georgia in 1733 as a haven for people in trouble for this back in Britain debt |
| #4988, aired 2006-04-26 | A "D" IN HISTORY $600: In 1868 & again in 1880, he was succeeded as British Prime Minister by William Gladstone Disraeli |
| #4988, aired 2006-04-26 | "H.D." TV $1600: On the Disney Channel, she turned heads as the multi-talented & often animated Lizzie McGuire Hilary Duff |
| #4984, aired 2006-04-20 | HERALDIC BEASTS $800: As you'd expect, this animal appears on the coat of arms of the Ivory Coast an elephant |
| #4982, aired 2006-04-18 | SHRIMPING $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew handles a net on a shrimp boat in Savannah, GA.) An excluder device called a T.E.D. helps this animal, such as the loggerhead, from getting caught in the net a turtle |
| #4959, aired 2006-03-16 | COMEDY OF ERRORS $600: Appropriately, it's this comedy in which Groucho as Prof. Wagstaff says, "I'd horsewhip you--if I had a horse" Horse Feathers |
| #4956, aired 2006-03-13 | WALK THE LINE $2000: As a noun, these can be jumps, or limits you'd best not overstep bounds |
| #4931, aired 2006-02-06 | THE CIVIL WAR $200: His first act after being sworn in as president of the Confederacy was to send a peace commission to Washington, D.C. Jefferson Davis |
| #4930, aired 2006-02-03 | "D" DAY $800: It's defined as removing oneself from a vessel such as the QE2 debarking (or disembarking) |
| #4927, aired 2006-01-31 | I NEED AN M.D.! $400: He was Bourne again in 2004, when he returned as Jason Bourne in "The Bourne Supremacy" Matt Damon |
| #4924, aired 2006-01-26 | GRADUATE SCHOOL $800: As in a courtroom a final oral exam on a Ph.D. dissertation is usually called this a defense |
| #4900, aired 2005-12-23 | BE B.C. $800: This physician was referred to as the Asclepiad of Cos--I'd swear an oath on it Hippocrates |
| #4897, aired 2005-12-20 | NATIONAL ANTHEMS $100 (Daily Double): "Salut, o terre d'esperance" begins "L'Abidjanaise", the anthem of this nation Ivory Coast |
| #4891, aired 2005-12-12 | GETTING HUNGARY? $600: When it was known as Pannonia, Hungary was incorporated into this empire around 14 A.D. the Roman Empire |
| #4886, aired 2005-12-05 | SCRABBLE 50-POINT BONUSES $1200: 2 As, R, B, S, D, N:
An underwater ridge in a river sandbar |
| #4882, aired 2005-11-29 | THE FAMOUS MR. TED $2,000 (Daily Double): Dr. Seuss, good old Ted, with his books gave sheer bliss; though he'd write as LeSieg, his last name was this Geisel |
| #4870, aired 2005-11-11 | RALEIGH PEOPLE $1600: Thomas Dixon, a minister in Raleigh, penned "The Clansman"; this director filmed it as "The Birth of a Nation" D.W. Griffith |
| #4869, aired 2005-11-10 | SUPREME COURT REJECTS $800: When John Jay quit, John Rutledge failed to win confirmation as Chief Justice for this president George Washington |
| #4863, aired 2005-11-02 | TV D.O.A. $800: Though previously killed & buried in a big funeral, this show's Bobby returned in 1986, clean as a whistle Dallas |
| #4848, aired 2005-10-12 | THE PRE-PSAT $600: Paintbrush: artist as
A) writer: pen
B) lawsuit: duck
C) saw: carpenter
D) stethoscope: supermodel saw: carpenter |
| #4848, aired 2005-10-12 | SPELLING $800: Protect yourself as you spell... G-U-A-R-D-I-A-N |
| #4848, aired 2005-10-12 | THE PRE-PSAT $800: Ounce: gallon as
A) water: wine
B) light: dark
C) book: chapter
D) inch: yard inch: yard |
| #4839, aired 2005-09-29 | KINSEY $400: Caused by a deficiency of vitamin D, this bone-softening disease curved Dr. Kinsey's spine as a child rickets |
| #4833, aired 2005-09-21 | ATTORNEYS GENERAL $600: This man appointed Harry Daugherty, who'd helped him become lt. gov. of Ohio & a U.S. senator as well as president Warren G. Harding |
| #4825, aired 2005-07-22 | HERO SANDWICH $600: The parents of this mythological hero were told he'd live to a ripe old age as long as he never looked at himself Narcissus |
| #4823, aired 2005-07-20 | WASHINGTON, D.C. $1200: (Hi, I'm Ari Fliescher.) In the White House large events like dances & weddings are held in this room, designed as a "public audience room" the East Room |
| #4818, aired 2005-07-13 | IN THE BOOKSTORE $2000: Every 4 minutes in the U.S. someone buys a book by this woman who also writes as J.D. Robb Nora Roberts |
| #4805, aired 2005-06-24 | SONG SUNG "BLUE" $400: A 1979 Neil Diamond hit says, "Long as I can have you here with me, I'd much rather be" this, the song's title "Forever In Blue Jeans" |
| #4784, aired 2005-05-26 | BRITISH AUTHORS $800: He explained the genesis of his masterpiece in the following passage
"It was on the 15th of October, 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the capital, that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind." Edward Gibbon |
| #4779, aired 2005-05-19 | FRISKY PRESIDENTS $200: Some scholars believe he initially called off his marriage, as he'd fallen in love with a friend of the Todds Lincoln |
| #4762, aired 2005-04-26 | HAIKU D'ETAT $1600: The chickadee sings /
As he did for Frontenac /
I will name him Gord Canada |
| #4739, aired 2005-03-24 | CRUISIN' THE CARIBBEAN $400: As you'd expect, it was the first company to launch a fleet exclusively in the Caribbean Royal Caribbean |
| #4732, aired 2005-03-15 | THE PERSONALS $600: 450 A.D.:
"Scourge of God" demands sister of emperor of West Roman Empire as bride--now! Attila the Hun |
| #4720, aired 2005-02-25 | DOUBLE "D"s $800: These circular currents that move against the main current occur in wind as well as water eddies |
| #4703, aired 2005-02-02 | ROYAL STORY PROBLEMS $1600: If Haakon V had 1/4 of the herrings of Olav IV who had twice as many as Harold VI who had 600, he'd have this many 300 |
| #4697, aired 2005-01-25 | AROUND THE COLOSSEUM WITH COWARDUS $600: As the Colosseum was not built until 80 A.D., this 1st Roman emperor missed Cowardus' 1st panicked sprint to safety Augustus |
| #4692, aired 2005-01-18 | BRIT LIT $1200: An early version of this D.H. Lawrence novel was published in 1972 as "John Thomas and Lady Jane" Lady Chatterley's Lover |
| #4658, aired 2004-12-01 | SPELL-BOUND FOR BROADWAY $2000: Don Quixote, the "Man of La Mancha", worships her as "Dulcinea" A-L-D-O-N-Z-A |
| #4654, aired 2004-11-25 | ASIA $6,200 (Daily Double): If you plan to walk from Beijing to Ulan Bator, take lots of water, as you'll be crossing this land region the Gobi Desert |
| #4634, aired 2004-10-28 | THAT DON'T SOUND RIGHT $1200: If Alonzo had toplined over Duncan when their power tool company started out in 1910, it'd be known as this Decker & Black |
| #4610, aired 2004-09-24 | WISH I'D SAID THAT $1200: H.L. Mencken defined Puritanism as "the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be" this happy |
| #4598, aired 2004-09-08 | SMALL TOWN FOLKS $400: As a player, this man led tiny Williston, N.D. High to the state basketball championships Phil Jackson |
| #4590, aired 2004-07-16 | THE TOWER $4,200 (Daily Double): Upon its completion in 1930, the Chrysler Building beat out this structure as the world's tallest the Eiffel Tower |
| #4589, aired 2004-07-15 | MOVIE STARS OLD & NEW $400: Seen here, he often portrayed the quintessential American hero
"I know I must look funny to you. But maybe if you went to Mandrake Falls, you'd look just as funny to us, only nobody'd laugh at you and make you feel ridiculous, 'cause that wouldn't be good manners." Gary Cooper |
| #4572, aired 2004-06-22 | A "D" IN HISTORY $400: He took office as the mayor of Chicago in 1989 (Richard) Daley |
| #4554, aired 2004-05-27 | WORLD CITIES $2,000 (Daily Double): A castle keep in this French city is known as the Tour Jeanne d'Arc Rouen |
| #4550, aired 2004-05-21 | "ANT" INFESTATION $800: B or D, as opposed to A or O a consonant |
| #4544, aired 2004-05-13 | WASHINGTON SCHLEPPED HERE $200: The location of Washington, D.C. was actually chosen by G.W., & it's a nice little commute from this estate of his Mount Vernon |
| #4542, aired 2004-05-11 | TENNIS-Y WILLIAMS $400: In 2001 the Williams sisters got "animated" on the court in the "Tennis the Menace" episode of this Fox series The Simpsons |
| #4536, aired 2004-05-03 | D.C.'IN YOU $800: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew) The White House has been known as this "Mansion", also the branch of our government that works here Executive |
| #4505, aired 2004-03-19 | DISNEY FILM VOICES $200: Tony Goldwyn was the adult voice of this title "swinger"; Alex D. Linz played him as a feral child Tarzan |
| #4502, aired 2004-03-16 | ANCIENT ROMANS $400: Pliny the Elder died at Stabiae Aug. 24, 79 A.D. as a result of breathing noxious fumes from its activity (Mount) Vesuvius |
| #4501, aired 2004-03-15 | "A.C."/"D.C." $800: As an example, jackets & ties for men in a restaurant; there's not one of these in the "Jeopardy!" office dress code |
| #4500, aired 2004-03-12 | EUROPEAN GEOGRAPHY $200: This coastal strip that has French & Italian sides is also known as the Cote D'Azur or Azure Coast the Riviera |
| #4491, aired 2004-03-01 | "D" DAY $200: Throughout their history, mannequins have also been known as these, like today's crash test mannequins dummies |
| #4484, aired 2004-02-19 | MOM SAYS... $1000: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew presents the clue.) If you have your eye on any bling bling, you'd better do your chores so you can get this, from the Latin for "to pray" allowance |
| #4471, aired 2004-02-02 | "D" COMPOSING $400: Based on a 17th century satire, this tone poem from composer Richard Strauss features a viola as Sancho Panza Don Quixote |
| #4471, aired 2004-02-02 | NOTED BLACK AMERICANS $1600: The publisher of such abolitionist papers as North Star & New National Era, he later became a marshall in D.C. Frederick Douglass |
| #4451, aired 2004-01-05 | WOULD YOU LIKE TO BE IN THE MOVIES? $200: First brought to the big screen by D.W. Griffith in 1909, this hugely popular star was once known as "Little Mary" Mary Pickford |
| #4441, aired 2003-12-22 | SINGERS ALSO KNOWN AS $1000: "If I had a hammer", I'd hammer out his full first name: it's Trinidad Trini Lopez |
| #4428, aired 2003-12-03 | KENNEDY CENTER HONORS DANCERS $400: He put on his "top hat" & flew down to D.C., not Rio, in 1978 to pick up his award, as did George Balanchine Fred Astaire |
| #4424, aired 2003-11-27 | ITALIAN AMERICANS $2,000 (Daily Double): As a D.C. district court judge, this Watergate figure was known as "Maximum John" John Sirica |
| #4374, aired 2003-09-18 | OLIVER STONE $800: This actor took direction from Oliver Stone as football coach Tony D'Amato in "Any Given Sunday" Al Pacino |
| #4364, aired 2003-07-17 | OOPS! $600: It's reported that a closed caption ID'd this Gulf War leader, commenting on Kosovo, as Gen. Schwarzenegger General Norman Schwartzkopf |
| #4360, aired 2003-07-11 | ODDS & ENDS $600: The book "Heave Ho" describes this June 1944 event as perhaps the greatest mass bout of seasickness ever D-Day |
| #4359, aired 2003-07-10 | AUTHOR-ITATIVE INFORMATION $1200: In 1913 he published his first book of poems as well as "Sons and Lovers" D.H. Lawrence |
| #4354, aired 2003-07-03 | WHERE'D YA FIND THAT? $800: A royal palace of this civilization was recently found in Guatemala as part of the ancient city of Cancuen Mayan |
| #4307, aired 2003-04-29 | HAIL TO THE CHIEF $1600: As part of his "New Deal", he took American currency off the gold standard in 1933 Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| #4282, aired 2003-03-25 | "D" TALKS $1200: This 3-word phrase was coined during the Cold War as a schoolchild's defense against a nuclear attack "Duck and Cover" |
| #4279, aired 2003-03-20 | CONFIRMATION CODE IS RLKTD $1000: D as in this word for a quilt that in French means a bird's plumage duvet |
| #4277, aired 2003-03-18 | RENAISSANCE MEN $2000: In "The Prince", Machiavelli used him as the model for the ruthless ruler who'd do anything to retain power Cesare Borgia |
| #4271, aired 2003-03-10 | HALLS OF FAME $400: As you'd expect, Annie Oakley & Dale Evans are honorees at this national hall of fame in Fort Worth, Texas Cowgirl Hall of Fame |
| #4264, aired 2003-02-27 | THE ARMED FORCES $800: On Memorial Day 2001, a wreath was laid at this war's D.C. memorial as a 50th anniversary commemoration Korean War |
| #4237, aired 2003-01-21 | "D" TIME $1000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew in Amsterdam) In the early 1600s, one tulip bulb could pay for a house or be given by a bride's family as this dowry |
| #4230, aired 2003-01-10 | AROUND THE WORLD $1000: This Iraqi capital was founded on the western bank of the Tigris River in 762 A.D. by the Abbasid Caliph Al-Mansur Baghdad |
| #4211, aired 2002-12-16 | HISTORY 101 $1200: Joseph ben Matthias, who died around 101 A.D., was better known as a historian under this Latinized name Josephus |
| #4178, aired 2002-10-30 | ON THEIR TOMBSTONES $400: "1880 - 1946", not "On the whole, I'd rather be in Philadelphia" as rumored W.C. Fields |
| #4173, aired 2002-10-23 | THE BEAUTIFUL SOUTH $1200: (Hi, I'm Harry Connick Jr.) At age 5 I played "The Star-Spangled Banner" at my dad's inauguration as D.A. of this "Crescent City", my hometown New Orleans |
| #4171, aired 2002-10-21 | UNBREAKABLE $200: In the 2000 campaign, Al Gore insisted that as president he'd keep Medicare in one of these lock box |
| #4154, aired 2002-09-26 | MULTIPLE CHOICE $1200: 6' 7" NFL linebacker Ted Hendricks was known as
A. "The Mad Crow"
B. "The Mad Heron"
C. "The Mad Stork"
D. "The Mad Cow" C. "The Mad Stork" |
| #4110, aired 2002-06-14 | SCUBA DOOBY DOO $600: Around 100 A.D., hollow reeds may have been used as the first of these short breathing tubes snorkels |
| #4106, aired 2002-06-10 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES $2000: (Sofia of the Clue Crew reports from Washington, D.C.) In "The Exorcist", Jason Miller as this priest falls down the steps here, now known as "The Exorcist Steps" Father Damien Karras |
| #4105, aired 2002-06-07 | MAN "D" $200: He gave up a career as a military engineer to write novels like "The Brothers Karamazov" Dostoyevsky |
| #4105, aired 2002-06-07 | MAN "D" $1000: As a runaway slave, Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey changed his name to this to avoid capture Douglass |
| #4084, aired 2002-05-09 | CHEMISTRY $400: As you'd expect, radon gas is collected out of the radioactive decay of this element, symbol Ra radium |
| #4062, aired 2002-04-09 | WHAT A COUNTRY! $1200: Of Belgium, France or Spain. the nation on the same line of latitude as Washington. D.C. Spain |
| #4058, aired 2002-04-03 | THIS IS SPAIN $200: As you'd expect, it was this city's surrender on March 28, 1939 that ended the Spanish Civil War Madrid |
| #4051, aired 2002-03-25 | MUSICOLOGY $800: On a piano keyboard C sharp is the same note as D this flat |
| #4041, aired 2002-03-11 | OBJETS D'ART $5,000 (Daily Double): The item held by Oscar winners is usually referred to as this diminutive word a statuette |
| #4028, aired 2002-02-20 | THEY HAVE A UNION $200: As you can guess, the American Federation of Government Employees is based in this city Washington, D.C. |
| #4005, aired 2002-01-18 | SIN "D" $800: It can mean to diabolically possess someone, or to represent him as evil or diabolical demonize |
| #4005, aired 2002-01-18 | SIN "D" $1600: Slobodan Milosevic is often described as this, meaning a leader who appeals to emotion & prejudice demagogue |
| #4003, aired 2002-01-16 | CORRECTION! $1,000 (Daily Double): As we'd hope, this publication, the CJR, scrupulously corrects its own errors, like misspelling Dian Fossey Columbia Journalism Review |
| #3983, aired 2001-12-19 | DICTATORS & TYRANTS $200: Reigning from 54 to 68 A.D., he rivals only Caligula as Rome's most infamous emperor Nero |
| #3971, aired 2001-12-03 | D.C. $600: It was in L'Enfant's original plan to name the diagonal avenues for states with this avenue as the major one Pennsylvania Avenue |
| #3952, aired 2001-11-06 | KISSED THE GIRLS $1000: 1968 film in which Charlton Heston as Taylor tells Kim Hunter, "Doctor, I'd like to kiss you goodbye" Planet Of The Apes |
| #3929, aired 2001-10-04 | MORE OF "DE" BEST PEOPLE $1,000 (Daily Double): In 1537 he was told that to keep his job as governor of Cuba and Florida, he'd have to conquer & colonize Florida Hernando de Soto |
| #3907, aired 2001-09-04 | INITIALS M.D. $200: He won an Oscar as co-writer of "Good Will Hunting" Matt Damon |
| #3904, aired 2001-07-19 | PRESIDENTIAL FACTS $600: Later president, in 1920 he lost as a U.S. vice presidential candidate Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| #3898, aired 2001-07-11 | MEDIEVAL MUSIC $600: Guido d'Arezzo established the series of lines now called this as the basis of musical notation the staff |
| #3883, aired 2001-06-20 | FRANKS $100: He died just 83 days after starting his fourth term as president Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| #3882, aired 2001-06-19 | TRAVEL FUN $500: A snowman known as Bonhomme is the symbol of Le Carnaval d'Hiver, the winter carnival in this Canadian city Quebec City |
| #3877, aired 2001-06-12 | THE FRENCH KING, C'EST MOI $800: At his death in 1715, he'd served 72 years as French king, longer than any monarch in European history Louis XIV |
| #3856, aired 2001-05-14 | IF THEY MARRIED... $600: If the corn-rowed star of "10" married English diarist Samuel, she'd make an entry as... Bo Pepys |
| #3844, aired 2001-04-26 | PRESIDENTS $100: As a child, he was known as "Little Ike"; he later dropped the "Little" Dwight D. Eisenhower |
| #3832, aired 2001-04-10 | LA LA $400: George Hearn won a 1984 Tony for his role as Albin opposite Gene Barry's Georges in this Broadway musical La Cage Aux Folles |
| #3819, aired 2001-03-22 | PEOPLE WITH PEANUTS NAMES $400: His blankets were very holy as Pope in 67 A.D. Linus |
| #3809, aired 2001-03-08 | SYRUPTITIOUS $100: You'd be "as slow as" this syrup too if you were made from cane sugar Molasses |
| #3808, aired 2001-03-07 | CANNES $200: Also known as the Cote D'Azur, it's the coastal strip where you'll find Cannes French Riviera |
| #3780, aired 2001-01-26 | THE WAR OF 1812 $1000: The British burned Washington, D.C. as revenge for the American burning of York, Canada, now this city Toronto |
| #3776, aired 2001-01-22 | WISH I'D SEEN THAT MUSICAL! $400: "Her First Roman" starred Richard Kiley as Julius Caesar & Leslie Uggams as this captivating queen Cleopatra |
| #3776, aired 2001-01-22 | WISH I'D SEEN THAT MUSICAL! $500 (Daily Double): Saints alive! Ann Reinking starred as this saint in "Goodtime Charley", opposite Joel Grey as the Dauphin Saint Joan of Arc |
| #3768, aired 2001-01-10 | "OLD" ENGLAND $400: Dates in England before 1752 are described as this if they are left in the Julian calendar Old style |
| #3761, aired 2001-01-01 | 1802 $500: Napoleon established this "Legion" as an Order of Merit in 1802 Legion of Honor (Legion d'honneur) |
| #3755, aired 2000-12-22 | SPELL IT: -ABLE OR -IBLE? $300: Impossible to remove or erase, such as a style of ink I-N-D-E-L-I-B-L-E |
| #3755, aired 2000-12-22 | SPELL IT: -ABLE OR -IBLE? $500: In football it's a substitute offensive play called by the quarterback as an adjustment to a defense A-U-D-I-B-L-E |
| #3736, aired 2000-11-27 | MTM $1000: (Hi, I'm Tyler Christopher of "General Hospital") In 1984 as D.L. Brock he married Bobbie on "G.H.", in 1974 as Joe Gerard he married Rhoda on "Rhoda" David Groh |
| #3728, aired 2000-11-15 | THEY ATTENDED UW $1000: He represented Washington in the House for 30 years, including 1989-1995 as speaker Tom Foley |
| #3707, aired 2000-10-17 | HISTORIC HEROES $600: As leaders of these Germanic people, you'd expect Alaric & Theodoric to wear black & listen to depressing music the Goths |
| #3686, aired 2000-09-18 | FORD $100: John Ford, then billed as Jack Ford, was a Klansman in this 1915 D.W. Griffith epic Birth of A Nation |
| #3680, aired 2000-09-08 | HISTORIC AMERICANS $200: As First Lady, she hosted several state functions in New York & Philadelphia, but not in D.C. Martha Washington |
| #3674, aired 2000-07-20 | 3-D $600: This arachnid is also known as a harvestman daddy long legs |
| #3650, aired 2000-06-16 | LITERARY TRILOGIES $300: Evelyn Waugh set his "Sword of Honour" trilogy during this war in which he'd served as a commando World War II |
| #3620, aired 2000-05-05 | THE ART OF MOZART $200: Mozart played his Piano Concerto in D at the coronation of Leopold II as this emperor Holy Roman Emperor |
| #3618, aired 2000-05-03 | WONDERERS OF THE WORLD $800: Francois Villon's line "Ou sont les neiges d'antan?" translates as "Where are" these "of yesteryear?" The snows |
| #3611, aired 2000-04-24 | LEGAL BRIEFS $400: Not the P.D. that arrests people, but the P.D. who may act as their counsel Public Defender |
| #3608, aired 2000-04-19 | PRO BASKETBALL $500: As you'd expect from a 10-time scoring champion, Michael Jordan was primarily this type of guard Shooting guard |
| #3577, aired 2000-03-07 | SPORTS STARS $1000: She's added a spark to the WNBA as the center for the L.A. Sparks & as an all-star MVP Lisa Leslie |
| #3573, aired 2000-03-01 | WORLD WAR II $600: In November 1943, Roosevelt, Churchill & Stalin met in Tehran, where they agreed on him as supreme Allied commander Dwight D. Eisenhower |
| #3546, aired 2000-01-24 | BROADWAY $1000: It was a red-letter day in 1997 when Douglas Sills debuted as the hero of this French Revolution musical "The Scarlet Pimpernel" |
| #3542, aired 2000-01-18 | PSYCH 102 $400: A concept created by Freud, it's the source of the aggressive drive, as well as the sexual drive Libido |
| #3540, aired 2000-01-14 | SHAKESPEAREAN ACTORS $300: We'd like to see the 1953 TV production of "Othello" -- it featured Walter Matthau as this villain Iago |
| #3525, aired 1999-12-24 | HANDEL'S MESSIAH $200: As you'd expect from a religious work, this is the final word sung in the oratorio Amen |
| #3520, aired 1999-12-17 | A PIRATE'S LIFE FOR ME $200: Around 405 A.D. this future patron saint was captured by pirates & sold as a slave in Ireland Saint Patrick |
| #3517, aired 1999-12-14 | BETTER KNOWN AS... $100: WWII radio propagandist Iva D'Aquino "Tokyo Rose" |
| #3517, aired 1999-12-14 | FURNITURE $1000: He designed furniture for Federal Hall in New York as well as the basic layout of Washington, D.C. Pierre L'Enfant |
| #3492, aired 1999-11-09 | THE "REAL" WORLD $100: A simulated 3-D environment that a user can experience & manipulate as if it were physical virtual reality |
| #3450, aired 1999-09-10 | OPPOSITES $600: This ocean liner & movie wouldn't have been as famous if they'd been called "Diminutive" Titanic |
| #3438, aired 1999-07-14 | QUOTATIONS $800: This Spaniard's mom said if he were a monk, he'd wind up pope; he said, "Instead, I became a painter & wound up as (me)" Pablo Picasso |
| #3432, aired 1999-07-06 | MEG RYAN MOVIES $1000: Meg lettered in 2 films, 1988's "D.O.A" & this 1994 film featuring Walter Matthau as Albert Einstein I.Q. |
| #3427, aired 1999-06-29 | COUNTRY TWOSOMES $300: In 1987 this legendary singer did a remake of his hit "Crying" as a duet with k.d. lang Roy Orbison |
| #3412, aired 1999-06-08 | IT'S A "SMALL" WORLD $200: This federal loan-assistance agency located in Washington, D.C. is known as the SBA for short the Small Business Administration |
| #3404, aired 1999-05-27 | NUTRITION $200: This "sunshine vitamin" is unique in that it functions not only as a vitamin but also as a hormone vitamin D |
| #3404, aired 1999-05-27 | AMERICANA $500: It was incorporated as a city May 3, 1802 with its mayor to be appointed by the president Washington, D.C. |
| #3340, aired 1999-02-26 | POP IN '98 $600: Nick, Brian, Kevin, A. J. & Howie D. "hit the road" as this group The Backstreet Boys |
| #3338, aired 1999-02-24 | THE DREADED SPELLING CATEGORY $200: Don't be conservative as you spell... F-U-N-D-A-M-E-N-T-A-L-I-S-M |
| #3338, aired 1999-02-24 | THE DREADED SPELLING CATEGORY $400: We'll think of you as lustrous, colorful & brilliant when you spell... I-R-I-D-E-S-C-E-N-T |
| #3337, aired 1999-02-23 | FAMOUS EX-TEENAGERS $300: At age 16, this current NBC anchorman had an after-school job as a radio announcer in Yankton, S.D. Tom Brokaw |
| #3321, aired 1999-02-01 | BIG RIVER $1,000 (Daily Double): As Germany has the Rhineland, you'd expect this country to have the "Po-Land" Italy |
| #3312, aired 1999-01-19 | TV SHOW LOCALES $800 (Daily Double): (Hi, I'm Candice Bergen.) As Murphy Brown I anchored the newsmagazine "FYI" based in this city Washington, D.C. |
| #3310, aired 1999-01-15 | PRESIDENTIAL TRIVIA $100: He graduated from West Point in 1915 as a second lieutenant; in 1945 he was chief of staff of the U.S. Army Dwight D. Eisenhower |
| #3300, aired 1999-01-01 | WHOOZIT? $800: On Nov. 4, 1998 the voters of Minnesota woke up to discover they'd elected this wrestler as governor Jesse "The Body" Ventura |
| #3291, aired 1998-12-21 | NOEL $400: As a teenager, Noel appeared in this "Birth of a Nation" director's silent film "Hearts of the World" in 1918 D.W. Griffith |
| #3279, aired 1998-12-03 | THE OCEAN BLUE $500: As you'd expect, they're the 2 most abundant chemical elements in the dissolved solids found in seawater Sodium & chlorine |
| #3269, aired 1998-11-19 | THEY USED TO BE TEENAGERS $800: Seen here as a youth, this son of a senator was captain of the football team at St. Alban's in Washington, D.C. Al Gore |
| #3255, aired 1998-10-30 | PIANO KEYS $800: They're adjacent on the keyboard as well as in an abbreviation for a popular format of recorded music C & D |
| #3252, aired 1998-10-27 | SACRED SITES $1000: Seen here, this sacred site began as a Christian church in A.D. 537, was later a mosque & is now a museum the Hagia Sophia |
| #3245, aired 1998-10-16 | NAME THAT COUNTRY $300: It's about the same size as Washington, D.C.; it's a principality; it's next to Switzerland Liechtenstein |
| #3237, aired 1998-10-06 | FOR YOUR EYES ONLY $100: As you'd expect, it's the term for bifocals modified with an additional lens for intermediate distance Trifocals |
| #3205, aired 1998-07-03 | SPELLING $200: This reptile is known as a croc for short C-R-O-C-O-D-I-L-E |
| #3197, aired 1998-06-23 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $400: In 1937 the government set aside this Georgia swamp as a national wildlife refuge Okefenokee Swamp |
| #3176, aired 1998-05-25 | SPENCERS FOR HIRE $200: As sec'y of this D.C. institution, Spencer Baird began the collection housed in its museums Smithsonian |
| #1, aired 1998-05-03 | LITERARY LANDMARKS $200: This "Call of the Wild" author had some wild times at Heinold's First & Last Chance Saloon in Oakland Jack London |
| #3148, aired 1998-04-15 | HOW DULL! $1000: His "Our Mutual Friend" says, "He'd be sharper than a serpent's tooth, if he wasn't as dull as ditch water" Charles Dickens |
| #3113, aired 1998-02-25 | WHAT'CHA GOT COOKIN'? $400: I'm sauteeing this organ meat in butter & lemon juice, as you'd know, if you had any brains |
| #3101, aired 1998-02-09 | MEDIEVAL BESTSELLERS $800: As he wrote much of "Le Morte d'Arthur" in prison, that would make it a best cell-er Sir Thomas Malory |
| #3093, aired 1998-01-28 | AUTHORS' ODD JOBS $200: If his "Time Machine" took you back to the 1880s, you'd find him working as an apprentice draper H.G. Wells |
| #3086, aired 1998-01-19 | JANUARY 1948 $500: He was nominated to succeed Eisenhower as Army Chief of Staff Omar Bradley |
| #3081, aired 1998-01-12 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $400: Known as D&B, this corporation markets Moody's bond ratings & Nielsen's TV ratings Dun & Bradstreet |
| #3080, aired 1998-01-09 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS $400: D.H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley plays around with a playwright as well as this gamekeeper Oliver Mellors |
| #3064, aired 1997-12-18 | FASHION DESIGNERS $1000: Isaac Mizrahi appeared as himself on the May 6, 1997 3-D episode of this Michael J. Fox sitcom Spin City |
| #3061, aired 1997-12-15 | FORMULAS $500: The Chinese did a bang-up job in discovering its formula as 75% saltpeter, 15% charcoal & 10% sulfur Gunpowder |
| #3059, aired 1997-12-11 | ACTRESSES $400: Wynonna's younger sister, she's appeared in such films as "Ruby in Paradise", "A Time to Kill" & "Kiss the Girls" Ashley Judd |
| #3058, aired 1997-12-10 | LET'S PLAY CLUE $500: In the U.S. version, the game of Clue starts when this man is found dead in his mansion Mr. Boddy |
| #3057, aired 1997-12-09 | & THOU BESIDE ME SINGING $500: If this folk trio went by their last names, they'd be known as Yarrow, Stookey & Travers Peter, Paul and Mary |
| #3041, aired 1997-11-17 | POWER PLAYS $1000: As a character in "Annie", this president sings "A New Deal for Christmas" with Daddy Warbucks Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| #3039, aired 1997-11-13 | PRESIDENTIAL FIRSTS $300: He was the first president to preside over 49 states, as well as 50 Dwight D. Eisenhower |
| #3037, aired 1997-11-11 | TV THAT'S NOT AS GOOD FOR YOU $1000: C.D. Parker, a former Texas Ranger, owns a saloon frequented by this title character Walker, Texas Ranger |
| #3033, aired 1997-11-05 | SODA POP QUIZ $500: Pharmaceutical company G.D. Searle developed the soda sweetener Aspartame, marketed as this NutraSweet |
| #3029, aired 1997-10-30 | BRIT LIT $600: He wrote his semi-autobiographical novel "Sons and Lovers" in part as a tribute to his mother D.H. Lawrence |
| #3019, aired 1997-10-16 | SCIENCE $200: The sun is 333,000 times as massive as the Earth & 1,047 times as massive as this planet Jupiter |
| #3019, aired 1997-10-16 | BEAUTY $500: Advertised in face creams as well as beach products, SPF stands for this Sun Protection Factor |
| #2997, aired 1997-09-16 | FAMOUS MOUNTS $500: White Surrey was the favorite horse of this king once quoted as saying he'd trade his kingdom for one Richard III |
| #2990, aired 1997-09-05 | BORN IN THE '60s $100: NYC minister Joseph Simmons is better known as "Run" of this rap group Run-D.M.C. |
| #2986, aired 1997-09-01 | THINGS I WISH I'D SAID $400: John Buchan defined this kind of skeptic as "a man who has no invisible means of support" an atheist |
| #2986, aired 1997-09-01 | THINGS I WISH I'D SAID $500: P.G. Wodehouse defined it as the "only one real cure for grey hair. It was invented by a Frenchman" the guillotine |
| #2969, aired 1997-06-26 | THE MOVIES $200: In this 1992 Susan Sarandon film, olive oil was used as a treatment for A.L.D., a rare nerve disease "Lorenzo's Oil" |
| #2963, aired 1997-06-18 | PROHIBITION $300: As the 1932 Democratic candidate for president, he promised to end prohibition Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| #2961, aired 1997-06-16 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS $800: Kidnapped as a child, this R.D. Blackmore title heroine grew up to be quite a cookie Lorna Doone |
| #2954, aired 1997-06-05 | SOUTHERN HISTORY $500: This New Orleans D.A. unsuccessfully prosecuted Clay Shaw as a JFK assassination conspirator Jim Garrison |
| #2927, aired 1997-04-29 | NEWS MEDIA $1000: This D.C. newspaper was founded in 1877 as a voice of the Democratic Party The Washington Post |
| #2918, aired 1997-04-16 | LITERATURE $200: In this novel, d'Artagnan, a native of Gascony, is described as "Don Quixote at 18" The Three Musketeers |
| #2880, aired 1997-02-21 | TRAVEL & TOURISM $200: This Washington D.C. theater has been restored to appear as it did on the night of April 14, 1865 Ford's Theater |
| #2877, aired 1997-02-18 | ANCIENT ROME $1000: Lucius Aelius Sejanus served as prefect in these imperial guards from 14 to 31 A.D. Praetorian Guard |
| #2875, aired 1997-02-14 | SITCOM NEIGHBORS $300: In 1996 Olivia d' Abo moved into the same building as Jonathan Silverman on this series "The Single Guy" |
| #2866, aired 1997-02-03 | DISNEY WORLD AT 25 $500: He reprises his role as Prof. Wayne Szalinski in the 3-D Epcot film "Honey, I Shrunk the Audience" Rick Moranis |
| #2851, aired 1997-01-13 | 1996 $800: His 2-week sabbatical as mayor of Washington, D.C. made headlines Marion Barry |
| #2847, aired 1997-01-07 | TENNIS $600: The International Lawn Tennis Challenge trophy is better known as this, for the man who established it The Davis Cup |
| #2838, aired 1996-12-25 | RELIGION $400: Around 67 A.D. St. Linus succeeded this man as Pope Peter |
| #2809, aired 1996-11-14 | SCHOOLS $300: At this Washington, D.C. college, Bill Clinton served as class president in his freshman & sophomore years Georgetown |
| #2800, aired 1996-11-01 | U.S. RIVERS $400: Large ships can travel up this river as far as Washington, D.C. the Potomac |
| #2776, aired 1996-09-30 | CANNES PALME D'OR WINNERS $800: The colorized version of this 1949 film starring Orson Welles should use "Lime" green -- Harry Lime The Third Man |
| #2771, aired 1996-09-23 | LIBRARIES $800: While known for its Shakespeare collection, this D.C. library is rich in other Renaissance works as well the Folger |
| #2753, aired 1996-07-17 | PRIME MINISTERS $100: This current French president served as prime minister under both Giscard d'Estaing & Mitterrand Jacques Chirac |
| #2732, aired 1996-06-18 | U.S. HISTORY $1000: This man who began as a clerk in a Cleveland commission house formed his first trust by 1882 John D. Rockefeller |
| #2731, aired 1996-06-17 | COOKING $200: Joy of Cooking suggests serving slices of this guacamole ingredient with chutney as an hors d'oeuvre avocado |
| #2680, aired 1996-04-05 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $100: This state has a Custer County as well as one named Big Horn Montana |
| #2677, aired 1996-04-02 | 17TH CENTURY AMERICA $400: In 1607 Edward M. Wingfield was ousted as president of the Virginia colony at this site Jamestown |
| #2674, aired 1996-03-28 | PRESIDENTIAL TRIVIA $600: He served as president during the 73rd-79th Congresses F.D. Roosevelt |
| #2646, aired 1996-02-19 | THE OLD TESTAMENT $400: For his faith & patience, God blessed him with twice as much as he'd lost Job |
| #2639, aired 1996-02-08 | MUSIC APPRECIATION $200: Mozart's Symphony No. 38 in D major is known as this Czech city's symphony because it debuted there Prague |
| #2600, aired 1995-12-15 | THE ROMAN EMPIRE $2,000 (Daily Double): In 26 A.D. he succeeded Valerius Gratus as procurator of Judea Pontius Pilate |
| #2567, aired 1995-10-31 | SHAKESPEAREAN ACTORS $400: Before playing John-Boy Walton, he'd appeared as both of the little princes in productions of "Richard III" Richard Thomas |
| #2559, aired 1995-10-19 | "D.J."s $600: This actor received 3 Emmy nominations for his role as Dr. Richard Kimble on "The Fugitive" David Janssen |
| #2559, aired 1995-10-19 | "D.J."s $1000: On PBS he's starred as Claudius & Cadfael Derek Jacobi |
| #2556, aired 1995-10-16 | GOURMET CUISINE $200: This sturgeon roe delicacy is often served with blini as an hors d'oeuvre caviar |
| #2545, aired 1995-09-29 | MOVIE DEBUTS $400: This "Unforgiven" star made his film debut as a lab technician in the 1955 3-D thriller "Revenge of the creature" Clint Eastwood |
| #2523, aired 1995-07-19 | FILE UNDER "D" $400: A blend of 2 vowel sounds in 1 syllable, such as the "oi" in "coil" a diphthong |
| #2503, aired 1995-06-21 | FRENCH ART & ARTISTS $200: Jacques-Louis David went into exile after the fall of this emperor whom he'd served as court painter Napoleon Bonaparte |
| #2486, aired 1995-05-29 | BEAUTY QUEENS & PAGEANT WINNERS $100: When she was Miss S.D., this "Entertainment Tonight" co-host was known as Mary Johanna Harum Mary Hart |
| #2485, aired 1995-05-26 | ANCIENT PLACES $400: This city near the Hellespont was known as Ilion when it faded into obscurity in the 4th century A.D. Troy |
| #2466, aired 1995-05-01 | MEMORIALS $500: This D.C. performing arts center was built as a memorial, using materials donated by many countries Kennedy Center |
| #2441, aired 1995-03-27 | VICE PRESIDENTS $1000: Believing he'd become too radical, Lincoln didn't support him for a 2nd term as his VP (Hannibal) Hamlin |
| #2440, aired 1995-03-24 | GEOGRAPHY $100: The city, the oldest part of this British capital, began as a trading post c. 43 A.D. London |
| #2403, aired 1995-02-01 | 1956 $100: While recuperating from surgery in Gettysburg, he announced he'd actively seek a 2nd term as pres. Eisenhower |
| #2378, aired 1994-12-28 | 1993 $600: On November 2 the Senate voted 94-6 to subpoena 3,000 pages of his diary Robert Packwood |
| #2359, aired 1994-12-01 | ODDS & ENDS $1000: When he retired as Supreme Court justice in 1932, he'd served to an older age than any, 90 Oliver Wendell Holmes |
| #2265, aired 1994-06-10 | 1949 $400: 2 women fined & jailed for their WWII broadcasts were Iva D'Aquino, Tokyo Rose, & Mildred Gillars, known as this Axis Sally |
| #2254, aired 1994-05-26 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY $200: Its 79 A.D. eruption killed 4 times as many people as its 1631 eruption Vesuvius |
| #2245, aired 1994-05-13 | LITERARY POTPOURRI $800: This Sir Thomas Malory work is based in part on French sources such as the "Suite du Merlin" Le Morte d'Arthur |
| #2245, aired 1994-05-13 | BLACK AMERICA $1000: This abolitionist & editor of the North Star once served as recorder of deeds in Washington, D.C. (Frederick) Douglass |
| #2244, aired 1994-05-12 | WASHINGTON, D.C. $1000: When she took office as mayor in 1991, she became the 1st black woman to preside over a major U.S. city (Sharon Pratt) Kelly |
| #2235, aired 1994-04-29 | FILM DIRECTORS $400: As an actor, this silent film director sometimes used the stage name Lawrence Griffith D.W. Griffith |
| #2171, aired 1994-01-31 | MISC. $400: Evidence indicates that this Egyptian picture writing was still used as late as 394 A.D. hieroglyphics |
| #2167, aired 1994-01-25 | BALLET $600: Nijinsky's first ballet as a choreographer was "L'Après-midi d'un faune", which translates to this Afternoon of a Faun |
| #2157, aired 1994-01-11 | BLACK AMERICA $400: In June 1990 he announced he would not seek a fourth term as mayor of Washington, D.C. Marion Barry |
| #2135, aired 1993-12-10 | PSYCHO 101 $1000: Norman wraps Marion's body in this, which she'd clutched & pulled from its rings as she died a shower curtain |
| #2121, aired 1993-11-22 | NUTRITION $600: Half a cup of cottage cheese has as much of this element linked to hypertension as 32 potato chips Sodium |
| #2120, aired 1993-11-19 | UNOFFICIAL STATE NICKNAMES $500: It's also known as "The Toothpick State" because of a knife used by early settlers Arkansas |
| #2111, aired 1993-11-08 | FAMOUS LANDMARKS $600: This Roman landmark, also known as the Flavian Amphitheatre, was dedicated in 80 A.D. the Colosseum |
| #2076, aired 1993-09-20 | THE 7 ANCIENT WONDERS $200: c. 650 A.D. Arabs invading Egypt stole the upper blocks from these monuments to construct new buildings the pyramids |
| #2072, aired 1993-09-14 | OOPS! $200: We had this artist's mother hanging around the Louvre; she's now in the Musee d'Orsay Whistler |
| #2049, aired 1993-07-01 | U.S.A. $500: This is Washington, D.C.'s oldest college as well as the oldest Catholic college in the nation Georgetown |
| #2038, aired 1993-06-16 | POTPOURRI $100: Watermelon, pumpkin & sunflower ones can be toasted like nuts & served as hors d'oeuvres seeds |
| #1993, aired 1993-04-14 | FOREIGN QUOTES $1000: "We twa hae run about the braes, and pu'd the Gowans fine: but we've wander'd mony a weary fit, sin'" this Auld Lang Syne |
| #1982, aired 1993-03-30 | GEORGE WASHINGTON $200: Out of modesty, Washington referred to it as "The Federal City" Washington, D.C |
| #1979, aired 1993-03-25 | EMILY DICKINSON $400: The longest trip of Emily's life was to Washington, D.C., where her father was serving as a Whig in this Congress |
| #1954, aired 1993-02-18 | DISNEYLAND $400: Michael Jackson stars as the commander of a spaceship in this 3-D film featured in Fantasyland Captain EO |
| #1953, aired 1993-02-17 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY $200: This city was founded in A.D. 43 as the Roman town of Londinium London |
| #1947, aired 1993-02-09 | NOVEL CHARACTERS $600: D.H. Lawrence described her as "a ruddy, country-looking girl... full of unusual energy" Lady Chatterley |
| #1946, aired 1993-02-08 | AMERICANA $500: In 1930 he claimed he'd like to be known as a former president who tried to mind his own business Calvin Coolidge |
| #1913, aired 1992-12-23 | POLITICIANS $300: In 1990 Sharon Pratt Dixon was elected to succeed Marion Barry as this city's mayor Washington, D.C |
| #1906, aired 1992-12-14 | WASHINGTON, D.C. $200: The Old Ebbitt Grill, billed as "Washington's Oldest Saloon", is just 2 blocks from this famous residence the White House |
| #1905, aired 1992-12-11 | KINGS & QUEENS $400: Like this great leader whom he'd served as a general, Egypt's King Ptolemy I was Macedonian Alexander the Great |
| #1896, aired 1992-11-30 | FURNITURE $200: In the 18th cen. these furniture extremities were often carved to look like a rat's claw holding a ball feet (foot) |
| #1886, aired 1992-11-16 | ANAGRAMS $300: Soon after I'd risen, I heard the wailing of this siren (risen) |
| #1873, aired 1992-10-28 | "M.D."s $300: 1992 marks his 10th year as head coach of the Chicago Bears Mike Ditka |
| #1865, aired 1992-10-16 | WELL-KNOWN NAMES $200: He saw his comet in 1682, but wasn't around to see it return in 1759, as he'd predicted it would Halley |
| #1792, aired 1992-05-19 | SHOPPING $200: The shopping mall nicknamed Pentagon City is located conveniently near the Pentagon in this city Arlington, Virginia |
| #1786, aired 1992-05-11 | MUSEUMS $200: You'll find this Washington, D.C. institution's information center in a building known as the Castle the Smithsonian |
| #1768, aired 1992-04-15 | PRESIDENTIAL ASTROLOGY $200: Even though this was John Quincy Adams' sign, we'd never describe him as "crab"by Cancer |
| #1731, aired 1992-02-24 | POETRY $400: He was fired as a clerk in the Interior Dept. after the secretary heard he'd written "Leaves of Grass" Walt Whitman |
| #1700, aired 1992-01-10 | SONNETS $200: The rules of sonnet writing were developed in this country by such poets as Guittone D'Arezzo Italy |
| #1683, aired 1991-12-18 | MEDICAL HISTORY $400: As early as 450 A.D., Indian physician Susruta noted a relation between malaria & this insect the mosquito |
| #1680, aired 1991-12-13 | PRESIDENTIAL BOOKS $1,200 (Daily Double): His memoirs were published in 1971 as "The Vantage Point: Perspectives of the Presidency" LBJ (Lyndon Johnson) |
| #1679, aired 1991-12-12 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $800: From 1948 to '53, Dwight D. Eisenhower served as president of this Ivy League university Columbia |
| #1631, aired 1991-10-07 | THE 1920s $200: '20s idol born R. Alfonzo Raffaeli Pierre Filibert di Valentina d'Antonguolla or something like that Rudolph Valentino |
| #1614, aired 1991-09-12 | CELEBRITY SPELLING $200: We assume this director of "La Dolce Vita" is still living la dolce vita F-E-D-E-R-I-C-O F-E-L-L-I-N-I |
| #1585, aired 1991-06-21 | ANCIENT HISTORY $600: In 4 A.D., this man adopted Tiberius, who succeeded him as Emperor Augustus |
| #1552, aired 1991-05-07 | STEVE MARTIN MOVIES $200: In this film Martin, as Fire Chief "C.D." Bales, falls for astronomer Daryl Hannah Roxanne |
| #1542, aired 1991-04-23 | SLANG $500: This food served commonly at breakfast is known as "Noah's boy" ham |
| #1528, aired 1991-04-03 | "C" IN COOKING $400: These small tomatoes with a fruity name can be stuffed & served as hors d'oeuvres a cherry |
| #1525, aired 1991-03-29 | COUNTRY MUSIC $100: In 1978 B. Mandrell was "Sleeping single in" one of these, "thinking over things I wish I'd said" a double bed |
| #1499, aired 1991-02-21 | TV TEENS $100: He checked into Eastman Medical Center in 1989, not as a patient, but as a 16-year-old resident Doogie Howser, M.D. |
| #1497, aired 1991-02-19 | PHOTOGRAPHY $200: Acoustic ones of these 3-D photos use sound waves instead of light waves as the energy source holograms |
| #1497, aired 1991-02-19 | MUSIC OF THE '90s $500: This Aussie rock band titled its seventh album "X", as in "X Marks the Spot" INXS |
| #1432, aired 1990-11-20 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $200: On May 3, 1802 it was incorporated as a city by an act of Congress Washington, D.C. |
| #1432, aired 1990-11-20 | MIDDLE NAMES $500: This author's middle initial stood for Dan, as Travis McGee could have told you John D. MacDonald |
| #5, aired 1990-07-14 | COMMUNICATIONS $1500: U Thant spoke to the U.N. general assembly in English, although this was his native tongue Burmese |
| #1321, aired 1990-05-07 | RULERS $400: From 244-249 A.D. this empire had an emperor of Arabian descent known as Philip the Arabian Roman Empire |
| #1300, aired 1990-04-06 | QUOTES $900 (Daily Double): Advised not to be a lawyer, as the profession was overcrowded, D. Webster said, "There is always room" here at the top |
| #1283, aired 1990-03-14 | FISH $200: Shark liver oil is sometimes marketed as this oil, since both prevent vitamin A & D deficiencies cod liver oil |
| #1257, aired 1990-02-06 | WEIGHTS & MEASURES $500: The "Systeme International d'Unites" is commonly referred to as this the metric system |
| #1250, aired 1990-01-26 | MEDICAL HISTORY $200: It was used as a medicine from 600 B.C. until 2nd century A.D., when people began to wash with it soap |
| #1223, aired 1989-12-20 | MIDDLE NAMES $100: It's Princess Margaret's middle name, but by any other name she'd smell as sweet Rose |
| #1213, aired 1989-12-06 | FAMOUS QUOTES $300: Before he lost to Joe Louis, "Two-Ton" Tony Galento claimed he'd do this to "de bum" murder |
| #1206, aired 1989-11-27 | PLAYS $500: In Italy this Pirandello play is known as "Sei Personaggi in Cerca D' Autore" "Six Characters in Search of an Author" |
| #1200, aired 1989-11-17 | SLAVERY $400: The Compromise of 1850 banned the slave trade in Washington, D.C. & admitted this state as a free state California |
| #1198, aired 1989-11-15 | ABBREV. $400: Artistic field in which you'd find abbreviations such as "sfz", "pp" & 'ff" Music |
| #1196, aired 1989-11-13 | PRESIDENTS $400: Shortly after being elected, he submitted his resignation as president of Columbia University Dwight D. Eisenhower |
| #1190, aired 1989-11-03 | MAGAZINES $400: As you might expect, Smithsonian is published in this city Washington, D.C. |
| #1169, aired 1989-10-05 | SPORTS CITIES $300: In 1975 M. Ali TKO'd Joe Frazier in the 14th round of what was billed as the "Thrilla in" this city Manila |
| #1120, aired 1989-06-16 | THE "IN" CROWD $400: As a verb it means to get a person drunk, as a noun it's someone already intoxicated inebriate |
| #1085, aired 1989-04-28 | LANDMARKS $600: The tallest tower in the U.S., high as a 230-story building, is found in N.D. & used for this television broadcasting tower |
| #1078, aired 1989-04-19 | ANCIENT TIMES $800: Known in Latin as "Flagellum Dei", the "Scourge of God", he had the gall to invade Gaul in 451 A.D. Attila (the Hun) |
| #1045, aired 1989-03-03 | STARTS WITH "D" $500: The common term for the sight disorder known as diplopia double vision |
| #1043, aired 1989-03-01 | FAMOUS AMERICANS $600: Once a U.S. attorney for Washington, D.C., he's better known as a patriotic lyricist Francis Scott Key |
| #1038, aired 1989-02-22 | LONDON $600: London's oldest section, known as "The City", was founded in 43 A.D. by these people Romans |
| #1028, aired 1989-02-08 | SPELLING $300: This bottom part of your brain stem is described as "oblongata" M-E-D-U-L-L-A |
| #1011, aired 1989-01-16 | U.S. CITIES $100: Natives of this Texas city often refer to it as "The Big D" Dallas |
| #1006, aired 1989-01-09 | GILBERT & SULLIVAN $1000: For a century this "opera company", known as the "savoyards", was famous for doing Gilbert & Sullivan D'Oyly Carte |
| #953, aired 1988-10-26 | EUROPEAN HISTORY $1000: Year that Rome fell, it's generally accepted as marking the close of Ancient Times 476 A.D. |
| #939, aired 1988-10-06 | MATHEMATICS $400: Unit of area used for sizes as small as the cross sections of an atom, it'd be tough to hit the broadside of one a barn |
| #926, aired 1988-09-19 | ACTORS & ROLES $300: TV Guide quoted this ex-"Dallas" star as saying, "I'd die to do the life story of Miss Piggy!" Victoria Principal |
| #907, aired 1988-07-12 | WORLD WAR II $200: Though he'd fled to England, he was recognized by the British as leader of all Free France in June 1940 (Charles) de Gaulle |
| #894, aired 1988-06-23 | WORLD CITIES $400: As our congress meets in Washington, D.C., Chile's meets in this city Santiago |
| #875, aired 1988-05-27 | THE CONSTITUTION $600: The 23rd Amendment gives it as many electoral votes as the least populous state Washington, D.C. |
| #871, aired 1988-05-23 | GOING FOR BAROQUE $600: Harpsichordist D. Scarlati is often viewed as father of modern technique for this keyboard instrument piano |
| #809, aired 1988-02-25 | POLITICIANS $500: George McGovern, ex-Senator from this state could be addressed as "Dr." since he is a Ph.D. South Dakota |
| #804, aired 1988-02-18 | "D" IN SCIENCE $1000: 1 example of this effect is a train whistle that rises in pitch as it approaches the listener Doppler Effect |
| #773, aired 1988-01-06 | TRANSPORTATION $100: The subway in Washington, DC shares its name with this one in Paris the Metro |
| #765, aired 1987-12-25 | "LITTLE" $300: If your wife is a member of N.O.W., you'd probably never introduce her as this the little woman |
| #741, aired 1987-11-23 | THE DICTIONARY $400: What began as "The N.E.D.," in 1884 is known as this today the Oxford English Dictionary |
| #732, aired 1987-11-10 | POETIC TERMS $200: The sonnet originated in this country with such poets as Guitoni D'Arretzo Italy |
| #720, aired 1987-10-23 | "D.C." $200: Painters use this sheet as protection against spills & drips a drop cloth |
| #720, aired 1987-10-23 | BIRD SONGS $400: "As we kiss'd & said good-night'", this "sang in Berk'ley Square" a nightingale |
| #700, aired 1987-09-25 | "LL" $500: Pre-lite beer he'd already starred in films, not only as the hero he created but as himself Mickey Spillane |
| #695, aired 1987-09-18 | "D" IN SCIENCE $1000: This word describes a molecule made up of just 2 atoms diatomic |
| #688, aired 1987-09-09 | SPORTS QUOTES $400: Sportswit quotes Reggie Jackson as saying "I'd rather hit than have" this sex |
| #659, aired 1987-06-18 | PRESIDENTIAL TRIVIA $600: The 1st picture of him in Life Magazine identified him as "Col. D.D. Ersenbean" (Dwight David) Eisenhower |
| #631, aired 1987-05-11 | LITERATURE $600: Tho his novel "The Rainbow" was banned as "obscene", he wrote a sequel, "Women in Love", anyway D.H. Lawrence |
| #625, aired 1987-05-01 | WASHINGTON, D.C. $100: Of larger or smaller, area of D.C. now as compared to when it was first established smaller |
| #625, aired 1987-05-01 | WASHINGTON, D.C. $500: You can visit Petersen House, which still appears as it did when this president died there Abraham Lincoln |
| #616, aired 1987-04-20 | LITERARY CANNIBALS $400: Saying he'd "cannibalized" them, he used his own short stories as basis for his Philip Marlowe novels Raymond Chandler |
| #600, aired 1987-03-27 | CELEBRITY JEOPARDY! $1000: I dueled with Romeo as Tybalt & fenced with Cardinal Richelieu's men as d'Artagnan Michael York |
| #596, aired 1987-03-23 | FACES $100: When Gosden & Correll posed as Amos & Andy for photos, they'd wear this kind of makeup blackface |
| #570, aired 1987-02-13 | SHOW BIZ BUSINESS $1,000 (Daily Double): 3 of the 4 founders of United Artists (3 of) Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, Charles Chaplin & D.W. Griffith |
| #552, aired 1987-01-20 | U.S. HISTORY $200: If we'd bought this Spanish island in 1848 as Polk wanted to, we'd have avoided a missile crisis Cuba |
| #534, aired 1986-12-25 | SHAKESPEAREAN TRIVIA $300: Of Jacques de Boys, Jacques d'Amboise or Jacques Cousteau, a son of Rowland in "As You Like It" Jacques de Boys |
| #531, aired 1986-12-22 | U.S. CITIES $700 (Daily Double): (Alex: Here comes the music.)
"Have you ever passed the corner of Fourth and Grand /
Where a little ball of rhythm has a shoe shine stand? /
People gather round and they clap their hands /
He's a great big bundle of joy /
He pops the boogie woogie rag..."
City in which you'd find title character of this song
"...Yeah, he charges you a nickel just to shine one shoe /
He makes the oldest kind of leather look like new /
You feel as though you wanna dance when he gets through..." Chattanooga (Shoe Shine Boy) |
| #520, aired 1986-12-05 | REINCARNATION $100: Flamboyant WWII general who believed he'd had several previous lives, all as soldiers Patton |
| #445, aired 1986-05-23 | SHAKESPEARE'S SETTINGS $800: Complete with Mounties, the forest of Arden became Canada's north woods in S.D. Old Globe's version of this As You Like It |
| #434, aired 1986-05-08 | ACTRESSES $500: "If I'd been a ranch they
would have called me the bar nothing" she said as "Gilda" in 1946 Rita Hayworth |
| #428, aired 1986-04-30 | AGRICULTURE $100: USA Today said "it'd be simpler to fire the cows" as House comm. voted to pay farmers not to produce this milk |
| #412, aired 1986-04-08 | SOAP OPERAS $100: Most of the action in this prime-time soap takes place 1 mile above sea level Dynasty |
| #399, aired 1986-03-20 | ANCIENT HISTORY $1000: Ancient times are defined as extending until 476 A.D., date of this pivotal event the fall of Rome (the fall of the Roman Empire in the west) |
| #398, aired 1986-03-19 | FISH $500 (Daily Double): Fish mentioned in the title of the following:
"[Instrumental music plays]" the shark |
| #396, aired 1986-03-17 | STARTS WITH "D" $400: Used as 1860 campaign song against Lincoln, after Civil War he requested it from White House band "Dixie" |
| #374, aired 1986-02-13 | COLLEGES $200: Late in the 19th century, this was established as the highest type of degree in American grad schools Ph.D. |
| #363, aired 1986-01-29 | BROADWAY $2,200 (Daily Double): 1 of 2 Bacharach/D. Warwick hits from 1968 musical flop based on "The Apartment" "Promises, Promises" or "I'll Never Fall In Love Again" |
| #359, aired 1986-01-23 | '40s FILMS $800: You'd "meet" Gary Cooper as this "anonymous" figure in a 1940 Capra film Meet John Doe |
| #341, aired 1985-12-30 | POTPOURRI $100: About 1913, it replaced C.Q.D. as international distress signal S.O.S. |
| #328, aired 1985-12-11 | BEST SELLERS $800: As author of "My Mother's Keeper", B.D. Hyman seems not to have kept this mother's secrets Bette Davis |
| #307, aired 1985-11-12 | U.S. STATES $600 (Daily Double): Cape May, in this state, is as far south as Washington, D.C. New Jersey |
| #291, aired 1985-10-21 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $800: He originally conceived "The Rainbow" & "Women in Love" as one novel called "The Sisters" D.H. Lawrence |
| #277, aired 1985-10-01 | "UP" SONGS $200: Where you'd be going "by the old mill run... in the noonday sun" up the lazy river |
| #269, aired 1985-09-19 | COMPARISONS $300: If a man could proportionally lift as much as this insect, he'd lift 8,100 lbs. ant |
| #175, aired 1985-05-10 | WWII $100: Disney character name used as password by Allies on D-Day Mickey Mouse |
| #171, aired 1985-05-06 | ANCIENT WORLDS $600: It is believed astronomers from this Far East country observed sunspots as early as 28 A.D. China |
| #142, aired 1985-03-26 | COMIC BOOK HEROES $100: Today they’re Bruce Wayne & Jason Todd Batman & Robin |
| #101, aired 1985-01-28 | ECOLOGY $600: An island in D.C.'s Potomac River serves as a memorial to this conservationist president Teddy Roosevelt Island |
| #3, aired 1984-09-12 | AUTOMOBILES $100: He'd build you a Model T "in any color, so long as it was black" Henry Ford |
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Che Smith, a consultant and Ph.D. candidate from Washington, D.C.
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Season 31 player (2014-11-06). ché wrote her name as such on...
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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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B.D. Schwarz, a twelve-year-old from Oakland, California
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"He wants to make others happy by opening a little game...
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Trevor Norris, a budget analyst from Washington, D.C.
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"He can't walk through the Pentagon without someone mentioning his five...
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Catherine Carson, a fourth grade language arts, math, and social studies teacher from Washington, D.C.
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"She is new to teaching--she's in her second year. From Washington,...
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Hon. Margaret Spellings, a U.S. Secretary of Education from Washington, D.C.
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"As an advisor to President George W. Bush, she helped craft...
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Rachael Schwartz, a lawyer with an international law firm from Washington, D.C.
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"In 1994, she became the first woman ever to win the...
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Rachael Schwartz, a lawyer from Washington, D.C.
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"In 1994, she was the first female winner of a Tournament...
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Ross Brown, a writer from Washington, D.C.
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Season 23 1-time champion: $12,300 + $2,000. Ross appeared as a...
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Jill Bunzendahl Chimka, a speech and language pathologist from Washington, D.C.
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2003 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 18 4-time champion: $85,099...
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Andrew Chung, a sophomore from Harvey Mudd College
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2008 College Championship 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $25,000. 20 and...
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Dan D'Addario, a senior from Columbia University
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2010-A College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Hometown: Farmington, Connecticut. Daniel D'Addario...
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Erin McLean, a sophomore from Boston University from Danvers, Massachusetts
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2011 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 2010-B College Championship winner:...
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Laura Myers, a senior from the University of Missouri
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2009 College Championship second runner-up: $29,900. 22 and from Richmond, Virginia...
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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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Max Johansen, a senior from the University of Miami
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"As a seventh grader, he was planning on a career in...
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Francois Dominic Laramée, a writer and TV personality from Verdun, Quebec, Canada
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Season 25 2-time champion: $46,300 + $1,000. Francois's name was printed...
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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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Lindsay Eanet, a senior from the University of Missouri
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2010-A College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. Hometown: Deerfield, Illinois. Last name pronounced...
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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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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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Surya Sabhapathy, a senior from the University of Michigan
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2010-A College Championship 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $26,600. Hometown: Northville,...
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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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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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Brandon Hensley, a sophomore from Caltech
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2008 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 19 and from Huntington, WV at...
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Anthony Dedousis, a sophomore from Harvard University
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2009 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 19 and from Manhasset, New York...
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Eric Betts, a senior from Emory University
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2009 College Championship first runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $50,000. 21 and...
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Mark Dawson, a business manager from Chamblee, Georgia
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"In 2003, he became the first to win a quarter of...
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Katie Winter, a senior from Tufts University
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2008 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 22 and from Hershey, PA at...
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Aisha Tyler, a comedienne, host and actress from Talk Soup, Friends, The 5th Wheel and Ghost Whisperer
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2009 Celebrity Jeopardy! winner: $50,000 split between the International Rescue Committee/Congo...
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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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Anjali Tripathi, a senior from MIT
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"Math and science were her favorite subjects in seventh grade. We're...
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Danny Devries, a junior from the University of Michigan
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2008 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. 21 and from West Bloomfield, MI...
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Mark Petterson, a senior from the University of Kansas
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2009 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 21 and from Prairie Village,...
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Leah Anthony Libresco, a junior from Yale University
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2010-A College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Hometown: Mineola, New York. Jeopardy!...
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Will Warren, a senior from the University of Alabama
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2010-A College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. Hometown: Madison, Alabama. Will Warren Blog...
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Lisa Makar, a senior from University of Maryland
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"As a seventh grader, she was planning a career as a...
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Joey Beachum, a senior from Mississippi State University
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2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2008 College Championship winner: $100,000...
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Cliff Galiher, a sophomore from UCLA
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2007 Tournament of Champions 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $50,000 +...
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Steve Greene, a senior from UCLA from Elk Grove, California
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2010-B College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000 + a Nintendo Wii +...
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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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David Madden, a student originally from Ridgewood, New Jersey
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2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament semifinalist: $10,000. 2019 All-Star Games member of...
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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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Cheech Marin, an actor, comedian, director, writer and musician from Lost
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"He's played a cop on Nash Bridges, voiced a 1959 Chevy...
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Michael McKean, a Grammy winner, Oscar nominee and multi-talented performer from Hairspray and The Pajama Game
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"This multi-talented performer is a Grammy winner and Oscar nominee and...
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Ryan Stoffers, a sophomore from UCLA
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2010-A College Championship 1st runner-up: $50,000. Hometown: Saratoga, California. Ryan Stoffers...
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Katie Singh, a sophomore from Northwestern University from Austin, Texas
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2010-B College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
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Katty Kay, a Washington, D.C. anchor from BBC World News America
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"She's the Washington, D.C. anchor for BBC World News America, as...
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Dara Lind, a junior from Yale University
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2008 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 20 and from Cincinnati, OH at...
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Silvio Menzano, a psychologist and university counseling center director from Washington, D.C.
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Season 27 1-time champion: $10,300 + $1,000.
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Nick Yozamp, a junior from Washington University in St. Louis
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2010 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 2010-A College Championship winner:...
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Hill Harper, an author and actor from CSI: NY
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"As an award-winning author, he's written three New York Times best...
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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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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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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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David Hudson, a junior from the University of Virginia
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"His musical taste has changed since he won $10,000 on Kids...
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Patrick Tucker, a senior from the University of Notre Dame
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2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2009 College Championship winner: $100,000...
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Larissa Charnsangavej, a senior from Rice University
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2009 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 21 and from Houston, Texas at...
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Neil Patrick Harris, an actor from How I Met Your Mother
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"He's received critical acclaim on Broadway and on TV, and his...
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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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Tom Nichols, a professor originally from Chicopee, Massachusetts
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\"A five-time champion in 1994, he used his winnings for a...
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Lizzie O'Leary, an aviation and regulation correspondent from CNN
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"She broke the news that Chrysler would file for Chapter 11...
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Yoni Freund, a Ph.D. student from Columbia University
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"He has always wanted to be a writer, and now that...
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Andrew Ceppos, a senior from Tufts University
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2009 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 21 and from Verona, New...
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Jane Curtin, an actress from Kate & Allie and 3rd Rock from the Sun
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"One of Saturday Night Live's original Not Ready for Primetime Players,...
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Nick Swezey, a publisher from Washington, D.C.
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2007 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD Home...
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Zach Safford, a senior from Williams College
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"His early interest in cryptozoology has been replaced by a history...
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Olivia Colangelo, a junior from the University of Notre Dame from Murrysville, Pennsylvania
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2010-B College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
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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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Jason Pratt, a middle school history teacher from Woodbridge, Virginia
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Season 25 2-time champion: $32,701 + $1,000. Jason Pratt - A...
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Miguel Ferrer, an actor from Crossing Jordan
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"He began his career as a studio drummer and played on...
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Diane Wilshere, an actor and playwright from Manassas, Virginia
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Season 25 1-time champion: $18,801 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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Tom Walsh, a writer from Washington, D.C.
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Nifty Nine (players with byes into...
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David Duchovny, an actor from Californication
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"He's won two Golden Globes and stars as troubled novelist Hank...
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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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Greg Lichtenstein, a freshman from Vassar College
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2009 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. 18 and from Plainview, New York...
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Doug Savant, an actor from Desperate Housewives
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"He met and then married his wife while both were costarring...
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Greg Peterson, a senior from Park Ridge, Illinois
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2007 Teen Tournament Summer Games 1st runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $38,600....
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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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Than Hedman, a freshman from University of Colorado-Boulder
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2008 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 19 and from Denver, CO at...
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Sid Chandrasekhar, a senior from the University of Pennsylvania from Saratoga, California
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2010-B College Championship semifinalist: $10,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
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Molly Redfield, a Ph.D. candidate from Claremont, California
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Season 7/8 4-time champion: $43,399. In her first game, Molly was...
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Todd Kim, a government attorney from Washington, D.C.
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Season 20 player (2004-03-18). Todd won $500,000 on Super Millionaire on...
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Pat Sajak, a game show host from Wheel of Fortune
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"A former TV weatherman, he's gone on to become the world's...
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Sam Waterston, an actor from Law & Order
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"A Best Actor Oscar nominee for The Killing Fields, he's now...
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Dana Venator, a Ph.D. candidate from Chicago, Illinois
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"She was a beginning bagpipe player and Teen Tournament finalist; now,...
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Kerri Regan, a senior from Bethpage, New York
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2005 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500. 17 at the time of the...
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Steve Gratz, a freelance artist from Washington, D.C.
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Season 27 2-time champion: $30,999 + $1,000.
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Tom Walsh, a writer from Washington, D.C.
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Nifty Nine (players with byes into...
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Bob Harris, a writer from Los Angeles, California
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"This 5-time champ was a finalist in the 1998 Tournament of...
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Jonathan Corbblah, a chess teacher from Harlem, New York
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Season 27 1-time champion: $13,000 + $1,000. Jonathan appeared as a...
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Julie Bowen, a TV and film actress from Boston Legal, Lost and Modern Family
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"For two seasons, she played attorney Denise Bauer in Boston Legal....
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Sarah Rabin Spira, a preschool director from Washington, D.C.
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Season 27 player (2010-10-07). Middle and last names pronounced like "RAY-bin...
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Zachary Baumgartner, a 10-year-old from Deer Park, New York
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"He'll hit all the right notes in the future as a...
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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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Mark Dawson, a business manager from Chamblee, Georgia
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2014 Battle of the Decades quarterfinalist: $10,000. 2005 Ultimate Tournament of...
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Kelly O'Donnell, a political reporter from NBC News
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"An Emmy-winning political reporter, she has covered Capitol Hill and the...
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Babu Srinivasan, a history professor at Prairie View A&M University from Houston, Texas
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"A five-time champion in 2001, he's now a history professor at...
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Leszek Pawlowicz, a shovel bum from Flagstaff, Arizona
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"He was a material scientist living in Phoenix when he won...
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Aisha Tyler, an actress, comedian, author and reality-show host from Archer
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"In addition to film and TV roles, she performs comedy at...
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Steve Unite, a writer from Studio City, California
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2007 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD Home...
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Monica Thieu, a Ph.D. student in psychology from New York, New York
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• 2012 College Championship winner • 2013 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist...
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Pam Mueller, an entering law student originally from Chicago, Illinois
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\"Representing Loyola University, she won the College Championship in November, 2000....
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Kermin Fleming, a student from Lexington, Kentucky
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2006 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions...
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Robert Slaven, a technical products specialist originally from Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada
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"He won 5 times in 1992. Today, he's a technical products...
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Eddie Timanus, a sportswriter from Oak Hill, Virginia
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"His 5 wins in 1999 made him one of the most...
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Josh Charnin-Aker, a twelve-year-old from Lighthouse Point, Florida
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"And, whether in neonatology or as a Navy SEAL, he plans...
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Tom Ogorzalek, a writer and editor from Washington, D.C.
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Season 20 player (2004-03-24).
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Sam Johnston, a Ph.D. student from Brooklyn, New York
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Season 25 player (2008-12-23). Johnny Gilbert announced Sam as "Sam Johnson"...
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Jennifer Thorne, an energy efficiency analyst from Washington, D.C.
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Season 20 player (2004-03-16).
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Jacob Joyner, an 11-year-old from Quantico, Virginia
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"As a politician, he plans on improving the lives of Americans....
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Chris D'Orso, an assistant director of admissions from Sound Beach, New York
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Season 26 player (2009-12-04). Blog at sbuchris.blogspot.com. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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Shawna Brandle, a Ph.D. candidate from Rockville Centre, New York
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Season 26 1-time champion: $19,600 + $1,000.
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Steve Chernicoff, a technical writer from Berkeley, California
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"He was one of the top 1-day winners in the 1994-95...
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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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Kathie Hite, an attorney from Washington, D.C.
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Season 3 player (1987-07-20). Spelling of last name, occupation and hometown...
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Tristan Mohabir, a nonprofit associate director from Washington, D.C.
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Season 34 1-time champion: $15,200 + $1,000. Last name pronounced like...
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John Podhoretz, a writer from Washington, D.C.
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1987 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $1,000. Season 3 5-time champion: $45,600....
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John Podhoretz, a writer from Washington, D.C.
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1987 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $1,000. Season 3 5-time champion: $45,600....
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Emma Johnson, an eleven-year-old from St. Petersburg, Florida
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"She'll hit a high note in her future musical career as...
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Andy Kravis, a freshman from Farmington Hills, Michigan
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2002 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $5,000. Andy was 13 at the...
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John Ryan, a corporate controller from Richmond, California
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"As a college student, he was the top winner of the...
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Stephanie Radke, a senior from McLean, Virginia
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2009 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. As an accommodation for a disability,...
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Janet Wong, a development officer for a museum from Hoboken, New Jersey
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"As a senior at Drew University, she won the February 2000...
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Leszek Pawlowicz, a computer consultant from Flagstaff, Arizona
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"He was the winner of the 1992 Tournament of Champions. Today...
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Babu Srinivasan, a history professor from Houston, Texas
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"His aggressive wagering helped him become the biggest winner from the...
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James Hill III, a freshman from Santa Clara University
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2010-A College championship semifinalist: $10,000. Hometown: San Jose, California. [No contestant...
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William Garrett, a 12-year-old from Greenfield, Indiana
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"Serving his country as an officer in the military is his...
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Elizabeth Perkins, an actress from Big and Weeds
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2009 Celebrity Jeopardy! player: $25,000 to the New England Learning Center...
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Elise Burton, a freshman from the University of California-Berkeley
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2007 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 18 at the time of the...
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Chris Pae, a high school history teacher from Suwanee, Georgia
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"He studied pre-med, then pre-law, but discovered his passion was teaching....
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Jill Bunzendahl Chimka, a speech and language pathologist from Washington, D.C.
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2003 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 18 4-time champion: $85,099...
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Josh DenHartog, an actuarial technician from Thousand Oaks, California
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"He was the Teen Tournament champion in 1997. Now he's an...
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Kenny Schlax, a junior from Deerfield, Illinois
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2006 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Listed as "Kenneth" on the official web site.
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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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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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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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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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Stefan Goodreau, a video game tester and camp counselor from Los Angeles, California
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2010 Tournament of Champions 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $50,000. Season...
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Hans von Walter, a junior from Southern Adventist University from Avon Park, Florida
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2010-B College Championship 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $25,000 + a...
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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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Fred Beukema, a structural engineer from Minneapolis, Minnesota
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Season 25 3-time champion: $69,401 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Jennifer Broders, a junior high school social studies teacher from Stockton, Iowa
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Season 26 2-time champion: $59,801 + $1,000. Jennifer Broders - a...
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Jove Graham, a biomedical engineer from Lewisburg, Pennsylvania
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Season 26 1-time champion: $34,401 + $1,000. Jove's second contestant interview...
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Becky 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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David Skaar, a research scientist from Raleigh, North Carolina
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Season 25 3-time champion: $102,000 + $2,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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Carl Brandt, an investor originally from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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2009 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 25 4-time champion: $70,799...
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Ingrid Nelson, a judicial assistant from Lake Mills, Wisconsin
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Season 25 2-time champion: $27,802 + $2,000. Ingrid Nelson - A...
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Paul Kursky, a copywriter from San Francisco, California
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2011 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 26 5-time champion: $109,411...
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Melanie Baker-Streevy, a United Methodist pastor from Parma, Michigan
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Season 25 1-time champion: $26,900 + $1,000. Melanie Baker-Streevy - A...
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Chris Rodrigues, a personal banking representative from New Bedford, Massachusetts
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Season 26 3-time champion: $41,498 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Amy Wilson, a creative writing and women's studies student originally from Portland, Oregon
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Season 26 1-time champion: $19,999 + $2,000. Not to be confused...
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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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Rebecca Dixon, a graduate student and musician from Vancouver, Washington
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Season 26 2-time champion: $53,002 + $1,000. Rebecca and her partner...
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Elizabeth Galoozis, a reference librarian from Cambridge, Massachusetts
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Season 26 2-time champion: $38,801 + $2,000. Elizabeth Galoozis - A...
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Tom Toce, an actuary from New York, New York
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Season 26 2-time champion: $39,200 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
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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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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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Roger Craig, a graduate student of computer science from Newark, Delaware
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2019 All-Star Games member of wildcard-match 2nd-place Team Austin: a share...
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Sanders Kleinfeld, a publishing technology specialist from Cambridge, Massachusetts
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Season 25 1-time champion: $26,597 + $2,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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Vanamali Compton, a junior from Clarkdale, Arizona
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2005 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500. 16 at the time of the...
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Enrique Machado, an oil filtration business developer from Orlando, Florida
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Season 26 1-time champion: $30,799 + $2,000. Enrique Machado September 16,...
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Kori Tyler, a high school teacher from Cordova, Tennessee
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Season 26 player (2010-02-26). Season 25 1-time champion: $20,000 + $2,000....
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Madeline Suchard, from Placentia, California
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"She has her sights set on becoming the Supreme Court Justice,...
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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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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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Saad Hasan, a nanotechnology scientist from Nashville, Tennessee
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Season 26 1-time champion: $22,700 + $2,000. Saad Hasan Nashville, TN...
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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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Andrew Watkins, a junior from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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2006 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: everyday847
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Rachel Rothenberg, a senior from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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2009 Teen Tournament winner (semifinalist by wildcard): $75,000. Jeopardy! Message Board...
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Tom Nissley, an online books editor from Seattle, Washington
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2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2011 Tournament of Champions...
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Sam Spaulding, a sophomore from Yale University from Wilmington, North Carolina
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2010-B College Championship 1st runner-up: $50,000 + a Nintendo Wii +...
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Ryan Chaffee, a tutor from Los Angeles, California
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2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $91,900...
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Aaron Brown, an Emmy Award-winning newsman from CNN's popular primetime newscast
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"A journalist for over 25 years, he now anchors CNN's popular...
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James Grant, a junior from Georgetown University
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2008 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 21 and from Manhattan Beach,...
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Stephen Weingarten, a paraeducator from Portland, Oregon
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2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $96,690...
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Marissa Goldsmith, a web developer from Springfield, Virginia
|
Season 27 3-time champion: $44,100 + $2,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: marteena
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Rachel Horn, a sophomore from Cincinnati, Ohio
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2008-A Teen Tournament winner: $75,000. 15 at the time of the...
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Ben Bishop, a student originally from Seattle, Washington
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2009 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 25 4-time champion: $114,800...
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Elyse Mancuso, a junior from Omaha, Nebraska
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2012 Teen Tournament winner: $79,600. 16 at the time of the...
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Jennifer Duann, a senior from the Ohio State University
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2009 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 21 and from Worthington, Ohio at...
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Dan Jensen, a restaurant manager from Reston, Virginia
|
Season 27 3-time champion: $58,203 + $1,000.
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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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Kara Spak, a newspaper reporter from Chicago, Illinois
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2011 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 27 5-time champion:...
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Mike Marmesh, a veterinarian from Miami, Florida
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Season 26 1-time champion: $4,700 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Loren Loiacono, a senior from Setauket, New York
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2006 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
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Susan Haarman, a sophomore at Marquette University from Louisville, Kentucky
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2001 College Championship quarterfinalist: $2,500. Susan was 19 at the time...
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Chris Breen, a sophomore at Princeton University from Springfield, Massachusetts
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2005 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. According to the official Jeopardy! web...
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Raynell Cooper, a senior from Rockville, Maryland
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2011 Teen Tournament winner (semifinalist by wildcard): $75,000. 16 at the...
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Jesse Cuevas, a corporate lawyer originally from Leawood, Kansas
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Season 27 3-time champion: $65,981 + $2,000. Brother of Season 30...
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Pam Jones-Pigott, a farmers' market coordinator from Pflugerville, Texas
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Season 27 1-time champion: $16,800 + $1,000.
Last name pronounced like "johnz-PIE-gut".
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Sandra Gore, a corporate researcher from Berkeley, California
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"After five wins in 1987, she fulfilled her dream of moving...
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Amanda J. Ray, a sophomore at the University of Virginia from Harrisonburg, Virginia
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2010-B College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
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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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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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Emily Heaney, a freelance costume designer from White Bear Lake, Minnesota
|
Season 25 1-time champion: $2,200 + $1,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Andy Davis, a Chyron operator from South Boston, Massachusetts
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Season 25 2-time champion: $49,799 + $1,000. Andy Davis - A...
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Inta Antler, a retired computer programmer from Scarborough, Ontario, Canada
|
Season 25 1-time champion: $12,700 + $2,000. Inta Antler - A...
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Nathaniel Barnes, a composer and bartender from Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Season 25 3-time champion: $57,300 + $2,000. In his first game,...
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Dmitry Spivak, a junior from Northwestern University
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"The 11-year-old wasn't really kidding when he said he wanted to...
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Aaron Wicks, a planning and evaluation manager from Rochester, New York
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Season 26 1-time champion: $18,001 + 1,000. Aaron Wicks Rochester, NY...
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Roger Craig, a computer scientist from Newark, Delaware
|
2019 All-Star Games member of wildcard-match 2nd-place Team Austin: a share...
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Connie Shi, a junior at the University of Michigan from Okemos, Michigan
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2012 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000.
19 at the time of the College Championship.
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Weston Mangin, a freshman at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo from Arroyo Grande, California
|
2012 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000.
19 at the time of the College Championship.
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Eliza Urban, a sophomore from Richmond, Virginia
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2007 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 15 at the time of the...
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Jordan Brand, an anesthesiologist from Westchester, New York
|
Season 26 1-time champion: $24,405 + $2,000. The Sesame Street character...
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Meryl Federman, a senior from Livingston, New Jersey
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2007 Teen Tournament Summer Games champion (semifinalist by wildcard): $75,000. 18...
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Sean Ryan, a graduate student from Whitehall, Pennsylvania
|
2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Nifty Nine (players with byes into...
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David Hoffelmeyer, a senior from St. Joseph, Missouri
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2006 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000.
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Papa Chakravarthy, a sophomore from Lexington, Kentucky
|
2006 Teen Tournament champion: $75,000.
|
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Rachel Pildis, a software developer from Oak Park, Illinois
|
Season 26 1-time champion: $12,000 + $2,000. Rachel Pildis - A...
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Robbie Berg, a freshman from the University of Pennsylvania
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2010-A College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. Hometown: Davie, Florida. Robbie Berg Blog...
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Danielle Zsenak, a senior from Marquette University
|
2008 College Championship 1st runner-up: $50,000. Last name pronounced like "zshen-NOCK"....
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Christopher Meloni, a star from Law & Order: SVU and HBO's Oz
|
"On TV, he's worked both sides of the law. Once a...
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Justin Bernbach, a lobbyist from Brooklyn, New York
|
2010 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 25 7-time champion: $155,001...
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Tim Relihan, a senior from the University of Nebraska from Stromsburg, Nebraska
|
2010-B College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
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Ari Fleischer, a former White House Press Secretary from the current Bush administration
|
"For the first two years of the current Bush administration, he...
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Anderson Cooper, a host from CNN's Anderson Cooper 360°
|
2004 Power Players Week player (2004-05-11).
Charity: American Heart Association.
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Matt Drury, a government analyst from New York, New York
|
Season 26 1-time champion: $18,799 + $2,000. Matthew Drury - A...
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Stefan Goodreau, a video game tester from Los Angeles, California
|
2010 Tournament of Champions 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $50,000. Season...
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Allan Long, a freshman from Tallahassee, Florida
|
2005 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500. 14 at the time of the...
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Sam Leanza, a senior from Laguna Hills, California
|
2012 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 17 at the time of the...
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Tucker Carlson, an author and co-host from Crossfire
|
2004 Power Players Week player (2004-05-10). Charities: American Camping Association &...
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Kevin Marshall, a student from Metairie, Louisiana
|
2006 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 22 6-time champion: $98,201...
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Colin Brown, a senior at the University of Rochester from Milwaukie, Oregon
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2005 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000.
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John Krizel, a green community program coordinator from Beckley, West Virginia
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2011 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $105,204...
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Pranita Ramakrishnan, from Centreville, Virginia
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"Not only does this future neurologist enjoy swimming, drawing and spelling,...
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Larry Cloud, a bookkeeper and computer consultant from Inglewood, California
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"He won five times in 2001, allowing him to make a...
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Steven Milton, a legal case assistant from San Diego, California
|
Season 26 2-time champion: $30,299 + $1,000. Steve Milton San Diego,...
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Jonathan Gillerman, a senior from Staten Island, New York
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2003 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500.
17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Yevgeny Shrago, a research assistant originally from Rochester, New York
|
Season 26 1-time champion: $24,600 + $2,000. Name pronounced like "yev-GHEN-ee...
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Elijah Granet, a 12-year-old from San Diego, California
|
"Because he loves animals, biology, and helping others, he's thinking of...
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Justin Otor, a 12-year-old from Texarkana, Texas
|
"His chosen profession will be something in the field of science...
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Bob Kennedy, a college linguistics instructor from Santa Barbara, California
|
Season 27 2-time champion: $33,800 + $1,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: Bobk
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Michelle Schrier, an 11-year-old from Potomac, Maryland
|
"She plans on being a news reporter while waiting for her...
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Robin Quivers, a radio and television personality from The Howard Stern Show
|
"Howard Stern's news anchor and sidekick for the past 28 years,...
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Erik Larsen, a librarian and a licensed amateur boxing official from Jacksonville, Florida
|
"A 5-time champion from 1990, he's a librarian and a licensed...
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Alex Stambaugh, a 12-year-old from Paris, Kentucky
|
"He feels he can use his talents in math and science...
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Doug Lach, a marketing manager from Columbus, Ohio
|
"He was the biggest winner of the 1999-2000 season. A marketing...
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Adam Pinson, a senior at the University of Alabama at Birmingham from Pinson, Alabama
|
2005 College Championship 1st runner-up: $50,000. Won $100,000 on Who Wants...
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Mark Born, a musician, writer and teacher from Bangkok, Thailand
|
\"He was the top winner of the 1990-91 season. He\'s a...
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Beth Cimini, a junior at Boston University from East Longmeadow, Massachusetts
|
2005 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: BrightStars1212
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James Erwin, a writer from Des Moines, Iowa
|
Season 25 2-time champion: $22,598 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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Erica Greil, a junior from Princeton University
|
2009 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. 22 and from Hastings, Minnesota at...
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Anna Allie, a junior at the University of Michigan at Dearborn from Dearborn, Michigan
|
2005 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000.
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Emily Zhang, from Indianapolis, Indiana
|
"A National Science Merit Award recipient, she plans on becoming a...
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Phoebe Juel, a bookseller from Sylva, North Carolina
|
"She won the 1993 College Championship while attending Grinnell College. Today...
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Alan Bailey, a playwright and director from Sherman Oaks, California
|
2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 2003 Tournament...
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Ruvani Fonseka, a junior from Grosse Pointe, Michigan
|
2005 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $5,000. 15 at the time of...
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Drew Joanides, a high school history teacher from Miami, Florida
|
"He is one of our four teachers competing in our tournament...
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Karan Takhar, a senior from North Attleborough, Massachusetts
|
2008-B Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000. First name pronounced like "KUR-run". Jeopardy...
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Anurag Kashyap, a senior from Poway, California
|
2008-B Teen Tournament winner: $75,000. Anurag was also the winner of...
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Patrick Quinn, a high school German teacher from Chesterfield, Missouri
|
"He teaches at a school whose history goes back to a...
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Eliza Scruton, a junior from Louisville, Kentucky
|
2012 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000.
16 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
|
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Nate Austin, a student from Hutchinson Community College
|
"His original plan was to own a chain of international hotels...
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Brandon Welch, a senior from Grayson, Georgia
|
2011 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000.
17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
|
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Michael Steele, a political analyst and host from MSNBC and Steele & Ungar
|
"He was elected lieutenant governor of Maryland in 2003, and later...
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Rick Knutsen, a musician and stay-at-home dad from Brooklyn, New York
|
"A finalist in the 2001 Tournament of Champions, he's a musician...
|
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Samira Missaghi, a junior from the University of Minnesota
|
2010-A College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Hometown: Eden Prarie, Minnesota. Samira...
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Jeff Spoeri, a university administrator from Boynton Beach, Florida
|
2007 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD...
|
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Lisa Klink, a TV writer from Los Angeles, California
|
2009 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 24 5-time champion: $70,150...
|
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Neil Patrick Harris, an actor from How I Met Your Mother
|
"He's appeared on Broadway in Proof, Assassins, and Cabaret. He's now...
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Bob Verini, a director of academics for a national test preparation company from Los Angeles, California
|
2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2005 Ultimate Tournament of...
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Lindsey Hargrove, a senior at the University of Texas from Bellaire, Texas
|
2004 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
Mother's Jeopardy! Message Board user name: collegemom
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Jerome Vered, a writer from Los Angeles, California
|
"The 1-day record of $34,000 he set in 1992 stood for...
|
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Charles Temple, a high school English teacher from Ocracoke, North Carolina
|
"He teaches at the smallest public school in North Carolina, and...
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Christopher Weis, a sophomore from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
|
2008-B Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. Last name pronounced like "WISE". Jeopardy!...
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Tom Nissley, a writer from Seattle, Washington
|
2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2011 Tournament of Champions...
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Greer Mackebee, a senior at Duke University from Knoxville, Tennessee
|
2012 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. 22 at the time of the...
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Bruce Ikawa, a college professor from Hillsdale, Michigan
|
\"He says his 5 wins in 1990 increases his credibility with...
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Carl Bradshaw, a financial manager from St. Louis, Missouri
|
Season 27 2-time champion: $17,899 + $2,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: Titmouse
|
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Krishna Bharathala, a sophomore from Fremont, California
|
2012 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
15 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
|
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Jeff Haylon, a sophomore from Newtown, Connecticut
|
2012 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $10,000.
15 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
|
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Lindsey Thiesfeld, a sophomore from Clarendon Hills, Illinois
|
2011 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
16 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
|
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Jeffrey Gerlomes, a freshman from Napa, California
|
2007 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
14 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Jonathan Capehart, a journalist from The Washington Post
|
"This Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist is a member of the Washington Post...
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Blake Hernandez, a senior from Burke, Virginia
|
2002 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500. Blake was 16 at the time...
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Brittany Rogers, a sophomore at Saddleback College from Lake Forest, California
|
2001 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $5,000. Brittany was 18 at the...
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Matt Schnippert, a sophomore at Florida State University from Jacksonville, Florida
|
2001 College Championship 1st runner-up: $19,801. Matt was 19 at the...
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David Rozenson, a lawyer from Newton, Massachusetts
|
2006 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Season 21 3-time champion: $76,000 + $1,000.
|
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Lynne Wexler, a librarian from Evanston, Illinois
|
"She was the first 5-time champion in 1991. A librarian from...
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Gabe Orlet, a senior from Belleville, Illinois
|
2009 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
|
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Russ Porter, a water systems engineer from Seattle, Washington
|
Season 27 1-time champion: $20,001 + $2,000.
|
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Jen McFann, a Peace Corps recruiter from Astoria, New York
|
Season 26 1-time champion: $19,410 + $2,000. Jen McFann Astoria, New...
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Kadeem Cooper, a junior from the University of Virginia
|
2009 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 20 and from Brooklyn, New York...
|
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John Matthews, a senior from Escondido, California
|
2003 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $5,000.
17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
|
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Ken Basin, a junior at the University of Southern California from Huntington Beach, California
|
2003 College Championship semifinalist: $5,000. Blog at kbasin.blogspot.org. Appearing as a...
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Matt Kohlstedt, a grad student originally from La Grange, Illinois
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2009 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
Season 25 5-time champion: $77,803 + $2,000.
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Francesca Leibowitz, a fifth grade English teacher from Brooklyn, New York
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"She teaches at a school that opened in 1854. From Brooklyn...
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Dianisbeth Acquie, from Brooklyn, New York
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"This ballet, jazz, and tap dancing Girl Scout would like to...
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Amy Varallo, a senior from Aiken, South Carolina
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2007 Teen Tournament Summer Games quarterfinalist: $5,000. 17 at the time...
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John Kelly, a retired Air Force officer from Austin, Texas
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"In 1992, he was one of the top five money winners...
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Anne Shivers, a senior from Peotone, Illinois
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2005 Teen Tournament 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $18,000. 17 at...
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Eric Newhouse, a director of technical assistance from Sioux City, Iowa
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Nifty Nine (players with byes into...
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Kristin Frankhouser, a 12-year-old from Baton Rouge, Louisiana
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"Her future plans include becoming a physical therapist, a wife, and...
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Orlando Zambrano, a junior from Tampa, Florida
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2005 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $5,000.
16 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Jay Rosenberg, a professor from Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 1986 Tournament...
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Jay Rosenberg, a college professor from Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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\"After winning 5 times in 1985, he became the moderator for...
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Jay Rosenberg, a professor of philosophy from Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 1986 Tournament...
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Celeste DiNucci, a recent graduate student from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2014 Battle of the Decades...
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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 college student 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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Sarah Marx, a junior from Chevy Chase, Maryland
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2008-B Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user name:...
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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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Jonathan Groff, a writer and producer for television from Los Angeles, California
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\"A 5-show winner in 1995, he\'s now a writer and producer...
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Veronica Mance, a policy and research analyst from Chevy Chase, Maryland
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Season 29 player (2012-09-19).
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Rob Schrader, a junior from Lexington, Kentucky
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2012 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. Younger brother of 2008-B Teen Tournament...
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Caleb Olson, a senior from Chariton, Iowa
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2012 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $10,000.
17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Cosi Audi, a junior from North Canton, Ohio
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2011 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
16 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Stephen Fritz, a sophomore from Lexington, Kentucky
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2007 Teen Tournament 2nd runner-up: $25,460.
15 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Bob Woodward, an assistant managing editor from The Washington Post
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2004 Power Players Week player (2004-05-10).
Charity: Sidwell Friends School.
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Zane Ice, a 12-year-old from West Palm Beach, Florida
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"He wants to build a business in emerging technologies to help...
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Vera Swain, a junior from the University of South Carolina
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2008 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 21 and from Charleston, SC...
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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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George Nelson, a senior from Montgomery, Alabama
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2002 Teen Tournament 1st runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $29,497. George was...
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Tony Nagatani, a junior at Ithaca College from Honolulu, Hawaii
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2001 College Championship quarterfinalist: $2,500. Tony was 20 at the time...
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Vito Cortese, a software engineer and Italian translator from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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Season 27 3-time champion: $68,485 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Paul Gutowski, an alcohol and drug counselor from Rockford, Illinois
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"He was the first 5-time winner in 1997. An alcohol and...
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John Cuthbertson, an investment analyst from San Diego, California
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"He was the highest money winner of the 1993-94 season. An...
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Regina Fitzsimmons, a homemaker from Springfield, Virginia
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Season 20 player (2004-01-19).
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Gabriel Johnson, a senior from Teaneck, New Jersey
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2009 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000.
17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Tad Carithers, an attorney from New York City, New York
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"He finished second in the 2001 Tournament of Champions. Today he...
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Emily Lever, a junior from Chevy Chase, Maryland
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2009 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
16 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Bryan Porter, a prosecutor from Alexandria, Virginia
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Season 25 player (2009-06-26).
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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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Andy Srinivasan, a high school science teacher from Clayton, North Carolina
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2010 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $69,600...
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Tom Toal, an orthopedic surgeon from Lake Oswego, Oregon
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Season 27 1-time champion: $12,200 + $1,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Mark Wales, a substitute teacher from Amherst, New York
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2009 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 24 5-time champion: $141,804...
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Tom Zamojcin, a digital marketing manager from Phoenixville, Pennsylvania
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Season 27 1-time champion: $22,800 + $2,000.
Last name pronounced like "zam-MOH-chin".
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Marshall Flores, a senior from Arizona State University from Avondale, Arizona
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2010-B College Championship semifinalist: $10,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
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Will Schultz, a freshman from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
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2007 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. 19 at the time of the...
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Pete Troyan, a senior from the University of Michigan
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2007 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. 22 at the time of the...
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Vince Valle, a foreign service officer from Arlington, Virginia
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Season 20 player (2004-03-01).
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Rachel Gottesman, a junior from Cortlandt Manor, New York
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2007 Teen Tournament Summer Games wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 17 at the...
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Aiden Pink, a freshman from St. Louis Park, Minnesota
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2007 Teen Tournament Summer Games semifinalist: $10,000. 15 at the time...
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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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Andrew Goldfein, a 12-year-old from Lincolnwood, Illinois
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"He likes to argue and help people, so it's off to...
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Michael Rooney, a college professor from Pasadena, California
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"He was a winner of 5 games in 1999, and is...
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Scott Gillispie, a project manager and expectant father from Atlanta, Georgia
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"While attending Georgia Tech, he won the 1991 College Championship. Now...
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Laura Ansley, a senior from Twinsburg, Ohio
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2006 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
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Paul Boymel, a civil rights attorney from Potomac, Maryland
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"He was the top winner of the 1984-85 season. Now he's...
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Vinita Kailasanath, a recent college graduate originally from Laurel, Maryland
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2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2005 Ultimate Tournament of...
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