| #9081, aired 2024-04-15 | 3-LETTER SPELLING BEE $600: Popular today, it's the greeting seen here that was developed by Black service members in Vietnam D-A-P |
| #9049, aired 2024-02-29 | DETECTIVE FICTION $1000: In 1972 this British woman "initially" introduced Cordelia Gray in "An Unsuitable Job for a Woman"; a follow-up came 10 years later P.D. James |
| #9048, aired 2024-02-28 | WOMEN IN LIT $2000: "It was naturally of the essence that the young woman should be herself complex", wrote Henry James of this "Portrait of a Lady" heroine Isabel Archer |
| #9036, aired 2024-02-12 | INITIALS OF HISTORIC PEOPLE $800: Slid into being Russia's P.M. from 2012-2020:
D.M. Dmitry Medvedev |
| #9008, aired 2024-01-03 | WHERE'D YOU GO? $1,600 (Daily Double): This term for a trip taken by a politician at public expense can also be used for a P.R. event for a film or TV show junket |
| #8954, aired 2023-10-19 | PRESIDENTIAL ACTORS? $2000: Two presidents share a surname with this actress, known for playing Detective Erin Lindsay on Chicago P.D. Sophia Bush |
| #8915, aired 2023-07-14 | MODERN FANTASY LIT $800: In P. Djèlí Clark's "Ring Shout", klansmen summon demons during a viewing of this 1915 D.W. Griffith film The Birth of a Nation |
| #8779, aired 2023-01-05 | THE DOOMSDAY BOOK $1600: In the opening of this P.D. James novel, "The last human being to be born on Earth was killed in a pub brawl" The Children of Men |
| #8761, aired 2022-12-12 | CHICAGO TV $1200: In NBC's "One Chicago" program block, it comes between "Chicago Med" & "Chicago P.D." Chicago Fire |
| #8695, aired 2022-07-29 | BUSINESS ABBREV. $400: The way sales of a product change in relation to its price is its P.E.D., or price elasticity of this demand |
| #8548, aired 2022-01-05 | LIT IN THE FUTURE TENSE $1600: Set in 2021, this P.D. James novel centers on an outbreak of mass infertility in a world descending into chaos Children of Men |
| #8540, aired 2021-12-24 | NOVELS & NOVELISTS $2000: Call the "P.D."! This British "Queen of Crime" wrote 14 novels featuring Scotland Yard detective Adam Dalgliesh P.D. James |
| #8529, aired 2021-12-09 | SHOW ME YOUR P-H-D $400: A son or daughter by marriage a stepchild |
| #8529, aired 2021-12-09 | SHOW ME YOUR P-H-D $800: To arrest a criminal suspect apprehend |
| #8529, aired 2021-12-09 | SHOW ME YOUR P-H-D $1200: In 2021 4 astronauts landed in the Gulf of Mexico in the USA's first nighttime one of these since 1968 a (crewed) splashdown |
| #8529, aired 2021-12-09 | SHOW ME YOUR P-H-D $1600: Squid & octopuses are members of this class of marine mollusks cephalopods |
| #8529, aired 2021-12-09 | SHOW ME YOUR P-H-D $2000: These sacred writings of Hinduism explain the fundamental tenets of the religion Upanishads |
| #8411, aired 2021-05-31 | SOUVENIRS $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from the National Air & Space Museum in Washington, D.C.) The Smithsonian's National Air & Space Museum store sells a Barbie doll of Katherine Johnson, a pioneering NASA mathematician who was portrayed by Taraji P. Henson in this Oscar-nominated 2016 film Hidden Figures |
| #8300, aired 2020-12-11 | "A" "P" HISTORY $2000: Pals with Charles de Gaulle, he was premier of France for much of the 1960s (Georges) Pompidou |
| #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 |
| #8181, aired 2020-03-16 | CLUES ACROSS AMERICA $800: ( Hi, I'm Deborah Knapp with KENS 5. [She presents from the Witte Museum in San Antonio, Texas.]) The Witte Museum has an extra-small horse-drawn carriage given by P.T. Barnum to this man when he was 26 inches tall; he got the larger one after he'd grown to 40 inches Tom Thumb |
| #2, aired 2020-01-07 | GEO-VERSE $600: "P" is this forest, you'd go if you could; it's a national park full of agatized wood Petrified Forest |
| #7978, aired 2019-04-24 | GROSS CONFESSIONS $2000: This "In the Night Kitchen" author was childless, but would've preferred a daughter; "if I had a son, I'd leave him at the A & P" Maurice Sendak |
| #7958, aired 2019-03-27 | SET IN THE CITY $200: As of 2019 its "Med", "Fire" & "P.D." were all serving Chicago |
| #7850, aired 2018-10-26 | FICTION $2000: One of Britain's great mystery authors, she went back a couple of centuries for "Death Comes to Pemberley" P.D. James |
| #7835, aired 2018-10-05 | POTPOURRI $800: Later D.W. Griffith's D.P., Billy Bitzer worked for Hearst on the first film camera team to cover a war, this one the Spanish-American War |
| #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) |
| #7773, aired 2018-05-30 | MY OLD "L.P."s $2000: "Sei personaggi in cerca d'autore" is the title in the original Italian of a 1921 play by this writer Luigi Pirandello |
| #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 |
| #7718, aired 2018-03-14 | PERFECT RESPONSES FOR JEOPARDY! $800: It's the title question of P.D. Eastman's classic kids' book featuring a just-hatched baby bird Are You My Mother? |
| #7662, aired 2017-12-26 | TV MOVIES $800: This actor, an ex-TV P.I., was the specific general in A&E's "Ike: Countdown to D-Day" Tom Selleck |
| #7609, aired 2017-10-12 | MEN & WOMEN OF LETTERS $600: Phyllis Dorothy (P.D.) James |
| #7607, aired 2017-10-10 | THE WRITING STUFF $600: Aunt Grace wants 1 more copy; good thing you put out your poems using P.O.D., short for this printing on demand |
| #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. |
| #7447, aired 2017-01-17 | LETTER PERFECT $1200: Before "p" it was the British abbreviation for a penny or pence d |
| #7288, aired 2016-04-27 | SLEUTHS & THEIR CREATORS $800: Adam Dalgliesh P.D. James |
| #7266, aired 2016-03-28 | CHICAGO TV $400: In 2015 this drama about Windy City doctors joined the "Chicago P.D." & "Chicago Fire" franchise Chicago Med |
| #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 |
| #7190, aired 2015-12-11 | NAME IN COMMON $800: Authors Ellroy & P.D. James |
| #7052, aired 2015-04-21 | THE BIGGEST LOSER $800: In a Wimbledon singles final: Miss P.D.H. Boothby, in 1911 to Mrs. R.L. Chambers by this worst possible score 6-love, 6-love |
| #7024, aired 2015-03-12 | BRITISH AUTHORS $1000: Sharing the nickname "The Queen of Crime" are Agatha Christie & this author of the Adam Dalgliesh mysteries P.D. James |
| #6991, aired 2015-01-26 | THAT WOMAN CAN SING! $200: In 2010 this Detroit legend said she'd prefer Halle Berry to play her in a film bio; R-E-S-P-E-C-T her wishes! Aretha Franklin |
| #6989, aired 2015-01-22 | THIS IS N-P-R $600: Your digit-al I.D. fingerprint |
| #6964, aired 2014-12-18 | THAT WAS ON TV $1600: In a TV movie based on a P.D. James mystery & Jane Austen's characters, "Death Comes to" this estate of Mr. Darcy Pemberley |
| #6917, aired 2014-10-14 | 19th CENTURY AMERICANS $1600: In 1865 he & his brother William built an oil refinery in Cleveland they called Standard Works John D. Rockefeller |
| #6610, aired 2013-05-17 | FAMOUS FIRSTS $400: In 1977 P.D. (pre-Danica), Janet Guthrie became the first woman to compete in this race, finishing 29th the Indy 500 |
| #6520, aired 2013-01-11 | PRIVATE EYE Q $800: Here's our Kinsey Report:
This Sue Grafton private eye is ex-Santa Teresa P.D. Kinsey Millhone |
| #6482, aired 2012-11-20 | DIFFERS BY A LETTER $400: With a "D", it's a cute little indentation on the cheek or chin; with a "P", it's a not-so-cute blemish dimple/pimple |
| #6005, aired 2010-10-22 | "G" MEN $600: Wellington's last words, "Yes, if you please", came when asked if he'd like some tea, maybe this P.M. who followed him Earl Grey |
| #5964, aired 2010-07-15 | ALL-AMERICAN REJECTS $200: In D.C. for the 2009 inauguration, he was told he couldn't check in early at Blair House; an ex-Aussie P.M. had it (Barack) Obama |
| #5870, aired 2010-03-05 | MEN & WOMEN OF LETTERS $600: Phyllis Dorothy (P.D.) James |
| #5849, aired 2010-02-04 | GET A "P-H-D" $400: Hippos & rhinos are also these, thick-skinned, nonruminant ungulates pachyderms |
| #5849, aired 2010-02-04 | GET A "P-H-D" $800: The state of being a mom or dad parenthood |
| #5849, aired 2010-02-04 | GET A "P-H-D" $1600: The name of this plant is from the Greek for "fond of trees" philodendron |
| #5849, aired 2010-02-04 | GET A "P-H-D" $2000: The Curies discovered radium in 1898 while working with this ore of uranium pitchblende |
| #5849, aired 2010-02-04 | GET A "P-H-D" $2,800 (Daily Double): This term for a solid figure having many faces comes from the Greek for "many faces" polyhedron |
| #5813, aired 2009-12-16 | "D.P." $400: Vlasic makes kosher these dill pickles |
| #5813, aired 2009-12-16 | "D.P." $800: In 1993 this chain put crunchy thin crust on its menus nationwide Domino's Pizza |
| #5813, aired 2009-12-16 | "D.P." $1200: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows an illusion on the monitor.) Shadows make the images on the left appear convex, & the right seem concave; turning them upside down reverses the effect due to this, the ability to see objects in three dimensions depth perception |
| #5813, aired 2009-12-16 | "D.P." $1600: The Fifth Amendment says no person shall be "deprived of life, liberty, or property without" this due process |
| #5813, aired 2009-12-16 | "D.P." $2000: It sure looks pleasant enough, but the plant seen here has this satanic name devil's paintbrush |
| #5788, aired 2009-11-11 | MEDICINE $400: The traditional Snellen chart used to measure this contains only the letters C, D, E, F, L, O, P, T & Z eyesight |
| #5758, aired 2009-09-30 | PUBLISHING $1200: Xlibris is a P.O.D. service, P.O.D. standing for this do-it-yourself method print on demand |
| #5692, aired 2009-05-12 | TV GEOGRAPHY $1000: Lilly Rush of this city's P.D. tries to find the killer of each "Cold Case" Philadelphia |
| #5660, aired 2009-03-27 | "P.D." QUEUE $400: This Latin term refers to a daily allowance for living expenses while traveling per diem |
| #5660, aired 2009-03-27 | "P.D." QUEUE $800: Term for land owned by the government, or a work of art not under copyright public domain |
| #5660, aired 2009-03-27 | "P.D." QUEUE $1,000 (Daily Double): Type Cleveland P.D. into Google & you'll get hits for the police department & this newspaper The Plain Dealer |
| #5660, aired 2009-03-27 | "P.D." QUEUE $1200: This 4th quarter defensive strategy that tries to stop big offensive gains can get groans from fans the prevent defense |
| #5660, aired 2009-03-27 | "P.D." QUEUE $2000: This 2-step dance music is often played at bullfights paso doble |
| #5532, aired 2008-09-30 | FACE BOOK $2000: "Cover Her Face" is an Adam Dalgliesh mystery by this British woman P.D. James |
| #5499, aired 2008-07-03 | KEEP "FALL"ING $200: In 1856 P.T. Barnum boasted he'd go over this in a 30-foot-wide rubber ball-- didn't happen Niagara Falls |
| #5476, aired 2008-06-02 | SEXPERTISE $1000: P.D. James,
G.K. Chesterton,
A.A. Milne P.D. James |
| #5360, aired 2007-12-21 | FROM A TO E $2000: Next time you fall on your behind, be grateful for this cushioning tissue of fat cells just below the skin adipose |
| #5330, aired 2007-11-09 | PHONETICS $2000: A letter like P or D, where some part of the mouth is blocked off to make the sound, is called this simple word of cessation a stop |
| #5096, aired 2006-11-06 | P TIMES 3 $800: A fun kind of this is a children's book with 3-D cutout artwork; a not-so-fun kind happens while Internet surfing a pop-up |
| #5035, aired 2006-06-30 | FACT $400: On a traditional Snellen one of these, the 9 letters on the 11th line are
P E Z O L C F T D an eye chart |
| #4749, aired 2005-04-07 | "A.M"/"P.M." $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the Int'l Spy Museum in Washington, D.C.) Complete with tire shredder, this make of car was used by James Bond in "Goldfinger" an Aston Martin |
| #4723, aired 2005-03-02 | DENNIS, ANYONE? $400: He played Tony Spampatta in the 1991 TV movie "N.Y.P.D. Mounted" before getting "Blue" in '93 Dennis Franz |
| #4693, aired 2005-01-19 | CHERCHEZ LA FEMME $1000: P.D. James,
P.G. Wodehouse,
P.J. O'Rourke P.D. James |
| #4637, aired 2004-11-03 | A WORLD OF BOOKS $1200: Detective Cordelia Gray debuted in this Englishwoman's "An Unsuitable Job for a Woman" (P.D.) James |
| #4600, aired 2004-09-10 | DETECTIVE FICTION $1000: “A Taste for Death” is one of P.D. James’ novels about this Scotland Yard detective and published poet Adam Dalgliesh |
| #4575, aired 2004-06-25 | WOMEN AUTHORS $1600: 2003's "Blow Fly" is her twelfth novel to feature Dr. Kay Scarpetta, now a private forensics consultant Patricia Cornwell |
| #4536, aired 2004-05-03 | RIGHT ON THE MONEY $1000: A "D" on U.S. coins indicates the coin was minted in Denver; a "P", this city Philadelphia |
| #4526, aired 2004-04-19 | MEN & WOMEN OF LETTERS $600: Phyllis Dorothy... P.D. James |
| #4416, aired 2003-11-17 | FIRST, MIDDLE & LAST NAME'S THE SAME $2000: Flutist Galway, birder John Audubon, Author P.D. James |
| #4022, aired 2002-02-12 | CLASS ACTIONS $600: Competition in which you'd hear, "Asparagus, A-S-P-A-R-A-G-U-S, asparagus" a spelling bee |
| #4011, aired 2002-01-28 | "P"OTPOURRI $1200: Vesuvius buried it in 79 A.D. Pompeii |
| #4011, aired 2002-01-28 | PERSON $2000: In 1991 he headed the independent commission that investigated the L.A.P.D.; in 1993 he became Secretary of State Warren Christopher |
| #3919, aired 2001-09-20 | WHO DUNNIT? $400: "The First Deadly Sin" Lawrence Sanders |
| #3880, aired 2001-06-15 | "P"LACES $200: W.C. Fields joked that his epitaph should read, "On the whole, I'd rather be in" this city Philadelphia |
| #3880, aired 2001-06-15 | HELP ME WITH THIS CROSSWORD! $400: Aluminum silicate mineral:
[6 Across: F E _ D S P A _] Feldspar |
| #3873, aired 2001-06-06 | BILLY WILDER FILMS $1000: This 1953 war drama was based on a play by Donald Bevan & Edmund Trzcinski, 2 ex-G.I.'s who'd been P.O.W.s Stalag 17 |
| #3823, aired 2001-03-28 | OF THE WORLD $200: This U.S. city was the birthplace of Connie Chung, Edward Herrmann & John F. Kennedy, Jr. Washington, D.C. |
| #3822, aired 2001-03-27 | TREE-VIA $200: The 65-foot millennium holiday tree sent by Colorado to Washington, D.C. in 2000 was the blue type of this Spruce |
| #3817, aired 2001-03-20 | AUTHORS & THEIR SLEUTHS $2,000 (Daily Double): Bishop Blackie Ryan Andrew Greeley |
| #3802, aired 2001-02-27 | THE JAMES GANG $800: "Cover Her Face" was the first of her mysteries to feature her detective Adam Dalgliesh, a Scotland Yard man P.D. James |
| #3785, aired 2001-02-02 | "N" TERTAINMENT $1000: This silent screen star seen here was born in Poland: P-o-l-a, N.-D. Pola Negri |
| #3756, aired 2000-12-25 | THE DREADED SPELLING CATEGORY $300: You have the honor of spelling... P-R-I-V-I-L-E-G-E |
| #3740, aired 2000-12-01 | SPORT-O-RAMA $200: The only major sporting event named for a famous TV transvestite is this man's golf tournament Jamie Farr (Klinger on "M*A*S*H") |
| #3740, aired 2000-12-01 | CORPORATE AMERICA $400: In 2000 the town of Halfway, Oregon renamed itself this, after a website with discounts of at least 50% Half.com |
| #3703, aired 2000-10-11 | THE FUNNIES $600: What's up with this title doc? He got some plastic surgery in June 2000 Rex Morgan, M.D. |
| #3638, aired 2000-05-31 | SUPREME COURT JUSTICES $1000: Before becoming chief justice in 1864, he'd been Secretary of the Treasury & governor of Ohio Salmon P. Chase |
| #3619, aired 2000-05-04 | INITIAL T.V. $400: This '60s police drama with Jack Warden was missing the "blue" of the series that began in 1993 N.Y.P.D. |
| #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 |
| #3431, aired 1999-07-05 | RELATIVE LIT $800: Title question a baby bird asks of everything in sight in a P.D. Eastman "Beginner Book" "Are you my mother?" |
| #3257, aired 1998-11-03 | MURDER, SHE WROTE $400: "A Mind for Murder" & "A Taste for Death" are works by this author whose first names are Phyllis Dorothy P.D. James |
| #3198, aired 1998-06-24 | A LITTLE KNIGHT MUSIC $300: Apprentice, wake thy knight, these instruments being struck announce the day: Bells |
| #3198, aired 1998-06-24 | ZOOLOGY $400: The woolly bear caterpillar grows up to be the Isabella tiger species of this insect Moth |
| #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 |
| #3197, aired 1998-06-23 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $1000: This 6,684-foot peak in western North Carolina is the highest U.S. point east of the Mississippi River Mount Mitchell |
| #3166, aired 1998-05-11 | SPELL CHECK $200: Think back and spell... P-R-I-M-O-R-D-I-A-L |
| #3017, aired 1997-10-14 | FICTIONAL DETECTIVES $800: In 1962 she introduced Scotland Yard's Adam Dalgliesh in her first novel, "Cover Her Face" P.D. James |
| #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 |
| #2847, aired 1997-01-07 | CROSSWORD CLUES "P" $200: Peter's pepper
(7) Pickled |
| #2832, aired 1996-12-17 | OKLAHOMANS $400: This senior senator from New York spent the first 6 months of his life in Oklahoma Daniel Patrick Moynihan |
| #2783, aired 1996-10-09 | ENGLISH LIT $1000: This baroness whose first name is Phyllis is famous for mystery novels about detective Adam Dalgliesh P.D. James |
| #2591, aired 1995-12-04 | HISTORY $200: In 1963 this 88-year-old former P.M. announced he'd not run for another term in Parliament Churchill |
| #2505, aired 1995-06-23 | D-DAY $200: This British P.M. had a premonition of "tides running red with blood" Winston Churchill |
| #2293, aired 1994-07-20 | WOMEN AUTHORS $600: The P.D. in the name of this mystery novelist stands for Phyllis Dorothy P.D. James |
| #2202, aired 1994-03-15 | COMPOSERS $800: Humorous composer Peter Schickele invented this fictional composer in 1953 P.D.Q. Bach |
| #2121, aired 1993-11-22 | TRANSPORTATION $400: The penny-farthing was an old-fashioned one of these Bicycle |
| #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 |
| #2068, aired 1993-09-08 | LETTERS $300: Turn your small p's & q's upside down & they'll resemble these 2 small letters d's & b's |
| #1957, aired 1993-02-23 | OH NO! IT'S SPELLING $500: These horseback riding breeches make your hips look huge but are very tight from the knee to the ankle J-O-D-H-P-U-R-S |
| #1902, aired 1992-12-08 | PEOPLE $500: In 1991 this British mystery author whose books include "Devices and Desires" was made a baroness P.D. James |
| #1850, aired 1992-09-25 | LETTER PERFECT $500: In the U.S. "P" stands for penny; in England this letter formerly did D |
| #1834, aired 1992-07-16 | OLD RADIO $100: Sgt. Friday worked for the L.A.P.D. & Sgt. Preston worked for them, the N.W.M.P. the North-West Mounted Police |
| #1828, aired 1992-07-08 | "P.D." $100: It's the P.D. in L.A.P.D. or N.Y.P.D. police department |
| #1828, aired 1992-07-08 | "P.D." $200: She won an Emmy & an Oscar for "The Miracle Worker", but for different roles Patty Duke |
| #1828, aired 1992-07-08 | "P.D." $300: She played Mindy to Robin Williams's Mork...Nanu, nanu Pam Dawber |
| #1828, aired 1992-07-08 | "P.D." $400: A daily allowance given to a business traveler per diem |
| #1828, aired 1992-07-08 | "P.D." $500: He made his Met debut 4 days earlier than planned in 1968, replacing the lead in "Adriana Lecouvreur" Placido Domingo |
| #1493, aired 1991-02-13 | SPELLING $100: Sometimes called a sheepskin, it's the certificate a student receives upon graduation D-I-P-L-O-M-A |
| #11, aired 1990-08-25 | SPELLING $600: From the Greek, it's a fictitious name used by an author P-S-E-U-D-O-N-Y-M |
| #1319, aired 1990-05-03 | POLITICAL QUOTES $400: 1 of the 3 things which, according to John Fremont's 1856 G.O.P. campaign, should be free Soil, men & speech |
| #1215, aired 1989-12-08 | POLITICAL LEADERS $1000: Though he lost the presidential election to Mitterand in 1988, he's still mayor of Paris Jacques Chirac |
| #1193, aired 1989-11-08 | LETTER PERFECT $400: In the new British currency system p stands for pence; in the old system, this stood for penny d |
| #1043, aired 1989-03-01 | "P.S." $100: You'd be embarrassed to find one showing beneath your skirt or falling from your paycheck pink slip |
| #921, aired 1988-09-12 | "P.D." $200: Latin phrase referring to an allowance for daily expenses a per diem |
| #921, aired 1988-09-12 | "P.D." $400: Phrase meaning unrealistic hopes, it originally referred to the fantasies induced by smoking opium pipe dream |
| #921, aired 1988-09-12 | "P.D." $600: Poppin' Fresh the Pillsbury Doughboy |
| #921, aired 1988-09-12 | "P.D." $800 (Daily Double): It's earth rich enough to mine pay dirt |
| #921, aired 1988-09-12 | "P.D." $1000: She was nominated for an Emmy in 1964 for playing both Patty & Cathy Lane Patty Duke |
| #732, aired 1987-11-10 | STARTS WITH "P" $200 (Daily Double): Movie that featured the following music: Picnic |
| #666, aired 1987-06-29 | MEDICAL SPELLING $400: Rabies, or a morbid dread of water H-Y-D-R-O-P-H-O-B-I-A |
| #627, aired 1987-05-05 | GOVERNMENT & POLITICS $400: In 1986, he won the seat Tip O'Neill just vacated & his uncle had filled 40 years ago Joseph P. Kennedy II |
| #589, aired 1987-03-12 | THE ENCYCLOPEDIA $200: On TV's "Mickey Mouse Club", this insect taught a generation how to spell "E-N-C-Y-C-L-O-P-E-D-I-A" Jiminy Cricket |
| #507, aired 1986-11-18 | SPELLING $1000: Full name of the lady who plays Maddie Hayes on "Moonlighting" C-Y-B-I-L-L S-H-E-P-H-E-R-D |
| #438, aired 1986-05-14 | LEADERS $1000: Visiting Washington, D.C., this p.m. stated Japan should become an "unsinkable air-craft carrier" Nakasone |
| #185, aired 1985-05-24 | THE ALPHABET $100: Printers were the 1st told to "mind" these letters, because reversed, they look like each other Ps & Qs |
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P.D. Wadler, a psychotherapist from Chicago, Illinois
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Season 14 1-time champion: $9,200. P.D. stands for Paul David, named...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Dan Jensen, a restaurant manager from Reston, Virginia
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Season 27 3-time champion: $58,203 + $1,000.
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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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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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Anderson Cooper, a host from CNN's Anderson Cooper 360°
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2004 Power Players Week player (2004-05-11).
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Michael Steele, a political analyst and host from MSNBC and Steele & Ungar
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"He was elected lieutenant governor of Maryland in 2003, and later...
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Surabhi Iyer, a ten-year-old from Franklin, Massachusetts
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"Her research scientist dad has inspired her to become a neuroscientist....
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Emily Heaney, a freelance costume designer from White Bear Lake, Minnesota
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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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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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Mallory Banks, from Summerville, South Carolina
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"And this future physicist loves figuring out the underlying components of...
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