| #25, aired 2024-05-08 | LITERATURE: WHO SAID IT? $1600: "For if he is still with the quick un-dead, your death would make you even as he is. No, you must live!" Van Helsing |
| #9097, aired 2024-05-07 | DEATH IN THE CAPITAL $200: Journalist John Reed died in this city & was buried with other Bolshevik heroes Moscow |
| #9097, aired 2024-05-07 | DEATH IN THE CAPITAL $400: This Doors frontman reportedly died in a Paris bathtub July 3, 1971; others believe he faked his death Jim Morrison |
| #9097, aired 2024-05-07 | DEATH IN THE CAPITAL $600: Prime ministers John A. MacDonald & Lester Pearson both died in this city Ottawa |
| #9097, aired 2024-05-07 | DEATH IN THE CAPITAL $1000: This Merry Monarch wasn't so merry when he died in London in 1685 Charles II |
| #9097, aired 2024-05-07 | DEATH IN THE CAPITAL $2,000 (Daily Double): Pope Julius II called him to Rome to do his art thing; he died there in 1564 Michelangelo |
| #9096, aired 2024-05-06 | THE PLOT SICKENS $400: "The Red Death" created by this 19th century author was a disease that killed people a half-hour from onset Edgar Allan Poe |
| #9096, aired 2024-05-06 | EMBRACE THE DARK SIDE $600: These ancient texts discovered in 1947 contain an account of an impending war between the Sons of Light & the Sons of Darkness the Dead Sea Scrolls |
| #9096, aired 2024-05-06 | THE PLOT SICKENS $2000: This author opens with "The Death of Ivan Ilych", then works backward as we see how Ivan got there Tolstoy |
| #24, aired 2024-05-06 | HOLMES, SHERLOCK HOLMES $200: After Holmes & Watson shoot this title creature dead, it's discovered to have been painted in phosphorus to make it glow eerily the Hound of the Baskervilles |
| #24, aired 2024-05-06 | WE OUT HERE TRYNA MINE $1600: Old-time miners in Death Valley used a green-flame test to see if they had found this 5-letter salt, often used in cleaning products borax |
| #23, aired 2024-05-06 | DEATH OF A WRITER $400: This Pulitzer Prize winner was hit & killed in 1949 as she tried to cross Peachtree Street in Atlanta (Margaret) Mitchell |
| #23, aired 2024-05-06 | WORLD RELIGION $800: Meant to be read to the dead, the "Bardo Thodol" of this religion is designed to help the soul face death & prepare for its next rebirth Buddhism |
| #23, aired 2024-05-06 | DEATH OF A WRITER $800: He died in 1984 at the home of Johnny Carson's ex-wife Joanne, not one of his swans but a close friend to the end Capote |
| #23, aired 2024-05-06 | DEATH OF A WRITER $1600: A friend of Shakespeare, this "Song: To Celia" poet & playwright was buried standing up in Westminster Abbey Ben Jonson |
| #23, aired 2024-05-06 | DEATH OF A WRITER $2000: Legend has it that this ancient playwright died when an eagle dropped a tortoise on his head Aeschylus |
| #23, aired 2024-05-06 | DEATH OF A WRITER $8,400 (Daily Double): This author from Sauk Centre, Minnesota died in a nursing home in Rome in 1951 Sinclair Lewis |
| #9095, aired 2024-05-03 | PRESIDENTIAL HOMES $1000: Mrs. Hoover designed a Lou & Herb-arium on this college's campus; the home was deeded to the school upon her death Stanford University |
| #9095, aired 2024-05-03 | WHEN I DIE $2000: This pre-Islamic religion of India & Iran still lays their dead on "towers of silence" to be eaten by birds of prey Zoroastrianism |
| #9093, aired 2024-05-01 | 16th CENTURY STUFF $400: The O-"G", this name I Vasa, founded Sweden's Vasa ruling line & reigned from 1523 until his 1560 death Gustav |
| #21, aired 2024-05-01 | HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES $600: Horse racing, wrestling & archery are part of Naadam, a 5-day festival in this country said to date to the time of Genghis Khan Mongolia |
| #21, aired 2024-05-01 | INTERNET SLANG $600: If someone posts the skull emoji, it doesn't mean the user is dead inside, just dead from too much of this joyful activity laughing |
| #9092, aired 2024-04-30 | LAW SLAW $400: We're not sure if lawyers still do this, but in "Middlemarch", Mr. Standish does, to relatives after a rich man's death read the will |
| #9092, aired 2024-04-30 | GIVING SOME DIRECTION $800: A number & a measurement are in this term describing the buried dead 6 feet under |
| #9091, aired 2024-04-29 | DISNEY MOVIE BY LYRICS $800: "I'm in the mood to help you, dude, you ain't never had a friend like me" Aladdin |
| #9091, aired 2024-04-29 | TELEVISION $2000: Lee Pace starred as a man who could bring back the dead for a little while on this series whose title is slang for being dead Pushing Daisies |
| #9090, aired 2024-04-26 | FORE & AFTER $600: After retiring at the age of 28 in 1930, golf great Bobby Jones joined the Army & landed in Normandy on this date, D-Day plus one June 7, 1944 |
| #9090, aired 2024-04-26 | HUSBANDS & WIVES $1000: Lee Krasner was married to this fellow abstract expressionist until his death in a 1956 car crash Jackson Pollock |
| #9088, aired 2024-04-24 | HIKING GEAR $800: Don't forget bug spray! The CDC recommends repellent with this 4-letter ingredient to repel ticks DEET |
| #9088, aired 2024-04-24 | ESSAYS $2000: "Death is stronger than I am", this British woman wrote in "The Death of the Moth", published the year after she took her own life Virginia Woolf |
| #9086, aired 2024-04-22 | BOOKED IN BOOKS $400: In this nonfiction book, Helen Prejean writes to "Elmo Patrick Sonnier... death row, Louisiana State Penitentiary" Dead Man Walking |
| #9085, aired 2024-04-19 | NOT YOUR EVERYDAY WORDS $1200: In South Asia, you might give your dhoti, seen here, to a dhoby, a person with this job laundry (washing clothes) |
| #9084, aired 2024-04-18 | PATIENCE $200: For most, birthdays come once a year, except for those born on this date, who in a way, get older slower than the rest of us February 29th |
| #9084, aired 2024-04-18 | AT THE START OF THE SPORT $600: Discovered in a pond in Scotland, the oldest known stone for this sport is inscribed with the date 1511 curling |
| #9083, aired 2024-04-17 | TV MUSIC $800: Composer Bear McCreary used tremolo strings to evoke the horror of zombies for the theme of this show that debuted in 2010 The Walking Dead |
| #9083, aired 2024-04-17 | OUR FLOUNDERING FATHERS $1200: Pre-"Give me liberty or give me death", he ran a failing store for his dad, didn't make it as a tobacco farmer & his house burned down Henry |
| #9081, aired 2024-04-15 | THAT BAND'S AN INSTITUTION $1600: In 2024 this band set a record with its 59th Top 40 album, a 1985 live performance featuring "Truckin"' the Grateful Dead |
| #9080, aired 2024-04-12 | THE BLACK ARTS MOVEMENT $400: In response to this Black nationalist's death in 1965, Amiri Baraka wrote "Black Art", an early poem of the Black Arts Movement Malcolm X |
| #9080, aired 2024-04-12 | THAT'S SO CRINGE $600: From the Latin for "death", it can indeed mean to render necrotic but it's more associated as a word meaning to embarrass mortify |
| #9080, aired 2024-04-12 | NEW YORK GOVERNORS $600: Known as the "Father of the Erie Canal", he served 2 terms as governor of New York DeWitt Clinton |
| #9080, aired 2024-04-12 | DROP IN... $800: From a word meaning certainly to get this legal contract "of trust" or "of sale" a deed |
| #9080, aired 2024-04-12 | FAKE MOVIES IN MOVIES $1600: A woman on death row is the focus of "Habeas Corpus", a project within this film about a movie exec played by Tim Robbins The Player |
| #9077, aired 2024-04-09 | ANCIENT HISTORY $1600: The Southern or Shan-Yang part of this waterway may date from the 500s B.C.; the adjective-worthy part wasn't dug until much later the Grand Canal |
| #9076, aired 2024-04-08 | POP CULTURE IS SPRINGING OUT ALL OVER $800: Asked to describe a perfect date, a pageant contestant in this film says, "April 25 because it's not too hot, not too cold" Miss Congeniality |
| #9075, aired 2024-04-05 | IN THE PAST $600: Her son Jean Baptiste served as a military guide in the American West before his 1866 death Sacagawea |
| #9075, aired 2024-04-05 | HORROR MUSIC $1600: In a song by the goth rock band Bauhaus, this horror movie legend is "Dead, undead, undead, undead" Bela Lugosi |
| #9074, aired 2024-04-04 | "C-U" LATER $1600: Nov. 25, the date the British cleared out of New York City in 1783, was once a blowout holiday called this day Evacuation Day |
| #9072, aired 2024-04-02 | FICTION $200: Agatha Christie set part of this 1937 mystery at the Old Cataract Hotel in Aswan Death on the Nile |
| #9072, aired 2024-04-02 | MOUNTAIN HIGH, VALLEY LOW $800: In 2023 Hurricane Hilary caused flooding in Badwater Basin in this Calif. national park, creating a temporary lake Death Valley |
| #9072, aired 2024-04-02 | MOVIES & MYTH $1600: In "The Mummy Returns", this Egyptian god of the dead/cute li'l puppy takes the soul of Dwayne Johnson Anubis |
| #9071, aired 2024-04-01 | SAME LAST 3/ FIRST 3 LETTERS $200: Animal you "play" when feigning death
&
a brief & succinct explanation of an event possum & summary |
| #9070, aired 2024-03-29 | PENALTIES & BONUSES $400: In the Gospel of John, the Pharisees told Jesus that this was the penalty for adultery; he told them to be cautious judging death by stoning |
| #9070, aired 2024-03-29 | A STANDOUT STAND-UP $1000: A chapter in Laurie Kilmartin's "Dead People Suck" is "Home Hospice: Die Surrounded by Stuff You Meant to Take to" this charity Goodwill |
| #9069, aired 2024-03-28 | TOUGH VOCAB $2000: Meaning reverse or opposite, it's also a rhetorical device using contrast, such as "Give me liberty or give me death" antithesis |
| #9068, aired 2024-03-27 | WORLD LITERATURE $2000: This Chilean author of "The Savage Detectives" has gained wide fame in English translation since his early death in 2003 Roberto Bolaño |
| #9066, aired 2024-03-25 | SO NICE, WE NEED THE ANSWER TWICE $1000: In art history, it preceded Surrealism Dada |
| #9066, aired 2024-03-25 | IAMB A POET $1200: Iam the "I" in "I Felt a Funeral, in My Brain", & what do you mean I'm obsessed with death? Dickinson |
| #9065, aired 2024-03-22 | NONFICTION $400: The 2023 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction went to a book about this man, whose 2020 death in Minneapolis sparked protests worldwide Floyd |
| #9063, aired 2024-03-20 | BESTSELLING BOOKS $200: "Over a period of several weeks, the competitors must fight to the death. The last tribute standing wins" in this novel The Hunger Games |
| #9062, aired 2024-03-19 | NEWER MACHINES & INVENTIONS $600: The IoT is short for this, which connects commonplace items to the web & collects data the Internet of Things |
| #9062, aired 2024-03-19 | SPEECHMAKING $800: Following this man's death in 1948, prime minister Nehru stated, "The light has gone out of our lives" Mahatma Gandhi |
| #9060, aired 2024-03-15 | TYPES OF POEMS $1000: For this grave work, Yeats chose words he had already written: "Cast a cold eye, on life, on death. Horseman, pass by" his epitaph |
| #9059, aired 2024-03-14 | ANCIENT HISTORY $800: Crimes punishable by death in this 282-law collection included robbery, false accusation & priestesses drinking with commoners the Code of Hammurabi |
| #9058, aired 2024-03-13 | "BIT"TING AT THE CHAMPS $800: "Geographic" term for an array of binary data used to create an image a bitmap |
| #9057, aired 2024-03-12 | SOUP'S ON $600: Vichyssoise, made with a base of potatoes & this onion relative, is said to date back to 1917 at the Ritz-Carlton leek |
| #9057, aired 2024-03-12 | STARTS WITH "P" $800: Also known as the caveman diet, it's a shortened word for a diet that emphasizes lean meats & veggies paleo |
| #9056, aired 2024-03-11 | THE CIVIL WAR $2000: The last battlefield death of the war was Union Pvt. John Williams, who was killed at Palmito Ranch in this state in May 1865 Texas |
| #9055, aired 2024-03-08 | WE'RE GOIN' TO BROADWAY! $400: Songs in this show include "King Arthur's Song", "I Am Not Dead Yet" & "You Won't Succeed On Broadway" Spamalot |
| #9053, aired 2024-03-06 | SHAKESPEARE FOR EVERYONE! $200: To sum things up, this title guy passes over a very vengeful dude for the chief Lt. gig & does not get to live to regret it Othello |
| #9052, aired 2024-03-05 | POETS & POETRY $1600: Published after his 1850 death, "The Prelude" is an epic poetic memoir by this Romantic Wordsworth |
| #9050, aired 2024-03-01 | "N"OWLEDGE $400: The town of Arad in this desert is a common stopover for visitors to the Dead Sea the Negev |
| #9050, aired 2024-03-01 | RHYMES WITH RHYME $1000: In computer jargon, it's an extension that allows the transfer of different types of data files via email MIME |
| #9049, aired 2024-02-29 | AROUND THE WORLD $400: On this November holiday in Mexico, families gather to celebrate & remember their loved ones who have passed on Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) |
| #9049, aired 2024-02-29 | LIVE, LAUGH, LOVE $1000: Love:
After his death in 1142, he would be buried next to his beloved Héloïse in Père Lachaise Abelard |
| #9048, aired 2024-02-28 | FEELING CHARITABLE $6,600 (Daily Double): May 28, 1961, when the newspaper story "The Forgotten Prisoners" ran, is considered the founding date of this organization Amnesty International |
| #9047, aired 2024-02-27 | A WORLD OF DEPRESSIONS $1200: The name of this depression on the southern side of Haiti sounds like a dead end street Cul-de-Sac |
| #9046, aired 2024-02-26 | THE NEW TESTAMENT $800: Acts 7 reports that he was stoned to death for speaking what the council thought was blasphemy against God Stephen |
| #9045, aired 2024-02-23 | JUDGES $400: Caryl Chessman chose to defend himself in front of Charles Fricke, who did this more than any other Calif. judge ever & did it to Caryl too provide a death sentence |
| #9044, aired 2024-02-22 | 40 YEARS AGO: 1984 $400: Bob Woodward's "Wired: The Short Life & Fast Times of" this comic offended some of its subject's friends & family John Belushi |
| #9044, aired 2024-02-22 | THE KEY WORD IN THE LITERARY SUBTITLE $600: A Vonnegut novel much about mortality:
"Death" Slaughterhouse-Five |
| #9044, aired 2024-02-22 | BEFORE THE FIRST WORLD WAR $7,400 (Daily Double): The history book "The Sleepwalkers" says this event not only stirred war fever in Austria but ended the life of an advocate for peace the assassination of Ferdinand (Archduke Ferdinand's death) |
| #9043, aired 2024-02-21 | ENDS IN "IR" $400: It's a tchotchke or doodad, perhaps the "Virginia is for lovers" key chain picked up on a vacation souvenir |
| #9043, aired 2024-02-21 | HALLELUJAH! $1,800 (Daily Double): As an interjection, it means freakin' awesome, dude! As a noun, a less freakin' awesome unit of scientific measurement rad |
| #9043, aired 2024-02-21 | MR. STEVE MARTIN $2000: After Steve asks Lily Tomlin why she thinks she'll come back from the dead in this 1984 film, Lily replies, "Because I'm rich" All of Me |
| #9041, aired 2024-02-19 | PLANT LORE $800: Legend says a limb from one of these trees taken from Lebanon & now in Derbyshire fell at the death of Lord Carnarvon cedar |
| #9037, aired 2024-02-13 | LENDING YOU A POKER HAND $800: The "dead man's hand" of 2 pair, black aces & 8s, was reportedly held by him when he was shot dead in 1876 Hickok |
| #9037, aired 2024-02-13 | SIBLINGS OF NOTE $11,000 (Daily Double): Marcel's kid sister Suzanne Duchamp caught the bug for this movement with artworks like "Accordion Masterpiece" Dada |
| #9036, aired 2024-02-12 | GENIUS: MLK/X $1000: (Kelvin Harrison Jr. presents the clue.) Since they marched together, went to jail together & even had a pillow fight together right before Martin's death, MLK & this minister are referred to as the civil rights twins on the show Ralph Abernathy |
| #9034, aired 2024-02-08 | THE MOURNING NEWS $1000: This British author kept 2 initials & a 5-letter last name as N.W. Clerk to write "A Grief Observed" about his wife's death C.S. Lewis |
| #9033, aired 2024-02-07 | AHHH, THE FRENCH $200: This national heroine of France was canonized on May 16, 1920, nearly 500 years after her death Joan of Arc |
| #9033, aired 2024-02-07 | AHHH, THE FRENCH $400: After Pierre's death, Marie Curie was appointed to his professorship in 1906 & became the first woman to teach at this U. in Paris the Sorbonne |
| #9033, aired 2024-02-07 | TV SHOWS BY CHARACTER $800: Maggie,
Michonne,
Negan The Walking Dead |
| #9032, aired 2024-02-06 | LATER, DUDE $400: When you're eager either to leave or to hop on your Pogo stick, you might say "gotta" this bounce |
| #9032, aired 2024-02-06 | LATER, DUDE $800: A British way of saying goodbye is this, which sounds like a single piece of a circular General Mills cereal cheerio |
| #9032, aired 2024-02-06 | LATER, DUDE $1200: At a White House correspondents' dinner, Pres. Obama said goodbye with one of these actions that could have hurt the equipment a mic drop |
| #9032, aired 2024-02-06 | LATER, DUDE $1600: This word used for wishing someone well on their upcoming journey sounds like it could be Thor's time in a sprint godspeed |
| #9032, aired 2024-02-06 | LATER, DUDE $2000: As this 8-letter word can mean "goodbye forever" in Japan, most Japanese people don't use it that often sayonara |
| #9031, aired 2024-02-05 | TRICKS OF THE SHOW BIZ TRADE $400: For an acting scene where you find out your grandma, dog & dreams are all dead, menthol applied under the eye will help you do this cry |
| #9031, aired 2024-02-05 | FINAL RESTING PLACES $400: After an attempted grave robbery soon after his death, Elvis Presley's body was moved from Forest Hill Cemetery to this estate Graceland |
| #9031, aired 2024-02-05 | TOOLS $400: With steel shot or sand inside, a dead blow type of this won't bounce back after striking a hammer |
| #9031, aired 2024-02-05 | IT'S GIVING... $400: A New York Times headline read this oil man's "gifts total $530,853,632", remarkably specific on the day after his death in 1937 (John D.) Rockefeller |
| #9031, aired 2024-02-05 | FINAL RESTING PLACES $800: Following her 1997 death, she was buried on a small island in a lake in Althorp Park, the Spencer family estate Princess Diana |
| #9031, aired 2024-02-05 | BRITISH LITERATURE $800: The unexpected death of a small town council member is a mystery at the heart of "The Casual Vacancy" by this author J.K. Rowling |
| #9030, aired 2024-02-02 | BILLBOARD'S 500 BEST POP SONGS $400: At No. 1, Billboard picked this Whitney Houston hit that made hitting the floor "feel like an issue of life-or-death urgency" "I Wanna Dance With Somebody" |
| #3, aired 2024-02-02 | PICK YOUR POISON $400: The death cup & destroying angels are poisonous ones of these mushrooms |
| #3, aired 2024-02-02 | WILL YOU STILL NEED "ME" $1600: In "Hamlet", it completes the line "The lady doth protest too much..." methinks |
| #9028, aired 2024-01-31 | OPERA $400: In act IV of "La bohème", Musetta finds this woman half-dead; spoiler alert--by the end of the act, she's all dead Mimi |
| #9028, aired 2024-01-31 | QUESTIONABLE MOVIES $400: Ashton Kutcher & Seann William Scott search for a jalopy while aliens look for the continuum transfunctioner in this film Dude, Where's My Car? |
| #9027, aired 2024-01-30 | HOT FOR CREATURE $1000: 100° spring water is no problem for the Ash Meadows Amargosa pupfish in this morbid Western U.S. national park Death Valley |
| #9026, aired 2024-01-29 | 19th CENTURY AUTHORS $800: "Persuasion", the last book she completed before her death in 1817, was published posthumously Austen |
| #9026, aired 2024-01-29 | 19th CENTURY AUTHORS $1000: Everyone "walked in his own individual way the road to dusty death" is a typical cheery line from him in "Tess of the d'Urbervilles" Hardy |
| #9023, aired 2024-01-24 | ONE-TERM PRESIDENTS $1600: This late 19th c. grandson blew a surplus, lost the House, lost his own re-election bid, then wed his dead wife's niece Benjamin Harrison |
| #9023, aired 2024-01-24 | BALD IS BEAUTIFUL $1600: To date, he's played newsman J. Jonah Jameson in five live-action "Spider-Man" movies J.K. Simmons |
| #9022, aired 2024-01-23 | THESE STARS SOUND LIKE CARS $600: This Brit seen here rolled over many a Zombie as Rick on "The Walking Dead" Andrew Lincoln |
| #9022, aired 2024-01-23 | POETS & POETRY $2000: Tennyson's poem about the land of these people, named for their diet, in which it seemed always afternoon, inspired a painting the Lotus Eaters |
| #9021, aired 2024-01-22 | SHORT STORIES $2000: Kristen Roupenian's 2017 tale about a date gone wrong, it became a 2023 movie with new events dreamed up by the screenwriter "Cat Person" |
| #9020, aired 2024-01-19 | FAMOUS FORGERIES $2000: On trial for selling a work by this Delft master to the Nazis, a Dutch artist avoided a death sentence by proving he'd forged it Vermeer |
| #9019, aired 2024-01-18 | CLASSICAL MUSIC $600: This type of musical mass for the dead has a Latin name; Benjamin Britten wrote a "War" one incorporating poetry & Latin prayers a requiem |
| #9019, aired 2024-01-18 | THE PAST, PRESENTLY $1000: Numerical nickname for Mao's wife & her allies arrested after Mao's death for actions during the Cultural Revolution the Gang of Four |
| #9019, aired 2024-01-18 | PAINFUL MEMORIES $1200: Posture training & diet changes can help relieve pain in the 2 joints that connect your lower jaw to your skull & go by this abbrev. TMJ |
| #9018, aired 2024-01-17 | NOT TO BE CONFUSED $400: Gogol is the author of works like "Dead Souls"; googol is 10 raised to this power 100 |
| #25, aired 2024-01-16 | 50% "OFF" $600: In the 1995 comedy "Dracula: Dead and Loving It", Leslie Nielsen sleeps in one of these a coffin |
| #2, aired 2024-01-12 | MY "SON", THE PRESIDENT $1200: He beat Clinton--DeWitt Clinton--in 1812 Madison |
| #1, aired 2024-01-12 | IAMB WOMAN $1200: She loved her iambs, as in "Because I could not stop for Death" Dickinson |
| #9014, aired 2024-01-11 | PARTS OF THE WHOLE $1000: Lhotse Face,
the Death Zone,
Khumbu Icefall Mount Everest |
| #9014, aired 2024-01-11 | ON THE MOVIE BILL $1000: This Brit has been in "The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel", "Shaun of the Dead" & a slew of other films Bill Nighy |
| #9013, aired 2024-01-10 | 3-SYLLABLE WORDS $600: They say this, the spirit & manners of knighthood, "is not dead", so it's okay to be courteous chivalry |
| #9012, aired 2024-01-09 | WATERLOGGED WORDS $400: These "drenched" fats are usually solid at room temperature & a diet high in them can raise cholesterol saturated |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | NON-MUSICAL THEATER $200: We never do learn what kind of product Willy Loman sells in this classic play, which opened on Broadway in 1949 Death of a Salesman |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | IT'S A DATE, AMIGO! $200: As señor Bill Murray can tell you, it's the English name for El Día de la Marmota Groundhog Day |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | CYBERSECURITY $300: In real life, it can slow the spread of flames and smoke; in your digital life, it blocks unauthorized access to your private data a firewall |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | IT'S A DATE, AMIGO! $400: It was romantic of Salma Hayek to mention it on Instagram in 2023; El Día de San Valentín falls in this month February (Febrero) |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | IT'S A DATE, AMIGO! $800: He's the U.S. president whose cumpleaños is celebrated ten days after El Cumpleaños de Lincoln Washington |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | CYBERSECURITY $900: It's the term for malicious software that holds data "hostage" until a payment is made-- or until Mel Gibson gets it back for you ransomware |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | NEW YORK TIMES OBITUARIES $1000: This actor's 2016 obit mentioned he had outlived by about 34 years an erroneous report of his death that made him a cult figure Abe Vigoda |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | IT'S A DATE, AMIGO! $1000: In 2021, it became a U.S. federal holiday; in Spanish, it falls on 19 de Junio Juneteenth |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | IT'S A DATE, AMIGO! $2,600 (Daily Double): In Spanish, it's El Día de Acción de Gracias; in English, it's this Thanksgiving |
| #9010, aired 2024-01-05 | OUR WOMAN IN THE FIELD $2000: This American woman went pro in 1916, founded a dance company in 1926, retired at 70 but choreographed until her death in 1991 Martha Graham |
| #9008, aired 2024-01-03 | JOHN GREEN $200: (John Green presents the clue.) I co-created Crash Course which offers hundreds of free educational videos on YouTube; in one video, I discuss this female poet from New England, just a bit obsessed with death, who began a poem, "I heard a fly buzz when I died" Emily Dickinson |
| #9008, aired 2024-01-03 | TV CONNECTIONS $1000: Ash vs. Evil
____
Ringers Dead |
| #9007, aired 2024-01-02 | THOSE WHO CELEBRATE $800: Just before a big U.S. holiday, our northern neighbors celebrate Canada Day on this date July 1st |
| #23, aired 2024-01-02 | OATHS $200: Though not in the Constitution, these four words are typically spoken at the end of the presidential oath of office so help me God |
| #9006, aired 2024-01-01 | HAUNTING LITERATURE $200: Scrooge hears from this man that even after being dead for 7 years, he found "no rest, no peace. incessant torture of remorse" Jacob Marley |
| #9006, aired 2024-01-01 | PEOPLE $400: Gavin Newsom appointed Laphonza Butler to take this woman's seat in the U.S. Senate after her death at age 90 Dianne Feinstein |
| #9005, aired 2023-12-29 | IT HAPPENED IN DECEMBER $400: The prizes bearing his name were first awarded on December 10, 1901, the fifth anniversary of his death Nobel |
| #9005, aired 2023-12-29 | LITERARY TOWNS & CITIES $1200: A writer becomes infatuated with a boy & his family in 1912's "Death in Venice" by this author (Thomas) Mann |
| #9004, aired 2023-12-28 | FOR THE GRAM $400: @depthsof this free encyclopedia compiles bizarre pages of the website like "Mozart & scatology" & "death by vending machine" Wikipedia |
| #9004, aired 2023-12-28 | WOMEN ON TRIAL $1600: Leslie Van Houten, a follower of this man, was retried in 1977 after her lawyer's mysterious death; she was released at age 73 Manson |
| #9002, aired 2023-12-26 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $800: "The Bad Beginning", written under this pen name, is dedicated to the "unfortunate" Beatrice, "darling, dearest, dead" Lemony Snicket |
| #9002, aired 2023-12-26 | ADDEND"UM" $2000: Peat moss is dead moss at the bottom of a bog, while this moss is found still growing on the surface sphagnum moss |
| #8997, aired 2023-12-19 | KING'S CROSSING $200: In a late 18th century National Convention vote he could not afford to lose, this French king was condemned to death, 387 to 334 Louis XVI |
| #8997, aired 2023-12-19 | CAUTIONARY RHYMES $600: Do this "in white, you will have chosen all right" but do it "in green, ashamed to be seen" & worse, "in red, you'll wish yourself dead" marry |
| #8996, aired 2023-12-18 | PLAY SETTINGS $800: "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead": Within & around the action of this other play Hamlet |
| #8994, aired 2023-12-14 | A MATTER OF "LIFE" OR "DEATH" $400: Bread, as the mainstay of the human diet, is known as this the staff of life |
| #8994, aired 2023-12-14 | A MATTER OF "LIFE" OR "DEATH" $800: A source of rescue in a crisis; phone a friend is one example a lifeline |
| #8994, aired 2023-12-14 | A MATTER OF "LIFE" OR "DEATH" $1200: Alliterative term used to publicize a circus performer who puts himself at great risk death-defying |
| #8994, aired 2023-12-14 | A MATTER OF "LIFE" OR "DEATH" $1600: Though they sound like they sit on the beach, they're the senior British army regiment & first saw action in the 1600s the Life Guards |
| #8994, aired 2023-12-14 | A MATTER OF "LIFE" OR "DEATH" $2000: One of the Arabian Nights begins with a proud king who's not so proud when this heavenly being appears to him the Angel of Death |
| #8993, aired 2023-12-13 | WESTERN TV SHOWS $400: In 1966 this man stepped down from hosting the Western "Death Valley Days" to focus on his campaign for governor (Ronald) Reagan |
| #8993, aired 2023-12-13 | WESTERN TV SHOWS $600: This actor has been on the right side of the law as Seth Bullock in "Deadwood" & Raylan Givens in "Justified" Timothy Olyphant |
| #8992, aired 2023-12-12 | SEINFELD BEFORE & AFTER $1600: Avuncular Seinfeld relative who kvetched all the way through writing Russian fiction like "The Death of Ivan Ilyich" Uncle Leo Tolstoy |
| #8990, aired 2023-12-08 | GEOGRAPHIC TITLES $200: "Death in ____" &
"The Merchant of ____" Venice |
| #8989, aired 2023-12-07 | STAR WARS BEFORE & AFTER $400: 14th century European pandemic that destroyed Alderaan the Black Death Star |
| #8988, aired 2023-12-06 | I JUST WANT A LOVER LIKE ANY OTHER $200: Trust your friends--don't pass up this type of set-up evening, also the title of several TV shows including one Nikki Glaser hosted blind date |
| #8988, aired 2023-12-06 | WHAT DO I "GET" $400: Take aim at this "date" set for completion of a task target date |
| #22, aired 2023-12-06 | CELEBRITY TELL-ALLS $600: "Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing":
He revealed that future editions of his memoir will not include Keanu Reeves Matthew Perry |
| #22, aired 2023-12-06 | CELEBRITY TELL-ALLS $1200: "Greenlights":
His father brought a dead cockatiel back to life by giving it mouth-to-mouth Matthew McConaughey |
| #8987, aired 2023-12-05 | SPORTS STUFF $200: This league adopted a rule in 2020 that prevented teams from manipulating the game clock via dead-ball fouls the NFL |
| #8986, aired 2023-12-04 | I THINK WE LEFT SOMEONE OUT $1000: The 4 Horsemen of the Apocalypse are Conquest, War, Famine &... Death |
| #8986, aired 2023-12-04 | MOVIE DIRECTORS $2000: Long before "Spider-Man", he first made his name with "The Evil Dead" when he was just 22 Sam Raimi |
| #8983, aired 2023-11-29 | MAKING WAVES $400: This actor played Johnny Utah, an FBI agent undercover as a surfer dude in 1991's "Point Break" (Keanu) Reeves |
| #21, aired 2023-11-29 | FILMS TURNING THE BIG FOUR-OH $200: Three Stephen King novels made it to the big screen in 1983: "The Dead Zone", "Christine", & this film about a rabid St. Bernard Cujo |
| #21, aired 2023-11-29 | SKIN CARE $1,000 (Daily Double): Seeking a youthful glow? Make a habit of this process, defined as scrubbing or using chemicals to remove dead skin cells exfoliation |
| #21, aired 2023-11-29 | WHISTLING HALL OF FAME $1200: Death by crucifixion has never been faced more cheerfully than in this comic troupe's sing-along, "Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life" Monty Python |
| #8982, aired 2023-11-28 | A CAPITAL IDEA? $200: This composer was dreaming of a white Christmas right up until his death in 1989 at age 101 (Irving) Berlin |
| #8982, aired 2023-11-28 | SLINGING ARROWS $600: Daryl Dixon put his Horton Scout crossbow to good use against zombies on this AMC show The Walking Dead |
| #8980, aired 2023-11-24 | FAMOUS GINGERS $400: This King of Rock was engaged to Ginger Alden at the time of his sudden 1977 death Elvis Presley |
| #8978, aired 2023-11-22 | THE INSTRUMENT OF DEATH $200: In 1793 Jean-Paul Marat was retired in the bath with one of these a knife |
| #8978, aired 2023-11-22 | THE INSTRUMENT OF DEATH $400: In 1914 Franz Ferdinand didn't say "take me out" but was anyway, via this a gun |
| #8978, aired 2023-11-22 | THE INSTRUMENT OF DEATH $600: In 1880 outlaw Ned Kelly was doing this around Melbourne hanging |
| #8978, aired 2023-11-22 | THE INSTRUMENT OF DEATH $800: In 1946, in order to avoid execution, Hermann Goering picked his this poison (cyanide) |
| #8978, aired 2023-11-22 | THE INSTRUMENT OF DEATH $1000: In 1861 Victoria's consort Prince Albert: this fever typhoid |
| #8975, aired 2023-11-17 | MORE TRICKY QUESTIONS $1000: It's the main reason in Wyoming why a man can't marry his widow's sister because he's dead |
| #8975, aired 2023-11-17 | NAME THE JAMES $1200: After this author's death on January 13th, 1941, the wake wasn't for Finnegan, but for him Joyce |
| #8975, aired 2023-11-17 | PITHY QUOTES $2,400 (Daily Double): The King James Bible's shortest verse, "Jesus wept", refers to the death of this man Lazarus |
| #8974, aired 2023-11-16 | SCULPTURE $1600: In this movement, which is French for "hobby horse", sculptures are made of such items as machine parts Dada |
| #8974, aired 2023-11-16 | ROBIN WILLIAMS MOVIE QUOTES $2000: "Boys, you must strive to find your own voice" the Dead Poets Society |
| #8970, aired 2023-11-10 | DESIGNERS $600: She took over control of her family's design house in 1997, after her brother Gianni's death Donatella Versace |
| #8967, aired 2023-11-07 | DEATH $200: From Latin, it means "after death", when an autopsy would be done post mortem |
| #8967, aired 2023-11-07 | DEATH $400: The Amanita genus of these includes some that are lethal to humans, including the death cap mushrooms |
| #8967, aired 2023-11-07 | DUDE-ER-ONOMY $400: This actor played a Lebowski, not the Big Lebowski, but the dude abides Jeff Bridges |
| #8967, aired 2023-11-07 | DEATH $600: Docs recommend babies sleep on their backs or sides to ward off this, SIDS for short sudden infant death syndrome |
| #8967, aired 2023-11-07 | DUDE-ER-ONOMY $800: Be cool, man, & name this 1969 flick where Billy & Captain America hit the road, man; now those were some dudes, man Easy Rider |
| #8967, aired 2023-11-07 | DEATH $1000: A final pose is depicted here by this French painter Jacques-Louis David |
| #8967, aired 2023-11-07 | DUDE-ER-ONOMY $1200: On this drama, Kendall Roy rapped to his dad, Logan, "L to the OG, dude be the OG, A-N be playin', playin' like a pro, see" Succession |
| #8967, aired 2023-11-07 | DEATH $1,600 (Daily Double): The London space called this "Green" has a memorial to those, such as Margaret Pole, who were beheaded there Tower Green |
| #8967, aired 2023-11-07 | DUDE-ER-ONOMY $1600: Whoa! In 1991 these 2 title dudes got a sequel & totally returned to take a "Bogus Journey" Bill & Ted |
| #8967, aired 2023-11-07 | DUDE-ER-ONOMY $2000: He didn't say much as Silent Bob in "Clerks", but no one in the film could say anything without him; he wrote the pic too Kevin Smith |
| #8967, aired 2023-11-07 | YOU'RE GETTING VERY SLEEPY $2000: He's the Shakespearean character who muses, "...in that sleep of death what dreams may come..." Hamlet |
| #8964, aired 2023-11-02 | CLIFFS NOTES: DRAMA $400: Willy: "I'm tired."
Howard: "Oh yeah? You're fired" Death of a Salesman |
| #8964, aired 2023-11-02 | ALL THE PRESIDENTS' CHILDREN $1000: In 1944, 20 years after his own death, his oldest daughter Margaret died at an ashram in India Woodrow Wilson |
| #8964, aired 2023-11-02 | ALL THE PRESIDENTS' CHILDREN $3,200 (Daily Double): Last name of John who, before his death in 2013 at 91, was the oldest living child of a president Eisenhower |
| #8963, aired 2023-11-01 | I'M ON THE CASE $1200: Look into why these two Italian anarchists were tried in 1921, but not sentenced to death until 1927 Sacco & Vanzetti |
| #8963, aired 2023-11-01 | MOVIE COMEDIES $2000: A man's mundane life is interrupted by a zombie apocalypse in this comedy starring Simon Pegg Shaun of the Dead |
| #19, aired 2023-11-01 | ICONIC MAN-PERMS $100: This beloved painter started perming his hair in the '80s to save money on happy little haircuts (Bob) Ross |
| #8960, aired 2023-10-27 | QUOTABLE CINEMA $200: 1939:
"I'll get you, my pretty, and your little dog, too!" The Wizard of Oz |
| #8955, aired 2023-10-20 | FAMILY DRAMA $400: His "All My Sons" centers on Joe Keller, whose shoddy plane parts led to the death of his son & other pilots in WWII Arthur Miller |
| #8955, aired 2023-10-20 | OLDE ENGLAND $400: Her reign from 1558 until her death in 1603 is often called the golden age of English history Elizabeth I |
| #8954, aired 2023-10-19 | AUNTIE UP $800: Ann Dowd won an Emmy for playing the tyrannical overseer Aunt Lydia on this dystopian favorite The Handmaid's Tale |
| #8951, aired 2023-10-16 | THE LITERARY CHARACTER WHO SAID... $3,200 (Daily Double): "What did it matter where you lay once you were dead?... You were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that" Philip Marlowe |
| #8950, aired 2023-10-13 | WHO SAID THIS? $1000: In a 1775 speech he declared, "I know not what course others may take..." Patrick Henry |
| #8950, aired 2023-10-13 | FELONIOUS MONKS $1600: Friar Vicente de Valverde gave Atahuallpa the choice of death by fire or garrote; he chose the latter & this empire ended the Incan |
| #8949, aired 2023-10-12 | SPOOKY LITERATURE $600: (Justin Long presents the clue.) "Welcome to Dead House" from 1992 was the first of the books in the "Goosebumps" series by this author that by now has sold a spooky number of copies (R.L.) Stine |
| #8949, aired 2023-10-12 | HAPPIER MOVIE ENDINGS $800: "I see dead people, Dr. Crowe... but you're not one of 'em. You're very, very much alive & happily married" The Sixth Sense |
| #8948, aired 2023-10-11 | THE CALIFORNIANS $200: In 2010, the Cali Hall of Fame inducted this Facebook dude, even though he's totally from New York, for reals Zuckerberg |
| #8948, aired 2023-10-11 | SURELY YOU JOUST $800: Today, joust fans, a bloody treat! Sir Harry has challenged Sir Gary to battle "à outrance", which means this to the death |
| #8948, aired 2023-10-11 | AN IMMODEST PROPOSAL $1200: Sorry about your hubby Marcellus' death, Octavia! But it's 40 B.C. & I love Y--no, I'm not into Egyptian girls. Why? Mark Antony |
| #16, aired 2023-10-11 | YOU'RE A HOMOPHONE, DIANE $300: Dianne who, to date, has had 9 Grammy nominations and 5 wins; her 56% success rate is pretty jazzy Dianne Reeves |
| #16, aired 2023-10-11 | FEELING GASSY $400: In 2022, an environmental data firm used satellites to study how much methane comes from the belches of these farm animals cows |
| #8947, aired 2023-10-10 | NICE SIDE WHISKERS! $2000: His long reign over Austria-Hungary ended with his death in 1916 Franz Joseph |
| #8945, aired 2023-10-06 | DEAD SCIENTISTS SOCIETY $200: This Russian famously conditioned dogs to salivate every time a bell rang Pavlov |
| #8945, aired 2023-10-06 | THE CRIMEAN WAR $400: Historian Yakup Bektas called the war the "most illustrated war to date", mentioning this new tech less than 30 years old photography |
| #8945, aired 2023-10-06 | DEAD SCIENTISTS SOCIETY $400: Henri Becquerel shared the 1903 Nobel Prize for physics with these 2 other scientists the Curies (Pierre & Marie) |
| #8945, aired 2023-10-06 | DEAD SCIENTISTS SOCIETY $800: This American was a real rocket scientist, launching his first liquid-propelled one March 16, 1926 Goddard |
| #8945, aired 2023-10-06 | DEAD SCIENTISTS SOCIETY $1,000 (Daily Double): This 19th century Italian physicist lends his name to a law & a number relating equal volumes of gases & molecules Avogadro |
| #8945, aired 2023-10-06 | DEAD SCIENTISTS SOCIETY $1000: E.I. du Pont de Nemours, founder of the DuPont company, was a student of this French founder of modern chemistry Lavoisier |
| #8944, aired 2023-10-05 | MOVIES AS TV NEWS STORIES $400: A crime novelist, dead in his mansion under mysterious circumstances. Benoit Blanc, on the case. Eyewitness News starts now Knives Out |
| #8944, aired 2023-10-05 | NUN BUT THE BRAVE $3,000 (Daily Double): 3-word title of Sister Helen Prejean's powerful account of being a death row counselor Dead Man Walking |
| #8943, aired 2023-10-04 | WAXING PHILOSOPHICAL $800: Seen here the death of this Athenian philosopher was immortalized by Jacques Louis David in 1787 Socrates |
| #15, aired 2023-10-04 | ESTATE PLANNING $300: A key goal of estate planning is to minimize these; as Ben Franklin noted, they're the only thing as certain as death taxes |
| #15, aired 2023-10-04 | FAMOUS TV SPOILERS $400: Were they all dead the whole time? Nope! And the island wasn't limbo--just an island! Lost |
| #15, aired 2023-10-04 | RISING UP $400: Mahsa Amini's death inspired protests against headscarves and the government in this Middle Eastern country Iran |
| #15, aired 2023-10-04 | ESTATE PLANNING $900: It's the agent who administers a person's estate after their death--not to be confused with an executioner, who causes it an executor |
| #15, aired 2023-10-04 | BIG-SCREEN BALLADS $1000: At a Hollywood Bowl concert in 2012, Peter Gabriel played this song from "Say Anything" after John Cusack took the stage with a boombox "In Your Eyes" |
| #15, aired 2023-10-04 | ESTATE PLANNING $1500: Bill Gates launched the Giving Pledge in 2010 with this investing guru to inspire wealthy philanthropists in life & at death Warren Buffett |
| #8942, aired 2023-10-03 | NAME: THE CLASSIC SONG $400: "What's The Frequency", this guy? "Is your Benzedrine, uh huh, I was brain-dead, locked out, numb, not up to speed" Kenneth |
| #8942, aired 2023-10-03 | 4, 4 $400: The Oxford English Dictionary has this synonym for a tie going back to a 1796 horse race a dead heat |
| #8942, aired 2023-10-03 | MEN OF MICHIGAN $1200: Born in Flint, this prolific documentarian wrote the book "Dude, Where's My Country?" Michael Moore |
| #8941, aired 2023-10-02 | EGYPTIAN MYTHOLOGY $1200: This tome was a collection of spells, charms & magical formulas for the deceased to use in the afterlife the Book of the Dead |
| #8940, aired 2023-09-29 | BACK TO SCHOOL $200: English: his "Unfinished Tales", a collection of more Middle-earth material, was published 7 years after his death Tolkien |
| #8940, aired 2023-09-29 | THAT'S A VEGAS CASINO $600: You'll find "fifteen men on the dead man's chest--yo-ho-ho, & a bottle of rum!" at the start of this novel Treasure Island |
| #8939, aired 2023-09-28 | FROM THE GREEK $800: The prefix "eu" means good, so this word comes from the Greek for "good death" euthanasia |
| #8939, aired 2023-09-28 | NEW WORDS IN THE 1600s $1000: My anatomist doth dub it the "hipbone basin" but I must inform him that it is now known by this word of 6 letters the pelvis |
| #8939, aired 2023-09-28 | WE'VE GOT TO STOP MEETING LIKE THIS $2000: Holy Roman Emperor Charles V called the 1521 meeting of this assembly at Worms the Diet (of Worms) (the Council at Worms) |
| #8938, aired 2023-09-27 | BRAD TO THE BONE $1000: Beginning in 1971, Brad Whitford played guitar for this band, but that dude does not look like a lady Aerosmith |
| #14, aired 2023-09-27 | BOOK DEDICATIONS $200: Morbidly true to form, Lemony Snicket dedicates the first book in this Y.A. series "to Beatrice -- darling, dearest, dead" A Series of Unfortunate Events |
| #14, aired 2023-09-27 | POST-APOCALYPTIC POP CULTURE $600: Over 11 total seasons of "The Walking Dead", this "Z" word was surprisingly never used by a character zombie |
| #8937, aired 2023-09-26 | THE HOME SPA $200: Cleopatra is said to have used rejuvenating products from this saline body of water in which the Jordan ends the Dead Sea |
| #8937, aired 2023-09-26 | WHO "AR" THEY? $600: The mysterious 1921 death of Virginia Rappe ruined the career of this hefty comic actor (Fatty) Arbuckle |
| #8937, aired 2023-09-26 | CAVES $800: A New Haven, Conn. cave was the hideout of the judges who had signed this king's death warrant in 1649 Charles I |
| #8933, aired 2023-09-20 | NAME THAT PLAY $400: "I gotta show some of those pompous, self-important executives over there that Hap Loman can make the grade" Death of a Salesman |
| #8933, aired 2023-09-20 | THE REAL (WHITE HOUSE) WIVES OF D.C. $3,000 (Daily Double): A year before her death in 1962, she began chairing JFK's Commission on the Status of Women Eleanor Roosevelt |
| #8931, aired 2023-09-18 | RESTAURANT HIJINKS $800: A 2018 headline read, "I want my data back, data back, data back": this restaurant chain "hit by data breach" Chili's |
| #8931, aired 2023-09-18 | 21st CENTURY NEWS $1600: At 11:35 PM EDT May 1, 2011 President Obama announced the death of this man in Pakistan bin Laden |
| #8930, aired 2023-09-15 | AGATHA ALL ALONG $200: At one point in this Agatha Christie book, the Karnak is anchored at Abu Simbel Death on the Nile |
| #8927, aired 2023-09-12 | QUITE A FOX $2000: The 19th century Fox sisters played an important role in this -ism that gave people hope of communicating with the dead Spiritualism |
| #8925, aired 2023-07-28 | TALKING ABOUT WOMEN $200: After her death, a newspaper recalled "those stricken hospitals of the Crimea through which the lady with the lamp passed" Florence Nightingale |
| #8925, aired 2023-07-28 | ON THE MONEY $400: He introduced a bill to limit the death penalty while a member of the Virginia legislature Thomas Jefferson |
| #8923, aired 2023-07-26 | I'M BLUE $400: In this novel, a character is described as having "the half-tint blue eyes that told of off-planet foods in his diet" Dune |
| #8923, aired 2023-07-26 | CROOKS $400: In 1878 this "childish" gunslinger fought in the Lincoln County War before his date with Pat Garrett in 1881 Billy the Kid |
| #8922, aired 2023-07-25 | SOMETHING'S ROTTEN $400: Valentine in "Army of the Dead" was rotten all over, as a zombie one of these that would make Joe Exotic squeal a tiger |
| #8922, aired 2023-07-25 | STATE THE 19th CENTURY SENATOR $800: Stephen A. Douglas, happy in 1858, sad in 1860, dead in 1861 Illinois |
| #8922, aired 2023-07-25 | STATE THE 19th CENTURY SENATOR $2000: Charles Sumner, a free stater nearly beaten to death on the Senate floor by a southerner Massachusetts |
| #8919, aired 2023-07-20 | THE DANUBE $400: The Danube waltzes past this world capital that saw the birth & death of "Blue Danube" creator Johann Strauss Jr. Vienna |
| #8919, aired 2023-07-20 | JOHN LENNON $800: For "Double" this, the last album released before his death, John & Yoko alternated songs Fantasy |
| #8916, aired 2023-07-17 | OPPENHEIMER $1,000 (Daily Double): (Matt Damon presents the clue.) Oppenheimer wasn't sure why he chose this name for a nuclear test site, but he did recall thinking of John Donne's poems of death & resurrection, including the sonnet that begins, "Batter my heart, three-person'd God" the Trinity test site |
| #8916, aired 2023-07-17 | STATE FLAGS $1000: Delaware's flag prominently displays the date "December 7" this year 1787 |
| #8915, aired 2023-07-14 | MODERN FANTASY LIT $200: Monza Murcatto, thrown from a great height & left for dead, later gets revenge in Joe Abercrombie's "Best Served" this Cold |
| #8915, aired 2023-07-14 | MODERN FANTASY LIT $1000: This "Remains of the Day" author wrote fantasy with "The Buried Giant", set years after the death of King Arthur Ishiguro |
| #8915, aired 2023-07-14 | WHO'S WHO IN THE OLD TESTAMENT $1200: Following this king's death, David laments, "The beauty of Israel is slain upon thy high places: how are the mighty fallen!" Saul |
| #8913, aired 2023-07-12 | WALKING & TALKING $800: This Bible book gives us the line "Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil" Psalms |
| #8910, aired 2023-07-07 | A BRIDGE TOO FAR $800: A bridge in Bath crossing the River Avon was named for this prime minister after his death in 1965 Churchill |
| #8910, aired 2023-07-07 | HOTEL CALIFORNIA $800: A 4-diamond inn & oasis in the middle of nowhere is a high point of this lowest point in North America Death Valley |
| #8910, aired 2023-07-07 | ONLY ONE CONSONANT $2000: On the ocean bottom, globigerina is a type of this gooey mud containing dead organisms ooze |
| #8909, aired 2023-07-06 | SCIENCE $1600: 99% of intl. data traffic is carried by several hundred of these 2-word light transmission cables crisscrossing the ocean floor fiber optics |
| #8909, aired 2023-07-06 | NAMES IN HISTORY $5,000 (Daily Double): Famed Roman talker Marcus Tullius, who ended up talking himself to death, was better known by this one name Cicero |
| #8908, aired 2023-07-05 | OPPOSITES $200: As seen on Old West posters, rewards were offered for the bad guys captured one of these 2 ways dead or alive |
| #8907, aired 2023-07-04 | LADY "A" $600: In recent years she's appeared in "Bad Moms" & as one of the stars of "Dead to Me" Christina Applegate |
| #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 |
| #8907, aired 2023-07-04 | LET'S GO TO THE SPORTS BOOK $1600: George Plimpton takes out an insurance policy against death & dismemberment in this 1966 book Paper Lion |
| #8905, aired 2023-06-30 | SERENITY NOW! $2000: This man II is his serene highness, Prince of Monaco, Marquis of Baux, man about town, dude with some pull Prince Albert (II) |
| #8904, aired 2023-06-29 | WRITING: MUSIC $1600: Published a year after his death in 1984, "Divided Soul" looks at this singer's spiritual & sexual sides Marvin Gaye |
| #8902, aired 2023-06-27 | BANKING "A" "B" "C"s $2,000 (Daily Double): "A":
this word meaning to pay off a debt in installments comes partly from Latin for "dead" amortize |
| #8900, aired 2023-06-23 | ON BROADWAY $400: A 2022 revival of this play broke ground with Wendell Pierce as the first Black man to play Willy Loman on Broadway Death of a Salesman |
| #8899, aired 2023-06-22 | MOVIE TITLE CONNECTIONS $200: Date
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at the Museum Night |
| #8899, aired 2023-06-22 | VAMPIRE-POURRI $800: "You're Dead" by '60s folk singer Norma Tanega is used as the theme song to this FX series What We Do in the Shadows |
| #8899, aired 2023-06-22 | MOVIE TITLE CONNECTIONS $800: Touch of
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Dead Evil |
| #8899, aired 2023-06-22 | WRITING ON THE WALLS $2000: This title Melville office drudge notices dead brick walls early on, but ends up staring at the high walls of prison Bartleby |
| #8899, aired 2023-06-22 | 12-LETTER WORDS $3,000 (Daily Double): An unlucky incident; in British law, it's a verdict of accidental death not due to crime or negligence misadventure |
| #8898, aired 2023-06-21 | DISCOVERY & INVENTION $1600: Written in Hebrew, the first of these was discovered east of Jerusalem by a shepherd boy in 1947; more would turn up in Masada the Dead Sea Scrolls |
| #8897, aired 2023-06-20 | NONPROFITS $200: Helping minority kids go to college, the foundation named for this Brooklyn Dodger was begun in 1973, a year after his death Jackie Robinson |
| #8896, aired 2023-06-19 | IT'S A SPECIAL DAY $400: Every March brings a holiday in Iran on the date in 1951 when the country nationalized this industry the oil industry |
| #8896, aired 2023-06-19 | GENERAL ASSEMBLY $500 (Daily Double): In absentia he was sentenced to death in 1940, weeks after a London radio speech in which he asked the French to keep fighting Charles de Gaulle |
| #8895, aired 2023-06-16 | OPPOSITIONAL BOOK TITLES $800: The subtitle of this nonfiction work by a Catholic sister is "An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the United States" Dead Man Walking |
| #8890, aired 2023-06-09 | TV: WHO SAID IT $1600: "Carl's dead... Carl went out to help someone & he got bit" Rick (Grimes) |
| #8890, aired 2023-06-09 | WITH THIS RING $2000: Around 1850, Richard Wagner began writing a poem called "The Death of" this heroic character in the "Ring" cycle Siegfried |
| #8889, aired 2023-06-08 | HISTORY HYSTERIA $400: 400 people danced uncontrollably for days, some until death, in 1518's dancing plague in Strasbourg in this country France |
| #8888, aired 2023-06-07 | FOLLIES $800: On Oct. 25, 1854 into the Valley of Death rode this military group, led by the 7th Earl of Cardigan, who somehow rode out the Light Brigade |
| #8888, aired 2023-06-07 | INTO THE WOODS $1000: A Commonwealth cemetery in Polygon Wood holds many dead of this WWI battle in Belgium that kind of rhymes with "me, bruh" Ypres |
| #8887, aired 2023-06-06 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1200: A sequel to the original classic, 2009's "Dracula the Un-Dead" was co-written by this author's great-grandnephew Dacre (Bram) Stoker |
| #8887, aired 2023-06-06 | NONFICTION TV $2000: What's new pussycat? This Welsh legend's unplanned "Voice U.K." duet on "It's A Man's Man's Man's World" with Jennifer Hudson Tom Jones |
| #8885, aired 2023-06-02 | ANIMAL ROCK $800: Loudon Wainwright III had a '70s novelty hit with "Dead" this "in the middle of the road, stinking to high heaven" a skunk |
| #8883, aired 2023-05-31 | DUDE, HERE'S YOUR CAR $200: Enzo Ferrari is said to have quipped, "Ask a child to draw a car, & certainly he will draw it" in this color, a Ferrari favorite red |
| #8883, aired 2023-05-31 | DUDE, HERE'S YOUR CAR $400: It seemed a bit excessive, but in 2018 one of this company's roadsters was sent into space Tesla |
| #8883, aired 2023-05-31 | DUDE, HERE'S YOUR CAR $600: Since 2002 this model, with a name from the Japanese word kanmuri, has been the USA's bestselling passenger car the Toyota Camry |
| #8883, aired 2023-05-31 | DUDE, HERE'S YOUR CAR $800: The I-Pace electric SUV from this British automaker purrs like a kitten Jaguar |
| #8883, aired 2023-05-31 | PRESIDENTIAL DOIN'S $1200: Attacked Canada, who obviously had it coming; beat DeWitt Clinton by 39 Electoral College votes Madison |
| #8883, aired 2023-05-31 | DUDE, HERE'S YOUR CAR $2,200 (Daily Double): Lamborghini's Sesto Elemento was named for its pioneering use of this, from which much of the car is made carbon |
| #8881, aired 2023-05-29 | TREES COMPANY $400: FBI is shorthand for 3 common decomposers of dead trees: fungi, bacteria & these insects |
| #8878, aired 2023-05-24 | TO THE FORT! $400: The ruins of this ancient fortress lie atop a 1,400-foot plateau near the Dead Sea the Masada |
| #19, aired 2023-05-24 | COMPOSERS $200: Scott Joplin published the haunting "Bethena, a Concert" this kind of dance music soon after the 1904 death of his wife waltz |
| #19, aired 2023-05-24 | WHAT'S ALL THIS? $2000: 5 sections: "The Burial of the Dead", "A Game of Chess", "The Fire Sermon", "Death by Water" & "What the Thunder Said" "The Waste Land" |
| #8876, aired 2023-05-22 | WALKING IN A REDWOOD FOREST $1200: What's 8 inches long, yellow & eating dead plants by your feet? Perhaps it's this slug named for a fruit banana slug |
| #15, aired 2023-05-22 | PURE POETRY $800: (Ada Limón reads.) I'm a big fan of this strong metrical foot that consists of two stressed syllables, like the title of my poem "Dead Stars" spondee |
| #15, aired 2023-05-22 | PURE POETRY $1200: (Ada Limón reads.) From French for "step over", this technique in which a thought runs on from one line to the next imports a free-flowing feel, as in Eliot's "April is the cruellest month, breeding
/ Lilacs out of the dead land" enjambment |
| #8875, aired 2023-05-19 | HIP-HOP NAMES $400: The "Right Round" rapper's Miami-Dade county roots made this stage name an obvious choice Flo Rida |
| #8875, aired 2023-05-19 | LITERARY MISMATCHES $2000: Of this novel about the floundering Wheelers, Richard Yates said his title meant that the this of 1776 hit a dead end in the 1950s Revolutionary Road |
| #8873, aired 2023-05-17 | Y'KNOW, THE MOVIE WHERE... $200: A farmer plays baseball with a dead guy, time-travels & ends up owning a tourist trap Field of Dreams |
| #8873, aired 2023-05-17 | GREAT BRITS $200: Following her untimely death, she was called "the foremost ambassador for AIDS awareness on the planet" Princess Diana |
| #8873, aired 2023-05-17 | PANTOMIME HORSE $1000: Duchamp & Man Ray were part of this art movement whose name is a French word meaning "hobby horse" Dada |
| #8872, aired 2023-05-16 | CHILLIN' IN THE R.I.P. LOUNGE $200: "Because I could not stop for death--he kindly stopped for me", "Me" being this poet on May 15, 1886 in Amherst (Emily) Dickinson |
| #12, aired 2023-05-16 | NEW WORLD EXPLORATION $400: Bernal Díaz, who sailed on the voyage that discovered the Yucatan, was a soldier who witnessed this Aztec leader's death Moctezuma |
| #12, aired 2023-05-16 | COMMUNICATION $1000: This alliterative system began in London in 1680; in 1801, the name went out of date as the price doubled to twopence the Penny Post |
| #10, aired 2023-05-15 | ESSAYS $5 (Daily Double): This Italian's experiments with dead frogs led him to write an essay on the "Effect of Electricity in Muscular Motion" Galvani |
| #8870, aired 2023-05-12 | HYMNS & SPIRITUALS $2000: Asking for comfort & guidance, do this, "fast falls the eventide", "in life, in death, O Lord" do this abide with me |
| #8, aired 2023-05-12 | GAMES, OLD & NEW $400: Named for a historic trek, there's now an online version of this game from 1971 in which death from typhoid & snakebite are commonplace Oregon Trail |
| #8, aired 2023-05-12 | GROWING UP X $1000: On the serious side, the exhibit includes a button bearing this equation that protested the lack of action or even talk about AIDS silence = death |
| #7, aired 2023-05-12 | REVOLT-ING HISTORY $4,400 (Daily Double): The Cranberries marked the date of Ireland's Easter Rising when they sang, "It's the same old theme since" this year 1916 |
| #8868, aired 2023-05-10 | BETTER TOMES & GARDENS $1200: Alice finds a marvelous garden in Wonderland but has trouble managing this bird while playing croquet there a flamingo |
| #4, aired 2023-05-09 | LIBRARIES $200: Harvard's Widener Library honors Harry Elkins Widener, whose rare works were donated after his death in this maritime disaster the Titanic |
| #4, aired 2023-05-09 | "OF" PAINT $13,200 (Daily Double): This 1793 painting seen here depicts an event from July of that year Death of Marat |
| #3, aired 2023-05-09 | PLAY: THE GAME $400: Travel to Elsinore; glean what afflicts old pal Hamlet; try to find where he put Polonius; get betrayed; win 1968 Tony Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead |
| #3, aired 2023-05-09 | 1920s SCIENCE $800: Lewis Fry Richardson proposed doing this with 64,000 computers (those were people then) & data from a world network of balloons forecasting the weather |
| #1, aired 2023-05-08 | LITERARY DEMISES $600: In "The Green Mile", this death row inmate who has healing powers is innocent but is resigned to his fate Coffey |
| #8865, aired 2023-05-05 | IT'S A TV MYSTERY $800: Nicole Kidman played Celeste, whose abusive husband Perry was pushed to his death in this series based on a Liane Moriarty novel Big Little Lies |
| #8865, aired 2023-05-05 | SLANG EN ESPAÑOL $1000: "The chabón abides" in Argentina, as el chabón is a local equivalent of this--it's also a nickname for Pope Francis dude |
| #8863, aired 2023-05-03 | , SAID THIS LITERARY CHARACTER $200: "District Twelve. Where you can starve to death in safety" Katniss Everdeen |
| #8863, aired 2023-05-03 | , SAID THIS LITERARY CHARACTER $2,000 (Daily Double): "Our evaluation of this intelligence data is that Red October is attempting to defect to the United States" Jack Ryan |
| #8863, aired 2023-05-03 | "D" TOUR $3,000 (Daily Double): In this Old West town, you can pay your respects to Wild Bill Hickok & Calamity Jane Deadwood |
| #8862, aired 2023-05-02 | THAT'S SO "EXTRA" $2000: Forecasting the temperature at a location based on historic data is an example of this process extrapolation |
| #8861, aired 2023-05-01 | IT'S GONNA BE MAY! $400: The 1862 victory by forces under the command of General Ignacio Zaragoza is celebrated annually in Mexico on this date cinco de Mayo |
| #8861, aired 2023-05-01 | WORLD OF WORDS $1200: From Hebrew, this word that can follow bar or bat refers to a good deed mitzvah |
| #8860, aired 2023-04-28 | THE 3-DIGIT YEARS $400: After this prophet's death in 632, armies spreading his word conquered large parts of the Middle East & North Africa Mohammed |
| #8857, aired 2023-04-25 | STATESMEN & WOMEN $2000: In one of his final posts before his death in 1895, this African American served as U.S. minister to Haiti Frederick Douglass |
| #8856, aired 2023-04-24 | WHEREFORE ART, THOU $800: Cast in bronze in 1904, this 6-foot naked dude is seriously going over stuff in his head in the gardens of a Paris museum The Thinker |
| #8856, aired 2023-04-24 | Y IS THE ONLY VOWEL $1200: A spacecraft does it when it passes a celestial body while close enough to gather scientific data a fly-by |
| #8853, aired 2023-04-19 | A BOX OF MATCHES $1200: This claymation series on MTV featured famous people in wrestling matches, often with gory results Celebrity Death Match |
| #8852, aired 2023-04-18 | THEIR FIRST PUBLISHED NOVEL $2000: Introducing George Smiley,
"Call for the Dead" (1961) John le Carré |
| #8849, aired 2023-04-13 | FOODSTOCK $200: Jerry Garcia's big pink breakfast citrus fruit jam band was there the Grapefruit-ful Dead (the Grapefruit Dead) |
| #8849, aired 2023-04-13 | THE BOOK OF ROMANS $3,000 (Daily Double): Hermann Broch wrote a novel titled "The Death of" this greatest Roman epic poet Virgil |
| #8845, aired 2023-04-07 | LIFE & DEATH IN LITERARY TITLES $400: "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" is a Hemingway tale of life & death on one of these African expeditions a safari |
| #8845, aired 2023-04-07 | LIFE & DEATH IN LITERARY TITLES $800: A man awakens from a coma with the power to see a terrible fate awaiting humankind in this Stephen King work The Dead Zone |
| #8845, aired 2023-04-07 | YOU TOTALLY RULED! $800: The Aztec Empire was expanding under this 9th emperor in 1519, but the Spanish showed up; he's dead by 1520 & the empire, in 1521 Montezuma |
| #8845, aired 2023-04-07 | LIFE & DEATH IN LITERARY TITLES $1200: "Speaker for the Dead" by Orson Scott Card is the 2nd book in the series about this character & his genocidal "Game" Ender |
| #8845, aired 2023-04-07 | LIFE & DEATH IN LITERARY TITLES $1600: In Willa Cather's "Death Comes for the Archbishop", Father Jean Marie Latour serves in this southwest U.S. state capital Santa Fe, New Mexico |
| #8845, aired 2023-04-07 | LIFE & DEATH IN LITERARY TITLES $2000: Solzhenitsyn's "One Day in the Life of" this character is the story of an inmate struggling to survive in a Soviet prison camp Ivan Denisovich |
| #8844, aired 2023-04-06 | SPEECHES $800: "It'll be" this "or it'll be the bullet. It'll be liberty or it'll be death", cautioned Malcolm X in a 1964 speech the ballot |
| #8844, aired 2023-04-06 | LIT-POURRI $1000: 2023 marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of this novelist & 75 years since his breakthrough, "The Naked and the Dead" Norman Mailer |
| #8842, aired 2023-04-04 | GOODNESS & MERCY $600: To phrase a coin, we're giving this word that means to decide not to put an enemy to death a quarter |
| #8839, aired 2023-03-30 | THE HISTORIC 1950s $2000: On the day of this British king's death in 1952, cinemas & theaters closed & the BBC suspended all programs except for the news George VI |
| #8839, aired 2023-03-30 | WORLD PLACE NAMES $4,000 (Daily Double): Legend says this sea is named for Theseus' father, who flung himself into the waters when he thought his son was dead the Aegean |
| #8837, aired 2023-03-28 | WORLD HISTORY $800: This good guy of Christmas carol fame was actually a duke of Bohemia; he was only declared a king (& a saint) after his death Wenceslas |
| #8835, aired 2023-03-24 | BEFORE & ACTORS $1200: Portrayer of the baseball bat-wielding Negan on "The Walking Dead" who narrated "March of the Penguins" Jeffrey Dean Morgan Freeman |
| #8833, aired 2023-03-22 | 1963 $400: At 1:00 P.M. on November 22, he was pronounced dead at Parkland Hospital, leaving the nation in mourning JFK |
| #8832, aired 2023-03-21 | IT'S A JOKE $1000: Ben Stiller, guessing Zach Galifianakis' breakfast diet, suggested it's "egg" these yellows |
| #8832, aired 2023-03-21 | BOOKS: THE FUTURE IS NOW $1200: In 2025, game shows are to the death in "The Running Man", written by Stephen King under this pseudonym Richard Bachman |
| #8831, aired 2023-03-20 | SHORT STORY, SHORTER $2000: A Bierce last line--"Peyton Farquhar was dead; his body... swung gently... beneath the timbers of" this title structure Owl Creek Bridge |
| #8831, aired 2023-03-20 | CRY UNCLE $5,000 (Daily Double): In a letter to Tacitus, this man wrote of his elder uncle's death at Vesuvius from "some gross and noxious vapor" Pliny |
| #8829, aired 2023-03-16 | COMIC INFLUENCES $200: (I'm Patton Oswalt.) In high school I couldn't get enough of this comedy troupe who had it all--SPAM, the Spanish Inquisition, a dead parrot, the dirty fork--nudge, nudge, wink, wink; know what I mean, say no more Monty Python |
| #8829, aired 2023-03-16 | THE LEADER BEFORE THE LEADER $600: The man who would be king, Juan Carlos, is seen here with his predecessor, this general & dictator (Francisco) Franco |
| #8829, aired 2023-03-16 | THE LEADER BEFORE THE LEADER $800: A Sept. 11, 1973 coup led to the death of Salvador Allende & General Pinochet taking control of this country Chile |
| #8828, aired 2023-03-15 | THE MORNING AFTER $400: On this date, John Adams wrote to a friend, "A declaration passed Congress yesterday, and this morning will be printed" July 5, 1776 |
| #8828, aired 2023-03-15 | THE MORNING AFTER $600: The sign here was put up in California on this date in 1941 December 8th |
| #8828, aired 2023-03-15 | BIBLICAL FIRST NAMES $1200: Not the one who was raised from the dead but a beggar of this name became a patron saint of lepers Lazarus |
| #8825, aired 2023-03-10 | TV SHOWS IN OTHER WORDS $800: "Dread All Ambulatory Inanimate" Fear the Walking Dead |
| #8823, aired 2023-03-08 | IT HAPPENED IN ASIA $400: In 2000 a period of freedom in Syria upon the death of Pres. Assad I was called the Damascus this & lasted about as long as a season Spring |
| #8823, aired 2023-03-08 | LIABLE IN THE BIBLE $1000: As told by Leonard Cohen, David sees this woman on a roof; his sin with her leads to the death of their child as punishment Bathsheba |
| #8822, aired 2023-03-07 | AMERICAN COMPOSERS $400: In 2016, aged 94, Pulitzer winner George Walker composed a tribute to the dead of the Emanuel AME Church in this S.C. city Charleston |
| #8820, aired 2023-03-03 | ART MOVEMENTS $800: An affiliation with Marcel Duchamp earned American ceramicist Beatrice Wood the nickname the "Mama of" this art movement Dada |
| #8816, aired 2023-02-27 | DANIEL RADCLIFFE ON HARRY POTTER $400: (Daniel Radcliffe presents the clue.) One of my favorite co-stars was this actress; I had a teenage crush on her even though she played one of Harry's nemeses, the vicious Death Eater Bellatrix Lestrange Helena Bonham Carter |
| #8816, aired 2023-02-27 | BEFORE & AFTER $1200: A period of need to save up for that falls on the Mexican holiday just after Halloween the rainy Day of the Dead |
| #8815, aired 2023-02-24 | DESCRIBING THE HORROR FILM FRANCHISE $2000: A high school plane trip to Europe! What could possibly go wrong?; making death mad... problematic; hi, Mr. Bludworth! Final Destination |
| #8814, aired 2023-02-23 | OLD HISTORY $2,000 (Daily Double): These Easterners were poised to invade Western Europe in 1241 when the death of their supreme leader called them back the Mongols |
| #8813, aired 2023-02-22 | IT'S GREAT TO "CU" $800: From the French, it's a quiet dead end street a cul-de-sac |
| #8813, aired 2023-02-22 | TV SWITCHEROO $2000: After a big time jump in season 9 of this show, we find a new actress playing young Judith Grimes & she's there to help the survivors The Walking Dead |
| #8811, aired 2023-02-20 | TECH TALK $400: Hand-y term for a data storage device that plugs into a USB port a thumb drive |
| #8811, aired 2023-02-20 | TECH TALK $600: These days, more than 70% of Internet traffic is this type of video that typically uses data compression streaming |
| #8811, aired 2023-02-20 | TECH TALK $800: Windows users do not want to encounter BSOD, this colorful but fatal-sounding error the blue screen of death |
| #8804, aired 2023-02-09 | "WORLD" $600: It's the 4-word idiom that describes the person seen here dead to the world |
| #8804, aired 2023-02-09 | AUTOBIOGRAPHIES $1600: In this first lady's autobiography, she tells of the time after her husband's death when she became a U.N. delegate Eleanor Roosevelt |
| #8803, aired 2023-02-08 | ACTS OF CONGRESS $200: 2016's 21st Century Cures Act told this agency to speed up the drug approval process & pay more heed to "patient experience data" the FDA |
| #8800, aired 2023-02-03 | THE PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS ARE THE THING $400: Just after his death in 2005, the Virginia Theatre on New York's 52nd Street was renamed for this man who wrote "Fences" August Wilson |
| #8799, aired 2023-02-02 | POP MUSIC $1600: In 2022 she was free to duet with Elton John on the song "Hold Me Closer" Britney Spears |
| #13, aired 2023-02-02 | SINGIN' IN THE RAIN $900: Ariana Grande & this lady topped the charts in 2020 with the duet "Rain On Me" Lady Gaga |
| #13, aired 2023-02-02 | ALL ABOUT DISNEY $1000: November 18, 1928 is considered Mickey Mouse's birthday; it's the date he debuted onscreen in this cartoon as a mischievous deckhand Steamboat Willie |
| #8798, aired 2023-02-01 | IRAQ $600: Iraq once produced most of the world's supply of this fruit & is replanting after millions of palm trees were destroyed date |
| #8798, aired 2023-02-01 | HODGEPODGE $1000: After the queen's death, the names of Prince William's children now end with "of" this place instead of Cambridge Wales |
| #8797, aired 2023-01-31 | GET STUFFED! $400: Kristen Arnett's "Mostly Dead Things" is about a young woman who takes over one of these shops that stuffs dead animals taxidermist |
| #8797, aired 2023-01-31 | SCI-FI & FANTASY $400: P. Djèlí Clark uses this subgenre named for Victorian-era technology for his "Dead Djinn" stories set in an alternate 1912 Cairo steampunk |
| #8797, aired 2023-01-31 | THEY WROTE THE MOVIE $2000: As well as directing, Ingmar Bergman wrote this 1957 classic featuring a chess game with Death The Seventh Seal |
| #8796, aired 2023-01-30 | EXPLORATION $5,000 (Daily Double): "These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale", this British explorer wrote in 1912 in one of his final diary entries Robert Falcon Scott |
| #12, aired 2023-01-26 | ALL THINGS IRISH $100: A disease of this tuber in the 1840s led to famine, death & a large emigration away from Ireland a potato |
| #8791, aired 2023-01-23 | NOW THAT'S NOVEL $1600: In 1962, one month after publishing a novel about a trip from Mississippi to Memphis, he was dead of a heart attack William Faulkner |
| #8790, aired 2023-01-20 | WHIRLED EVENTS $200: 3-word name for an infamous date in 44 B.C.:
SCARED OF HIM Ides of March |
| #11, aired 2023-01-19 | 2 WORDS, 3 LETTERS EACH $3,000 (Daily Double): It doesn't sound super-medical, but Queen Elizabeth II's death certificate lists the cause as this, at 96 old age |
| #8788, aired 2023-01-18 | LONG-SERVING POLITICIANS $400: Massachusetts kept this "Liberal Lion" in the Senate for nearly 47 years, until his death Ted Kennedy |
| #8788, aired 2023-01-18 | SAME FIRST & LAST LETTER $400: It can be a praiseworthy feat or proof of ownership to a piece of land a deed |
| #8788, aired 2023-01-18 | BLANK VERSE $1600: "I have a rendezvous with ____ at some disputed barricade" death |
| #8785, aired 2023-01-13 | 8-LETTER WORDS $2000: You may think of data as words & numbers, but digital images are also data & this term can mean information about an image metadata |
| #8784, aired 2023-01-12 | CLASSIC ALBUMS $1200: "Life After Death" by this East Coast rapper was released in 1997, 2 weeks after he was murdered on the West Coast the Notorious B.I.G. (Biggie) |
| #10, aired 2023-01-12 | I LOVE MY DAD $200: He came to dadhood later in life, after his boy Luke grew up... & after cutting off Luke's hand... & blowing up his daughter's planet Darth Vader |
| #8781, aired 2023-01-09 | SOLVE THE MYSTERY TITLE $1200: A Tea Shop Mystery: the alliterative "Death by" this Indian variety Darjeeling |
| #8779, aired 2023-01-05 | COLLEGES NAMED AFTER PEOPLE $200: When this Houston U. opened in 1912, its founder was dead via chloroform (his killers having failed with mercury pills) Rice University |
| #8779, aired 2023-01-05 | SO THAT HAPPENED $600: 1901:
This rebellion in China ends, with a reported 100,000 dead the Boxer Rebellion |
| #9, aired 2023-01-05 | NATURE $600 (Daily Double): Research suggests that despite its reputation, this flightless bird that went extinct in the 1600s wasn't so dumb after all the dodo |
| #9, aired 2023-01-05 | PHILOSOPHY $600: Nietzsche's "The Gay Science" includes the parable of a madman crying out, he "is dead... and we have killed him" God |
| #8778, aired 2023-01-04 | TV THEME SONGS $2000: "Somebody said it could be here, we could be roped up, tied up, dead in a year" Community |
| #8777, aired 2023-01-03 | AMERICAN ART & ARTISTS $600: One of Albert Pinkham Ryder's best known works is the macabre-toned painting "The Race Track", or this "On a Pale Horse" Death |
| #8776, aired 2023-01-02 | HISTORY COMES ALIVE WITH ERIK LARSON $400: (Erik Larson presents the clue.) In "Dead Wake", I explore the infamous 1915 torpedoing by a U-boat of this luxury liner; with a loss of over 1,000 lives, including some 130 Americans, that tragedy helped convince the U.S. to join World War I in 1917 on the side of the Allies the Lusitania |
| #8776, aired 2023-01-02 | HISTORY COMES ALIVE WITH ERIK LARSON $1000: (Erik Larson presents the clue.) Do you know monsters when you see them? My book "In the Garden of Beasts" tells the story of Martha Dodd, daughter of the U.S. ambassador to Nazi Germany & her affair with the first head of this political police organization the gestapo |
| #8775, aired 2022-12-30 | 4-LETTER "X" RATED WORDS $200: Data in the form of words text |
| #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 |
| #8774, aired 2022-12-29 | 3-NAMED WRITERS $600: "I do not worry about dying" were the prophetic words of Federico García Lorca, who was put to death in 1936 during this conflict the Spanish Civil War |
| #8774, aired 2022-12-29 | 3-NAMED WRITERS $1000: Shortly before her death in 1924, this author of "The Secret Garden" wrote, "As long as one has a garden, one has a future" (Frances Hodgson) Burnett |
| #8773, aired 2022-12-28 | LITERARY CHARACTER NAMES $2,000 (Daily Double): wizardingworld.com tells us this villainous last name means "bad faith" Malfoy |
| #8772, aired 2022-12-27 | ESPIONAGE GLOSSARY $600: This "mortal" term refers to the prearranged location spies use to relay information without meeting a dead drop |
| #8771, aired 2022-12-26 | THE 18th CENTURY $200: She came to power in Russia in a 1762 coup against her husband, who was soon dead with the official cause as hemorrhoids Catherine the Great |
| #8771, aired 2022-12-26 | THE OFFICE $600: A popular office snack is the granola bar made since 1975 & named for this place we think is between Death Valley & Silicon Valley Nature Valley |
| #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 |
| #8769, aired 2022-12-22 | THE BOTTOM 10 $1600: No stranger to the Top 10, this Jersey band could only take "I'll Sleep When I'm Dead" to 97 in '93 Bon Jovi |
| #8768, aired 2022-12-21 | PUTTING ON HEIRS $4,000 (Daily Double): The 1889 death of Archduke Rudolf, the heir apparent to the Austro-Hungarian throne, put this man next in line after Rudy's uncle; oops Franz Ferdinand |
| #8767, aired 2022-12-20 | WHAT A STEAL! $400: After his 1955 death this physicist could not have sung "If I Only Had A Brain", as some of it went to a pathologist's home in Wichita Albert Einstein |
| #8766, aired 2022-12-19 | "IN THE" $2000: The title of this book, published after Hemingway's death, alludes to Bimini & Cuba & inspired a song of the same name Islands in the Stream |
| #8764, aired 2022-12-15 | HERE'S THE PLAY OF THE DAY! $400: Pay attention! In 2012 Andrew Garfield made his Broadway debut as Biff in this Arthur Miller play Death of a Salesman |
| #8764, aired 2022-12-15 | DRONING ON ACROSS AMERICA $600: Looks like surf's up at this area of Oahu with a directional name; way to totally shred that gnarly wave, dude the North Shore |
| #8764, aired 2022-12-15 | HISTORY IN ART $1600: Benjamin West took artistic license in depicting "The Death of General Wolfe", an event from this 18th century war the French and Indian War |
| #8763, aired 2022-12-14 | THE NONFICTION SECTION $400: Lawrence Wright's "The Looming Tower" examines the events & failures that led up to this history-changing date 9/11 |
| #8763, aired 2022-12-14 | THE "J.C"s $800: In 2022, Hollywood mourned the death of this legendary actor whose career touched 7 decades James Caan |
| #8763, aired 2022-12-14 | THE NONFICTION SECTION $1600: Cathy O'Neil's "Weapons of" this punning kind of "Destruction" looks at how algorithms & big data control us Math |
| #8761, aired 2022-12-12 | LOW DOWN $1600: This body of water, the lowest point on Earth, is part of a rift valley formed by lowering of the Earth's crust, not by erosion the Dead Sea |
| #8760, aired 2022-12-09 | SONG TITLE TITLES $400: A 1996 Jay-Z single: "Dead ____" Presidents |
| #8760, aired 2022-12-09 | SHE BLINDED ME $600: Michonne dealt with The Governor in a stabby way on this show; he'd later sport an eyepatch The Walking Dead |
| #8760, aired 2022-12-09 | TV FINAL EPISODES $3,800 (Daily Double): When this show ended on April 10, 2022, one of the 2 female leads was dead. Which? Well, the show didn't live up to its title Killing Eve |
| #8758, aired 2022-12-07 | LIFE'S PEAKS & VALLEYS $800: In 2021 this national park reported its hottest-ever June, with an average day/night temperature of 102.8 Death Valley |
| #8758, aired 2022-12-07 | SEQUELS $1600: It's the fitting 2-word title of Jojo Moyes' sequel to "Me Before You", about Louisa Clark following the death of Will Traynor After You |
| #8756, aired 2022-12-05 | MYTH $1600: In Egyptian mythology, Seth, the evil god of disorder, killed this brother, the god of the underworld Osiris |
| #8756, aired 2022-12-05 | MYTH $2000: A chief Aztec deity, this feathered serpent helped create the human race by mingling his blood with the bones of the ancient dead Quetzalcoatl |
| #8755, aired 2022-12-02 | FIZZ-ICS $600: In 1982 this 3-letter soda began losing a lot of weight in sales after the debut of a fellow Coca-Cola item, Diet Coke Tab |
| #8754, aired 2022-12-01 | DOLLARS TO DONUTS $400: Dodo & dope don't fit the category but this 4-letter synonym does dolt |
| #8753, aired 2022-11-30 | A GIANT CATEGORY $400: In this mythology, Ymir the giant, depicted here, was the first being & in death his eyebrows became the fence around Midgard Norse |
| #8749, aired 2022-11-24 | CHARACTER ACTORS $400: The Olivier & Tony-nominated Colman Domingo plays Victor Strand on the AMC zombie spin-off show Fear the Walking Dead |
| #8749, aired 2022-11-24 | SIMPLY GORGES $2000: Black River Gorges National Park is in this Indian Ocean island nation where the dodo once lived Mauritius |
| #8748, aired 2022-11-23 | CITIES & TOWNS OF THE BIBLE $1200: Also the home of Mary & Martha, this town near Jerusalem is where Lazarus was raised from the dead Bethany |
| #8748, aired 2022-11-23 | AN "F" IN OPERA $2000: A high point of the opera "Lakmé" by Léo Delibes is this "duet" heard here the "Flower Duet" |
| #8746, aired 2022-11-21 | WRITERS & THEIR WORKS $1000: In "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri, a couple names their baby after this author of "Dead Souls" Gogol |
| #8746, aired 2022-11-21 | WRITERS & THEIR WORKS $2,600 (Daily Double): Left unfinished at his death, "Juneteenth", his second novel, was published in 1999 Ralph Ellison |
| #8745, aired 2022-11-18 | TV DRAMAS BY EPISODE TITLES $600: "Infected" &
"Here's Negan" The Walking Dead |
| #8743, aired 2022-11-16 | HEARD IN THE MOVIE $1600: From the '80s:
"I want my 2 dollars" Better Off Dead |
| #8743, aired 2022-11-16 | 4 WEDDINGS & A FUNERAL $1600: The July 1, 1916 wedding of this future first couple was held at the home of John & Elivera Doud, the bride's parents the Eisenhowers |
| #8742, aired 2022-11-15 | FIRST-TIME RESPONSES $1200: This type of cymbal keeps steady rhythm rather than providing the occasional crash; we've done that cymbal to death a ride cymbal |
| #8742, aired 2022-11-15 | NOW STREAMING ON DuMONT+ $2000: We've got the Feb. 21, 1953 "Life is Worth Living" where Bishop Sheen predicts death for this Communist; 12 days later, bingo Stalin |
| #8741, aired 2022-11-14 | WE'RE IN IT $800: Part of a '70s trio: Suzanne Somers,
Joyce DeWitt Three's Company |
| #8, aired 2022-11-13 | COMPUTER SCIENCE WITH MATT AMODIO $300: (Matt Amodio delivers the clue.) Before the hard disk era, the storage of data or programs known as this word took more cumbersome forms, like huge circular drums & reels bearing hundreds of feet of tape memory |
| #8, aired 2022-11-13 | SEE WHAT I DID THERE? $500: I'm this 1-named Renaissance sculptor & I did a bust, now in Florence, of another 1-named dude, Brutus Michelangelo |
| #8740, aired 2022-11-11 | ELEGIES $2000: This "Invictus" poet also penned "Margaritae Sorori", an elegy in which death gets (& is) the last word Henley |
| #8738, aired 2022-11-09 | SHAKESPEARE JUST KILLS ME $200: Holding the dead Cordelia in his arms, he hears that Edmund is dead & is dead himself a few lines later Lear |
| #8737, aired 2022-11-08 | REMEMBERING ALEX TREBEK $200: Alex' breakfast of choice was a Diet Coke & a Snickers; after a doctor's lecture, Diet Pepsi & this "gimme a break" candy bar Kit Kat |
| #8737, aired 2022-11-08 | HOPE YOU READ MIDDLEMARCH $1200: With new ideas about ventilation, diet & fever, Lydgate is an idealistic young one of these a doctor |
| #8736, aired 2022-11-07 | IN THAT NOVEL $7,000 (Daily Double): High-ranking Father Latour passes away in a Santa Fe cathedral Death Comes for the Archbishop |
| #7, aired 2022-11-06 | HISTORY IN COMEDY $1500: On "Our Flag Means Death", Rhys Darby plays Stede Bonnet & Taika Waititi is this more notorious pirate Blackbeard |
| #8735, aired 2022-11-04 | HISTORY $2000: This Zulu warrior & chief used amabutho, or age-based regiments, to unite & control his kingdom before his 1828 death Shaka |
| #8734, aired 2022-11-03 | FILM FIGHT MARQUEE $800: 1978:
Bruce Lee
vs.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Game of Death |
| #8733, aired 2022-11-02 | HISTORIC NAMES $600: A town in Russia was renamed for this cosmonaut, the first man in space, following his death in 1968 Gagarin |
| #8733, aired 2022-11-02 | SIMON SAYS $1200: Simon Pegg, in this film: If we don't leave, zombies will "tear us to pieces, & that is really going to exacerbate things" Shaun of the Dead |
| #8731, aired 2022-10-31 | CONDUCTING THE HISTORIC JOB INTERVIEW $400: You scouted for Custer in 1867... became sheriff of Hays City, Kansas 2 years later... What brings you to Deadwood? Wild Bill Hickok |
| #8731, aired 2022-10-31 | A PARLIAMENT OF VOWELS $400: The imperial one traces back to Japan's 1889 constitution:
IE the Diet |
| #6, aired 2022-10-30 | PRETTY LITTLE LIES $500: How's this for a flex? You just got back from the gym, & get this, you dead-lifted a ton & a half, this many pounds 3,000 |
| #6, aired 2022-10-30 | CLASSIC TV $600: Here's the cast of this classic show named for one of its stars; sadly, with Betty White's death, they've all passed on The Mary Tyler Moore Show |
| #6, aired 2022-10-30 | HI, FINANCE $7,000 (Daily Double): A chapter no one ever wants to read, this one is often called a "reorganization" bankruptcy, like J.C. Penney in 2020 Chapter 11 |
| #8730, aired 2022-10-28 | MYTH-POURRI $2000: Balder will be back from the dead after this event, "doom of the gods" in Old Norse Ragnarok |
| #8729, aired 2022-10-27 | DANIEL RADCLIFFE COLLAGE $800: (Daniel Radcliffe presents the clue.) I played one of the two title characters who were just bit players in Shakespeare in a 50th anniversary West End production of this Tom Stoppard play that’s set against the backdrop of "Hamlet" Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead |
| #8729, aired 2022-10-27 | THE SECOND CHAPTER $2000: Milkman Dead falls in love with Hagar before seeing her face Song of Solomon |
| #8726, aired 2022-10-24 | CRUNCH $200: In autumn, they're satisfying to crunch underfoot & also nourish detritivores, small creatures that eat dead material leaves |
| #8726, aired 2022-10-24 | CRUNCH $800: Supercomputers crunch numbers in the form of this "large" 2-word buzz term for the tidal wave of digital information big data |
| #5, aired 2022-10-23 | HOLLYWOOD REPORTER $800: In the classic "Citizen Kane", following Kane's death, a reporter is sent out to uncover the meaning of this, his final word Rosebud |
| #8724, aired 2022-10-20 | A MATTER OF WIFE & DEATH $200: At his death in 1616, he left 10 pounds to the poor of Stratford & his second best bed to wife Anne Shakespeare |
| #8724, aired 2022-10-20 | A MATTER OF WIFE & DEATH $400: Mughal emperor Shah Jahan built this monument in memory of his favorite wife, who died in 1631 the Taj Mahal |
| #8724, aired 2022-10-20 | A MATTER OF WIFE & DEATH $600: After this sharpshooter wife passed away in 1926, Frank Butler reportedly stopped eating & died 18 days later Annie Oakley |
| #8724, aired 2022-10-20 | A MATTER OF WIFE & DEATH $800: Following his assassination in 1935, his widow Rose completed his term as senator from Louisiana (Huey) Long |
| #8724, aired 2022-10-20 | A MATTER OF WIFE & DEATH $1000: Henry VIII struggled to leave Catherine of Aragon, but it took death to part ol' Henry from this woman, wife No. 6 Catherine Parr |
| #8724, aired 2022-10-20 | POETS & POETRY $2,569 (Daily Double): It begins, "Of man's first disobedience, and the fruit of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste brought death into the world..." Paradise Lost |
| #8724, aired 2022-10-20 | HISTORICAL WEAR $4,699 (Daily Double): In 1921 he ditched Western suits for a shawl & a loincloth called a dhoti (Mahatma) Gandhi |
| #8722, aired 2022-10-18 | CELEBRITIES $400: Variety called her one of pop culture's most famous mother figures; music fans were saddened by her death in 2022 Naomi Judd |
| #8721, aired 2022-10-17 | SKIN CARE FROM A TO Z WITH MICHAEL STRAHAN $200: (Michael Strahan presents the clue.) Made from an Asian root vegetable, a contact sponge is helpful in this cleansing process of removing dead cells from skin surface--gimme an "E"! exfoliation |
| #8721, aired 2022-10-17 | BUT I HAVE THIS HISTORIC MEETING $1200: On May 30, 1593 4 men met in Deptford: 3 were associated with the Elizabethan spy service & 1 was this playwright, who ended up dead Marlowe |
| #8721, aired 2022-10-17 | "IF" AT FIRST... $2000: In a rousing 1765 Patrick Henry speech criticizing Britain, these 4 words preceded "make the most of it" if this be treason |
| #4, aired 2022-10-16 | AUTUMN $100: In 2022 a possible 7th game of this, baseball's "Fall Classic", would be played Nov. 5, the latest date ever a World Series |
| #4, aired 2022-10-16 | CURRENT EVENTS $500: Subjected to Islamist death threats since the 1980s, this author was savagely attacked at a speaking engagement Salman Rushdie |
| #8717, aired 2022-10-11 | THE WAIT OF THE WORLD $600: The website Thrill Data tracks theme park wait times, like 110 minutes for Radiator Springs Racers at this Disneyland park California Adventure |
| #8716, aired 2022-10-10 | HOW DID THEY DIE? $5,000 (Daily Double): His death in Vienna in 1791 has been attributed to rheumatic fever, strep throat, kidney failure & poisoning, among other things Mozart |
| #3, aired 2022-10-09 | WORDS OF LOVE $1200: A traditional wedding vow says, "For richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to" do this cherish |
| #8713, aired 2022-10-05 | SHORT STORIES & NOVELLAS $400: This "morbid" Thomas Mann novella has the German title "Der Tod in Venedig" Death in Venice |
| #8713, aired 2022-10-05 | SHORT STORIES & NOVELLAS $1600: "The Dead" is the best known of the 15 short stories in this author's "Dubliners" Joyce |
| #8711, aired 2022-10-03 | FILM NOIR $1200: The title of this classic 1944 noir refers to a life insurance policy that pays twice as much in a case of accidental death Double Indemnity |
| #8711, aired 2022-10-03 | WHEN POLK WAS PRESIDENT $2000: This California-bound "party" ended with 42 dead (some eaten) & 47 survivors the Donner Party |
| #8709, aired 2022-09-29 | U.S. COUNTIES $800: In 1997 "Miami" was added to the name of this county that honors a fallen soldier Dade County |
| #8709, aired 2022-09-29 | RELIGION $1000: It's the ascension heavenward by true Christians, both living & dead, at Christ's second coming the rapture |
| #8708, aired 2022-09-28 | THE RIGHT BROTHERS $1600: After the death of 5 brothers of this last name in WWII, the U.S. instituted the sole survivor policy to prevent a repeat Sullivan |
| #1, aired 2022-09-25 | YOU'RE PROBABLY GOING TO HATE THIS $300: Ben Franklin assured us that "Nothing is certain but death and" these taxes |
| #1, aired 2022-09-25 | THE WILD WEST $400: Deadwood is in South Dakota; this other fatal-sounding town notorious for Old West gunfights is in Arizona Tombstone |
| #1, aired 2022-09-25 | TELLING A BEDTIME STORY $400: ...& after the step-mom of these 2 kids abandoned them, they ate a local witch's house, then burned her to death; how Grimm! G'night! Hansel & Gretel |
| #1, aired 2022-09-25 | TELLING A BEDTIME STORY $500: Her cupboard, bare; she found her dog dead, left to buy a coffin, then found the pup laughing... sounds more like Stephen King Old Mother Hubbard |
| #1, aired 2022-09-25 | APOLOGIES $600: "Sorry, Dave... when the crew are dead or incapacitated, the onboard computer must assume control" is a line in this sci-fi novel 2001: A Space Odyssey |
| #1, aired 2022-09-25 | APOLOGIES $3,000 (Daily Double): In a movie, Cynthia Nixon played this woman called the Belle of Amherst & known for poems like "I'm Sorry for the Dead--Today" Emily Dickinson |
| #8705, aired 2022-09-23 | BIBLE STUDY $800: "A merry heart doeth good like a medicine" is from this book of wise writings Proverbs |
| #8704, aired 2022-09-22 | MOVIE TITLE REFERENCES $200: "The Green Mile" was this bad part of Cold Mountain Penitentiary death row |
| #8700, aired 2022-09-16 | HERSTORY $1,000 (Daily Double): Roxana married this conqueror in 327 B.C. & after his death, killed another wife or wives & consolidated the throne Alexander the Great |
| #8698, aired 2022-09-14 | ENDS WITH 2 VOWELS $400: This type of diet is modeled on the eating habits of prehistoric man paleo |
| #8698, aired 2022-09-14 | MUSIC $800: Ms. Rice knows con dolcezza or "with sweetness" is in his 6th symphony, which he conducted in St. Petersburg 9 days before his death Tchaikovsky |
| #8698, aired 2022-09-14 | CONS $1200: At Comic-Con 2022 Norman Reedus was nostalgic at the last panel for this series... but a miniseries was teased The Walking Dead |
| #8697, aired 2022-09-13 | EUROPEAN PLACES $400: The Dada art movement began in this most populous Swiss city around 1916 Zurich |
| #8697, aired 2022-09-13 | 20th CENTURY SONG, 21st CENTURY AD $800: GEICO:
This metal band's
"Round & Round" Ratt |
| #8696, aired 2022-09-12 | THAT'S SO SIR/REEL! $2000: "Murder by Death" & "Star Wars", one year apart Sir Alec Guinness |
| #8695, aired 2022-07-29 | HISTORY $1600: Dido was the legendary founder of this Phoenician city-state later ruled by the Romans & Vandals Carthage |
| #8694, aired 2022-07-28 | 40 YEARS OF USA TODAY $200: For issue 1 in 1982, as many a front page had Lebanon's pres. getting blown up, USA Today led with the death of this princess from Philly Princess Grace of Monaco (Grace Kelly) |
| #8694, aired 2022-07-28 | STARTS WITH 2 VOWELS $1200: This controversial end-of-life practice derives its name from Greek for "easy death" euthanasia |
| #8693, aired 2022-07-27 | A.D. $1600: 1616 saw the death of William Shakespeare at New place, in this place where he was born Stratford-upon-Avon |
| #8692, aired 2022-07-26 | SIRIUS-LY DEDICATED $600: You don't need a miracle to listen to Jerry, Bob, Phil, Bill & Mickey of this jam band... you can just dial up their channel, man the Grateful Dead |
| #8692, aired 2022-07-26 | FILL IN THE PLAY TITLE $800: From a line in Shakespeare:
____ & ____ are Dead" Rosencrantz and Guildenstern |
| #8692, aired 2022-07-26 | MIDDLE NAMES $2,000 (Daily Double): Biblical middle name of the man said to be the richest person in the U.S. at his death in 1848 Jacob |
| #8691, aired 2022-07-25 | LITERATURE OF THE MIDDLE AGES $1600: The "Chanson de" or "Song of" this hero tells of his death & the vengeance taken on the traitor Ganelon Roland |
| #8689, aired 2022-07-21 | THE OLD WEST $600: Before becoming sheriff of this South Dakota town, Seth Bullock opened a hardware store there with partner Sol Star Deadwood |
| #8689, aired 2022-07-21 | THE MET: A VERSE $600: His painting "The Death of Socrates" is one of the museum's bigs; he's French, so say his name like that of singing actor Diggs David |
| #8688, aired 2022-07-20 | FAMOUS AMERICANS $400: 2022 marks the 60th anniversary of this Hollywood icon's death at 36; she's only become more famous since her passing Marilyn Monroe |
| #8688, aired 2022-07-20 | HEY, NICE "AB"s! $2000: To wait patiently, like a movie "Dude" to abide |
| #8686, aired 2022-07-18 | ACTIVE BIBLE VERSES $1200: "And when he had opened the fourth seal... I looked, and behold a pale" this: "and his name that sat on him was Death" horse |
| #8685, aired 2022-07-15 | WORLD OF OPERA $400: In the opera "Dead Man Walking", Sister Helen meets her pen pal, a death row inmate, at Angola Penitentiary in this state Louisiana |
| #8685, aired 2022-07-15 | WORLD OF OPERA $800: Philip Glass' "Akhnaten" begins in Thebes with the passing of Amenhotep III & words sung from this tome Book of the Dead |
| #8685, aired 2022-07-15 | 4,4 $800: It can be a transfer of a lot of information between 2 computer networks a data dump |
| #8683, aired 2022-07-13 | HODGEPODGE $1200: In 2021, the U.S. Postal Service issued new stamps celebrating this holiday the Day of the Dead (Día de los Muertos) |
| #8681, aired 2022-07-11 | TRIAL & ERA $400: A Synodus Horrenda of 897 saw Pope Formosus guilty; 3 fingers were lopped off, but he felt nothing as he was in this state he was dead |
| #8681, aired 2022-07-11 | WRITER, WRONGER $400: Terrible with money, this Mo. humorist invested in James Paige's multi-ton typesetter; he later fantasized about Paige's slow death Mark Twain |
| #8681, aired 2022-07-11 | CHARACTERS IN THE MOVIE $800: Ernesto de la Cruz & Miguel got animated in the land of the dead Coco |
| #8680, aired 2022-07-08 | WEATHER WORDS $1,000 (Daily Double): A Joyce story ends with this falling "upon all the living and the dead" the snow |
| #8678, aired 2022-07-06 | THE REPRESENTATIVE FROM... $400: Mississippi:
Bennie Thompson, who chairs the Select Committee investigating the events of this date in 2021 January 6th |
| #8677, aired 2022-07-05 | A NOVEL DEATH $200: Spoiler for a 15-year-old book! this house-elf doesn't make it all the way through "The Deathly Hallows" Dobby |
| #8677, aired 2022-07-05 | A NOVEL DEATH $400: In 1990 John Updike put this title guy to "Rest" after running through 4 novels Rabbit |
| #8677, aired 2022-07-05 | A NOVEL DEATH $600: Did Bob Ewell fall on his own knife in this novel? Sheriff Heck Tate is fine with that explanation To Kill a Mockingbird |
| #8677, aired 2022-07-05 | A NOVEL DEATH $800: Sadly, the "Flowers for" this tiny Daniel Keyes character are for his grave Algernon |
| #8677, aired 2022-07-05 | A NOVEL DEATH $1000: After one character says this miss is "past her prime", this miss is a lot worse off than that Miss Jean Brodie |
| #8676, aired 2022-07-04 | TV $600: "Our Flag Means Death" features Taika Waititi as this pirate also known as Edward Teach Blackbeard |
| #8675, aired 2022-07-01 | ITALIAN LOANWORDS $400: Meaning "same here", it has its own marks ditto |
| #8675, aired 2022-07-01 | FILMED IN GEORGIA $800: Woodbury in this AMC series was actually the town of Senoia & the Alexandria Safe Zone scenes were also shot there The Walking Dead |
| #8674, aired 2022-06-30 | BE MERRY $800: In a painting by Charles Thévenin, Parisians celebrate the anniversary of the Revolution on this date in 1790 July 14th |
| #8674, aired 2022-06-30 | SCIENCE WORDS $2,000 (Daily Double): A very low-carb, high-fat diet gets you into this state, when your body starts using fats to create energy ketogenic |
| #8673, aired 2022-06-29 | DIET HARD WITH A VENGEANCE $200: Self magazine had this as the No. 1 superfood for weight loss, noting bloat-busting potassium & that "Popeye was onto something" spinach |
| #8673, aired 2022-06-29 | DIET HARD WITH A VENGEANCE $400: Capsaicin in these has been shown to increase fat burning & reduce appetite, but maybe lay off the "Red Hot" Red Savina type (chili) peppers |
| #8673, aired 2022-06-29 | DIET HARD WITH A VENGEANCE $600: To lower calories, choose types of this like albacore that's canned in water & not oil, which can add fat tuna |
| #8673, aired 2022-06-29 | HE WAS A SHOGUN $800: Tsunayoshi's "Laws of Compassion" (enforced by death) banned animal cruelty; he was called Inu-kobo, or this animal-shogun dog |
| #8673, aired 2022-06-29 | DIET HARD WITH A VENGEANCE $800: Seaweed has few calories, lots of fiber & provides iodine that supports this gland that controls the body's metabolism the thyroid |
| #8673, aired 2022-06-29 | DIET HARD WITH A VENGEANCE $1000: The flowers of plants like broccoli form a cross, so you may read about the benefits of these vegetables meaning "cross-bearing" cruciferous |
| #8672, aired 2022-06-28 | SHOE KNOW IT! $400: On April 1, 1960, this Dr. was in with its 8-holed 1460 boot, 1/4/60 being the European date Dr. Martens |
| #8670, aired 2022-06-24 | 2022 ANNIVERSARIES $200: 100 years ago, in November 1922 Howard Carter made this discovery, some 3,000 years after the death that caused its creation King Tut's tomb (King Tut's body as a mummy) |
| #8669, aired 2022-06-23 | PUBLISHED POSTHUMOUSLY $1200: The book was unfinished at his death, so he took the end of "The Mystery of Edwin Drood" to the grave Charles Dickens |
| #8669, aired 2022-06-23 | PUBLISHED POSTHUMOUSLY $2000: Just after "Howards End", he wrote "Maurice", about a gay man, but didn't allow it to be published until after his death Forster |
| #8669, aired 2022-06-23 | PUBLISHED POSTHUMOUSLY $9,000 (Daily Double): This author traded China for the Korean DMZ in "The Eternal Wonder", published 40 years after her 1973 death (Pearl) Buck |
| #8668, aired 2022-06-22 | HAIL TO THE CHEF $1200: Before his untimely death, he took TV viewers into "Parts Unknown" to explore food & culture around the world Anthony Bourdain |
| #8667, aired 2022-06-21 | MOVIE INSPIRATIONS $400: These cinematic siblings met a dude named Jeff Dowd who inspired them to make "The Big Lebowski" the Coen brothers |
| #8667, aired 2022-06-21 | TAKING STOCK SYMBOL $400: BB, securing your data in a nice, safe Canadian way BlackBerry |
| #8666, aired 2022-06-20 | PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $400: The 2012 Tony for Best Revival of a Play went to this Arthur Miller classic Death of a Salesman |
| #8665, aired 2022-06-17 | THE QUOTABLE MOVIE $400: "It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with... & it absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are dead" The Terminator |
| #8665, aired 2022-06-17 | WORDPLAY-POURRI $800: Change a letter:
A convenient way to get your bills paid & an examination of a body after death autopay & autopsy |
| #8665, aired 2022-06-17 | HIS WIDOW LIVED ON $1200: 35 years after the death of this beloved Yankee first baseman, his widow Eleanor is seen at a 1976 game Lou Gehrig |
| #8662, aired 2022-06-14 | SONGS OF INNOCENCE & EXPERIENCE $800: Andrew Bird called a song "Near" this "Experience Experience" Death |
| #8662, aired 2022-06-14 | PARTNERS IN RHYME $3,000 (Daily Double): Aiding Coleridge in creating this poem, Wordsworth wrote he "suggested the navigation of the ship by the dead men" The Rime of the Ancient Mariner |
| #8661, aired 2022-06-13 | BOOK TITLE REFERENCES $1,000 (Daily Double): The murder of Linnet Doyle aboard the Karnak, a steamer Death on the Nile |
| #8661, aired 2022-06-13 | ONE, TWO $1000: In 1934 John Dillinger got a very unwanted birthday present, this 4-word designation & soon, a $10,000 reward on his head Public Enemy Number One |
| #8661, aired 2022-06-13 | HUNGARY $1000: In 1988, 43 years after his death in self-exile in New York, this composer's remains were returned to his beloved Hungary Bartók |
| #8660, aired 2022-06-10 | U.S. DATES $200: On this date each year moments of silence are observed in New York City at 8:46 & 9:03 A.M. September 11th |
| #8660, aired 2022-06-10 | U.S. DATES $400: For years 7-Eleven offered a little joy with free Slurpees on this date July 11th |
| #8660, aired 2022-06-10 | THE SHIRT OFF OUR BACK $400: Seen here, this item is said to date back to the 1920s or '30s, when kimono fabric began to be used for men's shirts a Hawaiian shirt |
| #8660, aired 2022-06-10 | U.S. DATES $800: On this date in 1921 an Unknown Soldier was buried at Arlington National Cemetery November 11th |
| #8660, aired 2022-06-10 | U.S. DATES $1000: Date in 1865 on which Union General Gordon Granger told the African Americans of Galveston they were free June 19th (Juneteenth) |
| #8660, aired 2022-06-10 | MOVIES WITH NARRATORS $1000: 1950: A screenwriter doesn't let being dead stop him from narrating a Hollywood tale Sunset Boulevard |
| #8660, aired 2022-06-10 | KILLER TUNES $1600: Fronted by Danny Elfman, this rhyming band sang, "It's a dead man's party, who could ask for more?" Oingo Boingo |
| #8659, aired 2022-06-09 | SILENT W WORDS $600: A determination of this type of death based on negligence can lead to a lawsuit wrongful |
| #8657, aired 2022-06-07 | DEER-POURRI $800: A men-only social gathering, or the way you "go" to a party if unaccompanied by a date stag |
| #8655, aired 2022-06-03 | A BIT OF LIT $1600: "The Last Tycoon" was left unfinished at this author's death F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| #8654, aired 2022-06-02 | WHAT BREED OF MOVIE DOG? $600: Daisy, John Wick's dog whose death leads to a killing spree a beagle |
| #8654, aired 2022-06-02 | THEATER $2000: His "Long Day's Journey into Night" didn't debut on Broadway until 3 years after his death Eugene O'Neill |
| #8653, aired 2022-06-01 | POP & ROCK LIFE STORIES $2000: "So Let It Be Written", a bio of this lead singer, gets its title from a lyric in Metallica's "Creeping Death" James Hetfield |
| #8652, aired 2022-05-31 | SCIENCE $1200: A study of these notorious bacteria, genus Escherichia, showed they swarm to fight antibiotics & even dead ones participate E. coli |
| #8651, aired 2022-05-30 | STICK TO THE SCRIPTURE $1200: The people with Jesus when "he called" this man "out of his grave, and raised him from the dead" bore witness Lazarus |
| #8646, aired 2022-05-23 | RELATIVELY SUCCESSFUL COMPOSERS $800: Michael Haydn outshone brother Joseph in church music & wrote this mass for the dead that influenced Mozart's famous one Requiem |
| #8646, aired 2022-05-23 | HOW EPIC! $2000: Set in the 8th century, "La Chanson de Roland" recounts the deeds & heroic death of one of this king's vassals Charlemagne |
| #8645, aired 2022-05-20 | HISTORY PAINTINGS $2000: Britain's National Maritime Museum has a painting showing this captain's 1779 death at the hands of Hawaiians (James) Cook |
| #8644, aired 2022-05-19 | LIT BITS $800: Sylvia Plath penned a famous poem with this 5-letter title about a dead parent Daddy |
| #8643, aired 2022-05-18 | HISTORIC AMERICANS $400: On this silversmith's death in 1818, one paper said, "Seldom has the tomb closed upon a life so honorable & useful" Paul Revere |
| #8642, aired 2022-05-17 | WATER, WATER EVERYWHERE $800: Saturn's moon Titan is thought to have a subsurface ocean as salty as this terrestrial "Salt Sea" the Dead Sea |
| #8640, aired 2022-05-13 | PLACES IN THE BIBLE $400: The prophet Elisha visits a sick king in this Syrian city but only foresees his death & another taking his place Damascus |
| #8640, aired 2022-05-13 | STARTS WITH "Y" $1600: When attending a bar mitzvah, don't forget to put on one of these, often personalized with the pisher's name & the date a yarmulke |
| #8639, aired 2022-05-12 | BEVERAGES $200: 7UP is among the soda brands that have replaced this word on their labels in favor of "zero sugar" diet |
| #8639, aired 2022-05-12 | IN THE NATIONAL PARK $800: In California, Twenty Mule Team Canyon Death Valley |
| #8639, aired 2022-05-12 | AUNTIE $1600: Seen here, she plays Aunt Lydia on "The Handmaid's Tale" Ann Dowd |
| #8638, aired 2022-05-11 | MORE THAN ONE MEANING $200: Fruit of the palm & a social engagement a date |
| #8635, aired 2022-05-06 | INTERNATIONAL COMPUTER GLOSSARY $200: Descargar means to do this, like data off the Internet download |
| #8635, aired 2022-05-06 | MODERN ROYALTY $400: Akihito took over as emperor of Japan after the 1989 death of his father, this man Hirohito |
| #8634, aired 2022-05-05 | DESCRIBING THE PULITZER FICTION WINNER $2000: 1980: A book about Gary Gilmore, a real-life death row inmate The Executioner's Song |
| #8632, aired 2022-05-03 | HISTORY $400: One of the crimes for which this French saint was sentenced to death in 1431: dressing in men's clothes Joan of Arc |
| #8632, aired 2022-05-03 | BIBLE BELTS $1000: In the New Testament we hear of a man who is beaten, stripped & left for dead; some pass him by but this man "had compassion" the Good Samaritan |
| #8629, aired 2022-04-28 | POETS & POETRY $200: Joy Harjo's "When the World as We Knew It Ended" refers to this date when "two towers... went down, swallowed by a fire dragon" 9/11 |
| #8629, aired 2022-04-28 | POETS & POETRY $800: One of Joseph Brodsky's best-known poems is "Elegy for" this "Death Be Not Proud" poet John Donne |
| #8628, aired 2022-04-27 | FINISH THE OLD PROVERB $800: "A live dog is better than a dead" one of these regal beasts a lion |
| #8625, aired 2022-04-22 | WHINE $3,200 (Daily Double): "How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people!" is the first complaint in this Bible book of complaints Lamentations |
| #8623, aired 2022-04-20 | THEATRICAL HAPPENINGS $400: "Into the Woods" finds Rapunzel trampled & a giant plummeting to its death from one of these a beanstalk |
| #8623, aired 2022-04-20 | THE LEAGUE LEADER $1000: Peaking in Europe in the 14th century, this German trading league began to fade & held its last diet in 1669 the Hanseatic League |
| #8622, aired 2022-04-19 | POSSESSIVE THINGS $800: Dido's lament is an aria sung by a Carthaginian queen after this Trojan hero abandons her Aeneas |
| #8619, aired 2022-04-14 | CELEBRITIES' FIRSTS $800: Cole Sprouse says he got his first kiss in this type of vehicle & notes you could call it the kiss of death a hearse |
| #8619, aired 2022-04-14 | NUMBER WORDS $1600: This slang number for a certain crop is thought to date to a San Rafael, California high school in the early 1970s 420 |
| #8618, aired 2022-04-13 | AROUND THE USA $400: To see a rare stone beach on Washington Island, Wisconsin, you must brave Death's Door, a strait connecting Lake Michigan and this bay Green Bay |
| #8616, aired 2022-04-11 | LITERATURE $1200: "Dead Until Dark" by Charlaine Harris introduced this female telepath & a community of Louisiana vampires Sookie Stackhouse |
| #8610, aired 2022-04-01 | HISTORY IS CIRCULAR $1000: Paiute prophets saying the dead would return were part of this 19th c. Native American movement named for a circle dance Ghost Dance |
| #8608, aired 2022-03-30 | A DISH OF SCHUBERT $800: A year before his own death, in 1827 Schubert was a torchbearer at the funeral of this legendary composer Beethoven |
| #8608, aired 2022-03-30 | A DISH OF SCHUBERT $2000: Schubert's "Der Tod und das Mädchen", translated as this pair, was based on a poem by Matthias Claudius "Death and the Maiden" |
| #8607, aired 2022-03-29 | AFRICAN-AMERICANA $800: Watch Night is a New Year's Eve tradition dating back to the eve of January 1, 1863, the date this took effect the Emancipation Proclamation |
| #8606, aired 2022-03-28 | CROSBY $400: As Kristin Shepard on "Dallas", actress Mary Crosby was revealed as the person who had performed this almost deadly deed shot J.R. |
| #8606, aired 2022-03-28 | BRITISH WRITERS $1600: This playwright who wrote "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead" also co-wrote the movie "Shakespeare in Love" Tom Stoppard |
| #8605, aired 2022-03-25 | TIME TO CALL IT A DAY $800: Term for the day, usually in March, when many states including Alabama & Texas hold their presidential primary on the same date Super Tuesday |
| #8603, aired 2022-03-23 | THE BODY POLITIC $1600: In the west Japan's national assembly, the Kokkai, goes by this slender name the Diet |
| #8602, aired 2022-03-22 | INVESTING $200: As their name indicates, these are contracts to buy or sell commodities like grain at an agreed-upon price at a later date futures |
| #8601, aired 2022-03-21 | PICTURE/BOOK $1000: A first novel dealing with the Second World War The Naked and the Dead |
| #8600, aired 2022-03-18 | ANALYZING THE SEUSS CHARACTER $1000: This title guy gets a death sentence--via beheading!--then overcomes his hoarding & sells his "500 Hats" to the king Bartholomew Cubbins |
| #8600, aired 2022-03-18 | SOUTH AMERICAN HISTORY $1600: In 1864 this country in the middle of the continent took on Brazil, later Argentina & Uruguay; half its population would end up dead Paraguay |
| #8600, aired 2022-03-18 | SOUTH AMERICAN HISTORY $2,000 (Daily Double): In 1997, 30 years after his death in Bolivia, the remains of this revolutionary were returned to Cuba "Che" Guevara |
| #8599, aired 2022-03-17 | MOVIE & TV ROLE IN COMMON $1200: Howard Keel in the 1953 film "Calamity Jane"; Keith Carradine in "Deadwood" Wild Bill Hickok |
| #8599, aired 2022-03-17 | HISTORY QUICK TAKES $1600: Abu Bakr became the first of these rulers in 632 after the death of Muhammad a caliph |
| #8598, aired 2022-03-16 | CAN I MAKE YOU A DRINK? $400: As The Dude says, "There's a beverage here"; although as mine is just a virgin White Russian, I have a glass of this milk (heavy cream or half & half) |
| #8597, aired 2022-03-15 | BUILDINGS IN HISTORY $2000: At Sengakuji Temple in Tokyo, visitors honor the 47 these, samurai who avenge their dead master & are buried there ronin |
| #8594, aired 2022-03-10 | GUYS WHO WEAR GLASSES $400: Here's this trusted newsman wearing his glasses as he announced the death of John F. Kennedy Cronkite |
| #8594, aired 2022-03-10 | GUYS WHO WEAR GLASSES $2000: This Israeli fashion designer & creative director of Lanvin was mourned by celebrity clients at his death in 2021 Alber Elbaz |
| #8593, aired 2022-03-09 | LITERARY CHARACTER SPOILERS $400: "He was withered, wrinkled, and loathsome of visage" & also very dead on the floor, but man, that portrait nearby looked fantastic! Dorian Gray |
| #8592, aired 2022-03-08 | POETRY FILL IN THE BLANK $400: Whitman: "Exult O shores, and ring O bells! But I with mournful tread, walk the deck my ____ lies, fallen cold and dead" my Captain |
| #8592, aired 2022-03-08 | POETRY FILL IN THE BLANK $800: Eliot: "April is the ____ ____ breeding lilacs out of the dead land" the cruelest month |
| #8590, aired 2022-03-04 | THE ELEMENTS OF LITERATURE $200: The short story collection "Dead Neon" envisions strange, post-apocalyptic possibilities in this desert mecca Las Vegas |
| #8590, aired 2022-03-04 | SAMS CLUB $1000: 3 years before his death in a car crash, he made the cover of Rolling Stone as "Comedy's Wild Thing" Sam Kinison |
| #8589, aired 2022-03-03 | ARTS NEWS $7,200 (Daily Double): In 2021 Gary Avis danced Virgil in a Royal Opera House production commemorating the 700th anniversary of this poet's death Dante Aligheri |
| #8587, aired 2022-03-01 | CAUSE OF DEATH $400: Frederic Chopin: this ailment "of the lungs & larynx", per his death certificate tuberculosis |
| #8587, aired 2022-03-01 | EDUCATORS $800 (Daily Double): The schools founded by this woman date back to 1907 when she opened her first casa dei bambini, a "children's house" for those 2 to 6 (Maria) Montessori |
| #8587, aired 2022-03-01 | ANTONYMS $800: The King James Bible says Christ shall judge them, meaning the living, & the dead the quick and the dead |
| #8587, aired 2022-03-01 | CAUSE OF DEATH $800: Philosopher William of Ockham, circa 1347: this disease that killed many other Europeans then too the black plague |
| #8587, aired 2022-03-01 | CAUSE OF DEATH $1200: Cartoonist Thomas Nast, working as a diplomat in Ecuador: this fever yellow fever |
| #8587, aired 2022-03-01 | CAUSE OF DEATH $1600: James K. Polk (the president who died the youngest aside from those assassinated): this water-borne disease cholera |
| #8587, aired 2022-03-01 | CAUSE OF DEATH $2000: Chester Arthur (the president who died the second-youngest aside from those assassinated): Bright disease, of this organ the kidney |
| #8585, aired 2022-02-25 | HOW PUNGENT! $800: Indonesians call the titan arum "bunga bangkai", meaning this dead body "flower"; it can grow 6 fragrant inches a day a corpse |
| #8584, aired 2022-02-24 | PARISH FROM THE EARTH $400: This parish has the same name as the site of Napoleon Bonaparte's death St. Helena |
| #8584, aired 2022-02-24 | PARISH FROM THE EARTH $1000: Spanish explorer Hernando spent time in what's now Louisiana before his May 21, 1542 death; this parish is named for him DeSoto |
| #8583, aired 2022-02-23 | NOTABLE PEOPLE $3,000 (Daily Double): On her death in 2005, this civil rights activist became the first woman to lie in honor in the U.S. Capitol Rosa Parks |
| #18, aired 2022-02-22 | SCARY STORIES $1200: A dead girl observes her family, friends & killer in this 2002 bestseller by Alice Sebold, later a movie The Lovely Bones |
| #17, aired 2022-02-22 | WE'VE GOT THE BLUES $1600: More than 20 years after his death at about age 27, the 1961 album "King of the Delta Blues Singers" made him newly famous Robert Johnson |
| #8580, aired 2022-02-18 | END YOUR RESPONSE WITH A PREPOSITION $800: Saying you look "like death..." these 2 words is not a compliment to your appearance warmed over |
| #8580, aired 2022-02-18 | BRING YOUR "A" GAME $1200: Fight the dead in this game named for an "Evil Dead" sequel that starred Bruce Campbell Army of Darkness |
| #15, aired 2022-02-18 | BETWEEN 10 & 20 $1000: Developed by chemist Willard Libby, this method named for an isotope is used to date fossils carbon-14 dating |
| #14, aired 2022-02-17 | TV FINALES $2000: When this show ended in 2021, seems Mr. Wednesday (an alias of Odin) wasnt so dead after all American Gods |
| #12, aired 2022-02-16 | THE FUTURE'S NOT SO BRIGHT... $2,000 (Daily Double): In "Y: The Last Man" having a Y chromosome is a death sentence, save for the guy with this name from Shakespeare Yorick |
| #11, aired 2022-02-16 | "X" MARKS THE CATEGORY $400: To send data from one computer program to another exchange (or export) |
| #11, aired 2022-02-16 | LITERATURE: "GOOD" OR "GREAT" $800: "Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight" is a line from this Dylan Thomas poem "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night" |
| #8577, aired 2022-02-15 | INTERNATIONAL PRISONS $1000: This German prison that housed Nazi war criminals was demolished after the death of Rudolf Hess, its last inmate Spandau Prison |
| #8577, aired 2022-02-15 | U.N. RESOLUTIONS $3,000 (Daily Double): Issued on this date, Security Council resolution 1368 was on "threats to international peace and security caused by terrorist acts" September 12, 2001 |
| #10, aired 2022-02-15 | 10-LETTER WORDS $800: "Mortal" word describing a jury that can't reach a verdict deadlocked |
| #9, aired 2022-02-15 | COURSE SYLLABLES $800: 2 syllables:
This double-talk art history course on the style of Duchamp & Man Ray Dada |
| #7, aired 2022-02-11 | HORROR FILMS $800: This Simon Pegg horror comedy puns on the title of a George Romero flick Shaun of the Dead |
| #7, aired 2022-02-11 | HORROR FILMS $1600: "Drag Me to Hell" is a spine-tingling entry from this director of "The Evil Dead" & "Spider-Man" (Sam) Raimi |
| #7, aired 2022-02-11 | DOUBLE LETTERS WITHIN $1600: Enriching a treasury is "filling" these, with the same derivation as a place to put the dead coffers |
| #8574, aired 2022-02-10 | FROM THE BRITISH ROYAL WEBSITE $400: In April 2021 the death at age 99 of this longest-serving British consort was announced "with deep sorrow" Prince Philip |
| #6, aired 2022-02-10 | COMEDIANS' ROLES $1200: Tig Notaro got some laughs playing a feisty helicopter pilot in this Zack Snyder zombie flick Army of the Dead |
| #5, aired 2022-02-10 | YOU'LL HAVE PEAKS & VALLEYS $400: Appropriately, the Funeral Mountains border this valley of the American Southwest Death Valley |
| #5, aired 2022-02-10 | U.S. STAMPS $800: Seen here, a 2021 stamp celebrates this holiday by showing elements of a typical ofrenda Dia de los Muertos (the Day of the Dead) |
| #5, aired 2022-02-10 | OPERA $2000: In Richard Strauss' opera about this woman, her dancing leads to the death of John the Baptist Salome |
| #8572, aired 2022-02-08 | JUST "Z" MOVIE FOR YOU $800: Some of the rules for surviving in this 2009 post-apocalyptic comedy include: No. 1: cardio & No. 3: beware of bathrooms Zombieland |
| #2, aired 2022-02-08 | MY HERO OF ACADEMIA $1600: Professor Sebald Brugmans pioneered methods to stop this, tissue death around a wound, & saved many after the Battle of Waterloo necrosis (or gangrene) |
| #2, aired 2022-02-08 | SHAKESPEARE $2,000 (Daily Double): The first scene of this late play ends with the line "The wills above be done, but I would fain die a dry death" The Tempest |
| #2, aired 2022-02-08 | DJs $2000: The superstar DJ with the album "Joytime" is known for the white helmet that goes with this stage name Marshmello |
| #1, aired 2022-02-08 | BIO 101 $1000: Les Payne worked for 30 years on "The Dead are Arising", a 2020 bio of this man who joined & broke with the Nation of Islam Malcolm X |
| #1, aired 2022-02-08 | DEAN'S LIST $1200: Seen here, he never bunted while playing Negan on "The Walking Dead" Jeffrey Dean Morgan |
| #1, aired 2022-02-08 | "KN"OWLEDGE $2000: Ring a bell slowly & solemnly to announce a death knell |
| #8569, aired 2022-02-03 | THE 20th CENTURY $200: Her death following a car crash in the Pont de l'Alma tunnel produced worldwide mourning Princess Diana |
| #8569, aired 2022-02-03 | LAUGHTER IN THE BIBLE $400: Jesus is laughed at when he says, "The maid is not" this, "but sleepeth"; then "the maid arose" dead |
| #8569, aired 2022-02-03 | IT'S A NATIONAL THING $1,000 (Daily Double): The Feb. 1588 death of its admiral, the Marquis de Santa Cruz, would loom large in the coming disaster that befell this big group the Spanish Armada |
| #8568, aired 2022-02-02 | AGAIN $200: 5-letter term for a close copy, or what you could say instead of "I agree as well" ditto |
| #8567, aired 2022-02-01 | KILLER TV SHOWS $400: Murders abound on the fictional Caribbean island of Saint-Marie, which doesn't seem much like Eden in "Death in" this Paradise |
| #8565, aired 2022-01-28 | SCIENCE & NATURE $200: Data compiled by Rhodium Group says if cows were a country, they'd be the world's 6th-largest emitter of this greenhouse gas methane |
| #8564, aired 2022-01-27 | U.S. PLACE NAMES $200: California's Badwater Basin sounds as enticing as this equally offputtingly named valley where it's located Death Valley |
| #8563, aired 2022-01-26 | CREATURE COMFORTS $1000: The cleaner species of this tropical fish make their neighbors more comfortable by removing dead scales & other irritants the cleaner wrasse |
| #8563, aired 2022-01-26 | E BEFORE I $2000: In many states the death penalty may be imposed if a murder was especially this, "atrocious or cruel" heinous |
| #8562, aired 2022-01-25 | SEE LIFE $600: That's totally tubular, dude! Located behind the trachea, it's the body part seen here the esophagus |
| #8561, aired 2022-01-24 | ROMA LIFE & CULTURE $800: The Roma were targeted by the Nazis & August 2 is a day of remembrance for almost 3,000 killed at this camp on that date in 1944 Auschwitz |
| #8560, aired 2022-01-21 | PHILOSOPHIC & RELIGIOUS -ISMs $1200: This 19th century movement believed the dead could communicate with the living through mediums spiritualism |
| #8557, aired 2022-01-18 | ESCAPIST LITERATURE $2000: The displaced title man escapes being put to death in this 1889 novel by accurately predicting a solar eclipse A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court |
| #8557, aired 2022-01-18 | ESCAPIST LITERATURE $6,000 (Daily Double): 10 young people tell stories to pass the time in "The Decameron" while escaping the black death engulfing this city Florence |
| #8556, aired 2022-01-17 | ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE CHARACTERS $400: Charles Augustus Milverton, "the worst man in London", is using imprudent letters of lady Eva Brackwell in this evil deed blackmail |
| #8556, aired 2022-01-17 | 20th CENTURY AMERICA $1200: The May 24, 1934 Dallas Morning News had a hometown angle with the headline these "Dallas desperadoes shot to death in Louisiana" Bonnie & Clyde |
| #8555, aired 2022-01-14 | CHARACTER TEST $1600: This "A Tale of Two Cities" hero goes to his death in place of his lookalike Charles Darnay Sydney Carton |
| #8554, aired 2022-01-13 | 5-LETTER WORDS $1200: It can be a poem for the dead, shorter than an elegy, or a musical piece lamenting a passing a dirge |
| #8551, aired 2022-01-10 | BETWEEN THE WORLD WARS $400: The founder of the Russian Communist Party, he was also leader of the USSR until his death in 1924 Lenin |
| #8551, aired 2022-01-10 | PARTS OF A POEM $4,000 (Daily Double): Also a punctuation mark, it's an address to a personification of something; "Death, be not proud" is an example an apostrophe |
| #8550, aired 2022-01-07 | METAPHORS $1000: President Eisenhower saw Stalin's death as a chance "to crack" this barrier & thaw out the Cold War the Iron Curtain |
| #8550, aired 2022-01-07 | HIS WIDOW LIVED ON $2000: In 1994, nearly 60 years after his death, his wife Anna passed away still proclaiming his innocence in the Lindbergh case Bruno Hauptmann |
| #8549, aired 2022-01-06 | MOVIES BY QUOTE $1000: 2008:
"I know who I am! I'm a dude, playing a dude, disguised as another dude!" Tropic Thunder |
| #8548, aired 2022-01-05 | ISLANDS $800: Only about 3 miles divide Little & Big Diomede, but this line runs between, hence the nicknames Yesterday Island & Tomorrow Island the International Date Line |
| #8548, aired 2022-01-05 | LIT IN THE FUTURE TENSE $2000: In her novella "Anthem", humanity has entered a dark age of collectivism where using the word "I" is punishable by death (Ayn) Rand |
| #8547, aired 2022-01-04 | GETTING ADJECTIVAL $1000: As an adjective, it means out of date; as a noun, it's a cocktail that's never out of date old-fashioned |
| #8546, aired 2022-01-03 | AMERICAN POETRY $400: His 1865 poem "O Captain! My Captain!" paid homage to President Lincoln, "fallen cold and dead" Whitman |
| #8546, aired 2022-01-03 | 1950s TELEVISION $1200: Nov. 7, 1954 was the premiere date for this show, CBS' answer to "Meet the Press" Face the Nation |
| #8545, aired 2021-12-31 | IT'S YOUR LOKI DAY $2000: It's time to give you this goddess, Loki's daughter who rules over the same-named land of the dead Hel |
| #8544, aired 2021-12-30 | QUICK HISTORY $2000: A big assembly or diet took place in this German city in 1521 Worms |
| #8543, aired 2021-12-29 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $400: A bullfight aficionado, he wrote about the subject in "Death in the Afternoon" Hemingway |
| #8539, aired 2021-12-23 | FIRST AMONG SEQUELS $1600: Logically, George Romero followed up "Night of the Living Dead" with this 1978 sequel Dawn of the Dead |
| #8537, aired 2021-12-21 | PEOPLE IN HISTORY $1200: Truly "The People's Princess", Diana crusaded against these weapons of war & after her death, 160-plus nations agreed to ban them land mines |
| #8535, aired 2021-12-17 | THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND $800: In January 1606, 2 months after the foiled Gunpowder Plot, Parliament established this date as an annual day of Thanksgiving November 5th |
| #8535, aired 2021-12-17 | MATH, PROFESSORS $1000: In a set of data, the median is the middle point, the mean is the average & this other "M" is the number that occurs most often mode |
| #8534, aired 2021-12-16 | PROTEST SONGS $2000: A single of his, "A Change Is Gonna Come", was released just days after his tragic death in 1964 Sam Cooke |
| #8530, aired 2021-12-10 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $400: It's about 130 miles long & in July 2021, it reached about 130 degrees Death Valley |
| #8530, aired 2021-12-10 | GOING MEDIEVAL $800: In the 6th century Dionysius Exiguus began using this system with a 2-word Latin name to date things since Christ's birth Anno Domini |
| #8530, aired 2021-12-10 | GOING MEDIEVAL $1600: In the 14th century this Italian poet lost the love of his life, Laura, to the black death Petrarch |
| #8530, aired 2021-12-10 | ORGAN RECITAL $2000: The jejunum, part of this organ, gets its name from the Latin for "fasting" because it was often found empty after death the small intestine |
| #8529, aired 2021-12-09 | DESCRIBING THE TV DRAMA $800: On since 2010 but cast job security? Iffy; Michael Rooker was Norman Reedus' brother, remember that? The Walking Dead |
| #8529, aired 2021-12-09 | IN RECENT YEARS $2000: In 2018 it was reported that this British firm had accessed the personal data of up to 87 million Facebook users Cambridge Analytica |
| #8526, aired 2021-12-06 | IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE TURNS 75 $200: In 1974 a copyright renewal failure let "Life" lapse into this 2-word "area"; royalty-free, it aired repeatedly & popularity soared the public domain |
| #8525, aired 2021-12-03 | PULLING INTO "TOWN" $1200: This colony was established on May 14, 1607 but by 1610, starvation was a prime factor behind the death of 80% of its residents Jamestown |
| #8521, aired 2021-11-29 | PLAY CHARACTERS $200: "Death of a Salesman" takes place during the last few days of his life Willy Loman |
| #8519, aired 2021-11-25 | THE WOMEN $1000: These 70' pillars in New York & London do date to Ancient Egypt yet have no historic connection to the woman they are named for Cleopatra's Needle |
| #8519, aired 2021-11-25 | THIS SONG IS ABOUT YOU $1200: Eminem referenced this singer & Nick Cannon on "Bagpipes From Baghdad"; Eminem is the subject of her song "Obsessed" Mariah Carey |
| #8517, aired 2021-11-23 | IN A PREVIOUS LIFE $800: Around 1680 I was one of the last of this flightless bird; to add insult to injury, Dutch explorers called our meat repulsive a dodo |
| #8517, aired 2021-11-23 | BUSINESS HISTORY $4,000 (Daily Double): This pair's first computer venture, Traf-O-Data for the Washington Roads Department, helped them launch a bigger company soon after Bill Gates & Paul Allen |
| #8516, aired 2021-11-22 | YOU GOT A LOT OF IRV, PAL! $800: In 1951 Judge Irving Kaufman sentenced this couple to death for espionage the Rosenbergs |
| #8516, aired 2021-11-22 | MIX TAPE $1000: For auxiliary data storage, computers sometimes use this type of tape that often has iron oxide in it magnetic tape |
| #8515, aired 2021-11-19 | ESSAYS $600: A few years before his death from cancer, this film critic reflected on his life in "Go Gentle Into That Good Night" Ebert |
| #8515, aired 2021-11-19 | ESSAYS $1000: Alice Walker's 1975 essay "Looking for Zora" sparked new interest in this author who was largely forgotten at her death Zora Neale Hurston |
| #8515, aired 2021-11-19 | WORLD LEADERS LEAVE THE SCENE $1000: In February 2011, this world leader refused to step down from power; he was dead by October Gaddafi |
| #8512, aired 2021-11-16 | THE X FACTOR $600: Luke Skywalker is at the controls of this vehicle when he destroys the Death Star the X-Wing |
| #8512, aired 2021-11-16 | AMERICAN IDLE $600: Movie character Jeffrey Lebowski, a slacker mainly interested in drinking & bowling, prefers to be addressed as this "The Dude" (Duderino) |
| #8511, aired 2021-11-15 | NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC OCEAN: A GLOBAL ODYSSEY $800: A very brave cleaner shrimp gets a meal of parasites & dead skin from the mouth of one of these scary predators a moray |
| #8511, aired 2021-11-15 | ELABORATING ON THE HITCHCOCK TITLE $2000: That he's dead, & many in a Vermont village think they're responsible The Trouble with Harry |
| #8510, aired 2021-11-12 | 200 YEARS AGO $200: Some surmise that arsenic in the wallpaper contributed to this leader's death on the island of St. Helena in 1821 Napoleon |
| #8509, aired 2021-11-11 | TREYS $1000: A prince among men, this man III ruled Monaco for 56 years, until his death in 2005 Rainier (III) |
| #8509, aired 2021-11-11 | DIG THAT ARCHAEOLOGY $1200: Here are some of these around the time of their discovery in the Judean desert the Dead Sea Scrolls |
| #8508, aired 2021-11-10 | LAKES & RIVERS $800: About 9 times as salty as the ocean, this sea, actually a lake, lies at the mouth of the Jordan River the Dead Sea |
| #8506, aired 2021-11-08 | RUSSIANS $800: Various bodyguard reports about this "Mad Monk" had him "very drunk", "dead drunk" & "overcome with drink"; I sense a theme Rasputin |
| #8504, aired 2021-11-04 | EPONYMOUS -ISMs $400: It wasn't until after his 479 B.C. death that the "ism" named for him became China's leading philosophy Confucius |
| #8504, aired 2021-11-04 | ZOMBIETHON $600: Glenn & Maggie were just a young couple trying to make it work in a zombie-filled world on this TV series The Walking Dead |
| #8504, aired 2021-11-04 | OLD LITERATURE $1600: Spell 125 in this collection of funerary texts involves Anubis weighing the deceased's heart in the hall of truth the Egyptian Book of the Dead |
| #8504, aired 2021-11-04 | RE-CHARTED $2000: One of the many Prince songs that re-charted after his 2016 death was this opening track of "Purple Rain" "Let's Go Crazy" |
| #8503, aired 2021-11-03 | COLOR, MY WORLD $200: The Mammoth Hot Springs Historic District still has 35 structures that date back to around 1900 in this mammoth national park Yellowstone |
| #8502, aired 2021-11-02 | FAIRY TALES: A CLOSER LOOK $600: A wild animal who's pretty good at deception attempts 2 homicides, that of a girl & her grandmother, but ends up dead "Little Red Riding Hood" |
| #8500, aired 2021-10-29 | SCARY EVERYDAY HALLOWEEN STORIES $400: I adjusted vertical & horizontal router antennas! Hit reset for 30 secs.! Called my ISP! Why?! Why was this rhyming necessity... dead?! wi-fi |
| #8500, aired 2021-10-29 | 5,5 $1000: For the Day of the Dead, the soul of the departed is represented by this--calavera de azúcar in Spanish a sugar skull |
| #8499, aired 2021-10-28 | RED $800: In a short story, Poe wrote that this 2-word malady "had long devastated the country" the Red Death |
| #8497, aired 2021-10-26 | BOREDOM $800: This 2-word computer task that begins with a Latin plural is often very repetitive & boring data entry |
| #8493, aired 2021-10-20 | I WANT TO SUCK YOUR BLOOD! $400: There are 3 species of this flyer, the only mammal whose diet is solely based on blood a vampire bat |
| #8493, aired 2021-10-20 | DRAFTS $1000: Lost on an island before "Lost", Simon is a bit of a precog in this 1954 novel, foreseeing his own death in an early draft Lord of the Flies |
| #8493, aired 2021-10-20 | MYTHOLOGY $1200: This realm of the Norse gods included Valhalla, the hall of the dead heroes Asgard |
| #8492, aired 2021-10-19 | ANNUS HORRIBILIS $200: In 1348 this "colorful" pandemic killed half the population of Florence, Italy & spread through North Africa the Black Death |
| #8492, aired 2021-10-19 | PART OF DARKNESS $600: Elated or eager, or more California colloquially... really cool, dude! rad |
| #8492, aired 2021-10-19 | ANNUS HORRIBILIS $2,200 (Daily Double): In the space of a few weeks in 1912, Robert Falcon Scott's trek to this landmark ended in death, then Titanic sailed into history the South Pole |
| #8491, aired 2021-10-18 | HISTORY'S MYSTERIES $800: Dead by her own hand in 30 B.C., she was thought to have been buried in Alexandria, but her tomb has never been found Cleopatra |
| #8488, aired 2021-10-13 | FOOD FORWARD $1600: A thick potato & leek soup was created by chef Louis Diat, who named it for this city in central France Vichy |
| #8487, aired 2021-10-12 | IN- IS OUT $800: An affirmative interjection loses "in-" & turns into this legal document a deed |
| #8484, aired 2021-10-07 | CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT $400: Not actually much development for this man who plots revenge against the Earnshaws, can't get past Cathy's death & also dies Heathcliff |
| #8482, aired 2021-10-05 | HERE COMES THE SONNET $1200: The immortal John Donne wrote, "One short sleep past, we wake eternally and" this "shall be no more" death |
| #8479, aired 2021-09-30 | LADIES & GENTLEMEN $800: The death sentence for treason had been suspended in 1553 for this lady--a teen, really--but after dad rebelled in '54... not so much Lady Jane Grey |
| #8478, aired 2021-09-29 | EUROPEAN HISTORY $1600: In 2011, Czechs observed a period of mourning after the death of this president, poet & playwright (Václav) Havel |
| #8478, aired 2021-09-29 | EUROPEAN HISTORY $2000: A famous one of these 4-letter groups assembled at Worms in 1521 a diet |
| #8475, aired 2021-09-24 | NOVELS BY QUOTE $2,000 (Daily Double): "One man's life or death were but a small price to pay for the acquirement of the knowledge which I sought" Frankenstein |
| #8474, aired 2021-09-23 | ROLE PLAYERS $800: Machete &... what? You need more? Tyrannosaurus Death & Muerte (Danny) Trejo |
| #8473, aired 2021-09-22 | INSPIRED CHARACTERS $4,800 (Daily Double): Leon Rom, a leader of King Leopold's Congo death squad, is thought by some to have inspired this 1902 Joseph Conrad character Kurtz |
| #8471, aired 2021-09-20 | GREATS IN HISTORY $2000: After the death of his wife Julia, this member of the First Triumvirate turned against his father-in-law Julius Caesar Pompey |
| #8469, aired 2021-09-16 | PRIME NUMBERS $400: In "Better Off Dead", Rod Stewart sang, "I might have been" a holder of this U.K. top political office prime minister |
| #8468, aired 2021-09-15 | NUMERICAL ENTERTAINMENT $1000: Groove metal band:
____ Finger Death Punch Five |
| #8467, aired 2021-09-14 | GAME STOP $200: This winning declaration in a chess game is from the Arabic for "the king is dead" checkmate |
| #8467, aired 2021-09-14 | THE OLD TESTAMENT $1200: After the death of Moses, Joshua leads the Israelites in their conquest of this promised land Canaan |
| #8467, aired 2021-09-14 | 17th CENTURY NAMES $4,400 (Daily Double): In 1637 this poet wrote "Lycidas" to commemorate the death of a Cambridge schoolmate John Milton |
| #8467, aired 2021-09-14 | THE WILD WEST $7,600 (Daily Double): Founded in 1876, this South Dakota city was named for the deceased trees found in the area Deadwood |
| #8466, aired 2021-09-13 | FACTS ABOUT ANIMALS $4,000 (Daily Double): When faced with danger, certain ducks, snakes & mammals do this, also called thanatosis play dead |
| #8465, aired 2021-08-13 | HELEN, NOT OF TROY $1200: sisterhelen.org is the website of anti-capital punishment nun Helen Prejean, famous for this, her first book Dead Man Walking |
| #8465, aired 2021-08-13 | CANALS $2000: When the Erie Canal project began in 1817, it was derisively called this man's ditch; he was the governor who had promoted it (DeWitt) Clinton |
| #8462, aired 2021-08-10 | A TOUCH OF GLASS $800: A stained glass window depicts the death of Thomas Becket at this cathedral where he was slain Canterbury Cathedral |
| #8461, aired 2021-08-09 | HISTORIC NAMES $800: Her death & that of son Caesarion in 30 B.C. ended the Ptolemaic dynasty in Egypt Cleopatra |
| #8459, aired 2021-08-05 | I'M YOUR HUCKLEBERRY $1200: If picking huckleberries in Montana, be safe--it's estimated that in summer they make up half the diet of these animals grizzly bears |
| #8456, aired 2021-08-02 | THRONE OUT $4,000 (Daily Double): This world leader renounced his throne on March 15, 1917; 16 months later, he was dead Nicholas II |
| #8455, aired 2021-07-30 | OLDE MUSIC $400: "Die Zauberflöte" in German, this Mozart opera premiered in 1791, just months before the composer's death The Magic Flute |
| #8454, aired 2021-07-29 | HELLO, GOODBYE $800: Born around 247 B.C. & followed in footsteps of Carthaginian general dad Hamilcar Barca; conquered by death around 183 B.C. Hannibal |
| #8454, aired 2021-07-29 | A NOBEL LAUREATE WROTE THAT $2000: Incomplete at his death, Albert Camus' novel "The First Man" is set in France & this country of his birth Algeria |
| #8451, aired 2021-07-26 | POPES $1200: In 993 John XV was the first pope to take this step, honoring Bishop Ulrich of Augsburg, dead just 20 years bestowing sainthood |
| #8450, aired 2021-07-23 | LOST VOICES $1200: Chris Farley recorded most of his lines as this title ogre before his death; Mike Myers replaced him Shrek |
| #8449, aired 2021-07-22 | IT'S A TRAP! $400: Here's this perennial that has a special diet; it can close shop in about half a second the Venus flytrap |
| #8449, aired 2021-07-22 | ANCIENT HISTORY $800: Ptolemy & Antigonus were generals of this man whose empire was divided up after his death in 323 B.C. Alexander the Great |
| #8447, aired 2021-07-20 | POETRY $400: This poet wrote "Adonais" on the death of his friend John Keats Percy Bysshe Shelley |
| #8447, aired 2021-07-20 | 1876 $400: 3 years after its benefactor's death, this Baltimore university opened its doors Johns Hopkins |
| #8447, aired 2021-07-20 | 1876 $800: On August 2 Wild Bill Hickok played his last hand in this town in the Dakota Territory Deadwood |
| #8447, aired 2021-07-20 | POETRY $2000: A sonnet by John Donne begins with these 4 words & continues, "though some have called thee mighty and dreadful" Death be not proud |
| #8446, aired 2021-07-19 | PODCASTS $1000: This podcast company is behind such shows as "Dr. Death", "Dirty John" & "American Scandal" Wondery |
| #8444, aired 2021-07-15 | BACK FROM THE DEAD IN THE BIBLE $400: According to this 1st gospel, at the moment of the crucifixion, bodies of saints came back to life & walked out of their graves Matthew |
| #8444, aired 2021-07-15 | BACK FROM THE DEAD IN THE BIBLE $800: Before bringing Jairus' daughter back to life, Jesus tells her weeping family she is not dead, but is only this sleeping |
| #8444, aired 2021-07-15 | BACK FROM THE DEAD IN THE BIBLE $1200: When Eutychus dies after falling out of a window listening to a sermon, the speaker, this apostle, brings him back to life Paul |
| #8444, aired 2021-07-15 | BACK FROM THE DEAD IN THE BIBLE $1600: King Saul gets a witch to summon this Hebrew prophet back to life for encouragement, but he only foretells doom for Saul Samuel |
| #8444, aired 2021-07-15 | -OLOGIES $2000: From the Greek for "death", it's the study of death & dying thanatology |
| #8444, aired 2021-07-15 | BACK FROM THE DEAD IN THE BIBLE $2000: Before he was taken up into heaven in a whirlwind, this prophet revived the son of a widow he was staying with Elijah |
| #8441, aired 2021-07-12 | AN ILLUSTRATED LIFE $200: 8 decades after his death, a 2007 graphic novel told the adventures of this man, "The Handcuff King" Houdini |
| #8437, aired 2021-07-06 | HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES $1200: The Feast of St. Stephen, called Boxing Day in Commonwealth countries, is observed on this date December 26th |
| #8436, aired 2021-07-05 | LITERATURE $2000: In this A.S. Byatt novel, a scholar (Aaron Eckhart in the movie) finds letters in a book owned by a long-dead poet Possession |
| #8435, aired 2021-07-02 | FAMOUS NAMES $600: His artistic career lasted just 10 years, from 1880 until his death from a gunshot in 1890 Vincent van Gogh |
| #8431, aired 2021-06-28 | ROCK BANDS $200: Steven Tyler of this group said the Grateful Dead "were worried about us, so that gives you some idea of how (messed) up & crazy we were" Aerosmith |
| #8431, aired 2021-06-28 | NOVELLAS $2000: In English, "Cronica de Una Muerte Anunciada" by Gabriel García Márquez is titled "Chronicle of" this a Death Foretold |
| #8429, aired 2021-06-24 | REAL PEOPLE ON FILM $200: In 2013 Idris Elba took the "Long Walk to Freedom" as this man, whose death was announced at the film's U.K. premiere Nelson Mandela |
| #8429, aired 2021-06-24 | WORLD HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES $800: On Pitcairn Island, January 23 is celebrated as the date that this ship burned the Bounty |
| #8429, aired 2021-06-24 | WORLD HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES $1200: Celebrating unattached people, China's biggest shopping holiday is singles day, on this fall date with lots of 1s November 11th |
| #8429, aired 2021-06-24 | BRAND NAMES IN MUSIC $1600: "Mercedes Benz" was the last song recorded by this woman before her untimely death in 1970 Janis Joplin |
| #8427, aired 2021-06-22 | MUSIC HISTORY $800: A Grateful Dead song plays fast & loose with the story of this heroic train engineer who died in 1900 Casey Jones |
| #8426, aired 2021-06-21 | SOME RANDOM INFO $200: Sticky fruits, not blood, are the diet of this type of parrot named for a classic character; check out that hairline Dracula |
| #8426, aired 2021-06-21 | MOVIE TITLE MIDDLE WORD $600: Robin Williams tells his students to seize the day (1989) "Poets" |
| #8426, aired 2021-06-21 | THE OLYMPIC FLAME $1,200 (Daily Double): In 1956 on a flight from Singapore to Jakarta, the Olympic torch crossed this for the first time the equator |
| #8425, aired 2021-06-18 | BIBLICAL ART $800: Seen here on a 14th century German panel is Jesus, raising him from the dead Lazarus |
| #8424, aired 2021-06-17 | DID YOU READ... $2000: ...this classic W.W. Jacobs short story that warns us, "The first man had his three wishes... the third was for death" "The Monkey's Paw" |
| #8423, aired 2021-06-16 | FAWKES & FRIENDS $1000: The day before the deed, Fawkes was discovered; his pals fled & guy was sent to this place where he confessed after torture the Tower of London |
| #8422, aired 2021-06-15 | I HAVE TO GIVE YOU CREDIT $400: The time between the end of a credit card's billing cycle & the due date is this "period" the grace period |
| #8421, aired 2021-06-14 | THAT'S HEAVY, MAN $400: Lolong, a 2,400-pound saltwater one of these reptiles with at least one human death pinned on him, died in 2013 a crocodile |
| #8421, aired 2021-06-14 | U.N. ANNIVERSARIES $2000: In 2011 the U.N. solemnly marked the 50th anniversary of the death of this beloved Swedish secretary-general in a plane crash Dag Hammarskjöld |
| #8417, aired 2021-06-08 | SUMMER MOVIES $2000: (Hi, I'm Kevin Hart.) Voicing Snowball, I had an announcement to make in this 2016 animated film: "Death is coming to Brooklyn and it's got buck teeth and a cotton tail" The Secret Life of Pets |
| #8415, aired 2021-06-04 | DEATH OF A LITERARY CHARACTER $200: "Upon the wall a splendid portrait of their master as they had last seen him... lying on the floor was a dead man... withered" Dorian Gray |
| #8415, aired 2021-06-04 | DEATH OF A LITERARY CHARACTER $400: "The harpoon was darted... (he) stooped to clear it... but the flying turn caught him round the neck" Captain Ahab |
| #8415, aired 2021-06-04 | DEATH OF A LITERARY CHARACTER $600: Nobody at the fair "knew that a grey spider had played the most important part of all. No one was with her when she died" Charlotte |
| #8415, aired 2021-06-04 | BEHIND THE SONG $800: With his lustrous locks, Motley Crue's Vince Neil is said to have inspired the "Dude" in the title of this Aerosmith song "Dude (Looks Like A Lady)" |
| #8415, aired 2021-06-04 | DEATH OF A LITERARY CHARACTER $800: "On the bosom where she had drawn her first breath, she quietly drew her last... when morning came... Jo's place was empty" Beth (March) |
| #8415, aired 2021-06-04 | DEATH OF A LITERARY CHARACTER $1000: "'For the rabbits', (he) shouted... George raised the gun and steadied it... the crash of the shot rolled up the hills" Lennie |
| #8412, aired 2021-06-01 | U.S. HISTORY $400: A dynamite-filled wagon exploded in front of the J.P. Morgan Building on this NYC street in 1920 Wall Street |
| #8411, aired 2021-05-31 | MOTHER! $800: In 1497 her reign in Spain turned tragic after the death of Juan, her only son Queen Isabella (I) |
| #8411, aired 2021-05-31 | THAT'S MY PHILOSOPHY $1200: "God is dead! God remains dead! And we have killed him!" Yep, I wrote that in 1882 Nietzsche |
| #8409, aired 2021-05-27 | COMPUTER SPEAK $1000: Whenever you access a webpage, your browser puts the data in this temporary storage for faster retrieval the cache |
| #8407, aired 2021-05-25 | HOLIDAYS & FESTIVALS $400: Bristol, Rhode Island claims America's oldest celebration honoring this date, begun in 1785 July 4th |
| #8407, aired 2021-05-25 | THE "TOC" $1200: Fans of vintage stuff covet old unsold items classed as this inventory with a "mortal" name dead stock |
| #8405, aired 2021-05-21 | 1921 $600: During an Armistice Day ceremony on this date, the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier was dedicated at Arlington November 11th |
| #8405, aired 2021-05-21 | STEPHEN KING TITLE REFERENCES $800: A small area of Johnny Smith's brain that has been damaged the dead zone |
| #8405, aired 2021-05-21 | CORPORATE JARGON $2000: I don't have this, actually a measure of data transmission, to take on that project bandwidth |
| #8404, aired 2021-05-20 | GERMAN AUTHORS $400: From 1782 until his death in 1832, this "Faust" author lived & worked in the grand Weimar residence seen here Goethe |
| #8404, aired 2021-05-20 | IN OTHER RECENT NEWS... $1200: In fall 2020 the 1st blood test became available for this top-10 U.S. cause of death; diagnosis by symptoms is tricky & brain scans costly Alzheimer's disease |
| #8404, aired 2021-05-20 | BATTLES $1200: Mexico had much to celebrate after defeating French forces at the Battle of Puebla, fought on this date in 1862 the 5th of May |
| #8403, aired 2021-05-19 | UNDER THE USA $600: The Aerojet-Dade Facility in this state was once used for testing fuel; left behind was a part of a rocket in an underground silo Florida |
| #8401, aired 2021-05-17 | FOWL LANGUAGE $800: A true lack of something is said to be "as scarce as" these (of which there are actually none) hen's teeth |
| #8400, aired 2021-05-14 | HISTORICAL FICTION $800: This frontiersman who lent his name to Nevada's capital plays a role in Willa Cather's "Death Comes for the Archbishop" (Kit) Carson |
| #8398, aired 2021-05-12 | WORD ORIGINS $400: This term for the loan agreement to purchase a dwelling comes from Old French for "dead wage" mortgage |
| #8397, aired 2021-05-11 | TV TITLE ANIMALS $200: Barry Gordon provided the voice of Donatello in nearly 200 episodes of this "reptilian" cartoon, dude Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles |
| #8397, aired 2021-05-11 | GIVE ME A SEA $400: Harking back to the Bible, other names for it include the Sea of Lot & the Sea of Sodom the Dead Sea |
| #8397, aired 2021-05-11 | ON THE CALENDAR $1600: Often happening the same week as America's birthday, Canada Day is on this date July 1st |
| #8396, aired 2021-05-10 | THE 2021 WORLD ALMANAC $200: Under major actions of the 116th Congress: Permanent authorization of funds for victims of this date: "Never forget the heroes" September 11th |
| #8394, aired 2021-05-06 | 1920s GOOD READS $2000: Hercule Poirot must solve "The Murder of" this man found stabbed to death in his study Roger Ackroyd |
| #8392, aired 2021-05-04 | THE WITCH IS DEAD $200: In this Grimm Brothers tale, the wicked witch met her end after being pushed into an oven "Hansel and Gretel" |
| #8392, aired 2021-05-04 | THE WITCH IS DEAD $400: In a Roald Dahl book, the title witches get "smashed and bashed and chopped up" after being turned into these creatures mice |
| #8392, aired 2021-05-04 | THE WITCH IS DEAD $600: Agnes Nutter, a 17th century witch whose predictions are central to the plot in "Good Omens", gets punished in this predictable way by being burned at the stake |
| #8392, aired 2021-05-04 | THE WITCH IS DEAD $800: The White Witch Jadis was killed in battle by this character who appeared to be dead a short time before Aslan |
| #8392, aired 2021-05-04 | READING MATERIAL $1000: A version of the Book of the Dead, including a hymn to Ra, is called the this plant material "of Ani" papyrus |
| #8392, aired 2021-05-04 | THE WITCH IS DEAD $1000: A death eater & dark witch, Bellatrix Lestrange killed Dobby before being killed herself by Molly Weasley in this book Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows |
| #8392, aired 2021-05-04 | DING DONG $1000: Judy Garland's "Ding Dong! The Witch Is Dead" surged on U.K. iTunes after this former prime minister passed away Margaret Thatcher |
| #8391, aired 2021-05-03 | HISTORY $1000: His rivalry with Diego de Almagro led to Almagro's murder in Cuzco in 1538 & his own death in Lima 3 years later Pizarro |
| #8390, aired 2021-04-30 | TIME TRAVELIN' MOVIES $1000: It was far from bogus when these 2 title guys--& their old pal, Death!--returned to "Face the Music" in 2020 Bill & Ted |
| #8389, aired 2021-04-29 | MASTERPIECE/THEATER $200: Life hasn't turned out so well for Biff & Happy Loman in this play, which has a massive spoiler for a title Death of a Salesman |
| #8385, aired 2021-04-23 | AUTHORS $2000: This Brazilian author of "The Alchemist" deleted a children's book he was writing with Kobe Bryant after Kobe's tragic death (Paulo) Coelho |
| #8384, aired 2021-04-22 | 5 FIRST DATES $400: A prince & an actress, they met on a 2016 blind date, set up by Violet von Westenholz, daughter of a baron Prince Harry & Meghan Markle |
| #8384, aired 2021-04-22 | 5 FIRST DATES $600: The movie "Southside with You" chronicles the 1989 first date of this later to be famous couple Barack & Michelle Obama |
| #8384, aired 2021-04-22 | 5 FIRST DATES $1000: Possible first date chat, 1928--Anne: Nice car. Him: Oh, thanks, it's an Airman. The company named the model in my honor (Charles) Lindbergh |
| #8380, aired 2021-04-16 | DIETARY MATTERS $400: A low-carb ketogenic diet tries to induce ketosis so that the body burns this instead fat |
| #8380, aired 2021-04-16 | DIETARY MATTERS $800: Miami M.D. Arthur Agatston wrote this book with a "plan for fast and healthy weight loss" The South Beach Diet |
| #8379, aired 2021-04-15 | THIS IS HOW WE DUET $200: "The Rest Of Our Life" was the title track of an album by country stars Faith Hill & this man, her husband (Tim) McGraw |
| #8379, aired 2021-04-15 | THIS IS HOW WE DUET $400: In "Aladdin", Lea Salonga & Brad Kane sang this tune that says, "but when I'm way up here, it's crystal clear" "A Whole New World" |
| #8379, aired 2021-04-15 | THIS IS HOW WE DUET $600: Jay-Z & this woman had a No. 1 hit with "Empire State Of Mind" Alicia Keys |
| #8379, aired 2021-04-15 | THIS IS HOW WE DUET $800: Britney Spears & this woman from Barbados had a No. 1 with "S&M" Rihanna |
| #8379, aired 2021-04-15 | THIS IS HOW WE DUET $1000: She joined Neil Diamond on "You Don't Bring Me Flowers" & sang "No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)" with Donna Summer Barbra Streisand |
| #8378, aired 2021-04-14 | 3-NAMED CELEBRITIES $1600: Just a kid when he saw dead people in "The Sixth Sense", today, he's all grown up & still acting Haley Joel Osment |
| #8375, aired 2021-04-09 | ACTION FIGURES $600: In the "Left 4 Dead" video games, you can play as an apocalyptic survivor or as one of these undead beings, "the infected" a zombie |
| #8372, aired 2021-04-06 | BEFORE & BAFTA $4,000 (Daily Double): Zombies from an AMC drama stand on desks & moan, "O Captain! My Captain!" to Robin Williams The Walking Dead Poets Society |
| #8369, aired 2021-04-01 | 1971: 50 YEARS AGO $1200: This lead singer of The Doors was found dead in a Paris bathtub Jim Morrison |
| #8365, aired 2021-03-26 | DINOSAURS $800: In the name of the biggest dinosaurs discovered to date, this word for a giant early Greek god precedes "-osaur" Titanosaur |
| #8365, aired 2021-03-26 | FAREWELL TO THE AUTHOR $1200: Beginning 100 years after this author's death, a mysterious stranger visited annually leaving cognac & 3 roses at his Baltimore grave Edgar Allan Poe |
| #8364, aired 2021-03-25 | TV LOCALES $400: While "The Walking Dead" takes place primarily in the South, "Fear the Walking Dead" started in this city Los Angeles |
| #8364, aired 2021-03-25 | THE PLAY'S THE THING $400: What Willy Loman tries to sell for the Wagner Company is not specified in this drama Death of a Salesman |
| #8364, aired 2021-03-25 | GODS & GODDESSES $2000: This Egyptian deity of mummification & the dead shared canine traits with the jackal god Wepwawet Anubis |
| #8363, aired 2021-03-24 | KINGS & QUEENS $1200: Seen here in a quick sketch by Jacques-Louis David is this woman on the day of her death Marie Antoinette |
| #8361, aired 2021-03-22 | MacGUFFIN $800: In a "Pirates of the Caribbean" flick, Davy Jones put his heart in this title MacGuffin & everyone wants to know where it's buried Dead Man's Chest |
| #8360, aired 2021-03-19 | ENDS IN A FEMALE FIRST NAME $1200: A condition of extreme dishonor applied to a date in a speech by FDR infamy |
| #8360, aired 2021-03-19 | AN HONORARY KNIGHT TO REMEMBER $1600: In 2009, the year of his death, this senator from Massachusetts was made an honorary knight Ted Kennedy |
| #8358, aired 2021-03-17 | FIVE FACTS $200: In the 1960s this U.S. port city was the place where Haight became love & the Dead, Grateful San Francisco |
| #8358, aired 2021-03-17 | ALL ALLITERATION $200: It's when a term paper is supposed to be submitted or a baby is expected to be born a due date |
| #8358, aired 2021-03-17 | ALL ALLITERATION $1,000 (Daily Double): This North American bird went the way of the dodo in 1914 the passenger pigeon |
| #8357, aired 2021-03-16 | POETS & POETRY $400: This Welshman was famed for his lyrical writing & his bouts of drinking; one binge preceded his death in 1953 Thomas |
| #8355, aired 2021-03-12 | BUSINESS ABBREV. $600: The C.T.O. is this officer who might deal with data & cloud storage the chief technical officer (chief technology officer) |
| #8353, aired 2021-03-10 | LEADERS $800: On Jan. 18, 1943 Mordecai Anielewicz led the uprising in this capital against German troops trying to ship Jews to the Treblinka death camp Warsaw |
| #8351, aired 2021-03-08 | REAL REVIEWS OF THE NOVEL $400: H.L. Mencken: The "clown Fitzgerald rushes to his death in nine short chapters... this story is obviously unimportant" The Great Gatsby |
| #8351, aired 2021-03-08 | COMPOSERS $800: The 1953 death of "Peter & the Wolf" composer Sergey Prokofiev was overshadowed by the death of this leader on the same day Stalin |
| #8351, aired 2021-03-08 | CURVE YOUR ENTHUSIASM $800: Many roadways in America have a curve known by this morbid name as in the 1964 song; the California one seen here is no longer used a dead man's curve |
| #8348, aired 2021-03-03 | WHATCHA WATCHING? $800: "Truth Seekers", which reunited Nick Frost & this guy who was "Shaun of the Dead" Simon Pegg |
| #8348, aired 2021-03-03 | TITLES & HONORIFICS $1000: In German forms of address, traditionally this word goes before "doktor" if the doktor is a dude herr |
| #8347, aired 2021-03-02 | UP RISING $400: "Up" rises to the top of a truck's cargo so you can move data from your computer to a server load & upload |
| #8346, aired 2021-03-01 | BARTLETT'S FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS $2000: "Hail to you gods... on that day of the great reckoning, behold me, I have come to you" is from this Ancient Egyptian text the Book of the Dead |
| #8345, aired 2021-02-26 | OPERA SONGS $1600: "Liebestod" ("Love-Death") is from this Wagner opera about a pair of doomed lovers Tristan and Isolde |
| #8343, aired 2021-02-24 | HORSE & WRITER $3,700 (Daily Double): Soon after his death in 1910, tourists began visiting his Yasnaya Polyana estate, where they saw his dog Belka & his horse Delir Tolstoy |
| #8341, aired 2021-02-22 | PRE-COLUMBIAN AMERICA $600: Mayan artisans greatly prized turquoise & this gem, from which they made elaborate death masks jade |
| #8340, aired 2021-02-19 | DEAD PRECEDENTS $200: In 1943 the Supreme Court overruled a 1940 decision & said students couldn't be required to salute this the flag |
| #8340, aired 2021-02-19 | DEAD PRECEDENTS $400: In 1987 the Supreme Court overruled an 1861 decision that courts couldn't do this, order a suspect handed over to another state extradite |
| #8340, aired 2021-02-19 | LOADS OF ROADS $600: This hyphenated word for a short dead-end street is French for "bag bottom" a cul-de-sac |
| #8340, aired 2021-02-19 | DEAD PRECEDENTS $600: Agostini v. Felton reversed a 1985 ruling that prohibited public school teachers from teaching in these schools parochial |
| #8340, aired 2021-02-19 | DEAD PRECEDENTS $800: 1961's Mapp v. Ohio overturned a 1949 ruling & said this amendment bars illegally seized evidence from state courts the 4th Amendment |
| #8340, aired 2021-02-19 | DEAD PRECEDENTS $1000: This controversial 2010 decision overruled a precedent that had barred certain political contributions Citizens United |
| #8340, aired 2021-02-19 | "KON"FUSION $1200: This title of albums by R.E.M. & the Grateful Dead means a settling of accounts Reckoning |
| #8338, aired 2021-02-17 | POP $600: On the charts for quite a while in 1998, "The Boy Is Mine" was a hit duet for Monica & this other one-named gal Brandy |
| #8336, aired 2021-02-15 | MICHAEL WROTE $2,500 (Daily Double): "Dragon Teeth", published after his 2008 death, returned to the world of paleontology Michael Crichton |
| #8335, aired 2021-02-12 | SCIENCE $200: (Dr. Markaisa Black presents the clue.) Diabetes was a death sentence until Dr. Frederick Banting discovered how to use & extract this hormone to treat the disease insulin |
| #8334, aired 2021-02-11 | WHAT HAPPENS IN CHAPTER 1? $800: Dedalus' mom is dead, a loss; Buck Mulligan favors us with song; quotation marks? Not so much Ulysses |
| #8333, aired 2021-02-10 | WHAT DOES NOT KILL US... $400: As this title BBC sleuth, Benedict Cumberbatch appeared to leap to his death, but it was not his "Last Bow" Sherlock Holmes |
| #8333, aired 2021-02-10 | WHAT DOES NOT KILL US... $600: Whether cooked in a microwave or crushed by the Mir Space Station, this "South Park" kid has endured all manner of death Kenny |
| #8333, aired 2021-02-10 | WHAT DOES NOT KILL US... $800: This Shakespeare character drinks a potion that imitates outward death, but the plan doesn't go as desired Juliet |
| #8330, aired 2021-02-05 | DAY, DRINKING $400: Grab your sugar & spoon on March 5, the date in 2007 when this liquor could be imported to the U.S. for the 1st time since 1912 absinthe |
| #8329, aired 2021-02-04 | MUSICALS BY SONG LYRICS $2,000 (Daily Double): "They chained me & left me for dead, just for stealing a mouthful of bread" Les Misérables |
| #8328, aired 2021-02-03 | "UN"-TERTAINMENT $400: This duet between Nat "King" Cole & Natalie Cole won Grammys for Song of the Year & Record of the Year "Unforgettable" |
| #8324, aired 2021-01-28 | THE 5 W's, HISTORICALLY $200: Where: every Aug. 6, a service is held in this city for the estimated 70,000 people who were killed there on that date in 1945 Hiroshima |
| #8324, aired 2021-01-28 | THE 5 W's, HISTORICALLY $800: When: date & year congress resolved the "United Colonies are... to be free & independent states", 2 days before what you might think July 2, 1776 |
| #8323, aired 2021-01-27 | SCIENCE & NATURE $400: The death of a massive star can form this, a cosmic body of extreme gravity from which not even light can escape a black hole |
| #8323, aired 2021-01-27 | STATE CAPITALS $600: This capital's St. John's Church was the site of Patrick Henry's "Liberty or Death" oration Richmond |
| #8323, aired 2021-01-27 | LITERARY VACATIONS $800: Hercule Poirot was dropped from the 1946 play version of this cruise-set novel & "Death" in the title became "Murder" Death on the Nile |
| #8323, aired 2021-01-27 | BOOKS BY PRESIDENTS $3,400 (Daily Double): His "Personal Memoirs", completed before his death in 1885 & "dedicated to the American soldier and sailor" (General) Ulysses S. Grant |
| #8322, aired 2021-01-26 | TV-POURRI $1600: Brent Spiner played this beloved android on "Star Trek: The Next Generation" Data |
| #8321, aired 2021-01-25 | NATURE $400: Sadly, less than 200 years after they were spotted by Portuguese sailors, these flightless birds of Mauritius became extinct the dodo |
| #8320, aired 2021-01-22 | BRUCE WILLIS MOVIE QUOTES $800: "Dead people, like, in graves... in coffins?" The Sixth Sense |
| #8320, aired 2021-01-22 | BRUCE WILLIS MOVIE QUOTES $1200: "Zed's dead, baby. Zed's dead" Pulp Fiction |
| #8319, aired 2021-01-21 | BOOKS FOR YOUNG ADULTS $1000: In this bestseller by Angie Thomas, 16-year-old Starr Carter sees her friend shot dead by a police officer The Hate U Give |
| #8319, aired 2021-01-21 | AMPHIBIANS $1600: Poison dart frogs of this continent gain toxicity from their food; in captivity on a different diet, they are harmless South America |
| #8318, aired 2021-01-20 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS $2000: This novel with a biblical title by Toni Morrison follows the life of a character named Milkman Dead Song of Solomon |
| #8317, aired 2021-01-19 | LIBROS EN ESPAÑOL $1600: Mann up:
"La muerte en venecia" Death in Venice |
| #8315, aired 2021-01-15 | TAKE NOTE $1000: Hours before her death in 1587, this queen wrote, "I am to be executed like a criminal at eight in the morning" Mary, Queen of Scots |
| #8313, aired 2021-01-13 | FLAG TALK $600: The U.S. flag code says Old Glory "shall be flown at" this rhyming term upon the death of an important person half-staff |
| #8313, aired 2021-01-13 | LYRICAL C.V. $1600: "Born a pauper to a pawn on a Christmas Day, when the New York Times said God is dead" Levon |
| #8313, aired 2021-01-13 | BOOK 'EM $2000: Norman Mailer was just 25 when he published this classic novel of World War II The Naked and the Dead |
| #8312, aired 2021-01-12 | HISTORY $600: One cemetery holds the remains of the first & the last British soldiers killed in WWI--the latter, at 9:30 A.M. on this date in 1918 November 11 |
| #8312, aired 2021-01-12 | NOTABLE WOMEN $1200: She had taken a major role in the family business even before her brother Gianni's tragic death in 1997 Donatella Versace |
| #8311, aired 2021-01-11 | NONFICTION $600: In "A Grief Observed", he left the land of Narnia to grapple with his feelings of loss after his wife's death C.S. Lewis |
| #8310, aired 2021-01-08 | HIT SONGS OF THE 1960s $1600: 3 months after his death, he had the first posthumous No. 1 single in history with "(Sittin' On) The Dock Of The Bay" Otis Redding |
| #8309, aired 2021-01-07 | LITERARY KINGS $200: The death of King Robert Baratheon sets off a deadly chain reaction in a novel by this author George R.R. Martin |
| #8308, aired 2021-01-06 | A PLANT-BASED DIET $400: If you're pursuing an eggplant-based diet, try this Middle Eastern spread that is similar to hummus baba ghanoush |
| #8308, aired 2021-01-06 | "ME" TV $800: This series starts with Linda Cardellini & Christina Applegate meeting in a grief support group & becoming friends Dead to Me |
| #8308, aired 2021-01-06 | A PLANT-BASED DIET $800: Vegetarians, skip the egg roll & go for this, the other roll on the Panda Express appetizer menu spring roll |
| #8308, aired 2021-01-06 | A PLANT-BASED DIET $1200: The Kellogg Co. owns the brand called these "Farms" known for black bean burgers MorningStar |
| #8308, aired 2021-01-06 | A PLANT-BASED DIET $1600: What Europeans call semolina pudding, we call this "Cream" eaten at breakfast Cream of Wheat |
| #8308, aired 2021-01-06 | A PLANT-BASED DIET $2000: The delights of tapioca come from this root cassava |
| #8307, aired 2021-01-05 | OF THE LAW $400: The Dodd-Frank Act included the Volcker Rule, prohibiting these institutions from making certain risky investments banks |
| #8307, aired 2021-01-05 | MAPS $400: Meteorologist James Stagg used a weather map to persuade Allied commanders to invade Normandy on this date in 1944 June 6 |
| #8305, aired 2020-12-18 | 4-LETTER FILMS $800: Young Miguel meets up with some of his ancestors in the Land of the Dead in this Disney Pixar film Coco |
| #8305, aired 2020-12-18 | LITERATURE $1200: This author's last finished work wasn't an adventure story, but the "Grand Dictionnaire de Cuisine" published after his 1870 death Alexandre Dumas |
| #8304, aired 2020-12-17 | COMMON BONDS $800: Mediterranean,
DASH,
flexitarian a diet |
| #8303, aired 2020-12-16 | U.S. FACT SHEET $400: The USA's driest point is in this national park in the Mojave Desert Death Valley |
| #8302, aired 2020-12-15 | BOOK BARRIERS $1,000 (Daily Double): This Melville scribe spends time staring at "dead-walls", then at the high walls of prison Bartleby (the Scrivener) |
| #8300, aired 2020-12-11 | THE MOVIE'S TITLE QUESTION $400: Ashton Kutcher's ride was impounded & then space aliens got involved to answer this title question Dude, Where's My Car? |
| #8300, aired 2020-12-11 | QUOTABLE WOMEN $400: This "French Chef" humorously said, "The only time to eat diet food is while you're waiting for the steak to cook" Julia Child |
| #8298, aired 2020-12-09 | CLOTHES MINDED $800: This headwear of the Middle Ages has a name that sounds like an adult who accompanies two young people on a date a chaperon |
| #8298, aired 2020-12-09 | COMMON LATIN $1600: "Amor" & "mors" are these 2 things of concern to many of us love & death |
| #8298, aired 2020-12-09 | DURING THE RENAISSANCE $2000: In 2020 museums marked the 500th anniversary of the death at age 37 of this artist with the name of an angel Raphael |
| #8297, aired 2020-12-08 | ENTERTAINMENT $600: "Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone", is the subtitle of a restoration of this 1990 film, now with a new beginning & ending The Godfather Part III |
| #8296, aired 2020-12-07 | MOVIE GOOFS $2000: Continuity errors like changing weather in Rutger Hauer's death scene were fixed in Ridley Scott's "Final Cut" of this film Blade Runner |
| #8295, aired 2020-12-04 | DUET PARTNERS $400: This lady duetted with Ariana Grande on the 2020 hit "Rain On Me" Lady Gaga |
| #8295, aired 2020-12-04 | DUET PARTNERS $800: At the end of the movie "Grease", they duet on "You're The One That I Want" John Travolta & Olivia Newton-John |
| #8295, aired 2020-12-04 | DUET PARTNERS $1200: Colbie Caillat & Jason Mraz sang "I'm" this "I'm in love" lucky |
| #8295, aired 2020-12-04 | DUET PARTNERS $1600: "Somebody That I Used To Know" is by Kimbra & this one-named guy Gotye |
| #8295, aired 2020-12-04 | DUET PARTNERS $2000: She & Charlie Puth sang about how "We Don't Talk Anymore" Selena Gomez |
| #8294, aired 2020-12-03 | KEEPING IT 100 $800: In a non leap year, the 100th day falls on this date April 10th |
| #8292, aired 2020-12-01 | JUMP $1200: In this movie based on a James Fenimore Cooper novel, Alice doesn't want to go with Magua, so she leaps from a cliff to her death The Last of the Mohicans |
| #8290, aired 2020-11-27 | ACTOR FACTS $400: Less than a year before this young actor's 1955 death, Dennis Stock took the photo of him known as "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" James Dean |
| #8289, aired 2020-11-26 | MOVIE QUOTES $2000: "Carpe diem. Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary" Dead Poets Society |
| #8288, aired 2020-11-25 | À LA CARTOGRAPHY $2000: Mapmakers use altitude data from aneroid barometers, which get their numbers by measuring this air pressure |
| #8286, aired 2020-11-23 | RUSSIAN INTERFERENCE $200: Just before his death, Lenin wrote of his wish to remove this man from the secretary generalship but that didn't work Stalin |
| #8284, aired 2020-11-19 | 19th CENTURY PLAYS $4,000 (Daily Double): This Scandinavian's last play, "When We Dead Awaken", ends with an avalanche burying the 2 main characters Ibsen |
| #8282, aired 2020-11-17 | COLOR FILMS $1,800 (Daily Double): The title of this 1999 film comes from the linoleum floor of death row The Green Mile |
| #8280, aired 2020-11-13 | CRIME & PUNISHMENT $400: Sirhan Sirhan, for the 1968 assassination of this man: the death sentence, commuted to life in prison RFK (Robert Kennedy) |
| #8280, aired 2020-11-13 | CRIME & PUNISHMENT $1200: Nathuram Godse, who murdered this man in 1948 as he headed to a prayer meeting: death by hanging Gandhi |
| #8280, aired 2020-11-13 | A NOVEL CATEGORY $1200: In 1998 Iran declared it no longer sought Salman Rushdie's death over this novel The Satanic Verses |
| #8279, aired 2020-11-12 | WARM WORDS $400: It follows "dead" in a race with no clear winner heat |
| #8278, aired 2020-11-11 | JOHN BROWN $400: Zainab Jah plays this woman who tried to recruit supporters for John Brown; he called her "The General"
"I will come with all the bees I can hive, but once that date is set, do not change it, not for anything." (Harriet) Tubman |
| #8273, aired 2020-11-04 | HERE'S THE PLAY $800: David Frost gets a drunken late-night call from this other title man just before the final interview (Richard) Nixon |
| #8272, aired 2020-11-03 | HEALTH OBSERVANCES $400: Be a sweetheart on this date when national donor day is observed & consider giving the gift of life February 14th |
| #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 |
| #8271, aired 2020-11-02 | ROM COMS $800: In 2005 Will Smith played a "date doctor" who fell in love with Eva Mendes in this comedy Hitch |
| #8271, aired 2020-11-02 | TV NOIR $2000: This director & "Walking Dead" creator went noir with "Mob City", a TNT miniseries set in 1940s Los Angeles Frank Darabont |
| #8270, aired 2020-10-30 | DESCRIBING THE TV SHOW $800: A 2020 Data re-entry; Seven of Nine, too! & Isn't that Will Riker & Deanna Troi? Engage! Star Trek: Picard |
| #8269, aired 2020-10-29 | ALLITERATIVE AUTHORS $400: Not about zombies, the short story "The Dead" is found in this Irish author's collection "Dubliners" James Joyce |
| #8269, aired 2020-10-29 | U.S. HOSPITALS $800: After his death in 1873, this Baltimore philanthropist left his fortune to establish a university & hospital Johns Hopkins |
| #8268, aired 2020-10-28 | NEW YORK TIMES HEADLINES $2000: April 20, 1993: "Death in" this Texas city; "scores die as cult compound is set afire" Waco |
| #8267, aired 2020-10-27 | I'M POSTING THAT ON TELEGRAM $200: The death of this inventor of course brought telegrams, like Brigham Young's "My affections follow him to the spirit world" Morse |
| #8265, aired 2020-10-23 | A NUMBER BETWEEN 3 & 5 $1000: Pestilence, War, Famine & Death make up this biblical quartet the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse |
| #8265, aired 2020-10-23 | MOVIE SUM-UP $2000: Death takes a chess holiday; your move, Max von Sydow The Seventh Seal |
| #8264, aired 2020-10-22 | EXPLORERS $1200: A Royal Geographical Society expedition found him in 1873, dead; he'd been found in 1871 alive under more famous circumstances Livingstone |
| #8261, aired 2020-10-19 | POE "M" $200: In an 1842 Poe story a prince & his noble guests find that this title costume ball is no haven from "the Red Death" Masque |
| #8260, aired 2020-10-16 | CITY NICKNAMES $1000: The nickname "The Tiger City" for this 4-letter capital may date back to a poem by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson Oslo |
| #8259, aired 2020-10-15 | ON THE BILLBOARD CHARTS IN 2020 $200: Blake Shelton got the perfect person to duet with on "Nobody but You"--this woman Gwen Stefani |
| #8259, aired 2020-10-15 | A PAIR OF PENCE $1,000 (Daily Double): Brought to England from Holland, this liquor was sold in shops promising "Drunk for a penny. Dead drunk for twopence" gin |
| #9080, aired 2024-04-12 | AUTHORS' AFTERLIVES: After his death his son Michel reworked & published manuscripts like one about a meteor made of gold heading for Earth Jules Verne |
| #9037, aired 2024-02-13 | SOUTHERN POLITICIANS: An article written after his 1935 death asked, "Will some crown prince arise to take his place?" Huey Long |
| #9012, aired 2024-01-09 | THE ANCIENT WORLD: This text helped the soul, or ka, navigate a journey into a region called Amenti the Book of the Dead |
| #9005, aired 2023-12-29 | FAMOUS NAMES: In 2023, shortly after his death, his name was added to a Brazilian dictionary to describe one who's superior or out of the ordinary Pelé |
| #8999, aired 2023-12-21 | FROM PAGE TO STAGE: The opera based on this 1993 memoir was staged at a prison for the first time in 2023, at Sing Sing with a chorus of 14 inmates Dead Man Walking |
| #8959, aired 2023-10-26 | FAMOUS FAMILIES: In 2020 a former U.S. ambassador to Ireland, the last of 9 siblings in this dynastic family, died at 92 Kennedy |
| #8950, aired 2023-10-13 | ROYALTY: Before his death in 2005, he said he was "probably the last head of state to be able to recognize all his compatriots in the street" Prince Rainier (III of Monaco) |
| #8872, aired 2023-05-16 | AUTHORS: In 1960 Jean-Paul Sartre wrote of this man's "victorious attempt... to snatch every instant of his existence from his future death" (Albert) Camus |
| #8846, aired 2023-04-10 | FAMOUS NAMES: In 1966, the year of his death, he shared plans for an experimental prototype community in Florida Walt Disney |
| #8840, aired 2023-03-31 | CITY HISTORY: Over 700 years after its traditional 1252 founding date, this port city became associated with a psychological response Stockholm |
| #8798, aired 2023-02-01 | LITERATURE: Published in 2011, P.D. James' final novel, "Death Comes to Pemberley", was a sequel to this novel from 200 years earlier Pride and Prejudice |
| #8785, aired 2023-01-13 | IN THE BOOKSTORE: The name of this author dead since 2013 now appears on books written by a former U.S. marshal & a former Apache helicopter pilot Tom Clancy |
| #8773, aired 2022-12-28 | AMERICA AT WAR: Until the Civil War, the January 8 date of this battle of dubious military importance but big morale value was a national holiday the Battle of New Orleans |
| #8770, aired 2022-12-23 | AMERICAN POEMS: In an 1847 poem this character sees her town of Grand-Pré burned, but finally reunites with her beau for a kiss before his death Evangeline |
| #8725, aired 2022-10-21 | 19th CENTURY LITERARY CHARACTERS: This character from an 1859 novel symbolizes the Fates, who in mythology spin the web of life, measure it & cut it off Madame Defarge |
| #8700, aired 2022-09-16 | DISNEY SONGS: "We Don't Talk About Bruno" from "Encanto" is the first song from an animated Disney film to hit No. 1 since this duet in 1993 "A Whole New World" |
| #8651, aired 2022-05-30 | IN MEMORIAM 2022: On the death of this trailblazing man, friend & mentor, Oprah said, "For me, the greatest of the 'great trees' has fallen" Sidney Poitier |
| #8648, aired 2022-05-25 | FAMOUS SPEECHES: In a draft of FDR's speech of December 8, 1941, the words "world history" were changed to this one word infamy |
| #8631, aired 2022-05-02 | THEATER: In November 1864 John Wilkes Booth & his brothers were fittingly part of a performance of this Shakespeare play Julius Caesar |
| #8629, aired 2022-04-28 | BOOKS OF THE 1970s: Aptly, members of a Black family in this novel have biblical names: Pilate, Hagar & the title one, an ancestor of the protagonist Song of Solomon |
| #8619, aired 2022-04-14 | WOMEN IN BRITISH HISTORY: The orphaned future Queen Elizabeth I was devoted to this stepmother who died 2 days before Elizabeth's 15th birthday Catherine Parr |
| #8595, aired 2022-03-11 | SYMBOLS: This U.S. politician asked for a multicolored pennant for a parade; demand increased after his death in 1978 Harvey Milk |
| #8583, aired 2022-02-23 | PLAY CHARACTERS: A 1949 review noted the "wrong formulas for success" of this character & "fatal misconceptions about his place in the scheme of things" Willy Loman |
| #8572, aired 2022-02-08 | 20th CENTURY FICTION: The author's foreword to this novel says, "When I read it now I feel myself back again on the steamer from Aswan to Wadi Halfa" Death on the Nile |
| #8562, aired 2022-01-25 | SEA LIFE: In 2018 National Geographic reported that half of this was dead, "akin to a forest after a devastating fire" the Great Barrier Reef |
| #8555, aired 2022-01-14 | CEMETERIES & MEMORIALS: 60,000 are at rest in a National Memorial Cemetery opened in 1949 in the crater of an extinct volcano in this state Hawaii |
| #8554, aired 2022-01-13 | THE WORDS OF VICTOR HUGO: This object "is the ultimate expression of law, & its name is vengeance; it is not neutral, nor does it allow us to remain neutral" the guillotine |
| #8528, aired 2021-12-08 | 20th CENTURY PEOPLE: Gen. MacArthur said this man's death by "violence is one of those bitter anachronisms that seems to refute all logic" "Mahatma" Gandhi |
| #8510, aired 2021-11-12 | CONTEMPORARY PLAYWRIGHTS: "The Murder of Gonzago" is used as a play within a 1966 play by this man who was inspired by Shakespeare (Tom) Stoppard |
| #8480, aired 2021-10-01 | AMERICAN HISTORY: The April 26, 1906 edition of The Call, a newspaper in this city, reported on the heroic death of hoseman James O'Neil San Francisco |
| #8457, aired 2021-08-03 | ASIA: This country became independent in 1946; in 1964 it officially switched its independence day from July 4 to June 12 the Philippines |
| #8451, aired 2021-07-26 | NOTABLE NAMES: Following his death in 2018, his ashes were interred at Westminster Abbey between the remains of fellow scientists Darwin & Newton Stephen Hawking |
| #8425, aired 2021-06-18 | FICTION: In a 1915 story by this European, a woman finds a corpse & says, "It's gone & croaked--just lying there, dead as a doornail!" (Franz) Kafka |
| #8418, aired 2021-06-09 | 1960s SINGERS: In 2002 Macon, Georgia, where he grew up, unveiled a statue of this man who sits overlooking the water, a nod to his posthumous No. 1 hit Otis Redding |
| #8401, aired 2021-05-17 | ANCIENT GREEKS: Plutarch quotes this man who sentenced many to death: "Small ones deserve that, and I have no higher for the greater crimes" Draco |
| #8370, aired 2021-04-02 | EPONYMOUS LANDMARKS: In 1960 the ashes of this aviator were spread over the Venezuela natural wonder he famously sighted decades earlier (James) Angel |
| #8360, aired 2021-03-19 | ARTISTS: The February 17, 1901 death of his friend Carles Casagemas made this grief-stricken artist change his color palette (Pablo) Picasso |
| #8352, aired 2021-03-09 | SCIENCE FICTION: In a 1952 sci-fi story, a time traveler returning to the present finds a dead one of these insects on his shoe a butterfly |
| #8229, aired 2020-06-04 | NOTABLE BRITS: On this man's death in a 1935 motorcycle accident, Churchill said, his "pace of life was faster & more intense than the ordinary" Lawrence of Arabia |
| #8223, aired 2020-05-27 | FAIRY TALES: A familiar chant in this fairy tale continues, "Be he alive or be he dead, I'll grind his bones to make my bread" "Jack and the Beanstalk" |
| #8206, aired 2020-04-20 | RECENT MOVIE SONGS: In October 2019 this song, a duet, was still in the Top 10 on Billboard's Adult Contemporary chart after spending a year on the chart "Shallow" |
| #8117, aired 2019-12-17 | MILESTONES IN U.S. HISTORY: Congress declared September 6, 2008 Louisa Swain Day because Louisa did this in Wyoming on that date in 1870 voted |
| #8039, aired 2019-07-18 | NOTORIOUS: The death penalty has been carried out only once under Israeli law--in 1962, for this man Adolf Eichmann |
| #8029, aired 2019-07-04 | ON BROADWAY: This play opens in Vienna in 1823, 32 years after the death of its title character Amadeus |
| #8011, aired 2019-06-10 | 20th CENTURY THEATER: The final scene of this play takes place by a grave & includes the line "He had the wrong dreams" Death of a Salesman |
| #8006, aired 2019-06-03 | SHAKESPEARE'S TIME: The line "a great reckoning in a little room" in "As You Like It" is usually taken to refer to this author's premature death Christopher Marlowe |
| #7997, aired 2019-05-21 | POETRY & THE MOVIES: Robert Lowell's "For the Union Dead" honored the 54th Massachusetts, the infantry unit in this 1989 film that won 3 Oscars Glory |
| #7983, aired 2019-05-01 | THE KING JAMES BIBLE: Of the 4 riders mentioned in Revelation 6, only this one is explicitly named Death |
| #7946, aired 2019-03-11 | PLAYWRIGHTS: Before his death in 2018 at age 91, he received 4 Tony Awards, a Pulitzer Prize & was nominated for 4 Oscars Neil Simon |
| #7945, aired 2019-03-08 | 20th CENTURY NEWSMAKERS: In 1982 a probate judge in his home state of Michigan declared him legally dead Jimmy Hoffa |
| #7898, aired 2019-01-02 | BRITISH MEMOIRS: Before his death in 1996, this famous son wrote the memoirs "The Enchanted Places" & "The Hollow on the Hill" Christopher Robin Milne |
| #7828, aired 2018-09-26 | AUTHORS: After this woman's death, her daughter wrote, "As far as we in the family are concerned, the alphabet now ends at Y" Sue Grafton |
| #7823, aired 2018-09-19 | 18th CENTURY AMERICANS: In a famous 1775 speech, he said, "Our chains are forged! Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston!" Patrick Henry |
| #7795, aired 2018-06-29 | 18th CENTURY NOTABLES: Researchers in London & Vienna now speculate that his 1791 death was due to a strep infection, not poisoning Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart |
| #7776, aired 2018-06-04 | AMERICAN QUOTES: In a 1789 letter, Benjamin Franklin relates the durability of the new Constitution to these 2 things death & taxes |
| #7767, aired 2018-05-22 | FAMOUS RUSSIANS: In November 1836 this writer got a letter naming him to the Most Serene Order of Cuckolds; in February 1837 he was dead Alexander Pushkin |
| #7707, aired 2018-02-27 | AMERICANA: A 1931 story in the New Yorker said this "weighs 600,000,000 pounds (&)... contains 37,000,000 cubic feet" the Empire State Building |
| #7677, aired 2018-01-16 | NOVELS OF THE 1960s: The line "Once when you are born & once when you look death in the face" follows this title of a 1964 novel & an action-packed 1967 film You Only Live Twice |
| #7672, aired 2018-01-09 | THE FIRST CENTURY A.D.: Letters written by this Roman recount the events of a natural disaster, like the death of his uncle, a famous scholar Pliny the Younger |
| #7596, aired 2017-09-25 | BRITISH POETS: The statue of a sailor seen here in Watchet, England is based on a famous poem by this man Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
| #7588, aired 2017-09-13 | ANCIENT HISTORY: Battles at Trebbia & Trasimene were among the victories of this man who was born in Africa & died near the Black Sea Hannibal |
| #7552, aired 2017-06-13 | 16th CENTURY NAMES: In his 1557 almanac this French doctor predicted, "Immortal I shall be in life, and in death even more so" Nostradamus |
| #7549, aired 2017-06-08 | WORLD WAR II HEROES: Credited with saving thousands of lives before his disappearance, in 2016 he was officially declared dead by Sweden Raoul Wallenberg |
| #7548, aired 2017-06-07 | BRITISH KINGS: Bearing Roman numeral I, he subdued Wales & was called the "English Justinian" for his legal reforms Edward I |
| #7454, aired 2017-01-26 | 20th CENTURY PLAYWRIGHTS: He said of his 1949 play & its main character, "I could write about failure only because I could deal with it...I knew how he felt" Arthur Miller |
| #7423, aired 2016-12-14 | AMERICAN AUTHORS: Nominated 8 previous times, he finally won a Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962, 6 years before his death John Steinbeck |
| #7408, aired 2016-11-23 | NAMES IN THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION: A newspaper announcing his death in 1801 said he died in England & was "notorious throughout the world" Benedict Arnold |
| #7384, aired 2016-10-20 | QUOTABLE NOTABLES: She once said that death "is no more than passing from one room into another" but "in that other room, I shall be able to see" Helen Keller |
| #7352, aired 2016-07-26 | AMERICAN AUTHORS: On his 1849 death, it was said he was "regarded rather with curiosity than admiration" & "few will be grieved" Edgar Allan Poe |
| #7337, aired 2016-07-05 | FAMOUS AMERICANS: In 1902, 25 years after his death, a New York Times article about a family reunion listed his direct descendants at more than 1,000 Brigham Young |
| #7332, aired 2016-06-28 | AMERICAN INVENTORS: Before his death in 1932, he donated over $100 million, including $50 million to the University of Rochester George Eastman |
| #7268, aired 2016-03-30 | OBITUARIES: On his death in 2015, his New York Times obit said he "built his stardom 90 percent on skill and half on wit" Yogi Berra |
| #7189, aired 2015-12-10 | LITERARY BRITAIN: After her death in 1943, the farmland & cottages of this author & animal lover were bequeathed to the National Trust Beatrix Potter |
| #7102, aired 2015-06-30 | FAMOUS WOMEN: On January 5, 1939, in a Los Angeles probate court, this national heroine was declared legally dead Amelia Earhart |
| #7077, aired 2015-05-26 | ANCIENT TIMES: Aristotle said that an ancient Athenian law made uprooting one of these trees punishable by death an olive tree |
| #7065, aired 2015-05-08 | HISTORIC SITES: On August 15, 1941 convicted Nazi spy Josef Jakobs became the last person to be put to death here the Tower of London |
| #7001, aired 2015-02-09 | 19th CENTURY WRITERS: After his death, he was given full military honors in Greece before his body was returned home for burial at his baronial seat Lord Byron |
| #6980, aired 2015-01-09 | FAMOUS AMERICANS: In 1982, 72 years after his death, he became the first person inducted into the Hall of Famous Missourians Mark Twain |
| #6859, aired 2014-06-12 | CURRENT TELEVISION: George Romero declined to direct a few episodes of this series, calling it "basically... just a soap opera" The Walking Dead |
| #6827, aired 2014-04-29 | U.S. HISTORY: Messrs. Gusenberg, Gusenberg, May, Weinshank, Clark, Heyer & Schwimmer famously died on this day in 1929 February 14 (or Valentine's Day) |
| #6788, aired 2014-03-05 | 4-LETTER WORDS: New research says this word that has become ubiquitous dates back to young men also called "macaronis" dude |
| #6779, aired 2014-02-20 | AUTHORS: On his death in 1862 a Massachusetts paper said, "No man ever lived closer to nature, and reported her secrets more eloquently" Thoreau |
| #6760, aired 2014-01-24 | GROUNDBREAKING NONFICTION: Chapters in this 1962 classic include "Earth's Green Mantle", "Needless Havoc", "Rivers of Death" & "And No Birds Sing" Silent Spring |
| #6755, aired 2014-01-17 | AMERICAN THEATER: This 1949 drama that ends with a requiem asks, "Why did you do it? I search & search & I search, & I can't understand it" Death of a Salesman |
| #6673, aired 2013-09-25 | 20th CENTURY NAMES: Since his 1988 death, he's been inducted into the U.S. Hockey, World Figure Skating & National Inventors Halls of Fame Zamboni |
| #6667, aired 2013-09-17 | U.S. PLACES: A logo on this town's website includes its incorporation date, 1981, as well as the historic date December 17, 1903 Kitty Hawk, North Carolina |
| #6636, aired 2013-06-24 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY: Names of the 2 geographical features on a 2012 postage stamp issued jointly by Nepal & Israel Mt. Everest & The Dead Sea |
| #6632, aired 2013-06-18 | FOOD & DRINK: A sign of a trend, in 2010 this product passed Pepsi to move into the No. 2 spot in U.S. soft drink popularity Diet Coke |
| #6607, aired 2013-05-14 | MODERN-DAY CHINA: Because Internet censors block mentions of this 1989 date, Chinese bloggers write it as "535" June 4 |
| #6599, aired 2013-05-02 | ISLAND COUNTRIES: No longer "western", this 1-word nation has moved to the west side of the Intl. Date Line to join Asia & Australia Samoa |
| #6582, aired 2013-04-09 | THE TONY AWARDS: Winner of Best Play in 1949, it's the only play to win the Best Revival Tony 3 different times Death of a Salesman |
| #6516, aired 2013-01-07 | AMERICAN SPORTS LEGENDS: A bio from 1974, 26 years after his death, quotes him: "I swing big... I hit big or I miss big. I like to live as big as I can" Babe Ruth |
| #6496, aired 2012-12-10 | 1920s LITERATURE: The collapse of this title structure causes the death of Esteban, Uncle Pio, Don Jaime, Pepita & a marquesa the Bridge of San Luis Rey |
| #6478, aired 2012-11-14 | U.S. PRESIDENTS: The only 2 presidents never to present a State of the Union address are William Henry Harrison & this man James Garfield |
| #6474, aired 2012-11-08 | U.S. CITIES: The seal of this historic New England city has the phrase "What a glorious morning for America" & the date "April 19" Lexington |
| #6421, aired 2012-07-16 | INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISTS: David Phillips, whose exposé reporting inspired this word made popular by Teddy Roosevelt, was later shot dead muckraking |
| #6387, aired 2012-05-29 | CLASSIC MYSTERY NOVELS: A letter in this mystery says, "We are going... to Luxor and Assuan by steamer, and perhaps on to Khartoum" Death on the Nile |
| #6338, aired 2012-03-21 | FAMOUS NAMES: At his death in January 2010, he was called "the Garbo of letters, famous for not wanting to be famous" J.D. Salinger |
| #6256, aired 2011-11-28 | 16th CENTURY NAMES: In 2010, 467 years after his death, this man at odds with the church was reburied with honors at a Polish cathedral Nicolaus Copernicus |
| #6233, aired 2011-10-26 | DEATH OF AN AUTHOR: In 1940 at age 44 he died of a heart attack at his Hollywood home while reading his Princeton Alumni Weekly F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| #6103, aired 2011-03-09 | BRITISH ROYALTY: After the death in combat of the previous king, he became the last one to win the crown while on the battlefield Henry VII |
| #6036, aired 2010-12-06 | THE BIBLE: This happens several times, as in I Kings 17 & Acts 20; the most famous time, it's done by Jesus in John 11 raising the dead |
| #6033, aired 2010-12-01 | FRENCH AUTHORS: Published posthumously in 1970, his first novel, "A Happy Death", features a protagonist named Patrice Mersault Albert Camus |
| #5948, aired 2010-06-23 | HISTORIC DATES: The signing of the Treaty of Versailles on June 28, 1919 took place exactly 5 years after the related death of this man Archduke Franz Ferdinand |
| #5931, aired 2010-05-31 | ENGLISH POETS: Translator Edward Fitzgerald wrote that her 1861 "death is rather a relief to me... no more Aurora Leighs, thank God" Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
| #5879, aired 2010-03-18 | AUTHORS: In 1890 he witnessed a mild cyclone in Aberdeen, South Dakota, fodder for his most famous novel L. Frank Baum |
| #5847, aired 2010-02-02 | FAMOUS AMERICANS: At his death in 1790, he left 200-year trust funds to the cities of Boston & Philadelphia Benjamin Franklin |
| #5828, aired 2010-01-06 | COUNTRY MUSIC LEGENDS: Before he was found dead January 1, 1953, the last single he released was "I'll Never Get Out Of This World Alive" Hank Williams |
| #5797, aired 2009-11-24 | COMPOSERS: In 1928, the 100th anniversary of his death, a $10,000 prize was offered for the completion of his 8th Symphony (Franz) Schubert |
| #5791, aired 2009-11-16 | CLASSIC SONGS FROM MOVIES: 6-word title of the song that says, "For the house fell on her head & the coroner pronounced her dead" "Ding-Dong! The Witch Is Dead" |
| #5731, aired 2009-07-06 | NAPOLEON: Napoleon died before some of his officers could sneak him to this U.S. state where his death mask now resides Louisiana |
| #5707, aired 2009-06-02 | GEOGRAPHICAL LITERATURE: The first 2 sections of this Hemingway novel, published 9 years after his death, are titled "Bimini" & "Cuba" Islands in the Stream |
| #5676, aired 2009-04-20 | AMERICAN LEGENDS: Chippewa legend says Nanabojo grew angry at this person for tearing up trees & beat him to death with a fish Paul Bunyan |
| #5665, aired 2009-04-03 | AUTHORS' LESSER-KNOWN NOVELS: A manipulative widow goes husband-hunting in "Lady Susan", finally published in 1871, 54 years after her death Jane Austen |
| #5635, aired 2009-02-20 | ANCIENT WORKS: Astronomers used clues in the text of this epic to figure out the date of its archery contest: April 16, 1178 B.C. The Odyssey |
| #5626, aired 2009-02-09 | HOLIDAYS: Some believe a Roman celebration of the coming of spring, including fertility rites, led to the holiday we observe on this date February 14 |
| #5603, aired 2009-01-07 | INDEPENDENCE DAYS: Poland's Independence Day commemorates this month & day in 1918 November 11 |
| #5602, aired 2009-01-06 | HISTORIC STRUCTURES: Pope Sixtus' death in 1590 ended his plan to convert this, still in Rome today, to a wool factory to employ city prostitutes the Colosseum |
| #5578, aired 2008-12-03 | FAMOUS SCIENTISTS: Alexander Pope wrote the epitaph "Nature and nature's laws lay hid in night, God said, let" him "be and all was light" Isaac Newton |
| #5572, aired 2008-11-25 | IN THE NEWS 1952: Her final testament, read in public after her death, asked for protection of the poor workers she called grasitas Eva Peron |
| #5507, aired 2008-07-15 | OLYMPIC CITIES: This city's Olympics were exactly 200 years after the death of the British cabinet secretary it was named for Sydney |
| #5501, aired 2008-07-07 | THE QUOTE OF THE MONTH CLUB: In a poem, these 5 words precede "breeding Lilacs out of the dead land... stirring Dull roots with spring rain" April is the cruellest month |
| #5496, aired 2008-06-30 | PLAYWRIGHTS: On his death in 1950, he left part of his estate to promote a new phonetic alphabet George Bernard Shaw |
| #5477, aired 2008-06-03 | BUSINESS: In 1951 this company whose origins date back to 1876 became the first U.S. company to have 1 million stockholders AT&T |
| #5403, aired 2008-02-20 | NOTABLE NAMES: At his death in April 1955, his brain was preserved & his ashes scattered in the Delaware River Albert Einstein |
| #5384, aired 2008-01-24 | RICH & FAMOUS: At $900 million, his fortune was once 2% of the GNP; by his death in 1937, he was down to about $26 million John Rockefeller |
| #5373, aired 2008-01-09 | THE CATHOLIC CHURCH: First mentioned in a letter by Clement IV in 1265, this item worn by the Pope features an image of St. Peter in a boat a ring |
| #5325, aired 2007-11-02 | POETS: One of her poems says, "I was ten when they buried you. At twenty I tried to die and get back, back, back to you" Sylvia Plath |
| #5234, aired 2007-05-17 | CRIME TIME: The largest art theft in U.S. history was at 1:24 a.m. on this date in 1990, while Boston slumbered after partying March 18 |
| #5218, aired 2007-04-25 | INTERNATIONAL AUTHORS: Starting in 1948 at Cornell, he lectured on books written in his native language, like "Dead Souls" & "Anna Karenina" Vladimir Nabokov |
| #5213, aired 2007-04-18 | A REAL RENAISSANCE MAN: The sudden 1559 death of France's King Henry II in a joust caused some to believe in this man's writings Nostradamus |
| #5177, aired 2007-02-27 | PHRASE ORIGINS: Meaning "not working properly", it may date back to a character in the comic strip "The Katzenjammer Kids" on the fritz |
| #5157, aired 2007-01-30 | IT HAPPENED IN NEW YORK CITY: On August 10, 2004, 2 days after her death at the age of 96, the Empire State Building dimmed its lights for 15 minutes in her memory Fay Wray |
| #5062, aired 2006-09-19 | BRITISH ROYALTY: Just prior to her death in 1536, she told Sir William Kingston, "I have a little neck" Anne Boleyn |
| #5058, aired 2006-09-13 | VICE PRESIDENTS: The 2 GOP vice presidents who succeeded to the presidency & were later elected president in their own right Theodore Roosevelt & Calvin Coolidge |
| #5056, aired 2006-09-11 | PLANTS: In tropical Africa it's the main source of calories in the diet; in the U.S. it gives us a pudding tapioca (or cassava) |
| #5040, aired 2006-07-07 | STATE FLAGS: Its state flag, based on a design from 1776, shows Virtue, dressed like an Amazon, triumphing over Tyranny Virginia |
| #5031, aired 2006-06-26 | 19th CENTURY GOVERNORS: To date, he's the only person to be elected governor of 2 different states Sam Houston |
| #4792, aired 2005-06-07 | NOTORIOUS: In 1934 in Chicago, soon before his death, he had painful plastic surgery that left him looking pretty much the same John Dillinger |
| #4774, aired 2005-05-12 | LITERARY MUSICAL THEATRE: Songs in this 1956 show include "Oh, Happy We", "You Were Dead, You Know" & "The Best Of All Possible Worlds" Candide |
| #4721, aired 2005-02-28 | COLLEGE LIBRARIES: Built in memory of a victim of this tragedy, Harvard's Widener Library was opened in 1915 the sinking of the Titanic |
| #4696, aired 2005-01-24 | MIDDLE EASTERN AFFAIRS: The Arab-Israeli War that started on June 5, 1967 ended with a cease-fire on this date in Israel June 10, 1967 |
| #4688, aired 2005-01-12 | DATES IN AMERICAN HISTORY: On this date Philadelphia partied with fireworks & music from a Hessian band captured 6 months earlier July 4, 1777 |
| #4664, aired 2004-12-09 | RARITIES: All 6 examples of his signature known to exist date from between 1612 & 1616 William Shakespeare |
| #4620, aired 2004-10-08 | MEN OF SCIENCE: "Somnium", an early work of science fiction, was written by this German & published posthumously in 1634 Johannes Kepler |
| #4607, aired 2004-09-21 | FIRST LADIES: She survived the President by 39 years & was married to an archaeology professor at the time of her own death in 1947 Frances Folsom Cleveland |
| #4582, aired 2004-07-06 | HISTORIC ENGLISHMEN: Ironically, he might have saved himself from death in 1779 if he had known how to swim Captain Cook |
| #4574, aired 2004-06-24 | FILMS OF THE '70s: This 1973 thriller was re-released in 2000 with extra footage, including a scene in which Ritalin is prescribed The Exorcist |
| #4573, aired 2004-06-23 | FAMOUS AMERICANS: In 1826 Daniel Webster eulogized these 2 men, saying, "They took their flight together to the world of spirits" Thomas Jefferson & John Adams |
| #4531, aired 2004-04-26 | PHRASES: It's the original meaning of the word "checkmate", or what many newspaper headlines said on August 17, 1977 "The King Is Dead" |
| #4480, aired 2004-02-13 | GEOGRAPHIC SUPERLATIVES: Among the world's rivers, the Nile is the longest & the Jordan holds this geographic distinction the lowest in elevation |
| #4475, aired 2004-02-06 | 19th CENTURY PHILOSOPHY: This 3-word quote, originally in German, comes soon after "We have killed him--you and I, all of us are his murderers" "God is dead" |
| #4392, aired 2003-10-14 | ANCIENT TEXTS: Archaeologist Richard Lepsius gave this name to a collection of spells, hymns & prayers to deities like Ra The Book of the Dead |
| #4344, aired 2003-06-19 | FRUIT: From Greek for "finger", the Arabs claim it has as many culinary & pharmaceutical uses as days in a year the date |
| #4317, aired 2003-05-13 | WORLD CITIES: According to U.N. data, it's the world's most populous city named for a person São Paulo, Brazil |
| #4239, aired 2003-01-23 | HISTORIC NAMES: In 2002 Christie's auctioned off his own account of his 48-day journey & his coconut cup with the date April 1789 on it Captain William Bligh (after he got bounced off the Bounty) |
| #4231, aired 2003-01-13 | NUTRITION: By virtue of the great quantity eaten, this vegetable is the leading source of vitamin C in the American diet potato |
| #4199, aired 2002-11-28 | THE CALENDAR: Rendered numerically, it was the last complete date where every digit was an odd number 11-19-1999 |
| #4113, aired 2002-06-19 | HISTORIC AMERICANS: On this man's death, FDR said, "All mankind are the beneficiaries of his discoveries in... agricultural chemistry" George Washington Carver |
| #3777, aired 2001-01-23 | FAMOUS AMERICANS: After his death in 1994 at age 81, Time magazine put him on its cover for a record 55th time Richard M. Nixon |
| #3647, aired 2000-06-13 | FAMOUS SCIENTISTS: At his death in 1727, he left over one million words he had written on alchemy & the occult Sir Isaac Newton |
| #3591, aired 2000-03-27 | FAMOUS WOMEN: This woman who made death masks of guillotine victims took the Bastille gate key after the 1789 storming Marie Tussaud |
| #3588, aired 2000-03-22 | HISTORIC PEOPLE: After his 1955 death, his papers were given to Jerusalem's Hebrew Univ. & his violin was left to his grandson Albert Einstein |
| #3553, aired 2000-02-02 | FINANCIERS: The Federal Reserve System was founded partly in response to his March 31, 1913 death J.P. Morgan |
| #3547, aired 2000-01-25 | THE TONY AWARDS: (Hi, I'm Brian Dennehy) This man won a Tony for writing the Best Play of 1949 and I had the honor of presenting him with a Lifetime Achievement Tony in 1999 Arthur Miller (wrote "Death of a Salesman") |
| #3542, aired 2000-01-18 | IN THE NEWS: The U.N. designated October 12, 1999 as the date the Earth's population reached this figure 6 billion |
| #3533, aired 2000-01-05 | ECOLOGY: Former Monty Python member John Cleese has joined a campaign to save this bird from extinction Parrot |
| #3509, aired 1999-12-02 | NOVELISTS: "Omerta", the title of the last book he completed before his death in 1999, is Sicilian for "code of silence" Mario Puzo |
| #3486, aired 1999-11-01 | 20th CENTURY AUTHORS: His "Fictional Memoir" about his last African safari was published in 1999, 38 years after his death Ernest Hemingway |
| #3471, aired 1999-10-11 | FAMOUS SCANDINAVIANS: The painter who said, "Illness, madness and death were the dark angels who watched over my cradle" Edvard Munch |
| #3461, aired 1999-09-27 | FICTION: This 1937 mystery was written at the Old Cataract Hotel in Aswan "Death on the Nile" |
| #3449, aired 1999-09-09 | HISTORIC DATES: It's reported that on this date King George III wrote in his diary, "Nothing of importance happened today" July 4, 1776 |
| #3422, aired 1999-06-22 | HISTORIC DATES: On this date a record 10,471 flags were flown above the U.S. Capitol, one at a time July 4, 1976 (the Bicentennial) |
| #3395, aired 1999-05-14 | HISTORIC AMERICANS: This member of William & Mary's Class of 1762 founded a univ. that opened in 1825, one year before his death Thomas Jefferson (University of Virginia) |
| #3361, aired 1999-03-29 | 1999 ANNIVERSARIES: A traveling exhibit honoring the 200th anniversary of his death features his false teeth George Washington |
| #3357, aired 1999-03-23 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS: A 1993 anthology of contemporary Asian-American fiction is titled this character "is Dead" Charlie Chan |
| #3184, aired 1998-06-04 | 1998 BESTSELLERS: 35 years after her death, she's the subject of a new collection of poems by her husband Sylvia Plath (husband is Ted Hughes) |
| #2986, aired 1997-09-01 | FAMOUS NAMES: At this man's death in 1997, Jacques Chirac called him probably the best known Frenchman in the world Jacques-Yves Cousteau |
| #2954, aired 1997-06-05 | AUTOBIOGRAPHIES: In 1791, one year after his death, part of this American's autobiography was published in Paris as "Memoires" Benjamin Franklin |
| #2931, aired 1997-05-05 | NOTABLE NAMES: On January 30, 1997, the 49th anniversary of his death, some of his ashes were scattered in the Ganges River Mohandas K. Gandhi |
| #2908, aired 1997-04-02 | THE CALENDAR: In the U.S. it's the latest date in November on which Thanksgiving can fall November 28 |
| #2896, aired 1997-03-17 | JOURNALISTS: Before his death in 1920, he led America's Communist Labor Party, drew up its manifesto & edited its paper John Reed |
| #2882, aired 1997-02-25 | FAMOUS AUTHORS: Queen Victoria called his death "a very great loss. He had... the strongest sympathy with the poorer classes" Charles Dickens |
| #2874, aired 1997-02-13 | NOVELS: Just before its 1897 publication, its title was changed from "The Un-Dead" to this Dracula (by Bram Stoker) |
| #2866, aired 1997-02-03 | DEMOCRATS: Bill Clinton is the first Democrat since this man to be elected president twice Franklin Delano Roosevelt |
| #2804, aired 1996-11-07 | WORD ORIGINS: From Spanish Arabic for "the calendar", this type of book often contains astronomical data almanac |
| #2713, aired 1996-05-22 | ASIA: These landmarks are the highest & lowest points in Asia Mount Everest & the Dead Sea |
| #2701, aired 1996-05-06 | DATES: The building of the Erie Canal, B&O Railroad & Washington Monument began on this date in different years July 4th |
| #2642, aired 1996-02-13 | EXPLORERS: For many years after his death in 1324, he was considered Europe's greatest liar Marco Polo |
| #2639, aired 1996-02-08 | FAMOUS NAMES: His 1958 article "The American Automobile--Designed for Death?" appeared in the Harvard Law Record Ralph Nader |
| #2624, aired 1996-01-18 | MEDICAL FIRSTS: The death of Denise Darvall in a traffic accident permitted this historic December 3, 1967 event the first heart transplant |
| #2617, aired 1996-01-09 | ENGLISH POETS: "Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind" precedes a famous line from his works (John) Donne |
| #2557, aired 1995-10-17 | U.S. STATES: After Alaska, this state has the greatest difference between its highest & lowest points California |
| #2537, aired 1995-09-19 | NOTABLE WOMEN: In 1995, 61 years after her death, she became the 1st woman entombed in France's Pantheon in her own right Marie Curie |
| #2532, aired 1995-09-12 | FAMOUS SPEECHES: Last word of a 1775 speech that includes "Mr. President, it is natural to man to indulge in illusions of hope" death |
| #2529, aired 1995-09-07 | NATURALISTS: Before his death in 1914 he studied forests in Russia, India & Australia, as well as the U.S. John Muir |
| #2441, aired 1995-03-27 | SCIENTISTS: In 1928 he published "Introduzione alla fisical atomica", a university physics textbook Enrico Fermi |
| #2428, aired 1995-03-08 | RULERS: At his death at age 62 in 1993, he was Europe's longest-reigning monarch King Baudouin |
| #2356, aired 1994-11-28 | BRITISH HEROES: At his death in 1852, he was interred in St. Paul's near Lord Nelson the Duke of Wellington |
| #2353, aired 1994-11-23 | DEMOCRATS: When Grandma Moses was born, this man was president; at her death, JFK was president James Buchanan |
| #2261, aired 1994-06-06 | BRITISH HISTORY: Over 300 years after his 1658 death, his head was laid to rest by his alma mater, a college at Cambridge Oliver Cromwell |
| #2257, aired 1994-05-31 | AUTHORS: Her last book "A Garland For Girls" was completed shortly before her death in 1888 Louisa May Alcott |
| #2248, aired 1994-05-18 | POETS: On his death, April 27, 1882, the church bells of Concord, Mass. tolled 79 times in his memory Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| #2179, aired 1994-02-10 | PRESIDENTS: Both of his sons were given the name Doud, their mother's maiden name Dwight David Eisenhower |
| #2168, aired 1994-01-26 | FAMOUS NAMES: Eisenhower said on his 1955 death that no other man contributed so much to the growth of 20th c. knowledge Albert Einstein |
| #2145, aired 1993-12-24 | THE CALENDAR: By our calendar, the first British East India Co. was founded on this date, the last day of the 16th century December 31, 1600 |
| #2056, aired 1993-07-12 | PHILANTHROPY: At the time of his death in 1937, he had given over $500 million to charity John D. Rockefeller |
| #2001, aired 1993-04-26 | HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES: Peter J. McGuire, this holiday's originator, set its date to fall about midway between July 4th & Thanksgiving Labor Day |
| #1942, aired 1993-02-02 | HISTORIC NAMES: A U.S. naval squadron brought back his remains from France in 1905, 113 years after his death John Paul Jones |
| #1896, aired 1992-11-30 | MUSICIANS: On his 1986 death he was called "arguably the only white jazz player to be the best on his instrument" Benny Goodman |
| #1867, aired 1992-10-20 | MEN OF SCIENCE: In 1927, a year after his death, his autobiography "Harvest of the Years" was published Luther Burbank |
| #1847, aired 1992-09-22 | THE SOVIET UNION: After this hero's death in 1968, the town of Gzhatsk was renamed in his honor Yuri Gagarin |
| #1838, aired 1992-09-09 | FAMOUS WOMEN: On her death, Will Rogers said her "consideration of others will live as a mark for any woman to shoot at" Annie Oakley |
| #1828, aired 1992-07-08 | NATIONS OF THE WORLD: In one of its official languages, this country is called Repiblik Dayti Haiti |
| #1799, aired 1992-05-28 | FOOD & DRINK: Before the introduction of Diet Coke, this was the leading diet soft drink in the U.S. Tab |
| #1710, aired 1992-01-24 | THE BIBLE: The book of Genesis ends with his death "and he was put in a coffin in Egypt" Joseph |
| #1700, aired 1992-01-10 | AMERICAN DRAMA: This 1938 play's 3 acts are titled "Daily Life", "Love and Marriage" & "Death" Our Town |
| #1680, aired 1991-12-13 | THEATRE: Peter Shaffer omitted the death of Emperor Joseph II from the NYC production of this play Amadeus |
| #1593, aired 1991-07-03 | ROYALTY: At his death in January 1991, the king of this country was the world's oldest reigning monarch Norway |
| #1592, aired 1991-07-02 | FAMOUS NAMES: This survivor of WWII's Bataan Death March went on to become a world leader Ferdinand Marcos |
| #1585, aired 1991-06-21 | AMERICAN POLITICS: He was the only man to preside over both the House & the Senate on the same day, March 4, 1933 John Nance Garner |
| #1569, aired 1991-05-30 | FINAL RESTING PLACES: More than 100 years after his death, he was reburied with honors at the U.S. Naval Academy in 1913 John Paul Jones |
| #1556, aired 1991-05-13 | BRITISH HISTORY: In 1661, 2 1/2 years after his death, his body was exhumed & hanged at Tyburn Oliver Cromwell |
| #1549, aired 1991-05-02 | WARS: As of February 1991 the V.A. was still paying death pensions to 5 widows of veterans of this war the Civil War |
| #1529, aired 1991-04-04 | FAMOUS AMERICANS: Upon his death in 1972, he became the 1st civil servant to lie in state in the Capitol Rotunda J. Edgar Hoover |
| #1465, aired 1991-01-04 | U.S. PRESIDENTS: The 2 Presidents whose assassins were sentenced to death & executed James Garfield & William McKinley |
| #1459, aired 1990-12-27 | ANCIENT HISTORY: The group who fought over his empire after his death was called the "Diadochi", successors Alexander the Great |
| #1438, aired 1990-11-28 | AMERICAN HISTORY: He was elected Governor of New York in 1817, right after the state agreed to finance his pet project Dewitt Clinton |
| #1380, aired 1990-09-07 | FAMOUS WOMEN: Dying in 1903, she said, "It's the 27th anniversary of Bill's death. Bury me next to Bill." Calamity Jane (Martha Jane Canary) |
| #8, aired 1990-08-04 | SHAKESPEAREAN QUOTES: The famous line "Out, out, brief candle!" is spoken after the announcement of this woman's death Lady Macbeth |
| #1371, aired 1990-07-16 | THE BIBLE: "The dead which he slew at his death were more than they which he slew in his life" Samson |
| #1367, aired 1990-07-10 | U.S. PRESIDENTS: President with the most recent birth date Jimmy Carter |
| #1325, aired 1990-05-11 | MEDICINE: His vaccine was announced safe in April '55, the 10th anniversary of FDR's death Dr. Jonas Salk |
| #1290, aired 1990-03-23 | AUTHORS: After his death in 1745, he was buried in St. Patrick's cathedral in Dublin Jonathan Swift |
| #1238, aired 1990-01-10 | PLAYS: 1949 Pulitzer Prize play in which the title character commits suicide for the insurance money Death of a Salesman |
| #1175, aired 1989-10-13 | SHAKESPEARE: He appears in 3 of Shakespeare's plays & his death is reported in "King Henry V" Sir John Falstaff |
| #1107, aired 1989-05-30 | COINS: She became the only monarch to appear on a U.S. coin, when a commemorative quarter was issued in 1893 Queen Isabella |
| #976, aired 1988-11-28 | HISTORIC DATES: Date in 1777 on which the Continental Congress approved a flag of 13 stripes & 13 stars June 14 |
| #927, aired 1988-09-20 | 1978: Upon Golda Meir's death, this leader said, "I must, for history's sake, praise her as an honest foe" (Anwar) Sadat |
| #851, aired 1988-04-25 | HOLIDAYS: The latest date on which Thanksgiving Day can occur in the U.S. November 28 |
| #791, aired 1988-02-01 | POP MUSIC: Solo or in a duet or group, this artist has had more Billboard #1 hits than any other, 29 in all Paul McCartney |
| #778, aired 1988-01-13 | HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES: As the Constitutional bicentennial reminded us, the Constitution was signed on this date in 1787 September 17th |
| #750, aired 1987-12-04 | FAMOUS BATTLES: In 1836, Wm. Travis ended his request for more troops to be sent here, with "Victory or death" the Alamo |
| #648, aired 1987-06-03 | WORLD STATISTICS: This continent currently has both the world's highest birthrate & the world's highest death rate Africa |
| #589, aired 1987-03-12 | POP MUSIC: They're the only father-daughter pair to have had Billboard #1 hits both individually & as a duet Frank and Nancy Sinatra |
| #531, aired 1986-12-22 | STAMPS & COINS: These people are only exception to the rule "Must be dead 10 years to be on a U.S. stamp" presidents of the United States |
| #333, aired 1985-12-18 | RECENT HISTORY: Total number of men who have been U.S. President during the current British monarch's rule 8 |
| #286, aired 1985-10-14 | THE BIBLE: Only 1 of the 4 Horsemen of the Apocalypse specifically named in text of King James or Douay Bible Death |
| #275, aired 1985-09-27 | THE FLAG: After a former president's death, the flag is flown at half-mast for this many days 30 |
| #269, aired 1985-09-19 | THE CALENDAR: Date of the final day of the 20th century December 31, 2000 |
| #151, aired 1985-04-08 | THE CALENDAR: In 1984, the Cotton, Fiesta, Orange, Rose & Sugar Bowls were all played on this date January 2 |
| #87, aired 1985-01-08 | EUROPEAN HISTORY: On May 1, 1945, Admiral Karl Doenitz assumed this office in Germany Fuhrer (or dictator) |
| #2, aired 1984-09-11 | THE CALENDAR: Calendar date with which the 20th century began January 1, 1901 |
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Joely Fisher, an actress from 'Til Death
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"She made her Broadway debut in Grease, and earned rave reviews...
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Lee Lassiter, a data modeler from Topeka, Kansas
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"A 5-time winner from 2000, he used his winnings to take...
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Del Scott, a data scientist from San Francisco, California
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Season 34 player (2018-01-24).
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Jilana Cotter, a senior data analyst from Dade City, Florida
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2023 Champions Wildcard 2nd runner-up: $25,000. 2023 Second Chance competition winner:...
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Jilana Cotter, a senior data analyst from Dade City, Florida
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2023 Champions Wildcard 2nd runner-up: $25,000. 2023 Second Chance competition winner:...
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Julie Sesnovich, a film data coordinator from Los Angeles, California
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Season 34 player (2018-05-04).
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Jerry Tsai, a data scientist from Los Angeles, California
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Season 34 player (2018-07-27). Jerry appeared on Master Minds on 2020-04-13....
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Lydia DiSabatino, a data analyst from Chicago, Illinois
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Season 34 player (2018-04-04).
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Brian Dennehy, from the play Death of a Salesman
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"He's the film and television star who won a Tony Award...
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Roger Craig, a data scientist from Brooklyn, New York
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"He was a graduate student in computer science living in Newark,...
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Brad Rutter, a TV quiz show host from Lancaster, Pennsylvania
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2020 Jeopardy!: The Greatest of All Time 2nd runner-up: $250,000. 2019...
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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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Marty Scott, an assistant district attorney from Forney, Texas
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Season 26 3-time champion: $64,002 + $2,000. Marty won $250,000 on...
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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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Jean Cui, a student originally from Garden City, New York
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Season 25 2-time champion: $14,200 + $2,000. Last 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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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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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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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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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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Lan Djang, a health policy analyst from Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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"He was a 5-time champion in 2001. Today he's a health...
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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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Inta Antler, a retired computer programmer from Scarborough, Ontario, Canada
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Season 25 1-time champion: $12,700 + $2,000. Inta Antler - A...
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Richard Kaplan, a retired attorney from Los Angeles, California
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1992 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $5,000. Season 8 5-time champion:...
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Catherine Ramen, a database developer and writer from New York, New York
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 winner: $44,000. 1998 Tournament...
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Brendan Barnwell, a grad student and tutor from Santa Barbara, California
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Season 28 player (2011-12-05). Although Brendan played the Jeopardy! and Double...
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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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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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Dave Abbott, a musician and licensing executive from Fort Thomas, Kentucky
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"He won the 1999 Tournament of Champions. A musician and licensing...
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Laura Hughes, a mom from New Market, Maryland
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Season 26 1-time champion: $27,500 + $2,000. Wife of Season 16...
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Brad Plovan, an attorney from Baltimore, Maryland
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"With the money from his five wins in 1995, he bought...
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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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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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Michael Dupée, an attorney from Gainesville, Florida
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"He was the winner of the 1996 Tournament of Champions. Today...
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Melissa Seal, a law student from Kingston, Ontario, Canada
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"She was a senior when she became the Teen Tournament champion...
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Alison Stone Roberg, an administrative assistant from Kansas City, Missouri
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Season 26 3-time champion: $85,102 + $2,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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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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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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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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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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Erica Holencik, a provider data specialist from Portland, Oregon
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Season 37 player (2021-01-27).
Last name pronounced like "hole-LEN-chick".
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Allison Gross, a data scientist from Cleveland, Ohio
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Season 40 X-time champion: $X + $X.
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Sarah Favorite, a graduate student and health data specialist from Williston, North Dakota
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Season 34 player (2017-10-10).
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Al Easter, a data processor from Minneapolis, Minnesota
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Season 7 player (1991-01-23).
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Brad Rutter, the biggest money winner from Los Angeles, California
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2020 Jeopardy!: The Greatest of All Time 2nd runner-up: $250,000. 2019...
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Kirby Copelin, a data analyst from Cincinnati, Ohio
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Season 36 1-time champion: $34,401 + $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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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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Nathan Walpow, a data processor originally from Queens, New York
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1985 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $1,000. Season 1 5-time champion: $38,900....
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Jay Olman, a data analytics manager from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Season 34 player (2017-09-13).
JBoard user name: trivial-jay
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Jeff Machusko, a data analyst from Centennial, Colorado
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Season 34 player (2018-01-25).
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Tracy Lee, a data scientist from Newark, California
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Season 37 player (2021-01-07).
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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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Michael Menkhus, a data analyst from Kansas City, Missouri
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2024 Champions Wildcard 2nd runner-up: $25,000. Season 39 2-time champion: $48,402...
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Frank Stasio, a data analyst from Los Angeles, California
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Season 18 2-time champion: $42,000. Frank won $1,000 on Who Wants...
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Ira Goodkofsky, a data processing manager originally from New Haven, Connecticut
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Season 9 player (1993-02-01).
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Frank Epstein, a police officer from Los Angeles, California
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\"He was a 5-time champion in 1992, and is still serving...
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Michael Menkhus, a data analyst from Kansas City, Missouri
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2024 Champions Wildcard 2nd runner-up: $25,000.
Season 39 2-time champion: $48,402 + $2,000.
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Alex Damisch, a data scientist from Chicago, Illinois
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Season 36 3-time champion: $33,549 + $2,000. Alex rendered her name...
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Elaine Filadelfo, a data researcher from Washington, D.C.
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2023 Second Chance competition semifinalist: $3,000.
Season 37 player (2021-06-18).
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Chuck Forrest, a lawyer from Bosnia and Herzegovina
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2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2014 Battle of the Decades...
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Bob Porowski, a data processing manager from East Brunswick, New Jersey
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Season 8 player (1991-09-02).
Bob died 2010-02-14 of colon cancer.
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Brad Rutter, an actor and producer from Los Angeles, California
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• Highest all-time winnings (over $4.3 million) • Has never lost...
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Jeff Jetton, a data analyst and accordion teacher from Nashville, Tennessee
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Season 36 player (2020-04-03).
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Skyler Kelemen, a healthcare data analyst from Watertown, Massachusetts
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Season 34 player (2018-05-31).
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Alex Lamb, a data scientist from Lake Forest, California
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2023 Second Chance competition semifinalist: $2,000. Season 37 player (2021-07-13). Alex...
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Alex Lamb, a data scientist from Lake Forest, California
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2023 Second Chance competition semifinalist: $2,000. Season 37 player (2021-07-13). Alex...
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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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Celiane Levy Reiner, a technical data analyst from Briarcliff Manor, New York
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Season 16 player (2000-02-23).
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Tyler Rhode, a healthcare data specialist from New York, New York
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2022 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: 10,000.
Season 38 5-time champion: $105,901 + $2,000.
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Jennifer Mosher, a data specialist from Sacramento, California
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Season 38 player (2021-10-27).
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Jilana Rose-Silverberg, a data analyst originally from Madison, Wisconsin
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2023 Champions Wildcard 2nd runner-up: $25,000. 2023 Second Chance competition winner:...
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Nalin Kashyap, a clinical data analyst from Tempe, Arizona
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Season 37 player (2020-11-12).
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Niño Yosinao, a development assistant and data analyst from San Francisco, California
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Season 35 player (2019-01-29). Niño appeared on Master Minds on 2020-06-24....
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Ben Lewis, a data scientist from Costa Mesa, California
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Season 37 1-time champion: $44,401 + $2,000.
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Kirk Daddow, from Ames, Iowa
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Season 4 player (1988-07-18). The recording used to archive the game...
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Ben Raphel, a healthcare data analyst from Boston, Massachusetts
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Season 34 1-time champion: $25,201 + $1,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Steve DeWitt, a middle school teacher from Burtonsville, Maryland
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Season 36 player (2020-06-10).
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Colin Davy, a data scientist originally from Chicago, Illinois
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Season 37 1-time champion: $26,100 + $2,000.
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Michael Rankins, a minister and writer from Rohnert Park, California
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\"A 5-show winner from 1988, he has been a minister with...
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Justin Stanley, a data scientist from Vancourver, Washington
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Season 38 player (2021-09-27).
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Melis Sahin-Collins, a data analyst from Redondo Beach, California
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Season 37 1-time champion: $2,000 + $1,000. First name pronounced like...
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Vernon Jones, a data processor from Jersey City, New Jersey
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Season 5 player (1988-09-05).
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Mark Bendas, a data processing consultant from Perth Amboy, New Jersey
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Season 10 player (1994-06-28).
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Richard Koehler, a data scientist from Wilmington, Delaware
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Season 35 1-time champion: $18,001 + $2,000.
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Stephen Webb, a data scientist from Longmont, Colorado
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2024 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Season 39 8-time champion: $184,881 + $1,000.
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Stephen Webb, a data scientist from Longmont, Colorado
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2024 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Season 39 8-time champion: $184,881 + $1,000.
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Rose Schaefer, a junior from Portland, Oregon
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2012 Teen Tournament 1st runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $36,000. 16 at...
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Tarun Narasimhan, a data scientist from San Francisco, California
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Season 39 player (2022-11-24).
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Hannah Wilson, a data scientist from Chicago, Illinois
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2024 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Season 39 8-time champion: $229,801 + $2,000.
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Rahul Gupta, a data engineer from Midlothian, Virginia
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Season 34 1-time champion: $12,399 + $2,000.
Rahul appeared on The Chase on 2021-06-27.
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Linda Glenn, a data entry operator from Davis, California
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Season 7 player (1991-01-31).
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Michael Vallely, a data analyst from Somerville, Massachusetts
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2023 Second Chance competition semifinalist: $2,000.
Season 39 player (2023-06-12).
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Tom Mullens, a data processing manager from Thousand Oaks, California
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Season 9 2-time champion: $8,300.
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Bill Ruehr, a data administrator from Woodland Hills, California
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Season 12 player (1996-07-04).
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Ashwin Monian, a data scientist from Hatfield, Pennsylvania
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Season 36 player (2020-01-24).
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Adriana Ciccone, a data scientist from San Francisco, California
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Season 35 2-time champion: $35,601 + $2,000.
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Steve Schiraldi, a data analyst from Arlington, Virginia
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Season 36 player (2020-01-21).
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Dave Moxness, a data processor from Van Nuys, California
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Season 10 1-time champion: $4,300.
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Tim Hall, a data analyst from Washington, D.C.
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Season 35 player (2019-04-25).
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Casey Amspacher, a senior data engineer from Brooklyn, New York
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Season 35 player (2018-11-21).
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Laura McLean, a data analyst from Nashville, Tennessee
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Season 34 2-time champion: $19,598 + $1,000.
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Nancy Waits, a data security analyst from Lambertville, New Jersey
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Season 9 player (1993-04-09).
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Archie Parker, a data management specialist from Merchantville, New Jersey
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Season 7 2-time champion: $24,500.
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Darryl Campbell, a data analyst from Seattle, Washington
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Season 29 player (2013-06-27).
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Midge Elias, a diet book author from Beverly Hills, California
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Season 5 player (1989-01-31).
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Anthony Trifilio, a construction worker from Brooklyn, New York
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Season 19 1-time champion: $8,000 + $2,000. Season 18 1-time champion:...
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Darwin Fu, a data scientist from Nashville, Tennessee
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Season 37 player (2021-07-20).
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Judy Cole, a data analyst from Concord, Massachusetts
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Season 29 player (2013-06-21).
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Andre Green, a data analyst from Somerville, Massachusetts
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Season 29 1-time champion: $25,200 + $1,000.
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Susannah Rosenblatt, a writer and communications strategist from Arlington, Virginia
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Season 28 player (2012-03-01).
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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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Craig Savel, a data processor from Flushing, New York
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Season 10 1-time champion: $10,401. As the champion in show #2109,...
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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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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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Dr. Mehmet Oz, a cardiac surgeon and TV host from The Dr. Oz Show
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"He is a renowned cardiac surgeon who has written seven New...
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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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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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Zach Gozlan, a data analyst from Washington, D.C.
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Season 38 player (2022-02-03).
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Dawn Owens-Nicholson, a data and statistics consultant from Champaign, Illinois
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Season 29 player (2013-07-11).
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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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Bruce Ikawa, a college professor from Hillsdale, Michigan
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\"He says his 5 wins in 1990 increases his credibility with...
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Bill Hand, a data processing manager from Northridge, California
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Season 1 player (1984-12-14).
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Richard Finch, an attorney from Dearborn Heights, Michigan
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Season 19 player (2003-07-14). Season 18 player (2002-02-26). Richard was returned...
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Brad Rutter, a $3.2-million winner from Los Angeles, California
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"In 2000, he became a 5-time champion and went on to...
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Jim Stalley, a crime data specialist from Denver, Colorado
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2004 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Season 19 4-time champion: $84,100 + $2,000.
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Tom Imler, a data repair technician from Cary, North Carolina
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Season 31 player (2015-04-03).
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Mark Born, a musician, writer and teacher from Bangkok, Thailand
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\"He was the top winner of the 1990-91 season. He\'s a...
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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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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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Chris Keller, a data processing consultant from Cherry Hill, New Jersey
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Season 11 player (1994-09-20).
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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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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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Sandie Baker, a data and translation coordinator from Eastpointe, Michigan
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2014 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
Season 30 6-time champion: $140,200 + $2,000.
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Kevin Bertsch, a data analyst from Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Season 24 player (2008-01-03). According to the official site, Kevin's hometown...
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Dilip Rajagopalan, a data scientist from Newtown Square, Pennsylvania
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Season 30 player (2014-04-22).
Name pronounced like "DILL-up rawj-ah-go-PAWL-an".
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Mark Abramson, a data specialist from Encino, California
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Season 8 player (1991-09-25).
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Tom Daily, a data processing consultant from New Haven, Connecticut
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Season 17 player (2001-06-14).
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Sue O'Donnell, a registered nurse from DeWitt, New York
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Season 3 player (1987-02-13).
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Logan Bell, a senior from Rock Falls, Illinois
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2001 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $5,000. 15 at the time of the...
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Colette Perry, a data processing manager from Chagrin Falls, Ohio
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Season 6 player (1989-10-04)
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Joanne Seran, a teacher from North Hollywood, California
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Season 4 player (1987-12-11): a set of Correla art glass. Joanne's...
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Richard Finch, an attorney from Dearborn Heights, Michigan
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Season 19 player (2003-07-14). Season 18 player (2002-02-26). Richard was returned...
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Dan Chafetz, a data specialist from Essex Junction, Vermont
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Season 33 player (2016-11-29).
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Anthony Trifilio, a construction worker from Brooklyn, New York
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Season 19 1-time champion: $8,000 + $2,000. Season 18 1-time champion:...
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Chris Horton, a data administrator originally from Manville, Rhode Island
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Season 32 player (2016-03-17).
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Jon Newlon, a lawyer and father from Dade City, Florida
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Season 18 1-time champion: $27,000 + $1,000. Won $8,000 on Who...
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John Gardner, a technical data manager originally from Lost Nation, Iowa
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Season 7 player (1991-01-07).
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Dan Atherton, a fundraising data analyst from Quincy, Massachusetts
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Season 33 player (2017-04-25).
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Titi Ala'ilima, a data engineer from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Season 32 player (2016-03-01).
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Andrea Gray, a data systems manager from Charlotte, North Carolina
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Season 7 player (1991-01-11).
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Brad Rutter, an actor and producer from Hollywood, California
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"He was a college student from Lancaster, Pennsylvania, when he won...
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Tim Kutz, a data conversion manager from Ogden, Utah
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Season 32 4-time champion: $107,000 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
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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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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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Jon Er, from Williamsville, New York
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"This musician always argues for his fairness, so he wants to...
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Bob Harris, an author, comedian, and radio commentator from Los Angeles, California
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"A 5-time champion and a finalist in the Tournament of Champions,...
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Bruce Naegeli, a retired law librarian from Phoenix, Arizona
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"He finished second in the 1988 Tournament of Champions. A retired...
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Tony Hess, a data processor from Cleveland, Ohio
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Season 1 1-time champion: $8,500.
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Bill Dickenson, a college instructor from Richardson, Texas
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"This 5-time champ from 1996 has taught students from over 100...
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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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Rick Knutsen, a musician and stay-at-home dad from Brooklyn, New York
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"A finalist in the 2001 Tournament of Champions, he's a musician...
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April McManus, a homemaker from Hertfordshire, England
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"A high school senior from Minnesota when she won the 1992...
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Phoebe Juel, a bookseller from Sylva, North Carolina
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"She won the 1993 College Championship while attending Grinnell College. Today...
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Michael Braun, a high school junior from Silver Spring, Maryland
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"He is the 2005 Teen Tournament champion. A high school junior...
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Graham Gilmer, a senior at Stanford University from Stanford, California
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"He was the Teen Tournament champion in 2001. Now he's a...
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Pat Healy, an index supervisor from Vallejo, California
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"His five wins in 1998 helped him land a dream job...
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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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Shane Whitlock, a resident physician from Little Rock, Arkansas
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"As a junior at the University of Arkansas, he won the...
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Tom Halpern, a lawyer originally from New York, New York
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"A writer and researcher when he won 5 times in 1991,...
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Michael Daunt, an accountant from Oakville, Ontario, Canada
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"In 1996, he was a finalist in the Tournament of Champions....
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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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Kyle Hale, a college senior from Katy, Texas
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"Representing Texas A&M, he won the 2002 College Championship. Now he's...
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Bob Blake, an actuary from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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"In 1990, he won the Tournament of Champions. An actuary from...
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Jamie Weiss, a law student from St. Louis, Missouri
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"He won the 1990 Teen Tournament. Today he's a law student....
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Dave Willis, a business manager from Ventura, California
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"He was the first to win five shows in 1992. A...
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Eugene Finerman, a writer from Northbrook, Illinois
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"A finalist in the 1987 Tournament of Champions, he's a writer....
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Andrew Hutchings, a graduate student from Ithaca, New York
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"A senior when he won the 1998 College Championship, he's now...
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Fraser Woodford, an investment banker from New York, New York
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"In 1993, winner of the Teen Tournament, he's now an investment...
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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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Bob Fleenor, a newspaper copy editor from Martinsburg, West Virginia
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"Legislative work in his home state was suspended so that lawmakers...
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John Zanier, an administrative manager from Los Angeles, California
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Season 4 player (1987-12-11): an Emerson stereo TV + a 12-volume...
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Bill Sloan, a realtor from Mission Viejo, California
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"Since winning five shows in 1996, he has gone on to...
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Chacko George, a senior at the University of Texas at Austin from Austin, Texas
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"He won the November 1999 Teen Tournament. Now he's a senior...
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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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Russ Schumacher, a graduate student and newlywed from Fort Collins, Colorado
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"He won the most recent Tournament of Champions. A graduate student...
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Matt Zielenski, a research analyst originally from Broadview Heights, Ohio
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"He became the Teen Tournament champ in 1995. Today he's a...
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Paul Thompson, a human resources manager from Cheverly, Maryland
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"He was the first 5-time champion in the 1995-96 season. A...
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Craig Barker, an Advanced Placement history teacher from Livonia, Michigan
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"In 1997 he won the College Championship. Today he's an Advanced...
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Amy Fine, a part-time teacher from Bethesda, Maryland
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"She was the last 5-time winner in the 1993-94 season. A...
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Jack Archey, an actor and writer from Los Angeles, California
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"He was a CPA and comedian when he won his 5th...
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Bev Schwartzberg, an adult literacy program coordinator from Santa Barbara, California
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"She finished second in the 1993 Tournament of Champions. Today, she's...
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Michelle Clum, an executive assistant originally from Wichita, Kansas
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"With her 5-time winnings from 2000, she traveled for a year,...
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Alan Bailey, a playwright and director from North Hills, California
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"This playwright and director became a 5-time winner in 2001. Today,...
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Michael Arnone, a writer and editor from Alexandria, Virginia
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"He was the largest 1-day winner in the 2000-2001 season. Today...
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John Beck, a creative director from Torrance, California
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"He played in 2003, and was the last retired 5-time champ...
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Kermin Fleming, a junior at Carnegie Mellon University from Lexington, Kentucky
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"He's the current College Champion. A junior at Carnegie Mellon University...
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Sahir Islam, an investment analyst from Somers, New York
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"The champion of the 1997 Teen Tournament, he's now an investment...
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Andrea Palmiter, a strategic data analyst from Woodinville, Washington
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Season 33 player (2017-03-31).
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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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Billy Baxter, an attorney from Richmond, Virginia
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"Representing the College of William & Mary, he won the 1992...
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Dan Katz, a lawyer from Owings Mills, Maryland
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"Since his five wins in 1990, he's seen Bruce Springsteen 16...
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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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Bernard Holloway, a sophomore at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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"He was a 2002 Teen Champion. He's now a sophomore at...
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Lance Johnson, a model aircraft engine technician from Champaign, Illinois
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"He was the first to get to the 5-win mark in...
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John Zhang, a freshman at MIT originally from Lexington, Kentucky
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"He won the 2003 Teen Tournament. Today he's a freshman at...
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Jeremy Bate, an emergency medical technician and writer from Tujunga, California
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"A second-place finisher in the 2000 Tournament of Champions, he's now...
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Tom Cubbage, an attorney from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
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"He was the very first College Champion, and the only one...
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David Sampugnaro, a writer and internet specialist from North White Plains, New York
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"A 5-time winner from 1996, he's now a writer and internet...
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Jean Grewe, a graphic designer from Oak Park, Illinois
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"She was the last 5-time champion in 1993. Today she's a...
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Tom Nosek, an aerospace engineer from Torrance, California
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"He won the 1993 Tournament of Champions and finished second in...
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Jeff Richmond, an attorney from Los Angeles, California
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"He used his 1988 5-game winnings to pay for law school....
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Brian Moore, an astronomer from Houston, Texas
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"He was the first 5-day champion in the 1993-1994 season. An...
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Alyssa McRae, a gift card production designer from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Season 25 3-time champion: $50,402 + $2,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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Leah Greenwald, an architect from Cambridge, Massachusetts
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"A winner of 5 games in 1988, she has since become...
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David Traini, a high school administrator from Moorestown, New Jersey
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"This 5-time champ finished second in the 1987 Tournament of Champions....
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Matt Morris, a financial analyst originally from Louisville, Kentucky
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"In 1994, he won the Teen Tournament. Today, he's a financial...
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Billy Mason-Dennis, a data conversion operator from Berryville, Virginia
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Season 14 player (1998-03-12).
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Al Lin, a law professor from Davis, California
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"A law student when he won five times in 1993, he's...
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Sara Wilkinson, a country club concierge from Athens, Georgia
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Season 27 3-time champion: $72,701 + $2,000.
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Arthur Phillips, an author from Brooklyn, New York
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"He was a speechwriter from Boston when he won five shows...
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Michael Galvin, a consultant from Penn Wynne, Pennsylvania
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"He was the first winner of the Teen Tournament back in...
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Leslie Frates, a Spanish teacher from Hayward, California
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"A Jeopardy! tournament veteran, her best-known Jeopardy! appearance may be in...
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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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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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Eric Terzuolo, a retired diplomat and university professor from Bergen, Noord-Holland, the Netherlands
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"When he first appeared in 1990, he was a foreign service...
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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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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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Tiffiny Fisher, a data analyst from Beaverton, Oregon
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Season 25 player (2009-07-01).
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Rachel Pildis, a software developer from Oak Park, Illinois
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Season 26 1-time champion: $12,000 + $2,000. Rachel Pildis - A...
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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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Priscilla Ball, a federal contractor from Montgomery Village, Maryland
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Season 25 2-time champion: $45,200 + $2,000. Priscilla was due to...
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MaryAnn Toner, a data entry operator from Westmont, Illinois
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Season 13 1-time champion: $2,600.
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Justin Bernbach, a lobbyist from Brooklyn, New York
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2010 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 25 7-time champion: $155,001...
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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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Nathan Walpow, a data processor and an actor originally from Queens, New York
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1985 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $1,000. Season 1 5-time champion: $38,900....
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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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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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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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Charles Shaughnessy, an actor from Mad Men
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"As Shane Donovan on Days of Our Lives, he won three...
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Dan Smith, a student from Chicago, Illinois
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Season 25 3-time champion: $69,200 + $1,000. Dan Smith - a...
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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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Lance Higgins, a data quality consultant from Medway, Massachusetts
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Season 20 player (2004-04-12).
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Marmi Maramot, a transplant data analyst from Los Angeles, California
|
Season 25 player (2008-12-24). Web site at marmijeopardy.com. Jeopardy! Message Board...
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Andy Srinivasan, a high school science teacher from Garner, North Carolina
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2010 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $69,600...
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Herbie Tinsley, a quality control analyst originally from Youngstown, Ohio
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Season 25 player (2009-02-05).
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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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Mike Farrell, an actor from Providence
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"16 years after M*A*S*H, he returns to series television as Dr....
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Priscilla Ball, a government contractor from Montgomery Village, Maryland
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Season 25 2-time champion: $45,200 + $2,000. Priscilla was due to...
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Harris Cohen, a family physician from Lower Gwynedd, Pennsylvania
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Season 25 2-time champion: $17,800 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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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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Lisa Klink, a TV writer from Los Angeles, California
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2009 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 24 5-time champion: $70,150...
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Josh Powell, a phone-based health coach from San Diego, California
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Season 27 3-time champion: $26,900 + $1,000.
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Rachel Kain, a structured data analyst from Farmington Hills, Michigan
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Season 25 player (2009-01-23).
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: chichel
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Tom Bergeron, an Emmy Award-winning host from Dancing with the Stars
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2009 Celebrity Jeopardy! player: $25,000 to the Muscular Dystrophy Association. "He's...
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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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Amanda Potocky, a senior clinical data coordinator from Cary, North Carolina
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Season 19 3-time champion: $38,200 + $2,000.
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Cathy Thomas, a data specialist from Denver, Colorado
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Season 24 player (2007-10-26).
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: blue balaclava
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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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Kyle Kahan, a senior from Texas A&M University from Houston, Texas
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2010-B College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000 + a Nintendo Wii +...
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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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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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Doug Savant, an actor from Desperate Housewives
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"He plays Tom Scavo, the sometimes-befuddled husband of Felicity Huffman on...
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Joshua Malina, a TV actor and creator/producer from Celebrity Poker Showdown
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"He created and produced Celebrity Poker Showdown for the Bravo Channel,...
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Jack Campion, a sales executive from Los Angeles, California
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Trebek pilot 2 player. Jack appeared in both known Trebek pilots,...
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Jack Campion, from Los Angeles, California
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Trebek pilot 1 player. Jack was introduced without an occupation, but...
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Brad Rutter, a network administrator from Lancaster, Pennsylvania
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"The reigning Tournament of Champions winner, he attended Johns Hopkins University...
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David Siegel, a paralegal from Los Angeles, California
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"He was a finalist in the 1995 Tournament of Champions. A...
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Steve Newman, a partner in a small computer company from Rockville, Maryland
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"He was the first player to win 5 games in the...
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Andrew Westney, a singer and actor from Atlanta, Georgia
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"In 1991, he won the Teen Tournament. Today, he's a singer...
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Eric Swanson, a data coordinator from Washington, D.C.
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Season 14 player (1998-01-02). Not to be confused with Season 31...
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Michael Day, an attorney from Mill Valley, California
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"As an MBA Student, he won 5 games in 1985. Today...
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Frank Spangenberg, a police lieutenant from Douglaston, New York
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2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2005 Ultimate Tournament of...
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Bob Verini, a director of academics for a national test preparation company from Los Angeles, California
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2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2005 Ultimate Tournament of...
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Meighan Larbi, a publishing data manager from Cape Coral, Florida
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Season 23 2-time champion: $27,999 + $2,000.
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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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Steve Schirripa, an actor from The Sopranos
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"Once the entertainment director at the Riviera Hotel in Las Vegas,...
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Mark Lowenthal, an assistant director for the Central Intelligence Agency from Reston, Virginia
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"The winner of the 1988 Tournament of Champions, he's an assistant...
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Erik Larsen, a librarian and a licensed amateur boxing official from Jacksonville, Florida
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"A 5-time champion from 1990, he's a librarian and a licensed...
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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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Elizabeth Haines, a data conversion operator from Richmond, Michigan
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Season 14 player (1997-12-23).
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Robin Carroll, an instructional designer from Marietta, Georgia
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Nifty Nine (players with byes into...
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Sean Ryan, a graduate student from Whitehall, Pennsylvania
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Nifty Nine (players with byes into...
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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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Keith Williams, a sophomore at Middlebury College from Middlebury, Vermont
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"As a freshman from Middlebury College, he won the 2003 College...
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Grace Veach, a librarian from Lakeland, Florida
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"After winning 5 games in 1997, she was the grand marshall...
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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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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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Ben Lyon, an industrial scaleman from Dallas, Texas
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"Representing the University of Oklahoma, he won the 1995 College Championship....
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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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Steven Popper, an economist from Topanga, California
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"A winner of 5 shows in 1988, he has since founded...
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Roy Holliday, a radiologist from Nyack, New York
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"He was the first to win five games in the 1987-88...
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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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Lara Robillard, a policy analyst from Arlington, Virginia
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"She used the winnings from her 5 shows in 1998 to...
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David Venderbush, a lawyer from New York, New York
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"His 5 wins in 1993 came just in time to pay...
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Andrew Garen, an associate director of consumer marketing from Austin, Texas
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"He was a project manager when he won his 5 shows...
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Jim Stalley, a crime data specialist from Denver, Colorado
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2004 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Season 19 4-time champion: $84,100 + $2,000.
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Jennifer Wu, a high school junior from Arkadelphia, Arkansas
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"She won the 2004 Teen Tournament at age 15. Now 17,...
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Kent Rasmussen, an editor and writer originally from Berkeley, California
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Season 6 player (1990-05-23). Web page at http://pages.prodigy.net/arkent/ [dead link] Appeared...
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Diane Siegel, an educational consultant and writer from Northridge, California
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"A full-time mom when she won five games in 1993, now...
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Bruce Borchardt, a metrologist from Washington, D.C.
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"A winner of five shows in 1995, he spent most of...
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Kevin Keach, a project administrator from St. Louis, Missouri
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"He considered himself a simple Missouri farm boy when he won...
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Russ Schumacher, a graduate student from Fort Collins, Colorado
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2014 Battle of the Decades semifinalist: $25,000. 2005 Ultimate Tournament of...
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Doug Lach, a marketing manager from Columbus, Ohio
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"He was the biggest winner of the 1999-2000 season. A marketing...
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Mike Thayer, a mathematics teacher from North Plainfield, New Jersey
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"He was a junior at Rutgers University when he won the...
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Chris Miller, a retail specialist from Louisville, Kentucky
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"In 2004, he became a 5-time champion, and for Halloween, dressed...
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Dennis Donohue, a general manager from Janesville, Wisconsin
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"He was administrative services officer from Arizona when he became a...
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Brad Rutter, a college student from Lancaster, Pennsylvania
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2020 Jeopardy!: The Greatest of All Time 2nd runner-up: $250,000. 2019...
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Brad Rutter, a network administrator from Lancaster, Pennsylvania
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2020 Jeopardy!: The Greatest of All Time 2nd runner-up: $250,000. 2019...
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Brian Weikle, a consultant from Minneapolis, Minnesota
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Nifty Nine (players with byes into...
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Barbara-Anne Eddy, a civil servant from Vancouver, Canada
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"Her 5-time winnings from 1988 allowed her to go for nearly...
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Chris Ward, a foreign service officer from Johannesburg, South Africa
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"A 5-game winner in 1998, he was living in Peru when...
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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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Elaine Zollner, a physician from Glendale, California
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"A winner of 5 shows in 1990, she used her Jeopardy!...
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Matt Bushell, a junior at Georgetown University from Fairfield, Connecticut
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2004 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000.
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