| #9079, aired 2024-04-11 | A YEAR ENDING IN 4 $800: In the case of Brown v. Board of Education, racial segregation in public schools was declared unconstitutional 1954 |
| #9047, aired 2024-02-27 | TELEVISION $800: Asa Butterfield offers relationship advice to his schoolmates in this Netflix series Sex Education |
| #9046, aired 2024-02-26 | LET'S AUDIT A COLLEGE COURSE $200: It was a safe bet that this state U. offered gaming management I & also TCA 471, practicum in hotel education UNLV (University of Nevada, Las Vegas) |
| #2, aired 2024-01-12 | SPRECHEN SIE DEUTSCH? $2000: German term for a novel about the education & coming of age of a young protagonist Bildungsroman |
| #23, aired 2024-01-02 | AFRICAN HISTORY $200: Medieval Timbuktu was a college town offering university education out of these Islamic houses of worship mosques |
| #9002, aired 2023-12-26 | ADDEND"UM" $1600: In Germany this secondary school prepares one for higher education, not athletics a gymnasium |
| #8981, aired 2023-11-27 | SUPREME COURTSHIP $1200: In 1929 he wed Vivien Burey, who died in 1955, a year after he argued Brown v. Board of Education Thurgood Marshall |
| #8977, aired 2023-11-21 | TEACHING $800: This president with only a little time at school called education "the most important subject which we... can be engaged in" Lincoln |
| #8973, aired 2023-11-15 | WHAT'S THE "PLAN"? $400: The Adler in Chicago is one of these buildings for space science education a planetarium |
| #8954, aired 2023-10-19 | CULINARY QUOTES $600: Mark Twain said that cauliflower "is nothing but" this vegetable "with a college education" cabbage |
| #8950, aired 2023-10-13 | AWARDS & HONORS $1000: For supporting health & education globally, Rihanna received a 2017 humanitarian award from this oldest U.S. college Harvard |
| #8948, aired 2023-10-11 | THE CALIFORNIANS $400: Shyeah, this Chief Justice known for his commission spoke for the Court in Brown v. Board of Education, you know? Warren |
| #8888, aired 2023-06-07 | A '90s KID $400: Many a '90s mom thought all these alliterative stuffed animals would increase in value & pay for her kid's college education Beanie Babies |
| #18, aired 2023-05-23 | LABOR $1200: Becky Pringle is president of this union, America's largest with about 3 million members the NEA (National Education Association) |
| #8863, aired 2023-05-03 | SAX EDUCATION $400: Legendary R&B sax man King Curtis backed up The Coasters, Sam Cooke & this "Queen of Soul" Aretha Franklin |
| #8863, aired 2023-05-03 | SAX EDUCATION $800: Springsteen eulogized this great sax player by saying he "doesn't leave the E Street Band when he dies. He leaves when we die" Clarence Clemons |
| #8863, aired 2023-05-03 | SAX EDUCATION $1200: Free jazz pioneer Dewey Redman was a tenor saxophone virtuoso, like this son of his Joshua Redman |
| #8863, aired 2023-05-03 | SAX EDUCATION $1600: This yardbird flew out of Kansas City to become one of jazz's greatest alto sax players Charlie Parker |
| #8863, aired 2023-05-03 | SAX EDUCATION $2000: You may have "A Love Supreme" for the album of that name by this great jazz sax man who made "My Favorite Things" a signature song Coltrane |
| #8822, aired 2023-03-07 | ANAGRAMS OF EACH OTHER $1000: Overall instruction received at school & sold to the highest bidder education & auctioned |
| #8821, aired 2023-03-06 | PIVOTAL WOMEN $800: (Melinda French Gates presents the clue.) After surviving attempted murder at just 15, two years later, this courageous Pakistani activist for girls' education became the youngest Nobel laureate Malala |
| #8815, aired 2023-02-24 | A GOVERNMENT OFFICE $800: The Office of Career, Technical & Adult Education has initiatives for this read ability literacy |
| #8806, aired 2023-02-13 | FIRST LADY FIRSTS $400: The first first lady with a doctorate, Jill Biden earned hers in education from the university of this state in 2007 Delaware |
| #8752, aired 2022-11-29 | POLITICIANS BACK IN THE DAY $800: After high school it was off to Harvard for this man, but he'd interrupt his education to serve in the Navy after World War II Bobby Kennedy |
| #8737, aired 2022-11-08 | NUMBER, PLEASE $800: The non-profit, non-partisan news service known as "The" this number covers the state of U.S. education 74 |
| #8693, aired 2022-07-27 | NOTABLE WOMEN $1200: Steph Curry & Chelsea Clinton are 2 typical people who got early education at a school bearing her name Montessori |
| #8693, aired 2022-07-27 | NOTABLE WOMEN $1600: Formerly known by this numerical name, the Opportunity in Education Act now bears Hawaii Representative Patsy Mink's name Title IX |
| #8634, aired 2022-05-05 | ART $1000: In the "Education of Achilles" by this Flemish master, a highly cultivated man, the lyre represents music education Rubens |
| #8627, aired 2022-04-26 | ____, ____ & ____ $400: Oddly, only one of the 3 "R's" in this foundation of education actually begins with an "R" reading, writing & arithmetic |
| #8581, aired 2022-02-21 | AROUND THE WORLD IN 50 SECONDS $800: Both the Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site & the Evel Knievel Museum are in this state capital Topeka |
| #2, aired 2022-02-08 | MY HERO OF ACADEMIA $400: Lewis & Clark College prof. Zaher Wahab was among many who returned here after 2001 to build post-Taliban education Afghanistan |
| #8529, aired 2021-12-09 | LIT CHARACTERS' BAD CHOICES $800: He makes the mistake of trusting O'Brien, which leads to a harsh re-education at the Ministry of Love Winston (Smith) |
| #8521, aired 2021-11-29 | 19something $200: In 1954 a 9-0 Supreme Court said racial segregation in public schools violated the 14th Amendment in this landmark case Brown v. the Board of Education |
| #8510, aired 2021-11-12 | THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT $1200: As chief counsel for the NAACP, this future justice argued Brown V. Board of Education before the Supreme Court Marshall |
| #8487, aired 2021-10-12 | EDUCATION FIRSTS $400: Friedrich Froebel started the first of these schools in Germany in 1837 & started the day with merry songs kindergarten |
| #8487, aired 2021-10-12 | EDUCATION FIRSTS $800: In 1783 Poland was the first country to ban this in schools; it's also banned in the country's constitution corporal punishment |
| #8487, aired 2021-10-12 | EDUCATION FIRSTS $1,000 (Daily Double): In 1761 Claude Bourgelat, who wrote "Sur la médecine des chevaux", set up the first school for this profession a veterinarian |
| #8487, aired 2021-10-12 | EDUCATION FIRSTS $1200: Golfer Terry Williams was the USA's first woman to receive one of these, from the University of Miami in 1973 a sports scholarship |
| #8487, aired 2021-10-12 | EDUCATION FIRSTS $1600: The USA's first public teacher training school evolved into Framingham State University in this state Massachusetts |
| #8450, aired 2021-07-23 | JIMMY CARTER $800: One of the 2 cabinet departments created during the Carter administration; both begin with the same letter (1 of) Energy or Education |
| #8443, aired 2021-07-14 | EPONYMOUS LEGISLATION $800: Federal title this number of the education amendments of 1972 was renamed for Patsy Mink, a congresswoman who helped enact it Title IX |
| #8423, aired 2021-06-16 | TOUGH VOCABULARY $1600: It was a music education system developed by a Swiss composer before it was a pop duo eurythmics |
| #8420, aired 2021-06-11 | EDUCATION $200: In 2020 the most common apps used by schools for remote learning included Microsoft Teams & this one founded by Eric Yuan Zoom |
| #8420, aired 2021-06-11 | EDUCATION $400: ESL programs, short for this, got a big push in Florida in the 1960s as Cubans fled their country English as a second language |
| #8420, aired 2021-06-11 | EDUCATION $600: A counterpart of the Rhodes Scholarship, Kennedy Scholarships enable British citizens to study at these 2 Boston-area schools Harvard & MIT (the Massachusetts Institute of Technology) |
| #8420, aired 2021-06-11 | EDUCATION $800: This 2-word term has been defined as tools that help to make an issue or lesson clearer visual aids |
| #8420, aired 2021-06-11 | EDUCATION $1000: To get into a school accredited by the American Bar Association, be prepared to take the entrance exam with this acronym LSAT |
| #8411, aired 2021-05-31 | SAME FIRST & LAST LETTER $1600: The institutions & people of education taken as a whole academia |
| #8407, aired 2021-05-25 | VEGETABLES $1600: This vegetable was described by Mark Twain as a "cabbage with a college education" cauliflower |
| #8390, aired 2021-04-30 | RANKS & TITLES $800: During the Cold War, a commissar was an official responsible for education & organization in this political party the Communist Party |
| #8386, aired 2021-04-26 | THE CABINET $800: Once joined with Health & Welfare, it became its own department under President Carter Education |
| #8352, aired 2021-03-09 | ____ OF ____ $1200: The Supreme Court ruled unanimously in the 1954 case of Brown v. this body of Topeka, Kansas Board of Education |
| #8335, aired 2021-02-12 | BEST ACTRESS OSCAR-WINNING ROLES $1000: Anne Bancroft as this pioneer in education of the deaf Annie Sullivan |
| #8292, aired 2020-12-01 | IN THE PRESIDENT'S CABINETS $400: Dick Cheney, Secretary of Defense; Lamar Alexander getting an education George H.W. Bush |
| #8288, aired 2020-11-25 | ALL A "BOARD" $1000: The decision in this Supreme Court case was announced May 17, 1954 Brown v. Board of Education |
| #8268, aired 2020-10-28 | EVERYDAY GERMAN IN ENGLISH $2000: A book about the hero's formative years is this kind of "education novel" a bildungsroman |
| #8265, aired 2020-10-23 | A CATHOLIC EDUCATION $200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents by a display monitor.) The Catholic church's Latin cross has variations; two of them are the patriarchal cross for archbishops and cardinals and the three-part cross that symbolizes the man with this title the pope |
| #8265, aired 2020-10-23 | A CATHOLIC EDUCATION $400: If sincere, this formal admission of sins to a priest is followed by absolution, aka reconciliation confession |
| #8265, aired 2020-10-23 | A CATHOLIC EDUCATION $600: From the Latin for "new", it's a person who has joined a Catholic religious order but who hasn't yet taken vows a novice |
| #8265, aired 2020-10-23 | A CATHOLIC EDUCATION $800: "For the greater glory of god" is the motto of this Catholic order focused on education the Jesuits |
| #8265, aired 2020-10-23 | A CATHOLIC EDUCATION $1000: The 3 formal vows taken by men & women of the church are chastity, obedience & this poverty |
| #8237, aired 2020-09-15 | KEN JENNINGS ON WINNING STREAKS $200: (Ken Jennings presents the clue.) After going 7 and 3 arguing before the Supreme Court, he reeled off an amazing 22 straight wins, including the unanimously decided Brown vs. the Board of Education and would join the court himself in 1967 (Thurgood) Marshall |
| #8230, aired 2020-06-05 | PUBLISHERS $3,400 (Daily Double): The name of this publisher known for its book fairs is a word meaning "related to education" Scholastic |
| #8227, aired 2020-06-02 | THE OLD UNIVERSITY TRY $1200: You could be like William Faulkner & get an Oxford education at this state school that opened in 1848 Ole Miss |
| #8225, aired 2020-05-29 | AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: This education reformer took John Quincy Adams' seat in the House of Representatives, where he vigorously opposed slavery Horace Mann |
| #8220, aired 2020-05-22 | YEARBOOK PHOTOS OF PEOPLE IN GOVERNMENT $400: This future vice president got a good Catholic education at Delaware's Archmere Academy, class of 1961 Joe Biden |
| #8188, aired 2020-03-25 | NOTABLE ITALIANS $1600: This Italian woman published her "Method" of education in 1912 & her name lives on in schools today Montessori |
| #8172, aired 2020-03-03 | CHARITABLE CELEBS $800: This actor used his paycheck from "Diamonds Are Forever" to create the Scottish International Education Trust Connery |
| #8170, aired 2020-02-28 | HIGHER EDUCATION GEOGRAPHY $400: Home of the Redhawks, Miami University is in this state Ohio |
| #8170, aired 2020-02-28 | HIGHER EDUCATION GEOGRAPHY $800: Santa Fe Community College is in Sante Fe, N.M.; Sante Fe College is in this city home to the Univ. of Florida Gainesville |
| #8170, aired 2020-02-28 | HIGHER EDUCATION GEOGRAPHY $1200: The oldest in Kentucky, a university in Lexington bears this name that sounds like Dracula might have been an alumnus Transylvania |
| #8170, aired 2020-02-28 | HIGHER EDUCATION GEOGRAPHY $2000: Oakland University isn't in California, it's in this state's cities of Auburn Hills & Rochester Hills Michigan |
| #8170, aired 2020-02-28 | HIGHER EDUCATION GEOGRAPHY $4,000 (Daily Double): Founded in 1853, Washington University isn't in D.C. or Washington State but in this city on the Mississippi river St. Louis |
| #8, aired 2020-01-14 | LITERARY TERMS & DEVICES $400: It's the German word for a novel about the education & formative years of the protagonist; "The Catcher in the Rye" is one a bildungsroman |
| #7, aired 2020-01-14 | THE WORLD ACCORDING TO KAREEM $1600: (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar delivers the clue.) As a U.S. cultural ambassador for the State Department I visited several of these Brazilian shanty towns with a Portuguese name & spoke about the importance of education in fighting poverty favelas |
| #8074, aired 2019-10-17 | LEGAL BRIEFS $1000: 3-word principle established in 1896; overturned in Brown V. Board of Education of Topeka Separate but equal |
| #8031, aired 2019-07-08 | AUGUSTUS $2000: Last name of banker Augustus, who bequeathed the bulk of his fortune to advance music education Juilliard |
| #8017, aired 2019-06-18 | cabinetdepartment.gov $400: Complete your FAFSA form to get a Pell grant at the website of this department the Department of Education |
| #7997, aired 2019-05-21 | PEOPLE $1000: Mike Pence cast the tie-breaking vote to confirm her as Secretary of Education in 2017 (Betsy) DeVos |
| #7993, aired 2019-05-15 | TEACHERS IN SONG $1000: "The teacher don't know about how to deal with the student body" is from this duo's 1984 hit "Adult Education" Hall and Oates |
| #7989, aired 2019-05-09 | AN APP FOR TEACHER $600: This company's app called Classroom helps you streamline your classes & is included free with its G Suite for Education Google |
| #7980, aired 2019-04-26 | SOCIAL STUDIES $1200: Law professor Randall Kennedy's "For Discrimination" argues in favor of this effort to boost minorities in education affirmative action |
| #7975, aired 2019-04-19 | WOMEN OF THE WORLD $600: At age 11 she gave her first speech, called "How Dare the Taliban Take Away My Basic Right to Education?" Malala |
| #7973, aired 2019-04-17 | IN THE MIDDLE $1000: It was the "E" in H.E.W., the Cabinet department created in 1953 Education |
| #7958, aired 2019-03-27 | GETTING AN EDUCATION $200: EMBA is short for executive this, for working professionals who are continuing to improve master of business administration |
| #7958, aired 2019-03-27 | GETTING AN EDUCATION $400: Here it's a school building for athletic activities; in Germany, it's a school for students getting ready for college a gymnasium |
| #7958, aired 2019-03-27 | GETTING AN EDUCATION $600: In 2015 some college athletes started getting a stipend labeled COA, for "cost of" this, showing up to class attendance |
| #7958, aired 2019-03-27 | GETTING AN EDUCATION $800: The youngest of the USA's 5 service academies, it was established in 1954 the Air Force Academy |
| #7958, aired 2019-03-27 | GETTING AN EDUCATION $1000: In 2005 this D.C. university's Walsh School of Foreign Service opened its first foreign campus, in Qatar Georgetown |
| #7949, aired 2019-03-14 | THE WALL $600: In a No. 1 hit from "The Wall", a children's chorus sings, "we don't need no" this education |
| #7935, aired 2019-02-22 | IN MEMORIAM 2018 $400: Linda Brown, who as a young student was at the center of this landmark 1954 court case, died in Topeka at 75 Brown v. Board of Education |
| #7929, aired 2019-02-14 | HISTORIC SUPREME COURT CASES $2000: Goss v. Lopez sided with suspended students who were deprived of an education without this 2-word safe-guard of rights due process |
| #7912, aired 2019-01-22 | 50 YEARS AGO, IN 1969 $1600: Student occupation of a Harvard building led to the end of this military education program at the school for 40 years ROTC |
| #7906, aired 2019-01-14 | THE STORY OF MY LIFE $1200: "I am Malala" is the story of the Nobel Prize winner "who stood up for education & was shot by" this group the Taliban |
| #7888, aired 2018-12-19 | HIGHER EDUCATION $200: Ralph Waldo Emerson started attending this college at age 14, graduated & then began teaching there at age 18 Harvard |
| #7888, aired 2018-12-19 | HIGHER EDUCATION $400: The 1960s antiwar movement that grew to cover the whole nation started at places like this Ca. school founded in 1868 Cal Berkeley |
| #7888, aired 2018-12-19 | HIGHER EDUCATION $600: "The Book of Knowledge" is vied for by Carleton & Macalaster, called this state's top 2 liberal arts colleges Minnesota |
| #7888, aired 2018-12-19 | HIGHER EDUCATION $1000: Its Tempe campus has one of the largest undergraduate populations in the United States Arizona State |
| #7888, aired 2018-12-19 | HIGHER EDUCATION $2,000 (Daily Double): In 1961 this private Texas school provided most of the land that became NASA's Mission Control Center Rice |
| #7879, aired 2018-12-06 | WORDS USING ALL 5 VOWELS $800: The Commission on Presidential Scholars is part of this Cabinet department Education |
| #7844, aired 2018-10-18 | UNIONS ONLINE $1000: You can learn a lot at nea.org, NEA being short for this the National Education Association |
| #7840, aired 2018-10-12 | EDUCATION $200: These public schools with limited enrollment are named for the special contract that governs them a charter school |
| #7840, aired 2018-10-12 | EDUCATION $400: According to its initials, you take the MCAT if you're pursuing a career in this medicine |
| #7840, aired 2018-10-12 | EDUCATION $600: You can see why Arizona teachers demanding higher pay & more funds used the rhyming slogan this "For Ed" red |
| #7840, aired 2018-10-12 | EDUCATION $800: A hot debate topic:
Should teachers be granted this, giving them permanent status & protecting them from dismissal? tenure |
| #7840, aired 2018-10-12 | EDUCATION $1000: Steel yourself:
This Pittsburgh university's Tepper School of Business has one of the top online MBA programs Carnegie Mellon |
| #7807, aired 2018-07-17 | CITING PRECEDENT $600: Justice Robert Jackson left his hospital bed to be present for the decision of him v. Board of Education of Topeka Brown |
| #7788, aired 2018-06-20 | IT'S TOTALLY TUBULAR $600: Carl Orff made this end-blown flute vital to music education, which is partly why kids across the U.S. learn to play it a recorder |
| #7761, aired 2018-05-14 | SCHOOL OF ROCK $800: Hey, teachers, "We don't need no education, we don't need no thought control" in a song by this band Pink Floyd |
| #7758, aired 2018-05-09 | CLASS OF 1918 $800: In 1918 Margaret Mitchell left this type of school named for bringing society girls' education to completion finishing school |
| #7756, aired 2018-05-07 | ACA"D"MIA $1200: Form of education focused on methods to help students not on site but attending via the internet or other means distance learning |
| #7716, aired 2018-03-12 | EDUCATION $400: 19th c. teacher James Pillans boasted of being among the first to have students make chalk markings on this a slate (or blackboard) |
| #7716, aired 2018-03-12 | EDUCATION $800: 24 states mandate this kind of education; 22 of them say to include HIV in the curriculum sex education |
| #7716, aired 2018-03-12 | EDUCATION $1600: In 2017 this N.J. city regained local control over its schools & 55,000 students, taken over by the state in 1995 Newark |
| #7716, aired 2018-03-12 | EDUCATION $2000: A 1988 law boosting research & new strategies is named for these 2 qualities, 1 of a math whiz & 1 of a violin prodigy gifted and talented |
| #7716, aired 2018-03-12 | EDUCATION $3,000 (Daily Double): There was a 21st C. boom in boot camps for this activity, a less scary version of computer programming coding |
| #7648, aired 2017-12-06 | THEY MADE THE CABINET $200: In 2017 Betsy DeVos became the 11th holder of this job the Secretary of Education |
| #7643, aired 2017-11-29 | BILDUNGSROMAN $200: A bildungsroman can tell of the rise & education of a man or a woman, like this Austen title heroine Emma |
| #7631, aired 2017-11-13 | GET AN EDUCATION $200: It's a public school offering special instruction that's designed to "attract" a diverse student body a magnet school |
| #7631, aired 2017-11-13 | GET AN EDUCATION $400: From a word for "seed", it's a college that prepares students to be priests, ministers or rabbis a seminary |
| #7631, aired 2017-11-13 | GET AN EDUCATION $600: Influenced by Friedrich Froebel, in 1873 Susan Blow founded America's first public one of these for little kids in St. Louis a kindergarten |
| #7631, aired 2017-11-13 | GET AN EDUCATION $800: In France, ecole is "school" & this is the word for a secondary school lycée |
| #7631, aired 2017-11-13 | GET AN EDUCATION $1000: In the painting "The School of Athens", these two great teachers are the center of attention Plato and Aristotle |
| #7630, aired 2017-11-10 | INDIAN AMERICANS $800: A Forbes headline: "One Man, One Computer, 10 Million Students: How" his academy "Is Reinventing Education" (Salman) Khan |
| #7617, aired 2017-10-24 | "R"2 "D"2 $400: Michelle Obama attended Princeton for this type of education, followed by Harvard Law School undergraduate |
| #7608, aired 2017-10-11 | ACC SCHOOLS $600: This school was New England's first Roman Catholic one for higher education Boston College |
| #7598, aired 2017-09-27 | AN IVY LEAGUE EDUCATION $200: Oh yeah, Nietzsche & Freud come up in the "Guilt and Shame" philosophy course at this Rhode Island school Brown |
| #7598, aired 2017-09-27 | AN IVY LEAGUE EDUCATION $400: "Peacemaking" & "Grand Strategy" are course options at the Woodrow Wilson School at this university Princeton |
| #7598, aired 2017-09-27 | AN IVY LEAGUE EDUCATION $600: If an "Intro to Theoretical Neuroscience" is needed, this U. on 116th St. would be happy to arrange a meeting Columbia |
| #7598, aired 2017-09-27 | AN IVY LEAGUE EDUCATION $800: You may seek "Forgiveness" & "Elementary Syriac" at its noted divinity school Harvard |
| #7598, aired 2017-09-27 | AN IVY LEAGUE EDUCATION $1000: "Fundamental Principles of Polymer Chemistry"? I guess this upstate N.Y. school has some easy classes, too! Cornell |
| #7595, aired 2017-09-22 | 4-SYLLABLE WORDS $600: Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas ended the school type of it segregation |
| #7590, aired 2017-09-15 | GOVERNMENT FOLKS WITH 2 FIRST NAMES? $1000: A former Secretary of Education, he became a Tennessee senator in 2003 Lamar Alexander |
| #7528, aired 2017-05-10 | LITERARY INSTRUCTION $800: In "The Once and Future King", the education of the "Wart" is monitored by this mage Merlin |
| #7515, aired 2017-04-21 | U.S. HERSTORY $2,000 (Daily Double): This 1972 numerical clause was later renamed the Patsy T. Mink Equal Opportunity in Education Act Title IX |
| #7490, aired 2017-03-17 | WOMEN IN HISTORY $200: In 1970 Britain's prime minister Edward Heath appointed her secretary for education Margaret Thatcher |
| #7486, aired 2017-03-13 | WHO "RU"? $6,000 (Daily Double): Henry was the first name of this early 1800s philanthropist who supported education in New Jersey Rutgers |
| #7483, aired 2017-03-08 | "HY"-ER EDUCATION $400: In 1656 Christopher Wren did the first experiments poking a rudimentary version of this needle into a vein hypodermic |
| #7483, aired 2017-03-08 | "HY"-ER EDUCATION $800: This part of the brain regulates body temperature & other autonomic activities hypothalamus |
| #7483, aired 2017-03-08 | "HY"-ER EDUCATION $1200: To treat the bends, patients are placed in this chamber & given oxygen at greater than atmospheric pressure hyperbaric chamber |
| #7483, aired 2017-03-08 | "HY"-ER EDUCATION $1600: With a cluster of huge blue or pink blooms, Big Daddy is one type of this flower hydrangea |
| #7483, aired 2017-03-08 | "HY"-ER EDUCATION $2000: In the hair type of this instrument used to measure relative humidity, hairs shorten or lengthen, moving a scale pointer a hygrometer |
| #7453, aired 2017-01-25 | OVER HILL, OVER DALE $1600: Oliver Hill argued in lawsuits against segregated public schools, leading to this landmark 1954 Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education |
| #7434, aired 2016-12-29 | "H. H." $800: This product that debuted in the U.S. in 1958 was inspired by a piece of Australian physical education equipment the hula-hoop |
| #7384, aired 2016-10-20 | SENATE COMMITTEES $800: At help.senate.gov HELP stands for Health, Education, Labor & these, which some laborers get after they retire Pensions |
| #7379, aired 2016-10-13 | STATE YOUR CASE $400: 1954 saw Brown v. a board of education in this state Kansas |
| #7366, aired 2016-09-26 | EDUCATION $400: The National PTA suggests that 12th graders spend no more than 2 hours a night on this homework |
| #7366, aired 2016-09-26 | EDUCATION $800: "Why Johnny Still Can't" do this by Rudolf Flesch was a 1981 follow-up to the original 1955 bestseller Read |
| #7366, aired 2016-09-26 | EDUCATION $1200: (Hi, I'm Jill Biden.) In 2010 I hosted the first-ever White House summit on these post-secondary schools where I've taught for many years & which I've said are "America's best-kept secret" community colleges |
| #7366, aired 2016-09-26 | EDUCATION $1600: This Japanese violinist's method teaches children a musical instrument at an early age, believing it builds character Suzuki |
| #7366, aired 2016-09-26 | EDUCATION $2000: Students short on cash for college can apply for one of these grants named for a Rhode Island senator a Pell Grant |
| #7363, aired 2016-09-21 | "POLY" WANT $400: An institute for higher education offering courses in many vocational disciplines a polytechnical school |
| #7357, aired 2016-09-13 | THE "RED" ZONE $2000: The D.O.E. says that the goal of this "is to ensure that institutions of higher education meet acceptable levels of quality" accreditation |
| #7356, aired 2016-09-12 | U.S. CABINET DEPARTMENTS $1000: Frances Perkins was the first woman to head this department; Hilda Solis was the most recent the Department of Labor |
| #7320, aired 2016-06-10 | THAT'S MY DEPARTMENT! $800: Shirley Hufstedler,
William Bennett,
Margaret Spellings Education |
| #7314, aired 2016-06-02 | IN HIS STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS $200: "Republicans & Democrats worked together to achieve historic education reform so that no child is left behind" George W. Bush |
| #7253, aired 2016-03-09 | "TOUR"ISM $2000: 2-word name for an extended trip through Europe formerly taken by young aristocrats to complete their education a Grand Tour |
| #7247, aired 2016-03-01 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $400: Undergraduate education was an option, but this Baltimore school started mostly as a graduate school for men in 1876 Johns Hopkins |
| #7235, aired 2016-02-12 | ACRONYMS $1200: In partnership with police, parents & schools, DARE is this 2-word Resistance Education Drug Abuse |
| #7230, aired 2016-02-05 | WORLD ART $800: Education minister Jose Vasconcelos is known for commissioning these on Mexican government buildings murals |
| #7226, aired 2016-02-01 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $400: Segregation was ruled unconstitutional in the case Brown v. the Board of Education of this city in Kansas Topeka |
| #7222, aired 2016-01-26 | RECENT AFRICAN HISTORY $1600: The 2-word name of this terrorist group founded in Nigeria has been translated as "Western education is forbidden" Boko Haram |
| #7222, aired 2016-01-26 | MUSIC $2000: This "Carmina Burana" composer developed a music education system for kids that's widely used today (Carl) Orff |
| #7194, aired 2015-12-17 | THE AGE OF MANN $2000: A giant in the field of American public education, he took the congressional seat of John Quincy Adams in 1848 Horace Mann |
| #7138, aired 2015-09-30 | EDUCATION $200: The "formal" type of this Latin word is the course of study; the "hidden" one is the social cues & values kids pick up the curriculum |
| #7138, aired 2015-09-30 | EDUCATION $400: The first of these "average" schools in the U.S. was founded in 1823 in Vermont to train elementary school teachers a normal school |
| #7138, aired 2015-09-30 | EDUCATION $600: From the Latin for "parish", it's a primary or secondary school supported by a religious group a parochial school |
| #7138, aired 2015-09-30 | EDUCATION $800: In 2012 the Sec. of Education said, "No teacher should have to" do this 4-word result of standardized exams teach to the test |
| #7138, aired 2015-09-30 | EDUCATION $1000: In 1907, in a slum in Rome, she set up her casa dei bambini, or "children's house" Maria Montessori |
| #7134, aired 2015-09-24 | PERSECUTED PEOPLE $600: The Nazis hounded Jehovah's Witnesses in part for refusing to participate in universal this, introduced in 1935 military service |
| #7122, aired 2015-07-28 | WORLD UNIVERSITIES $1600: In the Times higher education rankings, this city's Swiss Federal Institute of Technology is 13th, tops outside the U.S. & U.K. Zurich |
| #7086, aired 2015-06-08 | AMERICAN QUOTATIONS $2000: John Adams wrote this "makes a greater difference between man and man than nature has made between man and brute" education |
| #7083, aired 2015-06-03 | CABINET DEPARTMENTS $1000: Arne Duncan is its secretary Education |
| #7035, aired 2015-03-27 | ASIAN AMERICANS $1200: The son of immigrants from India, this state governor got an Ivy League education at Brown University Bobby Jindal |
| #7022, aired 2015-03-10 | ALL PRESIDENT NIXON'S MEN $800: He wasn't a friendly ghost, but Nixon's head of Health, Education & Welfare & also Reagan's Sec. of Defense Caspar Weinberger |
| #6983, aired 2015-01-14 | LANDMARK SUPREME COURT CASES $400: This family got a unanimous decision from the Warren Court against the Topeka Board of Education the Browns |
| #6980, aired 2015-01-09 | ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY $5,000 (Daily Double): This man who argued Brown v. Board of Education before the Supreme Court is buried in section 5 Thurgood Marshall |
| #6975, aired 2015-01-02 | PENN. PALS $2000: This 19th century educator known for his "Readers" began teaching at age 14 with little formal education (William) McGuffey |
| #6969, aired 2014-12-25 | ____ LAW $400: cornell.edu lists Brown v. Board of Education as a decision in this field of law that's named for a document constitutional |
| #6949, aired 2014-11-27 | WHICH CABINET DEPARTMENT? $800: The Office of English Language Acquisition Education |
| #6903, aired 2014-09-24 | PLAY BILL $3,000 (Daily Double): This former education secretary & drug czar often speaks out for traditional values Bill Bennett |
| #6902, aired 2014-09-23 | ALL 5 VOWELS IN ONE WORD $1200: You'd do well to learn about this Cabinet department Education |
| #6901, aired 2014-09-22 | EDUCATION $400: Presidents of this esteemed university have included Increase Mather & Drew Gilpin Faust, who took office in 2007 Harvard |
| #6901, aired 2014-09-22 | EDUCATION $800: In 1901 Stanley Brown & William Harper established the first of these 2-year community colleges, in Joliet, Illinois junior colleges |
| #6901, aired 2014-09-22 | EDUCATION $1200: In 2009 Arizona passed a law eliminating this as a factor in teacher retention decisions, to the unions' dismay long service (or seniority) |
| #6901, aired 2014-09-22 | EDUCATION $1600: This 2-word term for the study of household management was chosen at an 1899 conference at Lake Placid, New York home economics |
| #6901, aired 2014-09-22 | EDUCATION $2000: Set up by the office of economic opportunity under Sargent Shriver, this government program teaches vocational skills to youth the Job Corps |
| #6874, aired 2014-07-03 | MR. SECRETARY $400: In the 1980s, William Bennett monitored the halls of this Cabinet department as its secretary Education |
| #6825, aired 2014-04-25 | RECENT HISTORY $400: (Justice Sandra Day O'Connor delivers the clue.) The Court's legacy of civil rights cases includes Brown v. Board of Education & also Grutter v. Bollinger, a decision I wrote for the court allowing this race-conscious practice in law school admissions affirmative action |
| #6823, aired 2014-04-23 | TECH EDUCATION $200: Time to process the Pentium 4 processor from this company Intel |
| #6823, aired 2014-04-23 | TECH EDUCATION $400: CTR, the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company, took on this current 3-letter name in 1924 IBM |
| #6823, aired 2014-04-23 | TECH EDUCATION $600: Here it is in blue & white: the LaserJet Pro 400 printer from this brand Hewlett-Packard (HP) |
| #6823, aired 2014-04-23 | TECH EDUCATION $800: The stars align with its Galaxy Note II phone Samsung |
| #6823, aired 2014-04-23 | TECH EDUCATION $1000: The Multi-Sport GPS watch is made by this companycompany TomTom |
| #6784, aired 2014-02-27 | U.S. GOVERNMENT $5,000 (Daily Double): Financial need for a federal Pell grant is determined by this department the Department of Education |
| #6731, aired 2013-12-16 | SECRET SERVICE CODE NAMES $600: Fittingly, Fraction is the Secret Service code name for this cabinet post Secretary of Education |
| #6727, aired 2013-12-10 | 1963 $1200: Until Harvey Gantt entered Clemson, this was the only state that hadn't integrated any public education South Carolina |
| #6726, aired 2013-12-09 | THE ____ OF ____ $600: In Virginia & Mississippi this state body approves textbooks for classroom use the Board of Education (the Department of Education accepted) |
| #6718, aired 2013-11-27 | EDUCATION $200 (Daily Double): This New Jersey-based organization says it's the world's largest provider of scholarships to young women the Miss America Organization (the Miss American Pageant accepted) |
| #6718, aired 2013-11-27 | EDUCATION $1200: In 1998 this program in Chicago Public Schools "attracted " future Education Secretary Arne Duncan as its head the magnet program |
| #6718, aired 2013-11-27 | EDUCATION $1600: This test was developed in 1926 by Carl Campbell Brigham for the College Entrance Examination Board the SAT |
| #6707, aired 2013-11-12 | TEACHING THE TEACHERS $400: In the late 1800s this lower Manhattan university founded the USA's first graduate program in education NYU |
| #6707, aired 2013-11-12 | TEACHING THE TEACHERS $1200: The U.S. news No. 1-ranked education grad school is the Peabody School at this Nashville university Vanderbilt |
| #6666, aired 2013-09-16 | INTELLIGENCE $800: Innate intelligence not from education, or the title of a 1776 pamphlet common sense |
| #6666, aired 2013-09-16 | "GRAND" SLAM $1000: As part of their education, young men of fortune used to visit Europe's major sights on a trip known as this the grand tour |
| #6607, aired 2013-05-14 | PROFESSORS $800: As Bill Ayers was in a '60s radical group called this, maybe he forecast later being an Illinois education professor the Weathermen |
| #6600, aired 2013-05-03 | THE BIG "BOARD" $1,400 (Daily Double): In the 1950s the Brown family took on this Topeka organization in the Supreme Court the Board of Education |
| #6582, aired 2013-04-09 | DATA STRATA $200: States spend more on this general expenditure than any other--class is in session! education |
| #6574, aired 2013-03-28 | 4 LETTERS, 2 Ns $2000: British legal education has long been provided by 2 institutions called these "of court" Inns |
| #6530, aired 2013-01-25 | AT THE WEBSITE OF THE CABINET DEPT. $400: "No Child Left Behind" & "Nation's Report Card" are links at this department's website Education |
| #6529, aired 2013-01-24 | "BOUND" FOR GLORY $2000: 2012 marks the golden anniversary of the U.S. branch of this outdoor education program Outward Bound |
| #6505, aired 2012-12-21 | LBJ PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY $400: A lifelong passion, including working with young people, is honored by having LBJ's name on the headquarters of this cabinet department the Department of Education |
| #6499, aired 2012-12-13 | POLITICAL MEMOIRS $2,000 (Daily Double): Going from the White House to ABC News, he wrote "All Too Human: A Political Education" about his Clinton years George Stephanopoulos |
| #6479, aired 2012-11-15 | EDUCATION ABBREVIATION $200: DEAR stands for "Drop Everything And" do this; you can even use your Kindle read |
| #6479, aired 2012-11-15 | EDUCATION ABBREVIATION $400: It's the "P" in FERPA, which makes schools get student or parent permission to release records privacy |
| #6479, aired 2012-11-15 | EDUCATION ABBREVIATION $600: 36 is a perfect score on the college entrance test known by these 3 letters, kind of the opposite of "SAT" ACT |
| #6479, aired 2012-11-15 | EDUCATION ABBREVIATION $800: Students having trouble with articulation may go to an SLP, a speech language this pathologist |
| #6479, aired 2012-11-15 | EDUCATION ABBREVIATION $1000: ESEA, short for this act, dates from the '60s & morphed into No Child Left Behind the Elementary and Secondary Education Act |
| #6473, aired 2012-11-07 | EDUCATION NATION $400: The Pierre & Marie Curie University France |
| #6473, aired 2012-11-07 | EDUCATION NATION $800: Uppsala University Sweden |
| #6473, aired 2012-11-07 | EDUCATION NATION $1200: The University of Adelaide Australia |
| #6473, aired 2012-11-07 | EDUCATION NATION $1600: Pusan National University South Korea |
| #6473, aired 2012-11-07 | EDUCATION NATION $2000: King Abdulaziz University Saudi Arabia |
| #6469, aired 2012-11-01 | EDUCATION $400: Apollo Group is the No. 1 operator of the type of college called "for" this, & for Q3 2012 reported $134 million of this profit |
| #6469, aired 2012-11-01 | EDUCATION $800: starfall.com
helps kids learn to read with this method that breaks words down into their most basic parts phonics |
| #6469, aired 2012-11-01 | EDUCATION $1200: NYC is fighting this "ism" with automated calls from celebrities telling kids to wake up & get to school absenteeism |
| #6469, aired 2012-11-01 | EDUCATION $1600: Spain has ELE, español como lengua extranjera; the U.S. equivalent is ESL, this English as a second language |
| #6469, aired 2012-11-01 | EDUCATION $5,000 (Daily Double): In the 1950s Robert Havighurst popularized the phrase this "moment", meaning an opportunity to learn something a teachable moment |
| #6456, aired 2012-10-15 | TV CHARACTERS $1200: Annie, Britta & Magnitude seek higher education on this NBC comedy Community |
| #6446, aired 2012-10-01 | "ED" $2,000 (Daily Double): Aristotle called it "the best provision for old age" education |
| #6444, aired 2012-09-27 | THE CALIFORNIANS $400: Shyah! This Chief Justice known for his "Commission" spoke for the court in Brown v. Board of Education, y'know? (Earl) Warren |
| #6443, aired 2012-09-26 | BIG CHECKS $800: Youth Education Towns are getting a cool million thanks to this NFL honcho. Roger Goodell |
| #6434, aired 2012-08-02 | DO YOUR "HOME" WORK $1200: The U.S. Department of Education says 1.5 million U.S. students are taught this way, perhaps by a parent homeschool |
| #6422, aired 2012-07-17 | AT THE "CORE" $2000: Begun nearly 100 years ago, it's Columbia University's set of courses to provide a general education a core curriculum |
| #6403, aired 2012-06-20 | FIRST LADY MICHELLE OBAMA $400: (First Lady Michelle Obama presents the clue.) Campaigning in 2008, I learned about problems of military families from jobs & education to wellness; later, I began the Joining Forces initiative to highlight the issues along with this woman whose son is in the Delaware Army National Guard (Jill) Biden |
| #6370, aired 2012-05-04 | MICHELLE OBAMA'S AMERICAN GROWN $600: (Michelle Obama delivers the clue.) Community gardens like those at the White House allow children to plant & harvest fresh fruits & veggies. In 2009 a formal farm to school initiative was established by this Cabinet department the Department of Agriculture |
| #6360, aired 2012-04-20 | THE ACLU $1600: In 1952 the ACLU filed a brief supporting the NAACP in this Supreme Court case decided 2 years later Brown v. The Board of Education |
| #6334, aired 2012-03-15 | NEW YORK CITY $600: (I'm Geoffrey Canada.) I'm president of a unique organization providing not just education, but health care & social services to the children of 97 blocks in this Manhattan neighborhood, from 116th St. up to 143rd St. Harlem |
| #6329, aired 2012-03-08 | MAY-DECEMBER MOVIES $2000: Seen here, she earned an Oscar nomination as the girl to whom Peter Sarsgaard gave "An Education" Carey Mulligan |
| #6322, aired 2012-02-28 | THE DEWEY DECIMAL SYSTEM $1000: The 370s cover books on education, including LouAnne Johnson's "My Posse Don't Do" this Homework |
| #6317, aired 2012-02-21 | ACTS OF CONGRESS $400: (I'm Geoffrey Canada, President of the Harlem Children's Zone.) Setting standards & establishing measurable goals to improve individual outcomes in education was the objective of this 2001 congressional act that left many educators dismayed No Child Left Behind |
| #6314, aired 2012-02-16 | GETTING AN EDUCATION $400: Geometry--it's the number of degrees in angle "A" 300 |
| #6314, aired 2012-02-16 | GETTING AN EDUCATION $800: Geography: Bass Strait separates this Aussie island state from the mainland Tasmania |
| #6314, aired 2012-02-16 | GETTING AN EDUCATION $1200: Economics: This "wealth of nations" man called laissez-faire capitalism the system of perfect liberty Adam Smith |
| #6314, aired 2012-02-16 | GETTING AN EDUCATION $1600: History: In July 1918 the bodies of this world leader & his family were thrown in a mine shaft Nicholas II |
| #6314, aired 2012-02-16 | GETTING AN EDUCATION $2000: Cell biology: The main function of these organelles is to produce energy in the form of ATP mitochondria |
| #6293, aired 2012-01-18 | HISTORIC DATES $400: On May 17, 1954 the Supreme Court ruled on this case, unanimously outlawing public school segregation Brown v. the Board of Education |
| #6291, aired 2012-01-16 | WOMEN IN GOVERNMENT $1600: Oveta Culp Hobby, the only woman in Eisenhower's cabinet, was the first head of this department, HEW for short Health, Education & Welfare |
| #6271, aired 2011-12-19 | BOWL GAME CITIES $1000: The Bridgepoint Education Holiday Bowl at Qualcomm Stadium San Diego |
| #6256, aired 2011-11-28 | DOCUMENTARIES $2000: (I'm Geoffrey Canada, president of the Harlem Children's Zone.) From Davis Guggenheim, the Academy Award-winning director of "An Inconvenient Truth", comes this deeply personal exploration of the state of public education in the U.S., a 2010 clarion call of our times Waiting for "Superman" |
| #6247, aired 2011-11-15 | ANCIENT WISDOM $600: "The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life" is a saying from his "Republic" Plato |
| #6229, aired 2011-10-20 | SPORTS & CIVIL RIGHTS $2,000 (Daily Double): This clause in a law signed June 23, 1972 changed women's college athletics forever Title IX |
| #6212, aired 2011-09-27 | EDUCATION $200: Randi Weingarten, now president of this union, also serves on the executive council of the AFL-CIO American Federation of Teachers (AFT) |
| #6212, aired 2011-09-27 | EDUCATION $400: Back in 1987 Aspen College began offering an MBA degree online, MBA standing for this master's of business administration |
| #6212, aired 2011-09-27 | EDUCATION $600: Since the 1950s the College Board has administered this program that lets high school kids study closer to college level the AP (or Advanced Placement) |
| #6212, aired 2011-09-27 | EDUCATION $800: (I'm Harlem Children's Zone President Geoffrey Canada.) We will do whatever it takes to make sure that your child enters & succeeds in college. That's the promise I make to each family of our students attending the HCZ Promise Academy, which is this type of school named for the contract under which it operates a charter school |
| #6212, aired 2011-09-27 | EDUCATION $1000: In 1980 the Department of Education was created out of this now-defunct Cabinet department HEW |
| #6149, aired 2011-05-12 | THE UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME $400: This major step taken in 1972 was originally supposed to come about through a merger with St. Mary's college co-education |
| #6149, aired 2011-05-12 | QUOTES ABOUT TEACHING $1600: He wrote in the business magazine bearing his name that education "replaces an empty mind with an open one" (Malcolm) Forbes |
| #6149, aired 2011-05-12 | QUOTES ABOUT TEACHING $2000: This 19th c. pioneer of public schools called education a "great equalizer...balance-wheel of the social machinery" (Horace) Mann |
| #6116, aired 2011-03-28 | "E" DAY $1600: Fittingly, schools were not closed on April 5, 2009, which was this "and sharing day, U.S.A." Education |
| #6103, aired 2011-03-09 | TEACHING $1200: NASET is the "National Association of" these "Teachers", who may work with the gifted as well as the disabled Special Education |
| #6085, aired 2011-02-11 | WHAT'S THE NAME OF YOUR UNION? $1200: Approximately 2 million K-12 public school teachers in the U.S. the National Education Association (NEA) |
| #6052, aired 2010-12-28 | WHAT'S THE "PLAN"? $400: The Adler in Chicago is one of these buildings for space science education a planetarium |
| #6041, aired 2010-12-13 | EDUCATION $200: In 1955 Rudolph Flesch wrote "Why Johnny Can't" do this, attacking current teaching practices read |
| #6041, aired 2010-12-13 | EDUCATION $400: Although best known for his 1828 dictionary, he wrote textbooks on science, grammar & history Noah Webster |
| #6041, aired 2010-12-13 | EDUCATION $800: In 1971 the Supreme Court ruled doing this to integrate "the dual school systems" of the South was constitutional busing |
| #6041, aired 2010-12-13 | EDUCATION $1000: In 2009 the Dept. of Education announced a $4.35 billion fund for state grants called "Race to" this the Top |
| #6041, aired 2010-12-13 | EDUCATION $2,200 (Daily Double): It was originally called the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944 & provided free education for vets the G.I. Bill |
| #6028, aired 2010-11-24 | ORGANIZATIONS $1000: Julian Bond was the first president of this "Law Center" that works for civil rights & tolerance education the Southern Poverty Law Center |
| #5981, aired 2010-09-20 | GOOD CAUSES $1000: The Andre Agassi foundation for education runs Agassi Prep in this city Las Vegas |
| #5923, aired 2010-05-19 | THE FORTUNE 500 $600: Kaplan, an education subsidiary of this "capital" media co., helped put it back on the list after a 16-year absence The Washington Post |
| #5898, aired 2010-04-14 | MADAM, I'M ADAMS $1200: I won a 1919 Pulitzer Prize (posthumously) for "The Education of" me Henry Adams |
| #5892, aired 2010-04-06 | JUST BE-CLAUSE $1600: This 2-word clause in the 14th Amendment was cited in Brown v. Board of Education & Bush v. Gore the equal protection clause |
| #5878, aired 2010-03-17 | IN THE STATE CAPITAL $1,600 (Daily Double): Sumner Elementary School, known for its part in a 1954 Supreme Court Case Topeka |
| #5861, aired 2010-02-22 | U.S. COMMEMORATIVE COINS $1000: A silver dollar commemorating desegregation in education showed Central High in this city on the reverse Little Rock |
| #5850, aired 2010-02-05 | CIVIL RIGHTS HEROES $2000: He was the lawyer who won the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court case Thurgood Marshall |
| #5848, aired 2010-02-03 | CLASS "E" $400: Elementary classroom culture & management is an offering from Stanford's school of this Education |
| #5813, aired 2009-12-16 | A PERFORMER'S EDUCATION $400: She got an English degree from the Univ. of Texas, so it makes sense she played the Englishwoman Bridget Jones (Renée) Zellweger |
| #5813, aired 2009-12-16 | A PERFORMER'S EDUCATION $800: Maybe it was while earning a B.A. at Yale that he learned the rules of "Fight Club" Edward Norton |
| #5813, aired 2009-12-16 | A PERFORMER'S EDUCATION $1200: This "Starter Wife" had the "Will & Grace" to graduate summa cum laude from Brandeis Debra Messing |
| #5813, aired 2009-12-16 | A PERFORMER'S EDUCATION $1600: This actor went to UCLA but really wanted to direct films like "Reality Bites" & "Zoolander" Ben Stiller |
| #5778, aired 2009-10-28 | WHAT DO YOU STAND FOR? $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Industrial Light & Magic in San Francisco, CA.) Skylights to capture sun help give San Francisco's Digital Arts Center a gold LEED rating--that's short for Leadership in this and Environmental Design Energy |
| #5775, aired 2009-10-23 | THE BODY HUMAN $600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew holds a skeletal armbone model at Sawbones.) For medical education, Sawbones makes bone models pre-fractured in common patterns; this fracture, where two cracks form a triangle, results from bending & is named for this insect butterfly |
| #5757, aired 2009-09-29 | PRESIDENTIAL FACEBOOK PAGES $400: Education and Work: Secretary of State, Minister to U.K.;
Relationship Status: Single Buchanan |
| #5722, aired 2009-06-23 | CABINET DEPARTMENTS IN OTHER WORDS $800: Tutelage Education |
| #5687, aired 2009-05-05 | SCHOOLS NAMED AFTER PEOPLE $200: A merchant's 1919 bequest for music education resulted in this NYC academy's graduate school the Juilliard School |
| #5672, aired 2009-04-14 | "C"OOKING $600: It's been called "nothing but cabbage with a college education" cauliflower |
| #5655, aired 2009-03-20 | WORDS WITH ALL 5 VOWELS $600: Shirley Hufstedler served under Jimmy Carter as the first Secretary of this department Education |
| #5619, aired 2009-01-29 | AMERICAN EDUCATION $200: From 1869 to 1939 education was administered by this cabinet department that manages national parks Interior |
| #5619, aired 2009-01-29 | AMERICAN EDUCATION $400: It can be a school of higher education for girls, or a school for training priests, ministers or rabbis a seminary |
| #5619, aired 2009-01-29 | AMERICAN EDUCATION $600: The NMSA is the "National" this type of "Association" for young adolescents middle schools |
| #5619, aired 2009-01-29 | AMERICAN EDUCATION $800: In August 1995 Shannon Faulkner became the first female cadet at this South Carolina military college The Citadel |
| #5619, aired 2009-01-29 | AMERICAN EDUCATION $1000: In 1838 this Massachusetts educator founded the biweekly Common School Journal for teachers Horace Mann |
| #5600, aired 2009-01-02 | HISTORIC SUPREME COURT DECISIONS $400: Some said the school integration ruling in 2007's Parents Involved v. Seattle undermined this 1954 case Brown vs. the Board of Education |
| #5583, aired 2008-12-10 | GERMAN WORDS & PHRASES $1600: German term for a novel about the education & coming of age of a young protagonist Bildungsroman |
| #5548, aired 2008-10-22 | HIGHER CELEBRITY EDUCATION $400: It all adds up; he paired with Paul Simon for a while & also got a masters in math from Columbia Art Garfunkel |
| #5548, aired 2008-10-22 | HIGHER CELEBRITY EDUCATION $800: John Astin studied math at Johns Hopkins before becoming a creepy & kooky patriarch on this '60s sitcom The Addams Family |
| #5548, aired 2008-10-22 | HIGHER CELEBRITY EDUCATION $1200: "Radial velocities in the zodiacal dust cloud" won an astrophysics Ph.D. for Brian May (not Mr. Mercury) of this band Queen |
| #5548, aired 2008-10-22 | HIGHER CELEBRITY EDUCATION $1600: Here's "The News": The "Power of Love" singer was an engineering major at Cornell Huey Lewis |
| #5548, aired 2008-10-22 | HIGHER CELEBRITY EDUCATION $2000: In 2008 he hitched a ride on "The Pineapple Express" as Saul Silver & brushed up on his English lit as a UCLA grad James Franco |
| #5542, aired 2008-10-14 | NOMINATIVE DETERMINISM $400: In 2005 the U.S. turned the (Roderick) Paige on this cabinet post, handing it to Margaret Spellings the Secretary of Education |
| #5513, aired 2008-07-23 | FINANCIAL PLANNING $400: With a 529 plan, you can give up to $270,000 to a beneficiary for this purpose a college education |
| #5493, aired 2008-06-25 | NIXON'S CABINET $2000: As head of this department, Robert Finch had his attention pulled in 3 separate directions Health, Education & Welfare |
| #5484, aired 2008-06-12 | EDUCATION $200: Between 1931 & 1970, millions learned to read using books featuring this brother & sister & their dog, Spot Dick & Jane |
| #5484, aired 2008-06-12 | EDUCATION $400: In this method of teaching reading, letters or combinations of letters are associated with speech sounds phonics |
| #5484, aired 2008-06-12 | EDUCATION $600: This N.H. teacher once wrote, "I would like to humanize the space age by giving the perspective from a non-astronaut" Christa McAuliffe |
| #5484, aired 2008-06-12 | EDUCATION $800: From the Latin for "doorkeeper", it's sometimes used as the title of the chief administrator of a univ. or college the chancellor |
| #5484, aired 2008-06-12 | EDUCATION $1000: (I'm U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings.) The Education Department awards these college grants that don't have to be paid back & are named for a Rhode Island senator Pell grants |
| #5436, aired 2008-04-07 | THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CHILDREN'S HOSPITALS $400: The 4-fold mission of Children's Hospitals is C.A.R.E.: clinical care, advocacy, research & this education |
| #5417, aired 2008-03-11 | THAT WORD'S FOREIGN TO ME $800: "Summed up" in French, this list of my education & former employers will show why I'm qualified to host a TV show resume |
| #5416, aired 2008-03-10 | WOMEN'S FIRSTS $1,600 (Daily Double): Frances Perkins became the first woman cabinet member when FDR put her to work in this post Secretary of Labor |
| #5397, aired 2008-02-12 | WORD ORIGINS $600 (Daily Double): The name of this type of reference work is from the Greek for "cyclical" (i.e., well-rounded) & "education" an encyclopedia |
| #5393, aired 2008-02-06 | CLASSIC ROCK OPENING LINES $400: Pink Floyd (Part 2):
"We don't need no education..."
(5 words) "Another Brick In The Wall" |
| #5391, aired 2008-02-04 | UNICEF $800: (Queen Rania delivers the final clue.) As UNICEF's first Eminent Advocate for Children, I visited a school in Fez, in this country, that offers one-time child laborers a formal education Morocco |
| #5380, aired 2008-01-18 | BOOK KNOWLEDGE $600: Mulvany, Nancy, 177;
birth of, 28;
education of, 213;
as expert in creating these, 326-331 an index |
| #5362, aired 2007-12-25 | TO THE "LEFT" HAND SIDE $1600: President Bush's education initiative begun in 2002 No Child Left Behind |
| #5349, aired 2007-12-06 | BUSH'S NICKNAMES $1000: This Secretary of Education is also known as "La Margarita" Margaret Spellings |
| #5330, aired 2007-11-09 | .ORG $1200: This council at bbb.org believes most marketplace problems can be solved with self-regulation & education the Better Business Bureau |
| #5327, aired 2007-11-06 | HISTORIC SUPREME COURT DECISIONS? $2,000 (Daily Double): Colorful recluse spider is found to cure lack of interest in the formal learning process brown v. bored of education |
| #5317, aired 2007-10-23 | THE CABINET $1000: So far, the list of Secretaries of this includes a Heckler, a Schweiker & a Shalala Health & Human Services |
| #5308, aired 2007-10-10 | FAMOUS WOMEN $800: Margaret Spellings, seen here, is the first mom with kids in school to serve as U.S. Secretary of this Education |
| #5302, aired 2007-10-02 | TITLE POSSESSIONS $800: "...of Henry Adams" "The Education" |
| #5295, aired 2007-09-21 | WHICH PRESIDENT'S CABINET $1200: Secretary of Education William Bennett,
Secretary of State George Shultz Reagan |
| #5246, aired 2007-06-04 | "C" IN SHAKESPEARE $800: You don't need a university education to know that the Earl of this appears in "Henry V" Cambridge |
| #5231, aired 2007-05-14 | IN GEORGE W. BUSH'S CABINET $800: Tommy Thompson,
Michael Leavitt Health & Human Services |
| #5231, aired 2007-05-14 | IN GEORGE W. BUSH'S CABINET $1200: Rod Paige,
onetime "Jeopardy!" contestant Margaret Spellings Education |
| #5230, aired 2007-05-11 | COLLEGE EDUCATION $200: We hope the classrooms are air-conditioned during this session, begun at Harvard in 1871 the summer session |
| #5230, aired 2007-05-11 | COLLEGE EDUCATION $400: Greek, Latin & "myth and text" are categories in this one-word department at Bucknell Classics |
| #5230, aired 2007-05-11 | COLLEGE EDUCATION $600: A library cubicle or stall used for private study around holiday time could be called a Christmas this a carrel |
| #5230, aired 2007-05-11 | COLLEGE EDUCATION $800: The prefix in this term tells you it's a course you have to take before you can take a more advanced one a prerequisite |
| #5230, aired 2007-05-11 | COLLEGE EDUCATION $1000: Wisconsin has one of the oldest of these programs in which univs. "reach out" to non-full-time students extension (outreach later accepted) |
| #5211, aired 2007-04-16 | AMERICAN GOVERNMENT $200: Kansas' 10-member Board of this has made news for its doubts about Darwin Education |
| #5198, aired 2007-03-28 | 2-LETTER RESPONSES $2000: In 1944 Congress passed the first one of these bills to provide education for war veterans G.I. |
| #5176, aired 2007-02-26 | EDUCATION $400: In 1971 the Supreme Court ruled that schools could desegregate by doing this to transport kids to other districts bussing |
| #5176, aired 2007-02-26 | EDUCATION $800: On June 1, 1987 Father Theodore Hesburgh stepped down as president of this university after 35 years in that capacity Notre Dame |
| #5176, aired 2007-02-26 | EDUCATION $1200: (I'm U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings.) Before becoming its own cabinet department, Education was part of this 3-pronged department Health, Education & Welfare |
| #5176, aired 2007-02-26 | EDUCATION $1600: This union founded in 1916 also includes school custodians as well as the people in its name American Federation of Teachers (AFT) |
| #5176, aired 2007-02-26 | EDUCATION $2000: In the early 20th c. these traveling groups named for a N.Y. lake went from town to town giving lectures in tents Chautauqua |
| #5169, aired 2007-02-15 | GOVERNMENT & POLITICS $2000: The Office of English Language Acquisition belongs to this cabinet department Department of Education |
| #5155, aired 2007-01-26 | GERMAN $400: Friedrich Froebe coined this German word for pre-elementary school education (it's the same in English) kindergarten |
| #5146, aired 2007-01-15 | MY NAME IS EARL WARREN $2000: I ruled that public school segregation was unconstitutional in this landmark 1954 case Brown v. Board of Education |
| #5131, aired 2006-12-25 | SAVE THAT E-MAIL ADDRESS! $1000: I've got to contact education@seti.org so I can learn how to help with the search for this extraterrestrial life |
| #5107, aired 2006-11-21 | GET AN EDUCATION! $400: In geography, you should know that this South American river has the world's largest drainage system the Amazon |
| #5107, aired 2006-11-21 | GET AN EDUCATION! $800: Learn the basics of chemistry, like this chemical formula for water H2O |
| #5107, aired 2006-11-21 | GET AN EDUCATION! $1200: Civics class taught you the Declaration of Independence lists these 3 "unalienable rights" life, liberty & the pursuit of happiness |
| #5107, aired 2006-11-21 | GET AN EDUCATION! $1600: Get some Latin under your belt, like amo, amas & this third-person singular form of "to love" amat |
| #5107, aired 2006-11-21 | GET AN EDUCATION! $2000: God willing, you'll learn enough about religion to know this word defined as belief in a single god monotheism |
| #5083, aired 2006-10-18 | SIX EDUCATION $200: It's the sixth consonant in the English alphabet H |
| #5083, aired 2006-10-18 | SIX EDUCATION $400: A memorable episode of this 1970s TV show was entitled "Steve Austin, Fugitive" The Six Million Dollar Man |
| #5083, aired 2006-10-18 | SIX EDUCATION $600: It's the 2-word name for the 6-cylinder alignment used in the famous Jaguar XK6 engine a straight six (or an in-line six) |
| #5083, aired 2006-10-18 | SIX EDUCATION $800: In a Pirandello title, they're "in search of an author" six characters |
| #5083, aired 2006-10-18 | SIX EDUCATION $1000: Les six, of the 1910s & '20s, were a group of 6 of these that included Georges Auric musicians |
| #5078, aired 2006-10-11 | LABOR $400: NEA stands for National Endowment for the Arts, or for this union representing teachers the National Education Association |
| #5065, aired 2006-09-22 | ___ OF ___ $600: This Topeka body was the defendant in a landmark 1950s Supreme Court case the Board of Education |
| #5043, aired 2006-07-12 | I’LL SEE YOU IN COURT! $2000: A 1969 case said the phrase "with all" these 2 words from Brown v. Board of Education wasn’t being followed deliberate speed |
| #5005, aired 2006-05-19 | GOVT. ABBR. $200: It promotes technical research & education programs:
the NSF the National Science Foundation |
| #4981, aired 2006-04-17 | STUPID ANSWERS $800: Henry Adams won a Pulitzer for "The Education of Henry Adams"; this man won for "The Americanization of Edward Bok" Edward Bok |
| #4953, aired 2006-03-08 | FIRST LADIES $400: Inspired by her second-grade teacher, she earned a degree in education from SMU in 1968 Laura Bush |
| #4946, aired 2006-02-27 | U.S. CABINET DEPARTMENTS IN OTHER WORDS $400: Instruction Education |
| #4941, aired 2006-02-20 | THE FIGHT FOR CIVIL RIGHTS $1000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reads from the Civil Rights Institute in Birmingham, AL.) Activist Bayard Rustin said when the Supreme Court announced the decision in this case, things began to move into a new era of activism & confrontation Brown v. Board of Education |
| #4894, aired 2005-12-15 | THE PRICE IS RIGHT $1000: Formerly the Dept. of Health, Education & Welfare, its outlay went from 3% of the fed. budget in the '60s to 23% today Health & Human Services |
| #4886, aired 2005-12-05 | AUTHOR! AUTHOR! $400: "Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship" is a Bildungsroman, or novel of education, by this "Faust" author Goethe |
| #4879, aired 2005-11-24 | TENNESSEE FOR YOURSELF $2000: In 1991 this former Tennessee governor became President Bush's Secretary of Education Lamar Alexander |
| #4867, aired 2005-11-08 | ANAGRAMMED CABINET DEPARTMENTS $800: AUDIT ONCE Education |
| #4835, aired 2005-09-23 | WRITERS' RELATIVES $800: Catharine Beecher, a promoter of higher education for women, was the sister of this famous author Harriet Beecher Stowe |
| #4824, aired 2005-07-21 | UNKNOWN SPANIARDS $800: He was named for his sub-high school level of formal education El Ementary |
| #4790, aired 2005-06-03 | STUPID ANSWERS $1000: Henry Adams, grandson of John Quincy Adams, wrote the nonfiction classic "The Education of" him Henry Adams |
| #4771, aired 2005-05-09 | EDUCATION $200: The 89% high school graduation rate of this "Garden State" is the USA's highest New Jersey |
| #4771, aired 2005-05-09 | EDUCATION $400: His famed "Blue-backed Speller" of 1783 helped standardize American spelling & pronunciation Noah Webster |
| #4771, aired 2005-05-09 | EDUCATION $600: It's the "watery" term for integrating a student with special needs into a regular class mainstreaming (or immersion) |
| #4771, aired 2005-05-09 | BARBRA STREISAND MOVIES $600: 1983:
Barbra disguises herself as a boy to get an education Yentl |
| #4771, aired 2005-05-09 | EDUCATION $800: This N.C. univ. built by tobacco magnates once had separate colleges: Trinity College & Woman's College Duke |
| #4771, aired 2005-05-09 | EDUCATION $1000: In 1907 she opened her first Casa dei Bambini, or "Children's Home" Montessori |
| #4740, aired 2005-03-25 | A MANN CALLED HORACE $200: Horace Mann began his career as "The Father of American Public Education" in the 1830s in this "Bay State" Massachusetts |
| #4732, aired 2005-03-15 | THE STATE OF EDUCATION $400: The University of Puget Sound,
Gonzaga University Washington State |
| #4732, aired 2005-03-15 | THE STATE OF EDUCATION $800: Stillman College,
Auburn University Alabama |
| #4732, aired 2005-03-15 | THE STATE OF EDUCATION $1200: Tougaloo College,
Jackson State University Mississippi |
| #4732, aired 2005-03-15 | THE STATE OF EDUCATION $1600: Bowling Green State University,
Case Western Reserve University Ohio |
| #4732, aired 2005-03-15 | THE STATE OF EDUCATION $2000: Suffolk University,
Brandeis University Massachusetts |
| #4721, aired 2005-02-28 | THE JIMMY CARTER EXPERIENCE $800: "Hey Joe" Califano, Jr., you were a Carter cabinet member as head of HEW, short for this Health, Education and Welfare |
| #4711, aired 2005-02-14 | PERHAPS SOME "TEA" $600: Daniel Tobin headed this union from 1907 to 1952, bringing its membership from 40,000 to more than a million the Teamsters |
| #4706, aired 2005-02-07 | BLACK HISTORY MONTH $1600: In May 1954, in the case of this family v. the Board of Education, segregation in school was ruled unconstitutional Brown |
| #4688, aired 2005-01-12 | THE CHIEFS $400: It was this Eisenhower Chief Justice who wrote the Opinon of the Court in Brown v. Board of Education in 1954 Earl Warren |
| #4684, aired 2005-01-06 | NATIONAL HISTORIC SITES $800: The Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site consists of the Monroe Elementary School in this city Topeka, Kansas |
| #4654, aired 2004-11-25 | FIRST ELECTED OFFICE $1000: Starting out as Edgefield County's Superintendent of Education in 1929, he retired from the U.S. Senate 74 years later Strom Thurmond |
| #4645, aired 2004-11-12 | GET A DEGREE $400: If you have an M.Ed. degree you're a master of this education |
| #4589, aired 2004-07-15 | UNICEF $400: Formerly, the "I" stood for International & the "E" stood for this Emergency |
| #4587, aired 2004-07-13 | EDUCATION $400: 2 past presidents of the National Education Association lead an effort to reduce this to improve learning class size |
| #4587, aired 2004-07-13 | EDUCATION $800: This government program for preschoolers began as a summer project in LBJ's War on Poverty Head Start |
| #4587, aired 2004-07-13 | EDUCATION $1200: This university leads the U.S. in the market value of its endowment assets; Yale is No. 2 Harvard University |
| #4587, aired 2004-07-13 | EDUCATION $2000: Richard W. Riley, who served under this president, is the only Secretary of Education to serve a full 8 years Bill Clinton |
| #4587, aired 2004-07-13 | EDUCATION $5,800 (Daily Double): This numerical portion of the Education Amendments of 1972 prohibited sex discrimination in athletics Title IX |
| #4565, aired 2004-06-11 | CULINARY QUOTES $600: Mark Twain said that cauliflower "is nothing but" this vegetable "with a college education" cabbage |
| #4563, aired 2004-06-09 | THE ANCIENTS SPEAK $1600: In this work Plato wrote, "The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life" The Republic |
| #4559, aired 2004-06-03 | EDUCATION $200: A 1901 California law abolished this for grades 1-8; what kids did instead with no TV, God knows homework |
| #4559, aired 2004-06-03 | EDUCATION $400: Common term for the system that emerged in the '60s to teach more mathematical concepts & fewer times tables the New Math |
| #4559, aired 2004-06-03 | EDUCATION $600: (Hi, I'm Chris Matthews.) This religious order runs 28 colleges in the U.S. including Georgetown, Loyola & my alma mater Holy Cross the Jesuits |
| #4559, aired 2004-06-03 | EDUCATION $800: Restored to its original look, the USA's first public one of these opened in St. Louis in 1873 a kindergarten |
| #4559, aired 2004-06-03 | EDUCATION $1000: In the junior version of this, retired members of the military teach life skills & leadership to high schoolers the ROTC |
| #4551, aired 2004-05-24 | GOVERNMENT AGENCIES $2,000 (Daily Double): The Centers for Disease Control & Prevention is an agency of this department Health and Human Services |
| #4547, aired 2004-05-18 | SUPREME COURT DECISIONS $1200: Brown v. Board of Education was decided in May 1954 by this vote 9-0 (unanimous) |
| #4541, aired 2004-05-10 | CAPITOL THINKERS $400: This man from Mass. is the ranking Democrat of the Senate's Health, Education, Labor & Pensions Committee Edward Kennedy |
| #4479, aired 2004-02-12 | GIVE ME AN "E" $1600: Aristotle called it "the best provision for old age"; so get a good one an education |
| #4424, aired 2003-11-27 | ITALIAN AMERICANS $800: Poet Dana Gioia, the first in his family to go to college, heads this organization, the NEA the National Endowment for the Arts |
| #4411, aired 2003-11-10 | AFRICAN-AMERICANA $800: Once called "The Capstone of Negro Education", this Washington, D.C. university opened its doors in 1867 Howard University |
| #4407, aired 2003-11-04 | HY-ER EDUCATION $200: Term for the offspring of a cross between different species, they do occur on their own in nature a hybrid |
| #4407, aired 2003-11-04 | HY-ER EDUCATION $400: The Hyksos brought to Egypt the compound bow, the Asian light horse & this mode of transportation the chariot |
| #4407, aired 2003-11-04 | HY-ER EDUCATION $600: Web designers know it's the "HT" in HTTP & HTML Hypertext |
| #4407, aired 2003-11-04 | HY-ER EDUCATION $800: "Dr. Johnson drank his tea in oceans" is an example of this figure of speech hyperbole |
| #4407, aired 2003-11-04 | HY-ER EDUCATION $1000: This German physician introduced "animal magnetism", now called hypnosis, to medicine Franz Mesmer |
| #4406, aired 2003-11-03 | PEACE CORPS $400: The main job of most education volunteers is teaching this subject English |
| #4368, aired 2003-09-10 | EDUCATION $200: The New England Primer used in colonial America included this, which begins, "Our Father, which art in heaven" "The Lord's Prayer" |
| #4368, aired 2003-09-10 | EDUCATION $400: At the urging of this president, the Department of Education became a cabinet department in 1979 (Jimmy) Carter |
| #4368, aired 2003-09-10 | EDUCATION $600: The NRTA, formerly the National Retired Teachers Association, is one of this huge organization's divisions AARP |
| #4368, aired 2003-09-10 | EDUCATION $800: Vanderbilt in this state capital was chartered as Central University in 1872; the name was changed the next year Nashville, Tennessee |
| #4368, aired 2003-09-10 | EDUCATION $1000: The Model Secondary School for the Deaf is a part of this Washington, D.C. college Gallaudet |
| #4350, aired 2003-06-27 | 18th CENTURY NOVELS $2000: This French philosopher's 1762 novel "Emile" said that education should emphasize expression, not repression Jean-Jacques Rousseau |
| #4345, aired 2003-06-20 | IN THE CABINET $2000: President Reagan's education secretary, he went on to edit the bestselling "Book of Virtues" William Bennett |
| #4337, aired 2003-06-10 | EDUCATION $200: The "ec" in home ec is short for this economics |
| #4337, aired 2003-06-10 | EDUCATION $400: Listed as one word in Encarta & 2 in the World Book, it's the system of parents educating their own kids home schooling |
| #4337, aired 2003-06-10 | EDUCATION $800: The new math introduced in the '60s added bases other than this most common one base 10 |
| #4337, aired 2003-06-10 | EDUCATION $1000: The SATs are administered by ETS, which is a vendor of the CEEB, which stands for this College Entrance Exam Board |
| #4337, aired 2003-06-10 | EDUCATION $1,800 (Daily Double): From the Latin for "citizen", it's a high school class that studies politics & government civics |
| #4301, aired 2003-04-21 | NATIONAL HISTORIC SITES $1600: Added to the list in 1992 is a site in Topeka, Kansas honoring this 1954 Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education |
| #4279, aired 2003-03-20 | EDUCATION $400: The Kalamazoo case of 1874 allowed this state to use local property taxes to support secondary schools Michigan |
| #4279, aired 2003-03-20 | EDUCATION $800: In 1971 he became professor of astronomy & space sciences at Cornell, a post he retained until his death in 1996 (Carl) Sagan |
| #4279, aired 2003-03-20 | EDUCATION $1200: In 1894 this woman known for her teaching "method" became the first female in Italy to receive a medical degree Montessori |
| #4279, aired 2003-03-20 | EDUCATION $2000: In 335 B.C. Aristotle founded this school in a grove along the Ilissus River outside the walls of Athens the Lyceum |
| #4279, aired 2003-03-20 | EDUCATION $2,200 (Daily Double): In 1881 he founded his school in an old abandoned church & a shanty in Tuskegee, Alabama (Booker T.) Washington |
| #4249, aired 2003-02-06 | ANDREW JOHNSON $600: With no formal education, Andrew didn't learn these 3 often-linked basic skills until he was a teenager reading, writing & arithmetic |
| #4232, aired 2003-01-14 | FIRST LADIES $13,000 (Daily Double): Receiving a "rock solid" education at Stanford, Lou Hoover was the first woman to earn a degree in this geology |
| #4225, aired 2003-01-03 | NAPOLEON'S RESUME $400: Education:
This type of career school at Brienne & at Paris military school |
| #4215, aired 2002-12-20 | WOMEN! $800: The vice president's wife, she has long focused on the importance of history education Lynne Cheney |
| #4203, aired 2002-12-04 | TOLL-FREE NUMBERS $400: This cabinet department's number is 800-USA-LEARN Department of Education |
| #4177, aired 2002-10-29 | EDUCATION JARGON $400: 65 out of 100 students did the same as or worse than you if your grade is in the 65th of these percentile |
| #4177, aired 2002-10-29 | EDUCATION JARGON $800: IDEA is the Individuals with these Education Act, formerly the Education For All Handicapped Children Act Disabilities |
| #4177, aired 2002-10-29 | EDUCATION JARGON $1200: It's the rhyming term for the technique of teaching with only a blackboard to help you chalk talk/chalk and talk |
| #4177, aired 2002-10-29 | EDUCATION JARGON $1600: From the Latin for "to heal", it's the type of education that brings deficient students up to standard levels remedial |
| #4177, aired 2002-10-29 | EDUCATION JARGON $2000: These 2 words, denoting socioeconomically challenged, followed "A Nation" in a 1983 report's title At Risk |
| #4167, aired 2002-10-15 | ACRONYMS $800: An anti-substance abuse program's slogan is this "To Keep Kids Off Drugs" DARE (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) |
| #4166, aired 2002-10-14 | LESSER-KNOWN NAMES $2000: Education chief 1917-1929, Anatoly Lunacharsky was one of the first holders of this Soviet title for a department head commissar |
| #4158, aired 2002-10-02 | CHAUCER & FRIENDS $2000: Chaucer was influenced by & translated Boethius' work "The Consolation of" this Philosophy |
| #4118, aired 2002-06-26 | HISTORIANS $2000: This member of the Adams family wrote a 9-volume U.S. history & a book on his own "education" Henry Adams |
| #4076, aired 2002-04-29 | HAIL TO THE CHIEF $400: He signed the Education Act of 1965 in his old elementary school near Stonewall, Texas Lyndon Johnson |
| #4075, aired 2002-04-26 | "C" FOOD $200: Mark Twain said that this vegetable is "nothing but cabbage with a college education" cauliflower |
| #4039, aired 2002-03-07 | THE CLINTON YEARS $2000: (Former President Clinton wraps things up for us.) This program providing financial aid for education was created with the 1993 signing of the National & Community Service Trust Act Ameri-Corps |
| #4024, aired 2002-02-14 | THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION $200: Department statistics show the average for this is 24 students in public secondary school, 19 in private class size |
| #4024, aired 2002-02-14 | THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION $400: The department took over the Migrant Worker Education Program of this cabinet department Labor |
| #4024, aired 2002-02-14 | THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION $600: The National Assessment of Educational Progress is also called "the nation's" version of this "card" a report card |
| #4024, aired 2002-02-14 | THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION $800: Children with disabilities are helped by the office of this type of education "and Rehabilitative Services" Special |
| #4024, aired 2002-02-14 | THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION $1000: In 2001 the Dept. announced new support for these schools named for the document by which they operate charter schools |
| #4009, aired 2002-01-24 | "A" PLUS $1600: "It's all" this, if it's all this word meaning connected with education academic |
| #3973, aired 2001-12-05 | FIRST LADIES $1,000 (Daily Double): This first lady earned a bachelor's degree in education from Southern Methodist University Laura Bush |
| #3968, aired 2001-11-28 | IS THERE A DOCTOR IN THE HOUSE? $400: Ed.D. doctor of education |
| #3954, aired 2001-11-08 | BREW INNS $200: B.R.E.W. stands for the "Rescue, Education & Welfare" of this breed of dog popularized by Charles Schulz the beagle |
| #3931, aired 2001-10-08 | THE HISTORY OF INDIA $500: A 1967 law kept English as a national language of education until all states would accept this one Hindi |
| #3901, aired 2001-07-16 | WHERE THEY'RE FROM $100: Matt Damon hails from this education-oriented Boston-area city Cambridge |
| #3897, aired 2001-07-10 | AMERICAN HISTORY $300: Plessy vs. Ferguson, which upheld segregation, was overturned by this 1954 case Brown v. Board of Education |
| #3876, aired 2001-06-11 | MEDICAL EDUCATION $200: Long a major branch of philosophy, the medical or "bio" type entered medical curricula in recent decades Ethics |
| #3876, aired 2001-06-11 | MEDICAL EDUCATION $400: The Earth makes one of these a day; med students make several of them to learn different fields a rotation |
| #3876, aired 2001-06-11 | MEDICAL EDUCATION $600: It's the 1990 film seen here, about commendably curious med students: Flatliners |
| #3876, aired 2001-06-11 | MEDICAL EDUCATION $800: A 1983 invasion protected American med students on this Caribbean island Grenada |
| #3876, aired 2001-06-11 | MEDICAL EDUCATION $1000: The board whose symbol is seen here certifies specialists in this form of medicine: emergency medicine |
| #3874, aired 2001-06-07 | THE FIRST PERSON $800: Oveta Culp Hobby was the first secretary of HEW; Patricia Harris, the first secretary of this dept. that evolved from HEW HHS (Health & Human Services) |
| #3831, aired 2001-04-09 | WHAT'S AT THE $2 CINEMA? $300: His sex education in "Eyes Wide Shut" was continued from the teen classic "Losin' It" Tom Cruise |
| #3822, aired 2001-03-27 | THE CABINET $1,000 (Daily Double): The National School Lunch Program is one of many assistance programs run by this cabinet department Agriculture |
| #3805, aired 2001-03-02 | BOOK LEARNIN' $200: The National Education Association's Read Across America day is March 2, the birthday of this kids' author Dr. Seuss |
| #3781, aired 2001-01-29 | THE MARSHALL PLAN $200: He argued Brown v. Board of Education before the Supreme Court, a body he later joined Thurgood Marshall |
| #3767, aired 2001-01-09 | LEGAL BEFORE & AFTER $200: Supreme Court case in which Snoopy's owner sues to desegregate public schools in Kansas Charlie Brown v. Board of Education |
| #3748, aired 2000-12-13 | ARISTOTLE SAYS... $400: "The legislator should direct his attention above all to" this; the U.S. established a cabinet dept. for it in 1980 Education |
| #3740, aired 2000-12-01 | CORPORATE AMERICA $100: In 1998 Georgia teen Mike Cameron got suspended for wearing this rival's T-shirt on "Coke in Education Day" Pepsi Cola |
| #3740, aired 2000-12-01 | TAKE A MICHIGANDER $500: His speech education major at Wayne State has taken him a "Long Distance": Casey Kasem |
| #3702, aired 2000-10-10 | THE KENNEDY WOMEN $1,000 (Daily Double): Maryland Lieut. Governor Kathleen Kennedy Townsend formerly worked in this cabinet dept. her father once headed the Justice Department |
| #3678, aired 2000-09-06 | N-O! $1000: Women must wear the head-to-toe burqa & are banned from work & education under this regime that rules Afghanistan Taliban |
| #3653, aired 2000-06-21 | CABINET MINISTERS $200: In 1986 this country saw its first cabinet minister dismissed in 33 years, education head Masayuki Fujio Japan |
| #3653, aired 2000-06-21 | CABINET MINISTERS $400: This island nation's minister of culture & education, Bjorn Bjarnason, is the son of a former prime minister Iceland |
| #3631, aired 2000-05-22 | THE MEDIEVAL DAILY NEWS $300: Education, 972:
The new Azhor Mosque in this Egyptian city includes a university Cairo |
| #3621, aired 2000-05-08 | ALL ABOUT THE PRESIDENCY $1000: To protect "our most important national investment", I signed a bill creating this cabinet department in 1979 Department of Education |
| #3604, aired 2000-04-13 | NUMBER, PLEASE $1,000 (Daily Double): A catalog of athletic wear for women is named "Title" this, after part of a 1972 education law IX (9) |
| #3543, aired 2000-01-19 | ANAGRAMMED CABINET DEPARTMENTS $1,000 (Daily Double): Idea count Education |
| #3541, aired 2000-01-17 | THE WORDS OF MARTIN LUTHER KING $1000: This 1954 "decision...will long be stenciled on the mental sheets of succeeding generations" Brown v. Board of Education |
| #3520, aired 1999-12-17 | WHICH CABINET DEPARTMENT? $200: (OSHA) The Occupational Safety and Health Administration Labor |
| #3486, aired 1999-11-01 | ON THEIR PERMANENT RECORDS $400: This author of "Little Women" received much of her education from her father, Bronson Louisa May Alcott |
| #3457, aired 1999-09-21 | FAMOUS FACES $400: In the '80s he led a public education campaign to combat the AIDS epidemic C. Everett Koop |
| #3424, aired 1999-06-24 | THE SUPREME COURT $200: In this 1954 case the court declared that "The doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place" Brown v. Board of Education |
| #3281, aired 1998-12-07 | EDUCATION $200: Usually the first unit of elementary school, its name is German for "children's garden" kindergarten |
| #3281, aired 1998-12-07 | EDUCATION $400: This "Green Mountain" state leads all other states with a high school graduation rate of 89% Vermont |
| #3281, aired 1998-12-07 | EDUCATION $600: On Oct. 30, 1979 this president nominated Shirley Hufstedler to be the first Secretary of Education Jimmy Carter |
| #3281, aired 1998-12-07 | EDUCATION $800: On July 5, 1998 this largest teachers union rejected a merger with the American Federation of Teachers the NEA (National Education Association) |
| #3281, aired 1998-12-07 | EDUCATION $1000: In 1633 this Dutch company established the first school in New Amsterdam the West India Company |
| #3259, aired 1998-11-05 | PROFESSIONS IN SONG $300: This Van Halen tune says, "Think of all the education that I missed" & "My homework was never...like this" "Hot For Teacher" |
| #3253, aired 1998-10-28 | LETTERS & NUMBERS $400: Abbreviation for the period of one's education from age 4 to 6 through high school K-12 |
| #3251, aired 1998-10-26 | EDUCATION $200: Past giants in this university's job include Harvard's James Conant, who served from 1933 to 1953 President |
| #3251, aired 1998-10-26 | EDUCATION $400: California's Proposition 227 of 1998 opposed this type of education/este tipo de educacion Bilingual |
| #3251, aired 1998-10-26 | EDUCATION $600: British term for schools like Eton that are actually what Americans would call private Public school |
| #3251, aired 1998-10-26 | EDUCATION $800: An ordinary, average, everyday school, or one that trains teachers Normal school |
| #3251, aired 1998-10-26 | EDUCATION $1000: This "channel" beamed into 12,000 schools includes 10 minutes of news & 2 of commercials Channel One |
| #3227, aired 1998-09-22 | PHONIES $300: "The Education of" this Cherokee, billed as autobiography, was written by a white segregationist Little Tree |
| #3223, aired 1998-09-16 | ENVIRONMENTAL GROUPS $200: This "bird-brained" group runs 8 education centers & over 100 sanctuaries in the U.S. The Audubon Society |
| #3223, aired 1998-09-16 | IS THERE A DOCTOR IN THE HOUSE? $800: In 1852 this first U.S. woman doctor published her lectures on "The Physical Education of Girls" Elizabeth Blackwell |
| #3206, aired 1998-07-06 | 1965 $1000: Congress created this Cabinet dept. in 1965 but a secretary wasn't picked to head it until 1966 HUD (Housing and Urban Development) |
| #3100, aired 1998-02-06 | AFRICAN AMERICANS $400: In the 1950s this man sued the Topeka Board of Education over which school his daughter might attend Oliver Brown |
| #3044, aired 1997-11-20 | LOBBYISTS $400: Bob Chase, the president of this teachers' union, has a regular column in the Washington Post NEA (National Education Association) |
| #3038, aired 1997-11-12 | FAMILY VALUES $800: Many conservatives value this key to advancement but want the cabinet department abolished Education |
| #3020, aired 1997-10-17 | "A" IN SEX EDUCATION $200: Appropriately, this word from Latin for "growing up" entered the language before its relative "adult" Adolescence |
| #3020, aired 1997-10-17 | "A" IN SEX EDUCATION $400: A plant sending out a slender growth called a runner is an example of this lonely form of reproduction Asexual |
| #3020, aired 1997-10-17 | "A" IN SEX EDUCATION $600: Rare in nature, monogamy is the rule with this sea bird, obviously misnamed "wandering" Albatross |
| #3020, aired 1997-10-17 | "A" IN SEX EDUCATION $1000: A steroid hormone that controls masculine characteristics Androgen |
| #3020, aired 1997-10-17 | "A" IN SEX EDUCATION $1,500 (Daily Double): From the Greek for "seed container", it's a flowering plant that packs pistils for reproduction Angiosperm |
| #3004, aired 1997-09-25 | FAMOUS EAGLE SCOUTS $1000: This Boy Scout & former Secretary of Education published "The Moral Compass" in 1995 William Bennett |
| #2998, aired 1997-09-17 | FEMINISM $200: Title IX of a 1972 education law led to greater female participation in this activity in schools sports |
| #2980, aired 1997-07-11 | EDUCATION $200: In the U.S., it's the education of immigrants in their own language as well as in English Bilingual |
| #2980, aired 1997-07-11 | EDUCATION $400: This term for the study of household work was coined at an 1899 conference in Lake Placid, NY Home economics |
| #2980, aired 1997-07-11 | EDUCATION $600: Since the 1960s many communities have replaced junior high with this for the 6th-8th grades Middle school |
| #2980, aired 1997-07-11 | EDUCATION $1,000 (Daily Double): In 1996 California schools eased out "whole language" for this letter-by-letter way of teaching reading phonics |
| #2980, aired 1997-07-11 | EDUCATION $1000: In English it's a large room for sports; in German it's a secondary school focusing on academics Gymnasium |
| #2978, aired 1997-07-09 | RULERS $1,400 (Daily Double): In the 1770s this archduchess of Austria pioneered a national system of elementary education Maria Theresa |
| #2977, aired 1997-07-08 | COURT CASES $600: Founded in 1920, this organization has been involved with the Scopes trial & Brown v. Board of Education the ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union) |
| #2965, aired 1997-06-20 | EDUCATION $400: "Lessons for Life" is a current campaign of this teachers' union, the A.F.T. the American Federation of Teachers |
| #2965, aired 1997-06-20 | EDUCATION $600: In 1837 this school moved from Detroit to Ann Arbor University of Michigan |
| #2965, aired 1997-06-20 | EDUCATION $800: A pupil of Friedrich Froebel founded the first of these pre-schools in the U.S. in Watertown, Wisconsin in 1856 Kindergarten |
| #2965, aired 1997-06-20 | EDUCATION $1000: This Secretary of Education under Clinton served as governor of South Carolina from 1979 to 1987 Richard Riley |
| #2951, aired 1997-06-02 | PEOPLE IN HISTORY $200: As this dictator's minister of education, Giovanni Gentile reformed Italy's school system Benito Mussolini |
| #2918, aired 1997-04-16 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $800: "The Education of Mr. Pipp" is a book of satirical drawings of high society by this artist known for his "girl" Charles Gibson |
| #2878, aired 1997-02-19 | LIBRARIES $800: This city is home to the Mayo Patient Health Education Library Rochester, Minnesota |
| #2871, aired 1997-02-10 | TEACHERS $400: In the 1820s Josiah Holbrook pioneered this, also called continuing education adult education |
| #2868, aired 1997-02-05 | INVENTORS $200: At age 7 this "Wizard Of Menlo Park" attended public school for 3 months -- his only formal education Thomas Edison |
| #2846, aired 1997-01-06 | FAMOUS FIRSTS $500: Oveta Culp Hobby, who passed away in 1995, was the 1st to head this former cabinet department, HEW for short Health, Education and Welfare |
| #2823, aired 1996-12-04 | EDUCATION $200: WRAS-FM in this largest Georgia city is the USA's most powerful student-run college radio station Atlanta |
| #2823, aired 1996-12-04 | EDUCATION $400: In 1925 he was fined $100 for teaching evolution in Dayton, Tenn., but the conviction was reversed John Scopes |
| #2823, aired 1996-12-04 | EDUCATION $600: The brother of Pres. Eisenhower, he served as president of Kansas State, Penn State & Johns Hopkins Milton Eisenhower |
| #2823, aired 1996-12-04 | EDUCATION $800: In 1909, 2 years after introducing her teaching method in Rome, she wrote a book about it Maria Montessori |
| #2823, aired 1996-12-04 | EDUCATION $1000: He was chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities before becoming Secretary of Education in 1985 William Bennett |
| #2818, aired 1996-11-27 | BIOGRAPHIES $400: "The Education of a Woman" by Carolyn G. Heilbrun tells of this feminist and famous Ms Gloria Steinem |
| #2817, aired 1996-11-26 | 1796 $800: Born in Massachusetts in 1796, this educator helped create the U.S.A.'s 1st state board of education Horace Mann |
| #2813, aired 1996-11-20 | CURRENT KINGS $800: This current king became Saudi minister of education in 1953 King Fahd |
| #2805, aired 1996-11-08 | HISTORIANS $1000: This author of "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" had little formal education (Edward) Gibbon |
| #2754, aired 1996-07-18 | ROYALTY $400: This current king of Jordan received part of his education in England at Harrow & Sandhurst King Hussein |
| #2750, aired 1996-07-12 | LABOR $400: In 1978 this education union, the AFT, established a division for health care professionals the American Federation of Teachers |
| #2730, aired 1996-06-14 | ORGANIZATIONS $400: Known as the NEA, this organization was established in part to improve teachers' working conditions National Education Association |
| #2726, aired 1996-06-10 | U.S. HISTORY $600 (Daily Double): This cabinet department was created in 1979 with Shirley Hufstedler as its first secretary Department of Education |
| #2720, aired 1996-05-31 | KANSANS $400: This inventor of basketball was head of physical education at the University of Kansas 1898-1937 Naismith |
| #2706, aired 1996-05-13 | THE SUPREME COURT $600: This Bush appointee was once Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights in the Department of Education Clarence Thomas |
| #2689, aired 1996-04-18 | RUSSIAN RULERS $200: This first leader of the Soviet Union was the son of a provincial director of elementary education Lenin |
| #2682, aired 1996-04-09 | AMERICAN MUSEUMS $400: The Enid A. Haupt garden sits atop this institution's underground museum, education, & research complex Smithsonian Institution |
| #2675, aired 1996-03-29 | EDUCATORS $200: This Black educator's own education was obtained at the Hampton Institute in Virginia, 1872-75 Booker T. Washington |
| #2675, aired 1996-03-29 | EDUCATORS $400: This Mass. educator & legislator was known as the "Father of American Public Education" (Horace) Mann |
| #2675, aired 1996-03-29 | EDUCATORS $800: This former Secretary of Education chaired the National Endowment for the Humanities 1981-85 (William) Bennett |
| #2617, aired 1996-01-09 | THE SUPREME COURT $400: Before Bush appointed him to the court, he was Assistant Secretary of Education for Civil Rights (Clarence) Thomas |
| #2587, aired 1995-11-28 | THE SUPREME COURT $500 (Daily Double): This justice who died in 1993 was the winning attorney in Brown v. Board of Education Thurgood Marshall |
| #2563, aired 1995-10-25 | LITERATURE $800: The main character in his "L'Education sentimentale" has been called "a sort of male Emma Bovary" Gustave Flaubert |
| #2559, aired 1995-10-19 | 19th CENTURY AMERICANS $600: Massachusetts State Senator Horace Mann helped set up the first state board of this in the U.S. education |
| #2477, aired 1995-05-16 | SUPREME COURT DECISIONS $1000: This doctrine upheld in 1896's Plessy v. Ferguson was denied in 1954's Brown v. Board of Education separate but equal |
| #2469, aired 1995-05-04 | THE SUPREME COURT $400: This landmark 1954 case was brought by Oliver Brown on behalf of his daughter Linda Brown vs. the Board of Education |
| #2467, aired 1995-05-02 | LITERARY TERMS $800: "Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship" by this "Faust" author is a bildungsroman, or novel of education Goethe |
| #2463, aired 1995-04-26 | OCCUPATIONS $400: It's a woman in charge of a child's upbringing & education, or an obsolete term for a female ruler governess |
| #2409, aired 1995-02-09 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $200: This Ivy League institution is Connecticut's oldest school of higher education Yale |
| #2366, aired 1994-12-12 | EDUCATION $200: 5.5% of U.S. schoolchildren attend parochial schools affiliated with this church Roman Catholic Church |
| #2366, aired 1994-12-12 | EDUCATION $400: A type of school with special programs, designed to "attract" students from a district a magnet school |
| #2366, aired 1994-12-12 | EDUCATION $600: In 1846 this "Eclectic Reader" author's brother Alexander published a spelling book (William) McGuffey |
| #2366, aired 1994-12-12 | EDUCATION $800: This Mass. educator was valedictorian of his 1819 graduating class at Brown University Horace Mann |
| #2366, aired 1994-12-12 | EDUCATION $1000: Begun in 1965, this federal program offers services for handicapped & disadvantaged preschoolers Head Start |
| #2350, aired 1994-11-18 | EDUCATION $600: In 1836 he became president of Cincinnati College & published his 1st "Eclectic Reader" William McGuffey |
| #2350, aired 1994-11-18 | EDUCATION $800: U.S. kindergarten founder Elizabeth Peabody was the first to publish this Thoreau essay "Civil Disobedience" |
| #2350, aired 1994-11-18 | EDUCATION $1000: In 1889 this "The Life Of Reason" author began teaching philosophy at Harvard George Santayana |
| #2342, aired 1994-11-08 | ABBREVIATIONS $100: In high school P.E. stands for this class physical education |
| #2258, aired 1994-06-01 | EDUCATION $200: This college degree is abbreviated B.F.A. a Bachelor of Fine Arts |
| #2258, aired 1994-06-01 | EDUCATION $400: In his "Republic", this philosopher advocated a curriculum based on the education of an elite class Plato |
| #2258, aired 1994-06-01 | EDUCATION $600: This Supreme Court case held that separate facilities for black & white students were unconstitutional Brown v. Board of Education (of Topeka, Kansas) |
| #2258, aired 1994-06-01 | EDUCATION $800: This teachers' union affiliated with the AFL-CIO was founded in 1916 the American Federation of Teachers |
| #2258, aired 1994-06-01 | EDUCATION $1,000 (Daily Double): The first public version of these schools invented by Friedrich Froebel opened in St. Louis in 1873 a kindergarten |
| #2244, aired 1994-05-12 | COLLEGE POTPOURRI $600: A Ph.D. is a doctor of philosophy, while an Ed.D. stands for this doctor of education |
| #2205, aired 1994-03-18 | EDUCATION $200: The name of this elementary school official is from the Latin for "first person" the principal |
| #2205, aired 1994-03-18 | EDUCATION $400: This type of teaching aid includes filmstrips, slides, graphs & recordings audio visual |
| #2205, aired 1994-03-18 | EDUCATION $600: From 1826 until his death, this French educator taught at the Nat'l Institute for Blind Children in Paris (Louis) Braille |
| #2205, aired 1994-03-18 | EDUCATION $1,000 (Daily Double): This president's 3 Secretaries of Education were Terrel H. Bell, William Bennett & Laura F. Cavazos Ronald Reagan |
| #2205, aired 1994-03-18 | EDUCATION $1000: This teachers' union affiliated with the AFL-CIO has more than 2,000 locals the American Federation of Teachers |
| #2185, aired 1994-02-18 | EDUCATION $200: This Canadian province has 2-year schools called colleges d'enseignement general et professionel Quebec |
| #2185, aired 1994-02-18 | EDUCATION $400: Mistress of arts was a 19th century female equivalent of this degree earned by young men a bachelor of arts |
| #2185, aired 1994-02-18 | EDUCATION $600: It can be an academy for young ladies or an institution that trains candidates for priesthood a seminary |
| #2185, aired 1994-02-18 | EDUCATION $800: A sum of money granted for advanced study or research, it's also a synonym for companionship a fellowship |
| #2185, aired 1994-02-18 | EDUCATION $1000: This Italian woman's famous "method" encourages a child's self-development (Maria) Montessori |
| #2181, aired 1994-02-14 | ODDS & ENDS $1000: In 1979 the Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare was divided into these 2 separate departments Health & Human Services & Education |
| #2108, aired 1993-11-03 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $800: This American novelist received her early education in Shanghai & later taught in Nanking Pearl Buck |
| #2101, aired 1993-10-25 | EDUCATION $200: Cherokee schools were operating in this territory in the 1830s, about 60 years before white schools Oklahoma |
| #2101, aired 1993-10-25 | EDUCATION $400: The first of his "Eclectic Readers" was published while he served as president of Cincinnati coll. William McGuffey |
| #2101, aired 1993-10-25 | EDUCATION $600: From a Latin word for "a calling", this type of school trains its students for employment vocational |
| #2101, aired 1993-10-25 | EDUCATION $800: This Poughkeepsie, N.Y. school built an observatory for astronomer Maria Mitchell in 1864 Vassar |
| #2101, aired 1993-10-25 | EDUCATION $1000: In 1837 he became the first secretary of Massachusetts' Board of Education Horace Mann |
| #2098, aired 1993-10-20 | FRUITS & VEGETABLES $300: Mark Twain called this white vegetable "cabbage with a college education" cauliflower |
| #2098, aired 1993-10-20 | WORLD LEADERS $600: In 1989 this South African education minister succeeded P.W. Botha as the country's president De Klerk |
| #2082, aired 1993-09-28 | THE SUPREME COURT $1000: This 1954 decision outlawing school segregation was unanimous Brown v. Board of Education |
| #2046, aired 1993-06-28 | FAMOUS NAMES $400: Ella Flagg Young was the first woman president of this organization abbreviated NEA the National Education Association |
| #2024, aired 1993-05-27 | NOTABLE WOMEN $400: From 1970 to 1974 she was Secretary of State for Education & Science under PM Edward Heath Margaret Thatcher |
| #1989, aired 1993-04-08 | EDUCATION $200: This term refers to private schools owned & administered by a religious group parochial |
| #1989, aired 1993-04-08 | EDUCATION $400: Shirley Hufstedler, the first Secretary of Education, was appointed by this President in 1979 (Jimmy) Carter |
| #1989, aired 1993-04-08 | EDUCATION $600: "Democracy in education, education for Democracy" is the motto of this teachers' union American Federation of Teachers |
| #1989, aired 1993-04-08 | EDUCATION $800: This "Primer" used in colonial times had a rhyme & picture for each letter of the alphabet The New England Primer |
| #1989, aired 1993-04-08 | EDUCATION $1000: In 1839 the 1st state teachers college in the U.S. opened in this state under Horace Mann's guidance Massachusetts |
| #1970, aired 1993-03-12 | ORGANIZATIONS $1000: This organization requires that teachers make up at least 75% of each of its committees the NEA (the National Education Association) |
| #1956, aired 1993-02-22 | U.S. HISTORY $1000: John Davis, a lawyer who ran against Coolidge, argued against school desegregation in this 1954 case Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas |
| #1904, aired 1992-12-10 | EDUCATION $200: Established about 1910, these schools usually cover the 7th. 8th & 9th grades junior high schools |
| #1904, aired 1992-12-10 | EDUCATION $400: In 1874 this state's supreme court ruled that the city of Kalamazoo could pay for public high schools Michigan |
| #1904, aired 1992-12-10 | EDUCATION $600: This city's Latin School, opened in 1635, was the 1st secondary school in the colonies Boston |
| #1904, aired 1992-12-10 | EDUCATION $800: This educator opened her first nursery school in a slum district of Rome in 1907 (Maria) Montessori |
| #1904, aired 1992-12-10 | EDUCATION $2,000 (Daily Double): In 1856 Mrs. Carl Schurz founded the 1st of this type of school in the U.S. in Watertown, Wisconsin a kindergarten |
| #1891, aired 1992-11-23 | ORGANIZATIONS $400: Founded in L.A. in 1919, this org. provides books, counseling, education & job placement for the blind the Braille Institute |
| #1891, aired 1992-11-23 | WORLD HISTORY $400: As a youth, this future ruler's education was supervised by Aristotle Alexander the Great |
| #1887, aired 1992-11-17 | EDUCATION $200: America's first public high school was opened in 1821 in this New England capital Boston |
| #1887, aired 1992-11-17 | EDUCATION $400: The oldest of these 2-year colleges opened in 1901 in Joliet, Illinois Junior/Community Colleges |
| #1887, aired 1992-11-17 | EDUCATION $600: In 5th century B.C. India, only the people of this caste were able to get a complete education Brahmins |
| #1887, aired 1992-11-17 | EDUCATION $800: In 1922 she became a government inspector of schools in Italy Maria Montessori |
| #1887, aired 1992-11-17 | EDUCATION $1000: Kids are taught to play musical instruments at an early age in this method named for a Japanese violinist Suzuki Method |
| #1877, aired 1992-11-03 | CHIEF JUSTICES $2,500 (Daily Double): He wrote the opinion in the 1954 case Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka Earl Warren |
| #1785, aired 1992-05-08 | WRITING LETTERS $400: When you apply for a job, send a cover letter & one of these summaries of education & experience resume |
| #1785, aired 1992-05-08 | BLACK HISTORY $600: As a result of this 1954 landmark case, segregation in public schools was declared unconstitutional Brown vs. Board of Education |
| #1738, aired 1992-03-04 | COLLEGE DEGREES $600: An M.S. in C.E. is a Master of Science in Civil Engineering; an M.S. in Ch.E. is this Chemical Engineering |
| #1724, aired 1992-02-13 | EDUCATION $200: Teaching practices were attacked in Rudolph Flesch's 1955 book "Why" he "Can't Read" Johnny |
| #1724, aired 1992-02-13 | EDUCATION $400: This organization was founded on February 17, 1897 as the National Congress of Mothers PTA |
| #1724, aired 1992-02-13 | EDUCATION $600: Latin for "racecourse", it's the aggregate of courses of study given in a school curriculum |
| #1724, aired 1992-02-13 | EDUCATION $1,000 (Daily Double): This program for disadvantaged preschoolers was created under the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 Operation Headstart |
| #1724, aired 1992-02-13 | EDUCATION $1000: This American-born saint has been called the "mother of the parochial school system in the U.S." Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton |
| #1710, aired 1992-01-24 | GOVERNMENT & POLITICS $800: It was made a cabinet-level department in 1979; in 1980 Reagan vowed to abolish it if elected Education |
| #1670, aired 1991-11-29 | EDUCATION $200: From the 1930s to the '70s, millions learned to read from books featuring these 2 children & their dog, Spot Dick & Jane |
| #1670, aired 1991-11-29 | EDUCATION $400: The Servicemen's Readjustment Act, commonly called this, gives aid to ex-servicemen who want to go to school the G.I. Bill |
| #1670, aired 1991-11-29 | EDUCATION $600: His "American Spelling Book", published in 1783, standardized American spelling Webster |
| #1670, aired 1991-11-29 | EDUCATION $800: From the Latin for "bachelor", it's the religious service held the Sunday before commencement baccalaureate |
| #1670, aired 1991-11-29 | EDUCATION $1000: In Sept. 1957 Pres. Eisenhower ordered the Army paratroops to force integration of this city's Central High Little Rock (Arkansas) |
| #1612, aired 1991-09-10 | TURN OF THE CENTURY $1000: This ideal "girl" was popularized in an 1899 book of sketches called "The Education of Mr. Pipp" the Gibson Girl |
| #1611, aired 1991-09-09 | TV SITCOMS $200: Eve Arden was honored by the National Education Association for her role as a teacher on this sitcom Our Miss Brooks |
| #1605, aired 1991-07-19 | EDUCATION $200: Founded in 1847, the Quincy Grammar School in this state was the USA's 1st graded elem. school Massachusetts |
| #1605, aired 1991-07-19 | EDUCATION $400: The 1st schools in Alaska were established in the 1820s by this country Russia |
| #1605, aired 1991-07-19 | EDUCATION $800: Most of Aristotle's extant writings may have been notes for his lectures at this Athenian school the Lyceum |
| #1605, aired 1991-07-19 | EDUCATION $1,000 (Daily Double): In 1783, while teaching in Goshen, N.Y., this educator first published his "American Spelling Book" (Noah) Webster |
| #1605, aired 1991-07-19 | EDUCATION $1000: Named for a lake in Western N.Y., this early 20th c. movement's traveling lecturers often spoke in tents the Chautauqua movement |
| #1603, aired 1991-07-17 | TEXAS $500: This university in College Station is the oldest public institution of higher education in Texas Texas A&M |
| #1602, aired 1991-07-16 | FACTS & FIGURES $500: With some 2 mil. members, the National Education Assoc. has edged out this union as America's largest the Teamsters |
| #1574, aired 1991-06-06 | GOVERNMENT & POLITICS $1000: Appointed Secretary of Education by Ronald Reagan in 1988, he resigned in 1990 Lauro Cavazos |
| #1565, aired 1991-05-24 | THE CABINET $500: In 1979 Health, Education & Welfare was split into the Dept. of Education & this department Health & Human Services |
| #1550, aired 1991-05-03 | POETS & POETRY $800: He was very well-read but his formal education ended at Swansea Grammar School in Wales Dylan Thomas |
| #1534, aired 1991-04-11 | THE 20th CENTURY $1000: William D. Ruckelshaus was the first head of this agency, established December 2, 1970 the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) |
| #1521, aired 1991-03-25 | EDUCATION $200: The Kalamazoo case of 1874 established this state's right to use local taxes to establish high schools Michigan |
| #1521, aired 1991-03-25 | EDUCATION $400: The Mayo Graduate School of Medicine is in this city Rochester, Minnesota |
| #1521, aired 1991-03-25 | EDUCATION $600: A DVM is a doctoral degree in this field of study veterinary medicine |
| #1521, aired 1991-03-25 | EDUCATION $800: In England it's equivalent to high school; in the U.S. it's another name for an elementary school a grammar school |
| #1521, aired 1991-03-25 | EDUCATION $1000: This famous 19th century educator was the 1st Secretary of Massachusetts Board of Education Horace Mann |
| #1519, aired 1991-03-21 | "C" FOOD $300: Mark Twain called it "cabbage with a college education" cauliflower |
| #1511, aired 1991-03-11 | “SEX” EDUCATION $100: This term describes suits that suit both Sally & Sal unisex |
| #1511, aired 1991-03-11 | “SEX” EDUCATION $200: In the United States it's a number followed by 21 zeroes sextillion |
| #1511, aired 1991-03-11 | “SEX” EDUCATION $300: The instrument used by navigators to determine the position of ships & aircraft a sextant |
| #1511, aired 1991-03-11 | “SEX” EDUCATION $400: The title of the suitor who wooed Elizabeth I but lost his head instead (the Earl of) Essex |
| #1511, aired 1991-03-11 | “SEX” EDUCATION $500: After winning the Pulitzer for her book of poems "Live or Die", she chose to die by her own hand Anne Sexton |
| #1498, aired 1991-02-20 | LAW $200: Brown v. Board of Education was the Supreme Court decision that called for an end to this practice segregation |
| #1452, aired 1990-12-18 | BLACK HISTORY $400: This organization was established in 1944 to raise funds for Black education the United Negro College Fund |
| #1452, aired 1990-12-18 | BLACK HISTORY $600: A young student named Linda Brown was the focus of this landmark 1954 case Brown v. Board of Education |
| #1400, aired 1990-10-05 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1000: Mrs. Oveta Culp Hobby became the 1st person to head this new Cabinet dept. in 1953 Health, Education & Welfare |
| #1388, aired 1990-09-19 | THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT $1000: Appointed by Ronald Reagan in 1988, Lauro F. Cavazos has kept this job under George Bush Secretary of Education |
| #1381, aired 1990-09-10 | HIGHER EDUCATION $200: This city is home to the main campus of the University of Hawaii Honolulu |
| #1381, aired 1990-09-10 | HIGHER EDUCATION $400: Your hair doesn't have to be this shade of reddish-brown to attend this Alabama university of the same name Auburn |
| #1381, aired 1990-09-10 | HIGHER EDUCATION $600: Washington College was renamed in 1871 to honor this general, its president from 1865-1870 Lee |
| #1381, aired 1990-09-10 | HIGHER EDUCATION $800: This German university was founded in 1386 by Rupert the Elder, Elector of the Holy Roman Empire Heidelberg |
| #1381, aired 1990-09-10 | HIGHER EDUCATION $1000: He was a faculty member at Tuskegee Institute for 47 years (George Washington) Carver |
| #1369, aired 1990-07-12 | EDUCATION $100: Among honors at graduation, it falls between summa cum laude & cum laude magna cum laude |
| #1369, aired 1990-07-12 | EDUCATION $200: Most state compulsory attendance laws require students to stay in school through this age 16 |
| #1369, aired 1990-07-12 | EDUCATION $300: Founded in 1867 to serve blacks, this Washington, D.C. university has always been open to all races Howard University |
| #1369, aired 1990-07-12 | EDUCATION $400: In 1848 this famous educator replaced John Quincy Adams as a Mass. congressman Horace Mann |
| #1369, aired 1990-07-12 | EDUCATION $700 (Daily Double): This program was established in 1965 to give disadvantaged children a jump on kindergarten Head Start |
| #1353, aired 1990-06-20 | ORGANIZATIONS $1000: Occupation of most of the 1.7 million members of the NEA teachers |
| #1350, aired 1990-06-15 | EDUCATION $200: In 1860 she established the world's first school of nursing Florence Nightingale |
| #1350, aired 1990-06-15 | EDUCATION $400: This large country had no universities until 1755 when Empress Elizabeth established one the Soviet Union (Russia) |
| #1350, aired 1990-06-15 | EDUCATION $600: After a trip to Germany, Susan Blow established the 1st U.S. public school of this type in St. Louis a kindergarten |
| #1350, aired 1990-06-15 | EDUCATION $800: The Supreme Court ruled in 1954 that this practice violated the 14th Amendment school segregation |
| #1350, aired 1990-06-15 | EDUCATION $1000: In 1989-90 this Vermont college led the nation in the cost of tuition, room & board Bennington |
| #1323, aired 1990-05-09 | FAMOUS AMERICANS $800: In 1954 this chief justice wrote the opinion in the Brown v. Board of Education case Earl Warren |
| #1312, aired 1990-04-24 | THE SUPREME COURT $300: He handed down the famous Brown v. Board of Education ruling 7 months after becoming chief justice Earl Warren |
| #1309, aired 1990-04-19 | EDUCATION $200: Type of American school that's equivalent to a European gymnasium high school |
| #1309, aired 1990-04-19 | EDUCATION $400: The women who raised $500,000 to open this Baltimore med school in 1893 insisted women be admitted Johns Hopkins |
| #1309, aired 1990-04-19 | EDUCATION $500 (Daily Double): The first U.S. school of architecture was established at this Mass. school founded in 1861 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) |
| #1309, aired 1990-04-19 | EDUCATION $600: In 1989 this city's school system, 3rd largest in the U.S., was required by state law to decentralize Chicago |
| #1309, aired 1990-04-19 | EDUCATION $1000: Headquartered in the Bronx, its ads say it's the "Jesuit University of New York City" Fordham |
| #1304, aired 1990-04-12 | BLACK AMERICA $800: In '54 the Supreme Court decided in favor of this girl & against the Topeka Board of Education Brown |
| #1270, aired 1990-02-23 | EDUCATION $100: Plato taught in & most police have had to attend one of these an academy |
| #1270, aired 1990-02-23 | EDUCATION $200: For many instructors it's a permanent status granted after a period of years tenure |
| #1270, aired 1990-02-23 | EDUCATION $300: At U.C. Berkeley 35% of lower division courses are taught by these students grad students |
| #1270, aired 1990-02-23 | EDUCATION $400: This former grade school math instructor has been pres. of the American Federation of Teachers since '74 (Albert) Shanker |
| #1270, aired 1990-02-23 | EDUCATION $800 (Daily Double): He was 1 of the founders of the pragmatic school of thought & also was famous as an educator (John) Dewey |
| #1264, aired 1990-02-15 | EDUCATION $200: This Mormon leader founded the school named for him in 1875 Brigham Young |
| #1264, aired 1990-02-15 | EDUCATION $400: On diplomas, this 2-word phrase follows "magna" or "suma" cum laude |
| #1264, aired 1990-02-15 | EDUCATION $600: Just signing your name & filling out the forms correctly on your SATs will get you this minimum score 400 |
| #1264, aired 1990-02-15 | EDUCATION $800: Term for a school for training the clergy, it once meant a secondary school for girls seminary |
| #1264, aired 1990-02-15 | EDUCATION $2,200 (Daily Double): The first secondary school in the 13 colonies was established in 1635 in this colony Massachusetts |
| #1241, aired 1990-01-15 | EDUCATION $200: This term for a secondary school came from Edinburgh, Scotland a high school |
| #1241, aired 1990-01-15 | EDUCATION $400: The 1st female med school grad in Italy, she revolutionized methods of teaching young children Maria Montessori |
| #1241, aired 1990-01-15 | EDUCATION $600: In 1947 the Supreme Court upheld free busing & in 1968 free books for students in these schools Parochial Schools |
| #1241, aired 1990-01-15 | EDUCATION $1000: 19th century Massachusetts educator who's known as the "Father of American Public Education" Horace Mann |
| #1241, aired 1990-01-15 | EDUCATION $7,000 (Daily Double): In 1896 the Supreme Court used this oft-quoted phrase to describe acceptable segregation separate but equal |
| #1136, aired 1989-07-10 | U.S. STATES $400: New Hampshire was the 1st U.S. state to finance education by this method, adopted in 1963 the lottery |
| #1134, aired 1989-07-06 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $800: "The education of" this man is an autobiography of a grandson & greatgrandson of presidents Henry Adams |
| #1128, aired 1989-06-28 | "L.A." $400: Type of education broadly based on humanities with little emphasis on job training liberal arts |
| #1128, aired 1989-06-28 | GOVERNMENT & POLITICS $800: Created as a separate dept. in 1979, its 1st secretary was Shirley Hufstedler Education |
| #1120, aired 1989-06-16 | KANSAS $1000: The case of Oliver Brown v. this city's Board of Education in 1954 outlawed school segregation Topeka |
| #1096, aired 1989-05-15 | EDUCATION $200: According to 1 estimate, there are 1,000 of these in U.S. colleges & 768 of them march bands |
| #1096, aired 1989-05-15 | EDUCATION $400: Some experts suggest kids should spend 10 minutes a day times their grade level on this activity their homework |
| #1096, aired 1989-05-15 | EDUCATION $600: The only U.S. chair of Shiite studies was recently established at this N.J. Ivy League university Princeton |
| #1096, aired 1989-05-15 | EDUCATION $800: From the Latin for "parish" it's the common term for an elem. school maintained by a parish parochial |
| #1096, aired 1989-05-15 | EDUCATION $1000: The 1st U.S. college school of business, the Wharton School is part of this university the University of Pennsylvania |
| #1079, aired 1989-04-20 | AUTOBIOGRAPHIES $600: Ex-wife of Rod Steiger who wrote "Limelight & After: The Education of an Actress" Claire Bloom |
| #1029, aired 1989-02-09 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $800: This Washington, D.C. univ. is the oldest Catholic institution of higher education in the U.S. Georgetown |
| #1010, aired 1989-01-13 | HISPANIC AMERICA $200: In August 1988 President Reagan nominated Lauro Fred Cavazos to fill this cabinet post Secretary of Education |
| #995, aired 1988-12-23 | LITERATURE $800: 20th C. German playwright whose "Epic Theater" stressed education rather than entertainment Bertolt Brecht |
| #991, aired 1988-12-19 | THE ADAMS FAMILY $1000: "The Education of" this "Adams" is considered a classic in American literature Henry Adams |
| #990, aired 1988-12-16 | FLAGS $1000: This Cabinet department, created in 1979, has a symbolic tree in the center of its flag the Department of Education |
| #860, aired 1988-05-06 | SOCIAL STUDIES $300: Also called citizenship education, it's the study of the rights & responsibilities of citizens civics |
| #848, aired 1988-04-20 | PRESIDENTIAL TRIVIA $1000: His uncle Sardis Birchard, financed his education at Kenyon College & Harvard Law School Rutherford B. Hayes |
| #790, aired 1988-01-29 | KANSAS $600: Case of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka resulted in this being declared unconstitutional segregation |
| #770, aired 1988-01-01 | HIGHER EDUCATION $200: While B.A. means bachelor of arts, B.F.A. means bachelor of this fine arts |
| #770, aired 1988-01-01 | HIGHER EDUCATION $400: From Latin "to initiate", term which is applied to the final "exercise" you perform at college commencement |
| #770, aired 1988-01-01 | HIGHER EDUCATION $600: A 5 month student str!ke in late '60s at this college was not popular with its new president S.I. Hayakawa San Francisco State University (or State College) |
| #756, aired 1987-12-14 | THE CABINET $2,500 (Daily Double): With Education made a separate dept., in 1979, the Dept. of HEW was renamed this the Department of Health and Human Services |
| #736, aired 1987-11-16 | DEMOCRATS $200: '60s vice president who called his autobiography "The Education of a Public Man" Hubert Humphrey |
| #733, aired 1987-11-11 | HIGHER EDUCATION $200: It's claimed over $100 million worth of these currently go unclaimed scholarships |
| #733, aired 1987-11-11 | HIGHER EDUCATION $400: These two New England schools have competed in football since 1875 and in boat races since 1852 Harvard and Yale |
| #733, aired 1987-11-11 | HIGHER EDUCATION $600: US military service academy located in Connecticut US Coast Guard Academy |
| #733, aired 1987-11-11 | HIGHER EDUCATION $800: In 1923, the University of Delaware became the first to institute this junior year program a year abroad |
| #733, aired 1987-11-11 | HIGHER EDUCATION $1000: Texas city whose junior college is famed for its Rangerette drill and dance team Kilgore |
| #730, aired 1987-11-06 | HIGHER EDUCATION $800: This school, Richard Nixon's alma mater, is named for a famous American Quaker poet Whittier College |
| #730, aired 1987-11-06 | HIGHER EDUCATION $1000: In 1960, Alabama Polytechnic Institute became this university Auburn |
| #724, aired 1987-10-29 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES $200: With only 1 1/2 years of formal education, he still played a teacher in "To Sir with Love" Sidney Poitier |
| #699, aired 1987-09-24 | WOMEN IN HISTORY $500: Nadezhda Krupskaya, wife of this revolutionary, helped found the Soviet system of public education Lenin |
| #696, aired 1987-09-21 | CIVIL WAR $500: In 1828, Jefferson Davis completed his college education, ironically, at this institution West Point |
| #681, aired 1987-07-20 | COLLEGE GRADS $100: This popular sitcom pop who sells Pudding Pops has a doctorate in education Bill Cosby |
| #654, aired 1987-06-11 | EDUCATION $100: Type of book for which 19th c. William McGuffey was most famous a reader |
| #654, aired 1987-06-11 | EDUCATION $200 (Daily Double): 1st school subject mentioned in the following song:
"Don't know much trigonometry /Don't know much about algebra / Don't know what a slide rule is for / But I do know one and one is two..." history |
| #654, aired 1987-06-11 | EDUCATION $200: Country in which, in 1837, the first kindergarten opened Germany |
| #654, aired 1987-06-11 | EDUCATION $400: It's claimed world's richest scholarship foundation for women is this Atlantic City-based one Miss America |
| #654, aired 1987-06-11 | EDUCATION $500: Encyclopedia Americana calls "The Academy", founded by this philosopher, the first university Plato |
| #621, aired 1987-04-27 | THE OLYMPICS $800: As late as the 1930s, teachers of this subject were considered pros & ineligible for the Olympics physical education |
| #612, aired 1987-04-14 | FIRSTS $400: 1986 was 1st year a man was selected to head this nonpartisan organization concerned with voter education League of Women Voters |
| #598, aired 1987-03-25 | EDUCATION $200: Method established in Rome in 1907 which stresses self motivation especially in 3-6 year olds the Montessori method |
| #598, aired 1987-03-25 | EDUCATION $400: It's what the "GR" in the "GRE" exam stands for graduate record |
| #598, aired 1987-03-25 | EDUCATION $600: According to Guinness, of 10, 12, or 14 yrs., youngest anyone has earned bachelor's in U.S. 12 |
| #598, aired 1987-03-25 | EDUCATION $800: Founded in 1826, American Lyceum was among 1st programs for the "continuing education" of these adults |
| #598, aired 1987-03-25 | EDUCATION $1000: Teaching himself in the town library, he went on to found the 1st U.S. public teachers' school Horace Mann |
| #589, aired 1987-03-12 | THE ENCYCLOPEDIA $1000: "Encyclopedia" comes from Greek "enkyklios" meaning "general" & "paideia" meaning this education (rearing of a child) |
| #485, aired 1986-10-17 | EDUCATION $200: In Germany, it's a secondary school; in the U.S., it's where you take P.E. a gymnasium |
| #485, aired 1986-10-17 | EDUCATION $400: This legislation educated over 7 1/2 million World War II vets the G.I. Bill |
| #485, aired 1986-10-17 | EDUCATION $600: The catechism formerly memorized by parochial school students bore the name of this city the Baltimore catechism |
| #485, aired 1986-10-17 | EDUCATION $800: One of the students in his geometry class in the 3rd century B.C. was Archimedes Euclid |
| #485, aired 1986-10-17 | EDUCATION $1000: Because they conflicted with strict older methods of education, these were banned in Prussia in 1851 kindergartens |
| #468, aired 1986-09-24 | OCTOBER $1000: This event on 10/4/57 revitalized science education throughout the U.S. (the launch of) Sputnik |
| #447, aired 1986-05-27 | EDUCATION $200: His creation of "Fat Albert" helped him earn a doctorate in education from the University of Massachusetts Bill Cosby |
| #447, aired 1986-05-27 | EDUCATION $400: Of 4, 14, or 24%, the percentage of U.S. population over 25 that had college degrees in 1910 4 |
| #447, aired 1986-05-27 | EDUCATION $600: Students attending a "normal school" at the turn of the century were learning this profession (school) teaching (elementary) |
| #447, aired 1986-05-27 | EDUCATION $800: Italy's 1st woman M.D., she originated the teaching method that bears her name (Maria) Montessori |
| #447, aired 1986-05-27 | EDUCATION $1000: Historian Will Durant said education is "the progressive discovery of" this our own ignorance |
| #395, aired 1986-03-14 | HIGHER EDUCATION $200: President who graduated from Southwest Texas State Teacher's College Lyndon Johnson |
| #395, aired 1986-03-14 | HIGHER EDUCATION $400: 1st football tackling dummy was devised in 1889 by Amos Alonzo Stagg at this Conn. university Yale |
| #395, aired 1986-03-14 | HIGHER EDUCATION $600: Emphasizing individual attention, this VT. women's college is the most expensive in the U.S Bennington |
| #395, aired 1986-03-14 | HIGHER EDUCATION $800: There is an Indiana University in this state as well as in Indiana Pennsylvania |
| #395, aired 1986-03-14 | HIGHER EDUCATION $1000: Nashville university founded for Blacks in 1867 but now open to all Fisk University |
| #387, aired 1986-03-04 | G.W. CARVER $200: It wasn't until his late twenties that he completed this level of education high school |
| #385, aired 1986-02-28 | 20th CENTURY $500: This recently deceased Soviet leader was born a peasant, orphaned young & had no formal education (Konstantin) Chernenko |
| #375, aired 1986-02-14 | MILLARD FILLMORE $400: Fearing jokes about his lack of education, Fillmore turned down honorary degree from this English U. Oxford |
| #329, aired 1985-12-12 | MEDICINE $800: About 1 in 5 U.S. doctors received all or part of education in this Midwest city Chicago |
| #309, aired 1985-11-14 | HIGHER EDUCATION $200: They say “You can always tell a Harvard man, but you can't tell him” this much |
| #309, aired 1985-11-14 | HIGHER EDUCATION $400: Pentecostal revivalist turned Methodist, in 1965 he founded a Tulsa, Oklahoma university Oral Roberts |
| #309, aired 1985-11-14 | HIGHER EDUCATION $600: This D.C. university is America's oldest Roman Catholic-sponsored college Georgetown |
| #309, aired 1985-11-14 | HIGHER EDUCATION $800: South Carolina military college whose name sound like a fortress The Citadel |
| #309, aired 1985-11-14 | HIGHER EDUCATION $1000: In 1804, this merchant got Rhode Island College to rename itself after him by donating $5000 (Nicholas) Brown |
| #307, aired 1985-11-12 | U.S. STATES $800: “Brown vs. Board of Education” dealt with school segregation in this state's capital Kansas |
| #299, aired 1985-10-31 | HIGHER EDUCATION $100: Willamette University, oldest in the West, is in this state Oregon |
| #299, aired 1985-10-31 | HIGHER EDUCATION $200: Freshmen traditionally had to wear this headgear as a symbol of subordination to upperclassmen beanies |
| #299, aired 1985-10-31 | HIGHER EDUCATION $300: Town called home of the University of Notre Dame du Lac South Bend, Indiana |
| #299, aired 1985-10-31 | HIGHER EDUCATION $400: This Cambridge, Massachusetts school charges even higher tuition than its neighbor, Harvard MIT |
| #299, aired 1985-10-31 | HIGHER EDUCATION $500: In 1971, he founded Virginia's Lynchburg Baptist college, now Liberty University Jerry Falwell |
| #274, aired 1985-09-26 | U.S. GOVERNMENT $600 (Daily Double): 1 of 2 Cabinet departments Pres. Reagan has tried unsuccessfully to eliminate Dept. of Energy & Dept. of Education |
| #135, aired 1985-03-15 | U.S. STATES $800: First state to forbid slavery & guarantee universal male suffrage & public education to all Vermont |
| #134, aired 1985-03-14 | AUTHORS $400: This Missouri native wrote, "Never let schooling interfere with your education" Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) |
| #124, aired 1985-02-28 | HIGHER EDUCATION $100: Fraternities for women sororities |
| #124, aired 1985-02-28 | HIGHER EDUCATION $200: Institutions that only offer a two-year program junior colleges |
| #124, aired 1985-02-28 | HIGHER EDUCATION $300: A school validated by the Western Assoc. of Schools & Colleges, for example, is called this accredited |
| #124, aired 1985-02-28 | HIGHER EDUCATION $400: Nickname shared by Auburn, Clemson, Memphis State, Missouri & Princeton the Tigers |
| #124, aired 1985-02-28 | HIGHER EDUCATION $500: This subject area has the greatest percentage of male students, 89.4% engineering |
| #70, aired 1984-12-14 | GOV'T & POLITICS $800: In 1979 Shirley Hufstedler became 1st secretary of this cabinet department Education |
| #18, aired 1984-10-03 | TRIOS $100: Education's "3 R's" reading, 'riting & 'rithmetic |
| #15, aired 1984-09-28 | EDUCATION $100: Traditional color of the one-room schoolhouse red |
| #15, aired 1984-09-28 | EDUCATION $200: First American home of higher education, it educated JFK Harvard |
| #15, aired 1984-09-28 | EDUCATION $300: Brown v. Board of Education ruling outlawed this segregated schools |
| #15, aired 1984-09-28 | EDUCATION $400: Brooke Shields recently had her Triangle Club Revue debut at this Ivy League college Princeton |
| #15, aired 1984-09-28 | EDUCATION $500: A progressive preschool program was named for this Italian woman Maria Montessori |
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Hon. Margaret Spellings, a U.S. Secretary of Education from Washington, D.C.
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"As an advisor to President George W. Bush, she helped craft...
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Rachel Niegelberg, an elementary school special education teacher from Trumansburg, New York
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2018 Teachers Tournament semifinalist: $10,000 + a $2,500 grant. At the...
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Joe Rengstorf, a middle school special education teacher from Poulsbo, Washington
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2019 Teachers Tournament semifinalist: $10,000. At the time of the Teachers...
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Bill Knuth, a high school special education teacher from East Lansing, Michigan
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2016 Teachers Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000 + a $2,500 education grant...
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Kristin McAuliffe, a higher-education administrator from Brighton, Massachusetts
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Season 30 player (2014-04-17).
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Michael Jones, a middle school special education teacher from Madison, Wisconsin
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2015 Teachers Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. Michael taught special education at Black...
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Silvia Lesko, a director of religious education from Denton, Texas
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Season 31 player (2014-09-30).
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Abigail Myers, an education administrator from Brooklyn, New York
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Season 33 2-time champion: $39,200 + $2,000.
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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, a Basketball Hall of Famer and all-time leading scorer from the NBA
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"In January, the State Department named this NBA Hall of Famer...
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Lewis Black, a stand-up comedian from Lewis Black's Root of All Evil
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"With success in films, plays, books, and TV specials, he tours...
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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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Robin Quivers, a radio and television personality from The Howard Stern Show
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"Howard Stern's news anchor and sidekick for the past 28 years,...
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Suzanne Koppelman, a museum education manager from New York, New York
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Season 34 3-time champion: $63,601 + $2,000.
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Carolyn Collins, an education program manager from Washington, D.C.
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Season 30 1-time co-champion: $26,800 + $1,000.
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Jin-Soo Huh, an education nonprofit employee from Chicago, Illinois
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Season 38 player (2022-07-13).
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Stacy Meyers, a graduate student of education from Fredericksburg, Virginia
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Season 30 player (2014-01-16).
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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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Miriam Musco, a children's museum education manager from Freeville, New York
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Season 30 player (2014-01-13).
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Monika Chavez, a career education librarian from Alhambra, California
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Season 39 player (2023-07-28).
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Marti Canipe, an elementary science education professor from Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, Arizona
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2021 Professors Tournament semifinalist: $10,000.
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Richard Cordray, a judicial clerk from Grove City, Ohio
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2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000 (prize declined as a...
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Richard Cordray, the head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau from Grove City, Ohio and Washington, D.C.
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\"He had just graduated from law school and was clerking for...
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Richard Cordray, a judicial clerk from Grove City, Ohio
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2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000 (prize declined as a...
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Dan Levy, a higher education administrator from Hartford, Connecticut
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Season 35 player (2019-07-03).
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Bob Carman, an education administrator and editor from Easton, Pennsylvania
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1990 Seniors Tournament semifinalist: $5,000.
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Jake Allen, a K-12 gifted and talented teacher from Eureka Springs, Arkansas
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2018 Teachers Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000 + a $2,500 grant. At...
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Patrick Dillon, an elementary music teacher from Huntington, New York
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"He teaches music at a school that has been nationally recognized...
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Sheryl Underwood, a single stand-up comedian from Studio City, California
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2023 Primetime Celebrity Jeopardy! quarterfinalist: $30,000 for the Pack Rat Foundation for Education.
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Joan Srednicki, a special education teacher from Bayonne, New Jersey
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Erin Garratt, an education policy analyst from Washington, D.C.
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Season 35 player (2019-06-05).
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Leslie Frates, a Spanish teacher from Hayward, California
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2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2005 Ultimate Tournament of...
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Leslie Frates, a Spanish teacher from Hayward, California
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\"A Jeopardy! champion in 1991, she\'s now a Spanish teacher listed...
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Leslie Frates, a Spanish teacher from Hayward, California
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2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2005 Ultimate Tournament of...
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Leslie Frates, a Spanish teacher from Hayward, California
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2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2005 Ultimate Tournament of...
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Leslie Frates, a Spanish teacher from Hayward, California
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2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2005 Ultimate Tournament of...
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Jason Sterlacci, a fourth grade teacher from Somerset, New Jersey
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2017 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. 2016 Teachers Tournament winner: $100,000...
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Alexandra Bicks, a high school ESL teacher from Cambridge, Massachusetts
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2019 Teachers Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. At the time of the Teachers...
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Tova Meyer, a graduate student in education from Princeton, New Jersey
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Season 30 player (2013-09-17).
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Susie Highley, an education consultant from McCordsville, Indiana
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Season 35 player (2019-02-13). Cousin of spouse of Season 1 1-time...
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Tim Suba, a public education consultant from Los Angeles, California
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Season 34 player (2017-10-20).
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Lisa Spardel-Krol, an educational marketer from Watertown, Massachusetts
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Season 28 player (2011-12-30).
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Cat Still, an educational consultant from Los Angeles, California
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Season 28 player (2012-04-13).
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Sally Umbach, a third grade special education teacher from Cincinnati, Ohio
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"She teaches at a school district that has been in operation...
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Todd Federman, a professor and education consultant from Livingston, New Jersey
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Season 29 player (2012-11-28). Father of 2007 Teen Tournament Summer Games...
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Drew Joanides, a high school history teacher from Miami, Florida
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"He is one of our four teachers competing in our tournament...
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Ryan Fox, a graduate student in mathematics education from Athens, Georgia
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Season 27 1-time champion: $18,800 + $2,000.
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Valerie Schultz, a writer and director of religious education from Tehachapi, California
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Season 19 player (2003-07-02).
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Andrew Fuller, a special education teacher from Elburn, Illinois
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Season 27 player (2011-04-18).
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Suzanne Judson-Whitehouse, an education program director from Greenfield, Massachusetts
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Season 28 player (2011-12-02).
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Sally Greene, an education instructor from Moscow, Idaho
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Season 28 player (2012-06-15).
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Morgan Polikoff, a professor of education policy originally from Hinsdale, Illinois
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Season 28 1-time champion: $25,000 + $2,000. Morgan won $20,000 on...
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Paul Cheng, a graduate student of English from Walnut, California
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Season 27 player (2011-03-30).
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Bradley Silverman, a junior from Alpharetta, Georgia
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2008-B Teen Tournament 1st runner-up: $44,600. Jeopardy! Message Board user name:...
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Robert Chodola, a graduate student of education from Fallbrook, California
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Season 29 player (2013-01-29).
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Ellen Dickens, an adult education director from Newcastle, Maine
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Season 27 1-time champion: $21,700 + $1,000.
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Jeff Amoros, a field education coordinator from Ellicott City, Maryland
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Season 27 1-time champion $30,801 + $2,000.
Last name pronounced like "AM-er-us".
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Dolores DeStefano, an arts education administrator from San Francisco, California
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Season 27 player (2011-06-29).
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Niranjan Murali, an education policy professional from Washington, D.C.
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Season 39 player (2023-05-29).
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Mitch Macek, a sophomore at Villanova University in Villanova, Pennsylvania
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2022 National College Championship quarterfinalist: $10,000. Mitch was majoring in mathematics...
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Brooks Humphreys, a high school social studies teacher from Omaha, Nebraska
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"He teaches at an all-girls Catholic school operated by the Sisters...
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Barry Cohen, a higher education management consultant from San Diego, California
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Season 27 player (2011-03-22).
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Elissa Hoffman, a high school biology and anatomy & physiology teacher from Appleton, Wisconsin
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"She is in her lucky 13th year of teaching. From Appleton,...
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James Hawthorne Jr., a special education teacher from Rochester, New York
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Season 29 player (2013-01-16).
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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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Steve Money, an international education specialist from Washington, D.C.
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Season 29 player (2013-01-07).
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Matthew Cline, a 12-year-old from Maumelle, Arkansas
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"John Grisham's books have inspired him. He's firm. He wants to...
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Saadia Mather, a freelance education writer from Playa del Rey, California
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Season 32 player (2015-11-25).
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Elliot Shteir, an attorney from Somerville, New Jersey
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1995-A Seniors Tournament 1st runner-up: $10,000. Dr. Elliot Shteir won $8,230...
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Curtis Joseph, a sophomore from Scottsdale Community College
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"In 1999, his nickname was 'Curtles the Troll', and he wanted...
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Jim Gilligan, an assistant professor of English education originally from New York, New York
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Season 37 1-time champion: $24,401 + $2,000. Jim was the last...
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Yoni Freund, a Ph.D. student from Columbia University
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"He has always wanted to be a writer, and now that...
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Nikhil Desai, a junior from Fremont, California
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2011 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000. 16 at the time of the...
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Tish Koch, an education finance consultant from Long Beach, California
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Season 29 player (2013-03-12).
Last name pronounced like "COOK".
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Eric Hemer, a director of wine education from Lake Worth, Florida
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Season 15 player (1999-04-20).
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Cheryl Grothaus, a computer programmer from New York, New York
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Season 24 player (2008-07-23).
Last name pronounced like "GROAT-house".
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Ed Clarke, a special education teacher from Mansfield, Massachusetts
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Season 15 player (1999-04-15).
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Rick Doyon, a higher education administrator from Somerville, Massachusetts
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Season 32 player (2016-06-10).
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Christie Whitman, a former governor from New Jersey
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"She was New Jersey's first woman governor, and later became administrator...
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Kathleen Mainhart, an assistant professor of education from Brookfield, Connecticut
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Season 20 player (2003-12-19).
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Caroline Bartman, a senior from Washington, D.C.
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2007 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000.
17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Kweisi Mfume, a president from the NAACP
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2004 Power Players Week player (2004-05-11). Name pronounced like "kwah-EE-see oom-FOO-may"....
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Nabeela Rahman, a co-operative education coordinator from Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
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Season 39 player (2023-06-21).
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Tucker Dunn, an ESL teacher from Tucson, Arizona
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Season 33 3-time champion: $39,999 + $1,000. In his first appearance,...
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Melissa Harris-Perry, a professor and editor-at-large from Elle.com
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"She is the Maya Angelou Presidential Chair at Wake Forest University,...
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David Gregory, a political analyst and author from CNN and How's Your Faith?
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"An NBC correspondent and anchor for nearly 20 years, he recently...
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Jonathan Capehart, a journalist from The Washington Post
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"This Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist is a member of the Washington Post...
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Ruben Mancillas, a special education teacher from Long Beach, California
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Season 16 player (2000-03-16). Ruben won $5,000 on Who Wants to...
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Tania Clucas, an education specialist from North Pole, Alaska
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Season 24 player (2008-04-28).
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Sean Gilsdorf, a college teacher from Amherst, Massachusetts
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Season 23 player (2006-12-06).
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Kaberi Chakrabarty, an elementary bilingual teacher from Joliet, Illinois
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2016 Teachers Tournament 1st runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $50,000 + a...
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Cory Harris, a high school English teacher from Mystic, Connecticut
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2016 Teachers Tournament semifinalist: $10,000 + a $2,500 education grant to...
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Tenaya Snider, a 10th grade English teacher from Tucson, Arizona
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2016 Teachers Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000 + a $2,500 education grant to...
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Peter Buchholz, a 6th grade U.S. history and language arts teacher from Minneapolis, Minnesota
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2016 Teachers Tournament semifinalist: $10,000 + a $2,500 education grant to...
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Terrie Trebilcock, a high school history and economics teacher from Glen Rock, Pennsylvania
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2016 Teachers Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000 + a $2,500 education grant to...
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Hannah Krug, a high school math and physics teacher from Laurel, Maryland
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2016 Teachers Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000 + a $2,500 education grant to...
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Jill Gilbert, a middle school English teacher from Des Moines, Iowa
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2016 Teachers Tournament 2nd runner-up: $25,000 + a $2,500 education grant...
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Marc Beebe, an education evaluator from Highland Park, New Jersey
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Season 18 player (2002-06-03).
Last name pronounced like "BEE-bee."
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Ian Miller, a high school history, government, and economics teacher from Woodland Hills, California
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2016 Teachers Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000 + a $2,500 education grant to...
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Jason Sterlacci, a 6th grade English teacher from Somerset, New Jersey
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2017 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. 2016 Teachers Tournament winner: $100,000...
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Greg Greenzweig, a high school art teacher from Pennsville, New Jersey
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2016 Teachers Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000 + a $2,500 education grant to...
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Lauren Gilmore, a high school history teacher from Lake Wales, Florida
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2016 Teachers Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000 + a $2,500 education grant...
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Nicole Throckmorton, an 11th grade English and creative writing teacher from Williamsburg, Virginia
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2016 Teachers Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000 + a $2,500 education grant...
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Dianne Lee, a 4th grade language arts teacher from Savannah, Georgia
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2016 Teachers Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000 + a $2,500 education grant to...
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Bernard Holloway, a junior from Mitchellville, Maryland
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 2002 Teen...
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Chris Tempro, a 9th grade math teacher from Allentown, Pennsylvania
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2016 Teachers Tournament semifinalist: $10,000 + a $2,500 education grant to...
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Heidi Greimann, a junior from Columbia, Missouri
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2002 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $5,000. Heidi was 15 at the...
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Tony Nagatani, a junior at Ithaca College from Honolulu, Hawaii
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2001 College Championship quarterfinalist: $2,500. Tony was 20 at the time...
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Jennifer Giles, a third grade teacher from Longmont, Colorado
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2019 All-Star Games member of wildcard-match 3rd-place Team Buzzy: a share...
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Sam Weaver, a sophomore at Bradley University from Pleasanton, California
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2001 College Championship quarterfinalist: $2,500. Sam was 20 at the time...
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Maria Wenglinsky, a teacher from Brooklyn, New York
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2006 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 22 5-time champion: $122,300...
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Christine Kim, a retired homemaker from Greenwich, Connecticut
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Season 31 2-time champion: $41,401 + $1,000.
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Adam Pinson, a senior at the University of Alabama at Birmingham from Pinson, Alabama
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2005 College Championship 1st runner-up: $50,000. Won $100,000 on Who Wants...
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Pranita Ramakrishnan, from Centreville, Virginia
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"Not only does this future neurologist enjoy swimming, drawing and spelling,...
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Madeline Suchard, from Placentia, California
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"She has her sights set on becoming the Supreme Court Justice,...
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Jayanth Iyengar, a junior at Washington University in St. Louis from Madison, Wisconsin
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2005 College Championship 2nd runner-up: $25,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: Jiyen1213
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Kammy McCleery, a coordinator of experiential education and student employment from Lexington, Kentucky
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Season 21 1-time champion: $12,400 + $2,000.
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Jessica Anderson, a twelve-year-old from Cranston, Rhode Island
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"She's known she wanted to be a teacher for six years--that's...
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Thomas Horn, a twelve-year-old from Piedmont, California
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"He plans on making the world a better place as an...
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Robin Carroll, an instructional designer from Marietta, Georgia
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"Winner of both the 2000 Tournament of Champions and the 2001...
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Rachael Schwartz, a lawyer with an international law firm from Washington, D.C.
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"In 1994, she became the first woman ever to win the...
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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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Matthew Price, a higher education administrator from East Providence, Rhode Island
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Season 31 1-time champion: $22,400 + $1,000.
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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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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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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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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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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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Rosann O'Reilly, an elementary school teacher from the Bronx, New York
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Season 21 player (2005-01-18).
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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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Tracey Marcus, an education coordinator from Homer City, Pennsylvania
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Season 17 player (2000-11-02).
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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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Maureen McKay, a systems engineer from Potomac Falls, Virginia
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Season 21 player (2004-12-15).
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Cheech Marin, an actor, comedian, director, writer and musician from Lost
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"He's played a cop on Nash Bridges, voiced a 1959 Chevy...
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Don Gwinn, a middle school special education teacher from Virden, Illinois
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Season 30 player (2014-01-31).
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Robert Knecht Schmidt, a patent agent from Cleveland, Ohio
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Season 26 1-time champion: $12,799 + $1,000. Middle name pronounced like...
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Maxwell Baldi, a ten-year-old from Los Angeles, California
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"This future U.S. attorney general has always been interested in the...
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Melissa Lake, a special education teacher from Reading, Pennsylvania
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Season 31 player (2015-05-22).
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Cindy de la Peña, a religious education coordinator from Southborough, Massachusetts
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Season 31 player (2015-05-18).
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Soledad O'Brien, an anchor and special correspondent from CNN's Special Investigations Unit
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"Currently the host of CNN's Special Investigations Unit, she's received critical...
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Kevin O'Leary, an entrepreneur from Shark Tank
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"He's opinionated, ruthless, and one of North America's most successful entrepreneurs,...
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Fred Cofone, a copy editor from Old Greenwich, Connecticut
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Season 27 2-time champion: $24,400 + $2,000.
Last name pronounced like "kuh-FONE".
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Francois Dominic Laramée, a writer and TV personality from Verdun, Quebec, Canada
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Season 25 2-time champion: $46,300 + $1,000. Francois's name was printed...
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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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Jennifer Borman, an education researcher from Cranston, Rhode Island
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Season 20 player (2004-04-14).
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Sally O'Rourke, a freelance copywriter originally from Baton Rouge, Louisiana
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Season 27 1-time champion: $33,601 + $1,000.
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Sonja Srinivasan, an education consultant and musician from San Diego, California
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Season 20 2-time champion: $24,250 + $2,000.
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Jamie O'Hagin, a museum education coordinator from Center Tuftonboro, New Hampshire
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Season 27 player (2010-12-07).
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Allie Hagan, an education policy consultant from Washington, D.C.
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Season 27 player (2010-11-30).
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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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Michael Farabaugh, a high school chemistry teacher from Charlottesville, Virginia
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"This chemistry teacher has been making things fizz, smoke, and explode...
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Dawn Frank, a special education teacher from Washington, D.C.
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Season 17 player (2001-01-16).
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Michael Green, a graduate student from Tempe, Arizona
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Season 23 player (2006-10-31).
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Pat Cantor, a professor of education from Concord, New Hampshire
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Season 23 player (2007-03-13).
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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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Nancy Di Marino, a special education teacher from Loudonville, New York
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Season 15 player (1998-10-23).
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Robert Bethune, a middle school science teacher from Rancho Palos Verdes, California
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Season 26 1-time champion: $20,700 + $1,000.
Last name pronounced like "beth-OON".
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Monica Vidrio, a graduate student originally from Ventura, California
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Season 22 1-time champion: $8,000 + $1,000.
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Kate Waits, a law professor at the University of Tulsa from Tulsa, Oklahoma
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"A Harvard Law graduate when she competed in the 1988 Tournament...
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Debbie Howe, an education administrator from Rochester, New York
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Season 6 player (1990-01-26).
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Kerri Regan, a senior from Bethpage, New York
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2005 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500. 17 at the time of the...
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Jessica Holloway, an art education student from The Woodlands, Texas
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Season 35 2-time champion: $54,401 + $2,000.
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Allan Long, a freshman from Tallahassee, Florida
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2005 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500. 14 at the time of the...
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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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