| #9088, aired 2024-04-24 | U.S. MILITARY ACTIONS $600: The 1847 storming of Chapultepec Castle near Mexico City inspired these first 5 words of the Marine Corps' famous hymn From the halls of Montezuma |
| #9087, aired 2024-04-23 | PRESIDENTS & FIRST LADIES $200: A children's library & learning center in Little Rock, Arkansas is named for this first lady Clinton |
| #9087, aired 2024-04-23 | PRESIDENTS & FIRST LADIES $400: The last first lady born in the 1800s, she passed away in 1979, outliving Dwight by 10 years Mamie Eisenhower |
| #9087, aired 2024-04-23 | PRESIDENTS & FIRST LADIES $600: A shopaholic who enjoyed lavish clothes & redecorating the White House, by 1864 she had spent over $27,000 Mary Todd Lincoln |
| #9087, aired 2024-04-23 | PRESIDENTS & FIRST LADIES $800: In the 1860s his great-grandfather George Washington Baines served as president of Baylor University LBJ |
| #9087, aired 2024-04-23 | ITALIAN PRODUCTS $1,000 (Daily Double): This car brand's name begins with the first phonetic letter of the NATO alphabet & ends with another Alfa Romeo |
| #9087, aired 2024-04-23 | PRESIDENTS & FIRST LADIES $1000: Not highly regarded by historians, he's the 19th century president seen here Buchanan |
| #9086, aired 2024-04-22 | LAST NAME'S THE SAME $600: Of these two women, a first lady & an actress who has portrayed first ladies Nixon |
| #9086, aired 2024-04-22 | 6-SYLLABLE WORDS $2000: Meaning "tireless", it was the first British ship sunk at the 1916 Battle of Jutland the HMS Indefatigable |
| #9085, aired 2024-04-19 | ON GUITAR $800: That's Jonny Buckland doing the electric intro riff on this colorful tune, Coldplay's first hit "Yellow" |
| #9085, aired 2024-04-19 | BOWLING $1000: In 1895 the son-in-law of this "Br"and's founder organized the first American Bowling Congress Brunswick |
| #9084, aired 2024-04-18 | AT THE START OF THE SPORT $200: Nomi-No-Sukune, considered the founder of this form of wrestling, is said to have won its first bout in 23 B.C. sumo wrestling |
| #9084, aired 2024-04-18 | PATIENTS $400: Barney Clark lived 112 days after becoming the first recipient of a permanent artificial this in 1982 an artificial heart |
| #9084, aired 2024-04-18 | AT THE START OF THE SPORT $800: Long said to have invented baseball, this military man didn't, but he was definitely at Fort Sumter when the first shots were fired Doubleday |
| #9083, aired 2024-04-17 | HISTORY OF YOSEMITE $800: As seen in an Oscar-winning documentary, Alex Honnold became the first person to free solo this monolith El Capitan |
| #9083, aired 2024-04-17 | "F" IS FOR FOOD $1600: Fern fronds, eaten as a vegetable, have this instrumental name fiddlehead |
| #9083, aired 2024-04-17 | THINGS TO DO IN THE CITY $2000: Ride one of Africa's first metros or visit the Casbah & feel like Charles Boyer in the movie named for this city Algiers |
| #9082, aired 2024-04-16 | COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD $800: In 1960, this island country elected the world's first female prime minister, Sirimavo Bandaranaike Sri Lanka |
| #9082, aired 2024-04-16 | THE MOVIES $800: The first DVD that Netflix mailed was this spirited film starring Alec Baldwin & Geena Davis as a deceased married couple Beetlejuice |
| #9082, aired 2024-04-16 | LIVED PAST 100 $800: The first foreign-born citizen to hold the post of secretary of state, he lived 6 months past his 100th birthday Henry Kissinger |
| #9081, aired 2024-04-15 | PLACES THAT ARE ALSO FIRST NAMES $200: A 2022 population estimate by the Census Bureau lists this Lone Star capital as the 10th-largest U.S. city Austin |
| #9081, aired 2024-04-15 | HISTORIC AMERICANS $200: President Coolidge presented him with the first Distinguished Flying Cross medal Lindbergh |
| #9081, aired 2024-04-15 | PLACES THAT ARE ALSO FIRST NAMES $400: A bust of the brawl-loving Renaissance goldsmith Benvenuto Cellini graces the Ponte Vecchio in this city Florence |
| #9081, aired 2024-04-15 | PLACES THAT ARE ALSO FIRST NAMES $600: Grand Army Plaza & its Soldiers' & Sailors' Arch marks the main entrance to Prospect Park in this New York City borough Brooklyn |
| #9081, aired 2024-04-15 | PLACES THAT ARE ALSO FIRST NAMES $800: The bird girl statue on the cover of "Midnight in the Garden of Good & Evil" can be found at the Telfair Academy in this city Savannah |
| #9081, aired 2024-04-15 | PLACES THAT ARE ALSO FIRST NAMES $1000: The Sahara's Tibesti Mountains & the N'Djamena Grand Mosque are sites in this African country Chad |
| #9081, aired 2024-04-15 | HISTORIC AMERICANS $3,000 (Daily Double): Largely of Sac & Fox descent, he served as the first president of the American Professional Football Association (Jim) Thorpe |
| #9080, aired 2024-04-12 | NEW YORK GOVERNORS $400: On June 29, 1795 this first chief justice resigned from the Supreme Court to become New York's second governor (John) Jay |
| #9080, aired 2024-04-12 | WHERE'D YOU "GO"? $400: Cabrillo National Monument on this city's bay marks the spot where in 1542, the first European landed on America's West Coast San Diego |
| #9080, aired 2024-04-12 | STOCK PHOTOS, KINDA $800: In 2022, this brand had a price point initiative that was $0.25 above what you'd think, its first price change in over 36 years Dollar Tree |
| #9080, aired 2024-04-12 | KIDDY LIT $1000: In Chapter 1 of her first adventure, this character "Moves into Villa Villekulla" Pippi Longstocking |
| #9080, aired 2024-04-12 | ANYTIME $1200: This synonym for anytime is in the title of Shakira's first U.S. Top 40 hit whenever |
| #9080, aired 2024-04-12 | WHERE'D YOU "GO"? $1200: Just off its east coast is John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park, the USA's first undersea park Key Largo |
| #9079, aired 2024-04-11 | A YEAR ENDING IN 4 $600: The Continental Congress met for the first time 1774 |
| #9079, aired 2024-04-11 | THE MANHATTAN PROJECT $1200: In 1942 it was my kind of town--for the first controlled nuclear chain reaction Chicago |
| #9078, aired 2024-04-10 | MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL $400: This fierce competitor from Georgia was the first major leaguer to collect 4,000 hits Ty Cobb |
| #9077, aired 2024-04-09 | MUSICAL GENRE MASTERS $800: Fitting with the band name, "Vivid" was the first album by this hard rock band, featuring Corey Glover & Vernon Reid Living Colour |
| #9077, aired 2024-04-09 | WORDS THAT GO UP TO 11 $1000: Change the first 3 letters in a fancy word for "blessing" to get this, a curse malediction |
| #9076, aired 2024-04-08 | "A" TO "A" COUNTRIES $400: First millennium monk Mesrop Mashtots is credited with creating this nation's alphabet, seen here Armenia |
| #9076, aired 2024-04-08 | WORKING HARD, HARDLY WORKING $600: In 2003 an 80-hour work week & 24-hour shifts were established as upper limits for these post-first-year internship doctors residents |
| #9076, aired 2024-04-08 | POP CULTURE IS SPRINGING OUT ALL OVER $600: Charles Melton represents the first month in the title of this 2023 film that also stars Natalie Portman & Julianne Moore May December |
| #9076, aired 2024-04-08 | "A" TO "A" COUNTRIES $600: In 1967 this Balkan nation was declared the world's first atheist state Albania |
| #9076, aired 2024-04-08 | SLANGUAGE $800: This 4-letter slang word for excellent actually goes back to the 1960s; some say its first letter stands for "pretty" phat |
| #9076, aired 2024-04-08 | NOVEL TITLE CHARACTERS $11,200 (Daily Double): The first name of this title character of a Defoe novel is an old word for a prostitute Moll Flanders |
| #9075, aired 2024-04-05 | IN THE PAST $400: A city in Mexico that borders El Paso bears the name of this man, often called the first indigenous president of Mexico Juárez |
| #9074, aired 2024-04-04 | '90s MOVIE FUN $400: Billy Bob Thornton does his best James Carville in this 1998 film that fictionalized the first Clinton campaign Primary Colors |
| #9074, aired 2024-04-04 | A BEACON IN THE NIGHT $400: Dating from the first century, the tower of this mythical strongman in Spain is said to be the oldest working lighthouse Hercules |
| #9074, aired 2024-04-04 | '90s MOVIE FUN $2000: Scriptwriter Quentin Tarantino first tried to get backing to make this 1993 Christian Slater film that Tony Scott ultimately made True Romance |
| #9074, aired 2024-04-04 | A BEACON IN THE NIGHT $9,000 (Daily Double): The Lanterna of this Italian port is the Mediterranean's tallest lighthouse; Antonio Columbo was a keeper in 1449 of the first ones there Genoa |
| #9073, aired 2024-04-03 | SPRINKLE, SPRINKLE $400: This good "Old" seasoning that is often sprinkled on blue crab was first concocted in Maryland Old Bay |
| #9072, aired 2024-04-02 | AN INVITATION TO THE DANCE $2000: Fayard & Harold were the first names of these brothers, whose amazing moves lit up the screen in films like "Stormy Weather" the Nicholas Brothers |
| #9071, aired 2024-04-01 | SAME LAST 3/ FIRST 3 LETTERS $200: Animal you "play" when feigning death
&
a brief & succinct explanation of an event possum & summary |
| #9071, aired 2024-04-01 | IN MY FEELINGS $400: 4-letter delight; in the 17th century it was first used for a sung musical work glee |
| #9071, aired 2024-04-01 | SAME LAST 3/ FIRST 3 LETTERS $400: The way a softball pitch is thrown
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having both male & female characteristics underhand & androgynous |
| #9071, aired 2024-04-01 | SAME LAST 3/ FIRST 3 LETTERS $600: United one piece of film with another
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wood used in a chest to help repel moths spliced & cedar |
| #9071, aired 2024-04-01 | SAME LAST 3/ FIRST 3 LETTERS $800: Preceder of fasciitis in a foot problem
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plaid Scottish cloth plantar & tartan |
| #9071, aired 2024-04-01 | INTERNATIONAL SPORTS $800: Australia beat England in 1877 to win the first of the international cricket games known by this 2-word term test matches |
| #9071, aired 2024-04-01 | SAME LAST 3/ FIRST 3 LETTERS $1000: 1890s job title of the German seen here
&
8-letter type of parrot seen here a chancellor & lorikeet |
| #9071, aired 2024-04-01 | THE 14th CENTURY $1600: What is today this seaport on a peninsula was captured by the Ottomans in 1354, their first foothold in Europe Gallipoli |
| #9070, aired 2024-03-29 | STATE FLAGS $800: This state's flag features the frigate Raleigh, built in Portsmouth in 1776 & the first ship to fly the U.S. flag in a sea battle New Hampshire |
| #9070, aired 2024-03-29 | PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $1600: Teleplaywright J.P. Miller first gave us these "Days" of an alcoholic couple, later a movie & then a Broadway musical in 2024 the Days of Wine and Roses |
| #9069, aired 2024-03-28 | LGBTQ+ WRITERS & THEIR WORKS $200: "Tomorrow Will Be Different" is by Sarah McBride, the first openly trans state senator from this state, known for being first Delaware |
| #9069, aired 2024-03-28 | BRITISH EXPLORERS $400: William Baffin was the first to determine degrees of this by watching the Moon pass in front of a star in 1615 longitude |
| #9069, aired 2024-03-28 | ALPHANUMERICS $600: The first movie with this designation was "Henry & June" in 1990 NC-17 |
| #9069, aired 2024-03-28 | HIP-POP $2000: Hip-hop artist Chris Rivers is the son of this "Big" guy born Christopher Rios, the first Latino solo rapper to go platinum Big Pun |
| #9069, aired 2024-03-28 | BRITISH EXPLORERS $2000: In 1823 Hugh Clapperton & his party explored Nigeria & became the first Europeans to see this nearby large lake Lake Chad |
| #9068, aired 2024-03-27 | TRENDING $800: Co-founder Tom Anderson was your first friend on this social media platform; in 2005 he sold his company Myspace |
| #9068, aired 2024-03-27 | I'VE GOT A BONE TO PICK WITH YOU $1200: 2 regions of this bone are the manubrium, which joins with the first ribs, & the xiphoid process, which is just fun to say the sternum |
| #9068, aired 2024-03-27 | WORLD LITERATURE $1600: In 1905 Henryk Sienkiewicz, author of this tale of ancient Rome, became the first Polish person to win a Nobel Prize in lit Quo Vadis |
| #9068, aired 2024-03-27 | MUSIC COLLABS $2000: Billie Holiday & this sax player first linked up in 1934; soon enough they gave each other nicknames, Lady Day & Prez Lester Young |
| #9067, aired 2024-03-26 | PICK A CARD, ANY CARD $1000: Not in many wallets today but still a brand of Discover, in 1950 it was the first universal credit card Diners Club |
| #9067, aired 2024-03-26 | SUPREME COURT JUSTICES $1600: As a Boston lawyer, he was known as the "people's attorney"; he went on to become the first Jewish Supreme Court justice Brandeis |
| #9066, aired 2024-03-25 | THE GRAMMYS' GREAT MOMENTS $1200: In 2024 Joni Mitchell performed at the Grammys for the very first time, singing this classic that begins, "Rows & floes of angel hair" "Both Sides, Now" |
| #9065, aired 2024-03-22 | IN THE NATIONAL WOMEN'S HALL OF FAME $400: This first woman appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court Sandra Day O'Connor |
| #9065, aired 2024-03-22 | TIME FOR DESERT $800: In 1873 a team using camels became the first Europeans to cross this continent's Great Sandy Desert Australia |
| #9065, aired 2024-03-22 | TURNING 60 IN 2024 $1000: The First Ladies' Hall was one of its original galleries when it opened to the public on January 23, 1964 the Museum of American History |
| #9065, aired 2024-03-22 | NONFICTION $1000: Published in 1962, it's Barbara Tuchman's acclaimed book detailing the first month of World War I The Guns of August |
| #9065, aired 2024-03-22 | ITALIAN WORDS & PHRASES $1200: The mafia was sometimes called this, Italian for "our thing"; for the Jewish mob, replace the first word with "kosher" Cosa Nostra |
| #9065, aired 2024-03-22 | IN THE NATIONAL WOMEN'S HALL OF FAME $1600: This photographer with a hyphenated name, one of the first photojournalists hired by Life magazine Bourke-White |
| #9065, aired 2024-03-22 | THE OLD TESTAMENT $12,000 (Daily Double): This name of the first minor prophet in book order often comes before "can you see" in punny sermon titles Hosea |
| #9064, aired 2024-03-21 | TRANSPORTATION $200: First opened in 1900, this subway system has been called the lifeline of Paris the Métro |
| #9064, aired 2024-03-21 | HISTORIC FIRSTS $200: In 1993 cosmonaut Aleksandr Serebrov was the first to play a video game in space, this one created by a countryman Tetris |
| #9064, aired 2024-03-21 | HISTORIC FIRSTS $400: In 1986 this man became the first pontiff to enter the Great Synagogue of Rome John Paul II |
| #9064, aired 2024-03-21 | TRANSPORTATION $800: In 2002, Porsche spiced up its line of vehicles with the introduction of this model, its first SUV a Cayenne |
| #9064, aired 2024-03-21 | HISTORIC FIRSTS $800: This man banned the traditional fez hat after becoming the first president of the Republic of Turkey Ataturk |
| #9064, aired 2024-03-21 | CHARACTERS IN BOOK SERIES $1000: The first Sherlock Holmes novel was this one involving a message written in blood A Study in Scarlet |
| #9064, aired 2024-03-21 | HISTORIC FIRSTS $1000: In 1992 this man from Egypt became the first African to be Secretary-General of the United Nations Boutros Boutros-Ghali |
| #9063, aired 2024-03-20 | FIRST NAMES $200: It's the first name shared by Russian heads of state in 1924 & 2024 Vladimir |
| #9063, aired 2024-03-20 | THE DIRECTING BROTHERS $400: Jim Abrahams & the Zucker bros. piloted "Airplane!" & wrote this first "Police Squad" film that had Reggie Jackson attempt regicide The Naked Gun |
| #9063, aired 2024-03-20 | FIRST NAMES $400: This Spanish name for boys & old fishermen literally means "Saint James" Santiago |
| #9063, aired 2024-03-20 | FIRST NAMES $600: Owl tell you right now, Hedy, as in Hedy Lamarr, was short for this German name Hedwig |
| #9063, aired 2024-03-20 | BESTSELLING BOOKS $800: By Feb. 2024 this juvenile journal, the first of almost 20, had spent 778 weeks on the N.Y. Times children's series list Diary of a Wimpy Kid |
| #9063, aired 2024-03-20 | FIRST NAMES $800: Borrowed from Sanskrit & reflecting her Indian heritage, this first name of a D.C. VIP means "lotus flower" Kamala |
| #9063, aired 2024-03-20 | WHEATIES ATHLETES $1000: This Floridian tennis superstar appeared on a box in 1987, the year she won the first & only Wheaties Champions Award (Chris) Evert |
| #9063, aired 2024-03-20 | FIRST NAMES $1000: Girls' names derived from the color white include Alba & this one, like a character in "The Taming of the Shrew" Bianca |
| #9063, aired 2024-03-20 | UNDENIABLE CHEMISTRY $1200: In 1976 the first of this type of rechargeable battery was developed in part by using layers of titanium disulfide lithium-ion |
| #9062, aired 2024-03-19 | NEWER MACHINES & INVENTIONS $200: 3D printers aren't great for mass production but excel with these models, whose name is partly from the Greek for "first" a prototype |
| #9062, aired 2024-03-19 | WELCOME TO THE BIG LEAGUES $600: In 1924 the NHL added its first U.S. team, this New England squad the Boston Bruins |
| #9062, aired 2024-03-19 | SILENCE, LETTERS! $1000: Remember, only the first "M" is silent in this memory aid a mnemonic |
| #9061, aired 2024-03-18 | HORRORS! $800: His Christmas ghost story "The Haunted Man" sold 18,000 copies on its first day of publication in 1848 Dickens |
| #9061, aired 2024-03-18 | CHOOSE A PROTEIN $800: In 1921 Banting & Best first isolated this hormone, a protein composed of 2 chains linked by sulfur atoms insulin |
| #9061, aired 2024-03-18 | INTRODUCTORY WORDS $1600: It refers to the first note of a scale, bringing harmony to a piece of music tonic |
| #9061, aired 2024-03-18 | BUSINESS PARTNERS $2000: An audio oscillator was the first product from this pair who founded one of the original Silicon Valley startups in 1939 Hewlett & Packard |
| #9060, aired 2024-03-15 | FAMOUS WOMEN $400: In 2023 all living first ladies gathered in Atlanta to pay tribute to this first lady who passed away at 96 Rosalynn Carter |
| #9060, aired 2024-03-15 | ON THE WEB $1000: Called "China's Google", this search engine became the first Chinese company to be listed on the NASDAQ 100 Baidu |
| #9060, aired 2024-03-15 | FAMOUS WOMEN $1600: Subject of a 2023 film, in 2013, she became the first person to swim from Cuba to Florida without a shark cage for protection Nyad |
| #9060, aired 2024-03-15 | EXTINCT ANIMALS $2000: This sirenian of the Bering Sea was unknown until 1741 when Georg Steller first described it; within 30 years, it was extinct Steller's sea cow |
| #9060, aired 2024-03-15 | MAKING A PASS $14,000 (Daily Double): The first major U.S.-German battle of World War II took place in February 1943 at Kasserine Pass on this continent Africa |
| #9059, aired 2024-03-14 | MEMORIALS & MONUMENTS $1200: Native American leaders want the name of this first U.S. natl. monument changed, saying it's offensive & based on a mistranslation Devils Tower |
| #9059, aired 2024-03-14 | ENDS IN "IX" $12,200 (Daily Double): This town at the foot of Mont Blanc hosted the first Winter Olympics in 1924 Chamonix |
| #9058, aired 2024-03-13 | 17th CENTURY WRITING $400: In his first speech in "Paradise Lost", he says let's not rebel against one prohibition--we have pruning to do! Adam |
| #9058, aired 2024-03-13 | REAL NAMES OF UNREAL PEOPLE $400: Horatio Magellan are the first & middle names of this cereal seller & man of the sea Captain Crunch |
| #9058, aired 2024-03-13 | THE CLOCK & THE CALENDAR $1000: The Julian calendar had leap years--Feb. 23 lasted 48 hours--& the first one was this last full year of Julius Caesar's life 45 B.C. |
| #9057, aired 2024-03-12 | WHO'S THE BIOPIC SUBJECT? $400: "First Man" Neil Armstrong |
| #9056, aired 2024-03-11 | RENAISSANCE WOMEN $400: A contemporary described Isabella d'Este as the this "of the World", though she was the wife of a marquess, not a president the First Lady |
| #9056, aired 2024-03-11 | ON WHEELS $800: The 1911 Curtiss Triad was the first plane to have retractable this, like modern planes landing gear |
| #9056, aired 2024-03-11 | RENAISSANCE WOMEN $1000: Isotta Nogarola is often said to have been the first major female figure of this people-centric intellectual "-ism" humanism |
| #9056, aired 2024-03-11 | WORLD OF LIT $2000: The short story collection "Face to Face" was the first book by this South African woman who won a 1991 Nobel Prize Nadine Gordimer |
| #9056, aired 2024-03-11 | IT'S CURTAINS $2000: Her first short story collection, "A Curtain of Green", contains her most famous story, "Why I Live at the P.O." Welty |
| #9055, aired 2024-03-08 | LEFTOVERS $200: This organization is the first to tell us that "animals are not ours to experiment on, eat, wear, use for entertainment..." PETA |
| #9055, aired 2024-03-08 | LITERARY AWARDS $200: The first of his 4, count 'em, 4 Pulitzers, was for "New Hampshire: A Poem with Notes & Grace Notes" Robert Frost |
| #9055, aired 2024-03-08 | LEFTOVERS $1000: This book about Natty Bumppo's youth was chronologically first of the "Leatherstocking Tales" but was written last The Deerslayer |
| #9055, aired 2024-03-08 | SHADES OF BLUE $2000: In 1999 Pantone named this peaceful 8-letter shade of sky blue its first color of the year & of the millennium cerulean |
| #9055, aired 2024-03-08 | SHADES OF BLUE $7,600 (Daily Double): In his "Great Waves" print, Hokusai used this imported blue pigment first made in Germany Prussian blue |
| #9054, aired 2024-03-07 | UNUSUAL NICKNAMES $400: This first name of Herr Mendelssohn means "happy", but his manner got him the nickname "discontented Polish count" Felix |
| #9053, aired 2024-03-06 | MEASURES $400: In the 1670s Danish astronomer Ole Roemer was the first to show this was finite, now defined as 186,282 miles per second the speed of light |
| #9053, aired 2024-03-06 | 1924 $800: This future president was born June 12 in Milton, Massachusetts the first President Bush |
| #9053, aired 2024-03-06 | 1924 $2000: This "Flying Finn" was the first athlete from his country to win 5 gold medals at a single Olympics Nurmi |
| #9052, aired 2024-03-05 | HAVE FAITH $400: Rick Warren's last one, to thousands at a Saddleback Church service in August 2022, was the same as his first one, to tens in March 1980 a sermon |
| #9052, aired 2024-03-05 | PEOPLE NAMED ALEX $800: The first Latino senator from California, Alex Padilla grew up in this L.A. area with a Spanish name the San Fernando Valley |
| #9052, aired 2024-03-05 | MOUNTAINS $2000: Edward Whymper was the first to summit this highest mountain in Ecuador, putting him at the farthest point from Earth's center Chimborazo |
| #9051, aired 2024-03-04 | I HEARD A RUMOR $600: Merriam-Webster "spills" the story that using this word to mean a secret truth first gained prominence in Black drag culture the tea |
| #9051, aired 2024-03-04 | HAPPY HOUR $800: In 1988 it became the first song with no instrumental music to reach No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100; perhaps if I whistle a bit... "Don't Worry, Be Happy" |
| #9051, aired 2024-03-04 | FRENCH HISTORY $1600: France's first socialist president, he served two terms from 1981 to 1995 Mitterrand |
| #9051, aired 2024-03-04 | LANGUAGES $8,000 (Daily Double): Hindi & this language named for a region are the 2 most spoken first languages in India Bengali |
| #9050, aired 2024-03-01 | "N"OWLEDGE $1600: Because its pelt was impervious to arrows, Hercules had to strangle this beast as the first of his labors the Nemean lion |
| #9050, aired 2024-03-01 | COVER ME $1600: The Beatles recorded this dance classic at the end of their first album session; good idea, as it blew out John's voice "Twist And Shout" |
| #9049, aired 2024-02-29 | NAME, IMAGE, LIKENESS $400: It's the big-legacy last name of Arch, who signed an NIL deal before throwing his first pass in college football Manning |
| #9049, aired 2024-02-29 | NAME, IMAGE, LIKENESS $800: In 2021 the first-ever NIL store opened in Lincoln Park, giving players on this "Fighting" team a cut of each jersey sold the Fighting Illini |
| #9048, aired 2024-02-28 | BRITISH ACTORS & ACTRESSES $1200: Knighted in 1947, in 1970 he became the first actor to be named a baron Lord Laurence Olivier |
| #9048, aired 2024-02-28 | WOMEN IN LIT $1200: The Swedish title of the first book about this heroine translates as "men who hate women" Lisbeth Salander |
| #9047, aired 2024-02-27 | LITTLE GNOME FACTS $800: On December 10, 1961 Project Gnome in this state's Eddy County became the first nuclear test designed for peaceful purposes New Mexico |
| #9047, aired 2024-02-27 | ARTISTS ON FILM $800: In "Factory Girl" Guy Pearce played this artist whose first "factory" was a studio on East 47th Street Andy Warhol |
| #9047, aired 2024-02-27 | INAUGURAL ADDRESSES $2,800 (Daily Double): Taft talked of the building of this "controlled by Colonel Goethals & his fellow Army engineers" the Panama Canal |
| #9046, aired 2024-02-26 | ALL THINGS DISNEY $200: Naturally, he was the first animated character to get a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame Mickey |
| #9046, aired 2024-02-26 | ITALIAN AMERICANS $400: After 19 nominations, she won her first daytime acting Emmy & in '23, she was honored with a lifetime achievement award Susan Lucci |
| #9046, aired 2024-02-26 | ITALIAN AMERICANS $2000: In 1984 she made history as the first woman to be nominated for vice president by a major political party Ferraro |
| #9044, aired 2024-02-22 | BEFORE THE FIRST WORLD WAR $400: War in Somaliland pitted the dervishes of Sheik Mohammed Abdullah Hassan against British troops mounted on this desert animal camels |
| #9044, aired 2024-02-22 | FROM PAGE TO SCREAM $400: Author Ira Levin claimed credit for first suggesting Mia Farrow as the lead in this 1968 adaptation of his horror novel Rosemary's Baby |
| #9044, aired 2024-02-22 | BEFORE THE FIRST WORLD WAR $800: The ruler with this title was forced by the Young Turk rebels to recall parliament, which he'd suspended 30 years earlier the Ottoman sultan (emperor) |
| #9044, aired 2024-02-22 | BEFORE THE FIRST WORLD WAR $1600: The czar had to sign off in 1906 when this nation, not Russia, became Europe's first to grant women the right to vote Finland |
| #9044, aired 2024-02-22 | BEFORE THE FIRST WORLD WAR $2000: Tough to win a race giving a 60-mile head start as Robert Scott did landing at McMurdo Sound when this man landed at the Bay of Whales Amundsen |
| #9044, aired 2024-02-22 | BEFORE THE FIRST WORLD WAR $7,400 (Daily Double): The history book "The Sleepwalkers" says this event not only stirred war fever in Austria but ended the life of an advocate for peace the assassination of Ferdinand (Archduke Ferdinand's death) |
| #9043, aired 2024-02-21 | 1990s MUSIC $200: "Shakedown" is the first word of this Smashing Pumpkins song named for a year 1979 |
| #9042, aired 2024-02-20 | THE 13 COLONIES $200: With its oldest settlement at Jamestown, it was the first of the 13 colonies to be founded Virginia |
| #9042, aired 2024-02-20 | PILES $600: The first man-made nuclear reactor was a 20-foot pile of graphite blocks with blocks of this element mixed in uranium |
| #9042, aired 2024-02-20 | TAKING FLIGHT $1600: The first African-American woman in space, on her first shuttle mission in 1992, she carried with her a photo of pilot Bessie Coleman Jemison |
| #9041, aired 2024-02-19 | NATIONAL STATUARY HALL $400: In 2003 Kansas became the first state to replace a statue, swapping out Gov. George Washington Glick for this president Eisenhower |
| #9040, aired 2024-02-16 | I'M CUBAN $800: The first Latina inducted in the Songwriters Hall of Fame, she co-wrote her hit "Rhythm Is Gonna Get You" Gloria Estefan |
| #9040, aired 2024-02-16 | TRANSPORTATION $800: The first of these watercraft was the Charlotte Dundas, used to tow barges on the Forth & Clyde Canal in Scotland around 1800 a tugboat |
| #9040, aired 2024-02-16 | NOTABLE NAMES $1600: "Unbought and Unbossed" was a campaign slogan & an autobiography by this first African-American congresswoman Shirley Chisholm |
| #9040, aired 2024-02-16 | CANADIAN GEOGRAPHY $2000: The world's largest freshwater archipelago, Ontario's Georgian Bay Islands are found in this Great Lake Huron |
| #9039, aired 2024-02-15 | THOSE WORDS PACKED SOMETHING TO EAT $1200: There's lunch meat nestled in this cloth used for polishing a chamois |
| #9039, aired 2024-02-15 | POP CULTURE $1200: In 2009 it was revealed that Joy is the first name of this pancake syrup spokescharacter Mrs. Butterworth |
| #9038, aired 2024-02-14 | THOSE MEDDLING KID KINGS & QUEENS $400: In 1547 this teen became the first crowned czar of Russia; later on, he had filicide to his name Ivan the Terrible |
| #9038, aired 2024-02-14 | THE COMPOSER CONDUCTS $800: The first time audiences were taken on this "ride" was when Wagner conducted extracts from his "Ring" cycle in 1862 "Ride Of The Valkyries" |
| #9038, aired 2024-02-14 | THE AIR THAT I BREATHE $2000: The first noble gas discovered on Earth, it makes up almost 1% of standard dry air argon |
| #9037, aired 2024-02-13 | "RH" FACTOR $400: Unlike the large bird, as the first name of "Better Call Saul" actress Seehorn, it rhymes with Shea Rhea |
| #9037, aired 2024-02-13 | IT HAPPENED IN CONGRESS $800: Congress first did this March 3, 1845 in the waning hours of John Tyler's presidency, by votes of 41-1 & 127-30 to override a veto |
| #9036, aired 2024-02-12 | LIFE IN THE 1920s $200: This canine companion first appeared in newspapers in January 1925 Sandy |
| #9036, aired 2024-02-12 | AIRLINE LOGOS $200: This airline's kangaroo logo was first used in 1947; it has gotten considerably more stylized since then Qantas |
| #9035, aired 2024-02-09 | POETRY $200: Many have wondered why Mudville's opponent didn't walk this mighty slugger "at the bat" when first base was open Casey |
| #9035, aired 2024-02-09 | NUMERICAL TELEVISION $200: On the first episode of this show, a family moves to a new city where brother & sister meet new friends at the posh high school Beverly Hills, 90210 |
| #9035, aired 2024-02-09 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: First elected to the House of Representatives in 1987, she became its first female speaker in 2007 Nancy Pelosi |
| #9035, aired 2024-02-09 | 21st CENTURY SCIENCE $400: In 2015 gravitational waves were first directly observed after this man predicted them a century earlier Einstein |
| #9035, aired 2024-02-09 | 21st CENTURY SCIENCE $800: Honored in 2007, Frances E. Allen was the first woman to win the Turing Award for work in this science computer science |
| #9035, aired 2024-02-09 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1600: The first women's club in New York was La Liga de las Hijas de this island where a rebellion against Spain was sending refugees norte-ward Cuba |
| #9035, aired 2024-02-09 | 21st CENTURY SCIENCE $1600: Casgevy for sickle cell disease is the first FDA-approved therapy using the genome editing therapy known by this acronym CRISPR |
| #9035, aired 2024-02-09 | AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: Still going in Macon, a college with this Methodist-conscious name was the USA's first chartered to grant degrees to women Wesleyan College |
| #9035, aired 2024-02-09 | CLASSIC TOYS & GAMES $4,000 (Daily Double): This toy with a sister named Yam was the first toy advertised on TV, back in 1952 Mr. Potato Head |
| #9034, aired 2024-02-08 | SAME FIRST & LAST LETTER $400: In England this professional who can help you buy a house is known as an estate agent a Realtor |
| #9034, aired 2024-02-08 | MILITARY SLANG $600: These days, an enlisted U.S. soldier is this 3-letter first name rather than G.I. a Joe |
| #9034, aired 2024-02-08 | THE MOURNING NEWS $800: After this 19th c. royal was widowed, the "nightly longing to die... for the first 3 years never left"; nearly 47 remained Queen Victoria |
| #9034, aired 2024-02-08 | SAME FIRST & LAST LETTER $800: A command used to activate the transporter on "Star Trek", this verb normally means to fill with vigor energize |
| #9034, aired 2024-02-08 | SUPER BOWL STARS $1000: (I'm Bill Cowher.) In 2006, I coached a spunky Steelers squad to a Super Bowl win, the first win for Pittsburgh since this legendary coach won 4 titles beginning in 1975 Chuck Noll |
| #9034, aired 2024-02-08 | SAME FIRST & LAST LETTER $1200: This adjective can refer to feeling ill due to a lack of liquids, or food that's been preserved by having its water removed dehydrated |
| #9034, aired 2024-02-08 | END OF STORY $1600: A dystopian first-person tale: "But you, O my brothers, remember sometimes thy little Alex that was. Amen. And all that cal" A Clockwork Orange |
| #9034, aired 2024-02-08 | SAME FIRST & LAST LETTER $1600: This devilish Philistine god mentioned in the Bible has a name meaning "lord of the flies" Beelzebub |
| #9034, aired 2024-02-08 | SAME FIRST & LAST LETTER $2000: It's the asexual early stage of a jellyfish's life cycle, shown, or an underside growth in your body, not shown a polyp |
| #9033, aired 2024-02-07 | AHHH, THE FRENCH $400: After Pierre's death, Marie Curie was appointed to his professorship in 1906 & became the first woman to teach at this U. in Paris the Sorbonne |
| #9033, aired 2024-02-07 | SPORTS PROFESSORS $600: For years a star on the Red Army team, in 1989 Igor "The Professor" Larionov became one of the first Soviets to play in this league the NHL |
| #9033, aired 2024-02-07 | ANTHROPOLOGISTS $800: In 1902 Franz Boas established the USA's first department of anthropology at this NYC school Columbia |
| #9032, aired 2024-02-06 | ACTUALLY, THIS IS MY FIRST RODEO $200: Who knew? These on footwear have dulled rowels designed not to puncture the animal's skin spurs |
| #9032, aired 2024-02-06 | ACTUALLY, THIS IS MY FIRST RODEO $400: I realized bluffing didn't get you too far in the event called cowboy this, in which a bull helps players know when to fold 'em poker |
| #9032, aired 2024-02-06 | THE 1970s $400: Making it the world's 6th nuclear power, in 1974 this nation set off its first atomic test, dubbed "Operation Smiling Buddha" India |
| #9032, aired 2024-02-06 | FAMOUS PAIRS $600: They were first paired up in the RKO film "Flying Down to Rio"; "Top Hat" was a more successful venture for them & the studio Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers |
| #9032, aired 2024-02-06 | ACTUALLY, THIS IS MY FIRST RODEO $600: No joke, bullfighter (not that kind) is another name for this rodeo performer who helps out when a rider hits the dirt rodeo clown |
| #9032, aired 2024-02-06 | THE 1970s $600: This woman was the first person Lorne Michaels cast when he was putting together "Saturday Night Live" Gilda Radner |
| #9032, aired 2024-02-06 | ACTUALLY, THIS IS MY FIRST RODEO $800: I thought it would be longer, but a male rider only has to stay on a bronc this long to get a score in a rough stock event 8 seconds |
| #9032, aired 2024-02-06 | SOONER $800: This "Invisible Man" author made his first appearance March 1, 1914 in Oklahoma City Ellison |
| #9032, aired 2024-02-06 | ACTUALLY, THIS IS MY FIRST RODEO $1000: What better way to start off than a trip to this Alberta city's Stampede that's been a-hootin' & a-hollerin' since 1912 Calgary |
| #9032, aired 2024-02-06 | IT'S A BIRD! IT'S A PLANE! $1600: 70 years after Louis Blériot first did it, the human-powered Gossamer Albatross flew across this body of water in 1979 the English Channel |
| #9032, aired 2024-02-06 | FAMOUS PAIRS $2,300 (Daily Double): Depending on whose journal you read, it was either in October or November of 1871 when they first met at Lake Tanganyika Henry Stanley & Livingstone |
| #9031, aired 2024-02-05 | HISTORICAL AMERICAN CURRENCY $200: It still had "Bay Colony" in its name when it issued America's first paper money in 1690 to help fund military expeditions Massachusetts |
| #9031, aired 2024-02-05 | HISTORICAL AMERICAN CURRENCY $400: This Native American's depiction on a $20 banknote in the 1860s was the first time a real woman was seen on American currency Pocahontas |
| #9031, aired 2024-02-05 | HISTORICAL AMERICAN CURRENCY $1000: This Treasury Secretary under Lincoln put his own mug on the first $1 dollar bill, seven years before Washington appeared on one Salmon P. Chase |
| #9031, aired 2024-02-05 | SINGLE-NAMED SINGERS $1600: In 2022 this "Pieces Of You" singer returned with "Freewheelin' Woman", her first album in 7 years Jewel |
| #9030, aired 2024-02-02 | THE GAME OF LIFE $600: The first Saturday in August is a national day for these, which get washed away despite our work, so go build another one! sandcastles |
| #9030, aired 2024-02-02 | WE'VE GOT HISTORY $800: Queen Anne was the first monarch of a united Great Britain & the last from this ruling house Stuart |
| #9030, aired 2024-02-02 | A SUCCESSFUL OPERATION $1,000 (Daily Double): Part of biliary surgery, the operation to remove this, now one of the most common, was first done by Dr. Langenbuch in 1882 the gallbladder |
| #9030, aired 2024-02-02 | ETCH & SKETCH $1000: Seen here is the first in a series of six prints making up "A Harlot's Progress" by this 18th century Brit Hogarth |
| #9030, aired 2024-02-02 | TALKING ABOUT TOLKIEN $1600: To his family & close friends, Tolkien was known by this name, the first "R" in his initials Ronald |
| #3, aired 2024-02-02 | PICK YOUR POISON $2000: This weed with poisonous juices gets its name from the first permanent English settlement in North America Jamestown (weed) (or Jimsonweed) |
| #9029, aired 2024-02-01 | MOUNTAIN HIGH $800: Mount Pinatubo volcano erupted in this nation in 1991 for the first time in 600 years, producing a column of ash more than 20 miles high the Philippines |
| #9028, aired 2024-01-31 | THE ENGLISH PAST $200: Founded in 1753, this national antiquities collection was first housed in a London mansion called Montagu House the British Museum |
| #9028, aired 2024-01-31 | OPERA $2000: The first in a trilogy of operas by Philip Glass about great men who changed the world was him "On the Beach" Einstein |
| #9027, aired 2024-01-30 | FIRST NAME'S THE SAME $400: TV hosts
Kressley &
Daly Carson |
| #9027, aired 2024-01-30 | 4-LETTER INTERJECTIONS $400: This interjection is the first thing Lil Jon says on Usher's hit of the same title Yeah! |
| #9027, aired 2024-01-30 | HARLEM HELLFIGHTERS $600: (Robin Roberts presents the clue.) After facing racial discrimination near their training facility in South Carolina in 1917, the Harlem Hellfighters were among the first U.S. units to ship to France as they joined this vast body of troops--AEF for short the American Expeditionary Force |
| #9027, aired 2024-01-30 | FIRST NAME'S THE SAME $800: French guys Mitterrand & Truffaut François |
| #9027, aired 2024-01-30 | FIRST NAME'S THE SAME $1200: Ex-P.M. Eden & ex-Supreme Court justice Kennedy Anthony |
| #9027, aired 2024-01-30 | FIRST NAME'S THE SAME $1600: Gangster Cohen & pulp writer Spillane Mickey |
| #9027, aired 2024-01-30 | FIRST NAME'S THE SAME $2000: Harlem renaissance writer McKay & French anthropologist Lévi-Strauss Claude |
| #9026, aired 2024-01-29 | WOMEN IN SPORTS $200: In May 1970 aboard a longshot named Fathom, Diane Crump became the first female jockey in this horse race the Kentucky Derby |
| #9026, aired 2024-01-29 | LOST IN SPACE $400: During 1965's Gemini 4 mission, Ed White lost a glove while conducting the first American one of these excursions a spacewalk |
| #9025, aired 2024-01-26 | HISTORIC BATTLES $400: The first major combat engagement for helicopter-transported U.S. troops was the battle of Ia Drang in this conflict the Vietnam War |
| #9025, aired 2024-01-26 | HISTORIC BATTLES $800: 490 B.C.'s Battle of Marathon showed the Greeks for the first time that they could defeat a force of this mighty empire the Persian Empire |
| #9025, aired 2024-01-26 | COACHING BASKETBALL $1000: Real first name Glenn, this man had the prescription for the Celtics in 2008, taking them to the championship Doc Rivers |
| #9024, aired 2024-01-25 | ON MY HISTORIC CV $200: 1972: first tenured female faculty member, Columbia Law; 1993: nominated to Supreme Court to replace Byron White Ruth Bader Ginsburg |
| #9024, aired 2024-01-25 | START TALKING, SHAKESPEARE CHARACTER $200: Her first line in "Othello" is "My noble father, I do perceive here a divided duty" Desdemona |
| #9024, aired 2024-01-25 | START TALKING, SHAKESPEARE CHARACTER $400: Falstaff's first line in this non-history play is "Now, Master Shallow, you'll complain of me to the king?" The Merry Wives of Windsor |
| #9024, aired 2024-01-25 | START TALKING, SHAKESPEARE CHARACTER $600: Her first speech is "What, jealous Oberon? Fairies, skip hence. I have forsworn his bed and company" Titania |
| #9023, aired 2024-01-24 | ONE-TERM PRESIDENTS $800: Opting for peace vs. war with France alienated his own party & helped make this man the very first one-termer John Adams |
| #9023, aired 2024-01-24 | ART & ARTISTS $1600: His painting of "Olympia" traveled to the U.S. for the first time for a 2023 exhibit on this French painter & his frenemy Degas Édouard Manet |
| #9023, aired 2024-01-24 | BALD IS BEAUTIFUL $2000: This political strategist's first success was helping Bob Casey get elected governor of Pennsylvania in 1986 Carville |
| #9022, aired 2024-01-23 | YOUNG PEOPLE'S NONFICTION $400: "The Whydah" is the tale of the first authenticated pirate ship recovered; it sank off this New England cape Cape Cod |
| #9022, aired 2024-01-23 | POETS & POETRY $800: The first episode of "Antiques Odeshow" would be about the 1819 Keats poem with this title object a Grecian Urn |
| #9022, aired 2024-01-23 | THESE STARS SOUND LIKE CARS $1000: First name of Oscar-winning actresses Ruehl & McCambridge Mercedes |
| #26, aired 2024-01-23 | LISA, ANN OR WALTER? $800: First name of the subject of the 2011 sports biography "Sweetness" Walter (Peyton) |
| #26, aired 2024-01-23 | OZZY OSBOURNE'S FAVORITE SONGS $900: Ozzy said his world stood still the first time he heard this Led Zeppelin tune that lends its title to a film by Richard Linklater "Dazed And Confused" |
| #26, aired 2024-01-23 | PEAK TV $2,000 (Daily Double): Mike White, the creator of this series, said that the first season is about money and the second season is about sex White Lotus |
| #9021, aired 2024-01-22 | AVIATION PIONEERS $400: John Moisant made the first flight across this body of water carrying a passenger & his cat, soon renamed Paris-London the English Channel |
| #9021, aired 2024-01-22 | TEMPERA-MENTAL ARTISTS $400: Painted in tempera, Botticelli's "Birth of Venus" is the first known Tuscan painting on this, now synonymous with painting material canvas |
| #9021, aired 2024-01-22 | LETTERS OF THE LAW $400: T: This defense, first used in the case of Dan White, relating to his sugar consumption & mental state Twinkie |
| #9021, aired 2024-01-22 | AVIATION PIONEERS $800: In 1913 Lincoln Beachey became the first American to perform this repetitive-sounding maneuver, flying in a vertical circle loop the loop |
| #9021, aired 2024-01-22 | WHAT A "DAY" $800: The U.S. Army first used this term in 1918 to designate September 12 for the launch of a big attack in France D-Day |
| #9021, aired 2024-01-22 | AVIATION PIONEERS $1200: On the first coast-to-coast flight, in 1911 Cal Rodgers took off from Sheepshead Bay, N.Y. & landed in this Ca. "City of Roses" Pasadena |
| #9021, aired 2024-01-22 | AVIATION PIONEERS $1600: Elrey Jeppesen made the first navigation charts for U.S. pilots, who until then had used this Illinois co.'s road maps Rand McNally |
| #9021, aired 2024-01-22 | AVIATION PIONEERS $2000: In 1927 he launched his Wichita Aviation Company & produced the first of his small monoplanes, the Phantom (Clyde) Cessna |
| #9020, aired 2024-01-19 | AMERICA BEFORE 1800 $400: John Winthrop's nephew George Downing, of Downing Street fame, was among the first 9 graduates of this school in 1642 Harvard |
| #9020, aired 2024-01-19 | AGRICULTURE $1200: In 1915 International Harvester introduced its first one of these with an onboard engine to power the thresher the combine |
| #9019, aired 2024-01-18 | WHAT IN THE WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS...? $600: In 1900 the U.S. beat the Brits in the first match for this international team tennis "Cup" the Davis Cup |
| #9019, aired 2024-01-18 | A WOMAN'S PLACE $800: Women "sizes 10-40" can shop at stores bearing this name, which includes a misspelling of founder Lena's first name on a bank form Lane Bryant |
| #9019, aired 2024-01-18 | VEGETABLE STEW $800: The first prop this comic used was a Neighborhood Watch sign that he stole to show that the Watch wasn't very watchful Carrot Top |
| #9019, aired 2024-01-18 | A WOMAN'S PLACE $1600: Open for 10 days until the cops came in 1916, the Brownsville Clinic in Brooklyn was the USA's first to offer guidance about this birth control |
| #9019, aired 2024-01-18 | A WOMAN'S PLACE $2000: Hillary Clinton was the first student ever asked to give the commencement address at this college Wellesley |
| #9018, aired 2024-01-17 | U.S. STAMPS $200: Showing a wreath, a ribbon & 2 candles, the first USPS stamp celebrating this was controversial in 1962 for mixing church & state Christmas |
| #9018, aired 2024-01-17 | POLITICS AS UNUSUAL $800: The 1974 Senate race in N.H., with 220,000 votes cast, was won by 355, then after the first of these, by 10, then after another, by 2 recounts |
| #9018, aired 2024-01-17 | POLITICS AS UNUSUAL $1000: With saving salmon fishing as her big issue, in 2022 Mary Peltola beat this woman & became the first Alaska native in Congress Sarah Palin |
| #9017, aired 2024-01-16 | 1980s PRO WRESTLING $400: Better get ready, brother! This alliterative WWE legend who flexed "24-inch pythons" played Thunderlips in "Rocky III" Hulk Hogan |
| #9017, aired 2024-01-16 | 1980s PRO WRESTLING $800: Randy Savage went by this nickname, also the first Top 40 hit for the Village People in 1978 "Macho Man" |
| #25, aired 2024-01-16 | WHO CAME FIRST? $100: John Quincy Adams,
John F. Kennedy,
Jon Bon Jovi John Quincy Adams |
| #25, aired 2024-01-16 | WHO CAME FIRST? $200: Sally Ride,
Coretta Scott King,
Florence Nightingale Florence Nightingale |
| #25, aired 2024-01-16 | TRAIN STATIONS $300: The signs of the zodiac grace the iconic ceiling
of this New York City landmark, one of the world's first all-electric buildings Grand Central |
| #25, aired 2024-01-16 | WHO CAME FIRST? $300: Ferdinand Magellan,
Marco Polo,
Christopher Columbus Marco Polo |
| #25, aired 2024-01-16 | WHO CAME FIRST? $400: Coco Chanel,
Frida Kahlo,
Jane Austen Jane Austen |
| #25, aired 2024-01-16 | WHO CAME FIRST? $500: Alexander the Great,
Attila the Hun,
Genghis Khan Alexander the Great |
| #25, aired 2024-01-16 | IMPORTANT DATES IN U.S. HISTORY $900: May 21, 1927: Charles Lindbergh & this airplane complete the first nonstop, solo flight across the Atlantic ocean The Spirit of St. Louis |
| #25, aired 2024-01-16 | IMPORTANT DATES IN U.S. HISTORY $1200: August 30, 1967: this civil rights lawyer is confirmed as the first African-American Supreme Court justice Thurgood Marshall |
| #25, aired 2024-01-16 | THE FRENCH HORN $2,000 (Daily Double): In one of the least alluring rituals of horn maintenance, players must invert their instruments routinely to drain them of this spit |
| #9016, aired 2024-01-15 | RELIGIONS OF THE WORLD $400: During the first millennium A.D. Brahma lost importance in the Trimurti of this religion & doesn't have tons of temples Hinduism |
| #9016, aired 2024-01-15 | WORLD HISTORY $800: In 1989 Japan got a new emperor for the first time in most of its citizens' lives, as Akihito succeeded this ruler Hirohito |
| #9016, aired 2024-01-15 | AUTHORS' BIRTHSTONES $1,000 (Daily Double): Would Alice Walker have called her 1982 novel something else if her February birthstone wasn't the color purple, this one? amethyst |
| #9015, aired 2024-01-12 | HISTORIC AMERICAN WOMEN $400: Britannica says this woman who wore turbans, gambled & took snuff "may be said to have created the role of the first lady" (Dolley) Madison |
| #2, aired 2024-01-12 | MY "SON", THE PRESIDENT $400: Chronologically, he was the first who fits the category Jefferson |
| #2, aired 2024-01-12 | 3 LITTLE LETTERS $1200: Russia's Tupolev Tu-144 was the world's first type of this speedy jet an SST |
| #1, aired 2024-01-12 | HEAR ME ROAR $2000: Alphabetically first in Old Testament books comes this prophet who says, "The Lord will roar from Zion" Amos |
| #9014, aired 2024-01-11 | NOVELS $400: Early in this city "Blues", the first of about a dozen Tess Monaghan novels, ex-reporter Tess is rowing toward Fort McHenry Baltimore |
| #9014, aired 2024-01-11 | NOVELS $800: The book that started it all, 1993's "Along Came a Spider", was this author's first novel to feature detective Alex Cross (James) Patterson |
| #9014, aired 2024-01-11 | NOVELS $2000: His sci-fi story "Burning Chrome" & his novel "Neuromancer" had some of the first uses of the term "cyberspace" Gibson |
| #9013, aired 2024-01-10 | WORLD OF FIRST NAMES $400: From a Kikuyu word for "white mountain", it's an east African country & the first name of TV's Barris, creator of "black-ish" Kenya |
| #9013, aired 2024-01-10 | U.S. MONEY $600: In the late 18th century, the first U.S. coins were minted in this city, the capital at the time Philadelphia |
| #9013, aired 2024-01-10 | TEX & THE CITY $600: The first 4 WNBA titles went to the Comets of this city Houston |
| #9013, aired 2024-01-10 | WORLD OF FIRST NAMES $800: Many boys in Latin America have names of the big archangels: Gabriel, Rafael & this Spanish name Miguel |
| #9013, aired 2024-01-10 | WORLD OF FIRST NAMES $1200: The Ukrainian-American dancer & TV star seen here has this first name that means "greatest" Maksim |
| #9013, aired 2024-01-10 | WORLD OF FIRST NAMES $1600: Malik is Arabic for this high title, but don't call yourself Malik al-Amlak, or this of these--vainglory makes Allah angry king |
| #9013, aired 2024-01-10 | ONE MAN, BANNED $2000: Yevgeny was the first name of this late mercenary leader who fled to Belarus after gaining Putin's ire in 2023 Yevgeny Prigozhin |
| #9013, aired 2024-01-10 | WORLD OF FIRST NAMES $2000: This French version of a girls' name important in the New Testament is also given to boys, like the Marquis de Lafayette Marie |
| #9012, aired 2024-01-09 | SPORTS TAKES $600: Stephen A. Smith & Molly Qerim talk sports & more on this ESPN show First Take |
| #9012, aired 2024-01-09 | WOMEN OF COUNTRY MUSIC $800: In 2020 Natalie Maines, Emily Strayer & Martie Maguire dropped the first part of their trio's name & now go simply as this The Chicks |
| #9012, aired 2024-01-09 | COLLEGE PREP $800: In 1881 this University of Pennsylvania institution became America's first collegiate business school Wharton |
| #9012, aired 2024-01-09 | WOMEN OF COUNTRY MUSIC $2000: 13 in 1972 when she had her first hit, "Delta Dawn", she continues to put out music, including her recent album, "Sweet Western Sound" Tanya Tucker |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | NEW YORK TIMES OBITUARIES $200: Lindbergh is mentioned in the first paragraph of her 1937 obit Amelia Earhart |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | FEMALE FIRSTS $300: The first female CEO of a Fortune 500 company, Katharine Graham was the longtime publisher of this D.C.-based newspaper The Washington Post |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | COUNTRIES THAT START WITH "I" $500: Of the eight member states in the United Nations that begin with an I, it's the first one alphabetically Iceland |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | FEMALE FIRSTS $600: In 1975, Junko Tabei was on top of the world when she became the first woman to reach the summit of this highest peak Mount Everest |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | FEMALE FIRSTS $900: A few years before playing Rose on "The Golden Girls", she became the first woman to win an Emmy for Outstanding Game Show Host Betty White |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | FEMALE FIRSTS $1200: In 2018, she became the first American woman to win a medal in every single event at the World Gymnastics Championships Simone Biles |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | FEMALE FIRSTS $1500: Decades before becoming the first female Supreme Court justice, she refused a marriage proposal from future Chief Justice Rehnquist Sandra Day O'Connor |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | FAIRY TALE ADAPTATIONS $5,000 (Daily Double): "Ash," based on this fairy-tale character, falls for a huntress & not a prince so she'll need more practical footwear Cinderella |
| #9011, aired 2024-01-08 | PRESIDENTIAL DOGS $200: LBJ had several of this breed, which, if you remove the first letter, becomes a national symbol a beagle |
| #9011, aired 2024-01-08 | IT'S CORN $400: A 2023 survey by the National Confectioners Association found 18% of folks eat the wide yellow end of this sweet first candy corn |
| #9011, aired 2024-01-08 | MUSIC $600: In 1953 he became the first American to conduct at La Scala in Milan; 4 years later, he helped tell a "West Side Story" Bernstein |
| #9010, aired 2024-01-05 | OUR MAN ON THE FIELD $200: Coming on the pitch in the 60th minute in his Inter Miami regular season debut in 2023, he got his first MLS goal 29 minutes later Messi |
| #9010, aired 2024-01-05 | THIS & THAT $200: Budgies are the first known non-mammals to experience contagious this action, perhaps leading to a nap yawning |
| #9010, aired 2024-01-05 | OUR WOMAN IN THE FIELD $400: The first woman to win this prize for criticism, Emily Genauer took it (& $1,000!) in 1974 for her writing on art a Pulitzer |
| #9010, aired 2024-01-05 | LINES IN CLASSIC NOVELS $1000: This Sinclair Lewis guy hears "Preacher... damned if I'm going to watch you seducing the first girl you get your big sweaty hands on" Elmer Gantry |
| #9009, aired 2024-01-04 | PUT ON YOUR HELMET! $400: This team was the first in the NFL to put an emblem on a football helmet after halfback Fred Gehrke designed one with spiraling horns the Rams |
| #9008, aired 2024-01-03 | JOHN GREEN $1000: (John Green presents the clue.) In my first novel, "Looking for Alaska", Miles "Pudge" Halter has an obsession with famous last words; my favorite are those of this Irish writer in 1900, something to the effect of, "Either this wallpaper goes, or I do" Wilde |
| #9007, aired 2024-01-02 | THE CHARLES III KIND $2,600 (Daily Double): Charles' coronation on May 6, 2023 at this location was the first British coronation in 7 decades Westminster Abbey |
| #23, aired 2024-01-02 | "LADY"S FIRST $200: Seen here, this insect's spots & bright color signal to predators that it will taste really bad if eaten the ladybug |
| #23, aired 2024-01-02 | AUTO BIOGRAPHIES $300: You can say I'm flashy since I'm this first responder vehicle, like what Ernest Hemingway drove in WWI an ambulance |
| #23, aired 2024-01-02 | OATHS $300: In 2000, the word "doping" was first included in the oath for participants of this event, being held in Australia the Olympics |
| #23, aired 2024-01-02 | "LADY"S FIRST $400: A famous scene from this 1955 Disney film is nicknamed the "spaghetti kiss" Lady and the Tramp |
| #23, aired 2024-01-02 | SOJOURNER TRUTH $600: Having been raised in an area settled by immigrants from the Netherlands, this was Truth's first language Dutch |
| #23, aired 2024-01-02 | TINY DESK CONCERTS $600: It's the network that has broadcast Tiny Desk Concerts (1,000 and counting) since folk singer Laura Gibson did the first in 2008 NPR |
| #23, aired 2024-01-02 | "LADY"S FIRST $600: This pop star said she died her hair blonde because she was tired of constantly being confused with Amy Winehouse Lady Gaga |
| #23, aired 2024-01-02 | "LADY"S FIRST $800: When making a classic tiramisù, these small sponge cakes are soaked in espresso ladyfingers |
| #23, aired 2024-01-02 | AFRICAN HISTORY $800: This country, where "Casablanca" is set, is often considered the first to have recognized the U.S. by a 1777 shipping decree Morocco |
| #23, aired 2024-01-02 | "LADY"S FIRST $1000: In legend, King Arthur got his beloved sword Excalibur from this woman who lived underwater the Lady of the Lake |
| #23, aired 2024-01-02 | MAINE ATTRACTIONS $1000: Maine boasts this first national park established in the East which also happens to be first alphabetically Acadia National Park |
| #23, aired 2024-01-02 | URANUS, SHMURANUS $1000: Uranus was first discovered in the 18th century; Shakespeare wrote "Coriolanus" in this century the 17th century |
| #23, aired 2024-01-02 | AFRICAN HISTORY $1000: Seen here is the flag of this country where Ellen Johnson Sirleaf took office as Africa's first elected female head of state in 2006 Liberia |
| #9006, aired 2024-01-01 | PEOPLE $1000: She first gained fame for her Vietnam Veterans Memorial; more recently she designed New York City's Museum of Chinese in America Maya Lin |
| #9006, aired 2024-01-01 | RETIRED $1200: In 1990 Crayola's first group of crayons to be permanently retired included lemon yellow & this "raw" brown umber |
| #9005, aired 2023-12-29 | IT HAPPENED IN DECEMBER $400: The prizes bearing his name were first awarded on December 10, 1901, the fifth anniversary of his death Nobel |
| #9005, aired 2023-12-29 | IT HAPPENED IN DECEMBER $1200: Full of humor, weather predictions & practical advice, it was first published in December 1732 under a pseudonym Poor Richard's Almanack |
| #9005, aired 2023-12-29 | IT HAPPENED IN DECEMBER $1600: Far from home, Pedro I became the first emperor of this country on December 1, 1822 Brazil |
| #9004, aired 2023-12-28 | WOMEN ON TRIAL $400: Aileen Wuornos, the first woman to fit the FBI profile of this type of multiple murderer, called jurors "scumbags" a serial killer |
| #9004, aired 2023-12-28 | NBA NICKNAMES $800: Before his first NBA game Nike was pushing "The Extraterrestrial" for Victor Wembanyama, this team's 2023 number one draft choice the Spurs |
| #9004, aired 2023-12-28 | AMAZING ARMENIANS $1200: The first of Armenian descent, George Deukmejian was governor of this U.S. state from 1983 to 1991 California |
| #9004, aired 2023-12-28 | MEASUREMENT $1600: In 1979 the average price of gas at U.S. service stations passed this milestone for the first time a dollar a gallon |
| #9003, aired 2023-12-27 | 2023 SPORTS HIGHLIGHT REEL $400: For the first time, the U.S. women didn't reach the semifinals of this, getting knocked out by Sweden in the round of 16 the Women's World Cup |
| #9003, aired 2023-12-27 | REPORTING THE NEWS $1200: Let's go "Face to Face"--this Peabody winner was the first Asian person & the second woman to anchor a major U.S. network newscast (Connie) Chung |
| #9003, aired 2023-12-27 | REPORTING THE NEWS $2000: She moderated two vice presidential debates & with Judy Woodruff on PBS, became part of U.S. network broadcasting's first female co-anchor team Gwen Ifill |
| #9002, aired 2023-12-26 | JUST "E"AT IT $200: In the U.S., this French word signifies the main course, but in France it means the first course the entrée |
| #9002, aired 2023-12-26 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $400: Following this disaster in 2005, Tulane was forced to close for several months, the first time since the Civil War Hurricane Katrina |
| #9002, aired 2023-12-26 | BEST ACTRESS OSCAR WINNERS $4,800 (Daily Double): In 1997, picking up her first of 3 Oscars for Best Actress, she thanked her son Pedro & her husband Joel Frances McDormand |
| #9000, aired 2023-12-22 | WEATHER IN THE BOOKSTORE $200: 2-word title of "A Celebration of the Sesame Street Theme Song" Sunny Day |
| #9000, aired 2023-12-22 | CAROLS $200: This carol was first performed in Austria on Christmas Eve in 1818 as "Stille Nacht" "Silent Night" |
| #9000, aired 2023-12-22 | CAROLS $400: Later to have a long-running TV variety show, she won her first Emmy in 1962 for work on "The Garry Moore Show" Carol Burnett |
| #9000, aired 2023-12-22 | CAROLS $800: The words to this song first appeared in a church magazine in 1849 "It Came Upon A Midnight Clear" |
| #9000, aired 2023-12-22 | CAROLS $2000: In 1992, this Democrat from Illinois became the first African-American woman elected to the Senate Carol Moseley Braun |
| #8999, aired 2023-12-21 | FIRST LADIES' MAIDEN NAMES $400: Better known as Pat: Thelma Ryan (Pat) Nixon |
| #8999, aired 2023-12-21 | FIRST LADIES' MAIDEN NAMES $800: A distant relation of an 1850s president:
Barbara Pierce Bush |
| #8999, aired 2023-12-21 | BOOK TOCK $800: Published in 1930, "The Secret of the Old Clock" was the first mystery this teen detective solved Nancy Drew |
| #8999, aired 2023-12-21 | FIRST LADIES' MAIDEN NAMES $1200: Wife of a war hero:
Julia Dent (Julia) Grant |
| #8999, aired 2023-12-21 | FIRST LADIES' MAIDEN NAMES $1600: Stepmom of Alice: Edith Carow Roosevelt |
| #8999, aired 2023-12-21 | FOLKLORE & LEGEND $1600: West Virginia has a statue of this half-human, half-insect creature supposedly first sighted in Point Pleasant in the mid-1960s the Mothman |
| #8999, aired 2023-12-21 | FIRST LADIES' MAIDEN NAMES $2000: A big help to her disabled husband:
Edith Bolling Wilson |
| #8998, aired 2023-12-20 | FAMOUS FINNS $400: In her first term, Tarja Halonen, Finland's first female president, had one of these of 88%, which, wow... an approval rating |
| #8998, aired 2023-12-20 | IT'S A VISION BOARD $600: In the first book in English by a woman, Julian of Norwich lists visions including the universe as the size of this a hazelnut |
| #8998, aired 2023-12-20 | IT'S A VISION BOARD $1000: In his "First Vision", in New York State in 1820, he asked Jesus which church had the truth & Jesus said none of them Joseph Smith |
| #8998, aired 2023-12-20 | OPERA $1600: The first Paris production of this composer, an 1861 "Tannhäuser", was a debacle due to dog whistles (the audible kind) Wagner |
| #8998, aired 2023-12-20 | FAMOUS FINNS $1600: Born Johan & known by the nickname Janne, this great composer took the French form of his first name (Jean) Sibelius |
| #8997, aired 2023-12-19 | SUPER SUCCESSFUL SEQUELS $1200: 2009:
This first "Transformers" sequel was No. 1 in domestic box office for the year Revenge of the Fallen |
| #8997, aired 2023-12-19 | IT HAPPENED IN 2023 $1600: When park rangers in Queensland found Toadzilla, a nearly 6-pound one of these invasive amphibians, they had first thought it was fake a cane toad |
| #8996, aired 2023-12-18 | PLAY SETTINGS $400: "The Crucible":
1692 in this Massachusetts city Salem |
| #8996, aired 2023-12-18 | U.S. FIRSTS $400: The first successful nationally distributed low-calorie beer was Lite from this brand Miller |
| #8996, aired 2023-12-18 | U.S. FIRSTS $800: In 1929 "Wings" took the first Best Picture Oscar & this swashbuckler, Sr., was the first host of the ceremony Douglas Fairbanks |
| #8996, aired 2023-12-18 | NOT CHESS AGAIN! $800: White moves first & looks to increase his advantage; black replies & seeks to gain this, part of Wyoming's state nickname equality |
| #8996, aired 2023-12-18 | U.S. FIRSTS $1600: The Downing Urn was the first memorial to be placed in this Capitol area that now has many the National Mall |
| #8996, aired 2023-12-18 | U.S. FIRSTS $2000: The first nuclear explosion was set off at the New Mexico site with this religious name, aka Jornada del Muerto the Trinity site |
| #8996, aired 2023-12-18 | ODDS & "N"s $2000: Note the family resemblance between King George V of England on the right & this first cousin on the left Nicholas II (of Russia) |
| #8996, aired 2023-12-18 | U.S. FIRSTS $7,000 (Daily Double): The first woman mayor of a major U.S. city was Bertha Landes in Seattle; soon after came Dorothy Lee in this city 172 miles south Portland (Oregon) |
| #8995, aired 2023-12-15 | AN "L" OF A TEAM $800: They were still based in the Midwest when they won the first NBA title in 1950 the Lakers |
| #8994, aired 2023-12-14 | IT'S ALL RELATIVE $1000: This first novel by Theodore Dreiser tells of a young woman's rise to become a successful Broadway actress Sister Carrie |
| #8994, aired 2023-12-14 | A MATTER OF "LIFE" OR "DEATH" $1600: Though they sound like they sit on the beach, they're the senior British army regiment & first saw action in the 1600s the Life Guards |
| #8993, aired 2023-12-13 | IT WAS AN OLYMPIC YEAR! $800: Hillary Clinton elected to Senate; first full-time crew arrives at International Space Station 2000 |
| #8993, aired 2023-12-13 | HOLMES, SHERLOCK HOLMES $1000: This kindly landlady was first mentioned by name in the second Holmes story, "The Sign of the Four" Mrs. Hudson |
| #8993, aired 2023-12-13 | IT WAS AN OLYMPIC YEAR! $1,200 (Daily Double): McKinley wins term one; the Supreme Court rules on Plessy v. Ferguson 1896 |
| #8992, aired 2023-12-12 | AUTO RACING $200: Designating you as the winner, it's the flag each driver wants to see first at the finish of an auto race the checkered flag |
| #8992, aired 2023-12-12 | McPEOPLE $400: He was first elected to the Senate from Arizona in 1986 John McCain |
| #8992, aired 2023-12-12 | SEINFELD BEFORE & AFTER $400: This George Costanza portrayer was the first U.S. Treasury Secretary Jason Alexander Hamilton |
| #8992, aired 2023-12-12 | SOUNDS KINDA "IFF"-Y $800: The first "T" in GATT, they're taxes one nation puts on goods imported from another Tariffs |
| #8992, aired 2023-12-12 | I'M ABSOLUTELY SURE $1000: This worldwide secret society founded its first British grand lodge in 1717 the Freemasons (the Masons) |
| #8992, aired 2023-12-12 | McPEOPLE $2000: Get to know the real Jackie O at a 2023-2024 exhibit at the National First Ladies' Library at this woman's Canton, Ohio home Ida McKinley |
| #8992, aired 2023-12-12 | YES, I'VE ETON $2000: In power in the 1720s & 1730s, this Etonian is considered England's first prime minister Walpole |
| #8991, aired 2023-12-11 | IT'S THE GENEVA CONVENTION $200: Article 1 of the 1864 first convention called for protection of military hospitals & these vehicles ambulances |
| #8991, aired 2023-12-11 | DIRECTORS' FIRST FEATURES $400: "Citizen Kane"
(1941) (Orson) Welles |
| #8991, aired 2023-12-11 | DIRECTORS' FIRST FEATURES $800: "Play Misty for Me"
(1971) Clint Eastwood |
| #8991, aired 2023-12-11 | HOME ON THE RANGE $800: This creamy pasta dish was created in the early 1900s; the Italian chef created it for his wife, but put his own first name on it Alfredo |
| #8991, aired 2023-12-11 | DIRECTORS' FIRST FEATURES $1200: "The Virgin Suicides"
(1999) Sofia Coppola |
| #8991, aired 2023-12-11 | DIRECTORS' FIRST FEATURES $1600: "Eraserhead"
(1978) (David) Lynch |
| #8991, aired 2023-12-11 | DIRECTORS' FIRST FEATURES $2000: "The 400 Blows"
(1959) Francois Truffaut |
| #8990, aired 2023-12-08 | WE'RE TALKING BASEBALL $400: Alphabetically, he's the first player listed in Baseball's Hall of Fame Hank Aaron |
| #8989, aired 2023-12-07 | LABOR UNIONS $2000: When several unions of these workers struck in 1970, troops had to replace federal employees for the first time postal employees |
| #8988, aired 2023-12-06 | HOUSE PARTY $600: Billed as "the most shocking tale of carnage ever seen", Rob Zombie's first movie was titled "House of 1000" these Corpses |
| #8988, aired 2023-12-06 | HODGEPODGE $800: A Connecticut town gave its name to this tick-borne disease that was first identified in the 1970s Lyme disease |
| #8988, aired 2023-12-06 | HOUSE PARTY $1000: In 1899 the first juvenile court in the nation was organized at this Chicago house co-founded by Jane Addams Hull House |
| #22, aired 2023-12-06 | I WANT MY "M" TV $300: Tipping his hat to Tom Selleck, Jay Hernandez wore a Detroit Tigers cap on the first episode of this reboot set in Hawaii Magnum, P.I. |
| #22, aired 2023-12-06 | "OO"! "OO"! I KNOW! $600: Kevin Bacon once said that when he attends a wedding, he bribes the DJ to not play this song from a 1984 movie he starred in "Footloose" |
| #22, aired 2023-12-06 | THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE $1500: Known as the Dean of the Renaissance, Alain Locke was the first African American awarded this scholarship to Oxford University the Rhodes Scholarship |
| #8987, aired 2023-12-05 | SPORTS STUFF $600: In college, this basketball star was the first freshman named National Player of the Year (Kevin) Durant |
| #8987, aired 2023-12-05 | PURPLE PROSE & POETRY $800: Milton wrote of this Roman god, "that first from out the purple grape crush'd the sweet poison of misused wine" Bacchus |
| #8986, aired 2023-12-04 | GIVE THE "DEVIL" $600: Ecclesiastical changes in 1983 eliminated the job of this adversarial examiner first appointed in 1587 the devil's advocate |
| #8986, aired 2023-12-04 | MOVIE DIRECTORS $2000: Long before "Spider-Man", he first made his name with "The Evil Dead" when he was just 22 Sam Raimi |
| #8985, aired 2023-12-01 | AEROSMITH $1000: "I Don't Want To Miss A Thing", Aerosmith's first No. 1 hit, was from this movie Armageddon |
| #8985, aired 2023-12-01 | EVE 6 $1200: Eve is the first name of this character played by Naomie Harris in "Skyfall" Moneypenny |
| #8984, aired 2023-11-30 | QUOTABLE QUOTES $400: The first words he spoke on the telephone were "Mr. Watson, come here; I want to see you" Alexander Graham Bell |
| #8984, aired 2023-11-30 | IF IT AIN'T BAROQUE… $800: 1947's "Lucifer" was one of the first "poured" paintings by this artist Pollock |
| #8984, aired 2023-11-30 | I MARRIED A BEATLE $1000: Cynthia Powell John Lennon |
| #8983, aired 2023-11-29 | A, B OR C $200: Alphabetically, it's the first letter that does not begin a state name B |
| #8983, aired 2023-11-29 | A, B OR C $600: In the name of the outfit that first broadcast the U.S. House in 1979, this precedes "SPAN" C |
| #8983, aired 2023-11-29 | BARRE TENDERS $1200: In 1989, he again danced with the Kirov Ballet, the first time since his defection 28 years earlier Rudolf Nureyev |
| #21, aired 2023-11-29 | THIS DAY IN WORLD HISTORY $100: January 9, 1863: London opens the world's first underground railway, now commonly known as this the Tube |
| #21, aired 2023-11-29 | CANDLE CULTURE $200: Though no one on "Friends" knew what his job was, this character's first name suggests he could have been a candlemaker Chandler (Bing) |
| #21, aired 2023-11-29 | SLOVENIA, BABY, SLOVENIA! $300: Famous Slovenians include this former first lady, who in 2018 launched the children-focused initiative Be Best Melania Trump |
| #21, aired 2023-11-29 | THIS DAY IN WORLD HISTORY $300: February 22, 1997:
Scientists in Scotland introduce the first clone of an adult mammal, a sheep named after this country singer Dolly Parton |
| #21, aired 2023-11-29 | RULES OF THE GAME $500: Be the first player to go from "onesies" to "tensies" & you win the game jacks |
| #21, aired 2023-11-29 | FILMS TURNING THE BIG FOUR-OH $500: Meryl Streep & Nora Ephron first worked together on this film about a nuclear facility whistleblower Silkwood |
| #21, aired 2023-11-29 | WOMEN & SPORTS $600: Named general manager of the Miami Marlins in 2020, Kim Ng became this pro sport's first female GM baseball |
| #21, aired 2023-11-29 | SLOVENIA, BABY, SLOVENIA! $1200: In 2004, Slovenia became the first former republic of this Communist country to join the European Union Yugoslavia |
| #8982, aired 2023-11-28 | SECONDS $200: The largest library in the world is the British Library in London; this American library is second, even at 145 million items the Library of Congress |
| #8981, aired 2023-11-27 | THE 23rd PSALM $200: They're the first 5 words of the Psalm The Lord is my shepherd |
| #8981, aired 2023-11-27 | I WANT MY "BABY" BACK, "BABY" BACK $200: Louise Brown's arrival in 1978 made her the first successful one of these in vitro creations a test tube baby |
| #8981, aired 2023-11-27 | I WANT MY "BABY" BACK, "BABY" BACK $400: In 2007 the first of these, born 1 second after midnight January 1, 1946, filed for Social Security a Baby Boomer |
| #8981, aired 2023-11-27 | CULTURE CLUB $800: In 1877 the Bolshoi first danced this ballet about a prince who falls for a were-bird Swan Lake |
| #8981, aired 2023-11-27 | COUNTRY MUSIC HITS $1200: In their first No. 1 hit, the Zac Brown Band served up "A Little Bit Of" this, "& cold beer on a Friday night" chicken fried |
| #8980, aired 2023-11-24 | CHESS $400: The first "C" in ICCF; it stands for how moves are exchanged between players geographically apart correspondence |
| #8980, aired 2023-11-24 | AN AMERICAN IN PARIS $800: This first Chief Justice of the U.S. negotiated the Treaty of Paris in 1782 (John) Jay |
| #8980, aired 2023-11-24 | IT'S THE COCKATIEL HOUR $800: The difference between males & females becomes apparent after the first of these shedding periods at 6-9 months molting |
| #8979, aired 2023-11-23 | NORDIC LITERATURE $1200: Sweden is a grim place in this first book of the "Millennium" series in which Lisbeth & Mikael solve a 40-year-old crime The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo |
| #8978, aired 2023-11-22 | COMPANY NAME ORIGINS $400: Jeff Bezos settled on this name because it started with the first letter of the alphabet & implied something really large Amazon |
| #8978, aired 2023-11-22 | "B"OOKS $1,000 (Daily Double): The title of this bestseller by Ann Patchett refers to a smooth style of opera singing bel canto |
| #8978, aired 2023-11-22 | 18th CENTURY TECHNOLOGY $2000: John Bird made the first of these navigating instruments with an arc of 60 degrees, or one-sixth of a circle a sextant |
| #8977, aired 2023-11-21 | CAR TUNES $600: "Drive" is the first track on this group's album "Automatic for the People" R.E.M. |
| #8977, aired 2023-11-21 | SPEAK OF THE DEVIL $1000: John Donne:
"In best understandings, sin began, / angels sinn'd first, then devils, and then" him man |
| #8977, aired 2023-11-21 | CAR TUNES $1000: This number follows "Rocket" in the name of a classic Oldsmobile & of a song about it, often called the first rock & roll record 88 |
| #8977, aired 2023-11-21 | TEACHING $1200: Sounding like an advantage in a foot race, this program recognizes parents as a child's first & most influential teacher Head Start |
| #8977, aired 2023-11-21 | COMMUNICATION $2000: In 1962 NASA teamed with AT&T to create this, the first active communications satellite Telstar |
| #8977, aired 2023-11-21 | INTERNATIONAL CINEMA SHOWCASE $2000: The 2011 Oscar for Best Foreign Film went to director Asghar Farhadi's "A Separation", the first winner from this country Iran |
| #8976, aired 2023-11-20 | MOVIE SEQUELS $1200: "2010"
(1984) 2001: A Space Odyssey |
| #8975, aired 2023-11-17 | MORE TRICKY QUESTIONS $400: If you enter a room with a matchbook & there's a candle, oil lamp & heater, this is what you'd light first the match |
| #8974, aired 2023-11-16 | WE'LL SPOT YOU A LETTER $400: First letter H:
A small village a hamlet |
| #8974, aired 2023-11-16 | POP MUSIC $800: (I'm Hans Zimmer.) Before scoring films I could be seen tickling the ivories on this new wave classic by The Buggles, the first ever video on MTV "Video Killed The Radio Star" |
| #8974, aired 2023-11-16 | ROBIN WILLIAMS MOVIE QUOTES $800: "My first day as a woman, I'm getting hot flashes" Mrs. Doubtfire |
| #8974, aired 2023-11-16 | WE'LL SPOT YOU A LETTER $1000: First letter P:
These wavelike contractions move food through the digestive tract peristalsis |
| #20, aired 2023-11-15 | ADVENTUROUS WOMEN $100: One of history's first travel writers, the 4th-century pilgrim Egeria explored the Holy Land using this book as a guide the Bible |
| #20, aired 2023-11-15 | FOR THE LOVE OF PETE $100: His first kiss with future ex Kim Kardashian was in a 2021 "SNL" sketch--& he was dressed as Aladdin Pete Davidson |
| #20, aired 2023-11-15 | THE SEARCH FOR FOREIGN LANDS $200: After gaining its independence in 1963, Jomo Kenyatta became this African country's first prime minister Kenya |
| #20, aired 2023-11-15 | SIX DEGREES OF ACTUAL BACON $400: Mayo is in egg salad with hard-boiled eggs, which are with bacon atop this salad, first served at LA's Brown Derby Cobb salad |
| #20, aired 2023-11-15 | "N-I-A-L" AIN'T A RIVER IN EGYPT $600: It describes the "first pitch" thrown by a guest of honor at a baseball game -- a nice way of saying it doesn't actually count ceremonial |
| #20, aired 2023-11-15 | ROGET'S BUTT $600: A synonym for "butt", it's also "an unclean animal" according to the king James Bible ass |
| #20, aired 2023-11-15 | THAT'S HALF THE BATTLE $600: First major battle of the American Revolution
B_N_E_
H_L_ Bunker Hill |
| #20, aired 2023-11-15 | MUSICAL INSTRUMENT MAKERS $900: The first grand piano made by this German in 1836 is dubbed "the kitchen piano" after the room where he crafted it (Henry) Steinway |
| #8972, aired 2023-11-14 | CARL SAGAN $800: Sagan was among the first to suggest that Jupiter's moon Europa might have this & that it might contain life oceans |
| #8972, aired 2023-11-14 | '90s MUSIC $2000: "Protect Ya Neck" was the first single by this hip-hop group with a martial arts-themed name Wu-Tang Clan |
| #8972, aired 2023-11-14 | TALK CLEANLY TO ME $2,600 (Daily Double): From the Latin for "clean", it's a 6-letter adjective for virgin, hey! still not touched for the very first time chaste |
| #8971, aired 2023-11-13 | THE AUTO MAN EMPIRE $600: Charles & Henry were the first names of this pair of Englishmen who produced the Silver Ghost in 1907 Rolls Royce |
| #8970, aired 2023-11-10 | GREENS $200: Joe Raposo wrote the words & music, but this character first sang, "It's Not Easy Being Green" Kermit the Frog |
| #8970, aired 2023-11-10 | SHIPS $1200: The first 4 Cunard vessels were Acadia, Caledonia, Columbia & this one that really ruled the waves Britannia |
| #8970, aired 2023-11-10 | SHIPS $2000: A space shuttle was named for this ship seen here, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution's first research vessel the Atlantis |
| #8969, aired 2023-11-09 | PRAY $1200: Between the first thread of light & actual sunrise, Muslims pray for the first of this many times each day 5 |
| #8969, aired 2023-11-09 | MATH SYMBOLS $1600: An arrow with a dot at the non-pointed end indicates this, also a male first name a ray |
| #8968, aired 2023-11-08 | FAN MAIL TO HISTORIC FIGURES $3,200 (Daily Double): Will you sign my copy of the "Domesday Book" you commissioned, my king? It's a first edition from 1086 William the Conqueror |
| #8967, aired 2023-11-07 | ALBERT CAMUS $1600: In the original French, the first line of this Camus novel is "Aujourd'hui, maman est morte" The Stranger |
| #8966, aired 2023-11-06 | IT'S GONNA BLOW! $400: In first position this instrument's slide is fully retracted; in 7th position, fully extended trombone |
| #8966, aired 2023-11-06 | CALL OUT THE BOB SQUAD $800: After years of yelling at soldiers as a first sergeant in the Air Force, this man vowed to use a more soothing voice painting on TV (Bob) Ross |
| #8966, aired 2023-11-06 | TO THE EXOPLANETS! $1200: The first Earth-size exoplanets were found by the NASA satellite launched in 2009 & named for this 17th c. German astronomer Kepler |
| #8966, aired 2023-11-06 | A "LA" CARTE $1600: In 1682 he led the first European expedition to follow the Mississippi to its mouth La Salle |
| #8966, aired 2023-11-06 | TO THE EXOPLANETS! $1600: In 1992 the first exoplanets were found orbiting one of these rotating stars that emit regular bursts of radiation pulsars |
| #8966, aired 2023-11-06 | TO THE EXOPLANETS! $3,200 (Daily Double): In 1995 astronomers confirmed the first exoplanet orbiting a sunlike star, in this "equine" constellation Pegasus |
| #8965, aired 2023-11-03 | BIG-SCREEN ELVIS $200: "King Creole", Elvis' favorite of his 31 films, was the first shot on location--the French Quarter in this city New Orleans |
| #8965, aired 2023-11-03 | FAMOUS PAIRS $400: Born just days apart in 1951, they opened their first ice cream shop in a renovated gas station in Vermont in 1978 Ben & Jerry |
| #8965, aired 2023-11-03 | FAMOUS PAIRS $1,000 (Daily Double): Their first map appeared in an 1872 issue of the "Railway Guide" Rand & McNally |
| #8965, aired 2023-11-03 | THE COMETS $2000: The man behind the nebulae M numbers; his first love was comets--Louis XV called him the "comet ferret" (Charles) Messier |
| #8964, aired 2023-11-02 | ALL THE PRESIDENTS' CHILDREN $200: In 2014, she & husband Marc Mezvinsky welcomed their first child, Charlotte Chelsea Clinton |
| #8964, aired 2023-11-02 | KENNEDY CENTER HONOREES $400: In 1999, at age 49, he was the youngest honoree ever; he had his first No. 1 hit in 1963 at age 12 Stevie Wonder |
| #8964, aired 2023-11-02 | KENNEDY CENTER HONOREES $1600: The first group of honorees in 1978 included this opera singer Marian Anderson |
| #8963, aired 2023-11-01 | MEN & WOMEN OF SCIENCE $200: In 1925 this American anthropologist first visited Samoa; she wrote a book about it three years later Margaret Mead |
| #8963, aired 2023-11-01 | NAME THAT TUNESTER $400: "I got my first real six string, bought it at the 5 & dime, played it till my fingers bled, was the summer of '69" Bryan Adams |
| #8963, aired 2023-11-01 | MEN & WOMEN OF SCIENCE $600: In 1667 the U.K.'s Margaret Cavendish was the first woman to attend a meeting at this science society the Royal Society |
| #8963, aired 2023-11-01 | RWANDA $2000: This contemporary & rival of Sir Richard Burton became the first European to visit the area of Rwanda in 1858 John Speke |
| #19, aired 2023-11-01 | A YEAR THAT ENDS IN ZERO $800: Jeff Probst welcomes the first tribes on "Survivor",
Metallica sues Napster 2000 |
| #19, aired 2023-11-01 | COMPOSER PLAYLISTS $3,000 (Daily Double): "Treemonisha";
"Maple Leaf Rag";
"The Ragtime Dance";
"The Entertainer" Scott Joplin |
| #8962, aired 2023-10-31 | NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM $1200: "Circus Sideshow", completed in 1888, was this artist's first night painting using the pointillist technique Seurat |
| #8961, aired 2023-10-30 | IT'S IN YOUR MIND $400: A first shot in golf, or a psychological term for a strong motivating instinct drive |
| #8961, aired 2023-10-30 | ACCENTÉ $1200: First name of literary giants Malraux & Gide André |
| #8960, aired 2023-10-27 | BAD ENGLISH $800: Its the typographical mark that is missing in the first line of this clue. the apostrophe |
| #8959, aired 2023-10-26 | SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY $200: The top secret payload when this company first launched its Dragon space capsule in 2010? A wheel of cheese SpaceX |
| #8959, aired 2023-10-26 | LET'S GO LOBSTERING $400: To determine this on a lobster, check whether the first pair of swimmerets are hard or feathery the sex |
| #8959, aired 2023-10-26 | SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY $2,800 (Daily Double): This biologist first gained acclaim for writing in 1937 with her article, "Undersea" in the Atlantic Monthly Rachel Carson |
| #8958, aired 2023-10-25 | ON THE "ROAD" AGAIN $200: In 1804 a steam carriage was first put onto one of these; it could haul 70 men & 10 tons of iron for 10 miles railroad |
| #8958, aired 2023-10-25 | SHE BLINDED ME WITH SCIENCE $400: Alice Ball was 23 & a college instructor in Hawaii in 1915 when she developed the first successful treatment for this, also known as Hansen's disease leprosy |
| #8958, aired 2023-10-25 | PRODUCE $600: Dr. Thomas Welch is credited with making the first unfermented juice from this fruit a grape |
| #8958, aired 2023-10-25 | ALSO ON THE MONOPOLY BOARD $800: Morgan Freeman's first regular TV gig The Electric Company |
| #8958, aired 2023-10-25 | SHE BLINDED ME WITH SCIENCE $1200: Rosalind Franklin's X-ray photograph of this helped prove it to be a double-helix polymer DNA |
| #8958, aired 2023-10-25 | SHE BLINDED ME WITH SCIENCE $2000: Called the first female M.D. in modern times, she helped found the London School of Medicine for Women in 1875 Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell |
| #18, aired 2023-10-25 | FIX THE MOVIE QUOTE $200: Brad Pitt:
"The first rule of chess club is: you do not talk about chess club" Fight Club |
| #18, aired 2023-10-25 | OH, BROTHER! $200: Adam and Eve's first two sons; you may have heard they had a falling out Cain & Abel |
| #18, aired 2023-10-25 | THE NOBEL PRIZE $400: The prize for this newest category was first awarded in 1969 -- roughly 68 fiscal years after all the others Economics |
| #18, aired 2023-10-25 | FOODS NAMED AFTER PEOPLE $600: Less is "S'more"? This cracker was created by a preacher who hoped that eating it would promote abstinence a graham cracker |
| #18, aired 2023-10-25 | OH, BROTHER! $1000: These NFL siblings made history in 2023 by becoming the first brothers to compete against each other in the Super Bowl the Kelce brothers (Jason & Travis Kelce) |
| #18, aired 2023-10-25 | LIBRARIES $1000: She wrote "I was 6 when my father walked me to my first library"; she was 37 when her novel "The Joy Luck Club" was published Amy Tan |
| #8957, aired 2023-10-24 | "POUND" KEY $200: This word can come before microscope or fracture; the first is definitely better compound |
| #8957, aired 2023-10-24 | INVENTED FIRST $200: Stereoscope,
bifocal lens,
X-ray tube bifocal lens |
| #8957, aired 2023-10-24 | CONTRONYMS $400: It's the mildest type of burn but the harshest type of murder first degree |
| #8957, aired 2023-10-24 | INVENTED FIRST $400: Microwave oven, fiberglass,
canned food canned food |
| #8957, aired 2023-10-24 | INVENTED FIRST $600: Cotton gin,
guncotton,
bubble gum cotton gin |
| #8957, aired 2023-10-24 | INVENTED FIRST $800: Linoleum,
Bakelite,
aspartame linoleum |
| #8957, aired 2023-10-24 | INVENTED FIRST $1000: Bunsen burner,
Geiger counter,
Leyden jar the Leyden jar |
| #8957, aired 2023-10-24 | THE METROPOLITAN OPERA $2000: In 2021 the Met premiered its first opera by a Black composer, this jazz trumpeter 5 months younger than Wynton Marsalis Terence Blanchard |
| #8956, aired 2023-10-23 | THE REALLY OLD COLLEGE TRY $200: In 1638 the first class was in at this university, which consisted of 1 master in a single frame house & a college "yahd" Harvard |
| #8956, aired 2023-10-23 | PEOPLE WITH MUPPET NAMES $1200: The first player in the National League to be MVP two years in a row, he's known as Mr. Cub Ernie Banks |
| #8956, aired 2023-10-23 | A WOMAN OF THE WORLD $1,600 (Daily Double): In 1993, True Path Party leader Tansu Ciller became the first female prime minister of this large Muslim country Turkey |
| #8955, aired 2023-10-20 | OLDE ENGLAND $800: The first section of this 1215 document states that "the English Church shall be free" the Magna Carta |
| #8954, aired 2023-10-19 | ROCKET MAN $200: Maurice "Rocket" Richard of this 1950s team's dynasty was the first NHL player to score 500 goals the Canadiens |
| #8954, aired 2023-10-19 | ROCKET MAN $400: This "Rocket" was the first pitcher to win the Cy Young Award 7 times Roger Clemens |
| #8954, aired 2023-10-19 | IT'S OUR TURN TO SACK ROME!!! $600: 455 A.D.:
These people, whose name is now synonymous with pillage & destruction, sack Rome the Vandals |
| #8953, aired 2023-10-18 | MIRRORS $400: In 1668 Newton placed a mirror in one of these devices to create a much better image a telescope |
| #8953, aired 2023-10-18 | IN CRISIS MODE $4,000 (Daily Double): The first armed U.N. Peacekeeping Force was established on Nov. 7, 1956 in response to this Mideast crisis the Suez Crisis |
| #17, aired 2023-10-18 | HISTORICAL MARKERS $100: Located in Kokomo, Indiana, "Haynes' Horseless Carriage" is on the spot where Elwood Haynes first tested one of these in 1894 automobile |
| #17, aired 2023-10-18 | POPULAR BABY NAMES OF THE 2010s $200: #1 for girls: it's also the first name of actresses Watson, Roberts & Thompson Emma |
| #17, aired 2023-10-18 | HISTORIC QUOTES REPHRASED $800: Friedrich Nietzsche, 1888: "Tough situations will build my resilience--assuming I don't die first" what doesn't kill me makes me stronger |
| #17, aired 2023-10-18 | ON ANOTHER PLANET $1000: This blue-green ice giant was the first planet to be discovered with a telescope Uranus |
| #17, aired 2023-10-18 | "I" CAN GO EITHER WAY $1200: Take this first name (he loved Lucy), move its "I" from the back to the front, and you get this ominous day for Caesar ides |
| #8952, aired 2023-10-17 | THE MAMAS & THE PAPAS $200: Known as "the Father of Pennsylvania", he also fathered 8 children with his first wife Penn |
| #8952, aired 2023-10-17 | ASTROLOGY TIME $800: Considered the first sign of the zodiac, it's often represented by a ram Aries |
| #8952, aired 2023-10-17 | SUMMER OLYMPIC CITIES $800: This city hosted the Summer Games in 1964, a first for Asia Tokyo |
| #8952, aired 2023-10-17 | SUMMER OLYMPIC CITIES $1200: Athens hosted the first Modern Olympics in 1896; this other European capital hosted the second games in 1900 Paris |
| #8952, aired 2023-10-17 | WORLD WRITERS $1600: Honoré was the first name of this French "Human Comedy" author Balzac |
| #8952, aired 2023-10-17 | WORLD WRITERS $2000: The first non-European winner of the Nobel Prize for lit, this Calcutta-born man is seen here with another Nobel winner Rabindranath Tagore |
| #8950, aired 2023-10-13 | LANDLOCKED COUNTRIES $400: Among landlocked countries, this war-torn Asian land is alphabetically first Afghanistan |
| #8950, aired 2023-10-13 | FELONIOUS MONKS $2000: As the first Grand Inquisitor in Spain, this Dominican authorized torture Torquemada |
| #8949, aired 2023-10-12 | SPOOKY LITERATURE $200: (Justin Long presents the clue.) To pass the time on a rainy day in Geneva, she & her husband & friends were telling each other ghost stories; she came up with "Frankenstein"--not bad for starting your first novel at age 18 (Mary) Shelley |
| #8949, aired 2023-10-12 | SPOOKY LITERATURE $600: (Justin Long presents the clue.) "Welcome to Dead House" from 1992 was the first of the books in the "Goosebumps" series by this author that by now has sold a spooky number of copies (R.L.) Stine |
| #8948, aired 2023-10-11 | SURELY YOU JOUST $600: The National Jousting Association says the first recorded joust came in this year, same as the Battle of Hastings 1066 |
| #8948, aired 2023-10-11 | AN IMMODEST PROPOSAL $800: Imelda, you're a 1950s Manila beauty queen! Nice! But marry me & be my first lady (& you'll get shoes! Lots of shoes!) Marcos |
| #8948, aired 2023-10-11 | SURELY YOU JOUST $1000: Most jousting was unregulated & illegal until given official sanction for the first time by this English king in 1194 A.D. Richard I (the Lionhearted) |
| #16, aired 2023-10-11 | LESSER-KNOWN SIBLINGS $100: Barbara Ross-Lee was the first Black female dean of a U.S. medical school; her sister led this '60s Motown group The Supremes |
| #16, aired 2023-10-11 | FEELING GASSY $600: Designed by a French marquis in 1783, the pyroscaphe was the first operable boat to be powered by this gas steam |
| #16, aired 2023-10-11 | MERRIAM-WEBSTER'S WORDS OF THE YEAR $1000: In 2003, the first Merriam-Webster "Word of the Year" was this form of government by the people democracy |
| #16, aired 2023-10-11 | FEELING GASSY $1000: Helium gas gets its name from the Greek word for this astronomical body where it was first detected the Sun |
| #8947, aired 2023-10-10 | NOT SO RECENT SCIENCE $400: In 1891 Brucia, the 323rd asteroid discovered, was unique as it was the first one found by using these photography (photographs from a camera) |
| #8946, aired 2023-10-09 | A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME $400: On Dec. 31, 2005 a this second (not a this year) was added at 23:59:60, the first extra second in 7 years a leap second |
| #8945, aired 2023-10-06 | IF AT FIRST YOU DON'T SECEDE... $400: "We seceded where others failed" is the motto of the Conch Republic, formed for 1 minute by these Florida islands the Keys |
| #8945, aired 2023-10-06 | PICK A NUMBER BETWEEN 5 & 477 $600: Oh, craps! On the first dice roll I threw boxcars, this number 12 |
| #8945, aired 2023-10-06 | IF AT FIRST YOU DON'T SECEDE... $800: It was the first U.S. state to secede, leading to the Civil War South Carolina |
| #8945, aired 2023-10-06 | DEAD SCIENTISTS SOCIETY $800: This American was a real rocket scientist, launching his first liquid-propelled one March 16, 1926 Goddard |
| #8945, aired 2023-10-06 | IF AT FIRST YOU DON'T SECEDE... $1600: In 2011 the south part of this northeast African nation became independent Sudan |
| #8945, aired 2023-10-06 | IF AT FIRST YOU DON'T SECEDE... $2000: This nation has fought several battles over territory with Ethiopia since seceding from it in 1993 Eritrea |
| #8945, aired 2023-10-06 | THE CRIMEAN WAR $2000: For throwing a live shell off the deck of HMS Hecla, Charles Davis Lucas was in the first group awarded these on June 26, 1857 a Victoria Cross |
| #8945, aired 2023-10-06 | IF AT FIRST YOU DON'T SECEDE... $4,000 (Daily Double): In 1965 this island city-state peacefully seceded from Malaysia Singapore |
| #8944, aired 2023-10-05 | ALPHABET POP $400: Turn up the radio, it's "Life Goes On", Billboard's first ever Korean language No. 1 hit by this group BTS |
| #8944, aired 2023-10-05 | FRANKLY $600: Frank Ocean's first label album was "Channel" this color, which debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard charts Orange |
| #8944, aired 2023-10-05 | I DON'T GIVE A... $800: Wrestling throw that puts an opponent on the canvas back-first a body slam (a powerslam) |
| #8944, aired 2023-10-05 | LOOK IN THE CABINET $1200: The first Cabinet secretary in the line of presidential succession the Secretary of State |
| #15, aired 2023-10-04 | NAME GAME $200: First name + R&B singer who married Whitney Houston = this "Stranger Things" actress Millie Bobby Brown |
| #15, aired 2023-10-04 | COMPUTING MILESTONES $200: In 2005, a 19-second clip titled "Me at the zoo" was the first video ever uploaded to this website YouTube |
| #15, aired 2023-10-04 | BYGONE TECH $300: The TPS-L2 was the first model of this personal audio player that cost $200 when it debuted in the U.S. in 1980 the Walkman |
| #15, aired 2023-10-04 | THREE DIGIT PRIME NUMBERS $600: In 1968, an Alabama politician made the first test call on this emergency services telephone number 911 |
| #15, aired 2023-10-04 | NAME GAME $800: First name + longtime CNN anchor = this "Pygmalion" playwright George Bernard Shaw |
| #15, aired 2023-10-04 | RISING UP $1,000 (Daily Double): One of activist Greta Thunberg's fans is this former governor who owned the first electric Hummer H-1 Arnold Schwarzenegger |
| #15, aired 2023-10-04 | COMPUTING MILESTONES $1000: One of the first search engines shared its name with this comic book character, inspiring successors named Veronica & Jughead Archie |
| #8942, aired 2023-10-03 | 4, 4 $800: It's slang for the offspring of a celeb who becomes a celeb too a nepo baby |
| #8942, aired 2023-10-03 | MEN OF MICHIGAN $800: He won an NCAA hoops title at Michigan State in 1979, then presto! He was the first overall NBA pick & it was Showtime Magic Johnson |
| #8941, aired 2023-10-02 | FIGHTERS $1000: In 1982 middleweight great Marvin Hagler changed his first name to this, an adjective often applied to him Marvelous |
| #8941, aired 2023-10-02 | SOUTH AFRICA $2,000 (Daily Double): The majestic Victorian City Hall in East London, South Africa held the first hearing of the post-apartheid TRC, this commission Truth and Reconciliation Commission |
| #8940, aired 2023-09-29 | WEIRD AL PARODIES $800: In "My Bologna" Al rhymes "I'm the city's biggest bologna buyer" with "filling up my basket with" this brand Oscar Mayer |
| #8940, aired 2023-09-29 | POEMS ABOUT POETRY $800: If you really think about it / It isn't so ridiculous / Knowing these are the first 5 words / In "A Visit from St. Nicholas" 'Twas the night before Christmas |
| #8940, aired 2023-09-29 | WEIRD AL PARODIES $1000: This favorite mentions "a malpractice suit" & "cuttin' for the very first time" "Like A Surgeon" |
| #8939, aired 2023-09-28 | GAMES PEOPLE PLAY $800: Dating back 50 years, "Maze War" & "Spasim" were some of the first of this type of video game, abbreviated FPS first person shooter |
| #8939, aired 2023-09-28 | GAMES PEOPLE PLAY $1600: In Scrabble, these 2 letter tiles are the most lucrative, each worth 10 points Q & Z |
| #8939, aired 2023-09-28 | GAMES PEOPLE PLAY $2000: In chess there are this many possible opening first moves for white 20 |
| #8938, aired 2023-09-27 | TITLE WOMEN $2,000 (Daily Double): A Virginia Woolf socialite, first name Clarissa Mrs. Dalloway |
| #14, aired 2023-09-27 | ANTS $100: Ants inhabit every continent except this one (whose first syllable, ironically, is "ant") Antarctica |
| #14, aired 2023-09-27 | ALSO AN ANIMAL SOUND $100: The very first of these microblogging posts was sent by company cofounder Jack Dorsey on March 21, 2006 a tweet |
| #14, aired 2023-09-27 | BOOK DEDICATIONS $200: Morbidly true to form, Lemony Snicket dedicates the first book in this Y.A. series "to Beatrice -- darling, dearest, dead" A Series of Unfortunate Events |
| #14, aired 2023-09-27 | ALSO AN ANIMAL SOUND $200: To make natural rubber, start by collecting latex by cutting slits in this layer of the rubber tree the bark |
| #14, aired 2023-09-27 | POST-APOCALYPTIC POP CULTURE $400: In his first-ever TV interview, Cormac McCarthy sat down with Oprah Winfrey after she selected this bleak novel for her book club The Road |
| #14, aired 2023-09-27 | RANDOM U.S. STATE FACTS $1000: One of this state's claims to fame is being first with a moving assembly line for manufacturing an entire car Michigan |
| #14, aired 2023-09-27 | OH, THE IRONY! $1500: Even though his first name ends with "war", this president of Egypt won a Nobel Peace Prize in 1978 Anwar Sadat |
| #8937, aired 2023-09-26 | TRANSLATE THE BRITISHISM $400: "First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes baby in a pram" a baby carriage |
| #8937, aired 2023-09-26 | YOU COULD PUT AN EYE OUT $1,000 (Daily Double): 1964 saw the first time a man threw this 300 feet & the first time a woman threw it 200 feet a javelin |
| #8937, aired 2023-09-26 | AMERICAN ISLANDS $2,000 (Daily Double): Damaged in a 1906 earthquake, the first lighthouse on the West Coast was located on this island Alcatraz |
| #8937, aired 2023-09-26 | NEXT STOP, VENUS $2,000 (Daily Double): We're not sure if it was "ancient" or not, but the first U.S. flyby of Venus was by this space probe in 1962 the Mariner (2) |
| #8936, aired 2023-09-25 | A PLACE IN HISTORY $400: In 1066 William the Conqueror had the first documented coronation at this site Westminster Abbey |
| #8936, aired 2023-09-25 | WHITE HOUSE PETS $1200: This first daughter brought her Siamese cat, Misty Malarky Ying Yang, to the White House Amy Carter |
| #8935, aired 2023-09-22 | TV $1000: Sandy Dvore designed the animated title sequence of a mother bird & 5 chicks for this 1970s series The Partridge Family |
| #8934, aired 2023-09-21 | WORLD SOCCER $1000: Sporting number 7, this Portuguese soccer star helped his nation win the 2016 European Championship, its first major title Cristiano Ronaldo |
| #8934, aired 2023-09-21 | EUROPEAN GEOGRAPHY $1000: The 1920 games made this major seaport Belgium's first & only Olympic host city Antwerp |
| #8934, aired 2023-09-21 | THE AKC DESCRIBES THE DOG $2000: "Served as sentinels at palaces and monasteries isolated high in the Himalayas" a Lhasa Apso |
| #8933, aired 2023-09-20 | ALSO A STATE POSTAL ABBREVIATION $400: Loyola Marymount University offered the USA's first of these degrees in yoga studies an MA |
| #8933, aired 2023-09-20 | THE REAL (WHITE HOUSE) WIVES OF D.C. $1600: Half-brothers of this southern-born first lady fought for the Confederacy, which could have led to really awkward Thanksgiving dinners Mary Todd Lincoln |
| #8933, aired 2023-09-20 | MICKEY'S MANTEL $1600: In 1998, she felt the love becoming the first female winner of a Tony for directing "The Lion King" (Julie) Taymor |
| #8932, aired 2023-09-19 | THE ASIAN GAMES $200: The Asian Games were first held in 1951 in this "New" Indian city New Delhi |
| #8932, aired 2023-09-19 | MAILED IT! $400: In 1958, Harry Winston mailed this 45.52-carat item to the Smithsonian for $2.44 first class, plus $142.85 for $1 million in insurance the Hope Diamond |
| #8932, aired 2023-09-19 | MAY DAY! MAY DAY! $800: May 1, 1218:
Rudolf I, the first German king of this royal house, is born Hapsburg |
| #8932, aired 2023-09-19 | SUPER TROUPERS $800: This Chicago comedy institution awards a fellowship named for Bob Curry, its first African-American mainstage performer Second City |
| #8931, aired 2023-09-18 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: Many scientists came from the Nazi rocket program to get NASA off the ground, like Kurt Debus, the first director of this space center from 1962 to 1974 the Kennedy Space Center |
| #8931, aired 2023-09-18 | 1990s HITMAKERS $800: Sadly, on January 8, 1994, this group played its last ever U.S. show, in its hometown of Seattle Nirvana |
| #8931, aired 2023-09-18 | 21st CENTURY NEWS $1200: The COVID-19 virus was first detected in 2019 in this Chinese city located at the confluence of the Yangtze & Han rivers Wuhan |
| #8931, aired 2023-09-18 | 1990s HITMAKERS $2000: The first 1990s hit for this female vocal group was "Wannabe" in '97; their last was appropriately "Goodbye" in '98 the Spice Girls |
| #8931, aired 2023-09-18 | 21st CENTURY NEWS $2000: In 2022, he became the first Hindu prime minister of the United Kingdom Sunak |
| #8930, aired 2023-09-15 | CAT LOVERS $600: Not satisfied with your basic kitty, Salvador Dalí owned Babou, one of these wild cats of Central & South America an ocelot |
| #8930, aired 2023-09-15 | AGATHA ALL ALONG $600: Though her first name is Jane, the Agatha Christie detective is usually just called this Miss Marple |
| #8930, aired 2023-09-15 | FIRE Z $800: Deny the Z of a ballroom dance & it becomes this first name of a 19th century U.S. poet Walt (from waltz) |
| #8928, aired 2023-09-13 | "I"s IN YOUR STARS $400: Famous among the smaller set for singing "Let It Go", she earned her first Tony nomination in "Rent" Idina Menzel |
| #8928, aired 2023-09-13 | MAMMALS $400: The San Diego Zoo welcomed its first pair of these from Australia, Snugglepot & Cuddlepie, in 1925 a koala |
| #8928, aired 2023-09-13 | I'M JUST A BILL, BILLY OR WILLIAM $600: Billy Joel's time playing a lounge in L.A. led to this, Billy's first Top 40 hit; great tune, but "tonic & gin" still sounds weird "Piano Man" |
| #8927, aired 2023-09-12 | POTPOUR-EVERYTHING $400: It's the first month of the calendar year that has no federal holidays March |
| #8927, aired 2023-09-12 | THE U.S. IN 1964 $600: At the Academy Awards ceremony in 1964, he became the first Black Best Actor winner Sidney Poitier |
| #8927, aired 2023-09-12 | INFLUENZA $800: Canine influenza was first identified in 2004 among these racing dogs greyhounds |
| #8927, aired 2023-09-12 | THE U.S. IN 1964 $800: The first mission of this post-Mercury NASA program launched on April 8, uncrewed; soon, 2 men would fly in each mission Gemini |
| #8927, aired 2023-09-12 | AFTER IN LIVING COLOR $1000: Seen here, this actor won his first Tony Award for his performance in "A Soldier's Play" David Alan Grier |
| #8925, aired 2023-07-28 | BREEDS OF SHEEP $600: The North Ronaldsay, the Blackface & the Border Cheviot (with a black muzzle) are breeds first developed in this U.K. country Scotland |
| #8925, aired 2023-07-28 | ON THE MONEY $800: He was the first to breed mules in America on his farm George Washington |
| #8925, aired 2023-07-28 | BREEDS OF SHEEP $1000: Originally a Spanish breed, it first came to Australia in 1797 & changed that country's economy forever the Merino |
| #8925, aired 2023-07-28 | WORKING WORDS $2,400 (Daily Double): Referring to writers & others who are self-employed & work job to job, it was first used of mercenary knights freelance |
| #8924, aired 2023-07-27 | HISTORIC AMERICANS $1000: After helping women gain the right to vote in her home state of Montana, she became the first woman elected to the U.S. Congress Jeannette Rankin |
| #8924, aired 2023-07-27 | HISTORIC AMERICANS $2,000 (Daily Double): Soon after he lost his Supreme Court case, this enslaved American was emancipated by the son of his first owner Dred Scott |
| #8923, aired 2023-07-26 | DUAL BIOGRAPHIES $2000: A dual bio covers Louis Brandeis, the first Jewish Supreme Court justice & this Vienna-born man who was the third Felix Frankfurter |
| #8922, aired 2023-07-25 | SOMETHING'S ROTTEN $200: The first film to get a score on this now 25-year-old website was "Star Trek: Insurrection" back in 1998 Rotten Tomatoes |
| #8922, aired 2023-07-25 | THAT CAN BE A GREEK LETTER $400: The first passenger flight of this airline took off in 1929, going from Dallas to Jackson, Mississippi Delta |
| #8922, aired 2023-07-25 | JUST GOOGLY IT $1000: All eyes were on him when he gave his first presidential inaugural address in 1885 Grover Cleveland |
| #8922, aired 2023-07-25 | KISS & TELL $1600: In Genesis 29, on first meeting his beloved Rachel, he kissed her "and lifted up his voice, and wept" Jacob |
| #8921, aired 2023-07-24 | ALPHABETICALLY FIRST $200: Of NBA franchises by team name, not city, they won the championship in 2021 the Milwaukee Bucks |
| #8921, aired 2023-07-24 | SPACE MEN & WOMEN $200: In 1995 Eileen Collins became the first woman to pilot one of these & in 1999 the first to command a mission aboard one Space Shuttle |
| #8921, aired 2023-07-24 | MY WOULD-BE VP $400: Sarah Palin, in a would-be first that would wait for a while longer McCain |
| #8921, aired 2023-07-24 | MUSICAL WORKS $400: Thea Musgrave's first commissioned work, in 1953, was "Suite O' Bairnsangs" for a festival in this, her native country Scotland |
| #8921, aired 2023-07-24 | ALPHABETICALLY FIRST $400: Of the Great Lakes, it's the fourth-largest & drains out through the Niagara River Erie |
| #8921, aired 2023-07-24 | SPACE MEN & WOMEN $400: As this country's first astronaut, Soyeon Yi packed kimchi to share with her colleagues on the International Space Station South Korea |
| #8921, aired 2023-07-24 | ALPHABETICALLY FIRST $600: Of the first 10 ordinal numbers eighth |
| #8921, aired 2023-07-24 | THE "END" ZONE $800: When Andrew Carnegie got his first of these monthly checks, he cried, "Here's the goose that lays the golden eggs" dividend |
| #8921, aired 2023-07-24 | ALPHABETICALLY FIRST $1000: Of the 11 national battlefields, this one 10 miles from Hagerstown, Maryland Antietam |
| #8921, aired 2023-07-24 | WELCOME TO OUR FRUIT STAND $1000: Try a Pink Lady, also known as Cripps Pink, the first variety of this fruit to be trademarked apple |
| #8921, aired 2023-07-24 | SPACE MEN & WOMEN $1000: The first British citizen in space, Helen Sharman spent a week aboard this Soviet space station in 1991 Mir |
| #8921, aired 2023-07-24 | ALPHABETICALLY FIRST $2,300 (Daily Double): Of the 5 books of the Pentateuch, it's written in the form of a farewell address by Moses Deuteronomy |
| #8920, aired 2023-07-21 | HAPPY 75th BIRTHDAY, ISRAEL! $1000: Elected mayor of Jerusalem in 2018, Moshe Lion is the first from this branch of the Jews named from Hebrew for "Spain" Sephardic |
| #8920, aired 2023-07-21 | EXPLORERS $1200: In 1865 British explorer Edward Whymper led the first successful attempt to reach the top of this Alpine peak the Matterhorn |
| #8919, aired 2023-07-20 | YOU'VE GOT SOME BAGGAGE $400: At a time when this type of big travel case often had a round top, Louis Vuitton's 1858 Trianon was the first boxy type a trunk |
| #8918, aired 2023-07-19 | JULIE & JULIA $400: In 1966 Julie Newmar was in the first "Batman" episode that featured this villain, "The Purr-Fect Crime" Catwoman |
| #8918, aired 2023-07-19 | 5 ABOUT 4 $600: Of the 4 famous folks up on Mount Rushmore, the one who was born first Washington |
| #8918, aired 2023-07-19 | HISTORY $800: In the 16th century an African man in Japan named Yasuke became the first recorded foreigner to join the ranks of this warrior class Samurai |
| #8918, aired 2023-07-19 | 5 ABOUT 4 $1000: In 1954 Roger Bannister ran the first under 4-minute mile on this city's Iffley Road track Oxford |
| #8917, aired 2023-07-18 | THE SONGS OF MAX MARTIN $200: "& Juliet" imagines the Shakespeare story had the heroine lived & here she is performing this song, Britney Spears' first hit
"I must confess, that my loneliness is killing me now..." "...Baby One More Time" |
| #8917, aired 2023-07-18 | WORLD OF FIRST NAMES $400: The start of the Obama administration brought a doubling of U.S. girls named this Hawaiian form of Mary Malia |
| #8917, aired 2023-07-18 | AUTHORS' FIRST MAJOR WORKS $400: "The Mysterious Affair at Styles" was the first of more than 60 mysteries from her Christie |
| #8917, aired 2023-07-18 | AUTHORS' FIRST MAJOR WORKS $800: Seen here as a boy with his dog, he hit the shelves with 1900's "The Son of the Wolf" Jack London |
| #8917, aired 2023-07-18 | WORLD OF FIRST NAMES $800: For the last several years, this name of a Dickens hero has been the most popular boys' name in New South Wales Oliver |
| #8917, aired 2023-07-18 | 3-WORD RESPONSES $800: In 1737 Boston held its first parade celebrating what became this annual event St. Patrick's Day |
| #8917, aired 2023-07-18 | AFRICAN FILMS $800: Called the first major film of South Africa after apartheid, "Cry, the Beloved Country" stars this American actor seen here James Earl Jones |
| #8917, aired 2023-07-18 | THE SONGS OF MAX MARTIN $800: The first musical number in "& Juliet" has William Shakespeare performing this Backstreet Boys song
"All you people can't you see, can't you see /
How your love's affecting our reality" "Larger Than Life" |
| #8917, aired 2023-07-18 | STARS ON THE NATION'S FLAG $1000: China's flag's 4 small stars stood for peasants, the petty bourgeoisie, patriotic capitalists & this manual labor class the proletariat |
| #8917, aired 2023-07-18 | AUTHORS' FIRST MAJOR WORKS $1200: A synonym for a drug addict, it was the title of William S. Burroughs' semi-autobiographical first published work Junkie |
| #8917, aired 2023-07-18 | WORLD OF FIRST NAMES $1600: In 2022 she told the Senate Judiciary Committee her parents gave her an African name meaning "lovely one" Ketanji (Onyika) Jackson |
| #8917, aired 2023-07-18 | WORLD OF FIRST NAMES $2,000 (Daily Double): Take a first name meaning "gift of God", change the "th" sound to an "f" & you have this Russian name that means the same Fyodor |
| #8917, aired 2023-07-18 | AUTHORS' FIRST MAJOR WORKS $2,000 (Daily Double): Her 1936 effort "We the Living" is a romantic tragedy set against the perils of Soviet-style totalitarianism Ayn Rand |
| #8917, aired 2023-07-18 | WORLD OF FIRST NAMES $2000: "Wave" goodbye to this boys' name & hairstyling term; it hasn't been a popular name in France since the 1920s Marcel |
| #8917, aired 2023-07-18 | AUTHORS' FIRST MAJOR WORKS $2000: Subtitled "A Peep at Polynesian Life", this novel was Herman Melville's first peep at novel writing Typee |
| #8916, aired 2023-07-17 | DOUBLE TALK $400: Though her real first name was Gabrielle, French designer Chanel went by this nickname Coco |
| #8916, aired 2023-07-17 | WORLD ROYALTY $400: 11th century Olaf "the Tax King" was the first Swedish monarch to issue these, which must have made it easier to pay up coins |
| #8916, aired 2023-07-17 | TOM SWIFT TALES $600: In his first tale back in 1910, Tom was riding high on his Hog in "Tom Swift and His" this a motorcycle |
| #8916, aired 2023-07-17 | FISH PEOPLE $800: Seen here, she became the first woman elected as mayor of Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass |
| #8916, aired 2023-07-17 | THE NATIONAL RECORDING REGISTRY $800: The first video game theme to join the Registry is Koji Kondo's iconic "Ground Theme" from this 1985 Nintendo game Super Mario Bros. |
| #8916, aired 2023-07-17 | STATE FLAGS $800: Idaho's flag is based on one used in 1898 by the First Idaho Infantry during this war the Spanish-American |
| #8916, aired 2023-07-17 | STATE FLAGS $1000: Delaware's flag prominently displays the date "December 7" this year 1787 |
| #8916, aired 2023-07-17 | THE NATIONAL RECORDING REGISTRY $1600: The first reggaeton recording in the Registry is "Gasolina", a 2004 hit by this Puerto Rican rapper Daddy Yankee |
| #8915, aired 2023-07-14 | A TOUCH OF GREY $400: Won by the Toronto Argonauts in 2022, this championship trophy of the Canadian Football League was first awarded in 1909 the Grey Cup |
| #8914, aired 2023-07-13 | FROM THE HEADLINES $800: This U.S. city's Free Press, November 7, 1973: "Young elected city's first Black mayor" Detroit |
| #8914, aired 2023-07-13 | "R" SONG $1000: This appropriately titled Blondie song was the first Billboard No. 1 hit with a rap verse "Rapture" |
| #8913, aired 2023-07-12 | THE ____ OF CANADA $400: The Gemini Awards, last given in 2011 for excellence in television: these, after awards first given in 1949 (the) Emmys (of Canada) |
| #8913, aired 2023-07-12 | TAKING A RIDE $1600: In 1961 he became the first American to ride into space; apparently enjoying the area, he took a walk on the Moon 10 years later Alan Shepard |
| #8912, aired 2023-07-11 | FIRST NAME VERBS $200: To honor, as with one's presence grace |
| #8912, aired 2023-07-11 | A CENTURY AGO: 1923 $400: This facility hosts its first game, with Babe Ruth hitting a 3-run homer to beat the Red Sox Yankee Stadium |
| #8912, aired 2023-07-11 | FIRST NAME VERBS $400: To put on clothes don |
| #8912, aired 2023-07-11 | SPACE CUISINE $400: The first drink taken on the Moon was this, by Buzz Aldrin as he observed communion aboard the Eagle wine |
| #8912, aired 2023-07-11 | FIRST NAME VERBS $600: To pry open jimmy |
| #8912, aired 2023-07-11 | A CENTURY AGO: 1923 $800: This constitutional amendment to ban discrimination based on sex is first proposed in Congress the ERA |
| #8912, aired 2023-07-11 | FIRST NAME VERBS $800: To kid around josh |
| #8912, aired 2023-07-11 | FIRST NAME VERBS $1,000 (Daily Double): To give, like a wish grant |
| #8912, aired 2023-07-11 | CITY FOLK $1600: He directed "Home Alone" as well as the first 2 Harry Potter movies Chris Columbus |
| #8912, aired 2023-07-11 | A CENTURY AGO: 1923 $1600: Peering back millennia, this archaeologist opens King Tut's burial chamber in the Valley of the Kings Howard Carter |
| #8912, aired 2023-07-11 | A CENTURY AGO: 1923 $2000: This Russian immigrant files a patent for the iconoscope, the first television transmission tube Vladimir Zworykin |
| #8911, aired 2023-07-10 | INTERNATIONAL SUPERMODELS $400: Miranda Kerr was the first Australian to wear the wings as one of this lingerie brand's now-discontinued angels Victoria's Secret |
| #8910, aired 2023-07-07 | HOTEL CALIFORNIA $200: In 1929 the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel hosted the first one of these, but of course, it wasn't televised the Oscars |
| #8910, aired 2023-07-07 | HISTORICAL HODGEPODGE $600: The first outbreaks of this deadly hemorrhagic disease occurred in Africa in 1976, killing more than 400 people Ebola |
| #8908, aired 2023-07-05 | WHO ARE "U"? $400: In 2021 this country superstar released "My Savior", her first album of gospel hymns Underwood |
| #8908, aired 2023-07-05 | RELIGION $800: Sebastian Maniscalco on his first of these Passover dinners: we sit down, I'm starving--they start passing out pamphlets! Seder |
| #8907, aired 2023-07-04 | WESTMINSTER-WINNING DOG BREEDS $400: The Smooth Fox this won Westminster's first 4 Best in Shows, but the Wire Fox version has the most victories, with 15 Terrier |
| #8907, aired 2023-07-04 | HAPPY JULY 4th! $600: The new 50-star U.S. flag was officially flown for the first time on July 4th in this year, 10 months after Hawaii statehood 1960 |
| #8907, aired 2023-07-04 | A BIBLICAL BURIAL $800: In the King James Bible, when a man said he'd follow Jesus but first had to bury his dad, Jesus said these 6 words let the dead bury their dead |
| #8907, aired 2023-07-04 | HAPPY JULY 4th! $800: This new Asian republic was proclaimed July 4, 1946 with Manuel A. Roxas as its first president the Philippines |
| #8906, aired 2023-07-03 | TOUCHED FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME $200: Before stepping on the Moon, he told Neil Armstrong he'd "partially close the hatch... making sure not to lock it"; Neil: "Good thought" Aldrin |
| #8906, aired 2023-07-03 | TOUCHED FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME $400: Doing some ceiling work around 1511, Michelangelo showed God reaching to give this man the divine breath of life with a touch Adam |
| #8906, aired 2023-07-03 | TOUCHED FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME $600: These Missourians touched the Stanley Cup for the first time in 2019 after more than 50 years in the NHL the St. Louis Blues |
| #8906, aired 2023-07-03 | TOUCHED FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME $1000: The ceremonial driving of this item linked the Central Pacific & Union Pacific railroads for the first time the golden spike |
| #8906, aired 2023-07-03 | TOUCHED FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME $5,000 (Daily Double): Finally touched with goodness, this literary character says, "I will live in the past, the present, and the future!" Ebenezer Scrooge |
| #8905, aired 2023-06-30 | BUSINESS $600: The bowtie-shaped logo of this brand first appeared on automobiles in 1914 Chevrolet |
| #8904, aired 2023-06-29 | PRIDE OF THE MUSEUM $800: This London museum with 2 first names is renowned for its collection of decorative arts the Victoria and Albert Museum |
| #8903, aired 2023-06-28 | POLICY $600: The first SALT treaties limited the use of these, ABMs for short anti-ballistic missiles |
| #8902, aired 2023-06-27 | WAR FILMS $800: In 2010 Kathryn Bigelow became the first female directing Oscar winner for this film set during the Iraq War The Hurt Locker |
| #8902, aired 2023-06-27 | 2001 $1200: Daughter of the first president, Megawati Sukarnoputri became the first woman to lead this country Indonesia |
| #8902, aired 2023-06-27 | A SPACE ODYSSEY $1600: The final mission of this first U.S. space station, 1973 to 1974, included photographing & observing the comet Kohoutek Skylab |
| #8902, aired 2023-06-27 | WAR FILMS $2000: A story of World War I pilots, it won the first Best Picture Oscar Wings |
| #8901, aired 2023-06-26 | FIRST LADIES' RHYME TIME $200: Mrs. Obama's chimes Michelle's bells |
| #8901, aired 2023-06-26 | CLASSICAL MUSIC $400: In 1976 Sarah Caldwell became the first woman at the Met with this job, helping Beverly Sills soar conductor |
| #8901, aired 2023-06-26 | FIRST LADIES' RHYME TIME $400: Mrs. Kennedy's military slacks Jackie's khakis |
| #8901, aired 2023-06-26 | FIRST LADIES' RHYME TIME $600: Mrs. Madison's streetcars Dolley's trolleys |
| #8901, aired 2023-06-26 | SCIENTISTS $800: In 1847, Maria Mitchell, America's first professional female astronomer, discovered one of these, officially known as C/1847 T1 a comet |
| #8901, aired 2023-06-26 | FIRST LADIES' RHYME TIME $800: The second Mrs. Bush's soft felt hats with creased crowns Laura's fedoras |
| #8901, aired 2023-06-26 | FIRST LADIES' RHYME TIME $1000: Mrs. Truman's locks of hair Bess's tresses |
| #8900, aired 2023-06-23 | REMEMBER BASEBALL? $200: Remember 1969, when these New Yorkers became the first expansion team to win a World Series? the Mets |
| #8900, aired 2023-06-23 | SAME FIRST & LAST LETTER GEOGRAPHY $400: The Royal Albert Dock is an attraction in this Merseyside seaport city of England Liverpool |
| #8900, aired 2023-06-23 | ON BROADWAY $400: A 2022 revival of this play broke ground with Wendell Pierce as the first Black man to play Willy Loman on Broadway Death of a Salesman |
| #8900, aired 2023-06-23 | ANIMAL CHANGE A LETTER $600: Change the first letter of a burrowing insectivore & you get a mouselike rodent mole & vole |
| #8900, aired 2023-06-23 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $600: In books by Rick Riordan, Percy Jackson's first name is short for this one from mythology Perseus |
| #8900, aired 2023-06-23 | REMEMBER BASEBALL? $600: Who can forget 1972, when the first of these led to the cancellation of 86 games that were never rescheduled? (the players') strike |
| #8900, aired 2023-06-23 | SAME FIRST & LAST LETTER GEOGRAPHY $800: Portuguese is the official language of this resource-rich nation of southwest Africa Angola |
| #8900, aired 2023-06-23 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN FIRSTS $800: Ruth Simmons, the first African-American Ivy League president, led this Rhode Island school from 2001 to 2012 Brown |
| #8900, aired 2023-06-23 | REMEMBER BASEBALL? $800: We all recall 1884, when Kentuckian Pete Browning used the first bat nicknamed this a Louisville Slugger |
| #8900, aired 2023-06-23 | REMEMBER BASEBALL? $1000: Surely you recall 1867, when Candy Cummings is credited with debuting this first breaking pitch a curveball |
| #8900, aired 2023-06-23 | SAME FIRST & LAST LETTER GEOGRAPHY $1200: Driving I-40 from Winslow to Kingman, you might want to stop in this city & maybe take in the Museum of Northern Arizona Flagstaff |
| #8900, aired 2023-06-23 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN FIRSTS $1200: The first African-American Rhodes Scholar, Alain Locke was later hailed as "the father of" this NYC creative movement the Harlem Renaissance |
| #8900, aired 2023-06-23 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN FIRSTS $1600: For her supporting role in "Gone with the Wind", she was the first African-American performer to win an Oscar Hattie McDaniel |
| #8900, aired 2023-06-23 | SAME FIRST & LAST LETTER GEOGRAPHY $2000: This temple complex on the right bank of the Nile occupies part of the site of the ruins of ancient Thebes Karnak |
| #8900, aired 2023-06-23 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN FIRSTS $2000: Inspired by Nichelle Nichols & her "Star Trek" character, she became the first African-American woman in space (Mae) Jemison |
| #8900, aired 2023-06-23 | SAME FIRST & LAST LETTER GEOGRAPHY $3,000 (Daily Double): It flows over 1,300 miles from highlands near Brazil across Venezuela to the Atlantic the Orinoco |
| #8899, aired 2023-06-22 | 20th CENTURY HAPPENINGS $600: If you had 2 hours & 25 minutes in 1984, you could watch "Paris, Texas" or see Joan Benoit win the first women's Olympic one of these a marathon |
| #8899, aired 2023-06-22 | 20th CENTURY HAPPENINGS $800: In 1912 Orillia, Ontario was one of the first towns to try this change, until even the mayor got to church an hour late Daylight Savings Time |
| #8899, aired 2023-06-22 | WRITING ON THE WALLS $800: In "Wall", the first part of Ken Follett's "Edge of Eternity", this then-country's Stasi headquarters prove menacing East Germany |
| #8899, aired 2023-06-22 | STATE EMBLEMS $1,000 (Daily Double): Illinois has a state microbe to honor Peoria's 1940s role in first mass-producing this antibiotic penicillin |
| #8898, aired 2023-06-21 | DISCOVERY & INVENTION $400: In the 1950s Grace Hopper & her team created FLOW-MATIC, the first one of these to follow English commands a computer program |
| #8898, aired 2023-06-21 | MISHEARD LYRICS $1000: This Canadian "got my first real six-string" in the "summer of '69", not his "first real sex dream" Bryan Adams |
| #8898, aired 2023-06-21 | DISCOVERY & INVENTION $1600: Written in Hebrew, the first of these was discovered east of Jerusalem by a shepherd boy in 1947; more would turn up in Masada the Dead Sea Scrolls |
| #8897, aired 2023-06-20 | AMERICAN HISTORY $200: The U.S. flag was flown at this location for the first time on July 20, 1969 & the original flag is still there the Moon |
| #8897, aired 2023-06-20 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: The demand for decorations on women's hats led Theodore Roosevelt to set up the USA's first 50 reserves for these birds |
| #8897, aired 2023-06-20 | THERE WILL BE MATH $2000: Legend says facing a teacher's make-work task to add up the first hundred positive integers, Carl Gauss quickly saw 50 pairs each totaling this 101 |
| #8897, aired 2023-06-20 | THAT MUSICAL ACT IS UNREAL! $2000: Later a movie, Roddy Doyle's first novel is about this soulful but imaginary Irish band The Commitments |
| #8896, aired 2023-06-19 | RANDOM FACTS $400: In 1974 a horde of terra cotta warriors were found at the resting place of the man who made himself this country's first emperor China |
| #8896, aired 2023-06-19 | FIRST SPEECHES IN SHAKESPEARE $400: "From ancient grudge break to new mutiny, where civil blood makes civil hands unclean" Romeo and Juliet |
| #8896, aired 2023-06-19 | GETTING AN EYEFUL $400: This term for someone sleuthing for a fee came from the first letter of "investigator" private eye |
| #8896, aired 2023-06-19 | FIRST SPEECHES IN SHAKESPEARE $800: "Then should the warlike Harry, like himself, assume the port of Mars" Henry V |
| #8896, aired 2023-06-19 | FIRST SPEECHES IN SHAKESPEARE $1,000 (Daily Double): "Take but good note & you shall see in him the triple pillar of the world transformed into a strumpet's fool" Antony and Cleopatra |
| #8896, aired 2023-06-19 | FIRST SPEECHES IN SHAKESPEARE $1600: "It did always seem so to us: but now, in the division of the kingdom, it appears not which of the dukes he values most" King Lear |
| #8896, aired 2023-06-19 | FIRST SPEECHES IN SHAKESPEARE $2000: "My brother Jaques he keeps at school, & report speaks goldenly of his profit" As You Like It |
| #8895, aired 2023-06-16 | THAT EUROPEAN LANGUAGE $400: Spoken in the very first IKEA store Swedish |
| #8895, aired 2023-06-16 | FINISH LAST $800: After a 10-72 last-place finish in the 2015-16 season, this team got the first overall draft pick & chose Ben Simmons the Philadelphia 76ers |
| #8895, aired 2023-06-16 | OPPOSITIONAL BOOK TITLES $1600: This Harvard symbologist character first shows up in Dan Brown's "Angels & Demons" Robert Langdon |
| #8894, aired 2023-06-15 | PHYSICS & ENERGY $400: This 1895 discovery with medical implications led to the first Nobel Prize for physics the X-ray |
| #8894, aired 2023-06-15 | FACT: NONFICTION $400: In 2022 "The Light We Carry" carried its way to the top of the nonfiction bestseller list for this ex-first lady Michelle Obama |
| #8894, aired 2023-06-15 | THE GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE $600: The first step in construction was placing 60,000-ton concrete blocks on each end called this, like an Alaskan city anchorage |
| #8894, aired 2023-06-15 | TV CRIMINALS $2000: Mr. Scratch is a villain who first appeared in season 10 of this CBS series set at the B.A.U. Criminal Minds |
| #8893, aired 2023-06-14 | J NOT SOUNDING LIKE JUH $400: This Scandinavian first name that's big in baby carriers means "bear" Bjorn |
| #8893, aired 2023-06-14 | GO, CANADA $1000: In 1925 a joint U.S.-Canadian team became the first to summit this 20,000-foot-high mountain Mount Logan |
| #8893, aired 2023-06-14 | GIMME 5 $1200: Julius was the real first name of this one of the 5 Marx Brothers Groucho |
| #8892, aired 2023-06-13 | STAND-UP SPECIALS $400: In 2023 he slapped back at Will Smith in "Selective Outrage", the first live global event on Netflix Chris Rock |
| #8892, aired 2023-06-13 | CROP TO IT $1600: This first name of American farmer Hanson was given to a type of grass often used for hay Timothy |
| #8892, aired 2023-06-13 | STAND-UP SPECIALS $2000: Jerrod Carmichael revealed secrets in his 2022 stand-up special, including this first name, also the show's title Rothaniel |
| #8892, aired 2023-06-13 | CROP TO IT $2000: Some crops have been genetically altered to be herbicide resistant, especially to Roundup, first made by this company Monsanto |
| #8891, aired 2023-06-12 | COLOR MY WORLD $400: In 2008 it became the first German political party with an ethnically Turkish leader the Green Party |
| #8891, aired 2023-06-12 | BEN & JERRY'S FLAVOR GRAVEYARD $600: A 1980s effort honored a Revolutionary War Vermont hero--not just almond but this first name preceding "Almond" Ethan |
| #8891, aired 2023-06-12 | 5-LETTER WORDS $600: The first letter is silent in this verb meaning to grind; your teeth, for example gnash |
| #8891, aired 2023-06-12 | HANG UP YOUR TV REBOOTS $2000: This sitcom won a ton of Emmys during its first run, 1998-2006, but ended in 2020 after a brief reboot & a few more trophies Will & Grace |
| #8890, aired 2023-06-09 | STATE HOLIDAYS $600: The first Tuesday in March is Town Meeting Day in Bennington, Montpelier & other communities across this state Vermont |
| #8890, aired 2023-06-09 | A EURO LEADER PASS $1,000 (Daily Double): "Leaving", a 2008 tragicomedy by him, was his first play in more than 20 years & drew from his time as Czech Republic president Václav Havel |
| #8889, aired 2023-06-08 | SILENT LETTER WORDS $800: The OED's first citation for this surfing slang for a challenging wave goes back to 1977 gnarly |
| #8889, aired 2023-06-08 | LATE NIGHT TALKING $1000: In the '90s Conan O'Brien first peered into the future in a bit called "In the Year" this... which was still recurring in 2003 2000 |
| #8889, aired 2023-06-08 | ROMANCING THE STONES $2000: Mary of Burgundy got a diamond ring with the letter "M" on it from this future emperor; it was the first initial for both Maximilian |
| #8888, aired 2023-06-07 | MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG $600: At the X Games in 1999, he became the first pro skateboarder to land a 900--it was epic! Tony Hawk |
| #8888, aired 2023-06-07 | COMPANY $1000: Known for Kenosha red toolboxes, this hyphenated company filed its first patent in 1923 Snap-On |
| #8887, aired 2023-06-06 | RIAA TOP-SELLING ARTISTS $800: Syd Barrett was in this band when it sold its first of tens of millions of albums in 1967, but Dave Gilmour soon replaced him Pink Floyd |
| #8887, aired 2023-06-06 | 21st CENTURY STUFF $1000: It was a first on January 5, 2023 when Francis I presided over this type of solemn event a pope's funeral |
| #8887, aired 2023-06-06 | NONFICTION TV $1200: (I'm Cari Champion.) After being the moderator between Stephen A. Smith & Skip Bayless on "First Take", which, trust me, is as easy as that sounds, I became an anchor on this ESPN flagship show--"This is..." SportsCenter |
| #8886, aired 2023-06-05 | FIRST & LAST NAME'S THE SAME $400: Mrs. Shakespeare & the portrayer of Viola in "Twelfth Night" in Shakespeare in the Park in 2009 Anne Hathaway |
| #8886, aired 2023-06-05 | FIRST & LAST NAME'S THE SAME $800: All 3 names the same: U.S. naval hero awarded a Congressional Gold Medal & Led Zeppelin bassist/Kennedy Center honoree John Paul Jones |
| #8886, aired 2023-06-05 | "G"EOGRAPHY $1000: The first part of the name of this super-glam Tokyo shopping district means "silver" Ginza |
| #8886, aired 2023-06-05 | FIRST & LAST NAME'S THE SAME $1200: Commanding officer of one of the first U.S. steamships in the 1830s & could he be more of a star of "Friends"? Matthew Perry |
| #8886, aired 2023-06-05 | FIRST & LAST NAME'S THE SAME $1600: No. 2 in U.S. government to James Madison & No. 1 in U.S. funksmanship in Parliament (& Funkadelic) George Clinton |
| #8886, aired 2023-06-05 | FIRST & LAST NAME'S THE SAME $2000: 17th century essayist who was Lord Chancellor of England & 20th century painter of "Head of a Woman (Lisa Sainsbury)" Francis Bacon |
| #8885, aired 2023-06-02 | ANIMAL ROCK $400: In their first Top 10 hit, Duran Duran was "Hungry like the..." the wolf |
| #8885, aired 2023-06-02 | WOMEN AUTHORS $400: In "Hamnet", Maggie O'Farrell reimagines the life of this writer & his family, including his son, who may have died of bubonic plague William Shakespeare |
| #8884, aired 2023-06-01 | THE OPERETTAS OF GILBERT & SULLIVAN $200: Gilbert & Sullivan's first work together was "Thespis", about a group of actors who take over this home of the Greek gods Mount Olympus |
| #8884, aired 2023-06-01 | "MAN" O' WAR $400: Army general Omar Bradley was the first to hold this position on the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff a chairman |
| #8884, aired 2023-06-01 | POTPOURRI $800: Pour one out for "Mr." this, gone too soon in 2001; it was first named Peppo but Dr Pepper's lawyers had issues with that Mr. Pibb |
| #8884, aired 2023-06-01 | SECOND BOOK IN THE SERIES $2000: "Finders Keepers"--the first book was "Mr. Mercedes" Bill Hodges |
| #8882, aired 2023-05-30 | AUTHORS' FIRST NOVELS $200: Before "Pride and Prejudice", Jane Austen's first novel paired these 2 title qualities sense & sensibility |
| #8882, aired 2023-05-30 | AUTHORS' FIRST NOVELS $400: His work at a V.A. hospital led to his first novel "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" Ken Kesey |
| #8882, aired 2023-05-30 | AUTHORS' FIRST NOVELS $600: Born in Nantes in 1828, he had a hit with his first "scientific fiction" novel, "Five Weeks in a Balloon" Jules Verne |
| #8882, aired 2023-05-30 | "M.C." $800: This term describes a charming & romantic first encounter between 2 people, like on a train or shopping for the same item a meet cute |
| #8882, aired 2023-05-30 | AUTHORS' FIRST NOVELS $800: He was accused of obscenity after the release of "Madame Bovary", his first full-length novel Flaubert |
| #8882, aired 2023-05-30 | AUTHORS' FIRST NOVELS $1000: This first novel from James Joyce sounds like it could be a painting of him from when he was a wee lad A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man |
| #8882, aired 2023-05-30 | MOUNTAINS $1600: A cave at the summit of the mountain Jabal Al Nour is said to be where this prophet received his first revelations Muhammad |
| #8881, aired 2023-05-29 | PLAY "FREE" WORDS $400: In 1993 Gerald Perry became the first NFL player to sign with a new team as one of these under a new unrestricted system a free agent |
| #8881, aired 2023-05-29 | MONTHLY PEOPLE, REAL & IMAGINED $1600: This was revealed as Offred's real name on TV's "The Handmaid's Tale", but not in the novel June |
| #8881, aired 2023-05-29 | MONTHLY PEOPLE, REAL & IMAGINED $3,800 (Daily Double): The first woman to chair the U.K. Conservative Party, she led even more after becoming prime minister in 2016 Theresa May |
| #8880, aired 2023-05-26 | YOU JUST MADE THAT STUFF UP $1200: First mentioned in a 1943 "Adventures of Superman" radio show, when it debuted in the comics in 1949, it was red, not green kryptonite |
| #8880, aired 2023-05-26 | "REE" SEARCH $2000: The first ballet choreographed by Jerome Robbins, it's about 3 footloose sailors "On the Town" Fancy Free |
| #8879, aired 2023-05-25 | A DOCTOR FROM CHICAGO, ILLINOIS $200: (Mandy Patinkin presents the clue.) In one of my first recurring TV roles, I played the temperamental heart surgeon Dr. Jeffrey Geiger on this Windy City medical drama Chicago Hope |
| #8879, aired 2023-05-25 | SHAKESPEARE & HIS WORLD $800: Without the 1623 publication of Shakespeare's plays, today known by this name, half might have been lost forever First Folio |
| #8879, aired 2023-05-25 | UP IN THE AIRLINE $1000: In 1921 Amsterdam was home to the world's first airline ticket office, courtesy of this letter-perfect company KLM |
| #8878, aired 2023-05-24 | SCIENCE $1600: Lasting about 4 billion years & encompassing Earth's first 3 eons is this time period that "pre"cedes everything else Precambrian |
| #20, aired 2023-05-24 | THE 1960s $200: When Dr. Christiaan Barnard performed the first of these, the patient lived less than a month, but Dr. B.'s 2nd try got a guy 18 months a heart transplant |
| #20, aired 2023-05-24 | YOU KNOW IT'S NOT THE SAME AS IT WAS $1200: The Democratic National Committee has taken the first presidential primary away from New Hampshire & given it to this state South Carolina |
| #19, aired 2023-05-24 | COPS & ROBBERS TV $200: Christine & Mary Beth were the first names of this title police twosome played by Sharon & Tyne Cagney and Lacey |
| #19, aired 2023-05-24 | FURNITURE & FURNISHINGS $400: Although founded in 1943, this furniture company didn't open its first retail store until 1958 in Älmhult, Sweden IKEA |
| #19, aired 2023-05-24 | NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARKS $800: Palo Alto Battlefield National Historical Park preserves the Texas site of the first battle in this 1846-48 war the Mexican-American War |
| #19, aired 2023-05-24 | HORROR MOVIES $1600: She stars in Fresh, which seems like a rom-com at first, but thanks to Sebastian Stan, she soon learns there's more on the menu Daisy Edgar Jones |
| #19, aired 2023-05-24 | BRITISH AUTHORS $8,600 (Daily Double): First & last name of the lesser-known sibling who wrote the semi-autobiographical "Agnes Grey" Anne Bronte |
| #8877, aired 2023-05-23 | AVIATION $400: Taking off from Dover, in 1912 Harriet Quimby became the first woman to pilot a plane across this body of water the English Channel |
| #8877, aired 2023-05-23 | HISTORICAL HODGEPODGE $4,200 (Daily Double): Though Geneva is pretty low as Swiss cities go, a Cold War meeting there was the first one called this top-level type a summit |
| #18, aired 2023-05-23 | THEIR OCCUPATIONAL SURNAMES $200: Roll out the barrel maker: journalist who named his first son Wyatt (Anderson) Cooper |
| #18, aired 2023-05-23 | FICTIONAL CASTLES $1000: "The Castle of" this place, written in 1764 by Horace Walpole, is said to be the first Gothic novel in the English language Otranto |
| #18, aired 2023-05-23 | CENTURY NOTES $13,200 (Daily Double): 3rd century: the first written reference to this Blue Man Group of present Scotland has them attacking Hadrian's Wall Picts |
| #17, aired 2023-05-23 | YOU CAN'T GO THERE $200: In 2017, a group of Kentucky politicians were the first civilians let into this bullion depository in more than 40 years Fort Knox |
| #17, aired 2023-05-23 | BLACK HISTORY & CULTURE $400: In 1956, he became the first Black entertainer to host a nationally broadcast TV variety show Nat King Cole |
| #17, aired 2023-05-23 | PLANTS & TREES $800: This cactus that can reach 60 feet tall only grows about an inch in height during its first 10 years a saguaro |
| #17, aired 2023-05-23 | BLACK HISTORY & CULTURE $800: Seen here are these heroic aviators, the first African-American combat pilots who served during World War II the Tuskegee Airmen |
| #17, aired 2023-05-23 | BLACK HISTORY & CULTURE $1,000 (Daily Double): In 1924 the Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary became this historically black college for women Spelman |
| #17, aired 2023-05-23 | QUESTIONABLE MUSIC CHOICES $1600: Culture Club hit the top 10 for the first time with this musical question while making us cry with a killer chorus & reggae sound "Do You Really Want To Hurt Me?" |
| #8876, aired 2023-05-22 | VACATION SPOTS $400: Mahalia Jackson & Duke Ellington headlined the first edition of this southern city's famed Jazz Fest in 1970 New Orleans |
| #16, aired 2023-05-22 | THE REST IS HISTORY $400: These 3 words, a cliché about our first president, are really on a plaque about what he did at a Georgia inn on May 16, 1791 Washington slept here |
| #16, aired 2023-05-22 | FAMOUS FOLKS $2000: She won her first Tony in 2002, as the lead in "Thoroughly Modern Millie" Sutton Foster |
| #16, aired 2023-05-22 | A LIFE IN SCIENCE $2000: The first time the Copley Medal went to a non-Brit was in 1794, to this Italian of Pavia Alessandro Volta |
| #15, aired 2023-05-22 | PERILS OF JOURNALISM $600: Once again, I did this, failed to put the newsworthy part first; my editor says she'll put me underground if I do it again bury the lead |
| #15, aired 2023-05-22 | ALL AROUND THE WORLD $1000: The Majolikahaus is one of one of many Vienna buildings decorated in this style whose name is partly from German for "youth" Jugendstil |
| #15, aired 2023-05-22 | SPANISH & PORTUGUESE $1600: The first name of the jazz great seen here Esperanza (Spalding) |
| #15, aired 2023-05-22 | KING OF THE MOUNTAIN $2,800 (Daily Double): Mont Ventoux in Provence, during the Seven Years' War Louis XV |
| #8875, aired 2023-05-19 | ON A FIRST-NAME BASIS WITH BOOZE $200: A bourbon:
Mr. Beam Jim |
| #8875, aired 2023-05-19 | ON A FIRST-NAME BASIS WITH BOOZE $400: A scotch:
Mr. Walker Johnnie |
| #8875, aired 2023-05-19 | ON A FIRST-NAME BASIS WITH BOOZE $600: A tequila:
Señor Cuervo Jose |
| #8875, aired 2023-05-19 | LITERARY MISMATCHES $800: In a Daphne du Maurier novel, Maxim de Winter tells his nameless second wife he was not happy with this first one Rebecca |
| #8875, aired 2023-05-19 | ON A FIRST-NAME BASIS WITH BOOZE $800: A fine cognac:
Monsieur Martin Rémy |
| #8875, aired 2023-05-19 | HURRAY FOR HOLLYWOOD! $1000: The "Father of Modern Makeup", he created the first makeup for film & today his historic building houses the Hollywood Museum Max Factor |
| #8875, aired 2023-05-19 | ON A FIRST-NAME BASIS WITH BOOZE $1000: Essentially a screwdriver with a little Galliano:
Mr. Wallbanger Harvey |
| #8875, aired 2023-05-19 | GAITS $1200: Some theorize that the uneven gait of this first Stuart king of England was the result of rickets or cerebral palsy James I |
| #8875, aired 2023-05-19 | SWEET 1616 $2000: Called England's first great architect, he began work on the Queen's House, England's first classical building Inigo Jones |
| #8874, aired 2023-05-18 | MAGAZINES $200: In 2021 this magazine famous for its "500" ranking of companies named Alyson Shontell its first-ever woman editor-in-chief Fortune |
| #8874, aired 2023-05-18 | REPEATS ITSELF $800 (Daily Double): In an Ian Fleming tale, the title vehicle makes these 4 sounds after it is started for the first time chitty chitty bang bang |
| #8873, aired 2023-05-17 | GREAT BRITS $800: In 1860 at St. Thomas' Hospital in London, this woman opened the first formal nursing school Nightingale |
| #8873, aired 2023-05-17 | JEOPARDY! AFTER DARK $1600: Nuta was the given first name of the creator of the dazzling country & Western style worn here, but he was better known as this Nudie |
| #14, aired 2023-05-17 | COMIC STRIPS $600: This huge sandwich first appeared in the comics in 1936; it's, of course, on the menu at Blondie's restaurant in Orlando, Florida a Dagwood |
| #14, aired 2023-05-17 | SECRETS OF THE ANGELENOS $800: In 1914 he directed the first feature-length movie made in Hollywood & cast a Native American actress in a major part Cecil B. DeMille |
| #14, aired 2023-05-17 | SECRETS OF THE ANGELENOS $1000: Burbank grew around Lockheed, maker of this fighter that took part in World War II's first shoot-down of a German plane by an American one the P-38 (Lightning) |
| #14, aired 2023-05-17 | NOT-SO-PLAIN JANES $1200: In 1931 this Hull House founder became the first American woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize Jane Addams |
| #13, aired 2023-05-17 | FAMOUS PAIRS $200: A crossword puzzle book was the first offering from the publishing house of this pair, one of whom was singer Carly's father Simon & Schuster |
| #13, aired 2023-05-17 | CITIES OF SOUTH AMERICA $400: This judicial capital of Bolivia is named for the country's first constitutionally elected president Sucre |
| #13, aired 2023-05-17 | PAGE TO SCREEN WITH A DIFFERENT TITLE $600: Dick King-Smith's book first published in the U.K. as "The Sheep-Pig" was adapted into this movie Babe |
| #13, aired 2023-05-17 | FAMOUS PAIRS $600: First names of the 2 Rosenberg brothers who began selling their pears by mail in the 1930s Harry & David |
| #13, aired 2023-05-17 | FAMOUS PAIRS $1000: While they never married, this French existentialist couple did share a lifelong romantic & literary relationship Sartre & de Beauvoir |
| #13, aired 2023-05-17 | 1990s EMMY AWARDS $1200: In 1991 Patricia Wettig won her third Emmy & Timothy Busfield his first for this drama about a group of yuppies thirtysomething |
| #13, aired 2023-05-17 | ORCHESTRAS $1200: Leonard Bernstein heard his first live concert at age 14, the Boston Pops under this longtime conductor Fiedler |
| #13, aired 2023-05-17 | AUTHORS $1600: 1993's "Pigs in Heaven" is a sequel to her first novel, "The Bean Trees" Kingsolver |
| #8872, aired 2023-05-16 | "B" IS THE FIRST LETTER $200: This irregular past tense is also what you "go for" when you risk it all broke |
| #8872, aired 2023-05-16 | "B" IS THE FIRST LETTER $400: When you hear this sound, think of auto parts supplier Ed Peterson, who pioneered its use to prevent backover incidents a beep |
| #8872, aired 2023-05-16 | DON'T GO ANYWHERE $400: Newton's first law of motion is about "a body at" this rest |
| #8872, aired 2023-05-16 | "B" IS THE FIRST LETTER $600: A charming painting of circa 1660 shows a mother lacing up this garment after breastfeeding a bodice |
| #8872, aired 2023-05-16 | "B" IS THE FIRST LETTER $800: From the French, it means uninterested, perhaps due to ennui, French for boredom blasé |
| #8872, aired 2023-05-16 | "B" IS THE FIRST LETTER $1000: It means "in a state of confusion", but many misuse it because it sounds so much like "finding something funny" bemused (bemusement) |
| #12, aired 2023-05-16 | NEW WORLD EXPLORATION $1600: When Columbus arrived at the island he named this on October 12, 1492, he wrote that it was green & a pleasure to see San Salvador |
| #11, aired 2023-05-16 | CURRENT U.S. GOVERNORS $400: Wes Moore was Johns Hopkins' first black Rhodes scholar & in 2022, was elected this state's first African-American governor Maryland |
| #11, aired 2023-05-16 | NONFICTION $600: We "guaranty" a good read with super-biographer Ron Chernow's first book, "The House of" this big name in banking Morgan |
| #11, aired 2023-05-16 | POP CULTURE MASQUERADE $1200: In a commercial, kids were pitched Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle masks; this alphabetically first member of the clan was shown first Donatello |
| #11, aired 2023-05-16 | WOMEN IN HISTORY $1200: Known for her extreme piety & care of Peru's needy, she was the first woman of South America to be declared a saint Rose of Lima |
| #8871, aired 2023-05-15 | NEW ZEALAND GEOGRAPHY $200: In the 1880s the area around Waikari was the birthplace of the Corriedale, New Zealand's first homegrown breed of this sheep |
| #8871, aired 2023-05-15 | ORDINAL NOVELS $1000: This Detroiter dialed up a bestseller with "The First Phone Call from Heaven" (Mitch) Albom |
| #8871, aired 2023-05-15 | "SPECIAL" DELIVERY $1600: With unemployment at 25% & banks on the verge of collapse, in 1933 FDR called Congress into the first of 3 of these gatherings a special session |
| #10, aired 2023-05-15 | WHAT A LITERARY CHARACTER! $400: It's the first name of Ian Fleming's Mr. Goldfinger Auric |
| #10, aired 2023-05-15 | GREAT SPORTS CALLS $1000: "The slipper still fits!" as this then-Cinderella Spokane school eked out a 1999 NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament win Gonzaga |
| #9, aired 2023-05-15 | MUSICAL THEATER $400: This 1966 musical was first called "Welcome to Berlin"; the title seemed like a turnoff & was changed Cabaret |
| #9, aired 2023-05-15 | CHESS, MASTERS $2000: (Jennifer Shahade delivers the clue.) My book "Chess Queens" tells the story of the game's female pioneers, like this trio of stereotype-shattering sisters whose youngest, Judit, became both the world's youngest grandmaster & the first woman to be ranked among the world's top 10 players the Polgárs (the Polgár sisters) |
| #8870, aired 2023-05-12 | THIS 20th CENTURY WORLD LEADER... $400: ...became Europe's first female prime minister in 1979 Thatcher |
| #8870, aired 2023-05-12 | GAME SHOW HOSTS $400: On Oct. 15, 2007 he debuted in the Bob Barker Studio with fun scuba equipment as the first prize (Drew) Carey |
| #8870, aired 2023-05-12 | THIS 20th CENTURY WORLD LEADER... $800: ...was born in Georgia in 1878 (but not the first Georgia you'd think of) Stalin |
| #8870, aired 2023-05-12 | STATE CAPITAL TO STATE CAPITAL $1,000 (Daily Double): Just like Peyton Manning did, head west from this second state capital in the name of a Super Bowl champion team to this first Indianapolis & Denver |
| #8870, aired 2023-05-12 | THIS 20th CENTURY WORLD LEADER... $1200: ...was one of the 12 women in the first Knesset in 1949 Meir |
| #8, aired 2023-05-12 | PHYSICS CHECKUP $200: It was the first of the fundamental forces to be systematically described gravity |
| #8, aired 2023-05-12 | I'M LATE, I'M GREAT, I WAS SECRETARY OF STATE $800: I was "the Great Pacificator" & in 1852 was the first man to lie in state in the Capitol rotunda, then went back to Kentucky Henry Clay |
| #8, aired 2023-05-12 | 2-LETTER RESPONSES $1200: The first patriarch's first home Ur |
| #8, aired 2023-05-12 | GAMES, OLD & NEW $1200: Around 1870 the Tenth Hussars faced the Ninth Lancers in this game that's been around for 2,000 years or so polo |
| #7, aired 2023-05-12 | FUNNY LADIES $1600: She first gained notice for her "Awkward Black Girl" web series, some of it funded by a Kickstarter campaign Issa Rae |
| #8869, aired 2023-05-11 | NOTABLE BLACK AMERICANS $400: Called the first detective novel by a Black author, "The Conjure-Man Dies" by Rudolph Fisher is set in this Upper Manhattan area Harlem |
| #8868, aired 2023-05-10 | CLASSIC MOVIES $600: John Singleton was the first African-American directing Oscar nominee with this film, set in South Central L.A. where he grew up Boyz n the Hood |
| #6, aired 2023-05-10 | HISTORIC SHIPS $400: In 1922 the USS Langley was commissioned as the first of these big ships in the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier |
| #6, aired 2023-05-10 | LET'S GET VERTICAL $1000: This town in southwestern Colorado has a decades-old film festival & a ski area with a 4,000-foot vertical Telluride |
| #6, aired 2023-05-10 | HISTORIC SHIPS $1200: This ship commanded by James Cook on his first Pacific voyage later gave its name to a Space Shuttle Endeavour |
| #5, aired 2023-05-10 | WIVES OF THE NOT YET PRESIDENTS $200: When Dwight Eisenhower first met her in 1915, he thought she had a saucy "look about her face and in her whole attitude" Mamie |
| #5, aired 2023-05-10 | NATIONAL FOUNDERS $400: Emperor Jimmu is the legendary founder of this country's first dynasty Japan |
| #5, aired 2023-05-10 | TOUGH MOVIE STUFF $400: The first movie to get a PG-13 rating was this 1984 one where the teens call themselves "Wolverines" Red Dawn |
| #5, aired 2023-05-10 | CLASSICAL MUSIC CLASSICS $400: Ferde Grofé's account of his first time at this place, about which he wrote a suite, includes "All of a sudden, bingo! There it was" the Grand Canyon |
| #5, aired 2023-05-10 | WIVES OF THE NOT YET PRESIDENTS $600: Reagan's first wife, she earned 4 Oscar nominations, the first for 1946's "The Yearling" Jane Wyman |
| #5, aired 2023-05-10 | TOUGH MOVIE STUFF $800: This 1934 film was the first comedy to win the Best Picture Oscar It Happened One Night |
| #5, aired 2023-05-10 | WIVES OF THE NOT YET PRESIDENTS $1000: Although this president's wife, Martha (nee Wayles), served as first lady of Virginia, she never served as U.S. first lady Jefferson |
| #4, aired 2023-05-09 | LIBRARIES $600: In March 1889 the first American library endowed by this philanthropist opened in Braddock, Pennsylvania Carnegie |
| #4, aired 2023-05-09 | LITERATURE $800: Poe's short story "The Murders" here marked the first appearance of the French detective C. Auguste Dupin in the Rue Morgue |
| #4, aired 2023-05-09 | THE OTHER MASTERS $1000: The annual champions dinner began in 1952 when he hosted, a year after his first Masters win & 3 years after a near-fatal car wreck Ben Hogan |
| #4, aired 2023-05-09 | LITERATURE $1600: A letter this author began writing to her grandfather evolved into her first novel "The House of the Spirits" Allende |
| #4, aired 2023-05-09 | PLEASE LOOK THROUGH THE TELESCOPE $1600: This supernova remnant is M1, the first object listed in the Messier catalogue Crab Nebula |
| #4, aired 2023-05-09 | PLEASE LOOK THROUGH THE TELESCOPE $2000: The bright rays visible at the bottom of the Moon emanate from this impact crater named for an astronomer Tycho (for Tycho Brahe) |
| #3, aired 2023-05-09 | 1920s SCIENCE $200: Peter Kaisen discovered the first fossil of this dinosaur, the "speedy thief" Velociraptor |
| #3, aired 2023-05-09 | TIME TO LAWYER UP $200: For not complying with a court order in 1995, a Philly lawyer was jailed for this; he kept not complying & was in jail for 14 years contempt (of court) |
| #3, aired 2023-05-09 | DIANE WARREN $400: (Diane Warren gives the clue.) One of the top films of the '90s was "Armageddon", which features my song "I Don't Want To Miss A Thing", the first No. 1 hit for this group
"And I don't wanna miss a thing" Aerosmith |
| #3, aired 2023-05-09 | COLONIAL AMERICA $800: In 1607 this colony chose a pres. in what's been called British America's first democratic election--6 of 104 had a vote Jamestown |
| #3, aired 2023-05-09 | COLONIAL AMERICA $1200: Published in 1767, "On Messrs. Hussey and Coffin" was the first printed poem by this Black woman (Phillis) Wheatley |
| #3, aired 2023-05-09 | EDITORS $1600: This urbane writer was a co-founder of the Paris Review & its first editor Plimpton |
| #8866, aired 2023-05-08 | CHILDREN'S LIT $200: This bear who first appeared in a 1958 book was part of many people's tributes to the late Queen Elizabeth II Paddington |
| #8866, aired 2023-05-08 | AMERICAN WOMAN $400: Before Elena Kagan was the first woman to be dean of this at Harvard, she was the first bat mitzvah at Lincoln Square Synagogue (Harvard) Law (School) |
| #8866, aired 2023-05-08 | CHILDREN'S LIT $600: This nickname for many kings follows "M.C. Higgins" in the title of the first Newbery Medal winner by a Black author the Great |
| #8866, aired 2023-05-08 | AMERICAN WOMAN $1200: First name of the philanthropist who has gone by the last names Tuttle, Bezos & now Scott MacKenzie |
| #2, aired 2023-05-08 | SAME FIRST & LAST LETTER $400: After "launch", it's the precise period of time in which a spacecraft can be launched for it to be successful window |
| #2, aired 2023-05-08 | FLYIN' HIGHER THAN A JET AIRLINER $400: Apollo 15 was the first mission to use this 460-pound item on the Moon & it's still up there, basically left on the lot the (lunar) rover |
| #2, aired 2023-05-08 | "G.P." $400: The first of these was held in 1906 & won by the driver of a Renault grand prix |
| #2, aired 2023-05-08 | RELIGION $800: Deeply religious, NFL quarterback Derek Carr said the first thing he'd do with his $125 million contract is make this payment a tithe |
| #2, aired 2023-05-08 | SAME FIRST & LAST LETTER $800: Meaning "magnificence", it's paired with a longer word in an Elgar title pomp |
| #2, aired 2023-05-08 | COMIN' TO YOUR CITY $1,000 (Daily Double): Take in the earthquake-resistant "Cardboard Cathedral", built after a 2011 event in this New Zealand city Christchurch |
| #2, aired 2023-05-08 | FLYIN' HIGHER THAN A JET AIRLINER $1000: This Aurora 7 astronaut, the second American to make an orbital spaceflight, is seen here with the first, John Glenn Scott Carpenter |
| #2, aired 2023-05-08 | SAME FIRST & LAST LETTER $1200: This 9-letter word for a skilled storyteller comes from the French raconteur |
| #2, aired 2023-05-08 | SAME FIRST & LAST LETTER $1600: This verb can mean to weaken or disembowel, figuratively & literally eviscerate (or gutting) |
| #2, aired 2023-05-08 | SAME FIRST & LAST LETTER $2000: Sounding like a word from taxonomy, this word describes an argument that looks true on the surface, but isn't specious |
| #1, aired 2023-05-08 | 20/23 $200: In the human body most cells normally contain 23 pairs of these chromosomes |
| #1, aired 2023-05-08 | ALLITERATIVE HISTORY $400: Nickname of the First Volunteer Cavalry, which blazed into history books at the 1898 Battle of Santiago the "Rough Riders" |
| #1, aired 2023-05-08 | DESCRIBING THE NO. 1 ALBUM $800: A first from 2022: all 10 top spots in the Billboard Hot 100 at the same time Midnights (by Taylor Swift) |
| #1, aired 2023-05-08 | JASON ALEXANDER: MASTER OF MY DOMAIN $1000: (Jason Alexander gives the clue.) Long before winning the first Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, Richard Pryor wrote for this '70s sitcom; the star next to Richard is a big hint & man, its theme song was fantastic Sanford and Son |
| #8865, aired 2023-05-05 | QUICK PLANETS $600: It was the first planet explored by a spacecraft, 1962's Mariner 2 Venus |
| #8865, aired 2023-05-05 | NORTHERN LANDS $2000: This man credited as the first to reach the North Pole proved that Greenland is an island Robert Peary |
| #8864, aired 2023-05-04 | ATHLETES NAMED FOR $400: Middle name used by first baseman Willie Aikens; he was born just after another Willie's heroics in the 1954 World Series Mays |
| #8864, aired 2023-05-04 | A BIBLE THUMPIN' $1000: This first 2-part epistle says, "Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned" Second Corinthians |
| #8863, aired 2023-05-03 | HISTORIC AMERICANS $400: In 1809 this first lady hosted the first official Inaugural ball & gala at Long's Hotel for 400 guests Dolley Madison |
| #8863, aired 2023-05-03 | HISTORIC AMERICANS $2000: In 1872, as a candidate of the new Equal Rights Party, she was the first woman to run for U.S. president Victoria Woodhull |
| #8862, aired 2023-05-02 | JEOPAIR! BOARDING PROCESS $400: We're happy to greet passengers in this cabin, also a 2011 "X-Men" prequel with mutants like Riptide & Emma Frost first class |
| #8862, aired 2023-05-02 | WORLD CITIES $800: In 1809 John Molson linked Quebec & this city by water with the first Canadian steamboat Montreal |
| #8861, aired 2023-05-01 | TITLES WITH EXCLAMATION POINTS! $400: The songs "Ticket To Ride" & "Yesterday" first appeared on this album Help! |
| #8861, aired 2023-05-01 | TIME TO DANCE $600: Lean from side to side, move your arms & run your hands over your hair to get on a first-name basis with this hip-hop dance the Dougie |
| #8861, aired 2023-05-01 | IT'S GONNA BE MAY! $800: Founded by Clara Barton on May 21,1881, this organization got its first congressional charter 19 years later the Red Cross |
| #8861, aired 2023-05-01 | DIVIDED ISLANDS $2000: The first word in the name of this country that shares an island with Indonesia is from Malay for "frizzled" Papua New Guinea |
| #8860, aired 2023-04-28 | "G" AS IN GLOBAL $1200: In Australia Sir Isaac Isaacs was the first native-born holder of this post, representing the queen Governor General |
| #8860, aired 2023-04-28 | THE 3-DIGIT YEARS $1200: The Pyramid of the Magician is found at Uxmal, a city built on this peninsula in the mid-first millennium the Yucatan |
| #8859, aired 2023-04-27 | "A_B_C_D" $600: 2-word term for the first responder at the wheel of a rescue vehicle ambulance driver |
| #8859, aired 2023-04-27 | HISTORIC WIVES $800: This Catherine, Anne Boleyn's first cousin, was the fifth wife of Henry VIII; got it? Catherine Howard |
| #8859, aired 2023-04-27 | TANKS FOR THE MEMORIES $2,000 (Daily Double): Built in England in 1916, a prototype of the first operational tank was nicknamed "Big Willie" in mockery of this man Kaiser Wilhelm |
| #8857, aired 2023-04-25 | LET'S SEE A MO-"V" $1200: (I'm B.J. Novak.) In my first feature film as writer & director I play a New York journalist trying to help a bereaved Texas family get this, the film's title & a synonym for retribution Vengeance |
| #8857, aired 2023-04-25 | STATESMEN & WOMEN $1,600 (Daily Double): Emmanuel Macron is the eighth president of France's Fifth Republic; this general & statesman was first in 1959 Charles de Gaulle |
| #8856, aired 2023-04-24 | MADE GOOD $2000: This company that's still going strong made lanterns for the first night football game in the West & camping stoves for WWII Coleman |
| #8856, aired 2023-04-24 | WHEREFORE ART, THOU $2000: Though called a post-impressionist, he had work like "House of the Hanged Man" in the first Impressionist show in 1874 Paul Cézanne |
| #8855, aired 2023-04-21 | THE CALIFORNIA MISSIONS $200: The first of the missions was built by 18th century padres in what is today this big Southern California city San Diego |
| #8855, aired 2023-04-21 | YOU DRIVE $400: In 2021 this biggest rideshare provider recognized a union for the first time, of drivers who sit on the right in Britain Uber |
| #8855, aired 2023-04-21 | BASKETBALL GREATS $600: The winner of 11 NBA titles as a player, & the first Black coach in the NBA, this legend passed away in 2022 (Bill) Russell |
| #8855, aired 2023-04-21 | SLIDING INTO YOUR "D.M."s $600: First name Klaus, the namesake of this boot brand was a physician in the German army Doc Martens |
| #8855, aired 2023-04-21 | GO JUMP IN A LAKE $800: You could jump in Lake Tanganyika from the shore of this country that starts with the same first 3 letters Tanzania |
| #8855, aired 2023-04-21 | SPEAK OF THE DICKENS $800: Dora Spenlow was this title character's first wife; Agnes Wickfield was his second David Copperfield |
| #8855, aired 2023-04-21 | A HARD BARGAIN $800: China ceded the island of Hong Kong to Britain in 1842 as one of many concessions to end the first of these wars the Opium Wars |
| #8854, aired 2023-04-20 | HISTORY $200: This 19th century American's demand for "unconditional surrender" matched his first 2 initials Grant |
| #8854, aired 2023-04-20 | GLOBETROTTING $400: The first Bloomsday celebration was on June 16, 1954 when 2 writers visited Davy Byrne's pub & other sites in this city, reading & drinking Dublin |
| #8854, aired 2023-04-20 | FACE THE POLITICIAN $1200: We're concerned you may not know this woman from Maine was the first ever Republican woman to win a fifth term in the U.S. Senate Susan Collins |
| #8854, aired 2023-04-20 | FACE THE POLITICIAN $2000: Once legal counsel to Daniel Patrick Moynihan, she became the first female governor of New York in 2021 Hochul |
| #8853, aired 2023-04-19 | A BOX OF MATCHES $400: The first cricket international test match was played between the national teams of England & this faraway nation in 1877 Australia |
| #8852, aired 2023-04-18 | THEIR FIRST PUBLISHED NOVEL $400: "Interview with the Vampire" Anne Rice |
| #8852, aired 2023-04-18 | THEIR FIRST PUBLISHED NOVEL $800: For young adults, "Looking for Alaska" (John) Green |
| #8852, aired 2023-04-18 | HOROSCOPES $1,000 (Daily Double): Known for passion & determination, this first sign of the zodiac bears the item sought by Jason & the Argonauts Aries |
| #8852, aired 2023-04-18 | THEIR FIRST PUBLISHED NOVEL $1200: "The Name of the Rose" Eco |
| #8852, aired 2023-04-18 | THE OTTO CLUB $1600: Some historians say the First this German word began when Otto the Great became emperor in 962 Reich |
| #8852, aired 2023-04-18 | THEIR FIRST PUBLISHED NOVEL $1600: "Neuromancer"
(1984) (William) Gibson |
| #8852, aired 2023-04-18 | THEIR FIRST PUBLISHED NOVEL $2000: Introducing George Smiley,
"Call for the Dead" (1961) John le Carré |
| #8851, aired 2023-04-17 | ENDS IN SILENT "E" $200: Over 2 nights, the first Democratic one in June 2019 had 20 candidates a debate |
| #8851, aired 2023-04-17 | ALPHABETICALLY FIRST $400: Of U.S. Cabinet departments Agriculture |
| #8851, aired 2023-04-17 | ALPHABETICALLY FIRST $800: In a pack of the classic 5-flavor Life Savers cherry |
| #8851, aired 2023-04-17 | ALPHABETICALLY FIRST $1200: Of the New Testament's 4 gospel writers John |
| #8851, aired 2023-04-17 | ALPHABETICALLY FIRST $2,000 (Daily Double): Of current justices of the Supreme Court, by last name Samuel Alito |
| #8851, aired 2023-04-17 | ALPHABETICALLY FIRST $2000: Of the chemical elements that begin with "C" cadmium |
| #8850, aired 2023-04-14 | 20th CENTURY WOMEN $400: Runner Kathrine Switzer broke the gender barrier in 1967 when she became the first woman to officially enter this race the Boston Marathon |
| #8850, aired 2023-04-14 | 20th CENTURY WOMEN $800: As chair of a new commission, this former first lady helped draft the UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights Eleanor Roosevelt |
| #8850, aired 2023-04-14 | TALES $1000: A Japanese court lady known as Murasaki wrote one of the world's first novels, "The Tale of" him Genji |
| #8850, aired 2023-04-14 | HEADS I WIN $1000: In 1996 the Library of Congress acquired the "first selfie", this type of photograph named for a Frenchman a daguerreotype |
| #8850, aired 2023-04-14 | 20th CENTURY WOMEN $1200: She took up painting in her 70s after arthritis made it difficult to do her needlework & at 80 she had her first one-woman show Grandma Moses |
| #8849, aired 2023-04-13 | LETTER PERFECT $600: It's the symbol for the very first element on the periodic table H |
| #8848, aired 2023-04-12 | HISTORIC CANADA $200: Serving from 1921 to 1940, former schoolteacher Agnes MacPhail was the first woman elected to this national government body Parliament (the House of Commons) |
| #8848, aired 2023-04-12 | LEFTOVERS $600: Every decade in the U.S. from the 1960s through the 1990s, this name of an archangel ranked as the most popular first name for boys Michael |
| #8848, aired 2023-04-12 | OUR NATION OF IMMIGRATION $800: The first of many Chinese Americans in the laundry business was Wah Lee, who began washing 12 shirts for $5 in this city in 1851 San Francisco |
| #8848, aired 2023-04-12 | DOGGIE BAG $800: Introduced to them in Japan, Helen Keller is credited with bringing the first of these loyal guard dogs to the United States Akitas |
| #8848, aired 2023-04-12 | DINING OUT $1000: (I'm Eddie Huang.) A play on the name of a German school of design, my first restaurant, specializing in Taiwanese-Chinese fare, including steamed buns, was called this BaoHaus |
| #8848, aired 2023-04-12 | ONE-WORD PLAY TITLES $2000: This Moliere comedy about an imposter was first performed for King Louis XIV at Versailles in 1664 Tartuffe |
| #8847, aired 2023-04-11 | A LANGUAGE OF CONSONANT PLUS VOWEL $400: In English, it's a pronoun of the first person plural we |
| #8847, aired 2023-04-11 | TIME FOR A "LITTLE" MUSIC $400: In 1983 Prince drove into the Top 10 for the first time in this title conveyance "Little Red Corvette" |
| #8847, aired 2023-04-11 | QUEEN VICTORIA GEOGRAPHY $2000: This explorer was the first known European to see Victoria Falls & named them for the monarch Livingstone |
| #8846, aired 2023-04-10 | THE NATION IN QUESTION $200: Berbers, the first to carpet the place; discovery of oil near the Algerian border in the late '50s a big plus; care for a sirte? Libya |
| #8846, aired 2023-04-10 | AIR TRAVEL $400: American Airlines recently announced it was phasing out first class on international flights but expanding this class business class |
| #8846, aired 2023-04-10 | RECENT EVENTS $400: For the first time since 1984, Kilauea & this even bigger big island volcano erupted side by side Mauna Loa |
| #8846, aired 2023-04-10 | QUANTUM SCIENCE $1200: (Spiros Michalakis presents the clue.) In 2022, the White House announcement of the first World Quantum Day cited contributions like these super-accurate timekeepers found on every GPS satellite atomic clocks |
| #8845, aired 2023-04-07 | DE-COMPOSING $400: After taking aim at "William Tell" & then quitting theater entirely at age 37, he quit more than that on Nov. 13, 1868 (Gioachino) Rossini |
| #8845, aired 2023-04-07 | NORWAY IS FAMOUS FOR... $1000: Being the home of this explorer who led the first expedition to reach the South Pole Amundsen |
| #8845, aired 2023-04-07 | YOU TOTALLY RULED! $3,000 (Daily Double): He finally got the crown he craved on July 6, 1483 but just 2 years later, Henry VII would open the very first Tudor garage Richard III |
| #8844, aired 2023-04-06 | BE ARTHUR $400: In a historic first, he won the U.S. Open tennis tournament in September 1968 Arthur Ashe |
| #8844, aired 2023-04-06 | GOLDEN GIRLS $2000: This Norwegian ice skater & future movie star won the first of her Olympic gold medals at age 15 at the 1928 Games in St. Moritz Sonja Henie |
| #8844, aired 2023-04-06 | GOLDEN GIRLS $2,400 (Daily Double): At the Winter Olympics in 2018, Anna Gasser of Austria became the first woman to win the big air event in this newer sport snowboarding |
| #8843, aired 2023-04-05 | TRANSPORTATION, IN VARIOUS FORMS $400: In 1957 Eisenhower became the first sitting president to ride in one of these, boarding a Bell Ranger on the White House lawn a helicopter |
| #8843, aired 2023-04-05 | IT'S "NATIONAL" $800: In 2001 Condoleezza Rice became the first woman to hold this vital coordinating post National Security Advisor |
| #8842, aired 2023-04-04 | ALL THE DAYS OF MY LIFE $400: Jawaharlal Nehru's only child, she worked in government before becoming India's first female prime minister Indira Gandhi |
| #8842, aired 2023-04-04 | SHALL FOLLOW ME $800: In 1992 a stolen car followed by the CHP, this organization, became L.A.'s first live TV police chase as KCOP broke into a "Matlock" rerun the California Highway Patrol |
| #8842, aired 2023-04-04 | ALL THE DAYS OF MY LIFE $800: His P-51 Mustang took out 5 German planes in a single dogfight in World War II; being first to break the sound barrier came later Chuck Yeager |
| #8842, aired 2023-04-04 | WATERFRONT PROPERTY $1600: The Pacific port of Prince Rupert, British Columbia is named for the first governor of this trading company the Hudson's Bay Company |
| #8841, aired 2023-04-03 | PRESIDENT GROVER CLEVELAND'S NON-CONSECUTIVE WORLD $600: On May 8, 1886 Dr. John Pemberton sold the first glass of this at a downtown Atlanta pharmacy; that would not be the last Coca-Cola |
| #8841, aired 2023-04-03 | HORRORS! $800: A trap door leads to a "subterraneous" vault in 1764's "The Castle of Otranto", cited as the first novel in this spooky genre Gothic |
| #8841, aired 2023-04-03 | HORRORS! $1000: Some say the first true horror film is the 1920 silent picture "The Cabinet of" this doctor Dr. Caligari |
| #8841, aired 2023-04-03 | THEIR LESSER-KNOWN BOOKS $1200: This Harlem poet wrote a children's book called "The First Book of Jazz" (Langston) Hughes |
| #8841, aired 2023-04-03 | NATIONAL HEROES $1600: This national hero was first radicalized during the Ten Years War of 1868-1878 & died in his fight for Cuban independence in 1895 José Martí |
| #8840, aired 2023-03-31 | THAT, OR A GOLF THING $800: The item in use here, or what you use on the green when other players get to putt first a marker |
| #8840, aired 2023-03-31 | POLITICS TALK $1200: The first time Congress did this to a president was to lame duck John Tyler on March 3, 1845 the first time a veto was overridden |
| #8840, aired 2023-03-31 | LAST LINES OF MOVIES $1200: 1976: "This was the story of Howard Beale, the first known instance of a man who was killed because he had lousy ratings" Network |
| #8838, aired 2023-03-29 | PLANES, TRAINS $400: The British Harrier "Jump Jet" was the first operational airplane with VTOL capability, this "takeoff and landing" vertical |
| #9087, aired 2024-04-23 | BUSINESS: In the 1850s the .925 sterling silver standard was instituted by this company, the first American one to do so Tiffany |
| #9084, aired 2024-04-18 | ALPHABETICAL AMERICA: Until Alabama became the 22nd state, this one was first alphabetically Connecticut |
| #9082, aired 2024-04-16 | WORDS & THEIR MEANINGS: Churchill gave a word a new meaning when he called for a "talk with Soviet Russia upon the highest level... a parley at" this the summit |
| #9068, aired 2024-03-27 | OLD WORDS: First appearing in an English dictionary in 1623, mesonoxian means pertaining to this word midnight |
| #9067, aired 2024-03-26 | ELEMENTS: In his "Natural History" Pliny described it as "argentum vivum" mercury |
| #9054, aired 2024-03-07 | ANCIENT DRAMA: From the 470s B.C., Aeschylus' earliest surviving work has this title; he'd fought them repeatedly in the preceding years The Persians |
| #9051, aired 2024-03-04 | POETS OF ANCIENT ROME: Far from Rome, this first century poet wrote, "The leader's anger done, grant me the right to die in my native country" Ovid |
| #9045, aired 2024-02-23 | FRENCH AUTHORS: Trained as a priest & a physician, in 1532 he published his first novel under the pen name Alcofribas Nasier (François) Rabelais |
| #9040, aired 2024-02-16 | THEATER: A 1955 play review noted "restless Delta folk" & "lives as uncomfortable & insecure as the proverbial" this title Cat on a Hot Tin Roof |
| #9038, aired 2024-02-14 | BROADWAY PLAYS: Rita Moreno & Sally Struthers were the first to star in the female version of this comedy, their characters becoming Olive & Florence The Odd Couple |
| #9029, aired 2024-02-01 | GEOGRAPHY: The first city in Australia with a municipal government, this state capital bears the name of a queen Adelaide |
| #9021, aired 2024-01-22 | PRESIDENTS & VICE PRESIDENTS: The first vice president & the first president not born in one of the original 13 states were both born in this state Kentucky |
| #25, aired 2024-01-16 | ICONIC DESIGNERS: Once married to a publishing heir who owned citrus groves, her brightly printed dresses were originally designed to hide juice stains Lilly Pulitzer |
| #9016, aired 2024-01-15 | ON THE STAGE: Paul Robeson said that even as this character "kills, his honor is at stake... the honor of his whole culture is involved" Othello |
| #9008, aired 2024-01-03 | FROM THE FRENCH: With murder, shadows, a nosy reporter & Peter Lorre, 1940's "Stranger on the Third Floor" is the first example of this, some say film noir |
| #9006, aired 2024-01-01 | LANDMARKS: 213 feet wide, this late 18th c. European structure has 5 portals, the middle of which was--at first--for royals only the Brandenburg Gate |
| #8999, aired 2023-12-21 | FROM PAGE TO STAGE: The opera based on this 1993 memoir was staged at a prison for the first time in 2023, at Sing Sing with a chorus of 14 inmates Dead Man Walking |
| #8986, aired 2023-12-04 | 20th CENTURY NOVELS: The Atlanta History Center says this novel was "both beloved & condemned from almost the moment of its publication" in 1936 Gone with the Wind |
| #8979, aired 2023-11-23 | SCIENCE ETYMOLOGY: First detected in the Sun's atmosphere in 1868, it got its name from an old word for sun helium |
| #8975, aired 2023-11-17 | LITERARY CHARACTERS: In his first appearance in 1902, he was described as "betwixt-and-between" a boy & a bird Peter Pan |
| #8963, aired 2023-11-01 | 21st CENTURY PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS: It was the first election since 1952 in which neither the incumbent president nor the incumbent vice president was a candidate 2008 (Barack Obama & John McCain) |
| #8962, aired 2023-10-31 | NAME'S THE SAME: This first name is shared by a character introduced in 1941 & a member of royalty who is sixth in line to the British throne Archie |
| #8960, aired 2023-10-27 | FAMOUS AMERICANS: On March 23, 1779 he became the first U.S. diplomat to serve overseas by presenting his credentials to a foreign government Benjamin Franklin |
| #8954, aired 2023-10-19 | NAMES: The name Jennifer is an alteration of this name that in early Welsh literature belonged to the "first lady of the island" Guinevere |
| #8941, aired 2023-10-02 | PRESIDENTIAL PROCLAMATIONS: Both issued in April, 80 years apart, the first proclamations by these 2 presidents each declared national days of mourning Andrew Johnson & Harry Truman |
| #14, aired 2023-09-27 | ASTRONOMY: Discovered in the '60s and '70s, Cygnus X-1 was the first of these light-trapping gravitational bodies to be identified black holes |
| #8934, aired 2023-09-21 | FIRST NAMES IN SCIENCE: First name of the paleontologist who in 1990 noticed some large vertebrae jutting from an eroding bluff in South Dakota Sue |
| #8929, aired 2023-09-14 | WORLD CAPITALS: In English, name of 1 of the 2 4-letter capitals with the same first & last letter, one in the N. & one in the S. Hemisphere Apia or Oslo |
| #8914, aired 2023-07-13 | FAMOUS SHIPS: This first U.S. battleship ever built was launched in 1889 but lasted less than 9 years the Maine |
| #8910, aired 2023-07-07 | HISTORY & NATURE: In March 1519, these were again seen in mainland North America for the first time in 10,000 years with the arrival of 16 of them horses |
| #8890, aired 2023-06-09 | BRITISH NOVELS: Midway through this 1928 novel, the title character briefly takes "their" instead of his or her Orlando |
| #8889, aired 2023-06-08 | BUSINESS HISTORY: What is dubbed "the world's first initial public offering" took place in 1602 in this current European capital Amsterdam |
| #8884, aired 2023-06-01 | COUNTRY NAMES: The first current country to include its particular religion in its full name, it also has that religion in the name of its capital Pakistan |
| #20, aired 2023-05-24 | LATIN IN LITERATURE: A work by this 15th century English writer quotes the phrase "rex quondam rexque futurus" Thomas Malory |
| #8872, aired 2023-05-16 | AUTHORS: In 1960 Jean-Paul Sartre wrote of this man's "victorious attempt... to snatch every instant of his existence from his future death" (Albert) Camus |
| #10, aired 2023-05-15 | 19th CENTURY FIRST LADIES: After her husband left office, a minister wrote the White House was "purer because" this first lady "has been its mistress" Lucy Hayes ("Lemonade Lucy") |
| #5, aired 2023-05-10 | THE FIRST MILLENNIUM: In 303, to celebrate 20 years of his reign, the emperor Diocletian visited this city for the first time Rome |
| #3, aired 2023-05-09 | 21st CENTURY AUTHORS: Once a journalist himself, he began his first novel with his hero being fined 150,000 kronor for aggravated libel Stieg Larsson |
| #8861, aired 2023-05-01 | 18th CENTURY LITERATURE: The first name of this title character is from Hebrew for "devoted to God"; his last name suggests he can be easily duped (Lemuel) Gulliver |
| #8858, aired 2023-04-26 | HOLLYWOOD HISTORY: Last name of 3 men who missed the 1927 premiere of "The Jazz Singer" because a 4th of that name had died hours before Warner |
| #8830, aired 2023-03-17 | STATEHOOD: Congress relented in 1890 after this prospective state said it would wait 100 years rather than come in without the women Wyoming |
| #8828, aired 2023-03-15 | ART EXHIBITIONS: In 1898 what's been called the first blockbuster art show was devoted to him & put on for Queen Wilhelmina's coronation Rembrandt |
| #8804, aired 2023-02-09 | THEATER HISTORY: In 1904, wearing a harness, actress Nina Boucicault became the first to play this character onstage Peter Pan |
| #8803, aired 2023-02-08 | EUROPEAN CITIES: Alphabetically the first German city in encyclopedias, it was also the first one taken by the Allies in World War II Aachen |
| #8786, aired 2023-01-16 | BUSINESS MILESTONES: These were first sold in 1908, at a price equivalent to about $27,000 today Ford Model T |
| #8783, aired 2023-01-11 | POP STARS: In 2022 she became the first woman to have a Billboard Top 10 album in 5 decades starting with the 1980s Madonna |
| #8780, aired 2023-01-06 | HISTORIC PEOPLE: After a 1789 event, he wrote, "My first determination was to seek a supply of... water at Tofoa, & afterwards to sail for Tongataboo" (Captain) Bligh |
| #9, aired 2023-01-05 | 20th CENTURY PEOPLE: Calling him "the embodiment of pure intellect", in December 1999 Time magazine named him Person of the Century Albert Einstein |
| #8775, aired 2022-12-30 | U.S. BODIES OF WATER: Continuing a downward trend, in July 2022 it was at 27% capacity, its lowest level since 1937 when it was first being filled Lake Mead |
| #8763, aired 2022-12-14 | PRESIDENTIAL FACTS: Only 3 presidents have married while in office--John Tyler was the first & he was the last (Woodrow) Wilson |
| #8760, aired 2022-12-09 | 1970s MOVIES: A 1975 premiere of this comedy advertised free coconuts for the first thousand in the audience Monty Python and the Holy Grail |
| #8758, aired 2022-12-07 | U.S. PRESIDENTS: He was sworn in twice as president within 2 years, first by his father & then later by a former U.S. President (Calvin) Coolidge |
| #8744, aired 2022-11-17 | MOVIES & LITERATURE: Ridley Scott's first feature film, "The Duellists", was based on a story by this author to whom Scott's film "Alien" also pays tribute Joseph Conrad |
| #8739, aired 2022-11-10 | GEOGRAPHIC PAIRS: By ferry, the distance between these 2 paired Mediterranean islands is about 40 miles from Alcudia to Ciutadella Mallorca (Majorca) & Menorca (Minorca) |
| #7, aired 2022-11-06 | BRANDS: With wood becoming more difficult to source, this company turned to plastic for its automatic binding bricks, introduced in 1949 Lego |
| #8729, aired 2022-10-27 | AMERICAN COMPOSERS: He turned to opera with the 1903 work "Guest of Honor", likely inspired by Booker T. Washington's dinner at the White House (Scott) Joplin |
| #8726, aired 2022-10-24 | AUTHORS: When Esquire began as a men's lifestyle magazine in the 1930s, he was asked for manly content & wrote in 28 of the first 33 issues (Ernest) Hemingway |
| #4, aired 2022-10-16 | ANNUAL EVENTS: In 1986 Larry Harvey called a friend & said, let's do this, no one knows exactly why; it evolved into an annual festival in the desert Burning Man |
| #8716, aired 2022-10-10 | BRAND NAMES: A neighbor's charcoal drawing of Ann Turner Cook at age 4 or 5 months won a 1928 contest to appear in ads for this brand Gerber |
| #8714, aired 2022-10-06 | NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNERS: He served as Bishop of Lesotho from 1976 to 1978 (Archbishop Desmond) Tutu |
| #8709, aired 2022-09-29 | INNOVATIONS: Seen by a worldwide audience in 1970, black pentagons were added to these to help viewers follow them better on TV soccer balls |
| #8702, aired 2022-09-20 | AMERICAN GOVERNMENT: Delivered on January 8, 1790, the first of these was also the shortest, at 1,089 words the State of Union Address |
| #8700, aired 2022-09-16 | DISNEY SONGS: "We Don't Talk About Bruno" from "Encanto" is the first song from an animated Disney film to hit No. 1 since this duet in 1993 "A Whole New World" |
| #8698, aired 2022-09-14 | ARTISTS: He said, "The Seine! I have painted it all my life, at all hours, in all seasons, from Paris to the sea" (Claude) Monet |
| #8691, aired 2022-07-25 | THE ROCK & ROLL HALL OF FAME: Honored in 1998 as part of a rock group & in 2019 as a solo artist, this singer was the first woman to be inducted into the Hall twice Stevie Nicks |
| #8684, aired 2022-07-14 | THE 20th CENTURY: Maybe surprisingly, in 1918 this new leader was the first to recognize the independence of Finland Lenin |
| #8681, aired 2022-07-11 | MUSICAL THEATER: It's one of the most revived shows in Broadway history & in 2001 it was designated the state opera of South Carolina Porgy and Bess |
| #8668, aired 2022-06-22 | 19th CENTURY LITERATURE: This author first thought of a parrot before choosing another bird "equally capable of speech" Edgar Allan Poe |
| #8664, aired 2022-06-16 | DEBUT NOVELS: Published in 1991, this novel, the first in a series, has been described as "historical fiction with a Moebius twist" Outlander |
| #8659, aired 2022-06-09 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE: First published in French in 1943, this book has been called the most translated non-religious work, rendered into more than 300 languages The Little Prince |
| #8657, aired 2022-06-07 | WRITING OLD & NEW: This 2013 bestseller shares its title with the first section of a poem from 7 centuries before Inferno |
| #8655, aired 2022-06-03 | TECHNOLOGY: Upon the first use of this in 1844, the Baltimore Sun declared that time & space had been annihilated the telegraph |
| #8651, aired 2022-05-30 | IN MEMORIAM 2022: On the death of this trailblazing man, friend & mentor, Oprah said, "For me, the greatest of the 'great trees' has fallen" Sidney Poitier |
| #8637, aired 2022-05-10 | LIVE MUSIC: These 2 events held 2 1/2 months & 2,500 miles apart in 1999 were the last of one major music happening & the first of another Woodstock ('99 or 1999) & Coachella |
| #8621, aired 2022-04-18 | WORLD LITERATURE: Befitting the title, Antoine Galland, the first Western translator of this collection, worked on it only "after dinner" Arabian Nights (the One Thousand and One Nights) |
| #8620, aired 2022-04-15 | ACADEMY AWARD WINNERS: In 2019 he won his first competitive Oscar, 36 years after a Student Academy Award for a film about a Brooklyn barbershop Spike Lee |
| #8618, aired 2022-04-13 | HISTORY: Intimately familiar with World War I, Churchill considered this war from some 150 years before the "first world war" the Seven Years' War |
| #8616, aired 2022-04-11 | WORDS OF THE YEAR: Oxford's word of the year for 2021 was this 3-letter one, short for a word that goes back to the Latin for "cow" vax |
| #8613, aired 2022-04-06 | SMALL COUNTRIES: French, Italian & Swiss nationals make up about half of its population of 38,000 Monaco |
| #8608, aired 2022-03-30 | AMERICANS IN PARIS: In 2021 she became the sixth woman & the first Black woman to be inducted into the Pantheon in Paris Josephine Baker |
| #8606, aired 2022-03-28 | SPORTS HISTORY: Taking the mound for Cleveland in 1948, he was the first African American to pitch in a World Series Satchel Paige |
| #8598, aired 2022-03-16 | MOVIE STARS: Matthew McConaughey said, "'Dazed & Confused', the first words I ever said on film were" these "Alright, alright, alright" |
| #8587, aired 2022-03-01 | THE SILVER SCREEN: He was the first actor to star in 3 films that won the Oscar for Best Picture: those of 1934, 1935 & 1939 Clark Gable |
| #18, aired 2022-02-22 | THE 19th CENTURY: An 1873 book title gave us this phrase for the period in the late 1800s of growth & prosperity & also greed & corruption the Gilded Age |
| #8580, aired 2022-02-18 | PLAYS: First published in 1602, its title characters are Margaret & Alice The Merry Wives of Windsor |
| #15, aired 2022-02-18 | HISTORIC STRUCTURES: In 1100 the Bishop of Durham became the first prisoner here &, after plying his guards with wine, became the first to escape the Tower of London |
| #11, aired 2022-02-16 | HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES: The first national observance of Memorial Day was held May 30, 1868 at this site, on land that had belonged to Robert E. Lee's wife Arlington National Cemetery |
| #8575, aired 2022-02-11 | INTERNATIONAL PLAYWRIGHTS: A piece of writing advice from this man who died in 1904 concludes, "Otherwise don't put it there" (Anton) Chekhov |
| #8573, aired 2022-02-09 | AMERICAN CITIES: Recorded on a visit to this California city, YouTube's first video featured a man saying, "They have really, really, really long trunks" San Diego |
| #8564, aired 2022-01-27 | 18th CENTURY NAMES: In 1793 he left Dublin for the United States, saying, "I expect to make a fortune" off George Washington, & he did Gilbert Stuart |
| #8560, aired 2022-01-21 | MOUNTAINS: First scaled in 1829, this 17,000-foot mountain has caused excitement by the supposed discovery of wood high up on it Mount Ararat |
| #8559, aired 2022-01-20 | WORDS IN AMERICAN HISTORY: The 1890 Census reported that "the unsettled area has been so broken into... that there can hardly be said to be a" this frontier |
| #8552, aired 2022-01-11 | BROADWAY MUSICALS: Each in a show that ran more than 2 years, Ethel Merman & Sarah Jessica Parker played 2 different characters with this first name Annie |
| #8548, aired 2022-01-05 | THE 1950s: The first TV debate between presidential candidates of the same party involved him & future running mate Estes Kefauver Adlai Stevenson |
| #8547, aired 2022-01-04 | WORD ORIGINS: From the Greek for "ring", the first ones were built by the Romans, including one that could hold 250,000 circus |
| #8546, aired 2022-01-03 | SCULPTORS: Los Angeles artist George Stanley sculpted this, first handed out at a private banquet on May 16, 1929 the Oscar |
| #8545, aired 2021-12-31 | MUSIC LEGENDS: Of their July 1957 first meeting at a church fair, one of this pair recalled: "I was a fat schoolboy and… he was drunk" John Lennon & Paul McCartney |
| #8541, aired 2021-12-27 | 20th CENTURY THEATER: In 1955 Peter Hall directed the first production of this play in English without having "the foggiest idea what some of it means" Waiting for Godot |
| #8538, aired 2021-12-22 | SPORTING EVENTS: In 1752 one of the first races in this sport was run--4 miles from Buttevant Church to St. Mary's Doneraile steeplechase |
| #8537, aired 2021-12-21 | 3-NAMED WOMEN: Not primarily known as a suffragist, in 1879 she became the first female resident of Concord, Mass. to register to vote in local elections Louisa May Alcott |
| #8536, aired 2021-12-20 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS: Introduced in 1938 & inspired by movie character Torchy Blane of the Morning Herald, she has since gone on to win a fictional Pulitzer Lois Lane |
| #8535, aired 2021-12-17 | FRENCH ARTISTS: The catalog of MoMA's first exhibition called this artist who died in 1891 a "man of science" & "inventor of a method" (Georges) Seurat |
| #8521, aired 2021-11-29 | 19th CENTURY LITERATURE: Its first line says, "The good people of Paris were awakened by a grand peal from all the bells in the three districts of the city" The Hunchback of Notre Dame |
| #8519, aired 2021-11-25 | FAMOUS DO'S & DON'TS: In 1964 Berkeley alum Jack Weinberg, age 24, told a San Francisco chronicle reporter this now-famous "Don't" "Don't trust anyone over 30" |
| #8518, aired 2021-11-24 | AWARDS & HONORS: First awarded in 1731 to electricity pioneer Stephen Gray, the Copley Medal is awarded annually by this organization the Royal Society |
| #8513, aired 2021-11-17 | FINAL RESTING PLACES: A cemetery on this island has the graves of Robert Fulton & 2 of the first 4 Treasury Secretaries Manhattan |
| #8512, aired 2021-11-16 | MOVIE QUOTES: This 3-word phrase was the protagonist's second line of dialogue in a 1962 movie, the first in a 25-film series "Bond, James Bond" |
| #8506, aired 2021-11-08 | NAMES IN AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY: He was Virginia's 1st African-American congressman, whose grandnephew, a famous poet, used his last name as a first name (John Mercer) Langston |
| #8495, aired 2021-10-22 | 1970s TOP 40 HITS: Seeing a poster for a production of "Cyrano de Bergerac" in a seedy Paris hotel & ladies of the evening nearby inspired this hit "Roxanne" |
| #8493, aired 2021-10-20 | 19th CENTURY SUPREME COURT DECISIONS: The first "self-evident" truth in the Declaration of Independence was quoted & found not to apply to this plaintiff (Dred) Scott |
| #8491, aired 2021-10-18 | NAMES ON THE MAP: From 1824 to 1825 this hero toured all 24 states & an Indiana city was named for him (the Marquis de) Lafayette |
| #8489, aired 2021-10-14 | U.S. HISTORY: On Sept. 30, 1788 William Maclay & Robert Morris, both of Pennsylvania, were chosen as the first 2 these (U.S.) senators |
| #8486, aired 2021-10-11 | COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD: Nazi Germany annexed this nation & divided it into regions of the Alps & the Danube; the Allies later divided it into 4 sectors Austria |
| #8485, aired 2021-10-08 | THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE: British zoologist George Shaw looked for stitches when he first saw this mammal in 1799, thinking he was being tricked (the) duck-bill(ed) platypus |
| #8476, aired 2021-09-27 | ROCK LEGENDS: A new studio album in 2020 gave him a Top 5 album in 6 consecutive decades, his first in 1975 (Bruce) Springsteen |
| #8466, aired 2021-09-13 | THE 13 COLONIES: Founded by an advocate of religious freedom, it was the site of America's first Baptist church & oldest synagogue Rhode Island |
| #8465, aired 2021-08-13 | 19th CENTURY AMERICAN WOMEN: 2 of the 3 women depicted on the first statue of real women in Central Park, unveiled in August 2020 (2 of) (Sojourner) Truth, (Susan B.) Anthony, or (Elizabeth Cady) Stanton |
| #8461, aired 2021-08-09 | BEASTLY EPONYMS: A penguin species found in southern South America is named for this 16th century man whose crew were the first from Europe to see them (Ferdinand) Magellan |
| #8458, aired 2021-08-04 | THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE: The first published announcement of the Declaration was by a Philadelphia paper that reported it in this foreign language German |
| #8455, aired 2021-07-30 | COMEDY & SPORTS: These are the 2 of a reporter's 5 W's that are not on the baseball team in Abbott & Costello's "Who's on First?" Where & When |
| #8443, aired 2021-07-14 | ANIMATION: These characters first seen onscreen in a 1938 film are known in Spain as Juanito, Jorgito & Jaimito Huey, Dewey & Louie |
| #8441, aired 2021-07-12 | COLLEGE LIFE: This dish associated with Harvard goes back to the start of the school; the wife of the first headmaster made an awful version hasty pudding |
| #8438, aired 2021-07-07 | ROCK BANDS: In 2017 this band whose singer goes by a nickname became the first to have No. 1 albums in the U.S. in the 1980s, 1990s, 2000s & 2010s U2 |
| #8430, aired 2021-06-25 | NEW YORK CITY: Bright new lighting installed in 1880 on a street that crosses Manhattan diagonally led to this 3-word nickname the Great White Way |
| #8428, aired 2021-06-23 | FAMOUS WOMEN: In 1983, 20 years after her famous first, she was honored on a one-ruble coin Valentina Tereshkova |
| #8426, aired 2021-06-21 | REFERENCE BOOKS: Emily Dickinson made frequent use of a work by this family friend & said that for several years, it was "my only companion" (Noah) Webster |
| #8396, aired 2021-05-10 | U.S. HISTORY: On April 7, 1789 Charles Thomson & Sylvanus Bourne left New York City to tell these 2 men the results of a vote taken the day before George Washington & John Adams |
| #8389, aired 2021-04-29 | ODD WORDS: A homophone of a letter in the alphabet, this 5-letter word sounds the same if you remove its last 4 vowels queue |
| #8372, aired 2021-04-06 | 20th CENTURY AMERICAN HISTORY: A biography of him: "In a sweltering, dimly lit cabin, its window shades closed... his first presidential decisions were made" Lyndon Johnson |
| #8365, aired 2021-03-26 | 19th CENTURY AMERICANS: In 1869 he moved to Yosemite Valley & was the first to say the area was formed by glacial erosion, a theory generally accepted today (John) Muir |
| #8362, aired 2021-03-23 | THE OLYMPICS: The "City of Angels" hosted the Olympics twice, the second time this many years after the first 52 |
| #8361, aired 2021-03-22 | SHAKESPEAREAN REFERENCES: This name given to U.K. labor strife in December 1978 & January 1979 was taken from the first line of a Shakespeare history play the Winter of (our) Discontent |
| #8349, aired 2021-03-04 | U.S. MILITARY EQUIPMENT: The U.S. Army's tradition of naming these began with the Sioux, used in the Korean War helicopters |
| #8348, aired 2021-03-03 | EUROPEAN LANDMARKS: Of the principal architects working on it from the mid-1500s to the 1980s, like Pierre Lescot & Hector Lefuel, none were foreigners the Louvre |
| #8340, aired 2021-02-19 | WORLD SURNAMES: In 2019, for the first time, this nation allowed for non-gendered last names with the suffix -bur Iceland |
| #8339, aired 2021-02-18 | 19th CENTURY PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGNS: The first campaign of this man, who at 36 was the youngest major party nominee ever, was supported by the silver mining industry William Jennings Bryan |
| #8334, aired 2021-02-11 | THE OSCARS: The first time an individual won 4 awards at a single ceremony was in 1954, when his wins included Best 2-Reel Short Subject Walt Disney |
| #8329, aired 2021-02-04 | CABLE NETWORKS: In March 1979 Tip O'Neill & then-Representative Al Gore were the first politicians to speak on this new cable channel C-SPAN |
| #8322, aired 2021-01-26 | POP MUSIC: First released as a single in 1982, this song was re-released & charted again 17 years later & 17 years after that "1999" |
| #8316, aired 2021-01-18 | MOVIE SETTINGS: In 2017 this New York City luxury store opened its first cafe, with truffle eggs, waffles & croissants on the menu Tiffany & Co. (Tiffany's) |
| #8314, aired 2021-01-14 | CHILDREN'S BOOKS: This 1969 book was first printed in Japan because no U.S. company would then make a book with so many holes in the pages The Very Hungry Caterpillar |
| #8312, aired 2021-01-12 | FAMOUS ANIMALS: When she first came to the world's attention in 1957, she was dubbed "Muttnik" by U.S. journalists Laika |
| #8280, aired 2020-11-13 | U.S. MONUMENTS: More than 100 years after it was first proposed, this monument was dedicated by President Chester Arthur the Washington Monument |
| #8278, aired 2020-11-11 | HISTORY OF MEDICINE: 2020 marks the 55th birthday of the first piece of equipment dedicated to this process, now used for regular screenings mammogram |
| #8274, aired 2020-11-05 | FOREIGN WORDS IN ENGLISH: The first use of this Spanish term in English was by Wellington referring to partisans in the Peninsular Wars guerrillas |
| #8269, aired 2020-10-29 | LEAD SINGERS: The New York Times said this late Brit's multi-octave range & operatic quality made "even paeans to bicycle riding sound emotional" Freddie Mercury |
| #8267, aired 2020-10-27 | THE 13 COLONIES: Pride in the document under which this future state was governed from 1639 to 1662 led to its official state nickname Connecticut |
| #8238, aired 2020-09-16 | 19th CENTURY AMERICANS: Obituaries called this man who died in 1820 a celebrated colonel, the first settler in Kentucky & a man who delighted in perils & battle Daniel Boone |
| #8237, aired 2020-09-15 | THE MUSIC BIZ: In 2019, at a 60th anniversary event in Detroit, this producer announced his retirement saying he had "come full circle" Berry Gordy |
| #8234, aired 2020-06-11 | MEDICAL HISTORY: One of the first recorded autopsies was performed on this man & revealed 23 puncture marks Julius Caesar |
| #8228, aired 2020-06-03 | EUROPEAN LANDMARKS: As described in an 1831 book, it has "three recessed and pointed doorways... immense central rose window... two dark and massive towers" Notre-Dame |
| #8213, aired 2020-04-29 | 19th CENTURY NOVELS: Its first line ends, "the period was so far like the present period... for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only" A Tale of Two Cities |
| #8210, aired 2020-04-24 | MEN & MACHINES: John Moore-Brabazon, the first pilot licensed by England, had learned about engines working for this man, first half of a famous pair (Charles) Rolls |
| #8209, aired 2020-04-23 | STATESMEN: The first Asian to accept the Nobel Peace Prize was the prime minister of this country who in 1967 renounced use of nuclear weapons Japan |
| #8198, aired 2020-04-08 | AMERICAN AUTHORS: She published under her middle name; her first name was Nelle, Ellen backward in honor of her grandmother Ellen Finch Harper Lee |
| #8190, aired 2020-03-27 | PRESIDENTIAL HISTORY: He was the first president to deliver the State of the Union Address on television Harry Truman |
| #8177, aired 2020-03-10 | 19th CENTURY PLAYS: From the title of a British-set comedy, it completes the final line "I've now realized for the first time in my life the vital..." The Importance of Being Earnest |
| #8175, aired 2020-03-06 | 21st CENTURY MOVIES: After its initial release in 2016, it became the first major motion picture to be dubbed in Tahitian Moana |
| #8173, aired 2020-03-04 | 20th CENTURY ARTISTS: This artist who lived from 1904 to 1989 had a first name that means "savior" in Spanish (Salvador) Dali |
| #8171, aired 2020-03-02 | FROM THE DESK OF THE POPE: A 1919 letter quotes Jesus, "Go into the whole world and preach the gospel" & notes the vigilance, energy & hardships of these workers missionaries |
| #8169, aired 2020-02-27 | 18th CENTURY AMERICA: The first Census, in 1790, listed 24 urban places; this port was the most populous one in the South Charleston |
| #8160, aired 2020-02-14 | FAMOUS FIRST LINES: These 7 words precede, "The rain fell in torrents, except at occasional intervals" "It was a dark and stormy night" |
| #8134, aired 2020-01-09 | LAW ENFORCEMENT: In 1892 Francisca Rojas became the world's first person convicted on the basis of this kind of evidence fingerprint |
| #1, aired 2020-01-07 | PRESIDENTS & THE BIBLE: "Silent" Calvin Coolidge was inaugurated in 1925 on a Bible open to this 6-word first line of the Gospel According to John "In the beginning was the Word" |
| #8125, aired 2019-12-27 | ART FIRSTS: The first French museum to buy this type of painting was the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Lyon, in 1901 Impressionist |
| #8116, aired 2019-12-16 | TV THEME MUSIC: A short piece for 2 guitars called "Strange No. 3" was the first part of the theme music for this drama series that debuted in 1959 The Twilight Zone |
| #8112, aired 2019-12-10 | OSCAR-WINNING FILMS: The first words spoken in this 1970 Best Picture Oscar winner are "Ten-hut!" "Be seated" Patton |
| #8111, aired 2019-12-09 | VICE PRESIDENTS: George H.W. Bush in 1988 was the first sitting vice president to be elected to the top job since this man 152 years before Martin Van Buren |
| #8095, aired 2019-11-15 | INTERNATIONAL DISPUTES: A dispute over Etorofu, Habomai, Kunashiri & Shikotan has kept these 2 countries from ever signing a WWII peace treaty Japan & Russia |
| #8088, aired 2019-11-06 | 20th CENTURY AMERICA: In 1939, turned down by 2 local theaters, Howard University was able to get an outdoor venue for this singer's yearly concert Marian Anderson |
| #8081, aired 2019-10-28 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA: Before its official opening on May 24, 1883 Emily Roebling became the first person to cross it in a carriage the Brooklyn Bridge |
| #8080, aired 2019-10-25 | BRITISH HISTORY: In 2018 Parliament Square got its first statue of a woman, Millicent Fawcett, a founding member of the London Society for Women's this Suffrage |
| #8066, aired 2019-10-07 | OBSERVANCES: Washington made the very first presidential proclamation in response to a request for "a day of public" this Thanksgiving |
| #8064, aired 2019-10-03 | PHRASE ORIGINS: The OED's first citation for this phrase referring to a region of the U.S. is from a Durant, Oklahoma newspaper in 1936 Dust Bowl |
| #8045, aired 2019-07-26 | HISTORIC SHIPS: 215 passengers were rescued when it sank in July 1918, about 500 fewer than it had rescued 6 years earlier the Carpathia |
| #8041, aired 2019-07-22 | LANDMARKS: David Livingstone wrote of this discovery of his, "Scenes so lovely must have been gazed upon by angels in their flight" Victoria Falls |
| #8025, aired 2019-06-28 | PLACES OF LORE: The first mention of this locale is in Chretien de Troyes' 12th century poem "Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart" Camelot |
| #8024, aired 2019-06-27 | INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS: The first time this organization invoked Article 5 was on September 12, 2001 NATO (the North Atlantic Treaty Organization) |
| #8016, aired 2019-06-17 | NEW ENGLAND: Neighborhoods in this city include Federal Street, Gallows Hill & Witchcraft Heights Salem, Massachusetts |
| #8015, aired 2019-06-14 | MEDICAL NEWS 2018: For the first time, the FDA approved a drug for the treatment of this, though there hadn't been a new case in 40 years smallpox |
| #8013, aired 2019-06-12 | POPULAR PRODUCTS: This product that brought virtual tourism into homes in 1939 introduced its first virtual reality device in 2015 View-Master |
| #8001, aired 2019-05-27 | GAMES: When this game was introduced in 1860, it had squares like Intemperance & Poverty & if you hit the Suicide square your game was over The Game of Life |
| #8000, aired 2019-05-24 | AROUND THE USA: Astronomy buffs visit Idaho for the USA's first dark sky reserve; oddly, part of it is this resort area with a bright name Sun Valley |
| #7995, aired 2019-05-17 | PHOTO SHARING: Publishing its first photo in 1889, today it has more than 4 billion likes & 100 million followers on Instagram National Geographic |
| #7973, aired 2019-04-17 | 20th CENTURY LITERARY CHARACTERS: His first name refers to the ancient district in which you'd find the Greek capital; his surname is a bird Atticus Finch |
| #7938, aired 2019-02-27 | 20th CENTURY HISTORY: Interpreting for Vaclav Havel, future ambassador Rita Klimova gave us this phrase for a smooth change of government the velvet revolution |
| #7919, aired 2019-01-31 | FEMALE SINGERS: In the 1990s this New York native had 8 of her first 10 Billboard Top 40 hits reach No. 1 Mariah Carey |
| #7914, aired 2019-01-24 | U.K. PRIME MINISTERS: He was the first U.K. prime minister born after Elizabeth II became queen Tony Blair |
| #7913, aired 2019-01-23 | 20th CENTURY LITERATURE: The writing of this novel, the author's first with no Canadian setting, appropriately began in 1984 The Handmaid's Tale |
| #7908, aired 2019-01-16 | PEOPLE & PLACES: In 1790 Thursday October Christian became the first child whose birth was recorded on this remote island Pitcairn Island |
| #7895, aired 2018-12-28 | AUTHORS: The first novelist on Forbes' list of billionaires, this author fell off in 2012 after giving an estimated $160 mil. to charity J.K. Rowling |
| #7893, aired 2018-12-26 | HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY: Most of the land fighting in the first Punic war between Rome & Carthage was on this island Sicily |
| #7892, aired 2018-12-25 | THE SUPREME COURT: Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes once referred to this 1857 decision as the court's first self-inflicted wound the Dred Scott decision (Dred Scott v. Sanford) |
| #7890, aired 2018-12-21 | GEOGRAPHY & THE MOVIES: Named the first U.S. national monument in 1906, it was featured prominently in a blockbuster movie 71 years later Devils Tower |
| #7874, aired 2018-11-29 | CATHOLICISM: A liturgical year begins on the first Sunday of Advent, which is the Sunday closest to the feast day of this "first apostle" St. Andrew |
| #7872, aired 2018-11-27 | ACTRESSES: In 1997 she became the first to win an Oscar for a film directed by her husband; her brother-in-law produced the film Frances McDormand |
| #7858, aired 2018-11-07 | BROADWAY MUSICALS: Winner of 6 Tonys in 2017, it's the first Broadway musical to focus on the subject of teens & social media Dear Evan Hansen |
| #7851, aired 2018-10-29 | SHAKESPEARE: Aptly, Shakespeare used "moon" & "moonlight" more times in this play than in any other A Midsummer Night's Dream |
| #7835, aired 2018-10-05 | MILITARY HISTORY: Prepared by the Chief of Staff to the Supreme Allied Commander, the "COSSAC Plan" outlined the details of this D-Day |
| #7830, aired 2018-09-28 | CLASSIC FILMS: In this '70s Oscar-winning film, the title character's 1st words are "Why did you go to the police? Why didn't you come to me first?" The Godfather |
| #7820, aired 2018-09-14 | SPORTS HALLS OF FAME: Posthumously, Axel Paulsen was among the first group of inductees into the World Hall of Fame for this in 1976 figure skating |
| #7809, aired 2018-07-19 | 1970s MOVIES: Earning its director the first of many Oscar nominations, this 1977 film had the working title "Watch the Skies" Close Encounters of the Third Kind |
| #7798, aired 2018-07-04 | CLASSIC ROCK: 25 years after these 3 men played a huge festival, they went to play again & ended the set with a tune about the 1st show Crosby, Stills and Nash |
| #7797, aired 2018-07-03 | THE EUROPEAN UNION: Like UNESCO, the EU has heritage sites; 2 of the first 4, a WWII internment camp & a Peace Palace, were in this occupied country the Netherlands |
| #7793, aired 2018-06-27 | SPORTING EVENTS: This annual event first held in 1934 includes play in areas named Pink Dogwood, Flowering Peach & Azalea the Masters Tournament |
| #7783, aired 2018-06-13 | 1990s ANIMATED FILMS: Though it draws elements from "Hamlet", Disney says this was their first all-animated feature based on an original story The Lion King |
| #7779, aired 2018-06-07 | MEDIEVAL SCIENCE: 13th c. Emperor Frederick II's "De Arte Venandi cum Avibus" was the first work written about this -ology ornithology |
| #7771, aired 2018-05-28 | 19th CENTURY AUTHORS: This author whom Helen Keller could identify by his cigar scent was the first to call Anne Sullivan a "miracle worker" Mark Twain |
| #7742, aired 2018-04-17 | RUSSIAN CULTURE: This work was over 50 years old & excerpts had been popularized when it had its first full U.S. performance on Christmas Eve 1944 The Nutcracker |
| #7716, aired 2018-03-12 | FIRST LADY FACTS: In 1982, when Bess Truman died, she had been enrolled in this government program for about 17 years, longer than anyone else Medicare |
| #7715, aired 2018-03-09 | BIG BUSINESS: Bill Fernandez, who in 1971 introduced to each other the 2 founders of this California company, became its first full-time employee in 1977 Apple |
| #7711, aired 2018-03-05 | OSCAR HISTORY: In the 1940s he became the first person to receive nominations as actor, director & writer for the same film Orson Welles |
| #7691, aired 2018-02-05 | CABLE TV HISTORY: "You need us... for everything you do" was a slogan used by this channel, one of the first to customize content by location The Weather Channel |
| #7688, aired 2018-01-31 | FOOD BRANDS: Seen here is the location of the first plant of this company Ore-Ida |
| #7683, aired 2018-01-24 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY: This company's first mailers in 1953 offered 20 different magazine subscriptions--prizes came 14 years later Publishers Clearing House |
| #7682, aired 2018-01-23 | LITERARY BROTHERS: This character first appeared in "The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter", an 1893 story in London's Strand Magazine Mycroft Holmes |
| #7679, aired 2018-01-18 | SNACK FOODS: The name of this cracker that's been around since 1903 suggests that it was baked 3 times Triscuit |
| #7674, aired 2018-01-11 | THE MOVIES: It's the first Oscar nominee for Best Picture to be produced by an internet streaming service Manchester by the Sea |
| #7672, aired 2018-01-09 | THE FIRST CENTURY A.D.: Letters written by this Roman recount the events of a natural disaster, like the death of his uncle, a famous scholar Pliny the Younger |
| #7670, aired 2018-01-05 | COMIC BOOK PUBLISHERS: In 1946, MLJ Mags. changed its name to this "Comics", incorporating the first name of its popular teenage hero Archie Comics |
| #7648, aired 2017-12-06 | REFERENCE BOOKS: This manual resulted from a military engineer's attendance at an unruly 1860s church meeting Robert's Rules of Order |
| #7637, aired 2017-11-21 | CLASSIC ALBUMS: Hailed as the "greatest album of all time", in 2017 it returned to the top of the charts 50 years after its first release Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band |
| #7631, aired 2017-11-13 | VICE PRESIDENTS: A biography of this 19th century VP traces his family to a German town made famous in a folk tale about children Hannibal Hamlin |
| #7630, aired 2017-11-10 | AWARDS & HONORS: The Victoria Cross is for military bravery; this cross first given in 1940 & named for Victoria's great-grandson is for civilian bravery the George Cross |
| #7623, aired 2017-11-01 | THE OSCARS: For 1992, this New Yorker was the first man with 2 acting Oscar nominations in the same year for different films Al Pacino |
| #7606, aired 2017-10-09 | HISTORICAL AREAS: An ancient quote mentions this area & 3 population groups, the Belgae, Aquitani & Celts Gaul |
| #7604, aired 2017-10-05 | ACTORS & THEIR MOVIE ROLES: He played Shakespearean title characters 4 times, receiving Best Actor Oscar nominations each time Laurence Olivier |
| #7575, aired 2017-07-14 | CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN AUTHORS: This Pulitzer winner changed his first name to that of an Irish king, avoiding associations with a famous ventriloquist's dummy Cormac McCarthy |
| #7566, aired 2017-07-03 | 20th CENTURY TRANSPORTATION: The first of these to enter service was christened by First Lady Pat Nixon at Dulles Intl. Airport on January 15, 1970 the 747 |
| #7562, aired 2017-06-27 | LITERARY REFERENCES: An homage to a 1953 novel, this number appears as an error code when a user tries to access a web page with censored content 451 |
| #7556, aired 2017-06-19 | AIRLINES: On June 17, 1929 this airline's first passenger flight left Dallas, making stops at Shreveport, Monroe & Jackson Delta |
| #7554, aired 2017-06-15 | RECENT OSCAR WINNERS: For his portrayal of a famous man born in the 1940s, he was the first actor born in the '80s to win the Best Actor Oscar Eddie Redmayne |
| #7553, aired 2017-06-14 | BOOKS & AUTHORS: His first novel, from 1920, incorporated some of his pieces from The Nassau, a Princeton literary magazine F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| #7545, aired 2017-06-02 | SOCIAL & SPORTS BARRIERS: Condoleezza Rice & South Carolina businesswoman Darla Moore became the first female members of this in 2012 Augusta National Golf Club |
| #7539, aired 2017-05-25 | ART & POP CULTURE: The Brooklyn mural seen here is an homage to this fictional group whose first appearance came in 1984 the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles |
| #7527, aired 2017-05-09 | FAMOUS TEACHERS: W.J. Bryan gave the keynote speech at this man's high school graduation in 1919; 6 years later their paths would cross again John Scopes |
| #7526, aired 2017-05-08 | A YEAR OF FIRSTS: Year in which the Department of Energy was created, the Indy 500 had its first female driver & the 1st president was sworn in under a nickname 1977 |
| #7521, aired 2017-05-01 | THE SUPREME COURT: Only 5 of the 17 chief justices previously served as associate justice on the Supreme Court; he was the last William Rehnquist |
| #7520, aired 2017-04-28 | HISTORIC WORKS' FIRST LINES: "The annual labour of every nation is the fund which originally supplies it with all the necessaries and conveniences of life" The Wealth of Nations |
| #7519, aired 2017-04-27 | TOYS: When it was first marketed in the late 1970s, this toy was given the Hungarian name "Buvos Kocka" Rubik's Cube |
| #7517, aired 2017-04-25 | NUMERIC GROUPS: This numeric group was the subject of an April 20, 1959 Time magazine article titled "Rendezvous with Destiny" the Mercury Seven |
| #7501, aired 2017-04-03 | COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD: In 1947 these 2 nations became the first new members of the British Commonwealth since the original group in 1931 India and Pakistan |
| #7492, aired 2017-03-21 | FASHION HISTORY: These pants first became popular when Pratap Singh, a maharaja's son, visited Queen Victoria with his polo team in 1897 jodhpurs |
| #7483, aired 2017-03-08 | CHILDREN'S AUTHORS: "The Tale of Kitty-in-Boots", written by her in 1914, was first published in 2016 Beatrix Potter |
| #7479, aired 2017-03-02 | SIGNERS OF THE CONSTITUTION: The name of this first Maryland signer is also on a national monument completed in 1803 James McHenry |
| #7473, aired 2017-02-22 | PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN YEARS: Year the New York World lamented, "The age of statesmen is gone... The age of rail-splitters and tailors... has succeeded" 1864 |
| #7471, aired 2017-02-20 | WORD ORIGINS: The first recorded use of this word in print was when Nathan Hope posted an image of his busted lip online in 2002 selfie |
| #7465, aired 2017-02-10 | LITERARY CHARACTERS: When we first meet her in the novel, she's wearing a green dress with 12 yards of fabric & matching slippers from Atlanta Scarlett O'Hara |
| #7450, aired 2017-01-20 | WOMEN SINGERS: What she calls her "Love of Many Colors Album", a 2016 release by this singer is her first No. 1 country album in 25 years Dolly Parton |
| #7448, aired 2017-01-18 | U.S. HISTORY: On Dec. 7, 1787 30 delegates at Battell's Tavern gathered & made history in what's now this state capital Dover |
| #7423, aired 2016-12-14 | AMERICAN AUTHORS: Nominated 8 previous times, he finally won a Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962, 6 years before his death John Steinbeck |
| #7419, aired 2016-12-08 | PRINTING: The 3 major Western typefaces are Gothic, Roman & this one first used in an entire book in 1501 for a work by Virgil italics |
| #7418, aired 2016-12-07 | PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS: 1 of 2 states whose first-ever electoral votes were cast for Woodrow Wilson (1 of) Arizona & New Mexico |
| #7410, aired 2016-11-25 | ENTERTAINERS: He won a Tony & later an Oscar for the same role & decades later, published a memoir called "Master of Ceremonies" Joel Grey |
| #7400, aired 2016-11-11 | FAMOUS FIRST NAMES: This first name of a 21st century activist was inspired by that of a Pashtun heroine known as the Afghan Joan of Arc Malala |
| #7394, aired 2016-11-03 | LITERARY ANIMALS: In a 1926 book, he "is in a very sad condition, because it's his birthday, & nobody has taken any notice of it, & he's very gloomy" Eeyore |
| #7392, aired 2016-11-01 | EUROPEAN COUNTRIES: This nation joined the Warsaw Pact in 1955 & NATO in 2009, & was alphabetically first in each Albania |
| #7390, aired 2016-10-28 | SHAKESPEARE: These 2 title characters who have the same pair of initials both die by stabbing Juliet Capulet & Julius Caesar |
| #7378, aired 2016-10-12 | STATE SONGS: The first line of its state song, "Eight stars of gold on a field of blue", refers to the star group on its flag Alaska |
| #7371, aired 2016-10-03 | CHRISTIANITY: A 4th century traveler gave one of the first descriptions of this day: "All the children... are carried... bearing branches" Palm Sunday |
| #7359, aired 2016-09-15 | DANTE'S INFERNO: During the journey, Dante encounters Homer, Socrates & Cicero, who bide their time in the first circle, aka this limbo |
| #7345, aired 2016-07-15 | THE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME: A quartet inducted in 2010 & a trio inducted in 2004, they’re the first & last inductees alphabetically ABBA & ZZ Top |
| #7321, aired 2016-06-13 | BILLBOARD CHART-TOPPERS: This singer's first studio album came out in 1955, but a 2011 duets release was his first album to hit No. 1 Tony Bennett |
| #7313, aired 2016-06-01 | COLLEGE TEAM SPORTS: The USA's first intercollegiate athletic event was in 1852 in this, which as a sport goes back to at least the Middle Ages rowing |
| #7296, aired 2016-05-09 | LEGISLATION: The original law called this was passed in 1944; today, there's a "Post-9/11" version that also pays for 36 months of university education the G.I. Bill |
| #7262, aired 2016-03-22 | CLASSIC CHILDREN'S BOOK CHARACTERS: The name of this character who lives in a forest is a shortening of an Italian word for a newborn Bambi |
| #7250, aired 2016-03-04 | POP MUSIC MILESTONES: In 1972 this anthemic song became the first Billboard chart-topper by an Australian-born artist "I Am Woman" |
| #7243, aired 2016-02-24 | LEGENDARY WOMEN: Early British literature refers to her as "the first lady of the island" Guinevere |
| #7234, aired 2016-02-11 | NAMES IN THE NEWS: When this man joined Twitter in September 2015, his first follow was the National Security Agency's account Edward Snowden |
| #7230, aired 2016-02-05 | U.S. PRESIDENTS: He was the only 20th century president who never delivered an inaugural address President Ford |
| #7223, aired 2016-01-27 | THE EMMYS: It's the first show nominated for both Outstanding Comedy Series (2014) & Outstanding Drama Series (2015) Orange is the New Black |
| #7222, aired 2016-01-26 | 20th CENTURY AMERICA: The 1970 follow-up line "We've had a main B bus undervolt" was addressed to a listener in this city Houston |
| #7220, aired 2016-01-22 | ANCIENT HISTORY: Pantites, sent to recruit troops, & Aristodemus, sent off to treat his eye disease, were the only known Greeks to survive this event the Battle of Thermopylae |
| #7203, aired 2015-12-30 | GERMAN SCIENTISTS: Best known for his theories about planetary orbits, in 1604 he became the first to explain how eyeglasses correct vision Johannes Kepler |
| #7202, aired 2015-12-29 | FAMOUS LAST NAMES: The first woman space shuttle pilot shares this surname with a man on the 1st manned lunar landing 26 years earlier Collins |
| #7201, aired 2015-12-28 | TOP 40 SONGS: The first 2 Top 40 hits for this late singer--one in 1971, the other in 1973--ended up becoming official state songs John Denver |
| #7198, aired 2015-12-23 | BABY GIRLS' NAMES: In 2014 it was No. 1 in Sweden &, thanks to an animated movie, in the top 300 for U.S. baby girls for the first time in decades Elsa |
| #7186, aired 2015-12-07 | U.S. LEGISLATION: The website for this '60s act says, "First look to see if the information you are interested in is already publicly available" the Freedom of Information Act |
| #7184, aired 2015-12-03 | SONGS FROM MUSICALS: This song from a Rodgers & Hammerstein musical was once simply titled "First Singing Lesson" "Do-Re-Mi" |
| #7173, aired 2015-11-18 | SPACE EXPLORATION: The first man to travel into space began his journey on that fateful day in what is today this country Kazakhstan |
| #7170, aired 2015-11-13 | GREEK MYTHOLOGY: Famous mother of Pyrrha, who survived the Great Flood & with her husband repopulated the Earth Pandora |
| #7167, aired 2015-11-10 | INAUGURAL ADDRESSES: His first address spoke of "the present happy state", "our peculiar felicity" & our "happy government" James Monroe |
| #7166, aired 2015-11-09 | AMERICAN AUTHORS: He was the first to have both fiction & nonfiction No. 1 New York Times best sellers; the latter featured his beloved poodle John Steinbeck |
| #7157, aired 2015-10-27 | THE FOUNDING FATHERS: On an alphabetical list of Declaration of Independence signers, he comes between Lyman Hall & Benjamin Harrison John Hancock |
| #7156, aired 2015-10-26 | POP MUSIC HISTORY: Appropriately, this 1984 blockbuster was the first music CD mass-produced in the United States Born in the U.S.A. |
| #7151, aired 2015-10-19 | TODAY'S INTERNATIONAL FILM STARS: The first 2 Spanish actors to win acting Academy Awards, they got married soon after they both had won Penélope Cruz & Javier Bardem |
| #7136, aired 2015-09-28 | ROCK & ROLL: The group Nazareth took its name from the first line of a 1968 song from this other group The Band |
| #7121, aired 2015-07-27 | CLASSICAL MUSIC: The first movement of the 1888 suite named for her is titled "The Sea and Sindbad's Ship" Scheherazade |
| #7118, aired 2015-07-22 | MILITARY HISTORY: This country smaller than England was a colonial rival with which England fought 4 wars, the last from 1780 to 1784 the Netherlands |
| #7099, aired 2015-06-25 | POP STARS: She won the 1984 Grammy for Best New Artist & in 2013 became the first solo woman to win a Tony Award for Best Score Cyndi Lauper |
| #7098, aired 2015-06-24 | WORLD LEADERS IN THE NEWS: In 2014 CNN declared Zambia's Guy Scott the first white president in Sub-Saharan Africa since this man in 1994 F.W. de Klerk |
| #7094, aired 2015-06-18 | AMERICAN AUTHORS: Published for the first time in 2014, her "Pioneer Girl" was initially rejected, revised & transformed into a fictional series Laura Ingalls Wilder |
| #7076, aired 2015-05-25 | HYMNS: A Christian hymn & a Jewish holiday hymn are both titled this, also the name of a 2009 Tony-nominated musical Rock Of Ages |
| #7064, aired 2015-05-07 | MASCOTS: For the first time in almost 100 years, this pro team has an official mascot, a bear named Clark the Chicago Cubs |
| #7061, aired 2015-05-04 | CONSERVATION ORGANIZATIONS: Harriet Hemenway's boycott of the feathered hats of her social circle inspired the 1905 founding of this the Audubon Society |
| #7058, aired 2015-04-29 | CHAIN STORE NAMES IN THE NEWS: The 1917 first use of what became its name said this 2-word small room "called up the tube that the steamer... was torpedoed" Radio Shack |
| #7057, aired 2015-04-28 | MOVIES & TV: The first hit feature film based on a "Saturday Night Live" sketch was "The Blues Brothers"; this was the second Wayne's World |
| #7044, aired 2015-04-09 | REFERENCE WORKS: Now in its fourth edition, the book with this title first appeared in 1918 as a 43-page guide for Cornell English students The Elements of Style |
| #7040, aired 2015-04-03 | EUROPEAN HISTORY: A 3-letter 9th century tribe is in the names of 2 21st century countries: the world's most vast, & this one Belarus |
| #7034, aired 2015-03-26 | NAVY SHIPS: First designated as Armored Cruiser No. 1, this ship was commissioned in 1895 & operated on our East Coast & in the Caribbean the Maine |
| #7033, aired 2015-03-25 | ACTRESSES: For playing a legal assistant in a 2000 film, she became the first actress to crash the $20 million salary barrier Julia Roberts |
| #7030, aired 2015-03-20 | UNWANTED FIRSTS: Jean Valliere, burned in 1523, is considered the first martyr of this religious group the Huguenots |
| #7023, aired 2015-03-11 | 2014 ALBUMS: With a new release & 8 viral videos to go with it, he had the first comedy album in 50 years to top the Billboard 200 "Weird Al" Yankovic |
| #7021, aired 2015-03-09 | LITERARY CHARACTERS: The first story in which he appeared began, "The scent and smoke and sweat of a casino are nauseating at 3 in the morning" James Bond |
| #7016, aired 2015-03-02 | LITERARY FIRST LINES: He wrote the 1971 opener "We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold" Hunter S. Thompson (from Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas) |
| #6994, aired 2015-01-29 | RANKS & TITLES: In 1858 rule of India went from the East India Company to the British Crown & Lord Canning became the first holder of this title Viceroy of India |
| #6990, aired 2015-01-23 | RIVERS: This North American river first sailed by Europeans in 1534 is named for a man who was martyred in Rome in the 3rd century the St. Lawrence River |
| #6988, aired 2015-01-21 | FICTION: A line in this short story is "Slowly, awkwardly trying out his feelers, which he now first learned to appreciate..." "The Metamorphosis" |
| #6980, aired 2015-01-09 | FAMOUS AMERICANS: In 1982, 72 years after his death, he became the first person inducted into the Hall of Famous Missourians Mark Twain |
| #6976, aired 2015-01-05 | OLYMPIC HOST CITIES: This European city hosted the northernmost Summer Games, also the first where Soviet athletes participated Helsinki, Finland |
| #6967, aired 2014-12-23 | WORD ORIGINS: In the mid-1960s, a decade after it first appeared in a holiday tale, this word came to be used for any mean killjoy grinch |
| #6959, aired 2014-12-11 | THE BIBLE: The first birthday celebration mentioned in the Bible takes place in Genesis 40 & is in honor of this ruler the Pharaoh in Egypt |
| #6958, aired 2014-12-10 | U.S. PRESIDENTS: The first man in the 20th century to hold all 4 federally elected offices: congressman, senator, vice president & president Lyndon Baines Johnson (LBJ) |
| #6950, aired 2014-11-28 | ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY: The remains for Arlington's first monument to unknown soldiers mostly came from this battlefield 30 miles away Bull Run |
| #6949, aired 2014-11-27 | BODIES OF WATER: First encountered in 1648 by a man born in Russia, it was eventually named after a man born in Denmark the Bering Strait |
| #6943, aired 2014-11-19 | 21st CENTURY BOOKS: Set in the Great Depression, this 2006 novel has an epigraph from "Horton Hatches the Egg" Water for Elephants |
| #6942, aired 2014-11-18 | FRENCH LITERATURE: Its first chapter recalls "the little scallop-shell of pastry, so richly sensual under its severe, religious folds" Remembrance of Things Past |
| #6927, aired 2014-10-28 | THE BIBLE: The first conversation recounted in the Bible is in Genesis 3, between these 2; it leads to trouble Eve & the Serpent (or Satan) |
| #6913, aired 2014-10-08 | NOVEL TITLE CHARACTERS: "His madness being stronger than any other faculty", he "resolved to have himself dubbed a knight by the first person he met" Don Quixote |
| #6911, aired 2014-10-06 | MUSIC: John Williams said his music for this event, not a film, tried to capture "the spirit of cooperation, of heroic achievement" the (1984 Summer) Olympics (in Los Angeles) |
| #6905, aired 2014-09-26 | FAMOUS AMERICANS: In 1936 at age 79, he published an article in Esquire magazine in which he described how to pick a jury Clarence Darrow |
| #6901, aired 2014-09-22 | THE BILLBOARD ALBUM CHARTS: 11 movie soundtrack albums by this performer hit the Billboard Top 10, with 4 hitting No. 1 Elvis Presley |
| #6899, aired 2014-09-18 | FOREIGN WORDS: The Holy Roman Empire from 800 to 1806 was the first; the German empire from 1871 to 1918 was the second reich |
| #6895, aired 2014-08-01 | AWARDS & HONORS: There were no winners for this award from 1939 through 1943; in 1944, it was won by the International Committee of the Red Cross the Nobel Peace Prize |
| #6877, aired 2014-07-08 | SCIENCE WORDS: Appropriately, this word from Latin for "unfold" isn't in the first edition of "Origin of Species", but does appear in later editions evolution |
| #6874, aired 2014-07-03 | FAMOUS OBJECTS: In 1950 the England-Scotland border was closed for the first time in 400 years to try to recover this stolen item the Stone of Scone |
| #6872, aired 2014-07-01 | THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE: The first official use of this 4-word term is at The Declaration's beginning, immediately after "The thirteen" "United States of America" |
| #6870, aired 2014-06-27 | BRITISH AUTHORS: The Pharmaceutical Journal praised her 1920 first novel, saying it dealt "with poisons in a knowledgeable way" Agatha Christie |
| #6866, aired 2014-06-23 | BROADWAY: In 2013 this musical based on a movie became the first show to gross $1 billion on Broadway The Lion King |
| #6853, aired 2014-06-04 | THE BEATLES: Of The Beatles' 20 U.S. No. 1 hits, this song has the shortest title "Help!" |
| #6846, aired 2014-05-26 | TITLE MOVIE ROLES: In 1984, in the first of the films featuring this character, he only has 21 lines, for a total of 133 words the Terminator |
| #6839, aired 2014-05-15 | THE ACADEMY AWARDS: 1 of the 2 movies in the last 30 years, one a drama & one a comedy, to win Oscars for Best Actor & Best Actress The Silence of the Lambs or As Good as It Gets |
| #6835, aired 2014-05-09 | FAMOUS BOOKS: It was published March 26, 1830; a very popular work with the same name premiered March 24, 2011 The Book of Mormon |
| #6831, aired 2014-05-05 | WORD ORIGINS: This word for a timid person comes from the last name of a character in a 1920s newspaper comic called "The Timid Soul" milquetoast |
| #6814, aired 2014-04-10 | FOREIGN LEADERS: In 1964 he was convicted of sabotage & conspiracy & served over 20 years in prison Nelson Mandela |
| #6774, aired 2014-02-13 | HISTORIC PLACES: Administered by the Army, its first graves were dug by former slave James Parks, the only one buried there who was born on the site Arlington National Cemetery |
| #6767, aired 2014-02-04 | 20th CENTURY WOMEN AUTHORS: Readers' letters to this author about her 1948 short story asked where the title event was held & if they could go & watch Shirley Jackson |
| #6766, aired 2014-02-03 | PRESIDENTS & FIRST LADIES: The only foreign-born First Lady was the wife of this man who served in the diplomatic corps from age 14 John Quincy Adams |
| #6759, aired 2014-01-23 | NOTABLE NAMES: During a jubilee celebration in 2003, he became the first foreigner to be made an honorary citizen of Nepal (Edmund) Hillary |
| #6752, aired 2014-01-14 | OCCUPATIONAL FIRST NAMES: It's once again in demand repairing old stone infrastructure, & is 1 of the 5 most popular U.S. boys' names today Mason |
| #6736, aired 2013-12-23 | PRESIDENTS & FILM: Jimmy Carter held 480 screenings at the White House; his first was this film set in 1970s Washington, D.C. All the President's Men |
| #6730, aired 2013-12-13 | HEALTH & MEDICINE 2013: There's news of the first lab test for this 10-letter condition the NIH calls the leading cause of disability for Americans 15 to 44 depression |
| #6721, aired 2013-12-02 | POP GROUPS: In 2012, 22 years after their first album, they released a new one that includes "Good Vibrations" & "Monday Monday" Wilson Phillips |
| #6720, aired 2013-11-29 | COLLEGE SPORTS MASCOTS: In 1947 Walt Disney made a handshake deal to let this university use one of his major characters as its mascot, still in use today the University of Oregon |
| #6712, aired 2013-11-19 | THE 2012 OLYMPICS: NBC reported that in the first days of Olympic coverage, this sport seen in recent books & on film was the most watched on cable archery |
| #6705, aired 2013-11-08 | OLYMPIC HISTORY: In London in 2012, judo & the 800m run included the first female Olympians ever from this Mideastern country Saudi Arabia |
| #6702, aired 2013-11-05 | FIRST FAMILIES: Sasha & Malia Obama are the first presidential children who were not old enough to vote for Dad since this one Chelsea Clinton |
| #6698, aired 2013-10-30 | INTERNET FIRSTS: A broken laser pointer for $14.83 in 1995 holds this distinction the first item sold on eBay |
| #6695, aired 2013-10-25 | EUROPEAN LITERATURE: This 1922 novel's first chapter is titled "The Son of the Brahman" Siddhartha |
| #6684, aired 2013-10-10 | LITERARY ILLUSTRATIONS: Emile Bayard's illustration of this character seen here first appeared in the 1860s Cosette |
| #6671, aired 2013-09-23 | CLASSIC FILMS: The first scene of this movie was shot on the first day of filming, Oct. 2, 1960 at 5 A.M. at 727 5th Ave. at 57th St. in New York City Breakfast at Tiffany's |
| #6655, aired 2013-07-19 | PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING NOVELS: Its first line is "A green hunting cap squeezed on the top of the fleshy balloon of a head" A Confederacy Of Dunces |
| #6653, aired 2013-07-17 | INTERNATIONAL SPORTS: 2013 marks the 100th running of this event, first won by Maurice Garin with a time of 94 hours, 33 minutes, 14 seconds the Tour de France |
| #6646, aired 2013-07-08 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN FIRSTS: Tracing her family to William Hood of 18th century Pennsylvania, Karen Batchelor made news as this organization's first African-American member the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) |
| #6645, aired 2013-07-05 | U.S. PRESIDENTS: The only 2 men who were U.S. president 10 years to the day after their first inauguration Grover Cleveland & Franklin Roosevelt |
| #6635, aired 2013-06-21 | CARTOON CHARACTERS: She first appeared in 1930's "Dizzy Dishes", along with singing cats in flapper outfits Betty Boop |
| #6598, aired 2013-05-01 | THE THEATRE: Dramatizing a murder from the year 1170, a 1935 T.S. Eliot play aptly had its first performance in this English city Canterbury |
| #6591, aired 2013-04-22 | BEST ACTRESS OSCAR NOMINEES: Her nomination in 1987 was the first Best Actress nomination for a science fiction film Sigourney Weaver |
| #6589, aired 2013-04-18 | WORLD LEADERS: In 1990 she became the first modern head of government to give birth while in office, to a daughter named Bakhtawar Benazir Bhutto |
| #6574, aired 2013-03-28 | BUSINESS: In 1972 this company bought its first ship, the Empress of Canada, & renamed it the Mardi Gras Carnival (Cruise Lines) |
| #6567, aired 2013-03-19 | LITERARY TITLE PLACES: An 1831 novel says that Charlemagne laid the first stone of this title place, "old queen of our cathedrals" Notre Dame |
| #6562, aired 2013-03-12 | HISTORICAL RELATIVES: This king was the first of Henry VIII's many fathers-in-law King Ferdinand |
| #6558, aired 2013-03-06 | U.S. HISTORY: Congress has passed 11 of these: the first in 1812, the last in 1942 declarations of war |
| #6549, aired 2013-02-21 | RUSSIAN HISTORY: Launched October 1, 1928, it was brought to a premature end in 1932 amid growing hunger 5-year plan |
| #6548, aired 2013-02-20 | CLASSIC JAZZ SONGS: The title of this 1959 instrumental is a synonym for "Time Out", the album on which it first appeared "Take Five" |
| #6544, aired 2013-02-14 | MUSEUMS: Its collection includes a 16" high architects' model of its first permanent building, opened in 1939 MoMA (the Museum of Modern Art) |
| #6543, aired 2013-02-13 | THE ROSETTA STONE: Champollion's deciphering the 1st symbol as "sun" led to translating the name of this leader--there were 11 of them named this Ramses |
| #6540, aired 2013-02-08 | U.S. GOVERNMENT: Recently in the news, this agency traces its origins to an 1803 act helping Portsmouth, N.H. after a fire FEMA |
| #6539, aired 2013-02-07 | CAPITAL CITIES: It's criss-crossed by dozens of "peace walls" that separate its Catholic & Protestant neighborhoods Belfast |
| #6537, aired 2013-02-05 | SHORT STORIES: It says, "The body of the trooper having been buried in the church yard, the ghost rides forth... in nightly quest of his head" "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" |
| #6528, aired 2013-01-23 | WOMEN AUTHORS: The first of Jane Austen's 6 novels to be published in her lifetime, its title is last alphabetically Sense and Sensibility |
| #6524, aired 2013-01-17 | 19th CENTURY LITERARY INTRODUCTIONS: Title character who's "clad in black from head to foot, without a single speck of colour about him anywhere" Dracula |
| #6512, aired 2013-01-01 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA: Held in 1857, America's first national landscape design contest was for the creation of this place Central Park |
| #6508, aired 2012-12-26 | LITERARY FIRST LINES: "You better not never tell nobody but God", begins this 1982 novel, whose film version garnered 11 Oscar nominations The Color Purple |
| #6501, aired 2012-12-17 | 19th CENTURY INVENTIONS: Thoreau noted in 1854, it "resounds at every post. it is a harp with one string--the first strain from the American lyre" a telegraph |
| #6499, aired 2012-12-13 | OLYMPIC GOLD MEDALISTS: Before Michael Phelps in 2008, he was the last American to win 5 individual golds in one Olympics; he did it at Lake Placid Eric Heiden |
| #6498, aired 2012-12-12 | FASHION DESIGNERS: In 1986 her company, now associated with JC Penney, became the first founded by a woman to make the Fortune 500 Liz Claiborne |
| #6491, aired 2012-12-03 | PHRASE ORIGINS: This 2-word adjective for "going against accepted speech or conduct" first appeared in a 1933 translation from Izvestia politically incorrect |
| #6483, aired 2012-11-21 | OPERA: In 1900 the first La Scala performance of this opera was conducted by the man whose last name began with the opera's title Tosca |
| #6481, aired 2012-11-19 | EUROPEAN AUTHORS: Amazon said this author who died in 2004 was the first to sell a million Kindle e-books Stieg Larsson |
| #6480, aired 2012-11-16 | CLASSICAL MUSIC: This 1890 piece was named for a Verlaine poem that begins, "Your soul is as a moonlit landscape fair" "Clair de Lune" |
| #6476, aired 2012-11-12 | NATIONAL SONGS: First publicly performed in 1745, this song sometimes has its pronouns changed "God Save The Queen" (or "King") |
| #6460, aired 2012-10-19 | CABLE TV FIRSTS: When Turner Classic Movies began broadcasting on April 14, 1994, the first movie shown was this one Gone with the Wind |
| #6455, aired 2012-10-12 | OSCAR NOMINEES: One of his first Oscar nominations was for Best Actor; none of his 22 other Oscar nominations was for acting Woody Allen |
| #6452, aired 2012-10-09 | STORES: These stores first launched in 2001 take in more money per sq. foot than any other U.S. retailer, almost doubling Tiffany's Apple stores |
| #6437, aired 2012-09-18 | HISTORIC FIRSTS: On July 31, 1971 Air Force Colonel David Scott became the first person to drive one of these a lunar rover |
| #6430, aired 2012-07-27 | ANTARCTICA: This country that explored the Antarctic interior is the most northerly nation to claim territory on the continent Norway |
| #6425, aired 2012-07-20 | RECENT FILMS: One of its first lines is "I won't talk! I won't say a word!!!" The Artist |
| #6422, aired 2012-07-17 | FIRST NAMES: A wife of King David & 2 of our early first ladies shared this name derived from Hebrew for "my father's joy" Abigail |
| #6420, aired 2012-07-13 | BRITISH HISTORY: This appointed position first held by John Dryden echoes a "Versificator Regis" of Richard I in the 12th century Poet Laureate |
| #6418, aired 2012-07-11 | INAUGURAL ADDRESSES: He said, "It is 72 years since the first inauguration of a president under our national Constitution" Abraham Lincoln |
| #6413, aired 2012-07-04 | NUCLEAR NATIONS: On May 18, 1974 this country tested its first nuclear device, nicknamed "Smiling Buddha" India |
| #6405, aired 2012-06-22 | 20th CENTURY TECHNOLOGY: The first major use of simultaneous translation, before adoption by the U.N., was in this European city in 1945 & 1946 Nuremberg |
| #6401, aired 2012-06-18 | FICTIONAL PAIRS: These 2 men first meet after one of them tells a friend, Stamford, of needing new lodgings in London Sherlock Holmes & Dr. Watson |
| #6392, aired 2012-06-05 | WOMEN IN ENTERTAINMENT: 1 of the first 2 women in Hollywood to own a studio (according to the official bio of No. 3, Oprah) (1 of) Mary Pickford or Lucille Ball |
| #6391, aired 2012-06-04 | AFRICA: Very different places, the first 2 African nations to gain independence from a European power were Egypt & this one South Africa |
| #6379, aired 2012-05-17 | SPORTING EVENTS: First held in May 1875, it is the oldest continuously held major sporting event in the United States the Kentucky Derby |
| #6372, aired 2012-05-08 | ANCIENT LANDMARKS: It's believed that its nose was about 3 feet wide when it was first constructed around 2500 B.C. the Sphinx |
| #6370, aired 2012-05-04 | THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION: In 1777 an opponent wrote of him "Money is this man's God, and to get enough of it he would sacrifice his country" Benedict Arnold |
| #6369, aired 2012-05-03 | MEDICINE: Though its name means "against life", it's any of a class of substances used to save a life an antibiotic |
| #6363, aired 2012-04-25 | WEBSITES: It launched its first offer on October 22, 2008: a two-for-one pizza deal in Chicago Groupon |
| #6362, aired 2012-04-24 | WOMEN'S FIRSTS: In 1977 Juanita Kreps, the first woman on the board of the NYSE, became the first woman to head this Cabinet dept. Commerce |
| #6344, aired 2012-03-29 | SPACE EXPLORATION: On March 17, 2011 a probe called MESSENGER became the first spacecraft to orbit this planet Mercury |
| #6343, aired 2012-03-28 | LATIN PHRASES: Though often associated with Machiavelli, this phrase, "exitus acta probat", first appears in a work by Ovid the end justifies the means |
| #6333, aired 2012-03-14 | 20th CENTURY NAMES: Chapters in his autobiography include "Outcaste", "First Day in Pretoria" & "Fasting as Penance" Gandhi |
| #6330, aired 2012-03-09 | MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS: An entertainer born in 1888 whose original first name was Adolph was one of the best-known players of this instrument the harp |
| #6325, aired 2012-03-02 | BOOK VILLAINS: The first time we meet this man in a 1981 novel, he's in his cell holding "Le Grand Dictionnaire de Cuisine" Hannibal Lecter |
| #6319, aired 2012-02-23 | SINGERS: On the eve of Earth Day, 2011, he became the first performer inducted into the Colorado Music Hall of Fame John Denver |
| #6303, aired 2012-02-01 | WORD ORIGINS: From the Arabic for "storehouse", in 1731 it was first used to refer to a monthly storehouse of information magazine |
| #6301, aired 2012-01-30 | 1960s TV CHARACTERS: One of her first spoken lines is translated as "You have the face of a wise and fearless caliph" Jeannie |
| #6282, aired 2012-01-03 | ASTRONOMY: In July 2011 it completed its first orbit around the Sun since its discovery in 1846 Neptune |
| #6277, aired 2011-12-27 | PRESIDENTIAL INAUGURATIONS: His second inauguration marked the first time that women officially participated in the inaugural parade Woodrow Wilson |
| #6265, aired 2011-12-09 | "FIRST" PHRASES: The earliest known use of this term was in an Indianapolis Star opinion piece of September 20, 1914 First World War |
| #6259, aired 2011-12-01 | HIT SONGS: Inspired by a Meher Baba saying, this 1980s Grammy winner was the first a cappella recording to top the Billboard 100 "Don't Worry, Be Happy" (by Bobby McFerrin) |
| #6244, aired 2011-11-10 | HOLLYWOOD HISTORY: They were the first 2 sisters ever nominated for the same acting Oscar in the same year Joan Fontaine & Olivia de Havilland |
| #6242, aired 2011-11-08 | 18th CENTURY AUTHORS: In a poem he named himself Cadenus, an anagram of Decanus, or "Dean" Jonathan Swift |
| #6238, aired 2011-11-02 | WORLD CITIES: A member of the Hanseatic League, this city with a 4-letter name was once known as the "Paris of the Baltic" Riga |
| #6226, aired 2011-10-17 | 2011 EVENTS: To mark an historic visit, on May 17 an Irish army band played this song followed by Ireland's anthem "God Save The Queen" |
| #6199, aired 2011-07-21 | 20th CENTURY LEADERS: Time magazine first mentioned him in 1939, when his father sent him on a diplomatic errand from London to Glasgow John F. Kennedy |
| #6197, aired 2011-07-19 | 19th CENTURY NOVELS: This novel's first epilogue says, "The activity of Alexander or of Napoleon cannot be called useful or harmful" War and Peace |
| #6195, aired 2011-07-15 | TRADEMARKS: In 1987 a maker of fiberglass insulation became the first company to trademark a color--this color pink |
| #6192, aired 2011-07-12 | COMIC BOOK HISTORY: On the cover of the 1941 first issue of this comic book, the title hero punches Hitler in the jaw Captain America |
| #6187, aired 2011-07-05 | HISTORIC AMERICANS: An education center at his historic home includes galleries called "First in War" & "A Leader's Smile" George Washington |
| #6178, aired 2011-06-22 | LITERARY CHARACTERS: His "remarks about the Confederacy... made Atlanta look at him first in bewilderment, then coolly and then with hot rage" Rhett Butler |
| #6175, aired 2011-06-17 | MEDICAL HISTORY: In December 1967 Louis Washkansky, a patient in this country claimed, "I am a new Frankenstein" South Africa |
| #6167, aired 2011-06-07 | BESTSELLERS: In the beginning this 2005 novel was simply titled "Forks" Twilight |
| #6160, aired 2011-05-27 | U.S. CITIES: Alphabetically first among the 150 most populous U.S. cities, it has become the "polymer capital of the world" Akron |
| #6157, aired 2011-05-24 | THE 16th CENTURY: Held in 1579, the first Christian service in California was performed by the chaplain traveling with this English captain Sir Francis Drake |
| #6152, aired 2011-05-17 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS: The first words he ever spoke to his assistant were "How are you?... You have been in Afghanistan, I perceive" Sherlock Holmes |
| #6150, aired 2011-05-13 | MONARCHS: In March 2011 he gave his first televised speech in 22 years on the throne, saying he hoped things would get better Emperor Akihito of Japan |
| #6147, aired 2011-05-10 | THE NATIONAL STATUARY HALL COLLECTION: In 2009 Alabama replaced a statue in the collection with one of her at age 7, the first child honored Helen Keller |
| #6139, aired 2011-04-28 | U.S. PRESIDENTS: This president was the first to put solar panels on the White House Jimmy Carter |
| #6135, aired 2011-04-22 | BIOGRAPHERS: As many mourned, this minister wrote in a letter, "Washington is gone! Millions are gasping to read... about him" Parson Weems |
| #6133, aired 2011-04-20 | HISTORIC AMERICANS: Sharing his first name with the man who took this 1850s photo, he's the diplomat & officer seen here Matthew Perry |
| #6123, aired 2011-04-06 | COMPOSERS: His first name means "happy", but 3 of his 5 symphonies are in gloomy minor keys Felix Mendelssohn |
| #6122, aired 2011-04-05 | BARTLETT'S FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS: The latest "Bartlett's" lists quotes chronologically; the first quotes come from this country Egypt |
| #6093, aired 2011-02-23 | AMERICAN LIT: He wrote, "The hellish tattoo of the heart increased. It grew quicker & quicker, & louder & louder every instant" Edgar Allan Poe |
| #6076, aired 2011-01-31 | 21st CENTURY EMMYS: As 2 different characters, she is the first actress to win lead acting Emmys in both the drama & comedy categories Edie Falco |
| #6052, aired 2010-12-28 | CABINET OFFICERS: He was the last Secretary of State to serve in the post under 2 presidents Henry Kissinger |
| #6049, aired 2010-12-23 | SPORTS: In 1744 the first mention of this now popular sport said, "Away flies the boy To the next... post And then home with joy" baseball |
| #6033, aired 2010-12-01 | FRENCH AUTHORS: Published posthumously in 1970, his first novel, "A Happy Death", features a protagonist named Patrice Mersault Albert Camus |
| #6026, aired 2010-11-22 | COMMUNICATION: It was first transmitted by the USS Arapahoe off Cape Hatteras on August 11, 1909 SOS |
| #6020, aired 2010-11-12 | DOCUMENTS: It says, "The history of the present king of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations" the Declaration of Independence |
| #6018, aired 2010-11-10 | U.S. PRESIDENTS: During his tenure, he never threw out an opening day first pitch, but before he was president, he did it for the Braves Jimmy Carter |
| #6006, aired 2010-10-25 | FAMOUS AMERICANS: In 1886 he published his first book, "The Trumpet and Drum", an instructional handbook with 8 compositions (John Philip) Sousa |
| #6000, aired 2010-10-15 | U.S. PRESIDENTS: He was the first U.S. president to be elected in an Olympic year McKinley |
| #5995, aired 2010-10-08 | BESTSELLING AUTHORS: Since coming on the beat, he's had more N.Y. Times bestsellers than any other author, including over 20 in the last 5 years James Patterson |
| #5992, aired 2010-10-05 | BROADWAY STARS: In 1955 she became the first & so far only actress to win a Tony for playing a male role in a musical Mary Martin |
| #5965, aired 2010-07-16 | NO. 1 POP HITS: A 1987 remake of this 1959 hit was the first song with all Spanish lyrics to hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 "La Bamba" |
| #5959, aired 2010-07-08 | U.S. GOVERNMENT FIRSTS: The first of these was authorized in 1790, "providing for the enumeration of the inhabitants of the United States" a census |
| #5956, aired 2010-07-05 | THE ANIMAL WORLD: Born in Brisbane in 1999, Euca & Lyptus are the world's first confirmed identical twins of this animal koala |
| #5953, aired 2010-06-30 | RUSSIAN COMPOSERS: His first name means "moderate"; sadly, immoderate drinking helped kill him in 1881 at age 42, but not on Bald Mountain Modest Mussorgsky |
| #5940, aired 2010-06-11 | FLAGS & BANNERS: This 15th century person said, "I had a banner of which the field was sprinkled with lilies"; written on top: "Jhesus Maria" Joan of Arc |
| #5937, aired 2010-06-08 | U.S. MILITARY HISTORY: This general commanded the first official American force to fight on the European continent John Pershing |
| #5934, aired 2010-06-03 | FILM HISTORY: Written by Thomas Dixon, 1916's film "The Fall of a Nation" is considered the first of these ever made a sequel |
| #5929, aired 2010-05-27 | COLONIAL AFRICA: In 1945 Africa had only 4 independent countries; these 2 started with the same first letter Egypt & Ethiopia |
| #5925, aired 2010-05-21 | FROM NOVEL TO FILM: First published in 1880 & made into a film in 1907, 1925 & 1959, it was the first work of fiction blessed by a pope Ben-Hur |
| #5911, aired 2010-05-03 | U.S.A.: Chocolate Avenue & Cocoa Avenue are 2 of the main thoroughfares in this town that was established in 1903 Hershey, Pennsylvania |
| #5910, aired 2010-04-30 | TOYS: Original sets of this toy that was first sold in 1918 included plans for building Uncle Tom's Cabin Lincoln Logs |
| #5907, aired 2010-04-27 | CANADIAN HISTORY: A river is named for this man born in Scotland in 1764, the first European known to have crossed Canada Alexander Mackenzie |
| #5905, aired 2010-04-23 | WORDS FROM THE FRENCH: The first known use of this word in the U.S. was in an obituary for wealthy banker Pierre Lorillard in 1843 millionaire |
| #5904, aired 2010-04-22 | TELECOMMUNICATIONS TERMINOLOGY: In 1992 New York got the first one: 917 an overlay area code |
| #5903, aired 2010-04-21 | SAINTHOOD: In 2009 this man who died on Molokai in 1889 became Hawaii's first saint Father Damien |
| #5901, aired 2010-04-19 | WORLD WAR II: On June 5, 1944 FDR said of the capture of this city, "One up and two to go" Rome |
| #5900, aired 2010-04-16 | ACTORS: In 1970 he became the first professional actor to be named a lord Laurence Olivier |
| #5883, aired 2010-03-24 | ANIMATED MOVIES: The answer to the title of this Oscar winner is Judge Doom Who Framed Roger Rabbit |
| #5879, aired 2010-03-18 | AUTHORS: In 1890 he witnessed a mild cyclone in Aberdeen, South Dakota, fodder for his most famous novel L. Frank Baum |
| #5858, aired 2010-02-17 | RELIGIOUS WORDS: Surprisingly, this word appears only twice in the New Testament, once in Acts & once in the First Epistle of Peter Christian |
| #5855, aired 2010-02-12 | BIBLICAL KINGS: These 2 men first meet in 1 Samuel 16 when one becomes aware of the musical talent of the other David & Saul |
| #5854, aired 2010-02-11 | COLLEGE HISTORY: The Pittsburgh university named for Andrew Carnegie is the USA's first to offer a degree in this musical instrument the bagpipes |
| #5830, aired 2010-01-08 | AUTHORS: In "Comics Review" in 1965, "I was a Teenage Grave Robber" was his first published work; he's still going strong Stephen King |
| #5827, aired 2010-01-05 | ART HISTORY: Unique quality of "First Communion of Anemic Young Girls in the Snow", shown at the 1883 Arts Incoherents exhibit it was all white |
| #5818, aired 2009-12-23 | -ISMS: This term for an economic system first appeared in English in Thackeray's "The Newcomes", about the rise of a family capitalism |
| #5786, aired 2009-11-09 | THE OLD TESTAMENT: This man was given the armor, helmet & sword of the first king of Israel, but refused to use them David |
| #5780, aired 2009-10-30 | PRESIDENTIAL NAMES: He's the only president whose first & last names contain the same pair of double letters Millard Fillmore |
| #5770, aired 2009-10-16 | SCIENTIFIC FIRSTS: The first object in our solar system discovered by telescope was not a planet but one of these a moon |
| #5747, aired 2009-09-15 | PRESIDENTIAL ANCESTORS: His first ancestor to come to America, a maternal forebear, was a Huguenot, Philippe de la Noye, in 1621 Franklin Delano Roosevelt |
| #5744, aired 2009-07-23 | FOOD: This cheese was created in 1892 by Emil Frey & named for a New York singing society whose members loved the cheese Liederkranz |
| #5729, aired 2009-07-02 | U.S. TRANSPORTATION HISTORY: Not standardized as the shape we know, the first of these alliterative items, black on white metal, appeared in Detroit in 1915 a stop sign |
| #5723, aired 2009-06-24 | EXPLORERS: On March 29, 1912 he wrote, "We are getting weaker, of course, and the end cannot be far... I do not think I can write more" Robert Scott |
| #5721, aired 2009-06-22 | PRESIDENTS ON FILM: Filmed signing a bill into law, in 1895 he became the first U.S. president to appear on moving film Grover Cleveland |
| #5716, aired 2009-06-15 | ACADEMY AWARD WINNERS: Her 48-year span between her first & last Oscars, 1933 & 1981, is the longest for a performer in Academy history Katharine Hepburn |
| #5715, aired 2009-06-12 | CLASSIC LITERATURE: This novelist is credited as the first to call Route 66 the "Mother Road" John Steinbeck (in The Grapes of Wrath) |
| #5712, aired 2009-06-09 | SIGNS OF THE TIMES: First turned on in 1989 in Times Square, the "clock" measuring this ran out of digits in October 2008 the national debt |
| #5707, aired 2009-06-02 | GEOGRAPHICAL LITERATURE: The first 2 sections of this Hemingway novel, published 9 years after his death, are titled "Bimini" & "Cuba" Islands in the Stream |
| #5705, aired 2009-05-29 | THE ACADEMY AWARDS: Peter Finch was the first winner of a posthumous Best Actor Oscar; he was first to get 2 posthumous acting nominations James Dean |
| #5702, aired 2009-05-26 | BRITISH LEGENDARY POETRY: The first edition of this collection of poems did not include "The Last Tournament"; it was added in the 1870s Idylls of the King |
| #5660, aired 2009-03-27 | 19th CENTURY CONSTRUCTION: It was first designed as "Egypt carrying the light to Asia", & its original intended site was Port Said in 1869 the Statue of Liberty |
| #5656, aired 2009-03-23 | U.S. PRESIDENTS: You have to go back over a century to find him, the last president who never had a vice president Chester Arthur |
| #5641, aired 2009-03-02 | FIRST NAMES: This first name of a patron saint of a country comes from a Roman word referring to a social class Patrick |
| #5638, aired 2009-02-25 | SPORTS TEAM NAMES: It's the only Major League Baseball team name whose first 4 letters match the first 4 letters of its city the Philadelphia Phillies |
| #5633, aired 2009-02-18 | POLITICAL TERMS: The first known use of this word is a 1763 entry in John Adams' diary describing a club meeting in a friend's attic caucus |
| #5631, aired 2009-02-16 | POP CULTURE: Also the title of one of the best-selling albums of all time, it was first seen in Russian photos taken in 1959 the dark side of the Moon |
| #5623, aired 2009-02-04 | 20th CENTURY FIRSTS: On Oct. 14, 1947 in the Mojave Desert the first of these sounds was made by man; it was the byproduct of another first sonic boom |
| #5594, aired 2008-12-25 | THE GRAMMYS: In 1959 the first Grammy for Album of the Year went to the soundtrack composed by Henry Mancini for this TV show Peter Gunn |
| #5577, aired 2008-12-02 | BREAKFAST CEREALS: The first & middle names of this breakfast cereal "spokesman" are Horatio Magellan Cap'n Crunch |
| #5558, aired 2008-11-05 | POP MUSIC FIRSTS: Covering the years 1971-1975, their first greatest hits album was the first ever certified platinum The Eagles |
| #5547, aired 2008-10-21 | PRESIDENTIAL FIRSTS: The first president to cross the Atlantic Ocean while in office, he did so to meet with other world leaders Wilson |
| #5544, aired 2008-10-16 | PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION HISTORY: Due to the large numbers of men away from home, it was the first year a majority of states counted absentee votes 1864 |
| #5512, aired 2008-07-22 | WORLD LEADERS: Born in Kiev & later a U.S. citizen, this leader became prime minister in 1969 of a country founded in the 20th century Golda Meir |
| #5499, aired 2008-07-03 | U.S. PRESIDENTS: The first man to receive a million votes for president in one election, he didn't get to enjoy the victory for long William Henry Harrison |
| #5477, aired 2008-06-03 | BUSINESS: In 1951 this company whose origins date back to 1876 became the first U.S. company to have 1 million stockholders AT&T |
| #5461, aired 2008-05-12 | INVENTORS: In 1894, in his West Orange lab, Thomas Edison shot this sport, the first sporting event ever filmed boxing |
| #5450, aired 2008-04-25 | PRESIDENTS: Besides James & John, more U.S. presidents have had this first name than any other William |
| #5444, aired 2008-04-17 | WWII: In English, it's the word that Mussolini was the first to use to describe the partnership between Berlin & Rome axis |
| #5434, aired 2008-04-03 | SPORTS FIRSTS: The first baseball World Series game played outside the U.S. was played in this city in 1992 Toronto |
| #5424, aired 2008-03-20 | PLAGUES & PESTILENCE: Having first escaped from a South American research lab in 1957, they became a threat to the U.S. in 1990 killer bees |
| #5422, aired 2008-03-18 | HISTORIC NAMES: James I said of this plotter, "The gentler tortures are to be first used... and so proceed by steps to the worst" Guy Fawkes |
| #5413, aired 2008-03-05 | HISTORIC NEW YORK CITY: The USA's first Labor Day parade, in 1882, went from City Hall to this square just north of 14th Street Union Square |
| #5405, aired 2008-02-22 | U.S. GOVERNMENT HISTORY: This man cast the first tie-breaking vote in U.S. Senate history John Adams |
| #5391, aired 2008-02-04 | BRITISH ACTORS: The first man to win Tonys as Best Actor & Best Actor in a Musical, he won for playing a king & a professor Rex Harrison |
| #5388, aired 2008-01-30 | NOTABLE WOMEN: Denied a college education in her own country, in 1903 she became the first woman in France to earn her doctorate Marie Curie |
| #5373, aired 2008-01-09 | THE CATHOLIC CHURCH: First mentioned in a letter by Clement IV in 1265, this item worn by the Pope features an image of St. Peter in a boat a ring |
| #5372, aired 2008-01-08 | WORLD HISTORY: This world-changing event was first announced in a Barcelona banquet hall in April 1493 discovery of the New World |
| #5369, aired 2008-01-03 | AVIATION HISTORY: He was the 118th man to fly across the Atlantic Ocean Charles Lindbergh |
| #5361, aired 2007-12-24 | SPACE MEN: He was the oldest man to walk on the Moon, & the only World War II veteran Alan Shepard |
| #5348, aired 2007-12-05 | BRITISH ENTREPRENEURS: In 1839 Queen Victoria awarded him the first ever license to deliver mail across the Atlantic (Samuel) Cunard |
| #5346, aired 2007-12-03 | AUTHORS: Her first published writings appeared in the Shanghai Mercury when she was 7 Pearl Buck |
| #5341, aired 2007-11-26 | WOMEN IN HISTORY: Born an infanta in 1485, she died at Kimbolton Castle in England in 1536 with the official title Princess Dowager of Wales Catherine of Aragon |
| #5334, aired 2007-11-15 | SCIENTISTS: In 2007 this 1962 American Nobel laureate became the first person to receive his own personal genome map James Watson |
| #5324, aired 2007-11-01 | MUSICAL THEATER: He's the only songwriter to have Broadway premieres in every decade from the '50s to the present; his first was in 1957 Stephen Sondheim |
| #5316, aired 2007-10-22 | QUOTATIONS FROM B.C.: This work says, "Victorious warriors win first & then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first & then seek to win" The Art of War (by Sun Tzu) |
| #5312, aired 2007-10-16 | ECONOMICS: In 2007 this 18th century professor & writer became the first Scotsman to appear on an English banknote Adam Smith |
| #5309, aired 2007-10-11 | TRAVELING THE GLOBE: Flying due west from Los Angeles, it's the first foreign country you would reach Japan |
| #5308, aired 2007-10-10 | SCIENTIFIC NAMES: It was first given a scientific name meaning "flat-footed duck"; it was later given one meaning "birdlike snout" a platypus |
| #5303, aired 2007-10-03 | ISLANDS: In 2003 Emily Rose Christian became the first baby born on this island in 17 years, bringing the population to nearly 50 Pitcairn Island |
| #5291, aired 2007-09-17 | AMERICAN PUBLISHING: The 1860 frontier novel "Malaeska", the first of its kind, sold 300,000 copies for total sales revenue of this $30,000 |
| #5279, aired 2007-07-19 | THE 50 STATES: It was the only state physically & politically formed directly because of the Civil War West Virginia |
| #5276, aired 2007-07-16 | THE WORLD OF CINEMA: In 2006 "The Nativity Story" became the first film to have its world premiere in this country, in Paul VI Hall Vatican City |
| #5268, aired 2007-07-04 | WORD ORIGINS: From the Old French for a soldier sent ahead to clear the way, today it refers to the first settlers of a region pioneers |
| #5260, aired 2007-06-22 | FOOD & DRINK HISTORY: The world's first pure food & beverage law, one pertaining to beer, was proclaimed by the Duke of this region in 1516 Bavaria |
| #5257, aired 2007-06-19 | HISTORIC NAMES: This man's return to the U.S. in 1824, 47 years after his first trip here, added splendor to James Monroe's presidential term Marquis de Lafayette |
| #5247, aired 2007-06-05 | AMERICAN LITERATURE: Subtitles of books in this 19th century series include "A Tale", "The Inland Sea" & "The First War-Path" Leatherstocking Tales |
| #5227, aired 2007-05-08 | U.S. PRESIDENTS: In his first term, this president held the first press conference that would be shown on TV--later that day Dwight Eisenhower |
| #5224, aired 2007-05-03 | PRESIDENTIAL SUCCESSION: It's the name of the person next in the line of presidential succession after Robert Byrd Condoleezza Rice |
| #5222, aired 2007-05-01 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS: He's the character mentioned in the first line of "Atlas Shrugged" John Galt |
| #5202, aired 2007-04-03 | COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD: In 1839 Thomas Buchanan, cousin of a U.S. president, became the first governor of this future country Liberia |
| #5190, aired 2007-03-16 | WOMEN OF THE 1930s: 1 of the men who shot her realized when he saw her body that she'd often waited on him at a cafe in Dallas Bonnie Parker |
| #5165, aired 2007-02-09 | TOURISM: The 2 leading foreign destination countries for U.S. tourists Canada & Mexico |
| #5160, aired 2007-02-02 | FAMOUS AMERICANS: In part, using donated French tanks, he formed the U.S. Army's first tank training school in 1917 George Patton |
| #5158, aired 2007-01-31 | BRITISH ROYAL NAMES: Thomas Malory's posthumous 1485 bestseller inspired this first name of a prince born in 1486 Arthur |
| #5153, aired 2007-01-24 | FOREIGN CURRENCY: This currency of Costa Rica gets its name from the first European to see the nation the Colon |
| #5149, aired 2007-01-18 | ANIMATED CHARACTERS: The middle initial of this cartoon critter introduced in 1949 stands for Ethelbert Wile E. Coyote |
| #5141, aired 2007-01-08 | HISTORIC AMERICANS: General Winfield Scott called him "the very best soldier I ever saw in the field" Robert E. Lee |
| #5137, aired 2007-01-02 | HOLIDAY STUFF: In an 1850 essay Charles Dickens called it "that pretty German toy" a Christmas tree |
| #5130, aired 2006-12-22 | AMERICAN WOMEN: In 1997 the American Public Transportation Association gave this woman its first Lifetime Achievement Award Rosa Parks |
| #5128, aired 2006-12-20 | TECHNOLOGY: A famous one of these was first sent May 24, 1844 & a famous last one, January 27, 2006 a telegram |
| #5123, aired 2006-12-13 | UNIVERSITY GEOGRAPHY: Around 1830 the first Catholic priest ordained in the U.S. obtained land in this state where a university now stands Indiana |
| #5115, aired 2006-12-01 | BROADCASTING FIRSTS: In 2005, at New Mexico State, Cuyler Frank made history by being the first to call a football game in this language Navajo |
| #5111, aired 2006-11-27 | FIRST NAMES: The first name of both a naval hero & a character in "Hamlet", it's from the Latin for "timekeeper" Horatio |
| #5096, aired 2006-11-06 | AUTHORS: John Dryden in 1683 was the first to use the term "biography"--appropriately, while writing about this Greek Plutarch |
| #5094, aired 2006-11-02 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS: He first appeared in Kipling's 1892 story "In the Rukh" as an adult who now & then refers to his very odd childhood Mowgli |
| #5077, aired 2006-10-10 | CLASSIC CARTOON CHARACTERS: The 1935 cartoon "I Haven't Got a Hat" was the first of many cartoons that paired him with a cat named Beans Porky Pig |
| #5060, aired 2006-09-15 | U.S. STATES: Of the 4 U.S. states that are officially called commonwealths, this one was not 1 of the original 13 Colonies Kentucky |
| #5048, aired 2006-07-19 | PRESIDENTIAL QUOTATIONS: He announced to the American public, "The force from which the sun draws its power has been loosed..." Harry Truman |
| #5045, aired 2006-07-14 | FAMOUS PLAYS: This play that is quite concerned with the English language was, oddly enough, first performed in German in 1913 Pygmalion |
| #5042, aired 2006-07-11 | BUSINESS FIRSTS: On July 20, 1903 this company delivered its first product, purchased by a respected Detroiter Ford |
| #5037, aired 2006-07-04 | THE 20th CENTURY: On October 16, 1964 at Lop Nor this nation detonated its first nuclear device China |
| #5030, aired 2006-06-23 | 19th CENTURY LITERATURE: "I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world", says this narrator Ishmael |
| #5014, aired 2006-06-01 | PLAYWRIGHTS: In 2005 Broadway's Virginia Theatre was renamed to honor this late author, the first African-American so honored August Wilson |
| #5013, aired 2006-05-31 | AFRICA: In January 2006 this country swore in Africa's first elected female president, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Liberia |
| #5000, aired 2006-05-12 | ISLANDS: Davis Strait, named for a Northwest Passage seeker, separates these 2 islands that total over 1 million square miles Greenland & Baffin Island |
| #4996, aired 2006-05-08 | SCIENCE: The symbol of this element first isolated in 1783 comes from its German name tungsten |
| #4982, aired 2006-04-18 | AMERICAN POLITICIANS: In 2005 he took his first submarine dive since he left the Navy in 1953, on a new nuclear vessel that's named for him Jimmy Carter |
| #4981, aired 2006-04-17 | LEADING MEN: 1 of 2 actors who have earned acting Academy Award nominations in the last 5 consecutive decades (1 of) Jack Nicholson or Michael Caine |
| #4979, aired 2006-04-13 | '60s NOVELS' FIRST LINES: It begins, "Amerigo Bonasera... waited for justice; vengeance on the men who had so cruelly hurt his daughter" The Godfather |
| #4974, aired 2006-04-06 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY: On July 16, 1995 this company made its first sale, a science textbook Amazon.com |
| #4973, aired 2006-04-05 | STATE CAPITALS: Alphabetically, they're the first two state capitals named for presidents Jackson & Jefferson City |
| #4971, aired 2006-04-03 | AMERICAN AUTHORS: The grandson of a humorist, the son of a children's author, his first novel in 1974 was huge bestseller Peter Benchley |
| #4969, aired 2006-03-30 | NOTABLE WOMEN: She was the 31st person--& the first woman--to lie in state or honor in the U.S. Capitol Rosa Parks |
| #4951, aired 2006-03-06 | AMERICAN HISTORY: This legislative body first met on March 4, 1789 in New York City, but only 8 of its 22 members were present the U.S. Senate |
| #4941, aired 2006-02-20 | WORLD LEADERS: The first prime minister of his country to be born in that land, he was assassinated in 1995 Yitzhak Rabin |
| #4930, aired 2006-02-03 | NOTABLE WOMEN: In 1967 Dame Cicely Saunders founded St. Christopher's, the first modern one of these; in 2005 she died there a hospice |
| #4928, aired 2006-02-01 | WAR & PEACE: In 1839 the first of several wars broke out over the trade of an extract from a flower of this family poppy |
| #4920, aired 2006-01-20 | CURRENT ROYALTY: First name & number shared by 2 current European monarchs Albert II |
| #4913, aired 2006-01-11 | NEWSMAKERS: In April 2005, during his first 2 days on the job, he received more than 56,000 e-mails Pope Benedict XVI |
| #4903, aired 2005-12-28 | PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING PLAYS: This play says "Then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at--Elysian Fields!" A Streetcar Named Desire |
| #4901, aired 2005-12-26 | COMPOSERS: He moved to Vienna in 1766; in 1778 he presented his native Italy with the first opera staged at La Scala Antonio Salieri |
| #4869, aired 2005-11-10 | BILLBOARD MAGAZINE: Launched in 2004, Billboard's first Top 20 chart for these included "My Boo", the "Halloween" theme & "Ice Ice Baby" ringtones |
| #4862, aired 2005-11-01 | THE OLD WEST: This outlaw's father, a minister, gave him his first & middle names after an 18th century English clergyman John Wesley Hardin |
| #4858, aired 2005-10-26 | WOMEN IN POLITICS: Elected in 1916, she was the subject of a 1995 biography called "Bright Star in the Big Sky" Jeannette Rankin |
| #4856, aired 2005-10-24 | CLASSIC TELEVISION: It was the first TV series to win the Hugo Award for best dramatic presentation The Twilight Zone |
| #4850, aired 2005-10-14 | HISTORIC PEOPLE: At 81, this Pennsylvanian was the oldest delegate at the 1787 Constitutional Convention Benjamin Franklin |
| #4842, aired 2005-10-04 | 20th CENTURY NOVELS: Ironically, this 1953 science fiction book began appearing in a censored version in 1967 Fahrenheit 451 |
| #4840, aired 2005-09-30 | THE NOBEL PRIZES: For the first time in its history, the Nobel Prize for Literature was not awarded in this year 1914 |
| #4806, aired 2005-06-27 | MILITARY MEN: Last name of the first father & son to be awarded medals of honor, for service in the Civil War & WWII respectively Arthur & Douglas MacArthur |
| #4803, aired 2005-06-22 | HISTORIC NAMES: The first name of this man born February 15, 1564 was derived from his parents' surname, a common Tuscan habit at that time Galileo Galilei |
| #4798, aired 2005-06-15 | 20th CENTURY ATHLETES: In 1938, at age 25, she became the youngest person made a Knight First Class of the Order of St. Olav Sonja Henie |
| #4779, aired 2005-05-19 | NUCLEAR POWER: This state, besides having the first, also has the most nuclear reactors Illinois |
| #4777, aired 2005-05-17 | FAMILIAR PHRASES: This 5-word rule or maxim has been attributed to both H. Gordon Selfridge & John Wanamaker The customer is always right |
| #4776, aired 2005-05-16 | BIBLICAL CITIES: Of the 10 most populous U.S. cities, the one that shares its name with a city mentioned in Revelation Philadelphia |
| #4772, aired 2005-05-10 | 20th CENTURY AUTHORS: Born of Norwegian descent in 1916, he was given the first name of a famous Norwegian of the time Roald Dahl |
| #4769, aired 2005-05-05 | FEMALE FIRSTS: After 285 years, in 1945 this British organization inducted its first women, including Kathleen Lonsdale, seen here the Royal Society |
| #4756, aired 2005-04-18 | INVENTED WORDS: In works by Lewis Carroll, this word means "four in the afternoon; the time when you begin broiling things for dinner" brillig |
| #4746, aired 2005-04-04 | PRESIDENTS & THE MOVIES: This president arranged the first film showing in the White House when he had "The Birth of a Nation" screened there Woodrow Wilson |
| #4736, aired 2005-03-21 | WORLD FACTS: In 2004 Brenda Christian became the first woman mayor of this island with a population of about 47 Pitcairn Island |
| #4732, aired 2005-03-15 | ARTISTIC MASTERPIECES: "Shouldn't the shining dots of the sky be as accessible as the black dots on the map of France?" the artist wrote of this work The Starry Night (by Vincent van Gogh) |
| #4730, aired 2005-03-11 | HISTORIC BRITS: During the American Revolution, in his last moments he said, "It will be but a momentary pang" Major John André |
| #4728, aired 2005-03-09 | 20th CENTURY NOVELS: It begins, "'To be born again,' sang Gibreel Farishta tumbling from the heavens, 'first you have to die'" The Satanic Verses (by Salman Rushdie) |
| #4718, aired 2005-02-23 | BESTSELLING AUTHORS: In 2000 this writer, with more than 100 million copies of novels in print, had a new species of dinosaur named for him Michael Crichton |
| #4714, aired 2005-02-17 | AMERICAN WRITERS: These 2 writers of lavish prose, born in North Carolina & Virginia 30 years apart, have the same first & last name Thomas Wolfe & Tom Wolfe |
| #4711, aired 2005-02-14 | STATE SYMBOLS: In 1993 it became the first state to adopt an official flavor, which, incidentally, comes from its state tree Vermont |
| #4699, aired 2005-01-27 | MOUNTAINS: To trek through its Khumbu Icefall, Lhotse Face & South Col, your team needs a $70,000 permit from Nepal's government Mount Everest |
| #4688, aired 2005-01-12 | DATES IN AMERICAN HISTORY: On this date Philadelphia partied with fireworks & music from a Hessian band captured 6 months earlier July 4, 1777 |
| #4679, aired 2004-12-30 | VICE PRESIDENTS: He was the first vice president to cast zero tiebreaking votes in his capacity as president of the Senate John Tyler |
| #4678, aired 2004-12-29 | ISLANDS: Just days after the attack on Pearl Harbor, it became the first U.S. possession occupied by the Japanese Guam |
| #4657, aired 2004-11-30 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY: Most of this firm's 70,000 seasonal white-collar employees work only 4 months a year H&R Block |
| #4651, aired 2004-11-22 | 20th CENTURY AMERICANS: At the dedication of a fountain at Radcliffe College in 1960, she began her speech with the single word "Water" Helen Keller |
| #4650, aired 2004-11-19 | FAMOUS WOMEN: In 1952 William Rehnquist graduated first in his class at Stanford Law & she graduated third Sandra Day O'Connor |
| #4647, aired 2004-11-16 | OCCUPATIONS: While working as one, Charlotte Bronte complained that one of these "has no existence, is not considered as a living... being" a governess |
| #4631, aired 2004-10-25 | HISTORIC FIRSTS: The brother of this leader is believed to be the first known European to have died in the Americas Leif Ericson |
| #4626, aired 2004-10-18 | FAMOUS FIRSTS: In 1876 this man became the first person not to get a busy signal on the other end of a phone line Alexander Graham Bell |
| #4625, aired 2004-10-15 | FAMOUS PAIRS: They first teamed up in 1974; one a quiet Latin teacher & the other a former clown college student Penn & Teller |
| #4612, aired 2004-09-28 | POETS: A San Francisco resident since the 1950s, in 1998 he became the city's first Poet Laureate Lawrence Ferlinghetti (owner of City Lights bookstore in San Francisco) |
| #4607, aired 2004-09-21 | FIRST LADIES: She survived the President by 39 years & was married to an archaeology professor at the time of her own death in 1947 Frances Folsom Cleveland |
| #4589, aired 2004-07-15 | U.S. PRESIDENTS: With a book about the South, he became the first president--past or present--to publish a novel Jimmy Carter |
| #4587, aired 2004-07-13 | HEADLINES OF THE LAST 40 YEARS: The first 2 New York Times headlines set in 96-point type were in these 2 years, 5 years apart 1969 & 1974 |
| #4568, aired 2004-06-16 | FAMOUS PRODUCTS: First designed as a surgical disinfectant, in 1895 it was available to dentists & by 1914 was sold OTC Listerine |
| #4560, aired 2004-06-04 | RECORD HOLDERS: Phoebe Snetsinger, she of the apropos first name, set a record for this activity, about 8,400 species birdwatching |
| #4558, aired 2004-06-02 | THE 2000 OLYMPICS: She's the first female track & field athlete to win medals in 5 different events at a single Olympics Marion Jones |
| #4548, aired 2004-05-19 | TOURIST ATTRACTIONS: It occupies the 78 acres of land where Met Stadium, former home of the Vikings & Twins, once stood the Mall of America |
| #4533, aired 2004-04-28 | '80s FILMS: The first film rated PG-13, its colorful title was used as the code name for a 2003 capture mission in Iraq Red Dawn |
| #4530, aired 2004-04-23 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS: The first movement of his 1868 first symphony is subtitled "Dreams of a Winter Journey" Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky |
| #4526, aired 2004-04-19 | INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS: From 1894 to 1896 this committee was headed by Dimitrios Vikelas the International Olympic Committee |
| #4524, aired 2004-04-15 | 20th CENTURY BESTSELLERS: First published in 1967, it tells the story of 7 generations of a Colombian family One Hundred Years of Solitude |
| #4518, aired 2004-04-07 | NOVELS: First published in 1897, this novel wasn't translated into Romanian until 1992 Dracula |
| #4508, aired 2004-03-24 | WORD & PHRASE ORIGINS: This term was first used in an ice cream trade journal in 1937; it began to appear in the nuclear power industry in the '60s meltdown |
| #4505, aired 2004-03-19 | PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEES: He wrote a "Report of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the Year 1842" John C. Fremont |
| #4497, aired 2004-03-09 | HEALTH & MEDICINE: Named for the region in Uganda where it was discovered in 1937, it was first detected in the U.S. in 1999 West Nile Virus (or West Nile Fever) |
| #4479, aired 2004-02-12 | SONGS: One of the first to sing it publicly was Baltimore actor Fredinand Durang at Captain McCauley's tavern in October 1814 "The Star-Spangled Banner" |
| #4464, aired 2004-01-22 | TECHNOLOGY FIRSTS: In 1923 the Zeiss unit seen here was placed under a dome to create the first modern one of these a planetarium |
| #4462, aired 2004-01-20 | THE THIRD CENTURY: Challenging the election of Calixtus in 217, Hippolytus declared himself the first one of these an antipope |
| #4457, aired 2004-01-13 | DEADLY FIRSTS: The first man to die as the result of one of these accidents was Lt. Thomas Selfridge on Sept. 17, 1908 an airplane crash |
| #4451, aired 2004-01-05 | INVENTIONS: On April 25, 1792 Nicolas-Jacques Pelletier became the first person in history to have a bad encounter with this the guillotine |
| #4450, aired 2004-01-02 | NAMED FOR: The "Scruggs Style" is a technique of doing this with only the thumb & first 2 fingers banjo picking (or playing) |
| #4447, aired 2003-12-30 | CHARACTERS IN CLASSIC LIT: The first person mentioned by name in "The Man in the Iron Mask" is this hero of a previous book by the same author D'Artagnan |
| #4443, aired 2003-12-24 | THE WORLD OF DISNEY: In 2003 Disney released this film, its first ever movie under the Disney banner rated PG-13 Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl |
| #4438, aired 2003-12-17 | INTERNATIONAL LAW: Drawn up at Pres. Lincoln's request, the first formal code for them said they get humane treatment & wholesome food Prisoners of War |
| #4410, aired 2003-11-07 | THE BIBLE: It's the first city mentioned in the first of Paul's epistles to appear in the New Testament Rome |
| #4408, aired 2003-11-05 | POSTAGE STAMPS: In honor of the 400th anniv. of his birth, in 1964 he became the first English commoner to appear on a British stamp William Shakespeare |
| #4407, aired 2003-11-04 | FILMS OF THE '50s: This film featuring Glenn Ford & Sidney Poitier was the first major film to use rock & roll music on the soundtrack Blackboard Jungle |
| #4388, aired 2003-10-08 | SURVEY SAYS: In 1981 this man's company issued its first syndicated CSI, Customer Satisfaction Index J.D. Power (and Associates) |
| #4384, aired 2003-10-02 | U.S. VICE PRESIDENTS: He served 2 terms as Vice President & was the first Vice President who had been born in the 20th century Richard Nixon |
| #4383, aired 2003-10-01 | PHRASE ORIGINS: The sinking of the HMS Birkenhead in February 1852 gave rise to this gallant 4-word naval tradition women and children first |
| #4373, aired 2003-09-17 | ACADEMY AWARD HISTORY: "Chicago" was the first musical to win the Best Picture Oscar since this film won for 1968 Oliver! |
| #4372, aired 2003-09-16 | PEOPLE IN HISTORY: About the islands he discovered, he wrote, "To the first of these I give the name of the Blessed Savior" Christopher Columbus |
| #4371, aired 2003-09-15 | U.S. STATE QUARTERS: The Alabama coin bears this person's name in English, & for the first time on a circulating U.S. coin, in Braille Helen Keller |
| #4370, aired 2003-09-12 | ALPHANUMERICS: When this American company incorporated in 1902, its first products were grinding abrasives & sandpaper 3M |
| #4365, aired 2003-07-18 | PEOPLE IN GOVERNMENT: Her first name comes from an Italian musical term meaning to play "with sweetness" Condoleezza Rice |
| #4355, aired 2003-07-04 | BUSINESS BIGGIES: In January 2003 this company based in Oak Brook, Illinois reported its first ever quarterly loss McDonald's |
| #4340, aired 2003-06-13 | FAMOUS NAMES: The first & middle names of this wealthy man who died in 1975 were those of people who died in 322 B.C. & 399 B.C. Aristotle (Socrates) Onassis |
| #4334, aired 2003-06-05 | FIRST NAMES: This name of a character in a 1904 play was inspired by a real little girl's way of saying the word "friend" Wendy (from Peter Pan) |
| #4328, aired 2003-05-28 | PSYCHOLOGY: Partly from the Greek algos, "pain", it was first noted in 1688 in Swiss soldiers fighting far from home nostalgia |
| #4326, aired 2003-05-26 | INSPIRATIONS FOR MUSICALS: In 2002 this novel by C.Y. Lee, first published in 1957, was re-released with a new introduction by David Henry Hwang Flower Drum Song |
| #4324, aired 2003-05-22 | ECONOMIC HISTORY: Before the first income tax was levied, the U.S. government got 90% of its revenue in the form of these tariffs |
| #4322, aired 2003-05-20 | MEN OF MEDICINE: In 1891 he helped found & became the first chairman of the British Institute of Preventive Medicine Joseph Lister ("Father of Antiseptic Surgery") |
| #4319, aired 2003-05-15 | GOVERNORS: In 1967 she became the first woman governor of a state east of the Mississippi River Lurleen B. Wallace (of Alabama) |
| #4305, aired 2003-04-25 | OCCUPATIONS: Called the first U.S. stewardess, Ellen Church later went back to this old job, something the 1st stews had to be nurse |
| #4304, aired 2003-04-24 | POLITICAL JARGON: This 2-word term was first used to describe advisors who spoke to the press after a 1984 Reagan-Mondale debate spin doctors |
| #4298, aired 2003-04-16 | THE SECRET SERVICE: This 20th century U.S. president was the first to receive full-time protection from the Secret Service Theodore Roosevelt |
| #4297, aired 2003-04-15 | WORLD LEADERS: On June 18, 1940, the day of Churchill's "finest hour" speech, this leader made his first broadcast from London Charles de Gaulle |
| #4293, aired 2003-04-09 | 20th CENTURY WORDS: Walter Cronkite said it was first used in 1952 for "Not exactly a reporter, not exactly a commentator" anchorman |
| #4289, aired 2003-04-03 | U.S. PRESIDENTS: He was the first U.S. president not of British descent Martin Van Buren |
| #4283, aired 2003-03-26 | 2002 POP STARS: In September 2002 she set a Billboard record with her first-ever single, jumping from its debut at No. 52 to No. 1 Kelly Clarkson |
| #4282, aired 2003-03-25 | 20th CENTURY PRESIDENTS: He's the only U.S. president whose first, middle & last names each have the same number of letters Ronald Wilson Reagan |
| #4280, aired 2003-03-21 | GAMING: In 1996 IGT introduced the first themed slot machine based on a TV show, this one Wheel of Fortune |
| #4274, aired 2003-03-13 | EARLY AMERICAN HISTORY: On Sept. 8, 1565 the first Catholic parish in what is now the U.S. was founded at this settlement St. Augustine (in Florida) |
| #4273, aired 2003-03-12 | TELEVISION: Milli Vanilli was the first subject of this series, which came from questions like whatever happened to Milli Vanilli Behind the Music |
| #4271, aired 2003-03-10 | U.S. COINS: These 2 states both have airplanes from the 20th century's first decade on their quarters North Carolina & Ohio (as a tribute to the Wright Brothers) |
| #4266, aired 2003-03-03 | THE NEW WORLD: All that is known about her life is limited to 9 days in August 1587 Virginia Dare (the first child born in America of English parents) |
| #4261, aired 2003-02-24 | THE 1960s: On September 26, 1960 these 2 men squared off in the studios of WBBM in Chicago John F. Kennedy & Richard Nixon |
| #4260, aired 2003-02-21 | AMERICAN NOVELS: The narrator of this 1951 novel first appeared in the short stories "I'm Crazy" & "Slight Rebellion off Madison" "Catcher in the Rye" (the narrator being Holden Caulfield) |
| #4254, aired 2003-02-13 | FIRST NAMES: Once considered too sacred to use, it was later the top girl's name from 1880 to the 1940s Mary |
| #4241, aired 2003-01-27 | THE TOWER OF LONDON: Only prisoners of high rank were executed here on Tower Green, & this woman was the first queen beheaded here Anne Boleyn |
| #4228, aired 2003-01-08 | U.S. PRESIDENTS: He was the first president to use a middle name John Quincy Adams |
| #4222, aired 2002-12-31 | SOUTH AMERICA: Alphabetically, they're the first & last of the 7 countries where the Andes are found Argentina & Venezuela |
| #4218, aired 2002-12-25 | ISLAND COUNTRIES: In 2002 State Dept. spokesman Richard Boucher called it "The first new nation of the new millennium" East Timor |
| #4216, aired 2002-12-23 | OSCAR WINNERS: She's the first woman to win 2 Best Actress Oscars before the age of 30 Luise Rainer |
| #4191, aired 2002-11-18 | THE PRESIDENCY: He was the first man to become U.S. president as a result of the 25th Amendment Gerald Ford |
| #4179, aired 2002-10-31 | HISTORIC CONGRESSMEN: Armed Services Committee head Carl Vinson was the first living American for whom the government named 1 of these ship/aircraft carrier |
| #4178, aired 2002-10-30 | CABLE TELEVISION: 2002's "A Season on the Brink" was this cable network's first original movie ESPN/ESPN2 |
| #4172, aired 2002-10-22 | WOMEN AUTHORS: A line in her first novel reads, "I am to replace my mother, whose seat at the mah jong table has been empty" Amy Tan (The Joy Luck Club) |
| #4168, aired 2002-10-16 | FAMOUS AMERICANS: In 1920 this man, great-grandson of Sauk leader Black Hawk, became the first president of what is now the NFL Jim Thorpe |
| #4163, aired 2002-10-09 | THE CENSUS: The 1930 U.S. Census was the first to ask if residents owned one of these & 12 million were counted a radio |
| #4162, aired 2002-10-08 | 1896: This venture was financed by the sale of souvenir stamps & medals & a large donation from businessman Georgios Averoff the Olympic Games (first of the modern era) |
| #4150, aired 2002-09-20 | HISTORIC OBJECTS: It's the historic object seen here [marked "1620"] Plymouth Rock |
| #4145, aired 2002-09-13 | PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS: The first winning presidential ticket of 2 sitting U.S. senators was the ticket of these 2 men John F. Kennedy & Lyndon B. Johnson |
| #4143, aired 2002-09-11 | BASEBALL: It's the only team to win World Series titles in 3 different cities for which it played the Braves (Boston, Milwaukee & Atlanta) |
| #4141, aired 2002-09-09 | POETS: She has over 30 honorary degrees, wrote a poem for Clinton's first inauguration & now has a line of Hallmark Cards Maya Angelou |
| #4138, aired 2002-09-04 | NEW YORK CITY LANDMARKS: Moving several times, the first was originally P.T. Barnum's Monster Classical and Geological Hippodrome Madison Square Garden |
| #4137, aired 2002-09-03 | SEPTEMBER 1984: History-making woman whose Sept. 1984 itinerary included speeches in Dallas, Spokane, Syracuse & Youngstown Geraldine Ferraro |
| #4125, aired 2002-07-05 | 19th CENTURY PRESIDENTS: He was the first U.S. president who never had a vice president John Tyler |
| #4117, aired 2002-06-25 | FIRST LADIES: She was the first woman to become First Lady who was born in the 20th century Jackie Kennedy |
| #4115, aired 2002-06-21 | SPORTS ILLUSTRATED: The first Sports Illustrated Sportsman of the Year was this British athlete in 1954 (Roger) Bannister |
| #4109, aired 2002-06-13 | MEDICAL WORDS: After ether's first use in surgery, O.W. Holmes coined this word from the Greek for the condition it produced anesthesia |
| #4082, aired 2002-05-07 | THE OSCARS: The 2 Best Picture nominees for 1983 that featured astronaut characters The Right Stuff & Terms of Endearment |
| #4070, aired 2002-04-19 | COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD: Alphabetically, it's the first country on the alphabetically first continent Algeria |
| #4061, aired 2002-04-08 | THE MOVIES: Later a Broadway show, this 1988 comedy was the first movie directed by a woman to earn $100 million Big |
| #4048, aired 2002-03-20 | FAMOUS AMERICANS: The most requested photo in the history of the National Archives is of the 1970 meeting of these 2 men Richard Nixon & Elvis Presley |
| #4032, aired 2002-02-26 | 19th CENTURY INVENTIONS: Peter Roget's new device for performing mechanically the involution & evolution of numbers the slide rule |
| #4031, aired 2002-02-25 | CLASSICAL MUSIC: This orchestral instrument is the first one heard in Stravinsky's "Orpheus" & the second heard in Liszt's "Orpheus" the harp |
| #4019, aired 2002-02-07 | FIRST LADIES: She was First Lady of the U.S. longer than any other woman Eleanor Roosevelt |
| #4015, aired 2002-02-01 | AMERICAN COMPOSERS: Rachmaninoff & Heifetz watched Paul Whiteman conduct the 1924 premiere of a milestone work by this composer Gershwin |
| #4013, aired 2002-01-30 | '90s BESTSELLERS: This novel grew out of a series of personal columns that first ran in the Independent of London Bridget Jones's Diary |
| #4008, aired 2002-01-23 | BUSINESS NAMES: In 1795 he received the first official permit from the King of Spain to produce tequila commercially Jose Cuervo |
| #4007, aired 2002-01-22 | FIRST LADIES: 1 of 2 first ladies buried at Arlington National Cemetery (1 of) Jackie Kennedy & Mrs. Taft |
| #4005, aired 2002-01-18 | THE ELEMENTS: The first known discoverer of an element, Hennig Brand, found this solid in 1669 & had Europe aglow with excitement phosphorus |
| #3997, aired 2002-01-08 | PLAYWRIGHTS: King Louis XIV was the godfather of this playwright's first child, born in 1664 Molière |
| #3984, aired 2001-12-20 | MOVIE SOUNDTRACKS: This 2000 film was the first drama to have an authorized Led Zeppelin tune on its soundtrack Almost Famous |
| #3964, aired 2001-11-22 | FADS: Invented by Dan Robbins, this product was first sold in the 1950s with the slogan "Every Man a Rembrandt" Paint by Numbers |
| #3957, aired 2001-11-13 | FIRST LADIES: First & last names of the 2 First Ladies who each had a husband & son serve as president Abigail Adams & Barbara Bush |
| #3920, aired 2001-09-21 | THE ACADEMY AWARDS: He was nominated for Best Director twice in the same year, the first so honored since Michael Curtiz for 1938 Steven Soderbergh |
| #3906, aired 2001-09-03 | AUTOMOTIVE HISTORY: This Ford with a name from Native American myth was the first model to be Motor Trend Car of the Year the Thunderbird |
| #3899, aired 2001-07-12 | COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES: The 1939 event we just saw came out of a concert originally to be sponsored at DAR Constitution Hall by this university Howard University |
| #3840, aired 2001-04-20 | ENGINEERING: The first one, built in 1893, consisted of 2,200 tons of steel, rose 268 feet & had 36 cars each carrying 60 people Ferris Wheel |
| #3837, aired 2001-04-17 | POETS: Made a baron in the early 1880s, he was the first Englishman elevated to that rank for literary work alone Alfred Lord Tennyson |
| #3834, aired 2001-04-12 | THEATRE: The 1996 musical "Play On!" gets its title from the first line of this Shakespeare play, on which it is based Twelfth Night |
| #3828, aired 2001-04-04 | HISTORIC PEOPLE: A copper statue of this hero of the 1960s welcomes visitors to Star City near Moscow Yuri Gagarin (first man in space) |
| #3816, aired 2001-03-19 | AFRICAN HISTORY: Ruth Perry, modern Africa's first female head of state, headed a transitional government in this country in 1996 Liberia |
| #3813, aired 2001-03-14 | FAMOUS FILMS: He made the first home movie to be named to the Library of Congress' National Film Registry Abraham Zapruder (the film of the Kennedy Assassination) |
| #3810, aired 2001-03-09 | 1920s FRENCH MILITARY MEN: First elected to the Chamber of Deputies in 1910, this Minister of War advocated staunch military preparedness Andre Maginot (creator of the Maginot Line) |
| #3807, aired 2001-03-06 | PEOPLE ON POSTAGE: In 1893 this 15th century monarch became the first woman to appear on a U.S. postage stamp Queen Isabella |
| #3806, aired 2001-03-05 | WORLD DRAMA: In its first U.S. performance in English, this play was billed as "The Child Wife" in 1882 A Doll's House (by Ibsen) |
| #3804, aired 2001-03-01 | RECENT INNOVATIONS: Known by a 3-letter abbreviation, it was first proposed in 1989 by software developer Tim Berners-Lee World Wide Web (www) |
| #3803, aired 2001-02-28 | FAMOUS FAMILIES: In June 2000 descendants of these 2 families met in Pikeville, KY & in Matewan, WV for their first-ever joint reunion The Hatfields & the McCoys |
| #3801, aired 2001-02-26 | HISTORIC NAMES: This "Dragon" was first famous for resisting Ottoman domination of Romania Vlad the Impaler ("Count Dracula") |
| #3792, aired 2001-02-13 | FRENCH NOVELISTS: A relative of Henri Bergson's wife, he used Bergson's mystical concepts of time in his most famous work Marcel Proust (Remembrance of Things Past) |
| #3790, aired 2001-02-09 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE: First line of the poem thought to be based on Mary Sawyer's experience at a Massachusetts school-house around 1815 "Mary had a little lamb" |
| #3780, aired 2001-01-26 | POTENT POTABLES: Named for the club where it was first made, this drink was created to honor Samuel Tilden's election as governor Manhattan |
| #3773, aired 2001-01-17 | RELIGIOUS NAMES: In commemoration of his predecessors, he was the first pope to choose a double name Pope John Paul I |
| #3767, aired 2001-01-09 | FLAGS: On February 15, 1965 this country raised its new national flag for the first time on Parliament Hill Canada |
| #3766, aired 2001-01-08 | 1999 ART NEWS: It was the first U.S. city to host a cow parade, hundreds of fiberglass cows by artists, placed around the city Chicago |
| #3765, aired 2001-01-05 | LIFE SCIENCE: A study done in South Africa put these non-primates above chimpanzees, making them the world's second-smartest species Dolphins |
| #3754, aired 2000-12-21 | PLANTS & FLOWERS: Named for a U.S. statesman, it was known in Central America as the "Flower of the Holy Night" Poinsettia |
| #3745, aired 2000-12-08 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS: A conversation he had with Miles Davis became the first of the “Playboy Interviews” in 1962 Alex Haley |
| #3723, aired 2000-11-08 | PRO BASKETBALL: The first NBA playoff game outside the United States was played in this city Toronto |
| #3722, aired 2000-11-07 | THE MOVIES: The night before their first mass jump in 1940, paratroopers at Fort Benning saw a Western about this man Geronimo |
| #3712, aired 2000-10-24 | FAMOUS FIRSTS: The world's first one of these opened in 1925; it was in San Luis Obispo, Ca. & had parking in front of each door a motel |
| #3667, aired 2000-07-11 | THE PULITZER PRIZES: Theodore H. White, the first general nonfiction winner, won for an account of this man's election to the U.S. presidency John F. Kennedy ("The Making of the President, 1960") |
| #3664, aired 2000-07-06 | ACADEMY AWARD HISTORY: The first African-American Best Actress nominee, her life was the subject of a 1999 HBO film Dorothy Dandridge |
| #3661, aired 2000-07-03 | 1962: On October 28, 1962 this 68-year-old world leader "blinked" Nikita Khrushchev |
| #3658, aired 2000-06-28 | THE PULITZER PRIZES: The first man to win the Pulitzer Prize for his film criticism, he's lobbied for a Pulitzer Prize for the movies Roger Ebert |
| #3649, aired 2000-06-15 | THE SUPREME COURT: These 2 justices who graduated at the top of their classes were both first offered jobs as typists by the top law firms Ruth Bader Ginsburg & Sandra Day O'Connor |
| #3639, aired 2000-06-01 | ARTISTS: He was born in 1864 to 2 first cousins Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec |
| #3619, aired 2000-05-04 | FILM CLASSICS: This 1951 classic stars the AFI's top picks for the greatest male & female film legends The African Queen (Humphrey Bogart & Katharine Hepburn) |
| #3615, aired 2000-04-28 | SPORTS CHAMPIONS: Winning in 1965 & 1966, he was the first man to win the Masters golf tournament in 2 consecutive years Jack Nicklaus |
| #3614, aired 2000-04-27 | STATE NAME ORIGINS: 3 of the 4 states whose names come from the first names of European kings (3 of) Georgia, Louisiana, North Carolina & South Carolina |
| #3609, aired 2000-04-20 | FAMOUS AMERICANS: The first person selected to the Intl. Swimming Hall of Fame, his last starring film role was in 1955's "Devil Goddess" Johnny Weissmuller |
| #3596, aired 2000-04-03 | TECHNOLOGY: In 1933 Marconi set up one of the first microwave radio systems, between Castel Gandolfo & this sovereign state Vatican City |
| #3590, aired 2000-03-24 | FUN WITH FIRST FAMILIES: If the mother of the 35th president married the father of the 41st, she would have been named this Rose Bush |
| #3589, aired 2000-03-23 | MODERN MUSIC: His 1998 "Greatest Hits" album made him the first instrumentalist to have 7 consecutive multi-platinum albums Kenny G |
| #3584, aired 2000-03-16 | SPACE: On Nov. 13, 1999 a body circling HD 209458 became the first new planet to be photographed since this one Pluto |
| #3555, aired 2000-02-04 | FILMS OF THE '80s: The one-word title of this 1985 film refers to Samuel Lapp, a Penn. farm boy who makes his first visit to a city Witness |
| #3550, aired 2000-01-28 | FRONT PAGE HISTORY: An August 6, 1945 Associated Press story described this as a "Japanese army base" Hiroshima (story about the dropping of the first atomic bomb) |
| #3536, aired 2000-01-10 | MEDICAL HISTORY: Anne Miller, the first person whose life was saved by this drug, lived 57 more years, dying in 1999 penicillin |
| #3534, aired 2000-01-06 | NONFICTION AUTHORS: First published in 1946, a book written by this man became the bestselling book in the U.S. after the Bible Dr. Benjamin Spock ("Baby and Child Care") |
| #3523, aired 1999-12-22 | FOOD & SPORTS: In August 1999, for the first time in its 75-year history, Wheaties began featuring players of this sport on its boxes Soccer |
| #3517, aired 1999-12-14 | AMERICAN AUTHORS: His bestselling first novel, published in 1846, was set in Polynesia Herman Melville ("Typee") |
| #3510, aired 1999-12-03 | POLITICS: In 1999 the Bushes became the first brothers to serve as governor at the same time since these 2 brothers in 1971 Nelson & Winthrop Rockefeller |
| #3503, aired 1999-11-24 | PUBLICATIONS: Its first issue was intended to be read on sabbath day, August 5, 1821 The Saturday Evening Post |
| #3489, aired 1999-11-04 | PUBLICATIONS: This humor publication, known for its website, put out its first book in 1999, a No. 1 bestseller The Onion |
| #3479, aired 1999-10-21 | EXPLORERS: On hearing of the discovery of George Mallory's body, this man told reporters he still thinks he was first Sir Edmund Hillary |
| #3477, aired 1999-10-19 | HISTORIC FIRSTS: Stopped by a cop on a bike, in 1896 Walter Arnold was the first man in England to receive a fine for this Speeding |
| #3472, aired 1999-10-12 | MODERN SCIENCE: On January 12, 1998 19 European nations endorsed the first international ban of this practice on humans Cloning |
| #3470, aired 1999-10-08 | THE FUNNIES: Debuting November 18, 1985, the caption in its first box was "So long, Pop! I'm off to check my tiger trap!" Calvin and Hobbes |
| #3464, aired 1999-09-30 | CURRENT POLITICIANS: First elected in 1994, he's become one of the most prominent conservatives in Congress Steve Largent |
| #3401, aired 1999-05-24 | VICTORY CELEBRATIONS: This man received the first & only New York City ticker-tape parade ever given to a classical musician Van Cliburn |
| #3397, aired 1999-05-18 | TV CHARACTERS: The first name of this TV title character whose show debuted in 1998 is a synonym for "happiness" or "good fortune" Felicity |
| #3396, aired 1999-05-17 | BRITISH AUTHORS: In 1954 she became the first recipient of the Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America Agatha Christie |
| #3392, aired 1999-05-11 | MONEY: The first of a series of 50 new U.S. quarters, released in January 1999, honored this state Delaware |
| #3391, aired 1999-05-10 | EUROPEAN GOVERNMENT: In October 1998 this country got its 56th govt. since WWII, with its first Communist cabinet ministers in 50 years Italy |
| #3356, aired 1999-03-22 | THE OLYMPICS: Before the first winter games in 1924, this sport was played in the summer games; Canada won gold in 1920 ice hockey |
| #3350, aired 1999-03-12 | MOVIE QUOTES: First uttered in 1962, this 3-word self-introduction tops Guinness' list of the most famous movie quotes ever "Bond, James Bond" |
| #3331, aired 1999-02-15 | WORLD CITIES: In May 1998 this metropolis of 7 million voted to start electing its mayor for the first time London |
| #3330, aired 1999-02-12 | LITERATURE: In 1998 Jose Saramago became the first writer in this language to win a Nobel Prize for Literature Portuguese |
| #3322, aired 1999-02-02 | PRESIDENTIAL FIRSTS: He was the first president to preside over 14 states George Washington |
| #3321, aired 1999-02-01 | SPORTS: On Jan. 15, 1892 the first rules for this sport were published in the Triangle, the Springfield, Mass. YMCA newspaper Basketball |
| #3315, aired 1999-01-22 | SPACEFLIGHT: He made 2 Gemini flights, 2 Apollo flights & 2 shuttle flights, including the first in 1981 John Young |
| #3305, aired 1999-01-08 | BALLET: Feeling the need for ballets about American life, this dancer choreographed his first ballet in 1944 Jerome Robbins |
| #3300, aired 1999-01-01 | THE CALENDAR: Of the 12 animals that represent years in the Chinese calendar, 2 of the 3 that are not mammals (2 of) dragon, rooster or snake |
| #3292, aired 1998-12-22 | 1998 OPERA NEWS: For his first opera, Andre Previn adapted this 1947 Pulitzer Prize play featuring sex, violence & insanity A Streetcar Named Desire |
| #3289, aired 1998-12-17 | ENTREPRENEURS: In 1991 he flew the Pacific in the "Virgin Otsuka Pacific Flyer", the world's largest hot-air balloon Richard Branson |
| #3284, aired 1998-12-10 | ISLANDS: A species of mammal is named for this appropriate site of Russia's first American settlement Kodiak Island |
| #3282, aired 1998-12-08 | ORGANIZATIONS: Now with over a hundred chapters, the March of Dimes was first established by this president Franklin Delano Roosevelt |
| #3266, aired 1998-11-16 | THESE UNITED STATES: This body meets on the first Monday after the second Wednesday in December, but only once every 4 years The Electoral College |
| #3263, aired 1998-11-11 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY: In 1998 this 106-year-old company became the first in the U.S. to top $300 billion in market value General Electric |
| #3226, aired 1998-09-21 | HOTELS: The U.S. investigation into the Titanic was first held in this hotel owned by one of the victims Waldorf Astoria |
| #3225, aired 1998-09-18 | SPORTS HISTORY: He was president of France the first time France won soccer's World Cup Jacques Chirac |
| #3221, aired 1998-09-14 | 1998 BUSINESS NEWS: The Silver Seraph, the 9th new model in its 92-year history, is its first built on a moving assembly line Rolls-Royce |
| #3217, aired 1998-09-08 | LITERARY GREATS: His last published work, an 1898 poem, was first issued under his cell number Oscar Wilde ("The Ballad of Reading Gaol") |
| #3202, aired 1998-06-30 | ASTRONOMY: It's the century during which Saturn's rings were first observed the 17th century (first observed by Galileo in 1610) |
| #3190, aired 1998-06-12 | ORGANIZATIONS: This women's organization founded in 1890 was chartered by Congress in 1896 the Daughters of the American Revolution |
| #3186, aired 1998-06-08 | OLYMPIC TEAMS: Formed in 1988 & subject of a 1993 film, this team had its first sponsor, Red Stripe Lager, for the Nagano games Jamaican Bobsled Team |
| #3177, aired 1998-05-26 | SINGERS: He first recorded in 1939, "retired" in 1971, returned & had a Top 10 album in 1993 Frank Sinatra |
| #3158, aired 1998-04-29 | AWARDS: This international organization won the first Nobel Peace Prize given after the start of World War II the (International) Red Cross |
| #3154, aired 1998-04-23 | ENTERTAINERS: In 1997 this entertainer became the first American named an honorary U.S. veteran by Congress Bob Hope |
| #3152, aired 1998-04-21 | MEDICINE 1998: An aspirin-acetominophen-caffeine pill is the first FDA-approved over-the-counter pill for this malady migraine headaches |
| #3142, aired 1998-04-07 | CHILDREN'S BOOKS & AUTHORS: He also created a 2-letter land called Ix L. Frank Baum (creator of the Wizard of Oz) |
| #3135, aired 1998-03-27 | FAMOUS STRUCTURES: In 1930 the Chrysler Building surpassed this foreign structure by over 60 feet to become the world's tallest the Eiffel Tower |
| #3134, aired 1998-03-26 | U.S. PRESIDENTS: Abraham Lincoln was the first U.S. president to wear a beard; this man was the second Ulysses S. Grant |
| #3100, aired 1998-02-06 | U.S. CITIES: This historic city was named for the Bishop of Hippo on whose feast day the area was first sighted St. Augustine, Florida |
| #3088, aired 1998-01-21 | THE POST OFFICE: Due to demand Bugs Bunny's U.S. commemorative stamp was the first to have a second printing since this one the Elvis Presley stamp |
| #3082, aired 1998-01-13 | WALL STREET: First traded in 1824 under the name New York Gas Light Co., it's the longest continually listed co. on the NYSE Consolidated Edison |
| #3071, aired 1997-12-29 | WOMEN IN POLITICS: In 1995 she became the first sitting governor to give the rebuttal to a State of the Union address Christine Todd Whitman |
| #3067, aired 1997-12-23 | FOREIGN AIRLINES: In terms of number of passengers, it's the busiest foreign carrier operating at LAX Mexicana Airlines |
| #3065, aired 1997-12-19 | HOLLYWOOD HISTORY: It was the first, first, first, first film to use Cinerama's single-projector system It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World |
| #3064, aired 1997-12-18 | WORLD WAR II: Launched Sept. 27, 1941, the first of the Liberty Ships was named for this Revolutionary War figure Patrick Henry |
| #3060, aired 1997-12-12 | BRAND NAMES: Formulated in 1953, its first purpose was "water displacement" to prevent corrosion on missiles WD-40 |
| #3049, aired 1997-11-27 | 20th CENTURY HISTORY: The NKVD, which liquidated its own first 2 chiefs in the 1930s, developed into this group in 1954 the KGB |
| #3038, aired 1997-11-12 | SHOPPING U.S.A.: The first store of this giant chain opened in Rogers, Arkansas, population 5,700, in 1962 Wal-Mart |
| #3031, aired 1997-11-03 | AMERICAN LITERATURE: In 1900 he published his first collection of stories, "The Son of the Wolf" Jack London |
| #3027, aired 1997-10-28 | 20th CENTURY POLITICIANS: He was the first incumbent vice president to be elected president since 1836 George (Herbert Walker) Bush |
| #3025, aired 1997-10-24 | PLAYWRIGHTS: In 1948 he returned to Europe & soon co-founded the Berliner Ensemble to stage his works Bertolt Brecht |
| #3016, aired 1997-10-13 | BESTSELLERS: This 1974 bestseller was originally subtitled "A Novel of a Girl with a Frightening Power" Carrie (by Stephen King) |
| #3014, aired 1997-10-09 | FAMOUS WOMEN: In 1997, in honor of her 90th birthday, she was made honorary First Lady of Old Saybrook, Connecticut Katharine Hepburn |
| #3009, aired 1997-10-02 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY: You can view the Jungfrau Peak from the main street of this town between the Brienz & Thun Lakes Interlaken, Switzerland |
| #3008, aired 1997-10-01 | AMERICANA: The first 24-hour 7-Eleven opened in 1963 in this city Las Vegas |
| #3005, aired 1997-09-26 | U.S. GOVERNMENT: This group that first met in 1942 didn't get a permanent chairman until 1949 The Joint Chiefs of Staff |
| #3004, aired 1997-09-25 | IN THE NEWS: Requested by Ulysses S. Grant in the 1870s, it was first used by Bill Clinton August 11, 1997 Line-Item Veto |
| #2994, aired 1997-09-11 | TELEVISION: A 1997 episode of this series guest-starred Philip Michael Thomas & Tommy Chong Nash Bridges |
| #2972, aired 1997-07-01 | HISTORIC U.S. SITES: Vitascope Hall in New Orleans is said to be the first of these in the U.S. movie theater |
| #2958, aired 1997-06-11 | THE 1930s: Roosevelt's first Fireside Chat was designed to bolster the public confidence in these banks |
| #2946, aired 1997-05-26 | OSCAR-WINNING FILMS: This “Best Picture” of 1970 was based in part on the memoirs of General Omar Bradley Patton |
| #2941, aired 1997-05-19 | 18th CENTURY AMERICANS: A military post & a Tennessee city are both named for this first U.S. Secretary of War Henry Knox |
| #2937, aired 1997-05-13 | CHILDREN'S BOOKS: It's the first in a trilogy of books that also includes "In the Night Kitchen" & "Outside Over There" Where the Wild Things Are |
| #2930, aired 1997-05-02 | SCIENCE HISTORY: Announced by Ole Romer in 1676, the first measurement of this was 140,000 miles per second the speed of light |
| #2929, aired 1997-05-01 | QUOTATIONS ABOUT LAWYERS: Playwright who penned the famous line, "The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers" William Shakespeare |
| #2920, aired 1997-04-18 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY: First sold in 1912, the Maine hunting shoe was his first retail product Leon Leonwood (L.L.) Bean |
| #2917, aired 1997-04-15 | NONFICTION: This reference set's 1768 first edition was published by "A Society of Gentlemen in Scotland" the Encyclopædia Britannica |
| #2912, aired 1997-04-08 | MYSTERY NOVELS: The first line of dialogue in this 1930 novel is spoken to secretary Effie Perine, "Yes, sweetheart?" The Maltese Falcon |
| #2894, aired 1997-03-13 | U.S. PRESIDENTS: The first & last to preside over exactly 48 states William Howard Taft & Dwight Eisenhower |
| #2888, aired 1997-03-05 | SHAKESPEAREAN CHARACTERS: At the end of "Macbeth", he tells his thanes they will "henceforth be Earls, the first" ever in Scotland Malcolm |
| #2887, aired 1997-03-04 | LITERATURE: Chapter 8 of this book first published in 1900 is titled "The Deadly Poppy Field" The Wizard of Oz |
| #2867, aired 1997-02-04 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES: This New York univ. is named for the family whose company was the first to sell toothpaste in a tube Colgate University |
| #2866, aired 1997-02-03 | DEMOCRATS: Bill Clinton is the first Democrat since this man to be elected president twice Franklin Delano Roosevelt |
| #2864, aired 1997-01-30 | THE NEW TESTAMENT: Called the church's first theologian, a quarter of the books in the New Testament are credited to him Paul |
| #2843, aired 1997-01-01 | AUTHORS: In 1996, 7 years after giving up law, he returned to a Mississippi courtroom & won a case for an old client John Grisham |
| #2814, aired 1996-11-21 | TEXTBOOKS: Dr. Henry Van Dyke Carter provided 363 drawings for this work first published in 1858 Gray's Anatomy |
| #2811, aired 1996-11-18 | VICE PRESIDENTS: He was the first Republican vice president Hannibal Hamlin |
| #2810, aired 1996-11-15 | PUBLISHING FIRSTS: In 1908 Ernest Henry Shackleton printed the first book on this continent Antarctica |
| #2808, aired 1996-11-13 | GREAT ARTISTS: His first important commission in Amsterdam was to paint that city's guild of surgeons Rembrandt |
| #2782, aired 1996-10-08 | AMERICAN UNIVERSITIES: French Catholic missionaries led by Father Edward F. Sorin founded this university in 1842 Notre Dame |
| #2777, aired 1996-10-01 | PRESIDENTS: The only 2 consecutive U.S. presidents with the same first name James Madison & James Monroe |
| #2754, aired 1996-07-18 | ARTISTS: In 1914 his brother's remains were moved from Holland to Auvers, France & buried beside him Vincent Van Gogh |
| #2750, aired 1996-07-12 | MYSTERY WRITERS: Mystery writer whose first book was an autobiography, "The Sport of Queens" Dick Francis |
| #2742, aired 1996-07-02 | DESIGNERS: This designer who died in 1892 got his first big break designing luggage for Empress Eugenie Louis Vuitton |
| #2740, aired 1996-06-28 | RIVERS: The world's first underwater tunnel was dug beneath this foreign river in the 1840s the Thames |
| #2727, aired 1996-06-11 | ADVENTURERS: This American adventurer & aviator discovered the world's highest waterfall in 1935 Jim Angel |
| #2726, aired 1996-06-10 | FAMOUS WOMEN: In 1849 Zachary Taylor eulogized her, saying, "She was truly our first lady for a half-century" Dolley Madison |
| #2722, aired 1996-06-04 | SPELLING: This tree is the only 7-letter English word that contains all 5 vowels sequoia |
| #2710, aired 1996-05-17 | FAMOUS NOVELS: Published in 1605, the first part of this novel was dedicated to the Duque de Bejar, Marques de Gibraleon... Don Quixote |
| #2680, aired 1996-04-05 | FOREIGN WARS: It was the first war covered by both newspaper reporters & photographers The Crimean War |
| #2678, aired 1996-04-03 | FAMOUS WOMEN: At the first U.N. meeting, held in 1946 in London, she was the only woman in the U.S. delegation Eleanor Roosevelt |
| #2673, aired 1996-03-27 | TRAVEL & TOURISM: This company established its first village in 1950 in Alcudia on the island of Majorca Club Med |
| #2671, aired 1996-03-25 | THE ELEMENTS: The first inert gas discovered on Earth, its name is Greek for "without work" argon (Ar) |
| #2665, aired 1996-03-15 | PUBLISHING FIRSTS: In 1570 Abraham Ortelius produced the first modern book of this type: "Theatrum Orbis Terrarum" an atlas |
| #2664, aired 1996-03-14 | 20th CENTURY PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS: 1 of 3 presidential candidates who lost an election in which they received over 200 electoral votes Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford or Charles Evans Hughes |
| #2660, aired 1996-03-08 | AUTHORS: He adapted a rejected treatise on exploring Africa by balloon into an 1863 novel, his first big success Jules Verne |
| #2656, aired 1996-03-04 | INVENTIONS: Oliver Wendell Holmes called it "the mirror with a memory" a camera |
| #2646, aired 1996-02-19 | AMERICAN LITERATURE: This first American writer to earn $1 million received only $2,000 for a 1903 novel set in the Klondike Jack London |
| #2645, aired 1996-02-16 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES: This actor's first name is Hawaiian for "cool breeze over the mountains" Keanu Reeves |
| #2635, aired 1996-02-02 | CONGRESS: On Nov. 23, 1973 Yvonne Braithwaite Burke became the first member of Congress to do this while in office give birth |
| #2624, aired 1996-01-18 | MEDICAL FIRSTS: The death of Denise Darvall in a traffic accident permitted this historic December 3, 1967 event the first heart transplant |
| #2615, aired 1996-01-05 | THE NOBEL PRIZE: The first Russian winner, he was awarded the 1904 Prize in Physiology or Medicine Ivan Pavlov |
| #2614, aired 1996-01-04 | NAMES IN THE NEWS: He was born Newton Leroy McPherson in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania on June 17, 1943 Newt Gingrich |
| #2599, aired 1995-12-14 | FAMOUS NAMES: Famous name of Colonel Paul W. Tibbets' mother Enola Gay |
| #2584, aired 1995-11-23 | ETHICS: Aesculapius, Hygeia, Panacea & Apollo are all mentioned in the first line of this The Hippocratic Oath |
| #2572, aired 1995-11-07 | FRANCE: Jacques Chirac is the 5th president of the 5th Republic; he was the first Charles de Gaulle |
| #2565, aired 1995-10-27 | BIRTHSTONES: 1 of the 2 months with the same first letter as their traditional birthstones (1 of) September or October |
| #2555, aired 1995-10-13 | GOVERNMENT: Bill Clinton did this for the first time as president June 7, 1995, 869 days into his term veto a bill |
| #2554, aired 1995-10-12 | FAMOUS NOVELS: The first of the 7 commandments in this 1945 novel is "Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy" Animal Farm |
| #2552, aired 1995-10-10 | COMMEMORATIVE COINS: On a 1995 dollar commemorating the Special Olympics, she's the first living woman depicted on a U.S. coin Eunice Kennedy Shriver |
| #2541, aired 1995-09-25 | NEXT IN LINE: Jacqueline, Claudia, Thelma, … Elizabeth "Betty" (Ford) |
| #2502, aired 1995-06-20 | ORGANIZATIONS: This national Patriotic Society was organized in 1890 by First Lady Caroline Scott Harrison (The National Society of) the Daughters of the American Revolution |
| #2499, aired 1995-06-15 | THE PRESIDENCY: Annual salary of the first 17 presidents; double it 3 times for today's salary $25,000 |
| #2498, aired 1995-06-14 | AMERICAN WOMEN: From 1911 to 1935 she served as the first president of the National Federation of Settlements Jane Addams |
| #2492, aired 1995-06-06 | POSTAL ABBREVIATIONS: Among the 2-letter abbreviations for U.S. states, this state's is 1st alphabetically Alaska |
| #2488, aired 1995-05-31 | FAMOUS NAMES: Best known as a novelist, in 1973 he directed his first feature film, "Westworld" Michael Crichton |
| #2486, aired 1995-05-29 | SPORTS: This race first run in 1903 covers 2,500-3,000 miles & includes at least 1 mountain over 7,500 The Tour de France |
| #2465, aired 1995-04-28 | OSCAR-WINNING FILMS: The first scene of this biographical film, the Best Picture of 1982, is set in South Africa Gandhi |
| #2461, aired 1995-04-24 | OPERA: It was the first opera by a U.S.-born composer performed at La Scala Porgy and Bess |
| #2433, aired 1995-03-15 | CLASSICAL MUSIC: The first 4 notes of this 1808 work supposedly represent fate knocking at the door Beethoven's 5th Symphony |
| #2430, aired 1995-03-10 | POETS: His wife Caitlin, who outlived him by 41 years, passed away in 1994 at age 80 Dylan Thomas |
| #2429, aired 1995-03-09 | AMERICAN HISTORY: This British monarch authorized the first English colony in North America Elizabeth I |
| #2403, aired 1995-02-01 | SENATORS: A protege of Chicago mayor Harold Washington, she was elected Cook County recorder of Deeds in 1988 Carol Moseley-Braun |
| #2395, aired 1995-01-20 | WOMEN AUTHORS: In 1910 she became the first woman novelist elected to the Hall of Fame for Great Americans Harriet Beecher Stowe |
| #2394, aired 1995-01-19 | COINS: This gold coin was so named because its value was originally twice that of an Escudo a doubloon |
| #2379, aired 1994-12-29 | 1994 MOVIES: The title of this 1994 action hit can be traced to a 1919 Supreme Court opinion by Oliver Wendell Holmes Clear and Present Danger |
| #2376, aired 1994-12-26 | NOTABLE WOMEN: In 1957, at age 90, author & scholar Edith Hamilton was made an honorary citizen of this city Athens |
| #2375, aired 1994-12-23 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES: A college was named for this woman, the first person to establish a scholarship at Harvard (Anne) Radcliffe |
| #2362, aired 1994-12-06 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE: Last name of the 18th c. bookseller & publisher known as the first to specialize in children's books Newbery |
| #2355, aired 1994-11-25 | AMERICAN POLITICAL TERMS: This phrase first appeared in 1845, followed by "to overspread the continent alloted by providence" Manifest Destiny |
| #2343, aired 1994-11-09 | DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE: Alphabetically, he was the first signer of the Declaration of Independence John Adams |
| #2340, aired 1994-11-04 | VICE PRESIDENTS: This Republican was the first V.P. to succeed to the presidency and then win the office by election Theodore Roosevelt |
| #2334, aired 1994-10-27 | 1994: In July 1994 these 2 foreign leaders became the first to address the same joint session of Congress Rabin and King Hussein |
| #2331, aired 1994-10-24 | SPACE: The names of these 2 space shuttles, the first & last built, are synonyms Enterprise & Endeavour |
| #2328, aired 1994-10-19 | MUSICIANS: In 1958 he recorded the first classical LP to sell one million copies Van Cliburn |
| #2310, aired 1994-09-23 | NOVELISTS: In 1918 he proudly wrote to his family "I'm the first American wounded in Italy" Ernest Hemingway |
| #2309, aired 1994-09-22 | WORD ORIGINS: This nickname for a non-Spanish speaker comes from the Spanish word for "Greek" gringo |
| #2307, aired 1994-09-20 | WOMEN IN SPORTS: With 5, she's won more Olympic gold medals than any other U.S. female athlete Bonnie Blair |
| #2302, aired 1994-09-13 | TECHNOLOGY: The first commercial product to use the transistor; the radio came 2 years later in 1954 a hearing aid |
| #2293, aired 1994-07-20 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY: This electronics company is named for an early product, the first commercially successful car radio Motorola |
| #2272, aired 1994-06-21 | ISLANDS: This isolated Pacific island 1400 miles SE of Tahiti is named for the first European who sighted it, in 1767 Pitcairn Island |
| #2266, aired 1994-06-13 | COMMUNICATIONS: This first passive communications satellite, launched in 1960, simply reflected radio signals Echo |
| #2256, aired 1994-05-30 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES: 3 of the last 5 presidents have earned degrees from this university Yale |
| #2249, aired 1994-05-19 | 18th CENTURY AMERICA: In 1785 he became America's first minister to England John Adams |
| #2244, aired 1994-05-12 | ALPHABETICALLY FIRST: Among the men who have walked on the Moon, his last name is alphabetically first (Buzz) Aldrin |
| #2235, aired 1994-04-29 | FIRST LADIES: At 21, she was the youngest wife of a sitting president Frances Folsom Cleveland |
| #2227, aired 1994-04-19 | BRITISH ROYALTY: In the line of succession to the British throne, she's Number 5, the female highest on the list Beatrice |
| #2213, aired 1994-03-30 | PULITZER PRIZE NOVELS: The first Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by a woman, it became a movie in 1993 The Age of Innocence |
| #2208, aired 1994-03-23 | THE BIBLE: The first person mentioned for whom no children are listed Abel |
| #2197, aired 1994-03-08 | THE NOBEL PRIZE: In 1993 she became the first American woman since Pearl Buck to win the Nobel Prize in Literature Toni Morrison |
| #2190, aired 1994-02-25 | FAMOUS NAMES: In 1970 he made his first visit to a Tennessee classroom since his conviction 45 years earlier John Scopes |
| #2182, aired 1994-02-15 | WORLD LEADERS: In 1992 he became the first foreign head of state to be convicted by a U.S. jury Manuel Noriega |
| #2174, aired 1994-02-03 | U.S. HISTORY: Laura Keene, who first came to the U.S. in the 1850s, was best known for her starring role in this play Our American Cousin |
| #2167, aired 1994-01-25 | AMERICAN NOVELS: The first sentence of this 1957 novel is "I first met Dean not long after my wife and I split up" On the Road |
| #2165, aired 1994-01-21 | THE KENNEDY CENTER HONORS: The first ballet company founder honored by the Kennedy Center, he was born in St. Petersburg in 1904 George Balanchine |
| #2150, aired 1993-12-31 | POLITICIANS: Elected to the House of Representatives in 1966, he was the first Republican to represent Houston George Bush |
| #2146, aired 1993-12-27 | FAMOUS NAMES: This English innkeeper kept 40 horses ready for customers but gave them no choice in the one they got Hobson |
| #2145, aired 1993-12-24 | THE CALENDAR: By our calendar, the first British East India Co. was founded on this date, the last day of the 16th century December 31, 1600 |
| #2129, aired 1993-12-02 | WORLD CAPITALS: The capital of Albania is named for this other world capital Tehran |
| #2126, aired 1993-11-29 | PRESIDENTS: Under an act passed in 1958, they became the first two former presidents eligible for a pension Harry S. Truman & Herbert Hoover |
| #2125, aired 1993-11-26 | THE CABINET: In the 1970s he held more Cabinet posts than anyone in U.S. history—4, including Attorney General Elliot Richardson |
| #2121, aired 1993-11-22 | MONEY: On July 27, 1971 Richard Nixon gave her the first of the new U.S. dollar coins Mamie Eisenhower |
| #2111, aired 1993-11-08 | THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR: The first battle of the war took place April 19, 1775 in what's now this state Massachusetts |
| #2101, aired 1993-10-25 | FAMOUS PAIRS: They were elected the first president & secretary of American Express Wells & Fargo |
| #2099, aired 1993-10-21 | ORGANIZATIONS: When this U.S. organization was established in 1912, Daisy Gordon became its first registered member the Girl Scouts |
| #2096, aired 1993-10-18 | U.S. PRESIDENTS: He was the first president to visit all 50 states while in office Richard M. Nixon |
| #2094, aired 1993-10-14 | FILM DIRECTORS: He was the first director to win 4 Oscars & the first to receive the American Film Institute's Life Achievement Award John Ford |
| #2089, aired 1993-10-07 | 19th CENTURY POLITICS: In 1872 he was the Liberal Republican Party's first & last presidential candidate; he lost Horace Greeley |
| #2071, aired 1993-09-13 | LAKES: 2 of this large lake's biggest gulfs are Emin Pasha in the southwest & Speke in the southeast Lake Victoria |
| #2070, aired 1993-09-10 | ACTORS: He called his 1992 autobiography "What's It All About?" Michael Caine |
| #2066, aired 1993-09-06 | AMERICAN HISTORY: In 1919 he became the first General of the Armies of the U.S. John Pershing |
| #2036, aired 1993-06-14 | POETS: In 1993 Maya Angelou became the first poet to read at a presidential inauguration since this poet in 1961 Robert Frost |
| #2031, aired 1993-06-07 | 19th CENTURY ELECTIONS: In 1836 Van Buren ran against Harrison for U.S. president & these 2 ran for president of Texas Sam Houston & Stephen F. Austin |
| #2029, aired 1993-06-03 | ENGLISH LITERATURE: In this 1653 work, Piscator tries to convince Venator, a hunter, that fishing is the better sport The Compleat Angler |
| #2023, aired 1993-05-26 | WOMEN'S FIRSTS: In 1992 Mona Van Duyn became the first woman named this by the Library of Congress poet laureate of the United States |
| #2015, aired 1993-05-14 | ANCIENT ROME: General Publius Scipio won the surname "Africanus" for beating this man at the 202 B.C. Battle of Zama Hannibal |
| #2010, aired 1993-05-07 | BOOKS & AUTHORS: First published in 1732, its author said it sold "annually, near ten thousand" Poor Richard's Almanack |
| #2002, aired 1993-04-27 | U.S. PRESIDENTS: He was the last unmarried man elected president Grover Cleveland |
| #1999, aired 1993-04-22 | FORMS OF ADDRESS: The first form of address transmitted by telephone Mr. |
| #1997, aired 1993-04-20 | U.S. LANDMARKS: A bell in its steeple is inscribed: "We are the first ring of bells cast for the British Empire in North America" the Old North Church (Christ Church) |
| #1985, aired 1993-04-02 | THE TONY AWARDS: He won his first of 9 Tonys for the first Broadway musical he choreographed, "The Pajama Game" Bob Fosse |
| #1983, aired 1993-03-31 | MONARCHS: In 1942 she become the first reigning queen to address the U.S. Congress Wilhelmina |
| #1982, aired 1993-03-30 | MEDICAL HISTORY: The first triple transplant, performed in 1986, involved these 3 different organs the heart, the lungs & the liver |
| #1978, aired 1993-03-24 | GOVERNORS: The first President after Franklin Roosevelt who had also been a state governor Jimmy Carter |
| #1974, aired 1993-03-18 | FAMOUS WOMEN: The Greek equivalent of Eve, the first woman on Earth; she got in trouble too Pandora |
| #1973, aired 1993-03-17 | PULITZER PRIZE PLAYS: In 1991 Neil Simon won his first Pulitzer Prize, for this play Lost in Yonkers |
| #1971, aired 1993-03-15 | PUBLISHING: Last name of the Scottish brothers who began publishing textbooks in 1843 & put out their first novel in 1855 MacMillan |
| #1970, aired 1993-03-12 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY: This electronics company's New York Stock Exchange symbol is "TXN" Texas instruments |
| #1966, aired 1993-03-08 | U.S. CITIES: Abraham Lincoln's first home in Illinois was near this city named after a naval hero Decatur |
| #1955, aired 1993-02-19 | NEW ENGLAND: In Washington, D.C.'s Statuary Hall, the state of Vermont is represented by this patriot Ethan Allen |
| #1954, aired 1993-02-18 | TELEVISION HISTORY: When this service hit the air August 1, 1981, the first act it presented was The Buggles MTV |
| #1937, aired 1993-01-26 | ODD JOBS: It was the profession of Lou Jacobs, the model for a 1966 postage stamp, who died in Sarasota in 1992 a clown |
| #1930, aired 1993-01-15 | WOMEN: In 1971 she was honored by Pope Paul VI with the first Pope John XXIII Peace Prize Mother Teresa |
| #1912, aired 1992-12-22 | THE OLYMPICS: In 1988 she became the first Black American to win a Winter Olympic medal Debi Thomas |
| #1909, aired 1992-12-17 | THE ELEMENTS: Alphabetically the first among gases, it's the third most abundant gas in the air argon |
| #1906, aired 1992-12-14 | ROMAN EMPERORS: In 54 A.D., as the result of his mother's scheming, he became the first teenage emperor of Rome at age 16 Nero |
| #1887, aired 1992-11-17 | NEWSPAPERS: It was first published between 1861 and 1865; it was revived in 1918; stopped in 1919, and revived again in 1942 Stars and Stripes |
| #1874, aired 1992-10-29 | U.S. PRESIDENTS: The first two presidents not born in Virginia were born in what is now this state Massachusetts |
| #1849, aired 1992-09-24 | THE 20th CENTURY: Containing Army surplus food, the first of these arrived in France in 1946 & cost $15 a box to send care packages |
| #1791, aired 1992-05-18 | U.S. PRESIDENTS: A native Kentuckian, he was the first president born outside of the original 13 states Abraham Lincoln |
| #1789, aired 1992-05-14 | RELIGIOUS LEADERS: Gan-den Trup-pa, a monk, scholar & author, was the first man to be given this title the Dalai Lama |
| #1786, aired 1992-05-11 | SECRETARIES OF STATE: This Secretary of State's original first name was Heinz Henry Kissinger |
| #1783, aired 1992-05-06 | WORLD LEADERS: On Feb. 24, 1992, this Nobel Peace Prize winner's first column appeared in the New York Times Gorbachev |
| #1781, aired 1992-05-04 | THE 1970s: These documents revealed the Truman admin. gave military aid to France in its war against the Viet Minh Pentagon Papers |
| #1779, aired 1992-04-30 | U.S. PRESIDENTS: He was the first Navy veteran to become president Kennedy |
| #1771, aired 1992-04-20 | MONARCHS: After more than 40 years in exile, King Michael returned to this country in 1990 only to be expelled again Romania |
| #1751, aired 1992-03-23 | BRITISH RULERS: He was the first Hanoverian monarch born in England; his father was Frederick, Prince of Wales George III |
| #1738, aired 1992-03-04 | U.S. STATES: 2 of only 3 U.S. states which have all straight-line boundaries (2 of) Colorado, Utah, & Wyoming |
| #1727, aired 1992-02-18 | NOTORIOUS: Some believe the "suicide" of this man on August 17, 1987 in West Berlin was murder Rudolf Hess |
| #1699, aired 1992-01-09 | THE SENATE: In 1961 he became the first Republican senator from Texas since Reconstruction John Tower |
| #1694, aired 1992-01-02 | LITERATURE: This 1952 novel is based on a Biblical story & set in California's Salinas Valley East of Eden |
| #1692, aired 1991-12-31 | THE MOVIES: This 1971 musical featured violin solos by Isaac Stern Fiddler on the Roof |
| #1688, aired 1991-12-25 | CHINA: The Ch'in Dynasty gave China its first emperor, this dynasty gave it its last the Ch'ing (or Manchu) Dynasty |
| #1681, aired 1991-12-16 | ANCIENT WORLDS: In the early 1800s hieroglyphics were first translated by an Egyptologist from this country France |
| #1671, aired 1991-12-02 | U.S. STATES: At the time of the first U.S. census, in 1790, this state was the most populous & the largest in area Virginia |
| #1670, aired 1991-11-29 | SCIENTISTS: In 1902, at age 23, he was appointed to a position in the patent office in Bern, Switzerland Albert Einstein |
| #1668, aired 1991-11-27 | SHAKESPEARE: In his diary Samuel Pepys described this play as silly, "and not related at all to the name or day" Twelfth Night, or What You Will |
| #1660, aired 1991-11-15 | COLONIAL AMERICA: The colonists referred to the first three French & Indian Wars using the names of these three British monarchs George, Anne & William |
| #1659, aired 1991-11-14 | U.S. PRESIDENTS: The first two consecutive presidents who were from the same state Thomas Jefferson & James Madison (both from Virginia) |
| #1658, aired 1991-11-13 | AFRICAN AMERICANS: In 1978 she became the first black woman honored on a U.S. postage stamp Harriet Tubman |
| #1642, aired 1991-10-22 | THE NEW TESTAMENT: At his mother's request, Jesus performed his first miracle in public at this event the wedding at Cana |
| #1632, aired 1991-10-08 | SPACE EXPLORATION: After his Mercury flight, he named his Gemini capsule "Molly Brown" Gus Grissom |
| #1622, aired 1991-09-24 | THE PULITZER PRIZE: In 1991 he won his second Pulitzer for fiction, with a book that was a sequel to his first winner John Updike |
| #1620, aired 1991-09-20 | U.S. PRESIDENTS: The first president to serve 8 full years Thomas Jefferson |
| #1618, aired 1991-09-18 | MEDALS & DECORATIONS: The first Victoria Cross was made from Russian guns captured during this war the Crimean War |
| #1584, aired 1991-06-20 | MUSEUMS: Since 1899 this museum of decorative arts has borne the names of two first cousins the Victoria and Albert Museum |
| #1583, aired 1991-06-19 | FIRST LADIES: The two 20th century women who were "Second Lady" for 8 years before becoming "First" Barbara Bush & Pat Nixon |
| #1581, aired 1991-06-17 | WORLD LEADERS: In 1969 he became Peru's first ambassador to the Soviet Union (Javier) Pérez de Cuéllar |
| #1571, aired 1991-06-03 | FAMOUS NAMES: He was the first chairman of the SEC & later became ambassador to Great Britain Joseph Kennedy |
| #1567, aired 1991-05-28 | BEST SELLERS: 1 of 2 authors to have 3 books among the Top 10 Fiction Best Sellers of the 1980s (1 of) Stephen King or Tom Clancy |
| #1564, aired 1991-05-23 | ACTRESSES: In NYC in 1955 she said, "An actress's life is so transitory--suddenly you're a building" Helen Hayes |
| #1550, aired 1991-05-03 | ACTRESSES & ROLES: Greer Garson, Jane Alexander, & Jean Stapleton have all played this first lady Eleanor Roosevelt |
| #1536, aired 1991-04-15 | SPORTS: This classic race was first won by Ray Harroun on May 30, 1911 the Indianapolis 500 |
| #1512, aired 1991-03-12 | U.S. GOVERNMENT: In 1977 James Schlesinger became the first man appointed to this post Secretary of Energy |
| #1510, aired 1991-03-08 | U.S. PRESIDENTS: He was the first Democrat to die in office FDR |
| #1499, aired 1991-02-21 | VICE PRESIDENTS: The first vice president to become President of the United States John Adams |
| #1469, aired 1991-01-10 | THE EMMYS: This actress, whose father was the first president of the TV Academy, won her first 2 Emmys in 1989 & 1990 Candice Bergen |
| #1453, aired 1990-12-19 | PEN NAMES: He Latinized his first 2 names to Carolus Ludovicus, anglicized & reversed them Lewis Carroll |
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Justin Bernbach, a lobbyist from Brooklyn, New York
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2010 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 25 7-time champion: $155,001...
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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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Melanie Baker-Streevy, a United Methodist pastor from Parma, Michigan
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Season 25 1-time champion: $26,900 + $1,000. Melanie Baker-Streevy - A...
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David Hudson, a junior from the University of Virginia
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"His musical taste has changed since he won $10,000 on Kids...
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Suchita Shah, a senior from the University of Wisconsin-Madison
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2008 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 20 and from Holmen, WI...
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Andrew Chung, a sophomore from Harvey Mudd College
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2008 College Championship 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $25,000. 20 and...
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Alyssa McRae, a gift card production designer from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Season 25 3-time champion: $50,402 + $2,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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Eric Betts, a senior from Emory University
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2009 College Championship first runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $50,000. 21 and...
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Jason Pratt, a middle school history teacher from Woodbridge, Virginia
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Season 25 2-time champion: $32,701 + $1,000. Jason Pratt - A...
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Andy Srinivasan, a high school science teacher from Garner, North Carolina
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2010 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $69,600...
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Rebecca Dixon, a graduate student and musician from Vancouver, Washington
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Season 26 2-time champion: $53,002 + $1,000. Rebecca and her partner...
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Scott Menke, a senior from Johns Hopkins University
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2009 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. 21 and from Flemington, New Jersey...
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Olivia Colangelo, a junior from the University of Notre Dame from Murrysville, Pennsylvania
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2010-B College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
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Laura Myers, a senior from the University of Missouri
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2009 College Championship second runner-up: $29,900. 22 and from Richmond, Virginia...
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Jean Cui, a student originally from Garden City, New York
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Season 25 2-time champion: $14,200 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Matt Jacobs, a science teacher originally from Stratford, Connecticut
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Season 25 1-time champion: $10,323 + $1,000. Matt resided in Silver...
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Ben Bishop, a student originally from Seattle, Washington
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2009 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 25 4-time champion: $114,800...
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Amanda J. Ray, a sophomore at the University of Virginia from Harrisonburg, Virginia
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2010-B College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
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Cassie Hill, a recent graduate from the University of Mary Washington
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\"Her dad is a lawyer, and by the seventh grade, she...
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Elza Reeves, a bank teller from Louisville, Kentucky
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Season 25 1-time champion: $16,400 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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David Skaar, a research scientist from Raleigh, North Carolina
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Season 25 3-time champion: $102,000 + $2,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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Katie Winter, a senior from Tufts University
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2008 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 22 and from Hershey, PA at...
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Paul Wampler, a web programmer from Knoxville, Tennessee
|
Season 27 4-time champion: $72,001 + $2,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: paul5562
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Elizabeth Galoozis, a reference librarian from Cambridge, Massachusetts
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Season 26 2-time champion: $38,801 + $2,000. Elizabeth Galoozis - A...
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Ellen Eichner, a junior from the Ohio State University from Northbrook, Illinois
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2010-B College Championship semifinalist: $10,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
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Dmitry Spivak, a junior from Northwestern University
|
"The 11-year-old wasn't really kidding when he said he wanted to...
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Carl Brandt, an investor originally from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
|
2009 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 25 4-time champion: $70,799...
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Jonathan Hawley, a sophomore from Harvard University
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2008 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 19 and from Oceanside, CA at...
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Jen McFann, a Peace Corps recruiter from Astoria, New York
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Season 26 1-time champion: $19,410 + $2,000. Jen McFann Astoria, New...
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Sanders Kleinfeld, a publishing technology specialist from Cambridge, Massachusetts
|
Season 25 1-time champion: $26,597 + $2,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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Ingrid Nelson, a judicial assistant from Lake Mills, Wisconsin
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Season 25 2-time champion: $27,802 + $2,000. Ingrid Nelson - A...
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Enrique Machado, an oil filtration business developer from Orlando, Florida
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Season 26 1-time champion: $30,799 + $2,000. Enrique Machado September 16,...
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Gail Flemmons, a history teacher from Clinton, Mississippi
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Season 25 2-time champion: $46,399 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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Diane Wilshere, an actor and playwright from Manassas, Virginia
|
Season 25 1-time champion: $18,801 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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Fred Beukema, a structural engineer from Minneapolis, Minnesota
|
Season 25 3-time champion: $69,401 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Ryan Chaffee, a tutor from Los Angeles, California
|
2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $91,900...
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Tom Nissley, a writer from Seattle, Washington
|
2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2011 Tournament of Champions...
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Cliff Galiher, a sophomore from UCLA
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2007 Tournament of Champions 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $50,000 +...
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Saad Hasan, a nanotechnology scientist from Nashville, Tennessee
|
Season 26 1-time champion: $22,700 + $2,000. Saad Hasan Nashville, TN...
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Michael Dupée, an attorney from Gainesville, Florida
|
"He was the winner of the 1996 Tournament of Champions. Today...
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Janet Bradlow, an insurance agent from New York, New York
|
Season 26 3-time champion: $58,000 + $2,000. Janet Bradlow New York,...
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Rachel Pildis, a software developer from Oak Park, Illinois
|
Season 26 1-time champion: $12,000 + $2,000. Rachel Pildis - A...
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Kori Tyler, a high school teacher from Cordova, Tennessee
|
Season 26 player (2010-02-26). Season 25 1-time champion: $20,000 + $2,000....
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Larissa Charnsangavej, a senior from Rice University
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2009 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 21 and from Houston, Texas at...
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Tom Nissley, an online books editor from Seattle, Washington
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2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2011 Tournament of Champions...
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Jackie Harrison, a surgeon from Chicago, Illinois
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2003 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Season 19 4-time champion: $66,602 + $2,000.
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Nathaniel Barnes, a composer and bartender from Toronto, Ontario, Canada
|
Season 25 3-time champion: $57,300 + $2,000. In his first game,...
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Lewis Black, a stand-up comedian from Lewis Black's Root of All Evil
|
"With success in films, plays, books, and TV specials, he tours...
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Nate Austin, a student from Hutchinson Community College
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"His original plan was to own a chain of international hotels...
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James Grant, a junior from Georgetown University
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2008 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 21 and from Manhattan Beach,...
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John Krizel, a green community program coordinator from Beckley, West Virginia
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2011 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $105,204...
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Arthur Phillips, an author from Brooklyn, New York
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"He was a speechwriter from Boston when he won five shows...
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Leslie Frates, a Spanish teacher from Hayward, California
|
"A Jeopardy! tournament veteran, her best-known Jeopardy! appearance may be in...
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Chris Rodrigues, a personal banking representative from New Bedford, Massachusetts
|
Season 26 3-time champion: $41,498 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Andrew Ceppos, a senior from Tufts University
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2009 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 21 and from Verona, New...
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Anthony Dedousis, a sophomore from Harvard University
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2009 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 19 and from Manhasset, New York...
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Mark Petterson, a senior from the University of Kansas
|
2009 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 21 and from Prairie Village,...
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Lindsay Eanet, a senior from the University of Missouri
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2010-A College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. Hometown: Deerfield, Illinois. Last name pronounced...
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Wolf Blitzer, a journalist from The Situation Room
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"Since 1990, he's covered every major story for CNN, including the...
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Anthony Fox, an account executive from Arlington Heights, Illinois
|
Season 27 4-time champion: $51,998 + $1,000. Playing as "Tony", Anthony...
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Surya Sabhapathy, a senior from the University of Michigan
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2010-A College Championship 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $26,600. Hometown: Northville,...
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Jenifer Thomas, a teacher assistant from Jacksonville, North Carolina
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Season 26 1-time champion: $13,400 + $2,000. Jenifer Thomas October 5,...
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Susan Mitchell, a chemical engineer from Houston, Texas
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2007 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD...
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Jennifer Broders, a junior high school social studies teacher from Stockton, Iowa
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Season 26 2-time champion: $59,801 + $1,000. Jennifer Broders - a...
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Sam Spaulding, a sophomore from Yale University from Wilmington, North Carolina
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2010-B College Championship 1st runner-up: $50,000 + a Nintendo Wii +...
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Steph Gagelin, a sophomore from the University of North Dakota from Grand Forks, North Dakota
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2010-B College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
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Kimberly Jantz, an attorney from Tulsa, Oklahoma
|
Season 26 1-time champion: $22,200 + $2,000. Kimberly Jantz - an...
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Frank Spangenberg, a police lieutenant from Douglaston, New York
|
2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2005 Ultimate Tournament of...
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Trevor Norris, a budget analyst from Washington, D.C.
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"He can't walk through the Pentagon without someone mentioning his five...
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Jerome Vered, a writer from Los Angeles, California
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"The 1-day record of $34,000 he set in 1992 stood for...
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Larissa Kelly, an editor for academic competitions from Richmond, California
|
\"She was a graduate student at U.C. Berkeley in Season 24...
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Chuck Forrest, a lawyer and CEO from London, United Kingdom
|
\"He became a winner of the second-ever Tournament of Champions in...
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Charles Temple, a high school English teacher from Ocracoke, North Carolina
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"He teaches at the smallest public school in North Carolina, and...
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Brenton Montie, a sixth grade social studies teacher from South Lyon, Michigan
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"He teaches at a school ranked in the top 5% in...
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Jim Davis, a college music and humanities instructor from Freeport, Illinois
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Season 25 2-time champion: $62,802 + $2,000. Not be to confused...
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Patrick Quinn, a high school German teacher from Chesterfield, Missouri
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"He teaches at a school whose history goes back to a...
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Robert Gibbs, a former press secretary from the Obama White House
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"In 2004, he joined Barack Obama's senatorial campaign as communications director,...
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Sid Chandrasekhar, a senior from the University of Pennsylvania from Saratoga, California
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2010-B College Championship semifinalist: $10,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
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Bob Verini, a film journalist and test prep teacher from Los Angeles, California
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"A resident of New York City when he won the 1987...
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Eddie Timanus, a sports reporter from Arlington, Virginia
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"A 5-time champion, he went on to become a semifinalist in...
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Vito Cortese, a software engineer and Italian translator from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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Season 27 3-time champion: $68,485 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Frank Spangenberg, a lieutenant in the New York Police Department from Douglaston, New York
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"He still holds the record for the most money won in...
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Larry Cloud, a bookkeeper and computer consultant from Inglewood, California
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"He won five times in 2001, allowing him to make a...
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Bruce Naegeli, a retired law librarian from Phoenix, Arizona
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"He finished second in the 1988 Tournament of Champions. A retired...
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Laura Hughes, a mom from New Market, Maryland
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Season 26 1-time champion: $27,500 + $2,000. Wife of Season 16...
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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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Myron Meyer, a scheduling coordinator from Owatonna, Minnesota
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Season 19 1-time champion: $50,000 + $1,000. In his first game...
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Kurt Bray, a scientist from Oceanside, California
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"A 5-time winner in 1994, he used some of his winnings...
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Alan Bailey, a playwright and director from North Hills, California
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"This playwright and director became a 5-time winner in 2001. Today,...
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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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Dan Katz, a lawyer from Owings Mills, Maryland
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"Since his five wins in 1990, he's seen Bruce Springsteen 16...
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Jeff Richmond, an attorney from Los Angeles, California
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"He used his 1988 5-game winnings to pay for law school....
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Sandra Gore, a corporate researcher from Berkeley, California
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"After five wins in 1987, she fulfilled her dream of moving...
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Leszek Pawlowicz, a shovel bum from Flagstaff, Arizona
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"He was a material scientist living in Phoenix when he won...
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Mike Hodel, a bartender from Bellingham, Washington
|
Season 27 2-time champion: $20,200 + $2,000.
Last name pronounced like "ho-DELL".
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Jim Scott, an attorney from Arlington, Virginia
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"He was a legal assistant living near D.C. when he won...
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Roger Craig, a graduate student of computer science from Newark, Delaware
|
2019 All-Star Games member of wildcard-match 2nd-place Team Austin: a share...
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Greg Lichtenstein, a freshman from Vassar College
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2009 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. 18 and from Plainview, New York...
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Evelyn Chester, a park ranger from Washington, D.C.
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Season 25 player (2009-04-24).
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Judy Mermelstein, a Census field representative from Queens, New York
|
Season 25 1-time champion: $38,401 + $1,000. Judy also appeared on...
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Tom Bergeron, an Emmy Award-winning host from Dancing with the Stars
|
2009 Celebrity Jeopardy! player: $25,000 to the Muscular Dystrophy Association. "He's...
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Kyle Kahan, a senior from Texas A&M University from Houston, Texas
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2010-B College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000 + a Nintendo Wii +...
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Lea Tottle, a junior from Florida State University from Oldsmar, Florida
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2010-B College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000 + a Nintendo Wii +...
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Stephen Weingarten, a paraeducator from Portland, Oregon
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2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $96,690...
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Kyle Hale, a college student from Katy, Texas
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 winner: $25,000. 2003 Tournament...
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Mark Dawson, a business manager from Chamblee, Georgia
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2014 Battle of the Decades quarterfinalist: $10,000. 2005 Ultimate Tournament of...
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Mike Marmesh, a veterinarian from Miami, Florida
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Season 26 1-time champion: $4,700 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Robbi Rogers, a respiratory therapist from Corsicana, Texas
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Season 22 1-time champion: $20,800 + $1,000. Robbi won her first...
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Erik Larsen, a librarian and a licensed amateur boxing official from Jacksonville, Florida
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"A 5-time champion from 1990, he's a librarian and a licensed...
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Steven Popper, an economist from Topanga, California
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"A winner of 5 shows in 1988, he has since founded...
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Scott Gillispie, a project manager and expectant father from Atlanta, Georgia
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"While attending Georgia Tech, he won the 1991 College Championship. Now...
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Andrew Garen, an associate director of consumer marketing from Austin, Texas
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"He was a project manager when he won his 5 shows...
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Ryan Holznagel, a writer originally from Forest Grove, Oregon
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"He was the winner of the 1995 Tournament of Champions. Now,...
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Sean Ryan, a taxi driver, bartender, and student from State College, Pennsylvania
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Nifty Nine (players with byes into...
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Burns Cameron, a realtor from Standish, Maine
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1990 Super Jeopardy! quarterfinalist: $5,000. Burns appeared on the original version...
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Larissa Kelly, a grad student from El Cerrito, California
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2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament semifinalist: $10,000. 2019 All-Star Games member of...
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Larissa Kelly, an editor from Richmond, California
|
2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament semifinalist: $10,000. 2019 All-Star Games member of...
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Larissa Kelly, an editor for academic competitions from Richmond, California
|
• Top 10 regular season winnings • Co-founder of National Academic...
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Andrew He, a stay-at-home dad from Concord, California
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2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament 2nd runner up: $25,000. 2023 Jeopardy! Masters...
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Andrew He, a software developer from San Francisco, California
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2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament 2nd runner up: $25,000. 2023 Jeopardy! Masters...
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Andrew He, a software developer from San Francisco, California
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2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament 2nd runner up: $25,000. 2023 Jeopardy! Masters...
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Andrew He, a software developer from San Francisco, California
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2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament 2nd runner up: $25,000. 2023 Jeopardy! Masters...
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Jay Rosenberg, a college professor from Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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\"After winning 5 times in 1985, he became the moderator for...
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Rebecca Lobo, a future Women\'s Basketball Hall of Famer and ESPN analyst originally from the WNBA
|
\"Later this year, she\'ll be inducted into the Women\'s Basketball Hall...
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Xiaoke Ying, a sophomore at the University of Southern California from Arcadia, California
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2020 College Championship 2nd runner-up: $25,000. First name pronounced like "SHOW-kuh"...
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Chuck Forrest, an attorney for the UN IFAD from Marino, Italy
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\"In 1986, he was a law student living in Grand Blanc,...
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Pam Mueller, an entering law student originally from Chicago, Illinois
|
\"Representing Loyola University, she won the College Championship in November, 2000....
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Celeste DiNucci, a recent graduate student from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2014 Battle of the Decades...
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Zanete Barons, a freelance writer from Roseville, California
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Season 3 1-time champion: $4,300. First name pronounced like \"zan-ETT\". Zanete\'s...
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Brian Aronson, a public defender from Sacramento, California
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Season 4 player (1988-06-28): Ricardo Beverly Hills Tower Drive luggage collection...
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Eugene Finerman, a writer from Chicago, Illinois
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 winner: $25,600. 1990 Super...
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David Peterman, an area manager from Laguna Nigel, California
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Season 3 3-time champion: $7,300. David was an area manager for...
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Adam Levin, a sports information director from Ashland, Massachusetts
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Season 35 player (2019-04-29). Adam’s final total of $53,999 in his...
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Dave Simpson, a pastor from Belcamp, Maryland
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2009 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 24 4-time champion:...
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Megan Sullivan, a junior at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia
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2022 National College Championship semifinalist: $20,000. Megan was majoring in classics....
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Ann Thurlow, an aspiring novelist and retired salesperson from Mendham, New Jersey
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Season 28 1-time champion: $26,805 + $1,000.
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Emma Johnson, an eleven-year-old from St. Petersburg, Florida
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"She'll hit a high note in her future musical career as...
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Rahul Francis, a twelve-year-old from Flushing, New York
|
"This electronic wizard's current plans are to run a technology company....
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Meg Walker, an eleven-year-old from Brandon, Mississippi
|
"She wants to help people with disabilities have a better life...
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Brooks Humphreys, a high school social studies teacher from Omaha, Nebraska
|
"He teaches at an all-girls Catholic school operated by the Sisters...
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Brian Meacham, a film preservationist originally from Anchorage, Alaska
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2011 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 27 4-time champion: $90,500...
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Anna Cambron, a 10-year-old from Louisville, Kentucky
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"Her fascination with the human mind leads her to the field...
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Weston Mangin, a freshman at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo from Arroyo Grande, California
|
2012 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000.
19 at the time of the College Championship.
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Chris Matthews, a TV host from Hardball and The Chris Matthews Show
|
"He served as a speechwriter for Jimmy Carter, and later as...
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Mike Nelson, a mechanical engineer from Geneva, Illinois
|
Season 27 2-time champion: $20,800 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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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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Elyse Mancuso, a junior from Omaha, Nebraska
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2012 Teen Tournament winner: $79,600. 16 at the time of the...
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Melanie Bruchet, a senior from Bryn Mawr
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"Everyone wants to be an astronaut when they're a kid, but...
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Mike Day, a finance and marketing MBA student from Columbus, Ohio
|
2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 1985 Tournament...
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Brandon Brooks, an HR manager from Chicago, Illinois
|
Season 34 2-time champion: $27,401 + $1,000. During his first contestant...
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Kevin Hozey, a history teacher from Jacksonville, Florida
|
Season 31 1-time champion: $27,601 + $2,000.
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Tavis Smiley, a talk show host from PBS's The Tavis Smiley Show
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"He's interviewed such diverse personalities as Fidel Castro, Pope John Paul...
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Al Franken, an author and radio talk show host from New York City
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"One of the original writers on Saturday Night Live, he's done...
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Mark Born, a musician, writer and teacher from Bangkok, Thailand
|
\"He was the top winner of the 1990-91 season. He\'s a...
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Gretchen Carlson, a journalist from the CBS Saturday Early Show
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"Since winning the 1989 Miss America crown, she's built an extensive...
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Aileen Hawkins, a stay-at-home mom from Dana Point, California
|
Season 24 2-time champion: $24,199 + $2,000. First syllable of first...
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Dara Lind, a junior from Yale University
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2008 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 20 and from Cincinnati, OH at...
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Michael Steele, a political analyst and host from MSNBC and Steele & Ungar
|
"He was elected lieutenant governor of Maryland in 2003, and later...
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Gabrielle McMahan, a junior from Florida A&M University
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2008 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. 20 and from Springfield, VA at...
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Jonathan Reinstein, a junior from Dix Hills, New York
|
2001 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $5,000. 17 at the time of the...
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Ryan Ballengee, a senior from Pasadena, Maryland
|
2001 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $5,000.
17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Caley Anderson, a junior from Santee, California
|
2001 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500. 16 at the time of the...
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Tony Nagatani, a junior at Ithaca College from Honolulu, Hawaii
|
2001 College Championship quarterfinalist: $2,500. Tony was 20 at the time...
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Rich Rosenlof, a sales representative from Sacramento, California
|
Season 18 3-time champion: $80,800 + $2,000. Alex erroneously reported Rich's...
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Kevin Marshall, a student from Metairie, Louisiana
|
2006 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 22 6-time champion: $98,201...
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Eugene Finerman, a writer from Evanston, Illinois
|
2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 winner: $25,600. 1990 Super...
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Elise Beraru, an insurance underwriter from Los Angeles, California
|
1990 Super Jeopardy! quarterfinalist: $5,000. 1985 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $1,000....
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Steve Greene, a senior from UCLA from Elk Grove, California
|
2010-B College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000 + a Nintendo Wii +...
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Eric Newhouse, a director of technical assistance from Vermillion, South Dakota
|
"He won both the 1989 Teen Tournament and the 1998 Teen...
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Babu Srinivasan, a history professor at Prairie View A&M University from Houston, Texas
|
"A five-time champion in 2001, he's now a history professor at...
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Bryce Piotrowski, a twelve-year-old from Madison, Wisconsin
|
"He has no idea what he wants to do later in...
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Ethan Waldman, a twelve-year-old from West Hills, California
|
"This wizard of words wants to be a fantasy author when...
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April McManus, a homemaker from Hertfordshire, England
|
"A high school senior from Minnesota when she won the 1992...
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Phoebe Juel, a bookseller from Sylva, North Carolina
|
"She won the 1993 College Championship while attending Grinnell College. Today...
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Graham Gilmer, a senior at Stanford University from Stanford, California
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"He was the Teen Tournament champion in 2001. Now he's a...
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Jeff Stewart, an executive from Los Alamos, New Mexico
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"After winning the 1994 College Championship, he went on to finish...
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Shane Whitlock, a resident physician from Little Rock, Arkansas
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"As a junior at the University of Arkansas, he won the...
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Tom Halpern, a lawyer originally from New York, New York
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"A writer and researcher when he won 5 times in 1991,...
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Lan Djang, a health policy analyst from Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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"He was a 5-time champion in 2001. Today he's a health...
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Jamie Weiss, a law student from St. Louis, Missouri
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"He won the 1990 Teen Tournament. Today he's a law student....
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Kyle Ziemnick, an eleven-year-old from Purcellville, Virginia
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"He likes logical arguments and debates, so would like to be...
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Bill Sloan, a realtor from Mission Viejo, California
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"Since winning five shows in 1996, he has gone on to...
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Steve Berman, a teacher from Santa Monica, California
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"He was a film executive when he won five shows in...
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Stacy Braverman, a public interest lawyer from Washington, D.C.
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Season 26 1-time champion: $14,984 + $2,000. As detailed in a...
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Jack Archey, an actor and writer from Los Angeles, California
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"He was a CPA and comedian when he won his 5th...
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Michael Arnone, a writer and editor from Alexandria, Virginia
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"He was the largest 1-day winner in the 2000-2001 season. Today...
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Mark Eckard, an entrepreneur from Bedford, Massachusetts
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"A 2001 5-time champion as a software designer, he has now...
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Eddie Timanus, a sportswriter from Oak Hill, Virginia
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"His 5 wins in 1999 made him one of the most...
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Steven Milton, a legal case assistant from San Diego, California
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Season 26 2-time champion: $30,299 + $1,000. Steve Milton San Diego,...
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Billy Baxter, an attorney from Richmond, Virginia
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"Representing the College of William & Mary, he won the 1992...
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Dan Melia, a college professor from Berkeley, California
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"He was a 1998 Tournament of Champions winner. Today he's a...
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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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Jeremy Bate, an emergency medical technician and writer from Tujunga, California
|
"A second-place finisher in the 2000 Tournament of Champions, he's now...
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John Zhang, a freshman at MIT originally from Lexington, Kentucky
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"He won the 2003 Teen Tournament. Today he's a freshman at...
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Steve Robin, a writer and producer from Miami, Florida
|
"He finished second place in the 1991 Tournament of Champions. He's...
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Matt Morris, a financial analyst originally from Louisville, Kentucky
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"In 1994, he won the Teen Tournament. Today, he's a financial...
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Sara Wilkinson, a country club concierge from Athens, Georgia
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Season 27 3-time champion: $72,701 + $2,000.
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Melissa Seal, a law student from Kingston, Ontario, Canada
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"She was a senior when she became the Teen Tournament champion...
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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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Paul Kursky, a copywriter from San Francisco, California
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2011 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 26 5-time champion: $109,411...
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Kara Spak, a newspaper reporter from Chicago, Illinois
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2011 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 27 5-time champion:...
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Billy Hackenson, an eleven-year-old from Great Falls, Virginia
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"As a descendant of President Taft, it's no surprise that he's...
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James Erwin, a writer from Des Moines, Iowa
|
Season 25 2-time champion: $22,598 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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Jennifer Klein, a business risk manager from Jacksonville, Florida
|
Season 25 player (2009-06-22).
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Michael Day, a financial analyst from Columbus, Ohio
|
2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 1985 Tournament...
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Patrick Tucker, a senior from the University of Notre Dame
|
2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2009 College Championship winner: $100,000...
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Charles Shaughnessy, an actor from Mad Men
|
"As Shane Donovan on Days of Our Lives, he won three...
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Elise Beraru, an insurance underwriter from Los Angeles, California
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1990 Super Jeopardy! quarterfinalist: $5,000. 1985 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $1,000....
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Robbie Berg, a freshman from the University of Pennsylvania
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2010-A College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. Hometown: Davie, Florida. Robbie Berg Blog...
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Dan Jensen, a restaurant manager from Reston, Virginia
|
Season 27 3-time champion: $58,203 + $1,000.
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Will Warren, a senior from the University of Alabama
|
2010-A College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. Hometown: Madison, Alabama. Will Warren Blog...
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Marissa Goldsmith, a web developer from Springfield, Virginia
|
Season 27 3-time champion: $44,100 + $2,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: marteena
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Harris Cohen, a family physician from Lower Gwynedd, Pennsylvania
|
Season 25 2-time champion: $17,800 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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Justin Waters, a resident physician from Royal Oak, Michigan
|
Season 25 1-time champion: $7,199 + $2,000. Justin Waters Royal Oak,...
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Doug Savant, an actor from Desperate Housewives
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"He met and then married his wife while both were costarring...
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Erik Nelson, a grad student originally from Boston, Massachusetts
|
2009 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Season 25 4-time champion: $94,404 + $2,000.
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Julián Altschul, a math and science tutor from Jackson Heights, New York
|
Season 24 1-time champion: $19,200 + $2,000. First name pronounced like...
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Aaron Schroeder, a grad student from San Diego, California
|
2009 Tournament of Champions second runner-up: $50,000. Season 24 5-time champion:...
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Jim Stevens, a high school math teacher from Fairview Park, Ohio
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2009 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Season 25 6-time champion: $140,600 + $2,000.
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Elise Beraru, a lawyer from Los Angeles, California
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1990 Super Jeopardy! quarterfinalist: $5,000. 1985 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $1,000....
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Christopher Meloni, a star from Law & Order: SVU and HBO's Oz
|
"On TV, he's worked both sides of the law. Once a...
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Mark Lee, a sales manager from Chicago, Illinois
|
2003 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 18 4-time champion: $67,500...
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Kathy Cassity, a closed captioner from Honolulu, Hawaii
|
2003 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 18 4-time champion: $59,200....
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Brian Weikle, a project manager from Minneapolis, Minnesota
|
2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Nifty Nine (players with byes into...
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Andrew Westney, a singer and actor from Atlanta, Georgia
|
"In 1991, he won the Teen Tournament. Today, he's a singer...
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Hon. Margaret Spellings, a U.S. Secretary of Education from Washington, D.C.
|
"As an advisor to President George W. Bush, she helped craft...
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Kim Worth, a waiter and writer from Venice, California
|
1998 Tournament of Champions 1st runner-up: $15,000. Season 13 4-time champion:...
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Eugene Finerman, a writer from Chicago, Illinois
|
2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 winner: $25,600. 1990 Super...
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Kim Worth, a freelance writer and stand-up comedian from Venice, California
|
1998 Tournament of Champions 1st runner-up: $15,000. Season 13 4-time champion:...
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John LeDonne, a bookstore manager from Concord, New Hampshire
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"He was the last person to win 5 shows in 1990....
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Grace Veach, a librarian from Lakeland, Florida
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"After winning 5 games in 1997, she was the grand marshall...
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Andrew Watkins, a junior from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
|
2006 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: everyday847
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Lee Lassiter, a data modeler from Topeka, Kansas
|
"A 5-time winner from 2000, he used his winnings to take...
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Mike Thayer, a mathematics teacher from North Plainfield, New Jersey
|
"He was a junior at Rutgers University when he won the...
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Chris Miller, a retail specialist from Louisville, Kentucky
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"In 2004, he became a 5-time champion, and for Halloween, dressed...
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Whitney Prince, a sophomore from Maryville, Tennessee
|
2005 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500.
15 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Elaine Zollner, a physician from Glendale, California
|
"A winner of 5 shows in 1990, she used her Jeopardy!...
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Orlando Zambrano, a junior from Tampa, Florida
|
2005 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $5,000.
16 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Kelley Burd, a junior at West Virginia University from Bristol, West Virginia
|
2004 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000.
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Michael Todaro, a real estate broker originally from Los Angeles, California
|
Season 3 player (1986-11-07). Last name pronounced: \"Toh-DAH-ro\". Michael won $99,613...
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Mira Rabin, an attorney from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
|
Season 8 player (1991-12-10).
First name pronounced like \"MEER-ah\".
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Dan Oxman, a senior at the University of Maryland from South Orange, New Jersey
|
\"He was a senior from South Orange, New Jersey when he...
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Tim Cho, a senior at Columbia University from Champaign, Illinois
|
\"When he first appeared on Jeopardy!, he was a senior in...
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Patton Oswalt, a Grammy and Emmy Award-winning comedian from Portsmouth, Virginia
|
\"A Grammy and Emmy Award-winning comedian from Portsmouth, Virginia, he rose...
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Brenda Berstler, a homemaker from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
|
Season 4 2-time champion: $14,200. In Brenda's game 2 her total...
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Paul Croshier, a United States Marine staff sergeant from Camp Pendleton, California
|
1985 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $1,000. Season 1 5-time champion: $36,500....
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Neville Fogarty, an 11-year-old from Kingwood, Texas
|
\"This chess player is planning his career moves very carefully. From...
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Gord Brown, an editor and writer from Toronto, Ontario, Canada
|
Season 11 1-time champion: $11,100. Gord\'s full first name is Gordon....
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Rock Wayda, a bond analyst from Dana Point, California
|
Season 35 player (2018-10-24). Rock's real first name is Erik, but...
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Ken Jennings, the winner of 74 consecutive games from Seattle, Washington
|
2020 Jeopardy!: The Greatest of All Time winner: $1,000,000 + a...
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Aleithia Stephens, a course developer from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
|
Season 38 player (2022-07-11).
First name pronounced like "uh-LAY-thee-uh".
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Patricia Belcher, a clinical social worker from Los Angeles, California
|
Season 1 player (1985-05-01). Patricia's IMDb page. First name pronounced like...
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Do Park, a sportswriter from Minneapolis, Minnesota
|
Season 38 player (2021-12-20).
First name pronounced like "DOE".
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Tom Walsh, a writer from Washington, D.C.
|
2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Nifty Nine (players with byes into...
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Tom Walsh, a writer from Washington, D.C.
|
2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Nifty Nine (players with byes into...
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Stefan Sharkansky, a computer consultant originally from Madison, Wisconsin
|
Season 10 player (1994-06-08).
First name pronounced like \"STEF-in\".
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Catherine Ramen, a database developer and writer from New York, New York
|
2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 winner: $44,000. 1998 Tournament...
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Paul Croshier, a Marine Corps staff sergeant from Camp Pendleton, California
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1985 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $1,000. Season 1 5-time champion: $36,500....
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Andy Richter, from NBC\'s Late Night With Conan O\'Brien
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\"He\'s a first-rate second banana and the sidekick on NBC\'s Late...
|
|
Andy Richter, an actor/comedian from The Tonight Show
|
\"This multitalented actor/comedian is now back on the couch with Conan...
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Michalle Gould, a librarian from Laguna Beach, California
|
2023 Second Chance competition 1st runner-up: $20,000. Season 37 player (2021-03-12)....
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Michalle Gould, a librarian originally from Austin, Texas
|
2023 Second Chance competition 1st runner-up: $20,000. Season 37 player (2021-03-12)....
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Sidra Condron, a marketing manager from Phoenix, Arizona
|
Season 36 player (2020-04-21).
First name pronounced like "SEE-dra".
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Michael Menkhus, a data analyst from Kansas City, Missouri
|
2024 Champions Wildcard 2nd runner-up: $25,000. Season 39 2-time champion: $48,402...
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Trucle Nguyen, a senior from Falls Church, Virginia
|
1992 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $1,000.
First name pronounced like "tru-CLAY".
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Brendan Hunt, an actor from Chicago, Illinois
|
\"An actor from Chicago, Illinois, he began his career as a...
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|
Ben Ingram, an IT consultant originally from Florence, South Carolina
|
2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2019 All-Star Games member of...
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|
Ben Ingram, an IT consultant originally from Florence, South Carolina
|
2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2019 All-Star Games member of...
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|
George Zadorozny, a copyright lawyer from Tampa, Florida
|
Season 1 2-time champion: $23,800. George was introduced as a \"copyright...
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|
Ben Ingram, a business technology integration consultant from Lake Wylie, South Carolina
|
• 8-game champion • 2014 Tournament of Champions winner 2024 Jeopardy!...
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|
Frank Epstein, a police officer from Los Angeles, California
|
\"He was a 5-time champion in 1992, and is still serving...
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|
Ben Ingram, a business control specialist originally from Florence, South Carolina
|
2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2019 All-Star Games member of...
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|
Demeter Manning, a computer systems programmer from Woodland Hills, California
|
Season 4 player (1988-03-10):
First name pronounced like "DEH-meh-ter".
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Seth Wilson, a private events manager from Chicago, Illinois
|
• 12-game champion • Top 5 regular season wins 2019 All-Star...
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|
Ken Jennings, a writer from Seattle, Washington
|
• 74-game champion with longest winning streak • Total earnings over...
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|
Chuck Forrest, a lawyer from Bosnia and Herzegovina
|
2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2014 Battle of the Decades...
|
|
Rebecca Zoshak, a language specialist from State College, Pennsylvania
|
Season 34 1-time champion: $14,407 + $2,000. Rebecca returned to the...
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|
Julia Collins, an administrator of a female-centric website from Wilmette, Illinois
|
• 20-game champion • 2nd longest winning streak The official Jeopardy!...
|
|
Hannah Stires, a senior from St. John's College
|
1992 College Championship quarterfinalist: $1,000.
First name pronounced like "HAWN-nuh".
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|
Czerni Brasuell, a writer originally from New York City, New York
|
Season 2 player (1985-09-23). Subsequent to her appearance, Czerni spelled her...
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Jessica Stephens, a statistical research specialist from Nashville, Tennessee
|
2022 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2022 Second Chance competition winner:...
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|
Jessica Stephens, a statistical research specialist from Nashville, Tennessee
|
2022 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2022 Second Chance competition winner:...
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|
Monya De, a health journalist from Santa Monica, California
|
Season 36 player (2020-03-30). First name pronounced like "MONE-yah". Monya won...
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|
Franke Santos, an operations manager from North Hollywood, California
|
Season 30 player (2013-12-06).
First name pronounced like "FRANK-ee".
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|
Dan Pawson, a legislative aide from Boston, Massachusetts
|
2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2014 Battle of the Decades...
|
|
Lana Altman, a digital programming manager from Southington, Connecticut
|
Season 38 player (2022-04-06). First name pronounced like \"LAN-nuh\". Lana won...
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|
Danna Schoenberg, an attorney from New York City, New York
|
Season 7 player (1991-05-02).
First name pronounced like \"DAN-nuh\".
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Sreekar Madabushi, a junior from Basking Ridge, New Jersey
|
2023 High School Reunion Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2019 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist:...
|
|
Lucia Yang, a medical and doctoral student originally from San Diego, California
|
Season 38 player (2022-06-03).
First name pronounced like "LOO-shuh".
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Anneke Garcia, an instructional design consultant from Salt Lake City, Utah
|
2019 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 35 4-time champion: $104,497...
|
|
India Cooper, an actor and copy editor originally from Denver, New York
|
2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2005 Ultimate Tournament of...
|
|
Bill Pitassy, a labor attorney from Cranford, New Jersey
|
2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 1994 Tournament...
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|
Bill Pitassy, an attorney from Cranford, New Jersey
|
2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 1994 Tournament...
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|
India Cooper, an actor and copy editor originally from Denver, Colorado
|
2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2005 Ultimate Tournament of...
|
|
Dewi Harjanto, a computational biologist from Boston, Massachusetts
|
Season 36 player (2020-03-12).
First name pronounced like "DAY-wee".
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|
India Cooper, an actor and copy editor from New York City, New York
|
\"A semifinalist in the Tournament of Champions in 1992, now an...
|
|
Xanni Brown, a postdoctoral researcher originally from Cincinnati, Ohio
|
2024 Champions Wildcard quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2023 Second Chance competition winner: $35,000...
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|
India Cooper, an actor and copy editor originally from Denver, Colorado
|
2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2005 Ultimate Tournament of...
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|
Xanni Brown, a Ph.D. student from New Haven, Connecticut
|
2024 Champions Wildcard quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2023 Second Chance competition winner: $35,000...
|
|
Xanni Brown, a postdoctoral researcher originally from Cincinnati, Ohio
|
2024 Champions Wildcard quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2023 Second Chance competition winner: $35,000...
|
|
Carolyn Fox, a student from Redondo Beach, California
|
Season 3 player (1986-10-24).
Spelling of first name uncertain.
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|
Muffy Morris, a sophomore from Swarthmore, Pennsylvania
|
1992 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $1,000. Sister of 1989 Teen Tournament semifinalist...
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Kurt Arthur, a quality specialist from St. Louis, Missouri
|
Season 3 player (1986-10-23).
Spelling of first name uncertain.
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|
Steve Moulds, a playwright from Louisville, Kentucky
|
2021 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 36 3-time champion: $85,603...
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|
Kirsten Greenwell, a communications associate from Washington, D.C.
|
Season 38 player (2022-01-28).
First name pronounced like \"KEER-sten\".
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|
Darryle Pollock, a writer and mother originally from Miami, Florida
|
Season 1 player (1985-05-30).
First name pronounced like \"DARE-ul\".
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Beve Byer, a controller from Framingham, Massachusetts
|
Season 3 player (1987-05-29).
First name pronounced like \"BEV\".
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LaKedra Pam, a physician from Baton Rouge, Louisiana
|
Season 34 2-time champion: $32,800 + $2,000. First name pronounced like...
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|
Mikel Borg, a firefighter from Austin, Texas
|
Season 3 player (1987-06-15). First name pronounced like \"MIKE-ul\". Mikel clearly...
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|
Scottie Ross, a systems analyst from Mill Valley, California
|
Season 3 player (1986-10-20). Spelling of first name uncertain. Scottie indicated...
|
|
Josh Hill, a network engineer from North Little Rock, Arkansas
|
2019 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 34 7-time champion: $163,721...
|
|
Bodil Wiggins, a technical editor from Arlington, Texas
|
Season 1 player (1985-05-22).
First name pronounced like \"bo-DILL\".
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Jeff Smyth, an audio-visual manager from Richmond, Virginia
|
Season 3 player (1986-10-20).
Spelling of first and last names uncertain.
|
|
Lanie Henderson, from Spokane, Washington
|
Season 6 player (1989-12-20). The introduction was missing from the recording...
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Rani Peffer, a corporate finance manager from Crittenden, Kentucky
|
2014 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 30 5-time champion: $68,701...
|
|
James Fraser, a naval aviator from Norfolk, Virginia
|
2022 Second Chance 1st runner-up: $20,000. Season 37 player (2021-03-10). James...
|
|
Matthew Hubbard, a computer game designer from Palo Alto, California
|
Season 1 3-time champion: $25,550. In his first appearance, Matthew was...
|
|
Leslye Laderman, an employee benefits attorney from Creve Coeur, Missouri
|
Season 34 player (2018-04-30).
First name pronounced like the name "Leslie".
|
|
Regan Read, an ESL teacher from Gardena, California
|
Season 37 player (2020-11-02).
First name pronounced like "REE-gun".
|
|
James Fraser, a naval aviator from Newport Beach, California
|
2022 Second Chance 1st runner-up: $20,000. Season 37 player (2021-03-10). James...
|
|
D\'Art Ferris, a computer technician from Montrose, California
|
Season 2 player (1986-05-12).
First name pronounced like \"DAR\".
|
|
Liz McCarthy, a communications executive from South Orange, New Jersey
|
Season 34 player (2018-03-08). Liz\'s mother won about $50,000 on Tic-Tac-Dough...
|
|
Signe Peterson Fourmy, a Ph.D. candidate from Austin, Texas
|
Season 36 player (2020-02-26).
First name pronounced like "SIG-nee".
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Shriya Yarlagadda, a sophomore at Harvard University from Grand Blanc, Michigan
|
"She first appeared in 2019 as a Teen Tournament semifinalist from...
|
|
Anneke Garcia, an instructional design consultant from Salt Lake City, Utah
|
2019 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 35 4-time champion: $104,497...
|
|
Teagan O'Sullivan, a first-year student at American University from Watertown, Massachusetts
|
"A high school freshman from Charlotte, North Carolina, when she became...
|
|
Cecil Rose, a computer programmer originally from Sheffield, Alabama
|
Season 5 player (1989-04-14). Cecil died 2015-05-14. Cecil appeared on The...
|
|
Ike Barinholtz, a producer, writer, and actor from Chicago, Illinois
|
2024 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. 2022 Primetime Celebrity Jeopardy! winner:...
|
|
Nina Kleinberg, a midwife from Venice, California
|
Season 2 1-time champion: $6,399. Nina was introduced as a midwife...
|
|
Ike Barinholtz, an actor from Chicago, Illinois
|
\"An actor from Chicago, Illinois, he appeared on Fox\'s Mad TV,...
|
|
Leah Bailey, a homemaker from Minneapolis, Minnesota
|
Season 10 1-time champion: $2,800.
First name pronounced like \"LEE-ah\".
|
|
Sreekar Madabushi, a junior at the Georgia Institute of Technology from Basking Ridge, New Jersey
|
"In 2019, he was a high school junior at Basking Ridge,...
|
|
Michael Rankins, a minister and writer from Rohnert Park, California
|
\"A 5-show winner from 1988, he has been a minister with...
|
|
Maya Wright, a senior at Emory University from Peachtree City, Georgia
|
"She first played in the 2018 Teen Tournament, and became a...
|
|
Leslie Frates, a Spanish teacher from Hayward, California
|
\"A Jeopardy! champion in 1991, she\'s now a Spanish teacher listed...
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|
Rohit Kataria, a junior at Vanderbilt University from Wheelersburg, Ohio
|
"In his first appearance on Jeopardy!, he was a high schooler...
|
|
Korin Kormick, an opera singer from Jersey City, New Jersey
|
Season 30 player (2013-10-17). First name pronounced with the accent on...
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|
Justin Bolsen, a public policy economics student at Brown University from Canton, Georgia
|
2024 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. \"He was a high school...
|
|
Mario Cantone, an actor and comedian from Sex and the City
|
\"He played Anthony Marentino, the wedding planner with an attitude, on...
|
|
Melis Sahin-Collins, a data analyst from Redondo Beach, California
|
Season 37 1-time champion: $2,000 + $1,000. First name pronounced like...
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|
Tom Smolich, a Catholic priest originally from Sacramento, California
|
Season 5 player (1989-04-11). Season 6 3-time champion: $39,802. Last name...
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Seth Wilson, a Ph.D. candidate and adjunct professor from Nacogdoches, Texas
|
2019 All-Star Games member of first-eliminated Team Julia: a share of...
|
|
Tom Smolich, a Catholic priest originally from Sacramento, California
|
Season 5 player (1989-04-11). Season 6 3-time champion: $39,802. Last name...
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|
Rose Schaefer, a junior from Portland, Oregon
|
2012 Teen Tournament 1st runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $36,000. 16 at...
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|
Mary Murrell, an anthropologist from Madison, Wisconsin
|
Season 30 1-time champion: $7,100 + $2,000. Last name pronounced with...
|
|
Rich Hansen, an attorney from Chicago, Illinois
|
Season 30 player (2013-10-01).
|
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Anna Siomopoulos, a sophomore from Cornell University
|
1989 College Championship quarterfinalist: $1,000.
First name pronounced like "ON-nah".
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Gauravi Shah, a nuclear engineer and improv comedian from Cincinnati, Ohio
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Season 36 1-time champion: $25,601 + $2,000.
First name pronounced like "GOR-vee".
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Tom Nichols, a professor originally from Chicopee, Massachusetts
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\"A five-time champion in 1994, he used his winnings for a...
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Claudia Perry, a pop music critic from San Jose California
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Season 13 player (1996-09-11). 2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000....
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Zhe Lu, a software engineer from Boston, Massachusetts
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Season 38 player (2022-04-12). Husband of Season 17 1-time champion Kara...
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Nathan Berger, a restaurateur and sommelier from South Portland, Maine
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Season 36 1-time champion: $11,999 + $1,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Kathe Oliver, a teacher from Madison, New Jersey
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Season 7 player (1990-12-18).
First name pronounced like \"KATH-ee\".
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Tanya Parrott, a librarian from Gainesville, Virginia
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Season 39 player (2023-02-06).
First name pronounced like "TAWN-yuh".
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Yian Chen, an anesthesiologist from Menlo Park, California
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Season 38 player (2022-04-01).
First name pronounced like "EE-an".
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Lary Ohlson, a stage actor from Van Nuys, California
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Season 1 1-time champion: $3,200. First name pronounced like \"Larry\". Lary...
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Karen Blank, a publications manager originally from Hinsdale, Illinois
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Season 6 player (1990-06-19).
First name pronounced like "CAR-en".
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Brian Sanders, a sales representative from Los Angeles, California
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Season 2 1-time champion: $6,000. Alex—potentially mistakenly—referred to Brian as a...
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Kate Veksler, a senior from Lower Merion High School
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1990 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $1,000.
Alex gave Kate's full first name as Ekaterina.
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Greg Miller, a sales representative from Santa Ana, California
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Season 2 1-time champion: $9,000. Greg was introduced as a sales...
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Max Davison, a writer from Studio City, California
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2023 Second Chance competition semifinalist: $2,000. Season 39 player (2023-01-10). Son...
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Max Davison, a writer from Studio City, California
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2023 Second Chance competition semifinalist: $2,000. Season 39 player (2023-01-10). Son...
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Gordon Nash, a teacher originally from New York City, New York
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Season 7 3-time champion: $41,000. Gordon was introduced as \"a teacher\"...
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Jon Gucinski, a security engineer originally from Naperville, Illinois
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Season 29 player (2013-03-06).
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Zeke Sevilla, Jr., a criminal lawyer from Vienna, Virginia
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1990 Super Jeopardy! quarterfinalist: $5,000. 1987 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $1,000....
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Madeline Birkner, a college access program coordinator from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Season 37 player (2021-08-06).
First name pronounced like "MAD-eh-lynn".
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Dylan Wint, a neurologist and psychiatrist from Las Vegas, Nevada
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Season 29 1-time champion: $7,199 + $1,000.
First name pronounced like "DY-lan".
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Denele Hamada, a compensation analyst from Honolulu, Hawaii
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Season 20 player (2004-07-22).
KJL game 37.
First name pronounced like "den-ELL".
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Susan Blum, an attorney from Fairfield, Connecticut
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Season 2 1-time champion: $18,000. At the end of her first...
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Amit Kurlekar, an attorney from Oakland, California
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Season 28 1-time champion: $16,801 + $2,000.
First name pronounced like "ah-MEETH".
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Liese Tamburrino, an international sales manager from Pahrump, Nevada
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Season 20 player (2004-07-21).
KJL game 36.
First name pronounced like "LEE-suh".
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Christy Gibson, a family medicine physician from Issaquah, Washington
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Season 28 player (2012-07-09). Christy's ending score of -$6,400 was the...
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Max Levaren, a personal success coach from San Diego, California
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2003 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 19 4-time champion:...
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Rick Rosner, a bar bouncer originally from Boulder, Colorado
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Season 7 player (1991-01-16). Appearing as \"Richard Rosner\" from Los Angeles,...
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Niall Prendergast, a medical student originally from Norwich, Vermont
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Season 28 player (2011-12-22).
First name pronounced like "NEEL".
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Dana Rosner, a sales manager from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Season 37 player (2021-07-29).
First name pronounced like "DAWN-nuh".
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Ivan Plis, a magazine editor from Washington, D.C.
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Season 34 1-time champion: $23,200 + $2,000.
First name pronounced like \"ee-VAHN\".
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Tove Abrams, a singer and videographer from West Sayville, New York
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Season 11 player (1995-03-23).
First name pronounced like \"TOE-vah\".
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Cari Champion, a journalist from Pasadena, California
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"A journalist from Pasadena, California, she hosted ESPN First Take before...
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Do Park, a sportswriter from Minneapolis, Minnesota
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2022 Second Chance semifinalist: $2,000. Season 38 player (2021-12-20). First name...
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Patrick Pearce, a product specialist from Fountain Valley, California
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Season 37 player (2021-07-26). Patrick's ending score of -$7,400 is the...
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Silas Crawford, an attorney from Jacksonville, Florida
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Season 28 player (2011-12-15).
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Stefan Stenroos, a technical trainer from Aliso Viejo, California
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Season 38 player (2022-03-01).
First name pronounced like "STEH-fawn".
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Kate Wilson, a high school AP English teacher from Montgomery, Alabama
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"She is a top-10 AP English language teacher at Alabama's number-one...
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Karen Gasperino, an administrative assistant from Las Vegas, Nevada
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Season 20 player (2004-06-15).
KJL game 10.
First name pronounced like \"KAHR-en\".
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Guil Prickette, a licensed professional counselor from Anchorage, Alaska
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Season 25 player (2008-11-25).
First name pronounced like "GILL".
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Chelan Allen, a home and family manager from Portland, Oregon
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Season 33 player (2017-04-26). First name pronounced like \"chuh-LANN\". Chelan said...
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Beryl Arbit, a legal assistant from Encino, California
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Season 2 4-time champion: $41,001.
First name pronounced like \"BURL\".
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Jia-Rui Cook, a media relations specialist and science writer from Los Angeles, California
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Season 28 player (2012-06-29).
First name pronounced like "jyah-RYEE".
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Jay Schrader, a junior from Lexington, Kentucky
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2008-B Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000. Older brother of 2012 Teen Tournament...
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Lynde Smith, a server from Louisville, Colorado
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Season 38 player (2022-02-21).
First name pronounced like "LIN-dee".
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Anna-Lise Santella, an editor and musicologist from Trout Valley, Illinois
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Season 28 2-time champion: $21,199 + $1,000.
First name pronounced like "AH-nah-LEE-sah".
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Betty Furdell, a college professor from Jacksonville, Florida
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Season 3 player (1987-04-15). During her contestant interview, Betty was announced...
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Jean Grewe, a typesetter from Oak Park, Illinois
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 1994 Tournament...
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Ed Toutant, an engineer from Austin, Texas
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Season 6 1-time champion: $11,401. Ed appeared on The Challengers in...
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Deniz Cordell, a freelance writer and musical director from West Chesterfield, New Hampshire
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Season 28 player (2012-06-25).
First name pronounced like "Dennis".
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Aniket Dehadrai, a senior at M.I.T. in Cambridge, Massachusetts
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2022 National College Championship quarterfinalist: $10,000. Aniket was majoring in chemistry...
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Aarin Martinez, a 12-year-old seventh grader from Torrance, California
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"This future journalist wants to write for National Geographic. From Torrance,...
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Stu Weaver, a singer/songwriter from St. Augustine, Florida
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Season 28 player (2012-06-14).
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Greg Haroutunian, a law clerk from Montvale, New Jersey
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Season 29 player (2013-04-10). Greg's full first name was listed on...
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Brad Tytel, a global health consultant from Brooklyn, New York
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Season 29 player (2013-04-11). Brad's full first name was listed on...
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Sara Glidden, a college theater manager from West Roxbury, Massachusetts
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Season 19 2-time champion: $27,950 + $2,000. Johnny Gilbert misspoke and...
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Jessamine Price, a graduate student in creative writing from Greenbelt, Maryland
|
Season 28 3-time champion: $26,803 + $2,000.
First name pronounced like "JESS-min".
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Lara Owens, a middle school teacher from Amesbury, Massachusetts
|
Season 38 player (2022-02-15).
First name pronounced like "LAIR-uh".
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Steve Van Noord, a third grade teacher from Bellflower, California
|
Season 28 player (2012-06-13).
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Daniel Pasquini-Salazar, a non-profit project coordinator from Chicago, Illinois
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Season 29 player (2012-10-02). Johnny and Alex pronounced Daniel's first name...
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Cindy Peterson, a crossing guard from Geneva, Illinois
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Season 27 player (2011-04-05).
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Brenda Clark, a sales manager from Phenix City, Alabama
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Season 3 1-time champion: $7,100. In her first appearance, Brenda was...
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Anjali Salvador, a lawyer from Houston, Texas
|
Season 39 player (2023-04-21).
First name pronounced like \"UHN-juh-lee\".
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Liz Feltner, a senior at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts
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2022 National College Championship 2nd runner-up: $50,000. Liz was majoring in...
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Karan Takhar, a senior from North Attleborough, Massachusetts
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2008-B Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000. First name pronounced like "KUR-run". Jeopardy...
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Christopher Short, a pub trivia editor from Crawfordsville, Indiana
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2011 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 27 6-time champion: $94,752...
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Justin Hofstetter, a sixth and seventh grade language arts and social studies teacher from Kansas City, Missouri
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"This sixth and seventh grade teacher is in his first year...
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Tyler Vandenberg, a Marine officer currently serving in Stuttgart, Germany
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2023 Champions Wildcard 1st runner-up: $50,000. Season 37 2-time champion: $41,400...
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Jonathan Groff, a writer and producer for television from Los Angeles, California
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\"A 5-show winner in 1995, he\'s now a writer and producer...
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Tyler Vandenberg, a Marine officer from Washington, D.C.
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2023 Champions Wildcard 1st runner-up: $50,000. Season 37 2-time champion: $41,400...
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Buddy Wright, an operations engineer from Fort Worth, Texas
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2011 Tournament of Champions 2nd runner-up: $50,000. Season 26 4-time champion:...
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Nate Rice, a high school ACT prep teacher from Catlettsburg, Kentucky
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"This is his first year in the family business. His mother's...
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Roger Craig, a computer scientist from Newark, Delaware
|
2019 All-Star Games member of wildcard-match 2nd-place Team Austin: a share...
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Jim Virtel, a graduate student of philosophy from Lemont, Illinois
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Season 28 player (2012-05-25). Brother of Season 31 player Louis Virtel....
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J Tarter-Fox, a customer service representative from Cincinnati, Ohio
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Season 29 1-time champion: $33,300 + $1,000. As indicated by his...
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Eddie Huang, a chef and restaurateur from Washington, D.C.
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"A chef and restaurateur from Washington, D.C., his 2013 memoir was...
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Kara Spak, a newspaper reporter from Chicago, Illinois
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2011 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
Season 27 5-time champion: $83,401 + $2,000.
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Jay Rhee, an oncologist from Annapolis, Maryland
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2011 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 27 5-time champion:...
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Matt Olson, a sophomore at Stanford University from Berkeley, California
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2012 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. 20 at the time of the...
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Joan Kantor, a controller originally from Brooklyn, New York
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Season 1 player (1985-04-26). Joan's ending score of -$5,100 is the...
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Jasmine Manansala, a junior at Rice University in Houston, Texas
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2022 National College Championship quarterfinalist: $10,000. Jasmine was majoring in computer...
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Frank Ford, a teacher from Santa Monica, California
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Season 3 2-time champion: $15,400. Frank was introduced as a teacher...
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Lanny Springs, a retiree and high school coach from Ruxton, Maryland
|
Season 25 player (2008-11-07).
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Bob Beers, an attorney from Fairfax, Virginia
|
Season 4 3-time champion: $41,799. Bob's $10,000 Daily Double wager in...
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Greer Mackebee, a senior at Duke University from Knoxville, Tennessee
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2012 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. 22 at the time of the...
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Moira Smith, an accountant from Washington, D.C.
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Season 39 player (2022-09-29).
First name pronounced like "MORE-uh".
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Neha Embar, a 12-year-old from Alpharetta, Georgia
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"No kidding--she wants to be a pediatrician when she grows up....
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Sarah Bart, a senior at Goucher College from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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2012 College Championship 1st runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $50,000. 22 at...
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Sonalee Rau, a life sciences consultant from New York, New York
|
Season 39 player (2022-09-29).
First name pronounced like "soh-NAWL-ee".
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Hallie Fox, a 12-year-old from Ypsilanti, Michigan
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"It's elementary. She wants to be a teacher when she's older....
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Zack Terrill, a senior at Vanderbilt University from Winter Springs, Florida
|
2012 College Championship 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $25,000. 21 at...
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Anderson Cooper, a news anchor and correspondent from CNN
|
"He anchors his own prime-time news show, a syndicated daytime talk...
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Nil Jones, a developer consultant from Portland, Oregon
|
Season 33 player (2017-03-02).
First name pronounced like "NEEL".
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Gabor Vari, a psychiatrist from Los Angeles, California
|
Season 28 2-time champion: $58,402+ $2,000. In his first game, Gabor...
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Chris Wallace, a TV host from Fox News Sunday
|
"In March, this Fox News anchor was honored by the National...
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Simu Liu, an actor from Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
|
"An actor from Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, he starred in the Canadian...
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Dana Perino, a TV host from Fox News Channel's The Five
|
"White House press secretary under George W. Bush, she now appears...
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Sara Lefort, a third grade teacher from San Jose, California
|
Season 38 player (2022-02-04). First name pronounced like "SAH-rah" (with a...
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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, a Basketball Hall of Famer and all-time leading scorer from the NBA
|
"In January, the State Department named this NBA Hall of Famer...
|
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Ego Nwodim, a comedian from Baltimore, Maryland
|
"A comedian from Baltimore, Maryland, her one-woman show enjoyed a sold-out...
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Lizzie O'Leary, an aviation and regulation correspondent from CNN
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"She broke the news that Chrysler would file for Chapter 11...
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Ana Peso, a high school librarian from Wheeling, Illinois
|
Season 29 player (2012-12-31).
First name pronounced like "AH-na".
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Dorian Ellis, a chef from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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Season 1 1-day champion: $8,999. Dorian was returned to the show...
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Bruce Ikawa, a college professor from Hillsdale, Michigan
|
\"He says his 5 wins in 1990 increases his credibility with...
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Carl Bradshaw, a financial manager from St. Louis, Missouri
|
Season 27 2-time champion: $17,899 + $2,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: Titmouse
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Jesse Roach, a senior from Aiken, South Carolina
|
1993 Teen Tournament first runner-up: $12,600.
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Tim Kuehn, a theatrical designer from Venice, California
|
Season 27 1-time champion: $18,201 + $1,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Michael Wing, a minister originally from Roseburg, Oregon
|
Season 1 1-time champion: $4,300. Michael was announced as "originally from...
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Ted Simmons, an executive compensation consultant from Chicago, Illinois
|
Season 28 player (2011-10-06).
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Paul Croshier, a Marine Corps staff sergeant stationed at Camp Pendleton, California
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1985 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $1,000. Season 1 5-time champion: $36,500....
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Jim Gilligan, an assistant professor of English education originally from New York, New York
|
Season 37 1-time champion: $24,401 + $2,000. Jim was the last...
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Erin Hart, a junior from Benton Harbor, Michigan
|
2011 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000. 16 at the time of the...
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Raynell Cooper, a senior from Rockville, Maryland
|
2011 Teen Tournament winner (semifinalist by wildcard): $75,000. 16 at the...
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Cosi Audi, a junior from North Canton, Ohio
|
2011 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
16 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Anshika Niraj, a sophomore from Beachwood, Ohio
|
2012 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
16 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Raya Elias-Pushett, a junior from Aventura, Florida
|
2011 Teen Tournament 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $20,851. First name...
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Clint Swett, a newspaper copy editor from Sacramento, California
|
Season 2 3-time champion: $17,200. Clint was the first champion after...
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Kyrie O'Connor, a newspaper editor from West Hartford
|
Season 13 1-time champion: $10,201.
First name pronounced like "KEE-ree".
|
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Adam Perrotta, a writer originally from Saratoga Springs, New York
|
Season 28 player (2011-10-07).
|
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Saidi Chen, an attorney for a legal nonprofit from New York, New York
|
Season 29 player (2012-12-12).
First name pronounced like "SIGH-dee".
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Ken Jennings, a 74-game champion from Seattle, Washington
|
"In 2004, his record-breaking 74-game win streak set a standard for...
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Cigus Vanni, a psychologist from Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania
|
1989 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $5,000. Season 5 5-time champion: $40,400...
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Kerr Houston, a professor of art history from Baltimore, Maryland
|
Season 28 player (2012-04-20).
First name pronounced like "KUR".
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Aleisa Farrington, a mother and cook from Dover, New Hampshire
|
Season 28 player (2011-10-03).
First name pronounced like "ah-LEE-sah".
|
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Katia Noll, a director of global food safety from Milford, Connecticut
|
Season 34 player (2017-12-07).
First name pronounced like \"KAHT-yah\".
|
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Arianna Kelly, a law student from Somerville, Massachusetts
|
Season 24 player (2008-01-30). Season 24 player (2008-07-08). Sister of Season...
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Jacque Keller, a consultant from Dallas, Texas
|
Season 18 player (2002-07-17).
First name pronounced like "JACK-ee."
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Warren Usui, a computer programmer from Pacific Palisades, California
|
Season 19 3-time champion: $59,990 + $2,000. Warren appeared as a...
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Ric Leach, a training director from Miami, Florida
|
Season 24 2-time champion: $32,800 + $2,000. In his first game,...
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Bill Kinnaird, a home builder from Louisville, Kentucky
|
Season 20 player (2004-05-17).
Last name pronounced like "kin-ARD".
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Mari Hanley, a junior at Stetson University from Lighthouse Point, Florida
|
2017 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
First name pronounced like "MAH-ree".
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Richard Mason, a roboticist from Pasadena, California
|
Season 18 2-time champion: $50,600 + $2,000. Husband of Season 14...
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FeiFei Jiang, a law student originally from Olathe, Kansas
|
Season 30 player (2014-05-29).
First name pronounced like "FEE-FEE".
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Alex Weathers, a sophomore at MIT from Greenville, South Carolina
|
1998 College Championship first runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $16,199.
|
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Fred Nelson, a university professor from Fresno, California
|
2023 Champions Wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 37 1-time champion: $20,001 +...
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Felice Bogus, a grad student originally from Norfolk, Virginia
|
Season 9 2-time champion: $26,801.
First name pronounced like "fell-LEASE".
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Tim Russert, a moderator from Meet the Press
|
"He's the Washington Bureau Chief of NBC News and the longtime...
|
|
Seth Wilson, a Ph.D. candidate from Chicago, Illinois
|
2019 All-Star Games member of first-eliminated Team Julia: a share of...
|
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Keith Olbermann, a news anchor from MSNBC
|
"In 2004, this veteran reporter will provide extensive coverage of the...
|
|
Susan Sweet, a former basketball coach originally from Toledo, Ohio
|
Season 1 player (1984-11-09). Johnny Gilbert stumbled over Susan\'s introduction, calling...
|
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Ari Fleischer, a former White House Press Secretary from the current Bush administration
|
"For the first two years of the current Bush administration, he...
|
|
Gautam Mukunda, a professor from Boston, Massachusetts
|
Season 31 1-time champion: $24,401 + $1,000.
First name pronounced like "GO-thum".
|
|
Katie King, a junior at the University of Kentucky from Charleston, West Virginia
|
1999 College Championship first runner-up: $15,000.
|
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Aaron Brown, an Emmy Award-winning newsman from CNN's popular primetime newscast
|
"A journalist for over 25 years, he now anchors CNN's popular...
|
|
Rachel "Steve" Cooke, a senior from Fishers, Indiana
|
2008-A Teen Tournament 1st runner-up: $25,000. 17 at the time of...
|
|
Maria Bartiromo, a business anchor from CNBC
|
2004 Power Players Week player (2004-05-11). Charities: National Italian American Foundation...
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Zane Ice, a 12-year-old from West Palm Beach, Florida
|
"He wants to build a business in emerging technologies to help...
|
|
Bob Woodward, an assistant managing editor from The Washington Post
|
2004 Power Players Week player (2004-05-10).
Charity: Sidwell Friends School.
|
|
Peggy Noonan, a contributing editor from The Wall Street Journal
|
2004 Power Players Week player (2004-05-10).
Charity: The Sisters of Life.
|
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Umiko Post, a stay-at-home mom from Peoria, Illinois
|
Season 18 1-time champion: $11,800. First name pronounced like "yoo-MEE-ko". Umiko's...
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Naren Tallapragada, a junior from Burke, Virginia
|
2008-A Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000. 16 at the time of the...
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Rohan Kapileshwari, a senior at the University of Texas at Austin from Winston-Salem, North Carolina
|
\"This Teen Tournament semifinalist first competed in 2018. He\'s now in...
|
|
Tucker Carlson, an author and co-host from Crossfire
|
2004 Power Players Week player (2004-05-10). Charities: American Camping Association &...
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Anne Boyd, a freelance writer from Los Angeles, California
|
2004 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 20 4-time champion: $84,600...
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Rhea Sinha, a Cornell University graduate from Chatham, New Jersey
|
\"She first appeared as a high schooler from Chatham, New Jersey,...
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Dave Sikula, an Internet search editor from Pacifica, California
|
Season 24 1-time champion: $15,000 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Mark Singer, an attorney and Sunday school teacher from Los Angeles, California
|
Season 1 2-time champion: $7,350. Mark was introduced as \"an attorney...
|
|
Leah Blumenfeld, a political science professor from Miami, Florida
|
Season 30 player (2014-05-19).
First name pronounced like "LEE-ah".
|
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Jean Grewe, a typesetter from Oak Park, Illinois
|
2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 1994 Tournament...
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Than Hedman, a freshman from University of Colorado-Boulder
|
2008 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 19 and from Denver, CO at...
|
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Peggi Malys, a medical student from Orlando, Florida
|
Season 5 player (1989-01-10). Alex introduced her as Peggi Margaret Malys...
|
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Tucker Dunn, an ESL teacher from Tucson, Arizona
|
Season 33 3-time champion: $39,999 + $1,000. In his first appearance,...
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Jack Ford, a trial attorney and Emmy Award-winning journalist from the Today show
|
"A successful trial attorney and Emmy Award-winning journalist; he's now the...
|
|
Stephanie Hull, a graduate student of philosophy from Columbia, Missouri
|
Season 31 player (2015-03-12). Stephanie's ending score of -$6,800 was the...
|
|
Pat Schroeder, a former congresswoman from the Association of American Publishers
|
"Former congresswoman, member of the Women's Hall of Fame and current...
|
|
Trish Ranney, a senior from San Jose, California
|
1999-A Teen Tournament first runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $17,600. 17 at...
|
|
Babatope Ogunmola, a sample specialist originally from Buffalo, New York
|
Season 24 1-time champion: $8,400 + $1,000. First name pronounced like...
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|
Al Franken, an author and comedian from Lateline
|
"His latest book hit the New York Times bestseller list in...
|
|
Noel Steere, a systems analyst from Chicago, Illinois
|
Season 18 player (2002-03-26).
First name pronounced to rhyme with "bowl".
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Ted Cooperstein, a lawyer originally from Potomac, Maryland
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Season 4 4-time champion: $32,500. Ted won $10,801 in his first...
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Elissa Burr, a children's book author originally from Annandale, New Jersey
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Season 30 player (2014-05-02).
First name prounced like "eh-LEASE-ah".
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Arianna Kelly, a law student from Somerville, Massachusetts
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Season 24 player (2008-01-30). Season 24 player (2008-07-08). Sister of Season...
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Heather Chapman, a news assistant from Lexington, Kentucky
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Season 24 player (2008-01-04). Heather appeared on Master Minds on 2020-05-07....
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Leatrice Potter, from Olney, Illinois
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"This published poet likes to read at any free moment and...
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Julia Collins, a 20-time Jeopardy! champion from Kenilworth, Illinois
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2019 All-Star Games captain of first-eliminated Team Julia: a share of...
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Paul Thomas, a theater technician from Hollywood, Florida
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Season 24 1-time champion: $32,001 + $2,000. Paul won his first...
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Chuck Todd, a political director and host from NBC News and NBC's Meet the Press
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"He is the political director of NBC News, the host of...
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Mai Kulkarni, an operations manager from Macon, Georgia
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Season 32 player (2015-09-22).
First name pronounced like "MAY".
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Tom Morris, a retailer and student from Irvine, California
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2009 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 24 4-time champion: $100,801...
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Brianne Archer, an environmental engineer from Bellflower, California
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Season 31 player (2015-07-22). First name pronounced like "Brian". Brianne won...
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Rani Peffer, a corporate finance manager from Crittenden, Kentucky
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2014 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 30 5-time champion: $68,701...
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Nathalie Szilagyi, a physician from Meriden, Connecticut
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Season 33 player (2016-12-29).
First name pronounced with a "TH" sound.
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Bill Wray, an institutional investor from Marietta, Georgia
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Season 3 player (1987-07-03). Bill's mother appeared on Jeopardy! in 1969,...
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Darryl Scott, an Air Force lieutenant colonel originally from Washington, D.C.
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Season 9 2-time champion: $13,402 + the Jeopardy! '92 home game....
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Gwynne Ash, a university professor from Austin, Texas
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Season 24 1-time champion: $22,400 + $2,000. Gwynne unintentionally tied with...
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Jacqui Sukie, a worker's compensation consultant from Akron, Ohio
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Season 18 player (2001-11-21).
Jacqui's first name is pronounced like "Jackie."
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Julia Collins, a supply chain professional from Kenilworth, Illinois
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2019 All-Star Games captain of first-eliminated Team Julia: a share of...
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Eamon Blake, a police lieutenant from New York, New York
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Season 18 player (2001-11-21).
Eamon's first name is pronounced like "A-mon."
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Michael Shutterly, a bank officer from Elkridge, Maryland
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Season 4 4-time champion: $49,200. Michael won $500,000 appearing on Who...
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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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Siobhan Quinlan, an Italian instructor and study abroad director from Lexington, Massachusetts
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Season 32 player (2016-07-15).
First name pronounced like "shuh-BAHN".
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Pat Tortorello, a corrections officer from Belleville, New Jersey
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Season 16 1-time champion: $10,200. Pat was the first contestant eliminated...
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Cait Murphy, an editor originally from Cos Cob, Connecticut
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Season 22 player (2006-06-28).
First name pronounced like "KAT".
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Dan Royles, a senior from Chula Vista, California
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2002 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500. Dan was 17 at the time...
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Leigh Hall, an executive assistant from Los Angeles, California
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Season 22 player (2006-06-19).
First name pronounced like "LEE".
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Amanda Trujillo, a junior from Carson, California
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2001 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500.
17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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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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Lindsey Henry, a 1st grade teacher from Waco, Texas
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2017 Teachers Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. At the time of the Teachers...
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Monikka Mann, an innovation project manager from Katy, Texas
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Season 32 player (2016-07-26). Monikka won $10,000 on Who Wants to...
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Paige Feldman, a sophomore from St. Louis, Missouri
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2001 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500. 16 at the time of the...
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Bugs Twocock, a civil servant from Victoria, British Columbia
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Season 6 player (1989-10-02).
Bugs's real first name is Martin.
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Ken Jennings, a writer from Seattle, Washington
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"He was a software engineer living in Salt Lake City, Utah,...
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Alexis Stephens, a senior from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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2001 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $5,000.
15 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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David Tiemann, a high school teacher from Brunswick, Maine
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1993 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $1,000. Season 9 3-time champion: $37,999....
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Lan Djang, a business analyst from Toronto, Canada
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Elite Eighteen (Round 2 winners) member:...
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Quyen Luu, a recent college graduate from Ventura, California
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Season 18 player (2002-03-01).
First name pronounced like "QUINN."
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Andrew Garen, a project manager from Austin, Texas
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 2001 Tournament...
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Cindy Stowell, a science content developer from Austin, Texas
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Season 33 6-time champion: $103,803 + $2,000. Cindy died 2016-12-05, before...
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Kim Vu, an international development project manager from Washington, D.C.
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Season 32 player (2016-03-21). First name pronounced like "KEEM". Older brother...
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Roger Christensen, a registered nurse and pre-med student from Los Angeles, California
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Season 18 2-time champion: $42,300. In his first two games, Roger...
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David Bitkower, a judicial law clerk from New York, New York
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Season 18 1-time champion: $9,599 + $1,000. In his first game...
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Tony Burrell, an attorney from Ashburn, Virginia
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Season 18 player (2002-06-28). Tony returned about 2 years after his...
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Lucia Geng, a junior from Great Neck, New York
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2016 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
First name pronounced like "loo-SEE-ah".
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Roberta Hyman, a manufacturer from Atlantic City, New Jersey
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Season 10 player (1993-09-29). Roberta won $17,500 on Trump Card in...
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Bob Blake, an actuary from Vancouver, British Columbia
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"An actuary from Vancouver, British Columbia, Bob Blake, who has won...
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Luis Sandoval, a production scheduler from Los Angeles, California
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Season 22 player (2006-04-18).
First name pronounced like "LOO-ees".
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Gigi Gilman, a homemaker and attorney from Seattle, Washington
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Season 22 1-time champion: $13,000 + $1,000. Gigi's actual first name...
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Michael Falk, a meteorologist from Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2006 Tournament of Champions...
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Bob Mesko, an arts administrator from Denver, Colorado
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2006 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 22 5-time champion:...
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Claudia Perry, a pop music critic from San Jose, California
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2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2002 Million Dollar Masters...
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Matt Sojot, a firefighter from Mililani, Hawaii
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Season 23 player (2007-04-13). Season 22 player (2006-05-24). Last name pronounced...
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Karla Sortland, a teacher from Las Vegas, Nevada
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Season 23 player (2007-06-11). Season 22 player (2006-05-24). Karla was brought...
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Jacqueline Lovell, a teacher from Santa Barbara, California
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Season 22 player (2006-04-24). Jacqueline uses the French pronunciation for her...
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Nissan Cohen, a consultant from Louisville, Colorado
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Season 22 player (2006-04-14).
First name pronounced like "nee-SAHN".
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Ted Senator, a computer scientist from Bethesda, Maryland
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Season 13 1-time champion: $8,199. Ted's October 2009 losing turn against...
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Aaron Thompson, a special assistant from Washington, D.C.
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2006 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 21 3-time champion:...
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David Rozenson, a lawyer from Newton, Massachusetts
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2006 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Season 21 3-time champion: $76,000 + $1,000.
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Jerry Frankel, a musician originally from Buffalo, New York
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1985 Tournament of Champions winner (semifinalist by wildcard): $100,000. Season 1...
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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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Lisa Izes, a rabbi from New York, New York
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Season 22 player (2006-04-28).
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Jaime Thomson, an administrative assistant from Denton, Texas
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Season 22 player (2006-04-27).
First name pronounced like "JAY-mee".
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Bill Crowley, a hotel employee from Goderich, Ontario, Canada
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Season 22 1-time champion: $14,600 + $2,000. First syllable of last...
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Raj Dhuwalia, a graduate student from Gainesville, Florida
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Season 19 1-time champion: $21,200 + $2,000. Raj was the first...
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Jill Bunzendahl Chimka, a director of therapy from Washington, D.C.
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"She was a speech and language pathologist when she first appeared...
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Tom Kavanaugh, a kickball team captain from St. Louis, Missouri
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2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2006 Tournament of Champions...
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Anna Allie, a junior at the University of Michigan at Dearborn from Dearborn, Michigan
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2005 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000.
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Jerry Frankel, a musician and a composer originally from Buffalo, New York
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1985 Tournament of Champions winner (semifinalist by wildcard): $100,000. Season 1...
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Claudia Perry, a worker for an e-learning company from Evanston, Illinois
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"She was a pop music critic living in San Jose, California...
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Chris Breen, a sophomore at Princeton University from Springfield, Massachusetts
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2005 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. According to the official Jeopardy! web...
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Robin Carroll, an instructional designer and curriculum developer from Atlanta, Georgia
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"She was a research assistant when she won the Tournament of...
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Chad Capule, an I.T. applications director from Cheverly, Maryland
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Season 31 player (2015-06-19). Chad died 2020-03-29 from COVID-19. It is...
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Maire Kennedy, an adventure specialist from Santa Rosa, California
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Season 30 player (2014-07-08).
First name pronounced like "MARE-uh".
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Rachael Schwartz, a bioscience Ph.D. program applicant from Mountain View, California
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"In 1994, she was an attorney When she became the first...
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Jeff Magee, a registered nurse from Ridgefield Park, New Jersey
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Season 21 player (2005-06-17). According to the official Jeopardy! web site,...
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Rony Josaphat, a master's student of television from North Miami, Florida
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Season 27 player (2010-11-04).
First name pronounced like "RON-nee".
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Bernie Cullen, a graduate student from Chicago, Illinois
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 1996 Tournament...
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Jennifer Hartford, an insurance adjuster from West Covina, California
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Season 18 1-time champion: $5,200. Led 5-time champion, 2003 Tournament of...
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Ben Kesling, a student from Lexington, Kentucky
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Season 21 2-time champion: $24,600 + $1,000. According to the official...
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Bill Dickenson, a college instructor from Richardson, Texas
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 1996 Tournament...
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Cigus Vanni, a psychologist originally from South Amboy, New Jersey
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1989 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $5,000. Season 5 5-time champion: $40,400...
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David Tiemann, a high school teacher from Brunswick, Maine
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1993 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $1,000. Season 9 3-time champion: $37,999....
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Matt Tick, from Escondido, California
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"Will take violin lessons and loves science, but he really wants...
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Caroline Evans, a twelve-year-old from Bethesda, Maryland
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"The sky's not the limit. She wants to be the first...
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Jon Er, from Williamsville, New York
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"This musician always argues for his fairness, so he wants to...
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Myfanwy Davies, a retired china shop manager and volunteer from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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Season 30 player (2014-02-25). First name pronounced like "muh-VAN-wee" (Johnny announced...
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Padraic Connelly, an actor from Chicago, Illinois
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Season 30 player (2014-02-25).
First name pronounced like "PAD-rik".
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Marv Peña, a video game lawyer from Redwood City, California
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Season 26 player (2010-04-08). Marv's first name was listed on the...
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Mark McDermott, a freelance writer originally from Schaller, Iowa
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1993 10th Anniversary Tournament semifinalist: $5,000. 1989 Tournament of Champions semifinalist:...
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John Schultz, a computer programmer from Ann Arbor, Michigan
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2015 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 31 5-time champion:...
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Doug Meyer, an editor originally from Cambridge, Massachusetts
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Season 21 player (2005-06-09). Season 20 player (2004-03-11). Doug previously appeared...
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Leigh Cordner, a performer from Toronto, Ontario
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Season 18 player (2001-09-17). Leigh is the "Medieval referee" for a...
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Michael Sieja, a sophomore at Mississippi State University from Huntsville, Alabama
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2016 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. Michael tied with Hannah Norem and...
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Rick Knutsen, a musician and stay-at-home dad from Brooklyn, New York
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"A finalist in the 2001 Tournament of Champions, he's a musician...
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Michael Braun, a high school junior from Silver Spring, Maryland
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"He is the 2005 Teen Tournament champion. A high school junior...
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Dave Abbott, a musician and licensing executive from Fort Thomas, Kentucky
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"He won the 1999 Tournament of Champions. A musician and licensing...
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Will Walters, a twelve-year-old from Lexington, Kentucky
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"He wants to follow in the footsteps of his idols, Albert...
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Pat Healy, an index supervisor from Vallejo, California
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"His five wins in 1998 helped him land a dream job...
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John Cuthbertson, an investment analyst from San Diego, California
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"He was the highest money winner of the 1993-94 season. An...
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Michael Daunt, an accountant from Oakville, Ontario, Canada
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"In 1996, he was a finalist in the Tournament of Champions....
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John Ryan, a corporate controller from Richmond, California
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"As a college student, he was the top winner of the...
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Pam Jones-Pigott, a farmers' market coordinator from Pflugerville, Texas
|
Season 27 1-time champion: $16,800 + $1,000.
Last name pronounced like "johnz-PIE-gut".
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Kyle Hale, a college senior from Katy, Texas
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"Representing Texas A&M, he won the 2002 College Championship. Now he's...
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Andrew Hutchings, a graduate student from Ithaca, New York
|
"A senior when he won the 1998 College Championship, he's now...
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Fraser Woodford, an investment banker from New York, New York
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"In 1993, winner of the Teen Tournament, he's now an investment...
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Ari Stern, a mathematician from San Diego, California
|
Season 27 1-time champion: $17,201 + $1,000.
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Bill Dickenson, a college instructor from Richardson, Texas
|
2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 1996 Tournament...
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Robert Slaven, a technical products specialist originally from Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada
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"He won 5 times in 1992. Today, he's a technical products...
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Dane Garrett, a lawyer from Collinsville, Illinois
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Season 2 3-time champion: $17,900. Defeated by Chuck Forrest. Dane was...
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Gabe Orlet, a senior from Belleville, Illinois
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2009 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
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Chacko George, a senior at the University of Texas at Austin from Austin, Texas
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"He won the November 1999 Teen Tournament. Now he's a senior...
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Russ Schumacher, a graduate student and newlywed from Fort Collins, Colorado
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"He won the most recent Tournament of Champions. A graduate student...
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Matt Zielenski, a research analyst originally from Broadview Heights, Ohio
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"He became the Teen Tournament champ in 1995. Today he's a...
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Kathleen Mikulis, a stay-at-home mom from Mountain View, California
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Season 27 1-time champion: $25,201 + $2,000. Kathleen's contestant experience blog....
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Craig Barker, an Advanced Placement history teacher from Livonia, Michigan
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"In 1997 he won the College Championship. Today he's an Advanced...
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Amy Fine, a part-time teacher from Bethesda, Maryland
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"She was the last 5-time winner in the 1993-94 season. A...
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Bev Schwartzberg, an adult literacy program coordinator from Santa Barbara, California
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"She finished second in the 1993 Tournament of Champions. Today, she's...
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Michelle Clum, an executive assistant originally from Wichita, Kansas
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"With her 5-time winnings from 2000, she traveled for a year,...
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John Beck, a creative director from Torrance, California
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"He played in 2003, and was the last retired 5-time champ...
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Brian Wangsgard, from Salt Lake City, Utah
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"He was the biggest winner in the 1988-1989 season, and a...
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Sahir Islam, an investment analyst from Somers, New York
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"The champion of the 1997 Teen Tournament, he's now an investment...
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Leah Greenwald, an architect from Cambridge, Massachusetts
|
2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 winner: $56,800. Lost in...
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Janet Wong, a development officer for a museum from Hoboken, New Jersey
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"As a senior at Drew University, she won the February 2000...
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Kermin Fleming, a junior at Carnegie Mellon University from Lexington, Kentucky
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"He's the current College Champion. A junior at Carnegie Mellon University...
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Vinita Kailasanath, a consultant from San Mateo, California
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"She represented Stanford University when she won the 2001 College Tourney....
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Matt DeTura, a recent law school graduate from Washington, D.C.
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Season 27 3-time champion: $61,601 + $2,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: MDT
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Forrest Sturgill, a senior from Kingsport, Tennessee
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2009 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Last name pronounced like "STIR-jill".
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Leszek Pawlowicz, a computer consultant from Flagstaff, Arizona
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"He was the winner of the 1992 Tournament of Champions. Today...
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David Sampugnaro, a writer and internet specialist from North White Plains, New York
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"A 5-time winner from 1996, he's now a writer and internet...
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Tom Cubbage, an attorney from Washington, D.C.
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"In 1989, he was the first College Champion and remains the...
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Tom Nosek, an aerospace engineer from Torrance, California
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"He won the 1993 Tournament of Champions and finished second in...
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Tad Carithers, an attorney from New York City, New York
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"He finished second in the 2001 Tournament of Champions. Today he...
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Gerry Matatics, a speaker and writer from Scranton, Pennsylvania
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Season 32 player (2016-01-26). First name pronounced like "Jerry". Johnny Gilbert...
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Tessa Fleming, a high school history teacher from Mission Viejo, California
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Season 31 player (2014-09-16). Tessa's father was a 2-time champion on...
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Mark McDermott, a desktop publisher originally from Schaller, Iowa
|
1993 10th Anniversary Tournament semifinalist: $5,000. 1989 Tournament of Champions semifinalist:...
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Al Lin, a law professor from Davis, California
|
"A law student when he won five times in 1993, he's...
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John Genova, a teacher from Granada Hills, California
|
"From 1984, he was the earliest 5-time champion in the tournament....
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Regina Robbins, an arts teacher from New York, New York
|
Season 26 4-time champion: $90,700 + $1,000.
First name pronounced like "reh-JEE-nah".
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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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Alex Rubington, a marketing communication coordinator from Natick, Massachusetts
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Season 21 1-time champion: $6,800 + $1,000.
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Roger Storm, a teacher from Fairview Park, Ohio
|
1990 Super Jeopardy! semifinalist: $10,000. 1987 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist:...
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Will Dantzler, a senior from Mount Pleasant, South Carolina
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2009 Teen Tournament first runner-up: $31,600.
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Bud Humphrey, an editor from Park Ridge, Illinois
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Season 21 3-time champion: $56,599 + $2,000. Bud was the alternate...
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Kristian Zoerhoff, a computer engineer from Gilberts, Illinois
|
Season 26 2-time champion: $34,900 + $2,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: kristianzoerhoff
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Andrew Westney, a sports business writer from Charlotte, North Carolina
|
"He was a high-school student from Atlanta when he won the...
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Anderson Cooper, an anchor from CNN's Anderson Cooper 360°
|
"As a baby, he was photographed by Diane Arbus of Harper's...
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Shima Majidi, a copyright attorney from New York, New York
|
Season 25 player (2009-07-02). First name pronounced like "CHEE-mah" (Shima's pronunciation)...
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Molly Redfield, a Ph.D. candidate from Claremont, California
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Season 7/8 4-time champion: $43,399. In her first game, Molly was...
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Carl Brandt, an investor originally from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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2009 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Season 25 4-time champion: $70,799 + $2,000.
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Marianthe Colakis, a Latin and Greek teacher from Forest Hills, New York
|
Season 26 player (2010-06-14).
First name pronounced like "mare-ee-ANN-thee".
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Randy Pike, an Army public affairs chief originally from Louisville, Kentucky
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Season 31 player (2015-06-01). Randy appeared on the show in uniform....
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Josh Woo, an eleven-year-old seventh-grader from River Ridge, Louisiana
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2003 Back to School Week player (2003-09-26). Josh hosted 50 episodes...
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Tui Sutherland, a children's book author from Watertown, Massachusetts
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Season 25 2-time champion: $44,200 + $2,000. First name pronounced like...
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Jaime Mahoney, a magazine editor from Gaithersburg, Maryland
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Season 26 player (2009-10-23).
First name pronounced like "JAY-mee".
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Maxwell Baldi, a ten-year-old from Los Angeles, California
|
"This future U.S. attorney general has always been interested in the...
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Mark Kehres, a freshman at the Ohio State University from Livonia, Michigan
|
2002 College Championship first runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $49,200.
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Cyn Mayo, a high school librarian from Columbus, Ohio
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Season 25 player (2009-06-24). First name pronounced like "SIN". Jeopardy! Message...
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Liz Lynch, a part-time art history teacher from Manassas, Virginia
|
Season 20 player (2004-04-23).
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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, a Basketball Hall of Famer and all-time leading scorer from the NBA
|
"He's one of the greatest NBA players in history. Here's Hall...
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Bellamy Young, an actress from Scandal
|
"On the hit series Scandal, she is the beloved First Lady...
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Buzz Aldrin, a retired astronaut and author from the book Encounter with Tiber
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"He's an entry in every encyclopedia, author of the book Encounter...
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Keagan Baker, a bank teller and substitute teacher from La Porte, Texas
|
Season 27 player (2011-02-08).
First name pronounced like "KEE-gan".
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Vijay Balse, a chemical engineer from Chatham, New Jersey
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2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2010 Tournament of Champions...
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Carin House, a quotation specialist from Evanston, Illinois
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Season 26 player (2009-10-14). Carin won $X on Who Wants to...
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Richard Prince, a production manager from Studio City, California
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Season 12 player (1995-12-08): Muirfield china + the Jeopardy! home game....
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Justin Bernbach, a lobbyist from Brooklyn, New York
|
2010 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 25 7-time champion: $155,001...
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Roger Storm, a teacher from Fairview Park, Ohio
|
1990 Super Jeopardy! semifinalist: $10,000. 1987 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist:...
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Joey Beachum, an Air Force intelligence officer from Conway, Arkansas
|
2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2008 College Championship winner: $100,000...
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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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Roger Mueller-Kim, a high school social studies teacher from Dublin, California
|
Season 27 1-time champion: $17,401 + $1,000.
Last name pronounced like "MULL-er KIM".
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Fred Cofone, a copy editor from Old Greenwich, Connecticut
|
Season 27 2-time champion: $24,400 + $2,000.
Last name pronounced like "kuh-FONE".
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Regina Robbins, an arts teacher from New York, New York
|
2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $90,700...
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Dave Belote, a recently retired base commander from Woodbridge, Virginia
|
2010 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 26 5-time champion:...
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Chris Matthews, a TV host from Hardball and The Chris Matthews Show
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"Once a presidential speechwriter, he's had his own political talk show...
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Elyssa Browning, a junior from St. John's College
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2009 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 21 and from Austin, Texas at...
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Eureka Nutt, a paralegal from Canoga Park, California
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Season 27 2-time champion: $38,701 + $1,000.
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Lizz Mullowney, a senior from Crystal Lake, Illinois
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2003 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500. 17 at the time of the...
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Genevieve Sheehan, a private equity professional from Boston, Massachusetts
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Season 26 player (2009-10-08). First name pronounced like "JEN-uh-veev". Genevieve won...
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Terry Linwood, a bookseller from Plano, Texas
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2010 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 26 5-time champion: $122,705...
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Myles Caggins, an Army assistant to the Fifth Corps Commanding General originally from Heidelberg, Germany, now stationed at Heidelberg, Germany
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Season 15/Armed Forces Week player (1999-07-02). Introduced as Myles Caggins III....
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Ashley Wilson, an organization development consultant from Alexandria, Virginia
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Season 32 2-time champion: $52,402 + $1,000. Ashley returned to the...
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Ben Swartz, a senior from Manassas, Virginia
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2003 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $5,000. 17 at the time of the...
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Yevgeny Shrago, a research assistant originally from Rochester, New York
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Season 26 1-time champion: $24,600 + $2,000. Name pronounced like "yev-GHEN-ee...
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Gillian Mabrey, an executive assistant from Alexandria, Virginia
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Season 26 player (2010-02-15).
First name pronounced like "GILL-ee-un", not "JILL-ee-un".
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Robert Wargo, a student from Fairfield, Connecticut
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Season 2 player (1986-05-29). Robert appeared on seven episodes of Connecticut...
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Amanda Sonmor, a virtual assistant originally from Denver, Colorado
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Season 27 2-time champion: $21,501 + $1,000.
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Kim Taylor, a professor and scientist from Falls Church, Virginia
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Season 26 player (2009-10-07). Not to be confused with Season 18...
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Thomas Citrano, a Marine Corps infantry officer originally from Jacksonville, Florida, now stationed at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina
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Season 15/Armed Forces Week player (1999-06-30).
Rank: First Lieutenant.
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Noam Osband, a Ph.D. student in anthropology from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Season 26 1-time champion: $25,799 + $2,000. First name pronounced like...
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Tyler Allard, a senior from Garrett Park, Maryland
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2003 Teen Tournament first runner-up: $28,400.
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Judy Nakamura, a stay-at-home wife from Seattle, Washington
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Season 26 1-time champion: $14,400 + $1,000. Judy laughed incredulously during...
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Isaac Mizrahi, a fashion designer and TV personality from the QVC Network
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"His fashion designs are a favorite among celebrities on the red...
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Jane Curtin, an actress from Kate & Allie and 3rd Rock from the Sun
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"One of Saturday Night Live's original Not Ready for Primetime Players,...
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Neil Patrick Harris, an actor from How I Met Your Mother
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"He's received critical acclaim on Broadway and on TV, and his...
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Bruce Williams, a production manager from Los Angeles, California
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Season 20 player (2004-04-05).
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Jeff Kuhn, an attorney from Fairport, New York
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Season 20 3-time champion: $48,702 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Hill Harper, an author and actor from CSI: NY
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"As an award-winning author, he's written three New York Times best...
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Danny Vopava, a sophomore from the University of Wisconsin–River Falls
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2010-A College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. Hometown: New Brighton, Minnesota. [No contestant...
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Genaro Lopez, a contract administrator from Portland, Oregon
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Season 27 1-time champion: $29,001 + $2,000.
First name pronounced like "heh-NAR-o".
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Anjali Bonner, a law student originally from Baltimore, Maryland
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Season 25 player (2009-04-15).
First name pronounced like "AHN-jah-lee".
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Regan Hofmann, an editor from Astoria, New York
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Season 25 player (2009-04-14).
First name pronounced like "RAY-gun".
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Sara Terrell, a veterinary technician from Windsor, Connecticut
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2007 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD Home...
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Ken Basin, a junior at the University of Southern California from Huntington Beach, California
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2003 College Championship semifinalist: $5,000. Blog at kbasin.blogspot.org. Appearing as a...
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Nick Swezey, a publisher from Washington, D.C.
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2007 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD Home...
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Robby Schrum, a junior at Yale University from Crown Point, Indiana
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2003 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $5,000. According to the official Jeopardy!...
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Bethlehem Lema, a 12-year-old from San Diego, California
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"Either being an astrophysicist or a pediatrician is in her future..."...
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William Garrett, a 12-year-old from Greenfield, Indiana
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"Serving his country as an officer in the military is his...
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Jackson Ruzzo, a 12-year-old from Waccabuc, New York
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"He wants to be a Broadway actor, because he likes to...
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Shay Collins, an 11-year-old from Averill Park, New York
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"His passion for music helps this future rock star to play...
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Michelle Cinguina, an 11-year-old from Stamford, Connecticut
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"Her favorite things to do are act, play the piano and...
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Ana Catalina Posada, a graduate student from Hanover, New Hampshire
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Season 25 player (2009-06-02).
First name pronounced like "AH-nah".
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Eric LaForest, a high school history teacher originally from Jacksonville, Florida
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Season 25 1-time champion: $9,762 + $2,000.
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Elijah Granet, a 12-year-old from San Diego, California
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"Because he loves animals, biology, and helping others, he's thinking of...
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Teresa Lane, a search engine optimization writer originally from St. Louis, Missouri
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Season 27 player (2010-12-17).
First name pronounced like "teh-RAY-sah".
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Deborah Fitzgerald, a retired government employee from McLean, Virginia
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2009 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Season 24 4-time champion: $55,901 + $1,000.
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Braden Corkum, a 12-year-old from Niceville, Florida
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"He likes making things, so he's going to be an inventor..."...
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Nicole Yoon, a 12-year-old from Asbury, New Jersey
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"She has set her sights on becoming a medical doctor or...
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Justin Otor, a 12-year-old from Texarkana, Texas
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"His chosen profession will be something in the field of science...
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Donna Vogel, a scientist from Bethesda, Maryland
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2009 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 24 4-time champion:...
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Doug Meyer, an editor from Newton, Massachusetts
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Season 21 player (2005-06-09). Season 20 player (2004-03-11). Doug later returned...
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Eddie Kwiatkowski, a 10-year-old from Cumberland, Rhode Island
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"His interests in presidents and their history could lead to a...
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Lisa Klink, a TV writer from Los Angeles, California
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2009 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 24 5-time champion: $70,150...
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Rachel Millena, a 10-year-old from Concord, California
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"Her sights are set on becoming a writer, journalist, photographer, or...
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Charlie Penrod, an assistant professor of law from Natchitoches, Louisiana
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Season 27 1-time champion: $17,000 + $2,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: CharlieP
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Matt Kohlstedt, a grad student originally from La Grange, Illinois
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2009 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
Season 25 5-time champion: $77,803 + $2,000.
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Kizzle Cote, a 12-year-old from Ludlow, Massachusetts
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"This future ichthyologist has a 30-gallon aquarium in his bedroom..." 2007...
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Kemi James, a dental student and sports blogger from Adelphi, Maryland
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Season 27 player (2010-11-26).
First name pronounced like "KAY-mee".
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Nicole Karrow, an 11-year-old from Lewes, Delaware
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"Her goals are to be a horse breeder and trainer..." 2007...
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Harry Haghanegi, a 10-year-old from Chicago, Illinois
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"Extracting DNA was one project this future geneticist enjoyed..." 2007 Kids...
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Mariann Cook Andrews, an outreach specialist from Tumwater, Washington
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Season 26 1-time champion: $23,400 + $1,000.
First name pronounced like the name "Mary Ann".
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Tope Charlton, a graduate student from Gaithersburg, Maryland
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Season 24 player (2007-10-24).
First name pronounced like "TOW-pay".
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Karla Sortland, a teacher from Las Vegas, Nevada
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Season 23 player (2007-06-11). Season 22 player (2006-05-24). Karla was brought...
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Jeff Kirby, an elementary school teacher from Santa Maria, California
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Season 26 player (2009-10-12). Season 16 player (1999-12-08). Jeff returned to...
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Andrew Rostan, a writer and script reader originally from Boardman, Ohio
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2007 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD Home...
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Doug Hicton, a composer originally from Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
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2007 Tournament of Champions 1st runner-up: $100,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD...
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Neel Varde, a food scientist from St. Charles, Illinois
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Season 26 1-time champion: $30,001 + $1,000.
Last name pronounced like "VAR-day".
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Bebe Neuwirth, an actress from Frasier and the Broadway revival of Chicago
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"She won two Emmys for playing Dr. Frasier Crane's acerbic wife...
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Clare Willis, a law student from Chicago, Illinois
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Season 24 player (2007-10-19).
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Matt Sojot, a firefighter from Mililani, Hawaii
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Season 23 player (2007-04-13). Season 22 player (2006-05-24). Last name pronounced...
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Neil Patrick Harris, an actor from How I Met Your Mother
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"He's appeared on Broadway in Proof, Assassins, and Cabaret. He's now...
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Francesca Leibowitz, a fifth grade English teacher from Brooklyn, New York
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"She teaches at a school that opened in 1854. From Brooklyn...
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Breanne Reinhard Smith, a writer from Arcola, Illinois
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Season 26 player (2009-12-29).
First name pronounced like "bree-ANN".
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Robin Cheney, a middle school teacher from Rancho Santa Margarita, California
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"All the students at her school go on a camping trip...
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Carol Tierney, an administrative assistant originally from Cambridge, Massachusetts
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Season 14 player (1998-03-20). Season 14 player (1997-12-05). Jeopardy! returned Carol...
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Terry Parker, a high school history teacher from Cutler Bay, Florida
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"Don't try to pin down this wrestling coach, history teacher, and...
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Marion Penning, a high school science and history teacher from Baltimore, Maryland
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"She teaches at a Maryland 'green' school that has a solar...
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Leah Greenwald, an architect from Cambridge, Massachusetts
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 winner: $56,800. Lost in...
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Diana North, a first grade teacher from Rock Hill, South Carolina
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"She recently celebrated her silver anniversary of teaching. From Rock Hill,...
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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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Jacob Joyner, an 11-year-old from Quantico, Virginia
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"As a politician, he plans on improving the lives of Americans....
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Pete Peterson, a chemist from Richlandtown, Pennsylvania
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Season 4 player (1988-01-12).
Pete's actual first name is Robert.
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Pete Troyan, a senior from the University of Michigan
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2007 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. 22 at the time of the...
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Leah Greenwald, an architect from Cambridge, Massachusetts
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 winner: $56,800. Lost in...
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Melissa Gaul, a quality assurance manager from Shoreview, Minnesota
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Season 17 player (2000-09-21). Melissa returned about 6 months after her...
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Curt Schilling, a pitcher from the Boston Red Sox
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"In helping the Red Sox to win the 2004 World Series,...
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Mike Davison, a TV producer from Studio City, California
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Season 13 1-time champion: $10,200. Father of Season 39 player Max...
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Joshua Malina, a TV actor and creator/producer from Celebrity Poker Showdown
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"He created and produced Celebrity Poker Showdown for the Bravo Channel,...
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Hayley Clatterbuck, a junior from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln
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2007 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 21 at the time of...
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Alan Bailey, a playwright and director from Sherman Oaks, California
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 2003 Tournament...
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Siobhan McKenney, a systems administrator from Austin, Texas
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Season 26 1-time champion: $10,799 + $2,000. First name pronounced like...
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Mark Brown, an administrative assistant and father from Peoria, Arizona
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2003 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 19 5-time champion: $68,094...
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Jason McCune, an actor originally from Jasper, Indiana
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2003 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Season 18 4-time champion: $90,041.
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Travis Troyer, a software engineer from Hereford, Maryland
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2003 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 19 5-time champion:...
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Trevor Norris, a management analyst from Washington, D.C.
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 2003 Tournament...
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Brandi Chastain, a professional soccer player from the U.S. Olympic Women's Soccer Team
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"She scored the memorable winning goal for the U.S. women's soccer...
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Angel Gomez, an attorney from Los Angeles, California
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Season 23 player (2007-06-15).
First name pronounced like "AWN-hel."
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Ben Tritle, an apartment manager from Los Angeles, California
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2003 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 18 5-time champion: $78,600...
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Steve Throneberry, a first-year law student from Santa Ana, California
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Season 16 1-time champion: $5,601.
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Zeke Sevilla Jr., a lawyer from Vienna, Virginia
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1990 Super Jeopardy! quarterfinalist: $5,000. 1987 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $1,000....
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Scott Weiss, a computer science professor from Walkersville, Maryland
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Season 23 3-time champion: $61,001 + $2,000. Through a generous wager,...
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Roger Storm, a teacher from Fairview Park, Ohio
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1990 Super Jeopardy! semifinalist: $10,000. 1987 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist:...
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Jenne Bergstrom, a library science student from Julian, California
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Season 17 player (2001-07-17).
First name pronounced like "jen-NEE".
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Aiden Pink, a freshman from St. Louis Park, Minnesota
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2007 Teen Tournament Summer Games semifinalist: $10,000. 15 at the time...
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Jill Bunzendahl Chimka, a speech and language pathologist from Washington, D.C.
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2003 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 18 4-time champion: $85,099...
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Dave Singleton, an academic advisor from Henderson, Nevada
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Season 23 1-time champion: $8,600 + $2,000. Dave's last name was...
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Bob Blake, an actuary from Vancouver, British Columbia
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 1990 Tournament...
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Inie Park, a research associate from Los Angeles, California
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Season 22 1-time champion: $10,800 + $1,000.
First name pronounced like "EE-nee".
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Bernie Cullen, a biology graduate student originally from Dublin, Ireland
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 1996 Tournament...
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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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Bruce Lin, a research scientist originally from Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
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Season 22 3-time champion: $54,599 + $2,000. On his first appearance,...
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Denise Hay, a high school administrator and teacher from Crystal Lake, Illinois
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Season 22 player (2006-03-09). Jeopardy! Message Board user name: Denise Hay,...
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Dan Avila, a photographer from Los Angeles, California
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Season 7 1-time champion: $5,300 + a Sanyo remote control stereo...
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Josh Lacey, a 10-year-old from Ellicott City, Maryland
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"The International Olympic Committee does such good work, he would like...
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Jerome Vered, a writer from Studio City, California
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2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2005 Ultimate Tournament of...
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Joel Goldberg, a CPA and financial officer from Fort Lee, New Jersey
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Season 6 4-time champion: $33,001. Was first on the show 1988...
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Kristen Senall, a first grade teacher from Buffalo, New York
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Season 18 1-time champion: $15,000.
Last name pronounced like "sen-NALL."
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Tom Unsworth, a human resources director from Boston, Massachusetts
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Season 18 1-time champion: $10,000. In his first game, Tom was...
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Phil Klinkner, a political science professor originally from Clinton, Iowa
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Season 9 1-time champion: $3,200. Philip Klinkner was a guest panelist...
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David Siegel, a paralegal from Los Angeles, California
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"He was a finalist in the 1995 Tournament of Champions. A...
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Zeke Sevilla, Jr., a lawyer from Vienna, Virginia
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1990 Super Jeopardy! quarterfinalist: $5,000. 1987 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $1,000....
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Paul Shaffer, a composer and musical director from The Late Show with David Letterman
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"David Letterman's musical director for 24 years, he's also musical producer...
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Christina Maes, a senior at the University of Wisconsin - Green Bay from Green Bay, Wisconsin
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2004 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000.
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Bob Verini, a director of academics for a national test preparation company from Los Angeles, California
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2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2005 Ultimate Tournament of...
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Mark Eckard, a software designer from Bedford, Massachusetts
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 winner: $35,600. 2001 Tournament...
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Martin Short, a multitalented man from Fame Becomes Me
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"Jiminy Glick and Ed Grimley are among his many memorable characters....
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Ken Jennings, a software engineer from Salt Lake City, Utah
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2020 Jeopardy!: The Greatest of All Time winner: $1,000,000 + a...
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Bob Mesko, an arts administrator from Denver, Colorado
|
2006 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 22 5-time champion:...
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Brian Stokes Mitchell, an actor from the Broadway musical Ragtime
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"His Broadway credits include Ragtime and Kiss Me, Kate, for which...
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Miguel Ferrer, an actor from Crossing Jordan
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"He began his career as a studio drummer and played on...
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John Kelly, a retired Air Force officer from Austin, Texas
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"In 1992, he was one of the top five money winners...
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Soledad O'Brien, a broadcast journalist from CNN's American Morning
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"This broadcast journalist has covered stories all over the world. Since...
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Harry Smith, a broadcast journalist from The Early Show
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"This hard-working host of CBS's The Early Show has interviewed five...
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Isaac Mizrahi, a fashion designer from the Style Network
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"Known for bringing high fashion to American women everywhere, and now...
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Mark Lowenthal, an assistant director for the Central Intelligence Agency from Reston, Virginia
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"The winner of the 1988 Tournament of Champions, he's an assistant...
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James Denton, an actor from Desperate Housewives
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"He plays Mike Delfino, Wisteria Lane's sexy plumber on the hit...
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Michael Rooney, a college professor from Pasadena, California
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"He was a winner of 5 games in 1999, and is...
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Amy Fletcher, a junior from Cincinnati, Ohio
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2005 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500.
16 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Melissa Gaul, a quality manager from Shoreview, Minnesota
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Season 16 player (2000-03-20). Melissa returned in Season 17, about 6...
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Anne Shivers, a senior from Peotone, Illinois
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2005 Teen Tournament 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $18,000. 17 at...
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Michael Blake, a 12-year-old from Hamburg, New York
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"Our top story tonight is this young man, who wants to...
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Jeff Suchard, a toxicologist from Placentia, California
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Season 21 player (2004-10-04). KJL game 49. Last name pronounced like...
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Chrissy Hoffman, a nonprofit director from Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida
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Season 22 player (2006-03-31).
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Robin Carroll, an instructional designer from Marietta, Georgia
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Nifty Nine (players with byes into...
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Ivan Kleinfeld, an 11-year-old from Arlington, Virginia
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"He would like to be a doctor so that he can...
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Claudia Perry, a pop music critic from Jersey City, New Jersey
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2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2002 Million Dollar Masters...
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Jackie Wollner, an actress and comedienne from Van Nuys, California
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Season 15 2-time champion: $13,100. In her Season 15 games, Jackie...
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Eric Newhouse, a director of technical assistance from Sioux City, Iowa
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Nifty Nine (players with byes into...
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Keith Williams, a sophomore at Middlebury College from Middlebury, Vermont
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"As a freshman from Middlebury College, he won the 2003 College...
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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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Ben Lyon, an industrial scaleman from Dallas, Texas
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"Representing the University of Oklahoma, he won the 1995 College Championship....
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David Hoffelmeyer, a senior from St. Joseph, Missouri
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2006 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000.
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Lara Robillard, a policy analyst from Arlington, Virginia
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"She used the winnings from her 5 shows in 1998 to...
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David Venderbush, a lawyer from New York, New York
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"His 5 wins in 1993 came just in time to pay...
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Jennifer Wu, a high school junior from Arkadelphia, Arkansas
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"She won the 2004 Teen Tournament at age 15. Now 17,...
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Paul Boymel, a civil rights attorney from Potomac, Maryland
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"He was the top winner of the 1984-85 season. Now he's...
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Greg Hopkins, an energy demonstrator from Waverly, Ohio
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Season 1 1-time champion: $8,400. Greg was the first champion on...
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Diane Siegel, an educational consultant and writer from Northridge, California
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"A full-time mom when she won five games in 1993, now...
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Papa Chakravarthy, a sophomore from Lexington, Kentucky
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2006 Teen Tournament champion: $75,000.
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Bruce Borchardt, a metrologist from Washington, D.C.
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"A winner of five shows in 1995, he spent most of...
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Kevin Keach, a project administrator from St. Louis, Missouri
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"He considered himself a simple Missouri farm boy when he won...
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Jim Scott, an attorney from Arlington, Virginia
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"In 1991, he was the winner of the Tournament of Champions....
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Doug Lach, a marketing manager from Columbus, Ohio
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"He was the biggest winner of the 1999-2000 season. A marketing...
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Carol Tierney, a program manager originally from Cambridge, Massachusetts
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Season 14 player (1998-03-20). Season 14 player (1997-12-05). Jeopardy! returned Carol...
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Dennis Donohue, a general manager from Janesville, Wisconsin
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"He was administrative services officer from Arizona when he became a...
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Mike Dugan, a first-year law student from Lauderdale, Minnesota
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Season 17 player (2000-10-31).
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Bob Blake, an actuary from Vancouver, British Columbia
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 1990 Tournament...
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Ken Jennings, a software engineer from Salt Lake City, Utah
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2020 Jeopardy!: The Greatest of All Time winner: $1,000,000 + a...
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Brian Weikle, a consultant from Minneapolis, Minnesota
|
2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Nifty Nine (players with byes into...
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Brad Rutter, a TV quiz show host from Lancaster, Pennsylvania
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2020 Jeopardy!: The Greatest of All Time 2nd runner-up: $250,000. 2019...
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Barbara-Anne Eddy, a civil servant from Vancouver, Canada
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"Her 5-time winnings from 1988 allowed her to go for nearly...
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Anne Boyd, a freelance writer and student from Los Angeles, California
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2004 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 20 4-time champion: $84,600...
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Catie Camille, a student from Rochester, New York
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Season 22 player (2005-09-12). According to the official Jeopardy! web site,...
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Chris Ward, a foreign service officer from Johannesburg, South Africa
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"A 5-game winner in 1998, he was living in Peru when...
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