Jeopardy! Round, Double Jeopardy! Round, or Tiebreaker Round clues (1000 results returned) (search results maxed out)

#9069, aired 2024-03-28FREE FOR ALL $200: Monopoly once added a few house rules, including all fees & taxes stashed in the middle of the board are yours when you land on this spot Free Parking
#9069, aired 2024-03-28TOUGH VOCAB $400: In film when characters explain the plot verbally, it's called this, also the name of a big public fair exposition
#9069, aired 2024-03-28FREE FOR ALL $400: The nonprofit Free Software Foundation promotes this hyphenated type of software that, by definition, can be modified & shared open source
#9069, aired 2024-03-28FREE FOR ALL $600: R.E.M. titled a 1981 song for this broadcasting service that aimed to inform people under the grasp of the Soviets Radio Free Europe
#9069, aired 2024-03-28FREE FOR ALL $800: The Wilmot Proviso, which wanted no slavery in newly acquired Mexican lands, was a precursor to this political party the Free Soil Party
#9069, aired 2024-03-28FREE FOR ALL $1000: The "free" type of this refers to an atom or molecule with a loose electron that can destabilize other molecules a free radical
#9067, aired 2024-03-26MAGAZINES $400: It officially debuted in 1974 with Mia Farrow on the cover & stories on Gloria Vanderbilt & William Peter Blatty, among others People magazine
#9067, aired 2024-03-26PICK A CARD, ANY CARD $400: On your special day, know that this company got away from selling postcards & into greeting cards after a 1915 office fire Hallmark
#9065, aired 2024-03-22THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE, BY THE NUMBERS $200: He received a total of 1,876 Electoral College votes for president, a likely unbreakable record FDR
#9065, aired 2024-03-22"HOUSE" OF ENTERTAINMENT $1200: The Talking Heads were "fighting fire with fire" in this song that may result in a call to your insurance guy "Burning Down The House"
#9065, aired 2024-03-22ITALIAN WORDS & PHRASES $1600: For hair color, it can describe Italian tennis star Jannik Sinner, or it can be an iconic series of Ferrari models a Testarossa
#9064, aired 2024-03-214-LETTER HOMOPHONES $600: A warning on the links & what Vier means in German fore/four
#9064, aired 2024-03-21THE CINEMA IN 2023 $1000: Adam Driver stars as this title automaker who tries to save his company via the Mille Miglia, a 1,000-mile race across Italy Ferrari
#9062, aired 2024-03-19CLASSICAL MUSIC IS IN SESSION $400: This 18th century group of violin concerti is "Le quattro stagioni" in Italian The Four Seasons
#9062, aired 2024-03-19ORGANIZATIONS $1000: 2024 marks 100 years of this group with a mission "to build healthier lives, free of cardiovascular diseases and stroke" the American Heart Association
#9062, aired 2024-03-19UNDERGROUND $2000: You can go under this square, the heart of Old Seattle, to see bits of what the city looked like before a great fire in 1889 Pioneer Square
#9060, aired 2024-03-15TYPES OF POEMS $1,000 (Daily Double): A villanelle is a 19-line poem consisting of 5 tercets & a concluding (do the math) one of these a quatrain
#9059, aired 2024-03-14SONGS OF YOUTH $800: Nate Ruess & this band implored, "We are young so let's set the world on fire" fun.
#9058, aired 2024-03-13VIRTUO-SO GOOD $400: Improvising woodwind virtuoso Eric Dolphy was a pioneer in the genre known as free this jazz
#9054, aired 2024-03-07SPORTS MASCOT HISTORY $800: This NFL team notes mascot Captain Fear lamented his lost ship, but friends, it was found & rebuilt at Raymond James Stadium! the Buccaneers
#9049, aired 2024-02-29COMPOUND WORDS $400: Today, fewer cars have this installed from the factory; you'll pay extra to have one put in to stash your gum wrappers an ashtray
#9049, aired 2024-02-29"LIKE"NESS $800: P!nk is backed up by columns of flame when she performs this 2016 hit in concert "Just Like Fire"
#9049, aired 2024-02-29IMAGE $2000: Norman Rockwell's oft-parodied image of a Thanksgiving meal has this title, one of a quartet in FDR's 1941 State of the Union speech Freedom from Want
#9049, aired 2024-02-29COMPOUND WORDS $2000: This phosphorescent glow is produced by certain fungi found on decaying wood fox fire
#9048, aired 2024-02-28WOMEN IN LIT $400: At one point in "Vanity Fair", her 'do is said to be "in perfect order"; look at her with the good hair! Becky Sharp
#9047, aired 2024-02-27ARTISTS ON FILM $2000: Yes, dahling, that was Zsa Zsa Gabor playing dancer Jane Avril to Jose Ferrer's Toulouse-Lautrec in this 1952 film Moulin Rouge
#9046, aired 2024-02-26THE '70s TOTALLY ROCKED $1200: "Fire in the sky"! After Montreux Casino burned during a Zappa gig, Deep Purple wrote this Top 5 hit with a killer lick "Smoke On The Water"
#9046, aired 2024-02-26LITERARY GROUPS $1200: The 1926 literary magazine "Fire!!" featured Wallace Thurman & Countee Cullen, members of this New York movement the Harlem Renaissance
#9046, aired 2024-02-26ITALIAN AMERICANS $2000: In 1984 she made history as the first woman to be nominated for vice president by a major political party Ferraro
#9045, aired 2024-02-232020s & 1920s SLANG $1200: Oxford's word of the year for 2023, it's what someone has if they spit fire game to the hunks or the honeys rizz
#9044, aired 2024-02-22FROM 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 2024-02-2240 YEARS AGO: 1984 $800: At the Winter Olympics, this American won gold with a four-and-a-half minute program that featured multiple triple jumps Scott Hamilton
#9040, aired 2024-02-16THAT'S GOT 2 HYPHENS $800: It's a brawl with no rules & for our purposes, no cost a free-for-all
#9039, aired 2024-02-15WHERE DID THAT COME FROM? $800: The pillar kind of this device loved by dogs was invented by... uh... we dunno; an early patent was ironically lost in a blaze a fire hydrant
#9039, aired 2024-02-15ONE-WORD PLAY TITLES $1600: The musical "My Fair Lady" was based on this play by George Bernard Shaw Pygmalion
#9038, aired 2024-02-14SO FAR AWAY $1000: This wedge-shaped country seems small next to its 2 giant S. Amer. neighbors, but it has 5x more land than Holland & 5x fewer people Uruguay
#9037, aired 2024-02-13DOCUMENTARIES $800: The doc subtitled "The Greatest Party That Never Happened" follows this failed festival that left folks stranded in the Bahamas in 2017 Fyre Fest
#9036, aired 2024-02-12LIFE IN THE 1920s $2,500 (Daily Double): In a 1925 speech she said, "We have got to free women from enforced, enslaved maternity" Margaret Sanger
#9035, aired 2024-02-09POETRY $800: "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread" is a line from his 1711 "Essay on Criticism" Alexander Pope
#9034, aired 2024-02-08END OF STORY $1200: "'It isn't fair, it isn't right', Mrs. Hutchinson screamed, and then they were upon her" is the scary end of this Shirley Jackson tale "The Lottery"
#9034, aired 2024-02-08THINKING ABOUT THE ROMAN EMPIRE $2,500 (Daily Double): After the great fire of 64 A.D., this emperor built himself a palace with an artificial lake & revolving dining room Nero
#9032, aired 2024-02-0613-LETTER WORDS $400: I went down to this type of public protest to get my fair share of abuse demonstration
#3, aired 2024-02-02OCCUPATIONS $200: You'll weld & shape andirons, hinges & even special "shoes" in this job a farrier (or blacksmith)
#3, aired 2024-02-02WHEN I'M 64 $800: This city that had a disastrous fire in 64 A.D. employed a corps of pumpers called siphonarii Rome
#3, aired 2024-02-02IDEAS FOR TOURISM CAMPAIGNS $1000: 3 decades free from being the second name in a paired country, see the Gate of Freedom Monument near the Morava River Slovakia
#9029, aired 2024-02-01I LIKE THE CUT OF YOUR JOB $200: Shotcut is free, open-source software for this sort of video professional an editor
#9028, aired 2024-01-31A SQUARE MEAL $600: This alliterative Japanese food container suggests your fare is going to be delivered within 4 sides a bento box
#9027, aired 2024-01-30AROUND THE WORLD $400: The Geneva Free Port, a giant warehouse complex in this nation, houses an estimated 1.2 million works of art Switzerland
#9024, aired 2024-01-25QUESTIONABLE SCIENCE IN POP SONGS $1000: We're not sure how Adele pulled off this title trick in a 2011 song, but she definitely wanted to "let it burn" "Set Fire To The Rain"
#26, aired 2024-01-23OBSCURE NOVELS $100: Never heard of his 1847 novel "Omoo"? Well, maybe you know "Moby-Dick", the novel this author published four years later Melville
#26, aired 2024-01-23ADVANCED CINEMATOGRAPHY $100: That's what I call range! Rodrigo Prieto was behind the lens for Greta Gerwig's "Barbie" & this 2023 Martin Scorsese drama Killers of the Flower Moon
#26, aired 2024-01-23BEST TIME TO VISIT $800: Serious collectors take a June getaway to Basel in this country to attend its renowned art fair & stroll its cobblestone alleys Switzerland
#26, aired 2024-01-23I'M JUST KEN $10,400 (Daily Double): In 2023 this documentarian released his latest film, a four-hour series examining the rich history of the American buffalo Ken Burns
#9021, aired 2024-01-22WORD ORIGINS $600: This breakfast fare derives its name from the Roman goddess of agriculture cereal
#9020, aired 2024-01-19EXISTENTIALISM $400: In "Fear & Trembling", Søren Kierkegaard imagines the anxiety of this biblical figure when God asks him to sacrifice his son Abraham
#9020, aired 2024-01-19EXISTENTIALISM $2000: A common maxim is "existence precedes" this other "E" term; the main thing is we're here, free to create meaning in our lives essence
#9019, aired 2024-01-18CLASSICAL MUSIC $400: Unlike Vivaldi, Philip Glass left it up to the listener which time of year it was in his composition "The American" these Four Seasons
#9019, aired 2024-01-18THE PAST, PRESENTLY $1000: Numerical nickname for Mao's wife & her allies arrested after Mao's death for actions during the Cultural Revolution the Gang of Four
#9019, aired 2024-01-18A WOMAN'S PLACE $1200: On Chartres Street in this U.S. city stands the Old Ursuline Convent, spared by a 1794 fire after ferocious prayer from the nuns New Orleans
#9019, aired 2024-01-18AN "H" & "R" BLOCK $1600: I say without fear of this, an extravagant exaggeration, Butterbean is the greatest boxer of all time hyperbole
#9018, aired 2024-01-17IF FOOD BE THE LOVE OF MUSIC $800: Formed in Seattle, not Atlanta, The Presidents of the United States of America nevertheless desired "Millions Of" these Peaches
#9017, aired 2024-01-16HALF A CATEGORY $1200: Abe Lincoln once declared that the U.S. government "cannot endure, permanently half" this & "half" this half slave & half free
#9017, aired 2024-01-16TV CLIFFHANGERS $2000: When Picard is assimilated by the Borg at the end of Season 3 of "Star Trek: TNG", this 1st officer gives the order to fire at him Riker
#9017, aired 2024-01-1620th CENTURY AMERICANS $5,000 (Daily Double): Mario Savio led the 1964 free speech protests at this California univ. & protested Sonoma State fee hikes late in his life in 1996 the University of California at Berkeley
#25, aired 2024-01-16KURT RUSSELL FILMS $200: A sudden reintroduction of oxygen to an enclosed fire can cause this, also the title of a Kurt Russell film Backdraft
#9016, aired 2024-01-15RELIGIONS OF THE WORLD $2000: The Jewish holiday of Sukkot includes gathering four plants, three types of branch & this lemon relative the citron (etrog)
#9015, aired 2024-01-12BOOK TITLES $2000: According to an old spiritual, "no more water," this title of James Baldwin's 1963 bestseller about racial tensions in America The Fire Next Time
#2, aired 2024-01-12MINING FOR "ORE" $400: Come one, come all to ye olde inn & enjoy our bill of fare & flagons of ale as in days of this yore
#9013, aired 2024-01-10YOU GET NOTHING! YOU LOSE! $600: Full house! Not a bad Texas hold'em hand, but not so fast! I've got this hand--not a royal or straight flush, but I still win four of a kind
#9012, aired 2024-01-09DISASTER $200: The earthquake & ensuing fire that struck this U.S. city in 1906 had a 7.9 magnitude & claimed more than 3,000 lives San Francisco
#24, aired 2024-01-09NUMERICAL PLACE NAMES $200: Though it only has four, this Jamaican resort town's name is Spanish for eight rivers Ocho Rios
#24, aired 2024-01-09COUNTRIES THAT START WITH "I" $300: This country is home to roughly 120 active volcanoes along the Pacific Ring of Fire Indonesia
#24, aired 2024-01-09NUMERICAL PLACE NAMES $500: Of the states you can stand in at the Four Corners Monument, it's the one to the northwest Utah
#24, aired 2024-01-09OPPOSITES OF NOVEL TITLES $600: Hunter S. Thompson's "Courage and Fondness in Las Vegas" Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
#24, aired 2024-01-09THERE'S AN "APP" FOR THAT $1200: Hungry for some hard rock? Then fire up this 1987 Guns N' Roses album that leads off with "Welcome to the Jungle" Appetite for Destruction
#9008, aired 2024-01-03JOHN GREEN $200: (John Green presents the clue.) I co-created Crash Course which offers hundreds of free educational videos on YouTube; in one video, I discuss this female poet from New England, just a bit obsessed with death, who began a poem, "I heard a fly buzz when I died" Emily Dickinson
#23, aired 2024-01-02OATHS $200: Though not in the Constitution, these four words are typically spoken at the end of the presidential oath of office so help me God
#23, aired 2024-01-02BOOKS IN THE SERIES $400: George R.R. Martin: "A Dance with Dragons"; "A Storm of Swords"; "A Game of Thrones" A Song of Ice and Fire
#9006, aired 2024-01-01MISHEARD LYRICS $1600: We're glad to say that in a 2008 hit, this band did not sing about "dyslexics on fire" Kings of Leon
#9004, aired 2023-12-28FOR THE GRAM $400: @depthsof this free encyclopedia compiles bizarre pages of the website like "Mozart & scatology" & "death by vending machine" Wikipedia
#9004, aired 2023-12-28NBA NICKNAMES $1000: James Harden fans have worn T-shirts with this 3-word phrase incorporating James' fairly obvious nickname fear the beard
#9001, aired 2023-12-25LET ME PHRASE IT THIS WAY $400: A person you're having obsessive thoughts about is "living" this cost-related way "in your head" rent free
#9000, aired 2023-12-22MOVIE INSPIRATIONS $1600: James DeMonaco, writer of this film, had the idea after road rage made his wife wish for vengeance, a "free one a year!" The Purge
#8999, aired 2023-12-21LEGEND DAIRY $800: Since 1911, a hallmark of its state fair is a cow sculpted from about 600 pounds of butter the Iowa State Fair
#8998, aired 2023-12-20IT'S A VISION BOARD $200: 3 children in Fatima, Portugal in 1917 are among those who have had visions of this place of much fire & groaning hell
#8998, aired 2023-12-20LET'S TAKE A PEEK $600: Hagia Sophia has four of these tapered structures that stretch into the sky; the red one is thought to be the oldest minarets
#8995, aired 2023-12-15WISH I'D SAID THAT! $3,000 (Daily Double): H.L. Mencken defined Puritanism as "the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be" this word happy
#8994, aired 2023-12-14STATE OF THE COLLEGE $1000: The Campbell Fighting Camels are from near the Cape Fear River in this state North Carolina
#8994, aired 2023-12-14BROWNIAN NOTIONS $5,000 (Daily Double): She ran Vanity Fair & the Daily Beast but said, "I didn't see myself as an editor. I wanted to be a playwright" Tina Brown
#8993, aired 2023-12-13HOLMES, SHERLOCK HOLMES $1000: This kindly landlady was first mentioned by name in the second Holmes story, "The Sign of the Four" Mrs. Hudson
#8989, aired 2023-12-07FIRE PLACE $200: 1871: The Hôtel de Ville in this city is burned during the Commune Paris
#8989, aired 2023-12-07FIRE PLACE $400: 1871: The "Great Fire" of this city starts in a barn on De Koven Street Chicago
#8989, aired 2023-12-07FIRE PLACE $600: 1925: A fire melts a whole lot of wax at this landmark London place Madame Tussaud's
#8989, aired 2023-12-07FIRE PLACE $1,000 (Daily Double): Circa 50 B.C.: This city's library is torched (by Julius Caesar, some say) Alexandria
#8989, aired 2023-12-074 YOUR CONSIDERATION $1000: Four patterns of Greek letter-named brain waves are beta, alpha, delta & this one from 4 to 8 hertz that allows access to the unconscious theta waves
#8989, aired 2023-12-07FIRE PLACE $1000: A 1776 fire destroyed this city's Teatro Regio Ducale; La Scala was built to replace it Milan
#22, aired 2023-12-06THREESOMES $200: If your clothing catches fire (though hopefully it won't), this 3-pronged fire safety mantra will remind you what to do stop, drop & roll
#22, aired 2023-12-06THE MOON $1000: The Apollo astronauts didn't fire muskets on the Moon, but they did report that moondust smells of this burnt explosive gunpowder
#22, aired 2023-12-06CHORUS LINES $6,000 (Daily Double): "I like to be in America, okay by me in America, everything free in America, for a small fee in America" West Side Story
#8987, aired 2023-12-05FROM DAWN 'TIL DUSK $2000: This name for a free-for-all fight comes from an Irish fair known for its rioting donnybrook
#8986, aired 2023-12-04CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $200: A publisher bet him that he couldn't write a book using 50 or fewer words; the result was "Green Eggs and Ham" Dr. Seuss
#8985, aired 2023-12-01NURSERY RHYME PHOBIAS $600: Georgie Porgie didn't suffer from philemaphobia, a fear of this kissing the girls (kissing anybody)
#8985, aired 2023-12-01NURSERY RHYME PHOBIAS $800: While Mary, Mary was quite contrary, she didn't seem to have anthophobia, a fear of these flowers
#8985, aired 2023-12-01NURSERY RHYME PHOBIAS $1000: As he may have had peniaphobia, a fear of poverty, he was in the counting-house counting all his money the king
#8984, aired 2023-11-30ECON 101 $1,600 (Daily Double): A strongly free-market school of economics is named for the university of this Midwestern city the University of Chicago
#8983, aired 2023-11-29A CONTRADICTION IN TERMS $600: Alliterative 2-word term for action by one's own forces causing casualties to one's own troops friendly fire
#21, aired 2023-11-29FILMS TURNING THE BIG FOUR-OH $100: Al Pacino permanently damaged his nasal passages from snorting so much fake cocaine in this crime drama Scarface
#21, aired 2023-11-29FILMS TURNING THE BIG FOUR-OH $200: Three Stephen King novels made it to the big screen in 1983: "The Dead Zone", "Christine", & this film about a rabid St. Bernard Cujo
#21, aired 2023-11-29FILMS TURNING THE BIG FOUR-OH $300: In "A Christmas Story", Ralphie says the "Queen Mother of dirty words" but this other "F" word is swapped in to keep it clean fudge
#21, aired 2023-11-29HUMAN BODY CLASSIFIED ADS $400: Butterfly-shaped gland seeks iodine for critical hormone production in goiter-free work environment the thyroid
#21, aired 2023-11-29FILMS TURNING THE BIG FOUR-OH $400: Thanks to the Griswolds' pea-green Family Truckster, sales of these plummeted after the release of "Vacation" a station wagon
#21, aired 2023-11-29FILMS TURNING THE BIG FOUR-OH $500: Meryl Streep & Nora Ephron first worked together on this film about a nuclear facility whistleblower Silkwood
#8982, aired 2023-11-28REMEMBER THE MANE $800: If you lived through the '70s, you must remember her hair & probably that poster Farrah Fawcett
#8979, aired 2023-11-23____ OF ____ $400: In football, it's the boundary between the teams prior to the snap of the ball the line of scrimmage
#8975, aired 2023-11-17SPRINGSTEEN LYRICS $600: "Hey little girl, is your daddy home? Did he go and leave you all alone? Mhmm I got a bad desire" "I'm On Fire"
#20, aired 2023-11-15THE SEARCH FOR FOREIGN LANDS $500: Synonymous with "a faraway place", the much-maligned city of Timbuktu is located in this west African nation Mali
#8972, aired 2023-11-14TALK CLEANLY TO ME $800: Free from defects, like a playoff game-winning "reception" in 1972 immaculate
#8971, aired 2023-11-13THE AUTO MAN EMPIRE $1000: In 1932, this auto racer began using the squadron badge of a World War I flying ace, a prancing horse Ferrari
#8969, aired 2023-11-09ALTERED STATES $200: OLD FAIR Florida
#8969, aired 2023-11-09OPERATION $200: Eagle Claw: Abortive 1980 attempt to free hostages in this country Iran
#8965, aired 2023-11-03ONLY PARTLY TRUE $600: The Lone Ranger got his name after suffering from this, from Greek words for "fear" & "stranger" xenophobia
#8965, aired 2023-11-03IT JUST SOUNDS QUESTIONABLE $800: "Going to the fair", Simple Simon asked the pieman, "Let me taste your" this ware
#8965, aired 2023-11-03BIG-SCREEN ELVIS $800: In 1963 he was the kid who kicked Elvis in "It Happened at the World's Fair"; 16 years later, he played Elvis on TV Kurt Russell
#8963, aired 2023-11-01NAME THAT TUNESTER $600: "But I set fire to the rain, watched it pour as I touched your face, well, it burned while I cried" Adele
#19, aired 2023-11-01ICONIC MAN-PERMS $400: Gene Simmons claims he accidentally set fire to his glam-rock hair numerous times while performing with this band Kiss
#8962, aired 2023-10-31MONSTER MANUAL $400: A wyvern is a smaller, 2-legged, 2-winged, usually non-fire-breathing type of this a dragon
#8961, aired 2023-10-30SHAKESPEARE REWRITES THE BEATLES $800: "Wilt thou still require me, wilt thou still provide sustenance unto me, roughly midway through my 7th decade?" "When I'm Sixty-Four"
#8961, aired 2023-10-30FOUND IN ROY G. BIV $800: Due to fear of communism, in the 1950s this color was followed by "Legs" to make a new baseball team name Red
#8961, aired 2023-10-30TRIANGLES $1000: In 1911 a devastating fire at this company's factory in New York City killed 146 garment workers the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory
#8958, aired 2023-10-25WASN'T THAT AN '80s THING? $2000: This stainless-steel car with gull-wing doors debuted in 1981; fewer than 10,000 were made a DeLorean
#8957, aired 2023-10-24"POUND" KEY $600: Where you go to retrieve your car after it gets towed for being parked in front of a fire hydrant the impound lot
#8956, aired 2023-10-23STUPID PROVERBS $200: "Fight" this "with fire" fire
#8956, aired 2023-10-23"BABY" MOVIES $400: Ruth Gordon played Mia Farrow's next-door neighbor in this scarefest Rosemary's Baby
#8956, aired 2023-10-23PEOPLE WITH MUPPET NAMES $2,500 (Daily Double): This patron saint of Mediterranean sailors lent his name to a phenomenon seen during storms St. Elmo
#8955, aired 2023-10-20OLDE ENGLAND $800: The first section of this 1215 document states that "the English Church shall be free" the Magna Carta
#8953, aired 2023-10-18DINING OUT IN NEW YORK $200: There are likely fewer sheep there nowadays, but Sheep Meadow is in this 843-acre area, not far from Tavern on the Green Central Park
#8951, aired 2023-10-16IN THE BASEBALL TEAM'S LINEUP $800: 1975: Fred Lynn, Bernie Carbo & Carlton Fisk, who will always wave it fair the Boston Red Sox
#8950, aired 2023-10-13LET'S GET MEDICAL $800: Athletes sometimes strain this large extensor muscle of the thigh whose name means "four headed" quadriceps
#8950, aired 2023-10-13WE WHISTLE WHILE YOU WORK $1000: We provide you the best in classical whistling with this piece heard here Four Seasons
#8950, aired 2023-10-13FELONIOUS MONKS $1600: Friar Vicente de Valverde gave Atahuallpa the choice of death by fire or garrote; he chose the latter & this empire ended the Incan
#8949, aired 2023-10-12SPOOKY LITERATURE $1000: (Justin Long presents the clue.) "The story had held us round the fire, sufficiently breathless", is how this author began "The Turn of the Screw", about a governess trying to protect children from the effects of malevolent spirits (Henry) James
#8949, aired 2023-10-12RANK-LY SPEAKING $1200: In economic terms, free enterprise is also known as this enterprise private
#8949, aired 2023-10-12HAPPIER MOVIE ENDINGS $1600: "Hold the execution. John Coffey's been found innocent. He is a free man." "Phew. That was close" The Green Mile
#16, aired 2023-10-11SHAPES IN NATURE $900: Cordate is an adjective used to refer to leaves, like the ones seen here, that have this shape a heart shape
#8946, aired 2023-10-09THE HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION OF THE WORLD $400: Some stats from a 1966 title bout: Over three rounds, he threw 100-plus punches, took less than 10, & knocked down his foe four times Muhammad Ali
#15, aired 2023-10-04EUROPEAN COUNTRY NICKNAMES $600: "The Land of Fire & Ice" (Do its citizens really believe in elves? I guess we'll never gnome) Iceland
#8938, aired 2023-09-27"M"USICALS $800: In this Lerner & Loewe show, Colonel Pickering, author of "Spoken Sanskrit", makes a dare to a colleague My Fair Lady
#8938, aired 2023-09-27THE PIPE ORGAN $2000: It's the hands-on name for an organ keyboard; the instrument seen here has four, some have six the manual
#14, aired 2023-09-27OUI, OUI, HISTORY $200: Constructed for the 1889 World's Fair, this iconic structure was originally scheduled to be torn down by 1910 the Eiffel Tower
#14, aired 2023-09-27ANTS $300: If you can't make it to the Houston Zoo, check out these types of ants on the zoo's live webcam leaf cutter ants
#14, aired 2023-09-27FROM Z TO A $400: You'd say this four-letter word while reciting the Greek alphabet, or, when greeting Michael Douglas' wife zeta
#14, aired 2023-09-27RANDOM U.S. STATE FACTS $800: Massachusetts and Virginia are two of four states that have this word in their official names Commonwealth
#8936, aired 2023-09-25INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS $400: Eugenio Montero Rios & William P. Frye were names on the 1898 treaty ending this war the Spanish-American War
#8934, aired 2023-09-21WELCOME TO FANTASY ISLAND $400: A tropical island seems nice for a new post-apocalyptic society, but I fear a few British boys won't see the end of this 1954 book Lord of the Flies
#8933, aired 2023-09-20"HIGH" NOTES $1600: A 3-word phrase for drug-free happiness, or a video game with an alien cartel threatening humanity high on life
#8932, aired 2023-09-19MAILED IT! $5,000 (Daily Double): RFD, short for this, began in 1896; previously, about 65% of Americans lived in the "R" area & had to pick up mail at the P.O. Rural Free Delivery
#8931, aired 2023-09-18ENEMIES--NOT A LOVE STORY $400: I'm rhymin', I'm stylin' & I'm profilin' as I'm chillin' like a this in a phrase meaning I'm stress-free, baby a villain
#8930, aired 2023-09-15FIRE Z $200: Chisel the Z from an abundant mineral & it becomes this liquid measure equal to one-fourth of a gallon a quart (from quartz)
#8930, aired 2023-09-15FIRE Z $400: Take Z beer away from a word for a heavy drinker & get this person at a sporting event voicing their displeasure booer (from boozer)
#8930, aired 2023-09-15FIRE Z $600: Pop the Z off a pimple & get this Stephen King title It (from zit)
#8930, aired 2023-09-15FIRE Z $800: Deny the Z of a ballroom dance & it becomes this first name of a 19th century U.S. poet Walt (from waltz)
#8930, aired 2023-09-15FIRE Z $1000: Take the Z off the case in a type of mystery novel with little violence & it becomes this word for shy coy (from cozy)
#8929, aired 2023-09-14SUCH COLORFUL LANGUAGE! $2000: To gloss over errors to free one from blame, or to keep the other team scoreless to whitewash
#8928, aired 2023-09-13STRAIGHT FIRE $200: L'Oreal's Colorista is just about the coolest thing ever to give this of yours a little more flair hair
#8928, aired 2023-09-13& WE HAVE A NOVEL TITLE $400: This title is "the temperature at which book-paper catches fire and burns" Fahrenheit 451
#8928, aired 2023-09-13STRAIGHT FIRE $400: Your new PlayStation 4 is the bomb, but a couple extra DualShock these for your crew would rock a controller
#8928, aired 2023-09-13STRAIGHT FIRE $600: If you've got the perfect getup, show your peeps online by posting an "OOTD", your this "of the day" an outfit
#8928, aired 2023-09-13TO SIR PAUL, WITH LOVE $800: Paul co-founded the non-profit "Meat Free" this, promoting health & conservation with "at least one plant-based day each week" Monday
#8928, aired 2023-09-13STRAIGHT FIRE $800: You can buy do-it-yourself kits for making these Japanese rice-based treats filled with ice cream mochi
#8928, aired 2023-09-13STRAIGHT FIRE $1000: Beats by this guy is known for its headphones Dr. Dre
#8925, aired 2023-07-28BREEDS OF SHEEP $200: With a white face mostly free of wool, the Columbia was developed by this Cabinet department in the early 1900s Agriculture
#8924, aired 2023-07-27PLAY TIME $2000: In this "small" Lillian Hellman drama about greed & ambition, a southern family plots to make a fortune by fair means or foul The Little Foxes
#8922, aired 2023-07-25THIS AMERICAN LAKE $2000: Let's fire up our RV & head for this lake, Wisconsin's largest inland one, & catch some northern pike & largemouth bass Winnebago
#8922, aired 2023-07-25STATE THE 19th CENTURY SENATOR $2000: Charles Sumner, a free stater nearly beaten to death on the Senate floor by a southerner Massachusetts
#8920, aired 2023-07-21SHAKESPEARE $600: Lines that nobody understands include this "Othello" villain calling Cassio "a fellow almost damned in a fair wife" Iago
#8919, aired 2023-07-20COFFEE, NOW $1,800 (Daily Double): These 2 words on a bag of coffee mean its supply chain has been independently certified as meeting sustainability & labor standards fair trade
#8918, aired 2023-07-195 ABOUT 4 $200: A "four-striper" is someone of this U.S. Navy rank, the boss on board captain
#8918, aired 2023-07-195 ABOUT 4 $400: Meaning someone who is bluffing, "four-flusher" is a term that originated in this game poker
#8918, aired 2023-07-195 ABOUT 4 $800: Of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse in the Bible, the one representing war rides this color horse red
#8918, aired 2023-07-19THE "LL" YOU SAY $1600: It's an artwork that immerses the viewer in an environment, such as Damien Hirst's "Earth, Air, Fire, Water" an installation
#8917, aired 2023-07-18COLLEGE TUITION: THEN & NOW $200: In 1968 tuition was free for state residents at the U. of Cal., including this Bay Area flagship campus; it was $14,000 in 2023 Berkeley
#8917, aired 2023-07-18THE SONGS OF MAX MARTIN $400: Juliet stops the show with "Roar", a 2013 hit from this artist "I got the eye of the tiger, a fighter / Dancing through the fire / 'Cause I am a..." Katy Perry
#8917, aired 2023-07-18COLLEGE TUITION: THEN & NOW $800: Tuition at this private univ. in Houston from its opening in 1912 to 1965? Deliciously free! Today... a bit more, at $57,000 Rice
#8917, aired 2023-07-18AMERICAN HISTORY $1600: The daughter of an Italian immigrant, she had been a U.S. representative for 3 terms when tapped in 1984 to be a vice presidential nominee Ferraro
#8914, aired 2023-07-13FROM THE HEADLINES $800: This U.S. city's Free Press, November 7, 1973: "Young elected city's first Black mayor" Detroit
#8914, aired 2023-07-13NONFICTION $1000: "A Natural History of Four Meals" is the subtitle of this eater's "Dilemma" by Michael Pollan The Omnivore's Dilemma
#8914, aired 2023-07-13EAT IT! WEAR IT! OR SIT ON IT! $1000: Use a pound of the Bing variety & don't set yourself on fire when you ignite the liquor in this 2-word dessert cherries jubilee
#8914, aired 2023-07-13MOVIE BEFORE & AFTER $1600: Rex Harrison teaches Audrey Hepburn how to speak proper English & vocalize like Billie Holiday My Fair Lady Day (My Fair Lady Sings the Blues)
#8913, aired 2023-07-12READING WITH JENNA BUSH HAGER $400: (Jenna Bush Hager presents the clue.) One of my club picks for 2023 is "Black Candle Women" by Diane Marie Brown, about four generations of women who live under one roof & have a big secret--a love curse relating to a Voodoo sorceress in this Southern city that links the story back to the 1950s New Orleans
#8913, aired 2023-07-12WALKING & TALKING $800: This Bible book gives us the line "Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil" Psalms
#8912, aired 2023-07-11SPACE CUISINE $600: Long missions don't serve foods high in this element, as astronauts have fewer red blood cells & can't process it well iron
#8909, aired 2023-07-06MYTH MISERY $600: Let's just say Zeus was disappointed this god gave fire to humans, nailing him to a big rock & having his liver eaten repeatedly Prometheus
#8909, aired 2023-07-06SCIENCE $1200: The phenomenon of St. Elmo's fire familiar to sailors & aviators is a luminous glow of this 4th state of matter plasma
#8907, aired 2023-07-04HAPPY JULY 4th! $1000: Later merged with Radio Liberty, it began broadcasting the message of liberty to Communist lands on July 4, 1950 Radio Free Europe
#8906, aired 2023-07-03LIKE AVERSION $400: In a 1972 literary title, Sin City had its share of "Fear &" this Loathing
#8906, aired 2023-07-03CAR GO FAST $600: In 2010 an Enzo from this Italian company en-zoomed to 237 miles per hour Ferrari
#8904, aired 2023-06-29"I" BEFORE "EE" $400: Adjective denoting pleasure accompanied by regret, or chocolate without a ton of sugar bittersweet
#8903, aired 2023-06-28PREFIXES $1600: You get "fore-" x 2 in this proverb about being prepared forewarned is forearmed
#8902, aired 2023-06-27WORD ORIGINS $1600: 2 Greek words give us this 10-letter word meaning fear of blood hemophobia
#8898, aired 2023-06-21THE "SILVER" STATE $400: U.S. Army medic Monica Lin Brown was awarded one of these in 2008 for heroism under fire during the war in Afghanistan the Silver Star
#8895, aired 2023-06-16HISTORIC GROUPS $400: Around 1870 the U.S.-based Fenian Brotherhood hoped to conquer Canada & force Great Britain to free this island Ireland
#8895, aired 2023-06-16THAT EUROPEAN LANGUAGE $2000: Remember your double vowels: tuli is fire, tuuli is wind Finnish
#8891, aired 2023-06-12THE WAR OF 1812 $400: Backing the slogan "Free trade and sailors' rights", this president signed the declaration of war against Britain Madison
#8891, aired 2023-06-12COLOR MY WORLD $1600: The Orange Free State is a historic region that became a province of this country in 1910 South Africa
#8889, aired 2023-06-08A "MID" CATEGORY $1200: Pitcher Randy Johnson once said this act of giving a batter pause "is not in hitting a guy. It's the fear of it" intimidation
#8885, aired 2023-06-02WORDS ENDING IN "Y" $400: Hopefully, your golf ball ends up here after your tee shot the fairway
#8884, aired 2023-06-01BIOPICS $200: William Wallace (Mel Gibson) wants to free the Scots from the tyranny of the English in this Oscar-winning film Braveheart
#8884, aired 2023-06-01SECOND BOOK IN THE SERIES $400: "A Clash of Kings" A Song of Ice and Fire
#8884, aired 2023-06-01NOT YOUR EVERYDAY WORDS $1200: In this system of equalizing the burden horses carry to make a race fair, an impost is an added weight handicapping
#8884, aired 2023-06-01SECOND BOOK IN THE SERIES $1200: "The Girl Who Played with Fire" The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (the Millennium series)
#8883, aired 2023-05-31DUDE, HERE'S YOUR CAR $200: Enzo Ferrari is said to have quipped, "Ask a child to draw a car, & certainly he will draw it" in this color, a Ferrari favorite red
#8883, aired 2023-05-31NUMERICAL LITERATURE $800: Vicente Blasco Ibáñez' World War I bestseller named for this mounted quartet became a hit movie with Rudolph Valentino the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
#8882, aired 2023-05-30DISNEY ENDINGS $400: The queen & king don't fare well on their voyage in this 2013 film; daughters Anna & Elsa find their wrecked ship in the 2019 sequel Frozen
#8882, aired 2023-05-30FRUITY RHYME TIME $800: An expo for a Bosc or Anjou pear fair
#8882, aired 2023-05-30DISNEY ENDINGS $1200: Tadashi dies in a fire in this 2014 movie, leaving Hiro devastated, but Baymax is there for him Big Hero 6
#8881, aired 2023-05-29PLAY "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 2023-05-29PLAY "FREE" WORDS $800: Also in the title of a classic Miles Davis track, it's a person who likes to mooch complimentary food & drink a freeloader
#8881, aired 2023-05-29PLAY "FREE" WORDS $1200: This cable channel was once known as ABC Family Freeform
#8881, aired 2023-05-29POP INSTRUMENTALS $1200: This almost lyric-free 2013 hit by Brooklyn producer/DJ Baauer has part of Manhattan in its title the "Harlem Shake"
#8881, aired 2023-05-29PLAY "FREE" WORDS $1600: C.S. Lewis wrote that this ability is "the only thing that makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having" free will
#8881, aired 2023-05-29PLAY "FREE" WORDS $2000: A kind of shoe is in this name for a pirate a freebooter
#8880, aired 2023-05-26QUOTES $400: Rejecting an offer of freedom from P.W. Botha, he said, "Only free men can negotiate; prisoners cannot enter into contracts" Mandela
#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 2023-05-25UP IN THE AIRLINE $200: An airline with direction, it offered a $10 "night fare" between Houston & Dallas in 1971 Southwest
#19, aired 2023-05-24WHAT'S ALL THIS? $2000: 5 sections: "The Burial of the Dead", "A Game of Chess", "The Fire Sermon", "Death by Water" & "What the Thunder Said" "The Waste Land"
#18, aired 2023-05-23LABOR $2000: The 2009 Fair Pay Act was named for this woman who sued her employer Goodyear for pay discrimination (Lilly) Ledbetter
#8876, aired 2023-05-22BOOK-POURRI $400: (John Green presents the clue.) I co-created Crash Course, which offers dozens of free educational videos on YouTube, & in one video titled "Don't Reanimate Corpses!", I talk about the Romantic movement in English lit & this novel in particular Frankenstein
#8876, aired 2023-05-22HISTORIC PEOPLE $800: This man won the 1983 Nobel Peace Prize for nonviolent struggle for free trade unions & human rights in Poland Walesa
#15, aired 2023-05-22PURE POETRY $1200: (Ada Limón reads.) From French for "step over", this technique in which a thought runs on from one line to the next imports a free-flowing feel, as in Eliot's "April is the cruellest month, breeding / Lilacs out of the dead land" enjambment
#8874, aired 2023-05-18REPEATS 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 2023-05-17SCIENTIFIC DEVICES & INSTRUMENTS $2000: Ionized air maintains the moving spark in the high-voltage traveling arc commonly known by this biblical name Jacob's ladder
#14, aired 2023-05-17MASTERS OF LIT $800: Edgar Lee Masters is best known for this collection of free-verse epitaphs from the cemetery of a fictional small town Spoon River Anthology
#13, aired 2023-05-171990s EMMY AWARDS $1600: A college football player, he scored an Emmy for coaching the game as Wood Newton on "Evening Shade" Burt Reynolds
#12, aired 2023-05-16GO TO YOUR ROOM $400: Theater audiences would retire to this 5-letter room for warmth between acts; now it refers to any entrance hall or lobby the foyer
#12, aired 2023-05-1616th & 17th CENTURY ART $800: The Duke of Ferrara commissioned Titian to spend the early 1520s on this boozy title Roman god "& Ariadne" Bacchus
#10, aired 2023-05-153-WORD PLACE NAMES $1600: This spot northwest of Philly got its name from a tavern named for Frederick II King of Prussia
#9, aired 2023-05-15ART & ARTISTS $400: 1867's "Forever Free" by Edmonia Lewis quotes this presidential edict on its base & in its title the Emancipation Proclamation
#9, aired 2023-05-15CHESS, MASTERS $800: (Jennifer Shahade delivers the clue.) Famed for works like "Nude Descending a Staircase No. 2", in the 1920s this great Dadaist all but abandoned art for chess, becoming a master & going on to play for France in four Chess Olympiads Duchamp
#9, aired 2023-05-15ABBREV. $800: The dealer is legally free to sell at a lower or higher cost, but cars have an MSRP, short for this manufacturer's suggested retail price
#8, aired 2023-05-12AUTHORS' PRETTY DECENT REVIEWS $600: The Detroit Free Press said "The Mummy" was "vintage" this novelist; "elegantly erotic & full of enchanting terror" Anne Rice
#7, aired 2023-05-12JOHNNY GILBERT'S MUSICAL THEATER AUDITION $800: "Oh, wouldn't it be loverly? Oh, so loverly sittin' absobloominlutely still/ I would never budge till spring crept over me winder sill" My Fair Lady
#8868, aired 2023-05-10WELCOME TO THE U.S. HOUSE! $1000: Score! As a new representative, you'll get this privilege of sending postage-free mail to constituents franking
#6, aired 2023-05-10THE MALE GAZE $1200: Ben Stiller explained that this signature look of Zoolander is a 6-part process & is meant to convey "OK, take it already" Blue Steel
#8867, aired 2023-05-09MOVE FAST $800: Drive to survive! In 2005 Juan Pablo Montoya set Italy on fire, hitting 231.5 mph in this class of auto racing Formula 1
#4, aired 2023-05-09RHYMINGLY NAMED CELEBS $400: In 1997 he was up for a Grammy, made a cameo in "Good Burger" & ended the season shooting 48% from the free throw line Shaquille O'Neal (Shaq accepted)
#4, aired 2023-05-09OVERWROUGHT HISTORY $400: Oooof, this year: Matthew Flinders died. The White House, set on fire. 1,200 killed by the Philippines' Mayon volcano eruption 1814
#4, aired 2023-05-09LIBRARIES $800: The Haskell Free Library straddles the U.S. & Canada--the front door is in Vermont; the circulation desk, in this province Quebec
#3, aired 2023-05-09EDITORS $400: Graydon Carter gave props to Annie Leibovitz' photos that ran with celeb profiles in summing up 25 years editing this magazine Vanity Fair
#8866, aired 2023-05-08YEET! $800: Truman: "I didn't fire" him "because he was a dumb son of a (bleep), although he was, but that's not against the law for generals" MacArthur
#2, aired 2023-05-08BACK IN THE 12th CENTURY $2000: Under the Concordat of this German city, the Holy Roman Emperor conceded to the pope the free election of bishops & abbots Worms
#1, aired 2023-05-08SPOONERISM PAIRS $1000: Contesting with a prevaricator & igniting a blaze fighting a liar & lighting a fire
#8864, aired 2023-05-04A BIBLE THUMPIN' $600: "Then the Lord rained upon" these 2 sinful cities "brimstone and fire" Sodom & Gomorrah
#8863, aired 2023-05-03THERE'S GOLD IN THEM THAR HILLS $800: An old miner's trick to separate gold from minerals: mix with this liquid metal, put that inside a potato & toss in the fire mercury
#8863, aired 2023-05-03THAT'S A GOOD SPOT FOR A BREAK $800: The Cruz de Ferro, meaning this, is where many pilgrims on the road to Santiago de Compostela pause to reflect iron cross (cross of iron)
#8863, aired 2023-05-03SAX EDUCATION $1200: Free jazz pioneer Dewey Redman was a tenor saxophone virtuoso, like this son of his Joshua Redman
#8862, aired 2023-05-02AUSTRALIAN WILDLIFE $200: A Port Macquarie hospital specializes in treating these critters, including the one seen here, who was rescued from a bush fire koalas
#8861, aired 2023-05-01DOCTOR: WHO? $600: Medieval theologian John Duns Scotus, "The subtle doctor", pioneered this doctrine that the Virgin Mary was born free of original sin the Immaculate Conception
#8860, aired 2023-04-28IT'S A COOKBOOK! $800: Enjoy "Uncommon Recipes from" this Brooklyn pie shop; its 4-word name is what was "baked in a pie" in a nursery rhyme Four & Twenty Blackbirds
#8857, aired 2023-04-25LET'S SEE A MO-"V" $400: Jimmy Stewart experiences dizziness & a fear of heights in this San Francisco-set Hitchcock film Vertigo
#8857, aired 2023-04-25THE CENTAUR OF ATTENTION $1000: Pained by poison, the centaur Chiron gave up his immortality to this fire-stealer Prometheus
#8857, aired 2023-04-25SEPARATION $1600: A boning knife separates chicken from its carcass; this type of knife is used to free fish meat from its skeleton & skin a fillet knife
#8855, aired 2023-04-21BASKETBALL GREATS $200: (I'm Candace Parker.) 2008 was a good year; I won my second Final Four MVP for leading Tennessee to the NCAA title & was recognized as the top women's college player with the trophy named for this inventor of the sport Naismith
#8855, aired 2023-04-21"F"IVE LETTER WORDS $1200: Proverbially, this type of "heart" "never won fair lady" faint
#8854, aired 2023-04-20TRIPLE HOMOPHONES $2000: A litter of pigs, an ancient grain, an ancient ruler farrow/farro/pharaoh
#8853, aired 2023-04-19A 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 2023-04-18SAVOIR FAIR $400: 12th & 13th century commercial fairs in this "bubbly" region of France made it an important medieval financial center Champagne
#8852, aired 2023-04-18SAVOIR FAIR $800: A big festival in Menton, France is named for citrons, these, & together with oranges, they are used to craft amazing things lemons
#8852, aired 2023-04-18SAVOIR FAIR $1200: The Chestnut Fair on this large French island isn't limited to chestnuts; it has beer, wine & cheese too Corsica
#8852, aired 2023-04-18SAVOIR FAIR $1600: A yearly science fair is sponsored by a university in this French city that hosted the 1968 Winter Olympics Grenoble
#8852, aired 2023-04-18SAVOIR FAIR $2000: In 2022 one of France's grandest renaissance fairs, the Roi de l'Oiseau, celebrated this writer & his creation Gargantua Rabelais
#8850, aired 2023-04-14POTENT POTABLE RHYME TIME $400: Pilsner trepidation beer fear
#8849, aired 2023-04-13THE BOOK OF ROMANS $400: Stephen Dando-Collins examined "The Great Fire of Rome: The Fall of the Emperor" him "and His City" Nero
#8849, aired 2023-04-13THE SCENIC SOUTHWEST $1000: Nevada's Valley of Fire State Park is home to petrified trees & these similarly named inscriptions, some 2,000 years old petroglyphs
#8848, aired 2023-04-12DINING 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
#8847, aired 2023-04-11ADAPTERS $400: (I'm Joel Kim Booster.) In 2022, I wrote & starred in "Fire Island", a modern retelling of this Jane Austen novel in which I find myself in the shoes of Elizabeth Bennet Pride and Prejudice
#8846, aired 2023-04-10THE NATION IN QUESTION $1000: 30 years now free of rule from Prague; the ninth letter of the alphabet is DZ; ski the Tatras Slovakia
#8846, aired 2023-04-10NOVELS BY QUOTE $2000: "His mother was incinerated in the Dresden fire-storm. So it goes" Slaughterhouse-Five
#8844, aired 2023-04-06GOLDEN GIRLS $400: Winning four in 2016, she tied the record for the most gold medals won in a single Olympics by a female gymnast Simone Biles
#8844, aired 2023-04-06AT THREES & FOURS $1000: The sole-horned one gets all the press, but this describes an animal having four horns, like the antelope seen here a quadricorn
#8840, aired 2023-03-31HEY, BIG SPENDER $800: If you're going to splurge for the Ferrari, get a GTO; the G & T stand for this Italian phrase, also a video game Gran Turismo
#8838, aired 2023-03-29AUTOCRATS $1200: After his troops opened fire on demonstrators in 1989, this country's Nicolae Ceausescu was chased from power & executed Romania
#8831, aired 2023-03-20MYSELF $800: His autobio said in 1835 Mr. Freeland hired him from his master, but he wanted "to live upon free land as well as with Freeland" Frederick Douglass
#8831, aired 2023-03-20PRESIDENTIAL INAUGURATIONS $1200: FDR's 1st inaugural gave us this 10-word statement, a "firm belief" about "nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror" "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself"
#8830, aired 2023-03-17SHIP OUT $1200: Launched in 1797, this ship in more recent years has been known to fire cannon salutes while tooling around Boston Harbor the Constitution
#8829, aired 2023-03-16HEAR "YE", HEAR YE $600: This intense longing is done by "huddled masses... to breathe free" yearning
#8828, aired 2023-03-15"F"OUR LETTER WORDS $1200: It's a channel for conveying away smoke or gas produced by a fire or heater a flue
#8828, aired 2023-03-15THE MORNING AFTER $1,500 (Daily Double): An October 9, 1871 headline declared this city was "utterly destroyed... both North and South Sides smoking ruins" Chicago
#8826, aired 2023-03-13'TIS SHAKESPEARE $1000: This friar conducts the ill-fated marriage of Romeo & Juliet Friar Lawrence
#8825, aired 2023-03-10TV SHOWS IN OTHER WORDS $800: "Dread All Ambulatory Inanimate" Fear the Walking Dead
#8824, aired 2023-03-09COLLEGE SPORTS STUFF $200: Alliterative nickname for just the last 2 rounds of the NCAA basketball championship, featuring a quartet of teams the Final Four
#8823, aired 2023-03-08TV REALITY & COMPETITION SHOWS $1000: Contestants are judged on their bladesmithing & weapon-making skills on this "hot" History Channel show Forged in Fire
#8823, aired 2023-03-08LIABLE IN THE BIBLE $1,800 (Daily Double): These paired cities, "going after strange flesh, are... suffering the vengeance of eternal fire" Sodom & Gomorrah
#8822, aired 2023-03-07THIS IS HOW I WIN $400: Employ the Benko Gambit... wait, maybe the Grünfeld Defense.... ooh, the Nimzowitsch-Larsen Attack! Let's go with that! chess
#8821, aired 2023-03-06HISTORY $200: At Caracas in 1811 he said, "Let us lay the cornerstone of South American freedom without fear" Simón Bolívar
#8821, aired 2023-03-06STUDY: GUIDES $2000: A guide app from this "Society" is free & has info on 800-plus species of North American birds, which should keep you busy the Audubon Society
#8819, aired 2023-03-02ODD WORDS $2000: Head toward the end of the alphabet for this word meaning an extreme fear of foreigners xenophobia
#8817, aired 2023-02-2813-LETTER WORDS $200: It's the fear of spiders... multi-legged, creeping, sometimes venomous spiders arachnophobia
#8816, aired 2023-02-27NONPOTENT POTABLES $1000: Meaning "red bush", this caffeine-free South African tea has surged in popularity in recent years rooibos tea
#8815, aired 2023-02-24A GOVERNMENT OFFICE $400: The Off. of Minority Health says disease of this organ, the USA's top killer, takes 30% fewer Hispanics & 30% more Blacks than whites the heart
#8815, aired 2023-02-24LITERARY REUNIONS $3,600 (Daily Double): This title woman finally returns to Rochester, blinded after a fire; but fear not! He regains some sight after they marry Jane Eyre
#8812, aired 2023-02-21SHAKESPEARE'S WOMEN $2000: Pre-Juliet, Romeo is taken with this fair maiden; a 2022 film told things from her perspective Rosaline
#8810, aired 2023-02-17WORD & WORDPLUS $400: To provide a ticket free of charge & at least moderately okay at a job comp & competent
#8810, aired 2023-02-17MYTH CONGENIALITY $1600: Frigga got an oath from fire, water, iron, you name it, to not hurt her son, this Norse god of light, but things got hairy anyway Balder
#8810, aired 2023-02-17MYTH CONGENIALITY $2000: Fish were thrown into a fire on August 23 during a festival honoring this Roman god of fire Vulcan
#8809, aired 2023-02-16"PLAIN" & "SIMPLE" $800: Going to the fair, this nursery rhyme guy meets a purveyor of baked goods Simple Simon
#8808, aired 2023-02-15LANDMARKS $400: In 2022 a fire damaged some of the iconic Moai statues on this remote Pacific island Easter Island
#8806, aired 2023-02-13LAWYER BILLBOARDS $800: Ask Sextus Roscius The Innocent Have Nothing To Fear When I Spin My Oratory Cicero
#8806, aired 2023-02-13LOGOS $1000: This Italian carmaker has a black prancing horse on a yellow background in its logo Ferrari
#8802, aired 2023-02-07NUTS TO YOU! $400: In the early 1900s not many had them roasting on an open fire after a blight nearly took out these trees in eastern N. America chestnuts
#8801, aired 2023-02-06HOT TUNES $1600: This Billy Joel song /history lesson references the Rosenbergs, Dien Bien Phu, the Edsel & of course, "Wheel of Fortune" "We Didn't Start The Fire"
#8800, aired 2023-02-03WATER MUSIC $800: Carly Simon wrote "Let The River Run" for this film starring Melanie Griffith & Harrison Ford Working Girl
#8799, aired 2023-02-02POP MUSIC $1600: In 2022 she was free to duet with Elton John on the song "Hold Me Closer" Britney Spears
#8799, aired 2023-02-02NOBEL-WINNING SCIENTISTS $2000: Gerhard Herzberg's 1971 chemistry prize citation noted his work on these highly reactive molecules with unpaired electrons free radicals
#13, aired 2023-02-02HOP ON THE HOMOPHONE $400: Somewhat average or about adequate & the price an airline charges for a ticket fair/fare
#13, aired 2023-02-02GOING UNDERGROUND $1000: This city on Puget Sound was largely destroyed by fire in 1889; you can tour the original site under the rebuilt downtown Seattle
#8798, aired 2023-02-01"Z" CATEGORY $2000: Take the first two letters from the legs & the first four letters from the upper body to get the name of this hybrid critter a zedonk
#8797, aired 2023-01-31A CAPITAL OFFENSIVE $400: Burning the U.S Capitol building in 1814, the British fueled the fire with 3,000 books from this institution, small at the time the Library of Congress
#8797, aired 2023-01-31HEAD GEAR $800: A comb from Nigeria with fewer teeth than American combs gave Willie Morrow the idea for this item to style Black hair a (afro) pick
#8797, aired 2023-01-31HEAD GEAR $1600: Now torturing fewer teens than in the past, reverse pull & cervical pull are 2 types of headgear used in this medical field orthodontics
#8796, aired 2023-01-30EXPLORATION $800: In 1889 & 1890 Nellie Bly did this in 72 days, 8 fewer than in the title of a popular novel of the day travel around the world
#8794, aired 2023-01-2612 LETTERS OR MORE $400: It's defined as an intense fear of confined or enclosed spaces claustrophobia
#8794, aired 2023-01-26A LINE IN THE SAND $400: This title man of a 1719 novel finds a "print of man's foot on the sand"; "fear of danger is... more terrifying than danger itself" Robinson Crusoe
#8794, aired 2023-01-2620th CENTURY AMERICA $1000: The World's Fair held in this city in 1904 was formally called the Louisiana Purchase Exposition St. Louis
#8794, aired 2023-01-2612 LETTERS OR MORE $8,000 (Daily Double): Søren Kierkegaard has been called the "father of" this philosophy that emphasizes the individual as a free & responsible entity existentialism
#12, aired 2023-01-26THE GOLDEN STATE WARRIORS $1200: (Amy Schneider presents the clue.) After winning an NBA-record 73 games in 2015-2016, the Warriors got even more formidable with the addition of this former MVP as a free agent Kevin Durant
#8793, aired 2023-01-25CLASSICAL IS IN $400: In 2022 composer Max Richter released "The New Four" these as part of his "Vivaldi Recomposed" project Seasons
#11, aired 2023-01-19LANDMARKS $300: We'll point out this 605-foot landmark opened in 1962 for the World's Fair in Seattle & was built for a reasonable $4.5 million the Space Needle
#11, aired 2023-01-19SHOE BIZ $600: Like Elvis sang, "don't you step on" these shoes that you can get from Brooks Brothers (blue) suede shoes
#11, aired 2023-01-19JOHNNY GILBERT IS THE TV CHARACTER $1500: "I gotta get 2 children's life vests, abduct Jonathan Farrow... kill him, cut him to pieces, dump him in the ocean" Dexter
#8786, aired 2023-01-16MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL TEAMS $800: The Swinging Friar is the official mascot of this team the Padres
#8786, aired 2023-01-16PURE BREAD $1000: Where do we lay our scene? Why, in fair Verona, where this bread named for a slipper may have been born ciabatta
#8781, aired 2023-01-09LAUNDRY DAY $800: Concerns of the 1950s included segregation, fear of nuclear war & itchy, stiff clothes; in 1961 this brand came out to address one Downy (fabric softener)
#8781, aired 2023-01-09RUNS "HOT" & "COLD" $800: Frequently free, it's a place in public where you can connect to Wi-Fi & access the Internet a hot spot
#8779, aired 2023-01-05SO THAT HAPPENED $1000: Sept. 2, 1666: He journals about "a great fire... in the city" Samuel Pepys
#9, aired 2023-01-05MERRIAM-WEBSTER DEFINES IT AS... $100: "To make four times as much", like one's money in an investment... a really, really good investment quadruple
#8778, aired 2023-01-04THE NATIONAL PAST TIME $800: This adjective precedes "Free State" in the name of a polity formed in the 1920s with Tim Healy as governor-general Irish
#8777, aired 2023-01-03SCIENCE NEWS $800: Following a bone marrow transplant, in 2019 a patient was declared free of this virus, for only the second time ever the AIDS virus (HIV)
#8776, aired 2023-01-02HISTORY COMES ALIVE WITH ERIK LARSON $200: (Erik Larson presents the clue.) My bestseller "The Devil in the White City" told the incredible true story of how a prolific serial killer lured his victims using the 1893 World's Fair in this Midwest city Chicago
#8775, aired 2022-12-30THE FRIEND ZONE $400: In the 1600s, you could have this kind of ship's captain, who was no use in storms; now we talk mostly about this kind of friend a fair-weather friend
#8775, aired 2022-12-30THERE'S A CENSUS EXCITEMENT IN THE AIR $1600: 1850: All free people listed, not just this alliterative paterfamilias head of household
#8774, aired 2022-12-29SHEER MISERY $600: 2 of its 3 letters are vowels, it's a state of misery, & feel free to Bill & Ted up your response woe
#8774, aired 2022-12-29DON'T GET... $800: ...burned; the FDA says the fair-skinned may want sunscreen with this of 15 or higher an SPF
#8773, aired 2022-12-28LITERARY CHARACTER NAMES $400: Truman Capote changed the heroine of "Breakfast at Tiffany's" from Connie Gustafson to this, capturing her free spirit better Holly Golightly
#8772, aired 2022-12-27ALBUM COVERS $1200: Alberto Vargas painted model Candy Moore posing on a Ferrari for this band's "Candy-O" The Cars
#8771, aired 2022-12-26YOUR ELEMENTAL HIT PARADE $1200: Know it's No. 83 & used in fire-detection equipment & you'll be taking care of this, every day! Taking care of this, every way! bismuth
#8770, aired 2022-12-23PREPOSITIONAL PHRASES $600: When singing "America The Beautiful", you end with these 5 words from sea to shining sea
#8768, aired 2022-12-21THE CLASSIC SONG IN QUESTION $800: Feel free to do the "SNL" headbopping as you say--but do not sing!--this Haddaway hit..."Baby don't hurt me, don't hurt me, no more" "What Is Love"
#8767, aired 2022-12-20FROM THE PRESIDENT'S MEMOIRS $1,000 (Daily Double): "I ordered our men to open fire on the Spaniards in the trenches" Teddy Roosevelt
#8766, aired 2022-12-19LINE OF FIRE $400: A resident of Amherst, Massachusetts, she wrote, "Ashes denote that fire was; respect the grayest pile" Dickinson
#8766, aired 2022-12-19LINE OF FIRE $800: In "The Hobbit", this dragon appeared "as a spark of fire rushing towards them and growing ever huger and more bright" Smaug
#8766, aired 2022-12-19LINE OF FIRE $1600: In 1667 he penned, "Incens'd with indignation Satan stood, unterrify'd, and like a comet burned" Milton
#8766, aired 2022-12-19LINE OF FIRE $2000: In the "Rubaiyat", he wrote that hell was "the shadow of a soul on fire" Omar Khayyam
#8766, aired 2022-12-19LINE OF FIRE $4,000 (Daily Double): An ode Emerson wrote for this town where he lived includes, "Oh tenderly the haughty day, fills his blue urn with fire" Concord
#8764, aired 2022-12-15BRIEF LIVES $400: Composed himself in 1678; made it through "The Four Seasons" around 1720; began decomposing in 1741 Vivaldi
#8762, aired 2022-12-13SOUNDS $600: As in an old kitchen-based catchphrase meaning things are going well, "Now we're" doing this cooking with gas
#8761, aired 2022-12-12THE MOVIE'S TITLE IN OTHER COUNTRIES $800: China enjoyed "A Very Powerful Whale Runs to Heaven" Free Willy
#8761, aired 2022-12-12THE MOVIE'S TITLE IN OTHER COUNTRIES $1000: Japan got right down to it for a Nevada-set film: "I'm Drunk & You're a Prostitute" Leaving Las Vegas
#8761, aired 2022-12-12CHICAGO TV $1200: In NBC's "One Chicago" program block, it comes between "Chicago Med" & "Chicago P.D." Chicago Fire
#8761, aired 2022-12-1219th CENTURY LITERATURE $1200: This oldest member of the 3 Musketeers in Dumas' novel is revealed to be the Comte de la Fere Athos
#8761, aired 2022-12-1219th CENTURY LITERATURE $2000: The Duke of Ferrara is the possibly murderous narrator of this Robert Browning poem My Last Duchess
#8759, aired 2022-12-081990s VOCAB TEST $1200: In 1992 Vanity Fair asked if Kurt & Courtney were the John & Yoko of this grunge
#8756, aired 2022-12-05ENTERTAINMENT AWARDS $600: June Foray, voice of Rocky the Squirrel, helped create an award for animation; it was her husband who named them this the Annies
#8755, aired 2022-12-02AFRICAN LAKES & RIVERS $1000: This "colorful" river forms the southwestern boundary of South Africa's Free State province the Orange
#8753, aired 2022-11-30ELEMENTARY $800: Compounds of this element, symbol P, are often used to make fire when you light a match phosphorus
#8753, aired 2022-11-30THEM'S FIGHTIN' WORDS $2000: A centuries-old fair held in a Dublin suburb gave its name to this type of melee donnybrook
#8752, aired 2022-11-29"GIVE" OR "TAKE" $600: To do this, meaning let someone do what they want, is about horses, not kings--no silent "G" give them free rein
#8751, aired 2022-11-28PLAY YOUR CARDS RIGHT $200: This liberating card depicts Mr. Monopoly flying out of a birdcage; you can buy one from another player Get Out of Jail Free
#8751, aired 2022-11-28BRITISH HISTORY $1600: Abbreviated NHS, this government agency created to provide free public medical care began in 1948 the National Health Service
#8750, aired 2022-11-252-WORD BOOK TITLES $1600: William Makepeace Thackeray not only wrote this novel but illustrated it when it was serialized in the 1840s Vanity Fair
#8750, aired 2022-11-252-WORD BOOK TITLES $5,600 (Daily Double): Pitcher Jim Bouton issued 50 walks in the 1969 season, so 50 times he heard this title of his season diary Ball Four
#8749, aired 2022-11-24NEAR THE FRONT OF THE DICTIONARY $400: It's any substance that increases the rate at which a fire burns accelerant
#8749, aired 2022-11-24CHARACTER ACTORS $400: The Olivier & Tony-nominated Colman Domingo plays Victor Strand on the AMC zombie spin-off show Fear the Walking Dead
#8747, aired 2022-11-22BATMAN VILLAINS $800: Sharing his name with a "Wizard of Oz" character, this fear-obsessed foe also known as Dr. Jonathan Crane first appeared in 1941 Scarecrow
#8747, aired 2022-11-22STORIES OF THE SOUTH $800: Fannie Flagg wrote of Idgie & Ruth, who ran the Whistle Stop Cafe, known for this "colorful" title fare fried green tomatoes
#8745, aired 2022-11-18THE "ANTI" CATEGORY $400: It's what the A-D stands for in WADA, a world organization dedicated to fair competition & clean sport Anti-Doping
#8745, aired 2022-11-18THE NEANDERTHALS $600: Wear from pyrite on tools indicates Neanderthals may have been able to produce this, not just collect it from natural sources fire
#8744, aired 2022-11-17SONGS FROM THE HIT ALBUM $600: "Rolling In The Deep" & "Set Fire To The Rain" 21
#8744, aired 2022-11-17MEMOIRS & PERSONAL ACCOUNTS $2000: Susannah Cahalan chronicled her descent into madness while struggling with an autoimmune disease in this 2012 bestseller Brain on Fire
#8743, aired 2022-11-16BEASTLY BOOK TITLES $400: An ambitious bird tries to fly free over the ocean rather than squabble over food scraps Jonathan Livingston Seagull
#8741, aired 2022-11-14STREAKERS $600: Our stage was recently graced by Dan Feyer, who won the Stamford, Conn. tournament for solving these from 2010 through 2015 crosswords
#8740, aired 2022-11-11SENIOR MOMENTS $800: When this Old Testament king is "old & stricken in years", even the fair maiden Abishag does not rouse his interest David
#8739, aired 2022-11-10CELEBS $200: She co-starred in "Green Lantern" with Ryan Reynolds before the pair married (Blake) Lively
#8739, aired 2022-11-10ORGANIZATIONS $800: This organization that seeks to free political prisoners won the 1977 Nobel Peace Prize for its "worldwide respect for human rights" Amnesty International
#8739, aired 2022-11-10THE ROCK BASSIST'S GROUP $2000: Verdine White, a "Shining Star" in any group Earth, Wind & Fire
#8738, aired 2022-11-09GEOLOGY $2000: From Greek for "fire", this "flow" is super-hot rock & gas emitted by a volcanic eruption pyroclastic
#8737, aired 2022-11-08HOPE YOU READ MIDDLEMARCH $400: Of a swamp, a cathedral or a town, it's what Middlemarch is a town
#8737, aired 2022-11-08HITS OF 2002 $600: This dance anthem by Pink says, "We'll be lookin' flashy in my Mercedes Benz" "Get The Party Started"
#8736, aired 2022-11-0713-LETTER WORDS $1600: It's the fear of old people gerontophobia
#7, aired 2022-11-06FIRE ISLAND $100: This Hawaiian island had a Honolulu of a hot year in 2019; attention, shoppers at Waimalu Plaza, it hit 107 one day Oahu
#7, aired 2022-11-06FIRE ISLAND $200 (Daily Double): On the map, Italy looks like it's giving the boot to this Mediterranean island, which was kicking around at 120 degrees in 2021 Sicily
#7, aired 2022-11-06FIRE ISLAND $300: Playing all the hits of 2020, it's hot 102.7 in Veguitas in this Caribbean country about 90 miles south of Florida Cuba
#7, aired 2022-11-06FIRE ISLAND $400: In September 2020 it was a toasty 110 in this one of California's Channel Islands with Avalon as its only city Catalina
#7, aired 2022-11-06EVERYBODY LOVES RAIN, MAN $500: In the King James Bible, "the Lord rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah" these 2 things fire & brimstone
#7, aired 2022-11-06FIRE ISLAND $500: 92 at Kilkenny Castle in 1887 was long considered the hottest temperature in this island nation Ireland
#7, aired 2022-11-06HISTORY IN COMEDY $900: Bob Newhart on the phone with Walter Raleigh about this stuff: "shred the leaves... between your lips... set fire to it!" tobacco
#7, aired 2022-11-06FUN WITH FLAGS $1000: After the Soviet Union broke apart, so did its flag with a gold star & these 2 symbols representing workers & peasants a hammer & sickle
#8735, aired 2022-11-04TRIPLE RHYME TIME $800: To rent a group of singing Franciscans to hire a friar choir
#8735, aired 2022-11-04MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS $800: The "Four Ks" of makers of this instrument are Kamaka, Kanile'a, Ko'olau & Koaloha ukulele
#8735, aired 2022-11-04CHAMPIONS OF TOURNAMENTS $1000: The U. of Denver won the 2022 NCAA men's hockey championship alliteratively called this, ahead of Minnesota State, Minnesota & Michigan the Frozen Four
#8735, aired 2022-11-04HISTORY $11,600 (Daily Double): Post-WWII British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin said this Secretary of State threw "a lifeline to sinking men" Marshall
#8734, aired 2022-11-03GOTTA KNOW YOUR SCIENCE $1200: "A" is for this part of the flower in which pollen is produced for you, free of charge! anther
#8733, aired 2022-11-02YOU LEFT ME $800: "With four hungry children and a crop in the field... you picked a fine time to leave me", this woman Lucille
#8732, aired 2022-11-01SLOGANS & MOTTOES $800: A Republican slogan of 1856 mentioned, among other things, free soil, free press & him Frémont
#8729, aired 2022-10-27LEARNED LEAGUES $400: "Gift of Fire" is the official publication of the very high IQ society named for this fire-stealing Greek god Prometheus
#8727, aired 2022-10-25THE ELEMENTS $200: Swedish chemist Carl Scheele proved that air was made of 2 gases: "fire air", oxygen, & "foul air", this element nitrogen
#8726, aired 2022-10-24CAPTAIN $1,000 (Daily Double): Capt. Preston was acquitted for his part in this March 5, 1770 event--it couldn't be proved he'd ordered British troops to fire the Boston Massacre
#5, aired 2022-10-23ADVANCED CRIMINAL LAW $300: Voir dire is the process of selecting a fair & impartial one of these groups jurors (or a jury)
#5, aired 2022-10-23U.S. PRESIDENTS $900: Lincoln's 1863 declaration making "persons held as slaves... thenceforward, and forever free" is known as this the Emancipation Proclamation
#8724, aired 2022-10-20PHOBIAS $400: Pathophobia fear of illness (disease)
#8724, aired 2022-10-20SOUTHERN CITIES $800: This Tennessee city's iconic Sunsphere was built for the 1982 World's Fair Knoxville
#8724, aired 2022-10-20PHOBIAS $1000: Gymnophobia--maybe manifested in the locker room fear of nudity
#8723, aired 2022-10-19FAITH, HOPE & CHARITY $2000: This 19th century philosopher wrote in "Fear & Trembling" of a knight of faith who takes a mighty leap Kierkegaard
#8721, aired 2022-10-17LITERARY FIRST LINES $1000: "The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe" starts, "Once there were four children whose names were Peter, Susan, Edmund &" her Lucy
#4, aired 2022-10-16GAME ON $100: A woman in Canada used an existing R to place "quizzers" on 2 triple word scores to help score 365 points at once in this game Scrabble
#4, aired 2022-10-16MASCOTS $300: This battery mascot that's been going & going since the late 1980s has entered the OED to mean something or someone persistent the Energizer Bunny
#4, aired 2022-10-16COLORFUL RESPONSES $600: It's a structure made of glass to grow plants, or what some fear man-made gases are turning our planet into a greenhouse
#4, aired 2022-10-16THE 7 WONDERS OF THE ANCIENT WORLD $1,000 (Daily Double): The Pharos of Alexandria was one of these that stood on an island in the city harbor, with a fire lit at the top every night a lighthouse
#8720, aired 2022-10-14TV AS OF LATE $1200: "Sailing Yacht" is an iteration of this Bravo show, & hats off to chef Marcos for that 3-tiered gluten-free wedding cake Below Deck
#8717, aired 2022-10-11BROADWAY ROCKS $2000: Based on the music of Johnny Cash, "Ring of Fire" opened with this Nine Inch Nails song memorably covered by Johnny "Hurt"
#8716, aired 2022-10-10PLACES IN MOVIE TITLES $2000: The drug adrenochrome gives Johnny Depp's character Raoul Duke a hard time in this film Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
#3, aired 2022-10-09WHAT ARE YOU AFRAID OF? $200: If you've got hemophobia, the fear of this, it's unlikely that you're a surgeon... or a vampire blood
#3, aired 2022-10-09WHAT ARE YOU AFRAID OF? $400: Might want to skip that interview for a job on a ranch if you've got equinophobia, a fear of these horses
#3, aired 2022-10-09WHAT ARE YOU AFRAID OF? $600: Many people have arachnophobia, a fear of these critters spiders
#3, aired 2022-10-09WHAT ARE YOU AFRAID OF? $1000: This phobia is a fear of strangers or foreigners xenophobia
#3, aired 2022-10-09WHAT ARE YOU AFRAID OF? $4,400 (Daily Double): This phobia is the medical term for a fear of confined spaces such as elevators claustrophobia
#8715, aired 2022-10-07GIBSON GIRLS & GUYS $1200: "I need your love like a flame needs a fire", sang this '80s teen queen who also gave us "Only In My Dreams" Debbie Gibson
#8714, aired 2022-10-06ALL HANDS $800: It's the numerical name of the knot seen here a four-in-hand
#8711, aired 2022-10-03ALLITERATION $400: A faraway friend you exchange letters with a pen pal
#8711, aired 2022-10-03CHAPTER $800: Chapter 9: "Meg Goes to Vanity Fair" Little Women
#2, aired 2022-10-0219th CENTURY NOVELS $400: This Mark Twain hero says, "Now, Old Jim, you're a free man again, and I bet you won't ever be a slave no more" Huckleberry Finn
#2, aired 2022-10-02HELPFUL INTERNET ACRONYMS $500 (Daily Double): ICYMI: You clearly have been living under some sort of rock, so let me catch you up on this tantalizing factoid in case you missed it
#2, aired 2022-10-02THIS INFORMATION $500: Cologne, Germany is one of many historic cities along this great river of Western Europe the Rhine
#2, aired 2022-10-02HISTORY QUIZ $1000: A Paris airport is named for this general who led the Free French forces during WWII & later served as France's president Charles de Gaulle
#2, aired 2022-10-02MYTHOLOGY $1200: Prometheus had the bright idea to steal this from the gods & give it to man; the gods had Pro's liver eaten by an eagle on the reg fire
#8710, aired 2022-09-30BEG $1200: St. Francis created an order of this type of alms-seeking friar, from a Latin word for "beggar" mendicant
#8708, aired 2022-09-28AND THE STATE GOES TO... $800: Utah, 2008 McCain
#8708, aired 2022-09-28I LONG FOR LONG "U" $1000: In a restaurant, what a free appetizer will do to your bouche amuse
#8706, aired 2022-09-26HISTORIC NICKNAMES $4,000 (Daily Double): "The Big Four" were Georges Clemenceau, David Lloyd George, Vittorio Orlando & this American Woodrow Wilson
#8705, aired 2022-09-23AMERICAN HISTORY $2,000 (Daily Double): Speaking at the opening of a World's Fair, he was the first U.S. president to appear on television FDR
#8705, aired 2022-09-23AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: An early champion of free speech & religious liberty, Anne Hutchinson was put on trial in 1637 & banished from this colony the Massachusetts Bay Colony
#8703, aired 2022-09-214 CONSONANTS IN A ROW $800: Idiomatically, it's a catastrophe when this large receptacle comes before "fire" dumpster
#8702, aired 2022-09-20ENTERTAIN "YOU" $1000: Harry Styles befriends a lonely fish in the video for this solo 2019 hit that says, "I'd walk through fire for you" "Adore You"
#8701, aired 2022-09-19TL;DW $1000: We were excited to see his fabled cut but then saw the USA Today headline: "Why is" this director's "'Justice League' four hours long?" (Zack) Snyder
#8701, aired 2022-09-19GODDESSES $1600: Seen here, are the priestesses, or virgins, who were consecrated to this Roman goddess, & who kept her sacred fire burning Vesta
#8700, aired 2022-09-16TEXTING ABBREV. $200: Suffering from FOMO? You've got this fear of missing out
#8699, aired 2022-09-15PHILOSOPHY $400: Some say this 2-word concept of desire & decision isn't real; experiments show people exposed to that viewpoint behave worse free will
#8699, aired 2022-09-15PARTY! $800: An article about these 2-word parties gone wrong included one dad-to-be causing $8 million in damages in a Tucson fire a gender reveal
#8698, aired 2022-09-14MUSIC $200: Virtuoso Narciso Yepes played a guitar of his own design with this many strings, four more than the norm 10
#8697, aired 2022-09-131960s AMERICA $200: At the 1964 World's Fair, Henry Ford II unveiled this pony car with a price near $2,300; Detroit ran wild as 400,000 sold in year one the Mustang
#8697, aired 2022-09-131960s AMERICA $600: Let me stand next to your fire! 1967's Summer of Love reached a peak when Jimi Hendrix set his guitar ablaze at this pop festival the Monterey Pop Festival
#8697, aired 2022-09-13BROADCASTING HISTORY $800: In 1946 "Faraway Hill", about a widow in love with a man engaged to another woman, brought this genre to network television soap opera
#8694, aired 2022-07-28WEST VIRGINIA & REGULAR VIRGINIA $400: West Virginia's motto is "Montani Semper Liberi", translated as these people "Are Always Free" Mountaineers
#8691, aired 2022-07-25CHEMISTRY $1000: Acids & bases are among these current conductors; using a solid instead of a liquid one reduces the risk of fire in batteries electrolytes
#8690, aired 2022-07-22METALLIC EXPRESSIONS $1600: Fashion model Derek Zoolander gave this name to his trademark look; others include Ferrari & Le Tigre Blue Steel
#8690, aired 2022-07-22BOOKS OF THE CIVIL WAR ERA $2000: A story of fortunes lost & attained, "The Adventures of Philip" was the last complete work by this "Vanity Fair" novelist William Makepeace Thackeray
#8688, aired 2022-07-20IT'S A BUG $200: Types include red, black & fire & their job titles include scouts, who lay down a chemical trail to new food sources ants
#8688, aired 2022-07-20IT'S A BUG $400: Farmers burning fields after harvest would chant this creature, "fly away home, your house is on fire, and your children will burn" ladybug
#8686, aired 2022-07-18GOOD HISTORY $200: Around 400,000 B.C., hominids began to control this; one later use may have been to destroy habitat so as to aid hunting & foraging fire
#8686, aired 2022-07-18ACTIVE BIBLE VERSES $800: In Exodus, "Behold", this "burned with fire, and (it) was not consumed" the (burning) bush
#8686, aired 2022-07-18ACTING UP ON TV $1000: Beltalowda! Keon Alexander showed wide range as Marco Inaros, leader of the Free Navy on this Amazon sci-fi show The Expanse
#8684, aired 2022-07-14EARTH $600: This liquid beneath the Earth's surface is different in Hawaii--it has more molten rock & fewer gases & fragments magma
#8682, aired 2022-07-12THE LYIN' KING $600: Leopold II of this country created the Congo Free State, which the world would later realize was anything but free Belgium
#8682, aired 2022-07-12"TOP" OF THE POPS $800: In 1965 they topped the pops with "I Can't Help Myself" the Four Tops
#8681, aired 2022-07-11CHEERY-"O" $600: Cheers to the NCAA Final Four, where the MVP is called the "M.O.P.", with the "O" short for this outstanding
#8681, aired 2022-07-11THE RAVEN-POURRI $600: "Presently my soul grew stronger", & I'd wait no longer! This "small" French cake I'd make, I swore! "Quoth the raven..." petit four
#8679, aired 2022-07-07WHICH NEW YORK CITY BOROUGH? $600: Is where you can see the Unisphere in Flushing Meadows Corona Park, built for the 1964 World's Fair Queens
#8679, aired 2022-07-07SALAD DRESSING FOR SUCCESS $800: It's the first name in salad dressing & for the steak house known for it, including fat free raspberry pecan & sweet Vidalia onion Ken's
#8675, aired 2022-07-01ITALIAN LOANWORDS $800: Made with espresso, it's named for resembling the color of a certain friar's habit cappuccino
#8675, aired 2022-07-01GAME PLAN $800: Drop colored discs into a grid trying to get a quartet of yours in a row vertically, horizontally or diagonally Connect Four
#8675, aired 2022-07-0120th CENTURY NAMES $1200: He won nine gold medals in four Olympics before retiring from track & field competition in 1997 Carl Lewis
#8674, aired 2022-06-30JOURNALISM $800: Known for his exposés, this journalist dedicated his book "War on Peace" to his mother Mia Ronan Farrow
#8673, aired 2022-06-29MUNICIPAL MUSIC $1600: Feeling "unfettered & alive", Joni Mitchell sang of being "a free man in" this city Paris
#8671, aired 2022-06-27BUSINESS NAMES $800: After having trouble with his Ferrari, this guy, first name Ferruccio, began making his own luxury sports cars Lamborghini
#8671, aired 2022-06-27I SPEAK FOR THE TREES $800: "An 11-year-old girl sitting on this fire escape could imagine that she was living in a tree", says this classic by Betty Smith A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
#8670, aired 2022-06-24WORDS IN COMPARISON $1000: Specially made 2-word area in a house to retreat to in times of great fear a panic room
#8667, aired 2022-06-21MOVIE INSPIRATIONS $3,100 (Daily Double): Padre Fray Tormenta, who helped the orphans of Texcoco while wearing a mask in the ring, inspired this 2006 comedy Nacho Libre
#8666, aired 2022-06-20PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $2000: This actor/playwright won a Tony for "August: Osage County" & has been seen in "Homeland" & "Ford v Ferrari" Tracy Letts
#8664, aired 2022-06-16CLASSIC CARS $800: Company founder & namesake Enzo had to give approval in order for someone to purchase one of its 250 GTOs Ferrari
#8663, aired 2022-06-15COACH & HORSES $600: This Notre Dame quartet was coached by Knute Rockne the Four Horsemen
#8660, aired 2022-06-10JANE AUSTEN-TATIOUS $400: In Austen novels the girls like a guy who has "four thousand" or "five thousand a year"--4 or 5,000 of these pounds
#8660, aired 2022-06-10U.S. DATES $400: For years 7-Eleven offered a little joy with free Slurpees on this date July 11th
#8660, aired 2022-06-10WHERE AM I? $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents the clue.) I’m here on board the fire boat John S. Damrell helping protect this city’s harbor south of Winthrop & north of Quincy Boston
#8660, aired 2022-06-10U.S. DATES $1000: Date in 1865 on which Union General Gordon Granger told the African Americans of Galveston they were free June 19th (Juneteenth)
#8658, aired 2022-06-08ELEMENTS & THEIR USES $800: Okay, we've heard about it regarding "fire & brimstone", but this element is used as a fungicide & in vulcanizing rubber sulfur
#8658, aired 2022-06-08RECENT SLANG $800: Something hot can be this or straight this--it all sounds temperature related but isn't fire
#8658, aired 2022-06-08LAUREL CANYON $1200: Stars flocked to the 1970s football & poker nights at the "Kirkwood Casino", the home of this late Eagles singer Glenn Frey
#8658, aired 2022-06-085-LETTERS, ENDS IN "O" $1600: Cannon fire volley a salvo
#8657, aired 2022-06-07FROM FARM TO TABLE $200: This ancient grain served in salads is a homophone for an Egyptian king farro
#8657, aired 2022-06-07DEAR-POURRI $800: Mia Farrow's sister was the subject of this Beatles song that asks her "won't you come out to play" "Dear Prudence"
#8656, aired 2022-06-06IT'S RHYMING DAY $1000: A heated dispute or competition a fray
#8655, aired 2022-06-03SUPER-DUPER SUPERS $400: Famous as Captain America, Chris Evans played this Marvel hothead in 2005's "Fantastic Four" the Human Torch
#8654, aired 2022-06-02LET'S PLAY A GAME $600: You've probably heard of a turkey in bowling, but a hambone is even better, as that's this many consecutive strikes four
#8652, aired 2022-05-31MEDIEVAL TIMES $1200: A serf who could hide out in a town for this long, "un an et un jour" in French, became a free citizen a year and a day
#8647, aired 2022-05-24SPORTS SHORTS $1000: He took gold with a powerhouse free skate at the 2022 Winter Olympics Nathan Chen
#8645, aired 2022-05-20ST. PATRICK'S CATHEDRAL $1000: This traditional series of 14 images at St. Patrick's won prizes as artworks at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair the Stations of the Cross
#8645, aired 2022-05-20ONE-NAMED OSCAR WINNERS $2000: Greek composer Vangelis ran away with his Oscar for this Olympics-centered film Chariots of Fire
#8641, aired 2022-05-16HOW INVENTIVE! $200: Don't fear the mechanical this, patented by National Inventors Hall of Famer Cyrus McCormick in 1834 reaper
#8641, aired 2022-05-16I'VE GOT A BIG BANK ROLE $400: In this movie, Ryan Reynolds is a bank teller; fortunately, it's a video game, as his day usually doesn't go well Free Guy
#8640, aired 2022-05-13BRISK LIT $400: Hunter S. Thompson faced these 2 title emotions again "On the Campaign Trail '72" Fear and Loathing
#8638, aired 2022-05-11"4"! $400: A Mother Goose nursery rhyme says, "Sing a song of sixpence, a pocket full of rye" this many blackbirds "baked in a pie" four and twenty
#8638, aired 2022-05-11WHAT'S THAT SONG CALLED? $1200: "I went down, down, down & the flames went higher" "Ring Of Fire"
#8637, aired 2022-05-10NUMERIC HOMOPHONES $600: A golfer's "look out!" fore
#8636, aired 2022-05-092 "R"s NOT TO REASON WHY $200: A brother in Bordeaux frère
#8634, aired 2022-05-05A GLUTEN-FREE CATEGORY $200: Seen here, it'd be weird to get one à la mode a pie chart
#8634, aired 2022-05-05A GLUTEN-FREE CATEGORY $400: These tasty-sounding bits of info stored on a computer can help maintain a user's browser session cookies
#8634, aired 2022-05-05A GLUTEN-FREE CATEGORY $600: This actor won't trigger your celiac disease Wil Wheaton
#8634, aired 2022-05-05A GLUTEN-FREE CATEGORY $800: This former name of the Hawaiian Islands sounds glutenous, but fret not the Sandwich Islands
#8634, aired 2022-05-05A GLUTEN-FREE CATEGORY $1000: This type of logic is named for its twisted nature & numerous holes pretzel logic
#8633, aired 2022-05-04AFRICA $800: Though it's nearly 17,000 feet high, Mawenzi, one of the summits of this mountain, is often snow-free Kilimanjaro
#8633, aired 2022-05-04THE MOVIES $2000: He directed the films "Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me" & "Mulholland Drive" David Lynch
#8632, aired 2022-05-03FREE AS A WORD $400: In idioms of freedom, this word follows "on the" or "turn me" loose
#8632, aired 2022-05-03LET'S GO TO THE AUTO SHOP $400: This numeric term refers to a system that can provide simultaneous power to a car's front & back tires four-wheel drive
#8632, aired 2022-05-03FREE AS A WORD $800: August 1944 brought this happy event for Paris; the French use the same word liberation
#8632, aired 2022-05-03FREE AS A WORD $1200: Bob Dylan wrote, "I see my light come shining from the west unto the east. Any day now... I shall be" this released
#8632, aired 2022-05-03FREE AS A WORD $1600: Unfettered means free & so does this word that uses a synonym for a fetter unshackled
#8632, aired 2022-05-03FREE AS A WORD $2000: LTAD, from the Google spinoff Waymo, stands for "let's talk" this kind of "driving", also a word meaning free or independent autonomous
#8630, aired 2022-04-29THE LANGUAGE OF SPORT $600: This part of an arm is also the point on a basketball court where the free throw line & the lane line meet at a 90 degree angle elbow
#8630, aired 2022-04-29FUN WITH COOKING TERMS $1200: Veggies are scalded, then plunged into ice water when you do this, a word also meaning "make pale with fear" blanch
#8629, aired 2022-04-28POETS & POETRY $200: Joy Harjo's "When the World as We Knew It Ended" refers to this date when "two towers... went down, swallowed by a fire dragon" 9/11
#8629, aired 2022-04-28PHILOSOPHY $800: Medieval questions about these: not how many fit on a pin but do they have free will? & with no bodies, can they have knowledge? angels
#8628, aired 2022-04-27MOUNTAINS & HILLS $400: The order "Don't fire 'til you see the whites of their eyes" is associated with this hill Bunker Hill
#8628, aired 2022-04-27FINISH THE OLD PROVERB $600: "No one can have a mouth full of" this baking essential "& also blow on a fire" flour
#8628, aired 2022-04-27MISCELLANY $1600: This Greek love goddess is the mom of Phobos & Deimos, "fear" & "terror", so yeah, thanks for that, mom Aphrodite
#8627, aired 2022-04-26____, ____ & ____ $800: It's good advice to follow when clothing catches fire stop, drop & roll
#8625, aired 2022-04-22ALL THINGS BEING EQUAL $800: Calif.'s Board of Equalization ensures assessments are fair in levying these taxes, the main source of local government revenue property taxes
#8624, aired 2022-04-21A GOLF COURSE $400: Those drives are going everywhere but the fairway--time to improve them by teeing it up at this practice area the driving range
#8624, aired 2022-04-21CALIFORNIA $1000: This city about midway between L.A. & Sin City is mentioned in the first sentence of "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" Barstow
#8620, aired 2022-04-1519th CENTURY AMERICA $200: On October 8, 1871, a fire broke out near the barn of Patrick & Catherine O'Leary; & the next morning this city was in ruins Chicago
#8619, aired 2022-04-14ECONOMICS $2000: Related to a word meaning "setting on fire", they're defined simply as "perceived benefits that encourage certain behaviors" incentives
#8618, aired 2022-04-13A REIGN OF ERROR $400: After having his mom & wife killed, this emperor was accused of starting a fire that devastated Rome; he blamed the Christians Nero
#8618, aired 2022-04-13BAT QUIZ $2000: Each year as many as 20 million female Mexican free-tailed bats give birth at sites like Bracken Cave in this U.S. state Texas
#8618, aired 2022-04-13OH ME OF LITTLE FAITH $2000: 1 of the 2 Brits, a biologist & a political writer, in "The Four Horsemen of Atheism" with Americans Daniel Dennett & Sam Harris (1 of) Christopher Hitchens or Richard Dawkins
#8617, aired 2022-04-12I HAVE A PLAN $3,000 (Daily Double): In 1990 the Shatalin plan for moving the USSR to a free market was too radical even for this reformer who ousted Shatalin Gorbachev
#8616, aired 2022-04-11IN MOM'S FREE TIME $200: Susan Casey, one of the 1st politicians to call herself this kind of "mom", wasn't kidding--her son Conor became a star MLS striker a soccer mom
#8616, aired 2022-04-11IN MOM'S FREE TIME $400: Detroit mom Evelyn Overton started making this dessert & turned it into a "Factory" cheesecake
#8616, aired 2022-04-11A EUROPEAN CAPITAL TOUR $400: Originally, this city founded by King Harald was east of the Aker River but after a 1624 fire, ended up moving further west Oslo
#8616, aired 2022-04-11IN MOM'S FREE TIME $600: Tired of little heads going thunk, a daycare staff wanted something to prop kids up; Susan Henderson created this pillow the Boppy
#8616, aired 2022-04-11IN MOM'S FREE TIME $800: The mother of this 4-time Oscar-winning actress was a birth control activist & is seen here with Margaret Sanger Katharine Hepburn
#8616, aired 2022-04-11IN MOM'S FREE TIME $1000: In 2016 Wisconsin mom Kristin Garvey made the first yard sign with these 5 words preceding various affirmations in this house we believe
#8614, aired 2022-04-07COMPUTERS & THE INTERNET $400: The Wow! computer for seniors says it has "free anti-virus" & this bad stuff "protection" malware
#8613, aired 2022-04-06PHYSIOLOGY $1200: This fight-or-flight hormone causes goosebumps which back when we were furrier raised hair follicles trapping air adrenaline
#8612, aired 2022-04-05CAN'T LOSE $400: By the numbers in 1984, it was Ronald Reagan, 54 million votes, this Minnesota man, 17 million fewer Mondale
#8611, aired 2022-04-04ALL'S "VEL" THAT ENDS "VEL" $200: Trying to be fair is looking for this kind of "playing field" level
#8610, aired 2022-04-01THANK YOU, THE INTERNET $200: Blind & low-vision people connect with sighted volunteers for visual aid using a free app called Be My these Eyes
#8610, aired 2022-04-01MUSICALS BY SONG LYRICS $400: "The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain" My Fair Lady
#8610, aired 2022-04-01THANK YOU, THE INTERNET $1000: 60,000 free ebooks await your perusal at the project named for this 15th century German Gutenberg
#8609, aired 2022-03-31MAP QUEST $200: This state capital was founded by four way-out-of-staters, one from England, one from Georgia, one from Alabama & one from Iowa Helena
#8609, aired 2022-03-31EVERYTHING FROM A TO A $800: It's the fear of heights acrophobia
#8609, aired 2022-03-31EVERYTHING FROM A TO A $1000: It's the little area that processes emotions such as fear the amygdala
#8609, aired 2022-03-31IN THE GILDED AGE $2000: Celebrating the Declaration of Independence, the USA's first world's fair, the Centennial Exposition, was held in this city Philadelphia
#8608, aired 2022-03-30HISTORICAL NONFICTION $800: Annalee Newitz' "Four Lost Cities" that flourished & then perished include this one around a big wat or temple Angkor
#8606, aired 2022-03-28FROM THE SKY $2,000 (Daily Double): Online databases of crashes by these include quite a few of the U.S. military's Reaper & Fire Scout types drones
#8603, aired 2022-03-23WE READ IT IN THE '80s $1000: He set the '80s New York literary world on fire with "Bright Lights, Big City" Jay McInerney
#8599, aired 2022-03-17IRISH NAME DERIVATIONS $800: "The real" this last name means the genuine article; the real derivation is one of "fire" McCoy
#8599, aired 2022-03-17BEASTLY LIT $800: Joy Adamson's nonfiction books "Born Free" & "Living Free" are about Elsa, this type of animal a lion
#8596, aired 2022-03-14HOBBIES $400: After you've made your pottery, you may want to fire it in one of these ovens a kiln
#8593, aired 2022-03-09FURNITURE $600: In the 16th century, French gave us this word for an ornate, free-standing wardrobe, a great place to keep linens & towels an armoire
#8593, aired 2022-03-09LITERARY CHARACTER SPOILERS $1,400 (Daily Double): She is promised to Robert Canler, but the man also called Lord Greystoke asks, "If you were free, would you marry me?" Yep! in a later book Jane (Porter)
#8590, aired 2022-03-04SAMS CLUB $800: In 2015, he took home four Grammys, including one for the song "Stay With Me" Sam Smith
#8590, aired 2022-03-04GENUS & SPECIES $2000: Musca is Latin for "fly", an insect that should fear Muscicapa, a genus of this bird a flycatcher
#8589, aired 2022-03-03DETROIT: NEWS CLUES $400: (I'm Rhonda Walker.) Speaking in Tiger Stadium in 1990, four months after his release from prison, this man quoted Marvin Gaye, "Brother, brother, there's far too many of you dying" Nelson Mandela
#8588, aired 2022-03-02THE MAN IN THE DIRECTOR'S CHAIR $1000: Seen in an actual director's chair, he was famous for making Westerns, but won four Oscars in other genres, like for "The Informer" John Ford
#8588, aired 2022-03-02ACRONYMS $1200: It's used to promote retail sales: BOGOF buy one, get one free
#8587, aired 2022-03-01BLISSFUL STANZAS $2,000 (Daily Double): Vivaldi published poems with this 1725 work; one began, "Spring has arrived with joy / Welcomed by the birds with happy songs" The Four Seasons
#8586, aired 2022-02-28THE PICKLE BARREL $1200: At the 1893 World's Fair, this pickle-maker from Pittsburgh offered souvenir pickle charms to those who visited his booth H.J. Heinz
#8584, aired 2022-02-24HODGEPODGE $200: In the 1970s East Germany came up with ketwurst inside a roll as an alternative to this American fare hot dog
#8583, aired 2022-02-23COUNTRY NICKNAMES $400: Iceland is "the land of" these 2 things also mentioned in a George R.R. Martin series ice & fire
#8582, aired 2022-02-22FREE STUFF $200: Like the federal government, many states have a DOT, short for this, & they'll mail you a free map Department of Transportation
#8582, aired 2022-02-22FREE STUFF $400: Southwest Airlines has stopped serving peanuts, but a snack mix featuring chips & these salty treats is always complimentary pretzels
#8582, aired 2022-02-22FREE STUFF $600: The modern craze for giving these to Major League Baseball fans began with Willie Mays ones at Candlestick Park May 9, 1999 bobbleheads
#8582, aired 2022-02-22BOOKS & AUTHORS $800: In the book "New Hampshire" by Robert Frost, you'll read "Some say the world will end in fire, some say in" this ice
#8582, aired 2022-02-22FREE STUFF $800: Rhyming term for a sack of gifts at an awards show; a $200,000 Oscars version included gold vape pens & liposuction vouchers a swag bag
#8582, aired 2022-02-22FREE STUFF $1000: In 2009, Todd Bol made a model full of books in tribute to his mother, a teacher; it became this 3-word concept with more than 100,000 worldwide a (the) Little Free Library
#8582, aired 2022-02-22____ OF ____ $1200: The Inquisition ceremony auto-da-fe means this in English act of faith
#18, aired 2022-02-22ALLITERATIVE PHRASES $400: After Selection Sunday in 2022, the first four games of this will take place in Dayton March Madness
#18, aired 2022-02-22HISTORIC POTPOURRI $800: His life came to an end in 1805 after being hit by enemy fire on the deck of his flagship, the HMS Victory Horatio Nelson
#18, aired 2022-02-22CLASSICAL MUSIC $1200: Composed in the 1700s, "The Four Seasons" concertos by this composer are meant to convey different times of the year Vivaldi
#18, aired 2022-02-22DOCUMENTARY SUBJECTS $5,000 (Daily Double): This festival comes before "The Greatest Party That Never Happened" in a 2019 documentary Fyre Fest
#17, aired 2022-02-22DIGESTING SOME LITERATURE $400: In a Thomas Harris book, the conductor of the philharmonic could not recall the fare at this doctor's dinner Hannibal Lecter
#17, aired 2022-02-22LYRICS TO REMEMBER $2000: This old school punk band: "Twenty, twenty, twenty-four hours to go, I wanna be sedated" The Ramones
#15, aired 2022-02-18A LOFTY CATEGORY $800: In line with the theme of Seattle's World's Fair, its legs were painted Astronaut White & its core Orbital Olive the Space Needle
#8579, aired 2022-02-17"FOR" WHAT IT'S WORTH $800: An excursion or raid a foray
#14, aired 2022-02-17MOVIE SUM-UP $400: We're all living in a simulation! Only a bank teller can save us!; life is a video game Free Guy
#14, aired 2022-02-17CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS $1000: These 2 adjectives describe the trial guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment speedy & public
#12, aired 2022-02-16AROUND THE TIME YOU WERE BORN $800: On Dec. 13, 2003 U.S. forces near Tikrit found this president of Iraq underground; a gun was present, but he did not fire a shot (Saddam) Hussein
#11, aired 2022-02-16LITERATURE: "GOOD" OR "GREAT" $300 (Daily Double): In this novel, Miss Havisham dies after the faded wedding dress she wears catches fire Great Expectations
#10, aired 2022-02-15COOKING WITH DAVID CHANG $400: (David Chang delivers the clue.) Tamari is a richer & less salty alternative to regular soy sauce, & unlike soy sauce, has no added wheat, so it's this, as indicated on the label, & safe for certain diets gluten free
#9, aired 2022-02-15THAT FILM IS FIRE $400: Mowgli accidentally starts a forest fire in this 2016 live-action/CGI film The Jungle Book
#9, aired 2022-02-15CHAPTERS IN THE NOVEL $400: "Jo Meets Apollyon", "Meg Goes to Vanity Fair" Little Women
#9, aired 2022-02-15A SEMESTER ABROAD $600: This biological reservoir is 2.3 million square miles in area & stretches to the Andes; when there, feel free to save it the Amazon
#9, aired 2022-02-15THAT FILM IS FIRE $800: Fresh from hell, Scorpion uses some fire powers to take down Sub-Zero in this 2021 flick based on a video game Mortal Kombat
#9, aired 2022-02-15THAT FILM IS FIRE $1200: Michael Myers escapes a fire in this 2021 entry in a venerable franchise Halloween Kills
#9, aired 2022-02-15THAT FILM IS FIRE $1600: Sandra Bullock gets some pushback using a fire extinguisher to battle flames in this 2013 sci-fi thriller Gravity
#9, aired 2022-02-15THAT FILM IS FIRE $2000: This 2009 Tarantino film features a fire in a Nazi-filled movie theater Inglourious Basterds
#8576, aired 2022-02-14AMERICAN FIVES $1000: In 1915, Tiffany & Co. designed the seal of this five-commissioner commission that protects consumers in fair competition the FTC (Federal Trade Commission)
#8576, aired 2022-02-14GEOGRAPHY $1,600 (Daily Double): The Aleutians divide the Bering Sea from the Pacific, but are still part of the belt with this un-icy name the Ring of Fire
#8576, aired 2022-02-14JOHNNY GILBERT READS LYRICS FROM THE HEART $2000: "I care for you still & I will forever... honest, we got so familiar spending each day of the year, white Ferrari" Frank Ocean
#8574, aired 2022-02-10SINGING ABOUT THE WEATHER $400: In a holiday favorite, "The fire is so delightful and since we've no place to go", this title, this title, this title "Let It Snow"
#8574, aired 2022-02-10RECENT BOOKS $2000: With four Hugo Awards on her mantel, this author wrote about the Big Apple in "The City We Became" N.K. Jemisin
#6, aired 2022-02-10WORLD CAPITALS $400: This South American capital was originally named for "Our Lady Saint Mary of the Fair Winds" or "Good Air" Buenos Aires
#5, aired 2022-02-10HOME ECONOMICS WITH TOPHER GRACE $600: (Topher Grace delivers the clue.) Hey, it's never too early to start planning for retirement, guys; one type of IRA that lets qualified distributions be tax-free is named for this senator who represented Delaware with Joe Biden (William) Roth
#5, aired 2022-02-10HOME ECONOMICS WITH TOPHER GRACE $1000: (Topher Grace delivers the clue.) Hey, you got a new job! Congrats! Now you're looking for an apartment & here's some free advice: 30% is the traditional max for your RTI ratio, "RTI" short for this rent-to-income
#5, aired 2022-02-10BEFORE & AFTER $1000: A regimen of liquefied carrots & grapefruit that's a freeway space where many drive 75 the juice fast lane
#8573, aired 2022-02-09MISMATCHED PAIRS $800: "Beantown" rotisserie restaurant chain & unregulated economic system in which business is lightly taxed Boston Market & free market
#4, aired 2022-02-09PREFIXES $400: Get the jump with this prefix; after all, thiswarned is thisarmed fore-
#4, aired 2022-02-09PREFIXES $3,000 (Daily Double): It's a shortcut used to generate a whole sequence of keystrokes; it was a prefix for "instruction" but broke free macro
#3, aired 2022-02-09COLLEGE SPORTS DYNASTIES $200: Minnesota & Wisconsin have each won 6 titles at the Women's Frozen Four, the NCAA championship of this ice hockey
#8572, aired 2022-02-08CONNECT FOUR $800: Inky, Blinky, Pinky, Clyde the Pac-Man ghosts
#8572, aired 2022-02-08CONNECT FOUR $1200: For Notre Dame: Harry Stuhldreher, Jim Crowley, Don Miller, Elmer Layden the Four Horsemen
#8572, aired 2022-02-08CONNECT FOUR $1600: In Catholicism: prudence, justice, fortitude, temperance the cardinal virtues
#8572, aired 2022-02-08CONNECT FOUR $2000: Rig-, Sama-, Yajur-, Atharva- the four Vedas
#2, aired 2022-02-08AMERICAN HISTORY $1200: Favoring free silver, in a rousing 1896 speech this orator & statesman said, "you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold" William Jennings Bryan
#2, aired 2022-02-08SHAKESPEARE $1600: A Stratford-upon-Avon statue of the Bard is surrounded by four characters, including this young prince from the history plays Henry
#2, aired 2022-02-08AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: Killing 146 workers, mostly women, this tragic fire at a New York City garment factory in 1911 led to new safety laws the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire
#1, aired 2022-02-08DEAN'S LIST $2000: Dean Potter climbed part of El Capitan in Yosemite this way that uses no ropes & gave a documentary its title free solo
#8570, aired 2022-02-04DANCE PARTY $200: At the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, the "Street in Cairo" exhibit helped introduce this exotic dancing to America belly dancing
#8569, aired 2022-02-03THE 20th CENTURY $800: The invasion of Kuwait prompted this Allied operation to free it from Iraqi occupation Operation Desert Storm
#8565, aired 2022-01-28AMERICANA $400: A quarter-ton cow made of this (unsalted) is an icon of the Illinois State Fair butter
#8565, aired 2022-01-28ONE-SYLLABLE ADJECTIVES $800: It can mean honest or attractive, or refer to good weather fair
#8564, aired 2022-01-27MOTHERS OF INVENTION $200: Apartment blazes were deadlier before Anna Connelly devised one of these metal structures around 1887 a fire escape
#8563, aired 2022-01-26CONFERENCE CHAMPIONSHIP HEROES $400: (Phil Simms presents the clue.) The Colts trailed the Patriots 21-3 in the 2006 AFC title game, before this quarterback took over, leading Indianapolis to four second-half touchdowns in a seesaw 38-34 victory (Peyton) Manning
#8562, aired 2022-01-25NATIONAL ANTHEM LYRICS $2,400 (Daily Double): "With glowing hearts we see thee rise, the True North strong & free" Canada
#8561, aired 2022-01-24GOVERNMENT AGENCIES $200: In 1992 this U.S. agency began working with dry cleaners to keep communities free from chemicals the EPA
#8556, aired 2022-01-176-LETTER WORDS $1200: To light a fire one can enjoy while using the same-named e-reader kindle
#8556, aired 2022-01-17ILLUSTRATORS $2000: "Blue-winged Teal" was among the 435 illustrations he did for a book published in four volumes between 1827 & 1838 Audubon
#8555, aired 2022-01-14FEAR $200: The "Irish Fright" of 1688 affected thousands in England with fear of slaughter from marauders of this religion Catholics
#8555, aired 2022-01-14FEAR $400: In Luke 2 they "were sore afraid" but an angel tells them, "Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy" the shepherds
#8555, aired 2022-01-14FEAR $600: FDR described "fear itself" as "nameless, unreasoning, unjustified " this feeling terror
#8555, aired 2022-01-14FEAR $800: Asylum seekers in the U.S. may be examined to see if they have a "reasonable fear of persecution or" this savage treatment torture
#8555, aired 2022-01-14FEAR $1000: The National Institute of Mental Health defines them as "sudden and repeated" episodes of fear of "several minutes or longer" panic attacks
#8554, aired 2022-01-13PLATES, POTS & PANS $200: It's "out of" this kitchenware, perhaps a non-stick one, "& into the fire" the frying pan
#8554, aired 2022-01-13WE GOT STUCK $800: Ready, aim, fire--this gun seen here, used in bonding surfaces to make things watertight a caulking gun
#8551, aired 2022-01-10PARTS OF A POEM $1200: This word for a group of 4 lines of verse is from French for "four" a quatrain
#8550, aired 2022-01-07METAPHORS $800: Meaning achieving great success, grabbing this was originally a way to get a free ride on a merry-go-round the brass ring
#8550, aired 2022-01-07AWARDS & HONORS $1200: His first two Tonys honored his work in lighter fare; in 2018, his third was for his performance in "Angels in America" Nathan Lane
#8547, aired 2022-01-04RECENT POP CULTURE $800: This scary "road" is a 2021 trilogy of horror films on Netflix adapted from R.L. Stine's books Fear Street
#8546, aired 2022-01-03DEADLY SINS, ELSEWHERE $800: U2 honored Martin Luther King, singing, "Free at last, they took your life, they could not take your" this pride
#8546, aired 2022-01-03BILLBOARD TOP 200 ALBUMS IN 2021 $1000: "The Best of" this Canadian band, "Volume 1" included "Rockstar", "How You Remind Me" & 17 other songs Nickelback
#8545, aired 2021-12-31IT'S YOUR LOKI DAY $1200: For crimes against the gods, Loki is bound to a rock as punishment much like this Greek titan; both are gods of fire Prometheus
#8543, aired 2021-12-29TWENTY QUESTIONS $200: In the Gettysburg Address, Abraham Lincoln used this synonym for 20 a score
#8542, aired 2021-12-282-WORD BOOK TITLES $1200: This Thackeray book arrived in 1848; the first version of what is now the same-named magazine, 11 years later Vanity Fair
#8541, aired 2021-12-27WINGS, BUT NO FLY $400: The wingback type of this was originally designed to keep the sitter free from drafts of cold air chair
#8540, aired 2021-12-24FIRST RESPONDERS $600: Hoist gloves protect first responders' hands while aboard these vehicles performing rescues helicopters
#8540, aired 2021-12-24FIRST RESPONDERS $800: Where there are these pros, there's fire; the U.S. Forest Service employs more than 300 of them smoke jumpers
#8538, aired 2021-12-22'TIS THE SEASON, ERA OR EPOCH $400: Hunters are fond of this free-for-all period which in another sense means a time when someone is widely subjected to criticism open season
#8537, aired 2021-12-21NEW ORLEANS: NEWS CLUES $200: (Hi, I'm Kim Holden.) The 1984 World's Fair in New Orleans featured this NASA Space Shuttle that was originally the "Constitution" but later was named for a famous fictional starship Enterprise
#8537, aired 2021-12-21SPORTS NICKNAMES $200: Mitch Moreland, sometimes called "Mitchy Four Bags", is a pro athlete in this sport baseball
#8537, aired 2021-12-21GO GET "EM" $2000: This Greek philosopher was the first to argue that all matter is made up of earth, air, fire & water Empedocles
#8536, aired 2021-12-20THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE $1200: A candidate has won the electoral vote but lost the popular vote four times; the first in 1876 was this 19th president (Rutherford B.) Hayes
#8535, aired 2021-12-17THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND $200: In 1665 the Great this hit London, killing thousands; the next year, the Great Fire took out 13,000 houses & much of the city the Great Plague
#8535, aired 2021-12-17LATIN MOTTOES & PHRASES $2,000 (Daily Double): The motto of Johns Hopkins University, "Veritas vos Liberabit", translates to this familiar phrase the truth will set you free
#8531, aired 2021-12-13MODERN SHORTHAND $400: F.U.D. stands for fear, uncertainty & this; don't fall victim doubt
#8531, aired 2021-12-13BRITISH HUMOR $1000: Richard Ayoade, typing a distress email on this show: "Dear Sir/Madam ...fire! Help me!... Looking forward to hearing from you" The IT Crowd
#8530, aired 2021-12-10HEY SHAKESPEARE, WHO SAID THAT? $800 (Daily Double): "'Tis not to make me jealous to say my wife is fair, feeds well, loves company, is free of speech, sings, plays and dances well" Othello
#8529, aired 2021-12-09STATE SONGS $1200: This state has an official song & several honorary ones including "Live Free Or Die" & "The Old Man Of The Mountain" New Hampshire
#8527, aired 2021-12-07NAME THE MUSICAL $1200: "I could have danced all night, and still have begged for more" My Fair Lady
#8527, aired 2021-12-07I'VE GOT A THEORY $1600: In 1633 he got a life sentence for discussing Copernican theory, but it was a torture-free term Galileo
#8526, aired 2021-12-06IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE TURNS 75 $200: In 1974 a copyright renewal failure let "Life" lapse into this 2-word "area"; royalty-free, it aired repeatedly & popularity soared the public domain
#8525, aired 2021-12-03THE FRANCO-PRUSSIAN WAR $600: The French thought they had the upper hand with arms like the mitrailleuse, an early one of these rapid-fire weapons a machine gun
#8524, aired 2021-12-02AIN'T THAT AMERICA $400: By 1962 this doc's injected vaccine helped reduce polio cases in the U.S. from more than 50,000 a year to fewer than 1,000 Salk
#8524, aired 2021-12-02IT'S TOO CROWDED $600: On New Year's Eve 1994, 4.2 million showed up for fireworks & a free Rod Stewart concert on Copacabana Beach in this city Rio de Janeiro
#8524, aired 2021-12-02POP CULTURE-POURRI $1200: Conservatorship hearings in L.A. in 2021 attracted supporters of the movement known by this 2-word hashtag Free Britney
#8523, aired 2021-12-01EUROPEAN HISTORY $800: Signed in this small northwest nation in 1985, the Schengen Agreement covers the free movement of peoples through the European Union Luxembourg
#8522, aired 2021-11-30SOUNDS SERIOUS $400: Cutis anserina is nothing to worry about; it's just this "fowl" reaction to cold or fear goose bumps
#8522, aired 2021-11-30JOHNNY GILBERT IS THE ACTION MOVIE CHARACTER $800: "You're thinking, 'did he fire 6 shots or only 5?'... You've gotta ask yourself a question. 'Do I feel lucky?' Well, do ya, punk?" Dirty Harry
#8522, aired 2021-11-30ROMAN MYTHOLOGY $1200: Vulcan was the Roman god of fire & a divine member of this profession in which fire can play a prominent part blacksmith
#8521, aired 2021-11-29JESUS & NERO $800: Nero blamed Rome's Christians for this 64 A.D. disaster & used it as an excuse to persecute them the fire (when Rome burned)
#8518, aired 2021-11-24THINGS IN LITERARY TITLES $800: It's an "impartial selector" of Triwizard champions the Goblet of Fire
#8518, aired 2021-11-24NEWS $800: In 2021 one of these in Oregon covered 646 square miles & was causing dangerous pyrocumulus clouds a fire
#8517, aired 2021-11-23'38 $200: The 1938 Fair Labor Standards Act banned oppressive child labor, set the work week at 44 hours & established this, at 25 cents an hour minimum wage
#8517, aired 2021-11-23LEFT MOTION $1000: At the Battle of Chancellorsville, he swung left to crush the Union right, but was mortally wounded by friendly fire Jackson
#8517, aired 2021-11-23BUSINESS HISTORY $2000: In 1667 Londoner Nicholas Barbon set up the first office for this type of insurance fire insurance
#8515, aired 2021-11-19WORLD LEADERS LEAVE THE SCENE $800: On Dec. 17, 1989 Nicolae Ceausescu had forces fire on demonstrators in this country; 8 days later it was Nicolae being fired on Romania
#8514, aired 2021-11-18A FAIR PIECE OF ENTERTAINMENT $200: Aimee Mann paid tribute to this city's 1939 World's Fair with her song "Fifty Years After The Fair" New York
#8514, aired 2021-11-18A FAIR PIECE OF ENTERTAINMENT $400: This fourth season of "American Horror Story" is set at Elsa's Cabinet of Curiosities in Jupiter, Florida Freak Show
#8514, aired 2021-11-18A FAIR PIECE OF ENTERTAINMENT $600: There are kids at a fairground at the start of the video for this Springsteen song about a ride "Tunnel Of Love"
#8514, aired 2021-11-18AMEND THE AMENDMENT $600: 6th: "The accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public freeway" (there's an amendment L.A. can really get behind!) trial
#8514, aired 2021-11-18A FAIR PIECE OF ENTERTAINMENT $1000: Age 11, he made his movie debut in "It Happened at the World's Fair", starring Elvis, whom he later portrayed Kurt Russell
#8514, aired 2021-11-18A FAIR PIECE OF ENTERTAINMENT $3,000 (Daily Double): This British event ended in 1788, but is remembered largely thanks to a Simon & Garfunkel song Scarborough Fair
#8513, aired 2021-11-17IT'S A NEW MACHINE $200: Holiday Inn founder Kemmons Wilson was sick of being charged for this & put machines dispensing it free in his hotels ice
#8513, aired 2021-11-171985 IN ENTERTAINMENT $1000: John Parr climbed the highest mountain & crossed the wildest sea to hit No. 1 with this movie tune "(Man In Motion)" "St. Elmo's Fire"
#8511, aired 2021-11-15WORLD COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $200: Often ranked as Brazil's top institution of higher learning, it's abbreviated USP & it's absolutely free University of São Paulo
#8511, aired 2021-11-15A PERSON, PLACE OR RING $400: 25,000 miles long & horseshoe-shaped, it burns burns burns in part due to eruptions of Mount Ruiz & Novarupta the Ring of Fire
#8511, aired 2021-11-15TIME $800: I sentence you to this, meaning the 6 months you've already spent in jail--you're free, now get out of here time served
#8511, aired 2021-11-15WORDS WITH A SINGLE VOWEL $1600: "Bourbon and" this refers to a drink made with pure, iron-free water branch
#8510, aired 2021-11-12THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT $1600: One of the original "Big Four" civil rights groups, CORE, founded in 1942, stands for the Congress of this Racial Equality
#8508, aired 2021-11-10CARIBBEAN HISTORY $1200: Juan Pablo Duarte worked to free what is now this country from Haiti; independence was declared in 1844 the Dominican Republic
#8506, aired 2021-11-08LEGAL "EE" $600: It's defined by the U.N. as one who can't return to their home country due "to a well-founded fear of being persecuted" a refugee
#8506, aired 2021-11-08WRITING THE GOVERNESS $2000: In "Vanity Fair" Sir Pitt Crawley proposes to this governess, but it turns out she's already married to his son Rawdon Becky Sharp
#8503, aired 2021-11-03"LOVE" $800: A 1578 work seems to be the source of this idiom that says when it comes to romance & battles, anything goes all's fair in love and war
#8499, aired 2021-10-28AT THE BALLET $1200: The ballet "Fancy Free" about sailors on leave inspired the film "On the Town" with Frank Sinatra as Chip & this dancer as Gabey Gene Kelly
#8498, aired 2021-10-27THE BRITISH ROYAL FAMILY $400: Extensive renovations were required after this residence outside London caught fire in 1992 Windsor Castle
#8498, aired 2021-10-27PLOT POINT REWRITES $1000: "Oh, wow, this is super embarrassing! You're Joseph K.? 'K', like Kafka? We were after Joseph J.! Our mistake! You're free to go" The Trial
#8497, aired 2021-10-26TV SHOW OPENING CREDITS $200: A silhouetted businessman free falls past giant ads & lands in a chair, cigarette in hand Mad Men
#8496, aired 2021-10-25TELEVISION HISTORY $800: This cable network was formed in 1972 to air uncut, commercial-free movies & subscribers paid extra for it from the beginning HBO (Home Box Office)
#8495, aired 2021-10-22THE OED SPEAKS CANADIAN $400: A two-four is a 24-unit case of this beer
#8494, aired 2021-10-21EPIDEMIOLOGY $1200: It once caused 1/4 of poisonings in U.S. kids under 5, but fear of Reye syndrome has reduced that as the tots get less of it aspirin
#8492, aired 2021-10-19ANNUS HORRIBILIS $400: In 1666 the fire that would devastate this city began at the home of the king's baker on Pudding Lane London
#8492, aired 2021-10-19FORTUNE 500 FORTUNES $400: Sales of these, 55% of Apple's total sales, fell 14% in 2019; never fear, the company's still worth $2 trillion iPhones
#8492, aired 2021-10-1920th CENTURY ENGLISH $1600: Muriel Dowding started the cosmetics company Beauty Without this, helping inspire the adjective this-free Cruelty
#8491, aired 2021-10-18BLACKSMITHING $400: Using this device with a plural name to blow air through coals, smiths could raise their fire to 3000 degrees above iron’s melting point bellows
#8490, aired 2021-10-15MOVIE TITLES THROUGH PICTURES $1200: Here's this 1994 British comedy distilled to its essence Four Weddings and a Funeral
#8488, aired 2021-10-13THE SABBATH $400: Exodus 35:3 bans doing this on the Sabbath, hence the Jewish dish cholent which can go on the stove Friday & cook until Saturday lunch lighting a fire
#8488, aired 2021-10-13PRO WRESTLING TERMINOLOGY $1000: The name of this masked Mexican wrestling is Spanish for "free fighting" lucha libre
#8487, aired 2021-10-12ON BASE $800: In 1968 an air reserve base in Indiana was named for this Hoosier astronaut killed in a fire the year before Gus Grissom
#8487, aired 2021-10-12MAKING A SHORT STORY LONG $1200: Jonathan Safran Foer expanded his short story "The Very Rigid Search" into the novel "Everything is" this Illuminated
#8486, aired 2021-10-11IT DOESN'T MEAN WHAT IT SOUNDS LIKE $1600: Belladonna means "fair lady", but is actually a type of plant called "deadly" this nightshade
#8484, aired 2021-10-07WE DID START THE FIRE $400: Plains Indians regularly set prairie fires to spur the growth of fresh grass that enticed herds of these animals buffalo
#8484, aired 2021-10-07WE DID START THE FIRE $1200: Breaking with tradition, Hindu daughters are starting to light these for their deceased parents in India funeral pyres
#8484, aired 2021-10-07U.S. FRANCHISES $1600: At its 2,000+ locations, this "worldly" chain makes its gym users feel welcome with its "Judgement Free Zone" Planet Fitness
#8484, aired 2021-10-07WE DID START THE FIRE $1600: A fire started by an experiment in this gold-making pseudoscience destroyed a Weimar castle in 1618 alchemy
#8484, aired 2021-10-07WE DID START THE FIRE $2000: On Feb. 7, 1497 Florentines burned objects said to be distractions from religious duty--an event known as this Bonfire of the Vanities
#8484, aired 2021-10-07WE DID START THE FIRE $3,000 (Daily Double): Also an automotive noise, it can be a blaze deliberately set for wildfire control, as seen here backfire
#8482, aired 2021-10-05HERE COMES THE SONNET $400: Shakespeare's Sonnet 153 notes the "love-kindling fire" of this Roman god & where he "got new fire--my mistress' eyes" Cupid
#8481, aired 2021-10-04FRY FRY AGAIN $200: Stick with it, this fried favorite made its debut at the 1942 Texas State Fair corn dog
#8479, aired 2021-09-30THAT ANIMAL HAD A NAME $400: Hotfoot Teddy, a cub that survived a fire, was renamed this for a character who promoted fire safety & became his living symbol Smokey Bear
#8479, aired 2021-09-30JACK $1600: This titan of comic book art collaborated with Stan Lee to create the Fantastic Four & many more (Jack) Kirby
#8478, aired 2021-09-29WEBCAMS $600: In 2019 a webcam captured the fire that collapsed this 850-year-old cathedral's spire & roof Notre Dame
#8478, aired 2021-09-29WEBCAMS $1000: Look out for sharks on an underwater cam 34 miles off the coast of this state's Cape Fear North Carolina
#8477, aired 2021-09-28FROM GRAY'S ANATOMY $1600: This "is composed of four bones: the two hip bones laterally and in front and the sacrum and coccyx behind" pelvis
#8476, aired 2021-09-27SUFFRAGETTE $200: Carrie Chapman Catt led the battle for Tennessee's decisive ratification of the 19th Amendment; this city has bronzed her & four other leaders Nashville
#8475, aired 2021-09-24THE MIDDLE AGES $1000: In 1329 David II became the Scottish king, but at age 5, struck less fear into foes than this predecessor, his father Robert the Bruce
#8472, aired 2021-09-21CLASSICAL MUSIC $400: In 1822 Schubert composed one of these free-form compositions that shares a name with a 1940 Disney film fantasia
#8472, aired 2021-09-21THE CELL $800: Among the simplest organisms is the alga called tetrabaena, which has this many cells four
#8471, aired 2021-09-20STARTS WITH "B" $400: A signal fire, perhaps on a Boston hill beacon
#8470, aired 2021-09-17INVENTORS & INVENTIONS $1200: His invention of the revolver around 1836 allowed the user to fire more times than ever before without reloading (Samuel) Colt
#8469, aired 2021-09-16MUHAMMAD ALI $200: (Hana Ali presents the clue.) "I am free to be what I wanna be and think what I wanna think", my 22-year-old dad told reporters after winning the heavyweight title in 1964; soon after, he announced his conversion to this centuries-old faith & remained devoted to it & its teachings Islam
#8469, aired 2021-09-16MUHAMMAD ALI $1000: (Hana Ali presents the clue.) A man of strong beliefs, in 1967, my father was stripped of his title for refusing Army service during the Vietnam War; four years later, the Supreme Court unanimously ruled that he had been wrongfully denied this two-word classification as someone morally opposed to war conscientious objector
#8468, aired 2021-09-15"IN" THE DICTIONARY $1600: In legal speak, it refers to a person guilty of arson or to a device designed to harm people or property by means of fire incendiary
#8466, aired 2021-09-137-SYLLABLE WORDS $1600: If you fear the number 13, you suffer from this triskaidekaphobia
#8462, aired 2021-08-10A VISIT TO THE ISS $600: (Dr. Kate Rubins presents the clue.) ISS crew members have gone on more than 230 of these assembly & maintenance excursions; I've been on four, & in 2019, Jessica Meir & Christina Koch made the first all-female one a spacewalk
#8462, aired 2021-08-10A VISIT TO THE ISS $800: (Dr. Kate Rubins presents the clue.) ISS crew members look forward to the arrival of supplies on four different spacecraft from three countries, including the Dragon from this U.S. company that has also pioneered the development of reusable rockets SpaceX
#8462, aired 2021-08-10TV ROLES $1200: In 2021 Soleil Moon Frye reprised this '80s role, now all grown up with children of her own Punky Brewster
#8461, aired 2021-08-09MYTH RUN-ONS $400: Roman fire god, now a big orange melon Vulcantaloupe
#8461, aired 2021-08-09LITERATURE $600: In an S.E. Hinton novel, Motorcycle Boy tries to free the aquarium dwellers he calls these, the book's title Rumble Fish
#8461, aired 2021-08-09GRAB BAG $800: Helen Free helped develop the dip-&-read test, which detects glucose, making at-home monitoring of this disease easier diabetes
#8460, aired 2021-08-06OCEANOGRAPHIC TERMS $1,000 (Daily Double): Term for the Pacific Ocean zone that forms a band as long as the equator & has about 75% of Earth's active volcanoes Ring of Fire
#8458, aired 2021-08-04AUDIBLE $1000: This actor bares all in his memoir "Greenlights" "I've had four concussions from falling out of four trees, three of them on a full moon. I have bongoed naked until the cops arrested me." (Matthew) McConaughey
#8457, aired 2021-08-03YOU KNOW WHAT THEY SAY $1000: In Proverbs 1:7, "Fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge "; in Proverbs 9:10, it's the beginning of this wisdom
#8457, aired 2021-08-03DEFINITELY NOT ONE OF THE 50 U.S. STATES $2000: In the Catholic church, one free from mortal sin is said to be in a "state of" this grace
#8456, aired 2021-08-02HODGEPODGE $1000: Looking like they're sent from heaven, a translucent sea this can stay attached to a mate for four hours & still hunt prey together sea angel
#8455, aired 2021-07-30LEGAL $800: It was this 3-named junior on the Supreme Court who gave the "Clear & Present Danger" restraint on free speech (Oliver Wendell) Holmes
#8454, aired 2021-07-29HELP! $200: Go to the .gov of this treasury agency & it will tell you how to get some tax counseling for free the IRS
#8454, aired 2021-07-29HELLO, GOODBYE $1000: Was Scot-free in 1835, steel-ed himself in America, sold off his shares for good in 1919 Carnegie
#8453, aired 2021-07-28SITCOM EXITS $1000: After 5 years & 100 episodes of playing Amy on "Superstore", she departed, with the thanks (& name) of a grateful nation America Ferrera
#8453, aired 2021-07-28CHILDREN IN THE BIBLE $2,000 (Daily Double): Later to lend his name to a free Bible donation society, this judge & hero had 70 sons Gideon
#8452, aired 2021-07-27'80s LADIES $1600: After accepting the nomination for vice president, she & Walter Mondale hit the campaign trail Geraldine Ferraro
#8452, aired 2021-07-27'80s LADIES $2000: Coming over from England, in 1984 Tina Brown took over as editor of this magazine & turned it into a success Vanity Fair
#8449, aired 2021-07-22DOWN TO "RTH" $400: Once upon a time home was where this fireplace area was, providing heat & light at night, & fire for cooking a hearth
#8448, aired 2021-07-21WE GUARANTEE IT $800: This party that existed from 1848 to 1854 also fittingly promised "free speech, free labor and free men" the Free-Soil Party
#8444, aired 2021-07-15LAW SLAW $400: Rule by military authority, it was declared in Chicago following the Great Fire of 1871 martial law
#8441, aired 2021-07-12BUDDHISM $1200: One of Buddhism's Four Noble Truths is the doctrine that all life is this painful 9-letter word suffering
#8441, aired 2021-07-12BUDDHISM $2000: After gaining knowledge of the Four Noble Truths, Buddhists follow a "path" of this many parts in order to reach Nirvana 8
#8439, aired 2021-07-08MICHAEL JORDAN $200: After college, MJ wanted a shoe deal with Adidas, but the company passed; fair to say Jordan landed on his feet with this brand Nike
#8439, aired 2021-07-08A MOMENT OF SCIENCE $800: In the body, free radicals are atoms that are unstable & can damage cells by stealing one of these particles from nearby molecules electrons
#8438, aired 2021-07-07TV ANIMATION $800: Like Aang in a previous series, Korra is working on becoming a master one of these; she was already a pro at fire, earth & water airbender
#8438, aired 2021-07-07WINNING PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN SLOGANS $800: "Are you better off than you were four years ago?" Ronald Reagan
#8437, aired 2021-07-06STREET ART $400: Shepard Fairey got in a protracted lawsuit with the A.P. over a poster he created from a photo they took of this man Barack Obama
#8435, aired 2021-07-02REALLY SIMILAR FLAGS $200: Australia has six stars, including a Commonwealth one; this island nation to the southeast, just four New Zealand
#8434, aired 2021-07-01'TIS SHAKESPEARE $800: The movie "All Is True", about Shakespeare in retirement, begins with the fire that destroyed this theatre in 1613 the Globe Theatre
#8433, aired 2021-06-30ARIA GRANDE $400: In "La Traviata" Violetta's aria "Sempre libera" positively translates to this always free
#8432, aired 2021-06-29FORE! NO, 5 GOLF MOVIES $400: A golfer isn't in the swing of things, so a mystical caddy played by Will Smith helps out in "The Legend of" him Bagger Vance
#8432, aired 2021-06-29FORE! NO, 5 GOLF MOVIES $800: In "Caddyshack", he says, "Cinderella story, outta nowhere. A former greenskeeper... about to become the Masters champion" Bill Murray
#8432, aired 2021-06-29FORE! NO, 5 GOLF MOVIES $1200: In 1930 he became golf's first winner of the grand slam; Jim Caviezel portrayed his "Stroke of Genius" in a 2004 film (Bobby) Jones
#8432, aired 2021-06-29FORE! NO, 5 GOLF MOVIES $1600: In "Tin Cup", this actor finally makes it over the water to take a memorable 12 on the final hole (Kevin) Costner
#8432, aired 2021-06-29FORE! NO, 5 GOLF MOVIES $2000: The 1953 golf comedy saw this man play "The Caddy" to his cool friend Dean Martin (Jerry) Lewis
#8431, aired 2021-06-28ROCK BANDS $600: The classic "Free Bird" by this southern rock group was a tribute to Duane Allman Lynyrd Skynyrd
#8431, aired 2021-06-28TALKING HEADS $800: This American Red Cross founder said she'd sometimes teach for free but if paid, "Never do a man's work for less than a man's pay" Clara Barton
#8431, aired 2021-06-28TALKING HEADS $1000: Attributed to this leader of the Soviet Union in the 1970s: "The trouble with free elections is, you never know who is going to win" Brezhnev
#8430, aired 2021-06-25AROUND THE GARDEN? $800: In a Simon & Garfunkel song, this quartet is in the line after "Are you going to Scarborough Fair?" parsley, sage, rosemary & thyme
#8428, aired 2021-06-23LIGHTNING $200: The B.C. scientific work "On the Nature of Things" ignores Prometheus & says it was lightning that first brought this to Earth fire
#8427, aired 2021-06-22MUSIC HISTORY $400: In "We Didn't Start The Fire", Billy Joel sings of "trouble in" this Mideast canal region, the site of a 1956 crisis Suez
#8427, aired 2021-06-22DESCRIPTIVE WORDS $1600: Something described as sidereal is like one of these faraway things a star
#8425, aired 2021-06-18CINEMAPOURRI $1000: Here's this woman who won no fewer than eight Academy Awards for costume design Edith Head
#8422, aired 2021-06-15NAUTICAL WORDS & PHRASES $200: A ship getting a "clean bill of" this on leaving a port meant it was deemed free of infectious diseases health
#8422, aired 2021-06-15THE STAGE $1200: 2 of the sets in this Tennessee Williams drama are the Wingfield family apartment & a fire escape The Glass Menagerie
#8421, aired 2021-06-14MUSICAL SEQUELS $1600: 20 years after "Bye, Bye" this guy, "Bring Back" this guy didn't fare so well, closing after 4 performances Birdie
#8420, aired 2021-06-11BASEBALL'S BIG NUMBERS $800: He is the only player in MLB history to walk more than 200 times in one season; he got 232 free passes in 2004 Barry Bonds
#8419, aired 2021-06-1015 LOVE $200: In a 2003 book this 15-year-old could have "counted the freckles on" Cho Chang's nose as she steals a kiss from him Harry Potter
#8419, aired 2021-06-10GAME $1000: Handicaps & divots are in this sport, but don't say golf; there is also penalty 3, a free hit from 40 yards to an open goal polo
#8419, aired 2021-06-10BOOK-BORNE WORDS & PHRASES $1600: The first use of "ingenue" in English described this not-quite-ingenue in Thackeray's "Vanity Fair" Becky Sharp
#8416, aired 2021-06-07-ISMs $400: This economic -ism is also known as free enterprise capitalism
#8416, aired 2021-06-07TOP BRITISH BABY NAMES $600: While Freya is on the rise, this name shared by Blunt & Mortimer dropped a few notches Emily
#8416, aired 2021-06-07HISTORY BEFORE 1738 $1600: This restored king of Great Britain reigned during the great plague & Great Fire that struck London in the 1660s Charles II
#8415, aired 2021-06-04DEATH OF A LITERARY CHARACTER $600: Nobody at the fair "knew that a grey spider had played the most important part of all. No one was with her when she died" Charlotte
#8413, aired 2021-06-02POTPOURRI $1200: (Brad Keselowski presents from the Las Vegas Motor Speedway.) I'm Brad Keselowski; the pit crew guy hauling a 20-pound piece of equipment to help change my four tires is called this, also the last name of an X-Men actor a jackman
#8413, aired 2021-06-02NEW TO THE OED $1600: The last 4 months of the year are called these 5-letter "months", like the last piece of wood in a fire the ember months
#8412, aired 2021-06-01MAKING FETCH HAPPEN $1000: In "The Tempest", this ex-Duke of Milan says Caliban "does make our fire, fetch in our wood" Prospero
#8412, aired 2021-06-01QUOTATIONS $1200: In "A Charlie Brown Christmas", Linus quotes this gospel's "Fear not: for behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy" Luke
#8411, aired 2021-05-31THAT'S MY PHILOSOPHY $1600: "Now the cave or den is the world of sight, the fire is the sun, the way upward is the way to knowledge"--hey, that's mine! Plato
#8409, aired 2021-05-27LAW SLAW $400: 2-word term for unlicensed but legal quoting of copyrighted material in situations like research or news reporting fair use
#8408, aired 2021-05-26THE CIVIL WAR $400: The Dictator, an enormous one of these artillery weapons that fire high-arcing shells, was used in the Siege of Petersburg a mortar
#8406, aired 2021-05-24CHINESE THEATRE HAND & FOOTPRINTS $400: A bit over "Four Christmases" this 6'5" actor put his big shoes in the theater's cement Vince Vaughn
#8400, aired 2021-05-14CREATURE FROM $1600: Named for a southern African region, the Damaraland one of these is furrier than its naked cousin a mole-rat
#8398, aired 2021-05-12'CAUSE WE SPELL GOOD $200: It's the total number of "S"es in the name of "The Magnolia State" four
#8397, aired 2021-05-11DRESSES $400: These four letters made waves in the 1960s as when Jean Shrimpton wore an early version of this dress at a stodgy racing event a mini
#8397, aired 2021-05-11THAT'S FIT TO PRINT $1,400 (Daily Double): This Pulitzer Prize winner & New Yorker contributor wrote "Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators" Ronan Farrow
#8396, aired 2021-05-10I'LL FIGHT YOU! $200: "The Greatest", this boxer asked, "How tall are you?" so I can "know in advance how far to step back when you fall in four" Muhammad Ali
#8396, aired 2021-05-10SHORT STORIES $400: Who but this bestselling author would write "Autopsy Room Four", "The Boogeyman" & of course, "Jerusalem's Lot" Stephen King
#8396, aired 2021-05-10THE 2021 WORLD ALMANAC $800: Under anniversaries: 100 years ago "The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse" & "The Sheik" launched the career of this silent film star Rudolph Valentino
#8395, aired 2021-05-07CLICHÉS $800: A soft bed & a warm fire are "creature" these, appealing to our animal nature as opposed to more spiritual needs comforts
#8394, aired 2021-05-06HOT STUFF $400: In song, these are "roasting on an open fire, Jack Frost nipping at your nose" chestnuts
#8394, aired 2021-05-06HOT STUFF $1000: Stefano Ferrara is a famous maker of these, which can reach a temperature of 800 degrees inside ovens
#8394, aired 2021-05-06SAINTLY NAMED $2000: The name of this electrical phenomenon in the atmosphere comes from a corruption of Erasmus, a patron saint of sailors St. Elmo's fire
#8392, aired 2021-05-04CROSSWORD CLUES "F" $800: A vestibule (5 letters) foyer
#8391, aired 2021-05-03A WORD FROM THE GREEK FOR... $800: For "spider" & "fear": a common anxiety arachnophobia
#8391, aired 2021-05-03YE OLDE SCIENCE $1200: The ancient Greeks believed all matter was composed of these 4 classical elements earth, air, fire & water
#8391, aired 2021-05-03PROM MUSIC $2000: If your school's prom is then, put on "Month Of May" from this band's album "The Suburbs" Arcade Fire
#8390, aired 2021-04-30SACRED BOOKS $400: The Hindu Vedas praise Agni, god of this fundamental force; "agni" is related to our word "ignite" fire
#8390, aired 2021-04-302020 VISION $400: Taking a leap on Leap Day to support low-income people, this grand duchy became the first nation with free public transport Luxembourg
#8389, aired 2021-04-29TO YOUR HEALTH $600: Tomato juice contains lycopene, one of these free radical fighters an antioxidant
#8388, aired 2021-04-28AMERICA BEFORE 1800 $200: The devil gets his fair share of mentions in Cotton Mather's account of these 1692 proceedings the Salem Witch Trials
#8388, aired 2021-04-28GET OFF OF MY CLOUD $400: If you own a device from this company, you get 5 free gigabytes of virtual storage in iCloud Apple
#8388, aired 2021-04-28GET OFF OF MY CLOUD $1200: America Ferrera was promoted to manager of a branch of this less-than-heavenly chain on NBC's "Superstore" Cloud 9
#8387, aired 2021-04-27WORDS THAT START WITH 2 VOWELS $1200: A region of the Earth's outer atmosphere containing a high concentration of free electrons the ionosphere
#8386, aired 2021-04-26FANTASTIC BEASTS $800: The puk is a small, household one of these fire-breathers that protects the home & brings treasure to its master a dragon
#8385, aired 2021-04-23SUPPORTING TV CHARACTERS $800: Jamie Farr never did get that Section 8 he was seeking as this dress-wearing soldier on "M*A*S*H" Max Klinger
#8384, aired 2021-04-22TRIBUTE BANDS $1000: Unforgettable Fire, featuring its own Edge & Larry U2
#8383, aired 2021-04-21SAY YES TO THE DRESSMAKER $200: This famous daughter & designer does only cruelty-free dresses, like a crepe one with faux leather sleeves (Stella) McCartney
#8382, aired 2021-04-20INTERNATIONAL ORGS. $800: EFTA, the European Free Trade Association, has just 4 members: Iceland, Norway, Switzerland & this tiny Swiss neighbor Liechtenstein
#8381, aired 2021-04-19MODERN KITCHEN APPLIANCES $200: Instead of the deep type of this device, which uses hot oil, try the air type, which uses convection heating air fryer
#8381, aired 2021-04-19SELF-HELP YOURSELF $1000: This "Eat, Pray, Love" author also offered "Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear" (Elizabeth) Gilbert
#8380, aired 2021-04-16DISSECTING THE LYRICS $400: This Canadian pop guy, in "Boyfriend": "Swag swag swag on you, chillin' by the fire while we eatin' fondue"; well, it does rhyme Justin Bieber
#8380, aired 2021-04-16PARTS OF THE HOLE $400: 5-letter word for the long grass bordering the fairway the rough
#8380, aired 2021-04-16CHAPTERS IN NONFICTION BOOKS $1600: "Elsa Meets Other Wild Animals" Born Free
#8379, aired 2021-04-15IT'S FRIDAY NIGHT $600: Take a trip to Flavortown with Guy Fieri on this Food Network show, "DDD" for short Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives
#8379, aired 2021-04-15AUCTION $600: A 1963 250 GTO from this Italian automaker sold in 2018 for $70 million, the most ever for a car at auction Ferrari
#8379, aired 2021-04-15BURNED BOOKS $800: Future wife Nora saved "Stephen Hero" after this man threw it in a fire; it became "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" (James) Joyce
#8379, aired 2021-04-15IT'S FRIDAY NIGHT $800: A chilly evening? Relax around this backyard accessory, burning wood like the portable model called the Solo Stove Bonfire a fire pit
#8379, aired 2021-04-15BURNED BOOKS $1600: This poet's manuscript of "Conversation at Midnight" burned at both ends in a hotel fire & she rewrote it from memory Edna St. Vincent Millay
#8378, aired 2021-04-14WARM THOUGHTS $400: Thomas De Quincey wrote of "the divine pleasures of" a fireside in this season: "candles at four o'clock, warm hearth-rugs, tea" winter
#8378, aired 2021-04-14ONE-SYLLABLE ADJECTIVES $400: This word for something impartial is also used in storybooks to describe a beautiful princess fair
#8377, aired 2021-04-13BATTERY LIFE $200: In 2004 Sony produced the first silver oxide battery that was free of this element, & it's going down in thermometer use, too mercury
#8377, aired 2021-04-13ENGLAND $2000: This Celtic language that's spoken by fewer than 15,000, mostly in the far SW, is recognized as a minority language in England Cornish
#8375, aired 2021-04-09LITERARY FIRST LINES $200: "Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal" Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
#8375, aired 2021-04-09STILL FIGURES $400: Four Roses is this type of liquor made in Lawrenceburg, Kentucky bourbon
#8375, aired 2021-04-09LITERARY FIRST LINES $800: "We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold" Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
#8372, aired 2021-04-06FROM THE FRENCH $200: From French for "cover" & "fire", it was originally the hour the fires in a town were to be extinguished the curfew
#8370, aired 2021-04-02NEW PHONE, WHO DISCO? $800: "I wanna put on, my-my-my-my-my boogie shoes" by this "fair weather" group right onto that new phone KC and the Sunshine Band
#8369, aired 2021-04-01SAFE AT HOME $200: The Sentry S6770 safe is U.L. classified to protect valuables for 1 hour during one of these a fire
#8369, aired 2021-04-01U.S. GEOGRAPHY $1,000 (Daily Double): About 275 miles due west of the famous Four Corners, the Three Corners where Utah, Arizona & this state meet has its own monument Nevada
#8368, aired 2021-03-31ANIMALS $600: Fish fear the paws of these big brown bears grizzly bears
#8366, aired 2021-03-29A GUSTY MOVE $200: Even the greatest golfers fear the notorious swirling wind at the 12th hole of this home course of The Masters Augusta
#8364, aired 2021-03-25TV LOCALES $400: While "The Walking Dead" takes place primarily in the South, "Fear the Walking Dead" started in this city Los Angeles
#8364, aired 2021-03-25GODS & GODDESSES $800: In Hawaiian religion, she is the goddess of volcanoes & fire (Madame) Pele
#8364, aired 2021-03-25GODS & GODDESSES $1600: All's fair in love & war, 2 things this Babylonian deity, Astarte's counterpart, is goddess of Ishtar
#8357, aired 2021-03-16POETS & POETRY $1200: "Burnt Norton", "East Coker", "The Dry Salvages" & "Little Gidding" make up the group of Eliot's poems called "Four" these Quartets
#8356, aired 2021-03-15REAL-LIFE CARTOON CHARACTERS $400: The four lads sing as themselves, but others do their speaking voices in this 1968 animated film Yellow Submarine
#8356, aired 2021-03-15HISTORIC PLACES $800: The Clarke House is this U.S. city's oldest, having survived the Great Fire, though it now stands 2 blocks from its original spot Chicago
#8355, aired 2021-03-12BEFORE & AFTER $2000: Free 2-day shipping for $12.99 a month from Aristotle's entity that causes all motion Amazon Prime Mover
#8354, aired 2021-03-11U.S. LANDMARKS $400: This Seattle landmark was topped by a gas-powered torch during the 1962 World's Fair the Space Needle
#8353, aired 2021-03-10WOMEN IN MYTHOLOGY $1200: Thank God it's Freya-day--a day of the week named for the wife of this Norse god Odin
#8352, aired 2021-03-09FERRIS & OBSERVATION WHEELS $400: For the 1964 New York World's Fair, Uniroyal built a Ferris wheel resembling this product a tire
#8350, aired 2021-03-05MARINE BIOLOGY $800: A major type of these free-floating ocean organisms, with a name from Greek for wandering, dinoflagellates can cause red tides plankton
#8350, aired 2021-03-05BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $800: 3 words become one in this .com, "the world's largest, free social fundraising platform" GoFundMe
#8349, aired 2021-03-04PLAYING THE SENSE ORGAN $400: Free nerve endings are in tufts in this outermost layer of the skin the epidermis
#8349, aired 2021-03-04HOMOPHONES $800: To fire a .45, or a sloping channel for water shoot/chute
#8348, aired 2021-03-03STARTS WITH AN ANIMAL $600: To crouch in fear to cower
#8347, aired 2021-03-02MAKING & REMAKING ROBIN HOOD $1200: Instead of Friar Tuck, this director played Rabbi Tuckman in his parody called "Robin Hood: Men in Tights" Mel Brooks
#8346, aired 2021-03-01F IS FOR FAMILY $1200: In 2015 Piero, son of this late car magnate, zoomed to billionaire status when the co. listed on the New York Stock Exchange (Enzo) Ferrari
#8346, aired 2021-03-01ANTHROPOLOGY $1600: In early "factories" , Neanderthals turned out tools of this hard stone known for fire-sparking qualities flint
#8343, aired 2021-02-24DOUBLE-VOWEL WORDS $600: Black residue formed via fire & smoke soot
#8342, aired 2021-02-23THE LEGEND OF BAGGY PANTS $200: It's a general term for goods carried on a ship, or big-pocketed baggy pants that can carry their fair share cargo
#8342, aired 2021-02-23TV SHOW QUOTES $800: Dre: "So everything is okay as long as (the kids) are home by 5... & at 5:01, we call the police"; Bow: "4:59, & the fire department" black-ish
#8342, aired 2021-02-23DUNCAN $1200: This free-spirited dancer rejected classic ballet & her performance presaged the development of modern dance Isadora Duncan
#8340, aired 2021-02-19HISTORIC GEOGRAPHY $400: Here are the borders of this country in 1946; by mid-1992, four of its republics had gone independent Yugoslavia
#8339, aired 2021-02-18ALL FAIRS $200: The glittering Crystal Palace was the centerpiece of the first modern World's Fair, this city's 1851 "Great Exhibition" London
#8339, aired 2021-02-18ALL FAIRS $800: A 1939 New York World's Fair diorama predicting the look of the city in 1960 was called this, later a long-running animated TV series Futurama
#8339, aired 2021-02-18ALL FAIRS $2,400 (Daily Double): The 1893 Chicago World's Fair introduced this word for a central avenue of exhibits & amusements the midway
#8338, aired 2021-02-17LEFT BEHIND ON THE MOON $5,000 (Daily Double): A feather & a hammer dropped by an astronaut in 1971, confirming a theory of this man, four centuries before Galileo
#8337, aired 2021-02-16DIFFERS BY ONE LETTER $400: To close & open the eyes; free from marks or writing blink & blank
#8337, aired 2021-02-16HOOPS $800: WNBA teams include the New York Liberty, the Phoenix Mercury & these fire starters of Los Angeles the L.A. Sparks
#8337, aired 2021-02-16DRIVE MY CAR $1000: Its 488 Pista Spider has 710 horses under your foot & no roof over your head Ferrari
#8337, aired 2021-02-16AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: In 1849 California wanted to enter the Union as a free state, leading to this complicated deal the next year The Compromise of 1850
#8335, aired 2021-02-12IN CONCERT $400: (James Taylor presents the clue.) In 2011 at Madison Square Garden, I performed "Fire And Rain" & "Fifteen" with this young singer-songwriter whom, I'm honored to say, is named after me Taylor Swift
#8335, aired 2021-02-12GIRL $1200: In "A Song of Ice and Fire", Sansa Stark wonders why this sister of hers can't be sweet & delicate Arya
#8334, aired 2021-02-11BEVERAGES $200: If you want to keep kosher & be gluten-free, Smirnoff No. 21 this may be for you vodka
#8332, aired 2021-02-09IT'S "IN" THE SPORT $400: In soccer, a free kick that must touch at least one other player before a goal can be scored is this "roundabout" type indirect
#8329, aired 2021-02-04MUSICALS BY SONG LYRICS $800: "You're just too good to be true, can't take my eyes off of you" Jersey Boys
#8329, aired 2021-02-04POP CULTURE $800: This annual cable TV event began in July 1988 with the airing of the nature special "Caged in Fear" Shark Week
#8328, aired 2021-02-03FEELING LITERARY $200: Hunter S. Thompson had mixed emotions: "____ & ____ in Las Vegas" Fear & Loathing
#8327, aired 2021-02-02AMERICAN NAMES $600: "Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'Fore I Diiie" is a 1971 collection of poetry by this African-American woman Maya Angelou
#8327, aired 2021-02-02THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE $1600: The name of these islands off the southern tip of South America means "land of fire" Tierra del Fuego
#8326, aired 2021-02-01THAT TITLE HAS A TITLE $400: In this novel an inmate named Abbe Faria helps Edmond Dantes plot his escape from prison The Count of Monte Cristo
#8326, aired 2021-02-01"D_M" $600: To the Aussies, a game that's been played honestly is "fair" this 6-letter slang word dinkum
#8325, aired 2021-01-29TO PHRASE A COIN $1600: "Don't take any" of these, like the commemorative souvenirs made for the 1933 Chicago World's Fair a wooden nickel
#8324, aired 2021-01-28THE WHITE HOUSE $200: On Christmas Eve in 1929, a fire in this section of the White House gutted the executive offices the West Wing
#8324, aired 2021-01-28CLOTHING TIME $400: A "four-in-hand" is one method of securing this fashion item a tie
#8324, aired 2021-01-28THE 5 W's, HISTORICALLY $800: When: date & year congress resolved the "United Colonies are... to be free & independent states", 2 days before what you might think July 2, 1776
#8322, aired 2021-01-26FINANCIAL SLANG $600: The VIX, or this index, is also known as the "fear index" because it's a barometer of the risk in the market volatility
#8320, aired 2021-01-22HAVE YOU HEARD MY THIRD? $400: The F that begins Brahms' third symphony is personal code for the word frei, meaning this free
#8319, aired 2021-01-21CLEVELAND: NEWS CLUES $200: (Hi, I'm Chris Frye from WOIO.) In 1967, Cleveland voters chose Democrat Carl Stokes over Republican Seth Taft, making Stokes the first African American to hold this office in one of America's major cities mayor
#8319, aired 2021-01-21CLEVELAND: NEWS CLUES $600: (Chris Frye from WOIO presents the clue.) In 2018, this hometown hero & his foundation, partnered with Akron, Ohio's public school district to open a new school offering innovative instruction for at-risk students LeBron James
#8319, aired 2021-01-21CLEVELAND: NEWS CLUES $1000: (Chris Frye from WOIO presents the clue.) In 1969, Cleveland's Cuyahoga River was so badly polluted that an oil slick on the river's surface caught fire, making national headlines & helping spark the 1970 creation of this federal agency the EPA
#8318, aired 2021-01-20WORD "UP" $600: Nice! You got this free bump into first class for your flight! Enjoy the free drinks! upgrade
#8317, aired 2021-01-19TALK ABOUT THE WEATHER $400: It was so cold in London in 1814 that a frost fair was held on this river that had frozen over the Thames
#8316, aired 2021-01-18MUSIC CLASS $400: An emotionally free music composition, it precedes "In Blue" in a 1924 title Rhapsody
#8315, aired 2021-01-15FORTIFY YOURSELF $400: Fort Bourtange in the Netherlands is this celestial type; an attacker who gets close to one wall is exposed to fire from another a star fort
#8312, aired 2021-01-12A CATEGORY FOR FREE $200: This 2-word term is used to describe animals like poultry that have been raised in natural conditions free-range
#8312, aired 2021-01-12A CATEGORY FOR FREE $400: Freestyle swimmers use this stroke that ironically doesn't sound very fast the crawl
#8312, aired 2021-01-12A CATEGORY FOR FREE $600: The first freedom mentioned in the Bill of Rights is "the free exercise" of this religion
#8312, aired 2021-01-12A CATEGORY FOR FREE $800: Active from 1848 to 1854, this minor but influential political party opposed the spread of slavery into the western USA Free Soil
#8312, aired 2021-01-12A CATEGORY FOR FREE $1000: The port of Freetown is the largest city & capital of this nation of western Africa Sierra Leone
#8310, aired 2021-01-086-SYLLABLE WORDS $800: This fear of open or crowded spaces comes from the Greek for a place where crowds gathered agoraphobia
#8307, aired 2021-01-05A REAL PRIZE $1000: The prize steer at this annual Texas event routinely sells for 6 figures in the Youth Livestock Auction the state fair
#8307, aired 2021-01-05OF THE LAW $1200: The Fair Housing Act of 1968 says victims of discrimination by seller or landlord can appeal to this then 3-year-old cabinet department Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
#8306, aired 2021-01-04FARMING U.S.A. $600: A farrow-to-finish farmer raises these animals all the way from birth to their market weight of about 285 pounds a pig
#8306, aired 2021-01-04THE MOVIES $600: (I'm Ryan Reynolds.) In my 2020 movie, "Free Guy", I play a bank teller who comes to realize that he's really an NPC, short for this kind of character in an open-world video game a non-player character
#8306, aired 2021-01-04HOW DO YOU... $2000: Nock the projectile in the string, hold solid part of weapon firmly, pull back on string, aim, release fire a bow & arrow
#8306, aired 2021-01-04GEOGRAPHIC ETYMOLOGY $5,200 (Daily Double): Early Spanish settlers gave this South American city a name meaning "fair winds" Buenos Aires
#8304, aired 2020-12-17MAN ABOUT TOWN $1600: This author & friend of Morrie writes about sports & more for the Detroit Free Press (Mitch) Albom
#8301, aired 2020-12-14SEZ YOU, SHAKESPEARE! $200: "He hath a person and a smooth dispose to be suspected--framed to make women false. The Moor is of a free and open nature" Iago
#8298, aired 2020-12-09"USA"! "USA"! $800: The free-swimming stage in a jellyfish's life, it sounds like a mythological monster medusa
#8297, aired 2020-12-08COLLABS $600: This pair did okay together, writing musicals like "My Fair Lady" & "Camelot" Lerner & Loewe
#8297, aired 2020-12-08GEOGRAPHIC FOURS $800: These 4 states meet at the USA's Four Corners Monument Utah, Arizona, New Mexico & Colorado
#8297, aired 2020-12-08ENTERTAINMENT $800: Christian Bale & Matt Damon hit the track in this high-octane film about an effort to build a new kind of race car Ford v Ferrari
#8296, aired 2020-12-07OXFORD'S VERY SHORT INTRODUCTIONS $800: The book on this scientific concept calls it "the weakest of nature's four fundamental forces" gravity
#8295, aired 2020-12-04IT CAME TO THEM IN A DREAM $400: This director created "The Terminator" after a nightmare about a metallic figure emerging from a fire James Cameron
#8294, aired 2020-12-03SINGING FOR YOUR OSCAR $2000: "I've Grown Accustomed To Her Face" in "My Fair Lady" Rex Harrison
#8293, aired 2020-12-02THE 2020 PULITZER PRIZES $800: The Washington Post won for a report on climate change named this number of degrees Celsius--the critical increase for global warming two
#8293, aired 2020-12-02NON-PROPHETS $1600: In Revelation the beast & the false prophet are tossed into a "lake of fire burning with" this substance brimstone
#8292, aired 2020-12-01OOOH...FIREWORKS! $2,000 (Daily Double): From Greek words meaning "fire" & "art", this is the craft of making & shooting off fireworks pyrotechnics
#8291, aired 2020-11-30IT CAME FROM CROWDFUNDING! $2000: Long after he was "Rockin' In The Free World", this singer raised more than $6 million for Pono, his music player Neil Young
#8290, aired 2020-11-27LET'S START A SMALL BUSINESS $200: 99.9% of all U.S. businesses, small businesses are defined as having fewer than this many employees, D to the Romans 500
#8289, aired 2020-11-26BESTSELLING NONFICTION $2000: British soldiers accused of the Boston Massacre needed a defense lawyer, & this future pres. "Under Fire" tells the tale John Adams
#8282, aired 2020-11-17HATS AMORE! $400: Hats with four dents in the crown have been adopted by forest rangers & are named for this ursine ranger Smokey Bear
#8281, aired 2020-11-16WOMEN IN MUSIC $200: This "Girl On Fire" performer chose her last name in reference to the piano & because "it can open so many doors" Alicia Keys
#8281, aired 2020-11-16FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $400: A Latin word for "grace" or "favor", it means free of charge gratis
#8281, aired 2020-11-16FURNITURE STUFF $2000: This free-standing cupboard has an Italian name credenza
#8280, aired 2020-11-13BRITISH ROYAL RESIDENCES $800: A major royal residence until a 1512 fire, the Palace of Westminster is now home to these "Houses" Parliament
#8279, aired 2020-11-125-LETTER COUNTRIES $400: Gaining independence in 1804, it was the second country in the Americas to free itself from colonial rule Haiti
#8278, aired 2020-11-11JOHN BROWN $2000: Ethan Hawke plays John Brown, who hoped to liberate all enslaved people, & Oct. 16, 1859 raided the arsenal in this town "I want them to know we just took over the nation's largest armory to free the enslaved people of this nation. That will be big news, I reckon." Harpers Ferry
#8277, aired 2020-11-10MARIAH CAREY $400: (Mariah Carey presents the clue.) In 2019, I made a festive new video for this holiday song--the "Make My Wish Come True" edition "All I Want For Christmas Is You'
#8276, aired 2020-11-09THE BOOK CASE $200: In "Tropic of Fear" Nancy Drew met up with these brothers for a Hawaiian-themed mystery the Hardy Boys
#8276, aired 2020-11-09MOVIE BIOS $2000: In "12 Years a Slave": Chiwetel Ejiofor as this free Black man sold into slavery Solomon Northup
#8275, aired 2020-11-06LET ME GIVE YOU A HAND $1000: The ends are left hanging in this long necktie that uses a slipknot a four-in-hand
#8271, aired 2020-11-02ROM COMS $200: Vanity Fair called this film with Bill Murray as weatherman Phil Connors a "rom-com for curmudgeons" Groundhog Day
#8271, aired 2020-11-02ONCE-POPULAR FIRST NAMES $1200: Once, Brits gave thousands of boys a year this name of Christopher Guest's "Spinal Tap" guitarist; in 2016, fewer than 5 Nigel
#8269, aired 2020-10-294-LETTER SYNONYMS $400: Friar & brother are both synonymous with this religious title monk
#8269, aired 2020-10-29BLOCKBUSTERS $600: Subtitled "Catching Fire", the second film in this series caught fire with moviegoers The Hunger Games
#8268, aired 2020-10-28HODGEPODGE $200: In 1968 Congress passed the Fair this act, a word also in the name of a then 3-year-old cabinet department Housing
#8268, aired 2020-10-28BANDS OF THE 21st CENTURY $2000: This hit by Panic! at the Disco had no fewer than 9 writers; Tayla Parx contributed the "mama said" part "High Hopes"
#8266, aired 2020-10-26WORDS THAT ARE IN COMPREHENSIBLE $600: A fire's smoldering remains embers
#8265, aired 2020-10-23ANAGRAMS, HOW NOVEL! $200: Four legs good & bad: "FAR MAILMAN" Animal Farm
#8265, aired 2020-10-23A NUMBER BETWEEN 3 & 5 $1000: Pestilence, War, Famine & Death make up this biblical quartet the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
#8264, aired 2020-10-22ABBREVIATED BANDS $1000: They hit it big with "(Don't Fear) The Reaper": BÖC Blue Öyster Cult
#8262, aired 2020-10-20POP CULTURE $800: For an ad, Preparation H wanted this song, a big hit in 1963; the singer's daughter Rosanne said "No" "Ring Of Fire"
#8260, aired 2020-10-16CITY NICKNAMES $800: As heard at the start of the song "Molly Malone", "Fair City" is a nickname for this world capital Dublin
#8259, aired 2020-10-15ANIMALS $200: Those look like snake heads, but they are really the wing tips of the atlas this four-letter insect moth
#8259, aired 2020-10-15MICRONATIONS $400: In 2015 unclaimed land in the former Yugoslavia on a bank of this large "blue" river became the Free Republic of Liberland the Danube
#8259, aired 2020-10-15A PAIR OF PENCE $800: Opened in 1900 between Shepherd's Bush & Bank, the Central Line was the first in this system with a flat fare, twopence the Underground
#8257, aired 2020-10-13WOMEN IN LITERATURE $800: This William Makepeace Thackeray novel deals with the interwoven fortunes of 2 women: the passive Amelia & the scheming Becky Vanity Fair
#8256, aired 2020-10-12COLORFUL LIT $600: By Erik Larson, about "Murder, Magic and Madness at the Fair": "The Devil in the ____ City" White
#8255, aired 2020-10-09BILLBOARD TOP 40 $2000: "Weird Al" Yankovic made a foray into the Top 40 with this Michael Jackson parody "Eat It"
#8254, aired 2020-10-08SPORTS AWARDS $200: The FIFA Fair Play Award soccer
#8253, aired 2020-10-07THE STATE WAS IN PLAY $200: The 2016 election was tight! Fewer than 80,000 votes across Penn., Wisc. & this peninsular Midw. state were the margin of victory Michigan
#8252, aired 2020-10-06KEN JENNINGS KNOWS MOUNTAIN G.O.A.T.s $600: (Ken Jennings presents the clue.) Though the Freerider route takes most people four days, it took Alex Honnold about four hours, ropeless and using some holds the width of a pencil, to climb El Capitan in this national park Yosemite
#8252, aired 2020-10-06POTENT PORTMANTEAU $800: Frou-frou drink of vodka, cider & schnapps an appletini
#8251, aired 2020-10-05RESTAURANTS $600: Join the Mug Club at A&W restaurants & you can score a free one of these treats on your birthday a root beer float
#8251, aired 2020-10-052 $800: A fire at a London power station blacked out the much-anticipated 1964 launch of this TV channel BBC Two
#8246, aired 2020-09-28TERMS FROM ISLAM $1200: The "Oxford Dictionary of Islam" entry on this says it's called jahannam & is a place of eternal fire hell
#8245, aired 2020-09-25ICE CREAM $1200: Ice cream cones first became popular after appearing at the World's Fair in this city in 1904 St. Louis
#8244, aired 2020-09-24RAISE THE FLAG $600: In a third verse this title object "in triumph doth wave / O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave" the star-spangled banner
#8243, aired 2020-09-23CELEBS COMING & GOING $1600: A young Vince Gill turned down a chance to join Dire Straits; a less young Vince Gill replaced Glenn Frey on this band's tour the Eagles
#8243, aired 2020-09-23IT'S A DATE $2000: This Mideast war ended on June 10, 1967 when the U.N. negotiated a cease-fire the Six-Day War
#8240, aired 2020-09-18PLACES OF SUBSTANCE $400: This Michigan industrial city bears the name of a river named for a "fire stone" Flint
#8236, aired 2020-09-14THIS AMERICAN CITY $800: In 1819 a newspaper in this Ohio city boasted that it was "justly styled the fair queen of the west" Cincinnati
#8236, aired 2020-09-14ITALIAN OPERA $1600: He said he composed 94 operas, which would have kept him busy all "Four Seasons"; many are now lost, but not "Orlando Furioso" Vivaldi
#8235, aired 2020-06-12THE SPEAKER IN SHAKESPEARE $400: "Double, double, toil and trouble; fire burn and cauldron bubble" the witches of Macbeth
#8234, aired 2020-06-11PUN-FORGIVABLE $800: "A spot for handing out pink slips", or a hearth at the base of a chimney a fire place
#8234, aired 2020-06-11THE FRENCH REVOLUTION $1600: The motto of the radical Jacobin Club was "Vivre libre ou mourir", translated as this Live free or die
#8233, aired 2020-06-10EARTH, WIND & FIRE $400: About 80% of energy released by quakes comes from events with epicenters in the Circum-Pacific belt, AKA this, AKA a Johnny Cash tune Ring of Fire
#8233, aired 2020-06-10EARTH, WIND & FIRE $800: Go to hispanicfederation. org to help this island hit by 155-mph winds in a 2017 hurricane & a 6.4 earthquake in 2020 Puerto Rico
#8233, aired 2020-06-10EARTH, WIND & FIRE $1200: Wind erosion in this rugged 2,000-square-mile area of the Dakotas has unearthed a large number of fossils the Badlands
#8233, aired 2020-06-10EARTH, WIND & FIRE $1600: Much of the business district in this New Zealand capital lies on reclaimed land after an 1855 earthquake raised its harbor bed Wellington
#8233, aired 2020-06-103 NAMES IN CLASSIC ROCK $1600: Earth, Wind & Fire covered this Beatles tune that begins, "I was alone, I took a ride, I didn't know what I would find there" "Got To Get You Into My Life"
#8233, aired 2020-06-10EARTH, WIND & FIRE $2000: A mass of oily rags that doesn't let the heat dissipate... oxidation raising the temp inside...& boom! you get this 2-word phenomenon spontaneous combustion
#8232, aired 2020-06-09CANSPLAINING $800: What you have to understand about an old-time kids' game is that hiders try to free others from jail by performing this title task kicking the can (kick the can)
#8232, aired 2020-06-09GONE FISHING $1000: This type of fishing involves gently flinging the rod back & forth, letting the heavier line propel the light lure fly fishing
#8230, aired 2020-06-05SOME QUARTER GIVEN $3,000 (Daily Double): This motto that offers 2 very different options adorns New Hampshire's quarter Live Free or Die
#8229, aired 2020-06-04WE MISS YOU, MISTER ROGERS $600: Margaret Hamilton visited Mr. Rogers in 1975 to help kids understand make-believe & not fear this "Wizard of Oz" character the Wicked Witch of the West
#8228, aired 2020-06-03BACK IN THE 20th CENTURY $1200: In 1991 the IRA attacked John Major & his cabinet with mortar fire during a meeting at this address, Major's residence 10 Downing Street
#8227, aired 2020-06-02WOMEN AUTHORS $800: She worked at a coffee shop in Toronto before writing dystopian fare (Margaret) Atwood
#8227, aired 2020-06-02THE HUMAN BODY $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents by a display monitor.) Each hemisphere of the brain contains four lobes with different functions; your ability to process sounds, recognize words and understand them happens in this lobe, named for its location in relation to the sides of the head the temporal lobe
#8225, aired 2020-05-29COOL NEWS $800: In 2019 Tunisia held its second straight election that was considered to meet the alliterative criterion "free &" this fair
#8225, aired 2020-05-29MUSICAL THEATRE $1000: Among the great songwriting teams were Rodgers & Hammerstein & this pair who gave us "My Fair Lady" Lerner & Loewe
#8225, aired 2020-05-29ATHLETES WHO TEACH $2000: Mike Doleac went to the Final Four with this state U., won an NBA title & came home to teach physics at Park City High Utah
#8217, aired 2020-05-19BILLS, BILLS, BILLS $400: This science guy made an impassioned appearance on "Last Week Tonight" to warn that our planet's on fire Bill Nye
#8216, aired 2020-05-18PLAYWRIGHTS $1200: 100 years after he was born, his "Pygmalion" was turned into the musical "My Fair Lady" George Bernard Shaw
#8215, aired 2020-05-01SPORTS MASCOTS $600: This Padres mascot was the first mascot featured on a baseball card the San Diego Chicken
#8212, aired 2020-04-28SNOPES SAYS NOPE $600: An episode of "The Simpsons" did not predict the April 2019 fire here in Paris Notre Dame Cathedral
#8211, aired 2020-04-27HOLY SMOKE $800: This alliterative shrubbery from Exodus was not consumed by the fire that engulfed it the burning bush
#8210, aired 2020-04-24THE NIFTY '50s $400: After achieving a miraculous feat in 1954, he wrote "The Four Minute Mile" (Roger) Bannister
#8210, aired 2020-04-24GET YOUR KICKS $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew demonstrates a signal.) According to the U.S. Soccer Federation, a referee uses an arm raise at a 45-degree angle to signal for either a throw-in or a direct one of these a free kick
#8210, aired 2020-04-24MOVIE VILLAIN QUOTES $2000: Max Cady (Robert De Niro): "Counselor! Come out, come out, wherever you are" Cape Fear
#8209, aired 2020-04-23FICTIONAL TV TOWNS & CITIES $200: Home of a famous tire yard fire, this memorable TV town is where the Simpsons live Springfield
#8209, aired 2020-04-23CHARACTERS IN BEATLES SONGS $1600: Vera, Chuck & Dave are the imagined grandchildren in this song "When I'm Sixty-Four"
#8208, aired 2020-04-22EPISODES OF THE SITCOM $600: "Leap to Faith" & "The Worst Possible Use of Free Will" The Good Place
#8208, aired 2020-04-22EARTH DAY AT 50 $800: The first Earth Day took place in 1970, inspiring this act in the same year that sought to keep our skies free from pollution the Clean Air Act
#8207, aired 2020-04-21JAMES TAYLOR: HIS LIFE & MUSIC $800: (James Taylor presents the clue.) In 1971 I earned my first Gold record for a single & the following year my first Grammy for this song written by Carole King "You've Got A Friend"

Final Jeopardy! Round clues (231 results returned)

#9053, aired 2024-03-06AMERICAN LITERARY HISTORY: "The country is celebrating 100 years of freedom 100 years too soon", says "The Fire Next Time", published in this year 1963
#9052, aired 2024-03-05CHEMICAL ELEMENTS: Isolated in 1945 during uranium fission research, it was named for an ancient deity to suggest humans gaining a new power promethium
#9033, aired 2024-02-07WONDERS OF THE ANCIENT WORLD: Achilles Tatius wrote that it "was like a mountain... at the top of this mountain rose a second sun" the Lighthouse at Alexandria
#9025, aired 2024-01-26LEADING LADIES: NEXT IN LINE: Janet Gaynor, Judy Garland, Barbra Streisand, her Lady Gaga
#9017, aired 2024-01-16NEW NATIONS: In September 2023 the U.S. recognized 2 new nations in free association with New Zealand: Niue & this archipelago the Cook Islands
#8946, aired 2023-10-09WOMEN AUTHORS: In "A Room of One’s Own", the "four famous names" are Austen, 2 Brontës & this author who died closest to Virginia Woolf’s own time George Eliot
#8918, aired 2023-07-19FAMOUS PAINTINGS: A German guidebook to a 1937 World's Fair dismissed it as a "hodgepodge of body parts that any four-year-old could have painted" Guernica
#8874, aired 2023-05-18BILLBOARD NO. 1 HITS: Billy Joel said, "I think the one time I didn't write the music" before the lyrics was for this 1989 hit, "and I think it shows" "We Didn't Start The Fire"
#8858, aired 2023-04-26HOLLYWOOD 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
#8760, aired 2022-12-091970s MOVIES: A 1975 premiere of this comedy advertised free coconuts for the first thousand in the audience Monty Python and the Holy Grail
#8756, aired 2022-12-05LANDMARKS: In 2009, during a 20th anniversary celebration, it was called "an edifice of fear. On November 9, it became a place of joy" the Berlin Wall
#8, aired 2022-11-13ADVENTURE NOVELS: The villainess in this French novel kind of undercuts the title when she says, "among these four men two only are to be feared" The Three Musketeers
#3, aired 2022-10-09NEWSPAPER HEADLINES: A New York Times headline about this disaster included "866 rescued" & "noted names missing" the Titanic
#8680, aired 2022-07-08SCIENCE & THE BIBLE: A 2021 study suggested that an asteroid that struck the Jordan Valley c. 1650 B.C. gave rise to the story of this city in Genesis 19 Sodom
#8626, aired 2022-04-25NAMES IN AMERICAN HISTORY: Capable of freighting about 180 tons of cargo, in 1624 it was in disrepair & appraised at a total value of 128 pounds the Mayflower
#8601, aired 2022-03-21SINGERS: In 2021 at age 95, this singer achieved a Guinness World Record for the oldest person to release an album of new material Tony Bennett
#8562, aired 2022-01-25SEA LIFE: In 2018 National Geographic reported that half of this was dead, "akin to a forest after a devastating fire" the Great Barrier Reef
#8545, aired 2021-12-31MUSIC 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
#8497, aired 2021-10-26AUTHORS: These 2 men who both died in Boston in the mid-20th century each won 4 Pulitzers, one man for Poetry & the other for Drama (Robert) Frost & (Eugene) O'Neill
#8493, aired 2021-10-2019th 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
#8482, aired 2021-10-05POPULAR PHRASES: This phrase relating nutrition & health was popularized by fruit scientist J.T. Stinson at the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair an apple a day keeps the doctor away
#8480, aired 2021-10-01AMERICAN HISTORY: The April 26, 1906 edition of The Call, a newspaper in this city, reported on the heroic death of hoseman James O'Neil San Francisco
#8452, aired 2021-07-27MYTHOLOGICAL ANIMALS: After being born this creature would bring the remains of its forebear to Heliopolis & put them on the altar of the sun god the phoenix
#8398, aired 2021-05-12WORLD'S FAIRS: The theme of Seattle's 1962 World's Fair was "Man in the" this era Space Age
#8361, aired 2021-03-22SHAKESPEAREAN 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
#8354, aired 2021-03-11FOREIGN NEWSPAPERS: Representing its outspoken tone, this newspaper founded in the 19th century has the name of a free-spirited opera character Le Figaro
#8310, aired 2021-01-08WOMEN & SCIENCE: Dr. Margaret Todd gave science this word for different forms of one basic substance; it's from the Greek for "equal" & "place" isotope
#8297, aired 2020-12-08THE ANCIENT WORLD: He got to propose his own sentence & joked that since he was actually a benefactor of the state, he should get free meals! Socrates
#8255, aired 2020-10-09BOOKS OF THE 1950s: A special edition of this 1953 novel came with an asbestos binding Fahrenheit 451
#8225, aired 2020-05-29PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARIES & MUSEUMS: Of the 15 U.S. presidential libraries or museums, 3 are in this state, more than any other Texas
#8200, aired 2020-04-10WORDS IN THE NEWS: On September 25, 2019, searches on merriam-webster.com for the definition of this 3-word Latin term increased by 5,500% quid pro quo
#8193, aired 2020-04-01CANADIAN GEOGRAPHY: Canada's Four Corners monument marks the junction of the Northwest Territories, Nunavut & these 2 Prairie provinces Saskatchewan & Manitoba
#8159, aired 2020-02-13INTERNATIONAL LITERATURE: There are reminiscences of branding cattle & lassoing steers in “Martín Fierro”, the national poem of this Western Hemisphere country Argentina
#8158, aired 2020-02-1220th CENTURY EUROPEAN LEADERS: In a 1930s broadcast, this man spoke of “A quarrel in a faraway country between people of whom we know nothing” Neville Chamberlain
#8136, aired 2020-01-13THE BIBLE: This book of the Bible ends with "fire was on it by night, in the sight of all the house of Israel, throughout all their journeys" Exodus
#8058, aired 2019-09-25NATURAL GEOGRAPHIC FEATURES: Timely for 2018, in 1866 Mark Twain wrote of this landmark's "sputtering jets of fire" & "heat from Pele's furnaces" (Mount) Kilauea
#8045, aired 2019-07-26HISTORIC SHIPS: 215 passengers were rescued when it sank in July 1918, about 500 fewer than it had rescued 6 years earlier the Carpathia
#8030, aired 2019-07-0516th CENTURY NAMES: Hoping to stop Dominican friar Johannes Tetzel from preaching for indulgences, in 1517 he wrote a series of debate topics Martin Luther
#7932, aired 2019-02-19BROADWAY MUSICALS: The title of this musical that opened in 1956 came from the last line of a nursery rhyme about a structure that spanned the Thames My Fair Lady
#7911, aired 2019-01-21BROADWAY MUSICALS: Premiering in 2005, its story is divided into spring, summer, fall & winter, each narrated by one of the 4 male leads Jersey Boys
#7866, aired 2018-11-19AMERICAN WRITERS: In a twist of irony, he accidentally set fire to some 300 acres of woods at Fair Haven Pond near the Concord River in 1844 Henry David Thoreau
#7855, aired 2018-11-02SURNAMES: Evoking speed & luxury, this one of the 10 most common Italian surnames goes back to the Latin word for iron Ferrari
#7812, aired 2018-07-24FASHION: Debuting in 1946, it was deemed "four triangles of nothing"; some critics even found it sinful a bikini
#7810, aired 2018-07-20FUTURISTIC FICTION: Fear of the social reorganization represented by an auto tycoon's innovations inspired this 1932 novel Brave New World
#7768, aired 2018-05-23GREEK MYTHOLOGY: This pair who accompanied their father into battle were called Timor & Formido, "Fear" & "Terror", by the Romans Phobos & Deimos
#7757, aired 2018-05-08LONDON LANDMARKS: Built in the 1990s, it's the only permanent structure permitted in London with a thatched roof since the Great Fire of 1666 the Globe Theatre
#7607, aired 2017-10-1020th CENTURY NOVELS: The protagonist of this novel "was fairly sure that his age was 39, and he believed that he had been born in 1944 or 1945" Nineteen Eighty-Four
#7578, aired 2017-07-19HISTORIC EVENTS: In June 1986 a bakers union expressed regret for a disaster in this European city 320 years before London
#7576, aired 2017-07-17DEADLY CREATURES: The National Ocean Service says one lethal type of this bone-free creature is the most venomous marine animal a jellyfish
#7569, aired 2017-07-06SPORTS TRADITIONS: Since 1986, reaching the quarterfinals of this event has entitled you to free tickets & free tea for life Wimbledon
#7530, aired 2017-05-12PLACE NAMES: A town named for its location where a river in Devon meets the English Channel, it's also the name of a college in New Hampshire Dartmouth
#7470, aired 2017-02-17WORLD LANDMARKS: Completed in 1884, the Washington Monument became the tallest manmade structure but 4 years later was surpassed by this the Eiffel Tower
#7435, aired 2016-12-30OSCAR-WINNING TITLE SUBJECTS: The only Nobel Prize winner to be the title subject of a Best Picture Oscar winner is this man John Nash
#7402, aired 2016-11-15MEN OF SCIENCE: The symbols for 6 chemical elements spell out his name, beginning with cobalt, phosphorus & erbium Copernicus
#7344, aired 2016-07-14CIVIL WAR HISTORY: Of the 4 prewar states that permitted slavery but did not secede, it was the largest in area & latest to join the Union Missouri
#7336, aired 2016-07-04DISNEYLAND: This attraction was originally built for the New York World's Fair in 1964, with proceeds going to UNICEF It's a Small World
#7295, aired 2016-05-06AUTHORS: She wrote in her journal in 1867 that a publisher "asked me to write a girls book. Said I'd try." Louisa May Alcott
#7273, aired 2016-04-06ASTRONOMY: Its name means "fear", & this moon orbits closest to a planet's surface of any moon in the solar system Phobos
#7259, aired 2016-03-17GREAT BRITONS: A pair of shoes that he wore when making history in 1954 sold at auction in 2015 for more than $400,000 Roger Bannister
#7251, aired 2016-03-07SPORTS NICKNAMES: Collective nickname for the group who "formed the crest of the South Bend Cyclone" the Four Horsemen
#7230, aired 2016-02-05U.S. PRESIDENTS: He was the only 20th century president who never delivered an inaugural address President Ford
#7170, aired 2015-11-13GREEK MYTHOLOGY: Famous mother of Pyrrha, who survived the Great Flood & with her husband repopulated the Earth Pandora
#7050, aired 2015-04-17BOOK REVIEWS: A 2008 review of this novel, later filmed, compared it to "Battle Royale" & said it's "a future we can fear" The Hunger Games
#7016, aired 2015-03-02LITERARY 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)
#7010, aired 2015-02-20WORD ORIGINS: Describing anything very showy, in architecture it refers to a style using curves like tongues of fire flamboyant
#7000, aired 2015-02-06SHAKESPEARE: After England, more Shakespeare plays are set in this present-day country than in any other Italy
#6944, aired 2014-11-2020th CENTURY PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS: In this year, there were no pres's or VPs running, but 3 of the 4 men on the 2 major party ballots would become president 1920
#6890, aired 2014-07-25WEBSITES: A slang term for Harvard's freshman register gave this website its name Facebook
#6887, aired 2014-07-22WORLD LANDMARKS: Built for a World's Fair in 1889, its visitors that year included the Prince of Wales & Buffalo Bill; it still gets 7 million a year the Eiffel Tower
#6847, aired 2014-05-2720th CENTURY PLAY TITLES: This play's title comes from the name of a Greek king said to have carved a statue of a woman & fallen in love with it Pygmalion
#6826, aired 2014-04-28NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING AUTHORS: Due to injuries suffered in 2 plane crashes in Africa, he was unable to accept his 1954 Nobel Prize in person Ernest Hemingway
#6821, aired 2014-04-21HISTORIC GROUPS: With fewer than 10 member cities in attendance, this association based in Lubeck held its last assembly in 1669 the Hanseatic League
#6812, aired 2014-04-08MUSIC MAKERS: Salisbury Cathedral's dean said this man, via his 2013 album, "is creating a huge awareness of" an historic document Jay-Z
#6772, aired 2014-02-11SOCIAL MEDIA: The most retweeted tweet of all time happened on November 6, 2012 & started with "four" & ended with these 2 words more years
#6710, aired 2013-11-15PLAY CHARACTERS: In Peter Roach's phonetics glossary, this alliterative guy is "the best-known fictional phonetician" Henry Higgins
#6647, aired 2013-07-09NATIONAL OFFICIAL LANGUAGES: This country has an area of only 275 square miles but has 4 official languages: English, Tamil, Chinese & Malay Singapore
#6540, aired 2013-02-08U.S. GOVERNMENT: Recently in the news, this agency traces its origins to an 1803 act helping Portsmouth, N.H. after a fire FEMA
#6537, aired 2013-02-05SHORT 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"
#6523, aired 2013-01-16RECENT OSCAR WINNERS: From 2008, it's the most recent film to win Best Picture & Best Song; the lyrics are in a foreign language Slumdog Millionaire
#6480, aired 2012-11-16CLASSICAL MUSIC: This 1890 piece was named for a Verlaine poem that begins, "Your soul is as a moonlit landscape fair" "Clair de Lune"
#6477, aired 2012-11-13BORN & DIED: He was born in 1728 in Yorkshire, England & died in a skirmish February 14, 1779 in Kealakekua Bay, Hawaii Captain James Cook
#6475, aired 2012-11-09DISASTERS: In 2012 the National Postal Museum marked the 75th & 100th anniversaries of these 2 disasters with an exhibit called "Fire & Ice" the Titanic sinking & the Hindenburg
#6402, aired 2012-06-19FABRICS: The name of this fabric includes the initials of the city where it was introduced at a World's Fair site nylon
#6242, aired 2011-11-0818th CENTURY AUTHORS: In a poem he named himself Cadenus, an anagram of Decanus, or "Dean" Jonathan Swift
#6212, aired 2011-09-27ENGLISH WRITERS: English poet Thomas Hoccleve, a contemporary of this man, called him the "firste fyndere of our fair langage" Chaucer
#6185, aired 2011-07-01BRITISH AUTHORS: She described her work as "human nature in the Midland Counties" & involving "three or four families in a country village" Jane Austen
#6151, aired 2011-05-16COLLEGE: From the Latin for "free", this 2-word term for a type of college refers to the old belief of what a free man should be taught liberal arts
#6093, aired 2011-02-23AMERICAN LIT: He wrote, "The hellish tattoo of the heart increased. It grew quicker & quicker, & louder & louder every instant" Edgar Allan Poe
#6020, aired 2010-11-12DOCUMENTS: It says, "The history of the present king of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations" the Declaration of Independence
#5920, aired 2010-05-14THE 50 STATES: It's the only state from which rainwater flows to the Pacific, the Atlantic & Hudson Bay Montana
#5831, aired 2010-01-11THE PARTS OF SPEECH: Of the traditional 8 parts of speech, it's the only one that doesn't end in the same 4 letters as 1 of the other parts of speech adjective
#5810, aired 2009-12-11OPEC: This African nation of 150 million is the only member of OPEC that's also a member of the British Commonwealth Nigeria
#5809, aired 2009-12-101989 NO. 1 HITS: The Billboard Book of No. 1 Hits says this song brought mail from history teachers who hailed it as an educational aid "We Didn't Start The Fire" (by Billy Joel)
#5790, aired 2009-11-13HISTORIC SPEECHES: He said, "We look forward to a world founded upon" freedom of speech, of worship, from want & from fear Franklin Delano Roosevelt
#5785, aired 2009-11-06STATE CAPITALS: It's the only 3-word state capital Salt Lake City
#5744, aired 2009-07-23FOOD: This cheese was created in 1892 by Emil Frey & named for a New York singing society whose members loved the cheese Liederkranz
#5726, aired 2009-06-29THE BEATLES: Fittingly, the cover of this Beatles album shows the Fab Four engaging in a semaphore message Help!
#5703, aired 2009-05-27BIG COUNTRIES: Forbes magazine uses "BRIC", an acronym for these 4 large nations advancing in economic power Brazil, Russia, India & China
#5685, aired 2009-05-01GLAND FINALE: This human gland important in the immune system takes its name in part from its resemblance to an herb the thymus gland
#5652, aired 2009-03-17RIVERS: The name of this river whose lower reaches run through Ghana is from Portuguese for "turn" or "bend" the Volta
#5596, aired 2008-12-29PHRASE ORIGINS: Sails that ran free & fluttered without control caused a ship to stagger like a drunk, giving rise to this phrase three sheets to the wind
#5575, aired 2008-11-2819th CENTURY NOVELS: Its title refers to an imaginary place where things like "honors, preferments... silver, gold, pearls" are sold Vanity Fair
#5565, aired 2008-11-14HIGHER EDUCATION: The 1st public one of these schools began in Illinois in 1901 for students who wanted to pursue higher education in their home area a community college (or junior college)
#5546, aired 2008-10-20U.S. GEOGRAPHY: Of the non-state U.S. territories, areas & districts, the only one that is larger in area than the smallest state Puerto Rico
#5527, aired 2008-09-23TENNIS: This Grand Slam stadium is named for a WWI pilot who pioneered the use of machine guns on fighter planes Roland-Garros Stadium
#5460, aired 2008-05-09ANCIENT TIMES: Plutarch's chapter on Romulus quotes this much later man as saying, "I love treason but hate a traitor" Julius Caesar
#5400, aired 2008-02-15AMERICAN POETRY: Walt Whitman called this "the beautiful uncut hair of graves" grass
#5391, aired 2008-02-04BRITISH 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
#5353, aired 2007-12-1220th CENTURY PERSONALITIES: In 1921 he got a patent for a diving suit that allowed one to quickly discard the suit & escape to the surface Harry Houdini
#5330, aired 2007-11-09HISTORIC ARCHITECTS: He designed S.C.'s State Capitol, burned during the Civil War; his most famous building had burned during the War of 1812 James Hoban
#5293, aired 2007-09-1919th CENTURY INVENTIONS: One description of it said its "spokes look like cobwebs; they are after the fashion of those on the newest... bicycles" the Ferris Wheel
#5292, aired 2007-09-18MUSICAL HISTORY: It's the nursery rhyme that inspired the title of a famous musical based on a 1913 G.B. Shaw work London Bridge
#5277, aired 2007-07-1719th CENTURY AMERICA: It was written for American schoolkids to recite on the dedication day of the Chicago World's Fair the Pledge of Allegiance
#5240, aired 2007-05-25INAUGURAL ADDRESSES: This president said, "We remain accountable... for the reconstruction of Cuba as a free commonwealth" William McKinley
#5148, aired 2007-01-1718th CENTURY AMERICANS: He preached, "The God that holds you over the pit of Hell, much as one holds a spider... over the fire, abhors you" Jonathan Edwards
#5091, aired 2006-10-30GEOGRAPHY: The only place where 4 countries meet at one point is found on this continent Africa
#5045, aired 2006-07-14FAMOUS PLAYS: This play that is quite concerned with the English language was, oddly enough, first performed in German in 1913 Pygmalion
#5000, aired 2006-05-12ISLANDS: Davis Strait, named for a Northwest Passage seeker, separates these 2 islands that total over 1 million square miles Greenland & Baffin Island
#4877, aired 2005-11-2220th CENTURY BOOKS: This 1972 book, a bestseller in 2005, begins, "We were somewhere around Barstow... when the drugs began to take hold" Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (by Hunter Thompson)
#4848, aired 2005-10-12SWEET TREATS: Once known as fairy floss in the U.S., it's "papa's beard" in France & "sugar wool" in Germany cotton candy
#4834, aired 2005-09-22FAMOUS PAINTINGS: It was originally painted as the centerpiece for the Spanish Government Pavilion at the 1937 Paris World's Fair Guernica (by Pablo Picasso)
#4800, aired 2005-06-17AUTHORS: This writer was born in Germantown, Penn. on Nov. 29, 1832, the second of 4 daughters Louisa May Alcott
#4776, aired 2005-05-16BIBLICAL CITIES: Of the 10 most populous U.S. cities, the one that shares its name with a city mentioned in Revelation Philadelphia
#4756, aired 2005-04-18INVENTED WORDS: In works by Lewis Carroll, this word means "four in the afternoon; the time when you begin broiling things for dinner" brillig
#4696, aired 2005-01-24MIDDLE EASTERN AFFAIRS: The Arab-Israeli War that started on June 5, 1967 ended with a cease-fire on this date in Israel June 10, 1967
#4690, aired 2005-01-14U.S. PRESIDENTS: They're the 2 men who served the U.S. as President representing the Union Party Abraham Lincoln & Andrew Johnson
#4686, aired 2005-01-1020th CENTURY AUTHORS: This Russian-born author & scientist who died in 1992 said, "I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them" Isaac Asimov
#4673, aired 2004-12-2219th CENTURY SPEECHES: At Harvard, this writer proposed that we work 1 day & leave 6 free for the "sublime revelations of nature" Henry David Thoreau
#4667, aired 2004-12-14AWARD-WINNING AUTHORS: The only Oscar winner also to win a Nobel Prize, this European won a 1938 Oscar for adapting his own play George Bernard Shaw
#4665, aired 2004-12-10STATE MOTTOES: 2 of the 5 states whose mottoes aren't in English or Latin (2 of) Hawaii, Washington, Montana, Minnesota, or California
#4647, aired 2004-11-16OCCUPATIONS: While working as one, Charlotte Bronte complained that one of these "has no existence, is not considered as a living... being" a governess
#4640, aired 2004-11-06SPORTS: Its solo female winner is awarded the Venus Rosewater Dish Wimbledon
#4638, aired 2004-11-04U.S. TRAVEL AND TOURISM: Souvenirs sold at this attraction include 1962 World's Fair glassware & mugs boasting "I made it to the top" the Space Needle
#4606, aired 2004-09-20ART SUBJECTS: Seen in sculpture, Eustache de St. Pierre & 5 other wealthy men made themselves hostages to free this city Calais (from Rodin's The Burghers of Calais)
#4545, aired 2004-05-14THE U.S. SENATE: In the year 1958, the U.S. Senate was made up of this many members 96
#4480, aired 2004-02-13GEOGRAPHIC SUPERLATIVES: Among the world's rivers, the Nile is the longest & the Jordan holds this geographic distinction the lowest in elevation
#4449, aired 2004-01-01U.S. CITIES: While serving in the '60s & '70s as this city's last "censor", Richard J. Sinnott banned fewer than 10 things Boston
#4423, aired 2003-11-26COUNTRIES: At the 1982 World's Fair in Knoxville, a giant Rubik's Cube stood outside this country's pavilion Hungary
#4250, aired 2003-02-07THE HISTORY OF CLIFFS NOTES: In 1985 Cliffs Notes' "The Scarlet Letter" retook the top-selling spot; this book had briefly replaced it "1984"
#4190, aired 2002-11-15BIOGRAPHIES: A 2001 biography of this man is subtitled "Pioneer of the Mind" Sigmund Freud
#4139, aired 2002-09-05TECHNOLOGY: After a demonstration of this, the April 8, 1927 New York Times said, "Commercial use in doubt" television
#4137, aired 2002-09-03SEPTEMBER 1984: History-making woman whose Sept. 1984 itinerary included speeches in Dallas, Spokane, Syracuse & Youngstown Geraldine Ferraro
#4086, aired 2002-05-13WORD HISTORIES: In old philosophy this 12-letter word referred to a fifth substance, superior to earth, air, fire or water quintessence
#4082, aired 2002-05-07THE OSCARS: The 2 Best Picture nominees for 1983 that featured astronaut characters The Right Stuff & Terms of Endearment
#4063, aired 2002-04-10MOVIE DIRECTORS: Appropriately, the last name of this current director means "characterized by abject fear" Wes Craven
#4044, aired 2002-03-14RECENT FILMS: The name of this character means "fear" in Yiddish Shrek
#4004, aired 2002-01-17MILITARY MATTERS: Completed by the British in 1906, its name means "fear nothing" & it made all others of its kind obsolete HMS Dreadnought
#3960, aired 2001-11-16SPORTS MARKETING: Tiger Woods' 22-page booklet "The Making of a Champion" came free on one million boxes of this product Wheaties
#3957, aired 2001-11-13FIRST LADIES: First & last names of the 2 First Ladies who each had a husband & son serve as president Abigail Adams & Barbara Bush
#3945, aired 2001-10-26'90s MOVIES: It was based on the true story of the 4 Niland brothers of Tonawanda, New York Saving Private Ryan
#3914, aired 2001-09-13FILM DIRECTORS: In his 1929 film "Die Frau im Mond", or "Woman in the Moon", he originated the rocket countdown Fritz Lang
#3864, aired 2001-05-24STATE MOTTOES: General John Stark coined this 4-word motto about the 1777 Battle of Bennington, in which he led 1,400 N.H. volunteers "Live Free or Die"
#3850, aired 2001-05-04THE '90s: In 1998 Andrew Thomas became the seventh & last American to live aboard this Space Station Mir
#3826, aired 2001-04-02GREEK & ROMAN MYTHOLOGY: The English names of this god's 2 companions are Panic & Fear Mars
#3763, aired 2001-01-03BROADWAY MUSICALS: In 1949 this Shakespeare-based show won the 1st Tony for Best Musical; in 2000 it won for Best Musical Revival Kiss Me, Kate
#3727, aired 2000-11-1420th CENTURY PEOPLE: David Ben-Gurion described her as "the only man in my cabinet" Golda Meir
#3684, aired 2000-09-14WORD ORIGINS: This residential district of Dublin held an annual fair from 1204 to 1855, when it was closed due to frequent fights Donnybrook
#3670, aired 2000-07-14SPORTS BOOKS: In 1998 the author of this controversial 1970 book was finally invited to play in a Yankees old-timers' game "Ball Four" (by Jim Bouton)
#3646, aired 2000-06-12MAGAZINES: In 1925 it was founded by an ex-editor of Stars and Stripes; in the '90s it was run by an ex-editor of Vanity Fair The New Yorker
#3636, aired 2000-05-29WORLD CITIES: By the time it hosts the Summer Olympics in 2004, this city plans to have a car-free zone linking its ancient sites Athens
#3625, aired 2000-05-12WORLD LANDMARKS: In the 1920s this nation's churches pooled their money & erected a 120-foot religious monument on a 2,300-foot peak Brazil
#3560, aired 2000-02-11MAMMALS: The 2 mammals that live at the highest altitude on a permanent basis are the pika & this animal Yak
#3514, aired 1999-12-09HONORS: To remain "Free to blast and bollock Blairite Britain" Tony Harrison declined this post in 1999 Poet Laureate of England
#3490, aired 1999-11-05MODERN TECHNOLOGY: Common name given Douglas Engelbart's device, an "X-Y position indicator for a display system" a mouse
#3445, aired 1999-07-23PUBLICATIONS: Henry Nichols' "Four Seasons" engraving has appeared on the cover of this publication each year since 1851 Farmers' Almanac
#3404, aired 1999-05-27DIRECTORS & THEIR FILMS: 1 of the 2 '90s films by German director Wolfgang Petersen concerned with a U.S. president's safety (1 of) Air Force One & In the Line of Fire
#3390, aired 1999-05-07FROM BOOK TO FILM: This recent hit film was based on the book "Gesundheit: Good Health is a Laughing Matter" Patch Adams
#3330, aired 1999-02-12LITERATURE: In 1998 Jose Saramago became the first writer in this language to win a Nobel Prize for Literature Portuguese
#3324, aired 1999-02-04FAMOUS NICKNAMES: This famous 20th century nickname is the Argentinian equivalent of "Y'know?" or "Hey, you!" Che (for Che Guevara, who was born in Argentina)
#3305, aired 1999-01-08BALLET: Feeling the need for ballets about American life, this dancer choreographed his first ballet in 1944 Jerome Robbins
#3165, aired 1998-05-08GEOGRAPHY NEWS: On the initiative of Sen. Patrick Leahy, in 1998 it was designated the sixth Great Lake Lake Champlain
#3129, aired 1998-03-19BROADCASTING: Founded in the early '50s, in 1995 it moved its headquarters from Munich to Prague Radio Free Europe
#3079, aired 1998-01-08ECONOMISTS: In 1980 he hosted a 10-part PBS series & co-authored the companion book, both titled "Free to Choose" Milton Friedman
#3035, aired 1997-11-07WOMEN AUTHORS: Tourists may visit the Chawton, England home of this sensible 19th C. novelist, still popular today Jane Austen
#3029, aired 1997-10-30THE WESTERN U.S.: This city's official seal depicts a phoenix & a motto in Spanish: "Gold in Peace -- Iron in War" San Francisco
#2981, aired 1997-07-14WORLD CAPITALS: The Spaniards named it for the Virgin of the Fair Winds for bringing them safely across the Atlantic Buenos Aires
#2940, aired 1997-05-16THE LAW: From Latin for "under penalty", you're under penalty if you don't obey one a subpoena
#2881, aired 1997-02-24INVENTIONS: Introduced at the 1900 World's Fair in Paris, its name comes from Latin for "one that takes you up the ladder" Escalator
#2876, aired 1997-02-17FAMOUS FAMILIES: Chicago's Fire Academy was built in 1960 on the site where this family once lived The O'Learys
#2741, aired 1996-07-01BLACK HISTORY: In 1920 he was named provisional president of Africa with a mandate to free it from white domination Marcus Garvey
#2580, aired 1995-11-17FAMOUS NAMES: DNA from Prince Philip helped prove that Anna Anderson-Manahan was not this woman, as she had claimed Anastasia
#2505, aired 1995-06-23THE SUPER BOWL: With 7 appearances, this team has played in more Super Bowls than any other the Dallas Cowboys
#2410, aired 1995-02-10WORD ORIGINS: This word for sudden, wild fear comes from the name of a god who was believed to cause it panic
#2341, aired 1994-11-07U.S. LANDMARKS: James Hoban, who designed & built this, had to rebuild it after a fire in 1814 the White House
#2153, aired 1994-01-05CARD GAMES: Best poker hand that can be formed from the last 5 monarchs of England four of a kind (four kings)
#2144, aired 1993-12-23MAGAZINES: After the TV show premiered in 1964, The New Yorker wouldn't allow this family in its cartoons the Addams family
#2137, aired 1993-12-14THE OSCARS: His 1991 Supporting Actor Oscar came nearly 40 years after his 1st nomination for "Sudden Fear" Jack Palance
#2120, aired 1993-11-19WORD ORIGINS: The name of this dialect comes from a Hindi word, mantri, meaning "counselor" Mandarin
#2098, aired 1993-10-20DISASTERS: This began Sept. 2, 1666 in the house of the King's baker in Pudding Lane the Great Fire of London
#2091, aired 1993-10-11WORD & PHRASE ORIGINS: This term for a deadbeat came from a poker player whose hole card didn't fill out his hand four-flusher
#2052, aired 1993-07-06PRESIDENTIAL INAUGURATIONS: He used more words in his one inaugural address than FDR used in all four of his William Henry Harrison
#2011, aired 1993-05-10PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGNS: His 1856 campaign slogan emphasized "Free press, free soil, free men" John C. Frémont
#1981, aired 1993-03-29U.S. GEOGRAPHY: The Klickitat Indians referred to this peak as Tah-One-Lat-Clah, meaning "fire mountain" Mount St. Helens
#1892, aired 1992-11-24HISTORIC PAIRS: They were the maternal grandparents of England's Queen Mary I Ferdinand & Isabella
#1815, aired 1992-06-19IN THE NEWS: In an unannounced December 1991 speech at Columbia Univ., this author said, "Free speech is life itself" Salman Rushdie
#1739, aired 1992-03-05LITERATURE: In "The Jungle Book" it's called "the Red Flower" & "every beast lives in fear of it" fire
#1718, aired 1992-02-05FAMOUS WOMEN: She was granted free use of the mails in December 1963 Jacqueline Kennedy
#1644, aired 1991-10-24THE SENATE: The 2 former major party vice presidential nominees who are now senators Robert Dole & Lloyd Bentsen
#1563, aired 1991-05-22QUOTES: Nobel Laureate & Reagan advisor who titled 1 of his books "There Is No Such Thing as a Free Lunch" Milton Friedman
#1559, aired 1991-05-1619th CENTURY AMERICA: To keep a balance, an 1820 compromise admitted Missouri as a slave state & this as a free state Maine
#1532, aired 1991-04-09WORLD LEADERS: This woman, elected president of Ireland in 1990, used a 1968 Simon & Garfunkel hit in her campaign Mary Robinson
#1485, aired 1991-02-01THE AMERICAN FLAG: Total number of horizontal rows of stars on the U.S. flag 9
#1425, aired 1990-11-09U.S. POLITICS: This city has been the site of more major party presidential nominating conventions than any other Chicago
#1408, aired 1990-10-17AUTOBIOGRAPHIES: Numerical phrase in the title of the 1955 autobiography of British physician Roger Bannister The Four-Minute Mile
#1350, aired 1990-06-15WORLD WAR I: 2 of World War I's "Big Four" leaders who met in Paris in 1919 to draft the Treaty of Versailles (2 of) Wilson, Clemenceau, Orlando or David Lloyd George
#1325, aired 1990-05-11MEDICINE: His vaccine was announced safe in April '55, the 10th anniversary of FDR's death Dr. Jonas Salk
#1315, aired 1990-04-27EUROPE: In this country domestic mail is free & int'l mail can be sent from French or Spanish post offices Andorra
#1201, aired 1989-11-20THE CENSUS: 3 of the 6 U.S. states averaging fewer than 10 people per square mile (3 of) Alaska, Montana, Nevada, North Dakota, South Dakota & Wyoming
#1103, aired 1989-05-24WORLD CITIES: Linked by the world's 5th longest suspension bridge, it lies in both Europe & Asia Istanbul
#1026, aired 1989-02-06BUSINESS & INDUSTRY: The 7 largest banks in the free world are headquartered in this country Japan
#970, aired 1988-11-18ELECTIONS: 3 twentieth century presidents who were defeated when running to retain the office (3 of) Taft, Hoover, Carter, & Ford
#965, aired 1988-11-11THE SUPREME COURT: Only member of the current court who has been elected to a public office Sandra Day O'Connor (state senator from Arizona)
#913, aired 1988-07-20THE 50 STATES: The 2 states that begin with "M" whose capitals begin with "J" Mississippi (Jackson) & Missouri (Jefferson City)
#877, aired 1988-05-31BUSINESS & INDUSTRY: More than half the free world's commercial jetliners have been assembled in this U.S. state Washington
#839, aired 1988-04-07ISLANDS: This island of 5 million has 3 million fewer people now than it had 150 years ago Ireland
#773, aired 1988-01-06ASTRONOMY: Appropriate mythological name given the asteroid in our solar system that passes closest to the Sun Icarus
#739, aired 1987-11-19RULERS: The only name shared by four consecutive kings of England George (I - IV)
#622, aired 1987-04-28U.S. PRESIDENTS: Total number of presidents who died while in office 8
#500, aired 1986-11-07ASIA: Only SE Asian nation never a colony of the West, its name aptly means "land of the free" Thailand
#470, aired 1986-09-26GAMES: The 4 corners on a Monopoly board are "Go", "Free Parking" & these 2 Jail & Go To Jail
#443, aired 1986-05-21MATHEMATICS: Besides 0, the only number that yields the same result when added to itself or multiplied by itself 2
#429, aired 1986-05-01HOLIDAYS: Ranked #2 after Christmas, about 850 million greeting cards are sold yearly for this holiday Valentine's Day
#415, aired 1986-04-11AMERICAN LITERATURE: Title of O. Henry's collection of short stories, "The Four Million" refers specifically to this the population of New York (the citizens of NYC)
#400, aired 1986-03-21WORD ORIGINS: From a medieval occupation, this common English surname is Ferrer in Spanish & Kovacs in Hungarian Smith
#385, aired 1986-02-28FAMOUS AMERICANS: 10 years before publishing book subtitled "Life in the Woods", he caused a 300-acre forest fire Henry David Thoreau
#279, aired 1985-10-03WORLD POLITICS: Last Communist party chief of the U.S.S.R. to leave office without dying Nikita Khrushchev
#274, aired 1985-09-26GAMES: The 1 word most frequently found in the center square of a bingo card Free
#179, aired 1985-05-16TELEVISION: Only "M·A·S·H" regular to really serve in Korea, he also served in "AfterMASH" Jamie Farr
#107, aired 1985-02-05SHOW BUSINESS: Only actress to win an Oscar, a Tony, a Grammy & an Emmy Rita Moreno
#87, aired 1985-01-08EUROPEAN HISTORY: On May 1, 1945, Admiral Karl Doenitz assumed this office in Germany Fuhrer (or dictator)
#44, aired 1984-11-08AMERICAN GOVERNMENT: Along with president, these 2 must sign a bill for it to become law the speaker of the House & the vice president

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Farah Zolghadr, a sophomore from Springfield, Illinois 2001 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500. 15 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
Dee Dee Myers, a journalist from Vanity Fair "The first woman ever to hold the post of White House...
Fariha Ali, an attorney from Wellesley, Massachusetts Season 32 player (2016-03-31).
Christine Valada, a photographer and attorney originally from Walton, New York 2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $68,703...
Miguel Ferrer, an actor from Crossing Jordan "He began his career as a studio drummer and played on...
Katie Winter, a senior from Tufts University 2008 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 22 and from Hershey, PA at...
Dan D'Addario, a senior from Columbia University 2010-A College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Hometown: Farmington, Connecticut. Daniel D'Addario...
Jen Fiero, a librarian from Jackson, Michigan Season 30 2-time champion: $36,000 + $2,000.
Rachel Lindgren, a fire lookout from Bend, Oregon 2019 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 34 5-time champion: $75,999 + $1,000.
Carole Furr, an accountant from Richmond, Vermont Season 30 player (2013-11-05). Carole's father was a Season 5 1-time champion.
Freya Wolke, a marketing research manager from Newton, Massachusetts Season 19 player (2003-03-25).
Brian Levinson, a writer from Queens, New York Season 25 3-time champion: $72,801 + $1,000. Brian is the cousin...
Tom Kunzen, a geotechnical engineer from Orlando, Florida 2011 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 27 5-time champion: $133,402...
Dr. Mehmet Oz, a cardiac surgeon and TV host from The Dr. Oz Show "He is a renowned cardiac surgeon who has written seven New...
Doak Fairey, a computer consultant from Myrtle Beach, South Carolina Season 5 3-time champion: $33,200. Doak won $9,000 on The Challengers...
Danny Devries, a junior from the University of Michigan 2008 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. 21 and from West Bloomfield, MI...
Matt Farr, an associate director of annual giving from Lookout Mountain, Tennessee Season 30 player (2014-04-16).
Susan Ferrari, a graduate student from Chicago, Illinois Season 23 player (2007-01-10). Susan's LiveJournal.
Victor Ferreira, a transplant immunologist from Cambridge, Ontario, Canada Season 32 player (2016-03-11).
Anne Fierro, an attorney from Fort Lee, New Jersey Season 29 player (2012-10-29).
Brett Butler, an actress from Grace Under Fire "And this stand-up comedy standout stars in her very own sitcom;...
Patrick Tucker, a senior from the University of Notre Dame 2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2009 College Championship winner: $100,000...
Elizabeth Perkins, an actress from Big and Weeds 2009 Celebrity Jeopardy! player: $25,000 to the New England Learning Center...
Christopher Meloni, a star from Law & Order: SVU and HBO's Oz "On TV, he's worked both sides of the law. Once a...
Ariella Goldstein, a junior from Muhlenberg College 2009 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 20 and from Cortlandt Manor,...
Tom Toce, an actuary from New York, New York Season 26 2-time champion: $39,200 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
Dave Belote, the base commander from Nellis Air Force Base, Las Vegas 2010 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 26 5-time champion:...
Ryan Chaffee, a tutor from Los Angeles, California 2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $91,900...
Joey Beachum, a senior from Mississippi State University 2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2008 College Championship winner: $100,000...
Marty Scott, an assistant district attorney from Forney, Texas Season 26 3-time champion: $64,002 + $2,000. Marty won $250,000 on...
Kevin Wilson, a communications specialist from Toronto, Ontario, Canada Season 26 3-time champion: $76,998 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
Ellen Eichner, a junior from the Ohio State University from Northbrook, Illinois 2010-B College Championship semifinalist: $10,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
Carl Brandt, an investor originally from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 2009 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 25 4-time champion: $70,799...
Anjali Tripathi, a senior from MIT "Math and science were her favorite subjects in seventh grade. We're...
Andy Davis, a Chyron operator from South Boston, Massachusetts Season 25 2-time champion: $49,799 + $1,000. Andy Davis - A...
Alison Stone Roberg, an administrative assistant from Kansas City, Missouri Season 26 3-time champion: $85,102 + $2,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
Becky Anderson, a retired software specialist originally from Morganton, North Carolina Season 25 1-time champion: $16,401 + $2,000. Becky Anderson - A...
Ben Bishop, a student originally from Seattle, Washington 2009 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 25 4-time champion: $114,800...
Brian Muth, a headmaster from Napa, California Season 25 2-time champion: $43,800 + $1,000. Last name pronounced like...
Mike Maheu, a high school teacher from San Diego, California Season 25 2-time champion: $46,242 + $1,000. Last name pronounced like...
Max Johansen, a senior from the University of Miami "As a seventh grader, he was planning on a career in...
Aaron Wicks, a planning and evaluation manager from Rochester, New York Season 26 1-time champion: $18,001 + 1,000. Aaron Wicks Rochester, NY...
Larissa Charnsangavej, a senior from Rice University 2009 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 21 and from Houston, Texas at...
Anthony Dedousis, a sophomore from Harvard University 2009 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 19 and from Manhasset, New York...
Eric Betts, a senior from Emory University 2009 College Championship first runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $50,000. 21 and...
Gary Bechtold, a garage door company owner from St. Cloud, Minnesota Season 26 3-time champion: $42,001 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
Anthony Fox, an account executive from Arlington Heights, Illinois Season 27 4-time champion: $51,998 + $1,000. Playing as "Tony", Anthony...
Stefan Goodreau, a video game tester and camp counselor from Los Angeles, California 2010 Tournament of Champions 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $50,000. Season...
Nathaniel Barnes, a composer and bartender from Toronto, Ontario, Canada Season 25 3-time champion: $57,300 + $2,000. In his first game,...
Chuck Todd, a journalist and chief White House correspondent from NBC News and Meet the Press "Chief White House correspondent and political director for NBC News, he...
Thomas L. Friedman, an author and foreign affairs columnist from The New York Times "He has won three Pulitzer Prizes and authored six best sellers,...
Saad Hasan, a nanotechnology scientist from Nashville, Tennessee Season 26 1-time champion: $22,700 + $2,000. Saad Hasan Nashville, TN...
Matt DeTura, a recent law school graduate from Washington, D.C. Season 27 3-time champion: $61,601 + $2,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user name: MDT
Justin Bernbach, a lobbyist from Brooklyn, New York 2010 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 25 7-time champion: $155,001...
Paul Wampler, a web programmer from Knoxville, Tennessee Season 27 4-time champion: $72,001 + $2,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user name: paul5562
Andrew Ceppos, a senior from Tufts University 2009 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 21 and from Verona, New...
Dan Smith, a student from Chicago, Illinois Season 25 3-time champion: $69,200 + $1,000. Dan Smith - a...
Jennifer Duann, a senior from the Ohio State University 2009 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 21 and from Worthington, Ohio at...
Amy Wilson, a creative writing and women's studies student originally from Portland, Oregon Season 26 1-time champion: $19,999 + $2,000. Not to be confused...
Gail Flemmons, a history teacher from Clinton, Mississippi Season 25 2-time champion: $46,399 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
Amanda J. Ray, a sophomore at the University of Virginia from Harrisonburg, Virginia 2010-B College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
Kevin Spitze, from San Jose, California Season 2 player (1986-01-20): Glassfyre brass fire screen & fire set....
Jay Rosenberg, a college professor from Chapel Hill, North Carolina \"After winning 5 times in 1985, he became the moderator for...
Joel Kim Booster, a comedian from Chicago, Illinois "A comedian from Chicago, his movie Fire Island, which he wrote,...
Jim Davis, a college music and humanities instructor from Freeport, Illinois Season 25 2-time champion: $62,802 + $2,000. Not be to confused...
Brian Meacham, a film preservationist originally from Anchorage, Alaska 2011 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 27 4-time champion: $90,500...
Tom Nissley, a writer from Seattle, Washington 2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2011 Tournament of Champions...
Dmitry Spivak, a junior from Northwestern University "The 11-year-old wasn't really kidding when he said he wanted to...
Robert Gibbs, a former press secretary from the Obama White House "In 2004, he joined Barack Obama's senatorial campaign as communications director,...
Al Franken, an author and radio talk show host from New York City "One of the original writers on Saturday Night Live, he's done...
Bob Woodward, an assistant managing editor from The Washington Post 2004 Power Players Week player (2004-05-10). Charity: Sidwell Friends School.
Suchita Shah, a senior from the University of Wisconsin-Madison 2008 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 20 and from Holmen, WI...
Bill Maher, a comedian and author from Politically Incorrect "A comedian and author, he hosts the lively discussion group called...
Andrew Chung, a sophomore from Harvey Mudd College 2008 College Championship 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $25,000. 20 and...
James Grant, a junior from Georgetown University 2008 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 21 and from Manhattan Beach,...
Bob Blake, an actuary from Vancouver, British Columbia "An actuary from Vancouver, British Columbia, Bob Blake, who has won...
Mehrun Etebari, a graduate student of international relations from Durham, New Hampshire 2007 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD Home...
Bob Blake, an actuary from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada "In 1990, he won the Tournament of Champions. An actuary from...
Chris Rodrigues, a personal banking representative from New Bedford, Massachusetts Season 26 3-time champion: $41,498 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
Kara Spak, a newspaper reporter from Chicago, Illinois 2011 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 27 5-time champion:...
Jordan Brand, an anesthesiologist from Westchester, New York Season 26 1-time champion: $24,405 + $2,000. The Sesame Street character...
Laura Myers, a senior from the University of Missouri 2009 College Championship second runner-up: $29,900. 22 and from Richmond, Virginia...
Lindsay Eanet, a senior from the University of Missouri 2010-A College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. Hometown: Deerfield, Illinois. Last name pronounced...
Leah Anthony Libresco, a junior from Yale University 2010-A College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Hometown: Mineola, New York. Jeopardy!...
Nick Yozamp, a junior from Washington University in St. Louis 2010 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 2010-A College Championship winner:...
Melanie Baker-Streevy, a United Methodist pastor from Parma, Michigan Season 25 1-time champion: $26,900 + $1,000. Melanie Baker-Streevy - A...
Andy Srinivasan, a high school science teacher from Garner, North Carolina 2010 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $69,600...
Harris Cohen, a family physician from Lower Gwynedd, Pennsylvania Season 25 2-time champion: $17,800 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
Tom Nissley, an online books editor from Seattle, Washington 2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2011 Tournament of Champions...
Josh Powell, a phone-based health coach from San Diego, California Season 27 3-time champion: $26,900 + $1,000.
Tim Relihan, a senior from the University of Nebraska from Stromsburg, Nebraska 2010-B College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
Kyle Kahan, a senior from Texas A&M University from Houston, Texas 2010-B College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000 + a Nintendo Wii +...
Michael Farabaugh, a high school chemistry teacher from Charlottesville, Virginia "This chemistry teacher has been making things fizz, smoke, and explode...
Jove Graham, a biomedical engineer from Lewisburg, Pennsylvania Season 26 1-time champion: $34,401 + $1,000. Jove's second contestant interview...
Bob Blake, an actuary from Vancouver, British Columbia 2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 1990 Tournament...
Claudia Perry, a sports copy editor from Jersey City, New Jersey "A pop music critic when she first appeared on Jeopardy!, she's...
Drew Lachey, a singer and actor from Dancing with the Stars "He was working as an emergency medical technician when brother Nick...
Ed Schiffer, an attorney from San Francisco, California "A champion of five shows, he was the top winner of...
Andrew Watkins, a junior from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 2006 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user name: everyday847
Bob Blake, an actuary from Vancouver, British Columbia 2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 1990 Tournament...
Peter Severson, a senior from Sioux Falls, South Dakota 2005 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $5,000. 17 at the time of the...
Bobby Freitas, a middle school teacher from Long Beach, California Season 39 player (2022-12-26). Last name pronounced like "FRAY-tus".
David Ferrara, a Realtor from Los Angeles, California 2023 Champions Wildcard quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 37 1-time champion: $4,977 + $2,000.
David Ferrara, a Realtor from Los Angeles, California 2023 Champions Wildcard quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 37 1-time champion: $4,977 + $2,000.
Burns Cameron, a realtor from Standish, Maine 1990 Super Jeopardy! quarterfinalist: $5,000. Burns appeared on the original version...
Emily Frey, a professor from Swarthmore, Pennsylvania Season 35 3-time champion: $62,503 + $2,000. Emily appeared on Master...
Greg Ferrara, a history teacher from Canton, Ohio Season 1 player (1985-02-01).
Christopher Arns, a teacher from Fair Oaks, California Season 38 player (2022-07-15).
Jen Aprahamian, a computer science teacher from Los Angeles, California Season 30 player (2014-01-17). Jen appeared on The Chase on 2021-02-11...
Catherine Ramen, a database developer and writer from New York, New York 2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 winner: $44,000. 1998 Tournament...
Andy Richter, an actor/comedian from The Tonight Show \"This multitalented actor/comedian is now back on the couch with Conan...
Ginny Crispell, an English teacher from Port Jefferson, New York Season 2 2-time champion: $13,100. Ginny won four games on the...
John Ferraro, a landscaper from Rotonda West, Florida Season 8 1-time champion: $6,200.
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...
Justin Bolsen, a first-year student at Brown University from Canton, Georgia 2024 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. \"He was a high school...
Dorothy Lam Frey, a radiologist from Chicago, Illinois Season 38 player (2021-11-12).
Gaye Kapkin, an architect from Toronto, Ontario Season 6 player (1990-06-25). Gaye won four games on Split Second...
Karen Cafaro, an English literature and composition teacher from Georgetown, South Carolina "She recently celebrated her silver anniversary of teaching. From Georgetown, South...
Jon Farrier, an attorney from Grand Rapids, Michigan Season 8 player (1991-09-16).
Shriya Yarlagadda, a sophomore at Harvard University from Grand Blanc, Michigan "She first appeared in 2019 as a Teen Tournament semifinalist from...
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,...
Jaime Sisson, a Fair and Responsible banking manager from Madison, Mississippi Season 38 player (2022-05-04). Last name pronounced like "SIH-sun".
Bob Bostock, a speechwriter originally from Fair Lawn, New Jersey Season 11 player (1995-04-20).
Sarah Zucker, an Internet entrepreneur and screenwriter from Los Angeles, California Season 30 1-time champion: $1,799 + $1,000.
Jeff Richmond, a city planner from West Hollywood, California 2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 winner: $33,300. 1990 Super...
Nancy Ferro, a lawyer originally from Greenville, South Carolina Season 9 player (1993-06-18).
Hans von Walter, a junior from Southern Adventist University from Avon Park, Florida 2010-B College Championship 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $25,000 + a...
Charles Temple, a high school English teacher from Ocracoke, North Carolina "He teaches at the smallest public school in North Carolina, and...
Laura Amundson, a former criminal defense attorney from Des Moines, Iowa Season 29 1-time champion: $20,395 + $2,000.
Lindsay Franco-Ferreira, a store manager originally from Surrey, England Season 3 player (1987-01-29).
Wil Wheaton, an actor from Burbank, California "An actor from Burbank, California, he burst on to the scene...
Dan Crosby, a middle school history teacher from Santa Monica, California "He teaches at a school named for a renowned scholar, doctor,...
Doug Davies, an investment consultant from Monrovia, California Season 28 player (2011-12-20).
Judy Pinder, a teacher from Fair Lawn, New Jersey Season 11 player (1994-12-22).
Drew Joanides, a high school history teacher from Miami, Florida "He is one of our four teachers competing in our tournament...
Jay Schrader, a junior from Lexington, Kentucky 2008-B Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000. Older brother of 2012 Teen Tournament...
William Castañeda, a human resources professional from San Francisco, California Season 28 1-time champion: $9,400 + $1,000.
Kevin Frear, a U.S. Army captain from Baumholder, Germany Season 4 4-time champion: $47,200. Kevin appeared on the show in...
Katherine Philbin, a homemaker from Bedford, New Hampshire Season 28 player (2011-11-23).
Marsha Free, an executive assistant to the principal from Duluth, Georgia Season 39 player (2022-10-11).
Jennifer Lajewski, a stay-at-home mom from Oak Park, Illinois Season 20 player (2004-07-12). KJL game 29.
Joanne Humphreville, a librarian from Chicago, Illinois Season 11 player (1995-03-21). Last name pronounced like \"HUM-free-vil\".
Darcy Vernier, a college professor from Culver City, California Season 20 player (2004-07-09). KJL game 28. Last name pronounced like "vern-YAY".
Leslie Decker, a high school German and ESL teacher from Austin, Texas "She taught English to Europeans. Now she teaches German to Americans....
Dan Feyer, a musician and crossword editor from San Francisco, California Season 39 player (2022-10-07). Last name pronounced like "FAY-er".
Paul Kursky, an online marketing producer from San Francisco, California 2011 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 26 5-time champion: $109,411...
Tom Kunzen, a geotechnical engineer from Orlando, Florida 2011 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 27 5-time champion: $133,402...
Charles Temple, a high school English teacher from Ocracoke, North Carolina 2011 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2011 Teachers Tournament winner: $100,000. JBoard user name: lonesomeseagull
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...
Elza Reeves, a bank teller from Louisville, Kentucky Season 25 1-time champion: $16,400 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
Partha Purushotham, an 11-year-old from Palo Alto, California "He is fair-minded, so he thinks he would make a good...
Kelly O'Donnell, a political reporter from NBC News "An Emmy-winning political reporter, she has covered Capitol Hill and the...
David Skaar, a research scientist from Raleigh, North Carolina Season 25 3-time champion: $102,000 + $2,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
Chris Wallace, a TV host from Fox News Sunday "In March, this Fox News anchor was honored by the National...
Zach Safford, a senior from Williams College "His early interest in cryptozoology has been replaced by a history...
Mike Nelson, a mechanical engineer from Geneva, Illinois Season 27 2-time champion: $20,800 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
David Hudson, a junior from the University of Virginia "His musical taste has changed since he won $10,000 on Kids...
Rob Schrader, a junior from Lexington, Kentucky 2012 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. Younger brother of 2008-B Teen Tournament...
Eliza Scruton, a junior from Louisville, Kentucky 2012 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000. 16 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
Yoni Freund, a Ph.D. student from Columbia University "He has always wanted to be a writer, and now that...
Sam Leanza, a senior from Laguna Hills, California 2012 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 17 at the time of the...
Kevin Rowe, a firefighter from Chicago, Illinois Season 28 player (2012-04-27).
Ken Frier, a director of foreign exchange originally from Hendersonville, North Carolina Season 10 player (1994-04-22).
Jeff Richmond, a law student from West Hollywood, California 2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 winner: $33,300. 1990 Super...
Tim Russert, a moderator from Meet the Press "He's the Washington Bureau Chief of NBC News and the longtime...
Tavis Smiley, a talk show host from PBS's The Tavis Smiley Show "He's interviewed such diverse personalities as Fidel Castro, Pope John Paul...
Markie Post, an actress from Night Court and Hearts Afire 1994 Celebrity Jeopardy! player (1994-11-11). Playing for Stop Cancer. Markie died...
David Walter, a senior from Wilmington, Delaware 2007 Teen Tournament winner (semifinalist by wildcard): $75,000. 17 at the...
Mark Born, a musician, writer and teacher from Bangkok, Thailand \"He was the top winner of the 1990-91 season. He\'s a...
Kevin Friloux, a stockbroker from Houston, Texas Season 18 1-time champion: $10,199. Last name pronounced like "FREE-loo".
Keith Olbermann, a news anchor from MSNBC "In 2004, this veteran reporter will provide extensive coverage of the...
Kweisi Mfume, a president from the NAACP 2004 Power Players Week player (2004-05-11). Name pronounced like "kwah-EE-see oom-FOO-may"....
Will Casper, a senior from Basin City, Washington 2008-A Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 17 at the time of...
Than Hedman, a freshman from University of Colorado-Boulder 2008 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 19 and from Denver, CO at...
Clarence Martin, a fire captain originally from Mount Clemens, Michigan Season 1 player (1985-01-02).
Allen Goodman, an economics professor from Huntington Woods, Michigan Season 24 player (2008-06-13). Web site at www.econ.wayne.edu/agoodman. Allen detailed his...
Taylor Gailliot, from Woodbridge, Virginia "When asked what she wanted us to know about her, she...
Dominic Clust, from Metairie, Louisiana "This future lawyer likes to argue and he's good at it....
Pat Schroeder, a former congresswoman from the Association of American Publishers "Former congresswoman, member of the Women's Hall of Fame and current...
Ana Navarro, a Republican commentator from CNN, ABC News, and Telemundo "Born in Nicaragua, she is one of the leading Hispanic Republican...
Kate Bolduan, a co-host from CNN's At This Hour "As a CNN congressional correspondent, she covered the U.S. House and...
Danielle Zsenak, a senior from Marquette University 2008 College Championship 1st runner-up: $50,000. Last name pronounced like "zshen-NOCK"....
Leatrice Potter, from Olney, Illinois "This published poet likes to read at any free moment and...
Colin Rafferty, a junior from Fairway, Kansas 1993 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $1,000 + the Jeopardy! 25th Anniversary Edition...
Gabrielle McMahan, a junior from Florida A&M University 2008 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. 20 and from Springfield, VA at...
Jonathan Franzen, a best-selling author from Purity and The Corrections "His best-selling novels are critically acclaimed and have won numerous honors,...
S. Epatha Merkerson, from Law & Order "She runs a Manhattan police precinct as Lt. Anita Van Buren...
Kirik Arata, a lead enrollment representative from Fair Oaks, California Season 18 player (2002-06-19).
Glenn Woertz, a home inspector and minister from Alpine, New Jersey Season 23 1-time champion: $27,800 + $1,000.
Andy Kravis, a freshman from Farmington Hills, Michigan 2002 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $5,000. Andy was 13 at the...
Stefanie Morales, a teacher from Fair Lawn, New Jersey Season 22 player (2006-06-06).
Logan Bell, a senior from Rock Falls, Illinois 2001 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $5,000. 15 at the time of the...
Lorraine Mariz, a coffeehouse owner from Ojai, California Season 23 1-time champion: $7,198 + $1,000.
Matt Cushman, a paintings conservator from North Adams, Massachusetts Season 25 player (2009-02-19).
Bruce Naegeli, a librarian from Phoenix, Arizona 2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 winner: $31,600. Lost to...
Chris Mazurek, an assistant professor from Columbia, Missouri 2007 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD Home...
Andrew Pau, an assistant professor from Amherst, Ohio 2017 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 32 6-time champion: $170,202...
Jason Richards, a pharmacy technician from Old Town, Maine 2006 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 22 4-time champion: $99,200 + $2,000.
Alaric Smith, a songwriter, vocalist, and graduate student from Sacramento, California Season 22 player (2005-10-28). Jeopardy! Message Board user name: LastVisigoth
Olivia Colangelo, a junior from the University of Notre Dame from Murrysville, Pennsylvania 2010-B College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
Leslie Shannon, a manager of a research lab from Sydney, Australia "A recent art history graduate when she became Jeopardy! champion in...
Patricia Kelvin, an editor of a monthly newspaper from Poland, Ohio Season 31 player (2015-01-15).
Sid Chandrasekhar, a senior from the University of Pennsylvania from Saratoga, California 2010-B College Championship semifinalist: $10,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
Bob Verini, a film journalist and test prep teacher from Los Angeles, California "A resident of New York City when he won the 1987...
Vito Cortese, a software engineer and Italian translator from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Season 27 3-time champion: $68,485 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
Jack Weisman, a twelve-year-old from Beachwood, Ohio "He's considering becoming a lawyer, just like Mom and Dad. From...
Bob Harris, an author, comedian, and radio commentator from Los Angeles, California "A 5-time champion and a finalist in the Tournament of Champions,...
Rachael Schwartz, a lawyer with an international law firm from Washington, D.C. "In 1994, she became the first woman ever to win the...
Frank Spangenberg, a lieutenant in the New York Police Department from Douglaston, New York "He still holds the record for the most money won in...
Larry Cloud, a bookkeeper and computer consultant from Inglewood, California "He won five times in 2001, allowing him to make a...
Bruce Naegeli, a retired law librarian from Phoenix, Arizona "He finished second in the 1988 Tournament of Champions. A retired...
Bill Dickenson, a college instructor from Richardson, Texas "This 5-time champ from 1996 has taught students from over 100...
Rick Knutsen, a musician and stay-at-home dad from Brooklyn, New York "A finalist in the 2001 Tournament of Champions, he's a musician...
Lynne Wexler, a librarian from Evanston, Illinois "She was the first 5-time champion in 1991. A librarian from...
Laura Hughes, a mom from New Market, Maryland Season 26 1-time champion: $27,500 + $2,000. Wife of Season 16...
Eugene Finerman, a writer from Northbrook, Illinois "A finalist in the 1987 Tournament of Champions, he's a writer....
Dane Garrett, a lawyer from Collinsville, Illinois Season 2 3-time champion: $17,900. Defeated by Chuck Forrest. Dane was...
Robert Slaven, a technical products specialist originally from Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada "He won 5 times in 1992. Today, he's a technical products...
Brad Plovan, an attorney from Baltimore, Maryland "With the money from his five wins in 1995, he bought...
Billy Baxter, an attorney from Richmond, Virginia "Representing the College of William & Mary, he won the 1992...
Bernard Holloway, a sophomore at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from Chapel Hill, North Carolina "He was a 2002 Teen Champion. He's now a sophomore at...
Lance Johnson, a model aircraft engine technician from Champaign, Illinois "He was the first to get to the 5-win mark in...
Jeff Richmond, an attorney from Los Angeles, California "He used his 1988 5-game winnings to pay for law school....
Bruce Naegeli, a librarian from Phoenix, Arizona 2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 winner: $31,600. Lost to...
Sandra Gore, a corporate researcher from Berkeley, California "After five wins in 1987, she fulfilled her dream of moving...
Frank Spangenberg, a transit cop from Douglaston, New York 2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2005 Ultimate Tournament of...
Samantha Reback, a sophomore from Bethesda, Maryland 2009 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Frank Spangenberg, a police officer from New York City, New York "He was a New York City cop when he won five...
Babu Srinivasan, a history professor from Houston, Texas "His aggressive wagering helped him become the biggest winner from the...
Roger Storm, a teacher from Fairview Park, Ohio 1990 Super Jeopardy! semifinalist: $10,000. 1987 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist:...
Leszek Pawlowicz, a shovel bum from Flagstaff, Arizona "He was a material scientist living in Phoenix when he won...
Colette Moran, a stay-at-home mom from Chicago, Illinois Season 21 player (2004-12-10). Actually from Elmhurst, Illinois. Wife of Season...
Cheech Marin, an actor, comedian, director, writer and musician from Lost "He's played a cop on Nash Bridges, voiced a 1959 Chevy...
Crystal Durham, a 12-year-old from Fort Pierce, Florida "She would like to be an Irish stepdancing teacher, because dancing...
Robert Knecht Schmidt, a patent agent from Cleveland, Ohio Season 26 1-time champion: $12,799 + $1,000. Middle name pronounced like...
Emily Heaney, a freelance costume designer from White Bear Lake, Minnesota Season 25 1-time champion: $2,200 + $1,000. Last name pronounced like...
Jennifer Roberson, a U.S. Fire Administration program manager from Ashburn, Virginia Season 26 player (2010-06-11).
Sam Daub, an eleven-year-old from Eden Prairie, Minnesota "And he finds video games enticing and has made a fantasy...
Neal Freyman, a ten-year-old from Longmeadow, Massachusetts "He's not sure recess counts as a subject, but if it...
Zane Li, a ten-year-old from Provo, Utah "He's a chess champion and a two-time Geography Bee winner..." 2002...
James Erwin, a writer from Des Moines, Iowa Season 25 2-time champion: $22,598 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
Jen McFann, a Peace Corps recruiter from Astoria, New York Season 26 1-time champion: $19,410 + $2,000. Jen McFann Astoria, New...
Inta Antler, a retired computer programmer from Scarborough, Ontario, Canada Season 25 1-time champion: $12,700 + $2,000. Inta Antler - A...
Sanders Kleinfeld, a publishing technology specialist from Cambridge, Massachusetts Season 25 1-time champion: $26,597 + $2,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
Susan Hankins, a project accountant from Downey, California Season 25 1-time champion: $27,201 + $2,000.
Michael McKean, a Grammy winner, Oscar nominee and multi-talented performer from Hairspray and The Pajama Game "This multi-talented performer is a Grammy winner and Oscar nominee and...
Soledad O'Brien, an anchor and special correspondent from CNN's Special Investigations Unit "Currently the host of CNN's Special Investigations Unit, she's received critical...
Pat Farrior, a postal worker from Pensacola, Florida Season 11 1-time champion: $5,399.
Jason Zollinger, an engine assembler from South Dayton, New York 2010 Tournament of Champions 1st runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $100,000. Season...
Roger Storm, a teacher from Fairview Park, Ohio 1990 Super Jeopardy! semifinalist: $10,000. 1987 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist:...
Andy Srinivasan, a high school science teacher from Clayton, North Carolina 2010 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $69,600...
Lisa Dengate, a chef from Ithaca, New York Season 26 player (2010-02-19). Last name pronounced like "DEN-gate".
Liz Murphy, a foreign service officer originally from Scranton, Pennsylvania 2010 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 25 5-time champion: $121,302...
Charles Shaughnessy, an actor from Mad Men "As Shane Donovan on Days of Our Lives, he won three...
David Duchovny, an actor from Californication "He's won two Golden Globes and stars as troubled novelist Hank...
Scott Menke, a senior from Johns Hopkins University 2009 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. 21 and from Flemington, New Jersey...
Eric Idle, an actor and comedian from Monty Python's Flying Circus "A founding member of Monty Python's Flying Circus, he fulfilled a...
Francois Dominic Laramée, a writer and TV personality from Verdun, Quebec, Canada Season 25 2-time champion: $46,300 + $1,000. Francois's name was printed...
Dana Delany, an actress from Desperate Housewives "She won two Emmys for her work on China Beach. This...
A.J. Schumacher, a radio show production intern from St. Paul, Minnesota Season 25 1-time champion: $10,800 + $2,000. AJ Schumacher Saint Paul,...
Prashant Raghavendran, a sophomore from the University of Texas, Dallas 2010-A College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. Hometown: Austin, Texas. Prashant Raghavendran Blog...
Jean Cui, a student originally from Garden City, New York Season 25 2-time champion: $14,200 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
Robbie Berg, a freshman from the University of Pennsylvania 2010-A College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. Hometown: Davie, Florida. Robbie Berg Blog...
Glenn Howes, a software engineer from Nashua, New Hampshire Season 20 player (2004-04-07).
Isaac Mizrahi, a fashion designer and TV personality from the QVC Network "His fashion designs are a favorite among celebrities on the red...
Peter Latouf, a state fair coordinator from Utica, Michigan Season 25 player (2009-04-24). Jeopardy! Message Board user name: WallsofJericho
Jane Curtin, an actress from Kate & Allie and 3rd Rock from the Sun "One of Saturday Night Live's original Not Ready for Primetime Players,...
Neil Patrick Harris, an actor from How I Met Your Mother "He's received critical acclaim on Broadway and on TV, and his...
Jason Pratt, a middle school history teacher from Woodbridge, Virginia Season 25 2-time champion: $32,701 + $1,000. Jason Pratt - A...
Will Warren, a senior from the University of Alabama 2010-A College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. Hometown: Madison, Alabama. Will Warren Blog...
Rebecca Dixon, a graduate student and musician from Vancouver, Washington Season 26 2-time champion: $53,002 + $1,000. Rebecca and her partner...
Ken Basin, a junior at the University of Southern California from Huntington Beach, California 2003 College Championship semifinalist: $5,000. Blog at kbasin.blogspot.org. Appearing as a...
Garry Marshall, an actor, TV producer and movie director originally from Bronx, New York "He was a wildly successful TV producer before his career as...
Wendie Malick, an actress from Just Shoot Me! "As Nina Van Horn, she makes pretention look fashionable on the...
Justin Waters, a resident physician from Royal Oak, Michigan Season 25 1-time champion: $7,199 + $2,000. Justin Waters Royal Oak,...
Elizabeth Perkins, an actress from Weeds "For the past five seasons, she's played the calculating and manipulative...
Doug Savant, an actor from Desperate Housewives "He met and then married his wife while both were costarring...
Alyssa Milano, an actress from Charmed "As Phoebe Halliwell, she's the free spirit among a trio of...
Pat Sajak, a game show host from Wheel of Fortune "A former TV weatherman, he's gone on to become the world's...
Deborah Fitzgerald, a retired government employee from McLean, Virginia 2009 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 24 4-time champion: $55,901 + $1,000.
Jamie O'Hagin, a museum education coordinator from Center Tuftonboro, New Hampshire Season 27 player (2010-12-07).
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.
Tom Zamojcin, a digital marketing manager from Phoenixville, Pennsylvania Season 27 1-time champion: $22,800 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like "zam-MOH-chin".
Tom Morris, a substitute teacher and grad student from Irvine, California 2009 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 24 4-time champion: $100,801...
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...
Kizzle Cote, a 12-year-old from Ludlow, Massachusetts "This future ichthyologist has a 30-gallon aquarium in his bedroom..." 2007...
Jason Zollinger, an engine assembler from South Dayton, New York 2010 Tournament of Champions 1st runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $100,000. Season...
Nicole Karrow, an 11-year-old from Lewes, Delaware "Her goals are to be a horse breeder and trainer..." 2007...
Frank Spangenberg, a police officer from Flushing, New York 2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2005 Ultimate Tournament of...
Jennifer Broders, a junior high school social studies teacher from Stockton, Iowa Season 26 2-time champion: $59,801 + $1,000. Jennifer Broders - a...
Sam Spaulding, a sophomore from Yale University from Wilmington, North Carolina 2010-B College Championship 1st runner-up: $50,000 + a Nintendo Wii +...
Doug Hicton, a composer originally from Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada 2007 Tournament of Champions 1st runner-up: $100,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD...
Neil Patrick Harris, an actor from How I Met Your Mother "He's appeared on Broadway in Proof, Assassins, and Cabaret. He's now...
Bruce Naegeli, a law librarian from Phoenix, Arizona 2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 winner: $31,600. Lost to...
Christopher Meloni, an Emmy-nominated actor from Law & Order: Special Victims Unit "He's played challenging roles on both sides of the law, including...
Joshua Malina, a TV actor and creator/producer from Celebrity Poker Showdown "He created and produced Celebrity Poker Showdown for the Bravo Channel,...
Ray Sun, a college student from Lebanon, New Hampshire Season 23 1-time champion: $28,801 + $2,000.
Hayley Clatterbuck, a junior from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln 2007 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 21 at the time of...
Mark Lee, a sales manager from Chicago, Illinois 2003 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 18 4-time champion: $67,500...
Jeff Richmond, a law student from West Hollywood, California 2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 winner: $33,300. 1990 Super...
Roger Storm, a teacher from Fairview Park, Ohio 1990 Super Jeopardy! semifinalist: $10,000. 1987 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist:...
Rick Walsh, an attorney from Bedford, New Hampshire Season 23 player (2006-10-23).
Kimberly Jantz, an attorney from Tulsa, Oklahoma Season 26 1-time champion: $22,200 + $2,000. Kimberly Jantz - an...
Robin Quivers, a radio and television personality from The Howard Stern Show "Howard Stern's news anchor and sidekick for the past 28 years,...
Meredith Dedopoulos, a 12-year-old from Durham, New Hampshire "This spelling bee champion has also won many sports awards. From...
Andrew Kreitz, a senior from Huntington Beach, California 2006 Teen Tournament 1st runner-up: $25,000.
Sebastian Johnson, a senior from Takoma Park, Maryland 2006 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Listed as "Sebi" on the...
Walter Grubbs, a human resources executive from Fair Oaks, California Season 18 1-time champion: $18,001.
David Siegel, a paralegal from Los Angeles, California "He was a finalist in the 1995 Tournament of Champions. A...
Frank Spangenberg, a police lieutenant from Douglaston, New York 2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2005 Ultimate Tournament of...
Scott Turow, a bestselling novelist and practicing attorney from Chicago, Illinois "He's sold more than 25 million copies of his novels worldwide...
Brad Selvig, a sophomore at Florida State from Jacksonville, Florida 2004 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Dana Delany, an actress from Kidnapped "She won two Emmys for playing Army nurse Colleen McMurphy on...
John Kelly, a retired Air Force officer from Austin, Texas "In 1992, he was one of the top five money winners...
Steve Schirripa, an actor from The Sopranos "Once the entertainment director at the Riviera Hotel in Las Vegas,...
Harry Shearer, an actor/writer/producer from The Simpsons and Le Show "His many credits include providing voices for The Simpsons, and he's...
Frank Spangenberg, a police officer from Flushing, New York "A police officer from Flushing, New York, Frank Spangenberg, who has...
Frank Spangenberg, a police officer from Flushing, New York 2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2005 Ultimate Tournament of...
Neha Gokhale, a 10-year-old from Houston, Texas "Because she liked 4th and 5th grade so much, she wants...
Whitney Dearden, an 11-year-old from Washington Crossing, Pennsylvania "She enjoys working with animals and would like to become a...
Aki Terasaki, an 11-year-old from Newark, Delaware "This future millionaire would like to be a professional writer and...
Reggie Jackson, a former pro baseball player originally from Wyncote, Pennsylvania "Twice a World Series MVP, his powerhouse hitting earned him the...
Phillip Steele, a security officer from Los Angeles, California Season 19 4-time champion: $38,898 + $2,000. In October 2002, Phillip...
Ben Lyon, an industrial scaleman from Dallas, Texas "Representing the University of Oklahoma, he won the 1995 College Championship....
Steven Popper, an economist from Topanga, California "A winner of 5 shows in 1988, he has since founded...
Laura Ansley, a senior from Twinsburg, Ohio 2006 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
David Venderbush, a lawyer from New York, New York "His 5 wins in 1993 came just in time to pay...
Liddy Gerchman Barlow, a seminarian originally from Keene, New Hampshire Season 23 player (2006-10-13).
Allison Peña, a junior from Sunrise, Florida 2006 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
Papa Chakravarthy, a sophomore from Lexington, Kentucky 2006 Teen Tournament champion: $75,000.
Jerome Vered, a writer from Los Angeles, California "The 1-day record of $34,000 he set in 1992 stood for...
Megan Fraedrich, a 12-year-old seventh grader from Springfield, Virginia "And she was recently an evil stepsister in a performance of...
Matt Klein, a senior from Pittsford, New York 2006 Teen Tournament 2nd runner-up: $15,000. Won $1,000 on Who Wants...
Doug Lach, a marketing manager from Columbus, Ohio "He was the biggest winner of the 1999-2000 season. A marketing...
Ruvani Fonseka, a junior from Grosse Pointe, Michigan 2005 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $5,000. 15 at the time of...
Trevor Pritchard, a freelance writer from Toronto, Ontario, Canada Season 22 player (2006-02-24). Jeopardy! Message Board user name: tcp909
Chloé White, a senior from Mission Hills, Kansas 2005 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500. 17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.



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