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

#9069, aired 2024-03-28BRITISH EXPLORERS $800: In 1610 he reached Canada's James Bay; his crew soon mutinied & cast him & 8 others adrift, never to be seen again Hudson
#9068, aired 2024-03-27MUSIC COLLABS $400: He had a collab with Miles Davis called "Can I Play With U?", included on a "Sign o' the Times" reissue Prince
#9068, aired 2024-03-27TRENDING $800: Co-founder Tom Anderson was your first friend on this social media platform; in 2005 he sold his company Myspace
#9068, aired 2024-03-27ARCHITECTS $1200: He saw himself as a trimtab, a small but powerful rudder, for humanity, & his tombstone says, "'Call me Trimtab'-Bucky" Fuller
#9068, aired 2024-03-27ARCHITECTS $1600: With his impressive Duomo in Florence, he was called the architect who "renewed Roman masonry work" Brunelleschi
#9068, aired 2024-03-27DURING JAMES BUCHANAN'S PRESIDENCY $5,000 (Daily Double): On December 2, 1859 he rode to the gallows on his coffin & remarked, "This is a beautiful country" John Brown
#9067, aired 2024-03-26WORLD STAR $400: When this martial arts master won an honorary Oscar at the 2016 Governors Awards, he thanked Hong Kong, his "hometown" Jackie Chan
#9067, aired 2024-03-26SHORT SHAKESPEARE $1200: He says, "Fly not, stand still: ambition's debt is paid" Brutus
#9067, aired 2024-03-26SUPREME COURT JUSTICES $1600: As a Boston lawyer, he was known as the "people's attorney"; he went on to become the first Jewish Supreme Court justice Brandeis
#9067, aired 2024-03-26SUPREME COURT JUSTICES $2000: When he retired in 2010 at age 90, he was the third-longest serving justice in the court's history John Paul Stevens
#9066, aired 2024-03-25NAME THAT TOON $200: It's the fitting name of Bob & Helen Parr's eldest son in "The Incredibles" Dash
#9066, aired 2024-03-25THINKING ABOUT THE HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE $200: Maybe just Chuck the Nifty to his pals, he began ruling with the title "emperor of the Romans" in 800 Charlemagne
#9066, aired 2024-03-25THE GRAMMYS' GREAT MOMENTS $400: In 1988 he gave an iconic performance of "Man In The Mirror" backed by a gospel choir Michael Jackson
#9066, aired 2024-03-25FIVE GUYS $800: On June 9, 1981, he he was drafted out of San Diego State by both the Padres & the then-San Diego Clippers; he'd hit Major League Baseball's Hall of Fame Tony Gwynn
#9066, aired 2024-03-25THE GRAMMYS' GREAT MOMENTS $2000: In 1975 he brought down the house with the politically charged "You Haven't Done Nothin"' Stevie Wonder
#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 2024-03-22THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE, BY THE NUMBERS $400: Vying for re-election, he did not treat his Minnesota opponent nicely, winning 525-13 Reagan
#9065, aired 2024-03-22THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE, BY THE NUMBERS $800: He won 304-227; he lost 306-232 Trump
#9065, aired 2024-03-22THE OLD TESTAMENT $1600: He's the mighty man of wealth depicted with Ruth, whom he marries Boaz
#9065, aired 2024-03-22THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE, BY THE NUMBERS $3,200 (Daily Double): Though he won the popular vote, he flunked out of the Electoral College by 5 votes (Al) Gore
#9064, aired 2024-03-21NOTABLE NAMES $800: Called "the pastor to the presidents", he met with 12 sitting ones from Harry Truman to Barack Obama Graham
#9064, aired 2024-03-21THE LOCALS $1200: B.R. Ambedkar was a leader of the people called Untouchables, Dalits or SC, short for "Scheduled" this; he urged them to move to cities Castes
#9064, aired 2024-03-21IDIOMS & EXPRESSIONS $1600: In Rabelais' "Gargantua", a drinker demands that an empty cup be filled because of this scientific principle nature abhors a vacuum
#9063, aired 2024-03-20MISSION: PLAUSIBLE $800: Solve the this TV host problem: 3 shut doors, new car-junk-junk. You pick A. He shows you B is junk. Do you switch to C? Monty Hall
#9063, aired 2024-03-20VIOLENT ART $1600: Napoleon's go-to guy, he also sort of directed a horror pic, an oil of Marat in the bath in 1793 done soon after the killing David
#9063, aired 2024-03-2019th CENTURY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS $1600: Before he was the big name in New York newspaper publishing, he published "The St. Louis Post-Dispatch" Pulitzer
#9062, aired 2024-03-19BOOKS & AUTHORS $800: A former chairman of CNN, he has written biographies of Steve Jobs & Elon Musk Isaacson
#9061, aired 2024-03-18VICE PRESIDENTIAL QUOTES $400: In 1992 he wrote, "The global environmental crisis is, as we say in Tennessee, real as rain" Al Gore
#9060, aired 2024-03-15TV DRAMA $200: At the Golden Globes in 2024, he said, "This is a nice moment for me", when he won for "Succession" Kieran Culkin
#9060, aired 2024-03-15TYPES OF POEMS $1000: For this grave work, Yeats chose words he had already written: "Cast a cold eye, on life, on death. Horseman, pass by" his epitaph
#9059, aired 2024-03-14BOOKS BY REPORTERS $400: In 1923 E.B. White was fired by the Seattle Times; he'd later find success with this 1945 tale about a mouselike boy Stuart Little
#9059, aired 2024-03-14ANCIENT HISTORY $400: It's thought Chinese emperor Qin Shi Huang died after ingesting this liquid element that he believed would make him immortal mercury
#9059, aired 2024-03-14THE NAME ON THE OSCAR $800: Best picture, 2019, starring Song Kang Ho & Cho Yeo Jeong Parasite
#9058, aired 2024-03-1317th CENTURY WRITING $400: In his first speech in "Paradise Lost", he says let's not rebel against one prohibition--we have pruning to do! Adam
#9058, aired 2024-03-13SMASH THAT SUBSCRIBE BUTTON $1000: Roger Ebert was just 24 when he began to light up the Chicago movie scene as the film critic for this newspaper the Chicago Sun-Times
#9058, aired 2024-03-1317th CENTURY WRITING $9,200 (Daily Double): In his 1624 history of Virginia & New England, he included the famous story of his rescue John Smith
#9057, aired 2024-03-12PROSE & CONGRESS $2000: He won an NAACP Image Award for his autobiography "Across That Bridge" Lewis
#9056, aired 2024-03-11THE CIVIL WAR $400: 3-letter last name of Johnny, a symbol of the typical southern soldier; in a 1905 book by a war veteran, he's paired with Billy Yank Reb
#9056, aired 2024-03-11DEALING WITH TV REALITY $400: Oh, the Scandoval! Let's say Ariana did not wish Tom well after he cheated on her with Raquel on this show that debuted in 2013 Vanderpump Rules
#9056, aired 2024-03-11WORLD OF LIT $800: He served several years of hard labor in Siberia before writing about someone else's "Crime and Punishment" Dostoevsky
#9056, aired 2024-03-11BEHIND THE MUSIC $800: Before he was infamous, Phil Spector was famous for this elaborate production style of many '60s hits the Wall of Sound
#9055, aired 2024-03-08WE'RE GOIN' TO BROADWAY! $800: This actor could have been a contender for the busiest 1946--he was in at least 4 shows, including "Candida" as Eugene Brando
#9055, aired 2024-03-08FILM BROS $1600: Nicolas Cage got one Oscar nomination for 2 roles when he played brothers Charlie & Donald Kaufman in this 2002 film Adaptation
#9054, aired 2024-03-07SPORTS MASCOT HISTORY $200: Starting his career at the San Diego Zoo, he's "an embryonic Charles Chaplin in... feathers", says his biography the San Diego Chicken
#9054, aired 2024-03-07BOY GENIUS $400: At age 8, Sergei Prokofiev was taken to "Faust" & "Prince Igor"; he decided to write one of these too & in months composed "The Giant" an opera
#9054, aired 2024-03-07THE TALLEST ONE $800: In the Ramones Joey
#9054, aired 2024-03-07BOY GENIUS $800: In his teens Erik Demaine pioneered computational origami; at 20 he became this Boston-area school's youngest ever prof MIT
#9054, aired 2024-03-07GETTING HISTORICAL $800: Calling himself an admiral in a bit of self-promotion, in 1853 he sailed 4 warships into the harbor of Uraga & refused to leave Commodore Matthew Perry
#9054, aired 2024-03-07GETTING HISTORICAL $1000: Wahunsenacawh was another name of the man the Jamestown colonists called this, like the people he led Powhatan
#9054, aired 2024-03-07BOY GENIUS $4,000 (Daily Double): Losing his brother Giulio 1915, he buried his grief in math & physics & soon wowed the admissions panel at college in Pisa Fermi
#9053, aired 2024-03-06WAITS $600: He had a Top 20 hit singing, "You take it on faith, you take it to the heart, the waiting is the hardest part" Tom Petty
#9053, aired 2024-03-06SHAKESPEARE FOR EVERYONE! $600: Awaking, this weaver says, "I have had a dream... man is but an ass if he go about to expound this dream" Bottom
#9052, aired 2024-03-05POETS & POETRY $800: Wilfred Owen's poems about this conflict include "Spring Offensive" & "Anthem for Doomed Youth"--of which, sadly, he was one World War I
#9052, aired 2024-03-05JAZZ' GREAT DAY IN HARLEM $1200: Charles Mingus got low on this instrument on "Goodbye Pork Pie Hat", which he wrote about Lester Young, also in the picture the bass
#9052, aired 2024-03-05JAZZ' GREAT DAY IN HARLEM $1600: Gene, Gene the drumming machine, he was one quarter of an amazing quartet with Lionel Hampton, Teddy Wilson & Benny Goodman (Gene) Krupa
#9052, aired 2024-03-05POETS & POETRY $2000: John Donne used the stuck-up sounding similes called metaphysical these, as when he compared lovers' souls to the 2 legs of a compass conceits
#9051, aired 2024-03-04FRENCH HISTORY $1600: France's first socialist president, he served two terms from 1981 to 1995 Mitterrand
#9051, aired 2024-03-04NUMERIC MOVIE TITLES $7,600 (Daily Double): Fellini felt he'd directed 7.5 films before making this 1963 gem 8 1/2
#9050, aired 2024-03-01POP CULTURE PRINCESSES $200: Super Mario Bros. has Mario & Luigi trying to rescue her; she used to be called Princess Toadstool in the United States Princess Peach
#9050, aired 2024-03-01ARCHITECTURE $400: In 1818 Charles Bulfinch began as U.S. architect of this building; during his tenure he designed its rotunda the Capitol building
#9050, aired 2024-03-01ARCHITECTURE $2000: An immigrant from Austria & from the "N"OWLEDGE category, he helped define midcentury California with modernist buildings Richard Neutra
#9049, aired 2024-02-29NAME, IMAGE, LIKENESS $200: It's the nickname of Alabama CB Ga'quincy McKinstry, whose smile resembled this pitch "man"; now he has an NIL deal with the drink, oh yeah Kool-Aid
#9049, aired 2024-02-29COLORS OF THE RAINBOW $200: Featured in multiple Icelandic sagas, he was exiled from Iceland in the 10th century & set up camp in Greenland Erik the Red
#9049, aired 2024-02-29LIVE, LAUGH, LOVE $200: Love: This Greek goddess of beauty had a thang goin' on with Adonis, but sadly, he got boar-ed Aphrodite
#9049, aired 2024-02-29NAME $400: By the 1910s he had adopted a last name derived from the Russian for steel Stalin
#9049, aired 2024-02-29IT'S A PARTY! $400: This president was gifted with a 1,400-pound block of cheese; on Feb. 22, 1837 he threw a party for the public to chow down Jackson
#9049, aired 2024-02-29LIVE, LAUGH, LOVE $1000: Love: After his death in 1142, he would be buried next to his beloved Héloïse in Père Lachaise Abelard
#9049, aired 2024-02-29"LIKE"NESS $1200: In 2002 Tony Curtis toured in a stage version of this film comedy in which he co-starred years earlier Some Like It Hot
#9049, aired 2024-02-29IMAGE $1600: This self-taught naïve painter was known for his lush, tropical images, though he never left France Rousseau
#9048, aired 2024-02-28THE EMMYS $200: He won a 1974 Emmy for his role in "M*A*S*H"; he'd also win for writing & directing that series Alan Alda
#9048, aired 2024-02-28THE EMMYS $400: He's got a 50% success rate, winning 4 out of 8 nominations for playing the same supporting role (Peter) Dinklage
#9048, aired 2024-02-28IN THE DICTIONARY $800: Alex Trebek said he worked behind one of these, from the Latin for "to read" a lectern
#9048, aired 2024-02-28BRITISH ACTORS & ACTRESSES $1200: Knighted in 1947, in 1970 he became the first actor to be named a baron Lord Laurence Olivier
#9048, aired 2024-02-28BRITISH ACTORS & ACTRESSES $1600: He played C.S. Lewis in 1993's "Shadowlands"; in his role in "Freud's Last Session", he debates Lewis on the existence of God Anthony Hopkins
#9047, aired 2024-02-27INAUGURAL ADDRESSES $200: He pointed out that his father might not have been served at a U.S. restaurant less than 60 years earlier Barack Obama
#9047, aired 2024-02-27A NICE SHORT STORY SPOILED $400: After a long, unplanned but very restful nap away from the fam in an 1819 tale, he finds he just likes being single again Rip Van Winkle
#9047, aired 2024-02-27INAUGURAL ADDRESSES $800: He didn't believe that "The Great Society is the ordered, changeless, & sterile battalion of the ants" Lyndon Baines Johnson
#9047, aired 2024-02-27INAUGURAL ADDRESSES $1000: In 1969 Nixon was referring to this Apollo mission when he said astronauts "flew over the Moon's gray surface on Christmas Eve" Apollo 8
#9046, aired 2024-02-26THE NEW TESTAMENT $200: Agreeing to crucify Jesus, he washed his hands & said, "I am innocent of the blood of this just person" Pontius Pilate
#9046, aired 2024-02-26ALL THINGS DISNEY $200: Naturally, he was the first animated character to get a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame Mickey
#9046, aired 2024-02-26ITALIAN AMERICANS $800: As director of the National Institute of Allergy & Infectious Diseases, he became a fixture on TV during the COVID pandemic Fauci
#9046, aired 2024-02-26THE NEW TESTAMENT $800: Acts 7 reports that he was stoned to death for speaking what the council thought was blasphemy against God Stephen
#9046, aired 2024-02-26ITALIAN AMERICANS $1200: He's in the National Inventors Hall of Fame for his ice rink resurfacing machine Zamboni
#9045, aired 2024-02-23SLEEP-POURRI $800: Genesis 28:11 relates how he used a stone pillow Jacob
#9045, aired 2024-02-231960s FICTION $800: "Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters & Seymour: An Introduction" in 1963 was his last book-length work; he died in 2010 J.D. Salinger
#9045, aired 2024-02-23THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION ERA $2000: In office from 1770 to 1782, he was later known as the prime minister "who lost America" (Lord) North
#9044, aired 2024-02-2240 YEARS AGO: 1984 $600: He lost the presidential election to Reagan, carrying only the District of Columbia & Minnesota, his home state Mondale
#9044, aired 2024-02-22HOW MANY TIMES? $800: Billy Bob Thornton: 6 times, most recently in October 2014 how many times he's been married
#9044, aired 2024-02-22BEFORE THE FIRST WORLD WAR $800: The ruler with this title was forced by the Young Turk rebels to recall parliament, which he'd suspended 30 years earlier the Ottoman sultan (emperor)
#9042, aired 2024-02-20ARTISTS & THEIR SUBJECTS $1200: Though he depicted a different river in "Rapids of the Susquehanna", Frederic Edwin Church was a big man in this "School" the Hudson River School
#9042, aired 2024-02-20LITERARY HELPERS $2000: Frank helps Cora kill her hubby but is wrongly convicted of a murder he didn't commit in this James M. Cain novel The Postman Always Rings Twice
#9041, aired 2024-02-19POP $800: Saying "family over everything", this NBA star said he'd skip an NBA game to watch his son Bronny debut at USC in 2023 LeBron James
#9041, aired 2024-02-19POTENT QUOTABLES $1000: It's the line in "Treasure Island" that precedes & follows "drink and the devil had done for the rest" yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum
#9041, aired 2024-02-19POP $2000: He took over from his father Ivan in directing the "Ghostbusters" film franchise Jason Reitman
#9040, aired 2024-02-16MYTHOLOGY $2000: He was just a shepherd when he was asked to judge which of 3 goddesses was the most beautiful Paris
#9039, aired 2024-02-15AROUND THE WORLD $200: Well-preserved sections of it run about 5,500 miles from Mount Hu near Dandong to Jiayu Pass in the Gansu province the Great Wall of China
#9039, aired 2024-02-15POP CULTURE $800: He briefly played in the minors in Baltimore before the Red Sox & his 1914 rookie card recently sold for more than $7 million Babe Ruth
#9039, aired 2024-02-15"F"8 $1000: The theme for "Bolero" came to Ravel while on vacation, but he originally titled it this other dance fandango
#9039, aired 2024-02-15SAFE MODE $1000: A guard posted to say, "Who goes there?" to possible intruders; here he is as the logo of a safe company founded in 1930 Sentry
#9039, aired 2024-02-15WHERE DID THAT COME FROM? $1200: Inventor Dan Klitsner said he was working on a zany remote control for kids when he came up with this '90s hit toy Bop It
#9038, aired 2024-02-14THE COMPOSER CONDUCTS $400: Hear tunes from "E.T.". "Jaws" & "Always" on the album he "Conducts His Classic Scores for the Films of Steven Spielberg" John Williams
#9038, aired 2024-02-14THOSE MEDDLING KID KINGS & QUEENS $400: In 1547 this teen became the first crowned czar of Russia; later on, he had filicide to his name Ivan the Terrible
#9038, aired 2024-02-14SNAKES IN A BOOK $400: To tempt Eve in this 17th century epic poem, Satan takes the form of a serpent (he sneaks into its mouth as it sleeps) Paradise Lost
#9038, aired 2024-02-141970s MOVIES $800: 2 things about this 1971 guy--he's "the cat that won't cop out when there's danger all about" & "no one understands him but his woman" Shaft
#9038, aired 2024-02-14THOSE MEDDLING KID KINGS & QUEENS $1200: An 1889 New York Times article called Alphonso XIII "the happiest living monarch"; he would go on to rule this country until 1931 Spain
#9038, aired 2024-02-14THOSE MEDDLING KID KINGS & QUEENS $2000: Crowned at 13, King Baldwin IV of Jerusalem was known as this "King", since he had Hansen's disease the Leper King
#9037, aired 2024-02-1350 GREATEST RAPPERS OF ALL TIME $600: Billboard said he is "often cited as hip-hop's goat behind the boards... a lead rapper on... 1988's 'Straight Outta Compton"' Dr. Dre
#9037, aired 2024-02-1350 GREATEST RAPPERS OF ALL TIME $800: Some numbers: 3 years after taking 9 bullets, he had a Billboard 200 No. 1 debut with "Get Rich Or Die Tryin"' in 2003 50 Cent
#9037, aired 2024-02-13LENDING YOU A POKER HAND $800: The "dead man's hand" of 2 pair, black aces & 8s, was reportedly held by him when he was shot dead in 1876 Hickok
#9037, aired 2024-02-13WISTFUL THINKING $1200: In "Dandelion Wine" he was not a "Ray" of sunshine, saying, "some people turn sad awfully young... no special reason" Bradbury
#9036, aired 2024-02-12GENIUS: MLK/X $400: (Kelvin Harrison Jr. presents the clue.) A 1964 speech delivered by Malcolm X after he left the Nation of Islam, stated his Black nationalist philosophy, & he spoke of the ballot or this deadly word bullet
#9036, aired 2024-02-12MUSICIANS OF THE 1960s $800: Pete Townshend admits that he "made a huge leap into the absurd" when he decided this title album guy "would play pinball" Tommy
#9036, aired 2024-02-12MUSICIANS OF THE 1960s $1200: Dave Davies of this British band claims he cut the speaker cone of his amp with a razor blade to get a distorted sound on "You Really Got Me" The Kinks
#9035, aired 2024-02-09WORLD LEADER BIRTHPLACES $200: He came into the world in Leningrad in 1952 Putin
#9035, aired 2024-02-09WORLD LEADER BIRTHPLACES $400: His dad was the prime minister when he was born in Ottawa in 1971 Justin Trudeau
#9035, aired 2024-02-09____ OF ____ $400: So the story goes, Ponce de León was searching for this legendary spring when he landed in Florida in 1513 the Fountain of Youth
#9035, aired 2024-02-09WORLD LEADER BIRTHPLACES $800: Born in Amiens, he won a second term in 2022 Macron
#9035, aired 2024-02-09CLASSIC TOYS & GAMES $1000: Alfred Butts invented this board game in 1931; he called it Criss-Cross Words Scrabble
#9034, aired 2024-02-08THE MOURNING NEWS $200: This songwriter did not compose "God Bless Cuba", where his 20-year-old wife fell fatally ill on their honeymoon Irving Berlin
#9034, aired 2024-02-08PASTOR BROWN'S CHURCH NEWSLETTER CROSSWORD $400: Eucharist bread (4 letters) host
#9034, aired 2024-02-08END OF STORY $800: A monster hit from 1818: "He was soon borne away by the waves and lost in darkness and distance" Frankenstein
#9033, aired 2024-02-07QUOTING THE OLD TESTAMENT $400: He proclaimed, "Joseph my son is yet alive: I will go and see him before I die" Jacob
#9033, aired 2024-02-07LITERATURE BINGO $600: "O" (No!), 1898: William S. Porter was convicted of embezzlement; after prison, he put out short stories under this name O. Henry
#9033, aired 2024-02-07QUOTING THE OLD TESTAMENT $2000: From Judges 6, "The spirit of the Lord came upon" this man, "and he blew a trumpet" Gideon
#9033, aired 2024-02-07ANTHROPOLOGISTS $2000: Bruno Latour studied groups like this La Jolla biological institute's scientists who he saw motivated by competition, not just truth the Salk Institute
#9032, aired 2024-02-06THE 1970s $600: This woman was the first person Lorne Michaels cast when he was putting together "Saturday Night Live" Gilda Radner
#9032, aired 2024-02-06AVENGERS, WHO SAID IT? $800: Asked if he knows what he's doing: "Yeah. I've knocked out Adolf Hitler over 200 times" Captain America
#9032, aired 2024-02-06THE 1970s $1000: He gradually lost popular support through the decade, leading to his ouster & the formation of an Islamic Republic the Shah of Iran
#9032, aired 2024-02-06AT THE TINY DESK CONCERT $1200: The "T" on the 2014 performance of this future winner on "The Masked Singer" is that he sang "Buy U A Drank" sans Auto-Tune T-Pain
#9032, aired 2024-02-06IT'S A BIRD! IT'S A PLANE! $1200: In a Shrike Commander, Bob Hoover perfected a routine of aerobatics, landing & taxiing all deadstick, i.e. this he had no engine power at all
#9030, aired 2024-02-02ETCH & SKETCH $200: In a letter from 1888 he included a sketch of his bedroom at Arles, the painting he was working on van Gogh
#9030, aired 2024-02-02ETCH & SKETCH $400: He reproduced his etching of "Black Lion Wharf" in a famous painting of his own mother Whistler
#9030, aired 2024-02-02TALKING ABOUT TOLKIEN $1200: In "The Hobbit" he thinks of picnics below during his trip over the Misty Mountains, inspired by one Tolkien took to Switzerland Bilbo Baggins
#3, aired 2024-02-02RHYMING FOLKS $800: He took some severe punishment south of the border in the title role of "Nacho Libre" Jack Black
#9029, aired 2024-02-01I'M SO WAVY $400: A man called Krazy George Henderson claims he introduced the wave during a 1981 A.L. playoff game for this Bay Area team the Oakland A's
#9029, aired 2024-02-01FOLLOW THE WORLD LEADER $400: He succeeded Stephen Harper up north in 2015 Justin Trudeau
#9029, aired 2024-02-01CANADIANS INVADE OUR LIVING ROOM! $800: One of the Kids in the Hall, Mark McKinney had the memorable ability to do this devastating action to strangers at a distance crush their heads
#9028, aired 2024-01-31BUSINESS & FINANCE HISTORY $400: Peter the Great introduced regular minting of this currency in silver & here he is, on one of his coins the ruble
#9028, aired 2024-01-31ARTFUL ROGERS $1600: This artful Cowboys quarterback didn't break into the NFL until he was 27 due to a 4-year commitment with the U.S. Navy Roger Staubach
#9027, aired 2024-01-30CHAINS $800: In August 1500 he & his brothers were sent back to Spain in chains for mismanagement & brutality in Hispaniola Columbus
#9026, aired 2024-01-2919th CENTURY AUTHORS $200: Victor Hugo urged the preservation of medieval architecture & his writing led to the restoration of this building from 1844 Notre Dame
#9026, aired 2024-01-29MYTH AROUND & FIND OUT $400: In an Iroquois tale a girl runs off with a handsome Chad only to find out he is one of these ssslithery creatures a snake
#9026, aired 2024-01-29MYTH AROUND & FIND OUT $2000: In Egyptian myth Seth went all Edgar Allan Poe on this bro of his & put him in a coffin while he was still alive Osiris
#9025, aired 2024-01-26THAT'S JUST TEARABLE! $1000: Shakespeare plot twist! "Let the angel... tell thee" this man "was from his mother's womb untimely ripped" Macduff
#9024, aired 2024-01-25PEOPLE WHO ARE PLACES $1200: He is the NBA's all-time leader in games played & an area often covered by one church & one priest a (Robert) Parish
#9024, aired 2024-01-25WHIRLED CAPITALS $1200: It's called the "White City of the North": SILKEN HI Helsinki
#9024, aired 2024-01-25PEOPLE WHO ARE PLACES $1600: He's a comedian, Comedy Store comedy club royalty & the land edge of a body of water (Pauly) Shore
#9024, aired 2024-01-25MOMENTS OF INSPIRATION $1600: Walking through a Budapest park, he had the idea that became the basis for alternating current & began drawing in the dirt with a stick Nikola Tesla
#9024, aired 2024-01-25PEOPLE WHO ARE PLACES $2000: He's a "Mamma Mia!" maybe papa & a narrow inlet of the sea in the British isles a firth (Colin Firth)
#9024, aired 2024-01-25MOMENTS OF INSPIRATION $2000: Kary Mullis had to pull off the road when he got his Nobel-winning idea to copy DNA via PCR or polymerase this process a chain reaction
#9023, aired 2024-01-24LOVE STORY $200: This title British woman imagines her mum telling her to have a fling with "Mark Darcy over the turkey curry, won't you? He's very rich" Bridget Jones
#9023, aired 2024-01-24THE ERRORS TOUR $400: In myth, he fell for the ol' "just hold that for me for a sec" trick when Hercules got him to retake his spot of holding the heavens Atlas
#9023, aired 2024-01-24THE ERRORS TOUR $800: Examples of this oopsy with -ism or without include "chicken pops", "he took her for granite" & "decapitated coffee" a malapropism
#9023, aired 2024-01-24LOVE STORY $800: In "Love in the Time of Cholera" by him, Florentino has thought of a love affair for 51 years, 9 months & 4 days, not that he's counting Gabriel García Márquez
#9023, aired 2024-01-24THE ERRORS TOUR $1000: "Howbeit the hair of" Samson's "head began to grow again after he was shaven"--these biblical people didn't think of that the Philistines
#9023, aired 2024-01-24ONE-TERM PRESIDENTS $1200: Britannica: He "was blaming the depression on events abroad & predicting" his foe's win "would only intensify the disaster"; it didn't Hoover
#9023, aired 2024-01-24BALD IS BEAUTIFUL $1600: To date, he's played newsman J. Jonah Jameson in five live-action "Spider-Man" movies J.K. Simmons
#9023, aired 2024-01-24ONE-TERM PRESIDENTS $2000: Not wanting to admit Texas as a slave state helped this man get the Kinderhook, though he also pandered to the pro-slavery vote Van Buren
#26, aired 2024-01-23MO ROCCA DRINKING VODKA WITH CHEWBACCA $200: If Mo Rocca was munching on a latke in Osaka, he'd be enjoying a potato pancake in a city in this country Japan
#26, aired 2024-01-23NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM $200: He followed up his "Pietà" by sculpting "Day", "Dawn" , "Dusk" & "Night" for the tomb of the Medicis in Florence Michelangelo
#26, aired 2024-01-23CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $200: This "5th Symphony" composer was quite particular about his morning coffee; he used exactly 60 beans to ensure a proper cup of joe Beethoven
#26, aired 2024-01-23CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $300: Georges Bizet died three months after the 1875 premiere of this scandalous opera so he never knew of its enduring success Carmen
#26, aired 2024-01-23MO ROCCA DRINKING VODKA WITH CHEWBACCA $400: If Mo Rocca was reading Kafka while eating moussaka, he'd be enjoying tales of alienation while consuming this purple produce eggplant
#26, aired 2024-01-23NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM $500: In the early 1920s, he brought the angst of "The Scream" to a series of night sky paintings, some featuring his own shadow Edvard Munch
#26, aired 2024-01-23CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $500: When he conducted, this "Swan Lake" composer held his chin with one hand because he feared that his head might fall off Tchaikovsky
#26, aired 2024-01-23MO ROCCA DRINKING VODKA WITH CHEWBACCA $600: If Mo Rocca was unblocking a chakra in Opa-locka, he'd be doing yoga in a city in this southeasternmost U.S. state Florida
#26, aired 2024-01-23KINDA RHYMES WITH KATIE $800: With his on-screen partner in crime Faye Dunaway, he presented the Best Picture Oscar in 2017... to the wrong film Warren Beatty
#26, aired 2024-01-23OZZY OSBOURNE'S FAVORITE SONGS $900: Ozzy said his world stood still the first time he heard this Led Zeppelin tune that lends its title to a film by Richard Linklater "Dazed And Confused"
#26, aired 2024-01-23MO ROCCA DRINKING VODKA WITH CHEWBACCA $1000: If Mo Rocca blurted "Boomshakalaka" during "Ninotchka", he'd be reacting excitedly to a 1939 movie starring this Swedish film legend Greta Garbo
#9021, aired 2024-01-22AVIATION PIONEERS $2000: In 1927 he launched his Wichita Aviation Company & produced the first of his small monoplanes, the Phantom (Clyde) Cessna
#9021, aired 2024-01-22TEMPERA-MENTAL ARTISTS $2000: Learning to make it from his artist brother-in-law, he used tempera for the detailed brushwork of his iconic "Christina's World" Andrew Wyeth
#9020, aired 2024-01-19AMERICA BEFORE 1800 $1000: In 1579, during his circumnavigation of the world, he dropped anchor near San Francisco & claimed the region for England Drake
#9020, aired 2024-01-19FAMOUS FORGERIES $2000: On trial for selling a work by this Delft master to the Nazis, a Dutch artist avoided a death sentence by proving he'd forged it Vermeer
#9020, aired 2024-01-19AGRICULTURE $2000: This former governor of Iowa served 8 years as Obama's Secretary of Agriculture & now has the same position under Biden Tom Vilsack
#9019, aired 2024-01-18THE PAST, PRESENTLY $200: Defending a pardon he granted, this president told a congressional committee he wanted "to change our national focus" Gerald Ford
#9019, aired 2024-01-18WHAT IN THE WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS...? $400: Goalie Patrick Roy said he couldn't hear what Jeremy Roenick said, due to "my 2" rings for winning this trophy plugging my ears the Stanley Cup
#9019, aired 2024-01-18THE PAST, PRESENTLY $800: On Nov. 4, 1964 he was exiled from Iran; 15 years later, he was running the place Khomeini
#9019, aired 2024-01-18VEGETABLE STEW $800: The first prop this comic used was a Neighborhood Watch sign that he stole to show that the Watch wasn't very watchful Carrot Top
#9019, aired 2024-01-18MOVIE TITLES WITH NUMBERS IN THEM $1200: In 2001 he was on film in "Thir13en Ghosts" as Arthur Kriticos & a year later, began an Emmy-winning life on TV as a "Monk" Tony Shalhoub
#9018, aired 2024-01-17POLITICS AS UNUSUAL $200: Patrick McHenry was in the news, as he filled in in this job for 3 tumultuous weeks in the fall of 2023 Speaker of the House (pro tem)
#9018, aired 2024-01-17POLITICS AS UNUSUAL $600: More governors of New Jersey have resigned than of any other state--mostly for positive reasons like when he quit in 1913 to be president Wilson
#9018, aired 2024-01-17BORN ON JAN. 17 $600: He was born (in 1931) to say, "No... I am your father" & "this is CNN" James Earl Jones
#9018, aired 2024-01-17THE FIST & THE FURIOUS MOVIES $600: This Carl Weathers boxer is told, "Finish (that) bum, & let's go home"; he does not finish that bum Apollo Creed
#9018, aired 2024-01-17BORN ON JAN. 17 $800: He was born in Boston in 1706, the 15th of 17 kids in his family; he'd seek his fortune in Philly Benjamin Franklin
#9018, aired 2024-01-17IF FOOD BE THE LOVE OF MUSIC $2000: Kendrick Lamar quoted a folk saying when he sang, "The blacker the berry", then this result the sweeter the juice
#9017, aired 2024-01-1620th CENTURY AMERICANS $2000: Brought back to his place in history by a 2023 movie, he was the main organizer of the March on Washington Bayard Rustin
#9017, aired 2024-01-16HALF A CATEGORY $2000: Thomas Hardy rhymed war is odd: "You shoot a fellow down / You'd treat if met where any bar is, / Or help to" this fractional coin half a crown
#25, aired 2024-01-16TREES $200: In the 1984 film "The Karate Kid", Daniel asks Mr. Miyagi "How'd they get so small?" when he sees Mr. Miyagi trimming these trees bonsai
#25, aired 2024-01-16KURT RUSSELL FILMS $400: Kurt Russell's Santa is the gift that keeps on giving! He even speaks a fake language called "Elvish" in this holiday romp The Christmas Chronicles
#9015, aired 2024-01-12PODCASTS $400: In his "All There Is" podcast, he tackled the topics of loss & grief while packing up mom Gloria Vanderbilt's apartment (Anderson) Cooper
#9015, aired 2024-01-12TELEVISION $400: He played Fox Mulder, Dana Scully's partner at the FBI David Duchovny
#9015, aired 2024-01-12TELEVISION $1000: Way back in season 2, he joined the cast of "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" as Frank Reynolds & hasn't looked back Danny DeVito
#2, aired 2024-01-12MY "SON", THE PRESIDENT $400: Chronologically, he was the first who fits the category Jefferson
#2, aired 2024-01-12MY "SON", THE PRESIDENT $800: He was preceded & succeeded as president by the same man Benjamin Harrison
#2, aired 2024-01-12KIDDY LIT $800: He illustrated his own "Where the Wild Things Are" as well as several of the "Little Bear" books for kids Sendak
#2, aired 2024-01-12MY "SON", THE PRESIDENT $1200: He beat Clinton--DeWitt Clinton--in 1812 Madison
#2, aired 2024-01-12MY "SON", THE PRESIDENT $1600: For refusing to shine the boots of a British officer as a child, he got a saber across the face Jackson
#2, aired 2024-01-12MY "SON", THE PRESIDENT $5,000 (Daily Double): He whipped 2 former presidents in the same election by an electoral score of 435-88-8 Wilson
#1, aired 2024-01-12BREAK-UPS $200: This power couple wed March 9, 1796; being the emperor of France has its perks: he nullified the marriage in 1809 Napoleon & Josephine
#1, aired 2024-01-12GRAND MARSHALS OF THE ROSE PARADE $200: This legendary animator was grand marshal in 1966; he died later that year Disney
#1, aired 2024-01-12STOP! $1000: On Nov. 5, 1605 he tried to blow up Parliament to stop the persecution of Roman Catholics in England Guy Fawkes
#1, aired 2024-01-12GRAND MARSHALS OF THE ROSE PARADE $1000: In 1955, shortly after becoming chief justice of the U.S., he served as grand marshal Earl Warren
#1, aired 2024-01-12IAMB WOMAN $2000: Her 1883 "1492" celebrates "A virgin world where doors of sunset part, / Saying, 'Ho, all who weary, enter here!'" Emma Lazarus
#1, aired 2024-01-12GRAND MARSHALS OF THE ROSE PARADE $3,000 (Daily Double): He got the nod in 1953 as a senator from California; he rode again in 1960 Richard Nixon
#9014, aired 2024-01-11OLD YORK, OLD YORK $1000: Born in York in 1570, he would have an annual day in November named for him, but he probably would not appreciate it Guy Fawkes
#9013, aired 2024-01-10ONE-MAN BAND $200: "Maybe I'm Amazed" he solo-recorded his 1970 solo debut mainly at his house in St. John's Wood; OK, maybe I'm not--he was a Beatle McCartney
#9013, aired 2024-01-10YOU GET NOTHING! YOU LOSE! $400: After scheming to turn European postage stamps into $15 million worth of fraud, he was arrested in 1920 & went to prison Charles Ponzi
#9013, aired 2024-01-10ONE-MAN BAND $600: In 1989, he "Let Love Rule" as basically a one-man band on that debut album, and he's been "Sittin' On Top Of The World" ever since Lenny Kravitz
#9013, aired 2024-01-10ONE-MAN BAND $1000: When he was 15, he went out on tour with his dad, a guitar god; later he recorded solo for Mammoth WVH Wolfgang Van Halen
#9013, aired 2024-01-10YOU GET NOTHING! YOU LOSE! $1000: Placed neck-deep in water that would recede as he tried to quench his thirst, this king gave his name to a word meaning tease Tantalus
#9013, aired 2024-01-10BOOKS & AUTHORS $2000: He was a newspaperman for the Chicago Daily Globe before penning "An American Tragedy" Dreiser
#9012, aired 2024-01-09U.S. NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNERS $2000: His name is on a pact with Aristide Briand, but Aristide had won a Nobel Prize a few years before, so he got the 1929 prize alone Frank Kellogg
#24, aired 2024-01-09CAN I GET AN "A" MEN! $100: He appeared in every episode of "M*A*S*H"; he also directed its last episode in 1983 Alan Alda
#24, aired 2024-01-09CAN I GET AN "A" MEN! $300: These dancers are performing his work, "Revelations"; he's also the subject of the book, "Dancing Revelations" Alvin Ailey
#24, aired 2024-01-09ANIMAL IDIOM BRAINTEASERS $600: Don't forget how many other single people are out there in the dating pool: T.A.P.O.F.I.T.S. there are plenty of fish in the sea
#24, aired 2024-01-09NEW YORK TIMES OBITUARIES $600: This surrealist's 1989 obit noted when he "hallucinated in the late 1920s, the whole world hallucinated with him" Dalí
#24, aired 2024-01-09IT'S A DATE, AMIGO! $800: He's the U.S. president whose cumpleaños is celebrated ten days after El Cumpleaños de Lincoln Washington
#24, aired 2024-01-09NEW YORK TIMES OBITUARIES $1000: This actor's 2016 obit mentioned he had outlived by about 34 years an erroneous report of his death that made him a cult figure Abe Vigoda
#24, aired 2024-01-09FEMALE FIRSTS $1200: In 2018, she became the first American woman to win a medal in every single event at the World Gymnastics Championships Simone Biles
#9011, aired 2024-01-08MUSIC $600: In 1953 he became the first American to conduct at La Scala in Milan; 4 years later, he helped tell a "West Side Story" Bernstein
#9010, aired 2024-01-05OUR MAN ON THE FIELD $200: Coming on the pitch in the 60th minute in his Inter Miami regular season debut in 2023, he got his first MLS goal 29 minutes later Messi
#9010, aired 2024-01-05LINES IN CLASSIC NOVELS $400: In a 17th century classic, he tells the title character, "What we see there are not giants but windmills" Sancho Panza
#9010, aired 2024-01-05NYMING -NYMS $800: A cryptonym is a secret name or code word; this 1960s Vietnamese leader had several, including Agent 19 Ho Chi Minh
#9009, aired 2024-01-04ALL ABOUT AUTHORS $400: Childhood pal Harper Lee served as his researcher when he was working on "In Cold Blood" Truman Capote
#9009, aired 2024-01-04MYTHOLOGY $2000: Also known as Catamitus, he was a beautiful boy carried away by an eagle for purposes uncertain Ganymede
#9008, aired 2024-01-03JOHN GREEN $400: (John Green presents the clue.) Two books that I often recommend & that inspired me to write for teens are "Speak" by Laurie Halse Anderson & one by Walter Dean Myers; Steve is on trial for murder, but is he really this, the title of the book? a monster
#9008, aired 2024-01-03MIL. ABBREV. $1200: XO: He's second in command to the CO executive officer
#9007, aired 2024-01-02THE CHARLES III KIND $600: This actor, who was Charles in "The Crown", says he'd like to ask the king about his experience as a fellow sticky-out-eared man Josh O'Connor
#9007, aired 2024-01-02CONCERT TOURS $600: 2021-2023: He gave us Love on Tour Harry Styles
#9007, aired 2024-01-02CHILD PERFORMERS $800: Donnie Dunagan spent 25 years in the Marine Corps, telling no one he'd been the voice of this fawn Bambi
#9007, aired 2024-01-02THE CHARLES III KIND $1000: Charles helped design the traditional look of Poundbury in this duchy of his that shares its name with a southwest England county Cornwall
#9007, aired 2024-01-02CONCERT TOURS $1000: 2017-2019: He split us up with the ÷ (Divide) Tour Ed Sheeran
#23, aired 2024-01-02OATHS $100: The coronation oath he took in 2023 had some minor changes since it was last taken in 1953 King Charles (III) (the former Prince Charles)
#23, aired 2024-01-02AUTO BIOGRAPHIES $100: You can call me a holy roller, since I'm customized to drive this official as he greets crowds the Pope
#23, aired 2024-01-02SCIENTISTS $300: A popular way of saying something is uncomplicated is to say it's not this field of Wernher von Braun rocket science
#23, aired 2024-01-02TINY DESK CONCERTS $900: He sang hits like "Watermelon Sugar" for his Tiny Desk Concert; he also calls his sweater a "jumper" (aw, how British) Harry Styles
#23, aired 2024-01-02SCIENTISTS $1200: Not only did this scientist invent the electric battery as his name suggests, he also discovered methane gas Alessandro Volta
#23, aired 2024-01-02TINY DESK CONCERTS $1500: For a Tiny Desk Concert he did with Sting, this "It Wasn't Me" singer proudly sang "I'm a Jamaican in New York" Shaggy
#9006, aired 2024-01-01HAUNTING LITERATURE $200: Scrooge hears from this man that even after being dead for 7 years, he found "no rest, no peace. incessant torture of remorse" Jacob Marley
#9006, aired 2024-01-01HAUNTING LITERATURE $600: The ghost of Catherine haunts Heathcliff until he himself exits the land of the living in this 1847 novel Wuthering Heights
#9005, aired 2023-12-29LITERARY TOWNS & CITIES $1600: "City Primeval" by Elmore Leonard takes place in the author's longtime home, this Midwest city Detroit
#9005, aired 2023-12-29LITERARY TOWNS & CITIES $6,000 (Daily Double): In a Thomas Hardy tale, a man sells his wife & child; the wife later seeks him out in this city where he has become the mayor Casterbridge
#9004, aired 2023-12-28NBA NICKNAMES $200: He knew how to operate on a basketball court, so it makes sense that Julius Erving had this medical nickname Dr. J
#9004, aired 2023-12-28TRIPLE INITIAL WRITERS $1200: He was on staff at the Oxford English Dictionary, taught Middle English & got into another Middle area J.R.R. Tolkien
#9004, aired 2023-12-28TRIPLE INITIAL WRITERS $2000: The "A" that's the 3rd initial of this German writer was originally W--for Wilhelm--but he changed it to honor Mozart's Amadeus E.T.A. Hoffmann
#9003, aired 2023-12-27PRESIDENTS NOT PRESIDENTING $600: He read "Anna Karenina" aboard a boat while chasing 3 thieves down a river in the Dakota Territory Teddy Roosevelt
#9003, aired 2023-12-272023 SPORTS HIGHLIGHT REEL $600: He won 3 of 4 men's Grand Slam singles titles, but lost at Wimbledon to young Carlos Alcaraz Djokovic
#9003, aired 2023-12-27PRESIDENTS NOT PRESIDENTING $800: This man told a friend, "Palladio is the Bible", as he was something of a fanboy for the 16th century Italian architect Jefferson
#9003, aired 2023-12-27REPORTING THE NEWS $1600: One of Time's "25 Most Influential Hispanics in the U.S.", he began anchoring "Noticiero Univision" at age 28 in 1986 Jorge Ramos
#9003, aired 2023-12-27BIBLE QUOTES $2000: Genesis 37: "Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children... and he made him" this showy item a coat of many colors
#9001, aired 2023-12-25BATS ENTERTAINMENT $800: & today (today), I consider myself (myself) the luckiest man to say he starred as Lou Gehrig in "The Pride of the Yankees" Gary Cooper
#9001, aired 2023-12-25'80s NO. 1 HITMAKERS $1600: He was on a Rick roll with his chart-toppers "Never Gonna Give You Up" & "Together Forever" Rick Astley
#9000, aired 2023-12-22MOVIE INSPIRATIONS $800: Christopher Nolan said he got inspired to make "Oppenheimer" after this "Twilight" star gifted him a book of Oppie's speeches (Robert) Pattinson
#9000, aired 2023-12-22CAROLS $1000: One carol says he "looked out on the Feast of Stephen, when the snow lay round about, deep and crisp and even" Good King Wenceslas
#9000, aired 2023-12-22CONTEMPORARIES $1600: In 1794 Thomas Jefferson wrote that he hoped the execution of this man marked a return to moderation in the French Revolution Robespierre
#8998, aired 2023-12-20A REAL SOB STORY $400: In a 1594 play he tells his brother Marcus Andronicus that a woman's tears are like "honey-dew upon a gather'd lily" Titus Andronicus
#8998, aired 2023-12-20IT'S A VISION BOARD $400: St. Catherine of Siena had many visions of Jesus; in one he removed this from her body & in another, replaced it with his own heart
#8998, aired 2023-12-20MOVIE VIEWING $600: The line in the script for this 1942 classic was "Here's good luck to you, kid", but Bogie made a slight adjustment Casablanca
#8998, aired 2023-12-20IT'S A VISION BOARD $1000: In his "First Vision", in New York State in 1820, he asked Jesus which church had the truth & Jesus said none of them Joseph Smith
#8998, aired 2023-12-20MOVIE VIEWING $1000: He not only played the title role in "Creed III", he also made his directorial debut Michael B. Jordan
#8998, aired 2023-12-20FAMOUS FINNS $2000: His dad, Eliel, designed Helsinki's railway station; he designed St. Louis' Gateway Arch Eero Saarinen
#8997, aired 2023-12-19KING'S CROSSING $200: In a late 18th century National Convention vote he could not afford to lose, this French king was condemned to death, 387 to 334 Louis XVI
#8997, aired 2023-12-19KING'S CROSSING $600: Unhorsed! Unhorsed! On Aug. 22, 1485 he lost his kingdom & his life after getting unhorsed Richard III
#8997, aired 2023-12-19KING'S CROSSING $2,000 (Daily Double): In 1516, 11 years after losing the queen he called the "most excellent wife king ever had", this Castile royal left the castle Ferdinand
#8996, aired 2023-12-18POSTAL ABBREVIATION COMBOS $2,600 (Daily Double): Hawaii + North Dakota = this "backward" word hind
#8995, aired 2023-12-15WISH I'D SAID THAT! $400: Sage advice from Fran Lebowitz: "Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's" doing this buying
#8995, aired 2023-12-15WISH I'D SAID THAT! $2000: Eubie Blake, 1887-1983, is among those credited with "If I'd known I was gonna live this long", he'd have done this taken better care of himself
#8994, aired 2023-12-14IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF HISTORY $200: Trace Jesus' steps in this city as he walked down the Via Dolorosa toward Golgotha Jerusalem
#8994, aired 2023-12-14BROWNIAN NOTIONS $400: He soulfully sang it's a "man's world, but it wouldn't be nothing, nothing without a woman or a girl" James Brown
#8994, aired 2023-12-14IT'S ALL RELATIVE $400: In 1917 he founded Boys Town in Omaha, open to boys of all races & religions Father Flanagan
#8994, aired 2023-12-14BROWNIAN NOTIONS $800: Referring to the nickname "Governor Moonbeam", he says, "I've earned that moniker" Jerry Brown
#8994, aired 2023-12-14HIGH WATER $1200: In 1887, 1931 & 1938 northern China was devastated by flooding of the Huang He, this colorful river Yellow
#8994, aired 2023-12-14BROWNIAN NOTIONS $1200: He said he knew "slave-holders" would not give up their slaves "till they felt a big stick about their heads" John Brown
#8994, aired 2023-12-14BROWNIAN NOTIONS $1600: Before he became U.K. prime minister, he said economic & "environmental objectives now... reinforce each other" Gordon Brown
#8993, aired 2023-12-13OSCAR, MEYER, WIENER $400: On the small screen, he starred in "Moon Knight"; on the big screen, "The Force Awakens" & "Inside Llewyn Davis", among others Oscar Isaac
#8993, aired 2023-12-13OSCAR, MEYER, WIENER $800: He co-wrote the musicals "Show Boat" & "The King & I" Oscar Hammerstein
#8992, aired 2023-12-12I'M ABSOLUTELY SURE $200: He was the host of "Jeopardy!" back in 1964 Art Fleming
#8992, aired 2023-12-12McPEOPLE $400: He was first elected to the Senate from Arizona in 1986 John McCain
#8992, aired 2023-12-12YES, I'VE ETON $400: He hopefully had a ball at Eton before going on to write "Thunderball" Fleming
#8992, aired 2023-12-12STICKY STUFF $800: This brand was conceived in the 1940s by a Swiss engineer after he examined sticky burrs on his dog Velcro
#8992, aired 2023-12-12YES, I'VE ETON $800: As a student at Eton, he did not have his own laptop computer, despite being second in line to the British throne Prince William
#8990, aired 2023-12-08WE'RE TALKING BASEBALL $400: Alphabetically, he's the first player listed in Baseball's Hall of Fame Hank Aaron
#8990, aired 2023-12-08WE'RE TALKING BASEBALL $600: In 1982, he set a modern record by stealing 130 bases; Hugh Nicol has the all-time record with 138 set in 1887 (Rickey) Henderson
#8990, aired 2023-12-08WE'RE TALKING BASEBALL $1000: He said, "Nice guys finish last", and proved it; he took over the Cubs in 1966 & managed them to last place Leo Durocher
#8990, aired 2023-12-08CLASSIC MOVIE ORIGINAL DIALOGUE? $2000: "No, no, no, I'm Antoninus! I'm not that guy! You want him! He's right there! The one that looks like Kirk Douglas" Spartacus
#8989, aired 2023-12-07SUPER BOWL STARS $200: After throwing for 286 yards & 2 TDs, he was named the chief reason for Kansas City's victory in Super Bowl 54 Mahomes
#8989, aired 2023-12-07IT'S RAINING MENSA $800: Before he passed away in 2012, this general who led the Persian Gulf War went "stormin'" to a Mensa membership Schwarzkopf
#8989, aired 2023-12-07GREEK ALPHABET PUZZLERS $1200: Around 1960, it was a state-of-the-art music system a hi-phi
#8989, aired 2023-12-07IT'S RAINING MENSA $1600: Come up with the geodesic dome like this engineer & you can be president of Mensa like he was Fuller
#8989, aired 2023-12-07DURING LOU GEHRIG'S CONSECUTIVE GAME STREAK $1600: In 1928 he won the general election for Louisiana governor using the slogan "Every man a king, but no one wears a crown" (Huey) Long
#8989, aired 2023-12-07DURING LOU GEHRIG'S CONSECUTIVE GAME STREAK $6,400 (Daily Double): He became the Cook County Jail's most famous inmate on Oct. 24, 1931 Al Capone
#8988, aired 2023-12-06HODGEPODGE $400: In the wee hours of Jan. 7, 2023 he was elected Speaker of the House on the 15th ballot; he was voted out about 9 months later Kevin McCarthy
#8988, aired 2023-12-06OUT OF CON TEXT $800: "Dantes crossed the awful threshold and the door closed noisily behind him... he was in prison" The Count of Monte Cristo
#8988, aired 2023-12-06REAL MEN OF SCIENCE $800: Christiaan Huygens was an early telescope developer & found the moon Titan when he looked at this planet Saturn
#8988, aired 2023-12-06OUT OF CON TEXT $1000: "At last news arrived... that Raskolnikov shunned everybody and that in prison he was unpopular with the convicts" Crime and Punishment
#22, aired 2023-12-06CELEBRITY TELL-ALLS $300: "Spare": On a trip to the North Pole, he got frostbite on his royal "todger" Prince Harry
#22, aired 2023-12-06THREESOMES $300: According to the carol, it's what "my true love gave to me" on the third day of Christmas; I just hope he wasn't regifting 3 French hens
#22, aired 2023-12-06I WANT MY "M" TV $400: Bryan Cranston said if this Fox sitcom had been renewed for one more season, he wouldn't have been available to play Walter White Malcolm in the Middle
#22, aired 2023-12-06PIZZA AT THE MOVIES $600: Half man, half pizza, this "Spaceballs" villain meets a tragic end when he eats himself Pizza the Hutt
#22, aired 2023-12-06"OO"! "OO"! I KNOW! $600: Kevin Bacon once said that when he attends a wedding, he bribes the DJ to not play this song from a 1984 movie he starred in "Footloose"
#22, aired 2023-12-06CELEBRITY TELL-ALLS $600: "Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing": He revealed that future editions of his memoir will not include Keanu Reeves Matthew Perry
#22, aired 2023-12-06CELEBRITY TELL-ALLS $900: "Life": This seemingly immortal rock star claims he once went nine days without sleeping Keith Richards
#8987, aired 2023-12-05ALSO A SUPERHERO $600: This Black Sabbath song says, "He was turned to steel in the great magnetic field" "Iron Man"
#8987, aired 2023-12-05FLAGS $1200: A seminal L.A. punk band of the 1980s, or what a NASCAR driver gets if he's caught speeding on pit road Black Flag
#8986, aired 2023-12-04HIS 'DO $200: The name of this cut is also the sound of electric clippers; in 2012 Robert Pattinson made news when he got one a buzz cut
#8986, aired 2023-12-04BRITISH BANDS $200: He is the lead singer of Culture Club Boy George
#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
#8986, aired 2023-12-04BRITISH BANDS $1000: The Clash had its biggest hit with this song that says, "the Sheik he drove his Cadillac" "Rock The Casbah"
#8986, aired 2023-12-04MOVIE DIRECTORS $2000: Long before "Spider-Man", he first made his name with "The Evil Dead" when he was just 22 Sam Raimi
#8985, aired 2023-12-01A RED-HOT LATIN LAWYER $1,000 (Daily Double): This Latin word, still used today, originally meant "he pledged"; today, it's a sworn written statement affidavit
#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
#8985, aired 2023-12-01ONE OF THESE KINGS IS NOT LIKE THE OTHERS $1600: Frederick III, Nicholas II, Wilhelm II Nicholas II
#8985, aired 2023-12-01ONE OF THESE KINGS IS NOT LIKE THE OTHERS $2000: Carloman II, Ferdinand VII, Juan Carlos I Carloman
#8984, aired 2023-11-30WHO IS THEON OF SMYRNA? $200: Like Ptolemy, about whom he wrote, Theon placed this body in the center of the cosmos the Earth
#8984, aired 2023-11-30QUOTABLE QUOTES $400: The first words he spoke on the telephone were "Mr. Watson, come here; I want to see you" Alexander Graham Bell
#8984, aired 2023-11-30QUOTABLE QUOTES $800: Following the 1992 L.A. riots, he asked, "Can we all get along?" Rodney King
#8984, aired 2023-11-30THAT'S "CORN"Y $1000: Despite that whole Yorktown debacle, he later fought in Asia & Ireland with great success Lord Cornwallis
#8984, aired 2023-11-30QUOTABLE QUOTES $1200: In 2005 he urged Stanford's graduating class, "Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life" Steve Jobs
#8983, aired 2023-11-29BARRE TENDERS $400: In 1990, he & choreographer Mark Morris founded a touring company called the White Oak Dance Project Baryshnikov
#8983, aired 2023-11-29BEN FRANKLIN'S DRINKER'S DICTIONARY $800: "He's had a thump over the head with" this biblical strongman's "jawbone" Samson
#8983, aired 2023-11-29BEN FRANKLIN'S DRINKER'S DICTIONARY $1200: "He sees" these (Ben probably didn't mean Walter Payton & Dick Butkus) bears
#8983, aired 2023-11-29BARRE TENDERS $1200: In 1989, he again danced with the Kirov Ballet, the first time since his defection 28 years earlier Rudolf Nureyev
#8983, aired 2023-11-29BARRE TENDERS $1600: Audiences fauned all over this Kyiv-born dancer when he came to Paris with Diaghilev in 1909 Nijinsky
#8983, aired 2023-11-29FAREWELL TO THE CHIEF $2000: On July 23, 1885 just days after completing his memoirs, he died of cancer at his New York home Ulysses S. Grant
#8983, aired 2023-11-29MAKING WAVES $2000: Born at the beach--Cocoa Beach, Florida--he became both the youngest & the oldest surfing world champion Kelly Slater
#21, aired 2023-11-29WHAT THE "EFF"?! $200: A designation for certain washing machines designed to save water & energy, "HE" stands for "high" this efficiency
#21, aired 2023-11-29CANDLE CULTURE $200: Though no one on "Friends" knew what his job was, this character's first name suggests he could have been a candlemaker Chandler (Bing)
#21, aired 2023-11-29COLLEGE PRESS $900 (Daily Double): At the University of Maryland, David Simon edited the school newspaper; he set HBO's "The Wire" in this city Baltimore
#8982, aired 2023-11-28REMEMBER THE MANE $400: He's the fight promoter seen here Don King
#8982, aired 2023-11-28SECONDS $400: He was the second president of the Mormon Church Brigham Young
#8982, aired 2023-11-28FOREIGN LANGUAGE $600: If Popeye spoke Hebrew he'd ask for tered, this spinach
#8982, aired 2023-11-28NAME THAT 1990s YEAR $800: Michael Jordan is named MVP of the NBA Finals 1993 ('91, '92, '96, '97 or '98)
#8982, aired 2023-11-28SECONDS $800: From 1577 to 1580 he commanded the second voyage ever to go around the world Drake
#8982, aired 2023-11-28SECONDS $1000: In 1974 he became the second U.S. vice president appointed under the terms of the 25th Amendment Nelson Rockefeller
#8982, aired 2023-11-28REMEMBER THE MANE $2000: He's toured & recorded with his Large Band Lyle Lovett
#8981, aired 2023-11-27RIBS $200: In Genesis he wakes up to find himself minus one rib but plus one female Adam
#8981, aired 2023-11-27THE 23rd PSALM $400: "He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside" these still waters
#8981, aired 2023-11-27SUPREME COURTSHIP $1200: In 1929 he wed Vivien Burey, who died in 1955, a year after he argued Brown v. Board of Education Thurgood Marshall
#8981, aired 2023-11-27SUPREME COURTSHIP $1600: He wed Marion Stearns in 1946, six years after he led the NFL in rushing (Byron "Whizzer") White
#8981, aired 2023-11-27SUPREME COURTSHIP $7,000 (Daily Double): He avoided the clear & present danger of bachelorhood by marrying Fanny Dixwell in 1872 Oliver Wendell Holmes
#8980, aired 2023-11-24SIGN O' THE TIMES $600: One of these "in the cloud" was God's sign to Noah that he would never again flood the Earth a rainbow
#8980, aired 2023-11-24TIPS FROM THE ANCIENTS $600: Simple machine of which Archimedes said that with the right place to stand he could move the world a lever
#8980, aired 2023-11-24I'D LIKE A DRINK $800: This cocktail of whiskey, sweet vermouth & a cherry sounds like Peter Minuit paid $24 for it & at a fancy bar, he might a Manhattan
#8979, aired 2023-11-23COACH $400: Before moving to the NFL in 1954, he served for 5 years as an assistant coach at Army Vince Lombardi
#8979, aired 2023-11-23COACH $800: They may have tried to win one for the Gipper, but Notre Dame won a lot for this coach, too: he went 105-12-5 Knute Rockne
#8979, aired 2023-11-23____ OF ____ $800: Had Julius Caesar heeded the warning about this day, he might have survived it the Ides of March
#8979, aired 2023-11-23CARTOON THEME SONGS $800: "Here he comes... he's a demon on wheels" Speed Racer
#8979, aired 2023-11-23BIBLICAL ZOO $1,000 (Daily Double): After crossing this, Miriam led a chorus of "the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea" the Red Sea
#8978, aired 2023-11-22THE INSTRUMENT OF DEATH $400: In 1914 Franz Ferdinand didn't say "take me out" but was anyway, via this a gun
#8978, aired 2023-11-22TITLE ROLE ACTORS $400: "The People vs. Larry Flynt" Woody Harrelson
#8978, aired 2023-11-2218th CENTURY TECHNOLOGY $1200: In 1785, 16 years after his patent for an improved steam engine, he developed a fuel-efficient furnace James Watt
#8978, aired 2023-11-22BELGIUM $1200: 2 wins in the Tour of Flanders are among the record 525 in this sport by national hero Eddy "the Cannibal" Merckx bicycle racing
#8977, aired 2023-11-21SPEAK OF THE DEVIL $400: Baudelaire: "The devil's finest trick is to persuade you that he does not" this exist
#8977, aired 2023-11-21CHICKEN SOUP $600: An ancestor of Alex Haley, he was played on TV by Ben Vereen Chicken George
#8977, aired 2023-11-21CAR TUNES $800: He had a 2-part request in the title of his 1988 No. 1 hit "Get Outta My Dreams, Get Into My Car" Billy Ocean
#8977, aired 2023-11-2119th CENTURY SCRAPBOOK $7,000 (Daily Double): Pictured here around 1890, he was the original "Iron Man" Bismarck
#8976, aired 2023-11-20LESSER-KNOWN ANCIENT ROMANS $800: His hand turned red when he touched orange juice, blue when he touched seawater Litmus
#8976, aired 2023-11-20LESSER-KNOWN ANCIENT ROMANS $1200: In Rome his name meant simply "good"; to us it implies that he gave a little something extra Bonus
#8976, aired 2023-11-20PEOPLE IN THEIR ELEMENT $1200: Johan Gadolin wonders will you still need him, will you still feed him now that he's element number this 64
#8976, aired 2023-11-20PEOPLE IN THEIR ELEMENT $1600: This physicist born in Ulm, Bavaria just made it into the top 100 elements by a hair; he's No. 99 Einstein
#8976, aired 2023-11-20LESSER-KNOWN ANCIENT ROMANS $1600: His name came from the Latin for "dispute" & he would drag you into court any chance he got Litigious
#8976, aired 2023-11-20PEOPLE IN THEIR ELEMENT $2000: The element with atomic number 107 was named for this scientist played by Kenneth Branagh in "Oppenheimer" Niels Bohr
#8975, aired 2023-11-17PITHY QUOTES $400: After recanting his belief that the Earth orbits the Sun, he's said to have muttered, "But it does move" Galileo
#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"
#8975, aired 2023-11-17MORE TRICKY QUESTIONS $800: If a British farmer has 22 sheep & all but 9 die in a tragic shearing incident, this is how many he has left 9
#8975, aired 2023-11-17SPRINGSTEEN LYRICS $800: "I had a friend was a big baseball player back in high school he could throw that speedball by you..." "Glory Days"
#8975, aired 2023-11-17MORE TRICKY QUESTIONS $1000: It's the main reason in Wyoming why a man can't marry his widow's sister because he's dead
#8975, aired 2023-11-17MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS $1200: This type of cymbal seen here can be operated with a foot pedal or struck with a drumstick a hi-hat
#8975, aired 2023-11-17LIFE OF PI $2000: Johann Lambert wasn't delusional in 1761 when he showed that pi is one of these numbers irrational
#8975, aired 2023-11-17NAME THE JAMES $2000: This businessman, born in New York City in 1856, got his "Diamond" nickname from the bling he was seldom without Diamond Jim Brady
#8975, aired 2023-11-17PITHY QUOTES $2,400 (Daily Double): The King James Bible's shortest verse, "Jesus wept", refers to the death of this man Lazarus
#8974, aired 2023-11-16WHAT THE DICKENS! $1000: He takes Charles Darnay's place at the scaffold in "A Tale of Two Cities" Sydney Carton
#8974, aired 2023-11-16SCULPTURE $2000: In 1937 this British sculptor said that he associated the openings in his hole-y works with caves Henry Moore
#8974, aired 2023-11-16ROBIN WILLIAMS MOVIE QUOTES $4,400 (Daily Double): "Look at me, son. It's not your fault" Good Will Hunting
#8973, aired 2023-11-15SAINTS GO MARCHING IN $400: 5th century pope Celestine I sent this man & future saint to Ireland, where he is said to have established 300 churches Patrick
#8973, aired 2023-11-15LET'S TAKE A BATH $600: The idea for "Lohengrin" came to this composer while he was taking a spa bath Wagner
#8973, aired 2023-11-15SAINTS GO MARCHING IN $2000: So you know he's still venerated as a saint & looks out for ferry workers... whaddya want? A medal? St. Christopher
#20, aired 2023-11-15FOR THE LOVE OF PETE $100: His first kiss with future ex Kim Kardashian was in a 2021 "SNL" sketch--& he was dressed as Aladdin Pete Davidson
#20, aired 2023-11-15SCIENCE MUSEUMS $200: At Pittsburgh's Carnegie Science Center, he's inducted in the Robot Hall of Fame; so is his sidekick R2-D2 C-3PO
#20, aired 2023-11-15FOR THE LOVE OF PETE $200: This Cincinnati baseball great once said he'd "walk through hell in a gasoline suit to play"; now he's banned for life Pete Rose
#20, aired 2023-11-15FOR THE LOVE OF PETE $300: Depending on whom you ask, he is either a guitarist for The Who, or the writer of the "CSI" theme songs, or both Pete Townshend
#20, aired 2023-11-15FOR THE LOVE OF PETE $400: Back in South Bend, this former presidential hopeful went by "Mayor Pete"; now he goes by "Secretary of Transportation" Pete Buttigieg
#20, aired 2023-11-15TV DRAMAS IN A NUTSHELL $500: A young doctor gets acquainted with the quirky locals when he opens a practice in Cicely, Alaska Northern Exposure
#20, aired 2023-11-15FOR THE LOVE OF PETE $500: He's the wholesome comic known for his HBO series "Crashing" & the podcast "You Made It Weird" Pete Holmes
#20, aired 2023-11-15SAD SONGS $800: This handsome crooner revealed that after a bad breakup, he wrote "Somebody's Crying" inside a closet at a party Chris Isaak
#20, aired 2023-11-15MUSICAL INSTRUMENT MAKERS $900: The first grand piano made by this German in 1836 is dubbed "the kitchen piano" after the room where he crafted it (Henry) Steinway
#8971, aired 2023-11-13THE AUTO MAN EMPIRE $400: He had a good year in 1928; construction began on the New York City Art Deco building named for him & he acquired Dodge Chrysler
#8971, aired 2023-11-13WHOSE LINE IS IT ANYWAY? $2000: In "My Favorite Year" he wails, "I'm not an actor, I'm a movie star!" Peter O'Toole
#8970, aired 2023-11-10SOUND THE TRUMPET $400: On July 8, 1922 he played a New Orleans jazz funeral & took a train north to become a world-famous trumpeter Armstrong
#8970, aired 2023-11-10DESIGNERS $1000: Before "Project Runway" & his own fashion line, he was a child actor, born Karl Anderson Jr. Michael Kors
#8970, aired 2023-11-10SOUND THE TRUMPET $1200: In 1981, he & his brother Branford both played in Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers Wynton Marsalis
#8970, aired 2023-11-10SOUND THE TRUMPET $2000: This bebop pioneer was famous for his angled trumpet, which was bent upward, & his puffy cheeks when he played it Dizzy Gillespie
#8969, aired 2023-11-09FAMOUS FORMER TEACHERS $400: Before "Harry Met Sally", he worked as a substitute teacher on Long Island Billy Crystal
#8969, aired 2023-11-09FAMOUS FORMER TEACHERS $800: He taught English at his former high school before finding fame with the musicals "In the Heights" & "Hamilton" Lin-Manuel Miranda
#8969, aired 2023-11-09FAMOUS FORMER TEACHERS $1000: Before he was a "Police" man, he was a teacher named Gordon Sumner Sting
#8967, aired 2023-11-07TAXES $600: In January 2012, this GOP candidate said he was "proud of the fact I pay a lot of taxes" Mitt Romney
#8967, aired 2023-11-07DUDE-ER-ONOMY $2000: He didn't say much as Silent Bob in "Clerks", but no one in the film could say anything without him; he wrote the pic too Kevin Smith
#8967, aired 2023-11-07YOU'RE GETTING VERY SLEEPY $2000: He's the Shakespearean character who muses, "...in that sleep of death what dreams may come..." Hamlet
#8966, aired 2023-11-06CALL OUT THE BOB SQUAD $200: He was only 15 when he became an international Grandmaster in 1958 Fischer
#8966, aired 2023-11-06CALL OUT THE BOB SQUAD $400: Known for playing a TV lawyer, he got buff & turned action-movie star for 2021's "Nobody" Odenkirk
#8966, aired 2023-11-06CALL OUT THE BOB SQUAD $600: He conquered the charts with "Dream Lover", "Splish Splash" & "Mack The Knife" Bobby Darin
#8966, aired 2023-11-06A "LA" CARTE $1600: In 1682 he led the first European expedition to follow the Mississippi to its mouth La Salle
#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
#8964, aired 2023-11-02KENNEDY CENTER HONOREES $400: In 1999, at age 49, he was the youngest honoree ever; he had his first No. 1 hit in 1963 at age 12 Stevie Wonder
#8964, aired 2023-11-02KENNEDY CENTER HONOREES $800: 1983 "was a very good year" for this entertainer; that's when he was honored Frank Sinatra
#8964, aired 2023-11-02CLIFFS NOTES: DRAMA $2000: Estragon: "Is he here yet?" Vladimir: "Nope" (curtain) Waiting for Godot
#8963, aired 2023-11-01BYE, GEORGE! $800: After this composer met his "Messiah" in 1759, he was buried in Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey Handel
#8963, aired 2023-11-016-SYLLABLE WORDS $3,000 (Daily Double): Title for Sir Francis Drake, due to a specific feat he accomplished in 1580 a circumnavigator
#19, aired 2023-11-01CONSTITUTIONAL MATTERS $300: The 22nd Amendment reads, "No person shall be elected to the office of" this "more than twice" president
#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
#19, aired 2023-11-01MARRIAGE STORY $500: 1840: "Hi, Elizabeth Cady! How's suffragism?" "I just got married" "Who is he?" "His last name is" this Stanton
#19, aired 2023-11-01PENINSULAS $600: In a 1951 address, President Truman had this peninsula in mind when he declared, "We are trying to prevent a third world war" Korea
#19, aired 2023-11-01BEST PICTURE WINNERS IN A NUTSHELL $800: 1988: A self-centered salesman embarks on a cross-country journey with the autistic brother he never knew existed Rain Man
#8962, aired 2023-10-31FRANK GEHRY $400: Though he's lived for many years in the U.S., architect Frank Gehry was born in this Ontario city of 2.9 million Toronto
#8962, aired 2023-10-31NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM $7,600 (Daily Double): He painted "Night Fishing at Antibes" just before the outbreak of World War II Picasso
#8961, aired 2023-10-30THE JOKERS $400: In 1984 he was still known as Leaf when he played Robby in the ABC Afterschool Special "Backwards: The Riddle of Dyslexia" Joaquin Phoenix
#8961, aired 2023-10-30LET'S FACE IT $600: Da, comrade, he's the traveler seen here Yuri Gagarin
#8961, aired 2023-10-30LET'S FACE IT $800: He was a world leader from 1983 to 1989; then he began to be led around Noriega
#8961, aired 2023-10-30BRING OUT YOUR FRED $2000: In 1989, he became president of South Africa; a few years later, he was deputy president Frederik Willem de Klerk
#8960, aired 2023-10-27"A"UTHORS $800: According to legend, he was a Phrygian slave who may have lived from 620 to 560 B.C. Aesop
#8959, aired 2023-10-26JACQUES OF ALL TRADES $400: In 1973 he founded a nonprofit society dedicated to marine conservation Cousteau
#8959, aired 2023-10-26JACQUES OF ALL TRADES $800: He was president of France from 1995 to 2007 Jacques Chirac
#8958, aired 2023-10-25BOOK 'EM, DAN-O $200: In 1977, he wrote "The Camera Never Blinks: Adventures of a TV Journalist" Dan Rather
#8958, aired 2023-10-25DISNEY PARK SONGS $200: "Yo ho, yo ho..." Pirates of the Caribbean
#8958, aired 2023-10-25PRODUCE $400: Not only did he produce "Citizen Kane", he co-wrote, starred in & directed the film, too--talk about a best boy Welles
#8958, aired 2023-10-25BOOK 'EM, DAN-O $400: From 1704 to 1713 he produced his own periodical, "The Review"; "Robinson Crusoe" washed ashore in 1719 Defoe
#8958, aired 2023-10-25BOOK 'EM, DAN-O $800: When he made the 2005 "Time" 100 list, his book was described as "the novel that ate the world" Dan Brown
#8958, aired 2023-10-25PRODUCE $800: In addition to exec producing "Michael Clayton", he got an Oscar nomination for Best Lead Actor George Clooney
#8958, aired 2023-10-25WASN'T THAT AN '80s THING? $1600: He was elected governor of Massachusetts in 1982 & 1986 & then it was on to the presidency--well, not quite Dukakis
#8958, aired 2023-10-25PRODUCE $1600: As a producer, he was smart enough to hire himself to direct "A Beautiful Mind"; imagine that! Ron Howard
#18, aired 2023-10-25FAILING HISTORY $100: On a trip to Asia in 1492, he ended up thousands of miles away and still got a U.S. federal holiday in his honor Christopher Columbus
#18, aired 2023-10-25THE NOBEL PRIZE $200: The presidency may have eluded him in 2000, but on the bright side, he won a Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 Al Gore
#18, aired 2023-10-25AMERICAN BRIDGES $200: The Benjamin Franklin Bridge connects Camden, New Jersey to this city Ben moved to when he was 17 Philadelphia
#18, aired 2023-10-25SCULPTURES $300: Michelangelo's most iconic statue depicts David before a battle with this giant -- whom he apparently fought without pants Goliath
#18, aired 2023-10-25FAILING HISTORY $500: Genghis Khan had a breakthrough when he "broke through" this fortified Asian structure that was built over 2000 years the Great Wall of China
#18, aired 2023-10-25BY THE NUMBERS $1000: It's the number Gordon Ramsay might bellow to announce he's removing an item from the menu 86
#18, aired 2023-10-25SNEAKER BRANDS $1000: Sk8-Hi & Old Skool Vans
#8957, aired 2023-10-24NOVEL IDEAS $400: One year after 1844's "Les Trois Mousquetaires", he gave us "Vingt ans après", or "Twenty Years After" Dumas
#8956, aired 2023-10-23ALWAYS SAY NEVER $600: "He that fights and runs away may" these 5 words "but he that is in battle slain will never rise to fight again" live to fight another day
#8956, aired 2023-10-23PEOPLE WITH MUPPET NAMES $1200: The first player in the National League to be MVP two years in a row, he's known as Mr. Cub Ernie Banks
#8955, aired 2023-10-20WE MADE IT $600: He substituted mercury for alcohol in a tube around 1714, creating the modern thermometer Fahrenheit
#8955, aired 2023-10-20JUSTIN TIME $800: This world leader's 2014 book "Common Ground" told of growing up at 24 Sussex Drive Trudeau
#8955, aired 2023-10-20JUSTIN TIME $1000: Justin Henry earned an Oscar nomination as Dustin Hoffman's son in this film Kramer vs. Kramer
#8954, aired 2023-10-19PRESIDENTIAL ACTORS? $800: He spoke the line "Hokey religions & ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side" (Harrison) Ford
#8954, aired 2023-10-19PHILOSOPHIES IN A NUTSHELL $800: Henri Bergson saw this not as a series of moments but as a flow he called duration time
#8954, aired 2023-10-19PHILOSOPHIES IN A NUTSHELL $2000: Hobbes followed this -ism, not meaning he was greedy but that he reduced every experience to a physical process materialism
#8953, aired 2023-10-18OOH, LOOK, SHINY THINGS! $200: In song, he "had a very shiny nose... you would even say it glows" Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
#8953, aired 2023-10-18THE 1600s $200: After observing a comet in 1682, he proved it was the same one seen in 1607, 1531, 1456... (Edmund) Halley
#8953, aired 2023-10-18IN CRISIS MODE $400: On Dec. 19, 1776 he published "The American Crisis. Number I" (of 16) Thomas Paine
#8953, aired 2023-10-18THE 1600s $1,000 (Daily Double): After hoarding food rations, he & his son were kept at bay, literally, by mutineers who set them adrift in 1611 Henry Hudson
#8953, aired 2023-10-18THE 1600s $1000: In the early 1600s this British king said that he could make a man a lord but "only God almighty can make a gentleman" James I
#8953, aired 2023-10-18ABRAHAM, ISAAC, JACOB $2000: He resigned from the Supreme Court in 1969 amid criticism of his financial dealings Abe Fortas (Abraham Fortas)
#8953, aired 2023-10-18ABRAHAM, ISAAC, JACOB $4,000 (Daily Double): He won the 1984 Best Actor Oscar for a movie named for a different character F. Murray Abraham
#17, aired 2023-10-18"POP" QUIZ, HOTSHOT $200: In 2013, cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio assumed this lofty title Pope
#17, aired 2023-10-18RESPOND LIKE A PIRATE $300: When he's not searching for the Lost Ark or the Temple of Doom, Indiana Jones teaches this subject archaeology
#17, aired 2023-10-18REPETITIVE SONG TITLES $300: Say the name of Buffalo's NFL team three times, and you'll say the title of this Destiny's Child song "Bills, Bills, Bills"
#17, aired 2023-10-18NONAGENARIANS $600: In 2019, he surpassed George H.W. Bush as longest-living U.S. president; he was 96 when Biden was inaugurated Jimmy Carter
#17, aired 2023-10-18DENZEL WASHINGTON $600: "No one would take on his case... until one man was willing to take on the system" was a tagline for this 1993 Washington film Philadelphia
#17, aired 2023-10-18DENZEL WASHINGTON $800: His credits include the HBO comedy series "Ballers" & the 2018 film "BlacKkKlansman"; he's also Denzel Washington's son John David Washington
#17, aired 2023-10-18HISTORICAL MARKERS $900 (Daily Double): Along with "Deep Throat", he's the reporter mentioned on a historical marker outside a parking garage in Arlington, VA Bob Woodward
#17, aired 2023-10-18HISTORIC QUOTES REPHRASED $1000: John Paul Jones, 1779: "Surrender? I'm just getting started" "I have not yet begun to fight"
#17, aired 2023-10-18"I" CAN GO EITHER WAY $1200: Take this first name (he loved Lucy), move its "I" from the back to the front, and you get this ominous day for Caesar ides
#17, aired 2023-10-18NONAGENARIANS $1200: In 2023, this astronaut got married on his 93rd birthday; presumably, he was over the moon Buzz Aldrin
#8952, aired 2023-10-17THE MAMAS & THE PAPAS $200: Known as "the Father of Pennsylvania", he also fathered 8 children with his first wife Penn
#8952, aired 2023-10-17SORT THROUGH THE WORD PROBLEM $600: Mr. Jenkins has 3 nickels, 13 dimes & 54 pennies; he can't afford a Phantom from this car company Rolls-Royce
#8952, aired 2023-10-17SORT THROUGH THE WORD PROBLEM $1000: Bo makes 86 snow-balls in 1 3/4 hrs.; when will Bo know he has this 9-letter problem where ice crystals form in body tissues? frostbite
#8952, aired 2023-10-17DUST TO DUST $1000: In "King Lear", Albany tells her, "You are not worth the dust which the rude wind blows in your face" Goneril
#8951, aired 2023-10-16& TAKIN' NAMES $800: The pseudonym he used for "The Running Man" in 1982 came to this author as he listened to a song by Bachman-Turner Overdrive Stephen King (Richard Bachman)
#8951, aired 2023-10-16THE LITERARY CHARACTER WHO SAID... $800: "He hasn't taught me anything, Miss Caroline. Atticus ain't got time to teach me anything" Scout Finch
#8950, aired 2023-10-13BACK TO SCHOOL, SPORTS STAR $200: He got his geography degree from the University of North Carolina in 1986--while leading the NBA in scoring with 37.1 points per game Michael Jordan
#8950, aired 2023-10-13PRE-FAME CELEBS IN ADS $400: Before he entered "The Matrix", he helped us choose Kellogg's Corn Flakes Keanu Reeves
#8950, aired 2023-10-13WHO SAID THIS? $400: Before Congress in 1951, he announced, "I now close my military career..." MacArthur
#8950, aired 2023-10-13AWARDS & HONORS $800: He won Pulitzers for his plays in 1948 & 1955 Tennessee Williams
#8950, aired 2023-10-13WHO SAID THIS? $800: He humbly shared with the British in 1936, "A few hours ago I discharged my last duty as king..." Edward VIII
#8950, aired 2023-10-13WHO SAID THIS? $1000: In a 1775 speech he declared, "I know not what course others may take..." Patrick Henry
#8950, aired 2023-10-13BACK TO SCHOOL, SPORTS STAR $1000: When this former Carolina Panthers QB graduated from Auburn in 2015, he stayed off the stage to keep the focus on the other graduates Cam Newton
#8950, aired 2023-10-13FELONIOUS MONKS $1200: AKA Saloth Sar, he was a novice monk for a time in Cambodia before becoming infamous for "Killing Fields" Pol Pot
#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
#8950, aired 2023-10-13PRE-FAME CELEBS IN ADS $1600: With no pandas, kung fu or otherwise in sight, he hawked "Pitfall" for the Atari 2600 (in a pith helmet!) Jack Black
#8950, aired 2023-10-13WHO SAID THIS? $2,200 (Daily Double): In a 1974 national TV address he conveyed, "Our long national nightmare is over..." (Gerald) Ford
#8949, aired 2023-10-12AARON BURR $200: The man he tied with 73 electoral votes in 1800 Jefferson
#8949, aired 2023-10-12AARON BURR $400: The current name of the New Jersey college he graduated from at age 16 Princeton
#8949, aired 2023-10-12AARON BURR $600: The man he went to New Jersey to meet on July 11, 1804 Hamilton
#8949, aired 2023-10-12AARON BURR $800: The man he introduced the widow Dolley Todd to in 1794 Madison
#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
#8949, aired 2023-10-12HAPPIER MOVIE ENDINGS $2000: Whoa...we're killing off Wolverine?! The film's made over $600 million! No! He heals up just fine, dusts himself off & makes a sequel Logan
#8948, aired 2023-10-11THE CALIFORNIANS $200: In 2010, the Cali Hall of Fame inducted this Facebook dude, even though he's totally from New York, for reals Zuckerberg
#8948, aired 2023-10-11BOOK CLUB $800: Sherlock's big brother, he could be found every evening at the Diogenes Club Mycroft
#8948, aired 2023-10-11SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE $800: He debuted the character of Wayne Campbell with a "shwing!" & a prayer on "SNL" in 1989 Mike Myers
#8948, aired 2023-10-11WORDS WITHIN WORDS $1600: The employees commiserated about the avariciousness of the boss--he really is a this a miser (in commiserated)
#8948, aired 2023-10-11WORDS WITHIN WORDS $2000: The physician felt a rush of adrenaline when he barely avoided nicking this artery entering the kidney renal (in adrenaline)
#16, aired 2023-10-11LESSER-KNOWN SIBLINGS $300: While his bros had hits like "Sucker", actor Frankie said he hated being called "the bonus" this name Jonas
#16, aired 2023-10-11HI, I'M J.LO $300: An '80s cast member, this "J.Lo" returned to "SNL" in 2020 to play president trump's lawyer Alan Dershowitz Jon Lovitz
#16, aired 2023-10-11FOR SWEATER OR WORSE $400: For over 30 years, TV's Mister Rogers changed into his iconic red sweater, now in the Smithsonian, as he sang this song "Won't You Be My Neighbor?"
#16, aired 2023-10-11HI, I'M J.LO $600: Boxing's greatest "J.Lo" of all time, he had a sports arena named after him in Detroit that was known locally as "the Joe" Joe Louis
#16, aired 2023-10-11HI, I'M J.LO $1200: A 17th century philosopher who defended "life, liberty and property", this "J.Lo" influenced the founding fathers John Locke
#16, aired 2023-10-11HI, I'M J.LO $1500: Before Jennifer Lopez was even born, this "J.Lo" played Timmy's mom on "Lassie" from 1958-'64 June Lockhart
#16, aired 2023-10-11HI, I'M J.LO $2,100 (Daily Double): You can buy a copy of "The Call of the Wild" at the gift shop in the California state park dedicated to this "J.Lo" Jack London
#8947, aired 2023-10-10COMPOSERS & THEIR KIN $200: Though he wrote a number of operas, Michael Haydn is far less famous than this older brother Joseph (Haydn)
#8947, aired 2023-10-10NICE SIDE WHISKERS! $400: Before becoming a prolific author, he taught biochemistry Asimov
#8947, aired 2023-10-10COMPOSERS & THEIR KIN $600: At the age of 3 in Salzburg, he began to mimic the keyboard playing of his 7-year-old sister Nannerl Mozart
#8947, aired 2023-10-10NOT SO RECENT SCIENCE $600: Around 335 B.C., this Greek founded the Lyceum, where he taught logic & observation Aristotle
#8947, aired 2023-10-10NICE SIDE WHISKERS! $800: He was both the 8th vice president & the 8th president Van Buren
#8947, aired 2023-10-10BRANDO $2,000 (Daily Double): Rebellious naval Lt. Fletcher Christian Mutiny on the Bounty
#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
#8945, aired 2023-10-06THE GENE POOL $200: Originally named Chaim Witz, he's the performer seen here (Gene) Simmons
#8945, aired 2023-10-06THE VIRTUES $400: We assume that Bill Clinton was born with it; we know he was born in it hope
#8945, aired 2023-10-06THE GENE POOL $400: He married Gilda Radner in 1984 Wilder
#8945, aired 2023-10-06THE GENE POOL $1000: He created Mr. Spock & Captain Kirk (Gene) Roddenberry
#8944, aired 2023-10-05FRANKLY $200: The Imperial Hotel he designed in Tokyo survived quakes & wars but was demolished in 1968 Frank Lloyd Wright
#8944, aired 2023-10-05FRANKLY $400: He penned 1981's "God Emperor of Dune" (Frank) Herbert
#8944, aired 2023-10-05FRANKLY $800: He won 3 Oscars as a director, including one for "It Happened One Night" (Frank) Capra
#8943, aired 2023-10-04LOONEY TUNES $400: In "Hare Tonic", he hopes to make wabbit stew fwom that twickster Bugs Bunny Elmer Fudd
#8943, aired 2023-10-04HOW'S THE KING TAKING IT? $400: His diary for July 14, 1789, the day the Bastille was stormed, read, "Rien", meaning "nothing" Louis XVI
#8943, aired 2023-10-04ART, FOR ART'S SAKE $400: He's the former stockbroker who painted women of Tahiti seen here Gauguin
#8943, aired 2023-10-04LOONEY TUNES $800: In "Buccaneer Bunny", he calls himself the "blood-thirstiest, shoot-'em firstiest, doggone worstiest" Yosemite Sam
#8943, aired 2023-10-04WE TRY TO STAY NEUTRAL $1000: In 1927, he did not go to a neutral corner after knocking down Gene Tunney who may have gotten a 14-second long count Jack Dempsey
#8943, aired 2023-10-04HOW'S THE KING TAKING IT? $1200: As quoted in "Die Hard", when this ancient guy "saw the breadth of his domain, he wept, for there were no more worlds to conquer" Alexander the Great
#8943, aired 2023-10-04LOONEY TUNES $1600: I say, he got above-the-title billing in the punningly named "Of Rice and Hen" Foghorn Leghorn
#8943, aired 2023-10-04WAXING PHILOSOPHICAL $1600: In "Metaphysics of Morals", this 18th c. man wrote that one who makes himself a worm can't complain if he's stepped on Immanuel Kant
#8943, aired 2023-10-04LOONEY TUNES $2000: In "Hare-Way to the Stars", he informs Bugs that he's going to blow up the Earth because it obstructs his view of Venus Marvin the Martian
#15, aired 2023-10-04A BUNDLE OF "FUN" $200: After splitting with Paul Simon in the early seventies, he briefly left music and taught math Art Garfunkel
#15, aired 2023-10-04WHAT A LOAD OF B.S. $200: Eat my shorts, Jay Gatsby! He was the only fictional character on Time's list of the most influential people of the 20th century Bart Simpson
#15, aired 2023-10-04NO CAP $300: He was one of the founders of the company now known as HP _ _ _ K _ R D Packard
#15, aired 2023-10-04BLUNT BIOS OF BRAND MASCOTS $300: A giant beverage pitcher with legs who often causes property damage the Kool-Aid Man
#15, aired 2023-10-04BLUNT BIOS OF BRAND MASCOTS $400: A mustachioed cartoon man, currently lacking a mouth to eat the potato crisps he sells (the) Pringles (guy) (Julius Pringle)
#15, aired 2023-10-04RISING UP $800: Some people may have underestimated this president here before he led his country in resisting an invasion Zelenskyy
#8942, aired 2023-10-03MEN OF MICHIGAN $400: Hi, my name is (what?) My name is (who?) My name is this Detroit rapper who has his own hip-hop channel Eminem (Slim Shady)
#8942, aired 2023-10-03MEN OF MICHIGAN $800: He won an NCAA hoops title at Michigan State in 1979, then presto! He was the first overall NBA pick & it was Showtime Magic Johnson
#8941, aired 2023-10-02PROVERB VS. PROVERB $800: OK, OK--"He who hesitates is lost"... but aren't I supposed to do this before I leap? look
#8941, aired 2023-10-02THEY PLAYED WYATT EARP $800: In 1993's "Tombstone", he played Earp to Val Kilmer's Doc Holliday Kurt Russell
#8941, aired 2023-10-02THEY PLAYED WYATT EARP $1200: In 1994's "Wyatt Earp", he played Earp to Dennis Quaid's Doc Holliday Kevin Costner
#8941, aired 2023-10-02THEY PLAYED WYATT EARP $1600: After he solved crimes in L.A. as Jim Rockford, he played the aging Earp doing the same in "Sunset" James Garner
#8941, aired 2023-10-02HODGE PODGE $2,000 (Daily Double): James Boswell recounted this British man of letters' affection for his cat Hodge, for whom he bought oysters Dr. Samuel Johnson
#8941, aired 2023-10-02THEY PLAYED WYATT EARP $2000: Long before he was Grandpa Walton, he played Earp in "Winchester '73" Will Geer
#8940, aired 2023-09-29THAT'S A VEGAS CASINO $600: You'll find "fifteen men on the dead man's chest--yo-ho-ho, & a bottle of rum!" at the start of this novel Treasure Island
#8940, aired 2023-09-29POEMS ABOUT POETRY $2000: In 1816 he wrote "Mont Blanc" / & there'd be other gems / But you try rhyming "Ozymandias" / Do I look like Eminem?! Shelley
#8940, aired 2023-09-29FACTS ABOUT THE BEST PICTURE WINNER $7,200 (Daily Double): Doug Jones said the latex rubber suit he wore in this film acted "as a sponge" The Shape of Water
#8939, aired 2023-09-28MARVEL VILLAINS $800: He was a good "Birdman", but in "Homecoming" he preyed upon Spider-Man Michael Keaton
#8939, aired 2023-09-28MARVEL VILLAINS $1000: On "Daredevil", Vincent D'Onofrio plays this foe who sounds like he'd be at home at a bowling alley Kingpin
#8939, aired 2023-09-28AROUND THE HORN $1600: In 1910 he said he was sailing from Norway to the Arctic Ocean via Cape Horn, but he was really headed to the South Pole Amundsen
#8938, aired 2023-09-27TRICKY QUESTIONS $600: If the vice president & the Speaker of the House were to die, the person in this post would be president the president
#8938, aired 2023-09-27BRAD TO THE BONE $800: Brad Bird was totally super as he wrote, directed & won an Oscar for this 2004 Pixar film The Incredibles
#14, aired 2023-09-27OUI, OUI, HISTORY $100: A children's book tells of how this emperor met his "Bunnyloo" in 1807 when he was forced to flee an attacking pack of rabbits Napoleon
#14, aired 2023-09-27POST-APOCALYPTIC POP CULTURE $200: Will Smith was so smitten with his canine co-star in this 2007 film that he wanted to adopt her I Am Legend
#14, aired 2023-09-27BIG-SCREEN BASKETBALL $200: 1997. Five words: state championship clinched by dog Air Bud
#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 2023-09-27BOOK DEDICATIONS $400: Can we talk? This comic legend dedicated her 2014 autobiography to Kanye West, "because he'll never ...... read it" Joan Rivers
#14, aired 2023-09-27BIG-SCREEN BASKETBALL $400: Is there anything Denzel Washington can't do?! Turns out he's even good at basketball, as seen in this 1998 joint He Got Game
#14, aired 2023-09-27IT "IS" WHAT IT "IS" $600: Uncle Dan turned 50, got a Corvette, got hair plugs, got a tattoo... I think he's having a "midlife" this crisis
#14, aired 2023-09-27OUT OF BREATH $2,500 (Daily Double): As Taylor Swift knows all too well, this type of person has an intense dislike of something hater
#8937, aired 2023-09-26IN THE CORPORATE ARENA $800: O-ho, this wagon is a-comin' down the street, bringing the money to get its name on the Philadelphia Flyers' arena Wells Fargo
#8936, aired 2023-09-25INDIANA WANTS YOU $800: Indiana's 50th governor, he slashed state taxes & in 2017 moved on to a big job in Washington Pence
#8936, aired 2023-09-25SO THAT'S WHAT THOSE LYRICS SAY! $800: He sang, "Don't give us none of your aggravation, we had it with your discipline, Saturday night's alright for fighting" (we think) Elton John
#8936, aired 2023-09-25SO THAT'S WHAT THOSE LYRICS SAY! $2000: This "sibling" band: "As he rises to her apology / Anybody else would surely know / He's watching her go / What a fool believes, he sees" The Doobie Brothers
#8935, aired 2023-09-22STARS & STRIPES IN ART $1200: The town in his "Starry Night" is Saint-Rémy, where he was a patient in its mental hospital van Gogh
#8934, aired 2023-09-21PAST HISTORY $800: Born in Poland in 1686, he would heat things up by inventing a mercury thermometer in 1714 Fahrenheit
#8934, aired 2023-09-21WELCOME TO FANTASY ISLAND $800: He was left "alone in an un-inhabited island", but after 28 years, 2 months & 19 days, what world will this man return to now? Robinson Crusoe
#8932, aired 2023-09-19SCRAMBLING TO FIND A JOB $800: A capital expert: STOIC OMEN an economist
#8932, aired 2023-09-19WHAT COULD IT "B"? $2000: He's the 18th century author of the farce "The Barber of Seville" & the comedy "The Marriage of Figaro" Beaumarchais
#8931, aired 2023-09-18RESTAURANT HIJINKS $400: In 2017 a Florida man called this important number--twice!--to complain the clams he had at a seafood shack were too small 911
#8931, aired 2023-09-181990s HITMAKERS $400: In 1992, I hope you'll understand he hauled his "Achy Breaky Heart" to No. 4 on the Top 40 Billy Ray Cyrus
#8931, aired 2023-09-18TALK LIKE A PIRATE $800: This Steven Spielberg title pirate is described by Smee as being "so deep he's almost unfathomable" Hook
#8931, aired 2023-09-1821st CENTURY NEWS $2000: In 2022, he became the first Hindu prime minister of the United Kingdom Sunak
#8930, aired 2023-09-15TRAP $2000: In 1187 this leader delivered a major blow to the kingdom of Jerusalem when he trapped an army of crusaders at the Battle of Hattin Saladin
#8930, aired 2023-09-15THIRST $2000: In "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage" he wrote, "Fame is the thirst of youth" Lord Byron
#8929, aired 2023-09-14THE 2023 TIME 100 $400: This novelist "was able to describe the attack on him" in 2022 "as he was speaking about the U.S. as a safe place for exiled writers" Salman Rushdie
#8929, aired 2023-09-14THE 2023 TIME 100 $800: He "has been on the Supreme Court for 17 years. But in 2022, he cemented his legacy" Samuel Alito
#8929, aired 2023-09-14LET'S SEE HOW YOU DO WITH AMERICAN FOOTBALL $800: He went 36-44 as head coach of the Browns; he's had a bit more success in New England Bill Belichick
#8929, aired 2023-09-14SPEECHIFY"ING" $1200: Abe Lincoln, 1863: "It is altogether ____ and proper that we should do this" fitting
#8928, aired 2023-09-13I'M JUST A BILL, BILLY OR WILLIAM $200: He helped computerize his high school's scheduling system, went to Harvard in the '70s, dropped out & was a billionaire by 1987 Bill Gates
#8928, aired 2023-09-13I'M JUST A BILL, BILLY OR WILLIAM $400: In 1887 he began running the San Francisco Examiner, which his dad acquired 7 years before Hearst
#8928, aired 2023-09-13TO SIR PAUL, WITH LOVE $1600: On April 21, 1990 at Maracana Stadium, Paul had an intimate show for 184,000 friends as he rocked in this huge South American city Rio de Janeiro
#8927, aired 2023-09-12POTPOUR-EVERYTHING $200: The late Richard Belzer was a cousin of this actor seen here; Belzer appeared in "Night Shift" & he returned the favor & guested on "SVU" Henry Winkler
#8927, aired 2023-09-12THE U.S. IN 1964 $600: At the Academy Awards ceremony in 1964, he became the first Black Best Actor winner Sidney Poitier
#8927, aired 2023-09-12PLAY PEOPLE $800: He based Prince Paul, who says witty things like "It is so exhausting not to talk", on his Irish college tutor Oscar Wilde
#8927, aired 2023-09-12GEORGIA ON MY MIND $1600: The subject of a 2019 film, he was eventually commended by the governor for saving lives in the 1996 Olympics bombing Richard Jewell
#8926, aired 2023-09-11KIN $800: Anderson Cooper descends from this shipping & railroad magnate who left a fortune of more than $100 million when he died in 1877 (Cornelius) Vanderbilt
#8926, aired 2023-09-11SOUNDS LIKE FOOD $800: While playing, Ginger Baker would hold one of these in each hand, but he'd get little nutrition from them drumsticks
#8926, aired 2023-09-11HONORARY HARLEM GLOBETROTTERS $2000: Nixon's Secretary of State, he worried about how he would "look in short pants" when he was made an honorary Globetrotter (Henry) Kissinger
#8925, aired 2023-07-28ON THE MONEY $400: He introduced a bill to limit the death penalty while a member of the Virginia legislature Thomas Jefferson
#8925, aired 2023-07-28MESSIN' WITH TEXAS $600: This org. did not make Chuck Norris an honorary member until 2010, so could it have busted Chuck for impersonating an officer in the '90s? the Texas Rangers
#8925, aired 2023-07-28BRITISH LITERATURE $800: Perhaps wandering lonely as a cloud, this poet was inspired to pen "Daffodils" about the flowers he saw at Lake Ullswater Wordsworth
#8925, aired 2023-07-28ON THE MONEY $800: He was the first to breed mules in America on his farm George Washington
#8925, aired 2023-07-28ACTORS $1200: After winning an Oscar in 2023, he exclaimed, "Goonies never say die!" Ke Huy Quan
#8925, aired 2023-07-28ON THE MONEY $1200: He was born in the British West Indies Hamilton
#8925, aired 2023-07-28ON THE MONEY $1600: He published a feminist tract written under the pseudonym Silence Dogood Franklin
#8925, aired 2023-07-28ON THE MONEY $2000: He died on April 15 Abraham Lincoln
#8924, aired 2023-07-27THE FORBES 2023 BILLIONAIRES $200: Forbes cited "investor fears about" him "adding yet another CEO job" after a $44 billion purchase; he fell to No. 2 on the list Elon Musk
#8924, aired 2023-07-27HISTORIC AMERICANS $400: Saying he was instructed by an angel named Moroni, he translated the "Book of Mormon" from a set of gold plates Joseph Smith
#8924, aired 2023-07-27HISTORIC AMERICANS $600: Before partnering with Henry Wells, he worked as an express messenger for Wells' company Fargo
#8924, aired 2023-07-27THE FORBES 2023 BILLIONAIRES $800: He founded his sports shoe company "in 1964, with just $500" & he & family are now No. 25 at $45.1 billion Phil Knight
#8924, aired 2023-07-27THE FORBES 2023 BILLIONAIRES $1000: Though this ex-mayor donated $1.7 billion to charity, he still had $94.5 billion left & was No. 7 Bloomberg
#8924, aired 2023-07-27HISTORIC AMERICANS $2,000 (Daily Double): Soon after he lost his Supreme Court case, this enslaved American was emancipated by the son of his first owner Dred Scott
#8924, aired 2023-07-27THAT SONG SLAYS $2000: He uses his "silver hammer" to take out a quizzical Joan, an annoyed school teacher, & even the judge at his trial Maxwell
#8923, aired 2023-07-26ALL KINDS OF LITERATURE $600: "Bowman could bear no more. He jerked out the last unit, & Hal was silent forever" is a line from this sci-fi work 2001: A Space Odyssey
#8922, aired 2023-07-25WRITER-DIRECTORS $800: 7 months after he died in 2009, Molly Ringwald & Anthony Michael Hall were part of a tribute to him at the Oscars (John) Hughes
#8922, aired 2023-07-25SOMEBODY WROTE THAT $800: "'He shows himself; he's a hunchback. He walks; he's bandy-legged. He looks at you; he's one-eyed. You speak to him; he's deaf"' Hugo
#8922, aired 2023-07-25JUST GOOGLY IT $1000: All eyes were on him when he gave his first presidential inaugural address in 1885 Grover Cleveland
#8922, aired 2023-07-25WRITER-DIRECTORS $1200: He & Joe Robert Cole wrote the scripts for "Black Panther" & its sequel, & he directed both films, too Ryan Coogler
#8922, aired 2023-07-25WRITER-DIRECTORS $1600: Born in Austria, he learned English while rooming with Peter Lorre, so it's lucky the people in "Some Like It Hot" don't talk like I am Billy Wilder
#8922, aired 2023-07-25KISS & TELL $1600: In Genesis 29, on first meeting his beloved Rachel, he kissed her "and lifted up his voice, and wept" Jacob
#8921, aired 2023-07-24MY WOULD-BE VP $100 (Daily Double): Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., running with a then-veep himself Nixon
#8921, aired 2023-07-24UNIFORM NUMBERS $200: In 2017 the Lakers retired both his No. 8 & 24; tragically, 3 years later, he was gone Kobe Bryant
#8921, aired 2023-07-24UNIFORM NUMBERS $600: Joe Namath offered his retired 12 to this new Jets QB, but he said that'd always be Broadway Joe's & went with his college No. 8 Aaron Rodgers
#8921, aired 2023-07-24MAKEOVERS $800: In "Encino Man", this actor gets a major makeover after defrosting--he takes a bath Brendan Fraser
#8921, aired 2023-07-24THE "END" ZONE $800: When Andrew Carnegie got his first of these monthly checks, he cried, "Here's the goose that lays the golden eggs" dividend
#8921, aired 2023-07-24SPACE MEN & WOMEN $800: After a crewman was exposed to measles, backup Jack Swigert made it onto this 1970 Apollo mission & might have wished he hadn't Apollo 13
#8920, aired 2023-07-21SHAKESPEARE $400: In this play Puck has some handy juice that makes a sleeper fall in love with the next person he sees A Midsummer Night's Dream
#8919, aired 2023-07-20A BY-THE-BOOK HOW TO $400: When meeting this Dr. with a unique palate, "Do not reach through the bars... do not accept anything he attempts to hold out to you" Dr. Hannibal Lecter
#8919, aired 2023-07-20JOHN LENNON $600: In 1972 John & Yoko released the album "Some Time in" this city where he'd spend most of the rest of his life New York (City)
#8918, aired 2023-07-19PAINTER SELFIES $400: Before taking off for Tahiti, he painted "The Yellow Christ" & "Portrait of the Artist with the Yellow Christ" Gauguin
#8918, aired 2023-07-19TITLES WITH PUNCTUATION $400: (!) In this book "He took every present! Pop guns... bicycles! Roller skates! Drums! Checker-boards! Tricycles! Popcorn! and Plums!" How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
#8918, aired 2023-07-19PAINTER SELFIES $1,000 (Daily Double): In 1960 his triple-selfie graced the cover of the Saturday Evening Post Norman Rockwell
#8918, aired 2023-07-19TITLES WITH PUNCTUATION $2000: (!) The title of this 1855 book about a young Brit sailing the Atlantic is used to mean "let's head in a certain direction" Westward Ho!
#8917, aired 2023-07-18AUTHORS' FIRST MAJOR WORKS $800: Seen here as a boy with his dog, he hit the shelves with 1900's "The Son of the Wolf" Jack London
#8916, aired 2023-07-17WORLD ROYALTY $200: The serfs he brutally suppressed in the revolts of 1705 to 1708 probably didn't think this czar was so great Peter the Great
#8916, aired 2023-07-17TOM SWIFT TALES $200: In 1914 Tom had a "Photo" one of these; today he could use a Samsung Galaxy a (photo tele)phone
#8916, aired 2023-07-17FISH PEOPLE $600: It was a "bust" for this explorer in 1806 when he decided not to scale the peak that was later named for him Pike
#8916, aired 2023-07-17WITH BELLS ON $800: On "The Addams Family", he would often respond to a bell's summons with a simple "You rang?" Lurch
#8916, aired 2023-07-17OPPENHEIMER $1,000 (Daily Double): (Matt Damon presents the clue.) Oppenheimer wasn't sure why he chose this name for a nuclear test site, but he did recall thinking of John Donne's poems of death & resurrection, including the sonnet that begins, "Batter my heart, three-person'd God" the Trinity test site
#8915, aired 2023-07-14A TOUCH OF GREY $800: Known for Old West novels, Zane Grey died in 1939, the year he published an "Epic of a Single Strand of Wire" about this company Western Union
#8915, aired 2023-07-143,3 $1000: This Scottish outlaw spent time in Newgate Prison but was pardoned before he was to be sent to Barbados Rob Roy
#8915, aired 2023-07-14TV SHOWS $1600: John Amos played the father on this '70s sitcom until he was killed off & J.J. became the man of the house Good Times
#8915, aired 2023-07-14DYING IN THE CAPITAL CITY $2000: August Strindberg, going way heavy on the drama in 1912 Stockholm
#8915, aired 2023-07-14WHO'S WHO IN THE OLD TESTAMENT $5,000 (Daily Double): Armed with trumpets & torches inside jars or pitchers, he led an army of 300 in victory over the Midianites Gideon
#8914, aired 2023-07-13"R" SONG $200: In a 2017 smash, Post Malone sang, "I feel just like a" this, which he is--he didn't mean he wanted an energy drink a rock star
#8913, aired 2023-07-12ROMAN EMPERORS $800: As seen in the bust, Commodus was obsessed with this he-man of Greek myth, even dressing as him Hercules
#8913, aired 2023-07-12THE ____ OF CANADA $800: National symbol Johnny Canuck: this after a national symbol he's shown kicking out of the country in an 1869 cartoon the Uncle Sam of Canada
#8913, aired 2023-07-12STATE INSECTS $1,000 (Daily Double): This industrious insect important to agriculture was chosen by Nebraska & Missouri a honeybee
#8913, aired 2023-07-12ROMAN EMPERORS $1600: Incitatus was this emperor's favorite horse & legend says he once tried to make the animal a consul Caligula
#8913, aired 2023-07-12TAKING A RIDE $1600: In 1961 he became the first American to ride into space; apparently enjoying the area, he took a walk on the Moon 10 years later Alan Shepard
#8913, aired 2023-07-12KEVIN SENT $1600: Nick Cannon sent a live llama to the home of this standup comic & film star as a birthday gift; he put Nick's private number on billboards (Kevin) Hart
#8912, aired 2023-07-11SPACE CUISINE $400: The first drink taken on the Moon was this, by Buzz Aldrin as he observed communion aboard the Eagle wine
#8912, aired 2023-07-11SO YOU GOT YOUR "M.A." $600: He said, "Not only do I knock 'em out, I pick the round" Muhammad Ali
#8912, aired 2023-07-11CITY FOLK $1600: He directed "Home Alone" as well as the first 2 Harry Potter movies Chris Columbus
#8912, aired 2023-07-11"B" IN MUSIC $2,800 (Daily Double): Russian by birth, he composed the patriotic song heard here for his beloved adopted country Irving Berlin
#8911, aired 2023-07-10MOMENTOUS DATES $800: On Nov. 8, 1895 he discovered what turned out to be X-rays while investigating the effects of electron beams Roentgen
#8911, aired 2023-07-10QUOTABLE BOOKS $3,000 (Daily Double): In 1958's "The Dharma Bums", he wrote, "It was all completely serious, all completely hallucinated, all completely happy" Kerouac
#8910, aired 2023-07-07HISTORICAL HODGEPODGE $200: In 2002, he got 100% of the presidential vote of his country, but the next year, he was out of power for good Saddam Hussein
#8910, aired 2023-07-07EAGLES $400: Sure, this Marquette Golden Eagle here is a Miami Heat legend & won Olympic gold, but his real career highlight--he became a game show host (Dwyane) Wade
#8910, aired 2023-07-07ANCIENT ARTIFACTS $2,500 (Daily Double): Heinrich Schliemann found gold ornaments he called "The Jewels of Helen" while excavating this site in 1873 Troy
#8908, aired 2023-07-05MEMOIRS $400: The title of Willie Sutton's memoir is an answer to the question of why he robbed banks--it's "Where the" this "Was" Money
#8908, aired 2023-07-05ART & ARTISTS $600: He was a committed revolutionary, but this Frenchman's paintings of Napoleon are among his best known works David
#8908, aired 2023-07-05RELIGION $2000: Jesus was about 30 when he underwent this ritual described in Luke 3 baptism
#8907, aired 2023-07-04A BIBLICAL BURIAL $800: In the King James Bible, when a man said he'd follow Jesus but first had to bury his dad, Jesus said these 6 words let the dead bury their dead
#8907, aired 2023-07-04LET'S GO TO THE SPORTS BOOK $2000: "The night before I met Jimmy Connors... at Wimbledon in the summer of 1975, I went to bed & slept soundly", he says in "Days of Grace" Arthur Ashe
#8906, aired 2023-07-03TOUCHED FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME $200: Before stepping on the Moon, he told Neil Armstrong he'd "partially close the hatch... making sure not to lock it"; Neil: "Good thought" Aldrin
#8906, aired 2023-07-03"B" MOVIE QUOTES $2000: "Just what are you getting at, Elvis?"; "I think you know what I'm gettin' at, Mr. President. We're gonna kill us a mummy" Bubba Ho-Tep
#8905, aired 2023-06-30WELCOME TO THE BIG URBAN AREA $1000: In the city of 9.3 million, now named for this man, the War Remnants Museum was previously the Museum of Chinese & American War Crimes Ho Chi Minh City
#8905, aired 2023-06-30SPORTS ROOKIES $1000: In 1959, long before he voiced "The King" in "Cars", this racing legend was NASCAR's Rookie of the Year Richard Petty
#8904, aired 2023-06-2921st CENTURY TELEVISION $600: On the anthology "Miracle Workers" he has portrayed God, a peasant during the Dark Ages & an outlaw on the Oregon Trail Buscemi
#8904, aired 2023-06-29THE HYPOCRITIC OAF $800: Before he freely sang a song of himself, Whitman was soused when he wrote a novel for this movement that led to prohibition the temperance movement
#8904, aired 2023-06-29LIT-POURRI $800: This poet dedicated "Howl" to Carl Solomon, whom he'd met & learned from when both were in a mental hospital (Allen) Ginsberg
#8904, aired 2023-06-29THE HYPOCRITIC OAF $1600: Though he gave us "The Social Contract", this Swiss-French philosopher abandoned his 5 kids in an orphanage Rousseau
#8903, aired 2023-06-28OPEN DOOR $1000: Gandalf initially struggles to open the door to this place, but after speaking the Elvish word for "friend", he gets it right the Mines of Moria
#8901, aired 2023-06-26WAR OF THE WORDS $400: Gore Vidal said he loathed this "In Cold Blood" writer "the way you might loathe... a filthy animal" Capote
#8901, aired 2023-06-26WAR OF THE WORDS $1200: Years before "À la Recherche du Temps Perdu", he fought a duel with a critic who had angered him; both shots missed Proust
#8901, aired 2023-06-26NAMES OF THE 1990s $1200: He won a 3-way race for party leadership & became prime minister of Great Britain in 1990 John Major
#8900, aired 2023-06-23AFRICAN-AMERICAN FIRSTS $400: He made history in November 2008 when, as the New York Times reported, he swept away "the last racial barrier in American politics" Barack Obama
#8900, aired 2023-06-23MUSICAL ACT ETYMOLOGY $800: Dave Grohl said that he got the name for this band while reading books about UFOs the Foo Fighters
#8900, aired 2023-06-23BOOKS & AUTHORS $1000: In "Night", his harrowing account of the Holocaust, he wrote, "I became A-7713. From then on, I had no other name" (Elie) Wiesel
#8900, aired 2023-06-23ON BROADWAY $1600: Born Tomas Straussler, he titled his play "Leopoldstadt" after Vienna's Jewish Quarter Tom Stoppard
#8899, aired 2023-06-22TRUMPET TOOTIN' $800: In 1944 he tooted his own horn to study at what is today Juilliard; by '57, he was "Miles Ahead" with a masterpiece album Miles Davis
#8899, aired 2023-06-22TRUMPET TOOTIN' $2000: His doctors made him quit the trumpet after an aneurysm; he went on to produce songs like "We Are The World" Quincy Jones
#8898, aired 2023-06-21CELEBS $400: In 2020, he made the New York Times list of the 25 greatest actors of the 21st century Joaquin Phoenix
#8898, aired 2023-06-21THE PLOT THICKENS $400: Iago's own plot, as well as the story's, thickens when he gets Cassio drunk Othello
#8898, aired 2023-06-21CELEBS $800: Ask him about it over coffee--this comic's car collection includes a lot of Porsches, though he auctioned off a bunch in 2016 Jerry Seinfeld
#8897, aired 2023-06-20LET'S STICK TOGETHER $200: This "Equalizer" has few equals in Hollywood when it comes to marriage longevity; he said I do to Pauletta in 1983 Denzel Washington
#8897, aired 2023-06-20LET'S STICK TOGETHER $800: Harrison Ford was no longer flying solo in 2002 when he began seeing this "Ally McBeal" actress; the wedding was in 2010 Calista Flockhart
#8897, aired 2023-06-20ARCHITECTS $1,500 (Daily Double): In the 1690s he began designing the twin-domed Royal Hospital for seamen in London Sir Christopher Wren
#8896, aired 2023-06-19GENERAL ASSEMBLY $400: After his victory at Waterloo, he said, "I hope to God that I have fought my last battle. It is a bad thing to always be fighting" the Duke of Wellington
#8896, aired 2023-06-19GENERAL ASSEMBLY $500 (Daily Double): In absentia he was sentenced to death in 1940, weeks after a London radio speech in which he asked the French to keep fighting Charles de Gaulle
#8896, aired 2023-06-19TV $600: Before he starred on "Castle" & "The Rookie", he was Captain Mal Reynolds on "Firefly" (Nathan) Fillion
#8896, aired 2023-06-19TV $1000: "The Newsroom" is just one of the fast-talking shows he has created Sorkin
#8896, aired 2023-06-19GENERAL ASSEMBLY $1600: Subutai, a general of this people, was devastating Europe in the 13th c. when he was called back for an election for a new great khan the Mongols
#8896, aired 2023-06-19FIRST SPEECHES IN SHAKESPEARE $1600: "It did always seem so to us: but now, in the division of the kingdom, it appears not which of the dukes he values most" King Lear
#8896, aired 2023-06-19GENERAL ASSEMBLY $2000: Though this brother of Claudius & father of Caligula campaigned near the Rhine, that's not where he got his familiar name Germanicus
#8896, aired 2023-06-19FIRST SPEECHES IN SHAKESPEARE $2000: "My brother Jaques he keeps at school, & report speaks goldenly of his profit" As You Like It
#8895, aired 2023-06-16FINISH LAST $1000: Known as "Mr. Cub" & a player on more than one last-place team, he said, "The only way to prove that you're a good sport is to lose" Ernie Banks
#8894, aired 2023-06-15THE CZAR $200: Known for his brutality, he went to war with Livonia--now Latvia & Estonia--in 1558; the 25-year event ended up as a bust Ivan IV (Ivan the Terrible)
#8894, aired 2023-06-15THE CZAR $400: A true great, in 1721 he dumped "czar" for "emperor of all Russia" to help with primacy over the church but the old title stuck Peter the Great
#8893, aired 2023-06-143-, 4- OR 5-LETTER WORDS $400: Before singing "He's my brother", The Hollies noted that "He ain't" this heavy
#8893, aired 2023-06-14RANDOM STUFF $800: Jesus was said to be born fully formed, so he looks like a little man in works called the "Throne of" this quality he shares with Solomon Wisdom
#8892, aired 2023-06-13THE YEAR OF THE HORSE $200: 1973: He didn't run the United Nations, but he did run the Belmont in record time Secretariat
#8892, aired 2023-06-13STAND-UP SPECIALS $400: In 2023 he slapped back at Will Smith in "Selective Outrage", the first live global event on Netflix Chris Rock
#8892, aired 2023-06-13THE YEAR OF THE HORSE $1000: 1977: With owners from Washington State, he won the Triple Crown Seattle Slew
#8892, aired 2023-06-13STAND-UP SPECIALS $1200: He was just 22 when he took to the stage in a red leather suit for his 1983 special "Delirious" (Eddie) Murphy
#8892, aired 2023-06-13PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN SLOGANS $1600: "In your heart, you know he's right" (a Republican, 1964) Barry Goldwater
#8890, aired 2023-06-09PETS ON FILM $400: Bong Joon Ho's 2017 film "Okja" is about a big one of these who has been genetically engineered by an evil corporation pig
#8890, aired 2023-06-09PETS ON FILM $600: In the "DC League of Super-Pets", Superdog Krypto has an alias; punning on his master, he's named this "Kent" Bark
#8890, aired 2023-06-09A EURO LEADER PASS $1200: This prime minister has said his greatest regret was losing the referendum he called, hoping to defeat Brexit (David) Cameron
#8890, aired 2023-06-09TV: WHO SAID IT $1600: "Carl's dead... Carl went out to help someone & he got bit" Rick (Grimes)
#8889, aired 2023-06-08HISTORY HYSTERIA $1000: In 1483 he was made Grand Inquisitor for Castile & León & by 1498, an estimated 2,000 people had been burned at the stake Torquemada
#8889, aired 2023-06-08LITERATURE $1200: In the 1920s "Along the Road" was a travel book by this writer; he'd write about a different kind of trip in "The Doors of Perception" Huxley
#8889, aired 2023-06-08IMPOSTORS $2000: Though insisting it was part of Japan, George Psalmanazar made 18th c. London believe he was from Taiwan, then called this Formosa
#8888, aired 2023-06-07JOIN THE CLUB $400: "Hey there, hi there, ho there!" was a greeting in the theme song for this TV club that began in 1955 the Mickey Mouse Club
#8888, aired 2023-06-07MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG $600: At the X Games in 1999, he became the first pro skateboarder to land a 900--it was epic! Tony Hawk
#8888, aired 2023-06-07FOLLIES $600: If he could have found time to name a successor before dying in 323 B.C., it would have saved a lot of war & trouble Alexander the Great
#8888, aired 2023-06-07COMPANY $800: Evan Moore heard a macaroon shop turn down a delivery order & created this speedy company he dubbed an "On-Demand FedEx" DoorDash
#8888, aired 2023-06-07A NOVEL CHARACTER BREAKDOWN $1200: An inspector never stops inspecting; a 19th century Gerard; the fugitive saves his life, he lets the guy go but meets a tragic end Javert
#8888, aired 2023-06-07ASTRONOMICAL ANAGRAMS $1200: On the spectrum it shows the universe expanding: HE DRIFTS a red shift
#8888, aired 2023-06-07THE PRESIDENTIAL LINE OF SUCCESSION, TODAY $1600: He's Attorney General No. 86 & presidential line successor No. 7 Merrick Garland
#8886, aired 2023-06-05MYTHOLOGY $800: A very unfortunate family man, this future king of Thebes left Corinth on learning he was fated to kill his dad; fate is rough Oedipus
#8886, aired 2023-06-05FIRST & LAST NAME'S THE SAME $1200: Commanding officer of one of the first U.S. steamships in the 1830s & could he be more of a star of "Friends"? Matthew Perry
#8885, aired 2023-06-02SPORTS STARS CALLING IT QUITS $200: Jackie Robinson spent his entire major league career with this team; when traded to the Giants, he retired the (Brooklyn) Dodgers
#8885, aired 2023-06-02YOU HAVE SELECTED REGICIDE $200: 6th c. B.C. assassin Zhuan Zhu spent months learning to prepare & fillet these so he could hide a dagger in one & kill king Liao a fish
#8885, aired 2023-06-02YOU HAVE SELECTED REGICIDE $400: This king this king, oh no, he gotta go, said the French National convention in 1793 Louis XVI
#8885, aired 2023-06-02SPORTS STARS CALLING IT QUITS $600: The most decorated Olympian, he announced his retirement in 2016 Michael Phelps
#8885, aired 2023-06-02IT'S A FACT $1200: He came up with the name Kodak (George) Eastman
#8885, aired 2023-06-02INVENTORS & INVENTIONS $1600: Going up? Going down? He made elevators more secure with his invention of a safety brake Otis
#8884, aired 2023-06-01THE OPERETTAS OF GILBERT & SULLIVAN $600: In "The Pirates of Penzance" it's the rank of an army officer named Stanley; in fact he's the very model of a modern one major general
#8883, aired 2023-05-31ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER $200: (Andrew Lloyd Webber presents the clue.) When my dad listened to the song here from this show I asked him, "Does it sound like anything else"? & he responded, "It sounds like $10 million" "Midnight / Not a sound from the pavement / Has the moon lost her memory? / She is smiling alone..." Cats
#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 2023-05-318-LETTER WORDS $600: When a lumbering lineman talks to the referee before a play, he may be making himself this, able to legally catch a pass eligible
#8883, aired 2023-05-31NUMERICAL LITERATURE $1600: He wrote the play "Three Sisters" while living in Yalta for his health Chekhov
#8883, aired 2023-05-31BARRIERS & DIVIDERS $2000: Get a chuckle with this name for a sunk fence to separate animal from human territory; Monticello had one a ha-ha
#8882, aired 2023-05-30AUTHORS' FIRST NOVELS $600: Born in Nantes in 1828, he had a hit with his first "scientific fiction" novel, "Five Weeks in a Balloon" Jules Verne
#8882, aired 2023-05-30AUTHORS' FIRST NOVELS $800: He was accused of obscenity after the release of "Madame Bovary", his first full-length novel Flaubert
#8882, aired 2023-05-30AUTHORS' FIRST NOVELS $1000: This first novel from James Joyce sounds like it could be a painting of him from when he was a wee lad A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
#8882, aired 2023-05-30MIDDLE "G" $2000: St. Jerome gets the credit for this translation of the Bible that he completed around 405 the Vulgate
#8881, aired 2023-05-29WHO WAS THAT MASKED MAN? $1000: He's the other title guy alongside Chris O'Donnell in 1997's "Batman & Robin", & he wishes we hadn't reminded you George Clooney
#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 2023-05-26QUOTES $1200: This great Yankee catcher took credit for some of what he said, including "90% of the game is half mental" Yogi Berra
#8879, aired 2023-05-25A DOCTOR FROM CHICAGO, ILLINOIS $1000: He played Dr. Mark Greene for many seasons on "ER" Anthony Edwards
#8879, aired 2023-05-25POLITICIANS $1200: Before becoming mayor of New York City in 2022, he served as an NYPD officer & as Brooklyn borough president Adams
#8879, aired 2023-05-25POLITICIANS $1600: After serving on the state supreme court, he succeeded Rick Perry as governor in 2015 Abbott
#8879, aired 2023-05-25POLITICIANS $4,000 (Daily Double): He talked about being a Vietnam vet, 5-term senator & Secretary of State in the memoir "Every Day is Extra" (John) Kerry
#8878, aired 2023-05-24THANKS A MILLION $600: He wrote, directed & starred in the comedy Western "A Million Ways to Die in the West" Seth MacFarlane
#20, aired 2023-05-24NOM NOM NOMINATIONS $400: From 2001 to 2006, Emmy voters didn't quite get the "essence of" this chef, but in 2017... bam! he got a trophy for "Eat the World" Emeril Lagasse
#20, aired 2023-05-243-NAMED PEOPLE $400: In command of the Bonhomme Richard, he said, "I have not yet begun to fight" John Paul Jones
#20, aired 2023-05-24MICHAEL J. FOX $600: (Michael J. Fox presents the clue.) An inspiration for my character in "The American President" was this advisor to Bill Clinton, a spin doctor in his own right; he also made a cameo on my show "Spin City" Stephanopoulos
#20, aired 2023-05-24THE 1960s $800: Last name of Henry, a 19th century governor; it follows "the" in the name of a San Francisco area where 1967 activities would not have pleased Henry Haight
#20, aired 2023-05-24IT'S JUST US $1200: In this 2013 movie it's pretty much just Nicholas Hoult as a zombie & Teresa Palmer as a girl he decides not to eat Warm Bodies
#20, aired 2023-05-243-NAMED PEOPLE $2000: Besides painting many portraits of George Washington, he founded a museum in Philadelphia as much for science as for art Charles Wilson Peale
#19, aired 2023-05-24SO YOU THINK YOU'RE PRETTY GOOD AT THIS $200: Called invincible, it was sent from Spain in 1588 by King Philip II to invade England; it proved... vincible Spanish Armada
#19, aired 2023-05-24BRITISH AUTHORS $400: In his youth he was a chocolate tester for Cadbury, which no doubt inspired his "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" Dahl
#19, aired 2023-05-24COMPOSERS $400: You didn't want to mess with Erik Satie on his daily walks through this city, as he always carried a hammer Paris
#19, aired 2023-05-24RECENT EVENTS $800: Subheads in a piece on this N.Y. rep.: "lied about where he went to... college"; "allegedly swindled a disabled vet whose dog was dying" George Santos
#19, aired 2023-05-24HORROR MOVIES $800: This title girl from a 2018 movie came & gave without taking & they took her away from Nic Cage; big mistake--he's good with a chainsaw Mandy
#19, aired 2023-05-24FURNITURE & FURNISHINGS $800: It bears the name of its inventor, who needed extra sleeping space in his cramped apartment; he called it in-a-dor Murphy bed
#19, aired 2023-05-24COMPOSERS $800: Already a veteran of Tin Pan Alley & Broadway, in 1932 he premiered his own "Second Rhapsody", Serge Koussevitzky conducting George Gershwin
#19, aired 2023-05-24SO YOU THINK YOU'RE PRETTY GOOD AT THIS $800: He fought the chimera and was on top of the world riding Pegasus, but rode him too high and fell to Earth Bellerophon
#19, aired 2023-05-24BRITISH AUTHORS $2000: He's the bestselling author of "Utopia Avenue" & "Cloud Atlas" Mitchell
#8877, aired 2023-05-23SUPER BOWL WINNERS BY QUARTERBACK $800: In 2014, beating the team he is currently on: Russell Wilson the Seahawks
#8877, aired 2023-05-23THE JUDGMENT OF PARIS $1200: President of France from 2007 to 2012, in 2021 he was found guilty of corruption by a Paris court & sentenced to house arrest Sarkozy
#18, aired 2023-05-23FICTIONAL CASTLES $400: Prince Adam of Eternia transforms into He-Man by raising his power sword & proclaiming, "By the power of" this castle Grayskull
#18, aired 2023-05-23CENTURY NOTES $400: 10th century: this Bohemian prince is murdered; later, he would Czech in as a saint King Wenceslas
#18, aired 2023-05-23EPONYMS $2000: An inspector general of infantry, he shaped Louis XIV's regular army; his name lives on as a drillmaster or disciplinarian (Jean) Martinet
#17, aired 2023-05-23POWER OCCUPANTS $200: A national monument in Singapore, the villa named for this man was his base while he planned to end China's last dynasty Sun Yat-sen
#17, aired 2023-05-23OH, WE HAVE '80s POP CULTURE REFERENCES $400: On "SNL", it was too hot in the hot tub for this performer as James Brown; he also let us know, "I'm Gumby, dammit!" Eddie Murphy
#17, aired 2023-05-23BLACK HISTORY & CULTURE $400: In 1956, he became the first Black entertainer to host a nationally broadcast TV variety show Nat King Cole
#17, aired 2023-05-23BEFORE, DURING & AFTER $1600: "Stacy's Mom" warblers put an actor in the band; once a TV postman, he wandered seeking chivalry & adventure Fountains of Wayne Knight errant
#17, aired 2023-05-23FOR MASTERS ONLY $1600: He wrote the novel "True Grit" but his funnier books like "The Dog of the South" won him a cult following (Charles) Portis
#16, aired 2023-05-22THE REST IS HISTORY $400: These 3 words, a cliché about our first president, are really on a plaque about what he did at a Georgia inn on May 16, 1791 Washington slept here
#16, aired 2023-05-22POP GOES THE MUSIC $800: Pop goes Christmas as this Canadian crooner's yuletide songs play all season long Bublé
#16, aired 2023-05-22THE REST IS HISTORY $800: He died in his sleep after getting married in 453; his sons Ellac, Dengizich & Ernak would soldier on Attila the Hun
#16, aired 2023-05-22THE ARTS $1000: Sadly, mental illness ended the career of this Russian-born ballet dancer in 1919 while he was still in his 20s Nijinsky
#16, aired 2023-05-22THE REST IS HISTORY $1000: By Georges, this orator & firebrand of the French Revolution said, "I shall go to sleep in glory" before he got the guillotine Georges Danton
#16, aired 2023-05-22FAMOUS FOLKS $1200: This TikToker seen here starred in the gender-swapped movie remake "He's All That" Addison Rae
#16, aired 2023-05-22LOVE LETTERS $1200: During 1932 this "Winesburg, Ohio" author wrote a letter a day to Eleanor Copenhaver; he dedicated "Beyond Desire" to her too Sherwood Anderson
#16, aired 2023-05-22FAMOUS FOLKS $1600: He created "Beverly Hills, 90210", "Sex & the City" & "Emily in Paris" Darren Star
#15, aired 2023-05-22& SCENE $800: Albert Brooks takes flop sweat to a new level when he gets his break as an anchorman in this comedy Broadcast News
#15, aired 2023-05-22KING OF THE MOUNTAIN $800: Ben Nevis, 1602--as he was known at the time, please! James VI (of Scotland)
#15, aired 2023-05-22KING OF THE MOUNTAIN $2,800 (Daily Double): Mont Ventoux in Provence, during the Seven Years' War Louis XV
#8875, aired 2023-05-19HURRAY FOR HOLLYWOOD! $200: The longest-tenured cast member of "SNL", in 2022, he got a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame Kenan Thompson
#8875, aired 2023-05-19LITERARY MISMATCHES $800: In a Daphne du Maurier novel, Maxim de Winter tells his nameless second wife he was not happy with this first one Rebecca
#8875, aired 2023-05-19HURRAY FOR HOLLYWOOD! $1000: The "Father of Modern Makeup", he created the first makeup for film & today his historic building houses the Hollywood Museum Max Factor
#8875, aired 2023-05-19SWEET 1616 $2000: Called England's first great architect, he began work on the Queen's House, England's first classical building Inigo Jones
#8874, aired 2023-05-18RESTAURANTS $200: In 2019 a French chef demanded to be taken out of this prestigious guide that had claimed he used Cheddar cheese in a soufflé the Michelin Guide
#8873, aired 2023-05-17GREAT BRITS $400: This comic legend of the silent screen spent the last 24 years of his life in Switzerland, where he died in 1977 Charlie Chaplin
#8873, aired 2023-05-17GREAT BRITS $1000: Brother of filmmaker Richard, he's credited with helping to invent the nature documentary as we know it today David Attenborough
#8873, aired 2023-05-17JEOPARDY! AFTER DARK $1600: Nuta was the given first name of the creator of the dazzling country & Western style worn here, but he was better known as this Nudie
#14, aired 2023-05-17COMIC STRIPS $200: This little friend of Snoopy in "Peanuts" was unnamed until 1970, when he was named for a recent festival Woodstock
#14, aired 2023-05-17THE 20th CENTURY $200: Resigning in 2007 after 10 years in office, he was the last British prime minister of the 20th century Tony Blair
#14, aired 2023-05-17NOT-SO-PLAIN JANES $800: She claimed in her 1896 autobiography that she captured Jack McCall with a meat cleaver after he killed Wild Bill Hickok; not true Calamity Jane
#14, aired 2023-05-17SECRETS OF THE ANGELENOS $800: In 1914 he directed the first feature-length movie made in Hollywood & cast a Native American actress in a major part Cecil B. DeMille
#14, aired 2023-05-17THE 20th CENTURY $1,000 (Daily Double): During World War I Charles de Gaulle was wounded several times before he was captured in 1916 at this bloody battle Verdun
#14, aired 2023-05-17BRING WHAT? $1000: An inscription at Washington, D.C.'s Union Station says, "He that would bring home" this phrase "must carry" this phrase "with him" the wealth of the Indies
#13, aired 2023-05-17AUTHORS $1200: He was not so thrilled when his novel "The Corrections" was selected for Oprah's Book Club Franzen
#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
#8872, aired 2023-05-16CHILLIN' IN THE R.I.P. LOUNGE $200: "Because I could not stop for death--he kindly stopped for me", "Me" being this poet on May 15, 1886 in Amherst (Emily) Dickinson
#8872, aired 2023-05-16TURNS $400: This Loony Tooner frequently lamented that he should have taken a left turn at Albuquerque Bugs Bunny
#8872, aired 2023-05-16CHILLIN' IN THE R.I.P. LOUNGE $800: It was Jan. 27, 1851 when his soul took wing with the gull & sparrow hawk he drew Audubon
#12, aired 2023-05-1612-LETTER WORDS $600: It's now pretty much lights out for this once-standard type of light bulb, as its filament is less efficient incandescent
#12, aired 2023-05-16INTERNATIONAL LIT $800: He wrote more than 50 plays, but his most famous is "Six Characters in Search of an Author" Pirandello
#12, aired 2023-05-16NEW WORLD EXPLORATION $1200: After failing to establish a permanent colony in North Carolina, he led an expedition to Venezuela & wrote a 1595 book about it Raleigh
#12, aired 2023-05-16NEW WORLD EXPLORATION $1600: When Columbus arrived at the island he named this on October 12, 1492, he wrote that it was green & a pleasure to see San Salvador
#11, aired 2023-05-16TO THE NINES $600: He's the subject of the movie dialogue "So far this semester he has been absent nine times" "Nine times?" "Nine times" Ferris Bueller
#11, aired 2023-05-16ALL THE WAY FROM "K" TO "K" $600: They told Jed Clampett, "Jed, move away from there"--he listened & found himself in Beverly--Hills, that is kinfolk
#11, aired 2023-05-16CURRENT U.S. GOVERNORS $800: He cheers for MLB's Reds in his own state as well as the Asheville, N.C. Tourists minor league team, which his family owns Mike DeWine
#11, aired 2023-05-16NONFICTION $1000: Before he was part of the Kennedy administration, this tall economist advocated government spending in "The Affluent Society" John Kenneth Galbraith
#8871, aired 2023-05-15DEFENDING THE TITLE $200: Tiger Woods, the youngest ever to win this Georgia tournament in 1997, was still just 25 & 26 when he won again in 2001 & '02 the Masters
#8871, aired 2023-05-15SCIENTISTS $800: Galvani said he'd found a new type of this restricted to animal tissue; Volta proved it's the same type that goes through metal electricity
#10, aired 2023-05-15MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS & ACCESSORIES $200: Despite the rumors, David Mamet said he doesn't actually use this musical device to mark time, but does count syllables metronome
#10, aired 2023-05-15GREAT SPORTS CALLS $200: Andrés Cantor said he almost fainted while making this call after a thrilling Landon Donovan score GOOOAAAL!
#10, aired 2023-05-15GREAT SPORTS CALLS $600: Al Michaels: "It is caught by Dyson. Can he get in? No, he cannot. Mike Jones made the tackle &" they "have won the Super Bowl!" the Rams
#9, aired 2023-05-15NICKNAMES $1000: On succeeding to the presidency in 1841, he was disparagingly called "His Accidency" Tyler
#9, aired 2023-05-15MUSICAL THEATER $1000: Set pieces in this Broadway musical include a life-sized helicopter & a giant head of Ho Chi Minh Miss Saigon
#9, aired 2023-05-15CHESS, MASTERS $1600: (Jennifer Shahade delivers the clue.) 2023 saw the end of an era as this longtime world champion opted not to defend his title, even though he remained by far the world's top-rated player Carlsen
#8870, aired 2023-05-12GAME SHOW HOSTS $400: On Oct. 15, 2007 he debuted in the Bob Barker Studio with fun scuba equipment as the first prize (Drew) Carey
#8870, aired 2023-05-12A BIRTHDAY TO REMEMBER $400: On St. Helena in 2022, Jonathan, one of these animals, moved slowly at his 190th birthday fete--but then again, he's always slow a tortoise
#8870, aired 2023-05-12GAME SHOW HOSTS $800: He was a regular on "Hogan's Heroes" & "Laugh-In" before getting the hosting gig on "Family Feud" Richard Dawson
#8870, aired 2023-05-12GAME SHOW HOSTS $1000: The love of Betty White's life, he met her when she was a guest in the third week of "Password" Allen Ludden
#8870, aired 2023-05-12THIS 20th CENTURY WORLD LEADER... $2000: ...went by one name & didn't live to see the collapse of the Yugoslav nation he built Tito
#8870, aired 2023-05-12THIS 20th CENTURY WORLD LEADER... $3,000 (Daily Double): ...the former Nguyen Sinh Cung, took a name that means "he who enlightens" Ho Chi Minh
#8, aired 2023-05-122-LETTER RESPONSES $400: He's not the 11th general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party since Mao, but the 6th Xi
#8, aired 2023-05-122-LETTER RESPONSES $800: A 1979 paper by Sandra Schecter argued that this interjection is a central part of Canadian identity eh
#7, aired 2023-05-12THE SUFFERING OF JESUS $200: "All" these people, from the Latin for "student", left Jesus "and fled" before he was taken to the high priest the Disciples
#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
#7, aired 2023-05-12CHRISTIAN-ITY $1200: This fashion designer studied under Vivienne Westwood & Alexander McQueen before launching his own collection Christian Siriano
#7, aired 2023-05-12CHRISTIAN-ITY $2000: An 1840s experiment involving trumpeters on a moving train verified the acoustical effect that he proposed (Christian) Doppler
#8869, aired 2023-05-11COUNTRY MUSIC $200: After moving to Nashville, he joined a band called The Ranch, but soon had a solo No. 1 country hit with "But For The Grace Of God" Keith Urban
#8869, aired 2023-05-11COUNTRY MUSIC $800: In 2003 at his final live show, he said, "The spirit of June Carter overshadows me... with the love she had for me & the love I have for her" Johnny Cash
#8869, aired 2023-05-11AMERICAN AUTHORS $800: Though he would continue to write nonfiction & essays, "Sophie's Choice" was his last novel William Styron
#8868, aired 2023-05-10BETTER TOMES & GARDENS $400: He published "A Child's Garden of Verses" in 1885, a year before his novel "Kidnapped" (Robert Louis) Stevenson
#8868, aired 2023-05-10CLASSIC MOVIES $600: John Singleton was the first African-American directing Oscar nominee with this film, set in South Central L.A. where he grew up Boyz n the Hood
#8868, aired 2023-05-10NEW NEW ORLEANS MUSIC $800: Proudly from New Orleans, PJ Morton released a 2020 gospel album; he is also known for playing in this band with Adam Levine Maroon 5
#8868, aired 2023-05-10STRAIGHT TO JAIL $4,000 (Daily Double): In 1919 he came up with a scheme regarding postal reply coupons & would later offer investors 50% interest in 45 days Ponzi
#6, aired 2023-05-10THE MALE GAZE $1600: Both Superman & this dog of his have X-ray vision; the superpooch also has heat vision & freeze breath! Krypto
#6, aired 2023-05-10THE MALE GAZE $2000: Back in 1975 he had a No. 1 hit singing, "My eyes adored you though I never laid a hand on you" Frankie Valli
#5, aired 2023-05-10WIVES OF THE NOT YET PRESIDENTS $200: When Dwight Eisenhower first met her in 1915, he thought she had a saucy "look about her face and in her whole attitude" Mamie
#5, aired 2023-05-10CLASSICAL MUSIC CLASSICS $400: Ferde Grofé's account of his first time at this place, about which he wrote a suite, includes "All of a sudden, bingo! There it was" the Grand Canyon
#5, aired 2023-05-10DEALING WITH THE GOVERNMENT $600: Appointed by Reagan, he was Chief Justice of the United States immediately before John Roberts Rehnquist
#5, aired 2023-05-10GOOD NAME FOR A BREAKFAST CEREAL? $2000: His name became legendary from the bed he built that he forced people to fit into Procrustes
#8867, aired 2023-05-09MOVE FAST $200: At the 2009 World Championships, he was Jamaican off with the world record in the 100-meter dash, clocking a 9.58 Bolt
#8867, aired 2023-05-09MOVE FAST $400: At the 2017 NFL combine, John Ross' feet did not fail him as he dashed this many yards in a record 4.22 seconds 40
#8867, aired 2023-05-09LESS-THAN-STELLAR SCIENTIFIC POETRY $1000: A 1918 Nobel win/ It is tough to follow / A German physicist / Which kinda rhymes with lyricist? / He's a man of "constant" sorrow Max Planck
#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 2023-05-09THE OTHER MASTERS $600: Here's this golf great; after sinking his putt in 1986, he would win the tournament for the sixth time Jack Nicklaus
#4, aired 2023-05-09OVERWROUGHT HISTORY $800: July 28, 1794: Hold up, he dominated the Committee of Public Safety! Guillotine?! You just can't do that to this guy! Oh... I guess you can Robespierre
#4, aired 2023-05-09THE OTHER MASTERS $800: One of golf's greatest champions, he co-founded the club, & what became the Masters Tournament, in the 1930s Bobby Jones
#4, aired 2023-05-09THE OTHER MASTERS $1000: The annual champions dinner began in 1952 when he hosted, a year after his first Masters win & 3 years after a near-fatal car wreck Ben Hogan
#4, aired 2023-05-09LITERATURE $1200: Lewis Carroll was the pen name of this mathematician turned children's author Charles Dodgson
#4, aired 2023-05-09RHYMINGLY NAMED CELEBS $1600: One of many classic keyboard parts he's played with Elvis Costello is the organ on "Watching The Detectives" Steve Nieve
#4, aired 2023-05-09RHYMINGLY NAMED CELEBS $2000: At Woodstock, he quipped, "What we have in mind is breakfast in bed for 400,000"; also, his real last name is Romney... Triiiippy! Wavy Gravy
#3, aired 2023-05-09TV $200: The last advertising idea conceived by Don Draper on "Mad Men" was for this bubbly product Coke
#3, aired 2023-05-09TIME TO LAWYER UP $200: For not complying with a court order in 1995, a Philly lawyer was jailed for this; he kept not complying & was in jail for 14 years contempt (of court)
#3, aired 2023-05-09PLAY: THE GAME $400: Travel to Elsinore; glean what afflicts old pal Hamlet; try to find where he put Polonius; get betrayed; win 1968 Tony Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
#3, aired 2023-05-09____ OF THE ____ $1600: From this Broadway song, "Cunning little brain, regular Voltaire, thinks he's quite a lover but there's not much there" "Master Of The House" (from Les Mis)
#3, aired 2023-05-09BIBLICAL PLACES $2000: John wrote the book of Revelation while he was in the isle that is called this, depicted here Patmos
#8866, aired 2023-05-08POP MUSIC-PODGE $200: The 2023 Grammys were good to aging redheads: Bonnie Raitt got Song of the Year & he took Best Country Solo Performance Willie Nelson
#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
#8866, aired 2023-05-08CHILDREN'S LIT $1,000 (Daily Double): Though he comes from another world, not from France, this diminutive guy appeared on the 50-franc note for many years the Little Prince
#8866, aired 2023-05-08YEET! $1000: In Greek myth, after he was born lame, his mom yeeted him out of heaven, but he returned & made Hermes' winged helmet Hephaestus
#8866, aired 2023-05-08WHAT KINDA TV PLACE YOU LIVE IN? $1600: Jim Rockford; he kept it parked in Malibu a trailer
#2, aired 2023-05-08POP CULTURE IN BLACK & WHITE $400: To start the '70s he replaced the 2 white guys in the Experience with a black rhythm section in Band of Gypsys Hendrix
#2, aired 2023-05-08SING YOU A COUNTRY SONG $400: He sang, "I'm not big on social graces, think I'll slip on down to the oasis, oh, I've got friends in low places" Garth Brooks
#2, aired 2023-05-08RELIGION $800: Deeply religious, NFL quarterback Derek Carr said the first thing he'd do with his $125 million contract is make this payment a tithe
#2, aired 2023-05-08POP CULTURE IN BLACK & WHITE $2000: Nicknamed for something sweet, he joined the all-white New Orleans Rhythm Kings on an early integrated jazz recording session Jelly Roll Morton
#2, aired 2023-05-08RELIGION $16,000 (Daily Double): An image of Our Lady makes a yearly trip from the Cathedral of Guadalajara to this other kind of major Catholic church of Zapopan Basilica
#1, aired 2023-05-08LITERARY DEMISES $200: He's killed in chapter 135 when Moby Dick drags him into the ocean after he gets caught in the rope of a harpoon Ahab
#1, aired 2023-05-08JASON ALEXANDER: MASTER OF MY DOMAIN $400: (Jason Alexander gives the clue.) The great Robin Williams has a unique link to "Star Trek": the uniform he wore as an alien on this '70s sitcom looks like the one worn by the evil Colonel Green in "The Savage Curtain" (or, "Help me, Spock!") episode Mork & Mindy
#1, aired 2023-05-08LITERARY DEMISES $400: In this Dickens novel, Sydney Carton loves Lucie Manette so much that he replaces her husband on the guillotine A Tale of Two Cities
#1, aired 2023-05-08ALLITERATIVE HISTORY $800: Born in Venetia, Italy, he began leading the Church around the year 140 Pope Pius
#1, aired 2023-05-08MATHSTERS $1600: Though he didn't discover it, this Swiss genius naturally chose e to represent the important constant named for him Euler
#8865, aired 2023-05-05DUNCE, DUNCE $400: He is confidently incorrect as he tells Sancho Panza that the cloud of dust he sees comes from an army; it's sheep Don Quixote
#8864, aired 2023-05-04ATHLETES NAMED FOR $400: Middle name used by first baseman Willie Aikens; he was born just after another Willie's heroics in the 1954 World Series Mays
#8864, aired 2023-05-04ATHLETES NAMED FOR $600: Last name of Luke, a player or coach with 3 California NBA teams; he was named for his father's teammate Maurice Lucas Walton
#8863, aired 2023-05-03JOHN C. REILLY $200: John's hometown, or the movie musical for which he received an Oscar nomination as Amos Hart Chicago
#8863, aired 2023-05-03SAX EDUCATION $800: Springsteen eulogized this great sax player by saying he "doesn't leave the E Street Band when he dies. He leaves when we die" Clarence Clemons
#8863, aired 2023-05-03, SAID THIS LITERARY CHARACTER $1000: "I do not know anybody who seems more to enjoy the power of doing what he likes than Mr. Darcy" Elizabeth Bennet
#8863, aired 2023-05-03THERE'S GOLD IN THEM THAR HILLS $1600: In this 1948 film set in Mexico, Walter Huston says he's mined all over the world & warns, "I know what gold does to men's souls" The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
#8863, aired 2023-05-03HISTORIC AMERICANS $3,500 (Daily Double): As a Supreme Court justice for more than 2 decades, he was nicknamed "Mr. Civil Rights" (Thurgood) Marshall
#8862, aired 2023-05-02MYTHOLOGY $400: This god of love hid Psyche & visited in secret until she found out who he was Cupid (or Eros)
#8862, aired 2023-05-02A JR. IN ENTERTAINMENT $600: Tha (Dwayne) Carter Jr. went platinum at age 17 when he was with the Hot Boys, but you may know him under this nom de rap Lil Wayne
#8862, aired 2023-05-02A JR. IN ENTERTAINMENT $800: The fans' choice as NASCAR's Most Popular Driver 15 straight times, he voiced himself--well, a version of himself--in "Cars" Dale Earnhardt Jr.
#8862, aired 2023-05-02TV & MOVIE COMEDIES $1200: He's the filmmaker behind the movies about Madea, a character he describes as "a cross between my mother & my aunt" Tyler Perry
#8862, aired 2023-05-02MYTHOLOGY $1200: She used her magic to help Jason, but after 10 years of marriage, he wed another; she killed her own children & the second wife Medea
#8861, aired 2023-05-01DOCTOR: WHO? $400: He made it out of the O.K. Corral, but after Nov. 8, 1887, he could no longer be anybody's huckleberry Doc Holliday
#8861, aired 2023-05-01HI, TV NEIGHBOR $400: Fred & Ethel Mertz I Love Lucy
#8861, aired 2023-05-01WORLD OF BELIEF $800: The throat of this Hindu god is blue because he swallowed poison that threatened to destroy the world Shiva
#8861, aired 2023-05-01HI, TV NEIGHBOR $800: Wilson Wilson Jr., behind the fence Home Improvement
#8861, aired 2023-05-01HI, TV NEIGHBOR $1200: Winnie Cooper The Wonder Years
#8861, aired 2023-05-01BETTER ANGELS $1600: He's told, "Good night, sweet prince, and flights of angels sing thee to thy rest!" Hamlet
#8861, aired 2023-05-01HI, TV NEIGHBOR $1600: Ed & Trixie Norton The Honeymooners
#8861, aired 2023-05-01HI, TV NEIGHBOR $2000: Babette Dell (Sally Struthers) Gilmore Girls
#8861, aired 2023-05-01IT'S GONNA BE MAY! $2,400 (Daily Double): On May 10-11, 1927 he flew from San Diego to New York City, with an overnight stop in St. Louis Lindbergh
#8860, aired 2023-04-28SPORTS GOATs $400: He's been called the GOAT of TV commentary John Madden
#8860, aired 2023-04-28INSIDE JOB $400: Job asks a friend whether this wild animal brays when he has grass the donkey (ass)
#8860, aired 2023-04-28"HOLD" UP $600: In "Sunset Boulevard" this Oscar-winning actor played a screenwriter, in "Network" he's a TV executive William Holden
#8860, aired 2023-04-28SPORTS GOATs $1,000 (Daily Double): He was born March 30, 1970, in a Virginia stable Secretariat
#8860, aired 2023-04-28"HOLD" UP $1000: Marc Behm's novel about a private detective obsessed with the woman he's trailing is titled this, proverbially what beauty is in The Eye of the Beholder
#8860, aired 2023-04-28SPORTS GOATs $1000: In 1912 this country's king told Jim Thorpe he was the world's greatest athlete; Jim is said to have replied, "Thanks, king" Sweden
#8859, aired 2023-04-27TV DRAMA $1000: Post "Spider-Man", he played a devout detective investigating fundamentalism & murder in "Under the Banner of Heaven" Andrew Garfield
#8859, aired 2023-04-274-LETTER BEFORE & AFTER $2000: This report, very important to boss Bill Lumbergh in "Office Space", is also a commercial broadcast for the audience's benefit TPSA
#8859, aired 2023-04-27A FINE WINE FILM $2000: This actor starred in "A Good Year", in which he inherits a vineyard, & narrated the documentary "Red Obsession" about Bordeaux Russell Crowe
#8858, aired 2023-04-26CONFIDENCE $600: Facing a trial in 399 B.C., this philosopher was confident he was a good man & could not be harmed (he could, & he certainly was) Socrates
#8858, aired 2023-04-26CONFIDENCE $800: A Shakespeare character asks, "Does he not hold up his head, as it were, and" this 5-letter confident walk "in his gait?" strut
#8858, aired 2023-04-26HISTORICAL POTPOURRI $1,200 (Daily Double): He peaked in power as Lord Privy Seal in 1536, fell from power, was executed & had his reputation revived by the late Hilary Mantel Thomas Cromwell
#8858, aired 2023-04-26COMEDIANS $2000: In 2023 he hosted the Golden Globe Awards, which returned to broadcast TV after a time-out Jerrod Carmichael
#8857, aired 2023-04-25READING MUSIC $400: In "Me", his Donald Duck costume's "padded bum" made it hard to sit; he tried "to play 'Your Song' but... couldn't stop laughing" Elton John
#8857, aired 2023-04-25SHARPS & FLATS $400: He really gets around & its project website claims it is the longest-lasting literacy project on the web Flat Stanley
#8857, aired 2023-04-25LET'S SEE A MO-"V" $2000: In response to a college admissions scandal, James Van Der Beek tweeted about this 1999 movie he starred in Varsity Blues
#8857, aired 2023-04-25WRITERS: BORN & DIED $2000: Born in Paris in 1905, he went from being to nothingness in 1980 Sartre
#8856, aired 2023-04-24THAT'S AN ANIMAL SOUND $400: Social media can be hazardous to your career health! Winston Moss said he got fired as a coach in 2018 for one of these posts a tweet
#8856, aired 2023-04-24AMERICAN LIT $600: In a Mark Twain novel, thinking he's none too bright, the townspeople give lawyer David Wilson this title nickname Pudd'nhead Wilson
#8856, aired 2023-04-24AMERICAN LIT $800: Who is John Galt? He's the organizer of a strike of great minds in this novel Atlas Shrugged
#8856, aired 2023-04-24LOCAL BOY $2000: He grew up in Atherton, California, near Stanford, & maybe he's never going back again Lindsey Buckingham
#8856, aired 2023-04-24WHEREFORE ART, THOU $2000: Though called a post-impressionist, he had work like "House of the Hanged Man" in the first Impressionist show in 1874 Paul Cézanne
#8855, aired 2023-04-21SPEAK OF THE DICKENS $400: Dickens had a pet bird of this variety that he featured in "Barnaby Rudge" & that, in turn, may have inspired a Poe poem a raven
#8854, aired 2023-04-20FACE THE POLITICIAN $400: He once served as deputy assistant U.S. Attorney General under Ford McConnell
#8854, aired 2023-04-20MISSING U $600: He guarded a harem: ENCH a eunuch
#8854, aired 2023-04-20HISTORY $600: Rasputin entered history when he was called in to help Czar Nicholas' son Alexei, who suffered from this hereditary bleeding disorder hemophilia
#8854, aired 2023-04-20HISTORY $800: After losing power, this dictator fled in the Alfa Romeo seen here; at least he bought local Mussolini
#8854, aired 2023-04-20REMEMBERING BARBARA WALTERS $800: Barbara said one of her most moving interviews was with this actor after he was paralyzed in a riding accident Christopher Reeve
#8854, aired 2023-04-20REMEMBERING BARBARA WALTERS $1200: Barbara shared that after interviewing this world leader in Cuba in 1977, he "took us into his kitchen and made us grilled cheese" Castro
#8854, aired 2023-04-20GLOBETROTTING $2,000 (Daily Double): This second-holiest Muslim city contains the tomb of Muhammad Medina
#8853, aired 2023-04-19I'M SO PROUD $1000: The U.S. Tennis Association's sportsmanship tips say, "avoid" this verb "after a win", so no "ha ha, love & love, I'm the best" gloating
#8853, aired 2023-04-19TV $1000: He not only created & executive produced "Alias" & "Lost", he also wrote their main theme music (J.J.) Abrams
#8852, aired 2023-04-18SECRETS OF THE ELEPHANTS $200: A desert bull may walk 50 miles a day to find food & water; he's guided by this, an elephant's proverbial strength memory
#8852, aired 2023-04-18LET'S GUESS YOUR WAIT $400: Speaking for the Lord, in Deuteronomy he says, "I have led you 40 years in the wilderness" Moses
#8852, aired 2023-04-18TV MOMS $1200: (Hi, I'm Brianne Howey.) I grew up with a single mom & love playing this title single mom to Ginny on a Netflix comedy drama Georgia
#8852, aired 2023-04-18OLD WAR $1600: In 732 he defeated an invading Muslim army in the decisive Battle of Tours, earning the nickname "The Hammer" Charles Martel
#8851, aired 2023-04-17NON-BOMB ROM COMS $200: In "Bull Durham" this actor tells Susan Sarandon that he believes in the hanging curve ball, high fiber & good scotch Costner
#8850, aired 2023-04-14ANAGRAMMED SCIENTISTS $400: He changed the world through physics: LENT INEBRIATES Albert Einstein
#8850, aired 2023-04-14YOU LOSE $800: If you're "searching for" losses by this chess champ, you'll find in 1964 he did fall to John Dedinsky in 17 moves Fischer
#8850, aired 2023-04-14BAKER'S DOZEN $800: Relaying more information about the problem aboard Apollo 13, he said, "We've had a main B bus undervolt" (Jim) Lovell
#8850, aired 2023-04-14BAKER'S DOZEN $1000: No longer the "Teflon Don", he was found guilty on 13 counts, including murder & racketeering, & got life in 1992 (John) Gotti
#8849, aired 2023-04-13GERMAN LITERATURE $400: In 1929 he published an essay on Freud & won the Nobel Prize; who da this? You da this! Mann
#8849, aired 2023-04-13TRIPLE "A" $800: It describes the crazy-sounding "bwah-ha-ha" laughter of many a movie villain maniacal
#8849, aired 2023-04-13FISH OUT OF WATER $1000: As Chief Justice, he presided over the impeachment trial of Andrew Johnson (Salmon P.) Chase
#8849, aired 2023-04-13FISH OUT OF WATER ON TV $1200: On "Futurama" he's the former pizza boy who has to adjust to things once he's unfrozen after a thousand years Fry
#8849, aired 2023-04-13SECRETARIES OF STATE $1200: Secretary of State for most of the Reagan years, he was a mentor to future secretary Condoleezza Rice Shultz
#8849, aired 2023-04-13HERE'S A BIT OF EVERYTHING $1600: San Francisco police detective David Toschi said he interviewed 5,000 people in his search for this letter-writing killer the Zodiac Killer
#8849, aired 2023-04-13FISH OUT OF WATER ON TV $2000: After getting rich off of some "bubblin' crude", he is told by his kinfolk, "Californy is the place you oughta be" Jed Clampett
#8848, aired 2023-04-12OUR NATION OF IMMIGRATION $400: Famous Americans of this heritage include Barack Obama seen here on a visit to the old country Ireland
#8847, aired 2023-04-11I GOT THE RECEIPTS $400: Folks were not happy he went electric at 1965's Newport Folk Festival but in 2013 the Fender Strat he used went for $965,000 Bob Dylan
#8847, aired 2023-04-11I GOT THE RECEIPTS $600: In 1989 Jerry Jones bought this NFL team for $140 million; a decent investment, as it's worth more than $7 billion today the Dallas Cowboys
#8847, aired 2023-04-11ADAPTERS $1200: Not busy enough with "Downton Abbey", he adapted "Mary Poppins" & "School of Rock" as stage musicals Julian Fellowes
#8846, aired 2023-04-10NOVELS BY QUOTE $1600: "Mr. Trask is from New England. He plans to settle here. He's been West before though" East of Eden
#8845, aired 2023-04-07DE-COMPOSING $400: After taking aim at "William Tell" & then quitting theater entirely at age 37, he quit more than that on Nov. 13, 1868 (Gioachino) Rossini
#8845, aired 2023-04-07POP CULTURE $400: He gave us the "Produce Pete" segment of "The Daily Show" before becoming "The 40-Year-Old Virgin" Steve Carell
#8845, aired 2023-04-07TWO SHOES $400: The sneakers bearing his name are often identified by Roman numerals; he wore the XVIII the year he retired from the Wizards Michael Jordan
#8845, aired 2023-04-07YOU TOTALLY RULED! $800: The Aztec Empire was expanding under this 9th emperor in 1519, but the Spanish showed up; he's dead by 1520 & the empire, in 1521 Montezuma
#8845, aired 2023-04-07DE-COMPOSING $800: This Frenchman died on Dec. 28, 1937, never knowing he'd play a crucial musical part in a Bo Derek film Maurice Ravel
#8845, aired 2023-04-07LANDING ON PLANET FRANCHISE $1000: Mongo: Ah-ah! He'll save every one of us! Flash Gordon
#8845, aired 2023-04-07YOU TOTALLY RULED! $3,000 (Daily Double): He finally got the crown he craved on July 6, 1483 but just 2 years later, Henry VII would open the very first Tudor garage Richard III
#8844, aired 2023-04-06BE ARTHUR $400: In a historic first, he won the U.S. Open tennis tournament in September 1968 Arthur Ashe
#8844, aired 2023-04-06NOT MAKING IT TO THE END OF THE MOVIE $400: Bad puddy tat! This evil uncle admits fratricide when he whispers, "I killed Mufasa" to Simba Scar
#8844, aired 2023-04-06BE ARTHUR $800: In the 1920s, he began a successful mail order business to teach ballroom dancing; his dance centers can be found worldwide Arthur Murray
#8844, aired 2023-04-06BE ARTHUR $1200: He wrote an "Ivanhoe" opera without his partner W.S. Gilbert Arthur Sullivan
#8844, aired 2023-04-06LATIN WORDS & PHRASES $2000: While he popularized the concept, John Locke didn't actually use this term for the idea that the mind is a blank slate at birth tabula rasa
#8843, aired 2023-04-05BIBLE BOOKS BY QUOTES $600: "He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters" Psalms
#8843, aired 2023-04-05TV EATS $800: On "The Office" he spilled the beans on making his famous chili: undercook the onions & use ancho chiles Kevin
#8843, aired 2023-04-05SCHOOL OF MUSIC $1600: At L.A.'s Fairfax High, he showed a flair for poetry, later heard in his Red Hot Chili Peppers songs Anthony Kiedis
#8843, aired 2023-04-05SCHOOL OF MUSIC $2000: A member of his Ohio high school drama club, he'd get roles on TV & in films, but he's better known for his own brand of honky-tonk Dwight Yoakam
#8842, aired 2023-04-04ALL THE DAYS OF MY LIFE $200: He racked up a number of wedding days: June 11, 1509; Jan, 25, 1533; May 30, 1536; Jan, 6, 1540; July 28, 1540; & July 12, 1543 Henry VIII
#8842, aired 2023-04-04TARANTINO FILMS $400: Hitman Samuel L. Jackson gets what he considers "divine intervention", as well as a Big Kahuna burger & a Sprite, in this movie Pulp Fiction
#8842, aired 2023-04-04ALL THE DAYS OF MY LIFE $1,000 (Daily Double): He worked to develop a flu vaccine before coming up with one for polio, declared safe on April 12, 1955 Jonas Salk
#8842, aired 2023-04-04PAINT ME A PICTURE $2000: Following the Civil War, he turned to scenes of the beach & sea like these three bathers on a beach in his native Massachusetts Winslow Homer
#8841, aired 2023-04-03NATIONAL HEROES $3,000 (Daily Double): A hero of this island nation where he was born, Marcus Garvey has been proposed to appear on its $100 bill Jamaica
#8840, aired 2023-03-31ANCIENT VIPs $800: In his play "The Frogs", he took a little dig at Euripides Aristophanes
#8840, aired 2023-03-31LAST LINES OF MOVIES $1200: 1976: "This was the story of Howard Beale, the first known instance of a man who was killed because he had lousy ratings" Network
#8839, aired 2023-03-30THE GREATEST SNOWMAN $400: Thumpety thump thumping around in song, this title guy "was alive as he could be" Frosty the Snowman
#8839, aired 2023-03-30A RELIGIOUS SERVICE $400: In an Orthodox church, a priest with his back to you isn't rude or shy, he's facing this direction like the congregation east
#8839, aired 2023-03-30CELEBRITY MEMOIRS $400: He speaks candidly about his addiction in "Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing", with a foreword by Lisa Kudrow Matthew Perry
#8839, aired 2023-03-30WORLD PLACE NAMES $800: He named the Bounty Islands of the South Pacific after his ship Bligh
#8839, aired 2023-03-30SPOUSAL SUPPORT $800: Nominated to become Transportation Secy. in 2017, Elaine Chao got "yes"es from 93 senators but not from this majority leader, her husband McConnell
#8839, aired 2023-03-30WORLD PLACE NAMES $4,000 (Daily Double): Legend says this sea is named for Theseus' father, who flung himself into the waters when he thought his son was dead the Aegean
#8837, aired 2023-03-28'80s MOVIE COMEDIES $200: In 1986 this title guy & 2 friends had quite a day, hitting a museum & doing some fine dining; he even caught a ball at a Cubs game Ferris Bueller
#8837, aired 2023-03-28WORLD HISTORY $800: This good guy of Christmas carol fame was actually a duke of Bohemia; he was only declared a king (& a saint) after his death Wenceslas
#8837, aired 2023-03-28'80s MOVIE COMEDIES $1000: In this holiday film Randy Quaid's Eddie used to have a metal plate in his head, but use of a microwave made him forget who he was Christmas Vacation
#8837, aired 2023-03-28TOUGH TOUGH-GUY TV $1200: In the series this Michael Connelly hero: "Legacy", he's off the LAPD & his daughter is on it Bosch
#8836, aired 2023-03-27THE STATUE OF LIBERTY $1,000 (Daily Double): The statue's internal flexible skeletal system was designed by this Frenchman, known for his iron work Gustave Eiffel
#8836, aired 2023-03-27WHAT A BUNCH OF CARICATURES! $1200: He's the Polish-born composer tickling the ivories Chopin
#8836, aired 2023-03-27WE QUOTE MR. Ts $2000: In "Democracy in America", he wrote that in the U.S., "everything is in constant motion & every change seems an improvement" Tocqueville
#8836, aired 2023-03-27I LIKE AMERICAN MUSIC $2000: An ad in the Village Voice brought drummer Clem Burke into this band he's been playing with since the '70s Blondie
#8835, aired 2023-03-24THE WWE $200: (Kofi Kingston presents the clue.) "Awesome" doesn't even begin to describe this WWE legend; billed at 7'4" & 500 pounds he loved practical jokes & would move his friends' small cars at night--yes, move, & not drive André the Giant
#8835, aired 2023-03-24FINNISH HIM! $200: Finnish children know him as Joulupukki or "Yule Goat" & he lives in a village in Lapland Santa Claus
#8834, aired 2023-03-23FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $400: When Don Quixote says, "He owes you nothing", he uses this as the last word nada
#8834, aired 2023-03-23PULITZER PRIZES $400: Seen here, he was the first to win a Pulitzer Prize for film criticism, doing so in 1975 Ebert
#8834, aired 2023-03-23ON THE "J.V." SQUAD $400: He played Dawson Leery on "Dawson's Creek" & his last name means "of the creek" James Van Der Beek
#8834, aired 2023-03-235-LETTER LITERARY CHARACTERS $600: He teaches the wolf cubs & Mowgli the law of the jungle Baloo
#8834, aired 2023-03-23HISTORIC NAMES $800: While in the service of the Dutch East India Company, he became the first European to sight New Zealand & the Fiji islands Abel Tasman
#8834, aired 2023-03-23ON THE "J.V." SQUAD $800: He's been nominated for 4 Oscars, winning for 1978's "Coming Home" Jon Voight
#8834, aired 2023-03-23PULITZER PRIZES $2000: Early in his career, this playwright won 3 Obies; he also won a Pulitzer for his play "Buried Child" Sam Shepard
#8834, aired 2023-03-23HISTORIC NAMES $2000: Before he got the boot for good in 41 A.D., this emperor wanted a statue of himself placed in the Temple in Jerusalem Caligula
#8833, aired 2023-03-221963 $400: At 1:00 P.M. on November 22, he was pronounced dead at Parkland Hospital, leaving the nation in mourning JFK
#8833, aired 2023-03-224-LETTER SPORTS TERMS $1000: An MLB relief pitcher who doesn't get the save may be eligible for this, provided he gets an out & maintains the lead a hold
#8833, aired 2023-03-22HANS, SOLO $1600: Even after his wife Cosima left him for Richard Wagner, he continued to champion Wagner's works Hans von Bulow
#8833, aired 2023-03-22RESILIENCE $2000: President of Brazil from 2003 to 2011, then out of office & even in prison, he rebounded to win the office back in 2022 (Lula) da Silva
#8833, aired 2023-03-22HANS, SOLO $10,000 (Daily Double): This artist the Younger was working on yet another portrait of Henry VIII when he died in 1543 Hans Holbein the Younger
#8832, aired 2023-03-21A.K.A. $400: Even before hacker Thomas Anderson took a certain pill in a 1999 movie, he was being referred to by this 3-letter name Neo
#8832, aired 2023-03-21A.K.A. $600: When your British office mate asks if you can spare a drawing pin, he means one of these with a body part in its name a thumbtack
#8832, aired 2023-03-21IT'S A JOKE $1000: Ben Stiller, guessing Zach Galifianakis' breakfast diet, suggested it's "egg" these yellows
#8832, aired 2023-03-21ETYMOLOGY $1200: This enthusiastic phrase popularized by the Marines during World War II comes from a Chinese motto interpreted as "work together" gung ho
#8832, aired 2023-03-21BOOKS: THE FUTURE IS NOW $2000: He saw 2024 as a hellish wasteland in his 1969 short story "A Boy & His Dog" Harlan Ellison
#8832, aired 2023-03-21TV & MOVIE CITIES $2000: The sanguine start of "The Flight Attendant", most of "The Hangover Part II" Bangkok
#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 2023-03-20QUITE THE FISH STORY $800: Michael Caine said he never saw himself in this 4: "The Revenge", "but I've seen the house it bought for my mum. It's fantastic" Jaws
#8831, aired 2023-03-20QUITE THE FISH STORY $1000: Melissa Etheridge gave Brad Pitt lessons in fly-fishing so he could play Paul Maclean in this film A River Runs Through It
#8831, aired 2023-03-20CRY UNCLE $1600: Real name Ivan, he's the bitter, aging title character of a Chekhov play Uncle Vanya
#8831, aired 2023-03-20SHORT STORY, SHORTER $1600: A "Scrivener" hired to copy legal documents, he's an early advocate of quiet quitting, then quits life itself Bartleby
#8831, aired 2023-03-20PRESIDENTIAL INAUGURATIONS $1600: His nearly 8,500-word address is by far the longest ever; he should have saved his energy William Henry Harrison
#8831, aired 2023-03-20PRESIDENTIAL INAUGURATIONS $2000: He, his wife & 9-year-old daughter were the first first family to walk all the way from the Capitol to the White House the Carters
#8830, aired 2023-03-17THE CARIBBEAN $400: In 1493, he happened upon the small island of Marie-Galante, which was later named for one of his ships Columbus
#8830, aired 2023-03-17SONGS FROM MOVIES $1600: He crooned "Wicked Game", featured in David Lynch's "Wild at Heart" Chris Isaak
#8830, aired 2023-03-17IRISH AUTHORS $2000: Born in Ireland in 1667, he wrote political pamphlets as well as satires Swift
#8829, aired 2023-03-16THE LEADER BEFORE THE LEADER $1000: On Dec. 31, 1999 he packed it in & named Vladimir Putin acting president Yeltsin

Final Jeopardy! Round clues (1000 results returned) (search results maxed out)

#9066, aired 2024-03-25NOTORIOUS FIGURES: Never even a soldier, this man lied that his nickname came from a shrapnel wound while fighting in the Argonne Al Capone
#9064, aired 2024-03-2120th CENTURY NOVELS: Virginia Woolf disliked this book that was "cutting out the explanations and putting in the thoughts between dashes" Ulysses
#9063, aired 2024-03-20TRAILBLAZERS: The foremost member of the "Sochi Six", which was similar to a previous U.S. group, he died in a plane crash in 1968 (Yuri) Gagarin
#9054, aired 2024-03-07ANCIENT DRAMA: From the 470s B.C., Aeschylus' earliest surviving work has this title; he'd fought them repeatedly in the preceding years The Persians
#9045, aired 2024-02-23FRENCH AUTHORS: Trained as a priest & a physician, in 1532 he published his first novel under the pen name Alcofribas Nasier (François) Rabelais
#9042, aired 2024-02-20PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS: He's the most recent presidential candidate to have officially declared his opponent in that campaign the victor Al Gore
#9028, aired 2024-01-31AMERICAN MUSICIANS: Also an author, this singer who had 5 Top 40 hits in the 1970s was called the "Pirate Laureate" Jimmy Buffett
#9027, aired 2024-01-30NAMES IN HISTORY: The scientific name of Jamaica's ackee fruit honors this captain who brought it to England in 1793 Captain Bligh
#9020, aired 2024-01-19AMERICAN ARTISTS: In the 1920s he used wire, string & other materials to fabricate "models in motion" for a miniature circus scene (Alexander) Calder
#9018, aired 2024-01-1719th CENTURY AMERICA: An 1884 article calls this newly completed structure "the highest work of man" & disagrees with those who call it "a great chimney" the Washington Monument
#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
#9016, aired 2024-01-15ON THE STAGE: Paul Robeson said that even as this character "kills, his honor is at stake... the honor of his whole culture is involved" Othello
#2, aired 2024-01-12LITERARY INSPIRATION: A book by historian Thomas Carlyle that Dickens said he'd read 500 times has this title subject that Charles would write about himself the French Revolution
#9011, aired 2024-01-08STATE CAPITALS: The 2 closest state capitals, at about 40 miles apart, one was founded by someone no longer allowed in the other Providence & Boston
#9005, aired 2023-12-29FAMOUS NAMES: In 2023, shortly after his death, his name was added to a Brazilian dictionary to describe one who's superior or out of the ordinary Pelé
#9002, aired 2023-12-26BOOK CHARACTERS: Early on in a 1966 novel, this title character beats the protagonist in maze races; later on he bites him Algernon
#9000, aired 2023-12-22THE 20th CENTURY: On July 19, 1940 Hitler called this man a warmonger & wrongly predicted he would flee to Canada Winston Churchill
#8995, aired 2023-12-15THE WILD WEST: In 1888's "Ranch Life & the Hunting-Trail" Teddy Roosevelt wrote his 2 ranch hands were "able to travel" like this animal a bull moose
#8993, aired 2023-12-13MOVIE MUSICALS: Of the musicals to win an Oscar for Best Picture, 1 of the 2 with one-word titles based on & named for literary characters (1 of) Gigi or Oliver!
#8988, aired 2023-12-06FAMOUS NAMES: Subject of a 2003 film, his 1947 obituary said he fathered at least 100 & died of a heart attack at 14, at a California ranch Seabiscuit
#8985, aired 2023-12-01BODIES OF WATER: The Goshute, a Western people, called this vast body of water Teittse Paa, meaning "bad water" the Great Salt Lake
#8979, aired 2023-11-23SCIENCE ETYMOLOGY: First detected in the Sun's atmosphere in 1868, it got its name from an old word for sun helium
#8977, aired 2023-11-21TELEVISION: This series grew out of a screenplay titled "Murdoch" Succession
#8975, aired 2023-11-17LITERARY CHARACTERS: In his first appearance in 1902, he was described as "betwixt-and-between" a boy & a bird Peter Pan
#20, aired 2023-11-15ARTISTS: Exhumed in 2017 to settle a paternity suit, his mustache had "preserved its classic 10-past-10 position" according to the Spanish press Salvador Dalí
#8968, aired 2023-11-08EXPLORERS: Perhaps inspiring a line 2 centuries later, in 1774 he wrote that he was headed "farther than any other man has been before me" Captain James Cook
#8960, aired 2023-10-27FAMOUS AMERICANS: On March 23, 1779 he became the first U.S. diplomat to serve overseas by presenting his credentials to a foreign government Benjamin Franklin
#18, aired 2023-10-25TWEEN LIT: Referring to the lengthy title of her much-discussed novel, this author lamented that she didn't just call the book "Margaret" Judy Blume
#8958, aired 2023-10-25HISTORIC LETTERS: A letter from him begins, "On the thirty-third day after I had left Cadiz, I reached the Indian Ocean" (Christopher) Columbus
#8952, aired 2023-10-17MILITARY HISTORY: A 1918 article titled "Do Not Shoot at" these said hunters were interfering with the U.S. Signal Corps' training of them (carrier or homing) pigeons
#8950, aired 2023-10-13ROYALTY: Before his death in 2005, he said he was "probably the last head of state to be able to recognize all his compatriots in the street" Prince Rainier (III of Monaco)
#8949, aired 2023-10-12WORD ORIGINS: Though it meant "seasickness" in Latin, this 6-letter word now refers to a more general feeling of sickness nausea
#8945, aired 2023-10-06COMPOSERS: He was given piano lessons by Madame Mauté de Fleurville, the mother-in-law of Paul Verlaine, whose poetry he would later set to music (Claude) Debussy
#8942, aired 2023-10-03THE 1500s: In the early 1500s he produced a codex in words & pictures on the flight of birds, one of many subjects that interested him Leonardo da Vinci
#8940, aired 2023-09-29U.S. SENATE HISTORY: In 1805, after 4 years presiding over the Senate, he left the chamber, calling it "a sanctuary; a citadel of law, of order" Aaron Burr
#8936, aired 2023-09-25SCIENTISTS: A 1953 article by this pair says, "The specific pairing we have postulated... suggests a... copying mechanism for the genetic material" (James) Watson & (Francis) Crick
#8935, aired 2023-09-22COMPOSERS: A fireworks display followed the April 27, 1749 premiere of a work by this man that had been commissioned by George II (George Frideric) Handel
#8933, aired 2023-09-2020th CENTURY PEOPLE: In 2022 the Dept. of Energy noted "a flawed process" & vacated a 1954 commission's decision "in the matter of" this man (J. Robert) Oppenheimer
#8931, aired 2023-09-18AUTHORS: He dedicated books to each of his 4 wives, including Hadley Richardson & Martha Gellhorn Ernest (Papa) Hemingway
#8928, aired 2023-09-13ARTISTS: On October 26, 1886 he said, "The dream of my life is accomplished... I see the symbol of unity & friendship between 2 nations" Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi
#8920, aired 2023-07-21NUMBERS OLD & NEW: Expressed in today's numbers, it's the sum total if you add the 7 Roman numerals together 1,666
#8919, aired 2023-07-2019th CENTURY BRITISH POEMS: The author of this unfinished epic poem was unsure if he wanted the title character to "end in Hell--or in an unhappy marriage" Don Juan
#8916, aired 2023-07-17GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS: In 1867 he wrote to General Rousseau, "on arriving at Sitka... you will receive from the Russian commissioner the formal transfer" (William) Seward
#8914, aired 2023-07-13FAMOUS SHIPS: This first U.S. battleship ever built was launched in 1889 but lasted less than 9 years the Maine
#8912, aired 2023-07-11OLYMPIC TEAMS: A city of about 2.5 million people, since 1984 for political reasons it has been in the name of an Olympic team Taipei
#8903, aired 2023-06-28THE MEDICAL WORLD: He created a chest drain valve that aided breathing in wounded soldiers in Vietnam but is better known for a lifesaving measure (Henry) Heimlich
#8899, aired 2023-06-22THE 19th CENTURY: In 1823 he wrote, "In the war between those new governments and Spain we declared our neutrality" (James) Monroe
#8893, aired 2023-06-14TV & FILM CHARACTERS: He debuted on TV in 1967; the show's creator wanted someone from behind the Iron Curtain to be on "our side" Chekov
#8892, aired 2023-06-13ACTORS: He starred in the 2 films whose soundtracks were the top 2 bestselling albums of 1978 John Travolta
#8885, aired 2023-06-0220th CENTURY AMERICA: In bold letters, it was the 2-word historic N.Y. Times headline for August 9, 1974, followed by "He urges a time of 'healing"' "Nixon Resigns"
#18, aired 2023-05-23OPERA & HISTORY: Appropriately, the last performance at the Vienna State Opera before it was destroyed in 1945 by Allied bombs was this opera from 1876 Götterdämmerung
#17, aired 2023-05-23REAL PEOPLE IN SHAKESPEARE: In Shakespeare this man is a rival of Prince Hal; in real life he was older than Hal's father Hotspur
#14, aired 2023-05-1720th CENTURY FRENCH AUTHORS: He said a famous book of his was inspired by a visit to the zoo, where he observed the gorillas' humanlike expressions Pierre Boulle (author of Planet of the Apes)
#8870, aired 2023-05-12NEW WORDS IN THE 18th CENTURY: Describing these, Captain Cook wrote, "The manner in which" they're done "must certainly cause intollerable pain" tattoos
#6, aired 2023-05-10HISTORIC HOMES: This residence is part of an estate that includes Ballochbuie Forest, a remnant of the ancient Caledonian pine forest Balmoral
#3, aired 2023-05-0921st CENTURY AUTHORS: Once a journalist himself, he began his first novel with his hero being fined 150,000 kronor for aggravated libel Stieg Larsson
#8861, aired 2023-05-0118th CENTURY LITERATURE: The first name of this title character is from Hebrew for "devoted to God"; his last name suggests he can be easily duped (Lemuel) Gulliver
#8854, aired 2023-04-20MODERN WORDS: Neal Stephenson coined this word in his 1992 novel "Snow Crash"; it was later shortened by a company to become its new name metaverse
#8852, aired 2023-04-18THE OSCARS: Born in 1932 & the son of a percussionist in the CBS Radio Orchestra, he's been nominated for 53 Oscars John Williams
#8850, aired 2023-04-14WRITERS' LESSER-KNOWN WORKS: Known for more philosophical works, he wrote the play "La Mandragola", in which Florentines are rewarded for immoral actions (Niccolò) Machiavelli
#8847, aired 2023-04-11NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNERS: At times they each lived on Vilakazi St. in Soweto, so it claims to be the world's only street home to 2 Nobel Peace Prize winners Nelson Mandela & Archbishop Desmond Tutu
#8846, aired 2023-04-10FAMOUS NAMES: In 1966, the year of his death, he shared plans for an experimental prototype community in Florida Walt Disney
#8838, aired 2023-03-29AMERICAN AUTHORS: In a periodical in 1807, he called New York City "Gotham, Gotham! most enlightened of cities" Washington Irving
#8833, aired 2023-03-22AMERICAN NOVELISTS: He served with an airman named Yohannan in World War II & despite what readers might think, he said he enjoyed his service (Joseph) Heller
#8832, aired 2023-03-21MEDIEVAL PLACES: One of the participants in an 1170 event at this place said, "Let us away, knights; he will rise no more" Canterbury Cathedral
#8829, aired 2023-03-161980s MOVIES: A writer & producer of this movie said he wanted it to be like a Western or James Bond film, "only it takes place in the '30s" Raiders of the Lost Ark
#8828, aired 2023-03-15ART EXHIBITIONS: In 1898 what's been called the first blockbuster art show was devoted to him & put on for Queen Wilhelmina's coronation Rembrandt
#8827, aired 2023-03-14COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD: Part of the largest contiguous land empire during the 1200s & 1300s, today it's the world's second-largest landlocked country Mongolia
#8825, aired 2023-03-10INVASIONS: Backed by 14,000 troops, he invaded England to restore, in his words, its "religion, laws, and liberties" William of Orange
#8822, aired 2023-03-07NAMES IN THE BOOKSTORE: This man made lists, perhaps to cope with depression; a set of lists he published in 1852 made his name synonymous with a type of book (Peter Mark) Roget
#8818, aired 2023-03-01LAWS IN U.S. HISTORY: A Radical Republican championed this 1875 act but the Supreme Court struck it down in 1883; a new version was passed 81 years later the Civil Rights Act
#8814, aired 2023-02-23FAMOUS NAMES: For a special 1970s cookbook, he provided one simple recipe--a can of Campbell's tomato soup & 2 cans of milk Andy Warhol
#8811, aired 2023-02-20WRITERS & THE SOUTH: In 1939 he lived on Toulouse Street in the French Quarter & chose the professional name that bonded him to the South Tennessee Williams
#8800, aired 2023-02-03WORLD WAR II: Mimi Reinhard, who never learned to type using more than 2 fingers, produced this with 1,100 names, including hers Schindler's List
#13, aired 2023-02-02ARTISTS: Despite how he's known, he was probably actually born in Anchiano, near Florence Leonardo da Vinci
#8794, aired 2023-01-26HISTORY: Returning home in 1493, Columbus stopped in the Azores at an island with this name, also something he'd lost off the Haiti coast Santa Maria
#11, aired 2023-01-19NOTORIOUS PLACES: Al Capone played banjo in a band called the Rock Islanders at this notorious spot Alcatraz
#10, aired 2023-01-12CORPORATE MASCOTS: Born on an island in a sea of milk, this pitchman was jokingly disavowed by the U.S. Navy by saying he is not in personnel records Cap'n Crunch
#8780, aired 2023-01-06HISTORIC PEOPLE: After a 1789 event, he wrote, "My first determination was to seek a supply of... water at Tofoa, & afterwards to sail for Tongataboo" (Captain) Bligh
#9, aired 2023-01-0520th CENTURY PEOPLE: Calling him "the embodiment of pure intellect", in December 1999 Time magazine named him Person of the Century Albert Einstein
#8771, aired 2022-12-26TV FINALES: In a reunion over 40 years in the making, Dolly Parton appeared as an angel named Agnes in the final episode of this comedy in 2022 Grace and Frankie
#8769, aired 2022-12-22FAMOUS NAMES: In 2001 he published a book called "Banging Your Head Against a Brick Wall"; in 2002, "Existencilism" Banksy
#8763, aired 2022-12-14PRESIDENTIAL FACTS: Only 3 presidents have married while in office--John Tyler was the first & he was the last (Woodrow) Wilson
#8762, aired 2022-12-1319th CENTURY AMERICANS: Demonstrating the dignity & humanity of Black Americans, he sat for 160 known photographs, the most of any American in the 19th century Frederick Douglass
#8758, aired 2022-12-07U.S. PRESIDENTS: He was sworn in twice as president within 2 years, first by his father & then later by a former U.S. President (Calvin) Coolidge
#8745, aired 2022-11-18ENGLISH CITIES: William the Conqueror's son built a fortress on a key northern river in 1080, giving this city its name Newcastle (upon Tyne)
#8739, aired 2022-11-10GEOGRAPHIC PAIRS: By ferry, the distance between these 2 paired Mediterranean islands is about 40 miles from Alcudia to Ciutadella Mallorca (Majorca) & Menorca (Minorca)
#8737, aired 2022-11-08CHEMICAL ELEMENT NAMES: The 3 elements whose names begin with 2 vowels are iodine & these 2, one synthetic & one natural einsteinium & europium
#8732, aired 2022-11-01POETS: Inspired by stories from his grandfather, his "Battle of Lovell's Pond" appeared in the Portland Gazette in 1820 when he was 13 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#8729, aired 2022-10-27AMERICAN COMPOSERS: He turned to opera with the 1903 work "Guest of Honor", likely inspired by Booker T. Washington's dinner at the White House (Scott) Joplin
#8726, aired 2022-10-24AUTHORS: When Esquire began as a men's lifestyle magazine in the 1930s, he was asked for manly content & wrote in 28 of the first 33 issues (Ernest) Hemingway
#8718, aired 2022-10-1220th CENTURY LEADERS: In a September 3, 1939 speech, he said, "Everything that I have worked for... has crashed into ruins" Neville Chamberlain
#8714, aired 2022-10-06NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNERS: He served as Bishop of Lesotho from 1976 to 1978 (Archbishop Desmond) Tutu
#8710, aired 2022-09-30BEFORE THEY WERE AUTHORS: While working for British naval intelligence during World War II, he was code-named 17F Ian Fleming
#8703, aired 2022-09-21FAMOUS NAMES: Perhaps the most famous picture of him was taken in New Jersey in 1951 as he was annoyed by paparazzi on his 72nd birthday (Albert) Einstein
#8698, aired 2022-09-14ARTISTS: He said, "The Seine! I have painted it all my life, at all hours, in all seasons, from Paris to the sea" (Claude) Monet
#8693, aired 2022-07-27REAL PEOPLE IN POETRY: Milton wrote of this contemporary: "When by night the glass of" him "observes imagined lands and regions in the Moon" Galileo
#8692, aired 2022-07-26LITERARY ANIMALS: This children's book character, introduced in 1926 & a friend of the title creature, gets his name from the sound he might make Eeyore
#8688, aired 2022-07-20HISTORIC AMERICAN ROADS: Originally a Native American trail, the Dutch made it a main road & today it runs 33 miles from State Street to Sleepy Hollow Broadway
#8684, aired 2022-07-14THE 20th CENTURY: Maybe surprisingly, in 1918 this new leader was the first to recognize the independence of Finland Lenin
#8679, aired 2022-07-07LITERARY CHARACTERS ON SCREEN: Per Guinness, this character who debuted in 1887 is the most portrayed human literary character in film & television Sherlock Holmes
#8670, aired 2022-06-24OSCAR-WINNING ACTORS: Each of the 3 films for which he won an Oscar, from 1975, 1983 & 1997, also garnered a Best Lead Actress Oscar Jack Nicholson
#8662, aired 2022-06-141972: In June he said, "Don't lie to them to the extent to say there is no involvement, but just say this is... a comedy of errors" Richard Nixon
#8642, aired 2022-05-17LITERATURE: A contemporary review of a novel by this man said he "commands attention as a kind of literary James Dean" (Jack) Kerouac
#8631, aired 2022-05-02THEATER: In November 1864 John Wilkes Booth & his brothers were fittingly part of a performance of this Shakespeare play Julius Caesar
#8628, aired 2022-04-27POETS: In 1939 he was buried near his last residence in France, but his body arrived in Galway en route to final burial on September 17, 1948 William Butler Yeats
#8625, aired 2022-04-22HISTORIC NAMES: DNA from 2 living descendants of Anne of York was used to identify the remains of this man Richard III
#8620, aired 2022-04-15ACADEMY AWARD WINNERS: In 2019 he won his first competitive Oscar, 36 years after a Student Academy Award for a film about a Brooklyn barbershop Spike Lee
#8606, aired 2022-03-28SPORTS HISTORY: Taking the mound for Cleveland in 1948, he was the first African American to pitch in a World Series Satchel Paige
#8602, aired 2022-03-22HISTORIC NICKNAMES: Napoleon's troops gave him this nickname not to mock him but for showing the courage of an infantryman in battle "The Little Corporal"
#8590, aired 2022-03-04LITERARY CHARACTERS: Dostoyevsky wrote that this title man in an earlier European novel is "beautiful only because he is ridiculous" Don Quixote
#8587, aired 2022-03-01THE SILVER SCREEN: He was the first actor to star in 3 films that won the Oscar for Best Picture: those of 1934, 1935 & 1939 Clark Gable
#16, aired 2022-02-18CHARACTERS IN BANNED BOOKS: Introduced in 1928, this character has a disappointing affair with a writer before she begins a more satisfying relationship Lady Chatterley
#15, aired 2022-02-18HISTORIC STRUCTURES: In 1100 the Bishop of Durham became the first prisoner here &, after plying his guards with wine, became the first to escape the Tower of London
#10, aired 2022-02-15RECENT BIOGRAPHIES: A 2021 book about his "Misunderstood Reign" argues that he hated slavery & actually suffered from bipolar disorder George III
#8577, aired 2022-02-1520th CENTURY AUTHORS: Early in his career he worked for a newspaper whose style guide said, "use short sentences" & "use vigorous English" (Ernest) Hemingway
#4, aired 2022-02-0920th CENTURY LEADERS: He's called "a flame of inspiration in freedom's darkest hour" in the proclamation making him an honorary U.S. citizen Winston Churchill
#8569, aired 2022-02-03FAMOUS AMERICANS: He was buried in 1969 in one of the World War II uniform jackets named for him Dwight Eisenhower
#8565, aired 2022-01-281970s SINGER-SONGWRITERS: While speaking to Congress in 1985, he explained that his 1973 hit, now a state song, wasn't about drugs John Denver
#8564, aired 2022-01-2718th CENTURY NAMES: In 1793 he left Dublin for the United States, saying, "I expect to make a fortune" off George Washington, & he did Gilbert Stuart
#8553, aired 2022-01-12HISTORIC AMERICANS: In 1838 he took a new last name, of a family in Walter Scott's "The Lady of the Lake"; for distinction he added a 2nd "S" to the end (Frederick) Douglass
#8551, aired 2022-01-1019th CENTURY NOTABLES: On his deathbed in France in 1890, he told his brother, "The sadness will last forever" Vincent van Gogh
#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
#8544, aired 2021-12-30EXPLORERS: Confirming a theory, fossils found with this explorer in 1912 included a plant from more than 250 million years ago (Robert Falcon) Scott
#8541, aired 2021-12-2720th CENTURY THEATER: In 1955 Peter Hall directed the first production of this play in English without having "the foggiest idea what some of it means" Waiting for Godot
#8516, aired 2021-11-2220th CENTURY PRESIDENTS: He won an election in which both he & his Democratic opponent were from Ohio & both were wealthy newspaper publishers (Warren G.) Harding
#8514, aired 2021-11-18HISTORY: In 1985 the mayor of Rome went to a suburb of Tunis to sign a treaty ending this after more than 2,100 years the (Third) Punic War(s) (Carthaginian Wars)
#8506, aired 2021-11-08NAMES IN AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY: He was Virginia's 1st African-American congressman, whose grandnephew, a famous poet, used his last name as a first name (John Mercer) Langston
#8505, aired 2021-11-05TOYS: Introduced in 1964, he fell out of favor in changing times & in 1970 was marketed as a "Land Adventurer" G.I. Joe
#8495, aired 2021-10-221970s TOP 40 HITS: Seeing a poster for a production of "Cyrano de Bergerac" in a seedy Paris hotel & ladies of the evening nearby inspired this hit "Roxanne"
#8492, aired 2021-10-19CONTEMPORARY AUTHORS: He has studied Cordon Bleu cooking, but is known for his 1981 creation of a character with unconventional taste in cuisine Thomas Harris
#8488, aired 2021-10-13SPORTS LEGENDS: When Johnny Bench broke his record, this man wrote, "I always thought the record would stand until it was broken" Yogi Berra
#8485, aired 2021-10-08THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE: British zoologist George Shaw looked for stitches when he first saw this mammal in 1799, thinking he was being tricked (the) duck-bill(ed) platypus
#8481, aired 2021-10-04RENAISSANCE MEN: 10 years before a more famous work, he wrote in 1503 that the way to deal with rebels is to placate them or eliminate them (Niccolò) Machiavelli
#8475, aired 2021-09-24HISTORY OF THE 19-TEENS: Saying he ignored warnings of enemy vessels, the British admiralty sought to blame William Turner, this ship's last captain in 1915 the Lusitania
#8468, aired 2021-09-15AUTHORS: In addition to knowing many languages & making up his own, he also taught language at the universities of Leeds & Oxford J.R.R. Tolkien
#8460, aired 2021-08-06LITERATURE & THE ANIMAL KINGDOM: In 2020 scientists named Trimeresurus salazar, a new species of this, after a character in a book series a snake
#8456, aired 2021-08-02HISTORIC BUSINESSMEN: Born in the village of Waldorf, Germany in 1763, he arrived in the U.S. in 1784 (John Jacob) Astor
#8448, aired 2021-07-21AFRICAN MONARCHS: Some devotees of this emperor who died in 1975 trace his lineage to King Solomon & the Queen of Sheba Haile Selassie
#8444, aired 2021-07-15BOOK CHARACTERS: Trying to emulate the title character, he fails & is told "You lack a set of spinnerets, & you lack know-how" Wilbur
#8442, aired 2021-07-13INVENTORS & INVENTIONS: In 1899 James Atkinson patented his new & improved one of these, including its spring-powered snapping action a mousetrap
#8423, aired 2021-06-16MOVIE CHARACTERS: A character who was going to be called Lunar Larry became him, inspired by the name of a real person Buzz Lightyear
#8422, aired 2021-06-15AMERICAN WOMEN: During her second marriage, she split her time among homes in New York, New Jersey, Paris & Greece & a yacht Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
#8418, aired 2021-06-091960s SINGERS: In 2002 Macon, Georgia, where he grew up, unveiled a statue of this man who sits overlooking the water, a nod to his posthumous No. 1 hit Otis Redding
#8414, aired 2021-06-0317th CENTURY FRENCHMEN: Pope Urban VIII once said, "if there is a God," this French minister "will have much to answer for. If not, he had a successful life" (Cardinal) Richelieu
#8412, aired 2021-06-01AROUND THE WORLD: In the 1860s a zoologist proposed that this island was once part of a lost continent he dubbed Lemuria Madagascar
#8405, aired 2021-05-21AMERICAN AUTHORS: The year before his 1809 birth, his parents acted in "King Lear", leading scholars to believe he was named for a "Lear" character Edgar Allan Poe
#8391, aired 2021-05-0319th CENTURY AMERICANS: His book "An Overland Journey from New York to San Francisco in the Summer of 1859" shows he heeded his own famous advice Horace Greeley
#8388, aired 2021-04-28HOLLYWOOD LEGENDS: This director was quoted as saying, "I believe I can take any 60 pages of the Bible and make a great picture" Cecil B. DeMille
#8371, aired 2021-04-05DAYTIME TV PERSONALITIES: Accepting a Lifetime Achievement Emmy, he said, "Just take... 10 seconds to think of the people who have helped you become who you are" Mr. (Fred) Rogers
#8370, aired 2021-04-02EPONYMOUS LANDMARKS: In 1960 the ashes of this aviator were spread over the Venezuela natural wonder he famously sighted decades earlier (James) Angel
#8367, aired 2021-03-30AMERICAN HISTORY: While performing in Philadelphia, the future father of this man sent a letter threatening to slit Andrew Jackson's throat (John Wilkes) Booth
#8365, aired 2021-03-2619th CENTURY AMERICANS: In 1869 he moved to Yosemite Valley & was the first to say the area was formed by glacial erosion, a theory generally accepted today (John) Muir
#8364, aired 2021-03-25LITERARY INSPIRATIONS: The now-debunked theories of Luigi Galvani influenced the science in this 1818 novel Frankenstein
#8348, aired 2021-03-03EUROPEAN LANDMARKS: Of the principal architects working on it from the mid-1500s to the 1980s, like Pierre Lescot & Hector Lefuel, none were foreigners the Louvre
#8324, aired 2021-01-2820th CENTURY AUTHORS: In a 1959 article he wrote, "People began to call themselves beatniks, beats... bugniks &... I was called the 'avatar' of all this" Jack Kerouac
#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
#8306, aired 2021-01-04LITERARY CHARACTERS OF THE 1600s: When the title character tells him that a great adventure may win him an island he can govern, he leaves his family Sancho Panza
#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
#8293, aired 2020-12-02NOVEL CHARACTERS: This character from an 1851 novel "was intent on an audacious, immitigable, and supernatural revenge" Captain Ahab
#8281, aired 2020-11-1618th CENTURY AMERICANS: One eulogizer of this man noted, he "was able to restrain thunderbolts & tyrants" Benjamin Franklin
#8268, aired 2020-10-28AWARDS & HONOREES: He used his 1983 Pritzker Prize money on a scholarship fund for Chinese students to study their profession in the United States I.M. Pei
#8264, aired 2020-10-2220th CENTURY ART: In occupied Paris, a German officer asked Picasso if he had done this masterpiece; he replied, "No, you did" Guernica
#8258, aired 2020-10-14MOVIE APPEARANCES: Not an actor, this man who died in 2018 appeared briefly in some 40 mainly action films with a combined $30 billion worldwide gross Stan Lee
#8253, aired 2020-10-07WHO SAID IT IN THE BIBLE?: He tells his son not to worry about the lamb for the burnt offering--God will provide it Abraham
#8248, aired 2020-09-30HISTORIC FIGURES: In a 1912 telegram to his wife, he said, "Am feeling fine. Have bullet in chest, but...talked for hour and half after being shot" Teddy Roosevelt
#8237, aired 2020-09-15THE MUSIC BIZ: In 2019, at a 60th anniversary event in Detroit, this producer announced his retirement saying he had "come full circle" Berry Gordy
#8232, aired 2020-06-09PRE-CIVIL WAR PRESIDENTS: Encyclopedia Britannica says of him: "After an extended tour of Europe he retired to Concord...& he died in obscurity" Franklin Pierce
#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
#8223, aired 2020-05-27FAIRY TALES: A familiar chant in this fairy tale continues, "Be he alive or be he dead, I'll grind his bones to make my bread" "Jack and the Beanstalk"
#8211, aired 2020-04-27CIVIL WAR PEOPLE: Before they were photographed together in 1862, Lincoln wryly noted this general "should have no problem" sitting still for it George McClellan
#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
#8190, aired 2020-03-27PRESIDENTIAL HISTORY: He was the first president to deliver the State of the Union Address on television Harry Truman
#8183, aired 2020-03-18FAIRS & EXPOSITIONS: To celebrate the 500th anniversary of a major event, Seville, Spain & Genoa, Italy both had expositions in this year 1992
#8179, aired 2020-03-12ACTORS: Speaking of his role in a 1964 film, he apologized for "the most atrocious Cockney accent in the history of cinema" Dick Van Dyke
#8166, aired 2020-02-24MUSIC STARS: On July 26, 1972 he testified before a Senate subcommittee on national penitentiaries Johnny Cash
#8146, aired 2020-01-27POETS: A Dartmouth dropout, he received 2 honorary degrees from Dartmouth--in 1933 & 1955 Robert Frost
#8, aired 2020-01-14SHAKESPEARE'S TRAGEDIES: He has 272 speeches, the most of any non-title character in a Shakespeare tragedy Iago
#8133, aired 2020-01-08EUROPEAN HISTORY: It took the French army until 1995 to declare him innocent, 101 years after he was convicted of treason (Alfred) Dreyfus
#2, aired 2020-01-07ASTRONOMERS: This man's name was given to a comet that crashed into Jupiter in 1994; he's the only human whose remains lie on the Moon Shoemaker
#8132, aired 2020-01-07INTERNATIONAL SPORTS STARS: Now with over 185 million followers, he surpassed Selena Gomez in 2018 to become the most followed person on Instagram (Cristiano) Ronaldo
#8126, aired 2019-12-301950s PEOPLE: In a New Yorker profile, he said, "Where I like it is out west in Wyoming, Montana, & Idaho, & I like Cuba & Paris" Ernest Hemingway
#8124, aired 2019-12-2619th CENTURY HISTORY: Wanting more French influence in the area he called Latin America, Napoleon III installed an emperor in this country Mexico
#8108, aired 2019-12-04OPERA TITLE NAMES: Before being consumed in flames, he flirts with a bride on her wedding day & a list of his amorous conquests is sung Don Giovanni
#8100, aired 2019-11-22HOME & GARDEN: In 1847 eccentric horticulturalist Sir Charles Isham popularized these when he imported terra cotta ones from Nuremberg garden gnomes
#8095, aired 2019-11-15INTERNATIONAL DISPUTES: A dispute over Etorofu, Habomai, Kunashiri & Shikotan has kept these 2 countries from ever signing a WWII peace treaty Japan & Russia
#8093, aired 2019-11-13ITALIAN INVENTORS: In a 1644 letter he wrote, "We live submerged at the bottom of an ocean of air", which is what his invention measures (Evangelista) Torricelli
#8084, aired 2019-10-31NOVELISTS: In a 1952 novel, he wrote, "But there were dry years too, & they put a terror on the valley. The water came in a thirty-year cycle" John Steinbeck
#8080, aired 2019-10-25BRITISH HISTORY: In 2018 Parliament Square got its first statue of a woman, Millicent Fawcett, a founding member of the London Society for Women's this Suffrage
#8078, aired 2019-10-231930s NOVEL CHARACTERS: Prior to a murder in a 1934 book, he says he hasn't been a detective since 1927 & that his wife inherited a lumber mill Nick Charles
#8070, aired 2019-10-11AMERICAN PLAYWRIGHTS: In 1963 the Pulitzer Advisory Board vetoed his controversial play & gave no award; he would go on to win 3 Pulitzers Edward Albee
#8051, aired 2019-09-16EUROPEAN AUTHORS: When he didn't win the inaugural 1901 Nobel Prize, 42 of his peers apologized to him, calling him "the most revered patriarch of today's literature" Leo Tolstoy
#8048, aired 2019-09-11CHILDREN'S BOOKS: The original title of this 1900 classic included a gem; another working title mentioned a Plains state The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
#8042, aired 2019-07-23TOYS & GAMES: The prototype for this game that was introduced in 1948 was called Lexiko Scrabble
#8041, aired 2019-07-22LANDMARKS: David Livingstone wrote of this discovery of his, "Scenes so lovely must have been gazed upon by angels in their flight" Victoria Falls
#8032, aired 2019-07-09ANCIENT TIMES: In 1955 King Paul of Greece unveiled a statue of this hero near the cliffs where he died in the 5th century B.C. Leonidas
#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
#8023, aired 2019-06-2619th CENTURY LITERARY CHARACTERS: "Hard and sharp as flint... he iced his office in the dog-days; and didn't thaw it one degree at Christmas" Ebenezer Scrooge
#8013, aired 2019-06-12POPULAR PRODUCTS: This product that brought virtual tourism into homes in 1939 introduced its first virtual reality device in 2015 View-Master
#8011, aired 2019-06-1020th CENTURY THEATER: The final scene of this play takes place by a grave & includes the line "He had the wrong dreams" Death of a Salesman
#8007, aired 2019-06-04WORLD TIME ZONES: This European country is still an hour ahead of GMT, a move made in 1940 to be on the same time as Nazi Germany Spain
#8005, aired 2019-05-31OSCAR-NOMINATED FAMILIES: It's the last name of Alfred, Lionel, David, Emil, Thomas & Randy, who with 90 nominations, are the most Oscar-nominated family Newman
#8001, aired 2019-05-27GAMES: When this game was introduced in 1860, it had squares like Intemperance & Poverty & if you hit the Suicide square your game was over The Game of Life
#7998, aired 2019-05-2219th CENTURY AMERICAN HISTORY: In 1832, by a narrow margin, this state's legislature rejected considering abolition; a split was completed in 1863 Virginia
#7996, aired 2019-05-20NAME THE FRENCH AUTHOR: "I am making myself liable to Articles 30 & 31 of the law of 29 July 1881 regarding the press, which make libel a punishable offense" Émile Zola
#7994, aired 2019-05-1620th CENTURY BESTSELLING AUTHORS: He once said, "In all of us there is a hunger, marrow-deep, to know our heritage...who we are and where we have come from" Alex Haley
#7987, aired 2019-05-07TEACHERS: As a teenager this woman regained her sight thanks to 2 surgeries in 1881 & 1882 Annie Sullivan
#7985, aired 2019-05-03WORDS OF THE 2000s: In 2008 Time magazine described this new practice as "one part social networking and one part capital accumulation" crowdfunding
#7980, aired 2019-04-2619th CENTURY NOVELS: The title character of this 1841 novel says he got his name because he kills bucks & does, but not people The Deerslayer
#7979, aired 2019-04-25THE ELEMENTS: Oddly, mining of this rare earth element with a geographic name, atomic no. 63, is mostly in Asia & with some in South America & Australia europium
#7973, aired 2019-04-1720th CENTURY LITERARY CHARACTERS: His first name refers to the ancient district in which you'd find the Greek capital; his surname is a bird Atticus Finch
#7961, aired 2019-04-01FICTIONAL CHARACTERS: In a 1947 collection he solved 12 mysteries, including "The Cretan Bull" & "The Girdle of Hyppolita" Hercule Poirot
#7960, aired 2019-03-29CHILDREN'S BOOKS: This 1883 classic ends with the words "A well-behaved little boy!" Pinocchio
#7957, aired 2019-03-2619th CENTURY AMERICANS: Though he became a Cabinet secretary & chief justice, once he wanted to change his name because of its "awkward, fishy" sound Salmon Chase
#7950, aired 2019-03-1519th CENTURY NAMES: In 1854 he became official musical instrument maker to Emperor Napoleon III; an instrument he invented is named for him Adolphe Sax
#7946, aired 2019-03-11PLAYWRIGHTS: Before his death in 2018 at age 91, he received 4 Tony Awards, a Pulitzer Prize & was nominated for 4 Oscars Neil Simon
#7931, aired 2019-02-18BRITISH AUTHORS: Born in 1866, he has been called "the Shakespeare of science fiction" H.G. Wells
#7930, aired 2019-02-1519th CENTURY INVENTORS: He spent his life improving a plant-based substance he described as a "vegetable leather" or "elastic metal" Charles Goodyear
#7928, aired 2019-02-13POETS: He gave his pets names like Wiscus, Pettipaws, George Pushdragon & Jellylorum, the last of which he used in a poem T.S. Eliot
#7924, aired 2019-02-07PRESIDENTS & THE MOVIES: 3 presidential films, all directed by Oliver Stone, have a total of only 9 letters in their titles--"Nixon" & these 2 W and JFK
#7916, aired 2019-01-2819th CENTURY NOVELS: Ambrose Bierce, a Civil War veteran, said of this 1895 book, the author "knows nothing of war, yet he is drenched in blood" The Red Badge of Courage
#7914, aired 2019-01-24U.K. PRIME MINISTERS: He was the first U.K. prime minister born after Elizabeth II became queen Tony Blair
#7907, aired 2019-01-15PRESIDENTIAL QUOTES: He said, "Victory over (the) Depression will be... by the resolution of our people to fight their own battles in their own communities" Herbert Hoover
#7905, aired 2019-01-11FAMOUS DOCTORS: Not an artist himself, he inspired the Surrealists but thought them "absolute cranks" until he met Dali in London in 1938 Sigmund Freud
#7901, aired 2019-01-0719th CENTURY NOTABLES: When he died in Samoa in 1894 his obituary said, "He loved Samoa better than any other place, except Scotland" Robert Louis Stevenson
#7889, aired 2018-12-20THE WORKS OF MOZART: Composed in 1791, the year he died, & last in the Kochel catalog of all his works, K. 626 is this work Requiem
#7888, aired 2018-12-19POETS' BIRTHPLACES: 5 Cwmdonkin Drive was the address of the family home where he was born in 1914 Dylan Thomas
#7886, aired 2018-12-17NORSE MYTHOLOGY: After turning himself into a mare, he gave birth to an 8-legged horse that was later the prized steed of Odin Loki
#7884, aired 2018-12-1319th CENTURY AUTHORS: In the preface to a book of his stories, he thanks a herpetologist of upper India & an elephant named Bahadur Shah Rudyard Kipling
#7868, aired 2018-11-21PRESIDENTIAL IRONY: 1 of the 2 presidents who offered Daniel Webster the VP slot; he declined both, thinking the job went nowhere Zachary Taylor or William Henry Harrison
#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
#7863, aired 2018-11-1419th CENTURY NAMES: In the 1870s he wrote that "man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits" Charles Darwin
#7852, aired 2018-10-30TODAY'S INNOVATORS: The Ballbarrow was an early invention by this British man who's had greater success with sophisticated household devices James Dyson
#7837, aired 2018-10-09WORLD LEADERS: He was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize twice & the Literature Prize 7 times, winning for the latter in 1953 Winston Churchill
#7836, aired 2018-10-08U.S. CAPITOL ART: Of the 23 lawgivers depicted on marble portraits over doors in the U.S. House chamber, he's the only one in the Bible Moses
#7832, aired 2018-10-02OSCAR HYPHENATES: This actor has never been nominated for acting--he won, though, as a writer for 1997 & as a producer for 2012 Ben Affleck
#7824, aired 2018-09-20FOLKLORE: In legend, he called all the animals together but only 12 came, including a rat & a dragon the Buddha
#7823, aired 2018-09-1918th CENTURY AMERICANS: In a famous 1775 speech, he said, "Our chains are forged! Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston!" Patrick Henry
#7814, aired 2018-07-26FAMOUS NAMES: Almost 100 when he died in 2018, this North Carolina man became just the 4th private citizen to lie in honor at the U.S. Capitol Billy Graham
#7801, aired 2018-07-09PRESIDENTS: Of the presidents who served more than 4 years, but less than 2 full terms, he served the longest: 7 years, 9 months, 8 days Harry Truman
#7787, aired 2018-06-1920th CENTURY AMERICAN HISTORY: On Nov. 3, 1948 he sent a congratulatory telegram, then told reporters, "I was just as surprised as you" Thomas Dewey
#7785, aired 2018-06-15ISLAND NAMES: A Portuguese explorer gave this name to an island he sighted off Africa's coast 40 days after Easter Ascension Island
#7777, aired 2018-06-05FICTIONAL CHARACTERS: He got a real N.Y. Times obit in 1975; it said he wore "false mustaches to mask signs of age that offended his vanity" Hercule Poirot
#7776, aired 2018-06-04AMERICAN QUOTES: In a 1789 letter, Benjamin Franklin relates the durability of the new Constitution to these 2 things death & taxes
#7775, aired 2018-06-01PRESIDENTS: BORN & DIED: Born the farthest west in the continental U.S. of any president, he would later die farthest from his birthplace Richard Nixon
#7770, aired 2018-05-25OSCAR-NOMINATED ACTORS: He was nominated twice for playing Oscar winners--a real one in a 1992 biopic & a fictional one in a 2008 combat comedy Robert Downey Jr.
#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
#7767, aired 2018-05-22FAMOUS RUSSIANS: In November 1836 this writer got a letter naming him to the Most Serene Order of Cuckolds; in February 1837 he was dead Alexander Pushkin
#7760, aired 2018-05-11U.S. POLITICAL HISTORY: President Madison is credited with the 1st of these 2-word actions; he didn't sign an 1812 bill after Congress had adjourned a pocket veto
#7753, aired 2018-05-0219th CENTURY AMERICANS: On July 10, 1804 he wrote a letter of goodbye, just in case, to "my dearest Theodosia"; he lived until 1836 Aaron Burr
#7745, aired 2018-04-20CLASSIC LITERARY CHARACTERS: He declares that one of the people he is trying to emulate is a medieval knight known as Amadís of Gaul Don Quixote de la Mancha
#7736, aired 2018-04-0920th CENTURY PRESIDENTS: He took the Oath of Office twice 14 months apart Lyndon B. Johnson
#7732, aired 2018-04-03AMERICAN HISTORY: In 1899, a reunion of this alliterative squad took place, with the governor of New York fittingly on horseback the Rough Riders
#7711, aired 2018-03-05OSCAR HISTORY: In the 1940s he became the first person to receive nominations as actor, director & writer for the same film Orson Welles
#7689, aired 2018-02-01U.S. AUTHORS: In his 1958 essay "Essentials of Spontaneous Prose", he compared a writing technique to a jazz musician's style Jack Kerouac
#7684, aired 2018-01-2519th CENTURY EUROPEANS: In an 1889 letter to his brother, he wrote, “I wouldn’t exactly have chosen madness if there had been a choice” Vincent van Gogh
#7671, aired 2018-01-08U.S. PRESIDENTS: He became an ex-president while flying over a point 13 miles southwest of Jefferson City, Missouri Richard Nixon
#7663, aired 2017-12-27PRESIDENTIAL HOMES: Originally called Rural Retreat, this 19th century presidential home has a name that's a synonym for "retreat" Hermitage
#7661, aired 2017-12-25AUTHORS: A prefatory poem he wrote to one of his novels tells of "the dream-child moving through a land of wonders wild and new" Lewis Carroll
#7659, aired 2017-12-21ADVERTISING CHARACTERS: This brand was looking for a Hemingway type when it hired Jonathan Goldsmith for its commercials Dos Equis
#7633, aired 2017-11-15HISTORIC NAMES: In 2013 the village of Belrain renamed the last street in France that bore the name of this hero who became a traitor Maréchal Philippe Petain
#7628, aired 2017-11-0819th CENTURY POETS: In 1824 he was refused burial in Westminster Abbey for "questionable morality"; in 1969 he got a memorial stone there Lord Byron
#7623, aired 2017-11-01THE OSCARS: For 1992, this New Yorker was the first man with 2 acting Oscar nominations in the same year for different films Al Pacino
#7614, aired 2017-10-19OSCAR WINNERS: He's the only actor to win 3 Best Actor Oscars, the most recent for his portrayal of a U.S. president Daniel Day-Lewis
#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
#7604, aired 2017-10-05ACTORS & THEIR MOVIE ROLES: He played Shakespearean title characters 4 times, receiving Best Actor Oscar nominations each time Laurence Olivier
#7602, aired 2017-10-0320th CENTURY WORLD LEADERS: He said, "Never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another" Nelson Mandela
#7595, aired 2017-09-22POETS: In an 1855 poem he wrote, "I guess it must be the flag of my disposition, out of hopeful green stuff woven" Walt Whitman
#7584, aired 2017-07-27THE OSCARS: This Brit is the only actor to get Oscar nominations for playing 2 real-life U.S. presidents, both for 1990s films Anthony Hopkins
#7574, aired 2017-07-13THE ACADEMY AWARDS: He holds the record for time between acting nominations for the same role, 39 years between 1976 & 2015 films Sylvester Stallone
#7563, aired 2017-06-28ENTREPRENEURS: In the 1960s M.T. Lott was one of the fictitious names he used to buy 27,000 acres in Florida Walt Disney
#7558, aired 2017-06-21SPORTS & POLITICS: After moving to Johannesburg in 1903, he formed the Passive Resisters Soccer Club Mohandas 'Mahatma' Gandhi
#7554, aired 2017-06-15RECENT OSCAR WINNERS: For his portrayal of a famous man born in the 1940s, he was the first actor born in the '80s to win the Best Actor Oscar Eddie Redmayne
#7553, aired 2017-06-14BOOKS & AUTHORS: His first novel, from 1920, incorporated some of his pieces from The Nassau, a Princeton literary magazine F. Scott Fitzgerald
#7552, aired 2017-06-1316th CENTURY NAMES: In his 1557 almanac this French doctor predicted, "Immortal I shall be in life, and in death even more so" Nostradamus
#7549, aired 2017-06-08WORLD WAR II HEROES: Credited with saving thousands of lives before his disappearance, in 2016 he was officially declared dead by Sweden Raoul Wallenberg
#7548, aired 2017-06-07BRITISH KINGS: Bearing Roman numeral I, he subdued Wales & was called the "English Justinian" for his legal reforms Edward I
#7533, aired 2017-05-17ERAS IN U.S. HISTORY: On April 11, 1865 Abraham Lincoln spoke of "the mode, manner, and means of" this, which he would not live to see Reconstruction
#7527, aired 2017-05-09FAMOUS TEACHERS: W.J. Bryan gave the keynote speech at this man's high school graduation in 1919; 6 years later their paths would cross again John Scopes
#7521, aired 2017-05-01THE SUPREME COURT: Only 5 of the 17 chief justices previously served as associate justice on the Supreme Court; he was the last William Rehnquist
#7518, aired 2017-04-26HISTORIC HOMES: While the White House was being built, George Washington's executive mansion was in this city Philadelphia
#7516, aired 2017-04-24U.S. PRESIDENTS: Though he graduated from high school in 1901 & later graduated to the presidency, he never graduated from college Harry Truman
#7515, aired 2017-04-2119th CENTURY EUROPE: Published in L'Aurore on January 13, 1898, it caused its author to be convicted of libel J'accuse
#7513, aired 2017-04-19HISTORIC U.S. LAWS: By barring holding positions at competing firms, 1914's Clayton Act plugged gaps in this law the Sherman Anti-Trust Act
#7506, aired 2017-04-10AMERICAN AUTHORS: Leviathan is a journal put out 3 times a year by an organization dedicated to this author & his works Herman Melville
#7502, aired 2017-04-04CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS: Raised in industrial Yorkshire, he moved to L.A. in 1964 & thought, "This is the place to be--in the land of swimming pools" David Hockney
#7500, aired 2017-03-31FAMOUS BRITISH NAMES: He used the coat of arms granted to his father in 1596; it depicts a long-shafted weapon, a visual pun on the family name William Shakespeare
#7498, aired 2017-03-29WORDS IN THE NEWS 2016: NASA wished John Glenn this 8-letter word when he made the 1st U.S. manned orbital flight in 1962 & again upon his passing in 2016 godspeed
#7490, aired 2017-03-1720th CENTURY BOOKS: William Goldman asked his daughters what he should write about; they said these 2 things, which he combined The Princess Bride
#7486, aired 2017-03-13BIBLICAL WHO'S WHO: Among the places he visited on his second missionary journey were Galatia & Corinth St. Paul (or Saul)
#7480, aired 2017-03-03AUTHORS' EPITAPHS: His tombstone in a Hampshire churchyard reads, "Knight, patriot, physician & man of letters" & "22 May 1859-7 July 1930" Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
#7474, aired 2017-02-23SHAKESPEARE CHARACTERS: About himself he says, "Since the heavens have shap'd my body so, let hell make crook'd my mind to answer it" Richard III
#7466, aired 2017-02-13BOOKS OF THE BIBLE: It begins with God saying, "Take ye the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel" Numbers
#7456, aired 2017-01-30NAMES IN AMERICAN HISTORY: He headed a British committee on prison reform, which gave him the idea for founding a colony in America in 1732 James Oglethorpe
#7454, aired 2017-01-2620th CENTURY PLAYWRIGHTS: He said of his 1949 play & its main character, "I could write about failure only because I could deal with it...I knew how he felt" Arthur Miller
#7449, aired 2017-01-1920th CENTURY ARTISTS: A 1910 magazine article asked this groundbreaking artist if he used models; he grinned & said, "Where would I get them?" (Pablo) Picasso
#7438, aired 2017-01-04CLASSIC MOVIE ROLES: A letter to the director that said, "Dear sir, I am fat & wear spectacles" got a young actor a role in this 1963 film Lord of the Flies
#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
#7423, aired 2016-12-14AMERICAN AUTHORS: Nominated 8 previous times, he finally won a Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962, 6 years before his death John Steinbeck
#7421, aired 2016-12-12SCIENTISTS: In a 1694 Royal Society lecture, he suggested an astronomical cause for the biblical flood in Genesis Edmond Halley
#7417, aired 2016-12-06AUTHORS: Asked if he read novels, philosopher Gilbert Ryle said, "Yes, all six, every year", referring to this British author Jane Austen
#7414, aired 2016-12-01THE DECORATIVE ARTS: In the early 1700s in Dresden, King Augustus locked up a chemist until he found how to make this product dubbed "white gold" porcelain
#7411, aired 2016-11-28WORLD FLAGS: Peter the Great designed Russia's flag based on the tricolor flag of this nation where he'd gone to learn shipbuilding the Netherlands
#7410, aired 2016-11-25ENTERTAINERS: He won a Tony & later an Oscar for the same role & decades later, published a memoir called "Master of Ceremonies" Joel Grey
#7408, aired 2016-11-23NAMES IN THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION: A newspaper announcing his death in 1801 said he died in England & was "notorious throughout the world" Benedict Arnold
#7407, aired 2016-11-22EARLY AMERICA: William Bradford wrote that this document was partly inspired by the "mutinous speeches" of some passengers the Mayflower Compact
#7406, aired 2016-11-21FAMOUS NAMES: At a May 1989 ceremony in Cape Town, he received a bachelor of laws correspondence degree in absentia Nelson Mandela
#7402, aired 2016-11-15MEN OF SCIENCE: The symbols for 6 chemical elements spell out his name, beginning with cobalt, phosphorus & erbium Copernicus
#7394, aired 2016-11-03LITERARY ANIMALS: In a 1926 book, he "is in a very sad condition, because it's his birthday, & nobody has taken any notice of it, & he's very gloomy" Eeyore
#7393, aired 2016-11-02EW's 50 GREATEST MOVIE DIRECTORS: He "inaugurated a new depth--both visually... and emotionally... and (had) a voice that paid the bills until he died" Orson Welles
#7382, aired 2016-10-18FUNNYMEN: He's won 4 Emmys, 3 Grammys, an Oscar & 3 Tonys, & 3 of his films rank on AFI's list of funniest movies of all time Mel Brooks
#7379, aired 2016-10-13THE OSCARS: In 2005 he lost for Best Actor but won for directing, at 74 becoming the oldest winner ever in that category Clint Eastwood
#7375, aired 2016-10-07TELEVISION: The focus of a 1970s miniseries & its recent remake, he arrived at Annapolis in 1767 aboard the ship the Lord Ligonier Kunta Kinte
#7372, aired 2016-10-04IN THE NOVEL: The 1st scene in this book: "With the brass nozzle in his fists, with this great python spitting its venomous kerosene" Fahrenheit 451
#7361, aired 2016-09-19AUTHORS: In 1948 he wrote he had an idea for a novel in which 2 guys hitchhike to California "in search of something they don't really find" Jack Kerouac
#7357, aired 2016-09-1319th CENTURY MILITARY MEN: In 1895 he wrote to his family that with "superhuman strength" he would "discover the truth... on the tragic affair" Alfred Dreyfus
#7356, aired 2016-09-12ASIAN ISLANDS: Phuket, the largest island of this country, has regained its tourism industry after a natural disaster in 2004 Thailand
#7353, aired 2016-07-2720th CENTURY ENGLISH NOBILITY: In Africa on Nov. 26, 1922, he anxiously asked Howard Carter, “Can you see anything?” Lord Carnarvon
#7352, aired 2016-07-26AMERICAN AUTHORS: On his 1849 death, it was said he was "regarded rather with curiosity than admiration" & "few will be grieved" Edgar Allan Poe
#7347, aired 2016-07-19JUDGES: Before he headed up the Supreme Court, he argued only 1 case before it--a 1796 case he ironically argued on states' rights grounds John Marshall
#7332, aired 2016-06-28AMERICAN INVENTORS: Before his death in 1932, he donated over $100 million, including $50 million to the University of Rochester George Eastman
#7331, aired 2016-06-27FRENCH MONARCHS: His reign was interrupted for "100 days" in the 19th century before he was restored & reigned for 9 years more Louis XVIII
#7330, aired 2016-06-24ALLITERATIVE AMERICANS: In 1932 he & several San Francisco colleagues formed Group f/64 to promote greater realism in their art Ansel Adams
#7328, aired 2016-06-22EUROPEAN GEOGRAPHY: Excluding Russia, it has the longest mainland coastline of any European country, 15,626 miles Norway
#7322, aired 2016-06-14CONTEMPORARIES: In an 1864 letter, he congratulated Abraham Lincoln on reelection on behalf of "the workingmen of Europe" Karl Marx
#7320, aired 2016-06-10FAMOUS AMERICANS: Of his greatest accomplishment, he humbly remarked, "Pilots... take pride in a good landing, not in getting out of the vehicle" Neil Armstrong
#7307, aired 2016-05-2419th CENTURY NOTABLES: He died in New Orleans on December 6, 1889, a little over 20 years after his treason case had been dropped Jefferson Davis
#7300, aired 2016-05-1320th CENTURY PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES: He was awarded a DFC in WWII for a combat mission as pilot of the B-24 bomber he named the "Dakota Queen" George McGovern
#7294, aired 2016-05-0519th CENTURY AMERICANS: In 1855 he wrote, "The public appears disposed to be amused even when they are conscious of being deceived" P.T. Barnum
#7286, aired 2016-04-25METAPHORICAL PHRASES: In the late 1800s Clark Stanley was a notorious seller of this 2-word product, which he advertised as a curative liniment snake oil
#7285, aired 2016-04-2219th CENTURY BRITS: In May 1810 during one of his more famous exploits, he employed the breaststroke Byron
#7282, aired 2016-04-1918th CENTURY BRITISH SCIENTISTS: In 1705 he wrote, "And, if it should then return, we shall have no reason to doubt but the rest must return too" (Edmond) Halley
#7277, aired 2016-04-12THE 1960s: In 1963 he wrote to MLK seeking a united front of "all Negro factions" against "a common problem posed by a common enemy" Malcolm X
#7268, aired 2016-03-30OBITUARIES: On his death in 2015, his New York Times obit said he "built his stardom 90 percent on skill and half on wit" Yogi Berra
#7264, aired 2016-03-2419th CENTURY AMERICANS: In 1872 he wrote his thesis "Diseases of the Teeth" & soon after moved west to a drier climate for his health Doc Holliday
#7261, aired 2016-03-21WORLD HERITAGE SITES: The 14th century Citadel of the Ho Dynasty in this country was added to the World Heritage List in 2011 Vietnam
#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
#7238, aired 2016-02-17THE AFI's 100 YEARS... 100 MOVIES: This man who was in "The Godfather" & "Apocalypse Now" is the only living actor in 6 or more films on the list Robert Duvall
#7233, aired 2016-02-10CHILDREN'S AUTHORS: At 24 he began a verse retelling the Cupid & Psyche myth, including a character named Caspian C.S. Lewis
#7231, aired 2016-02-08ROYALTY: In 1604, for a special project, he approved a list of scholars to work at Westminster, Cambridge & Oxford James I
#7230, aired 2016-02-05U.S. PRESIDENTS: He was the only 20th century president who never delivered an inaugural address President Ford
#7225, aired 2016-01-29THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION: He wrote, "As life and fortune are risked by serving his majesty, it is necessary that the latter shall be secured" Benedict Arnold
#7220, aired 2016-01-22ANCIENT HISTORY: Pantites, sent to recruit troops, & Aristodemus, sent off to treat his eye disease, were the only known Greeks to survive this event the Battle of Thermopylae
#7203, aired 2015-12-30GERMAN SCIENTISTS: Best known for his theories about planetary orbits, in 1604 he became the first to explain how eyeglasses correct vision Johannes Kepler
#7200, aired 2015-12-25PLAYWRIGHTS: He wrote the line "Our home has been nothing but a playroom" Henrik Ibsen
#7199, aired 2015-12-24AMERICAN BUSINESSMEN: Ironically, this man worth tens of millions when he died in 1990 said his parents named him with a socialist logo in mind Armand Hammer
#7191, aired 2015-12-14HISTORIC PLACES: In 1761 he started running a ferry where the Potomac meets the Shenandoah Robert Harper
#7180, aired 2015-11-27AUTHORS: In 1990 he said, "I would like to do what Faulkner did; carve out a little piece of Mississippi territory & claim it for my own" John Grisham
#7179, aired 2015-11-26NATO COUNTRIES: With a population of under 400,000, this founding member of NATO remains the smallest of the member nations Iceland
#7177, aired 2015-11-24THE OSCARS: For films of 2005 through 2012, he received nominations for Best Picture, Director, Writing & Acting George Clooney
#7176, aired 2015-11-23THE 16th CENTURY: In 1521 he was the credited author of "Defense of the 7 Sacraments" against Martin Luther's attacks Henry VIII
#7175, aired 2015-11-20PHILOSOPHERS: His last name means a type of burial place & in 1855 that's where he went Søren Kierkegaard
#7174, aired 2015-11-19FRENCH NOVEL TITLE HEROES: He "looked as if he had been shut up for a long time in a tomb and... been unable to recover the... complexion of the living" the Count of Monte Cristo
#7172, aired 2015-11-17AFRICAN COUNTRIES: These 2 6-letter rhyming countries both derive their names from rivers & were both once controlled by Great Britain Zambia & Gambia
#7166, aired 2015-11-09AMERICAN AUTHORS: He was the first to have both fiction & nonfiction No. 1 New York Times best sellers; the latter featured his beloved poodle John Steinbeck
#7162, aired 2015-11-0320th CENTURY BUSINESSMEN: In 1915 he dropped bomb-shaped cardboard leaflets on Seattle to promote military aviation Boeing
#7159, aired 2015-10-29AFRICA: On the Horn of Africa, it's the only country whose name in English begins with a silent letter Djibouti
#7157, aired 2015-10-27THE FOUNDING FATHERS: On an alphabetical list of Declaration of Independence signers, he comes between Lyman Hall & Benjamin Harrison John Hancock
#7148, aired 2015-10-14U.S. LANDMARKS: For its 50th anniversary in 2012, the roof of this landmark was temporarily repainted its original color, Galaxy Gold the Space Needle (in Seattle)
#7145, aired 2015-10-09VIDEO GAMES: As part of its 30th anniversary celebration in 2014, this video game used the slogan "We all fit together" Tetris
#7142, aired 2015-10-06EUROPEAN AUTHORS: "To explain... Harry by the artless division into wolf and man is a hopelessly childish attempt", he wrote in 1927 Hermann Hesse
#7129, aired 2015-09-17CONTEMPORARIES: On an 1851 visit to Europe, Mathew Brady had hoped to meet this man who inspired him, but he died just as Brady set sail Louis Daguerre
#7127, aired 2015-09-15GREAT THINKERS: 239 years ago he wrote of "the enormous debts which... will in the long run probably ruin all the great nations of Europe" Adam Smith
#7123, aired 2015-07-29WOMEN AUTHORS: This woman who passed away in 2015 wrote what is billed as Australia's "Gone with the Wind" Colleen McCullough
#7121, aired 2015-07-27CLASSICAL MUSIC: The first movement of the 1888 suite named for her is titled "The Sea and Sindbad's Ship" Scheherazade
#7117, aired 2015-07-21HISTORIC NAMES: In 1909 this Oxford student surveyed Crusader castles in the Mideast; a few years later he returned for less peaceful activities T.E. Lawrence
#7108, aired 2015-07-08THE THOMAS JEFFERSON ADMINISTRATION: Of this agreement, Thomas Jefferson said he "stretched the Constitution until it cracked" the Louisiana Purchase
#7095, aired 2015-06-1920th CENTURY SCIENTISTS: Everything changed in 1924 after he observed, "I have found a Cepheid variable in the Andromeda Nebula" Edwin Hubble
#7092, aired 2015-06-16QUOTABLE PAINTERS: "A reviewer... wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or any end. He didn't mean it as a compliment, but it was" Jackson Pollock
#7091, aired 2015-06-1519th CENTURY POETRY: He rhymed the title character of one of his best-known poems with "drew on", "threw on" & "ruin" Lord Byron
#7089, aired 2015-06-11MEDITERRANEAN ISLANDS: A statue of St. Paul is located on this island where he took refuge after a shipwreck Malta
#7082, aired 2015-06-02INFAMOUS: Born in Illinois of Huguenot ancestry, he was executed in June 1882, a year after his heinous act Charles Guiteau
#7074, aired 2015-05-2119th CENTURY AUTHORS: In an essay, he wrote, "I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than be crowded on a velvet cushion" Thoreau
#7066, aired 2015-05-11THE OSCARS: Last name of the only family to have a father & daughter receive Academy Award nominations for Best Director Coppola
#7060, aired 2015-05-01VICE PRESIDENTS: Of the 5 former vice presidents still living, he held the office the earliest Walter Mondale
#7056, aired 2015-04-27WEDDINGS: In April 2011 he married an heiress to the fortune of a company called Party Pieces Prince William
#7055, aired 2015-04-24ACTORS: Ironically, in the summer of 1955, he gave an interview about the dangers of racing on highways James Dean
#7042, aired 2015-04-07CELEBRITY FATHERS & DAUGHTERS: He won a Grammy in 1959, she won 3 in the 1970s & a song by both was 1991's Song & Record of the Year Nat King Cole & Natalie Cole
#7035, aired 2015-03-27TRANSPORTATION: Incorporated in 1948, this company chose its name from the book of the Hebrew prophet Hosea El Al Airlines
#7032, aired 2015-03-24THE SCULPTOR SPEAKS: "Chaste women remain fresher" was the reason he made a mother look barely older than her son Michelangelo
#7030, aired 2015-03-20UNWANTED FIRSTS: Jean Valliere, burned in 1523, is considered the first martyr of this religious group the Huguenots
#7023, aired 2015-03-112014 ALBUMS: With a new release & 8 viral videos to go with it, he had the first comedy album in 50 years to top the Billboard 200 "Weird Al" Yankovic
#7022, aired 2015-03-10NOBEL LAUREATES: He was the subject of a 2014 New York Times article headlined "A Pioneer as Elusive as His Particle" Peter Higgs
#7021, aired 2015-03-09LITERARY CHARACTERS: The first story in which he appeared began, "The scent and smoke and sweat of a casino are nauseating at 3 in the morning" James Bond
#7016, aired 2015-03-02LITERARY 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)
#7014, aired 2015-02-26FOREIGN LEADERS: On February 25, 1956, he gave a speech "On the Personality Cult and Its Consequences", seen as an attack on his predecessor Khrushchev
#7009, aired 2015-02-19POETS: On completing the "Deathbed" edition of his great work, he wrote, "L. of G. at last complete--after 33 y'rs of hackling at it" Walt Whitman
#7005, aired 2015-02-13HISTORIC NAMES ON THE MAP: Nothing is known of his early life in England before 1600 or of the end of his life in North America after June 22, 1611 Henry Hudson
#7004, aired 2015-02-12WORLD GEOGRAPHY: Not in the 10 longest, this 1,560-mile river in a fertile basin flows by 29 cities of over 100,000 people the Ganges
#7003, aired 2015-02-11REFERENCE BOOK MAKERS: In 1863 he used the epigraph "I have gathered... other men's flowers, & nothing but the thread that binds them is mine own" John Bartlett
#7001, aired 2015-02-0919th CENTURY WRITERS: After his death, he was given full military honors in Greece before his body was returned home for burial at his baronial seat Lord Byron
#6995, aired 2015-01-30INVENTORS: In 1702 Thomas Savery wrote of one of his designs, "Such an engine will do the work or labour of ten or twelve" these horses
#6988, aired 2015-01-21FICTION: A line in this short story is "Slowly, awkwardly trying out his feelers, which he now first learned to appreciate..." "The Metamorphosis"
#6987, aired 2015-01-20LAST WORDS: In 1170 he said, "I am ready to die for my Lord, that in my blood the Church may obtain liberty and peace" St. Thomas Becket
#6980, aired 2015-01-09FAMOUS AMERICANS: In 1982, 72 years after his death, he became the first person inducted into the Hall of Famous Missourians Mark Twain
#6979, aired 2015-01-08ARTISTS: He said a 2009 exhibit was the 1st time taxpayers' money was used "to hang my pictures up rather than scrape them off" Banksy
#6972, aired 2014-12-30ROYALTY: He was the last English monarch to die in battle Richard III
#6968, aired 2014-12-24OSCAR-WINNING ACTRESSES: With a total of 5 wins, they're the only 2 Best Actress winners who were known professionally by the same last name Katharine & Audrey Hepburn
#6947, aired 2014-11-25PEOPLE IN THE ARTS: He once said, "It is through fantasy that children achieve catharsis. It is the best means they have for taming wild things" Maurice Sendak
#6945, aired 2014-11-21SHAKESPEAREAN GEOGRAPHY: Of the 5 cities mentioned in Shakespeare play titles, it's the only one not found in Europe Tyre
#6932, aired 2014-11-04THE SUPREME COURT: After Washington & FDR, he is, perhaps fittingly, the president who appointed the most Supreme Court justices (William Howard) Taft
#6931, aired 2014-11-03SCIENTISTS: Accepting his 1922 Nobel Prize in Stockholm, he spoke of "the intellectual solidarity" in the Scandinavian countries Niels Bohr
#6926, aired 2014-10-27ROCK & ROLL: A restaurant chain took its name from a British band's fourth chart-topper, this 1967 song "Ruby Tuesday"
#6919, aired 2014-10-16LITERATURE: This title 1864 adventure is embarked upon by a descent into Iceland's Mount Sneffels Journey to the Center of the Earth
#6916, aired 2014-10-13SPORTS FIGURES: He was featured on the September 22, 1947 cover of Time with the caption "He and the boss took a chance" Jackie Robinson
#6914, aired 2014-10-09HISTORICAL FIGURES: A 2012 poll by Britain's National Army Museum voted this man, born in 1732, as the nation's greatest military enemy George Washington
#6913, aired 2014-10-08NOVEL TITLE CHARACTERS: "His madness being stronger than any other faculty", he "resolved to have himself dubbed a knight by the first person he met" Don Quixote
#6912, aired 2014-10-07FAUXBITUARIES: He received a real obituary in the Albuquerque Journal in 2013 noting his "long battle with lung cancer" Walter White
#6907, aired 2014-09-30WORLD LEADERS: He came to power 34 days before FDR & left it 19 days after him Adolf Hitler
#6905, aired 2014-09-26FAMOUS AMERICANS: In 1936 at age 79, he published an article in Esquire magazine in which he described how to pick a jury Clarence Darrow
#6896, aired 2014-09-15AUTHORS: In 1937 his sister said he had "hats of every description" which he would use as a "foundation of his next book" Dr. Seuss
#6893, aired 2014-07-30GREAT MOMENTS IN 19th CENTURY SCIENCE: Matthias Schleiden found plants are made up of these; at dinner he told Theodor Schwann who said, hey, so are animals cells
#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
#6884, aired 2014-07-1716th CENTURY SCIENTISTS: It is often said of this man that he "stopped the Sun and moved the Earth" Copernicus
#6871, aired 2014-06-301970s FILMS: In 2013 Mario Cuomo said he finally saw this film, which he had boycotted for personal reasons, & called it "maybe... a masterpiece" The Godfather
#6860, aired 2014-06-13FOREIGN AFFAIRS: William Sullivan retired from the Foreign Service in 1979; he was the last U.S. Ambassador to this country Iran
#6855, aired 2014-06-0620th CENTURY AMERICANS: In 1911 Glenn Curtiss received this document Number 1 a pilot's license
#6851, aired 2014-06-02OSCAR-WINNING WRITERS: Winning for 1999, this New England writer is the last person to win an Oscar for adapting his own novel John Irving
#6846, aired 2014-05-26TITLE MOVIE ROLES: In 1984, in the first of the films featuring this character, he only has 21 lines, for a total of 133 words the Terminator
#6845, aired 2014-05-23THE 1960s: In his last speech, he mentioned local newsmakers of the day, including his friend Cesar Chavez & Don Drysdale Robert F. Kennedy
#6837, aired 2014-05-13MONARCHS: 2 teen Hashemite cousins officially took the thrones of their respective countries May 2, 1953: Faisal of Iraq & him King Hussein of Jordan (the Hashemite Kingdom)
#6835, aired 2014-05-09FAMOUS BOOKS: It was published March 26, 1830; a very popular work with the same name premiered March 24, 2011 The Book of Mormon
#6833, aired 2014-05-07SUPREME COURT DECISIONS: On December 20, 1956 the Court's ruling on Browder v. Gayle went into effect, bringing an end to this 381-day event the Montgomery bus boycott
#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
#6824, aired 2014-04-24DIARIES & JOURNALS: This archaeologist's diary for November 26, 1922 mentions 2 "ebony-black effigies of a king, gold sandalled" Howard Carter
#6820, aired 2014-04-18CHARACTERS IN NOVELS: One of this man's "most priceless memories" is of "a delicately nurtured Southern belle with her Irish up" Rhett Butler
#6819, aired 2014-04-1719th CENTURY PRESIDENTS: Good looks weren't enough as he became the only full-term president rejected in a bid for his party's 2nd term nomination Franklin Pierce
#6815, aired 2014-04-11HISTORIC IRONY: Theodor Herzl was inspired to begin the work that's the foundation for modern Zionism by an opera by this composer Richard Wagner
#6814, aired 2014-04-10FOREIGN LEADERS: In 1964 he was convicted of sabotage & conspiracy & served over 20 years in prison Nelson Mandela
#6797, aired 2014-03-18BRITISH AUTHORS: The author of more than 50 books, he won 6 Hugo awards & was nominated for a 1968 Oscar Arthur C. Clarke
#6795, aired 2014-03-14ACTORS & OSCARS: He was nominated for Oscars in 5 consecutive decades; the last nod was for his 1978 role as a Nazi hunter Sir Laurence Olivier
#6794, aired 2014-03-13WORLD CAPITALS: At 4,000 miles, the farthest-apart capitals of bordering countries are these 2 cities, one on a peninsula Moscow & Pyongyang
#6793, aired 2014-03-12BRITISH ROYALTY: He was the last male monarch who had not previously been Prince of Wales George VI
#6792, aired 2014-03-11NOVEL TITLES: The title of this 1951 novel comes from the hero's fantasy of rescuing children falling from a cliff The Catcher in the Rye
#6791, aired 2014-03-10AMERICAN COMPOSERS: A protege of Oscar Hammerstein, he's won Grammys, an Oscar, a Pulitzer Prize & the most Tony Awards by a composer Stephen Sondheim
#6789, aired 2014-03-06PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHORS: He's the most recent winner of 2 Pulitzer Prizes for Fiction, winning in 1982 & 1991 for books in the same series John Updike
#6786, aired 2014-03-03PRESIDENTS: He is the only 19th century president to serve 2 complete terms with the same vice president James Monroe
#6784, aired 2014-02-27LANDMARKS: From 1936 to 1987, the Los Angeles Department of Water & Power helped operate this facility in another state Hoover Dam
#6781, aired 2014-02-2419th CENTURY PEOPLE: Frederick Douglass said this man's "zeal in the cause of my race was far greater than mine" John Brown
#6778, aired 2014-02-19SHAKESPEARE CHARACTERS: He has the most speeches of any character with 471 in 3 plays, of which 2 are histories & 1 is a comedy Falstaff
#6776, aired 2014-02-1719th CENTURY NAMES: In preparation for a work he published in 1828 that was over 20 years in the making, he learned 26 languages Noah Webster
#6767, aired 2014-02-0420th CENTURY WOMEN AUTHORS: Readers' letters to this author about her 1948 short story asked where the title event was held & if they could go & watch Shirley Jackson
#6765, aired 2014-01-31INVENTORS: In an 1854 demonstration, he said, "Cut the rope"; his invention kicked in, then he said, "All safe, gentlemen" Elisha Otis
#6764, aired 2014-01-30COMEDIC ACTRESSES: She's won Emmys for 3 different TV shows & in 2013 she broke Lucille Ball's record for most nominations by a comedic actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus
#6759, aired 2014-01-23NOTABLE NAMES: During a jubilee celebration in 2003, he became the first foreigner to be made an honorary citizen of Nepal (Edmund) Hillary
#6758, aired 2014-01-22LITERARY TITLE CHARACTERS: Lord Henry tells him, "What an exquisite life you have had!... It has not marred you. You are still the same" Dorian Gray
#6744, aired 2014-01-02ACTORS: In the '50s he won a Tony for Best Supporting Actor in a Musical & a Best Actor Oscar for playing the same role, a monarch Yul Brynner
#6743, aired 2014-01-01NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS: This intellectual forum started in 1984, bringing together people from 3 different industries, hence its 3-letter name TED
#6726, aired 2013-12-09U.S. PRESIDENTS: Although born in the United States, he was the only president who spoke English as a second language Martin Van Buren
#6714, aired 2013-11-21U.S. PRESIDENTS: The second man to become president who was never elected to the job, he twice ran for the position unsuccessfully Millard Fillmore
#6697, aired 2013-10-29MOVIE COMEDIES: The hero of this 1993 comedy says he's "been stabbed, shot, poisoned, frozen, hung, electrocuted & burned" Groundhog Day
#6695, aired 2013-10-25EUROPEAN LITERATURE: This 1922 novel's first chapter is titled "The Son of the Brahman" Siddhartha
#6682, aired 2013-10-08PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION HISTORY: In 1948 he won South Carolina with 72% of the vote & 3 other states but finished a distant third overall Strom Thurmond
#6673, aired 2013-09-2520th CENTURY NAMES: Since his 1988 death, he's been inducted into the U.S. Hockey, World Figure Skating & National Inventors Halls of Fame Zamboni
#6669, aired 2013-09-19CLASSIC ALBUMS: This 1960s album ends with the line "I'd love to turn you on" Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
#6663, aired 2013-07-31THE CIVIL WAR: Abraham Lincoln called this document, which took effect in 1863, "a fit and necessary war measure" the Emancipation Proclamation
#6658, aired 2013-07-243-NAMED PEOPLE: Born in what's now Maine in 1807, he's honored with a bust in a special section of Westminster Abbey Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#6650, aired 2013-07-12VIDEO GAME HISTORY: The title princess of this game, which launched a best-selling franchise, was named for F. Scott Fitzgerald's wife The Legend of Zelda
#6648, aired 2013-07-10AUTHORS: He quit pursuing a Ph.D. in 1926 to pursue drawing, but you might say he gave himself the degree anyway Dr. Seuss (Theodor Geisel)
#6625, aired 2013-06-07AMERICAN WRITERS: Contemporary reviews called this writer "A Yankee Diogenes" & the "Concord Diogenes" Henry David Thoreau
#6622, aired 2013-06-04NOTABLE NAMES: In August 2012 the Telegraph of London ran the headline "Paralympics 2012:" he "opens ceremony with a 'Big Bang'" Stephen Hawking
#6619, aired 2013-05-30AMERICAN SCIENTISTS: In 1920, the New York Times said he lacks the “knowledge ladled out daily in high schools”; on July 17, 1969, the paper apologized Robert Goddard
#6618, aired 2013-05-29AMERICAN MILITARY MEN: In April 1951 he told Congress, "In war there can be no substitute for victory" General MacArthur
#6611, aired 2013-05-2020th CENTURY PEOPLE: In a PS to an April 12, 1945 letter, he wrote, "This was dictated before the world fell in on me... what a blow it was, but--I must meet it" Harry Truman
#6587, aired 2013-04-16NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNERS: The winner in 1984, he likes to be called "Arch", a reference to his job Desmond Tutu
#6585, aired 2013-04-12PHYSICISTS: On Oct. 14, 1992 particle detector inventor Georges Charpak became the last man in physics to achieve this honor alone the Nobel Prize
#6575, aired 2013-03-29PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS: Since 1850, 1 of the 2 Republicans to appear on the ticket as president or vice president 3 elections in a row Richard Nixon or George H.W. Bush
#6569, aired 2013-03-21ARTISTS: On his deathbed he told police, "What I have done is nobody else's business"; one theory is he was protecting others (Vincent) van Gogh
#6560, aired 2013-03-08THE OSCARS: Brother & sister who were both nominated for 1969 Oscars: he for a screenplay, she for Best Actress; they didn't win Jane Fonda & Peter Fonda
#6542, aired 2013-02-12MILITARY MEN: On June 6, 1944 he said, "The eyes of the world are upon you" Dwight David Eisenhower
#6539, aired 2013-02-07CAPITAL CITIES: It's criss-crossed by dozens of "peace walls" that separate its Catholic & Protestant neighborhoods Belfast
#6538, aired 2013-02-06FAMOUS ASIANS: When this diplomat met the singer Psy in 2012, he said, "Until 2 days ago... I was the most famous Korean in the world" Ban Ki-moon
#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"
#6533, aired 2013-01-30HISTORIC QUOTES: In April 1865 he said, "Go home, all you boys who fought with me, and help to build up the shattered fortunes of our old state" Robert E. Lee
#6520, aired 2013-01-11RIVERS: It's the world's longest river whose outflow is into an entirely inland body of water the Volga River
#6511, aired 2012-12-31COMPOSERS' BIRTHPLACES: The town where he was born in 1811 is now in far eastern Austria; when he was born there it belonged to another country Franz Liszt
#6510, aired 2012-12-28AMERICAN AUTHORS: In 1886 he wrote, "My books are water; those of the great geniuses is wine. Everybody drinks water" Mark Twain
#6509, aired 2012-12-27FIGHTING MONARCHS: Seen here is a suit of armor worn by this monarch at the siege of Boulogne in 1544 when he was 53 Henry VIII
#6502, aired 2012-12-18PEOPLE IN BRITISH HISTORY: In 1805 the second in command to this hero said, "I wish (he) would stop signaling. We all know what we have to do" (Horatio) Nelson
#6499, aired 2012-12-13OLYMPIC GOLD MEDALISTS: Before Michael Phelps in 2008, he was the last American to win 5 individual golds in one Olympics; he did it at Lake Placid Eric Heiden
#6492, aired 2012-12-04AMERICAN ICONS: He has a Medal of Freedom, a Pulitzer Citation & membership in the Rock & Roll & Minnesota Music Halls of Fame Bob Dylan
#6490, aired 2012-11-3020th CENTURY AMERICAN WRITERS: A publisher's note on one of his books called him "The terror of typesetters" & "an enigma to book reviewers" E.E. Cummings
#6488, aired 2012-11-28COUNTRIES: It was created in the early 1700s from 2 counties purchased by an Austrian prince; he named the nation for his family Liechtenstein
#6485, aired 2012-11-23BIOGRAPHIES ABOUT AUTHORS: Chapters in a biography on this author include "Declaring His Genius" and "A Late Victorian Love Affair" Oscar Wilde
#6481, aired 2012-11-19EUROPEAN AUTHORS: Amazon said this author who died in 2004 was the first to sell a million Kindle e-books Stieg Larsson
#6480, aired 2012-11-16CLASSICAL MUSIC: This 1890 piece was named for a Verlaine poem that begins, "Your soul is as a moonlit landscape fair" "Clair de Lune"
#6479, aired 2012-11-15MATH MEN: In 1880 he wrote, "We draw two circles, and make them include or exclude or intersect one another" (John) Venn
#6478, aired 2012-11-14U.S. PRESIDENTS: The only 2 presidents never to present a State of the Union address are William Henry Harrison & this man James Garfield
#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
#6467, aired 2012-10-3020th CENTURY BOOKS: "A Cry of Children" & "Nightmare Island" were proposed titles for this novel Lord of the Flies
#6462, aired 2012-10-23CHILDREN'S RHYMES: Oddly, this mammalian character with a rhyming name suffers from alopecia Fuzzy Wuzzy
#6461, aired 2012-10-22KINGS: The last British monarch to be buried outside the U.K., he was interred in 1727 in the land where he was born King George I
#6449, aired 2012-10-04AUTHORS: In 1890 he captained the stern-wheeler Roi des Belges on a voyage down the Congo River Joseph Conrad
#6434, aired 2012-08-02BOOK SERIES: In the 8th book in a series by L. Frank Baum, this character begins to speak; he simply chose not to before Toto
#6433, aired 2012-08-01BRITISH SCIENTISTS: In 1859 a theory was born when he wrote, "from so simple a beginning endless forms... have been, and are being, evolved" Charles Darwin
#6431, aired 2012-07-30NOTABLE AMERICANS: In addition to his 1,093 U.S. patents, he held more than 1,200 patents awarded by other countries Thomas Alva Edison
#6430, aired 2012-07-27ANTARCTICA: This country that explored the Antarctic interior is the most northerly nation to claim territory on the continent Norway
#6418, aired 2012-07-11INAUGURAL ADDRESSES: He said, "It is 72 years since the first inauguration of a president under our national Constitution" Abraham Lincoln
#6417, aired 2012-07-10ENTREPRENEURS: In 1989 he said, "You can't just ask customers what they want... by the time you get it built, they'll want something new" Steve Jobs
#6410, aired 2012-06-29NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS: Among the many books he wrote were "The World Crisis", "The Second World War" & "Painting As A Pastime" Winston Churchill
#6380, aired 2012-05-18INVENTORS: The National Inventors Hall of Fame said his work "brought the South prosperity", but he was out of business within 5 years Eli Whitney
#6370, aired 2012-05-04THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION: In 1777 an opponent wrote of him "Money is this man's God, and to get enough of it he would sacrifice his country" Benedict Arnold
#6365, aired 2012-04-27CONSTELLATIONS & MYTH: In Greek myth he became the prey when he was killed by Scorpius; now they're both in the sky Orion
#6363, aired 2012-04-25WEBSITES: It launched its first offer on October 22, 2008: a two-for-one pizza deal in Chicago Groupon
#6361, aired 2012-04-23AMERICAN HISTORY: This state is known as the "Cockpit of the Revolution" for all the battles there, including a pivotal one in December 1776 New Jersey
#6356, aired 2012-04-162011 MEMOIRS: He titled his 2011 memoir "Harold: The Boy Who Became Mark Twain" Hal Holbrook
#6351, aired 2012-04-09THE HOLLYWOOD WALK OF FAME: His widow Maria Elena & actor Gary Busey were on hand when his star was dedicated outside Capitol Records in 2011 Buddy Holly
#6338, aired 2012-03-21FAMOUS NAMES: At his death in January 2010, he was called "the Garbo of letters, famous for not wanting to be famous" J.D. Salinger
#6336, aired 2012-03-19MOVIE DIRECTORS: On visiting RKO in 1939, he described the studio as the biggest electric train set any boy ever had Orson Welles
#6332, aired 2012-03-13FICTIONAL WOMEN: After dying, she's described as having "too much of water", & her brother says, "therefore I forbid my tears" Ophelia
#6330, aired 2012-03-09MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS: An entertainer born in 1888 whose original first name was Adolph was one of the best-known players of this instrument the harp
#6325, aired 2012-03-02BOOK VILLAINS: The first time we meet this man in a 1981 novel, he's in his cell holding "Le Grand Dictionnaire de Cuisine" Hannibal Lecter
#6319, aired 2012-02-23SINGERS: On the eve of Earth Day, 2011, he became the first performer inducted into the Colorado Music Hall of Fame John Denver
#6310, aired 2012-02-10ANCIENT QUOTATIONS: When Byzantine Emperor Justinian completed Hagia Sophia, he declared, this king, "I have surpassed thee" King Solomon
#6307, aired 2012-02-07MEDICAL DISCOVERIES: Nicolas Paulescu isolated a substance he called pancrein, now known as this insulin
#6304, aired 2012-02-0219th CENTURY AUTHORS: One of this author's greatest successes came after remarking, "I want to write about a fellow who was two fellows" Robert Louis Stevenson
#6287, aired 2012-01-10RULERS IN HISTORY: Born in 1672 & named for a saint, in 1703 he founded a city whose name represents both of them Peter the Great
#6283, aired 2012-01-041930s NOVELS: An audio version of this anti-war novel by a once blacklisted author has introductions from Cindy Sheehan & Ron Kovic Johnny Got His Gun
#6280, aired 2011-12-30ROCK ICONS: While he's had 12 Top 10 hits on Billboard, including 7 from a 1984 album, he's never had a No. 1 single Bruce Springsteen
#6279, aired 2011-12-29CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN WRITERS: Concluding a 4-book series, his 2004 novel "Folly and Glory" features Kit Carson, William Clark & Jim Bowie Larry McMurtry
#6272, aired 2011-12-20POETS: While north of his homeland he was inspired to write perhaps his greatest work, "Alturas de Macchu Picchu" Pablo Neruda
#6269, aired 2011-12-15AMERICAN AUTHORS: He was born in NYC on April 3, 1783, toward the end of the Revolutionary War, & named for one of the war's heroes Washington Irving
#6261, aired 2011-12-05PLAYWRIGHTS: For a 1953 play, he spent time in Salem doing research at the courthouse & at the Witch House Arthur Miller
#6251, aired 2011-11-21MOVIE CHARACTERS: 900 years old when he died, he spoke in OSV syntax, object-subject-verb Yoda
#6250, aired 2011-11-18ACTOR-DIRECTORS: It's rare to get Oscar nominations for Best Director & Best Actor for the same film; he is 1 of the 2 who did it twice (1 of) Clint Eastwood & Warren Beatty
#6247, aired 2011-11-1519th CENTURY POETRY: He wrote, "He looked upon the garish day With such a wistful eye; The man had killed the thing he loved, & so he had to die" Oscar Wilde
#6242, aired 2011-11-0818th CENTURY AUTHORS: In a poem he named himself Cadenus, an anagram of Decanus, or "Dean" Jonathan Swift
#6233, aired 2011-10-26DEATH OF AN AUTHOR: In 1940 at age 44 he died of a heart attack at his Hollywood home while reading his Princeton Alumni Weekly F. Scott Fitzgerald
#6229, aired 2011-10-20TOP OF THE POP CHARTS: In 1978 he replaced his brothers at No. 1, who then replaced him; one of the brothers was a writer on all 3 songs Andy Gibb
#6221, aired 2011-10-10THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR: He was executed in 1780 & buried in Tappan, New York; his remains were moved to Westminster Abbey in 1821 Major John André
#6218, aired 2011-10-05LITERARY TITLE CHARACTERS: He gave his horse a name that partly means "nag" in Spanish; the name he gave himself refers to a piece of armor Don Quixote
#6214, aired 2011-09-29THE 20th CENTURY: In February 1967 this Asian leader said his people would "never agree to negotiate under the threat of bombing" Ho Chi Minh
#6210, aired 2011-09-23AMERICAN BUSINESS: In the 1880s he developed Crystal A Caramels; a product under his own name came out in 1900 Hershey
#6208, aired 2011-09-21OSCAR WINNERS: The most recent father & daughter to win acting Oscars: he won for playing a veteran, she for playing a mental patient Jon Voight & Angelina Jolie
#6206, aired 2011-09-19AMERICAN WRITERS: In the 1840s he wrote, "I ask for, not at once no government, but at once a better government" Henry David Thoreau
#6203, aired 2011-07-27ROYALTY: On the run following the siege of Oxford, he surrendered May 5, 1646 near Newark on Trent Charles I
#6200, aired 2011-07-22FAMOUS AMERICANS: In 1909 he sent the message "Stars and Stripes nailed to the pole" Robert Peary
#6193, aired 2011-07-13NAME THE POET: "The spirit who bideth by himself / In the land of mist and snow / He loved the bird that loved the man / Who shot him with his bow" Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#6191, aired 2011-07-1118th CENTURY QUOTATIONS: 2 yrs. before his 1794 execution, he said, "I am no courtier, nor moderator... nor defender of the people: I am myself the people" Maximilien Robespierre
#6190, aired 2011-07-08THE OLYMPICS: If he had been his own country, at the 2008 Summer Olympics he would have tied for ninth in gold medals Michael Phelps
#6175, aired 2011-06-17MEDICAL HISTORY: In December 1967 Louis Washkansky, a patient in this country claimed, "I am a new Frankenstein" South Africa
#6162, aired 2011-05-31ANCIENT WRITINGS: In 170 A.D. Melito of Sardis compiled a list of religious works to be included in this, a 2-word term he coined the Old Testament
#6152, aired 2011-05-17FICTIONAL CHARACTERS: The first words he ever spoke to his assistant were "How are you?... You have been in Afghanistan, I perceive" Sherlock Holmes
#6150, aired 2011-05-13MONARCHS: In March 2011 he gave his first televised speech in 22 years on the throne, saying he hoped things would get better Emperor Akihito of Japan
#6144, aired 2011-05-05WORLD LEADERS: Shortly after he received the 1990 Nobel Peace Prize, his country ceased to exist Mikhail Gorbachev
#6142, aired 2011-05-03AMERICAN POETS: "Bearing the bandages, water & sponge, straight & swift to my wounded I go", he wrote in "The Wound-Dresser" Walt Whitman
#6140, aired 2011-04-29AMERICAN ARTISTS: In 1909 he completed his last painting, a canvas called "Driftwood" Winslow Homer
#6137, aired 2011-04-26PLAYWRIGHTS: This Brit won Tonys for Best Play in 1968, 1976, 1984 & 2007; in the '90s he settled for the 1998 Best Screenplay Oscar Tom Stoppard
#6133, aired 2011-04-20HISTORIC AMERICANS: Sharing his first name with the man who took this 1850s photo, he's the diplomat & officer seen here Matthew Perry
#6132, aired 2011-04-19AUTHORS: He died in 1995, the day before the opening of a Glasgow veterinary library named for him James Herriot
#6127, aired 2011-04-12BASEBALL & THE PRESIDENCY: As both vice president & president, he threw out a season's 1st pitch, each time for a different Senators franchise Richard Nixon
#6118, aired 2011-03-30INFLUENTIAL 19th CENTURY THINKERS: At the University of Bonn in 1836, he was wounded in a duel with a member of an aristocratic Prussian fraternity Karl Marx
#6113, aired 2011-03-23BRITISH NOVELISTS: In his journals he described how he once set 2 groups of boys against each other, likely inspiring his 1954 novel William Golding
#6112, aired 2011-03-22GARMENTS OF THE WORLD: The custom of hijab, Arabic for "veiling", can include this garment, mentioned by Kipling the burqa
#6109, aired 2011-03-1720th CENTURY NOTABLES: Between April 1909 & March 1910, he killed 296 animals, including 9 lions & 8 elephants Theodore Roosevelt
#6103, aired 2011-03-09BRITISH ROYALTY: After the death in combat of the previous king, he became the last one to win the crown while on the battlefield Henry VII
#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
#6092, aired 2011-02-2219th CENTURY NAMES: In an 1845 autobiography, he wrote, "You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man" Frederick Douglass
#6083, aired 2011-02-09POLITICAL PARTIES: Only 1 U.S. president represented this party, & he said, "I dread... a division of the republic into 2 great parties" the Federalist Party
#6082, aired 2011-02-08ANCIENT QUOTES: He said, "to leave this stream uncrossed will breed manifold distress for me; to cross it, for all mankind" Julius Caesar
#6074, aired 2011-01-27SPORTS AWARDS: In the 4 major U.S. sports leagues, he's won more regular season MVP awards than any other player Wayne Gretzky
#6071, aired 2011-01-2419th CENTURY PEOPLE: After meeting him, Hawthorne said he had a "sallow, queer, sagacious visage" warmed by "homely human sympathies" Abraham Lincoln
#6069, aired 2011-01-20WORLD LEADERS: At his 1994 inaugural, he called for "a rainbow nation at peace with itself and the world" Nelson Mandela
#6065, aired 2011-01-14THE PRESIDENCY: From the same state, they're the 2 presidents whose occupations are listed by World Book as "planter" George Washington & Thomas Jefferson
#6063, aired 2011-01-12COMPUTER SCIENCE: John Tukey coined this compound word in 1958 saying it was as important as "tubes, transistors, wires, tapes..." software
#6062, aired 2011-01-1120th CENTURY ARTISTS: In 1950 he answered a Time magazine article on him, & a common criticism, with a telegram reading, "No chaos damn it" Jackson Pollock
#6056, aired 2011-01-03POP STARS: He was backed by London's Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra on his 2010 tour, which he called "Symphonicity" Sting
#6052, aired 2010-12-28CABINET OFFICERS: He was the last Secretary of State to serve in the post under 2 presidents Henry Kissinger
#6046, aired 2010-12-2020th CENTURY NOVELISTS: A critic said that a character of his, "yearning for the moon... never saw the sixpence at his feet"; he made that into a title Somerset Maugham
#6029, aired 2010-11-25U.S. PRESIDENTS: He is the only president of the United States to be awarded the Purple Heart John F. Kennedy
#6018, aired 2010-11-10U.S. PRESIDENTS: During his tenure, he never threw out an opening day first pitch, but before he was president, he did it for the Braves Jimmy Carter
#6013, aired 2010-11-03BILLBOARD NO. 1 HITMAKERS: In May 1964 this New Orleans native was 62 years old when he bumped The Beatles' "Can't Buy Me Love" from the No. 1 spot Louis Armstrong
#6006, aired 2010-10-25FAMOUS AMERICANS: In 1886 he published his first book, "The Trumpet and Drum", an instructional handbook with 8 compositions (John Philip) Sousa
#6005, aired 2010-10-22THE OSCARS: Only Orson Welles & this man have been nominated for Best Actor & Original Screenplay in the same year while in their 20s Matt Damon
#6000, aired 2010-10-15U.S. PRESIDENTS: He was the first U.S. president to be elected in an Olympic year McKinley
#5998, aired 2010-10-13BRITISH AUTHORS: His son Christopher said, my father "got to where he was by climbing upon my infant shoulders" A.A. Milne
#5995, aired 2010-10-08BESTSELLING AUTHORS: Since coming on the beat, he's had more N.Y. Times bestsellers than any other author, including over 20 in the last 5 years James Patterson
#5985, aired 2010-09-24PRESIDENTS: He served the shortest amount of time as president before running for & winning reelection to the job LBJ
#5977, aired 2010-09-14LITERARY & MOVIE TITLE OBJECTS: The inspiration for this title object in a novel & a 1957 movie actually spanned the Mae Khlung River "The Bridge on the River Kwai"
#5974, aired 2010-07-29THE SUPER BOWL: As of 2010 it's the only current NFC team that has never played in the Super Bowl the Detroit Lions
#5968, aired 2010-07-21U.S. PRESIDENTS: Excluding honorary degrees, he's the only president to have degrees from both Harvard & Yale George W. Bush
#5967, aired 2010-07-20LEGENDARY PUBLIC SERVANTS: In 1929 he became a special agent with the Treasury Department's Prohibition Bureau, Chicago Division Eliot Ness
#5964, aired 2010-07-15FAMOUS TEXTS: Tradition says the author of this work was the sage Vatsyayana; surprisingly, he was celibate the Kama Sutra
#5948, aired 2010-06-23HISTORIC DATES: The signing of the Treaty of Versailles on June 28, 1919 took place exactly 5 years after the related death of this man Archduke Franz Ferdinand
#5947, aired 2010-06-22BILLBOARD HOT 100 HISTORY: Besides Frank & Nancy Sinatra, they're the only other father & daughter who each had No. 1 solo hits Pat & Debby Boone
#5939, aired 2010-06-10SHORT STORIES: In an 1842 tale he wrote, "Down--still unceasingly--still inevitably down!... I shrunk convulsively at its every sweep" Edgar Allan Poe
#5926, aired 2010-05-24AMERICAN CITIES: 6 of the top 10 U.S. cities in population are found in these 2 states California & Texas
#5919, aired 2010-05-13BUSY PRESIDENTS: He had previously been a U.S. senator, minister to France, England & Spain, Secretary of War, Secretary of State & Governor of Virginia James Monroe
#5915, aired 2010-05-07MIDDLE EAST COUNTRIES: In 1949 this kingdom dropped the word "Trans" from the beginning of its name Jordan
#5912, aired 2010-05-04OFFICIAL STATE SONGS: In 1953 it became the only state whose official song was written for a Broadway musical Oklahoma
#5909, aired 2010-04-29POETS ON POETS: Coleridge said this poet will "not be remembered at all, except as a wicked lord who... pretended to be ten times more wicked than he was" Lord Byron
#5908, aired 2010-04-28SCIENCE HISTORY: In August 1971 on the Moon's surface, an astronaut repeated a famous experiment & declared that this man "was correct" Galileo
#5906, aired 2010-04-26U.S. PRESIDENTS: He's the only president sworn in on a Catholic missal; it wasn't his Lyndon Baines Johnson
#5900, aired 2010-04-16ACTORS: In 1970 he became the first professional actor to be named a lord Laurence Olivier
#5887, aired 2010-03-30NAVAL HEROES: When he was killed in battle in 1805, he was wearing a uniform coat with sewn-on replicas of his 4 orders of chivalry Admiral Nelson
#5879, aired 2010-03-18AUTHORS: In 1890 he witnessed a mild cyclone in Aberdeen, South Dakota, fodder for his most famous novel L. Frank Baum
#5875, aired 2010-03-12FILM LEGENDS: His only competitive Oscar win was for Best Score in 1973 for a 1952 film in which he had starred as a washed-up comic Charlie Chaplin
#5870, aired 2010-03-05PLAYS: Dialogue from this play: "He didn't say for sure he'd come." "And if he doesn't come?" "We'll come back tomorrow" Waiting for Godot
#5863, aired 2010-02-24THE ACADEMY AWARDS: He was nominated for 8 Best Actor Oscars, including one for a 1961 film; his only win came for its 1986 sequel Paul Newman
#5862, aired 2010-02-23MONARCHS: In 2001 Bulgaria elected as prime minister its former child monarch, the only person now living to have held this royal title czar
#5860, aired 2010-02-19ARTISTS: In 1882 he wrote, "Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony, and music inside me" Vincent van Gogh
#5859, aired 2010-02-18ENTREPRENEURS: When he passed away in December 1980, flags in Kentucky flew at half-staff for 4 days Colonel Sanders
#5853, aired 2010-02-10AMERICAN HEROES: He said, "I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harm's way" John Paul Jones
#5847, aired 2010-02-02FAMOUS AMERICANS: At his death in 1790, he left 200-year trust funds to the cities of Boston & Philadelphia Benjamin Franklin
#5845, aired 2010-01-29PRO SPORTS: The official address of the Atlanta Braves is No. 755 on the drive named for this man Hank Aaron
#5839, aired 2010-01-21COMIC STRIP CHARACTERS: Created in 1950, he finally hit a home run on March 30, 1993 Charlie Brown
#5830, aired 2010-01-08AUTHORS: In "Comics Review" in 1965, "I was a Teenage Grave Robber" was his first published work; he's still going strong Stephen King
#5828, aired 2010-01-06COUNTRY MUSIC LEGENDS: Before he was found dead January 1, 1953, the last single he released was "I'll Never Get Out Of This World Alive" Hank Williams
#5827, aired 2010-01-05ART HISTORY: Unique quality of "First Communion of Anemic Young Girls in the Snow", shown at the 1883 Arts Incoherents exhibit it was all white
#5820, aired 2009-12-25CLASSICAL MUSIC: A chorus in this 1741 work says, "King of kings and Lord of lords and He shall reign forever and ever" Handel's Messiah
#5815, aired 2009-12-18HEALTH & FITNESS: Dr. Kenneth Cooper added "S" to a medical adjective to coin this word for the kind of exercise he advocated in a 1968 book aerobics
#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)
#5808, aired 2009-12-09HISTORIC AMERICANS: His collection of books suffered disastrous fires at the home called Shadwell in 1770 & at the Library of Congress in 1851 Thomas Jefferson
#5798, aired 2009-11-25POSTAL ABBREVIATIONS: A state since the 1700s but not in the original 13, it ends with its own 2-letter postal abbreviation Kentucky
#5797, aired 2009-11-24COMPOSERS: In 1928, the 100th anniversary of his death, a $10,000 prize was offered for the completion of his 8th Symphony (Franz) Schubert
#5795, aired 2009-11-20PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS: He was the last sitting president to run for re-election & finish third in the Electoral College William Howard Taft
#5793, aired 2009-11-18THE 18th CENTURY: If the Earl of Chesterfield hadn't gotten England to adopt this, he'd have died March 13 instead of March 24, 1773 the Gregorian Calendar
#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
#5783, aired 2009-11-04LONDON LANDMARKS: A statue of him stands outside the London Underground Baker Street station Sherlock Holmes
#5781, aired 2009-11-02HISTORIC AMERICANS: On July 11, 1804 he gasped to his doctor, "This is a mortal wound"; he died the next day Alexander Hamilton
#5780, aired 2009-10-30PRESIDENTIAL NAMES: He's the only president whose first & last names contain the same pair of double letters Millard Fillmore
#5773, aired 2009-10-21AMERICAN THINKERS: He told George Washington he hoped "the Rights of Man may become as universal as your benevolence can wish" Thomas Paine
#5768, aired 2009-10-14POETS: In a 1921 letter this American-born poet had "a long poem in mind... which I am wishful to finish", & he did at 433 lines T.S. Eliot
#5763, aired 2009-10-07AMERICAN HISTORY: He was the only member of the Warren Commission who would later face would-be assassins himself Gerald Ford
#5756, aired 2009-09-28OLD NAMES IN THE NEWS: After running pyramid schemes & spending time in federal prison, he was deported back to Italy in 1934 Carlo Ponzi
#5753, aired 2009-09-2317th CENTURY BRITISH HISTORY: The lantern with which he planned to initiate his most famous act is in the possession of England's Ashmolean Museum Guy Fawkes
#5750, aired 2009-09-18BRITISH AUTHORS: Though known for writing nonsense verse, he gave Queen Victoria drawing lessons & Tennyson wrote a poem to him Edward Lear
#5749, aired 2009-09-17FAMOUS ACTORS: Ironically, he lost the leading role in the 1960 play "The Best Man" because he didn't look presidential Ronald Reagan
#5740, aired 2009-07-17U.S. PRESIDENTS: He's the only president since 1900 whose last name contains more vowels than consonants Barack Obama
#5737, aired 2009-07-14SCIENTISTS: He won the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics primarily for his work on the photoelectric effect, not for relativity Albert Einstein
#5723, aired 2009-06-24EXPLORERS: On March 29, 1912 he wrote, "We are getting weaker, of course, and the end cannot be far... I do not think I can write more" Robert Scott
#5722, aired 2009-06-23LEADING MEN: Up for producing, directing, acting & writing for 1978 & 1981, he's the only man to twice get 4 Oscar nominations for one film Warren Beatty
#5721, aired 2009-06-22PRESIDENTS ON FILM: Filmed signing a bill into law, in 1895 he became the first U.S. president to appear on moving film Grover Cleveland
#5719, aired 2009-06-18STATE SONGS: It was originally dedicated to a Midwest football team; it's said that Sousa called it the best college song he'd ever heard "On, Wisconsin!"
#5706, aired 2009-06-01CARTOON SCIENCE: According to Chuck Jones, whenever possible, this force of nature was to be Wile E. Coyote's greatest enemy gravity
#5705, aired 2009-05-29THE ACADEMY AWARDS: Peter Finch was the first winner of a posthumous Best Actor Oscar; he was first to get 2 posthumous acting nominations James Dean
#5695, aired 2009-05-1519th CENTURY AMERICANS: This New Englander began building his house in March 1845 & later wrote that it cost exactly $28.12 1/2 Henry David Thoreau
#5690, aired 2009-05-08EUROPEAN HISTORY: He filed for divorce citing Leviticus 20:21, "If a man shall take his brother's wife, it is an unclean thing" Henry VIII
#5681, aired 2009-04-27MOVIE DIRECTORS: Since 1971 he has directed only 6 films, but those 6 have averaged more than $283 million each at the box office George Lucas
#5680, aired 2009-04-24SHAKESPEARE'S TITLE CHARACTERS: Though he reigned for only 2 years, this king has the second-longest role in a single Shakespeare play, speaking 1,164 lines Richard III
#5678, aired 2009-04-22U.S. PRESIDENTS: Besides Carter, 1 of 2 20th century presidents to live at least 30 years past the day he entered office (1 of) Gerald Ford & Herbert Hoover
#5673, aired 2009-04-15EXPLORERS: In 1611 Henry Greene led a successful mutiny against this captain, but soon after was killed by Eskimos Henry Hudson
#5670, aired 2009-04-10COMPOSERS: In 1912, midway through one of his works, he wrote, "I have penetrated the secret of the rhythm of spring" Igor Stravinsky
#5669, aired 2009-04-09NAME'S THE SAME: This cartoon character debuted in 1930, the same year the object he shares a name with was discovered Pluto
#5659, aired 2009-03-2616th CENTURY THINKERS: In 1517 he wrote, "The treasures of indulgences are nets with which they now fish for the wealth of men" Martin Luther
#5658, aired 2009-03-25AUTHORS: In 1865 he wrote the line "You're nothing but a pack of cards!" Lewis Carroll
#5653, aired 2009-03-18ELVIS PRESLEY: Though Elvis was known as the King of Rock & Roll, the only 3 Grammy Awards he ever won were in this Grammy genre gospel music
#5637, aired 2009-02-24AMERICAN NOVELISTS: "What is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after", he wrote in 1932 Ernest Hemingway
#5635, aired 2009-02-20ANCIENT WORKS: Astronomers used clues in the text of this epic to figure out the date of its archery contest: April 16, 1178 B.C. The Odyssey
#5634, aired 2009-02-19EXPLORERS: In 1871 he answered, "Yes, and I feel thankful that I am here to welcome you" Dr. Livingstone
#5625, aired 2009-02-06MUSIC LEGENDS: His 2003 People magazine obituary was headlined "Fade to Black" Johnny Cash
#5624, aired 2009-02-05AMERICAN FICTION WRITERS: He was also the U.S.'s best-paid sportswriter, with stories of people like Chicago O'Brien & Jack the Bookie Damon Runyon
#5622, aired 2009-02-03CIVIL WAR PEOPLE: He was the only person who died during the Civil War to be featured on Confederate currency Stonewall Jackson
#5617, aired 2009-01-27THE 20th CENTURY: On June 5, 1989 a young man never positively identified became world famous for actions he took in this city Beijing
#5616, aired 2009-01-2619th CENTURY POETS: He wrote, "The mason singing... the boatman... the hatter... singing what belongs to him or her and to none else" Walt Whitman
#5600, aired 2009-01-02EUROPEAN HISTORY: On April 13, 1895 he entered the Devils Island penal colony to serve a life sentence, but he was out by 1899 Alfred Dreyfus
#5589, aired 2008-12-18HISTORIC AMERICAN QUOTATIONS: On April 29, 1861 he said, "We seek no conquest… all we ask is to be let alone" Jefferson Davis
#5586, aired 2008-12-15PERFORMERS & HOMETOWN VENUES: He's the only singer to headline Yankee Stadium, Giants Stadium & Shea Stadium, closing Shea in 2008 Billy Joel
#5580, aired 2008-12-05HISTORIC PROPERTY TRANSACTIONS: On May 15, 1768 France bought this island from Genoa for 2 million livres Corsica
#5567, aired 2008-11-18LITERARY CHARACTERS: In a 1914 novel, as a boy he could "drop twenty feet at a stretch from limb to limb in rapid descent to the ground" Tarzan
#5566, aired 2008-11-1719th CENTURY POLITICS: When the GOP convened in 1888, he became the 1st black man to earn a vote for president at a major party convention Frederick Douglass
#5561, aired 2008-11-1019th CENTURY INVENTIONS: When this was explained to Chief Sho-kup, he gave it a Shoshone name that means "wire rope express" the telegraph
#5554, aired 2008-10-30INVENTORS: A key to Alexander Graham Bell's experiments was one of these, procured by a doctor friend, Clarence Blake an ear
#5552, aired 2008-10-28ASIAN NATIONS: Of the world's 11 countries whose English names start with "A", the only 2 whose names don't end with "A" Afghanistan & Azerbaijan
#5550, aired 2008-10-24PEOPLE ON CURRENCY: Though born 4,000 miles from Havana, he adorns the Cuban 3-peso note Che Guevara
#5548, aired 2008-10-22THE EMMY AWARDS: A former Screen Actors Guild president, he's the only actor to win both comedy & drama Emmys for playing the same character Ed Asner
#5547, aired 2008-10-21PRESIDENTIAL FIRSTS: The first president to cross the Atlantic Ocean while in office, he did so to meet with other world leaders Wilson
#5543, aired 2008-10-15MUSICALS: Profession of the title character of "Little Johnny Jones", featuring the song "The Yankee Doodle Boy" jockey
#5539, aired 2008-10-091960s HIT SONGS: The singer/songwriter of this 1960s mega-hit has revealed that it was inspired by a president's daughter "Sweet Caroline"
#5533, aired 2008-10-011960s OSCAR NOMINATIONS: One of the 2 male actors nominated in the '60s for playing more than one character in the same film (1 of) Peter Sellers or Lee Marvin
#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
#5523, aired 2008-09-17U.S. GEOGRAPHY: It's 277 miles long, it's up to 18 miles wide, it's 6 million years old & at a given time temperatures within it can vary by 25 degrees the Grand Canyon
#5522, aired 2008-09-16PRESIDENTIAL LASTS: He was the most recent president who had not previously been a state governor George H.W. Bush
#5516, aired 2008-09-08THE VATICAN: A statue of this man is being erected inside the Vatican's walls near where he was locked up in 1633 Galileo
#5514, aired 2008-07-24FAMOUS NAMES: In 1906 he launched Conjurer's Monthly, a magazine that he pretty much wrote & edited himself Harry Houdini
#5509, aired 2008-07-171970s HITS: In 1970 2 performers reached the Top 20 with this hit whose 6-word title was inspired by Boys Town "He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother"
#5506, aired 2008-07-14MYTHS: Seen here with 2 other troubled mythic figures, he's the man on the left who can never quite reach the fruit Tantalus
#5505, aired 2008-07-11BASEBALL HISTORY: For nearly 30 years, California's Catalina Island was the spring training camp for this non-California Major League team the Chicago Cubs
#5504, aired 2008-07-10SECRETARIES OF STATE: In 1947 he said Europe's food needs require "substantial additional help" to prevent social deterioration George C. Marshall
#5499, aired 2008-07-03U.S. PRESIDENTS: The first man to receive a million votes for president in one election, he didn't get to enjoy the victory for long William Henry Harrison
#5497, aired 2008-07-01PRESIDENTIAL RELATIVES: Before George W. Bush, he was the last president to have both his parents attend his inauguration John F. Kennedy
#5496, aired 2008-06-30PLAYWRIGHTS: On his death in 1950, he left part of his estate to promote a new phonetic alphabet George Bernard Shaw
#5494, aired 2008-06-26THE OSCARS: He holds the record for total acting, directing & writing Oscar nominations--1 acting, 6 directing, 14 writing Woody Allen
#5491, aired 2008-06-23PRESIDENTIAL BIRTHPLACES: 4 U.S. presidents serving in 3 different centuries have been born in the same county in this state Massachusetts
#5488, aired 2008-06-18THE ACADEMY AWARDS: In 1981 he received an honorary Oscar for his body of work; a year later, he won an acting Oscar for his final film Henry Fonda
#5486, aired 2008-06-16AMERICAN AUTHORS: In 1958 he wrote, "Brazil was beastly but Buenos Aires was the best. Not Tiffany's, but almost" Truman Capote
#5483, aired 2008-06-11MOVIE STARS: No. 18 on the AFI's list of the greatest American screen actors, he starred in just 3 films James Dean
#5482, aired 2008-06-10COLONIAL PEN NAMES: For gossip columns, he wrote under the name Busy Body; to discuss marriage, he became Anthony Afterwit Benjamin Franklin
#5480, aired 2008-06-06PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS: He's the last person to receive a state's electoral votes while not running as a Democrat or as a Republican George Wallace
#5473, aired 2008-05-2820th CENTURY LEADERS: He said, "An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last" Winston Churchill
#5467, aired 2008-05-20CHILDREN'S AUTHORS: In 1896 he said his mother had lost her childhood at 8; he "knew a time would come when I also must give up the games" J.M. Barrie
#5464, aired 2008-05-15HISTORIC JOURNALS: On January 18, 1912 he arrived at a tent near the pole & found "a record of five Norwegians having been there" Robert F. Scott
#5459, aired 2008-05-08FAMOUS AUSTRIANS: The home on Vienna's Domgasse where he lived in the 1780s was reopened amid fanfare in January 2006 Mozart
#5458, aired 2008-05-07U.S. PRESIDENTS: Only 50 years old when he left office, he was our nation's youngest ex-president Teddy Roosevelt
#5456, aired 2008-05-05AMERICAN THINKERS: "I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude", he wrote in a chapter on solitude in an 1854 work Henry David Thoreau
#5454, aired 2008-05-01HISTORIC NAMES: Born at Chateau Chavaniac in 1757, he was later hailed as "the hero of two worlds" the Marquis de Lafayette
#5453, aired 2008-04-30BUSINESS: In 1952 Glen Bell was selling burgers; he then added these to the drive-in menu for 19¢, & the rest is history tacos
#5446, aired 2008-04-21MILITARY MEN: In a 1944 speech, he said, "Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge" George Patton
#5432, aired 2008-04-01VICE PRESIDENTS: He's the only sitting vice president since Martin Van Buren elected to the presidency George H.W. Bush
#5431, aired 2008-03-31BEFORE THEY WERE SENATORS: Later a U.S. senator, in 1962 he made a famous 75,000-mile trip John Glenn
#5429, aired 2008-03-27CLASSICAL MUSICIANS: In 1793, Haydn wrote he will be "one of Europe's finest composers, & I shall be proud to be called his teacher" Ludwig van Beethoven
#5428, aired 2008-03-26THE ACADEMY AWARDS: In 1954 he won a record 4 Oscars, including one for "Best Documentary Feature" for a film set in the American desert Walt Disney
#5425, aired 2008-03-21WORLD LITERATURE: "If he has a conscience he will suffer for his mistake" refers to a murderer in this 1866 novel Crime and Punishment
#5416, aired 2008-03-10ACTORS: He never won an Oscar, but this 1960s movie star got a patent for a low-slung bucket seat for race cars Steve McQueen
#5404, aired 2008-02-21FAMOUS AMERICANS: In 1733 he wrote, "The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart" Benjamin Franklin
#5400, aired 2008-02-15AMERICAN POETRY: Walt Whitman called this "the beautiful uncut hair of graves" grass
#5399, aired 2008-02-14AFRICAN AMERICANS: As U.S. Solicitor General in the 1960s, he won 14 of the 19 cases he argued before the Supreme Court Thurgood Marshall
#5393, aired 2008-02-06WORLD AUTHORS: In 1898 he wrote, "As for the persons I have accused... they are... embodiments of social malfeasance" Émile Zola
#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
#5386, aired 2008-01-28TV CELEBRITIES: Not an actor, he is the highest-paid foreign-born personality on the 2007 Forbes list of top television earners Simon Cowell
#5384, aired 2008-01-24RICH & FAMOUS: At $900 million, his fortune was once 2% of the GNP; by his death in 1937, he was down to about $26 million John Rockefeller
#5378, aired 2008-01-16FOREIGN FILMS: A series of novels includes "Iron Knight, Silver Vase", "Precious Sword, Golden Hairpin" & this one, made into a film in 2000 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
#5373, aired 2008-01-09THE CATHOLIC CHURCH: First mentioned in a letter by Clement IV in 1265, this item worn by the Pope features an image of St. Peter in a boat a ring
#5370, aired 2008-01-04U.S. PRESIDENTS: When this president & his wife didn't want to be understood by others, they spoke to each other in Chinese Herbert Hoover
#5369, aired 2008-01-03AVIATION HISTORY: He was the 118th man to fly across the Atlantic Ocean Charles Lindbergh
#5362, aired 2007-12-25FRENCHMEN IN HISTORY: He was nicknamed "The Robespierre of the Brush", but unlike his friend Robespierre, he was jailed but not guillotined Jacques-Louis David
#5361, aired 2007-12-24SPACE MEN: He was the oldest man to walk on the Moon, & the only World War II veteran Alan Shepard
#5360, aired 2007-12-21POETS: Fired from a job for laziness, he wrote, "I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass" Walt Whitman
#5356, aired 2007-12-1719th CENTURY NAMES: He got his name because Mexican victims of his attacks would cry out in terror to St. Jerome Geronimo
#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
#5350, aired 2007-12-07MOTOWN SINGERS: He added an "E" to his last name to avoid being teased Marvin Gaye
#5339, aired 2007-11-22FAMOUS NAMES: In the 19th century he created a new type of reference work, a dictionary named from the Greek for "treasury" Roget
#5332, aired 2007-11-13THE MOVIES: The title of this award-winning 1963 film refers to the number of films its director felt he had made to that point
#5331, aired 2007-11-12ENGLISH LANGUAGE WRITERS: In his journal of 1710 to 1713, he referred to himself as "Presto" Jonathan Swift
#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
#5327, aired 2007-11-06HISTORIC NAMES: He is quoted as saying, "Another such victory over the Romans, and we are undone" Pyrrhus
#5324, aired 2007-11-01MUSICAL THEATER: He's the only songwriter to have Broadway premieres in every decade from the '50s to the present; his first was in 1957 Stephen Sondheim
#5319, aired 2007-10-2516th CENTURY NAMES: Paul III roared at him, "I have waited 30 years for your services. Now I'm pope, can't I satisfy my desire?" Michelangelo
#5318, aired 2007-10-24DOCUMENTARY SUBJECTS: A documentary from ESPN is based on the premise that this Louisville-born man "invented" rap in the 1960s Muhammad Ali (or Cassius Clay)
#5311, aired 2007-10-15ARTISTS: In 1881 he wrote to Emile Zola, "I must soon leave Vetheuil, and I am looking for a pretty place by the Seine" Claude Monet
#5307, aired 2007-10-09U.S. PRESIDENTS: He's the only U.S. president who never lived in the District of Columbia George Washington
#5298, aired 2007-09-26THE 5 W's: The names of the president & premier of the world's most populous nation are homophones of these 2 words who & when
#5291, aired 2007-09-17AMERICAN PUBLISHING: The 1860 frontier novel "Malaeska", the first of its kind, sold 300,000 copies for total sales revenue of this $30,000
#5286, aired 2007-09-10AUTHORS: In 1949 he wrote, "If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face--forever" (George) Orwell
#5284, aired 2007-07-26AMERICAN AUTHORS: Injured on the Austro-Italian front of July 8, 1918, he also crossed the English Channel with U.S. forces on D-Day Ernest Hemingway
#5280, aired 2007-07-2017th CENTURY PEOPLE: Rev. John Robinson, Minister to these people, wrote them a letter saying how upset he was not to be going with them the Pilgrims
#5273, aired 2007-07-11COMMUNICATIONS PIONEERS: He painted the White House portrait of President Monroe before much wider fame as an inventor in the 1840s Samuel Morse
#5272, aired 2007-07-10MYTHICAL HEROES: In a play by Euripides, he goes mad & thinks he's tearing down the walls of Mycenae but destroys his own house Hercules
#5269, aired 2007-07-05MEDICAL HISTORY: A patient who told this Frankfurt doctor "I have lost myself" was the basis for a paper he gave in 1906 Alois Alzheimer
#5266, aired 2007-07-02AFI's TOP MOVIE QUOTES: Prizefighter Roger Donoghue was Marlon Brando's trainer for "On the Waterfront" & inspired this line on the AFI list "I coulda been a contender"
#5263, aired 2007-06-27LITERATURE: Maris, Lycon, Laogonus, Erymas, Sarpedon, Erylaus & Patroclus die in Book 16 of this work the Iliad
#5251, aired 2007-06-11ENTERTAINERS OF THE '60s: He won 3 straight Emmys for dramatic acting & a record 6 straight Grammys for comedy albums Bill Cosby
#5250, aired 2007-06-08HISTORIC NAMESAKES: Born in Predappio, Italy in 1883, he was named for a famous politician born in Oaxaca, Mexico in 1806 Benito Mussolini
#5245, aired 2007-06-0117th CENTURY PERSONALITIES: Despite being the personal physician of 2 British kings, he was derogatorily known as "The Circulator" (William) Harvey
#5237, aired 2007-05-22SPORTS LEGENDS: Between 1977 & 1980, he won a state high school championship, an NCAA championship, & an NBA championship Magic Johnson
#5236, aired 2007-05-2119th CENTURY INVENTORS: He wrote, "Isn't it the irony of fate that I have been prescribed nitroglycerin to be taken internally" Alfred Nobel
#5235, aired 2007-05-18HISTORICAL MOVIES: One of the 2 actresses nominated for Oscars for playing the same person in a 1997 blockbuster (1 of) Kate Winslet & Gloria Stuart
#5222, aired 2007-05-01FICTIONAL CHARACTERS: He's the character mentioned in the first line of "Atlas Shrugged" John Galt
#5218, aired 2007-04-25INTERNATIONAL AUTHORS: Starting in 1948 at Cornell, he lectured on books written in his native language, like "Dead Souls" & "Anna Karenina" Vladimir Nabokov
#5217, aired 2007-04-2419th CENTURY AMERICAN AUTHORS: He wrote, "I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and spartan-like..." Thoreau
#5216, aired 2007-04-23EUROPEAN HISTORY: So Prussia could dominate Germany, Bismarck excluded this country that lost the 1866 Battle of Koniggratz Austria
#5213, aired 2007-04-18A REAL RENAISSANCE MAN: The sudden 1559 death of France's King Henry II in a joust caused some to believe in this man's writings Nostradamus
#5210, aired 2007-04-13HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES: Decreed by Congress in 1989, National Tap Dance Day falls on the May 25th birthday of this man born in 1878 Bill Robinson
#5205, aired 2007-04-0620th CENTURY BUSINESSMEN: He published "Hunting, Fishing, and Camping" in 1942 & "My Story: The Autobiography of a Down-East Merchant" in 1960 L.L. Bean
#5198, aired 2007-03-28LITERARY FIGURES: Bono, Jim Sheridan & Liam Neeson were featured in a 2004 documentary honoring the 150th anniversary of the birth of this man Oscar Wilde
#5195, aired 2007-03-23BESTSELLING AUTHORS: He had the year's bestselling novel a record 7 years in a row with 7 different titles, ending in 2000 John Grisham
#5191, aired 2007-03-19HISTORIC QUOTES: On May 5, 1961 he famously exclaimed, "What a beautiful view!" Alan Shepard
#5190, aired 2007-03-16WOMEN OF THE 1930s: 1 of the men who shot her realized when he saw her body that she'd often waited on him at a cafe in Dallas Bonnie Parker
#5183, aired 2007-03-07BRITISH NOVELISTS: In 1946 he wrote, "Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful & murder respectable" George Orwell
#5180, aired 2007-03-02PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS: Elected president twice, he beat his 2 opponents by a combined Electoral College tally of 1,014-62 Ronald Reagan
#5176, aired 2007-02-26AMERICANA: In a February 22, 1936 reenactment, retired star pitcher Walter Johnson threw this across the Rappahannock a silver dollar
#5169, aired 2007-02-1519th CENTURY MEN: In 1813 Louisiana Governor William Claiborne put a $500 bounty on him; he responded by offering one for the gov.'s head Jean Lafitte
#5160, aired 2007-02-02FAMOUS AMERICANS: In part, using donated French tanks, he formed the U.S. Army's first tank training school in 1917 George Patton
#5158, aired 2007-01-31BRITISH ROYAL NAMES: Thomas Malory's posthumous 1485 bestseller inspired this first name of a prince born in 1486 Arthur
#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
#5146, aired 2007-01-15AMERICAN LITERATURE: An epigraph he used on one story says, "our hearts though stout and brave, still, like muffled drums are beating" Edgar Allan Poe
#5141, aired 2007-01-08HISTORIC AMERICANS: General Winfield Scott called him "the very best soldier I ever saw in the field" Robert E. Lee
#5139, aired 2007-01-0419th CENTURY DEMOCRATS: In a famous speech he said, "You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns..." William Jennings Bryan
#5138, aired 2007-01-03NOVEL INSPIRATIONS: Novel inspired by a vision of a "pale student of unhallowed arts kneeling beside the thing he had put together" Frankenstein
#5136, aired 2007-01-01WRITERS: A memorial window near his grave at Winchester Cathedral was a gift from the fishermen of England & America Izaak Walton (author of The Compleat Angler)
#5133, aired 2006-12-2719th CENTURY PRESIDENTS: Against bitterly divided Democrats, he won with the second-lowest percentage of the popular vote in history, 39.8% Abraham Lincoln
#5126, aired 2006-12-1820th CENTURY PLAYWRIGHTS: 2006 marks the centennial of this absurdist known for his sometimes bleak outlook; he was born on Good Friday, the 13th Samuel Beckett
#5123, aired 2006-12-13UNIVERSITY GEOGRAPHY: Around 1830 the first Catholic priest ordained in the U.S. obtained land in this state where a university now stands Indiana
#5122, aired 2006-12-12CHIEF JUSTICES: He wrote that if a person in custody "cannot afford an attorney, one will be appointed for him... if he so desires" Earl Warren
#5119, aired 2006-12-07WORLD GEOGRAPHY: The Lusatian Mountains, in the western Sudeten range, form part of the border between these 2 countries Germany & the Czech Republic
#5118, aired 2006-12-06FAMOUS NEW YORKERS: In 1905 he said, "It is my duty to make money and still more money and to use the money... for the good of my fellow man" John D. Rockefeller
#5116, aired 2006-12-04THE 1950s: On a March 9, 1954 broadcast, he famously said, "We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty" Edward R. Murrow
#5115, aired 2006-12-01BROADCASTING FIRSTS: In 2005, at New Mexico State, Cuyler Frank made history by being the first to call a football game in this language Navajo
#5114, aired 2006-11-30PLAY CHARACTERS: He is based partly on a philologist who wrote "A History of English Sounds" & "A Handbook of Phonetics" Henry Higgins
#5109, aired 2006-11-231970s TELEVISION: Bruce Peterson, a NASA test pilot, helped inspire this series; the crash he survived was seen in the show's opening credits The Six Million Dollar Man
#5101, aired 2006-11-13THE ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA: In the 1958 edition, this man penned the article on ventriloquism Edgar Bergen
#5097, aired 2006-11-07PRESIDENTIAL DISTINCTIONS: Captured as a 14-year-old soldier in 1781, he was the only president who had ever been a prisoner of war Andrew Jackson
#5096, aired 2006-11-06AUTHORS: John Dryden in 1683 was the first to use the term "biography"--appropriately, while writing about this Greek Plutarch
#5095, aired 2006-11-03THE OSCARS: He's the only person over 70 years of age to win a Best Director Oscar Clint Eastwood
#5094, aired 2006-11-02FICTIONAL CHARACTERS: He first appeared in Kipling's 1892 story "In the Rukh" as an adult who now & then refers to his very odd childhood Mowgli
#5088, aired 2006-10-25THE 1850s: He published a book of prose & verse quotes "to trace to their source passages and phrases in common use" John Bartlett
#5087, aired 2006-10-24MOVIE VILLAINS: Introduced in a 1981 novel, this big-screen character tops the AFI's 2003 list of all-time great movie villains Hannibal Lecter
#5084, aired 2006-10-19FAMOUS NAMES: Once a top spy, he invented the mug shot seen on reward posters in the Wild West Allan Pinkerton
#5078, aired 2006-10-11CHARACTERS IN SHAKESPEARE: In Act I he says, "The funeral baked meats did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables" Hamlet
#5068, aired 2006-09-27FAMOUS PAINTERS: He said, “You could find me anytime at Fournaise’s”, a restaurant right on the Seine Pierre-Auguste Renoir
#5065, aired 2006-09-22FAMOUS NAMES: The Grady Gammage Auditorium at Arizona State University was the last major public building that he designed Frank Lloyd Wright
#5055, aired 2006-07-28AMERICANA: A monument at this Nebraska site bears the words "He ain't heavy, Father... he's m' brother" Boys Town
#5051, aired 2006-07-24OSCAR-NOMINATED MOVIES: One of the 2 Best Picture nominees in which CBS newsman & "60 Minutes" producer Don Hewitt is a character (1 of) The Insider & Good Night, and Good Luck.
#5048, aired 2006-07-19PRESIDENTIAL QUOTATIONS: He announced to the American public, "The force from which the sun draws its power has been loosed..." Harry Truman
#5045, aired 2006-07-14FAMOUS PLAYS: This play that is quite concerned with the English language was, oddly enough, first performed in German in 1913 Pygmalion
#5044, aired 2006-07-13U.S. HISTORY: He was the commanding Union general at Bentonville, site of the last major Confederate offensive William Tecumseh Sherman
#5039, aired 2006-07-06CHILDREN'S LIT TITLE CHARACTERS: He "came into the world in the middle of the thicket, in one of those little, hidden forest glades..." Bambi
#5038, aired 2006-07-05WESTERN HEMISPHERE GEOGRAPHY: The 2 outlets of the Gulf of Mexico, a strait & a channel, bear the names of these 2 land areas Florida & the Yucatán peninsula
#5035, aired 2006-06-30CHILDREN'S AUTHORS: This author & illustrator has said, "Max is like my demented son and he's taking care of his father for life" Maurice Sendak
#5031, aired 2006-06-2619th CENTURY GOVERNORS: To date, he's the only person to be elected governor of 2 different states Sam Houston
#5027, aired 2006-06-20NATIONAL NAMES: 2 of 3 European Union member nations whose names are only one syllable in English (2 of) France, Greece, & Spain
#5025, aired 2006-06-16TRANSPORTATION NEWS: This city's iconic Routemaster vehicles were just shy of 50 years' service when they were retired in 2005 London
#5023, aired 2006-06-14POLITICAL QUOTATIONS: It was said that being with these 2 leaders, born 1874 & 1882, "was like sitting between 2 lions roaring at the same time" Winston Churchill & Franklin Delano Roosevelt
#5018, aired 2006-06-07CANADIAN POSTAL ABBREVIATIONS: It's the only Canadian province or territory whose 2-letter postal abbreviation is a preposition Ontario
#5014, aired 2006-06-01PLAYWRIGHTS: In 2005 Broadway's Virginia Theatre was renamed to honor this late author, the first African-American so honored August Wilson
#5011, aired 2006-05-2920th CENTURY AMERICANS: Encouraged by RFK to seek public office, he left the Marines as a colonel in 1965 & won a Senate seat 9 years later John Glenn
#4997, aired 2006-05-09COMPOSING CONTEMPORARIES: One of 2 hyphenated composers who flourished in the 1870s, one with "The Maid of Pskov" & one with "Samson et Dalila" (1 of) Camille Saint-Saens & (Nicolai) Rimsky-Korsakov
#4995, aired 2006-05-05U.S. PRESIDENTS: Had he lived in ancient Greece, this president would have been called Odysseus Ulysses S. Grant
#4994, aired 2006-05-04MEMOIRS: Chapters in this 1937 memoir include "A Kikuyu Chief", "War-Time Safari" & "Old Knudsen" Out of Africa (by Isak Dinesen)
#4993, aired 2006-05-03PEOPLE IN SPACE: In 2005, as the shuttle Discovery prepared for landing, NASA played a Dexys Midnight Runners song in her honor Eileen Collins
#4991, aired 2006-05-01THEATRE 2005: The conduct of a priest arouses suspicion in this play that won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Drama Doubt (by John Patrick Shanley)
#4987, aired 2006-04-25MOVIE DIRECTORS: He's the only person to direct his daughter & his father in Oscar-winning performances John Huston
#4982, aired 2006-04-18AMERICAN POLITICIANS: In 2005 he took his first submarine dive since he left the Navy in 1953, on a new nuclear vessel that's named for him Jimmy Carter
#4979, aired 2006-04-13'60s NOVELS' FIRST LINES: It begins, "Amerigo Bonasera... waited for justice; vengeance on the men who had so cruelly hurt his daughter" The Godfather
#4972, aired 2006-04-04GERMAN AMERICANS: He famously remarked, "We are all the President's men", giving Woodward & Bernstein their title Henry Kissinger
#4965, aired 2006-03-24HISTORIC NAMES: When Alexander Hamilton & James Monroe nearly met in a duel, this man interceded & defused the situation Aaron Burr
#4941, aired 2006-02-20WORLD LEADERS: The first prime minister of his country to be born in that land, he was assassinated in 1995 Yitzhak Rabin
#4938, aired 2006-02-15LITERARY ANIMALS: In an 1877 novel, he tells us that he was originally called Darkie, & later, Old Crony Black Beauty
#4926, aired 2006-01-30WORLD MONEY 2005: This U.S. sports figure (born 1940) became the only living person ever on a Scottish note besides the Queen & her mum Jack Nicklaus
#4922, aired 2006-01-24WORLD HISTORY: This person was the reigning monarch of Great Britain when the U.S. national anthem was written George III
#4913, aired 2006-01-11NEWSMAKERS: In April 2005, during his first 2 days on the job, he received more than 56,000 e-mails Pope Benedict XVI
#4912, aired 2006-01-10THE U.S. MILITARY: Established in 1903, the oldest U.S. military base in continuous use outside of the U.S. is in this country Cuba
#4909, aired 2006-01-05RELIGIOUS PERSONALITIES: In the 56 years from 1948 to 2004, he appeared 48 times on the Gallup Poll's annual "Most Admired" lists the Reverend Billy Graham
#4906, aired 2006-01-02ANCIENT BIOGRAPHERS: Born around 46 A.D., he spent time in both Greece & Rome & wrote to encourage respect between the 2 cultures Plutarch
#4904, aired 2005-12-29SOVIET HISTORY: He died in Moscow September 11, 1971 following nearly 7 years of house arrest Nikita Khrushchev
#4902, aired 2005-12-27INVENTORS: In the 18th century he wrote, "I have only to move my eyes up or down... to see distinctly far or near" Benjamin Franklin
#4901, aired 2005-12-26COMPOSERS: He moved to Vienna in 1766; in 1778 he presented his native Italy with the first opera staged at La Scala Antonio Salieri
#4892, aired 2005-12-13FACTS ABOUT THE PRESIDENTS: He was the only 20th century president who had previously served as U.S. House Minority Leader Gerald Ford
#4889, aired 2005-12-08POLITICAL LINGO: Senate Rule 22 governs this; Clinton called it "posturing to prove... a minority can paralyze the federal government" filibusters
#4888, aired 2005-12-0720th CENTURY NOVELS: This 1955 novel was originally titled "The Kingdom by the Sea", an allusion to Poe's "Annabel Lee" Lolita
#4887, aired 2005-12-06NAMES OF THE 1930s: A famous 1936 speech by this man began, "At long last, I am able to say a few words of my own" King Edward VIII
#4883, aired 2005-11-30IN THE ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA: The last full 2005 Micropedia article about a person is on the Russian-born man famed as an inventor of this in the 1920s television
#4876, aired 2005-11-21NAME THE POEM: "He is all pine and I am apple orchard. My apple trees will never get across and eat the cones under his pines" "Mending Wall" (by Robert Frost)
#4874, aired 2005-11-17BRITISH POETS: In 1812 he became a disciple & friend of social philosopher William Godwin, later his father-in-law Percy Shelley
#4872, aired 2005-11-152005 COMMENCEMENT SPEECHES: Speaking at his alma mater, he urged graduates to be voracious readers, donate to worthy causes & stay in Maine Stephen King
#4870, aired 2005-11-1120th CENTURY U.S. PRESIDENTS: His mother, Louise, said, "I do not want my son to be president... his is a judicial mind and he loves the law" William Howard Taft
#4869, aired 2005-11-10BILLBOARD MAGAZINE: Launched in 2004, Billboard's first Top 20 chart for these included "My Boo", the "Halloween" theme & "Ice Ice Baby" ringtones
#4866, aired 2005-11-07NOTABLE NAMES: He declined the offer to lead a country & once said, "Politics is for the present... an equation is... for eternity" Albert Einstein
#4861, aired 2005-10-3120th CENTURY REPUBLICANS: Never president, he was the youngest man ever to receive the Republican presidential nomination (Thomas) Dewey
#4855, aired 2005-10-2119th CENTURY LITERARY CHARACTERS: Hanged in an 1837 novel, he so angered some Londoners that his creator toned him down in future editions Fagin
#4852, aired 2005-10-18ACADEMY AWARD NOMINATIONS: He was nominated for Best Actor 5 times in the 1950s, the most for any man in one decade Marlon Brando
#4842, aired 2005-10-0420th CENTURY NOVELS: Ironically, this 1953 science fiction book began appearing in a censored version in 1967 Fahrenheit 451
#4841, aired 2005-10-03PRESIDENTIAL RELATIVES: He defended civil rights as a representative from Massachusetts' 11th District from 1895 to 1901 John Francis Fitzgerald
#4833, aired 2005-09-21NOVELISTS: His great-granddad wrote the best-seller "White Rose of Memphis", a city 40 miles north of the county in which he was raised William Faulkner
#4831, aired 2005-09-19RANKS & TITLES: In 1950 Pius XII was Pontifex Maximus; exactly 2,000 years earlier, this man held a title of the same name Julius Caesar
#4828, aired 2005-09-1418th CENTURY LITERATURE: This character studied medicine, "knowing it would be useful in long voyages" Gulliver
#4824, aired 2005-07-21LITERARY FIREARMS: The "Polizei Pistole Kurz" model was often used very effectively by this literary character introduced in 1953 James Bond
#4821, aired 2005-07-18ARCHITECTS: He called himself "the man who introduced the glass box and then, 50 years later, broke it" Philip Johnson
#4820, aired 2005-07-15CHILDREN'S LITERATURE: This 1952 classic contains the line "No one was with her when she died" Charlotte's Web
#4816, aired 2005-07-11SUPREME COURT JUSTICES: Robert Jackson, the only justice to take a formal leave of absence, went to be a prosecutor in this foreign city Nuremberg
#4813, aired 2005-07-06PEOPLE IN GOVERNMENT: Now in his job over 17 years, he's the longest-serving pres. appointee other than Supreme Court members Alan Greenspan (Chairman of the Federal Reserve)
#4809, aired 2005-06-30OSCAR NOMINEES: In a 1964 film, he played 3 characters but received only one nomination for Best Actor Peter Sellers
#4807, aired 2005-06-2820th CENTURY AUTHORS: In 1956 she published "Venice Observed" & her brother Kevin starred in "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" Mary McCarthy
#4805, aired 2005-06-24RULERS: Though he was already emperor of one country, Franz Joseph was crowned in this city June 8, 1867 Budapest
#4804, aired 2005-06-23U.S. PRESIDENTS: He's the only president to have held 2 different cabinet posts: Secretary of State & Secretary of War James Monroe
#4799, aired 2005-06-16HISTORIC BUSINESSMEN: Tired of his fragile wares being smashed in transit, this man born in 1730 advocated British turnpike building Wedgwood
#4795, aired 2005-06-10PRESIDENTS: The last time there were no living ex-presidents was when this man was president Richard Nixon
#4793, aired 2005-06-08CHARITABLE WORK: Musician Ray Charles raised money for people afflicted by this, saying, "To me, it's the worst thing in the world" deafness (or hearing impairment)
#4792, aired 2005-06-07NOTORIOUS: In 1934 in Chicago, soon before his death, he had painful plastic surgery that left him looking pretty much the same John Dillinger
#4791, aired 2005-06-06CONTEMPORARY QUOTATIONS: On Dec. 13, 2000 he said, "While I strongly disagree with the court's decision, I accept it" Al Gore
#4783, aired 2005-05-2520th CENTURY AMERICANS: These names of 2 original Mercury astronauts, who orbited Earth in May 1962 & May 1963, are also occupations Scott Carpenter & Gordon Cooper
#4779, aired 2005-05-19NUCLEAR POWER: This state, besides having the first, also has the most nuclear reactors Illinois
#4772, aired 2005-05-1020th CENTURY AUTHORS: Born of Norwegian descent in 1916, he was given the first name of a famous Norwegian of the time Roald Dahl
#4766, aired 2005-05-02WORLD CITIES: Capital of the ancient Roman province of Galatia, it became a modern national capital in 1923 Ankara
#4764, aired 2005-04-28BRITISH MILITARY HISTORY: He commanded the forces that rescued the survivors of the infamous Black Hole of Calcutta in 1756 Robert Clive
#4762, aired 2005-04-26IN THE DICTIONARY: Much in the news of the world at the end of June 2004, it's the only English word to contain "GNT" consecutively sovereignty
#4761, aired 2005-04-25U.S. CITIES: In 1790 this Midwest city was named for a society that had been named for a Roman citizen-soldier Cincinnati
#4760, aired 2005-04-22NEW LAWS: CEOs must personally certify their corporate books following a July 2002 law named for these 2 men Sen. Paul Sarbanes & Rep. Michael Oxley
#4757, aired 2005-04-19THE CABINET: A top member of the Reagan Cabinet, he was also Labor Secretary & Treasury Secretary under Richard Nixon George Shultz
#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
#4753, aired 2005-04-1316th CENTURY NAMES: As a foe of the Spanish, he's been called "The Queen's Pirate" & a "Gran Luterano" Sir Francis Drake
#4750, aired 2005-04-08CHILDREN'S LITERATURE: Dr. Seuss wrote this book to win a bet that he couldn't write a book using only 50 different words Green Eggs and Ham
#4746, aired 2005-04-04PRESIDENTS & THE MOVIES: This president arranged the first film showing in the White House when he had "The Birth of a Nation" screened there Woodrow Wilson
#4741, aired 2005-03-28U.S. PRESIDENTS: He's the only U.S. president to serve in the Senate after leaving the White House Andrew Johnson
#4738, aired 2005-03-23MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL: The team names of these 2 expansion clubs start with the same 3 letters; one might catch the other the Seattle Mariners & the Florida Marlins
#4730, aired 2005-03-11HISTORIC BRITS: During the American Revolution, in his last moments he said, "It will be but a momentary pang" Major John André
#4724, aired 2005-03-0320th CENTURY AMERICANS: He was alive for the Wright Brothers' historic flight & was John Glenn's Senate colleague when Glenn returned to space Strom Thurmond
#4721, aired 2005-02-28COLLEGE LIBRARIES: Built in memory of a victim of this tragedy, Harvard's Widener Library was opened in 1915 the sinking of the Titanic
#4707, aired 2005-02-08U.S. GOVERNMENT: (Hi, I'm John McCain.) In presidential succession, the senator holding this position follows the VP & the Speaker of the House president pro tempore
#4695, aired 2005-01-21FICTIONAL CHILDREN: This boy introduced in a 1902 book flew away from his mother when he was 7 days old Peter Pan
#4689, aired 2005-01-13FEDERAL PUBLIC SERVANTS: With 7 years' service, this man who resigned in June 2004 had the longest tenure in his position in over 4 decades George Tenet (former head of the CIA)
#4679, aired 2004-12-30VICE PRESIDENTS: He was the first vice president to cast zero tiebreaking votes in his capacity as president of the Senate John Tyler
#4674, aired 2004-12-23AUTHORS: He publicly objected to the name of a 2004 documentary for infringing on the title of one of his books Ray Bradbury
#4670, aired 2004-12-17ANNUAL EVENTS: A high-bounce ball inspired businessman Lamar Hunt to give an annual event this name the Super Bowl
#4668, aired 2004-12-15HISTORIC MESSAGES: In 1943 he sent the famous message "Eleven alive native knows posit and reefs Nauru Island" John Fitzgerald Kennedy
#4663, aired 2004-12-08THE CABINET: He's been both the youngest & the oldest U.S. Secretary of Defense in history Donald Rumsfeld
#4657, aired 2004-11-30BUSINESS & INDUSTRY: Most of this firm's 70,000 seasonal white-collar employees work only 4 months a year H&R Block
#4654, aired 2004-11-25POLITICAL WORDS & PHRASES: Teddy Roosevelt used this boxing phrase to announce his 1912 candidacy & said, "The fight is on & I'm stripped to the buff" (my) hat is in the ring
#4640, aired 2004-11-06SPORTS: Its solo female winner is awarded the Venus Rosewater Dish Wimbledon
#4639, aired 2004-11-05LITERATURE: In early drafts, the heroine of this novel was named Pansy & her family home was called Fontenoy Hall Gone with the Wind
#4636, aired 2004-11-01SEMIANNUAL PUBLICATIONS: It began in 1886 as an extension of an upper crust family's list of whose house they'd visit & who they'd receive The Social Register
#4634, aired 2004-10-28HISTORIC AREAS: In 1893, as it was disappearing, F.J. Turner wrote a famous essay on "The Significance of" it "in American History" the Frontier
#4632, aired 2004-10-26AUTHORS: After several decades off it, works by this man seen here returned to the New York Times Bestseller List in 2003 J.R.R. Tolkien
#4624, aired 2004-10-14FAMOUS AMERICANS: After his public comments were criticized by FDR, he resigned his Air Corps Reserve commission in April 1941 Charles Lindbergh
#4616, aired 2004-10-04POETS: Called the 2 most innovative 19th century American poets, one didn't read the other after being "told that he was disgraceful" Emily Dickinson & Walt Whitman
#4613, aired 2004-09-2919th CENTURY NAMES: Once known as "the handsomest man in America", he performed his last play, "The Apostate", on March 18, 1865 John Wilkes Booth
#4612, aired 2004-09-28POETS: A San Francisco resident since the 1950s, in 1998 he became the city's first Poet Laureate Lawrence Ferlinghetti (owner of City Lights bookstore in San Francisco)
#4610, aired 2004-09-24CHILDREN'S AUTHORS: After WWI he wrote, "To develop a horse-surgery… would necessitate a knowledge of horse language" Hugh Lofting (author of the Doctor Dolittle books)
#4604, aired 2004-09-16AMERICAN AUTHORS: Ford Madox Ford, in the ‘20s, hadn’t “read more than six words” by this man before vowing to “publish everything he sent me” Ernest Hemingway
#4602, aired 2004-09-14ALIASES: Norma McCorvey recently sought a reversal to her landmark 1973 case in which she had this name (Jane) Roe
#4592, aired 2004-07-20ON THE MAP: In area it's the largest African country through which the Greenwich meridian passes Algeria
#4590, aired 2004-07-16FOOD: Experts believe that 16th century Dutch growers, through breeding, gave this vegetable its color to honor their ruling house the carrot
#4589, aired 2004-07-15U.S. PRESIDENTS: With a book about the South, he became the first president--past or present--to publish a novel Jimmy Carter
#4587, aired 2004-07-13HEADLINES OF THE LAST 40 YEARS: The first 2 New York Times headlines set in 96-point type were in these 2 years, 5 years apart 1969 & 1974
#4586, aired 2004-07-12NAMES IN THE BIBLE: Daniel means "God is my judge", Ezekiel, "God strengthens"; & this name in Genesis 32, "he strives with God" Israel
#4585, aired 2004-07-09INTERNATIONAL POLITICS: Of the 8 members of the G-8 industrial nations, the one with the smallest population Canada
#4584, aired 2004-07-08FICTIONAL PEOPLE: After a 58-year flirtation, this woman called it off temporarily in issue No. 720 Lois Lane
#4583, aired 2004-07-07WRITERS: Born in 1564, he was employed by Elizabeth I's Secretary of State to uncover Catholic plots against her reign (Christopher) Marlowe
#4582, aired 2004-07-06HISTORIC ENGLISHMEN: Ironically, he might have saved himself from death in 1779 if he had known how to swim Captain Cook
#4580, aired 2004-07-02SPORTS HEROES: Born in January 1919, the month Teddy Roosevelt died, he was given the middle name Roosevelt Jackie Robinson
#4578, aired 2004-06-30HISTORIC NAMES: In 1899 he was released from Devil's Island & pardoned for "treason under extenuating circumstances" Captain Alfred Dreyfus
#4576, aired 2004-06-28BOOK TITLES: "I am the rose of Sharon" & "When you know your name, you should hang on to it" are from 2 different books titled this Song of Solomon
#4574, aired 2004-06-24FILMS OF THE '70s: This 1973 thriller was re-released in 2000 with extra footage, including a scene in which Ritalin is prescribed The Exorcist
#4573, aired 2004-06-23FAMOUS AMERICANS: In 1826 Daniel Webster eulogized these 2 men, saying, "They took their flight together to the world of spirits" Thomas Jefferson & John Adams
#4571, aired 2004-06-21INVENTIONS: Josephine Cochrane's 1886 version of this consisted of a copper boiler, wire baskets & a pump a dishwasher
#4569, aired 2004-06-17COMMUNICATIONS: In the NATO phonetic alphabet (Alpha, Bravo, etc.), the 2 that are title Shakespearean characters Romeo & Juliet
#4567, aired 2004-06-15CLASSIC LITERATURE: "Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay To mould me man..." is the epigraph to this 1818 novel Frankenstein
#4566, aired 2004-06-14ON EXHIBIT: The Chinese government, which controls all of these in the U.S., won't let a new one be named until it's 100 days old giant pandas
#4552, aired 2004-05-25MYTHS & LEGENDS: At a feast he couldn't enjoy his dinner because his life was literally hanging by a thread Damocles
#4550, aired 2004-05-21EXPLORATION: He wrote in his diary, "The loss of pony transport in March 1911 obliged me to start later than I had intended" Robert Falcon Scott
#4544, aired 2004-05-13AMERICANA: Beginning an American tradition, in 1801 Aaron Burr's daughter Theodosia & her new husband honeymooned here Niagara Falls
#4538, aired 2004-05-05CLASSIC MOVIES: A 35-foot-long muslin stocking was used to create the cyclone for this 1939 film The Wizard of Oz
#4534, aired 2004-04-29MYTHOLOGICAL NAMES: His name means "The Glory of" a certain goddess, & he built shrines to that goddess Hercules
#4513, aired 2004-03-31HISTORIC NAMES: As a teenager in 1653, he played the sun in a court performance of the "Ballet de la Nuit" Louis XIV
#4511, aired 2004-03-29U.S. GOVERNMENT: In 1924 he succeeded William J. Burns who had resigned; he remained in his position for the next 48 years J. Edgar Hoover
#4507, aired 2004-03-23POSTAGE STAMPS: "Oh, The Places He'll Go!" was USA Today's headline announcing the 2004 stamp honoring this artist & author Dr. Seuss
#4506, aired 2004-03-22FAMOUS FELINES: He made his debut in the 1945 short film "Life with Feathers" Sylvester
#4505, aired 2004-03-19PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEES: He wrote a "Report of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the Year 1842" John C. Fremont
#4504, aired 2004-03-18THE 12th CENTURY: This king covered his eyes with his shield so that he would not see the holy city he could not conquer Richard I (Richard the Lionhearted)
#4501, aired 2004-03-15THE 1960s: Used most infamously in 1963, a .38-caliber Colt Cobra handgun belonging to this man sold in 1991 for $220,000 Jack Ruby
#4488, aired 2004-02-25ASTRONOMY: The name of Mintaka, a star in this constellation, is from the Arabic for "belt" Orion
#4487, aired 2004-02-24FAMOUS NAMES: A grandson of Man O' War, he defeated his uncle in a famous matchup November 1, 1938 Seabiscuit
#4479, aired 2004-02-12SONGS: One of the first to sing it publicly was Baltimore actor Fredinand Durang at Captain McCauley's tavern in October 1814 "The Star-Spangled Banner"
#4476, aired 2004-02-09PRESIDENTIAL RELATIVES: He's the U.S. president whose great-grandson seen here taking part in a special celebration Teddy Roosevelt
#4473, aired 2004-02-04TV PERSONALITIES: In 1994 his alma mater, Sam Houston State University, named its journalism & communications building in his honor Dan Rather
#4459, aired 2004-01-15POLITICAL CAMPAIGNS: This man's successful 2001 campaign was the most expensive non-presidential campaign in history Michael Bloomberg
#4455, aired 2004-01-09CURRENT WORLD LEADERS: He's believed to be grooming his son Gamal to succeed him Hosni Mubarak
#4435, aired 2003-12-1219th CENTURY BUSINESS: Frederic Tudor became wealthy marketing this, which he took from a pond called Fresh Pond in Massachusetts ice
#4429, aired 2003-12-04AMERICAN AUTHORS: He called himself a "Cubano Sato", a phrase from the Cuban dialect meaning both "flirt" & "half-breed" Ernest Hemingway
#4428, aired 2003-12-03NOTABLE NAMES: In 1908 he turned the techniques he used to train army troops into a manual for training small groups of boys Lord Baden-Powell
#4408, aired 2003-11-05POSTAGE STAMPS: In honor of the 400th anniv. of his birth, in 1964 he became the first English commoner to appear on a British stamp William Shakespeare
#4402, aired 2003-10-28LEGENDARY RULERS: He's been written about by Aneirin in "The Gododdin" around 600 A.D. & by Fay Sampson in the "Daughter of Tintagel" series King Arthur
#4398, aired 2003-10-2220th CENTURY NOTABLES: Einstein said of him, "Generations to come will scarcely believe" one such as he "walked the Earth in flesh & blood" Mohandas Gandhi
#4396, aired 2003-10-20ACTORS & HISTORICAL ROLES: In the 2002 film "Frida", Geoffrey Rush portrayed this European firebrand during his final days Leon Trotsky
#4394, aired 2003-10-16NAME'S THE SAME: This sports superstar of 1973 bears the name of one of the 6 major organs of the United Nations Secretariat
#4393, aired 2003-10-15OPERA SETTINGS: Verdi's Nabucco, who's also known by a longer form of his name, is the king of this ancient place Babylon
#4391, aired 2003-10-13MOVIES: A catering hall called Aphrodite's Palace is featured in this 2002 film My Big Fat Greek Wedding
#4386, aired 2003-10-06AUTHORS: He chose a quotation by Scott Joplin as the epigraph for a 1975 novel E.L. Doctorow
#4384, aired 2003-10-02U.S. VICE PRESIDENTS: He served 2 terms as Vice President & was the first Vice President who had been born in the 20th century Richard Nixon
#4375, aired 2003-09-19FICTIONAL CHARACTERS: This title character was based on a man who bravely served the Guides Regiment at the 1857 Siege of Delhi Gunga Din
#4374, aired 2003-09-18ADVENTURERS: On his deathbed in 1324, he reportedly said, "I have not told half of what I saw" Marco Polo
#4372, aired 2003-09-16PEOPLE IN HISTORY: About the islands he discovered, he wrote, "To the first of these I give the name of the Blessed Savior" Christopher Columbus
#4364, aired 2003-07-17PEOPLE: He said, "I... really never considered myself a TV star. I always thought I was a neighbor who just came in for a visit" Fred Rogers (of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood)
#4361, aired 2003-07-14MAGAZINES: For its 1st swimsuit edition in 2003, it covered 100 years of the swimsuit & included a 1917 photo of topless island women National Geographic
#4356, aired 2003-07-07HISTORIC AMERICANS: He turned down an appointment as a U.S. senator in 1875 because it meant accepting a pardon for treason Jefferson Davis
#4354, aired 2003-07-03OPERA: Title character of a 1787 opera who says he needs women "more than the food I eat,... than the very air I breathe" Don Juan (or Don Giovanni)
#4348, aired 2003-06-25TELEVISION: In Apple's I-Movie program, the effect seen here that's done with photos is named for this TV filmmaker Ken Burns
#4337, aired 2003-06-102001 NEWS: On May 9, 2001 he signed a state law banning punch-card voting Jeb Bush (governor of Florida)
#4336, aired 2003-06-09TIME'S MAN OF THE YEAR: The only man named Time's Man of the Year 2 straight years, he shared the distinction with Kissinger in 1972 Richard M. Nixon
#4322, aired 2003-05-20MEN OF MEDICINE: In 1891 he helped found & became the first chairman of the British Institute of Preventive Medicine Joseph Lister ("Father of Antiseptic Surgery")
#4303, aired 2003-04-23CHARACTERS: Person missing from: Rossweisse, Ortlinde, Siegrune, Grimgerde, Helmwige, Gerhilde, Waltraute & Schwertleite Brunhilde (one of the Valkyries)
#4297, aired 2003-04-15WORLD LEADERS: On June 18, 1940, the day of Churchill's "finest hour" speech, this leader made his first broadcast from London Charles de Gaulle
#4296, aired 2003-04-14MOUNTAINS: All of the mountains in the U.S. over 14,500 feet are in this state Alaska
#4294, aired 2003-04-10HISPANIC AMERICANS: He won the USA's only boxing gold medal at the 1992 Olympics Oscar De La Hoya
#4289, aired 2003-04-03U.S. PRESIDENTS: He was the first U.S. president not of British descent Martin Van Buren
#4282, aired 2003-03-2520th CENTURY PRESIDENTS: He's the only U.S. president whose first, middle & last names each have the same number of letters Ronald Wilson Reagan
#4246, aired 2003-02-03HISTORIC AMERICANS: Elizabeth Shoumatoff was sketching his portrait when he fell unconscious April 12, 1945; he died 2 hours later Franklin Delano Roosevelt
#4245, aired 2003-01-31AUTHORS: In September 2002 he offered $10,000 to help capture the person who burned down Iowa's Cedar Bridge Robert James Waller (author of "The Bridges of Madison County")
#4239, aired 2003-01-23HISTORIC NAMES: In 2002 Christie's auctioned off his own account of his 48-day journey & his coconut cup with the date April 1789 on it Captain William Bligh (after he got bounced off the Bounty)
#4238, aired 2003-01-22THE GLOBE: Of the more than a dozen countries through which the equator passes, this country stretches farthest south Brazil
#4233, aired 2003-01-1518th CENTURY NAMES: He's the Frenchman seen here in a detail from a portrait by Jacques-Louis David Antoine Lavoisier
#4228, aired 2003-01-08U.S. PRESIDENTS: He was the first president to use a middle name John Quincy Adams
#4222, aired 2002-12-31SOUTH AMERICA: Alphabetically, they're the first & last of the 7 countries where the Andes are found Argentina & Venezuela
#4209, aired 2002-12-12OSCAR-WINNING DIRECTORS: He's the last person to win the Best Director Oscar for a film in which he also starred Mel Gibson (for Braveheart)
#4191, aired 2002-11-18THE PRESIDENCY: He was the first man to become U.S. president as a result of the 25th Amendment Gerald Ford
#4175, aired 2002-10-25NATURAL WONDERS: Given its current name by John Wesley Powell, it was called Kaibab, or "mountain lying down", by the Paiutes the Grand Canyon
#4168, aired 2002-10-16FAMOUS AMERICANS: In 1920 this man, great-grandson of Sauk leader Black Hawk, became the first president of what is now the NFL Jim Thorpe
#4165, aired 2002-10-11FAMOUS AMERICANS: In 1785 he wrote that "After fifty years' service in public affairs", he wanted to "make plenty of experiments" Benjamin Franklin
#4163, aired 2002-10-09THE CENSUS: The 1930 U.S. Census was the first to ask if residents owned one of these & 12 million were counted a radio
#4160, aired 2002-10-04U.S. PRESIDENTS: A Civil War general, he was the last man to go directly from the House of Representatives to the presidency James A. Garfield
#4158, aired 2002-10-02BROADWAY STARS: This Tony-winning actor with the real name Joseph took part of his stage name from a role in "Guys and Dolls" Nathan Lane
#4157, aired 2002-10-01COMIC STRIPS: He's Willi Wakker in Germany, Angelo Capello in Italy & Andre Chapeau in France Andy Capp
#4154, aired 2002-09-26WORLD LEADERS: In April 1952 he wrote in a poem, "Cherry blossoms are blooming full today, now is the nation's springtime" Emperor Hirohito
#4140, aired 2002-09-06SPORTS STARS: He's the only athlete in history to play in both the Super Bowl & the World Series Deion Sanders
#4135, aired 2002-07-19FAMOUS AMERICANS: "May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof" is from this man's 1800 prayer John Adams
#4128, aired 2002-07-10HISTORIC PEOPLE: He once said, "If I can make a deaf-mute talk, I can make metal talk" Alexander Graham Bell
#4125, aired 2002-07-0519th CENTURY PRESIDENTS: He was the first U.S. president who never had a vice president John Tyler
#4122, aired 2002-07-021980s BUSINESS: In his job since 1984, this man has been called "the Prince who awakened Sleeping Beauty" Michael Eisner
#4119, aired 2002-06-27LITERARY HEROINES: This literary character was inspired by Delphine Delamare, whose adultery led to her 1848 suicide Madame Bovary
#4114, aired 2002-06-20THE EMMY AWARDS: It's the only prime time TV show--comedy or drama--to win the Emmy for Best Series 5 times Frasier
#4110, aired 2002-06-14COLLEGE FOOTBALL: His name was immortalized in 1936; he holds the record for head coaching at the most Division I or major schools--8 John Heisman
#4108, aired 2002-06-12FANTASY FILMS: This 1990 Tim Burton film was advertised with the line "His story will touch you, even though he can't" Edward Scissorhands
#4106, aired 2002-06-10THE PRESIDENCY: He was the last president to take the oath of office from someone other than the Chief Justice of the U.S. Lyndon Johnson
#4102, aired 2002-06-04ORGANIZATIONS: "Music Man" composer Meredith Willson wrote the song "Banners And Bonnets" for this organization the Salvation Army
#4094, aired 2002-05-23ISRAEL: They are the 2 Arab countries in which Israel currently has embassies Egypt & Jordan
#4093, aired 2002-05-22RENAISSANCE AUTHORS: In the 16th century he wrote, "Whoever wishes to found a state…must start with assuming that all men are bad…" Machiavelli
#4092, aired 2002-05-21NEWSMAKERS: In May 2001 he said, "Vermont has always been known for its independence" Jim Jeffords
#4087, aired 2002-05-14VICE PRESIDENTS: He was the only vice president to be elected to, & serve, 2 full terms as president Thomas Jefferson
#4085, aired 2002-05-10KNOWLEDGE BY THE NUMBERS: Number of males who served as British PM in the 1990s plus Oscars won by Tom Hanks plus protons in a helium nucleus 6 (2 + 2 + 2)
#4078, aired 2002-05-01ESPIONAGE: He was born in India; his father worked for the British government & he was nicknamed for a Kipling character Kim Philby

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Suchita Shah, a senior from the University of Wisconsin-Madison 2008 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 20 and from Holmen, WI...
Janet Bradlow, an insurance agent from New York, New York Season 26 3-time champion: $58,000 + $2,000. Janet Bradlow New York,...
Robert Knecht Schmidt, a patent agent from Cleveland, Ohio Season 26 1-time champion: $12,799 + $1,000. Middle name pronounced like...
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Ellen Eichner, a junior from the Ohio State University from Northbrook, Illinois 2010-B College Championship semifinalist: $10,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
Inta Antler, a retired computer programmer from Scarborough, Ontario, Canada Season 25 1-time champion: $12,700 + $2,000. Inta Antler - A...
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...
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...
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...
Joey Beachum, a senior from Mississippi State University 2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2008 College Championship winner: $100,000...
Gary Bechtold, a garage door company owner from St. Cloud, Minnesota Season 26 3-time champion: $42,001 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
Becky Anderson, a retired software specialist originally from Morganton, North Carolina Season 25 1-time champion: $16,401 + $2,000. Becky Anderson - A...
Neil Patrick Harris, an actor from How I Met Your Mother "He's appeared on Broadway in Proof, Assassins, and Cabaret. He's now...
Hill Harper, an actor from CSI: NY "He graduated magna cum laude from Brown University. He has a...
Jerome Vered, a writer from Los Angeles, California "The 1-day record of $34,000 he set in 1992 stood for...
Tim Russert, a moderator from Meet the Press "He's the Washington Bureau Chief of NBC News and the longtime...
Leszek Pawlowicz, a shovel bum from Flagstaff, Arizona "He was a material scientist living in Phoenix when he won...
Okey Chikezie, from Egg Harbor Township, New Jersey "He wants to be a professional soccer player when he grows...
Bob Verini, a film journalist and test prep teacher from Los Angeles, California "A resident of New York City when he won the 1987...
Ari Stern, a mathematician from San Diego, California Season 27 1-time champion: $17,201 + $1,000.
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
Arthur Phillips, an author from Brooklyn, New York "He was a speechwriter from Boston when he won five shows...
Isaac Mizrahi, a fashion designer and TV personality from the QVC Network "His fashion designs are a favorite among celebrities on the red...
Hill Harper, an author and actor from CSI: NY "As an award-winning author, he's written three New York Times best...
Stephen Weingarten, a paraeducator from Portland, Oregon 2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $96,690...
Brendan Barnwell, a grad student and tutor from Santa Barbara, California Season 28 player (2011-12-05). Although Brendan played the Jeopardy! and Double...
Zack Terrill, a senior at Vanderbilt University from Winter Springs, Florida 2012 College Championship 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $25,000. 21 at...
Matthew Cline, a 12-year-old from Maumelle, Arkansas "John Grisham's books have inspired him. He's firm. He wants to...
Lisa Makar, a senior from University of Maryland "As a seventh grader, she was planning a career as a...
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...
Babu Srinivasan, a history professor at Prairie View A&M University from Houston, Texas "A five-time champion in 2001, he's now a history professor at...
Eugene Finerman, a writer from Northbrook, Illinois "A finalist in the 1987 Tournament of Champions, he's a writer....
Paul Kursky, a copywriter from San Francisco, California 2011 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 26 5-time champion: $109,411...
Paul Wampler, a web programmer from Knoxville, Tennessee Season 27 4-time champion: $72,001 + $2,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user name: paul5562
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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...
Kimberly Jantz, an attorney from Tulsa, Oklahoma Season 26 1-time champion: $22,200 + $2,000. Kimberly Jantz - an...
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Jonathan Reinstein, a junior from Dix Hills, New York 2001 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $5,000. 17 at the time of the...
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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...
Mark Dawson, a business manager from Chamblee, Georgia 2014 Battle of the Decades quarterfinalist: $10,000. 2005 Ultimate Tournament of...
Paul Shaffer, a composer and musical director from The Late Show with David Letterman "David Letterman's musical director for 24 years, he's also musical producer...
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Bill Pitassy, a lawyer from Roselle Park, New Jersey \"After winning 5 games in 1994, he took his family on...
Aaron Brown, an Emmy Award-winning newsman from CNN's popular primetime newscast "A journalist for over 25 years, he now anchors CNN's popular...
Gabrielle McMahan, a junior from Florida A&M University 2008 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. 20 and from Springfield, VA at...
Nico Martinez, a college junior from Bloomfield Hills, Michigan 2006 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2005 College Champion: $100,000 +...
Eddie Timanus, a sports reporter from Arlington, Virginia "A 5-time champion, he went on to become a semifinalist in...
Robert Slaven, a technical products specialist originally from Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada "He won 5 times in 1992. Today, he's a technical products...
Andrew Westney, a sports business writer from Charlotte, North Carolina "He was a high-school student from Atlanta when he won the...
Carl Brandt, an investor originally from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 2009 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 25 4-time champion: $70,799 + $2,000.
Jelisa Castrodale, a sportswriter from Winston-Salem, North Carolina Season 27 1-time champion: $39,399 + $1,000. Name pronounced like "jell-EES-ah KASS-tro-dale".
Jean Cui, a student originally from Garden City, New York Season 25 2-time champion: $14,200 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
Will Warren, a senior from the University of Alabama 2010-A College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. Hometown: Madison, Alabama. Will Warren Blog...
Greg Gumbel, a sportscaster from NBC Sports "He covers baseball, basketball and football for NBC; he hosted the...
Colby Burnett, a high school world history teacher from Chicago, Illinois "He teaches at a school started by the Dominicans of St....
Regis Philbin, a TV host from Live with Regis and Kelly "In 2004 he entered the Guinness Book of Records as having...
Scott Turow, a bestselling novelist and practicing attorney from Chicago, Illinois "He's sold more than 25 million copies of his novels worldwide...
Brian Stokes Mitchell, an actor from the Broadway musical Ragtime "His Broadway credits include Ragtime and Kiss Me, Kate, for which...
Harry Shearer, an actor/writer/producer from The Simpsons and Le Show "His many credits include providing voices for The Simpsons, and he's...
Steven Popper, an economist from Topanga, California "A winner of 5 shows in 1988, he has since founded...
Ryan Chaffee, a tutor from Los Angeles, California 2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $91,900...
Dillon McCormick, a twelve-year-old from Erlanger, Kentucky "A politician, maybe. An archaeologist, perhaps. Or a psychologist like grandpa....
Dmitry Spivak, a junior from Northwestern University "The 11-year-old wasn't really kidding when he said he wanted to...
David Faber, an anchor and reporter from CNBC's Squawk on the Street and The Faber Report "The winner of Emmy, Peabody, DuPont, and Loeb awards, he's a...
Ari Fleischer, a former White House Press Secretary from the current Bush administration "For the first two years of the current Bush administration, he...
Marshall Tan, from Gaithersburg, Maryland "His favorite subject is social studies, and he knows a lot...
Tucker Warner, from Fredericksburg, Virginia "At the beginning of the school year, he worked on a...
Thomas Horn, a twelve-year-old from Piedmont, California "He plans on making the world a better place as an...
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...
Lan Djang, a health policy analyst from Toronto, Ontario, Canada "He was a 5-time champion in 2001. Today he's a health...
Jack Archey, an actor and writer from Los Angeles, California "He was a CPA and comedian when he won his 5th...
Alan Bailey, a playwright and director from North Hills, California "This playwright and director became a 5-time winner in 2001. Today,...
Matt Morris, a financial analyst originally from Louisville, Kentucky "In 1994, he won the Teen Tournament. Today, he's a financial...
Rachel Pildis, a software developer from Oak Park, Illinois Season 26 1-time champion: $12,000 + $2,000. Rachel Pildis - A...
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...
Rebecca Dixon, a graduate student and musician from Vancouver, Washington Season 26 2-time champion: $53,002 + $1,000. Rebecca and her partner...
Matt Jacobs, a science teacher originally from Stratford, Connecticut Season 25 1-time champion: $10,323 + $1,000. Matt resided in Silver...
Sam Waterston, an actor from Law & Order "A Best Actor Oscar nominee for The Killing Fields, he's now...
Curt Schilling, a pitcher from the Boston Red Sox "In helping the Red Sox to win the 2004 World Series,...
Tiffany Wen, a 12-year-old from Exton, Pennsylvania "This figure skater is also on the distinguished honor roll. From...
Jared Rothenberg, an 11-year-old from Houston, Texas "When he's not on the mound, he's warming up in the...
Michael McKean, an actor, writer, and director from This is Spinal Tap, A Mighty Wind, and The Pajama Game "His movies have included This is Spinal Tap and A Mighty...
Drew Lachey, a singer and actor from Dancing with the Stars "He was working as an emergency medical technician when brother Nick...
Paul Boymel, a civil rights attorney from Potomac, Maryland "He was the top winner of the 1984-85 season. Now he's...
Doug Lach, a marketing manager from Columbus, Ohio "He was the biggest winner of the 1999-2000 season. A marketing...
Brad Rutter, a network administrator from Lancaster, Pennsylvania 2020 Jeopardy!: The Greatest of All Time 2nd runner-up: $250,000. 2019...
Ryan Holznagel, a writer originally from Forest Grove, Oregon "He was the winner of the 1995 Tournament of Champions. Now,...
Mark Dawson, a business manager from Chamblee, Georgia "In 2003, he became the first to win a quarter of...
Carlos Garcia, an immigration attorney from Los Angeles, California Season 34 player (2018-02-09). According to his contestant interview, Carlos chose...
Adrian Ho, a healthcare consultant from Palo Alto, California Season 30 player (2014-01-10).
Alan Jackowitz, an accountant originally from Brooklyn, New York Season 2 player (1985-09-11). At the time of his appearance, Alan...
Roger Craig, a computer scientist from Newark, Delaware 2019 All-Star Games member of wildcard-match 2nd-place Team Austin: a share...
John Botti, a high school history and English teacher from Bethesda, Maryland "He says he keeps his spirit young by spending time with...
Alex Johnson, an 11-year-old from Indianapolis, Indiana "He wants to be a chemist in the future. From Indianapolis,...
Partha Purushotham, an 11-year-old from Palo Alto, California "He is fair-minded, so he thinks he would make a good...
Arjun Malhotra, a 12-year-old from Sammamish, Washington "He says he's not naturally inclined to be an athlete, so...
Robert Gibbs, a former press secretary from the Obama White House "In 2004, he joined Barack Obama's senatorial campaign as communications director,...
Krishna Bharathala, a sophomore from Fremont, California 2012 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 15 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
Mark Born, a musician, writer and teacher from Bangkok, Thailand \"He was the top winner of the 1990-91 season. He\'s a...
Dave Sikula, an Internet search editor from Pacifica, California Season 24 1-time champion: $15,000 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
Adam Barrow, an 11-year-old from Greensboro, North Carolina "And he wants to be a sportswriter, so he can combine...
Ryan Elkins, a 12-year-old from Bensalem, Pennsylvania "He wants to study physics and unlock the mysteries of the...
Dominic Clust, from Metairie, Louisiana "This future lawyer likes to argue and he's good at it....
Pranita Ramakrishnan, from Centreville, Virginia "Not only does this future neurologist enjoy swimming, drawing and spelling,...
Jack Weisman, a twelve-year-old from Beachwood, Ohio "He's considering becoming a lawyer, just like Mom and Dad. From...
India Cooper, an actor and copy editor from New York City, New York "A semifinalist in the Tournament of Champions in 1992, now an...
Graham Gilmer, a senior at Stanford University from Stanford, California "He was the Teen Tournament champion in 2001. Now he's a...
Chacko George, a senior at the University of Texas at Austin from Austin, Texas "He won the November 1999 Teen Tournament. Now he's a senior...
Brian Wangsgard, from Salt Lake City, Utah "He was the biggest winner in the 1988-1989 season, and a...
Michael Arnone, a writer and editor from Alexandria, Virginia "He was the largest 1-day winner in the 2000-2001 season. Today...
Steven Milton, a legal case assistant from San Diego, California Season 26 2-time champion: $30,299 + $1,000. Steve Milton San Diego,...
Tom Cubbage, an attorney from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma "He was the very first College Champion, and the only one...
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...
Jeff Richmond, an attorney from Los Angeles, California "He used his 1988 5-game winnings to pay for law school....
Michael Dupée, an attorney from Gainesville, Florida "He was the winner of the 1996 Tournament of Champions. Today...
Alex Silady, an 11-year-old from Edison, New Jersey "He hopes to be an entrepreneur, because he likes doing things...
Tory Gilliam, a twelve-year-old from Powhatan, Virginia "As a member of his school's debate team, he likes to...
Neal Freyman, a ten-year-old from Longmeadow, Massachusetts "He's not sure recess counts as a subject, but if it...
Andy Davis, a Chyron operator from South Boston, Massachusetts Season 25 2-time champion: $49,799 + $1,000. Andy Davis - A...
Kori Tyler, a high school teacher from Cordova, Tennessee Season 26 player (2010-02-26). Season 25 1-time champion: $20,000 + $2,000....
Yevgeny Shrago, a research assistant originally from Rochester, New York Season 26 1-time champion: $24,600 + $2,000. Name pronounced like "yev-GHEN-ee...
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...
Jason Pratt, a middle school history teacher from Woodbridge, Virginia Season 25 2-time champion: $32,701 + $1,000. Jason Pratt - A...
Melanie Baker-Streevy, a United Methodist pastor from Parma, Michigan Season 25 1-time champion: $26,900 + $1,000. Melanie Baker-Streevy - A...
Diane Wilshere, an actor and playwright from Manassas, Virginia Season 25 1-time champion: $18,801 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
Jim Lampley, a sportscaster from TNT Sports "He's covered 8 Olympics for 3 networks and will host TNT's...
Braden Corkum, a 12-year-old from Niceville, Florida "He likes making things, so he's going to be an inventor..."...
Christopher Meloni, an Emmy-nominated actor from Law & Order: Special Victims Unit "He's played challenging roles on both sides of the law, including...
Doug Savant, an actor from Desperate Housewives "He plays Tom Scavo, the sometimes-befuddled husband of Felicity Huffman on...
Michael Glick, a 12-year-old from Smithtown, New York "He's in math honors this year, even though math is one...
Andrew Goldfein, a 12-year-old from Lincolnwood, Illinois "He likes to argue and help people, so it's off to...
Josh Lacey, a 10-year-old from Ellicott City, Maryland "The International Olympic Committee does such good work, he would like...
Roy Ha, a geophysicist from Sugar Land, Texas Season 25 player (2009-06-05).
Grace Thomas, an 11-year-old sixth grader from Raleigh, North Carolina "This captain of the Brain-Bowl team can name all the countries...
Ivan Kleinfeld, an 11-year-old from Arlington, Virginia "He would like to be a doctor so that he can...
Eric Webb, a 12-year-old from Austin, Texas "He wants to be a cartoonist so he can make people...
Sean Ryan, a graduate student from Whitehall, Pennsylvania 2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Nifty Nine (players with byes into...
Dan Amboy, a 12-year-old from Lapeer, Michigan "He hopes to get into the best college that he can....
Scott Gillispie, a project manager and expectant father from Atlanta, Georgia "While attending Georgia Tech, he won the 1991 College Championship. Now...
Bob Shore, an attorney from Los Angeles, California Season 21 2-time champion: $47,602 + $2,000. Proponent of Shore's Conjecture....
Tom Cilla, from Kings Park, New York "He wants to join the Coast Guard or the Navy, but...
Brandon Blackwell, a sophomore from Holliswood, New York 2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2008-B Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist:...
Pam Mueller, a college student from Wilmette, Illinois 2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2019 All-Star Games member of...
Andrew He, a software developer from San Francisco, California 2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament 2023 Jeopardy! Masters 4th place player: $100,000....
Andrew He, a software developer from San Francisco, California 2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament 2023 Jeopardy! Masters 4th place player: $100,000....
Andrew He, a software developer from San Francisco, California 2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament 2023 Jeopardy! Masters 4th place player: $100,000....
Andrew He, a stay-at-home dad from Concord, California 2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament 2023 Jeopardy! Masters 4th place player: $100,000....
Bryce Johnson, a wine cellar rat from Corvallis, Oregon Season 30 player (2013-11-29). Johnny Gilbert chuckled when reading Bryce's occupation....
Jong Ho Kim, a high school math teacher from Lombard, Illinois 2020 Teachers Tournament semifinalist: $10,000.
Charles Temple, a high school English teacher from Ocracoke, North Carolina "He teaches at the smallest public school in North Carolina, and...
Matt Polazzo, a high school U.S. government teacher from Brooklyn, New York "He teaches at one of the most selective high schools in...
Thomas Hurley, a 12-year-old seventh grader from Newtown, Connecticut "Watch out, Alex. This kid wants to host Jeopardy! He says...
Jim Davis, a college music and humanities instructor from Freeport, Illinois Season 25 2-time champion: $62,802 + $2,000. Not be to confused...
Jerry Hou, a freelance orchestra conductor from Rochester, New York Season 27 player (2011-07-18). Last name pronounced like "HO".
Leonard Koss, an entrepreneur from Santa Monica, California Season 20 player (2004-07-08). KJL game 27. Leonard was a writer...
Jonathan Groff, a writer and producer for television from Los Angeles, California \"A 5-show winner in 1995, he\'s now a writer and producer...
Tom Aquino, a lawyer from Boston, Massachusetts Season 20 player (2004-07-06). KJL game 25. Last name pronounced like...
Brooks Humphreys, a high school social studies teacher from Omaha, Nebraska "He teaches at an all-girls Catholic school operated by the Sisters...
Neha Embar, a 12-year-old from Alpharetta, Georgia "No kidding--she wants to be a pediatrician when she grows up....
Gabor Vari, a psychiatrist from Los Angeles, California Season 28 2-time champion: $58,402+ $2,000. In his first game, Gabor...
Bruce Ikawa, a college professor from Hillsdale, Michigan \"He says his 5 wins in 1990 increases his credibility with...
Zane Ice, a 12-year-old from West Palm Beach, Florida "He wants to build a business in emerging technologies to help...
Jake McCrory, an 11-year-old from Pueblo, Colorado "He wants to make a positive change in our nation's future...
Cerulean Ozarow, an 11-year-old from Brooklyn, New York "His future is full of options. He wants to become either...
Wolf Blitzer, a reporter from CNN "An Emmy Award-winning reporter for CNN and host of Inside Politics...
Andrew Chung, a sophomore from Harvey Mudd College 2008 College Championship 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $25,000. 20 and...
Jesse L. Jackson, Jr., a congressman from the U.S. House of Representatives "And he led a voter registration drive for the national Rainbow...
Guy Tabachnick, from New York, New York "He wants to be a baseball announcer for the New York...
Paul Thomas, a theater technician from Hollywood, Florida Season 24 1-time champion: $32,001 + $2,000. Paul won his first...
Veronica Fazio, from Roselle, Illinois "She dances, plays softball, and hangs with her friends, but wants...
Olivia Colangelo, a junior from the University of Notre Dame from Murrysville, Pennsylvania 2010-B College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
Jon Er, from Williamsville, New York "This musician always argues for his fairness, so he wants to...
David Madden, a student originally from Ridgewood, New Jersey 2019 All-Star Games member of winning Team Brad: a share of...
Bruce Naegeli, a retired law librarian from Phoenix, Arizona "He finished second in the 1988 Tournament of Champions. A retired...
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...
Paul Gutowski, an alcohol and drug counselor from Rockford, Illinois "He was the first 5-time winner in 1997. An alcohol and...
John Cuthbertson, an investment analyst from San Diego, California "He was the highest money winner of the 1993-94 season. An...
Frank Epstein, a police officer from Los Angeles, California "He was a 5-time champion in 1992, and is still serving...
Tessa Fleming, a high school history teacher from Mission Viejo, California Season 31 player (2014-09-16). Tessa's father was a 2-time champion on...
Mike Hodel, a bartender from Bellingham, Washington Season 27 2-time champion: $20,200 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like "ho-DELL".
Josh Charnin-Aker, a twelve-year-old from Lighthouse Point, Florida "And, whether in neonatology or as a Navy SEAL, he plans...
Tim Koch, a 12-year-old sixth grader from Cliffwood, New Jersey "He would like to be a teacher because you get to...
David McIntyre, a twelve-year-old from Riverside, California "When this Boy Scout was young, he thought that running from...
Sam Daub, an eleven-year-old from Eden Prairie, Minnesota "And he finds video games enticing and has made a fantasy...
Zane Li, a ten-year-old from Provo, Utah "He's a chess champion and a two-time Geography Bee winner..." 2002...
Billy Hackenson, an eleven-year-old from Great Falls, Virginia "As a descendant of President Taft, it's no surprise that he's...
Jason Zollinger, an engine assembler from South Dayton, New York 2010 Tournament of Champions 1st runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $100,000. Season...
Elizabeth Galoozis, a reference librarian from Cambridge, Massachusetts Season 26 2-time champion: $38,801 + $2,000. Elizabeth Galoozis - A...
Terry Linwood, a bookseller from Plano, Texas 2010 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 26 5-time champion: $122,705...
Diane Trap, a librarian and graphics specialist from Athens, Georgia Season 25 1-time champion: $21,400 + $1,000. Diane Trap - a...
Justin Waters, a resident physician from Royal Oak, Michigan Season 25 1-time champion: $7,199 + $2,000. Justin Waters Royal Oak,...
Daniel Stauss, a federal claims examiner from Seattle, Washington Season 25 1-time champion: $25,500 + $2,000. Daniel Stauss - A...
Elizabeth Perkins, an actress from Weeds "For the past five seasons, she's played the calculating and manipulative...
Jonathan Corbblah, a chess teacher from Harlem, New York Season 27 1-time champion: $13,000 + $1,000. Jonathan appeared as a...
Julián Altschul, a math and science tutor from Jackson Heights, New York Season 24 1-time champion: $19,200 + $2,000. First name pronounced like...
Justin Otor, a 12-year-old from Texarkana, Texas "His chosen profession will be something in the field of science...
Jason Zollinger, an engine assembler from South Dayton, New York 2010 Tournament of Champions 1st runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $100,000. Season...
Victor Lee, a recent college graduate from Leonia, New Jersey Season 23 player (2007-04-23). Victor Lee was one of three team...
Billy King, a 13-year-old from St. Albans, West Virginia "With his love of math and his interest in design, he...
Chris Parsons, an undergraduate student from Wabasso, Florida Season 20 1-time champion: $18,801 + $2,000. The official Jeopardy! web...
Tommy Hoyt, from Winnetka, Illinois "Journalism may very well be in his future as he feels...
Carson Kressley, a fashion maven from Queer Eye for the Straight Guy "This star of TV's Queer Eye for the Straight Guy says...
Bruce Lin, a research scientist originally from Mississauga, Ontario, Canada Season 22 3-time champion: $54,599 + $2,000. On his first appearance,...
Michael Schulson, a 12-year-old from Chattanooga, Tennessee "As a member of bug club, it's only natural that he...
Peter Booker, an Army officer from Fort Monroe, Virginia Season 22 player (2006-01-25). According to the official Jeopardy! web site,...
Mark Lowenthal, an assistant director for the Central Intelligence Agency from Reston, Virginia "The winner of the 1988 Tournament of Champions, he's an assistant...
Michael Rooney, a college professor from Pasadena, California "He was a winner of 5 games in 1999, and is...
Neha Gokhale, a 10-year-old from Houston, Texas "Because she liked 4th and 5th grade so much, she wants...
Steve Chernicoff, a technical writer from Berkeley, California "He was one of the top 1-day winners in the 1994-95...
Jake Houser, a 12-year-old seventh grader from Aptos, California "And this straight-A student would like to become a geneticist so...
Kenny Schlax, a junior from Deerfield, Illinois 2006 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. Listed as "Kenneth" on the official web site.
Scottie Szewczyk, from Belleville, Illinois "He enjoys science and sports, and would like to work as...
Rowan Spake, from Portland, Oregon "He's interested in nanotechnology and robotics to improve surgery. But getting...
William Carpenter, from Bainbridge Island, Washington "Being the scientist that he is, Mom never knows what she...
Bobby Millison, from Clifton Heights, Pennsylvania "He's an award-winning diver, and would like to serve his country...
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,...
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:...
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...
Kweisi Mfume, a president from the NAACP 2004 Power Players Week player (2004-05-11). Name pronounced like "kwah-EE-see oom-FOO-may"....
Aaron Wicks, a planning and evaluation manager from Rochester, New York Season 26 1-time champion: $18,001 + 1,000. Aaron Wicks Rochester, NY...
Alyssa McRae, a gift card production designer from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Season 25 3-time champion: $50,402 + $2,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
Ariella Goldstein, a junior from Muhlenberg College 2009 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 20 and from Cortlandt Manor,...
Wolf Blitzer, a journalist from The Situation Room "Since 1990, he's covered every major story for CNN, including the...
Chris Matthews, a TV host from Hardball and The Chris Matthews Show "He served as a speechwriter for Jimmy Carter, and later as...
Carl Brandt, an investor originally from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 2009 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 25 4-time champion: $70,799...
Charles Shaughnessy, an actor from Mad Men "As Shane Donovan on Days of Our Lives, he won three...
Dan Smith, a student from Chicago, Illinois Season 25 3-time champion: $69,200 + $1,000. Dan Smith - 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...
Pat Sajak, a game show host from Wheel of Fortune "A former TV weatherman, he's gone on to become the world's...
Judy Mermelstein, a Census field representative from Queens, New York Season 25 1-time champion: $38,401 + $1,000. Judy also appeared on...
Celeste DiNucci, a recent graduate student from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2014 Battle of the Decades...
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...
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...
Ken Jennings, a writer from Seattle, Washington • 74-game champion with longest winning streak • Total earnings over...
David Hudson, a junior from the University of Virginia "His musical taste has changed since he won $10,000 on Kids...
Ken Jennings, a writer from Seattle, Washington "He was a software engineer living in Salt Lake City, Utah,...
Madeline Suchard, from Placentia, California "She has her sights set on becoming the Supreme Court Justice,...
Kara Spak, a newspaper reporter from Chicago, Illinois 2011 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 27 5-time champion:...
David Duchovny, an actor from Californication "He's won two Golden Globes and stars as troubled novelist Hank...
Clarence Page, a journalist from The Chicago Tribune "His nationally syndicated column began as a local column for the...
Katie Winter, a senior from Tufts University 2008 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 22 and from Hershey, PA at...
Ryan Ballengee, a senior from Pasadena, Maryland 2001 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $5,000. 17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
Anderson Cooper, an anchor from CNN's Anderson Cooper 360° "As a baby, he was photographed by Diane Arbus of Harper's...
Gail Flemmons, a history teacher from Clinton, Mississippi Season 25 2-time champion: $46,399 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
Max Johansen, a senior from the University of Miami "As a seventh grader, he was planning on a career in...
Ken Jennings, a 74-game champion from Seattle, Washington "In 2004, his record-breaking 74-game win streak set a standard for...
Anderson Cooper, a host from CNN's Anderson Cooper 360° 2004 Power Players Week player (2004-05-11). Charity: American Heart Association.
Chris Rodrigues, a personal banking representative from New Bedford, Massachusetts Season 26 3-time champion: $41,498 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
Lindsay Eanet, a senior from the University of Missouri 2010-A College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. Hometown: Deerfield, Illinois. Last name pronounced...
Amy Fletcher, a junior from Cincinnati, Ohio 2005 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500. 16 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
Ken Jennings, the winner of 74 consecutive games from Seattle, Washington 2020 Jeopardy!: The Greatest of All Time winner: $1,000,000 + a...
Andy Richter, an actor/comedian from The Tonight Show \"This multitalented actor/comedian is now back on the couch with Conan...
Wil Wheaton, an actor from Burbank, California "An actor from Burbank, California, he burst on to the scene...
Keith Olbermann, a news anchor from MSNBC "In 2004, this veteran reporter will provide extensive coverage of the...
Danny Devries, a junior from the University of Michigan 2008 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. 21 and from West Bloomfield, MI...
Saad Hasan, a nanotechnology scientist from Nashville, Tennessee Season 26 1-time champion: $22,700 + $2,000. Saad Hasan Nashville, TN...
Laura Hughes, a mom from New Market, Maryland Season 26 1-time champion: $27,500 + $2,000. Wife of Season 16...
Emily Heaney, a freelance costume designer from White Bear Lake, Minnesota Season 25 1-time champion: $2,200 + $1,000. Last name pronounced like...
Naomi Senbet, an 11-year-old from Washington, D.C. "This sixth grader doesn't like to be late for anything; maybe...
Chris Matthews, a TV host from Hardball and The Chris Matthews Show "Once a presidential speechwriter, he's had his own political talk show...
Alison Stone Roberg, an administrative assistant from Kansas City, Missouri Season 26 3-time champion: $85,102 + $2,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
Jim Fitzpatrick, a senior at Wake Forest University from Colts Neck, New Jersey 2003 College Championship semifinalist: $5,000. According the the official Jeopardy! web...
Ken Jennings, a software engineer from Salt Lake City, Utah 2020 Jeopardy!: The Greatest of All Time winner: $1,000,000 + a...
Kerri Regan, a senior from Bethpage, New York 2005 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500. 17 at the time of the...
Iddoshe Hirpa, a junior from Louisville, Kentucky 2006 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000.
Ken Jennings, a software engineer from Salt Lake City, Utah 2020 Jeopardy!: The Greatest of All Time winner: $1,000,000 + a...
Brendan Hunt, an actor from Chicago, Illinois \"An actor from Chicago, Illinois, he began his career as a...
Ann Thurlow, an aspiring novelist and retired salesperson from Mendham, New Jersey Season 28 1-time champion: $26,805 + $1,000.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, a Basketball Hall of Famer and all-time leading scorer from the NBA "In January, the State Department named this NBA Hall of Famer...
Elyse Mancuso, a junior from Omaha, Nebraska 2012 Teen Tournament winner: $79,600. 16 at the time of the...
Bob Woodward, an assistant managing editor from The Washington Post 2004 Power Players Week player (2004-05-10). Charity: Sidwell Friends School.
Jonathan Hawley, a sophomore from Harvard University 2008 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 19 and from Oceanside, CA at...
Brad Rutter, an actor and producer from Hollywood, California "He was a college student from Lancaster, Pennsylvania, when he won...
Marissa Goldsmith, a web developer from Springfield, Virginia Season 27 3-time champion: $44,100 + $2,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user name: marteena
Aisha Tyler, a comedienne, host and actress from Talk Soup, Friends, The 5th Wheel and Ghost Whisperer 2009 Celebrity Jeopardy! winner: $50,000 split between the International Rescue Committee/Congo...
Jeff Kirby, an elementary school teacher from Santa Maria, California Season 26 player (2009-10-12). Season 16 player (1999-12-08). Jeff returned to...
Folake Dosu, a senior from Stanford University from Bellwood, Illinois 2010-B College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
Chuck Forrest, an attorney for the UN IFAD from Marino, Italy \"In 1986, he was a law student living in Grand Blanc,...
Dan Pawson, a legislative aide from Boston, Massachusetts 2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2014 Battle of the Decades...
Patton Oswalt, a Grammy- and Emmy-award-winning comedian from Portsmouth, Virginia \"A Grammy- and Emmy-award-winning comedian from Portsmouth, Virginia, he rose to...
Tom Nichols, a professor originally from Chicopee, Massachusetts \"A five-time champion in 1994, he used his winnings for a...
B.D. Schwarz, a twelve-year-old from Oakland, California "He wants to make others happy by opening a little game...
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...
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...
Brad Rutter, a $3.2-million winner from Los Angeles, California "In 2000, he became a 5-time champion and went on to...
David Walter, a senior from Wilmington, Delaware 2007 Teen Tournament winner (semifinalist by wildcard): $75,000. 17 at the...
Michael Steele, a political analyst and host from MSNBC and Steele & Ungar "He was elected lieutenant governor of Maryland in 2003, and later...
Tom Hartmann, a junior from San Antonio, Texas 2001 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500. 17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
Fritz Holznagel, a writer from Somerville, Massachusetts "He was a writer living in Oregon when he won the...
Sandra Gore, a corporate researcher from Berkeley, California "After five wins in 1987, she fulfilled her dream of moving...
Vijay Balse, a chemical engineer from Chatham, New Jersey 2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2010 Tournament of Champions...
Jennifer Duann, a senior from the Ohio State University 2009 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 21 and from Worthington, Ohio at...
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,...
Neil Patrick Harris, an actor from How I Met Your Mother "He's received critical acclaim on Broadway and on TV, and his...
Joshua Malina, a TV actor and creator/producer from Celebrity Poker Showdown "He created and produced Celebrity Poker Showdown for the Bravo Channel,...
Harry Smith, a broadcast journalist from The Early Show "This hard-working host of CBS's The Early Show has interviewed five...
Allan Long, a freshman from Tallahassee, Florida 2005 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500. 14 at the time of the...
Peter Severson, a senior from Sioux Falls, South Dakota 2005 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $5,000. 17 at the time of the...
Richard Cordray, the head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau from Grove City, Ohio and Washington, D.C. \"He had just graduated from law school and was clerking for...
Ike Barinholtz, an actor from Chicago, Illinois \"An actor from Chicago, Illinois, he appeared on Fox\'s Mad TV,...
Tom Nichols, a professor originally from Chicopee, Massachusetts 2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 1994 Tournament...
Tom Nichols, a political science professor originally from Chicopee, Massachusetts 2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 1994 Tournament...
Tom Nichols, a professor originally from Chicopee, Massachusetts 2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 1994 Tournament...
Amanda Walker, a junior at Gonzaga University from East Wenatchee, Washington 2005 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user name:...
Joel Kim Booster, a comedian from Chicago, Illinois "A comedian from Chicago, his movie Fire Island, which he wrote,...
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...
John Michael Higgins, an actor from Boston, Massachusetts "An actor from Boston, Massachusetts, since 2018, he's hosted the popular...
Cassie Hill, a recent graduate from the University of Mary Washington \"Her dad is a lawyer, and by the seventh grade, she...
Anjali Tripathi, a senior from MIT "Math and science were her favorite subjects in seventh grade. We're...
Ben Greenho, a junior from Plano, Texas 2012 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000. 17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
Than Hedman, a freshman from University of Colorado-Boulder 2008 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 19 and from Denver, CO at...
Louie C.K., a comedian, actor, director, writer, and producer from Louie and Horace and Pete "This multitalented actor, writer, producer, and director is also the star...
Anderson Cooper, a host from AC360° "He covers major news stories from around the world and plays...
Jonathan Capehart, a journalist from The Washington Post "This Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist is a member of the Washington Post...
Graham Gilmer, a senior from Lynchburg, Virginia 2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 2001 Teen...
Eddie Timanus, a sportswriter from Oak Hill, Virginia "He was a sportswriter living in Reston, Virginia, when he won...
Mitchell Vogel, from Madison, Wisconsin "This future governor of Wisconsin enjoys rollerblading, reading, and playing saxophone....
Dan Melia, a college professor from Berkeley, California "He was a 1998 Tournament of Champions winner. Today he's a...
Frank Spangenberg, a police officer from New York City, New York "He was a New York City cop when he won five...
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, a Basketball Hall of Famer and all-time leading scorer from the NBA "He's one of the greatest NBA players in history. Here's Hall...
Eric Betts, a senior from Emory University 2009 College Championship first runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $50,000. 21 and...
Keith Williams, a freshman at Middlebury College from Manchester, Vermont 2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 2004 Tournament...
Harris Cohen, a family physician from Lower Gwynedd, Pennsylvania Season 25 2-time champion: $17,800 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
Doug Savant, an actor from Desperate Housewives "He met and then married his wife while both were costarring...
Fred Beukema, a structural engineer from Minneapolis, Minnesota Season 25 3-time champion: $69,401 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
Emily Love, from Overland Park, Kansas "This future chef wants to run her own restaurant and have...
Kriti Gandhi, a senior from Ellicott City, Maryland 2007 Teen Tournament Summer Games semifinalist: $10,000. 18 at the time...
Isaac Mizrahi, a fashion designer from the Style Network "Known for bringing high fashion to American women everywhere, and now...
Andrew Watkins, a junior from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 2006 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user name: everyday847
Joseph Graumann, a junior from Mays Landing, New Jersey 2006 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
Dan Oxman, a senior at the University of Maryland from South Orange, New Jersey \"He was a senior from South Orange, New Jersey when he...
Tim Cho, a senior at Columbia University from Champaign, Illinois \"When he first appeared on Jeopardy!, he was a senior in...
Brad Rutter, the biggest money winner from Los Angeles, California 2020 Jeopardy!: The Greatest of All Time 2nd runner-up: $250,000. 2019...
Dan Pawson, a global health consultant from Brooklyn, New York \"He was a legislative aide living in Boston when he won...
Tom Walsh, a writer from Washington, D.C. 2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Nifty Nine (players with byes into...
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...
Brad Rutter, an actor and producer from Los Angeles, California • Highest all-time winnings (over $4.3 million) • Has never lost...
Ryan Presler, a senior at Brandon Valley High School from Sioux Falls, South Dakota "He was only in 8th grade when he became a finalist...
Jack Izzo, a senior at Northwestern University from San Diego, California "He was a senior in San Diego when he became a...
Avi Gupta, a senior at Stanford University from Portland, Oregon "He was a high schooler in Portland, Oregon when he won...
Judd Hess, a high school English teacher from Huntington Beach, California "In college, he volunteered to help in a classroom and was...
Hasan Minhaj, a comedian from Davis, California "A comedian from Davis, California, for years, he was a correspondent...
Nathaniel Barnes, a composer and bartender from Toronto, Ontario, Canada Season 25 3-time champion: $57,300 + $2,000. In his first game,...
Ed Toutant, an engineer from Austin, Texas Season 6 1-time champion: $11,401. Ed appeared on The Challengers in...
Tony Harkin, an eleven-year-old from New Milford, Connecticut "Dig this--he wants to be an archaeologist when he grows up....
Evan Sandman, a hotel front desk manager from Los Angeles, California Season 28 1-time champion $28,801 + $2,000.
Andrew Grace, a 12-year-old from Apex, North Carolina "He wants to be a soccer player and an orthopedic surgeon,...
Julia Martinez, an 11-year-old from Fairfax, Virginia "Get ready, Pennsylvania Avenue. She wants to be president of the...
Michael Cera, an actor from Brampton, Canada "An actor from Brampton, Canada, he's perhaps best known for playing...
Simu Liu, an actor from Mississauga, Ontario, Canada "An actor from Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, he starred in the Canadian...
Elliot Shteir, an attorney from Somerville, New Jersey 1995-A Seniors Tournament 1st runner-up: $10,000. Dr. Elliot Shteir won $8,230...
Rob Schrader, a junior from Lexington, Kentucky 2012 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. Younger brother of 2008-B Teen Tournament...
Curtis Joseph, a sophomore from Scottsdale Community College "In 1999, his nickname was 'Curtles the Troll', and he wanted...
Nate Austin, a student from Hutchinson Community College "His original plan was to own a chain of international hotels...
Erin McLean, a sophomore from Boston University from Danvers, Massachusetts 2011 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 2010-B College Championship winner:...
Courtney Jones, a 12-year-old from Largo, Maryland "She wants to dedicate her life to building things that benefit...
Anish Maddipoti, a junior at the University of Texas at Austin from Austin, Texas \"In the 2018 Teen Tournament, he was a high school junior...
Tucker Dunn, an ESL teacher from Tucson, Arizona Season 33 3-time champion: $39,999 + $1,000. In his first appearance,...
Chuck Todd, a political director and host from NBC News and NBC's Meet the Press "He is the political director of NBC News, the host of...
Andy Siegler, a senior from Cinnaminson, New Jersey 2001 Teen Tournament 1st runner-up: $15,000. 17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
Logan Bell, a senior from Rock Falls, Illinois 2001 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $5,000. 15 at the time of the...
Michael Falk, a junior high school math teacher from West Allis, Wisconsin "And he was a meteorologist when he won the Tournament of...
Tom Kavanaugh, a personal trainer, filmmaker, and singer from St. Louis, Missouri "He was a writer when he won eight games in Season...
Russ Schumacher, a university professor from Fort Collins, Colorado "He was a graduate student when he won the Tournament of...
Colby Burnett, an AP world history teacher from Chicago, Illinois "He won the Teacher's Tournament and the Tournament of Champions last...
Tom Nissley, a writer from Seattle, Washington "He was an online-books editor when he became an 8-time champion...
Roger Craig, a data scientist from Brooklyn, New York "He was a graduate student in computer science living in Newark,...
Tony Nagatani, a junior at Ithaca College from Honolulu, Hawaii 2001 College Championship quarterfinalist: $2,500. Tony was 20 at the time...
Pat Pauken, an attorney and educator from Columbus, Ohio Season 14 1-time champion: $7,200. Season 13 player (1997-01-21). Pat appeared...
Mike Dupée, a post-graduate student from Gainesville, Florida "He was an attorney when he won the 1996 Tournament of...
Pat Pauken, an attorney and doctoral candidate from Columbus, Ohio Season 14 1-time champion: $7,200. Season 13 player (1997-01-21). Pat appeared...
Mark Dawson, a writer and editor for the Honda Campus All-Star Challenge from Chamblee, Georgia "He was a business manager when he won the Tournament of...
Sacha Samotin, a student from Naples, Florida Season 31 1-time champion: $19,600 + $1,000. According to a news...
Dave Abbott, a musician and licensing executive from Fort Thomas, Kentucky "He was a musician and transactions lawyer when he won the...
Bob Harris, a writer from Los Angeles, California "He was a writer living in Los Angeles when he won...
Shane Whitlock, a radiologist from Little Rock, Arkansas "He was a student at the University of Arkansas when he...
Dan Melia, a retired professor from Berkeley, California "He was a professor at U.C. Berkeley when he won the...
Sid Chandrasekhar, a senior from the University of Pennsylvania from Saratoga, California 2010-B College Championship semifinalist: $10,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
Bob Harris, an author, comedian, and radio commentator from Los Angeles, California "A 5-time champion and a finalist in the Tournament of Champions,...
Marie Braden, a customer service representative from Tempe, Arizona Season 27 1-time champion: $24,800 + $1,000. Marie's boyfriend Kirk's Rock...
Steve Berman, a teacher from Santa Monica, California "He was a film executive when he won five shows in...
Jerome Vered, a writer from Los Angeles, California "He was a writer living in Studio City, California, when he...
Bob Verini, an academic director for a test preparation company from Los Angeles, California "He was a playwright and an actor living in New York...
Tom Nosek, an aerospace consultant from Torrance, California "He was an aerospace engineer who had just moved to California...
Eric Terzuolo, a retired diplomat and university professor from Bergen, Noord-Holland, the Netherlands "When he first appeared in 1990, he was a foreign service...
Steven Chinn, an attorney originally from London, England Season 4 player (1988-01-04). At the time of his show's taping,...
Jim Scott, an attorney from Arlington, Virginia "He was a legal assistant living near D.C. when he won...
Wil Curiel, an 11-year-old from Costa Mesa, California "His favorite subject is science, so it's not surprising that this...
Justin Bernbach, a lobbyist from Brooklyn, New York 2010 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 25 7-time champion: $155,001...
Ingrid Nelson, a judicial assistant from Lake Mills, Wisconsin Season 25 2-time champion: $27,802 + $2,000. Ingrid Nelson - A...
Scott Menke, a senior from Johns Hopkins University 2009 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. 21 and from Flemington, New Jersey...
Ben Swartz, a senior from Manassas, Virginia 2003 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $5,000. 17 at the time of the...
Mark Petterson, a senior from the University of Kansas 2009 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 21 and from Prairie Village,...
Leah Anthony Libresco, a junior from Yale University 2010-A College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Hometown: Mineola, New York. Jeopardy!...
Anthony Fox, an account executive from Arlington Heights, Illinois Season 27 4-time champion: $51,998 + $1,000. Playing as "Tony", Anthony...
Dan Jensen, a restaurant manager from Reston, Virginia Season 27 3-time champion: $58,203 + $1,000.
Lyndsey Romick, a sophomore from Lewis & Clark College 2010-A College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. Hometown: Grants Pass, Oregon. Lyndsey Romick...
Mary Naam, a junior at Harvard University from Effingham, Illinois 2003 College Championship quarterfinalist: $2,500.
Sandra McClellan, a granny nanny from Arlington, Texas Season 27 1-time champion: $4,199 + $2,000.
Ben Bishop, a student originally from Seattle, Washington 2009 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 25 4-time champion: $114,800...
Josh Powell, a phone-based health coach from San Diego, California Season 27 3-time champion: $26,900 + $1,000.
William Coats, a 12-year-old from Ada, Oklahoma "He's mowing lawns now, but he's thinking big bucks, he's thinking...
Amanda J. Ray, a sophomore at the University of Virginia from Harrisonburg, Virginia 2010-B College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
Jacob Hambalek, a 12-year-old from Fresno, California "If he had to choose a career right now, he'd be...
Matthew Silski, an 11-year-old from Laurel, Maryland "He has wanted to be on the show since he was...
Harry Shearer, a humorist, Spinal Tap bassist, and voice from The Simpsons "He recently celebrated the 25th anniversary of This Is Spinal Tap...
Loren Loiacono, a senior from Setauket, New York 2006 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Eric Newhouse, a director of technical assistance from Sioux City, Iowa 2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Nifty Nine (players with byes into...
Reggie Jackson, a former pro baseball player originally from Wyncote, Pennsylvania "Twice a World Series MVP, his powerhouse hitting earned him the...
Phil Yellman, a legal assistant from Seattle, Washington "He was an office worker from Albuquerque when he won his...
Andrew Garen, an associate director of consumer marketing from Austin, Texas "He was a project manager when he won his 5 shows...
Mike Thayer, a mathematics teacher from North Plainfield, New Jersey "He was a junior at Rutgers University when he won the...
Dennis Donohue, a general manager from Janesville, Wisconsin "He was administrative services officer from Arizona when he became a...
Brad Rutter, a college student from Lancaster, Pennsylvania 2020 Jeopardy!: The Greatest of All Time 2nd runner-up: $250,000. 2019...
Brad Rutter, a TV quiz show host from Lancaster, Pennsylvania 2020 Jeopardy!: The Greatest of All Time 2nd runner-up: $250,000. 2019...
Elaine Zollner, a physician from Glendale, California "A winner of 5 shows in 1990, she used her Jeopardy!...
Kelley Burd, a junior at West Virginia University from Bristol, West Virginia 2004 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000.
Nathan Kaplan, a math professor from Los Angeles, California Season 35 1-time champion: $19,600 + $2,000. Nathan appeared on ABC\'s...
Burns Cameron, a realtor from Standish, Maine 1990 Super Jeopardy! quarterfinalist: $5,000. Burns appeared on the original version...
Caleb Richmond, a sophomore at Georgetown University from Bedford, New Hampshire \"In 2018, he became a semifinalist representing Bedford, New Hampshire. He\'s...
Rock Wayda, a bond analyst from Dana Point, California Season 35 player (2018-10-24). Rock's real first name is Erik, but...
Sarah McNitt, a study-abroad advisor originally from Ann Arbor, Michigan 2014 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 30 5-time champion: $89,398...
Andy Richter, a comedian from Yorkville, Illinois \"A comedian from Yorkville, Illinois, he was Conan O\'Brien\'s sidekick on...
Jay Rosenberg, a professor from Chapel Hill, North Carolina 2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 1986 Tournament...
Richard Cordray, a judicial clerk from Grove City, Ohio 2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000 (prize declined as a...
Jay Rosenberg, a professor of philosophy from Chapel Hill, North Carolina 2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 1986 Tournament...
Richard Cordray, a judicial clerk from Grove City, Ohio 2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000 (prize declined as a...
Leonard Schmidt, an optometrist from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 1992 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $5,000. 1992 Seniors Tournament winner:...
Jackson Jones, a junior at Vanderbilt University from Louisville, Kentucky "He was a semifinalist in the 2019 Teen Tournament as a...
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,...
Rohit Kataria, a junior at Vanderbilt University from Wheelersburg, Ohio "In his first appearance on Jeopardy!, he was a high schooler...
Larry DeMoss, a high school English teacher from Ellettsville, Indiana "He went from short orders to short stories when he switched...
Dan Crosby, a middle school history teacher from Santa Monica, California "He teaches at a school named for a renowned scholar, doctor,...
B.J. Novak, an actor from Newton, Massachusetts "An actor from Newton, Massachusetts, during its nine-season run, he wrote,...
Justin Sausville, a urologist from Baltimore, Maryland 2011 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 27/28 6-time champion:...
Drew Joanides, a high school history teacher from Miami, Florida "He is one of our four teachers competing in our tournament...
Patrick Aimone, a 12-year-old seventh grader from Long Beach, California "Teacher, scientist, lawyer--he just wants to use his debating skills. From...
Jean MacKay Jackson, an online researcher from Tulsa, Oklahoma Season 25 player (2008-11-24). Jeopardy! Message Board user name: pinkfreud
John Matthews, a camp counselor and law student from McLean, Virginia Season 29 player (2012-10-15).
John Wilkins, an 11-year-old sixth grader from Chevy Chase, Maryland "He likes constitutional law and debating, so he sees lawyering in...
Dominic Olivera, a twelve-year-old from Bristow, Virginia "Oh, good heavens! He wants to be a priest when he's...
Jalen Rose, a basketball star from Detroit, Michigan "A basketball star from Detroit, Michigan, he revolutionized the sport as...
Anurag Kashyap, a senior from Poway, California 2008-B Teen Tournament winner: $75,000. Anurag was also the winner of...
Justin Hofstetter, a sixth and seventh grade language arts and social studies teacher from Kansas City, Missouri "This sixth and seventh grade teacher is in his first year...
Chris Clayton, an agribusiness finance attorney from Denver, Colorado Season 27 player (2011-06-28).
Buddy Wright, an operations engineer from Fort Worth, Texas 2011 Tournament of Champions 2nd runner-up: $50,000. Season 26 4-time champion:...
Reggie Watts, a comedian from Great Falls, Montana "A comedian from Great Falls, Montana, since 2015, he's worked alongside...
Sarah Bart, a senior at Goucher College from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 2012 College Championship 1st runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $50,000. 22 at...
Matt Rogers, a comedian from Long Island, New York \"A comedian from Long Island, New York, his podcast, Las Culturistas,...
Connie Shi, a junior at the University of Michigan from Okemos, Michigan 2012 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. 19 at the time of the College Championship.
Balaji Narain, an attorney originally from Cumming, Georgia Season 28 2-time champion: $55,799 + $1,000. Last name pronounced like...
Dana Perino, a TV host from Fox News Channel's The Five "White House press secretary under George W. Bush, she now appears...
Alison Parakh, a personal trainer from Santa Barbara, California Season 28 1-time champion: $15,201 + $1,000. Last name pronounced like...
Mike Nelson, a mechanical engineer from Geneva, Illinois Season 27 2-time champion: $20,800 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
Kevin Yang, a junior from Birmingham, Alabama 2012 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000. 16 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
Sam Leanza, a senior from Laguna Hills, California 2012 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 17 at the time of the...
Guy Jordan, a graduate student from College Park, Maryland Season 19 player (2003-06-10). Guy won at least $169,000 on two...
Allison Fraser, a stay-at-home mom from Alexandria, Virginia Season 31 2-time champion: $40,901 + $2,000.
Tucker Carlson, an author and co-host from Crossfire 2004 Power Players Week player (2004-05-10). Charities: American Camping Association &...
Lucas Miner, a junior at Yale University from Miami, Florida \"He finished third in the 2019 Teen Tournament as a junior...
Rachel Horn, a sophomore from Cincinnati, Ohio 2008-A Teen Tournament winner: $75,000. 15 at the time of the...
Tim Russert, a journalist from Meet the Press "The host of the longest-running show in the history of television,...
David Gregory, a political analyst and author from CNN and How's Your Faith? "An NBC correspondent and anchor for nearly 20 years, he recently...
Senator Al Franken, a U.S. senator from Minnesota "After a successful career as a comedy writer, author, and radio...
Dara Lind, a junior from Yale University 2008 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 20 and from Cincinnati, OH at...
Giulio Ongaro, a college professor originally from Venice, Italy Season 10 player (1993-09-16). At the time of his appearance, Giulio...
Brandon Hensley, a sophomore from Caltech 2008 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 19 and from Huntington, WV at...
Danielle Zsenak, a senior from Marquette University 2008 College Championship 1st runner-up: $50,000. Last name pronounced like "zshen-NOCK"....
Vinita Kailasanath, a sophomore at Stanford University from Laurel, Maryland 2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2005 Ultimate Tournament of...
Julia Collins, a supply chain professional from Kenilworth, Illinois 2019 All-Star Games captain of first-eliminated Team Julia: a share of...
Dan Royles, a senior from Chula Vista, California 2002 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500. Dan was 17 at the time...
Caley Anderson, a junior from Santee, California 2001 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500. 16 at the time of the...
Alexander Persaud, a Ph.D. student in economics originally from Dubuque, Iowa Season 31 3-time champion: $61,000 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like "per-SAWD".
Jimmy McKew, an 11-year-old from Portland, Maine "Because he enjoys the strategy of the game, he will likely...
Gracie Studdard, a 12-year-old from Locust Grove, Georgia "When this contestant's father was on the show, he couldn't think...
Vijay Balse, a chemical engineer consulting in renewable energy from Chatham, New Jersey "He is a chemical engineer who won the 2010 Tournament of...
Jeremy Rasmussen, a computer security consultant from Lutz, Florida Season 23 1-time champion: $28,001 + $2,000.
Cathy Lanctot, a law professor from Wilmington, Delaware 2007 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD Home...
Gigi Gilman, a homemaker and attorney from Seattle, Washington Season 22 1-time champion: $13,000 + $1,000. Gigi's actual first name...
Matt Sojot, a firefighter from Mililani, Hawaii Season 23 player (2007-04-13). Season 22 player (2006-05-24). Last name pronounced...
William Lee, a software engineer from South San Francisco, California Season 22 2-time champion: $62,500 + $2,000. Not to be confused...
Thad McCollum, a door person from Orlando, Florida Season 30 1-time champion: $2,400 + $1,000.
Alan Lange, an actuary from Sarasota, Florida Season 31 1-time co-champion: $36,400 + $1,000.
Bobbi Hiltibidal, a retired paralegal from Topeka, Kansas Season 29 player (2012-11-05). Last name pronounced like "HILL-tih-bye-dul".
Jen Fiero, a librarian from Jackson, Michigan Season 30 2-time champion: $36,000 + $2,000.
Aman Birk, from Irvine, California "He may not be the fastest swimmer on the team, but...
Dylan Smith, from the Bronx, New York "This honor roll student wants to invent a teleporting system. From...
Mark Nelson, an Army officer from Hameln, West Germany Season 5 player (1988-09-26). Mark's rank was major at the time...
Babu Srinivasan, a history professor from Cypress, Texas "He was a history professor when he became a 5-day champion...
Malisha Butts, a senior at North Carolina Central University from Durham, North Carolina 2005 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Doug Meyer, an editor originally from Cambridge, Massachusetts Season 21 player (2005-06-09). Season 20 player (2004-03-11). Doug previously appeared...
Bryce Piotrowski, a twelve-year-old from Madison, Wisconsin "He has no idea what he wants to do later in...
Jeff Stewart, an executive from Los Alamos, New Mexico "After winning the 1994 College Championship, he went on to finish...
John Ryan, a corporate controller from Richmond, California "As a college student, he was the top winner of the...
Tom Halpern, a lawyer originally from New York, New York "A writer and researcher when he won 5 times in 1991,...
Kyle Hale, a college senior from Katy, Texas "Representing Texas A&M, he won the 2002 College Championship. Now he's...
Jamie Weiss, a law student from St. Louis, Missouri "He won the 1990 Teen Tournament. Today he's a law student....
Warren Pistell, a student from Tarzana, California Season 1 1-time champion: $5,650. Warren appeared on The Challengers for...
Andrew Hutchings, a graduate student from Ithaca, New York "A senior when he won the 1998 College Championship, he's now...
Kyle Ziemnick, an eleven-year-old from Purcellville, Virginia "He likes logical arguments and debates, so would like to be...
Matt Zielenski, a research analyst originally from Broadview Heights, Ohio "He became the Teen Tournament champ in 1995. Today he's a...
Craig Barker, an Advanced Placement history teacher from Livonia, Michigan "In 1997 he won the College Championship. Today he's an Advanced...
Brad Plovan, an attorney from Baltimore, Maryland "With the money from his five wins in 1995, he bought...
Bev Schwartzberg, an adult literacy program coordinator from Santa Barbara, California "She finished second in the 1993 Tournament of Champions. Today, she's...
John Beck, a creative director from Torrance, California "He played in 2003, and was the last retired 5-time champ...
Hal Sparks, a comedian and actor from Queer as Folk "At 17, he was named funniest teenager in Chicago; today, he...
Leszek Pawlowicz, a computer consultant from Flagstaff, Arizona "He was the winner of the 1992 Tournament of Champions. Today...
Billy Baxter, an attorney from Richmond, Virginia "Representing the College of William & Mary, he won the 1992...
Tom Nosek, an aerospace engineer from Torrance, California "He won the 1993 Tournament of Champions and finished second in...
Lance Johnson, a model aircraft engine technician from Champaign, Illinois "He was the first to get to the 5-win mark in...
John Zhang, a freshman at MIT originally from Lexington, Kentucky "He won the 2003 Teen Tournament. Today he's a freshman at...
Steve Robin, a writer and producer from Miami, Florida "He finished second place in the 1991 Tournament of Champions. He's...
Tad Carithers, an attorney from New York City, New York "He finished second in the 2001 Tournament of Champions. Today he...
David Traini, a high school administrator from Moorestown, New Jersey "This 5-time champ finished second in the 1987 Tournament of Champions....
Mark Lowenthal, an intelligence educator from Reston, Virginia "He won the 1988 Tournament of Champions while working for the...
Sara Wilkinson, a country club concierge from Athens, Georgia Season 27 3-time champion: $72,701 + $2,000.
Mark McDermott, a desktop publisher originally from Schaller, Iowa 1993 10th Anniversary Tournament semifinalist: $5,000. 1989 Tournament of Champions semifinalist:...
Al Lin, a law professor from Davis, California "A law student when he won five times in 1993, he's...
Michael Galvin, a consultant from Penn Wynne, Pennsylvania "He was the first winner of the Teen Tournament back in...
Rachael Schwartz, a lawyer from Washington, D.C. "In 1994, she was the first female winner of a Tournament...
Leslie Frates, a Spanish teacher from Hayward, California "A Jeopardy! tournament veteran, her best-known Jeopardy! appearance may be in...
Roger Storm, a teacher from Fairview Park, Ohio 1990 Super Jeopardy! semifinalist: $10,000. 1987 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist:...
Adam Villani, an engineer from Long Beach, California Season 21 player (2004-10-27). KJL game 61. Adam won $80,000 on...
Arthur Gandolfi, a commercial real estate executive from Pleasantville, New York 2004 Tournament of Champions 2nd runner-up: $25,000. Season 20 4-time champion:...
Sam Ott, a graduate student from Los Angeles, California 2004 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 19/20 4-time champion: $67,102 + $1,000.
Patrick Duffy, an actor from Step by Step "He was the Man from Atlantis, even Bobby Ewing on Dallas,...
Mark McEwen, a weatherman from CBS This Morning "Before he became a mainstay on CBS News This Morning, he...
Katie Orphan, a freshman at Whitworth College from Reno, Nevada 2002 College Championship semifinalist: $5,000.
Ben Gammage, an eleven-year-old from San Diego, California "And when he grows up, he wants to be either a...
Roger Storm, a teacher from Fairview Park, Ohio 1990 Super Jeopardy! semifinalist: $10,000. 1987 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist:...
Kevin O'Leary, an entrepreneur from Shark Tank "He's opinionated, ruthless, and one of North America's most successful entrepreneurs,...
Andrew Ceppos, a senior from Tufts University 2009 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 21 and from Verona, New...
Roger Mueller-Kim, a high school social studies teacher from Dublin, California Season 27 1-time champion: $17,401 + $1,000. Last name pronounced like "MULL-er KIM".
Patrick Tucker, a senior from the University of Notre Dame 2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2009 College Championship winner: $100,000...
Kevin Sorbo, an actor from Andromeda "For 6 seasons, he starred as TV's Hercules; he now plays...
Greg Lichtenstein, a freshman from Vassar College 2009 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. 18 and from Plainview, New York...
Tom Jennings, a maintenance mechanic from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Season 27 1-time champion: $24,000 + $2,000.
Courtney Trezise, a senior from Michigan State University 2009 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 21 and from Okemos, Michigan at...
Eureka Nutt, a paralegal from Canoga Park, California Season 27 2-time champion: $38,701 + $1,000.
Laura Myers, a senior from the University of Missouri 2009 College Championship second runner-up: $29,900. 22 and from Richmond, Virginia...
Tara Karr, a senior from Laclede, Idaho 2003 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $5,000. 17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
Amanda Sonmor, a virtual assistant originally from Denver, Colorado Season 27 2-time champion: $21,501 + $1,000.
John Matthews, a senior from Escondido, California 2003 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $5,000. 17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
Dan D'Addario, a senior from Columbia University 2010-A College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Hometown: Farmington, Connecticut. Daniel D'Addario...
Nathan Lane, an actor from The Producers "He's won rave reviews for his screen role in The Birdcage...
Enrique Machado, an oil filtration business developer from Orlando, Florida Season 26 1-time champion: $30,799 + $2,000. Enrique Machado September 16,...
Ryan Stoffers, a sophomore from UCLA 2010-A College Championship 1st runner-up: $50,000. Hometown: Saratoga, California. Ryan Stoffers...
Robby Schrum, a junior at Yale University from Crown Point, Indiana 2003 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $5,000. According to the official Jeopardy!...
Jackson Ruzzo, a 12-year-old from Waccabuc, New York "He wants to be a Broadway actor, because he likes to...
Jeff Spoeri, a university administrator from Boynton Beach, Florida 2007 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD...
Elijah Granet, a 12-year-old from San Diego, California "Because he loves animals, biology, and helping others, he's thinking of...
Al Michaels, a sportscaster from ABC's Monday Night Football "Named Sportscaster of the Year in 1996 by the American Sportscasters...
Mike Piazza, a catcher from the Los Angeles Dodgers "From the Los Angeles Dodgers, he was named Rookie of the...
Peter Pinnow, a high school English teacher from Oxford, Mississippi Season 25 2-time champion: $39,200 + $1,000.
Andrew Bryson, a 12-year-old from Durham, North Carolina "He plays on the school soccer team, but he wins his...
Matt Sojot, a firefighter from Mililani, Hawaii Season 23 player (2007-04-13). Season 22 player (2006-05-24). Last name pronounced...
Nikhil Bumb, an 11-year-old from Greer, South Carolina "He's a world traveler, but he can always be found on...
Ethan Russo, an 11-year-old from Austin, Texas "He really likes a big challenge. He wants to be the...
Diana North, a first grade teacher from Rock Hill, South Carolina "She recently celebrated her silver anniversary of teaching. From Rock Hill,...
Michael Farabaugh, a high school chemistry teacher from Charlottesville, Virginia "This chemistry teacher has been making things fizz, smoke, and explode...
Scotty Ballard, a 12-year-old from Murphy, Texas "When he grows up, he hopes to serve justice as a...
Will Estes, an actor from American Dreams "Early in his TV career, he played Lassie's owner, today he's...
Jason McCune, an actor originally from Jasper, Indiana 2003 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 18 4-time champion: $90,041.
Lisa Ackerman, a senior from Livermore, California 2007 Teen Tournament Summer Games wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 17 at the...
Seyi Fayanju, an environmental advocate from New York, New York Season 26 player (2009-12-10). Name pronounced like "SHAY-yee fy-ANN-joo". Seyi was...
Max Levaren, a personal success coach from San Diego, California 2003 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 19 4-time champion:...
Brian Weikle, a project manager from Minneapolis, Minnesota 2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Nifty Nine (players with byes into...
Roger Storm, a teacher from Fairview Park, Ohio 1990 Super Jeopardy! semifinalist: $10,000. 1987 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist:...
Meryl Federman, a senior from Livingston, New Jersey 2007 Teen Tournament Summer Games champion (semifinalist by wildcard): $75,000. 18...
Brian Weikle, a project manager from Minneapolis, Minnesota 2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Nifty Nine (players with byes into...
Rachel Beckman, an 11-year-old from Danville, Kentucky "As a member of her school's academic team, she has no...
Allyson Lieberman, a 12-year-old from Whitmore Lake, Michigan "Since she was little, she has truly loved to act. Broadway,...
Sebastian Johnson, a senior from Takoma Park, Maryland 2006 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Listed as "Sebi" on the...
Kate Waits, a law professor at the University of Tulsa from Tulsa, Oklahoma "A Harvard Law graduate when she competed in the 1988 Tournament...
Andrew Westney, a singer and actor from Atlanta, Georgia "In 1991, he won the Teen Tournament. Today, he's a singer...
Michael Day, an attorney from Mill Valley, California "As an MBA Student, he won 5 games in 1985. Today...
Creswell Formey, an actor and bookstore manager from New Haven, Connecticut "He was an honor student from Savannah, Georgia. Now he's a...
Anne Shivers, a senior from Peotone, Illinois 2005 Teen Tournament 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $18,000. 17 at...
Leonard Schmidt, an optometrist and 1992 Seniors Tournament champion from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 1992 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $5,000. 1992 Seniors Tournament winner:...
William Marengo, an 11-year-old from the Bronx, New York "He will be the next Bronx Bomber, maybe--if it's up to...
Keith Williams, a sophomore at Middlebury College from Middlebury, Vermont "As a freshman from Middlebury College, he won the 2003 College...
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, a former pro basketball player and actor originally from Brooklyn, New York "Three decades in the NBA netted him six championship rings and...
Grace Veach, a librarian from Lakeland, Florida "After winning 5 games in 1997, she was the grand marshall...
Ed Schiffer, an attorney from San Francisco, California "A champion of five shows, he was the top winner of...
Brad Williams, a reporter and writer from La Crosse, Wisconsin Season 6 player (1990-06-01). Brad is well-known as one of the...
Ben Lyon, an industrial scaleman from Dallas, Texas "Representing the University of Oklahoma, he won the 1995 College Championship....
Josh DenHartog, an actuarial technician from Thousand Oaks, California "He was the Teen Tournament champion in 1997. Now he's an...
Laura Ansley, a senior from Twinsburg, Ohio 2006 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
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.
Lee Lassiter, a data modeler from Topeka, Kansas "A 5-time winner from 2000, he used his winnings to take...
Bruce Borchardt, a metrologist from Washington, D.C. "A winner of five shows in 1995, he spent most of...
Jim Scott, an attorney from Arlington, Virginia "In 1991, he was the winner of the Tournament of Champions....
Chris Capozzola, a graduate student from Washington, D.C. "Ten years ago, he was a junior in Worcester, New York....
Michael Braun, a junior from Silver Spring, Maryland 2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 2005 Teen...
Jimmy Li, a senior from Chesterfield, Missouri 2005 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $5,000. 17 at the time of...
Eric Newhouse, a public policy coordinator from Sioux City, Iowa "Alex called our next alumnus a 'Powerhouse.' He was the youngest...
Katie James, a sophomore from Winchester, Virginia 2006 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Emily Riippa, a 12-year-old seventh grader from Grand Rapids, Michigan "She is a fast reader, and her mother says she was...
Matt Klein, a senior from Pittsford, New York 2006 Teen Tournament 2nd runner-up: $15,000. Won $1,000 on Who Wants...
Lauren Romero, a senior from Denver, Colorado 2006 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. According to the official Jeopardy! web...
Patrick Zakem, an 11-year-old sixth grader from Louisville, Kentucky "He would like to become an architect because he enjoys visualizing...
Brian Weikle, a consultant from Minneapolis, Minnesota 2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Nifty Nine (players with byes into...
Chris Ward, a foreign service officer from Johannesburg, South Africa "A 5-game winner in 1998, he was living in Peru when...
Sean Ryan, a taxi driver, bartender, and student from State College, Pennsylvania 2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Nifty Nine (players with byes into...
Chuck Forrest, a law student from Grand Blanc, Michigan 2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2014 Battle of the Decades...
Michael Todaro, a real estate broker originally from Los Angeles, California Season 3 player (1986-11-07). Last name pronounced: \"Toh-DAH-ro\". Michael won $99,613...
Chuck Forrest, a foreign service officer originally from Grand Blanc, Michigan 2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2014 Battle of the Decades...
Chuck Forrest, a student from Grand Blanc, Michigan 2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2014 Battle of the Decades...
Chuck Forrest, a lawyer from Bosnia and Herzegovina 2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2014 Battle of the Decades...
Nick Heise, a technical services engineer from Madison, Wisconsin 2023 Champions Wildcard quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 38 1-time champion: $25,900 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like \"HI-see\".
Chuck Forrest, a lawyer from Marino, Italy 2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2014 Battle of the Decades...
Dave Gordon, an attorney originally from Santa Ana, California Season 9 1-time champion: $6,300. Dave was introduced as a lawyer...
Anish Maddipoti, a junior from Austin, Texas 2023 High School Reunion Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2018 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist:...
Erik Post, a fraud investigator from Essex, Vermont Season 30 player (2014-01-29).
Brandon Blackwell, a writer & TV personality originally from Jamaica, New York 2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2008-B Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist:...
Dan Alves, an engineering supervisor from Santa Maria, California Season 2 3-time champion: $36,100. Last name pronounced as one syllable,...
Neville Fogarty, an 11-year-old from Kingwood, Texas \"This chess player is planning his career moves very carefully. From...
Joe Thomas, a recent math graduate and pizza delivery person from Martin, Tennessee Season 30 player (2014-01-24).
Pam Mueller, a junior at Loyola University, Chicago from Wilmette, Illinois 2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2019 All-Star Games member of...
Chip Bell, a telecom engineer from Marysville, Ohio Season 30 2-time champion: $29,300 + $2,000. Chip won $5,000 on...
Dan Pawson, a legislative aide from Boston, Massachusetts 2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2014 Battle of the Decades...
Karen Ruckert, a civil rights attorney originally from Topeka, Kansas Season 30 1-time champion: $12,400 + $2,000.
Pam Mueller, a graduate student in psychology from Princeton, New Jersey \"She was a student at Loyola University when she won the...
Pam Mueller, an entering law student originally from Chicago, Illinois \"Representing Loyola University, she won the College Championship in November, 2000....
Pam Mueller, a think tank researcher from Culver City, California • 2000 College Championship winner • Semifinalist in all other tournaments...
Hilary Teeman, a book editor from New York, New York Season 24 player (2008-04-28). Daughter of Season 2 player Alan Rubin...
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...
Pam Mueller, a justice researcher originally from Chicago, Illinois 2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2019 All-Star Games member of...
Larissa Kelly, a grad student from El Cerrito, California 2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament 2019 All-Star Games member of winning Team...
Emily Goodlander, an attorney from Baltimore, Maryland Season 30 player (2014-01-15).
Chris Dellicarpini, a screenwriter from South Huntington, New York Season 23 1-time champion: $25,199 + $2,000. Chris was a high...
Marika Kuspa, a graduate student of biology from South Bend, Indiana Season 30 player (2014-01-09).
Ryan Fenster, a banker from SeaTac, Washington 2019 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 34 7-time champion: $156,497...
Nathan Walpow, a data processor originally from Queens, New York 1985 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $1,000. Season 1 5-time champion: $38,900....
Lee May, a merchandising manager originally from Roanoke, Virginia Season 30 player (2014-01-03).
Andy Richter, from NBC\'s Late Night With Conan O\'Brien \"He\'s a first-rate second banana and the sidekick on NBC\'s Late...
Dan Ford, an engineer from Cincinnati, Ohio Season 31 player (2014-10-03). Not to be confused with Season 21...
Carolyn Gawlik, a workforce development manager from Dearborn, Michigan Season 30 player (2014-01-07).
Rebecca Heide, an economist from Washington, D.C. Season 34 player (2018-06-12). Last name pronounced like "HI-dee".
John Coulter, a creative director from Henderson, Nevada Season 30 player (2014-01-01).
Bridget O'Donnell, a law enforcement specialist from Burlington, Vermont Season 30 player (2014-01-01).
Alyson Murray, a server from Boston, Massachusetts Season 30 player (2013-12-31).
Armen Terjimanian, a web content producer originally from Troy, Michigan Season 30 player (2013-12-30).
Martin Poteralski, a senior from Georgia Tech 1994 College Championship semifinalist: $5,000. Martin won $0 on Who Wants...
Jerry Slowik, a writer from Arlington Heights, Illinois Season 30 5-time champion: $121,800 + $1,000. No returning champion Hometown...
Brayden Smith, a policy intern from Las Vegas, Nevada Season 37 5-time champion: $115,798 + $2,000. Brayden died 2021-02-05, at...
Kathy Cacace, an online editor from Brooklyn, New York Season 30 player (2013-12-27). Last name pronounced like "ka-KAYSE".
Bonita Dominguez, a legal secretary from Surprise, Arizona Season 30 player (2013-12-24).
Kristina Lukach, a youth minister from Shrewsbury, Massachusetts Season 30 player (2013-12-23).
Larry White, an actuary from Hatboro, Pennsylvania Season 30 2-time champion: $49,624 + $2,000. No challenger Hometown Howdy...
Daniel Cohen, an interactive developer originally from Liverpool, New York Season 27 player (2011-04-12). Daniel died 2023-09-24 at the age of...
David Madden, an academic competition director from Ridgewood, New Jersey • 19-game champion • 3rd longest winning streak 2019 All-Star Games...
Josh Vincent, a waiter and a chef from Brigantine, New Jersey Season 8 4-time champion: $58,800. The recording used to archive the...
Mary Gildea, a retired high school English teacher from Marietta, Pennsylvania Season 30 player (2013-12-19). Last name pronounced like "gill-DAY".
Sandy Howard, a homemaker from Cincinnati, Ohio Season 30 player (2013-12-17).
Curtis Morales, an analytics engineer from Washington, D.C. Season 30 player (2013-12-18).
Varun Shekhar, a graduate student in engineering and law from Northville, Michigan Season 30 2-time champion: $18,600 + $2,000. JBoard user name: vs1
Betsy Foss, an English-as-a-second-language instructor from Ann Arbor, Michigan Season 30 player (2013-12-16).
Colby Burnett, a college counselor from Chicago, Illinois • 2012 Teachers Tournament winner • 2013 Tournament of Champions winner...
Tiffany Gholar, an abstract painter from Chicago, Illinois Season 30 1-time champion: $6,399 + $2,000. No returning champion Hometown...
Rachel Hirsch, a high school history teacher from Cambridge, Massachusetts Season 30 player (2013-12-12).
Donna Fairweather-Foley, a retired police officer from Huntington, New York Season 30 player (2013-12-11).
Bonnie Fish, a contract writer and retired educator from Cameron, Missouri Season 25 player (2009-06-05). Bonnie won $1,000 on Who Wants to...
Sam Bernhard, a student originally from Blacksburg, Virginia Season 30 player (2013-12-11). Sam attended Oberlin College at the time...
Meredith Larson, an attorney from Washington, D.C. Season 30 2-time champion: $42,701 + $1,000.
Matt Amodio, a post-doctoral researcher from Cambridge, Massachusetts 2023 Jeopardy! Masters 3rd place player: $150,000. 2022 Tournament of Champions...
Matt Amodio, a Ph.D. student from New Haven, Connecticut 2023 Jeopardy! Masters 3rd place player: $150,000. 2022 Tournament of Champions...
Matt Amodio, a postdoctoral researcher from Cambridge, Massachusetts 2023 Jeopardy! Masters 3rd place player: $150,000. 2022 Tournament of Champions...
Murray Weiss, a literary manager from Woodmere, New York Season 30 player (2013-12-09). No challenger Hometown Howdy was published for...
Craig Cornish, Jr., a graduate student of history from Welcome, Maryland Season 30 2-time champion: $46,800 + $1,000.
James Holzhauer, a professional sports gambler from Las Vegas, Nevada 2023 Jeopardy! Masters winner: $500,000 + $100,000 to Project 150 +...
Ryan Fenster, a graduate student from SeaTac, Washington 2019 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 34 7-time champion: $156,497...
Franke Santos, an operations manager from North Hollywood, California Season 30 player (2013-12-06). First name pronounced like "FRANK-ee".
James Holzhauer, the setter of 20 Jeopardy! records from Las Vegas, Nevada 2023 Jeopardy! Masters winner: $500,000 + $100,000 to Project 150 +...
James Holzhauer, a self-described game show villain from Las Vegas, Nevada 2023 Jeopardy! Masters winner: $500,000 + $100,000 to Project 150 +...
Richard Chamberlain, a traffic accident investigator from Shelby, North Carolina Season 2 1-time champion: $6,200 + a Maytag full-size stacked washer...
Barbara Noyes, a police officer from Blauvelt, New York Season 22 player (2005-12-23). Barbara, as a member of the Fornario...
Scott Claremon, a tax attorney from Sacramento, California Season 30 1-time champion: $7,899 + $2,000.
Tracy Carlson, a marketing consultant and author from Newton, Massachusetts Season 30 player (2013-11-29).
Steven Durham, a writer and stay-at-home dad from Asheville, North Carolina Season 30 2-time champion: $41,100 + $2,000.
Brendan Pimper, an engineer and student from La Habra, California Season 23 player (2007-03-28). Won $12,100 + a trip to Phoenix,...
Joel Serna, originally from Fort Worth, Texas \"His 1999 appearance on Kids Week earned him an invitation to...
Mike Nickel, a social worker from St. Louis, Missouri Season 30 1-time champion: $29,210 + $1,000.
Timothy Shuker-Haines, a high school history teacher from Williamstown, Massachusetts "He teaches at a small school where the students chop the...
Michael Townes, an English and Language Arts teacher from Greenville, South Carolina "He's a third-generation teacher. From Greenville, South Carolina, say hello to...
John Pearson, a 4th grade math teacher from Richardson, Texas "His school's theme this year is superheroes. It's a bird! It's...
Eli Barrieau, a high school history teacher from Hardwick, Massachusetts "He found working in a window factory a 'pain'. Now it's...
James Brown, a physics teacher from El Paso, Texas "He teaches at a high school where most of the students...
Brian Aronson, a public defender from Sacramento, California Season 4 player (1988-06-28): Ricardo Beverly Hills Tower Drive luggage collection...
Patrick Dillon, an elementary music teacher from Huntington, New York "He teaches music at a school that has been nationally recognized...
Lee DiGeorge, a middle school English and technology teacher from Bayside, New York 2018 Teachers Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000 + a $2,500 grant. At the...
Kati Sorenson, a reading teacher from Omaha, Nebraska "She's in her second year of teaching and loving it. From...
Larry Martin, a second grade teacher from Kansas City, Missouri 2018 Teachers Tournament winner: $100,000 + a $2,500 grant. At the...
Rico Vazquez, a band teacher from Elmhurst, Illinois "He teaches at a school named for Carl Sandburg, who spoke...
Amanda DeMeola, an attorney from Brooklyn, New York Season 30 player (2013-11-08).
Sarah Orman, a travel planner from Shoreview, Minnesota Season 30 player (2013-11-07).
Robert Horton, a computer salesman from Largo, Florida Season 4 1-time champion: $11,601. Robert indicated during his contestant interview...
Adam Johnston, a project manager from Mechanicsville, Maryland Season 30 player (2013-11-07).
Terry Kent, a real estate attorney originally from Eau Claire, Wisconsin Season 28 player (2012-06-04). Terry won $16,000 on Sports Jeopardy! on...
Matthew Hubbard, a computer game designer from Palo Alto, California Season 1 3-time champion: $25,550. In his first appearance, Matthew was...
Cora Peck, a teacher and graduate student from Aliso Viejo, California 2009 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 24 5-time champion:...
Evan Voorn, a student teacher from Fort Worth, Texas Season 30 player (2013-11-06).
Carole Furr, an accountant from Richmond, Vermont Season 30 player (2013-11-05). Carole's father was a Season 5 1-time champion.
Ramsin Toma, an enrollment consultant from Ashburn, Virginia Season 30 player (2013-11-04).
Andrea Massar, a clinical social worker from Rockville, Maryland Season 30 player (2013-11-01). Name pronounced like "an-DRAY-uh MASS-ar".
Norah McKissic, an embroiderer and student from Anchorage, Alaska Season 30 1-time champion: $11,400 + $1,000.
Rhea Hantelman, an administrative assistant from Marysville, Washington Season 30 1-time champion: $25,000 + $1,000.
Jennifer Spirko, a public librarian from Maryville, Tennessee Season 30 1-time champion: $20,001 + $1,000.
Zach Newkirk, an attorney from Alexandria, Virginia 2022 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 36/37 6-time champion: $124,871...
Marge Lindblom, a lawyer from Larchmont, New York Season 30 player (2013-10-29).
David Garcia, an IT communications strategy team lead from Troy, Michigan Season 38 player (2021-10-06). David appeared on Who Wants to Be...
Jack Hassinger, a naval officer from Montclair, Virginia Season 11 1-time champion: $16,800. Jack appeared on the show in...
Molly Kossoff, a beauty-industry magazine editor from West Hills, California Season 30 1-time champion. $11,100 + $2,000. Molly appeared on the...
Jason Alexander, from Seinfeld \"He\'s explored the depths of lowest self-esteem as George on Seinfeld...\"...
Melanie Hess, a technical editor from Lancaster, Pennsylvania Season 30 player (2013-10-25).
James Cross, a graduate student of computer science originally from Auburn, Alabama Season 30 player (2013-10-25).
Mike Shapiro, an actuary from Denver, Colorado Season 30 2-time champion: $24,800 + $1,000. A clip of one...
Brian Pearson, a naval officer from Virginia Beach, Virginia Season 21 player (2005-07-18).
Emily Wood, an attorney from Waltham, Massachusetts Season 30 player (2013-10-23).
Casey LaPlante, a high school media specialist from Enfield, Connecticut Season 31 1-time champion: $5,000 + $1,000. Casey appeared on Master Minds on 2023-10-30.
Arne Lunde, an associate professor of Scandinavian Studies from Los Angeles, California Season 30 player (2013-10-22). Name pronounced like "ARN-ee LUND-ee".
Marc Muneal, an assistant professor of English from Barnesville, Georgia Season 30 player (2013-10-07).
Jim Gilcreast, a printing salesman from North Providence, Rhode Island Season 22 player (2005-11-03). Jim passed away 2023-09-05. Obituary.
Rose Adams, an information management coordinator from Flint, Michigan Season 30 player (2013-10-22).
Michael Rankins, a minister and writer from Rohnert Park, California \"A 5-show winner from 1988, he has been a minister with...
Bill Tolany, a marketing executive from Austin, Texas Season 30 3-time champion: $44,200 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
Nolan Martch, a construction foreman from Homewood, Illinois Season 30 1-time champion: $2,000 + $2,000.
James Holzhauer, a professional sports gambler from Las Vegas, Nevada 2023 Jeopardy! Masters player: $X. 2020 Jeopardy!: The Greatest of All...
Leslie Frates, a Spanish teacher from Hayward, California \"A Jeopardy! champion in 1991, she\'s now a Spanish teacher listed...
Mat Ahn, a law student originally from North Royalton, Ohio Season 30 player (2013-10-16). Mat was a student at New York...
Korin Kormick, an opera singer from Jersey City, New Jersey Season 30 player (2013-10-17). First name pronounced with the accent on...
Kate Kwiatkowski, a psychiatrist from Champaign, Illinois Season 30 player (2013-10-10).
Jane Wanninger, a lecturer and academic advisor from Nashville, Tennessee Season 30 player (2013-10-16).
Dave Rosen, a student originally from Mount Prospect, Illinois Season 6 player (1990-03-02). Introduction missing from the recording used to...
Loren Gianini, a clinical psychology research fellow originally from West Hartford, Connecticut Season 30 player (2013-10-14).
Armand Kachigian, a podiatrist from Granite City, Illinois Season 10 player (1994-02-10). Armand won $500,000 on Who Wants to...
Chris Gaiman, a post-production coordinator originally from Slatington, Pennsylvania Season 30 1-time champion: $14,401 + $2,000.
Theresa Warner, a graduate student of Spanish originally from Alton, Missouri Season 30 player (2013-10-09).
Kim Smith, a ticket counter originally from Sedalia, Missouri Season 11 player (1994-09-06). Season 10 1-time champion: $7,400. Kim was...
Kim Smith, a ticket counter originally from Sedalia, Missouri Season 11 player (1994-09-06). Season 10 1-time champion: $7,400. Kim was...
Rohit Dewan, a financial analyst originally from Federal Way, Washington Season 30 player (2013-10-03).
Erin Hoesly, a preschool teacher from Fredericksburg, Virginia Season 30 player (2013-10-08).
Mary Murrell, an anthropologist from Madison, Wisconsin Season 30 1-time champion: $7,100 + $2,000. Last name pronounced with...
Tristan Mohabir, a nonprofit associate director from Washington, D.C. Season 34 1-time champion: $15,200 + $1,000. Last name pronounced like...
Cori Wilhelm, a college librarian from Parishville, New York Season 30 1-time champion: $18,001 + $1,000.
Fidelito Cortes, a writer from Port Jefferson Station, New York Season 30 2-time champion: $45,000 + $2,000. No challenger Hometown Howdy was published for Fidelito.
Elisabeth Houlik, an accountant from Allentown, Pennsylvania Season 30 player (2013-10-01). Last name pronounced like "HOO-lick".
Andrew Mugica, an options trader originally from Libertyville, Illinois Season 30 player (2013-09-27). Last name pronounced like "moo-HEE-kah".
Sarah Zucker, an Internet entrepreneur and screenwriter from Los Angeles, California Season 30 1-time champion: $1,799 + $1,000.
Vincent Valenzuela, an internal customer service manager from Wheaton, Illinois Season 35 player (2018-09-25). Season 34 player (2018-07-13). Vincent returned to...
Heidi McEchron, a painter and parodist from Iowa City, Iowa Season 30 player (2013-09-26).
Eric Winschel, a roofing contractor from Pasadena, California Season 30 player (2013-09-25).
Loni Geerlings, an editor from Redwood City, California Season 30 player (2013-09-24).
Francois Barcomb, an 11th grade physics teacher from New Paltz, New York 2019 Tournament of Champions 2nd runner-up: $50,000. 2019 Teachers Tournament winner:...
Parth Sheth, a medical student from Atlanta, Georgia Season 30 player (2013-09-19).
Matt Volk, a financial analyst from Cedar Rapids, Iowa Season 30 2-time champion: $34,400 + $2,000. No challenger Hometown Howdy was published for Matt.
Jen Yoak, a latent print examiner from Centerville, Ohio Season 30 player (2013-09-17). Last name pronounced like "YOHK".
Tova Meyer, a graduate student in education from Princeton, New Jersey Season 30 player (2013-09-17).
Melissa Jurgens, a lawyer from Arlington, Virginia Season 30 player (2013-09-17).
D.J. Smith, a computer business analyst from Garland, Texas 1988 Senior Tournament quarterfinalist: $1,000. D.J.'s quarterfinal score was high enough...
Max Maxwell, an attorney from Centerville, Virginia Season 11 player (1994-11-28). In his contestant interview, Max said that...
Adam Levin, a sports information director from Ashland, Massachusetts Season 35 player (2019-04-29). Adam’s final total of $53,999 in his...
Ray Romano, an actor from Queens, New York "An actor from Queens, New York, for nine seasons, he starred...
Utkarsh Ambudkar, an actor originally from Baltimore, Maryland 2023 Primetime Celebrity Jeopardy! semifinalist: $50,000 for the SAG-AFTRA Foundation supporting...
Zach Newkirk, an attorney from Arlington, Virginia 2022 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 36/37 6-time champion: $124,871...
Dave Leach, a software analyst from Atlanta, Georgia 2013 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 28 6-time champion: $98,054 + $2,000. JBoard user name: dmleach
Tracey Rhys, a technology trainer from New York, New York Season 28 player (2012-07-12). Last name pronounced like "REECE".
Lisa Bloomberg, a medical student from Minneapolis, Minnesota Season 27 2-time champion: $55,000 + $2,000.
Drew Horwood, a business analyst from Minneapolis, Minnesota 2014 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 29 8-time champion: $138,100 + $1,000. JBoard user name: RunDMH
David Hankins, a college student from Minneapolis, Minnesota Season 21 player (2004-11-30). David won $100,000 on Who Wants to...
Denise Troy, a litigation attorney from Scottsdale, Arizona Season 27 player (2011-05-16).
Libby Nelson, a journalist from Kansas City, Missouri Season 28 player (2011-09-28).
Paul Katz, a lawyer from Daytona Beach, Florida Season 5 player (1988-10-10). Season 4 player (1987-12-04). Paul was returned...
Lorraine Donahue, a document services supervisor from Shadyside, Ohio Season 29 player (2013-03-06).
Lisa Spardel-Krol, an educational marketer from Watertown, Massachusetts Season 28 player (2011-12-30).
Chris O'Toole, a writer from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Season 29 player (2012-12-03). Identical twin sister of Season 27 1-time...
David Javerbaum, a Harvard graduate whose musical was produced off-Broadway originally from Maplewood, New Jersey \"He called himself the class joker at Columbia High in Maplewood,...
Ramesh Mantha, an electrical engineer from Toronto, Ontario Season 27 player (2011-05-17).
Lynn Welch, a pharmacist from Evanston, Illinois Season 28 player (2012-07-11).
David Javerbaum, a junior from Maplewood, New Jersey 1998 Teen Reunion Tournament 1st runner-up: $15,000. 1988 Teen Tournament 1st...
Grafton Brown, a high school Spanish teacher from Chicago, Illinois "He teaches at a school whose buildings are named in honor...
Paul Katz, a lawyer from Flagler County, Florida Season 5 player (1988-10-10). Season 4 player (1987-12-04). Paul was returned...
Peter Allen, a high school chemistry teacher from Fresno, California Season 28 player (2012-04-13).
Karen Poole, a graduate student of paleontology from Washington, D.C. Season 29 player (2012-11-30).
Steven Jones, an attorney from Rocheport, Missouri Season 25 player (2008-10-16). Jeopardy! Message Board user name: SteveJones
Eric Gustafson, a computer programmer from Vienna, Virginia Season 7 player (1990-12-06). In his contestant interview, Eric said he...
Patrick Rostock, a fulfillment manager from Fort Lauderdale, Florida Season 28 player (2011-12-28).
Cat Still, an educational consultant from Los Angeles, California Season 28 player (2012-04-13).
Dylan Wint, a neurologist and psychiatrist from Las Vegas, Nevada Season 29 1-time champion: $7,199 + $1,000. First name pronounced like "DY-lan".
Bill Moreau, an elementary school teacher from Woodbridge, Ontario Season 28 player (2011-12-27). Last name pronounced like "MUR-ro". JBoard user...
Jennifer Morgan, a stay-at-home mom from Norcross, Georgia Season 28 player (2012-07-10). Not to be confused with Season 20...
Anne Kenney Chaplin, a housing court judge from Truro, Massachusetts Season 28 player (2011-09-22).
Megan Davenport, an administrative coordinator and graduate student from Ruston, Louisiana Season 28 player (2012-04-12).
Lesley Tsina, a comedy writer from Los Angeles, California Season 28 player (2011-12-28).
Scott Vinick, an information technology consultant from Sagamore Hills, Ohio Season 29 player (2012-11-29).
Sally Umbach, a third grade special education teacher from Cincinnati, Ohio "She teaches at a school district that has been in operation...
Judy Nichols, a mystery writer from Wilmington, North Carolina Season 28 2-time champion: $46,500 + $1,000. Jboard user name: Judy5cents
Kathy DeLozier, an elementary school principal from Louisville, Kentucky Season 29 player (2013-04-29).
Andrea Bornschlegel, a corporate controller from Mountain View, California Season 28 player (2011-12-26).
Amit Kurlekar, an attorney from Oakland, California Season 28 1-time champion: $16,801 + $2,000. First name pronounced like "ah-MEETH".
Laura Amundson, a former criminal defense attorney from Des Moines, Iowa Season 29 1-time champion: $20,395 + $2,000.
Brian Lehman, a communications manager from Washington, D.C. Season 28 player (2011-09-22).
Lindsay Reese, a postdoctoral researcher originally from Escanaba, Michigan Season 28 player (2012-04-11).
Mary Folley, a statistician from Charlotte, North Carolina Season 29 player (2012-11-27).
Craig Sallinger, a government librarian from Washington, D.C. Season 29 player (2013-03-01).
Beth Youngers, a swim coach from Rochester, Minnesota Season 29 player (2012-11-26).
Kelly Regan, an editorial director from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Season 28 player (2012-07-09). Last name pronounced like "REE-gun".
Patrick Sweaney, a dairy machine operator from Omaha, Nebraska Season 28 player (2011-09-21). JBoard user name: LeFlaneur
Kim Carver, an attorney from San Francisco, California Season 29 player (2013-07-25).
Susan Keller, a community activist from Santa Barbara, California Season 20 player (2004-07-20). KJL game 35. Not to be confused...
Rick Rosner, a bar bouncer originally from Boulder, Colorado Season 7 player (1991-01-16). Appearing as \"Richard Rosner\" from Los Angeles,...
Jake Ayres, a law student from San Diego, California Season 29 1-time champion: $28,201 + $2,000.
Alex Liteplo, an educational publishing digital producer from Wakefield, Massachusetts Season 28 player (2011-09-20). Last name pronounced like "luh-TEP-low".
Anne Raybon, a teacher's assistant and school bus driver from Asheville, North Carolina Season 28 player (2012-04-09).
Amanda Steadman, a director of underwriting policy from Winnipeg, Manitoba Season 29 player (2013-04-25).
Twyla Dignan, a domestic goddess from West Linn, Oregon Season 29 player (2013-02-28).
Drew Tompkins, a legal software consultant originally from Montgomery, Alabama Season 28 player (2011-12-21).
Mona Hatfield, a retired school library media specialist from Eufaula, Oklahoma Season 29 player (2012-11-22).
Charley Tinkham, an eighth grade history and technology teacher from San Bruno, California "He teaches at a school that has been named a California...
Glenn Edwards, an attorney from New York, New York Season 28 player (2011-09-19).
Lisa Lyons, a social media consultant from Van Nuys, California Season 28 player (2012-04-06).
Dean Flagg, a contracts assistant from Los Angeles, California Season 29 player (2013-02-28).
Amanda Lanyon-Lesage, a blogger from Madison, Wisconsin Season 29 player (2012-11-24).
Anthony Trifilio, a construction worker from Brooklyn, New York Season 19 1-time champion: $8,000 + $2,000. Season 18 1-time champion:...
Henry Doering, a retired public defender from Palm Springs, California Season 28 player (2012-07-06).
Bing Huo, a mechanical engineer from Sunnyvale, California Season 28 1-time champion: $15,801 + $2,000.
Mary Tuohy, a retired teacher from Groton, Connecticut Season 25 player (2008-10-13). Last name pronounced like "TOO-hee".
Kathleen Schultz, an assistant to the principal from Portland, Oregon Season 28 player (2011-12-19).
Morgan Kruse, an economics research analyst from Irvine, California Season 29 player (2012-11-21).
Stephanie Fontaine, an analyst from Arlington, Virginia Season 28 3-time champion: $54,500 + $2,000.
Lisa McDermott, an arts administrator from Modesto, California Season 27 player (2011-07-29).
John Sellers, a writer from Brooklyn, New York Season 28 player (2012-04-05).
Joshua Bartlett, a graduate student of early American poetry from Albany, New York Season 29 player (2012-11-22).
Marty Butterick, a director of operations of USC baseball from Monterey Park, California Season 27 player (2011-07-29).
Emily Garber, a civil liberties lawyer from Portland, Oregon Season 28 player (2012-04-05).
Padraic Scanlan, a Ph.D. student in history originally from Montreal, Quebec, Canada Season 29 1-time champion: $11,400 + $1,000.
Christina Rodriguez, a claims processor from Carterville, Illinois Season 29 player (2013-04-24).
John Shoe, a third and fourth grade teacher from Lakewood, Colorado "He teaches at a school for gifted children who choose their...
Britta Waller, a magazine and website editor from Greensboro, North Carolina Season 29 player (2013-06-24). Britta's full name was listed on the...
Joe McKee, a percussionist from Palos Heights, Illinois Season 27 2-time champion: $49,500 + $1,000.
Ron King, a web designer from Camarillo, California Season 28 1-time champion: $13,601 + $2,000. Jboard user name: ronk
Tamara Tatum-Broughton, an assistant professor of biology from Washington, D.C. Season 28 player (2012-04-03).
Whitney Collins, a third grade teacher from New York, New York "She teaches at an all-boys school where every student learns chess...
Erin Haramoto, a lab instructor from Sunderland, Massachusetts Season 25 player (2008-11-26).
Hannah Lynch, an IT specialist from Sterling, Virginia Season 25 player (2008-10-10).
Brenton Montie, a sixth grade social studies teacher from South Lyon, Michigan "He teaches at a school ranked in the top 5% in...
Grant Wing, an office manager from Vancouver, British Columbia Season 27 player (2011-04-29).
Jennifer Emmett, an executive assistant from Fremont, California Season 28 player (2012-07-04).
Luciano D'Orazio, a social studies teacher from Deer Park, New York Season 25 1-time champion: $27,200 + $1,000. Name pronounced like "loo-chee-AH-no door-AHT-zee-oh".
Durant Gipson, a recent grad from Houston, Texas Season 25 player (2008-11-26). Durant appeared on Master Minds on 2020-04-27....
Jason Keller, a tutor from Highland Park, New Jersey 2013 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 28 9-time champion: $213,900 + $2,000.
Randy Cauthen, a poet and professor originally from Charleston, South Carolina Season 28 player (2012-04-02).
Lou Ascatigno, a teacher from Concord, California Season 20 player (2004-07-15). KJL game 32. Last name pronounced like...
Bill Hawkins, a hotel concierge from New York, New York Season 29 1-time champion: $17,400 + $2,000. JBoard user name: hawkwild
Silas Crawford, an attorney from Jacksonville, Florida Season 28 player (2011-12-15).
Sarah Canfield Fuller, a writing instructor originally from Indianapolis, Indiana Season 27 player (2011-04-26).
Leslie Page, a public library director from Woonsocket, Rhode Island Season 28 player (2012-07-03).
Ruth Robbins, a stay-at-home mom from Jacksonville, North Carolina Season 28 player (2012-03-30).
Leslie Hamilton, a teacher and swim coach from Erlanger, Kentucky Season 28 player (2011-12-16).
Amy Ballentine, a pastry chef from Memphis, Tennessee Season 25 player (2008-10-09). Last name pronounced to rhyme with "Valentine".
Leo Velazquez, a theme park ride operator from Orange, California Season 28 player (2012-07-03). Leo was the alternate for the 2010-B...
Beth Watkins, a graduate student of medieval studies from Savannah, Georgia Season 28 1-time champion: $37,200 + $1,000.
Andy Levin, a social worker from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Season 27 player (2011-04-26). Last name pronounced like "luh-VIHN".
Misha Bushyager, a culinary student and mom from Baltimore, Maryland Season 28 player (2012-07-02).
Joyce Newmark, a rabbi from Teaneck, New Jersey Season 27 1-time champion: $29,200 + $2,000. Joyce died 2021-10-25 at...
Jay Ben Markson, an actor originally from Lakeville, Massachusetts Season 28 player (2012-03-29).
Martin Powell, a chemical engineer from Bowie, Maryland Season 29 player (2012-10-23).
Chuck Narikiyo, an attorney from Waipahu, Hawaii Season 27 player (2011-04-25). Chuck appeared on The Chase on 2023-02-09...
Darcy Smith, a copywriter from New York, New York Season 20 player (2004-07-14). KJL game 31.
Catie Fletcher, a municipal court clerk from Bozeman, Montana Season 28 player (2012-03-28).
Guil Prickette, a licensed professional counselor from Anchorage, Alaska Season 25 player (2008-11-25). First name pronounced like "GILL".
Emily Barkley-Levenson, a graduate student of cognitive neuroscience from West Hollywood, California Season 27 player (2011-04-25). Sister of Season 37 player Amanda Barkley-Levenson.
Taylor Norwood, a high school speech and debate teacher from Dallas, Texas Season 28 player (2012-07-02).
Greg Narver, a lawyer from Seattle, Washington Season 20 player (2004-07-14). KJL game 31.
Phil Goldstein, a benefits consultant from Decatur, Georgia Season 29 player (2013-04-19).
Jia-Rui Cook, a media relations specialist and science writer from Los Angeles, California Season 28 player (2012-06-29). First name pronounced like "jyah-RYEE".
Beau Henson, a test prep teacher and actor originally from Mt. Carmel, Illinois Season 28 3-time champion: $51,203 + $2,000. Beau won $250,000 on...
Mary Graves, an online instructor from Terre Haute, Indiana Season 29 player (2013-04-19).
Gina Bernal, a romance novel editor from Cambridge, Massachusetts Season 28 player (2011-12-13).
KC Frodyma, a freelance editor from San Francisco, California Season 27 player (2011-04-22). Last name pronounced like "fro-DEE-mah". Jeopardy! Message...
Edgar Mihelic, an educator from Chicago, Illinois Season 27 player (2011-07-25). Last name pronounced like "mih-HEEL-lick".
Ellen Tabor, a psychiatrist from New York, New York Season 28 player (2011-12-12).
Kate Cell, a communications consultant from Shutesbury, Massachusetts Season 25 player (2008-10-08).
Brian Meacham, a film preservationist originally from Anchorage, Alaska 2011 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 27 4-time champion: $90,500...
Matt Samberg, an attorney from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Season 28 3-time champion: $61,402 + $2,000.
Linda Percy, a retired emergency room physician from Connellsville, Pennsylvania Season 27 3-time champion: $70,401 + $2,000. Won $32,000 on Who...
Chuck Ettelson, a plastic surgeon from St. Louis, Missouri Season 28 player (2012-03-27).
Drew Bayers, a music supervisor originally from Milford, Connecticut Season 28 1-time champion: $19,200 + $2,000.
Glenn Fleishman, a technology journalist from Seattle, Washington Season 29 2-time champion: $28,398 + $2,000. JBoard user name: glennfleishman
Kirsten Ruemenapp, a veterinary assistant from New York, New York Season 27 player (2011-04-20). Last name pronounced like "ROOM-eh-nahp".
Lindsay Shields, a grants and contracts coordinator from Sunnyside, New York Season 28 player (2012-06-28).
Chuck Rezac, a cattle ranch hand from Emmett, Kansas Season 28 1-time champion: $25,200 + $2,000.
Mithun Kamath, a law student originally from New Orleans, Louisiana Season 28 player (2012-03-26).
Judy Arginteanu, a freelance writer and editor from Minneapolis, Minnesota Season 29 2-time champion: $28,300 + $1,000. Last name pronounced like "ar-jin-tee-AH-noo".
Nicole Willson, a web designer from Centerville, Virginia Season 28 player (2011-12-09).
Robin Woolsey, a high school English teacher from Oxford, Alabama Season 27 1-time champion: $5,500 + $2,000.
Dennis Wright, a welder from Council Grove, Kansas Season 28 1-time champion: $25,200 + $1,000.
Shawn Selby, an adjunct history professor from Canton, Ohio Season 29 player (2013-04-17).
Mary Mitchell, a State Department attorney from Washington, D.C. Season 27 1-time champion: $24,300 + $2,000.
Nick Bulum, a newspaper insert writer and designer from Long Beach, California Season 28 player (2012-03-22).
Darren Abernethy, a telecommunications attorney from Washington, D.C. Season 29 player (2013-04-18).
William Castañeda, a human resources professional from San Francisco, California Season 28 1-time champion: $9,400 + $1,000.
Anna-Lise Santella, an editor and musicologist from Trout Valley, Illinois Season 28 2-time champion: $21,199 + $1,000. First name pronounced like "AH-nah-LEE-sah".
Jamey Wiglesworth, a DJ and bar trivia host from Versailles, Kentucky Season 29 player (2013-04-16).
Jennifer Bernstein, a social worker from St. Louis, Missouri Season 28 player (2011-12-07).
Meredith Lowmaster, a medical research technician from Quincy, Massachusetts Season 29 1-time champion: $16,000 + $1,000.
Jim Abbott, a property appraiser from St. Augustine, Florida Season 28 player (2012-06-26).
Judy Cole, a data analyst from Concord, Massachusetts Season 29 player (2013-06-21).
Tony Hightower, an event planner from Astoria, New York Season 28 1-time champion: $21,300 + $2,000. Tony won $250,000 on...
Jan Walkenhorst, a university athletic department tutor from Lincoln, Nebraska Season 29 player (2012-10-17).
Ben Christenson, an attorney from Chicago, Illinois Season 29 player (2013-06-21).
Zac Youngblood, a truck driver from Austin, Texas Season 27 player (2011-07-20).
Tom Hanson, a Ph.D. candidate in finance from Kent, Ohio Season 29 player (2013-06-20).
Ricky Leiter, a resident physician in internal medicine from New York, New York Season 29 player (2012-10-15). Last name pronounced like "LEE-ter".
Gary Roberts, a defense consultant from Suffolk, Virginia Season 29 1-time champion: $25,601 + $1,000. Not to be confused...
Andrew Fuller, a special education teacher from Elburn, Illinois Season 27 player (2011-04-18).
Melissa Rabey, a teen librarian from Germantown, Maryland Season 28 player (2012-06-25).
Christine Janson, a freelance writer and editor from Frederick, Maryland Season 27 player (2011-07-19).
Melanie Spratford, a caterer from Chicago, Illinois Season 28 1-time champion: $19,601 + $2,000. JBoard user name: Miss Mellie
Scott Russell, a university chaplain from Blacksburg, Virginia Season 28 player (2011-12-05). Scott appeared on the show in his...
Amy Fulton Stout, a community college professor of literature from Oak Ridge, Tennessee Season 27 player (2011-04-15).
Lukas Sherman, a substitute teacher from Portland, Oregon Season 28 player (2012-06-21).
Lisa Byatt, a technical writer from Amherst, New Hampshire Season 29 1-time champion: $26,800 + $1,000.
Eric Oberhand, a computer consultant from Los Angeles, California Season 3 player (1987-06-18). Eric appeared on Art Linkletter's House Party...
Julia Kozicki, an attorney from Noblesville, Indiana Season 28 1-time champion: $28,401 + $2,000.
Jim Fenton, a chemical engineer from West Chester, Ohio Season 27 player (2011-04-15).
Ayana Matthews, a geriatric nursing assistent and chef from Baltimore, Maryland Season 28 player (2012-06-22).
Karawan Meade, a mom and tutor from Wakefield, Massachusetts Season 27 player (2011-07-18).
Alex Wright, a university administrator from Upper Arlington, Ohio Season 28 1-time champion: $25,600 + $2,000. Alex was originally from...
Brad Colgate, a college health physician from Grove City, Ohio Season 7 3-time champion: $37,351. During the chat with Alex in...
Annie Douglass, a museum educator from Portland, Oregon Season 27 player (2011-04-14).
Ravi Saxena, a computer programmer from Chicago, Illinois Season 29 player (2013-06-19).
Colby Burnett, a high school world history teacher from Chicago, Illinois 2019 All-Star Games captain of 2nd runner-up Team Colby: a share...
Gillian DiPietro, a law student from Brooklyn, New York Season 28 player (2011-12-01).
Michelle Franklin, a localization editor from San Diego, California Season 27 player (2011-04-13).
Mark Runsvold, a student and waiter from Moscow, Idaho 2011 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 27 4-time champion: $153,800 + $1,000. JBoard user name: markrunsvold
Sue Anderson, a speech language pathologist from Peoria, Illinois Season 28 player (2012-03-15).
Sallie Rawlston, a 10-year-old fifth grader from Soddy-Daisy, Tennessee "We're sure she'll be a top scorer as a video game...
Kathleen Lee, a pharmaceutical scientist from Palo Alto, California Season 27 1-time champion: $29,601 + $1,000.
Henry Watkins, an actor and comedian originally from Atlanta, Georgia Season 29 player (2013-06-19).
Hannah Spector, a stay-at-home mom from Van Nuys, California Season 28 1-time champion: $29,201 + $1,000. JBoard user name: Hannah S.
Mona Miller, a lawyer and writer from Los Angeles, California Season 29 player (2013-04-12).
Bhibha Das, a postdoctoral research associate originally from Mt. Zion, Illinois Season 28 2-time champion: $41,380 + $1,000.
Sara Heard, a housewife from Brooklyn, New York Season 27 4-time champion: $85,601 + $2,000. Sara was the alternate...
Aric Wu, an attorney and graduate student from Irvine, California Season 27 player (2011-07-15).
Jan Zasowski, a stock trader from Chicago, Illinois Season 28 2-time champion: $46,601 + $2,000. Name pronounced like "YAHN zahs-OHV-skee".
Karen Griffin, a physician's assistant from Stoughton, Wisconsin Season 28 player (2012-06-18).
Paul Barbour, an aspiring producer from Baldwinsville, New York Season 27 1-time champion: $29,800 + $2,000.
Robin Raffer, a picture researcher from Brooklyn, New York Season 29 player (2013-06-18).
Matt Eichenbaum, an orthopedic surgeon from Kennett Square, Pennsylvania Season 29 1-time champion: $25,497 + $1,000.
Suzanne Judson-Whitehouse, an education program director from Greenfield, Massachusetts Season 28 player (2011-12-02).
Stephanie Munroe, a movie editor from Brookline, Massachusetts Season 27 player (2011-04-12).
Victoria Steinberg, a freelance writer from Forest Hills, New York Season 28 player (2012-06-19).
Kiran Kedlaya, a math professor originally from Boston, Massachusetts Season 28 1-time champion: $30,801 + $2,000.
Jonathan Shoemaker, an 11-year-old sixth grader from Austin, Texas "Game on! We believe he will be victorious as a game...
Renee Hennessee, an energy efficiency analyst from Palm Desert, California Season 29 player (2013-06-17).
Heather Timberlake, a new mom from Miami, Florida Season 27 player (2011-04-11).
Neil Ashar, an attorney from Washington, D.C. Season 28 player (2012-06-18).
Patrick Antle, a graduate student in chemistry from Billerica, Massachusetts Season 28 1-time champion: $22,800 + $1,000.
Darren Munk, a web application developer from Camarillo, California Season 25 player (2008-10-07). Jeopardy! Message Board user name: knumd Darren...
Greg Haroutunian, a law clerk from Montvale, New Jersey Season 29 player (2013-04-10). Greg's full first name was listed on...
Mary Redling, an operations manager from Huntington, West Virginia Season 29 player (2011-11-29).
Andrew Moore, a test prep instructor from Buford, Georgia 2014 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 29 6-time champion: $137,803 + $2,000. JBoard user name: amoore



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