| #9087, aired 2024-04-23 | PRESIDENTS & FIRST LADIES $600: A shopaholic who enjoyed lavish clothes & redecorating the White House, by 1864 she had spent over $27,000 Mary Todd Lincoln |
| #9087, aired 2024-04-23 | CULTURE, POPULARLY $1000: Heirs get split one by one in this 2023 Netflix miniseries based on a Poe short story & starring Mary McDonnell as Madeline The Fall of the House of Usher |
| #9085, aired 2024-04-19 | ORDINAL PHRASES $600: In the "Hair" song "Aquarius", the Moon is here, ruled in part by Libra the seventh house |
| #9084, aired 2024-04-18 | ALL UP IN YOUR BUSINESS $400: Told, "Take it to the house" in an ad for this co. that "knows home improvement", Christian McCaffrey says, "I will, that's where I live" Lowe's |
| #9084, aired 2024-04-18 | MEDALS & DECORATIONS $2000: The Netherlands' Order of the House of Orange in 1905 & the Bronze Cross in 1940 were both created by this queen Wilhelmina |
| #9083, aired 2024-04-17 | OUR FLOUNDERING FATHERS $1200: Pre-"Give me liberty or give me death", he ran a failing store for his dad, didn't make it as a tobacco farmer & his house burned down Henry |
| #9081, aired 2024-04-15 | HODGEPODGE $600: An oda was a room in this type of house for women; an odalisque was a female slave or concubine in one a harem |
| #9081, aired 2024-04-15 | THAT BAND'S AN INSTITUTION $2000: This, I call it this, that this "One Step Beyond" & "Our House" band formed in 1976 is still touring with its original members Madness |
| #9080, aired 2024-04-12 | KIDDY LIT $1,000 (Daily Double): This beloved book about a stuffed animal is subtitled "Or, How Toys Become Real" The Velveteen Rabbit |
| #9078, aired 2024-04-10 | '70s TV DRAMA $1600: Former L.A. Rams star Merlin Olsen played Jonathan Garvey, a neighbor of the Ingalls family on this series Little House on the Prairie |
| #9077, aired 2024-04-09 | LITERARY LINES $400: Maggie, to Brick in this play: "We mustn't scream at each other. The walls in this house have ears" Cat on a Hot Tin Roof |
| #9076, aired 2024-04-08 | CONSONANT-VOWEL x3 $1200: It's the Spanish diminutive of "house" casita |
| #9075, aired 2024-04-05 | SCULPTURE $800: Richard Serra's 1969 sculpture "One Ton Prop", featuring 4 lead sheets leaning together, is also known as "House of" these Cards |
| #9072, aired 2024-04-02 | U.S. HISTORY $400: Also called the Old Pennsylvania State House, it's where John Hancock signed his John Hancock July 4, 1776 Independence Hall |
| #9072, aired 2024-04-02 | U.S. HISTORY $600: McLean House, the site of a famous surrender, is part of this Virginia site that's now a national historical park Appomattox Court House |
| #9069, aired 2024-03-28 | FREE FOR ALL $200: Monopoly once added a few house rules, including all fees & taxes stashed in the middle of the board are yours when you land on this spot Free Parking |
| #9069, aired 2024-03-28 | LGBTQ+ WRITERS & THEIR WORKS $400: "The House of Hidden Meanings" is a 2024 memoir from this TV host & pop culture icon, both far from & totally a drag RuPaul |
| #9066, aired 2024-03-25 | THE GRAMMYS' GREAT MOMENTS $2000: In 1975 he brought down the house with the politically charged "You Haven't Done Nothin"' Stevie Wonder |
| #9065, aired 2024-03-22 | "HOUSE" OF ENTERTAINMENT $400: Candace Cameron Bure & Jodie Sweetin got some yuks on the Netflix reboot with this title Fuller House |
| #9065, aired 2024-03-22 | "HOUSE" OF ENTERTAINMENT $800: After dozens of movies, this TV series took Robin Wright to a new level of stardom House of Cards |
| #9065, aired 2024-03-22 | THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE, BY THE NUMBERS $1000: Andrew Jackson "won" the E.C. 99-84-41-37 but having no majority there, lost the election in the House to this man John Quincy Adams |
| #9065, aired 2024-03-22 | "HOUSE" OF ENTERTAINMENT $1200: The Talking Heads were "fighting fire with fire" in this song that may result in a call to your insurance guy "Burning Down The House" |
| #9065, aired 2024-03-22 | "HOUSE" OF ENTERTAINMENT $1600: Called America's defining Celtic hip-hop group, they hit the Top 5 with a 1990s party anthem House of Pain |
| #9065, aired 2024-03-22 | "HOUSE" OF ENTERTAINMENT $2000: Ben Kingsley got an Oscar nomination for playing an Iranian immigrant with dreams of home ownership in this drama House of Sand and Fog |
| #9062, aired 2024-03-19 | JEOPORTMANTEAU! $4,200 (Daily Double): A buffet in Stockholm +
a house of ill repute a smorgasbordello |
| #9061, aired 2024-03-18 | HORRORS! $400: Catriona Ward's "The Last House on Needless Street" is partly narrated by Olivia, one of these animals, & that can't be good luck black cat |
| #9051, aired 2024-03-04 | "V"ACATION SPOTS $400: Don't miss the Isaac-Potts House, aka Washington's headquarters, on your visit to this national historical park in Pennsylvania Valley Forge |
| #9050, aired 2024-03-01 | PLACE NAME ETYMOLOGIES $200: In biblical city names, Bethel is Hebrew for "house of God" & this city big in the New Testament means "house of bread" Bethlehem |
| #9050, aired 2024-03-01 | COVER ME $1200: At a 2018 event honoring Fleetwood Mac, Miley Cyrus brought the house down with this Mac classic about "snow-covered hills" "Landslide" |
| #9049, aired 2024-02-29 | IT'S A PARTY! $1200: On October 24, 2022 it was a real lituation when Joe Biden celebrated this Hindu festival at the White House with 200+ guests Diwali |
| #9048, aired 2024-02-28 | IN THE DICTIONARY $400: Aputiak is another name for this snowy domed dwelling whose name means "house" an igloo |
| #9045, aired 2024-02-23 | TV COMEDY $600: Let's bring the Payne! Allen Payne played C.J. Payne on some 300 episodes of this creator's "House of Payne" Tyler Perry |
| #9042, aired 2024-02-20 | ACTION MOVIES $800: "Pain don't hurt" is one of Patrick Swayze's iconic (?) lines from this 1989 cheese- & slugfest Road House |
| #9038, aired 2024-02-14 | LOW TECH $600: During World War I Edith Wilson had a flock of these on the White House lawns--to cut the grass sheep |
| #9037, aired 2024-02-13 | 50 GREATEST RAPPERS OF ALL TIME $200: She invited us to "Come Into My House" & also deal with the "Wrath Of My Madness"; we bow down before this Queen Queen Latifah |
| #9037, aired 2024-02-13 | DUCK SOUP $800: This presidential daughter had pet ducks that often waddled their way into the fountain on the White House South Lawn Caroline Kennedy |
| #9037, aired 2024-02-13 | IT HAPPENED IN CONGRESS $1000: After the close Nixon-Humphrey race, the House passed a resolution to abolish this system, 338-70, but the Senate didn't the electoral college |
| #9037, aired 2024-02-13 | LENDING YOU A POKER HAND $1000: This late legendary player won the World Series of Poker two years in a row by having his 10-2 become a full house (Doyle) Brunson |
| #9037, aired 2024-02-13 | SIBLINGS OF NOTE $1200: In the 1930s John of this last name was a senator, his brother William was House speaker & William's daughter Tallulah was a stage star Bankhead |
| #9035, aired 2024-02-09 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: First elected to the House of Representatives in 1987, she became its first female speaker in 2007 Nancy Pelosi |
| #9035, aired 2024-02-09 | ____ OF ____ $4,000 (Daily Double): A member of the House of Lords, Arthur Charles Valerian Wellesley holds the title 9th this the Duke of Wellington |
| #9034, aired 2024-02-08 | SAME FIRST & LAST LETTER $400: In England this professional who can help you buy a house is known as an estate agent a Realtor |
| #9032, aired 2024-02-06 | LATER, DUDE $1200: At a White House correspondents' dinner, Pres. Obama said goodbye with one of these actions that could have hurt the equipment a mic drop |
| #9031, aired 2024-02-05 | 2 ACTORS, ONE TV SHOW $200: Allison Janney & Dulé Hill did some walking & talking in the White House on this NBC drama The West Wing |
| #9030, aired 2024-02-02 | BUILDING IN LAGOS $400: Nigeria's tallest building is NECOM House, the "COM" for this industry telecom |
| #9030, aired 2024-02-02 | WE'VE GOT HISTORY $800: Queen Anne was the first monarch of a united Great Britain & the last from this ruling house Stuart |
| #3, aired 2024-02-02 | H.P. SAUCE $400: This small measure was Pa's nickname for Laura on "Little House on the Prairie" Half Pint |
| #9029, aired 2024-02-01 | BONDS OF COMMONALITY $600: Cleaning up cow manure for a king, collecting golden fruit, swiping a girdle... sounds like scenes in "Animal House", but no the labors of Hercules |
| #9029, aired 2024-02-01 | CANADIANS INVADE OUR LIVING ROOM! $1200: From 1994 to 2000, she made 3 "Scream" movies, but always came back to the Salinger house on "Party of Five" Neve Campbell |
| #9028, aired 2024-01-31 | THE ENGLISH PAST $200: Founded in 1753, this national antiquities collection was first housed in a London mansion called Montagu House the British Museum |
| #9027, aired 2024-01-30 | TELEVISION $400: There wasn't a dry eye in the house when this show recently paid tribute to the late Len Goodman with a waltz Dancing with the Stars |
| #9023, aired 2024-01-24 | SHAKE IT OFF $600: Drop "it" from a person who drops by your house to get this front part of a helmet a visor (from visitor) |
| #9023, aired 2024-01-24 | SHAKE IT OFF $1000: Shake "it" off from something more important than other things to get this type of religious house a priory (from priority) |
| #9023, aired 2024-01-24 | ONE-TERM PRESIDENTS $1600: This late 19th c. grandson blew a surplus, lost the House, lost his own re-election bid, then wed his dead wife's niece Benjamin Harrison |
| #9022, aired 2024-01-23 | SQUEAKER OF THE HOUSE $200: An official WD-40 website says a squeaking one of these makes you feel like you're in a creepy horror movie door |
| #9022, aired 2024-01-23 | SQUEAKER OF THE HOUSE $400: The standing chicken & smiley face round ball are squeaky these made by Chiwava--okay, I'll throw it just one more time dog toys |
| #9022, aired 2024-01-23 | SQUEAKER OF THE HOUSE $600: Snap & glue are 2 main types of this device used to rid your house of little squeakers mousetraps |
| #9022, aired 2024-01-23 | MOVIES IN REWIND $800: A government worker flies to Iran with some folks & tries desperately against long odds to get them to a Canadian's house Argo |
| #9022, aired 2024-01-23 | SQUEAKER OF THE HOUSE $800: If these lose their characteristic squeak when bitten, try microwaving them for a few seconds cheese curds |
| #9022, aired 2024-01-23 | SQUEAKER OF THE HOUSE $1000: One chirp from this device means the battery is low, not to be confused with the continuous noise that means CO is present so get out a carbon monoxide detector |
| #26, aired 2024-01-23 | BOX OFFICE SLEEPERS $600: Fans of this indie darling still visit Preston, Idaho to tour the film's locations, including Rex Kwon Do & Pedro's house Napoleon Dynamite |
| #26, aired 2024-01-23 | PEAK TV $800: Vince Gilligan has asked fans of "Breaking Bad" to stop throwing these on the roof of a house featured on the show pizzas |
| #9018, aired 2024-01-17 | POLITICS 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) |
| #9016, aired 2024-01-15 | AROUND THE UNUSUAL HOUSE $200: So you got one of these as a pet, like Smaug or Viserion in books; well, at least you won't need any matches for the fireplace a dragon |
| #9016, aired 2024-01-15 | AROUND THE UNUSUAL HOUSE $400: It's a choice to install a 20,000-seat arena featuring a cage in this shape but hosting UFC 852 could help with the mortgage an octagon |
| #9016, aired 2024-01-15 | AROUND THE UNUSUAL HOUSE $600: Wow, a living room with a full-scale replica of a Huey helicopter, like the one in this musical that landed on Broadway in 1991 Miss Saigon |
| #9016, aired 2024-01-15 | AROUND THE UNUSUAL HOUSE $800: I don't know if this proverbially rattled item here belongs in the kitchen cutlery, but, hey, you do you a saber |
| #9016, aired 2024-01-15 | AROUND THE UNUSUAL HOUSE $1000: Talk about a man cave! There's a basement modeled on this French cave designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1979 Lascaux |
| #9015, aired 2024-01-12 | A FASHIONABLE CATEGORY $600: A fashion house that qualifies for this French designation must design made-to-order clothes for private clients haute couture |
| #2, aired 2024-01-12 | KIDDY LIT $600: This feline friend of Winnie-the-Pooh appears in "The House at Pooh Corner", but not in the original book Tigger |
| #2, aired 2024-01-12 | OPERA, LIKE IT OR NOT $1600: The name of this Italian opera house means "theater at the stairway" La Scala |
| #1, aired 2024-01-12 | HAMMER TIME $400: Countless hammers have swung since this org.'s founding in 1976, helping to house millions worldwide Habitat for Humanity |
| #1, aired 2024-01-12 | BREAK-UPS $400: This plastic couple got together in 1961; they split in 2004, but in 2011 she welcomed him back to her dream house Barbie & Ken |
| #1, aired 2024-01-12 | HAMMER TIME $800: House majority whip from 1995 to 2003, this Texas Republican was known as "The Hammer" Tom DeLay |
| #9014, aired 2024-01-11 | NOVELS $1200: Cathy Queen of Cats is a character in "The House on Mango Street" by this author Sandra Cisneros |
| #9013, aired 2024-01-10 | ONE-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 2024-01-10 | YOU GET NOTHING! YOU LOSE! $600: Full house! Not a bad Texas hold'em hand, but not so fast! I've got this hand--not a royal or straight flush, but I still win four of a kind |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | "DIS"CONTINUED $100: Capitalizing on its own nickname, this Hollywood studio debuted the animated series "House of Mouse" in 2001 Disney |
| #9011, aired 2024-01-08 | GET TO THE POINT $600: Bennelong Point in Sydney Harbor is home to this building, one of the most photographed in the world the Sydney Opera House |
| #9011, aired 2024-01-08 | COLORS $600: In the 1780s the Dutch Patriot movement briefly forced the house of this color from power & declared carrots treasonous orange |
| #9011, aired 2024-01-08 | THE ANNALS OF HISTORY $1200: Known as an "enlightened despot", Joseph II ruled as a member of this dynastic family aka the House of Austria the Habsburgs |
| #9009, aired 2024-01-04 | ALL ABOUT AUTHORS $1000: Some say the phrase, "Keeping up with the Joneses" refers to the family of this upper-class author of "The House of Mirth" (Edith) Wharton (born Edith Jones) |
| #9008, aired 2024-01-03 | STARTS & ENDS WITH "T" $200: It controls the temperature in your house a thermostat |
| #23, aired 2024-01-02 | MAINE ATTRACTIONS $400: If you're in Bangor & don't scare easy, stop by this prolific writer's house, seen here Stephen King |
| #23, aired 2024-01-02 | MAINE ATTRACTIONS $1,000 (Daily Double): Portland's historic Abyssinian Meeting House was a hub for this secret 19th century network the Underground Railroad |
| #9005, aired 2023-12-29 | FINANCE TERMS $600: 2-word phrase for the profits made from selling an asset like your house or your Alexander Ovechkin rookie card capital gains |
| #9004, aired 2023-12-28 | WOMEN ON TRIAL $2000: In 1993 Dorothea Puente was convicted of killing tenants at her boarding-house for these, which arrived in the mail monthly Social Security checks |
| #9003, aired 2023-12-27 | RHYMING TREE PAIRS $400: A house of worship built from a fine-grained tree with thin, peeling bark a birch church |
| #9003, aired 2023-12-27 | POP CULTURE BEFORE & AFTER $800: Ken's rhyming dream abode in the film "Barbie" hatches into a prequel of "Game of Thrones" a Mojo Dojo Casa House of the Dragon |
| #9003, aired 2023-12-27 | BIBLE QUOTES $3,000 (Daily Double): Matthew 21: "My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it" this burrow for burglars a den of thieves |
| #8999, aired 2023-12-21 | EUR"O"s $400: This town in Provence gave its name to a Dutch royal house Orange |
| #8999, aired 2023-12-21 | BOOK TOCK $1000: In "Great Expectations", all the clocks in her house stopped at 20 minutes to 9, when she learned of her fiancé's betrayal Miss Havisham |
| #8998, aired 2023-12-20 | A LOOK BACK $400: In the 1630s a bulb of Semper Augustus, a type of this, is said to have sold for 13,000 florins, or about the price of a house a tulip |
| #8998, aired 2023-12-20 | A LOOK BACK $800: Outraging many whites, in 1901, Teddy Roosevelt invited this eminent Black educator to dine with him at the White House Booker T. Washington |
| #8988, aired 2023-12-06 | HOUSE PARTY $200: This house in Massachusetts is actually on Turner Street, not Pyncheon Street as in the 1851 novel House of the Seven Gables |
| #8988, aired 2023-12-06 | HODGEPODGE $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 2023-12-06 | HOUSE PARTY $400: Hansel could tell you that building one of these houses requires more sugar than timber a gingerbread house |
| #8988, aired 2023-12-06 | HOUSE PARTY $600: Billed as "the most shocking tale of carnage ever seen", Rob Zombie's first movie was titled "House of 1000" these Corpses |
| #8988, aired 2023-12-06 | HOUSE PARTY $800: From words for "house study", it's the study of the relations of organisms to one another & to their environment ecology |
| #8988, aired 2023-12-06 | HOUSE PARTY $1000: In 1899 the first juvenile court in the nation was organized at this Chicago house co-founded by Jane Addams Hull House |
| #22, aired 2023-12-06 | SHOUT IT OUT! $100: In 1978's "Animal House", this word is an epic call-to-party from John Belushi; it's also the party's dress code toga |
| #22, aired 2023-12-06 | LITERARY TOURISM $200: Road trip down the Laura Ingalls Wilder highway with Ma & Pa and see the places that inspired this beloved children's series Little House on the Prairie |
| #22, aired 2023-12-06 | WELCOME TO THE WHITE HOUSE $300: Was it the carolers? White House visitor logs show 87,061 entries for this month in 2022, over 2x any other month that year December |
| #22, aired 2023-12-06 | WELCOME TO THE WHITE HOUSE $600: Strollers are prohibited on public tours of the White House; these items, such as Pampers or Huggies, are permitted diapers |
| #22, aired 2023-12-06 | ROAD TRIP "I SPY" $800 (Daily Double): I spy...
the "American Gothic" house,
the future birthplace of James T. Kirk &
the "Field of Dreams" movie site Iowa |
| #22, aired 2023-12-06 | "OO"! "OO"! I KNOW! $800: Dolls & amulets are among the items sold at a New Orleans store called "Reverend Zombie's House of" this religion Voodoo |
| #22, aired 2023-12-06 | WELCOME TO THE WHITE HOUSE $900: This NBA-championship-winning team was honored at the White House in 2023; Steph Curry called the visit "majestic" the Warriors |
| #22, aired 2023-12-06 | WELCOME TO THE WHITE HOUSE $1200: How do you do a corner kick in an oval office? In 2023, Jason Sudekis & the cast of this TV series visited the White House Ted Lasso |
| #22, aired 2023-12-06 | WELCOME TO THE WHITE HOUSE $1500: At the White House during AAPI Heritage Month in 2022, this boy band spoke to the press in English & Korean about Asian inclusion BTS |
| #8985, aired 2023-12-01 | NURSERY 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 2023-12-01 | EVE 6 $1600: Anne Baxter played Evelyn Heath in "Guest in the House" & Eve Harrington in this 1950 film All About Eve |
| #8983, aired 2023-11-29 | A, B OR C $600: In the name of the outfit that first broadcast the U.S. House in 1979, this precedes "SPAN" C |
| #21, aired 2023-11-29 | FAIRY TALE ELEVATOR PITCHES $300: "Lost & hungry, two siblings stumble upon a house made of gingerbread but the owner is a lunatic who wants to eat them" "Hansel and Gretel" |
| #8978, aired 2023-11-22 | "TAG", YOU'RE IT $2000: It's the lower house in the German legislative systeme the Bundestag |
| #8976, aired 2023-11-20 | THERE'S ALWAYS NEXT TERM $2,600 (Daily Double): In U.S. House GOP leadership: Speaker,
Majority Leader... Majority Whip |
| #8971, aired 2023-11-13 | CITY MUSEUMS $1600: The Edgar Allan Poe House & Museum Baltimore |
| #8970, aired 2023-11-10 | DESIGNERS $600: She took over control of her family's design house in 1997, after her brother Gianni's death Donatella Versace |
| #8969, aired 2023-11-09 | CHANGING WHITE HOUSE TOWEL MONOGRAMS $400: From DDE to this JFK |
| #8969, aired 2023-11-09 | PRAY $800: This person opens the day in the House of Representatives with a prayer the chaplain |
| #8969, aired 2023-11-09 | CHANGING WHITE HOUSE TOWEL MONOGRAMS $800: From LBJ to this RMN |
| #8969, aired 2023-11-09 | CHANGING WHITE HOUSE TOWEL MONOGRAMS $1200: From FDR to this HST |
| #8969, aired 2023-11-09 | CHANGING WHITE HOUSE TOWEL MONOGRAMS $1600: From WJC to this GWB |
| #8969, aired 2023-11-09 | CHANGING WHITE HOUSE TOWEL MONOGRAMS $5,500 (Daily Double): From RWR to this GHWB |
| #8967, aired 2023-11-07 | CRITTERS $600: Not tabbies or flabbies, but these house cats are known as Abys Abyssinians |
| #8967, aired 2023-11-07 | GOVERNMENT & POLITICS $1600: In 2011 the House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct became the much shorter named Committee on these Ethics |
| #8965, aired 2023-11-03 | ONLY PARTLY TRUE $400: The spare key to this D.C. residence once known as the Executive Mansion is kept under the Washington Monument the White House |
| #8964, aired 2023-11-02 | ALL THE PRESIDENTS' CHILDREN $600: While in the White House, Malia Obama had the code name Radiance & Sasha had this name, like a famous movie sled Rosebud |
| #19, aired 2023-11-01 | UNDER THE HAMMER $600: An Illinois auction house put this "Star Wars" character's trusty blaster on the block in 2022 & it fetched just over a cool mil Han Solo |
| #8960, aired 2023-10-27 | "A"UTHORS $1200: Her novels include "The House of the Spirits" & "Of Love and Shadows" Isabel Allende |
| #8959, aired 2023-10-26 | OF REPRESENTATIVES $400: Formed in 1995, it's a "canine" coalition of fiscally conservative Democrats in the House Blue Dogs |
| #8959, aired 2023-10-26 | "HOUSE" $400: Confinement to your own home as legal punishment house arrest |
| #8959, aired 2023-10-26 | OF REPRESENTATIVES $800: You must be 30 to be a U.S. senator & this minimum age to be a member of the House of Representatives 25 |
| #8959, aired 2023-10-26 | "HOUSE" $800: It means an unstable construction, though 25-foot versions have been created a house of cards |
| #8959, aired 2023-10-26 | "HOUSE" $1200: A get-to-know-me party given by someone who's just moved in a housewarming |
| #8959, aired 2023-10-26 | "HOUSE" $1600: The AMA says, "physicians making" these "may sound like fabled history", but they have a place in medicine today house calls |
| #8959, aired 2023-10-26 | OF REPRESENTATIVES $2000: Upset about taxes? Take it up with this committee, the House's main one for writing tax bills the Ways & Means Committee |
| #8959, aired 2023-10-26 | "HOUSE" $2000: This European songbird takes its name from its habit of building nests in the eaves of homes a house martin |
| #8959, aired 2023-10-26 | OF REPRESENTATIVES $6,000 (Daily Double): The only Speaker of the House to become president was this Tennessee representative & 11th president James K. Polk |
| #18, aired 2023-10-25 | PRIDE & POTUS $200: Looking good, White House! The prideful display seen here was this POTUS's way of honoring 2015's Obergefell v. Hodges ruling President Obama |
| #18, aired 2023-10-25 | PRIDE & POTUS $300: The historic year gay activists picketed outside LBJ's White House; MLK's March on Washington was two years earlier 1965 |
| #18, aired 2023-10-25 | PRIDE & POTUS $500: This POTUS joined the Republican Unity Coalition, a gay rights organization, roughly 25 years after leaving the White House Gerald Ford |
| #8956, aired 2023-10-23 | THE REALLY OLD COLLEGE TRY $200: In 1638 the first class was in at this university, which consisted of 1 master in a single frame house & a college "yahd" Harvard |
| #8954, aired 2023-10-19 | HOUSE HUNTERS INTERGALACTIC $400: This ex-planet's average distance of 3.7 billion miles from Earth could pose commuting problems Pluto |
| #8954, aired 2023-10-19 | HOUSE HUNTERS INTERGALACTIC $800: You might want to wish upon Proxima this, a star only 4.2 light-years from our sun Centauri |
| #8954, aired 2023-10-19 | HOUSE HUNTERS INTERGALACTIC $1200: Not many are looking to settle in Valles Marineris, canyons discovered on this planet by Mariner 9 in 1972 Mars |
| #8954, aired 2023-10-19 | HOUSE HUNTERS INTERGALACTIC $1600: If you have your heart set on this 2-letter moon of Jupiter, pack a coat; temperatures get below -225 degrees Io |
| #8954, aired 2023-10-19 | HOUSE HUNTERS INTERGALACTIC $7,200 (Daily Double): Want land? Buying on this moon of Saturn is a no-brainer; its 3,200-mile diameter is bigger than Mercury! Titan |
| #8952, aired 2023-10-17 | WORLD WRITERS $1200: Bertolt Brecht fled Germany in 1933 & left the U.S. in 1947 after being required to testify before this committee HUAC (House Un-American Activities Committee) |
| #8949, aired 2023-10-12 | SPOOKY LITERATURE $600: (Justin Long presents the clue.) "Welcome to Dead House" from 1992 was the first of the books in the "Goosebumps" series by this author that by now has sold a spooky number of copies (R.L.) Stine |
| #8949, aired 2023-10-12 | RANK-LY SPEAKING $2000: Job title of the chief law enforcer of the House of Representatives Sergeant at Arms |
| #8947, aired 2023-10-10 | MOIST THINGS $400: In chapter I of "Bleak House" this is "everywhere... up the river... down the river... in the eyes & throats..." fog |
| #8947, aired 2023-10-10 | LODGING $1200: Spelled the same way as a type of regular payment, it's a small European hotel or boarding house a pension |
| #8945, aired 2023-10-06 | PICK A NUMBER BETWEEN 5 & 477 $1000: In 1929 Congress limited the House of Representatives to this many members 435 |
| #8943, aired 2023-10-04 | STATE OF THE ESTATE $600: W.K. Kellogg Manor House Michigan |
| #8942, aired 2023-10-03 | HEY, LAD-"E" $400: In 1892 this founder of Christian Science moved to a house called Pleasant View in Concord, New Hampshire (Mary Baker) Eddy |
| #8942, aired 2023-10-03 | SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ATTRACTIONS $1000: This sports venue popularly known as "The House that Kobe Built" was recently renamed the Crypto.com Arena the Staples Center |
| #8941, aired 2023-10-02 | A BUG'S LIFE $600: The field & house types of this insect are sold as laboratory subjects, frog food & bait crickets |
| #8939, aired 2023-09-28 | SEOUL FOOD $200: The "International House of" these, doesn't serve hotteok, a deliciously sweet type of one a pancake |
| #8938, aired 2023-09-27 | BRAD TO THE BONE $400: From 1999 to 2006 Bradley Whitford worked in the White House as Josh Lyman on this drama The West Wing |
| #8938, aired 2023-09-27 | TRICKY QUESTIONS $600: If the vice president & the Speaker of the House were to die, the person in this post would be president the president |
| #14, aired 2023-09-27 | POST-APOCALYPTIC POP CULTURE $400: In his first-ever TV interview, Cormac McCarthy sat down with Oprah Winfrey after she selected this bleak novel for her book club The Road |
| #8937, aired 2023-09-26 | MEDICINE & HISTORY $400: When Queen Victoria's grand-daughter married into the Russian royal house, this blood disease went with her hemophilia |
| #8936, aired 2023-09-25 | WHITE HOUSE PETS $400: Moving into the White House in 2021, the Bidens brought along Champ & Major, 2 dogs of this breed German Shepherd |
| #8936, aired 2023-09-25 | WHITE HOUSE PETS $800: For a while at least, John Quincy Adams was allegedly in possession of a pet alligator given to him by this French marquis Lafayette |
| #8936, aired 2023-09-25 | WHITE HOUSE PETS $1200: This first daughter brought her Siamese cat, Misty Malarky Ying Yang, to the White House Amy Carter |
| #8936, aired 2023-09-25 | WHITE HOUSE PETS $2000: This president's daughter Alice had a pet green snake named Emily Spinach Teddy Roosevelt |
| #8936, aired 2023-09-25 | WHITE HOUSE PETS $3,000 (Daily Double): Here's this president's wife, Grace, with their pet raccoon Rebecca, a star attraction at the White House Calvin Coolidge |
| #8934, aired 2023-09-21 | PAST HISTORY $1000: After Richard II was deposed, this king took over, ushering in the House of Lancaster Henry IV |
| #8933, aired 2023-09-20 | BACK IN THE DAY $400: In the 1400s, Edward IV could have said, "I want to be a part of it, this house, this house", a branch of Plantagenet the House of York |
| #8933, aired 2023-09-20 | THE REAL (WHITE HOUSE) WIVES OF D.C. $400: In 2020 she topped John Waters & the Beastie Boys to win a Grammy for her spoken word album, an audio book of her memoir Michelle Obama |
| #8933, aired 2023-09-20 | THE REAL (WHITE HOUSE) WIVES OF D.C. $800: At Wellesley's 1990 commencement, this Texan said, "Someone in the crowd could also become a presidential spouse and I wish him well" Barbara Bush |
| #8933, aired 2023-09-20 | THE REAL (WHITE HOUSE) WIVES OF D.C. $1200: She met the future president in 1938 when they both tried out for a local play in Whittier, California Pat Nixon |
| #8933, aired 2023-09-20 | THE REAL (WHITE HOUSE) WIVES OF D.C. $1600: Half-brothers of this southern-born first lady fought for the Confederacy, which could have led to really awkward Thanksgiving dinners Mary Todd Lincoln |
| #8933, aired 2023-09-20 | THE REAL (WHITE HOUSE) WIVES OF D.C. $3,000 (Daily Double): A year before her death in 1962, she began chairing JFK's Commission on the Status of Women Eleanor Roosevelt |
| #8932, aired 2023-09-19 | YOU BETTER BELIZE IT $200: 1981's constitution set up a bicameral national assembly of these 2 familiar-sounding bodies, but members of each serve 5-year terms the Senate & the House of Representatives |
| #8932, aired 2023-09-19 | MAY DAY! MAY DAY! $800: May 1, 1218:
Rudolf I, the first German king of this royal house, is born Hapsburg |
| #8932, aired 2023-09-19 | MAILED IT! $1600: The U.S. Postal Inspection Service warns of scams by fake sweepstakes purporting to be from this company founded in 1953 Publishers Clearing House |
| #8930, aired 2023-09-15 | IN YOUR ELEMENT $400: Traces of Pb, this element, are found in everyday substances like old house paint, where they can be dangerous lead |
| #8929, aired 2023-09-14 | RECONSTRUCTION $800: This Bronx building has been called "The House that George Built"; it's next to where "The House that Ruth Built" once was Yankee Stadium |
| #8929, aired 2023-09-14 | SUCH COLORFUL LANGUAGE! $1600: The House Un-American Activities Committee inspired Hollywood to create one of these registers of disapproval a blacklist |
| #8927, aired 2023-09-12 | POTPOUR-EVERYTHING $600: Seen here, the Hang Nga guest house is in this country Vietnam |
| #8927, aired 2023-09-12 | THE SPORTING LIFE $1600: The target for this sport measures 12 feet across & is called a house curling |
| #8925, aired 2023-07-28 | WORKING WORDS $800: It's the controversial cost-saving practice of subcontracting services once done in-house to a third party outsourcing |
| #8921, aired 2023-07-24 | MY WOULD-BE VP $800: Paul Ryan, who'd remain in the House Mitt Romney |
| #8921, aired 2023-07-24 | HOSTEL $1600: The Central House Marrakech Medina boasts views of these mountains from its rooftop terrace the Atlas Mountains |
| #8920, aired 2023-07-21 | HAPPY 75th BIRTHDAY, ISRAEL! $600: In 1992, Israel got what's been called its finest public building to house this body that the government wanted to overhaul in 2023 the Israeli Supreme Court |
| #8919, aired 2023-07-20 | BEFORE & AFTER $800: A phrase about the return of bovines that means to wait a long time gets around to founding a house improvement chain in 1978 wait until the cows come Home Depot |
| #8916, aired 2023-07-17 | WHAT'S THE NAME OF THAT TV SHOW? $800: From 2004 to 2012 Hugh Laurie played this crusty but skillful title M.D. House |
| #8915, aired 2023-07-14 | AROUND THE HOUSE $400: You can get a dining room table that easily converts for pool, Ping Pong & even this plastic puck game patented in 1969 air hockey |
| #8915, aired 2023-07-14 | AROUND THE HOUSE $800: Use newspaper to stay warm without burning it with the blown-in cellulose type of this, which can fit small & curved spaces insulation |
| #8915, aired 2023-07-14 | AROUND THE HOUSE $1200: Useful in home offices & guest rooms, they've been around for centuries as in the 18th century painting of a lady on one a fainting couch (a chaise, a daybed) |
| #8915, aired 2023-07-14 | TV 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 2023-07-14 | AROUND THE HOUSE $1600: Mark Twain wrote of a "vestibule, where they used to keep" this; today, we'd more likely have the coat version the hat rack |
| #8915, aired 2023-07-14 | AROUND THE HOUSE $2000: Also a word for mosaics, it refers to a distinctive flooring pattern of teeny squares or tiles tessellated (tesserae) |
| #8914, aired 2023-07-13 | EAT IT! WEAR IT! OR SIT ON IT! $800: To wear, it's a comfy piece of around-the-house footwear; to sit on, it's a short-legged, armless chair a slipper |
| #8912, aired 2023-07-11 | 2 BOOKS IN ONE $400: "Bleak Expectations" Great Expectations & Bleak House |
| #8907, aired 2023-07-04 | ART"S" $2000: Teddy Roosevelt said of his official White House portrait by this 3-named painter: "I like his picture immensely" John Singer Sargent |
| #8906, aired 2023-07-03 | COUNTIES OF ENGLAND $2000: Queen Victoria had a vacation residence on this island that is today its own administrative county the Isle of Wight |
| #8905, aired 2023-06-30 | NUMBERS IN THE NEWS $1000: In the full House of Representatives, you need this many votes to become speaker, as Kevin McCarthy was reminded in 2023 218 |
| #8903, aired 2023-06-28 | THE NAME OF THE DAME $200: Her house was alive with the sound of music; as a child, she possessed a 4-octave range & could sing notes only dogs could hear Julie Andrews |
| #8902, aired 2023-06-27 | 2001 $2000: This Trinidad-born author of "A House for Mr. Biswas" won the Nobel Prize for Literature V.S. Naipaul |
| #8901, aired 2023-06-26 | NAMES OF THE 1990s $2000: Bill Romanowski went from the 49ers to the Eagles & Broncos; this Ill. politician went from power in the U.S. House to prison Dan Rostenkowski |
| #8900, aired 2023-06-23 | QUI"ZZ"ICAL $800: On Jan. 27, 1958 this "family steak house" opened in Culver City, California with $50 in the cash register Sizzler |
| #8899, aired 2023-06-22 | "CHAIN" $800: this.com calls itself "the world's leading crypto finance house" blockchain |
| #8897, aired 2023-06-20 | THAT MUSICAL ACT IS UNREAL! $1200: Not just the house band on this "Show", Dr. Teeth & the Electric Mayhem did "Can You Picture That?" in a 1979 film The Muppet Show |
| #8896, aired 2023-06-19 | GENERAL ASSEMBLY $800: At Columbia, S.C.'s state house, bronze stars mark the spots where shells from this general's cannons once hit Sherman |
| #8894, aired 2023-06-15 | 21st CENTURY HORROR NOVELS $400: In Grady Hendrix' "How to Sell" this place, it has a sealed attic & creepy puppet collection & Redfin will be no help a haunted house |
| #8894, aired 2023-06-15 | FACT: NONFICTION $1600: "Come On-A My House" & "Witchy Woman" are tunes discussed by this music legend in "The Philosophy of Modern Song" Bob Dylan |
| #8888, aired 2023-06-07 | THE PRESIDENTIAL LINE OF SUCCESSION, TODAY $1200: Al Haig once said, "I am in control here in the White House" but like this man, Haig was batting fourth Antony Blinken |
| #8887, aired 2023-06-06 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1600: 2022's "The Candy House" is a companion novel to her Pulitzer Prize-winning "A Visit from the Goon Squad" (Jennifer) Egan |
| #8883, aired 2023-05-31 | PRESIDENTIAL DOIN'S $400: Made Henry Clay Secretary of State; 2 years after the White House, settled into a new House (of Representatives) John Quincy Adams |
| #8881, aired 2023-05-29 | TREES COMPANY $600: Pine trees are evergreens & also classified as these, for the scaly structures that house seeds conifers |
| #8879, aired 2023-05-25 | A DOCTOR FROM CHICAGO, ILLINOIS $800: 2006 brought us Sandra Bullock as a Chicago doctor who lives in this title abode designed by Christopher Plummer the Lake House |
| #8877, aired 2023-05-23 | A COUNTRY BY ANY OTHER NAME $1200: In 1932 the kingdom of Hejaz & Nejd became this kingdom named for a peninsula & its ruling house Saudi Arabia |
| #8877, aired 2023-05-23 | THE 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 2023-05-23 | EPONYMS $400: Servants of Loughmask House, the Irish residence of this land agent, were told not to work there, giving rise to an eponym (Charles) Boycott |
| #8875, aired 2023-05-19 | SWEET 1616 $2000: Called England's first great architect, he began work on the Queen's House, England's first classical building Inigo Jones |
| #8874, aired 2023-05-18 | ON A VISIT TO THE STATE CAPITAL $400: The Beehive House & the Seagull Monument Salt Lake City |
| #8873, aired 2023-05-17 | Y'KNOW, THE MOVIE WHERE... $400: An animated elderly man's wife dies, his house is literally uprooted & a boy is kidnapped (OK, inadvertently) to South America Up |
| #8873, aired 2023-05-17 | RECENT POP MUSIC $2000: Possessive title of the third solo album by Mr. Styles Harry's House |
| #14, aired 2023-05-17 | NOT-SO-PLAIN JANES $1200: In 1931 this Hull House founder became the first American woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize Jane Addams |
| #13, aired 2023-05-17 | FAMOUS PAIRS $200: A crossword puzzle book was the first offering from the publishing house of this pair, one of whom was singer Carly's father Simon & Schuster |
| #8872, aired 2023-05-16 | HEAVEN ON EARTH $1600: "House of the Foundation of Heaven on Earth", Babylon's Etemenanki has been associated with this structure from Genesis the Tower of Babel |
| #12, aired 2023-05-16 | EPISODE IV $600: 2022:
"King of the Narrow Sea" House of the Dragon |
| #11, aired 2023-05-16 | NONFICTION $600: We "guaranty" a good read with super-biographer Ron Chernow's first book, "The House of" this big name in banking Morgan |
| #8871, aired 2023-05-15 | QUICK OPERA $400: A house overlooking Nagasaki Harbor is the setting of this opera Madama Butterfly |
| #8871, aired 2023-05-15 | CLOSE ELECTIONS $400: In 1910 Democrat Charles B. Smith won a U.S. House seat with 20,685 votes; his Republican opponent got this many 20,684 |
| #8871, aired 2023-05-15 | CLOSE ELECTIONS $800: A 1994 tie vote for a seat in Wyoming's state house was broken by a drawing from one of these hats matching a state nickname a cowboy hat |
| #8, aired 2023-05-12 | I'M LATE, I'M GREAT, I WAS SECRETARY OF STATE $9,400 (Daily Double): I messed up saying I was "in control" in the White House, but earlier I really was as a shaky Richard Nixon's last Chief of Staff (Alexander) Haig |
| #8869, aired 2023-05-11 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $200: She published her early novels like "The Bluest Eye" & "Sula" while working as an editor at Random House Toni Morrison |
| #8868, aired 2023-05-10 | WELCOME TO THE U.S. HOUSE! $200: In 1837 the House banned the wearing of these in the chamber; they'd become so tall they obstructed both view & hearing hats |
| #8868, aired 2023-05-10 | WELCOME TO THE U.S. HOUSE! $400: Like incoming students, since 1921 new House members have gone through this welcome & get-your-bearings program orientation |
| #8868, aired 2023-05-10 | WELCOME TO THE U.S. HOUSE! $600: Members vie for coveted assignments on these, like Appropriations or Energy & Commerce committees |
| #8868, aired 2023-05-10 | WELCOME TO THE U.S. HOUSE! $800: Representatives introduce bills by placing them in a wooden box called this, after the bin in which grain goes in a mill a hopper |
| #8868, aired 2023-05-10 | WELCOME TO THE U.S. HOUSE! $1000: Score! As a new representative, you'll get this privilege of sending postage-free mail to constituents franking |
| #8868, aired 2023-05-10 | BELIEVE IT OR NOT... $1600: A house known as "The One" sold for $126 million (down from $295 mil.) in this area of "lovely atmosphere" next to Beverly Hills Bel Air |
| #4, aired 2023-05-09 | OVERWROUGHT HISTORY $400: Oooof, this year: Matthew Flinders died.
The White House, set on fire. 1,200 killed by the Philippines' Mayon volcano eruption 1814 |
| #4, aired 2023-05-09 | NEED! COFFEE! NOW! $1000: Company legend says Teddy Roosevelt praised Maxwell House coffee with these 5 words, a slogan they still use today good to the last drop |
| #4, aired 2023-05-09 | LITERATURE $1600: A letter this author began writing to her grandfather evolved into her first novel "The House of the Spirits" Allende |
| #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) |
| #8866, aired 2023-05-08 | SCANDAL! $600: You & I pay fees for this, withdrawing money we don't have; in a '90s scandal 300 congressmen did it with the House bank no problem overdraft |
| #2, aired 2023-05-08 | A LITTLE READING MATERIAL $1000: This annual has a hole in the upper left corner so one can hang it in the house or outhouse, making it handy for reading & other uses The Old Farmer's Almanac |
| #2, aired 2023-05-08 | FROM THE ARABIC $1000: Once a "house of manufacture", it's now most often used to designate a place where weapons are made or stored arsenal |
| #8864, aired 2023-05-04 | PHRASING $800: This phrase describes a Toll House product's lack of structural integrity, or any inevitable thing that's how the cookie crumbles |
| #8862, aired 2023-05-02 | THEY WON THE BATTLE $600: The Union:
the 1865 battle of this Court House Appomattox |
| #8860, aired 2023-04-28 | ANIMATED ENTERTAINMENT $2000: Lincoln has 10 sisters on this Nick series whose title indicates that things might be chaotic at home The Loud House |
| #8857, aired 2023-04-25 | STATESMEN & WOMEN $1600: Her ups & downs in Myanmar include winning a seat in parliament in 2012 after years of house arrest (Aung San) Suu Kyi |
| #8856, aired 2023-04-24 | WHEREFORE ART, THOU $2000: Though called a post-impressionist, he had work like "House of the Hanged Man" in the first Impressionist show in 1874 Paul Cézanne |
| #8855, aired 2023-04-21 | A HARD BARGAIN $600: It took 2 months, 133 ballots & a lot of negotiating for Massachusetts Rep. Nathaniel Banks to land this job in 1856 Speaker of the House |
| #8854, aired 2023-04-20 | LITERARY FRUIT STAND $1000: Despite the title of Sandra Cisneros' beloved novel, there is no street of this name in Chicago (avenue, yes) Mango Street |
| #8852, aired 2023-04-18 | TV MOMS $1600: Didn't everyone want kind & patient Caroline Ingalls, played by Karen Grassle on this series, to be their mom too? Little House on the Prairie |
| #8851, aired 2023-04-17 | TV BEFORE & AFTER $1600: The Tanners move to Washington, D.C., where they become ruthless & vengeful politicians Full House of Cards |
| #8849, aired 2023-04-13 | FOODSTOCK $400: The third guy in the "Our House" quartet converted to Judaism & it was Yiddish snacking for all Crosby, Stills, Nosh & Young |
| #8848, aired 2023-04-12 | HISTORIC CANADA $200: Serving from 1921 to 1940, former schoolteacher Agnes MacPhail was the first woman elected to this national government body Parliament (the House of Commons) |
| #8847, aired 2023-04-11 | ARCHITECTURALLY SPEAKING $400: It's what you should avoid doing proverbially if you live in a glass house throw stones |
| #8846, aired 2023-04-10 | QUANTUM SCIENCE $1200: (Spiros Michalakis presents the clue.) In 2022, the White House announcement of the first World Quantum Day cited contributions like these super-accurate timekeepers found on every GPS satellite atomic clocks |
| #8844, aired 2023-04-06 | WORD PUZZLES $800: A favorite dinner at my house
GEHRY
CAPRA
GARBANZO
PINTO Franks & beans |
| #8843, aired 2023-04-05 | TRANSPORTATION, IN VARIOUS FORMS $400: In 1957 Eisenhower became the first sitting president to ride in one of these, boarding a Bell Ranger on the White House lawn a helicopter |
| #8840, aired 2023-03-31 | SONGS FROM '60s MUSICALS $1,000 (Daily Double): With a 10-word title, "Comedy Tonight" & "The House Of Marcus Lycus" A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum |
| #8837, aired 2023-03-28 | GEOMETRICAL GEOGRAPHY $800: This not-quite-round 17-acre park area is just south of the White House the Ellipse |
| #8835, aired 2023-03-24 | THE FOG OF WAR $400: The 1471 Battle of Barnet was decided when Lancastrians attacked their allies in the fog, thinking they were from this house York |
| #8835, aired 2023-03-24 | REJECTED AUTHORS $400: Working at a publishing house, T.S. Eliot wrote George Orwell a letter rejecting this novel but did praise the pigs Animal Farm |
| #8833, aired 2023-03-22 | AROUND THE HOUSE $200: Someone knows a lot about reds & whites, judging from this well-stocked room of the house the wine cellar |
| #8833, aired 2023-03-22 | AROUND THE HOUSE $400: From the Latin word for "bread" comes this area near a kitchen for storing all kinds of things, like canned goods & condiments a pantry |
| #8833, aired 2023-03-22 | AROUND THE HOUSE $600: Found in the title of an 1870s novel, it's the old-fashioned name for the mirror seen here a looking-glass |
| #8833, aired 2023-03-22 | 4-LETTER SPORTS TERMS $800: Forwards in hockey come in 3 types:
The center & a left & right this wing |
| #8833, aired 2023-03-22 | AROUND THE HOUSE $800: Instead of a fancy fixture, kitchens commonly have this type of lighting named for the way it fits into the ceiling recessed |
| #8833, aired 2023-03-22 | AROUND THE HOUSE $1000: Instead of hardwood floors, many go for this cheaper 8-letter option of layered fiberboard that can mimic marble as well laminate |
| #8833, aired 2023-03-22 | MAKING MUSIC $1600: "Temple of Low Men" by Crowded House is one of hundreds of albums on which Bob Clearmountain did this, tastily combining tracks mixing |
| #8831, aired 2023-03-20 | SHORT STORY, SHORTER $400: Roderick, Madeline & their place itself don't make it to the end; after all, it is "The Fall of" this the House of Usher |
| #8831, aired 2023-03-20 | QUITE 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 2023-03-20 | PRESIDENTIAL 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 |
| #8829, aired 2023-03-16 | A HEAVENLY BODY IN MUSIC $1200: "When the moon is in the seventh house," we're coming up on the dawning of this the age of Aquarius |
| #8827, aired 2023-03-14 | CONTRONYMS $400: To do this can mean either to remove something like dirt from your house, or to sprinkle something like sugar on a pie to dust |
| #8827, aired 2023-03-14 | BANKING & FINANCE $1200: Securities as well as your funds for that new house--congrats!--can be held by a third party on behalf of the 2 others in this escrow |
| #8826, aired 2023-03-13 | DYNASTIES OF SPAIN $1200: Current king Felipe VI is of this royal house that at other times has ruled France & Sicily Bourbon |
| #8818, aired 2023-03-01 | UNIONS $200: The first wedding held at this place was on March 29, 1812, when Dolley Madison's sister married a Supreme Court justice the White House |
| #8818, aired 2023-03-01 | GIVE THAT BOOK A PRIZE! $800: Monkeys & rhinos were literally in the house & the game was afoot in this 1982 Caldecott Medal winner by Chris Van Allsburg Jumanji |
| #8818, aired 2023-03-01 | BRIDGES $1200: A steel-arch bridge across Port Jackson & a nearby opera house are landmarks of this city Sydney |
| #8816, aired 2023-02-27 | HOME FROM COLLEGE $1000: Looking for a Waffle House with your buddies? Don't be fooled by the museum in this Atlanta suburb, named for naval hero Stephen Decatur |
| #8816, aired 2023-02-27 | BEFORE & AFTER $2000: 3 of a kind plus a pair for the family that lost England's Wars of the Roses full House of York |
| #8812, aired 2023-02-21 | SO, WHAT HAVE YOU BEEN UP TO? $200: A picture of your new dog? Uh, that's this type of canine that's big in LA canyons. Is it in your house? a coyote |
| #8811, aired 2023-02-20 | RELIGION HAS ITS PLACE $800: This type of house of worship can be decorated with inscriptions of Koranic verses, but no human figures a mosque |
| #8810, aired 2023-02-17 | MEMOIRS OF GOVERNMENT & POLITICS $1200: "Man of the House" was a bestseller by Tip O'Neill, who held this post from 1977 to 1987 Speaker of the House |
| #8808, aired 2023-02-15 | ON A STAMP $1000: Included in a set of stamps celebrating American architecture was this Pennsylvania house designed by Frank Lloyd Wright Falling Water |
| #8806, aired 2023-02-13 | LOGOS $600: The logo of this fashion house named for its founder contains 2 interlocking "C"s, backwards & forwards Chanel |
| #8806, aired 2023-02-13 | FIRST LADY FIRSTS $600: The first first lady to receive an Emmy, her "Tour of the White House" can still be seen on YouTube Jacqueline Kennedy |
| #8803, aired 2023-02-08 | THAT'S DEDICATION $6,000 (Daily Double): Though his son would star in kids' books, this Brit dedicated "The Red House Mystery" to his dad, a fan of detective stories A.A. Milne |
| #8802, aired 2023-02-07 | LIVIN' ON A PRAIRIE $200: The "Little House on the Prairie" was in this state, a 2-hour drive to Wichita but a bit longer by horse Kansas |
| #8801, aired 2023-02-06 | U.S. MUSEUMS $200: You'll find replicas of the Oval Office & the White House Cabinet Room at his center in Little Rock Bill Clinton |
| #8800, aired 2023-02-03 | SECOND CITIES $2,000 (Daily Double): Bulawayo in this nation is home to State House, built by Cecil Rhodes Zimbabwe |
| #13, aired 2023-02-02 | COMPOSERS ARE QUIRKY $400: As a child in the 1850s, Antonin Dvorak was obsessed with these; his house in a Czech village was right near the station trains |
| #13, aired 2023-02-02 | LAKES & RIVERS $1500: On the border between Europe & Asia, this "sea" is actually the world's largest lake the Caspian Sea |
| #8798, aired 2023-02-01 | OVERLAPS $400: Man's best friend shelter where 650 British politicians represent their constituencies dog House of Commons |
| #8797, aired 2023-01-31 | JASON CONCEPCION $1000: (Jason Concepcion presents the clue.) As co-host of the official podcast for HBO's "House of the Dragon", I shared my interview with this creator of Westeros who likened the struggle for the Iron Throne to Shakespeare tragedy (George R.R.) Martin |
| #8796, aired 2023-01-30 | SCARY MOVIES $800: In 1984, a house in Hollywood got the cinematic address 1428 this for the first time Elm Street |
| #12, aired 2023-01-26 | REAL ESTATES $200: According to Zillow, this residence at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW in Washington, D.C. is worth about $500 million the White House |
| #12, aired 2023-01-26 | BESTSELLERS $200: Bestsellers by John Irving include "The Cider House Rules" & "The World According to" him Garp |
| #12, aired 2023-01-26 | U.S. GOVERNMENT $900: The person elected to this position casts the deciding vote if the Senate is tied, so he or she always votes on the winning side the vice president |
| #12, aired 2023-01-26 | REAL ESTATES $1000: Stairs to nowhere & doors that open into walls are part of this "Mystery House" built by a member of a gun-making family the Winchester (Mystery) House |
| #11, aired 2023-01-19 | LANDMARKS $500: Frank Gehry said the landmark seen here that opened in this city in 1973 "changed the image of an entire country" Sydney |
| #8788, aired 2023-01-18 | LONG-SERVING POLITICIANS $800: Kay Granger has been a House-sitter since 1997 after serving as mayor of this city, part of the metroplex with Dallas Fort Worth |
| #10, aired 2023-01-12 | TRIANGLES $200: A gable is a triangle-shaped feature on this part of a house the roof |
| #10, aired 2023-01-12 | A TORY PARTY $200: In 2022 Tory Party members of Britain's "House of" these included Baroness Bottomley of Nettlestone & the Earl of Minto Lords |
| #8783, aired 2023-01-11 | DOWN YOUR ALLEY $400: For Truman's birthday, his friends had one of these built at the White House; on his first try, Harry got 7 out of 10 down a bowling alley |
| #8781, aired 2023-01-09 | DELEGATES $600: Maryland & these 2 states that split in 1863 don't have a House of Representatives but a House of Delegates Virginia & West Virginia |
| #8779, aired 2023-01-05 | CHOOSE YOUR FIGHTER $200: Animated "Mysteries" starring this ex-champ include "House Haunters" & "A Mine is a Terrible Thing to Waste" Mike Tyson |
| #9, aired 2023-01-05 | A TOTAL FRAME JOB $600: A somewhat fancy wooden frame surrounds this Grant Wood picture of 2 people in front of a simple wooden frame house American Gothic |
| #8777, aired 2023-01-03 | L'HISTOIRE DE FRANCE $400: Cheers to Henry IV, who became France's first king from this ruling house in 1589 Bourbon |
| #8777, aired 2023-01-03 | THE GOOD, OLD, U.S. OF A. $1600: As well as a building material, it's a structure made of it; the Avila one is the oldest existing house in Los Angeles adobe |
| #8774, aired 2022-12-29 | THE HOUSE OF POWER $400: Since this country's royal house hasn't changed in nearly 2,700 years, we never bothered to learn its name--Yamato Japan |
| #8774, aired 2022-12-29 | THE HOUSE OF POWER $1200: Protected by camels, the first emperor of this dynasty that overthrew the Mongols is buried in Nanjing, near where the dynasty began the Ming |
| #8774, aired 2022-12-29 | THE HOUSE OF POWER $1600: William was a popular boys' name in this Dutch house, like of William III, king from 1849 to 1890 the House of Orange |
| #8774, aired 2022-12-29 | THE HOUSE OF POWER $2000: Karl of this house that ruled much of Central Europe for hundreds of years served in the European parliament in the 1990s Hapsburg |
| #8774, aired 2022-12-29 | THE HOUSE OF POWER $3,000 (Daily Double): Shakespeare's Richard III mentions "the clouds that lour'd upon our house"--this ruling house with a white rose symbol York |
| #8773, aired 2022-12-28 | IT HAD TO BE HUGH $2000: This Brit was out of the house as Ryan Clark on "Avenue 5" episodes like "He's Only There to Stop His Skeleton From Falling Over" Hugh Laurie |
| #8772, aired 2022-12-27 | FICTION $800: His "The World According to Garp" & "The Cider House Rules" were both made into movies (John) Irving |
| #8770, aired 2022-12-23 | 5-LETTER WORDS $400: The 10 Commandments say not to do this to another man's house or wife covet |
| #8770, aired 2022-12-23 | LITERATURE: BLANK IT & BANK IT $800: "The deep and dank tarn at my feet closed sullenly and silently over the fragments of the 'House of ____!'" Usher |
| #8768, aired 2022-12-21 | FOOD & DRINK $1600: Named for a statesman & not a French country house, this thick tenderloin steak served with a sauce is big enough for 2 chateaubriand |
| #8766, aired 2022-12-19 | TELEVISION THEN & NOW $400: This "Game of Thrones" prequel opens 172 years before the birth of Daenerys Targaryen the House of the Dragon |
| #8757, aired 2022-12-06 | BLOOD, SWEAT & TEARS $400: In 1940 he told the House of Commons, "I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat" Churchill |
| #8754, aired 2022-12-01 | EVERY MAN A KING $1600: The title subject of 2 Shakespeare plays, he was England's first king of the house of Lancaster Henry IV |
| #8752, aired 2022-11-29 | POLITICIANS BACK IN THE DAY $1000: This future Speaker of the House from Wisconsin showed his stripes as president of his class (Paul) Ryan |
| #8751, aired 2022-11-28 | BRITISH HISTORY $800: The Marquess of Salisbury, who retired in 1902, was the last prime minister to lead a government from this body the House of Lords |
| #8751, aired 2022-11-28 | AROUND THE GLOBE $2000: An attraction on this East African island a bit smaller than Maui is the house where Freddie Mercury lived as a child Zanzibar |
| #8751, aired 2022-11-28 | BRITISH HISTORY $2000: The Great Exhibition of 1851 was held in the Crystal Palace, built to house it in this London park Hyde (Park) |
| #8746, aired 2022-11-21 | "P.J."s $1600: In 1979 this architect famous for his "Glass House" in Connecticut was the first recipient of the Pritzker Prize Philip Johnson |
| #8745, aired 2022-11-18 | TV DRAMAS BY EPISODE TITLES $800: "The Midterms" &
"The White House Pro-Am" The West Wing |
| #8745, aired 2022-11-18 | BEFORE, DURING & AFTER $2000: Cincinnati Red with 4,256 hits who sits in the White House flower beds, admiring a Hieronymus Bosch painting Pete Rose Garden of Earthly Delights |
| #8741, aired 2022-11-14 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $400: One of these entertainers, Japanese for "art person", worked in an ochaya, a tea house a geisha |
| #8741, aired 2022-11-14 | YOUR U.S. HISTORY TEST $400: An early experiment in representative government, the House of Burgesses met for the first time in 1619 in this settlement Jamestown |
| #7, aired 2022-11-06 | SITCOMS $1000: On "Brooklyn Nine-Nine", this actor seen here decided, "we'll go to my house. Or as Zeke calls it, Tiny Terry's Hobbit Hole" Terry Crews |
| #8735, aired 2022-11-04 | A FASHIONABLE CATEGORY $400: Last name of Italian fashion designer Miuccia, who works for her family's fashion house & founded its sister line Miu Miu Prada |
| #8733, aired 2022-11-02 | 5, 5 $400: Mus musculus is the scientific name for this rodent a house mouse |
| #6, aired 2022-10-30 | FIGURES OF SPEECH $400: Something insecure or unstable might be described as one of these; you can build a literal one with jacks & aces a house of cards |
| #6, aired 2022-10-30 | THE U.S. CONSTITUTION $600: Article 1 says the vice president shall be president of the Senate; the House of Representatives elects this leader itself the Speaker of the House |
| #8729, aired 2022-10-27 | 3 CONSONANTS IN A ROW $400: Job of the person hired to renovate your house, perhaps after you find an architect contractor |
| #8728, aired 2022-10-26 | D.C.-AREA ATTRACTIONS $1200: A statue of the Comte de Rochambeau is across from the White House in this square named for a more famous Frenchman Lafayette (Square) |
| #8726, aired 2022-10-24 | NEWS MAKERS & WRITERS '22 $400: Profession of Pat Cipollone ("Patsy Baloney" to some), who testified on July 8 to the January 6 Committee lawyer (White House Counsel) |
| #5, aired 2022-10-23 | AROUND PHILLY WITH RYAN LONG $1200: (Ryan Long presents the clue.) Woven into the fabric of America is the legend that this woman designed & sewed the first stars & stripes flag; a house on Arch Street tells her story Betsy Ross |
| #5, aired 2022-10-23 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $4,700 (Daily Double): Before taking the road to the White House, he hit the "Santa Fe Trail" in the movie role of George Armstrong Custer Ronald Reagan |
| #8725, aired 2022-10-21 | SO YOU BLEW IT THE FIRST TIME $400: In 1974 he lost his race for an Arkansas House seat but 2 years later was elected the state's Attorney General & soon was governor Clinton |
| #8723, aired 2022-10-19 | DEVOURING EATING IDIOMS $600: You're being "eaten out of" this rather redundant pair of places when someone is scarfing down all your food house & home |
| #4, aired 2022-10-16 | SHAKESPEARE $800: In a history play a woman complains that this chubby knight "hath eaten me out of house and home" Falstaff |
| #8717, aired 2022-10-11 | WHERE IN THE HOUSE? $200: Giving its name to a type of band, it's where young rockers from at least Buddy Holly on have practiced a garage |
| #8717, aired 2022-10-11 | WHERE IN THE HOUSE? $400: According to the National Association of Home Builders, they're the 2 most popular rooms to remodel the kitchen & the bathroom |
| #8717, aired 2022-10-11 | WHERE IN THE HOUSE? $800: The 1890s photo "Sabbath Eve in a Coal" this space shows an effort to maintain dignity in low surroundings a coal cellar |
| #8717, aired 2022-10-11 | WHERE IN THE HOUSE? $1000: It's the room where Peter Pan visits the Darling children the nursery |
| #8717, aired 2022-10-11 | WHERE IN THE HOUSE? $4,800 (Daily Double): In 2020 the socially conscious Houston Assoc. of Realtors dropped this 2-word term for where the head of the house sleeps master bedroom |
| #8713, aired 2022-10-05 | COMPANY TOWNS $2000: He built a town near Chicago to house his railcar company employees, & some homes still stand (George) Pullman |
| #8712, aired 2022-10-04 | FILMS BY CHARACTERS $800: John "Bluto" Blutarsky, Otter & Flounder Animal House |
| #2, aired 2022-10-02 | AROUND THE HOUSE $100: This Amazon voice A.I. will help you with your smart home, shopping & entertainment needs Alexa |
| #2, aired 2022-10-02 | AROUND THE HOUSE $200: Barcalounger is known for this type of chair whose name says it will get horizontal a recliner |
| #2, aired 2022-10-02 | AROUND THE HOUSE $300: Here's this 3-letter jar; it happens to be Grecian, but other countries make them an urn |
| #2, aired 2022-10-02 | AROUND THE HOUSE $400: As a verb, it means to hinder; as a noun, it's a wicker basket that holds dirty clothes hamper |
| #2, aired 2022-10-02 | AROUND THE HOUSE $500: Some say it's a sin, but this fittingly named area is a great place to apply those finishing touches to your face a vanity |
| #8708, aired 2022-09-28 | A LETTER, THEN A WORD $400: Steep angles characterize this style of house whose design is good in snow & wind A-frame |
| #8708, aired 2022-09-28 | OFF TO NEW ENGLAND $600: Its Witch Museum is on Washington Square North & the House of the Seven Gables, that's over on Derby Street in this city Salem |
| #1, aired 2022-09-25 | TELLING A BEDTIME STORY $400: ...& after the step-mom of these 2 kids abandoned them, they ate a local witch's house, then burned her to death; how Grimm! G'night! Hansel & Gretel |
| #8704, aired 2022-09-22 | MOVIE TITLE REFERENCES $400: "Raiders of the Lost Ark" was about the container said to house these the Ten Commandments |
| #8702, aired 2022-09-20 | CURRENT SLANG $800: The name of this Italian fashion house means stylish or all is well Gucci |
| #8701, aired 2022-09-19 | A HUNGER FOR READING $800: In the first chapter of this novel by Sandra Cisneros, Esperanza Cordero says that her family used to live in an apartment on Loomis The House on Mango Street |
| #8698, aired 2022-09-14 | HISTORIC WORDS $200: Abraham Lincoln:
"A ____ divided against itself cannot stand" house |
| #8696, aired 2022-09-12 | CANADIAN HISTORY $400: Normally a dozy institution, this 105-member upper house of Parliament was news in 2012 with a housing expenses scandal the Senate |
| #8696, aired 2022-09-12 | THAT'S SO SIR/REEL! $400: Rushing around in "From Russia with Love" & "The Russia House" Sir Sean Connery |
| #8696, aired 2022-09-12 | THAT'S SO SIR/REEL! $1600: Ruling in "The Cider House Rules" & (What's it all about?) "Alfie" Sir Michael Caine |
| #8695, aired 2022-07-29 | MOVIE FACTS $400: The animators counted:
In this film Carl Fredricksen's house floats thanks to 10,297 balloons Up |
| #8695, aired 2022-07-29 | WATERCOLORS $2000: Van Gogh lived in the "Yellow House" with Gauguin in this French city, where his output included watercolors Arles |
| #8694, aired 2022-07-28 | A FASHIONABLE CATEGORY $1000: An aesthetic called this simple house "core" embraces eyelet blouses & frilly Laura Ashley dresses cottage |
| #8691, aired 2022-07-25 | YOUR ROLE $1000: Marty Kaan on "House of Lies" & Rhodey, also known as War Machine in the Avengers movies Don Cheadle |
| #8690, aired 2022-07-22 | THE TV TITLE CHARACTER SPEAKS $1000: This physician: "I need 36 vicodin & change for a dollar" House (M.D.) |
| #8688, aired 2022-07-20 | IT'S A BUG $400: Farmers burning fields after harvest would chant this creature, "fly away home, your house is on fire, and your children will burn" ladybug |
| #8688, aired 2022-07-20 | PLEASE RISE FOR OUR NATIONAL... $800: Floral emblem:
In proclaiming it, Reagan pointed out the White House has a garden of them roses |
| #8687, aired 2022-07-19 | LET'S BUILD A HOUSE $400: The hand railings on a stair or balcony can be called a balustrade or this, which you might slide down a banister |
| #8687, aired 2022-07-19 | LET'S BUILD A HOUSE $800: You can buy a finder to locate these vertical interior pieces of wall framing, which is helpful when hanging your Picasso studs |
| #8687, aired 2022-07-19 | KEY $800: This ornithologist visited Key West in the 1830s; here's the house that's now named in his honor Audubon |
| #8687, aired 2022-07-19 | LET'S BUILD A HOUSE $1200: If you're renovating, be careful before taking out one of these walls named for the extra weight it supports load-bearing |
| #8687, aired 2022-07-19 | LET'S BUILD A HOUSE $1600: An inward angle where two sloping roof sections meet is known by this geographic name a valley |
| #8687, aired 2022-07-19 | LET'S BUILD A HOUSE $2000: "C" if you can come up with this term for a projecting beam that's supported at only one end a cantilever |
| #8686, aired 2022-07-18 | AMERICANA $2,000 (Daily Double): Belonging to a cousin, the historic home seen here in Salem, Massachusetts, inspired Nathaniel Hawthorne to write this novel The House of the Seven Gables (The House of Seven Gables accepted) |
| #8683, aired 2022-07-13 | REEL ESTATE $200: Built by MGM, Judy Garland's house in "Meet Me in" this city was based on one that once stood on its Kensington Ave. St. Louis |
| #8683, aired 2022-07-13 | REEL ESTATE $800: Pasadena, California's historic Gamble House was the exterior of Doc Brown's home in this 1985 smash Back to the Future |
| #8679, aired 2022-07-07 | ____ & ____ $200: It's typically a small hotel or a house with private rooms offering a place to lay your head & a morning meal a bed & breakfast |
| #8679, aired 2022-07-07 | THE SCARF $800: The title of this 2003 novel mentions a different fashion house, but editor Miranda Priestly is rarely, without an Hermès scarf The Devil Wears Prada |
| #8679, aired 2022-07-07 | SALAD DRESSING FOR SUCCESS $800: It's the first name in salad dressing & for the steak house known for it, including fat free raspberry pecan & sweet Vidalia onion Ken's |
| #8679, aired 2022-07-07 | ____ & ____ $1000: Taxation, tariffs & other revenue-raising measures come under the jurisdiction of this House committee Ways & Means |
| #8679, aired 2022-07-07 | THE SCARF $1600: A scarf created for Grace Kelly gets mistreated in this 2021 movie about fashion & murder House of Gucci |
| #8678, aired 2022-07-06 | THE REPRESENTATIVE FROM... $800: Ohio: This man, a Republican Speaker of the House from 2011 to 2015 & later, an advocate for marijuana legalization John Boehner |
| #8678, aired 2022-07-06 | THE REPRESENTATIVE FROM... $1000: This state:
Don Young, who passed away in 2022 after serving nearly 50 years in the House Alaska |
| #8677, aired 2022-07-05 | A NOVEL DEATH $200: Spoiler for a 15-year-old book! this house-elf doesn't make it all the way through "The Deathly Hallows" Dobby |
| #8675, aired 2022-07-01 | FILMED IN GEORGIA $400: Seen here, Swan House, in Atlanta's Buckhead neighborhood, stood in for President's Snow's mansion in this film series The Hunger Games |
| #8674, aired 2022-06-30 | KENTUCKIAN ENTERTAINERS $800: Like his aunt, "Come On-A My House" singer Rosemary, this Oscar winner was born in Kentucky (George) Clooney |
| #8674, aired 2022-06-30 | TALES FROM THE UNCLAIMED BAGGAGE CENTER $800: An Egyptian burial mask & other artifacts from the time of Moses were sold through this auction house & Sotheby's rival Christie's |
| #8674, aired 2022-06-30 | FIRST LADY FIRSTS $1000: Though the first first lady to host the White House Easter egg roll, she's better remembered for banning alcohol Lucy Hayes |
| #8673, aired 2022-06-29 | MUNICIPAL MUSIC $2000: "For you, ooh you" George Ezra sings he'd lose it all--his piano, his treasure chest & his house in this Danube River City Budapest |
| #8673, aired 2022-06-29 | -OLA $3,000 (Daily Double): In 1960 a House subcommittee investigated this practice of bribing DJs to play certain songs payola |
| #8672, aired 2022-06-28 | WHAT ARE YOU AFRAID OF? $600: Brontophobia:
it can rattle you & your house thunder |
| #8670, aired 2022-06-24 | WORDS IN COMPARISON $1000: Specially made 2-word area in a house to retreat to in times of great fear a panic room |
| #8668, aired 2022-06-22 | IN THIS ECONOMY? $800: Whether you choose pipes of plastic or this for plumbing a new house matters to Zambia; its economy depends on exporting the metal copper |
| #8667, aired 2022-06-21 | MOVIE INSPIRATIONS $800: The 1925 painting "House by the Railroad" by Edward Hopper was an inspiration for the Bates home in this 1960 film Psycho |
| #8667, aired 2022-06-21 | KIDS' BOOKS $800: She is the smallest of the 12 girls who live in a vine-covered house in Paris Madeline |
| #8663, aired 2022-06-15 | ORPHANS IN BOOKS $2000: In this John Irving novel, the eccentric Dr. Wilbur Larch runs an orphanage The Cider House Rules |
| #8660, aired 2022-06-10 | SECRET SERVICES $400: The U.S. Secret Service Uniformed Division branch named for this building includes counter snipers on its roof the White House |
| #8658, aired 2022-06-08 | LAUREL CANYON $800: The "N" in CSNY, he wrote the 1970 hit "Our House" about the Laurel Canyon home he shared with Joni Mitchell (Graham) Nash |
| #8658, aired 2022-06-08 | LAUREL CANYON $1600: An epicenter of the 1960s Laurel Canyon scene was the house of Cass Elliot, big-voiced star of this group The Mamas & the Papas |
| #8654, aired 2022-06-02 | USA $2000: Some believe the ghost of this Voodoo queen haunts her House of Voodoo museum & store in New Orleans Marie Laveau |
| #8650, aired 2022-05-27 | I'LL HAVE THIRDS $200: It says you can't be forced to let soldiers live in your house the Third Amendment |
| #8647, aired 2022-05-24 | RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES $800: "California" these birds "Are Very Rare, But 10% of Them Are Trashing" a house in Tehachapi condors |
| #8644, aired 2022-05-19 | ASIAN MUSEUMS $200: Flagstaff House, an old Colonial building in Hong Kong, is now a museum devoted to this beverage & its accessories tea |
| #8641, aired 2022-05-16 | LET'S GAMBLE $1200: These 2 green numbers in roulette give the house an edge 0 & 00 |
| #8637, aired 2022-05-10 | OUTSIDE YOUR HOUSE $200: You "put out" this sign of hospitality; a funny one at your door might say "hope you brought booze" a welcome mat |
| #8637, aired 2022-05-10 | OUTSIDE YOUR HOUSE $400: Sailors have been known to use these to sleep in, but more familiar are the ones tied between 2 trees in your backyard hammocks |
| #8637, aired 2022-05-10 | OUTSIDE YOUR HOUSE $600: The USPS asks that you put this container 6-8 inches back from the curb a mailbox |
| #8637, aired 2022-05-10 | JOHN GOODMAN IS HARD TO FIND $800: There was less of a sheen in the White House when John had a brief run as president as Glenallen Walken on this NBC drama The West Wing |
| #8637, aired 2022-05-10 | U.S. GOVERNMENT $800: The president and his top advisors manage crises in the White House's John F. Kennedy Conference Room, best known as this the Situation room |
| #8637, aired 2022-05-10 | OUTSIDE YOUR HOUSE $800: Like the knights who say "Ni!", I desire this for my yard, perhaps mountain laurel or pink flowering almond a shrubbery |
| #8637, aired 2022-05-10 | OUTSIDE YOUR HOUSE $1000: Some lawns have access risers leading down to these tanks that treat wastewater a septic tank |
| #8636, aired 2022-05-09 | INTERNATIONAL RHYME TIME $1000: A Spanish house in Kenya's second-largest city casa Mombasa |
| #8636, aired 2022-05-09 | PREPOSITIONAL LITERATURE $1000: "On the Banks of Plum Creek" is the fourth book in this series about a pioneering family The Little House (on the Prairie series) books |
| #8632, aired 2022-05-03 | HIDDEN ANATOMY $1000: In the creepy haunted house you could hear the sound of this loud & clear the heart (in hear the) |
| #8630, aired 2022-04-29 | POLITICIANS IN THEIR SCHOOL DAYS $400: Her father was a U.S. Representative when she was born; she'd get her own seat in 1987 & has got the run of the House these days Nancy Pelosi |
| #8630, aired 2022-04-29 | FELINES IN FICTION $1200: In "The House at Pooh Corner", Rabbit & Piglet hatch a plot to unbounce this feline character Tigger |
| #8625, aired 2022-04-22 | DRAFTING THE CONSTITUTION $1000: At one point the House of Representatives got sole power of this, with no trial in the Senate impeachment |
| #8624, aired 2022-04-21 | BOOK TITLE GEOGRAPHY $1000: John le Carre, man of international intrigue:
"The ____ House" The Russia House |
| #8623, aired 2022-04-20 | NOT TOO "SEX"Y FOR YOU $2000: The hotel now called the J.W. Marriott this House has welcomed guests in Midtown Manhattan since 1931 Essex |
| #8622, aired 2022-04-19 | POLICING & PUNISHMENTS $1600: Residential reentry center is another term for this alliterative place inmates can serve the last months of a sentence a halfway house |
| #8618, aired 2022-04-13 | CATCH THE MUSICAL TV ACT $1200: Jesse & the Rippers, led by Uncle Jesse Katsopolis Full House |
| #8618, aired 2022-04-13 | AROUND THE USA $1200: Incredible homes like Marble House, an imitation of Versailles, meant to be a temple of the arts, are in this Rhode Island city Newport |
| #8616, aired 2022-04-11 | IN MOM'S FREE TIME $1000: In 2016 Wisconsin mom Kristin Garvey made the first yard sign with these 5 words preceding various affirmations in this house we believe |
| #8614, aired 2022-04-07 | LITERATURE FOR YOUNGER READERS $200: In the story of this pair, the witch asks, "Nibble, nibble little mouse, who is nibbling at my house?" Hansel & Gretel |
| #8614, aired 2022-04-07 | LITERATURE FOR YOUNGER READERS $400: This Dr. Seuss character shows up one boring rainy day when "our mother was out of the house" the Cat in the Hat |
| #8614, aired 2022-04-07 | QUOTE-POURRI $2000: "Only Connect" is from this E.M. Forster novel about a country house Howards End |
| #8611, aired 2022-04-04 | ALL'S "VEL" THAT ENDS "VEL" $1000: A brickmaker in Dickens' "Bleak House" lives in a wretched one a hovel |
| #8611, aired 2022-04-04 | ASIAN MONARCHS $5,200 (Daily Double): For his reputation as a lawgiver, this king of ancient Babylon has his portrait in the Chamber of the U.S. House of Reps. Hammurabi |
| #8610, aired 2022-04-01 | HISTORIC NAMES $1600: Now a museum, the Denver house of this famous survivor is built of very sinkable stone Molly Brown |
| #8603, aired 2022-03-23 | THE BODY POLITIC $400: The 160-seat Dáil Éireann is the lower house of this country's parliament Ireland |
| #8603, aired 2022-03-23 | IT'S ALL GUCCI $400: Fittingly, this star of "House of Gucci" wore a purple Guccie dress for the U.K. premiere Lady Gaga |
| #8603, aired 2022-03-23 | THE BODY POLITIC $800: The lower house of Argentina's legislature is the chamber of these--representatives, not junior sheriffs deputies |
| #8603, aired 2022-03-23 | WE READ IT IN THE '80s $800: South American politics & magic realism are big in her novels, like "The House of the Spirits" & "Of Love & Shadows" (Isabel) Allende |
| #8603, aired 2022-03-23 | THE BODY POLITIC $1200: There are 338 members in this branch of Canada's parliament the House of Commons |
| #8602, aired 2022-03-22 | 1860s AMERICA $2,000 (Daily Double): In the House in 1868, radical Republican Thaddeus Stevens began the closing argument against this man Andrew Johnson |
| #8601, aired 2022-03-21 | CHILDHOOD HOMES $800: In 1942 the father of this baseball legend was the one doing the hammering, building a house in Mobile that you can visit today Hank Aaron |
| #8601, aired 2022-03-21 | CHILDHOOD HOMES $1600: In Palisades, N.Y. the Whitney House, as in the family behind the Whitney Museum, was home to this daughter of Jon Voight Angelina Jolie |
| #8598, aired 2022-03-16 | PLAYS $2,000 (Daily Double): Its last line is from Oscar: "And watch your cigarettes, will you? This is my house, not a pig sty" The Odd Couple |
| #8597, aired 2022-03-15 | BUILDINGS IN HISTORY $800: At the Waitangi Treaty House, Chiefs like Tamati Pukututu & Lt. Gov. William Hobson signed this country's founding document in 1840 New Zealand |
| #8589, aired 2022-03-03 | DETROIT: NEWS CLUES $200: (I'm Kimberly Gill.) Detroit was often the last stop before freedom on this network, & the Second Baptist Church, still a vibrant house of worship, was an important station the Underground Railroad |
| #8589, aired 2022-03-03 | ARTS NEWS $7,200 (Daily Double): In 2021 Gary Avis danced Virgil in a Royal Opera House production commemorating the 700th anniversary of this poet's death Dante Aligheri |
| #8587, aired 2022-03-01 | EDUCATORS $800 (Daily Double): The schools founded by this woman date back to 1907 when she opened her first casa dei bambini, a "children's house" for those 2 to 6 (Maria) Montessori |
| #8587, aired 2022-03-01 | PAST YOUR PRIME $800: Other terms for it include joint, hoosegow & big house a prison |
| #8584, aired 2022-02-24 | HISTORIC WOMEN $1600: In 1889 social reformers Jane Addams & Ellen Gates Starr founded this famous settlement house in Chicago Hull-House |
| #8582, aired 2022-02-22 | IN THE OLYMPIC CITY $600: Scott Joplin House State Historic Site, furnished as it was when the man lived & worked there St. Louis |
| #18, aired 2022-02-22 | ALLITERATIVE PHRASES $200: Ordinal term for Joe, Jill, Ashley & Hunter, though they don't all live in the White House the First Family |
| #18, aired 2022-02-22 | FOOD COMBOS $1000: In L.A., foodies & locals like to dine at "Roscoe's House of" these paired foods Chicken & Waffles |
| #18, aired 2022-02-22 | SCARY STORIES $2000: The Winchester Mystery House in California was one of her inspirations for "The Haunting of Hill House" Shirley Jackson |
| #17, aired 2022-02-22 | THE 18th CENTURY $400: In 1781 Felipe de Neve had trouble recruiting settlers to found this city despite promising them TV gigs & a Bel Air house-sit Los Angeles |
| #8581, aired 2022-02-21 | ARTISTS ON THE MOVE $400: In 1872 Edgar Degas fittingly vacationed & painted in this southern state; you can visit the house he stayed at Louisiana |
| #8581, aired 2022-02-21 | ARTISTS ON THE MOVE $800: Kandinsky, a Muscovite, headed west to Germany, painting in Munich & teaching at this "house of building" school in Weimar Bauhaus |
| #8581, aired 2022-02-21 | TV DOUBLE TAKES $1000: Little Joe Ingalls Michael Landon |
| #15, aired 2022-02-18 | 20th CENTURY BOOKS $1200: The title structure of this Virginia Woolf novel is across the bay from the Ramsays' house on the Isle of Skye To the Lighthouse |
| #8579, aired 2022-02-17 | ABRAHAM LINCOLN $800: (Doris Kearns Goodwin presents the clue.) At the White House on August 10, 1863, Lincoln met for the first time with this man to discuss the treatment of thousands of Black soldiers recently inducted into the Union army Frederick Douglass |
| #14, aired 2022-02-17 | TV FINALES $1200: This actress was Madame President by the time "Madame Secretary" wound up with a White House wedding episode (Téa) Leoni |
| #12, aired 2022-02-16 | HAIKU THAT NOVEL! $600: Remote health resort /
Masha's Tranquillum House... rough /
An octet plus one Nine Perfect Strangers |
| #10, aired 2022-02-15 | OUR GOVERNMENT $1000: The oldest standing committee in Congress is this chief tax-writing one of the House Ways and Means |
| #9, aired 2022-02-15 | CHAPTERS IN THE NOVEL $800: "The Old Pyncheon Family",
"The Arched Window" The House of the Seven Gables |
| #8576, aired 2022-02-14 | COMMERCIAL SLOGANS $800: We've been instructed to "Protect this house" with this company's sports apparel Under Armour |
| #5, aired 2022-02-10 | THIS PARTY IS LIT $2000: A villa in France is the site of an extended house party in "Conversations with Friends" by this much-lauded young writer Sally Rooney |
| #3, aired 2022-02-09 | BUILDINGS $2000: Wingspread, a sprawling home for wax tycoon Herbert F. Johnson, was Frank Lloyd Wright's last house in this style Prairie Style |
| #8572, aired 2022-02-08 | AROUND THE USA $200: Almost 300 years old, this house of justice in King William County, Virginia is the USA's oldest in continuous use a courthouse |
| #8572, aired 2022-02-08 | AROUND THE USA $800: Head to New Orleans' French Quarter to visit the Old Absinthe House named for this pirate Jean Lafitte |
| #2, aired 2022-02-08 | DJs $400: It comes between Swedish & Mafia in the name of a DJ supertrio & is the kind of music they play House |
| #1, aired 2022-02-08 | DEAN'S LIST $400: When Bernie Sanders was the House representative for this state in 1991, Howard Dean was the governor Vermont |
| #8571, aired 2022-02-07 | & THEN TO THE OPERA HOUSE! $200: Have a g'day at this city's Taronga Zoo, opened in 1884, then have a g'night at the opera house Sydney |
| #8571, aired 2022-02-07 | & THEN TO THE OPERA HOUSE! $400: Enjoy the 360-degree views in the Atomium built for Expo 58 in this Belgian Capital & then the music in its De Munt National Opera House Brussels |
| #8571, aired 2022-02-07 | & THEN TO THE OPERA HOUSE! $600: Get your rodeo on during the 10 days of its stampede & also mosey over to the Mamdani Opera Centre Calgary |
| #8571, aired 2022-02-07 | & THEN TO THE OPERA HOUSE! $800: Meet up in Yitzhak Rabin Square & enjoy the Israeli opera at the performing arts centre in this 2-word city Tel Aviv |
| #8571, aired 2022-02-07 | & THEN TO THE OPERA HOUSE! $2,000 (Daily Double): This Po River city's Santa Sindone Chapel houses a famous linen; there's great opera at its Teatro Regio Turin |
| #8570, aired 2022-02-04 | THE STAGE MANAGER $200: This union that began with a 1935 meeting at King Vidor's house, covers Hollywood stage managers like our very own Jimmy McGuire the DGA (the Directors Guild of America) |
| #8569, aired 2022-02-03 | IT WAS ALL PURPLE $1000: In the 1990s, this author who wrote about a house on Mango Street painted a house in an historic area of San Antonio purple (Sandra) Cisneros |
| #8569, aired 2022-02-03 | LAUGHTER IN THE BIBLE $2000: "The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in" this, later an Edith Wharton title the house of mirth |
| #8568, aired 2022-02-02 | THE LEADER IN BETWEEN $1200: He spoke for the House between John Boehner & Nancy Pelosi Paul Ryan |
| #8567, aired 2022-02-01 | CONDUCTORS $1600: Sir Thomas Beecham conducted many U.K. premieres at the Royal Opera House in this London "Garden" spot Covent Garden |
| #8565, aired 2022-01-28 | DAD TV $600: Hardworking farmer Charles Ingalls Little House on the Prairie |
| #8562, aired 2022-01-25 | WOMEN IN POLITICS $600: In 2018, using a privilege for House leadership, she gave an 8-hour speech in support of the "Dreamers" Pelosi |
| #8556, aired 2022-01-17 | 20th CENTURY AMERICA $400: In 1979, Jimmy Carter installed the first of these at the White House; one is now at his presidential library solar panels |
| #8556, aired 2022-01-17 | A MEMBER OF THE BANDS $1000: Neil Finn, formerly of Split Enz, formed this band named for a cramped place on Sycamore Avenue in Los Angeles Crowded House |
| #8555, aired 2022-01-14 | WHAT DID YOU LOSE? $600: Migration after a natural disaster helped make it the only southern state to lose a House seat in the 2010 reapportionment Louisiana |
| #8553, aired 2022-01-12 | AUTHORS' NONFICTION $1600: Before writing 1905's "The House of Mirth", she collaborated on "The Decoration of Houses", a book of interior designs Edith Wharton |
| #8552, aired 2022-01-11 | STATE YOUR BUSINESS $400: Home Depot,
Waffle House Georgia |
| #8550, aired 2022-01-07 | IT WAS 1970s AMERICA, MAN $400: In 1973 he was minority leader of the House of Representatives but got 2 big job promotions by the end of the next year Ford |
| #8548, aired 2022-01-05 | A PLAYER TO BE NAMED RIGHT NOW $800: In March 2021 she testified on gender discrimination to a House committee; in April, she scored on a penalty kick for the U.S. vs. Sweden Megan Rapinoe |
| #8543, aired 2021-12-29 | THE HISTORIC WHITE HOUSE $200: Serving from 1809 to 1817, she set the bar for first ladies & popularized ice cream in the White House Dolley Madison |
| #8543, aired 2021-12-29 | THE HISTORIC WHITE HOUSE $400: A gift from this queen to President Hayes, the Oval Office desk was made from timbers of the HMS Resolute Victoria |
| #8543, aired 2021-12-29 | THE HISTORIC WHITE HOUSE $600: First Lady Grace Coolidge set up a room she called her "Sky Parlor"; today's it's known as this, from the Latin for "sun" solarium |
| #8543, aired 2021-12-29 | THE HISTORIC WHITE HOUSE $800: Previously known as the "President's House" & "Executive Mansion", the White House got its official name in 1901 from this man Teddy Roosevelt |
| #8543, aired 2021-12-29 | THE HISTORIC WHITE HOUSE $1000: Living there for only 5 months, this early first lady referred to the White House as "The Great Castle" Abigail Adams |
| #8541, aired 2021-12-27 | YOU STUBBED YOUR TOE ON LIVE TV $600: Channel SpongeBob with this creamy condiment, like the Legal Sea Foods house brand tartar sauce |
| #8540, aired 2021-12-24 | 20th CENTURY SONG, 21st CENTURY AD $800: Allstate:
this hit by ska band Madness "Our House" |
| #8539, aired 2021-12-23 | FROM THE U.S. CITIZENSHIP TEST $200: If the president & veep can no longer serve, this person becomes president the Speaker of the House |
| #8539, aired 2021-12-23 | BUILT IN THE 1800s $800: While president in 1806, he began construction of his octagonal house at his retreat, Poplar Forest Thomas Jefferson |
| #8538, aired 2021-12-22 | 'TIS THE SEASON, ERA OR EPOCH $800: In 1817 the Boston Columbian Centinel described the nifty mood with a new man in the White House as the era of these 2 words Good Feelings |
| #8537, aired 2021-12-21 | GO HOME $600: From the Hindustani word bangla, it's a one-story house with a thatched roof a bungalow |
| #8536, aired 2021-12-20 | THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE $400: If no candidate receives a majority in the Electoral College, as happened in 1824, this body votes to decide who wins the House of Representatives |
| #8533, aired 2021-12-15 | SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA HISTORY $600: In the 1920s, author Zane Grey built a Pueblo-style house near Avalon Bay on this island Catalina |
| #8533, aired 2021-12-15 | PREQUELS & SEQUELS $800 (Daily Double): Co-authored by Brian Herbert, "House Atreides" is the first in a series of prequels to this series Dune |
| #8533, aired 2021-12-15 | PREQUELS & SEQUELS $1000: In the final chapter in this sequel, "Christopher Robin and Pooh come to an enchanted place, and we leave them there" The House at Pooh Corner |
| #8530, aired 2021-12-10 | WHERE TO GO ON SABBATICAL $800: Go to Nicaragua & help build a house through this global nonprofit founded in 1976 Habitat for Humanity |
| #8529, aired 2021-12-09 | DESCRIBING THE TV DRAMA $400: It's a Mads Mads Mads Mads Mikkelsen world; the doctor will eat you now Hannibal |
| #8528, aired 2021-12-08 | MORE THAN 100 $800: Stephen Kinnock & Ian Paisley Jr. are 2 of the 650 members of this body whose chamber seats 427 the House of Commons |
| #8528, aired 2021-12-08 | LITERARY PROFESSORS $2000: Her 1925 novel "The Professor's House" is set largely in New Mexico, not her familiar Nebraska Willa Cather |
| #8525, aired 2021-12-03 | PUT UP YOUR DUKES $400: A London palace is named after the house built for John Sheffield, Duke of this Buckingham |
| #8524, aired 2021-12-02 | AIN'T THAT AMERICA $200: The Levi Coffin House in Indiana was a stop on this system, that defied the Fugitive Slave Act the Underground Railroad |
| #8524, aired 2021-12-02 | FOR "U" & "ME" $800: A Quaker place of worship noted for simplicity, like Philadelphia's Arch Street one a meeting house |
| #8520, aired 2021-11-26 | MUSEUMS $800: Though the secret annex at her house is empty now, you can use a VR app to explore it as it looked when her family was in hiding Anne Frank |
| #8519, aired 2021-11-25 | THE WOMEN $200: Women in the U.S. House of Representatives had only worn dresses & skirts until Charlotte Reid put these on in 1969 pants |
| #8519, aired 2021-11-25 | THE STATE THAT... $400: Has the most members in the U.S. House of Representatives, with 53 in the 117th Congress California |
| #8517, aired 2021-11-23 | OMAHA $1000: In 1917 this priest rented a boarding house in Omaha to care for 5 neglected boys; later, he bought a farm & it became Boys Town Father Flanagan |
| #8517, aired 2021-11-23 | BOOK TITLE MATH $2000: Harrer's Himalayan hiatus times Hawthorne's house parts 49 |
| #8513, aired 2021-11-17 | ITALIAN ARTS & CULTURE $200: For many years Arturo Toscanini was the principal conductor & music director at this famed Milan opera house La Scala |
| #8510, aired 2021-11-12 | AROUND THE HOUSE $200: Beginning & ending with the same letter, this word for the floor in front of the fireplace can also refer to your home hearth |
| #8510, aired 2021-11-12 | AROUND THE HOUSE $400: This type of bathtub seen here is named for its formidable appendages a clawfoot bathtub |
| #8510, aired 2021-11-12 | AROUND THE HOUSE $600: Not installed in new homes anymore, if one of these burns out in the "box" for them, grab an Edison base type a fuse |
| #8510, aired 2021-11-12 | AROUND THE HOUSE $800: Similar to crown molding, this architectural ornamentation seen here, also starts with the letter "C" a cornice |
| #8510, aired 2021-11-12 | AROUND THE HOUSE $1000: One of the original rooms in Clue, it's a greenhouse that's usually attached to the main structure the Conservatory |
| #8508, aired 2021-11-10 | FIRST THINGS FIRST $400: A Hollywood landmark since 1956, the first circular office building was built to house this record label & its studios Capitol |
| #8506, aired 2021-11-08 | FROM THE MOUNTAINS TO THE PRAIRIES $600: Kansas' Little House on the Prairie Museum was reconstructed from the descriptions of this woman Wilder |
| #8505, aired 2021-11-05 | CLUBS $800: In the early 1930s this Harlem nightclub made Cab Calloway the leader of its house orchestra the Cotton Club |
| #8502, aired 2021-11-02 | REALITY TV $1000: It was "the true story of seven strangers picked to live in a house, work together and have their lives taped" The Real World |
| #8500, aired 2021-10-29 | LANDSCAPING $200: Planting tall trees on the east & west sides of your house can cut your costs for this summer need by 25% air conditioning |
| #8500, aired 2021-10-29 | PRESIDENTS WHO WEREN'T BORN IN THE UNITED STATES $600: He was born a British subject in Virginia in 1751; how dare they burn his pretty White House! James Madison |
| #8499, aired 2021-10-28 | POTENT ETYMOLOGY $600: Started in part by George Clooney, this tequila brand is a portmanteau of the Spanish words for "house" & "friends" Casamigos |
| #8495, aired 2021-10-22 | IS IT ME YOU'RE LOOKING FOR? $1000: There are only two of me in a standard deck of cards; call us by our hyphenated name & we just might make your house full a one-eyed jack |
| #8490, aired 2021-10-15 | FINISH THE LINE $400: Dr. Seuss' Sam-I-Am: "Would you like them in a house? Would you like them..." with a mouse |
| #8487, aired 2021-10-12 | EUROPEAN HISTORY $1200: King Gustav III of this country was shot at the opera house in 1792 & died 2 weeks later Sweden |
| #8486, aired 2021-10-11 | THIS ONE GOES TO 2011 $400: From the early 1800s until 2011, these busy workers carried messages & assisted members in the House of Representatives pages |
| #8486, aired 2021-10-11 | NATIONAL LITERARY TITLES $2000: A home built by the VanHoebeek family gives this 2019 Ann Patchett bestseller its title The Dutch House |
| #8485, aired 2021-10-08 | THE GRAND OLE OPERA HOUSE $400: In 1892 Buenos Aires & Bogota both hoped to open new opera houses named for this explorer; only Bogota's was inaugurated on time Columbus |
| #8485, aired 2021-10-08 | THE GRAND OLE OPERA HOUSE $800: In addition to many operas, Paris' Palais Garnier hosted a very wicked villain in this 1910 Gaston Leroux novel The Phantom of the Opera |
| #8485, aired 2021-10-08 | TALES OF HORROR $800: Luke is the future heir of this Shirley Jackson title place; sadly for Luke, that title includes "The Haunting of..." Hill House |
| #8485, aired 2021-10-08 | THE GRAND OLE OPERA HOUSE $1200: This opera house opened in Milan in 1778 with a performance of "Europa Recognized" by Salieri La Scala |
| #8485, aired 2021-10-08 | THE GRAND OLE OPERA HOUSE $1600: After World War I, upon the demise of this dynasty that ruled there, Vienna's Court Opera was renamed the State Opera Habsburg |
| #8485, aired 2021-10-08 | THE GRAND OLE OPERA HOUSE $2000: In 1973 Prokofiev's "War and Peace" was the first opera performed at this opera house very far south of Russia the Sydney Opera House |
| #8484, aired 2021-10-07 | SCENE HERE $2000: In "Animal House" this college official has unfortunate midterm grade news: "Mr. Blutarsky... zero point zero" Dean Wormer |
| #8481, aired 2021-10-04 | YOU DON'T SUCCEED $400: In a 1998 floor speech, Bob Livingston stunned colleagues by saying he would not succeed Newt Gingrich in this job Speaker of the House |
| #8480, aired 2021-10-01 | THAT'S A BIG BOOK $1600: There's a synonym for "dreary" in the title, then 67 chapters of Jarndyce v. Jarndyce court action in this Dickens work Bleak House |
| #8479, aired 2021-09-30 | LADIES & GENTLEMEN $400: In 1919 Lady Astor became the first woman to take a seat in this body & kept the chair until 1945 House of Commons |
| #8474, aired 2021-09-23 | SPORTS VENUE NICKNAMES $400: The Gonzaga University Bulldogs basketball teams play at McCarthey Athletic Center, nicknamed this canine shelter the Kennel |
| #8474, aired 2021-09-23 | SPORTS VENUE NICKNAMES $1000: Nicknamed "The Loud House", the Carrier Dome is the stadium of this university in New York state Syracuse University |
| #8471, aired 2021-09-20 | ALLITERATIVE PEOPLE $1000: In 2020 the job of White House Chief of Staff changed M&Ms, from this man to Mark Meadows Mick Mulvaney |
| #8470, aired 2021-09-17 | THIS CONSTITUTION $200: Article I says this "shall be composed of members chosen every second year by the people of the several states" the House of Representatives |
| #8469, aired 2021-09-16 | DURING THE WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON ADMINISTRATION $400: Richard Beard opened Europe's first studio for this in a glass house because the process needed so much light photography |
| #8467, aired 2021-09-14 | HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES $600: Bob Hope famously quipped, "The Academy Awards, or as it's known at my house," this Jewish holiday Passover |
| #8467, aired 2021-09-14 | STRUCTURAL IDIOMS $800: A hyperbolic expression says a noisy disturbance reaches such a pitch it could do this, right off the house blow the roof off |
| #8462, aired 2021-08-10 | BOOKS FOR KIDS $1000: "Merlin Missions" are books in this "Magic" time-traveling series for older readers the Magic Tree House |
| #8461, aired 2021-08-09 | LITERATURE $800: The title domicile of this Hawthorne novel is halfway down Pyncheon Street The House of the Seven Gables |
| #8460, aired 2021-08-06 | HEY, WHAT YEAR IS IT? $400: The country gets re-hitched at Appomattox Court House; "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" begin 1865 |
| #8457, aired 2021-08-03 | TALK SHOWS $800: This "Saturday Night Live" alum has Lorne Michaels as his show's executive producer & Fred Armisen leading the house band Seth Meyers |
| #8455, aired 2021-07-30 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $600: The Richardson family's house is a victim of arson in this bestseller by Celeste Ng, adapted as a Hulu miniseries Little Fires Everywhere |
| #8453, aired 2021-07-28 | BURGESSES IN THE HOUSE! $400: A Burgess was another name for a delegate to Va.'s Assembly & the House was like this lower house of Parliament Commons |
| #8453, aired 2021-07-28 | IDIOMS MADE FANCY $600: Illumination bulbs are electrified, yet the house remains empty the lights are on but nobody's home |
| #8453, aired 2021-07-28 | BURGESSES IN THE HOUSE! $800: In 1759, exactly 30 years before he became president, this man was in the House of Burgesses (George) Washington |
| #8453, aired 2021-07-28 | BURGESSES IN THE HOUSE! $1200: The Burgesses first convened in 1619 & their first law set a minimum price for "the best" this crop, which grew well in Virginia tobacco |
| #8453, aired 2021-07-28 | BURGESSES IN THE HOUSE! $1600: In 1765 Patrick Henry & fellow Burgesses adopted "Resolves" fighting the legality of this act's Colonial taxation the Stamp Act |
| #8453, aired 2021-07-28 | BURGESSES IN THE HOUSE! $2000: A speaker for the House, John Robinson got in trouble for using wartime currency from this 1750s war to help friends later the French and Indian War |
| #8450, aired 2021-07-23 | 20-SOMETHING $400: The Constitution states that to be a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, you must be at least this age 25 |
| #8449, aired 2021-07-22 | IT'S A TRAP! $200: These literary siblings find a house with "a roof made of cake, & the windows were made of clear sugar" but... it's a trap! Hansel & Gretel |
| #8444, aired 2021-07-15 | & AWAY WE GO! $400: A visit to this New Jersey capital will include a look at the Douglass House, site of a council of war held by Washington in 1777 Trenton |
| #8442, aired 2021-07-13 | OVER BUDGET $800: The government of New South Wales held a lottery for 30 years to pay for this building whose budget went from $7 mil. to $102 mil. the Sydney Opera House |
| #8442, aired 2021-07-13 | 2011: 10 YEARS AGO $1600: This Ohio Republican took over as Speaker of the House of Representatives John Boehner |
| #8439, aired 2021-07-08 | A MOMENT OF SCIENCE $1000: As Homer Simpson said, "In this house we obey the laws of" this relationship between heat & mechanical energy thermodynamics |
| #8436, aired 2021-07-05 | THEY DON'T LIVE ON SESAME STREET $600: Accompanying him on his post-White House trek to the Amazon, Kermit was the second son of this U.S. president Theodore Roosevelt |
| #8435, aired 2021-07-02 | OTHER STUFF HAPPENED IN 1492 $800: Perkin Warbeck was a pretender acclaimed by many as Richard, duke of this royal house that had recently been ousted in England York |
| #8432, aired 2021-06-29 | MONUMENTS & MEMORIALS $1000: A memorial to this president in a square across from the White House includes enemy cannons he captured in 1818 (Andrew) Jackson |
| #8431, aired 2021-06-28 | NOVELLAS $1600: Melville House Press offers classic novellas in book form, & of course included the tale of this title sailor by Melville himself Billy Budd |
| #8424, aired 2021-06-17 | TOM FOOLERY $1600: Tom Cruise fools his parents in this 1983 comedy after ruining the Porsche & having quite the wild party at their house Risky Business |
| #8422, aired 2021-06-15 | AT FREDDY'S $1200: While holding this British title as heir apparent for 20-plus years, the 18th century's "Poor Fred" lived in Cliveden House the Prince of Wales |
| #8421, aired 2021-06-14 | A MESSY CATEGORY $1000: Shambles is an old word for one of these workplaces, a literal scene of carnage a slaughter house |
| #8416, aired 2021-06-07 | SOME GOOD NEWS $200: In 2020 this Canadian province purchased a hotel in the capital of Victoria to house its homeless population British Columbia |
| #8416, aired 2021-06-07 | -ISMs $4,000 (Daily Double): (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents from outside the Great Synagogue in Budapest, Hungary.) The Jewish Museum in Budapest, which is part of the Great Synagogue Complex, is built on the site of the house where Theodore Herzl, father of this movement, was born in 1860 Zionism |
| #8414, aired 2021-06-03 | BARNS $200: The big barn seen here in Lexington, Kentucky was built to house this breed named for their unmixed stock Thoroughbreds |
| #8412, aired 2021-06-01 | QUOTATIONS $400: The Book of Proverbs provided a play & movie title with "he that troubleth his own house shall inherit" this the wind |
| #8410, aired 2021-05-28 | ON THE "HOUSE" $200: This adjective describes a cat that does his business in a box & not anywhere that he pleases house-trained (housebroken) |
| #8410, aired 2021-05-28 | ON THE "HOUSE" $400: Legend has it that an early keeper named Ernie haunts one of these in New London, Connecticut a lighthouse |
| #8410, aired 2021-05-28 | ON THE "HOUSE" $600: Ruth Wakefield once said of her recipe for these, "I'll never live them down" Toll House cookies |
| #8410, aired 2021-05-28 | ON THE "HOUSE" $800: Torvald to Nora in this play: "Can you not understand your place in your own home?" A Doll's House |
| #8410, aired 2021-05-28 | ON THE "HOUSE" $1000: Across the street from Ford's Theatre is this residence where Abraham Lincoln died the Petersen Boarding House |
| #8407, aired 2021-05-25 | THE FINEST OF FINE ARTS $800: The Queen's this small house of worship is a masterpiece of British Palladian architecture a chapel |
| #8399, aired 2021-05-13 | THE TUNNEL $1200: A tunnel named for late House Speaker Tip O'Neill carries the route known as the Central Artery under this city's downtown Boston |
| #8393, aired 2021-05-05 | MR. PRESIDENT $1200: The 1st time he left the White House, he joined a New York law firm; the 2nd time he served on Princeton's board of trustees Cleveland |
| #8391, aired 2021-05-03 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMEN $1200: Hazel Scott briefly hosted her own TV show before this group, HUAC, set its sights on her the House Un-American Activities Committee |
| #8389, aired 2021-04-29 | FORMER CHILD STARS $600: Jason Bateman made his TV series debut in 1981 as the Ingalls' adopted son James on this show Little House on the Prairie |
| #8388, aired 2021-04-28 | THEIR TV ROLES $800: Dr. Gregory House & politician Tom James on "Veep" Hugh Laurie |
| #8388, aired 2021-04-28 | AMERICA BEFORE 1800 $1000: The first elected legislature in the colonies was the house of these, established in Virginia in 1619 the House of Burgesses |
| #8388, aired 2021-04-28 | MODERN HEBREW $1000: This Nestle brand of coffee translates to "miracle coffee" in Hebrew & is used for any instant coffee in Israel Nescafé |
| #8386, aired 2021-04-26 | AT THE MOVIES $600: This 1978 college comedy asked the immortal question, "Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?!" Animal House |
| #8384, aired 2021-04-22 | FICTIONAL PICKERS $800: "A Painted House", his first novel that wasn't a legal thriller, is set in 1952 among people who pick cotton (John) Grisham |
| #8377, aired 2021-04-13 | ENGLAND $400: In 1992 Betty Boothroyd became the first female speaker of this legislative body the House of Commons |
| #8370, aired 2021-04-02 | WOMEN IN CONGRESS $400: Maiden name D'Alesandro, this house speaker & representative from California is the daughter & sister of 2 Baltimore mayors Pelosi |
| #8370, aired 2021-04-02 | CATCHIN' THE MOVIE TRAIN $800: In this 2004 holiday film, the title train stops by a kid's house with an offer to take him way, way north The Polar Express |
| #8369, aired 2021-04-01 | BROADWAY MUSICALS $1600: As Effie White in this show, Jennifer Holliday brought the house down with "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going" Dreamgirls |
| #8366, aired 2021-03-29 | FIVE SUMMONER'S TALES $800: On April 12, 1945 he was drinking with Sam Rayburn after a day presiding over the Senate when he was summoned by the White House Truman |
| #8364, aired 2021-03-25 | THE PLAY'S THE THING $600: He created strong female characters in "Hedda Gabler" & "A Doll's House" (Henrik) Ibsen |
| #8364, aired 2021-03-25 | IN A TEACUP $1000: A house one of these birds enjoys some seeds & rest in a teacup bird feeder a finch |
| #8363, aired 2021-03-24 | OTHER WALKS OF FAME $800: Cesar Chavez & Harriet Tubman have plaques on "The Extra Mile", beginning near the White House at 15th St. & this avenue Pennsylvania |
| #8357, aired 2021-03-16 | HISTORIC HENRYS $2000: King of England from 1399 to 1413, Henry IV was the first of the 3 kings of this ruling house Lancaster |
| #8356, aired 2021-03-15 | HISTORIC PLACES $800: The Clarke House is this U.S. city's oldest, having survived the Great Fire, though it now stands 2 blocks from its original spot Chicago |
| #8353, aired 2021-03-10 | GOING FROM FIRST TO THIRD $2000: The U.K.'s House of Commons uses this 4-word electoral system where a simple majority of votes determines the winner of the race first past the post |
| #8352, aired 2021-03-09 | YOU LOSE! $2000: In 2012 the people spoke to this future Speaker of the House & said he would not be vice president Paul Ryan |
| #8350, aired 2021-03-05 | 3-WORD BOOK TITLES $2000: Faulkner used "Dark House" as a working title for this novel whose title went in the opposite direction Light in August |
| #8346, aired 2021-03-01 | AUTHORS' ROAD TRIPS $400: At age 64, before her "Little House" books, she traveled in a 1923 Buick named Isabelle from Missouri to her old Dakota home Laura Ingalls Wilder |
| #8346, aired 2021-03-01 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: In 1800 she became the first first lady to live in the White House Abigail Adams |
| #8343, aired 2021-02-24 | SUBPOENAS $200: In 1973 a Senate committee investigating this scandal subpoenaed documents & recordings from the White House the Watergate scandal |
| #8343, aired 2021-02-24 | SUBPOENAS $600: In 1947 screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, part of this numerical "Hollywood" group, was subpoenaed by the House Un-Amer. Activities Committee the Hollywood Ten |
| #8343, aired 2021-02-24 | SUBPOENAS $800: In 2019 this House Intelligence Committee chair from California issued a subpoena for the unredacted Mueller report Schiff |
| #8341, aired 2021-02-22 | ANIMALS WITHIN WORDS $400: A house mouse weighs about an ounce; comparatively, a black one of these weighs about 10 ounces a rat (in comparatively) |
| #8341, aired 2021-02-22 | PAGING DR. TV! $1200: A few parallels with this title doc & Sherlock Holmes--both had the address 221B & played musical instruments Dr. Gregory House |
| #8339, aired 2021-02-18 | TYPES OF NARRATIVE LITERATURE $1000: Meaning not proceeding from event A to event B to event C, this "non" word applies to "Tristram Shandy" & "House of Leaves" nonlinear |
| #8334, aired 2021-02-11 | 1930s AMERICA $1000: In 1937 his theories on organic architecture came together beautifully with the completion of the Fallingwater house Frank Lloyd Wright |
| #8331, aired 2021-02-08 | FACTS & FIGURES $1000: China has this type of legislature, meaning there's only a single house; it has almost 3,000 members unicameral |
| #8331, aired 2021-02-08 | TAKE 'EM TO THEIR ROYAL HOUSES $2000: The crown prince known as MBS: the house of this Saud |
| #8328, aired 2021-02-03 | FOREIGN ELECTIONS $400: The Bundestag or lower house of parliament officially elects Germany's prime minister, aka this title the chancellor of Germany |
| #8328, aired 2021-02-03 | A "KID" IN $1000: This term describes children who have to unlock the door when they come home to an empty house latchkey kids |
| #8326, aired 2021-02-01 | A CATEGORY OF 2 CITIES $200: They're sister cities, but you can't see Magadan in this country from your house in Anchorage Russia |
| #8325, aired 2021-01-29 | LINCOLN BLOGS $1,000 (Daily Double): June 16, 1858: I'm gonna use "A house divided against itself cannot stand" as I begin taking him on for Senate! He's got no chance Stephen Douglas |
| #8324, aired 2021-01-28 | THE WHITE HOUSE $200: On Christmas Eve in 1929, a fire in this section of the White House gutted the executive offices the West Wing |
| #8324, aired 2021-01-28 | LITERATURE $200: Former NFL tight end Roberta Muldoon is a character in this John Irving novel The World According to Garp |
| #8324, aired 2021-01-28 | THE WHITE HOUSE $400: The first White House bowling alley was built for this president in 1947 Truman |
| #8324, aired 2021-01-28 | THE WHITE HOUSE $600: It should be obvious from the curtain & certain accents this is the room where the official Christmas tree is displayed the Blue Room |
| #8324, aired 2021-01-28 | THE WHITE HOUSE $800: Built over FDR's indoor swimming pool, the press briefing room was renamed in 2000 for this wounded press secretary Brady |
| #8324, aired 2021-01-28 | THE WHITE HOUSE $1000: He's still the only president to have had his wedding in the White House, marrying young Frances Folsom in 1886 Grover Cleveland |
| #8320, aired 2021-01-22 | LIT-POURRI $400: Alexander Rostov is under house arrest in the Metropol, a hotel across from the Kremlin, in the novel "A Gentleman in" this city Moscow |
| #8320, aired 2021-01-22 | DUNGEONS & DRAGONS $1600: Heretics awaited judgment at a secret prison called "The House of Dungeons" at Cartagena's Palace of this religious tribunal the Inquisition |
| #8316, aired 2021-01-18 | THE FICTIONAL HOUSEWIVES OF NEW YORK $2000: In this woman's "The House of Mirth", Bertha Dorset not only has an affair with Ned but also says Lily had one with Mr. Dorset Edith Wharton |
| #8312, aired 2021-01-12 | INSANE CLOWN POSSE $1200: Hooray for Captain Spaulding, the murderous clown in "House of 1000 Corpses", directed by this White Zombie frontman Rob Zombie |
| #8311, aired 2021-01-11 | NEW YORK SOCIETY $200: The National Society of Colonial Dames in the state of New York manages Van Cortlandt House, the oldest home in this most N. borough the Bronx |
| #8310, aired 2021-01-08 | ARTISTS IN EUROPE $1,000 (Daily Double): Well-established in 1639, he paid the hefty price of 13,000 guilders for a house in Amsterdam that today houses his museum Rembrandt |
| #8303, aired 2020-12-16 | GINGERBREAD $200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from the Wicklein Gingerbread Shop in Nuremberg, Germany.) In the 1800s, gingerbread houses became especially popular in Germany, inspired by the witch's house in this fairy tale Hansel and Gretel |
| #8303, aired 2020-12-16 | DOUBLE "O" 7-LETTER WORDS $1000: This term for a habitual object of abuse can also refer to something that invites you into a house a doormat |
| #8302, aired 2020-12-15 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from the Betsy Ross House in Philadelphia, PA.) According to affidavits from Betsy Ross's relatives, this famous man came into her shop in 1776 to ask Betsy to make a new flag for our nation George Washington |
| #8302, aired 2020-12-15 | THE WHISKER REBELLION $1200: Facial hair in the White House has fallen from favor; the last president to sport some was this man who left office in 1913 Taft |
| #8300, aired 2020-12-11 | THE NOT-SO-WILD WEST $400: A theater called this grand style of music "House" opened in Leadville, Co. in 1879; opening night was overshadowed by a nearby hanging an opera |
| #8300, aired 2020-12-11 | "A" "P" HISTORY $1200: McLean House in this Virginia village was the site of an 1865 surrender Appomattox (Court House) |
| #8297, aired 2020-12-08 | YOU'VE GOT ANIMAL MALE $600: Male house cats & male turkeys both have this name a tom |
| #8297, aired 2020-12-08 | A NAPOLEON COMPLEX $1200: It should have been a bad omen for Napoleon when this wife of his bought Malmaison, the house of misfortune the Empress Josephine |
| #8296, aired 2020-12-07 | HISTORY: A LOOK BACK $200: Frederick Muhlenberg was first to hold this congressional job & join the line of presidential succession (spoiler, Fred was never prez) Speaker of the House |
| #8295, aired 2020-12-04 | ACTRESSES $800: Shohreh Aghdashloo had her breakout role opposite Ben Kingsley in 2003's "House of" these 2 things Sand and Fog |
| #8294, aired 2020-12-03 | THE SECOND MILLENNIUM $400: Before the Industrial Revolution, people worked from home in what's called this kind of house industry cottage |
| #8293, aired 2020-12-02 | OVAL & OVAL AGAIN $200: Random House defines it as "an inflated oval with a bladder contained in a casing usually made of leather" a football |
| #8292, aired 2020-12-01 | SPORTS IDIOMS $800: In horseracing the finish of a race is this 11-letter distance, sounding like something you might do after a nap at your house the homestretch |
| #8290, aired 2020-11-27 | RANKS & TITLES $400: From the Egyptian for "great house" came this term for any of the great & ancient rulers of Egypt pharaoh |
| #8289, aired 2020-11-26 | MORE THAN ONE MEANING $200: Unvarying, or a horse house stable |
| #8283, aired 2020-11-18 | I GOT THEM HISTORICAL BLUES $600: There's a dark house over yonder / In Boston's North Square / The home this Founding Father rode from / A home still standing there Paul Revere |
| #8282, aired 2020-11-17 | U.S. CITY SIGHTS $600: The Mary Tyler Moore statue,
the "Purple Rain" house Minneapolis |
| #8282, aired 2020-11-17 | MUSICAL VIENNA $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from outside the Vienna State Opera House in Vienna, Austria.) Damaged by World War II bombs, the State Opera House reopened with a production of this Beethoven opera in November, 1955, 150 years to the month of the work's premiere Fidelio |
| #8282, aired 2020-11-17 | MUSICAL VIENNA $1600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents from inside the Vienna State Opera House in Vienna, Austria.) In a tradition since 1900, around New Year's, the Vienna State Opera presents this Johann Strauss Jr. operetta whose name means "the bat" Die Fledermaus |
| #8280, aired 2020-11-13 | ANAGRAMS $200: I seem to recall the old house having this room to store food over the winter a cellar (from recall) |
| #8279, aired 2020-11-12 | ASIAN AMERICANS ON TV & FILM $1200: Of Indian descent, Kal Penn had roles on "Designated Survivor" & "House" & was one half of this movie duo opposite John Cho Harold & Kumar |
| #8279, aired 2020-11-12 | ADVICE TO THE NOVEL HEROINE $2000: Lily, I think you should wait one more day for Lawrence Selden--at least tell him the debts are paid The House of Mirth |
| #8278, aired 2020-11-11 | AUTHORS' HOMES $3,000 (Daily Double): In the 1870s she & her family lived in a little dugout house near Walnut Grove, Minnesota on the banks of Plum Creek Laura Ingalls Wilder |
| #8276, aired 2020-11-09 | A NIGHT AT THE OPERA $3,000 (Daily Double): The name of this famed opera house in Milan built by Maria Theresa in the 1770s translates to "the staircase" La Scala |
| #8275, aired 2020-11-06 | FOXES $400: Term for a cozy room in your house, or a cozy fox burrow a den |
| #8274, aired 2020-11-05 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $200: In a book by Beverly Cleary, Socks is this pet, suddenly having to share the house with a new baby a cat |
| #8274, aired 2020-11-05 | 3-NAMED MARYS $400: This actress was half of the team that portrayed Michelle Tanner on "Full House" Mary Olsen (Mary-Kate Olsen) |
| #8274, aired 2020-11-05 | LAW $600: It means permission, like to search a dwelling; the third amendment speaks of this "of the owner" of a house consent |
| #8273, aired 2020-11-04 | THE HOLE TRUTH $400: The notorious Winter Park sinkhole of 1981 in this state swallowed a house and several automobiles Florida |
| #8272, aired 2020-11-03 | COMPOUND WORDS $4,000 (Daily Double): An old term for a jailer, in real estate it's a house that's move-in ready a turnkey |
| #8268, aired 2020-10-28 | BANDS OF THE 21st CENTURY $400: The Strokes led the "revival" of this raw type of rock named for a good part of the house to practice garage |
| #8266, aired 2020-10-26 | WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS $200: Country House won this prestigious horse race in 2019 after Maximum Security was disqualified the Kentucky Derby |
| #8266, aired 2020-10-26 | SOUNDS LIKE MONEY TO ME $2000: Nita Lowey chairs the House committee on these, public funds designated for a specific use Appropriations |
| #8265, aired 2020-10-23 | HYBRIDS $2,400 (Daily Double): A favorite decorative motif of the Middle East, this mythical creature is also an in-house favorite at "Jeopardy!" a griffin |
| #8262, aired 2020-10-20 | WORLD HERITAGE SITES IN THE U.S. $1600: The first World Heritage Site in Los Angeles, Hollyhock House is part of a UNESCO group of eight major works by this architect Frank Lloyd Wright |
| #8261, aired 2020-10-19 | FIRST LADIES $400: She won a 1962 Emmy for "A Tour of the White House" Jackie Kennedy |
| #8260, aired 2020-10-16 | AROUND THE HOUSE $200: Acquired by Amazon in 2018, this video doorbell brand lets you see who's at your front door Ring |
| #8260, aired 2020-10-16 | AROUND THE HOUSE $400: Perhaps you have this type of old-fashioned desk that's pretty handy but doesn't take dictation secretary |
| #8260, aired 2020-10-16 | AROUND THE HOUSE $600: A bathroom with 2 sinks situated between 2 bedrooms is named for this nursery rhyme pair Jack & Jill |
| #8260, aired 2020-10-16 | AROUND THE HOUSE $800: A little birdie told us it's the cozy name for the stackable tables seen here nesting tables |
| #8260, aired 2020-10-16 | AROUND THE HOUSE $1000: This device with a Japanese name, on which you can stream Hulu, Apple TV & more, was first launched in 2008 Roku |
| #8259, aired 2020-10-15 | WORD PUZZLES $600: A style of house split level |
| #8259, aired 2020-10-15 | WHERE HAVE I SEEN THOSE STAIRS? $1200: HGTV remodeled the L.A. house used in exteriors on this '70s sitcom, adding the open staircase that had only existed on a stage The Brady Bunch |
| #8258, aired 2020-10-14 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN WRITERS $800: Sarah M. Broom's New Orleans family home, this kind of narrow house with a firearm name, inspired her memoir "The Yellow House" a shotgun shack |
| #8256, aired 2020-10-12 | ANAGRAMS OF EACH OTHER $1200: A person reaching you by phone & a place in a house to store wine caller & cellar |
| #8250, aired 2020-10-02 | LAST WORDS $1600: This word describes the type of carpentry done, of course, last on a house finish carpentry |
| #8248, aired 2020-09-30 | ALL MY TROUBLES $400: Maybe taking on this burrowing animal & mascot of the University of Wisconsin as a house pet was not my finest idea the badger |
| #8248, aired 2020-09-30 | BRITISH GOVERNMENT $800: In your house, it's the 2-word room for your computer & paperwork; in Britain, it's a department of domestic affairs the home office |
| #8248, aired 2020-09-30 | BRITISH GOVERNMENT $1000: In 2006 in the British House of Lords the job of Lord this was largely replaced by Lord Speaker Lord High Chancellor |
| #8246, aired 2020-09-28 | FOLLOW THE BUNNY $800: Need a hand? This website finds you help around the house "when you need it, at your fingertips" TaskRabbit |
| #8246, aired 2020-09-28 | HISTORY $1600: In 1932 Hattie Caraway of Arkansas became the first woman elected to this the Senate |
| #8244, aired 2020-09-24 | FAREWELL ADDRESSES $3,200 (Daily Double): She breathed her last in 1901 at a Osborne House on the Isle of Wight, surrounded by many children & grandchildren Queen Victoria |
| #8243, aired 2020-09-23 | POLITICS GETS PHYSICAL $200: During an 1858 brawl on the House floor, one representative accidentally grabbed this off the head of another, revealing him to be bald a wig or toupée |
| #8243, aired 2020-09-23 | POLITICS GETS PHYSICAL $400: "Elbowgate" rocked Ottawa after this PM bumped a rival MP in the chest before a 2016 House of Commons vote Justin Trudeau |
| #8243, aired 2020-09-23 | IT'S A DATE $800: On Aug. 7, 1964 this international resolution that would prove controversial passed the House unanimously the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution |
| #8242, aired 2020-09-22 | YOU GOTTA FIGHT! $400: In 2011, this man went 12 rounds to beat Juan Manuel Márquez, got 28 stitches, then hit the House of Blues to sing "La Bamba" Manny Pacquiao |
| #8238, aired 2020-09-16 | ACM AWARDS $400: In 2017 Keith Urban & this "American Idol" rocked the house with "The Fighter" Carrie Underwood |
| #8238, aired 2020-09-16 | TV SHOWS BASED ON BOOKS BY WOMEN $600: In the 1970s & '80s Melissa Gilbert & Melissa Sue Anderson starred in "Little House on the Prairie", based on books by this author Laura Ingalls Wilder |
| #8236, aired 2020-09-14 | ROLE WITH THE CHANGES $400: Lecy Goranson was Becky Conner No. 1 on this '90s sitcom; Sarah Chalke was second Becky Roseanne |
| #8234, aired 2020-06-11 | THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES $400: Eleanor Holmes Norton has been the non-voting delegate for this district for nearly 30 years Washington, D.C. |
| #8234, aired 2020-06-11 | THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES $800: 2019's H.R. 420 is a federal bill that seeks to regulate this substance marijuana |
| #8234, aired 2020-06-11 | THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES $1200: Chaired by Maxine Waters, the House Committee on these services regulates the banks financial services |
| #8234, aired 2020-06-11 | THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES $2000: The 9th district of this state was not represented in January 2019 because the vote there was not certified due to charges of fraud North Carolina |
| #8234, aired 2020-06-11 | THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES $5,000 (Daily Double): This 15-letter appointed officer publishes the rules for the House & makes sure the reps abide by them the parliamentarian |
| #8233, aired 2020-06-10 | HOME IMPROVEMENT ON TV $600: In Feb. 1979 on Boston's WGBH, Bob Vila took on a reno at a Victorian in Dorchester in the first season of this show This Old House |
| #8233, aired 2020-06-10 | CATHOLIC NATIONS $800: St. Columba's House & St. Kevin's Kitchen are 2 historic churches in this European nation that's about 80% Catholic Ireland |
| #8233, aired 2020-06-10 | LITERARY TITLE BEVERAGES $2000: Naturally, apple picking is featured in this 1985 John Irving novel The Cider House Rules |
| #8231, aired 2020-06-08 | COLORS $600: "To scorch slightly in cooking" is one Random House Dictionary definition to brown |
| #8230, aired 2020-06-05 | PUBLISHERS $2000: Random House's Lenny Books imprint is run by this creator of the TV show "Girls" Lena Dunham |
| #8227, aired 2020-06-02 | BEFORE & AFTER $400: U.S. executive mansion that's a legal confinement to one's own residence instead of prison White House arrest |
| #8227, aired 2020-06-02 | I'M FULL OF "N.V." $600: The U.S. House of Representatives has 6 of these members, like Puerto Rico's resident commissioner non-voting |
| #8227, aired 2020-06-02 | WOMEN AUTHORS $1600: "The House on Mango Street" is the first book of fiction by this Mexican-American woman (Sandra) Cisneros |
| #8226, aired 2020-06-01 | GENERATIONS OF LITTLE WOMEN $200: The 2019 film of "Little Women" replicated Orchard House, where this author wrote & set the novel (Louisa May) Alcott |
| #8226, aired 2020-06-01 | U.S. GOVERNMENT $400: The prosecutors in a Senate impeachment trial are called the "House" these managers |
| #8225, aired 2020-05-29 | AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: This education reformer took John Quincy Adams' seat in the House of Representatives, where he vigorously opposed slavery Horace Mann |
| #8225, aired 2020-05-29 | DESCRIBING THE ADJECTIVE $3,456 (Daily Double): Desolate & raw, or a title description of a novel "House" with Ada Clarek bleak |
| #8223, aired 2020-05-27 | FORM "E" $600: Take a look from above & you'll see why an area just south of the White House has this geometric name the Ellipse |
| #8222, aired 2020-05-26 | CANADIAN PLACES $400: Completed in 1818, Province House in Halifax in this province is Canada's oldest Parliament building Nova Scotia |
| #8219, aired 2020-05-21 | FACTS & FIGURES $400: Adding up senators & House representatives, Congress has this many voting members 535 |
| #8219, aired 2020-05-21 | GEOGRAPHY $1,000 (Daily Double): If you're on Nevis & have business at Government House, you need to go to this nearby island St. Kitts |
| #8217, aired 2020-05-19 | STILL STANDING IN EUROPE $400: Paris' Sainte-Chapelle was built in 1248 to house this holy headgear of Jesus the Crown of Thorns |
| #8217, aired 2020-05-19 | HISTORIC HOMES $800: You might recognize the Eldon, Iowa house seen here from this famous 1930 painting of a farm couple posing in front of it American Gothic |
| #8217, aired 2020-05-19 | STILL STANDING IN EUROPE $1000: Once Europe's tallest office tower, the Witte Huis, or White House, survived the 1940 bombing of this Dutch city and major port Rotterdam |
| #8217, aired 2020-05-19 | BILLS, BILLS, BILLS $1200: In 2019 H.R.596, this peninsula's "Annexation Non-Recognition Act", passed in the House 427-1 Crimea |
| #8217, aired 2020-05-19 | HISTORIC HOMES $1600: Many believe the 160-room San Jose, California "Mystery House" built by the heiress to this rifle company is haunted Winchester |
| #8215, aired 2020-05-01 | POLITICIAN AUTHORS $1000: This Republican ex-Speaker of the House co-wrote the alternate history novel "1945", published in 1995 Gingrich |
| #8213, aired 2020-04-29 | I'M JUST WILD ABOUT HARRY $2000: Known as "The King of Diamonds", he founded his jewelry house in 1932 Harry Winston |
| #8212, aired 2020-04-28 | THE FRENCH PRINCE $600 (Daily Double): The title Prince of Conti was borne by sons of this royal house that ruled France from 1589 to 1830, mostly Bourbon |
| #8212, aired 2020-04-28 | SNOPES SAYS NOPE $1000: This House Speaker did not use $15,000 worth of pens to sign impeachment articles against Donald Trump Nancy Pelosi |
| #8211, aired 2020-04-27 | ARCHER $1600: In this Edith Wharton novel, the aptly named May Welland Archer wins an archery contest at the Beaufort House The Age of Innocence |
| #8210, aired 2020-04-24 | DOUBLE LETTER X2 $200: Enjoy this beverage in a shop, house or klatch coffee |
| #8210, aired 2020-04-24 | "STUPID" $1000: In "National Lampoon's Animal House", Dean Wormer tells Flounder, this 4-word state "is no way to go through life, son" Fat, drunk, and stupid |
| #8209, aired 2020-04-23 | PENNSYLVANIA GEO $800: Espy House, in the southern town of Bedford, served as Washington's headquarters during this rebellion in 1794 the Whiskey Rebellion |
| #8208, aired 2020-04-22 | AT REST IN WASHINGTON, D.C. $2000: At Prospect Hill Cemetery: William with this last name who owned the house where Abraham Lincoln died Petersen |
| #8207, aired 2020-04-21 | A PITCH FOR A HAPPIER MOVIE ENDING $200: It's a little out of the box but hey, I'm thinking...what if Daniel Day-Lewis just skips the theater & stays in the White House? Lincoln |
| #8207, aired 2020-04-21 | THE FIELD MARSHAL PLAN $600: In 1848 Marshal Windischgrätz helped get the crown of Austria for young Franz Joseph of this imperial house Hapsburg |
| #8205, aired 2020-04-17 | WORLD CAPITALS $1200: Rising out of a fjord, this capital city has an opera house that appeals to music lovers & skateboarders Oslo |
| #8202, aired 2020-04-14 | POTPOURRI $400: At the Grammys from the Staples Center in 2020, Alicia Keys said, "We are... heartbroken in The House That" this Laker "Built" Kobe Bryant |
| #8202, aired 2020-04-14 | HISTORY 101 $800: The 1st ex-pres. to serve as a rep., he had a stroke at his desk on the House floor in 1848 & died 2 days later in the Speaker's room John Quincy Adams |
| #8201, aired 2020-04-13 | WHAT A CHARACTER $2000: In a novel by Charlotte Bronte, Bertha Mason, first wife of this man, didn't get out of the house much Rochester |
| #8200, aired 2020-04-10 | "SPRING" BREAK $800: FDR's Little White House is in this Georgia town Warm Springs |
| #8199, aired 2020-04-09 | EUROPEAN HISTORY $1200: Beginning in 1455, the Wars of the Roses pitted the house of Lancaster against this royal house for the English throne York |
| #8195, aired 2020-04-03 | THE CODE OF HAMMURABI $600: If a responder steals from a house where this has broken out, "he shall be thrown into" it then & there a fire |
| #8191, aired 2020-03-30 | FETE OFFENSIVE $800: After this war hero's 1829 inauguration, crowds nearly crushed him & the White House was trashed Andrew Jackson |
| #8187, aired 2020-03-24 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN PERFORMERS $800: She was hilarious in 2009, headlining the first White House Correspondents' Dinner under President Obama (Wanda) Sykes |
| #8183, aired 2020-03-18 | PLACES IN FANTASY $1200: Home of House Tyrell, Highgarden is a fertile wine-growing region on this continent Westeros |
| #8181, aired 2020-03-16 | RECENT EVENTS $1000: Carlos Ghosn, disgraced head of this car company, made a dramatic house arrest-break in Japan & fled to Lebanon Nissan |
| #8179, aired 2020-03-12 | DEFENDING THEMSELVES IN COURT $400: Convicted of racketeering despite his vigorous self-defense, James Traficant was then expelled from this body by a 420-1 vote the House of Representatives |
| #8177, aired 2020-03-10 | YOU'RE IN MY HOUSE! $200: This playboy's Playboy Mansion Hefner |
| #8177, aired 2020-03-10 | YOU'RE IN MY HOUSE! $400: This author's Ozcot (Frank) Baum |
| #8177, aired 2020-03-10 | YOU'RE IN MY HOUSE! $600: This tech mogul's house in Medina, Washington is sometimes called Xanadu 2.0 (Bill) Gates |
| #8177, aired 2020-03-10 | YOU'RE IN MY HOUSE! $800: This chemical heir's Winterthur House in northern Delaware DuPont |
| #8177, aired 2020-03-10 | YOU'RE IN MY HOUSE! $1000: The Beehive House, home to this religious leader until 1877 Brigham Young |
| #8175, aired 2020-03-06 | BRITISH POLITICS $200: It's the job of presiding over the House of Commons. From 2009 to 2019, it was the flamboyant John Bercow the Speaker |
| #8175, aired 2020-03-06 | BRITISH POLITICS $3,200 (Daily Double): Since 2016 Baroness Evans of Bowes Park has been the leader of this body the House of Lords |
| #8173, aired 2020-03-04 | HELLER $800: Want your very own Frank Lloyd Wright home? The Heller house in this city's Hyde Park area was offered for sale for $2.2 million Chicago |
| #8168, aired 2020-02-26 | LET'S SPEAK HINDI! $800: House in the Bengal style is the original meaning of the Hindi word for this style of modern suburban home bungalow |
| #8162, aired 2020-02-18 | ARCHITECTURE $400: Connecting buildings or parts of a house, this covered passage, open on the sides, is so named because it allows wind to pass through a breezeway |
| #8162, aired 2020-02-18 | TV-POURRI $800: "Everybody Dies" was the 2012 series finale of this Hugh Laurie show House |
| #8158, aired 2020-02-12 | RAPPER'S DELIGHT $2000: Rapper Danny Boy O'Connor loved the Tulsa house used in the film version of this author's "The Outsiders", so he restored it S.E. Hinton |
| #8156, aired 2020-02-10 | WINTRY READING $800: Dostoyevsky's autobiographical novel "The House of the Dead" has been published with the subtitle "or, Prison Life" here--brrr! Siberia |
| #8156, aired 2020-02-10 | A UNIQUE SYNONYM $1200: Without a member of the House of Lords peerless |
| #8154, aired 2020-02-06 | SHAPELY BOOK TITLES $400: Written by Elliott Roosevelt, "Murder in" this room features his mom, Eleanor, solving a homicide in the White House the Oval Office |
| #8152, aired 2020-02-04 | IRRITABLE OWL SYNDROME $1000: When Winnie the Pooh & Piglet go to see Owl's tree house in this forest, the wind knocks the tree over the Hundred Acre Wood |
| #8152, aired 2020-02-04 | TL;DR $1200: Dickens' tale of a seemingly endless lawsuit is contained in the 900+ pages of this "homely" novel Bleak House |
| #8151, aired 2020-02-03 | STATE OF THE ESTATE $400: The Turner-Ingersoll Mansion, AKA The House of the Seven Gables Massachusetts |
| #8146, aired 2020-01-27 | PUBLIC TELEVISION $600: Norm Abram earned his spot on the debut of this renovation show 40 years ago by having a minuscule scrap pile This Old House |
| #8146, aired 2020-01-27 | WRAP IT UP! $800: The house here has this type of veranda that extends around the sides of the house a wraparound |
| #8146, aired 2020-01-27 | DANGEROUS COLORS $1200: Used in "The Arrest of Christ", Naples yellow contains both antimony and this heavy metal once common in house paint lead |
| #8142, aired 2020-01-21 | THE USG $1200: The CBO, this, analyzes economic issues on behalf of the House & Senate the Congressional Budget Office |
| #8138, aired 2020-01-15 | U.S. REPRESENTATIVES $800: Joaquin Castro & Louie Gohmert are both in the House from this state, & that's about as much as the 2 have in common Texas |
| #8138, aired 2020-01-15 | U.S. REPRESENTATIVES $1200: 1/53 of California's House Delegation is this Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff |
| #8138, aired 2020-01-15 | NETFLIX & CHILL $2000: This Netflix show is a chilling reworking of Shirley Jackson's gothic horror tale The Haunting of Hill House |
| #8137, aired 2020-01-14 | THE 11th CENTURY $2000: Around 1071 construction was completed on this Venetian basilica said to house the remains of a Gospel writer St. Mark's |
| #7, aired 2020-01-14 | THE ARTS $400: In 1957 Danish architect Jørn Utzon won a contest to design this; his winning entry featured sail-like shells the Sydney Opera House |
| #8135, aired 2020-01-10 | THE IRISHMAN $800: Dublin's Leinster House inspired James Hoban's design of this Washington, D.C. building the White House |
| #6, aired 2020-01-09 | AN "OK" CATEGORY $800: This group was at one point the house band for "This American Life" on public radio OK Go |
| #5, aired 2020-01-09 | CHARACTERS ON STAGE $800: (Glenn Close delivers the clue.) 35 years before "The Greatest Showman", I sang down the house as Chairy, the wife of this man--but I did it for hundreds of performances on Broadway (P.T.) Barnum |
| #4, aired 2020-01-08 | THEY'RE BACK! $1000: Candace Cameron Bure stars as a grown-up, raising kids of her own, on this reboot Fuller House |
| #3, aired 2020-01-08 | ART & ARTISTS $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew show a painting on the monitor.) Van Gogh drew a famous portrait of this homeopathic physician, whom he called "sicker than I am"; Cezanne, also a friend, chose to paint a scene of his house at Auvers Dr. Gachet |
| #8132, aired 2020-01-07 | POLITICS $800: The House Republican leader since 2014, he shares his name with the star of the 1956 film "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" (Kevin) McCarthy |
| #2, aired 2020-01-07 | ALL IN THE FAMILY: GOVERNMENT EDITION $1600: Last name of John, who held a Michigan House seat from 1955 to 2015, & of his wife Debbie, who succeeded him Dingell |
| #2, aired 2020-01-07 | ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN $2000: This Boston-born architect designed the Massachusetts State House & from 1818 to 1829 served as architect of the U.S. Capitol Bulfinch |
| #8130, aired 2020-01-03 | SLIDING INTO YOUR CMs $400: This MSNBC host served as the top aide for House Speaker Tip O'Neill in the '80s Chris Matthews |
| #8129, aired 2020-01-02 | WHITE HOUSE HUNTERS $200: Jimmy & Rosalynn are moving to D.C.; he's putting his farm of this crop into a trust to avoid conflicts of interest peanut |
| #8129, aired 2020-01-02 | WHITE HOUSE HUNTERS $400: Abe & Mary Todd are moving back to D.C., where Abe was a congressman from 1847 to 1849 in this pre-Republican party the Whig Party |
| #8129, aired 2020-01-02 | NEW YORK CITY MUSEUMS $600: Fun house mirrors & vintage bumper cars are part of the collection celebrating this iconic amusement area in Brooklyn Coney Island |
| #8129, aired 2020-01-02 | WHITE HOUSE HUNTERS $600: Theodore misses his old place & thinks a 3rd term is the perfect solution but this incumbent has other ideas about TR's house hunting Taft |
| #8129, aired 2020-01-02 | WHITE HOUSE HUNTERS $800: Pre-D.C., Nancy was an actress & Ronald was a different kind of president, leading SAG, short for this, from 1947 to 1952 the Screen Actors Guild |
| #8129, aired 2020-01-02 | WHITE HOUSE HUNTERS $1000: With the White House becoming unstable & dangerous, Harry & Bess start a 4-year reno in 1948 & move to this building across the street Blair House |
| #8123, aired 2019-12-25 | A POWER CALLER $400: 10 years ago, it cost about $50,000 to install a system to power your house using this energy; now, a 6-kw system could go for $14K solar |
| #8123, aired 2019-12-25 | ASTROLOGICAL TERMS $400: According to synastry, or relationship astrology, if his Mars is in her 8th this, she'll have the hots for him house |
| #8122, aired 2019-12-24 | A CHRISTMAS CAROL COLLAGE $200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from Omni Parker House in Boston MA.) Arriving on November 19, 1867 for a U.S. reading tour, this author practiced "A Christmas Carol" in front of the mirror here, now named for him (Charles) Dickens |
| #8122, aired 2019-12-24 | CELEBRITY COUPLES $400: 2011 was busy for Rachel Weisz & this Bond actor; the pair starred in "Dream House" & got married Daniel Craig |
| #8117, aired 2019-12-17 | BATTLE LOSERS $1000: Bosworth Field: This royal house the York |
| #8117, aired 2019-12-17 | CONTEMPORARY REVIEWS OF CHILDREN'S BOOKS $1000: Dorothy Parker wrote, "Tonstant weader fwowed up" in her 1928 review of the book "The House at" this place Pooh Corner |
| #8116, aired 2019-12-16 | A EUROPEAN RIVER TOUR $600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew at the State Opera House in Vienna, Austria.) The Vienna State Opera House was built in Neo this style to reflect that 16th century period of artistic rediscovery when the art form of opera was born Renaissance |
| #8116, aired 2019-12-16 | AMERICAN HOMES $1200: The Mount, not the House of Mirth, is the name of her estate in Lenox, Massachusetts (Edith) Wharton |
| #8116, aired 2019-12-16 | GREAT DANES $1200: Playing a shell game, Jørn Utzon won a 1957 design competition for what would become this Australian landmark the Sydney Opera House |
| #8115, aired 2019-12-13 | HOUSE & HOME $200: After the high chair, a toddler can graduate to this seat a booster seat |
| #8115, aired 2019-12-13 | HOUSE & HOME $400: In your bathroom you might have a corner or clawfoot one of these a tub |
| #8115, aired 2019-12-13 | HOUSE & HOME $600: You don't have to hold a candle if you have this hanging fixture whose name is from a word meaning "something that holds candles" chandelier |
| #8115, aired 2019-12-13 | HOUSE & HOME $800: Benjamin Maughan invented one of these called the geyser; nowadays tankless ones have eradicated cold showers a hot water heater |
| #8115, aired 2019-12-13 | HOUSE & HOME $1000: IKEA sells freestanding these for the kitchen; models include Vadholma & Tornviken islands |
| #8114, aired 2019-12-12 | DESIGNER INITIALS $200: In 2002 he announced his retirement & the closing of his famous haute couture house: Y.S.L. Yves Saint Laurent |
| #8114, aired 2019-12-12 | THE PRESIDENT HAD MONEY TROUBLES $600 (Daily Double): Living on a $112 per month pension after the White House, this ex-haberdasher refused any cashing in on the prestige of the presidency Harry Truman |
| #8114, aired 2019-12-12 | "EL" OR "LA" $1200: Soprano Maria Callas made her debut at this Milan opera house in 1950 La Scala |
| #8112, aired 2019-12-10 | WORLD CAPITAL ATTRACTIONS $600: The Anne Frank House Amsterdam |
| #8112, aired 2019-12-10 | OCCUPATIONALLY NAMED AUTHORS $2000: "The Way of All Flesh" is an autobiographical work by this "house servant" (Samuel) Butler |
| #8107, aired 2019-12-03 | WORDS & THEIR MEANINGS $800: An official rebuke; short of expulsion, the U.S. House may discipline a member with a reprimand or this censure |
| #8106, aired 2019-12-02 | I WON'T BE IN TODAY $1,000 (Daily Double): In 1913, from this Jr. capitalist: Working from home in my new mansion, at 102 feet the tallest house yet built in New York City John D. Rockefeller, Jr. |
| #8104, aired 2019-11-28 | OSCAR-WINNING ADAPTED SCREENPLAYS $1600: 1999: John Irving, from his novel The Cider House Rules |
| #8103, aired 2019-11-27 | ON THE GROUND FLOOR $400: The ground floor of "The Residence" in this U.S. building contains a diplomatic reception room & a chocolate shop the White House |
| #8103, aired 2019-11-27 | IN THE OPERA CAST $1200: Raimondo, chaplain to this noble house, urges Lucia to accept her arranged marriage Lammermoor |
| #8101, aired 2019-11-25 | DOUBLE LETTERS IN THE MIDDLE $400: A place to house your hound when you head out of town a kennel |
| #8099, aired 2019-11-21 | OF THE THIRD KIND $800: The Third Amendment to the Constitution is about the right to not have these people in your house soldiers |
| #8097, aired 2019-11-19 | HISTORICAL HODGEPODGE $800: On March 30, 1981 this Secretary of State & retired general told the press, "As of now, I am in control here, in the White House" (Alexander) Haig |
| #8096, aired 2019-11-18 | WAR STORIES $400: "When Britain Burned the White House" by Peter Snow the War of 1812 |
| #8096, aired 2019-11-18 | HOME IS WHERE THE ART IS $3,000 (Daily Double): A full-length portrait of George Washington from this 18th c. artist is often admired by tourists at the White House Gilbert Stuart |
| #8094, aired 2019-11-14 | HOUSE PAINTING $400: Monet's painting of a residence in Sassenheim, Holland features a field replete with these flowers tulips |
| #8094, aired 2019-11-14 | HOUSE PAINTING $800: The lithograph of Mount Vernon seen here was from this pair known for their cheap & popular pictures Currier & Ives |
| #8094, aired 2019-11-14 | HOUSE PAINTING $1200: His "Christina's World" depicts a woman with polio straining toward a farmhouse (Andrew) Wyeth |
| #8094, aired 2019-11-14 | HOUSE PAINTING $1600: The house in the rear of this Brit's painting "A Bigger Splash" features, of course, a swimming pool (David) Hockney |
| #8094, aired 2019-11-14 | HOUSE PAINTING $2000: He eschewed more familiar urban scenes as in his "Nighthawks" to paint "Vermont Sugar House" in 1938 (Edward) Hopper |
| #8092, aired 2019-11-12 | PLACES TO LIVE $1000: The converted outbuilding called a coach house or with this other transport name can be quite comfortable a carriage (house) |
| #8090, aired 2019-11-08 | SETTING THE SCENE IN SHAKESPEARE $400: Act III, scene i: "Before the Senate house; senators in session seen through open doors" Julius Caesar |
| #8090, aired 2019-11-08 | SETTING THE SCENE IN SHAKESPEARE $800: Act II, scene i:
"Portia's house at Belmont" The Merchant of Venice |
| #8089, aired 2019-11-07 | 5-SYLLABLE WORDS $400: Random House says this rhyming word is an "incantation using... magical words", & Presto! You say... abracadabra |
| #8088, aired 2019-11-06 | THIS TIME, IT'S PERSONAL $400: In her 1903 auto-biography: "I lived, up to the time of the illness that deprived me of my sight and hearing, in a tiny house" Helen Keller |
| #8088, aired 2019-11-06 | INITIALS TO ROMAN NUMERALS TO NUMBERS III $1,109 (Daily Double): For Laura's dad in the "Little House on the Prairie" books 101 |
| #8086, aired 2019-11-04 | THE HARVARD LAMPOON $400: The style and irreverence of "Harvard Lampoon" had a huge impact in the '70s when alums Doug Kenney and Henry Beard found "National Lampoon" and Doug co-wrote this very popular college comedy film Animal House |
| #8085, aired 2019-11-01 | A FASHIONABLE CATEGORY $800: A royal house gives its name to this style for a necktie; it has a more complicated knot than a four-in-hand Windsor |
| #8084, aired 2019-10-31 | NEW TESTAMENT QUOTES $1000: Jesus said that a wise man built his house upon a rock but the foolish man "built his house upon" this sand |
| #8084, aired 2019-10-31 | THE BEST LAID PLANS $2000: Seen here is Inigo Jones's redesign for this colorfully named palace Henry VIII had lived in; only the Banqueting House was completed Whitehall |
| #8081, aired 2019-10-28 | HALLOWEEN TRADITIONS $600: The first time the White House was decorated for Halloween was in 1958, when she, Ike's better half, hung owls & goblins Mamie Eisenhower |
| #8080, aired 2019-10-25 | '90s NEWSMAKERS $400: This Georgian published "To Renew America" & also became Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich |
| #8079, aired 2019-10-24 | WHAT'S YOUR ADDRESS? $1000: A famous estate: 1 Lodge Street, Asheville, North Carolina the Biltmore house |
| #8077, aired 2019-10-22 | BRITISH PRIME MINISTERS $600: A few months after quitting as prime minister in 2016, this Conservative gave up his seat in the House of Commons (David) Cameron |
| #8076, aired 2019-10-21 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1600: In 1868 the House of Representatives voted 126 to 47 to impeach this man (Andrew) Johnson |
| #8075, aired 2019-10-18 | ENABLING COOKIES $400 (Daily Double): This Nestle cookie named for a Massachusetts inn dates to the 1930s a Toll House |
| #8075, aired 2019-10-18 | CLUE "N" RESPONSE $1000: This rap duo throws a pajama jammy jam in "House Party 2" Kid 'n Play |
| #8074, aired 2019-10-17 | TV-POURRI $1200: The house that stood in for this home of the Crawleys was remodeled by Sir Charles Barry, who also built the Houses of Parliament Downton Abbey |
| #8071, aired 2019-10-14 | SPEAK SOFTLY $400: Kids, you're within the walls of the house, not out in the park, so stop shouting & "use your" this inside voice |
| #8070, aired 2019-10-11 | WELCOME TO THE MONKEY HOUSE $200: Female patas monkeys are dominant; facing a predator, the male runs away, acting as this 5-letter lure a decoy |
| #8070, aired 2019-10-11 | WELCOME TO THE MONKEY HOUSE $400: Scientists found out about all this monkey's pieces when they mapped out its genome in 2007 the rhesus |
| #8070, aired 2019-10-11 | WELCOME TO THE MONKEY HOUSE $600: It tums out that this monkey with a prominent facial feature is a good swimmer a proboscis monkey |
| #8070, aired 2019-10-11 | WELCOME TO THE MONKEY HOUSE $800: A shell-like organ in its throat gives resonance to the voice of this South American monkey, leading to its name a howler monkey |
| #8070, aired 2019-10-11 | WELCOME TO THE MONKEY HOUSE $1000: Spider monkeys lack the grasping adaptation known by this 2-word term; it would get in the way as they hook fingers over branches an opposable thumb (a prehensile thumb) |
| #8069, aired 2019-10-10 | 20th CENTURY NOVELS $400: "A House Divided" completed Pearl Buck's trilogy that began 4 years earlier with this Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Good Earth |
| #8069, aired 2019-10-10 | A JOB IN TV $800: With this French-named front of the house job, Marino Monferrato keeps diners happy at "Hell's Kitchen" maître d' |
| #8068, aired 2019-10-09 | CLASSIC TELEVISION $1600: 9114 South Central Avenue in L.A. was the TV home of this title father & son's house & junkyard Sanford and Son |
| #8066, aired 2019-10-07 | ANAGRAMS OF EACH OTHER $600: To make a sauce more viscous & the room of the house where it might happen thicken & kitchen |
| #8065, aired 2019-10-04 | BOOKS FOR YOUNGER READERS $800: Mary Pope Osborne has taken kids all through history as Jack & Annie travel in this magic structure the magic tree house |
| #8065, aired 2019-10-04 | FEAT OF (HENRY) CLAY $1200: Clay held this congressional leadership post for 10 years, longer than anyone else in the 19th century Speaker of the House |
| #8064, aired 2019-10-03 | FUN FACTS $400: The boys from Delta House didn't make it, but a party for 3,700 wearing these garments took place in Queensland in 2012 togas |
| #8062, aired 2019-10-01 | CLUES ACROSS AMERICA $400: (Hi, I'm Lisa Hughes from WBZ. In 1856 the chef at the Parker House was said to have invented this 3-word dessert; despite the name, it's actually a 2-layer sponge cake Boston cream pie |
| #8061, aired 2019-09-30 | TRAIL MIX $200: In Boston follow this trail to see the Old State House & the Old North Church the Freedom Trail |
| #8059, aired 2019-09-26 | NAMES IN POLITICS $1000: Head of the House Oversight and Reform Committee, Representative Cummings of Maryland shares this first name with a biblical prophet Elijah |
| #8058, aired 2019-09-25 | "MAN" UP $1000: It's the style of roof on the house seen here mansard |
| #8056, aired 2019-09-23 | RECENT EVENTS QUIZ $2000: He was the first White House counsel in the Trump administration Don McGahn |
| #8054, aired 2019-09-19 | THE HINTING OF HULL HOUSE $200: Founded in 1889 on Halsted St. in this city, Hull House was the most famous settlement house, kind of an immigrant community center Chicago |
| #8054, aired 2019-09-19 | THE HINTING OF HULL HOUSE $400: Hull House did political work, starting with lobbying for a max 48-hour work week for women in these "shops" sweat shops |
| #8054, aired 2019-09-19 | THE HINTING OF HULL HOUSE $600: Immigrants from all over lived in the area; a group from this country put on "Ajax" in the original on the Hull House stage Greece |
| #8054, aired 2019-09-19 | THE HINTING OF HULL HOUSE $800: Hull House was a center of the Arts & Crafts movement & in 1901 this architect spoke there on "the art & craft of the machine" (Frank Lloyd) Wright |
| #8054, aired 2019-09-19 | THE HINTING OF HULL HOUSE $1000: Hull House is now a museum named for her, its founder & the first American woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize (Jane) Addams |
| #8053, aired 2019-09-18 | CAREER HIGHLIGHTS $1600: Financier;
White House director of communications, July 21-31, 2017;
"Celebrity Big Brother" contestant Anthony Scaramucci ("The Mooch" accepted) |
| #8051, aired 2019-09-16 | WHICH PRESIDENT? $7,000 (Daily Double): 7 of the first 10 presidents were born south of the White House; Martin Van Buren & these 2 men were from the north John Adams & John Quincy Adams |
| #8045, aired 2019-07-26 | SHAKESPEAREAN DOUBLE BLANK VERSE $400: "Henry IV, Part 2":
"He hath eaten me out of ____ and ____" house and home |
| #8039, aired 2019-07-18 | "OY", THE PLACES YOU'LL GO! $2000: This town on Long Island gained fame as the site of Sagamore Hill, Theodore Roosevelt's summer White House Oyster Bay |
| #8038, aired 2019-07-17 | FICTION $200: "The Custom-House" is an introductory section to this Hawthorne novel The Scarlet Letter |
| #8037, aired 2019-07-16 | STATE CAPITALS $800: 6 bronze stars on South Carolina's State House in this city mark where Sherman's cannonballs hit it during the Civil War Columbia |
| #8037, aired 2019-07-16 | ANDREW DAVIES $1200: Conservative whip Francis Urquhart was the scheming center of this Davies series that got a presidential Netflix version House of Cards |
| #8037, aired 2019-07-16 | ANDREW DAVIES $1600: Davies wrote most of the episodes of "Bleak House" 30 minutes long to evoke the way this author serialized it Dickens |
| #8036, aired 2019-07-15 | RHYME TIME $200: Mickey or Minnie's mansion a mouse house |
| #8034, aired 2019-07-11 | RUSSIAN LITERATURE $1200: His imprisonment & subsequent exile to Siberia led to the writing of "The House of the Dead" Dostoevsky |
| #8033, aired 2019-07-10 | NEVER WON AN EMMY $2000: Hugh Laurie's 0 for 10 Emmy score includes noms for "House" & this AMC series about arms dealers The Night Manager |
| #8032, aired 2019-07-09 | 65" $1200: She used her 5'5" frame to speak out for democracy in Myanmar starting in the late '80s, leading to years under house arrest Aung San Suu Kyi |
| #8030, aired 2019-07-05 | LITERARY MINNESOTA $800: He wrote his first novel, "This Side of Paradise", in his parents' house on Summit Avenue in St. Paul F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| #8030, aired 2019-07-05 | WE MEAN BID-NESS $1000: Lance Bass wanted the "Brady Bunch" house but his bid was out of sync & topped by this TV network that's all about houses HGTV |
| #8028, aired 2019-07-03 | MY LAWN $800: I plant the same tall fescue grass used in this directional lawn that hosts an annual Easter Egg Roll the South Lawn at the White House |
| #8027, aired 2019-07-02 | THE GEORGE W. BUSH PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents from the George W. Bush Presidential Library.) Forty-six Baseball Hall of Famers visited the White House in 2001 & signed a bat for the president, including Nolan Ryan, who pitched for this team President Bush once co-owned the Texas Rangers |
| #8020, aired 2019-06-21 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $200: He's the only U.S. president who never lived in the White House George Washington |
| #8016, aired 2019-06-17 | AROUND THE HOUSE $200: As a verb it's what you're supposed to do to excel in school; as a noun, it's a room for reading a study |
| #8016, aired 2019-06-17 | AROUND THE HOUSE $400: Dad loves his heavy new black skillet made of this type of "iron"; he seasons it with oil to keep it like new cast iron |
| #8016, aired 2019-06-17 | AROUND THE HOUSE $600: Polycarbonate windows function as this, any material that keeps heat in during winter, out during summer an insulator |
| #8016, aired 2019-06-17 | AROUND THE HOUSE $800: One of the 7 Deadly Sins, or a mirrored dressing table that's great for applying make-up a vanity |
| #8016, aired 2019-06-17 | AROUND THE HOUSE $2,000 (Daily Double): This word means "designed for work", yet Uncle Joe has that type of recliner in which he does none ergonomic |
| #8014, aired 2019-06-13 | RESTAURANT CHAINS $800: Serving "good food fast", this southern favorite is known as WaHo for short Waffle House |
| #8013, aired 2019-06-12 | THE MADDEN CROWD $800: Richard Madden's "Game of Thrones" role as Robb of this unlucky house came to a very ceremonious end at the Red Wedding House Stark |
| #8010, aired 2019-06-07 | IF THEY MARRIED... $2000: '90s singer Tori of "Cornflake Girl" fame joins actor John in his "Full House" & hyphenates her name to this Tori Amos-Stamos |
| #8007, aired 2019-06-04 | THE PARKER HOUSE: A HOTEL IN HISTORY $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Omni Parker House hotel.) The restaurant at the Parker House, specifically here at table 40, is one of a few places claiming to be where these two, a future President and First Lady, got engaged JFK and Jackie Kennedy |
| #8007, aired 2019-06-04 | THE PARKER HOUSE: A HOTEL IN HISTORY $600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Omni Parker House hotel.) Founded in 1855 and meeting on the last Saturday of the month at the Parker House, the Saturday Club included local literary giants like Whittier, Thoreau, Hawthorne, and this American scholar transcendentalist Emerson |
| #8007, aired 2019-06-04 | OUR FOUNDING MOTHERS $800: Dolley Madison was a hero of this war for her actions during the burning of the White House the War of 1812 |
| #8007, aired 2019-06-04 | THE PARKER HOUSE: A HOTEL IN HISTORY $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Omni Parker House hotel.) Working as a baker making Parker House rolls here at the hotel in 1912 was this future communist world leader Ho Chi Minh |
| #8007, aired 2019-06-04 | THE PARKER HOUSE: A HOTEL IN HISTORY $1000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Omni Parker House hotel.) Moving to Boston in 1941, he found work here as a busboy; busted for burglary, he'd convert to Islam in prison and emerged with this new name Malcolm X |
| #8002, aired 2019-05-28 | THE EASTERN SEABOARD $1,000 (Daily Double): White House hopefuls visit the Red Arrow Diner in this New Hampshire city that's on the Merrimack River Manchester |
| #8001, aired 2019-05-27 | 1 LETTER IS ALL YOU NEED $800: Type of "frame" very common in house construction A |
| #8000, aired 2019-05-24 | CLUES ACROSS TEXAS $400: (I'm Anne Elise Parks with TXA 21.) The George W. Bush Presidential Library is in this city where the president moved back to after the White House Dallas |
| #7999, aired 2019-05-23 | NEWS SPEAK $1200: The term "hard pass" was in the news in November 2018--it's what reporters need to come & go in this building the White House |
| #7996, aired 2019-05-20 | STOCK SYMBOLS $400: For all of your in-house projects & repairs, this company comes to you in HD Home Depot |
| #7996, aired 2019-05-20 | STOCK SYMBOLS $1000: Appropriately, the stock symbol for Sotheby's auction house is this 3-letter verb BID |
| #7993, aired 2019-05-15 | RECENT POLITICS $200: TV ratings went through the roof on Feb. 27, 2019 when this attorney testified before the House Oversight Committee Michael Cohen |
| #7993, aired 2019-05-15 | RECENT POLITICS $400: 3 years after this Ohioan's days as House Speaker ended, he backed a marijuana startup going public in Canada in 2018 John Boehner |
| #7992, aired 2019-05-14 | IDIOMS AROUND THE HOUSE $200: If you are being "called on" this floor covering, you are being reprimanded the carpet |
| #7992, aired 2019-05-14 | IDIOMS AROUND THE HOUSE $400: Accusing someone of a failing that you also have? That's this expression that mentions 2 pieces of cookware the pot calling the kettle black |
| #7992, aired 2019-05-14 | IDIOMS AROUND THE HOUSE $600: Temporarily staying in a series of other people's homes with makeshift sleeping arrangements is doing this--hang ten! couch surf (or bed surfing) |
| #7992, aired 2019-05-14 | IDIOMS AROUND THE HOUSE $800: "The hand that" does this "rules the world" rock the cradle |
| #7992, aired 2019-05-14 | IDIOMS AROUND THE HOUSE $1000: Tertullian's proverb "de calcaria in carbonarium" is said to be the source of this phrase for going from bad to worse out of the frying pan and into the fire |
| #7991, aired 2019-05-13 | NOBEL PEACE PRIZES $2000: The 1931 Nobel Peace Prize was shared by 2 Americans:
Nicholas Butler & this Hull House cofounder Jane Addams |
| #7990, aired 2019-05-10 | WORLD OF LIT $800: "The House of the Spirits" is the first novel by this author of Chilean heritage (Isabel) Allende |
| #7988, aired 2019-05-08 | RECENT BESTSELLERS $1,000 (Daily Double): Both Michael Wolff's "Fire and Fury" & Bob Woodward's "Fear" mention this building in their subtitles the White House |
| #7985, aired 2019-05-03 | CLASSIC LITERATURE $1,000 (Daily Double): Part one of "Les Miserables" is "Fantine"; part two is named for this daughter of hers Cosette |
| #7983, aired 2019-05-01 | GOING BLANK ON THE TITLE $200: After "Little House", there was "Little Town on the ____" prairie |
| #7983, aired 2019-05-01 | I COULD LIVE IN THAT FOOD $800: Nestle suggests using brown & white sugar to make these cookies named for a Massachusetts inn Toll House |
| #7976, aired 2019-04-22 | WORDS FROM ITALIAN $800: A "little house" for gambling activities... how about the Golden Nugget? a casino |
| #7975, aired 2019-04-19 | NOVEL VOCABULARY $1000: Hawthorne used "spiracles" to mean airshafts in this novel with another architectural feature in the title The House of Seven Gables |
| #7974, aired 2019-04-18 | AROUND THE HOUSE $200: It's the shelf that's above a fireplace; one at Andrew Jackson's Hermitage was made of--what else--hickory mantel |
| #7974, aired 2019-04-18 | FEATURE FILM DEBUTS $400: Kevin Bacon made his feature film debut as a fraternity pledge in this 1978 John Belushi film Animal House |
| #7974, aired 2019-04-18 | AROUND THE HOUSE $400: A type of meal where guests serve themselves can be laid out on this sideboard of the same name a buffet |
| #7974, aired 2019-04-18 | AROUND THE HOUSE $600: We've put in some raised planters to have a kitchen garden with parsley, sage, rosemary & this herb thyme |
| #7974, aired 2019-04-18 | AROUND THE HOUSE $800: In the dining room, it's a cabinet for the china; out in the yard, it's a cage for our pet rabbits a hutch |
| #7974, aired 2019-04-18 | AROUND THE HOUSE $1000: We've got Chex in our pantry & this rhyming brand for the floors of our decks Trex |
| #7973, aired 2019-04-17 | 5, 5 $1200: Mus musculus--it's the rhyming name of the rodent seen here house mouse |
| #7967, aired 2019-04-09 | INTERNATIONAL ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN $400: When entering a Japanese house, you traditionally leave these paired items in the genkan near the door shoes |
| #7966, aired 2019-04-08 | TRUE CRIME BOOK SHELF $400: Pete Earley spent 2 years among some of the most dangerous criminals to write "The Hot House" about life inside this Kansas prison Leavenworth |
| #7965, aired 2019-04-05 | LEGAL TERMS $200: In early law, this wasn't a crime if it was to your own house; now, burning your place for insurance is a no-no arson |
| #7964, aired 2019-04-04 | POTPOURRI $600: A painting that spent 60 years stored in this room at the top of a house was authenticated as a Van Gogh in 2013 an attic |
| #7960, aired 2019-03-29 | AD SLOGANS $1000: The makers of Maxwell House coffee attributed this description of its taste to Theodore Roosevelt good to the last drop |
| #7957, aired 2019-03-26 | TO BE ELF-EVIDENT $800: Unafraid to speak of himself in the third person, this house-elf was indentured to the Malfoy family Dobby |
| #7954, aired 2019-03-21 | TV DOCTORS $400: Dr. Wilson was the long-suffering best friend of this sarcastic limping master diagnostician House |
| #7954, aired 2019-03-21 | DICKENS WILL BE THE DEATH OF ME $1000: In "Bleak House" the half-mad alcoholic Krook dies this odd way, bursting into flames without apparent cause spontaneous combustion |
| #7953, aired 2019-03-20 | BEHIND BARS $1600: He went from the White House of the Confederacy in Richmond to imprisonment at Fort Monroe near Norfolk Jefferson Davis |
| #7953, aired 2019-03-20 | NAMES FOR YOUR DOG $1600: Is your dog the queen of the house? Call her this, the kingdom ruled by a visitor to King Solomon in the Bible Sheba |
| #7949, aired 2019-03-14 | THE PLAY'S LAST LINES $800: By Ibsen: "Nora! Nora! Empty. She's gone. The greatest miracle--"(door slams) A Doll's House |
| #7947, aired 2019-03-12 | EXIT THROUGH THE GIFT SHOP $600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from Betsy Ross House in Philadelphia):
At the Betsy Ross House, you can buy a replica of Betsy's famous flag and proudly wave a total of this many stars and stripes combined 26 |
| #7944, aired 2019-03-07 | THIS & THAT $200: You can go green & power up with these panels on the roof of your house, as well as your RV or boat solar panels |
| #7944, aired 2019-03-07 | THE DOCTORS $1600: Leonard Wood left his job as White House physician to command this regiment; Teddy Roosevelt was its No. 2 the Rough Riders |
| #7943, aired 2019-03-06 | IN THE "MI"DDLE $200: He rids your house of vermin an exterminator |
| #7940, aired 2019-03-01 | 20th CENTURY BESTSELLERS $1000: In a 1952 book a craftsman fashions "The Silver" this title drinking vessel to house the Holy Grail chalice |
| #7937, aired 2019-02-26 | JUST THE FACTS $400: The House of Representatives convened in 2019 with Kevin McCarthy in this post House Minority Leader |
| #7937, aired 2019-02-26 | RANKS & TITLES $600: This adjective is used in the British House of Commons during debate, as in "the ____ minister for Pudsey" honourable |
| #7931, aired 2019-02-18 | TELL ALLS $800: "Unhinged" is her "insider's Account of the Trump White House" Omarosa |
| #7931, aired 2019-02-18 | STILL I RISE $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from the American Helicopter Museum in West Chester, Pennsylvania.) The American Helicopter Museum is a treasure house of these craft, another name for helicopters from the propeller-like part that turns to give them lift rotorcraft |
| #7926, aired 2019-02-11 | A STATE OF RELAXATION $1600: Franklin Roosevelt's Little White House State Historic Site Georgia |
| #7917, aired 2019-01-29 | YOU DO KNOW JACKALOPE $400: House for a queen a palace |
| #7917, aired 2019-01-29 | GOVERNMENT $600: Under Article 1 of the Constitution, the U.S. House "shall have the sole power of" this against a federal official impeachment |
| #7917, aired 2019-01-29 | HAMBURGERS $800: Karl Lagerfeld has designed at Chanel, with its double "C" symbol, & for five decades at this Italian house, using a double "F" Fendi |
| #7916, aired 2019-01-28 | INSURANCE $200: A comprehensive 1914 house policy from Lloyd's guarded against riots, airships & damage caused by these women suffragettes |
| #7915, aired 2019-01-25 | REFERENCE GOES DIGITAL $1600: uscode.house.gov lets you read these of the United States the laws |
| #7914, aired 2019-01-24 | POTENT POE TALES $3,600 (Daily Double): This Poe story's title is realized as the narrator flees the "House" as it cracks & is torn asunder "The Fall of the House of Usher" |
| #7913, aired 2019-01-23 | THERE COMES A TIME $1000: A 2008 Hillary Clinton campaign ad had a crucial phone call at the White House at this early morning time 3:00 A.M. |
| #7912, aired 2019-01-22 | EVERYONE INTO THE POOL! $600: He found relief from his polio swimming in the mineral pools of Warm Springs, Georgia, where he had a little "White House" FDR (Franklin Roosevelt) |
| #7911, aired 2019-01-21 | TEDDY ROOSEVELT, MEET JACKIE ROBINSON $600: Jackie was a delegate to the 1964 convention of this party that had sent TR to the White House 60 years before Republican Party |
| #7910, aired 2019-01-18 | AUTHORIZED FICTION $2000: A visitor appears at Baker Street in "The House of Silk", the first authorized sequel from this man's estate Arthur Conan Doyle |
| #7906, aired 2019-01-14 | IN THE CLOUD $1600: The cloud can house memories of treasured pets like the breed called the miniature this the schnauzer |
| #7905, aired 2019-01-11 | U.N. NAMEABLE $400: As an 18-year-old this future secretary-general won a contest that took him from Korea to the White House to meet JFK Ban Ki-moon |
| #7902, aired 2019-01-08 | CHAPTERS OF THE NOVEL $2000: "Clifford and Phoebe", "The Pyncheon-Garden" The House of the Seven Gables |
| #7900, aired 2019-01-04 | ALLITERATION $800: After rehab for substance abuse, many find it beneficial to temporarily live in one of these residences a halfway house |
| #7898, aired 2019-01-02 | BUILDING AN IDIOM $1000: This structure made of very thin 2 1/2 x 3 1/2" rectangles is proverbially unstable a house of cards |
| #7896, aired 2018-12-31 | GOING TO SEE AMMAN $2000: I'll enjoy a leisurely walk & take in the sights at the 12-acre plaza named for this house of the royal family Hashemite |
| #7894, aired 2018-12-27 | ALMOST PRESIDENT $2000: Had this New England senator and orator won the White House in 1836, we bet he would have given quite an inaugural Daniel Webster |
| #7894, aired 2018-12-27 | ALMOST PRESIDENT $3,800 (Daily Double): Because he held this job in 1973, Carl Albert would have been Pres. had Nixon resigned before a new veep was confirmed Speaker of the House |
| #7893, aired 2018-12-26 | TV BY THE NUMBERS $800: Imported from Britain, "Man About the House" became this sitcom that starred John Ritter Three's Company |
| #7890, aired 2018-12-21 | SLEIGHING SONGS $800: "Over the river and through the woods to" her "house we go. The horse knows the way to carry the sleigh" Grandmother's house |
| #7889, aired 2018-12-20 | STATE CONSTITUTIONS $3,200 (Daily Double): The 1868 constitution of Florida stipulated a seat in the state Senate & House for a member of this Indian nation the Seminole |
| #7884, aired 2018-12-13 | OTHER LONG-RUNNING TV SHOWS $1000: Public TV station WGBH in this city has been airing the home renovation show "This Old House" since 1979 Boston |
| #7884, aired 2018-12-13 | 1940s AMERICA $1600: Numerical name of the group from the West Coast that defied the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1947 the Hollywood Ten |
| #7881, aired 2018-12-10 | WILL & GRACE $1200: She followed Florence Harding into the White House Grace Coolidge |
| #7878, aired 2018-12-05 | REIGN, DEAR $800: In the 1960s this nation's future Queen Beatrix & her husband welcomed the first male heirs in the house of Orange since 1851 the Netherlands |
| #7877, aired 2018-12-04 | BIOGRAPHIES $1,000 (Daily Double): "Prairie Fires" tells how in her 60s, ruined by the Depression, she started writing about her pioneer childhood (Laura Ingalls) Wilder |
| #7875, aired 2018-11-30 | CITIES ACROSS AMERICA $600: (I'm Patrice Sanders with Fox45 News.) In 1783 George Washington relinquished his command of the Continental Army here in the Maryland State House located in this city Annapolis |
| #7874, aired 2018-11-29 | THE MOVIES $200: Donald Sutherland said he flashed his tush in this Belushi frat film after the director said it was just for the movie's dailies Animal House |
| #7871, aired 2018-11-26 | RECENT NONFICTION $1000: This humorist's book "Calypso" is partly about his beach house "The Sea Section", which just edged out "Canker Shores" David Sedaris |
| #7869, aired 2018-11-22 | ON THE 2018 BILLBOARD CHARTS $400: This "Slippery When Wet" band entered the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame & were on the charts with "This House Is Not For Sale" Bon Jovi |
| #7869, aired 2018-11-22 | THE OLD TESTAMENT $800: Menaced by his brother Esau, he flees to the house of his uncle Jacob |
| #7868, aired 2018-11-21 | GOVT. ABBREV. $2000: (House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi gives the clue.) Putting money back in people's pockets, in 2009 I led House passage of an economic stimulus bill called ARRA, or American Recovery & this Act reinvestment |
| #7867, aired 2018-11-20 | WHAT KILLED ME? $400: The Wicked Witch of the West water |
| #7867, aired 2018-11-20 | WHAT KILLED ME? $1200: Kate Mara's Zoe Barnes on "House of Cards" hit by a subway train |
| #7865, aired 2018-11-16 | THE ARTS $400: In an opera based on this Grimm fairy tale, the title siblings come upon a house made of gingerbread & start noshing "Hansel and Gretel" |
| #7865, aired 2018-11-16 | STATE FACTS $1600: Though they total almost 400,000 sq. mi., Wyoming, the Dakotas & this larger neighbor each get only one U.S. House seat Montana |
| #7865, aired 2018-11-16 | THE ARTS $2000: The house where this artist lived & worked from 1639 to 1658 is now a museum in Amsterdam Rembrandt |
| #7865, aired 2018-11-16 | 'TEENS IN HISTORY $2000: When the British burned the White House in 1814, she saved a portrait of George Washington that still hangs today Dolley Madison |
| #7863, aired 2018-11-14 | UNDERSTANDING MONEY $2000: Yay! Your folks made millions selling that house! Not as yay! They must pay the tax called these "gains" capital gains |
| #7861, aired 2018-11-12 | CLASSIC LITERATURE $1200: In this novel Miss Havisham lives in a decaying mansion called Satis House Great Expectations |
| #7857, aired 2018-11-06 | WOMEN'S FIRSTS $1200: In 1976 Sarah Caldwell became the first woman to conduct at this NYC opera house the Met |
| #7856, aired 2018-11-05 | POKER FACE $200: Your face falls as it's 7-card stud & your straight just lost to a hand with 3 queens & 2 jacks, called this a full house |
| #7856, aired 2018-11-05 | RECENT HEADLINES IN THE ONION $400: She's the White House press secretary who "Flatly Refuses Jim Acosta's Assertion That He's Jim Acosta" Sarah Huckabee Sanders |
| #7855, aired 2018-11-02 | TREASURES OF THE NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY $400: The NPG has the complete gallery of presidential portraits outside the White House--here's this chief executive (Harry) Truman |
| #7855, aired 2018-11-02 | IN THE ROOM $800: This name for the main room of an ancient Roman house also refers to a skylit central court atrium |
| #7854, aired 2018-11-01 | A DOCTOR IN THE HOUSE... OR SENATE $200: In this family daddy Ron is an OB/GYN & former House member; son Rand is an ophthalmologist & senator Paul |
| #7854, aired 2018-11-01 | A DOCTOR IN THE HOUSE... OR SENATE $400: Dr. & Senator Bill Cassidy is the second name in Graham-Cassidy, a 2017 Senate bill to repeal & replace this the Affordable Care Act |
| #7854, aired 2018-11-01 | A DOCTOR IN THE HOUSE... OR SENATE $800 (Daily Double): A representative from Idaho & also this medical professional, Mike Simpson introduced a resolution on water fluoridation a dentist |
| #7852, aired 2018-10-30 | THE 3 F CLUB $800: John Kelly took on this White House job in July 2017 chief of staff |
| #7848, aired 2018-10-24 | SEEN ON MY WALK TODAY $600: Could it be? It is! The house species of this bird, & so early in the season a sparrow |
| #7847, aired 2018-10-23 | EN FRANÇAIS $400: Maison rules--first, know what maison means a house |
| #7843, aired 2018-10-17 | CELEBRITY POLITICIANS $1600: Peter Garrett, lead singer for Midnight Oil, was in this country's House of Representatives for almost a decade Australia |
| #7842, aired 2018-10-16 | LIST $400: In presidential succession:
Vice president, speaker of the House, Senate pres. pro tempore, then this person Secretary of State |
| #7835, aired 2018-10-05 | CONTEMPORARIES $800: In 1824 the House of Reps picked John Quincy Adams as president &, further south, this man chose himself as dictator of Peru Simón Bolívar |
| #7834, aired 2018-10-04 | AUTHORS BORN & DIED $400: Born in "a little house in the big woods" of Wisconsin in 1867, died in Missouri in 1957 (Laura Ingalls) Wilder |
| #7834, aired 2018-10-04 | IF I WERE IN RICHMOND... $600: I would see how the so-called this of the Confederacy compares to the one in D.C. the White House |
| #7834, aired 2018-10-04 | IF I WERE IN RICHMOND... $800: I can review the house of this chief justice, known for presiding over Marbury v. Madison (John) Marshall |
| #7833, aired 2018-10-03 | BRICK BY BRICK $200: Using bricks can keep creepers out of your house in this video game Minecraft |
| #7833, aired 2018-10-03 | BRICK BY BRICK $600: This Lionel Richie group sang, "She's a brick house, yeah, she's the one, the only one, built like an Amazon" The Commodores |
| #7833, aired 2018-10-03 | NEW ENGLAND $800: Built in 1763 & still active, Touro Synagogue in this Rhode Island resort city is America's oldest Jewish house of worship Newport |
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Ari Fleischer, a former White House Press Secretary from the current Bush administration
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"For the first two years of the current Bush administration, he...
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Chuck Todd, a journalist and chief White House correspondent from NBC News and Meet the Press
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"Chief White House correspondent and political director for NBC News, he...
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Robert Gibbs, a former press secretary from the Obama White House
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"In 2004, he joined Barack Obama's senatorial campaign as communications director,...
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Dana Perino, a TV host from Fox News Channel's The Five
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"White House press secretary under George W. Bush, she now appears...
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Andy Richter, an actor/comedian from The Tonight Show
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\"This multitalented actor/comedian is now back on the couch with Conan...
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Chris Wallace, a TV host from Fox News Sunday
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"In March, this Fox News anchor was honored by the National...
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Rich House, an English professor from Terre Haute, Indiana
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Season 24 2-time champion: $45,602 + $2,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: doctorhouse
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Jesse L. Jackson, Jr., a congressman from the U.S. House of Representatives
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"And he led a voter registration drive for the national Rainbow...
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Dee Dee Myers, a journalist from Vanity Fair
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"The first woman ever to hold the post of White House...
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Brad Plovan, an attorney from Baltimore, Maryland
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"With the money from his five wins in 1995, he bought...
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Graham House, a musician from Lincoln, Nebraska
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Season 21 player (2004-10-14). KJL game 57. Alex riffed off of...
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Carin House, a quotation specialist from Evanston, Illinois
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Season 26 player (2009-10-14). Carin won $X on Who Wants to...
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Wolf Blitzer, a journalist from The Situation Room
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"Since 1990, he's covered every major story for CNN, including the...
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Christine Valada, a photographer and attorney originally from Walton, New York
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2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $68,703...
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Thomas L. Friedman, an author and foreign affairs columnist from The New York Times
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"He has won three Pulitzer Prizes and authored six best sellers,...
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Kweisi Mfume, a president from the NAACP
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2004 Power Players Week player (2004-05-11). Name pronounced like "kwah-EE-see oom-FOO-may"....
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Chris Matthews, a TV host from Hardball and The Chris Matthews Show
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"He served as a speechwriter for Jimmy Carter, and later as...
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Danny Devries, a junior from the University of Michigan
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2008 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. 21 and from West Bloomfield, MI...
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Matthew Weiner, a series creator and executive producer from Mad Men
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"He is the creator and executive producer of one of the...
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Bernard Holloway, a junior from Mitchellville, Maryland
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 2002 Teen...
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Chris Rodrigues, a personal banking representative from New Bedford, Massachusetts
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Season 26 3-time champion: $41,498 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Tim Koch, a 12-year-old sixth grader from Cliffwood, New Jersey
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"He would like to be a teacher because you get to...
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Kevin Wilson, a communications specialist from Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Season 26 3-time champion: $76,998 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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Erin Zwiener, a conservation journalist and pet-sitter from Abiquiu, New Mexico
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Season 29 3-time champion: $53,399 + $1,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Kelly O'Donnell, a political reporter from NBC News
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"An Emmy-winning political reporter, she has covered Capitol Hill and the...
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Carl Brandt, an investor originally from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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2009 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 25 4-time champion: $70,799...
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Elyse Mancuso, a junior from Omaha, Nebraska
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2012 Teen Tournament winner: $79,600. 16 at the time of the...
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Tavis Smiley, a talk show host from PBS's The Tavis Smiley Show
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"He's interviewed such diverse personalities as Fidel Castro, Pope John Paul...
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Kate Bolduan, a co-host from CNN's At This Hour
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"As a CNN congressional correspondent, she covered the U.S. House and...
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Frank Spangenberg, a lieutenant in the New York Police Department from Douglaston, New York
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"He still holds the record for the most money won in...
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Samantha Reback, a sophomore from Bethesda, Maryland
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2009 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
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Michael Galvin, a consultant from Penn Wynne, Pennsylvania
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"He was the first winner of the Teen Tournament back in...
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Benjamin Bratt, an actor from Law & Order
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Playing for the American Indian Friendship House of San Francisco, which...
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Andy Davis, a Chyron operator from South Boston, Massachusetts
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Season 25 2-time champion: $49,799 + $1,000. Andy Davis - A...
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Terry Linwood, a bookseller from North Texas
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2010 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 26 5-time champion: $122,705...
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Chris Matthews, a TV host from Hardball and The Chris Matthews Show
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"Once a presidential speechwriter, he's had his own political talk show...
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Melanie Baker-Streevy, a United Methodist pastor from Parma, Michigan
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Season 25 1-time champion: $26,900 + $1,000. Melanie Baker-Streevy - A...
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Mary Naam, a junior at Harvard University from Effingham, Illinois
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2003 College Championship quarterfinalist: $2,500.
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Jackson Ruzzo, a 12-year-old from Waccabuc, New York
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"He wants to be a Broadway actor, because he likes to...
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Michelle Cinguina, an 11-year-old from Stamford, Connecticut
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"Her favorite things to do are act, play the piano and...
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Susan Mitchell, a chemical engineer from Houston, Texas
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2007 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD...
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Fred Beukema, a structural engineer from Minneapolis, Minnesota
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Season 25 3-time champion: $69,401 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Charlie Blatt, an 11-year-old from Scarsdale, New York
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"Besides cooking, working on the computer, and tap dancing, she likes...
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Mike Marmesh, a veterinarian from Miami, Florida
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Season 26 1-time champion: $4,700 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Michael Braun, a junior from Silver Spring, Maryland
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 2005 Teen...
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Camille Bullock, a senior from New Orleans, Louisiana
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2006 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: Camille88
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Colby Burnett, a high school world history teacher from Chicago, Illinois
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\"He teaches at a school started by the Dominicans of St....
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Martin Bruer, a house renovator from London, Ontario, Canada
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Season 11 player (1995-06-14).
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Linda House, a teacher from Somerville, New Jersey
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Season 5 player (1989-04-26).
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Dale Butland, a press secretary originally from Columbus, Ohio
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Season 3 1-time co-champion: $1,000 + a trip to New Orleans...
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India Cooper, a copy editor from Madison, Indiana
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\"She was an actor and copy editor in New York City...
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John Mahoney, an actor from Frasier
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\"A Tony Award winner who now plays Martin Crane on the...
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Liz McCarthy, a communications executive from South Orange, New Jersey
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Season 34 player (2018-03-08). Liz\'s mother won about $50,000 on Tic-Tac-Dough...
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Rose Schaefer, a junior from Portland, Oregon
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2012 Teen Tournament 1st runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $36,000. 16 at...
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Eric House, a technical writer originally from Miami, Florida
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Season 1 player (1985-03-21).
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Matt Polazzo, a high school U.S. government teacher from Brooklyn, New York
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"He teaches at one of the most selective high schools in...
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Kate Wilson, a high school AP English teacher from Montgomery, Alabama
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"She is a top-10 AP English language teacher at Alabama's number-one...
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Brian Meacham, a film preservationist originally from Anchorage, Alaska
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2011 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 27 4-time champion: $90,500...
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Eric Oberhand, a computer consultant from Los Angeles, California
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Season 3 player (1987-06-18). Eric appeared on Art Linkletter's House Party...
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Dominic Olivera, a twelve-year-old from Bristow, Virginia
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"Oh, good heavens! He wants to be a priest when he's...
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Emma Couture, a twelve-year-old from St. Petersburg, Florida
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Andrew Zazzera, a twelve-year-old from Virginia Beach, Virginia
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"He has a sunny future as a meteorologist. From Virginia Beach,...
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Katie Houghton, a senior from Ewing, New Jersey
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2008-B Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Last name pronounced like "HOW-ton".
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Buddy Wright, an operations engineer from Fort Worth, Texas
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2011 Tournament of Champions 2nd runner-up: $50,000. Season 26 4-time champion:...
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Steven Evenhouse, a junior high school social studies teacher from Orland Hills, Illinois
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"He likes teaching because it gives him a captive audience for...
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Tom Kunzen, a geotechnical engineer from Orlando, Florida
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2011 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 27 5-time champion: $133,402...
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Kara Spak, a newspaper reporter from Chicago, Illinois
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2011 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
Season 27 5-time champion: $83,401 + $2,000.
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Evan Sandman, a hotel front desk manager from Los Angeles, California
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Season 28 1-time champion $28,801 + $2,000.
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Brian Muth, a headmaster from Napa, California
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Season 25 2-time champion: $43,800 + $1,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, a Basketball Hall of Famer and all-time leading scorer from the NBA
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"In January, the State Department named this NBA Hall of Famer...
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Amy Paull, a stay-at-home mom from The Woodlands, Texas
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Season 28 player (2012-06-28). Amy won $30,000 on Who Wants to...
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Catherine Briley, a senior from Grand Prairie, Louisiana
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2012 Teen Tournament 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $31,000. 17 at...
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Melanie Bruchet, a senior from Bryn Mawr
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"Everyone wants to be an astronaut when they're a kid, but...
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Mike Maheu, a high school teacher from San Diego, California
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Season 25 2-time champion: $46,242 + $1,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Ben Greenho, a junior from Plano, Texas
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2012 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000.
17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Max Johansen, a senior from the University of Miami
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"As a seventh grader, he was planning on a career in...
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Erin McLean, a sophomore from Boston University from Danvers, Massachusetts
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2011 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 2010-B College Championship winner:...
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Cheryl Grothaus, a computer programmer from New York, New York
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Season 24 player (2008-07-23).
Last name pronounced like "GROAT-house".
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Tim House, a high school teacher from Lancaster, California
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Season 8 1-time champion: $2,599 + a Yorx 6-CD changer stereo...
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Al Franken, an author and radio talk show host from New York City
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"One of the original writers on Saturday Night Live, he's done...
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Keith Olbermann, a news anchor from MSNBC
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"In 2004, this veteran reporter will provide extensive coverage of the...
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Alicia Witt, from Cybill
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"She's the classically-trained pianist who plays Zoe on Cybill..." Charity: Covenant...
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Bob Woodward, an assistant managing editor from The Washington Post
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2004 Power Players Week player (2004-05-10).
Charity: Sidwell Friends School.
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Peggy Noonan, a contributing editor from The Wall Street Journal
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2004 Power Players Week player (2004-05-10).
Charity: The Sisters of Life.
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Will Casper, a senior from Basin City, Washington
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2008-A Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 17 at the time of...
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Maria Bennici, a junior from Walkersville, Maryland
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2008-A Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
16 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Janelle Lambert, a senior from Brooklyn, New York
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2008-A Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Suchita Shah, a senior from the University of Wisconsin-Madison
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2008 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 20 and from Holmen, WI...
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Andrea Mitchell, a foreign affairs correspondent from NBC News
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"She's traveled to Hong Kong and Bosnia to report for NBC...
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Dominic Clust, from Metairie, Louisiana
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"This future lawyer likes to argue and he's good at it....
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Wolf Blitzer, a reporter from CNN
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"An Emmy Award-winning reporter for CNN and host of Inside Politics...
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James Grant, a junior from Georgetown University
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2008 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 21 and from Manhattan Beach,...
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Chuck Todd, a political director and host from NBC News and NBC's Meet the Press
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"He is the political director of NBC News, the host of...
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Michelle Arthington, a customs house broker from Mount Vernon, Washington
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Season 15 player (1999-06-11).
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A.K. Subramanian, a high school history teacher from Villa Park, California
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Season 22 player (2006-07-04). A.K. also appeared on Weakest Link on...
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Seth Disner, a senior from Los Angeles, California
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2002 Teen Tournament 2nd runner-up: $28,900. Seth was 17 at the...
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Mysti Kofford, a junior at Boston University from New Orleans, Louisiana
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2001 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $5,000. Mysti was 19 at the...
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Brittany Rogers, a sophomore at Saddleback College from Lake Forest, California
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2001 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $5,000. Brittany was 18 at the...
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Matt Schnippert, a sophomore at Florida State University from Jacksonville, Florida
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2001 College Championship 1st runner-up: $19,801. Matt was 19 at the...
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Chris Mazurek, an assistant professor from Columbia, Missouri
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2007 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD Home...
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David Shapiro, an insurance adjuster originally from Chicago, Illinois
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Season 4 player (1987-09-22): Hotpoint refrigerator + Jeopardy! box game or...
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Devin Landin, a student from Yorktown, New York
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Season 22 player (2006-05-23). Devin won $197,973 and third place on...
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Kevin Marshall, a student from Metairie, Louisiana
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2006 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 22 6-time champion: $98,201...
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Sid Chandrasekhar, a senior from the University of Pennsylvania from Saratoga, California
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2010-B College Championship semifinalist: $10,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
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Tony Jonick, a publisher and house dad from Oakland, California
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Season 21 player (2005-06-29).
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Charlotte Darby, from West Chester, Pennsylvania
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"Her crafts include crochet, origami, and friendship bracelets. From West Chester,...
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Sita Yerramsetti, an eleven-year-old from Houston, Texas
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"Her heart is set on becoming a cardiac surgeon. From Houston,...
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Caroline Evans, a twelve-year-old from Bethesda, Maryland
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"The sky's not the limit. She wants to be the first...
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Thomas Horn, a twelve-year-old from Piedmont, California
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"He plans on making the world a better place as an...
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Joli Millner, an eleven-year-old from Charlottesville, Virginia
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"No kidding, she wants to be a pediatrician when she grows...
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Jack Aponte, a non-profit technology consultant from Brooklyn, New York
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Season 26 player (2010-04-09). Jack uses they/them pronouns. Jack wore what...
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Robin Carroll, an instructional designer from Marietta, Georgia
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"Winner of both the 2000 Tournament of Champions and the 2001...
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Molly Gier, a twelve-year-old from Chesterfield, Missouri
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"She is preparing for a teaching career by tutoring her peers....
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Larry Cloud, a bookkeeper and computer consultant from Inglewood, California
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"He won five times in 2001, allowing him to make a...
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Bruce Naegeli, a retired law librarian from Phoenix, Arizona
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"He finished second in the 1988 Tournament of Champions. A retired...
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Shane Whitlock, a resident physician from Little Rock, Arkansas
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"As a junior at the University of Arkansas, he won the...
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Will Walters, a twelve-year-old from Lexington, Kentucky
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"He wants to follow in the footsteps of his idols, Albert...
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Pat Healy, an index supervisor from Vallejo, California
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"His five wins in 1998 helped him land a dream job...
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John Cuthbertson, an investment analyst from San Diego, California
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"He was the highest money winner of the 1993-94 season. An...
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Aaron Wicks, a planning and evaluation manager from Rochester, New York
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Season 26 1-time champion: $18,001 + 1,000. Aaron Wicks Rochester, NY...
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Russ Schumacher, a graduate student and newlywed from Fort Collins, Colorado
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"He won the most recent Tournament of Champions. A graduate student...
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Paul Thompson, a human resources manager from Cheverly, Maryland
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"He was the first 5-time champion in the 1995-96 season. A...
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Rachel Rothenberg, a senior from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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2009 Teen Tournament winner (semifinalist by wildcard): $75,000. Jeopardy! Message Board...
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Michelle Clum, an executive assistant originally from Wichita, Kansas
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"With her 5-time winnings from 2000, she traveled for a year,...
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Mark Eckard, an entrepreneur from Bedford, Massachusetts
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"A 2001 5-time champion as a software designer, he has now...
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Forrest Sturgill, a senior from Kingsport, Tennessee
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2009 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Last name pronounced like "STIR-jill".
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Tom Cubbage, an attorney from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
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"He was the very first College Champion, and the only one...
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Jeremy Bate, an emergency medical technician and writer from Tujunga, California
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"A second-place finisher in the 2000 Tournament of Champions, he's now...
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Alyssa McRae, a gift card production designer from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Season 25 3-time champion: $50,402 + $2,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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Leszek Pawlowicz, a shovel bum from Flagstaff, Arizona
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"He was a material scientist living in Phoenix when he won...
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Aisha Tyler, an actress, comedian, author and reality-show host from Archer
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"In addition to film and TV roles, she performs comedy at...
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Shelley Singh, a house painter from Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania
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Season 21 player (2004-12-07).
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Shima Majidi, a copyright attorney from New York, New York
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Season 25 player (2009-07-02). First name pronounced like "CHEE-mah" (Shima's pronunciation)...
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Theodora Messalas, an 11-year-old sixth grader from Brooklyn, New York
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"This future author and illustrator placed second in a regional story-telling...
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Kelly Scurry, an 11-year-old seventh grader from Lauderhill, Florida
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"It's very convenient that Washington, D.C. is his favorite city, because...
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Steve Reynolds, a loan accounting clerk from Norman, Oklahoma
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2004 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 20 4-time champion:...
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Rachel Pildis, a software developer from Oak Park, Illinois
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Season 26 1-time champion: $12,000 + $2,000. Rachel Pildis - A...
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Don Meals, an environmental scientist from Burlington, Vermont
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Season 27 3-time champion: $42,599 + $2,000.
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Marty Scott, an assistant district attorney from Forney, Texas
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Season 26 3-time champion: $64,002 + $2,000. Marty won $250,000 on...
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Tory Gilliam, a twelve-year-old from Powhatan, Virginia
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"As a member of his school's debate team, he likes to...
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Neal Freyman, a ten-year-old from Longmeadow, Massachusetts
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"He's not sure recess counts as a subject, but if it...
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Justin Bernbach, a lobbyist from Brooklyn, New York
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2010 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 25 7-time champion: $155,001...
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Katie Orphan, a freshman at Whitworth College from Reno, Nevada
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2002 College Championship semifinalist: $5,000.
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Inta Antler, a retired computer programmer from Scarborough, Ontario, Canada
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Season 25 1-time champion: $12,700 + $2,000. Inta Antler - A...
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Michael McKean, a Grammy winner, Oscar nominee and multi-talented performer from Hairspray and The Pajama Game
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"This multi-talented performer is a Grammy winner and Oscar nominee and...
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James Rogers, a musician and computer programmer from Washington, D.C.
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Season 20 player (2004-04-22).
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Melissa Gilbert, an actress from the movie Harvest of Lies
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"Beloved as Laura, of Little House on the Prairie, now she's...
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Sandra Bernhard, a comedienne from Los Angeles
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"Described as author, actress, humorist, singer and outrageous comedienne..." Playing for...
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Stephen Weingarten, a stay-at-home dad from Portland, Oregon
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2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $96,690...
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Andy Srinivasan, a high school science teacher from Clayton, North Carolina
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2010 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $69,600...
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Larissa Charnsangavej, a senior from Rice University
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2009 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 21 and from Houston, Texas at...
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Tanya Hayes, an auction house manager from New York, New York
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Season 25 player (2009-02-18).
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Eric Betts, a senior from Emory University
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2009 College Championship first runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $50,000. 21 and...
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David Duchovny, an actor from Californication
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"He's won two Golden Globes and stars as troubled novelist Hank...
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Yevgeny Shrago, a research assistant originally from Rochester, New York
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Season 26 1-time champion: $24,600 + $2,000. Name pronounced like "yev-GHEN-ee...
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Suzan Hyssen, a stay-at-home mom from Livonia, Michigan
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Season 20 player (2004-03-29).
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Dan D'Addario, a senior from Columbia University
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2010-A College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Hometown: Farmington, Connecticut. Daniel D'Addario...
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A.J. Schumacher, a radio show production intern from St. Paul, Minnesota
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Season 25 1-time champion: $10,800 + $2,000. AJ Schumacher Saint Paul,...
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Prashant Raghavendran, a sophomore from the University of Texas, Dallas
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2010-A College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. Hometown: Austin, Texas. Prashant Raghavendran Blog...
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Ryan Stoffers, a sophomore from UCLA
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2010-A College Championship 1st runner-up: $50,000. Hometown: Saratoga, California. Ryan Stoffers...
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Star Jones, an attorney, correspondent and co-host from The View
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"She's an accomplished attorney, legal correspondent and co-host of ABC's The...
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Sara Terrell, a veterinary technician from Windsor, Connecticut
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2007 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD Home...
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James Poulos, a grad student and writer from Arlington, Virginia
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Season 26 1-time champion: $7,600 + $1,000.
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Harris Cohen, a family physician from Lower Gwynedd, Pennsylvania
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Season 25 2-time champion: $17,800 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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Becky Anderson, a retired software specialist originally from Morganton, North Carolina
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Season 25 1-time champion: $16,401 + $2,000. Becky Anderson - A...
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Steve Harris, an actor from The Practice
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"He has his day in court as attorney Eugene Young on...
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Doug Savant, an actor from Desperate Housewives
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"He met and then married his wife while both were costarring...
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Marcie Berson, a real estate broker from Fairfield, Connecticut
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Season 25 player (2008-12-02).
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Donna Vogel, a scientist from Bethesda, Maryland
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2009 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 24 4-time champion:...
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Judy Mermelstein, a Census field representative from Queens, New York
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Season 25 1-time champion: $38,401 + $1,000. Judy also appeared on...
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Tom Morris, a substitute teacher and grad student from Irvine, California
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2009 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 24 4-time champion: $100,801...
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Anastasia Knasiak, a 12-year-old from Brookfield, Illinois
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"We don't know if there's a doctor in the house, but...
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Jennifer Broders, a junior high school social studies teacher from Stockton, Iowa
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Season 26 2-time champion: $59,801 + $1,000. Jennifer Broders - a...
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Marshall Flores, a senior from Arizona State University from Avondale, Arizona
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2010-B College Championship semifinalist: $10,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
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Cate Heine, a 12-year-old from Louisville, Kentucky
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"She's leaving her career path open, but wants to use the...
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Kevin Yokum, a 12-year-old from New Orleans, Louisiana
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"He plans on becoming an engineer just like both his mom...
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Jen Maloney, an in-house security and web designer from Millersville, Maryland
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Season 24 player (2007-10-02).
Husband's Jeopardy! Message Board user name: mefailenglish
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Parker Norton, a 12-year-old from Knoxville, Tennessee
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"As a doctor treating infectious diseases, he hopes to heal others....
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Ellen Eichner, a junior from the Ohio State University from Northbrook, Illinois
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2010-B College Championship semifinalist: $10,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
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Scotty Ballard, a 12-year-old from Murphy, Texas
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"When he grows up, he hopes to serve justice as a...
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Joshua Malina, an actor from The West Wing
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"He's the president's deputy communications director on the award-winning series The...
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Harry Shearer, a humorist, Spinal Tap bassist, and voice from The Simpsons
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"He recently celebrated the 25th anniversary of This Is Spinal Tap...
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Brian Weikle, a project manager from Minneapolis, Minnesota
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Nifty Nine (players with byes into...
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Lindsey Nicolai, a junior from Hampton, Virginia
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2007 Teen Tournament Summer Games quarterfinalist: $5,000. 17 at the time...
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Patricia DiMaggio, a school registrar from Maynard, Massachusetts
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Season 22 1-time champion: $14,001 + $1,000. According to the official...
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Jane Kaczmarek, a TV, film and Broadway actress from Malcolm in the Middle and Raising the Bar
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"She went from playing a hard-nosed mom in Malcolm in the...
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Rachel Beckman, an 11-year-old from Danville, Kentucky
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"As a member of her school's academic team, she has no...
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Claudia Perry, a sports copy editor from Jersey City, New Jersey
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"A pop music critic when she first appeared on Jeopardy!, she's...
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Steve Newman, a partner in a small computer company from Rockville, Maryland
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"He was the first player to win 5 games in the...
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Martha McKinney, a pediatrician from Kingston, Ontario, Canada
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Season 22 player (2005-09-15).
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Anne Shivers, a senior from Peotone, Illinois
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2005 Teen Tournament 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $18,000. 17 at...
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Allison Peña, a junior from Sunrise, Florida
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2006 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
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Kevin Keach, a project administrator from St. Louis, Missouri
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"He considered himself a simple Missouri farm boy when he won...
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Russ Schumacher, a graduate student from Fort Collins, Colorado
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2014 Battle of the Decades semifinalist: $25,000. 2005 Ultimate Tournament of...
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John Beck, an associate creative director from Torrance, California
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 winner: $29,000. 2004 Tournament...
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Rowan Spake, from Portland, Oregon
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"He's interested in nanotechnology and robotics to improve surgery. But getting...
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Chris Miller, a retail specialist from Louisville, Kentucky
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"In 2004, he became a 5-time champion, and for Halloween, dressed...
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Rachel McCool, a sophomore at Dickinson College from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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2004 College Championship 2nd runner-up: $25,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: rachel_pi
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Jessica Epstein, an assistant dean originally from Mercer Island, Washington
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Season 22 1-time champion: $25,401 + $1,000.
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Ruvani Fonseka, a junior from Grosse Pointe, Michigan
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2005 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $5,000. 15 at the time of...
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Matt Bushell, a junior at Georgetown University from Fairfield, Connecticut
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2004 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000.
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