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

#9066, aired 2024-03-25FIVE GUYS $1200: In 2023 this entrepreneur called the public face of artificial intelligence was out & back in as the head of OpenAI Sam Altman
#9065, aired 2024-03-22THE LYRICAL STYLINGS OF JOHNNY GILBERT $400: "When I'm out walking, I strut my stuff, and I'm so strung out, I'm high as a kite, I just might stop to check you out" Violent Femmes
#9063, aired 2024-03-20THE VOCABULARY OF ICE ICE BABY $400: "Check out the" this attention-getter in a song the hook
#9063, aired 2024-03-20OVERLAPS $800: Your self in psychoanalytic theory out in the yard digging tunnels with its paws egopher
#9062, aired 2024-03-19SPEECHMAKING $800: Following this man's death in 1948, prime minister Nehru stated, "The light has gone out of our lives" Mahatma Gandhi
#9062, aired 2024-03-19DIRECTORS ACTING $1600: This director of "Out of Africa" went in front of the screen for Stanley Kubrick in "Eyes Wide Shut" (Sydney) Pollack
#9061, aired 2024-03-18VICE PRESIDENTIAL QUOTES $5,200 (Daily Double): In 1948 Hubert Humphrey said the Democrats must "get out of the shadow of" these "rights" often used to counter civil rights states' rights
#9051, aired 2024-03-04HOBBIES & PASTIMES $400: I'm choosing something by Adele next time we go out to do this, "empty orchestra" in Japanese karaoke
#9051, aired 2024-03-04NONFICTION $1,600 (Daily Double): In 1513 this Florentine civil servant knocked out a handbook for rulers of his time called "Il Principe" Machiavelli
#9050, aired 2024-03-01POP CULTURE PRINCESSES $800: In "The Princess Diaries", Mia Thermopolis finds out that she is the crown princess of this (fictional) country Genovia
#9049, aired 2024-02-29"LIKE"NESS $1600: Fittingly, it was in the year of the USA's bicentennial that Steve Miller put out the album with this soaring title track "Fly Like An Eagle"
#9046, aired 2024-02-26LITERARY GROUPS $2000: The early 20th c. Stratford-on-Odéon literary circle hung out at this bookstore run by Sylvia Beach in Paris' Left Bank Shakespeare & Company
#9045, aired 2024-02-23ELECTION LINGO $400: Many state officers can be removed with this type of election; the folks who wanted it in the U.S. Constitution lost out a recall
#9043, aired 2024-02-21HALLELUJAH! $600: dictionary.com has 3 consecutive A's in this slang word, but you can draw it out even more before queen if you want to really show elation yaaas
#9042, aired 2024-02-20ARTISTS & THEIR SUBJECTS $400: In a work by John Everett Millais, young Jesus is helping out in the carpentry shop & has prophetically been cut by one of these a nail
#9041, aired 2024-02-19NATIONAL STATUARY HALL $400: In 2003 Kansas became the first state to replace a statue, swapping out Gov. George Washington Glick for this president Eisenhower
#9041, aired 2024-02-19AWARDS & HONORS $800: Max Dale Cooper got a Robert Koch Award & 100,000 euros in part for figuring out how leukocytes, also called these cells, work & fail white blood cells
#9041, aired 2024-02-19AWARDS & HONORS $2,000 (Daily Double): In the early 20th c. these were given out for literature; Baron Pierre de Coubertin won one under a pen name for "Ode to Sport" Olympic medals
#9041, aired 2024-02-19GEOGRAPHIC BOOK TITLES $2000: Deep in the African rain forest, an ancient lost city holds a shocking secret in this Michael Crichton work Congo
#9040, aired 2024-02-16DESCRIBING THE SONG $400: Michael Jackson warns about evil "lurking in the dark" & Vincent Price waxes poetic about grisly ghouls "Thriller"
#9040, aired 2024-02-16DESCRIBING THE SONG $800: Drake remembers an ex who used to call him all the time but now is living her best life "running out of pages" in her passport "Hotline Bling"
#9040, aired 2024-02-16I'M CUBAN $1000: A graduate of the National Theater School of Havana, she co-starred in "Knives Out" (Ana) de Armas
#9040, aired 2024-02-16DESCRIBING THE SONG $1600: Biz Markie finds out a girl named "Blah-Blah-Blah" is, in fact, having more than a platonic relationship with another man "Just A Friend"
#9040, aired 2024-02-16NOTABLE NAMES $5,000 (Daily Double): In 1919 this American scientist published "A Method of Reaching Extreme Altitudes" Goddard
#9036, aired 2024-02-12GENIUS: MLK/X $200: (Kelvin Harrison Jr. presents the clue.) My character, MLK, felt a moral obligation to speak out regarding this conflict in Asia, although it would end up alienating him from Lyndon B. Johnson & his allies the Vietnam War
#9036, aired 2024-02-12INITIALS OF HISTORIC PEOPLE $200: Booted out of Iceland, set foot in Vinland: L.E. Leif Erikson
#9036, aired 2024-02-12HOMES $1200: This director went to England in the early '60s to make "Lolita" & lived out his years at Childwickbury Manor Kubrick
#9034, aired 2024-02-08A WILD MOOSE CHASE $600: In this film Chevy Chase is politely told, "Sorry, folks. Park's closed. The moose out front shoulda told ya" National Lampoon's Vacation
#9034, aired 2024-02-08SUPER BOWL STARS $1000: (I'm Bill Cowher.) In 2006, I coached a spunky Steelers squad to a Super Bowl win, the first win for Pittsburgh since this legendary coach won 4 titles beginning in 1975 Chuck Noll
#9034, aired 2024-02-08A REGIONAL TREASURE $1000: Want to get to the BMW Museum? Get your motor running, head out on the Autobahn & go looking for adventure in this region Bavaria
#9032, aired 2024-02-06FAMOUS PAIRS $800: This duo that figured out a double-stranded structure shared the 1962 Nobel Prize in medicine with Maurice Wilkins Watson & Crick
#9030, aired 2024-02-02EXPLORING U.S. CITIES $1200: Get a kick out of some kicks at the Giant Shoe Museum in Pike Place Market in this Western city Seattle
#3, aired 2024-02-02NATO PHONETIC ALPHABET CODE WORDS $600: Check in, check out; H is this hotel
#9029, aired 2024-02-01NONFICTION $800: Jack Canfield & Mark Victor Hansen began ladling out advice in this book in 1993 Chicken Soup for the Soul
#9029, aired 2024-02-01FOLLOW THE WORLD LEADER $11,200 (Daily Double): She followed Gulzarilal Nanda in 1966 & Charan Singh in 1980 Indira Gandhi
#9028, aired 2024-01-31QUESTIONABLE MOVIES $800: Ice Cube tries to get out of the friend zone with Nia Long by offering to drive her kids to Vancouver in this 2005 film Are We There Yet?
#9027, aired 2024-01-30VAN HALEN $400: Turns out his tongue had an eye for talent! This KISS bassist was an early Van Halen supporter, producing a demo for the band in 1976 Gene Simmons
#9026, aired 2024-01-29MYTH AROUND & FIND OUT $400: In an Iroquois tale a girl runs off with a handsome Chad only to find out he is one of these ssslithery creatures a snake
#9026, aired 2024-01-29MYTH AROUND & FIND OUT $800: This bull-headed creature of Crete came to be after Pasiphaë fell in love with a bovine the Minotaur
#9026, aired 2024-01-29MYTH AROUND & FIND OUT $2000: In Egyptian myth Seth went all Edgar Allan Poe on this bro of his & put him in a coffin while he was still alive Osiris
#9022, aired 2024-01-23U.S. CITIES $1600: Many a cruise leaves out of Port Everglades in this city, the seat of Broward County Fort Lauderdale
#26, aired 2024-01-23I'M JUST KEN $10,400 (Daily Double): In 2023 this documentarian released his latest film, a four-hour series examining the rich history of the American buffalo Ken Burns
#9021, aired 2024-01-22THE JOB IS THE MOVIE TITLE $400: Shockingly, belting out "Love Stinks" at the reception doesn't go over so well for Adam Sandler in this film The Wedding Singer
#9019, aired 2024-01-18WHAT IN THE WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS...? $200: Making the best of a bad past situation, this ex-heavyweight champ from Brooklyn put out edibles in the shape of ears in 2022 Mike Tyson
#9019, aired 2024-01-18MOVIE TITLES WITH NUMBERS IN THEM $2000: In 2022 she played Gemma, a robotics engineer who brought "M3GAN" to life; maybe some "Girls" are more fun to hang out with Allison Williams
#25, aired 2024-01-16WHERE ART THOU? $800: You're geeking out on a "Game of Thrones" tour of Dubrovnik, an ancient port city in this country Croatia
#25, aired 2024-01-16YUP, IT'S A PORT-A-POTTY $1000: Based in Eau Claire, WI, this port-a-potty company shares its name with the target where a skydiver lands Drop Zone
#2, aired 2024-01-123 LITTLE LETTERS $3,400 (Daily Double): Headquartered in Atlanta, this agency, established in 1946, grew out of a U.S. anti-malaria program the CDC
#1, aired 2024-01-12WIDE WORLD OF WEIRD WORDS $1200: Meaning to throw out of a window, this term gained fame after a 1618 incident in Prague where 2 officials were so thrown defenestration
#9014, aired 2024-01-11ON THE MOVIE BILL $600: The late, great Bill Paxton was out of this world as astronaut Fred Haise in this 1995 real-life adventure Apollo 13
#9012, aired 2024-01-09WOMEN OF COUNTRY MUSIC $2000: 13 in 1972 when she had her first hit, "Delta Dawn", she continues to put out music, including her recent album, "Sweet Western Sound" Tanya Tucker
#24, aired 2024-01-09ANIMAL IDIOM BRAINTEASERS $600: Don't forget how many other single people are out there in the dating pool: T.A.P.O.F.I.T.S. there are plenty of fish in the sea
#24, aired 2024-01-09FAIRY TALE ADAPTATIONS $5,000 (Daily Double): "Ash," based on this fairy-tale character, falls for a huntress & not a prince so she'll need more practical footwear Cinderella
#9009, aired 2024-01-045-SYLLABLE VERBS $800: To breathe in & out at an abnormally fast rate hyperventilate
#9007, aired 2024-01-02STOCKS & INVESTMENTS $400: Also used in a different type of gambling, this colorful term describes a stock with a history of paying out a blue chip stock
#9007, aired 2024-01-02THE CHARLES III KIND $600: This actor, who was Charles in "The Crown", says he'd like to ask the king about his experience as a fellow sticky-out-eared man Josh O'Connor
#9007, aired 2024-01-02CHILD PERFORMERS $1600: In this movie child actor Jonathan Lipnicki told Tom Cruise the human head weighs 8 pounds Jerry Maguire
#23, aired 2024-01-02MAINE ATTRACTIONS $200: For wildlife lovers, Maine offers safaris to spot this large mammal featured on its flag moose
#23, aired 2024-01-02CELEBRITY JEOPARDY AIN'T THE ONLY "CJ" $300: Written in 1908, "Take Me Out To The Ballgame" features the lyric "Buy me some peanuts and" this ballpark treat Cracker Jacks
#23, aired 2024-01-02AFRICAN HISTORY $600: In 1975, both Angola and Mozambique gained their independence from this Iberian country Portugal
#9006, aired 2024-01-01HAUNTING LITERATURE $400: The ghost of Delbert Grady advises Jack Torrance on family matters in this novel; that does not work out well for anybody The Shining
#9006, aired 2024-01-01MISHEARD LYRICS $1200: A classic by this singer turns out not to be about a hip minister called "the reverend blue jeans" Neil Diamond
#9005, aired 2023-12-29LITERARY TOWNS & CITIES $6,000 (Daily Double): In a Thomas Hardy tale, a man sells his wife & child; the wife later seeks him out in this city where he has become the mayor Casterbridge
#9004, aired 2023-12-28WOMEN ON TRIAL $800: As well as high this crime, there's petty this, like by a wife against a husband; Catherine Bevan was tried for it in 1731 Delaware treason
#9003, aired 2023-12-272023 SPORTS HIGHLIGHT REEL $400: For the first time, the U.S. women didn't reach the semifinals of this, getting knocked out by Sweden in the round of 16 the Women's World Cup
#9001, aired 2023-12-25I'VE SEEN HER TYPE BEFORE $400: In addition to cranking out mystery novels, she wrote "The Mousetrap", which ran nonstop in London for over 60 years Agatha Christie
#9001, aired 2023-12-25'80s NO. 1 HITMAKERS $800: In 1989 she knocked Milli Vanilli's "Girl I'm Gonna Miss You" out of the top spot with her own "Miss You Much" Janet Jackson
#8999, aired 2023-12-21A VERY HALLMARK CHRISTMAS MOVIE $400: A woman falls for the son of the man out to close her toy store in the alliteratively titled this Mass. island "Noel" Nantucket
#8998, aired 2023-12-20QUITE A SITE $600: In 1886 the circle got taken out of this landmark "Circus" with the construction of Shaftesbury Avenue Piccadilly Circus
#8998, aired 2023-12-20A REAL SOB STORY $800: Fern Arable bawls her eyes out after this runty pig is marked for the axe in a 1952 book, but her dad relents & Fern is happy Wilbur
#8995, aired 2023-12-15FLOWERS $2000: Rise & shine & sing out the name of this flower that often blooms early in the day the morning glory
#8994, aired 2023-12-14THE SEA'S BOUNTY $1200: Boquerones, which are these, are a favorite on tapas in Spain; they've fallen out of favor on American pizzas anchovies
#8993, aired 2023-12-13HOLMES, SHERLOCK HOLMES $200: Holmes figures out the killer in "Black Peter" must be strong--the victim is "pinned like a beetle" by this whaling weapon a harpoon
#8993, aired 2023-12-13HOLMES, SHERLOCK HOLMES $600: In "The Adventure of the Speckled Band", Holmes figures out that the title killer is one of these deadly creatures a snake
#8992, aired 2023-12-12BLACK MYSTERY & CRIME FICTION $400: In "Blacktop Wasteland" Bug Montage is a wheelman, aka this "driver"; often idling out back during a heist a getaway driver
#8991, aired 2023-12-11CRAFTS $1200: In 1976, with Gene Roddenberry looking on, this Space Shuttle was rolled out of an Air Force hangar Enterprise
#8988, aired 2023-12-06OUT OF CON TEXT $200: A memoir: "On Feb. 4, 2004... Larry drove me to the women's prison in Danbury, Connecticut" Orange Is the New Black
#8988, aired 2023-12-06HODGEPODGE $400: In the wee hours of Jan. 7, 2023 he was elected Speaker of the House on the 15th ballot; he was voted out about 9 months later Kevin McCarthy
#8988, aired 2023-12-06OUT OF CON TEXT $800: "Dantes crossed the awful threshold and the door closed noisily behind him... he was in prison" The Count of Monte Cristo
#8988, aired 2023-12-06OUT OF CON TEXT $1000: "At last news arrived... that Raskolnikov shunned everybody and that in prison he was unpopular with the convicts" Crime and Punishment
#8988, aired 2023-12-06DECIMALS $1200: Though not required, "trailing" these to the right of a decimal point are often used to show levels of accuracy zeros
#22, aired 2023-12-06SHOUT 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 2023-12-06SHOUT IT OUT! $200: Though it costs him his head, Mel Gibson in "Braveheart" refuses to beg for mercy... & yells this word instead freedom
#22, aired 2023-12-06SHOUT IT OUT! $300: Try yelling out "O-H!" in a crowded place; chances are, any Buckeyes fan within earshot will yell these two letters in return I-O
#22, aired 2023-12-06SHOUT IT OUT! $500: Of this school's iconic fight cheer, ESPN once wrote, "'Hotty Toddy' has no real meaning, but it means everything in Oxford" Ole Miss (Mississippi)
#22, aired 2023-12-06CELEBRITY TELL-ALLS $600: "Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing": He revealed that future editions of his memoir will not include Keanu Reeves Matthew Perry
#8987, aired 2023-12-05A PARANORMAL CATEGORY $800: Also called an O.B.E., it's the sensation that one's self is in a different location from one's physical form an out-of-body experience
#8986, aired 2023-12-04MASSAGE IN A BOTTLE $800: It's the fat extracted from the beans used to make chocolate; turns out it softens & lubricates the skin cocoa butter
#8986, aired 2023-12-04I THINK WE LEFT SOMEONE OUT $1000: The 4 Horsemen of the Apocalypse are Conquest, War, Famine &... Death
#8986, aired 2023-12-04CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $1,600 (Daily Double): An out-of-control dog meets his match in John Grogan's him "and the Kittens" Marley
#8984, aired 2023-11-30CHECK IT & SEE $800: As a cloth is wrung out in space, check the results of this property that makes water act like a stretched membrane surface tension
#21, aired 2023-11-29FAR OUT $300: Ancient Egyptians called this planet "Her Desher", meaning, "the red one" Mars
#21, aired 2023-11-29WHAT THE "EFF"?! $1000: It's a German stew made from rabbit; TV's Laverne & Shirley shouted it out in their show's opening Hasenpfeffer
#21, aired 2023-11-29FAR OUT $1500: Move over, Galileo! Two astronomers named Alan & Thomas discovered this large comet in 1995 Comet Hale–Bopp
#8978, aired 2023-11-22THE INSTRUMENT OF DEATH $400: In 1914 Franz Ferdinand didn't say "take me out" but was anyway, via this a gun
#8977, aired 2023-11-21MAKE THE PHRASE $800: To discern, to complete writing a check or to engage in kissing, you "make" this out
#8975, aired 2023-11-17SPRINGSTEEN LYRICS $400: "Got a wife and kids in Baltimore, Jack, I went out for a ride and I never went back" "Hungry Heart"
#8973, aired 2023-11-15SAINTS GO MARCHING IN $2000: So you know he's still venerated as a saint & looks out for ferry workers... whaddya want? A medal? St. Christopher
#20, aired 2023-11-15TV DRAMAS IN A NUTSHELL $300 (Daily Double): Tommy Shelby and his sharp-hatted gang carve out a crime empire in post-WWI England Peaky Blinders
#8971, aired 2023-11-13FROM THE ITALIAN $1200: These quick appearances by guest stars in films can carve out a little comic "relief" a cameo
#8968, aired 2023-11-08METALLICA $600: This metal was discovered in 1789; it took until 1896 to find out that it was radioactive uranium
#8966, aired 2023-11-06CALL OUT THE BOB SQUAD $200: He was only 15 when he became an international Grandmaster in 1958 Fischer
#8966, aired 2023-11-06CALL OUT THE BOB SQUAD $800: After years of yelling at soldiers as a first sergeant in the Air Force, this man vowed to use a more soothing voice painting on TV (Bob) Ross
#8963, aired 2023-11-01GREEK GOD OUT, ROMAN GOD IN $400: Her magic girdle induced love, as magic girdles will do, & Romans had her say, I'm no mighty Aphrodite, I'm your this Venus
#8963, aired 2023-11-01GREEK GOD OUT, ROMAN GOD IN $800: Greeks were from Ares, Romans, from this deity, originally an ancient Italian god who watched over agriculture Mars
#8963, aired 2023-11-01GREEK GOD OUT, ROMAN GOD IN $1200: What's Dis? It's another name for this Roman god who took over for Hades Pluto
#8963, aired 2023-11-01GREEK GOD OUT, ROMAN GOD IN $1600: The ancient Romans didn't need this Greek god anymore, not after renaming him Vulcan Hephaestus
#8963, aired 2023-11-01GREEK GOD OUT, ROMAN GOD IN $5,000 (Daily Double): Most of the Greek myths for Athena were adopted by the Romans for this goddess whose temple was on Capitoline Hill Minerva
#19, aired 2023-11-01A YEAR THAT ENDS IN ZERO $600: Nat King Cole hits No. 1 with "Mona Lisa", NATO turns one year old 1950
#8962, aired 2023-10-31FRANK GEHRY $800: Frank Gehry's "Easy Edges" line built furniture out of this stuff in which your furniture usually arrives cardboard
#8961, aired 2023-10-30THE JOKERS $200: His final role was as Tony in "The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus" in 2009 Heath Ledger
#8961, aired 2023-10-30BRING OUT YOUR FRED $800: Northern readers got the lowdown on slavery in 1845's "Narrative of the Life of" this former slave & orator Frederick Douglass
#8961, aired 2023-10-30BRING OUT YOUR FRED $1200: Born in Berlin in 1901, this composer was known for his collaborations with Alan Jay Lerner (Frederick) Loewe
#8961, aired 2023-10-30BRING OUT YOUR FRED $2000: In 1989, he became president of South Africa; a few years later, he was deputy president Frederik Willem de Klerk
#8958, aired 2023-10-25PRODUCE $400: In 2008 a pair of Brits were out of their gourd, growing a 1,457-lb. one of these; smashing! a pumpkin
#8957, aired 2023-10-24GO SEE A MOVIE ABOUT A HORSE $400: Tobey Maguire is jockey Red Pollard in this 2003 flick about a down-&-out racehorse Seabiscuit
#8955, aired 2023-10-20AMY POEHLER IS AWESOME $1600: Amy Poehler's performance was pure Joy in this 2015 Pixar film Inside Out
#8953, aired 2023-10-18DINING OUT IN NEW YORK $200: There are likely fewer sheep there nowadays, but Sheep Meadow is in this 843-acre area, not far from Tavern on the Green Central Park
#8953, aired 2023-10-18DINING OUT IN NEW YORK $400: We suspect vodka lovers more than tea aficionados gravitate to this restaurant dating back to 1927 the Russian Tea Room
#8953, aired 2023-10-18DINING OUT IN NEW YORK $600: Enjoy the raw bar at the Oyster Bar, an institution at this transportation hub since 1913 Grand Central Station
#8953, aired 2023-10-18DINING OUT IN NEW YORK $800: Robert De Niro co-owns this grill named for the neighborhood it's in Tribeca
#8953, aired 2023-10-18DINING OUT IN NEW YORK $1000: Per Se is a NYC restaurant where this chef of the French Laundry has augmented his reputation (Thomas) Keller
#17, aired 2023-10-18HISTORICAL MARKERS $100: Located in Kokomo, Indiana, "Haynes' Horseless Carriage" is on the spot where Elwood Haynes first tested one of these in 1894 automobile
#17, aired 2023-10-18OTHER WORDS FOR DOIN' IT $200: In a simpler time, this phrase meant "hang out & watch a movie"; it's evolved to mean "hang out, watch a movie &... you know" Netflix & chill
#17, aired 2023-10-18REPETITIVE SONG TITLES $400: Questions asked by Run-DMC in this song include: "Why ya buggin'?" & "Why you out there stuntin'?" "Mary, Mary"
#17, aired 2023-10-18DENZEL WASHINGTON $1000: In a 2021 film adaptation of "Macbeth", Washington delivers the famous line "Out, out, brief" this candle
#8951, aired 2023-10-16WANT TO MAKE SOMETHING OUT OF IT? $1600: "In the Big Rock Candy Mountain, the jails are made of" this; "you can slip right out again as soon as they put you in" tin
#8948, aired 2023-10-11WORDS WITHIN WORDS $400: I'm antireligious, but I prayed when this blew out at 90 miles per hour a tire (in antireligious)
#16, aired 2023-10-11WOULDA, COULDA, SHOULDA $100: She urged us to get out and vote in 2020, cautioning firsthand against "another woulda, coulda, shoulda election" Hillary Clinton
#16, aired 2023-10-11WINE BIZ $800: "Hangover" actor Bradley can clue you in that barrel makers for wineries go by this title Cooper
#16, aired 2023-10-11YOU'RE A HOMOPHONE, DIANE $1,000 (Daily Double): In her 1983 book's acknowledgements, primatologist Dian Fossey thanks mostly humans but also these animals mountain gorillas
#16, aired 2023-10-11FOR SWEATER OR WORSE $1,000 (Daily Double): Sweaters that button in front are named for British officer James Thomas Brudenell, the 7th Earl of this Cardigan
#16, aired 2023-10-11MERRIAM-WEBSTER'S WORDS OF THE YEAR $1000: In 2003, the first Merriam-Webster "Word of the Year" was this form of government by the people democracy
#8946, aired 2023-10-09THE HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION OF THE WORLD $800: In 1990, this man here knocked out Buster Douglas to become the undefeated, undisputed heavyweight champ Evander Holyfield
#8944, aired 2023-10-05MOVIES AS TV NEWS STORIES $400: A crime novelist, dead in his mansion under mysterious circumstances. Benoit Blanc, on the case. Eyewitness News starts now Knives Out
#8943, aired 2023-10-04WE TRY TO STAY NEUTRAL $1,600 (Daily Double): Soon after a beating by France at Marignano in 1515, this country decided expansion was out & neutrality was in Switzerland
#15, aired 2023-10-04NAME GAME $400: Rock drummer who married Pamela Anderson + last name = this "Men in Black" actor Tommy Lee Jones
#15, aired 2023-10-04ESTATE PLANNING $1,200 (Daily Double): In law, it's one party managing another's property for the benefit of a third; in life, some say it's the key to a good relationship trust
#8942, aired 2023-10-03LITERARY BIOGRAPHY $400: A book about Poe "& the forging of American science" points out that in his one year at this school, Edgar was great at math West Point
#8942, aired 2023-10-03NAME: THE CLASSIC SONG $800: "Help Me", this woman whose name repeats 13 times in the chorus, "Help me... get her out of my heart" Rhonda
#14, aired 2023-09-27OUT OF BREATH $200: In a typical human body, this organ beats about 100,000 times per day heart
#14, aired 2023-09-27OUT OF BREATH $400: It's the only planet in our solar system whose name is not derived from Greek or Roman mythology Earth
#14, aired 2023-09-27BIG-SCREEN BASKETBALL $400: Is there anything Denzel Washington can't do?! Turns out he's even good at basketball, as seen in this 1998 joint He Got Game
#8937, aired 2023-09-26NEXT STOP, VENUS $200: In 1982 this nation's Venera probe landed on Venusian soil, took some pictures & tapped out after 2 hours Russia
#8937, aired 2023-09-26YOU COULD PUT AN EYE OUT $400: In a 1996 film, the character Karl Childers wields a lawn mower blade as well as this title "Blade" a sling blade
#8937, aired 2023-09-26YOU COULD PUT AN EYE OUT $2000: From an Asian word, this type of "stick" is concealed in high grass to injure enemy soldiers a punji stick
#8936, aired 2023-09-25FARMING PHRASES $800: A grassy feeding area is in this phrase for pushing someone into retirement putting them out to pasture
#8934, aired 2023-09-21TAKING A STAR TURN $1200: Hubble let us check out this red supergiant as it had a huge surface mass ejection in 2019; Michael Keaton, what did you do? Betelgeuse
#8933, aired 2023-09-20EUROPEAN VACATION $600: Check out the medieval towers that dot the skyline of San Gimignano near Sienna in this region of Italy Tuscany
#8933, aired 2023-09-20THE 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
#8930, aired 2023-09-15IN YOUR ELEMENT $1000: Time to find out who's got the big mo, & this big Mo helps stimulate chemical reactions that get rid of sulfur in petroleum molybdenum
#8928, aired 2023-09-13I'M JUST A BILL, BILLY OR WILLIAM $200: He helped computerize his high school's scheduling system, went to Harvard in the '70s, dropped out & was a billionaire by 1987 Bill Gates
#8925, aired 2023-07-28REAL FAST $800: Jorge Masvidal used a flying knee strike to knock out his opponent in just 5 seconds at this event in 2019 the UFC (Ultimate Fighting Championship)
#8923, aired 2023-07-26LONG MOVIES $2000: At some point in the 13 hours of Jacques Rivette's "Out 1", actors rehearse "Seven Against Thebes" by this ancient playwright Aeschylus
#8918, aired 2023-07-195 ABOUT 4 $800: Of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse in the Bible, the one representing war rides this color horse red
#8916, aired 2023-07-17OPPENHEIMER $400: (Emily Blunt presents the clue.) My character Kitty Oppenheimer's marriage to Robert was tempestuous, & in the 1950s controversy over her one-time involvement with this political party helped bring an end to her husband's career in government communism (Communist Party)
#8916, aired 2023-07-17WITH BELLS ON $400: The New York Times guide to spectator sports says this can happen, "if a man is knocked down in the closing seconds of a round" saved by the bell
#8915, aired 2023-07-14FAMILIES IN U.S. HISTORY $600: Marjorie Durant, who set out to popularize airplane travel in 1931, was the daughter of the founder of this Big 3 car company General Motors
#8913, aired 2023-07-12THE ____ OF CANADA $800: National symbol Johnny Canuck: this after a national symbol he's shown kicking out of the country in an 1869 cartoon the Uncle Sam of Canada
#8910, aired 2023-07-07HISTORICAL HODGEPODGE $200: In 2002, he got 100% of the presidential vote of his country, but the next year, he was out of power for good Saddam Hussein
#8910, aired 2023-07-07SEEING RIGHT THROUGH YOU $1000: Check out the man-of-war whose nationality derives from its resemblance to warships once made in this country Portugal
#8909, aired 2023-07-06NAMES IN HISTORY $2000: During World War II this Norwegian sold out his country & made his name a synonym for traitor Quisling
#8908, aired 2023-07-05OPPOSITES $800: In an idiom regarding the handling of money, these 2 opposites are paired with penny & pound wise & foolish
#8908, aired 2023-07-05MEMOIRS $2000: In "My Last Sigh", director Luis Bunuel recalls this Spanish artist seducing women & putting fried eggs on their shoulders Salvador Dalí
#8907, aired 2023-07-04LET'S GO TO THE SPORTS BOOK $1600: George Plimpton takes out an insurance policy against death & dismemberment in this 1966 book Paper Lion
#8903, aired 2023-06-28ANIMATED MOVIE CHARACTERS $800: The character Po eats, shoots out of fireworks & leaves us laughing in this 2008 film, the start of a film franchise Kung Fu Panda
#8901, aired 2023-06-26LOVELY RITA $400: She & Tom Hanks co-starred in the 1985 film "Volunteers" & lived out their on-screen romance off-screen, marrying in 1988 Rita Wilson
#8901, aired 2023-06-267-LETTER WORDS $800: This delicate word is stretched out to 3 syllables by Darren McGavin in "A Christmas Story" fragile
#8899, aired 2023-06-2220th CENTURY HAPPENINGS $400: Before joining it in 1967, this Baltimore-born man argued & won 29 out of 32 cases before the U.S. Supreme Court (Thurgood) Marshall
#8899, aired 2023-06-2220th CENTURY HAPPENINGS $1000: The legend of this bank robber includes an escape from a Crown Point, Indiana jail in 1934 using a fake gun carved out of wood Dillinger
#8899, aired 2023-06-22WRITING ON THE WALLS $1200: In his book "Stardust", there is a hamlet named Wall & Tristran sets out on a journey through the only hole in that wall Neil Gaiman
#8899, aired 2023-06-22LET'S "T" UP THE MAP $2000: Saddam Hussein was born near this city on the west bank of the Tigris in 1937 & was pulled out of the ground in its vicinity in 2003 Tikrit
#8897, aired 2023-06-20LET'S STICK TOGETHER $600: After 27 years together with Erwin Bach, this singer must have found out what love had to do with it & the 2 tied the knot in 2013 Tina Turner
#8895, aired 2023-06-16GO TELL IT ON THE FOUNTAIN $400: In this Swiss city for Red Cross meetings check out the Jet d'Eau; it can shoot 7 tons of water about 450 feet high Geneva
#8895, aired 2023-06-16CUFFING SEASON $800: In this 1999 film Laurence Fishburne breaks the chains off his handcuffs before jumping out of a building & into Keanu's arms The Matrix
#8893, aired 2023-06-14A CHORUS LINE $800: "You're hot then you're cold, you're yes then you're no, you're in then you're out" Katy Perry
#8889, aired 2023-06-08LATE NIGHT TALKING $200: Lady Gaga & James Corden were "belting it out with their seat belts on" in this classic "Late Late Show" segment Carpool Karaoke
#8889, aired 2023-06-08BIG & LIL POP CULTURE $800: Seen here, Lil Rel Howery eased the tension a bit as Daniel Kaluuya's wisecracking bud in this 2017 horror film Get Out
#8888, aired 2023-06-07A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC $200: A wood block beats out the ticking of the clock toward midnight in Prokofiev's score for the ballet about this heroine Cinderella
#8886, aired 2023-06-05"G"EOGRAPHY $800: Beware monsters in the valley of this river that flows near Yuma; it's where the same-named poisonous lizard hangs out the Gila River
#8885, aired 2023-06-02YOU HAVE SELECTED REGICIDE $800: In 1762 this emperor III, grandson of "the Great", was taken out by conspirators--got an alibi, Alexei Orlov? Peter
#8885, aired 2023-06-02ANIMAL ROCK $1200: In the title of their 2000 hit, the Baha Men wanted to know this "Who Let The Dogs Out"
#8884, aired 2023-06-01POTPOURRI $800: Pour one out for "Mr." this, gone too soon in 2001; it was first named Peppo but Dr Pepper's lawyers had issues with that Mr. Pibb
#8882, aired 2023-05-30CZECH IT OUT! $400: Czech scientist Jan Purkyne discovered in 1823 that these could be used for identification--time to get gloves! fingerprints
#8882, aired 2023-05-30CZECH IT OUT! $1600: This decades-long war in Europe began in 1618 when Czech nobles rebelled against the future Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand II Thirty Years' War
#8882, aired 2023-05-30CZECH IT OUT! $2000: The 3 regions named in the preamble to the Czech Constitution are Bohemia, this one & Silesia Moravia
#8881, aired 2023-05-29WHO WAS THAT MASKED MAN? $800: (I'm Shameik Moore.) In "Spider-Man Across the Spider-Verse" I once again don the spider-mask as this Brooklyn teenager who follows in Peter Parker's webbed footsteps Miles Morales
#8878, aired 2023-05-24THESE BROS ARE LIT $1600: It turns out about as well for Caleb & Aron in this 1952 novel as it did for Cain & Abel in an earlier book East of Eden
#18, aired 2023-05-23CLASSIC CAR TV $2000: In 1963 Fred Gwynne copped out on this sitcom whose title was a question itself; a year later, Fred was a Munster Car 54, Where Are You?
#18, aired 2023-05-23THE UNIVERSE WITH NEIL deGRASSE TYSON $4,400 (Daily Double): (Neil deGrasse Tyson presents the clue.) At age 14, I traveled to Africa to observe a total solar eclipse, an impressive event in which the Moon blots out the Sun, revealing only this outermost solar atmosphere the corona
#17, aired 2023-05-23OH, WE HAVE '80s POP CULTURE REFERENCES $200: On Nov. 21, 1980 76% of Americans watching television tuned in to finally find out "who shot" this character J.R.
#8876, aired 2023-05-22RICE PUDDING $800: A shout-out from "Best American" these literary works made Joyce Carol Oates abandon her Rice University PhD in favor of writing short stories
#16, aired 2023-05-22POP GOES THE MUSIC $600: In 2009 their "Boom Boom Pow" was knocked out of the No. 1 spot by their "I Gotta Feeling" the Black Eyed Peas
#16, aired 2023-05-22PORTMANTEAUS $2000: Set out in 2012, this policy included increasing Japan's money supply & boosting government spending Abenomics
#15, aired 2023-05-22PURE POETRY $1200: (Ada Limón reads.) From French for "step over", this technique in which a thought runs on from one line to the next imports a free-flowing feel, as in Eliot's "April is the cruellest month, breeding / Lilacs out of the dead land" enjambment
#8874, aired 2023-05-18RESTAURANTS $200: In 2019 a French chef demanded to be taken out of this prestigious guide that had claimed he used Cheddar cheese in a soufflé the Michelin Guide
#14, aired 2023-05-17BRING WHAT? $400: In a slogan used in the '80s, "Bring out" this mayo brand named for a German immigrant, & bring out the best Hellmann's
#14, aired 2023-05-17MYTHOLOGICAL WORDS & PHRASES $1000: One can be between a rock & a hard place or similarly, between this pair of foes faced by Odysseus Charybdis & Scylla
#8872, aired 2023-05-16TWISTS $800: The titular "Book of Eli" turns out to be a Bible, but it's basically useless to Gary Oldman because it's in this format braille
#12, aired 2023-05-16COMMUNICATION $1000: This alliterative system began in London in 1680; in 1801, the name went out of date as the price doubled to twopence the Penny Post
#11, aired 2023-05-16POP CULTURE MASQUERADE $1600: While rocking out, Los Straitjackets don masks similar to those worn in this alliterative freestyle wrestling form lucha libre
#8871, aired 2023-05-15DEFENDING THE TITLE $200: Tiger Woods, the youngest ever to win this Georgia tournament in 1997, was still just 25 & 26 when he won again in 2001 & '02 the Masters
#8871, aired 2023-05-15ORDINAL NOVELS $800: Vienna waits for you in Graham Greene's novella titled this "Man", which came out after the 1949 movie co-starring a creepy Orson Welles "The Third Man"
#10, aired 2023-05-15THE FRENCH REVOLUTION $800: Locked out of a meeting hall at Versailles in 1789, members of the Third Estate took their famous oath at this location there a tennis court
#10, aired 2023-05-15GREAT SPORTS CALLS $1000: "The slipper still fits!" as this then-Cinderella Spokane school eked out a 1999 NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament win Gonzaga
#8870, aired 2023-05-12STATE CAPITAL TO STATE CAPITAL $800: In search of weather extremes? St. Paul was a brisk -34 in 1936 & this southwest capital topped out at 122 in 1990 Phoenix
#8, aired 2023-05-12WORLD COINS $200: In 2022 Samoa honored "Sesame Street" with a $5 coin featuring this Muppet popping out of his trash can Oscar (the Grouch)
#8, aired 2023-05-12TV TITLE REFERENCES $9,600 (Daily Double): Slang meaning undergoing the terrible agony of withdrawal from opiates like Oxycontin dopesick
#7, aired 2023-05-12HANG IN THERE $200: Sam Hunt rhymed, "It's still early out in Cali, baby don't you wanna" do this, rebound for more partying rally
#7, aired 2023-05-12PRESENT COMPANY ACCEPTED $400: The 2023 movie "Air" focuses on a big move this company made in 1984 that worked out well for the brand Nike
#6, aired 2023-05-10PITCHERS HAVE BIG YEARS $400: In 1973 Nolan Ryan struck out 383 batters, breaking this lefty's 8-year-old record by one Koufax
#8867, aired 2023-05-09MOVE FAST $1000: The pelota can fly fast--like 188-mph fast--hurled out of a cesta in this sport with a rhyming name jai alai
#4, aired 2023-05-09LIBRARIES $400: When this big-box retailer moved out, McAllen, Texas moved in to create a 123,000-square-foot public library, complete with a cafe Walmart
#3, aired 2023-05-09THE MAP OF EUROPE $4,400 (Daily Double): Walk straight from Narbonne to Zaragoza & you'll pass in & out of this country Andorra
#8866, aired 2023-05-08YEET! $1000: In Greek myth, after he was born lame, his mom yeeted him out of heaven, but he returned & made Hermes' winged helmet Hephaestus
#2, aired 2023-05-08FLYIN' HIGHER THAN A JET AIRLINER $200: Russian for "peace", this space station returned to Earth & pieced out in a controlled re-entry on March 23, 2001 Mir
#2, aired 2023-05-08COMIN' TO YOUR CITY $1,000 (Daily Double): Take in the earthquake-resistant "Cardboard Cathedral", built after a 2011 event in this New Zealand city Christchurch
#2, aired 2023-05-08WOMEN WRITERS $8,000 (Daily Double): Min Jin Lee's novel "Pachinko" follows generations of a Korean immigrant family overcoming bias in this other Asian nation Japan
#1, aired 2023-05-08JASON ALEXANDER: MASTER OF MY DOMAIN $200: (Jason Alexander gives the clue.) As co-pilot Roger Murdock, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was out there busting his buns every night in this classic 1980 film that took comedy in a new direction altogether Airplane!
#1, aired 2023-05-08SPOONERISM PAIRS $200: A grand overall scheme & a stucco guy a master plan & a plaster man
#1, aired 2023-05-0820/23 $200: In the human body most cells normally contain 23 pairs of these chromosomes
#8862, aired 2023-05-02MYTHOLOGY $400: This god of love hid Psyche & visited in secret until she found out who he was Cupid (or Eros)
#8861, aired 2023-05-01SITTING IN WITH THE ORCHESTRA $400: I'm out of my element in an orchestra on this slide instrument; I'm more into jazz & the legendary Vic Dickenson trombone
#8861, aired 2023-05-013-LETTER WORDS WITH 2 VOWELS $600: In the early 2000s the Israeli army phased out use of this submachine gun the uzi
#8861, aired 2023-05-01DOCTOR: WHO? $800: His "Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care" came out in 1946; "Common Sense" left the title in later editions Dr. Spock
#8860, aired 2023-04-28IT'S A COOKBOOK! $200: We hope this Cordon Bleu alum didn't cut the Dickens out of her finger as she was "Mastering the Art of French Cooking" in 1961 Julia Child
#8860, aired 2023-04-28LITERARY LIONS $1200: "We had many great adventures with lions", Isak Dinesen remembered in this book Out of Africa
#8858, aired 2023-04-26COMEDIANS $2000: In 2023 he hosted the Golden Globe Awards, which returned to broadcast TV after a time-out Jerrod Carmichael
#8853, aired 2023-04-19TV $600: Aubrey Plaza, Michael Imperioli & Jennifer Coolidge as Tanya all checked in for season 2 of this limited series; one did not check out White Lotus
#8849, aired 2023-04-13FISH OUT OF WATER $200: The vernal equinox now lies in this zodiac constellation Pisces
#8849, aired 2023-04-13FISH OUT OF WATER ON TV $400: On encountering Tower Bridge, this new coaching hire says, "I got a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore" Ted Lasso
#8849, aired 2023-04-13FISH OUT OF WATER ON TV $800: Lily Collins stars as this title Chicago marketing exec & by the way, she doesn't speak a lick of French Emily in Paris
#8849, aired 2023-04-13FISH OUT OF WATER $800: In the alliterative Mattel game called this "Panic", players must avoid a feeding frenzy to claim victory Piranha Panic
#8849, aired 2023-04-13FISH OUT OF WATER ON TV $1600: In "Two Weeks to Live", this actress plays Kim Noakes who rejects her survivalist mother to experience the world Maisie Williams
#8849, aired 2023-04-13GERMAN LITERATURE $2000: In 1928 "The Threepenny Opera" sang out from composer Kurt Weill & this alliterative writer from Augsburg Bertolt Brecht
#8848, aired 2023-04-12DINING OUT $800: Pull up a seat at Chip & Joanna Gaines' restaurant in Waco, Texas called this, same as Joanna's cooking show Magnolia Table
#8848, aired 2023-04-12DINING OUT $1000: (I'm Eddie Huang.) A play on the name of a German school of design, my first restaurant, specializing in Taiwanese-Chinese fare, including steamed buns, was called this BaoHaus
#8847, aired 2023-04-11ARCHITECTURALLY SPEAKING $600: In other words, "when one won't tolerate temperature, remove oneself from food-making facilities" if you can't take the heat, get out of the kitchen
#8843, aired 2023-04-05IN THE MEDICINE CABINET $200: A slogan of this brand's eye drops was "gets the red out" Visine
#8842, aired 2023-04-04ALL THE DAYS OF MY LIFE $800: His P-51 Mustang took out 5 German planes in a single dogfight in World War II; being first to break the sound barrier came later Chuck Yeager
#8840, aired 2023-03-31CONSECUTIVE LETTER WORD PAIRS $800: Myself, as in "You can worry about others if you like; I'm looking out for..." number one
#8837, aired 2023-03-28FANCIFIED BEASTLY IDIOMS $800: In the manner of one flying fox leaving Pandemonium like a bat out of hell
#8835, aired 2023-03-24REJECTED AUTHORS $1200: This title auntie of Patrick Dennis' novel was too irrepressible for more than a dozen publishers before it came out in 1955 Mame
#8834, aired 2023-03-23THE LINCOLN HIGHWAY $1200: (Amor Towles presents the clue.) Near the end of the book, Emmett & Billy finally set out for the Western Terminus of the highway, which is still at the Palace of the Legion of Honor in this city San Francisco
#8834, aired 2023-03-23FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $4,000 (Daily Double): An Architectural Digest headline said this term "dictated the layout of" a "light-filled residence in Beijing" feng shui
#8833, aired 2023-03-22RESILIENCE $2000: President of Brazil from 2003 to 2011, then out of office & even in prison, he rebounded to win the office back in 2022 (Lula) da Silva
#8832, aired 2023-03-21MADE IN PENNSYLVANIA $400: Formerly named for founders Binney & Smith, this brand's colorful products continue to roll out in Easton, Pennsylvania Crayola
#8832, aired 2023-03-21I LOVE A MAN IN CUNEIFORM $2000: The cuneiform tablet seen here from the British Museum tells a story from the epic named for this hero who hung out with Enkidu Gilgamesh
#8830, aired 2023-03-17OUT & ABOUT THE UNIVERSE $200: The largest known structure in the universe is a group of galaxies, the Hercules-Corona Borealis this, also a long thing in Asia a Great Wall
#8830, aired 2023-03-17SHIP OUT $400: In January of 1898 the USS Maine was sent to this city's harbor; it would not see another new year Havana
#8830, aired 2023-03-17OUT & ABOUT THE UNIVERSE $600: A class of objects the size of asteroids but resembling comets in composition is named for these man-horse hybrids centaurs
#8830, aired 2023-03-17SHIP OUT $800: The Bounty set out for this French Polynesian island in 1787 in search of breadfruit Tahiti
#8830, aired 2023-03-17OUT & ABOUT THE UNIVERSE $800: The Milky Way is made up of these spiraling appendages with an anatomical name; we're in the little Orion one an arm
#8830, aired 2023-03-17OUT & ABOUT THE UNIVERSE $1000: In 2018 the Kepler space telescope was retired after finding about 2,600 of these--no life on any yet exoplanets
#8830, aired 2023-03-17SHIP OUT $1200: Launched in 1797, this ship in more recent years has been known to fire cannon salutes while tooling around Boston Harbor the Constitution
#8830, aired 2023-03-17SHIP OUT $2000: In 1998 this battleship left Puget Sound Naval Shipyard to go to Pearl Harbor, where it would become a museum the Missouri
#8829, aired 2023-03-16THE LEADER BEFORE THE LEADER $200: What can (Gordon) Brown do for you? In 2007 the U.K. began to find out after this Labour leader's run as prime minister ended Blair
#8827, aired 2023-03-14HERE'S YOUR REPORT CARD $1,600 (Daily Double): Put out by the Air Force in 1995, a report on a 1947 incident here is subtitled "Facts vs. Fiction in the New Mexico Desert" Roswell
#8826, aired 2023-03-13GOVERNORS $400: In a total recall election in 2003, Gray Davis was out as California governor & he was in Schwarzenegger
#8826, aired 2023-03-13THE BIG BANG THEORY $1000: In 1669 this Sicilian volcano spit out nearly a billion cubic yards of lava, the flow of which took out a dozen villages Mt. Etna
#8825, aired 2023-03-10LET'S VISIT NICARAGUA $200: In 1857 this city beat out León & Granada to become Nicaragua's capital Managua
#8822, aired 2023-03-07RECENT COMMERCIALS $800: Like a good neighbor, Drake helped out as the stand-in for this omnipresent State Farm pitchguy Jake
#8821, aired 2023-03-06STUDY: GUIDES $400: In 1836 Edward Davy had all the elements to put out an "Experimental Guide to" this field chemistry
#8821, aired 2023-03-06HISTORY $800: In recent history, he announced in December 2016 that he'd run against Vladimir Putin; as it turned out, a dangerous decision Alexei Navalny
#8819, aired 2023-03-02IN THE SPORT $400: Best ball, casual water, closed face &-- the absolute worst--shank golf
#8818, aired 2023-03-01RECENT MOVIES $600: He put on his best southern drawl as detective Benoit Blanc in "Knives Out" (Daniel) Craig
#8818, aired 2023-03-01ONOMATOPOEIA $1000: This loud disturbance arose "out on the lawn" in "'Twas the Night Before Christmas" a clatter
#8816, aired 2023-02-27HOME FROM COLLEGE $200: Home in Flint in this state for winter break? Drive out to Lapeer for a slide down Toboggan Hill Michigan
#8816, aired 2023-02-27SOCIAL SCIENCE $400: Growing out of its 1970s women's studies program, in 2006 Indiana University began the USA's first Ph.D. program in this gender studies
#8816, aired 2023-02-27PURE POETRY $1200: "Poems" by her came out in 1844; months later, a poet named Robert wrote to say, "I love your verses with all my heart" (& yeah, you too) Elizabeth Barrett Browning
#8813, aired 2023-02-22A JOLLY RHYME $2000: A camera mounted on a cart is used for this type of movie shot in moving toward a subject or out for the reverse a dolly
#8809, aired 2023-02-16SAME FIRST & LAST LETTER GEOGRAPHY $4,000 (Daily Double): Check out Akershus Fortress, begun in 1299, & a major landmark in this world capital Oslo
#8808, aired 2023-02-15ACC SCHOOL HISTORY $2,000 (Daily Double): In 1926 this southern school enrolled about 650 full-time students, but of all things, a hurricane nearly put it out of business the University of Miami
#8806, aired 2023-02-13BOTANY $2000: In a 1771 experiment this British scientist discovered that plants give off what turned out to be oxygen (Joseph) Priestley
#8805, aired 2023-02-10SUPER BOWL HEROES $200: (Mike Pereira of Fox NFL Sunday presents the clue.) Cheeseheads ate it up after this quarterback threw for 304 yards & three touchdowns to lead Green Bay to a win in Super Bowl XLV (Aaron) Rodgers
#8805, aired 2023-02-10ALL KINDS OF BOOKS $400: The big one of these from National Geographic for kids to pore over first came out in 1963 & is now in its 11th edition an atlas
#8803, aired 2023-02-08THAT'S DEDICATION $2000: P.G. Wodehouse honored his editor in this dopey gentleman "Sees It Through": "I shall get a very good lunch out of you" Bertie Wooster
#8802, aired 2023-02-07WHICH WAR? $200: The French take the duchy of Guyenne from England in 1337 & things get out of hand for a long while The Hundred Years' War
#8802, aired 2023-02-07NUTS TO YOU! $400: In the early 1900s not many had them roasting on an open fire after a blight nearly took out these trees in eastern N. America chestnuts
#8802, aired 2023-02-07WE'RE HALFWAY THERE $600: He's the biblical king who says, "Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one, and half to the other"; it works out Solomon
#8802, aired 2023-02-07ROLE: MODEL $800: Josh Duhamel beat out this actor seen here, in a modeling competition in 1997; they would later both appear in "New Year's Eve" (Ashton) Kutcher
#8799, aired 2023-02-02PLAY THAT GAME $200: It's gotta be hard to catch 'em all when new video games keep coming out, but in 2022 folks gave it a shot with this "Legends: Arceus" Pokémon
#13, aired 2023-02-02WIL(L), WILLEM OR WILLIAM $500: We got a kick out of watching William Zabka return to the dojo in the role of Johnny Lawrence on this Netflix show Cobra Kai
#13, aired 2023-02-02IT'S ALSO A GREEK LETTER $800: It's letter No. 3 in the Greek alphabet; the same-named "rays" hulked out Bruce Banner gamma
#13, aired 2023-02-02THOUGHT YOU'D LIKE TO KNOW $1000: We got the Beat! Here's the 120-foot scroll of paper that this writer used to type out 1957's "On the Road" in just 3 weeks Kerouac
#8797, aired 2023-01-31JASON CONCEPCION $800: (Jason Concepcion presents the clue.) A 2021 episode of "Takeline" examined Major League Baseball's decision to move its All-Star Game out of this state after it passed a law that reduced the number of ballot drop boxes in Fulton County and elsewhere Georgia
#8796, aired 2023-01-30OUT ON A BOOK TOUR $400: Henry James' 1884 book "A Little Tour in" this country begins, naturally, at Tours France
#8796, aired 2023-01-30SCARY MOVIES $400: Black people are mysteriously disappearing in this 2017 directorial debut of Jordan Peele Get Out
#8796, aired 2023-01-30OUT ON A BOOK TOUR $800: This author's "Six Weeks' Tour" in 1814 with Percy tells of Europeans who in acts "hideous to English eyes, kissed each other" Mary Shelley
#8796, aired 2023-01-30OUT ON A BOOK TOUR $1200: In "A Cook's Tour" this late chef & lover of travel went all over the world "In Search of the Perfect Meal" Bourdain
#8794, aired 2023-01-26A LINE IN THE SAND $1600: A passage in this novel relays, "Gurney saw Fremen spread out across the sand there in the path of the worm" Dune
#12, aired 2023-01-26THE GOLDEN STATE WARRIORS $600: (Amy Schneider presents the clue.) Beginning in 2015, the Warriors squared off in 4 straight NBA Finals, with LeBron & these Eastern Conference champs, winning 3 out of 4 the (Cleveland) Cavaliers
#12, aired 2023-01-26A SIGN OF SHAME $600: We can bleep out what you said when you forgot that state capital, but you still owe a buck in this container the swear jar
#8791, aired 2023-01-23CHESS PAINS $600: In 2008 Ukrainian star Vassily Ivanchuk stormed out of a Chess Olympiad rather than submit to one of these tests a drug test
#8790, aired 2023-01-20THIS PIECE OF PAPER WILL TELL YOU WHAT TO DO $2000: In the gospel of Luke, "There went out a decree" from this ruler "that all the world should be taxed" Caesar Augustus
#11, aired 2023-01-19LANDMARKS $300: We'll point out this 605-foot landmark opened in 1962 for the World's Fair in Seattle & was built for a reasonable $4.5 million the Space Needle
#11, aired 2023-01-19LANDMARKS $400: As long as you're here, let's also play the Pyramid & check out the Venus de Milo & the Galerie des Antiques in this museum the Louvre
#8788, aired 2023-01-18BLANK VERSE $1200: "But there is no joy in ____--Mighty Casey has struck out" Mudville
#8787, aired 2023-01-17DOUBLE VOWELS NEXT TO DOUBLE CONSONANTS $600: As a verb it can mean to turn out well or to come next in a series succeed
#8787, aired 2023-01-17EMMY WINNERS $1600: This series about a New York doctor in Cicely, Alaska beat out "L.A. Law", among others, to win Best Drama Series at the 1992 Emmys Northern Exposure
#8786, aired 2023-01-16ROYAL HISTORY $800: Sultan Mehmed V, seen here, was ruling this empire in 1914, but time would soon be running out for both the Ottoman Empire
#8785, aired 2023-01-13I THANK YOU ALL $600: After winning an Oscar for this title role, Julia Roberts didn't leave anyone out & thanked "everyone I've ever met in my life" Erin Brockovich
#8784, aired 2023-01-12WHERE DID I LEAVE MY KEYS? $800: Let's see, I remember heading directly north out of Israel into this country on the Mediterranean... maybe in Baalbek? Lebanon
#10, aired 2023-01-12EXPLOSIVE MUSIC $300: In 2020 this K-pop boy group burst out with "Dynamite", a No. 1 hit BTS
#8782, aired 2023-01-10POTPOURRI $800: Andrew Garfield played composer Jonathan Larson running out of time in this 2021 film Tick, Tick... Boom!
#8781, aired 2023-01-09LAUNDRY DAY $800: Concerns of the 1950s included segregation, fear of nuclear war & itchy, stiff clothes; in 1961 this brand came out to address one Downy (fabric softener)
#8781, aired 2023-01-09WON THE BATTLE, LOST THE WAR $2000: In 1879 this southern African kingdom wiped out a British force at Isandlwana but was soon wiped out itself the Zulu
#8779, aired 2023-01-05THE LIFE OF RILEY $4,000 (Daily Double): Congressman Riley Wilson wanted to be governor of Louisiana in 1928 but lost out to this larger-than-life man (Huey) Long
#8778, aired 2023-01-04BUY, & LARGE $600: In 2014 $130 billion changed hands as Vodafone was bought out of this other "V" company's wireless biz Verizon
#8777, aired 2023-01-03ROMANTIC MOVIE LINES $1000: In "Moonstruck", after Nicolas Cage says, "I'm in love with you", Cher slaps him twice & says these 4 words Snap out of it
#8775, aired 2022-12-30ALLITERATION $400: DJ Alan Freed's claim to have coined this term in Cleveland helped it beat out New York City & Memphis as home to a museum rock and roll
#8775, aired 2022-12-30THE AGELESS DIANA ROSS $1000: We want the world to know, got to let it show that this hit released by Diana in 1980 became an LGBTQ pride anthem "I'm Coming Out"
#8775, aired 2022-12-30A MEMORABLE NEW YEAR'S EVE $2000: (Ryan Seacrest presents the clue.) On December 31, 1959, Paul Westerberg entered the world in Minneapolis as the singer of this band; he'd comment on his birth date with the line, "Income tax deduction, one hell of a function" The Replacements
#8774, aired 2022-12-29THE COMEDY OF ERAS $2000: There are plenty of laughs in this 1878 Gilbert & Sullivan operetta set aboard a Royal Navy vessel H.M.S. Pinafore
#8773, aired 2022-12-28IT HAD TO BE HUGH $800: In 1953 he informed newsstands that "Stag Party--a brand new magazine for men--will be out this fall" Hugh Hefner
#8772, aired 2022-12-27FICTION $200: Written under the V.C. Andrews name, recent prequels to her bestselling series include "Beneath the" this & "Out of the" this Attic
#8772, aired 2022-12-27ECONOMY OF MOVEMENT $1000: In 2008 this alphanumeric Cunard ship set out with its last passengers, with some berths going for more than $40,000 the QEII
#8772, aired 2022-12-27FLYOVER COUNTRIES $1200: We're next in line for departure; we'll head south out of Ecuador into this nation & finally touch down in Chile Peru
#8772, aired 2022-12-27FLYOVER COUNTRIES $2000: Skies are clear as we fly west out of Panama & into this country's airspace; we'll ease north & have you in Nicaragua in no time Costa Rica
#8770, aired 2022-12-23ORCHESTRAL MANEUVERS IN THE PARK $800: Check out the philharmonic of this world capital as it played its summer night concert on the grounds of the Schönbrunn Palace Vienna
#8770, aired 2022-12-23RIAN JOHNSON LOVES A WHODUNIT $1200: (Rian Johnson presents the clue.) For the look of "Knives Out", I pictured films set in large houses like "Deathtrap" & "Sleuth", both of which starred this Oscar winner, known for his Cockney accents Michael Caine
#8767, aired 2022-12-20SOUTH AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL $2000: Check out the gorgeous Bernardo O'Higgins National Park, the largest park in this nation & home to nearly 50 glaciers Chile
#8765, aired 2022-12-16MUMMIES $200: Believed to be the seat of feeling & intelligence, this organ was left in the body while the brain & other organs were taken out the heart
#8764, aired 2022-12-15DRONING ON ACROSS AMERICA $400: Life's pretty good here in California; check out the pier that shares this name of the village known for Hearst Castle San Simeon
#8764, aired 2022-12-15BRIEF LIVES $1000: Swung into Paris in 1819; swung a heavy metal ball on a wire to prove Earth's rotation on its axis; swung out of Paris in 1868 Foucault
#8763, aired 2022-12-14ANIMALS IN FRENCH $800: Look out! Serpent à sonnettes a rattlesnake
#8763, aired 2022-12-14HISTORIC NAMES $1000: In 1271 this teen set out with his father & uncle on a journey from Europe to the Far East & into history Marco Polo
#8763, aired 2022-12-141982: A YEAR IN FILM $1600: The "Tears in Rain" speech to Harrison Ford in this film was a page long; Rutger Hauer cut it down, in part, to get out of the rain Blade Runner
#8761, aired 2022-12-12BEN FRANKLIN $200: In his native Boston, Ben wrote that the kids of status-seeking parents come out of this college as blockheads Harvard
#8761, aired 2022-12-12LOST FOR WORDS $600: This piscine phrase describes someone lost in a new environment a fish out of water
#8760, aired 2022-12-09PLACES NAMED FOR PEOPLE $600: It didn't work out for this king with the American Revolution, but they named a town & nearby peak for him in South Africa George III
#8760, aired 2022-12-09SHE BLINDED ME $1000: In "King Lear" a bloodthirsty Regan demands that this man be hanged while Goneril screams, "Pluck out his eyes" the Earl of Gloucester
#8759, aired 2022-12-08A NIGHT AT THE OPERA $1,000 (Daily Double): A play by French dramatist Pierre Beaumarchais served as the basis for this Rossini opera set in a Spanish city The Barber of Seville
#8759, aired 2022-12-08WHAT A NOVEL CHARACTER! $1600: Things are looking up for this Bernard Malamud ballplayer when he strikes out "The Whammer" early in "The Natural" (Roy) Hobbs
#8758, aired 2022-12-07I WILL LEAVE $400: If an I gets poked out, one who gets property in a will becomes a third person pronoun her & heir
#8758, aired 2022-12-07FAMOUS SOUTH AMERICANS $1600: As the fifth man in this job, Javier Perez de Cuellar of Peru helped end wars & helped get the Soviets out of Afghanistan the Secretary-General of the United Nations
#8756, aired 2022-12-05POINTING OUT DECIMALS $200: In 1938 the AMA signed off on a legal limit for blood alcohol concentration of a rather startling .15; today it's this .08
#8756, aired 2022-12-05POINTING OUT DECIMALS $600: Ted Williams is the last Major Leaguer to hit more than this fabled average, going .006 above it in 1941 .400
#8755, aired 2022-12-02AFRICAN LAKES & RIVERS $200: In 1805 Henry Nicholls set out to find a route to the Niger River from this ocean, unaware he was starting from its mouth the Atlantic
#8752, aired 2022-11-29POLITICIANS BACK IN THE DAY $600: In his high school yearbook this ex-Jersey governor noted his special friendship with Jill was special & shouted out someone named Fat Jack Christie
#8750, aired 2022-11-25LET'S PLAY SPORTS THERE! $400: You can take me out to the ballgame anytime at Miller Park at this university in Provo, Utah BYU (Brigham Young)
#8750, aired 2022-11-25LET'S PLAY SPORTS THERE! $800: When a ball is out at the Burj Al Arab Hotel in this wealthy emirate known for its skyscrapers, it's really out Dubai
#8749, aired 2022-11-24REVENGE LIT $1000: In "An Act of Vengeance" by this Chilean author, Dulce Rosa plots for 30 years, gets her chance & things turn out different (Isabel) Allende
#8748, aired 2022-11-23SPEECH OF THE DICKENS $2000: Mrs. Gargery in "Great Expectations" was the first to go "on the" this; stay out of her way, Pip! rampage
#8747, aired 2022-11-22STORIES OF THE SOUTH $400: In "The Night the Lights Went Out" by Karen White, Merilee Dunlap fittingly moves to Sweet Apple in this state Georgia
#8746, aired 2022-11-21HEGEL $400: The key world event of Hegel's youth was this, which broke out in the spring & summer of 1789 when he was 18 the French Revolution
#8744, aired 2022-11-17FAR OUT $800: New stars "grow up" in what are called "stellar" these, like the place for kids or plants nurseries
#8744, aired 2022-11-17DOUBLE LETTERS IN THE MIDDLE $1200: A low seat for an easily freaked-out Mother Goose girl tuffet
#8744, aired 2022-11-17FAR OUT $2000: The Wilkinson Probe monitored fluctuations in the residue of the Big Bang known as the CMB, short for this cosmic microwave background
#8743, aired 2022-11-16HEARD IN THE MOVIE $1200: "Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in" The Godfather Part III
#8, aired 2022-11-13DRIVING IN L.A. $200: L.A. fans are notorious for pulling out of this venue onto Vin Scully Avenue around the 7th inning to beat the traffic Dodger Stadium
#8, aired 2022-11-13SPORTS STARS $600: In 2008 this Jamaican sprinter came from out of the blue to set the first of many world records; Olympic gold would follow Usain Bolt
#8740, aired 2022-11-11MANDY PATINKIN $1000: (Mandy Patinkin presents the clue.) I was a big fan of the late Stephen Sondheim & I am honored to have originated the role of the artist Seurat in this James Lapine-Sondheim musical that was inspired by a painting Sunday in the Park with George
#8739, aired 2022-11-10ORGANIZATIONS $600: Here are the Carters helping out this organization in 2003 Habitat for Humanity
#8739, aired 2022-11-10WITH OUR LITTLE "I" $1600: "Ralph was hopping on one leg when a dingo cried out" is in the past this tense imperfect
#8737, aired 2022-11-08HITS OF 2002 $600: This dance anthem by Pink says, "We'll be lookin' flashy in my Mercedes Benz" "Get The Party Started"
#8736, aired 2022-11-07HERBAL & SPICY NAMES $400: In a 1967 tune we hear his band has "been going in and out of style, but they're guaranteed to raise a smile" Sgt. Pepper
#8736, aired 2022-11-07THAT '70s OR '80s SHOW $400: "Thanks for that on the spot report, Les"; turns out Thanksgiving turkeys can't fly during a 1978 episode of this Ohio-set sitcom WKRP in Cincinnati
#8734, aired 2022-11-03A YEAR ENDING IN 2 $1000: More than a quarter of English colonists in Virginia are killed in a massacre; John Rolfe also dies 1622
#8733, aired 2022-11-02NOVEL NURSES $800: In Richard Hooker's "MASH", she emerges "not out of a scallop shell like Botticelli's Venus, but out of a helicopter" "Hot Lips" Houlihan
#8731, aired 2022-10-31CONDUCTING THE HISTORIC JOB INTERVIEW $1000: In 1875 you put out "Science & Health with Key to the Scriptures"; I'm sensing you want to open your own branch (Mary Baker) Eddy
#6, aired 2022-10-30THE U.S. CONSTITUTION $200: The Constitution was hammered out in the summer of 1787 by 55 delegates at the gathering known as the Constitutional this the Constitutional Convention
#6, aired 2022-10-30PATRIOT ACT $300: Italian patriot Garibaldi captured Palermo in 1860 with colorful troops called these, like a college athlete sitting out a year a redshirt
#6, aired 2022-10-30ANSWER IN THE FORM OF AN ABBREVIATION $500: A tear of this ligament that prevents the tibia from sliding out in front of the femur has ended many a pro athlete's season the ACL
#6, aired 2022-10-30DIRECTIONAL GEOGRAPHY IN AMERICA $600: Enjoy Capitol Street & Capitol Market in Charleston, which, yes, is the capital of this state that was admitted in 1863 West Virginia
#6, aired 2022-10-30HI, FINANCE $800: Air-ing things out, this occurs when you don't have enough money in your account to cover a check but the bank pays anyway overdraft
#6, aired 2022-10-30OUT OF THIS WORLD $900: In November 2000 Yuri Gidzenko, Sergey Krikalev & William Shepherd became the first residents of this, staying 136 days the International Space Station
#6, aired 2022-10-30OUT OF THIS WORLD $1200: In 2018 one of this American aerospace company's Falcon rockets placed a Tesla roadster in orbit around the Sun SpaceX
#6, aired 2022-10-30OUT OF THIS WORLD $1500: The HST, this space telescope, was placed in orbit around Earth in 1990 & soon revolutionized astronomy the Hubble
#6, aired 2022-10-30OUT OF THIS WORLD $3,600 (Daily Double): Neil Armstrong was the first person to set foot on the Moon; a few minutes later, this man became the second Buzz Aldrin
#8730, aired 2022-10-28THE STRONGEST LINK $1000: In the "Skyward Sword" edition of this video game, Link searches for the title character after she's knocked out of the sky Zelda
#8730, aired 2022-10-28DAYS OF YORE $1200: These lyric poets of southern Europe laid out their rules for poetry in the 14th c. work "Leys d'amors" troubadours
#8728, aired 2022-10-26THE NUMBER IN MUSIC $800: It would be a (disorganized) crime if you didn't know this group won an Oscar for their song "It's Hard Out Here For A Pimp" Three 6 Mafia
#5, aired 2022-10-23HOLLYWOOD REPORTER $800: In the classic "Citizen Kane", following Kane's death, a reporter is sent out to uncover the meaning of this, his final word Rosebud
#8725, aired 2022-10-21MOVIE & TV DIRECTORS $1200: Gary Merrill, who played a stage director in "All About Eve", married this star before the film came out Bette Davis
#8724, aired 2022-10-204-LETTER FOOD & DRINK $1000: In "Treasure Island" Captain Smollett tells the men they'll have this rum drink "served out for you to drink our health and luck" grog
#8721, aired 2022-10-17LITERARY FIRST LINES $200: It contains the opposite of its title in "I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills" Out of Africa
#8721, aired 2022-10-17AN IMPRESSIVE VOCABULARY $600: "O" is for this unfriendly word; in ancient Greece, it was a way to vote you out of the community ostracize
#8721, aired 2022-10-17ACTORS GET THEIR ROLES MIXED UP $1600: Formerly an assassin & the boss of the Crazy 88, I've also branched out to practice law in Boston Lucy Liu
#4, aired 2022-10-16SHAKESPEARE $800: In a history play a woman complains that this chubby knight "hath eaten me out of house and home" Falstaff
#4, aired 2022-10-16BRAIN SURGEON'S TERMINOLOGY $2,000 (Daily Double): This adjective is the "M" in an MRI diagnostic test, so do take your keys & your lucky coin out of your pockets magnetic
#8719, aired 2022-10-13PONY TALES $1600: Growing up on a Wyoming horse ranch, Kevin is tasked with making a good pony out of "My Friend" her Flicka
#8717, aired 2022-10-11WHERE IN THE HOUSE? $1000: It's the room where Peter Pan visits the Darling children the nursery
#8716, aired 2022-10-10PLACES IN MOVIE TITLES $1600: Leonardo DiCaprio wants to carve out some revenge against Bill the Butcher in this drama Gangs of New York
#3, aired 2022-10-0921 OR UNDER $200: Including the pole vault & hurdles, the athletic contest known as the decathlon comprises this many track & field events 10
#8714, aired 2022-10-06UNION PEOPLE $800: In 1937 Walter Reuther of this union gained fame via photos of him being beaten up passing out leaflets at a Ford plant the (United) Autoworkers Union (UAW)
#8713, aired 2022-10-05FIRST EPISODES $600: Dr. Jack Shephard had a bit of a rough landing after catching a flight out of Sydney in the premiere of this show in 2004 Lost
#8711, aired 2022-10-03WHEN POLK WAS PRESIDENT $1600: He sat out the first 2 years of the Polk presidency alone at a pond, though he did spend a night in jail for not paying a poll tax Thoreau
#2, aired 2022-10-02WHAT HAPPENS IN VEGAS $1000: This hotel boasts a colorful indoor display of glass flowers by Dale Chihuly & dancing waters out front the Bellagio
#8707, aired 2022-09-27CREDITS $600: The plot of this film with Leonardo DiCaprio as a con artist & Tom Hanks as the FBI agent in pursuit plays out in the opening credits Catch Me If You Can
#8701, aired 2022-09-194-SYLLABLE VERBS $400: To point someone out in court, as in "Can you ____ the person who dropped the noodles on your head?" identify
#8699, aired 2022-09-15CLEANUP $200: The man, the myth, the legend, he cleaned king Augeas' huge stables in a single day, flushing them out by diverting rivers Hercules
#8699, aired 2022-09-15PARTY! $600: Check out Loy Krathong, the festival of lights, held in places like Chiang Mai & Ayutthaya in this nation Thailand
#8699, aired 2022-09-15SCIENCE PROJECTS $6,000 (Daily Double): In 1996 scientists of the Rediscovery project at this Virginia site announced the finding of its long-lost fort Jamestown
#8698, aired 2022-09-14AFRICA $1200: Get out of the Land Rover in Zambia's South Luangwa National Park, called the birthplace of the "walking" this tour safari
#8696, aired 2022-09-12FINANCE & INVESTING $800: In 2017 Oregon became the first state with automatic these savings accounts: employees are enrolled unless they opt out IRAs
#8695, aired 2022-07-29JUST TAKE THE L $200: Take the L out of a beer league sport (in an alley) & you get an act of showing respect bowing & bowling
#8689, aired 2022-07-21ODD NUMBERS $400: In craps, these are the 2 possible winning numbers on a come out roll 7 & 11
#8688, aired 2022-07-20PLEASE RISE FOR OUR NATIONAL... $400: Motto: This 4-word phrase, signed into law by Eisenhower in 1956; "E pluribus unum" had been used unofficially In God We Trust
#8688, aired 2022-07-20PLEASE RISE FOR OUR NATIONAL... $800: Floral emblem: In proclaiming it, Reagan pointed out the White House has a garden of them roses
#8687, aired 2022-07-19WORD ORIGINS $2000: Now a way to get out of something, it was originally a window in a castle wall for archers to shoot through loophole
#8686, aired 2022-07-18GIVING YOU THE BOOT $200: Buzzfeed featured these double-talk, thigh-high boots "that will look totally far out in your closet" go-go boots
#8686, aired 2022-07-18COLOR ME BAD $400: This rhyming fictional "illness" involves police officers disrupting operations by calling in sick the blue flu
#8686, aired 2022-07-18GOOD HISTORY $400: This group of 10 guarantees (out of the 12 sent to the states) was ratified in December 1791 a Bill of Rights
#8686, aired 2022-07-18THE WOUK MOB $1000: Physicist Guy Carpenter is out of a job in "A Hole in Texas", based on the real cancellation of the Superconducting this machine Super Collider
#8682, aired 2022-07-12WHO'S IN THAT COMMERCIAL? $400: Those are NBA buddies "Bobi & Tobi" selling these crackers; turns out 7'3" Bobi can grab quite a handful Goldfish crackers
#8678, aired 2022-07-06IN THE COURTROOM $1600: Out of the jury's hearing it's the area where the attorneys are standing or the type of discussion they're in a sidebar
#8678, aired 2022-07-06IN THE COURTROOM $2000: You may want to find out where your case is on this 6-letter agenda of pending trials the docket
#8677, aired 2022-07-05THE ARTS $2000: Black sculptor Edmonia Lewis depicted exclusion in her art like this mother of Ishmael cast out into the wilderness Hagar
#8670, aired 2022-06-242022 ANNIVERSARIES $400: Happy 65th to this flying disc that Wham-O began rolling out in 1957 the Frisbee
#8666, aired 2022-06-20GRAMMY-WINNING SONGS $400: He & co-writer Amy Wadge shared a Grammy in 2016 for "Thinking Out Loud" Ed Sheeran
#8665, aired 2022-06-17THINK PINK $600 (Daily Double): Introduced in 1957, this brand was packaged in little pink packets so that it would stand out in sugar bowls Sweet'n Low
#8665, aired 2022-06-17HOME SWEET HOME RENOVATION $800: Out of the barn & into the kitchen for this type of big sink, installed just under the counter-top & a bit in front of cabinets below a farmhouse sink
#8665, aired 2022-06-17POP ROCKS $1000: In 2000 Duncan Jones directed a concert film of this legendary pop, born David Jones, rocking out at the Roseland Ballroom David Bowie
#8665, aired 2022-06-17SCI-FI CHARACTERS $2,000 (Daily Double): In an H.G. Wells tale, Griffin, whose face is wrapped in rags, turns out to be this title guy The Invisible Man
#8664, aired 2022-06-16GET OUT $400: Get out to the West Coast for Bottlerock, a festival of big music acts & wine tasting in this California valley Napa Valley
#8664, aired 2022-06-16GET OUT $600: Get out and play the combo game foot volley, invented in this country that's a powerhouse in soccer & beach volleyball Brazil
#8664, aired 2022-06-16GET OUT $800: Get out there & meet someone, then 7 minutes later meet someone else in this system invented by an L.A. rabbi in the 1990s speed dating
#8664, aired 2022-06-16HORROR MOVIES $800: In a 2017 horror film he starred as Chris Washington, trying to "Get Out" of the Armitage home Daniel Kaluuya
#8664, aired 2022-06-16GET OUT $1000: Get out in your garden and plant this, every part of which can be used in cooking fennel
#8663, aired 2022-06-15MILWAUKEE: NEWS CLUES $200: (Mike Strehlow of the CBS58 news team presents the clue.) Years that end in 3 & 8 bring out big celebrations of this company; in 2018, its 115th birthday bash had 6,500 riders roaring down Wisconsin Avenue Harley-Davidson
#8663, aired 2022-06-15WE'RE FULL! $1000: Past tense for "eat" is spelled out in this word that means "I couldn't eat another bite" satiated (sated)
#8659, aired 2022-06-09BOOK IT! $400: In 2022, he put out a nonfiction book called "Life Force" (Tony) Robbins
#8659, aired 2022-06-09ANCIENT HISTORY $800: A noted military use of these animals was by Pyrrhus at the Battle of Heraclea in 280 B.C.; they freaked out the Roman horses elephants
#8658, aired 2022-06-08ALLITERATIVE SPORTS NO-NO's $1000: Time out for a penalty in hockey; it's also the name of the group that had the 2001 hit song "Superman" five for fighting
#8654, aired 2022-06-02NUGGETS OF INFORMATION $600: In 2019 this Springdale, Arkansas-based company, a chicken nugget powerhouse, rolled out plant-based nuggets Tyson (Foods)
#8654, aired 2022-06-02ROCK & ROLL $800: In 2022 music by this late performer, including his "Bat Out of Hell" album, returned to the Billboard charts Meat Loaf
#8653, aired 2022-06-01BALLPARK FUN $1000: In the 1980s & '90s this rhymingly named Cubs announcer led the Wrigley faithful in singing "Take Me Out To The Ballgame" Harry Caray
#8653, aired 2022-06-01POP & ROCK LIFE STORIES $1600: This Englishman looked at fame in "They Made a Monkee Out of Me" Davy Jones
#8652, aired 2022-05-31IT'S A FLAT-OUT FACT $400: All babies have flat feet, but if you develop the condition later in life, it's called fallen these arches
#8652, aired 2022-05-31IT'S A FLAT-OUT FACT $800: Please pass over this bread in unleavened form or now that I think of it, as a ball in some delicious soup matzah
#8652, aired 2022-05-31IT'S A FLAT-OUT FACT $1200: "Tortilla Flat", a 1935 novel set in Monterey, established him as a successful author Steinbeck
#8652, aired 2022-05-31MEDIEVAL TIMES $1200: A serf who could hide out in a town for this long, "un an et un jour" in French, became a free citizen a year and a day
#8652, aired 2022-05-31IT'S A FLAT-OUT FACT $1600: In 2021 a vehicle aptly named Speed Demon hit 466 mph at these salt flats in Utah Bonneville
#8650, aired 2022-05-27LITERARY SHIPPING $1,000 (Daily Double): In a Paul Gallico "Adventure" novel, this liner is capsized by a tidal wave & the survivors climb up to the hull to find a way out the Poseidon
#8650, aired 2022-05-27LITERARY SHIPPING $2000: This word follows "Captains" in the title of a Rudyard Kipling tale about Atlantic Ocean fishermen out in the Grand Banks Courageous
#8648, aired 2022-05-25ROUGH NATIONAL ANTHEM LYRICS $800: Belt it out from its states of Sonora to Campeche! "War, war! Let the national banners be soaked in waves of blood" Mexico
#8648, aired 2022-05-25'80s & '90s NONFICTION $800: Sadly, this funny lady passed away in 1989 shortly before her memoir "It's Always Something" came out Gilda Radner
#8648, aired 2022-05-25BOND APPETIT! $1000: In "Goldfinger" Bond engages in a debate on the merits of Alaskan & stone these, but the stone variety wins out crab
#8648, aired 2022-05-25'80s & '90s NONFICTION $1000: In 1992 John Gray published this out-of-this-world guide to understanding the opposite sex Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus
#8646, aired 2022-05-23IT'S MAY 23rd! $800: On May 23, 1618 3 guys were thrown out of a castle window in what is called this incident "of Prague" defenestration
#8645, aired 2022-05-20THAT'S IN ADMISSIBLE! $400: You're "dropping" these coins if you're doling out assists in basketball dimes
#8642, aired 2022-05-17MOVIE TITLE BEFORE & AFTER $2000: Allied prisoners tunnel out of a German P.O.W. camp in a Disney movie about kids with magical powers The Great Escape to Witch Mountain
#8641, aired 2022-05-16THAT BOOK PLAGUES ME $1200: A mysterious microorganism from space wipes out most of an Arizona town in this thriller by Michael Crichton The Andromeda Strain
#8641, aired 2022-05-16SWEDISH HISTORY $2000: "Talent & Taste" is the motto of the Swedish this institution, founded in 1786, which hands out the Nobel Prize for Literature the Academy
#8640, aired 2022-05-13COMMUNICATION $800: This market research company best known for its TV ratings started out providing them for radio programs in the 1940s Nielsen
#8639, aired 2022-05-12THE BILLBOARD MUSIC AWARDS $800: This genre-defying band that broke in 2014 with "Gooey" performed at the BBMAs in 2021 "Sometimes, all I think about is you / Late nights in the middle of June / Heat waves been fakin' me out / Heat waves been fakin' me out..." Glass Animals
#8639, aired 2022-05-12ESTABLISHMENT $1200: In 1999 Nunavut Territory was established out of the eastern portion of this other Canadian territory the Northwest Territories
#8637, aired 2022-05-10STATE CAPITAL ATTRACTIONS $600: In Salt Lake City check out a performance by the world-famous choir at this religious edifice & the famous giant organ too the Mormon Tabernacle
#8635, aired 2022-05-064 "N" $5,000 (Daily Double): The event where Mary found out the Holy Spirit was going to help her conceive the Annunciation
#8632, aired 2022-05-03THE ACTOR REALLY SAVES THE DAY! $600: Already a superhero onscreen as Marvel's Master of the Mystic Arts, this man leapt out of a car to stop a mugging in 2018 Benedict Cumberbatch
#8630, aired 2022-04-29THE 18th CENTURY $2000: Tacky's Revolt was carried out in 1760 by enslaved people on this Caribbean island, a center of sugar production Jamaica
#8629, aired 2022-04-28LANDMARKS $600: The 2,700-foot Burj Khalifa in this city is quite impressive--check it out Dubai
#8629, aired 2022-04-28MOVIES"!" $1000: What the Dickens?! Mark Lester wanted a little more out of life in the title role of this 1968 film Oliver!
#8627, aired 2022-04-26ITALIAN CUISINE $200: Usually served in thin slices, this Italian ham cured by drying has a name from Latin meaning "suck out" prosciutto
#8627, aired 2022-04-26GENERAL KNOWLEDGE $800: Columbia University began handing out these awards in 1917 the Pulitzers
#8626, aired 2022-04-25OUT IN THE OCEAN $200: Sailors gave the name "Roaring Forties" not to a decade but to a windy region between 40 & 50 degrees south this latitude
#8626, aired 2022-04-25OUT IN THE OCEAN $400: The language of the Maldives gives us this word for a ring-shaped reef an atoll
#8626, aired 2022-04-25OUT IN THE OCEAN $600: Examples of this type of steep-sided depression in the sea floor include the Aleutian, Sunda & Mariana trench
#8626, aired 2022-04-25OUT IN THE OCEAN $800: These deep-sea vents, named for the magma-heated water they emit, are islands of life in the ocean floor hydrothermal vents
#8626, aired 2022-04-25THE MEXICAN-AMERICAN WAR $800: Shortly after the war, this 5-law deal "of 1850" tried to sort out the fate of slavery in the territories the U.S. gained the Compromise of 1850
#8626, aired 2022-04-25LET'S PLAY OLD-TIME PRIVATE EYE $1000: The man lived in Caddo Parish, in this Louisiana "port" city. Well... had lived. Turns out some guys don't mix well with threshers Shreveport
#8626, aired 2022-04-25OUT IN THE OCEAN $1000: From Latin for "pool", it's a shallow, relatively calm body of water separated from the open ocean by a reef or barrier island a lagoon
#8623, aired 2022-04-20I CAN DO THIS ALL DAY $1600: I get out my toy soldiers & just like in TV's "Outlander", re-enact this 1746 battle that dashed the hopes of Bonnie Prince Charlie Culloden
#8622, aired 2022-04-19APRIL FOOLS $2000: In April 1846 a group of westward settlers struck out for California; this "Pass" would later be named for them the Donner Party
#8621, aired 2022-04-18OUT OF... $200: Any costs you have to fork over yourself, especially medical costs not covered by your health insurance plan out of pocket
#8621, aired 2022-04-18OUT OF... $800: Since being revived in 1833, Jane Austen's 6 novels have not done this been out of print
#8621, aired 2022-04-18OUT OF... $1000: There's an extremity in this phrase that means both "without consideration" & "without control" out of hand
#8620, aired 2022-04-1519th CENTURY AMERICA $200: On October 8, 1871, a fire broke out near the barn of Patrick & Catherine O'Leary; & the next morning this city was in ruins Chicago
#8619, aired 2022-04-14MUSIC FROM THE NECK UP $800: "Heaven, I'm in heaven... when we're out together dancing" this way cheek to cheek
#8619, aired 2022-04-14CELEBRITIES' FIRSTS $1600: This rapper, pitchman & friend of Martha Stewart said that in 2020, age 49, he was finally going to go out & vote Snoop Dogg
#8615, aired 2022-04-08R&B MUSIC $400: This signature song topped the R&B chart for 8 weeks in 1967; do we have to spell it out for you? "Respect"
#8614, aired 2022-04-07LITERATURE 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 2022-04-07WORLD WAR II $400: When war broke out in September 1939, this country had tanks & a million-man army yet still relied heavily on cavalry Poland
#8614, aired 2022-04-07DOCUMENTARIES $800: In "Roger & Me", Michael Moore set out to confront Roger Smith about the closing of this automaker's plants in Flint, Michigan General Motors
#8614, aired 2022-04-07THAT PAINTING HAS A TITLE $2,000 (Daily Double): Turns out Gainsborough originally put a dog in this 1770 portrait of a young lad clad in shades of indigo The Blue Boy
#8613, aired 2022-04-06WESTERNS $600: Seen here, he played Rufus Buck, just out of prison & ready to collide with an old rival in the 2021 Western "The Harder They Fall" Idris Elba
#8613, aired 2022-04-06IN DESCRIBABLE $600: To let a secret out blab
#8611, aired 2022-04-04BIRTH OF A WRITER $1200: Starting out life in India, he would later dedicate "Fury" to his soon-to-be wife, Padma Lakshmi (Salman) Rushdie
#8608, aired 2022-03-30HISTORICAL NONFICTION $1600: An escape from the horrors in this African nation in 1994 is laid out in "The Girl Who Smiled Beads" Rwanda
#8607, aired 2022-03-29PHOTOGRAPHY $800: It's rule of thirds out, symmetry in when shooting a structure with this kind of pool, like the Lincoln Memorial a reflecting pool
#8605, aired 2022-03-25POP MUSIC PHILLY-STYLE $400: Philadelphia International Records, celebrating 50 years in 2021, put out hits like the theme to this Don Cornelius show Soul Train
#8603, aired 2022-03-23SCIENCE IN NATURE $800: Galena, as seen here, is the main ore from which to get this metal out lead
#8600, aired 2022-03-18EASY PEASY $200: Check out the statue standing on a corner in Winslow, Arizona; it was inspired by this Eagles hit "Take It Easy"
#8593, aired 2022-03-09FROM THE STATE SONG $800: "Out by the Truckee's silvery rills... right in the heart of the golden west" Nevada
#8593, aired 2022-03-09EPONYMOUS BODY PARTS $1200: The crypts of Lieberkühn can be found in the duodenum, the first part of this tube out of the stomach small intestines
#8592, aired 2022-03-08POETRY FILL IN THE BLANK $800: Eliot: "April is the ____ ____ breeding lilacs out of the dead land" the cruelest month
#8590, aired 2022-03-04ARTHURIAN LEGEND & HISTORY $400: This colorful challenger to Sir Gawain turns out to be Sir Bertilak in disguise the Green Knight
#8587, aired 2022-03-01FEELING SHEEPISH $1600: When paired with "out", it means losing one's composure; in sheep farming, it means shearing the head wigging
#8583, aired 2022-02-23ARE YOU SMARTER THAN A 1905 5th GRADER? $400: Current events: Bloody Sunday just broke out in this country, outside the Winter Palace, no less! Russia
#17, aired 2022-02-22A CAREER IN TECH $1000: (Sundar Pichai delivers the clue.) Graduate school is a great route & my alma mater the Wharton School of Business also has alumni like J. Presper Eckert, who around 1950 designed this first U.S. commercial computer--OK, Eckert dropped out, but that's part of some people's process too UNIVAC
#8581, aired 2022-02-21BAD PEOPLE IN BOOKS $800: Things turn out badly for Randle McMurphy in "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" because of this medical pro Nurse Ratched
#8581, aired 2022-02-21ENDS WITH "OUT"! $1000: For over 40 years the American Cancer Society has hosted "The Great American" this on the third Thursday in November Smokeout
#8580, aired 2022-02-18BOOKS BY FUNNY PEOPLE $800: Mike Birbiglia detailed his somnambulism in do this "with Me"; one event led to Mike hurling himself out a hotel window Sleepwalk
#16, aired 2022-02-18ZOOMING AROUND THE U.S. $400: Fort Lauderdale: Zoom out to this state it's in Florida
#8579, aired 2022-02-17A MEASURE OF AUTHOR-ITY $400: Emily Brontë says it flat out in Chapter 1: this title place "is the name of Mr. Heathcliff's dwelling" Wuthering Heights
#14, aired 2022-02-17NIGHTTIME NEWS WITH WORLD NEWS NOW $400: (Mona Kosar Abdi delivers the clue.) After fleeing slavery in Maryland, she began returning to help others, planning escapes for Saturday nights because wanted notices could not be sent out on Sundays, giving her groups a one-day head start (Harriet) Tubman
#8578, aired 2022-02-16GREEK LETTERS, ROMAN NUMERALS $1000: The luxury luggage monogram that came out of 1 rue Scribe in Paris equals this in our numbers 55
#12, aired 2022-02-16THE FUTURE'S NOT SO BRIGHT... $2,000 (Daily Double): In "Y: The Last Man" having a Y chromosome is a death sentence, save for the guy with this name from Shakespeare Yorick
#11, aired 2022-02-16HISTORIC NAMES $400: In his "Generall Historie of Virginia", John Smith claimed that she saved him from having his "braines" "beate out" Pocahontas
#8576, aired 2022-02-14POP CULTURE STUPID ANSWERS $800: Before co-starring in "Get Out", Allison Williams played one of the girls on this HBO series Girls
#6, aired 2022-02-10THE 1990s $600: In the late '90s civil war broke out between the Serbs & ethnic Albanians in what is now this self-declared independent nation Kosovo
#8573, aired 2022-02-09BOOKS FOR YOUNG READERS $1000: In "From the Mixed Up Files of" this woman, a girl named Claudia & her brother run away from home & hide out at the Met Museum Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
#1, aired 2022-02-08DEAN'S LIST $1600: Dean Moriarty comes out of reform school, not college, in a novel by this Beat Generation author (Jack) Kerouac
#8568, aired 2022-02-02MLB TEAM NAMES, DEFINED $1000: For those who had to get out of the way of NYC trolleys back in the day the Dodgers
#8568, aired 2022-02-02SONGS ON MY PLAY LIST $1600: This pop-punk band had a breakout hit in 1994 with "Come Out & Play" The Offspring
#8567, aired 2022-02-01INTERNATIONAL GET-TOGETHERS $400: In spring, head out from this largest Dutch city to the regional trade event focusing on tulips Amsterdam
#8567, aired 2022-02-01ONE WOMAN $1000: In 1844 the woman had the honor to send the first personal message on this device--love to her friend Mary in Baltimore the telegraph
#8566, aired 2022-01-31BALLET $1000: Not realizing he was fleeing from the KGB, autograph hounds chased this dancer as he ran out a Toronto stage door in 1974 (Mikhail) Baryshnikov
#8565, aired 2022-01-28BIBLICAL PROPHETS $800: Micah says of this town, "Though thou be little... out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel" Bethlehem
#8563, aired 2022-01-26CONFERENCE CHAMPIONSHIP HEROES $800: (James Brown presents the clue.) With time running out in an AFC title game in 1987, the Denver Broncos were trailing the Browns & pinned on their own 2-yard line when this quarterback led them 98 yards for a touchdown on a series of plays known simply as "The Drive" Elway
#8562, aired 2022-01-25WOMEN IN POLITICS $1000: In 2020 Keisha Lance Bottoms, when mayor of this city, said, "You're not going to out-concern me... about where we are in America" Atlanta
#8561, aired 2022-01-24THE CRUSADES $400: In 1099, 3 years after setting out, the first crusaders achieved their goal, the capture of this city Jerusalem
#8560, aired 2022-01-21PHILOSOPHIC & RELIGIOUS -ISMs $4,000 (Daily Double): This 5-letter philosophy popular with some of the founding fathers believes in a god, but one who stays out of human affairs deism
#8559, aired 2022-01-20A FARCE TO BE RECKONED WITH $400: Jack Worthing finds out that he's really Ernest John Moncrieff in "The Importance of Being Earnest" by this playwright Oscar Wilde
#8557, aired 2022-01-18WORLD HISTORY $1200: In the 1950s riots broke out between the Tamils & Sinhalese after Sinhala was made this country's sole official language Sri Lanka
#8557, aired 2022-01-18INTERNATIONAL CARS $1200: Japan's Nissan Corp. phased out this brand in 1981, then brought it back in 2012 Datsun
#8552, aired 2022-01-11RUN, 4 "S", RUN $600: ZZ Top recommended you go out & get yourself some black frames, & "they come in 2 classes--rhinestone shades" & "cheap" these sunglasses
#8548, aired 2022-01-05MY SINGLE JUST DROPPED $200: This violet-eyed "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" actress left the single life in 1950, & 1952, 1957, 1959, 1964, 1975, 1976 & 1991 (Elizabeth) Taylor
#8548, aired 2022-01-05LIT IN THE FUTURE TENSE $400: In 2014's "Station Eleven" most of Earth has been wiped out by a strain of this infectious disease flu
#8547, aired 2022-01-04FAMOUS AMERICANS ON STAGE $2,000 (Daily Double): In 1908, this author toured in a stage show called "The Fairylogue and Radio-Plays" L. Frank Baum
#8546, aired 2022-01-031950s TELEVISION $1600: On radio, this soap opera was all about a minister, but he had been written out when it began a 57-year TV run in 1952 Guiding Light
#8544, aired 2021-12-30PANTS $200: The 1970s rang in these totally groovy alliterative pants with flared-out ends, man bell bottoms
#8544, aired 2021-12-30NEW YEAR'S ROCKIN' EVE $200: This beloved TV personality hosted New Year's Rockin' Eve across 5 decades, beginning in the 1970s "Let me wish you Happy New Year, fellas. And you think it's wild out there, it's beginning to pour here in Times Square." Dick Clark
#8537, aired 2021-12-21SHAKESPEARE, YOU'RE DRUNK $400: "The gentleman had drunk himself out of his five sentences" is in the first scene of this play, getting "merry" from the start The Merry Wives of Windsor
#8535, aired 2021-12-17THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND $200: In 1665 the Great this hit London, killing thousands; the next year, the Great Fire took out 13,000 houses & much of the city the Great Plague
#8529, aired 2021-12-09AROUND THE MEDITERRANEAN $600: Let's check out the 88-foot Pompey's Pillar, dedicated around 297 A.D. in this Egyptian city, but we're a tad late on its lighthouse Alexandria
#8529, aired 2021-12-09LIT CHARACTERS' BAD CHOICES $1000: True love wins out, but he wasn't smart to let his friend Mr. Darcy talk him into leaving Jane Bennet in the lurch Mr. Charles Bingley
#8529, aired 2021-12-09SCIENCE VOCABULARY $1600: In physics, a body at rest is in "static" this if all the forces acting on it cancel each other out equilibrium
#8526, aired 2021-12-06MAGAZINES $400: "The Talk of the Town" in this magazine's first issue in 1925 included Broadway actors out of work The New Yorker
#8523, aired 2021-12-01SNAKES & RIVERS $800: Residents of Memphis had to watch out for water moccasins when this river flooded in 2011 the Mississippi
#8521, aired 2021-11-29IN OTHER WORDS...RUN! $400: My secret is out! Selling homemade doilies to make some extra cash is my "side" this hustle
#8521, aired 2021-11-29IN OTHER WORDS...RUN! $600: You can shoot one out of a blowgun or toss one in a pub dart
#8520, aired 2021-11-26THE MOVIES $2000: In "Batman v Superman", Lauren Cohan & Diane Lane play moms with this first name, which turns out to be surprisingly crucial Martha
#8519, aired 2021-11-25THIS SONG IS ABOUT YOU $1600: The title actress in this Kim Carnes song title was still with us in 1981 when the song came out "Bette Davis Eyes"
#8515, aired 2021-11-19BARRIERS IN LIFE $2,000 (Daily Double): The Lex Cornelia de Maiestate said no general could lead an army out of his province, so the 49 B.C. crossing of this stream... huge the Rubicon
#8511, aired 2021-11-15TIME $400: A container sealed in Otta, Norway in 1912 & opened in 2012 is just one of many of these that turned out to hold nothing interesting a time capsule
#8511, aired 2021-11-15TIME $800: I sentence you to this, meaning the 6 months you've already spent in jail--you're free, now get out of here time served
#8511, aired 2021-11-15ELABORATING ON THE HITCHCOCK TITLE $1200: Jimmy Stewart, a tourist in Morocco who didn't ask to find out about murder & secrets The Man Who Knew Too Much
#8510, aired 2021-11-12AROUND 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
#8506, aired 2021-11-08WRITING THE GOVERNESS $2000: In "Vanity Fair" Sir Pitt Crawley proposes to this governess, but it turns out she's already married to his son Rawdon Becky Sharp
#8505, aired 2021-11-05I HELPED IN THE 17th CENTURY $1600: Microscopist Antonie van Leeuwenhoek scoped out this type of organism whose name means "first animal" protozoa
#8502, aired 2021-11-02IN THEIR 60s $800: At age 63 she set a trapshooting record by hitting 98 out of 100 pigeons at a North Carolina club (Annie) Oakley
#8502, aired 2021-11-02THIS CATEGORY HAS LEGS $1600: Cabriole legs, curving out & then in, are common in the furniture style named for this early 18th century British queen Queen Anne
#8502, aired 2021-11-02IN THEIR 60s $2000: Out of favor in the 1830s, in the '40s, Ingres was known as France's top painter with sitters like a baroness of this rich family the Rothschilds
#8498, aired 2021-10-27TELEVISION $1200: Inmate Suzanne "Crazy Eyes" Warren on "Orange Is the New Black", in 2021 she handed out therapy on "In Treatment" Uzo Aduba
#8498, aired 2021-10-27THE FOREST FOR THE TREES $1200: Check out Multnomah Falls, boasting a drop of more than 600 feet in this state's Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area Oregon
#8497, aired 2021-10-26FILL OUT YOUR "W"2 $200: It's the "W" in WPA, an act protecting federal employees who disclose information about abuse of authority or mismanagement whistleblower
#8497, aired 2021-10-26FILL OUT YOUR "W"2 $2,000 (Daily Double): A lawyer in court using this 2-syllable word is basically saying, "Forget what I just said" withdrawn
#8495, aired 2021-10-22POPPING OUT POP CULTURE $200: This "8 Mile" rapper, challenged to rhyme "orange": "I put my orange, 4-inch door hinge in storage & ate porridge" Eminem
#8495, aired 2021-10-22POPPING OUT POP CULTURE $400: Chevy Chase said his home in this holiday film was Danny Glover's in "Lethal Weapon 2"; a blown-up toilet was still on the lawn National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
#8494, aired 2021-10-21THIS IS THE WAY $800: Motor north on Route 7 out of Middlebury & a bit under an hour later, you'll be in Burlington in this state Vermont
#8493, aired 2021-10-20IN BOX $400: You can get a Skogsta dining table or Lommarp bookcase to build out of the box from this brand IKEA
#8490, aired 2021-10-15NOW READ THIS! $200: Mia Thermopolis finds out that her dad is the crown prince of Genovia in this book, the first of a series The Princess Diaries
#8487, aired 2021-10-12IN- IS OUT $400: Remove "in-" from a word meaning keen perception to get this school cost tuition
#8487, aired 2021-10-12IN- IS OUT $800: An affirmative interjection loses "in-" & turns into this legal document a deed
#8487, aired 2021-10-12IN- IS OUT $1600: A thank you-less person loses "in-" to become this frame of metal bars a grate
#8487, aired 2021-10-12IN- IS OUT $2000: A breathing verb loses "in-" & turns into this hearty word hale
#8483, aired 2021-10-06IN THAT BIBLE BOOK $800: Haman plots to wipe out the Jews Esther
#8481, aired 2021-10-04THIS CATEGORY IS FILLER $2000: This French-named delight seen here in a bowl & as filling is made by whipping up chocolate & heavy cream ganache
#8478, aired 2021-09-29WEBCAMS $200: Via a webcam in the north of Scotland, keep an eye out for this legendary creature in its watery abode the Loch Ness Monster
#8477, aired 2021-09-28& IN A SUPPORTING ROLE $800: In this 2019 film Park Myeong-hoon played Geun-se, who hid in a basement; that didn't pan out for Geun-se Parasite
#8475, aired 2021-09-24NO. 5 $800: In 2008 this German carmaker rolled out its 5 millionth 5 Series, a black sedan BMW
#8473, aired 2021-09-22NEW YORK: NEWS CLUES $1000: (Hi, I'm Liz Cho.) In 1879, critics wondered if New Yorkers would go all the way up Fifth Avenue to the near wilderness of 50th Street after the May 25 formal opening of this Catholic church; turns out, New Yorkers would St. Patrick's
#8471, aired 2021-09-20OH MY GODS! $2,000 (Daily Double): Amulius wanted Mars' sons Romulus & Remus drowned in this river, but turns out Rome wasn't gonna found itself the Tiber
#8469, aired 2021-09-16MUHAMMAD ALI $400: (Hana Ali presents the clue.) In my father's greatest boxing rivalry, he won two out of three classic bouts with this other legendary champion whose relentless slugging style made an unforgettable contrast with my dad's speed & showmanship Joe Frazier
#8469, aired 2021-09-16LET'S VISIT CENTRAL EUROPE $2000: Breathe in the fresh air of the Little Carpathians & check out the castle that hovers over this Slovakian capital Bratislava
#8466, aired 2021-09-13AUTHORS NOT AUTHORING $400: After being a train-riding teen hobo, Jack London went to Cal-Berkeley but soon dropped out to search for this in the Klondike gold
#8463, aired 2021-08-11WE'LL GET TOGETHER $200: In 2001 Time Warner was acquired by this Internet company for $111 billion; that did not work out so well AOL
#8463, aired 2021-08-11COME OUT TO THE COAST $200: It's the gulf in Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College (the) Gulf of Mexico
#8463, aired 2021-08-11HAVE A FEW LAUGHS $400: This late comic, handing out compliments in "Caddyshack": "Hey, baby... you must have been something before electricity" Rodney Dangerfield
#8463, aired 2021-08-11COME OUT TO THE COAST $1000: The name of its capital translates to "Freetown" in this coastal nation highlighted here, independent from France since 1960 Gabon
#8459, aired 2021-08-05I'M YOUR HUCKLEBERRY $2000: Jailed in 1846 for not paying a poll tax, this writer got out, ran an errand, picked huckleberries & was on the road to "Civil Disobedience" (Henry David) Thoreau
#8458, aired 2021-08-04AUDIBLE $1000: This actor bares all in his memoir "Greenlights" "I've had four concussions from falling out of four trees, three of them on a full moon. I have bongoed naked until the cops arrested me." (Matthew) McConaughey
#8456, aired 2021-08-02THRONE OUT $1200: King Louis-Philippe was ousted in 1848--France never liked him walking around like a British businessman, in a suit & carrying this an umbrella
#8456, aired 2021-08-02THRONE OUT $2000: In 1944 King Michael ousted premier Ion Antonescu in this country; Communists tossed Michael in 1947 Romania
#8454, aired 2021-07-29NAME THAT BEATLES TUNE $200: "Well, the Ukraine girls really knock me out; they leave the West behind, & Moscow girls make me sing & shout" "Back In The U.S.S.R."
#8454, aired 2021-07-29HERE, THERE & EVERYWHERE $400: For a change of changing of the guards, check out the one in this city at the mausoleum of Uruguayan hero Jose Artigas Montevideo
#8454, aired 2021-07-29NAME THAT BEATLES TUNE $600: "They've been going in & out of style, but they're guaranteed to raise a smile" "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band"
#8451, aired 2021-07-26PARTY IN THE BACK $1000: I'm busting out my spinach & this veggie dip--it's a version of the one at Applebee's artichoke
#8450, aired 2021-07-23HISTORICAL NONFICTION $3,000 (Daily Double): Fact is sifted out of legend in Richard Fletcher's "The Quest for" this 11th century Spaniard who fought against the Moors El Cid
#8448, aired 2021-07-21SING "OUT" $400: In a 2018 Top 10 tune by The Weeknd, this request to a lover precedes "my name" call out
#8448, aired 2021-07-21SING "OUT" $600: In 2004 indie rockers Franz Ferdinand declared, "You say you don't know; I say" this title "Take Me Out"
#8448, aired 2021-07-21SING "OUT" $1000: "We can" do this "and get it straight or say goodnight", sang the Beatles in a 1966 No. 1 hit "We Can Work It Out"
#8448, aired 2021-07-21BIRDING $1600: In 1934 Roger Tory Peterson put out this 2-word type of book "to the Birds", the first of many used by birders a field guide
#8446, aired 2021-07-19WHAT'S IN THE CAVE? $800: In 1991 a Vietnamese forager discovered a cave so big that these form within it; he saw them billowing out clouds
#8446, aired 2021-07-19A TIME OF WAR $1600: The Natchez people were nearly wiped out by the French garrison at Fort Rosalie, now the site of Natchez in this state Mississippi
#8444, aired 2021-07-15BACK FROM THE DEAD IN THE BIBLE $400: According to this 1st gospel, at the moment of the crucifixion, bodies of saints came back to life & walked out of their graves Matthew
#8444, aired 2021-07-15& AWAY WE GO! $600: Let's check out this temple complex in Cambodia, built by King Suryavarman II in the 1100s Angkor Wat
#8444, aired 2021-07-15IT'S LIGHT OUT $600: In a 10-fight run from 1985 to '86, this heavyweight had 9 first-round knockouts; the 10th came in round 2 Mike Tyson
#8444, aired 2021-07-15IT'S LIGHT OUT $1000: How about some applause for this light-killing device that debuted in 1984, one of Time magazine's top 100 all-time gadgets the Clapper
#8444, aired 2021-07-15BACK FROM THE DEAD IN THE BIBLE $1200: When Eutychus dies after falling out of a window listening to a sermon, the speaker, this apostle, brings him back to life Paul
#8443, aired 2021-07-14COYOTE $800: A character in the country song "Coyotes" would "sit out under the stars" & "listen while the coyotes" do this howl
#8442, aired 2021-07-13SUN & MOON $2000: In 5 billion years, out of hydrogen, the Sun will become this big, colorful type of star & start engulfing planets a red giant
#8441, aired 2021-07-12"Z" IN THE MIDDLE $1200: It's an Italian turnover made out of pizza dough containing meat, cheese & other ingredients a calzone
#8440, aired 2021-07-09IN A STORM $1200: Blowing out from "hurricane" is this 6-letter word that can mean a sea creature or a small child an urchin
#8440, aired 2021-07-09IN A STORM $1600: Use most of the letters from "typhoon" to spell out this creature whose reticulated version can get pretty big a python
#8436, aired 2021-07-05PUT IN OSCILLATION $400: A dance with one arm out in front of you is named for this oscillating lawn item the sprinkler
#8436, aired 2021-07-05DOCTORED TELEVISION $1600: Joel Fleischman, a fish out of water in Alaska Northern Exposure
#8435, aired 2021-07-02WHAT A FUNGI $1200: A type of rust that infects this beverage crop was discovered in Africa around 1870 & kept out of Brazil for a century coffee
#8435, aired 2021-07-02THE ART OF THE LIMERICK $1200: A Lewis Carroll girl "grew...thinner & thinner / The reason was plain / She slept out in the rain / & was never allowed any" this dinner
#8434, aired 2021-07-0114-LETTER WORDS $1000: In states with no-fault divorce, one partner just has to state a reason things can't work out, such as these "differences" irreconcilable
#8432, aired 2021-06-29FORE! NO, 5 GOLF MOVIES $400: A golfer isn't in the swing of things, so a mystical caddy played by Will Smith helps out in "The Legend of" him Bagger Vance
#8432, aired 2021-06-29LIT-POURRI $400: His follow-up to "A Christmas Carol" was "The Chimes", a "story of some bells that rang an old year out and a new year in" (Charles) Dickens
#8432, aired 2021-06-29A NON-ALCOHOLIC CATEGORY $1000: In Germany, jägermeisters were in charge of regulating this pastime, not handing out shots hunting
#8430, aired 2021-06-25OUT WEST IN THE U.S. $200: Colleges in this sports conference include the University of Washington & Arizona State the Pac-12
#8430, aired 2021-06-25OUT WEST IN THE U.S. $400: This 1,450-mile river is a major source of water for 40 million people in the Southwest the Colorado River
#8430, aired 2021-06-25OUT WEST IN THE U.S. $600: This California city known for its wineries was founded in 1847 & sits on a river of the same name Napa
#8430, aired 2021-06-25OUT WEST IN THE U.S. $1,000 (Daily Double): In 1806 this explorer who gets 2nd billing carved his name on Pompey’s Pillar, a rock formation on the Yellowstone River (William) Clark
#8430, aired 2021-06-25OUT WEST IN THE U.S. $1000: This seat of Multnomah County is home to the World Forestry Center & an annual Rose Festival Portland
#8429, aired 2021-06-24ENDS IN "A-D-O" $1600: When you're out of touch or refuse to have contact with someone, you're this 13-letter word incommunicado
#8425, aired 2021-06-18DRAMA SERIES WRITING EMMYS $1200: This man was nominated for "Twin Peaks" in 1990 but lost out to David E. Kelley for an episode of "L.A. Law" (David) Lynch
#8424, aired 2021-06-17TV BEFORE & AFTER $200: Ned Stark faces a trio of women & asks them questions in order to select one for a night out The Dating Game of Thrones
#8423, aired 2021-06-16SCIENTISTS $800: In the early periodic table of elements, Baumhauer's spiral spins out from this element in the center hydrogen
#8422, aired 2021-06-15FACE THE PERFORMER $400: Loretta Devine checked into this ABC medical drama as Adele Webber in 2005 & checked out eight years later Grey's Anatomy
#8420, aired 2021-06-11BUSTERS $400: In a stunning 1990 upset, Buster Douglas knocked out this heavyweight boxing champ Mike Tyson
#8417, aired 2021-06-08MUSICAL GENRES $600: The perfect song in this genre is said to include "Well, I was drunk the day my mom got out of prison" country music
#8413, aired 2021-06-02IT'S ALL ABOUT HER $800: In this 1937 memoir Isak Dinesen told of her life in Kenya, where she managed a coffee plantation Out of Africa
#8412, aired 2021-06-01NOT TO BE CONFUSED: HOUSEHOLD BRANDS $800: Noxzema came out in 1914, just 3 years after the launch of this snowy white skin cream whose name also starts with "N" Nivea
#8410, aired 2021-05-28THE 18th CENTURY $400: China kicked the Mongols out of Tibet to put the 7th of these in power; now, the relationship is more contentious with the 14th the Dalai Lama
#8407, aired 2021-05-25THE FAMILY BUSINESS $800: Turns out people like candy! In 2019, 6 members of this family whose co. makes Snickers & M&M's were on the Forbes 400 Mars
#8405, aired 2021-05-21YOU'RE IN THE HOLE $2000: Check out the view of Jackson Hole, a valley in the heart of this national park in Wyoming Grand Teton
#8401, aired 2021-05-17A PLACE IN THE BIBLE $400: "Hath not the scripture said, that Christ cometh of the seed of David, and out of the town of" this, "where David was?" Bethlehem
#8398, aired 2021-05-12AMERICAN HISTORY $400: In 1908 the first of these Ford models rolled out of a plant in Detroit a Model T
#8398, aired 2021-05-12'CAUSE WE SPELL GOOD $600: Here's a colonel of truth--"colonel" ain't spelled right in that phrase; please spell out this homophone, the gist of an idea K-E-R-N-E-L
#8396, aired 2021-05-10I'LL FIGHT YOU! $400: In addition to knocking out Michael Spinks in the ring, this man knocked out several dinosaurs in a cartoon Mike Tyson
#8396, aired 2021-05-10I'LL FIGHT YOU! $600: This "Rowdy" woman made some initial changes in 2018, swapping out MMA for WWE to take on Triple H Ronda Rousey
#8391, aired 2021-05-03THE ARTS $400: In Act 1 of this ballet, the drably attired title girl helps a beggarwoman, who turns out to be a fairy godmother Cinderella
#8389, aired 2021-04-29MASTERPIECE/THEATER $200: Life hasn't turned out so well for Biff & Happy Loman in this play, which has a massive spoiler for a title Death of a Salesman
#8389, aired 2021-04-29CHARACTER-TITLED NOVELS $1600: Husband Alexei is the odd man out in this novel that ends with a terrible way to catch a train Anna Karenina
#8388, aired 2021-04-28IN-CAR-CERATED $200: Like cops, a process server may have to endure hours on one of these, sitting in a car looking for the target to come out a stakeout
#8387, aired 2021-04-27LET'S VISIT THE CITY $800: Check out Cottlesloe Beach & have a g'day in this capital of Western Australia Perth
#8384, aired 2021-04-22PREMIERE EPISODES $2000: This series begins with a man getting himself put in the Fox River Penitentiary so he can get his brother out Prison Break
#8383, aired 2021-04-21SAY YES TO THE DRESSMAKER $600: William Travilla designed the white dress that got blown out of proportion on this actress in "The Seven Year Itch" Marilyn Monroe
#8383, aired 2021-04-21SNOOZE CLUES $1200: In other words, this "sleepy" rhyming expression means if you don't pay attention, you're liable to miss out on an opportunity you snooze, you lose
#8382, aired 2021-04-20HISTORY $1600: In 480 B.C. the Persian army found out the hard way this mountain pass was about 50 feet wide at its narrowest Thermopylae
#8381, aired 2021-04-1910-LETTER WORDS $600: Distracted mental state of being in love, like Cher in an Oscar-winning film; snap out of it! moonstruck
#8380, aired 2021-04-16DIETARY MATTERS $1000: "Enriched" is adding back nutrients that were taken out; this means adding in nutrients that weren't originally there fortified
#8378, aired 2021-04-143-NAMED CELEBRITIES $1200: When he first rocked out to "Pink Houses" & "R.O.C.K. In The U.S.A.", he was using these 3 names John Cougar Mellencamp
#8374, aired 2021-04-08WIPE OUT $800: A term for something no longer in fashion loses "out", becoming this past tense verb regarding social coupling dated (from outdated)
#8374, aired 2021-04-08WIPE OUT $1200: A word meaning excellent loses its initial "out", becoming this action performed by many waiting in line standing (from outstanding)
#8374, aired 2021-04-08WIPE OUT $1600: What the banking industry got in 2008 loses "out" & needs to head to a bondsman for this bail (from bailout)
#8374, aired 2021-04-08WIPE OUT $2000: "Out" is dropped from a word for a gridiron ball catcher, becoming this expansive word wide (as in wideout)
#8373, aired 2021-04-07DISCOVERIES IN SCIENCE $2000: A 9-year-old found a clavicle that turned out to belong to an unknown species of this "southern ape" genus that also included Lucy Australopithecus
#8372, aired 2021-04-06HAPPY TRAILS! $1200: In this 1985 novel Larry McMurtry reimagined the history of the Goodnight-Loving Cattle Trail out of Texas Lonesome Dove
#8370, aired 2021-04-02WOMEN IN CONGRESS $1200: This Midwesterner sought the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020 but dropped out of the race in March Amy Klobuchar
#8368, aired 2021-03-31DEALING WITH THE PAINT $600: Unafraid to give another shout-out to a good idea, Edvard Munch did versions of this in 1893, 1895 & around 1910 The Scream
#8366, aired 2021-03-29A GUSTY MOVE $800: In 1965 this MLB team was accused of using its new dome's air conditioning to blow balls out when the home team was batting the Astros
#8365, aired 2021-03-26NO DOUBT $1600: Thanos in "Endgame" says, "I am" this very certain 10-letter word--it doesn't turn out that way inevitable
#8365, aired 2021-03-26FAREWELL TO THE AUTHOR $1600: In 1881, some 30,000 mourners turned out in St. Petersburg for the funeral of this man, one of the greatest writers of all time Dostoevsky
#8360, aired 2021-03-19AMERICAN HISTORY $400: Now a state capital, it beat out Golden to become the first city in the territory to connect to the Union Pacific railroad Denver, Colorado
#8357, aired 2021-03-16WHAT A DIVE! $600: This Mexican city is famous for its clavadistas, or cliff divers Acapulco
#8356, aired 2021-03-15SPACED OUT $400: 76 years after its discovery, in 2006 Pluto was reclassified as one of these a dwarf planet
#8356, aired 2021-03-15SPACED OUT $1200: In 1860 astronomer Le Verrier announced a new planet he called this, also a "Star Trek" planet; it doesn't exist Vulcan
#8356, aired 2021-03-15SPACED OUT $1600: A group of these called the Trojans isn't in the main belt but follows Jupiter's orbit asteroids
#8356, aired 2021-03-15TV FINALES $2000: Regina sets out to reunite all the realms in Storybrooke Once Upon a Time
#8356, aired 2021-03-15SPACED OUT $2000: Just beyond Neptune's orbit is a collection of icy bodies known as KBOs, objects found in this "Belt" the Kuiper Belt
#8352, aired 2021-03-09YOU LOSE! $1600: 6 days after picking Carly Fiorina to be his vice presidential running mate in 2016, this Texan dropped out of the race Ted Cruz
#8351, aired 2021-03-08STRANGE BEDFELLOWS $2000: In "Step Brothers", these 2 actors ask their parents for permission to make bunk beds; it doesn't turn out well John C. Reilly & Will Ferrell
#8348, aired 2021-03-03"WEE" FOLK $2000: He was Shoeless Joe Jackson in "Eight Men Out", & Doug Dorsey in "The Cutting Edge" D.B. Sweeney
#8347, aired 2021-03-02COLONY COLLAPSE DISORDER $2000: After Mormons were driven out in the 1840s, French colonists called the Icarians failed to make this Illinois city work Nauvoo
#8346, aired 2021-03-01ANTHROPOLOGY $1600: In early "factories" , Neanderthals turned out tools of this hard stone known for fire-sparking qualities flint
#8345, aired 2021-02-26ROAD TRIP TO THE SAME-NAMED PLACE $2,000 (Daily Double): You start on Interstate 91 out of the one in Massachusetts & you end up on I-55 to reach the one in Illinois Springfield
#8342, aired 2021-02-23SWORDS $200: In novel & legend he pulls out "the sword in the stone", revealing that he is the next king Arthur
#8341, aired 2021-02-22THROWING THE BOOK AT YOU $800: Father & daughter go out at night in a children's classic by Jane Yolen titled this bird "Moon" Owl Moon
#8341, aired 2021-02-22ANIMALS WITHIN WORDS $10,000 (Daily Double): After sighting one of these horned animals in Africa, we busted out a magnum of champagne gnu (in magnum)
#8339, aired 2021-02-18FACTS ABOUT COUNTRIES $1600: Just prior to gaining its independence in 1971, Bangladesh was known by this 2-word directional name East Pakistan
#8338, aired 2021-02-17"CRACK"LE $200: This product got a boost in 1908 when it was mentioned in "Take Me Out To The Ballgame" Cracker Jack
#8337, aired 2021-02-16AMERICAN HISTORY $800: In 1776 this school gave George Washington an honorary degree as thanks for pushing the British out of Boston Harvard
#8337, aired 2021-02-16IT HAPPENS IN GENESIS $1,000 (Daily Double): These 2 cities get wiped out in Genesis 19 Sodom & Gomorrah
#8334, aired 2021-02-11WHAT HAPPENS IN CHAPTER 1? $600: Meursault finds out his mother died today; wait, was that yesterday? Takes the bus from Algiers to Marengo for the funeral The Stranger
#8333, aired 2021-02-10MATH IN THE WORLD $800: (Joy Buolamwini presents the clue.) Video game designers plan out their games using this kind of system, that by definition uses X, Y & Z values to determine the position of a point a coordinate system
#8330, aired 2021-02-05PLAY CHARACTERS $600: Darren Lemming is a star player of this sport coming out of the closet in the Broadway show "Take Me Out" baseball
#8329, aired 2021-02-04AUTOBIOGRAPHIES $1000: His autobiography "Surely You're Joking, Mr." him came out in 1985, 40 years after he worked on the atomic bomb at Los Alamos (Richard) Feynman
#8327, aired 2021-02-02FILMS WITH SMALL CASTS $800: Sandra Bullock learns it's lonely out in space in this 2013 film Gravity
#8327, aired 2021-02-02AUTHORS $800: Finally out in 2020, this feminist's "The Inseparables" was not published in part because Jean-Paul Sartre didn't like it Simone de Beauvoir
#8327, aired 2021-02-02COUNTRY / MUSIC $800: A fusion of samba & cool jazz, bossa nova burst onto the world scene in the 1950s out of this country Brazil
#8327, aired 2021-02-02THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE $1200: In 2019 throngs of people turned out to celebrate the 40th anniversary of this country's Sandinista revolution Nicaragua
#8326, aired 2021-02-01VIDEO GAMES $800: Slaughtering demons in outer space was the goal when this "fateful" 1st-person shooter came out in 1993; by 2020, it was "Eternal" Doom
#8322, aired 2021-01-26HISTORIC SURVIVORS $2000: (Jeff Probst presents the clue.) This 1936 Olympian enlisted when World War II broke out; in 1943, his plane crashed into the ocean, & he survived on a raft for 47 days, only to be taken as a prisoner of war where despite more than two years of captivity & torture, he remained unbroken, also the title of a bestseller about him Louis Zamperini
#8319, aired 2021-01-21A STREAM OF TV $800: Netflix beat out the U.S. government to trademark this Steve Carell show's military title in Europe, Australia & Mexico Space Force
#8319, aired 2021-01-21AMPHIBIANS $2000: This type of toad introduced to control pests on sugar crops has gotten out of control in places like Australia a cane toad
#8317, aired 2021-01-19SONG REFERENCES $1600: The U2 song "Stuck In A Moment You Can't Get Out Of" is about Michael Hutchence, late frontman of this band INXS
#8316, aired 2021-01-18ALL KINDS OF BARS $800: In 1951 Paul Bigsby put out the first successful vibrato mechanism, better known as this "bar" that makes for wild guitar sounds the whammy bar
#8315, aired 2021-01-15BYGONE ABBREV. $1600: This New Deal program changed its middle letter from "Progress" to "Projects" in 1939 but was still out of business by 1943 the WPA
#8315, aired 2021-01-15ALONG FOR THE RIDE $4,000 (Daily Double): This cartographer set out to explore the Mississippi in birchbark canoes with Jacques Marquette in 1673 Louis Jolliet
#8313, aired 2021-01-13SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERIES $200: In the 1820s chemist Friedlieb Runge discovered this compound after Goethe asked him to find out what's in coffee caffeine
#8311, aired 2021-01-11EARTH AT NIGHT IN COLOR $200: To maximize their ability to hear insects, spectral tarsiers tug on their ears before setting out on this nightly activity hunting
#8311, aired 2021-01-11IDIOMS & EXPRESSIONS $1000: A humorist wrote, "Why not go" here, take a chance in unknown territory? "Isn't that where the fruit is?" out on a limb
#8310, aired 2021-01-08DOG IS MY COPILOT $1600: Known as the "Gray Ghost", & known for its obedience, this breed is ready to set sail a Weimaraner
#8308, aired 2021-01-06ALL ABOUT ADAM & EVE $200: In Genesis, Eve is made from Adam's rib; God forms Adam out of this "of the ground" & tells him unto it "shalt thou return" the dust
#8306, aired 2021-01-04HOW DO YOU... $800: Begin with putting your right hand in, then put it out, then back in again, then shake it all about; repeat with other body parts do the Hokey Pokey
#8306, aired 2021-01-04REPLICAS $1200: In Carlsbad, Calif. & Winter Haven, Florida, you can see mini versions of iconic buildings & landmarks made out of these toys LEGOs
#8305, aired 2020-12-18LITERATURE $800: In a Jane Austen novel, Northanger is this title type of structure that Catherine wants to be exciting, but turns out to be dull an abbey
#8302, aired 2020-12-15THE WHISKER REBELLION $2000: In 2 Samuel, King Hanun half-shaves the servants of this king of Israel; they have to go into hiding until their beards even out King David
#8299, aired 2020-12-10BRAND NAMES $800: In 1958 this credit card began as BankAmericard when cards with a $500 limit were sent out as an experiment Visa
#8292, aired 2020-12-01JUMP $2000: Pedro gets "3 feet of air" in a sweet jump off a bicycle ramp in this 2004 comedy; the title character meets his Waterloo, wiping out Napoleon Dynamite
#8287, aired 2020-11-24WE'LL GIVE YOU PAWS $400: Here's one of these hanging out in a tree in South Africa's Kruger National Park a leopard
#8287, aired 2020-11-24AWESOME TECHNOLOGY $600: This "charismatic" toilet paper brand recently rolled out its bear-faced RollBot that will deliver its product to you in the loo Charmin
#8286, aired 2020-11-23CLARK $200: Cat's out of the bag! In 2019 he officially revealed Clark Kent as his secret identity Superman
#8286, aired 2020-11-23BEHIND THE MUSIC $1600: In 1957 Little Richard quit secular music for 5 years after seeing a sign in the sky that turned out to be this new satellite Sputnik
#8284, aired 2020-11-19AN OUT OF BODY EXPERIENCE $6,200 (Daily Double): An extensive deposit in a rock fissure containing desirable minerals or ore a vein
#8282, aired 2020-11-17MUSICAL VIENNA $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents from out the Kursalon Music Hall in Vienna, Austria.) The Kursalon opened in 1867 & hosted its first concert of the work of Johann Strauss Jr. the very next year; today, you can still come to both hear & dance this, of which Strauss was known as the king a waltz
#8281, aired 2020-11-16JEOPARDY! WORLD TOUR $1600: We'll head out of Regina, hit Moose Jaw, then head up to catch some northern pike at Wollaston Lake in this prairie province Saskatchewan
#8280, aired 2020-11-13ABANDONED PLACES $400: Home to one of Japan's major mines for this fuel, Battleship Island was abandoned in the 1970s when the supply petered out coal
#8277, aired 2020-11-10MAGIC $200: In 2008 2 Italian magicians pulled 300 of these out of a hat rabbits
#8277, aired 2020-11-10A MEDICAL "D"-GREE $1600: The ol' cartilage just wears out in DJD, this "joint disease" degenerative
#8276, aired 2020-11-09PODCASTS $400: "Fiasco" examined the issues that played out during the election in 2000 between these 2 politicians Bush & Gore
#8273, aired 2020-11-04HE'S OUT! $400: As Baghdad fell in 2003, this president took some pocket money... $1 billion from Iraq's Central Bank Saddam Hussein
#8273, aired 2020-11-04IT'S GONNA BE CLOSE... $400: Steve Kerr joked, "Well, I guess I got to bail Michael out again" describing a game-winning shot for this team in the 1997 NBA Finals the Chicago Bulls
#8273, aired 2020-11-04HE'S OUT! $800: The Fascist Grand Council booted this leader on July 24, 1943 but in a George Costanza-like move, he went to work the next day--didn't fly Mussolini
#8272, aired 2020-11-03AMERICAN NAMES $400: In 1971 the president pardoned this man with the provision that he stay out of union affairs until 1980 Jimmy Hoffa
#8272, aired 2020-11-031970: 50 YEARS AGO $1600: After challenging King Hussein, this organization under Yasser Arafat was driven out of Jordan in "Black September" the PLO
#8271, aired 2020-11-02FAILURE TO LUNCH $1000: I just found out my wisdom teeth are in this 8-letter condition; they're jammed up so I can't eat lunch impacted
#8270, aired 2020-10-30A VIRTUAL TOUR $400: You'll "find" that you can virtually explore this Space Shuttle, inside & out, at a Smithsonian hangar in Virginia Discovery
#8270, aired 2020-10-30IF YOU LIVED HERE $800: If you once lived in the wealthy community of Kolmanskop, Namibia, you left with everyone else when these gems ran out diamonds
#8270, aired 2020-10-30HAPPY HALLOWEEN! $1000: October brings out undead soldiers, vampires & ghosts, all serving the Headless Horseman at Philipsburg Manor in this N.Y. village Sleepy Hollow
#8267, aired 2020-10-27SOUTH AMERICA $400: This Brazilian city's Avenida Paulista, laid out in 1891, was once lined with the villas of coffee barons São Paulo
#8258, aired 2020-10-142-WORD TV TITLES $800: In this 2020 reboot, Matthew Rhys as the title character starts out as a private eye, then becomes a defense lawyer Perry Mason
#8258, aired 2020-10-14OK, BOOMERANG $1000: Possibly the world's oldest boomerang was found in 1987 in a 23,000-year-old Polish cave & was made out of the tusk of one of these a woolly mammoth
#8258, aired 2020-10-14SWEDEN LOWS--& HIGHS $1600: Low: in a twist like one out of his "Millennium" mysteries, some fans think this author was murdered in 2004 Stieg Larsson
#8257, aired 2020-10-13NASCAR IN VEGAS $1000: (Aric Almirola presents from the Las Vegas Motor Speedway.) I'm Aric Almirola; I won the 2014 Coke Zero 400 at Daytona driving for the Number 43 motor sports team of this NASCAR legend on the 30th anniversary of his 200th win that came on the same track Richard Petty
#8253, aired 2020-10-07MAGAZINES' FIRST ISSUES $200: This magazine's first issue in 1954 had slugger Eddie Mathews on the cover & came with a fold-out sheet of baseball cards Sports Illustrated
#8253, aired 2020-10-07ANIMATED FILMS $600: Taking time off from her TV government job in Indiana, she voiced Joy in "Inside Out" Amy Poehler
#8253, aired 2020-10-07ALLITERATIVE BUSINESS $800: Asa Candler bought out John Pemberton & his partners & established this company in Georgia in 1892 Coca-Cola
#8252, aired 2020-10-06CORPORATE LINGO $400: In baseball, you do this to avoid being thrown out as a runner; in meetings, it means to follow up with a person touch base
#8252, aired 2020-10-06TALKING FRONT OFFICE BASEBALL $600: Oops...Mets owners invested $500 mil.--a ballpark figure--with this man, whose Ponzi scheme struck out in 2008 Bernie Madoff
#8250, aired 2020-10-02BEASTLY REVIEWS $600: This long-tailed, long-legged agile primate of South America has an arachnid in its name; 2 out of 5 stars a spider monkey
#8250, aired 2020-10-02BEASTLY REVIEWS $800: Camels come in 2 main types, Bactrian & this variety, with both able to cross deserts with little or no water; 3 out of 5 stars a dromedary
#8249, aired 2020-10-01GNAT GEO $400: 2019 high water on this river in cities like Natchez helped bring gnats out in force the Mississippi River
#8249, aired 2020-10-01MOVIE THRILLERS $400: In "Marathon Man" Laurence Olivier plays war criminal Szell, who breaks out the tools he used as one of these a dentist
#8248, aired 2020-09-303 VOWELS IN A ROW $1200: This mental disorder makes it seem like everyone's out to get you, despite having little or no cause paranoia
#8247, aired 2020-09-29ISLAND NATIONS $400: Starting in 1845, the building seen here turned out this familiar Cuban product by the millions cigars
#8247, aired 2020-09-29GAMES $600: In Charades if you draw a rectangle around your head, you're going to act out the title of one of these a television show
#8246, aired 2020-09-28THE JEFFERSONS $400: 19th c. rich guy & Monticello owner Jefferson Levy had one of these devices printing out stock prices in his New York home a ticker tape
#8245, aired 2020-09-25GUYS NAMED DOUG $800: Douglas Ginsburg's nomination for this post went up in smoke in 1987 when reports of drug use came out a Justice of the Supreme Court
#8242, aired 2020-09-22AMERICANS IN PARIS $1200: She ran a salon out of her home for some of the leading artists and writers of the day Gertrude Stein
#8240, aired 2020-09-18THE APOSTLES $800: Matthias beat out Barsabas in a lottery to replace this apostle who was not a good team player Judas (Iscariot)
#8239, aired 2020-09-17DAILY READING $800: A youngster wakes up to find everything out of place in "Wacky Wednesday" by this author writing under the name Theo LeSieg Dr. Seuss
#8239, aired 2020-09-17SCIENCE & NATURE $2,000 (Daily Double): Aside from the Sun & the Moon, this is the brightest natural object in the night sky Venus
#8236, aired 2020-09-14ITALIAN OPERA $800: The khedive of Egypt considered Wagner & Gounod to write the music for this opera, but Verdi won out in the end Aida
#8236, aired 2020-09-14ROLE WITH THE CHANGES $1600: Changes for season 3 of "The Crown" included Vanessa Kirby out & her in as Princess Margaret Helena Bonham Carter
#8235, aired 2020-06-12PLAYING THE VILLAIN $2000: We rooted for him in "Get Out" and "Queen and Slim" but not when he made life miserable for the title women in "Widows" Daniel Kaluuya
#8234, aired 2020-06-11ANIMALS $800: In the 1950s Idaho relocated these amphibious rodents by dropping them (with parachutes) out of airplanes beavers
#8232, aired 2020-06-09TALK SHOW $1200: In 2019 Comedy Central rolled out "Lights Out with" this veteran comic to follow "The Daily Show" David Spade
#8227, aired 2020-06-02GOING ON VACATION $600: Headed to Paris? Check out the Impressionist and Postimpressionist works at this museum in a former train station the Musée d'Orsay
#8224, aired 2020-05-28AMERICAN HEALTH CARE $600: (Hi, I'm Jimmy Kimmel, and...) in speaking out on health care, one thing I'm passionate about is prohibiting insurance companies from refusing coverage based on this type of condition, as per the Affordable Care Act, Part 1, Subpart 1, Section 2704 pre-existing
#8221, aired 2020-05-25TV TEACHER APPRECIATION $2000: Mr. Feeny, closing out this '90s show on ABC: "Believe in yourselves. Dream. Try. Do good... I love you all. Class dismissed" Boy Meets World
#8219, aired 2020-05-21SOLD! AT SOTHEBY'S $800: A shout-out to this artist, who famous painting shattered records in 2012, bringing in over $119 million (Edvard) Munch
#8218, aired 2020-05-20OUT OF THEIR LEAGUE $200: This team moved from the National League to the American League in 2013 & won a now-controversial title in 2017 the Houston Astros
#8218, aired 2020-05-20ALEXANDER THE GREAT $400: When Alexander set out to conquer Asia, he left Antipater as regent in charge of this home kingdom Macedonia
#8218, aired 2020-05-20OUT OF THEIR LEAGUE $400: The Boston Patriots were among the teams that moved out of this defunct league in a 1970 merger the AFL (American Football League)
#8218, aired 2020-05-20OUT OF THEIR LEAGUE $600: When this team moved from the ABA to the NBA in 1976, Doug Moe, not Gregg Popovich, was its head coach the San Antonio Spurs
#8218, aired 2020-05-20OUT OF THEIR LEAGUE $800: This team moved from the NBL to the BAA in 1948, to the NBA in 1949 & to L.A. in 1960 the Lakers
#8218, aired 2020-05-20OUT OF THEIR LEAGUE $1000: The NHL got a "great" deal when this team & 18-year-old Wayne Gretzky moved over from the WHA in 1979 the Edmonton Oilers
#8217, aired 2020-05-19GREAT AMERICAN SONGBOOK $400: In a duet, Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga sing, "and I seem to find the happiness I seek, when we're out together dancing" this way cheek to cheek
#8217, aired 2020-05-19STILL STANDING IN EUROPE $1,600 (Daily Double): Built in the 9th century, the castle named for this European capital looks out upon the Vltava River Prague
#8217, aired 2020-05-19THE LORD DEALS WITH THEE, BIBLICALLY $1600: "And" he "went out from the presence of the Lord, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden" Cain
#8216, aired 2020-05-18CORPORATE SCANDALS WITH DAVID FABER $1200: (David Faber of CNBC presents the clue.) TDI Clean Diesel turned out to be an oxymoron in 2015 when the EPA revealed that emissions tests were tampered with by this company & millions of cars were recalled Volkswagen
#8216, aired 2020-05-18LET'S HAVE A PLANET $1600: Voyager 2 flew by this giant in 1989, then headed on out into interstellar space Neptune
#8213, aired 2020-04-294-LETTER WORDS WITH 3 VOWELS $200: To seep out in a gradual way ooze
#8210, aired 2020-04-24GET YOUR KICKS $1000: In a Cole Porter classic, "I get no kick from" this beverage, but "I get a kick out of you" champagne
#8209, aired 2020-04-23GIVE US A DATE $200: 1929: Dressed like cops, Capone gang members line up Bugs Moran's guys against a wall & take them out in a "Massacre" February 14th
#8209, aired 2020-04-23EVERY BODY $3,000 (Daily Double): Bile aids digestion by breaking up large molecules of fat; it's stored in the gallbladder but made by this organ the liver
#8207, aired 2020-04-21A 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
#8206, aired 2020-04-20THAT'S ENTERTAINMENT $600: She says, "There's rarely a day that I'm out in the world that somebody doesn't mention '13 Going on 30'" Jennifer Garner
#8206, aired 2020-04-20FLEE CIRCUS $800: In 64 A.D. a fire broke out in Rome in the shops surrounding this large hippodrome, no doubt causing many to flee the Circus Maximus
#8206, aired 2020-04-20A HISTORY OF CHARITY $3,400 (Daily Double): The people who founded this organization in 1976 had previously built a bunch of homes in Zaire Habitat for Humanity
#8203, aired 2020-04-15SING OUT! $600: This British singer-songwriter's 2017-19 "Divide Tour" took in a whopping $775 million Ed Sheeran
#8203, aired 2020-04-15SING OUT! $800: This one-named singer, seen here, dug up a hit with "Graveyard" in 2019 Halsey
#8203, aired 2020-04-15SING OUT! $1000: Last name of "Doctor Who" actor Peter & of his younger cousin Lewis, who got Peter to star in the video for "Someone You Loved" Capaldi
#8203, aired 2020-04-15POETRY $5,000 (Daily Double): In "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock", he wrote, "I have measured out my life with coffee spoons" (T.S.) Eliot
#8202, aired 2020-04-14GARDEN SPOTS $2000: Check out the water lilies in Monet's garden in this French town that like "garden", starts with a "G" Giverny
#8201, aired 2020-04-13GREEK LETTERS $600: If you don't know it's the 2nd-to-last letter in the Greek alphabet, you'll let out a heavy one (with a different spelling) psi
#8201, aired 2020-04-13WHAT 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 2020-04-10DON'T KNOW MUCH ABOUT HISTORY $400: The Canadian government has promised to never try to find out the name of the young man buried in Ottawa's version of this memorial the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
#8199, aired 2020-04-09WHERE YA GOIN' FOR SPRING BREAK? $800: Before we go to the beach, we'll check out the Bob Marley Museum in this world capital, on the site of a home the legend bought in 1975 Kingston
#8197, aired 2020-04-07THE 1990s $1000: In 1990 this Soviet president won the Nobel Peace Prize but a year later, he said peace out & quit his job Mikhail Gorbachev
#8197, aired 2020-04-07FILM CHARACTERS $1600: Peter Cullen provided the voice of this leader in 2007's "Transformers"; now...Autobots, roll out! Optimus Prime
#8197, aired 2020-04-07FILM CHARACTERS $2000: Southern detective Benoit Blanc detects the facts behind the death of Harlan Thrombey in this "sharp" 2019 all-star film Knives Out
#8193, aired 2020-04-01HUGH JACKMAN $1000: In "Pan", Hugh played not Hook but this historical pirate out to abduct Peter & his mates to make them mine for fairy dust Blackbeard
#8191, aired 2020-03-30ABSTRACT NOUNS $800: In baseball, it's an out that still advances a runner; in life, it's giving up something for something more important sacrifice
#8190, aired 2020-03-27STATE CAPITALS $400: In 1786 this state's senate voted & Columbia beat out Washington as the name of the new capital South Carolina
#8190, aired 2020-03-27OPERA $1600: In 2004 this tenor played 3 final performances in "Tosca" to sold-out crowds at the Met Pavarotti
#8187, aired 2020-03-24FILM ANALYSIS $2000: In a 2013 film Tom Hanks takes Alabama to sea & must figure out how to deal with unexpected guests Captain Phillips
#8186, aired 2020-03-23IT'S HOW YOU WIN $400: This 3-letter game: run out of cards in your hand, provided you yell the title Spanish word when you have a single card Uno
#8186, aired 2020-03-23LABORS OF "LOVE" $1200: Time to bust this 1970s TV title ship out of dry dock & make another run; in real life, one of its crew ended up as a congressman Love Boat
#8185, aired 2020-03-20POLITICAL PARLANCE $400: In this type of voice vote, the name of each member of a legislative body is called out & he or she answers, "yea" or "nay" roll call
#8181, aired 2020-03-16RECENT EVENTS $400: In 2019 a new buttermilk batter helped this chain sell out of its chicken sandwiches in just 2 weeks Popeyes
#8181, aired 2020-03-16THAT'S WHAT I'M WALKING ABOUT $400: The March for Babies is sponsored by this organization founded in 1938 to stamp out polio the March of Dimes
#8181, aired 2020-03-16NORTH KOREAN GEOGRAPHY $1200: Your map showing Mount Mantap may be out of date; in 2018 this manmade event shifted or perhaps even collapsed it a nuclear test
#8178, aired 2020-03-11REQUIEM FOR A SKYLINE $400: In 1978, New Jersey's Marlborough-Blenheim Hotel got checked out to make way for a casino in this city Atlantic City
#8177, aired 2020-03-10BRR! IT'S COLD OUT THERE $400: The town of Oymyakon, Russia in this proverbially cold region plunged to a mind-numbing -90 degrees in 1933 Siberia
#8177, aired 2020-03-10SHE'S A GODDESS! $800: Born full grown & dressed in armor, this Greek goddess missed out on her childhood Athena
#8177, aired 2020-03-10BRR! IT'S COLD OUT THERE $1200: This U.S. state's Prospect Creek hit -80 in January 1971 Alaska
#8177, aired 2020-03-10BRR! IT'S COLD OUT THERE $2,000 (Daily Double): In 1954 an historic contiguous USA low temp of -70 was recorded near Rogers Pass in this fourth-largest state Montana
#8177, aired 2020-03-10BRR! IT'S COLD OUT THERE $2000: In Feb. 1947 temps reportedly fell to -85 at Fort Selkirk on this river that lends its name to a Canadian territory the Yukon River
#8176, aired 2020-03-09COSMOS: POSSIBLE WORLDS $800: Neil deGrasse Tyson explains how a plant can detect these hazards that kill thousands of people each year: "If the plant puts out red leaves, beware. But, if its leaves are green, then you can play there in peace with your friends" landmines
#8173, aired 2020-03-04GIVING OUT "IOUS" $800: "V" know it precedes "reader" in being eager to devour the contents of many books voracious
#8173, aired 2020-03-04GIVING OUT "IOUS" $1200: In legal speak, it describes wanton or vicious intent malicious
#8172, aired 2020-03-03THE 1950s $1000: With U.N. approval, Truman put this general in charge of U.N. command forces on July 8, 1950; that didn't work out so well (Douglas) MacArthur
#8171, aired 2020-03-02THE 20th CENTURY $800: In the early 1950s these 2 figured out the structure of DNA at Cambridge's Cavendish Laboratory Watson & Crick
#8169, aired 2020-02-27WALLS & BRIDGES $200: Check out the Moonlight Rainbow show on the Banpo Bridge spanning the Han River in this capital of South Korea Seoul
#8169, aired 2020-02-27MAGAZINES COME & GO $800: A lot of "the usual gang of idiots" were out of work when this humor magazine went to mostly reprinting old material in 2019 Mad
#8168, aired 2020-02-26HIT & "RUN" $1600: In 1993 Soul Asylum rode this out-of-control transport into the Top 10 "Runaway Train"
#8166, aired 2020-02-2419th CENTURY HISTORY $1200: With a capacity of 7,000 barrels, the Charles of Antwerp shipped out in 1869 as the first this to sail an oil tanker
#8165, aired 2020-02-21MAKE A SELECTION $200: With a 7th overall pick in 2009 that worked out fairly well, this team took Steph Curry, AKA Threezus the Golden State Warriors
#8165, aired 2020-02-21& FINALLY... $400: Gene Cernan's final words before leaving this place in 1972, per Walter Cunningham: "Let's get this mother out of here" the Moon
#8165, aired 2020-02-21YOU'RE OUT OF THE HOLE $600: These echinoderms often partly bury themselves in ocean sand with only one edge poking out a sand dollar
#8165, aired 2020-02-21YOU KILLED ME! $2000: 4 knights took out this "meddlesome priest" in 1170 Thomas à Becket
#8162, aired 2020-02-18RELIGIOUS IDIOMS $3,000 (Daily Double): Something bad that later turns out to be good is one of these at first hidden signs of favor a blessing in disguise
#8161, aired 2020-02-17ENTERTAINMENT $400: This song was written in 1908 & over 100 years later it's still sung during the seventh-inning stretch "Take Me Out To The Ball Game"
#8161, aired 2020-02-17SURVIVOR $800: (Jeff Probst, the host of Survivor, presents the clue.) A fan favorite from "Survivor: The Australian Outback", she went on to co-host "The View" & "Fox & Friends" (Elisabeth) Hasselbeck
#8160, aired 2020-02-14ANIMAL VERBS $600: Aggressively peddle goods in public by calling out to hawk (your wares)
#8157, aired 2020-02-11BEHIND THE IRON CURTAIN $600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from Memento Park in Budapest, Hungary.) This is a replica of a grandstand in Budapest. During an attempted revolt against Communism in 1956, protesters brought down the statue of this recent Soviet leader, leaving only his boots remaining Stalin
#8155, aired 2020-02-07CARS $400: With a Latin name meaning "I roll", this Swedish automaker began rolling out its cars in 1927 Volvo
#8154, aired 2020-02-06SURINAME $2000: Alcoa began mining this aluminum ore in Suriname in 1916 but began pulling out in 2017 bauxite
#8153, aired 2020-02-05NICKNAMES $200: In the 1980s a Californian won the contest to nickname Seattle, with this entry out of Oz the Emerald City
#8151, aired 2020-02-03AFRICAN-AMERICAN ATHLETES $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew is at the National Museum of African American History & Culture in Washington, D.C.) Argubably "The Greatest" inside the ring & out, Muhammed Ali first won the heavyweight title by beating Sonny Liston in 1964; in the next few days, publicly adopting Islam, he changed from this & became an example of Black pride & defiance of the establishment Cassius Clay
#8151, aired 2020-02-03TV NEWS SHOWS $2000: Before handing out justice on Fox News, she started one of the first domesic violence unit in a U.S. prosecutor's office (Jeanine) Pirro
#8149, aired 2020-01-30REBOOTS $400: Melissa McCarthy & Kristen Wiig were out to stop an otherworldly invasion of NYC in this 2016 film reboot Ghostbusters
#8149, aired 2020-01-30MEDICAL PROCEDURES $1200: Body fat is vacuumed out of tissues below the epidermis in this elective cosmetic surgery liposuction
#8143, aired 2020-01-22AIRPORT ATTRACTIONS $800: In disarray after airport security? Mitchell International, serving this Wisconsin city, has a place for you to get sorted out Milwaukee
#8143, aired 2020-01-22WAYS TO SAY GO AWAY! $2,500 (Daily Double): In this 2017 horror film, Lakeith Stanfield delivers the 2-word title line Get Out
#8142, aired 2020-01-21CHECK OUT THE CRITTER $200: Get me pictures of the Mwanza flat-headed rock agama, a lizard that looks like this Marvel superhero created in 1962 Spider-Man
#8142, aired 2020-01-21SPACED-OUT POP CULTURE $400: Bad robots & Xenomorphs are on the deadly prowl yet again in "Covenant", the most recent film in this interstellar terror franchise Alien
#8142, aired 2020-01-21SPACED-OUT POP CULTURE $800: The start of the 1977 "Star Wars" movie informed us it all happened "a long time ago in" this place "a galaxy far, far away"
#8141, aired 2020-01-20EMMY WINNERS FOR BEST ACTRESS IN A DRAMA $400: The truth is out there; this actress took the trophy in 1997 for her role on "The X-Files" Gillian Anderson
#8139, aired 2020-01-16MYTH IN MODERN LITERATURE $800: W.H. Auden wrote a famous poem about a painting of him, described as "a boy falling out of the sky" Icarus
#8138, aired 2020-01-15FAMOUS & HISTORIC WOMEN $400: She got her JD degree from Yale Law in 1979, and we'd say her legal career panned out nicely for her Sotomayor
#8137, aired 2020-01-14TV SHOWS BASED ON BOOKS $400: In season one of this series based on Jay Asher's novel, Clay tries to figure out what made Hannah Baker kill herself 13 Reasons Why
#7, aired 2020-01-14THE GOOD DOCTOR $800: In the 1790s this English physician figured out that giving people cowpox would protect them against smallpox (Edward) Jenner
#7, aired 2020-01-14THE WORLD ACCORDING TO KAREEM $1200: (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar delivers the clue.) My heroes include this man killed in 1770 who's been lauded as "the first to defy, the first to die" & "the first to pour out his blood as a precious libation on the altar of a people's rights" Crispus Attucks
#8134, aired 2020-01-09ORGANIZATIONS $400: I'd like to thank the Recording Academy for handing out these awards, first presented in 1959 the Grammys
#8134, aired 2020-01-09WEIRD FACTS $800: The name of this weasel relative can mean "to clear out"; in 1971 Fermilabs used one to clean the tubes of a particle accelerator a ferret
#6, aired 2020-01-09JANUARY IN HISTORY $600: In Jan. 1900 he got out of Siberian exile; in Jan. 1918 he abolished Russia's assembly & established a dictatorship Lenin
#6, aired 2020-01-09"I" WROTE $1200: "Berlin Stories" grew out of this British author's time in Germany during the Weimar Republic (Christopher) Isherwood
#5, aired 2020-01-09WHAT'S IN YOUR BRAIN? $800: The main parts of a neuron are the cell body, an axon & these, branching out to receive input the dendrites
#8133, aired 2020-01-08JEOPARDY! IN 2-D $2,000 (Daily Double): This ancient priestly class had mostly died out by the 400s because most Celts had become Christians the Druids
#8133, aired 2020-01-08A SPARKLING CATEGORY $2000: In the U.S. sparklers are big on July 4th; in the U.K., they come out for the November day & night named for this conspirator (Guy) Fawkes
#8132, aired 2020-01-07OCCUPATION ETYMOLOGY $1000: This word goes way back in Britain, despite the legend that the 1st ones hung out in D.C.'s Willard Hotel to nag Pres. Grant a lobbyist
#2, aired 2020-01-07AMERICAN IDOLS $600: (Ryan Seacrest delivers the clue.) The legendary Dick Clark was an idol of mine growing up; we both started out as D.J.s, me in Los Angeles & Dick in this city where he first hosted "American Bandstand" Philadelphia
#2, aired 2020-01-07NOT AN ARMCHAIR EXPERT $800: (Dax Shepard delivers the clue.) William Maples was an expert in forensic anthropology, working on the bodies of the Romanovs, the Elephant Man & this U.S. president whose mysterious death in 1850 turned out to be less from arsenic & more from too many cherries (Zachary) Taylor
#2, aired 2020-01-07PHILOSOPHERS $1200: In 1934 A.J. Ayer set out to show "the impossibility of" this, a plural noun for the study of the nature of the universe metaphysics
#1, aired 2020-01-07POP CULTURE BOOKSHELF $800: In her memoir "Inside Out", this actress says "St. Elmo's Fire" saved her life: she had to go to rehab to keep her role in the film Demi Moore
#8126, aired 2019-12-30EDIBLE POP CULTURE $400: In a 1982 film a trail of Reese's Pieces draws this marooned title character out from hiding E.T.
#8125, aired 2019-12-27PROVERBS $600: A computer term, GIGO is short for this garbage in, garbage out
#8124, aired 2019-12-26WORDS SHAKESPEARE ONLY USED ONCE $800: In this play Sir Toby belches out Shakespeare's only use of "implacable" Twelfth Night
#8123, aired 2019-12-25THE TV SHOW MUST GO ON $600: In 2019 this cop comedy moved from FOX to NBC & characters were allowed to curse--bleeped out, of course Brooklyn Nine-Nine
#8123, aired 2019-12-25GOING OUT OF BUSINESS $800: In early 2001 this Houston energy company had a market cap of $60 billion; by December it had filed for bankruptcy Enron
#8123, aired 2019-12-25GOING OUT OF BUSINESS $1200: In 2019 some folks in Humble, Texas wanted to get into a time machine & start making this stainless steel car again the DeLorean
#8123, aired 2019-12-25MAMA & DADA $1200: In 2002 Queen Latifah belted it out as prison matron Mama Morton in the movie version of this musical Chicago
#8123, aired 2019-12-25GOING OUT OF BUSINESS $1600: Western Air Express & Transcontinental Air Transport formed what would be this company in 1930, but it got absorbed by Am. Airlines in 2001 TWA (Trans World)
#8123, aired 2019-12-25GOING OUT OF BUSINESS $2,000 (Daily Double): Sam Mendes directed a theatrical telling of the story of these brothers who built a financial empire that collapsed in 2008 Lehman Brothers
#8121, aired 2019-12-23LITERATURE $1000: In 2019 his "Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters & Seymour: An Introduction" first came out as an e-book J.D. Salinger
#8118, aired 2019-12-18PLACE ON EARTH $400: Check out the 130-foot Rain Vortex at Changi Airport in this city state island country directly below Malaysia Singapore
#8118, aired 2019-12-18IT'S ASTRONOMICAL $624 (Daily Double): In 2012 this probe left the heliopause (the boundary of the sun's magnetic field) & headed out into interstellar space Voyager
#8116, aired 2019-12-16GREAT DANES $800: Let's get something strait; in 1724 Peter the Great appointed this Dane to find out if Asia & North America were connected by land (Vitus) Bering
#8113, aired 2019-12-11COMING OUT OF YOUR SHELL $400: In 2010 a 718-carat one of these was found inside an abalone shell a pearl
#8113, aired 2019-12-11COMING OUT OF YOUR SHELL $1200: These 2 words precede "Shell" in the name of the European parent company of Shell Oil Royal Dutch
#8112, aired 2019-12-10BEHIND THE MUSIC $2000: The ancient libation, revived in hip-hop culture, is honored in "Pour Out A Little Liquor" by Thug Life featuring this late rapper Tupac
#8111, aired 2019-12-09NINE TALES $800: He helps the twit Bertie Wooster out of jams in P.G. Wodehouse's "Leave it to" him & him "and the Unbidden Guest" Jeeves
#8108, aired 2019-12-04YOU CAN TAKE THAT TO THE BANK! $200: In November 2018 fights broke out at a Houston-area bank when one of these began doling out $100s instead of $10s an ATM
#8108, aired 2019-12-04LET'S SCIENCE THE HECK OUT OF THIS $1200: A study of the macaques in this European territory shows that they were descended from imports from Africa Gibraltar
#8108, aired 2019-12-04LET'S SCIENCE THE HECK OUT OF THIS $1600: The polar night jet is not a new airline; it's another name for this phenomenon that froze the Midwest in Jan. 2019 the polar vortex
#8103, aired 2019-11-27BACK TO BLACK $1000: Netflix' "Black Mirror" released an Emmy-winning interactive movie in 2018 with this title out of "Jabberwocky" Bandersnatch
#8101, aired 2019-11-25DOUBLE LETTERS IN THE MIDDLE $400: A place to house your hound when you head out of town a kennel
#8101, aired 2019-11-25THE 1960s $600: Timothy Leary famously told young people to "Turn on, tune in", do this drop out
#8099, aired 2019-11-21PUTTING OUT THE WELCOME MATH $200: This branch of math uses symbols to represent numbers or variables in arithmetic operations, like 2x + y = 10 algebra
#8099, aired 2019-11-21WEIRD LEGAL NEWS $800: A Burglar in Vancouver, Wash. was arrested after he broke into one of these fun experience places & naturally, couldn't get out an escape room
#8099, aired 2019-11-21PUTTING OUT THE WELCOME MATH $800: In 1,431 divided by 53, which we will not have you solve, 53 is the divisor & 1,431 is this the dividend
#8099, aired 2019-11-21KLAUS ENCOUNTERS $2000: As Bror Blixen, Austrian actor Klaus Maria Brandauer was married to Meryl Streep in this film Out of Africa
#8098, aired 2019-11-20THERE'S A NATIONAL DAY FOR THAT $200: The second Monday in February is Clean Out Your this Day, so shake the crumbs out of that keyboard & delete those unused .exes a Computer
#8098, aired 2019-11-20DISNEY ON BROADWAY $1000: Special footwear helps the characters glide across the stage in a show-stopping number from this musical "Under the sea (under the sea) / Under the sea (under the sea) / When the sardine begin the beguine / It's music to me..." The Little Mermaid
#8096, aired 2019-11-18COMEDIANS ON AUDIBLE $400: She talks about her childhood in "Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?": I don't remember a time when I wasn't chubby. Like being Indian, being chubby feels like it is just part of my permanent deal Mindy Kaling
#8095, aired 2019-11-15THE NIFTY '50s $2,600 (Daily Double): Eating out became easier with the introduction of this first multipurpose charge card in 1950 Diners Club
#8093, aired 2019-11-13SOCIOLOGY $2000: William Sumner, a pioneer in sociology, advocated social this -ism, where the poorly adapted die out Darwinism
#8092, aired 2019-11-12DON'T FORGET THE LYRICS $400: Elvis: "We're caught in a trap, I can't walk out, because I love you too much, baby... we can't go on to-gether, with" these suspicious minds
#8090, aired 2019-11-08CLASSIC ROCK GUITARISTS $800: Robby Krieger said, "Not having a bass player" in this band "made me play more bass notes to fill out the bottom" The Doors
#8081, aired 2019-10-28"C"IENCE $1000: Larger than a pebble, this rock type used in roads tops out at 256 mm in particle size cobble
#8079, aired 2019-10-24VEHICULAR ACTIVITY $400: Bump & rob (a driver rear-ends you, you stop & get out...) is a technique in this form of auto theft carjacking
#8076, aired 2019-10-21GAME OF CLONES $400: Using cloned DNA worked out just super-duper in this 1993 film... well, for its producers, not its characters Jurassic Park
#8076, aired 2019-10-21QUOTABLE NOTABLES $1,600 (Daily Double): In the 1940s this British novelist said "The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world" George Orwell
#8075, aired 2019-10-18AROUND THE WORLD $400: Trying to burn out excess methane in a Turkmenistan crater in 1971, Soviets made the Door to this 4-letter place, and it burns today Hell
#8074, aired 2019-10-17ENFANTS TERRIBLES $1000: Little Antoine can think about his ways, during une mise à l'écart temporaire, what we in the States know as this a time-out
#8072, aired 2019-10-15I'VE GOT 2 WORDS FOR YOU $400: In 2015 Illinois mandated that polling places pass out stickers with these 2 words on Election Day I voted
#8071, aired 2019-10-14SPEAK SOFTLY $400: Kids, you're within the walls of the house, not out in the park, so stop shouting & "use your" this inside voice
#8071, aired 2019-10-14LOVE SONGS $1600: They breathed life into songs like "All Out Of Love" & "Lost In Love" Air Supply
#8070, aired 2019-10-11WELCOME TO THE MONKEY HOUSE $400: Scientists found out about all this monkey's pieces when they mapped out its genome in 2007 the rhesus
#8069, aired 2019-10-10LET'S SEE IF IT PAYS OFF FOR 'EM $200: In 1892 baking powder salesman William Wrigley began throwing in 2 packages of this with each can, which worked out okay chewing gum
#8065, aired 2019-10-04'90s NO. 1 HITS $800: She was "Coming Out Of The Dark" sans Miami Sound Machine in 1991 Gloria Estefan
#8063, aired 2019-10-02GOVERNMENT & POLITICS $400: In April 1973 H.R. Haldeman & John Dean were among 4 top presidential aides forced out over this scandal Watergate
#8060, aired 2019-09-27BIOGRAPHERS $800: His "The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D." came out in 1791, 7 years after his friend's death Boswell
#8060, aired 2019-09-27ANTIQUITY CUSTODY BATTLES $1600: This rhyming craft-supply chain got in hot water recently after purchasing artifacts that were smuggled out of Iraq Hobby Lobby
#8057, aired 2019-09-241939: WHAT A YEAR IN MOVIES! $1000: In this film Joseph Paine wants a sen. who "can't ask any questions or talk out of turn"; Paine doesn't get what he asked for Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
#8055, aired 2019-09-20MUSICAL MONUMENTS $400: The outlines of the Fab Four rock out in Beatles-Platz in this German city where the band played many an early gig Hamburg
#8054, aired 2019-09-19MOVIES ABOUT GEOGRAPHY $400: The 1857 search by Richard Burton & John Speke for the source of this river plays out in "Mountains of the Moon" Nile
#8053, aired 2019-09-18SCIENCE $1,000 (Daily Double): During a total solar eclipse, you can glimpse this "colorful" layer of the Sun just above the photosphere the chromosphere
#8052, aired 2019-09-17HELPING THE ENVIRONMENT $200: In 2019 Germany announced it would phase out power plants that use this fossil fuel coal
#8052, aired 2019-09-17BURGERS $600: Not seen on In-N-Out's drive-thru menu is the "Protein Style" burger, which uses this instead of a bun lettuce
#8052, aired 2019-09-17HALLEY'S COMET IN HISTORY $1,000 (Daily Double): This author can't have been surprised to die April 21, 1910, the day after Halley's Comet reached perihelion (Mark) Twain
#8048, aired 2019-09-11NAME-LETTER PEOPLE $1600: In the '80s she was New York City club kid Lisa E; she grew up to be the lead actress in "Girlfriends' Guide to Divorce" Edelstein
#8047, aired 2019-09-10NAME-CALLING IN POLITICS $1000: Northerners against the Civil War embraced this beastly nickname & cut the heads out of Liberty pennies to wear as badges Copperhead
#8046, aired 2019-09-09WORLD CURRENCY $400: After the U.S. pulled out of the 2015 nuclear deal with this country in 2018, its currency plunged Iran
#8043, aired 2019-07-24FAREWELLS $800: Initially "A Different Kind of Company" with cars built in Tennessee, it was phased out by GM beginning in 2007 Saturn
#8041, aired 2019-07-22ALLITERATIVE ACTORS & ACTRESSES $400: After hanging out with "Friends" in the '90s, she made some "Drunk History" in a "First Ladies" episode as Edith Wilson in 2014 Courteney Cox
#8038, aired 2019-07-17NEW SHERIFF IN TOWN $800: This man became sheriff of Ellis County in 1869, but locals soon voted him out for being too "Wild" (Wild) Bill Hickok
#8036, aired 2019-07-15KILLED OFF THE TV SHOW $600: Death was a temporary setback for Bobby Ewing, killed off this soap in a hit-&-run; turned out Pam just dreamt that! Dallas
#8036, aired 2019-07-153-WORD LITERARY TITLES $800: Isak Dinesen mentions that the Masai are her neighbors in this memoir Out of Africa
#8035, aired 2019-07-12THE OLYMPIC GAMES $800: In 1994 Oksana Baiul edged out this famously injured American for figure skating gold Nancy Kerrigan
#8032, aired 2019-07-09SECOND BOOK IN THE SERIES $600: In "Second Summer of the Sisterhood", Bridget, Lena, Carmen & Tibby get more wear out of these title jeans the traveling pants
#8032, aired 2019-07-0965" $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 2019-07-05WE MEAN BID-NESS $800: Comcast made a bid for this studio, but in 2018 Disney's offer of over $70 billion won out Fox
#8029, aired 2019-07-04GALA $600: "Fashion's biggest night out", the Met Gala in New York City is chaired by this magazine's Anna Wintour Vogue
#8027, aired 2019-07-02CORRUPTION ALL AROUND $200: A group in this country started printing fake zero-rupee notes to give out when an official asks for a bribe India
#8024, aired 2019-06-27IN & AROUND THE STATE CAPITAL $200: Chill out by Taku Glacier, southeast of downtown Juneau (Alaska)
#8022, aired 2019-06-25PEOPLE IN AMERICAN HISTORY $200: In 1908 he rolled out the first car affordable for most Americans, the Model T (Henry) Ford
#8022, aired 2019-06-25JUVENILE JUSTICE $600: Hanging out in public for no good reason could be considered illegal--this crime loitering
#8021, aired 2019-06-24SHAKESPEARE'S CONTEMPORARIES $1,600 (Daily Double): A Christopher Marlowe guy makes a deal he can't back out of, as he's written in blood, "Faustus gives to thee" this soul
#8019, aired 2019-06-20WHERE YOU GO FROM HERE $600: Taking the Oregon Trail from its start has you heading out of Independence in this state Missouri
#8018, aired 2019-06-19EXTRACURRICULAR $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a chess move on the monitor.) In chess, the only time you can move two pieces in the same turn is with this special move involving the king & a rook, getting the king out of the center & hopefully protecting it castling
#8018, aired 2019-06-19HODGEPODGE $800: Trending with about 2,000 across the U.S., it's a venue in which you must solve puzzles to get out of a locked space escape rooms
#8018, aired 2019-06-19EXTRACURRICULAR $1600: Tatebanko is a Japanese hobby of crafting dioramas out of this material also used in origami paper
#8017, aired 2019-06-18THINKING OUT LOUD $200: In victory in 2008 Barack Obama said, "We will respond with that...creed that sums up the spirit of a people:" these 3 words yes we can
#8017, aired 2019-06-18THINKING OUT LOUD $400: In a 1945 speech this physicist said, "The war is won, but the peace is not" Einstein
#8017, aired 2019-06-18THINKING OUT LOUD $800: Receiving the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979, this nun said, "Love begins at home" Mother Teresa
#8016, aired 2019-06-17AROUND THE HOUSE $600: Polycarbonate windows function as this, any material that keeps heat in during winter, out during summer an insulator
#8012, aired 2019-06-11WHAT HAPPENED? $400: In WWI, the British navy tried to spot & damage U-boats by training seagulls to seek out these sticking out of the water periscopes
#8011, aired 2019-06-10AMERICAN INGENUITY $1600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a wagon at the Mercer Museum.) This type of pioneer wagon curved up at the ends so goods wouldn't fall out on bad roads--it's named for the area where it was developed in southeast Pennsylvania, not far from here a Conestoga wagon
#8011, aired 2019-06-10OUT TO "C" $3,000 (Daily Double): In the United States, this type of transport helps half a million people in distress each year a medevac
#8008, aired 2019-06-05NEW ON TV IN THE YEAR 2000 $800: Larry was angering his show biz friends right out of the gate on this HBO comedy Curb Your Enthusiasm
#8007, aired 2019-06-04SMOOTH SAILING IN SONG $1200: "Come Sail Away" was a '70s top 10 hit from this band with a name out of Greek mythology Styx
#8005, aired 2019-05-31GLUTEN, FREE $200: Bud Light wanted to give out free beer at the Super Bowl 53 victory parade in this city, but Mayor Walsh said no Boston
#8005, aired 2019-05-31COLORFUL PHRASES $800: Something that shows up completely unexpectedly does it in this 4-word manner out of the blue
#8005, aired 2019-05-31GLUTEN, FREE $1000: On national croissant day in 2018, this French-named chain founded in 1978 gave out free mini chocolate croissants Au Bon Pain
#8004, aired 2019-05-30CHILDISH BAMBINO $1000: In 1921, jailed for a day for speeding, Babe got out at 4 p.m. & promptly sped to these grounds for a game the Polo Grounds
#8003, aired 2019-05-29AWARDS & PRIZES $1600: This vaunted trophy is given out each year in the south of France; the first one went to Delbert Mann for his film "Marty" in 1955 the Palme d'Or
#8001, aired 2019-05-27THE SECRET LIFE OF BEES $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from Texas Beeworks in Austin, Texas.) Karl von Frisch won a Nobel Prize for figuring out that bees communicate the distance & direction of a food supply to other members of a hive by using a series of rhythmic movements called these; a circling one means food is within 75 meters while a waggling one means a greater distance a dance
#7999, aired 2019-05-23MOUNTAINS $1200: The second-highest mountain peak in the world, it tops out at 28,251 feet K2
#7998, aired 2019-05-22MARY POPPINS $600: After Audrey Hepburn beat her out for the role of Eliza in "My Fair Lady", she agreed to play Mary Poppins & won an Oscar Julie Andrews
#7998, aired 2019-05-22STARTS WITH 2 VOWELS, ENDS WITH ONE $800: Archimedes' exclamation after figuring out how to determine gold content in an alloy "Eureka!"
#7998, aired 2019-05-22LONG AGO, IN THE 20th CENTURY $800: Dateline: Chicago, 1926! Gunmen put 1,000 rounds into this mug's Cicero Hotel HQ, but he comes out smellin' like a rose! Al Capone
#7996, aired 2019-05-20"O" THE PLACES YOU'LL GO $800: You can go lots of places flying out of this busiest airport in the Midwest O'Hare (in Chicago)
#7996, aired 2019-05-20LET'S GO TO THAT SPORTS THING $800: In 2021 we'll go down to the water & check out the best-of-13 chase for this oldest international sports trophy the America's Cup
#7993, aired 2019-05-15TEACHERS IN SONG $800: In the classic song "School's Out", this man mentions "No more teacher's dirty looks" Alice Cooper
#7992, aired 2019-05-14IDIOMS 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 2019-05-13COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $1000: A land-grant school, it started out as East Alabama Male College; it got its colorful name in 1960 Auburn
#7988, aired 2019-05-08EDUCATIONAL GAMES $400: In a geography computer game, you need to find out "Where in the World Is" she Carmen Sandiego
#7988, aired 2019-05-08I NEED A SUPERHERO $1200: In 2016 Laura Linney & Will Arnett helped these title reptiles come "Out of the Shadows" the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
#7985, aired 2019-05-03NOBODY EXPECTS $600: David Niven & the audience were taken unawares when one of these rushed the Oscars stage in 1974 a streaker
#7985, aired 2019-05-03SCI-FI STUFF $1000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from Profiles in History in Calabasas, California.) Repurposed black, padded hockey gloves were part of a Cylon from this '70s sci-fi show, but balancing out the cool factor, the helmet is outfitted with the awesome red Cyclops eye Battlestar Galactica
#7983, aired 2019-05-01LAW $600: It's the pre-trial procedure in which each side "finds" out about the other's witnesses & evidence discovery
#7982, aired 2019-04-30U.S. PRESIDENTS $800: In 1963 LBJ gave out the first of these honors to be called "Presidential", including posthumously to his predecessor the Medal of Freedom
#7980, aired 2019-04-26OUT-OF-OFFICE E-MAILS $400: From him in 1797: "Out of office as a third term wasn't for me. Also have several dental appointments" Washington
#7980, aired 2019-04-26CRAZY WEATHER WE'RE HAVING! $600: A S.C. man said this experience "cooks you from the inside out like being in a microwave" & says it's happened to him 11 times being struck by lightning
#7980, aired 2019-04-26OUT-OF-OFFICE E-MAILS $1200: In 1973 he was "Out of office as vice president; available on (hopefully not in) cell" Spiro Agnew
#7979, aired 2019-04-25TAKE "OUT" $1000: The term this type of "art" by self-taught non-mainstream artists was coined by Roger Cardinal in 1972 outsider art
#7978, aired 2019-04-24WOMEN ON TV $400: In 1992 Dan Quayle criticized this reporter played by Candice Bergen for having a baby out of wedlock Murphy Brown
#7977, aired 2019-04-23WE WILL ROCK YOU $400: In 2018 this band "didn't have a dime but I always had a vision, always had high, high hopes" Panic! at the Disco
#7977, aired 2019-04-23ARCHITECTURE $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a Hong Kong building on the monitor.) With feng shui in mind, some buildings in Hong Kong are designed with holes in the structures that are considered gates for these mythical serpents as they travel down from the mountains & out towards the sea dragons
#7976, aired 2019-04-22ACTORS $2000: This actor played a very good guy on "The West Wing" & a very bad guy in "Get Out" (Bradley) Whitford
#7974, aired 2019-04-18AROUND 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
#7973, aired 2019-04-17POTATO SALAD $800: Heels in, heels out, repeat; that's the way to do this craze of a dance from the early 1960s the Mashed Potato
#7972, aired 2019-04-16LITERARY ALLUSIONS $400: The name of this despot staring out from countless posters in "1984" today signifies government control Big Brother
#7972, aired 2019-04-16YEAH, WE SAW IT ON THE INTERNET $1000: In 2015 Funny or Die had a picture of a storefront sign of this tech chain; many letters were fritzed out but "adioS" remained Radio Shack
#7972, aired 2019-04-16BOYS IN THE BAND $2000: Andy Hurley, Patrick Stump, Pete Wentz Fall Out Boy
#7971, aired 2019-04-15ONOMATOPOETIC WORDS $400: Pigeon pen a coop
#7971, aired 2019-04-15ITALIAN, STRESSING $2000: This emperor relieved his stress over senators by executing 'em, but got a "little boot" out of office in 41 A.D. Caligula
#7967, aired 2019-04-09LIGHT $1000: In "First Man" an angry Janet Armstrong calls NASA "a bunch of boys making models out of" this light wood balsa
#7962, aired 2019-04-02BIBLE PASSAGES $400: In Genesis 3:23 he passes out of Eden, never to return Adam
#7959, aired 2019-03-28FILM DIRECTORS $400: Perhaps tired of his old office job, in 2018 he branched out as the director of "A Quiet Place" (John) Krasinski
#7958, aired 2019-03-27I'M WALKIN' HERE! $400: You're "out of" this walkin' word if you're not in rhythm or up on current events step
#7958, aired 2019-03-27CALLED OUT IN SONG $400: This Detroit rapper had a "Warning" for Nick Cannon: "Think I'm scared of you? You gonna ruin my career, you better get one" Eminem
#7958, aired 2019-03-27CALLED OUT IN SONG $800: Knowing how to roc-a-fella with "Takeover" in 2001, this rapper went after Nas having "a 1 hot album every 10 year average" Jay-Z
#7958, aired 2019-03-27CALLED OUT IN SONG $1200: Nick Lowe rhymed, "Do you remember" this '80s singer? "He had a big fat hit, it was ghastly" (Rick) Astley
#7958, aired 2019-03-27CALLED OUT IN SONG $1600: After Neil Young's "Southern Man", this band replied, "A Southern man don't need him around" in "Sweet Home Alabama" Lynyrd Skynyrd
#7958, aired 2019-03-27CALLED OUT IN SONG $2000: "I praise the day that brings you pain", sang Morrissey after losing a lawsuit to the drummer in this band of theirs The Smiths
#7953, aired 2019-03-20BEHIND BARS $400: In 1621 Francis Bacon was sent to this London lockup, but the king let him out after 4 days the Tower of London
#7953, aired 2019-03-20LYRICALLY INACCURATE $400: This band's "Pride" says, "Early morning, April 4, shot ring out in the Memphis sky", but Dr. King was killed at 6:01 p.m. U2
#7952, aired 2019-03-19PARK-ITECTURE $2,000 (Daily Double): Vegetation in Richmond Park in England, home to red & fallow types of these, has a 5' high "browse line" they nibble below deer
#7951, aired 2019-03-18INSIDE, THE "OC" $200: This kind of door slides in & out of a wall a pocket door
#7950, aired 2019-03-15ON THE PGA TOUR $200: Out on an island in 2001, a downhill 60-foot triple-break putt at TPC Sawgrass' famed 17th was better than most for this superstar Tiger Woods
#7945, aired 2019-03-08PLANT-ED EVIDENCE $1200: Insects check in but they don't check out of this carnivorous plant of the Carolinas AKA Dionaea Venus flytrap
#7944, aired 2019-03-07STEAMED PUNK $1000: In 2018 this band's frontman Mike Ness was accused of anti-socially punching out a heckler at a Sacramento show Social Distortion
#7943, aired 2019-03-06IN THE "MI"DDLE $600: Leave out omit
#7941, aired 2019-03-04FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $1200: 2-word French term for a young person who comes from abroad to help out a family with childcare in return for room & board an au pair
#7940, aired 2019-03-01TRAVEL $800: Check out one of the last great 19th century hotels, the colonial-style Raffles Hotel in this Asian island country Singapore
#7940, aired 2019-03-01WHAT DO YOU STAND FOR? $1600: A way of accounting for inventory, LIFO stands for this last in, first out
#7935, aired 2019-02-22THAT'S A MOUTHFUL! $1600: On May 23, 1618 3 guys were tossed out of a castle's windows in what is known as this, sparking a Bohemian revolt the defenestration of Prague
#7932, aired 2019-02-19MY GOD $400: Out of darkness emerge sky father Rangi & earth mother Papa in creation stories of this New Zealand people the Maori
#7932, aired 2019-02-19McPEOPLE $2,000 (Daily Double): Randolph (AKA Rand'l) was the head of this clan in Pike County, Kentucky the McCoys
#7932, aired 2019-02-19AMERICAN LITERATURE $2000: John Steinbeck's "East of Eden" plays out its Cain & Abel parable in this California valley the Salinas Valley
#7929, aired 2019-02-14QUOTES OF NOTE $1000: "A jail is just a nut with a worm in it. The worm can always get out", said this man who escaped in March 1934 & died in July John Dillinger
#7929, aired 2019-02-14THIS IS 40: LITERARY EDITION $2000: Many Anne Tyler characters are restless in this city; 40-year-old Delia in "Ladder of Years" gets out Baltimore
#7925, aired 2019-02-08THE TITLE PLANET $1600: Channing Tatum was spaced out in 2015's this "Ascending" Jupiter
#7923, aired 2019-02-06WOMEN OF THE BIBLE $400: This queen arrives in Jerusalem packing spices, gold & gems & sets out to test the wisdom of King Solomon the Queen of Sheba
#7923, aired 2019-02-06MOVIE QUOTES $800: Spoken by Allison Williams in 2017: "You know I can't give you the keys, right, babe?" Get Out
#7922, aired 2019-02-05FAR OUT, MAN $200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows the Pacific Ocean on the monitor.) A spot in the Pacific is so remote that world space agencies use it as a dumping area because there's little chance of endangering humans; it's named Point this after a literary captain whose name means "no one" in Latin Point Nemo
#7922, aired 2019-02-05FAR OUT, MAN $600: While on your way to the galactic center, you have more than 18 quintillion planets to explore in this game No Man's Sky
#7922, aired 2019-02-05FAR OUT, MAN $800: In the first "Star Trek" movie, the crew meets this wandering probe; the real ones were launched in 1977 Voyager

Final Jeopardy! Round clues (250 results returned)

#9067, aired 2024-03-26ELEMENTS: In his "Natural History" Pliny described it as "argentum vivum" mercury
#9064, aired 2024-03-2120th CENTURY NOVELS: Virginia Woolf disliked this book that was "cutting out the explanations and putting in the thoughts between dashes" Ulysses
#9058, aired 2024-03-13BOOKS OF THE BIBLE: This book is named for a tribe of Israel that carried out judgment of the idolaters of the golden calf Leviticus
#9019, aired 2024-01-1820th CENTURY HISTORY: After the Vietnam War, Vietnam got bogged down in a campaign against this leader whom it managed to overthrow in 1979 Pol Pot
#9011, aired 2024-01-08STATE CAPITALS: The 2 closest state capitals, at about 40 miles apart, one was founded by someone no longer allowed in the other Providence & Boston
#9009, aired 2024-01-04HISTORIC AMERICANS: They went their separate ways in 1806 & both became territorial governors: one of Upper Louisiana, the other of Missouri Lewis & Clark
#9005, aired 2023-12-29FAMOUS NAMES: In 2023, shortly after his death, his name was added to a Brazilian dictionary to describe one who's superior or out of the ordinary Pelé
#8979, aired 2023-11-23SCIENCE ETYMOLOGY: First detected in the Sun's atmosphere in 1868, it got its name from an old word for sun helium
#8977, aired 2023-11-21TELEVISION: This series grew out of a screenplay titled "Murdoch" Succession
#8974, aired 2023-11-16POETS: 1793 reports of the killing of Hector Munro by a wild animal in India may have inspired one of this man's best-known poems William Blake
#20, aired 2023-11-15ARTISTS: Exhumed in 2017 to settle a paternity suit, his mustache had "preserved its classic 10-past-10 position" according to the Spanish press Salvador Dalí
#8954, aired 2023-10-19NAMES: The name Jennifer is an alteration of this name that in early Welsh literature belonged to the "first lady of the island" Guinevere
#8915, aired 2023-07-14BOOKS & AUTHORS: In 1930 this author wrote "Murder at Full Moon", a horror-mystery novel set in a fictional town in Central California (John) Steinbeck
#8862, aired 2023-05-02MEDICAL HISTORY: A vaccine against this respiratory illness came out in the U.S. in 1914 & eventually combined with 2 other vaccines whooping cough (pertussis)
#8841, aired 2023-04-0320th CENTURY EPONYMS: A 1940 headline about this included "failure", "liability when it came to offense" & "stout hearts no match for tanks" the Maginot Line
#10, aired 2023-01-12CORPORATE MASCOTS: Born on an island in a sea of milk, this pitchman was jokingly disavowed by the U.S. Navy by saying he is not in personnel records Cap'n Crunch
#9, aired 2023-01-0520th CENTURY PEOPLE: Calling him "the embodiment of pure intellect", in December 1999 Time magazine named him Person of the Century Albert Einstein
#8779, aired 2023-01-05THE MOVIES: Laurence Olivier & Ernest Borgnine were considered for the lead role & Sergio Leone to direct for this film that turned 50 in 2022 The Godfather
#8739, aired 2022-11-10GEOGRAPHIC PAIRS: By ferry, the distance between these 2 paired Mediterranean islands is about 40 miles from Alcudia to Ciutadella Mallorca (Majorca) & Menorca (Minorca)
#7, aired 2022-11-06BRANDS: With wood becoming more difficult to source, this company turned to plastic for its automatic binding bricks, introduced in 1949 Lego
#8720, aired 2022-10-14AUTHORS: Featuring a statue of a man escaping his grave, his tomb in Amiens contrasts with the title of his 1864 adventure novel (Jules) Verne
#8703, aired 2022-09-21FAMOUS NAMES: Perhaps the most famous picture of him was taken in New Jersey in 1951 as he was annoyed by paparazzi on his 72nd birthday (Albert) Einstein
#8632, aired 2022-05-03NATIONAL ANTHEMS: "Terre de nos aïeux" follows the title in the French version of this anthem "O Canada"
#8605, aired 2022-03-25U.S. CITY NAMES: Adopted in 1845, the name of this state capital is a feminized form of a big body of water Atlanta, Georgia
#13, aired 2022-02-17WESTERN HEMISPHERE COUNTRIES: In 1882, when these 2 countries' border was settled, a minister in the southern one quit in protest out of loyalty to Central America Mexico & Guatemala
#8578, aired 2022-02-1618th CENTURY HISTORY: The stated aim of this period was using violence to achieve political goals; its success aided in its demise in under a year the Reign of Terror
#8539, aired 2021-12-23THE EARLY UNITED STATES: The final piece in this series points out "the analogy of the proposed government to your own state constitution" The Federalist Papers
#8524, aired 2021-12-02JOURNALISTS IN HISTORY: Bismarck Tribune correspondent Mark Kellogg died June 25, 1876 while on a field assignment covering this man (General George) Custer
#8522, aired 2021-11-30INTERNATIONAL FRIENDSHIP: The organization these International was founded in 1956; they’re Partnerstädte in Germany & villes jumelées in France Sister Cities
#8512, aired 2021-11-16MOVIE QUOTES: This 3-word phrase was the protagonist's second line of dialogue in a 1962 movie, the first in a 25-film series "Bond, James Bond"
#8505, aired 2021-11-05TOYS: Introduced in 1964, he fell out of favor in changing times & in 1970 was marketed as a "Land Adventurer" G.I. Joe
#8461, aired 2021-08-09BEASTLY EPONYMS: A penguin species found in southern South America is named for this 16th century man whose crew were the first from Europe to see them (Ferdinand) Magellan
#8449, aired 2021-07-221970s MOVIE SCENES: Writer Dan O'Bannon based a scene in this film on his own Crohn's disease, which felt like things inside him fighting to get out Alien
#8422, aired 2021-06-15AMERICAN WOMEN: During her second marriage, she split her time among homes in New York, New Jersey, Paris & Greece & a yacht Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
#8288, aired 2020-11-25SINGER/ACTRESSES: This California-born woman won a Best Leading Actress Academy Award in 1988, when she had 2 Top 20 hit songs Cher
#8268, aired 2020-10-28AWARDS & HONOREES: He used his 1983 Pritzker Prize money on a scholarship fund for Chinese students to study their profession in the United States I.M. Pei
#8214, aired 2020-04-30ADVERTISING: Copywriter Keith Goldberg wrote this question in 1999 for a financial services company; they're still using it What's in your wallet?
#8191, aired 2020-03-30ADVERTISING CHARACTERS: Jack Keil's team created this animal character rolled out in 1980, the year of the USA's highest recorded murder rate McGruff (the Crime Dog)
#8168, aired 2020-02-26SCIENCE WORDS: In 1611 Kepler used this word from the Latin for "attendant" to describe the discoveries of Galileo satellite
#8126, aired 2019-12-301950s PEOPLE: In a New Yorker profile, he said, "Where I like it is out west in Wyoming, Montana, & Idaho, & I like Cuba & Paris" Ernest Hemingway
#8100, aired 2019-11-22HOME & GARDEN: In 1847 eccentric horticulturalist Sir Charles Isham popularized these when he imported terra cotta ones from Nuremberg garden gnomes
#8088, aired 2019-11-0620th CENTURY AMERICA: In 1939, turned down by 2 local theaters, Howard University was able to get an outdoor venue for this singer's yearly concert Marian Anderson
#8039, aired 2019-07-18NOTORIOUS: The death penalty has been carried out only once under Israeli law--in 1962, for this man Adolf Eichmann
#8005, aired 2019-05-31OSCAR-NOMINATED FAMILIES: It's the last name of Alfred, Lionel, David, Emil, Thomas & Randy, who with 90 nominations, are the most Oscar-nominated family Newman
#7999, aired 2019-05-23JAZZ CLASSICS: In one account, this song began as directions written out for composer Billy Strayhorn to Duke Ellington's home in Harlem "Take The "A" Train"
#7998, aired 2019-05-2219th CENTURY AMERICAN HISTORY: In 1832, by a narrow margin, this state's legislature rejected considering abolition; a split was completed in 1863 Virginia
#7979, aired 2019-04-25THE ELEMENTS: Oddly, mining of this rare earth element with a geographic name, atomic no. 63, is mostly in Asia & with some in South America & Australia europium
#7976, aired 2019-04-2219th CENTURY BRITS: In a poem Lord Byron, a lover of Greece, calls this diplomat & fellow lord a "plunderer" (Lord) Elgin
#7902, aired 2019-01-081950s TRAVEL: In March 1958 Hilton opened a hotel in this Western Hemisphere capital but 2 1/2 years later was out of business there Havana
#7777, aired 2018-06-05FICTIONAL CHARACTERS: He got a real N.Y. Times obit in 1975; it said he wore "false mustaches to mask signs of age that offended his vanity" Hercule Poirot
#7701, aired 2018-02-19THE SUPREME COURT: In the 1966 case of this man, Earl Warren wrote of eliminating "evils in the interrogation process" Ernesto Miranda
#7662, aired 2017-12-26CANADA: As a response to new developments there, this territory was carved out of the Northwest Territories in 1898 the Yukon Territory
#7595, aired 2017-09-22POETS: In an 1855 poem he wrote, "I guess it must be the flag of my disposition, out of hopeful green stuff woven" Walt Whitman
#7533, aired 2017-05-17ERAS IN U.S. HISTORY: On April 11, 1865 Abraham Lincoln spoke of "the mode, manner, and means of" this, which he would not live to see Reconstruction
#7506, aired 2017-04-10AMERICAN AUTHORS: Leviathan is a journal put out 3 times a year by an organization dedicated to this author & his works Herman Melville
#7394, aired 2016-11-03LITERARY ANIMALS: In a 1926 book, he "is in a very sad condition, because it's his birthday, & nobody has taken any notice of it, & he's very gloomy" Eeyore
#7361, aired 2016-09-19AUTHORS: In 1948 he wrote he had an idea for a novel in which 2 guys hitchhike to California "in search of something they don't really find" Jack Kerouac
#7331, aired 2016-06-27FRENCH MONARCHS: His reign was interrupted for "100 days" in the 19th century before he was restored & reigned for 9 years more Louis XVIII
#7321, aired 2016-06-13BILLBOARD CHART-TOPPERS: This singer's first studio album came out in 1955, but a 2011 duets release was his first album to hit No. 1 Tony Bennett
#7320, aired 2016-06-10FAMOUS AMERICANS: Of his greatest accomplishment, he humbly remarked, "Pilots... take pride in a good landing, not in getting out of the vehicle" Neil Armstrong
#7310, aired 2016-05-2719th CENTURY NOVELS: "The Gold Bug", Edgar Allan Poe's story about the search for Captain Kidd's buried loot, helped inspire this 1883 novel Treasure Island
#7263, aired 2016-03-2321st CENTURY NEWS: Russia took out $200 million in insurance, anticipating any damage that might be caused by this in 2001 the crash of the Mir space platform
#7247, aired 2016-03-0120th CENTURY POETS: It was said "his accent which started out as pure American Middle West" became "quite British U" T.S. Eliot
#7242, aired 2016-02-23SHAKESPEARE: After a royal passing in January 1820, this tragedy that had been little performed got 2 new London productions in April King Lear
#7230, aired 2016-02-05U.S. PRESIDENTS: He was the only 20th century president who never delivered an inaugural address President Ford
#7193, aired 2015-12-1619th CENTURY AMERICAN LITERATURE: The theft alluded to in the title of this 1844 Poe story is committed by a government minister "The Purloined Letter"
#7180, aired 2015-11-27AUTHORS: In 1990 he said, "I would like to do what Faulkner did; carve out a little piece of Mississippi territory & claim it for my own" John Grisham
#7159, aired 2015-10-29AFRICA: On the Horn of Africa, it's the only country whose name in English begins with a silent letter Djibouti
#7114, aired 2015-07-16EUROPEAN NOVELISTS: Alfred Dreyfus was among the thousands who marched through the streets of Paris in his 1902 funeral procession Émile Zola
#7086, aired 2015-06-08LITERARY CHARACTERS: This name made famous in a 17th century novel is derived from the Spanish for "sweet" Dulcinea
#7048, aired 2015-04-15THE GREEK ALPHABET: When spelled out as words in English, 2 of the 3 longest Greek letters (2 of) epsilon, upsilon & omicron
#7004, aired 2015-02-12WORLD GEOGRAPHY: Not in the 10 longest, this 1,560-mile river in a fertile basin flows by 29 cities of over 100,000 people the Ganges
#6988, aired 2015-01-21FICTION: A line in this short story is "Slowly, awkwardly trying out his feelers, which he now first learned to appreciate..." "The Metamorphosis"
#6849, aired 2014-05-29FRUIT: It's the only commercially important edible fruit of the bromeliad family the pineapple
#6847, aired 2014-05-2720th CENTURY PLAY TITLES: This play's title comes from the name of a Greek king said to have carved a statue of a woman & fallen in love with it Pygmalion
#6842, aired 2014-05-20BRITISH NOVELS: Stephen King borrowed the name of his fictional town Castle Rock from this 1950s novel that greatly influenced him Lord of the Flies
#6839, aired 2014-05-15THE ACADEMY AWARDS: 1 of the 2 movies in the last 30 years, one a drama & one a comedy, to win Oscars for Best Actor & Best Actress The Silence of the Lambs or As Good as It Gets
#6798, aired 2014-03-19THE MUSIC INDUSTRY: She beat out newcomers like Bieber & Gaga to top Forbes' list of the highest-paid people in music for 2013 Madonna
#6784, aired 2014-02-27LANDMARKS: From 1936 to 1987, the Los Angeles Department of Water & Power helped operate this facility in another state Hoover Dam
#6771, aired 2014-02-10ISLANDS: In a satellite photo, volcanic activity can be seen on this 10,000-square-mile island Sicily
#6769, aired 2014-02-06COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD: Once a poor British protectorate, in 2012 this peninsular country ranked as the world's richest per capita Qatar
#6764, aired 2014-01-30COMEDIC ACTRESSES: She's won Emmys for 3 different TV shows & in 2013 she broke Lucille Ball's record for most nominations by a comedic actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus
#6719, aired 2013-11-2820th CENTURY NAMES: In 1942 Winston Churchill said, "I can handle this peasant"; historians aren't sure things turned out that way Joseph Stalin
#6715, aired 2013-11-22COUNTRY NAMES: In England in 1933, Choudhry Rahmat Ali coined this name, a country that wouldn't be formed until 14 years later Pakistan
#6619, aired 2013-05-30AMERICAN SCIENTISTS: In 1920, the New York Times said he lacks the “knowledge ladled out daily in high schools”; on July 17, 1969, the paper apologized Robert Goddard
#6548, aired 2013-02-20CLASSIC JAZZ SONGS: The title of this 1959 instrumental is a synonym for "Time Out", the album on which it first appeared "Take Five"
#6428, aired 2012-07-25NEW OLYMPIC SPORTS: This sport introduced in Summer 2000 plays out over a raised area 16 1/2 feet long & 9 1/2 feet wide trampoline
#6380, aired 2012-05-18INVENTORS: The National Inventors Hall of Fame said his work "brought the South prosperity", but he was out of business within 5 years Eli Whitney
#6378, aired 2012-05-16AMERICAN LITERATURE: In 2011, in the preface to the 75th anniversary edition, Pat Conroy called this novel "the last great... victory of the Confederacy" Gone with the Wind
#6279, aired 2011-12-29CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN WRITERS: Concluding a 4-book series, his 2004 novel "Folly and Glory" features Kit Carson, William Clark & Jim Bowie Larry McMurtry
#6240, aired 2011-11-04NOTABLE GROUPS: Harpo Marx was among this group when it met in NYC's Rose Room for its final time, in 1943, & found there was nothing left to say the Algonquin Round Table
#6210, aired 2011-09-23AMERICAN BUSINESS: In the 1880s he developed Crystal A Caramels; a product under his own name came out in 1900 Hershey
#6148, aired 2011-05-1120th CENTURY NOVELS: "A Girl from a Different World" & "Train to the Urals" are chapters in this 1957 work Doctor Zhivago
#6125, aired 2011-04-08THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: 64 paintings from the Met's founding purchase are still in its collection; over 1/3 of them are from this current European nation the Netherlands
#6097, aired 2011-03-0120th CENTURY AUTHORS: A novel set during the Depression earned this author a 1940 Pulitzer Prize & contributed to him winning a Nobel Prize in 1962 John Steinbeck
#6045, aired 2010-12-17AMERICANA: Riding the subway in New York in 1908, Jack Norworth saw a sign for the Polo Grounds & was inspired to write this song "Take Me Out To The Ball Game"
#6034, aired 2010-12-02BRITISH WOMEN: It's said that this woman who died in 1976 "made more money out of murder than any woman since Lucrezia Borgia" Agatha Christie
#5962, aired 2010-07-13AMERICAN NOVELISTS: An advocate of capitalism, in 1982 she was laid out beside a 6-foot dollar sign made of flowers Ayn Rand
#5935, aired 2010-06-04AMERICAN POLITICIANS: Frank Sinatra came out of retirement to sing their praises: "They're both unique... the Quaker & the Greek" Richard Nixon & Spiro Agnew
#5924, aired 2010-05-20AFRICAN CAPITALS: This West Central African capital grew out of a settlement that France established for freed slaves in 1849 Libreville
#5913, aired 2010-05-05MOVIE HISTORY: During the making of this classic, sets from "King Kong" & "The Garden of Allah" were intentionally burned down Gone with the Wind
#5729, aired 2009-07-02U.S. TRANSPORTATION HISTORY: Not standardized as the shape we know, the first of these alliterative items, black on white metal, appeared in Detroit in 1915 a stop sign
#5712, aired 2009-06-09SIGNS OF THE TIMES: First turned on in 1989 in Times Square, the "clock" measuring this ran out of digits in October 2008 the national debt
#5656, aired 2009-03-23U.S. PRESIDENTS: You have to go back over a century to find him, the last president who never had a vice president Chester Arthur
#5644, aired 2009-03-05FRANCO-AMERICAN HISTORY: After a large French army was wiped out by yellow fever on this island in 1802, Napoleon decided to sell Louisiana Hispaniola (or Haiti)
#5635, aired 2009-02-20ANCIENT WORKS: Astronomers used clues in the text of this epic to figure out the date of its archery contest: April 16, 1178 B.C. The Odyssey
#5593, aired 2008-12-2419th CENTURY BOOKS: Its author called it "a Ghostly little book... which shall not put my readers out of humour... with the season" A Christmas Carol
#5512, aired 2008-07-22WORLD LEADERS: Born in Kiev & later a U.S. citizen, this leader became prime minister in 1969 of a country founded in the 20th century Golda Meir
#5508, aired 2008-07-16RECENT HISTORY: In 1986 & again in 2001, people power protests in this nation pushed out male presidents & replaced them with females the Philippines
#5501, aired 2008-07-07THE QUOTE OF THE MONTH CLUB: In a poem, these 5 words precede "breeding Lilacs out of the dead land... stirring Dull roots with spring rain" April is the cruellest month
#5491, aired 2008-06-23PRESIDENTIAL BIRTHPLACES: 4 U.S. presidents serving in 3 different centuries have been born in the same county in this state Massachusetts
#5484, aired 2008-06-12FUN WITH NUMBERS: It's the only whole number that when spelled out has all its letters in reverse alphabetical order one
#5475, aired 2008-05-30WWII: FDR liked to rest near water, but because of fears after Pearl Harbor, this inland place was created for him Camp David
#5472, aired 2008-05-27FILMS OF THE 1950s: The action in this film begins at 10:30 A.M. & plays out in almost-real time until 12:15 High Noon
#5409, aired 2008-02-28THE NFL: It's the only NFL team to play its home games out-of-state in a stadium named for another team the New York Jets
#5403, aired 2008-02-20NOTABLE NAMES: At his death in April 1955, his brain was preserved & his ashes scattered in the Delaware River Albert Einstein
#5378, aired 2008-01-16FOREIGN FILMS: A series of novels includes "Iron Knight, Silver Vase", "Precious Sword, Golden Hairpin" & this one, made into a film in 2000 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
#5367, aired 2008-01-01U.S. TRADE: It's the country from which the U.S. imports the most oil Canada
#5356, aired 2007-12-1719th CENTURY NAMES: He got his name because Mexican victims of his attacks would cry out in terror to St. Jerome Geronimo
#5353, aired 2007-12-1220th CENTURY PERSONALITIES: In 1921 he got a patent for a diving suit that allowed one to quickly discard the suit & escape to the surface Harry Houdini
#5286, aired 2007-09-10AUTHORS: In 1949 he wrote, "If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face--forever" (George) Orwell
#5270, aired 2007-07-06THE BALKANS: On June 3, 2006 this nation of 600,000 proclaimed its independence, making it the world's newest country Montenegro
#5213, aired 2007-04-18A REAL RENAISSANCE MAN: The sudden 1559 death of France's King Henry II in a joust caused some to believe in this man's writings Nostradamus
#5149, aired 2007-01-18ANIMATED CHARACTERS: The middle initial of this cartoon critter introduced in 1949 stands for Ethelbert Wile E. Coyote
#5125, aired 2006-12-15POEM TITLES: This poem says, "For all averred, I had killed the bird that made the breeze to blow" The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
#5083, aired 2006-10-18THE 50 STATES: The constitution for the proposed state of Sequoyah served in large part as the basis for this state's constitution Oklahoma
#5044, aired 2006-07-13U.S. HISTORY: He was the commanding Union general at Bentonville, site of the last major Confederate offensive William Tecumseh Sherman
#5042, aired 2006-07-11BUSINESS FIRSTS: On July 20, 1903 this company delivered its first product, purchased by a respected Detroiter Ford
#5033, aired 2006-06-28WORLD EVENTS: In 2003, 120 years after it made headlines, a book on this was subtitled "The Day the World Exploded" the eruption of Krakatoa
#4998, aired 2006-05-10CHARACTERS IN SHAKESPEARE: Poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge referred to the "motiveless malignity" of this character Iago
#4994, aired 2006-05-04MEMOIRS: Chapters in this 1937 memoir include "A Kikuyu Chief", "War-Time Safari" & "Old Knudsen" Out of Africa (by Isak Dinesen)
#4991, aired 2006-05-01THEATRE 2005: The conduct of a priest arouses suspicion in this play that won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Drama Doubt (by John Patrick Shanley)
#4955, aired 2006-03-10HISTORIC DOCUMENTS: Clause 39 of this reads "No freeman shall be taken, or imprisoned... except by the legal judgment of his peers" the Magna Carta
#4943, aired 2006-02-22THE SOLAR SYSTEM: The 2 planets in our solar system that have atmospheres made up mostly of carbon dioxide Venus & Mars
#4928, aired 2006-02-01WAR & PEACE: In 1839 the first of several wars broke out over the trade of an extract from a flower of this family poppy
#4904, aired 2005-12-29SOVIET HISTORY: He died in Moscow September 11, 1971 following nearly 7 years of house arrest Nikita Khrushchev
#4872, aired 2005-11-152005 COMMENCEMENT SPEECHES: Speaking at his alma mater, he urged graduates to be voracious readers, donate to worthy causes & stay in Maine Stephen King
#4812, aired 2005-07-05WARTIME: The Victoria Cross is made from metal taken from enemy guns captured in this war the Crimean War
#4761, aired 2005-04-25U.S. CITIES: In 1790 this Midwest city was named for a society that had been named for a Roman citizen-soldier Cincinnati
#4732, aired 2005-03-15ARTISTIC MASTERPIECES: "Shouldn't the shining dots of the sky be as accessible as the black dots on the map of France?" the artist wrote of this work The Starry Night (by Vincent van Gogh)
#4699, aired 2005-01-27MOUNTAINS: To trek through its Khumbu Icefall, Lhotse Face & South Col, your team needs a $70,000 permit from Nepal's government Mount Everest
#4636, aired 2004-11-01SEMIANNUAL PUBLICATIONS: It began in 1886 as an extension of an upper crust family's list of whose house they'd visit & who they'd receive The Social Register
#4632, aired 2004-10-26AUTHORS: After several decades off it, works by this man seen here returned to the New York Times Bestseller List in 2003 J.R.R. Tolkien
#4620, aired 2004-10-08MEN OF SCIENCE: "Somnium", an early work of science fiction, was written by this German & published posthumously in 1634 Johannes Kepler
#4595, aired 2004-07-23SHAKESPEARE: 2 of the 4 Shakespeare plays in which ghosts appear on stage (2 of) Hamlet, Julius Caesar, Macbeth & Richard III
#4589, aired 2004-07-15U.S. PRESIDENTS: With a book about the South, he became the first president--past or present--to publish a novel Jimmy Carter
#4586, aired 2004-07-12NAMES IN THE BIBLE: Daniel means "God is my judge", Ezekiel, "God strengthens"; & this name in Genesis 32, "he strives with God" Israel
#4585, aired 2004-07-09INTERNATIONAL POLITICS: Of the 8 members of the G-8 industrial nations, the one with the smallest population Canada
#4567, aired 2004-06-15CLASSIC LITERATURE: "Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay To mould me man..." is the epigraph to this 1818 novel Frankenstein
#4566, aired 2004-06-14ON EXHIBIT: The Chinese government, which controls all of these in the U.S., won't let a new one be named until it's 100 days old giant pandas
#4558, aired 2004-06-02THE 2000 OLYMPICS: She's the first female track & field athlete to win medals in 5 different events at a single Olympics Marion Jones
#4499, aired 2004-03-11BRAND NAMES: Benjamin Green's work with cocoa butter led to this brand that, ironically, may be used to prevent what's in its name Coppertone
#4479, aired 2004-02-12SONGS: One of the first to sing it publicly was Baltimore actor Fredinand Durang at Captain McCauley's tavern in October 1814 "The Star-Spangled Banner"
#4398, aired 2003-10-2220th CENTURY NOTABLES: Einstein said of him, "Generations to come will scarcely believe" one such as he "walked the Earth in flesh & blood" Mohandas Gandhi
#4366, aired 2003-09-08TOYS & GAMES: 12-year-old David Mullany gave this toy its name, a euphemism for striking out in baseball Wiffleball
#4352, aired 2003-07-01THE MOVIES: (Alex Trebek delivers the Final clue.) Parts of this 1985 movie were filmed right here in Karen, a suburb of Nairobi Out of Africa
#4345, aired 2003-06-20FORMER WORLD LEADERS: Filling out her application to run in 1986, this widowed mother of 5 listed her occupation as housewife Corazon Aquino (of the Philippines)
#4344, aired 2003-06-19FRUIT: From Greek for "finger", the Arabs claim it has as many culinary & pharmaceutical uses as days in a year the date
#4297, aired 2003-04-15WORLD LEADERS: On June 18, 1940, the day of Churchill's "finest hour" speech, this leader made his first broadcast from London Charles de Gaulle
#4275, aired 2003-03-14THE MOVIES: The DVD of this 1961 film includes "picture-in-picture commentary on how to make the trick shots" The Hustler
#4245, aired 2003-01-31AUTHORS: In September 2002 he offered $10,000 to help capture the person who burned down Iowa's Cedar Bridge Robert James Waller (author of "The Bridges of Madison County")
#4224, aired 2003-01-02ACADEMY AWARD WINNERS: She won many Oscars, including those for 1949's "The Heiress", 1951's "A Place in the Sun" & 1973's "The Sting" Edith Head
#4193, aired 2002-11-20AMERICANA: Baptist minister Francis Bellamy penned this oath in 1892 to reflect his Christian Socialist beliefs the Pledge of Allegiance
#4173, aired 2002-10-23AMERICANA: It's made yearly by Tiffany out of 7 pounds of silver; since 2001 one in Baltimore has been touched by some 250,000 fans The Vince Lombardi Trophy (emblematic of winning the Super Bowl)
#4139, aired 2002-09-05TECHNOLOGY: After a demonstration of this, the April 8, 1927 New York Times said, "Commercial use in doubt" television
#4138, aired 2002-09-04NEW YORK CITY LANDMARKS: Moving several times, the first was originally P.T. Barnum's Monster Classical and Geological Hippodrome Madison Square Garden
#4137, aired 2002-09-03SEPTEMBER 1984: History-making woman whose Sept. 1984 itinerary included speeches in Dallas, Spokane, Syracuse & Youngstown Geraldine Ferraro
#4111, aired 2002-06-17LANGUAGES: Besides English & Spanish, 2 of the 4 other languages in which the U.S. census 2000 questionnaires were printed (2 of) Chinese, Vietnamese, Tagalog & Korean
#4094, aired 2002-05-23ISRAEL: They are the 2 Arab countries in which Israel currently has embassies Egypt & Jordan
#4079, aired 2002-05-022001 NEWS: In 2001 the zinc industry was up in arms over Rep. Jim Kolbe's bill calling for the phasing out of these pennies
#4067, aired 2002-04-165-LETTER WORDS: In 1898 the word "telephone" made its debut in the Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary, as did this related word hello
#4032, aired 2002-02-2619th CENTURY INVENTIONS: Peter Roget's new device for performing mechanically the involution & evolution of numbers the slide rule
#4013, aired 2002-01-30'90s BESTSELLERS: This novel grew out of a series of personal columns that first ran in the Independent of London Bridget Jones's Diary
#4006, aired 2002-01-21PEOPLE ON THE MAP: Tourist spots in the Asian city named for this man include Notre Dame Cathedral & Reunification Hall Ho Chi Minh
#3996, aired 2002-01-07ORGANIZATIONS: In 2001 a fight over these initials pitted the panda against The Rock WWF
#3957, aired 2001-11-13FIRST LADIES: First & last names of the 2 First Ladies who each had a husband & son serve as president Abigail Adams & Barbara Bush
#3913, aired 2001-09-12ORGANIZATIONS: Linda Collins's tetanus antitoxin allergy led her parents to found this emergency information service MedicAlert
#3899, aired 2001-07-12COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES: The 1939 event we just saw came out of a concert originally to be sponsored at DAR Constitution Hall by this university Howard University
#3814, aired 2001-03-15THE CALENDAR: It's the second-shortest month in most of the U.S., beating out the third-shortest months by one hour April
#3722, aired 2000-11-07THE MOVIES: The night before their first mass jump in 1940, paratroopers at Fort Benning saw a Western about this man Geronimo
#3635, aired 2000-05-26BASEBALL HISTORY: Current name of the National League team that started out in the 1870s as the Boston Red Stockings Atlanta Braves
#3580, aired 2000-03-10FICTIONAL CHARACTERS: In a 1963 book this character found out his family motto in Latin would be "Orbis Non Sufficit" James Bond ("The World Is Not Enough")
#3495, aired 1999-11-12HISTORIC QUOTES: One month prior to his hanging on December 2, 1859, he said that he had no design to "excite slaves to rebel" John Brown
#3489, aired 1999-11-04PUBLICATIONS: This humor publication, known for its website, put out its first book in 1999, a No. 1 bestseller The Onion
#3301, aired 1999-01-04CHILDREN'S LITERATURE: This title character was inspired by a girl who'd had her appendix out in a French hospital run by nuns Madeline
#3066, aired 1997-12-22U.S. PRESIDENTS: Although he graduated 64th out of 112 in his 1935 high school class, he was voted "Most Likely to Succeed" John Fitzgerald Kennedy
#2997, aired 1997-09-16NEW ENGLAND COLONISTS: Thomas Morton of Merry Mount was arrested in 1628 by this neighbor & pilgrim he called "Captaine Shrimp" Miles Standish
#2875, aired 1997-02-14HISTORIC AMERICANS: He was the fourth Secretary of State, & the fourth Chief Justice John Marshall
#2810, aired 1996-11-15PUBLISHING FIRSTS: In 1908 Ernest Henry Shackleton printed the first book on this continent Antarctica
#2761, aired 1996-09-09AMERICANA: The canceled check for this purchase, in the amount of $7.2 million, is on display at the National Archives the Alaska Purchase
#2760, aired 1996-09-06CANADA: The flag & the coat of arms of this Canadian province feature a setting sun British Columbia
#2754, aired 1996-07-18ARTISTS: In 1914 his brother's remains were moved from Holland to Auvers, France & buried beside him Vincent Van Gogh
#2428, aired 1995-03-08RULERS: At his death at age 62 in 1993, he was Europe's longest-reigning monarch King Baudouin
#2408, aired 1995-02-08BODIES OF WATER: When Jim Bridger discovered this body of water in 1824, he mistook it for an arm of the Pacific the Great Salt Lake
#2378, aired 1994-12-28ETYMOLOGY: Until 1946, this word usually meant a mathematician; since then, it's come to mean a machine a computer
#2325, aired 1994-10-14RULERS: In the Mayflower Compact this king was called a "dread sovereign lord" King James I of England (or King James VI of Scotland)
#2306, aired 1994-09-1919th CENTURY AMERICA: In 1864 the Comm. of Agriculture advocated that the government issue daily ones of these via telegraphs a weather report
#2300, aired 1994-09-09LANDMARKS: This barrier is situated in the British Isles about 100 miles south of the Antonine Wall Hadrian's Wall
#2149, aired 1993-12-30SHAKESPEARE: The 2 female title characters in Shakespearean tragedies who die by their own hand Cleopatra & Juliet
#2126, aired 1993-11-29PRESIDENTS: Under an act passed in 1958, they became the first two former presidents eligible for a pension Harry S. Truman & Herbert Hoover
#2125, aired 1993-11-26THE CABINET: In the 1970s he held more cabinet posts than anyone in U.S. history—4, including Attorney General Elliot Richardson
#2112, aired 1993-11-09IN THE NEWS: AP says about half its clients used the Ron Edmonds photo of these 2 men shaking hands 9/13/93 Yasser Arafat & Yitzhak Rabin
#2095, aired 1993-10-15FAMOUS HOMES: The ticket office at this presidential home hands out dozens of $2 bills as change every day Monticello
#2091, aired 1993-10-11WORD & PHRASE ORIGINS: This term for a deadbeat came from a poker player whose hole card didn't fill out his hand four-flusher
#2057, aired 1993-07-13FAMOUS AUTHORS: He used his fishing boat, the Pilar, for counter-intelligence work during World War II Ernest Hemingway
#2015, aired 1993-05-14ANCIENT ROME: General Publius Scipio won the surname "Africanus" for beating this man at the 202 B.C. Battle of Zama Hannibal
#1987, aired 1993-04-06FAMOUS HOMES: There's a famous home on a piece of land called Walker's Point in this U.S. town Kennebunkport, Maine
#1971, aired 1993-03-15PUBLISHING: Last name of the Scottish brothers who began publishing textbooks in 1843 & put out their first novel in 1855 MacMillan
#1955, aired 1993-02-19NEW ENGLAND: In Washington, D.C.'s Statuary Hall, the state of Vermont is represented by this patriot Ethan Allen
#1937, aired 1993-01-26ODD JOBS: It was the profession of Lou Jacobs, the model for a 1966 postage stamp, who died in Sarasota in 1992 a clown
#1919, aired 1992-12-31GOVERNORS: This governor sent in the militia after the 1919 Boston police strike was under control (Calvin) Coolidge
#1897, aired 1992-12-01FAMOUS NAMES: The last of his 56 children, Mabel Sanborn, died in 1950 at age 87 Brigham Young
#1894, aired 1992-11-26THE CABINET: This cabinet department is in charge of printing all postage stamps Treasury
#1884, aired 1992-11-12POLAND: Laid to rest temporarily at Arlington in 1941, his remains were returned to Poland in 1992 Jan Paderewski
#1795, aired 1992-05-22COMPOSERS: An anthem that he composed for George II's 1727 coronation has been used for British crownings ever since George Frederick Handel
#1787, aired 1992-05-12COLONIAL AMERICA: Charles II's brother, the Duke of this, was put in charge of getting the Dutch out of New Amsterdam York
#1668, aired 1991-11-27SHAKESPEARE: In his diary Samuel Pepys described this play as silly, "and not related at all to the name or day" Twelfth Night, or What You Will
#1583, aired 1991-06-19FIRST LADIES: The two 20th century women who were "Second Lady" for 8 years before becoming "First" Barbara Bush & Pat Nixon
#1529, aired 1991-04-04FAMOUS AMERICANS: Upon his death in 1972, he became the 1st civil servant to lie in state in the Capitol Rotunda J. Edgar Hoover
#1474, aired 1991-01-17FAMOUS WOMEN: 1 of 2 women who made the Top 10 on Forbes' list of the highest-earning entertainers of 1989-90 (1 of) Madonna & Oprah Winfrey
#1428, aired 1990-11-14U.S. HISTORY: After Virginia, more Civil War battles were fought in this state than in any other Tennessee
#1424, aired 1990-11-08WORLD GEOGRAPHY: This country contains South America's highest & lowest points Argentina
#1414, aired 1990-10-25HISTORY: It was the first elected legislative body in the New World House of Burgesses
#1400, aired 1990-10-05BUSINESS & INDUSTRY: This New York company introduced the direct-mail sweepstakes concept in 1962 Reader's Digest
#13, aired 1990-09-08THE 20th CENTURY: He was vice president of the U.S. for just 82 days before becoming president Harry Truman
#8, aired 1990-08-04SHAKESPEAREAN QUOTES: The famous line "Out, out, brief candle!" is spoken after the announcement of this woman's death Lady Macbeth
#1232, aired 1990-01-02THE OSCARS: Of Cecil B. De Mille's 70 films, only this non-Biblical one won "Best Picture" The Greatest Show on Earth
#1168, aired 1989-10-04TELEVISION: This NBC special was performed live in 1955 & 1956; videotaped in 1960; & re-run in '63, '66, '78 & '89 Peter Pan
#1064, aired 1989-03-30BUSINESS & INDUSTRY: Headquartered near St. Paul, this company churns out the top-selling brand of butter in the U.S. Land O Lakes
#915, aired 1988-07-22ROYALTY: Before his marriage in 1956, he slipped out of Los Angeles using the alias "C. Monte" Prince Rainier
#714, aired 1987-10-15BODIES OF WATER: Country in which you'd have to be to build a bridge on the River Kwai Thailand
#689, aired 1987-09-10THE CENSUS: Last year in the 19th century in which a general census of the United States was taken 1900
#676, aired 1987-07-13U.S. CITIES: Of the 10 largest cities in population in the U.S., only these 2 are less than 100 miles apart New York City & Philadelphia
#667, aired 1987-06-30ORGANIZATIONS: While Easter Seals is a group in itself, this group sponsors Christmas Seals the American Lung Association
#561, aired 1987-02-02ANIMALS: It's believed elephants rarely lived beyond 60, about the age the last of these wear out teeth
#554, aired 1987-01-22CITIES: In 1904, this city hosted the Democratic National Convention, a World's Far & the Olympics St. Louis
#529, aired 1986-12-18THE MOVIES: "Wuthering Heights", "Of Mice and Men", & "Stagecoach" all came out in this "Best year ever for Amer. films" 1939
#527, aired 1986-12-16THE MONTHS: It's only month that can start on the same day of the week as the month before it March
#464, aired 1986-09-18U.S. PRESIDENTS: The number of U.S. presidents in the 20th century to serve out at least 2 full terms 3
#403, aired 1986-03-26THE OLYMPICS: The games held in this city were the only ever staged in the Southern Hemisphere Melbourne
#394, aired 1986-03-13SPORTING EVENTS: Established in 1911, this yearly event has largest single day attendance in sports the Indy 500
#363, aired 1986-01-29U.S. CURRENCY: Besides "In God We Trust", the other word found on the face of all current U.S. coins Liberty
#358, aired 1986-01-22SPORTS: Only U.S. Major League Baseball team in which both city & team names are in a foreign language San Diego Padres
#343, aired 1986-01-01ELECTIONS: 2 of 6 states that cast only 3 electoral votes for president in 1984 (2 of) Wyoming, Alaska, South Dakota, North Dakota, Vermont, and Delaware
#331, aired 1985-12-16U.S. CURRENCY: Up to & including the $100 bill, the sum total of all U.S. paper currency denominations in current use $188
#165, aired 1985-04-26FAIRY TALES: Worldwide, this fairy tale has been subject of 58 films, more than any other story Cinderella
#152, aired 1985-04-09THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE: In the Websters 3rd International Dictionary, it's the letter with the most entries S
#63, aired 1984-12-05SHOW BUSINESS: Barrymore, Rathbone, Roger Moore & Larry Hagman are among 61 actors to play this character Sherlock Holmes
#44, aired 1984-11-08AMERICAN GOVERNMENT: Along with president, these 2 must sign a bill for it to become law the speaker of the House & the vice president
#1, aired 1983-09-18U.S. LANDMARKS: This state boasts Mt. Rushmore South Dakota

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Elizabeth Galoozis, a reference librarian from Cambridge, Massachusetts Season 26 2-time champion: $38,801 + $2,000. Elizabeth Galoozis - A...
Katie Winter, a senior from Tufts University 2008 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 22 and from Hershey, PA at...
Olivia Colangelo, a junior from the University of Notre Dame from Murrysville, Pennsylvania 2010-B College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
Jennifer Duann, a senior from the Ohio State University 2009 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 21 and from Worthington, Ohio at...
Leah Anthony Libresco, a junior from Yale University 2010-A College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Hometown: Mineola, New York. Jeopardy!...
Lyndsey Romick, a sophomore from Lewis & Clark College 2010-A College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. Hometown: Grants Pass, Oregon. Lyndsey Romick...
Lisa Makar, a senior from University of Maryland "As a seventh grader, she was planning a career as a...
Lindsay Eanet, a senior from the University of Missouri 2010-A College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. Hometown: Deerfield, Illinois. Last name pronounced...
Ryan Stoffers, a sophomore from UCLA 2010-A College Championship 1st runner-up: $50,000. Hometown: Saratoga, California. Ryan Stoffers...
Lea Tottle, a junior from Florida State University from Oldsmar, Florida 2010-B College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000 + a Nintendo Wii +...
Thomas L. Friedman, an author and foreign affairs columnist from The New York Times "He has won three Pulitzer Prizes and authored six best sellers,...
Zach Safford, a senior from Williams College "His early interest in cryptozoology has been replaced by a history...
Yoni Freund, a Ph.D. student from Columbia University "He has always wanted to be a writer, and now that...
Max Johansen, a senior from the University of Miami "As a seventh grader, he was planning on a career in...
Samira Missaghi, a junior from the University of Minnesota 2010-A College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Hometown: Eden Prarie, Minnesota. Samira...
Patrick Tucker, a senior from the University of Notre Dame 2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2009 College Championship winner: $100,000...
Dan D'Addario, a senior from Columbia University 2010-A College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Hometown: Farmington, Connecticut. Daniel D'Addario...
Surya Sabhapathy, a senior from the University of Michigan 2010-A College Championship 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $26,600. Hometown: Northville,...
Aisha Tyler, a comedienne, host and actress from Talk Soup, Friends, The 5th Wheel and Ghost Whisperer 2009 Celebrity Jeopardy! winner: $50,000 split between the International Rescue Committee/Congo...
Roger Craig, a computer scientist from Newark, Delaware 2019 All-Star Games member of wildcard-match 2nd-place Team Austin: a share...
Lewis Black, a stand-up comedian from Lewis Black's Root of All Evil "With success in films, plays, books, and TV specials, he tours...
Jonathan Hawley, a sophomore from Harvard University 2008 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 19 and from Oceanside, CA at...
Dara Lind, a junior from Yale University 2008 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 20 and from Cincinnati, OH at...
James Grant, a junior from Georgetown University 2008 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 21 and from Manhattan Beach,...
James Erwin, a writer from Des Moines, Iowa Season 25 2-time champion: $22,598 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
Roger Craig, a graduate student of computer science from Newark, Delaware 2019 All-Star Games member of wildcard-match 2nd-place Team Austin: a share...
Anthony Dedousis, a sophomore from Harvard University 2009 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 19 and from Manhasset, New York...
Christine Carrino Gorowara, a teacher educator from Wilmington, Delaware Season 25 2-time champion: $43,202 + $1,000. Wife of Season 26...
Brooks Humphreys, a high school social studies teacher from Omaha, Nebraska "He teaches at an all-girls Catholic school operated by the Sisters...
Elza Reeves, a bank teller from Louisville, Kentucky Season 25 1-time champion: $16,400 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
Michael McKean, a Grammy winner, Oscar nominee and multi-talented performer from Hairspray and The Pajama Game "This multi-talented performer is a Grammy winner and Oscar nominee and...
Greg Lichtenstein, a freshman from Vassar College 2009 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. 18 and from Plainview, New York...
Robbie Berg, a freshman from the University of Pennsylvania 2010-A College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. Hometown: Davie, Florida. Robbie Berg Blog...
Than Hedman, a freshman from University of Colorado-Boulder 2008 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 19 and from Denver, CO at...
Bruce Naegeli, a retired law librarian from Phoenix, Arizona "He finished second in the 1988 Tournament of Champions. A retired...
Nate Austin, a student from Hutchinson Community College "His original plan was to own a chain of international hotels...
Brandon Hensley, a sophomore from Caltech 2008 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 19 and from Huntington, WV at...
Cheech Marin, an actor, comedian, director, writer and musician from Lost "He's played a cop on Nash Bridges, voiced a 1959 Chevy...
Prashant Raghavendran, a sophomore from the University of Texas, Dallas 2010-A College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. Hometown: Austin, Texas. Prashant Raghavendran Blog...
Kerri Regan, a senior from Bethpage, New York 2005 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500. 17 at the time of the...
Saad Hasan, a nanotechnology scientist from Nashville, Tennessee Season 26 1-time champion: $22,700 + $2,000. Saad Hasan Nashville, TN...
Rachel Pildis, a software developer from Oak Park, Illinois Season 26 1-time champion: $12,000 + $2,000. Rachel Pildis - A...
Pat Sajak, a game show host from Wheel of Fortune "A former TV weatherman, he's gone on to become the world's...
Justin Hofstetter, a sixth and seventh grade language arts and social studies teacher from Kansas City, Missouri "This sixth and seventh grade teacher is in his first year...
Madeline Suchard, from Placentia, California "She has her sights set on becoming the Supreme Court Justice,...
Brenton Montie, a sixth grade social studies teacher from South Lyon, Michigan "He teaches at a school ranked in the top 5% in...
Curtis Joseph, a sophomore from Scottsdale Community College "In 1999, his nickname was 'Curtles the Troll', and he wanted...
Mary Ann Stanley, a high school chemistry and physical science teacher from Statesboro, Georgia "She's been teaching for 22 years and is now teaching the...
Robert Gibbs, a former press secretary from the Obama White House "In 2004, he joined Barack Obama's senatorial campaign as communications director,...
Neil Patrick Harris, an actor from How I Met Your Mother "He's received critical acclaim on Broadway and on TV, and his...
Steven Popper, an economist from Topanga, California "A winner of 5 shows in 1988, he has since founded...
Leszek Pawlowicz, a shovel bum from Flagstaff, Arizona "He was a material scientist living in Phoenix when he won...
Charles Shaughnessy, an actor from Mad Men "As Shane Donovan on Days of Our Lives, he won three...
Tim Relihan, a senior from the University of Nebraska from Stromsburg, Nebraska 2010-B College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
Andrew Ceppos, a senior from Tufts University 2009 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 21 and from Verona, New...
Kadeem Cooper, a junior from the University of Virginia 2009 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 20 and from Brooklyn, New York...
Jenifer Thomas, a teacher assistant from Jacksonville, North Carolina Season 26 1-time champion: $13,400 + $2,000. Jenifer Thomas October 5,...
Will Warren, a senior from the University of Alabama 2010-A College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. Hometown: Madison, Alabama. Will Warren Blog...
Lisa Johnston, a fourth and fifth grade reading and religion teacher from East Boston, Massachusetts "She teaches at a parish that's focus is to dream big....
Clarence Page, a journalist from The Chicago Tribune "His nationally syndicated column began as a local column for the...
Gabrielle McMahan, a junior from Florida A&M University 2008 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. 20 and from Springfield, VA at...
Jimmy Li, a senior from Chesterfield, Missouri 2005 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $5,000. 17 at the time of...
Celeste DiNucci, a recent graduate student from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2014 Battle of the Decades...
Melanie Bruchet, a senior from Bryn Mawr "Everyone wants to be an astronaut when they're a kid, but...
Andrew Garen, an associate director of consumer marketing from Austin, Texas "He was a project manager when he won his 5 shows...
Lance Johnson, a model aircraft engine technician from Champaign, Illinois "He was the first to get to the 5-win mark in...
Emma Couture, a twelve-year-old from St. Petersburg, Florida "Here's a portrait of a smart young girl who sees her...
Francesca Leibowitz, a fifth grade English teacher from Brooklyn, New York "She teaches at a school that opened in 1854. From Brooklyn...
Cassie Hill, a recent graduate from the University of Mary Washington \"Her dad is a lawyer, and by the seventh grade, she...
Anderson Cooper, an anchor from CNN's Anderson Cooper 360° "As a baby, he was photographed by Diane Arbus of Harper's...
Paul Kursky, a copywriter from San Francisco, California 2011 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 26 5-time champion: $109,411...
Christopher Meloni, a star from Law & Order: SVU and HBO's Oz "On TV, he's worked both sides of the law. Once a...
Chris Wallace, a TV host from Fox News Sunday "In March, this Fox News anchor was honored by the National...
Chris Matthews, a TV host from Hardball and The Chris Matthews Show "He served as a speechwriter for Jimmy Carter, and later as...
India Cooper, an actor and copy editor from New York City, New York "A semifinalist in the Tournament of Champions in 1992, now an...
Tom Bergeron, an Emmy Award-winning host from Dancing with the Stars 2009 Celebrity Jeopardy! player: $25,000 to the Muscular Dystrophy Association. "He's...
Sam Spaulding, a sophomore from Yale University from Wilmington, North Carolina 2010-B College Championship 1st runner-up: $50,000 + a Nintendo Wii +...
Rowan Spake, from Portland, Oregon "He's interested in nanotechnology and robotics to improve surgery. But getting...
Cary Williams, from Milton, Massachusetts "She won an award in math, and a letter of commendation...
Mark Dawson, a business manager from Chamblee, Georgia "In 2003, he became the first to win a quarter of...
Katty Kay, a Washington, D.C. anchor from BBC World News America "She's the Washington, D.C. anchor for BBC World News America, as...
Dana Perino, a TV host from Fox News Channel's The Five "White House press secretary under George W. Bush, she now appears...
Alan Bailey, a playwright and director from North Hills, California "This playwright and director became a 5-time winner in 2001. Today,...
Bob Harris, a writer from Los Angeles, California "This 5-time champ was a finalist in the 1998 Tournament of...
Catherine Whitten, a high school history teacher from Plano, Texas "This gifted teacher primarily teaches gifted students. From Plano, Texas, this...
Rachael Schwartz, a lawyer with an international law firm from Washington, D.C. "In 1994, she became the first woman ever to win the...
Lan Djang, a health policy analyst from Toronto, Ontario, Canada "He was a 5-time champion in 2001. Today he's a health...
India Cooper, a copy editor from Madison, Indiana "She was an actor and copy editor in New York City...
Ken Basin, a junior at the University of Southern California from Huntington Beach, California 2003 College Championship semifinalist: $5,000. Blog at kbasin.blogspot.org. Appearing as a...
Steve Chernicoff, a technical writer from Berkeley, California "He was one of the top 1-day winners in the 1994-95...
Emily Sturtz, from Parsippany, New Jersey "Because she would like to help people, she wants to become...
Pam Mueller, an entering law student originally from Chicago, Illinois \"Representing Loyola University, she won the College Championship in November, 2000....
Jay Rosenberg, a college professor from Chapel Hill, North Carolina \"After winning 5 times in 1985, he became the moderator for...
Emma Johnson, an eleven-year-old from St. Petersburg, Florida "She'll hit a high note in her future musical career as...
Mehrun Etebari, a graduate student of international relations from Durham, New Hampshire 2007 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD Home...
Rebecca Maxfield, a freshman from Brown University 2010-A College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. Hometown: New Rochelle, New York. Rebecca...
Tommy Hoyt, from Winnetka, Illinois "Journalism may very well be in his future as he feels...
Catherine Carson, a fourth grade language arts, math, and social studies teacher from Washington, D.C. "She is new to teaching--she's in her second year. From Washington,...
Will Walters, a twelve-year-old from Lexington, Kentucky "He wants to follow in the footsteps of his idols, Albert...
India Cooper, an actor and copy editor from New York, New York "She became a 5-time champion in 1991. An actor and copy...
Charlotte Scott, a twelve-year-old from Washington, D.C. "Watch out, Diane Sawyer. This future news anchor is ready for...
Raya Elias-Pushett, a junior from Aventura, Florida 2011 Teen Tournament 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $20,851. First name...
Chris Hardwick, a television personality from Singled Out "From the hit show Singled Out, his father has been singled...
Grafton Brown, a high school Spanish teacher from Chicago, Illinois "He teaches at a school whose buildings are named in honor...
Caitlin Millat, a kindergarten teacher from Brooklyn, New York "She receives support from Teach for America and works for Achievement...
Drew Joanides, a high school history teacher from Miami, Florida "He is one of our four teachers competing in our tournament...
John Kelly, a retired Air Force officer from Austin, Texas "In 1992, he was one of the top five money winners...
John Botti, a high school history and English teacher from Bethesda, Maryland "He says he keeps his spirit young by spending time with...
Zane Ice, a 12-year-old from West Palm Beach, Florida "He wants to build a business in emerging technologies to help...
Carson Kressley, a fashion maven from Queer Eye for the Straight Guy "This star of TV's Queer Eye for the Straight Guy says...
Alan Bailey, a playwright and director from Sherman Oaks, California 2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 2003 Tournament...
Aisha Tyler, an actress, comedian, author and reality-show host from Archer "In addition to film and TV roles, she performs comedy at...
Elizabeth Perkins, an actress from Weeds "For the past five seasons, she's played the calculating and manipulative...
Elizabeth Perkins, an actress from Big and Weeds 2009 Celebrity Jeopardy! player: $25,000 to the New England Learning Center...
Andy Richter, an actor/comedian from The Tonight Show \"This multitalented actor/comedian is now back on the couch with Conan...
Patrick Quinn, a high school German teacher from Chesterfield, Missouri "He teaches at a school whose history goes back to a...
Chuck Todd, a journalist and chief White House correspondent from NBC News and Meet the Press "Chief White House correspondent and political director for NBC News, he...
Anderson Cooper, a news anchor and correspondent from CNN "He anchors his own prime-time news show, a syndicated daytime talk...
Dr. Mehmet Oz, a cardiac surgeon and TV host from The Dr. Oz Show "He is a renowned cardiac surgeon who has written seven New...
Soledad O'Brien, an anchor and special correspondent from CNN's Special Investigations Unit "Currently the host of CNN's Special Investigations Unit, she's received critical...
Chris Matthews, a TV host from Hardball and The Chris Matthews Show "Once a presidential speechwriter, he's had his own political talk show...
David Duchovny, an actor from Californication "He's won two Golden Globes and stars as troubled novelist Hank...
Jane Curtin, an actress from Kate & Allie and 3rd Rock from the Sun "One of Saturday Night Live's original Not Ready for Primetime Players,...
Kyle Kahan, a senior from Texas A&M University from Houston, Texas 2010-B College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000 + a Nintendo Wii +...
Joshua Malina, a TV actor and creator/producer from Celebrity Poker Showdown "He created and produced Celebrity Poker Showdown for the Bravo Channel,...
Frank Spangenberg, a police lieutenant from Douglaston, New York 2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2005 Ultimate Tournament of...
Chuck Forrest, an attorney for the UN IFAD from Marino, Italy \"In 1986, he was a law student living in Grand Blanc,...
Tom Walsh, a writer from Washington, D.C. 2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Nifty Nine (players with byes into...
Tom Nichols, a professor originally from Chicopee, Massachusetts \"A five-time champion in 1994, he used his winnings for a...
Brad Brown, a theater teacher from Nashville, Tennessee "And he is a theater teacher at an international baccalaureate certified...
Dominic Clust, from Metairie, Louisiana "This future lawyer likes to argue and he's good at it....
Bob Verini, a film journalist and test prep teacher from Los Angeles, California "A resident of New York City when he won the 1987...
Lynne Wexler, a librarian from Evanston, Illinois "She was the first 5-time champion in 1991. A librarian from...
Eddie Timanus, a sportswriter from Oak Hill, Virginia "His 5 wins in 1999 made him one of the most...
Hill Harper, an author and actor from CSI: NY "As an award-winning author, he's written three New York Times best...
Shay Collins, an 11-year-old from Averill Park, New York "His passion for music helps this future rock star to play...
Robin Cheney, a middle school teacher from Rancho Santa Margarita, California "All the students at her school go on a camping trip...
Kyle Hale, a college student from Katy, Texas 2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 winner: $25,000. 2003 Tournament...
Brian Weikle, a project manager from Minneapolis, Minnesota 2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Nifty Nine (players with byes into...
Thomas McIntyre, a 12-year-old from Marino Valley, California "This self-proclaimed Star Wars freak, who has earned star rank in...
Jared Rothenberg, an 11-year-old from Houston, Texas "When he's not on the mound, he's warming up in the...
Barbara-Anne Eddy, a civil servant from Vancouver, Canada "Her 5-time winnings from 1988 allowed her to go for nearly...
Chuck Forrest, a lawyer and CEO from London, United Kingdom \"He became a winner of the second-ever Tournament of Champions in...
Judd Hess, a high school English teacher from Huntington Beach, California "In college, he volunteered to help in a classroom and was...
Vera Swain, a junior from the University of South Carolina 2008 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 21 and from Charleston, SC...
Steve Greene, a senior from UCLA from Elk Grove, California 2010-B College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000 + a Nintendo Wii +...
Eddie Timanus, a sports reporter from Arlington, Virginia "A 5-time champion, he went on to become a semifinalist in...
Leszek Pawlowicz, a computer consultant from Flagstaff, Arizona "He was the winner of the 1992 Tournament of Champions. Today...
Tom Cubbage, an attorney from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma "He was the very first College Champion, and the only one...
Sandra Gore, a corporate researcher from Berkeley, California "After five wins in 1987, she fulfilled her dream of moving...
Leslie Frates, a Spanish teacher from Hayward, California "A Jeopardy! tournament veteran, her best-known Jeopardy! appearance may be in...
Jonathan Corbblah, a chess teacher from Harlem, New York Season 27 1-time champion: $13,000 + $1,000. Jonathan appeared as a...
Katie Singh, a sophomore from Northwestern University from Austin, Texas 2010-B College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
Colby Burnett, a high school world history teacher from Chicago, Illinois "He teaches at a school started by the Dominicans of St....
Joely Fisher, an actress from 'Til Death "She made her Broadway debut in Grease, and earned rave reviews...
Grace Veach, a librarian from Lakeland, Florida "After winning 5 games in 1997, she was the grand marshall...
Jerome Vered, a writer from Los Angeles, California "The 1-day record of $34,000 he set in 1992 stood for...
Brad Rutter, a TV quiz show host from Lancaster, Pennsylvania 2020 Jeopardy!: The Greatest of All Time 2nd runner-up: $250,000. 2019...
Kate Wilson, a high school AP English teacher from Montgomery, Alabama "She is a top-10 AP English language teacher at Alabama's number-one...
Lizzie O'Leary, an aviation and regulation correspondent from CNN "She broke the news that Chrysler would file for Chapter 11...
Bob Harris, an author, comedian, and radio commentator from Los Angeles, California "A 5-time champion and a finalist in the Tournament of Champions,...
Larry Cloud, a bookkeeper and computer consultant from Inglewood, California "He won five times in 2001, allowing him to make a...
Ryan Chaffee, a tutor from Los Angeles, California 2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $91,900...
Charles Temple, a high school English teacher from Ocracoke, North Carolina "He teaches at the smallest public school in North Carolina, and...
Sally Umbach, a third grade special education teacher from Cincinnati, Ohio "She teaches at a school district that has been in operation...
Matt Polazzo, a high school U.S. government teacher from Brooklyn, New York "He teaches at one of the most selective high schools in...
Pian Wong, a high school English teacher from New York, New York "She teaches at a Bronx school that's been ranked the most...
Raynell Cooper, a senior from Rockville, Maryland 2011 Teen Tournament winner (semifinalist by wildcard): $75,000. 16 at the...
Rick Knutsen, a musician and stay-at-home dad from Brooklyn, New York "A finalist in the 2001 Tournament of Champions, he's a musician...
Phoebe Juel, a bookseller from Sylva, North Carolina "She won the 1993 College Championship while attending Grinnell College. Today...
Craig Barker, an Advanced Placement history teacher from Livonia, Michigan "In 1997 he won the College Championship. Today he's an Advanced...
Arthur Phillips, an author from Brooklyn, New York "He was a speechwriter from Boston when he won five shows...
Rachael Schwartz, a lawyer from Washington, D.C. "In 1994, she was the first female winner of a Tournament...
John Beck, an associate creative director from Torrance, California 2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 winner: $29,000. 2004 Tournament...
Viki Radden, a high school English and literacy teacher from Bakersfield, California "She teaches at the largest high school district in California. From...
Nate Rice, a high school ACT prep teacher from Catlettsburg, Kentucky "This is his first year in the family business. His mother's...
Greer Mackebee, a senior at Duke University from Knoxville, Tennessee 2012 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. 22 at the time of the...
Joey Beachum, an Air Force intelligence officer from Conway, Arkansas 2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2008 College Championship winner: $100,000...
Ben Bishop, a college student originally from Seattle, Washington 2009 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 25 4-time champion: $114,800...
Allyson Lieberman, a 12-year-old from Whitmore Lake, Michigan "Since she was little, she has truly loved to act. Broadway,...
Dana Delany, an actress from Kidnapped "She won two Emmys for playing Army nurse Colleen McMurphy on...
Lori Kissell, a high school Latin teacher from Fredericksburg, Virginia "She loves everything about Latin and shares that love with her...
Kendra Pettis, a junior from Oberlin College \"She hadn\'t settled on a career goal at age 11. Now...
Ryan Elkins, a 12-year-old from Bensalem, Pennsylvania "He wants to study physics and unlock the mysteries of the...
Robb Muhm, a pediatrician from Scottsdale, Arizona Season 22 1-time champion: $24,400 + $2,000.
Joseph Henares, from Avon, Connecticut "Along with group science projects, history club, writing club, and chess...
Babu Srinivasan, a history professor at Prairie View A&M University from Houston, Texas "A five-time champion in 2001, he's now a history professor at...
Dave Willis, a business manager from Ventura, California "He was the first to win five shows in 1992. A...
Stephanie Radke, a senior from McLean, Virginia 2009 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. As an accommodation for a disability,...
Bev Schwartzberg, an adult literacy program coordinator from Santa Barbara, California "She finished second in the 1993 Tournament of Champions. Today, she's...
Brian Wangsgard, from Salt Lake City, Utah "He was the biggest winner in the 1988-1989 season, and a...
Tad Carithers, an attorney from New York City, New York "He finished second in the 2001 Tournament of Champions. Today he...
Jason Zollinger, an engine assembler from South Dayton, New York 2010 Tournament of Champions 1st runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $100,000. Season...
William Garrett, a 12-year-old from Greenfield, Indiana "Serving his country as an officer in the military is his...
Summer Sanders, a TV personality and former Olympic swimmer from Figure It Out "She swam her way to 4 medals in Barcelona and now...
Doug Hicton, a composer originally from Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada 2007 Tournament of Champions 1st runner-up: $100,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD...
Elise Burton, a freshman from the University of California-Berkeley 2007 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 18 at the time of the...
Michael Glick, a 12-year-old from Smithtown, New York "He's in math honors this year, even though math is one...
Sean Ryan, a graduate student from Whitehall, Pennsylvania 2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Nifty Nine (players with byes into...
Michela Rodriguez, from Poway, California "This future author created a board game and had to compete...
Brandon Blackwell, a sophomore from Holliswood, New York 2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2008-B Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist:...
Tom Walsh, a writer from Washington, D.C. 2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Nifty Nine (players with byes into...
Kathy Casavant, a high school English teacher from Oxford, Massachusetts "Originally she wanted to do anything but teach. Well, she's been...
Leslie Decker, a high school German and ESL teacher from Austin, Texas "She taught English to Europeans. Now she teaches German to Americans....
Steven Evenhouse, a junior high school social studies teacher from Orland Hills, Illinois "He likes teaching because it gives him a captive audience for...
Taylor Gailliot, from Woodbridge, Virginia "When asked what she wanted us to know about her, she...
Robin Kutner, from Newtown, Pennsylvania "This member of jazz band has a cat that is the...
Solomon Howard, a freshman from St. Petersburg, Florida 2009 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 14 at the time of...
Jack Archey, an actor and writer from Los Angeles, California "He was a CPA and comedian when he won his 5th...
Al Lin, a law professor from Davis, California "A law student when he won five times in 1993, he's...
Emily Jusino, a Ph.D. candidate in Greek literature originally from Fredericksburg, Virginia Season 27 1-time champion: $18,801 + $1,000. Last name pronouned like "hoo-SEE-no".
Grace Thomas, an 11-year-old sixth grader from Raleigh, North Carolina "This captain of the Brain-Bowl team can name all the countries...
Alex Stambaugh, a 12-year-old from Paris, Kentucky "He feels he can use his talents in math and science...
David Venderbush, a lawyer from New York, New York "His 5 wins in 1993 came just in time to pay...
Kevin Keach, a project administrator from St. Louis, Missouri "He considered himself a simple Missouri farm boy when he won...
Emily Riippa, a 12-year-old seventh grader from Grand Rapids, Michigan "She is a fast reader, and her mother says she was...
Dan Crosby, a middle school history teacher from Santa Monica, California "He teaches at a school named for a renowned scholar, doctor,...
Tom Kunzen, a geotechnical engineer from Orlando, Florida 2011 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 27 5-time champion: $133,402...
Alex Johnson, an 11-year-old from Indianapolis, Indiana "He wants to be a chemist in the future. From Indianapolis,...
Graham Gilmer, a senior at Stanford University from Stanford, California "He was the Teen Tournament champion in 2001. Now he's a...
Kyle Ziemnick, an eleven-year-old from Purcellville, Virginia "He likes logical arguments and debates, so would like to be...
Mark Eckard, an entrepreneur from Bedford, Massachusetts "A 2001 5-time champion as a software designer, he has now...
John Genova, a teacher from Granada Hills, California "From 1984, he was the earliest 5-time champion in the tournament....
Justin Klos, a legislative staffer from Camp Hill, Pennsylvania Season 25 player (2009-04-27). Last name pronounced like "CLOSE" (as in...
Eddie Kwiatkowski, a 10-year-old from Cumberland, Rhode Island "His interests in presidents and their history could lead to a...
Jen Maloney, an in-house security and web designer from Millersville, Maryland Season 24 player (2007-10-02). Husband's Jeopardy! Message Board user name: mefailenglish
Alex Nutman, a 12-year-old seventh grader from Chevy Chase, Maryland "This future investment banker won 'best in grade' in a state...
Mallory Banks, from Summerville, South Carolina "And this future physicist loves figuring out the underlying components of...
Lindsay Reese, a postdoctoral researcher originally from Escanaba, Michigan Season 28 player (2012-04-11).
Ruth Robbins, a stay-at-home mom from Jacksonville, North Carolina Season 28 player (2012-03-30).
Kitty O'Rourke, a nurse from Fort Walton Beach, Florida Season 25 player (2008-10-07).
Sarah Bauer, a junior at Indiana University from Carmel, Indiana 2012 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 21 at the time of the...
Courtney Jones, a 12-year-old from Largo, Maryland "She wants to dedicate her life to building things that benefit...
Will Harter, a 12-year-old from Park Ridge, Illinois "He would like to be a professional athlete. If that doesn't...
Aimee Seligstein, a recruiter originally from Memphis, Tennessee Season 30 player (2014-04-25). Last name pronounced like "SEE-lig-stine". Aimee joined...
Andy Kravis, a freshman from Farmington Hills, Michigan 2002 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $5,000. Andy was 13 at the...
Laura Brown, a psychologist from Seattle, Washington Season 22 1-time champion: $17,500 + $1,000.
Harvey Cormier, a professor originally from Houston, Texas Season 22 1-time champion: $17,300 + $2,000.
Dolly Moehrle, a law librarian from Ventura, California Season 31 player (2014-09-25). Last name pronounced like "MUR-lay".
Magdalen Powers, a writer/teacher/editor from Salem, Oregon Season 26 player (2009-11-17).
Brian Keele, an architectural project manager from Atlanta, Georgia Season 30 1-time champion: $12,700 + $1,000.
Paige Ormiston, a Navy JAG from Norfolk, Virginia Season 30 1-time champion: $32,200 + $2,000. Paige appeared on the show in uniform.
Kerry Breitenbach, a marketing analyst from South Euclid, Ohio 2006 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 21 5-time champion: $90,400...
Mike Scott, an eleven-year-old from Lake Villa, Illinois "He really likes doing challenging projects in school, but hates doing...
Jennifer Morgan, an attorney from San Juan Capistrano, California Season 20 player (2004-04-30). Not to be confused with Season 28...
Sally Ronald, a graduate student in Russian studies from Portland, Indiana Season 26 player (2010-05-31). Jeopardy! Message Board user name: yourt4
Lane Galloway, a software development director from Seattle, Washington Season 25 player (2009-02-17).
Peter Murray, a non-profit fundraiser from Seattle, Washington Season 25 player (2009-04-07).
Anthony Stinton, an Air Force officer originally from Sherwood, Oregon Season 25 player (2008-12-12).
Mariann Cook Andrews, an outreach specialist from Tumwater, Washington Season 26 1-time champion: $23,400 + $1,000. First name pronounced like the name "Mary Ann".
Diana North, a first grade teacher from Rock Hill, South Carolina "She recently celebrated her silver anniversary of teaching. From Rock Hill,...
Zachary Baumgartner, a 10-year-old from Deer Park, New York "He'll hit all the right notes in the future as a...
Amy Fuller, a medical missions coordinator from Oakland, Oregon Season 23 player (2007-07-13). Jeopardy! Message Board user name: gringuita_1
Dom Nguyen, a freelance writer from Redwood City, California Season 22 player (2006-02-21). Last name pronounced like "noo-WIN". Dom is...
Lauren Kutner, an 11-year-old from Newtown, Pennsylvania "The best part of middle school for this seventh grader is...
Mike Maheu, a high school teacher from San Diego, California Season 25 2-time champion: $46,242 + $1,000. Last name pronounced like...
Marty Scott, an assistant district attorney from Forney, Texas Season 26 3-time champion: $64,002 + $2,000. Marty won $250,000 on...
Inta Antler, a retired computer programmer from Scarborough, Ontario, Canada Season 25 1-time champion: $12,700 + $2,000. Inta Antler - A...
Kevin Wilson, a communications specialist from Toronto, Ontario, Canada Season 26 3-time champion: $76,998 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
Liz Murphy, a foreign service officer originally from Scranton, Pennsylvania 2010 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 25 5-time champion: $121,302...
Alyssa McRae, a gift card production designer from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Season 25 3-time champion: $50,402 + $2,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
Jordan Brand, an anesthesiologist from Westchester, New York Season 26 1-time champion: $24,405 + $2,000. The Sesame Street character...
Justin Bernbach, a lobbyist from Brooklyn, New York 2010 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 25 7-time champion: $155,001...
Andy Davis, a Chyron operator from South Boston, Massachusetts Season 25 2-time champion: $49,799 + $1,000. Andy Davis - A...
Dan Smith, a student from Chicago, Illinois Season 25 3-time champion: $69,200 + $1,000. Dan Smith - a...
Andy Srinivasan, a high school science teacher from Garner, North Carolina 2010 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $69,600...
Brian Muth, a headmaster from Napa, California Season 25 2-time champion: $43,800 + $1,000. Last name pronounced like...
Robert Knecht Schmidt, a patent agent from Cleveland, Ohio Season 26 1-time champion: $12,799 + $1,000. Middle name pronounced like...
Emily Heaney, a freelance costume designer from White Bear Lake, Minnesota Season 25 1-time champion: $2,200 + $1,000. Last name pronounced like...
Ingrid Nelson, a judicial assistant from Lake Mills, Wisconsin Season 25 2-time champion: $27,802 + $2,000. Ingrid Nelson - A...
Gail Flemmons, a history teacher from Clinton, Mississippi Season 25 2-time champion: $46,399 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
Dave Belote, the base commander from Nellis Air Force Base, Las Vegas 2010 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 26 5-time champion:...
Tom Toce, an actuary from New York, New York Season 26 2-time champion: $39,200 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
Carolyn Young, a homemaker from Marietta, Georgia Season 25 1-time champion: $30,000 + $2,000. Mother of Season 32...
Ben Bishop, a student originally from Seattle, Washington 2009 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 25 4-time champion: $114,800...
Kimberly Jantz, an attorney from Tulsa, Oklahoma Season 26 1-time champion: $22,200 + $2,000. Kimberly Jantz - an...
David Skaar, a research scientist from Raleigh, North Carolina Season 25 3-time champion: $102,000 + $2,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
Carl Brandt, an investor originally from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 2009 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 25 4-time champion: $70,799...
Judy Mermelstein, a Census field representative from Queens, New York Season 25 1-time champion: $38,401 + $1,000. Judy also appeared on...
Aaron Wicks, a planning and evaluation manager from Rochester, New York Season 26 1-time champion: $18,001 + 1,000. Aaron Wicks Rochester, NY...
Sanders Kleinfeld, a publishing technology specialist from Cambridge, Massachusetts Season 25 1-time champion: $26,597 + $2,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
Gary Bechtold, a garage door company owner from St. Cloud, Minnesota Season 26 3-time champion: $42,001 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
Diane Wilshere, an actor and playwright from Manassas, Virginia Season 25 1-time champion: $18,801 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
Dmitry Spivak, a junior from Northwestern University "The 11-year-old wasn't really kidding when he said he wanted to...
Alison Stone Roberg, an administrative assistant from Kansas City, Missouri Season 26 3-time champion: $85,102 + $2,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
Cliff Galiher, a sophomore from UCLA 2007 Tournament of Champions 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $50,000 +...
Jen McFann, a Peace Corps recruiter from Astoria, New York Season 26 1-time champion: $19,410 + $2,000. Jen McFann Astoria, New...
Jason Pratt, a middle school history teacher from Woodbridge, Virginia Season 25 2-time champion: $32,701 + $1,000. Jason Pratt - A...
Jim Davis, a college music and humanities instructor from Freeport, Illinois Season 25 2-time champion: $62,802 + $2,000. Not be to confused...
Anurag Kashyap, a senior from Poway, California 2008-B Teen Tournament winner: $75,000. Anurag was also the winner of...
Janet Bradlow, an insurance agent from New York, New York Season 26 3-time champion: $58,000 + $2,000. Janet Bradlow New York,...
Rebecca Dixon, a graduate student and musician from Vancouver, Washington Season 26 2-time champion: $53,002 + $1,000. Rebecca and her partner...
Tom Nissley, an online books editor from Seattle, Washington 2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2011 Tournament of Champions...
Jennifer Broders, a junior high school social studies teacher from Stockton, Iowa Season 26 2-time champion: $59,801 + $1,000. Jennifer Broders - a...
Matt Drury, a government analyst from New York, New York Season 26 1-time champion: $18,799 + $2,000. Matthew Drury - A...
Kara Spak, a newspaper reporter from Chicago, Illinois 2011 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 27 5-time champion:...
Stephen Weingarten, a paraeducator from Portland, Oregon 2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $96,690...
Vijay Balse, a chemical engineer from Chatham, New Jersey 2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2010 Tournament of Champions...
Jean Cui, a student originally from Garden City, New York Season 25 2-time champion: $14,200 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
Melanie Baker-Streevy, a United Methodist pastor from Parma, Michigan Season 25 1-time champion: $26,900 + $1,000. Melanie Baker-Streevy - A...
Matt Jacobs, a science teacher originally from Stratford, Connecticut Season 25 1-time champion: $10,323 + $1,000. Matt resided in Silver...
Laura Hughes, a mom from New Market, Maryland Season 26 1-time champion: $27,500 + $2,000. Wife of Season 16...
Amy Fletcher, a junior from Cincinnati, Ohio 2005 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500. 16 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
Adam Pinson, a senior at the University of Alabama at Birmingham from Pinson, Alabama 2005 College Championship 1st runner-up: $50,000. Won $100,000 on Who Wants...
Paul Wampler, a web programmer from Knoxville, Tennessee Season 27 4-time champion: $72,001 + $2,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user name: paul5562
Amy Wilson, a creative writing and women's studies student originally from Portland, Oregon Season 26 1-time champion: $19,999 + $2,000. Not to be confused...
Harris Cohen, a family physician from Lower Gwynedd, Pennsylvania Season 25 2-time champion: $17,800 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
Peter Severson, a senior from Sioux Falls, South Dakota 2005 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $5,000. 17 at the time of the...
Stacy Braverman, a public interest lawyer from Washington, D.C. Season 26 1-time champion: $14,984 + $2,000. As detailed in a...
Justin Waters, a resident physician from Royal Oak, Michigan Season 25 1-time champion: $7,199 + $2,000. Justin Waters Royal Oak,...
Doug Lach, a marketing manager from Columbus, Ohio "He was the biggest winner of the 1999-2000 season. A marketing...
Matt DeTura, a recent law school graduate from Washington, D.C. Season 27 3-time champion: $61,601 + $2,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user name: MDT
Dan Jensen, a restaurant manager from Reston, Virginia Season 27 3-time champion: $58,203 + $1,000.
Claudia Perry, a sports copy editor from Jersey City, New Jersey "A pop music critic when she first appeared on Jeopardy!, she's...
Joon Pahk, a college physics teacher from Somerville, Massachusetts 2011 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 28 7-time champion: $199,000 + $2,000. JBoard user name: jpahk
Mike Nelson, a mechanical engineer from Geneva, Illinois Season 27 2-time champion: $20,800 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
Andrew Kreitz, a senior from Huntington Beach, California 2006 Teen Tournament 1st runner-up: $25,000.
Monica Thieu, a sophomore at the University of North Texas from Dallas, Texas 2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2019 All-Star Games member of...
Allan Long, a freshman from Tallahassee, Florida 2005 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500. 14 at the time of the...
Ben Schenkel, a junior from Allentown, Pennsylvania 2007 Teen Tournament 1st runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $42,800. 17 at...
Marques Redd, a sophomore at Harvard University from Macon, Georgia 2001 College Championship semifinalist: $5,000. Marques was 18 at the time...
Anthony Fox, an account executive from Arlington Heights, Illinois Season 27 4-time champion: $51,998 + $1,000. Playing as "Tony", Anthony...
Lindsey Nicolai, a junior from Hampton, Virginia 2007 Teen Tournament Summer Games quarterfinalist: $5,000. 17 at the time...
Greg Peterson, a senior from Park Ridge, Illinois 2007 Teen Tournament Summer Games 1st runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $38,600....
Anne Shivers, a senior from Peotone, Illinois 2005 Teen Tournament 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $18,000. 17 at...
Lindsey Hargrove, a senior at the University of Texas from Bellaire, Texas 2004 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Mother's Jeopardy! Message Board user name: collegemom
Michael Braun, a junior from Silver Spring, Maryland 2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 2005 Teen...
Carl Bradshaw, a financial manager from St. Louis, Missouri Season 27 2-time champion: $17,899 + $2,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user name: Titmouse
David Walter, a senior from Wilmington, Delaware 2007 Teen Tournament winner (semifinalist by wildcard): $75,000. 17 at the...
Miguel Ferrer, an actor from Crossing Jordan "He began his career as a studio drummer and played on...
Brendan Barnwell, a grad student and tutor from Santa Barbara, California Season 28 player (2011-12-05). Although Brendan played the Jeopardy! and Double...
Thomas Zamora, a junior at the University of Southern California from Cypress, California 2001 College Championship 2nd runner-up: $14,100. Thomas was 20 at the...
Erin Bogart, a junior at Miami University of Ohio from Cincinnati, Ohio 2001 College Championship quarterfinalist: $2,500. Erin was 20 at the time...
John Krizel, a green community program coordinator from Beckley, West Virginia 2011 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $105,204...
Nick Swezey, a publisher from Washington, D.C. 2007 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD Home...
Josh Powell, a phone-based health coach from San Diego, California Season 27 3-time champion: $26,900 + $1,000.
Jill Bunzendahl Chimka, a speech and language pathologist from Washington, D.C. 2003 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 18 4-time champion: $85,099...
Lily Wang, a junior at Columbia University from Plano, Texas 2004 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000.
Laura Ansley, a senior from Twinsburg, Ohio 2006 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Vanamali Compton, a junior from Clarkdale, Arizona 2005 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500. 16 at the time of the...
Ruvani Fonseka, a junior from Grosse Pointe, Michigan 2005 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $5,000. 15 at the time of...
Orlando Zambrano, a junior from Tampa, Florida 2005 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $5,000. 16 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
Rose Schaefer, a junior from Portland, Oregon 2012 Teen Tournament 1st runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $36,000. 16 at...
Ben Greenho, a junior from Plano, Texas 2012 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000. 17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
Jesse Cuevas, a corporate lawyer originally from Leawood, Kansas Season 27 3-time champion: $65,981 + $2,000. Brother of Season 30...
Matt Klein, a senior from Pittsford, New York 2006 Teen Tournament 2nd runner-up: $15,000. Won $1,000 on Who Wants...
Dillon McCormick, a twelve-year-old from Erlanger, Kentucky "A politician, maybe. An archaeologist, perhaps. Or a psychologist like grandpa....
Yevgeny Shrago, a research assistant originally from Rochester, New York Season 26 1-time champion: $24,600 + $2,000. Name pronounced like "yev-GHEN-ee...
Mark Wales, a substitute teacher from Amherst, New York 2009 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 24 5-time champion: $141,804...
Steve Golden, a junior from Brookeville, Maryland 2005 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $5,000. 16 at the time of the...
Andrew Watkins, a junior from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 2006 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user name: everyday847
Rachel McCool, a sophomore at Dickinson College from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 2004 College Championship 2nd runner-up: $25,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user name: rachel_pi
Dave Simpson, a pastor from Belcamp, Maryland 2009 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 24 4-time champion:...
Sara Wilkinson, a country club concierge from Athens, Georgia Season 27 3-time champion: $72,701 + $2,000.
Stefan Goodreau, a video game tester from Los Angeles, California 2010 Tournament of Champions 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $50,000. Season...
Dan Pawson, a legislative aide from Boston, Massachusetts 2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2014 Battle of the Decades...
Brooke Martin, an eleven-year-old from Galway, New York "It looks like smooth sailing for this marine biologist. From Galway,...
Susan Haarman, a sophomore at Marquette University from Louisville, Kentucky 2001 College Championship quarterfinalist: $2,500. Susan was 19 at the time...
Michael Dupée, an attorney from Gainesville, Florida "He was the winner of the 1996 Tournament of Champions. Today...
Elyse Mancuso, a junior from Omaha, Nebraska 2012 Teen Tournament winner: $79,600. 16 at the time of the...
Folake Dosu, a senior from Stanford University from Bellwood, Illinois 2010-B College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
Brett Dvorak, a junior at Indiana University from Granger, Indiana 2001 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $5,000. Brett was 20 at the...
Bernard Holloway, a sophomore at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from Chapel Hill, North Carolina "He was a 2002 Teen Champion. He's now a sophomore at...
James Hill III, a freshman from Santa Clara University 2010-A College championship semifinalist: $10,000. Hometown: San Jose, California. [No contestant...
Christopher Meloni, an Emmy-nominated actor from Law & Order: Special Victims Unit "He's played challenging roles on both sides of the law, including...
Camille Bullock, a senior from New Orleans, Louisiana 2006 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user name: Camille88
Iddoshe Hirpa, a junior from Louisville, Kentucky 2006 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000.
Katie James, a sophomore from Winchester, Virginia 2006 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Morgan Flood, a junior from Pequea, Pennsylvania 2012 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
Rob Schrader, a junior from Lexington, Kentucky 2012 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. Younger brother of 2008-B Teen Tournament...
Kevin Yang, a junior from Birmingham, Alabama 2012 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000. 16 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
Stephen Fritz, a sophomore from Lexington, Kentucky 2007 Teen Tournament 2nd runner-up: $25,460. 15 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
Eliza Urban, a sophomore from Richmond, Virginia 2007 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 15 at the time of the...
Katie Gill, a sophomore from Jackson, Mississippi 2008-A Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000. 15 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
Tara Franey, a senior from Michigan State University 2008 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user name: tarafraney
George Nelson, a senior from Montgomery, Alabama 2002 Teen Tournament 1st runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $29,497. George was...
Tony Nagatani, a junior at Ithaca College from Honolulu, Hawaii 2001 College Championship quarterfinalist: $2,500. Tony was 20 at the time...
Aaron Thompson, a special assistant from Washington, D.C. 2006 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 21 3-time champion:...
Vito Cortese, a software engineer and Italian translator from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Season 27 3-time champion: $68,485 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
Jeff Gorham, an accountant from Richmond, Virginia Season 27 1-time champion: $14,001 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user name: SpacemanSpiff
Sara Terrell, a veterinary technician from Windsor, Connecticut 2007 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD Home...
Lisa Klink, a TV writer from Los Angeles, California 2009 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 24 5-time champion: $70,150...
Aiden Pink, a freshman from St. Louis Park, Minnesota 2007 Teen Tournament Summer Games semifinalist: $10,000. 15 at the time...
Meryl Federman, a senior from Livingston, New Jersey 2007 Teen Tournament Summer Games champion (semifinalist by wildcard): $75,000. 18...
Mark Eckard, a software designer from Bedford, Massachusetts 2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 winner: $35,600. 2001 Tournament...
Wes Kovarik, a senior from Antioch, California 2005 Teen Tournament 1st runner-up: $30,000. 17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
Ben Lyon, an industrial scaleman from Dallas, Texas "Representing the University of Oklahoma, he won the 1995 College Championship....
Paul Boymel, a civil rights attorney from Potomac, Maryland "He was the top winner of the 1984-85 season. Now he's...
Scott Turow, a bestselling novelist and practicing attorney from Chicago, Illinois "He's sold more than 25 million copies of his novels worldwide...
Kermin Fleming, a junior at Carnegie Mellon University from Lexington, Kentucky 2006 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions...
Tom Nissley, a writer from Seattle, Washington 2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2011 Tournament of Champions...
Jeffrey Gerlomes, a freshman from Napa, California 2007 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 14 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
Mitchell Vogel, from Madison, Wisconsin "This future governor of Wisconsin enjoys rollerblading, reading, and playing saxophone....
John Cuthbertson, an investment analyst from San Diego, California "He was the highest money winner of the 1993-94 season. An...
Surabhi Iyer, a ten-year-old from Franklin, Massachusetts "Her research scientist dad has inspired her to become a neuroscientist....
Erik Nelson, a grad student originally from Boston, Massachusetts 2009 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 25 4-time champion: $94,404 + $2,000.
Jim Stevens, a high school math teacher from Fairview Park, Ohio 2009 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 25 6-time champion: $140,600 + $2,000.
Kriti Gandhi, a senior from Ellicott City, Maryland 2007 Teen Tournament Summer Games semifinalist: $10,000. 18 at the time...
Allison Peña, a junior from Sunrise, Florida 2006 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
Lauren Romero, a senior from Denver, Colorado 2006 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. According to the official Jeopardy! web...
Caitlin Cook, a sophomore from Arden, North Carolina 2005 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $5,000. 16 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
Matt Bushell, a junior at Georgetown University from Fairfield, Connecticut 2004 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Heidi Greimann, a junior from Columbia, Missouri 2002 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $5,000. Heidi was 15 at the...
Steve Gratz, a freelance artist from Washington, D.C. Season 27 2-time champion: $30,999 + $1,000.
Neil Patel, a twelve-year-old from Plano, Texas "He wants to become an environmental scientist and help protect our...
Andrew Zazzera, a twelve-year-old from Virginia Beach, Virginia "He has a sunny future as a meteorologist. From Virginia Beach,...
Charles Temple, a high school English teacher from Ocracoke, North Carolina 2011 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2011 Teachers Tournament winner: $100,000. JBoard user name: lonesomeseagull
Heidi Fogle, a senior from Overland Park, Kansas 2007 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000. 17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
Todd Faulkenberry, a junior from Moore, South Carolina 2008-A Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 16 at the time of...
Maria Bennici, a junior from Walkersville, Maryland 2008-A Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 16 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
Jaime Green, a sophomore at Brown University from Nanuet, New York 2001 College Championship quarterfinalist: $2,500. Jaime was 18 at the time...
Chris Mazurek, an assistant professor from Columbia, Missouri 2007 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD Home...
Molly Gier, a twelve-year-old from Chesterfield, Missouri "She is preparing for a teaching career by tutoring her peers....
Robby Schrum, a junior at Yale University from Crown Point, Indiana 2003 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $5,000. According to the official Jeopardy!...
Sebastian Johnson, a senior from Takoma Park, Maryland 2006 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Listed as "Sebi" on the...
Loren Loiacono, a senior from Setauket, New York 2006 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Larry Marshall, a junior at the University of Missouri from Kansas City, Missouri 2004 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000.
David Hoffelmeyer, a senior from St. Joseph, Missouri 2006 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000.
Casey Retterer, a sophomore at the University of Maryland from Olney, Maryland 2004 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
Joseph Graumann, a junior from Mays Landing, New Jersey 2006 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
Whitney Prince, a sophomore from Maryville, Tennessee 2005 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500. 15 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
Zack Terrill, a senior at Vanderbilt University from Winter Springs, Florida 2012 College Championship 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $25,000. 21 at...
Kate Wadman, a junior from Tucson, Arizona 2011 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user name: jeopartygirl
Naomi Hinchen, a senior from Brooklyn, New York 2007 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000. 17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
Andrew Nerlinger, a senior at the University of Notre Dame from Wilmington, Delaware 2001 College Championship quarterfinalist: $2,500. Andrew was 21 at the time...
Mysti Kofford, a junior at Boston University from New Orleans, Louisiana 2001 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $5,000. Mysti was 19 at the...
Brittany Rogers, a sophomore at Saddleback College from Lake Forest, California 2001 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $5,000. Brittany was 18 at the...
Matt Schnippert, a sophomore at Florida State University from Jacksonville, Florida 2001 College Championship 1st runner-up: $19,801. Matt was 19 at the...
Silvio Menzano, a psychologist and university counseling center director from Washington, D.C. Season 27 1-time champion: $10,300 + $1,000.
John Ryan, a corporate controller from Richmond, California "As a college student, he was the top winner of the...
Will Dantzler, a senior from Mount Pleasant, South Carolina 2009 Teen Tournament first runner-up: $31,600.
Lizz Mullowney, a senior from Crystal Lake, Illinois 2003 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500. 17 at the time of the...
Amanda Sonmor, a virtual assistant originally from Denver, Colorado Season 27 2-time champion: $21,501 + $1,000.
Diane Trap, a librarian and graphics specialist from Athens, Georgia Season 25 1-time champion: $21,400 + $1,000. Diane Trap - a...
Aaron Schroeder, a grad student from San Diego, California 2009 Tournament of Champions second runner-up: $50,000. Season 24 5-time champion:...
Dianisbeth Acquie, from Brooklyn, New York "This ballet, jazz, and tap dancing Girl Scout would like to...
Pete Troyan, a senior from the University of Michigan 2007 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. 22 at the time of the...
Lisa Ackerman, a senior from Livermore, California 2007 Teen Tournament Summer Games wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 17 at the...
Kenny Schlax, a junior from Deerfield, Illinois 2006 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. Listed as "Kenneth" on the official web site.
Kelley Burd, a junior at West Virginia University from Bristol, West Virginia 2004 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000.
Nathaniel Barnes, a composer and bartender from Toronto, Ontario, Canada Season 25 3-time champion: $57,300 + $2,000. In his first game,...
Tony Harkin, an eleven-year-old from New Milford, Connecticut "Dig this--he wants to be an archaeologist when he grows up....
B.D. Schwarz, a twelve-year-old from Oakland, California "He wants to make others happy by opening a little game...
Aria Gerson, an eleven-year-old from Orem, Utah "Shine an apple for our future teacher. From Orem, Utah, class,...
Graham Doskoch, a twelve-year-old from Berkeley Heights, New Jersey "He wants to put his love of design and building to...
Erin Hart, a junior from Benton Harbor, Michigan 2011 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000. 16 at the time of the...
Eliza Scruton, a junior from Louisville, Kentucky 2012 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000. 16 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
Sam Leanza, a senior from Laguna Hills, California 2012 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 17 at the time of the...
Idrees Kahloon, a junior from Lexington, Kentucky 2011 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000. 15 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
Raphie Cantor, a sophomore from San Diego, California 2011 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 15 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
Tyler Van Patten, from Burlington, Wisconsin "He's focusing on becoming a corporate attorney, because of his fascination...
Janelle Lambert, a senior from Brooklyn, New York 2008-A Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
Amanda Hall, from Farmington, Maine "Whether it's writing a biography of Yo-Yo Ma or working on...
Leatrice Potter, from Olney, Illinois "This published poet likes to read at any free moment and...
Sara Dean, a junior at Syracuse University from Olney, Maryland 2001 College Championship semifinalist: $5,000. Sara was 19 at the time...
Anna Allie, a junior at the University of Michigan at Dearborn from Dearborn, Michigan 2005 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Brady Newell, from Derwood, Maryland "She loves diving and gymnastics, but is headed toward being either...
Chris Breen, a sophomore at Princeton University from Springfield, Massachusetts 2005 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. According to the official Jeopardy! web...
Dylan Smith, from the Bronx, New York "This honor roll student wants to invent a teleporting system. From...
Kathleen Mikulis, a stay-at-home mom from Mountain View, California Season 27 1-time champion: $25,201 + $2,000. Kathleen's contestant experience blog....
Bonny Jain, a senior from Moline, Illinois 2009 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Katie Orphan, a freshman at Whitworth College from Reno, Nevada 2002 College Championship semifinalist: $5,000.
Patrick Tucker, a graduate student of public policy from St. Louis, Missouri 2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2009 College Championship winner: $100,000...
Tom Toal, an orthopedic surgeon from Lake Oswego, Oregon Season 27 1-time champion: $12,200 + $1,000. Last name pronounced like...
Laura Button, an editor and proofreader from Alpharetta, Georgia Season 27 1-time champion: $28,800 + $1,000.
Travis Troyer, a software engineer from Hereford, Maryland 2003 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 19 5-time champion:...
Meredith Dedopoulos, a 12-year-old from Durham, New Hampshire "This spelling bee champion has also won many sports awards. From...
Michael Blake, a 12-year-old from Hamburg, New York "Our top story tonight is this young man, who wants to...
Eric Webb, a 12-year-old from Austin, Texas "He wants to be a cartoonist so he can make people...
Dan Amboy, a 12-year-old from Lapeer, Michigan "He hopes to get into the best college that he can....
Kristin Frankhouser, a 12-year-old from Baton Rouge, Louisiana "Her future plans include becoming a physical therapist, a wife, and...
Jake Houser, a 12-year-old seventh grader from Aptos, California "And this straight-A student would like to become a geneticist so...
Catherine Briley, a senior from Grand Prairie, Louisiana 2012 Teen Tournament 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $31,000. 17 at...
Dave Abbott, a musician and licensing executive from Fort Thomas, Kentucky "He won the 1999 Tournament of Champions. A musician and licensing...
Marissa Goldsmith, a web developer from Springfield, Virginia Season 27 3-time champion: $44,100 + $2,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user name: marteena
Mike Marmesh, a veterinarian from Miami, Florida Season 26 1-time champion: $4,700 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
Anshika Niraj, a sophomore from Beachwood, Ohio 2012 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 16 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
Amanda Walker, a junior at Gonzaga University from East Wenatchee, Washington 2005 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user name:...
Andrew Van Duyn, a junior from Wheaton, Illinois 2011 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 16 at the time of the...
Tavis Smiley, a talk show host from PBS's The Tavis Smiley Show "He's interviewed such diverse personalities as Fidel Castro, Pope John Paul...
Mollie Haycock, a senior from Rocklin, California 2008-A Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
Billy Baxter, an attorney from Richmond, Virginia "Representing the College of William & Mary, he won the 1992...
Babu Srinivasan, a history professor from Houston, Texas "His aggressive wagering helped him become the biggest winner from the...
Donna Vogel, a scientist from Bethesda, Maryland 2009 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 24 4-time champion:...
Matt Kohlstedt, a grad student originally from La Grange, Illinois 2009 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 25 5-time champion: $77,803 + $2,000.
Papa Chakravarthy, a sophomore from Lexington, Kentucky 2006 Teen Tournament champion: $75,000.
Chloé White, a senior from Mission Hills, Kansas 2005 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500. 17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
Gabriela Gonzales, a senior from Winston-Salem, North Carolina 2012 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
Cathy Lanctot, a law professor from Wilmington, Delaware 2007 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD Home...
Russ Schumacher, a graduate student and newlywed from Fort Collins, Colorado "He won the most recent Tournament of Champions. A graduate student...
Mark McDonnell, a triathlon coach and entrepreneur from Miami, Florida Season 27 1-time champion: $27,601 + $1,000.
Christine Valada, a photographer and attorney originally from Walton, New York 2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $68,703...
Fred Cofone, a copy editor from Old Greenwich, Connecticut Season 27 2-time champion: $24,400 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like "kuh-FONE".
Sally O'Rourke, a freelance copywriter originally from Baton Rouge, Louisiana Season 27 1-time champion: $33,601 + $1,000.
Christian Haines, a college student originally from Newport News, Virginia 2007 Tournament of champions semifinalist: $10,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD Home...
Dean Malec, a junior from Northwestern University 2007 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. 21 at the time of the...
Brad Selvig, a sophomore at Florida State from Jacksonville, Florida 2004 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Amanda Nowotny, a sophomore at the University of Pittsburgh from New Castle, Pennsylvania 2004 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Rahul Francis, a twelve-year-old from Flushing, New York "This electronic wizard's current plans are to run a technology company....
Christopher Weis, a sophomore from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 2008-B Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. Last name pronounced like "WISE". Jeopardy!...
Buddy Wright, an operations engineer from Fort Worth, Texas 2011 Tournament of Champions 2nd runner-up: $50,000. Season 26 4-time champion:...
Evan Sandman, a hotel front desk manager from Los Angeles, California Season 28 1-time champion $28,801 + $2,000.
Allex Fambles, a sophomore from Brown University "She knew at age eleven that she wanted to be a...
Cosi Audi, a junior from North Canton, Ohio 2011 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 16 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
Naren Tallapragada, a junior from Burke, Virginia 2008-A Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000. 16 at the time of the...
Rachel Horn, a sophomore from Cincinnati, Ohio 2008-A Teen Tournament winner: $75,000. 15 at the time of the...
Evan Stewart, a sophomore from Frankfort, Kentucky 2002 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $5,000. Evan was 15 at the time...
Seth Disner, a senior from Los Angeles, California 2002 Teen Tournament 2nd runner-up: $28,900. Seth was 17 at the...
Andrew Garen, a project manager from Austin, Texas 2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 2001 Tournament...
Jayce Newton, a senior at UCLA from Long Beach, California 2001 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $5,000. Jayce was 22 at the...
Nico Martinez, a junior at Stanford University from Bloomfield Hills, Michigan 2006 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2005 College Champion: $100,000 +...
Emily Zhang, from Indianapolis, Indiana "A National Science Merit Award recipient, she plans on becoming a...
Kyle Hale, a college senior from Katy, Texas "Representing Texas A&M, he won the 2002 College Championship. Now he's...
Gabe Orlet, a senior from Belleville, Illinois 2009 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
Kennedy Stomps, a junior from St. Louis, Missouri 2009 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Brad Rodriguez, an assistant general manager of a minor league baseball team from Jacksonville, Florida Season 27 player (2010-10-08). Jeopardy! Message Board user name: J!FAIL
Tim Koch, a 12-year-old sixth grader from Cliffwood, New Jersey "He would like to be a teacher because you get to...
Carl Brandt, an investor originally from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 2009 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 25 4-time champion: $70,799 + $2,000.
Dave Belote, a recently retired base commander from Woodbridge, Virginia 2010 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 26 5-time champion:...
Elyssa Browning, a junior from St. John's College 2009 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 21 and from Austin, Texas at...
Jonathan Gillerman, a senior from Staten Island, New York 2003 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500. 17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
Russell Berris, a junior from Baton Rouge, Louisiana 2003 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $5,000. 16 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
Tara Karr, a senior from Laclede, Idaho 2003 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $5,000. 17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
Susan Bellenot, a senior from Lakeview Terrace, California 2003 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500. 17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
John Zhang, a junior from Lexington, Kentucky 2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 2003 Teen...
John Matthews, a senior from Escondido, California 2003 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $5,000. 17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
Michelle Schrier, an 11-year-old from Potomac, Maryland "She plans on being a news reporter while waiting for her...
Kyle Neblett, a senior from Beaverton, Oregon 2007 Teen Tournament Summer Games 2nd runner-up: $36,400. 18 at the...
Emily Kamm, a 12-year-old from Arlington, Virginia "This member of Model United Nations has been on the principal's...
Dan Avila, a photographer from Los Angeles, California Season 7 1-time champion: $5,300 + a Sanyo remote control stereo...
Tiffany Wen, a 12-year-old from Exton, Pennsylvania "This figure skater is also on the distinguished honor roll. From...
Brian Aronson, a public defender from Sacramento, California Season 4 player (1988-06-28): Ricardo Beverly Hills Tower Drive luggage collection...
Chris Sullivan, a naval flight officer from Manama, Bahrain Season 11 player (1995-03-22). Not to be confused with Season 15...
Tom Smolich, a Catholic priest originally from Sacramento, California Season 5 player (1989-04-11). Season 6 3-time champion: $39,802. Last name...
Tom Smolich, a Catholic priest originally from Sacramento, California Season 5 player (1989-04-11). Season 6 3-time champion: $39,802. Last name...
Jay Schrader, a junior from Lexington, Kentucky 2008-B Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000. Older brother of 2012 Teen Tournament...
Ben Chuchla, a senior from Calabasas, California 2008-B Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Last name pronounced like "HOO-kla"....
Meg Walker, an eleven-year-old from Brandon, Mississippi "She wants to help people with disabilities have a better life...
Jay Rhee, an oncologist from Annapolis, Maryland 2011 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 27 5-time champion:...
Matthew Cline, a 12-year-old from Maumelle, Arkansas "John Grisham's books have inspired him. He's firm. He wants to...
Lindsey Thiesfeld, a sophomore from Clarendon Hills, Illinois 2011 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 16 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
Kailyn LaPorte, a sophomore from Decatur, Georgia 2011 Teen Tournament 1st runner-up: $42,600. 15 at the time of...
Grace Acton, from Harvard, Massachusetts "This competitive gymnast is hoping to score a perfect 10 for...
Nick Philip, a junior from Plainfield, Indiana 2008-A Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 16 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
Tucker Dunn, an ESL teacher from Tucson, Arizona Season 33 3-time champion: $39,999 + $1,000. In his first appearance,...
Graham Gilmer, a senior from Lynchburg, Virginia 2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 2001 Teen...
Allie Pape, a sophomore from Ponte Vedra, Florida 2002 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500. Allie was 14 at the time...
Antonia Wang, a sophomore at Purdue University from Carmel, Indiana 2005 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
Beth Cimini, a junior at Boston University from East Longmeadow, Massachusetts 2005 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user name: BrightStars1212
Andrea Salt, a twelve-year-old from Gilbert, Arizona "This animal lover plans on becoming a veterinarian. From Gilbert, Arizona,...
John Farley, an eleven-year-old from Marietta, Georgia "This young man has a plan--Notre Dame, professional lacrosse player and...
Emily Lever, a junior from Chevy Chase, Maryland 2009 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 16 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
Russ Porter, a water systems engineer from Seattle, Washington Season 27 1-time champion: $20,001 + $2,000.
Tom Jennings, a maintenance mechanic from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Season 27 1-time champion: $24,000 + $2,000.
Lyn Thomas, a library assistant from Redmond, Washington Season 27 1-time champion: $13,100 + $1,000.
Sarah Nothnagel, a sophomore from the University of Southern California 2007 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 19 at the time of the...
Kristiana Henderson, a junior from Kent, Washington 2007 Teen Tournament Summer Games quarterfinalist: $5,000. 17 at the time...
Christina Maes, a senior at the University of Wisconsin - Green Bay from Green Bay, Wisconsin 2004 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Drew Lachey, a singer and actor from Dancing with the Stars "He was working as an emergency medical technician when brother Nick...
Harry Smith, a broadcast journalist from The Early Show "This hard-working host of CBS's The Early Show has interviewed five...
Regina Merrill, from Lincoln, Nebraska "She's very good at writing stories and poetry, but her love...
Ike Barinholtz, an actor from Chicago, Illinois \"An actor from Chicago, Illinois, he appeared on Fox\'s Mad TV,...
Mark Runsvold, a student and waiter from Moscow, Idaho 2011 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 27 4-time champion: $153,800 + $1,000. JBoard user name: markrunsvold
Justin Sausville, a urologist from Baltimore, Maryland 2011 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 27/28 6-time champion:...
Simu Liu, an actor from Mississauga, Ontario, Canada "An actor from Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, he starred in the Canadian...
Carlee Jensen, a senior from Santa Monica, California 2011 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Nikhil Desai, a junior from Fremont, California 2011 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000. 16 at the time of the...
Steven Ho, a junior from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 2011 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 17 at the time of the...
Allison Dziuba, a junior from Ridgefield, Connecticut 2007 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 17 at the time of the...
Gabby Fusco, an 11-year-old from Maspeth, New York "She's loved everything about science she was a little kid, so...
Cerulean Ozarow, an 11-year-old from Brooklyn, New York "His future is full of options. He wants to become either...
Blake Hernandez, a senior from Burke, Virginia 2002 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500. Blake was 16 at the time...
Bernard Holloway, a junior from Mitchellville, Maryland 2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 2002 Teen...
Laura Mogul, an executive director from Port Washington, New York Season 32 player (2016-03-31). Laura appeared on the original Jeopardy! with...
Ryan Ballengee, a senior from Pasadena, Maryland 2001 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $5,000. 17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
Josh Danson, a marketing communications consultant from San Francisco, California Season 22 player (2005-11-30).
Bill MacDonald, an attorney from Bonita Springs, Florida 2006 Tournament of Champions 2nd runner-up: $50,000. Season 22 4-time champion:...
Colin Brown, a senior at the University of Rochester from Milwaukie, Oregon 2005 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Jamie Ball, an attorney from North Hills, California Season 21 player (2005-07-07).
Lindsay Oxx, a senior from Longmeadow, Massachusetts 2009 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
Katie Fitzgerald, a wealth management project analyst originally from New Rochelle, New York Season 21 2-time champion: $30,201 + $2,000.
David McIntyre, a twelve-year-old from Riverside, California "When this Boy Scout was young, he thought that running from...
Crystal Durham, a 12-year-old from Fort Pierce, Florida "She would like to be an Irish stepdancing teacher, because dancing...
Naomi Senbet, an 11-year-old from Washington, D.C. "This sixth grader doesn't like to be late for anything; maybe...
Terry Linwood, a bookseller from North Texas 2010 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 26 5-time champion: $122,705...
Roger Mueller-Kim, a high school social studies teacher from Dublin, California Season 27 1-time champion: $17,401 + $1,000. Last name pronounced like "MULL-er KIM".
Kendra Chapman, a sophomore from Louisville, Kentucky 2003 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500. 15 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
Craig Westphal, a paramedic from Tucson, Arizona 2007 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD Home...
Jackson Ruzzo, a 12-year-old from Waccabuc, New York "He wants to be a Broadway actor, because he likes to...
Adam Bibler, an economist originally from Lancaster, Ohio Season 27 1-time champion: $12,000 + $2,000.
Ariel Schneider, a biology student from West Lafayette, Indiana Season 27 2-time champion: $46,300 + $2,000.
Tom Zamojcin, a digital marketing manager from Phoenixville, Pennsylvania Season 27 1-time champion: $22,800 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like "zam-MOH-chin".
Judy Shewmake, a retired middle school history teacher from Murfreesboro, Tennessee Season 27 1-time champion: $20,801 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like "SHOO-make".
Jacob Hambalek, a 12-year-old from Fresno, California "If he had to choose a career right now, he'd be...
Ari Schoenholtz, a senior at Williams College from Bethesda, Maryland 2004 College Championship 1st runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $50,000. Jeopardy! Message...
Erik Larsen, a librarian and a licensed amateur boxing official from Jacksonville, Florida "A 5-time champion from 1990, he's a librarian and a licensed...
Kate Dzurilla, a 12-year-old from Syosset, New York "It's a slam dunk for this basketball lover and future WNBA...
Bob Shore, an attorney from Los Angeles, California Season 21 2-time champion: $47,602 + $2,000. Proponent of Shore's Conjecture....
Katie Heim, an executive assistant from Huntington Beach, California Season 21 player (2005-01-24).
Jen Aprahamian, a computer science teacher from Los Angeles, California Season 30 player (2014-01-17). Jen appeared on The Chase on 2021-02-11...
Rachel Samberg, an academic tutor and performer from New York, New York Season 30 player (2014-01-02).
Tom Vanderbilt, a writer from Brooklyn, New York Season 28 player (2011-12-30).
Ramesh Mantha, an electrical engineer from Toronto, Ontario Season 27 player (2011-05-17).
Michael Jaeger, a freelance director from Los Angeles, California Season 20 player (2004-07-22). KJL game 37. Last name pronounced like "YAY-ger".
Lisa Lyons, a social media consultant from Van Nuys, California Season 28 player (2012-04-06).
Beth Watkins, a graduate student of medieval studies from Savannah, Georgia Season 28 1-time champion: $37,200 + $1,000.
Ann Thurlow, an aspiring novelist and retired salesperson from Mendham, New Jersey Season 28 1-time champion: $26,805 + $1,000.
Joanna Mang, a nanny from San Diego, California Season 29 1-time champion: $24,600 + $2,000. JBoard user name: waterytart
Bradley Silverman, a junior from Alpharetta, Georgia 2008-B Teen Tournament 1st runner-up: $44,600. Jeopardy! Message Board user name:...
Robert Chodola, a graduate student of education from Fallbrook, California Season 29 player (2013-01-29).
Sheri Boysen, a stay-at-home mom from Houston, Texas Season 29 player (2012-09-26). JBoard user name: Case
Jim Virtel, a graduate student of philosophy from Lemont, Illinois Season 28 player (2012-05-25). Brother of Season 31 player Louis Virtel....
Michele Myers Beuerlein, a research assistant from Cincinnati, Ohio Season 29 player (2013-01-04). Last name pronounced approximately like "BUR-line".
Quinn McDonald, an inventory control manager from Lowville, New York Season 27 1-time champion: $20,600 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user name: Mighty Q
Bryan Givens, a history lecturer originally from Dallas, Texas Season 20 player (2004-06-24). KJL game 17. At the time of...
Christian Ie, a senior from Renton, Washington 2011 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. Last name pronounced like "EE".
Jean Whitcomb, a teller supervisor from Kalamazoo, Michigan Season 24 1-time champion: $21,201 + $1,000.
Ursula Ellis, a librarian from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Season 23 player (2007-02-22).
Brandon Brooks, an HR manager from Chicago, Illinois Season 34 2-time champion: $27,401 + $1,000. During his first contestant...
Frank Firke, a junior from Chicago, Illinois 2007 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 16 at the time of...
Toby Guebert, a community college instructor from Claremont, California Season 20 player (2004-06-01). Last name pronounced like "GEE-bert".
Kew Lee, a psychiatrist from San Francisco, California Season 24 player (2008-06-19).
Vinita Kailasanath, a sophomore at Stanford University from Laurel, Maryland 2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2005 Ultimate Tournament of...
Tom Hartmann, a junior from San Antonio, Texas 2001 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500. 17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
Lan Djang, a business analyst from Toronto, Canada 2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Elite Eighteen (Round 2 winners) member:...
Ruth Comer, an executive director from Chariton, Iowa Season 23 player (2006-11-30).
Beth Chalecki, a Ph.D. student from Medford, Massachusetts Season 22 player (2005-11-23).
Bill MacDonald, an attorney from Bonita Springs, Florida 2006 Tournament of Champions 2nd runner-up: $50,000. Season 22 4-time champion:...
Doug Dorst, a writer and professor from Austin, Texas 2006 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 22 3-time champion: $66,802...
Wendy Stancer, a database administrator from Walnut Creek, California Season 22 player (2005-11-24).
Tom Kavanaugh, a kickball team captain from St. Louis, Missouri 2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2006 Tournament of Champions...
Glenda Niemiec, a payroll specialist from St. Paul, Minnesota Season 22 player (2005-12-02). Jeopardy! Message Board user name: Gramma Glenda
Peter Ellis, a senior at North Carolina State University from Cary, North Carolina 2005 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000.
Hope Landsem, from Tualatin, Oregon "She likes to win arguments, and that's why she's going to...
Matt Tick, from Escondido, California "Will take violin lessons and loves science, but he really wants...
Jack Weisman, a twelve-year-old from Beachwood, Ohio "He's considering becoming a lawyer, just like Mom and Dad. From...
Sofi Albizuri, a writer and mom from Miami, Florida Season 30 player (2014-02-24).
Hema Karunakaram, a senior from Saline, Michigan 2009 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000. Name pronounced like "HAY-ma kah-ROO-nuh-KAH-ram". Jeopardy!...
Tom Walker, a lawyer from Boston, Massachusetts Season 21 1-time champion: $23,201 + $2,000. Father's Jeopardy! Message Board user name: ProudFather
David Sampugnaro, a writer and internet specialist from North White Plains, New York "A 5-time winner from 1996, he's now a writer and internet...
Alli Hammond, a college instructor from Cincinnati, Ohio Season 21 player (2005-01-06).
Josh Kolchins, a homeland security consultant from Bethesda, Maryland Season 21 player (2004-12-02).
Jerry Mayer, a political science professor from Arlington, Virginia Season 21 player (2004-12-14).
Kelly Scurry, an 11-year-old seventh grader from Lauderhill, Florida "It's very convenient that Washington, D.C. is his favorite city, because...
Keith Williams, a college student from Manchester, Vermont 2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 2004 Tournament...
Bruce England, a biochemist from Hayward, California Season 21 player (2004-09-13). KJL game 44. Bruce's Jeopardy! photo album....
Michelle Chang, an 11-year-old from Suwanee, Georgia "This sixth grader picks the most unusual places to lose her...
Allison Lesh, an attorney from Eugene, Oregon Season 25 player (2009-05-27).
Wil Curiel, an 11-year-old from Costa Mesa, California "His favorite subject is science, so it's not surprising that this...
Alex Silady, an 11-year-old from Edison, New Jersey "He hopes to be an entrepreneur, because he likes doing things...
Cyn Mayo, a high school librarian from Columbus, Ohio Season 25 player (2009-06-24). First name pronounced like "SIN". Jeopardy! Message...
Dan Rowley, an aerospace engineer from Westchester, California Season 20 player (2004-04-20). Jeopardy! Message Board user name: westchester guy
Eureka Nutt, a paralegal from Canoga Park, California Season 27 2-time champion: $38,701 + $1,000.
Joel Knight, a freshman from Farmington, Michigan 2003 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500. 14 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
Scott Harris, a videographer and elementary school librarian from Las Vegas, Nevada Season 27 1-time champion: $19,201 + $2,000. Scott won $30,000 on...
Lance Higgins, a data quality consultant from Medway, Massachusetts Season 20 player (2004-04-12).
Lynn Stanton, a reporter and editor from Silver Spring, Maryland Season 20 player (2004-04-12).
Ron Grant, a consulting company president from Greenville, South Carolina Season 23 1-time champion: $19,001 + $1,000.
Kirk Jordan, a third grade teacher from Long Beach, California Season 24 1-time champion: $10,000 + $1,000.
Arlynda Boyer, a grant writer from Staunton, Virginia Season 23 player (2007-03-29).
Jackie Harrison, a surgeon from Chicago, Illinois 2003 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 19 4-time champion: $66,602 + $2,000.
Mark Dawson, a business manager from Chamblee, Georgia 2014 Battle of the Decades quarterfinalist: $10,000. 2005 Ultimate Tournament of...
Bobbie Hartman, a publications coordinator originally from Glasgow, Virginia Season 23 player (2007-03-15).
Michael Bandiera, an attorney from Burbank, California Season 23 player (2007-03-15).
Sean Carson, a teacher from Greenville, Florida Season 23 player (2006-09-18).
Juli Hinds, a city planner from South Burlington, Vermont Season 23 player (2007-04-27).
Rachel Campbell, a graduate student from Bison, Kansas Season 23 player (2007-03-09).
Amy Varallo, a senior from Aiken, South Carolina 2007 Teen Tournament Summer Games quarterfinalist: $5,000. 17 at the time...
Bonnie Clair, an attorney from St. Louis, Missouri Season 22 2-time champion: $27,551 + $1,000.
Cynthia Patterson, a database specialist and artist originally from New Orleans, Louisiana Season 24 player (2007-12-05).
Caleb Whitaker, an executive recruiter from Asheville, North Carolina Season 22 player (2005-09-27).
Debra Mack, a student from Chicago, Illinois Season 22 player (2006-07-25).
Lisa Voss, a library assistant from Lincoln, Nebraska Season 21 1-time champion: $14,000 + $2,000.
Sandi Lin, an economic consultant from Cambridge, Massachusetts Season 23 player (2007-07-06).
Lorna Johnson, a 12-year-old seventh grader from Willowbrook, Illinois "She loves all animals, especially her dogs Duke and Rudy, but...
Rena Miller, a university instructor from Victoria, British Columbia, Canada Season 22 player (2006-04-03)
Neha Gokhale, a 10-year-old from Houston, Texas "Because she liked 4th and 5th grade so much, she wants...
Maya Kobersy, an attorney originally from Sterling Heights, Michigan Season 21 player (2005-07-22).
William Marengo, an 11-year-old from the Bronx, New York "He will be the next Bronx Bomber, maybe--if it's up to...
Mark Murray, a screenwriter from Studio City, California Season 21 player (2005-07-15).
Oscar Avila, a writer from Chicago, Illinois Season 21 player (2005-07-20).
Jim Stalley, a crime data specialist from Denver, Colorado 2004 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 19 4-time champion: $84,100 + $2,000.
Willy Jay, an attorney originally from Churchville, Maryland Season 22 player (2005-09-12).



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