Jeopardy! Round, Double Jeopardy! Round, or Tiebreaker Round clues (219 results returned)

#8976, aired 2023-11-20PEOPLE IN THEIR ELEMENT $800: There is just the value of this clue, no prize, for knowing this man for whom element 102 was named Nobel
#18, aired 2023-10-25THE NOBEL PRIZE $600: The youngest-ever Nobel Prize winner is also a best-selling author, for her 2013 memoir titled "I Am" this Malala
#18, aired 2023-10-25THE NOBEL PRIZE $2,000 (Daily Double): The Peace Prize is the only Nobel Prize awarded not in Stockholm, but in this fjord-tastic neighboring capital Oslo
#14, aired 2023-09-27OH, THE IRONY! $1500: Even though his first name ends with "war", this president of Egypt won a Nobel Peace Prize in 1978 Anwar Sadat
#20, aired 2023-05-24"P" IS FOR POETRY $800: Established in 1881, this alliterative literary award is named for Russia's preeminent poet the Pushkin Prize
#8870, aired 2023-05-12GAME SHOW HOSTS $200: Dick Clark hosted "The $10,000 Pyramid"; on the version with Michael Strahan in charge, the prize money is this amount $100,000
#8837, aired 2023-03-283 MEN $1000: The 2022 Nobel econ prize went to 3 men who had researched financial crises; this winner had faced one IRL as Fed chair in 2007 & '08 Ben Bernanke
#8752, aired 2022-11-29NOBEL LITERATURE PRIZE WINNERS $1600: This Dublin-born playwright got the nod in 1925 for works marked by idealism, humanity & stimulating satire George Bernard Shaw
#8748, aired 2022-11-23TRANSLATORS $800: In 2021 Jennifer Croft, translator of Nobel Prize winner Olga Tokarczuk, said translators' names belong here & she was insisting on it the cover of the book
#8746, aired 2022-11-21"P.J."s $1600: In 1979 this architect famous for his "Glass House" in Connecticut was the first recipient of the Pritzker Prize Philip Johnson
#8742, aired 2022-11-15A LITTLE PEACE OF HISTORY $400: Not a game show prize, the San Francisco Treaty of 1951 says in Article 1 the state of war between this country & the Allies is over Japan
#8, aired 2022-11-13GOING THROUGH SOME CYCLES $500: In 1953 sir Hans Krebs got this big prize for describing the cycle by which living cells obtain energy the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
#8731, aired 2022-10-31CONDUCTING THE HISTORIC JOB INTERVIEW $600: A Nobel Peace Prize, quite nice... ohhh, your country broke up on you in 1991 & your job ended; walk me through that Gorbachev
#8721, aired 2022-10-17HERE'S YOUR SCIENCE PRIZE $800: Frederick Sanger is the only 2-time winner of the Nobel Prize in this, for work on proteins in 1958 & nucleic acids in 1980 the Chemistry Prize
#8721, aired 2022-10-17HERE'S YOUR SCIENCE PRIZE $1200: The Gonin Medal is awarded every 4 years for outstanding work in this medical specialty of the eye ophthalmology
#8713, aired 2022-10-05SHORT STORIES & NOVELLAS $800: Horrors! "The Man in the Black Suit" threatens to eat a child in a prize-winning short story by this author, of course Stephen King
#8683, aired 2022-07-13PLAYS & PLAYWRITING $1200: The profanity-laced Pulitzer Prize-winning play "Glengarry Glen Ross" takes place in this industry real estate sales
#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
#8472, aired 2021-09-21AWARDS & PRIZES $1200: This literary award that no longer has "Man" in its name is considered Britain's equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize Booker (the Booker Prize)
#8434, aired 2021-07-01BOSTON: NEWS CLUES $1000: (Hi, I'm Steve Burton.) John McCain is among the public officials who've been honored at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library with an award for leadership, named for this Pulitzer Prize-winning book by JFK Profiles in Courage
#8433, aired 2021-06-30AWARDS & HONORS $400: Unlike the other 5 categories, the Nobel Peace Prize is awarded in this city Oslo
#8433, aired 2021-06-30ARIA GRANDE $800: Walther's dream is the source of "The Prize Song" in this composer's "Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg" Wagner
#8432, aired 2021-06-29HERE'S YOUR CONSTELLATION PRIZE $600: Congrats, Sagitta! As one of these projectiles used by Hercules or Cupid, your place in the heavens is secured an arrow
#8432, aired 2021-06-29HERE'S YOUR CONSTELLATION PRIZE $1000: Our favorite Greek god of medicine, take your place in the sky as Ophiuchus, the serpent bearer Aesculapius
#8366, aired 2021-03-29THE NOBEL PRIZE IN PHYSICS $800: Is that Dennis Gabor accepting the 1971 prize? Or one of these 3-dimensional images he invented? a hologram
#8339, aired 2021-02-18PULITZER PRIZE WINNERS $400: The New Yorker's Barry Blitt won the 2020 prize in the category called this type of cartooning that expresses a point of view Editorial
#8328, aired 2021-02-03SCIENTISTS $600: Pierre-Gilles de Gennes won a Nobel Prize for explaining the behavior of these "L.C."s whose "D" is used in video screens liquid crystals
#8312, aired 2021-01-12HEAVY MEDALS $800: Artur Avila solved problems in chaos theory & won the Fields Medal, described as the Nobel Prize of this area of expertise math
#8192, aired 2020-03-31MOVIE TITLE FEMALES $800: (Glenn Close presents the clue.) I received an Oscar nomination for the film "The Wife", where I have a very awkward trip with my husband to the Nobel Prize ceremony in this city Stockholm
#8156, aired 2020-02-10PRIZE $400: For 300 years the French government gave young artists the prize of a stay in this city; one winner's work is seen here Rome
#8156, aired 2020-02-10PRIZE $800: The Abel Prize in this field is named for Niels Abel, famed for his work on the quintic function math
#8136, aired 2020-01-13THE TELEVISION WILL BE REVOLUTIONIZED $1000: At the 1999 Las Vegas Consumer Electronics Show, ReplayTV won a best in show prize for unveiling this technology DVR
#8132, aired 2020-01-07CLASSIC MOVIES & TV $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew is at Profiles in History in Calabasas, CA.) Collectors prize unique props from classic films, such as this table lamp from Rick's Café Americain, used in this 1942 drama Casablanca
#2, aired 2020-01-07GEO-VERSE $800: "A" is this desert, dry & horrific; it was the prize in the War of the Pacific the Atacama
#8123, aired 2019-12-25A POWER CALLER $800: At 97, John Goodenough is the oldest Nobel Prize winner, for work on these batteries with a hyphenated name in laptops & phones lithium-ion
#8091, aired 2019-11-11MATH GUYS $2,000 (Daily Double): The subject of a 2001 film, this mathematician won a 1994 Nobel Prize in Economics John Nash
#8056, aired 2019-09-23BOATS & SHIPS $2,000 (Daily Double): In 1851 this schooner won the Hundred Guinea Cup, the prize for a yacht race around the Isle of Wight America
#8047, aired 2019-09-10FASHION FROM HEAD TO TOE $400: Keep your eye on the prize... one of these aids is held in place by your forehead & cheek muscles a monocle
#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
#7963, aired 2019-04-03MAY THE SCHWARTZ BE WITH YOU $1200: Melvin Schwartz shared a Nobel Prize in Physics for his work with this 8-letter chargeless subatomic particle neutrino
#7948, aired 2019-03-13THE PULITZER PRIZE $400: The L.A. Times took a 2004 prize for an in-depth look at the methods used by this retailer to become the largest in the world Walmart
#7872, aired 2018-11-27TROPHY HUNTER $800: The Pritzker Prize medal, given for excellence in this field, is based on the designs of Louis Sullivan architecture
#7869, aired 2018-11-22THE NOBEL MUSEUM $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents from the Nobel Museum in Stockholm, Sweden.) 2-time Nobel Prize winner Marie Curie gained world fame after she discovered polonium & this element in 1898; she continued to investigate its properties using a scale like the one preserved here radium
#7797, aired 2018-07-03NOBEL PRIZE KNOWLEDGE $400: 2 generations of Nobel winners in one family is rare; the Curies did it, as did these Danish physicists, Niels & Aage Bohr
#7797, aired 2018-07-03NOBEL PRIZE KNOWLEDGE $800: The youngest winner ever in this youngest Nobel category was 51-year-old Kenneth Arrow Economics
#7775, aired 2018-06-01THE THIRD MAN $200: "As a tribute to his... versatile poetry" in 1903, Bjornstjerne Bjornson became man No. 3 to win this prize the Nobel Prize for Literature
#7741, aired 2018-04-16LETTER MEN $2000: This author of Indian descent released "Half a Life" in 2001, the year he won the Nobel Prize for Literature V.S. Naipaul
#7723, aired 2018-03-21FULL SENTENCE LITERARY TITLES $2000: "Never Let Me Go" is by this Japanese-born British writer, the winner of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature Kazuo Ishiguro
#7684, aired 2018-01-25CRAYOLA COLORS $400: In 1996 the 100 billionth Crayola was molded in this color, the top prize at many a state fair blue ribbon
#7523, aired 2017-05-03WOMEN AUTHORS $2,000 (Daily Double): In the 1950s, this well-traveled Danish author was a contender for a Nobel Prize Isak Dinesen
#7488, aired 2017-03-15THE 1940s $2000: In 1949 this U.N. diplomat & future Nobel Peace Prize winner was awarded the NAACP's Spingarn Medal Ralph Bunche
#7484, aired 2017-03-09LITERARY AWARDS $1600: Awarded by Yale, the Bollingen Prize is given for achievement in this literary form poetry
#7392, aired 2016-11-01PULITZER PRIZE WINNERS $1600: The only U.S. president to win a Pulitzer is JFK, for this series of biographies Profiles in Courage
#7388, aired 2016-10-26NUMERIC TERMS $2000: Well, that's the this amount of money "Question", the top prize on a quiz show when it debuted in 1955 $64,000
#7372, aired 2016-10-04BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS BY SETTING $2,000 (Daily Double): A Nobel Prize ceremony in Stockholm A Beautiful Mind
#7369, aired 2016-09-29HONORS & AWARDS $400: The award in these sciences is technically not a Nobel Prize but the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Memory of Alfred Nobel economics
#7358, aired 2016-09-14AWARDS FOR WRITING $400: Won in 2015 by Svetlana Alexievich, it's handed out annually by the Swedish Academy the Nobel Prize in Literature
#7343, aired 2016-07-13AMERICAN NOVELISTS $1600: This Nobel Prize winner's novel "Jazz" is her meditation on life in Harlem in the 1920s Toni Morrison
#7294, aired 2016-05-05EYES ON THE PRIZE $600: Writers who explore the human condition can win a Humanitas Prize; Larry Kramer did for this drama about AIDS The Normal Heart
#7209, aired 2016-01-07FLOWERY PROSE $4,000 (Daily Double): In an Alexandre Dumas novel, the town of Haarlem offers a prize to anyone who can grow a black one of these tulip
#7205, aired 2016-01-01LITERARY AWARDS $2000: First awarded in 1969, it's Britain's equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction the Man Booker Prize
#7085, aired 2015-06-05PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING BIOGRAPHIES $1,500 (Daily Double): Forrest Wilson's 1942 winner "Crusader in Crinoline" tells the story of this 19th c. abolitionist & author Harriet Beecher Stowe
#7040, aired 2015-04-03IT'S THE LITTLE THINGS $1000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Sanford Underground Research Facility in South Dakota.) The Davis Campus deep in South Dakota's old Homestake Mine is named for Ray Davis, who won a Nobel Prize using the mine as a place to detect these subatomic particles with no electric charge neutrinos
#6857, aired 2014-06-10POETIC WOMEN $2000: Born Lucila Godoy Alcayaga in Vicuna, Chile, she was the first Latin American woman to win a Nobel Prize in literature Gabriela Mistral
#6812, aired 2014-04-08THE CULLINAN DIAMOND MINE $400: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows us blue diamonds from a showroom at the Cullinan Mine in South Africa.) The Cullinan Mine is one of the main sources for prize blue diamonds. They result from the presence of boron, which absorbs light of this color. red
#6795, aired 2014-03-14CONTEMPORARIES $600: Amundsen reached the South Pole in December 1911, a few days after she received her second Nobel Prize Marie Curie
#6787, aired 2014-03-041990s FICTION $800: In 1999 this novelist found the time to pick up a Pulitzer Prize for "The Hours" Michael Cunningham
#6766, aired 2014-02-03WORLD LITERATURE $1600: In 1956 he published "La Chute", or "The Fall"; the next year he won the Nobel Prize for Literature (Albert) Camus
#6720, aired 2013-11-29HAILED FROM WALES $800: An annual prize named for him is awarded each year to the best published writer in English under the age of 30 Dylan Thomas
#6700, aired 2013-11-01THE NEW YORK TIMES PULITZER WINNERS $1000: (Andrea Elliott delivers the clue.) Chronicling the life of an immigrant in Brooklyn who is one of these Muslim leaders of a mosque earned me a 2007 Pulitzer Prize an imam
#6604, aired 2013-05-09THE ABEL PRIZE $400: The Abel Prize, the "Nobel Prize of Mathematics", is presented annually in this city by the king of Norway Oslo
#6542, aired 2013-02-12HOW NOBEL OF THEM $1,000 (Daily Double): He got his job at age 4; 49 years later, in 1989, he won a Nobel Peace Prize the Dalai Lama
#6538, aired 2013-02-06SLICES OF ORANGE $1600: Created because of perceived sexism in the Booker Prize, the Orange Prize is awarded to women in this endeavor literature (writing)
#6493, aired 2012-12-05TO THE LIBRARY! $1200: His Nobel Peace Prize is on display at his presidential library in Atlanta Jimmy Carter
#6382, aired 2012-05-22GIVE ME A PRIZE! $400: The most prestigious award for pitching in baseball is the one named for this man who hurled a record 511 wins Cy Young
#6296, aired 2012-01-23REAL PEOPLE IN NOVELS $2000: Hilary Mantel won the Man Booker Prize for "Wolf Hall", told from the perspective of this advisor to Henry VIII Thomas Cromwell
#6275, aired 2011-12-23THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION $1600: Junot Diaz won in 2008 for "The Brief Wondrous Life of" him Oscar Wao
#6260, aired 2011-12-02MIDDLE INITIAL C. $800: A 5-star general & Defense Secretary, in 1953 he became the first career military man to receive the Nobel Peace Prize Gen. George C. Marshall
#6244, aired 2011-11-10THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE $800: A burned man is the title figure of this novel by Michael Ondaatje that's set in 1945 The English Patient
#6162, aired 2011-05-31THEODORE ROOSEVELT $1600: In 1906 TR became the first American to win a Nobel Prize: he helped to end this Asian war the Russo-Japanese War
#6155, aired 2011-05-20CARS OF THE FUTURE PRESENT $1600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the Argonne National Laboratory in Chicago, IL.) The dynamometer is a key part of testing to find a real-world car that gets 100 mpge--miles per gallon energy equivalent--the goal of this automotive prize the X Prize
#6153, aired 2011-05-18Y'ALL FROM GEORGIA? $1,500 (Daily Double): This Georgia native won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
#6097, aired 2011-03-01AFRICAN AMERICANS $800: The first African American to win a Pulitzer Prize, Gwendolyn Brooks won in this category in 1950 Poetry
#6065, aired 2011-01-14IT'S AN HONOR $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from Jerusalem in Israel.) President of Israel is a mainly ceremonial post chosen by the Knesset; a 2007 vote chose Shimon Peres, who won this international prize in 1994 the Nobel Peace Prize
#6058, aired 2011-01-05"I"s IN THE PRIZE $800: The only Nobel Prize that has 2 names is this "or medicine" physiology
#6058, aired 2011-01-05"I"s IN THE PRIZE $2,400 (Daily Double): Created in 1949, the peace prize bearing this man's name was renamed the Lenin Prize in 1956 Joseph Stalin
#6056, aired 2011-01-03JOB $1,500 (Daily Double): This 1989 Nobel Peace Prize winner is 75 years old & has spent 70 years in his current job the Dalai Lama
#6039, aired 2010-12-09OPRAH'S FAVORITE BOOKS $800: (Oprah gives the clue from a chair) One of my favorite novels of all time is this Pulitzer Prize-winner set in Alabama & narrated by Scout Finch To Kill a Mockingbird
#6011, aired 2010-11-01MIKHAIL GORBACHEV $800: In his 1991 lecture on winning this, Mikhail spoke of "a fundamentally new phase in our international cooperation" the Nobel Peace Prize
#5969, aired 2010-07-22THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR POETRY $800: In 1923 this "Saint" of a woman won for work that included "Eight Sonnets in American Poetry" Edna St. Vincent Millay
#5933, aired 2010-06-02I JUST WANNA LOOK AT THE PICTURES $1000: This human rights organization, whose logo is seen here, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1977 Amnesty International
#5883, aired 2010-03-24CERVANTES $400: The Cervantes Prize is awarded annually to an author who works in this dialect, the basis of modern Spanish Castillian
#5853, aired 2010-02-10OBAMAMANIA $800: After winning this in 2009, he said, "This is not how I expected to wake up this morning" the Nobel Peace Prize
#5800, aired 2009-11-27CYCLE BABBLE $800: The most coveted prize in the Tour de France is the maillot jaune, a jersey of this color yellow
#5641, aired 2009-03-02SHORT STORIES $800: The "prize" in this 1948 short story is death by stoning "The Lottery"
#5630, aired 2009-02-13WOMEN OF THE WORLD $200: This Nobel Peace Prize winner was born in what is now Skopje, Macedonia in 1910 Mother Teresa
#5621, aired 2009-02-02GAME SHOWS IN TV & MOVIES $200: In a '62 episode of this toon, Barney won on "The Prize Is Priced" (Be sure to have your dinosaur spayed or neutered) The Flintstones
#5499, aired 2008-07-03A DAY AT THE DOG SHOW $600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from an AKC dog show with a prize-winning dog.) At many dog shows, the top honor is called this, also the name of a 2000 film spoofing canine competetion best in show
#5494, aired 2008-06-26WOMEN WRITERS $2,000 (Daily Double): A graduate of Howard University, she won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1993 Toni Morrison
#5457, aired 2008-05-06& THE AWARD GOES TO... $400: A peace prize has the Gujarati word for "peace" inscribed on it & is named for this man who died in 1948 Gandhi
#5457, aired 2008-05-06& THE AWARD GOES TO... $1000: The Fermat Prize in this field is awarded for contributions to "statements of variational principles" mathematics
#5446, aired 2008-04-21THEATRE $1600: In 1990 this playwright won his second Pulitzer Prize, for "The Piano Lesson" August Wilson
#5405, aired 2008-02-22THE 20th CENTURY $800: On April 6th, 1909, this American Arctic explorer wrote in his diary, "The pole at last. The prize of three centuries." Peary
#5400, aired 2008-02-15AWARDS $1,000 (Daily Double): In 2007 Doris Lessing became only the 11th woman to win this--Pearl Buck won in 1938 the Nobel Prize in Literature
#5260, aired 2007-06-22PULITZER PRIZE PLAYS $400: This play that won the 1956 prize is set in the upper part of a building in Amsterdam The Diary Of Anne Frank
#5004, aired 2006-05-18PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING BIOS $3,200 (Daily Double): Glory, Hallelujah! She was the subject of the first Pulitzer Prize-winning biography in 1917 Julia Ward Howe
#4986, aired 2006-04-24AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE $2,000 (Daily Double): This 1983 Pulitzer Prize winner is written in the form of letters, mostly from Celie to her sister & to God The Color Purple
#4971, aired 2006-04-03PRIME MINISTERS OF ISRAEL $600: This Nobel Prize winner was Prime Minister of Israel of twice: once in the '80s & once in the '90s Shimon Peres
#4963, aired 2006-03-22A LITERARY TOUR $2000: Marbacka, the estate of Nobel Prize-winner Selma Lagerlof, is a tourist attraction in this country Sweden
#4962, aired 2006-03-21EGGHEADS $1000: Seen here, Robert J. Aumann shared the 2005 Nobel Prize in this for his work based on game theory Economics
#4930, aired 2006-02-03EYES ON THE PRIZE $800: The $100,000 Potamkin Prize is for research in this aging disease that afflicted Mrs. Potamkin Alzheimer's disease
#4926, aired 2006-01-30"PH" DELIGHTS $1000: Appropriately, Paul Nurse shared the 2001 Nobel Prize in this category Physiology
#4890, aired 2005-12-09CELEBRATING THE NOBEL PRIZE $800: In the years from 1913 to 1936, Nobel Prize banqueters often feasted on a soup named for this reptile a turtle (turtle soup accepted)
#4888, aired 2005-12-07CHANCE $600: In this 12-state lottery selling "Mega Jackpots, Mega Fun", your chance at the top prize is 1 in 175,711,536 Mega Millions
#4834, aired 2005-09-22THE PENTAGON $2000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew introduces us to a bust in the Pentagon.) This alcove is dedicated to this man, the first & only career soldier to win a Nobel Peace Prize (George) Marshall
#4809, aired 2005-06-30IS THERE A DOCTOR IN THE HOUSE? $1200: This nonprofit international relief organization's humanitarian work won it the 1999 Nobel Peace Prize Doctors Without Borders
#4790, aired 2005-06-03PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING BIOS $2,500 (Daily Double): Emory Holloway's sampler of this poet's life won for 1927 Walt Whitman
#4787, aired 2005-05-31TO NEIL $2000: In 1989, this "bright" Neil Sheehan work about the Vietnam War won the Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction A Bright Shining Lie
#4778, aired 2005-05-18PULITZER-PRIZE WINNING WOMEN $400: A reading room at the Lorain Public Library in Ohio is named for this "Beloved" prize-winner from 1988 (Toni) Morrison
#4778, aired 2005-05-18PULITZER-PRIZE WINNING WOMEN $1200: Her Cross Creek farmhouse where she penned "The Yearling" is part of a state historic site in Florida Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
#4700, aired 2005-01-28FAMOUS AMERICANS $1600: At the 1855 World's Fair in Paris, one of his sewing machines won first prize Singer
#4668, aired 2004-12-15PEOPLE IN THEIR ELEMENT $2000: There is just the value of this clue, no prize, for knowing this man for whom element 102 was named (Alfred) Nobel
#4656, aired 2004-11-291804 $600: Napoleon, who once remarked, "It is with baubles that men are led", presided over the first presentation of this in 1804 Legion of Honor
#4617, aired 2004-10-05THEATRICAL ANGELS $1600: The angel of the water statue in Central Park seen here is featured in this play that won the 1993 Pulitzer Prize Angels in America
#4554, aired 2004-05-27LESSER-KNOWN NAMES $1,000 (Daily Double): In 1969 university professors Ragnar Frisch & Jan Tinbergen shared the first Nobel Prize for this Economics
#4503, aired 2004-03-17-OLOGIES $1000: One of the fields in which a Nobel Prize is given is medicine or this physiology
#4493, aired 2004-03-032003 NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS $1000: For their work leading to the MRI, American Paul Lauterbur & Briton Sir Peter Mansfield scanned this Nobel Medicine
#4485, aired 2004-02-20AFRICAN-AMERICAN FIRSTS $200: In December 1993 Toni Morrison became the first African-American woman awarded this international literature prize the Nobel Prize
#4470, aired 2004-01-30FAMOUS NIGERIANS $1600: In 1986 Wole Soyinka made headlines as the first black recipient of this the Nobel Prize for Literature
#4448, aired 2003-12-31MEDICINE $1200: The 1905 Nobel Prize for Medicine was awarded to Robert Koch for his discoveries in relation to this lung disease tuberculosis
#4446, aired 2003-12-29WOMEN AUTHORS $400: Nobel Prize winner Wislawa Szymborska is one of the most famous modern poets in this language Polish
#4413, aired 2003-11-12LIBRARIES $400: The public library in Salinas, Calif. is named for this Nobel Prize-winning author born in Salinas in 1902 Steinbeck
#4408, aired 2003-11-05AWARD-WINNING AUTHORS $400: 1 of the 2 Irishmen to win a Nobel Prize for Literature in the 1920s (1 of) William Butler Yeats or George Bernard Shaw
#4408, aired 2003-11-05AWARD-WINNING AUTHORS $1600: The list of Booker Prize winners includes Thomas Keneally for this in 1982 Schindler's List
#4408, aired 2003-11-05AWARD-WINNING AUTHORS $2000: Since 1949, 1 of the 3 Roberts to win the Bollingen Prize in Poetry from Yale Robert Frost (Robert Penn Warren or Robert Creeley)
#4382, aired 2003-09-30EDITH WHARTON PIECES $600 (Daily Double): Wharton won a Pulitzer Prize for this novel about Newland Archer, who falls in love with his wife's cousin The Age of Innocence
#4376, aired 2003-09-22PEACE OUT $2000: David Trimble & John Hume won the Nobel Peace Prize for their work in the northern part of this island Ireland
#4317, aired 2003-05-13PULITZER PRIZE NOVELS IN OTHER WORDS $1200: 1968: "Some Guilt Admissions from an Antislavery Rebellion Leader" The Confessions of Nat Turner
#4266, aired 2003-03-03WE THINK $2,000 (Daily Double): This British philosopher became an earl in 1931 & won the Nobel Prize for Literature 19 years later Bertrand Russell
#4207, aired 2002-12-10NON-NOBEL-WINNING AUTHORS $1600: This author of espionage novels like "Our Man in Havana" was a popular candidate for the prize Graham Greene
#4191, aired 2002-11-18OHIO STATE ALUMNI $800: For his theory of element generation in nuclear reactions, William Fowler '33 won the Nobel Prize for this physics
#4190, aired 2002-11-15LITERATURE IN SPANISH $2000: In 1990 he became the first Mexican poet to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, not the eighth for Peace Octavio Paz
#4132, aired 2002-07-16FROM A TO E $1200: In the name of a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Allen Drury it precedes "and Consent" Advise
#4113, aired 2002-06-19WORLD CAPITALS $400: The Nobel Peace Prize is the only one of the Nobel Prizes that's awarded in this capital Oslo
#4074, aired 2002-04-25IT'S A GIRL! $1,200 (Daily Double): This 1960 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel is set in a small Alabama town & narrated by a young girl To Kill a Mockingbird
#4068, aired 2002-04-17FRANKS & BEENS $1,200 (Daily Double): This Limerick-born, Pulitzer Prize-winning author has been called "a haunted man" Frank McCourt
#4066, aired 2002-04-15CHEMISTRY $1200: (Hi, I am George Olah, Nobel Prize winner in chemistry.) The names of compounds that have only 2 elements end in this 3-letter suffix -ide
#4053, aired 2002-03-27THE 60s $800: In 1940 it was the top prize in the radio question-&-answer show "Take It or Leave It" $64
#3956, aired 2001-11-12CHEMISTRY 101 $800: (Hi, I'm Doctor Alan Heger, Nobel Prize-winner in Chemistry.) These large molecules are formed by the chemical linking of smaller molecules; nylon is a synthetic one a polymer
#3950, aired 2001-11-02NOBEL LAUREATES SPEAK $400: (Hi, I'm Rudy Marcus, Nobel Prize winner in chemistry.) Ferrous sulfide is produced when these 2 elements are heated together iron & sulphur
#3898, aired 2001-07-11HOLD THE MAYO CLINIC $600: In 1950 Mayo doctors Edward Kendall & Philip Hench won the Nobel Prize for their work with this steroid cortisone
#3844, aired 2001-04-26FAMOUS BUILDINGS $400: The Nobel Prize Dinner is held each December in the Blue Hall of this city's Stadshuset, seen here Stockholm
#3761, aired 2001-01-01LITERATURE $1,000 (Daily Double): He was no "Stranger" to the Nobel Prize for Literature, winning in 1957 Albert Camus
#3714, aired 2000-10-26MOUNTAIN $400: In 1760 Horace Benedict de Saussure of Geneva offered a prize to the first to scale this Alpine peak Mont Blanc
#3651, aired 2000-06-19POETRY $400: His epic Civil War poem "John Brown's Body" won the Pulitzer Prize in 1929 Stephen Vincent Benet
#3551, aired 2000-01-31NOBEL PRIZE MEDALS $600: A sick girl's thirst is about to be quenched in the image on this medal Medicine
#3526, aired 1999-12-27ROOFS $1,000 (Daily Double): Roofing material in the title of Tennessee Williams' second Pulitzer Prize-winning play tin (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof)
#3503, aired 1999-11-2420th CENTURY NOVELS $800: "The Magician of Lublin", by this Yiddish language Nobel Prize winner, is set in his native Poland Isaac Bashevis Singer
#3372, aired 1999-04-13NOVEL VOCABULARY $400: In "Animal Farm" Major is a prize boar whose "tushes had never been cut" (tushes being these) tusks
#3358, aired 1999-03-24THEY REST IN NEBRASKA $800: Long-time Nebraska senator George Norris, who helped create this project, the TVA, is buried in McCook the Tennessee Valley Authority
#3280, aired 1998-12-04AROUND THE LITERARY WORLD $200: The literary prize named for this creator of "Don Quixote" is awarded to authors who write in Spanish Cervantes
#3254, aired 1998-10-29A PRAIRIE PRIMER $400: Seen here alone, this animal is often found in coteries & colonies a prairie dog
#3204, aired 1998-07-02A GOOD LAUGH $600: Disrespectful laughter, or a popular candy bar Snickers
#3169, aired 1998-05-14REALLY BIG $400: Spain's "El Gordo" is the richest prize offered by one of these in the world; in 1997 it reached $261 million Lottery
#3068, aired 1997-12-24LITERARY AWARDS $1000: This Russian literary prize was established in 1881 & named for the author of "Eugene Onegin" Aleksandr Pushkin
#3023, aired 1997-10-22THE NOBEL PRIZE $1000: The Royal Caroline Institute in Stockholm awards the Nobel Prize in this category Medicine
#3015, aired 1997-10-10BOOKS ABOUT TV SHOWS $900 (Daily Double): Colin Dexter & Dick Francis contributed to a book about this PBS anthology series Mystery!
#2812, aired 1996-11-19FICTIONAL CHARACTERS $800: The Empress of Blandings is a prize-winning pig who appears in stories by this creator of Jeeves P.G. Wodehouse
#2769, aired 1996-09-19POP CULTURE $400: In 1976 this American became the first woman tennis player to reach $1 million in career prize money Chris Evert
#2764, aired 1996-09-12BIOGRAPHIES $1,000 (Daily Double): 2-time Nobel Prize winner who's the subject of a biography subtitled "A Life in Science & Politics" Linus Pauling
#2734, aired 1996-06-20PEOPLE IN HISTORY $200: Bertha von Suttner helped inspire this man to create a peace prize & became the first woman to win it Alfred Nobel
#2697, aired 1996-04-30SCIENCE HISTORY $500: This Russian who won the 1975 Nobel Peace Prize is known for his work in thermonuclear physics Andrei Sakharov
#2687, aired 1996-04-16LITERATURE $1000: The "prize" in this Shirley Jackson short story is death by stoning The Lottery
#2422, aired 1995-02-28AROUND THE WORLD $200: The Caroline Institute, which awards the Nobel Prize for Medicine, is in this Swedish capital Stockholm
#2343, aired 1994-11-09IS THERE A DOCTOR IN THE HOUSE? $500: This doctor & humanitarian's work in Africa kept him from picking up his 1952 Nobel Peace Prize Albert Schweitzer
#2186, aired 1994-02-21PULITZER PRIZE PLAYWRIGHTS $800: A famous line in one of his award-winning works is "I have always depended on the kindness of strangers" Tennessee Williams
#2128, aired 1993-12-01BLACK AMERICA $800: In 1983 she became the first black woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for fiction Alice Walker
#2105, aired 1993-10-29SCIENTISTS $300 (Daily Double): Though Charles Best helped Banting isolate this hormone, he wasn't awarded the Nobel Prize insulin
#2026, aired 1993-05-31AWARDS $1000: For his part in organizing the U.N., this Secretary of State under FDR won the 1945 Nobel Peace Prize (Cordell) Hull
#1962, aired 1993-03-02BLACK AMERICA $800: This Nobel Peace Prize winner died in 1971, just 2 months after retiring from the U.N. Ralph Bunche
#1952, aired 1993-02-16SPORTS $400: With earnings exceeding $18 million, this Czech player is the career prize money leader in men's tennis Ivan Lendl
#1914, aired 1992-12-24QUOTES $1000: This Pulitzer Prize winner said, "I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes" in his 1918 poem "Prairie" Carl Sandburg
#1908, aired 1992-12-16PRESIDENTS $800: "Profiles in Courage" won JFK the 1957 Pulitzer Prize in this category Biography
#1896, aired 1992-11-30AWARDS $1,500 (Daily Double): In 1923, while a senator of the Irish Free State, he won a Nobel Prize for his poetry William Butler Yeats
#1893, aired 1992-11-25LITERATURE $1,000 (Daily Double): This author's third novel about Harry Angstrom won him a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1982 (John) Updike
#1852, aired 1992-09-29PULITZER PRIZE PLAYS $800: Inspired by a painting, this Sondheim musical won the 1985 Pulitzer Sunday in the Park with George
#1847, aired 1992-09-22ALEX HALEY $400: For an important contribution to the literature of slavery, Haley was awarded a special one of these prizes in 1977 the Pulitzer Prize
#1791, aired 1992-05-18PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $400: Dr. Heidi Holland is the title character in this Pulitzer Prize winner by Wendy Wasserstein The Heidi Chronicles
#1737, aired 1992-03-03AWARDS $1000: Presented by the AAU, it's considered the most prestigious prize in amateur athletics the Sullivan Award
#1703, aired 1992-01-15THE NEWSPAPER $500: In 1972 this Chicago columnist won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary Mike Royko
#1657, aired 1991-11-12NEW ZEALAND $800: In 1985 a Swedish anti-war organization nominated this prime minister for the Nobel Peace Prize David Lange
#1646, aired 1991-10-28AWARDS $100: In 1960 Leona Schnuelle's dilly casserole bread won the $25,000 top prize in this competition the Pillsbury Bake-Off
#1629, aired 1991-10-03PHOTOGRAPHY $1,000 (Daily Double): For photography this award is given in spot news & feature categories the Pulitzer Prize
#1562, aired 1991-05-21FAMOUS RUSSIANS $800: His crusade for nuclear disarmament & Soviet democracy earned him the 1975 Nobel Peace Prize Andrei Sakharov
#1537, aired 1991-04-16SCANDINAVIA $300: The Nobel Peace Prize is not awarded in Stockholm, but in this capital city Oslo
#1534, aired 1991-04-11QUOTES $1,000 (Daily Double): In 1964, he said, "Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political & moral questions of our time" Martin Luther King
#1532, aired 1991-04-09AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: “Men in White”, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1934, is a Sidney Kingsley play about this profession medicine
#1432, aired 1990-11-20AWARDS $800: Performers in this field compete for the Erik Bruhn Prize, named for a late Dane ballet
#1424, aired 1990-11-08LANGUAGES $400: R. Tagore, who won the Nobel Prize in literature, wrote in this language of Bangladesh Bengali
#1326, aired 1990-05-14ECONOMICS $500: First American to win the Nobel Prize in Economics, he's the author of a widely used college textbook Paul Samuelson
#1299, aired 1990-04-05THEATER $100: "Why Mary?" by Jesse Lynch Williams was the first play to win this, in 1918 a Pulitzer Prize
#1252, aired 1990-01-30WORLD LEADERS $200: In 1960 Zulu chief Albert Lutuli became the 1st African to win this Nobel Prize the Nobel Peace Prize
#1181, aired 1989-10-23LITERARY SETTINGS $800: Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Thornton Wilder set in Peru in the early 18th century The Bridge of San Luis Rey
#1179, aired 1989-10-19NOBEL PRIZES $500: The newest Nobel Prize, 1st awarded in 1969, is the prize given for this economics
#1067, aired 1989-04-04AWARDS $200: Although 5 Nobel Prizes are awarded in Sweden, the Peace Prize ceremonies take place in this country Norway
#1050, aired 1989-03-10FAMOUS NAMES $600: In 1967 he became the 1st pro golfer to win a career total of $1 million in prize money Arnold Palmer
#952, aired 1988-10-25AVIATION FIRSTS $600: Paul MacCready won the Kremer Prize in 1977 for creating the 1st successful aircraft powered by this human power (man)
#791, aired 1988-02-01PHYSICS $200: The 1st to win this was W. Roentgen, in 1901, for the discovery of Roentgen or X rays the Nobel Prize
#791, aired 1988-02-01PULITZER PRIZE PLAYS $1000: This 1962 winner featured the songs "A Secretary is Not a Toy", "The Company Way" & "Coffee Break" "How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying"
#773, aired 1988-01-06MATHEMATICS $1000: Whenever the product of two fractions equals 1, we call them these reciprocals (or inverses)
#559, aired 1987-01-29WORLD LEADERS $1000: Once a worker in a shaving brush factory, this diplomat shared the 1973 Nobel Peace Prize Henry Kissinger
#526, aired 1986-12-15AUTHORS $200: Though his novels were nearly out of print by 1945, Wm. Faulkner won this in 1949 the Nobel Prize
#455, aired 1986-06-06ZOOS $300: Prize exhibit of the zoo in Barcelona, Spain is "Snowflake", only captive gorilla of this type an albino gorilla
#448, aired 1986-05-28LITERATURE $500: This Irish poet founded the Irish National Theater & in 1923, won the Nobel Prize for Literature William Butler Yeats
#447, aired 1986-05-27PEACE $200: In Dec. 1985, 2 drs. helped save a reporter's life at an Oslo news briefing about their winning this award Nobel Peace Prize
#134, aired 1985-03-14AUTHORS $800: In 1919, he won a Pulitzer Prize for "The Magnificent Ambersons" Booth Tarkington
#94, aired 1985-01-17LITERATURE $600: In 1930 Sinclair Lewis became the 1st American author to win it the Nobel Prize for Literature
#92, aired 1985-01-15FAMOUS QUOTES $1,000 (Daily Double): WWII 12th Army gen. who said, "In war there is no 2nd prize for the runner up" Omar Bradley
#37, aired 1984-10-30FOUR SEASONS $1000: Alan Alda's film "The Four Seasons" used this composer's "Four Seasons" Vivaldi

Final Jeopardy! Round clues (21 results returned)

#8969, aired 2023-11-09AMERICAN AUTHORS: In 1950 the Swedish Academy said this Nobel Prize winner "is a regional writer" but called "his regionalism universal" William Faulkner
#8957, aired 2023-10-24AWARDS & HONORS: As of 2023 the only 2 to win a Nobel Prize in Literature & an Academy Award were George Bernard Shaw & this singer-songwriter Bob Dylan
#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
#9, aired 2022-02-15PHYSICISTS: A 1927 principle by this Nobel Prize winner says that some knowledge is inaccessible Werner Heisenberg
#7653, aired 2017-12-13WORLD LITERATURE: In a 1967 novel this Nobel Prize winner wrote, "The secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude" Gabriel García Márquez
#7435, aired 2016-12-30OSCAR-WINNING TITLE SUBJECTS: The only Nobel Prize winner to be the title subject of a Best Picture Oscar winner is this man John Nash
#7423, aired 2016-12-14AMERICAN AUTHORS: Nominated 8 previous times, he finally won a Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962, 6 years before his death John Steinbeck
#6826, aired 2014-04-28NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING AUTHORS: Due to injuries suffered in 2 plane crashes in Africa, he was unable to accept his 1954 Nobel Prize in person Ernest Hemingway
#6789, aired 2014-03-06PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHORS: He's the most recent winner of 2 Pulitzer Prizes for Fiction, winning in 1982 & 1991 for books in the same series John Updike
#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
#5779, aired 2009-10-29THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR DRAMA: 1 of the 2 1-word plays, winners in 2001 & 2005, which both became movies; if you have one, you want the other (1 of) Proof & Doubt
#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)
#4903, aired 2005-12-28PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING PLAYS: This play says "Then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at--Elysian Fields!" A Streetcar Named Desire
#4840, aired 2005-09-30THE NOBEL PRIZES: For the first time in its history, the Nobel Prize for Literature was not awarded in this year 1914
#4829, aired 2005-09-15EUROPEAN RULERS: This man who became a ruler in April 2005 is the great-nephew of the 1926 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama Prince Albert II of Monaco
#4759, aired 2005-04-2120th CENTURY ASIA: In 1942 Aung San, commander of this country's Independence Army, married nurse Khin Kyi Burma
#4133, aired 2002-07-17CANADIAN SPORTS: Valued at $60,000, the Brier Tankard is the ultimate prize in this professional sport curling
#4084, aired 2002-05-09PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING BOOKS: One of its title studies is Sen. Edmund Ross' 1868 vote against convicting President Andrew Johnson Profiles in Courage
#3834, aired 2001-04-12THEATRE: The 1996 musical "Play On!" gets its title from the first line of this Shakespeare play, on which it is based Twelfth Night
#2636, aired 1996-02-0520th CENTURY COMPOSERS: This Italian-born American won his 2nd Pulitzer Prize in 1955, for an opera set in NYC's Little Italy (Gian Carlo) Menotti
#2107, aired 1993-11-02PULITZER PRIZE WINNERS: Since 1952 he's hosted a weekday talk & interview show on Chicago's fine arts radio station WFMT Studs Terkel

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