| #9085, aired 2024-04-19 | ORDINAL PHRASES $200: It's how the law regards possession, idiomatically nine-tenths of the law |
| #9085, aired 2024-04-19 | BOWLING $1000: In 1895 the son-in-law of this "Br"and's founder organized the first American Bowling Congress Brunswick |
| #9085, aired 2024-04-19 | POETS OF LOVE $4,500 (Daily Double): Percy Shelley wrote, "Nothing in the world is single; / All things by a law divine / In one spirit meet &" this, like at a mixer mingle |
| #9078, aired 2024-04-10 | THE 6 MOTHERS-IN-LAW OF HENRY VIII $1,600 (Daily Double): Not the Cromwells but this family lived in Wolf Hall; when Henry visited in 1535, Margery no doubt pointed out lovely daughter Jane the Seymours |
| #9078, aired 2024-04-10 | THE 6 MOTHERS-IN-LAW OF HENRY VIII $1600: The mother of Anne of Cleves was Maria of Jülich, a duchy of this thousand-year empire of West & Central Europe the Holy Roman Empire |
| #9078, aired 2024-04-10 | THE 6 MOTHERS-IN-LAW OF HENRY VIII $2000: Inspired by the ideas of this doomed lord chancellor, Katherine Parr's mom Maud educated her daughter like her son Sir Thomas More |
| #9073, aired 2024-04-03 | BEFORE THEY WERE CONGRESSWOMEN $2000: Pre-politics, Alabama Rep. Terri Sewell & this current New York senator were colleagues at the same law firm Gillibrand |
| #9071, aired 2024-04-01 | LONG WORDS $1200: 13 letters:
An adjective meaning outside of the power of a court of law extrajudicial |
| #9064, aired 2024-03-21 | IDIOMS & EXPRESSIONS $1600: In Rabelais' "Gargantua", a drinker demands that an empty cup be filled because of this scientific principle nature abhors a vacuum |
| #9062, aired 2024-03-19 | ORGANIZATIONS $800: The headquarters for this global law enforcement group are found at 200 Charles de Gaulle Road in Lyon, France INTERPOL |
| #9060, aired 2024-03-15 | WHAT THE "H"? $800: Arabic gives us this word referring to food from an animal slaughtered in accordance with Islamic law halal |
| #9059, aired 2024-03-14 | ANCIENT HISTORY $800: Crimes punishable by death in this 282-law collection included robbery, false accusation & priestesses drinking with commoners the Code of Hammurabi |
| #9054, aired 2024-03-07 | BEFORE & AFTER $200: A venue for volleys & lobs where violators of military law are prosecuted a tennis court-martial |
| #9051, aired 2024-03-04 | FRENCH HISTORY $800: The Vichy regime put these in public schools; the 2004 law banning head-scarves on students also banned large these on chains crosses |
| #9045, aired 2024-02-23 | JUDGES $1600: In 2016, the law school of George Mason University was renamed for this late Supreme Court Justice Scalia |
| #9041, aired 2024-02-19 | THEIR NAME'S A BIBLE BOOK $400: The real-world Mr. Law, the fictional Mr. Fawley Jude |
| #9040, aired 2024-02-16 | THAT'S GOT 2 HYPHENS $200: Relatively speaking, it's your spouse's dad, to you father-in-law |
| #9036, aired 2024-02-12 | MUSICIANS OF THE 1960s $2000: In 1967, this folk singer released the song "Children Of Darkness", written by Richard Fariña, her late brother-in-law Joan Baez |
| #9034, aired 2024-02-08 | SOUNDS LIKE A HORROR MOVIE, BUT ISN'T $1600: Jane Fonda had no bolts in her neck as the title family relation in this 2005 flick, but J. Lo wanted to scream anyway Monster-in-Law |
| #9027, aired 2024-01-30 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $400: The Pritzker School of Law is part of this "directional" Big Ten school Northwestern |
| #9025, aired 2024-01-26 | FULL-COURT PRESS $400: The Sandusky Register affirmed this as the law of the land with 1920's "court declares that dry amendment is constitutional" Prohibition |
| #9025, aired 2024-01-26 | GAS EVERYWHERE $800: Boyle's law states that at a constant temperature the pressure of a gas is inversely proportional to its this volume |
| #9024, aired 2024-01-25 | ON MY HISTORIC CV $200: 1972: first tenured female faculty member, Columbia Law; 1993: nominated to Supreme Court to replace Byron White Ruth Bader Ginsburg |
| #9022, aired 2024-01-23 | RHYMING VERB PAIRS $5,800 (Daily Double): To do away with a law & to make something smoother & shinier by rubbing abolish & polish |
| #26, aired 2024-01-23 | ____ & ____ $300: This pair of words refers to rules, and the enforcement of those rules, in an organized society... dun dun law & order |
| #9021, aired 2024-01-22 | LETTERS OF THE LAW $200: F:
A serious crime, like murder or kidnapping felony |
| #9021, aired 2024-01-22 | LETTERS OF THE LAW $400: T: This defense, first used in the case of Dan White, relating to his sugar consumption & mental state Twinkie |
| #9021, aired 2024-01-22 | LETTERS OF THE LAW $600: L:
The unlawful taking of personal property with the intent of keeping it larceny |
| #9021, aired 2024-01-22 | LETTERS OF THE LAW $800: R:
The self-removal of a judge or prosecutor from a case due to a conflict of interest recusal |
| #9021, aired 2024-01-22 | LETTERS OF THE LAW $1000: C:
A supplementary document that modifies or amends a will a codicil |
| #9021, aired 2024-01-22 | TEMPERA-MENTAL ARTISTS $2000: Learning to make it from his artist brother-in-law, he used tempera for the detailed brushwork of his iconic "Christina's World" Andrew Wyeth |
| #9018, aired 2024-01-17 | BORN ON JAN. 17 $200: She has an impressive résumé:
Princeton,
Harvard Law,
a 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue address Michelle Obama |
| #9018, aired 2024-01-17 | SUMMER OF OUR DISCONTENT $3,200 (Daily Double): In August 1957 Strom Thurmond filibustered for over 24 hours railing against this, signed into law the next month the Civil Rights Act |
| #9017, aired 2024-01-16 | A MATTER OF LAW $200: From Latin for "to let in", it describes evidence that may be considered by a judge or jury admissible |
| #9017, aired 2024-01-16 | A MATTER OF LAW $400: It's the kinetic term for a litigant's request to a judge for a decision on an issue a motion |
| #9017, aired 2024-01-16 | MAJOR "KEY" ALERT $600: Lester "The Long Fellow" Piggott & Steve Cauthen, "The Kentucky Kid", were these track stars--a different kind of track jockeys |
| #9017, aired 2024-01-16 | A MATTER OF LAW $600: Chapter 12 of this federal code covers its application to family farmers & family fishermen the Bankruptcy Code |
| #9017, aired 2024-01-16 | TV CLIFFHANGERS $800: In its Season 5 mid-season finale, Agent Hank Schrader discovered that his brother-in-law was actually the drug lord Heisenberg Breaking Bad |
| #9017, aired 2024-01-16 | A MATTER OF LAW $800: A lawsuit that's dismissed "without" this can be refiled; "with" this means it can't prejudice |
| #9017, aired 2024-01-16 | A MATTER OF LAW $1000: A 1968 ruling said this amendment's unreasonable search & seizure clause doesn't prohibit frisking of suspected criminals the Fourth Amendment |
| #9013, aired 2024-01-10 | CELEBRITIES' FAVORITE MOVIES & TV SHOWS $1200: Taylor Swift named her cat Olivia Benson, after a character on this drama, one of her favorite TV shows Law & Order: Special Victims Unit |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | "J" LAW $200: Featured in the name of the show, it's the title Judy Sheindlin held in her courtroom TV series for 25 seasons Judge |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | "J" LAW $400: Henry Fonda plays a man who sits on one in the 1957 film "12 Angry Men" a jury |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | "DIS"CONTINUED $400: In law, it's "a justice's nonconcurrence with a decision of the majority"; it's also the nickname of the collar worn by RBG dissent |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | "J" LAW $600: For many offenses, a person under 18 who is convicted of a crime is, under N.Y. state law, labeled this kind of "delinquent" a juvenile |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | "J" LAW $800: The Fifth Amendment ensures no person can be convicted twice of the same offense; it inspired the term "double" this jeopardy |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | "J" LAW $1000: It's the 13-letter word defined as "the science or philosophy of law" jurisprudence |
| #9010, aired 2024-01-05 | NYMING -NYMS $1000: Crohn's disease, the Ferris wheel & Parkinson's law (for Burrill, George & C. Northcote, respectively) are these -nyms eponyms |
| #9008, aired 2024-01-03 | TV CONNECTIONS $200: L.A.
____
& Order Law |
| #9006, aired 2024-01-01 | RELIGION $400: In Hinduism, it's the law of cause & effect by which one's actions influence one's present & future lives karma |
| #9004, aired 2023-12-28 | WOMEN ON TRIAL $1200: The 1884 trial in Russia of Ekaterina Semenova introduced to law this "psycho"logical type who lacks any remorse a psychopath |
| #9001, aired 2023-12-25 | GETTING POSSESSIVE $400: Anything from a stubbed toe to a nuclear meltdown can be attributed to this principle bearing a surname Murphy's law |
| #8999, aired 2023-12-21 | SAY, "BUSTER" $600: To "come on like" these law enforcers means to do something with great force or speed gangbusters |
| #8995, aired 2023-12-15 | HISTORIC DOCUMENTS $1000: Name given U.S. Public Law 88-408, passed in 1964 giving LBJ the power to prevent further aggression the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution |
| #8995, aired 2023-12-15 | WISH I'D SAID THAT! $1600: Attributed to Jeremy Bentham: these are "the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished" lawyers |
| #8993, aired 2023-12-13 | HOLMES, SHERLOCK HOLMES $400: Gregson, Lestrade, Hopkins & Jones isn't a law firm; they're guys who sought Holmes' help for this "national" agency Scotland Yard |
| #8993, aired 2023-12-13 | WESTERN TV SHOWS $600: This actor has been on the right side of the law as Seth Bullock in "Deadwood" & Raylan Givens in "Justified" Timothy Olyphant |
| #8987, aired 2023-12-05 | FROM DAWN 'TIL DUSK $1600: A sheriff in the Old West might do this to someone, making him part of law enforcement deputize |
| #8984, aired 2023-11-30 | ECON 101 $200: Governments deal with monopolies by using these sorts of laws that sound like they literally don't have faith an antitrust law |
| #8984, aired 2023-11-30 | ISLANDS & PENINSULAS $400: Moses received the law from God on this peninsula now part of Egypt Sinai |
| #8979, aired 2023-11-23 | MODERN ARCHITECTURAL STYLES $1200: Brutalism influenced the design of this D.C. building, named for a long-serving law enforcement official the Hoover Building |
| #8976, aired 2023-11-20 | ETCHED IN STONE $800: Outside the building where this group meets is a statue with a tablet that reads "Lex", Latin for "law" the Supreme Court |
| #8974, aired 2023-11-16 | THE NAME OF THE LAW $400: The handgun act named for this man was signed into law in 1993 (James) Brady |
| #8974, aired 2023-11-16 | THE NAME OF THE LAW $800: 1998's Copyright Term Extension Act was named for this late congressman who penned a 1965 No. 1 pop hit Sonny Bono |
| #8974, aired 2023-11-16 | THE NAME OF THE LAW $1200: A tariff act named for Smoot & this congressman raised import duties to protect U.S. businesses Hawley |
| #8974, aired 2023-11-16 | THE NAME OF THE LAW $1600: The Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2009 was named for James Byrd Jr. & this Casper, Wyoming man Matthew Shepard |
| #8974, aired 2023-11-16 | THE NAME OF THE LAW $2000: Named for an Illinois representative, 1910's White Slave Traffic Act is better known as this "Act" the Mann Act |
| #18, aired 2023-10-25 | PRIDE & POTUS $100: In front of his wife Jill and other LGBT supporters, this POTUS signed 2022's Respect for Marriage Act into law Joe Biden |
| #8949, aired 2023-10-12 | RANK-LY SPEAKING $2000: Job title of the chief law enforcer of the House of Representatives Sergeant at Arms |
| #8947, aired 2023-10-10 | BRANDO $800: Blanche's brother-in-law Stanley A Streetcar Named Desire |
| #8947, aired 2023-10-10 | COMPOSERS & THEIR KIN $1000: Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, was a composer as well as the brother-in-law of this British queen Queen Victoria |
| #8945, aired 2023-10-06 | DEAD SCIENTISTS SOCIETY $1,000 (Daily Double): This 19th century Italian physicist lends his name to a law & a number relating equal volumes of gases & molecules Avogadro |
| #15, aired 2023-10-04 | ESTATE 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 |
| #8938, aired 2023-09-27 | LAW & ORDER $200: Punishable by fine or imprisonment of one year or less, they're much more common than felonies in many states misdemeanors |
| #8938, aired 2023-09-27 | LAW & ORDER $400: This term for the termination of a proceeding without a verdict sounds like the end of a school class dismissal |
| #8938, aired 2023-09-27 | LAW & ORDER $600: Glenn Close knew they're monies awarded to a litigant for loss or injury damages |
| #8938, aired 2023-09-27 | LAW & ORDER $800: This other "A" word is an accomplice or abettor in a crime but is not there when it is committed an accessory |
| #8938, aired 2023-09-27 | TRICKY QUESTIONS $1000: The brother-in-law of your mother's unmarried only sibling is this relative to you your father (stepfather) |
| #8938, aired 2023-09-27 | LAW & ORDER $1000: In order to get a more objective trial, ask for a "change of" this to seek to have a case heard in a new jurisdiction venue |
| #8934, aired 2023-09-21 | JOHNNY GILBERT GOES COUNTRY $1600: "Just two good ol' boys, never meanin' no harm, beats all you never saw, been in trouble with the law since the day they was born" Waylon Jennings |
| #8929, aired 2023-09-14 | THE OHIO UNIVERSITIES $200: After catching 417 passes for the Bengals, Cris Collinsworth grabbed a law degree from the univ. of this city Cincinnati |
| #8929, aired 2023-09-14 | HIP-HOP LITERARY REFERENCES $1600: This rapper & "Law & Order: SVU" actor titled his spoken word track "Soul on Ice" after Eldridge Cleaver's memoir Ice-T |
| #8919, aired 2023-07-20 | A DEEP DIVE INTO... $1600: Contract law: An "efficient" this of contract is done on purpose because one party finds damages cheaper than fulfilling the deal breach |
| #8912, aired 2023-07-11 | SO YOU GOT YOUR "M.A." $1000: This 1910 law said you couldn't take women across state lines for immoral purposes the Mann Act |
| #8912, aired 2023-07-11 | A CENTURY AGO: 1923 $1200: At a conference of 20 nations in Vienna, this global law enforcement body is founded INTERPOL |
| #8909, aired 2023-07-06 | A TV SERIES $400: "Law & Order", 1990; "Law & Order:" this, 1999; "Law & Order: Criminal Intent", 2001; & it just keeps going... SVU |
| #8907, aired 2023-07-04 | WORDS THAT END WITH DOUBLE LETTERS $1000: It describes the smile of a baby younger than about 6 months, or an ineffective law toothless |
| #8906, aired 2023-07-03 | "NEG" BAIT $600: 3rd century general Carausius is considered one of these outlaws, disobeying Roman law & declaring himself emperor of Britain a renegade |
| #8904, aired 2023-06-29 | THE LAW $400: Federal sentencing guidelines increase for violent crimes if one of these is involved (minimum 5 years) or worse, brandished (7 years) a firearm |
| #8904, aired 2023-06-29 | THE LAW $800: If you're 18+ in Kansas & want your girlfriend to become your wife, no license is needed; you can be in this kind of marriage common law |
| #8904, aired 2023-06-29 | THE LAW $1200: In law it's possession of an estate for the duration of one's life; in New Jersey, it's the town Bruce Springsteen is from freehold |
| #8904, aired 2023-06-29 | THE LAW $2,000 (Daily Double): The 1970 law that ties different crimes into a pattern that can be prosecuted ties 4 words into this acronym RICO |
| #8904, aired 2023-06-29 | THE LAW $2000: From the same root as "eloquent", it's a defendant's speech to the judge before sentencing allocution |
| #8903, aired 2023-06-28 | PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE WORDS $600: A principle of public international law regarding trade relations involves the most-favored this nation |
| #8900, aired 2023-06-23 | I LEARNED IT ON SCHOOLHOUSE ROCK $400: "You mean even if the whole Congress says you should be a law, the president can still say no?"; "Yes, that's called" this; go Bill go! a veto |
| #8899, aired 2023-06-22 | "CHAIN" $1000: In law, prosecutors work to establish this, the trail of possession & handling of a piece of evidence chain of custody |
| #8899, aired 2023-06-22 | 12-LETTER WORDS $3,000 (Daily Double): An unlucky incident; in British law, it's a verdict of accidental death not due to crime or negligence misadventure |
| #8897, aired 2023-06-20 | THERE WILL BE MATH $1600: It's the law that says a(b+c) = ab + ac the distributive law |
| #8890, aired 2023-06-09 | EPONYMOUS SCIENCE $400: According to Charles' law, the volume occupied by an amount of this state of matter is proportional to its temperature gas |
| #8890, aired 2023-06-09 | EPONYMOUS SCIENCE $1200: Fitts' law of movement is used in human engineering, also called this, partly from Greek for "work" ergonomics |
| #8887, aired 2023-06-06 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $800: 2 childhood friends wind up on opposite sides of the law in this author's 2022 legal thriller "The Boys from Biloxi" Grisham |
| #8881, aired 2023-05-29 | CHEMISTRY $2000: This Italian's law says that equal volumes of gases at the same temp. & pressure have the same "number" of molecules Avogadro |
| #8873, aired 2023-05-17 | U.S. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS $400: In 1892 this party probably didn't raise a glass to getting 2.2% of the popular vote; 3 decades later, its cause was law the Prohibition Party |
| #8872, aired 2023-05-16 | DON'T GO ANYWHERE $400: Newton's first law of motion is about "a body at" this rest |
| #12, aired 2023-05-16 | ENDS IN A DOUBLE VOWEL $1200: An authoritative command backed by the force of law a decree |
| #8871, aired 2023-05-15 | DOG BREED RHYME TIME $400: A small hunting hound permitted by law a legal beagle |
| #8, aired 2023-05-12 | PHYSICS CHECKUP $800: Newton's second law is commonly summarized as this simple 3-letter equation F = ma |
| #8, aired 2023-05-12 | PHYSICS CHECKUP $1000: According to this cosmologist's law, redshift in light coming from a galaxy is directly proportional to its distance from us Hubble |
| #3, aired 2023-05-09 | TIME TO LAWYER UP $200: For not complying with a court order in 1995, a Philly lawyer was jailed for this; he kept not complying & was in jail for 14 years contempt (of court) |
| #8866, aired 2023-05-08 | AMERICAN WOMAN $400: Before Elena Kagan was the first woman to be dean of this at Harvard, she was the first bat mitzvah at Lincoln Square Synagogue (Harvard) Law (School) |
| #8866, aired 2023-05-08 | YEET! $800: Truman: "I didn't fire" him "because he was a dumb son of a (bleep), although he was, but that's not against the law for generals" MacArthur |
| #8865, aired 2023-05-05 | IT'S A TV MYSTERY $1000: On the BBC's "Sherlock", this acting pair are the modern day Holmes & Watson Cumberbatch & Freeman |
| #8859, aired 2023-04-27 | HISTORIC WIVES $200: Legally bound to a man who ghosted her, Deborah Read was the common-law wife of this printer & statesman Benjamin Franklin |
| #8854, aired 2023-04-20 | MY PREROGATIVE $200: In 2013 this group was re-authorized to stay with ex-presidents for life, not just 10 years as the law had stated before the Secret Service |
| #8851, aired 2023-04-17 | TV BEFORE & AFTER $1200: Harry Hamlin & Susan Dey leave the courtroom to investigate sex crimes in New York with Mariska Hargitay L.A. Law & Order: SVU |
| #8850, aired 2023-04-14 | THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE $1600: Kanun was the system of administrative law in the empire that supplemented this Islamic code Sharia |
| #8834, aired 2023-03-23 | 5-LETTER LITERARY CHARACTERS $600: He teaches the wolf cubs & Mowgli the law of the jungle Baloo |
| #8829, aired 2023-03-16 | SCIENTIFIC LAWS & THEOREMS $800: The first law of thermodynamics, per Flanders & Swann: this 4-letter word "is work and work is" this 4-letter word heat |
| #8829, aired 2023-03-16 | SCIENTIFIC LAWS & THEOREMS $1600: Whether it's dealing with a gas or liquid, Bernoulli's law is a part of this 5-letter type of dynamics fluid |
| #8827, aired 2023-03-14 | CONTRONYMS $2000: From the Latin for "prescribe by law", it can mean to authorize or to condemn something to sanction |
| #8822, aired 2023-03-07 | SCIENCE $2000: The law that the total pressure of a mixture of gases is the sum of those of the component gases was stated by this Brit in 1801 John Dalton |
| #8819, aired 2023-03-02 | COURSE DESCRIPTIONS $800: Law 800:
Focusing on the 1735 court case of publisher John Peter Zenger, charged with this, & how freedom of the press won big libel |
| #8817, aired 2023-02-28 | 13-LETTER WORDS $1000: From Latin, it's the science or philosophy of law jurisprudence |
| #8817, aired 2023-02-28 | THAT'S A LAUGH! $2000: (I'm Hasan Minhaj.) I won a Peabody Award for this comedy show that took its name from the not-so-funny 2001 legislation, increasing the surveillance powers of law enforcement agencies the Patriot Act |
| #8816, aired 2023-02-27 | BEFORE & AFTER $400: Snickers that must be passed to practice law candy bar exam |
| #8815, aired 2023-02-24 | I LIKE TO SCIENCE! $200: This 20th c. British physicist said, "Because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can & will create itself from nothing" Hawking |
| #8810, aired 2023-02-17 | ACTORS PLAYING PLAYWRIGHTS $1600: In a 1997 film Stephen Fry played this Irish poet & dramatist, while Jude Law played Lord Alfred Douglas Oscar Wilde |
| #8809, aired 2023-02-16 | THE FORCE WILL BE WITH YOU $200: He laid down his first law of motion by finding an object's momentum is constant unless an outside force acts on the object Isaac Newton |
| #8809, aired 2023-02-16 | CELEBRITY RELATIVES $800: This veteran actor co-starred in "The Devil Wears Prada" with Emily Blunt, who has since become his sister-in-law Stanley Tucci |
| #8806, aired 2023-02-13 | LAWYER BILLBOARDS $2000: I Wrote The Book
On English Law
(My Famous "Commentaries")
& I Can Help You! William Blackstone |
| #8805, aired 2023-02-10 | BEFORE THEY WERE SUPREME COURT JUSTICES $400: Tied for first in her Columbia law class in 1959 Ruth Bader Ginsburg |
| #8805, aired 2023-02-10 | BEFORE THEY WERE SUPREME COURT JUSTICES $600: Hot-dogged it as a Harvard law prof from 1914 to 1939 (Felix) Frankfurter |
| #8801, aired 2023-02-06 | YOU CAN CALL ME HOMER $800: As this chief U.S. law enforcement officer, Homer Cummings announced an arrest in the Lindbergh baby kidnapping the Attorney General |
| #8800, aired 2023-02-03 | NOW, WE DUEL $800: In 1791 he built a coalition against Alexander Hamilton's father-in-law to win a Senate seat; blood came after Aaron Burr |
| #8797, aired 2023-01-31 | JASON 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 |
| #8793, aired 2023-01-25 | 3-LETTER RESPONSES $1000: The police will put out one of these to other law enforcement agencies to be on the lookout for a suspect an APB |
| #8793, aired 2023-01-25 | WE'RE ALL COUNTING ON YOU $1600: Entropy is the crux of the third law of this, devised by German chemist Walther Nernst thermodynamics |
| #8790, aired 2023-01-20 | SAFE $800: In international law this 6-letter word means temporary refuge given to a foreign national asylum |
| #8790, aired 2023-01-20 | 2-WORD SCIENCE TERMS $1600: It says that the volume of a gas varies inversely with the pressure on it at constant temperature Boyle's law |
| #11, aired 2023-01-19 | SOME SERIOUS SCIENCE $300: Newton's third law of motion is often stated as "For every action, there is an equal and opposite" this a reaction |
| #11, aired 2023-01-19 | A TRASHY CATEGORY $500: A 2012 first-in-the-nation Vermont law says scraps from home cooking may not go in regular trash but must become this compost |
| #8787, aired 2023-01-17 | EMMY 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 2023-01-16 | LETTERS OF THE LAW $400: H:
Evidence presented by a witness who came by it secondhand hearsay |
| #8786, aired 2023-01-16 | LETTERS OF THE LAW $800: M:
The unlawful killing of another person without malice or premeditation manslaughter |
| #8786, aired 2023-01-16 | LETTERS OF THE LAW $1600: S:
To segregate or separate a jury or witness during a trial sequester |
| #8786, aired 2023-01-16 | LETTERS OF THE LAW $2000: T:
A civil wrong causing injury for which a remedy may be obtained a tort |
| #8786, aired 2023-01-16 | LETTERS OF THE LAW $8,000 (Daily Double): N:
Failure to exercise care towards others that a reasonable person would do in similar circumstances negligence |
| #10, aired 2023-01-12 | O CANADA $1500: (Mattea Roach presents the clue.) Prairie trading posts with names like Stand Off & Whoop-Up were dominated by sleazy whiskey traders; this law enforcement group was created to clean them up the Mounties (the RCMP, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police) |
| #8780, aired 2023-01-06 | COLORFUL PEOPLE $1000: With her sister Savannah, this actress & onetime love of Jude Law started the fashion line Twenty8Twelve Sienna Miller |
| #8780, aired 2023-01-06 | LEGALLY SPEAKING $1200: Rhyming with "offer", in criminal law it's an offer of evidence by a defendant that may lead to a reduced sentence proffer |
| #8773, aired 2022-12-28 | HERE COMES THE BRIBE $600: In 1982 while leader of this labor union, Roy Williams was convicted of trying to bribe a U.S. senator to kill a new trucking law the Teamsters |
| #8766, aired 2022-12-19 | TELEVISION THEN & NOW $600: Tatiana Maslany stars as this title character: "Attorney at Law" She-Hulk |
| #8766, aired 2022-12-19 | AMERICANA $800: Due to an oversight, the law admitting this "Buckeye State" into the Union wasn't signed until 1953, 150 years after the fact Ohio |
| #8763, aired 2022-12-14 | THE PROOF $600: In civil law, a plaintiff usually shoulders this 3-word responsibility to establish disputed facts the burden of proof |
| #8760, aired 2022-12-09 | SCIENCE! $1000: This Greek gave his name to the law that says a body in fluid is acted on by force proportional to how much fluid it displaces Archimedes |
| #8757, aired 2022-12-06 | AN "ARM" $800: In Hinduism, it's the basic natural law of the universe dharma |
| #8756, aired 2022-12-05 | A PACK OF LIES $400: The Secret Service's USDollars website is for law enforcement & banks to report suspected cases of this counterfeiting |
| #8755, aired 2022-12-02 | HONORARY U.S. CITIZENS $1600: The law making him a citizen said he "secured the help of France to aid the United States' colonists against Great Britain" Lafayette |
| #8754, aired 2022-12-01 | 1, 2 & 3 $400: This legal trio--& lethal, at the end--can describe just one person who takes the law into their own hands judge, jury & executioner |
| #8754, aired 2022-12-01 | EVERY MAN A KING $800: This country's King Mohammed VI has a law degree from Mohammed V University, founded by & named for his grandfather Morocco |
| #8748, aired 2022-11-23 | A MATTER OF DEGREES $1000: In a law degree, JD is short for this Latin phrase juris doctor |
| #8747, aired 2022-11-22 | UNDER THE "C" $600: Per Black's Law, you can file this "conduct that defies the authority... of a court" under "C", & you can be held in it too contempt |
| #8744, aired 2022-11-17 | FAR OUT $6,000 (Daily Double): Once matter enters a black hole, it falls to the center & concentrates at an infinitely dense point called this the singularity |
| #8743, aired 2022-11-16 | RAPPERS WHO ACT $800: "I'm going back to Cali"; he's played a Southern Cali law enforcement agent on CBS since 2009 LL Cool J |
| #8742, aired 2022-11-15 | JEOPORTMANTEAU! $600: Area in which law is enforced
+
a reference book jurisdictionary |
| #8739, aired 2022-11-10 | 21st CENTURY BESTSELLERS $400: Law professor Michelle Alexander saw a race-based U.S. justice system in "The New" this name, a symbol of segregation Jim Crow |
| #7, aired 2022-11-06 | FUN WITH FLAGS $200: The item in the center of this nation's flag is a wheel of law called the Ashoka Chakra India |
| #8733, aired 2022-11-02 | THE LAW $200: Stopping on this 8-letter German roadway is illegal--& remarkably unadvisable--so don't run out of gas Autobahn |
| #8733, aired 2022-11-02 | THE LAW $400: In Wisconsin, "The serving of" it "at a public eating place as a substitute for table butter is prohibited" unless a customer wants it margarine |
| #8733, aired 2022-11-02 | THE LAW $600: If "The Graduate" were set in South Australia, Ben could have gotten 2 years or a $10,000 fine for interrupting this type of event a wedding |
| #8733, aired 2022-11-02 | THE LAW $800: In New Hampshire every pet dog & cat must be vaccinated against this disease at 3 months--oh, & every ferret, too rabies |
| #8733, aired 2022-11-02 | THE LAW $1000: In 2008 feeding the pigeons at St. Mark's Square in this city became a no-no that could cost you 700 euro Venice |
| #8733, aired 2022-11-02 | HISTORIC NAMES $1000: A 2022 law that makes lynching a federal hate crime is named for this teen who was brutally murdered in 1955 Emmett Till |
| #6, aired 2022-10-30 | ANSWER IN THE FORM OF AN ABBREVIATION $400: If you get this degree from Harvard, first given in 1873, you can call yourself doctor but don't try to diagnose me a Ph.D. |
| #8730, aired 2022-10-28 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $200: The law works in mysterious ways in "Sparring Partners", a 2022 collection of novellas by this king of legal thrillers Grisham |
| #8730, aired 2022-10-28 | TV LAW $400: "Trial by Media" is a docuseries with episodes like "Blago!", revisiting the trial of this state's governor Illinois |
| #8730, aired 2022-10-28 | TV LAW $800: On this show Julianna Margulies played Alicia, who returns to her life as an attorney after her hubby goes to jail The Good Wife |
| #8730, aired 2022-10-28 | TV LAW $1200: Viola Davis won an NAACP Image award for her role on this show in which she & her law students become tangled in intrigue How to Get Away with Murder |
| #8730, aired 2022-10-28 | TV LAW $1600: Matthew McConaughey played Mickey Haller in this big screen legal thriller; Manuel Garcia-Rulfo on the Netflix show The Lincoln Lawyer |
| #8730, aired 2022-10-28 | TV LAW $2000: For 5 seasons, Glenn Close played ruthless lawyer Patty Hewes on this series Damages |
| #8729, aired 2022-10-27 | OCTOBERFEST $1600: In the first united action by the 13 colonies (well, 9 of them), in Oct. 1765 delegates met to work to repeal this British law the Stamp Act |
| #8728, aired 2022-10-26 | LAW SLAW $400: Instituted in 1970, the legal classifications of these go from Schedule 1 to Schedule 5 drugs |
| #8728, aired 2022-10-26 | LAW SLAW $800: Schenck v. U.S. addressed if sending antiwar pamphlets to drafted men in the midst of war was protected by this amendment the First Amendment |
| #8728, aired 2022-10-26 | LAW SLAW $1200: In legalese, CC can refer to cepi corpus ("I have taken the body") or this federal venue for appeals circuit court |
| #8728, aired 2022-10-26 | LAW SLAW $2000: Evidence that exonerates someone from guilt is called this, which also starts with "ex" exculpatory |
| #8728, aired 2022-10-26 | LAW SLAW $10,600 (Daily Double): Political advertising was at the heart of the 2010 case pitting this group against the Federal Election Commission Citizens United |
| #5, aired 2022-10-23 | ADVANCED CRIMINAL LAW $300: Voir dire is the process of selecting a fair & impartial one of these groups jurors (or a jury) |
| #5, aired 2022-10-23 | ADVANCED CRIMINAL LAW $600: As opposed to misdemeanors, this class of crimes is more serious & can carry a sentence of a year or more in the slammer a felony |
| #5, aired 2022-10-23 | ADVANCED CRIMINAL LAW $1200: Sometimes a judge might, hopefully, just sentence you to do this, work without pay, perhaps for a nonprofit community service |
| #5, aired 2022-10-23 | ADVANCED CRIMINAL LAW $1500: Ask Steve Bannon--you don't want to ignore one of these writs from a court, commanding you to come in &, you know, testify a subpoena |
| #5, aired 2022-10-23 | ADVANCED CRIMINAL LAW $4,700 (Daily Double): Criminals disguise the source of ill-gotten gains via this 2-word process; detergent is optional money laundering |
| #8724, aired 2022-10-20 | MEDICAL DRAMA $800: After 17 seasons on "Law & Order", S. Epatha Merkerson got into a new line of work, running Gaffney Medical on this NBC show Chicago Med |
| #8721, aired 2022-10-17 | ACTORS 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 |
| #3, aired 2022-10-09 | THE AFTER PARTY $400: Black's Law Dictionary says a "crime of" this is "committed in the heat of an emotionally charged moment" passion |
| #3, aired 2022-10-09 | A LONG RUN ON TV WITH KEN JENNINGS $1200: (Ken delivers the clue.) As Olivia Benson on "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit", this actress has been busting heinous criminals for well over 20 seasons Mariska Hargitay |
| #8714, aired 2022-10-06 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $800: Mitch McDeere joins the law practice of Bendini, Lambert & Locke in this thriller by John Grisham The Firm |
| #8711, aired 2022-10-03 | CHAPTER $600: Chapter 2:
"The Law of Club and Fang" The Call of the Wild |
| #2, aired 2022-10-02 | "ALL" THINGS ASIDE $300: Shady Albuquerque, New Mexico criminal lawyer Saul Goodman had his law office in this type of shopping center a mini-mall (or a strip mall) |
| #8710, aired 2022-09-30 | OFFICIAL STATE STUFF $200: By a 1972 law, California's official reptile is the desert variety of this slow mover tortoise |
| #8698, aired 2022-09-14 | THE LAW $400: 2 main types of this in a divorce are legal (who makes big decisions about the kid's life) & physical (whom the moppet lives with) custody |
| #8698, aired 2022-09-14 | THE LAW $800: In general, an NDA, short for this agreement, is not enforceable against you if you're testifying under subpoena non-disclosure agreement |
| #8698, aired 2022-09-14 | THE LAW $1600: All states have implied consent laws, so applying for a driver's license means agreeing to let police test this your blood alcohol level |
| #8698, aired 2022-09-14 | THE LAW $2000: The 2022 Dobbs Supreme Court decision mentions these 9th Amendment rights, a term for those protected but not specified unenumerated rights |
| #8698, aired 2022-09-14 | THE LAW $4,000 (Daily Double): Many people trying to sue over the same thing may be certified as this group to prevent unfair variations in their outcomes a class |
| #8692, aired 2022-07-26 | SCIENTIFIC LAWS & THEORIES $2,800 (Daily Double): The third law of thermodynamics says entropy tends to reduce as the temperature approaches this 2-word state absolute zero |
| #8688, aired 2022-07-20 | PLEASE 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 |
| #8675, aired 2022-07-01 | ANIMALS & THE LAW $200: Shooting these "in a barrel" is proverbially easy but using firearms on them in Indiana state waters, legally problematic fish |
| #8675, aired 2022-07-01 | ANIMALS & THE LAW $400: Minnesota forbade contests in which this animal, "greased (or) oiled... is released & wherein the object is capture of" one a pig |
| #8675, aired 2022-07-01 | ANIMALS & THE LAW $600: You can own as many of these as you like in Calif. & enter them in a Calaveras jumping contest, but if one dies, you can't eat it frogs |
| #8675, aired 2022-07-01 | ANIMALS & THE LAW $800: New York City says horses that do this, popular with tourists & couples in Central Park, get 5 weeks of vacation a year draw a buggy |
| #8675, aired 2022-07-01 | ANIMALS & THE LAW $1000: This state that had a famous Monkey Trial in 1925 lets you keep a pet monkey, but not a baboon Tennessee |
| #8673, aired 2022-06-29 | SCIENCE-PODGE $2000: Less famous than his laws of motion is Newton's law of this, a fluid's resistance to flow viscosity |
| #8667, aired 2022-06-21 | TV FACTOIDS $800: The latest variant of the "Law & Order" franchise is "Organized Crime" starring this man, a veteran of "SVU" Christopher Meloni |
| #8666, aired 2022-06-20 | ONE SMALL STEP FOR HAM $200: In 2022 France passed a law that reduces nitrites, the chemicals that make cured ham this color inside instead of gray pink |
| #8663, aired 2022-06-15 | THE BRADY BUNCH $1000: When the 1993 bill named for him became law, it instituted background checks for gun purchases (James) Jim Brady |
| #8663, aired 2022-06-15 | THE 5th CENTURY $1200: Containing the Mishnah & Gemara, the Babylonian version of this vast compilation of Jewish law was compiled the Talmud |
| #8662, aired 2022-06-14 | THE EARLY 1800s $400: In 1807 Congress passed a law to "prohibit the importation of" these, but it wasn't 100% effective slaves |
| #8644, aired 2022-05-19 | PHYSICS $1200: Obeying the second law of thermodynamics, heat that isn't used to do work goes to this, which sounds like it should have a faucet (a heat) sink |
| #8639, aired 2022-05-12 | 4-SYLLABLE WORDS $800: It's the range of authority that law enforcement holds over a specific area jurisdiction |
| #8634, aired 2022-05-05 | NOW FOR THE SECRET WORD $800: "P" is for this word that refers to communication that's protected from compelled disclosure in a court of law privileged |
| #8634, aired 2022-05-05 | IT'S TV MOTHER'S DAY $2000: When not helping special victims in about 500 episodes, this "Law & Order: SVU" character adopted an orphan named Noah Olivia Benson |
| #8631, aired 2022-05-02 | CONGRESS IN THE 19th CENTURY $2000: Latin for "force of the county", these 2 words titled an 1878 act that prevented the use of the army to enforce law in the South posse comitatus |
| #8630, aired 2022-04-29 | THE 18th CENTURY $1600: Similar to Uncle Sam, this character represents England, first appearing in the 1712 satirical pamphlet, "Law is a Bottomless-Pit" John Bull |
| #8628, aired 2022-04-27 | WHICH COMES FIRST $200: Asimov's first law regarding these says they can't injure a human or, through inaction, allow a human to be harmed robots |
| #8628, aired 2022-04-27 | WHICH COMES FIRST $2,000 (Daily Double): The first law of this says that the total energy of a system plus its surroundings is conserved the first law of thermodynamics |
| #8627, aired 2022-04-26 | TV SHOWS BY SETTING $2000: From 1993 to 2005, the 15th Precinct in Manhattan NYPD Blue |
| #8626, aired 2022-04-25 | TO THE "N"s OF THE EARTH $800: A reconstruction law for this Japanese city went into effect August 9, 1949 Nagasaki |
| #8626, aired 2022-04-25 | THE 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 2022-04-25 | I'LL FOLLOW YOU $2000: William Blake depicted the biblical Naomi telling her widowed daughters-in-law she's leaving, this one will follow her Ruth |
| #8623, aired 2022-04-20 | ACTORS, INITIALLY $1000: J.L.M.,
a cop on "Law & Order" & "The Flash" Jesse L. Martin |
| #8622, aired 2022-04-19 | POLICING & PUNISHMENTS $2000: In the 1970s Oregon was the first state with a law saying the police must make an arrest when they come to a home on a call for this domestic violence |
| #8620, aired 2022-04-15 | A COUNTRY OF LAWS $200: In the 1990s Germany modified the Reinheitsgebot, a law dating to 1516 that said this could be made only of barley, hops & water beer |
| #8620, aired 2022-04-15 | HANDLE WITH AIR $200: In 1998 a law went fully into effect mandating these be installed on both sides of a car's front seat air bags |
| #8620, aired 2022-04-15 | A COUNTRY OF LAWS $600: In 2012 Bolivia adopted a law to protect La Madre Tierra, translated as this personification Mother Earth |
| #8620, aired 2022-04-15 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $2,000 (Daily Double): On May 30, 1854 Pres. Pierce signed into law what was officially called "an act to organize the territories of" these 2 places" Kansas & Nebraska |
| #8618, aired 2022-04-13 | HOUSEHOLD INITIALS $600: M.T.:
Removal of it "under penalty of law" does not apply to the consumer mattress tag |
| #8612, aired 2022-04-05 | CAN'T LOSE $200: On running for re-election in 2024, this law alum from Leningrad State University said, "I haven't decided"; uh huh, sure, man Putin |
| #8608, aired 2022-03-30 | MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR $800: In "Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald", Jude Law turns up as a younger version of this wizard Dumbledore |
| #8605, aired 2022-03-25 | AMERICAN LAW $1200: The Supreme Court says, "The law has long forbidden routine use" of these hand &/or leg chains on defendants shackles |
| #8605, aired 2022-03-25 | AMERICAN LAW $1600: The 1944 case Escola v. Coca-Cola Bottling Co., about an exploding bottle, helped establish "strict" this for manufacturers liability |
| #8605, aired 2022-03-25 | AMERICAN LAW $4,000 (Daily Double): Lady Liberty is on the logo of the American Association of Lawyers in this field, founded in 1946 immigration |
| #8599, aired 2022-03-17 | CHEMICAL PEOPLE $2000: 19th c. Scottish chemist Thomas Graham is known for his namesake law on the rate of this dissemination of gases diffusion |
| #8597, aired 2022-03-15 | TV NEWS $400: "Deadline" (13 episodes) focused on the New York Ledger, which covered the cops on this show (450+ episodes) Law & Order |
| #8595, aired 2022-03-11 | HOPPER $800: Seen here, he lays down the law as Jim Hopper on "Stranger Things" David Harbour |
| #8594, aired 2022-03-10 | "V"ERBS $1000: To clear someone of blame in the eyes of the law to vindicate |
| #8589, aired 2022-03-03 | FIBERS & FABRICS $1600: A 2018 federal law said this plant used to make sacks, shoes, etc. is no longer a controlled substance hemp |
| #8589, aired 2022-03-03 | 1972: 50 YEARS AGO $1600: In this country Ferdinand Marcos imposed martial law that lasted until 1981 the Philippines |
| #8588, aired 2022-03-02 | HER EMMY-WINNING ROLE $400: Ann-Margret, Ellen Burstyn & Cynthia Nixon, all for guest appearances on this crime drama Law & Order: SVU |
| #8585, aired 2022-02-25 | BEFORE SHE WAS FIRST LADY $400: She was the first woman to become a partner at the prestigious Rose Law Firm in Little Rock, Arkansas Hillary Rodham |
| #8581, aired 2022-02-21 | THY FEARFUL SYMMETRY $1600: Laying down the math laws, the commutative law is on the top & this law is on the bottom the associative law |
| #15, aired 2022-02-18 | BETWEEN 10 & 20 $800: Georgia ratified this amendment into law December 6, 1865 the 13th Amendment |
| #14, aired 2022-02-17 | CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS $200: It begins, "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion" the First Amendment |
| #14, aired 2022-02-17 | THE CROP REPORT $1000: In the King James Bible, this daughter-in-law of Naomi gleans "corn", unknown in the ancient Middle East Ruth |
| #8578, aired 2022-02-16 | THE LYIN' IN WINTER $1000: We would've given our beloved mail carrier a Mercedes to observe this day, December 26, but federal law maxes single gifts at $20 Boxing Day |
| #8578, aired 2022-02-16 | TV MOMS $1600: As Endora, veteran actress Agnes Morehead often mocked her mortal son-in-law Darrin & called him Durwood on this '60s comedy Bewitched |
| #8576, aired 2022-02-14 | SCIENCE $400: Newton's second law of motion is expressed as F=ma, with "a" standing for this acceleration |
| #8, aired 2022-02-11 | TIME FOR LAW SCHOOL $400: Your first year will doubtless include a course or 2 on these legally enforceable agreements & their breaches contracts |
| #8, aired 2022-02-11 | TIME FOR LAW SCHOOL $800: Law school students might participate in this "court", a hypothetical appellate case whose topic is chosen from a real case moot court |
| #8, aired 2022-02-11 | TIME FOR LAW SCHOOL $1200: Be forewarned--many of your profs will teach via this "method" named for a guy who lost his biggest trial the Socratic method |
| #8, aired 2022-02-11 | TIME FOR LAW SCHOOL $1600: You'll need a class on these private wrongs like negligence & defamation torts |
| #8, aired 2022-02-11 | TIME FOR LAW SCHOOL $2000: To take your case all the way to the Supreme Court, the main method is to ask the justices to grant a writ of this Latin word certiorari |
| #7, aired 2022-02-11 | 2 WORDS TO COMPLETE THE PHRASE $600: A legal principle:
"Ignorance of the law is..." no excuse |
| #1, aired 2022-02-08 | BIBLE BOOKS $400: The Jewish scriptures are traditionally divided into the Prophets, the Writings & this word meaning "law" the Torah |
| #8568, aired 2022-02-02 | MLB TEAM NAMES, DEFINED $800: Named after a law enforcement agency that dates back to the 1820s the Rangers |
| #8549, aired 2022-01-06 | JOB DESCRIPTION $800: By law, can't be a U.S. senator;
only needed quadrennially;
"faithless"? Can be fined or fired an elector |
| #8547, aired 2022-01-04 | SCIENCE $1600: Boyle's law states that the pressure of this varies inversely with its volume at constant temperature gas |
| #8544, aired 2021-12-30 | A____ $600: When it comes to law, this synonym for premeditated can describe malice aforethought |
| #8543, aired 2021-12-29 | A PREFIX MENU $400: Meaning "against", it goes before -band to describe something against the law contra |
| #8542, aired 2021-12-28 | MY GOVERNMENT JOB $1200: "Law & Order" man Fred Dalton Thompson, from 1994 to 2003 U.S. senator |
| #8539, aired 2021-12-23 | 5,5 $4,000 (Daily Double): A 1974 U.S. law mandated a national one of these, intended to improve fuel efficiency speed limit |
| #8535, aired 2021-12-17 | LAW $400: "A" is for this, a printed or written statement given while under oath an affidavit |
| #8535, aired 2021-12-17 | LAW $800: Chapter 7, part of this code, has to do with liquidation of property the bankruptcy code |
| #8535, aired 2021-12-17 | LAW $1200: Named for a 1966 court ruling, these rights help to protect you from self-incrimination Miranda rights |
| #8535, aired 2021-12-17 | LAW $1600: Venire is a term for a panel of prospective jurors, to be questioned in this French-named process voir dire |
| #8535, aired 2021-12-17 | LAW $2000: If the Supreme Court wants the government's views on an issue, a CVSG "calls" for the "view" of this "10th justice" the solicitor general |
| #8533, aired 2021-12-15 | PLAYING PROFESSOR $800: On "How to Get Away with Murder", she played a professor at Middleton Law School Viola Davis |
| #8530, aired 2021-12-10 | BIG MOVIE ON CAMPUS $800: This 1973 film follows a first-year student's clashes with his contracts prof at Harvard Law School The Paper Chase |
| #8524, aired 2021-12-02 | EXAM TIME $200: A task on a recent one in New York State was to draft a memo regarding sovereign immunity under a tort claims law a bar exam |
| #8524, aired 2021-12-02 | FUNNY LADIES $600: Order in the court! If she ever tires of being funny, she has a law degree from the University of New South Wales to fall back on (Rebel) Wilson |
| #8524, aired 2021-12-02 | AIN'T THAT AMERICA $1000: The 1968 Democratic National Convention became a battleground despite this mayor's promise of law & order Daley |
| #8522, aired 2021-11-30 | JOHNNY GILBERT IS THE ACTION MOVIE CHARACTER $600: "No retreat. no surrender. That is Spartan law & by Spartan law we will stand & fight & die" King Leonidas |
| #8522, aired 2021-11-30 | FILL IN THE PHRASE $600: " ____
Is nine points of the law" possession |
| #8514, aired 2021-11-18 | AMEND THE AMENDMENT $400: 1st:
"Congress shall make no law... prohibiting... the right of the people peaceably to mambo" assemble |
| #8513, aired 2021-11-17 | SCIENCE $1200: A law covering compression of this device with great elasticity is F=-kx; k is the constant named for the device the spring |
| #8508, aired 2021-11-10 | SCIENCE & NATURE $400: For every action there's an equal & opposite reaction, according to Newton's third law of this motion |
| #8508, aired 2021-11-10 | MYTHICAL MISSES $1000: This queen of Ethiopia was Andromeda's mom & the mother-in-law of Perseus Cassiopeia |
| #8505, aired 2021-11-05 | COMPUTER HISTORY $1600: In 1965 this American engineer first enunciated his famed "Law", predicting computing power would double every year (Gordon) Moore |
| #8503, aired 2021-11-03 | PHYSICS $800: In 1850 Clausius laid down the second law of this, that heat won't of itself pass from one body to a hotter one thermodynamics |
| #8496, aired 2021-10-25 | TELEVISION HISTORY $2000: A 1996 law mandated all TVs have this chip to help parents control kids' viewing, but it was never used much a V-chip |
| #8493, aired 2021-10-20 | IN BOX $200: The 2 tablets of law that God gave to Moses were placed in this wooden, gold-plated chest but don't look at it, Marion! the Ark of the Covenant |
| #8493, aired 2021-10-20 | "E"-MALE $400: Though also working in law enforcement, he was busted for horse stealing & uh, brothel involvement before moving to Tombstone in 1879 (Wyatt) Earp |
| #8490, aired 2021-10-15 | LIBRARIES $1200: Barack Obama & Scott Turow have studied at the world's largest academic law library, at this school Harvard |
| #8489, aired 2021-10-14 | VOTING USA $1000: Saying it was no longer needed, in 2013 the Supreme Court struck down Section 4 of this law & its federal oversight the Voting Rights Act |
| #8484, aired 2021-10-07 | THE EARTH $1600: Hack's Law defines the relationship between the length of a river & the size of this 5-letter word, the whole area it drains basin |
| #8482, aired 2021-10-05 | ARITHMETALK $1000: This law of addition says x + y = y + x commutative |
| #8471, aired 2021-09-20 | A WORD IN SPANISH $1000: In Spanish it's not someone taking the law into his own hands, it's just a watchman, like a night watchman vigilante |
| #8471, aired 2021-09-20 | GREATS IN HISTORY $2000: After the death of his wife Julia, this member of the First Triumvirate turned against his father-in-law Julius Caesar Pompey |
| #8470, aired 2021-09-17 | PEACE $1600: JFK signed the Peace Corps into law, but this Minnesotan, his rival for the 1960 Democratic nomination, first proposed the idea (Hubert) Humphrey |
| #8463, aired 2021-08-11 | AN AUGUST CATEGORY $400: August 1935: Note the grinning 66-year-old as this act providing a system of benefits becomes law Social Security |
| #8462, aired 2021-08-10 | INAUGURATING A PRESIDENT $200: John Quincy Adams didn't take his oath with his hand on a Bible; he used a law book that included this document that he read from (the) Constitution |
| #8459, aired 2021-08-05 | LET'S TAKE IT OUTSIDE $600: Black's Law Dictionary says this 6-letter verb means "to hang about & (do) nothing in a public place" loiter |
| #8453, aired 2021-07-28 | SITCOM EXITS $800: In 2020, season 8 still had "Mom" but Christy Plunkett, portrayed by her, was off to Georgetown Law (Anna) Faris |
| #8453, aired 2021-07-28 | BURGESSES IN THE HOUSE! $1200: The Burgesses first convened in 1619 & their first law set a minimum price for "the best" this crop, which grew well in Virginia tobacco |
| #8451, aired 2021-07-26 | NICE "MUL" IT $1000: To openly proclaim a new doctrine or law promulgate |
| #8450, aired 2021-07-23 | COP SHOWS BY CHARACTERS $800: Captain Olivia Benson; Sergeant John Munch Law & Order: SVU |
| #8447, aired 2021-07-20 | INTERNET BUSINESSES $1000: Robert Shapiro co-founded this online law service for wills, incorporating & other needs legalzoom.com |
| #8444, aired 2021-07-15 | LAW SLAW $200: Under the law of this habitat, there are no rules & the strongest will win out the law of the jungle |
| #8444, aired 2021-07-15 | LAW SLAW $400: Rule by military authority, it was declared in Chicago following the Great Fire of 1871 martial law |
| #8444, aired 2021-07-15 | LAW SLAW $600: An office that monitors this law ensuring protection for authors' rights is part of the Library of Congress copyright law |
| #8444, aired 2021-07-15 | LAW SLAW $800: Sir Isaac Newton's 3 laws of this laid the foundation for classical mechanics motion |
| #8444, aired 2021-07-15 | LAW SLAW $1000: Prices go up or down based on the law of these 2 things regarding the amount of goods available versus the desire for them supply & demand |
| #8443, aired 2021-07-14 | EPONYMOUS LEGISLATION $1600: A star in Chaplin's "The Kid", he earned millions, but it got spent by others; a law named for him protects the earnings of minors Jackie Coogan |
| #8434, aired 2021-07-01 | 'TIS SHAKESPEARE $400: John Dryden & his brother-in-law revised this tragedy so everybody (well, not Tybalt) lives happily ever after Romeo and Juliet |
| #8434, aired 2021-07-01 | THE 3 "R"s $800: Adjective for a legal judgment made without basis in law arbitrary |
| #8433, aired 2021-06-30 | SPORTS & SOCIETY $1000: Born the summer it became law, USC & WNBA star Lisa Leslie has been called "The First Daughter of" this clause Title IX |
| #8428, aired 2021-06-23 | TV-POURRI $800: He was still catching deviant scum on "Law & Order: SVU" when he appeared on "Celebrity Jeopardy!" Christopher Meloni |
| #8428, aired 2021-06-23 | THE ARISTOCRATS! $800: A 1919 law banned this aristocratic syllable, belonging to folks like the Red Baron, from Austrian names von |
| #8426, aired 2021-06-21 | AUTHORS' THIRD BOOKS $800: In this third John Grisham thriller, 2 Supreme Court justices are killed & a journalist helps a law student on the run The Pelican Brief |
| #8426, aired 2021-06-21 | OF "TIME" $1000: 2-word term referring to a period before recorded history; in law, a claim dating from then needs no proof time immemorial |
| #8425, aired 2021-06-18 | DRAMA 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 |
| #8425, aired 2021-06-18 | DRAMA SERIES WRITING EMMYS $2000: In 1994, all 5 nominees were for episodes of this police series set in the fictional 15th Precinct in Manhattan NYPD Blue |
| #8422, aired 2021-06-15 | DEFINITELY DEFINITIONS $1200: Church law defines it as the "obstinate post-baptismal denial" of truth "which is to be believed by divine & Catholic faith" heresy |
| #8417, aired 2021-06-08 | FREDERICK LAW OLMSTED $200: Olmsted & Calvert Vaux designed this 840-acre green space, which now has a zoo, a reservoir & the Metropolitan Museum of Art Central Park |
| #8417, aired 2021-06-08 | FREDERICK LAW OLMSTED $400: Olmsted's plans for a reservoir for Mt. Royal Park were dashed by an 1870s depression in this city whose name sounds like the park Montreal |
| #8417, aired 2021-06-08 | FREDERICK LAW OLMSTED $600: Olmsted teamed with a Boston firm to come up with the final plans seen here for this university in Northern California & here it is today Stanford |
| #8417, aired 2021-06-08 | FREDERICK LAW OLMSTED $800: Olmsted designed the 987-acre Belle Isle, where you can zip down the giant slide for just $1 in this city across from Windsor, Canada Detroit |
| #8417, aired 2021-06-08 | FREDERICK LAW OLMSTED $1000: Brooklyn went with the flow to design this park; you can go curling, play hockey or just ice skate like the folks here Prospect Park |
| #8416, aired 2021-06-07 | IT'S HYPHENATED $1600: It's the familial relationship of Peter Sarsgaard to Jake Gyllenhaal brother-in-law |
| #8409, aired 2021-05-27 | LAW SLAW $400: 2-word term for unlicensed but legal quoting of copyrighted material in situations like research or news reporting fair use |
| #8409, aired 2021-05-27 | LAW SLAW $800: A plea is entered at this proceeding that is sometimes called an initial hearing an arraignment |
| #8409, aired 2021-05-27 | LAW SLAW $1200: Res judicata, "a thing already judged", is the civil law version of this 2-word action banned by the Bill of Rights double jeopardy |
| #8409, aired 2021-05-27 | LAW SLAW $1600: Vanderbilt Law 6090 is the course named for these, covering "liability for intentional harm to person or property" torts |
| #8409, aired 2021-05-27 | LAW SLAW $3,000 (Daily Double): The first play by lord, novelist, politician & inmate Jeffrey Archer had a legalistic title, "Beyond" these 2 words Beyond Reasonable Doubt |
| #8400, aired 2021-05-14 | SUPREME COURT DECISIONS $400: In 1880's Strauder v. West Virginia, the court struck down a state law requiring these impaneled people to be white jurors |
| #8397, aired 2021-05-11 | OUTLAWS & IN-LAWS $200: JFK's brother-in-law Sargent Shriver was president of this intl. sports program for people with intellectual disabilities the Special Olympics |
| #8397, aired 2021-05-11 | OUTLAWS & IN-LAWS $600: Maria Clemm was this poet's aunt &, after he married Maria's daughter Virginia, his mom-in-law; quoth the host... uuuuugh Poe |
| #8397, aired 2021-05-11 | OUTLAWS & IN-LAWS $800: In 1791 he built a coalition against Alexander Hamilton's father-in-law to win a Senate seat; that did not end well Aaron Burr |
| #8395, aired 2021-05-07 | LAYING DOWN THE SCIENTIFIC LAW $400: He got some laws moving--well, on moving--in 1687's "Principia Mathematica" Newton |
| #8395, aired 2021-05-07 | LAYING DOWN THE SCIENTIFIC LAW $800: Ohm's law, about the relationship between current, resistance & this, can be expressed as V=IR, with V standing for this voltage |
| #8395, aired 2021-05-07 | LAYING DOWN THE SCIENTIFIC LAW $1200: This Italian's 17th century law of falling bodies relates the distance fallen by a body to the elapsed time Galileo |
| #8395, aired 2021-05-07 | LAYING DOWN THE SCIENTIFIC LAW $1600: This Frenchman who came up with a law on paramagnetic bodies & temperature may not have been the best scientist in his family Pierre Curie |
| #8395, aired 2021-05-07 | LAYING DOWN THE SCIENTIFIC LAW $2000: Let's take a long, "constant" look at this man's law that states the greater the distance to a galaxy, the faster it recedes (Edwin) Hubble |
| #8393, aired 2021-05-05 | SHAKESPEARE FAMILY TIES $200: Lady Capulet is his mother-in-law, briefly Romeo |
| #8393, aired 2021-05-05 | SHAKESPEARE FAMILY TIES $400: Brabantio is her dad & Othello's father-in-law Desdemona |
| #8393, aired 2021-05-05 | RELIGION $1000: Islamabad is the seat of a unique court empowered by Pakistan's constitution to enforce this body of law Sharia |
| #8393, aired 2021-05-05 | MR. PRESIDENT $1200: The 1st time he left the White House, he joined a New York law firm; the 2nd time he served on Princeton's board of trustees Cleveland |
| #8391, aired 2021-05-03 | COMEDY CENTRAL $400: Harvard Law will be no problem for this movie's Elle Woods, who "once had to judge a tighty-whitey contest for Lambda Kappa Pi" Legally Blonde |
| #8389, aired 2021-04-29 | POP CULTURE PRIESTS $1200: On HBO Jude Law was "The Young Pope" & this actor had no trouble being "The New Pope" John Malkovich |
| #8389, aired 2021-04-29 | HISTORIC GOVERNORS $1200: A grad of Northwestern Law, Adlai Stevenson governed this state from 1949 to 1953 Illinois |
| #8388, aired 2021-04-28 | THEIR TV ROLES $2000: Jonah Dekker on "Law & Order: Los Angeles" & Lucious Lyon on "Empire" Terrence Howard |
| #8385, aired 2021-04-23 | SUPPORTING TV CHARACTERS $400: Ice-T rapprehends bad folks as detective Fin Tutuola on this "Law & Order" variant Special Victims Unit |
| #8384, aired 2021-04-22 | PREMIERE EPISODES $1200: In 2014 Wes Gibbins began taking a law course on this ABC drama; also during the episode, the students were disposing of a body How to Get Away with Murder |
| #8383, aired 2021-04-21 | QUICK BIBLE BOOKS $1000: Naomi has a devoted daughter-in-law; Boaz needs some gleaning done Ruth |
| #8381, aired 2021-04-19 | SELF-HELP YOURSELF $800: Shhh! Rhonda Byrne told this title to the world in 2006, saying it "is the law of attraction", but let's just keep that between us The Secret |
| #8377, aired 2021-04-13 | SCOTT LAND $1600: Before legal novels like "The Burden of Proof", he wrote about the Harvard law experience in "One L" Scott Turow |
| #8374, aired 2021-04-08 | WIPE OUT $400: A place where criminals evade the law loses "out" to become this, also a term for a pelt hide |
| #8367, aired 2021-03-30 | HISTORY $400: In April 1830 this country passed a law aiming to curb illegal immigration of Americans over its border Mexico |
| #8360, aired 2021-03-19 | AMERICAN HISTORY $600: In 1791 this man beat Philip Schuyler, Alexander Hamilton's father-in-law, for a New York Senate seat Aaron Burr |
| #8356, aired 2021-03-15 | TV FINALES $1200: The main characters get arrested for violating a "Good Samaritan" law Seinfeld |
| #8353, aired 2021-03-10 | LEADERS $400: In 1963 he studied at Baghdad Law College; he then spent a few years in prison but was in power soon after Hussein |
| #8353, aired 2021-03-10 | LEADERS $600: Seen here in 2004, long after his brushes with the law, is Sonny Barger, the best-known leader of this organization the Hells Angels |
| #8352, aired 2021-03-09 | GOOD DAY, SIR! $800: On Feb. 8, 2017 executive producer Dick Wolf savored the airing of the 400th episode of this spinoff Law & Order: SVU |
| #8352, aired 2021-03-09 | CARTELS $1000: Named for a senator, this law was invoked to bust railroad cartels in Supreme Court decisions of 1897 & 1898 Sherman |
| #8348, aired 2021-03-03 | SCIENCE $400: His first law of motion is the law of inertia Newton |
| #8334, aired 2021-02-11 | SUBURBS $800: Dum Dum, a weapons-making suburb of Kolkata, gave its name to an expanding type of this, banned by international law an expanding bullet |
| #8334, aired 2021-02-11 | STEM $1600: (Dr. Frauke Neuser presents the clue.) Mathematician Emmy Noether formulated a theorem that scientists make use of to this day--there is an associated symmetry for every law of this, meaning a total quantity remains constant conservation |
| #8331, aired 2021-02-08 | TECHNOLOGY $600: (Reshma Saujani presents the clue.) In the 1970s, Moore's Law surmised that the number of these central components on microchips would double every two years, but Moore later admitted, it probably won't last transistors |
| #8330, aired 2021-02-05 | CITY PLANNING $600: For Buffalo, N.Y., Frederick Law Olmsted planned these "ways" he described as "broad thoroughfares planted with trees" parkways |
| #8329, aired 2021-02-04 | QUESTIONABLE VERBS $400: A lawyer doing this is generally allowed to ask leading questions, since he or she generally didn't call the witness cross-examining |
| #8328, aired 2021-02-03 | NOTORIOUS $1600: A 1950s psychiatrist predicted the Mad Bomber wore a double-breasted suit, buttoned, using this technique; he was right profiling |
| #8322, aired 2021-01-26 | TV-POURRI $800: Before he was Mr. Big on "Sex and the City" & the bad husband to "The Good Wife", he was Detective Mike Logan on "Law & Order" Chris Noth |
| #8307, aired 2021-01-05 | OF THE LAW $400: The Dodd-Frank Act included the Volcker Rule, prohibiting these institutions from making certain risky investments banks |
| #8307, aired 2021-01-05 | OF THE LAW $800: The Natl. Firearms Act of 1934 says this hunting weapon becomes a firearm if its barrel is less than 18" long, like a sawed-off one a shotgun |
| #8307, aired 2021-01-05 | OF THE LAW $1200: The Fair Housing Act of 1968 says victims of discrimination by seller or landlord can appeal to this then 3-year-old cabinet department Housing and Urban Development (HUD) |
| #8307, aired 2021-01-05 | OF THE LAW $1600: It's the "R" in the Rico Act, which says it can include acts relating to arson, human trafficking, contraband cigarettes, etc. racketeering |
| #8307, aired 2021-01-05 | OF THE LAW $2,800 (Daily Double): 6 weeks after the U.S. entered WWI came the act known by this alliterative phrase requiring men to register to join the military Selective Service |
| #8305, aired 2020-12-18 | RUTH BADER GINSBURG $1,000 (Daily Double): Ruth began law school at Harvard but transferred to this NYC school where she became the first female tenured professor Columbia |
| #8299, aired 2020-12-10 | WHAT'S THAT ON YOUR HEAD? $800: This high-domed hat shares its name with the nickname of the law enforcement professional who wears it a bobby hat |
| #8299, aired 2020-12-10 | LEO POTPOURRI-O $800: LEO can be an abbreviation for this type of officer law enforcement officer |
| #8297, aired 2020-12-08 | ENERGY $2,400 (Daily Double): The theory that the total amount of energy in the universe is constant is the first law of this branch of physics thermodynamics |
| #8293, aired 2020-12-02 | NONPROFITS $600: In 1970 a group of law students & attorneys founded this environmental group, the NRDC the Natural Resources Defense Council |
| #8290, aired 2020-11-27 | BIBLICAL WOMEN $800: Before 2 letters were transposed, Ms. Winfrey was originally named for this sister-in-law of Ruth Orpah |
| #8289, aired 2020-11-26 | CRIME & PUNISHMENT TALK $800: A 1986 law criminalized this activity, routing money through third parties to hide the illicit source money laundering |
| #8289, aired 2020-11-26 | ART & ARTISTS $800: Berthe Morisot's brother-in-law, he influenced the Impressionists with works like "Luncheon on the Grass" Édouard Manet |
| #8275, aired 2020-11-06 | YOUNG MAN OR WOMAN $1600: This actor shakes up the Vatican as Pius XIII, "The Young Pope" in the title of an HBO series Jude Law |
| #8274, aired 2020-11-05 | LAW $200: Spoken defamation of another is slander; this is written defamation libel |
| #8274, aired 2020-11-05 | LAW $400: Facing the judge in a courtroom, the plaintiff is generally on the right & this counterpart on the left a defendant |
| #8274, aired 2020-11-05 | LAW $600: It means permission, like to search a dwelling; the third amendment speaks of this "of the owner" of a house consent |
| #8274, aired 2020-11-05 | LAW $800: The role of colleges in relation to students from the mid-1800s to the 1960s was in loco parentis, Latin for this in lieu of parents |
| #8274, aired 2020-11-05 | LAW $1000: A lawyer who represents a soldier is called a "judge" this, another term for a lawyer an advocate |
| #8274, aired 2020-11-05 | THE SCIENTIST'S HAIKU $2000: An Irish chemist /
1600s gas law man /
An improved air pump! (Robert) Boyle |
| #8268, aired 2020-10-28 | WHAT'S YOUR "I.P." ADDRESS $400: Copyrights, patents & trademarks are all part of this type of law intellectual property |
| #8267, aired 2020-10-27 | POP CULTURE $400: This 1970s band wore outrageous costumes because of a Swedish tax law allowing deductions for non-street clothes ABBA |
| #8249, aired 2020-10-01 | NEW TO THE OED $1000: This 5-letter type of kosher, for food prepared strictly in accordance with Jewish dietary law glatt |
| #8242, aired 2020-09-22 | HODGEPODGE $600: Latin term for a law that makes an act illegal though it was legal back when it was done ex post facto |
| #8238, aired 2020-09-16 | EUROPEAN HISTORY $400: In England Lord Hardwicke's Act of 1753 banned this informal type of marriage without civil or religious ceremony common law |
| #8234, aired 2020-06-11 | PUN-FORGIVABLE $2000: "To break God's law until a prime time hour", or to sparkle brightly sin till late |
| #8230, aired 2020-06-05 | LITERARY HODGEPODGE $600: In "The Jungle Book", he's the "sleepy brown bear who teaches the wolf cubs the "law of the jungle" Baloo |
| #8227, aired 2020-06-02 | GREATEST HITS FROM THE SUPREMES $2,000 (Daily Double): In Marbury v. Madison, John Marshall criticized this sitting president for flouting the law Jefferson |
| #8224, aired 2020-05-28 | AMERICAN HEALTH CARE $400: It's the "E" in EMTALA, a 1986 federal law that says a hospital must treat patients with serious conditions who can't pay emergency |
| #8224, aired 2020-05-28 | AMERICAN 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 |
| #8217, aired 2020-05-19 | BILLS, BILLS, BILLS $1600: Signed into law in 2019, S.252 gave the Army rank of colonel to this Kansas senator who ran for president in 1996 Bob Dole |
| #8207, aired 2020-04-21 | LEGALESE $200: Black's Law defines this as "the corrupt payment, receipt, or solicitation of a private favor for official action" bribery |
| #8205, aired 2020-04-17 | PLURALIZE IT $400: Sister-in-law (the preferred way) sisters-in-law |
| #8203, aired 2020-04-15 | SCHOLARSHIP $400: Laurence Tribe has taught at Harvard Law since 1968 & co-wrote the book "On Reading" this document, which he's done a few times the Constitution |
| #8199, aired 2020-04-09 | COLLEGE LAW $200: It's the P in FERPA, a 1974 law that says your parents need your consent to get your grades from your college privacy |
| #8199, aired 2020-04-09 | COLLEGE LAW $400: More than 40 states have laws against this fraternity initiation practice hazing |
| #8199, aired 2020-04-09 | COLLEGE LAW $600: Georgia State says it follows state law in banning hard liquor at these pre-game parking lot parties tailgate parties |
| #8199, aired 2020-04-09 | COLLEGE LAW $800: A 1940 statement on this status says it gives professors "freedom & economic security", but it doesn't mean they can never be fired tenure |
| #8199, aired 2020-04-09 | COLLEGE LAW $1000: The plaintiffs in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard say the school violates this amendment's Equal Protection Clause the 14th Amendment |
| #8195, aired 2020-04-03 | THE CODE OF HAMMURABI $1000: Hammy's law 137 says if a man & wife have kids & he leaves, he has to pay this; now U.S. CFR Title 45 sets guidelines for it child support |
| #8194, aired 2020-04-02 | QUESTIONS & ANSWERS $1600: North Dakota law says a witness must be asked, "Do you solemnly swear to tell the truth...", but this word may replace "swear" affirm |
| #8193, aired 2020-04-01 | AMERICAN WOMEN $800: Frances Perkins, the first female cabinet secretary, was on the committee that designed this "security" blanket made law in 1935 Social Security |
| #8189, aired 2020-03-26 | POLICE SQUAD $200: Currently there are 166 commissioned rangers in this state's famous law enforcement division Texas |
| #8189, aired 2020-03-26 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $400: He wrote his first novel "A Time to Kill" while putting in 60 to 70 hours a week at a Mississippi law firm Grisham |
| #8183, aired 2020-03-18 | TV STARS $800: After 12 seasons, in 2011 Christopher Meloni said goodbye to his character Elliot Stabler on this drama Law and Order: SVU |
| #8182, aired 2020-03-17 | THAT'S OLD SCHOOL $400: Founded by an ex-president in 1819, this state school gave its first law degree in 1842 the University of Virginia |
| #8182, aired 2020-03-17 | ON TIME $600: "The Good Son" was the June 12, 2017 cover description of this son-in-law with access to the president Jared Kushner |
| #8178, aired 2020-03-11 | PEOPLE $400: She was Columbia Law School's first female tenured professor & the Supreme Court's second female justice Ginsburg |
| #8173, aired 2020-03-04 | HELLER $200: The Supreme Court's decision in the case of D.C. v. Heller used this amendment to strike down a gun control law the Second Amendment |
| #8171, aired 2020-03-02 | THE 20th CENTURY $400: She was an Oklahoma law professor when her testimony in a 1991 Supreme Court confirmation hearing made headlines Anita Hill |
| #8167, aired 2020-02-25 | THAT'S SO 500 YEARS AGO! $800: To protect inventors & their works, in 1474 the senate of this Italian maritime republic enacted the first patent law Venice |
| #8166, aired 2020-02-24 | ELECTRICITY $2000: This German physicist's law governs the relationship between voltage & resistance (Georg) Ohm |
| #8159, aired 2020-02-13 | HEAT STREET $5,400 (Daily Double): Heat is a form of energy: the first law of this says that it can be neither created nor destroyed but can be changed Thermodynamics |
| #8151, aired 2020-02-03 | HEAVEN & PARADISE $400: Achieving Nirvana in Buddhism releases the subject from this, the law that fate is based on your actions in life karma |
| #8147, aired 2020-01-28 | "A"NTONYM $1200: Of declare guilty in a court of law (6 letters) acquit |
| #8146, aired 2020-01-27 | INSPIRING WOMEN $400: Haben Girma, who advocates for disability rights, was the first deaf blind person to graduate from this law school Harvard |
| #8145, aired 2020-01-24 | THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF LONDON $1600: In one of the society's first experiments, this founding member soon to be known for his "law" of gases tested an air pump (Robert) Boyle |
| #8138, aired 2020-01-15 | FAMOUS & 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 |
| #6, aired 2020-01-09 | PLANE SCIENCE $1600: Plane trigonometry employs the law of these ratios between the side of a triangle opposite an angle & its hypotenuse sines |
| #5, aired 2020-01-09 | GOVERNMENT IN CRISIS $9,200 (Daily Double): This 1832-33 crisis ended when South Carolina backed down from its efforts to void federal law Nullification |
| #8133, aired 2020-01-08 | A SPARKLING CATEGORY $1600: In the comics, Sparkle Plenty was the daughter-in-law of this thick-jawed Chester Gould P.I. Dick Tracy |
| #1, aired 2020-01-07 | SCHOOL DAYS $1000: The first state law allowing these more autonomous publicly funded schools passed in 1991; today over 40 states allow them charter schools |
| #8131, aired 2020-01-06 | 3-NAMED PEOPLE $3,000 (Daily Double): This inventor was one of the founders of the National Geographic Society & succeeded his father-in-law as its president in 1898 Alexander Graham Bell |
| #8130, aired 2020-01-03 | CRIMINAL SLANG $2,000 (Daily Double): Fans of "Law & Order" know this adjective meaning previous can be a noun meaning a previous arrest or conviction prior |
| #8126, aired 2019-12-30 | 17th CENTURY HISTORY $800: A 1609 law in this country banned Moriscos (Muslims baptized as Christians) & shipped 300,000 of them to north Africa Spain |
| #8122, aired 2019-12-24 | FILL IN THE BANKS $600: Goldman this son-in-law to Goldman Sachs |
| #8121, aired 2019-12-23 | WOMEN ON TV $800: Initially the only woman in her class at law school, she's been holding court on TV since 1996 Judge Judy |
| #8117, aired 2019-12-17 | NEW MILLENNIUM TV $400: In 2019 Meryl Streep joined the cast of this HBO drama as the mother-in-law of now-widowed Nicole Kidman Big Little Lies |
| #8115, aired 2019-12-13 | BY POPE-ULAR DEMAND $1600: Pius X's demand for the resignations of 2 bishops led to France's 1905 law mandating the separation of these 2 entities church and state |
| #8110, aired 2019-12-06 | ACCORDING TO BLACK'S LAW DICTIONARY $200: It's "a jury that cannot reach a verdict by the required voting margin--also termed deadlocked jury" a hung jury |
| #8110, aired 2019-12-06 | ACCORDING TO BLACK'S LAW DICTIONARY $400: It's "an attempt to commit battery, requiring the specific intent to cause physical injury" assault |
| #8110, aired 2019-12-06 | ACCORDING TO BLACK'S LAW DICTIONARY $600: This means "to remove (oneself) as a judge in a particular case because of prejudice or conflict of interest" recuse |
| #8110, aired 2019-12-06 | ACCORDING TO BLACK'S LAW DICTIONARY $800: It's a 4-syllable "system of organized crime...involving the extortion of money from businesses by intimidation " racketeering |
| #8110, aired 2019-12-06 | ACCORDING TO BLACK'S LAW DICTIONARY $1000: "A threat of harm made to compel a person... a marriage" done under it "is generally voidable" duress |
| #8109, aired 2019-12-05 | COMPLETE THE CONSTITUTIONAL PHRASE $800: "No law respecting an establishment of" this religion |
| #8108, aired 2019-12-04 | MODERN ACTIVISM $2000: This political movement fighting income inequality is named for emergency items required in cars by French law yellow vests |
| #8102, aired 2019-11-26 | WHAT DO "I" STAND FOR $1000: In AFIS, a system law enforcement uses to compare fingerprints Identification |
| #8098, aired 2019-11-20 | I GOT RELIGION $2000: Often called Islamic law, it's broader than secular law codes & uses "recommended" & "disapproved", not "legal" & "illegal" Sharia law |
| #8094, aired 2019-11-14 | BRITISH HISTORY $200: Only 2 British PMs have been born outside the British Isles: Andrew Bonar Law (Canada) & this 2019 arrival (NYC) Boris Johnson |
| #8094, aired 2019-11-14 | LAWYERS, LAW & LEGALITY $400: Straight up now tell me, you're up for this case of smacking your Chevy into that Subaru & just taking off a hit and run |
| #8094, aired 2019-11-14 | LAWYERS, LAW & LEGALITY $800: This lawyer's star rose while repping Stormy Daniels but fell after he was accused of trying to extort millions from Nike in 2019 Michael Avenatti |
| #8094, aired 2019-11-14 | LAWYERS, LAW & LEGALITY $1600: The Justice Dept. IDs violations of this 1890 act; timed, uniform price hikes by competitors are a sign of collusion the Sherman Antitrust Act |
| #8094, aired 2019-11-14 | LAWYERS, LAW & LEGALITY $2000: This 3-word Latin phrase means "the thing speaks for itself" but lawyers always seem to keep talking anyway res ipsa loquitur |
| #8094, aired 2019-11-14 | LAWYERS, LAW & LEGALITY $9,812 (Daily Double): At the Scopes Trial, this politician said he'd seen nothing to accept the word of scientists against the inspired word of God William Jennings Bryan |
| #8092, aired 2019-11-12 | HOW'S YOUR LATIN VOCABULARY? $800: Exlex translates as "bound by no" this law |
| #8084, aired 2019-10-31 | "H"ISTORY $1600: This 1862 law providing 160 acres, basically free after 5 years' residence, was still on the books in the lower 48 states until 1976 the Homestead Act |
| #8083, aired 2019-10-30 | A HISTORICAL RHETORICAL $400: Hey you, not-so-law-abiding 1920s guy! Think the feds will indict you on 22 counts of tax evasion? You should! Capone |
| #8080, aired 2019-10-25 | ONCE UPON A TIME... $800: Leonardo DiCaprio plays "Bounty Law" actor Rick Dalton in this director's "Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood" Quentin Tarantino |
| #8074, aired 2019-10-17 | 4-WORD EXCHANGE $400: In 2010 Congress passed a law ending the ban on openly gay soldiers serving in the military, repealing this 4-word policy Dont ask, don't tell |
| #8074, aired 2019-10-17 | LEGAL BRIEFS $600: Exemption of ambassadors & such from local law enforcement is this 2-word term diplomatic immunity |
| #8073, aired 2019-10-16 | OLD SCHOOL MOVIES $600: Asked incredulously in this film, "You got into Harvard law?", Elle Woods replies, "What, like it's hard?" Legally Blonde |
| #8073, aired 2019-10-16 | & SOMETIMES Y $1200: Ecclesiastical law approves the addition of a Y to be a steep-sided deep valley canon & canyon |
| #8072, aired 2019-10-15 | THAT CODEX MOMENT $2000: The 6th century codex of this great Byzantine Emperor was a compilation & distillation of Roman law Justinian |
| #8064, aired 2019-10-03 | THE WORLD IN 1819 $1200: Sometimes called the 1st U.S. immigration law, the Steerage Act required all arriving ships to present this "list of...the passengers" a manifest |
| #8064, aired 2019-10-03 | FUN FACTS $2000: Popping some champagne for fun? This brand named for a founder & his great-grandson-in-law sells the most Moët & Chandon |
| #8063, aired 2019-10-02 | GOVERNMENT & POLITICS $1600: In 1965, Harry Truman looked on as President Johnson signed this program into law Medicare |
| #8046, aired 2019-09-09 | THE 1820s $1200: "Sacr" bleu! French king Charles X's law named for this sinful crime, like stealing communion wafers, could impose the death penalty sacrilege |
| #8041, aired 2019-07-22 | FOR WEDDINGS $200: In civil ceremonies, the best man & maid of honor may be replaced by 2 of these, required by law to sign the marriage license witnesses |
| #8039, aired 2019-07-18 | THE 3-NAMED EDGARS $6,000 (Daily Double): Leonardo DiCaprio played this law enforcement man in a 2011 biopic J. Edgar Hoover |
| #8027, aired 2019-07-02 | PEOPLE SEXIEST MAN ALIVE MOVIE TEAM-UPS $600: In "Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald", Jude Law is Dumbledore & this guy is the title villain Johnny Depp |
| #8027, aired 2019-07-02 | DOCTORS & LAWYERS $1600: The late 2010s have given this CNN analyst & Harvard Law grad the chance to explain many interesting legal issues Jeffrey Toobin |
| #8024, aired 2019-06-27 | BUSINESS PAIRS $400: This ice cream chain is named for brothers-in-law Burt & Irv Baskin-Robbins |
| #8023, aired 2019-06-26 | LET'S GO TO THE MOVIES $200: In "Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald", Jude Law plays this future headmaster of Hogwarts Dumbledore |
| #8023, aired 2019-06-26 | THE LAWS OF PHYSICS $800: P stands for pressure & V for this in the ideal gas law, PV=nRT volume |
| #8023, aired 2019-06-26 | THE LAWS OF PHYSICS $1200: To double the stretch of a spring, you have to double the strength of the pull per "Hooke's Law of" this property elasticity |
| #8023, aired 2019-06-26 | THE LAWS OF PHYSICS $1600: The First Law of Thermodynamics is AKA the principle of conservation of this energy |
| #8023, aired 2019-06-26 | THE LAWS OF PHYSICS $6,000 (Daily Double): Snell's Law, or the law of refraction, is a major law of this branch of physics optics |
| #8020, aired 2019-06-21 | A S.T.E.A.M. CATEGORY $1200: How far apart your eyes are is one metric of FRS, short for this tech system used by social media & law enforcement facial recognition system |
| #8015, aired 2019-06-14 | N.Y. TV $400: Did the rich prep school kid kill that guy? For 20 years, cops like Jerry Orbach said, yeah, probably, on this NBC show Law & Order |
| #8014, aired 2019-06-13 | PRONOUN LOSS $1000: Take "she" away from a law enforcement job & you get this snappy sequence on a guitar a riff |
| #8008, aired 2019-06-05 | DICTATORS & TYRANTS $800: In 1972 Ferdinand Marcos imposed martial law in this country; it would last until 1981 the Philippines |
| #7997, aired 2019-05-21 | ADAMS NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from Adams National Historical Park.) Here in 1776, this future First Lady wrote to her husband in the Continental Congress to "remember the ladies who will not hold ourselves bound by any law in which we have no voice" Abigail Adams |
| #7996, aired 2019-05-20 | A DEGREE IN LITERATURE $600: The title of the novel "The Paper Chase", made into a movie & TV series, refers to a diploma from this Harvard institution Harvard Law School |
| #7994, aired 2019-05-16 | TEXT $600: Under sharia law, a man can do this to his wife by notifying her 3 times; in 2009 a Saudi man made news by doing so via text divorce |
| #7983, aired 2019-05-01 | LAW $200: The right not to incriminate oneself is enshrined in this constitutional amendment the Fifth |
| #7983, aired 2019-05-01 | LAW $400: Juror misconduct is grounds to file a motion for one of these, a proceeding that is invalid a mistrial |
| #7983, aired 2019-05-01 | LAW $600: It's the pre-trial procedure in which each side "finds" out about the other's witnesses & evidence discovery |
| #7983, aired 2019-05-01 | LAW $800: This word for a civil wrong is a homophone for a rich cake tort |
| #7983, aired 2019-05-01 | LAW $1000: With a promise to return to court, R.O.R. is "release on" this alone without paying any bail recognizance |
| #7980, aired 2019-04-26 | GREEK CUISINE $800: According to Greek law, feta cheese must be at least 70% derived from the milk of this animal sheep |
| #7980, aired 2019-04-26 | SOCIAL STUDIES $1200: Law professor Randall Kennedy's "For Discrimination" argues in favor of this effort to boost minorities in education affirmative action |
| #7977, aired 2019-04-23 | QUEEN $800: Marrying off her kids to Greek & Serbian royalty, Marie of Romania was the "mother-in-law of" this region of southeast Europe the Balkan |
| #7975, aired 2019-04-19 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: A 1921 federal law put the first limits on the number of these, followed by 1924's National Origins Act immigrants |
| #7965, aired 2019-04-05 | LEGAL TERMS $200: In early law, this wasn't a crime if it was to your own house; now, burning your place for insurance is a no-no arson |
| #7962, aired 2019-04-02 | EMMY WINNERS FOR BEST ACTRESS IN A DRAMA $400: To win for 2015 Viola Davis really killed in her role as law professor Annalise Keating on this mystery How to Get Away with Murder |
| #7962, aired 2019-04-02 | EMMY WINNERS FOR BEST ACTRESS IN A DRAMA $600: Her grim work of catching evildoers & comforting victims on "Law & Order: SVU" was rewarded with a 2006 Emmy Mariska Hargitay |
| #7958, aired 2019-03-27 | SET IN THE CITY $800: Law & justice with "The Practice" & "Rizzoli & Isles" Boston |
| #7957, aired 2019-03-26 | BABY'S FIRST INSTAGRAM $800: Mom is Coco, baby is Chanel & Dad's this rapper & "Law & Order: SVU" cop; now back to baby, & her 460,000 followers Ice-T |
| #7947, aired 2019-03-12 | FRIEND OF THE COURT $3,000 (Daily Double): P.J. O'Rourke weighed in on a case about whether an Ohio law criminalizing false statements violated this amendment the First Amendment |
| #7945, aired 2019-03-08 | FBI AGENT NON-DISQUALIFIERS $2000: This event in your past, expulsion from the practice of law disbarment |
| #7942, aired 2019-03-05 | COLONIAL AMERICA $400: A 1682 law in this colony guaranteed freedom of worship; not just for Quakers Pennsylvania |
| #7940, aired 2019-03-01 | THEIR IVY LEAGUE ALMA MATER $800: Bill & Hillary Clinton for law school, where they first met Yale |
| #7939, aired 2019-02-28 | TRIOS $800: The law of inertia,
F=ma, &
the law of action & reaction Newton's Three Laws of Motion |
| #7934, aired 2019-02-21 | PHYSICS $2000: Physicist James gave his name to this law saying heat from electricity is proportional to the square of the current Joule's law |
| #7926, aired 2019-02-11 | YOU SAY YOU WANT A FRENCH REVOLUTION $1600: In French law clergy was the 1st this, nobles, 2nd & everyone else, 3rd, who of course paid the most taxes & got real mad estate |
| #7921, aired 2019-02-04 | NUMERIC WORDS & PHRASES $800: This very final 3-word phrase may come from a law requiring that bodies be buried deep so animals can't get to them six feet under |
| #7921, aired 2019-02-04 | OXFORD $1000: 1st year law folks take courses in torts, contracts & trusts "to qualify as a solicitor or" this job pleading in higher courts a barrister |
| #7918, aired 2019-01-30 | STARTS WITH 3 CONSONANTS $800: An adjective in the Boy Scout law, it means not wasteful with money thrifty |
| #7912, aired 2019-01-22 | RICK ROLES $400: Andrew Lincoln played Rick Grimes, formerly in law enforcement, on this cable series The Walking Dead |
| #7911, aired 2019-01-21 | TRANSPORTATION $400: As of July 2018 California law says passengers in intercity buses must wear these seat belts |
| #7910, aired 2019-01-18 | SOME SCIENCE, THEN DEATH $2000: His first law of planetary motion details elliptical orbits around the Sun; the world stopped revolving around him in 1630 Kepler |
| #7909, aired 2019-01-17 | A TROPHY CATEGORY $400: This college football trophy is named for a coach who got his law degree from Penn in 1892 the Heisman Trophy |
| #7909, aired 2019-01-17 | CHEMISTRY $6,000 (Daily Double): The theory of relativity led to a reconsideration of the law of conservation of this 4-letter thing mass |
| #7908, aired 2019-01-16 | APPROPRIATE NAMES $400: Igor Judge went into law & in 2013 retired as a high judge of England & Wales called lord this, much like the USA's top judge chief justice |
| #7907, aired 2019-01-15 | HOME FROM THE HILL $2000: In 2002 this sen. paired with McCain in a big campaign finance law; 8 years later, he lost his race in Wisconsin (Russ) Feingold |
| #7905, aired 2019-01-11 | ADJECTIVES $400: Describing food fit to be eaten according to Jewish law, it can also mean on the up-&-up kosher |
| #7901, aired 2019-01-07 | NURSERY RHYMES $800: Talk about mother-in-law trouble: on the way to this town, I met a man with 7 wives St. Ives |
| #7896, aired 2018-12-31 | SYMBOLS $800: In intellectual property law, the R in the "circle R" symbol stands for this registered |
| #7896, aired 2018-12-31 | RECENT BALLOT MEASURES $1000: In 2018 6 states adopted this victims' rights law named for the late Ms. Nicholas Marsy's Law |
| #7893, aired 2018-12-26 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1600: In 1792 Congress tried to increase judges' workload, leading to the 1st federal court decision voiding a law on this basis they declared it unconstitutional |
| #7892, aired 2018-12-25 | TV FROM THE NEXT ROOM $400: "In the criminal justice system, the people are represented by 2 separate yet equally important groups" Law & Order |
| #7886, aired 2018-12-17 | COMING AT YOU IN 3 T $800: For Cub Scouts, this word meaning reliable is No. 1 on the Scout law list trustworthy |
| #7885, aired 2018-12-14 | LAW PRACTICE $400: Types of these written or oral requests for court rulings include ex parte, show-cause & one to dismiss motions |
| #7885, aired 2018-12-14 | LAW PRACTICE $800: Truly law practice, as it's used in law schools, this fictitious "court" is held to argue hypothetical appellate cases moot court |
| #7885, aired 2018-12-14 | GREAT BOOKS ON AUDIBLE $800: Here's Tim Robbins with this classic that pains a terrifying vision of the future
"Do you ever read any of the books you burn?" He laughed. "That's against the law!" Fahrenheit 451 |
| #7885, aired 2018-12-14 | LAW PRACTICE $1600: This Latin word follows "corpus" in a term meaning "body of the crime" delicti |
| #7885, aired 2018-12-14 | LAW PRACTICE $2000: If you pass away without leaving a valid will, you've died this 9-letter way intestate |
| #7885, aired 2018-12-14 | LAW PRACTICE $3,000 (Daily Double): Marvin v. Marvin gave us this word for financial support between non-married folks post-relationship palimony |
| #7884, aired 2018-12-13 | JACK THE RIPPER SUSPECTS $400: The unstable J.K. Stephen was the son of England's main authority on this type of law dealing with theft, murder, etc. criminal law |
| #7884, aired 2018-12-13 | OTHER LONG-RUNNING TV SHOWS $600: Pauley Perrette was still part of the cast when this crime drama celebrated its milestone 300th episode NCIS |
| #7884, aired 2018-12-13 | DON'T KNOW MUCH $1600: In 1910 the Supreme Court reinforced an old legal maxim, saying this 4-word phrase "does not excuse" ignorance of the law |
| #7884, aired 2018-12-13 | 1940s AMERICA $2,000 (Daily Double): On March 11, 1941 this alliterative act became law & let FDR transfer billions of dollars in supplies to foes of the Axis the Lend-Lease Act |
| #7875, aired 2018-11-30 | WATCHING THE TV DETECTIVES $1000: This actor broke many a criminal during interrogations as Det. Bobby Goren on "Law & Order: Criminal Intent" (Vincent) D'Onofrio |
| #7875, aired 2018-11-30 | I GOT "U" BABE $1600: In old English law any interest on a loan was considered this; now it refers to outrageous rates usury |
| #7873, aired 2018-11-28 | FICTION OF THE 20-TEENS $800: "The Rooster Bar" by John Grisham features 3 of these (naturally) who find out about a criminal scam at their own school law students |
| #7872, aired 2018-11-27 | HOLD THE HOMOPHONE $200: A title for a type of lawman, or type of "law" that means the military rule the streets marshal/martial |
| #7871, aired 2018-11-26 | SAFE SPACES $1200: Gov. Jerry Brown signed a law making California this type of state protective of immigrants a sanctuary state |
| #7865, aired 2018-11-16 | CHECK ONE TWO $1000: The second law of this states that heat naturally flows from a higher to a lower temperature thermodynamics |
| #7859, aired 2018-11-08 | PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN $800: Sargent Shriver, JFK's brother-in-law, was the first director of this agency of globe-trotting volunteers the Peace Corps |
| #7856, aired 2018-11-05 | BRITISH HISTORY $400: Containing concessions by the king, this 13th c. document is one of the foundations of English & American law the Magna Carta |
| #7851, aired 2018-10-29 | SPEAKING SOME LEGALESE $400: This type of marriage is also called consensual or informal marriage common-law |
| #7845, aired 2018-10-19 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $400: Heman Sweatt integrated the University of Texas Law after the Supreme Court ruled the Negro Law School was separate but not this equal |
| #7843, aired 2018-10-17 | WHOSE WHAT? $600: "If anything can go wrong, it will", at least according to this proposition Murphy's Law |
| #7840, aired 2018-10-12 | 3-SYLLABLE WORDS $1200: A junior law enforcement officer answering to a sheriff deputy |
| #7840, aired 2018-10-12 | LEGAL LATIN $2000: Stare decisis means that this, a past decision in a given area of law, should be respected let the decision stand (or precedent) |
| #7837, aired 2018-10-09 | TV FOR SHORT $200: This crime drama is doubly abbreviated "L&O: SVU" Law & Order: Special Victims Unit |
| #7837, aired 2018-10-09 | OTHER CONSTITUTIONS $400: Afghanistan:
"No law shall contravene the tenets and provisions of" this faith Islam |
| #7828, aired 2018-09-26 | PARDONER $1600: Pres. Cleveland, an ex-sheriff, pardoned James Brooks, a cowboy-killin' captain in this Texas law-&-order force a Texas Ranger |
| #7824, aired 2018-09-20 | 8-LETTER WORDS $400: Part of the Boy Scout law, it refers to one complying with authority, like a good dog obedient |
| #7822, aired 2018-09-18 | THE LETTERS OF THE LAW $400: Helping everyone breathe easier when it was passed in 1970:
CAA Clean Air Act |
| #7822, aired 2018-09-18 | THE LETTERS OF THE LAW $1200: Changing the curriculum in 2001:
NCLB No Child Left Behind |
| #7822, aired 2018-09-18 | THE LETTERS OF THE LAW $1600: A dam fine act from 1933:
TVA the Tennessee Valley Authority |
| #7822, aired 2018-09-18 | THE LETTERS OF THE LAW $2,000 (Daily Double): 1973 pro-animal legislation:
ESA the Endangered Species Act |
| #7822, aired 2018-09-18 | THE LETTERS OF THE LAW $2000: 1919 killjoy law enforcing Prohibition:
VA the Volstead Act |
| #7817, aired 2018-09-11 | AUTHORS' SECOND NOVELS $400: John Grisham followed "A Time to Kill" with this novel about a Harvard Law grad joining a shady Southern practice The Firm |
| #7814, aired 2018-07-26 | ANTI UP $200: Enacted in 1890, the U.S. govt.'s first law of this kind was named for Ohio senator John Sherman anti-trust |
| #7812, aired 2018-07-24 | A RATIO $2000: A law of elasticity says stress is proportional to this "str" word, stretch divided by length strain |
| #7812, aired 2018-07-24 | A RATIO $4,000 (Daily Double): According to Charles' Law, the ratio of volume to temp. for a gas is constant as long as this doesn't change pressure |
| #7805, aired 2018-07-13 | THE SOCIAL NETWORK $1200: To law enforcement, KA's are known these, potential accomplices the suspected bad guys hang out with known associates |
| #7804, aired 2018-07-12 | MATH & SCIENCE $800: Newton's Third Law is often given as "for every action..." these 7 words there is an equal and opposite reaction |
| #7801, aired 2018-07-09 | INTERNATIONAL LAW $400: The third of these in 1949 stated that belligerents should treat prisoners of war humanely the Geneva Conventions |
| #7801, aired 2018-07-09 | INTERNATIONAL LAW $800: Territorial this type of refuge may be granted to one accused of treason in his home country asylum |
| #7801, aired 2018-07-09 | INTERNATIONAL LAW $1200: Nicaragua v. the U.S. was brought before the International Court of Justice when this man was U.S. president Reagan |
| #7801, aired 2018-07-09 | INTERNATIONAL LAW $1600: In international law, this 2-word term refers to open waters that belong to no countries; time to sail them high seas or the open seas |
| #7801, aired 2018-07-09 | INTERNATIONAL LAW $2000: A 1979 treaty says the use of this, where only Americans have ever been, is "the province of all mankind" the moon |
| #7798, aired 2018-07-04 | THE LAW OF THE LAND $400: This territory uses "Spanish civil code" & "the U.S. federal system" Puerto Rico |
| #7798, aired 2018-07-04 | THE LAW OF THE LAND $800: "System influenced by Japanese traditions and Communist legal theory" North Korea |
| #7798, aired 2018-07-04 | THE LAW OF THE LAND $1200: (At the west end of a Caribbean island)
"Civil law system strongly influenced by Napoleonic code" Haiti |
| #7798, aired 2018-07-04 | THE LAW OF THE LAND $1600: "Roman-Dutch civil law, English common law, and Jaffna Tamil customary law" Sri Lanka |
| #7798, aired 2018-07-04 | THE LAW OF THE LAND $2000: "Mixed legal system" including "British mandate regulations" Israel |
| #7792, aired 2018-06-26 | OLIVE MY LOVE $400: By law, olives labeled as "Kalamata" must come from a region of this country Greece |
| #7790, aired 2018-06-22 | LET'S TAKE A CLASS AT HARVARD $2000: At Harvard Law, Prof. Lessig wants to school you on the separation of powers in his course on this type of law constitutional |
| #7788, aired 2018-06-20 | 25 YEARS AGO: 1993 $2,000 (Daily Double): A major gun control measure known as this was signed into law in November the Brady Bill |
| #7781, aired 2018-06-11 | TV QUOTES $800: This AMC spin-off featured the line "Slippin' Jimmy with a law degree is like a chimp with a machine gun" Better Call Saul |
| #7778, aired 2018-06-06 | THE SCIENCE OF MECHANICS $3,000 (Daily Double): Newton's 1st Law of Motion, known as the Law of this, is why a car crash throws you into the windshield--buckle up! inertia |
| #7774, aired 2018-05-31 | LAND $2000: You got title to a nice tract of land if you lived on it & improved it under this 1862 law the Homestead Act |
| #7773, aired 2018-05-30 | GENERAL KNOWLEDGE $400: A federal law signed Aug. 6, 1965 banned literary & other tests for people to do this to vote |
| #7755, aired 2018-05-04 | MOVIE REMAKES $800: In a 2007 remake Russell Crowe is the bad guy the law wants to put on this title train 3:10 to Yuma |
| #7755, aired 2018-05-04 | BORROWED WORDS $1600: The Arabic word for "lawful" gave us this word meaning slaughtered according to Islamic law halal |
| #7752, aired 2018-05-01 | NOVEL TITLE CHARACTERS $1000: This orphan was written into existence just after the passing of the Poor Law of 1834 Oliver Twist |
| #7744, aired 2018-04-19 | STRAIGHT "A"s IN SCIENCE $1200: The law that the upward force on a submerged body equals the weight of the displaced fluid is this man's principle Archimedes |
| #7737, aired 2018-04-10 | NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNERS $1200: This sitting U.S. president won the 1919 prize for his efforts to make peace an part of international law Wilson |
| #7731, aired 2018-04-02 | REESE WITHERSPOON MOVIES $400: Harvard Law student Elle Woods Legally Blonde |
| #7729, aired 2018-03-29 | WESTERN NOVELS $800: Clifton Adams specialized in rip-roaring Westerns like "Law of" this mechanism that you really press more than pull Law of the Trigger |
| #7728, aired 2018-03-28 | RELATIONSHIPS ARE HARD $600: Eric Trump to Jared Kushner brother-in-law |
| #7724, aired 2018-03-22 | VERY POSSESSIVE $1,600 (Daily Double): According to Boyle's Law, this in a gas increases whenever the volume of its container decreases pressure |
| #7723, aired 2018-03-21 | NOT-SO-SERIOUS LAWS $200: Betteridge's law states that any headline ending in a question mark can be answered safely by this word no |
| #7723, aired 2018-03-21 | NOT-SO-SERIOUS LAWS $400: According to Muphry's law, any written criticism of proofreading will contain these errors (or mistakes, typos) |
| #7723, aired 2018-03-21 | NOT-SO-SERIOUS LAWS $1000: His law tells us work always expands to fill the available time Parkinson |
| #7718, aired 2018-03-14 | WHAT A HIGH-CLASS MISTAKE! $1000: Hee hee! Discussing Latin legal terms, you got de facto ("in fact") mixed up with this, "according to law" de jure |
| #7716, aired 2018-03-12 | QUOTH THE AMENDMENT $400: "Congress shall make no law..." the First Amendment |
| #7716, aired 2018-03-12 | EDUCATION $2000: A 1988 law boosting research & new strategies is named for these 2 qualities, 1 of a math whiz & 1 of a violin prodigy gifted and talented |
| #7714, aired 2018-03-08 | I AM NOT A (PRACTICING) LAWYER $800: The BBC paid twice as much as the legal world, one of the reasons this man silly-walked away from the law (John) Cleese |
| #7714, aired 2018-03-08 | I AM NOT A (PRACTICING) LAWYER $2000: 10 years after graduating from Virginia Law, he was the puzzlemaster on NPR's "Weekend Edition" Will Shortz |
| #7711, aired 2018-03-05 | THOMAS LESS $400: In 2007 a District of Columbia law professor called him "Talk-Less Thomas" Clarence Thomas |
| #7707, aired 2018-02-27 | TOLERANCE $200: In 1649 this colony led by Cecilius, Lord Baron of Baltimore, passed a law of religious toleration Maryland |
| #7704, aired 2018-02-22 | MOM GENES $1,200 (Daily Double): Her daughter Jane teaches I.P. law at Columbia, her alma mater; she cited Jane's work in an opinion for the Supreme Court Ruth Bader Ginsburg |
| #7703, aired 2018-02-21 | VERY, VERY U.K. ELECTION CONSTITUENCIES $800: Batley & Spen; Pudsey; this city, home to Robin Hood's law enforcement enemy East Nottingham |
| #7696, aired 2018-02-12 | 8-LETTER WORDS $800: It means wary or ever alert; don't take the law into your own hands by adding an E to it vigilant |
| #7693, aired 2018-02-07 | THE "DIS"PATCH $2000: It's the "dis" word in ADA, a law passed in 1990 prohibiting discrimination Disabilities |
| #7692, aired 2018-02-06 | MEMORIALS $600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents from Copenhagen, Denmark.) The anchor honors the Danish navy, whose greatest triumph during World War II was sinking 32 of its own ships on August 29, 1943, as the Germans imposed this type of law & increased control martial law |
| #7689, aired 2018-02-01 | CIVIL LAW $400: In German civil law you can have a holographic one of these, that bears the testator's signature will |
| #7689, aired 2018-02-01 | CIVIL LAW $800: This 1804 code contained French civil law Napoleonic Code |
| #7689, aired 2018-02-01 | CIVIL LAW $1200: The Swiss civil code of 1907 superseded some of the laws of these districts of the federation a canton |
| #7689, aired 2018-02-01 | CIVIL LAW $1600: In some civil-law countries, these "public" legal authenticators have significant educational requirements notary |
| #7689, aired 2018-02-01 | CIVIL LAW $2000: The U.S. Justice Dept. says that in countries with civil law, the judge can act more like this "p"erson in our system prosecutor |
| #7674, aired 2018-01-11 | EARLY AMERICA $800: This 1798 law aimed at Frenchmen & Irishmen in the U.S. was passed about 3 weeks before the Sedition Act the Alien Act |
| #7672, aired 2018-01-09 | IOWA HISTORY $2000: In 1869 Arabella Mansfield became the USA's first woman admitted to this profession, & later taught at DePauw law |
| #7671, aired 2018-01-08 | THERMODYNAMICS $1600: There's a law that comes before the First Law of Thermodynamics; physicist Ralph Fowler gave it this 6-letter name zeroth |
| #7669, aired 2018-01-04 | HELP! TV POLICE! $200: In 1991 S. Epatha Merkerson guested as Mrs. Winters on this NBC show; from 1993 to 2010, she starred as Anita Van Buren Law & Order |
| #7664, aired 2017-12-28 | ACCORDING TO BLACK'S LAW DICTIONARY $200: "Parental" this is "given on a minor's behalf... for the minor to engage in or submit to a specified activity" consent |
| #7664, aired 2017-12-28 | ACCORDING TO BLACK'S LAW DICTIONARY $400: "The act... of officially nullifying punishment or other legal consequences of a crime" a pardon |
| #7664, aired 2017-12-28 | ACCORDING TO BLACK'S LAW DICTIONARY $600: "A person who settles on property without any legal claim or title" a squatter |
| #7664, aired 2017-12-28 | ACCORDING TO BLACK'S LAW DICTIONARY $800: "A writ... directing a law enforcer to make an arrest, a search, or a seizure" a warrant |
| #7664, aired 2017-12-28 | ACCORDING TO BLACK'S LAW DICTIONARY $1000: "The judicial procedure by which a testamentary document is established to be a valid will" probate |
| #7663, aired 2017-12-27 | I GOT 3 I'S ON YOU $200: Any law that forbids, especially the sale of alcohol prohibition |
| #7652, aired 2017-12-12 | "IM" THE LAW $400: An "alien" type of this person has not been naturalized an immigrant |
| #7652, aired 2017-12-12 | "IM" THE LAW $800: If you do it to a witness, you attack his credibility; Congress can also do it to a president impeach |
| #7652, aired 2017-12-12 | "IM" THE LAW $1200: This type of expert witness is appointed by the court & is expected not to take sides an impartial witness |
| #7652, aired 2017-12-12 | "IM" THE LAW $1600: The court might do this, take your stuff as evidence; hopefully, you'll get it back after the trial impound |
| #7652, aired 2017-12-12 | "IM" THE LAW $2000: 2 "IM"s in a row are in this sentencing statement regarding the awful results of a crime a victim impact statement |
| #7643, aired 2017-11-29 | TV SETTINGS $400: A South Dakota town where there is no law as of July 1876 Deadwood |
| #7643, aired 2017-11-29 | TV SETTINGS $800: The prestigious African-American-owned law firm of Reddick, Boseman & Kolstad in Chicago The Good Fight |
| #7642, aired 2017-11-28 | TIME TO SAY GOODBYE $600: In June 2017 "The Fantasticks" had its last show in a theater named for this "Law & Order" star who opened the show in 1960 Jerry Orbach |
| #7637, aired 2017-11-21 | BIBLE STUDY $400: Used to refer to the first 5 books of the Bible, this Hebrew word is usually translated as "law" the Torah |
| #7636, aired 2017-11-20 | ACTORS $2000: On the wrong side of the law in his youth, he changed his ways and has starred in films like "Machete" (Danny) Trejo |
| #7635, aired 2017-11-17 | EPONYMS $1200: A 1965 observation that computer capacity keeps on doubling is called this Intel co-founder's "law" Moore's law |
| #7630, aired 2017-11-10 | FRUIT, NOT FRUIT $200: If your new car seems possessed by the devil, this law can help you get a replacement car or refund in California a lemon law |
| #7624, aired 2017-11-02 | ENTERTAINMENT TONIGHT TRAVELS THROUGH TIME $600: (Nancy O'Dell and Kevin Frazier of Entertainment Tonight present the clue.)
(Kevin) It's November 21, 1980, with an actors' strike pushing the TV season back, it's been 8 months since we saw this character get shot
(Nancy) Tonight, 80 million viewers around the country will finally find out who done it--
(Kevin) My money's on the sister-in-law J.R. |
| #7623, aired 2017-11-01 | BORROWED WORDS $1600: A Spanish word meaning "alert" or "watchful", or an English word meaning an unauthorized law enforcer vigilante |
| #7618, aired 2017-10-25 | PROVERBIALLY SPEAKING $1000: This "is nine points of the law" possession |
| #7617, aired 2017-10-24 | "R"2 "D"2 $400: Michelle Obama attended Princeton for this type of education, followed by Harvard Law School undergraduate |
| #7617, aired 2017-10-24 | PROFESSORS $400: Before becoming a Massachusetts senator, she was the Leo Gottlieb Professor of Law at Harvard Elizabeth Warren |
| #7606, aired 2017-10-09 | LAW SLAW $200: Connecticut's rules for this group of 12 say don't look up any words you hear in court in a dictionary a jury |
| #7606, aired 2017-10-09 | LAW SLAW $400: This 7-letter word can mean legal advice or a lawyer, such as a leading or general one counsel |
| #7606, aired 2017-10-09 | LAW SLAW $600: In some states even after doing the time, you can get a felony conviction reduced to this other major type misdemeanor |
| #7606, aired 2017-10-09 | LAW SLAW $800: Louisiana's first-in-the-nation law making cop-killing a hate crime is known as these "lives matter" blue |
| #7606, aired 2017-10-09 | LAW SLAW $1000: To get a legal verb meaning "stop someone from bringing certain claims", put this letter before "stop" E |
| #7601, aired 2017-10-02 | WELCOME BACK, U.S. SUPREME COURT $400: Each justice gets 4 of these helpers who may hope to rise to the court themselves, as young Stephen Breyer did law clerks |
| #7601, aired 2017-10-02 | WELCOME BACK, U.S. SUPREME COURT $600: Thank her, the first female dean of Harvard Law, for getting a froyo machine installed in the cafeteria Elena Kagan |
| #7601, aired 2017-10-02 | LEAP YEARS $1200: In 1987 this alliterative woman, FloJo's sister-in-law, tied the world long jump record Jackie Joyner |
| #7596, aired 2017-09-25 | THE CITY'S TV SHOW $1200: As good cop Molly Solverson, Allison Tolman laid down the law in season 1 of this FX drama inspired by a movie Fargo |
| #7595, aired 2017-09-22 | I'M NO ACQUITTER $1600: When he was "the law west of the Pecos", he fined a corpse $40 for having a concealed weapon Judge Roy Bean |
| #7594, aired 2017-09-21 | DRAMATIC TV DRAMA! $1600: Jude Law laid down the law to the faithful from a dark balcony on this show, saying, "I don't know if you deserve me" The Young Pope |
| #7586, aired 2017-09-11 | HISTORY OF SCIENCE $400: This man announced his periodic law of the elements before the Russian Chemical Society in 1869 Mendeleyev |
| #7582, aired 2017-07-25 | "J"EOPARDY! $2000: English physicist who discovered the First Law of Thermodynamics & gave his name to a unit of energy Joule |
| #7580, aired 2017-07-21 | CARD PLAYER'S VOCABULARY $800: They come in law & three-piece varieties suits |
| #7579, aired 2017-07-20 | THE 21st CENTURY $1600: Colloquial name for the Massachusetts health system signed into law in 2006 Romneycare |
| #7577, aired 2017-07-18 | CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE CHAIRS $1600: Former U.S. attorney Susan W. Brooks lays down the law on this "moralistic" House committee Ethics |
| #7573, aired 2017-07-12 | BIBLICAL BEFORE & AFTER $400: Wayward offspring who in a parable marries your daughter the Prodigal Son-in-law |
| #7571, aired 2017-07-10 | ADJECTIVES $200: This adjective found before "law" & "arts" means "warlike" martial |
| #7571, aired 2017-07-10 | THE PRESIDENTIAL VERSE OF RICHARD ARMOUR $600: "He took the violin in hand and really made it squeak. He studied law and science and read Latin, French, and Greek" Jefferson |
| #7570, aired 2017-07-07 | MO-POURRI $800: In "Black's Law Dictionary", M.O. stands for this Latin phrase modus operandi |
| #7563, aired 2017-06-28 | NEWER WORDS & PHRASES $400: Mayors have declared Chicago & S.F. to be these, which won't help the feds enforce immigration law sanctuary cities |
| #7562, aired 2017-06-27 | GENRES $800: A TV show about the workings of law enforcement is alliteratively called a "police" this a procedural |
| #7560, aired 2017-06-23 | "OOP"s $200: An ambiguity in a law that makes it possible to avoid obeying it a loophole |
| #7559, aired 2017-06-22 | PLAYWRIGHTS $400: Daniel Day-Lewis, who starred in "The Crucible" on film, was this playwright's son-in-law Arthur Miller |
| #7556, aired 2017-06-19 | WHO THEY SERVED $200: In 2006 Alberto Gonzales laid down the law in this job under George W. Bush the Attorney General of the United States |
| #7553, aired 2017-06-14 | 1817 $200: This college established the USA's oldest continually operating university-based law school Harvard |
| #7553, aired 2017-06-14 | ENDS IN "Y" $600: The First Law of Thermodynamics states that this cannot be created or destroyed, but it can be converted to other forms energy |
| #7551, aired 2017-06-12 | "A" IN THE LAW $200: In Latin, it means "elsewhere"--do you have one for your whereabouts the night of the 16th? an alibi |
| #7551, aired 2017-06-12 | "A" IN THE LAW $400: This divine phrase refers to a natural event that couldn't have been prevented or foreseen using reasonable care an act of God |
| #7551, aired 2017-06-12 | "A" IN THE LAW $600: This word, also the name of a Triple Crown-winning thoroughbred, is used when agreeing with local court decisions affirmed |
| #7551, aired 2017-06-12 | "A" IN THE LAW $800: These jurors hear all the evidence, but don't have a say in the outcome unless the judge replaces someone an alternate |
| #7551, aired 2017-06-12 | "A" IN THE LAW $1000: This type of statement is usually signed by a notary & says where it was signed an affidavit |
| #7539, aired 2017-05-25 | U.S. SENATORS $400: Fred Thompson supplemented his Senate salary by joining the cast of this TV procedural in 2002 Law & Order |
| #7539, aired 2017-05-25 | COMPLETE THE NONPROFIT $2000: Southern ____ Law Center Poverty |
| #7537, aired 2017-05-23 | HISTORY $400: This document that said the king was subject to the rule of law was reissued with some changes in 1216, '17 & '25 the Magna Carta |
| #7532, aired 2017-05-16 | FILL IN THE ____ $1600: Named for physicist Georg:
____'s law of electrical resistance Ohm |
| #7528, aired 2017-05-10 | TV DINNERS $600: Law enforcement issues come up at the Reagan family Sunday dinners in many episodes of this CBS drama Blue Bloods |
| #7527, aired 2017-05-09 | INCLUDED & EXCLUDED $1200: Under Calif. law, one guilty of this type of offense such as arson & aggravated assault is not allowed a gun a felony |
| #7526, aired 2017-05-08 | PROVIDE US THE LATIN ABBREVIATION $2000: In 2 letters, "doctor of law" J.D. |
| #7519, aired 2017-04-27 | A TV GUIDE $1200: John Turturro has problems with his feet & Riz Ahmed has problems with the law on this HBO show based on a BBC show The Night Of |
| #7515, aired 2017-04-21 | ALMA MATERS $600: (I'm ABC News senior legal correspondent Sunny Hostin.) I received my law degree from this Indiana university that houses the oldest Roman Catholic law school in the nation Notre Dame |
| #7511, aired 2017-04-17 | THE LAW $400: It shocked San Francisco when Dan White was convicted only of voluntary this for killing Harvey Milk & George Moscone manslaughter |
| #7511, aired 2017-04-17 | THE LAW $800: On Mar. 8, 1948 the Supreme Court said religious teaching to spread the faith in public schools was this 16-letter word unconstitutional |
| #7511, aired 2017-04-17 | THE LAW $1200: 20% of the 32,000 Alaskans who filed a 1994 class action vs. this co. were dead by the time it got to the Supreme Court in 2008 Exxon |
| #7511, aired 2017-04-17 | THE LAW $1600: The 1917 law under which Edward Snowden was charged in 2013 isn't called the Spying Act but this act the Espionage Act |
| #7511, aired 2017-04-17 | THE LAW $2000: On Sept. 15, 1934 in NYC, he used a bill with serial nos. used in the Lindbergh baby ransom & was arrested (Bruno Richard) Hauptmann |
| #7509, aired 2017-04-13 | THE LONG ARM OF THE LAW $400: In 2014 a U.S. fugitive was nabbed in Nepal after his picture clicked with this "recognition" software facial recognition |
| #7509, aired 2017-04-13 | THE LONG ARM OF THE LAW $800: "Affluenza" teen Ethan Couch was busted in Mexico after cops traced a call to this pizza chain (but didn't arrive in 30 min.) Domino's |
| #7509, aired 2017-04-13 | THE LONG ARM OF THE LAW $1200: John List was arrested in 1989, 18 years after killing his family, after his age-enhanced image ran on this Fox TV show America's Most Wanted |
| #7509, aired 2017-04-13 | THE LONG ARM OF THE LAW $2000: American criminals, don't flee to Sri Lanka; the U.S. &. that country signed this type of agreement Sept. 30, 1999 extradition |
| #7509, aired 2017-04-13 | THE LONG ARM OF THE LAW $5,000 (Daily Double): Fugitives can run but they can't hide from this 190-member-nation organization founded in 1923 Interpol |
| #7507, aired 2017-04-11 | THE PEACE CORPS $1000: John F. Kennedy tapped this brother-in-law to organize & serve as the first director of the Peace Corps (Sargent) Shriver |
| #7506, aired 2017-04-10 | SIGN $200: Wisconsin law says no traffic sign except a stop sign shall be this shape an octagon |
| #7506, aired 2017-04-10 | SIGN $600: Clear Channel got a Florida law passed removing trees that blocked motorists' view of these big signs billboards |
| #7499, aired 2017-03-30 | FEMALE TV COPS $800: Her experience as Det. Olivia Benson on "Law & Order: SVU" led her to start a nonprofit group to help victims of assault Mariska Hargitay |
| #7497, aired 2017-03-28 | A FALLEN CATEGORY $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew gives the clue.) Inertia causes the eggs to seemingly defy logic and fall straight down; it's all part of this guy's first law of motion Newton |
| #7496, aired 2017-03-27 | CONSERVATIVE BOOKSHELF $1,401 (Daily Double): In 1913 federal law & the 16th Amend. levied this on many Americans; in 1954 a book called it the "root of all evil" income tax |
| #7490, aired 2017-03-17 | MOVIE STUDIOS $2000: Walt Disney's son-in-law launched this subsidiary that shares a name with the jester in "As You Like It" Touchstone Productions |
| #7487, aired 2017-03-14 | STATE HOLIDAYS $1200: In 2012 Ohio governor John Kasich signed a law designating February 20 as this man's Friendship 7 Day John Glenn |
| #7479, aired 2017-03-02 | BOATS & BOATING $800: By law, all PFDs, short for these, made of balsa or cork were retired from service by March 1999 personal flotation devices |
| #7479, aired 2017-03-02 | SWEAR WORDS $2000: As a noun, it's a document empowering law enforcement; as a verb, it means to promise warrant |
| #7475, aired 2017-02-24 | THE TV SHOW'S CHARACTERS $1200: Annalise Keating,
Wes Gibbins &
Laurel Castillo,
navigating the law How to Get Away with Murder |
| #7473, aired 2017-02-22 | FINANCIAL LITERACY $5 (Daily Double): The two guys seen here, or the 2010 law named for them, meant to reduce the risk of bank failures (Barney) Frank & (Christopher) Dodd |
| #7470, aired 2017-02-17 | COLLEGE MAJORS IN OTHER WORDS $800: Before the time of actor Jude pre-law |
| #7461, aired 2017-02-06 | VENICE $400: To curb excessive decoration of these boats by nobles, Venice passed a law that kept them black a gondola |
| #7460, aired 2017-02-03 | SCIENTIFIC MILESTONES $800: Heavy, man: Antoine Lavoisier made the Law of Conservation of this one of the foundations of modern chemistry mass |
| #7456, aired 2017-01-30 | ECONOMICS $400: Chris Rock on this economic rule: it's your boss saying ,"If I could pay you less, I would, but it's against the law" minimum wage |
| #7456, aired 2017-01-30 | CHEMISTRY $1200: In Boyle's Law the "P" in the formula PV=k stands for this pressure |
| #7448, aired 2017-01-18 | SHELLFISH $800: In 2004 the city of Reggio Emilia, Italy passed a law banning the killing of this shellfish by dropping it in boiling water lobster |
| #7447, aired 2017-01-17 | COMPOSERS $800: This Finn abandoned his law studies & went on to compose "The Swan Of Tuonela" & "Finlandia" Sibelius |
| #7439, aired 2017-01-05 | FILE UNDER "L" $400: Convicts fleeing from the law are said to be "on the" this lam |
| #7439, aired 2017-01-05 | THE SHAPE OF THINGS $600: Kepler's First Law shows that Mars' orbit around the sun is this shape, not perfectly round an ellipse |
| #7437, aired 2017-01-03 | ANCIENT BABYLON $400: This Babylonian king laid down the law & go things going for the empire around 1792 B.C. Hammurabi |
| #7432, aired 2016-12-27 | WHO WAS THAT MASKED MAN? $1200: This masked man first "led the fight for law and order in the early Western United States" in 1933 on WXYZ in Detroit the Lone Ranger |
| #7431, aired 2016-12-26 | BIRDS IN THE BIBLE $1600: This king's pursuit of his son-in-law David is compared to a partridge hunt in the mountains Saul |
| #7427, aired 2016-12-20 | HISTORY $2000: In 1950 this Israeli parliament passed the Law of Return, allowing Jews to go to Israel & get immediate citizenship the Knesset |
| #7421, aired 2016-12-12 | THE LAW $400: In criminal law, it's a statement in which a suspect admits he or she is guilty of a crime & often gives details a confession |
| #7421, aired 2016-12-12 | THE LAW $800: Let's set this, a legal decision that serves as an authoritative rule for future similar cases a precedent |
| #7421, aired 2016-12-12 | THE LAW $1200: California car buyers know the Tanner Consumer Protection Act is one piece of this "fruity" legislation the lemon law |
| #7421, aired 2016-12-12 | THE LAW $1600: The onus is on you--onus probandi literally means this burden of proof |
| #7421, aired 2016-12-12 | THE LAW $2000: 6-letter type of "law" or "clause" providing that a legal entity ceases to exist by a certain date unless renewed a sunset law |
| #7411, aired 2016-11-28 | THEY COME IN THREES $800: This California law could jail you for life if you commit a third felony three strikes |
| #7397, aired 2016-11-08 | PALINDROMES $1000: 2-word palindrome meaning a comic-strip "menace" violated God's law Dennis sinned |
| #7378, aired 2016-10-12 | FROM DAWN TIL DUSK $1600: A sheriff in the Old West might do this to someone, making him part of law enforcement deputize |
| #7375, aired 2016-10-07 | NO DISCRIMINATION $200: The sequence "race, color, religion, sex" (they said sex) "or national origin" is in this 1964 federal law the Civil Rights Act |
| #7375, aired 2016-10-07 | NO DISCRIMINATION $1000: The U.N.'s UDHR for short, it says all "are entitled without any discrimination to equal protection of the law" the Universal Declaration of Human Rights |
| #7373, aired 2016-10-05 | NAPOLEON $800: In 1804 France enacted the "Napoleonic" this, still the basis for much of its law the Code |
| #7372, aired 2016-10-04 | BRITISH HISTORY $4,200 (Daily Double): In December 1947 Parliament passed the law granting independence to this Asian island Sri Lanka |
| #7369, aired 2016-09-29 | IN-LAWS $200: It would be natural for her, Prince Charles' second wife, to be intimidated by her mother-in-law (Queen Elizabeth) Camilla |
| #7369, aired 2016-09-29 | BOY SCOUT LAW WORDS $200: "A scout is trustworthy...", then this word describing one faithful to a leader or friend loyal |
| #7369, aired 2016-09-29 | IN-LAWS $400: This handbag designer, sister-in-law to comedian & actor David, recently changed her last name to Valentine Kate Spade |
| #7369, aired 2016-09-29 | BOY SCOUT LAW WORDS $400: This synonym for frugal is also the name of a car rental company thrifty |
| #7369, aired 2016-09-29 | IN-LAWS $600: For a brief time, Janet Jackson was sister-in-law to this daughter of "the King" Lisa Marie Presley |
| #7369, aired 2016-09-29 | BOY SCOUT LAW WORDS $600: Immaculate is a synonym for this word that can precede "getaway" or a "sweep" clean |
| #7369, aired 2016-09-29 | IN-LAWS $800: Frederic Joliot, winner of a Nobel with wife Irene, could hold his own at the dinner table with her, his mother-in-law Marie Curie |
| #7369, aired 2016-09-29 | IN-LAWS $1000: As Henry IV of France was married to Margaret of Valois, this influential Medici was his mother-in-law Catherine Medici |
| #7368, aired 2016-09-28 | YE OLDE JOB FAIRE $200: In the old days of law enforcement, people might say, "There's a new shrieve in town" instead of this job sheriff |
| #7367, aired 2016-09-27 | HISTORIC DOCUMENTS $1000: Name given U.S. Public Law 88-408, passed in 1964 giving LBJ the power to prevent further aggression the Tonkin Gulf Resolution |
| #7365, aired 2016-09-23 | ANIMALS $800: This was the first dog breed to collect admissible evidence for American courts of law a bloodhound |
| #7363, aired 2016-09-21 | RELATIVE POP CULTURE $1600: Peter Davison, the 5th man to play the iconic sci-fi role on this show, became father-in-law to David Tennant, the 10th Doctor Who |
| #7359, aired 2016-09-15 | TAKE ME TO COURT $2000: FICA is a line on your pay stub; this law set up a special court to approve national security warrants FISA |
| #7358, aired 2016-09-14 | FOLKS OF SCIENCE $2000: This 17th c. British scientist's law states in part that volume increases as pressure decreases (Robert) Boyle |
| #7349, aired 2016-07-21 | THE LETTER OF THE LAW $200: M:
If it can go wrong, it will Murphy's law |
| #7349, aired 2016-07-21 | THE LETTER OF THE LAW $400: B:
Handgun violence prevention act passed in 1993 Brady (Law) |
| #7349, aired 2016-07-21 | THE LETTER OF THE LAW $600: O:
Physics law describing the relation between voltage, current & resistance Ohm's law |
| #7349, aired 2016-07-21 | THE LETTER OF THE LAW $800: B:
Chemistry law saying pressure of a gas at constant temperature varies inversely with volume Boyle's |
| #7349, aired 2016-07-21 | THE LETTER OF THE LAW $1000: M:
1996 federal law requiring law enforcement to notify communities of sex offenders Megan's Law |
| #7334, aired 2016-06-30 | FAMILIAL TERMS $400: Joint accounts & taking the same last name may make you legally this type of husband & wife, though you aren't wed common law |
| #7324, aired 2016-06-16 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: The last state to end prohibition was this "Magnolia State", which adopted a local-option law in 1966 Mississippi |
| #7323, aired 2016-06-15 | THE 1820s $1600: A law known by this French word for one who leaves his country compensated noblemen who had fled the revolution emigré |
| #7321, aired 2016-06-13 | THE LAW $400: This late justice said personally he'd jail "weirdos" who burn the flag, but sided with a 1989 decision that it's free speech (Antonin) Scalia |
| #7321, aired 2016-06-13 | ACTORS IN COMMERCIALS $600: This "Law & Order" assistant D.A. has told us the virtues of TD Ameritrade Sam Waterston |
| #7321, aired 2016-06-13 | THE LAW $800: Sir Edward Coke's maxim "a man's house is his" this is one basis for privacy law castle |
| #7321, aired 2016-06-13 | THE LAW $1600: This liberal icon who once represented Patty Hearst & Claus von Bulow has been a Harvard professor for 50 years Alan Dershowitz |
| #7321, aired 2016-06-13 | THE LAW $2,000 (Daily Double): It's the power of government to expropriate land for public use subject to reasonable compensation eminent domain |
| #7319, aired 2016-06-09 | MINOR ROLES, MAJOR MOTION PICTURE $600: Cardinal Law,
Boston Globe security guard Spotlight |
| #7318, aired 2016-06-08 | ROBOT CHECK-IN $400: Spielberg's next 2-letter film after "E.T.", it featured Jude Law as a handsome mecha called Gigolo Joe A.I. |
| #7316, aired 2016-06-06 | ELLIS ISLAND $1600: While attending law school, this future NYC mayor known as "The Little Flower" served as an interpreter on the island LaGuardia |
| #7311, aired 2016-05-30 | PHYSICS TEST $1600: Newton's third law: when 2 bodies meet, they exert forces on each other that are equal in magnitude & opposite in this direction |
| #7311, aired 2016-05-30 | THE CONSTITUTION $2,400 (Daily Double): The 5th Amendment says you can't be jailed "without" this phrase "of law", a protection rooted in Magna Carta due process |
| #7305, aired 2016-05-20 | ON THE BOOKSHELF $1200: In this novel, Mark Watney reasons that maritime law applies to Mars, making him "a space pirate" The Martian |
| #7304, aired 2016-05-19 | CONSERVATIVE $1600: Helmholtz gave us the law of conservation of this, also what you do when you take it easy at the start of a long run (conservation of) energy |
| #7302, aired 2016-05-17 | THE REAGAN WHITE HOUSE $1200: (George Stephanopoulos gives the clue.) My mother-in-law, Mabel Brandon Cabot, held this alliterative job in the Reagan White House, working with the First Lady in planning events like state dinners Social Secretary |
| #7297, aired 2016-05-10 | LAW FIRMS $400: Sidley Austin of K Street can help you with this activity of making Congressmen see an issue your way lobbying |
| #7297, aired 2016-05-10 | LAW FIRMS $800: Try Falangetti & Weimortz for your criminal case-- they've both been on the other side as deputy these district attorneys |
| #7297, aired 2016-05-10 | LAW FIRMS $1200: A law firm as well as an individual may file a friend of the court brief, known by this Latin term an amicus |
| #7297, aired 2016-05-10 | LAW FIRMS $1600: Tops for patent litigation per U.S. News & World Report, Fish & Richardson specializes in IP, short for this intellectual property |
| #7297, aired 2016-05-10 | LAW FIRMS $2,000 (Daily Double): Vince Foster was once a partner at Rose Law Firm, which claims the title of oldest in this state Arkansas |
| #7283, aired 2016-04-20 | ELECTRICITY $2000: The law named for this 18th century French physicist is the electrical analogue to the law of gravity Charles-Augustin de Coulomb |
| #7278, aired 2016-04-13 | THE HOLY "C" $1200: This code of law that sounds like a weapon governs the administration of the church the canon |
| #7275, aired 2016-04-08 | VILLAINS IN THE COMICS $800: No 3-strikes law in Metropolis--Superman first fought this alliterative arch-foe in 1940 Lex Luthor |
| #7272, aired 2016-04-05 | MOVIE COMMON THREADS $2000: "Gray Lady ____ by Law" Down |
| #7259, aired 2016-03-17 | WHAT'S GOING ON IN THE NEWS? $200: In 2015 a Penn. town cited federal law to stop a man from paying a $25 parking ticket with this many pennies 2,500 |
| #7258, aired 2016-03-16 | BEHAVIOR & PSYCHOLOGY $800: From the Greek for "self law", it's the ability of an individual to behave independently of others' control autonomy |
| #7255, aired 2016-03-11 | U.S. FIRSTS $800: In the 1810 case Fletcher v. Peck, the Supreme Court declared for the first time ever that a state law was this unconstitutional |
| #7251, aired 2016-03-07 | AMERICAN HISTORY $200: In 1700 Massachusetts passed a law requiring all priests of this faith to hit the road Catholicism |
| #7251, aired 2016-03-07 | LITERATURE IS FOR THE BIRDS $4,000 (Daily Double): In this novel, a Tulane law student discovers facts that people will kill for, & if she doesn't get help, she might be next The Pelican Brief |
| #7248, aired 2016-03-02 | WHAT'S YOUR MOVIE PROFESSION? $800: The non-brunette, non-redheaded Elle Woods a lawyer |
| #7243, aired 2016-02-24 | DISASTER CITY $1000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from Texas A&M Disaster City in College Station, TX.) Law enforcement can secure rooms by stunning suspects with this type of nonlethal grenade; its name is from light that overstimulates the retina & a boom that disorients a flashbang |
| #7241, aired 2016-02-22 | THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION ERA $2000: A 1765 British law named for this act of housing soldiers also ordered colonists to supply fuel & alcohol the Quartering Act |
| #7234, aired 2016-02-11 | CELEBRITIES $600: It's not just gossip, girl--this actor really is Tony Romo's brother-in-law Chace Crawford |
| #7231, aired 2016-02-08 | HOME WATCHING TV $400: Set at a law school, "How to Get Away with Murder" stars this Emmy winner as an attorney & law professor Viola Davis |
| #7230, aired 2016-02-05 | DROPPED OUT OR EXPELLED $800: A politics-dabbling former CEO of Hewlett-Packard, she dropped out of UCLA law school after only one semester Fiorina |
| #7228, aired 2016-02-03 | TV FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS $1000: The Dowager Countess of Grantham to Cora Crawley on "Downton Abbey" mother-in-law |
| #7227, aired 2016-02-02 | THE 1800s $1000: 1859:
This NYC location with Frederick Law Olmsted as chief designer opens to the public Central Park |
| #7227, aired 2016-02-02 | MATH TEST $1200: a + b = b + a is this law of addition the commutative law |
| #7226, aired 2016-02-01 | "EX"s & "OH"s $800: We'll lay down his law--
E = I x R (Georg) Ohm |
| #7222, aired 2016-01-26 | TV SHOWS BY CHARACTERS $1600: Police detective Lennie Briscoe,
D.A. Adam Schiff Law & Order |
| #7219, aired 2016-01-21 | IN THE ORIGINAL $800: In 1966's "Alfie", Michael Caine was the title ladies' man; it was this Brit in the remake Jude Law |
| #7215, aired 2016-01-15 | O CANADA $600: Despite this 4-word name that a law enforcement group took in 1920, they now only ride horses in special ceremonies the Royal Canadian Mounted Police |
| #7214, aired 2016-01-14 | ANTONYM & CLEOPATRA $1200: Cleo was a royal, not this antonym also found before "sense" & "law" common |
| #7208, aired 2016-01-06 | FAMILY FEUD $1000: The book "Nemesis" details Robert Kennedy's feud with this European, who ended up marrying RFK's former in-law (Aristotle) Onassis |
| #7205, aired 2016-01-01 | WEDDING ISLE $2,000 (Daily Double): Those wanting to get married in Bali must conform to this country's Law No. 1 of 1974 Indonesia |
| #7203, aired 2015-12-30 | WHAT A SUCCESSION! $1600: The Salic law of succession included the principle that these people couldn't succeed to a throne women |
| #7168, aired 2015-11-11 | RULE OF LAW $400: "Hearsay bad!" is one of the Federal Rules of this Evidence |
| #7168, aired 2015-11-11 | RULE OF LAW $800: A 2015 SEC rule says companies must disclose the pay gap between workers & this 3-letter boss the CEO |
| #7168, aired 2015-11-11 | RULE OF LAW $1200: The rule of lenity tells courts to interpret an ambiguous law this way in sentencing leniently |
| #7168, aired 2015-11-11 | RULE OF LAW $1600: In California it enforces rules of professional conduct for lawyers the (state) bar (association) |
| #7168, aired 2015-11-11 | RULE OF LAW $2000: Under the rule of doubt, incomprehensible computer code can't be given this protection copyright protection |
| #7167, aired 2015-11-10 | THIS & THAT $600: As of 2013 Hawaii law lets landlords get an extra deposit for possible damages from renters who have these pets |
| #7164, aired 2015-11-05 | "L" OF A CATEGORY $400: Vigilantes "take" it "into their own hands" the law |
| #7156, aired 2015-10-26 | PEOPLE WITH BIBLE BOOK NAMES $800: The real Mr. Law;
the fictional Mr. Fawley Jude |
| #7153, aired 2015-10-21 | HISTORIC NAMES $2000: This Athenian who introduced a more humane law code was considered one of the "7 Wise Men of Greece" Solon |
| #7149, aired 2015-10-15 | REORDERING THE NOTED PAIR $600: In 1779 a certain college became the first in the U.S. to offer pro training in law; in 2015, we led with the queen & renamed it this Mary & William |
| #7145, aired 2015-10-09 | 17th CENTURY AMERICA $400: In 1652 Massachusetts defied English law & established this facility to produce the pine tree shilling the mint |
| #7142, aired 2015-10-06 | TV $800: At least your mother-in-law can't curse you the way Endora vexed & hexed Darrin Stephens on this '60s series Bewitched |
| #7136, aired 2015-09-28 | BOTANISTS $800: This monk's 2 basic principles of heredity are the law of independent assortment & the law of segregation Mendel |
| #7122, aired 2015-07-28 | ROMAN CIVICS $1600: Passage of the 445 B.C. law known as the Lex Canuleia allowed plebeians to marry this other "P" class of Romans patricians |
| #7121, aired 2015-07-27 | IN B__W $400: Familial relationship of Stanley Kowalski to Blanche DuBois brother-in-law |
| #7111, aired 2015-07-13 | THE BEGINNING OF THE PLAY $1600: In one stage adaptation, it's set in "the jury room of a New York court of law"--the time is 1954 Twelve Angry Men |
| #7104, aired 2015-07-02 | U.S. MARSHALS $400: The oldest federal law-enforcement agency, the U.S. Marshals were established when this man signed the 1789 Judiciary Act George Washington |
| #7103, aired 2015-07-01 | TV TITLE ____ & ____ $400: A prime-time crime-solving staple from 1990 to 2010; bong bong! Law & Order |
| #7081, aired 2015-06-01 | THE LAW OF THE LAND $200: It can be 20 years for biting off someone's limb in this smallest state but don't worry--that's only if you did it on purpose Rhode Island |
| #7081, aired 2015-06-01 | THE LAW OF THE LAND $400: B5, times 2! In North Carolina, an org. can only play this game 2 sessions a week, a max of 5 hours each time Bingo |
| #7081, aired 2015-06-01 | THE LAW OF THE LAND $600: In Michigan, thou shalt not hook up with thy neighbor's wife--this act--lest ye get 4 years in prison adultery |
| #7081, aired 2015-06-01 | THE LAW OF THE LAND $800: The constitution of this "Land of Enchantment" state says most folks can vote except "idiots (&) insane persons" New Mexico |
| #7081, aired 2015-06-01 | THE LAW OF THE LAND $1,000 (Daily Double): Tennessee bars holding office if you take part in these, though Tenn.'s Andrew Jackson took part in as many as 100 duels |
| #7076, aired 2015-05-25 | BIBLICAL WOMEN $1200: She told her mother-in-law Naomi, "Whither thou goest, I will go" Ruth |
| #7071, aired 2015-05-18 | TEXAS RISING $800: One of the first acts of the new Texas government was posting this law-enforcement group to defend the frontier the Texas Rangers |
| #7065, aired 2015-05-08 | 4-WORD EXCHANGE $1200: "The law of the jungle" is equated with this phrase that Darwin actually attributed to Herbert Spencer survival of the fittest |
| #7059, aired 2015-04-30 | MILITARY TV $800: Sort of "Top Gun" meets "Law & Order", this 1995-2005 show mixed legal, military & personal stories J.A.G. |
| #7056, aired 2015-04-27 | ACTORS PLAYING ACTORS $1600: Swashbuckling Jude Law played swashbuckling Errol Flynn in this Howard Hughes biopic The Aviator |
| #7046, aired 2015-04-13 | INTERNATIONAL LAW $400: Refuge granted by a sovereign state, it can sometimes be sought in an embassy asylum |
| #7046, aired 2015-04-13 | INTERNATIONAL LAW $800: Read all about it! It's the delivery of a fugitive from another country specifically for a criminal offense extradition |
| #7046, aired 2015-04-13 | INTERNATIONAL LAW $1200: The 1982 Law of the Sea says for these groupings, like Indonesia, water between islands is for all states' ships an archipelago |
| #7046, aired 2015-04-13 | INTERNATIONAL LAW $2000: The United Nations defines "human" this-ing as the acquisition of people with the aim of exploiting them trafficking |
| #7046, aired 2015-04-13 | INTERNATIONAL LAW $4,000 (Daily Double): This reciprocal 2-word status exempts ambassadors from taxation as well as arrest in most cases diplomatic immunity |
| #7046, aired 2015-04-13 | BOOK SYNOPSES $9,200 (Daily Double): Harvard Law grad Mitch McDeere takes a job with a mafia-connected law partnership The Firm |
| #7043, aired 2015-04-08 | 1995 BESTSELLERS $200: A young attorney barely out of law school exposes a giant corporate conspiracy in this author's "The Rainmaker" (John) Grisham |
| #7043, aired 2015-04-08 | WORLD HISTORY $400: Before he was the "Father of India", he led a nonviolent protest against an Asiatic registration law in South Africa (Mahatma) Gandhi |
| #7042, aired 2015-04-07 | FILM SCHOOL $200: Asked, "You got into Harvard Law?" in this film, Reese Witherspoon replies, "What, like it's hard?" Legally Blonde |
| #7041, aired 2015-04-06 | SUPPORTING THE TV SHOW $1000: Arlo Givens & Johnny Crowder dealt with law & disorder Justified |
| #7040, aired 2015-04-03 | IN LIFE $400: In common law, the age of this, signaling adulthood, is presumed to be 14 in boys & 12 in girls puberty |
| #7037, aired 2015-03-31 | TV VIOLENCE $800: Tara is drowned & forked to death by her mother-in-law on the Season 6 finale of this motorcycle club drama Sons of Anarchy |
| #7022, aired 2015-03-10 | ARCHAEOLOGY $800: An ancient stile, or large slab, depicts this man, who laid down the law way back when Hammurabi |
| #7020, aired 2015-03-06 | JOHN LAW $400: He argued & won 25 cases before the Supreme Court before joining it in 2005 (John) Roberts |
| #7020, aired 2015-03-06 | JOHN LAW $800: He rode his success as a North Carolina trial lawyer to a 1998 Senate win & later a place on a national ticket John Edwards |
| #7020, aired 2015-03-06 | JOHN LAW $1200: He was U.S. Attorney General on September 11, 2001 John Ashcroft |
| #7020, aired 2015-03-06 | JOHN LAW $1600: John Campbell opposed secession but concurred with this 1857 Supreme Court decision that pushed the U.S. toward war Dred Scott |
| #7020, aired 2015-03-06 | JOHN LAW $2,500 (Daily Double): In his dissent to this infamous 1896 decision, John Marshall Harlan wrote that "our Constitution is color-blind" Plessy v. Ferguson |
| #7015, aired 2015-02-27 | ALL ABOUT THE SUPREME COURT $400: The Court Building has bronze doors depicting scenes in this history of law, like him sealing the Magna Carta King John |
| #7015, aired 2015-02-27 | ALL ABOUT THE SUPREME COURT $1600: (Retired Justice Sandra Day O'Connor gives the clue.) The justices' private dining room has portraits of these 2 early 19th century men, a reminder of the case that gave the Supreme Court authority to declare a law unconstitutional Marbury & Madison |
| #7012, aired 2015-02-24 | RELIGION $1600: Daf Yomi is the reading of a page a day from this collection of Jewish law that includes the Mishnah the Talmud |
| #7008, aired 2015-02-18 | NAME CALLING $1200: Archie Bunker had a real beef with son-in-law Mike, whom he called this 8-letter name "Meathead" |
| #7006, aired 2015-02-16 | NICE "SHOE"S $1000: It's a type of upper-crust law firm, or the once favored footwear of lawyers there a white-shoe firm |
| #7004, aired 2015-02-12 | 1990s FICTION $800: You could say this John Grisham novel featuring Tulane law student Darby Shaw was for the birds The Pelican Brief |
| #6998, aired 2015-02-04 | CRIME & LAW ENFORCEMENT $200: To create false responsibility for a crime so that it falls on an innocent person is known by this carpentry term framing |
| #6998, aired 2015-02-04 | CRIME & LAW ENFORCEMENT $400: 2-word term for a crime committed by an employee of the victimized business inside job |
| #6998, aired 2015-02-04 | CRIME & LAW ENFORCEMENT $600: From the Latin for "keeping awake", it's a member of a self-appointed law enforcement group vigilante |
| #6998, aired 2015-02-04 | CRIME & LAW ENFORCEMENT $800: The original London Police Commissioner's office at 4 Whitehall Place abutted the street called "Great" this Scotland Yard |
| #6998, aired 2015-02-04 | CRIME & LAW ENFORCEMENT $1000: This task, creating a background of a bad guy, is done at the FBI's National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime profiling |
| #6990, aired 2015-01-23 | FINNISH HIM! $1600: He studied law in Helsinki before completing his first large-scale orchestral work, 1892's "Kullervo Symphony" Jean Sibelius |
| #6985, aired 2015-01-16 | IN BEVERLY HILLS $600: A 1920s mayor, he said "Congress--every time they make a joke, it's a law, & every time they make a law it's a joke" Will Rogers |
| #6984, aired 2015-01-15 | WORDS OF FORGIVENESS $1200: An international organization, or in law, it's an act of forgiveness to an entire class of people amnesty |
| #6978, aired 2015-01-07 | TV ADJECTIVES $200: It's the "S" in "Law & Order: SVU" Special |
| #6974, aired 2015-01-01 | MAID, MARRYIN' $200: After Arthur becomes king Leodegrance's son-in-law, the king gives him this, which will seat 150 a round table |
| #6971, aired 2014-12-29 | LAWFUL IDIOMS $600: To lightly graze something, or, if you're briefly in the penal system, what you have "with the law" a brush |
| #6970, aired 2014-12-26 | 3 DIMENSIONAL $2000: This German astronomer's 3 laws of planetary motion helped Isaac Newton formulate his law of gravitation (Johannes) Kepler |
| #6969, aired 2014-12-25 | ____ LAW $400: cornell.edu lists Brown v. Board of Education as a decision in this field of law that's named for a document constitutional |
| #6969, aired 2014-12-25 | ____ LAW $800: Governing shipping, it's also called admiralty law maritime law |
| #6969, aired 2014-12-25 | ____ LAW $1200: Systematized in the 8th & 9th centuries, it's the fundamental religious code of Islam sharia |
| #6969, aired 2014-12-25 | ____ LAW $1600: Eminent domain is a part of this kind of law, named for tangible or intangible things property law |
| #6969, aired 2014-12-25 | ____ LAW $6,400 (Daily Double): Jurist Sir Frederick Pollock said it refers to government acts when there is "war within the realm" martial law |
| #6966, aired 2014-12-22 | THE OLD WEST $2,000 (Daily Double): He was appointed sherrif of Lincoln County, New Mexico in 1880 & spent the next 20 years in & out of law enforcement Pat Garrett |
| #6964, aired 2014-12-18 | U.S NEWS & WORLD REPORT BEST OF 2014 $400: For part-time law programs, think D.C.; George Washington U. was No. 2 & this university topped the list Georgetown |
| #6952, aired 2014-12-02 | U.S. GOVERNMENT $1200: If the president vetoes a bill, it can still become law if passed by at least this fraction of each house of Congress 2/3 |
| #6950, aired 2014-11-28 | JUDGES $800: This judge liked to boast that he was the only law west of the Pecos River Roy Bean |
| #6950, aired 2014-11-28 | THE BIBLE $1000: The Jewish scriptures are the Ketuvim, or "writings"; Nevi'im, or "prophets"; & this, meaning "law" the Torah |
| #6940, aired 2014-11-14 | COLLEGE KNOWLEDGE $800: An ex-governor of California hired Frederick Law Olmsted to design the physical plan for this university Stanford |
| #6931, aired 2014-11-03 | BLACK'S LAW DICTIONARY SAYS... $200: This is "the offense of attempting to overthrow the government of the state to which one owes allegiance" treason |
| #6931, aired 2014-11-03 | BLACK'S LAW DICTIONARY SAYS... $400: Any "serious crime... punishable by imprisonment for more than one year or by death... examples include burglary" felony |
| #6931, aired 2014-11-03 | BLACK'S LAW DICTIONARY SAYS... $600: An "aider" assists in a crime; this is "an instigator... who promotes... a crime to be committed" abettor |
| #6931, aired 2014-11-03 | BLACK'S LAW DICTIONARY SAYS... $800: I proclaim it is "The act by which one who was unfree... is rendered free, or set at liberty and made his own master" emancipation |
| #6931, aired 2014-11-03 | BLACK'S LAW DICTIONARY SAYS... $1000: It is "a knowing misrepresentation of the truth... to induce another to act to his or her detriment" fraud |
| #6928, aired 2014-10-29 | THE LONG ARM OF THE LAW SCHOOL $200: Maybe this oldest Ivy League law school can teach you to beat a ticket if you illegally pahk ya cah in its yahd Harvard |
| #6928, aired 2014-10-29 | THE LONG ARM OF THE LAW SCHOOL $400: Its law school is named for Utah native J. Reuben Clark, who rose to high posts in the State & Justice Departments Brigham Young |
| #6928, aired 2014-10-29 | THE LONG ARM OF THE LAW SCHOOL $600: Tulane was the USA's first law school to require this Latin-named work as a condition of graduation pro bono |
| #6928, aired 2014-10-29 | THE LONG ARM OF THE LAW SCHOOL $1000: "California Coast: Science, Policy and Law" can be of local interest at this u. whose campus is known as "The Farm" Stanford |
| #6928, aired 2014-10-29 | THE LONG ARM OF THE LAW SCHOOL $1,600 (Daily Double): White House counsels John Dean & Kathryn Ruemmler went to this law school not far from Pennsylvania Ave. Georgetown |
| #6927, aired 2014-10-28 | ANTISOCIAL SCIENCE $800: A book in the "Law, Justice and Power" series is called "Showing" this synonym for "regret", as judges like you to do remorse |
| #6925, aired 2014-10-24 | ADJECTIVES $200: In law this 5-syllable word describes a crime that was planned in advance & carried out willfully premeditated |
| #6924, aired 2014-10-23 | TV INITIALS $400: Known by 3 initials for short, this crime series spinoff is currently TV's longest-running prime time drama (Law & Order) SVU |
| #6921, aired 2014-10-20 | MAKING "ENCE" OF IT ALL $1000: From the Latin for "science of law", it's the study of legal decision-making jurisprudence |
| #6921, aired 2014-10-20 | COUNTRY MUSIC $1000: She's not only been a mentor to Kelly Clarkson--in 2013, she became Kelly's mother-in-law Reba McEntire |
| #6920, aired 2014-10-17 | NSFW $200: After a car wreck, a man in this "Sunshine State" went to a law firm, where his chair collapsed; the man then sued the firm Florida |
| #6915, aired 2014-10-10 | I BEG, YOU'RE PARDONED $2,000 (Daily Double): James Buchanan pardoned this governor of the Utah Territory in exchange for submission to federal law Brigham Young |
| #6910, aired 2014-10-03 | LEGAL MATTERS $800: In this type of mock law school "court", 2 teams of students practice an imaginary case moot court |
| #6909, aired 2014-10-02 | AUTHORS $1600: "The transcendent simplicity and energy of the highest law" is mentioned in his essay "The Over-Soul" Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| #6901, aired 2014-09-22 | EDUCATION $1200: In 2009 Arizona passed a law eliminating this as a factor in teacher retention decisions, to the unions' dismay long service (or seniority) |
| #6898, aired 2014-09-17 | THE AMERICANS $200: In between being president & chief justice, he taught constitutional law at Yale William Howard Taft |
| #6898, aired 2014-09-17 | THE SUPREME COURT $1200: Each associate justice is permitted to have up to 4 of these assistants; usually they are recent top law school graduates clerks |
| #6898, aired 2014-09-17 | THE SUPREME COURT $2000: In 2013 the Court struck down key parts of this 1965 act that forces certain states to pre-clear election law changes the Voting Rights Act |
| #6895, aired 2014-08-01 | 1950-2000 $400: He's the president seen here signing into law the Civil Rights Act of 1964 Lyndon Johnson |
| #6894, aired 2014-07-31 | JOURNALISM $600: (New York Times legal columnist Linda Greenhouse delivers the clue.) I don't often interview Supreme Court justices; to write my articles I usually read these formal statements containing the reasoning & principles of law behind judicial decisions opinions |
| #6894, aired 2014-07-31 | BEFORE HE WAS PRESIDENT $800: He was a law professor at the University of Arkansas Clinton |
| #6894, aired 2014-07-31 | INSIDE INFORMATION $800: The first of Isaac Newton's 3 laws of this is the law of inertia motion |
| #6893, aired 2014-07-30 | THE LAW $400: Protective is another term for this court order saying, stay away from a specified person a restraining order |
| #6893, aired 2014-07-30 | THE LAW $800: This term for teaching puppy to poop outside is also a legal synonym for burglary housebreaking |
| #6893, aired 2014-07-30 | THE LAW $1200: A curator ad litem may represent the interests of someone who's very young & even those who haven't been this yet born |
| #6893, aired 2014-07-30 | THE LAW $1600: The Magna Carta mentions the right to be judged by these people of the same legal status as you, perhaps by a jury of them peers |
| #6893, aired 2014-07-30 | THE LAW $5,000 (Daily Double): Marbury v. Madison marked the first time that a federal law had been ruled this 16-letter term unconstitutional |
| #6892, aired 2014-07-29 | OLD TESTAMENT HEROES $400: When he came to present the Israelites with the tablets of the law, they were dancing around a golden calf Moses |
| #6889, aired 2014-07-24 | THE GENIUS BAR $800: This Italian who gave us the law of falling bodies was put on trial in 1633 for supporting the heliocentric model of the universe Galileo |
| #6887, aired 2014-07-22 | MY PRESENT GOVERNMENT JOB $200: Eric Holder, who began laying down the law in 2009 the Attorney General |
| #6881, aired 2014-07-14 | "I" LOVE SCIENCE $1200: (Kelly of the Clue Crew pulls on the end of a string of beads in a beaker, and the whole string comes out.) To create an external force, I'll tug this string, which transfers energy from bead to bead & keeps them moving, illustrating this law of motion inertia |
| #6874, aired 2014-07-03 | BORN IN THE USA $1000: This Chicago law man who enforced Prohibition ran for Cleveland mayor
in 1947; here endeth the lesson (Eliot) Ness |
| #6871, aired 2014-06-30 | REMEMBER THE ALIMONY $200: The 1969 family law act made California the first U.S. state to legalize this "blameless" form of divorce no-fault |
| #6868, aired 2014-06-25 | SUMMER READING? $800: Father & daughter flee the law in an RV in Chris Fabry's "June Bug", a reimagination of this author's "Les Miserables" (Victor) Hugo |
| #6862, aired 2014-06-17 | THE NAME OF THE LAW $400: The handgun law named for this man began to take effect in 1993 (James) Brady |
| #6862, aired 2014-06-17 | THE NAME OF THE LAW $800: 1998's Copyright Term Extension Act was named for this late congressman who penned a 1965 No. 1 pop hit Sonny Bono |
| #6862, aired 2014-06-17 | THE NAME OF THE LAW $1200: A tariff act named for Smoot & this congressman raised import duties to protect U.S. businesses Hawley |
| #6862, aired 2014-06-17 | THE NAME OF THE LAW $1600: The Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2009 was named for James Byrd Jr. & this Laramie, Wyoming man Matthew Shepard |
| #6862, aired 2014-06-17 | THE NAME OF THE LAW $3,000 (Daily Double): Named for an Illinois representative, 1910's White Slave Traffic Act is better known as this "Act" the Mann Act |
| #6859, aired 2014-06-12 | SECURITY $1600: Common-law & statutory are types of this legal claim one has on the property of another as security for debt a lien |
| #6857, aired 2014-06-10 | THE BONAPARTES $2,000 (Daily Double): Napoleon's brother-in-law Charles LeClerc died in 1802 in this New World Country while trying to put down a revolt Haiti |
| #6854, aired 2014-06-05 | YOUNG MR. LINCOLN $600: On Sept. 9, 1836 27-year-old Abe got his license to do this practice law |
| #6845, aired 2014-05-23 | THE LEGISLATIVE BRANCH $400: A California law grew out of the case of these tall trees blocking solar panels in Sunnyvale redwoods |
| #6845, aired 2014-05-23 | THE LEGISLATIVE BRANCH $800: Federal law protects all plants in this national park, including the "Biblical" tree the park's named for Joshua Tree |
| #6845, aired 2014-05-23 | THE LEGISLATIVE BRANCH $1000: A Maryland law calls for the replanting of this conifer, such as the loblolly or shortleaf pine |
| #6843, aired 2014-05-21 | PHIL-IBUSTER $2000: This Texas senator teamed up with Rudman & Hollings for a 1985 balanced-budget law Phil Gramm |
| #6842, aired 2014-05-20 | FIRST THINGS THIRD $200: Made law in 1791, it prohibits the involuntary quartering of soldiers in private homes the third amendment |
| #6833, aired 2014-05-07 | GOVT. MED. ABBREV. $4,000 (Daily Double): It's the acronym for the law that allows you to continue the coverage you had after you leave a job COBRA |
| #6832, aired 2014-05-06 | "FOR"MATION $800: This type of science is used to establish facts for a court of law forensic |
| #6829, aired 2014-05-01 | LAW ENFORCEMENT TV $200: Mark Harmon is a former marine gunnery sergeant who works for this title force NCIS |
| #6829, aired 2014-05-01 | LAW ENFORCEMENT TV $400: "Criminal Minds" features the profilers of this government agency FBI |
| #6829, aired 2014-05-01 | LAW ENFORCEMENT TV $600: A little nepotism? Tom Selleck is the New York police commissioner & son Donnie Wahlberg is a detective on this series Blue Bloods |
| #6829, aired 2014-05-01 | LAW ENFORCEMENT TV $800: This drama follows the elite squad of NYPD detectives who investigate sexually based crimes Law & Order: SVU |
| #6829, aired 2014-05-01 | LAW ENFORCEMENT TV $1000: On this FX show, Diane Kruger is from the El Paso PD & Demian Bichir is with the Chihuahua State Police The Bridge |
| #6825, aired 2014-04-25 | RECENT HISTORY $400: (Justice Sandra Day O'Connor delivers the clue.) The Court's legacy of civil rights cases includes Brown v. Board of Education & also Grutter v. Bollinger, a decision I wrote for the court allowing this race-conscious practice in law school admissions affirmative action |
| #6824, aired 2014-04-24 | LEGAL MATTERS $1200: Chief Justice John Roberts served as a law clerk for this man, his predecessor William Rehnquist |
| #6824, aired 2014-04-24 | LEGAL MATTERS $2000: Personal injury law is part of this branch of civil law that covers the awarding of damages to one who is harmed torts |
| #6822, aired 2014-04-22 | ROBOTICS $200: Isaac Asimov's first law of robotics says that a robot may not allow one of these to come to harm humans |
| #6821, aired 2014-04-21 | THE CAPTAIN $200: John R. Hughes, "The Border Boss", was a legendary captain in this Lone Star State law enforcement group the Texas Rangers |
| #6818, aired 2014-04-16 | WE HAVE LAWS $200: Massachusetts law largely bans the sale of booze on Sundays, legal holidays & this day of democracy in action voting day (or Election Day) |
| #6818, aired 2014-04-16 | WE HAVE LAWS $800: Louisiana law bans cursing these people, volunteer or not, in the performance of their duties firemen |
| #6818, aired 2014-04-16 | WE HAVE LAWS $1000: N.Y. penal law, Section 255.17, says this act, spousal infidelity, is a Class B misdemeanor adultery |
| #6816, aired 2014-04-14 | 6-LETTER BIBLE BOOKS $1,000 (Daily Double): This epistle says, "a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law" Romans |
| #6813, aired 2014-04-09 | SITTING IN JUDGMENT $200: Lessons in law from the judge to give direction to the jury are called these instructions |
| #6813, aired 2014-04-09 | SITTING IN JUDGMENT $1000: 19th century Texas frontier lawman Judge Roy Bean declared that he was the "law west of" this river the Pecos |
| #6813, aired 2014-04-09 | HINDUISM $3,300 (Daily Double): Hindus rhymingly believe in karma & this, the moral law governing individual conduct dharma |
| #6809, aired 2014-04-03 | PHILOSOPHERS $800: "Wherever law ends, tyranny begins", wrote this English philosopher who influenced the Founding Fathers John Locke |
| #6807, aired 2014-04-01 | THE "AUGHT"S $800: Under a 1978 law the USDA inspects these food supply facilities slaughterhouses |
| #6807, aired 2014-04-01 | MANKIEWICZES AT THE MOVIES $1600: Joseph L. Mankiewicz' last film was this 1972 Olivier-Caine battle of wits, remade in 2007 with Caine & Jude Law battling Sleuth |
| #6798, aired 2014-03-19 | WAIT FOR IT! $600: Copyright law says post-1978 songs will not enter this 2-word realm until 70 years after the death of the last surviving author public domain |
| #6797, aired 2014-03-18 | CELEBRITY RELATIVES $2000: Pictured here is this buxom blonde actress, the mother of Mariska Hargitay of "Law & Order: SVU" Jayne Mansfield |
| #6792, aired 2014-03-11 | "R"ANDOM HOUSE DICTIONARY DEFINITIONS $200: "A Jewish scholar qualified to rule on questions of Jewish law" a rabbi |
| #6790, aired 2014-03-07 | THE NEW YORK TIMES: THE 1990s $400: (The New York Times reporter Linda Greenhouse gives the clue.) In a 1991 case I covered, the Supreme Court overturned a New York law aimed at preventing criminals from profiting by selling their stories--a law informally named for this 1970s killer the Son of Sam |
| #6788, aired 2014-03-05 | BILL CLINTON $600: The first statewide office to which he was elected, in 1976 3 years out of law school attorney general |
| #6787, aired 2014-03-04 | ART & ARTISTS $2000: Female Impressionists included Mary Cassatt & this femme, Manet's sister-in-law (Berthe) Morisot |
| #6784, aired 2014-02-27 | ALEX' HONKY-TONK SALOON $600: Come on, fellas! I thought we all agreed that force = mass x acceleration is part of his 2nd law of motion. Fellas! Newton |
| #6777, aired 2014-02-18 | CELEBRITIES & THE LAW $200: On Nov. 20, 2012 the only pool he swam in was the jury pool, in his hometown Baltimore (Michael) Phelps |
| #6777, aired 2014-02-18 | CELEBRITIES & THE LAW $400: No longer a "Teenage Drama Queen", in 2013 she was sentenced to 90 days in rehab after a Porsche mishap Lindsay Lohan |
| #6777, aired 2014-02-18 | CELEBRITIES & THE LAW $600: George Clooney was arrested after a 2012 protest at the embassy of this N. African country accused of violent repression Sudan |
| #6777, aired 2014-02-18 | CELEBRITIES & THE LAW $800: In 2005, as a center for the Heat, he became, we presume, Miami's first 7'1", 325-lb. reserve police officer Shaquille O'Neal |
| #6777, aired 2014-02-18 | CELEBRITIES & THE LAW $1000: In 2013 Chris Brown was sentenced to 1,000 hours of this type of service community service |
| #6772, aired 2014-02-11 | KING ME $1,000 (Daily Double): In 1922 King Victor Emmanuel III refused to proclaim martial law to stop this man's march on Rome Mussolini |
| #6769, aired 2014-02-06 | GOLDBERG VARIATIONS $400: This banker brought his son-in-law Samuel Sachs into the business in 1882 (Marcus) Goldman |
| #6768, aired 2014-02-05 | '80s BABIES $800: The 1984 U.S. law mandating treatment of seriously ill newborns is known by this generic name Baby Doe |
| #6766, aired 2014-02-03 | LATIN $400: Your Latin lex-icon should include the fact that "lex" means this, as in "lex succurit ignoranti" law |
| #6766, aired 2014-02-03 | PRE-'80s HISTORY $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) By law, Roman generals couldn't lead forces out of their assigned province; Caesar's 49 B.C. crossing of this stream separating Cisalpine Gaul from Italy acted as a war declaration the Rubicon |
| #6766, aired 2014-02-03 | PERSONAL SPACE INVADERS $1000: This word, the big no-no in intellectual property law, can also mean encroaching on personal space infringement |
| #6765, aired 2014-01-31 | A MONTH OF ANNUAL EVENTS $600: Boss' Day,
Mother-In-Law's Day,
Columbus Day October |
| #6757, aired 2014-01-21 | MUSICAL RAP SHEET $1200: "Robbing people with a 6-gun" was the crime in this Bobby Fuller song later done by The Clash "I Fought The Law" |
| #6756, aired 2014-01-20 | TEEING OFF $200: To be "read" this, meaning to get a stern reprimand, comes from an Old English law used to disperse mobs the riot act |
| #6756, aired 2014-01-20 | TEEING OFF $1000: Anger about the first of these established by federal law spurred violent protests in NYC in July 1863 draft laws |
| #6749, aired 2014-01-09 | REDUNDANT SOUNDING NAMES $800: He recently tweeted, "At 50 yrs old and the governor of NJ, I'm still trying to win over my mother-in-law" Chris Christie |
| #6747, aired 2014-01-07 | THE PRESIDENT'S ALMA MATER $1,400 (Daily Double): He graduated from the University of Cincinnati Law School, where he was later dean William Howard Taft |
| #6746, aired 2014-01-06 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: He wrote his first 2 novels, "A Time to Kill" & "The Firm", while working at a Southaven, Miss. law office (John) Grisham |
| #6744, aired 2014-01-02 | JOINING THE TV CAST LATER $200: Sam Waterston joined this show in 1994, 4 years after its debut; Sam stuck around for 16 more years Law & Order |
| #6743, aired 2014-01-01 | "O-M-G"! $800: By federal law since 2000, all commercial flights within the U.S. have been this type non-smoking |
| #6742, aired 2013-12-31 | MY NAME IS MY BRAND $800: A 1975 law ending fixed stockbroker commissions helped boost the discount brokerage he founded in 1971 Charles Schwab |
| #6738, aired 2013-12-25 | HISTORY OF CARS $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles, California.) The 1930 Nash 482R had 2 spark plugs per cylinder, a top speed of 75 miles per hour, & one of these features, which was also known as the "mother-in-law seat" the rumble seat |
| #6738, aired 2013-12-25 | 13-LETTER WORDS $1600: In 2004 Paraguay protected its trees by passing the Zero this Law Deforestation |
| #6734, aired 2013-12-19 | ANAGRAMS $400: Relative by marriage:
MENIAL WORTH mother-in-law |
| #6733, aired 2013-12-18 | ADJECTIVES FOR YOUR RESUMÉ $800: Reliable; it's the first quality mentioned in the Boy Scout Law trustworthy |
| #6733, aired 2013-12-18 | CABINET DEPARTMENT BY COPS $1600: The Bureau of Indian Affairs Division of Law Enforcement Interior |
| #6733, aired 2013-12-18 | CABINET DEPARTMENT BY COPS $2000: The U.S. Forest Service Law Enforcement & Investigations unit Agriculture |
| #6733, aired 2013-12-18 | SCIENTISTS $2000: This 17th c. French scientist's law states that a fluid in a container transmits pressure equally in all directions Blaise Pascal |
| #6732, aired 2013-12-17 | THE CONFEDERACY $600: To supply the army with enough men, the Confederate congress passed this type of law ahead of the Union in 1862 draft law |
| #6731, aired 2013-12-16 | LAWYERING UP ON TV $200: Julianna Margulies got out of TV nursing & into TV law as Alicia Florrick on this drama The Good Wife |
| #6731, aired 2013-12-16 | LAWYERING UP ON TV $1000: This man played both law (a sage small-town sheriff) & order (wily lawyer Ben Matlock) Andy Griffith |
| #6727, aired 2013-12-10 | CONTROL $400: This patriotic song says, "Confirm thy soul in self-control, thy liberty in law" "America The Beautiful" |
| #6724, aired 2013-12-05 | I GUESTED ON LAW & ORDER $800: He was a hooligan in the 1991 episode "The Violence of Summer"; he later wrote about violence as "Capote" (Philip Seymour) Hoffman |
| #6724, aired 2013-12-05 | I GUESTED ON LAW & ORDER $1200: He was a lawyer for hooligans in the 1991 episode "The Violence of Summer"; he later saw violence as Mace Windu, Jedi Samuel L. Jackson |
| #6724, aired 2013-12-05 | I GUESTED ON LAW & ORDER $1600: The male half of the Hollywood power couple Filliam H. Muffman, he was Asst. U.S. Attorney John McCormack in 1990 William H. Macy |
| #6724, aired 2013-12-05 | I GUESTED ON LAW & ORDER $2000: On "L&O" Ty Burrell played a guy named Paul in 2000 & a guy named Herman in 2003; now he plays this doofy dad on "Modern Family" Phil |
| #6723, aired 2013-12-04 | AFTER I LOST THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION $800: I practiced law in Los Angeles, then lost a run for statewide office; I wasn't done with politics, though Richard Nixon |
| #6715, aired 2013-11-22 | AP FEMALE ATHLETE OF THE YEAR $400: 1987:
Jackie Joyner-Kersee;
1988:
This sister-in-law Flo-Jo |
| #6714, aired 2013-11-21 | LAW $200: You can file one of these with a higher court to review your conviction an appeal |
| #6714, aired 2013-11-21 | LAW $400: In some jurisdictions this theft of personal property becomes "grand" when the value exceeds $1,000 larceny |
| #6714, aired 2013-11-21 | LAW $600: This kind of "troll" is a company that buys a bunch of these just to extract money by threatening infringement suits a patent troll |
| #6714, aired 2013-11-21 | LAW $800: A 2010 Irish law bans this, calling it speech "insulting... to matters held sacred by any religion" blasphemy |
| #6714, aired 2013-11-21 | LAW $1000: The Constitution mentions "full" these 2 things, meaning every state has to honor the laws of every other state faith & credit |
| #6705, aired 2013-11-08 | THE SWEET 1600s $1200: In 1619's "Harmonice Mundi", he proposed his third law of planetary motion (Johannes) Kepler |
| #6702, aired 2013-11-05 | THE NEW YORK TIMES THEATRE $1200: (Ben Brantley gives the clue.) When it comes to Shakespeare, I must have seen at least a dozen productions of this tragedy, with everyone from Liev Schreiber to Jude Law as the prince Hamlet |
| #6700, aired 2013-11-01 | THE CURRENT SUPREME COURT JUSTICE WHO... $1200: graduated tied for first in her Columbia Law class in 1959 Ginsburg |
| #6698, aired 2013-10-30 | THE LAW $400: If the Pope sues you & takes you to trial, that would make him the pontiff this, the initiator of the lawsuit plaintiff |
| #6698, aired 2013-10-30 | LET'S TWIST AGAIN $400: The Poor Law of 1834 & the resulting lure of crime led Dickens to pen this 1838 novel Oliver Twist |
| #6698, aired 2013-10-30 | THE LAW $800: Probation is supervised release instead of jail time; this is supervised release before a full sentence is served parole |
| #6698, aired 2013-10-30 | THE LAW $1200: In 2013 a military judge said this was a bad idea, but she couldn't stop the accused Fort Hood shooter from doing it defending himself |
| #6698, aired 2013-10-30 | THE LAW $2000: When a lawsuit is "dismissed without" this, it means it can be re-filed with no loss of privileges prejudice |
| #6698, aired 2013-10-30 | THE LAW $3,000 (Daily Double): It's on you to give me this word preceding "probandi" in a legal phrase meaning "burden of proof" onus |
| #6694, aired 2013-10-24 | MATH APPEAL $1000: 7 x (6 x 3) = (7 x 6) x 3 is an example of this law, meaning it doesn't matter which pair you multiply first associative |
| #6692, aired 2013-10-22 | POP CULTURE FILL-INS $1200: Hey
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& Order Jude Law |
| #6685, aired 2013-10-11 | PLEAS $200: In criminal law, if a defendant refuses to enter a plea or does not appear, the court enters this plea on his behalf not guilty |
| #6678, aired 2013-10-02 | BUDDHISM $1000: The name of this universal law of cause & effect is Sanskrit for "deed" karma |
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Christopher Meloni, an Emmy-nominated actor from Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
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"He's played challenging roles on both sides of the law, including...
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Kate Waits, a law professor at the University of Tulsa from Tulsa, Oklahoma
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"A Harvard Law graduate when she competed in the 1988 Tournament...
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Pam Mueller, an entering law student originally from Chicago, Illinois
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\"Representing Loyola University, she won the College Championship in November, 2000....
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Rachael Schwartz, a lawyer with an international law firm from Washington, D.C.
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"In 1994, she became the first woman ever to win the...
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Bruce Naegeli, a retired law librarian from Phoenix, Arizona
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"He finished second in the 1988 Tournament of Champions. A retired...
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Melissa Seal, a law student from Kingston, Ontario, Canada
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"She was a senior when she became the Teen Tournament champion...
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Kathryn Erbe, an actress from Law & Order: Criminal Intent
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"On stage, she earned a 1991 Tony nomination for Speed of...
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Sam Waterston, an actor from Law & Order
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"A Best Actor Oscar nominee for The Killing Fields, he's now...
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Ken Basin, a junior at the University of Southern California from Huntington Beach, California
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2003 College Championship semifinalist: $5,000. Blog at kbasin.blogspot.org. Appearing as a...
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Christopher Meloni, a star from Law & Order: SVU and HBO's Oz
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"On TV, he's worked both sides of the law. Once a...
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Ellen Eichner, a junior from the Ohio State University from Northbrook, Illinois
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2010-B College Championship semifinalist: $10,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
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Chuck Forrest, an attorney for the UN IFAD from Marino, Italy
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\"In 1986, he was a law student living in Grand Blanc,...
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Ken Hirsh, a law library director and law professor from Milford, Ohio
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Season 33 1-time champion: $16,001 + $2,000.
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Jerry Orbach, from Law & Order
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"He lays down the law each week as Detective Briscoe on...
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David Bitkower, a judicial law clerk from New York, New York
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Season 18 1-time champion: $9,599 + $1,000. In his first game...
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Al Lin, a law professor from Davis, California
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"A law student when he won five times in 1993, he's...
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Gautam Hans, an associate clinical professor of law from Vanderbilt Law School in Nashville, Tennessee
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2021 Professors Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
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Mat Ahn, a law student originally from North Royalton, Ohio
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Season 30 player (2013-10-16). Mat was a student at New York...
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Rose Schaefer, a junior from Portland, Oregon
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2012 Teen Tournament 1st runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $36,000. 16 at...
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Doug Lloyd, a law student from Charlton, Massachusetts
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Season 28 1-time champion: $12,400 + $2,000.
JBoard user name: Doug527
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Jake Ayres, a law student from San Diego, California
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Season 29 1-time champion: $28,201 + $2,000.
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David Menchaca, a law student originally from Long Beach, California
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2013 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Season 28 5-time champion: $115,503 + $1,000.
JBoard user name: Swift'sSecondCourse
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Diva Bole, a law student from Elkton, Maryland
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Season 29 player (2013-01-17). Last name pronounced like "BOWL". Diva won...
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Vicki Eastus, a law school professor and administrator from Brooklyn, New York
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Season 32 player (2015-09-28).
JBoard user name: vicki
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Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., an attorney and professor from Pace University School of Law
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"A crusading attorney for the environment and a professor at Pace...
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Arianna Kelly, a law student from Somerville, Massachusetts
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Season 24 player (2008-01-30). Season 24 player (2008-07-08). Sister of Season...
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S. Epatha Merkerson, from Law & Order
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"She runs a Manhattan police precinct as Lt. Anita Van Buren...
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Carter Spires, a law student originally from Birmingham, Alabama
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Season 32 2-time champion: $31,200 + $2,000.
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Suzy Law, an administrative officer from Loveland, Colorado
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Season 32 player (2016-02-24).
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Diana Peloquin, a graduate student of law and social work from Ann Arbor, Michigan
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Season 30 1-time champion: $15,700 + $2,000.
Article about Diana's defeat of Arthur Chu.
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Jamie Weiss, a law student from St. Louis, Missouri
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"He won the 1990 Teen Tournament. Today he's a law student....
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Jeff Richmond, an attorney from Los Angeles, California
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"He used his 1988 5-game winnings to pay for law school....
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Demi Hueth, a law student from New York, New York
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Season 32 player (2016-01-22).
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Steve Kaplan, a law student from San Diego, California
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Season 21 1-time champion: $18,400 + $2,000.
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Alex Bready, a law student from Towson, Maryland
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Season 21 player (2004-12-08).
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Tom McCudden, a law student from Durham, North Carolina
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Season 21 1-time champion: $40,600 + $2,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: Muskrat
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Alan Rachins, an actor from L.A. Law
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"An Emmy nominee for the role of Douglas Brackman on L.A....
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Danielle Sexton, a law student from Englewood, Colorado
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Season 25 player (2008-11-27).
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Sean Smith, a law student from Austin, Texas
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Season 24 player (2007-12-12).
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: seans88
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Ben Davis, a law student from Chicago, Illinois
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Season 26 2-time champion: $51,802 + $1,000. Ben was a 30-year-old...
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Hill Harper, an actor from CSI: NY
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"He graduated magna cum laude from Brown University. He has a...
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Oz Vazquez, a law student from Cambridge, Massachusetts
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Season 23 player (2006-10-12). According to the official Jeopardy! web site,...
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Catherine Ewen, a recent law school graduate from Berkeley, California
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Season 21 player (2004-12-24).
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Christine Valada, a photographer and attorney originally from Walton, New York
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2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $68,703...
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Todd Faulkenberry, a junior from Moore, South Carolina
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2008-A Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 16 at the time of...
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Tom Cubbage, an attorney from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
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"He was the very first College Champion, and the only one...
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Nancy Grace, a TV legal expert from Headline News/Court TV
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"She hosts her own legal analysis program on Headline News and...
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Chuck Forrest, a lawyer and CEO from London, United Kingdom
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\"He became a winner of the second-ever Tournament of Champions in...
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Pam Mueller, a junior at Loyola University, Chicago from Wilmette, Illinois
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2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2019 All-Star Games member of...
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Pam Mueller, a college student from Wilmette, Illinois
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2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2019 All-Star Games member of...
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Pam Mueller, a justice researcher originally from Chicago, Illinois
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2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2019 All-Star Games member of...
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Jack Ford, a trial attorney and Emmy Award-winning journalist from the Today show
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"A successful trial attorney and Emmy Award-winning journalist; he's now the...
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Jonathan Reinstein, a junior from Dix Hills, New York
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2001 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $5,000. 17 at the time of the...
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Malisha Butts, a senior at North Carolina Central University from Durham, North Carolina
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2005 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000.
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Billy Baxter, an attorney from Richmond, Virginia
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"Representing the College of William & Mary, he won the 1992...
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Robert Knecht Schmidt, a patent agent from Cleveland, Ohio
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Season 26 1-time champion: $12,799 + $1,000. Middle name pronounced like...
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Kevin Welber, a lawyer originally from Ramat Gan, Israel
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Season 14 player (1998-01-30). Kevin Amir Welber's biographical sketch, taken from...
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Cynthia Grove, from Toledo, Ohio
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Trebek pilot 1 player. While Cynthia was introduced as being "from...
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Andrew Kreitz, a senior from Huntington Beach, California
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2006 Teen Tournament 1st runner-up: $25,000.
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Steve Golden, a junior from Brookeville, Maryland
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2005 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $5,000. 16 at the time of the...
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Paul Boymel, a civil rights attorney from Potomac, Maryland
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"He was the top winner of the 1984-85 season. Now he's...
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Ruth Payne, a law school career counselor from Charlottesville, Virginia
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Season 34 player (2018-06-29).
Wife of Season 35 player Kevin Paquette.
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Gene Boggs, a law professor from Los Angeles, California
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Season 9 player (1993-05-28).
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Brit Husmann, a law student from Oakland, California
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Season 36 player (2020-01-02).
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Jack Weller, a law student from Stanford, California
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2022 Second Chance 2nd runner-up: $10,000.
Season 37 player (2021-01-22).
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Peter Kogan, a law student originally from Kiev, Ukraine
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Season 11 1-time champion: $17,999.
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Jared Eisenstat, a law student from Hicksville, New York
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1986 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $1,000. Season 2 4-time champion: $26,098....
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Pete Tremblay, a law student originally from Boston, Massachusetts
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Season 4 4-time champion: $44,702.
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David McIlwraith, a law student from San Diego, California
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Season 1 1-time champion: $3,900.
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Mike Hefler, a law clerk from Brooklyn, New York
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Season 5 player (1989-06-16).
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Christine Hurt, a law professor from Orem, Utah
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Season 36 player (2019-12-18).
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Emily Seaman, a law clerk from Houston, Texas
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2023 Champions Wildcard quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Season 37 1-time champion: $8,400 + $1,000.
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Gudrun Juffer, a law clerk originally from Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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Season 30 player (2014-01-16).
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Joanne Scala, a law librarian originally from Brooklyn, New York
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Season 11 player (1995-06-22).
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Sara Nies, an editorial assistant from New York, New York
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Season 34 player (2018-06-18).
Last name pronounced like the word "niece".
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Brandon Deutsch, a law student from Long Beach, California
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2023 Champions Wildcard quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Season 37 3-time champion: $70,026 + $1,000.
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Andy Richter, from NBC\'s Late Night With Conan O\'Brien
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\"He\'s a first-rate second banana and the sidekick on NBC\'s Late...
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Jeff Goldstein, a law student originally from Baltimore, Maryland
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Season 2 player (1986-03-26). Jeff fainted during the Final Jeopardy! Round...
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Andrew Clyne, a lawyer and legal recruiter from Hoboken, New Jersey
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Season 34 player (2017-09-11).
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Richard Cordray, the head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau from Grove City, Ohio and Washington, D.C.
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\"He had just graduated from law school and was clerking for...
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Bridget O'Donnell, a law enforcement specialist from Burlington, Vermont
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Season 30 player (2014-01-01).
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Preston Nicholson, a pre-law program director and attorney originally from Hominy, Oklahoma
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Season 28 player (2012-01-13). JBoard user name: okstater04 Preston won $10,950...
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Dave Gingold, a law student from Eugene, Oregon
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Season 8 player (1991-10-18).
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Anthony Niblett, a law professor from Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Season 30 1-time champion: $19,601 + $2,000.
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Logan Crossley, a law student originally from Plano, Texas
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Season 37 player (2021-04-20).
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Jon Choi, a law student originally from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Season 30 1-time champion: $11,900 + $2,000. No returning champion Hometown...
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Chuck Forrest, a law student from Grand Blanc, Michigan
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2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2014 Battle of the Decades...
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Jenna Johnson, a law student from Minneapolis, Minnesota
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Season 30 player (2013-12-19).
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Scott Brauneller, a law student from Indianapolis, Indiana
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Season 8 player (1992-02-11).
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Varun Shekhar, a graduate student in engineering and law from Northville, Michigan
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Season 30 2-time champion: $18,600 + $2,000.
JBoard user name: vs1
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Zack Jones, a law student from Fountain Valley, California
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Season 37 player (2020-11-26).
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Debby Mittelman, a law student from Scottsdale, Arizona
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Season 5 player (1988-12-06). Debby won $0 on Who Wants To...
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Suzanne Woods, a law student originally from Wellesley, Massachusetts
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Season 7 player (1991-04-18).
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Pam Mueller, a graduate student in psychology from Princeton, New Jersey
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\"She was a student at Loyola University when she won the...
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Richard Drapkin, a restaurant consultant and law student from Santa Monica, California
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Season 12 1-time champion: $11,600.
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Adam Smith, a law student from Somerville, Massachusetts
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Season 36 1-time champion: $21,200 + $1,000.
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David Sang, a law clerk from San Francisco, California
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Season 2 player (1985-09-10).
Spelling of contestant's name approximate.
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Pam Mueller, a think tank researcher from Culver City, California
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• 2000 College Championship winner • Semifinalist in all other tournaments...
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Mark Triesch, a law student from New Braunfels, Texas
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Season 12 player (1996-04-29).
Last name pronounced like \"TREESH\".
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Ron Mark, a law student from Bellevue, Washington
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Season 2 player (1986-03-05).
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Shanna Lafferty, a law student from Boyertown, Pennsylvania
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Season 30 player (2013-11-27).
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Ivy Weiss, a law clerk originally from the Bronx, New York
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Season 2 player (1986-03-12).
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Bob Von Bargen, a law student from Torrance, California
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Season 3 1-time champion: $4,100.
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India Cooper, an actor and copy editor from New York City, New York
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\"A semifinalist in the Tournament of Champions in 1992, now an...
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Duncan Weals, a law student from Silver Spring, Maryland
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Season 36 player (2020-03-13).
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Jake Harle, a law student from La Palma, California
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Season 3 2-time champion: $8,400.
Last name pronounced: "Harlee".
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Adam George, a law clerk from Brooklyn, New York
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Season 38 player (2021-10-18).
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Li-Mae McClellan, a law student from St. Louis, Missouri
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Season 38 player (2022-05-20).
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Harry Kelly, a law student from Portland, Maine
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Season 7 player (1991-06-13).
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Aaron Goetsch, a law student from Macomb, Michigan
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Season 36 2-time champion: $41,801 + $1,000.
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Rahul Garabadu, a judicial law clerk from Salt Lake City, Utah
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Season 36 player (2019-10-08).
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Chuck Webb, an attorney at law from Kailua, Hawaii
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Season 4 player (1988-07-11).
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Hilary Fried, a retired box office cashier from Milford, Connecticut
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Season 34 player (2017-11-27).
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Chuck Doskow, an attorney and law professor from Claremont, California
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Season 3 player (1987-04-20): an Oneida crystal gift certificate.
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Michele Friedlander, a family law attorney from Encino, California
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Season 37 player (2021-03-02).
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Mike Duffy, a law student from Bridgefield, Pennsylvania
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Season 6 player (1990-03-20).
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Armand Kachigian, a podiatrist from Granite City, Illinois
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Season 10 player (1994-02-10). Armand won $500,000 on Who Wants to...
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Jonathan Kaufman, a law student from Flushing, New York
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Season 10 player (1994-06-21).
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John Nam, a law student from Silver Spring, Maryland
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Season 7 1-time champion: $11,001.
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Matt Mulford, a law student originally from Escondido, California
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Season 12 player (1996-02-29).
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Marsha Hymanson, a law student from La Cañada, California
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Season 5 player (1989-03-17).
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Steve Touma, an English teacher and law student from North Arlington, New Jersey
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Season 10 1-time champion: $2,800.
Last name pronounced like \"TOO-ma\".
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Monica Ashar, an attorney from Washington, D.C.
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Season 34 1-time champion: $12,801 + $1,000.
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Mike Ward, a law student originally from Baltimore, Maryland
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Season 9 1-time champion: $15,899.
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William Baldwin, a law student from New Haven, Connecticut
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Season 33 player (2017-06-28).
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Kamal Foreman, an attorney from Smyrna, Georgia
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Season 30 player (2013-09-25). Kamal's Hometown Howdy gave her name as...
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Andrew Miller, a law clerk from Chicago, Illinois
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Season 35 player (2018-11-28).
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Danny Streeter, a law clerk from Los Angeles, California
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Season 6 player (1990-06-21).
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David Green, a law student from Buffalo Grove, Illinois
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Season 2 player (1986-01-07). Not to be confused with Season 8...
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Neal Favret, a law student from New Orleans, Louisiana
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Season 10 1-time champion: $7,200.
Last name pronounced like \"fav-RAY\".
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Jeb Boasberg, a law clerk originally from Washington, D.C.
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Season 7 player (1991-07-04).
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Lorelle Anderson, a law librarian from Sanford, Florida
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Season 35 player (2019-04-17).
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Maggie Moe, a law clerk and student from Los Angeles, California
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Season 3 1-time co-champion: $8,600.
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Curt Surls, a law clerk originally from Iowa Falls, Iowa
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Season 5 2-time champion: $16,400.
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Matt Polazzo, a high school U.S. government teacher from Brooklyn, New York
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"He teaches at one of the most selective high schools in...
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Wil Wheaton, an actor from Burbank, California
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"An actor from Burbank, California, he burst on to the scene...
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Charli Winking, an attorney and law professor originally from Quincy, Illinois
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Season 9 player (1993-06-02). At the time of her appearance, Charli...
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Mike Cayer, a law clerk from Malden, Massachusetts
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Season 10 player (1993-12-30).
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Michael Ellis, a law clerk for a federal judge from Hilliard, Ohio
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Season 29 1-time champion: $16,401 + $2,000.
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Tom Vanderloo, a law librarian from Chattanooga, Tennessee
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Season 20 player (2004-07-15).
KJL game 32.
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Jack Weller, a law student originally from San Diego, California
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2022 Second Chance 2nd runner-up: $10,000.
Season 37 player (2021-01-22).
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Lucian Wang, a law clerk from New York, New York
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Season 38 player (2022-02-24).
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Jerry Orbach, a Tony Award winner and TV star from Law & Order
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1993 Celebrity Jeopardy! winner: $34,000 to charity. Jerry died of prostate...
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Mithun Kamath, a law student originally from New Orleans, Louisiana
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Season 28 player (2012-03-26).
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Dwayne Williams, a law student from Toronto, Canada
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Season 5 player (1989-01-02).
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Greg Rose, a law student from South Pasadena, California
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Season 10 player (1993-12-24).
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Greg Bentley, a law clerk from Pikeville, Kentucky
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Season 28 player (2012-03-21).
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Maria Mercado, a law student from Pico Rivera, California
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Season 2 player (1985-10-16).
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Caitlin Peruccio, a law student from Manchester, Connecticut
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Season 29 player (2013-06-20).
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John Matthews, a camp counselor and law student from McLean, Virginia
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Season 29 player (2012-10-15).
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Gillian DiPietro, a law student from Brooklyn, New York
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Season 28 player (2011-12-01).
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John Wilkins, an 11-year-old sixth grader from Chevy Chase, Maryland
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"He likes constitutional law and debating, so he sees lawyering in...
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David Menchaca, a law student originally from Long Beach, California
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2013 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Season 28 5-time champion: $115,503 + $1,000.
JBoard user name: Swift'sSecondCourse
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Tim Gray, a law student originally from Alexandria, Virginia
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Season 28 player (2011-11-30).
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Meredith Caliman, a law clerk from Gardena, California
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Season 3 player (1987-04-01).
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Greg Haroutunian, a law clerk from Montvale, New Jersey
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Season 29 player (2013-04-10). Greg's full first name was listed on...
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Jeff Huong, a recent law-school graduate from Sandy Springs, Georgia
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Season 29 player (2012-10-05).
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Chung Han, a law student originally from Milford, Delaware
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Season 11 player (1995-04-24).
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Christopher Stephens, an administrative law judge from New York, New York
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Season 27 player (2011-07-11).
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Dan Carmody, a law student from Baltimore, Maryland
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Season 10 player (1994-04-18).
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Steven Maio, a family law attorney from Corning, New York
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Season 28 player (2011-11-23).
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Ben Chuchla, a senior from Calabasas, California
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2008-B Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Last name pronounced like "HOO-kla"....
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Mark Samburg, a law clerk from Essex, Connecticut
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Season 27 player (2011-04-01).
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Katie Newcomb, a paralegal from Washington, D.C.
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Season 29 player (2013-04-04).
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Matt Andelman, a family law attorney from Silver Spring, Maryland
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Season 28 player (2011-11-17).
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Erin Worrell, a law student from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Season 25 player (2008-10-01).
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John Guarisco, a law student from Melrose Park, Illinois
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Season 10 player (1993-10-22).
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Brett Geer, a law student from St. Petersburg, Florida
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Season 9 1-time champion: $16,201.
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Mikalen Howe, a law student from Boston, Massachusetts
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Season 19 player (2003-04-24).
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Barbara Sheridan, an attorney and law clerk to a judge from Yonkers, New York
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Season 29 1-time champion: $17,999 + $1,000.
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Michael deHaven Newsom, a law professor from Chevy Chase, Maryland
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Season 2 player (1985-12-10).
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Pat Crawley, a senior law enforcement support technician from Las Vegas, Nevada
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Season 19 player (2003-04-18).
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Victoria Bassetti, a law student from New Orleans, Louisiana
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Season 9 2-time champion: $16,299.
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Wade Lee, a vice president of marketing from Exton, Pennsylvania
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Season 14 player (1997-11-26). Father of Season 39 player Travis Lee...
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Shannon Lee, an architectural design associate from Phoenixville, Pennsylvania
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Season 32 player (2015-12-10). Wife of Season 39 player Travis Lee...
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Clarence Page, a journalist from The Chicago Tribune
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"His nationally syndicated column began as a local column for the...
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Ben Macrory, a law student originally from Washington, D.C.
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Season 11 3-time champion: $40,402.
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Cassie Hill, a recent graduate from the University of Mary Washington
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\"Her dad is a lawyer, and by the seventh grade, she...
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Brian Muth, a headmaster from Napa, California
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Season 25 2-time champion: $43,800 + $1,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Harvey Becker, a writer from Venice, California
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1986 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $1,000. Season 2 4-time champion: $55,400....
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Thomas L. Friedman, an author and foreign affairs columnist from The New York Times
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"He has won three Pulitzer Prizes and authored six best sellers,...
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Leanne Zobrist, a law clerk from Boyds , Maryland
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Season 37 player (2021-07-01).
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Duane Lyons, a law student originally from New York City, New York
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Season 2 player (1985-12-23).
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Joey Gutmann, a law student from New York, New York
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Season 29 player (2013-01-02). Joey won $25,000 on Who Wants to...
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Tony De La Rosa, a seminary and law student from Los Angeles, California
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Season 2 1-time champion: $9,300.
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Andrew Schwerin, a law student from Cherry Hill, New Jersey
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Season 29 player (2013-01-01).
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Elliot Shteir, an attorney from Somerville, New Jersey
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1995-A Seniors Tournament 1st runner-up: $10,000. Dr. Elliot Shteir won $8,230...
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Mark Pudlow, a teachers' union spokesman from Havana, Florida
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Season 27 player (2011-03-04).
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John De Vos, a law school student from Oceanside, California
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Season 8 player (1991-12-13).
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Arman Ramnath, a law student from Columbus, Ohio
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Season 37 1-time champion: $19,205 + $1,000.
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Melanie Bruchet, a senior from Bryn Mawr
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"Everyone wants to be an astronaut when they're a kid, but...
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Shawn Friend, a law library resource center director from Phoenix, Arizona
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Season 33 player (2017-03-07). Shawn appeared on Master Minds on 2020-06-24....
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Eli Edwards, a law student from Newark, California
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Season 25 player (2008-10-21).
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Leslie Bitner, a law student from Houston, Texas
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Season 12 1-time champion: $11,300.
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Rick Faulkner, a law student from Orange, California
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Season 20 player (2004-06-22).
KJL game 15.
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Ben Pirie, a recent law school graduate from Portland, Oregon
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Season 28 player (2012-04-25).
Last name pronounced like "PEER-ree"
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Paul Voiron, a law clerk from Harvey, Louisiana
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Season 9 player (1992-12-14).
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Ty Cone, a federal law clerk from Brooklyn, New York
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Season 27 1-time champion: $22,405 + $2,000.
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Trenton Woodley, a law student and freelance politico from Memphis, Tennessee
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Season 37 player (2021-06-18).
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Taryn Agati, a law librarian from Watertown, Connecticut
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Season 38 player (2022-01-18).
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Monica Iyer, a law clerk from New York, New York
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Season 27 1-time champion: $32,200 + $2,000.
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Stuart Wald, a law student from New Orleans, Louisiana
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Season 8 1-time champion: $19,700.
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Julie Podlesni, a law clerk for a federal judge from Chattanooga, Tennessee
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Season 28 player (2012-01-09).
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Russ Cummings, a law clerk from Los Angeles, California
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Season 8 player (1991-11-29).
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Jim Arnold, a law student originally from Kansas City, Missouri
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Season 7 1-time champion: $300.
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Michelle LaLonde, a law librarian from Novi, Michigan
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Season 28 1-time champion: $18,500 + $2,000.
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Joe Schneider, a senior index editor from Old Bridge, New Jersey
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Season 33 player (2016-10-04).
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Diana Bush, a law student from San Diego, California
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Season 15 player (1999-07-21).
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Rosanna Cavallaro, a law professor from Brookline, Massachusetts
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Season 23 player (2007-02-28).
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Rob Deichert, a law student from Ellington, Connecticut
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Season 16 player (1999-10-04).
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Seale Pylate, a law student from Brighton, Massachusetts
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Season 15 player (1999-06-02).
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Arianna Kelly, a law student from Somerville, Massachusetts
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Season 24 player (2008-01-30). Season 24 player (2008-07-08). Sister of Season...
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Jeff Richmond, a law student from West Hollywood, California
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 winner: $33,300. 1990 Super...
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Gwen Leifer, a recent law school graduate from Roslyn, New York
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Season 11 player (1995-01-18).
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Richard Hill, a law student from Alexandria, Virginia
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Season 15 player (1999-04-16).
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FeiFei Jiang, a law student originally from Olathe, Kansas
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Season 30 player (2014-05-29).
First name pronounced like "FEE-FEE".
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Paul Thomas, a law student from San Francisco, California
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Season 6 player (1990-06-06). Not to be confused with Season 24...
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Sean Anderson, a law professor from Champaign, Illinois
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Season 32 3-time champion: $71,600 + $1,000. Sean was the alternate...
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Tim Russert, a moderator from Meet the Press
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"He's the Washington Bureau Chief of NBC News and the longtime...
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Josh Vittor, a law student from New York, New York
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Season 31 player (2014-12-16).
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Jeanne Kaiser, a law professor from Springfield, Massachusetts
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Season 30 player (2014-05-27).
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Ben Schenkel, a junior from Allentown, Pennsylvania
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2007 Teen Tournament 1st runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $42,800. 17 at...
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Torrey Livenick, a law student originally from Las Vegas, Nevada
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Season 32 player (2016-06-08).
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John Oleske, a law student from New York City, New York
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Season 15 1-time champion: $4,199.
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Emily Ullman, a law student from Palisades, New York
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Season 24 player (2008-01-18).
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Dana Desprois, an attorney from Arlington, Virginia
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Season 32 player (2015-10-15).
Last name pronounced like "day-PWAH".
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Tyler Van Patten, from Burlington, Wisconsin
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"He's focusing on becoming a corporate attorney, because of his fascination...
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Kweisi Mfume, a president from the NAACP
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2004 Power Players Week player (2004-05-11). Name pronounced like "kwah-EE-see oom-FOO-may"....
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Andy Seff, a law student from Baltimore, Maryland
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Season 18 1-time champion: $13,000.
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Lewis Grossman, a law student from Westport, Connecticut
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Season 4 player (1987-10-15).
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Adam Epstein, a pre-law student from Los Angeles, California
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Season 18 player (2002-04-02).
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Greg Vinton, a ranch hand from North Platte, Nebraska
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Season 32 player (2015-10-01).
JBoard user name: Greg Vinton
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Wilson Mudge, a law student originally from Jamestown, New York
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Season 12 player (1995-09-19).
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Kirsten Hoffstedt Keefe, a law student from Washington, D.C.
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Season 19 player (2002-11-07).
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Srinivas Ayyagari, a law student originally from Memphis, Tennessee
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Season 24 1-time champion: $27,400 + $1,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: ayyagari1
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Rebecca Grayson, a law student from West Windsor, New Jersey
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Season 16 player (1999-10-13).
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Trevor Burrus, a law student from Centennial, Colorado
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Season 24 player (2008-03-13).
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Sunny Hostin, a senior legal correspondent and analyst from ABC News
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"She recently joined ABC News as their senior legal correspondent and...
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Jonathan Marcus, a law clerk from North Hollywood, California
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Season 31 1-time champion: $20,200 + $1,000.
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George Hicks, a law student from Cambridge, Massachusetts
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Season 19 1-time champion: $21,998 + $1,000.
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Drew Horwood, a law student originally from Maple Grove, Minnesota
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2014 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Season 29 8-time champion: $138,100 + $1,000.
JBoard user name: RunDMH
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Jack Paleczny, a law student from Chicago, Illinois
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Season 33 player (2017-01-09).
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Lara Logan, a correspondent from 60 Minutes on CBS
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"Her bold, award-winning reporting has earned her a prominent spot among...
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Rachael Sims, a law school graduate from Sullivan, Illinois
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Season 31 1-time champion: $21,500 + $1,000.
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Ashok Rau, a law student from Los Angeles, California
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Season 24 player (2008-02-29).
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Lily Foss, a future law student from Manchester, New Hampshire
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Season 31 player (2015-02-26).
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Kama Siegel, a recent law school graduate from Portland, Oregon
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Season 15 player (1999-06-09).
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Vinita Kailasanath, a sophomore at Stanford University from Laurel, Maryland
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2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2005 Ultimate Tournament of...
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Kate Harvey, a family law attorney from Colorado Springs, Colorado
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Season 23 player (2006-12-07).
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Dan McMurray, a law student from Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin
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Season 23 player (2006-12-07).
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Brad Savage, a law student originally from Columbus, Ohio
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Season 17 player (2001-04-06). Jeopardy! Message Board user name: zero game...
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Ross Hooper, a law clerk from New York City, New York
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Season 17 player (2001-04-06).
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Erik Best, a law student from East Lansing, Michigan
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Season 18 1-time champion: $31,700 + $2,000.
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Matthew Laflin, a law student originally from Satellite Beach, Florida
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Season 17 player (2001-02-23).
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David James Elliott, from JAG
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"He stars as Harmon Rabb, Jr., a Navy officer with a...
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E.A. Srere, an attorney and municipal judge from Dallas, Texas
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Season 30 player (2014-04-18). Last name pronounced like "SRER-ee". E.A. wore...
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Al Lin, a law and public policy student originally from Chesapeake, Virginia
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2005 Ulimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 1993 Tournament...
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Bernard Holloway, a junior from Mitchellville, Maryland
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 2002 Teen...
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Cecilia Huber, a critical care nurse and law student from Cleveland, Ohio
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Season 6 player (1990-01-24).
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Robin Pelkey, a law student originally from Kamuela, Hawaii
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Season 23 player (2006-12-11).
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Susanna Barron, a law student from Greenwich, Connecticut
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Season 33 player (2016-12-14).
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Christian Ruud, a judicial law clerk from St. Paul, Minnesota
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Season 23 player (2006-12-19).
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Mike Madison, a law professor from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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Season 17 player (2001-05-15).
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Ellen Corrigan, a law clerk from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Season 32 3-time champion: $40,000 + $2,000.
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Jeff Suto, a law student originally from Hacienda Heights, California
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Season 3 1-time champion: $7,000.
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Brittany Rogers, a sophomore at Saddleback College from Lake Forest, California
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2001 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $5,000. Brittany was 18 at the...
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Dorene Smith, a law librarian from Portland, Oregon
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Season 17 player (2001-03-07).
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Susan Jones, a law student originally from Bristol, England
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Season 5 player (1988-09-23).
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Kent Hofmann, a recent law school graduate originally from Norfolk, Nebraska
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Season 18 player (2001-10-16).
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Kristen Bancroft, a compliance executive from New York, New York
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Season 32 player (2016-03-15).
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Chris Havener, a law student from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Season 23 player (2007-01-04).
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Erin Lang, a law student from Macon, Georgia
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Season 18 player (2002-02-18).
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Cathy Lanctot, a law professor from Wilmington, Delaware
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2007 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD Home...
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Matt Prasse, an attorney from Needham, Massachusetts
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Season 30 player (2014-03-25).
Last name pronounced like "PRAHSS-ee".
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Jeff Goldfarb, a recent law school graduate from New York, New York
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Season 18 2-time champion: $73,600 + $1,000. In his 1st game...
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Kate Waits, a law professor from Albany, New York
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2002 Million Dollar Masters tournament quarterfinalist: $10,000. 1990 Super Jeopardy! quarterfinalist:...
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Randy Juip, a law student from Detroit, Michigan
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Season 15 player (1998-11-25).
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Michael Salerno, a law student from New York, New York
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Season 22 player (2005-12-08). Michael won $25,000 on Who Wants to...
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Jamie Hodari, a law student originally from Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
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Season 22 player (2006-01-02).
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: Jhodari
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Anne Cichocki, a recent law school graduate from Jacksonville, Florida
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Season 19 2-time champion: $46,501 + $2,000. Won $1,000 on Who...
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Erik Andersen, a law student originally from Anaheim, California
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Season 15 player (1998-12-21).
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Linda Bird, a law student from Ann Arbor, Michigan
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Season 15 2-time champion: $25,200.
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Maria Kokiasmenos, a law school graduate from Vernon, Connecticut
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Season 22 1-time champion: $18,000 + $2,000.
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Perry Buck, a law clerk from Portland, Oregon
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Season 1 player (1984-10-04).
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Dolly Moehrle, a law librarian from Ventura, California
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Season 31 player (2014-09-25).
Last name pronounced like "MUR-lay".
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Shari Dwoskin, a law student originally from Montreal, Canada
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Season 29 player (2012-11-05).
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Nina Ostrovitz, a law enforcement analyst from Washington, D.C.
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Season 13 1-time champion: $6,900.
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Helen Harnett, a law student originally from Chicago, Illinois
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Season 15 player (1998-12-17).
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Leena Alam, a law student from Washington, D.C.
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Season 15 player (1999-01-11).
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Kevin Jack, a law student from Chicago, Illinois
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Season 13 player (1997-01-20).
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Rodney Waites, a law school administrator from Tuscaloosa, Alabama
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Season 22 player (2006-04-19).
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: rodneywaites
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Brendie Vance, a law student from Chicago, Illinois
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Season 11 player (1994-11-29).
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Sara Uehlein, a law librarian from Alexandria, Virginia
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Season 20 player (2003-10-28).
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Neal Eggeson, a professor of law from Fishers, Indiana
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Season 26 player (2010-07-15).
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Amanda Traphagan, a law student from Austin, Texas
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Season 22 1-time champion: $5,300 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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Elise Beraru, an insurance underwriter from Los Angeles, California
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1990 Super Jeopardy! quarterfinalist: $5,000. 1985 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $1,000....
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Carol Reed, a law librarian from Honolulu, Hawaii
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Season 12 player (1996-04-05).
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Madeline Suchard, from Placentia, California
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"She has her sights set on becoming the Supreme Court Justice,...
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Peter Ellis, a senior at North Carolina State University from Cary, North Carolina
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2005 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000.
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Amy Comeau, a law librarian from New York City, New York
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Season 12 player (1996-04-02).
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Nancy Casbeer, a law student originally from Forest City, Arkansas
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Season 18 player (2001-09-11).
Last name pronounced like "KAYS-beer."
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Sarah Johnson, a law clerk originally from Newport News, Virginia
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Season 21 1-time champion: $8,801 + $1,000.
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Ricardo Pineres, a government relations professional from Herndon, Virginia
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Season 31 player (2015-01-12).
Last name pronounced like "pin-AIR-ez".
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David Gordy, a law clerk from Woodland Hills, California
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Season 5 2-time champion: $25,100.
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Tom Cubbage, a law student and winner of last year's College Tournament from Bartlesville, Oklahoma
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2014 Battle of the Decades semifinalist: $25,000. 2005 Ultimate Tournament of...
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Thomas Horn, a twelve-year-old from Piedmont, California
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"He plans on making the world a better place as an...
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Greg Pokusa, a law student from Alexandria, Virginia
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Season 21 player (2005-06-01).
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Phoebe Juel, a bookseller from Sylva, North Carolina
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"She won the 1993 College Championship while attending Grinnell College. Today...
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Jake Maeroff, a law student from Plantation, Florida
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Season 19 1-time champion: $41,201 + $2,000.
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Melinda Dudley, a recent law school graduate from Hayden, Colorado
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Season 30 player (2014-06-30).
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Elaine Golden, a law student from Newtonville, Massachusetts
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Season 5 player (1989-03-01).
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Aaron Wicks, a planning and evaluation manager from Rochester, New York
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Season 26 1-time champion: $18,001 + 1,000. Aaron Wicks Rochester, NY...
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Kristina Glithero, a law student originally from Indianapolis, Indiana
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Season 26 player (2010-07-01).
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Stacy Braverman, a public interest lawyer from Washington, D.C.
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Season 26 1-time champion: $14,984 + $2,000. As detailed in a...
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Kate Waits, a law professor from Albany, New York
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2002 Million Dollar Masters tournament quarterfinalist: $10,000. 1990 Super Jeopardy! quarterfinalist:...
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Gabriel Johnson, a senior from Teaneck, New Jersey
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2009 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000.
17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Matt DeTura, a recent law school graduate from Washington, D.C.
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Season 27 3-time champion: $61,601 + $2,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: MDT
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Alyssa McRae, a gift card production designer from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Season 25 3-time champion: $50,402 + $2,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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Tad Carithers, an attorney from New York City, New York
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"He finished second in the 2001 Tournament of Champions. Today he...
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Sandra Gore, a corporate researcher from Berkeley, California
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"After five wins in 1987, she fulfilled her dream of moving...
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Michael Dupée, an attorney from Gainesville, Florida
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"He was the winner of the 1996 Tournament of Champions. Today...
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Paula Tupper, a law student from Santee, California
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1985 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $1,000. Season 1 5-time champion: $34,298....
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Tom Stenson, a law student from Media, Pennsylvania
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Season 21 player (2005-01-17).
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Colin McLain, a law student originally from Cape Girardeau, Missouri
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Season 26 player (2010-03-23).
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Jim Scott, an attorney from Arlington, Virginia
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"He was a legal assistant living near D.C. when he won...
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Matt Cavanaugh, a law school professor and CPA originally from Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania
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Season 26 player (2010-06-17).
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Benjamin Bratt, an actor from Law & Order
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Playing for the American Indian Friendship House of San Francisco, which...
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Emily Heaney, a freelance costume designer from White Bear Lake, Minnesota
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Season 25 1-time champion: $2,200 + $1,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Marty Scott, an assistant district attorney from Forney, Texas
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Season 26 3-time champion: $64,002 + $2,000. Marty won $250,000 on...
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Ben Almoite, a government and law librarian from Richmond, Virginia
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Season 32 player (2016-01-14).
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Chris Couvelier, a law student originally from Victoria, British Columbia
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Season 25 player (2009-05-26).
Last name pronounced like "koo-vuh-LEER".
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Maxwell Baldi, a ten-year-old from Los Angeles, California
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"This future U.S. attorney general has always been interested in the...
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James Erwin, a writer from Des Moines, Iowa
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Season 25 2-time champion: $22,598 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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Rae Sailor, a law clerk from Boulder, Colorado
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Season 25 player (2009-06-23).
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Jordan Brand, an anesthesiologist from Westchester, New York
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Season 26 1-time champion: $24,405 + $2,000. The Sesame Street character...
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Kerry Halpern, a law student from Arlington, Virginia
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Season 19 player (2003-01-21).
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Tony Fan, a law student from Marietta, Georgia
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Season 27 player (2010-09-14).
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Michael McKean, a Grammy winner, Oscar nominee and multi-talented performer from Hairspray and The Pajama Game
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"This multi-talented performer is a Grammy winner and Oscar nominee and...
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Phil Chapman, a law student and former Navy SEAL from Williamsburg, Virginia
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Season 19 player (2003-01-17).
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Ben Auer, a law clerk from Savannah, Georgia
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Season 26 2-time champion: $36,810 + $2,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: Ben A
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Paula Tupper, a law student originally from Westfield, New Jersey
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1985 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $1,000. Season 1 5-time champion: $34,298....
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Chris Matthews, a TV host from Hardball and The Chris Matthews Show
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"Once a presidential speechwriter, he's had his own political talk show...
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Charles Shaughnessy, an actor from Mad Men
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"As Shane Donovan on Days of Our Lives, he won three...
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Shubha Ghosh, a law professor from Madison, Wisconsin
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Season 26 player (2010-04-30).
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: shubhaghosh
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Ryan Nelson, a law student originally from Tampa, Florida
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Season 27 player (2011-01-26).
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Elise Beraru, an insurance underwriter from Los Angeles, California
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1990 Super Jeopardy! quarterfinalist: $5,000. 1985 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $1,000....
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Dana Delany, an actress from Desperate Housewives
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"She won two Emmys for her work on China Beach. This...
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Wolf Blitzer, a journalist from The Situation Room
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"Since 1990, he's covered every major story for CNN, including the...
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Alison Stone Roberg, an administrative assistant from Kansas City, Missouri
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Season 26 3-time champion: $85,102 + $2,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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Michael Memberg, a bankruptcy clerk at a law firm from Chamblee, Georgia
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Season 20 player (2004-04-09).
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A.J. Monaco, a law student originally from Newark, New Jersey
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Season 20 player (2004-01-09).
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A.J. Schumacher, a radio show production intern from St. Paul, Minnesota
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Season 25 1-time champion: $10,800 + $2,000. AJ Schumacher Saint Paul,...
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Stan Chiueh, a law student from Austin, Texas
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Season 26 player (2009-09-30).
Last name pronounced like "CHAY".
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Maureen Abell, a family law and immigration lawyer from New York, New York
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Season 27 player (2011-01-06).
Last name pronounced like "A-bul".
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Hill Harper, an author and actor from CSI: NY
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"As an award-winning author, he's written three New York Times best...
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Anthony Resnick, a law student originally from Butler, Pennsylvania
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Season 25 player (2009-04-20).
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Andy Srinivasan, a high school science teacher from Garner, North Carolina
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2010 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $69,600...
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Anjali Bonner, a law student originally from Baltimore, Maryland
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Season 25 player (2009-04-15).
First name pronounced like "AHN-jah-lee".
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Ellen Kimmel, a school nurse from Nanuet, New York
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Season 27 2-time champion: $37,000 + $1,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: SkoolRN
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Marissa Goldsmith, a web developer from Springfield, Virginia
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Season 27 3-time champion: $44,100 + $2,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: marteena
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Robby Schrum, a junior at Yale University from Crown Point, Indiana
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2003 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $5,000. According to the official Jeopardy!...
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Harris Cohen, a family physician from Lower Gwynedd, Pennsylvania
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Season 25 2-time champion: $17,800 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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Ester Murdukhayeva, a law student originally from Queens, New York
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Season 27 player (2010-12-22).
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Dave Hiersekorn, a recent law school graduate from Yorba Linda, California
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Season 19 player (2002-12-24).
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Carey Lowell, an actress from Law & Order
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Playing for the Pediatric AIDS Foundation.
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Kate Swenson, a law student from Minneapolis, Minnesota
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Season 24 2-time champion: $28,001 + $2,000.
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Sam Waterston, an actor from Law & Order
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Playing for Refugees International, an advocacy group for refugees.
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Judy Mermelstein, a Census field representative from Queens, New York
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Season 25 1-time champion: $38,401 + $1,000. Judy also appeared on...
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Charlie Penrod, an assistant professor of law from Natchitoches, Louisiana
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Season 27 1-time champion: $17,000 + $2,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: CharlieP
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Jerry Crowley, a law student from Tallahassee, Florida
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Season 16 1-time champion: $10,400.
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Nina Sudhakar, a paralegal originally from Cheshire, Connecticut
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Season 25 player (2009-07-22).
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Kate Waits, a law professor from Albany, New York
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2002 Million Dollar Masters tournament quarterfinalist: $10,000. 1990 Super Jeopardy! quarterfinalist:...
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Kelly Loughead, a college freshman from Mason, Ohio
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Season 26 player (2010-01-05).
Last name pronounced like "LAW-hed".
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Clare Willis, a law student from Chicago, Illinois
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Season 24 player (2007-10-19).
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Jacob Hambalek, a 12-year-old from Fresno, California
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"If he had to choose a career right now, he'd be...
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Kyle Kahan, a senior from Texas A&M University from Houston, Texas
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2010-B College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000 + a Nintendo Wii +...
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Tayonna Jones, a 12-year-old from Indianapolis, Indiana
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"She hopes to have her law degree by her 18th birthday...
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Lea Tottle, a junior from Florida State University from Oldsmar, Florida
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2010-B College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000 + a Nintendo Wii +...
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Jeremy Levin, a law clerk from West Hollywood, California
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Season 17 1-time champion: $8,500.
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Cathy Lanctot, a law professor from Wilmington, Delaware
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2007 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD Home...
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Chris Pae, a high school history teacher from Suwanee, Georgia
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"He studied pre-med, then pre-law, but discovered his passion was teaching....
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Tom Cubbage, a law student from Bartlesville, Oklahoma
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2014 Battle of the Decades semifinalist: $25,000. 2005 Ultimate Tournament of...
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Elise Beraru, a lawyer from Los Angeles, California
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1990 Super Jeopardy! quarterfinalist: $5,000. 1985 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $1,000....
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Bruce Naegeli, a law librarian from Phoenix, Arizona
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 winner: $31,600. Lost to...
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Sarah Boyette, a law student originally from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Season 26 player (2009-12-24).
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: SBoyette
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Kaitlin Welborn, a sophomore from the University of Pennsylvania
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2007 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 20 at the time of the...
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Allison Brown, a law student originally from Louisville, Kentucky
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Season 26 player (2009-12-22).
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Savannah Morgan, a 12-year-old from Charlotte, North Carolina
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"Her future recipe for success is as the star of her...
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Ashley Grand, a freshman from Harvard University
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2007 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 19 at the time of the...
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Margaret Garnett, a law school student from New York City, New York
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Season 14 player (1998-01-19).
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Harry Shearer, a humorist, Spinal Tap bassist, and voice from The Simpsons
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"He recently celebrated the 25th anniversary of This Is Spinal Tap...
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Eric Floyd, a college student from Calhoun, Georgia
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2003 Tournament of Champions 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $25,000.
Season 18 4-time champion: $97,800 + $2,000.
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Paul Horwitz, a professor from Los Angeles, California
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Season 23 1-time champion: $30,500 + $2,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: paulh
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Cynthia Grove, a law clerk from Toledo, Ohio
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Trebek pilot 2 player.
Cynthia appeared in both known Trebek pilots.
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Jack Campion, a sales executive from Los Angeles, California
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Trebek pilot 2 player. Jack appeared in both known Trebek pilots,...
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Allison Frisbee, a law student from Concord, New Hampshire
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Season 23 player (2007-05-21).
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Jeff Richmond, a law student from West Hollywood, California
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 winner: $33,300. 1990 Super...
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Steve Throneberry, a first-year law student from Santa Ana, California
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Season 16 1-time champion: $5,601.
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S. R. Sidarth, a law student from Dunn Loring, Virginia
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Season 26 player (2009-12-07). Sidarth was famously the object of a...
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Jim Wrightson, a graduate law clerk from San Diego, California
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Season 14 player (1998-04-23).
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Dave Roberts, a Marine law student originally from Royal Oak, Michigan
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Season 24 player (2007-12-19).
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Jack Campion, from Los Angeles, California
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Trebek pilot 1 player. Jack was introduced without an occupation, but...
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Kimberly Jantz, an attorney from Tulsa, Oklahoma
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Season 26 1-time champion: $22,200 + $2,000. Kimberly Jantz - an...
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Michael Plank, a law student from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Season 15 player (1998-10-30).
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Liz Fasoldt, a law student from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Season 15 player (1998-10-29).
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Rishi Bhandari, a first-year law student from New York City, New York
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Season 16 player (2000-04-18). Won $100,000 on Who Wants to Be...
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Keith Thorell, an attorney from Altadena, California
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Season 24 2-time champion: $29,600 + $2,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD...
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Monica Holland, a law student from New York City, New York
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Season 14 player (1997-11-24).
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Erin Glover, a law student from New York, New York
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Season 22 player (2006-03-08).
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Graham Blake, a law student from Arlington, Texas
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Season 14 player (1998-07-08).
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Phil Ackerman, a law student originally from Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin
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Season 14 1-time champion: $5,400 + a Monorail Desktop PC.
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J.J. Todor, a law student from Pataskala, Ohio
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1999 Tournament of Champions 1st runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $20,600. Season...
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Becky Benjamin, a law student from Miami, Florida
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Season 16 player (1999-10-20).
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Mark Hinckley, a recent law school graduate from Ellicott City, Maryland
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Season 6 player (1990-04-02).
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Gerard Magliocca, a law student from New Haven, Connecticut
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Season 13 player (1997-07-01).
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Greg Ellis, a law student from San Pedro, California
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Season 14 player (1997-10-17). Greg won $1,000 on Who Wants to...
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Hon. Margaret Spellings, a U.S. Secretary of Education from Washington, D.C.
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"As an advisor to President George W. Bush, she helped craft...
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Michael Day, an attorney from Mill Valley, California
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"As an MBA Student, he won 5 games in 1985. Today...
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Jon Bourgault, a law student from Brooklyn, New York
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Season 14 1-time champion: $10,001.
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Scott Turow, a bestselling novelist and practicing attorney from Chicago, Illinois
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"He's sold more than 25 million copies of his novels worldwide...
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Mike Yanochik, a law student from Austin, Texas
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Season 6 player (1990-01-22).
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Amanda Nowotny, a sophomore at the University of Pittsburgh from New Castle, Pennsylvania
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2004 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000.
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Chip Hicks, a law student from North Augusta, South Carolina
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Season 15 player (1998-11-13).
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Emily Eagan, a law student from New Orleans, Louisiana
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Season 17 player (2001-07-18).
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Lindsey Hargrove, a senior at the University of Texas from Bellaire, Texas
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2004 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
Mother's Jeopardy! Message Board user name: collegemom
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Carla Gonzalez, a judicial law clerk from Wilmington, North Carolina
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Season 15 player (1998-11-11).
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Allison Standish, a law student from Austin, Texas
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Season 18 player (2002-01-24).
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Jim Zanotti, a law student from Cambridge, Massachusetts
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Season 15 player (1998-11-10).
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Ed Schiffer, an attorney from San Francisco, California
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"A champion of five shows, he was the top winner of...
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David Kahn, a law student from Brookline, Massachusetts
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Season 6 player (1990-01-12).
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Greg Chernack, a law student from New Haven, Connecticut
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Season 13 player (1997-07-15).
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Papa Chakravarthy, a sophomore from Lexington, Kentucky
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2006 Teen Tournament champion: $75,000.
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Jim Scott, an attorney from Arlington, Virginia
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"In 1991, he was the winner of the Tournament of Champions....
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Al Lin, a law student originally from Chesapeake, Virginia
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2005 Ulimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 1993 Tournament...
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Fazal Khan, a medical and law student from Champaign, Illinois
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Season 13 player (1997-07-08).
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Gretchen Radtke, a law school graduate from Redwood City, California
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Season 6 1-time champion: $6,250.
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Bill Forman, a law student originally from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Season 6 1-time champion: $14,401.
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Mike Dugan, a first-year law student from Lauderdale, Minnesota
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Season 17 player (2000-10-31).
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MaryLou Byrne, a law student from Los Angeles, California
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Season 2 player (1985-09-25).
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René Garcia, a law firm purchasing agent from Culver City, California
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Season 2 player (1985-09-27).
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Ryan Holznagel, a writer originally from Forest Grove, Oregon
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"He was the winner of the 1995 Tournament of Champions. Now,...
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